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The King of Children

The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

By: Betty Jean Lifton

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The King of Children

The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

By: Betty Jean Lifton

As stirring as "Schindler's List", this classic biography focuses on the first advocate of children's rights--the man known as the savior of hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. A "New York Times" Notable Book. photos.

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Macmillan

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0312155603

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9780312155605

The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition

By: T. Scott Bryan,Betty Tucker Bryan

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The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition

By: T. Scott Bryan,Betty Tucker Bryan

Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area. Now in its fourth edition, this is still the only book that includes all aspects of the park. Much more than just a guidebook, it covers the park’s cultural history, botany and zoology, hiking and biking opportunities, and more. Information is provided for all of Death Valley’s visitors, from first-time travelers just learning about the area to those who are returning for in-depth explorations. This new edition features a number of important changes—including information on the boundary and wilderness changes that resulted from the Dingell Act of 2019, the reopened Keane Wonder Mine area, the devastating flash flooding of Scotty’s Castle, scenic river designations, the Inn and Ranch resorts, renovated and now operated as the Oasis at Death Valley—as well as new maps and updated color photos. With extensive input from National Park Service resource management, law enforcement, and interpretive personnel, as well as a thorough bibliography for suggested reading, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition is the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive guide available for this national treasure.

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University Press of Colorado

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1646420535

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9781646420537

Whispering Woods

By: Betty Whitaker Jackson

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Whispering Woods

By: Betty Whitaker Jackson

Phil Baxter was a successful young architect and his wife, Catherine, the vice president of an advertising agency and public relations firm in New York. Their futures could not have been brighter until September 11, 2001, when everything changed. The World Trade Center is destroyed, and with the falling of its towers, so falls all Phil and Cathy hold dear. They must start fresh. Serendipitously, the night before 9/11, Phil attended a presentation that promised a lifestyle change. Of course, he could never have known change was imminent, but now, he and his wife seek life elsewhere, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. There, they discover a Victorian retreat and resort in desperate need of update. Together, they create the Grand Lady Victorian Mansion: a place of beauty and peace with an event barn, an equestrian school, a ski lodge, and an adjacent organic farm. Phil and Cathy find a new start amidst the wreckage of their lives, and in so doing, discover new friendswho may need rebuilding themselves.

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489704523

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9781489704528

Catholic Worker Daze

By: Betty Gifford,Bill Gifford

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Catholic Worker Daze

By: Betty Gifford,Bill Gifford

CATHOLIC WORKER DAZE tells of Betty and Charley Giffords and Bill Giffords experiences dispensing hospitality to homeless people from 1970 to 1985. Inspired by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and the Catholic Worker Movement that started in New York City in 1933, the Giffords began their ministry slowly, taking in one person at a time in their home in Memphis, Tennessee. They ended up with three houses. CATHOLIC WORKER DAZE provides vivid details of service to the poor while communicating the mission of the Catholic Worker movement. Many humorous and touching stories are told about the guests and workers.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462841856

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9781462841851

Great Performances

Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks

By: Larry Lewin,Betty Jean Shoemaker

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Great Performances

Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks

By: Larry Lewin,Betty Jean Shoemaker

What grade did you give me? students often ask teachers, as if teachers randomly assign grades. Too many students do not understand how their academic performance in the classroom corresponds with various grades. Improving students' understanding of what their teachers expect them to do, how well they should be able to do it, and how they should go about accomplishing it is what this book is all about. Lewin and Shoemaker show you how to teach rich, integrated, thematic units of instruction where students grapple with meaty conceptual ideas and use the processes of reading, writing, problem solving, and investigation. The authors share what they've learned about developing and assessing powerful performance tasks ranging from short and specific to lengthy and substantive. Their focus is on the practical, the doable. You can learn from their successes as well as their mistakes. The authors discuss a four-step approach for teaching students how to acquire content knowledge labeled "Info In" and examine four "Info Out" modes through which students can make their content understanding explicit for evaluation purposes. Great Performances is filled with highly motivating examples of student projects as well as effective assessment tools that teachers can adapt for their own classrooms. In this new edition, you will find: -updated examples and scoring mechanisms throughout the chapters; -expanded options for converting performance task scores into required letter grades for reporting to parents; and -a new chapter on reading assessment to help teachers navigate their way through Response to Intervention. This chapter also provides as a helpful review of popular commercially published in-class reading assessments. Teaching to and assessing with performance tasks result in true understanding—the type of understanding students will need in the world, where they will be expected to produce "Great Performances.

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ASCD

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141661351X

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9781416613510

I'll Drink to That

A Life in Style, with a Twist

By: Betty Halbreich

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I'll Drink to That

A Life in Style, with a Twist

By: Betty Halbreich

The stunning true story of Bergdorf Goodman’s legendary personal shopper Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim’s repertoire. She has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women off the street. She has helped many find their true selves through fashion, frank advice, and her own brand of wisdom. She is trusted by the most discriminating persons—including Hollywood’s top stylists—to tell them what looks best. But Halbreich’s personal transformation from cosseted young girl to fearless truth teller is the greatest makeover of her career.

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Penguin

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0143127705

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9780143127703

The Secret Window

By: Betty Ren Wright

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The Secret Window

By: Betty Ren Wright

Meg’s dreams seem to predict the future—but can she make a better future for herself? “Filled with sensitivity and warmth” (Children’s Book Review Service). “It was crazy to have dreams that came true. If you talked about them, it’d upset the people you loved and make them angry. Meg had learned something bad about herself, an ugly secret.” And so she decided to keep the dreams to herself, writing them down in a special notebook. Sometimes her dreams were pleasant, but other times they were disturbing—especially the one about the cave with the blue light. When Meg’s worst dreams begin to come true, she’s convinced they bring bad luck. Why else would her father move out to “find himself” or her best friend desert her for a rowdy crowd of older kids? Meg’s grandmother and a wonderful new neighbor finally help her realize that her “secret window” into the future can bring good luck, if understood properly.

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Open Road Media

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1504013328

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9781504013321

The French Way with Design

By: Betty Lou Phillips

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The French Way with Design

By: Betty Lou Phillips

A new look is emerging in France’s apartments as well as its imposing chateaux and country manors. Along with signature pieces of national identity—such as finely crafted wood pieces, splendid mirrors, and grandmère’s well cared for linens—European mid-century modern furnishings also adorn settings in this age of merging sensibilities. Homes photographed in France and the U.S. show abstract works of art mingling easily with painted furniture, budget-friendly finds from assorted cultures—such as wool rugs and handembroidered linens from India—and pottery, artisan-made pillows, throws and vintage textiles from remote markets in Morocco. BETTY LOU PHILLIPS, ASID, is the author of a dozen books on French design, including her most recent, The Allure of French and Italian Décor, French Impressions and Inspirations from France and Italy. Ms. Phillips lives in Dallas, Texas.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423635078

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9781423635079

It Can Happen

By: Betty McInnis

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It Can Happen

By: Betty McInnis

Craig McPherson lives a mundane life. He's a family man who owns an oil company, and he spends most of his days bored and dissatisfied. But fate has something else in mind. Seemingly without reason, Craig gets pulled into a tragic murder-suicide investigation. The murder-suicide has nothing to do with Craig and his company ... or does it ? Soon, he finds himself caught between two foreign oil cartels, both competing for his company and his expertise. Like a marionette controlled by unseen hands, Craig is yanked back and forth in a struggle for power. The cartels are fighting for ownership of the world's oil supply-a direct threat to the United States-and Craig is standing in their way. In order to survive, he must join the fight, risking his own life and the lives of his family. But Craig McPherson isn't a soldier or a terrorist. He's a regular guy, living a regular life, who must now use his intellect to save his family from certain death and the United States from unfriendly domination. He must conceive a plan to trap his adversaries and beat them at their own game-using himself as bait. Suddenly, Craig's mundane life as a CEO and father doesn't seem so awful.

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iUniverse

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1450261442

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9781450261449

Connecting Teachers, Students, and Standards

Strategies for Success in Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms

By: Deborah L. Voltz,Michele Jean Sims,Betty Palmer Nelson

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Connecting Teachers, Students, and Standards

Strategies for Success in Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms

By: Deborah L. Voltz,Michele Jean Sims,Betty Palmer Nelson

This book introduces you to a field-tested framework for teaching that ensures that inclusion and differentiated instruction are in harmony with standards-based education

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ASCD

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1416610243

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9781416610243

Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part II vol 9

By: Jennie Batchelor,Donatella Badin,Julia Banister,Betty Hagglund

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Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part II vol 9

By: Jennie Batchelor,Donatella Badin,Julia Banister,Betty Hagglund

Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women's history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040247512

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9781040247518

For Better Or Worsted

By: Betty Hechtman

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For Better Or Worsted

By: Betty Hechtman

Molly Pink and her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, love an adventure. But when their newest member is accused of turning her wedding into happily-never-after for the groom, Molly's chance to find the truth hangs by a thread... When Molly is invited to a major society wedding, she expects some drama but not this much. The bride, the daughter of Molly's friend Mason, has been planning the nuptials for ages, but at the reception, things go amiss when the groom ends up dancing with the Grim Reaper. To make matters worse, the bride's mother is found holding the murder weapon--and, as a reality show star, she's happy to fuel the media frenzy. Molly agrees to open her home so Thursday, the distraught bride, can have some peace from the paparazzi. But when it's revealed that she and her groom were on shaky ground, Thursday takes the spotlight as the prime suspect. Now Molly and the Hookers must quickly stitch together unrelated clues and high-profile suspects--before a killer strikes again... Delicious recipes & crochet patterns included!

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Penguin

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0425252612

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9780425252611

Children of the Dust

An Okie Family Story

By: Betty Grant Henshaw

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Children of the Dust

An Okie Family Story

By: Betty Grant Henshaw

The struggles and triumphs of a large family who left Oklahoma to find work in California during the Dust Bowl years.

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Texas Tech University Press

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0896725855

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9780896725850

Evidence-based Nursing Care Guidelines

Medical-surgical Interventions

By: Betty J. Ackley

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Evidence-based Nursing Care Guidelines

Medical-surgical Interventions

By: Betty J. Ackley

From an internationally respected team of clinical and research experts comes this groundbreaking book that synthesizes the body of nursing research for 192 common medical-surgical interventions. Ideal for both nursing students and practicing nurses, this collection of research-based guidelines helps you evaluate and apply the latest evidence to clinical practice.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032304624X

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9780323046244

The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley Vol 8

By: Nora Crook,Pamela Clemit,Betty T Bennett

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The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley Vol 8

By: Nora Crook,Pamela Clemit,Betty T Bennett

These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume. Included in this edition are "Frankenstein" (1818), "Matilda" ((1819), "Valperga" (1823), "The Last Man" (1826), "Perkin Warbeck" (1830) and "Lodore" (1835).

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Routledge

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1000748901

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9781000748901

Police Women

Life with the Badge

By: Sandra K. Wells,Betty L. Alt

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Police Women

Life with the Badge

By: Sandra K. Wells,Betty L. Alt

It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women have been involved in various forms of policing for the last 100 years, but it wasn't until the Equal Employment Act of 1970 that women could move from the job of meter maids to patrol and detective work. Yet less than 1% of all top-level cops are women, and there remain significant obstacles in the career paths of women in the force. This book looks at the history of women police officers and provides first-hand accounts of women at every level, including those who drop out. It addresses discrimination, competition, lack of mentoring, differential treatment and sexual harrassment, examining what issues play into the decision to stick it out or leave that many policewomen face. It also considers the family issues these women return home to at the end of the day. It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women have been involved in various forms of policing for the last 100 years, but it wasn't until the Equal Employment Act of 1970 that women could move from the job of meter maids to patrol and detective work. Yet less than 1% of all top-level cops are women, and there remain significant obstacles in the career paths of women in the force. This book looks at the history of women police officers and provides first-hand accounts of women at every level, including those who drop out. It addresses discrimination, competition, lack of mentoring, differential treatment, and sexual harrassment. It looks at what plays into the decision to stick it out or leave that many policewomen face. It also considers the family issues these women return home to at the end of the day. Unlike other treatments of the subject, Alt and Wells show how women have changed police work into a more community-oriented model of policing, reduced police violence, served as a strong force to promote a more effective response to domestic violence within police departments, and helped with community-police relations. With a combination of first-hand accounts, careful research, and lively analysis, the authors are able to convey the actual experiences of women who have made their careers behind the shield.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313038317

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9780313038310

Concise Dictionary of Scottish Words and Phrases

By: Betty Kirkpatrick

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Concise Dictionary of Scottish Words and Phrases

By: Betty Kirkpatrick

A concise but comprehensive collection of Scottish words and phrases.

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Crombie Jardine Publishing

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1848398050

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9781848398054

Democracy And Human Rights In The Caribbean

By: Ivelaw L Griffith

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Democracy And Human Rights In The Caribbean

By: Ivelaw L Griffith

The Caribbean, like regions elsewhere, is caught in what has been called democracy's global "Third Wave." In this volume, contributors examine the nature of democratization in the region together with its affiliate, human rights. The aim is to extend the analysis and debates beyond political democracy and civil and political rights to consider also economic democracy and economic and social rights. Early chapters address issues and dilemmas common to the democracy and human rights landscape throughout the region. In particular, economic crisis, drug trafficking, and political instability continue to threaten the region's very healthy democracy human rights profiles. Next, contributors consider how the form of Caribbean democracy and the status of human rights have been influenced by foreign actors and external developments. Particular attention is paid to the role of the Organization of American States, the United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, and international law. Because the democracy and human rights challenges and dynamics vary across countries, the work also offers extensive single-country assessments.

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Routledge

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0429969600

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9780429969607

On a Hidden Field

By: Dennis Allums,Betty Allums

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On a Hidden Field

By: Dennis Allums,Betty Allums

You have never read a book like On a Hidden Field, the public attempt to save America from America by telling it the future. Originally written in 1976, re-written in1992 and first copy written and submitted in 2003; all the predictions were made available to a worldwide audience including film executives in Hollywood years before the events came true. No one listened. Laughed at and chastised for their unusual beliefs, style, and passions, they did posses skills and brilliance beyond belief and either calculated, predicted or saw the future; and however it was done, it was accurate and remains undisputed.

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Dennis Allums

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0982139802

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9780982139806

Barefoot

Growing up at Mound Grove

By: Betty B. Cantwell

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Barefoot

Growing up at Mound Grove

By: Betty B. Cantwell

Barefoot, a memoir and sequel to Road to Mound Grove, continues the story of Betty Jean and her family in rural southeastern Oklahoma as they deal with the struggles of life during the Depression and benefits of Roosevelts New Deal leading up to World War II. Betty Jeans family and neighbors lacked the modern conveniences that town folk enjoyed. Some neighbors had water wells in their yards, but Betty Jean and her sister, Olaree, still had to carry water from a spring in the woods. They find themselves living in a chicken house, electricity illuminating the countryside, and a hunting tragedy shakes the community.

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WestBow Press

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1490878467

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9781490878461

Taters and Peas

How God Uses "P's"--Promises, Prayer, Protection, Perseverance, and Praise--To Produce "Sweet Taters"

By: Betty Terry Smith

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Taters and Peas

How God Uses "P's"--Promises, Prayer, Protection, Perseverance, and Praise--To Produce "Sweet Taters"

By: Betty Terry Smith

Life can get tough sometimes, even for Christians. Having a regular serving of encouragement, then, is vital to our Christian health. As nourishment for our faith, author Betty Terry Smith bids us dine on Taters and Peas, her sometimes serious, sometimes light-hearted blend of prose and poetry uniting ingredients of everyday life into a hearty helping of God's eternal truths. Applying her down-home metaphor, Betty explains that God, as the Master Gardener of our lives, sees us as more than mere common "taters" (potatoes) in His garden. In His eyes we are "sweet taters"--plantings destined for a more aromatic fruition. To sweeten us, He pairs us with "peas" (or P's), a blend of Promises, Protection, Prayers, Perseverance, and Praise. Taters and Peas serves up a down-to-earth approach to putting your roots deep in God's soil so you'll grow into a healthy, vibrant Christian.

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Charisma Media

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1621367487

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9781621367482

Provencal Interiors

French Country Style in America

By: Betty Lou Phillips

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Provencal Interiors

French Country Style in America

By: Betty Lou Phillips

Inspired by the sun-drenched colours of Southern France, French country orrovencal decorating is as fitting in the city and suburbs as in rural areas.ut how does one go about achieving the provencal ambience?

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Gibbs Smith

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087905848X

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9780879058487

Lorca's Poet in New York

The Fall into Consciousness

By: Betty Jean Craige

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Lorca's Poet in New York

The Fall into Consciousness

By: Betty Jean Craige

Written in 1929–1930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe"—an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the technological world of New York. Craige here describes—through close analysis of the structure, style, and themes of individual works in Poet in New York—the chaos into which this world plunges the poet, and the process whereby he is able, gradually, to recover his identity with the regenerative forces of nature. Her study demonstrates that, though seemingly unique in form and motifs, Poet in New York is integral with Lorca's overall poetic achievement.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813185998

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9780813185996

Eat Live Love Die

Selected Essays

By: Betty Fussell

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Eat Live Love Die

Selected Essays

By: Betty Fussell

Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. She's not just the award–winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir to cookbooks and food history; not just a winner of the James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award who was inducted into their "Who's Who of American Food and Beverage" in 2009; and not just an extraordinary person whose fifty years' worth of essays on food, travel, and the arts have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers as varied as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Saveur, and Vogue. This is a woman who at eighty–two years old (and despite being half–blind) went deer hunting for the very first time in the Montana foothills with her son, Sam (as described in her 2010 essay for the New York Times Magazine.) She got her deer. This is a woman who declared in a 2005 essay for Vogue that she had to teach herself Latin and German from scratch (on top of teaching herself how to cook) as a young twenty–one year old bride, because "housewifery wasn't enough." Indeed, for Fussell one subject is never enough. Counterpoint is thrilled to be publishing this selected anthology of her diverse essays.

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Catapult

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1640090118

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9781640090118

Leaving My Little Mountain Home (far behind)

By: Betty L. Carter

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Leaving My Little Mountain Home (far behind)

By: Betty L. Carter

Leaving My Little Mountain Home (far behind) begins when Beth Ann Amberson is fourteen years old and trying to convince her Mama that she is old enough to get married. The reader will get to know Beth Ann as a close friend before the conclusion of the book as she moves through the different stages of her life. The ending of the book may come to soon. Leaving My Little Mountain Home (far behind) is intended to evoke memories from the reader, both sweet and bittersweet, some happy and some sad. It is written in true Appalachian dialect and takes the reader on Beth Ann''s long journey called life.

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AuthorHouse

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1463495676

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9781463495671

Dance across Texas

By: Betty Casey

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Dance across Texas

By: Betty Casey

Generations of Texans have believed that “to dance is to live.” At rustic “play parties” and elegant cotillions, in tiny family dance halls and expansive urban honky-tonks, from historic beginnings to next Saturday night, Texans have waltzed, polkaed, schottisched, and shuffled their way across the state. In Dance across Texas, internationally known dance instructor and writer Betty Casey takes an informal look at the history of Texas dancing and, in clear diagrams, photos, and detailed instructions, tells “how to” do more than twenty Texas dances. Previously, little had been recorded about the history of dancing on the frontier. Journal and diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings preserve enticing, if sketchy, descriptions of the types of dances that were popular. Casey uses a variety of sources, including interviews and previously unpublished historical materials, such as dance cards, invitations, and photographs, to give us a delightful look at the social context of dance. The importance of dance to early Texans is documented through colorful descriptions of clothing worn to the dances, of the various locations where dances were held, ranging from a formal hall to a wagon sheet spread on the ground, and of the hardships endured to get to a dance. Also included in the historical section of Dance across Texas are notes on the “morality” of dance, the influence of country music on modern dance forms, and the popularity of such Texas dance halls and clubs as Crider’s and Gilley’s. The instruction section of the book diagrams twenty-two Texas dances, including standard waltzes and two-steps as well as the Cotton-Eyed Joe, Put Your Little Foot, Herr Schmidt, the Western Schottische, and such “whistle’” or mixer dances as Paul Jones, Popcorn, and Snowball. Clear and detailed directions for each dance, along with suggested musical selections, accompany the diagrams and photos. Dance and physical education teachers and students will find this section invaluable, and aspiring urban cowboys can follow the easy-to-read diagrammed footsteps to a satisfying spin around the honky-tonk floor. Anyone interested in dance or in the history of social customs in Texas will find much to enjoy in this refreshing and often amusing look at a Texas “national” pastime.

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University of Texas Press

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0292789904

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9780292789906

The True Mary Todd Lincoln

A Biography

By: Betty Boles Ellison

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The True Mary Todd Lincoln

A Biography

By: Betty Boles Ellison

This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about the former first lady are factually disproved. At times her judgment was faulty; in other instances it was brilliant. After her 1861 refurbishing of the Executive Mansion, she made no further furnishings purchases, only replacement items. The furniture she purchased is still in use and the Lincoln bed is well known. Committed to an insane asylum by her only surviving son, she organized, while under constant scrutiny, her friends in a skillfully successful scheme to obtain her freedom and resume control of her life and money. Mary Todd Lincoln had a brilliant mind, a caring heart and an exuberant personality and she was, in every aspect, a true partner to Abraham Lincoln.

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McFarland

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0786478365

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The Burglary

The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

By: Betty Medsger

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The Burglary

The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

By: Betty Medsger

Summary: An account of the 1971 break-in of the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists cites their roles in triggering major changes in the FBI and confirming that J. Edgar Hoover had run a personal shadow-FBI.

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0307962954

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Hispanic Marketing

The Power of the New Latino Consumer

By: Felipe Korzenny,Sindy Chapa,Betty Ann Korzenny

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Hispanic Marketing

The Power of the New Latino Consumer

By: Felipe Korzenny,Sindy Chapa,Betty Ann Korzenny

Hispanic Marketing: The Power of the New Latino Consumer focuses on using cultural insights to connect with Latino consumers. Now in its third edition, the book provides marketers with the skills necessary to perform useful Hispanic market analysis and thus develop effective integrated marketing communication strategies. Brought to you by three leaders in the field of Hispanic Marketing, this third edition now includes: twenty-seven new case studies which emphasize digital marketing applications theories and discussions on recent changes to Hispanic culture and society concepts of social identity, motivation, cognitive learning, acculturation, technology adaptation and the influence of word of mouth in relation to the Hispanic market a brand new companion website for course instructors with PowerPoint slides, videos, testbank questions and assignment examples Replete with marketing strategies that tap into the passion of Hispanic consumers, this book is the perfect companion for anyone specializing in Hispanic marketing who aims to build a meaningful connection between their brand and target markets.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317422309

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9781317422303

The Neo-Catholics

Implementing Christian Nationalism in America

By: Betty Clermont

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The Neo-Catholics

Implementing Christian Nationalism in America

By: Betty Clermont

Volumes have been written about the role the Religious Right played in achieving its ultimate goal - the presidency of George W. Bush. But few know the primary and essential role played by Catholics in instituting and directing the Religious Right as the means for the neoconservative takeover of the U.S. government, a group the author calls neo-Catholics. The first neoconservatives - Irving Kristol, Allan Bloom, and Francis Fukuyama - were proponents of the philosopher Leo Strauss who considered the ideal state as one ruled by an intellectual elite with religion used to mollify and intimidate the masses into obedience. Not only did Catholic leaders have a millennium of experience in propping up monarchs and dictators, but also Catholics were the largest denomination in the U. S. Neoconservative Catholics were ready, willing and able to implement the American brand of church/state unification: Christian Nationalism. This book examines how hawks and neo-conservatives in the Republican Party forged a nexus with powerful right wing Catholics that would change the face of American Catholicism, the structuring of social policy in the United States, and the American agenda in the world. At the start of the 1980s, the Church’s social justice agenda had been committed to alleviating poverty, to demilitarization, to affirmative action,and to ending capital punishment-an agenda antipathetic to the Republican platform. By the end of the nineties, its justice agenda was marginalized, and political action was mobilized around concern for the dying and the unborn. Clermont's rigorous and extensively documented research examines how it was done.

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SCB Distributors

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0932863981

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Easy A

The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?

By: Betty Kaklamanidou

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Easy A

The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?

By: Betty Kaklamanidou

Easy A (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a ‘classic’ by many cultural commentators and popular film critics. By applying interdisciplinary insight to a relatively overlooked movie in academic discussion, Easy A: The End of the High-School Teen Comedy? is the first in-depth volume that places the movie within several key contexts and concepts of intertextuality, gender, genre and adaptation, and social discourse. Through the unpacking of a complex narrative that draws its plot from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and shares affinities with John Hughes’ paradigmatic films from the 1980s and key films from the 1990s, this volume presents Easy A as a palimpsest for the millennial generation. Clear and comprehensive, the book argues that Easy A marks the end of the commercially successful high-school teen comedy and discusses the reasons through a comparative synchronic and semi-diachronic historical comparison of the film with contemporary cinematic texts and those of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Routledge

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1351247514

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9781351247511

Raising Steaks

The Life and Times of American Beef

By: Betty Harper Fussell

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Raising Steaks

The Life and Times of American Beef

By: Betty Harper Fussell

In Raising Steaks, Betty Fussell saddles up for a spirited ride across America on the trail of our most iconic food in a celebration of, and an elegy for, a uniquely American Dream.

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0151012024

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9780151012022

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