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Tempting the Tempter

Imitatio Christi and the Encounters of Quattrocento Holy Women with the Devil

By: Amy Huesman

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Tempting the Tempter

Imitatio Christi and the Encounters of Quattrocento Holy Women with the Devil

By: Amy Huesman

Tempting the Tempter considers how far fifteenth-century Italian mystics would go to imitate Christ, even in his encounters with the Devil in the desert. Elena of Udine, Caterina of Bologna, and Colomba of Rieti created their own desert experience through their austere devotional practices, and they suffered and overcame temptations from the Devil. This work explores how these women actively pursued encounters with the Devil, and how these private temptations prepared them for a public ministry of miracles, contributed to their perception as living saints, and allowed their biographers to promote them as true imitators of Christ, worthy of sainthood.

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BRILL

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9004537414

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Love, Amy

The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt

By: Amy Clampitt

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Love, Amy

The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt

By: Amy Clampitt

This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success (or before it found her) at the age of 63 with the publication of The Kingfisher. Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. Written in clear, limpid prose, Clampitt's letters illuminate the habits of imagination she would later use to such effect in her poetry. She offers, with wit and intelligence, an intimate and personal portrait of life as an independent woman recently arrived in New York City. She recounts her struggle to find a place for herself in the world of literature as well as the excitement of living in Manhattan. In other letters she describes a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment) and her work as a political activist. Clampitt also reveals her passionate interest in and fascination with the world around her. She conveys her delight in a variety of day-to-day experiences and sights, reporting on trips to Europe, the books she has read, and her walks in nature. After struggling as a novelist, Clampitt turned to poetry in her fifties and was eventually published in the New Yorker. In the last decade of her life she appeared like a meteor on the national literary scene, lionized and honored. In letters to Helen Vendler, Mary Jo Salter, and others, she discusses her poetry as well as her surprise at her newfound success and the long overdue satisfaction she obviously felt, along with gratitude, for her recognition.

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Columbia University Press

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0231132875

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9780231132879

The Book of Kell

By: Amy Briant

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The Book of Kell

By: Amy Briant

“I hate field trips.” That’s exactly what Kell was thinking just as the bus blew up… Thus begins a grueling trek for three young survivors in a treacherous post-apocalyptic world—pitting the inner strength and resilience of youth against the dysfunction and destruction created by adults. Scavenging for food, drinkable water and anything else that will help them survive the journey, the teens must constantly be on the alert for enemy drones, crazed loners, domestic terrorists, packs of feral dogs, and flesh-seeking predators. Not to mention some deadly surprises from Mother Nature.

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Bella Books

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164247181X

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Sustaining Cape Town

Imagining a Liveable City

By: Amy Davison

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Sustaining Cape Town

Imagining a Liveable City

By: Amy Davison

Although cities constitute the key contributors to unsustainable development, especially due to their ecological and equity impacts, they are also viewed as the vehicle for the transition to a sustainable future for humanity both in terms of technologies as well as policies and lifestyle changes. This book introduces the theoretical principles which underpin the required transition to sustainable cities in general and Cape Town in particular. The subsequent fourteen chapters tackle more specific areas of interventions and the key constraints towards realisation of related transition interventions in the city of Cape Town.

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AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

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1920338306

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9781920338305

Chicken Soup for the Soul: O Canada The Wonders of Winter

101 Stories about Bad Weather, Good Times, and Great Sports

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark,Janet Matthews

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: O Canada The Wonders of Winter

101 Stories about Bad Weather, Good Times, and Great Sports

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark,Janet Matthews

Presents 101 stories about embracing and making the most of those long winter months.

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Simon and Schuster

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1611599318

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The Soul as Virgin Wife

Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart

By: Amy Hollywood

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The Soul as Virgin Wife

Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart

By: Amy Hollywood

The Soul as Virgin Wife presents the first book-length study to give a detailed account of the theological and mystical teachings written by women themselves, especially by those known as beguines, which have been especially neglected. Hollywood explicates the difference between the erotic and imagistic mysticism, arguing that Mechthild, Porete, and Eckhart challenge the sexual ideologies prevalent in their culture and claim a union without distinction between the soul and the divine. The beguines' emphasis in the later Middle Ages on spiritual poverty has long been recognized as an important influence on subsequent German and Flemish mystical writers, in particular the great German Dominican preacher and apophatic theologian Meister Eckhart. In The Soul as Virgin Wife, Amy Hollywood presents the first book-length study to give a detailed textual account of these debts. Through an analysis of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead, Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls, and the Latin commentaries and vernacular sermons of Eckhart, Hollywood uncovers the intricate web of influence and divergence between the beguinal spiritualities and Eckhart.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268081824

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Southbound

Interviews with Southern Poets

By: Ernest Suarez,T. W. Stanford,Amy Verner

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Southbound

Interviews with Southern Poets

By: Ernest Suarez,T. W. Stanford,Amy Verner

There's a real flowering, I think, of southern poetry right now, ... assembling at the edges of everything. "This observation by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright reflects upon the continuing vibrancy and importance of the southern poetic tradition. Although the death of James Dickey in 1997 left southern poetry without a recognizably dominant voice, an array of other vibrant voices continue to be heard and recognized. Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets provides a glimpse of the many poets who promise to keep southern poetry vital into the twenty-first century.

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University of Missouri Press

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082626168X

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas

By: Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas

By: Amy Newmark

Get into the holiday spirit with these magical stories of family and friends… giving and sharing… joy and blessings! You'll be inspired by these tales of kindness, gratitude and giving. You'll also pick up some creative ways to make your own holidays even more special, with new plans for family fun, gift ideas and recipes. These 101 real-life personal stories from the very best of Chicken Soup for the Soul's library are filled with the cheer of the season. They'll leave you smiling and eager to share the holidays, from Thanksgiving to Hanukkah to Christmas and New Year's. We didn't forget the kids either. The stories in this collection are “Santa safe,” meaning that they keep the magic alive even for precocious readers. Your purchase will support Toys for Tots as well, creating miracles and blessings for children all over the U.S. 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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Simon and Schuster

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1611593441

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The Priest's Madonna

By: Amy Hassinger

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The Priest's Madonna

By: Amy Hassinger

“A provocative page-turner, full of Da Vinci Code-esque intrigue.”—Marie Claire From the author of Nina: Adolescence, comes a factually based, lyrically enthralling novel about the forbidden love between a woman and a holy man—and the terrible secret that poses an even greater threat to their faith. In 1896, a priest in southern France suddenly gained immense wealth. This much is historically true—but no one knows where the money came from. At his death, the priest’s secret was buried with him. But there was a young woman—his housekeeper and lover, Marie Dénarnaud—who may have known the truth. Marie Dénarnaud was only a girl when the charismatic priest Bérenger first captivated her. As a woman, she became his housekeeper and struggled with guilt over their illicit relationship. But as their affection deepened, Bérenger grew secretive, and Marie had to learn why. What she discovers is a shocking secret that she becomes responsible for concealing. “Impressively researched and deftly written . . . a suspenseful story of love and religion.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of Prep “Vivid and affecting.”—Booklist

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Penguin

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1101156953

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There She Was

The Secret History of Miss America

By: Amy Argetsinger

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There She Was

The Secret History of Miss America

By: Amy Argetsinger

A Washington Post style editor’s fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sash. The tears. The glittering crown. And of course, that soaring song. For all its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its giddy origins as a summer’s-end tourist draw in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, it blossomed into a televised extravaganza that drew tens of millions of viewers in its heyday and was once considered the highest honor that a young woman could achieve. For two years, Washington Post reporter and editor Amy Argetsinger visited pageants and interviewed former winners and contestants to unveil the hidden world of this iconic institution. There She Was spotlights how the pageant survived decades of social and cultural change, collided with a women’s liberation movement that sought to abolish it, and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas about feminism. For its superstars—Phyllis George, Vanessa Williams, Gretchen Carlson—and for those who never became household names, Miss America was a platform for women to exercise their ambitions and learn brutal lessons about the culture of fame. Spirited and revelatory, There She Was charts the evolution of the American woman, from the Miss America catapulted into advocacy after she was exposed as a survivor of domestic violence to the one who used her crown to launch a congressional campaign; from a 1930s winner who ran away on the night of her crowning to a present-day rock guitarist carving out her place in this world. Argetsinger dissects the scandals and financial turmoil that have repeatedly threatened to kill the pageant—and highlights the unexpected sisterhood of Miss Americas fighting to keep it alive.

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1982123400

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The Amazing Baby Name Book

A (Possibly) Helpful and Slightly Amusing Guide from A-Z

By: Amy Ephron,Maia Wapnick,Anna Ephron Harari

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The Amazing Baby Name Book

A (Possibly) Helpful and Slightly Amusing Guide from A-Z

By: Amy Ephron,Maia Wapnick,Anna Ephron Harari

A must for any new parents or name lovers."—Baker Machado, morning anchor, Wake Up with Cheddar "Reading The Amazing Baby Name Book feels like discussing name choices with your best friends. A great read when you’re looking for a name for a baby (or a pet or a movie character), from the traditional to the unique and unexpected. But also great to read when you have nothing to name at all and are just looking for a smile "—Jill Santopolo, bestselling author of The Light We Lost From A to Z and Everything in Between What's in a name? Everything! In this fun, charming, and wonderfully curated collection of baby names, authors Amy Ephron and her daughters, Anna and Maia, share inspired and witty ideas that will spark your imagination, providing parents-to-be with moments of humor, historical context, factual tidbits, and highly opinionated takes on the most creative names from Abacus and Abbie to Zoe and Zuzu! Celebrating inspiration, inclusion, hope, and love—with a little bit of lighthearted attitude thrown in for good measure—this bundle of joy is the perfect gift for you or someone you love.

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Chronicle Books

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1648961886

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9781648961885

A Death at the Party

A Novel

By: Amy Stuart

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A Death at the Party

A Novel

By: Amy Stuart

Nadine Walsh's summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite--everything's going according to plan. But Nadine--devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter--finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests clink glasses upstairs. What happened? How did it come to this?"--

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1668009102

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9781668009109

Breaking Through the Access Barrier

How Academic Capital Formation Can Improve Policy in Higher Education

By: Edward P. St. John,Shouping Hu,Amy S. Fisher

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Breaking Through the Access Barrier

How Academic Capital Formation Can Improve Policy in Higher Education

By: Edward P. St. John,Shouping Hu,Amy S. Fisher

Breaking Through the Access Barrier argues that the policies designed to address inequalities in college access are failing to address underlying issues of inequality. This book introduces academic capital formation (ACF), a groundbreaking new theory defined by family knowledge of educational options and the opportunities for pursuing them. The authors suggest focusing on intervention programs and public policy to promote improvement in academic preparation, college information, and student aid. This textbook offers: a new construct–academic capital–that integrates and draws upon existing literature on influencing access to college practical advice for better preparation and intervention real student outcomes, databases, and interviews taken from exemplary intervention programs empirical research illuminating the role of class reproduction in education and how interventions (financial, academic, and networking) can reduce student barriers quantitative and qualitative analysis of the importance and effectiveness of several major policy interventions. Written for courses on higher education policy and policy analysis, readers will find Breaking Through the Access Barrier offers valuable advice for working within new policy frameworks and reshaping the future of educational opportunities and access for under-represented students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Routledge

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1136952381

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The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker

By: Amy Muse

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The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker

By: Amy Muse

In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States today and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur genius grant, Amy Muse analyzes Baker's plays and other work. These include The Flick, John, The Antipodes, the Shirley Vermont plays, and her adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Muse illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes and issues by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing them. Through close discussions of Baker's work, this book immerses readers in her use of everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time. Enriched by a foreword from Baker's former professor, playwright Mac Wellman, as well as essays by four scholars, Thomas Butler, Jeanmarie Higgins, Katherine Weiss, and Harrison Schmidt, this is a companionable guide for students of American literature and theatre studies, which deepens their knowledge and appreciation of Baker's dramatic invention. Muse argues that Baker is finely attuned to the language of the everyday: imperfect, halting, marked with unexpressed desires, banalities, and silence. Called antitheatrical, these plays draw us back to the essence of theatre: space, time, and story, sitting with others in real time, witnessing the dramatic in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. Baker's revolution for the stage has been to slow it down and bring us all into the mystery and pleasure of attention.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350319988

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Sensible Ecstasy

Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

By: Amy Hollywood

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Sensible Ecstasy

Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

By: Amy Hollywood

Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, Amy Hollywood asks why resolutely secular, even anti-Christian intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and widely denigrated forms of mysticism. What is particular to these thinkers, Hollywood reveals, is their attention to forms of mysticism associated with women. They regard mystics such as Angela of Foligno, Hadewijch, and Teresa of Avila not as emotionally excessive or escapist, but as unique in their ability to think outside of the restrictive oppositions that continue to afflict our understanding of subjectivity, the body, and sexual difference. Mystics such as these, like their twentieth-century descendants, bridge the gaps between action and contemplation, emotion and reason, and body and soul, offering new ways of thinking about language and the limits of representation.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226349462

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9780226349466

Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy Decision Making in Latin America

Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol

By: Amy Below

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Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy Decision Making in Latin America

Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol

By: Amy Below

Although the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to address global climate change, has been regarded by many as an unsuccessful treaty both politically and environmentally, it stands as one of the world’s few truly global agreements. Why did such a diverse group of countries decide to sign and/or ratify the treaty? Why did they choose to do so at different times and in different ways? What explains their foreign policy behavior? Amy Below’s book builds off the increasing significance of climate change and uses the Kyoto Protocol as a case study to analyze foreign policy decision making in Latin America. Below’s study takes a regional perspective in order to examine why countries in Latin America made disparate foreign policy choices when they were faced with the same decision. The book looks at the decisions in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela via a process-tracing method. Below uses information obtained from primary and secondary documents and elite interviews to help reconstruct the processes, and augments her reconstruction with a content analysis of Conference of the Parties speeches by presidents and country delegates. The book complies with convention in the field by arguing that systemic, national and individual-level factors simultaneously impact foreign policy decisions, but makes the additional claim that role theory most accurately accounts for relationships between variables. Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy Decision Making in Latin America considers a variety of factors on individual, national, and international levels of analysis, and show that the foreign policy decisions are best viewed through the prism of role theory. The book also draws conclusions about the value of role theory in general and about environmental foreign policy decisions in developing countries, which will be of value to both policy-makers and academics.

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Routledge

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1134475047

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Summer Heat

By: Eve Gaddy,Amy Andrews,Shelli Stevens,Katherine Garbera,Stella Holt,Michele Arris

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Summer Heat

By: Eve Gaddy,Amy Andrews,Shelli Stevens,Katherine Garbera,Stella Holt,Michele Arris

Fancy a Texas blacksmith who’s not afraid to fan the flames? What about some scorching chemistry between an amnesiac heroine and the hot firefighter who claims they were once inseparable? We have another firefighter story for you, this one featuring a grumpy wounded hero who can no longer hide his desire for the fabulous female firefighter on his team. What about when enemies-to-lovers stumble into forever kind of love? Or when a straightforward marriage-of-convenience gets complicated, fast? Reunion romances. First loves. The endless kind of love… Bring on the heat this summer with these six sizzling romances. We hope you like it hot! Texas Forged by Eve Gaddy When world famous metal artist Gabe Walker finally shoots his shot with the woman he’s loved for years, the last thing he expects is for Chantal Chandler to fall pregnant. But he’s not complaining. Now all he has to do is convince Chantal he’s hers for good, for real, and forever! Hot Mess by Amy Andrews Arabella Tucker doesn’t remember much about her old life, but surely firefighter Logan Knight would have been impossible to forget. Especially if she’d been in a relationship with him. Why would she have ever turned away from chemistry so scorching hot? Nursing The Flame by Shelli Stevens Firefighter Lieutenant Reggie Andrews knows the rules—workplace romance is out! Until he finds himself laid up and grumpy and relying on fellow firefighter Amber Chapman to bring a little sunshine…and a whole lot of passion…into his life. Her Texas Ex by Katherine Garbera Amelia Corbyn doesn’t do reunion romance. As a confused and heartbroken teenager, she left her family, her small town, and her first-love Cal Delaney far behind and she has no regrets. Right? Strictly Off Limits by Stella Holt Detective Conner Maguire isn’t nearly as bad as his ex-best friend’s little sister thinks he is, but if Hannah Paletti wants to play enemies-to-lovers, he’s willing. Even if the game lasts forever. Catch Me by Michelle Arris Businessman Dominic Balaska and pastry chef Tabitha Seils enter a marriage of convenience for all the wrong reasons. He wants his trust fund. She wants a baby. They don’t even like each other. How can these two enemies-to-lovers possibly find happiness in each other’s arms?

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Tule Publishing

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1964703107

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Masculinities, Violence, Childhood

Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men

By: Amy E. Leonard

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Masculinities, Violence, Childhood

Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men

By: Amy E. Leonard

This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women_and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections, 'Masculinities,' 'Violence,' 'Childhood,' and 'Pedagogies'. Taken together, they considers women's works, lives, and culture across geographical regions, primarily in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, the Caribbean , and the Islamic world and explore the shift in scholarly understanding of women's lives and works when they are placed alongside nuanced considerations of men's lives and works.

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University of Delaware

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1611490197

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Selected Poems

By: Amy Clampitt

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Selected Poems

By: Amy Clampitt

After one of the most extraordinary late starts in our literature . . . Amy Clampitt has become one of our poetry's necessary imaginations."---William Logan, Chicago Tribune --

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0375711937

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The Hands-On Life

How to Wake Yourself Up and Save The World

By: Amy E. Weldon

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The Hands-On Life

How to Wake Yourself Up and Save The World

By: Amy E. Weldon

Stressed out? Swimming in a sea of screens? Worried about our beloved, endangered earth yet uncertain how to work for change? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In this intelligent guide to mindfulness in the digital age, writer and teacher Amy Weldon describes how practicing life as an artist can help you wake yourself up and take back control of your attention, your money, your time, and the health of our society and our planet. Traveling from farm to protest march to classroom, and engaging a range of thinkers from Hannah Arendt to George Orwell, John Keats, and Henry David Thoreau, The Hands-On Life is a book for students and for everyone who dreams of building a better world.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532606664

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Depositions

Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum

By: Amy Knight Powell

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Depositions

Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum

By: Amy Knight Powell

From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt’s “Buried Cube,” Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in contexts far from those in which they were made, the images studied in this book reveal themselves to be untimely — no truer to their first appearance than to their later reappearances. In Depositions, Amy Knight Powell makes the case that late medieval paintings and ritual reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross not only picture the deposition of Christ (the imago Dei) but also allegorize the deposition of the image as such and, in so doing, prefigure the lowering of “dead images” during the Protestant Reformation. Late medieval pre-figurations of Reformation iconoclasm anticipate, in turn, the repeated “deaths” of art since the advent of photography: that is the premise of the vignettes devoted to twentieth-century works of art that conclude each chapter of this book. In these vignettes, images that once stood in late medieval churches now find themselves among works of art from the more recent past with which they share certain formal characteristics. These surreal encounters compel us to reckon with affinities between images from different times and places. Turning on its head the pejorative (art-historical) use of the term pseudomorphosis — formal resemblance where there is no similarity of artistic intent — Powell explores what happens to our understanding of historically and conceptually distant works of art when they look alike.

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MIT Press

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1935408208

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Cambridge IGCSETM German Student Book Second Edition

By: Mariela Affum,Amy Bates,Alice Gruber,Helen Kent,Janet Searle,Zoe Thorne

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Cambridge IGCSETM German Student Book Second Edition

By: Mariela Affum,Amy Bates,Alice Gruber,Helen Kent,Janet Searle,Zoe Thorne

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2021. Strengthen language skills and cultural awareness with a differentiated approach that offers comprehensive coverage of the revised Cambridge IGCSETM German (0525/7159) syllabuses for first examination from 2021. - Develop the cultural awareness at the heart of the syllabus with engaging stimulus material and questions from around the world which will encourage a positive attitude towards other cultures - Progress the ability to use the language effectively with activities developing all four key skills, supported by teacher notes and answers in the teacher guide - Stretch and challenge students to achieve their best, whilst supporting all abilities with differentiated content throughout - Ensure the progression required for further study at A-level or equivalent - Help to prepare for the examination with exam-style questions throughout Audio is available via the Boost eBook, Boost subscription or the Teacher Guide. Also available in the series Reading and Listening Skills Workbook ISBN: 9781398329423 Grammar Workbook ISBN: 9781510448056 Vocabulary Workbook ISBN: 9781510448063 Study and Revision Guide ISBN: 9781510448186 Boost eBook: 9781398329591 Boost digital teacher resources ISBN: 9781398329546 Teacher Guide with audio ISBN: 9781510448544

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Hodder Education

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1510447857

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9781510447851

Farewell, Fred Voodoo

A Letter from Haiti

By: Amy Wilentz

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Farewell, Fred Voodoo

A Letter from Haiti

By: Amy Wilentz

Describes the author's long and painful relationship with Haiti before and after the 2010 earthquake, tracing the country's turbulent history and its status as a symbol of human rights activism and social transformation.

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1451644078

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Innovative Data Integration and Conceptual Space Modeling for COVID, Cancer, and Cardiac Care

By: Amy Neustein,Nathaniel Christen

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Innovative Data Integration and Conceptual Space Modeling for COVID, Cancer, and Cardiac Care

By: Amy Neustein,Nathaniel Christen

In recent years, scientific research and translation medicine have placed increased emphasis on computational methodology and data curation across many disciplines, both to advance underlying science and to instantiate precision-medicine protocols in the lab and in clinical practice. The nexus of concerns related to oncology, cardiology, and virology (SARS-CoV-2) presents a fortuitous context within which to examine the theory and practice of biomedical data curation. Innovative Data Integration and Conceptual Space Modeling for COVID, Cancer, and Cardiac Care argues that a well-rounded approach to data modeling should optimally embrace multiple perspectives inasmuch as data-modeling is neither a purely formal nor a purely conceptual discipline, but rather a hybrid of both. On the one hand, data models are designed for use by computer software components, and are, consequently, constrained by the mechanistic demands of software environments; data modeling strategies must accept the formal rigors imposed by unambiguous data-sharing and query-evaluation logic. In particular, data models are not well-suited for software-level deployment if such models do not translate seamlessly to clear strategies for querying data and ensuring data integrity as information is moved across multiple points. On the other hand, data modeling is, likewise, constrained by human conceptual tendencies, because the information which is managed by databases and data networks is ultimately intended to be visualized/utilized by humans as the end-user. Thus, at the intersection of both formal and humanistic methodology, data modeling takes on elements of both logico-mathematical frameworks (e.g., type systems and graph theory) and conceptual/philosophical paradigms (e.g., linguistics and cognitive science). The authors embrace this two-sided aspect of data models by seeking non-reductionistic points of convergence between formal and humanistic/conceptual viewpoints, and by leveraging biomedical contexts (viz., COVID, Cancer, and Cardiac Care) so as to provide motivating examples and case-studies in this volume. - Provides an analysis of how conceptual spaces and related cognitive linguistic approaches can inspire programming and query-processing models - Outlines the vital role that data modeling/curation has played in significant medical breakthroughs - Presents readers with an overview of how information-management approaches intersect with precision medicine, providing case studies of data-modeling in concrete scientific practice - Explores applications of image analysis and computer vision in the context of precision medicine - Examines the role of technology in scientific publishing, replication studies, and dataset curation

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A Case for Necessitarianism

By: Amy Karofsky

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A Case for Necessitarianism

By: Amy Karofsky

This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author’s original account of necessitarianism encourages a re-examination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of philosophy.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Gratitude

101 Stories about How Being Thankful Can Change Your Life

By: Amy Newmark,Deborah Norville

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Gratitude

101 Stories about How Being Thankful Can Change Your Life

By: Amy Newmark,Deborah Norville

Collects over one hundred inspiring stories in which average people change their lives by actively practicing gratitude.

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A Still Quiet Place for Athletes

Mindfulness Skills for Achieving Peak Performance and Finding Flow in Sports and Life

By: Amy Saltzman

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A Still Quiet Place for Athletes

Mindfulness Skills for Achieving Peak Performance and Finding Flow in Sports and Life

By: Amy Saltzman

Find flow and reach peak performance—in sports and in life. Based on the groundbreaking Still Quiet Place mindfulness program, this workbook provides practical, step-by-step exercises and skills to help you gain present-moment awareness and achieve your athletic goals. Are you looking for unique ways to "get into the game"? To enhance your training and find focus? You aren’t alone. Increasingly, athletes and coaches—from amateur leagues to professional football champs to Olympic athletes—are incorporating mindfulness practices into their training. That’s because mindfulness can help you lower your stress levels, connect with the moment, and mentally bounce back after setbacks. So whether you're a sports enthusiast or a professional athlete, mindfulness can also help you deal with physical aspects of training, such as fatigue, aches, pains, injury, burnout, and exhaustion. Written by holistic physician, mindfulness coach, and long-time athlete Amy Saltzman, this practical workbook offers mindfulness-based skills you can use any time throughout your athletic career, as well as in daily life. You’ll discover what the author fondly refers to as the “still quiet place,” and from the vantage point of that stillness, you’ll be able to observe your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations—before and during practice and competition, between events, after a miss or significant loss, or exhilarating win. You’ll also find skills for dealing effectively with teammates and coaches, as well as skills for coaching mindfully. A parents guide is also included. No matter what sport you play, 90 percent of performance is mental. With this workbook as your guide, you can use mindfulness to enhance your training, competitive performance, and your life beyond athletics.

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Spectacular Blackness

The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic

By: Amy Abugo Ongiri

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Spectacular Blackness

The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic

By: Amy Abugo Ongiri

Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.

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The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt

By: Amy Clampitt

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The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt

By: Amy Clampitt

Now, for the first time, Clammpitt's five poetry collections are brought together in a single volume, allowing us to experience anew the distinctiveness of her voice: the brilliant language--an appealing mix of formal and everyday expression--that poured out with such passion and was shaped in rhythms and patterns entirely her own. • With a foreword by Mary Jo Salter The Collected Poems offers us a chance to consider freshly the breadth of Amy Clampitt's vision and poetic achievement. It is a volume that her many admirers will treasure and that will provide a magnificent introduction for a new generation of readers. When Amy Clampitt's first book of poems, The Kingfisher, was published in January 1983, the response was jubilant. The poet was sixty-three years old, and there had been no debut like hers in recent memory. "A dance of language," said May Swenson. "A genius for places," wrote J. D. McClatchy, and the New York Times Book Review said, "With the publication of her brilliant first book, Clampitt immediately merits consideration as one of the most distinguished contemporary poets." She went on to publish four more collections in the next eleven years, the last one, A Silence Opens, appearing in the year she died. Amy Clampitt's themes are the very American ones of place and displacement. She, like her pioneer ancestors, moved frequently, but she wrote with lasting and deep feeling about all sorts of landscapes--the prairies of her Iowa childhood, the fog-wrapped coast of Maine, and places she visited in Europe, from the western isles of Scotland to Italy's lush countryside. She lived most of her adult life in New York City, and many of her best-known poems, such as "Times Square Water Music" and "Manhattan Elegy," are set there. She did not hesitate to take on the larger upheavals of the twentieth century--war, Holocaust, exile--and poems like "The Burning Child" and "Sed de Correr" remind us of the dark nightmare lurking in the interstices of our daily existence. It is impossible to speak of Amy Clampitt's poetry without mentioning her immense, lifelong love of birds and wildflowers, a love that produced some of her most profound images--like the kingfisher's "burnished plunge, the color / of felicity afire," which came "glancing like an arrow / through landscapes of untended memory" to remind her of the uninhabitable sorrow of an affair gone wrong; or the sun underfoot among the sundews, "so dazzling / . . . that, looking, / you start to fall upward.

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The Australian Romance Collection

By: Sarah Mayberry,Kelly Hunter,Amy Andrews,Carol Marinelli

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The Australian Romance Collection

By: Sarah Mayberry,Kelly Hunter,Amy Andrews,Carol Marinelli

Get four rural romance stories from USA TODAY and NEW YORK TMES bestselling Australian authors! From Brides to Bad Boys, Sarah Mayberry, Kelly Hunter, Amy Andrews, and Carol Marinelli will keep your reading list hot all summer. The Honeymoon Trap was named a Best Book of 2014 by Publisher's Weekly. Get your set now before time runs out! Books included: Almost a Bride by Sarah Mayberry The Honeymoon Trap by Kelly Hunter Some Girls Do by Amy Andrews The Bride Who Wouldn't by Carol Marinelli

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The Underdog Edge

How Ordinary People Change the Minds of the Powerful . . . and Live to Tell About It

By: Amy Showalter

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The Underdog Edge

How Ordinary People Change the Minds of the Powerful . . . and Live to Tell About It

By: Amy Showalter

A prominent consultant reveals secrets to help you influence and persuade others—even when you aren’t in a position of power. We all have occasions in which we want or need to persuade someone of greater clout, prestige, or authority to see things our way. There are books that show how to effect change from a leadership position or how to work with peers within your own organization—but what can you do when you need to exert “upward influence” with decision makers who can help you achieve your goals? In this book, a popular speaker and successful consultant with expertise in grassroots efforts shows which tactics are most successful when you’re the underdog. She also shares real-world stories of everyday people who have achieved persuasion success in politics and business with someone up the food chain, the peer-reviewed science behind their success—as well as insights from those whose minds they changed.

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Roads to Decolonisation

An Introduction to Thought from the Global South

By: Amy Duvenage

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Roads to Decolonisation

An Introduction to Thought from the Global South

By: Amy Duvenage

Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible new textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice, arming them with the tools to theorise and explain the social world away from dominant Global North perspectives. Arranged in four parts, it examines key thinkers, activists and theory-work from the Global South; theoretical concepts and socio-historical conditions associated with 'race' and racism, gender and sexuality, identity and (un)belonging in a globalised world and decolonisation and education; challenges to dominant Euro-American perspectives on key social justice issues, linking decolonial discourses to contemporary case studies. Each chapter offers an overview of key thinkers and activists whose work engages with social justice issues, many of whom are under-represented or left out of undergraduate humanities and social sciences textbooks in the North. This is essential reading for students of the humanities and social sciences worldwide, as well as scholars keen to embed Southern thought in their curricula and pedagogical practice.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Wonderful, Wacky Family

101 Loving Stories about Our Crazy, Quirky Family

By: Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Wonderful, Wacky Family

101 Loving Stories about Our Crazy, Quirky Family

By: Amy Newmark

Is your family a little wacky? Do you have weird family traditions? Do you have a few quirky family members who you can't help but love? You’re not alone! This collection of 101 heartwarming, hilarious stories celebrates the fun of having those eccentric, unusual, loving famly members. Everyone thinks their family is wacky—and they wouldn’t have it any other way. We’ve assembled 101 laugh-out-loud stories about bizarre traditions, eccentric relatives, peculiar holiday behavior, hysterically funny incidents, and more. You can’t make this stuff up! Share the fun with your spouse, in-laws, parents, grandparents, chil- dren, siblings, aunts and uncles, cousins, and friends. You’ll enjoy these true, personal stories, divided into 12 chapters of good clean (and not so clean!) fun: · Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh · Relatively Embarrassing · Happily Ever Laughter · We’re All Nuts Here · Dad Did What? · Not So Grave · Family Fun · Grand & Great · Mom Did What? · In-Laws and Out-Laws · Family Bonding · Kids Will Be Kids 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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Harlequin Heartwarming April 2021 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Cathy McDavid,Syndi Powell,Cari Lynn Webb,Amy Vastine

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Harlequin Heartwarming April 2021 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Cathy McDavid,Syndi Powell,Cari Lynn Webb,Amy Vastine

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: HOW TO MARRY A COWBOY (A Wishing Well Springs Novel) by New York Times bestselling author Cathy McDavid When Kenna Hewitt comes home for her mother’s wedding, her longtime friend Channing Pearce is determined to finally tell her how he feels. Can he win this bridesmaid’s heart, or will she run away like always? THE BAD BOY’S REDEMPTION (A Matchmaker at Work Novel) by Syndi Powell Josh Riley is running for mayor…against the woman he loves! He wants to win the election and make up for his checkered past, but winning Shelby Cuthbert’s heart would be even better. THREE MAKES A FAMILY (A City by the Bay Novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Cari Lynn Webb For lawyer Molly McKinney, love is only a distraction. So when she needs help from former rival Drew Harrington with her custody battle, she’s all business. Unfortunately, staying professional is tough when you’re falling in love! A MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE (A Stop the Wedding! Novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Amy Vastine Evan Anderson agreed to marry his best friend strictly as a favor, but he didn’t expect to fall in love with their wedding planner, Sophia Reed. Is the attraction strong enough to break a promise to a friend? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

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