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Six Practical Lessons for an Easier Childbirth

The Classic Book on the Lamaze Method

By: Elisabeth Bing

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Six Practical Lessons for an Easier Childbirth

The Classic Book on the Lamaze Method

By: Elisabeth Bing

THE BIBLE FOR EVERY COUPLE PREPARING FOR THE BIRTH OF A BABY When it was first introduced more than thirty years ago, the Lamaze method was a revolutionary childbirth technique. Since that time, it has made pregnancy and childbirth easier for millions of women, lessening their dependence on pain medications before and after birth. Elisabeth Bing’s classic book on the Lamaze method guides women through the physical and psychological challenges of pregnancy. Six Practical Lessons for an Easier Childbirth details the changes a woman can expect in her body during pregnancy, labor, and delivery and provides a complete program of exercises for increased muscular control and relaxation during childbirth. This guidebook also emphasizes the partner’s supportive role in the Lamaze method, both in preparation and in the delivery room. This newly revised edition includes an expanded program with new photographs of exercises for every pregnant woman. Elisabeth Bing also provides more information on what to expect in the hospital, including updated information on cesarean births and the medications commonly prescribed during delivery. Filled with vital information and reassurance, Six Practical Lessons for an Easier Childbirth will make expectant couples better prepared than ever for this joyous, rewarding experience.

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Bantam

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0307874141

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9780307874146

Elisabeth Bing's Guide to Moving Through Pregnancy

By: Elisabeth D. Bing,Jill Strickman

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Elisabeth Bing's Guide to Moving Through Pregnancy

By: Elisabeth D. Bing,Jill Strickman

Suggests safe and comfortable ways for women to go about the normal activities of everyday life while pregnant, and recommends exercise programs during pregnancy, at the hospital, and after the birth

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Continuum

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0374522979

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9780374522971

Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine

The Telling Touch

By: Elisabeth Hsu

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Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine

The Telling Touch

By: Elisabeth Hsu

A study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, focusing on a biography of Chunyu Yi.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521516625

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9780521516624

Railroads and the Transformation of China

By: Elisabeth Köll

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Railroads and the Transformation of China

By: Elisabeth Köll

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.

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Harvard University Press

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0674368177

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9780674368170

Collecting, Processing and Presenting Geoscientific Information

MATLAB® and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences

By: Martin H. Trauth,Elisabeth Sillmann

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Collecting, Processing and Presenting Geoscientific Information

MATLAB® and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences

By: Martin H. Trauth,Elisabeth Sillmann

This second edition is an intensively revised and updated version of the book MATLAB® and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences. It aims to introduce students to the typical course followed by a data analysis project in earth sciences. A project usually involves searching relevant literature, reviewing and ranking published books and journal articles, extracting relevant information from the literature in the form of text, data, or graphs, searching and processing the relevant original data using MATLAB, and compiling and presenting the results as posters, abstracts, and oral presentations using graphics design software. The text of this book includes numerous examples on the use of internet resources, on the visualization of data with MATLAB, and on preparing scientific presentations. As with the book MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences–4rd Edition (2015), which demonstrates the use of statistical and numerical methods on earth science data, this book uses state-of-the art software packages, including MATLAB and the Adobe Creative Suite, to process and present geoscientific information collected during the course of an earth science project. The book's supplementary electronic material (available online through the publisher's website) includes color versions of all figures, recipes with all the MATLAB commands featured in the book, the example data, exported MATLAB graphics, and screenshots of the most important steps involved in processing the graphics.

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Springer

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3662562030

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MATLAB® and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences

How to Collect, Process and Present Geoscientific Information

By: Martin Trauth,Elisabeth Sillmann

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MATLAB® and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences

How to Collect, Process and Present Geoscientific Information

By: Martin Trauth,Elisabeth Sillmann

The overall aim of the book is to introduce students to the typical course followed by a data analysis project in earth sciences. A project usually involves searching relevant literature, reviewing and ranking published books and journal articles, extracting relevant information from the literature in the form of text, data, or graphs, searching and processing the relevant original data using MATLAB, and compiling and presenting the results as posters, abstracts, and oral presentations using graphics design software. The text of this book includes numerous examples on the use of internet resources, on the visualization of data with MATLAB, and on preparing scientific presentations. As with its sister book MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences–3rd Edition (2010), which demonstrates the use of statistical and numerical methods on earth science data, this book uses state-of-the art software packages, including MATLAB and the Adobe Creative Suite, to process and present geoscientific information collected during the course of an earth science project. The book's supplementary electronic material (available online through the publisher's website) includes color versions of all figures, recipes with all the MATLAB commands featured in the book, the example data, exported MATLAB graphics, and screenshots of the most important steps involved in processing the graphics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642325440

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9783642325441

Marked

Eternal Guardians #1

By: Elisabeth Naughton

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Marked

Eternal Guardians #1

By: Elisabeth Naughton

THERON – Dark haired, duty bound and deceptively deadly. He’s the leader of the Eternal Guardians, an elite group of warriors that defend the mortal realm. From the moment he walked into the club, Casey knew this guy was different. Men like that just didn’t exist in real life—silky shoulder-length hair, chest impossibly broad, and a predatory manner that just screamed dark and dangerous. He was looking for something. Her. She was the one. She had the mark. Casey had to die so his kind could live, and it was Theron’s duty to bring her in. But even the leader of the Guardians wasn’t strong enough to resist the pull in her fathomless eyes, to tear himself away from the heat of her body. As war with the immortal realm nears, someone will have to make the ultimate sacrifice. *** All books in the Eternal Guardians series can be read in order or as stand-alones: MARKED - Book 1 ENTWINED - Book 2 TEMPTED - Book 3 ENRAPTURED - Book 4 ENSLAVED - Book 5 BOUND - Book 6 TWISTED - Book 7 RAVAGED - Novella, Book 7.5 AWAKENED - Book 8 UNCHAINED - Novella, Book 8.25 HUNTED - Novella, Book 8.5 ENSNARED - Novella, Book 8.75 and coming soon... WICKED - Book 9

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Elisabeth Naughton Publishing LLC

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0985671963

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9780985671969

The Politics of Language in Chinese Education

1895 - 1919

By: Elisabeth Kaske

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The Politics of Language in Chinese Education

1895 - 1919

By: Elisabeth Kaske

Viewing education as the central battleground over the status of language, this book investigates the language policies of various social agents in early 20th century China and offers a comprehensive and fascinating analysis of the emergence of China's national language.

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BRILL

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9004163670

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9789004163676

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine

By: Elisabeth Hsu

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The Transmission of Chinese Medicine

By: Elisabeth Hsu

This is one of the first studies of traditional medical education in an Asian country. Conducting extensive fieldwork in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China, Elisabeth Hsu became the disciple of, a Qigong master a scholarly private practitioner, who almost wordlessly conveys esoteric knowledge and techniques; attended seminars given by a senior Chinese doctor, an acupuncturist and masseur, who plunges his followers into the study of arcane medical classics, and studied with students at the Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where the standardised knowledge of official Chinese medicine is inculcated. Dr Hsu compares the theories and practices of these different Chinese medical traditions and shows how the same technical terms may take on different meanings in different contexts. This is a fascinating, insider's account of traditional medical practices, which brings out the way in which the context of instruction shapes knowledge.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521645425

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9780521645423

Philosophy in Turbulent Times

Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

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Philosophy in Turbulent Times

Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled and innovative thinkers endured World War II and the cultural and political revolution of the 1960s, and their cultural horizon was dominated by Marxism and psychoanalysis, though they were by no means strict adherents to the doctrines of Marx and Freud. Roudinesco knew many of these intellectuals personally, and she weaves an account of their thought through lived experience and reminiscences. Canguilhem, for example, was a distinguished philosopher of science who had a great influence on Foucault's exploration of sanity and madness-themes Althusser lived in a notorious personal drama. And in dramatizing the life of Freud for the screen, Sartre fundamentally altered his own philosophical approach to psychoanalysis. Roudinesco launches a passionate defense of Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida against the "new philosophers" of the late 1970s and 1980s, who denounced the work-and sometimes the private lives-of this great generation. Roudinesco refutes attempts to tar them, as well as the Marxist and left-wing tradition in general, with the brush of Soviet-style communism. In Freudian theory and the philosophy of radical commitment, she sees a bulwark against the kind of manipulative, pill-prescribing, and normalizing psychology that aims to turn individuals into mindless consumers. Intense, clever, and persuasive, Philosophy in Turbulent Times captivates with the dynamism of French thought in the twentieth century.

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Columbia University Press

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0231518854

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9780231518857

Piece by Piece

By: Elisabeth Staab

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Piece by Piece

By: Elisabeth Staab

ETHAN’S HIT A ROUGH SPOT So I caught my dad in bed with my ex-girlfriend. My best friend cancelled our plans to celebrate my birthday. Decided to drink away the betrayal. Made out with a cardboard cutout of a celebrity in front of my new roommates. Got in a bar fight. Hooked up with that pretty bartender whose sad smile I’ve secretly been painting pictures of since forever, but she shoved me out the door with hardly a word. Did I mention the tattoo I don’t exactly remember getting? And that’s only Saturday. Now I need to pick up the pieces of my messed-up life. LEEANNE’S HAD A TOUGH LIFE What do you do when you’ve lived in the same small town your whole life and you feel as if you’ll always be stuck in the same rut, like a piece of busted wagon wheel? Well, maybe you start by hooking up with the first decent guy who walks into your bar. Maybe once you do, it’s hard to get him out of your head even though you try. And maybe, just maybe, you find out he makes you laugh even more than he makes you want to shout his name. If you’re me, you don’t even know what to do with a guy like him. A little piece of happiness…that feels downright dangerous.

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Elisabeth Staab

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0997136618

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9780997136616

Feminism and Socialism in China

By: Elisabeth Croll

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Feminism and Socialism in China

By: Elisabeth Croll

First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in Chinaexplores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards, Professor Croll provides an opportunity to study its construction, its ideological and structural development over a number of decades, and its often ambiguous relationship with a parallel movement to establish socialism. Based on a variety of material including eye witness accounts, the author examines a wide range of fundamental issues, including women’s class and oppression, the relation of women’s solidarity groups to class organisations, reproduction and the accommodation of domestic labour, women in the labour process, and the relationship between women’s participation in social production and their access to and control of political and economic resources. The book includes excerpts from studies of village and communal life, documents of the women’s movement and interviews with members of the movement.

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Routledge

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0415519152

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9780415519151

Feminism and Socialism in China (Routledge Revivals)

By: Elisabeth Croll

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Feminism and Socialism in China (Routledge Revivals)

By: Elisabeth Croll

First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards, Professor Croll provides an opportunity to study its construction, its ideological and structural development over a number of decades, and its often ambiguous relationship with a parallel movement to establish socialism. Based on a variety of material including eye witness accounts, the author examines a wide range of fundamental issues, including women’s class and oppression, the relation of women’s solidarity groups to class organisations, reproduction and the accommodation of domestic labour, women in the labour process, and the relationship between women’s participation in social production and their access to and control of political and economic resources. The book includes excerpts from studies of village and communal life, documents of the women’s movement and interviews with members of the movement.

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1136337318

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Using The Biological Literature

A Practical Guide, Revised And Expanded

By: Diane Schmidt,Elisabeth B. Davis

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Using The Biological Literature

A Practical Guide, Revised And Expanded

By: Diane Schmidt,Elisabeth B. Davis

Provides an in-depth review of current print and electronic tools for research in numerous disciplines of biology, including dictionaries and encyclopedias, method guides, handbooks, on-line directories, and periodicals. Directs readers to an associated Web page that maintains the URLs and annotations of all major Inernet resources discussed in th

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CRC Press

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0824741714

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1919 – The Year That Changed China

A New History of the New Culture Movement

By: Elisabeth Forster

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1919 – The Year That Changed China

A New History of the New Culture Movement

By: Elisabeth Forster

The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals did not anticipate that, for instance, baihua (aprecursor of the modern Chinese language), communism, Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu would become important and famous – all of which was very obvious to them at the end of the year. Elisabeth Forster traces the precise mechanisms behind this transformation on the basis of a rich variety of sources, including newspapers, personal letters, student essays, advertisements, textbooks and diaries. She proposes a new model for cultural change, which puts intellectual marketing at its core. This book retells the story of the New Culture Movement in light of the diversifi ed and decentered picture of Republican China developed in recent scholarship. It is a lively and ironic narrative about cultural change through academic infi ghting, rumors and conspiracy theories, newspaper stories and intellectuals (hell-)bent on selling agendas through powerful buzzwords.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110558297

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9783110558296

Specters of War

Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict

By: Elisabeth Bronfen

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Specters of War

Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict

By: Elisabeth Bronfen

Specters of War looks at the way war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Elisabeth Bronfen asserts that Hollywood has emerged as a place where national narratives are created and circulated so that audiences can engage with fantasies, ideologies, and anxieties that take hold at a given time, only to change with the political climate. Such cultural reflection is particularly poignant when it deals with America’s traumatic history of war. The nation has no direct access to war as a horrific experience of carnage and human destruction; we understand our relation to it through images and narratives that transmit and interpret it for us. Bronfen does not discuss actual conflicts but the films by which we have come to know and remember them, including All Quiet on the Western Front, The Best Years of Our Lives, Miracle at St. Anna, The Deer Hunter, and Flags of Our Fathers. Battles and campaigns, the home front and women-who-wait narratives, war correspondents, and court martials are also explored as instruments of cultural memory. Bronfen argues that we are haunted by past wars and by cinematic re-conceptualizations of them, and reveals a national iconography of redemptive violence from which we seem unable to escape.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813553997

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9780813553993

Kids, Day in and Day Out

A Compendium of Ideas, Recommendations, Insights, Inspirations, Facts, and Suggestions, Problems and Solutions for Living with Kids Every Single Day

By: Elisabeth Lohman Scharlatt,Christopher Cerf

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Kids, Day in and Day Out

A Compendium of Ideas, Recommendations, Insights, Inspirations, Facts, and Suggestions, Problems and Solutions for Living with Kids Every Single Day

By: Elisabeth Lohman Scharlatt,Christopher Cerf

Parents tell how they handle their children's education, nutrition, discipline, play activities, and problems

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Simon & Schuster

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0671224808

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9780671224806

King of Darkness

By: Elisabeth Staab

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King of Darkness

By: Elisabeth Staab

Action-packed and sexually charged, this book will draw you in from the opening scene."--RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 stars Thad, the King of Vampires, is looking for his prophesied mate who will unlock his powers. But when he meets carefree Isabel, he thinks fate must have gotten it seriously wrong. Scorned by the vampire community for her lack of power, Isabel Anthony lives a carefree existence masquerading as human--although drifting through the debauched human nightlife, she prefers the patrons' blood to other indulgences. But when she meets the sexy, arrogant king of the vampires, this party-girl's life turns dark and dangerous. Dead-set on finding the prophesied mate who will unlock his fiery powers, Thad Morgan must find his queen before their race is destroyed. Their enemies are gaining ground, and Thad needs his powers to unite his subjects. But when his search leads him to the defiant Isabel, he wonders if fate had gotten it seriously wrong... Chronicles of Yavn: King of Darkness (Book 1) Prince of Power (Book 2) Hunter by Night (Book 3)

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402263155

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9781402263156

Savory Memories

By: L. Elisabeth Beattie

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Savory Memories

By: L. Elisabeth Beattie

Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities. John C. Inscoe has spent much of his scholarly career exploring the social, economic and political significance of slavery and slaveholding in the mountain South and the complex nature of the regionÕs wartime loyalties, and the brutal guerrilla warfare and home front traumas that stemmed from those divisions. The essays here embrace both facts and fictions related to those issues, often conveyed through intimate vignettes that focus on individuals, families, and communities, keeping the human dimension at the forefront of his insights and analysis. Drawing on the memories, memoirs, and other testimony of slaves and free blacks, slaveholders and abolitionists, guerrilla warriors, invading armies, and the highland civilians they encountered, Inscoe considers this multiplicity of perspectives and what is revealed about highlandersÕ dual and overlapping identities as both a part of, and distinct from, the South as a whole. He devotes attention to how the truths derived from these contemporary voices were exploited, distorted, reshaped, reinforced, or ignored by later generations of novelists, journalists, filmmakers, dramatists, and even historians with differing agendas over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His cast of characters includes John Henry, Frederick Law Olmsted and John Brown, Andrew Johnson and Zebulon Vance, and those who later interpreted their storiesÑJohn Fox and John Ehle, Thomas Wolfe and Charles Frazier, Emma Bell Miles and Harry Caudill, Carter Woodson and W. J. Cash, Horace Kephart and John C. Campbell, even William Faulkner and Flannery OÕConnor. Their work and that of many others have contributed much to either our understandingÑor misunderstandingÑof nineteenth century Appalachia and its place in the American imagination.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813130808

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9780813130804

Anti-Electra

The Radical Totem of the Girl

By: Elisabeth von Samsonow

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Anti-Electra

The Radical Totem of the Girl

By: Elisabeth von Samsonow

A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex” The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra is a philosophy of “the girl” as a model of contemporary transgressive subjectivity. Elisabeth von Samsonow asserts that focusing on the girl’s escape from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and art. Presenting an interpretation of contemporary technics, Anti-Electra argues that technology today encompasses Electra’s gadgets and toys. According to von Samsonow, satellite drive technologies such as wireless telephones, WLAN, and GPS echo the “preoedipal constellation” that the girl specializes in. And with the help of the girl, the cartography of overlapping zones between humankind and animals, as well as between humankind and apparatuses, is redesigned through what the book holds as a “radical totemism.” Anti-Electra ultimately offers a new view on gender, the contemporary world dyed by symbolic girlism, and the (universal) girl in critical dialogue with media, ecology, and society.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452960763

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9781452960760

On the Side of the Persecuted

By: Elisabeth Kesten

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On the Side of the Persecuted

By: Elisabeth Kesten

Jody Myers, Ph.D. (Coordinator, Jewish Studies Program / Professor, Department of Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge): On the Side of the Persecuted ... is a very interesting book that will engage readers on a number of different levels.I enjoyed the book very much and I recommend it wholeheartedly. On the level of its story line, On the Side of the Persecuted has a plot that keeps the reader guessing.The book is set in late 14th - early 15th century Germany and Italy, and it illustrates the daily lives of the nobility, physicians, peasants, and Jews.It opens with a brief look at a few stark incidents in the childhood of Prince Leon, the protagonist, that shape him into a persecutor of Jews.We follow Leons personal journey - which is never predictable - as he wrestles with his sins and attempts to redeem himself as a human being. ...The personal relationships ... are sensitively developed by the author, and it is easy to be drawn into Leons dilemmas, losses, and victories.It is quite a moving tale. On the Side of the Persecuted makes history come alive.The author sets the story into the late medieval period, with its groundbreaking political and religious changes: the growth of nation-states, schism within the Catholic church, the Black plague, expulsion of Jews, etc.She weaves together the story with just enough history to make the story line plausible and to make the history relevant.As a teacher of Jewish history, I can testify that the book is very good at driving home the influence on the Jews of medieval economic practices and political systems, the Church hierarchy, and Christian insecurities vis a vis heretics and Jews.It also enlightens the reader about the internal workings of the Jewish community....The author describes Leons training and occupation as a physician and we learn fascinating tidbits about medical education, the common versus professional concepts of disease and treatment, and the many religious obstacles in the way of advancing medical knowledge.This information is conveyed in short segments or details woven into the story, so it is never boring. I think this book is particularly good for teaching Jewish moral and religious concepts.Without being preachy or pedantic, the reader learns about the importance of teshuva (repentance), establishing a disciplined way of life, doing deeds of loving kindness, honoring peoples privacy, and keeping ones pride in check.The author shows that these are really quite complex and sophisticated matters. ... It is easy to get absorbed in On the Side of the Persecuted.The book conveys a great deal while telling a good story.Those knowledgeable about Judaism, as well as those less familiar, would find it insightful and thought-provoking.History buffs would enjoy it immensely.I would recommend it those of high school age and older.It would be an excellent choice for a book club, and it would also work well as a supplement to a history class or a course on Jewish ethics.It is obvious that Elisabeth Kesten crafted her book with a lot of care and painstaking research, and her work deserves wide recognition. Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter, September/October 2001: Prince Leon of Germany, destined for greatness and power, creates a new path for himself, one that has been trod by few others before him.Born of Christian nobility, Prince Leon is gr

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1469118149

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Through Gates of Splendor

The Event that Shocked the World, Changed a People, and Inspired a Nation

By: Elisabeth Elliot

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Through Gates of Splendor

The Event that Shocked the World, Changed a People, and Inspired a Nation

By: Elisabeth Elliot

Through Gates of Splendor is the true story of five young missionaries who were savagely killed while trying to establish communication with the Auca Indians of Ecuador. The story is told through the eyes of Elisabeth Elliot, the wife of one of the young men who was killed."--The publisher.

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1598564692

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9781598564693

The Defender's Dilemma

Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression

By: Elisabeth Braw

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The Defender's Dilemma

Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression

By: Elisabeth Braw

National security threats facing the West are fundamentally changing. In this book, Elisabeth Braw offers the first sustained analysis of how new tactics in the gray zone between war and peace dangerously weaken liberal democracies. She discusses the breadth of gray-zone aggression and presents strategies for better defense against it.

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Performing Gender at Work

By: Elisabeth Kelan

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Performing Gender at Work

By: Elisabeth Kelan

Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations.

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The Art of Discovery

Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe

By: Maren Elisabeth Schwab,Anthony Grafton

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The Art of Discovery

Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe

By: Maren Elisabeth Schwab,Anthony Grafton

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua. The find was greeted with the same enthusiasm as the bones of a Christian saint, and established a pattern that antiquarians would follow for centuries to come. The Art of Discovery tells the stories of the Renaissance antiquarians who turned material remains of the ancient world into sources for scholars and artists, inspirations for palaces and churches, and objects of pilgrimage and devotion. Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton bring to life some of the most spectacular finds of the age, such as Nero’s Golden House and the wooden placard that was supposedly nailed to the True Cross. They take readers into basements, caves, and cisterns, explaining how digs were undertaken and shedding light on the methods antiquarians—and the alchemists and craftspeople they consulted—used to interpret them. What emerges is not an origin story for modern archaeology or art history but rather an account of how early modern artisanal skills and technical expertise were used to create new knowledge about the past and inspire new forms of art, scholarship, and devotion in the present. The Art of Discovery challenges the notion that Renaissance antiquarianism was strictly a secular enterprise, revealing how the rediscovery of Christian relics and the bones of martyrs helped give rise to highly interdisciplinary ways of examining and authenticating objects of all kinds.

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High Tide at Noon

By: Elisabeth Ogilvie

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High Tide at Noon

By: Elisabeth Ogilvie

Young, vivacious Joanna Bennett desperately wishes to be captain of her own lobstering boat, but despite being the favored daughter of Bennett’s Island’s founding family, she is still just a girl in the eyes of the community, and a girl living off the coast of Maine in the early 20th century is expected to mind the kitchen, not tend to pot buoys. While quietly struggling to find her place on insular Bennett’s Island, one where she could let her bold and opinionated nature shine without shaming her family, Joanna instead finds love when she meets a witty stranger with a sparkling smile just off the mailboat. One whirlwind courtship and wedding later, Joanna finds herself master of her own house, and every aspect of her beloved island seems to reflect her joy. But when the luster begins to wear off and her husband’s dark secrets slowly reveal themselves, Joanna must draw on her determination, resilience, and resourcefulness to keep her family together. This evocative coming-of-age story transports readers to the beautiful and rugged Maine coast, where families must eke their livelihoods from the tempestuous ocean but in return they’re afforded the daily splendor and simple pleasures of island life.

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Emotional Workplace Abuse

A New Research Approach

By: Elina Penttinen,Marjut Jyrkinen,Elisabeth Wide

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Emotional Workplace Abuse

A New Research Approach

By: Elina Penttinen,Marjut Jyrkinen,Elisabeth Wide

Addressing emotional workplace abuse, this Palgrave Pivot takes a multidisciplinary approach which combines feminist research on violence with organisation and management studies, in order to offer a new approach on workplace violations. The book analyses why it is difficult for targets and organisations alike to name and identify emotional abuse and addresses the severe negative effects of abuse on the targets’ lives. It brings ethical leadership to the fore as a means to foster sustainable organisations. Using empirical data and research, this book highlights subtle forms of violations that take place in the workplace, and provides analysis from the perspective of the target. A valuable read for scholars and practitioners involved in organisational management and HRM, Emotional Workplace Abuse will help readers to understand the importance of sustainable leadership in preventing emotional workplace abuse.

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Storm Tide

By: Elisabeth Ogilvie

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Storm Tide

By: Elisabeth Ogilvie

At long last Joanna Bennett is returning to her family’s island, the childhood home that her heart has yearned for ever since she was forced to the mainland by catastrophe. At her side stands Nils Sorensen, her oldest friend, stalwart admirer, and new husband. Together they will restore Bennett’s Island to its former glory: enticing former residents and other hardworking mainlanders to join their small community, repairing damaged buildings pummeled by the elements during five years of abandonment, and reclaiming the lobstering territory that was once the sole province of islanders but has been overrun by the nearby Brigporters. All the while, Joanna and Nils are setting the foundation of their future, one that will surely be stormy if Joanna tries to apply the rules of her previous marriage to her relationship with Nils. Joanna Bennett will always be a strong and fiercely independent woman, but without learning to trust and be vulnerable in her marriage, she will find herself proud and alone. This story, the second book in Elisabeth Ogilvie’s beloved Tide Trilogy, transports readers to the beautiful and rugged Maine coast, where families must eke their livelihoods from the tempestuous ocean but in return they’re afforded the daily splendor and simple pleasures of island life.

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Guardian's Watch

By: Hope White,Elisabeth Rees

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Guardian's Watch

By: Hope White,Elisabeth Rees

Enjoy two action-packed page-turners featuring K-9 crime-stoppers solving thrilling mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat! DANGEROUS HOLIDAY SECRETS Covert Christmas by Hope White When a man is shot and left for dead on Echo Mountain, search-and-rescue K-9 handler Breanna McBride wants answers. All the victim can recall is that his first name is Scott, and that someone wants him silenced. While Breanna investigates, she must ignore the attraction between them. But as the two close in on the truth, she becomes the killer’s next target… Covert Cargo by Elisabeth Rees Undercover navy SEAL Dillon Randall is investigating a human trafficking ring off the California coast. When Beth Forrester unwittingly becomes a target of the traffickers, Dillon’s mission suddenly includes protecting her. Now he has to win Beth’s trust—while keeping his true identity a secret. But he’s finding it hard to maintain his cover around the woman working her way into his heart.

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Harlequin

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1488055602

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From Cotton Mill to Business Empire

The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China

By: Elisabeth Köll

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From Cotton Mill to Business Empire

The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China

By: Elisabeth Köll

The demise of state-owned enterprises, the transformation of collectives into shareholding cooperatives, and the creation of investment opportunities through stock markets indicate China’s movement from a socialist, state-controlled economy toward a socialist market economy. Yet, contrary to high expectations that China’s new enterprises will become like corporations in capitalist countries, management often remains under the control of the onetime bureaucrats who ran the socialist enterprises.The concepts, definitions, and interpretations of property rights, corporate structures, and business practices in contemporary China have historical, institutional, and cultural roots. In tracing the development under founder Zhang Jian (1853–1926) and his successors of the Dasheng Cotton Mill in Nantong into a business group encompassing, among other concerns, cotton, flour, and oil mills, land development companies, and shipping firms, the author documents the growth of regional enterprises as local business empires from the 1890s until the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949. She focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, particularly issues of control and accountability; the introduction and management of industrial work in the countryside; and the integration and interdependency of local, national, and international markets in Republican China.

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BRILL

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1684173914

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Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

By: Elisabeth Hsu

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Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

By: Elisabeth Hsu

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin - locals would try out their ‘alternatively modern’ formulas for treating a wide range of post-colonial disorders and seek their sexual enhancement medicines.

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180073557X

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Salvation from the Lake of Fire

The Beauty of John 3:16

By: Elisabeth Christine Nelson

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Salvation from the Lake of Fire

The Beauty of John 3:16

By: Elisabeth Christine Nelson

Salvation from the Lake of Fire: The Beauty of John 3:16" offers an enlightening exploration of eternal salvation, Christian salvation, and the theology of salvation within the context of life after death in Christianity. With a style deeply rooted in Christian theology and spiritual education, this book is a beacon of hope and understanding for individuals aged 18 and older who seek clarity on the profound questions about the afterlife. In a world where uncertainty about the soul's eternal destiny prevails, "Salvation from the Lake of Fire" serves as a guiding light. It bridges the gap between the concept of eternal salvation and the foreboding imagery of the lake of fire, making it accessible and relatable to readers from all walks of life. This book's primary mission is to extend a hand of love and grace to those who may not fully comprehend God's boundless love for humanity. It serves as an introduction to salvation, inviting both unbelievers and questioning Christians to embark on a journey of spiritual discovery. Within its pages, you'll find a comprehensive exploration of the theology of salvation, illuminating the profound significance of John 3:16. This timeless verse reveals God's sacrificial love in sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to secure eternal salvation for humanity. It underscores the pivotal role of faith in Jesus as the pathway to redemption from the ominous lake of fire. This book stands alongside other spiritually enriching titles like "40 Questions About Heaven and Hell" by Alan W. Gomes, "Four Views on Hell" by Preston Sprinkel, "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel, and "Captured by Grace" by David Jeremiah. If you have been searching for books on eternal life or have contemplated the theology of salvation, "Salvation from the Lake of Fire" is a must-read. As you delve into this profound exploration, you'll come to appreciate the timeless truths within John 3:16 and the assurance it offers. In a world filled with uncertainty, this book sheds light on the promise of eternal salvation, guiding you away from the fearsome lake of fire and toward the warm embrace of God's love. It's a transformative journey, an introduction to salvation, and an invitation to experience the profound beauty of John 3:16.

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166422999X

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Development Economics

Theory and Practice

By: Alain de Janvry,Elisabeth Sadoulet

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Development Economics

Theory and Practice

By: Alain de Janvry,Elisabeth Sadoulet

This second edition of Development Economics: Theory and Practice continues to provide students and practitioners with the perspectives and tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current major economic development issues in the world. Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet identify seven key dimensions of development—growth, poverty, vulnerability, inequality, basic needs, sustainability, and quality of life—and use them to structure the contents of the text. The book gives a historical perspective on the evolution of thought in development. It uses theory and empirical analysis to present readers with a full picture of how development works, how its successes and failures can be assessed, and how alternatives can be introduced. The authors demonstrate how diagnostics, design of programs and policies, and impact evaluation can be used to seek new solutions to the suffering and violence caused by development failures. In the second edition, more attention has been given to ongoing developments, such as: pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals continuously rising global and national inequality health as a domestic and international public good cash transfers for social protection carbon trading for sustainability This text is fully engaged with the most cutting-edge research in the field and equips readers with analytical tools for impact evaluation of development programs and policies, illustrated with numerous examples. It is underpinned throughout by a wealth of student-friendly features, including case studies, quantitative problem sets, end-of-chapter questions, and extensive references. Excel and Stata exercises are available as digital supplements for students and instructors. This unique text is ideal for those taking courses in development economics, economic growth, and development policy, and will provide an excellent foundation for those wishing to pursue careers in development.

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1000378535

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