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The Book of Harlan

By: Bernice L. McFadden

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Bernice L. McFadden has been named the Go On Girl! Book Club's 2018 Author of the Year WINNER of the 2017 American Book Award WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee (Fiction)! A Washington Post Notable Book of 2016 "McFadden uses the experiences of her own ancestors as loose inspiration for the life of Harlan, whom she portrays from his childhood in Harlem through imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and his struggles afterward to put his life back together." --Library Journal "Simply miraculous...As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader's astonishment at the magic she creates. This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of The Book of Harlan is the restorative force that is music." --Washington Post "Bernice L. McFadden took me on a melodious literary journey through time and place in her masterpiece, The Book of Harlan. It's complex, real, and raw...McFadden intricately and purposefully weaves history as a backdrop in her fiction. The Book of Harlan brilliantly explores questions about agency, purpose, freedom, and survival." --Literary Hub, one of Nicole Dennis-Benn's 26 Books From the Last Decade that More People Should Read "McFadden's writing breaks the heart--and then heals it again. The perspective of a black man in a concentration camp is unique and harrowing and this is a riveting, worthwhile read." --Toronto Star "The Book of Harlan is an incredible read. Bernice McFadden...has created an amazing novel that speaks to lesser known aspects of the African-American experience and illuminates the human heart and spirit. Her spare prose is rich in details that convey deep emotions and draw the reader in. This fictional narrative of Harlan Elliot's life is firmly grounded amidst real people and places--prime historical fiction, and the best book I have read this year." --Historical Novels Review, Editors' Choice "McFadden packs a powerful punch with tight prose and short chapters that bear witness to key events in early twentieth-century history: both World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Great Migration. Partly set in the Jim Crow South, the novel succeeds in showing the prevalence of racism all across the country--whether implemented through institutionalized mechanisms or otherwise. Playing with themes of divine justice and the suffering of the righteous, McFadden presents a remarkably crisp portrait of one average man's extraordinary bravery in the face of pure evil." --Booklist, Starred review The Book of Harlan opens with the courtship of Harlan's parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where he eventually becomes a professional musician. When Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Robbins, are invited to perform at a popular cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre--affectionately referred to as "The Harlem of Paris" by black American musicians--Harlan jumps at the opportunity, convincing Lizard to join him. But after the City of Light falls under Nazi occupation, Harlan and Lizard are thrown into Buchenwald--the notorious concentration camp in Weimar, Germany--irreparably changing the course of Harlan's life. Based on exhaustive research and told in McFadden's mesmeric prose, The Book of Harlan skillfully blends the stories of McFadden's familial ancestors with those of real and imagined characters.

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Akashic Books

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1617754544

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Passion and Reason

Making Sense of Our Emotions

By: Richard S. Lazarus,Bernice N. Lazarus

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Passion and Reason

Making Sense of Our Emotions

By: Richard S. Lazarus,Bernice N. Lazarus

When Oxford published Emotion and Adaptation, the landmark 1991 book on the psychology of emotion by internationally acclaimed stress and coping expert Richard Lazarus, Contemporary Psychology welcomed it as "a brightly shining star in the galaxy of such volumes." Psychiatrists, psychologists and researchers hailed it as a masterpiece, a major breakthrough in our understanding of the emotional process and its central role in our adaptation as individuals and as a species. What was still needed, however, was a book for general readers and health care practitioners that would dispel the myths still surrounding cultural beliefs about emotion and systematically explain the relevance of the new research to the emotional dramas of our everyday lives. Now, in Passion and Reason, Lazarus draws on his four decades of pioneering research to bring readers the first book to move beyond both clinical jargon and "feel-good" popular psychology to really explain, in plain, accessible language, how emotions are aroused, how they are managed, and how they critically shape our views of ourselves and the world around us. With his co-author writer Bernice Lazarus, Dr. Lazarus explores the latest findings on the short and long-term causes and effects of various emotions, including the often conflicting research on stress management and links between negative emotions and heart disease, cancer, and other aspects of physical and psychological health. Lazarus makes a strong case that contrary to common assumption, emotions are not irrational--our emotions and our analytical thought processes are inextricably linked. While not a "how-to" book, Passion and Reason does describe how readers can interpret what lies behind their own emotions and those of their families, friends, and co-workers, and how to manage them more effectively. Exploring fifteen emotions in depth, from love to jealousy, the authors show how the personal meaning we give to the events and conditions of our lives trigger such emotions as anger, anxiety, guilt, and pride. They provide fascinating vignettes to frame a "biography" of each emotion. Some are composite case histories drawn from Dr. Lazarus's long career, but most are stories of people the Lazaruses have known over the years--people whose emotional fears, conflicts, and desires mirror readers' own. The Lazaruses also offer a special chapter on the diverse strategies of coping people use in managing their emotions, and another, "When Coping Fails," on psychotherapy and its approaches to emotional stress and dysfunction, from traditional Freudian psychoanalysis to continuing research into relaxation techniques, meditation, hypnosis, and biofeedback. Packed with insight and compellingly readable, Passion and Reason will enrich all readers fascinated by our emotional lives.

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Oxford University Press

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0198024835

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A Fly in a Pail of Milk

The Herb Carnegie Story

By: Herb Carnegie,Bernice Carnegie

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A Fly in a Pail of Milk

The Herb Carnegie Story

By: Herb Carnegie,Bernice Carnegie

Revised and updated with commentary from Bernice Carnegie, Herb’s daughter, and life lessons passed from father to daughter Herbert Carnegie was the complete hockey package in the 1940s and 1950s. Though his contributions to society both in sport and education have been referenced and profiled in books, documentaries, and thousands of articles, this is Carnegie’s own account of striving to break the glass ceiling, starting with his career as a professional hockey player on all-white teams. In 1978, noted hockey journalist Stan Fischler wrote a powerful headline about Carnegie: “Born Too Soon.” A Fly in a Pail of Milk reveals the feelings of a trailblazer — a man who proved to be unstoppable on the ice and in his resolve to make our world a better place. In this new edition, Herb’s daughter Bernice Carnegie shares stories about what it was like to work closely with Herb on youth and educational projects for more than 30 years. She also reflects on parts of her father’s writings, sharing personal thoughts, family stories, and conversations about how his journey profoundly influenced her life.

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ECW Press

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1773053795

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The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness

By: David Pilgrim,Bernice Pescosolido,Anne Rogers

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The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness

By: David Pilgrim,Bernice Pescosolido,Anne Rogers

This title integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.

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SAGE Publications

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1847873820

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The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945

A patchwork of internment

By: Bernice Archer

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The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945

A patchwork of internment

By: Bernice Archer

Bernice Archer's comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the Far East, combines a wide variety of conventional and unconventional source material. This includes contemporary War, Foreign and Colonial Office papers, diaries, letters, camp newspapers and artefacts, post-war medical, engineering and educational reports, biographies, autobiographies, memoirs and over fifty oral interviews with ex-internees. Using contemporary personal accounts, the shock of the Japanese victories and the devastating experience of capture are highlighted. This book also covers wider issues such as the role of women in war, gender and war, children and war, colonial culture, oral history, and war and memory.

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Routledge

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1135768404

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The Biotechnology Debate

Democracy in the Face of Intractable Disagreement

By: Bernice Bovenkerk

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The Biotechnology Debate

Democracy in the Face of Intractable Disagreement

By: Bernice Bovenkerk

This book grounds deliberative democratic theory in a more refined understanding of deliberative practice, in particular when dealing with intractable moral disagreement regarding novel technologies. While there is an ongoing, vibrant debate about the theoretical merits of deliberative democracy on the one hand, and more recently, empirical studies of specific deliberative exercises have been carried out, these two discussions fail to speak to one another. Debates about animal and plant biotechnology are examined as a paradigmatic case for intractable disagreement in today’s pluralistic societies. This examination reveals that the disagreements in this debate are multi-faceted and multi-dimensional and can often be traced to fundamental disagreements about values or worldviews. “One of the acute insights to emerge from this examination is that deliberation can serve different purposes vis-à-vis different types of problem. In the case of deeply unstructured problems, like the modern biotechnology debate, the aim of inclusion is more appropriate than the aim of consensus. This book highlights the importance of political culture and broader institutional settings in shaping the capacity and propensity of citizens to engage in deliberation and the degree to which governments are prepared to relinquish authority to deliberative mini-publics." Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400726902

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9789400726901

Honeymoon Hotels

By: Bernice Crown Teifeld

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Honeymoon Hotels

By: Bernice Crown Teifeld

HONEYMOON HOTELS is a collection of vignettes detailing many coincidences, adventures, humor and surprises. With photographs taken by her husband Roy.

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FriesenPress

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1770971300

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9781770971301

The New Medicines

How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold

By: Bernice Z. Schacter

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The New Medicines

How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold

By: Bernice Z. Schacter

Today, most people use prescription medications. Every year, the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry produces new medicines that treat everything from arthritis to AIDS, from high cholesterol to depression. But, despite recent controversies regarding the safety of drugs, consumers know little about the medications that they ingest and inject. How are these new medicines invented? How do consumers know that drugs are safe and effective? How are they tested? Who regulates their production - and who watches the regulators? How do drug companies produce the vast quantities needed for the marketplace, and why do they market their drugs as they do? The New Medicines leads the reader through the maze of the modern drug industry - from bench to bedside - and provides consumers with a step-by-step understanding of how new medicines are created, approved, marketed, and sold. In addition to explaining how drugs reach the medicine cabinet, the author - an experienced researcher and teacher - provides the scientific and business background for understanding the current controversial issues surrounding new medicines, such as: The rise and fall of the COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx and Celebrex, and the process by which they were invented, approved, and re-evaluated. The saga of the cancer drug Erbitux and its creator, the company Imclone, made famous as the centerpiece of the Martha Stewart insider-trading scandal. The strengths and weaknesses of the approval process of the Food and Drug Administration. The controversial new marketing techniques of the pharmaceutical industry. A balanced work that provides readers with an unbiased look at the drug industry, The New Medicines will answer the questions of anyone who has ever looked at a bottle of their prescription pills and wondered, how did that get here?

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313083258

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9780313083259

LaTeX for Linux

A Vade Mecum

By: Bernice S. Lipkin

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LaTeX for Linux

A Vade Mecum

By: Bernice S. Lipkin

This comprehensive guide is directed at Linux and UNIX users but is also the best how-to book on the use of LaTeX in preparing articles, books and theses. Unlike other LaTeX books, this one is particularly suitable for anyone coming to LaTeX for the first time.

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0387987088

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Macbeth

Second Edition

By: Bernice W. Kliman

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Macbeth

Second Edition

By: Bernice W. Kliman

In this expanded analysis of Macbeth in performance, Bernice W. Kliman examines a number of major productions of the play on stage and screen, inviting the reader to contemplate and compare directors' and actors' choices for what is arguably Shakespeare's most compelling play. Kliman's in-depth analysis of Orson Welles's 1948 film version as well as his earlier stage production, Roman Polanski's famous film, and several different television versions from America and Britain offers an invaluable guide to the most prominent performances across a range of media. She also considers Yukio Ninagawa's staging, which provides an exciting and novel Japanese perspective on the play for Western audiences.

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Manchester University Press

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0719062292

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Where Is Home Papa?

By: Isaacson,Bernice Green Isaacson,Iscason

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Where Is Home Papa?

By: Isaacson,Bernice Green Isaacson,Iscason

This true story takes place in Iowa and Minnesota in the early 1900's. It is about a father who desperately wants to provide a proper home for his two motherless daughters, but his addiction to alcohol repeatedly stand in the way.

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0931714451

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9780931714450

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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Frosted

Take Your Baked Goods to the Next Level with Decadent Buttercreams, Meringues, Ganaches and More

By: Bernice Baran

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Frosted

Take Your Baked Goods to the Next Level with Decadent Buttercreams, Meringues, Ganaches and More

By: Bernice Baran

You Can Have Your Cake—and Frost It Too! With these 60 indulgent, over-the-top frosted treats from Bernice Baran, founder of Baran Bakery, you can craft impressive layer cakes, easy sheet cakes, fun cookies, bars, brownies and more—all with creative custom toppings! Master popular options like buttercream, meringue, cream cheese frosting and ganache with Bernice’s go-to base frosting recipes and foolproof tips and tricks. You’ll also learn which makes the perfect addition to each dessert and occasion in her Frosting 101 section, which breaks down the different flavors, textures and characteristics of each topping and what it pairs best with. Never again will runny, overheated frosting mar a beautifully decorated birthday cake or deflated whipped cream ruin the presentation of your dinner party dessert. Perfect for beginner bakers and buttercream connoisseurs alike, Frosted is the sweetness you’ve been missing in your day!

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Page Street Publishing

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1645672956

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9781645672951

Reviewing Leadership (Engaging Culture)

A Christian Evaluation of Current Approaches

By: Robert J. Banks,Bernice M. Ledbetter,David C. Greenhalgh

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Reviewing Leadership (Engaging Culture)

A Christian Evaluation of Current Approaches

By: Robert J. Banks,Bernice M. Ledbetter,David C. Greenhalgh

Evaluating Current Approaches to Leadership This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of current approaches to leadership from a discerning Christian perspective. Combining expertise in leadership, theology, and ministry, the authors take a historical look at leadership and how it is viewed and used in today's context. The book is informed by both biblical and leadership studies scholarship and interacts with a number of popular marketplace writings on leadership. It also evaluates exemplary role models of Christian leadership. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout.

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Baker Academic

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1441227180

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9781441227188

New Myth, New World

From Nietzsche to Stalinism

By: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

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New Myth, New World

From Nietzsche to Stalinism

By: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. In this pioneering book, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal excavates the trail of long-obscured Nietzschean ideas that took root in late Imperial Russia, intertwining with other elements in the culture to become a vital ingredient of Bolshevism and Stalinism.

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Penn State Press

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0271046589

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9780271046587

The Rule of Law

A Very Short Introduction

By: Aziz Z. Huq,Frank and Bernice J Greenberg Professor of Law Aziz Z Huq

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The Rule of Law

A Very Short Introduction

By: Aziz Z. Huq,Frank and Bernice J Greenberg Professor of Law Aziz Z Huq

This very short introduction sets out the origins and development of an English-language debate centered around the phrase "rule of law." It aims is to explore the distinctive ethical contribution offered by various thinkers to this specific phrase, first theorized by the English scholar A.V. Dicey, while largely setting aside how the same questions are framed and resolved in other traditions. The book opens by canvassing the classical and early modern sources upon which Dicey and his successors explicitly drew. It then explores the idea of Dicey, who it flags as the first self-conscious theorist of the rule of law. It then recounts his immediate successors. These include a heterogenous range of thinkers, such as Friedrich Hayek, Lon Fuller, Ronald Dworkin, and Tom Bingham. With this genealogy in hand, the book then reflects the important question of why the rule of law (in some version or other) persists-that is, why do actors with the power to cast aside the rule of law not do so? The book next turns to the ways in which the term "rule of law" has diffused across borders, making it a geopolitical phenomenon. Specifically, the phrase was taken toward the end of the twentieth century across borders by actors as diverse as the World Bank, Singapore, and the Chinese Communist Party. Finally, the book closes by examining the way that the rule-of-law tradition can be challenged both as a matter of theory and practice"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197657427

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9780197657423

Stuff I Forgot to Remember

By: Bernice Zakin

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Stuff I Forgot to Remember

By: Bernice Zakin

This entire book is the result of the collaborative efforts of the Xlibris staff who did the actual printing and handled all the technicalities of its production and publication. And lets not forget Elise Alarimo who transcribed all of the material and conducted the business end so ably. She made the many telephone calls, filled out various forms and arranged the entire table of contents, etc and was incredibly involved throughout this entire procedure. Also I want to thank Elaine Winik whose suggestions as to some of the titles of these essays in addition to her dedication and constant encouragement in her writing classes was so invaluable to me. Plus MarcusI certainly do thank you for being my ongoing ink supplier. How would I be able to write without it. Finally, I (Bernice) designed and drew the books front cover as I did with all 8 of my other books and of course I am totally responsible for the literary contents.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483653862

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9781483653860

Neuropeptide Research Trends

By: Bernice A. Levine

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Neuropeptide Research Trends

By: Bernice A. Levine

The explosion of research activity in the field of neuropeptides has led to the idenfication of numerous naturally occurring endogenous peptides which act as neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, or trophic factors, to mediate nervous system functions. Increasing numbers of non-peptide ligands of neuropeptide receptors have been developed, which act as agonists or antagonists in peptidergic systems. The scope of this book includes gene regulation of peptide expression, peptide receptor subtypes, transgenic and knockout mice with mutations in genes for neuropeptides and peptide receptors, neuroanatomy, physiology, behaviour, neurotrophic factors, preclinical drug evaluation, clinical studies, and clinical trials.

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Nova Publishers

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1600216404

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9781600216404

It Came From the 1950s!

Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

By: Darryl Jones,Elizabeth McCarthy,Bernice M. Murphy

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It Came From the 1950s!

Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

By: Darryl Jones,Elizabeth McCarthy,Bernice M. Murphy

An eclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.

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Springer

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0230337236

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9780230337237

Helping your Child Learn to Read

By: Bernice Cullinan,Brod Bagert

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Helping your Child Learn to Read

By: Bernice Cullinan,Brod Bagert

Regular practice is the best way to reinforce concepts and allow students to gain confidence and mastery of skills. With Helping your Child Learn to Read you get reading and critical thinking exercises for students for every day of the school year. Presented in a consistent format from week to week, the activities in Helping your Child Learn to Read allow students to progress in reading comprehension and word study skills, and makes diagnostics and assessment easy for parents and educators. Through both fiction and nonfiction reading exercises, students get purposeful practice in engaging with diverse texts appropriate for their grade level. Ideal for after school study, intervention, or homework, Helping your Child Learn to Read is correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards. In addition to reading passages, data-driven assessment tips as well as digital versions of the assessment analysis tools are provided. With text passages that advance in complexity throughout the year, student learning is enriched by developing and honing skills of reading comprehension, interpretation of symbols, making logical inference, summarizing and responding to literature, and more. Boost your child's reading skills in a hurry with the easy-to-use activities in Helping your Child Learn to Read.

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