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Infinite Jest

Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Constance C. McPhee,Nadine Orenstein

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Infinite Jest

Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Constance C. McPhee,Nadine Orenstein

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 13, 2011-Mar. 4, 2012.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588394298

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9781588394293

The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914

Exile and Transnationalism in the First Globalisation

By: Constance Bantman

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The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914

Exile and Transnationalism in the First Globalisation

By: Constance Bantman

Fleeing repression and persecution, nearly five hundred French-speaking anarchists moved to London between 1880 and 1914, where they developed a unique community deeply shaped by political exile and activism. In this book Constance Bantman explores the history of these largely unknown people and the ways they reinvented anarchism at a time of tremendous political change. She looks at how they struggled in the massive late-Victorian metropolis, tracing their social and political interactions and examining the effects British and French surveillance had on their lives. An in-depth look at a fascinating community, The French Anarchists in London lends historical insight into contemporary concerns about transnational terrorist groups and immigration in Europe.

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233

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Oxford University Press

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1846318807

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9781846318801

Shalom/Salaam/Peace

A Liberation Theology of Hope

By: Constance A. Hammond

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Shalom/Salaam/Peace

A Liberation Theology of Hope

By: Constance A. Hammond

Conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been ongoing since the creation of the state of Israel, a conflict revolving around land-ownership, water politics, human rights, and religious rights. 'Shalom/Salaam/Peace' examines the realities of life in contemporary Israel/Palestine, with its politics, wars, security wall, settlements and ongoing struggles. Having established the historical, scriptural and theological context behind the present situation, the book presents key figures who have promoted peace and justice and explores liberation theology as a way of bringing peace in Israel/Palestine. Combining the history of liberation theology with its lived reality in Israel/Palestine today, 'Shalom/Salaam/Peace' is an illuminating resource for students and scholars of politics and religion.

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Routledge

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131749055X

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9781317490555

Brotherhood in Rhythm

The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 20th Anniversary Edition

By: Constance Valis Hill

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Brotherhood in Rhythm

The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 20th Anniversary Edition

By: Constance Valis Hill

When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. Their exuberant style of American theatrical dance--a melding of jazz, tap, acrobatics, black vernacular dance, and witty repartee--was dazzling. Though daredevil flips, slides, and hair-raising splits made them show-stoppers, the Nicholas Brothers were also highly sophisticated dancers who refined a centuries-old tradition of percussive dance into the rhythmic brilliance of jazz tap. In Brotherhood in Rhythm, author Constance Valis Hill interweaves an intimate portrait of these great performers with a richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, both bringing their act to life and explaining their significance through a colourful analysis of their eloquent footwork, their full-bodied expressiveness, and their changing style. Hill vividly captures their soaring careers, from the Cotton Club appearances with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Jimmy Lunceford, to film-stealing big-screen performances with Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller. Drawing on a deep well of research and endless hours of interviews with the Nicholas brothers themselves, she also documents their struggles against the nets of racism and segregation that constantly enmeshed their careers and denied them the recognition they deserved. More than a biography of two immensely talented but underappreciated performers, Brotherhood in Rhythm offers a profound understanding of this distinctively American art and its intricate links to the history of jazz.

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Oxford University Press

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0197523986

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9780197523988

Those of My Blood

Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia

By: Constance Brittain Bouchard

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Those of My Blood

Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia

By: Constance Brittain Bouchard

For those who ruled medieval society, the family was the crucial social unit, made up of those from whom property and authority were inherited and those to whom it passed. One's kin could be one's closest political and military allies or one's fiercest enemies. While the general term used to describe family members was consanguinei mei, "those of my blood," not all of those relations-parents, siblings, children, distant cousins, maternal relatives, paternal ancestors, and so on-counted as true family in any given time, place, or circumstance. In the early and high Middle Ages, the "family" was a very different group than it is in modern society, and the ways in which medieval men and women conceptualized and structured the family unit changed markedly over time. Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flexible ways by which individuals were or were not incorporated into the family group. Even in medieval patriarchal society, women of the aristocracy, who were considered outsiders by their husbands and their husbands' siblings and elders, were never completely marginalized and paradoxically represented the very essence of "family" to their male children. Bouchard also engages in the ongoing scholarly debate about the nobility around the year 1000, arguing that there was no clear point of transition from amorphous family units to agnatically structured kindred. Instead, she points out that great noble families always privileged the male line of descent, even if most did not establish father-son inheritance until the eleventh or twelfth century. Those of My Blood clarifies the complex meanings of medieval family structure and family consciousness and shows the many ways in which negotiations of power within the noble family can help explain early medieval politics.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081220140X

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9780812201406

Better Grammar in 30 Minutes a Day

By: Constance Immel,Florence Sacks

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Better Grammar in 30 Minutes a Day

By: Constance Immel,Florence Sacks

Do verb tenses make you tense? Does “affect” vs. “effect” put you in a panic? Help is here! This easy-to-use guide to grammar explains just how the English language works—especially the many ways it can trip you up—so you can write and speak with confidence. You’ll find: •Thorough coverage of key areas of grammar •Easy-to-understand explanations and plenty of exercises to test and refine your skills •An answer key at the back of the book to encourage you to work at your own pace and check your answers as you go •A glossary for a quick review of any grammatical term discussed in the book Better Grammar in 30 Minutes a Day allows you to customize your learning—so you can use it even if you have as little as five minutes a day to spare. Like its companion guides in the Better English series, this book is just what the teacher ordered—and will have you on your way to being grammatically correct!

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601637128

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9781601637123

The Life and Promotion of an Abused Woman

Overcoming Obstacles with Patience

By: Constance Telesfford

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The Life and Promotion of an Abused Woman

Overcoming Obstacles with Patience

By: Constance Telesfford

A small Island in the Caribbean, where the soil is rich in minerals, and known as the land of spice, Dr. Constance Telesfford was born on that soil, the Island of Grenada. The first of seven children, she was the recipient of harsh punishment from her mother, and the victim of attempted rape twice as a child. She migrated to Aruba with her siblings to join her parents where she completed most of her academic education. The spoken language was Dutch, a new experience but learning a new language was a good thing. Dr. Telesfford received her nursing education and post graduate midwifery in London, England where she met and married Albert Prescott after graduation. Having worked as a practicing midwife after graduation, Dr. Telesfford migrated to America with her husband and their two daughters, at the invitation of her sister, to work in medicine. A retired nurse and missionary to the nations, she is the recipient of a Bachelors Degree in Sociology, Bachelors Degree in Religious Education, Masters Degree in Health Care Administration, Masters Degree in Theology, and a Doctorate Degree in Theology, Ph.D. Dr. Telesfford ministered in New York City, the Caribbean Islands, including Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, and lastly, BoliviaSouth America. Also, she travelled extensively throughout the nations including England, India, China, Asia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Israel, Rome, Egypt, and BoliviaSouth America. Dr. Telesfford relocated to Florida to escape the many years of bitter cold weather, not without challenges. Her ex-husband vowed shell never be happy with another man; but God is faithful to see her through. She enjoys playing the piano as the Lord insists that she continue her music.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490733663

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9781490733661

The Cistercian Evolution

The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-century Europe

By: Constance H. Berman

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The Cistercian Evolution

The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-century Europe

By: Constance H. Berman

Reveals the true story behind the growth of the Cistercian order.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812235347

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9780812235340

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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9780774868297

The realism of dream visions

The poetic exploitation of the dream-experience in Chaucer and his contemporaries

By: Constance B. Hieatt

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The realism of dream visions

The poetic exploitation of the dream-experience in Chaucer and his contemporaries

By: Constance B. Hieatt

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111342506

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9783111342504

Negotiation and Resistance

Peasant Agency in High Medieval France

By: Constance Brittain Bouchard

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Negotiation and Resistance

Peasant Agency in High Medieval France

By: Constance Brittain Bouchard

In Negotiation and Resistance, Constance Brittain Bouchard challenges familiar depictions of the peasantry as an undifferentiated mass of impoverished and powerless workers. Peasants in eleventh- and twelfth-century France had far more scope for action, self-determination, and resistance to oppressive treatment—that is, for agency—than they are usually credited with having. Through innovative readings of documents collected in medieval cartularies, Bouchard finds that while peasants lived hard, impoverished lives, they were able to negotiate, individually or collectively, to better their position, present cases in court, and make their own decisions about such fundamental issues as inheritance or choice of marriage partner. Negotiation and Resistance upends the received view of this period in French history as one in which lords dealt harshly and without opposition toward subservient peasants, offering numerous examples of peasants standing up for themselves.

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Cornell University Press

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1501766600

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9781501766602

Washington

A History of the Capital, 1800-1950

By: Constance McLaughlin Green

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Washington

A History of the Capital, 1800-1950

By: Constance McLaughlin Green

A one-volume edition, this history of Washington was originally published in two parts. Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878 was awarded the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400847699

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9781400847693

Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries: An Assessment of Projection Performance

By: Mr.Henry Mooney,Constance de Soyres

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Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries: An Assessment of Projection Performance

By: Mr.Henry Mooney,Constance de Soyres

This paper develops new error assessment methods to evaluate the performance of debt sustainability analyses (DSAs) for low-income countries (LICs) from 2005-2015. We find some evidence of a bias towards optimism for public and external debt projections, which was most appreciable for LICs with the highest incomes, prospects for market access, and at ‘moderate’ risk of debt distress. This was often driven by overly-ambitious fiscal and/or growth forecasts, and projected ‘residuals’. When we control for unanticipated shocks, we find that biases remain evident, driven in part by optimism regarding government fiscal reaction functions and expected growth dividends from investment.

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International Monetary Fund

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148432479X

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9781484324790

New York Stories

The Best of the City Section of the New York Times

By: Constance Rosenblum

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New York Stories

The Best of the City Section of the New York Times

By: Constance Rosenblum

A charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known "City" section of the New York Times “There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itself. One publication cultivating many of New York City's greatest stories is the City section in The New York Times. Each Sunday, this section of The New York Times, distributed only in papers in the five boroughs, captivates readers with tales of people and places that make the city unique. Featuring a cast of stellar writers—Phillip Lopate, Vivian Gornick, Thomas Beller and Laura Shaine Cunningham, among others—New York Stories brings some of the best essays from the City section to readers around the country. New Yorkers can learn something new about their city, while other readers will enjoy the flavor of the Big Apple. New York Stories profiles people like sixteen-year-old Barbara Ott, who surfs the waters off Rockaway in Queens, and Sonny Payne, the beloved panhandler of the F train. Other essays explore memorable places in the city, from the Greenwich Village townhouse blown up by radical activists in the 1970s to a basketball court that serves as the heart of its Downtown neighborhood. The forty essays collected in New York Stories reflect an intimate understanding of the city, one that goes beyond the headlines. The result is a passionate, well-written portrait of a legendary and ever-evolving place.

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NYU Press

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0814777236

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9780814777237

Three Cartularies from Thirteenth Century Auxerre

By: Constance Bouchard

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Three Cartularies from Thirteenth Century Auxerre

By: Constance Bouchard

This edition presents the recently rediscovered episcopal cartulary of Auxerre, composed in the 1280s but assumed lost since the French Revolution. Along with confirmations by popes, quarrel settlements with counts, and agreements with the bishop’s tenants, the cartulary contains documents that were previously unknown, notably several papal decisions. Auxerre was unusually well documented for the period 800–1200, but little information on the bishopric’s history after 1200 has been available until now. The text contains a wealth of information about relationships between church leaders and other churches, between churches and secular leaders, and details on peasant rights and obligations. This edition also includes the short thirteenth-century cartularies of the nuns of St.-Julien and of the cathedral chapter, the latter existing only in fragmentary form. With full annotation of people and places and English-language summaries, these cartularies make a valuable contribution to our understanding of this significant episcopal centre’s history.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442664010

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9781442664012

The Encyclopedia of Angels

An A-to-Z Guide with Nearly 4,000 Entries

By: Constance Victoria Briggs

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The Encyclopedia of Angels

An A-to-Z Guide with Nearly 4,000 Entries

By: Constance Victoria Briggs

Recent fascination with angels in books, television, and movies has made the celestial beings one of the current hot topics. User friendly, with an A-Z organization, The Encyclopedia of Angels covers every angel topic from Aaron to Zuriel.This heavenly volume lists the names, responsibilities, and orders of the cherubs as well as the various hierarchies which have been created throughout history. More than just a dictionary of angels' names, with painters, sculptors, writers, and philosophers who used angels in their works are included. Readers will have easy access to famous writings featuring angels, the angels of the holy books, the nature of angels, and angelic experiences of the saints, prophets, and mystics. With extensive and organized cross-referencing, The Encyclopedia of Angels is the ultimate resource guide for all angel lovers and scholars.

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Penguin

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0452279216

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9780452279216

Crosscurrents

How film policy developed in Quebec 1960-1983

By: Constance Dilley

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Crosscurrents

How film policy developed in Quebec 1960-1983

By: Constance Dilley

Crosscurrents: How Film Policy Developed in Quebec 1960-1983 documents the fight by filmmakers in Quebec for a film policy that would support their ambition to create commercial feature films. In the process, it explores the history of Quebec cinema, charting how the government supports that exist today came into existence through an intense lobbying effort on the part of filmmakers.

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PUQ

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2760549402

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9782760549401

Matrix Metalloproteinases In Health And Disease: Sculpting The Human Body

By: Constance E Brinckerhoff

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Matrix Metalloproteinases In Health And Disease: Sculpting The Human Body

By: Constance E Brinckerhoff

The biochemistry and cell biology of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) are not necessarily straightforward, but basic information on the history of these enzymes, their various functions that extend far beyond the cleaving of the extracellular matrix, and the complex mechanisms that control their expression are valuable to both scientists and clinicians. This volume summarizes the salient features and functions of MMPs and applies this information in a practical manner in order to understand how they contribute to normal physiology and pathology of selected diseases. Chapters by noted clinicians Jean-Michel Dayer, MD in rheumatology, Jian Cao, MD in oncology, and Peter Libby, MD in cardiology, represent important practical and clinically-oriented contributions.

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World Scientific

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9813207566

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9789813207561

A Rose Has No Teeth

Bruce Nauman in the 1960s

By: Constance Lewallen,Robert R. Riley,Robert Storr,Anne M. Wagner

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A Rose Has No Teeth

Bruce Nauman in the 1960s

By: Constance Lewallen,Robert R. Riley,Robert Storr,Anne M. Wagner

De jaren zestig in de carrière van de veelzijdige Amerikaanse maker (geb. 1941) van o.a. performances, installaties, videokunst en sculptuur.

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Univ of California Press

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0520250850

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9780520250857

A Thousand Stitches

A Novel

By: Constance O'Keefe

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A Thousand Stitches

A Novel

By: Constance O'Keefe

Based on the true story of an American-born Kamikaze Pilot. The central story of this novel is told as a memoir written by the main character, Isamu (Sam) Imagawa, who was born in America but who served as a pilot for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The story recounts the time Sam spent in Japan, from 1932 to 1963, spanning his early school days, his boyhood crush and young love for Michiko Miyazawa, his military career, his unhappy marriage, and his final escape to the U.S.A. with his second wife. The secondary plot, is told from the perspective of Michiko, who recounts her life in Japan during wartime and reconstruction. The two alternating plots are held together symbolically by a senninbari, a belt with a thousand stitches, which Michiko made for Sam while Sam was a pilot for the Japanese Kamikaze Corps. A Thousand Stitches makes a strong anti-war statement, summed up by Michiko’s friend Keiko: “How stupid, stupid, stupid everything about this war is!” This novel was inspired by a memoir, Shig: The True Story of an American Kamikaze," written by Shigeo Imamura, whose life closely paralleled that of the hero of A Thousand Stitches.

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SCB Distributors

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1564747867

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9781564747860

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

Dialogues with My Father Who Art in Heaven

The Spiritual Steps Towards Deeper Faith

By: Constance W Porter

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Dialogues with My Father Who Art in Heaven

The Spiritual Steps Towards Deeper Faith

By: Constance W Porter

Although many suggest what they think a “good Christian” should be like, spiritual growth comes in bits and pieces through uncharted waters. Out of life’s experiences we present a glimpse of our journey, towards the maturing of our faith.

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WestBow Press

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1512781606

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9781512781601

Pulci's Morgante

Poetry and History in Fifteenth-century Florence

By: Constance Jordan

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Pulci's Morgante

Poetry and History in Fifteenth-century Florence

By: Constance Jordan

Places II Morgante Magiore, the great Italian Renaissance epic by Luigi Pulci, in the context of contemporary Florentine polities. This volume also analyzes the poem's narrative structure and demonstrates the poet's understanding of issues that were to become vital to Florentine historiography a generation later.

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Associated University Presses

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0918016894

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9780918016898

Colour-coded

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

Maryland

A History

By: Suzanne Ellery Chapelle,Jean B. Russo,Jean H. Baker,Dean R. Esslinger,Edward C. Papenfuse,Constance B. Schulz,Gregory A. Stiverson

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Maryland

A History

By: Suzanne Ellery Chapelle,Jean B. Russo,Jean H. Baker,Dean R. Esslinger,Edward C. Papenfuse,Constance B. Schulz,Gregory A. Stiverson

An engaging and accessible introductory history of the people, places, culture, and politics that shaped Maryland. In 1634, two ships carrying a small group of settlers sailed into the Chesapeake Bay looking for a suitable place to dwell in the new colony of Maryland. The landscape confronting the pioneers bore no resemblance to their native country. They found no houses, no stores or markets, churches, schools, or courts, only the challenge of providing food and shelter. As the population increased, colonists in search of greater opportunity moved on, slowly spreading and expanding the settlement across what is now the great state of Maryland. In Maryland, historians recount the stories of struggle and success of these early Marylanders and those who followed to reveal how people built modern Maryland. Originally published in 1986, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Spanning the years from the 1600s to the beginning of Governor Larry Hogan’s term of office in January 2015, the book more fully fleshes out Native American, African American, and immigrant history. It also includes completely new content on politics, arts and culture, business and industry, education, the natural environment, and the role of women as well as notable leaders in all these fields. Maryland is heavily illustrated, with nearly two hundred photographs and illustrations (more than half of them in full color), as well as related maps, charts, and graphs, many of which are new to this book. An extensive index and a comprehensive Further Reading section provide extremely useful tools for readers looking to engage more deeply with Maryland history. Touching on major figures from George Calvert to Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman to William Donald Schaefer, this book takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the history of the Free State. It should be in every library and classroom in Maryland.

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533

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JHU Press

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1421426234

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9781421426235

Equal Justice Under Law

An Autobiography

By: Constance Baker Motley

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Equal Justice Under Law

An Autobiography

By: Constance Baker Motley

A civil rights lawyer who became the first African American female federal judge, describes her career, including working with Thurgood Marshall's NAACP legal team.

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Macmillan

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0374526184

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9780374526184

Rewriting Saints and Ancestors

Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200

By: Constance Brittain Bouchard

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Rewriting Saints and Ancestors

Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200

By: Constance Brittain Bouchard

Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain Bouchard contends. In Rewriting Saints and Ancestors she examines how such ex post facto accounts are less an impediment to the writing of accurate history than a crucial tool for understanding the Middle Ages. Working backward through time, Bouchard discusses twelfth-century scribes contemplating the ninth-century documents they copied into cartularies or reworked into narratives of disaster and triumph, ninth-century churchmen deliberately forging supposedly late antique documents as weapons against both kings and other churchmen, and sixth- and seventh-century Gallic writers coming to terms with an early Christianity that had neither the saints nor the monasteries that would become fundamental to religious practice. As they met with political change and social upheaval, each generation decided which events of the past were worth remembering and which were to be reinterpreted or quietly forgotten. By considering memory as an analytic tool, Bouchard not only reveals the ways early medieval writers constructed a useful past but also provides new insights into the nature of record keeping, the changing ways dynasties were conceptualized, the relationships of the Merovingian and Carolingian kings to the church, and the discovery (or invention) of Gaul's earliest martyrs.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812246365

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When Things Get Back to Normal and Other Stories

By: Constance Pierce

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When Things Get Back to Normal and Other Stories

By: Constance Pierce

In a tone at once comic, gothic, and deceptively pastoral, the stories in this collection continue the tradition of Hawthorne, Poe, and James--Americans pursuing a dialectic with Europe--but in a late 20th century context. Constance Pierce's character's, with their fetishes for food and property, hide their eyes with daydreams, hallucinations, and enormous feats of rationale in their longing to return to the happy normal state they tell themselves they once enjoys but which likely never existed at all. Subtly questioning their characters' illusions and nostalgia, these stories, set in such territory as World War II Germany, the French countryside, and Long Island Sound, address the often nebulous relationships between private and public life, old and new ideas, fantasy and reality.

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260

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University of Alabama Press

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0932511015

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9780932511010

Orthopaedic Basic Science: Foundations of Clinical Practice

By: Regis J. O'Keefe,Joshua J. Jacobs,Constance R. Chu,Thomas A. Einhorn

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Orthopaedic Basic Science: Foundations of Clinical Practice

By: Regis J. O'Keefe,Joshua J. Jacobs,Constance R. Chu,Thomas A. Einhorn

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Build your Foundation of Basic Science – from Research to Clinical Application A great tool for MOC preparation! A 'must have' for residency! This fourth edition, developed in a partnership between the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), is your concise and clinically relevant resource for the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and conditions.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975118391

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9781975118396

Elsie Driggs

The Quick and the Classical

By: Constance Kimmerle

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Elsie Driggs

The Quick and the Classical

By: Constance Kimmerle

This volume explores the ideological and emotional richness of the body of work she produced from 1918 through the late 1980s"--Dust Jkt.

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0812241045

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9780812241044

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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0774836350

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9780774836357

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