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Shadow of a Doubt

By: Diane Negra

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Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was British-born Alfred Hitchcock’s sixth American film and the one that he at various times identified as his favourite and his best. It seems likely that one of the reasons he liked Shadow so much is that is an extraordinarily well-ordered narrative system, a meticulous cause and effect chain that melds its various scenes and sequences together to form a unified narrative that is highly effective in building suspense and cultivating identification with characters. This scrupulously organized film operates as a masterclass on principles of narrative design while generating resonant commentary on the nature of family life. This book redresses the deficit of sustained critical attention paid to Shadow even in the large corpus of Hitchcock scholarship. Analysing the film’s narrative system, issues of genre, authorship, social history, homesickness and ‘family values’, Diane Negra shows how the film’s impeccable narrative structure is wedded to radical ideological content, linking the film’s terrors to the punishing effects of looking beyond conventional family and gender roles. This book understands Shadow as an unconventionally female-centred Hitchcock text and a milestone film that marks the director’s emergent engagement with the pathologies of violence in American life and opens a window into the placement of femininity in World War II consensus culture and more broadly into the politics of mid-century gender and family life.

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Liverpool University Press

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1800858507

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What a Girl Wants?

Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

By: Diane Negra

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What a Girl Wants?

Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

By: Diane Negra

From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants? explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. Focusing on a diverse range of media forms, including film, TV, advertising and journalism, Diane Negra holds up a mirror to the contemporary female subject who finds herself centralized in commodity culture to a largely unprecedented degree at a time when Hollywood romantic comedies, chick-lit, and female-centred primetime TV dramas all compete for her attention and spending power. The models and anti-role models analyzed in the book include the chick flick heroines of princess films, makeover movies and time travel dramas, celebrity brides and bravura mothers, ‘Runaway Bride’ sensation Jennifer Wilbanks, the sex workers, flight attendants and nannies who maintain such a high profile in postfeminist popular culture, the authors of postfeminist panic literature on dating, marriage and motherhood and the domestic gurus who propound luxury lifestyling as a showcase for the ‘achieved’ female self.

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Routledge

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1135253420

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9781135253424

Off-white Hollywood

American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

By: Diane Negra

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Off-white Hollywood

American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

By: Diane Negra

Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Negra focuses on key stars of the silent - Colleen Moore and Pola Negri - classical - Sonja Henie and Hedy Lamarr - and post-classical eras - Marisa Tomei and Cher - to demonstrate how each star illuminates aspects of ethnicity, gender, consumerism, and class at work in American culture.

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Psychology Press

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0415216788

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9780415216784

Off-white Hollywood

American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

By: Diane Negra

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Off-white Hollywood

American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

By: Diane Negra

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9780415216777

Old and New Media after Katrina

By: Diane Negra

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Old and New Media after Katrina

By: Diane Negra

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, this thoughtful collection of essays reflects on the relationship between the disaster and a range of media forms. The assessments here reveal how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political and social ruptures "Katrina" has come to represent. The contributors explore how Hurricane Katrina is positioned at the intersection of numerous early twenty-first century crisis narratives centralizing uncertainties about race, class, region, government, and public safety. Looking closely at the organization of public memory of Katrina, this collection provides a timely and intellectually fruitful assessment of the complex ways in which media forms and national events are hopelessly entangled.

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Springer

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0230112102

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9780230112100

Shadow of a Doubt

By: Diane Negra

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Shadow of a Doubt

By: Diane Negra

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Liverpool University Press

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1800858108

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What a Girl Wants?

Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

By: Diane Negra

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Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

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Music Video and the Politics of Representation

By: Diane Railton

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Music Video and the Politics of Representation

By: Diane Railton

How can we engage critically with music video and its role in popular culture? What do contemporary music videos have to tell us about patterns of cultural identity today? Based around an eclectic series of vivid case studies, this fresh and timely examination is an entertaining and enlightening analysis of the forms, pleasures, and politics that music videos offer. In rethinking some classic approaches from film studies and popular music studies and connecting them with new debates about the current 'state' of feminism and feminist theory, Railton and Watson show why and how we should be studying music videos in the twenty-first century. Through its thorough overview of the music video as a visual medium, this is an ideal textbook for Media Studies students and all those with an interest in popular music and cultural studies.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748633243

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The Butterfly Farm

By: Diane Noble

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The Butterfly Farm

By: Diane Noble

Newly widowed Harriet MacIver has just taken on her first travel writing assignment–rating an adventure cruise in the Caribbean. Add a gaggle of college students on a mini semester-at-sea voyage, a rusting hulk of a ship that misses more ports than it makes, and two deaths by poisonous butterfly, and Harriet is off and running on a hair-raising adventure. And that’s before two coeds, Kate and Carly, go missing–Carly being her boss’s daughter. Pulled into a dangerous web of bioethical intrigue, Harriet races against time. If the killer isn’t stopped, Kate and Carly will die–and that may only be the beginning of his plans for destruction. With scant clues and fewer resources, Harriet must track down the college girls–and outmaneuver a murderer who is only part of an elaborate plot of medical madness. Travel writing certainly isn’t what Harriet thought it would be. Spiked with suspense and bioethical intrigue, The Butterfly Farm invites you to solve a Caribbean puzzle with travel’s most delightful woman of mystery. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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WaterBrook

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0307550621

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9780307550620

Experiencias, Annotated Instructor's Edition

Intermediate Spanish

By: Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco

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Experiencias, Annotated Instructor's Edition

Intermediate Spanish

By: Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco

Experiencias offers carefully sequenced activities, pre-tested in the authors' own classes, that focus on personal interaction and real communication. All face-to-face activities are easily adaptable for digital environments and writing assignments. Recycling Throughout both volumes, Experiencias incorporates activities that recycle previously learned material but with new topics, which allows students to continue mastering vocabulary and structures encountered earlier in the program"--

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118382153

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9781118382158

Experiencias

Beginning Spanish

By: Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco,Kathy P. Barton,Gregory L. Thompson,Alan Brown

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Experiencias

Beginning Spanish

By: Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco,Kathy P. Barton,Gregory L. Thompson,Alan Brown

Follow Daniel around the Spanish-speaking world as he guides students through this innovative new language course Experiencias: Beginning Spanish is a dynamic and innovative introductory Spanish course that builds students’ language competency and offers realistic language encounters, so they can begin communicating in Spanish as early as possible. In Experiencias: Beginning Spanish, students meet Daniel, a native Spanish speaker who guides them through the learning process. For each chapter, there is a video episode of Daniel’s “how to” show, where he interviews his Spanish-speaking friends about authentic topics of interest to today’s students. The Experiencias course focuses on connecting language with culture, engaging students with content related to the perspectives of native speakers. Each chapter focuses on a different country, integrating grammar and vocabulary into real-world units that will give students a sense of excitement and wonder. Additional pedagogical features include an emphasis on metacognitive learning strategies, a reduced grammatical syllabus that leaves room for extra work on challenging areas, and content recycling throughout the text for enhanced language mastery. Takes students on a journey through the Spanish-speaking world, featuring a different country in each chapter Offers innovative pedagogical techniques and activities drawn from the authors’ own classroom research Engages students with a focus on culture, practical communication, and video interviews with native Spanish speakers Develops oral and written communication skills through authentic tasks structured by the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines With WileyPLUS for Experiencias: Beginning Spanish, students have access to an enhanced e-text featuring videos, audio recordings, interactive vocabulary exercises, educational animations, links to additional resources, and more. This text is an excellent choice for today’s beginning Spanish speakers, whether in traditional or online classroom environments.

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1118517873

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The Ruiz Street Kids / Los muchachos de la calle Ruiz

By: Diane Gonzales Bertrand

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The Ruiz Street Kids / Los muchachos de la calle Ruiz

By: Diane Gonzales Bertrand

Adventures of several children in a largely Hispanic, but still diverse, neighborhood.

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Arte Publico Press

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1558855831

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There's a Name for this Feeling: Stories / Hay un nombre para lo que siento: cuentos

By: Diane Gonzales Bertrand

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There's a Name for this Feeling: Stories / Hay un nombre para lo que siento: cuentos

By: Diane Gonzales Bertrand

In the title story, Lucinda hatches a clever plan to get her boyfriend back and is crushed when she ultimately realizes that itÍs impossible to force a guy to love you. Like all young people, she ignores the advice of her mom and learns that lessonand many morethe hard way. In this bilingual collection of ten short stories for young people, kids deal with both serious and humorous consequences after they ignore their parentsÍ suggestions and disobey rules. At a friendÍs house on New YearÍs Eve, Raymond plays with fireworks even though he promised his parents he wouldnÍt. Kids on a track team search for a mysterious naked woman with embarrassing results. And two girls in a wax museum are in for a surprise when they ignore the signs about touching the figures. These short and accessible contemporary stories are alternately amusing and poignant as they explore issues relevant to todayÍs youth. Teens deal with everything from grandparents suffering from dementia to difficult customers at a first job. And in one story, a young girl grieves the loss of her baby, a miscarriage her mom calls a ñblessing.î These stories highlight the emotional tailspins of living in a complicated world.

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1558857842

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Reforming Corporate Retail Investor Protection

Regulating to Avert Mis-Selling

By: Diane Bugeja

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Reforming Corporate Retail Investor Protection

Regulating to Avert Mis-Selling

By: Diane Bugeja

The spate of mis-selling episodes that have plagued the financial services industries in recent years has caused widespread detriment to investors. Notwithstanding numerous regulatory interventions, curtailing the incidence of poor investment advice remains a challenge for regulators, particularly because these measures are taken in a 'fire-fighting' fashion without adequate consideration being given to the root causes of mis-selling. Against this backdrop, this book focuses on the sale of complex investment products to corporate retail investors by drawing upon the widespread mis-selling of interest rate hedging products (IRHP) in the UK and beyond. It brings to the fore the relatively understudied field concerning the different degrees of investor protection mechanisms applicable to individual retail investors – as opposed to corporate retail investors – by taking stock of past regulatory reforms and forthcoming regulatory initiatives as well as, more importantly, the conclusions reached by the judiciary in IRHP mis-selling claims. The conclusions are particularly interesting: corporate retail investors are in a vulnerable position when compared to individual retail investors. The former are exposed to a heightened risk of mis-selling, meaning that regulatory intervention should be targeted accordingly. The recommendations made as a result of these findings are further supported by insights emerging from behavioural law and economic theories. This book is aimed at researchers, lawyers and students with an interest in the financial regulation field who are keen to explore potential regulatory reforms to the investment services regime that address the root causes of mis-selling, and restore a level playing field amongst all retail investors.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509925872

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9781509925872

Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film

Gaslighting

By: Diane L. Shoos

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Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film

Gaslighting

By: Diane L. Shoos

This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women. These films include Gaslight, Sleeping with the Enemy, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Dolores Claiborne, Enough, and Safe Haven. Shaped by the contexts of postfeminism, domestic abuse post-awareness, and familiar genre conventions, these films engage in ideological “gaslighting” that reaffirms our preconceived ideas about men as abusers, women as victims, and the racial and class politics of domestic violence. While the films purport to condemn abuse and empower abused women, this study proposes that they tacitly reinforce the very attitudes that we believe we no longer tolerate. Shoos argues that films like these limit not only popular understanding but also social and institutional interventions.

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Springer

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3319650645

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9783319650647

Bear With Me

What They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy and New Motherhood

By: Diane Flacks

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Bear With Me

What They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy and New Motherhood

By: Diane Flacks

Toronto comedy writer/performer Diane Flacks has written a frank and funny account of her pregnancy and the first months with her newborn. In the twenty-first century, it is hard to imagine that having a baby is still shrouded in secrecy and mythology. And yet many women go through their pregnancy with a sense of isolation and without an outlet to express their fears, doubts, and wonder. There is so much more to pregnancy than What to Expect When You’re Expecting. In Bear With Me, readers will discover the truth about pregnancy – poignantly and hilariously. It is important to know how Dr. Sears suggests you work a nasal aspirator, but how do you get through your thirtieth day of morning sickness without shooting someone?! Diane Flacks, who has written for Kids in the Hall and appeared with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, is open about her own experiences: dealing with hormonal mood swings and a changing body image, sex with a burgeoning belly, what really happens in the labour room, and (horror of horrors) becoming your mom. Flacks is witty, urbane, and refreshingly honest. In Bear With Me readers will find a voice that welcomes, does not judge or hide, and will make you laugh out loud.

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551991527

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9781551991528

This Calls for a Drink!

The Best Wines and Beers to Pair with Every Situation

By: Diane McMartin

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This Calls for a Drink!

The Best Wines and Beers to Pair with Every Situation

By: Diane McMartin

What wine goes with your life? Any decent wine book can tell you what to drink with a grilled steak. But what’s the best wine to pair with a blind date? For watching the Oscars? For a big birthday? Written by Diane McMartin, this inspired drinking guide matches wines and beers to the significant—and not so significant—events in life. Binge-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Try a Riesling—refreshing but with depth. Dumped a jerk? Celebrate with a sparkling rosé. Here are hundreds of unexpected recommendations delivered in a voice that is fresh, hip, full of attitude, and as solidly informative as it is entertaining. It’s everything you need to know to drink like an adult, even if you don’t always behave like one.

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Workman Publishing

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0761184848

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9780761184843

Gypsies

An Interdisciplinary Reader

By: Diane Tong

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Gypsies

An Interdisciplinary Reader

By: Diane Tong

This book of interdisciplinary readings on Gypsies is sensitive to the Romani point of view and avoids exoticizing or patronizing the Gypsies and their culture. Recurrent themes in the readings include: the historical oppression of the Gypsies including contemporary xenophobia and violence; the nonstatic, heterogeneous nature of Gypsy cultures; the persistence of racist stereotypes; and personal and institutional Gypsy/non-Gypsy relationships. Nearly all of the classic essays updated for this volume tell stories of the persistance of the Roma in the face of savage atrocities and appalling living conditions.

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Routledge

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1135636303

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9781135636302

Powers of the Real

Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan

By: Diane Wei Lewis

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Powers of the Real

Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan

By: Diane Wei Lewis

Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema’s persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Diane Wei Lewis shows how representations of women and signifiers of femininity were used to characterize new forms of pleasure and fantasy enabled by consumer culture and technological media. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, she analyzes the role that images of women played in articulating the new expressions of identity, behavior, and affiliation produced by cinema and consumer capitalism. In the process, Lewis traces new discourses on the technological mediation of emotion to the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and postquake mass media boom. The earthquake transformed the Japanese film industry and lent urgency to debates surrounding cinema’s ability to reach a mass audience and shape public sentiment, while the rise of consumer culture contributed to alarm over rampant materialism and “feminization.” Demonstrating how ideas about emotion and sexual difference played a crucial role in popular discourse on cinema’s reach and its sensory-affective powers, Powers of the Real offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the “age of the mass society” in Japan.

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BRILL

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1684176042

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9781684176045

Maiz Y Coca-Cola

Adventures, Scrapes, and Shamanism in the Amazon and Andes

By: Diane Terezakis

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Maiz Y Coca-Cola

Adventures, Scrapes, and Shamanism in the Amazon and Andes

By: Diane Terezakis

Whether sharing knowledge attained through a sacred plant ritual, the romance she finds with a leader of the Huaorani, or the tarantulas that frighten her while she bathes, Diane Terezakis authentically shares her experiences as if unashamedly talking to a best friend. Dianes quest for the elusive, yet eclectic state of enlightenment is an inner and outer journey, where she seeks to acquire shamanic wisdom as well as to learn about herself, and although she has a game plan in mind, Diane follows the path that the Universe governs. Part One: Civilization, chronicles the introductory voyage that takes the author through the Ecuadorian Amazon and Andes, meeting shamans she wants to return and study with, the indigenous and the gringos she befriends along the way, the scrapes she gets into, and the reflections on significant episodes in her life. In Part Two: Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, the authors mentor, a shaman in the Ecuadorian Andes, Dr. Valentin Hampejs, helps point the way toward other medicine men for her to supplement her studies with after her disappointing stay with the Secoya shaman, Don Cesario. Enlightening rituals with Dr. Hampejs, a romantic relationship with the Huaorani, Moi, and fun times with her quasi-cousins help balance her disappointment. Chauvinism, greed, and alcohol have marred many of the medicine men that the author finds. Journeying through the Andes while El Ninos ravishing of roads has made travel dangerous, Terezakis precariously makes her way into the Peruvian Andes, plagued by recurring dreams with important messages that eventually lead her back home. Elixir qualities aside, inhabitants of the Amazon jungle and the Andes Mountains (symbolized by Maiz) are becoming perpetually Westernized (symbolized by Coca-Cola emblems throughout South America), and the terrain is sadly changing. Oil companies decimate the Amazon daily, and cultures in both vicinities are losing their hold. As if catching fleeting moments on film, Diane attempts, through her memoir, to immortalize the beauty of the jungle and the mountains while capturing comic moments, vulnerable, endearing episodes, thought-provoking tragedies, and painful disillusionment. Dianes passages weave into an unforgettable scrapbook of her travels in South America.

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Xlibris Corporation

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147717284X

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9781477172841

Drug Therapy in Nursing

By: Diane S. Aschenbrenner,Samantha J. Venable

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Drug Therapy in Nursing

By: Diane S. Aschenbrenner,Samantha J. Venable

This text presents a totally nursing-focused framework for teaching and learning nursing pharmacology, and "places the patient" at the center of all drug administration decisions and considerations. The book presents core drug knowledge using prototypes of different drug classes and emphasizes core patient variables that influence the patient's response to therapy. This thoroughly updated Third Edition covers newly approved drugs, has separate chapters on drugs affecting fungal and viral infections, and includes more pathophysiology information. FDA Black Box warnings have been added to the discussion of each prototype when applicable, and safety alerts have been added to emphasize prevention of common medication errors. A companion Website offers student and instructor ancillaries including NCLEX®-style questions, pathophysiology animations, medication administration videos, and dosage calculation quizzes.

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