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A Colorful Way of Living

How to Be More, Create More, Do More the Vera Bradley Way

By: Barbara Bradley Baekgaard

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A Colorful Way of Living

How to Be More, Create More, Do More the Vera Bradley Way

By: Barbara Bradley Baekgaard

A Colorful Way of Living offers practical, inspiring advice to empower women of all ages to navigate life by the values that provide the foundation of the Vera Bradley empire. Women looking for the encouragement to start a new chapter, women balancing career and family, and new graduates entering the workforce will all benefit from the Baekgaard's learned wisdom has as it applies to career, life, and relationships."--

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St. Martin's Press

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1250121914

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Bringing Ben Home

A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

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Bringing Ben Home

A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder. In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young—a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was “an awful mistake.” The Texas legal system didn’t see it that way. It allowed shoddy police work, paid witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct to convict Spencer of murder, and it ignored later efforts to correct this error. The state’s bureaucratic intransigence caused Spencer to spend more than half his life in prison. Eventually independent investigators, new witness testimony, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new Dallas DA convinced a Texas judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing, and in 2021 he was released from prison. As Spencer’s fight to clear himself demonstrates, our legal systems are broken: expedience is more important than the truth. That is starting to change as states across the country implement new efforts to reduce wrongful convictions, and one of the states leading the way is Texas. Award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty has spent years digging into this issue, and she has immersed herself in Spencer’s case. She has combed police files and court records, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and had extensive conversations with Spencer, and in Bringing Ben Home she threads together two narratives: how an innocent Black man got caught up in and couldn’t escape a legal system that refused to admit its mistakes; and what Texas and other states are doing to address wrongful convictions to make the legal process more equitable for everyone. By turns fascinating and enraging, personal and provocative, Bringing Ben Home is the powerful story of one innocent man who refused to admit that he was guilty of murder, and how his plight became part of a paradigm shift in how the legal system thinks about innocence as it institutes new methods to overturn wrongful convictions to better protect people like Ben Spencer.

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Penguin

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059342008X

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Life Reimagined

The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

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Life Reimagined

The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

“Barbara Bradley Hagerty is a wise and engaging guide through the possibilities…of middle age.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.

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0399573321

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9780399573323

The Shakespeare Trade

Performances and Appropriations

By: Barbara Hodgdon

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The Shakespeare Trade

Performances and Appropriations

By: Barbara Hodgdon

Hodgdon's work should be required reading for anyone concerned with Shakespeare's cultural capital at the end of the twentieth century."—South Atlantic Review

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812213890

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Reflections

Life After the White House

By: Barbara Bush

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Reflections

Life After the White House

By: Barbara Bush

“There is a myth in the United States—you’ve heard it many times. It says that all American mothers hope that their child will grow up to be President of the United States...” —Barbara Bush Not since Abigail Adams has one woman been both the wife and mother of presidents. Barbara Bush’s prominent place in American history is matched only by her extraordinary popularity: Republicans and Democrats alike appreciate her wit, her compassion, and her devotion to her family. Dignified, loyal, and unpretentious, the former First Lady defied skeptics to become one of the most admired first ladies in history—and she remains a beloved public figure today. In this inspiring follow-up to her number-one bestselling memoir, Mrs. Bush covers the momentous eight years between President George H. W. Bush’s leaving office and President George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration. Reflections comprises Mrs. Bush’s diary entries, travelogues, family photographs, even secret recipes. She discusses her experiences in the White House, on the campaign trail, and in the public eye, as well as her own views about such controversial issues as her husband’s resignation from the NRA, the caning of an American student in Singapore, and—in her candid epilogue—her family’s reactions to September 11, 2001. Throughout, the extraordinary amount of love and pride Mrs. Bush feels for her husband, five children, and fourteen grandchildren is always clear. Reflections will delight Barbara Bush's millions of admirers with her touching anecdotes and personal revelations from the past decade of a full and fascinating life.

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Simon and Schuster

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074326231X

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9780743262316

Patterned Aimlessness

Iris Murdoch's Novels of the 1970s and 1980s

By: Barbara Stevens Heusel

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Patterned Aimlessness

Iris Murdoch's Novels of the 1970s and 1980s

By: Barbara Stevens Heusel

The novels of Iris Murdoch are lively journeys across landscapes teeming with ideas. Such texts as An Accidental Man, The Philosopher's Pupil, The Black Prince, and The Sea, The Sea blend art and philosophy in tales that have intrigued and puzzled readers like few other contemporary novels. In Patterned Aimlessness Barbara Stevens Heusel brings an order and a clarity to the mystery of Murdoch's narrative form. She shows how this writer of many genres came to integrate philosophy, morality, psychology, language, and aesthetics in order to call into question the conventions of the English novel. Following Wittgenstein's lead Murdoch makes palpable the complexities of human experience, the "accidental, idiosyncratic happenings of life." Her fiction and her individual voice, Heusel says, reflect the chaos of existence with all of its contradictions, its paradoxes, its jarring rhythms. Heusel turns to literary theory to point out Murdoch's compatibility with Mikhail Bakhtin's views on the narrative voice in the novel. For both, morality is an utmost concern, and language is inherently a social, historical, and ideological creation: words resonate with centuries of meanings and uses. Answering some common criticisms of Murdoch's novels, Heusel also points out that Murdoch's presentation of female characters critiques societal expectations of women. The study culminates with thoughtful analyses of Murdoch's characters in A Word Child, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea, Nuns and Soldiers, and The Message to the Planet in light of the patterns she has introduced.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820317071

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Deadly Encounters

True Crime Stories of Alberta

By: Barbara Smith

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Deadly Encounters

True Crime Stories of Alberta

By: Barbara Smith

Eight intriguing Alberta crimes are dramatically presented in this well-researched book.

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Dundurn

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088882162X

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

By: Barbara Robinson

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

By: Barbara Robinson

The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573617457

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Bike Lust

Harleys, Women, And American Society

By: Barbara Joans

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Bike Lust

Harleys, Women, And American Society

By: Barbara Joans

Bike Lust roars straight into the world of women bikers and offers us a ride. In this adventure story that is also an insider’s study of an American subculture, Barbara Joans enters as a passenger on the back of a bike, but soon learns to ride her own. As an anthropologist she untangles the rules, rituals, and rites of passage of the biker culture. As a new member of that culture, she struggles to overcome fear, physical weakness, and a tendency to shoot her mouth off—a tendency that very nearly gets her killed. Bike Lust travels a landscape of contradictions. Outlaws still chase freedom on the highway, but so do thousands of riders of all classes, races, and colors. Joans introduces us to the women who ride the rear—the biker chick, the calendar slut straddling the hot engine, the back-seat Betty at the latest rally, or the underage groupie at the local run. But she also gives us the first close look at women who ride in their own right, on their own bikes, as well as a new understanding of changing world of male bikers. These are ordinary women’s lives made extraordinary, adding a dimension of courage to the sport not experienced by males, risking life and limb for a glimpse of the very edge of existence. This community of riders exists as a primal tribute to humanity's lust for freedom.

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0299173534

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Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within

Her Final Diaries and the Diaries She Read

By: Barbara Lounsberry

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Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within

Her Final Diaries and the Diaries She Read

By: Barbara Lounsberry

Choice Outstanding Academic Title In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer’s life, from 1929 until Woolf’s suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more to her diary—and to the diaries of others—for support in these years as she engaged in inner artistic wars, including the struggle with her most difficult work, The Waves, and as the threat of fascism in the world outside culminated in World War II. During this period, the war began to bleed into Woolf’s diary entries. Woolf writes about Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin; copies down the headlines of the day; and captures how war changed her daily life. Alongside Woolf’s own entries, Lounsberry explores the diaries of 18 other writers as Woolf read them, including the diaries of Leo Tolstoy, Dorothy Wordsworth, Guy de Maupassant, Alice James, and André Gide. Lounsberry shows how reading diaries was both respite from Woolf’s public writing and also an inspiration for it. Tellingly, shortly before her suicide Woolf had stopped reading them completely. The outer war and Woolf’s inner life collide in this dramatic conclusion to the trilogy that resoundingly demonstrates why Virginia Woolf has been called “the Shakespeare of the diary.” Lounsberry’s masterful study is essential reading for a complete understanding of this extraordinary writer and thinker and the development of modernist literature.

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University Press of Florida

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0813065380

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The Underground Railroad Brides Collection

9 Couples Navigate the Road to Freedom before the Civil War

By: Barbara Tifft Blakey,Ramona K. Cecil,Lynn A. Coleman,Cecelia Dowdy,Patty Smith Hall,Terri J. Haynes,Debby Lee,Darlene Panzera,Penny Zeller

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The Underground Railroad Brides Collection

9 Couples Navigate the Road to Freedom before the Civil War

By: Barbara Tifft Blakey,Ramona K. Cecil,Lynn A. Coleman,Cecelia Dowdy,Patty Smith Hall,Terri J. Haynes,Debby Lee,Darlene Panzera,Penny Zeller

Join the journey as nine couples employ daring resourcefulness that leads them along the Underground Railroad in search of freedom and justice for all.

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Barbour Publishing

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1683226348

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9781683226345

Taste of Murder (Mixed mys eboxset)

By: Joanne Fluke,Lee Hollis,Barbara Ross

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Taste of Murder (Mixed mys eboxset)

By: Joanne Fluke,Lee Hollis,Barbara Ross

This buffet of food-themed mysteries makes a tasty three-course meal—and introduces a trio of sleuths from Maine to Minnesota. Includes recipes! Dig into the delectable books that kicked off three different mouth-watering mystery series—now in one volume! Includes: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder The First Hannah Swensen Mystery with Recipes! A heroine with an insatiable appetite for solving crimes, Hannah's Swenson's popular Lake Eden, Minnesota, bakery, The Cookie Jar, becomes a site for murder. And her suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies top the list of suspects. . . Death Of A Kitchen Diva A Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery Single mom Hayley Powell has received a plum assignment at Bar Harbor, Maine's, Island Times: to take over the food column. But when a rival is found face-down dead in a bowl of chowder, all signs point to Hayley. . . Clammed Up A Maine Clambake Mystery Julia Snowden returned to Busman's Harbor, Maine, to rescue her family's struggling clambake business—not to solve crimes. But when a catered wedding becomes a deadly reception, Julia must put everything on the back burner to search for the killer. . .

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Kensington Books

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161773702X

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9781617737022

Shattered

Miranda's Story

By: Barbara Barbato

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Shattered

Miranda's Story

By: Barbara Barbato

Finally, at twenty-three Miranda's career is on the fast track. She has the perfect job in the perfect city, and just when she meets the perfect man, her world tumbles down around her. In fulfillment of a promise she never thought she'd have to keep, Miranda is forced to give up her job in the city she loves and moves to California to care for her twelve years old nephew Joey Spence. Struggling with feelings of resentment, Miranda tries desperately to maintain a sense of normalcy for herself and her nephew. And at the same time struggles with the fear of being doomed to the same fate that befell her parents and her sister. As Joey develops into a handsome young man, Miranda is constantly haunted by the absence of Alex, the man who walked out of her life as quietly as he had walked into it. It's the last football game of the season and on the way to the stadium, an accident leaves Joey in a coma. When Joey finally awakens he must deal with the overwhelming task of putting all the missing pieces of his previous life back together.

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0595506127

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The Perfect Mrs. Claus

By: Barbara Matteson

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The Perfect Mrs. Claus

By: Barbara Matteson

Savannah Brady, a fifty-three-year-old widow, is far from perfect. Since her husband’s tragic death, and her son’s moving to Switzerland for a job opportunity, Savannah has walked through life zombie-like--merely existing, but not living. When Savannah ambles to her favorite lunchtime haunt, Howardson’s Emporium to browse the Halloween sale aisle, she meets one of the store’s employees, which changes her life in ways she never thought imaginable when they invite her to become the Perfect Mrs. Claus. This new opportunity brings the possibility of romance, all within the charm of a Christmas wonderland where holiday dreams and wishes really could come true.

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5 Prince Publishing LLC

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1631122894

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9781631122897

Until June

By: Barbara M. Britton

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Until June

By: Barbara M. Britton

When seventeen-year-old seamstress, Josephine Nimetz, agrees to take care of a WWI amputee in a remote Alaskan lodge, there's enough friction to melt the Mendenhall Glacier. Her position is only until June, and it pays well enough to overlook the hardship of managing a rustic home and a shell-shocked veteran. Geoff Chambers makes it clear that he isn't too fond of the “runt” sent to take care of his needs, nor of her painful mistakes. Dealing with a depressed and addicted veteran, pushes Josephine to the brink of leaving, if not for the money her salary brings. But Josephine is a perfectionist, determined to get Geoff back on his feet—figuratively...Although, sending a rich, handsome veteran back into society may cost Josephine the man she has grown to love.

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Pelican Ventures Book Group

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1522302883

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9781522302889

Montana Battlefields, 1806-1877

Native Americans and the U. S. Army at War

By: Barbara Fifer

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Montana Battlefields, 1806-1877

Native Americans and the U. S. Army at War

By: Barbara Fifer

Montana's era of "Indian Wars" consisted of nearly a century of skirmishes, battles, and large-scale wars between the U.S. military and native nations, including Blackfeet, Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, Arapahos, Gros Ventres, and Nez Perces -- and the army's Crow and Shoshone allies. These battlegrounds remain today, a testament to the clash of cultures that defined the region in the nineteenth century. Author Barbara Fifer takes readers on a historic journey to the solemn sites of Montana's most fascinating and storied battles, from Two Medicine Creek to the Little Bighorn and on to the Sweetgrass Hills, revealing engaging tales -- from fighters and witnesses on both sides.

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Farcountry Press

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1560375760

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Old Settlers of Mecosta, Isabella and Montcalm Counties in Michigan Volume II

By: Barbara Slater Nelson

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Old Settlers of Mecosta, Isabella and Montcalm Counties in Michigan Volume II

By: Barbara Slater Nelson

The term Old Settlers refers to the group of mixed race people that came to MI in the late 1800's and settled in the newly opened land in the Mecosta, Isabella and Montcalm counties. The title is well known through out the area and most know it refers to that group and anyone who descended from them. Volume two covers the original Old Settlers that came whose last names begin with D-R and follows each one of their descendants through every generation down to the current living generations. It includes photographs, family stories, articles and obituaries. They were an amazing group who settled the land, cleared it, farmed it, built homes, schools, churches, roads, married each other and raised families. There are many historical sites and monuments still there that are overseen by their descendants. Our history is kept alive by thousands of descendants and hundreds who work on genealogy and share their knowledge.

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Lulu.com

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0359837271

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9780359837274

Grays Hill

By: Barbara T. Cerny

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Grays Hill

By: Barbara T. Cerny

After her father committed suicide rather than face his mounting gambling debts, Oksana Wallingford knows she will have to work in order to keep food on the table and her younger brother, the new baron, in school. When her best friend finds her a position as the nanny of his brother's children, it is the opportunity Oksana needs. But what she didn't contend with was Rafe, the recently widowed Duke of Essex and her new employer. Oksana and Rafe's personalities are like oil and water. However, what begins as mutual hate slowly begins to change into something more. But what future can they have when Rafe has sworn off marriage for good? As the mismatched pair struggles to come to terms with one another, a disaster that throws everything into question strikes them both.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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163135342X

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A Dance With the Devil

A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath

By: Barbara Bentley

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A Dance With the Devil

A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath

By: Barbara Bentley

Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true. Because it was? At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry, Barbara Bentley couldn?t believe her luck?so when things didn?t add up, she struggled to ignore her doubts. She kept trying to put the pieces together?unaware that some of them were simply missing. Even as he drained her credit, dodged her questions, manipulated her and misled her, she stayed with him, suppressing her growing suspicions. Ultimately he would try to kill her, proving himself not a protector and provider, but a predator. This is Barbara?s courageous, compelling story, in her own words?of the slow, choking darkness that fell after the honeymoon was over, what it took to finally drive her to escape and start her life anew, and her tireless efforts to protect other women and help them learn from her example.

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Penguin

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144062934X

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Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric

By: Edward F. McQuarrie,Barbara J. Phillips

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Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric

By: Edward F. McQuarrie,Barbara J. Phillips

Rhetorical scholarship has found rich source material in the disciplines of advertising, communications research, and consumer behavior. Advertising, considered as a kind of communication, is distinguished by its focus on causing action. Its goal is not simply to communicate ideas, educate, or persuade, but to move a prospect closer to a purchase. The editors of "Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric" have been involved in developing the scholarship of advertising rhetoric for many years. In this volume they have assembled the most current and authoritative new perspectives on this topic. The chapter authors all present previously unpublished concepts that represent advances beyond what is already known about advertising rhetoric. In the opening and closing chapters editors Ed McQuarrie and Barbara Phillips provide an integrative view of the current state of the art in advertising rhetoric.

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Routledge

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1317469615

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Creationism's Trojan Horse

The Wedge of Intelligent Design

By: Barbara Forrest,Paul R. Gross

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Creationism's Trojan Horse

The Wedge of Intelligent Design

By: Barbara Forrest,Paul R. Gross

The Wedge has intruded itself successfully into educational politics at the local, state, and now national levels."--BOOK JACKET.

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Oxford University Press

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0195319737

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The Imperfect Primary

Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics

By: Barbara Norrander

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The Imperfect Primary

Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics

By: Barbara Norrander

Recognized as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2011! Many people complain about the complex system used to nominate presidents. The system is hardly rational because it was never carefully planned. Because of the dissatisfaction over the idiosyncrasies of the current system, periodic calls arise to reform the presidential nomination process. But how are we to make sense of the myriad complexities in the system as well as in the calls for change? In The Imperfect Primary, political scientist Barbara Norrander explores how presidential candidates are nominated, discusses past and current proposals for reform, and examines the possibility for more practical, incremental changes to the electoral rules. Norrander reminds us to be careful what we wish for—reforming the presidential nomination process is as complex as the current system. Through the modeling of empirical research to demonstrate how questions of biases can be systematically addressed, students can better see the advantages, disadvantages, and potential for unintended consequences in a whole host of reform proposals.

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1135844984

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Lessons from the Heartland

A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City

By: Barbara J. Miner

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Lessons from the Heartland

A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City

By: Barbara J. Miner

“Miner’s story of Milwaukee is filled with memorable characters . . . explores with consummate skill the dynamics of race, politics, and schools in our time.” —Mike Rose, author of The Mind at Work Weaving together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons from the Heartland tells of a city’s fall from grace—and its chance for redemption in the twenty-first century. A symbol of middle American working-class values, Wisconsin—and in particular urban Milwaukee—has been at the forefront of a half century of public education experiments, from desegregation and “school choice” to vouchers and charter schools. This book offers a sweeping narrative portrait of an all-American city at the epicenter of public education reform, and an exploration of larger issues of race and class in our democracy. The author, a former Milwaukee Journal reporter whose daughters went through the public school system, explores the intricate ways that jobs, housing, and schools intersect, underscoring the intrinsic link between the future of public schools and the dreams and hopes of democracy in a multicultural society. “A social history with the pulse and pace of a carefully crafted novel and a Dickensian cast of unforgettable characters. With the eye of an ethnographer, the instincts of a beat reporter, and the heart of a devoted mother and citizen activist, Miner has created a compelling portrait of a city, a time, and a people on the edge. This is essential reading.” —Bill Ayers, author of Teaching Toward Freedom “Eloquently captures the narratives of schoolchildren, parents, and teachers.” —Library Journal

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The New Press

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1595588647

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Wiped Out

By: Barbara Colley

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Wiped Out

By: Barbara Colley

The latest book in the acclaimed Charlotte LaRue Mystery series is an inspired re-imagining of the classic cozy tradition.

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075820762X

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Reagan's Mandate

Anecdotes from Inside Washington's Iron Triangle

By: Barbara N. McLennan

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Reagan's Mandate

Anecdotes from Inside Washington's Iron Triangle

By: Barbara N. McLennan

The population of the United States is projected to grow by almost 120 million people in the next 45 years. This growth, and change in population composition, will present local governments across the nation with unprecedented challenges. As cities and towns work to provide more services to their residents with fewer and fewer resources, managers and elected officials will be forced to face national issues such as transportation, food and fresh water supply, healthcare provision, and even global warming. Local governments will have to learn to rely less on their state and federal counterparts, and more on local resources. Services provided by local governments, more so than at any other level, are "people-driven," and the public will look to those officials closest to them for answers. In Earth is a Nice Little Planet: Who Will Save It? Christina Park and Orville Powell set out to look at some of the consequences of predicted population growth and identify connections to other large scale issues. What they discovered in researching these topics is that it is not really about the answers, but about the questions. The questions that every city and town in America should be asking themselves. How will we accommodate an increasing population? How will we provide for the financial and healthcare needs of the elderly and children? What can we do help combat climate change? The clock is ticking and we can not wait any longer to begin addressing these issues. It is time for local leaders to face these problems and begin the necessary discussions to look for ways to ensure a sustainable future for generations to come. Will you help save the planet?

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1438902859

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Frontiers of Forest Biology

Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western

By: A K Mitchell,Pasi Puttonen,M Stoehr,Barbara J Hawkins

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Frontiers of Forest Biology

Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western

By: A K Mitchell,Pasi Puttonen,M Stoehr,Barbara J Hawkins

Discover new approaches to promote a viable forest industry while protecting non-timber values!Frontiers of Forest Biology: Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western Forest Genetics Association gives you significant new insights on current initiatives in forest biology. Because the field is changing rapidly, you need to keep aware of current trends, as the emphasis in forest research shifts from productivity-based goals to sustainable development of forest resources. In this volume, you will find a comprehensive summary of the state of the art of forest science in North America. Whether your focus is on genetics or on the environmental aspects of forest science, plant physiology, or silviculture, you will find helpful chapters by practitioners as well as cutting-edge research by scientists. This integrated approach is unique in the field. Based on the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western Forest Genetics Association, Frontiers of Forest Biology addresses changing priorities in forest resource management. This important book contains fascinating research studies, complete with tables and diagrams, on topics such as biodiversity research, the productivity of commercial species, conserving adaptive variation in forest ecosystems, and the effect of harvesting trees on nutrient leaching.The book maps the frontiers of this fast-changing science with chapters on: the social, biological, and industrial context of forest biology new directions for research into genetics, physiology, plant silviculture, and conservation the impact of genetics on sustainable forestry the effects of cold and disease on plant physiology regeneration of various species after logging new species adapted for agroforestry the impact and management of exotic weeds Frontiers of Forest Biology offers solid information on a broad spectrum of topics and suggests fresh avenues for your investigations in all aspects of forest biology.

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1000445194

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Logged On

By: Barbara Ross

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Logged On

By: Barbara Ross

Previously published in Yule Log Murder Few things are as sweet as Christmas in coastal Maine. The only thing that can spoil the fun is murder . . . Realizing she can’t make a decent Bûche de Noël to save her life, Julia Snowden enlists the help of her eccentric neighbor, Mrs. St. Onge, in hopes of mastering the dessert for Christmas. With everyone in the old woman’s circle missing or deceased, however, it’s up to Julia to stop the deadly tidings before she’s the next Busman’s Harbor resident to meet a not-so-jolly fate.

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Kensington Cozies

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1496741498

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On the Rez and Other Stories

By: Barbara Wyatt Olson

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On the Rez and Other Stories

By: Barbara Wyatt Olson

Fifteen stories of quiet longing and desire, of second chances, and no chance at all. In On the Rez, when youre broken down and abandoned in Indian territory, on the dusty back roads of Kansas, there are certain to be monsters and fiends. In Ask for Anything, a family escaped into the Blue Ridge Mountains learns you do not always get what you think you want. In Florida Blues, a former lover on a prison visit must face regret, heartache, and frustration. While in California Quarter, a lady friend has not agreed to starving on the trip home.

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1504926390

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One Special Kiss

By: Barbara McMahon

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One Special Kiss

By: Barbara McMahon

Susannah Mercer worked tirelessly for years to reach her ultimate goal – becoming a doctor. Now that she’s finally living her dream, all that’s missing is romance. When the chief of staff pairs her with grumpy surgeon Greg Haversham for an important hospital event, she gets a bit overzealous with trying to look sophisticated. To Susannah's surprise, the cantankerous doctor offers to help her land a date. Then to her shock, Greg finds himself drawn to her–but only for an affair. He’s sworn off relationships forever. While he isn’t looking for something serious, she is. The only option – cut ties with him. That is until an unlikely turn of events changes Greg's heart forever.

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Barbara McMahon

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1944392998

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Hands On Water and Wastewater Equipment Maintenance

By: Barbara Renner

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Hands On Water and Wastewater Equipment Maintenance

By: Barbara Renner

Hands-On Maintenance for Water/Wastewater Equipment deals with equipment maintenance as individual components, not as complete machines. This allows more information about the design, application and maintenance requirements of machinery to be presented. The text covers basic operating characteristics of machinery components, making it a valuable reference source as well as a training and maintenance manual. Written in easy-to-understand language, without complex formulas or technical theories, this text provides you with basic information to help you acquire a general understanding of how components function and how to keep equipment operating properly.

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1566764289

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A Doctor for Rural America

The Reforms of Frances Sage Bradley

By: Barbara Barksdale Clowse

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A Doctor for Rural America

The Reforms of Frances Sage Bradley

By: Barbara Barksdale Clowse

Dr. Frances Sage Bradley (1862–1949) was a mediating force between the urban world of her own education and experience, and that of rural Americans. As a widow with four young children, Bradley trained as a doctor and became one of the first women to graduate from Cornell University Medical School. During the height of the Progressive Era, she left her private practice to do significant field work for the newly-created Children's Bureau, working mainly in the Appalachian South. In this timely biography, Barbara Barksdale Clowse details the story of this physician, reformer, and writer, and her efforts to extend access to healthcare to rural communities. Clowse describes Bradley's important innovations in the field of public health, including physical exams or "conferences" for children and infants which simultaneously educated parents and local medical practitioners, and her advocacy for improved nutrition and modern medicine in rural areas. Finally, Clowse illustrates how Bradley's work regarding maternal mortality and morbidity in America was instrumental in demonstrating the need for what became the Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921, also known as the Maternity and Infancy Protection Act. A century has passed since Bradley lived out her commitment to social justice in healthcare, yet many of the issues that she faced still plague the United States today. A Doctor for Rural America presents a balanced portrait of an overlooked pioneer and her work to establish healthcare as an obligation that the government owed to its citizens.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813179807

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9780813179803

Fingerprints of God

The Search for the Science of Spirituality

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

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Fingerprints of God

The Search for the Science of Spirituality

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Articles about research on spirituality and the brain are usually written from the point of view that religious experience can be understood from a purely scientific perspective. Hagerty's (religion correspondent, NPR) book does not have this naturalistic or materialistic tendency. Rather, as both a reporter and a religious person, she seeks insight on spirituality and science while being open to the possibility that spirituality may still have a transcendent component. The book is interesting to read because the author has interviewed many scientists as well as many people who attest to having mystical or near-death experiences. In a way, the reader feels like a participant in Hagerty's own encounter with the various pieces of information and evidence, struggling with her to make sense of it all. Highly recommended.John Jaeger, Dallas Baptist Univ. Lib. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Penguin

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1594488770

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Perpetua

Athlete of God

By: Barbara K. Gold

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Perpetua

Athlete of God

By: Barbara K. Gold

Perpetua was an early Christian martyr who died in Roman Carthage in 203 CE, along with several fellow martyrs, including one other woman, Felicitas. She has attracted great interest for two main reasons: she was one of the earliest martyrs, especially female martyrs, about whom we have any knowledge, and she left a narrative written in prison just before she went to her death in the amphitheater. Her narrative is embedded in a tripartite telling of the arrest and deaths of these martyrs, the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis. The other two parts of her tale were written by Saturus, a fellow martyr and probably her teacher, and a nameless editor or confessor, who introduces her circumstances and group and then tells of her death after she stops writing. Her story is steeped in mystery, and every aspect of her life and death has generated much controversy. Some do not believe that she herself could have written the narrative: the circumstances of her imprisonment and the limitations of her ability to write such a rhetorically complex tale are inconceivable. Some believe that her editor was none other then Tertullian, the famous 2nd-3rd century church father and Perpetua's fellow north African. Some, including Augustine, wonder why the feast day was named only for Perpetua and Felicitas and not for her fellow male martyrs. Some believe that these martyr tales were largely fabricated or constructed in order to generate publicity for the early Christians. This book will investigate and try to make sense of all aspects of Perpetua's life, death, and circumstances: her family and life in Carthage, Christians and Romans in Carthage and in the Roman empire in this period, the comparisons of martyrs to athletes, the influence of these martyr tales upon the Acts of the Apostles and the Greek novel, the reactions of later church fathers like Augustine to her story and her popularity, and the gendering of this text.

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Oxford University Press

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0190905301

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9780190905309

Insights: America's Voters-At-Large

By: Barbara Hobbs

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Insights: America's Voters-At-Large

By: Barbara Hobbs

Insights: Americas-Voters-At-Large, is a comprehensive American story that the author, Barbara Hobbs, devotes to the American peoples general perceptions of the 2008-2009 economic recession. The worse recession since Depression 1929, reports indicate; the general publics reactions to the mountainous challenges the new Commander-in-Chief endures during his first 100 days in the Oval office; the publics-at-large responses to the amazing partisanship on Capitol Hill; and a suggested win-win solution to the complex problem. Included also are satirical anecdotes and poetry, mostly depicting the electrifying 2008 presidential race and the 2008-2009 Americas general politics.

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1450205518

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