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Baseball's New Frontier

A History of Expansion, 1961-1998

By: Fran Zimniuch

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Baseball's New Frontier

A History of Expansion, 1961-1998

By: Fran Zimniuch

When Major League Baseball first expanded in 1961 with the addition of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators, it started a trend that saw the number of franchises almost double, from sixteen to thirty, while baseball attendance grew by 44 percent. The story behind this staggering growth, told for the first time in Baseball’s New Frontier, is full of twists and unexpected turns, intrigue, and, in some instances, treachery. From the desertion of New York by the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants to the ever-present threat of antitrust legislation, from the backroom deals and the political posturing to the impact of the upstart Continental League, the book takes readers behind the scenes and into baseball’s decision-making process. Fran Zimniuch gives a lively team-by-team chronicle of how the franchises were awarded, how existing teams protected their players, and what the new teams’ winning (or losing) strategies were. With its account of great players, notable characters, and the changing fortunes of teams over the years, the book supplies a vital chapter in the history of Major League Baseball.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496210042

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9781496210043

Someone Changed Her Mind

A daughter is convinced to leave her loving family and past. Her mother searches for answers.

By: Fran Gale

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Someone Changed Her Mind

A daughter is convinced to leave her loving family and past. Her mother searches for answers.

By: Fran Gale

When a mother discovers her daughter's car abandoned in the driveway, a struggle is triggered between the mother and a shadow community determined to separate the daughter from her family. Mother and daughter embark on separate, but parallel, journeys of uncertainty, mystery, pain, and mistrust. Readers will follow the mother's struggle to reach her daughter, while finding few answers from the legal, mental health, and faith communities. As accusations abound and perpetrators are insinuated, one wonders, in the end, who are the real victims?

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Fran Gale

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9798218034771

The Hop Bin

An Anthology of Hop Picking in Kent and East Sussex

By: Fran Doel,Geoff Doel

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The Hop Bin

An Anthology of Hop Picking in Kent and East Sussex

By: Fran Doel,Geoff Doel

For 400 years Kent and East Sussex were vividly and visibly associated with the cultivation of hops. Fran and Geoff Doel have evoked this bygone world of hopping by gathering together a wide range of social and literary accounts, poems and songs from the Tudor period to the present day, each with a contextual introduction. The selection illustrates both the 'rose-tinted' image and the harsher reality of a distinctive aspect of rural life in the south east.

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The History Press

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0752497316

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9780752497310

Digital Decisions

Choosing the Right Technology Tools for Early Childhood Education

By: Fran Simon,Karen N. Nemeth

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Digital Decisions

Choosing the Right Technology Tools for Early Childhood Education

By: Fran Simon,Karen N. Nemeth

Feel confident and competent when it comes to choosing and implementing the most appropriate technology tools for your early childhood classroom! Whether you are a technology enthusiast looking for new ideas and guidance about developmentally appropriate practices, or you are new to the idea of using technology with young children, this book is for you. Digital Decisions provides everything you need to make your own technology plan based on your experiences and beliefs, the needs of the children, the context of your curriculum and the resources available to you. This no-nonsense, jargon-free guide will help you evaluate the tools and opportunities technology has to offer and integrate them into your early childhood classroom so you can offer real-life, hands-on, interactive activities to children. A reference every childhood program will want to have, Digital Decisions is brimming with charts, resources, and an array of activities that maximize technology as an interactive learning tool. Each chapter provides supporting guidance to make technology most effective for those working with children who are dual language learners or may have special needs.

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Gryphon House, Inc.

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0876594089

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9780876594087

Sarajevo

A Bosnian Kaleidoscope

By: Fran Markowitz

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Sarajevo

A Bosnian Kaleidoscope

By: Fran Markowitz

This fascinating urban anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation. Rather than seeing Bosnia-Herzegovina as a volatile postsocialist society, the book presents its capital city as a vibrant yet wounded center of multicultural diversity, where citizens live in mutual recognition of difference while asserting a lifestyle that transcends boundaries of ethnicity and religion. It further illuminates how Sarajevans negotiate group identity in the tumultuous context of history, authoritarian rule, and interactions with the built environment and one another. As she navigates the city, Fran Markowitz shares narratives of local citizenry played out against the larger dramas of nation and state building. She shows how Sarajevans' national identities have been forged in the crucible of power, culture, language, and politics. Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope acknowledges this Central European city's dramatic survival from the ravages of civil war as it advances into the present-day global arena.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252055969

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9780252055966

Hamric & Hanson's Advanced Practice Nursing - E-Book

By: Mary Fran Tracy,Eileen T. O'Grady,Susanne J. Phillips

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Hamric & Hanson's Advanced Practice Nursing - E-Book

By: Mary Fran Tracy,Eileen T. O'Grady,Susanne J. Phillips

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Advanced Practice** Edited and written by a "Who's Who" of internationally known thought leaders in advanced practice nursing, Hamric and Hanson's Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach, 7th Edition provides a clear, comprehensive, and contemporary introduction to advanced practice nursing today, addressing all major APRN competencies, roles, and issues. Thoroughly revised and updated, the 7th edition of this bestselling text covers topics ranging from the evolution of advanced practice nursing to evidence-based practice, leadership, ethical decision-making, and health policy. - Coverage of the full breadth of APRN core competencies defines and describes all competencies, including direct clinical practice, guidance and coaching, evidence-based practice, leadership, collaboration, and ethical practice. - Operationalizes and applies the APRN core competencies to the major APRN roles: the Clinical Nurse Specialist, the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (both adult-gerontology and pediatric), the Certified Nurse-Midwife, and the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. - Content on managing APRN environments addresses factors such as business planning and reimbursement; marketing, negotiating, and contracting; regulatory, legal, and credentialing requirements; health policy; and nursing outcomes and performance improvement research.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323777120

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9780323777124

The Official Horse Breeds Standards Guide

The Complete Guide to the Standards of All North American Equine Breed Associations

By: Fran Lynghaug

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The Official Horse Breeds Standards Guide

The Complete Guide to the Standards of All North American Equine Breed Associations

By: Fran Lynghaug

This is the only guidebook collecting the official North America breed associations’ standards and conformations, making it a much-needed, handy, and comprehensive reference. Like the American Kennel Club's The Complete Dog Book (now in its 20th printing), this is the book for horse breeds. For each of 118 North American breeds--from ponies and small horses to pleasure horses, draft horses, and thoroughbred racers--the massive 200,000-word guide provides an official history, detailed conformation ideals, descriptions of gait and distinctive traits, temperament, colors, and variations. Fine color photographs complete the detailed picture each entry presents. This guide is destined to become the bible of the horse world.

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Voyageur Press

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1616731710

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9781616731717

My Life as a Sailor

By: Fran Yearly,Patrick Yearly

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My Life as a Sailor

By: Fran Yearly,Patrick Yearly

At 17, Fran Yearly enlisted in the Navy. In the following three years he would serve on 3 destroyers; sail 75,000 miles; visit 29 ports of call from Casablanca to Pearl Harbor and sail on nearly every ocean and sea in the world. His ship was in the front line of attack on D-Day and the invasion of the Phillipines and was struck by German torpedoes and Japanese kamikaze planes. He received an honorable discharge in February 1946, six weeks before his 21st birthday.

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iUniverse

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0595175104

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9780595175109

Once a Warrior

By: Fran Baker

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Once a Warrior

By: Fran Baker

An epic family saga set against the wars that shaped generations of Americans. A realistic yet sensitive story of love and friendship, courage and cowardice, this powerful tale is filled with rich emotion, high tension and stunning passion. A timeless tale of the triumph of love amid war, of love against all odds. Epic Family Saga/Romance by Fran Baker; originally published by Delphi Books

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Belgrave House

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1610843312

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9781610843317

Endeavor

Legends of Family and Friends

By: Robert L.,Fran Williams Smith

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Endeavor

Legends of Family and Friends

By: Robert L.,Fran Williams Smith

Endeavor: ..to try to do; to set about; to owe; to be under obligation; to try hard; to exert effort; to make an earnest attempt; to strive. Endeavor begins as a story of five families related by blood, marriage, and a sixth surrogate family by love and friendship. It was the sixth family that raised an important question for the author as to how he defines family. Are they (family) only those who are related by blood, marriage, or are they friendship, legal action, or something broader associated with functions that are similar to what we normally associate with a family? Endeavor is about people, who spent their entire lives striving to achieve something better for their families, themselves, and others without depreciating the value of their work, contribution, or others with whom they shared many things, not the least of which often was unemployment, and poverty. Only one thing could overwhelm them, fear of losing hope and their belief that things would be better. It was their mantra for living. Often beaten down, they were rarely overwhelmed. The story begins with the Smiths, peasants living in the Ruhr Valley early in the 19th Century where they labored in the coalmines and on their own small patch of land carved from the dark forest, which was their first step up the ladder of achievement. In those days work was communal, as was most of life's other requirements. The opening chapter is followed by the story of the Dungans, beginning in the early 1850s. They were dirt poor Irish, who traded a potato famine, starvation, and poverty, for a little land, in a new world, Kentucky. Both stories will take the reader to the Great Depression of the 1930s that shaped an American culture for two generations. The third chapter will introduces the Williams, Old, and Goss families, a treasure of Cornish cousins who formed tight family units for many generations, and who generously included my wife and myself to their group when I married into the Williams family. The Lows, our adopted family are introduced in the sixth chapter, Families at War. From there on, we leave it to the reader to sort out a remarkable collection of people who became the source of our human fire: ..When we were alone with the wind crying Offered us the warmth of a human fire. (Partial quote from Many Winters, by Nancy Wood)

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AuthorHouse

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1491866462

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9781491866467

Ethical Chic

The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love

By: Fran Hawthorne

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Ethical Chic

The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love

By: Fran Hawthorne

How popular companies like Apple and Trader Joe’s project a hip, progressive image—and whether we should believe them Consumers are told that when they put on an American Apparel t-shirt, leggings, jeans, gold bra, or other item, they look hot. Not only do they look good, but they can also feel good because they are helping US workers earn a decent wage (never mind that some of those female workers have accused their boss of sexual harassment). And when shoppers put on a pair of Timberlands, they feel fashionable and as green as the pine forest they might trek through—that is, until they’re reminded that this green company is in the business of killing cows. But surely even the pickiest, most organic, most politically correct buyers can feel virtuous about purchasing a tube of Tom’s toothpaste, right? After all, with its natural ingredients that have never been tested on animals, this company has a forty-year history of being run by a nice couple from Maine . . . well, ahem, until it was recently bought out by Colgate. It’s difficult to define what makes a company hip and also ethical, but some companies seem to have hit that magic bull’s-eye. In this age of consumer activism, pinpoint marketing, and immediate information, consumers demand everything from the coffee, computer, or toothpaste they buy. They want an affordable, reliable product manufactured by a company that doesn’t pollute, saves energy, treats its workers well, and doesn't hurt animals—oh, and that makes them feel cool when they use it. Companies would love to have that kind of reputation, and a handful seem to have achieved it. But do they deserve their haloes? Can a company make a profit doing so? And how can consumers avoid being tricked by phony marketing? In Ethical Chic, award-winning author Fran Hawthorne uses her business-investigative skills to analyze six favorites: Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, American Apparel, Timberland, and Tom’s of Maine. She attends a Macworld conference and walks on the factory floors of American Apparel. She visits the wooded headquarters of Timberland, speaks to consumers who drive thirty miles to get their pretzels and plantains from Trader Joe’s, and confronts the founders of Tom’s of Maine. More than a how-to guide for daily dilemmas and ethical business practices, Ethical Chic is a blinders-off and nuanced look at the mixed bag of values on sale at companies that project a seemingly progressive image.

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Beacon Press

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0807000949

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9780807000946

Awakening to God

The Sunday Readings in Our Lives

By: Fran Salone-Pelletier

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Awakening to God

The Sunday Readings in Our Lives

By: Fran Salone-Pelletier

These lively reflections on the lectionary readings for Year C affirm that all of us can listen for-and hear--God in the ordinary events of daily life. In a personal, poignant, and persuasive manner, Fran Salone-Pelletier probes the readings to make God's word relevant to readers here and now. Her writing is heart-felt and poetic, and it examines the full spectrum of human emotions and responses to the word of God. With each weekly meditation she offers questions for reflection and discussion and a prayer to help readers deepen their spiritual awareness and connection to the Sunday readings. This book can be used by individuals for spiritual reading and reflection, by Scripture study groups to facilitate discussion, for individual or communal retreats, for homily preparation, for breaking open the word with catechumens and candidates, and by any who wish to prepare for a more prayerful experience of Sunday liturgy.

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Twenty-Third Publications

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1585952931

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9781585952939

Mindful Leadership: Emotional Intelligence Collection (4 Books)

By: Harvard Business Review,Daniel Goleman,Richard E. Boyatzis,Annie McKee,Fran Johnston

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Mindful Leadership: Emotional Intelligence Collection (4 Books)

By: Harvard Business Review,Daniel Goleman,Richard E. Boyatzis,Annie McKee,Fran Johnston

This digital collection, curated by Harvard Business Review, offers four books on the topic of emotional intelligence, found by bestselling author Daniel Goleman to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. In Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors, the authors show that great leaders excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using emotional intelligence competencies like empathy and self-awareness. The best leaders are “resonant” leaders—individuals who manage their own and others’ emotions in ways that drive success. In Resonant Leadership, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee provide an indispensable guide to overcoming the vicious cycle of stress, sacrifice, and dissonance that afflicts many leaders and offer a field-tested framework for creating the resonance that fuels great leadership. And in Becoming a Resonant Leader, Annie McKee, Richard Boyatzis, and Frances Johnston share vivid, real-life stories illuminating how people can develop emotional intelligence, build resonance, and renew themselves. Finally, HBR’s 10 Must Read on Emotional Intelligence presents 10 articles by experts in the field of emotional intelligence, all of which will inspire you to monitor and channel your moods and emotions; make smart, empathetic people decisions; manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team; react to tough situations with resilience; better understand your strengths, weaknesses, needs, values, and goals; and develop emotional agility.

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1633691810

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9781633691810

Long Island Alive

By: Fran Silverman,Francine Silverman

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Long Island Alive

By: Fran Silverman,Francine Silverman

Each chapter of this guide to Long Island's fine dining, recreation, shopping, historic sites, and scenery focuses on a particular region of Long Island and presents its highlights from an insider's point of view. Some of the attractions described include tours and day trips, beaches and national parks, farm stands, wildlife preserves and museums.

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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1588433412

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9781588433411

Franie's Zany Adventures in Chemoland

By: Fran Miller Jud

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Franie's Zany Adventures in Chemoland

By: Fran Miller Jud

Instead of illness dictating the course of her life, Fran Miller Jud, registered nurse and adventure-seeker extraordinaire, maintains a positive, upbeat attitude while going through energy-sapping, mind-muddling, heartbreaking days of living with cancer and the side effects of chemotherapy. Fran's memoirs document her first two years of an existence filled with tears, laughter and a bit of sassy humor that defines her personality shining through the toughest period in her life. Dubbed "a chemotherapy primer," Fran's book gives clear explanations and guidance, keeping it light with humorous stories, positive messages and a profound sense of hope. You will gain an understanding of what it's like to go through surgery, diagnosis and cancer treatments with simple language de-mystifying confusing terms, along the way picking up valuable tips and suggestions to make the journey easier. Fran's straightforward, open-hearted approach to one of life's most difficult challenges may evoke a few tears or induce unexpected bursts of laughter, but you will enjoy this crazy and unique perspective on one woman's adventure through cancer and chemotherapy. Fran Miller Jud graduated from The School of Nursing, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore as a registered nurse and currently works at an ambulatory surgery center. Born in Puerto Rico, Fran calls Baltimore her home and continues a lifestyle of traveling, as well as reading, writing, walking and practicing Tai Chi. She and her knight in shining armor, Bob, live in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, with their black Lab, Mookie. They have two wonderful sons, Jeremy and Zack, and a granddaughter, Rylie. Publisher's website: http: //www.eloquentbooks.com/FraniesZanyAdventuresInChemoland.html

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1608608670

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9781608608676

Riders of a Certain Age

Your Go-To Guide for Loving Horses Mid-Life and Beyond

By: Fran Severn

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Riders of a Certain Age

Your Go-To Guide for Loving Horses Mid-Life and Beyond

By: Fran Severn

A delightfully honest look at the realities of starting out with horses…when you're getting older. Are you a woman at midlife or beyond? Have you just discovered you have a passion for horses? Or maybe you've now found time for them after years devoted to a job and family? Surveys show that riders over the age of 40 are the fastest growing segment of the equestrian world, with those age 65 and above seeing the biggest jump—so you are far from alone! With carefully curated guidance collected over years of horsing around, rider and writer Fran Severn wants to embolden and empower you with tips, lessons, and advice as you begin enjoying a life with horses in it. In these pages, you'll find options for: Riding…and not riding (but still having horses in your life). Finding an instructor and being a good student. Coming to grips with what your body can and can't do in terms of fitness, weight, and fear. Understanding the realities of arthritis, menopause, and changing vision, hearing, and breathing. Knowing the rules for buying, leasing, and boarding horses. Dealing with family and horse-related finances. And much more. Riders of a Certain Age provides an important reference to any older individual who craves the companionship of a horse and the sisterhood that can go along with it.

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Trafalgar Square Books

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1646010507

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9781646010509

Telemodernities

Television and Transforming Lives in Asia

By: Tania Lewis,Fran Martin,Wanning Sun

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Telemodernities

Television and Transforming Lives in Asia

By: Tania Lewis,Fran Martin,Wanning Sun

Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented popular factual television illuminates key aspects of late modernities in South and East Asia, offering insights not only into early twenty-first-century media cultures but also into wider developments in the nature of public and private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement. Drawing on extensive interviews with television industry professionals and audiences across China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, Telemodernities uses popular lifestyle television as a tool to help us understand emergent forms of identity, sociality, and capitalist modernity in Asia.

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Duke University Press

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0822373904

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9780822373902

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A Model for Locality Commissioning

By: Rod Smith,Fran Butler,Mike Powell

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A Model for Locality Commissioning

By: Rod Smith,Fran Butler,Mike Powell

This text is based on the practical experience of pilot schemes which have identified a variety of opportunities and innovative ideas which others can adopt and develop. This book is a reference for principals and managers of fundholding practices, those thinking about becoming fundholders, and for the managers of provider units seeking to expand their services, including the commissioning authorities.

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CRC Press

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1315349000

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9781315349008

The School Counselor's Guide to Helping Students with Disabilities

By: Laura E. Marshak,Claire J. Dandeneau,Fran P. Prezant,Nadene A. L'Amoreaux

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The School Counselor's Guide to Helping Students with Disabilities

By: Laura E. Marshak,Claire J. Dandeneau,Fran P. Prezant,Nadene A. L'Amoreaux

Down-to-earth advice for helping students with disabilities succeed The School Counselor's Guide to Helping Students with Disabilities offers school counselors a practical guide for handling the complexities of working with children and youth who have disabilities. The book is organized to correspond with the myriad responsibilities and roles assumed by school counselors in elementary, middle and high school settings. The authors provide both seasoned and new school counselors with the insight and tools they need to successfully promote the academic, personal, social, and career success of students with disabilities. Presents a wealth of relevant disability-related knowledge and useful strategies Includes information on the most pertinent legislation pertaining to students with disabilities Offers the most effective counseling interventions for helping young children or adolescents experiencing social exclusion because of their disabilities Bonus section contains a wealth of disability-specific information with implications and practical applications for counselors This important book brings together experts in two disciplines, school counseling and special education/disabilities, in order to address the practicalities and possibilities of working with students with disabilities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470175796

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9780470175798

Twins X 3

By: Fran Pitre

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Twins X 3

By: Fran Pitre

Life from behind double strollers! Journey along as the author travels from the struggles, heartaches, and moral dilemmas associated with infertility through the incredible arrival of her third set of twins, and beyond to today as her twin girls are now 24, her boy/girl set of twins are 19, and her twin boys are 11! The entire book is an emotional roller coaster filled with love, pain, humor, fear, thanksgiving, anguish, joy, and a healthy dose of faith and family that will cause the reader to laugh, cry, and surely relate with each turn of the page. Fran Circe Pitre is a singer/songwriter, graphic designer, author, and most recently a licensed clinical massage therapist, who lives with her husband and their six children in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984571265

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9781984571267

Surviving American Medicine

How to Get the Right Doctor, Right Hospital, and Right Treatment with Today’S Health Care

By: Fran Drescher,Cary Presant

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Surviving American Medicine

How to Get the Right Doctor, Right Hospital, and Right Treatment with Today’S Health Care

By: Fran Drescher,Cary Presant

We live in a time when the business of health care has superseded the care of health. Health-care reform isnt just political rhetoric: its a reality. Its happening every dayand for you it means new ways of getting your care. Virtually every American understands we are experiencing dramatic changes in the delivery of health care and the insurance programs that pay for it. In Surviving American Medicine, Dr. Cary Presant lays the foundation to help you take control of these issues and help you become your own advocate. Surviving American Medicine shows you how to make the best decisions by providing inside tips about getting the best doctors, good insurance, safe hospitals, and affordable medicinesfrom an author and physician who is a national expert on health care. With insights from his medical experience and reliable internet resources, Presant gives you the information to survive, reduce the risk of illness, and cure or control diseases. Relying on his forty years of experience as a physician, professor, administrator, and researcher, Presant empowers you to work with your team of doctors, nurses, hospitals, and even insurance companies to maintain your health and prolong your life. He helps you learn to make choices about your health are so you feel confident youre getting the best treatment possible.

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iUniverse

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1475937776

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9781475937770

Folklore of Kent

By: Fran Doel,Geoff Doel

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Folklore of Kent

By: Fran Doel,Geoff Doel

Kentish folklore reflects the curious geography and administrative history of Kent, with its extensive coastline and strong regional differences, which are reflected in distinctive cultural traditions. Bounded by sea on three sides, Kent has the longest coastline of any English county and was the base for much maritime activity, giving rise to communities rich in sea-lore. Fran and Geoff Doel explore the folklore, legends, customs and songs of Kent and the causative factors behind them. From saints to smugglers, hop-pickers to hoodeners, mummers to May garlands and wife sales to witchcraft, this book charts the traditional culture of a populous and culturally significant southern county.

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The History Press

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0750952938

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9780750952934

It Happened in New York City

Remarkable Events That Shaped History

By: Fran Capo,Art Zuckerman

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It Happened in New York City

Remarkable Events That Shaped History

By: Fran Capo,Art Zuckerman

A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Gotham, It Happened in New York City describes everything from the installation of the Statue of Liberty to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, from the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11 to the construction of the new Yankee stadium, slated to open in 2009.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762761938

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9780762761937

Gus Wortham

Portrait of a Leader

By: Fran Dressman

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Gus Wortham

Portrait of a Leader

By: Fran Dressman

Gus S. Wortham was a good businessman. Among other enterprises, he started a highly successful insurance company, American General, and helped to shape the economic institutions of Houston. Gus Wortham was a civic leader, who worked actively in the Chamber of Commerce to influence the city's economic climate and who left the city a legacy of cultural institutions, including the Wortham Theater Center. Gus Wortham was a rancher and land developer. Land: "They aren't making any more if it", he liked to say. So he bought it, developed it, and built a business with it. In short, he became one of the most influential men in the history of Houston. This is the story of his life, his business, his city. Company records and interviews with Wortham's surviving friends and associates combine to make it a thorough account. "Mr. Wortham had an interesting philosophy about several matters in life", writes his longtime friend and business partner Sterling C. Evans in the Foreword. "One was on dollars. With the business dollar, it was immoral not to make money and one had to make sure to receive full value. With the pleasure dollar, if one could afford it, enjoy it and never look back". This old-school Southwestern gentleman lived a life worthy of a movie, and his company, American General, has shaped a city worthy of a television series of its own. Urban and business historians alike will find this book a fascinating study, and those who know, or want to know, Houston will find it an enlightening chronicle.

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Advanced Practice Nursing - E-Book

By: Ann B. Hamric,Charlene M. Hanson,Mary Fran Tracy,Eileen T. O'Grady

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By: Ann B. Hamric,Charlene M. Hanson,Mary Fran Tracy,Eileen T. O'Grady

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Advanced Practice Nursing

An Integrative Approach

By: Ann B. Hamric, PhD, RN, FAAN,Charlene M. Hanson,Mary Fran Tracy,Eileen T. O'Grady, PhD, RN, ANP

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Advanced Practice Nursing

An Integrative Approach

By: Ann B. Hamric, PhD, RN, FAAN,Charlene M. Hanson,Mary Fran Tracy,Eileen T. O'Grady, PhD, RN, ANP

Addressing all major advanced practice nursing competencies, roles, and issues, Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach, 5th Edition provides a clear, comprehensive, and current introduction to APN today. It applies APN core competencies to the major APN roles - including the burgeoning Nurse Practitioner role - and covers topics ranging from the evolution of APN to evidence-based practice, leadership, ethical decision-making, and health policy. This edition includes a new chapter on the international development of APN, new and enhanced illustrations, and a colorful new reader-friendly format for improved readability. From internationally known APN experts Ann Hamric, Charlene Hanson, Mary Fran Tracy, and Eileen O'Grady, along with a host of internationally recognized APN contributors, Advanced Practice Nursing introduces you to APN and helps you identify an APN role, develop key competencies for that role, and succeed as an APN. Coverage of APN core competencies defines and describes all competencies, including direct clinical practice, guidance and coaching, consultation, evidence-based practice (EBP), leadership, collaboration, and ethical decision-making. Operationalizes and applies APN core competencies to the major APN specialties including the Clinical Nurse Specialist, the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, the Certified Nurse-Midwife, and the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. Content on managing APN environments addresses such factors as business planning and reimbursement; marketing, negotiating, and contracting; regulatory, legal, and credentialing requirements; health policy issues; and nursing outcomes and performance improvement research. Unique Exemplar boxes provide real-life scenarios, showing APN competencies in action. In-depth discussions of educational strategies show how nurses develop competencies as they progress into advanced practice. Discussions of APN role development clearly explain the career trajectory that you can anticipate as you transition to advanced practice. EXPANDED international focus includes a NEW International Development of Advanced Practice Nursing chapter that addresses common issues such as the public image and status of APN, dealing with physician resistance, discrepancies in titling, and educational standardization. ENHANCED reader-friendly format includes more headings, tables, and illustrations in lieu of long stretches of unbroken text. REVISED Evidence-Based Practice chapter emphasizes the key competency of evidence-based practice (EBP) and includes a comprehensive history and explanation of the steps of the EBP process. UPDATED Health Policy chapter covers key U.S. initiatives affecting APN including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report, the Consensus Model of APRN Regulation, and how APNs can engage in the political process. ENHANCED Exemplar boxes (case studies), including Day in the Life vignettes of each APN specialty, emphasize innovative practices and coverage of advanced practice roles. Increased interprofessional content emphasizes the subjects of ethics, collaboration, and consultation. Enhanced integration of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) considerations and literature makes this text ideal for DNP programs.

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Walking Together, Walking Far

How a U.S. and African Medical School Partnership Is Winning the Fight against HIV/AIDS

By: Fran Quigley

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Walking Together, Walking Far

How a U.S. and African Medical School Partnership Is Winning the Fight against HIV/AIDS

By: Fran Quigley

A remarkable partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya has built one of the most comprehensive and successful programs in the world to control HIV/AIDS. Calling upon the resources of the Americans, the ingenuity of the Kenyans, and their shared determination to care for patients who had been given up for dead, the program has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and described as a miracle by the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. Doctors from Kenya and the United States -- employing methods once considered unfeasible, such as successfully administered antiretroviral regimes -- have created a model program for saving lives and empowering the sick and impoverished. Against formidable odds, these partners demonstrate how medicine and caring can overturn preconceived notions about Africa and help wipe out the world's most devastating pandemic.

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0253003334

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Making Strategy

The Journey of Strategic Management

By: Colin Eden,Fran Ackermann

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Making Strategy

The Journey of Strategic Management

By: Colin Eden,Fran Ackermann

This book approaches strategy-making in a way that is designed to assist most organizations develop strategy appropriate to their size, purpose and resources. It provides a much-needed guide to the strategy-making process by: elaborating the key concepts and theories of strategic management; by illustrating through case vignettes the issues inherent in the process of strategy-making; and by providing extensive and detailed practical guidelines on the methods, techniques and tools employed in the case vignettes. Key themes explored are: the crucial significance of political feasibility; the role of participation; emphasis on stakeholder management; thinking about alternative futures within the overall process of stra

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1446265196

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After the Eclipse

By: Fran Dorricott

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After the Eclipse

By: Fran Dorricott

A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls. Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her. She was never seen again. When a local girl goes missing just before the next big eclipse, Cassie - who has returned to her home town to care for her ailing grandmother - suspects the disappearance is connected to her sister: that whoever took Olive is still out there. But she needs to find a way to prove it, and time is running out.

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Pension Dumping

The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street

By: Fran Hawthorne

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Pension Dumping

The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street

By: Fran Hawthorne

Fran Hawthorne, author of Pension Dumping, is a recipient of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants award for Excellence in Financial Journalism for 2009—the first year books have been honored. Pension plans in America no longer represent commitments that financially troubled companies will honor. Neither bankruptcy courts, nor Washington, nor unions have the clout to make them do so. The disposition of these plans is instead left to serve the needs of big investors. Often these investors are a failing company’s best hope of restructuring after bankruptcy. Investors want a lean investment unburdened with financial promises to employees no longer on the payroll. Despite laws passed to discourage the termination of plans, the courts allow it, caving in to the forces garnered to reinvigorate a failing company. Unions are often compelled to choose between the financial welfare of retirees and jobs for active workers. Pension Dumping explains in shocking detail how terminating the pension plan became a knee-jerk strategy for bankrupt companies that hope to attract big investors to help them reorganize. Hawthorne traces the dynamics and the players involved as a pension is targeted for termination: thebankruptcy court and the hierarchy of power that dictates whose interests will prevail the choices forced on unions the burden placed on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation the risks investors take and the returns they look for the companies’ efforts to salvage what they can as they restructure, as well as the backlash they risk by breaking pension promises In 2008, Pension Dumping was cited in testimony before a Congressional committee investigating bankruptcies in relation to pensions.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470885149

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Dr. Atkins' New Diet Cookbook

By: Robert C. Atkins,Fran Gare

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Dr. Atkins' New Diet Cookbook

By: Robert C. Atkins,Fran Gare

Suggests healthful meal plans, and shares recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, meat, poultry, seafood, pasta, bread, sauces, and desserts.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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087131925X

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Tales from a Refrigerator Box

More Stories from Liberty and South Loring

By: Fran Coughlin

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Tales from a Refrigerator Box

More Stories from Liberty and South Loring

By: Fran Coughlin

The sequel to On the Corner of Liberty and South Loring, Fran Coughlin’s second book, Tales from a Refrigerator Box returns you to the triple-decker building where the Coughlin family made their home. Coughlin transports you to a simpler era through personal and poignant vignettes that capture the joys, sorrows, and laughter of everyday life. From the family home, to the schools, shops (and bars), and streets of 1960s and 70s Lowell, Massachusetts, Coughlin recalls how, not that long ago, life was so different and yet very much the same. This nostalgic collection of stories is a celebration of family, friends, and community and a reminder that the most ordinary of moments can create the most lasting memories.

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Archway Publishing

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1665762640

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A Wee Homicide in the Hotel

By: Fran Stewart

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A Wee Homicide in the Hotel

By: Fran Stewart

The national bestselling author of A Wee Dose of Death returns to Hamelin, Vermont, where Peggy Winn, owner of a Scottish-themed shop, is spectator to caber tossing, sword dancing, and just a spot of murder... Hamelin is overflowing with tourists enjoying the Scottish-themed games—and most of them are donning tartans from Peggy Winn’s ScotShop. And her fourteenth-century ghostly companion, Dirk, has been indispensable, keeping an eye out for shoplifters and matching customers’ family names to their clan plaid. Adding to the chaos is Big Willie, a longtime champion of the games, but not everyone is happy to have him in town. So when he misses the first event of the weekend, Peggy senses something is awry. After Willie is discovered dead in his hotel room, the victim of a bagpipe-related crime, Peggy decides it’s up to her and Dirk to suss out a murderer.

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Penguin

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1101639571

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Ben Jonson's London

A Jacobean Placename Dictionary

By: Fran C. Chalfant

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Ben Jonson's London

A Jacobean Placename Dictionary

By: Fran C. Chalfant

Ben Jonson was a Londoner. He lived there from infancy, left for only brief periods of travel, and used various locales in or near London as the settings for eleven of his seventeen plays. Ben Jonson's London opens with a discussion of the purpose, scope, and success of Jonson's use of London settings as Placenames. Chalfant demonstrates that Ben Jonson brought the same judicious, erudite, and dramatically functional insight to his handling of London topography-from overall settings to very brief mentions-as he did to his well-known use of classical, mythological, and iconographical detail.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820332917

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AIA Guide to New York City

By: Norval White,Elliot Willensky,Fran Leadon

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AIA Guide to New York City

By: Norval White,Elliot Willensky,Fran Leadon

Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City. First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers the most complete overview of New York's significant places, past and present. The Fifth Edition continues to include places of historical importance--including extensive coverage of the World Trade Center site--while also taking full account of the construction boom of the past 10 years, a boom that has given rise to an unprecedented number of new buildings by such architects as Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. All of the buildings included in the Fourth Edition have been revisited and re-photographed and much of the commentary has been re-written, and coverage of the outer boroughs--particularly Brooklyn--has been expanded. Famed skyscrapers and historic landmarks are detailed, but so, too, are firehouses, parks, churches, parking garages, monuments, and bridges. Boasting more than 3000 new photographs, 100 enhanced maps, and thousands of short and spirited entries, the guide is arranged geographically by borough, with each borough divided into sectors and then into neighborhood. Extensive commentaries describe the character of the divisions. Knowledgeable, playful, and beautifully illustrated, here is the ultimate guided tour of New York's architectural treasures. Acclaim for earlier editions of the AIA Guide to New York City: "An extraordinarily learned, personable exegesis of our metropolis. No other American or, for that matter, world city can boast so definitive a one-volume guide to its built environment." -- Philip Lopate, New York Times "Blithe in spirit and unerring in vision." -- New York Magazine "A definitive record of New York's architectural heritage... witty and helpful pocketful which serves as arbiter of architects, Baedeker for boulevardiers, catalog for the curious, primer for preservationists, and sourcebook to students. For all who seek to know of New York, it is here. No home should be without a copy." -- Municipal Art Society "There are two reasons the guide has entered the pantheon of New York books. One is its encyclopedic nature, and the other is its inimitable style--'smart, vivid, funny and opinionated' as the architectural historian Christopher Gray once summed it up in pithy W & W fashion." -- Constance Rosenblum, New York Times "A book for architectural gourmands and gastronomic gourmets." -- The Village Voice

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Oxford University Press

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0199758646

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Beatles and Beacons

By: Fran Raya

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Beatles and Beacons

By: Fran Raya

Once upon another time, about a million songs ago, there lived a musical group on a teenager’s bedroom wall. These persons raided her queendom on an ordinary October day, through her dad’s Bakelite wireless. The song they sang was a tuneful newness and she helped it touch number seventeen in a memorable chart of yesterday, specifically 1962. Take a trip across the 1960s through the eyes and mind of Rebecca Beacon, who is twelve years old when she becomes aware of The Beatles, at the very beginning of their ascendancy. Her teenage years are exciting but also saturated with angst and harsh realities, made bearable by her icons as she finds her own musical identity. This semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age story will strike a nostalgic chord for fans of the same generation, but also for the many admirers of the band, who are too young to have witnessed Beatlemania in full flow.

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