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The Woman's Film of the 1940s

Gender, Narrative, and History

By: Alison L. McKee

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The Woman's Film of the 1940s

Gender, Narrative, and History

By: Alison L. McKee

This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman’s film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history, and this book challenges and modifies that understanding, contextualizing the films it considers against the backdrop of World War II. In addition, in paying tribute to and departing from earlier feminist formulations about gendered spectatorship in cinema, McKee argues that such models emphasized a masculine-centered gaze at the inadvertent expense of understanding other possible modes of identification and gender expression in classical narrative cinema. She proposes ways of understanding gender and narrative based in part on literary narrative theory and ultimately works toward a notion of an androgynous spectatorship and mode of interpretation in the 1940s woman’s film.

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Routledge

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1135053693

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9781135053697

Polygraphies

Francophone Women Writing Algeria

By: Alison Rice

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Polygraphies

Francophone Women Writing Algeria

By: Alison Rice

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence, Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today, including Maïssa Bey, Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar, and Malika Mokeddem. These authors witnessed both the "before" and "after" of the colonial experience in their land, and their fictional and theoretical texts testify to the lasting impact of this history. From a variety of personal perspectives and backgrounds, each writer addresses linguistic, religious, and racial issues of crucial contemporary importance in Algeria. Alison Rice engages their work from a range of disciplines, striving both to heighten our sensitivity to the plurality inherent in their texts and to move beyond a true/false dichotomy to a wealth of possible truths, all communicated in writing.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813932939

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9780813932934

Belton

By: Alison Ashley Darby

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Belton

By: Alison Ashley Darby

Belton, South Carolina, is indeed a child of the railroad. By 1853, the fledgling town had begun developing at the junction of the Columbia and Greenville Railroad and its spur line to Anderson. Josephine Brown, daughter of Dr. George Reece Brown who owned most of the land around the railroad, named the community after Judge John Belton O'Neall, president of the C&G Railroad Company. By the turn of the century, Capt. Ellison A. Smyth began the Belton Cotton Mill, which quickly became the largest cotton mill in the Palmetto State. Images of America: Belton captures the city's growth from a railroad depot and mill town to today's wealthy suburb of Anderson and home to the South Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame and the Palmetto Championships, the state's junior qualifying tennis tournament. The community's vitality is depicted through historic images of the standpipe, a water tower built in 1909 that symbolizes Belton today; the depot and railroad scenes; church life; town progress; schools; community events and celebrations; and prominent residents.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439612528

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9781439612521

First Class

The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School

By: Alison Stewart,Melissa Harris-Perry

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First Class

The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School

By: Alison Stewart,Melissa Harris-Perry

Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public school successful. In 1870, in the wake of the Civil War, citizens of Washington, DC, opened the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth, the first black public high school in the United States; it would later be renamed Dunbar High and would flourish despite Jim Crow laws and segregation. Dunbar attracted an extraordinary faculty: its early principal was the first black graduate of Harvard, and at a time it had seven teachers with PhDs, a medical doctor, and a lawyer. During the school's first 80 years, these teachers would develop generations of highly educated, successful African Americans, and at its height in the 1940s and '50s, Dunbar High School sent 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as in too many failing urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students are barely proficient in reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart—whose parents were both Dunbar graduates—tells the story of the school's rise, fall, and possible resurgence as it looks to reopen its new, state-of-the-art campus in the fall of 2013.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613740123

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9781613740125

Tragedy in the Commons

Former Members of Parliament Speak Out about Canada's Failing Democracy

By: Alison Loat,Michael MacMillan

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Tragedy in the Commons

Former Members of Parliament Speak Out about Canada's Failing Democracy

By: Alison Loat,Michael MacMillan

Former Members of Parliament from Canada's House of Commons discuss their political careers and Canadian politics in general is examined.

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Vintage Canada

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0307361306

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Breed Predispositions to Disease in Dogs and Cats

By: Alex Gough,Alison Thomas,Dan O'Neill

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Breed Predispositions to Disease in Dogs and Cats

By: Alex Gough,Alison Thomas,Dan O'Neill

Breed Predispositions to Disease in Dogs and Cats, Third Edition provides a comprehensive exploration of current knowledge of breed predispositions based on rigorous examination of primary research. Incorporates the latest research, new testing methods, and newly-discovered predispositions and diseases Provides expanded information on genetics, epidemiology, and longevity Includes key characteristics of diseases, including pathogenesis, genetics, risks, and common presentations Indexes dogs and cats by breed, with listings of common inherited and predisposed disorders organized by body system Includes absolute and relative frequency/occurrence data for conditions, along with references to further information

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119225558

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9781119225553

Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television

The Persephone Complex

By: Alison Horbury

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Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television

The Persephone Complex

By: Alison Horbury

Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.

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Springer

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1137511370

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John Brown

Armed Abolitionist

By: Alison Morretta

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John Brown

Armed Abolitionist

By: Alison Morretta

To some, John Brown was a hero and a martyr to the abolitionist cause. To others, he was a treasonous murderer operating outside the law. Unlike most mainstream abolitionists, Brown believed that slavery would never end without the use of violence, and he was more than willing to take up arms against anyone who stood in his way. His ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, which resulted in his execution, was merely the final chapter in his history of using violent means to fight slavery. The question of whether violence is ever acceptable as a form of protest is one that Brown's contemporaries asked themselves and one we are still asking today. Through this book, students can contemplate that same question as they examine the facts of John Brown's life, the historical context in which he lived, and the legacy he left behind.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1502635208

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No Depression in Heaven

The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta

By: Alison Collis Greene

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No Depression in Heaven

The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta

By: Alison Collis Greene

Nowhere was the transition from church-based aid to federal welfare state brought about by the Great Depression more dramatic than in the South. For a moment, the southern Protestant establishment turned to face the suffering that plantation capitalism pushed behind its image of planter's hatsand hoopskirts. When starving white farmers marched into an Arkansas town to demand food for their dying children and when priests turned away hungry widows and orphans because they were no needier than anyone else, southern clergy of both races spoke with one voice to say that they had done allthey could. It was time for a higher power to intervene. They looked to God, and then they looked to Roosevelt.When Roosevelt promised a new deal for the "forgotten man," Americans cheered, and when he took office, churches and private agencies gratefully turned much of the responsibility for welfare and social reform over to the state. Yet, argues historian Allison Collis Greene, Roosevelt's New Dealthreatened plantation capitalism even while bending to it. Black southern churches worked to secure benefits for their own communities while white churches divided over loyalties to Roosevelt and Jim Crow. Frustrated by their failure and fractured by divisions over the New Deal, leaders in the majorwhite Protestant denominations surrendered their moral authority in the South. Although the Protestant establishment retained a central role in American life for decades after the Depression, its slip from power made room for upstart Pentecostals and independent evangelicals, who emphasized personalrather than social salvation.

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Oxford University Press

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0199371873

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What We Know about Childcare

By: Alison Clarke-Stewart,Virginia D. Allhusen

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What We Know about Childcare

By: Alison Clarke-Stewart,Virginia D. Allhusen

Ultimately, it's parents who matter most, what happens at home makes the difference in how children develop.

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Harvard University Press

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0674017498

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The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

By: Malcolm Coulthard,Alison Johnson

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The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

By: Malcolm Coulthard,Alison Johnson

Forensic linguistics is the study of language and the law, covering topics from legal language and courtroom discourse to plagiarism. This book deals with the ideas, debates, topics, approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics. It is suitable for undergraduates and postgraduates

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113699873X

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Indian Voices

Listening to Native Americans

By: Alison Owings

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Indian Voices

Listening to Native Americans

By: Alison Owings

In Indian Voices, Alison Owings takes readers on a fresh journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Owings's most recent oral history—engagingly written in a style that entertains and informs—documents what Native Americans say about themselves, their daily lives, and the world around them. Young and old from many tribal nations speak with candor, insight, and (unknown to many non-Natives) humor about what it is like to be a Native American in the twenty-first century. Through intimate interviews many also express their thoughts about the sometimes staggeringly ignorant, if often well-meaning, non-Natives they encounter—some who do not realize Native Americans still exist, much less that they speak English, have cell phones, use the Internet, and might attend powwows and power lunches. Indian Voices, an inspiring and important contribution to the literature about the original Americans, will make every reader rethink the past—and present—of the United States.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813550963

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Artificial Knowing

Gender and the Thinking Machine

By: Alison Adam

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Artificial Knowing

Gender and the Thinking Machine

By: Alison Adam

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature of knowledge, rationality and language, are bound to make a significant and powerful contribution to AI studies. Drawing from theories by Donna Haraway and Sherry Turkle, and using tools of feminist epistemology, Adam provides a sustained critique of AI which interestingly re-enforces many of the traditional criticisms of the AI project. Artificial Knowing is an esential read for those interested in gender studies, science and technology studies, and philosophical debates in AI.

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Routledge

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1134793553

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Side Effects

A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

By: Alison Bass

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Side Effects

A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

By: Alison Bass

An investigative journalist for the Boston Globe probes the controversy over increased suicide rates among teenagers taking common antidepressants, focusing on the efforts of a whistle-blower and the New York State Attorney General's office to bring an unprecedented lawsuit against the maker of Paxil that changed the way drugs are tested, sold, and marketed.

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Algonquin Books

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1565125533

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Silver Fork Society

Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840

By: Alison Adburgham

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Silver Fork Society

Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840

By: Alison Adburgham

During the years when George IV ruled the United Kingdom, first as Prince Regent then as King, his extravagant tastes served to characterize the times - the Regency period being identified strongly with new trends in British architecture, fashion and culture. The literary expression of this era was the genre of so-called 'silver fork' novels set in fashionable London society. Initially devoured as authentic insights into the rarefied world of the best social circles, these novels were thus serving as etiquette primers for growing numbers of nouveaux riches. The detail and décor of the novels gives them an enduring socio-historical interest, hence the value of Alison Adburgham's study, first published in 1983, which offers astute readings of such 'silver fork' specialists as Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, and Catherine Gore. With an assured eye for the social context of these works, Adburgham explores the class tensions and complex social interactions behind the high sheen of the silver fork.

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Faber & Faber

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0571295916

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9780571295913

Play and Health in Childhood

A Rights-based Approach

By: Julia Whitaker,Alison Tonkin

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Play and Health in Childhood

A Rights-based Approach

By: Julia Whitaker,Alison Tonkin

Taking a rights-based approach to the interdependence of play and health in childhood, this text argues that the child’s right to health and development cannot be satisfied without also the fulfillment of their right to play. Underpinned by theory and real-life ‘case stories’ drawn from practice and family life, Whitaker and Tonkin present what is known about the benefits of play and its potential to address the pressing health needs in the short and long terms of the youngest generation. They define and discuss the concepts of childhood, play, health, and human rights before exploring how play interacts with the four fundamental principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: non-discrimination; best interests; life, survival, and development; and inclusion and participation. The book then investigates how practitioners can advocate for the child’s right to play to meet all their health and development needs. It presents numerous examples of best practice from a range of settings – including hospitals, schools, community initiatives, charities, families, and more – and incorporates the voices of children as they imagine a future in which play is elevated to a central position in their lives, allowing for the achievement of lifelong health and happiness. Exploring children’s rights from a practical perspective, this accessible book is essential reading for students and practitioners in healthcare, social work, community work, early years, and education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000955400

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How to Make It as a Woman

Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present

By: Alison Booth

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How to Make It as a Woman

Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present

By: Alison Booth

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University of Chicago Press

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Reading Under Control

Teaching Reading in the Primary School

By: Judith Graham,Alison Kelly

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Reading Under Control

Teaching Reading in the Primary School

By: Judith Graham,Alison Kelly

Now in an updated third edition, this best-selling textbook introduces primary teachers to the key issues in how to teach reading. The authors celebrate reading as an important, exhilarating part of the curriculum with the potential to transform lives, whilst also giving a balanced handling of contentious issues. Strongly rooted in classroom practi

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1136764127

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Bishop Æthelwold, His Followers, and Saints' Cults in Early Medieval England

Power, Belief, and Religious Reform

By: Alison Hudson

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Bishop Æthelwold, His Followers, and Saints' Cults in Early Medieval England

Power, Belief, and Religious Reform

By: Alison Hudson

An exploration of how Æthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783276851

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Private Interests

Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791

By: Alison Margaret Conway

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Private Interests

Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791

By: Alison Margaret Conway

This study undertakes a new definition of the 18th-century novel's investment in visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802035264

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Design and Plan in the Country House

From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes

By: Andor Harvey Gomme,Austin Harvey Gomme,Alison Maguire,Maguire Alison

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Design and Plan in the Country House

From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes

By: Andor Harvey Gomme,Austin Harvey Gomme,Alison Maguire,Maguire Alison

The way a man thinks about his day-to-day living and the needs of his household reveals a great deal about his ambitions, his idea of himself, and his role in the community. And his house or castle offers many clues to his habits as well as those of the members of his household. This intriguing book explores the evolution of country house plans throughout Britain and Ireland, from medieval times to the eighteenth century. With photographs and detailed architectural plans of each house under discussion, the book presents a whole range of new insights into how these homes were designed and what their varied designs tell us about the lives of their residents. Starting with fortified medieval tower houses, the book traces patterns that developed and sometimes repeated in country house design over the centuries. It discusses who slept in the bedchambers, where food was prepared, how rooms were arranged for official and private activities, what towers signified, and more. Groundbreaking in its depth, the volume offers a rare tour of country houses for scholar and general reader alike.

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Yale University Press

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030012645X

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Social Development

By: Alison Clarke-Stewart,Ross D. Parke

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Social Development

By: Alison Clarke-Stewart,Ross D. Parke

Social Development, 2nd Edition provides psychologists with a comprehensive, scholarly, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of theoretical insights and empirical findings in the field of social development. It conveys the excitement of recent advances along with the accumulated knowledge that forms the basis of the field. Psychologists will gain a better understanding of cultural variation, both among societies around the world and within our own society.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118425189

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Networking the Nation

British and American Women's Poetry and Italy, 1840-1870

By: Alison Chapman

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Networking the Nation

British and American Women's Poetry and Italy, 1840-1870

By: Alison Chapman

How did nineteenth-century women's poetry shift from the poetess poetry of lyric effusion and hyper-femininity to the muscular epic of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh? Networking the Nation re-writes women's poetic traditions by demonstrating the debt that Barrett Browning's revolutionary poetics owed to a circle of American and British women poets living in Florence and campaigning in their poetry and in their salons for Italian Unification. These women poets--Isa Blagden, Elizabeth Kinney, Eliza Ogilvy, and Theodosia Garrow Trollope--formed with Barrett Browning a network of poetry, sociability, and politics, which was devoted to the mission of campaigning for Italy as an independent nation state. In their poetic experiments with the active lyric voice, in their forging of a transnational persona through the periodical press, in their salons and spiritualist seances, the women poets formed a network that attempted to assert and perform an independent unified Italy in their work. Networking the Nation maps the careers of these expatriate women poets who were based in Florence in the key years of Risorgimento politics, racing their transnational social and print communities, and the problematic but schismatic shift in their poetry from the conventional sphere of the poetess. In the fraught and thrilling engagement with their adopted nation's revolutionary turmoil, and in their experiments with different types of writing agency, the women poets in this book offer revolutions of other kinds: revolutions of women's poetry and the very act of writing.

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0198723571

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The Legal Epic

"Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law

By: Alison A. Chapman

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The Legal Epic

"Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law

By: Alison A. Chapman

The seventeenth century witnessed some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England s history, yet it is relatively untouched territory in the rich field of literature and law. Alison Chapman s book fills this gap by situating the poet and polemicist John Milton in the center of late-seventeenth-century legal history. One of England s greatest poets, Milton was arguably also the most litigious, and he had an exceptionally wide and deep knowledge of law and judicial processes. While this book ranges widely across Milton s life and work, its primary focus is on the role that law plays in "Paradise Lost." Throughout "Paradise Lost," Chapman shows, Milton invites his readers to judge the ways of God both according to the dictates of reason and conscience and also according to prevailing ideas about legal justice. Law, Chapman argues, forms a crucial albeit unrecognized part of Milton s attempt in" Paradise Lost" to justify the ways of God to men.

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University of Chicago Press

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022643513X

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Engaging the Past

Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge

By: Alison Landsberg

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Engaging the Past

Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge

By: Alison Landsberg

Reading films, television dramas, reality shows, and virtual exhibits, among other popular texts, Engaging the Past examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers. Contemporary media can encourage complex interactions with the past that have far-reaching consequences for history and politics. Viewers experience these representations personally, cognitively, and bodily, but, as this book reveals, not just by identifying with the characters portrayed. Some of the works considered in this volume include the films Hotel Rwanda (2004), Good Night and Good Luck (2005), and Milk (2008); the television dramas Deadwood, Mad Men, and Rome; the reality shows Frontier House, Colonial House, and Texas Ranch House; and The Secret Annex Online, accessed through the Anne Frank House website, and the Kristallnacht exhibit, accessed through the Unites States Holocaust Museum website. These mass cultural texts cultivate what Alison Landsberg calls an "affective engagement" with the past, tying the viewer to an event or person and fostering a sense of intimacy that does more than transport the viewer back in time. Affect, she suggests, can also work to disorient the viewer, forcibly pushing him or her out of the narrative and back into his or her own body. By analyzing these specific popular history formats, Landsberg shows the unique way they provoke historical thinking and produce historical knowledge, prompting a reconsideration of what constitutes history and an understanding of how history works in the contemporary mediated public sphere.

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Columbia University Press

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0231539460

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The Vital Dead

Making Meaning, Identity, and Community Through Cemeteries

By: Alison Bell

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The Vital Dead

Making Meaning, Identity, and Community Through Cemeteries

By: Alison Bell

This book builds on recent anthropological work to explore the social and cultural dynamics of cemetery practice and its transformation over generations in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Anthropologist Alison Bell finds that people are using material culture-images and epitaphs on grave markers, as well as objects they leave on graves-to assert and maintain relationships and fight against alienation. She draws on fieldwork, interviews, archival sources, and disciplinary insights to show how cemeteries both reveal and participate in the grassroots cultural work of crafting social connections, assessing the transcendental durability of the deceased person, and asserting particular cultural values. The book's chapters range across cemetery types, focusing on African American burials, grave sites of institutionalized individuals, and modern community memorials"--

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1621906965

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Divorce

Causes and Consequences

By: Alison Clarke-Stewart,Cornelia Brentano

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Divorce

Causes and Consequences

By: Alison Clarke-Stewart,Cornelia Brentano

This comprehensive book provides a balanced overview of the current research on divorce. The authors examine the scientific evidence to uncover what can be said with certainty about divorce and what remains to be learned about this socially and politically charged issue. Accessible to parents and teachers as well as clinicians and researchers, the volume examines the impact of marital breakup on children, adults, and society. Alison Clarke-Stewart and Cornelia Brentano synthesize the most up-to-date information on divorce from a variety of disciplinary perspectives with thoughtful analysis of psychological issues. They convey the real-life consequences of divorce with excerpts from autobiographies by young people, and they also include guidelines for social policies that would help to diminish the detrimental effects of divorce.

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Yale University Press

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0300125933

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Living the California Dream

African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era

By: Alison Rose Jefferson

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Living the California Dream

African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era

By: Alison Rose Jefferson

2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496229061

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9781496229069

Lesbian Film Guide

By: Alison Darren

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Lesbian Film Guide

By: Alison Darren

This A-Z guide to lesbians and lesbianism in the movies contains reviews, gossip, facts and commentary on over 200 films, including specifically lesbian films such as "Go Fish" and "Desert Hearts" as well as films with a lesbian character or theme, like "The Children's Hour" and "The Hunger".

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441183647

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Biological Psychology

By: Suzanne Higgs,Alison Cooper,Jonathan Lee,Mike Harris

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Biological Psychology

By: Suzanne Higgs,Alison Cooper,Jonathan Lee,Mike Harris

Written to guide undergraduate students new to brain and behaviour through the key biological concepts that determine how we act, Biological Psychology provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject. It includes detailed coverage of sensation, movement, sleep, eating and emotions, with further chapters on the biological basis of psychological disorders and the effects of drug-taking. Uniquely, the authors emphasize the importance of learning and memory as a key thread throughout and include advanced chapters on key research areas that push discussion further and encourage critical thinking, making this book appropriate for undergraduates studying biological psychology at any level. Key features include: ‘Spotlights’ offering insights into key areas of research that expose the most important developing issues in the field today A clear structure including roadmaps and key points for each chapter to ease navigation through the book and understanding of the links between concepts Full colour presentation to bring the topics to life through clear and comprehensive illustrations and diagrams A companion website at study.sagepub.com/higgs with a range of materials for instructors and students

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SAGE

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147390899X

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Legal Debates of the Antislavery Movement

By: Alison Morretta

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Legal Debates of the Antislavery Movement

By: Alison Morretta

The abolition of slavery was debated for years in the courts of the United States. Learn about some of the most important cases and debates in this book complete with timeline, primary sources, photographs, and excerpts from the time period.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1502605279

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Unblocked

How Blockchains Will Change Your Business (and What to Do About It)

By: Alison McCauley

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Unblocked

How Blockchains Will Change Your Business (and What to Do About It)

By: Alison McCauley

Understand the Blockchain Opportunity: No Technical Background Required. Remember thedawn of the internet? The advent of mobile and social media? Yet another digital revolution is nowunderway. Like its predecessors, blockchains are about to transform the way we live, work, and play,while disrupting entrenched industries and shattering conventional business models. Move past the hype and equip yourself to forecast how blockchains will change our world and impactyou and your business. Author Alison McCauley helps non-technical executives to understandhow this technology will trigger change, shift the balance of power, and bring competitiveadvantage to those who know how to leverage them. Unblocked explains: Why ignoring this technology exposes you to competitive disruption What this new technology revolution embraces—no technical background required How to prepare your organization to respond to the coming shift

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O'Reilly Media

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1492057940

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Evidence Informed Leadership in Education

By: Alison Taysum

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Evidence Informed Leadership in Education

By: Alison Taysum

In the past three decades politicians, journalists, researchers within the academy, and neo-liberalist critics of state schools have articulated that educational research is neither meaningful nor worthwhile. Yet empirical evidence has revealed that research plays a key role in informing decisions made by educational leaders. This book explores the tools needed to conduct ethical educational research, and the contribution postgraduate research might make to the training and development of educational leaders and their thinking and practice within educational settings. Recent debates position the production and use of ethical educational research as important for Nation States' governments; Alison Taysum investigates the thinking tools required for such research and examines what good practice looks and feels like. Supported by international case studies, the study approaches and engages with the role evidence informed leadership might play in making the social justice agendas contained within the policies of a number of nations become reality.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441128921

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The Catch

A Novel

By: Alison Fairbrother

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The Catch

A Novel

By: Alison Fairbrother

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A young woman searches for the truth about her father—and the secrets of her family—in this “big-hearted debut that absolutely crackles with smarts” (Emma Straub). “A warm and funny debut novel . . . perceptive, wry, and witty.”—The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar Two years out of college, Ellie Adler has a job in journalism, an older lover, and a circle of smart friends. Her beloved father, James, who has children from three marriages, unites the family with his gentle humor and charisma, but Ellie has always believed she is her father's favorite. When he suddenly dies, she finds herself devastated by the unexpected loss. Then, at the reading of his will, she learns that instead of leaving her his prized possession—a baseball that holds emotional resonance for them both—he has left her a seemingly ridiculous, even insulting gift. Worse, he’s given the baseball to someone no one in the family has ever heard of. In her grief, Ellie wonders who could have possibly meant more to her father than she did. Setting out to track this person down, she learns startling information about who her father really was and who she herself is becoming. Moving, witty, and unforgettable, The Catch is a story of the gifts we’re given over the course of a lifetime, by family, friends, and strangers—the ones we want and the ones that catch us unawares.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0593134311

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Smart Casual

The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America

By: Alison Pearlman

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Smart Casual

The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America

By: Alison Pearlman

Explores the evolution of gourmet restaurant style in recent decades, which has led to an increasing informality in restaurant design, and examines what these changes say about current attitudes toward taste.

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University of Chicago Press

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022615484X

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9780226154848

Hard Time

A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison

By: Robert Johnson,Ann Marie Rocheleau,Alison B. Martin

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Hard Time

A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison

By: Robert Johnson,Ann Marie Rocheleau,Alison B. Martin

Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it’s actually like to live and work in prison Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives

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John Wiley & Sons

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111908282X

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