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Unwell Women

Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

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Unwell Women

Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.

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Penguin

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0593182979

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9780593182970

Object Relations and Intersubjective Theories in the Practice of Psychotherapy

By: Elinor Parks

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Object Relations and Intersubjective Theories in the Practice of Psychotherapy

By: Elinor Parks

This volume explores the relationship between language and culture whilst considering its implications for the teaching of Modern Foreign Languages in higher education. Drawing on a comparative empirical study conducted at universities both in the UK and US, this text problematizes the impacts of a separation of language and content in German degree modules. Illustrating the need for a curriculum which fosters the development of intercultural competence and criticality, Parks reconceptualizes established models of Criticality (Barnett) and Intercultural Communicative Competence (Byram). The chapters in this volume discuss a range of important topics including; language graduates with deep translingual and transcultural competence, observed differences and similarities between British and American universities and faculty and student voices: developing intercultural competence and criticality. Aimed at scholars with research interests in Intercultural Communication, Language Education and Applied linguistics, this volume provides a thorough discussion for the ways in which Modern Language programmes in higher education can be improved. Additionally, those carrying out research in the fields of Language Teaching and Language Policy in higher education will find Developing Critical Cultural Awareness in Modern Languages to be of great relevance.

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274

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Routledge

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1000009335

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9781000009330

Isabel's Bed

A Novel

By: Elinor Lipman

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Isabel's Bed

A Novel

By: Elinor Lipman

When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blond's scandalous tabloid past. Unusually "talented" in the man department ("I give lessons"), Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a nonstop soap opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole -- and the attitude is catching....

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406

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Simon and Schuster

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1439122040

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9781439122044

The Physiology of Physical Stress

A Selective Bibliography, 1500-1964

By: Carleton B. Chapman,Elinor C. Reinmiller

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The Physiology of Physical Stress

A Selective Bibliography, 1500-1964

By: Carleton B. Chapman,Elinor C. Reinmiller

More than 2,800 citations indexed by author and by subject comprise this bibliography of studies on the physiology of exercise. Selected from a vast literature on physical stress, the majority of works in this listing concern basic physiology. The emphasis is on studies representing the origin and development of fundamental concepts, although some clinical studies with implications for basic physiology are included. The bibliography includes references from a period, 1500 to 1964, not available through the computerized retrieval system (MEDLARS) of the National Library of Medicine. Most entries were published in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and thus reflect the growth of the field.

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390

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Harvard University Press

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0674666704

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9780674666702

Acquiring conversational competence

By: Elinor Ochs,Bambi B. Schieffelin

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Acquiring conversational competence

By: Elinor Ochs,Bambi B. Schieffelin

First published in 1983, this book represents a substantial body of detailed research on children’s language and communication, and more generally on the nature of interactive spoken discourse. It looks at areas of competence often examined in young children’s speech have that have not been described for adults — leading to insights not only in the character of adult conversation but also the process of acquiring this competence. The authors set forward strategies for conversing at different stage of life, while also relating these strategies to, and formulating hypotheses concerning, the dynamics of language variation and change.

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208

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Routledge

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1315401606

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9781315401607

Prisms and Rainbows

Michel Butor's Collaborations with Jacques Monory, Jiří Kolář, and Pierre Alechinsky

By: Elinor S. Miller,Pierre Alechinsky

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Prisms and Rainbows

Michel Butor's Collaborations with Jacques Monory, Jiří Kolář, and Pierre Alechinsky

By: Elinor S. Miller,Pierre Alechinsky

Some of the artworks pose difficulties in interpretation, but regardless of amorphous subjects and confusing representations, Butor's creativity finds poetry in them.".

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320

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838639194

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9780838639191

The Samaritan's Dilemma

The Political Economy of Development Aid

By: Clark C. Gibson,Krister Andersson,Elinor late Elinor Elinor Ostrom,Sujai Shivakumar

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The Samaritan's Dilemma

The Political Economy of Development Aid

By: Clark C. Gibson,Krister Andersson,Elinor late Elinor Elinor Ostrom,Sujai Shivakumar

What's wrong with foreign aid? Many policymakers, aid practitioners, and scholars have called into question its ability to increase economic growth, alleviate poverty, or promote social development. At the macro level, only tenuous links between development aid and improved living conditions have been found. At the micro level, only a few programs outlast donor support and even fewer appear to achieve lasting improvements. The authors of this book argue that much of aid's failure is related to the institutions that structure its delivery. These institutions govern the complex relationships between the main actors in the aid delivery system and often generate a series of perverse incentives that promote inefficient and unsustainable outcomes. In their analysis, the authors apply the theoretical insights of the new institutional economics to several settings. First, they investigate the institutions of Sida, the Swedish aid agency, to analyze how that aid agency's institutions can produce incentives inimical to desired outcomes, contrary to the desires of its own staff. Second, the authors use cases from India, a country with low aid dependence, and Zambia, a country with high aid dependence, to explore how institutions on the ground in recipient countries also mediate the effectiveness of aid. Throughout the book, the authors offer suggestions about how to improve aid's effectiveness. These suggestions include how to structure evaluations in order to improve outcomes, how to employ agency staff to gain from their on-the-ground experience, and how to engage stakeholders as "owners" in the design, resource mobilization, learning, and evaluation processes of development assistance programs.

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288

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OUP Oxford

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0191535338

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9780191535338

A Banner Education for Teachers

Guiding Principles for a Practical Curriculum

By: Elinor Miller

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A Banner Education for Teachers

Guiding Principles for a Practical Curriculum

By: Elinor Miller

Elinor Miller, a long-time classroom teacher and curriculum specialist, provides her insights into educating students with diverse backgrounds and learning abilities. This book, a sequel to A Banner Experience, describes her educational experiences before she moved to Frederick, MD, and explains why and how she established The Banner School there in 1982. Elinor is a teacher's teacher for sure! Not only does she understand the many obligations teachers have, she is also a grammarian of the first order, providing detailed direction on this subject. Her understanding of the benefits of challenging students to master difficult work and memorize poetry will motivate many teachers. Her award-winning methods and high level of experience with organizing interdisciplinary science and social studies topics will encourage others to immerse their students in any of ten science topics and sixteen cultures of both the Old and New World. This book is worth more than its price just for its extensive resources, including Word Web Vocabulary(R), 101 Ways to Attack a Writing Assignment(c) and CommuniCards(c), the latter a must for every classroom as it pinpoints the confusion many students exhibit with specific mathematical and language concepts.

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166

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iUniverse

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0595466850

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9780595466856

Fast-Forward Family

Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America

By: Elinor Ochs,Tamar Kremer-Sadlik

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Fast-Forward Family

Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America

By: Elinor Ochs,Tamar Kremer-Sadlik

Called Òthe most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conductedÓ by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of 32 dualworker middle class Los Angeles families between 2001 and 2004. The results are startling, and enlightening. Fast-Forward Family shines light on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and the challenges for parents as they try to reconcile ideals regarding what it means to be a good parent, a good worker, and a good spouse. Though there are also moments of connection, affection, and care, itÕs evident that life for 21st century working parents is frenetic, with extended work hours, childrenÕs activities, chores, meals to prepare, errands to run, and bills to pay.

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314

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Univ of California Press

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0520273974

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9780520273979

The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACK

By: Emily Cheney Neville,Mabel Louise Robinson,Cornelia Meigs,Elinor Whitney,Marian Hurd McNeely

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The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACK

By: Emily Cheney Neville,Mabel Louise Robinson,Cornelia Meigs,Elinor Whitney,Marian Hurd McNeely

The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACKTM assembles seven classic YA books, from fiction to biography, written by some of the most celebrated 20th century children's authors. Included in this volume are: IT'S LIKE THIS, CAT, by Emily Cheney Neville (Newbery Medal Winner, 1964) RUNNER OF THE MOUNTAIN TOPS: THE LIFE OF LOUIS AGASSIZ, by Mabel Louise Robinson (A Newbery Honor Book, 1940) THE WINDY HILL, by Cornelia Meigs (A Newbery Honor Book, 1922) TOD OF THE FENS, by Elinor Whitney (A Newbery Honor Book, 1929) THE JUMPING-OFF PLACE, by Marian Hurd McNeely (A Newbery Honor Book, 1930) SPICE AND THE DEVIL'S CAVE, by Agnes Danforth Hewes (A Newbery Honor Book, 1931) NEW LAND, by Sarah Lindsay Schmidt (A Newbery Honor Book, 1934) If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 200+ other entries in the series, covering science fiction, modern authors, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!

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1148

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479405752

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9781479405756

A Banner Handbook for Homeschoolers

By: Elinor Miller

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A Banner Handbook for Homeschoolers

By: Elinor Miller

Intuitive and constructive ideas for educating children, whether or not one is homeschooling.

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262

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iUniverse

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144015323X

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9781440153235

Elinor James

By: Elinor James

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Elinor James

By: Elinor James

This volume makes available for the first time the complete surviving works of the London printer-author Elinor James (c.1645-1719). Uniquely in the history of early modern women, James wrote, printed and distributed more than ninety pamphlets and broadsides addressing political, religious and commercial concerns. Written over a period of 35 years, her works provide us with a running commentary on the major national events of a tumultuous period such as the Revolution of 1688, the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, and the Jacobite uprisings in 1715-16. During her lifetime, England saw the succession of six different monarchs. James petitioned all of them and claimed to have obtained audiences with three. In 1689 she was gaoled in Newgate prison, accused of disseminating seditious material condemning William III for accepting the English crown. James's texts address a staggeringly broad range of concerns. She petitioned Parliament concerning legislation affecting the printing trades and petitioned fellow printers concerning labour relations in London printing houses. She petitioned City authorities on issues such as the enforcement of bylaws or who to vote for in City and parlimentary elections. It is hoped that by making available all of James's known works, this volume will inspire the collective efforts of scholars from many different disciplines to decipher her references to contemporary events, issues and persons, as well as prompting further discoveries of as yet unidentified works.

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338

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Routledge

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0754631052

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9780754631057

The Feminization of America

How Women's Values Are Changing Our Public and Private Lives

By: Elinor Lenz,Barbara Myerhoff

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The Feminization of America

How Women's Values Are Changing Our Public and Private Lives

By: Elinor Lenz,Barbara Myerhoff

A speculation on the dramatic changes in American culture brought on by the fact that women are assuming more and more power in contemporary society.

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294

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Tarcher

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0874774152

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9780874774153

Spanish Dishes from the Old Clay Pot

By: Elinor Burt,Missy Laws

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Spanish Dishes from the Old Clay Pot

By: Elinor Burt,Missy Laws

An international tour of Spanish, Mexican, Latin American and Creole cooking with the best of each country represented here: Spanish Pot Pie Tomatoes Louisiana Corn Meal Cookies Creole Chowder Scalloped Lima Beans Brazilian Salad Spanish Eggs Spanish Pastries Sweet Potato Custard Milan Squash Mexican Fish * Over 650 recipes with an exhaustive index * The most extensive Latin cookbook available for the Spanish gourmet and crock pot enthusiast * Complete explanation of sauces, side dishes and settings for delicious family and gourmet dining.

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0894960024

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9780894960024

Book's by Elinor Burt

Unwell Women

Unwell Women

Object Relations and Intersubjective Theories in the Practice of Psychotherapy

Object Relations and Intersubjective Theories in the Practice of Psychotherapy

Isabel's Bed

Isabel's Bed

The Physiology of Physical Stress

The Physiology of Physical Stress

Acquiring conversational competence

Acquiring conversational competence

Prisms and Rainbows

Prisms and Rainbows

The Samaritan's Dilemma

The Samaritan's Dilemma

A Banner Education for Teachers

A Banner Education for Teachers

Fast-Forward Family

Fast-Forward Family

The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACK

The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACK

A Banner Handbook for Homeschoolers

A Banner Handbook for Homeschoolers

Elinor James

Elinor James

The Feminization of America

The Feminization of America

Spanish Dishes from the Old Clay Pot

Spanish Dishes from the Old Clay Pot

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