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Where the Sun Don’T Shine and the Shadows Don’T Play

Growing up with an Obsessive-Compulsive Hoarder

By: Frances Boudreaux

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Where the Sun Don’T Shine and the Shadows Don’T Play

Growing up with an Obsessive-Compulsive Hoarder

By: Frances Boudreaux

As a child growing up in a small Louisiana town, Frances Boudreaux couldnt understand her mothers obsession with stuff. She stashed clothes, trash, and even worthless trinkets. It was only years later that Frances discovered the truth about her mother: she was an obsessive-compulsive hoarder. Brutally honest and emotionally-wrenching, Where the Sun Dont Shine and the Shadows Dont Play shares a daughters struggle to comprehend her mothers fall from happy teenager to house-bound adult living in the midst of filth and chaos. Spanning her childhood during the 1950s through her adulthood years, Frances traces the rise of her mothers obsessive compulsive disorder and speaks candidly about the abuse she suffered at her mothers hands. A story rich in emotional complexity, this gripping memoir throws back the curtain on one familys dark secret, and exposes the truth in all its facets. But even more, it reveals Francess determination to find healing and peace despite the scars of the past. Ms. Boudreaux allows the reader to experience the full gamut of intense, complex, and contradictory emotions of love, hate, fear, tenderness, caring, revulsion, anger, affection, hope, and despair that she experienced. This is a brilliant and moving book, to be read and never forgotten. Bruce Mansbridge, PhD

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iUniverse

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1462034489

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9781462034482

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy

By: Mary Frances Berry

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Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy

By: Mary Frances Berry

A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with limited hours are a few of the ways voter turnout is suppressed. These methods of voter suppression are pernicious, but in Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich, Dr. Mary Frances Berry focuses on forms of corruption including vote buying, vote hauling, the abuse of absentee ballots, and other illegal practices by candidates and their middlemen, often in collusion with local election officials. Vote buying—whether it’s for a few dollars, a beer, or a pack of cigarettes—is offered to individual citizens in order to ensure votes for a particular candidate, and Dr. Berry notes it occurs across party lines, with Republicans, Democrats, and independents all participating. Dr. Berry shares the compelling story of Greg Malveaux, former director of Louisiana’s Vote Fraud Division, and how this “everyman” tried to clean up elections in a state notorious for corruption. Malveaux discovered virtually every type of electoral fraud during his tenure and saw firsthand how abuses occurred in local communities—from city councils to coroners’ offices. In spite of Sisyphean persistence, he found it virtually impossible to challenge the status quo. Dr. Berry reveals how this type of electoral abuse is rampant across the country and includes myriad examples from other states, including Illinois, Texas, Florida, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Voter manipulation is rarely exposed and may be perceived as relatively innocuous, however; Dr. Berry observes that in addition to undermining basic democracy, it also leads to a profound lack of accountability and a total disconnect between politicians and their constituents, and that those in poor and minority communities are the most vulnerable. While reforming campaign finance laws are undeniably important to our democracy, being attuned to issues of structural powerlessness and poverty, and to the cycles that perpetuate them, is no less crucial. In Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich, Dr. Berry shares specific successful voting strategies that other countries have adopted and urges creativity in rewarding people for voting. She also underscores the continued importance of grassroots education, so that citizens see voting as desirable and empowering—as a tool to help create the kind of environment they deserve.

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202

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Beacon Press

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0807061980

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9780807061985

Michael Gunn

The Autobiography of an M-1911 Colt .45 ACP

By: As Told to Frances Kane, with R.T. Budd

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Michael Gunn

The Autobiography of an M-1911 Colt .45 ACP

By: As Told to Frances Kane, with R.T. Budd

“You may think I’m crazy, but the gun actually talks to me,” says Francis Kane, who has agreed to write the autobiography of a gun that had twelve owners. The gun, a.k.a. Michael Gunn, an M-1911 Colt .45 ACP, is a sidearm used by the U.S. military for five-plus decades. Michael fears his usefulness is coming to an end, so he wishes to have his story set to words for posterity. Michael relates the tales of his 12 owners – or “handlers” – as Francis likes to call them. There was the World War I doughboy; a French train engineer; a small French boy during the Nazi occupation; a German Luftwaffe pilot; a WWII American sergeant; a Korean soldier; a USAF Search-Air-Rescue airman in Thailand; the Hispanic gang leader in San Antonio; the young homeless woman from Louisiana; the female SWAT team member in Washington, D.C.; the African-American Philadelphia policeman; and finally, Francis Kane himself. Prior to relating its owners’ stories, Michael spins a lengthy narrative on how its creation came to life.

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600

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1951530195

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9781951530198

Communication and Clinical Effectiveness in Rehabilitation

By: Frances Reynolds

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Communication and Clinical Effectiveness in Rehabilitation

By: Frances Reynolds

Incorporating a patient-focused perspective on communication and health care, this new title for physical and occupational therapists and students provides practical strategies for effective communication with both colleagues and patients. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-understand style, it offers a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach and an emphasis on reflective practice, making it a timely and useful resource for today's readers. - Discusses strategies for communicating with both colleagues and patients - Examines the evidence for the importance of effective communication in enhancing clinical effectiveness - Contains reflective exercises for self-awareness of personal communication skills and difficulties - Provides case studies that allow the reader to analyze a range of realistic communication problems - Includes research-based evidence throughout

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268

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702038539

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9780702038532

Globalization in Rural Mexico

Three Decades of Change

By: Frances Abrahamer Rothstein

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Globalization in Rural Mexico

Three Decades of Change

By: Frances Abrahamer Rothstein

Winner, Society of the Anthropology of Work Book Prize, 2010 When the ever-intensifying global marketplace "modernizes" rural communities, who stands to gain? Can local residents most impacted by changes to their social fabric ever recover or even identify what has been lost? Frances Abrahamer Rothstein uses thirty years of sustained anthropological fieldwork in the rural Mexican community of San Cosme Mazatecochco to showcase globalization's complexities and contradictions. Rothstein's lucid work chronicles the changes in production, consumption, and social relations during three distinct periods: the Mexican "miracle," when economic development fueled mobility for a large segment of the population, including San Cosme's worker-peasants; the lost decade of the 1980s, when much of what had been gained was lost; and the recent period of trade liberalization and globalization, considered by many in Mexico and beyond as a panacea and a disaster at the same time. After Mexico's textile industry decline in the late 1980s, some families of former textile workers in San Cosme opened home workshops—talleres—and a small-scale, textile-based economy took root. These families, who managed to prosper through their own trade and industry, demonstrate that those who rely on consumer demand for their livelihood need not always follow the dictate of the marketplace, but rather can position themselves assertively to influence alternative economic possibilities held close to their culture. Employing rich ethnography and broad analysis, Rothstein focuses on how everyday life has been transformed by these processes, but shows also how important continuities with the past persist. She strikes a delicate balance between firmly grounded scientific study and a deep compassion for the subjects of her work, while challenging contemporary views of globalization and consumption.

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207

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University of Texas Press

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0292774672

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9780292774674

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Vol. II

By: Catherine Grace Frances Gore

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Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Vol. II

By: Catherine Grace Frances Gore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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342

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385574110

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9783385574113

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Vol. III

By: Catherine Grace Frances Gore

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Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Vol. III

By: Catherine Grace Frances Gore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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378

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3385574137

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9783385574137

Louise Bourgeois

Stiches in Time

By: Frances Morris

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Louise Bourgeois

Stiches in Time

By: Frances Morris

Frances Morris presents a selection of the artist's recent work with a major focus on fabric sculptures and prints. Tough and sometimes very moving, Bourgeois' most recent projects mark out a practitioner who, although in her 90s, remains at the height of her powers.

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106

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Computer Science Press, Incorporated

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1888708204

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9781888708202

Book's by Frances Boudreaux

Where the Sun Don’T Shine and the Shadows Don’T Play

Where the Sun Don’T Shine and the Shadows Don’T Play

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

Michael Gunn

Michael Gunn

Communication and Clinical Effectiveness in Rehabilitation

Communication and Clinical Effectiveness in Rehabilitation

Globalization in Rural Mexico

Globalization in Rural Mexico

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

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