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Madison's Angels

By: Elaine Laforge

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Madison's Angels takes place in North Carolina, New Mexico, and Texas. Though the first chapter takes place twenty-seven years ago, the remainder of the story occurs during the current time period. Madison Cavanaugh is the only child of a single mother, Rosemary. When Madison was just an infant, Rosemary traveled from New Mexico to North Carolina with Ray Davis, who was a long-distance truck driver. With no other family, Rosemary is overwhelmed by the generosity and warmth bestowed on them by the Davis family. She and Madison soon become a part of their family. Ray's younger sister, Debbie, is also a single mother raising a daughter named Megan. Rosemary and Debbie become close friends and their two little girls spend their childhood together. Now an ER nurse, Madison recognizes the blood-covered pendant on her critically injured patient as belonging to her mother. When Rosemary dies during surgery and the surgeon explains to Madison that the woman who raised her had never delivered a child, her life is shaken to the core. Madison is determined to find her true identity. Her first step is to travel from North Carolina to New Mexico to locate a priest whose name her mother struggled to say before she died. But the more Madison learns, the deeper and more dangerous her investigation becomes. Elaine LaForge lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York. She is the mother of four and the grandmother of five. Now retired, she has the time to write the novels she has always envisioned in her mind. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/ElaineLaForge

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1625167482

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I Told You This Would Happen

By: Elaine Murphy

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I Told You This Would Happen

By: Elaine Murphy

Elaine Murphy is back with a new thriller that will leave fans of Darcey Bell, B.A. Paris, and Samantha Downing utterly reeling. Carrie’s sister is dead. Four months after losing her sister, Becca—a serial killer unknown to everyone else in their town—Carrie Lawrence is finally free of her manipulative clutches. From now on, she’s keeping her hands clean, no more hiding dead bodies in the middle of the night, no more lies. She’s never been happier. Then she attends a meeting of the Brampton Kill Seekers, a group of amateur local sleuths, and learns that a recent victim left behind a note that incriminates her in their disappearance. All of a sudden, the quiet, law-abiding life she’s been planning starts to unravel. She’s never had so much to lose. In her frantic quest to keep her secret dead and buried, she discovers someone nefarious lurking in the shadows…someone who’ll go to any lengths to bring her dark truths to light. Now if Carrie wants her secrets to stay hidden, she’ll have to get her hands very, very dirty.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1538722070

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Look What You Made Me Do

By: Elaine Murphy

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Look What You Made Me Do

By: Elaine Murphy

A gripping thriller about a woman who must help cover the tracks of her serial killer sister -- only to discover her sibling isn't the only serial killer in town. Carrie wants a normal life. Carrie Lawrence doesn’t need a happily ever after. She’ll just settle for “after.” After a decade of helping her sister hide her victims. After a lifetime of lies. She just wants to be safe, boring, and not trekking through the woods at night with a dead body wrapped in a carpet. Becca wants to get away with murder. Becca Lawrence doesn’t believe in happily ever after because she’s already happy. She’s gotten away with murder for a decade and has blackmailed her sister into helping her hide the evidence—what more could a girl want? But first they have to stop a serial killer. When thirteen bodies are discovered in their small town, people are shocked. But not as shocked as Carrie, who thought she knew all the details of Becca’s sordid pastime. When Becca swears she’s not behind the grisly new crimes, they realize the town has a second serial killer who has the sisters in his sights, and what he wants is . . . Carrie.

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1538704161

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Eyes Off the Prize

The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955

By: Carol Elaine Anderson

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Eyes Off the Prize

The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955

By: Carol Elaine Anderson

This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), sensed the opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in America. The 'prize' they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language and the moral power to address not only the political and legal inequality but also the education, health care, housing, and employment needs that haunted the black community. But the onset of the Cold War and rising anti-communism allowed powerful Southerners to cast those rights as Soviet-inspired. Thus the Civil Rights Movement was launched with neither the language nor the mission it needed to truly achieve black equality.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521531586

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Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools

Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies

By: Elaine K. McEwan

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Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools

Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies

By: Elaine K. McEwan

Strengthen student literacy achievement in middle and high schools! In response to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), raising literacy levels in secondary schools has taken on a new urgency. Recognized literacy author, Elaine K. McEwan, focuses her revised second edition on enhancing the "five big ideas" for raising reading achievement with seven cognitive strategies of highly effective readers and more than twenty research-based "teaching for learning" tips to infuse into daily content instruction. Featuring reflection and discussion questions for reinforcement, this indispensable guide demonstrates how to improve students′ literacy with these five teacher-friendly strategies: Focus on changing what you can change Teach the students who can′t read how to read Teach every student how to read to learn Motivate all students to read more, to read increasingly more challenging books, and to be accountable for what they read Create a reading culture in your school With new programs designed for adolescent learners, this update provides suggestions and developmental tools to effectively strengthen reading curriculum and instruction. Reading specialists, special education teachers, literacy coaches, intervention specialists, and central office administrators can also use this essential tool for evaluating middle and high school reading programs and formulating school and district improvement goals.

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Corwin Press

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1483361810

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101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom

By: Elaine Biech

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101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom

By: Elaine Biech

Fresh, creative strategies guaranteed to enliven online training 101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom provides proven, practical strategies, activities, and tips for those tasked with facilitating training in any subject area among alternative settings. Based on the best-selling Active Training approach, these methods have been designed by recognized experts, and are guaranteed to enliven any learning event. Readers will find a toolkit of ready-to-use exercises and tips for organizing, conducting, and delivering active learning, in alternative settings on the job or around the world. The book is organized in a way that allows trainers to quickly and easily identify strategies that hold the most promise for specific situations. Each strategy is illustrated with a case example that demonstrates the concepts in action. Two hundred tips organized in twenty how-to lists will prove invaluable for using Twitter, coaching virtually, encouraging informal learning, opening interactive virtual learning sessions, and much more. Coverage includes best practices for social media and informal learning, common e-learning tools, as well as guidance toward using a full gamut of tools from gamification and simulation to serious games and m-learning. Active training encourages participants to use their brains to study ideas, solve problems, and apply what they've learned. It's a fast-paced, fun, supportive, and personally engaging environment. This book shows training facilitators the proven techniques that help learners get more out of the material. Design a more engaging learning environment Improve delivery with optimized technology Utilize effective learning tools and practical strategies Learn best practices for social media, coaching, virtual learning, and more Learners need to figure things out by themselves, ask questions, practice skills, and transfer skills and knowledge to the job. With proven strategies designed by industry leaders, 101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom is the indispensable guide to the design and delivery of effective alternative ways to learn.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111897199X

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Embracing Amelia

By: Elaine Violette

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Embracing Amelia

By: Elaine Violette

Lady Amelia Pierce has a forbidden dream: riding in equestrian competitions. When she loses a family ring in the stable, her brother finds her foraging for it in the hay with Lucas Grey, a duke’s bastard son. Amelia’s outraged father sends her to London to salvage her reputation and find a suitable match. Despite his ignoble birth and rakish reputation, Lucas is much admired for his management of Winston Equestrian Stables. He and Amelia are fascinated by each other. But the missing emerald ring and a viscount’s greed lead to disaster and imprisonment for Lucas. Will scandal and secrets keep him from Amelia forever?

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509248935

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How to Survive and Thrive in the First Three Weeks of School

By: Elaine K. McEwan

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How to Survive and Thrive in the First Three Weeks of School

By: Elaine K. McEwan

Best-selling author Elaine McEwan demonstrates how teaching routines, rubrics, and rules during the first three weeks of school leads to higher achievement through the rest of the year!

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Corwin Press

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1483363341

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Stories of a Manchester Street

By: Phil Barton,Elaine Bishop

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Stories of a Manchester Street

By: Phil Barton,Elaine Bishop

A century on from its original Edwardian construction, this contemporary portrait of a street in inner Manchester tells the stories of today's residents. Born in eighteen countries from four continents, the accounts told by the residents themselves narrate their journeys from nomadic herding in Somalia to conscientious objection in post-war Germany and the UK, and from arranged marriages in South Asia to arriving from rural Ireland to find work. With a common theme of making a new life in Manchester, this is an important account of a successful multicultural community in an ever-divided world. Profiling today's residents alongside those who occupied their homes at the time of the 1911 census, Stories of a Manchester Street provides a colourful reflection on the changes, resilience and sense of community that lives just around the corner on our inner-city streets.

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The History Press

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0750991550

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Principal Induction

A Standards-Based Model for Administrator Development

By: Elaine L. Wilmore

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Principal Induction

A Standards-Based Model for Administrator Development

By: Elaine L. Wilmore

Finally, a standards-based leadership induction program that will help every principal flourish! Many school administrator candidates enter the principalship with great potential, but sometimes lack the critical guidance to ensure their success. With the many challenges facing principals daily, it is imperative for new and seasoned principals alike to remain informed, rejuvenated, and passionate about providing students with a quality education and supporting high quality teachers and an effective staff. Principal Induction focuses on the importance of an effective induction process in the recruitment, development, and retention of school principals. The first of its kind, this standards-based format seamlessly weaves the new Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) standards—resulting from the work of ten leading educational organizations interested in school leadership and improvement—into the principal induction process. Developing this unique approach, while providing encouragement and support, Wilmore produces case studies, professional development activities and how-to′s for: Improving schools by enhancing the human and leadership qualities of administrators Promoting positive school culture Creating collaborative teams to support all stakeholders Addressing inconsistent follow-up and unreliable accountability systems in a structured, productive manner By cultivating their own individual growth and development through an effective induction program, school leaders will revitalize their professional and personal lives, and move from surviving to flourishing during their principalship years.

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1483360490

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Criminal Behavior

By: Elaine Cassel,Douglas A. Bernstein

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Criminal Behavior

By: Elaine Cassel,Douglas A. Bernstein

Criminal Behavior explores crime as a developmental process from birth through early adulthood. It further examines the role that legal, political, and criminal justice systems play in the development of criminal behavior.

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Psychology Press

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1135614768

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Holy Women, Wholly Women

Sharing Ministries through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography

By: Elaine J. Lawless

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Holy Women, Wholly Women

Sharing Ministries through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography

By: Elaine J. Lawless

In Holy Women, Wholly Women, Elaine J. Lawless continues her work with women in American religion, and explores the life experiences of women in parish ministry in several Protestant churches--including the United Methodist, Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, American Baptist, Episcopal, and Unitarian churches. Applying an approach, which she calls reciprocal ethnography, Lawless collects and interprets the stories of ten women ministers and examines their public and private lives, their ministries, their images of God, and their negotiations of sexuality and the religious life. Throughout, she retains much of the dialogue, which developed between herself and the participants; the voices of the women are clearly distinguishable from Lawless's words and from each other's. These women are ordained in different denominations, yet their deep-seated beliefs about spirituality, God, and ministry are surprisingly similar. Denominational affiliations are less critical for them than is the maintenance of a theology of wholeness and well-being for all humans. By employing an ethnographical approach informed by feminist theory, Holy Women, Wholly Women contributes to our understanding of women in the ordained ministry. It will be of compelling interest to students and scholars in folklore, women's studies, and religion.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608994112

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The Language Experience Approach and the Science of Literacy Instruction

By: Elaine A. Fairbairn Traynelis Yurek,Mary Strong

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The Language Experience Approach and the Science of Literacy Instruction

By: Elaine A. Fairbairn Traynelis Yurek,Mary Strong

The information contained in this text covers literacy instruction in kindergarten, primary grades, middle school, and secondary school. It gives the background on the developmental aspects of all attributes needed for successful reading. It presents a balanced body of information for instruction between wholistic approaches and traditional approaches for the total literacy curriculum. This book includes the complete developmental aspects of skills necessary for competence in all literacy tasks from birth to adolescent literacy, the need for availability for teachers to assess the progress of all these skills as they are presented in a wholistic fashion on a regular basis, the criteria of how decisions are made for remedial reading instruction, the interface of special education considerations for students experiencing literacy deficits, approaches for adolescent literacy programs, and extensive information on teaching English language learners.

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Anthem Press

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183999195X

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9781839991950

It Goes with the Territory

By: Elaine Feinstein

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It Goes with the Territory

By: Elaine Feinstein

A prolific author of novels, poetry collections, plays, biographies and translations, Elaine Feinstein is one of the towering literary figures of the last few decades. In this, her first memoir, she tells the story of her journey from a Jewish childhood in Leicester to the undergraduate world of post-war Cambridge, the excitement of friendships in the literary world and the tensions of a poet's writing life inside a long and sometimes painful marriage.This book, however, is not only the intimate memoir of one of Britain's finest poets and novelists: it is also the story of a rapidly changing country and of an entire generation of authors. Told with the precision of a biographer and the finesse of a poet, and peppered with witty literary anecdotes, It Goes with the Territory is an absorbing read from beginning to end.

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Alma Books

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0714545422

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Feminist Views on the English Stage

Women Playwrights, 1990–2000

By: Elaine Aston

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Feminist Views on the English Stage

Women Playwrights, 1990–2000

By: Elaine Aston

Feminist Views on the English Stage, first published in 2003, is an exciting and insightful study on drama from a feminist perspective, one that challenges an idea of the 1990s as a 'post-feminist' decade and pays attention to women's playwriting marginalized by a 'renaissance' of angry young men. Working through a generational mix of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic 'bad girl' of the stage, to the 'canonical' Caryl Churchill, Elaine Aston charts the significant political and aesthetic changes in women's playwriting at the century's end. Aston also explores writing for the 1990s in theatre by Sarah Daniels, Bryony Lavery, Phyllis Nagy, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, Judy Upton and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139441531

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9781139441537

It Takes Two to Talk

A Practical Guide for Parents of Children with Language Delays

By: Jan Pepper,Elaine Weitzman,Hanen Centre

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It Takes Two to Talk

A Practical Guide for Parents of Children with Language Delays

By: Jan Pepper,Elaine Weitzman,Hanen Centre

Shows parents how to help their child communicate and learn language during everyday activities.

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The Hanen Centre

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0921145195

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Yaxchilan

The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City

By: Carolyn Elaine Tate

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Yaxchilan

The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City

By: Carolyn Elaine Tate

Art historian Carolyn Tate presents, in a well-organized and amply illustrated two-part format, a holistic treatment of a single archaeological site—the great ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan.... This is the most successful attempt to relate [art and architecture] within a Maya site that I have seen." —Ethnohistory As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever. This urgency underlies Yaxchilan: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City, Carolyn Tate's comprehensive catalog and analysis of all the city's extant buildings and sculptures. During a year of field work, Tate fully documented the appearance of the site as of 1987. For each sculpture and building, she records its discovery, present location, condition, measurements, and astronomical orientation and reconstructs its Long Counts and Julian dates from Calendar Rounds. Line drawings and photographs provide a visual document of the art and architecture of Yaxchilan. More than mere documentation, however, the book explores the phenomenon of art within Maya society. Tate establishes a general framework of cultural practices, spiritual beliefs, and knowledge likely to have been shared by eighth-century Maya people. The process of making public art is considered in relation to other modes of aesthetic expression, such as oral tradition and ritual. This kind of analysis is new in Maya studies and offers fresh insight into the function of these magnificent cities and the powerful role public art and architecture play in establishing cultural norms, in education in a semiliterate society, and in developing the personal and community identities of individuals. Several chapters cover the specifics of art and iconography at Yaxchilan as a basis for examining the creation of the city in the Late Classic period. Individual sculptures are attributed to the hands of single artists and workshops, thus aiding in dating several of the monuments. The significance of headdresses, backracks, and other costume elements seen on monuments is tied to specific rituals and fashions, and influence from other sites is traced. These analyses lead to a history of the design of the city under the reigns of Shield Jaguar (A.D. 681-741) and Bird Jaguar IV (A.D. 752-772). In Tate's view, Yaxchilan and other Maya cities were designed as both a theater for ritual activities and a nexus of public art and social structures that were crucial in defining the self within Maya society.

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University of Texas Press

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0292770413

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Priests in the Attic

In My Father's House

By: Elaine A. Small

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Priests in the Attic

In My Father's House

By: Elaine A. Small

Little Elaine Sawchuk, a minister's daughter who grew up in the north end of Winnipeg with a need for attention and a love for singing, could see only the magic in show business. She pursued it after becoming an X-ray technician, she pursued it after becoming a wife and a mother, but as Elaine Steele, one of the best supper club singers in Canada, ... she had to pay a high price for the little bit of glamour and those moments of applause..." --Canadian Weekly, Toronto Star, May 8-14, 1965 Priests in the Attic, cast in Toronto during the tumultuous `60s through late`70s is a confessional story of lost faith, redemption and hope. This memoir is written through the power of reverie, a unique concept of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard --the driving force behind this work. In The Poetics of Reverie, Bachelard describes his use of reverie to unearth emotional truth. All of us possess our own emotional truth and thus, each of us has a unique story to tell --but who am I, that anyone should be interested in my story? Let my book tell you: "I'm everyone who has ever taken a breath and marveled at the wonder and miracle of life. I'm everyone who has discovered their own finitude and shuddered at the concept of one day, being no more. I'm everyone who has suffered the pain of loss, the torment of regret, the desolation of loneliness, misgivings of the past and a fear of the future. I'm everyone who, through an anguished cry for help, receives the possibility of a new beginning and a miracle of new life through God's immeasurable grace.... Who am I? I am one with you --and all of us have a story to tell. This is mine.

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1449044123

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Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic

Health Care in Early America

By: Elaine G. Breslaw

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Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic

Health Care in Early America

By: Elaine G. Breslaw

Reprint of (manifestation): Lotions, potions, pills, and magic / Elaine G. Breslaw. New York: New York University Press, Ã2012.

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NYU Press

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1479807044

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Cooloola Coast

Noosa to Fraser Island : the Aboriginal and Settlers Histories of a Unique Environment

By: Elaine Rosemary Brown

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Cooloola Coast

Noosa to Fraser Island : the Aboriginal and Settlers Histories of a Unique Environment

By: Elaine Rosemary Brown

Long golden beaches and rocky headlands, high forested dunes, dark waterways and broad lakes - these spectacular features make up the Cooloola Coast. Stretching sixty-five kilometres from Noosa to Fraser Island, it is a remarkable and diverse environment.Cooloola Coastdescribes the area's many-layered history of human occupation in absorbing detail, opening with the story of its Aboriginal occupants, whose kinship with nature was little understood by Europeans. A new and intriguing account tells of the legendary Eliza Fraser and the effects of her experiences on relations between Queensland's Aboriginal and white inhabitants. The final section features the speculators, timber-getters, farmers and fishermen who came seeking opportunities on a new frontier.Illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings, Cooloola Coastis the first comprehensive history of this beautiful and unique environment.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702231290

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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts

The Phenomenal Book

By: Elaine Treharne

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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts

The Phenomenal Book

By: Elaine Treharne

Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript in their observations, from the main texts that dominate the codex to the marginal notes, glosses, names, and interventions made through time. This holistic approach allows us to tell the story of the book's life from the moment of its production to its use, collection, breaking-up, and digitization—all aspects of what can be termed 'dynamic architextuality'. The ten chapters include detailed readings of texts that explain the processes of manuscript manufacture and writing, taking in invisible components of the book that show the joy and delight clearly felt by producers and consumers. Chapters investigate the filling of manuscripts' blank spaces, presenting some texts never examined before, and assessing how books were conceived and understood to function. Manuscripts' heft and solidness can be seen, too, in the depictions of miniature books in medieval illustrations. Early manuscripts thus become archives and witnesses to individual and collective memories, best read as 'relics of existence', as Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes things. As such, it is urgent that practices fragmenting the manuscript through book-breaking or digital display are understood in the context of the book's wholeness. Readers of this study will find chapters on multiple aspects of medieval bookness in the distant past, the present, and in the assurance of the future continuity of this most fascinating of cultural artefacts.

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Oxford University Press

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0192657534

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More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Missouri Women

By: Elaine Warner

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More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Missouri Women

By: Elaine Warner

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Missouri Women celebrates the women who shaped the Show-Me State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762776560

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Researching urban space and the built environment

By: Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin,Elaine Tierney,Charlotte Wildman

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Researching urban space and the built environment

By: Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin,Elaine Tierney,Charlotte Wildman

Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written in a clear and lively style, it equips readers with the tools to effectively plan, research and write innovative spatial histories. By outlining and summarizing the theories and methodologies particularly pertinent to spatial research, and by providing hands-on advice on locating evidence and archives, the book supports researchers in the development of their own original projects. Through engagement with a rich array of primary evidence and useful historiographical case-studies, the guide opens up a huge variety of research possibilities. This book is the ideal research companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as independent researchers. It is especially tailored for students in history and related disciplines in the humanities encountering spatial themes and methodologies for the first time.

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Manchester University Press

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152613361X

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The Complete Handbook of Coaching

By: Elaine Cox,Tatiana Bachkirova,David Clutterbuck

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The Complete Handbook of Coaching

By: Elaine Cox,Tatiana Bachkirova,David Clutterbuck

This comprehensive guide to coaching explores a full variety of coaching theories, approaches, and settings, and offers strategies for the reader to identify and develop a personal style of coaching. Written by leading international authors, each chapter makes explicit links between theory and practice and generic questions will facilitate further reflection on the topic. There are also suggestions for reading and short case studies. This is the first book to explore the differences between the theoretical perspectives of coaching and the links between these perspectives in relation to contexts, genres, and media of coaching.

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SAGE Publications

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1849202885

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Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain

The New Science of Fear and Optimism

By: Elaine Fox

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Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain

The New Science of Fear and Optimism

By: Elaine Fox

Why are some people driven to dangerous risks, while others shun danger? Why do some people seem to be born optimists, while others are more prone to worry and pessimism? Drawing on her own groundbreaking research and the research of many other scientists from around the world, Elaine Fox helps answer why. With a compelling mix of science and anecdotes, Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain addresses Why optimism is more difficult than pessimism How innocent stimuli can become triggers for terror The emergency brain: how our ancient neural circuits take over our thoughts and memories New techniques for counteracting fear and anxiety disorders Dangerous minds: the psychology of risk Perhaps most important, Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain shows how malleable our minds really are. There is increasing evidence that we can learn to change our brain states. It is possible for people trapped in pessimistic and negative mindsets to take their more “rainy” brain to a sunnier one with real change that’s reflected at the level of neurons within their brains.

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1443411426

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Why Religion?

A Personal Story

By: Elaine Pagels

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Why Religion?

A Personal Story

By: Elaine Pagels

New York Times bestseller One of PW’s Best Books of the Year One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions. These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when dealing with unimaginable loss—the death of her young son, followed a year later by the shocking loss of her husband. Here she interweaves a personal story with the work that she loves, illuminating how, for better and worse, religious traditions have shaped how we understand ourselves; how we relate to one another; and, most importantly, how to get through the most difficult challenges we face. Drawing upon the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists, and historians, as well as her own research, Pagels opens unexpected ways of understanding persistent religious aspects of our culture. A provocative and deeply moving account from one of the most compelling religious thinkers at work today, Why Religion? explores the spiritual dimension of human experience.

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0062368559

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Someone's in the Kitchen with Mommy

100 Easy Recipes and Fun Crafts for Parents and Kids

By: Elaine Magee

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Someone's in the Kitchen with Mommy

100 Easy Recipes and Fun Crafts for Parents and Kids

By: Elaine Magee

Now parents and their children can have fun together in the kitchen, creating nutritious, low-fat, and tasty snacks and meals for holidays, rainy days, or any day! Someone's in the Kitchen with Mommy contains 100 recipes that are not only fun to make but also look great, taste delicious, and are healthy, too. What kid could resist Macaroni and Cheese in a Broccoli Forest... Green Shamrock Soft Pretzels... or a Chili Sundae?

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McGraw-Hill

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0809231425

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Encyclopedia of Special Education

By: Elaine Fletcher-Janzen,Lester Mann

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Encyclopedia of Special Education

By: Elaine Fletcher-Janzen,Lester Mann

Alphabetical listing of over 2000 topics that include biographies, educational and psychological tests, interventions and service delivery, handicapping conditions, related services, legal matters, and miscellaneous. Intended for professionals and general public. Entries include narrative, references, contributor's name and institution, and cross references. Vol. 3 contains appendix (Public Law 95-142) and index.

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Wiley

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0471630063

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