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The Adventures of Women in Tech

How We Got Here and Why We Stay

By: Alana Karen

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The Adventures of Women in Tech

How We Got Here and Why We Stay

By: Alana Karen

Can women have meaningful careers in tech? Are diversity efforts in Silicon Valley failing? Should women avoid working for technology companies? Alana Karen was annoyed every time she saw the latest headline questioning women's survival in tech. She pictured a new graduate deciding on her career and only having one-sided articles to help make her decision. She saw colleagues roll their eyes at books about C-level women in tech and heard jokes about how inaccessible those stories sounded. She wondered how women could feel like they belonged if they didn't see themselves reflected in the media. Inspired by women she knows in tech—women with diverse backgrounds, education, and ambitions—she wrote The Adventures of Women in Tech to fill that gap. A twenty-year tech company veteran and leader, Alana Karen brilliantly and systematically replaces what we think we know about women in tech with more than eighty women's stories of what it's honestly like to join, lead, and thrive in today's top technology companies. The Adventures of Women in Tech delves into why we join tech, the challenges we face, and the skills and support we need to succeed and stay in an often challenging environment. In twelve chapters filled with intimate stories, insights, and advice from women working in technology companies and start-ups, Alana Karen demonstrates that we all belong in tech.

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Wise Ink

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1634893905

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9781634893909

L. I. F. E. Stories

By: Alana Lynn Andrews

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L. I. F. E. Stories

By: Alana Lynn Andrews

L.I.F.E. Stories is a collection of experiences concerning after death communication. These individual accounts dramatize occurences of physical gifts received from deaprted loved ones. The narratives contained in this book will help grieving people know that death is not the end of all things; it is a part of the circle of life. Death is a step on this journey that we are all traveling. Our departed loved ones are not gone from us and the cares of this world. The messages of "contact with the beyond" should help others realize that there is something more; that Love is Forever Eternal.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412026008

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9781412026000

Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management

By: Alana Verminski,Kelly Marie Blanchat

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Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management

By: Alana Verminski,Kelly Marie Blanchat

This guide to ERM fundamentals will prove invaluable, both as a primer for those preparing to enter the field as well as a ready reference for current practitioners.

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American Library Association

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0838911463

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9780838911464

The Crises of Multiculturalism

Racism in a Neoliberal Age

By: Alana Lentin,Gavan Titley

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The Crises of Multiculturalism

Racism in a Neoliberal Age

By: Alana Lentin,Gavan Titley

Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval practices subverting national 'ways of life' and universal values. This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall of multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a coherent era of 'multiculturalism' in the first place. The authors argue that what we are witnessing is not so much a rejection of multiculturalism as a projection of neoliberal anxieties onto the social realities of lived multiculture. Nested in an established post-racial consensus, new forms of racism draw powerfully on liberalism and questions of 'values', and unsettle received ideas about racism and the 'far right' in Europe. In combining theory with a reading of recent controversies concerning headscarves, cartoons, minarets and burkas, Lentin and Titley trace a transnational crisis that travels and is made to travel, and where rejecting multiculturalism is central to laundering increasingly acceptable forms of racism.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1848135823

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9781848135826

The Blue Books

By: Nicole Brossard,Larry Shouldice,Patricia Claxton,Alana Wilcox

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The Blue Books

By: Nicole Brossard,Larry Shouldice,Patricia Claxton,Alana Wilcox

Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and innovative work on language has influenced an entire generation of readers and writers. But three of her seminal works of postmodernism and feminism have been lost to us for years. The Blue Books brings them back. A Book: A novel about a novel; five characters in 'search of a narrative, a narrative in search of an author.' Brossard's first novel, and a key work in Canadian postmodernism. Turn of a Pang (Sold-out in French): Quebec's 1943 Conscription Crisis and the 1970 War Measures Act weave together to form the texture of a woman's life. French Kiss: a celebration of the energy of women and language in the face of the male authorities of Montreal politics and the physical authority of the printed (and bound) word. The Blue Books collects these three long-out-of-print, groundbreaking Brossard titles, in their original Coach House Press English translations (A Book by Larry Shouldice, Turn of a Pang and French Kiss by the acclaimed Patricia Claxton). Don't be blue: these Brossard classics are back!

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Coach House Books

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1552451208

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9781552451205

Rescripting Religion in the City

Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis

By: Alana Harris

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Rescripting Religion in the City

Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis

By: Alana Harris

Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.

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Routledge

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1317065670

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9781317065678

The Global Resilience Project

A book that tells your story

By: Blair Kaplan Venables,Alana Kaplan

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The Global Resilience Project

A book that tells your story

By: Blair Kaplan Venables,Alana Kaplan

The Global Resilience Project is a collection of stories of resilience from around the world. Telling your story can be a powerful part of your healing journey and we created a safe space for people to both share and read stories of resilience. When going through a tough time, it can be helpful to read other people’s stories because they can inspire you to move through your challenge and feel less alone. Each story told in this book is a personal experience that each contributor went through, including their advice for you. The stories have been submitted to The Global Resilience Project from around the world and act as a source of inspiration to help inspire you to be more resilient.

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AUYK Books

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9798833960639

Birth Work as Care Work

Stories from Activist Birth Communities

By: Alana Apfel

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Birth Work as Care Work

Stories from Activist Birth Communities

By: Alana Apfel

Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more become political, and birth workers, supporters, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity. The author, herself a scholar and birth justice organizer, provides a unique platform to explore the political dynamics of birth work, drawing connections between birth, reproductive labor, and the struggles of caregiving communities today. Articulating a politics of care work in and through the reproductive process, the book brings diverse voices into conversation to explore multiple possibilities and avenues for change. At a moment when agency over our childbirth experiences is increasingly centralized in the hands of professional elites, Birth Work as Care Work presents creative new ways to reimagine the trajectory of our reproductive processes. Most importantly, the contributors present new ways of thinking about the entire life cycle, providing a unique and creative entry point into the essence of all human struggle—the struggle over the reproduction of life itself.

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PM Press

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1629632619

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9781629632612

The Good Cat Parent’s Guide to Feline Behavior Modification

By: Alana Linsay Stevenson

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The Good Cat Parent’s Guide to Feline Behavior Modification

By: Alana Linsay Stevenson

Cats are cuddly and adorable, but they are often misunderstood. Sadly, many cats are relinquished to shelters or rehomed due to normal behaviors that are incorrectly treated or mishandled. In this book, Elite Fear-Free and Low-Stress Handling Certified author Alana Linsay Stevenson empowers cat parents and teaches them how to address and modify challenging feline behavior. You will begin by learning basic kitten care and feline developmental stages; how cats differ behaviorally from group animals, such as dogs and people; feline body language; and how cats handle stress. Alana provides concise instruction on how to gently handle cats: how to pick up and carry them, acclimate them to carriers, the use of towels, alternatives to scruffing, and how our body language affects cats. Packed with photographs for visual reference, this book offers clear guidelines and easily implementable strategies for resolving feline behavioral problems, such as: failure to use the litter box play aggression petting aggression inter-cat aggression furniture scratching jumping on counters obsessing about food night wailing fear of people aggression to strangers The content is organized by topic for easy access to information, as you need it. The Good Cat Parent’s Guide to Feline Behavior Modification is for anyone who likes cats and wants to learn more about them. Whether you are a veterinary professional, a volunteer or shelter worker who regularly handles stressed cats, or a cat parent who simply wants to understand your cat, you will find helpful and useful information at your fingertips to give cats a better quality of life. No cat parent should be without this book!

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CRC Press

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1000916405

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Political Women

The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage and the ERA

By: Alana Jeydel

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Political Women

The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage and the ERA

By: Alana Jeydel

Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's movement in the US, asking under what conditions are Congress and the presidency responsive to the women's movement, and when will the women's movement gain access to Congress and the presidency? The book systematically compares the relation between political leaders and each of the three waves of the women's movement, 1848-1889, 1890-1928, and 1960-1985, in light of the political dynamics that each wave faced. The author utilizes perspectives and methods from the fields of Political Science, Sociology, and History to illustrate the ways in which changing political dynamics impacted the battle for both women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment. A significant addition to the study of women's history and American studies, Political Women illlustrates the important roles that political leaders played in the battle for women's suffrage and the ERA and demonstrates the political savvy among women suffrage activists who recognized the institutional barriers present in the US political system and fought to overcome them.

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Routledge

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1134279124

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9781134279128

A Convenient Death

The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein

By: Alana Goodman,Daniel Halper

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A Convenient Death

The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein

By: Alana Goodman,Daniel Halper

Who killed Jeffrey Epstein? Two journalists look for answers. A must-read for fans of the Netflix docuseries Filthy Rich. In A Convenient Death, investigative reporters Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper search for the truth of what really happened to Jeffrey Epstein. With access to Epstein's victims and lawyers, to doctors, Wall Street insiders and law enforcement officers, they reveal the dirty secrets and sinister ties that may have driven someone in Epstein’s circle to take matters into their own hands. On the morning of August 10, 2019, Epstein, friend and financier to the rich and powerful, was found unresponsive in his prison cell in lower Manhattan, where he awaited his second trial for sexual predation and other crimes. He was rushed to a local hospital and one hour later pronounced dead by suicide. Across the world, a sinister web of powerful billionaires, celebrities, and politicians, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, had reason to sigh with relief at news of Epstein’s death. Having flown on his private planes and visited his many homes—the sites of so many illicit activities—they had much to lose if their transgressions were ever exposed. And now, Epstein was silenced for good. But cracks in the official story soon emerged. And the questions kept coming: · Why did the surveillance cameras in front of Epstein’s cell stop working that night? · Why was Epstein's cellmate transferred out and never replaced? · Why was a high-profile prisoner so suddenly taken off suicide watch and left unguarded for eight hours? Was Epstein murdered to protect the powerful people who feared what he might reveal? The American public deserves to know the truth. With this book, they can finally understand the facts and decide for themselves.

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Penguin

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0593192230

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9780593192238

The Swan and The Sergeant

By: Alana Albertson

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The Swan and The Sergeant

By: Alana Albertson

$50,000 to appear on Dancing with the Stars. $50,000 to humiliate myself on national television, lose my privacy, and become the laughingstock of the Marine Corps. But I can’t say no. Not even if it means I have to face the woman who once destroyed me. Ten years ago, reality star Selena Martinez was my dance partner and my girl. Though the self-professed ugly duckling is now a beautiful swan, the girl I fell in love with is long gone. Consumed with being a celebrity, her inner beauty has been replaced by an ugly lust for fame. When our coach offers me $5,000 a week to appear on TV’s hot ballroom dance reality show, I have no desire to relive my painful past with Selena, but I made a promise to my buddy that I’d take care of his wife and kids if he died on the battlefield. One season, ten weeks, a small sacrifice to make for the man who saved my life. Hand me my dance shoes. I’m in. (A version of this book was originally published as Love Waltzes In and Swing. This edition has been completely rewritten.)

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Bolero Books, LLC (new account)

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1941665470

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9781941665473

Man's Best Friend

By: Alana B. Lytle

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Man's Best Friend

By: Alana B. Lytle

A failed actress must decide how much she will give up—and what lies she will overlook—in order to live a life of luxury, in this irresistibly suspenseful and slightly surreal debut that is The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Nightbitch. Ever since her year as a scholarship student among the ultra-wealthy at a Manhattan private school, El knows what it is like to feel rich—to feel chosen. And being not chosen is her current living nightmare: at age thirty, she has given up her dream of becoming a famous actress, she has no passions, no great love, nothing to look forward to. Then El meets a mysterious trust-fund Cambridge grad who holds the keys to the world she has long dreamed of. Bryce may not be particularly good-looking, charming, or interesting, but he has chosen her. El allows herself to be lulled by the ease and safety that his wealth provides, becoming Bryce’s little pet, and giving up her job, friends, and apartment in short order. But when a series of disturbing and slightly surreal events reveal that Bryce is not quite what he seems, but something entirely more sinister, El must face the consequences when his darkness—and her own—are unleashed.

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0593715020

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9780593715024

Swag Is Not Enough

Career Advice for the Serious Millennial

By: Alana D. Wyche,Keith R. Wyche

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Swag Is Not Enough

Career Advice for the Serious Millennial

By: Alana D. Wyche,Keith R. Wyche

Welcome to the world of being a "millennial". You are part of the most talked about, written about, and yet least understood generation in modern history! You were able to program a VCR and television remote control before you could speak. You were taught using the latest technology, distance learning, and online classes. Socially, you embraced social media and social networking when most of the adult world couldn't spell Google or Twitter. And yet, you find yourself misunderstood at best, and marginalized at worst. However, the reality is, that millennials possess some of the most innovative, and creative minds in the workplace. Unlike previous generations who adhered to militaristic hierarchies, "me too" group think, and chose to "live to work", you have decided that organizational layers create unproductive barriers, "group think" stifles creativity, and that living to work leads to burnout. In your world, your job is an extension of who you are. Your co-workers are an extension of your social network, and you choose to "work to live" so that you can enjoy all life has to offer! But in reality, you have a real problem. Most of todays leaders are from another time and place. Your bosses are baby-boomers or Gen-Xers (think Baby-boomer wannabes), and in some cases, "Traditionalists" (think Grandma and Grandpa). They can't seem to understand why you act and think how you do? They struggle to see you as equals in decision-making, and can be intimidated by your grasp of technology. But until you are running the organization, you MUST learn how to work with, through and beside them. This book serves to enhance your ability to succeed by exploring common myths and perceptions regarding Millennials. You will see yourselves through the eyes of others, to better understand and ultimately overcome these misperceptions. Additionally, it will force you to look at yourself in the mirror to uncover some of your "blind-spots" and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Written by a Millennial with editorial insights by her Baby-boomer father, the hope is that after reading "Swag Is Not Enough", you will be armed with insights and lessons to take your career to new heights.

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150496411X

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9781504964111

She Who Dares

By: Alana Stott MBE

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She Who Dares

By: Alana Stott MBE

It was 2014 when the phone rang at Alana Stott’s home. On the other end was her husband, Dean, a member of the UK Special Forces serving in Libya in the midst of a civil war. As the sound of gunfire echoed through the receiver, Alana felt her heart racing as she struggled to gather as much information as possible from him. Moments later, the line went dead. In a compelling, heartfelt retelling of her epic journey through life, Stott shines an inspirational light on how she navigated through all her personal experiences with candor, humor, bravery, and authenticity. As she leads others through her memories, Stott begins by detailing her childhood where she first learned to advocate for justice, pledged to one day end injustices, and focused on helping others, and then shares insight into her path forward as she traveled the world, married, attained professional success, battled challenges, and eventually summoned the strength and courage to guide her former UK Special Forces husband from enduring life-changing injuries to becoming a world-record breaking champion. She Who Dares chronicles one woman’s path of self-discovery as she overcame obstacles and challenges to transform into a passionate advocate for positive change.

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Archway Publishing

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166572420X

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9781665724203

Concealed Weapons

Celebrating the Courage of Today's Abandoned American Youth

By: Alana Reneé

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Concealed Weapons

Celebrating the Courage of Today's Abandoned American Youth

By: Alana Reneé

Compelling & dramatic coming of age stories for young readers

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462822029

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9781462822027

Wartime Rape and Sexual Violence

An Examination of the Perpetrators, Motivations, and Functions of Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust

By: Alana Fangrad

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Wartime Rape and Sexual Violence

An Examination of the Perpetrators, Motivations, and Functions of Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust

By: Alana Fangrad

Given the extensive body of Holocaust literature, it may be surprising to note that there is a distinct gap of reflection, analysis, and qualification in the area of sexual violence. The subject of sexual violence during the Holocaust, in particular, the sexual violation of Jewish women, is a subject that has been largely repressed and silenced. Thus, this thesis is an attempt to not only rectify the omission of sexual violence from Holocaust history, but to bring a level of analysis to this under-examined aspect of National Socialism to a point commensurate with that devoted to other aspects of Holocaust studies. During the Holocaust, sexual violence against Jewish women was both unique and typical. It was typical in the forms that sexual violence manifested-sexual humiliation, rape, gang rape, sexual slavery-but unique in the patterns it followed and the functions it served for the Nazi regime. Unlike other genocides, sexual violence was not a state sanctioned policy of the Final Solution; it was employed in a haphazardly manner, that was horrific, multi-faceted, and deadly. Perpetrators were motivated by a diversity of factors, including, a desire for power, camaraderie, sexual pleasure and masculine ego-gratification. Moreover, sexual violence was multi-functional for the Nazi regime, operating as a powerful tool of humiliation and dehumanization. As the Nazi regime moved into full-scale genocide, sexual violence became an increasingly integral component to the process of annihilation. By dehumanizing Jewish women through varied forms of sexual violence, German perpetrators increasingly saw their victims as less than human, thereby further removing them from the realm of moral and ethical obligation. Sexual violence was clearly an essential component to the continued functioning of genocide, because through the process of Jewish womens dehumanization, perpetrators were able to more easily continue fulfilling their murderous tasks

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1491822686

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9781491822685

Clash!

How to Thrive in a Multicultural World

By: Hazel Rose Markus,Alana Conner

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Clash!

How to Thrive in a Multicultural World

By: Hazel Rose Markus,Alana Conner

“If you fear that cultural, political, and class differences are tearing America apart, read this important book.” —Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., author of The Righteous Mind Who will rule in the twenty-first century: allegedly more disciplined Asians, or allegedly more creative Westerners? Can women rocket up the corporate ladder without knocking off the men? How can poor kids get ahead when schools favor the rich? As our planet gets smaller, cultural conflicts are becoming fiercer. Rather than lamenting our multicultural worlds, Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner reveal how we can leverage our differences to mend the rifts in our workplaces, schools, and relationships, as well as on the global stage. Provocative, witty, and painstakingly researched, Clash! not only explains who we are, it also envisions who we could become.

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0142180939

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Dear Lindy

A Nation Responds to the Loss of Azaria

By: Alana Valentine

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Dear Lindy

A Nation Responds to the Loss of Azaria

By: Alana Valentine

This book shows just how far, wide and deep the story of Azaria has gone' Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton The Azaria Chamberlain case was one of the most followed and documented murder trials in our nation's history. And we responded with grief, rage, prejudice and remorse to Lindy directly, through thousands of letters. Here, Alana Valentine uses a selection of the letters sent to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton to capture Australians' reaction to the loss of Azaria. The court of public opinion made its own ruling in the case, shown in the hurtful, supportive, accusatory or sympathetic letters received by Lindy in prison. Some of the letters are full of vitriol; some include bizarre theories. More are compassionate, sent by mothers, by people of faith or by those who had suffered similar tragedies. We hear Lindy's voice too, in candid conversations with the author. The selection is a time capsule of Australia, a reflection of our attitudes and of how far we've come. These are the letters, poems and works of art we were compelled to send to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton.

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National Library of Australia

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0642279012

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9780642279019

Cleaning Up

The Transformation of Domestic Service in Twentieth Century New York

By: Alana Erickson Coble

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Cleaning Up

The Transformation of Domestic Service in Twentieth Century New York

By: Alana Erickson Coble

Over the course of the 20th century, American domestic service changed from an occupation with a hierarchical, top-down structure to one in which relationships were more negotiated. Many forces shaped this transformation: shifts in women's role in society, both at home and in the work force; changes in immigration laws and immigrant populations; and the politicization of the occupation. Moreover, domestic workers themselves took advantage of the resulting circumstances to demand better treatment and a say in their working conditions.

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Routledge

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100014383X

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The Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum, 1890-1940

Countering the Master Narrative

By: Alana D. Murray

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The Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum, 1890-1940

Countering the Master Narrative

By: Alana D. Murray

This book examines black intellectual thought during from 1890-1940, and its relationship to the development of the alternative black curriculum in social studies. Inquiry into the alternative black curriculum is a multi-disciplinary project; it requires an intersectional approach that draws on social studies research, educational history and black history. Exploring the gendered construction of the alternative black curriculum, Murray considers the impact of Carter G. Woodson and W.E.B. DuBois in creating the alternative black curriculum in social studies, and its subsequent relationship to the work of black women in the field and how black women developed the alternative black curriculum in private and public settings.

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3319914189

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9783319914183

Action Research for Business, Nonprofit, and Public Administration

A Tool for Complex Times

By: E. Alana James,Tracesea Slater,Alan Bucknam

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Action Research for Business, Nonprofit, and Public Administration

A Tool for Complex Times

By: E. Alana James,Tracesea Slater,Alan Bucknam

Action Research for Business, Nonprofit, and Public Administration covers the background, process, and tools needed to introduce and guide you through to a successful action research (AR) project. Included are how to successfully initiate, plan, and complete AR within all types of organizations while focused on business, nonprofit, and public administration. Graphic organizers and a modular sequence of topics help you manage the steps involved in AR practice. A protocol for weekly report writing, informed consent documentation, and clear guidelines for final analyses and report writing give graduate students the efficient format they need. This book teaches theory by interweaving discussion of the major content areas and stories of student success with the concepts that impact practice.

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SAGE

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1412991641

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9781412991643

A legal affair

By: Alana Woods

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A legal affair

By: Alana Woods

A legal affair What would happen, do you think, to a lawyer who flouts the law to represent a client? Newly arrived in Canberra, Australia's iconic bush capital, Elisabeth Sharman, senior legal officer, is thrown off-balance when the first case she's assigned is the defence of a 19-year-old youth accused of murder who is pleading amnesia. How do you defend someone who can't defend himself? It's a problem Elisabeth goes way beyond the normal call of duty to find out. But how do you distract your talented, very competent, and very attractive colleague so he doesn't stop you? By appealing to his ego, of course. Robert Murphy, Murph to his mates, admires Elisabeth's legal skills, and given she's gorgeous is more than willing to be seduced, but can't silence the questions reverberating in his head: Why is she doing this? Is she using me? Why am I letting her? As they delve deeper into the murder victim's past, uncovering a love affair spanning decades of deceit and domestic abuse, Elisabeth's subterfuge binds Robert closer and closer until all he wants is her heart. Does Elisabeth survive the trauma this case brings? Does Robert win or lose her? Neither question is answered until the very end. A 126,000 word intrigue suspense legal thriller by Australian author Alana Woods, the Intrigue Queen of thriller fictio

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0648829901

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9780648829904

Strength Training Over 40

A 6-Week Program to Build Muscle and Agility

By: Alana Collins

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Strength Training Over 40

A 6-Week Program to Build Muscle and Agility

By: Alana Collins

Improve your quality of life with this over 40 strength program There are many reasons to maintain and build muscle mass. Metabolism levels, hormonal health, and even a sharper mind are all connected to the strength of your muscles, tendons, and joints. But most importantly, maintaining mobility as you age is essential to your quality of life. Resistance training can help you continue to move freely throughout your life for years to come. Inside Strength Training Over 40, you'll find detailed, realistic goals within a training program you can stick with. Focused on well-balanced, full-body training, you'll be able to increase muscle mass with or without gym access. This six-week comprehensive strength training program prioritizes safety with effective, easy tutorials and illustrations to help guide you to a stronger, better you. Strength Training over 40 is: Flexible—You can customize or modify your workout, making adjustments that work for you. This program adapts to gym or home, even small spaces like apartments. Motivational—A positive, non-critical voice infuses the book. Weekly inspirations, goals, and self check-in worksheets will help keep you on track and committed to your program. Safe—Tutorials and safety tips help you get the most out of each exercise without putting your body at risk. Step-by-step workout instructions and less intense alternatives are available to fit your current fitness level needs. Sustain overall health when you build total body strength with Strength Training over 40.

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Training Your Dog the Humane Way

Simple Teaching Tips for Resolving Problem Behaviors and Raising a Happy Dog

By: Alana Stevenson

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Training Your Dog the Humane Way

Simple Teaching Tips for Resolving Problem Behaviors and Raising a Happy Dog

By: Alana Stevenson

Animal behaviorist and dog trainer Stevenson provides readers with the basic principles of animal learning so that they can effectively prevent and remedy behavioral problems using a humane, positive approach rather than punishment.

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This is Not Art

Activism and Other 'Not-Art'

By: Alana Jelinek

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This is Not Art

Activism and Other 'Not-Art'

By: Alana Jelinek

Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make society stronger, or the world a better place. Art disrupts and resists the comfortable, the stiflingly familiar and the status quo, or it only serves to deaden a disenfranchised society further. So argues This Is Not Art, a radical and vigorous critique that debunks myths about art in order to celebrate its real and unique importance. With the postmodern deconstruction of now-outdated shibboleths such as 'genius', 'authenticity' and 'beauty', new and neoliberal myths about art have arisen to take their place: that art's value is primarily monetary as a prized and marketable commodity, or that art is important because it ameliorates social problems. These ideas are not only the province of art-dealers and power-brokers, but pervade the part of the artworld that defines itself as radical, political or ethical too. Highlighting the social mechanisms of legitimisation and dissemination that exclude the genuinely disruptive or defiant, This Is Not Art draws on Foucault and Marx to uncover an artworld obsessed with profit and from which diversity, individuality and freedom have been erased. In the search for a new way to understand art's urgent importance, Alana Jelinek returns to the question of 'what is art?', retelling the history of art practice for our contemporary moment and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives. From the author's unique perspective as a practicing artist and theoretician, This Is Not Art offers not just a searing criticism of the artworld as it is, but a vision of a new way of understanding and practicing art - as the embodiment of power and agency within us, the possibility of thinking and acting differently, of finding new stories to tell.

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Music Therapy Social Skills Assessment and Documentation Manual (MTSSA)

Clinical Guidelines for Group Work with Children and Adolescents

By: Jenni Rook,Rebecca West,Jeffrey Wolfe,Pan Ho,Alana Dennis,Yayoi Nakai-Hosoe

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Music Therapy Social Skills Assessment and Documentation Manual (MTSSA)

Clinical Guidelines for Group Work with Children and Adolescents

By: Jenni Rook,Rebecca West,Jeffrey Wolfe,Pan Ho,Alana Dennis,Yayoi Nakai-Hosoe

This comprehensive handbook provides adaptable assessment and documentation processes for social skill development in music therapy group sessions for children with developmental disabilities. It also includes a CD-ROM of forms and tools, as well as songs that help to facilitate social interaction.

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Internal Affairs

By: Alana Matthews

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Internal Affairs

By: Alana Matthews

When the call came in over the radio, Sheriff's Deputy Rafe Franco thought he would be responding to a typical domestic dispute. But he didn't know that the perp was St. Louis's most notorious mobster--or that the victim was his college sweetheart, Lisa Tobin. Now, as Rafe is drawn into a web of crime and danger, he discovers that his feelings for Lisa are stronger than ever. And her three-year-old daughter, Chloe, is melting his heart in ways he'd never imagined possible. But Lisa's ex is a powerful sociopath who will stop at nothing to get her back--or destroy her. As Rafe's instincts as a man battle with his duty as a cop, he'll do anything to ensure their survival...and their future as a family.

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0373696663

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Feminist Theory, Crime, and Social Justice

By: Alana Van Gundy

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Feminist Theory, Crime, and Social Justice

By: Alana Van Gundy

Feminist Theory, Crime, and Social Justice offers an insightful look at the primarily masculine-driven perspective on crime and justice through the lens of feminist theory. The book presents the argument that an increased understanding of the female crime typology, life course, and gender-specific programming will improve social justice for offenders. Discussions on the direct implications of the way society views crime and justice contribute to policy recommendations for helping to improve these views, specifically as they relate to female crime.

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Girlish

By: Alana Wulff

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Girlish

By: Alana Wulff

TRUTH BOMB: Being a girl freakin’ rocks! But that doesn’t mean it’s always easy. Sometimes you need inspiration, support, and advice to help you find your voice and believe in yourself. Girlish is a fun, feisty, information-packed handbook—part discovery course, part interactive journal—filled with quotes, tips, truth bombs, and profiles of amazing women from all walks of life, from Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Amy Poehler to Malala Yousafzai and Simone Biles. Embracing all the beauty, chaos, hope, and frustration of being a girl in the twenty‑first century, Girlish explores life topics that include gender equality, body positivity, self-esteem, relationships, friendship, and even dealing with the mixed bag of the internet and social media. Thought-provoking questions dare you to define your values, set goals, dream BIG, and celebrate everything that makes you you. Ready to create, inspire, invent, strive, lead, love—and have some laughs along the way? Read on . . .

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Culture, Communion and Recovery

Tolkienian Fairy-Story and Inter-Religious Exchange

By: Alana M. Vincent

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Culture, Communion and Recovery

Tolkienian Fairy-Story and Inter-Religious Exchange

By: Alana M. Vincent

Recent scholarship on Tolkien has been especially attentive not only to the importance of religion in his personal life, but also to the wider theological implications which may be drawn from his works. In this study, Alana M. Vincent argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides an excellent model for understanding the mutually transformative relationship between religion and culture, and in so doing also provides an important and unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange.

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1443842958

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Why Race Still Matters

By: Alana Lentin

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Why Race Still Matters

By: Alana Lentin

Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to stop talking about race? This powerful refutation is a call to notice not just when and how race still matters but when, how and why it is said not to matter. Race critical scholar Alana Lentin argues that society is in urgent need of developing the skills of racial literacy, by jettisoning the idea that race is something and unveiling what race does as a key technology of modern rule, hidden in plain sight. Weaving together international examples, she eviscerates misconceptions such as reverse racism and the newfound acceptability of 'race realism', bursts the 'I’m not racist, but' justification, complicates the common criticisms of identity politics and warns against using concerns about antisemitism as a proxy for antiracism. Dominant voices in society suggest we are talking too much about race. Lentin shows why we actually need to talk about it more and how in doing so we can act to make it matter less.

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1509535721

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Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities

Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for Women

By: Alana Barton

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Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities

Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for Women

By: Alana Barton

In this book Alana Barton explores the social control and disciplining of unruly and 'deviant' women from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Her particular focus is the 'semi penal' institution, a category that includes refuges, reformatories and homes. She suggests that these occupy a unique position within the social control 'continuum', somewhere between the formal regulation of the prison and the informal control of the 'community' or domestic sphere, but at the same time incorporating methods of discipline from both arenas. The book draws on Dr Barton's extensive fieldwork at one such institution, currently a women's bail and probation hostel, which opened as a reformatory in 1823. Barton begins by examining the ideological and social conditions underpinning the creation of this institution, deconstructing the dominant feminising discourses around domesticity, respectability, motherhood, sexuality and pathology that were mobilised to categorise and control its nineteenth-century residents. She goes on to discuss the contemporary experiences of women within the hostel and their strategies for coping with or resisting the disciplinary regimes and discourses imposed upon them. Her analysis reveals that many of the discourses used to characterise and discipline women in reformatories during the nineteenth century continue to be utilised for the same purpose in a probation hostel nearly two hundred years later. She also reveals that the distribution of power in institutions is not fixed, but can be subtly negotiated and redistributed. Concluding with an examination of current developments in community punishments for women, this book will make a significant contribution to the literature around alternatives to custody for female offenders by strongly challenging contemporary debates liberal, critical and feminist around ’appropriate’ and relevant penal policy for women.

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Undivided

A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace

By: Patricia Raybon,Alana Raybon

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Undivided

A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace

By: Patricia Raybon,Alana Raybon

“Mom, I have something I need to tell you…” They didn’t talk. Not for ten years. Not about faith anyway. Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives – the daughter’s choice to leave the church, convert to Islam and become a practicing Muslim. Undivided is a real-time story of healing and understanding with alternating narratives from each as they struggle to learn how to love each other in a whole new way. Although this is certainly a book for mothers and daughters struggling with interfaith tensions , it is equally meaningful for mothers and daughters who feel divided by tensions in general. An important work for parents whose adult children have left the family’s belief system, it will help those same children as they wrestle to better understand their parents. Undivided offers an up close and personal look at the life of an Islamic convert—a young American woman—at a time when attitudes are mixed about Muslims (and Muslim women in particular), but interest in such women is high. For anyone troubled by the broader tensions between Islam and the West, this personal story distills this friction into the context of a family relationship—a journey all the more fascinating. Undivided is a tremendously important book for our time. Will Patricia be able to fully trust in the Christ who “holds all things together?” Will Alana find new hope or new understanding as the conversation gets deeper between them? And can they answer the question that both want desperately to experience, which is “Can we make our torn family whole again?”

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Thomas Nelson

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0529113074

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Between Discipline and a Hard Place

The Value of Contemporary Art

By: Alana Jelinek

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Between Discipline and a Hard Place

The Value of Contemporary Art

By: Alana Jelinek

Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who may define what art really is. Jelinek contends that while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its liberal democratic potential. Between Discipline and a Hard Place describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called 'creative' arts. A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art world.

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1350100471

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Turbulence

A Kennedy Stern Christian Suspense Novel Book 5

By: Alana Terry

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Turbulence

A Kennedy Stern Christian Suspense Novel Book 5

By: Alana Terry

Facing doubts and terror at forty thousand feet ... Kennedy can't wait to spend winter break in Alaska. Unfortunately, her vacation might end up cut short before her plane ever lands. As terror unfolds in the air, Kennedy stops worrying about reaching her destination. For now, her biggest challenge is just to stay alive ... As gripping, thrilling, and unforgettable as always, Turbulence is book 5 in the bestselling Christian suspense series readers can't put down. Buy your copy today ... just be prepared to stay up late!

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