Dianne Barker's Books

I Don’T Chase the Garbage Truck Down the Street in My Bathrobe Anymore!

Organizing for the Maximum Life

By: Dianne Barker

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I Don’T Chase the Garbage Truck Down the Street in My Bathrobe Anymore!

Organizing for the Maximum Life

By: Dianne Barker

I love this book! Dianne tackles a serious problem with humor, warmth, and practical advice, using scriptural principles and hilarious personal stories. Debora M. Coty, humorist, speaker, and author Diannes book is an encouraging and uplifting book that helps organize our lives and homes, releasing the stuff that doesn't matter for the life that does. Angela Breidenbach, speaker, coach, and author Dianne shares secrets of letting go for disorganized hoarders and provides tools to create a less cluttered life. Her personal examples and humor make it an easy read. Karen Whiting, speaker and author I have laughed until I cried! Diannes ideas are easy to implement and woven with Gods encouraging Word. Annetta Dellinger, speaker and author

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WestBow Press

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151270458X

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Women as They Age

By: Susan O Mercer,J Dianne Garner

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Women as They Age

By: Susan O Mercer,J Dianne Garner

Explore the needs of older women and ways to provide for them! Written by women, about women, and for women, Women As They Age, Second Edition highlights the realities of being an aging woman in a youth-oriented, male-dominated society, in which socioeconomic and gender stratification are the norm. In the eleven years since the publication of the original Women as They Age, there has been a great deal of research on the subject. This second edition is inclusive and current, providing valuable information on the needs and accomplishments of our present and future older population. Here you'll encounter women from the mainstream and minorities of all kinds, and come to a better understanding of their personal and family relationships, their sexuality, their concerns, and their feelings about death and dying. Public policies towards aging women are discussed, as are psychological and sociological perspectives. In its focus on older women, Women As They Age, Second Edition, highlights the challenges that these women present to professionals whose job it is, directly or indirectly, to provide assistance to the vast array of aging and aged women. This valuable multidisciplinary book--aimed at students, practitioners, administrators, and educators--addresses crucial issues in social work, nursing, psychology, sociology, gerontology, and economics. New subjects covered in this edition include: grandmothers raising grandchildren long-term care for aging women the current status of public policy as it pertains to older women older women's changing perspectives on sexuality new issues surrounding death and dying Women as They Age, Second Edition explores state-of-the-art and developmental perspectives across the professions of sociology, psychology, social work, and nursing. Also provided is a close examination of the unique issues facing older women--including public policy, employment discrimination, and social program adequacy and equity; the relationship of older women to family; sexuality and intimacy; and special concerns of minority women. This volume includes a practical resource guide that explores the services available to older women. While addressing the troublesome situations of older women worldwide, Women As They Age, Second Edition also celebrates their triumphs, accomplishments, and contributions.

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Routledge

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1136615075

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9781136615078

Scout and the Rescue Dogs

By: Dianne Wolfer

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Scout and the Rescue Dogs

By: Dianne Wolfer

A celebration of community, adventure, kindness and, above all, dogs! The summer holidays have finally arrived and Scout can’t wait for her adventure in the big rig with Dad. They’re on a mission to deliver donations of dog food to animal rescue shelters right across the state. There’ll be lots of music, dad-jokes and a brilliant plan that will make sure everyone’s got a friend for the holidays. There might even be a special four-legged friend in it for Scout. But Scout and her dad get more than they’ve bargained for. It’s bushfire season – and it’s not just the dogs who need rescuing . . .

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Walker Books Australia

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1760655880

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9781760655884

Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850

By: Dianne Dugaw

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Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850

By: Dianne Dugaw

Masquerading as a man, seeking adventure, going to war or to sea for love and glory, the transvestite heroine flourished in all kinds of literature, especially ballads, from the Renaissance to the Victorian age. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 identifies this heroine and her significance as a figure in folklore, and as a representative of popular culture, prompting important reevaluations of gender and sexuality. Dugaw has uncovered a fascination with women cross-dressers in the popular literature of early modern Europe and America. Surveying a wide range of Anglo-American texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature, she demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226169162

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9780226169163

High-performance Work Organizations

Definitions, Practices, and an Annotated Bibliography

By: Bradley Lane Kirkman,Kevin B. Lowe,Dianne P. Young

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High-performance Work Organizations

Definitions, Practices, and an Annotated Bibliography

By: Bradley Lane Kirkman,Kevin B. Lowe,Dianne P. Young

Organizations often channel workflow around key business processes in order to enhance their productivity. Those that succeed are referred to as high-performance work organizations (HIPOs). Yet, little is known about the systems that drive high performance or even what defines a HIPO. This book, for both practicing managers and scholars, addresses that knowledge gap. It provides the field's and the authors' definitions of HIPOs, and it contains 168 annotations of recent and informative journal articles, books, and book chapters by those who have studied and worked withsuch organizations.

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Center for Creative Leadership

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1882197461

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9781882197460

From Your Loving Son

Civil War Correspondence and Diaries of Private George F. Moore and His Family

By: George Frederick Moore,Mary Ellen Hoover,Elin Williams Neiterman,E. Dianne James

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From Your Loving Son

Civil War Correspondence and Diaries of Private George F. Moore and His Family

By: George Frederick Moore,Mary Ellen Hoover,Elin Williams Neiterman,E. Dianne James

Moore was twenty years old when he joined the 35th Massachusetts Regiment in 1862. The eight-four letters in this collection span the years from August 1862 to the end of the War and include correspondence to and from Pvt. Moore and five family members. Moore's diaries from 1863 to 1864 are also included, as well as the 1867 diary of Sarah Jones, the girl he married. The family is traced long after the war, revealing their travels and accomplishments. -- P. [4] of cover.

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iUniverse

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1462036945

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9781462036943

A Way Out of No Way

Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South

By: Dianne Swann-Wright

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A Way Out of No Way

Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South

By: Dianne Swann-Wright

An African American folk saying declares, "Our God can make a way out of no way.... He can do anything but fail." When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors--African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War--she had to find that way, just as her people had done in creating a new life after emancipation. In order to tell their story, she could not rely solely on documents from the plantation where her forebears had lived. Unlike the register of babies born, marriages made, or lives lost that white families' Bibles contained, ledgers recorded Swann-Wright's ancestors, as commodities. Thus Swann-Wright took another route, setting out to gather spoken words--stories, anecdotes, and sayings. What results is a strikingly rich and textured history of a slave community. Looking at relations between plantation owners and their slaves and the succeeding generations of both, A Way out of No Way explores what it meant for the master-slave relation to change to one of employer and employee and how patronage, work relationships, and land acquisition evolved as the people of Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century. Swann-Wright illustrates how two white landowners, one of whom had headed a plantation before the Civil War, learned to compensate freed persons for their labor. All the more fascinating is her study of how the emancipated learned to be free--of how they found their way out of no way.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813921376

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9780813921372

The House That Witchy Built

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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The House That Witchy Built

By: Dianne de Las Casas

A Halloween version of "The House that Jack Built" features a witch, black cat, skeleton and other spooky images, and invites interaction through repetition, onomatopoeia and infectious rhyme.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1589809653

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9781589809659

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project: A Framework for Success

A Framework for Success

By: Katherine J. Moran,Rosanne Burson,Dianne Conrad

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The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project: A Framework for Success

A Framework for Success

By: Katherine J. Moran,Rosanne Burson,Dianne Conrad

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project: A Framework for Success, Third Edition provides the foundation for the scholarl process enabling DNP students to work through their project in a more effective, efficient manner.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284156958

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9781284156959

Collective Vision

Igniting District and School Improvement

By: Nancy Gordon,Dianne Turner

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Collective Vision

Igniting District and School Improvement

By: Nancy Gordon,Dianne Turner

Collective Vision: Igniting District and School Improvement describes a school district’s 10-year journey of transformation. It began with the creation of a district-wide shared vision, mission, and values, using an appreciative inquiry process that engaged all stakeholders in the school district, thus establishing shared ownership and responsibility for the outcomes. The book demonstrates how the power of a collective vision and collaborative inquiry across a system helps establish a district-wide culture of collective efficacy, resulting in improved outcomes. In the field of education promising practices are sometimes discarded before improvements can be observed and schools are often charged with the responsibility for improvement without being given enough support or guidance from the district. This story describes how continuous inquiry and district support for promising practices led to significant improvement and transformation. The book serves as a practical guide that provides useful “lessons learned” and questions for self-reflection throughout. Educators at all levels of the system will be inspired to take action toward district and school improvement.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538195623

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9781538195628

The Girl from Nip 'N' Tuck

By: Dianne H. Lundy

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The Girl from Nip 'N' Tuck

By: Dianne H. Lundy

Dianne Hollis graduated from college and embarked on a quest to find two things an ideal job and the perfect man. Time proved that finding either one of them was no easy task. Struggling with difficult classes, unpredictable students, and unreliable men, she managed to keep her sanity by maintaining a sense of humor and putting her trust in God. Inheriting her fathers stubborn streak and her mothers strong sense of Christian faith, she was determined to make it in her chosen profession, no matter what it took to succeed.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483638715

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9781483638713

How to Quit Anything in 5 Simple Steps

By: Dianne A. Allen, MA

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How to Quit Anything in 5 Simple Steps

By: Dianne A. Allen, MA

After more than 3 decades of helping people feel better, nationally known speaker Dianne A. Allen brings to life her powerful formula for success. There is a fundamental opportunity for joy and freedom within our grasp--yet most of us simply miss it! The answers are here; we need only to accept them and allow them to assist us with our daily lives. Many people keep trying to fight their way to happiness. Fighting only makes things worse. By uncovering and applying just five simple steps, each of us can truly live our hearts' desires and be free of the limitations that bind us. This book offers a living and vibrant way to become free from the trance of human pain and torment. Success in life is attained by following the simple daily plan created to help motivate and inspire readers. There are many paradigms for creating your life; find what inspires you to excel in How to Quit Anything in Five Simple Steps.

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Balboa Press

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1452593450

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9781452593456

Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre

By: Marea Mitchell,Dianne Osland

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Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre

By: Marea Mitchell,Dianne Osland

This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia

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256

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Springer

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023050437X

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9780230504370

The Managed Care Answer Book

By: Gayle McCracken Tuttle,Dianne Rush Woods

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The Managed Care Answer Book

By: Gayle McCracken Tuttle,Dianne Rush Woods

This text aims to provide answer to questions such as what happens when you get dropped from a managed care panel? How do you get paid? Why can't you get on a managed care panel? This book is an extended question and answer session where issues are tackled from the providers perspective.; Armed with the resources, examples and explanations provided in this book, clinicians will be positioned to make the decisions that contribute to success under managed care.

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Routledge

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1135062366

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9781135062361

Contested Transformation

By: Carol Hardy-Fanta,Pei-te Lien,Dianne Pinderhughes,Christine Marie Sierra

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Contested Transformation

By: Carol Hardy-Fanta,Pei-te Lien,Dianne Pinderhughes,Christine Marie Sierra

This book provides the first in-depth look at male and female elected officials of color using survey and other empirical data.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521196434

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9780521196437

Blue Frog

The Legend of Chocolate

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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Blue Frog

The Legend of Chocolate

By: Dianne de Las Casas

Relates the native Central American tale of how the gift of chocolate came to be shared by the gods with humans.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1455614599

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9781455614592

Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia

A Noctuary

By: Dianne Johnson

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Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia

A Noctuary

By: Dianne Johnson

Written by anthropologist Diane Johnson, Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia has been in demand since its publication in 1998. It is a record of the stars and planets which pass across night-time.

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Sydney University Press

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1743323875

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9781743323878

Folktales from Africa

By: Dianne Stewart

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Folktales from Africa

By: Dianne Stewart

Folktales are timeless and, although they are a product of a particular culture, they have universal relevance because they give insight into the human condition. In Folktales from Africa, award-winning South African author Dianne Stewart has retold stories from the length and breadth of the African continent. Beautifully illustrated by Marjorie van Heerden, this collection of twenty stories is certain to entertain and delight the reader, as well as give insight into the countries from which the tales have been sourced.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1432305018

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9781432305017

Pediatric Drug Development

By: Andrew E. Mulberg,Dianne Murphy,Julia Dunne,Lisa L. Mathis

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Pediatric Drug Development

By: Andrew E. Mulberg,Dianne Murphy,Julia Dunne,Lisa L. Mathis

Most medicines have never been adequately tested for safety and efficacy in pediatric populations and preterm, infants and children are particularly vulnerable to adverse drug reactions. Pediatric Drug Development: Concepts and Applications, Second Edition, addresses the unique challenges in conducting effective drug research and development in pediatric populations. This new edition covers the legal and ethical issues of consent and assent, the additional legal and safety protections for children, and the appropriate methods of surveillance and assessment for children of varying ages and maturity, particularly for patient reported outcomes. It includes new developments in biomarkers and surrogate endpoints, developmental pharmacology and other novel aspects of global pediatric drug development. It also encompasses the new regulatory initiatives across EU, US and ROW designed to encourage improved access to safe and effective medicines for children globally. From an international team of expert contributors Pediatric Drug Development: Concepts and Applications is the practical guide to all aspects of the research and development of safe and effective medicines for children.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118312058

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9781118312056

Afterlife Encounters

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experiences

By: Dianne Arcangel

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Afterlife Encounters

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experiences

By: Dianne Arcangel

Never-before-released research proves the dead communicate with us As a former hospice worker and director of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center, Dianne Arcangel was certain that visitations from beyond death provided comfort and hope for loved ones still grappling with their loss. As a researcher, however, she was unable to find specific data to measure that comfort and hope. To remedy this lack of information, she created the Afterlife Encounters Survey, a five-year, international survival study. Afterlife Encounters reveals the results of this landmark study and, for the first-time, offers a systematic categorization of such encounters, explaining when these encounters are most likely to occur and what type of apparition is likely to appear. Afterlife Encounters presents not only the data, but also the stories beyond the numbers, as friends and family members relate their visitation experiences in their own words. Included are amazing stories of the dead returning to tell loved ones that they had been murdered and who it was that killed them; apparitions revealing where family treasure was buried; even one spirit who provided a remarkable account of the tragedies of 9/11—weeks before those events occurred. The stats and stories that Arcangel shares are certain to stay with you for a long time, as will her eye-opening conclusion: afterlife encounters provide real, lasting comfort and hope to an astounding 97 percent of those loved ones who experience them.

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Hampton Roads Publishing

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1612830862

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9781612830865

The Musty Old Magical Curiosity Shop

By: Dianne Carol Sudron

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The Musty Old Magical Curiosity Shop

By: Dianne Carol Sudron

A fantastical children’s story based around the Laugherty family and the adventures they have when visiting the Musty Old Magical Curiosity Shop, which sells anything that anybody wants. “The shopkeeper looked very strange to Miles. He was wearing a pointed purple hat decorated with stars that twinkled like real stars. His eyes were piercing like X-rays. They went right through Miles’s body and made him feel as though the man knew everything from A to Z.” Mabble Merlin turns out to be the wildest, wackiest, most wizardly shopkeeper you could ever hope to meet, and everything in his shop is odd and magical.

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Andrews UK Limited

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0722352387

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9780722352380

Victorian Vogue

British Novels on Screen

By: Dianne F. Sadoff

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Victorian Vogue

British Novels on Screen

By: Dianne F. Sadoff

Ranging from cinematic images of Jane Austen's estates to Oscar Wilde's drawing rooms, Dianne F. Sadoff looks at popular heritage films, often featuring Hollywood stars, that have been adapted from nineteenth-century novels. Victorian Vogue argues that heritage films perform different cultural functions at key historical moments in the twentieth century. According to Sadoff, they are characterized by a double historical consciousness-one that is as attentive to the concerns of the time of production as to those of the Victorian period. If James Whale's Frankenstein and Tod Browning's Dracula exploited post-Depression fear in the 1930s, the horror films of the 1950s used the genre to explore homosexual panic, 1970s movies elaborated the sexuality only hinted at in the thirties, and films of the 1990s indulged the pleasures of consumption. Taking a broad view of the relationships among film, literature, and current events, Sadoff contrasts films not merely with their nineteenth-century source novels but with crucial historical moments in the twentieth century, showing their cultural use in interpreting the present, not just the past.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816660913

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9780816660919

Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis

With R and GGobi

By: Dianne Cook,Deborah F. Swayne

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Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis

With R and GGobi

By: Dianne Cook,Deborah F. Swayne

This book is about using interactive and dynamic plots on a computer screen as part of data exploration and modeling, both alone and as a partner with static graphics and non-graphical computational methods. The area of int- active and dynamic data visualization emerged within statistics as part of research on exploratory data analysis in the late 1960s, and it remains an active subject of research today, as its use in practice continues to grow. It now makes substantial contributions within computer science as well, as part of the growing ?elds of information visualization and data mining, especially visual data mining. The material in this book includes: • An introduction to data visualization, explaining how it di?ers from other types of visualization. • Adescriptionofourtoolboxofinteractiveanddynamicgraphicalmethods. • An approach for exploring missing values in data. • An explanation of the use of these tools in cluster analysis and supervised classi?cation. • An overview of additional material available on the web. • A description of the data used in the analyses and exercises. The book’s examples use the software R and GGobi. R (Ihaka & Gent- man 1996, RDevelopment CoreTeam2006) isafreesoftware environment for statistical computing and graphics; it is most often used from the command line, provides a wide variety of statistical methods, and includes high–quality staticgraphics.RaroseintheStatisticsDepartmentoftheUniversityofAu- land and is now developed and maintained by a global collaborative e?ort.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387717617

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9780387717616

Quicklet on Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

By: Dianne Baublitz Copans

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Quicklet on Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

By: Dianne Baublitz Copans

Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick! This Hyperink Quicklet includes an overall summary, chapter commentary, key characters, literary themes, fun trivia, and recommended related readings. ABOUT THE BOOK When I was nine years old, my mother gave me a copy of Black Beauty, the story of a lovable, loyal horse, for Christmas. My imagination was captured by Sewell’s portrayal of a devoted relationship between a horse and his master, and I fantasized about riding and caring for such a beautiful creature someday. Inspired by the book, my brother and I made up a new game: we pretended our bicycles were horses. Mine was named Beauty and my brother named his Merrylegs, after Black Beauty’s friend, the pony. We would leave the house in the morning and pedal to a nearby stream, all the way whinnying and neighing like horses, and giggling ‘til we almost fell off the saddle. Now my brother is gone, and so are our rusty old bikes. But the memories of Black Beauty, my favorite childhood book, will always remain in my heart. MEET THE AUTHOR Dianne is a freelance writer and editor. She is a member of Marin branch of the the California Writers Club and the North Bay Writers Group. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK It’s been one hundred and twenty-five years since the first publication of Black Beauty in 1877, published by Jarold and Sons, a London book publisher. The publisher paid twenty pounds with no provisions for royalties. How sweet it would be if Anna Sewell had lived to know that her “little book” became the most beloved children’s animal story of all time. While there are many descriptions of the cover of the early first editions, the original one is said to have been bound in red, blue or green cloth, and beautifully decorated with a drawing of a horse’s head with bridle and rein. The title is printed in capital letters above the horse’s head. Framing the horse and serving as a border is a golden oat plant intertwined among the slats of a trellis. With forty million copies sold, Black Beauty is said to be the number one best-selling work of fiction written in the English language. It has since been translated into numerous languages including French, German and Italian... Buy a copy to keep reading!

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Hyperink Inc

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1614648344

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Y-u-r: Your Universal Reality

A Road Map to Discovering Who You Were Meant to Be

By: Dianne Mccaughey, Ph.d.

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Y-u-r: Your Universal Reality

A Road Map to Discovering Who You Were Meant to Be

By: Dianne Mccaughey, Ph.d.

We all have choices in life. When faced with adversity, we can either choose to sit back and let it damage us spiritually, emotionally, and physically, or we can take our power back and use it to become the person we were meant to be. Y-U-R, Your Universal Reality gives you a roadmap of life's journeys and will help you address questions about the origins of your own unique coming into being. Personal wellness consultant Dianne McCaughey, Ph.D., gives you the spiritual, intellectual, and psychological tools necessary to deal with the ups and downs of life including scientific research, personal experiences, and insights. Dr. McCaughey reveals how various methods of discipline and parenting cause us to be who we are and focuses on how genes, lifestyle, and our environment within the womb also create a piece to the puzzle of our existence. In addition, she discusses birth order, our gender, and the gender of our siblings to show the impact on our inner child, which is often "wounded." It is the healing of this inner child that paves the way to awakening. This passage toward wisdom and enlightenment is a dynamic, continual realization of oneself. Y-U-R, Your Universal Reality will inspire and motivate you to seek your personal truth. Let the journey begin!

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iUniverse

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1450220053

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9781450220057

The Managed Care Answer Book for Mental Health Professionals

By: Gayle McCracken Tuttle,Dianne Rush Woods

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The Managed Care Answer Book for Mental Health Professionals

By: Gayle McCracken Tuttle,Dianne Rush Woods

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0876308485

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9780876308486

Organisational Change

Development and Transformation

By: Dianne Waddell,Andrew Creed,Thomas G. Cummings,Christopher G. Worley

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Organisational Change

Development and Transformation

By: Dianne Waddell,Andrew Creed,Thomas G. Cummings,Christopher G. Worley

Change Management is a crucial process for gaining the competitive advantage that is the goal of many organisations. Leaders and change agents are often faced with conflicting challenges of motivating and understanding increasingly diverse workforces, accounting to stakeholders and planning for the future in a chaotic environment. Comprising 12 chapters in 6 parts, the text opens with an explanation of the environment of change faced by organisations today. It then deals with managing organisational development, which is a planned process of change which is often subject to the incursions of organisational transformation, a more dramatic and unpredictable type of change. With the field of organisational change continuing to evolve, especially in an international context, future directions of change management are also discussed. Finally, to emphasise the relationship between theory to practice, Organisational Change: Development and Transformation 6e provides 10 local and international case studies and a suite of online cases supported by a case matrix. Case studies, exercises and support material present the challenges of change management in a real-life manner - examining issues from a variety of viewpoints.

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0170366685

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The Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project

A Framework for Success

By: Katherine J. Moran,Dianne Conrad,Rosanne Burson

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The Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project

A Framework for Success

By: Katherine J. Moran,Dianne Conrad,Rosanne Burson

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project: A Framework for Success, Second Edition focuses on assisting students and faculty with creating a system for the completion of the DNP scholarly project.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1284117472

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When He Came Home

The Impact of War on Partners and Children of Veterans

By: Dianne Dempsey

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When He Came Home

The Impact of War on Partners and Children of Veterans

By: Dianne Dempsey

When the Vietnam War veterans returned home to Australia, neither the veterans nor their partners were aware of the atrocious psychological harm with which they had been afflicted. Post-traumatic stress disorder had not yet been recognised and as the men fell victim to terrible moods and illnesses, they capitulated to their pain and isolated themselves and their families. With great courage and without recognition, veterans’ wives held their families together in the face of government and community indifference and did so for decades. When He Came Home is a belated recognition of these women, and it also focuses on how the issues of PTSD and suicide affect veterans who participate in contemporary conflicts. Told within an informed historical context and employing intimate narrative interviews, this important book examines the unexamined: how so many families have been brought to their knees and how such suffering can be prevented.

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Australian Scholarly Publishing

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1922454664

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Juliet in August

By: Dianne Warren

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Juliet in August

By: Dianne Warren

In her luminous debut novel, acclaimed writer Dianne Warren captures the honesty of the human spirit and the quest for companionship… Juliet is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of town—a dusty oasis on the edge of a vast stretch of sand. It’s easy to believe nothing of consequence happens here, but the hills vibrate with the rich stories of its people: Lee, a rancher afraid to accept responsibility for the land his adoptive parents left him; Norval, the bank manager forced to foreclose on his neighbors; Willard and Marian, a shy couple beyond middle age, fumbling with the recognition of their feelings for each other; Vicki, a mother of six struggling to keep her chaotic household afloat. And somewhere, lost in the sand, a camel named Antoinette. Juliet in August unfolds over the course of just one night and day in the lives of its characters. Their stories intersect and overlap as the entire spectrum of human comedy and heartbreak is refracted through their little struggles and deeper concerns. With wit, thoughtfulness, and unforgettable characters, Juliet in August confirms Dianne Warren as a powerful new talent.

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110158730X

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Westbrook on the Presumpscot

By: The Westbrook History 2000 Committee,Dianne LeConte

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Westbrook on the Presumpscot

By: The Westbrook History 2000 Committee,Dianne LeConte

Life is always changing by the falling waters of the Presumpscot. This new photographic history compiled by the members of the Westbrook History 2000 Committee brings to life the deep heritage of an area that has gained strength and spirit from the river that flows through it. Over time, the river has been used as a source of food, recreation, and power for mills. Sadly, it has also been abused with overuse and pollution. It is now being slowly restored, through legislation, modern technology, and human consideration. This book takes readers on a journey into the days when steamers plied the Presumpscot and life was a bit quieter. From Cumberland Mills and Highland Lake to Duck Pond and Prides' Corner, we view turn-of-the-century schools, homes, trolleys, street scenes, parades, and festivals. We also see where some of Westbrook's earliest residents lived and worked. Images of Frenchtown, Irish Hill, and Scotch Hill vividly show what life was like for the laborers and mill workers in the S.D. Warren and Dana Warp Mills.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738589691

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Education, Extremism and Terrorism

What Should be Taught in Citizenship Education and Why

By: Dianne Gereluk

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Education, Extremism and Terrorism

What Should be Taught in Citizenship Education and Why

By: Dianne Gereluk

The terrorist attacks in the USA and UK on 9/11 and 7/7, and subsequent media coverage, have resulted in a heightened awareness of extremists and terrorists. Should educators be exploring terrorism and extremism within their classrooms? If so, what should they be teaching, and how? Dianne Gereluk draws together the diverging opinions surrounding these debates, exploring and critiquing the justifications used for why these issues should be addressed in schools. She goes on to consider the ways in which educators should teach these topics, providing practical suggestions. Education, Extremism and Terrorism is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate education students looking to engage with the philosophical, sociological and political issues that are central to this debate.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441127860

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Ladd Haven

By: Dianne Venetta

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Ladd Haven

By: Dianne Venetta

When Troy Parker returns home, a pregnant Casey Owens rejects him outright asserting he lost his right to honesty when he abandoned her to pursue his fortune in Kentucky. Jimmy Sweeney, friend and ally to Casey, never cared for Troy and is more than willing to take part in her deception. Jack Foster has a few tricks of his own, beginning with reconciling his daughter Felicity Wilkins with the Foster family. Her mother, Delaney Wilkins, wants nothing to do with family reunions, knowing some relations are best left buried. But as time passes, lies unravel. Casey can no longer deny her feelings for Troy and confronts him about the pregnancy. Felicity is doing some confronting of her own now that she’s learned a disturbing truth. Yet it’s Delaney's confession that causes families to collide as folks take sides, shattering both past and future generations, ensnaring Casey and Felicity in painful complications for which neither is prepared... Family feuds run deep and wide, threatening even the most solid of unions. Find out who survives the perils in this chapter of Ladd Springs…

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BloominThyme Press

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0988487179

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House That Santa Built, The

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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House That Santa Built, The

By: Dianne de Las Casas

This merry take on The House That Jack Built features a mouse, elf, reindeer, and much more. Young readers can get in on the act thanks to sound prompts such as "squeak," "stomp," and "jingle.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1455617504

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Herspace

Women, Writing, and Solitude

By: J Dianne Garner,Victoria Boynton,Jo Malin

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Women, Writing, and Solitude

By: J Dianne Garner,Victoria Boynton,Jo Malin

This collection delves deeply into the power of solitude in a richly detailed exploration of the lives of women writers! The essays in this fascinating volume combine literary theory, autobiography, performance, and criticism, while opening minds and expanding concepts of women's roles both in the home and within academia along the way. Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude begins with a discussion of the importance of solitude to the works of a variety of writers, including Margaret Atwood, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, and Zora Neale Hurston, and then moves on to an examination of the actual solitary spaces of women writers. The book concludes with the stories of modern women asserting their right to a space of their own. These essays, full of pain and new growth, lessons learned and battles fought, resound with the honesty and courage the authors have found in the process of truly making their own homes. Herspace examines: the stereotyped spinster solitude as a process and a journey women's prison literature cars, empty nests, kitchen counters, and other found spaces for writing the meaning of a home of one's own creating beauty in solitary settings Contributors to Herspace have made a conscious effort to integrate the personal with the academic, and the result is a volume of surprising intimacy, a window into the world of women writers past and present actively engaging solitude. From finding and defining the muse to the identity issues of home ownership, Herspace, which includes Jan Wellington's essay “What to Make of Missing Children (A Life Slipping into Fiction),” (winner of the 2003 NCTE Donald Murray Prize for “the best creative essay about teaching and/or writing published during the preceding year”) provides you with the perspectives of women who are living these issues. As the editors write: “The solitary space itself enables the writing process, protects it. And women, more than men, need this enabling protection. Women need to claim their own space, to bargain and plan and keep out of sight that solitary space in which to commune with their thoughts and feelings, to experience their creative process intimately.” Herspace explores these women's experiences, revealing the unique creativity that comes from solitude.

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1317719026

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