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Poisonous

A Novel

By: Allison Brennan

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Poisonous

A Novel

By: Allison Brennan

Romantic suspense bestseller Allison Brennan returns with her next riveting thriller featuring investigative reporter Max Revere"--

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Macmillan

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1250066840

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9781250066848

Listen, World!

How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman

By: Julia Scheeres,Allison Gilbert

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Listen, World!

How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman

By: Julia Scheeres,Allison Gilbert

*Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award* The first biography of Elsie Robinson, the most influential newspaper columnist you’ve never heard of At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she’d lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal, even swinging a pickax in a gold mine to pay the bills. When the mine shut down, she moved to the Bay Area. Armed with moxie and samples of her work, she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune and was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally syndicated columnist and household name whose column ran for over thirty years and garnered more than twenty million readers. Told in cinematic detail by bestselling author Julia Scheeres and award-winning journalist Allison Gilbert, Listen, World! is the inspiring story of a timeless maverick, capturing what it means to take a gamble on self-fulfillment and find freedom along the way.

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Seal Press

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1541674340

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9781541674349

Global Appetites

American Power and the Literature of Food

By: Allison Carruth

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Global Appetites

American Power and the Literature of Food

By: Allison Carruth

Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin US conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the 'literature of food' - a body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir and advertising. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! (1913) to Novella Carpenter's non-fiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States cultivates, distributes and consumes food imbue it with the power to transform social and ecological systems around the world. Lively and accessible, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars of American literature and culture as well as those working in the fields of food studies, food policy, agriculture history, social justice and the environmental humanities.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107328713

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9781107328716

Roots of Stone

The Story of those who Came Before

By: Hugh G. Allison

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Roots of Stone

The Story of those who Came Before

By: Hugh G. Allison

Roots of Stone is a passionate tapestry, weaving the story of Scotland with the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. This fascinating sweep over two thousand years of Scotland's past blends with a true family story stretching back over these same two millennia in a spellbinding fusion of history and memoir. This is an exploration of the Scottish identity through actual tales of the author's forebears - tales drawn from royal bloodline and from crofting hearth, tales of high drama and of quiet everyday satisfactions. Mackays and MacDonalds tread most heavily across these pages, but they are far from alone. Munros, MacDougalls, Murrays and dozens of other clans and families also feature. Kenneth MacAlpin, Macbeth, Robert the Bruce and Alexander 'Wolf of Badenoch' all have a place in the tapestry. The dreadful deeds of the Wicked Earls of Orkney are laid bare, but counterbalanced by the work of those famous healers, the Beatons. Stepping closer to the present day, the human tragedy of the Clearances becomes all-consuming. Poets, pipers and poachers play their part, as do dukes and drovers, their tales unfolding within evocatively described landscapes and ancient places of power. The castles and mountains are hauntingly illustrated and the tale is enhanced by the inclusion of two rare piping compositions and some words by the great Gaelic bard Rob Donn. More than anything else, Roots of Stone is the story of all the ones who came before, those who can still be felt in the blood at times when deep emotion is stirred.

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Random House

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1780570171

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Suffragists in an Imperial Age

U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929

By: Allison L. Sneider

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Suffragists in an Imperial Age

U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929

By: Allison L. Sneider

In 1899, Carrie Chapman Catt, who succeeded Susan B. Anthony as head of the National American Women Suffrage Association, argued that it was the "duty" of U.S. women to help lift the inhabitants of its new island possessions up from "barbarism" to "civilization," a project that would presumably demonstrate the capacity of U.S. women for full citizenship and political rights. Catt, like many suffragists in her day, was well-versed in the language of empire, and infused the cause of suffrage with imperialist zeal in public debate. Unlike their predecessors, who were working for votes for women within the context of slavery and abolition, the next generation of suffragists argued their case against the backdrop of the U.S. expansionism into Indian and Mormon territory at home as well as overseas in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. In this book, Allison L. Sneider carefully examines these simultaneous political movements--woman suffrage and American imperialism--as inextricably intertwined phenomena, instructively complicating the histories of both.

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Oxford University Press

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0198043333

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The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism

Regionalism Support and Norm Diffusion between the EU and ASEAN

By: L. Allison

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The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism

Regionalism Support and Norm Diffusion between the EU and ASEAN

By: L. Allison

Using a framework of norm diffusion to determine the EU's international actorness in the context of its relations with ASEAN, this book provides a timely and in-depth analysis of EU-ASEAN relations. By investigating three aspects of regionalism support by the EU it presents a comprehensive account of norm diffusion between the EU and ASEAN.

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Springer

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1137494808

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9781137494801

Arbitrating Empire

United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

By: Allison Powers,Assistant Professor of History Allison Powers

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Arbitrating Empire

United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

By: Allison Powers,Assistant Professor of History Allison Powers

Arbitrating Empire uncovers how ordinary people used arbitral claims commissions to challenge state violence across the United States Empire during the first decades of the twentieth century and why the State Department attempts to erase their efforts remade modern international law.

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Oxford University Press

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0190093005

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Marriage on the Border

Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War

By: Allison Dorothy Fredette

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Marriage on the Border

Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War

By: Allison Dorothy Fredette

Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labor North, the nineteenth-century border South was a land in between. Here, the era's clashing values—slavery and freedom, city and country, industry and agriculture—met and melded. In factories and plantations along the Ohio River, a unique regional identity emerged: one rooted in kinship, tolerance, and compromise. Border families articulated these hybrid values in both the legislative hall and the home. While many defended patriarchal households as an essential part of slaveholding culture, communities on the border pressed for increased mutuality between husbands and wives. Drawing on court records, personal correspondence, and prescriptive literature, Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War follows border southerners into their homes through blissful betrothal and turbulent divorce. Allison Dorothy Fredette examines how changing divorce laws in the border regions of Kentucky and West Virginia reveal surprisingly progressive marriages throughout the antebellum and postwar Upper South. Although many states feared that loosening marriage's gender hierarchy threatened slavery's racial hierarchy, border couples redefined traditionally permanent marriages as consensual contracts—complete with rules and escape clauses. Men and women on the border built marriages on mutual affection, and when that affection faded, filed for divorce at unprecedented rates. Highlighting the tenuous relationship between racial and gendered rhetoric throughout the nineteenth century, Marriage on the Border offers a fresh perspective on the institution of marriage and its impact on the social fabric of the United States.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813179173

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9780813179179

Badass Women and Hashtagged Zombies

Gender in The Walking Dead from Screen to Social Media

By: Allison Christina Budaj

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Badass Women and Hashtagged Zombies

Gender in The Walking Dead from Screen to Social Media

By: Allison Christina Budaj

In its evolution from graphic novels to a sprawling multimedia universe, the impact of The Walking Dead cannot be understated. Beyond its narrative roots, a passionate community of viewers use social media to delve deeper into the anxieties and social issues portrayed within the narrative universe. This book uses fan discussions on social media platforms to analyze the series' appeal and its ability to provoke discussions about survival, societal norms, and gender roles, leading to a significant online presence and discussions about the characters' actions and societal issues portrayed. Viewers perceive and champion unconventional actions, especially as the leading female characters defy traditional gender roles. With the introduction of more diversity, the progression of characters within The Walking Dead and its spinoffs continues to disrupt stereotypes. Focusing on analyzing audience engagement with AMC's The Walking Dead and its spinoffs through social media, this book highlights how fan-based interactions in creating a participatory culture around the series highlight societal issues presented, offering interpretations, theories and personal connections. By integrating fan commentary into the analysis, fans act as active collaborators in understanding the impact of The Walking Dead universe as a meaningful popular culture artifact.

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McFarland

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1476654670

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The Sweetheart Deal

By: Allison Morse

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The Sweetheart Deal

By: Allison Morse

Some people in her small community think Ellen Hamilton, business savvy daughter of the town’s largest employer, is too big for her britches. After all it’s the 1950s when women have no place in running corporations. When the company is threatened with takeover by John, who broke her heart and betrayed her family business years ago, she’s determined to stop at nothing to win. Ruggedly handsome John Adair has returned to the town that tried to destroy him with false accusations of corporate espionage. What truly hurt him was Ellen, the woman he loved, believed the allegations. However, that was the past. His return is for one reason only, business. But will he remember it when gazing into Ellen's enticing eyes or when intoxicated by the aroma of jasmine whenever she is near? Sparks fly when these two headstrong individuals meet again and find themselves tempted by The Sweetheart Deal.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509201084

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9781509201082

Public Interests

Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television

By: Allison Perlman

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Public Interests

Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television

By: Allison Perlman

Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation’s views. By targeting broadcast regulations and laws, both liberal and conservative activist groups have sought to influence what America sees on the small screen. Public Interests describes the impressive battles that these media activists fought and charts how they tried to change the face of American television. Allison Perlman looks behind the scenes to track the strategies employed by several key groups of media reformers, from civil rights organizations like the NAACP to conservative groups like the Parents Television Council. While some of these campaigns were designed to improve the representation of certain marginalized groups in television programming, as Perlman reveals, they all strove for more systemic reforms, from early efforts to create educational channels to more recent attempts to preserve a space for Spanish-language broadcasting. Public Interests fills in a key piece of the history of American social reform movements, revealing pressure groups’ deep investments in influencing both television programming and broadcasting policy. Vividly illustrating the resilience, flexibility, and diversity of media activist campaigns from the 1950s onward, the book offers valuable lessons that can be applied to current battles over the airwaves.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813572312

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9780813572314

Framing the South

Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle

By: Allison Graham

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Framing the South

Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle

By: Allison Graham

What patterns emerge in media coverage and character depiction of Southern men and women, blacks and whites, in the years between 1954 and 1976? How do portrayals of the region and the equal rights movement illuminate the spirit and experience of the South—and of the nation as a whole? In Framing the South, Allison Graham examines the ways in which the media, particularly television and film, presented Southerners during the period of the civil rights revolution. Graham analyzes depictions of southern race and social class in a wide range of Hollywood films—including A Streetcar Named Desire, The Three Faces of Eve, and A Face in the Crowd from the 1950s; later films like Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night, and Mississippi Burning; and MGM's Elvis Presley vehicles. She traces how films have confronted—or avoided—issues of racism over the years, paralleling Hollywood depictions with the tamer characterization of the likeable "hillbilly" popularized in television's The Real McCoys and The Andy Griffith Show. Graham reinforces the political impact of these fictional representations by examining media coverage of civil rights demonstrations, including the documentary Crisis: Behind the Presidential Commitment, which reported the clash between Robert Kennedy and Governor George Wallace over the integration of the University of Alabama. She concludes with a provocative analysis of Forrest Gump, identifying the popular film as a retelling of post-World War II Southern history.

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JHU Press

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0801875714

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9780801875717

Moonshine Memories

By: Thomas Allison

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Moonshine Memories

By: Thomas Allison

For 25 years, Tom Allison was a revenuer, a federal agent charged with enforcement of the nation’s laws on taxation of liquor. His territory was the hills, hollows and deep woods of Alabama, and his quarry was the illegal whiskey makers. Allison remembers the stake-outs in the brush, the undercover assignments, the long waits to catch the distillery operators red-handed, and, of course, the chases as he and his fellow treasury agents ran down fleeing moonshiners in the dark of night. While Allison is a natural story-teller, the characters who populate this history are too strange to be fiction. Perhaps the only thing more striking than the ignorance of many of the moonshiners is the craftiness of some others.

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NewSouth Books

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1603060065

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9781603060066

African American Psychology

From Africa to America

By: Faye Z. Belgrave,Kevin W. Allison

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African American Psychology

From Africa to America

By: Faye Z. Belgrave,Kevin W. Allison

African American Psychology: From Africa to America provides comprehensive coverage of the field of African American psychology. Authors Faye Z. Belgrave and Kevin W. Allison skillfully convey the integration of African and American influences on the psychology of African Americans using a consistent theme throughout the text—the idea that understanding the psychology of African Americans is closely linked to understanding what is happening in the institutional systems in the United States. The Fourth Edition reflects notable advances and important developments in the field over the last several years, and includes evidence-based practices for improving the overall well-being of African American communities

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SAGE Publications

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1506333397

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9781506333397

The Economics of Health Professional Education and Careers

Insights from a Literature Review

By: Barbara McPake,Allison Squires,Mahat Agya,Edson Araujo

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The Economics of Health Professional Education and Careers

Insights from a Literature Review

By: Barbara McPake,Allison Squires,Mahat Agya,Edson Araujo

The formation of health professionals is critical for the health system to function and to achieve its universal health coverage (UHC) goals, and this is well recognized by the majority of governments that plan to ensure enough training places and aim to regulate in order to ensure quality. But the importance of market forces is often overlooked, resulting in interventions and regulations that often fail to achieve their intended effects. This publication aims to inform the design of health professionals' education policies to better manage health labor market forces toward UHC. It documents what is known about the influence of market forces on the health-professional formation process. The report sought to answer the following questions: - What have been the large global and regional trends in the development of health professions? - How have these trends affected the career decisions of current and potential health professionals? - What is the evidence base on the value and effectiveness of health professional education of different types? - How has the market for health professional education evolved, and with what interrelationships with the health labor and health care markets? The contexts of the market for health professional training have been subject to important changes in recent decades, in particular: the growing extent of employment of mid-level cadres of health professionals; changes in technology and the associated growth of high skilled occupations; the increasing interconnectedness of national health systems through globalization, with its implications for international health professional mobility; and the greater complexity of the public-private mix in employment options. There is a need to ensure that market forces align with the intentions of planning and regulation and the needs of UHC goals. This publication provides recommendations to support the design of policies that help to achieve these.

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World Bank Publications

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1464806179

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Bodies on the Line

Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading

By: Raphael Allison

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Bodies on the Line

Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading

By: Raphael Allison

Bodies on the Line offers the first sustained study of the poetry reading in its most formative period: the 1960s. Raphael Allison closely examines a vast archive of audio recordings of several key postwar American poets to explore the social and literary context of the sixties poetry reading, which is characterized by contrasting differing styles of performance: the humanist style and the skeptical strain. The humanist style, made mainstream by the Beats and their imitators, is characterized by faith in the power of presence, emotional communion, and affect. The skeptical strain emphasizes openness of interpretation and multivalent meaning, a lack of stability or consistency, and ironic detachment. By comparing these two dominant styles of reading, Allison argues that attention to sixties poetry readings reveals poets struggling between the kind of immediacy and presence that readings suggested and a private retreat from such performance-based publicity, one centered on the text itself. Recordings of Robert Frost, Charles Olson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Larry Eigner, and William Carlos Williams—all of whom emphasized voice, breath, and spoken language and who were inveterate professional readers in the sixties—expose this struggle in often surprising ways. In deconstructing assertions about the role and importance of the poetry reading during this period, Allison reveals just how dramatic, political, and contentious poetry readings could be. By discussing how to "hear" as well as "read" poetry, Bodies on the Line offers startling new vantage points from which to understand American poetry since the 1960s as both performance and text.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609383036

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Spaces of Creation

Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature

By: Allison Connolly

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Spaces of Creation

Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature

By: Allison Connolly

Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying experiences of displaced mothers and their daughters, including isolation, domestic violence, and single parenthood, often serve to inspire introspection and creative action. In effect, their painful, frustrating existence provides the opportunity—the space of creation—necessary to weave and transmit stories. Organized around different manifestations of culturally diverse or transcultural spaces depicted in postcolonial literature—rural villages, domestic spaces, city centers, and spaces of otherness—the monograph uncovers the complexities of mothering and “daughtering” in contemporary Francophone contexts. Through discussion of these spaces, the book attests to a specifically “feminine” transculturality. This vision of diversity acknowledges both the heartening and tragic aspects of life in dynamic, multicultural communities, revealing creative synergies between the literatures of different Francophone diasporas and inviting the reader to reconsider the mother-daughter relationship.

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Lexington Books

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1498539378

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9781498539371

Passionate Pilgrims

The American Traveler in Great Britain, 1800-1914

By: Allison Lockwood

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Passionate Pilgrims

The American Traveler in Great Britain, 1800-1914

By: Allison Lockwood

The author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838622720

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House of Secrets

The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

By: Allison Levy

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House of Secrets

The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

By: Allison Levy

A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai. When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the palazzo of her dreams – the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence – she finds herself consumed by the space and swept into the vortex of its history. She spends every waking moment in dusty Florentine libraries, exploring the palazzo's myriad rooms seeking to uncover its secrets. As she unearths the stories of those who have lived behind its celebrated façade, she discovers that it has been witness to weddings, suicides, orgies, the dissection of a 'monster', and even a murder. Entwining Levy's own experiences with the ghosts of the Palazzo Rucellai's past, House of Secrets paints a scintillating portrait of a family, a palace and one of the most iconic cities in the world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786725711

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9781786725714

Coding Ockham's Razor

By: Lloyd Allison

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Coding Ockham's Razor

By: Lloyd Allison

This book explores inductive inference using the minimum message length (MML) principle, a Bayesian method which is a realisation of Ockham's Razor based on information theory. Accompanied by a library of software, the book can assist an applications programmer, student or researcher in the fields of data analysis and machine learning to write computer programs based upon this principle. MML inference has been around for 50 years and yet only one highly technical book has been written about the subject. The majority of research in the field has been backed by specialised one-off programs but this book includes a library of general MML–based software, in Java. The Java source code is available under the GNU GPL open-source license. The software library is documented using Javadoc which produces extensive cross referenced HTML manual pages. Every probability distribution and statistical model that is described in the book is implemented and documented in the software library. The library may contain a component that directly solves a reader's inference problem, or contain components that can be put together to solve the problem, or provide a standard interface under which a new component can be written to solve the problem. This book will be of interest to application developers in the fields of machine learning and statistics as well as academics, postdocs, programmers and data scientists. It could also be used by third year or fourth year undergraduate or postgraduate students.

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Springer

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3319764330

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Lanarkshire Folk Tales

By: Allison Galbraith

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Lanarkshire Folk Tales

By: Allison Galbraith

From a cantankerous brownie in Dolphinton to the vampire with iron teeth who terrorised Glasgow, this collection of tales spans fourteen centuries of Lanarkshire's history and happenings. Here you will find the legends of William Wallace's love and loss in Lanark and Saint Mungo's bitter feud with the Pagan hierarchy and Druids, alongside totemic animals, unique Scottish flora and fauna, warlocks, herb-wives and elfin trickery. Allison Galbraith combines storytelling expertise with two decades of folklore research to present this beguiling collection of Lanarkshire stories, suitable for adults and older children.

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The History Press

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0750996951

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Living History

Effective Costumed Interpretation and Enactment at Museums and Historic Sites

By: David B. Allison

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Living History

Effective Costumed Interpretation and Enactment at Museums and Historic Sites

By: David B. Allison

Engaging audiences through costumed staff at museums and historic sites is one of the most effective ways to interpret the past for a public used to multimedia presentations on their TVs and computers. Here, David Allison, who has worked at several museums known for effective enactments, provides: the fascinating stories of three large living history museums as they adapt to changing audience expectations. a solid overview of the types of interpretation that living history museums use. best practices (and practices for you to avoid) from the reams of data and studies compiled by evaluators over the past 10 years. an exploration of the the intersection of public history, individual agency, and business imperatives at museums and historic sites. Living History: Effective Costumed Interpretation and Enactment at Museums and Historic Sites looks at the history of these compelling techniques, provides best practices and strategies for implementing them today, and provides a roadmap for the future of costumed interpretation.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442263822

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9781442263826

Handbook of Assessment Methods for Eating Behaviors and Weight-Related Problems

Measures, Theory, and Research

By: David B. Allison,David Bradley Allison,Monica L. Baskin

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Handbook of Assessment Methods for Eating Behaviors and Weight-Related Problems

Measures, Theory, and Research

By: David B. Allison,David Bradley Allison,Monica L. Baskin

This handbook is a comprehensive collection of measures and assessment tools intended for use by researchers and clinicians that work with people with problem eating behaviors, obese clients, and the associated psychological issues that underlie these problems.

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1412951356

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Something Borrowed

A Historical Romance Collection

By: Rachel Scott McDaniel,Allison Pittman,Susie Finkbeiner

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Something Borrowed

A Historical Romance Collection

By: Rachel Scott McDaniel,Allison Pittman,Susie Finkbeiner

In this brand-new novella collection, three renowned Christian historical fiction authors trace generations of wartime romances through a special wedding dress with love sewn into its seams. "A Heart in Disguise" by Rachel Scott McDaniel Clara Westlake loves her job as a seamstress in the US "Camouflage Corps," sewing suits for snipers and contributing to the war effort. But when she overhears a threat against her beloved New York City, the Great War comes too close to home--except no one believes her forewarning. She must recruit Marcus Reeves, a childhood friend searching for his purpose after suffering a devastating war injury. As they search for answers together, they may also uncover a love that lasts. "A Letter to Eli" by Allison Pittman Bette and Alice are lifelong friends, trying to make a good life for themselves in New York City while World War II rages. It's never far away from their thoughts--not with Alice's fiancÃ© serving at sea, in danger every minute. That's a worry Bette doesn't envy. Then a secret letter reunites her with her soldier ex-boyfriend, now wounded and back in the States. But can the innocent love these two had before the war be rekindled in the face of tragedy? "A Daffodil in the Dress" by Susie Finkbeiner Kate Becker and Ike Finch have worked together at his family's bookstore since Kate's husband died in the early days of the Vietnam War. She has her daughter, Eloise, to take care of and bills to pay, and this job was a godsend. A second love is not in the cards, especially not with the world still teetering on the edge of insanity. But when Ike brings little Eloise special flowers one spring day, Kate begins to look at him as more than an employer. Is falling in love again worth the risk?

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0825471435

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Champions of the Truth

Fundamentalism, Modernism, and the Maritime Baptists

By: George A. Rawlyk,Mount Allison University. Centre for Canadian Studies

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Champions of the Truth

Fundamentalism, Modernism, and the Maritime Baptists

By: George A. Rawlyk,Mount Allison University. Centre for Canadian Studies

Champions of the Truth makes available G.A. Rawlyk's Bell Lectures in Maritime Studies, given at Mount Allison University in 1987 and 1988 in honour of Winthrop Pickard Bell. Rawlyk links his earlier work on Henry Alline to his new research on Canadian Baptists in particular the Maritime Baptists during the first half of the twentieth century.

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0773507604

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9780773507609

The End of Race?

Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America

By: Donald R. Kinder,Allison Dale-Riddle

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The End of Race?

Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America

By: Donald R. Kinder,Allison Dale-Riddle

How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. Donald R. Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle assert that racism was in fact an important factor in 2008, and that if not for racism, Barack Obama would have won in a landslide. On the way to this conclusion, they make several other important arguments. In an analysis of the nomination battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton, they show why racial identity matters more in electoral politics than gender identity. Comparing the 2008 election with that of 1960, they find that religion played much the same role in the earlier campaign that race played in '08. And they argue that racial resentment--a modern form of racism that has superseded the old-fashioned biological variety--is a potent political force.

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Yale University Press

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0300183593

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9780300183597

Pompeian Households

An Analysis of the Material Culture

By: Penelope M. Allison

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Pompeian Households

An Analysis of the Material Culture

By: Penelope M. Allison

Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art-historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behavior. This book is concerned with contextualized Pompeian household artifacts and their role in deepening our understanding of household behavior at Pompeii. It consists of a study of the contents of thirty so-called atrium houses in Pompeii to investigate the spatial distribution of household activities, both within each architectural room type and across the house. It also uses this material to investigate the state of occupancy of these houses at the time of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. It thus examines artifact assemblages within their spatial and decorative contexts for a more material cultural approach to these remains and for the information which they provide on living conditions in Pompeii during the last decades. In this it takes a critical perspective the textual nomenclature which is traditionally applied to Pompeian room types.

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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

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1938770943

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9781938770944

Renewal Coaching Workbook

By: Douglas B. Reeves,Elle Allison

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Renewal Coaching Workbook

By: Douglas B. Reeves,Elle Allison

Renewal Coaching Workbook In their groundbreaking book, Renewal Coaching, Douglas Reeves and Elle Allison offered coaches, managers, teachers, and consultants a research-based, sustainable approach to individual and organizational improvement that involved a disciplined and collaborative sequence of information, experimentation, feedback, and support. The proven Renewal Coaching framework consists of these seven elements: Recognition Finding patterns of toxicity and renewal Reality Confronting change killers in work and life Reciprocity Coaching in harmony Resilience Coaching through pain Relationship Nurturing the personal elements of coaching Resonance Coaching with emotional intelligence Renewal Creating energy, meaning, and freedom to sustain the journey As a next-step resource this workbook includes a wealth of proven strategies and tools designed to help apply the Renewal Coaching approach to advance workplace performance. The workbook includes website access to a variety of helpful resources, assessments, and other tools. Also provided is a Wiki environment for participants to contribute and share their own experiences. The book also contains worksheets and activities focused on sustainable change for executive coaches, teachers, volunteers, or anyone who fits into the role of a "coach." Praise for the Renewal Coaching Workbook "A wonderful piece of work?filled with important information and exercises guiding the reader to discover and live from all they can be. The book not only provides a new frame of reference through which to look at life, but the skills to do it. This excellent book will become your personal coach to call upon whenever you like. I recommend it highly." Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D., author, Fearless: 7 Principles of Peace of Mind "Life is a wonderful teacher when we take time for reflection. This book provides the structure most of us need to access learning and self-awareness in a thoughtful way." Paul Axtell, president, Contextual Program Designs, corporate and university trainer, and consultant "A wonderful resource for individuals who are going through change, and for those helping others through difficult times. A major strength is the [companion] website. At a time when millions of people have to rethink their purpose, careers, and lives, this workbook provides an important tool for their development." Patricia Boverie, Ph.D., author, Transforming Work

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470592982

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9780470592984

Lucifer's Ghost

Into the Wilderness of Beersheba

By: A A Allison

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Lucifer's Ghost

Into the Wilderness of Beersheba

By: A A Allison

At seventy-three, Fynn Moss regarded the temporary assignment to kill a wolf marauding West Texas ranches as one last chance to give his life meaning, especially after Gulf Oil's New York executives had just fired him for thwarting a wildcat strike at their Port Arthur refinery. On the three hundred mile trip to West Texas, in order to understand his outlier actions at the refinery, Fynn menatlly writes a biographical journal and that, in turn, presents to him a clear mandate for what he must do to counter the injustices that have bedivilled him and his family.

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Booktango

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1468939513

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9781468939514

His Secret Highland Bride

By: Allison B. Hanson

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His Secret Highland Bride

By: Allison B. Hanson

Fans of Heather McCollum and Keira Montclair will love this tale of warring clans, a braw Highlander, and a secret none of them saw coming. It’s been five years since Shane MacPherson stepped foot on his clan’s lands. Still haunted from years at war and the painful ache of loss, duty has called once again...and with it, his obligation to claim his place as the new laird of Clan MacPherson. But when Shane encounters a lass—a Valkyrie in both temperament and foul tongue!—in trouble, he puts title and duty aside to defend her... Lindsay Wallace would rather die than call the MacPherson lands her home—let alone their horrid clan. She just has to survive a month with her vile uncle before being married off as a peace offering between the Wallaces and MacPhersons. The only person she can trust is a simple soldier who is strong of body and heart. She has no interest in marrying her betrothed...so why not give in to the temptation of a soldier’s kiss? But promises made can’t be broken or forgotten. And as shadows and war rise once again in the Highlands, Shane and Lindsay must find the courage to face their deepest secrets and their duty...before both love and clan are ripped apart.

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Entangled: Amara

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1649376359

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9781649376350

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