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Odds on Oliver

By: Constance C. Greene

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Can Oliver become a hero—even when no one needs saving? Oliver knows he’s destined for greatness. Deep in his bones, he feels his courage growling like a lion, just waiting for a chance to prove itself. As for a Boy Scout or a firefighter, the trick is to always be prepared. Oliver’s only problem is that he’s already finished the fourth grade and might be running out of chances to show his stuff. But don’t bet against him. The odds are that when he’s tested, Oliver will be ready to save the day. In a series of wacky misadventures spanning a day of fishing turned shark attack and an evening at a red-hot Tex-Mex restaurant, Oliver does his best to be heroic.

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Open Road Media

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1504004345

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Improve, Perfect, & Perpetuate

Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education

By: Oliver S. Hayward,Constance E. Putnam

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Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education

By: Oliver S. Hayward,Constance E. Putnam

This is the first full-scale biography of Nathan Smith -- medical pioneer, founder of Dartmouth Medical School and cofounder of three other medical schools (Yale, Vermont, and Bowdoin), and progenitor of a long line of physicians. Smith was a central figure in early American medical education, from 1787 when he began practicing in New Hampshire, to his death in New Haven in 1829. In his day, Smith was probably the nation's leading physician, surgeon, and medical educator, and well ahead of his time in insisting that doctors practice "watchful waiting" and emphasizing patient-centered care. In the process of telling Smith's life and story, authors Hayward and Putnam fill out in new ways the picture of medical treatment and medical education in post-Colonial America. The tale of Smith's remarkable career unfolds in New England, where the authors create a sense of time and place through an exhaustive study of primary and secondary sources, and especially Smith's own letters and lecture notes taken by his students. Readers become immersed in Smith's life and the spirit of the times as they examine early Victorian notions of disease, how medical students were taught (the chapter on body snatching is especially lively), the politics and economics of founding professional medical schools in early America, and other topics. The book provides a vivid description of what it was like to study and practice medicine, and be the recipient of the ministrations of physicians, during this critical period.

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Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

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1611680921

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9781611680928

"Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"

The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought

By: Constance Brittain Bouchard

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"Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"

The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought

By: Constance Brittain Bouchard

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through the creation of opposing categories. In a highly original work, Constance Brittain Bouchard examines this poorly understood component of twelfth-century thought, one responsible, in her view, for the fundamental strangeness of that culture to modern thinking.Scholars have long recognized that dialectical reasoning was the basic approach to philosophical, legal, and theological matters in the high Middle Ages. Bouchard argues that this way of thinking and categorizing—which she terms a "discourse of opposites"—permeated all aspects of medieval thought. She rejects suggestions that it was the result of imprecision, and provides evidence that people of that era sought not to reconcile opposing categories but rather to maintain them. Bouchard scrutinizes the medieval use of opposites in five broad areas: scholasticism, romance, legal disputes, conversion, and the construction of gender. Drawing on research in a series of previously unedited charters and the earliest glossa manuscripts, she demonstrates that this method of constructing reality was a constitutive element of the thought of the period.

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Cornell University Press

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1501716646

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9781501716645

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A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

By: Constance Backhouse,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

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A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

By: Constance Backhouse,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Backhouse presents detailed narratives of six court cases, each giving evidence of blatant racism created and enforced through law."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802082866

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9780802082862

The Science We Have Loved and Taught

Dartmouth medical School's First Two Centuries

By: Constance Putnam

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The Science We Have Loved and Taught

Dartmouth medical School's First Two Centuries

By: Constance Putnam

Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), the fourth oldest medical school in the United States, was founded in 1797 in Hanover, New Hampshire, by Nathan Smith. An entrepreneurial doctor with his own special brand of patient-centered medical care, Smith saw the fledgling Dartmouth College as a "literary institution" that would give status to his medical school and enhance his efforts to train physicians to care for rural patients. The College and the Medical School have followed intertwined paths ever since, as Constance Putnam shows in her account of the School's first two centuries. Like all medical schools, DMS has had to learn how to get along with its parent institution. At Dartmouth, this has meant repeatedly sorting out just how independent the "Medical Department" (as it was initially known) should be of Dartmouth College itself. Yet it is the strong personalities and the unique way Dartmouth responded to changes in fashion for medical education that sets the DMS story apart. Putnam brings to life the men who helped make Dartmouth Medical School important in the history of medical education. The unique path followed by Dartmouth Medical School in the aftermath of the Flexner Report is also thoroughly explored. The book concludes with an assessment of DMS at the end of its second century and a look at the way Nathan Smith's early vision had grown to something far greater and more useful to the health of that rural population he sought to serve than even he could have imagined.

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Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

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1611688728

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9781611688726

Essentials Of Medical Laboratory Practice

By: Constance L Lieseke,Elizabeth A Zeibig

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Essentials Of Medical Laboratory Practice

By: Constance L Lieseke,Elizabeth A Zeibig

Inside, you’ll find a wealth of information on important laboratory terminology and the procedures you’ll need to perform to become an effective member of a physician’s office team. Coverage of the advanced procedures performed outside of the physician’s office explains what happens to the samples you send out. There’s also information on CLIA and other government regulations and how they affect each procedure.

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F.A. Davis

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0803630352

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9780803630352

Woman of the Baths

By: Constance McCutcheon

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Woman of the Baths

By: Constance McCutcheon

Woman of the Baths "Woman of the Baths" is a novella about atonement. It is September 1945. The war in the Pacific theater has been won. To humiliate his industrialist father for supporting the war, pacifist Ogden Fike has a Japanese war victim shipped to him, with forged papers saying she is the bride of Captain Ricky Virostik. Wagner Fike has little choice but to accept the responsibility forced on him of caring for Yukiko and, in doing so, develops a deep affection for her. But nothing he tries breaks Yukiko's stony silence. When Captain Virostik shows up, Mr. Fike wonders if there is some validity to his son's hoax after all. Ricky, himself a casualty of war, lost crew and plane in the March 9 fire-bombing raid over Tokyo, was forced to jump into the inferno where he encountered Yukiko, and was captured to suffer a brutal six-month imprisonment. His only hope to defuse his haunting memories is to see Yukiko again. Mr. Fike accommodates his wishes, but when he hears Yukiko speak to Ricky, he is consumed with jealousy and desperate to learn what bond the two share. His attempts to find out award him a sobering glimpse into the horrors of war, which Yukiko herself cannot express.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1425788173

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9781425788179

Tale of Two Cedars

International Symposium on Western Redcedar and Yellow-Cedar

By: Constance Harrington

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Tale of Two Cedars

International Symposium on Western Redcedar and Yellow-Cedar

By: Constance Harrington

In 2010, an international symposium on western redcedar (Thuja plicata) and yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis [syn. Chamaecyparis nootkatensis]) was held at the Univ. of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. The symposium brought together experts to present cultural, biological, management and economic information on the two species. Although some papers or posters focused on just one of the cedars, many of the presenters covered both species and discussed the similarities and differences between them. This proceedings includes abstracts or short papers from all of the formal presentations or posters presented at the symposium. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

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DIANE Publishing

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1437942288

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9781437942286

Reckoning with Racism

Police, Judges, and the RDS Case

By: Constance Backhouse

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Reckoning with Racism

Police, Judges, and the RDS Case

By: Constance Backhouse

In 1997, complacency about the racial neutrality of a predominantly white judiciary was shattered as the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint of judicial racial bias for the first time. The judge in question was Corrine Sparks, the country’s first Black female judge. Reckoning with Racism considers the RDS case. A white Halifax police officer had arrested a Black teenager, placed him in a choke hold, and charged him with assaulting an officer and obstructing arrest. In acquitting the teen, Judge Sparks remarked that police sometimes overreacted when dealing with non-white youth. The acquittal held, but most of the white appeal judges critiqued her comments, based on the tradition that the legal system was non-racist unless proven otherwise. That became a matter of wide debate. This book assesses the case of alleged anti-white judicial bias, the surrounding excitement, the dramatic effects on those involved, and the significance for the Canadian legal system.

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UBC Press

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0774868295

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Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics

Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada

By: Constance Backhouse

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Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics

Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada

By: Constance Backhouse

Drawing on historical records of women’s varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into women’s legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an effort to recover the social and political conditions under which women lobbied, rebelled, and in some cases influenced change, Petticoats and Prejudice weaves together forgotten stories of achievement and defeat in the Canadian legal system. Expanding the concept of “heroism” beyond its traditional limitations, this text gives life to some of Canada’s lost heroines. Euphemia Rabbitt, who resisted an attempted rape, and Clara Brett Martin, who valiantly secured entry into the all-male legal profession, were admired by their contemporaries for their successful pursuits of justice. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed all women should be legally protected against sexual assault, and Nellie Armstrong, a battered wife and mother who sought child custody, were ostracized for their ideas and demands. Well aware of the limitations placed upon women advocating for reform in a patriarchal legal system, Constance Backhouse recreates vivid and textured snapshots of these and other women’s courageous struggles against gender discrimination and oppression. Employing social history to illuminate the reproductive, sexual, racial, and occupational inequalities that continue to shape women’s encounters with the law, Petticoats and Prejudice is an essential entry point into the gendered treatment of feminized bodies in Canadian legal institutions. This book was co-published with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

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Canadian Scholars’ Press

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0889615225

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9780889615229

Alone in a Crowded Room

An Adoption Story

By: Constance Bierkan

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Alone in a Crowded Room

An Adoption Story

By: Constance Bierkan

When five-year-old Lexie Saunders learns she is adopted and is told she is handpicked by Mother from a line-up of baby cribs, her life is forever changed. Instead of feeling special, Lexie becomes haunted by Mama, the mystery lady who gave birth to her. The disappearance of Mama leaves a hole in Lexies heart, keeping her separate and feeling different from others. She often experiences acute loneliness even in the midst of a crowd of friends or family. Were she to learn the reason for her adoption, perhaps she would feel complete. However, searching for Mama means a possible rejection plus it might devastate the mother who has raised her. Lexie, Mama, and Mother have each suffered greatly: one the loss of a mother, one the loss of a child, and one the loss of fertility. Together in the adoption triad, they are like the notes of a musical chord, inextricably intertwined for better or worse. In recognition of her adopted grandparents and aunts unconditional love, Lexie will eventually gain the courage to search for answers plaguing her over a lifetime. Will they bring closure or open old wounds?

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489712909

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9781489712905

Ways of Sensing

Understanding the Senses In Society

By: David Howes,Constance Classen

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Ways of Sensing

Understanding the Senses In Society

By: David Howes,Constance Classen

Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of the modern hospital, the role of the senses in the courtroom, and the branding of sensations in the marketplace. Howes and Classen consider how political issues such as nationalism, gender equality and the treatment of minority groups are shaped by sensory practices and metaphors. They also reveal how the phenomenon of synaesthesia, or mingling of the senses, can be seen as not simply a neurological condition but a vital cultural mode of creating social and cosmic interconnections. Written by leading scholars in the field, Ways of Sensing provides readers with a valuable and engaging introduction to the life of the senses in society.

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Routledge

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1317929489

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9781317929482

Tales of Michigan II

By: Constance M. Jerlecki

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Tales of Michigan II

By: Constance M. Jerlecki

As with the previous volume of this series, Tales of Michigan II is a collection of fifteen stories from across the “Great Lakes State.” Chosen to give the reader an insight into Michigan’s rich and varied historical heritage, each of these tales relates a different aspect of the state’s past. Among others, stories in this book include: Ø A misunderstanding between a bridge tender and a lake freighter captain that resulted in a collision that severed the only land link between the upper portion of the Keweenaw Peninsula and the rest of the state. Ø A mistake made by the overworked operator of an interurban railway car that led to a fatal collision near Monroe. Ø The pioneering effort by Captain Curtis Boughton to open the hungry markets of Chicago to western Michigan fruit farmers. Ø The days when dog sled teams provided many remote communities located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with their only connection to the outside world during the long winter months. Ø The devastation left behind by a fire that erupted in downtown Alpena during the summer of 1872. Ø The tragic Easter Sunday crash of an airliner that investigators initially blamed on its crew until new information came to light nearly seven years later. Ø The tale of a gasoline tanker stranded in Lake Michigan that prompted a series of dangerous salvage efforts to remove its valuable cargo. Ø An international railway tunnel constructed below one the busiest waterways in the world.

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Inland Expressions

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1939150108

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The Way Jews Lived

Five Hundred Years of Printed Words and Images

By: Constance Harris

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The Way Jews Lived

Five Hundred Years of Printed Words and Images

By: Constance Harris

Intertwining history and art over five centuries, this detailed overview of Jewish culture and events focuses on how printed writings and artworks have reflected the perceptions of Jews by themselves and others. Filled with nearly 400 illustrations of woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, serigraphs and other visual works, it details the representation of Jews and Jewish life chronologically while giving individual attention to the regions and countries in which Jews have lived in significant numbers. From editions of the Haggadah to portraits to anti-Semitic cartoons, diaries to newspapers to novels, it analyzes a vast array of works that both molded and revealed Jewish popular opinion.

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McFarland

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0786434406

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9780786434404

Brotherhood in Rhythm

The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers

By: Constance Valis Hill

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Brotherhood in Rhythm

The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers

By: Constance Valis Hill

Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their performances in musicals and films from the 30s to the 80s. They performed with Gene Kelly in The Pirate, with Cab Calloway in Stormy Weather, with Dorothy Dandridge (Harold's wife) in Sun Valley Serenade, and with a number of other stars on the stage and on the screen. Author Hill not only guides readers through the brothers' showstopping successes and the repressive times in which their dancing won them universal acclaim, she also offers extensive insight into the history and choreography of tap dancing, bringing readers up to speed on the art form in which the Nicholas Brothers excelled.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815412150

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9780815412151

Desert Song

By: Constance O'Banyon

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Desert Song

By: Constance O'Banyon

From the acclaimed author of Song of the Nightingale. When Mallory Stanhope set sail for Egypt, she was drawn to a fellow passenger, the strikingly handsome but aloof Lord Michael DeWinter. Once in port, Mallory hoped to forget this troublesome man, but she soon found herself not only nursing his wounds, but also falling hopelessly in love with him.

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HarperPrism

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0061082902

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9780061082900

The Accidental Orphan

By: Constance Horne

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The Accidental Orphan

By: Constance Horne

Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. In her escape she becomes a stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada, an unwilling member of a band of orphans headed for new families on the Prairies. Adopted by the Aitkens, a family on a Manitoba homestead, she soon lands herself at the centre of a number of calamities, unexpectedly learning about rural life in the New World and the value of family ties, both those forged in blood and those forged in trust.

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Dundurn

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1554886252

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9781554886258

From Hurt to Healed

The Story of How My Daddy Broke My Heart and My Heavenly Father Put It Back Together Again

By: Harmony Constance

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From Hurt to Healed

The Story of How My Daddy Broke My Heart and My Heavenly Father Put It Back Together Again

By: Harmony Constance

They appeared to be the perfect familyparents met as teenagers. Stirred and on fire for God, they married each other right out of high school and started having gorgeous babies soon after. After three sons and fourteen years of marriage, precious Harmony was born. No one knew that eleven years later, that baby girl would be abandoned by her father. No one would have guessed he would cheat on his faithful wife and leave her and his six children to fend for themselves. But he did. Each child suffered greatly, but Harmony shares her story of the effects of the separation. After wrestling with denial, anger, and entitlement to expectations, Harmony came to realize she hated and despised her father for leaving the family. As a young Christian, she couldnt understand how so much spite could be inside of her. She then began to seek the freedom only forgiveness can bring, hoping for reconciliation concerning the absence of her dad. The journey of discovery revealed to her far more than she ever expected. How much does an absent father affect a girls life? She digs deep to offer an answer to this timeless question that affects so many of us all.

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WestBow Press

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1490880143

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9781490880143

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Pacific Northwest

By: Anita Carmin,Constance Brissenden

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Pacific Northwest

By: Anita Carmin,Constance Brissenden

The DK Eyewitness Pacific Northwest travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the region has to offer. Whether you’re kayaking on Lake Ozette in Olympic National Park or hitting the shops in Downtown Seattle’s Columbia Centre, this guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife for all budgets. It’s fully illustrated and covers all the major cities from Washington, Vancouver and Portland to Oregon, Seattle and British Columbia. You'll find floorplans of all the must-see sites, as well as street maps and reliable information for getting around. DK Eyewitness Pacific Northwest explores the culture, history and architecture, not missing the best in entertainment, shopping, tours and scenic walks, in this diverse region. With all the sights, beaches and attractions listed area by area, DK Eyewitness Pacific Northwest is your essential companion. DK Eyewitness Pacific Northwest – showing you what others only tell you.

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Penguin

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0756686679

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9780756686673

The Many Ways Jews Loved

A History from Printed Words and Images

By: Constance Harris

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The Many Ways Jews Loved

A History from Printed Words and Images

By: Constance Harris

While acknowledging the ways in which persecution inevitably affects a community, this book deviates from most Jewish studies to survey the ways in which Jewish history has been shaped by the everyday experience of love. It examines erotic poetry, sensual art and literature, and biblical and rabbinic stories about lust. It reviews the ways in which Jewish law has both encouraged and regulated sexual interaction and studies the diversity of Jewish attitudes toward such relationships, found in a vast array of works whose authors and artists often speak to the confusion and failure of love while also finding a purpose in its pursuance. It tells the stories of those people who revel in love and of others who remember love and grieve in its absence.

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McFarland

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1476638217

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9781476638218

Tap Dancing America

A Cultural History

By: Constance Valis Hill

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Tap Dancing America

A Cultural History

By: Constance Valis Hill

Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself, Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative, filling a major gap in American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.

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Oxford University Press

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0190225386

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9780190225384

Devotion

Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination

By: Constance M. Furey,Sarah Hammerschlag,Amy Hollywood

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Devotion

Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination

By: Constance M. Furey,Sarah Hammerschlag,Amy Hollywood

What brings religious scholars Constance Furey, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Amy Hollywood together in Devotion is a shared conviction that "reading helps us live with and through the unknown." For them, the nature of reading raises questions fundamental to how we think about our political futures and modes of human relation. Each essay suggests different ways to characterize the object of devotion and the stance of the devout subject before it. Furey writes about devotion in terms of vivification, energy, and artifice; Hammerschlag in terms of commentary, mimicry, and fetishism; and Hollywood in terms of anarchy, antinomianism, and atopia. They are interested in literature not as providing models for ethical, political, or religious life, but as creating the site in which the possible-and the impossible-transport the reader, enabling new forms of thought, habits of mind, and modes of life. Ranging from German theologian Martin Luther to French-Jewish philosopher Sarah Kofman to American poet Susan Howe, this volume is not just a reflection on forms of devotion, it is also an enactment of devotion itself"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226816125

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9780226816128

The Reb and the Redcoats

By: Constance Savery

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The Reb and the Redcoats

By: Constance Savery

In an interesting turnabout, the Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of a British family to whom an American prisoner of war has been entrusted. Technically the young prisoner is in Uncle Lawrence's custody, but the children soon forge a forbidden friendship with him after he nearly dies in an attempted escape. He becomes the Reb and they, his Redcoats. But when they learn of some events leading to his coming to Europe, even Uncle Lawrence, embittered by the unjust death of a friend in America, thaws toward him-but this doesn't stop the Reb from scheming to escape. Constance Savery deftly weaves themes of trust and forgiveness into an interesting plot with likeable characters.

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Bethlehem Books

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1883937426

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9781883937423

What Would Dickens Do?

By: Constance Moore

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What Would Dickens Do?

By: Constance Moore

To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth, What Would Dickens Do? brings together the thoughts of some of his best-loved characters, as well as his own opinions. If you’re struggling with people’s great expectations or live in a bleak house, look inside for words of comfort and guidance from one of the world’s greatest writers.

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Summersdale

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0857658174

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9780857658173

The Search for E. T. Bell

Also Known as John Taine

By: Constance Reid

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The Search for E. T. Bell

Also Known as John Taine

By: Constance Reid

This is a compelling account of this complicated, difficult man.

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Cambridge University Press

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0883855089

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9780883855089

The Heiress vs the Establishment

Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice

By: Constance Backhouse,Nancy L. Backhouse

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The Heiress vs the Establishment

Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice

By: Constance Backhouse,Nancy L. Backhouse

In 1922, Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, a Toronto-born socialite, unearthed what she initially thought was an unsigned copy of her mother’s will, designating her as the primary beneficiary of the estate. The discovery snowballed into a fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment, as Mrs. Campbell attempted to prove that her uncle, a prominent member of Ontario’s legal circle, had stolen funds from her mother’s estate. In 1930, she argued her case before the Law Lords of the Privy Council in London. A non-lawyer and Canadian, with no formal education or legal training, Campbell was the first woman to ever appear before them. She won. Reprinted here in its entirety, Campbell’s self-published account of her campaign, Where Angels Fear to Tread, is an eloquent first-person view of intrigue and overlapping spheres of influence in the early-twentieth-century legal system. Constance Backhouse and Nancy Backhouse provide extensive commentary and annotations to lluminate the context and pick up the narrative where Campbell’s book leaves off. Vibrantly written, this is an enthralling read. Not only a fascinating social and legal history, it’s also a very good story.

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0774850736

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9780774850735

On the Winds and Waves of Imagination

Transnational Feminism and Literature

By: Constance S. Richards

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On the Winds and Waves of Imagination

Transnational Feminism and Literature

By: Constance S. Richards

First published in 2000.This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national origin, and class in women's oppression.

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1136532951

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Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

A Life

By: Constance Backhouse

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Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

A Life

By: Constance Backhouse

Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first from Quebec, she was known as “the great dissenter” on the bench, making judgments that were applauded and criticized in turn. L’Heureux-Dubé’s innovative legal approach was anchored in the social, economic, and political context of her cases. Constance Backhouse employs a similar tactic. Rather than focusing exclusively on her high-profile cases and jurisprudential legacy, sheexplores the socio-political and cultural setting in which L’Heureux-Dubé’s career unfolded, while also considering her personal life. This compelling biography covers aspects of legal history that have never been so fully investigated, enhancing our understanding of the judiciary, the creation of law, the distinctive socio-legal environment of Quebec, the experiences of women in the legal profession, and the inner workings of the top court.

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UBC Press

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0774836350

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