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The Painting Master's Shame

Liang Shicheng and the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings

By: Amy McNair

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The Painting Master's Shame

Liang Shicheng and the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings

By: Amy McNair

Overturning the long-held assumption that the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was the work of the Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1126), Amy McNair argues that it was compiled instead under the direction of Liang Shicheng. Liang, a high-ranking eunuch official who sought to raise his social status from that of despised menial to educated elite, had privileged access to the emperor and palace. McNair’s study, based on her translation and extensive analysis of the text of the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings, offers a definitive argument for the authorship of this major landmark in Chinese painting criticism and clarifies why and how it was compiled. The Painting Master’s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the catalogue was written. The political struggles over the New Policies, the promotion of the “scholar amateur” ideal in painting criticism and practice, and the rise of eunuch court officials as a powerful class converged to allow those officials the unprecedented opportunity to enhance their prestige through scholarly activities and politics. McNair analyzes the catalogue’s central polemical narrative—the humiliation of the high-ranking minister mistakenly called by the lowly title “Painting Master”—as the key to understanding Liang Shicheng’s methods and motives.

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1684176808

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Geographies of Food and Power

By: Amy Trauger

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Geographies of Food and Power

By: Amy Trauger

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level. It takes an intersectional approach to difference and power and approaches standard subjects in the geography of food with a fresh perspective focusing on inequality, uneven production and legacies of colonialism. The book also focuses on places and regions often overlooked in conventional narratives, such as the Americas in the domestication of plants. The topics covered in the textbook include: descriptions and analyses of food systems histories of agricultural development with a focus on the roles of different regions major commodities such as meat, grains and produce with a focus on the place of production contemporary challenges in the food system, including labor, disasters/conflict and climate change recent and emerging trends in food and agriculture such as lab-grown meat and vertical urban farms Geographies of Food and Power takes a synthetic approach by discussing food as something produced within an interconnected system, in which labor, food quality and the environment are considered together. It will be a valuable resource for students of human geography, environmental geography, economic geography, food studies and development.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000619923

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9781000619928

Birth in Buddhism

The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom

By: Amy Paris Langenberg

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Birth in Buddhism

The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom

By: Amy Paris Langenberg

Recent decades have seen a groundswell in the Buddhist world, a transnational agitation for better opportunities for Buddhist women. Many of the main players in the transnational nuns movement self-identify as feminists but other participants in this movement may not know or use the language of feminism. In fact, many ordained Buddhist women say they seek higher ordination so that they might be better Buddhist practitioners, not for the sake of gender equality. Eschewing the backward projection of secular liberal feminist categories, this book describes the basic features of the Buddhist discourse of the female body, held more or less in common across sectarian lines, and still pertinent to ordained Buddhist women today. The textual focus of the study is an early-first-millennium Sanskrit Buddhist work, "Descent into the Womb scripture" or Garbhāvakrānti-sūtra. Drawing out the implications of this text, the author offers innovative arguments about the significance of childbirth and fertility in Buddhism, namely that birth is a master metaphor in Indian Buddhism; that Buddhist gender constructions are centrally shaped by Buddhist birth discourse; and that, by undermining the religious importance of female fertility, the Buddhist construction of an inauspicious, chronically impure, and disgusting femininity constituted a portal to a new, liberated, feminine life for Buddhist monastic women. Thus, this study of the Buddhist discourse of birth is also a genealogy of gender in middle period Indian Buddhism. Offering a new critical perspective on the issues of gender, bodies and suffering, this book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers in the field of Buddhism, South Asian history and religion, gender and religion, theory and method in the study of religion, and Buddhist medicine.

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1315512521

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Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 1

By: Rachel Cope,Amy Harris,Jane Hinckley

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Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 1

By: Rachel Cope,Amy Harris,Jane Hinckley

This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 1: Many Families The eighteenth-century family group was a varied one. Documents attest to religious and racial diversity, as well as the hardships endured by the poor and working classes, such as widows, orphans and those born outside wedlock. Fictive families are also examined alongside more traditional family units bound by blood or law.

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Routledge

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1000558819

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Abuelo vivía solo / Grandpa Used To Live Alone

By: Amy Costales

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Abuelo vivía solo / Grandpa Used To Live Alone

By: Amy Costales

A young woman recalls her grandfather's abiding presence in her life as he cares for her throughout her infancy and childhood while her mother is at school or work, until she is the one fixing his snacks and seeing him safely to bed.

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1558856269

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The Upright Brush

Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics

By: Amy McNair

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The Upright Brush

Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics

By: Amy McNair

In the history of Chinese calligraphy, few are more famous than the eighth-century statesman Yan Zhenqing (709-785). His style is still taught today as a standard, and Chinese bookstores the world over stock inexpensive reproductions of his works for sale as copybooks. Yet Yan's style cannot be called conventionally attractive. "Correct," "severe," "serious," "forceful" are terms habitually applied to describe his writing--rarely has his calligraphy been called graceful or beautiful. How, then, did Yan earn such an eminent place in the history of art? In The Upright Brush, Amy McNair argues for the political rather than purely aesthetic basis for Yan Zhenqing's artistic reputation. She shows how his prominent position was made for him in the eleventh century by a handful of influential men who sought to advance their own position by associating themselves with Yan's reputation for uprightness. Equating style with personality, they adopted Yan's calligraphic style as a way to clothe themselves in his persona. Sophisticated, informed, and intelligent, The Upright Brush illuminates an episode (one of many) in the history of Chinese culture where the creative reinterpretation of the past was used for contemporary political means. It will be eagerly welcomed by all scholars of Chinese culture and history, as well as by those interested in the making and reading of art.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824820029

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9780824820022

Dostoevsky as Suicidologist

Self-Destruction and the Creative Process

By: Amy D. Ronner

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Dostoevsky as Suicidologist

Self-Destruction and the Creative Process

By: Amy D. Ronner

In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in Dostoevsky scholarship, but provides fresh readings of Dostoevsky’s major works, including Notes from The House of the Dead, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. Ronner provides an exegesis of how Dostoevsky’s implicit awareness of fatalistic, altruistic, egoistic, and anomic modes of self-destruction helped shape not only his philosophy, but also his craft as a writer. In this study, Ronner contributes to the field of suicidology by anatomizing both self-destructive behavior and suicidal ideation while offering ways to think about prevention. But most expansively, Ronner tackles the formidable task of forging a ligature between artistic creation and the pluripresent social fact of self-annihilation.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793607826

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Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings

By: Amy McNair

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Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings

By: Amy McNair

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is divided into ten categories of subject matter. Under Daoist and Buddhist Subjects, Figural Subjects, Architecture, Barbarian Tribes, Dragons and Fish, Landscape, Domestic and Wild Animals, Flowers and Birds, Ink Bamboo, and Vegetables and Fruit are biographies of 231 painters, ranging from famous early masters, such as Wu Daozi (ca. 685-758) and Li Cheng (919-967), to otherwise unknown artists of the Song-dynasty court, including fourteen eunuch officials and sixteen male and female members of the royal family. Titles of their pictures held in the palace collection are listed for each artist. These 6,396 paintings testify to the visual culture experienced by viewers of the twelfth century. The author's Introduction analyzes the Catalogue as a source of evidence about the formation of the Song-dynasty palace collection and argues that the majority of its pictures were already in the collection before Huizong's reign, as a result of conquest, confiscation, tribute, gift culture, collecting by earlier emperors, and the production of academy artists and regular officials at the Song court. Under Huizong's reign, around a thousand other pictures were added to the Catalogue through acquisition and reattribution. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Cornell University Press

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1501766732

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Stella-Barone-McGillivray

By: Amy Zinn

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Stella-Barone-McGillivray

By: Amy Zinn

Sixteen-year-old Stella dreams in such detail that she can't be sure which side of wakefulness is reality. Some days she is Stella Barone, private school rich girl, and others she is Stella McGillivray, poor waif from the east valley. She lives in the same city, only a matter of miles, and a full week, apart. Diagnosed with nightmare disorder, Stella's condition becomes especially significant when her friends start disappearing on both sides of wakefulness. Someone is taking them and she has the peculiar means of finding out who, if only she can avoid being taken herself.

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DogMom Publishing

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Shu Chien

Tributes on His 70th Birthday

By: Lanping Amy Sung,Kuang-Chung Hu Chien

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Shu Chien

Tributes on His 70th Birthday

By: Lanping Amy Sung,Kuang-Chung Hu Chien

This book consists of tributes written by friends, colleagues, teachers, students and family members of Professor Shu Chien on the occasion of his 70th birthday, which was celebrated in San Diego, California on 23 June 2001, and in Taipei, Taiwan on 12 August 2001. Following those events, a collection of articles was submitted. Together with the precious, memorable photographs, these articles provide a valuable summary of the life and deeds of this internationally acclaimed scientist who has made major impacts in the United States, mainland China and Taiwan -- indeed, the whole world. In response to these excellent, moving articles, Professor Shu Chien has written a piece that encompasses his entire life, from early childhood to the present. This book constitutes a most valuable biography, full of sentiment and inspiration. Researchers, academics, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates in bioengineering, physiology, biophysics, molecular and cellular biology, and related fields.

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World Scientific

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9812383832

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After Exile

Writing the Latin American Diaspora

By: Amy K. Kaminsky

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After Exile

Writing the Latin American Diaspora

By: Amy K. Kaminsky

Can an exiled writer ever really go home again? What of the writers of Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile, whose status as exiles in the 1970s and 1980s largely defined their identities and subject matter? After Exile takes a critical look at these writers, at the effect of exile on their work, and at the complexities of homecoming -- a fraught possibility when democracy was restored to each of these countries. Both famous and lesser known writers people this story of dislocation and relocation, among them Jose Donoso, Ana Vasquez, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Mario Benedetti. In their work -- and their predicament -- Amy K. Kaminsky considers the representation of both physical uprootedness and national identity -- or, more precisely, an individual's identity as a national subject. Here, national identity is not the double abstraction of "identity" and "nation, " but a person's sense of being and belonging that derives from memories and experiences of a particular place. Because language is crucial to this connection, Kaminsky explores the linguistic isolation, miscommunication, and multilingualism that mark late-exile and post-exile writing. She also examines how gender difference affects the themes and rhetoric of exile -- how, for example, traditional projections of femininity, such as the idea of a "mother country, " are used to allegorize exile. Describing exile as a process -- sometimes of acculturation, sometimes of alienation -- this work fosters a new understanding of how writers live and work in relation to space and place, particularly the place called home.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816631476

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The Psychology of Chinese Gambling

A Cultural and Historical Perspective

By: Chi Chuen Chan,William Wai Lim Li,Amy Sau Lam Chiu

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The Psychology of Chinese Gambling

A Cultural and Historical Perspective

By: Chi Chuen Chan,William Wai Lim Li,Amy Sau Lam Chiu

This book critically discusses the psychology of Chinese gambling from a cultural perspective. In particular, it investigates the history of gambling, the prevalence of gambling in China, and the personality of Chinese gamblers and explores how the Chinese culture has contributed to the development of gambling and gambling problems. Further, it examines specific evidence-based treatment for Chinese problem gamblers and provides a therapeutic model that is tailored to their needs and psychology. This book useful for students and academics conducting research on Chinese gamblers and the treatments that work for them.

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Springer

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9811334862

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9789811334863

Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition

By: Simon Beecroft,Pablo Hidalgo,Elizabeth Dowsett,Amy Richau,Dan Zehr

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Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition

By: Simon Beecroft,Pablo Hidalgo,Elizabeth Dowsett,Amy Richau,Dan Zehr

The definitive guide to more than 275 heroes, villains, aliens, and droids of the Star Wars galaxy. The latest edition of this beloved title has been comprehensively updated to include new characters from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and both seasons of Star Wars: The Mandalorian. Want to learn more about the Knights of Ren? Curious as to where Padmé Amidala is from? Wonder how tall Grogu is? To learn the answers to these questions and more, look no further than Star Wars: Character Encyclopedia Updated and Expanded Edition. Written by Star Wars experts, the book is full of fun facts and intriguing information that’s guaranteed to enthrall fans of all ages. With plenty of lesser-known details, even die-hard fans will learn new facts about iconic characters. © & ™ 2021 Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Penguin

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0744058635

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9780744058635

Thin Films: Heteroepitaxial Systems

By: Amy W K Liu,Michael B Santos

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Thin Films: Heteroepitaxial Systems

By: Amy W K Liu,Michael B Santos

Heteroepitaxial films are commonplace among today's electronic and photonic devices. The realization of new and better devices relies on the refinement of epitaxial techniques and improved understanding of the physics underlying epitaxial growth. This book provides an up-to-date report on a wide range of materials systems. The first half reviews metallic and dielectric thin films, including chapters on metals, rare earths, metal-oxide layers, fluorides, and high-Tc superconductors. The second half covers semiconductor systems, reviewing developments in group-IV, arsenide, phosphide, antimonide, nitride, II-VI and IV-VI heteroepitaxy. Topics important to several systems are covered in chapters on atomic processes, ordering and growth dynamics.

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World Scientific

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9814496405

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9789814496407

More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

By: Amy Jacques Garvey

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More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

By: Amy Jacques Garvey

First published in 2004. Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He was one of the first black leaders to encourage black people to discover their cultural traditions and history, and to seek common cause in the struggle for true liberty and political recognition. This book discusses his philosophy and opinions.This series comprises reprints as well as original works covering various aspects of African life- history, institutions, culture, political and social thought, and eminent African personalities. The reprints for the most part are landmarks in African writing and each contains a new introduction placing the author's life, ideas and activities in perspective. The documents are selected and edited by scholars working in the particular field. It is hoped that these documents will not only provide scholars with source materials but also stimulate further research on the topics with which they deal.

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Routledge

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1136252258

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9781136252259

Hamparan Kasih

By: Amy Batrisya

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Hamparan Kasih

By: Amy Batrisya

Dia terlalu menaruh harapan terhadapku walaupun telah kukatakan aku takut menerima cintanya. hakimi ... memang aku menerima kehadiranmu dalam hisdupku ini, namun aku takut kehilangan Bani. Dia memerlukan kasih sayangku. Dia adalah hak aku.

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Alaf 21

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983124253X

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9789831242537

Fat Shame

Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture

By: Amy Erdman Farrell

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Fat Shame

Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture

By: Amy Erdman Farrell

A look at how fatness became a cultural stigma in the United States.

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NYU Press

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0814727689

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Between Two Worlds: The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

By: Amy Fuller

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Between Two Worlds: The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

By: Amy Fuller

The seventeenth-century Mexican poet, playwright and nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, is best known for her secular works, most notably her damning indictment of male double standards, Hombres necios (Stupid Men). However, her autos sacramentales (allegorical one-act plays on the Eucharist) have received little attention, and have only been discussed individually and out of sequence. By examining them as a collection, in their original order, their meaning and importance are revealed. The autos combine Christian and classical ‘pagan’ imagery from the ‘Old World’ with the conquest and conversion of the ‘New World’. As the plays progress, the mystery of Christ’s ‘greatest gift’ to mankind is deciphered and is mirrored in Spain’s gift of the True Faith to the indigenous Mexicans. Sor Juana’s own image is also situated within this baroque landscape: presented as a triumph of Spanish imperialism, an exotic muse between two worlds.

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MHRA

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1781881596

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9781781881590

Snug as a Bug / Arropadito y a gusto

By: Amy E. Imbody

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Snug as a Bug / Arropadito y a gusto

By: Amy E. Imbody

Level-one readers will enjoy reading this delightful rhyming bedtime story. They’ll learn that God has given animals places they can sleep. And while God loves animals, he has a special love for children. Humorous and colorful illustrations make this a fun book to read over and over again. Los lectores de nivel 1 disfrutarán al leer este encantador cuento antes de irse a la cama. Aprenderán que Dios les ha dado a los animales lugares donde pueden dormir. Y en tanto que Dios ama a los animales, siente un amor especial por los niños. Las ilustraciones cómicas y a todo color hacen que sea una diversión leer este libro una y otra vez.

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Zonderkidz

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0310868262

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Argentina

Stories for a Nation

By: Amy K. Kaminsky

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Argentina

Stories for a Nation

By: Amy K. Kaminsky

By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina's complex identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Perón and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and Maradona, economic chaos and a memory of vast wealth-has become entrenched in the consciousness of the Western world. In this wide-ranging and at times poetic new work, Amy K. Kaminsky explores Argentina's unique national identity and the place it holds in the minds of those who live beyond its physical borders. To analyze the country's meaning in the global imagination, Kaminsky probes Argentina's presence in a broad range of literary texts from the United States, Poland, England, Western Europe, and Argentina itself, as well as internationally produced films, advertisements, and newspaper features. Kaminsky's examination reveals how Europe consumes an image of Argentina that acts as a pivot between the exotic and the familiar. Going beyond the idea of suffocating Eurocentrism as a theory of national identity, Kaminsky presents an original and vivid reading of national myths and realities that encapsulates the interplay among the many meanings of "Argentina" and its place in the world's imagination. Amy Kaminsky is professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies and global studies at the University of Minnesota and author of After Exile (Minnesota, 1999).

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0816649480

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9780816649488

Marketing Recorded Music

How Music Companies Brand and Market Artists

By: Tammy Donham,Amy Sue Macy,Clyde Philip Rolston

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Marketing Recorded Music

How Music Companies Brand and Market Artists

By: Tammy Donham,Amy Sue Macy,Clyde Philip Rolston

This fourth edition of Marketing Recorded Music is the essential resource to help you understand how recorded music is professionally marketed. Updated to reflect the digital era, with new chapters on emerging media, streaming, and branding, this fourth edition also includes strategies for independent and unsigned artists. Fully revised to reflect international marketing issues, Marketing Recorded Music is accompanied by a companion website with additional online resources, including PowerPoints, quizzes, and lesson plans, making it the go-to manual for students, as well as aspiring and experienced professionals.

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CRC Press

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100058514X

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The Taste of Nostalgia

Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru

By: Amy Cox Hall

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The Taste of Nostalgia

Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru

By: Amy Cox Hall

In recent years, Peruvian food has become of interest to tourists drawn to the inventive ways in which the incredibly ecologically diverse country has been a locus for chefs to experiment with the many foodstuffs and to draw on Indigenous knowledge and cultural histories. However, the simpler, everyday cooking of Peru is rarely the focus of media about Peru. In this manuscript Amy Cox Hall illustrates this history for readers who want to expand their understanding of the complex culinary histories of Peru"--

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University of Texas Press

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1477330283

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Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction

Creating Questions

By: Amy Frazier-Yoder

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Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction

Creating Questions

By: Amy Frazier-Yoder

Characters are made, scripted, and invented, but Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction explores what occurs when literary creations become creators themselves. Representing Latin American fiction’s increasingly skeptical gaze in the early- to mid- twentieth century, these literary creators breach the metafictional frame in order to problematize themes including life and death, gender and sexuality, and technology. Drawing upon a diverse range of literary works by canonical and non-canonical authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Horacio Quiroga, Carlos Onetti, Julio Cortázar, María Luisa Bombal, Carlos Fuentes, Roberto Arlt, Juan José Arreola, Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, Clemente Palma, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Pedro Angelici, this study excavates critical ontological and epistemological inquiries and delves into questions of identity, power, scientific knowledge, and the transformative nature of fiction.

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1666925535

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The Joy Luck Club

A Novel

By: Amy Tan

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The Joy Luck Club

A Novel

By: Amy Tan

“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

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1101502738

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Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing - E-Book

Just the Facts

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne G. Perry,Patricia A. Stockert,Amy Hall,Veronica Peterson

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Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing - E-Book

Just the Facts

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne G. Perry,Patricia A. Stockert,Amy Hall,Veronica Peterson

NEW! The latest information on infection control, pressure ulcers, dietary guidelines, and more. NEW! Uses the latest NANDA-1 (2015-17), NIC, and NOC terminologies. UPDATED images serve as visual reinforcement throughout. NEW! Additional information for six QSEN competencies. UPDATED chapter bibliographies reference related sources for further in-depth study.

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0323396488

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No Boy Summer

By: Amy Spalding

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No Boy Summer

By: Amy Spalding

Lydia and her younger sister Penny make a pact to avoid boy drama for the summer—but Lydia can’t help looking for a loophole when she falls for a cute girl Lydia Jones and her younger sister Penny have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both of them, threatening Lydia’s standing with her school’s theater tech club and Penny’s perfect GPA. Penny has, naturally, diagnosed the problem and prescribed a drastic solution: a summer off from boys. Lydia and Penny decide to stay with their Aunt Grace and her boyfriend Oscar in Los Angeles while their parents are off on a European cruise. Penny follows her future-business-school dreams with an internship at Oscar’s office, and Lydia gets a part-time job at Grace’s neighborhood coffeeshop, Grounds Control. Even when they spent hours, days, weeks dissecting their various boy drama, Lydia’s never felt this connected to her sister before, and it makes her wonder what else in her life could be different. She finds herself drawn to a group of friends she meets through her Grounds Control coworker, Margaret, as well as an intriguing customer, Fran, an aspiring filmmaker and—while not the first girl Lydia finds herself attracted to—the first girl who has mutual feelings for her. But she’s not breaking her pledge to Penny, right? That was just about boys. Even though in her heart Lydia knows she’s bending the rules, she hasn’t had a connection with anyone as strong as her connection with Fran, so she thinks it can’t be wrong. And Penny won’t mind as long as she’s happy . . . Right?

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Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

By: Harvard Business Review,Tony Schwartz,Mark Gerzon,Holly Weeks,Amy Gallo

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Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

By: Harvard Business Review,Tony Schwartz,Mark Gerzon,Holly Weeks,Amy Gallo

Learn how to deal with difficult colleagues and clients. At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their--and your own--emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you're difficult to work with? This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive. Books in this series are based on the work of experts including: Daniel Goleman Tony Schwartz Nick Morgan Daniel Gilbert This collection of articles includes "To Resolve a Conflict, First Decide: Is It Hot or Cold?" by Mark Gerzon; "Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations," by Holly Weeks; "The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People: It's About You," by Tony Schwartz; "How to Deal with a Mean Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How To Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How to Work with Someone Who's Always Stressed Out," by Rebecca Knight; "How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent," by Liz Kislik; and "Do You Hate Your Boss?" by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

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Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne Griffin Perry,Patricia Stockert,Amy Hall,Veronica Peterson

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Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing

By: Patricia A. Potter,Anne Griffin Perry,Patricia Stockert,Amy Hall,Veronica Peterson

Portable and concise, the Clinical Companion for Fundamentals of Nursing, 7th Edition provides quick, convenient access to all of the information you’ll need to know in your clinicals. From definitions to abbreviations to dosage calculations and lab values, this pocket guide presents the most up-to-date clinical information in a popular quick-reference format! Content is presented in tabular, list, and outline format for quick and easy retrieval. A body-systems organization helps you easily locate specific information, including basic assessment and infection control guidelines, diagnostic tests, basic emergency care procedures, and more. The concise, pocket-sized format ensures portability for use in the clinical setting. Chapter outlines with corresponding page numbers make it easy to find information. An English-to-Spanish Translation Guide helps you improve communication with Spanish-speaking patients. Thoroughly updated content reflects current nursing practice.

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The Living Art of Bonsai

Principles & Techniques of Cultivation & Propagation

By: Amy Liang

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The Living Art of Bonsai

Principles & Techniques of Cultivation & Propagation

By: Amy Liang

With 288 color pages, Liang's is one of the best [books on the subject]. Her book includes a breath-taking photo gallery of bonsai, basic styles, group planting, plant physiology, cultivation, propagation, transplanting and repotting, and training and dwarfing--in other words, everything the bonsai grower needs to know."--Booklist Cultivating bonsai is a fine art, and this extravagantly produced volume, filled with hundreds upon hundreds of lavish full-color photographs, showcases the very best and most beautiful specimens. Many of the trees have won international awards, were gifts bestowed by heads of state, and have been featured in TV documentaries. Some have even been the subjects of a commemorative stamp series. Professor Amy Liang, a world-famous leader in the field, surveys the history of bonsai in its many schools and styles, and offers practical techniques and highly detailed instructions for those who want to shape and nurture their own trees. The remarkable images display dazzling miniature evergreens, flowering and fruited trees, and their foliage.

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Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, Eighth Edition, 2 Volume set

By: Lowell A. Goldsmith,Stephen I. Katz,Barbara A. Gilchrest,Amy Paller,David J. Leffell,Klaus Wolff

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Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, Eighth Edition, 2 Volume set

By: Lowell A. Goldsmith,Stephen I. Katz,Barbara A. Gilchrest,Amy Paller,David J. Leffell,Klaus Wolff

The landmark dermatology text that bridges the gap between science and clinical medicine—updated for today’s practice Generations of clinicians, skin biologists, residents, and educators have acclaimed Fitzpatrick’s as the most authoritative and complete guide to dermatologic basic sciences, histopathology, diagnosis, and treatment. Edition after edition, it reflects the latest insights into skin diseases and skin biology—and their practical relevance to general internal medicine—while covering the scientific foundations of the specialty. This classic yet cutting-edge text is supported by the expert insights of more than 500 internationally respected contributors, and it covers everything dermatologists need to know about skin, dermatologic signs of underlying disease, and the management of all skin diseases, including acne, skin cancer, and psoriasis. FEATURES More than 3000 full-color photographs DVD with image bank includes downloadable figures from the text New illustration style makes difficult concepts easier to understand Therapeutic ladders with first, second, and third line therapies New or thoroughly revised chapters on Psoriasis;Skin disease in immunosuppressed patients;Epidermal stem cells;Hair growth disorders;Neonatal, pediatric, and adolescent dermatology;Radiotherapy;Immunobiologicals and cytokines;Lasers for rejuvenation Expanded medical and surgical therapeutics sections guide you through all treatment options

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Record Label Marketing

By: Thomas William Hutchison,Amy Macy,Paul Allen

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Record Label Marketing

By: Thomas William Hutchison,Amy Macy,Paul Allen

Provides in-depth information on corporate marketing processes, combining marketing theory with the 'how to' practised in marketing war rooms. This book is illustrated with figures, tables, graphs, and glossaries. It is for professionals and students, and also offers a useful overview of the music industry.

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0240812387

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Fitzpatrick's Dermatology In General Medicine, Seventh Edition

Two Volumes

By: Klaus Wolff,Lowell A Goldsmith,Stephen I. Katz,Barbara A. Gilchrest,Amy Paller,David J. Leffell

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Fitzpatrick's Dermatology In General Medicine, Seventh Edition

Two Volumes

By: Klaus Wolff,Lowell A Goldsmith,Stephen I. Katz,Barbara A. Gilchrest,Amy Paller,David J. Leffell

The must-have reference in dermatology--now completely revised and updated in full color! In no other source but Fitzpatrick's can you find the most comprehensive, current, and authoritative coverage of the entire spectrum of dermatologic science, diagnosis, treatment, and management. Now in a more accessible format, with everything you need to know about skin, skin symptoms, and skin diseases right at your fingertips -- from the basic science of the skin as an immunoprotective organ -- to the day-to-day clinical issues of managing skin diseases like psoriasis, acne, and skin cancer. Encyclopedic in scope, yet skillfully edited so that it's easy to read and use every day, this unsurpassed resource delivers a timely look at dermatologic therapeutics as well as dermatologic surgery and cosmetic dermatology. In addition, 3,000 eye-catching full-color photographs and hundreds of time-saving tables encapsulate core concepts, while scores of references facilitate further research. FEATURES: NEW Full color design “At a glance” overviews give you the key points of every chapter Diagnostic and Treatment algorithms guide you through the clinical thought process Boxes on differential diagnosis with helpful cross-referencing ensure that you find the content you need when you need it Color clinical photographs and useful diagrams let you see diagnosis and treatment as you read about it Over half the illustrations are NEW to this edition! Attention-getting icons lead you to additional content online NEW organization Basic science chapters are grouped with the corresponding clinical chapters Organization of dermatologic disease chapters by location of symptoms and then by causative mechanisms to facilitate comprehension More chapters on dermatologic surgery and cosmetic dermatology NEW CHAPTERS ON: Sweet Syndrome, Parapsoriasis, Lichen Sclerosus, Vitiligo, Mechanisms of Autoimmune Disease, Innate and Adaptive Immunity, Diagnostic Procedures and Devices, Body Art, Occupational Skin Disease, Topical Therapy in Ethnically Different Skins, Drug Interactions, Complementary and Alternative Dermatology, Flaps and Grafts, Surgical Complications, Cosmetics and Skin Care in Dermatologic Practice, and more Digital Access: E-BOOK DOWNLOAD of the entire text with the ability to search and annotate content and download images into your own presentations is included in your purchase. ALSO AVAILABLE: Access to Dermatology in General Medicine OnLine (DIGMO) website. SEE INSIDE THE BOOK FOR DETAILS OF THIS OFFER Updated monthly, this all-inclusive online resource is filled with additional text, images, and references

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Who's who Among Asian Americans, 1994-95

By: Amy L. Unterburger

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Who's who Among Asian Americans, 1994-95

By: Amy L. Unterburger

Provides biographical information, including career information and addresses, for notable Asian Americans in all fields of endeavour. The entries were selected on the basis of prominence in their fields or civic responsibility.

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