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Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

By: Alissa Wilkinson

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Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

By: Alissa Wilkinson

Film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson sits down with a hypothetical table of smart, engaging, revolutionary women of the twentieth century to explore the ways food centered each woman's creative work. As we meet these multifaceted women, we learn how to live with courage, smarts, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506473555

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How to Survive the Apocalypse

Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

By: Robert Joustra ,Alissa Wilkinson

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How to Survive the Apocalypse

Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

By: Robert Joustra ,Alissa Wilkinson

The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse -- cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios -- in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories -- from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead -- and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now, about how we conceive of our life together, including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties. Besides analyzing the dsytopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802872719

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9780802872715

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Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

By: Alissa Wilkinson

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Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

By: Alissa Wilkinson

If you could have a dinner party with anyone dead or alive, who would it be? That's the question film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson answered as she gathered a hypothetical table of women who challenged norms and defied conventional wisdom. Ella Baker, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Agnes Varda, Elizabeth David, Edna Lewis, Maya Angelou, Laurie Colwin: these smart, engaging, revolutionary, and creative twentieth-century women were all profoundly influenced by their own relationships to food, drink, and other elements of sustenance. In Salty, Wilkinson explores the ways food managed to root these women into their various callings. For some, it was cultivating perseverance in the face of hardship. For others, it was nurturing a freedom to act, even in the face of opposition, toward justice and equality. For others, it was an examination of what it means to be human with all its desire, heartbreak, sacrifice, isolation, and liberty. Salty is Alissa Wilkinson's invitation to you. Join these sharp, empowered, and often subversive women and discover how to live with courage, agency, grace, smarts, snark, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times. Ultimately you will leave this table with a greater understanding of food, drink, gathering, thinking, loving, and navigating the world.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506473563

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9781506473567

Civic Imagination

Making a Difference in American Political Life

By: Gianpaolo Baiocchi,Elizabeth A Bennett,Alissa Cordner,Peter Klein,Stephanie Savell

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Civic Imagination

Making a Difference in American Political Life

By: Gianpaolo Baiocchi,Elizabeth A Bennett,Alissa Cordner,Peter Klein,Stephanie Savell

The Civic Imagination provides a rich empirical description of civic life and a broader discussion of the future of democracy in contemporary America. Over the course of a year, five researchers observed and participated in 7 civic organisations in a mid-sized US city. They draw on this ethnographic evidence to map the 'civic imaginations' that motivate citizenship engagement in America today. The book unpacks how contemporary Americans think about and act toward positive social and political change while the authors' findings challenge contemporary assertions of American apathy. This will be an important book for students and academics interested in political science and sociology.

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185

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Routledge

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1317262417

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9781317262411

Machiavelli and the Modern State

By: Alissa M. Ardito

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Machiavelli and the Modern State

By: Alissa M. Ardito

This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccol- Machiavelli's place within it. It locates Machiavelli's political thought within enduring debates about the proper size of republics. From the sixteenth century onward, as states grew larger, it was believed only monarchies could govern large territories effectively. Republicanism was a form of government relegated to urban city-states, anachronisms in the new age of the territorial state. For centuries, history and theory were in agreement: constructing an extended republic was as futile as trying to square the circle; but then James Madison devised a compound representative republic that enabled popular government to take on renewed life in the modern era. This work argues that Machiavelli had his own Madisonian impulse and deserves to be recognized as the first modern political theorist to envision the possibility of a republic with a large population extending over a broad territory.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107693705

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9781107693708

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

Branded

The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers

By: Alissa Quart

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Branded

The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers

By: Alissa Quart

Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for product; the girls obsessed with cosmetic surgery who will do anything to look like women on TV; and those teens simply obsessed with admission into a name-brand college. We also meet the pockets of kids attempting to turn the tables on the cocksure corporations that so cynically strive to manipulate them. Chilling, thought-provoking, even darkly amusing, Branded brings one of the most disturbing and least talked about results of contemporary business and culture to the fore-and ensures that we will never look at today's youth the same way again.

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Basic Books

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0786740965

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How to Survive the Apocalypse

Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

By: Robert Joustra,Alissa Wilkinson

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How to Survive the Apocalypse

Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

By: Robert Joustra,Alissa Wilkinson

Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead — and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now, about how we conceive of our life together, including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties. Besides analyzing the dsytopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.

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Civic Imagination

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Machiavelli and the Modern State

Machiavelli and the Modern State

Neuroanatomy Atlas in Clinical Context

Neuroanatomy Atlas in Clinical Context

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How to Survive the Apocalypse

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