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Murder and the Reasonable Man

Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom

By: Cynthia Lee

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Murder and the Reasonable Man

Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom

By: Cynthia Lee

A man murders his wife after she has admitted her infidelity; another man kills an openly gay teammate after receiving a massage; a third man, white, goes for a jog in a “bad” neighborhood, carrying a pistol, and shoots an African American teenager who had his hands in his pockets. When brought before the criminal justice system, all three men argue that they should be found “not guilty”; the first two use the defense of provocation, while the third argues he used his gun in self-defense. Drawing upon these and similar cases, Cynthia Lee shows how two well-established, traditional criminal law defenses—the doctrines of provocation and self-defense—enable majority-culture defendants to justify their acts of violence. While the reasonableness requirement, inherent in both defenses, is designed to allow community input and provide greater flexibility in legal decision-making, the requirement also allows majority-culture defendants to rely on dominant social norms, such as masculinity, heterosexuality, and race (i.e., racial stereotypes), to bolster their claims of reasonableness. At the same time, Lee examines other cases that demonstrate that the reasonableness requirement tends to exclude the perspectives of minorities, such as heterosexual women, gays and lesbians, and persons of color. Murder and the Reasonable Man not only shows how largely invisible social norms and beliefs influence the outcomes of certain criminal cases, but goes further, suggesting three tentative legal reforms to address problems of bias and undue leniency. Ultimately, Lee cautions that the true solution lies in a change in social attitudes.

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NYU Press

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0814765149

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9780814765142

Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry

Change in a Southern Mill Village

By: Cynthia D. Anderson

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Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry

Change in a Southern Mill Village

By: Cynthia D. Anderson

This book analyzes the dramatic social impacts of global economic restructuring in the US textile industry and the consequences for Southern textile mill communities. With the expansion of markets in the global economy, government policies such as NAFTA and GATT are greatly affecting the domestic production of textiles. Increased global competitiveness has led to technological modernization, plant shutdowns, and downward pressure on wages. Many family-owned companies are merging into conglomerates, some of which are international. Concurrently, the structure of power and domination in Southern textile communities is changing. Paternalistic control, typically portrayed as a form of traditional authority and benevolent protection of workers, is no longer dominant. With the decreased need for skilled labor, textile company owners are not obligated to provide mill villages with housing electricity, and water. Formerly protected communities are now players on an international scale, with workers competing for jobs on a global level. New forms of class exploitation, racism, and sexism provide a contested terrain for mill employees. As the industry restructures, workers and their households are faced with new challenges. To understand these social impacts, I examine globalization, restructuring, and spatialization as processes embedded in multiple layers of reality. The multi-level analysis focuses on the Southern textile industry, a leading firm, its surrounding labor market area, and members of the community. Historical, statistical and qualitative interviewing methods yield data that demonstrate redefined labor markets, reconstituted race relations, and household adaptations. Changes in firm and industry impact shop-floor labor processes, including increased production pace, new management strategies and technological adjustments. As embedded layers of social relations, the multi-level outcomes are both negative and positive, creating new winners and losers in Southern communities.

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Routledge

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113570385X

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The Regency

The Morland Dynasty, Book 13

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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The Regency

The Morland Dynasty, Book 13

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

1807: the Napoleonic Wars continue and their violence reverberates in the lives of the Morland family. Lucy trying to rebuild her life after the death of her lover, Captain Weston, is thrown into doubt and confusion by an unexpected proposal of marriage. At Morland Place, the hard-won happiness of James and Heloise is threatened by his rebellious daughter, Fanny. As heiress to the Morland estate, Fanny is determined to claim more than her inheritance, but for those dependent on her generosity, Fanny's decision to marry the unscrupulous Lieutenant Hawker brings only anxiety. These troubled times hold many surprises, and in their darkest hour the Morlands make an astonishing discovery which enables them to face the uncertain future with new strength.

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0748133003

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9780748133000

Sustainability of Biofuel Production from Oil Palm Biomass

By: Keat Teong Lee,Cynthia Ofori-Boateng

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Sustainability of Biofuel Production from Oil Palm Biomass

By: Keat Teong Lee,Cynthia Ofori-Boateng

This book evaluates and discusses the main sustainability challenges encountered in the production of biofuel and bio-products from oil palm biomass. It starts off with the emphasis on oil palm production, oil palm products recovery and oil palm wastes utilization. The simultaneous production of these bio-products for sustainable development is discussed. This is followed by the key factors defining the sustainability of biofuel and bio-product production from oil palm biomass. The environmental issues including ecological, life cycle assessment and environmental impact assessment of oil palm plantation, milling and refining for the production of biofuels and bio-products are presented. Socio-economic and thermodynamic analysis of the production processes are also evaluated using various sustainability assessment tools such as exergy. Lastly, methods of improving biofuel production systems for sustainable development are highlighted.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9814451703

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9789814451703

When the Manna Ceased

Facing the Wall

By: Cynthia Winkler

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When the Manna Ceased

Facing the Wall

By: Cynthia Winkler

Rose Colbert is ready to start life over after a soul searching year of dealing with the truth of her husbands infidelities. There is a hitch in her plan however, someone is trying to kill her and her daughter is missing. Frustration turns to terror when all her questions lead back to a cold case murder and to a teenager locked away in a private medical clinic. With her only help coming from a grieving mother on the edge of insanity and an angelic messenger, Rose has a choice to make. Like Joshua in the Bible who faced the walls of Jericho and an enemy that God told him to fight with only the weapon of faith, Rose questions if her faith is strong enough to penetrate her wall of fear in time to save her daughter. When the Manna Ceased is the story of a woman who lost more than material things when her marriage failed. Walk with Rose as she learns to trust God again.

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WestBow Press

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144976889X

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The Reckoning

The Morland Dynasty, Book 15

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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The Reckoning

The Morland Dynasty, Book 15

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

1816: Napoleon has at last been defeateed, but victory brings no peace to the English. The cost of war strikes deep into the country- there is a raging inflation, discharged soldiers join the ranks of the unemployed, wages tumble and the bread price soars- and hungry men are easily stirred to protest. Amid this turbulence, Heloise and James stand guard over Morland Place- for its spirit as much as its fortunes- when a tragic accident strikes at the very heart of the family, taking one person on whom they all depend. On top of this, a devastating scandal brings the Morland name into the glare of public notoriety, so that Sophie and Rosamund are forced to learn the difference between real love and its enticing but dangerous illusion.

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074813302X

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9780748133024

Health Care Policy and Practice

A Biopsychosocial Perspective

By: Cynthia D. Moniz,Stephen H. Gorin

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Health Care Policy and Practice

A Biopsychosocial Perspective

By: Cynthia D. Moniz,Stephen H. Gorin

In Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective, Moniz and Gorin have updated their text to incorporate health care reform. The authors have also restructured the book to guide students through the development of the American health care system: what it is, what the policies are, and how students can influence them. The first section focuses on recent history and reforms during the Obama Administration to describe the health care system; section two examines the system’s structure and policies; and the third section explores policy analysis and advocacy, and disparities in health based on demographics and inequities in access to care. It concludes with a discussion of the impact of social factors on health and health status. The new edition incorporates the CSWE EPAS competencies; it is for social work courses in health care, health care policy, and health and mental health care policy.

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Routledge

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1317938275

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Blood Lines

A Bill Slider Mystery (5)

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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Blood Lines

A Bill Slider Mystery (5)

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A Bill Slider Mystery With his on-off lover Joanna away with work, Detective Inspector Bill Slider almost welcomes a call-out to the BBC TV Centre at White City. Roger Greatrex, celebrated music critic and opera aficionado, appears to have topped himself - only minutes before he was due to appear live on a quiz show. But there are signs that the body has been interfered with, and Slider suspects murder. One fellow panellist is known to have quarrelled violently with Greatrex. two members of the production team have motives, and nobody in the building has a proper alibi. Slider is under pressure to make an arrest, and all his instincts are at odds with the evidence. But a dangerous killer is on the loose, and could kill again... Praise for the Bill Slider series: 'Slider and his creator are real discoveries' Daily Mail 'Sharp, witty and well-plotted' Times 'Harrod-Eagles and her detective hero form a class act. The style is fast, funny and furious - the plotting crisply devious' Irish Times

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0748133224

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9780748133222

Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

By: Cynthia Scheinberg

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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

By: Cynthia Scheinberg

Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139434225

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The Outcast

The Morland Dynasty, Book 21

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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The Outcast

The Morland Dynasty, Book 21

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Benedict Morland's comfortable life is overset when an old enemy's dying wish leaves him guardian of an orphaned boy. No-one, including his wife Sibella, can understand why Benedict accepts Lennox Mynott into his household and, amid growing hostility at Morland Place, he takes the boy to America, to join his daughter Mary at Twelvetrees Plantation. Here, Benedict, as well as Lennox, fall in love with the Southern way of life, just at the moment when bitter civil war is about to destroy it forever.

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0748133089

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9780748133086

Marshfield

By: Cynthia Hagar Krusell,John J. Galluzzo

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Marshfield

By: Cynthia Hagar Krusell,John J. Galluzzo

Marshfield, a seaside retreat famous for its beaches, hotels, and ocean views, has always shone in summer. It was the home of some of the country's leading families, specifically the Winslows and the Websters, and worldrenowned concert singer Adelaide Phillips, as well as the site of the first radio broadcast in America, engineered by Reginald Fessenden at Brant Rock on Christmas Eve 1906. Today the town's various villages retain the identities that defined them in the early 1900s, from hardworking Green Harbor to beachy Brant Rock to serene Sea View to the rolling Marshfield Hills. Marshfield has celebrated its heroes, survived the great Ocean Bluff fire of 1941, and, most importantly, preserved its history through several historic preservation projects around town.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738545724

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9780738545721

Historic Warren County

An Illustrated History

By: Cynthia L. Pauwels

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Historic Warren County

An Illustrated History

By: Cynthia L. Pauwels

An illustrated history of Warren County, Ohio, paired with histories of the local companies. More than 200 years of history awaits the visitor to Historic Warren County. Heritage, culture, entertainment, industry - we have it all! The project book will highlight all these wonderful features and more which make this corner of southwest Ohio a destination for families, businesses and visitors alike. Starting in 1797, the newly-opened Northwest Territory provided a refuge for Quaker settlers who arrived in what is now Waynesville after fleeing their home state of South Carolina in protest against the scourge of slavery. The Friends form a still-active community in this diverse county which was named for the first American soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, General Joseph Warren. Numerous stops along the Underground Railroad dot the gently rolling countryside; quaint villages line the curving rural lanes and historic buildings nestle gracefully alongside modern technology in a thriving county which remains the fastest growing in Ohio. The spirit of freedom which led those brave pioneers is alive and well Historic Warren County.

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HPN Books

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1935377094

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9781935377092

Take Your Kids to Europe

How to Travel Safely (and Sanely) in Europe with Your Children

By: Cynthia Harriman

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Take Your Kids to Europe

How to Travel Safely (and Sanely) in Europe with Your Children

By: Cynthia Harriman

From planning and survival tips to youth hostels, restaurants, camping, language, and renting homes, this guide makes it possible to take the kids to Europe safely and, perhaps more importantly, sanely.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762751851

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9780762751853

Arkansas Ozarks Legends & Lore

By: Cynthia McRoy Carroll

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Arkansas Ozarks Legends & Lore

By: Cynthia McRoy Carroll

The unspoiled, wooded landscape of the Arkansas Ozarks is steeped in traditions, where legend and myth are a huge part of history. During the Civil War, when Maranda Simmons boldly retrieved her stolen horses from a Union camp, soldiers believed she was a haint. When a cast-iron stove fell on Grace Sollis's baby, she gained superhuman strength, picked up the stove to free the baby and then ran circles around the log cabin until she came to her senses. After patiently waiting years for her promised dream house, Elise Quigley and her five children tore down their three-room shack and moved into the chicken house after Mr. Quigley left for work. Join author Cynthia Carroll, a descendant of six generations of Ozark natives, as she details the legends and lore of the Arkansas Ozarks.

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1439669007

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Cotton on the South Plains

By: John Taylor Becker,Innocent Awasom,Cynthia Henry

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Cotton on the South Plains

By: John Taylor Becker,Innocent Awasom,Cynthia Henry

Today's cotton production on the South Plains barely resembles the cotton culture of 100 years ago. When cotton first came to the South Plains it was very labor intensive, with every stage of production depending on large amounts of hand labor. The planting, cultivating, and picking or pulling of cotton were all done by hand. Often, the harvested cotton was transported to gins in wagons pulled by teams of horses or mules. Today, due to the many improvements in the industry, most cotton is grown without ever being touched by human hands. The story of cotton on the South Plains is the story of continuous change, improvement, and mechanization.

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0738595853

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Worlds Apart

Poverty and Politics in Rural America, Second Edition

By: Cynthia M. Duncan

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Worlds Apart

Poverty and Politics in Rural America, Second Edition

By: Cynthia M. Duncan

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same people as well as some new key informants. Duncan provides powerful new insights into the dynamics of poverty, politics, and community change. "Duncan, through in-depth investigation and interviews, concludes that only a strong civic culture, a sense among citizens of community and the need to serve that community, can truly address poverty. . . . Moving and troubling. Duncan has created a remarkable study of the persistent patterns of poverty and power."—Kirkus Reviews "The descriptions of rural poverty in Worlds Apart are interesting and read almost like a novel."—Choice

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Yale University Press

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0300210515

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9780300210514

Preservation

By: Cynthia Lang

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Preservation

By: Cynthia Lang

Why leave Manhattan for a town in Maine "where no one goes and nothing ever happens"? Confused, bereft, but following a hunch, Lee Baldwin moves to Limmington Mills to revel in solitude and brood about her missing husband. Life has other plans. While never forgetting about her Charlie, Lee is pulled into the daily dramas of her imaginative, flighty landlady Dolly and Dolly's brother, a taciturn welder at Bath Iron Works. Befriended by Maxine, store proprietor (and de facto town manager), she meets a trio of boys running wild and their mother, who may or may not have heard a saint speak. Most of all, Lee benefits from Hazel's fierce grace, the elderly woman whose grip on life breathes energy into Lee's own. Evoking the lives of northern New Englanders who struggle in the shadow side of prosperity, Preservation explores the isolation-and possibilities-of a time before electronics linked us nonstop through the cloud.

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1626526850

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9781626526853

The Emperor

The Morland Dynasty, Book 11

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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The Emperor

The Morland Dynasty, Book 11

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

1795: the shadow of Bonaparte has fallen across Europe and touches each member of the far-flung Morland family. As the century draws to a close, Jemima Morland wearily ackowledges that her life is also nearing its end, but she has scant peace as her unpredictable children behave ever more incomprehensibly: James's marriage to Mary Ann is closer to falling apart; Lucy's marriage de convenance is in the balance - her affair with Lieutenant Watson is an open scandal. Mary bears a daughter on board her husband's ship during the battle of the Nile; and William supports a mistress whose marriage cannot be dissolved. Jemima's death appears to unite the family but, as ever with the Morlands, the future holds more peril than hope.

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0748132988

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9780748132980

Barns of New York

Rural Architecture of the Empire State

By: Cynthia G. Falk

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Barns of New York

Rural Architecture of the Empire State

By: Cynthia G. Falk

Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State—from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Southern Tier to the North Country—providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York. Through descriptions of the appearance and working of representative historic farm buildings, Barns of New York also serves as an authoritative reference for historic preservation efforts across the state.Cynthia G. Falk connects agricultural buildings—both extant examples and those long gone—with the products and processes they made and make possible. Great attention is paid not only to main barns but also to agricultural outbuildings such as chicken coops, smokehouses, and windmills. Falk further emphasizes the types of buildings used to support the cultivation of products specifically associated with the Empire State, including hops, apples, cheese, and maple syrup.Enhanced by more than two hundred contemporary and historic photographs and other images, this book provides historical, cultural, and economic context for understanding the rural landscape. In an appendix are lists of historic farm buildings open to the public at living history museums and historic sites. Through a greater awareness of the buildings found on farms throughout New York, readers will come away with an increased appreciation for the state's rich agricultural and architectural legacy.

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Cornell University Press

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0801464455

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9780801464454

Wake County North Carolina Burials - Swift Creek Township

By: Cynthia Selensky Foster

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Wake County North Carolina Burials - Swift Creek Township

By: Cynthia Selensky Foster

This book is a compilation of all known burials in 44 cemeteries in Swift Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina. Each entry includes tombstone information from surveys conducted 2005-06, including name, birth and death dates. Additional research has been done including spouse(s), parents, marriage dates and data gleaned from census. The book includes comprehensive surname index...--Summary from publisher website: LuLu.com.

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Lulu.com

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1411670744

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Health Care Policy and Practice

A Biopsychosocial Perspective

By: Cynthia Moniz,Stephen Gorin

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Health Care Policy and Practice

A Biopsychosocial Perspective

By: Cynthia Moniz,Stephen Gorin

In Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective, Moniz and Gorin guide students through the development of the American health care system: what it is, what the policies are, and how students can influence them. Part I focuses on recent history and reforms; Part II examines the system’s structure and policies; and Part III explores policy analysis and advocacy, and disparities in health based on demographics and inequities in access to care. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of social factors on health and health status. This new, fifth edition has been fully updated to include the Trump administration’s efforts to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to integrate content throughout the text on the impact of the ACA in recent years. In addition, new content on health disparities for the LGBTQ community has been added.

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Routledge

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1351626493

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9781351626491

Harlequin Intrigue October 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Cynthia Eden,Carol Ericson,Lisa Childs

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Harlequin Intrigue October 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Cynthia Eden,Carol Ericson,Lisa Childs

Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. RECKONINGS The Battling McGuire Boys by Cynthia Eden Dr. Jamie Myers has hired fierce ex-SEAL Davis McGuire for protection from her dark past, but she didn’t anticipate just how close she would get to her new bodyguard—because Davis is determined to protect Jamie both day…and night. NAVY SEAL SPY Brothers in Arms: Retribution by Carol Ericson Fresh out of the navy, Liam McCabe’s first mission is straightforward—infiltrate then expose the criminal organization Tempest. But then he runs into Katie O’Keefe. Now he’s engaged in a high-stakes game of espionage with the one woman who can blow his cover. THE AGENT’S REDEMPTION Special Agents at the Altar by Lisa Childs When The Bride Butcher strikes again, FBI agent Jared Bell will stop at nothing to bring closure to the case—including staging an engagement with Rebecca Drummond, the first victim’s sister, to lure the madman into a trap… Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s October 2015 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue!

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1459290747

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Pioneer Mother Monuments

Constructing Cultural Memory

By: Cynthia Culver Prescott

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Pioneer Mother Monuments

Constructing Cultural Memory

By: Cynthia Culver Prescott

For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806163887

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Whiteness Fractured

By: Cynthia Levine-Rasky

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Whiteness Fractured

By: Cynthia Levine-Rasky

Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring the intersections between whiteness, social class, ethnicity and psychosocial phenomena, this book is framed by the question of how whiteness works and what it does. With attention to central concepts and the history of whiteness, it explains the four ways in which whiteness works. In its examination of the outward and inward fractures of whiteness, the book sheds light on both its connections with social class and ethnicity and with the 'epistemology of ignorance' and the psychoanalytic. Representing the long career of whiteness on the one hand and investigating its expansion into new areas on the other, Whiteness Fractured reflects the growing maturity of critical whiteness studies. It undertakes a critical analysis of approaches to whiteness and proposes new directions for future action and enquiry. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, intersectionality, colonialism and post-colonialism, and cultural studies.

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1134764634

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9781134764631

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By: Cynthia Mattison

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4,000+ Verified Celebrity Addresses

By: Cynthia Mattison

This book contains over 4,000 verified addresses for today’s brightest stars! Free Autographs by Mail is a tested resource that is certain to be a welcome addition to any collection. Have you ever wanted an autograph from Dan Aykroyd, Sally Field, Bill Cosby, Bob Hope, Al Pacino, Lorrie Morgan, John Glenn, Bob & Elizabeth Dole, Sugar Ray Leonard, Arnold Palmer, Dale Earnhardt, Monica Seles or Wayne Gretzky? If the answer is yes, then this is the book for you! To test and verify addresses can be both an expensive, and time consuming process. Author, Cynthia Mattison, has taken the hassle out of collecting by putting together an extensive list of tested addresses. Why walk to an empty mailbox each day? Try your hand at autograph collecting, because you just never know who may want to send you Free Autographs By Mail!

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The Poison Tree

The Morland Dynasty, Book 17

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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The Poison Tree

The Morland Dynasty, Book 17

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

1831: as England emerges from the post war depression, the country is changing, and the birth pains of the Reform Act bring it to the brink of revolution. The violent times breed violent acts, both outside and inside the Morland family. Sophie's life is shattered by a hideous crime. Rosamund learns that achieving her dreams brings as much pain as pleasure. Heloise, mourning her beloved James, lets control of Morland Place fall into chaos- Benedict has to flee his home and makes a life amongst the railway pioneers, while Nicholas now has the freedom to indulge the dark side of his nature. And amongst them all stalks the deadly, invisible threat of cholera.

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Sphere

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0748133046

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The Systems Work of Social Change

How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change

By: Cynthia Rayner,François Bonnici

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The Systems Work of Social Change

How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change

By: Cynthia Rayner,François Bonnici

The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.

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0198857454

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The Sports Address Book

A Collector's Guide to Free Autographs

By: Cynthia Mattison

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The Sports Address Book

A Collector's Guide to Free Autographs

By: Cynthia Mattison

Forget the hotdogs, sports fans! Autographs, Autographs - get your free sports autographs! This book contains over 11,000 addresses for today's hottest stars in some of the most popular sports in America. Do you enjoy football, baseball, basketball, racing, hockey, tennis, figure skating , boxing, wrestling, etc.? If your answer is yes, this is the perfect book for you! Have you ever wanted an autograph from Sugar Ray Leonard, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Monica Seles, Nolan Ryan, Joe Montana, Nancy Kerrigan, Andre Agassi, Wayne Gretzky or Mary Lou Retton? Inside this amazing guide is addresses for these and many more!

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0595125654

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9780595125654

Pfeiffer and Mangus's Concepts of Athletic Training

By: Cynthia Trowbridge,Cheryl M. Ferris

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Pfeiffer and Mangus's Concepts of Athletic Training

By: Cynthia Trowbridge,Cheryl M. Ferris

Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Written for the introductory course, the Eighth Edition of Concepts of Athletic Training focuses on the care and management of sport and activity related injuries while presenting key concepts in a comprehensive, logically sequential manner that will assist future professionals in making the correct decisions when confronted with an activity-related injury or illness in their scope of practice. Key Features Include: - Time Out boxes provide additional information related to the text, such as NATA Athletic Helmet Removal Guidelines, how to recognize the signs of concusion, and first aid for epilepsy - Athletic Trainers Speak Out boxes feature a different athletic trainer in every chapter who discusses an element of athlete care and injury prevention - Anatomy Reviews introduce body parts to students unfamiliar with human anatomy and acts as a refresher for those students with some anatomy background

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284127303

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9781284127300

The Soul of Justice

Social Bonds and Racial Hubris

By: Cynthia Willett

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The Soul of Justice

Social Bonds and Racial Hubris

By: Cynthia Willett

Cynthia Willett brings together diverse insights from social psychology, classical and contemporary literature, and legal and justice theory to redefine the basis of the moral and legal person.Feminists, communitarians, and postmodern thinkers have made clear that classical liberalism, with its emphasis on individual autonomy and excessive rationalism, is severely limited. Although she is sympathetic with the liberal view, Willett finds it necessary to go further. For her, attention to the social dimensions of the family and civil society is critical if issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality are to be taken seriously. Interdependency, not autonomy, is of increasing significance in an era of globalization.Willett proposes an alternate normative theory that recognizes the impact of social forces on individual well-being. Citizenship in a democracy should not be defined solely on the basis of rights to autonomy, such as bare rights to property or free speech, she explains. Rather, citizenship should be defined first of all in terms of the rights, responsibilities, and capacities of the social person.It is within the African American tradition of political thought that Willett finds a more useful definition of human identity and political freedom. The African American experience offers a compelling vision of social change and a deeper understanding of what it means to be a social person. By focusing on everyday battles against racism, Willett contends, we can gain valuable insight into the meaning of justice.

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Cornell University Press

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1501711636

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The Flour War

Gender, Class, and Community in Late Ancien Regime French Society

By: Cynthia Bouton

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The Flour War

Gender, Class, and Community in Late Ancien Regime French Society

By: Cynthia Bouton

In the spring of 1775, a series of food riots shook the villages and countryside around Paris. For decades France had been free of famine, but the fall grain harvest had been meager, and the government of the newly crowned King Louis XVI had issued an untimely edict allowing the free commerce of grain within the kingdom. Prices skyrocketed, causing riots to break out in April, first in the market town of Beaumont-sur-Oise, then sweeping through the Paris Basin for the next three weeks. Known as the Flour War, or the guerre des farines, these riots are the subject of Cynthia Bouton's fascinating study. Building upon French historian George Rud&é's pioneering work, Bouton identifies communities of participants and victims in the Flour War, analyzing them according to class, occupation, gender, and location. As typically happened, crowds of common people (menu peuple) confronted those who controlled the grain-bakers, merchants, millers, cultivators, and local authorities. Bouton asks why women of the menu peuple were heavily represented in the riots, often assuming crucial roles as instigators and leaders. In most instances, the people did not steal the provisions but forced those they cornered to sell at a price the rioters deemed &"just.&" Bouton examines this phenomenon, known as taxation populaire, and considers the growing &"sophistication of purpose&" of rioters by placing the Flour War within the larger context of food riots in early modern Europe.

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0271042109

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9780271042107

Understanding Toxicology

Chemicals, Their Benefits and Risks

By: H. Bruno Schiefer,Donald Grant Irvine,Shirley Cynthia Buzik

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Understanding Toxicology

Chemicals, Their Benefits and Risks

By: H. Bruno Schiefer,Donald Grant Irvine,Shirley Cynthia Buzik

Written in clear, simple language, this concise book introduces the lay person to the science of toxicology as it relates to daily living. The book provides a general overview of toxicology, presenting the facts and underlying principles needed by non-specialists for making decisions about potentially hazardous substances in everyday settings. Understanding Toxicology: Chemicals, Their Benefits and Risks will help you separate fact from fiction and better evaluate conflicting news reports on toxic substances and hazards. It's for everyone interested in chemical safety, toxic risks, pollution, hazardous wastes, and potential health hazards found in the home, at work, and in the environment.

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