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A Legacy of Exploitation

Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763–1821

By: Susan Dianne Brophy

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A Legacy of Exploitation

Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763–1821

By: Susan Dianne Brophy

The Red River Colony was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s first planned settlement. As a settler-colonial project par excellence, it was designed to undercut Indigenous peoples’ “troublesome” autonomy and curtain the company’s dependency on their labour. In this critical re-evaluation of the history of the Red River Colony, Susan Dianne Brophy upends standard accounts by foregrounding Indigenous producers as a driving force of change. A Legacy of Exploitation challenges the enduring yet misleading fantasy of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers, showing how autonomy can become distorted as complicity in processes of dispossession.

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UBC Press

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0774866381

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9780774866385

City Girl Goes Bush

An Eleven Year Odyssey

By: Dianne Cramer

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City Girl Goes Bush

An Eleven Year Odyssey

By: Dianne Cramer

City Girl Goes Bush: An Eleven Year Odyssey tells the story of a young girl whose deepest desire was to live in Central Australia on an outback station, which she did from early 1955 until the end of 1965.

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Balboa Press

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1504311809

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9781504311809

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

Climate Activism in the 21st Century

By: Dianne Rahm

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Climate Activism in the 21st Century

By: Dianne Rahm

The ravages of climate change emerged as a central issue in the 21st century. In the U.S., the political divide over climate change and how to confront it expanded. While Democrats became increasingly determined to join international efforts led by the United Nations to combat climate change, Republicans largely balked. The country embraced climate leadership when led by Obama and Biden but when led by Bush and Trump, a rebuff ensued. Those opposing climate action included the fossil fuel industries and others that sought to profit from the status quo. Climate crisis activism of the 21st century is the story of the tension between those wishing to continue business as usual and those seeing their futures directly impacted by such choices and demanding climate justice. This is a guide to understanding climate policy and activism, highlighting the participants, the progression of environmental science, and the pendulum of national policy under changing parties in power.

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McFarland

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1476650683

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9781476650685

The Other World

By: Joseph N. Weatherby,Craig Arceneaux,Emmit B. Evans,Dianne Long,Ira Reed,Olga D. Carter

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The Other World

By: Joseph N. Weatherby,Craig Arceneaux,Emmit B. Evans,Dianne Long,Ira Reed,Olga D. Carter

The Other World combines a thematic and area studies approach to explore contemporary global issues in the developing world. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this text offers political, economic, social, and historical analysis plus case studies on Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia and the Southern Near Abroad, and Asia. Highlighting similarities and differences among these regions and focusing on enduring problems, The Other World is a practical look at the issues affecting the majority of the world's population.

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Routledge

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1317343107

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9781317343103

Imperial spaces

Placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia

By: Lindsay Proudfoot,Dianne Hall

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Imperial spaces

Placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia

By: Lindsay Proudfoot,Dianne Hall

Imperial spaces takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire – the Irish and the Scots – and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. Using letters and diaries as well as records of collective activities such as committee meetings, parades and dinners, the book examines how the Irish and Scots built new identities as settlers in the unknown spaces of Empire. Utilizing critical geographical theories of ‘place’ as the site of memory and agency, it considers how Irish and Scots settlers grounded their sense of belonging in the imagined landscapes of south-east Australia. Imperial spaces is relevant to academics and students interested in the history and geography of the British Empire, Australia, Ireland and Scotland.

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Manchester University Press

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1847797245

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9781847797247

Three Eyes for the Journey

African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience

By: Dianne M. Stewart

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Three Eyes for the Journey

African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience

By: Dianne M. Stewart

Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed new religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation. She examines the African-derived and African-centered traditions in historical and contemporary Jamaica: Myal, Obeah, Native Baptist, Revival/Zion, Kumina, and Rastafari, and draws on them to forge a new womanist liberation theology for the Caribbean.

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Oxford University Press

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0198039085

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9780198039082

Internationalism

By: Dianne L. Durante,Jennifer L. Weber

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Internationalism

By: Dianne L. Durante,Jennifer L. Weber

Alphabetic entries explore the key issues and events that have caused the United States to alter its insular foreign policy.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438130627

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Women, Families, and Feminist Politics

A Global Exploration

By: J Dianne Garner,Suzanne Cherrin

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Women, Families, and Feminist Politics

A Global Exploration

By: J Dianne Garner,Suzanne Cherrin

Women and their roles within families must be understood within the context of ethnic traditions, religion, and culture. Women, Families, and Feminist Politics: A Global Exploration combines all of these aspects to evaluate the similarities and differences of women around the world. Readers will learn about diverse theories relating to women and their familial roles, the different categories of feminism, and how cultures and ethnic traditions shape and sometimes restrict a woman’s identity. Using feminist and sociocultural theories to critically examine the role of adult women within their families, Women, Families, and Feminist Politics offers ideas and suggestions on what has to be done in order for all of women’s experiences and concerns to be valued and looked upon as important. In addition to providing you with an understanding of how customs and cultures contribute to societal standards set for women, Women, Families, and Feminist Politics discusses several factors that contribute to the formation of women’s roles and identity, including: the economic situation of the family and the country in which the woman lives (a developed or developing country) cultural diversity in monogamous heterosexual marriage relations and specific marriage traditions, such as dowries family structures, such as nonnuclear, extended, polygamous, mixed religion relationships, mixed race relationships, or same-sex relationships reproduction and sexual standards in relation to religion, government policies, and world population gender equity in the workplace and programs for women in global development the health care needs of women and how they vary depending on culture, political philosophies, and resources women and violence in societal and family contexts, from war rapes, female circumcision, and footbinding to battery and sexual harassment Women, Families, and Feminist Politics looks at the daily challenges and concerns of adult women within the context of family to help you understand the different needs of women in relation to their culture and ethnic background. Focusing on the importance of views concerning the meaning of women’s social status, power, and success, Women, Families, and Feminist Politics contains case studies and statistical data that identify critical issues pertaining to you personally and to all women throughout the world. By understanding how women’s families help shape their identities, you will be able to learn about the vast experiences of women and the inequalities we have yet to overcome.

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Routledge

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1317790251

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9781317790259

Men Who Made Labour

By: Alan Haworth,Dianne Hayter

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Men Who Made Labour

By: Alan Haworth,Dianne Hayter

Celebrating the centenary of the Parliamentary Labour Party, this fascinating book commemorates the twenty-nine founding Labour MPs elected in 1906, including Labour’s first Prime Minister, first Chancellor of the Exchequer, first Minister of Labour, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. With a foreword by Tony Blair, Men Who Made Labour focuses on the pioneers’ origins, expectations, world vision and achievements in the context of early twentieth-century conditions, when the prospect of any Labour government was still a distant dream. Drawing upon a vast array of previously unpublished material, and with obituaries primarily written by the twenty-first century successors to those original MPs, the text provides a unique insight into how today’s politicians view their party’s past – ensuring that it is an excellent resource for all politics and modern history students, as well as general readers with an interest in the area.

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1135390487

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Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education

Counternarratives for Racial Justice

By: Dianne Ramdeholl,Jaye Jones

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Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education

Counternarratives for Racial Justice

By: Dianne Ramdeholl,Jaye Jones

This book chronicles the experiences of faculty at predominantly white higher education institutions (PWI) by centering voices of racialized faculty across North America. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and critical, feminist, and auto-ethnographic approaches, the text analyzes those narratives, situating people’s words in a landscape of institutionalized racism within higher education. In order to support newer under-represented faculty, administrators committed to supporting faculty, and doctoral students interested in a future in higher education, the book offers strategies and implications for institutional reform and anti-racist faculty organizing/survival in academia. Despite claims by university administrations about commitments to diversity, this book demonstrates otherwise, offering counter-narratives from racialized faculty members who share their struggles.

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1000559254

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Van Diemen's Women

A History of Transportation to Tasmania

By: Joan Kavanagh,Dianne Snowden

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Van Diemen's Women

A History of Transportation to Tasmania

By: Joan Kavanagh,Dianne Snowden

On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death, and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow. Using original records, this study reveals the reality of transportation, together with the legacy left by these women in Tasmania and beyond, and shows that perhaps, for some, this Draconian punishment was, in fact, a life-saving measure.

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The History Press

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0750966661

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9780750966665

Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan

A Historical Guide

By: Dianne L. Durante

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Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan

A Historical Guide

By: Dianne L. Durante

Stop, look, and discover—the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the 54 monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as the icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French’s Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington’s José Martí and Joan of Arc. Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are considered both as historical mementos and as art. We learn of furious General Sherman court-martialing a civilian journalist, and also of exasperated Saint Gaudens’ proposing a hook-and-spring device for improving his assistants' artistic acuity as they help model Sherman. We discover how Lincoln dealt with a vociferous Confederate politician from Ohio, and why the Lincoln in Union Square doesn't rank as a top-notch Lincoln portrait. Sidebars reveal other aspects of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz. As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. As an aesthetic handbook it provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand’s writings on art. For residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery.

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NYU Press

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0814719872

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9780814719879

Liberty Street

A Novel

By: Dianne Warren

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Liberty Street

A Novel

By: Dianne Warren

A deeply affecting novel about the truths we avoid and the bad choices that come back to haunt us. Gridlocked in the churchyard of a small Irish town, the traffic frozen in place for a funeral, Frances Moon pauses long enough to make a confession to Ian, her partner of nearly twenty years. The next morning, she finds he has left her. Unsure what else to do, Frances sets out for Elliot, the small town in western Canada where she grew up. As the perspective shifts backward, cruel students and unsympathetic teachers await a young Frances beyond the borders of her family’s quiet farm. Curious, imaginative, and lost, she finds comfort in two outsiders, the troubled local boy, Dooley Sullivan, and a decorated Native American World War Two veteran named Silas Chance. But ever present, splitting the narrative apart, is a small town that will close ranks, turning a blind eye when one of them is killed. The crime, itself, and the denial that follows, takes both Silas and Dooley from Frances in different ways. By high school, she’s become the girl most likely to disappoint, and at eighteen is already headed toward a disastrous marriage. Even after she shakes off the dust of the town and flees her husband, even as she builds a new life, she buries her past so deeply that she believes she has lost it. Until one day in an Irish churchyard, it all comes sweeping back. And so begins an unforgettable novel of lost souls and second acts.

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Penguin

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0399185232

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9780399185236

Shadow's Fall

By: Dianne Sylvan

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Shadow's Fall

By: Dianne Sylvan

For three years, Miranda Grey-Solomon has kept her role as Vampire Queen of the South separate from her Grammy-winning music career. But now, her dual lives are starting to collide, threatening everything Miranda and David, her Prime, have worked for. The entire Signet Council has descended upon Austin for its ten-year summit, bringing with it Prime James Hart of the Northeast, a sworn enemy come to take his revenge on those who defied him. But Miranda and David receive an unexpected offer of help from David's sire, an ancient and powerful vampire with knowledge that may be their salvation--or their doom.

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Penguin

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1101561203

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Forever and Beyond

A Novel

By: Dianne Wilson Elliott

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Forever and Beyond

A Novel

By: Dianne Wilson Elliott

Katie OMalley is a free-spirited, artsy, red-haired beauty who is about to graduate from Columbia University. But when her parents, John and Mary OMalley, die in a tragic plane crash, Katies life becomes very complicated. First, she learns the plane crash was no accident; her uncle paid someone to tamper with the fuel gauge. And, she certainly didnt expect to lose her heart to the handsome young priest, Andrew Jackson, who comforted her during her time of loss and grief. Nor did she expect to have her feelings returned by the good father. A file in her fathers desk reveals the biggest surprise of all. Its a surprise that rocks Katies world and takes her far from the bright lights of New York City to an unknown future on The Outer Banks of North Carolina. As she searches for answers, Katie wonders if her fathers hidden past will be the key to the future she has always longed for. Other uncertainties plague Katies future. Will Father Andrew Jackson leave the life of a priest and follow his heart back to her? Or will Katie find a new love in the sleepy little village of Buxton, North Carolina?

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iUniverse

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1440148716

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9781440148712

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

Uneven Roads

An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics

By: Todd Shaw,Louis DeSipio,Dianne Pinderhughes,Lorrie Frasure,Toni-Michelle C. Travis

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Uneven Roads

An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics

By: Todd Shaw,Louis DeSipio,Dianne Pinderhughes,Lorrie Frasure,Toni-Michelle C. Travis

Uneven Roads helps students grasp how, when, and why race and ethnicity matter in U.S. politics. Using the metaphor of a road, with twists, turns, and dead ends, this incisive text takes students on a journey to understanding political racialization and the roots of modern interpretations of race and ethnicity. The book’s structure and narrative are designed to encourage comparison and reflection. Students critically analyze the history and context of U.S. racial and ethnic politics to build the skills needed to draw their own conclusions. In the Third Edition of this groundbreaking text, authors Shaw, DeSipio, Pinderhughes, Frasure, and Travis bring the historical narrative to life by addressing the most contemporary debates and challenges affecting U.S. racial and ethnic politics. Students will explore important issues regarding voting rights, political representation, education and criminal justice policies, and the immigrant experience.

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CQ Press

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1071824589

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9781071824580

Continuations to Sidney's Arcadia, 1607-1867, Volume 2

By: Marea Mitchell,Ann Lange,Dianne Osland

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Continuations to Sidney's Arcadia, 1607-1867, Volume 2

By: Marea Mitchell,Ann Lange,Dianne Osland

Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia has held a significant place in literary imagination since its inception over 430 years ago. Our four-volume set presents five re-imaginings of the text, as well as two short supplements that attempt to bridge the gap between Sidney’s original and revised versions of the work.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040233473

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Blogger Bundle Volume IV: WeWriteRomance.com's Reviewers' Top Picks

By: Stephanie Doyle,Dianne Castell,Debra Webb,Lucy Monroe

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Blogger Bundle Volume IV: WeWriteRomance.com's Reviewers' Top Picks

By: Stephanie Doyle,Dianne Castell,Debra Webb,Lucy Monroe

Every now and then a book that comes along that stands out from all the rest. For the reviewers of WeWriteRomance.com, these four stories did just that and earned top ratings as some of the most unique, sensual and captivating romances they've ever read! Find out what had the reviewers raving in this selection of WeWriteRomance.com's favorite Harlequin novels. Bundle includes: The Contestant by Stephanie Doyle, A Fabulous Wedding by Dianne Castell, Agent Cowboy by Debra Webb and Wedding Vow of Revenge by Lucy Monroe.

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Harlequin

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1426850778

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9781426850776

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

Colour, Confusion & Concessions (Second Edition)

The History of the Chinese in South Africa

By: Melanie Yap,Dianne Leong Man

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Colour, Confusion & Concessions (Second Edition)

The History of the Chinese in South Africa

By: Melanie Yap,Dianne Leong Man

For more than 300 years Chinese have been part of the fascinating mix of people who make up the inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa. One of the smallest and most identifiable minority groups in arguably the most race-conscious country in the world, they have not up to now been the focus of serious historical attention. This detailed and descriptive chronological account aims to fill a gap in available histories by providing a comprehensive record of the Chinese in South Africa from the earliest times to the mid-1990s.

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The Chinese Association (Gauteng)

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0639797385

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9780639797380

Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects

American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940

By: Dianne Sachko Macleod

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Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects

American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940

By: Dianne Sachko Macleod

This insightful and beautifully illustrated book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. Dianne Sachko Macleod brings a surprising paradox to light, showing that collecting, which provided wealthy women with a private sense of solace, also liberated them to venture into the public sphere and make a lasting contribution to the emerging American culture. Beginning in the antebellum period, continuing through the Gilded Age, and reaching well into the twentieth century, Macleod shows how elite women enlisted the objets d'art and avant-garde paintings in their collections in causes ranging from the founding of modern museums to the campaign for women's suffrage.

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Univ of California Press

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0520237293

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9780520237292

Nine and Counting

The Women of the Senate

By: Barbara Boxer,Susan Collins,Dianne Feinstein,The USA Girl Scouts of,Whitney Catherine

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Nine and Counting

The Women of the Senate

By: Barbara Boxer,Susan Collins,Dianne Feinstein,The USA Girl Scouts of,Whitney Catherine

The Women of the United States Senate have forever changed the political landscape. Their backgrounds, personal styles, and political ideals may be as diverse as the nation they serve. Yet they share a commonality that runs deeper than politics or geography -- they desire to give a voice to all their constituents while serving as role models for women young and old. Once every month, these distinguished women for an informal dinner to share their knowledge, their hearts, and a good meal. Leaving behind partisanship and rhetoric, they discuss and debate the issues, both political and personal, affecting their lives. And following the 2000 election of four women to the Senate, the table is now set for thirteen. Weaving together their individual stories of triumph, adversity, adaptability, and leadership, Nine and Counting gives voice to these charismatic women as never before, offering a rare, insider's glimpse into Washington and sending the powerful message that membership in the "world's most exclusive club" is open to every woman in America.

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Harper Collins

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0060957069

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9780060957063

Climate Change Policy in the United States

The Science, the Politics and the Prospects for Change

By: Dianne Rahm

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Climate Change Policy in the United States

The Science, the Politics and the Prospects for Change

By: Dianne Rahm

This overview of global warming and its human causes examines the international agreements regarding climate change and the U.S. response to those agreements, as well as key provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, to explain the difficulties of any subsequent treaties. Framing the scientific debate against moral, ethical, and religious considerations, the book offers potential solutions. The book includes seven maps and tables, notes, bibliography, and index.

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McFarland

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0786458011

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9780786458011

Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies

Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition

By: J Dianne Garner,Carolyn Z Enns

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Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies

Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition

By: J Dianne Garner,Carolyn Z Enns

An updated, reader-friendly guide to feminist theory and therapy! Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies: Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition examines major feminist theoretical perspectives and links them to practical applications of feminist therapy. This book focuses on the evolution of feminist therapy and how histor

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Routledge

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1136785124

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Shadowbound

By: Dianne Sylvan

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Shadowbound

By: Dianne Sylvan

Spread throughout the dark corners of our world lies the Shadow World, a society of vampires who feed off the living. In Austin, Texas, one woman must quell the cravings rising within her, as the very fate of the world rests in her hands… Ever since her Prime, David Solomon, returned from the dead, Miranda Grey has been hungry. The transformation from ordinary vampires into the ultrapowerful children of Persephone has left both Miranda and David craving the taste of death—and their appetites are growing. Meanwhile, a formerly vague threat from a fringe group of humans has turned into a full-on war. The Order of the Morningstar has devoted itself to eradicating vampires and has begun to assassinate Primes all over the globe. The Shadow World’s fate depends on the Circle of Signets descended from those who subdued Morningstar hundreds of years ago—but if even a single one is killed, the war is almost certainly lost. Now, with the help of a strange new ally, Miranda must put aside her hunger and access long-forgotten magic to save the Circle, but time is running out…

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Old Dualities

Deconstructing Robert Kroetsch and His Critics

By: Dianne Tiefensee

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Old Dualities

Deconstructing Robert Kroetsch and His Critics

By: Dianne Tiefensee

Tiefensee contends that Kroetsch and his critics have, to some degree, misunderstood the implications of Derrida's "deconstruction" and adhere to a Bloomian "misreading" which is firmly grounded in traditional philosophy. She addresses the metaphysical presuppositions that govern Kroetsch's criticism, literary theory, and novels and considers the extent to which his theoretical pronouncements have determined his critics' readings of his work, concluding that Kroetsch reaffirms the very values, conventions, and attitudes he claims to resist.

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0773564748

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Explorer's Guide Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach & Florida's Space Coast: A Great Destination (Second Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations)

By: Dianne Marcum

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Explorer's Guide Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach & Florida's Space Coast: A Great Destination (Second Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations)

By: Dianne Marcum

Explore Brevard County with this updated edition of the definitive guidebook to the area. Visitors and residents alike will enjoy exploring Brevard County, a recreational paradise where the high-tech space program exists alongside amazing natural areas like the Indian River Lagoon estuary—the most diverse marine estuary in the U.S. Comprehensive listings make this your most informative and entertaining vacation-planning tool.

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The Countryman Press

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1581579365

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9781581579369

Embracing Vocation

Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974

By: Dianne C. Luce

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Embracing Vocation

Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974

By: Dianne C. Luce

Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthy Devotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be invaluable to scholars and literary critics—and to the many fans—interested in his work. Dianne C. Luce, a foundational scholar of McCarthy's writing, through extensive archival research, examines the first fifteen years of his career and his earliest novels. Novel by novel, Luce traces each book's evolution. In the process she unveils McCarthy's working processes as well as his personal, literary, and professional influences, highlighting his ferocious devotion to both his craft and burgeoning art. Luce invites us to see the fascinating evolution of an American author with a unique vision all his own. Until there is a full-on biography, this study, along with Luce's previous, Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period, is the finest available portrait of an American genius unfolding.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643363565

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9781643363561

Janice Holt Giles

A Writer's Life

By: Dianne W. Stuart

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Janice Holt Giles

A Writer's Life

By: Dianne W. Stuart

In 1946, at the age of 41, Janice Holt Giles wrote her first novel. Although it took her only three months to complete the first draft, working at night so as not to conflict with her secretarial job, it was another four years before The Enduring Hills was published. Three years later, when her sixth novel appeared, Janice Holt Giles's works had accumulated sales of nearly two million copies. Between 1950 and 1975 she wrote twenty-four books, most of which were bestsellers, regularly reviewed in the New York Times, and selected for inclusion in popular book clubs. Her picture held pride of place in her literary agent's New York office, alongside those of Willa Cather, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton, yet until now there has been no biography of this immensely popular American writer. Humbly professing to be "just a good storyteller," Giles was a keen observer of life with great sensitivity, an ear for language, and a superb imagination. Her artistic achievements become even more remarkable when placed in the context of her often difficult personal struggles. Dianne Watkins Stuart, for years the acknowledged expert on Giles's work, has traced the path of her unique life. Stuart walked around the small house where Giles's brother was born and The Kinta Years (1973) had its origin, wandered through the yard where The Plum Thicket (1954) grew, and made countless trips to Adair County, Kentucky, to trace the trails of the Piney Ridge trilogy (The Enduring Hills, Miss Willie, Tara's Healing) and seek out the day-to-day life of her later years. Stuart's long-anticipated biography provides both a narrative of Giles's life and an in-depth description of the art and commerce of American publishing in the middle years of the century.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813184541

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9780813184548

The Loyalty Advantage

Essential Steps to Energize Your Company, Your Customers, Your Brand

By: Dianne M. Durkin

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The Loyalty Advantage

Essential Steps to Energize Your Company, Your Customers, Your Brand

By: Dianne M. Durkin

Case studies from some of America's most-admired and best-managed companies - including Amgen, Best Buy, Green Mountain Coffee, KitchenAid, Kronos, Southwest Airlines, Tiffany, Timberland, and Whole Foods - illustrate the power of the Loyalty Advantage in action."--BOOK JACKET.

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Amacom Books

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0814408176

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9780814408179

Forest Animals Coloring Book

By: Dianne Gaspas

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Forest Animals Coloring Book

By: Dianne Gaspas

Over 45 accurate depictions of honeybee, black carpenter ant, eastern box turtle, corn snake, luna moth, red fox, other creatures in eastern U.S. and Canada. Identifying captions.

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Courier Corporation

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0486413160

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9780486413167

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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Thinking Reading: What every secondary teacher needs to know about reading

By: Dianne Murphy,James Murphy

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Thinking Reading: What every secondary teacher needs to know about reading

By: Dianne Murphy,James Murphy

Despite the efforts of teachers and educators, every year secondary schools across the English-speaking world turn out millions of functionally illiterate leavers. The costs in human misery and in wasted productivity are catastrophic. What can schools do to prevent this situation? In this highly accessible book James and Dianne Murphy combine more than 50 years of experience to provide teachers with a thorough, easy to use introduction to the extensive research on reading and its effects on student achievement. Drawing on the work of experts from around the world, the authors explore how we learn to read, how the many myths and misconceptions around reading developed, and why they continue to persist.Building on these foundations chapters go on to examine how the general secondary school classroom can support all levels of reading more effectively, regardless of subject; how school leaders can ensure that their systems, practices and school culture deliver the very best literacy provision for all students; and what it takes to ensure that a racing intervention aimed at adolescent struggling readers is truly effective. The overall message of this books is one of great optimism: the authors demonstrate that the right of every child to learn to read is entirely achievable if schools employ the best research-driven practice.

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John Catt

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1914351630

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9781914351631

Race, Ethnicity, and Crime

By: Dianne Williams

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Race, Ethnicity, and Crime

By: Dianne Williams

Melting pot or tossed salad? the U.S. criminal justice system may prove to be fueling intolerance rather than enabling society to accommodate racial and ethnic differences. This fresh new textbook to balance theory and the real world, addressing topics relating to race, ethnicity, criminality and criminalization, looking at the criminal justice system, the media, and the death penalty. In addition to information on crime and incarceration rates, White-collar crime, and the "typical criminal," the discussion of minorities and public perceptions is set within a broader context including the issues of terrorism and human trafficking, where race and ethnicity are also vital to public perceptions. the manual is designed for junior colleges and four year colleges, including those offering distance-learning courses. It is a thought-provoking combination of facts and questions. the pedagogical focus is on collaborative, problem-based learning, with foundational support for the development of critical thinking and analytical skills.

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0875869165

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