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Speculation

A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI

By: Gayle Rogers

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Speculation

A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI

By: Gayle Rogers

In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or no evidence. Insubstantial speculations—from utopian thinking to high-risk stock gambles—often provoke fierce backlash, even when they prove prophetic for the world we come to inhabit. Why does this hypothetical way of thinking generate such controversy? In this cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Gayle Rogers traces debates over speculation from antiquity to the present. Celebrated by Boethius as the height of humanity’s mental powers but denigrated as sinful by John Calvin, speculation eventually became central to the scientific revolution’s new methods of seeing the natural world. In the nineteenth century, writers such as Jane Austen used the concept to diagnose the marriage market, redefining speculation for the purpose of social critique. Speculation fueled the development of modern capitalism, spurring booms, busts, and bubbles, and recently artificial intelligence has automated the speculation previously done by humans, with uncertain and troubling consequences. Unraveling these histories and many other disputes, Rogers argues that what has always been at stake in arguments over speculation, and why it so often appears so threatening, is the authority to produce and control knowledge about the future. Recasting centuries of contests over the power to anticipate tomorrow, this book reveals the crucial role speculation has played in how we create—and potentially destroy—the future.

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Columbia University Press

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0231553498

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9780231553490

Cast Iron Architecture In America

The Signifiance Of James Bogardus

By: Margot Gayle,Carol Gayle

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Cast Iron Architecture In America

The Signifiance Of James Bogardus

By: Margot Gayle,Carol Gayle

The first book on the life and work of 19th-century American inventor and entrepreneur James Bogardus, known for his unique grinding mill and other patented devices. However, his enduring claim to fame is his cast-iron structures, forerunners of the modern skyscraper. Modern interest in Bogardus stems from the historic preservation movement. His four surviving buildings in New York are recognized landmarks. Illustrated.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393730158

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9780393730159

I'd Rather be Working

A Step-by-step Guide to Financial Self-support for People with Chronic Illness

By: Gayle Backstrom

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I'd Rather be Working

A Step-by-step Guide to Financial Self-support for People with Chronic Illness

By: Gayle Backstrom

This guide for chronically ill and disabled people describes how to find and keep rewarding employment. The text begins with a section of questions designed to help the reader in setting realistic goals. Backstrom, who has fibromyalgia, also discusses the pros and cons of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The volume concludes with a section of interviews with 20 chronically ill or disabled workers about their work-related experiences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Amacom Books

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0814471153

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9780814471159

Mesmerized

By: Gayle Lynds

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Mesmerized

By: Gayle Lynds

Brilliant attorney Beth Convey is cut down by a heart attack during arguments of the biggest case of her career. Saved by an emergency transplant of a heart from a murdered Russian man, Beth begins to have visions that may be the dead man's memories. Beth teams up with former FBI agent turned reporter Jeff Hammond to hunt down the truth and discover top-secret information that could reignite the Cold War. (May)

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Simon and Schuster

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0671024086

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9780671024086

Charles Ives

A Research and Information Guide

By: Gayle Sherwood Magee

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Charles Ives

A Research and Information Guide

By: Gayle Sherwood Magee

This research guide provides detailed information on over one thousand publications and websites concerning the American composer Charles Ives. With informative annotations and nearly two hundred new entries, this greatly expanded, updated, and revised guide offers a key survey of the field for interested readers and experienced researchers alike.

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Routledge

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1135847150

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9781135847159

Wednesday's Child

By: Gayle Wilson

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Wednesday's Child

By: Gayle Wilson

FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR GAYLE WILSON comes a gripping tale of tension-filled romance and heart-stopping suspense. IT WASN'T OVER YET Susan Chandler's husband vanished without a trace…along with their one-year-old daughter. Now, seven years later, their car has been pulled from a river in some backwater Mississippi town, along with the body of her husband and an empty baby seat. The local sheriff is calling it an accident, but for Susan, things just don't add up. Major Jeb Bedford has one thing on his mind—to get his body back into working order and rejoin his Delta Force team ASAP. But Susan Chandler's quiet desperation echoes his own struggles. And somehow, protecting Susan and helping her discover the truth becomes more important than anything…

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HQN Books

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146036242X

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9781460362426

EBOOK: Feminist Research in Theory and Practice

By: Gayle Letherby

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EBOOK: Feminist Research in Theory and Practice

By: Gayle Letherby

an extremely welcome addition to the field of feminist research." British Journal of Educational Studies This is a clear and accessible exploration of feminist method, methodology and epistemology. After situating herself and her work, Gayle Letherby charts the debates concerned with the epistemological, political and practical issues involved in doing feminist research, and places the debates within a wider consideration of the status of knowledge. The main focus of the book is then the particular and practical issues for feminist researchers. It examines how the process of research affects the results of that research and explores the relation between politics and practice in terms of research and knowledge production. Throughout the book there is a practical emphasis on specific examples of feminist research in action and, as well as summarizing current theoretical debates, Gayle Letherby adds to them. Feminist Research in Theory and Practice is designed and written as a textbook for students (at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level) but will be a valuable resource for any researcher or individual interested in women's studies, feminism and in researching in the social sciences.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335226167

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9780335226160

Between a Clutch and a Hard Place

By: Gayle Trent

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Between a Clutch and a Hard Place

By: Gayle Trent

When Myrtle investigates the town's new consignment shop, she comes home with a new (or would it be used?) mystery to solve. Based on the note she finds in a black clutch purse, she decides to find out what happened to the purse's previous owner. As she gets closer to learning the truth, she begins to better appreciate the old adage, "What you don't know, can't hurt you!

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Grace Abraham Publishing

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0974109045

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9780974109046

Winds of Time

By: Lilly Gayle

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Winds of Time

By: Lilly Gayle

The past is her future, the future, her past, but can she save an innocent man’s life before history repeats itself? As long as Selena Tillman dreams of her ancestor, Mary, who disappeared without a trace in 1871, she’ll never find peace. As long as she dreams of the half-Native American army scout accused of killing Mary, she’ll never find love. Hoping to end the dreams and learn the truth, Selena goes to Texas where Mary and the scout died and sees more than ghosts. She sees a tornado kill Mary in real time before it jumps to the twenty-first century to pull Selena into its vortex and send her back to the nineteenth century. Selena believes she’s fated to prove Dylan’s innocence and save his life, but Dylan isn’t just the man of her dreams; he’s her destiny. Fed up with the army, bigotry, and women—especially white women, Captain Dylan Casey dedicates himself to solving the mystery of Mary’s disappearance, proving his innocence, and trying to stop a war between the whites and the Indians. Then Mary’s cousin shows up, claiming a tornado killed Mary. Dylan doesn’t trust Selena, but she’s his only ally in Canyon Creek. Yet despite their common goal, growing mutual attraction, and a Comanche shaman’s prophecy of a white woman who will change his destiny and foretell the fate of the Indian Nation, Dylan refuses to take a chance on another spoiled, white woman—until fate changes his mind.

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Glass Slipper Press

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1732390401

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9781732390409

Ethics for Jessica

Meditations on Living

By: Gayle Graham Yates

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Ethics for Jessica

Meditations on Living

By: Gayle Graham Yates

Jessica's grandmother writes from her loft at her Wisconsin lakeside cottage of the intangibles she wants to give to Jessica and her generation. Writing in view of the red pines and birch trees, the water and the light, with the sound of loons in the distance, Gayle Graham Yates reflects upon insights, knowledge, and stories she has learned. A woman, family member, citizen, environmentalist, and spiritual seeker, Yates considers in this memoir-as-letter-to-her-granddaughter both distresses and joys, people, opportunities, and education that have shaped her own life and that she wants to pass along. The flow of the book is metaphorically seasonal from autumn through summer. Moving through ethical frameworks drawn from Aristotle's ethics and the Ojibway narrative by Ignatia Broker, Night Flying Woman, the chapters develop sequentially through ways of learning, ways of loving, and ways of hoping. All this is to the end of lovingly transmitting to her granddaughter what she knows.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725245272

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9781725245273

Every Woman Devotional

By: Peta Gayle Oates

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Every Woman Devotional

By: Peta Gayle Oates

The Devotional is designed to empower, motivate, equip and transform women so that they can fulfill their God given purpose/ potential. Women will be taken on a Journey of three phases that will boost their confidence, their spirituality, their relationship with God, themselves and others and will empower them to excel in all areas. Each phase will have 25 Devotional that consists of a scripture from the Holy Bible, a song, the Devotional and a short prayer. Each page will have a "power pebble". * The first phase of the journey will consist of Devotionals that will help women to understand God as their source (creator, provider, guide etc.). It will inspire women to seek God and get to know Him on a deeper spiritual level hence giving them the drive needed to start the journey and to maintain. * The second phase will have Devotionals that will help women to become better aware of who they are in God, understand their God given role as women and to identify their God given purpose. * The third and final phase of the journey will provide Devotionals that depicts what is needed for fulfilling their purposes, role and God given potential.

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Author House

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149695257X

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9781496952578

Heywood Hospital

By: Gayle Kadlik,James A. Faust

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Heywood Hospital

By: Gayle Kadlik,James A. Faust

Heywood Hospital, an independent, 153-bed, nonprofit community hospital located in north central Massachusetts, has served the residents of the Greater Gardner area for over 100 years. A gift to the community, its birth in 1907 was thanks to the vision and generosity of the prominent Heywood family. Henry Heywood had wished that workers at his world-renowned furniture manufacturing company would have medical treatment available to them locally. Upon his death, his wife and daughter provided the funds needed for the land and hospital building, as well as an endowment for its operation. Situated upon a hill overlooking Crystal Lake to the west and the Heywood family farm to the north and east, the Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital was established. A visual history reflecting the deep connection between a community hospital and its residents, Heywood Hospital celebrates the hospital as a benefactor and major employer firmly entrenched in a highly supportive community.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738576875

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9780738576879

Map As Art, The: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

By: Katharine A. Harmon,Gayle Clemans

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Map As Art, The: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

By: Katharine A. Harmon,Gayle Clemans

This work is filled with 350 works by well-known artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, and Olafer Eliasson. All are wayfinders, charting the highways and byways of the spirit and the topography of the soul.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568987625

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9781568987620

King of the Delta Blues

The Life and Music of Charlie Patton

By: Gayle Dean Wardlow,Edward Komara,Stephen Calt

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King of the Delta Blues

The Life and Music of Charlie Patton

By: Gayle Dean Wardlow,Edward Komara,Stephen Calt

Charlie Patton (1891-1934) was born in central Mississippi. By 1908, he had begun his performing career, initially at small house parties, then at barrelhouses and other settings that could accommodate a hundred people or more. Until his death in 1934, Patton was a top draw for the numerous African Americans then living and working in the Delta. In 1929 and 1930, he recorded several hits for Paramount Records, on the basis of which he was sought by the American Record Company in January 1934 for what would be his last recordings. He was immensely influential to other bluesmen, including Tommy Johnson, Kid Bailey, Robert Johnson, and Howlin' Wolf. Since 1991, his collected recordings have been available to the wider public. This book was previously published in 1988 under the authorship of Wardlow (b. 1940) and Calt (1946-2010). Its sole printing of 3,000 paperback copies sold out within seven years, and since 1988 additional recordings of Patton and his associates have been recovered and widely reissued to the public, particularly on Jack White's Third Man Records. Komara (b. 1966) has updated Wardlow and Calt's original edition and has written a new afterword discussing a resurgence of Delta-blues-style rock and the continuing influence of Patton and the music genre he helped pioneer"--

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1621906612

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9781621906612

The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835

A Substitute for Social Intercourse

By: Sarah Haynsworth Gayle

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The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835

A Substitute for Social Intercourse

By: Sarah Haynsworth Gayle

The remarkable journal of the young wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle and a primary source of our knowledge about early Alabama and the antebellum American South

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University of Alabama Press

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0817361189

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9780817361181

Issues and Trends in Nursing

By: Gayle Roux,Judith A. Halstead

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Issues and Trends in Nursing

By: Gayle Roux,Judith A. Halstead

Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Issues and Trends in Nursing: Practice, Policy and Leadership, Second Edition focuses on teaching nursing students how to navigate the nurse-patient relationship including political policy, professional organizations, performance outcomes, emergency preparedness, safety, and global health issues. The text is written by expert authors that represent a variety of perspectives including educators, administrators, and researchers from diverse regions of the U.S. The Second Edition has been completely revised to include comprehensive coverage of current issues and trends in nursing and healthcare. The text also provides a wealth of resources to help prepare students for practice in nursing. New to the Second Edition: Updated coverage of current issues in nursing New content on health information technology Coverage of genetics and lifestyle options to be a healthy nurse Navigate 2 Advantage Access

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284141403

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9781284141405

Subject Guide to U.S. Government Reference Sources

By: Gayle J. Hardy (Davis)

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Subject Guide to U.S. Government Reference Sources

By: Gayle J. Hardy (Davis)

Revised and updated, this compendium helps readers identify and understand the scope of key government reference sources-traditional books (including publications catalogs and telephone directories); information clearinghouses; and materials in new formats, such as CD-ROMs, datafiles, and Internet sites. The authors focus on free information and depository materials-both readily available through toll-free phone numbers, mail or e-mail requests to agencies, or federal depository library collections. Materials are fully described in annotations that differentiate between similar materials, identify typical citation formats, and note common abbreviations

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313078661

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9780313078668

Masquerade

By: Gayle Lynds

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Masquerade

By: Gayle Lynds

“A gloriously paranoid, immensely satisfying international thriller” about a woman with memory loss on the run from an assassin who believes she is a spy (Los Angeles Times). When you gaze into the mirror—and find a stranger looking back? Liz Sansborough has no recollection of her past as a CIA agent; no idea what her future holds. For her, there is only the present . . . and the chilling knowledge that the world’s most lethal assassin has set his sights on her. When your only link to your identity is a stranger who claims to be lover? Gordon is so gentle, so loving—and so secretive. If Liz dares to put her life into his powerful hands, will he guard it with his own—or snuff it out? When violence explodes around you, when nothing makes sense, when nobody—including you—is whom he or she appears to be? As Liz unravels a series of lies, she begins to suspect that the truth she encounters might be far more sinister—and deadly—than the original deception . . . A People Magazine “Page Turner of the Week” “A mirror-maze of perils and pitfalls.” —The Wall Street Journal “You won’t sleep until you finish.” —Cosmopolitan “Watch out Robert Ludlum! A bravura performance by Lynds.” —Sue Grafton, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Kinsey Millhone novels “An edge-of-the-seat spy novel.” —Faye Kellerman, New York Times–bestselling author of the Decker/Lazarus novels “A master of intrigue and adventure.” —Clive Cussler, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Dirk Pitt novels “Teeth-grinding suspense.” —Publishers Weekly

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429906863

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9781429906869

Modernism: Evolution of an Idea

By: Sean Latham,Gayle Rogers

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Modernism: Evolution of an Idea

By: Sean Latham,Gayle Rogers

What exactly is “modernism”? And how and why has its definition changed over time? Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term “modernism” from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist studies. Rather than assuming and recounting the contributions of modernism's chief literary and artistic figures, this book focuses on critical formulations and reception through topics such as: - The evolution of “modernism” from a pejorative term in intellectual arguments, through its condemnation by Pope Pius X in 1907, and on to its subsequent centrality to definitions of new art by T. S. Eliot, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, F. R. Leavis, Edmund Wilson, and Clement Greenberg - New Criticism and its legacies in the formation of the modernist canon in anthologies, classrooms, and literary histories - The shifting conceptions of modernism during the rise of gender and race studies, French theory, Marxist criticism, postmodernism, and more - The New Modernist Studies and its contemporary engagements with the politics, institutions, and many cultures of modernism internationally With a glossary of key terms and movements and a capacious critical bibliography, this is an essential survey for students and scholars working in modernist studies at all levels.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472529154

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9781472529152

Quality Tourism Experiences

By: Gayle Jennings,Norma Polovitz Nickerson

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Quality Tourism Experiences

By: Gayle Jennings,Norma Polovitz Nickerson

The book draws together writers from different backgrounds and interdisciplinary interests and research methodologies, as a consequence, the book provides a model of the way researchers can work together to illuminate an area and to provide multiple representations and interpretations of that area. Moreover the book demonstrates interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches and collaborations. Kathleen Andereck, Ph. D., Arizona State University West Sue Beeton, Ph. D., La Trobe University Heather E. Bowen, Ph. D., George Mason University Kelly S.-

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268

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Routledge

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0750678119

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9780750678117

Parasocial Experiences

Psychological Theory and Application

By: David C. Giles,Reader in Psychology David C Giles,Gayle S. Stever

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Parasocial Experiences

Psychological Theory and Application

By: David C. Giles,Reader in Psychology David C Giles,Gayle S. Stever

This book covers key aspects of parasocial relationships (PSRs), or the relationships people have with media personalities, including fictional characters. The authors address social relationships vs. parasocial relationships as a continuum rather than a dichotomy. They also discuss prominent theories in psychology and how they should be applied to parasocial theory.

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Oxford University Press

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0197647642

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9780197647646

Vulnerable In Front of Fiction

Volume 1

By: Gayle Ramage

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Vulnerable In Front of Fiction

Volume 1

By: Gayle Ramage

Two bodysnatchers find themselves in a bidding war - by the dead... A passion for books proves fatal for a librarian... Santa Claus is reminded of his third list... A zombie gleefully awaits the Uprising... A teenager realises too late that pranks can have dire consequences... With bickering wise men, sinister clocks, and charismatic stomachs, Vulnerable in front of Fiction contains the weird and the wonderful, the dark and the light. Fourteen tales to intrigue and entertain!

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Gayle Ramage

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9798201665982

The Psychology of Celebrity

By: Gayle Stever

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The Psychology of Celebrity

By: Gayle Stever

Why are we fascinated by celebrities we’ve never met? What is the difference between fame and celebrity? How has social media enabled a new wave of celebrities? The Psychology of Celebrity explores the origins of celebrity culture, the relationships celebrities have with their fans, how fame can affect celebrities, and what shapes our thinking about celebrities we admire. The book also addresses the way in which the media has been and continues to be an outlet for celebrities, culminating in the role of social media, reality television, and technology in our modern society. Drawing on research featuring real life celebrities from the Kardashians to Michael Jackson, The Psychology of Celebrity shows us that celebrity influence can have both positive and negative outcomes and the impact these can have on our lives.

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Routledge

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1351252089

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Incomparable Empires

Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature

By: Gayle Rogers

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Incomparable Empires

Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature

By: Gayle Rogers

The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the world republic of letters. But what if this narrative relies on several faulty assumptions, and what if key modernist figures in both America and Spain radically rewrote these histories at a foundational moment of modern literary studies? Following networks of American and Spanish writers, translators, and movements, Gayle Rogers uncovers the arguments that forged the politics and aesthetics of modernism. He revisits the role of empire—from its institutions to its cognitive effects—in shaping a nation's literature and culture. Ranging from universities to comparative practices, from Ezra Pound's failed ambitions as a Hispanist to Juan Ramón Jiménez's multilingual maps of modernismo, Rogers illuminates modernists' profound engagements with the formative dynamics of exceptionalist American and Spanish literary studies. He reads the provocative, often counterintuitive arguments of John Dos Passos, who held that "American literature" could only flourish if the expanding U.S. empire collapsed like Spain's did. And he also details both a controversial theorization of a Harlem–Havana–Madrid nexus for black modernist writing and Ernest Hemingway's unorthodox development of a version of cubist Spanglish in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Bringing together revisionary literary historiography and rich textual analyses, Rogers offers a striking account of why foreign literatures mattered so much to two dramatically changing countries at a pivotal moment in history.

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Columbia University Press

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0231542984

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9780231542982

Premier Piano Course: Lesson Book 4

By: Dennis Alexander,Gayle Kowalchyk,E. L. Lancaster,Victoria McArthur,Martha Mier

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Premier Piano Course: Lesson Book 4

By: Dennis Alexander,Gayle Kowalchyk,E. L. Lancaster,Victoria McArthur,Martha Mier

In Alfred's Premier Piano Course Level 4, students will be playing interesting pieces that use triplets and sixteenth notes. Musical styles range from jazz and ragtime to original pieces by master composers. New concepts introduced include natural and harmonic minor scales, one octave arpeggios and chord inversions.

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Alfred Music

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1457428318

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9781457428319

Life and Death in a Small Southern Town

Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi

By: Gayle Graham Yates

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Life and Death in a Small Southern Town

Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi

By: Gayle Graham Yates

Gayle Graham Yates's hometown sits on the banks of the Chickasawhay River, boasting the live oak, dogwood, and magnolia trees found throughout southern Mississippi. Like any place, Shubuta (population 650) is inhabited by good people and bad, by virtue and vice. Both a literary memoir and a cultural history, this book chronicles Yates's return to the town in which she first knew goodness and came to recognize immorality. Blending folklore and personal impressions with the words of Shubuta people telling their own stories, Yates offers a rich narrative of the town from its Choctaw prehistory through the tremendous economic, political, racial, and social changes that led to its present. The author's pilgrimage leads us to the Hanging Bridge, where some black Shubutans were lynched; to a bank that did not fail during the Great Depression; and to the office of the doctor who tends broken hearts as well as broken arms. Yates takes us to Shubuta's most beautiful gardens and ugliest vacant lots, to all the stores in town, to the new post office, and to the town hall. In the process, we learn how Shubuta evolved from a racially stratified town to one in which the descendants of slaves are now political leaders, librarians, business owners, and police officials. Yates also tells of her own moral journey from judgmental young activist to middle-aged scholar mellowed by experience, travel, and reading who sees her home with newfound compassion. Ultimately, she shows us Small Town southern America: a strong, frail, fascinating, and complex human community.

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LSU Press

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0807129372

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9780807129371

Alfred's premier piano course

By: Dennis Alexander,Gayle Kowalchyk,E. L. Lancaster,Victoria McArthur,Martha Mier

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Alfred's premier piano course

By: Dennis Alexander,Gayle Kowalchyk,E. L. Lancaster,Victoria McArthur,Martha Mier

Premier Piano Course, Level 4 students explore the full range of the keyboard, playing motivating, fun pieces that use triplets and sixteenth notes. Styles range from jazz and ragtime to original pieces by master composers. New concepts including natural and harmonic minor scales, one octave arpeggios and chord inversions are skillfully woven into intriguing pieces. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo. 48 pages. To access the TNT recordings, visit: alfred.com/ppcdownloads.

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Social Studies for Young Children

Preschool and Primary Curriculum Anchor

By: Gayle Mindes,Mark Newman

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Social Studies for Young Children

Preschool and Primary Curriculum Anchor

By: Gayle Mindes,Mark Newman

This book anchors the social studies as the central unifying force for young children. Teachers use the inquiry process to foster child development of social skills and citizenship ideals in their first classroom experiences. Curriculum is built starting with children’s natural curiosity to foster literacy in all its form—speaking, listening, reading, writing. Along the way, young children acquire knowledge and academic skills in civics, economics, geography and history. Shown throughout are ways to promote social learning, self-concept development, social skills and citizenship behaviors. Featured here are individually appropriate and culturally relevant developmental practices. Considered are the importance of family collaboration and funds of knowledge children bring to early care and education. Contributors to this edition bring expertise from bilingual, early education, literacy, special education and the social studies. Beginning with citizenship and community building the authors consider all aspects of teaching young children leading to a progression of capacity to engage civically in school and community.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538140071

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Teacher as Activator of Learning

By: Gayle H. Gregory

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Teacher as Activator of Learning

By: Gayle H. Gregory

Flip the Switch! How to Get Students Into Learning Mode Now. In his well-known meta-analysis, John Hattie suggests that facilitating learning is not as effective or powerful as activating learning. In this book Gayle Gregory shows you how to facilitate better and deeper learning. Packed with practical strategies that teachers can use every day to increase student achievement, you will also discover what educational neuroscience says about nurturing a "growth mindset" and creating classrooms that support and encourage students to take risks and "fail forward." Learn how to Foster student dialogue and thinking Orchestrate productive, reflective flexible student groups Develop respectful learning relationships between and among students and teachers Teacher competencies and clarity related to student goals and success criteria, with quality feedback, are essential for student success. This resource will enrich learning environments for students and increase the chance of success for all. "In going from ‘teachers as fount of knowledge’ to ′teacher as facilitator’ the field has overcorrected. Gayle Gregory corrects all that with a comprehensive and deep portrayal of the need for ’teachers to be activators’ of learning in partnership with students. Based on equal measure of research and practice Gregory gives is a compelling set of ideas and tools to maximize student learning and engagement. Read it and hit the ground running!" Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto

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