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Clara Claus Saves Easter

By: Bonnie Bridgman

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Christmas may be over for another year, but when Rowan the forest elf goes missing and the Santa Scouts are in trouble, Clara Claus and her brother Nick must investigate. Traveling from their home in the North Pole, they enlist the help of Gordon the grumpy gnome to track down the mysterious E.B. But with bunnies and squirrels to train and chocolate to wrap, can Clara and Nick crack the case to deliver the perfect Easter?

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Andrews UK Limited

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1837914184

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Jingle Bell Blessings

By: Bonnie K. Winn

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Jingle Bell Blessings

By: Bonnie K. Winn

All Jimmy Evans wants for Christmas is a family. And Chloe Reed's mission is to get him one. But when Chloe and the orphaned boy land on distant relative Evan Mitchell's doorstep, they come face-to-face with a real-life Scrooge. Haunted by a tragic past, Evan wants nothing to do with them—or with Christmas. But little by little, one adorable seven-year-old and a spunky young woman chip away at Evan's heart of stone and bring the holiday spirit back into his home. Will these three strangers become a true family by Christmas?

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Steeple Hill

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1426876556

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9781426876554

Lions

A Novel

By: Bonnie Nadzam

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Lions

A Novel

By: Bonnie Nadzam

The author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning debut novel, Lamb returns with “a story of haunted histories and broken promises” (O, The Oprah Magazine, Must-Read Book of the Summer). Set on the Colorado high plains, the town of Lions is nearly deserted. Built to be a glorious city, it was never fit for farming, mining, trading, or any of the industries its pioneers imagined. The Walkers have been settled on its barren terrain for generations—a simple family in a town still enthralled by promises of bigger, better, and brighter. But when a stranger appears, his unsettling presence sets off a chain reaction that will change the fates of everyone he encounters. When the patriarch John Walker dies, his son Gordon must choose between leaving for college with his girlfriend, Leigh, or staying with his family to look after their failing welding shop—and carry on a mysterious family legacy. While Leigh is desperate to make a better life in the world beyond Lions, Gordon is strangely hesitant to leave it behind. And as more families abandon the town, it seems that listening to reason must come at the cost of betraying his own heart. “Nadzam weaves a strange and mesmerizing story” that explores ambition and an American obsession with self-improvement, the responsibilities we have to ourselves and each other, as well as the everyday illusions that pass for a life worth living (Publishers Weekly).

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802189911

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9780802189912

Fresh Squeezed

By: Bonnie Biafore,James Ewing

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Fresh Squeezed

By: Bonnie Biafore,James Ewing

There's something fishy going on in the backwater town of Wanaduck, Washington, population 879, er, 878. Make that 850. Anthony "Juice" Verrone, former Mafia enforcer and guest of the Witness Security Program, is trying to hide from the Family he sent up the river. When a giant hot dog, a fiberglass bass, and a plummeting corpse put the squeeze on Juice, he thinks he's been found out. Juice teams up with Rudy Touchous, a forensic accountant, and Police Chief Dickie Gordon, to track down the killer. Instead, they run head-on into a public utility in desperate financial straits, a local troop of NASCAR-addled, bass-fishing rednecks with odd literary aspirations, and a vegetarian commune, which, in its dedication to the well-being of plants, is tossing more than lettuce into its salad bar. And what is that secret ingredient in their all-vegetarian hotdogs? The Utility's plans leak, so they bring in a strange parade of hired guns to make sure the people who know too much can't say anything. When these players mix it up at the Asparagus Festival a conflagration ignites that changes everything. Can Juice go back to being a regular guy? Or does he find out that he can hide, but he can't just disappear?

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Slow Toast Press

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0985819502

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Gender in Science Fiction Films, 1964-1979

A Critical Study

By: Bonnie Noonan

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Gender in Science Fiction Films, 1964-1979

A Critical Study

By: Bonnie Noonan

The 1950s era of science fiction film effectively ended when space flight became a reality with the first manned orbit of Earth in 1962. As the genre's wildly speculative depictions of science and technology gave way to more reality-based representations, relations between male and female characters reflected the changing political and social climates of the era. Drawing on critical analyses, film reviews and cultural commentaries, this book examines the development of science fiction film and its representations of gender, from the groundbreaking films of 1968--including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barbarella and Planet of the Apes--through its often overlooked "Middle Period," which includes such films as Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), The Stepford Wives (1975) and A Boy and His Dog (1975). The author examines intersections of gender and race in The Omega Man (1971) and Frogs (1972), gender and dystopia in Soylent Green (1973) and Logan's Run (1976), and gender and computers in Demon Seed (1977). The big-budget films of the late 1970s--Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Star Wars--are also discussed.

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0786459743

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9780786459742

Growing Up Fast

Re-Visioning Adolescent Mothers' Transitions to Young Adulthood

By: Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater

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Growing Up Fast

Re-Visioning Adolescent Mothers' Transitions to Young Adulthood

By: Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater

The first edition of Growing Up Fast attempted to counter the stereotype of poor, minority adolescent mothers and describe the diversity of their educational, work, parenting, and relationship experiences. The volume followed a strengths-based approach to understanding why some mothers appeared resilient to the stresses of early parenting, compared to their peers, and what obstacles undermine resiliency for some of these young women. We hear their stories in their own words. We also see how many disadvantaged mothers go on to succeed in school, work, and parenting while avoiding many of the risk associated with teen parenting . The research is based on a six-year study of 120 young disadvantaged mothers and their children from New York City. It uniquely combines the analysis of longitudinal questionnaire data with qualitative analysis of extensive interviews conducted with these women focusing on the first six years after their child was born. A past winner of the Society for Research on Adolescence best book award, Growing Up Fast is a fascinating study of human resilience that will continue to be recognized for its contribution to individuals involved in program development and policymaking with teenage parenting. A new introductory chapter to the book suggests that we can look at the previous findings through a new lens that emphasizes not only the diversity of outcomes for young mothers and the sources of their strengths, but also asks what we can learn from these women about supporting their educational and work goals, as they transition to adulthood. New attention to emerging adulthood shows that this is a critical stage of life when the foundations for health and healthy life styles are laid down. Developmental tasks of this phase include building the capacity for financial and residential independence through post-secondary education and job training, and establishing stable sources of support from parents, romantic partners, and peers for all youth. Leadbeater addresses the societal changes that make these tasks particularly salient for young women and focuses attention on how we can support youth who make this transition with children.

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Psychology Press

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1317702042

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9781317702047

Women Scientists in Fifties Science Fiction Films

By: Bonnie Noonan

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Women Scientists in Fifties Science Fiction Films

By: Bonnie Noonan

In the 1950s, science was rapidly advancing, and so were scientific opportunities for women. Modern science fiction films reflected these simultaneous social developments. This book proposes that the social ideology of the 1950s, which was partly concerned with gender issues, saturated the B science fiction films of that era and inspired a new appreciation for the role of women in scientific advancements and other social achievements. Drawing on feminist literary and cultural theory, the author argues that the emergence of the modern American science fiction film in 1950 and the situation of post-World War II female scientists together created a film genre. That genre was explicitly amenable to exploring the tension between a woman's place in her home and her place in the work force, particularly in scientific fields. Early chapters provide a general introduction to the science fiction genre and specifically describe 1950s B science fiction films as they resonate with concerns proper to feminist theory. Subsequent chapters offer detailed, historically situated readings of 10 B science fiction films from the 1950s that feature women in science. The cinematic representations of female scientists are compared and contrasted with real female professionals of the time, illuminating the changing gender dynamics reflected in popular film in the 1950s. Films analyzed include Rocketship X-M, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Them!, Tarantula, The Deadly Mantis, Beginning of the End, Kronos, Cat-Women of the Moon, World Without End, and Queen of Outer Space.

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1476610053

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Jingle Bell Blessings & Family by Design

By: Bonnie K. Winn

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Jingle Bell Blessings & Family by Design

By: Bonnie K. Winn

Finding family and second chances in these two stories by author Bonnie K. Winn Jingle Bell Blessings Chloe Reed’s mission is to get orphaned Jimmy Evans a family for Christmas. But when they land on distant relative Evan Mitchell’s doorstep, they come face-to-face with a real-life Scrooge. Plagued by a tragic past, Evan resists their intrusion in his life. But little by little, the adorable seven-year-old and spunky young woman chip away at Evan’s heart. Will these three strangers become a true family by Christmas? Family by Design Finding a sitter for his orphaned niece is Dr. J.C. Mueller’s priority. But he can’t ask the one person the girl actually takes a shine to. Maddie Carter is already a full-time caregiver for her ailing mother. But when Maddie offers to watch his niece, he realizes that she will help anyone—except herself. J.C.’s prescription? Convincing Maddie that accepting love will ease not only her burdens, but also her heart.

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Harlequin

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1488096945

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Emma Goldman

Sexuality and the Impurity of the State

By: Bonnie Haaland

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Emma Goldman

Sexuality and the Impurity of the State

By: Bonnie Haaland

This book focuses on the ideas of Emma Goldman as they relate to the centrality of sexuality and reproduction, and as such, are relevant to the current feminist debates."--BOOK JACKET.

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Black Rose Books Ltd.

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1895431646

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Do You Believe Me Now?

Snippets of True Life

By: Bonnie Smith Krenz

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Do You Believe Me Now?

Snippets of True Life

By: Bonnie Smith Krenz

You will laugh and cry your way through the pages of Do You Believe Me Now? It is a collection of short stories inspired by the author’s personal experiences. Do You Believe Me Now? takes you on a journey of joy and tragedy through snippets of true life. In the eyes of a child in the 1950s you will experience the wonderment of innocence. In the eyes of a naïve teenager and young adult in the 1960s, you will feel the freedom of youth and experience exciting and comical adventures. You will suffer through the consequences of blind trust, emotional humiliation, and the struggle of accepting an untimely death. Years later, in the eyes of an adult, you will know the power of love.

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1452055882

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Oyster Wars and the Public Trust

Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History

By: Bonnie J. McCay

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Oyster Wars and the Public Trust

Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History

By: Bonnie J. McCay

Who owns tidal waters? Are oyster beds common holdings or private property? Questions first raised in colonial New Jersey helped shape American law by giving rise to the public trust doctrine. Today that concept plays a critical role in public advocacy and environmental law. Bonnie McCay now puts that doctrine in perspective by tracing the history of attempts to defend common resources against privatization. She tells of conflicts in New Jersey communities over the last two centuries: how fishermen dependent on common-use rights employed poaching, piracy, and test cases to protect their stake in tidal resources, and how oyster planters whose businesses depended on the enclosure of marine commons engineered test cases of their own to seek protection for their claims. McCay presents some of the most significant cases relating to fishing and waterfront development, describing how the oyster wars were fought on the waters and in the court rooms—and how the public trust doctrine was sometimes reinterpreted to support private interests. She explores the events and people behind the proceedings and addresses the legal, social, and ecological issues these cases represent. Oyster Wars and the Public Trust is an important study of contested property rights from an anthropological perspective that also addresses significant issues in political ecology, institutional economics, environmental history, and the evolution of law. It contributes to our understanding of how competing claims to resources have evolved in the United States and shows that making nature a commodity remains a moral problem even in a market-driven economy.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816544999

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9780816544998

Ordinary Saints

Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland

By: Bonnie Morgan

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Ordinary Saints

Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland

By: Bonnie Morgan

From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and expressed Christianity through their experience as labourers within the family economy. Women's work in the region included outdoor agricultural labour, housekeeping, childbirth, mortuary services, food preparation, caring for the sick, and textile production. Ordinary Saints explores how religious belief shaped the meaning of this work, and how women lived their Christian faith through the work they did. In lived religious practices at home, in church-based voluntary associations, and in the wider community, the Anglican women of Conception Bay constructed a female theological culture characterized by mutuality, negotiation of gender roles, and resistance to male authority, combining feminist consciousness with Christian commitment. Bonnie Morgan brings together evidence from oral interviews, denominational publications, census data, minute books of the Church of England Women's Association, headstone epitaphs, and household art and objects to demonstrate the profound ties between labour and faithfulness: for these rural women, work not only expressed but also shaped belief. Ordinary Saints, with its focus on gender, labour, and lived faithfulness, breaks new ground in the history of religion in Canada.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228000270

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9780228000273

Hard Hat

By: Bonnie Bryant

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Hard Hat

By: Bonnie Bryant

Stevie's on the loose in New York City! Stevie Lake thinks she knows everything there is to know about getting along in New York City -- until she meets Regina Evans. Regina is the daughter of a New York friend of Stevie's mom. When Stevie and her mother visit the city, Mrs. Lake and Mrs. Evans catch up on old times -- while Regina introduces Stevie to her friends and their favorite hangouts. It's a lot of fun until an accident leaves Regina and Stevie in real danger. But just when things look worst, Stevie gets a chance to prove that a horse can always save the day -- even in New York City

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Skylark

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0307826023

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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

Civil War Surgeon & Medal of Honor Recipient

By: Bonnie Zucker Goldsmith

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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

Civil War Surgeon & Medal of Honor Recipient

By: Bonnie Zucker Goldsmith

Highlights the life and accomplishments of the woman who earned a medical degree and volunteered her services during the Civil War, earning her a Medal of Honor and helping her crusade for women's rights.

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ABDO

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1604539666

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Integrative Medicine

The Return of the Soul to Healthcare

By: Bonnie McLean O.M.D.

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Integrative Medicine

The Return of the Soul to Healthcare

By: Bonnie McLean O.M.D.

Integrative Medicine: The Return of the Soul to Health Care is an introduction to the field of integrative medicine. Based on both her extensive research and personal experience as a practitioner and recipient of allopathic medicine, oriental medicine, functional medicine, energy medicine, and counseling, Dr. Bonnie McLean offers a user-friendly overview of integrative medicine with resources for further exploration by the reader. From childhood to her current practice in oriental medicine, Dr. McLean has spent her life immersed in medicine. Raised by a physician father and nurse mother, she spent the first twenty years of her adulthood as an RN. After witnessing what she calls a loss of soul in contemporary medicine, she spent the next thirty years in a search of the soul in medicine. She explored natural medicine, Chinese medicine, psychology, energy medicine, and shamanic healing. With the advent of integrative medicine, she strongly believes that the soul of medicine is returning. The best of both worlds (science of medical technology and the art of healing, contemporary knowledge and ancient wisdom, East and West) are beginning to work hand in hand under the umbrella of integrative medicine. Integrative medicine is the wave of the future!

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Balboa Press

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1504383451

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Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1

Women of 1928

By: Bonnie Kime Scott

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Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1

Women of 1928

By: Bonnie Kime Scott

... an invaluable aid to the reconfiguration of literary modernism and of the history of the fiction of the first three decades of the twentieth century." -- Novel "... her readings of texts are quite smart and eminently readable." -- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature "... a challenging and discerning study of the modernist period." -- James Joyce Broadsheet (note: review of volume 1 only) "... highly important and beautifully written, constructing a contextually rich cultural history of Anglo-American modernism. It wears its meticulous erudition lightly, synthesizing an enormous amount of research, much of it original archival work." -- Signs "Through her thoughtful exploration of the lives and work of these three female modernists, Scott shapes a new feminist literary history that successfully reconfigures modernism." -- Woolf Studies Annual In this revisionary study of modernism, Bonnie Kime Scott focuses on the literary and cultural contexts that shaped Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Djuna Barnes. Her reading is based upon fresh archival explorations, combining postmodern with feminist theory.

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Indiana University Press

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0253115485

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9780253115485

Let the Children Come

Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective

By: Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

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Let the Children Come

Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective

By: Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

Explore what faithful parenting might look like today In Let the Children Come, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore explores the question, What does faithful parenting look like today? As she addresses this query, she updates outmoded and distorted assumptions about and conceptions of children in popular US culture. She also shows important insights and contributions religious traditions and communities, Christianity in particular, make as we examine how to regard and treat children well. Miller-McLemore draws on historical and contemporary understandings of Christianity, psychology, and feminism to push back against negative trends, such as the narcissistic use of children for adult benefit, the market use of children to sell products, and the failure to give children meaningful roles in the domestic work of the family and the life of wider society. Miller-McLemore views children as full participants in families and religious communities and as human beings deserving of greater respect and understanding than people typically grant them. In particular, the book rethinks five ways adults have viewed (and misperceived) children--as victims, sinful, gifts, work (the labor of love), and agents. Reimagining children, she proposes, will lead to a renewed conception of the care of children as a religious practice.

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Fortress Press

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1506454585

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9781506454580

The Life and Times of Perley the Magician

By: Bonnie M. Clark Douglass, EdD

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The Life and Times of Perley the Magician

By: Bonnie M. Clark Douglass, EdD

Perley arrived into this world weighing less than two pounds. He was loved and nurtured in a small shoe box in a warming oven by night and on the window sill during the day when the sun was out. Deep in his heart and soul that love never left him, and he has done unto others what was done unto him-show love. Perley the Magician is the miracle man that we all love and the show must go on. After being diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer in the spring of 2014, Perley never missed a show for adults or children. This book radiates the love people feel for Perley with numerous memories and tributes intertwined with Perley’s life journey. Perley lives his life as a testimony of his love for God; his wife, Valerie; family, and friends, and especially the children that he loves to make happy.`

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1681819244

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Wings of Promise (Alaskan Skies Book #2)

A Novel

By: Bonnie Leon

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Wings of Promise (Alaskan Skies Book #2)

A Novel

By: Bonnie Leon

Kate Evans may be a woman in a man's profession, but as Alaskan bush pilots go she's one of the best. She often works closely with doctor Paul Anderson, bringing much needed medical services to far-flung people in the forbidding wilderness. But when a new boss who is against women pilots takes over the airfield, Kate's dreams--and even her life--are at stake. Can she prove her worth? Or will she die trying? And will she ever be able to truly surrender to her growing love for Paul? Full of high-flying adventure and tender personal moments, Wings of Promise is the exciting second book in the Alaskan Skies series.

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Revell

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1441232729

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Monteverdi's Unruly Women

The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy

By: Bonnie Gordon

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Monteverdi's Unruly Women

The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy

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0521845297

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Voice Machines

The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds

By: Bonnie Gordon

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Voice Machines

The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds

By: Bonnie Gordon

The castrato phenomenon stretched from the late sixteenth century, when castrati first appeared in Italian courts and churches, through the eighteenth century, when they occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Throughout this time, the voice of the castrato--hailed as uniquely strong, flexible and expressive--contributed to a dramatic expansion of the musical vocabulary and to finding new ways to embody the poetic text. For us today, the castrato also highlights the porous relationship of voices and instruments/machines and the inherent materiality of sound. In her revealing study, Bonnie Gordon asks what it meant that the early-modern period produced a caste of technologically altered male singers and she uses the castrato as a critical provocation for asking questions about the interrelated histories of music, technology, sound, the limits of the human body, and what counts as human"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226825140

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Atlas of Dog Breeds of the World

By: Bonnie Wilcox,Chris Walkowicz

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Atlas of Dog Breeds of the World

By: Bonnie Wilcox,Chris Walkowicz

THE MOST COMPREHENVIE FULLY ILLUSTRATED VOLUME ON DOGS EVER PUBLISHED- EVERY PHOTO IN FULL COLOR - OVER 1100 FULL COLOR PHOTOS.

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A Feminist Theory of Refusal

By: Bonnie Honig

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A Feminist Theory of Refusal

By: Bonnie Honig

An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that does not simply withdraw from the status quo but also transforms it. The Bacchae, Euripides’s fifth-century tragedy, famously depicts the wine god Dionysus and the women who follow him as indolent, drunken, mad. But Bonnie Honig sees the women differently. They reject work, not out of laziness, but because they have had enough of women’s routine obedience. Later they escape prison, leave the city of Thebes, explore alternative lifestyles, kill the king, and then return to claim the city. Their “arc of refusal,” Honig argues, can inspire a new feminist politics of refusal. Refusal, the withdrawal from unjust political and economic systems, is a key theme in political philosophy. Its best-known literary avatar is Herman Melville’s Bartleby, whose response to every request is, “I prefer not to.” A feminist politics of refusal, by contrast, cannot simply decline to participate in the machinations of power. Honig argues that a feminist refusal aims at transformation and, ultimately, self-governance. Withdrawal is a first step, not the end game. Rethinking the concepts of refusal in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Adriana Cavarero, and Saidiya Hartman, Honig places collective efforts toward self-governance at refusal’s core and, in doing so, invigorates discourse on civil and uncivil disobedience. She seeks new protagonists in film, art, and in historical and fictional figures including Sophocles’s Antigone, Ovid’s Procne, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna, and Muhammad Ali. Rather than decline the corruptions of politics, these agents of refusal join the women of Thebes first in saying no and then in risking to undertake transformative action.

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Harvard University Press

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0674259238

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The Making of the West, Volume 1: To 1750

Peoples and Cultures

By: Lynn Hunt,Thomas R. Martin,Barbara H. Rosenwein,Bonnie G. Smith

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The Making of the West, Volume 1: To 1750

Peoples and Cultures

By: Lynn Hunt,Thomas R. Martin,Barbara H. Rosenwein,Bonnie G. Smith

The Making of the West features a chronological narrative that offers a truly global context and tells the story of the cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped western history. This brief book includes a full-color map and art program and comprehensive supplement options. The result is a brief book that is an excellent price and an outstanding value.

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1319103669

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