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Rescues in Time

By: Desiree Davis

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James is a lonely history buff and recent high school graduate who is contemplating what to do with his life when he sees a newspaper ad for summer help at a local theater and decides to inquire. After all, he loves old Hollywood movies and the job seems like a perfect match with his interests. A short time later, James is surprisingly hired over the phone without filling out an application, enduring an interview, or supplying references. The elderly owner of the theater who shockingly resembles an old Hollywood movie star soon confirms everything James has ever dreamed possible. After he reveals his special projector is actually a time machine, he and James are propelled back in time where they meet important historical figures like Abraham Lincoln, Al Capone, and James Dean, and attempt to change the course of history forever. Rescues in Time shares the adventurous tale of a teenagerÕs travel through time after he meets an elderly theater owner who can help him achieve a challenging quest.

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1483485218

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To Defend This Sunrise

Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua

By: Courtney Desiree Morris

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To Defend This Sunrise

Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua

By: Courtney Desiree Morris

To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political, economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the Sandinista state’s co-optation of multicultural discourse and growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new forms of “multicultural dispossession.” This concept describes the ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal practices and policies that undermine black political demands and weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims of these activists against the state.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978804814

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9781978804814

Gender Inequality in Our Changing World

A Comparative Approach

By: Lori Kenschaft,Roger Clark,Desiree Ciambrone

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Gender Inequality in Our Changing World

A Comparative Approach

By: Lori Kenschaft,Roger Clark,Desiree Ciambrone

Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach focuses on the contemporary United States but places it in historical and global context. Written for sociology of gender courses, this textbook identifies conditions that encourage greater or lesser gender inequality, explains how gender and gender inequality change over time, and explores how gender intersects with other hierarchies, especially those related to race, social class, and sexual identity. The authors integrate historical and international materials as they help students think both theoretically and empirically about the causes and consequences of gender inequality, both in their own lives and in the lives of others worldwide.

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Routledge

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1317907493

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9781317907497

Un-Junk Your Diet

How to Shop, Cook, and Eat to Fight Inflammation and Feel Better Forever

By: Desiree Nielsen

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Un-Junk Your Diet

How to Shop, Cook, and Eat to Fight Inflammation and Feel Better Forever

By: Desiree Nielsen

We don’t need to be instructed to eat apples instead of potato chips. What we need is someone to inspire us to eat well and to show us just how powerful eating that apple can be. This person must be a trusted voice, one that can calm the informational clutter instead of adding yet another discordant voice to the pile. Desiree Nielsen is a registered dietitian, one of the public’s most trusted sources of nutrition information. In Un-Junk Your Diet, she teaches readers about anti-inflammatory dieting in a way that’s engaging, funny, and approachable. This book begins with a call to action to help shake up perceptions of what food means to our bodies and illuminate all the ways that marketers co-opt healthy eating messages to coerce us into choosing food that is unworthy. In addition, an in-depth look at the fundamentals of nutrition—with a splash of myth busting—strengthens readers’ abilities to resist the latest nutrition headline and continue making healthier choices. Because there is no one right way for every individual eater, Nielsen offers a brief exercise in self-discovery before providing four distinct plans for becoming healthier. They range from the gentle and gradual to the two-week kick start that appeals to both detox seekers and vacation slimmers.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510711503

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9781510711501

Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS

Mending Fractured Selves

By: R Dennis Shelby,Desiree Ciambrone

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Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS

Mending Fractured Selves

By: R Dennis Shelby,Desiree Ciambrone

Meet the women behind the statistics!Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS.Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing effortswith varying degrees of successto come to grips with the disease as they try to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses potential problems for women associated with caregiving and presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference, lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks in biological disruption and repair A rare look at the experience of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples), Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology, women's studies, public health, and community health, and is an enlightening read for everyone interested in HIV/AIDS research.

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Routledge

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1135420777

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9781135420772

Disappearance is a Different Type of Fear

By: Desiree Zizzo

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Disappearance is a Different Type of Fear

By: Desiree Zizzo

Bianca and Marcy have been best friends for as long as they could remember. They were supposed to go to Disney World together, but Marcy came up missing. 2 years later Marcy was found. Dead. As Bianca got older she was determined to find out what happened to her best friend. Eventually, Bianca found out and revealed the truth. And that soon changed that small little town. Forever.

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1794803114

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9781794803114

Retrograde

By: Desiree Holt

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Retrograde

By: Desiree Holt

FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR DESIREE HOLT Book one in the Galaxy series Hot ex-military, desperate woman, tight conspiracy...wait for the explosion! Peyton West is desperate. Her brother-in-law is dead, her sister is in a coma and no one seems interested in finding any answers. With every door slammed in her face, she's referred to Scott "Blaze" Hamilton and the men from super-secret Galaxy. Conducting meetings on a plane and digging into the underbelly of Tampa politics, she sees a ray of hope...and discovers Blaze lives up to his name in more ways than one. She crosses her fingers that the scorching sex will continue to blaze once the killer is found.

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Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)

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1839434708

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9781839434709

Language of the Heart

A Sufi Interpretation of Form (Sura) and Meaning (Mana) in Contemporary Society

By: Eva Desiree van den Berg

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Language of the Heart

A Sufi Interpretation of Form (Sura) and Meaning (Mana) in Contemporary Society

By: Eva Desiree van den Berg

This book seeks to examine how Sufi thought might provide critical understanding of contemporary life and a pathway towards the recovery of a more meaningful existence. Rumi’s mystical teachings are of great value at a time of rampant materialism and indiscriminate consumerism, and have the potential to illuminate the precarious state of the world, as well as revitalize contemporary social critique, eco-philosophy and bio-semiotics in what is increasingly being regarded as a post-secular age.

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Blue Dome Press

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1935295950

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9781935295952

Sun Signs in Love

Relationship Compatibility by the Stars

By: Desiree Roby Antila

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Sun Signs in Love

Relationship Compatibility by the Stars

By: Desiree Roby Antila

Bring clarity and harmony to your romantic relationships with this book on sun signs and how each one approaches matters of the heart. More than a compatibility book, Sun Signs in Love proves that there are no bad matches—every sign can match with any other if you have the right knowledge. Join Desiree Roby Antila on a thorough exploration of all twelve signs, including their general characteristics, how they interact with other signs, how they are in bed, what actions can cause a breakup, and more. This comprehensive book also provides a variety of associations for every sign, including element, ruling planet, flowers, crystals, animals, foods, and more. From each sign's mythology to advice for resolving differences, Sun Signs in Love helps make your current and future relationships sail smoother and happier.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738771740

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9780738771748

Healing Worthlessness

Coming Into Self-Love as a Trauma Survivor

By: Desiree Leigh Thompson

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Healing Worthlessness

Coming Into Self-Love as a Trauma Survivor

By: Desiree Leigh Thompson

For several decades, Desiree Leigh Thompson lived beneath the shadow of trauma and abuse. Having grown up in a violent, dysfunctional household and experiencing her first sexual assault at age twelve, she went on to suffer from several mental health disorders and self-destructive behaviours, forever trying to hide herself out of shame and self-loathing. As a result, she lost all sense of self-worth, self-identity, and belonging. However, all of this began to change when she found the bravery to begin psychotherapy and walk along the path to healing. Through a supported process of gaining awareness and letting go, she was able to emerge, at last, into self-love. In Healing Worthlessness, a courageous book about trauma and recovery, Thompson shares her story in detail in hopes of helping other survivors find their own healing paths. She also addresses the global issue of intimate partner violence, the oppression of women under patriarchy, and the social and cultural reasons why society at large often suppresses and denies stories of abuse. She also overviews the research behind childhood trauma and its links to adult dysfunction, repeated victimization, and chronic health repercussions. As Thompson herself discovered, it is never too late to escape the legacy of abuse and change your life; if, as a survivor, you have a desire to change—to heal your wounded relationship with yourself, and subsequently, your relationships with others—then what you need (and deserve) is encouragement and support to help you get there. Healing Worthlessness is a multifaceted restorative tool, a call to action, and an invaluable resource for helping survivors escape toxic patterns, push past their limitations, feel joy again, and connect deeply with themselves and those they love.

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FriesenPress

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1525556150

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9781525556159

Lippincott Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN

By: Diane Billings,Desiree Hensel

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Lippincott Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN

By: Diane Billings,Desiree Hensel

Avoid the stress of NCLEX® prep and ensure exam success with ease. Endorsed by the NSNA, Lippincott® Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN®, 14th Edition, delivers unrivaled NCLEX® practice and proven exam results with thousands of review questions informed by real performance data from students like you via Lippincott’s award-winning PrepU adaptive learning platform. Reflecting the content and alignment of the latest NCSBN test plan —including new Next Generation NCLEX® questions—the 14th Edition of this bestselling NCLEX® Q&A review helps you build the critical thinking and clinical judgment skills to excel on your licensure exams and gain the confidence for success from test day to your first day of nursing practice—and beyond.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975180399

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9781975180393

Acute and Critical Care in Adult Nursing

By: Desiree Tait,Catherine Williams,David Barton,Jane James

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Acute and Critical Care in Adult Nursing

By: Desiree Tait,Catherine Williams,David Barton,Jane James

This book helps adult nursing students to competently manage care of critically and acutely ill patients, and to recognise and deal with the early signs of deterioration. The book takes a practical real-life approach to care, with each chapter focusing on patients with specific problems, then interweaving the knowledge and skills needed to care for that patient. The book focuses on developing clinical assessment and decision-making skills so that students are able to care for patients who are unstable, deteriorating or critically ill, regardless of their location.

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Learning Matters

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1526471345

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9781526471345

Camping Virginia and West Virginia

A Comprehensive Guide to Public Tent and RV Campgrounds

By: Desiree Smith-Daughety

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Camping Virginia and West Virginia

A Comprehensive Guide to Public Tent and RV Campgrounds

By: Desiree Smith-Daughety

Fully revised and updated, this guide to more than 100 public campgrounds in Virginia and West Virginia is perfect for tent and RV campers alike. Within each campground listing is vital information on location, road conditions, fees, reservations, available facilities, and recreational activities. The listings are organized by geographic area, and thorough site maps will simplify the search for the perfect campground. Virginia and West Virginia offer a surprising array of quiet, out-of-the-way parks replete with lakes, rivers, rugged hills, and even rocky cliffs. Camping Virginia and West Virginia provides useful tips on camping etiquette and enjoying—or avoiding—the state’s diverse and abundant wildlife. Look inside for: * Campground locations * Facilities and hookups * Fees and reservations * GPS coordinates for each campground * Recreational activities * What equipment and clothing to bring

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493043196

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9781493043194

Know the Mother

By: Desiree Cooper

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Know the Mother

By: Desiree Cooper

Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives. While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women—both black and white—find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. In this heart-wrenching collection, Cooper reveals that gender and race are often unanticipated interlopers in family life. An anxious mother reflects on her prenatal fantasies of suicide while waiting for her daughter to come home late one night. A lawyer miscarries during a conference call and must proceed as though nothing has happened. On a rare night out with her husband, a new mother tries convincing herself that everything is still the same. A politician's wife's thoughts turn to slavery as she contemplates her own escape: "Even Harriet Tubman had realized that freedom wasn't worth the price of abandoning her family, so she'd come back home. She'd risked it all for love." With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper's stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without sentimentality. Know the Mother explores the intersection of race and gender in vignettes that pull you in and then are gone in an instant. Readers of short fiction will appreciate this deeply felt collection.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814341500

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9780814341506

Procedural Dermatology

By: Marc Avram,Mathew Avram,Desiree Ratner

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Procedural Dermatology

By: Marc Avram,Mathew Avram,Desiree Ratner

Learn how to perform basic and advanced skin surgery with this combination text and atlas Written in clear, concise language, and backed by thel atest evidence, Procedural Dermatology is a practical guide for performing all types of skin procedures for both medical and cosmetic problems. Procedural Dermatology opens with a section on Surgical Principles, that discusses essentials such as headand neck anatomy, preoperative evaluation, anesthesia, aseptic technique, antibiotics, wound healing, and postoperative care. The next four sections (Surgical Skills, Skin Tumors, Aesthetic & Laser Procedures, and Aesthetic Problems) cover the different types of surgical procedures, describing them in step-by-step fashion, with each step illustrated with line drawings and photographs. Procedural Dermatology compiles current, state-of-the-art information valuable to all practitioners of dermatologic surgery, from the trainees to seasoned surgeons wishing to refine their skills.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071802525

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9780071802529

Pancreatic Imaging, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

By: Desiree E. Morgan,Koenraad J. Mortele

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Pancreatic Imaging, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

By: Desiree E. Morgan,Koenraad J. Mortele

This issue reviews and updates a variety of topics in pancreatic imaging. Pearls on the Multiphasic CT of the pancreas are offered, along with the key MRI techniques for pancreatic imaging. Emerging CT, MR and US techniques for pancreatic evaluation (such as dual energy, DCMRI, spectroscopy, and US contrast) are elucidated. Ultrasound for pancreatic imaging is given a thorough review. An update on staging and resectability of pancreatic adenocarcinoma is discussed. Acute and chronic pancreatitis are reviewed, as well as cystic pancreatic lesions, congenital pancreatic anomalies, uncommon solid pancreatic neoplasms, and other pancreatic pathology. Post-operative imaging of the pancreas is discussed, and finally, an update on endoscopic techniques for the pancreas is provided.

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