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All These Monsters

By: Amy Tintera

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All These Monsters

By: Amy Tintera

A high-stakes sci-fi adventure about a teen girl who will do anything to escape her troubled home--even if that means joining a dangerous monster-fighting squad.

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HMH Books For Young Readers

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0358012406

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Becoming Nicole

The inspiring story of transgender actor-activist Nicole Maines and her extraordinary family

By: Amy Ellis Nutt

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Becoming Nicole

The inspiring story of transgender actor-activist Nicole Maines and her extraordinary family

By: Amy Ellis Nutt

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all. Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But by the time Jonas and Wyatt were toddlers, confusion over Wyatt’s insistence that he was female began to tear the family apart. In the years that followed, the Maineses came to question their long-held views on gender and identity, to accept Wyatt’s transition to Nicole, and to undergo a wrenching transformation of their own, the effects of which would reverberate through their entire community. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt spent almost four years reporting this story and tells it with unflinching honesty, intimacy, and empathy. In her hands, Becoming Nicole is more than an account of a courageous girl and her extraordinary family. It’s a powerful portrait of a slowly but surely changing nation, and one that will inspire all of us to see the world with a little more humanity and understanding. Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by People • One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and Men’s Journal • A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction “Fascinating and enlightening.”—Cheryl Strayed “If you aren’t moved by Becoming Nicole, I’d suggest there’s a lump of dark matter where your heart should be.”—The New York Times “Exceptional . . . ‘Stories move the walls that need to be moved,’ Nicole told her father last year. In telling Nicole’s story and those of her brother and parents luminously, and with great compassion and intelligence, that is exactly what Amy Ellis Nutt has done here.”—The Washington Post “A profoundly moving true story about one remarkable family’s evolution.”—People “Becoming Nicole is a miracle. It’s the story of a family struggling with—and embracing—a transgender child. But more than that, it’s about accepting one another, and ourselves, in all our messy, contradictory glory.”—Jennifer Finney Boylan, former co-chair of GLAAD and author of She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812995430

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9780812995435

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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9780268081829

The Taste of Place

A Cultural Journey Into Terroir

By: Amy B. Trubek

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The Taste of Place

A Cultural Journey Into Terroir

By: Amy B. Trubek

While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, this book expands the concept into cuisine and culture more broadly. Bringing together stories of people farming, cooking and eating, the author focuses on a series of examples ranging from shagbark hicory nuts in Wisconsin to wines from northern California.

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Univ of California Press

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0520261720

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Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare

Stationers Shaping a Genre

By: Amy Lidster

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Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare

Stationers Shaping a Genre

By: Amy Lidster

Showing how overlooked publication agents constructed and read early modern history plays, this book fundamentally re-evaluates the genre.

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Cambridge University Press

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131651725X

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9781316517253

Rough Draft

Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance

By: Amy J. Rutenberg

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Rough Draft

Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance

By: Amy J. Rutenberg

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life. As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most did so because manpower polices made it possible. By shielding middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, policymakers militarized certain civilian roles—a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States.

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Cornell University Press

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1501739387

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9781501739385

Dear Editor: Poems

By: Amy Newman

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Dear Editor: Poems

By: Amy Newman

Amy Newman is one of the most gifted and original poets writing in America today."—Martha Collins Each prose poem in this extraordinary volume is an impassioned letter to a nameless editor from a poet seeking publication for her collection about chess, sainthood, and the poet's lonely childhood. Taken individually, the poems display a dazzling originality; together, they form an exquisite exploration of memory and longing.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393245675

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9780393245677

North by 2020

Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems

By: Amy Lauren Lovecraft,Hajo Eicken

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North by 2020

Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems

By: Amy Lauren Lovecraft,Hajo Eicken

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on the most important linked social-ecological systems, including fresh water, marine resources, and oil and gas development, this volume explores opportunities for sustainable development from a variety of perspectives, among them social sciences, natural and applied sciences, and the arts. Individual chapters highlight expressions of climate change in dance, music, and film, as well as from an indigenous knowledge–based perspective.

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University of Alaska Press

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1602231427

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Children, Adolescents, and the Media

By: Victor C. Strasburger,Barbara J. Wilson,Amy B. Jordan

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Children, Adolescents, and the Media

By: Victor C. Strasburger,Barbara J. Wilson,Amy B. Jordan

Up-to-date and case-study laden analysis of how children and adolescents interact with the media.

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SAGE

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1412944678

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Currents in Japanese Culture

Translations and Transformations

By: Amy Vladeck Heinrich

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Currents in Japanese Culture

Translations and Transformations

By: Amy Vladeck Heinrich

These twenty-nine original essays focuses on how cultural and literary genres and norms have developed in response to historical and cross-cultural influences.

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Columbia University Press

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0231096968

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Enduring Justice

By: Amy N. Wallace

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Enduring Justice

By: Amy N. Wallace

A PAINFUL PAST Hanna Kessler’s childhood secret has remained buried for over two decades. But when the dark shadows of her past threaten to destroy those she loves, Hanna must face the summer that changed her life and the man who still haunts her memories. A RACIALLY-MOTIVATED KILLER As a Crimes Against Children FBI Agent, Michael Parker knows what it means to get knocked down. Difficult cases and broken relationships have plagued his entire year. But when the system fails and a white supremacist is set free, Michael’s drive for retribution eclipses all else. A LIFE-ALTERING CHOICE A racist’s well-planned assault forces Hanna and Michael to decide between executing vengeance and pursuing justice. The dividing line between the two is the choice to heal. But when the attack turns personal, is justice enough?

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Multnomah

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1601422679

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9781601422675

Going Postal: A Texas Trailer Park Mystery

By: Amy Eastlake

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Going Postal: A Texas Trailer Park Mystery

By: Amy Eastlake

Postal carrier Kimberly Walsh thinks her day is going bad when she gets handed a dog--one that loves to bite her. She's wrong--her day gets really bad when she discovers the dog's owner...murdered. When she finds another body the next day, the police decide they've discovered another postal worker gone bad. Kimberly has got to find a way to clear her name.

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1602150915

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Passing the PPR TExES Exam for EC12 Teachers

Keys to Certification and Ethical Teaching

By: Elaine L. Wilmore,Amy Burkman

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Passing the PPR TExES Exam for EC12 Teachers

Keys to Certification and Ethical Teaching

By: Elaine L. Wilmore,Amy Burkman

ôA timely and critically important guide focused on the competencies essential for teachers to enter the classroom and work with diverse students.öùPatrick M. Jenlink, Professor of Doctoral StudiesStephen F. Austin State University, TXôThe authors have created a comprehensive, upbeat, and positive step-by-step process on how to study for the TExES examùoffering real-life ideas that even a veteran teacher could use.öùDebra Hurst, ELL Kindergarten TeacherAustin Independent School District, TXAce the test, lower your stress, and achieve success!Best-selling author Elaine L. Wilmore and educator Amy Burkman bring extensive TExES exam-development and workshop-training experience to this comprehensive handbook. Written in a friendly and encouraging tone, the text helps aspiring teachers prepare for the Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities TExES Exam. The book details each of the learner-centered standards, domains, and competencies while addressing todayÆs hot topics of assessment, diversity, technology, family and student engagement, legal/ethical issues, and professional development. The authors also connect theory to practice with real-life examples that demonstrate the leadership philosophy behind the exam. Special features include:Test-taking tips and strategies that build confidence Practical application examples from each domain and area of competencyA fun ôOur Favoritesö section that develops critical thinking and synthesizes conceptsPractice ôdecision setsö with answers targeted to specific competenciesThis guidebook is more than the definitive roadmap to preparing for the PPR TExES exam. The authors give you indispensable keys to becoming a successful and world-changing teacher.

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Corwin Press

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141295844X

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Falling for Her Bodyguard

A Clean Romance

By: Amy Vastine

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Falling for Her Bodyguard

A Clean Romance

By: Amy Vastine

She needs his protection… But can he protect his heart? Radio personality Kelly Bonner isn’t convinced she needs a bodyguard, especially one as intensely good-looking as Detective Donovan Walsh. Yet beneath Donovan’s tough-guy facade is a man struggling to raise his sister’s children. A man Kelly could care about…if he’d let her. Now she’ll have to find a way to convince her big, bad bodyguard that his family—and his heart—are safe in her hands.

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Harlequin

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1488039836

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Harlequin Heartwarming August 2019 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Amy Vastine,Cari Lynn Webb,Virginia McCullough,Tara Randel

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Harlequin Heartwarming August 2019 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Amy Vastine,Cari Lynn Webb,Virginia McCullough,Tara Randel

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships imbued with the traditional values so important to you: home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: FALLING FOR HER BODYGUARD Grace Note Records by Amy Vastine Kelly Bonner has a stalker, and the only man to protect her is Donovan Walsh. She knows she’s just a job to him, but she can’t help falling for the handsome detective. SINGLE DAD TO THE RESCUE City by the Bay Stories by Cari Lynn Webb California wildfires destroyed Brooke Ellis’s home but not her spirit. Finding temporary shelter with Good Samaritan Dan Sawyer and his young son, in spite of Brooke’s uncertain future, could be the silver lining she’s been hoping for… A FAMILY FOR JASON Back to Bluestone River by Virginia McCullough Loss and scandal drove Ruby Driscoll from her hometown long ago. When she returns and falls for Mike Abbot all over again, and his boy, Jason, she may have found a reason to stay. TRUSTING HER HEART Meet Me at the Altar by Tara Randel Can a woman who will go to great lengths to keep her past a secret and a man who works at uncovering lies overcome the odds and fall in love? Serena Stanhope and PI Logan Masterson are counting on it! Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

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1488040109

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Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing

A Case-Based Approach

By: Amy O'Meara

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Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing

A Case-Based Approach

By: Amy O'Meara

Maternity, Newborn, and Women’s Health Nursing: A Case-Based Approach, 2nd Edition presents realistic, patient-centered, case-based narratives that captivate students while instilling essential critical thinking skills and clinical judgment capabilities. 13 in-depth, unfolding case studies threaded throughout the text enrich students’ understanding of key concepts and align with the latest NCLEX® testing plan to prepare students for the challenges ahead in class, on their exams, and beyond. This updated 2nd Edition is enhanced with inclusive, bias-free language, robust essential nursing competency learning features, and the most current perspectives on care to help students ensure positive outcomes for an increasingly diverse patient population.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975209044

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9781975209049

Google's PageRank and Beyond

The Science of Search Engine Rankings

By: Amy N. Langville,Carl D. Meyer

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Google's PageRank and Beyond

The Science of Search Engine Rankings

By: Amy N. Langville,Carl D. Meyer

Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name? How do other web pages always appear at the top? What creates these powerful rankings? And how? The first book ever about the science of web page rankings, Google's PageRank and Beyond supplies the answers to these and other questions and more. The book serves two very different audiences: the curious science reader and the technical computational reader. The chapters build in mathematical sophistication, so that the first five are accessible to the general academic reader. While other chapters are much more mathematical in nature, each one contains something for both audiences. For example, the authors include entertaining asides such as how search engines make money and how the Great Firewall of China influences research. The book includes an extensive background chapter designed to help readers learn more about the mathematics of search engines, and it contains several MATLAB codes and links to sample web data sets. The philosophy throughout is to encourage readers to experiment with the ideas and algorithms in the text. Any business seriously interested in improving its rankings in the major search engines can benefit from the clear examples, sample code, and list of resources provided. Many illustrative examples and entertaining asides MATLAB code Accessible and informal style Complete and self-contained section for mathematics review

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Princeton University Press

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140083032X

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9781400830329

The Copyeditor's Handbook

A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications

By: Amy Einsohn,Marilyn Schwartz

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The Copyeditor's Handbook

A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications

By: Amy Einsohn,Marilyn Schwartz

The new, updated edition of the handbook that should be on every copyeditor’s desk. Unstuffy, hip, and often funny, The Copyeditor’s Handbook has become an indispensable resource both for new editors and for experienced hands who want to refresh their skills and broaden their understanding of the craft of copyediting. This fourth edition incorporates the latest advice from language authorities, usage guides, and new editions of major style manuals, including The Chicago Manual of Style. It registers the tectonic shifts in twenty-first-century copyediting: preparing text for digital formats, using new technologies, addressing global audiences, complying with plain language mandates, ensuring accessibility, and serving self-publishing authors and authors writing in English as a second language. The new edition also adds an extensive annotated list of editorial tools and references and includes a bit of light entertainment for language lovers, such as a brief history of punctuation marks that didn’t make the grade, the strange case of razbliuto, and a few Easter eggs awaiting discovery by keen-eyed readers. The fourth edition features updates on the transformation of editorial roles in today’s publishing environment new applications, processes, and protocols for on-screen editing major changes in editorial resources, such as online dictionaries and language corpora, new grammar and usage authorities, online editorial communities, and web-based research tools When you’re ready to test your mettle, pick up The Copyeditor’s Workbook: Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment, the essential new companion to the handbook.

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Univ of California Press

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0520972279

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9780520972278

Adult Physical Conditions

Intervention Strategies for Occupational Therapy Assistants

By: Amy J Mahle,Amber L Ward

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Adult Physical Conditions

Intervention Strategies for Occupational Therapy Assistants

By: Amy J Mahle,Amber L Ward

The go-to text/reference for class, clinical, and practice! A who’s who of experts and educators brings you practical, in-depth coverage of the most common adult conditions and the corresponding evidence-based occupational therapy interventions. Written for OTAs to meet their unique needs, this approach combines theory with the practical, evidence-based functional content that develops the critical-thinking and clinical-reasoning skills that are the foundation for professional, knowledgeable, creative, and competent practice.

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F.A. Davis

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0803689802

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9780803689800

Social Media Management

Technologies and Strategies for Creating Business Value

By: Amy Van Looy

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Social Media Management

Technologies and Strategies for Creating Business Value

By: Amy Van Looy

This undergraduate textbook adopts the perspective of organizations - not individuals - and clarifies the impact of social media on their different departments or disciplines, while also exploring how organizations use social media to create business value. To do so, the book pursues a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach, embracing IT, marketing, HR and many other fields. Readers will benefit from a comprehensive selection of current topics, including: tools, tactics and strategies for social media, internal and external communication, viral marketing campaigns, social CRM, employer branding, e-recruiting, search engine optimization, social mining, sentiment analysis, crowdfunding, and legal and ethical issues.

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Springer

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3319219901

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Serving Military Families

Theories, Research, and Application

By: Karen Rose Blaisure,Tara Saathoff-Wells,Amy Laura Dombro,Colonel Angela Pereira,Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth

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Serving Military Families

Theories, Research, and Application

By: Karen Rose Blaisure,Tara Saathoff-Wells,Amy Laura Dombro,Colonel Angela Pereira,Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth

This text introduces readers to the unique culture of military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life. Personal stories from nearly 70 active duty, reservists, veterans, and their families from all branches and ranks of the military bring their experiences to life. A review of the latest research, theories, policies, and programs better prepares readers for understanding and working with military families. Objectives, key terms, tables, figures, summaries, and exercises, including web based exercises, serve as a chapter review. The book concludes with a glossary. Readers learn about diverse careers within which they can make important differences for families. Engaging vignettes are featured throughout: Voices from the Frontline offer personal accounts of issues faced by actual program leaders, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, service members, veterans, and their families. Spotlight on Research highlights the latest studies on dealing with combat related issues. Best Practices review the optimal strategies used in the field. Tips from the Frontline offer suggestions from experienced personnel. Updated throughout including the latest demographic data, the new edition also features: -New chapter (9) on women service members that addresses the accomplishments and challenges faced by this population including sexual bias and assault, and combat-related psychological disorders. - New chapter (10) on veterans and families looks at veterans by era (e.g.WW2), each era’s signature issues and how those impact programs and policies, and challenges veterans may face such as employment, education, and mental and physical health issues. -Two new more comprehensive and cohesive chapters (11 & 12) review military and civilian programs, policies, and organizations that support military and veteran families. -Additional information on TBI and PTSD, the deployment cycle, stress and resilience, the possible negative effects of military life on families, same-sex couples and their children, and the recent increase in suicides in the military. -More applied cases and exercises that focus on providing services to military families. Intended as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on military families or as a supplement for courses on the family, marriage and family, stress and coping, or family systems taught in family science, human development, clinical or counseling psychology, sociology, social work, and nursing, this book also appeals to helping professionals who work with military and veteran families.

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Routledge

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1317554701

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9781317554707

Stepping Over the Color Line

African-American Students in White Suburban Schools

By: Amy Stuart Wells,Robert L. Crain

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Stepping Over the Color Line

African-American Students in White Suburban Schools

By: Amy Stuart Wells,Robert L. Crain

This important book takes the discussion of racial inequality in America beyond simplistic arguments of white racism and black victimization to a more complex conversation about the separate but unequal situation in many schools today. Amy Stuart Wells and Robert Crain investigate the St. Louis, Missouri, school desegregation plan, a unique agreement that since 1983 has given black inner-city students the right to choose to attend predominantly white suburban schools. After five years of research and hundreds of interviews with policymakers, administrators, teachers, students, and parents, Wells and Crain conclude that when school desegregation is examined from these many perspectives, more strengths than weaknesses emerge. They call for a reexamination of now-popular school choice policies across the country so that these policies may help to bring about more racial and social-class integration. Stepping over the Color Line intertwines data on student achievement and racial isolation with stories of the people who participated in the St. Louis program. The authors set these individuals within a broad historical and social context and demonstrate how important linkages between the past and present help explain why efforts to overcome racial inequality--in St. Louis and in the larger society--are so difficult. "The authors do a superb job of explaining how this innovative program came about, placing it in a broad context that takes it beyond its immediate and local implications. The book is at times heartbreaking and at times uplifting."--Richard Zweigenhaft, co-author of Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America

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Yale University Press

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0300081332

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9780300081336

Literacy in Australia: Pedagogies for Engagement, 3rd Edition

By: Amy Seely Flint,Lisbeth Kitson,Kaye Lowe,Kylie Shaw,Sally Humphrey,Mark Vicars,Jessa Rogers,Shelley Ware

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Literacy in Australia: Pedagogies for Engagement, 3rd Edition

By: Amy Seely Flint,Lisbeth Kitson,Kaye Lowe,Kylie Shaw,Sally Humphrey,Mark Vicars,Jessa Rogers,Shelley Ware

Infused with our authors’ personal experiences teaching, Literacy in Australia, 3rd Edition is delivered as a full colour printed textbook with an interactive eBook code included. This enables students to master concepts and succeed in assessment by taking the roadblocks out of self-study, with features designed to get the most out of learning such as animations, interactivities, concept check questions and videos. With a prioritised focus on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures featured throughout the text, pre-service teachers will be well-equipped with the knowledge of what kinds of activities they can include in and out of the classroom for an enriching learning experience for their students.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0730369242

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9780730369240

Singing Reconciliation: Inhabiting the Moral Life According to Colossians 3:16

By: Amy Whisenand Krall

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Singing Reconciliation: Inhabiting the Moral Life According to Colossians 3:16

By: Amy Whisenand Krall

The letter to the Colossians contains a series of moral instructions in Colossians 3:12-17 and includes the admonition to "sing" among them. This study considers how music-making (specifically singing) supports moral formation according to the letter to the Colossians. Studies in ethnomusicology, anthropology of the voice, and music psychology offer useful frameworks for conceptualizing how a social practice like music-making forms participants into a community and shapes how they know themselves, their community, and the world. With the aid of these frameworks, we find that the singing in Colossians 3:16, as a corporate, vocal practice of music-making, enables the members of the church community to inhabit the story of reconciliation found in the Christ Hymn (Col 1:15-20).

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BRILL

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9004682538

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9789004682535

And You Welcomed Me

A Sourcebook on Hospitality in Early Christianity

By: Amy G. Oden

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And You Welcomed Me

A Sourcebook on Hospitality in Early Christianity

By: Amy G. Oden

This volume provides an anthology of about 40 primary source documents that describe the work of religious communities that took care of pilgrims and the sick in the late antique and early medieval world. The project identifies letters, diary accounts, instructions, sermons, travelogues, and community records and rules that give us a window into a world of early communities that saw it as their duty and their privilege to care for the sick, to safeguard the pilgrim, and to host the stranger. Each document is placed in historical, geographical, and social context as it contributes to an emerging picture of these communities. The volume addresses the motivations and practices of communities that risked extending hospitality. Why did these communities take great risks for the socially vulnerable? What stake did they have in pilgrims and the sick? What communal experiences supported and sustained both the communities and their audiences? How was hospitality cultivated?

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Cancer Is for Old(er) People

How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

By: Brett M. Cordes,Amy Calkins Teague,Kyle Moses

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Cancer Is for Old(er) People

How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

By: Brett M. Cordes,Amy Calkins Teague,Kyle Moses

Cancer is for Old(er) People By: Brett M. Cordes and Amy Calkins Teague, Kyle Moses Recounting his experience with cancer as a 19-year-old boy, Brett Cordes shares his extraordinary journey, including all of the nitty gritty details that one may not ordinarily hear when reading about others’ battles with cancer. His childhood friend, Amy Calkins Teague, discusses Brett’s journey from her perspective, as well as the experiences from her own fight against ovarian cancer. From their diagnosis to their ultimate recovery from the disease, Brett and Amy share their story- proving that cancer does not have to define you. Another of Brett’s friends, Kyle Moses, offers his own story in describing his journey through this all-too-familiar struggle with the disease. With key pieces of advice and inspirational stories, this novel helps those not only battling cancer to keep pushing forward, but those caregivers, friends and family who have loved ones who are sick.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1647020468

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Sexting Panic

Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent

By: Amy Adele Hasinoff

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Sexting Panic

Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent

By: Amy Adele Hasinoff

Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, Amy Adele Hasinoff notes that criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for the distinction between consensual sharing and the malicious distribution of a private image. Hasinoff challenges the idea that sexting inevitably victimizes young women. Instead, she encourages us to recognize young people's capacity for choice and recommends responses to sexting that are realistic and nuanced rather than based on misplaced fears about deviance, sexuality, and digital media.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252096967

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9780252096969

How the Cold War Began

By: Amy Knight

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How the Cold War Began

By: Amy Knight

On September 5, 1945, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, reporting to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allegations of extensive Soviet espionage in North America, providing stolen documents detailing Soviet intelligence matters to back his claims. This action sent shockwaves through Washington, London, Moscow, and Ottawa, changing the course of the twentieth century. Using recently declassified FBI and Canadian RCMP files on the Gouzenko case, author and Cold War scholar Amy Knight sheds new light on the FBI's efforts to incriminate Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White in order to discredit the Truman Administration. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover seized upon Gouzenko's defection as a means through which to demonize the Soviets, distorting statements made by Gouzenko to stir up "spy fever" in the U.S., setting the McCarthy era into motion. Through the FBI files and interviews with several key players, Knight delves into Gouzenko's reasons for defecting and brilliantly connects these events to the strained relations between the Soviet Union and the West, marking the beginning of the Cold War.

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Basic Books

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078673308X

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Assessing Quality in Postsecondary Education

International Perspectives

By: Harvey P. Weingarten,Martin Hicks,Amy Kaufman

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Assessing Quality in Postsecondary Education

International Perspectives

By: Harvey P. Weingarten,Martin Hicks,Amy Kaufman

For many years the benefits conferred by a higher education went undisputed. But students, employers, governments, and taxpayers are now demanding evidence of educational quality and value. At the same time, fiscally strapped governments are raising questions about how institutions are funded and the role quality should play in setting funding levels. In the face of these mounting pressures, jurisdictions around the world are working toward designing meaningful indicators to measure the performance of postsecondary institutions that go beyond enrolment numbers, graduation rates, and ever-popular reputational rankings. Assessing Quality in Postsecondary Education: International Perspectives presents a collection of thought-provoking essays by world-renowned higher-education thinkers and policy experts that discuss ways of defining and measuring academic quality. The papers were presented at a conference convened by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario in May 2017 and provide valuable insight into this pressing issue and underscore the need for reform.

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1553395336

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The Proverbial Woman

Class, Gender, and Power in Hebrew Poetry

By: Amy J. Chase

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The Proverbial Woman

Class, Gender, and Power in Hebrew Poetry

By: Amy J. Chase

Female identity is fraught and fetishized, commercialized and contested--so potent a weapon in contemporary cultural warfare that a sitting US senator had no shame in asking a nominee to the Supreme Court to "define 'woman.'" But the battle over female identity is not of modern invention. Its roots are ancient. And in the Hebrew Bible, one text has served as the focal point of both classical and fashionable conceptions of female identity: Proverbs 31. A timeless pattern of femininity for some and a punchline for others, the poems themselves have received wildly differing levels of analysis, with too much ink spent on "the ideal woman," and far too little on political rebukes and economic displacement. The Proverbial Woman offers a comprehensive narrative and dialogical approach to the text that unearths the poetry's social, sexual, and political silences and silencings. It highlights the forgotten characters: the women who destroy kings, the silenced poor, displaced peasants, and foreigners. It examines the text's conflict, setting, characters, and dialogue. It encourages the reader to recognize the drama taking place in the text's world and to explore how these features enabled an ancient community pondering these sapiential lines to process their cooperation with empire in an economic system that benefited some and exploited others. The Proverbial Woman excavates the power dynamics that promote elite ideologies even as gaps, ambiguities, and contradictions enable marginalized perspectives within the text to resist them. The interpretive approach demonstrated in this study can be replicated among communities today wanting to use biblical texts to construct for themselves a more just and prosperous world.

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Fortress Press

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1506491545

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Polygamy in the Monogamous World

Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy

By: Martha Bailey,Amy J. Kaufman

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Polygamy in the Monogamous World

Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy

By: Martha Bailey,Amy J. Kaufman

This fact-filled book on polygamy and plural unions around the world supports an in-depth consideration of policy options for Western countries. Polygamy and plural marriage have become front-and-center issues in Europe, Canada, and the United States, notably on two religious fronts: among some splinter groups of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and in Islam. Polygamy in the Monogamous World: Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy takes both groups into account as it provides a careful examination of legal polygamy in non-Western countries and plural unions in North America. Comparing these similar, but legally distinct forms of union, it offers a fresh perspective on how Western countries should respond to these relationships. Specifically, the book surveys non-Western countries where polygamy is legally practiced, then provides an overview of plural unions in North America. The problems of polygamy and plural unions are examined, including the potential for tne abuse of wives. The responses of Western governments to such relationships are reviewed, and the most effective solutions are identified to ascertain what policies should be adopted going forward.

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Girl Least Likely to Marry

By: Amy Andrews

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Girl Least Likely to Marry

By: Amy Andrews

Talk nerdy to me Samuel Tucker is absolutely the last person scientist Cassie Barclay would ever date. Yes, he's gorgeous, but he's also far too cocky for his own good and thinks that Pi is a tasty afternoon treat. So when he asks her to dance at her friend Reese's non-wedding she's wondering why on earth she says yes! Tuck is used to people assuming he's all brawn and no brain, and amuses himself by winding Cassie up. But when he finally takes her to bed, suddenly it's Tuck who can show Cassie a thing or two! Can he convince her that love and sex have nothing to do with logic and everything to do with chemistry?

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