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Technical Editor's Handbook

A Desk Guide for All Processors of Scientific Or Engineering Copy

By: George Freedman,Deborah A. Freedman

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Technical Editor's Handbook

A Desk Guide for All Processors of Scientific Or Engineering Copy

By: George Freedman,Deborah A. Freedman

Clear coverage of technical editing addresses basics and advanced topics, with chapters on notation, techniques, and accurate representation of terminology of mathematics, computers, physics, chemistry, and electronics. Extensive editorial aids.

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Courier Corporation

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0486280098

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9780486280097

Golden Years?

Social Inequality in Later Life

By: Deborah Carr

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Golden Years?

Social Inequality in Later Life

By: Deborah Carr

Thanks to advances in technology, medicine, Social Security, and Medicare, old age for many Americans is characterized by comfortable retirement, good health, and fulfilling relationships. But there are also millions of people over 65 who struggle with poverty, chronic illness, unsafe housing, social isolation, and mistreatment by their caretakers. What accounts for these disparities among older adults? Sociologist Deborah Carr’s Golden Years? draws insights from multiple disciplines to illuminate the complex ways that socioeconomic status, race, and gender shape the nearly every aspect of older adults’ lives. By focusing on an often-invisible group of vulnerable elders, Golden Years? reveals that disadvantages accumulate across the life course and can diminish the well-being of many. Carr connects research in sociology, psychology, epidemiology, gerontology, and other fields to explore the well-being of older adults. On many indicators of physical health, such as propensity for heart disease or cancer, black seniors fare worse than whites due to lifetimes of exposure to stressors such as economic hardships and racial discrimination and diminished access to health care. In terms of mental health, Carr finds that older women are at higher risk of depression and anxiety than men, yet older men are especially vulnerable to suicide, a result of complex factors including the rigid masculinity expectations placed on this generation of men. Carr finds that older adults’ physical and mental health are also closely associated with their social networks and the neighborhoods in which they live. Even though strong relationships with spouses, families, and friends can moderate some of the health declines associated with aging, women—and especially women of color—are more likely than men to live alone and often cannot afford home health care services, a combination that can be isolating and even fatal. Finally, social inequalities affect the process of dying itself, with white and affluent seniors in a better position to convey their end-of-life preferences and use hospice or palliative care than their disadvantaged peers. Carr cautions that rising economic inequality, the lingering impact of the Great Recession, and escalating rates of obesity and opioid addiction, among other factors, may contribute to even greater disparities between the haves and the have-nots in future cohorts of older adults. She concludes that policies, such as income supplements for the poorest older adults, expanded paid family leave, and universal health care could ameliorate or even reverse some disparities. A comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of later-life inequalities, Golden Years? demonstrates the importance of increased awareness, strong public initiatives, and creative community-based programs in ensuring that all Americans have an opportunity to age well.

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377

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610448774

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9781610448772

Status in Classical Athens

By: Deborah E Kamen

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Status in Classical Athens

By: Deborah E Kamen

In the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens, Kamen illuminates the complexity of Athenian social structure, uncovers tensions between democratic ideology and practice, and contributes to larger questions about the relationship between citizenship and democracy.

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160

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Princeton University Press

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0691195978

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9780691195971

The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts

By: Deborah Niederer Saxon

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The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts

By: Deborah Niederer Saxon

This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp represented self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light an entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes the false binary of thinking in terms of “orthodoxy” versus “heresy”/”Gnosticism.”

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222

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Springer

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3319647504

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9783319647500

Greek Slavery

By: Deborah Kamen

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Greek Slavery

By: Deborah Kamen

Slavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable. This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to research on this subject, surveying recent scholarly trends and controversies and suggesting future directions for research. Topics include regional variation in slave systems; the economics of slavery; the treatment of enslaved people; sex and gender; agency, resistance, and revolt; manumission; and representations, metaphors, and legacies of Greek slavery. Readers, including those interested in slavery of other time periods, will find this book an essential resource in learning about key issues in Greek slavery studies or in pursuing their own research.

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189

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110651238

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9783110651232

Southern Steel

By: Deborah Coe Reinhold

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Southern Steel

By: Deborah Coe Reinhold

In the heart of a Southern state, Mary Beatrice was an anomaly: an abolitionist bound more by duty than desire to her family’s plantation. Her spirit of defiance was evident, but it was her love for a Yankee officer that truly set her free. This love was not her first act of rebellion, but it was the most transformative. Bucking tradition and expectation, Mary Beatrice faced numerous challenges. Yet, with each setback, she rose, displaying resilience, grace, and, at times, fiery determination. She crafted an extraordinary life on her own terms, refusing to be confined by societal norms or gender.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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9798889106371

Aging and the Life Course

Social and Cultural Contexts

By: Deborah Lowry

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Aging and the Life Course

Social and Cultural Contexts

By: Deborah Lowry

Aging & the Life Course: Social & Cultural Contexts provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the study of aging and the life course from a distinctly sociological perspective. It explores the sociocultural dimensions of aging while encouraging critical thinking about the diversity of aging experiences, societal attitudes toward older adults, the politics and economics of growing old, and end-of-life resources. Throughout the text, Deborah Lowry emphasizes the relevance of the material for working with older populations, understanding social policy and policy debates, improving communities, relating to others, and understanding ourselves. Organized into four major sections, Part I introduces students to fundamental demographic, sociological, and life course concepts; part II explores the experiences and conditions of aging, especially in particular groups; and part III presents current research on older adults’ engagement in work, family, social networks, and sex. Finally, Part IV addresses themes of aging and social change.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538143267

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9781538143261

Ausonius

Moselle, Epigrams, and Other Poems

By: Deborah Warren

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Ausonius

Moselle, Epigrams, and Other Poems

By: Deborah Warren

Ausonius provides translations of the key works of Ausonius, an important later Latin poet whose poems detail the social and cultural life of Gaul and its environment. His often difficult and playful Latin is presented in English by the award winning poet Deborah Warren, enabling a new generation of students to use and understand the poems. With notes and commentary throughout, this volume will be important not only as an example of later Latin poetry but also as a window onto the Later Roman Empire and the beginnings of early Christian writing.

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111

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Taylor & Francis

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131751310X

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9781317513100

Arnt I a Woman

By: Deborah Gray White

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Arnt I a Woman

By: Deborah Gray White

This new edition reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393314812

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9780393314816

Insults in Classical Athens

By: Deborah Kamen

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Insults in Classical Athens

By: Deborah Kamen

Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians. The result is the first volume to map out the full spectrum of insults, from obscene banter at festivals, to invective in the courtroom, to slander and even hubristic assaults on another's honor. While the classical city celebrated the democratic equality of "autochthonous" citizens, it counted a large population of noncitizens as inhabitants, so that ancient Athenians developed a preoccupation with negotiating, affirming, and restricting citizenship. Kamen raises key questions about what it meant to be a citizen in democratic Athens and demonstrates how insults were deployed to police the boundaries of acceptable behavior. In doing so, she illuminates surprising differences between antiquity and today and sheds light on the ways a democratic society valuing "free speech" can nonetheless curb language considered damaging to the community as a whole.

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283

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University of Wisconsin Press

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0299328007

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9780299328009

America the Beautiful

Puerto Rico

By: Deborah Kent

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America the Beautiful

Puerto Rico

By: Deborah Kent

Introduces the geography, people, history, and culture of this island.

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148

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Children's Press(CT)

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0516004980

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9780516004983

African Americans of Lower Richland County

By: Marie Barber Adams,Deborah Scott Brooks

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African Americans of Lower Richland County

By: Marie Barber Adams,Deborah Scott Brooks

Lower Richland County encompasses approximately 360 square miles in the heart of South Carolina's geographic center. The Wateree River cradles it to the east, and the Congaree River borders the south and southwest. Virginia settlers discovered this rich land over 250 years ago. They became wealthy planters and accumulated large land tracts, creating plantation systems that sustained the economy. From 1783 until 1820, cotton was the principal cash crop, and the slave population increased tremendously and played a vital role in the development of agriculture and the economy in the area.

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Arcadia Publishing

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073858665X

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9780738586656

The Timewaif Chronicles

Timewaif & The Roman Road

By: Deborah Lyon

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The Timewaif Chronicles

Timewaif & The Roman Road

By: Deborah Lyon

Twelve-year-old Tim Wainwright, growing up on the west coast of Cumbria, struggles with his mum’s intense grief after the death of his dad and the constant taunting of village bullies. Only his best friend Annie brings any fun to his life. Fleeing his tormentors after school one day, he finds a hidden cave in the sea cliffs. Once inside, Tim leaps through an enchanted hopscotch board to emerge into a very different Cumbria… two thousand years in the past. This is an ancient land of Romans and Britons under the rule of Emperor Hadrian. Tim soon realises he must navigate a totally different culture, facing adventures which challenge not only his resilience and wits to the limit but even risk his very life. Will he ever get back to his own time, his mum and Annie? And does he even really want to? Join Tim on his rip-roaring adventure exploring Roman life in the wilds of ancient Britain, the first in the Timewaif series of historical novels set throughout the ages for children to enjoy.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1805149504

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9781805149507

Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South (Revised Edition)

By: Deborah Gray White

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Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South (Revised Edition)

By: Deborah Gray White

One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." —Anne Firor Scott, Duke University Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South—their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds. Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393343529

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9780393343526

Book's by Deborah A. Freedman

Technical Editor's Handbook

Technical Editor's Handbook

Golden Years?

Golden Years?

Status in Classical Athens

Status in Classical Athens

The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts

The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts

Greek Slavery

Greek Slavery

Southern Steel

Southern Steel

Aging and the Life Course

Aging and the Life Course

Ausonius

Ausonius

Arnt I a Woman

Arnt I a Woman

Insults in Classical Athens

Insults in Classical Athens

America the Beautiful

America the Beautiful

African Americans of Lower Richland County

African Americans of Lower Richland County

The Timewaif Chronicles

The Timewaif Chronicles

Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South (Revised Edition)

Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South (Revised Edition)

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