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The Wizard of Oz as American Myth

A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007

By: Alissa Burger

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The Wizard of Oz as American Myth

A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007

By: Alissa Burger

Since the publication of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, authors, filmmakers, and theatrical producers have been retelling and reinventing this uniquely American fairy tale. This volume examines six especially significant incarnations of the story: Baum's original novel, the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), Sidney Lumet's African American film musical The Wiz (1978), Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Broadway hit Wicked: A New Musical (2003), and the SyFy Channel miniseries Tin Man (2007). A close consideration of these works demonstrates how versions of Baum's tale are influenced by and help shape notions of American myth, including issues of gender, race, home, and magic, and makes clear that the Wizard of Oz narrative remains compelling and relevant today.

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McFarland

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0786489596

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9780786489596

Nourishing Meals

365 Whole Foods, Allergy-Free Recipes for Healing Your Family One Meal at a Time : A Cookbook

By: Alissa Segersten,Tom Malterre

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Nourishing Meals

365 Whole Foods, Allergy-Free Recipes for Healing Your Family One Meal at a Time : A Cookbook

By: Alissa Segersten,Tom Malterre

From two popular bloggers and leaders in the functional medicine movement, here’s the ultimate guide to eating healthfully as a family—a simple, practical cookbook that shows how easy it is to ditch processed foods one meal at a time with 365 delicious, whole food-based, allergen-free recipes that the entire family will love. It can be daunting to live a whole foods lifestyle in today’s busy world—even more so to prepare plant-rich, allergen-free meals that’ll get the whole family around the table. Popular blogger Ali Segersten and functional medicine expert Tom Malttere are a team devoted to teaching their children—and readers—the importance of living a whole foods lifestyle. Nourishing Meals makes it easy and fun with dishes that burst with flavor, such as their Cherry Pecan Salad, Butternut Squash and Pinto Bean Enchiladas, Chipotle-Lime Roasted Chicken, and Banana Coconut Cream Pie. Every recipe in the book is free of the most common allergens: gluten, soy, eggs, and dairy, as well as refined sugar. And these dishes are designed to appeal to everyone, including vegan, vegetarian, seafood, and meat-eaters. In addition to wonderful food, Ali and Tom offer easy, doable steps to help you change your family's health, tips for making the transition easier, and ways to get the kids excited about wholesome foods. They map out the best foods and recipes for every stage of having a family, from pre-conception and pregnancy through each year of a child's life. And they explain in accessible terms what makes their recipes so effective for achieving optimal health. Originally self-published with an avid following, this edition will feature more than 30 new recipes, and many of the original recipes have been updated. This new edition will also include 100 beautiful all-new food photos featured in two inserts. With an easy, tasty recipe for every day of the year, it’s never been simpler to adopt a healthy, whole foods lifestyle!

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Harmony

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0451495926

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9780451495921

Unapologetic Eating

Make Peace with Food and Transform Your Life

By: Alissa Rumsey

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Unapologetic Eating

Make Peace with Food and Transform Your Life

By: Alissa Rumsey

Most women have spent time dieting and trying to change themselves in order to fit into a mold—and a body—that is deemed socially acceptable. Yet it is dieting that is the problem: it disconnects us from our bodies wisdom and holds us back from living life to the fullest. The more time we spend trying to “fix” ourselves, the less time we have for the things that really matter. What presents as a problem about food is, in reality, much deeper and more complex. In her new book, Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace with Food & Transform Your Life, registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor Alissa Rumsey helps you explore your history with food and your body and question societal expectations to get to the bottom of the complexity and find a clear path forward—forever free from diets! Using a relatable four-step approach, Rumsey teaches you how to reconnect with your body using your relationship with food as the entry point. She provides actionable tools you can use to confidently nourish yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally. You’ll learn how to make peace with food, improve your body image, trust your intuition, and reclaim the space to eat and live unapologetically. Say goodbye to the constraints of dieting and hello to the freedom and empowerment to live your most fulfilling life.

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Victory Belt Publishing

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1628604255

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9781628604252

Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care

Philosophy and Practice

By: Alissa C. Perrucci

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Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care

Philosophy and Practice

By: Alissa C. Perrucci

In today's contentious political environment surrounding abortion, clinicians, counselors and social workers need a clear framework for providing skilled, compassionate decision counseling. They need help working with the hard stuff: "What do I do when my patient asks me if God will forgive her?" or "What do I say when a woman says that she feels like she's killing her baby?" These are the questions asked by clinicians and mental health professionals everywhere; these are also the questions for which this book offers answers. The fields of healthcare and counseling psychology have long-awaited a manual for conducting pregnancy decision counseling across the spectrum of patient issues, employee skill levels, and clinic resources. Using case examples, individual and group exercises, guided self-reflection, and values clarification, the reader will develop the necessary skills to provide compassionate and informed pregnancy decision counseling. This book will define the gold standard for decision assessment and counseling for all pregnancy options and will be cited as the definitive guide for learning, teaching, and providing high-quality, compassionate counseling in abortion and family planning clinics nationwide.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442214562

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9781442214569

Domestic Service in the Soviet Union

Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor

By: Alissa Klots

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Domestic Service in the Soviet Union

Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor

By: Alissa Klots

This innovative study is the first to explore the evolution and ideological contradictions of domestic service in the Soviet Union.

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319

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Cambridge University Press

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1009467204

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9781009467209

Innate Terrain

Canadian Landscape Architecture

By: Alissa North

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Innate Terrain

Canadian Landscape Architecture

By: Alissa North

Innate Terrain addresses the varied perceptions of Canada’s natural terrain, framing the discussion in the context of landscapes designed by Canadian landscape architects. This edited collection draws on contemporary works to theorize a distinct approach practiced by Canadian landscape architects from across the country. The essays – authored by Canadian scholars and practitioners, some of whom are Indigenous or have worked closely with Indigenous communities – are united by the argument that Canadian landscape architecture is intrinsically linked to the innate qualities of the surrounding terrain. Beautifully illustrated, Innate Terrain aims to capture distinct regional qualities that are rooted in the broader context of the Canadian landscape.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487527241

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9781487527242

Neuroanatomy Atlas in Clinical Context

Structures, Sections, Systems, and Syndromes

By: Duane E. Haines,M. Alissa Willis

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Neuroanatomy Atlas in Clinical Context

Structures, Sections, Systems, and Syndromes

By: Duane E. Haines,M. Alissa Willis

Neuroanatomy Atlas in Clinical Context provides everything the student needs to master the anatomy of the central nervous system, all in a clinical setting. Clear explanations; abundant MRI, CT, MRA, and MRV images; full-color photographs and illustrations; hundreds of review questions; and supplemental online resources combine to provide a sound anatomical base for integrating neurobiological and clinical concepts. In thus applying neuroanatomy clinically, the atlas ensures student preparedness for exams and for rotations. This authoritative approach---combined with such salutary features as full-color stained sections, extensive cranial nerve cross-referencing, and systems neurobiology coverages—sustains the legacy of this revolutionary teaching and learning tool as the neuroanatomy atlas.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975197313

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9781975197315

The New Campus Anti-Rape Movement

Internet Activism and Social Justice

By: Caroline Heldman,Alissa R. Ackerman,Ian Breckenridge-Jackson

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The New Campus Anti-Rape Movement

Internet Activism and Social Justice

By: Caroline Heldman,Alissa R. Ackerman,Ian Breckenridge-Jackson

After 40 years of activists working to reduce sexual violence on college campuses, in 2014, the new Campus Anti-Rape Movement (CARM) finally put this issue on the national policy agenda. President Barack Obama credited “an inspiring wave of student-led activism” for catapulting campus rape into public consciousness. This book positions the new CARM within a long history of anti-sexual violence activism in the U.S. The authors describe the major events of this new movement and how it coalesced. The authors also analyze the new CARM through a social movement lens, and examine the role of new laws and social media in facilitating movement successes. The book argues that the new CARM laid the groundwork for the emergence of #MeToo, the highest profile campaign against sexual harassment/violence to date in U.S. history.

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Lexington Books

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1498554024

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9781498554022

Sites of Dissent

Nomad Science and Contentious Spatial Practice

By: Alissa Starodub

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Sites of Dissent

Nomad Science and Contentious Spatial Practice

By: Alissa Starodub

Contemporary articulations of dissent to social order and its production of truth cannot be ignored any longer. Hamburg during the G20 gathering; Washington, D.C., on the day of Trump’s inauguration; the squares and streets of Paris and Tunis at the end of 2018. Public space is temporarily taken by those who rise against the powers that keep structural oppression and social order in its place. Not only riots, but collective social centres, protest camps and temporary as well as permanent occupations of lands and buildings are other, utopian spatial alternatives created by autonomous social movements to prefigure a horizontal social organization. This book discusses spatial practices of autonomous social movements, the movements who ‘see their everyday experiences and creations as the revolution they are making’, together with these movements and in taking the diversity of their articulations into account. Sites of Dissent is thus the story of a daring attempt to create research practices for radical transformation which requires a radical transformation of research practices. During this attempt, methodological rules of scientific research are broken, and methodological heresy and wild experimentation with research practices take place. Sites of Dissent aims at opening new possibilities of including diverse ways of knowing and speaking into a collective knowledge creation process, at overcoming the individualized isolation in which the researcher produces knowledge about the outside world; and it aims to create a space for collective learning about spatial practices of autonomous social movements, to learn with and from the movements.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538146355

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9781538146354

Operative Landscapes

Building Communities Through Public Space

By: Alissa North

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Operative Landscapes

Building Communities Through Public Space

By: Alissa North

There are infinite ways to build a community, yet the defining feature of any community is characteristically the landscape. Whether it is a park, a river corridor, community gardens, a plaza or a streetscape, the public spaces where people interact provide a shared sense of ownership, and the qualities of these spaces influence how the communities evolve. In a systematic overview, following the workflow sequence of open space projects, the book explores the various types and levels of intervention: from masterplanning to guerilla gardening and from land reclamation to building in existing fabric. Case studies mostly from North America, Europe and Asia accompany the introductory essays. The emphasis is on strategies of interaction between landscape projects, building development and urban planning, resulting in neighborhoods and city quarters that offer a higher quality of life. Beyond trendy theories on landscape urbanism or landscape infrastructure, this book offers an unideological view on the pragmatic potentials of landscape design for enhancing the built environment.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3034610858

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9783034610858

Teaching STEM in the Preschool Classroom

Exploring Big Ideas with 3- to 5-Year-Olds

By: Alissa A. Lange,Kimberly Brenneman,Hagit Mano

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Teaching STEM in the Preschool Classroom

Exploring Big Ideas with 3- to 5-Year-Olds

By: Alissa A. Lange,Kimberly Brenneman,Hagit Mano

Drawing from a professional development model that was developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, this book is an essential resource for anyone who wants to support preschool children to be STEM thinkers and doers. The text features research-based resources, examples of field-tested activities, and highlights from the classroom.

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Teachers College Press

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0807761362

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9780807761366

Retaining Women in Engineering

The Empowerment of Lean Development

By: Robert N. Stavig,Alissa R. Stavig

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Retaining Women in Engineering

The Empowerment of Lean Development

By: Robert N. Stavig,Alissa R. Stavig

Diversity drives better business results; however, despite decades of effort, women make up only 15% of engineers. Retaining Women in Engineering: The Empowerment of Lean Development approaches the problem of women leaving engineering from a systems-level perspective to change the way engineering is done and level the playing field between men and women. This book utilizes the six principles of Lean Development and draws from the learnings of the field of medicine, recognizing that access to a vast amount of written knowledge is an important part of a physician’s learning process. Using these principles, the book provides leaders with concrete strategies and methods to change the way engineering is done and learning occurs. Integrated within the book are "gray box stories" which describe two different worlds that engineers work in: that of traditional development and that of Lean Development. These stories underscore the way that the gender confidence gap, bias, and stereotypes affect a female engineer’s career. Additionally, the book highlights how the methods of Lean Development strengthen an individual’s ability to control their learning and career, and a leader’s ability to coach others more effectively. Ultimately, this results in more capable teams. Furthermore, not unlike the marine chronometer (a clock) which solved the centuries old challenge of establishing the longitudinal location for a ship at sea, this book finds the "clock" that levels the playing field between men and women. This book will help leaders at every level within an engineering firm, as well as women engineers and managers who want to grow to their full potential, and others who care about gender equity.

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206

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CRC Press

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100074020X

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9781000740202

Riding Grace

A Triumph of the Soul

By: Alissa Lukara

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Riding Grace

A Triumph of the Soul

By: Alissa Lukara

Riding Grace: A Triumph of the Soulchronicles author Alissa Lukara's 12-year quest to reclaim her life from a debilitating, presumably incurable illness rooted in childhood trauma. In this raw descent into and out of the dark night of the soul, she learns to accept the unacceptable and open herself to healing and renewal. Assisted by both human and spirit helpers, Lukara explores uncharted frontiers of wellness and realms of existence, and navigates the void where life and identity "as she knew them" cease to exist. She breaks through denial, upends ancestral patterns, and uncovers powerful truths, which she shares in this book. With forgiveness, compassion, and poetic vision, she finally embraces the larger meaning and purpose of her journey.Riding Graceoffers the gifts of hope, endurance, and inspiration, giving readers permission to dive deep into the shadows to find new and nurturing ways of living in the world.

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0974489034

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9780974489032

Evaluation and Facilitation

New Directions for Evaluation, Number 149

By: Rita Sinorita Fierro,Alissa Schwartz,Dawn Hanson Smart

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Evaluation and Facilitation

New Directions for Evaluation, Number 149

By: Rita Sinorita Fierro,Alissa Schwartz,Dawn Hanson Smart

Join the conversation between evaluation and facilitation. This issue explores the interplay between the two and how one practice can inform the other. The authors represent both the evaluation and facilitation fields, describing underlying concepts that inform their practices, the competencies they seek to develop, the choices they make about facilitation in the work they do, and how they gauge success. This issue brings together topics meant to stimulate the curiosity of evaluators and facilitators and encourage reflection on their work and the skills needed to carry it out. This is the 149th issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119258693

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The Wizard of Oz as American Myth

The Wizard of Oz as American Myth

Nourishing Meals

Nourishing Meals

Unapologetic Eating

Unapologetic Eating

Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care

Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care

Domestic Service in the Soviet Union

Domestic Service in the Soviet Union

Innate Terrain

Innate Terrain

Neuroanatomy Atlas in Clinical Context

Neuroanatomy Atlas in Clinical Context

The New Campus Anti-Rape Movement

The New Campus Anti-Rape Movement

Sites of Dissent

Sites of Dissent

Operative Landscapes

Operative Landscapes

Teaching STEM in the Preschool Classroom

Teaching STEM in the Preschool Classroom

Retaining Women in Engineering

Retaining Women in Engineering

Riding Grace

Riding Grace

Evaluation and Facilitation

Evaluation and Facilitation

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