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In the Way of Our Grandmothers

A Cultural View of Twentieth-century Midwifery in Florida

By: Debra Anne Susie

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In the Way of Our Grandmothers

A Cultural View of Twentieth-century Midwifery in Florida

By: Debra Anne Susie

Based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants, and the women they served, In the Way of Our Grandmothers tells of the midwife's trade--her principles, traditions, and skills--and of the competing medical profession's successful program to systematically destroy the practice. The rural South was one of the last strongholds of the traditional "granny" midwife. Whether she came by her trade through individual choice or inherited a practice from an older relative, a woman who accepted the "call" of midwife launched a lifelong vocation of public service. While the profession was arduous, it had numerous rewards. Midwives assumed positions of leadership within their communities, were able to define themselves and their actions on their own terms, and derived a great sense of pride and satisfaction from performing a much-loved job. Despite national statistics that placed midwives above all other attendants in low childbirth mortality, Florida's state health experts began in the early twentieth century to view the craft as a menace to public health. Efforts to regulate midwives through education and licensing were part of a long-term plan to replace them with modern medical and hospital services. Eager to demonstrate their good will and common interest, most midwives complied with the increasingly restrictive rules imposed by the state, unknowingly contributing to the demise of their own profession. The recent interest of the youthful middle class in home birth methods has been accompanied by a rediscovery of the midwife's craft. Yet the new midwifery represents the state's successful attainment of a long-awaited goal: the replacement of the traditional lay midwife with the modern nurse-midwife. In the Way of Our Grandmothers provides a voice for the few women in the South who still remember the earlier trade--one that evolved organically from the needs of women and existed outside the realms of men.

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0820309508

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In the Way of Our Grandmothers

A Cultural View of Twentieth-Century Midwifery in Florida

By: Debra Anne Susie

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A Cultural View of Twentieth-Century Midwifery in Florida

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University of Georgia Press

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0820333883

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The Complete Guide to Tutoring Struggling Readers

Mapping Interventions to Purpose and CCSS

By: Peter J. Fisher,Anne Bates,Debra J. Gurvitz

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The Complete Guide to Tutoring Struggling Readers

Mapping Interventions to Purpose and CCSS

By: Peter J. Fisher,Anne Bates,Debra J. Gurvitz

This easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. The authors offer hands-on guidance for designing interventions across all grade levels, provide ample tutoring plans and lessons, and describe procedures for teaching print skills, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and study skills.

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Teachers College Press

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0807754943

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What Jane Austen Taught Me about Love and Romance

By: Debra White Smith

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What Jane Austen Taught Me about Love and Romance

By: Debra White Smith

Debra White Smith, bestselling author of the Jane Austen series, explores the lessons about love and romance revealed through Austen's most beloved stories and characters. Beautifully presented, this is an perfect gift for Austen lovers.

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736918892

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Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel

By: Debra Shostak

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Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel

By: Debra Shostak

Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between fathers and their children. Debra Shostak reads the novels of 18 North American writers publishing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as allegories of cultural conflict and change within the nuclear family; the authors considered include Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, Jonathan Lethem, Carole Maso, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Claire Messud, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tim O'Brien, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, and Anne Tyler. These novelists portray father figures who, often literally or figuratively absent from the family scene, disrupt the familial order and their family members' identities. Shostak's close readings illuminate unexpectedly conservative, even subversive, ideological positions at the heart of these fictions. Fictive Fathers traces the eroding myth of paternal authority that sustained a patriarchal model within real American families and their literary representations.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501340069

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Harlequin Intrigue February 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Debra Webb,Julie Miller,Julie Anne Lindsey

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Harlequin Intrigue February 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Debra Webb,Julie Miller,Julie Anne Lindsey

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. IN SELF DEFENSE A Winchester, Tennessee Thriller by Debra Webb Audrey has a secret, and it’s buried in the basement below the family newspaper’s office. If she’s lucky, Sheriff Colton Tanner will be able to keep her out of trouble…but nothing can prevent their hearts from becoming entangled as Audrey’s past comes back to haunt her. DO-OR-DIE BRIDESMAID by Julie Miller When Detective Conor Wildman returns home for a wedding, he’s reunited with bridesmaid Laura Karr, the former girl next door. Now Laura is all grown up…and someone wants her dead. MARKED BY THE MARSHAL Garrett Valor by Julie Anne Lindsey Three years ago, US Marshal Ryder Garrett gave up everything in pursuit of a fugitive. Now the killer is back and gunning for Kara Noble, Ryder’s former fiancée, and her infant daughter. Will Ryder be able to stop the killer before the criminal takes even more from him? Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s February 2019 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.

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1488050465

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Julia Margaret Cameron's Women

By: Sylvia Wolf,Julia Margaret Cameron,Stephanie Lipscomb,Debra N. Mancoff,Phyllis Rose,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Julia Margaret Cameron's Women

By: Sylvia Wolf,Julia Margaret Cameron,Stephanie Lipscomb,Debra N. Mancoff,Phyllis Rose,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women

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Yale University Press

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0300077815

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9780300077810

Amanda (The Jane Austen Series)

A Contemporary Retelling of Emma

By: Debra White Smith

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Amanda (The Jane Austen Series)

A Contemporary Retelling of Emma

By: Debra White Smith

Amanda: A Contemporary Retelling of Emma A bit of a busybody, Amanda always has her friends' best interests at heart. She prides herself on her matchmaking skills . . . but when nothing seems to be going according to plan on the beautiful island of Tasmania, can she learn to listen to her own heart?

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Baker Books

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1493413899

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Body Work

Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture

By: Debra Gimlin

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Body Work

Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture

By: Debra Gimlin

Debra Gimlin focuses on four sites where she conducted in-depth research--a beauty salon, aerobics classes, a plastic surgery clinic, and a social and political organization for overweight women. The honest and provocative interviews included in this book uncover these women's feelings about their bodies, their reasons for attempting to change or come to terms with them, and the reactions of others in their lives. These interviews show that women are redefining their identities through their participation in body work, that they are working on their self-images as much as on their bodies. Plastic surgery, for example, ultimately is an empowering life experience for many women who choose it, while hairstyling becomes an arena for laying claim to professional and social class identities.

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Univ of California Press

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0520210514

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9780520210516

Sharon Tate: Recollection

By: Debra Tate

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Sharon Tate: Recollection

By: Debra Tate

Considered by many to be the most beautiful woman of her generation, Sharon Tate remains a fascinating pop icon and a poster child for the 1960s. What struck most about Sharon was her gentle nature and the sheer perfection of her face, but she was far more than just a beauty. The few films she made during her brief career, including Valley of the Dolls, Eye of the Devil, and The Fearless Vampire Killers, have secured her position as a Hollywood legend. Over forty years since her last film, Sharon's spirit and charisma lives strong in the memories of those who knew her best, and her style continues to inspire the worlds of fashion, beauty, art, and film. Sharon Tate: Recollection is a one-of-a-kind celebration of Sharon's life and career, her influence as a fashion icon throughout the world, and in effect presents a sociological portrait of the 1960s -- its youth culture, the sexual revolution, the rise of independent cinema, and Hollywood's changing studio system. In this impressive photo book, Sharon Tate's story emerges through quotes and short essays -- recollections -- by her sister, Debra Tate, as well as by those who knew and have been influenced by her. What emerges from these pages is a stunning tribute to an unforgettable life. Highlights include: A foreword note by Sharon's husband Roman Polanski. An introduction and remembrances by Sharon's sister Debra Tate. Previously unseen childhood photos from the Tate family album. Original quotes and recollection essays written specially for this book by Jane Fonda, Kelly Osbourne, Bert Stern, Michelle Phillips, Patty Duke, Lee Grant, Elke Sommer, Joan Collins, Viva, Tony Scotti and Trina Turk. Retrospective quotes by Truman Capote, Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, Dominick Dunne, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Orson Welles, Barbara Parkins, George Harrison, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner and Kirk Douglas. Rare and classic photographs by David Bailey, Milton Greene, Philippe Halsman, Shahrokh Hatami, Terry O'Neill, Peter Basch, John Engstead, Peter Brün, Neal Barr and Jean Jacques Bugat. Never-before-seen or published images of Sharon in the classic film Valley of the Dolls, digitally reproduced from their original negatives and transparencies specially for this book by the 20th Century Fox archive.

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Running Press Adult

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0762452358

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9780762452354

Latinos in Dixie

Class and Assimilation in Richmond, Virginia

By: Debra J. Schleef,H.B. Cavalcanti

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Latinos in Dixie

Class and Assimilation in Richmond, Virginia

By: Debra J. Schleef,H.B. Cavalcanti

A look at the Latino experience in the American South using data from Richmond, Virginia.

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State University of New York Press

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1438428812

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9781438428819

Bloomer Girls

Women Baseball Pioneers

By: Debra A Shattuck

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Bloomer Girls

Women Baseball Pioneers

By: Debra A Shattuck

Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and even found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment, organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity. Vivid and eye-opening, Bloomer Girls is a first-of-its-kind portrait of America, its women, and its game.

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University of Illinois Press

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025209879X

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9780252098796

Lies that Bind

Chinese Truth, Other Truths

By: Susan Debra Blum

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Lies that Bind

Chinese Truth, Other Truths

By: Susan Debra Blum

This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum examines rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding lying and honesty. She argues that public lying is evaluated within Chinese society by culturally specific moral values. Chinese, for example, might emphasize the consequences of speech, Americans the absolute truthfulness. But many Americans also excel in manipulation of language, yet find a simultaneous moral absolutism opposed to lying in any form. Blum considers Japanese and Jewish traditions as well, which similarly struggle to control the boundaries of honesty.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742554058

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9780742554054

A Hudson Valley Reckoning

Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family

By: Debra Bruno

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A Hudson Valley Reckoning

Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family

By: Debra Bruno

A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the enslaved people her family owned. Bruno, who grew up in New York's Hudson Valley knowing little about her Dutch heritage, was shaken when a historian told her that her Dutch ancestors were almost certainly slaveholders. Driven by this knowledge, Bruno began to unearth her family's past. In the last will and testament of her ancestor, she found the first evidence: human beings bequeathed to his family along with animals and furniture. The more she expanded her family tree, the more enslavers she found. She reached out to Black Americans tracing their own ancestry, and by serendipitous luck became friends with Eleanor C. Mire, a descendent of a woman enslaved by Bruno's Dutch ancestors. A Hudson Valley Reckoning recounts Bruno's journey into the nearly forgotten history of Northern slavery and of the thousands of enslaved people brought in chains to Manhattan and the Hudson Valley. With the help of Mire, who provides a moving epilogue, Debra Bruno tells the story of white and Black lives impacted by the stain of slavery and its long legacy of racism, as she investigates the erasure of the uncomfortable truths about our family and national histories.

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Cornell University Press

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1501777238

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9781501777233

Portraits of "primitives"

Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation

By: Susan Debra Blum

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Portraits of "primitives"

Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation

By: Susan Debra Blum

Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in contemporary China. Twentieth-century nation-building has been intimately involved with classification of ChinaOs fifty-five ethnic minorities and with fostering harmony and unity among nationalities. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and civilization and most other groups as Oprimitive.O In post-socialist China, popular conceptions of self, person, and nation intersect with political and scholarly concerns with identity, sometimes contradicting them and sometimes reinforcing them. In Portraits of OPrimitives, O Susan D. Blum explores how Han in the city of Kunming, in southwest China, regard ethnic minorities and, by extension, themselves. She sketches Oportraits, O or cognitive prototypes, of ethnic groups in a variety of contexts, explaining the perceived visibility of each group (which almost never correlates with size of population). Ideas of OHannessO can be understood in part through Han desire to identify unique characteristics in ethnic minorities and also through Han celebration of the differences that distance minorities. The book considers questions of identity, alterity, and self in the context of a complex nation-state, employing methods from linguistic anthropology and psychological anthropology, as well as other forms of cultural analysis. Providing nuanced views of relationships among political, scholarly, and popular models of identity, this book will be an invaluable guide for those working in China studies, anthropology, and ethnic studies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742500926

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9780742500921

Readiness Year, Grades PK - K

By: Debra Kitzman,Kelly Gunzenhauser

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Readiness Year, Grades PK - K

By: Debra Kitzman,Kelly Gunzenhauser

The Readiness Year is a perfect guide for helping children get ready for school. It includes sections on what students need to know to succeed in kindergarten, assessments, tips for creating the perfect "readiness" classroom, and instructional units to promote higher-level thinking! Get students ready with The Readiness Year! 160 pages. Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product lineÑcomprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materialsÑis designed to assist in ÒUnlocking the Potential in Every Child.Ó

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Key Education Publishing

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1620573660

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9781620573662

Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives

Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland

By: Debra A. Meyers

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Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives

Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland

By: Debra A. Meyers

Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the post-Reformation years. More can be gleaned by shifting our focus to the New World, where gender relations and family formations were largely unhampered by the unsettling political and religious climate of England. In Maryland, English Arminian Catholics, Particular Baptists, Presbyterians, Puritans, Quakers, and Roman Catholics lived and worked together for most of the 17th century. By closely examining thousands of wills and other personal documents, as well as early Maryland's material culture, this transatlantic study depicts women's place in society and the ways religious values and social arrangements shaped their lives. Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives takes a revisionist approach to the study of women and religion in colonial Maryland and adds considerably to our understanding of the social and cultural importance of religion in early America.

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Indiana University Press

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0253109744

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9780253109743

Student Companion to Jane Austen

By: Debra Teachman

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Student Companion to Jane Austen

By: Debra Teachman

Generations of readers and movie viewers have been drawn to the spirited heroines of ^USense and Sensibility and ^UEmma. Prepared especially for students, this full-length critical study of Jane Austen covers her six most beloved works, including the two novels ^UNorthanger Abbey and ^UPersuasion, published posthumously. Young readers will enjoy the vivid biographical account of how Austen herself was just a teenager when she took up the pen and began to write in guarded secrecy. Austen scholar Debra Teachman has a historian's eye for detail as she describes Austen's homelife in the English countryside and the social environment that were so much a part of Austen's stories. Teachman examines each novel, relating how historical context influenced the characters, events and themes that Austen developed. Teachman eloquently points out, for example, that while Austen does not overtly preach feminism in any of her novels, the lack of legal protection for women is a vital societal theme in ^USense and Sensibility. Her discussion of the economic realities at the core of Austen's novels will help readers appreciate that works like the best-selling Pride and Prejudice are more than just charming stories. In addition to analyzing the literary elements in each work of fiction by Jane Austen, this Companion also gives students an overview of Austen's literary heritage. Discussing first the novel itself as a genre, this useful chapter then identifies each sub-genre that influenced Austen: epistolary writing, the adventure novel, the gothic form, and Women's Rights novels. An extensive bibliography directs readers to biographical materials, historical documents, reviews, criticism and numerous other accessible sources that will enhance their further study of Austen's writings. For students of classic fiction, this well written critical study aids in the enjoyment and understanding of the life and works of Jane Austen.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313007306

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9780313007309

Designing with Succulents

By: Debra Lee Baldwin

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Designing with Succulents

By: Debra Lee Baldwin

Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, Designing with Succulents gives design and cultivation basics for paths, borders, slopes, and containers; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and descriptions of 90 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Beginners and experienced designers, landscapers, and collectors alike will find what they need to visualize, create, and nurture the three-dimensional work of art that is the succulent garden.

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Timber Press

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1604692960

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9781604692969

Embracing Judaism

Personal Narratives of Renewed Faith

By: Debra Gonsher-Vinik,Debra Ann Gonsher

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Embracing Judaism

Personal Narratives of Renewed Faith

By: Debra Gonsher-Vinik,Debra Ann Gonsher

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Jason Aronson

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0765760975

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9780765760975

Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment

Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920

By: Debra Ann MacComb

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Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment

Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920

By: Debra Ann MacComb

This book examines six Progressive Age novels of marital discord which specifically focus upon narratives of divorced and divorcing women within the context of their multivalent social and economic value on the "Marriage market.

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Routledge

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1317733932

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9781317733935

Essential Primary Grammar

By: Debra Myhill,Susan Jones,Helen Lines,Annabel Watson

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Essential Primary Grammar

By: Debra Myhill,Susan Jones,Helen Lines,Annabel Watson

Essential Primary Grammar is an invaluable resource to ensure that you are firmly equipped to teach grammar. It helps you get to grips with your knowledge of grammar for the national curriculum - including the spelling, punctuation and grammar test - as well as providing you with some tried and tested ways to teach grammar. Underpinned by a series of research studies which have investigated the teaching of grammar, it will support you in how to teach grammar in creative and meaningful ways whilst supporting you in developing your own fundamental knowledge of grammar. Uniquely, the book takes a systematic step-by-step approach to explain the grammatical terminology specified in the national curriculum. It also illustrates how you might develop children’s grammatical knowledge by offering a range of practical activities which are rich, meaningful and support children’s development as confident and curious language investigators. Key features include: • Easy-to-read chapters which systematically focus on grammatical subject knowledge at word, phrase and clause level • Guidance in each chapter addressing typical grammar problems or misconceptions, and some grammar jokes • Inspiring suggestions for teaching activities to help children develop grammatical knowledge in meaningful learning contexts • Reference to authentic children’s books to illuminate the grammatical explanations and suggested teaching activities • Ideas on how high quality talk about grammar and texts can be fostered in the classroom

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335262392

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9780335262397

African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts

Crossing the Strait

By: Debra Faszer-McMahon,Victoria L. Ketz

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African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts

Crossing the Strait

By: Debra Faszer-McMahon,Victoria L. Ketz

Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs, films, translations, and literary works by contemporary authors including Donato Ndongo (Ecquatorial Guinea), Abderrahman El Fathi (Morocco), Chus Gutiérrez (Spain), Juan Bonilla (Spain), and Bahia Mahmud Awah (Western Sahara), the contributors interrogate how Spanish cultural texts represent, idealize, or sympathize with the plight of immigrants, as well as the ways in which immigrants themselves represent Spain and Spanish culture. At the same time, these works shed light on issues related to Spain’s racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spain’s economic crisis in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Taken together, the essays are a convincing reminder that cultural texts provide a mirror into the perceptions of a society during times of change.

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Routledge

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1317184262

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9781317184263

Beyond the Borderlands

Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico

By: Debra Lattanzi Shutika

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Beyond the Borderlands

Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico

By: Debra Lattanzi Shutika

This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavour to find their place in the United States.

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Univ of California Press

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0520269586

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9780520269583

Growing Up Jewish in the 20th Century

1910-2000: Mom's Memoirs Vignettes

By: Debra H. Berger

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Growing Up Jewish in the 20th Century

1910-2000: Mom's Memoirs Vignettes

By: Debra H. Berger

This book is filled with vignettes about life as it was when our parents were young. It is about the merging of two families, the Wilkens and the Gelblums, and what it was like to grow up in their midst at the beginning of the last century. The book then traces Mom's life until her death in the year 2000. It is a compelling account of both the person and the times.

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iUniverse

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0595270476

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9780595270477

Deep Talk

Reading African-American Literary Names

By: Debra Walker King

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Deep Talk

Reading African-American Literary Names

By: Debra Walker King

King (English, U. of Florida) draws on the work of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to explore the interpretive guidelines necessary to read what she calls the "metatext" of names, where these chosen words comment on and revise the action in a novel by giving voice to unspoken themes and events. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Virginia Press

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0813918529

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Dot Calm

The Search for Sanity in A Wired World

By: Richard Swegan,Debra Dinnocenzo

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Dot Calm

The Search for Sanity in A Wired World

By: Richard Swegan,Debra Dinnocenzo

In such chapters as The Connection Conundrum, Launch the Search Engine Within, and Your Digital Divide, the authors offer practical solutions for simplifying life, slowing down, and finding time for family, friends, and even a vacation....

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Cosmetic Surgery Narratives

A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Women's Accounts

By: Debra Gimlin

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Cosmetic Surgery Narratives

A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Women's Accounts

By: Debra Gimlin

This book examines British and American women's narratives of cosmetic surgery, exploring what those narratives say about the contemporary status of cosmetic surgery and 'local' ideas about its legitimate and illegitimate uses.

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Springer

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1137284781

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Breaking Bread

Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family

By: Debra Spark,Deborah Joy Corey

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Breaking Bread

Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family

By: Debra Spark,Deborah Joy Corey

Nearly 70 renowned New England writers gather round the table to talk food and how it sustains us—mind, body, and soul A collection of essays by top literary talents and food writers, Breaking Bread celebrates local foods, family, and community, while exploring how what’s on our plates engages with what’s off: grief, pleasure, love, ethics, race, and class. Here, you’ll find Lily King on chocolate chip cookies, Richard Russo on beans, Jennifer Finney Boylan on homemade pizza, Susan Minot on the non-food food of her youth, and Richard Ford on why food doesn’t much interest him. Nancy Harmon Jenkins talks scallops, and Sandy Oliver the pleasures of being a locavore. Other essays address a beloved childhood food from Iran, the horror of starving in a prison camp, the urge to bake pot brownies for an ill friend, and the pleasure of buying a prized chocolate egg for a child. Profits from this collection will benefit Blue Angel, a nonprofit combating food insecurity by delivering healthy food from local farmers to those in need.

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Beacon Press

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0807010898

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The Making of High-performance Athletes

Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics

By: Debra A. Shogan

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The Making of High-performance Athletes

Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics

By: Debra A. Shogan

A study of the ethical dilemnas of producing high performance athletes through use of technology, using Founcault's work on disciplinary power as a theoretical framework.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802082017

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9780802082015

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw

Animals, Language, Sensation

By: Debra Hawhee

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Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw

Animals, Language, Sensation

By: Debra Hawhee

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: they’re crawling with animals. With Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Debra Hawhee explores this unexpected aspect of early thinking about rhetoric, going on from there to examine the enduring presence of nonhuman animals in rhetorical theory and education. In doing so, she not only offers a counter-history of rhetoric but also brings rhetorical studies into dialogue with animal studies, one of the most vibrant areas of interest in humanities today. By removing humanity and human reason from the center of our study of argument, Hawhee frees up space to study and emphasize other crucial components of communication, like energy, bodies, and sensation. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Erasmus, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw tells a new story of the discipline’s history and development, one animated by the energy, force, liveliness, and diversity of our relationships with our “partners in feeling,” other animals.

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University of Chicago Press

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022670677X

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Business and Technical Communication

A Bibliography, 1975-1985

By: Debra L. Hull

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Business and Technical Communication

A Bibliography, 1975-1985

By: Debra L. Hull

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Scarecrow Press

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0810819716

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9780810819719

Hidden Tapestry

Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One

By: Debra Dean

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Hidden Tapestry

Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One

By: Debra Dean

Hidden Tapestry reveals the unforgettable story of Flemish American artist Jan Yoors—childhood vagabond, wartime Resistance fighter, and polyamorous New York bohemian. At the peak of his fame in the 1970s, Yoors’s photographs and vast tapestries inspired a dedicated following in his adopted Manhattan and earned him international acclaim. Though his intimate friends guessed the rough outline of his colorful life, Hidden Tapestry is first to detail his astonishing secrets. At twelve, Jan’s life took an extraordinary and unexpected turn when, lured by stories of Gypsies, he wandered off with a group of Roma and continued to live on-and-off with them and with his own family for several years. As an adult in German-occupied France, Yoors joined the Resistance and persuaded his adoptive Roma family to fight alongside him. Defying repeated arrests and torture by the Gestapo, he worked first as a saboteur and later escorted Allied soldiers trapped behind German lines across the Pyrenees to freedom. After the war, he married childhood friend Annabert van Wettum and embarked on his career as an artist. When a friend of Annabert’s, Marianne Citroen, modeled for Yoors, the two began an affair, which led the three to form a polyamorous family that would last for the rest of their lives. Moving to New York, the trio became part of the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in the 1950s. Told in arresting detail by Debra Dean, best-selling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad, Yoors’s story is a luminous and inspiring account of resilience, resourcefulness, and love.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810136848

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9780810136847

Easy Women

Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction

By: Debra A. Castillo

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Easy Women

Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction

By: Debra A. Castillo

Addresses the topic of prostitution and "easy women" in Mexican literature. The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture. In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination. Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the "easy woman" in their works. In each example the transgressive woman -- marked by an active sexuality -- serves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Ending with a discussion based on a series of in-depth interviews with sex workers in Tijuana, Castillo highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these women's professional and personal lives. Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816631131

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9780816631131

Fishes with Funny French Names

The French Restaurant in London from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: Debra Kelly

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Fishes with Funny French Names

The French Restaurant in London from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: Debra Kelly

This book tells the story of what happens when an essentially Parisian institution travels and establishes itself in its neighbour’s capital city, bringing with it French food culture and culinary practices. The arrival and evolution of the French restaurant in the British capital is a tale of culinary and cultural exchange and of continuity and change in the development of London’s dining-out culture. Although the main character of this story is the French restaurant, this cultural history also necessarily engages with the people who produce, purvey, purchase and consume that food culture, in many different ways and in many different settings, in London over a period of some one hundred and fifty years. British references to France and to the French are littered with associations with food, whether it is desired, rejected, admired, loathed, envied, disdained, from the status of haute cuisine and the restaurants and chefs associated with it to contemporary concerns about food poverty and food waste, to dietary habits and the politicisation of food, and at every level in between. However, thinking about the place of the French restaurant in London restaurant and food culture over a long time span, in many and varied places and spaces in the capital, creates a more nuanced picture than that which may at first seem obvious.

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Liverpool University Press

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1800857365

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9781800857360

Blessing Your Husband

Understanding and Affirming Your Man

By: Debra Evans

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Blessing Your Husband

Understanding and Affirming Your Man

By: Debra Evans

In Blessing Your Husband, Debra Evans brings wise scriptural insights and true stories of the amazing transformations that can happen when a wife chooses to make blessing her husband a priority. By understanding her husband’s unique characteristics, how he thinks, and what matters most to him, a wife can learn how to affirm her husband and develop a more satisfying marriage.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1604828471

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Autobiography and Independence

Self and Identity in North African Writing in French

By: Debra Kelly

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Autobiography and Independence

Self and Identity in North African Writing in French

By: Debra Kelly

This book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelkébir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individual’s relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and literary theory on autobiography linked to close textual reading of their works. Avoiding both psychoanalytical theory and approaches concerned primarily with the writer’s ‘testimony value’, Kelly concentrates instead on the poetic and literary qualities of each author’s work, dwelling on the politics and poetics of identity, as well as the ethics and aesthetics of this literature. She includes clear discussions of key terms such as ‘postcolonial’, ‘Francophone’, and ‘autobiography’, which current academic discourse has rendered very complex and even opaque. The book includes a fascinating photograph of two stone tablets inscribed with Punic and Numidian scripts, now held in the British Museum, which Assia Djebar writes about at length in one of the texts studied in the book.

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1781386161

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9781781386163

Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways

Big Ideas for Small Backyard Destinations

By: Debra Prinzing

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Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways

Big Ideas for Small Backyard Destinations

By: Debra Prinzing

Virginia Woolf was right. Women–and men, it turns out–yearn for a room of their own. But instead of a little nook beneath the eaves, that room is now a shed. Today’s sheds, however, are not dusty shelters for plants and tools. Lace curtains have replaced cobwebs, charming antiques stand where shovels and rakes once rusted, and instead of corrugated walls, you will find cedar shingles and window boxes. Sheds are stylish and elegant and offer a hassle-free and affordable way to create more space without undergoing a major renovation. They function as artists’ studios, writers’ retreats, yoga dens, entertaining pavilions, children’s playhouses, garden rooms, or serene hideaways for any personal pursuit. In Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways, Debra Prinzing and William Wright showcase twenty-eight innovative and beautifully imagined spaces from New York City to East Hampton, from Seattle to San Diego, and from Atlanta to Austin to Santa Cruz. Some are elaborate and luxurious; others are delightfully modest. They are built in urban gardens and suburban backyards and tucked away on rural properties. Stunning, lush color photography graces Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways, bringing the reader into each space and face-to-face with all its nooks, crannies, and details; the text describes how the owners’ needs and interests inspired the shed practically and aesthetically. With sample plans for building a shed, advice on the practicalities of designing and decorating it, and thoughts from backyard philosophers who celebrate the appeal and possibilities of simple structures, Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways is both an inspiration for creating your own backyard destination and an armchair journey to some of the country’s most private and serene places. From the Hardcover edition.

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Clarkson Potter

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0307491420

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9780307491428

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