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Roll Back the World

A Sister's Memoir

By: Deborah Kasdan

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Named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best 100 Indie Books of 2023 “Intricate and affecting, Kasdan’s debut finds hope in the saddest of stories.” —Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW Relating her older sister’s struggle, Kasdan excavates its connections to family history and provides a poignant look at a mid-century Jewish family, especially during WWII and the Cold War. As she relates this history to her sister’s life, she realizes how writing consoles both Rachel and her, and how it also connects them. Ultimately, Roll Back the World is a profound testament to the power of writing to heal.

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Simon and Schuster

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1647425727

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Roll Back the World

A Sister's Memoir

By: Deborah Kasdan

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A Sister's Memoir

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The War Come Home

Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939

By: Deborah Cohen

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The War Come Home

Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939

By: Deborah Cohen

Based on a breathtaking range of research in British and German archives, The War Come Home is written in an engaging, immediately accessible style and filled with rich anecdotes that are excellently told. This impressive book offers a powerful set of insights into the lasting effects of the First World War and the different ways in which belligerent states came to terms with the war's consequences."—Robert Moeller, author of War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany "With verve, compassion, and above all else, clarity, The War Come Home makes the dismal story of the failed reconstructions of disabled veterans in interwar Britain and German into engaging and provocative reading. Cohen moves from astute analysis of the interventions of high level bureaucrats to sensitive interpretations of how disabled veterans wrote and talked about their lives and the treatment they received at the hands of public and private agencies. She beautifully interweaves histories from below and above, showing how the two shaped -- but also collided with -- one another in profoundly consequential ways for the history of the 20th century."—Seth Koven, coeditor (with Sonya Michel) of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

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298

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Univ of California Press

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0520220080

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9780520220089

Reconstructing Violence

The Southern Rape Complex in Film and Literature

By: Deborah E. Barker

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Reconstructing Violence

The Southern Rape Complex in Film and Literature

By: Deborah E. Barker

In this bold study of cinematic depictions of violence in the south, Deborah E. Barker explores the ongoing legacy of the “southern rape complex” in American film. Taking as her starting point D. W. Griffith’s infamous Birth of a Nation, Barker demonstrates how the tropes and imagery of the southern rape complex continue to assert themselves across a multitude of genres, time periods, and stylistic modes. Drawing from Gilles Deleuze’s work on cinema, Barker examines plot, dialogue, and camera technique as she considers several films: The Story of Temple Drake (1933), Sanctuary (1958), Touch of Evil (1958), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), and Cape Fear (1962). Placing this body of analysis in the context of the historical periods when these films appeared and the literary sources on which they are based, Barker reveals the protean power of cinematic racialized violence amid the shifting cultural and political landscapes of the South and the nation as a whole. By focusing on familiar literary and cinematic texts—each produced or set during moments of national crisis such as the Great Depression or the civil rights movement—Barker’s Reconstructing Violence offers fresh insights into the anxiety that has underpinned sexual and racial violence in cinematic representations of the South.

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LSU Press

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0807160644

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Family Secrets

The Things We Tried to Hide

By: Deborah Cohen

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Family Secrets

The Things We Tried to Hide

By: Deborah Cohen

A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why. In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? On a Liverpool railway platform, a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year old illegitimate son for adoption. She had dressed him carefully that morning in a sailor suit and cap. In a town in the Cotswolds, a vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his sexual longings for other men. Drawing upon years of research in previously sealed records, the prize-winning historian Deborah Cohen offers a sweeping and often surprising account of how shame has changed over the last two centuries. Both a story of family secrets and of how they were revealed, this book journeys from the frontier of empire, where British adventurers made secrets that haunted their descendants for generations, to the confessional vanguard of modern-day genealogy two centuries later. It explores personal, apparently idiosyncratic, decisions: hiding an adopted daughter's origins, taking a disabled son to a garden party, talking ceaselessly (or not at all) about a homosexual uncle. In delving into the familial dynamics of shame and guilt, Family Secrets investigates the part that families, so often regarded as the agents of repression, have played in the transformation of social mores from the Victorian era to the present day. Written with compassion and keen insight, this is a bold new argument about the sea-changes that took place behind closed doors. Born into a family with its own fair share of secrets, Deborah Cohen was raised in Kentucky and educated at Harvard and Berkeley.She teaches at Northwestern University, where she holds the Peter B. Ritzma Professorship of the Humanities.Her last book was the award-winning Household Gods, a history of the British love-affair with the home.

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Penguin UK

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0141959576

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9780141959573

FilmCraft: Costume Design

By: Deborah Nadoolman Landis

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FilmCraft: Costume Design

By: Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Actors often say they only really assume the identity of their character when they have donned the costumes painstakingly created for them by the costume designer. In this volume of the FilmCraft series of books, 16 of the world's leading costume designers come together to share their inspiration and knowledge with the reader. They provide insights into the challenges of building a team, working with budgets, and collaboration with production designers, actors and directors. Designers featured include Academy Award winners Janty Yates, Jenny Beavan, Lindy Hemming and Yvonne Blake.

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499

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Ilex Press

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190815084X

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9781908150844

Ergonomics Made Easy

A Checklist Approach

By: Deborah J. Kearney

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Ergonomics Made Easy

A Checklist Approach

By: Deborah J. Kearney

Understanding and applying the principles of ergonomics consistently in an organization not only reduces the risk of employee injuries, but it also reduces an organization's costs and increases productivity. This newly updated handbook examines 17 new workplace factors_50 in all_to consider when implementing an ergonomics program. Organized alphabetically by factor, each section includes a descriptive checklist, allowing managers to quickly assess each factor's status and level of conformance with safety, quality, and productivity considerations. The author, an internationally recognized expert and public speaker, will show you why ergonomics is a business solution and not a business problem, how to create cost-effective ergonomics programs, which step-by-step procedures to use for evaluating a workplace environment and implementing ergonomic changes, how to accommodate the needs of aging and disabled workers, and how to use ergonomics to increase productivity. A glossary of ergonomic terms and a listing of sources of additional information are included.

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Government Institutes

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1605902721

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9781605902722

The Great American Idea Book

How to Make Money from Your Ideas - Movies, Music, Books, Inventions, Businesses, and ALmost Anything Else!

By: Bob Coleman,Deborah Neville

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The Great American Idea Book

How to Make Money from Your Ideas - Movies, Music, Books, Inventions, Businesses, and ALmost Anything Else!

By: Bob Coleman,Deborah Neville

This book details the steps you need to take to turn your idea--whether it's a song or a rocket engine--into an income.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393312119

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9780393312119

Below the Surface

Talking with Teens about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity

By: Deborah Rivas-Drake,Adriana Umaña-Taylor

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Below the Surface

Talking with Teens about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity

By: Deborah Rivas-Drake,Adriana Umaña-Taylor

A guide to the latest research on how young people can develop positive ethnic-racial identities and strong interracial relations Today’s young people are growing up in an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse society. How do we help them navigate this world productively, given some of the seemingly intractable conflicts we constantly hear about? In Below the Surface, Deborah Rivas-Drake and Adriana Umaña-Taylor explore the latest research in ethnic and racial identity and interracial relations among diverse youth in the United States. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including developmental psychology, social psychology, education, and sociology, the authors demonstrate that young people can have a strong ethnic-racial identity and still view other groups positively, and that in fact, possessing a solid ethnic-racial identity makes it possible to have a more genuine understanding of other groups. During adolescence, teens reexamine, redefine, and consolidate their ethnic-racial identities in the context of family, schools, peers, communities, and the media. The authors explore each of these areas and the ways that ideas of ethnicity and race are implicitly and explicitly taught. They provide convincing evidence that all young people—ethnic majority and minority alike—benefit from engaging in meaningful dialogues about race and ethnicity with caring adults in their lives, which help them build a better perspective about their identity and a foundation for engaging in positive relationships with those who are different from them. Timely and accessible, Below the Surface is an ideal resource for parents, teachers, educators, school administrators, clergy, and all who want to help young people navigate their growth and development successfully.

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Princeton University Press

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0691217130

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The Nature of Diversity

An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery

By: Daniel R. Brooks,Deborah A. McLennan

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The Nature of Diversity

An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery

By: Daniel R. Brooks,Deborah A. McLennan

All living things on earth—from individual species to entire ecosystems—have evolved through time, and evolution is the acknowledged framework of modern biology. Yet many areas of biology have moved from a focus on evolution to much narrower perspectives. Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah A. McLennan argue that it is impossible to comprehend the nature of life on earth unless evolution—the history of organisms—is restored to a central position in research. They demonstrate how the phylogenetic approach can be integrated with ecological and behavioral studies to produce a richer and more complete picture of evolution. Clearly setting out the conceptual, methodological, and empirical foundations of their research program, Brooks and McLennan show how scientists can use it to unravel the evolutionary history of virtually any characteristic of any living thing, from behaviors to ecosystems. They illustrate and test their approach with examples drawn from a wide variety of species and habitats. The Nature of Diversity provides a powerful new tool for understanding, documenting, and preserving the world's biodiversity. It is an essential book for biologists working in evolution, ecology, behavior, conservation, and systematics. The argument in The Nature of Diversity greatly expands upon and refines the arguments made in the authors' previous book Phylogeny, Ecology, and Behavior.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226922472

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9780226922478

Repetitive Strain Injury

A Computer User's Guide

By: Emil Pascarelli, M.D.,Deborah Quilter

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Repetitive Strain Injury

A Computer User's Guide

By: Emil Pascarelli, M.D.,Deborah Quilter

Explains how to treat and prevent different kinds of repetitive strain injuries, including Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

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Wiley

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0471595330

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9780471595335

California

The Rough Guide

By: Deborah Bosley,Jamie Jensen,Mick Sinclair

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California

The Rough Guide

By: Deborah Bosley,Jamie Jensen,Mick Sinclair

This guide covers the state of California and contains features on the cities of LA, San Francisco, San Diego and Las Vegas. It provides critical reviews of hotels, restaurants, clubs and bars in every town, and information on the sights, including Yosemite, Big Sur and the Grand Canyon.

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1858281814

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9781858281810

Daily Doses of Deborah V

By: Deborah Mills, spiritualist

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Daily Doses of Deborah V

By: Deborah Mills, spiritualist

A daily dose of poetry, prose, devotional reads, a splash of art work, this grandma spiritualist, shares the wisdom of age, past experiences, thoughts in a delightful way.

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1387593188

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Book's by Deborah Kasdan

Roll Back the World

Roll Back the World

Roll Back the World

Roll Back the World

The War Come Home

The War Come Home

Reconstructing Violence

Reconstructing Violence

Family Secrets

Family Secrets

FilmCraft: Costume Design

FilmCraft: Costume Design

Ergonomics Made Easy

Ergonomics Made Easy

The Great American Idea Book

The Great American Idea Book

Below the Surface

Below the Surface

The Nature of Diversity

The Nature of Diversity

Repetitive Strain Injury

Repetitive Strain Injury

California

California

Daily Doses of Deborah V

Daily Doses of Deborah V

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