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Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder

Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities

By: Claudia Kalb

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Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder

Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities

By: Claudia Kalb

Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? Was Frank Lloyd Wright a narcissist? In this surprising, inventive, and meticulously researched look at the evolution of mental health, acclaimed health and science journalist Claudia Kalb gives readers a glimpse into the lives of high-profile historic figures through the lens of modern psychology, weaving groundbreaking research into biographical narratives that are deeply embedded in our culture. From Marilyn Monroe's borderline personality disorder to Charles Darwin's anxiety, Kalb provides compelling insight into a broad range of maladies, using historical records and interviews with leading mental health experts, biographers, sociologists, and other specialists. Packed with intriguing revelations, this smart narrative brings a new perspective to one of the hottest new topics in today's cultural conversation.

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Disney Electronic Content

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1426214677

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The White Card

A Play

By: Claudia Rankine

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The White Card

A Play

By: Claudia Rankine

A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters’ disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation to respond. —from the introduction by Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine’s first published play, The White Card, poses the essential question: Can American society progress if whiteness remains invisible? Composed of two scenes, the play opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up-and-coming artist Charlotte. Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals toward the devastation of Virginia and Charles’s intentions. One year later, the second scene brings Charlotte and Charles into the artist’s studio, and their confrontation raises both the stakes and the questions of what—and who—is actually on display. Rankine’s The White Card is a moving and revelatory distillation of racial divisions as experienced in the white spaces of the living room, the art gallery, the theater, and the imagination itself.

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Graywolf Press

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155597886X

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9781555978860

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 6

By: W M Verhoeven,Claudia L Johnson,Philip Cox,Adriana Craciun,Richard Cronin

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Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 6

By: W M Verhoeven,Claudia L Johnson,Philip Cox,Adriana Craciun,Richard Cronin

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.

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Routledge

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1351223089

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Dandelion

A Beautiful Young Woman Struggles to Fulfill Her Dreams, and to Find That Magical Place Called "Happyhood'

By: Claudia W. Lange

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Dandelion

A Beautiful Young Woman Struggles to Fulfill Her Dreams, and to Find That Magical Place Called "Happyhood'

By: Claudia W. Lange

Ms, Lange seemed destined to be a drifter, She has traveled extensively throughout her life, always willing to explore new venues. Having a curious mind, she spends much of her time studying a large variety of material. Her main interests center around creative subjects, such as the Arts, Gardening,. and various Crafts. ie, making stained glass windows and lamps,and painting Florals and Landscapes. She is also a student of Finance.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493179837

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9781493179831

One Square Inch

By: Claudia Mills

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One Square Inch

By: Claudia Mills

Cooper's grandfather gives him and his little sister, Carly, deeds to square inches of land in the Yukon. Carly uses them to invent her own imaginary kingdom of Inchland—far away from the silence of their home, where their single mother stays in bed all day. When their mom comes out of her season of sadness bursting with sometimes frightening energy, Carly retreats into Inchland, while sixth-grader Cooper tries to control the chaos. But can Cooper really keep Carly—and himself—safe? In One Square Inch, Claudia Mills weaves a story that is "Believable and deeply moving" (Publishers Weekly).

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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1429964456

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9781429964456

Life on Route 66

Personal Accounts Along the Mother Road to California

By: Claudia Heller,Alan Heller

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Life on Route 66

Personal Accounts Along the Mother Road to California

By: Claudia Heller,Alan Heller

A celebration of America’s most historic highway, in words and pictures. Winding through the rugged heartland of the American West, Route 66 has resonated for generations in hardscrabble tales of hopeful seekers of new homes and new lives. It also inspired Alan and Claudia Heller, longtime residents of Duarte, a California town along Route 66, to hitch their trailer to a retirement dream and travel the road again, journeying through their home state and back to Chicago. They collected stories of the iconic highway, and what it means to the people who live along its way, for a series in the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group. This collection retraces their journey and introduces us to some of the people and places that make Route 66 truly historic.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614234787

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Self-preservation in Simultaneous Interpreting

Surviving the Role

By: Claudia Monacelli

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Self-preservation in Simultaneous Interpreting

Surviving the Role

By: Claudia Monacelli

The image of the tightrope walker illustrates the interpreter s balancing act. Compelled to move forward at a pace set by someone else, interpreters compensate for pressures and surges that might push them into the void. The author starts from the observation that conference interpreters tend to see survival as being their primary objective. It is interpreters awareness of the essentially face-threatening nature of the profession that naturally induces them to seek what the author calls dynamic equilibrium, a constantly evolving state in which problems are resolved in the interests of maintaining the integrity of the system as a whole. By taking as a starting point the more visible interventions interpreters make (comments on speed of delivery, on exchanges between the chair and the floor), the author is able to explore the interpreter s instinct for self-preservation in an inherently unstable environment. This volume is an insightful and refreshing account of interpreters behavior from the other side of the glass-fronted booth.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027224285

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Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century

Trends, Projections, and Policy Options

By: Gregory J. Scott,Mark W. Rosegrant,Claudia Ringler

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Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century

Trends, Projections, and Policy Options

By: Gregory J. Scott,Mark W. Rosegrant,Claudia Ringler

Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896296350

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9780896296350

Figurations

Child, Bodies, Worlds

By: Claudia Castañeda

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Figurations

Child, Bodies, Worlds

By: Claudia Castañeda

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and science and technology studies, this book provides a remarkable map of the child's meaning and movement across transnational circuits of exchange. Castañeda investigates the construction of the child as both a natural and cultural body, the character of its embodiment, and its imaginative appeal in various settings. The sites through which she tracks the bodily production and deployment of the child include nineteenth-century developmental science; cognitive neuroscience in the late twentieth century; international adoption; rumors and media coverage of child-organ stealing; and poststructuralist theory. Her work reveals the extent to which the child's cultural significance and value lie in its status as a body whose incompleteness makes it "available" for such varied uses. Figurations establishes the child as a key figure for understanding and rethinking the politics of nature, culture, bodies, and subjects in changing "global" worlds.

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Duke University Press

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0822383896

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9780822383895

Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century

By: Claudia T. Kairoff

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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century

By: Claudia T. Kairoff

A critical study of the prominent British poet’s work. Anna Seward and her career defy easy placement into the traditional periods of British literature. Raised to emulate the great poets John Milton and Alexander Pope, maturing in the Age of Sensibility, and publishing during the early Romantic era, Seward exemplifies the eighteenth-century transition from classical to Romantic. Claudia Thomas Kairoff’s excellent critical study offers fresh readings of Anna Seward's most important writings and firmly establishes the poet as a pivotal figure among late-century British writers. Reading Seward’s writing alongside recent scholarship on gendered conceptions of the poetic career, patriotism, provincial culture, sensibility, and the sonnet revival, Kairoff carefully reconsiders Seward's poetry and critical prose. Written as it was in the last decades of the eighteenth century, Seward’s work does not comfortably fit into the dominant models of Enlightenment-era verse or the tropes that characterize Romantic poetry. Rather than seeing this as an obstacle for understanding Seward’s writing within a particular literary style, Kairoff argues that this allows readers to see in Seward's works the eighteenth-century roots of Romantic-era poetry. Arguably the most prominent woman poet of her lifetime, Seward’s writings disappeared from popular and scholarly view shortly after her death. After nearly two hundred years of critical neglect, Seward is attracting renewed attention, and with this book Kairoff makes a strong and convincing case for including Anna Seward’s remarkable literary achievements among the most important of the late eighteenth century. “Professor Kairoff achieves her goal of providing “fresh readings, in a richer context,” which will go a long way toward reestablishing Seward’s importance. The book is a significant contribution to literary scholarship and will be widely read, cited, and admired.” —Paula R. Feldman “This lucid, stimulating study will challenge traditional notions not only of Seward but also of the interstice of Romanticism and late-century women authors.” —Choice “Kairoff effectively demonstrates the quality of Seward’s work, and articulates some of the ways in which a reappraisal of Seward might enrich our understanding of both eighteenth-century and Romantic-era literary cultures, and our conception of the writing practices of both male and female authors.” —Years Work in English Studies

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JHU Press

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1421406632

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9781421406633

The Story of a Treaty

By: Claudia Orange

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The Story of a Treaty

By: Claudia Orange

The Treaty of Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840 through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The second edition of this popular book brings the story up to the present. New illustrations enrich the history, giving life to the events as they unfold. Printed in full colour, The Story of a Treaty will continue as a superb introduction to Treaty history for future generations.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1927131340

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9781927131343

National Legal Presumptions and European Tax Law

By: Claudia Sanò

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National Legal Presumptions and European Tax Law

By: Claudia Sanò

Determining the burden of proof in tax law cases is usually what contributes most to the case’s outcome. Legal presumptions – those inferences that are laid down in the law rather than being the result of the court’s reasoning – play a critical role in such determinations. This very useful book uncovers the details of such presumptions which are shared among European tax law systems, thus revealing a remarkably clear path through the course of a tax law case in any Member State in the context of EU law. Referring to both legal theory and relevant case law, the author assesses whether and to what extent national legal presumptions may be deemed to be consistent with EU law, and when this is not the case, under which conditions they may be reconciled. The analysis unfolds along such avenues as the following: – the meaning of the concept of legal presumption as developed by legal theory and authoritative academic literature; – special considerations regarding presumptions in customs law, VAT, and direct taxation (harmonized and unharmonized); – how tax authorities use presumptions to simplify the assessment of tax and tackle tax avoidance or evasion, particularly in cross-border situations; – justifications asserted by the Member States in relation to restrictions on fundamental freedoms; and – standards of compatibility for national legal presumptions with EU law resulting from CJEU case law. With reference to national experience, using Italy and Belgium as specific examples, the analysis culminates in an elaboration of criteria for legal presumptions capable of meeting the test of compatibility with EU law. As an in-depth investigation of possible inconsistencies and conditions for the coexistence of EU and Member State tax law, this book will be welcomed by both taxation authority officials and taxpayer counsel. The understanding it imparts on the actual impact of EU law on the recourse to legal presumptions by national tax legislatures and the protection of European taxpayers is unsurpassed.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041166238

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9789041166234

Beginning Medical Law

By: Claudia Carr

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Beginning Medical Law

By: Claudia Carr

Whether you’re new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Medical Law is all about, Beginning Medical Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running. Starting with the basics and an overview of each topic, it will help you come to terms with the structure, themes and issues of the subject so that you can begin your Medical Law module with confidence. Adopting a clear and simple approach with legal vocabulary carefully clarified, Claudia Carr breaks the subject of Medical Law down using practical everyday examples to make it understandable for anyone, whatever their background. Diagrams and flowcharts simplify complex issues, important cases are identified and explained and on-the- spot questions help you recognise potential issues or debates within the law so that you can contribute in classes with confidence. Beginning Medical Law is an ideal first introduction to the subject for LLB, GDL or ILEX and especially international students, those enrolled on distance learning courses or on other degree programmes.

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Routledge

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1317747771

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9781317747772

Comprehension First

Inquiry into Big Ideas Using Important Questions

By: Claudia Cornett

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Comprehension First

Inquiry into Big Ideas Using Important Questions

By: Claudia Cornett

This book is about designing instruction that makes comprehension the priority in reading and in content area study. The comprehension model described responds to calls from literacy experts and professional organizations for inquiry-based instruction that prepares readers to be active meaning makers who are adept at both critical and creative thinking. Comprehension First introduces a before, during, after Comprehension Problem Solving (CPS) process that helps readers ask key questions so they arrive at a substantial comprehension product-"big ideas" based on themes and conclusions drawn from literary works and expository texts. The book further describes how to orchestrate research-based best practices to build lessons and units around big ideas and important questions. In this age of multiple literacies, all of us must learn to be more nimble users of Literacy 2.0 communication tools. Mastering problem solving is at the core of this challenge. Comprehension First embraces this challenge by inviting present and future teachers to examine WHY and HOW these tools can be used more purposefully to achieve the pre-eminent literacy goal of deep comprehension.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351813781

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9781351813785

Contesting the Far Right

A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach

By: Claudia Leeb

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Contesting the Far Right

A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach

By: Claudia Leeb

Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to produce this extreme political shift. Contesting the Far Right examines right-wing recruitment tactics in the United States and Austria, where people discontented with the status quo have turned to far-right parties and movements that further cement capitalism’s adverse effects. Leeb contends that Freudian psychoanalytic theory and early Frankfurt School Critical Theory provide analytical tools to explain this apparent contradiction in psychological terms. Living under precarity capitalism generates feelings of failure and anxiety, which people experience as non-wholeness, because it has become difficult if not impossible to live up to the fetish of economic, interpersonal, and bodily success, and the far right preys on such feelings. Its psychologically oriented propaganda tactics produce the illusion of wholeness and a positive sense of self while leaving the socioeconomic conditions that cause people’s suffering intact. At the same time, they remove the inhibitions that keep people’s repressed aggression and racist and sexist attitudes in check. To demonstrate the workings of this process, Leeb compares cases including Trump and the alt-right in the United States and the Freedom Party and the identitarian movement in Austria. At once theoretically rich and politically engaged, this book also offers ways to resist the far right and counter the psychological appeal of its propaganda techniques.

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Columbia University Press

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0231559704

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9780231559706

Passionate Minds

Women Rewriting the World

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

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Passionate Minds

Women Rewriting the World

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art. Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness. "Pierpont['s] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus." ?The Boston Globe "One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time." ?Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books

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Vintage

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0679751130

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9780679751137

British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 5

By: Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf

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British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 5

By: Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf

The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.

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Routledge

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1000560899

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9781000560893

The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage

A Contrastive Study from a Cultural Perspective

By: Claudia Elena Stoian

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The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage

A Contrastive Study from a Cultural Perspective

By: Claudia Elena Stoian

The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage: A Contrastive Study from a Cultural Perspective presents an in-depth research study in the field of online tourism promotion. It focuses on the national online promotion of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, on two different types of websites – institutional and commercial – from three countries, Romania, Spain and Great Britain. The book analyses the way in which each country combines various modes to create a virtual brochure with a promotional message from both institutional and commercial positions. In doing this, it studies the organization of the websites and their webpages, as well as the lexico-grammatical and visual features of their promotional messages. The theoretical framework used is Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday 1985, 1994; Kress and van Leeuwen 1996, 2006; Halliday and Matthiessen 2004). The results are compared in relation to the types of websites and to the countries in which they were produced. These are further interpreted from a cultural perspective, showing that the findings can be accounted for by cultural variability, in particular the dimension of context (Hall 1976, 1990, 2000).

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443886629

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9781443886628

Culinary History of Montgomery County, Maryland, A

By: Claudia Kousoulas and Ellen Letourneau

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Culinary History of Montgomery County, Maryland, A

By: Claudia Kousoulas and Ellen Letourneau

Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve, created in 1980, was a history-making decision that is a model for land preservation. Montgomery County's earliest residents, Native Americans, developed agricultural communities and used the shores of the Potomac as a trading spot. European settlers farmed tobacco, eventually collapsing the County's economy until the Quaker community returned fertility to the land. The C&O Canal was the nation's first significant infrastructure project and helped create links to national and international markets. In the 20th century, the Marriott chain developed contemporary, industrialized food that signaled a changing world. The Agricultural Reserve was intended to preserve the county's rural past in the face of rapid change. Along with farming, it also preserved history and foodways. Claudia Kousoulas and Ellen Letourneau tell this agricultural history through food and recipes.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467148652

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9781467148658

Ware

By: Warren Bacon,Claudia Chicklas

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Ware

By: Warren Bacon,Claudia Chicklas

In 1716, Harvard-educated minister John Read purchased the larger part of what was to become the town of Ware, Massachusetts, and named it "The Manour of Peace." The manour's greatest asset was its river, which first provided fish for Indians and other early settlers and later fueled the town's great nineteenthcentury mills. Ware, compiled by Warren Bacon and Claudia Chicklas, chronicles the history of the town from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s, focusing on the people of the community and the contributions they made to its development. From leaders of industry and society to barefoot children in a rural school; from clergymen to high school athletes and the major-league Ware native who invented the curve ball, Ware offers vintage images and important historical information about the town's past.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738589756

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Little Strangers

Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929

By: Claudia Nelson

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Little Strangers

Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929

By: Claudia Nelson

When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 -- the first year that every state had an adoption law -- the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues, including immigration and poverty, heredity and environment, individuality and citizenship, gender, and the family. She examines orphan fiction for children, magazine stories and articles, legal writings, social work conference proceedings, and discussions of heredity and child psychology. Nelson's ambitious scope provides for an analysis of the extent to which specialist and mainstream adoption discourse overlapped, as well as the ways in which adoption and foster care had captivated the public imagination.

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Indiana University Press

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0253109809

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9780253109804

Bush Toys

Aboriginal Children at Play

By: Claudia Haagen

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Bush Toys

Aboriginal Children at Play

By: Claudia Haagen

A comprehensive literature survey of descriptions of Aboriginal childrens toys and games; tables of bibliographic references to types of toys, and locations of toys in museum collections in Australia.

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Aboriginal Studies Press

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0855752459

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9780855752453

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part I, Volume 4

By: W M Verhoeven,Claudia L Johnson,Philip Cox,Amanda Gilroy,Robert Miles

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Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part I, Volume 4

By: W M Verhoeven,Claudia L Johnson,Philip Cox,Amanda Gilroy,Robert Miles

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Routledge

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1351223216

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9781351223218

Safeguarding Black Children

Good Practice in Child Protection

By: Claudia Bernard,Perlita Harris

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Safeguarding Black Children

Good Practice in Child Protection

By: Claudia Bernard,Perlita Harris

Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need. With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an understanding of the particular cultural and social issues that affect black children in relation to child protection. It highlights how race and racism, as well as culture, faith and gender, can influence the ways need and risk are interpreted and responded to. Drawing on insights from research evidence, case examples and practice guidelines, it outlines the range of factors that contribute to the vulnerability of black children and describes how to improve techniques of working with minority ethnic families. The book covers issues such as the effects of parental mental health problems, living with domestic violence, child maltreatment, and demonstrates how these might be understood differently for black children and young people. There are also chapters on topics such as female genital mutilation, witchcraft and forced marriage. Essential reading for all social workers and child protection workers, as well as students and support managers, Safeguarding Black Children provides the tools and understanding needed to better support these children.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1784500119

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9781784500115

The Treaty of Waitangi

By: Claudia Orange

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The Treaty of Waitangi

By: Claudia Orange

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 by over 500 chiefs, and by William Hobson, representing the British Crown. To the British it was the means by which they gained sovereignty over New Zealand. But to Maori people it had a very different significance, and they are still affected by the terms of the Treaty, often adversely.The Treaty of Waitangi, the first comprehensive study of the Treaty, deals with its place in New Zealand history from its making to the present day. The story covers the several Treaty signings and the substantial differences between Maori and English texts; the debate over interpretation of land rights and the actions of settler governments determined to circumvent Treaty guarantees; the wars of sovereignty in the 1860s and the longstanding Maori struggle to secure a degree of autonomy and control over resources." --Publisher.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1877242489

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9781877242489

Family Ties in Victorian England

By: Claudia Nelson

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Family Ties in Victorian England

By: Claudia Nelson

The Victorians were passionate about family. While Queen Victoria's supporters argued that her intense commitment to her private life made her the more fit to mother her people, her critics charged that it distracted her from her public responsibilities. Here, Nelson focuses particularly on the conflicting and powerful images of family life that Victorians produced in their fiction and nonfiction—that is, on how the Victorians themselves conceived of family, which continues both to influence and to help explain visions of family today. Drawing upon a wide variety of 19th-century fiction and nonfiction, Nelson examines the English Victorian family both as it was imagined and as it was experienced. For many Victorians, family was exalted to the status of secular religion, endowed with the power of fighting the contamination of unchecked commercialism or sexuality and holding out the promise of reforming humankind. Although in practice this ideal might have proven unattainable, the many detailed 19th-century descriptions of the outlook and behavior appropriate to fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, and other family members illustrate the extent of the pressure felt by members of this society to try to live up to the expectations of their culture. Defining family to include the extended family, the foster or adoptive family, and the stepfamily, Nelson considers different roles within the Victorian household in order to gauge the ambivalence and the social anxieties surrounding them—many of which continue to influence our notions of family today.

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0313050287

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Humanism After Colonialism

By: Claudia Alvares

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Humanism After Colonialism

By: Claudia Alvares

This book is the result of a doctoral thesis defended at Goldsmith's College, University of London"--Acknowledgements.

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Peter Lang

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3039102540

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Larry Semon, Daredevil Comedian of the Silent Screen

A Biography and Filmography

By: Claudia Sassen

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Larry Semon, Daredevil Comedian of the Silent Screen

A Biography and Filmography

By: Claudia Sassen

Prior to his premature death from tuberculosis in 1928, Larry Semon was one of the most popular comics on the silent screen. For a time he rivaled comedy legends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton for fame and fortune. The son of magician Professor Zera the Great, Semon participated in many of his father's early performances. A talented youth, he worked as an illustrator and cartoonist before going into motion pictures with the Vitagraph Company. He soon became a Hollywood legend, responsible for his own stories, gags, acting and direction. The result of 30 years of research, this long overdue biography recognizes one of Hollywood's most overlooked auteurs. The author draws on numerous articles and contacts with Semon's family and friends, and screens many films previously believed to be lost.

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McFarland

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0786498226

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British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 1

By: Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf

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British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 1

By: Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf

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Routledge

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1000560856

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Women Who Ruled

History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

By: Claudia Gold

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Women Who Ruled

History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

By: Claudia Gold

Poisoners', 'whores', 'witches' and 'murderers' - or so their enemies claimed. From Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, to the villainous Catherine de Medici and her flying squadron, to England's 'Gloriana' Elizabeth I, and the modern phenomenon of female prime ministers - Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto - Claudia Gold looks at three and a half thousand years of history to examine the lives of fifty of the world's most exceptional rulers - all of them women. Each biographical profile sets its subject clearly in the culture and context of its time, enabling the author not only to tell the stories of these 50 astonishing women, but also to provide a fascinating and informative alternative social history.

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Quercus Publishing

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1784292354

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Don't Let Me Be Lonely

An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

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Don't Let Me Be Lonely

An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars—doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age. First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine’s best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.

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Graywolf Press

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1644452561

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The Sassoons

By: Esther da Costa Meyer,Claudia J. Nahson

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The Sassoons

By: Esther da Costa Meyer,Claudia J. Nahson

Tracing the global history of the Sassoon family, entrepreneurs and patrons of remarkable art and architecture, from Baghdad to Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and London The Sassoons were prosperous as bankers and treasurers to the Ottoman sultans in nineteenth-century Baghdad, until they were driven out by religious persecution and economic pressures. Assuming the precarious status of stateless Jews, the family dispersed, establishing businesses in Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London. Their wealth enabled them to collect splendid works of art from the various cultures that welcomed them. This volume tells the sweeping global story of the Sassoon family through the works of art they collected. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, porcelain, manuscripts, Judaica, and architecture, it foregrounds family members who were patrons of art and sponsors of remarkable buildings, highlighting the role of the family's accomplished women. Rachel Sassoon was editor of both the Times and the Observer newspapers in London at the turn of the twentieth century. The renowned war poet Siegfried Sassoon was a cousin. Victor Sassoon hosted the glitterati of the 1920s and 1930s at his Cathay Hotel in Shanghai. This fascinating and elegant book--with gilt edges and a ribbon bookmark--features a family tree and explores generations of Sassoons for whom art was not only a mark of their arrival in the rarefied world of the upper class but a pleasure in itself. Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York Exhibition Schedule: Jewish Museum, New York (March 3-August 13, 2023)

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Yale University Press

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0300264305

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9780300264302

Prime Crime Holiday Bundle

By: Emily Brightwell,Cleo Coyle,Maggie Sefton,Claudia Bishop,Betty Hechtman

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Prime Crime Holiday Bundle

By: Emily Brightwell,Cleo Coyle,Maggie Sefton,Claudia Bishop,Betty Hechtman

Grab a cup of hot chocolate and cozy up with this collection of six holiday themed mysteries! HOLIDAY GRIND: A Coffeehouse Mystery by Cleo Coyle When Village Blend manager and head barista Clare Cosi finds a red-suited body in the snow, she adds solving Santa’s slaying to her coffeehouse menu. MRS. JEFFRIES & THE YULETIDE WEDDINGS: A Victorian Mystery by Emily Brightwell The week before Christmas, Inspector Gerald Witherspoon’s staff prepares for the long-awaited wedding of Betsy and Smythe. But an unwelcome surprise falls in his lap: a Yuletide murder. MRS. JEFFRIES & THE FEAST OF ST. STEPHEN: A Victorian Mystery by Emily Brightwell When the host of a Yuletide dinner drops dead before the second course, Mrs. Jeffries and the busy sleuths must rally in support of their overworked Inspector. A CAROL FOR A CORPSE: A Hemlock Falls Mystery by Claudia Bishop To save their inn from a lawsuit, the Quilliam sisters need to prove a skier's death was no accident. But the slope-side slayer has a message for Meg and Quill: You better watch out... YOU BETTER KNOT DIE: A Crochet Mystery by Betty Hechtman When the husband of Molly Pink’s neighbor has gone missing, the crochet fiend gets hooked on unraveling another mystery. FLEECE NAVIDAD: A Knitting Mystery by Maggie Sefton When a librarian is murdered, Kelly Flynn and her knitting crew try to separate the lion from the lambs—before someone else gets fleeced.

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Penguin

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1101496991

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9781101496992

Environmental Literacy in Science and Society

From Knowledge to Decisions

By: Roland W. Scholz,Claudia R. Binder

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Environmental Literacy in Science and Society

From Knowledge to Decisions

By: Roland W. Scholz,Claudia R. Binder

A comprehensive review and analysis of environmental literacy within the context of environmental science and sustainable development. Approaching the topic from multiple perspectives, the book explores the development of human understanding of the environment and human-environment interactions in the fields of biology, psychology, sociology, economics and industrial ecology.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521183332

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Out of a Gray Fog

Ayn Rand’s Europe

By: Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler

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Out of a Gray Fog

Ayn Rand’s Europe

By: Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler

“As to Europe—keep it in a gray, ominous, evil fog.”—Ayn Rand (1905–1982) thus commented on the role of Europe in her key novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). The same could be said of the way Europe features in her own biography and in the general perception of her persona. Even though Rand was born in pre-revolutionary Russia, she is nowadays considered anAmerican phenomenon, whose reach ends at the Atlantic shore. This book lifts the "gray fog" cast over her relationship with Europe, retracing the changing perception of the continent in both her fiction and thought. Her apparent lack of success with European readers is often explained by allegedly different reading tastes. However, a look at her publication history and reception shows that many factors played a role why her work found fewer European than US readers. Finally, an archipelago of European readers and admirers emerges which is testament to Rand's impact on European art and politics.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793636869

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