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Acne and Rosacea

The Complete Guide

By: Alison Bowser

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Acne affects young adults the most, but roughly 30% of sufferers continue to be affected in adulthood. One in 10 people in the UK are also affected by a condition called rosacea (pronounced rose-ay-sha) and the likelihood is that we all know someone who has it. The typical symptoms of rosacea include: facial redness (most commonly covering the nose and cheeks), spots, extreme sensitivity to temperature changes, as well as broken veins, flushing and blushing. It's a condition that can be treated and usually the sooner, the better. Written by a leading expert, Acne and Rosacea: The Complete Guide takes the reader through diagnosis, the symptoms and causes and offers practical, sensitive advice on treatment options and the very latest in skincare advice.

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Random House

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1446458369

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9781446458365

Alice Guy Blaché

Lost Visionary of the Cinema

By: Alison McMahan

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Alice Guy Blaché

Lost Visionary of the Cinema

By: Alison McMahan

Alice Guy BlachT (1873-1968), the world's first woman filmmaker, was one of the key figures in the development of narrative film. From 1896 to 1920 she directed 400 films (including over 100 synchronized sound films), produced hundreds more, and was the first--and so far the only--woman to own and run her own studio plant (The Solax Studio in Fort Lee, NJ, 1910-1914). However, her role in film history was completely forgotten until her own memoirs were published in 1976. This new book tells her life story and fills in many gaps left by the memoirs. Guy BlachT's life and career mirrored momentous changes in the film industry, and the long time-span and sheer volume of her output makes her films a fertile territory for the application of new theories of cinema history, the development of film narrative, and feminist film theory. The book provides a close analysis of the one hundred Guy BlachT films that survive, and in the process rewrites early cinema history.

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385

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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150130268X

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9781501302688

Constructing Community

The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico

By: Alison E. Rautman

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Constructing Community

The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico

By: Alison E. Rautman

In Constructing Community, Alison E. Rautman uses the Salinas District in New Mexico to examine the relationships of subsistence practices, mobility, and settlement. Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they created a sense of themselves and their place in the world.

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304

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University of Arizona Press

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0816530696

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9780816530694

Billington

Victorian Executioner

By: Alison Bruce

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Billington

Victorian Executioner

By: Alison Bruce

‘An insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner.’ – Stewart P. Evans Between 1884 and 1905 James Billington and his three sons, Thomas, William and John, were responsible for 235 executions in Victorian Great Britain and Ireland. They hanged many notorious murderers, but equally fascinating is the story of the family. Did James really feel he served society and justice, or did this position satisfy something more personal? Billington: Victorian Executioner provides a complete account of the stories behind James Billington’s executions, as well as the real man behind the rope – a man whose business was death. This enthralling biography is an exciting addition to any true crime bookshelf.

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323

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The History Press

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0752474065

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9780752474069

Strange Bedfellows

Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation

By: Alison Lefkovitz

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Strange Bedfellows

Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation

By: Alison Lefkovitz

In the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, the feminist activist Judy Syfers proclaimed that she "would like a wife," offering a wry critique of the state of marriage in modern America. After all, she observed, a wife could provide Syfers with free childcare and housecleaning services as well as wages from a job. Outside the pages of Ms., divorced men's rights activist Charles Metz opened his own manifesto on marriage reform with a triumphant recognition that "noise is swelling from hundreds of thousands of divorced male victims." In the 1960s and 70s, a broad array of Americans identified marriage as a problem, and according to Alison Lefkovitz, the subsequent changes to marriage law at the state and federal levels constituted a social and legal revolution. The law had long imposed breadwinner and homemaker roles on husbands and wives respectively. In the 1960s, state legislatures heeded the calls of divorced men and feminist activists, but their reforms, such as no-fault divorce, generally benefitted husbands more than wives. Meanwhile, radical feminists, welfare rights activists, gay liberationists, and immigrant spouses fought for a much broader agenda, such as the extension of gender-neutral financial obligations to all families or the separation of benefits from family relationships entirely. But a host of conservatives stymied this broader revolution. Therefore, even the modest victories that feminists won eluded less prosperous Americans—marriage rights were available to those who could afford them. Examining the effects of law and politics on the intimate space of the home, Strange Bedfellows recounts how the marriage revolution at once instituted formal legal equality while also creating new forms of political and economic inequality that historians—like most Americans—have yet to fully understand.

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280

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812295056

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9780812295054

Stardust Monuments

The Saving and Selling of Hollywood

By: Alison Trope

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Stardust Monuments

The Saving and Selling of Hollywood

By: Alison Trope

Hollywood is placeless, timeless, and iconic, a key fabricator and forger of American cultural myths and stories. How, then, will the history of Hollywood be written?

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421

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UPNE

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1611681952

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9781611681956

Wondrous Difference

Cinema, Anthropology & Turn-of-the-century Visual Culture

By: Alison Griffiths

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Wondrous Difference

Cinema, Anthropology & Turn-of-the-century Visual Culture

By: Alison Griffiths

Focusing on the precursors and contexts of ethnographic film, this text depicts the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures.

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512

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Columbia University Press

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0231116969

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9780231116961

Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context

By: Alison Harvey

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Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context

By: Alison Harvey

Western digital game play has shifted in important ways over the last decade, with a plethora of personal devices affording a range of increasingly diverse play experiences. Despite the celebration of a more inclusive environment of digital game play, very little grounded research has been devoted to the examination of familial play and the domestication of digital games, as opposed to evolving public and educational contexts. This book is the first study to provide a situated investigation of the site of family play— the shared spaces and private places of gameplay within the domestic sphere. It carries out an empirically grounded and critical analysis of what marketing and sales discourses about shifts in the digital games audience actually look like in the space of the home, as well as the social and cultural role these ludic technologies take in the everyday practices of the family in the domestic context. It examines the material realities of video game technologies in the home; including time management and spatial organization, as well as the discursive role these devices play in discussions of technological competence and its complex relationship to age, generational differences, and gender performance. Harvey’s interdisciplinary approach and innovative methodology will hold great critical appeal for those studying digital culture, children’s media, and feminist studies of new media, as well as critical theories of technology and leisure and sport theory.

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182

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Routledge

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1317632982

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9781317632986

The Weight of Whiteness

A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

By: Alison Bailey

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The Weight of Whiteness

A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

By: Alison Bailey

“Check your privilege” is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. People of color feel the weight of whiteness daily. The resistant habits of whiteness and its attendant privileges, however, make it difficult for white people to feel the damage. White people are more comfortable thinking about white supremacy in terms of what privilege does for them, rather than feeling what it does to them. The first half of the book focuses on the overexposed side of white privilege, the side that works to make the invisible and intangible structures of power more visible and tangible. Bailey discusses the importance of understanding privileges intersectionally, the ignorance-preserving habits of “white talk,” and how privilege and ignorance circulate in educational settings. The second part invites white readers to explore the underexposed side of white dominance, the weightless side that they would rather not feel. The final chapters are powerfully autobiographical. Bailey engages readers with a deeply personal account of what it means to hold space with the painful weight of whiteness in her own life. She also offers a moving account of medicinal genealogies, which helps to engage the weight she inherits from her settler colonial ancestors. The book illustrates how the gravitational pull of white ignorance and comfort are stronger than the clean pain required for collective liberation. The stakes are high: Failure to hold the weight of whiteness ensures that white people will continue to blow the weight of historical trauma through communities of color.

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203

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793604509

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9781793604507

The Lady Vanishes

The next bestselling Australian true crime book based on the popular podcast series, for fans of I CATCH KILLERS, THE WIDOW OF WALCHA and DIRTY JOHN

By: Alison Sandy,Bryan Seymour,Sally Eeles,Marc Wright

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The Lady Vanishes

The next bestselling Australian true crime book based on the popular podcast series, for fans of I CATCH KILLERS, THE WIDOW OF WALCHA and DIRTY JOHN

By: Alison Sandy,Bryan Seymour,Sally Eeles,Marc Wright

A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit podcast The Lady Vanishes detail the winding investigation into Marion's disappearance, from tentative early police efforts to her daughter's 27-year search for answers. The Lady Vanishes is an engrossing story of how a small team of seasoned investigative journalists and storytellers, a daughter's intuition and a team of listener super-sleuths uncovered a web of intrigue spanning nine decades and three continents, and how - after 57 episodes, 20 million downloads and sparking a coronial inquiry - they discovered at the heart of the mystery a stranger-than-fiction international man of mystery who could hold the key to what really happened to Marion.

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HarperCollins Australia

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1460717031

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9781460717035

From the Ground Up

Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities

By: Alison Sant

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From the Ground Up

Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities

By: Alison Sant

In From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities, design expert Alison Sant focuses on the unique ways in which US cities are working to mitigate and adapt to climate change while creating equitable and livable communities. Sant presents 12 case studies, drawn from research and over 90 interviews with people who are working in these communities to make a difference. These efforts show how US cities are reclaiming their streets from cars, restoring watersheds, growing forests, and adapting shorelines to improve people's lives while addressing our changing climate. From the Ground Up is a call to action. When we make the places we live more climate resilient, we need to acknowledge and address the history of social and racial injustice. Advocates, non-profit organizations, community-based groups, and government officials will find examples of how to build alliances to support and embolden this vision together.

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306

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Island Press

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1610918967

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9781610918961

Diana

By: Alison Gauntlett,Parragon, Incorporated

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Diana

By: Alison Gauntlett,Parragon, Incorporated

Pictorial tribute to Diana, the Princess of Wales, mainly from the time of her engagement to Prince Charles in 1981 to her death in 1997. The photographs are from the archives of the Daily Mail, many of which have not been published before.

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392

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Parragon Publishing

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1405414022

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9781405414029

Western Canada Handbook

By: Matthew Gardner,Alison Bigg

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Western Canada Handbook

By: Matthew Gardner,Alison Bigg

Covering three fantasitic regions for lovers of the "great outdoors" - the Rockies, Alberta and the Yukon - this guide introduces British Columbia including Vancouver and Vancouver Island. Eco-tourism, sport-based holidays and wildlife viewing are all available in this region of Canada and are all covered in this handbook. It features detailed information on hiking trails, canoe routes, ski hills, rock climbing, mountain biking and more, as well as routes that leave the beaten track to discover the secrets locals usually keep to themselves, including viewpoints, free hot springs and special beaches. The guide also offers a selection of accommodation concentrating on interesting hotels, B&Bs and campsites.

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1903471567

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9781903471562

Acne and Rosacea

The Complete Guide

By: Alison Bowser

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Acne and Rosacea

The Complete Guide

By: Alison Bowser

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Book's by Alison Bowser

Acne and Rosacea

Acne and Rosacea

Alice Guy Blaché

Alice Guy Blaché

Constructing Community

Constructing Community

Billington

Billington

Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows

Stardust Monuments

Stardust Monuments

Wondrous Difference

Wondrous Difference

Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context

Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context

The Weight of Whiteness

The Weight of Whiteness

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes

From the Ground Up

From the Ground Up

Diana

Diana

Western Canada Handbook

Western Canada Handbook

Acne and Rosacea

Acne and Rosacea

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