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New Risks and Opportunities for Food Security

Scenario Analyses for 2015 and 2050

By: von Braun, Joachim,Rosegrant, Mark W.,Pandya-Lorch, Rajul,Cohen, Marc J.,Cline, Sarah A.,Ashby Brown, Mary,Soledad Bos, María

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New Risks and Opportunities for Food Security

Scenario Analyses for 2015 and 2050

By: von Braun, Joachim,Rosegrant, Mark W.,Pandya-Lorch, Rajul,Cohen, Marc J.,Cline, Sarah A.,Ashby Brown, Mary,Soledad Bos, María

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896296520

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Staley

The Fight for a New American Labor Movement

By: Steven K. Ashby,C. J. Hawking

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Staley

The Fight for a New American Labor Movement

By: Steven K. Ashby,C. J. Hawking

This on-the-ground labor history focuses on the bitterly contested labor conflict in the early 1990s at the A. E. Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois, where workers waged one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. Originally family-owned, A. E. Staley was bought out by the multinational conglomerate Tate & Lyle, which immediately launched a full-scale assault on its union workforce. Allied Industrial Workers Local 837 responded by educating and mobilizing its members, organizing strong support from the religious and black communities, building a national and international solidarity movement, and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the plant gates. Drawing on seventy-five interviews, videotapes of every union meeting, and their own active involvement organizing with the Staley workers, Steven K. Ashby and C. J. Hawking bring the workers' voices to the fore and reveal their innovative tactics, such as work-to-rule and solidarity committees, that inform and strengthen today's labor movement.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252076400

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Shenandoah County Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850

By: Bernice M. Ashby

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Shenandoah County Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850

By: Bernice M. Ashby

Families of Western New York is similar in arrangement to the Central New York series and other Cutter series. The compiler traces each family line forward from the oldest known ancestor to the principal subject of the essay. This is followed by a detailed biography of that person, often with his photo, as well as an enumeration of collateral lines related to the principal subject. The index identifies some 2,000 descendants of the main families in the book.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806346477

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The Secret Garden

By: Frances H Burnett,Sylvia Ashby

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The Secret Garden

By: Frances H Burnett,Sylvia Ashby

This story is as familiar as you remember. Mary Lennox, a sullen and spoiled young orphan, is sent to live with her brooding uncle at gloomy Misselthwaite Manor. Discovering a hidden, neglected garden, Mary plants the seeds of new life for all those drawn into her secret refuge. A wonderful story of transformation.

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Baker's Plays

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0874400554

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Trouping Through Texas

Harley Sadler and His Tent Show

By: Clifford Ashby,Suzanne DePauw May

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Trouping Through Texas

Harley Sadler and His Tent Show

By: Clifford Ashby,Suzanne DePauw May

The American tent show, which flourished for over four decades, represents a brief but important phase of theatre. Harley Sadler played a significant role in the history of the "rag opries.

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Colours of Art

The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

By: Chloë Ashby

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Colours of Art

The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

By: Chloë Ashby

Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas) but the fundamental secret to their success. Colour allows artists to express their individuality, evoke certain moods and portray positive or negative subliminal messages. And throughout history the greatest of artists have experimented with new pigments and new technologies to lead movements and deliver masterpieces. But as something so cardinal, we sometimes forget how poignant colour palettes can be, and how much they can tell us. When Vermeer painted The Milkmaid, the amount of ultramarine he could use was written in the contract. How did that affect how he used it? When Turner experimented with Indian Yellow, he captured roaring flames that brought his paintings to life. If he had used a more ordinary yellow, would he have created something so extraordinary? And how did Warhol throw away the rulebook to change what colour could achieve? Structured chronologically, Colours of Art provides a fun, intelligent and visually engaging look at the greatest artistic palettes in art history – from Rafael’s use of perspective and Vermeer’s ultramarine, to Andy Warhol’s hot pinks and Lisa Brice’s blue women. Colours of Art offers a refreshing take on the subject and acts as a primer for artists, designers and art lovers who want to look at art history from a different perspective.

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0711258066

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Colors of Art

The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

By: Chloë Ashby

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Colors of Art

The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

By: Chloë Ashby

Colors of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. For these pieces, color is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas) but the fundamental secret to their success. Color allows artists to express their individuality, evoke certain moods, and portray positive or negative subliminal messages. And throughout history the greatest of artists have experimented with new pigments and new technologies to lead movements and deliver masterpieces. But, as something so cardinal, we sometimes forget how poignant color palettes can be, and how much they can tell us. When Vermeer painted The Milkmaid, the amount of ultramarine he could use was written in the contract. How did that affect how he used it? When Turner experimented with Indian Yellow, he captured roaring flames that brought his paintings to life. If he had used a more ordinary yellow, would he have created something so extraordinary? And how did Warhol throw away the rulebook to change what color could achieve? Structured chronologically, Colors of Art provides a fun, intelligent, and visually engaging look at the greatest artistic palettes in art history – from Rafael’s use of perspective and Vermeer’s ultramarine, to Andy Warhol’s hot pinks, and Lisa Brice’s blue women. Colors of Art offers a refreshing take on the subject and acts as a primer for artists, designers, and art lovers who want to look at art history from a different perspective.

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071127939X

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With Amusement for All

A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830

By: LeRoy Ashby

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With Amusement for All

A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830

By: LeRoy Ashby

With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813123976

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Imago Mortis

Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture

By: Ashby Kinch

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Imago Mortis

Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture

By: Ashby Kinch

Here, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material.

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9004243690

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Sherman

By: Linda Ashby

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Sherman

By: Linda Ashby

Sherman was founded in 1846, but because of a lack of wood and water, the town moved east to its present location in 1848. The county seat of Grayson County, Sherman was named for Gen. Sidney Sherman, a hero of the Texas Revolution. From the beginning, Sherman was known as an educational center and was nicknamed "The Athens of Texas." The home of Kidd-Key Conservatory of Music, Mary Nash College, North Texas Male and Female Academy, Carr-Burdette College, and today the prestigious Austin College, Sherman has long been an educational mecca. Sherman was incorporated in 1858, the same year the Butterfield-Overland Stage arrived. The stage line was the first mail route west of the Mississippi and covered a distance of 2,795 miles from St. Louis to San Francisco. As Sherman progressed, industry became a mainstay of the community, which continues to thrive today through companies such as Texas Instruments, GlobiTech, Sunny Delight, Progress Rail, Tyson Foods, Fisher Controls, Kaiser Aluminum, and CertainTeed Corporation.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738579831

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A Fight for the Soul of Public Education

The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike

By: Steven Ashby,Robert Bruno

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A Fight for the Soul of Public Education

The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike

By: Steven Ashby,Robert Bruno

In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike and transformed the scope of collective bargaining into arenas that few labor relations experts thought possible. Using interviews, first-person accounts, participant observation, union documents, and media reports, Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno tell the story of the 2012 strike that shut down the Chicago school system for seven days.A Fight for the Soul of Public Education takes into account two overlapping, parallel, and equally important stories. One is a grassroots story of worker activism told from the perspective of rank-and-file union members and their community supporters. Ashby and Bruno provide a detailed account of how the strike became an international cause when other teachers unions had largely surrendered to corporate-driven education reform. The second story describes the role of state and national politics in imposing educational governance changes on public schools and draconian limitations on union bargaining rights. It includes a detailed account of the actual bargaining process revealing the mundane and the transcendental strategies of both school board and union representatives.

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Cornell University Press

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1501706489

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9781501706486

Rosa Parks

Freedom Rider

By: Ruth Ashby

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Rosa Parks

Freedom Rider

By: Ruth Ashby

A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402748655

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Experiencing Mahler

A Listener's Companion

By: Arved Ashby

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Experiencing Mahler

A Listener's Companion

By: Arved Ashby

Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span of human experience. He introduced themes of love, nature, the chasmic depth of midnight, making peace with death, facing rebirth, seeking one’s creator, and being at one with God. Arved Ashby offers the non-specialist a general introduction into Mahler’s seemingly unbounded energy to investigate the elements that make each work an experiential adventure—one that has redefined the symphonic genre in new ways. In addition to the standard nine symphonies, Ashby discusses Das Lied von der Erde, the three most commonly heard song sets (the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, and Rückert-Lieder), and the unfinished Tenth Symphony (in Cooke’s edition). Experiencing Mahler is a far-reaching and often provocative search for meaning in the music of one of the most beloved composers of all time.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538104873

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Revitalize Your Corporate Culture

By: Franklin C. Ashby, Ph.D.

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Revitalize Your Corporate Culture

By: Franklin C. Ashby, Ph.D.

Adapt or die—this is the simple choice that business has always faced. Here's a valuable guide to the how's, what's, when's, and why's of that choice. 'Revitalize Your Corporate Culture' will help you to: *Diagnose your company's culture *Understand the features of a positive corporate culture *Design a strategy for an effective culture change *Gain the full support of staff to implement a new, positive culture *Maintain the momentum after the new corporate culture plan is in place *Shared values and unwritten rules (your company's culture) can profoundly enhance—or destroy—economic success. This book supplies all the steps necessary to increase productivity, make your organization more cost effective, and help you change your organization into a more dynamic, innovative, and collaborative organization. Whether you are a senior executive or a middle-level manager, this book gives you techniques that will motivate, encourage, and prepare your staff to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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Routledge

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1136012583

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9781136012587

Wakeful Anguish

A Literary Biography of William Humphrey

By: Ashby Bland Crowder

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Wakeful Anguish

A Literary Biography of William Humphrey

By: Ashby Bland Crowder

In this deeply felt biography, Ashby Bland Crowder treats in near definitive fashion one of southern literature's unjustly neglected masters. In superb novels like Home from the Hill, The Ordways, and Proud Flesh as well as in the brilliant story collections The Last Husband and A Time and a Place, William Humphrey (1924--1997) created an imaginary East Texas Red River County, conjuring the speech and life rhythms of his native territory with artistic genius. Crowder's lyrical blending of biographical fact and incisive analysis corrects a mistaken view that Humphrey was among those writers mired in the pious cult of southern delusionary remembrance. From early short fiction set in a New York commuter village through late works of the Northeast, such as Hostages to Fortune and September Song, Humphrey allowed himself a psychic distance from the South that fueled an unsparing critique of its myths -- exemplified by the fierce deconstruction of Texas heroes found in his last novel, No Resting Place. In a poignant discussion of Humphrey's memoir, Farther Off from Heaven, Crowder demonstrates that the tragic death of his father led to Humphrey's overriding fictional themes of pain and inconsolable loss. Indeed, Crowder asserts that Humphrey failed to achieve literary renown in part because he evokes emotional experiences beyond what most people can endure. Humphrey's fiction derives its power from refusing to indulge in the false consolations of vanished people and history, from showing that living in the southern past is not living at all. Wakeful Anguish is among the first books about William Humphrey and will be greeted as one of the finest. Marshalling unpublished archival letters, interviews with persons who knew Humphrey at different stages in his life, and private correspondence and conversations between Humphrey and himself, Crowder achieves something rare in literary biography: a portrait that reveals both the sustained suffering in an author's life and work and his exultation in the triumph of his art.

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0807128872

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Look At This If You Love Great Art

100 essential artworks that really matter

By: Chloë Ashby

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Look At This If You Love Great Art

100 essential artworks that really matter

By: Chloë Ashby

Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced, inside is a collection of insightful summaries on just what it is that makes each one so vital. Art writer Chloë Ashby talks you through the pieces that resonate with her, revealing the fascinating stories behind them and offering her considered take on why each work should be regarded as a pinnacle of artistic endeavour. With entries curated to offer a unique juxtaposition of styles, mediums and schools of art, expect a contemporary take on classic artworks, where titans of art history cross paths with under-appreciated examples from outside the traditional canon, and where rebellious visionaries blaze trails that still influence today’s cutting-edge artists. Covering all the most important genres of art –Abstraction, Pop Art, Surrealism, Renaissance art, Impressionism and more – this engaging summary only deals with artworks that really matter and the reasons why you have to see them.

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Ivy Press

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0711256063

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9780711256064

Art Nouveau

Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation

By: Charlotte Ashby

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Art Nouveau

Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation

By: Charlotte Ashby

Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid means of transnational exchange, bringing about new ways of living, working and creating. This book is structured around key themes for understanding the contexts behind Art Nouveau, including new materials and technologies, colonialism and imperialism, the rise of the 'modern woman', the rise of the professional designer and the role of the patron-collector. It also explores the new ideas that inspired Art Nouveau: nature and the natural sciences, world arts and world religions, psychology and new visions for the modern self. Ashby explores the movement through 41 case studies of artists and designers, buildings, interiors, paintings, graphic arts, glass, ceramics and jewellery, drawn from a wide range of countries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350061174

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9781350061170

Once in a Blue Moon

By: Amanda Ashby

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Once in a Blue Moon

By: Amanda Ashby

Florist Laney George has a successful business, amazing friends and big, big dreams...and a broken heart. But doesn’t every broken stem need time to heal? Then the man she hoped to never see again shows up, and suddenly Laney’s carefully ordered plans are experiencing technical difficulties. Celebrated Author Adam Fitzpatrick planned to be in St. Clair for no more than a day. Sign the books, and get out. Same story, different day. What he didn’t count on was Laney George, who happens to be the star of his somewhat fictional tale. She broke his heart years ago, and—in a moment of wretchedness––he put everything in his book, never imagining it would be a world-wide best seller. Adam thought he just wanted answers from Laney. Instead, the small town draws him in, and suddenly creative inspiration is everywhere. It might be St. Clair. It might be Laney. All Adam knows is that he has to convince the woman who hates him that it’s time to close the book on heartbreak...and start a fresh new chapter together.

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Entangled: August

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1682815323

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9781682815328

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