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The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit

By: Dena Simone Moss,Allison Kyle Leopold

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The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit

By: Dena Simone Moss,Allison Kyle Leopold

The world-renowned Joffrey Ballet School makes the art and joy of ballet available to everyone. Let Dena Simone Moss and Allison Kyle Leopold teach you everything you need to know to get in shape, beautifully sculpt your body, and truly appreciate the art of ballet. They'll let you in on all their secrets, including: -A demystifying explanation of ballet terms and positions -Tips on finding the right instructor and studio-and feeling comfortable once you're there -Hints on ballet attire-including finding, choosing, and tying pointe shoes -An exhaustive directory of where to find ballet publications, audio and videotapes, books, dance wear, schools, and studios. Perfect for the beginner and the veteran balletomane, The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit offers an inside glimpse into the mysterious and beautiful world of ballet.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429964510

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9781429964517

Embellish Your Home

By: Dena Fishbein

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Embellish Your Home

By: Dena Fishbein

It’s personality and creativity that turn an ordinary house into a warm and inviting home. Using her own home as an example, TV host (Embellish This!) and designer Dena Fishbein teaches home decorators everywhere how embellishments can put a personal stamp on their d�cor. From hand-painting a delicate flower border on a kitchen wall to making sachet pillows out of vintage tea towels, these simple yet elegant projects add the perfect touch to every room. Best of all, they’re quick and fun to create, and many use the hidden treasures (like old and worn dressers) you already own. Craft beautiful place mats and napkins, create custom shades, hand-paint glass, and play with lighting and candles to dramatic effect. The results will be amazing.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402740506

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9781402740503

Charlemagne's Daughter

A Medieval Adventure

By: Dena Miller

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Charlemagne's Daughter

A Medieval Adventure

By: Dena Miller

A document found in an old monastery reveals the true history of the tempestuous year of 792 AD, plus kidnapping, murder, and romance. Charlemagne's natural son Peppin conspires with five noblemen to overthrow his father and usurp the throne. Peppin is unaware that his half-sister Rotrud has been kidnapped by vassals who plot to sell her to ransom the crown, scheming with Belinda, Rotrud's handmaid. Rotrud's lover, Rorgo, and Charlemagne race to save her while the plotters commit a vile murder. Only Charlemagne can settle the punishment of the evildoers and the future of his son. Can Rorgo and Rotrud find a solution to Charlemagne's refusal to allow them to marry? And who wrote this old document? About the Author Dena Miller wrote a one-act play in third grade and hasn't stopped writing since. She was a teenage pilot, won prizes in competitive speech and drama, and played third base in a government girls' baseball league. Dena played saxophone in a band, and now owns three ukuleles (one tenor) which she plays, as well as a Hammond organ and a keyboard. She is a docent/volunteer at two famous western museums. A children's book and a collection of short story murder mysteries are on the horizon. She lives in Southern California.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1604945397

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9781604945393

The Painted Home by Dena

Patterns, Textures, and Colors for Inspired Living

By: Dena Fishbein

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The Painted Home by Dena

Patterns, Textures, and Colors for Inspired Living

By: Dena Fishbein

A renowned designer shares surprising ways to add color, texture, and creativity to your home. In this beautifully illustrated book, the woman behind internationally acclaimed merchandise company Dena Designs shows how her hand-painted style combines vintage and traditional elements with a modern twist. Pick up a paintbrush and take a walk through the author’s own home, room by room, as she discusses her inspirations and demonstrates her methods for encouraging creativity. The Painted Homeby Dena features simple DIY projects, useful design tips, and personal stories from one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the textile and design business.

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ABRAMS

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1613123949

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9781613123942

From Mines and Wells to Well-Built Minds

Turning Sub-Saharan Africa's Natural Resource Wealth into Human Capital

By: Bénédicte de la Brière,Deon Filmer,Dena Ringold,Dominic Rohner,Anastasiya Denisova

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From Mines and Wells to Well-Built Minds

Turning Sub-Saharan Africa's Natural Resource Wealth into Human Capital

By: Bénédicte de la Brière,Deon Filmer,Dena Ringold,Dominic Rohner,Anastasiya Denisova

Sub-Saharan Africa's natural resource-rich countries have poor human development. Children in these countries are more likely to die before their first birthday, more likely to be stunted, and less likely to attend school than children in other countries with similar income. Despite the current price downturn, extractives will remain an important part of Sub-Saharan Africa's growth story—using resource rents wisely remains a long term challenge. Governments must choose how to allocate resource rents between spending, investing in human or physical capital, or investing in global financial assets. The return to investing in physical and human capital will be high in countries where the capital stock is low. Moreover, higher levels of human capital make investments in physical capital more productive, which suggests that the optimal portfolio will involve investing in both. Human capital should be prioritized in many of Sub-Saharan Africa’s resource-rich countries because of the low starting point. Investing effectively in human capital is hard because it involves delivering services, which means coordinating a large number of actors and activities. Three dimensions of governance are key: institutions, incentives and information. Decentralization and leveraging the private sector are entry points to reforming institutional structures. Revenues from natural resources can fund financial incentives to strengthen performance or demand. Producing information, making it available, and increasing social accountability helps citizens understand their rights and hold governments and providers accountable. Improving the quality of education and health services is central to improving human capital. Two additional areas are promising. First, early child development—mother and newborn health, and early child nutrition, care, and education—improves outcomes in childhood and later on. Second, cash transfers—either conditional or unconditional—reduce poverty, increase household investments in child education, nutrition, and health, and increase the investment in productive assets which foster further income generation.

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World Bank Publications

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1464810060

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9781464810060

Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

By: Andrea Freidus,Dena Shenk

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Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

By: Andrea Freidus,Dena Shenk

There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at central North Carolina, the authors highlight the implications of providing long-term care to older Americans, with an emphasis on the importance of communication, resilience of staff, and value of human infrastructure. Based on extensive interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants’ individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates.

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Berghahn Books

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1805391992

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9781805391999

Experiencing Olmsted

The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American Landscapes

By: The Cultural Landscape Foundation,Charles Birnbaum,Dena Tasse-Winter,Arleyn Levee

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Experiencing Olmsted

The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American Landscapes

By: The Cultural Landscape Foundation,Charles Birnbaum,Dena Tasse-Winter,Arleyn Levee

200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to shape some of our most beloved green spaces, including national, state, and city parks, suburban neighborhoods, and academic campuses. He is most famous for creating New York’s Central and Prospect Parks, Stanford University’s campus, and the Capitol Grounds. What is less known and surprising about his legacy is that he worked widely across North America. By highlighting 200 iconic landscapes, many of which are still open to the public today, Experiencing Olmsted brings a fresh approach to the firms’ work and philosophy. It highlights not only grand city parks, but also other public venues born out of a desire for social equity. Olmsted was an early voice for parks as democratic spaces that could be reached on foot by a large percentage of any city’s populace. He viewed parks as restorative places—what he termed “the lungs of a city.” Brimming with contemporary and archival photography as well as original drawings and plans, this truly remarkable record brings these places to vivid life.

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Timber Press

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1643261916

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9781643261911

When the Bright Moon Rises

The Awakening of Ancient Memories

By: Dena Merriam

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When the Bright Moon Rises

The Awakening of Ancient Memories

By: Dena Merriam

A compelling past-life memoir that will open you to the mysteries and promises of your own spiritual journey When the Bright Moon Rises is first and foremost a love story—love between the sages and the cosmic forces known as the deities, love of the sages for the people, and love between individuals seeking to express this universal force of love that exists within all of us. It is also a study of karma, the cosmic law of cause and effect. This narrative begins in Vedic India, around the 9th century BCE, with the meeting of two people and the seeding of a love that cannot be fulfilled but which comes to fruition nearly 10,000 years later during the Tang Empire in China, where they are reborn as the renowned poet Li Bai and his poet wife. The awakening of her memories of previous births initiates an inner struggle that is only resolved under the guidance of her Daoist Master. This is her story.

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SCB Distributors

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1513690671

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9781513690674

My Journey Through Time

A Spiritual Memoir of Life, Death, and Rebirth

By: Dena Merriam

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My Journey Through Time

A Spiritual Memoir of Life, Death, and Rebirth

By: Dena Merriam

My Journey Through Time is a spiritual memoir that sheds light on the workings of karma— the law of cause and effect that creates one’s present circumstances and relationships—as we see it unfold through Dena’s vivid memories of her previous births. We travel back in time as Dena learns of a life in early 20th century Russia, ranging from the overthrow of the Czar through Nazi Germany; then it’s back further to a life in early 19th century America in the Deep South, and before that to a time in Africa in the early 18th century. Her lives in the East—in Persia, Japan, and India—go back to the 15th-17th centuries. With each past life, we can see the way in which it has impacted her present life, how it has stemmed from the end of the previous birth, and how it will influence her next life. Dena Merriam is the founder of an interfaith organization, the Global Peace Initiative of Women. A long-time disciplined meditator, Dena’s access to her past lives brings a clearer awareness and purpose to her present life, and also overcomes any fear of death. The memories are triggered when Dena meets a new person or visits a new place in her current life. The memories bring remembrances of past suffering, but also recollections of spiritual teachers and wise guidance. She has not used and does not advocate past-life regressions or hypnosis as a way to prompt memories to return. Dena has decided to share her story, despite being a very private person, in hopes that it can provide comfort and awaken the inner knowing of your own ongoing journey through time.

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SCB Distributors

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1513690655

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9781513690650

Love at First Fight

52 Story-Based Meditations for Married Couples

By: Dena Dyer,Carey Dyer

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Love at First Fight

52 Story-Based Meditations for Married Couples

By: Dena Dyer,Carey Dyer

Find Hope, Humor, and Truth for Your Marriage "Approaching the seriousness of marriage in a lighthearted manner, Carey and Dena Dyer help couples laugh through the tears, accept each other's flaws, and love each other through it all." –Michelle Lazurek, Author of An Invitation to the Table Love at First Fight is a book that will give your marriage encouragement and hope if you find that the once endearing, charming, and distinct qualities that once attracted you to your spouse are now a source of stress and conflict. In sharing humorous, personal stories from both the male and female perspective, husband and wife writing team Carey and Dena Dyer will help you discover that a fun, resilient, fulfilling marriage can be realized through hard work, forgiveness, God’s grace, and a sense of humor. Learn how to strengthen your marriage with these fifty-two conversational meditations that begin with scripture, end with prayers, and include practical action steps to develop a deeper connection with your spouse.

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196

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Barbour Publishing

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1634099907

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9781634099905

Designer Cards & Tags with Dena

By: Dena Fishbein

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Designer Cards & Tags with Dena

By: Dena Fishbein

Sought-after designer Dena Fishbein--winner of 17 Louis awards as well as the Greeting Card of the Year Award--applies her distinctive signature style and passion for embellishing to the popular subject of cards, tags, and paper crafts. Here are fresh and fabulous ideas for birthdays, welcoming a new baby, holidays, weddings, and gift giving. Sweet little paper dresses adorned with ribbons, buttons, silk flowers, and beads can become either tags for packages or design motifs on cards. Cute and colorful animal faces have real child appeal for a kid’s present. Other designs come shaped like cupcakes, teacups, towering layer cakes, flowers, moons, stars, and more--and they’re beautifully embellished with everything from ball fringe to glitter. Includes designs for readers to color copy. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1579909892

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9781579909895

Life Cycle

By: Dena Rash Guzman

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Life Cycle

By: Dena Rash Guzman

These poems are having a discussion amongst themselves. A Last Dinner of sorts, at a long table, in a meadow surrounded by tall pines. They are drinking rich coffee, wine, whisky. They are wearing new clothes from the nice rack at the thrift store. There is laughter on the verge of tears, tears full of all that life needs to survive beyond any struggle, any strife, these poems are human and yet purely animalistic. Ah yes, once again the subtle apocalypse in the background. Life cycle: the series of developmental stages and changes which comprise the entire life history of a given organism or culture, from inception through maturity and reproductive viability.

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Lulu.com

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098552913X

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9780985529130

Treason

A Catholic Novel of Elizabethan England

By: Dena Hunt

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Treason

A Catholic Novel of Elizabethan England

By: Dena Hunt

Treason" is one of the most powerful historical novels I've ever read. It brings to vivid and shocking life the age in which Shakespeare lived and in which the English martyrs died." Joseph Pearce Writer-in-Residence, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts

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Sophia Institute Press

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1933184922

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9781933184920

To Dance with Dakinis

In Search of Self

By: Dena Merriam

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To Dance with Dakinis

In Search of Self

By: Dena Merriam

As with all of Dena Merriam's books, To Dance with Dakinis is a study of the universal law of cause and effect, how events in our life, our deeds, thoughts and reactions impel the process of rebirth. The story begins in 12th century Tibet, with a woman's search for the Goddess and the deeper truths of life. A crisis that she encounters leads her to a great Master who helps awaken memories of her previous life in medieval France and a much earlier life in China, during which events were set in motion that led her to the crisis she now faced. The book follows her through death, the time between earthly rebirths and then her rebirth in India, where she brings to conclusion unfinished matters from her life in Tibet. In the process of her journey, great teachings are conveyed, teachings that we can all apply to our lives today.

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SCB Distributors

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9798986806129

Under the Bainin Rock

A Tale from the Hollows

By: Dena Blossey

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Under the Bainin Rock

A Tale from the Hollows

By: Dena Blossey

When twelve-year-old Reid DeBurgh finds a book with a curious symbol on the cover in her upstairs attic, she doesn't realize it holds a powerful mystery. Soon, a family trip takes Reid to the misty and magical land of Ireland, where a kind old seaside shopkeeper gives her a rare bloodstone in a small velvet pouch. Reid doesn't think much of the bloodstone until a boat she is in capsizes. But Reid doesn't drown; she suddenly finds herself in the weird and wondrous underworld of Elddim. While her family frantically searches for Reid, hoping she hasn't been lost to the depths of the sea, the young girl meets Damien and learns that she isn't the only one with a bloodstone-and that the gem may be far more than just beautiful. If she is ever to return to her family, Reid needs to find four treasures. With the help of her newfound friend Damien, Reid must fight evil creatures and release the spell the land has been under for far too long. Filled with all the enchantment and fantasy of a fine Irish folk tale, Dena Blossey's Under the Bainin Rock is a charming story that explores the meaning of heroism and true friendship.

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