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Human Resources for the Non-HR Manager

By: Carol T. Kulik,Carol T Kulik,Elissa Perry

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Human Resources for the Non-HR Manager

By: Carol T. Kulik,Carol T Kulik,Elissa Perry

Human Resources for the Non-HR Manager appeals to anyone interested in management issues. The book explains why human resource issues are increasing the responsibilities of front-line managers rather than the HR department. Chapters present the basics of HR including the fundamentals of hiring, performance appraisal, reward systems, and disciplinary systems, so that any manager--regardless of his or her background or functional area--can approach these parts of the job with confidence. The book also covers the latest developments in equal opportunity law and describes the manager's responsibilities in controlling sexual harassment and managing diverse employees, including older workers and employees with disabilities. Each chapter's material is firmly grounded in the current HR academic literature, but the book's friendly, conversational tone conveys basic principles of good practice without technical jargon. Designed to make the material more accessible and personally relevant, the book includes the following special features: *Manager's Checkpoints--a series of questions that help the reader apply the material to his or her own organizational context; *Boxes that describe real-life examples of how companies respond to HR challenges; *For Further Reading--references to articles published in outlets that bridge the academic-practitioner divide; *Manager's Knots--presented in a question-and-answer format, these describe typical managerial problems, take the reader into some of the gray, ambiguous areas of HR, and suggest ways to apply the chapter material to real-life managerial dilemmas.

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Psychology Press

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1135632049

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9781135632045

White Magic

By: Elissa Washuta

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White Magic

By: Elissa Washuta

Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award A TIME, NPR, New York Public Library, Lit Hub, Book Riot, and Entropy Best Book of the Year "Beguiling and haunting. . . . Washuta's voice sears itself onto the skin." —The New York Times Book Review Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists. Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. She interlaces stories from her forebears with cultural artifacts from her own life—Twin Peaks, the Oregon Trail II video game, a Claymation Satan, a YouTube video of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham—to explore questions of cultural inheritance and the particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing into romantic love under colonial rule.

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Tin House Books

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1951142403

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9781951142407

Awfully Wedded

Tales of Disaster from the Big Day

By: Elissa Stein,Daniel Mailliard

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Awfully Wedded

Tales of Disaster from the Big Day

By: Elissa Stein,Daniel Mailliard

Unbelievable tales. Fashion that defies the imaginations. Weddings that have made headlines, and scene stealers from the movies and TV. AWFULLY WEDDED by Elissa Stein and Daniel Mailliard examines every aspect of wedding culture with hilarious results. Find out about the Southern Belle bridesmaid who fainted during the ceremony--only to be carried out of the church with the entire congregation aware that she wasn't wearing any panties. Or revisit the TV weddings we could never forget, from Di and Charles to Luke and Laura. Learn interesting facts like the grand total of bridesmaids that Elizabeth Taylor went through to the worst wedding gifts ever...it's all here. AWFULLY WEDDED is a must for anyone with a sense of humor about life's absurd scenarios and the often-ridiculous situations we find ourselves in.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466865849

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9781466865846

Princess Rayna Rescues Leo

The Adventures of Princess Rayna

By: Elissa Briskin Greenberg

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Princess Rayna Rescues Leo

The Adventures of Princess Rayna

By: Elissa Briskin Greenberg

Princess Rayna was famous for always getting into trouble! But behind the walls of a remote castle lurked a new and mysterious danger. What secrets did that castle hold? Was that a witch she saw riding away? Was someone in trouble? As she set off with her horse, Snowy, on her greatest adventure yet, she thought— It’s a good thing I brought my magic ruby, just in case…..

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457541254

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9781457541254

Motherland

A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing

By: Elissa Altman

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Motherland

A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing

By: Elissa Altman

“I’m reading this book right now and loving it!”—Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild How can a mother and daughter who love (but don’t always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? “Vibrating with emotion, this deeply honest account strikes a chord.”—People “A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different kinds of love between women.”—O: The Oprah Magazine After surviving a traumatic childhood in nineteen-seventies New York and young adulthood living in the shadow of her flamboyant mother, Rita, a makeup-addicted former television singer, Elissa Altman has managed to build a very different life, settling in Connecticut with her wife of nearly twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, still orbiting around her mother but keeping far enough away to preserve the stable, independent world she has built as a writer and editor. Then Elissa is confronted with the unthinkable: Rita, whose days are spent as a flâneur, traversing Manhattan from the Clinique counters at Bergdorf to Bloomingdale’s and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall, leaving her completely dependent upon her daughter. Now Elissa is forced to finally confront their profound differences, Rita’s yearning for beauty and glamour, her view of the world through her days in the spotlight, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of preserving youth. To sustain their fragile mother-daughter bond, Elissa must navigate the turbulent waters of their shared lives, the practical challenges of caregiving for someone who refuses to accept it, the tentacles of narcissism, and the mutual, frenetic obsession that has defined their relationship. Motherland is a story that touches every home and every life, mapping the ferocity of maternal love, moral obligation, the choices women make about motherhood, and the possibility of healing. Filled with tenderness, wry irreverence, and unforgettable characters, it is an exploration of what it means to escape from the shackles of the past only to have to face them all over again. Praise for Motherland “Rarely has a mother-daughter relationship been excavated with such honesty. Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother, and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance

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Ballantine Books

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0399181601

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9780399181603

The New Bosnian Mosaic

Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society

By: Elissa Helms

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The New Bosnian Mosaic

Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society

By: Elissa Helms

Since the violent events of the Bosnian war and the revelations of ethnic cleansing that shocked the world in the early 1990s, Bosnia has become a metaphor for the new ethnic nationalisms, for the transformation of warfare in the post-Cold War era, and for new forms of peacekeeping and state-building. This book is unique in offering a re-examination of the Bosnian case with a 'bottom-up' perspective. It gathers together cultural anthropologists and other social scientists to consider the specificities of the Bosnian case. However, the book also raises broader questions: what are the consequences of internecine violence and how should societies attempt to overcome them? Are the uncertainties and the transformations of Bosnian post-war society due entirely to the war, or are they related to wider processes encompassing post-communist Europe as a whole? And are the difficulties experienced by international state-building operations mainly due to distinctive features of the local societies or are they due to the policies promoted by the international community itself?

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Routledge

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1317023072

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9781317023074

Tales From the Prom

By: Elissa Stein,Daniel Mailliard

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Tales From the Prom

By: Elissa Stein,Daniel Mailliard

The joy, the pain, the triumph, the heartbreak: the Prom. Remember the crepe paper? How about the synthetic rustle of yards and yards of pastel taffeta? Let Elissa Stein and Daniel Mailliard take you back to a time you may not want to remember, but one you could never forget. It's high time one of America's most widespread of adolescent social rituals got the literary treatment: in this book is a no-holds-barred collection of stories that reminds us only too vividly of the most important, angst-filled, and (potentially) romantic evening of our young lives. Not just a collection of personal testimonials, Tales from the Prom also tackles proms in the news, prom fashions, proms in the movies--in short, everything the uninitiated needs to know, and everything the prom survivor wants to reminisce about. So don't miss out on Tales from the Prom--it's cheaper than a limo rental and not nearly as messy as a vomit-splattered tuxedo!

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466865857

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9781466865853

Marketing Public Health

Strategies to Promote Social Change

By: Elissa A. Resnick,Michael Siegel (M.D.)

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Marketing Public Health

Strategies to Promote Social Change

By: Elissa A. Resnick,Michael Siegel (M.D.)

Given the current changes in the social, political, and economic environments in which health care is delivered, public health practitioners at all levels of government and in the private sector must run effective campaigns to change individual behavior, improve social and economic conditions, advance social policies, and compete successfully for public attention and resources. Marketing Public Health: Strategies to Promote Social Change, Third Edition is designed to help students and practitioners of public health understand basic marketing principles and strategically apply these principles in planning, implementing, and evaluating public health initiatives." --Publisher's website.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449645232

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9781449645236

Communicating at the End of Life

Finding Magic in the Mundane

By: Elissa Foster

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Communicating at the End of Life

Finding Magic in the Mundane

By: Elissa Foster

This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature. Author Elissa Foster’s own experiences as a volunteer hospice caregiver form the basis of the book. Communicating at the End of Life recounts the stories of Foster and six other volunteers and their communicative experiences with dying patients, using communication theory and research findings to identify insights on the relationships they form throughout the process. What unfolds is a scholarly examination of a subject that is significant to every individual at some point in the life process. Organized chronologically to follow the course of Foster’s involvement with hospice and the phases of the study, the book opens with Part 1, providing background and contextual information to help readers understand subsequent stories about communication between volunteers and patients. Part 2 of the volume emphasizes the adjustments required by the volunteers as they entered the world of hospice and the worlds of the patients. Part 3 underscores the importance of improvisation and finding balance within the role of volunteer—in particular how to be fully present for patients as well as their family members. The volume concludes with Part 4, which addresses how volunteers coped with the death of their patients and what they learned from the experience of volunteering. Communicating at the End of Life is appropriate for scholars and advanced students studying personal relationships, health communication, gerontology, interpersonal communication, lifespan communication, and communication & aging. Its unique content offers precious and meaningful insights on the communication processes at a critical point in the life process.

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Routledge

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1135251312

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9781135251314

Alabama

Third Edition

By: Joyce Hart,Elissa Bass

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Alabama

Third Edition

By: Joyce Hart,Elissa Bass

The titles in this popular series includes a variety of features that will help students learn about the state of Alabama. This comprehensive book outlines the geography, history, people, government, and economy of the state. Lists of key people, events, cities, plants and animals, and political figures, plus fact boxes and quotes, provide easily accessible information that is supplemented by activities such as crafts, recipes, and a map quiz. Historic photos, artwork, and other images enhance the text. All books in the It's My State! ® series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1627132376

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9781627132374

I'll Stand by You

One Woman's Mission to Heal the Children of the World

By: Elissa Montanti

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I'll Stand by You

One Woman's Mission to Heal the Children of the World

By: Elissa Montanti

This may be the book that changes your life."—Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone “The saint of Staten Island” (People magazine) shares the inspirational story of how she’s changing the world, one child at a time. Over a decade ago, Elissa Montanti was reeling from the loss of several loved ones when she decided to work past her grief by collecting school supplies for Bosnian children. Then a U.N. ambassador showed her a photo of Kenan, a young boy who had lost both arms and one leg to a landmine. Elissa invited Kenan and his mother into her home, arranging free airfare, prosthetics, and medical care. Operating out of her apartment’s walk-in closet, Elissa’s Global Medical Relief Fund has since helped more than one hundred and fifty children from twenty-two countries injured in war zones and natural disasters around the world. I’ll Stand by You recounts Elissa’s remarkable story and how—in helping these children—she healed herself.

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230

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Penguin

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1101590904

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9781101590904

When Language Breaks Down

Analysing Discourse in Clinical Contexts

By: Elissa D. Asp,Jessica de Villiers

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When Language Breaks Down

Analysing Discourse in Clinical Contexts

By: Elissa D. Asp,Jessica de Villiers

Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers often know what people with Alzheimer's disease or Asperger's 'sound like' - that is they recognise patterns in people's discourse, from sounds and silences, to words, sentences and story structures. Such discourse patterns may inform their clinical judgements and affect the decisions they make. However, this knowledge is often tacit, like recognising a regional accent without knowing how to describe its features. This is the first book to present models for comprehensively describing discourse specifically in clinical contexts and to illustrate models with detailed analyses of discourse patterns associated with degenerative (Alzheimer's) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders. The book is aimed not only at advanced students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, speech pathology and clinical psychology but also at researchers, clinicians and caregivers for whom explicit knowledge of discourse patterns might be helpful.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139487558

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9781139487559

Learning from the Bumps in the Road

Insights from Early Childhood Leaders

By: Holly Elissa Bruno,Janet Gonzalez-Mena,Luis A. Hernandez,Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan

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Learning from the Bumps in the Road

Insights from Early Childhood Leaders

By: Holly Elissa Bruno,Janet Gonzalez-Mena,Luis A. Hernandez,Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan

The journey to professional and personal growth takes time, and the road isn’t always smooth, but it is a learning-filled adventure Holly Elissa Bruno, Janet Gonzalez-Mena, Luis Antonio Hernandez, and Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan are accomplished professionals and respected leaders in the early childhood field. After a decade of speaking together at national professional development conferences, they now give you twelve of their most important presentation topics as essays. Each chapter presents a dialogue among the authors about a particular topic and the lessons gleaned from facing and overcoming uncertainty and obstacles. Merging each author’s distinct voice, expertise, and life experiences, this collection unveils the authors’ personal and meaningful histories, insecurities, and insights. You will be encouraged and challenged to think more deeply and openly about your own practices and philosophies. You will gain a renewed sense of purpose as you help children reach their full potentials. And you will discover—as the authors did—that every bump in the road is an invitation to grow and opportunity to learn. Holly Elissa Bruno, MA, JD; Janet Gonzalez-Mena, MA; Luis Antonio Hernandez, MA; and Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan, EdD, are acclaimed keynote speakers, authors, and experts on a variety of topics in early childhood.

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Redleaf Press

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1605542601

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9781605542607

Activity Analysis, Creativity and Playfulness in Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Making Play Just Right

By: Heather Miller-Kuhaneck,Susan Spitzer,Elissa Miller

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Activity Analysis, Creativity and Playfulness in Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Making Play Just Right

By: Heather Miller-Kuhaneck,Susan Spitzer,Elissa Miller

Activity Analysis, Creativity and Playfulness in Pediatric Occupational Therapy: Making Play Just Right is a unique resource on pediatric activity and therapy analysis for occupational therapists and students. This text provides useful information on planning creative and playful activities within therapy sessions. This resource contains case studies, activity worksheets and a DVD.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763756067

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9780763756062

Redeeming Vision

A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art

By: Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt

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Redeeming Vision

A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art

By: Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt

We are formed by the images we view. From classical art to advertisements and from news photos to social media, the images we look at mold our ideas of race, gender, and class. They shape how we love God and our neighbor. This practical guide helps us look closely at and understand how a wide variety of images make meaning as aesthetic and cultural objects. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt teaches us how to learn from art rather than critique it and how to respond to images in Christian ways, allowing them to positively transform us and how we love. The book includes twenty-three images, most in full color, that range from classical European paintings to Central African sculpture, from Chinese ink painting to political propaganda, and from stark anthropological photographs to unconventional installations.

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250

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Baker Books

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1493440209

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9781493440207

Soil Management and Greenhouse Effect

By: John M. Kimble,Elissa R. Levine,B.A. Stewart

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Soil Management and Greenhouse Effect

By: John M. Kimble,Elissa R. Levine,B.A. Stewart

Soil Management and Greenhouse Effect focuses on proper management of soils and its effects on global change, specifically, the greenhouse effect. It contains up-to-date information on a broad range of important soil management topics, emphasizing the critical role of soil for carbon storage. Sequestration and emission of carbon and other gases are examined in various ecosystems, in both natural and managed environments, to provide a comprehensive overview. This useful reference includes chapters that address policy issues, as well as research and development priorities. The material in this volume is valuable not only to soil scientists but to the entire environmental science community.

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404

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CRC Press

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1351415840

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9781351415842

Arkansas

Third Edition

By: David C. King,Elissa Bass

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Arkansas

Third Edition

By: David C. King,Elissa Bass

The third edition of this popular series is updated with a variety of features that will help students learn about the state of Arkansas. This comprehensive book outlines the geography, history, people, government, and economy of the state. Lists of key people, events, cities, plants and animals, and political figures, plus fact boxes and quotes, provide easily accessible information that is supplemented by activities such as crafts, recipes, and a map quiz. Historic photos, artwork, and other images enhance the text.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1627132341

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Treyf

My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw

By: Elissa Altman

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Treyf

My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw

By: Elissa Altman

“[A] gorgeously-written . . . brave and generous memoir” about growing up in a family with conflicting ideas about being Jewish and finding your own path (Dani Shapiro, New York Times–bestselling author of Inheritance). Though culturally Jewish, Elissa Altman was not raised religious. Her mother, an aspiring actor, didn’t feel the ancient teachings of the Talmud were relevant to modern life. Her father, the son of a cantor whose family died in the Holocaust, was the consummate rule breaker, caught between his spiritual hunger and his ongoing culinary affair with shellfish and spam—all things treyf, that which is unkosher and therefore forbidden. Altman’s youth was laced with contradiction and hope, betrayal and the yearning to belong. Synagogue on Saturday and Chinese pork ribs on Sunday. Bacon for breakfast before going to visit her orthodox grandparents. Longing for the religious traditions that grounded her friends’ lives, Altman attended Hebrew school, only to discover her own prohibited desire for other women. After her parents’ marriage fell apart, Altman found a haven at her grandmother’s house, cooking meals that made her feel whole again while embracing her homosexuality. Her story is a poignant, humorous and uplifting account of learning how to honor your past while becoming your most authentic self. “What makes Treyf so original is the author’s wry humor and her gimlet eye. . . . Her prose shines.” —The Wall Street Journal “A beautiful, brilliant memoir filled with striking images, unforgettable people, and vivid stories. . . . Wrought with such visceral love that the pages shimmer.” —Kate Christensen, author of Blue Plate Special “Gorgeous, singular, heartbreaking, haunting.” —Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year “Hard to put down.” —Booklist “Poignant and life-affirming.” —Kirkus Reviews

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240

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Open Road Media

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1504093550

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9781504093552

Suisun City and Valley

By: Elissa A. DeCaro,L. M. Ewing

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Suisun City and Valley

By: Elissa A. DeCaro,L. M. Ewing

Suisun, a Patwin word for "where the west wind blows," was the name given to the city and valley that flourished as a port between the vast regions of Sacramento and San Francisco. For over a thousand years, the Suisun region was inhabited by Native Americans, who thrived in the lush, temperate climate until the Mission Period brought forth devastation from conquest and epidemics. Suisun Valley served as the last vestige of the Mission Period with the establishment of Santa Eulalia, an asistencia for Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma. Following statehood, Suisun City and Valley became a cultural hub from the influx of pioneers, such as founder Capt. Josiah Wing, who saw potential for industry, agriculture, and trade.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738595179

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9780738595177

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