Adrienne Herbert's Books

Power Hour

How to Focus on Your Goals and Create a Life You Love

By: Adrienne Herbert

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Power Hour

How to Focus on Your Goals and Create a Life You Love

By: Adrienne Herbert

A habit-forming work of genius' STYLIST 'Adrienne is here to motivate and encourage us all' FEARNE COTTON ________________________________ The Power Hour message is simple: taking an hour for yourselves and your aspirations isn't selfish or impossible, it's essential. This book will show you how to harness the first hour of your day in order to achieve your goals - whether those are starting a business, getting fit or pursuing your passion - before the rest of the world wakes up and starts competing for your attention. Most importantly, it will make you realise that it is always possible to make a change and create a life you love. Stop waiting for the right time, or for more time. Start with just one hour today. ________________________________ 'Bursting with ideas' INDEPENDENT 'Read this book' EMMA GANNON 'A bible' EVENING STANDARD 'Invaluable' MARIE CLAIRE 'A must-read' GLAMOUR 'Hugely inspirational' LAUREN ARMES 'Authentic' VOGUE 'I love this book' JAKE HUMPHREY

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Random House

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1473585163

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Walking Brooklyn

30 tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets and waterways

By: Adrienne Onofri

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Walking Brooklyn

30 tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets and waterways

By: Adrienne Onofri

Adrienne Onofri has created an exceptional guide to and through Brooklyn’s most interesting and notable neighborhoods, providing a mix of information about culture, history, architecture, places to eat, venues to visit, and more. From a walk through the Russian-influenced Brighton Beach, to the expansive Prospect Park, and out to Red Hook, Walking Brooklyn reveals the many layers and sites of Manhattan’s lesser-known neighbor. This two-color book features 30 routes, a clear neighborhood map for each walk, black-and-white photographs, and critical public transportation information for every trip. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section outlines each walk’s highlights.

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Wilderness Press

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0899975585

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9780899975580

Firebeam

A Dragonian Series Novella

By: Adrienne Woods

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Firebeam

A Dragonian Series Novella

By: Adrienne Woods

An alternative story to the first novel in the Dragonian Series Firebolt. What if Herbert Watkins, Elena's guardian and father, made the ambush. How different would her life at Dragonia Academy be. In this novella, you get a taste of the events. Dragonian Series should be read before this novella.

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Fire Quill Publishers

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1947649590

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9781947649590

Night Light

Short Stories for Young Adults

By: Adrienne Kristy Lott

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Night Light

Short Stories for Young Adults

By: Adrienne Kristy Lott

There is some of everything in these fiction stories, 20 in all, frightening, mysterious, humorous, all delightfully entertaining. Add Intrigue to the mix, and even some humor, shake the dice, throw the coins, pick some strange stories with twisted endings, and there you have Night Light short stories for young adults. They can leave you wondering, and trying to figure out why they seem to stick on your mind for days, and nights. You may want to leave the night light on. Frightening isnt the word, and either is mysterious, they are just so unusual you cant stop thinking about them. This book is a test for your imagination, see if you can figure out how they will end before you get there! Anything is possible in this book! Things you have never heard of before can happen in Night Light. Its fun, its frightening, its unusual to say the least! Open it! Look inside, it will draw you in and keep you there until you are able to stop thinking about what you have just read! Dive in and get the thrill of your life, its just a book full of short stories, but, you can become enthralled to the point of wanting to read some of the stories again & again! Night Light is an experience you will truly enjoy!

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489718265

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9781489718266

It's Only by the Exhibition of His Grace...

As Children of the Master Architect, Our Limitations Do Not Limit Us

By: Adrienne Aristil

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It's Only by the Exhibition of His Grace...

As Children of the Master Architect, Our Limitations Do Not Limit Us

By: Adrienne Aristil

It is not only your efforts that can take you where you want to be. Even though we do our best, we won't be able to meet the requirements of this demanding society. But God can take our incapacity and our humbling efforts and use them for His glory. We just have to trust the Master Architect's plan. Sometimes we wrestle with life by trying to do it on our own way, but the real problem is our unwillingness to surrender to God for His plan for our lives. Again, throughout this book, you will read testimonies about different situations of what God can do through His children's lives when they surrender.

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WestBow Press

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1449751482

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9781449751487

The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway

African Canadians in Hamilton

By: Adrienne Shadd

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The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway

African Canadians in Hamilton

By: Adrienne Shadd

When the Lincoln Alexander Parkway was named, it was a triumph not only for this distinguished Canadian, but for all African Canadians, It had indeed been a long journey from the days in the 1880s when a Blacks woman named Julia Berry operated one of the tollgates leading up to Hamilton Mountain. The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway examines the history of Blacks in the Hamilton-Wentworth area, from their status as slaves in Upper Canada to their settlement and development of community, their struggle for justice and equality, and their achievements, presented in a fascinating and meticulously researched historical narrative. Adrienne Shadd's original research offers new insights into urban Black history, filling in gaps on the background of families and individuals, while also exploding stereotypes of poverty and underachievement of early Black Hamiltonians. For the very first time, their contributions to the building and development of the city are heralded and take centre stage.

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Dundurn

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1554883946

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9781554883943

The Philosophy of Susanne Langer

Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling

By: Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

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The Philosophy of Susanne Langer

Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling

By: Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century, Susanne Langer. Failure to recognise Langer's seminal philosophical sources has led to frequent misinterpretations and misunderstandings of her unique philosophical thought. Beginning with an overview of Langer's life and education, this study provides a much-needed explanation of how Langer's thinking was shaped by four seminal sources: her mentors Henry Sheffer and Alfred North Whitehead and the European philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Langer's ability to unite seemingly disparate fields such logic, art, and embodied cognition around the notion of symbolic form, places aesthetics not at the margins of philosophy but at its very centre. By locating Langer's work in the broader context of major developments in twentieth-century European and American philosophy, Dengerink Chaplin shows how she was often ahead of her time. Shedding new light on Langer as an American philosopher whose innovative thought crosses the customary boundaries between analytic and continental philosophy, this book confirms why she continues to have relevance today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350030589

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9781350030589

Starlight

By: Adrienne Woods

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Starlight

By: Adrienne Woods

In the Fifth and final part of the Dragonian Series, eighteen-year-old Elena Watkins and her dragon, the Rubicon, need to find the missing ingredients in order to free her father from Etan. But what could the missing ingredient be? And will she be willing to sacrifice her life if they don't find it before time runs out?

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Fire Quill Publishers

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099697489X

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9780996974899

IQ

By: Adrienne Fox

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IQ

By: Adrienne Fox

An epidemic of 'brain fever' attacks the young people in a small town. Then the local infrastructure begins to crumble as the town's long-established building society goes into liquidation and both the education and health authorities are bankrupt. Then suddenly finance miraculously appears for an immunization program and for IQ testing of all school pupils. As the media is manipulated and the Internet disintegrates, it is IQ testing that dominates the lives of parents, children, and teachers in the area.

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Author House

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1496992695

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9781496992697

Epilepsy

A New Approach

By: Adrienne Richard,Joel Reiter

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Epilepsy

A New Approach

By: Adrienne Richard,Joel Reiter

This book is a unique collaboration between a gifted writer with epilepsy and a skilled physician who has brought new insight into the treatment of this condition. At the age of twenty-six, when Adrienne Richard was seven months pregnant, she was diagnosed with epilepsy. For years she took anticonvulsant drugs to control her seizures, but she wanted to wean herself from the powerful drugs if she could. During the first ten years without medication she had only one seizure. Her goal was to live seizure-free. Ms. Richard practiced yoga, biofeedback, and mind/body techniques in the eighties to help her reach that goal. While writing an article for a magazine based in California, she learned of Dr. Joel Reiter, who was exploring epilepsy self-care in his clinical practice and through his groundbreaking research. Epilepsy: A New Approach combines Adrienne Richard's own inspiring story of overcoming a debilitating condition with Dr. Reiter's up-to-the-minute medical knowledge of diagnosis and treatment. This self-help program offers people with epilepsy and those who love them a chance to regain control of their lives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802719503

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9780802719508

Heart Matters

A Memoir

By: Adrienne Clarkson

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Heart Matters

A Memoir

By: Adrienne Clarkson

Adrienne Clarkson grew up in Ottawa after her family escaped Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942. Decades later, she would become Canada’s 26th governor general. Clarkson reached out to Canadians everywhere, refashioning Rideau Hall into a real home and welcoming the public. Her determination to invest meaning in her official actions created controversy, and in her memoir, Clarkson reflects on the behind-the-scenes political machinations. Heart Matters is more than a public life remembered—it chronicles an astonishing journey through triumph and turmoil. Remarkably insightful and inspiring, it is an extraordinary work by an extraordinary Canadian.

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Penguin Canada

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0143182315

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9780143182313

New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part II vol 6

By: Carolyn W de la L Oulton,Adrienne E Gavin,SueAnn Schatz,Vybarr Cregan-Reid

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New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part II vol 6

By: Carolyn W de la L Oulton,Adrienne E Gavin,SueAnn Schatz,Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Covers four texts from the 1890s that helped to crystallize the idea of the 'New Woman' during a period where the role of women was increasingly debated and challenged, not least due to the growth of the suffrage movement.

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Routledge

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1351221566

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9781351221566

City of the Poor, City of the Rich

Politics and Policy in New York City

By: Adrienne Windhoff-Héritier

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City of the Poor, City of the Rich

Politics and Policy in New York City

By: Adrienne Windhoff-Héritier

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110855569

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9783110855562

Diet and the Disease of Civilization

By: Adrienne Rose Bitar

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Diet and the Disease of Civilization

By: Adrienne Rose Bitar

Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don’t just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it’s not calories—but concepts—that should be counted? Cultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the “Fall of Man” as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure. Bitar reads each diet—the Paleo Diet, the Garden of Eden Diet, the Pacific Island Diet, the detoxification or detox diet—as both myth and manual, a story with side effects shaping social movements, driving industry, and constructing fundamental ideas about sickness and health. Diet and the Disease of Civilization unearths the ways in which diet books are actually utopian manifestos not just for better bodies, but also for a healthier society and a more perfect world.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813589665

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9780813589664

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian

The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944

By: Adrienne Fried Block

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Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian

The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944

By: Adrienne Fried Block

This biography admirably fills that gap, fully examining the connections between Beach's life and work in light of social currents and dominant ideologies. Adrienne Fried Block has written a biography that takes full account of issues of gender and musical modernism, considering Beach in the contexts of her time and of her composer contemporaries, both male and female. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian will be of great interest to students and scholars of American music, and to music lovers in general.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195137841

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9780195137842

Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples

Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia

By: Adrienne Edgar

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Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples

Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia

By: Adrienne Edgar

Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central Asia. In marked contrast to its Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union celebrated mixed marriages among its diverse ethnic groups as a sign of the unbreakable friendship of peoples and the imminent emergence of a single "Soviet people." Yet the official Soviet view of ethnic nationality became increasingly primordial and even racialized in the USSR's final decades. In this context, Adrienne Edgar argues, mixed families and individuals found it impossible to transcend ethnicity, fully embrace their complex identities, and become simply "Soviet." Looking back on their lives in the Soviet Union, ethnically mixed people often reported that the "official" nationality in their identity documents did not match their subjective feelings of identity, that they were unable to speak "their own" native language, and that their ambiguous physical appearance prevented them from claiming the nationality with which they most identified. In all these ways, mixed couples and families were acutely and painfully affected by the growth of ethnic primordialism and by the tensions between the national and supranational projects in the Soviet Union. Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples is based on more than eighty in-depth oral history interviews with members of mixed families in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, along with published and unpublished Soviet documents, scholarly and popular articles from the Soviet press, memoirs and films, and interviews with Soviet-era sociologists and ethnographers.

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Cornell University Press

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1501762966

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9781501762963

Easing Labor Pain

The Complete Guide to a More Comfortable and Rewarding Birth

By: Adrienne Lieberman

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Easing Labor Pain

The Complete Guide to a More Comfortable and Rewarding Birth

By: Adrienne Lieberman

This book is a positive and encouraging guide to everything and expectant mother can do - from pregnancy through postpartum, but especially during labor- to make sure that pain does not over shadow the joy of giving birth. Adrienne Lieberman presents a host of techniques that work, including breathing and relaxation excerises.

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Harvard Common Press

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1558326367

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9781558326361

Thinking Inside the Box

Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them

By: Adrienne Raphel

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Thinking Inside the Box

Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them

By: Adrienne Raphel

“This cultural and personal history of crosswords and their fans, written by an aficionado, is diverting, informative, and discursive.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A delightful, erudite, and immersive exploration of the crossword puzzle and its fascinating history Almost as soon as it appeared, the crossword puzzle became indispensable to our lives. Invented practically by accident in 1913, when a newspaper editor at the New York World was casting around for something to fill empty column space, it became a roaring commercial success almost overnight. Ever since then, the humble puzzle has been an essential ingredient of any newspaper worth its salt. But why, exactly, are the crossword’s satisfactions so sweet? Blending first-person reporting from the world of crosswords with a delightful telling of its rich literary history, Adrienne Raphel dives into the secrets of this classic pastime. Thinking Inside the Box is an ingenious love letter not just to the abiding power of the crossword but to the infinite joys and playful possibilities of language itself.

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Penguin

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0525522093

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9780525522096

Emergent Strategy

Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

By: adrienne maree brown

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Emergent Strategy

Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

By: adrienne maree brown

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.

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AK Press

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1849352615

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9781849352611

Cyberbullying and E-safety

What Educators and Other Professionals Need to Know

By: Adrienne Katz

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Cyberbullying and E-safety

What Educators and Other Professionals Need to Know

By: Adrienne Katz

“I'd die without my Blackberry” – one young person's comment sums up a generation of young people who are increasingly living their daily lives through their phones and the internet. Cyberbullying is rife, affecting one in five 10–19 year olds. It causes anxiety, unhappiness and mental health problems; in extreme cases even leading to suicide. This book provides a compelling and up to date account of the constantly evolving problem of cyberbullying: the different forms it can take, how the impact differs on boys and girls of different ages, and which children are most vulnerable. Drawing on the findings of the author's survey of over 9,000 children and teenagers, Cyberbullying and E-safety provides a revealing account of the direct experiences and views of children. It describes how a new world where emerging technologies such as smartphones have transformed online social behaviour requires a new, more relevant approach to e-safety and the problem of cyberbullying. The author provides this in the form of a youth-led, age- and gender-appropriate model for cyber-education in the modern world; a 3-tier model comprising universal e-safety education accompanied by targeted and intensive support and advice for children at most risk. She also outlines a school-wide model for preventing and responding to cyberbullying in children, young people and teachers, and provides a wealth of guidance and tools for individuals and schools including templates and lesson plans. Cyberbullying and E-safety is required reading for teachers, counsellors, youth workers, social workers, and other professionals working with children and young people.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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0857005758

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9780857005755

Sex Segregation in Sports

Why Separate Is Not Equal

By: Adrienne N. Milner,Jomills Henry Braddock II

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Sex Segregation in Sports

Why Separate Is Not Equal

By: Adrienne N. Milner,Jomills Henry Braddock II

Why isn't segregation based on sex illegal in sports just as race segregation is? This book examines the controversial issue, arguing that "separate but equal" is neither achievable nor constitutional. Will the creation of coed teams help mitigate issues of perceived sex discrimination in sports, or will equity among male and female athletes come from better enforcement of the "separate but equal" ideal? This book examines this highly charged issue, specifically challenging the effectiveness of Title IX and arguing that it be ousted in favor of sex integration. This is the first book to present both legal and social arguments for the elimination of sex segregation in sports and provide tangible solutions to address this issue. Authors Adrienne N. Milner and Jomills Henry Braddock II lay out the potential benefits of comingling male and female athletes, illustrating how this process may translate to greater sex equality in social, economic, and political contexts. In addition, this forward-thinking work offers specific recommendations for facilitating the integration of sexes in sports and discusses the importance of changing attitudes and ideology within the sports community and the general public to achieve this goal.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216143918

Fermilab

Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience

By: Lillian Hoddeson,Adrienne W. Kolb,Catherine Westfall

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Fermilab

Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience

By: Lillian Hoddeson,Adrienne W. Kolb,Catherine Westfall

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years. Fermilab is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point of view of the people who built and used them for scientific discovery. Focusing on the first two decades of research at Fermilab, during the tenure of the laboratory’s charismatic first two directors, Robert R. Wilson and Leon M. Lederman, the book traces the rise of what they call “megascience,” the collaborative struggle to conduct large-scale international experiments in a climate of limited federal funding. In the midst of this new climate, Fermilab illuminates the growth of the modern research laboratory during the Cold War and captures the drama of human exploration at the cutting edge of science.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226346250

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9780226346250

The First Fossil Hunters

Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

By: Adrienne Mayor

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The First Fossil Hunters

Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

By: Adrienne Mayor

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.

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400

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Princeton University Press

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0691245606

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9780691245607

The Residential Is Racial

A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership

By: Adrienne Brown

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The Residential Is Racial

A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership

By: Adrienne Brown

Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of race. In The Residential is Racial Adrienne Brown reveals how mass homeownership remade the rubrics of race, from the early cases realtors made for homeownership's necessity to white survival through to the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Reading real estate archives and appraisal textbooks alongside literary works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, and Thomas Pynchon, Brown goes beyond merely identifying the discriminatory mechanisms that the real estate industry used to forestall black homeownership. Rather, she reveals that redlining and other forms of racial discrimination are perceptual modes, changing what it means to sense race and assign it value. Resituating residential discrimination as a key moment within the history of perception and aesthetics as well as of policy, demography, and democracy, we get an even more expansive picture of both its origins and its impacts. This book discovers that the racial honing of perception on the block—seeing race like a bureaucrat, an appraiser, and a homeowner—has become central to the functioning of the residential itself.

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Stanford University Press

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1503638650

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9781503638655

Writing Power

Teaching writing strategies that engage thinking

By: Adrienne Gear

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Writing Power

Teaching writing strategies that engage thinking

By: Adrienne Gear

A wide range of effective writing techniques are outlined and reinforced throughout the book, with suggested "anchor books" for each lesson. The fundamentals of the writing process and the "6 Traits" are integrated into this unique examination of how developing an awareness of the readers' thinking can influence and affect a student's ability to write."--Publisher.

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Pembroke Publishers Limited

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1551382636

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9781551382630

Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith

By: Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels

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Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith

By: Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. Insights are gleaned through the prism of the philosophical, built, performative, political, and intercultural landscapes.

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Lexington Books

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1498515827

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Walking Queens

30 Tours for Discovering the Diverse Communities, Historic Places, and Natural Treasures of New York City's Largest Borough

By: Adrienne Onofri

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Walking Queens

30 Tours for Discovering the Diverse Communities, Historic Places, and Natural Treasures of New York City's Largest Borough

By: Adrienne Onofri

Home to more than 2.3 million people who speak at least 150 different languages, Queens is heralded as the most multicultural place on Earth. People go there to watch Major League Baseball or the U.S. Open. Perhaps they venture just across the river, to check out a trendy new restaurant, bar, or performance space in Long Island City or Astoria, or ride the train all the way out to the beach on a summer's day. Now, with Walking Queens by local author Adrienne Onofri, readers get to know the whole borough. Each walk tells the story of a neighborhood: how it developed originally and how it's transformed over the years. Readers are pointed to distinctive architecture, landmark buildings, popular eateries, ethnic enclaves, celebrity residences, art and performance spaces, and natural scenery. There are tours that reveal forgotten moments in Queens history, or position you for a stunning view, or immerse you in all the sights, scents, and sounds of a melting pot. Maps and transportation directions make it easy to find your way. Whether you're looking for an afternoon stroll or a daylong outing, grab this book and start walking Queens!

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Wilderness Press

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0899977316

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9780899977317

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

By: Adrienne Rich

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

By: Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393348105

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9780393348101

The Weaver's Craft

Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania

By: Adrienne D. Hood

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The Weaver's Craft

Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania

By: Adrienne D. Hood

Cloth was one of the most important commodities in the early modern world, and colonial North Americans had to develop creative strategies to acquire it. Although early European settlers came from societies in which hand textile production was central to the economy, local conditions in North America interacted with traditional craft structures to create new patterns of production and consumption. The Weaver's Craft examines the development of cloth manufacture in early Pennsylvania from its roots in seventeenth-century Europe to the beginning of industrialization. Adrienne D. Hood's focus on Pennsylvania and the long sweep of history yields a new understanding of the complexities of early American fabric production and the regional variations that led to distinct experiences of industrialization. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, combined with a quantitative approach, the author argues that in contrast to New England, rural Pennsylvania women spun the yarn that a small group of trained male artisans wove into cloth on a commercial basis throughout the eighteenth century. Their production was considerably augmented by consumers purchasing cheap cloth from Europe and Asia, making them active participants in a global marketplace. Hood's painstaking research and numerous illustrations of textile equipment, swatch books, and consumer goods will be of interest to both scholars and craftspeople.

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241

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812203240

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9780812203240

Madison's Advice to My Country

By: Adrienne Koch

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Madison's Advice to My Country

By: Adrienne Koch

Miss Koch probes the essential meaning of Madison's political philosophy to locate his distinctive angle of vision. She considers three controlling themes in his political thought—liberty, justice, and union—and presents a profile of his mind and heart. The material in the book was originally presented as the Whig-Clio Bicentennial Lectures at Princeton University. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400875307

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9781400875306

Harlem's Theaters

A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923-1939

By: Adrienne Macki Braconi

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Harlem's Theaters

A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923-1939

By: Adrienne Macki Braconi

Honorable Mention, 2016 Errol Hill Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theater, Drama and/or Performance Based on a vast amount of archival research, Adrienne Macki Braconi’s illuminating study of three important community-based theaters in Harlem shows how their work was essential to the formation of a public identity for African Americans and the articulation of their goals, laying the groundwork for the emergence of the Civil Rights movement. Macki Braconi uses textual analysis, performance reconstruction, and audience reception to examine the complex dynamics of productions by the Krigwa Players, the Harlem Experimental Theatre, and the Negro Theatre of the Federal Theatre Project. Even as these theaters demonstrated the extraordinary power of activist art, they also revealed its limits. The stage was a site in which ideological and class differences played out, theater being both a force for change and a collision of contradictory agendas. Macki Braconi’s book alters our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, the roots of the Civil Rights movement, and the history of community theater in America.

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406

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Northwestern University Press

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0810132265

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9780810132269

Healing a Divided Nation

How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine

By: Carole Adrienne

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Healing a Divided Nation

How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine

By: Carole Adrienne

A profound and insightful investigation into how the American Civil War transformed modern medicine. At the start of the Civil War, the medical field in America was rudimentary, unsanitary, and woefully underprepared to address what would become the bloodiest conflict on U.S. soil. However, in this historic moment of pivotal social and political change, medicine was also fast evolving to meet the needs of the time. Unprecedented strides were made in the science of medicine, and as women and African Americans were admitted into the field for the first time. The Civil War marked a revolution in healthcare as a whole, laying the foundations for the system we know today. In Healing a Divided Nation, Carole Adrienne will track this remarkable and bloody transformation in its cultural and historical context, illustrating how the advancements made in these four years reverberated throughout the western world for years to come. Analyzing the changes in education, society, humanitarianism, and technology in addition to the scientific strides of the period lends Healing a Divided Nation a uniquely wide lens to the topic, expanding the legacy of the developments made. The echoes of Civil War medicine are in every ambulance, every vaccination, every woman who holds a paying job, and in every Black university graduate. Those echoes are in every response of the International and American Red Cross and they are in the recommended international protocol for the treatment of prisoners of war and wounded soldiers. Beginning with the state of medicine at the outset of the war, when doctors did not even know about sterilizing their tools, Adrienne illuminates the transformation in American healthcare through primary source texts that document the lives and achievements of the individuals who pioneered these changes in medicine and society. The story that ensues is one of American innovation and resilience in the face of unparalleled violence, adding a new dimension to the legacy of the Civil War.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639361863

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9781639361861

Reading Power, Revised & Expanded Edition

Teaching students to think while they read

By: Adrienne Gear

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Reading Power, Revised & Expanded Edition

Teaching students to think while they read

By: Adrienne Gear

Ten years ago, Reading Power was launched in an elementary school in Vancouver. It has since evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction being implemented across Canada, in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, and China. This ground-breaking approach showed teachers how to help students think while they read — connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform. Since the publication of the first edition of Reading Power, Adrienne Gear has continued to reflect on and refine her ideas about metacognition, comprehension instruction, and the Reading Power strategies. This revised and expanded edition shares these new understandings, and offers teachers new ideas, new lessons, and, of course, new anchor books to support the Reading Power principles. An ideal resource for teachers familiar to this strategic approach to teaching reading, or for those looking for new ways to connect thinking with reading.

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Pembroke Publishers Limited

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1551389134

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9781551389134

Being Rita Hayworth

Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom

By: Adrienne L. McLean

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Being Rita Hayworth

Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom

By: Adrienne L. McLean

Being Rita Hayworth' considers the ways in which this actress has been treated by film scholarship over the years to accomplish its own goals, sometimes at her expense.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813533899

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9780813533896

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