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The Urban Geography of Boxing

Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

By: Benita Heiskanen

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The Urban Geography of Boxing

Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

By: Benita Heiskanen

This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and boxing insiders in Texas, it discusses boxing from the vantage point of the sundry players, who are involved with it: the labor force, promoters, handlers, ringside officials, medical professionals, media, and the audiences. The various parties have multiple stakes in the sport. For some, boxing is about physical empowerment; others are in it for the money; some deploy it for ideological purposes; yet others use it to claim their 15-minutes of fame, and frequently the various interests overlap. In this book, Benita Heiskanen makes a broader connection between boxing and the spatial organization of racialized, class-based, and gendered bodies within particular urban geographies. Journeying actual sites where the sport is organized, such as the barrio, boxing gym, and competition venues, she maps the ways in which boxing insiders negotiate a variety of conflicting agendas at local, regional, and national scales. Beyond the United States, the worker-athletes conduct their labor within global socioeconomic conditions, business networks, and legal principles. Through this sporting context, Heiskanen’s discussion discloses some complex socio-historical, cultural, and political power relations between urban margins and centers, with ramifications far beyond boxing. This book will be of interest to readers in Sport Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory, Labor Studies, and American Studies.

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Routledge

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113631413X

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9781136314131

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman

By: Benita Eisler

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The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman

By: Benita Eisler

Highlights the life and work of the American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in images of Native Americans and who advocated for them before ultimately exploiting them in a live show that brought tragedy to both the artist and his performers.

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497

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393066169

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9780393066166

British Chimney Sweeps

Five Centuries of Chimney Sweeping

By: Benita Cullingford

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British Chimney Sweeps

Five Centuries of Chimney Sweeping

By: Benita Cullingford

Our picture of a chimney sweep is often Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. This meticulously researched examination shows a different side to this hazardous trade. The art and science of chimney sweeping are examined in detail for the first time in this lively and fascinating book. From the development of chimneys in the twelfth century, replacing the open cooking fire in a smoke-filled room with a plain hole in the roof, to the patenting of mechanical devices in the late nineteenth century that came to the rescue of many a poor climbing boy, all is revealed. The personalities who dominated the profession, which surprisingly included several women sweeps, are portrayed, along with many illustrations of the tools of the trade. Sweeping techniques, the impact of social reform and the place of the sweep in literature are explored in this absorbing work. With 75 black-and-white illustrations.

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265

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New Amsterdam Books

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1461663253

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9781461663256

Postcolonial Studies

A Materialist Critique

By: Benita Parry

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Postcolonial Studies

A Materialist Critique

By: Benita Parry

A powerful selection of essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies, arguing for practices of reading and criticism fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions.

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252

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Routledge

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1134307411

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9781134307418

Byron

Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

By: Benita Eisler

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Byron

Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

By: Benita Eisler

In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron. Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the instant stardom achieved with the publication ofChilde Harold's Pilgrimage; his passionate and destructive love affairs, including an incestuous liaison with his half-sister; and finally his tragic death in the cause of Greek independence. This magnificent record of a towering figure is sure to become the new standard biography of Byron.

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Vintage

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0307773272

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9780307773272

Care Planning

A guide for nurses

By: Benita Wilson,Andrea Woollands,David Barrett

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Care Planning

A guide for nurses

By: Benita Wilson,Andrea Woollands,David Barrett

Why is care planning important? How can you use care planning effectively in your own practice? Being able to plan the care of patients is one of most important aspects of a nurse’s role. Using an interactive approach, this book explores the reasons why care planning is so important and explains the theory behind the practice, providing a step-by-step guide to assessing patients, diagnosing problems, planning goals and interventions, and evaluating progress.

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290

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Routledge

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1317902688

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9781317902683

Delusions and Discoveries

India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930

By: Benita Parry,Michael Sprinker

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Delusions and Discoveries

India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930

By: Benita Parry,Michael Sprinker

No cultural phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s in Britain was more curious than the Raj revival, with its slew of films and fictions, its rage for memorabilia of imperial rule in India, and its strange nostalgia for a time and a world long since past. Today, with the arrival of so-called postcolonial studies, that revival lives on in a strange afterlife of critical study. Writing some years before Raj nostalgia became all the rage, and out of the rather different political and intellectual climate of 1960s national liberation struggles, Benita Parry produced what remains one of the landmark studies of British attitudes towards India. Available for the first time in Paper, Delusions and Discoveries authoritatively surveys the mix of racist and jingoistic prejudices that dominated the writings of Anglo-Indians from Flora Annie Steele and Maud Diver to Kipling and beyond. The book also includes treatments of more liberal thinkers like Edmund Candler, Edward James Thompson and E. M. Forster, as well as a new preface by the author situating her work in relation to recent studies of the culture of colony and empire.

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Verso

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1859841287

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9781859841280

Come to the Table

Food, Fellowship, and a Celebration of God's Bounty

By: Benita Long

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Come to the Table

Food, Fellowship, and a Celebration of God's Bounty

By: Benita Long

A cookbook with a focus on entertaining family and friends, featuring photographs of table settings and meals, as well inspirational quotes and Scriptures. God intends for us, as sacred life travelers, to celebrate and enjoy His bounty. Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor for it is the gift of God. This celebration of life was intended by God to be a way of life now and as preparation for a future event in which as followers of Christ, all are invited to participate. God intends for us to enjoy his blessings in abundance. Come to the Table is a threefold feast. For the mind, there are thought-provoking quotations from great poets and thinkers. For the spirit, stunning photographs and inspirational Scriptures transport you to another realm. For the body, there are hearty and delectable recipes. Inside the collection, you’ll find soothing dishes for the soul including . . . Parmesan Grits Casserole, Grilled Lemon Chicken, Cheddar Squash Strata, Lamb Kabobs and much more! Throughout Come to the Table, very few people appear. This is our personal way of inviting you to claim each setting as your own. “That the mountains shall drip with new wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water” [Joel 3:18].

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1418586447

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9781418586447

Antibody-Mediated Drug Delivery Systems

Concepts, Technology, and Applications

By: Yashwant V. Pathak,Simon Benita

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Antibody-Mediated Drug Delivery Systems

Concepts, Technology, and Applications

By: Yashwant V. Pathak,Simon Benita

This book covers various aspects of antibody mediated drug delivery systems – theoretical aspects, processing, viral and non-viral vectors, and fields where these systems find and /or are being evaluated for applications as therapeutics and diagnostic treatment. Chapters discuss actual applications of techniques used for formulation and characterization. Applications areas include cancer, pulmonary, ocular diseases; brain drug delivery; and vaccine delivery. The contributing authors represent over 10 different countries, covering recent developments happening around the globe.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470612819

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9780470612811

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

By: Debra Benita Shaw

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Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

By: Debra Benita Shaw

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending with N K Jemisin's The City We Became (2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, examining the original novels in the context of their adaptation to new media formats in the twenty-first century. What this reveals is a consistent preoccupation with how scientific ideas can be employed to challenge existing social structures and argue for change.

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183

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Springer Nature

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3031251717

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9783031251719

Myth Performance in the African Diasporas

Ritual, Theatre, and Dance

By: Benita Brown,Dannabang Kuwabong,Christopher Olsen

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Myth Performance in the African Diasporas

Ritual, Theatre, and Dance

By: Benita Brown,Dannabang Kuwabong,Christopher Olsen

Diaspora studies continue to expand in range and scope and remain fertile terrain for investigating multiple techniques of myth creation in dance performance, history as performance, dramatic narrative, and staged rituals in the field. Similarly, research in postcoloniality, gender/sexuality, intercultural, and literary studies, among others, all engage and feature core components of performance and myth in articulating and understanding their fields. This sharing of similar components also demonstrates the interrelatedness of these fields. In Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre, and Dance, the authors contend that performance traditions across artistic disciplines reveal a shared—if sometimes varied—journey among diasporic artists to reconnect with their African ancestors. The volume begins with a historical and aesthetic overview of how dramatists, choreographers, and performance artists have approached the task of interpreting African myth. The individual chapters reveal how specific artists, dramatists, and choreographers have interpreted African myth and what performative approaches and traditions they have used. Focusing on theatre practitioners from the nineteenth century through the present, the authors examine performative traditions from Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Drawing upon research in theatre, dance, and literary texts, Myth Performance in the African Diasporas will be crucial to academics interested in African performance viewed through the prism of myth making and spiritual/ritualistic stagings. Besides those interested in diasporic studies, this book will also be useful to scholars and students of history, drama, theatre, and dance.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810892804

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9780810892804

Care Planning

A guide for nurses

By: Barrett David,Benita Wilson,Andrea Woollands,David Barrett

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Care Planning

A guide for nurses

By: Barrett David,Benita Wilson,Andrea Woollands,David Barrett

This clear and intuitive introduction to care planning for nurses explains the benefits of holistic, individualised care planning from a professional and clinical perspective. Using the ASPIRE model, it guides the reader step-by-step through a problem-solving approach to care, from assessing patients and identifying their needs, to planning goals and interventions, and evaluating progress. The book is structured to explain the theory of care planning in relation to a number of common nursing models and then show how the theory can best be put into practice. It draws on recent research to show how nurses can develop individualised care plans from scratch or use and adapt a range of ‘off-the-shelf’ tools. It is written in a clear, succinct and down-to-earth writing style, which will put students immediately at their ease, and is rich with pedagogic features, including: ‘Stop and think’ boxes to check understanding; boxed ‘Practice examples’ to illustrate points made; ‘Research summary’ boxes to highlight relevant and important studies; ‘What have you learnt so far?’ features to recap on key points of discussion; mini care plans; regular activities to encourage the reader to apply what they have learnt to particular practice scenarios. This is a go-to text for all pre-registration nursing students taking courses on the theory and practice of effective healthcare delivery.

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297

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Routledge

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1317246020

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9781317246022

O'Keeffe and Stieglitz

An American Romance

By: Benita Eisler

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O'Keeffe and Stieglitz

An American Romance

By: Benita Eisler

Almost 24 years his junior, Georgia O'Keeffe became for Alfred Stieglitz a near icon of American art--as well as his wife. In a marvelous, multileveled biography, Benita Eisler traces the epic and stormy relationship of these incomparable artists, from their consuming ambition to their sexual experimentation.

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Penguin Mass Market

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0140170944

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9780140170948

The Superintendent's Planner

A Monthly Guide and Reflective Journal

By: Gloria L. Johnston,Rene S. Townsend,Gwen E. Gross,Peggy Lynch,Lorraine M. Garcy,Benita B. Roberts,Patricia B. Novotney

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The Superintendent's Planner

A Monthly Guide and Reflective Journal

By: Gloria L. Johnston,Rene S. Townsend,Gwen E. Gross,Peggy Lynch,Lorraine M. Garcy,Benita B. Roberts,Patricia B. Novotney

This reflective calendar and planning journal helps new and veteran superintendents address day-to-day concerns while keeping student achievement in perspective throughout the year.

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153

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Corwin Press

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1452212511

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9781452212517

George Weiss

Architect of the Golden Age Yankees

By: Burton A. Boxerman,Benita W. Boxerman

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George Weiss

Architect of the Golden Age Yankees

By: Burton A. Boxerman,Benita W. Boxerman

The New York Yankees were the strongest team in the majors from 1948 through 1960, capturing the American League Pennant 10 times and winning seven World Championships. The average fan, when asked who made the team so dominant, will mention Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford or Mickey Mantle. Some will insist manager Casey Stengel was the key. But pundits at the time, and respected historians today, consider the shy, often taciturn George Martin Weiss the real genius behind the Yankees' success. Weiss loved baseball but lacked the ability to play. He made up for it with the savvy to run a team better than his competitors. He spent more than 50 years in the game, including nearly 30 with the Yankees. Before becoming their general manager, he created their superlative farm system that supplied the club with talented players. When the Yankees retired him at 67, the newly franchised New York Mets immediately hired him to build their team. This book is the first definitive biography of Weiss, a Hall of Famer hailed for contributing "as much to baseball as any man the game could ever know.

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McFarland

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0786472537

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9780786472536

Effective Superintendent-School Board Practices

Strategies for Developing and Maintaining Good Relationships With Your Board

By: Rene S. Townsend,Gloria L. Johnston,Gwen E. Gross,Peggy Lynch,Lorraine Garcy,Benita Roberts,Patricia B. Novotney

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Effective Superintendent-School Board Practices

Strategies for Developing and Maintaining Good Relationships With Your Board

By: Rene S. Townsend,Gloria L. Johnston,Gwen E. Gross,Peggy Lynch,Lorraine Garcy,Benita Roberts,Patricia B. Novotney

Superintendents and board members are provided real-life vignettes highlighting challenges and successes, information on building relationships and managing conflict, and reflective practice questions and self-assessment.

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