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Serial Mexico

Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now

By: Amy E. Wright

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Serial Mexico

Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now

By: Amy E. Wright

No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narratives—tales of glory, of fame, and of epic characters, grounded in oral folklore—with their subsequent retelling in comics, radio, and television soap operas. Wright’s multidisciplinary Serial Mexico delves into this storytelling tradition: examining the nostalgic tales reimagined in novelas, radionovelas, telenovelas and onwards, and examining the foundational figures who have been woven into society. This panorama shows the Mexican experience of storytelling from the country’s early days until now, showcasing protagonists that mock authority, make light of hierarchy, and embrace the hybridity and mestizaje of Mexico. These tales reflect on and respond to crucial cultural concerns such as family, patriarchy, gender roles, racial mixing, urbanization, modernization, and political idealism. Serial Mexico thus examines how serialized storytelling’s melodrama and sensationalism reveals key political and cultural messaging. In a detailed yet accessible style, Wright describes how these stories have continued to morph with current times’ concerns and social media. Will tropes and traditions carry on in new and reimagined serial storytelling forms? Only time will tell. Stay tuned for the next episode.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826505635

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Hudson River School

Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

By: Amy Ellis,Maureen Miesmer,Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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Hudson River School

Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

By: Amy Ellis,Maureen Miesmer,Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

A breathtaking selection of works from the largest and finest collection of Hudson River paintings in the world Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world. Gorgeously and amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all the major figures of the Hudson River School. Each work is beautifully reproduced in full color and is accompanied by a concise description of its significance and historical background. The book also includes artists' biographies and a brief introduction to American nineteenth-century landscape painting and the Wadsworth Atheneum's unique role in collecting Hudson River pictures.

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Yale University Press

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0300101163

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9780300101164

Being Single in Georgian England

Families, Households, and the Unmarried

By: Amy Harris

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Being Single in Georgian England

Families, Households, and the Unmarried

By: Amy Harris

Being Single in Georgian England is the first book-length exploration of what family life looked like, and how it was experienced, when viewed from the perspective of unmarried and childless family members. Using a micro-historical approach, Amy Harris covers three generations of the famous musical and abolitionist Sharp family. The abundance of records the Sharps produced and preserved reveals how single family members influenced the household economy, marital decisions, childrearing practices, and conceptions about lineage and genealogy. The Sharps' exceptional closeness and good humor consistently shines through as their experiences reveal how eighteenth-century families navigated gender and age hierarchies, marital choices, and household governance. The importance of childhood relationships and the life-long nature of siblinghood stand out as central aspects of Sharp family life, no matter their marital status. Along the way, Being Single explores humor, music, religious practice and belief, death and mourning, infertility, disability, slavery, abolition, philanthropy, and family memory. The Sharps' experiences uncover how important lateral kin like siblings and cousins were to marital and household decisions. The analysis also reveals additional layers of Georgian family life, including: single sociability not centered on courtship; the importance of aunting and uncling on their own terms; the ways charitable acts and philanthropic endeavors could serve as outlets or partial replacements for parenthood; and how genealogical practices could be tied to values and identity instead of to biological descendants' possession of property. Ultimately, the Sharp siblings' remarkable lives and the single family members' efforts to preserve a record of those lives, show the enduring contribution of unmarried people to family relationships and household dynamics.

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Oxford University Press

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0192696378

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9780192696373

Explaining Mental Illness

Sociological Perspectives

By: Baptiste Brossard,Amy Chandler

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Explaining Mental Illness

Sociological Perspectives

By: Baptiste Brossard,Amy Chandler

Can the social sciences explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or in individuals? This book presents a critical look at sociological explanations of mental illnesses, making the case for their renewal.

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Policy Press

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1529215056

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9781529215052

Restrictive Language Policy in Practice

English Learners in Arizona

By: Amy J. Heineke

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Restrictive Language Policy in Practice

English Learners in Arizona

By: Amy J. Heineke

As the most restrictive language policy context in the United States, Arizona’s monolingual and prescriptive approach to teaching English learners continues to capture international attention. More than five school years after initial implementation, this study uses qualitative data from the individuals doing the policy work to provide a holistic picture of the complexities and intricacies of Arizona’s language policy in practice. Drawing on the varied perspectives of teachers, leaders, administrators, teacher-educators, lawmakers and community activists, the book examines the lived experiences of those involved in Arizona’s language policy on a daily basis, highlighting the importance of local perspectives and experiences as well as the need to prepare and professionalize teachers of English learners.

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Multilingual Matters

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1783096438

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9781783096435

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles & Divine Intervention

101 Stories of Faith and Hope

By: Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles & Divine Intervention

101 Stories of Faith and Hope

By: Amy Newmark

These true stories of breathtaking coincidences, answered prayers, healing, angels, and messages from heaven will deepen your faith and strengthen your hope. Miracles, divine intervention, amazing coincidences—these unexplainable but welcome surprises occur every day for people from all walks of life. You’ll be inspired, awed and comforted by these 101 stories from ordinary people who’ve had extraordinary experiences, including: Elizabeth, who took her son to see Santa, and was shocked when he recognized her and burst into tears, explaining he was her long-lost father. He’d been looking for her since she was seven years old. Bill, a paramedic comforted by his elderly patient when the ambulance they were in was totaled. Hours after their rescue he checked on her status and learned she’d died on impact. She couldn’t have talked to him while they awaited rescuers. Crystal, who tried to reach the date who ghosted her, but typed one wrong letter in the e-mail address and reached a stranger in Australia. Twelve years later that man moved to the U.S. and became her husband. Kat, who tragically lost her son Nick and gave his treasured LEGOs to a boy in their town. He used the LEGOs to create items that had special meaning for Kat’s family, saying Nick urged him to build each one. Candy, who lost the diamond in her mother’s ring, a ring she wore for 17 years after her mother was murdered by her father. A year after she lost it at work, it reappeared on a bough of the company Christmas tree.

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1611590736

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Messages from Heaven and Other Miracles

By: Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Messages from Heaven and Other Miracles

By: Amy Newmark

When our loved ones leave this world, our connection with them does not end. These 101 miraculous stories of signs from beyond, amazing connections, and love that doesn’t die will inspire and comfort you. Death takes away the physical presence of our loved ones, but not their spirit. Sometimes they send us signs from beyond, or come to us in dreams or as angels. Sometimes our loved ones visit heaven but come back because it’s not their time. Your faith will be renewed and you’ll be awed by these miraculous true accounts, including: The young mother who went to heaven and asked for a little more time—and got it—so she could write letters to her daughters for all their milestones The widow who discovered the captions “I love you” and “I will always love you” had miraculously appeared on old photos of her husband The grandma with dementia who was never told about her granddaughter’s death, but who announced that her granddaughter visited her regularly, and then related details of her death unknown to the rest of the family The woman at her friend Nancy’s funeral who asked her to send a hug, and minutes later was approached by the priest, who embraced her and whispered, “Here’s a hug from Nancy.” The man struggling to write a eulogy for his brother—killed in an accident along with a friend—who goes for a walk and finds his shadow is accompanied by two distinctly different human shadows that don’t match his body or movements And 96 more incredible stories!

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Simon and Schuster

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1611592852

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable

101 Stories of Hope, Answered Prayers, and Divine Intervention

By: Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable

101 Stories of Hope, Answered Prayers, and Divine Intervention

By: Amy Newmark

These true personal stories of miracles, angels, answered prayers, messages from heaven, miraculous healing, amazing coincidences, divine timing and divine intervention will give you hope and deepen your faith. We call them "miracles," "remarkable coincidences," and "divine interventions." The truth is, we're not at all sure what they are. What we do know is that they happen every day to people from all walks of life, and they can't be explained. But what stories they make! Be prepared to be amazed, inspired, and comforted by these 101 true, personal stories. Chicken Soup for the Soul books are 100% made in the USA and each book includes stories from as diverse a group of writers as possible. Chicken Soup for the Soul solicits and publishes stories from the LGBTQ community and from people of all ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.

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1611590949

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9781611590944

British Cinema

A Critical and Interpretive History

By: Amy Sargeant

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British Cinema

A Critical and Interpretive History

By: Amy Sargeant

Although new writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned over the last fifteen years, there has been a continued lack of single-authored books providing a coherent overview to this fascinating and elusive national cinema. Amy Sargeant's personal and entertaining history of British cinema aims to fill this gap. With its insightful decade-by-decade analysis, British Cinema is brought alive for a new generation of British cinema students and the general reader alike. Sargeant challenges Rachel Low's premise 'that few of the films made in England during the twenties were any good' by covering subjects as diverse as the art of intertitling, the narrative complexities of Shooting Stars and Brunel's burlesques. Sargeant goes onto examine among other things, the differing acting styles of Dietrich and Donat in the seminal Knight Without Armour to early promotional campaigns in the 1930s, whereas subjects ranging from product endorsement by stars to the character of the suburban wife are covered in the 1940s. The 1950s includes topics such as the effect of post-war government intervention, to Free Cinema and Lindsay Anderson's 'infuriating lapses of rigour', together with a much-needed overview of Michael Balcon's contribution to British cinema. For Sargeant, the 1960s provides an overview of the tentative relationship between film and advertising and the rise of young Turks such as Tony Richardson, Ken Loach, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838714758

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and the Miraculous

101 Inspirational Stories of Faith, Miracles and Answered Prayers

By: Amy Newmark

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101 Inspirational Stories of Faith, Miracles and Answered Prayers

By: Amy Newmark

These true personal stories of angels, miracles, answered prayers, and the unexplainable will deepen your faith and strengthen your hope. Miracles happen every day, to people just like you. And angels are all around us - we just need to keep our eyes and hearts open to them. You’ll be inspired, awed and comforted by these 101 true stories from people who’ve been visited by angels and blessed by miracles. And this book will serve as a reminder that these visitations and blessings can happen for you!

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Simon and Schuster

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1611593417

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9781611593419

Engaged

The Neuroscience Behind Creating Productive People in Successful Organizations

By: Amy Brann

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Engaged

The Neuroscience Behind Creating Productive People in Successful Organizations

By: Amy Brann

Neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behaviour. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizational performance and individual achievement.

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Springer

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1137500425

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Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains

Men in Disney's Feature Animation

By: Amy M. Davis

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Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains

Men in Disney's Feature Animation

By: Amy M. Davis

From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio’s animated features. One of PopSugar’s Best Books for Women (2013) From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film theory. This companion volume to Good Girls and Wicked Witches places these depictions within the context of Hollywood and American popular culture at the time of each film’s release. “Within her idealism and love for the House of the Mouse, it seems Davis is on to something. Whether idealistic or delusional, the Disney she talks about seems to be a thing that’s waiting just around the corner.” —PopMatters

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Indiana University Press

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0861969073

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9780861969074

What is Consciousness?

A Debate

By: Amy Kind,Daniel Stoljar

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What is Consciousness?

A Debate

By: Amy Kind,Daniel Stoljar

What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of "standard" physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson to draw from this. Amy Kind defends dualism 2.0, a thoroughly modern version of dualism (the theory that there are two fundamentally different kinds of things in the world: those that are physical and those that are mental) decoupled from any religious or non-scientific connotations. Daniel Stoljar defends non-standard physicalism, a kind of physicalism different from both the standard version and dualism 2.0. The book presents a cutting-edge assessment of the philosophy of consciousness and provides a glimpse at what the future study of this area might bring. Key Features Outlines the different things people mean by "consciousness" and provides an account of what consciousness is Reviews the key arguments for thinking that consciousness is incompatible with physicalism Explores and provides a defense of contrasting responses to those arguments, with a special focus on responses that reject the standard physicalist framework Provides an account of the basic aims of the science of consciousness Written in a lively and accessibly style Includes a comprehensive glossary

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Taylor & Francis

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1000866661

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Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations

Feminist Criminology and Corrections

By: Alana Van Gundy,Amy Baumann-Grau

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Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations

Feminist Criminology and Corrections

By: Alana Van Gundy,Amy Baumann-Grau

A rich examination of the neglect and abuses occurring to women in correctional facilities, Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations draws upon a wealth of case studies from around the world and class action lawsuits to shed light on ’covert’ abuse such as sexual or physical abuse, as well as ’overt’ abuse such as the denial of medical treatment. Adopting a feminist framework, this book offers a comparative evaluation of abuse in domestic and international correctional facilities, demonstrating the extent to which women are at high risk of being sexually abused and re-victimized in the correctional system, where pregnancy and other specific medical and health issues are consistently ignored. Calling attention to the necessity of addressing the gender-specific needs of women who are incarcerated, Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations offers a review of current policy, laws, and regulation bearing on the issue, while providing concrete recommendations and policy changes to address abuses. As such it will appeal to sociologists, criminologists, and policymakers concerned with questions of gender, penology, and institutional abuse.

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Routledge

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1134778422

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Cowell and Tyler's Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Dog and Cat - E-Book

By: Amy C. Valenciano,Rick L. Cowell

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Cowell and Tyler's Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Dog and Cat - E-Book

By: Amy C. Valenciano,Rick L. Cowell

- NEW! Four new chapters — The Adrenal Gland, Immunocytochemistry, Flow Cytometry, and Molecular Methods in Lymphoid Malignancies — provide you with detailed information on how these topics relate to clinical disease diagnosis. - NEW! Revised chapters throughout the text give you the most complete and up-to-date coverage of recently recognized conditions, new terminology, and new procedures. - NEW! Callouts highlighting Tips and Pitfalls facilitate quick access and detailed instructions for in-house laboratory evaluation, including specimen preparation and diagnosis, as well as submission and transport of samples for commercial laboratory interpretation.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323243029

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9780323243025

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Serial Mexico

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Being Single in Georgian England

Being Single in Georgian England

Explaining Mental Illness

Explaining Mental Illness

Restrictive Language Policy in Practice

Restrictive Language Policy in Practice

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles & Divine Intervention

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles & Divine Intervention

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Messages from Heaven and Other Miracles

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable

British Cinema

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and the Miraculous

Engaged

Engaged

Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains

Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains

What is Consciousness?

What is Consciousness?

Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations

Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations

Cowell and Tyler's Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Dog and Cat - E-Book

Cowell and Tyler's Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Dog and Cat - E-Book

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