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America's Favorite Mascot

The History of the Army Mule at West Point

By: Amanda Wirth

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America's Favorite Mascot

The History of the Army Mule at West Point

By: Amanda Wirth

America's Favorite Mascot chronicles the history of the U.S. Army mules at West Point. West Point has a rich history that has impacted United States History and the United States Military immensely. Alongside the esteemed graduates of West Point have been their beloved mules. America's Favorite Mascot tells the stories of the mules, their antics, and the important role they have played at the United States Military Academy. Book Review 1: "America's Favorite Mascot does an excellent job telling the story of America's favorite mascot! The Army mules have been essential to the success of our armed forces since the birth of this nation and the West Point mules are an important part of West Point history. This is a must read for any West Point fan or history buff!" -- Alfred Hoffman, Jr. US Ambassador, USMA ’56, Hannibal, my mule boss’53-‘56 Book Review 2: "The long gray mule line is an important part of the long gray line and America's Favorite Mascot does a great job introducing the public to an important part of West Point history." -- Harrison Mann, USMA '12 Book Review 3: "Mules are an important part of the armed forces and especially West Point, and America's Favorite Mascot truly shows us just how amazing they are. A great read for any military history enthusiast! And I hope USMA graduates everywhere will add it to their West Point memorabilia collections." -- Steve Townes, CEO, Ranger Aerospace, USMA '75 (Head Rabble Rouser and Mule Rider). Book Review 4: “Tiny Tomsen told me many times that the mission is to celebrate the rich legacy of the West Point Mule. This wonderful book suggests ‘mission accomplished’. Tiny would be proud”. -- Mike Lapolla, USMA '65

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Silly Dog Media

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1662910681

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Oh Where, Oh Where Could That Silly Dog Be?

By: Noah Wirth,Chris Wirth,Amanda Wirth

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Oh Where, Oh Where Could That Silly Dog Be?

By: Noah Wirth,Chris Wirth,Amanda Wirth

Silly dog is followed along a path of imaginary adventures as her family tries to locate her whereabouts. Oh where, oh where will they find that silly dog?

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Silly Dog Media

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1662912315

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Block by Block

Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side

By: Amanda I. Seligman

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Block by Block

Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side

By: Amanda I. Seligman

In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of urban neighborhoods led many whites to migrate to the suburbs, producing the phenomenon commonly known as white flight. In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America. Seligman's study reveals that the responses of white West Siders to racial changes occurring in their neighborhoods were both multifaceted and extensive. She shows that, despite rehabilitation efforts, deterioration in these areas began long before the color of their inhabitants changed from white to black. And ultimately, the riots that erupted on Chicago's West Side and across the country in the mid-1960s stemmed not only from the tribulations specific to blacks in urban centers but also from the legacy of accumulated neglect after decades of white occupancy. Seligman's careful and evenhanded account will be essential to understanding that the "flight" of whites to the suburbs was the eventual result of a series of responses to transformations in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226746658

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9780226746654

Employment, Labour and Industrial Law in Australia

By: Louise Floyd,William Steenson,Amanda Coulthard,Daniel Williams,Anne C. Pickering

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Employment, Labour and Industrial Law in Australia

By: Louise Floyd,William Steenson,Amanda Coulthard,Daniel Williams,Anne C. Pickering

Employment, Labour and Industrial Law in Australia provides a comprehensive, current and accessible resource for the undergraduate and Juris Doctor student. With a social and political background to the law, this text provides insightful legal analysis underscored by practical business experience, while exploring key principles through a close evaluation of laws and lively discussion of prominent cases. Recognising the multi-faceted nature of the subject, the authors have included content on employment, labour and industrial law in the one text, while also presenting critical topics not often dealt with, namely: • current and in-depth analysis of trade union regulation • public work including the public sector, the judiciary and academics • workplace health and safety including worker's compensation, bullying, anti-discrimination and taxation • emerging issues including topics such as transnational and international employment law, migration and employment, as well as volunteers and work experience. To maintain currency within this rapidly changing area of law, the text has a website which will include updates for any major developments in the field as well as responses to end-of-chapter questions. Written by respected academics and practicing lawyers in the field, this book is a relevant and contemporary guide to this fascinating area of law.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108578543

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Carving Out the Commons

Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.

By: Amanda Huron

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Carving Out the Commons

Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.

By: Amanda Huron

An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource—housing—that had been used to extract profit from them and reshaping it as a resource that was collectively owned by them. In Carving Out the Commons, Amanda Huron theorizes the practice of urban “commoning” through a close investigation of the city’s limited-equity housing cooperatives. Drawing on feminist and anticapitalist perspectives, Huron asks whether a commons can work in a city where land and other resources are scarce and how strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create and maintain commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism. Arguing against the romanticization of the commons, she instead positions the urban commons as a pragmatic practice. Through the practice of commoning, she contends, we can learn to build communities to challenge capitalism’s totalizing claims over life.

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U of Minnesota Press

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145295643X

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Rockford's Forgotten Driving Park: Racing, Politics & Circuses

By: Amanda Becker

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Rockford's Forgotten Driving Park: Racing, Politics & Circuses

By: Amanda Becker

Local thrill-seekers at the turn of the century knew that all the action was at the Driving Park. But few today know the drama buried beneath a West End subdivision. At the height of the horse racing craze after the Civil War, prominent Rockford businessmen raised $25,000 to build a harness racetrack there in 1890 (the name refers to the person in the cart pulled by a horse--the driver). The versatile venue evolved to stay relevant, weathering the 1893 financial panic and welcoming bicycle mania. Events ranged from high school track meets to early auto racing. Folks saw a soccer game one week and a circus the next. Controversy erupted at times, from gambling and drinking to a murder and a KKK rally. Amanda Becker reveals this colorful story nearly forgotten since 1938.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467141968

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Chicago's Block Clubs

How Neighbors Shape the City

By: Amanda I. Seligman

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Chicago's Block Clubs

How Neighbors Shape the City

By: Amanda I. Seligman

What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you’re tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs to address problems like these that make daily life in the city a nuisance. When neighbors work together in block clubs, playgrounds get built, local crime is monitored, streets are cleaned up, and every summer is marked by the festivities of day-long block parties. In Chicago’s Block Clubs, Amanda I. Seligman uncovers the history of the block club in Chicago—from its origins in the Urban League in the early 1900s through to the Chicago Police Department’s twenty-first-century community policing program. Recognizing that many neighborhood problems are too big for one resident to handle—but too small for the city to keep up with—city residents have for more than a century created clubs to establish and maintain their neighborhood’s particular social dynamics, quality of life, and appearance. Omnipresent yet evanescent, block clubs are sometimes the major outlets for community organizing in the city—especially in neighborhoods otherwise lacking in political strength and clout. Drawing on the stories of hundreds of these groups from across the city, Seligman vividly illustrates what neighbors can—and cannot—accomplish when they work together.

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University of Chicago Press

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022638599X

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The English it-Cleft

A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation

By: Amanda Patten

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The English it-Cleft

A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation

By: Amanda Patten

This book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar. It defends a straightforward extraposition-from-NP analysis (on which the cleft clause is a restrictive relative, modifying the initial it) and claims that all types of it-cleft involve nominal predication. Support for this analysis comes from three main areas: (a) the central role of definiteness in the creation of specificational meaning, (b) the existence and makeup of predicational (and proverbial) it-clefts, and (c) the early, historical it-cleft data. In addition, the book contains a sizeable diachronic component, drawing data from the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English and from the International Corpus of English - Great Britain. This investigation informs and advances what is an otherwise simple account of the English it-cleft, explaining how and why the configuration has developed an assortment of peculiar, construction-specific properties over time.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110279525

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9783110279528

Somewhere

The Life of Jerome Robbins

By: Amanda Vaill

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Somewhere

The Life of Jerome Robbins

By: Amanda Vaill

From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome Robbins To some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others, he was a loyal friend, a supportive mentor, a generous and entertaining companion and colleague. Born Jerome Rabinowitz in New York City in 1918, Jerome Robbins repudiated his Jewish roots along with his name only to reclaim them with his triumphant staging of Fiddler on the Roof. A self-proclaimed homosexual, he had romances or relationships with both men and women, some famous—like Montgomery Clift and Natalie Wood—some less so. A resolutely unpolitical man, he was forced to testify before Congress at the height of anti-Communist hysteria. A consummate entertainer, he could be paralyzed by shyness; nearly infallible professionally, he was conflicted, vulnerable, and torn by self-doubt. Guarded and adamantly private, he was an inveterate and painfully honest journal writer who confided his innermost thoughts and aspirations to a remarkable series of diaries and memoirs. With ballets like Dances at a Gathering, Afternoon of a Faun, and The Concert, he humanized neoclassical dance; with musicals like On the Town, Gypsy, and West Side Story, he changed the face of theater in America. In the pages of this definitive biography, Amanda Vaill takes full measure of the complicated, contradictory genius who was Jerome Robbins. She re-creates his childhood as the only son of Russian Jewish immigrants; his apprenticeship as a dancer and Broadway chorus gypsy; his explosion into prominence at the age of twenty-five with the ballet Fancy Free and its Broadway incarnation, On the Town; and his years of creative dominance in both theater and dance. She brings to life his colleagues and friends—from Leonard Bernstein and George Balanchine to Robert Wilson and Robert Graves—and his loves and lovers. And she tells the full story behind some of Robbins’s most difficult episodes, such as his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his firing from the film version of West Side Story. Drawing on thousands of pages of documents from Robbins’s personal and professional papers, to which she was granted unfettered access, as well as on other archives and hundreds of interviews, Somewhere is a riveting narrative of a life lived onstage, offstage, and backstage. It is also an accomplished work of criticism and social history that chronicles one man’s phenomenal career and places it squarely in the cultural ferment of a time when New York City was truly “a helluva town.”

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Crown

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0767929292

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Crime, Deviance and Society

An Introduction to Sociological Criminology

By: Ana Rodas,Melanie Simpson,Paddy Rawlinson,Ronald Kramer,Emma Ryan,Reece Walters,Emmeline Taylor,Alan Beckley,Ashlee Gore,Chris Cunneen,Amanda Porter,Scott Poynting,Emma Russell

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Crime, Deviance and Society

An Introduction to Sociological Criminology

By: Ana Rodas,Melanie Simpson,Paddy Rawlinson,Ronald Kramer,Emma Ryan,Reece Walters,Emmeline Taylor,Alan Beckley,Ashlee Gore,Chris Cunneen,Amanda Porter,Scott Poynting,Emma Russell

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to criminological theory and examines how crime and deviance are constructed.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108430309

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9781108430302

Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries

By: Amanda Porterfield

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Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries

By: Amanda Porterfield

American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century, enabling them not only to disseminate religious principles but also to break into public life and create expanded opportunities for themselves and other women. No institution was more closely associated with women missionaries that Mount Holyoke College. This book examines Mount Holyoke founder Mary Lyon and the missionary women trained by her. Porterfield sees Lyon and her students as representative of dominant trends in American missionary thought before the Civil War. She focuses on how their activities in several parts of the world--particularly northwest Persia, Maharashtra in western India, and Natal in southeast Africa--and shows that while their primary goals remained elusive, antebellum missionary women made major contributions to cultural change and the development of new cultures.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195113012

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9780195113013

Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

By: Ronald Brunner,Amanda Lynch

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Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

By: Ronald Brunner,Amanda Lynch

As greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures at the poles continue to rise, so do damages from extreme weather events affecting countless lives. Meanwhile, ambitious international efforts to cut emissions (Kyoto, Copenhagen) have proved to be politically ineffective or infeasible. There is hope, however, in adaptive governance—an approach that has succeeded in some local communities and can be undertaken by others around the globe. This book provides a political and historical analysis of climate change policy; shows how adaptive governance has worked on the ground in Barrow, Alaska, and other local communities; and makes the case for adaptive governance as a complementary approach in the climate change regime.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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193570401X

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9781935704010

Healing in the History of Christianity

By: Amanda Porterfield

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Healing in the History of Christianity

By: Amanda Porterfield

Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing, and Christians down the ages have seen this as a prominent feature of their faith. Indeed, healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Changes in healing beliefs and practices offer a window into changes in religious authority, church structure, and ideas about sanctity, history, resurrection, and the kingdom of God. Porterfield chronicles these changes, at the same time shedding important new light on the universality of religious healing. Finally, she looks at recent scientific findings about religion's biological effects, and considers the relation of these findings to ages-old traditions about belief and healing.

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Oxford University Press

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019028899X

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Statistical Process Monitoring Using Advanced Data-Driven and Deep Learning Approaches

Theory and Practical Applications

By: Fouzi Harrou,Ying Sun,Amanda S. Hering,Muddu Madakyaru,abdelkader Dairi

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Statistical Process Monitoring Using Advanced Data-Driven and Deep Learning Approaches

Theory and Practical Applications

By: Fouzi Harrou,Ying Sun,Amanda S. Hering,Muddu Madakyaru,abdelkader Dairi

Statistical Process Monitoring Using Advanced Data-Driven and Deep Learning Approaches tackles multivariate challenges in process monitoring by merging the advantages of univariate and traditional multivariate techniques to enhance their performance and widen their practical applicability. The book proceeds with merging the desirable properties of shallow learning approaches – such as a one-class support vector machine and k-nearest neighbours and unsupervised deep learning approaches – to develop more sophisticated and efficient monitoring techniques. Finally, the developed approaches are applied to monitor many processes, such as waste-water treatment plants, detection of obstacles in driving environments for autonomous robots and vehicles, robot swarm, chemical processes (continuous stirred tank reactor, plug flow rector, and distillation columns), ozone pollution, road traffic congestion, and solar photovoltaic systems. - Uses a data-driven based approach to fault detection and attribution - Provides an in-depth understanding of fault detection and attribution in complex and multivariate systems - Familiarises you with the most suitable data-driven based techniques including multivariate statistical techniques and deep learning-based methods - Includes case studies and comparison of different methods

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Elsevier

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0128193662

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9780128193662

Psychology of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior

By: Ryan E. Rhodes,Heather A. Hausenblas,Amanda L. Rebar

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Psychology of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior

By: Ryan E. Rhodes,Heather A. Hausenblas,Amanda L. Rebar

Written for the upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level courses in exercise psychology and behavioral physical activity, Psychology of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior, Second Edition focuses on the psychological effects of physical activity in a diverse array of populations. It emphasizes how physical activity needs to be paired with a reduction in sedentary behavior in order to achieve overall health. With a focus on both the psychology of exercise and sedentary behavior, this first-of-its kind text provides readers with the latest research in both areas, including coverage of sleep, pain, and delayed gratification. This text also applies a critical lens to foundational theories and incorporates applications and interventions throughout.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284290948

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9781284290943

EBOOK: Reconceptualizing Social Policy: Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Social Policy

By: Amanda Coffey

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EBOOK: Reconceptualizing Social Policy: Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Social Policy

By: Amanda Coffey

How can sociological perspectives help us make sense of contemporary social policy? How has the discipline of social policy engaged in recent sociological debates and developments? This book provides a variety of sociological frameworks for understanding contemporary social policy. It explores how sociological perspectives may be used to theorize, conceptualize and research social policy. Amanda Coffey captures the different ways in which social policy can be understood - as academic discipline, policy process, service provision and lived experience. The book engages with a range of policy areas and client groups, and pays attention to sociodemographic categories such as gender, 'race', class and age. Themes include: The body and processes of embodiment Citizenship and identity Equality and differences Space and time Research and representation Reconceptualizing Social Policy is a key text for students and lecturers in sociology and social policy.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335224555

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9780335224555

Child Psychopathology

By: Barry H. Schneider,Paul David Hastings,Amanda Guyer,Mara Brendgen,Eli Cwinn

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Child Psychopathology

By: Barry H. Schneider,Paul David Hastings,Amanda Guyer,Mara Brendgen,Eli Cwinn

This textbook provides authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the classification, causes, treatment and prevention of psychological disorders in children.

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Cambridge University Press

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052119377X

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9780521193771

Sex in Transition

Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa

By: Amanda Lock Swarr

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Sex in Transition

Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa

By: Amanda Lock Swarr

Honorable Mention, 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Section on Sexualities of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies presented by the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies Sex in Transition explores the lives of those who undermine the man/woman binary, exposing the gendered contradictions of apartheid and the transition to democracy in South Africa. In this context, gender liminality—a way to describe spaces between common conceptions of "man" and "woman"—is expressed by South Africans who identify as transgender, transsexual, transvestite, intersex, lesbian, gay, and/or eschew these categories altogether. This book is the first academic exploration of challenges to the man/woman binary on the African continent and brings together gender, queer, and postcolonial studies to question the stability of sex. It examines issues including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape race and gender. Sex in Transition challenges the dominance of theoretical frameworks based in the global North, drawing on fifteen years of research in South Africa to define the parameters of a new transnational transgender and sexuality studies.

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State University of New York Press

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1438444087

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9781438444086

The World and Darfur

International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan

By: Amanda F. Grzyb

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The World and Darfur

International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan

By: Amanda F. Grzyb

This updated edition of The World and Darfur brings together genocide scholars from a range of disciplines - social history, art history, military history, African studies, media studies, literature, political science, and sociology - to provide a cohesive and nuanced understanding of the international response to the crisis in Western Sudan. Contributing authors, including Eric Reeves, Frank Chalk, Eric Markusen, and Samuel Totten, look at the lessons learned from the United Nations' failure to intervene during the Rwandan genocide, the representation of Darfur in the mainstream media, atrocity investigations, activist and NGO campaigns, art exhibitions and political rhetoric, and the role of the international community in the discourse of genocide prevention and intervention. For a complete list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773578536

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9780773578531

No Less Days

By: Amanda G Stevens

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No Less Days

By: Amanda G Stevens

David Galloway can’t die. How many lifetimes can God expect one man to live? Over a century old, David Galloway isolates himself from the mortal humans who die or desert him by making a quiet life as a used bookstore owner in Northern Michigan. But then he spots a news article about a man who, like him, should be dead. Daredevil celebrity Zachary Wilson walked away unscathed from what should have been a deadly fall. David tracks the man down, needing answers. Soon David discovers a close-knit group of individuals as old as he is who offer the sort of kinship and community he hasn’t experienced for decades—but at what cost? David finds himself keeping secrets other than his own. . .protecting more than himself alone. He’ll have to decide what’s worth the most to him—security or community. When crimes come to light that are older than any mortal, he fears the pressure is more than he can stand. What does God require of him, and is David strong enough to see it through?

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Barbour Publishing

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1683225538

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9781683225539

Civic Service Worldwide

Impacts and Inquiry

By: Amanda Moore McBride,Michael Sherraden

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Civic Service Worldwide

Impacts and Inquiry

By: Amanda Moore McBride,Michael Sherraden

This comprehensive collection of the latest research and policy developments in civic service worldwide provides an informed assessment of what works and what doesn't work in the field. With contributions from some of the discipline's best-known global leaders, it presents a conceptualization and operational definition of civic service that allows for variations across nations and cultures. "Civic Service Worldwide" offers a perspective on the history and potential for civic service from its roots in military service. It summarizes the effects of national service in diverse countries, and identifies important developments in service, including service across the lifespan and transnational service. The editors and contributors also address key questions and promising theoretical and methodological approaches for advancing knowledge in the field.

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Routledge

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1315497441

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9781315497440

Working With Influence

Nine principles of persuasion to accelerate your career

By: Amanda Nimon-Peters

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Working With Influence

Nine principles of persuasion to accelerate your career

By: Amanda Nimon-Peters

An engaging guide on how to develop and hone your professional communication and influencing skills in the digital age In a world where human interactions and behaviour are more pivotal than ever to business success, Working With Influence sets out nine easy-to-apply principles, based on robust behavioural science, for influencing people and outcomes in both physical and digital working scenarios. It provides ambitious professionals with a set of actionable principles which will help them kick-start, accelerate or transform their careers. Technology has redefined almost every job and is becoming the primary medium through which we interact with colleagues and clients – this book provides crucial insights into how you can influence others and stand out in this new digital landscape. With the hugely competitive and unpredictable nature of the job market and the unstable economy, it is more important than ever to improve your communication skills and broader qualitative skillset to ensure a prosperous career in the 21st century. This book's insightful principles are drawn from first-hand research findings and behavioural science data. Each chapter includes a wide range of relevant, applied workplace examples, as well as tools to help readers build their own action plans. Packed with practical guidance and psychological research, Working With Influence is the modern guide for anyone looking to improve their communication, networking and drive in business.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472988760

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9781472988768

A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients

By: Janet Abrahm,Janet L. Abrahm,Amanda Moment,Arden O'Donnell

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A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients

By: Janet Abrahm,Janet L. Abrahm,Amanda Moment,Arden O'Donnell

This highly regarded handbook provides clinicians with the information they need to treat their cancer patients effectively and compassionately. This comprehensive guide to managing pain and other symptoms for people with cancer has helped tens of thousands of patients and families. Designed for busy practicing clinicians, A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients provides primary care physicians, advanced practice nurses, internists, and oncologists with detailed information and advice for alleviating the stress and pain of patients and family members alike. Drawing on the work of experts who have developed revolutionary approaches to symptom management and palliative care, as well as on the lessons learned from patients and their families during her thirty years as a teacher and clinician, Dr. Janet L. Abrahm shows how physicians and other caregivers can help patients and families heal emotionally even as the disease progresses. The third edition includes updates to medications and clinical stories, and features two new chapters: “Working with Patients’ Families” and “Sexuality, Intimacy, and Cancer.” New lessons from palliative care and hospice care can help patients, their professional caregivers, and their families support each other every step of the way.

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JHU Press

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1421414031

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9781421414034

Graphic News

How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

By: Amanda Frisken

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How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

By: Amanda Frisken

”You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups. Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events—obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence—changed the public's consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy enabled newspapers and social activists alike to communicate—or challenge—prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities and cultural power.

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0252051831

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Wake Up to a Happier Life

Finding Joy in the Work You Do Every Day

By: Amanda Dickson

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Wake Up to a Happier Life

Finding Joy in the Work You Do Every Day

By: Amanda Dickson

Having held 18 different jobs in various fields, author Amanda Dickson is keenly aware that not all work in equally enjoyable. In the trademark enthusiastic style that has made her a top-ranked radio personality and sought-after speaker, she offers practical suggestions for finding joy in whatever work you do. Included are ways to identify the work you were born to do and basic changes in attitude that will help you deal with less-than-ideal working conditions. Amanda's fresh outlook and laugh-out-loud humor will change the way you think about work...and life

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Shadow Mountain

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1590387570

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