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Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

By: Elizabeth Kiem

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Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

By: Elizabeth Kiem

A timely YA thriller—part John Le Carré and part The Americans—about a Bolshoi ballerina trapped by family secrets and a legacy of espionage. The Bolshoi Saga: Marina Marina is born into privilege. A talented young dancer with Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet at the height of the Cold War, she seems destined to follow in the footsteps of her mother Svetlana, a Soviet Artist of the People. But when Svetlana disappears without explanation, Marina and her father have to get out. Fast. They defect to America, hoping they’ve escaped Russia’s secret police, hoping they can make a fresh start in New York. Instead they discover the web of intrigue around Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach is as tangled as the one they left behind.

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1616952644

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Orphan, Agent, Prima, Pawn

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Orphan, Agent, Prima, Pawn

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The year is 1958, and 16-year-old Svetlana is stuck in a Moscow orphanage Her dream of becoming a dancer comes true: she's invited to join The Bolshoi Ballet, whose power as a symbol of Soviet prowess is unmatched - except perhaps by the dreaded KGB secret police. Sveta is stunned when officers show up at her door, claiming to know about a trance she once fell into. Some very powerful people believe Sveta is capable of serving the regime as much more than a dancer. They want to enlist her against the West as a psychic spy. Now she must explore this other talent if she is to survive.

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1616956550

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The Soda Fountain

Floats, Sundaes, Egg Creams & More--Stories and Flavors of an American Original [A Cookbook]

By: Gia Giasullo,Peter Freeman,Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain,Elizabeth Kiem

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The Soda Fountain

Floats, Sundaes, Egg Creams & More--Stories and Flavors of an American Original [A Cookbook]

By: Gia Giasullo,Peter Freeman,Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain,Elizabeth Kiem

A collection of 70 recipes celebrating the history and stories of the classic American soda fountain from one of the most-celebrated revival soda fountains in the country, Brooklyn Farmacy. A century ago, soda fountains on almost every Main Street in America served as the heart of the community, where folks shared sundaes, sodas, ice cream floats, and the news of the day. A quintessentially American institution, the soda fountain still speaks of a bygone era of innocence and ease. When Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain opened its doors in 2010, it launched a revival of this great American original, capturing the hearts of a new generation. Featuring abundant full-color photography and vintage illustrations and advertisements, The Soda Fountain explores a rich history—from the origins of seltzer in the nineteenth century, through the transformation of soda during Prohibition and the Depression years, right up to today’s fountain renaissance. Featured recipes range from classics like the Purple Cow and Cherry Lime Rickey to contemporary innovations that have made Brooklyn Farmacy famous, like The Sundae of Broken Dreams (topped with caramel sauce and broken pretzel bits) and Makin’ Whoopie! Sundae (with hot fudge and mini chocolate whoopie cakes). Recreating beloved treats like egg creams and milkshakes with local, seasonal, and artisanal ingredients, Gia Giasullo and Peter Freeman, the sibling cofounders of Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, teach you how to resurrect the proud American soda fountain tradition at your own kitchen counter. With its fascinating anecdotes, mouth-watering pictures and easy-to-follow steps,this nostalgic cookbook proves that the soda fountain is a culinary and cultural institution that continues to delight.

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1607744856

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Hider, Seeker, Secret Keeper

By: Elizabeth Kiem

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Hider, Seeker, Secret Keeper

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The Bolshoi Saga: Lana Lana Dukovskaya is an up and coming talent at the Bolshoi Ballet, where her mother, Marina, also danced until her career came to a mysterious end. On the eve of an international tour, Lana’s best friend and chief rival is brutally attacked, making Lana both the substitute soloist and the prime suspect. Once in New York, Lana meets Georgi Levshik, a powerful Russian émigré who claims to know the truth about her mother’s past. Lana is wary, torn between curiosity and distrust. But when another young dancer is struck down just hours before her debut, Lana knows she is in danger. On the run, Lana puts her trust in Levshik’s alluring bodyguard, Roma. Together they must uncover the truth about a blood feud involving three generations of Dukovskaya dancers.

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Soho Press

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1616954132

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Danger & Diamonds

By: Elizabeth Levy

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Danger & Diamonds

By: Elizabeth Levy

Phillipa has always loved Agatha Christie mysteries, but it's not until the new captain's son and some interesting guests come aboard the cruise ship where she lives (and her parents work), that she finally gets a chance to do some sleuthing of her own.

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Roaring Brook Press

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1626726434

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Black Market Business

Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945

By: Christina Elizabeth Firpo

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Black Market Business

Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945

By: Christina Elizabeth Firpo

Black Market Business is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Lively and well told, it explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years. Christina Elizabeth Firpo argues that the confluence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes sweeping late colonial Tonkin created spaces of tension in which the interwar black market sex industry thrived. The clandestine sex industry flourished in sites of legal inconsistency, cultural changes, economic disparity, rural-urban division, and demographic shifts. As a nexus of the many tensions besetting late colonial Tonkin, the black market sex industry serves as a useful lens through which to examine these tensions and the ways they affected marginalized populations. More specifically, an investigation of this black market shows how a particular population of impoverished women—a group regrettably understudied by historians—experienced the tensions. Drawing on an astonishingly diverse and multilingual source base, Black Market Business includes detailed cases of juvenile prostitution, human trafficking, and debt bondage arrangements in sex work, as well as cases in Tonkin's bars, hotels, singing houses, and dance clubs. Using GIS technology and big data sets to track individual actors in history, it serves as a model for teaching new methodological approaches to conducting social histories of women and marginalized people.

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Cornell University Press

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1501752677

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H is for Hanoi

By: Elizabeth Rush

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H is for Hanoi

By: Elizabeth Rush

“When the crickets call and the wind is still and the water buffalo all are sleeping,” take a night journey through the streets of Hanoi with an artist who is searching for the city’s Red River. Wafted by dreams that soar like “a hundred white birds,” wander through a city that is stilled and softened by darkness; savor the syrupy fragrance of blossom-filled trees and the music of a cake seller’s song. Meet ancient men, “old as a pagoda,” who eat porridge and chicken feet; listen as the sounds of a “school of motorcycles swim past.” Jump aboard one of them and whiz off into the night. Listen to the wisdom of a magic turtle and a river spirit. Learn that “everything we love we carry within,” and hold that thought close while falling asleep. What will you dream of? The luminous vision of Nguyen NghiaCuong’s surreal and playful paintings combines magically with Elizabeth Rush’s story of an artist’s quest to reclaim forgotten memories in a place that has become unfamiliar after a long time of being away from home. H is for Hanoi evokes fairytales and bedtime stories that have lulled children to sleep for centuries, while taking all who turn its pages into a special dream in a very special city, a place that most of us have never seen.

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ThingsAsian Press

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1934159425

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The Social Design Reader

By: Elizabeth Resnick

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The Social Design Reader

By: Elizabeth Resnick

The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of the notion of socially responsible design. This volume represents the authentic voices of the thinkers, writers and designers who are helping to build a 'canon' of informed literature which documents the development of the discipline. The Social Design Reader is divided into three parts. Section 1: Making a Stand includes an introduction to the term 'social design' and features papers which explore its historical underpinnings. Section 2: Creating the Future documents the emergence of social design as a concept, as a nascent field of study, and subsequently as a rapidly developing professional discipline, and Section 3: A Sea Change is made up of papers acknowledging social design as a firmly established practice. Contextualising section introductions are provided to aid readers in understanding the original source material, while summary boxes clearly articulate how each text fits with the larger milieu of social design theory, methods, and practice.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350026034

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Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

By: Elizabeth Kiem

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Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

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Decolonizing Design

A Cultural Justice Guidebook

By: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

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Decolonizing Design

A Cultural Justice Guidebook

By: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. From the excesses of world expositions to myths of better living through technology, modernist design, in its European-based guises, has excluded and oppressed the very people whose lands and lives it reshaped. Decolonizing Design first asks how modernist design has encompassed and advanced the harmful project of colonization—then shows how design might address these harms by recentering its theory and practice in global Indigenous cultures and histories. A leading figure in the movement to decolonize design, Dori Tunstall uses hard-hitting real-life examples and case studies drawn from over fifteen years of working to transform institutions to better reflect the lived experiences of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. Her book is at once enlightening, inspiring, and practical, interweaving her lived experiences with extensive research to show what decolonizing design means, how it heals, and how to practice it in our institutions today. For leaders and practitioners in design institutions and communities, Tunstall’s work demonstrates how we can transform the way we imagine and remake the world, replacing pain and repression with equity, inclusion, and diversity—in short, she shows us how to realize the infinite possibilities that decolonized design represents.

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MIT Press

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0262047691

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Vibrational Acupuncture

Integrating Tuning Forks with Needles

By: Mary Elizabeth Wakefield,MichelAngelo

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Vibrational Acupuncture

Integrating Tuning Forks with Needles

By: Mary Elizabeth Wakefield,MichelAngelo

Sound healing therapy is rapidly gaining recognition as an important complementary medicine modality; this ground-breaking book uniquely presents techniques, based upon Chinese medicine theory, for integrating the use of precision calibrated Ohm planetary tuning forks and acupuncture needles, to create a new modality, Vibrational AcupunctureTM. The chapters include: An overview of Quantum Music TheoryTM Guidelines for using tuning forks with or without needles Insights into our genetic imprint, the Eight Extraordinary meridians Anti-exhaustion treatments for readers caught in an excessively busy and dissonant world Treatments for saggy neck and temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) Treatments for balancing the twin hemispheres of the brain, and alchemically lacing the Three Jiaos An introduction to vibrational remedies and more An overview of the use of healing sound as a palliative to global technological addiction, and how it restores essential harmony to a world that is seriously out of balance

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Singing Dragon

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0857012991

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The Cities of the Sun: Stories of Ancient America Founded on Historical Incidents in the Book of Mormon

By: Elizabeth Rachel Cannon

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The Cities of the Sun: Stories of Ancient America Founded on Historical Incidents in the Book of Mormon

By: Elizabeth Rachel Cannon

The end justifies the means, so these stories are designed to increase interest in the Book of Mormon. Hundreds of books have been written founded on the Bible, and there are some wonderfully colorful accounts of the founding of Christianity in Judea, Alexandria, and Rome. It is surprising that more has not been done dealing with the ancient history of the western world. Several of these stories were first published in the Improvement Era, and acknowledgement is made to that magazine for the encouragement it extended to the author, who traveled twice to Mexico and excavated amon the ruins there to gain information at first hand. If any boy or girl, after perusing these pages, is inspired to turn direct to the beautiful and simple language of the Book of Mormon itself, the purpose of "The Cities of the Sun" has been accomplished.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465559930

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Waves of Opposition

Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio

By: Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

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Waves of Opposition

Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio

By: Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

Waves of Opposition' describes and analyses the battles over the powerful medium of radio, which helped spark the massive upsurge of organised labour during the Depression. The text demonstrates its importance as a weapon in an ideological war between labour and business.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252073649

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Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology E-Book

By: Ross E. Petty,Ronald M. Laxer,Carol B Lindsley,Lucy Wedderburn,Robert C Fuhlbrigge,Elizabeth D. Mellins

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Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology E-Book

By: Ross E. Petty,Ronald M. Laxer,Carol B Lindsley,Lucy Wedderburn,Robert C Fuhlbrigge,Elizabeth D. Mellins

Offering up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of disease progression, diagnosis, management, and prognosis, Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology is the definitive reference in the field. For physicians caring for children with rheumatic diseases, this revised 8th Edition is an unparalleled resource for the full spectrum of rheumatologic diseases and non-rheumatologic musculoskeletal disorders in children and adolescents. Global leaders in the field provide reliable, evidence-based guidance, highlighted by superb full-color illustrations that facilitate a thorough understanding of the science that underlies rheumatic disease. - Offers expanded coverage of autoinflammatory diseases, plus new chapters on Takayasu Arteritis and Other Vasculitides, Mechanistic Investigation of Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases, Genetics and Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases, and Global Issues in Pediatric Rheumatology. - Reflects the changes in diagnosis, monitoring, and management that recent advances have made possible. - Covers the latest information on small molecule treatment, biologics, biomarkers, epigenetics, biosimilars, and cell-based therapies, helping you choose treatment protocols based on the best scientific evidence available today. - Features exhaustive reviews of the complex symptoms, signs, and lab abnormalities that characterize these clinical disorders. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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0323636535

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9780323636537

American Umpire

By: Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

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American Umpire

By: Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

Commentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, and often a destructive empire. Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that, because of its unusual federal structure, America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned collective approval. This provocative reinterpretation traces America’s role in the world from the days of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to the present. Cobbs Hoffman argues that the United States has been the pivot of a transformation that began outside its borders and before its founding, in which nation-states replaced the empires that had dominated history. The “Western” values that America is often accused of imposing were, in fact, the result of this global shift. American Umpire explores the rise of three values—access to opportunity, arbitration of disputes, and transparency in government and business—and finds that the United States is distinctive not in its embrace of these practices but in its willingness to persuade and even coerce others to comply. But America’s leadership is problematic as well as potent. The nation has both upheld and violated the rules. Taking sides in explosive disputes imposes significant financial and psychic costs. By definition, umpires cannot win. American Umpire offers a powerful new framework for reassessing the country’s role over the past 250 years. Amid urgent questions about future choices, this book asks who, if not the United States, might enforce these new rules of world order?

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Harvard University Press

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0674073835

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9780674073838

Orphan, Agent, Prima, Pawn

By: Elizabeth Kiem

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Orphan, Agent, Prima, Pawn

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Moscow, 1958: sixteen-year-old ballerina Svetlana’s dreams come true when she is invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet, but not is all as it seems. Now Svetlana is caught between the sinister worlds of very powerful people in the regime and the KGB, and the other world—one she was trying to escape through dance, the gift she’s been afraid of her entire life. The Bolshoi Saga: Svetlana is the third and final book in the series that is described as a feminist take on The Godfather, set in the world of Russian ballet. The year is 1958, and sixteen-year-old Svetlana is stuck in a Moscow orphanage designated for the unwanted children of Stalin’s enemies. Ballet is her obsession and salvation, her only hope at shedding a tainted family past. When she is invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet—the crown jewel of Russian culture and the pride of the Soviet Union—her dreams appear to have been realized. But she quickly learns that nobody’s past or secrets are safe. The dreaded KGB knows about the mysterious trances Sveta has suffered, inexplicable episodes that seem to offer glimpses of the past. Some very powerful people believe Sveta is capable of serving the regime as more than a ballerina, and they wish to recruit her to spy on the West as part of the nascent Soviet psychic warfare program. If she is to erase the sins of her family, if she is to dance on the world stage for the Motherland—if she is to survive—she has no choice but to explore her other gift. The story of teenage Svetlana, matriarch of three generations of ballerinas, is both the end and the beginning of the Bolshoi Saga. This title, and the debut, Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy and its follow up, Hider, Seeker, Secret, Keeper can all be read as stand-alone novels, although reading all three will provide a deeper understanding of the often thrilling—and surprisingly dangerous—world of the Dukovskaya ballerinas.

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1616956569

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The Soda Fountain

Floats, Sundaes, Egg Creams & More--Stories and Flavors of an American Original [A Cookbook]

By: Gia Giasullo,Peter Freeman,Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain,Elizabeth Kiem

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The Soda Fountain

Floats, Sundaes, Egg Creams & More--Stories and Flavors of an American Original [A Cookbook]

By: Gia Giasullo,Peter Freeman,Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain,Elizabeth Kiem

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1607744856

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My Journey to America

An Escape from Communist Laos

By: Elizabeth C. Grizzard

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My Journey to America

An Escape from Communist Laos

By: Elizabeth C. Grizzard

This is the true story of my family's daring escape from communist Laos in search of a better life in America. In this book you will see that nothing is impossible if you dream big, work hard, and never walk backward. My dad was a low ranking Laotian soldier who fought alongside the US during the Vietnam War. His fellow soldiers told him about life and freedom in America. From their words he set his mind on bringing his family here, and no matter how difficult the journey became, he never gave up. I hope this book will encourage you to be strong and to hold fast to your dreams. Never forget, you're here in America! This is the land of opportunity; filled with love and generosity.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1519751184

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