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The Superhero Book

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes

By: Gina Misiroglu

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The Superhero Book

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes

By: Gina Misiroglu

The ultimate compendium to everyone’s favorite participants in the eternal battle between good and evil! Profiles of more than 1,000 mythic superheroes, icons, and their place in popular culture. Superhuman strength. Virtual invulnerability. Motivated to defend the world from criminals and madmen. Possessing a secret identity. And they even have fashion sense—they look great in long underwear and catsuits. These are the traits that define the quintessential superhero. Their appeal and media presence has never been greater, but what makes them tick? their strengths? weaknesses? secret identities and arch-enemies? The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes is the comprehensive guide to all those characters whose impossible feats have graced the pages of comic books for the past one hundred years. From the Golden and Silver Ages to the Bronze and Modern Ages, the best-loved and most historically significant superheroes—mainstream and counterculture, famous and forgotten, best and worst—are all here: The Avengers Batman and Robin Captain America Superman Wonder Woman Captain Marvel Spider-Man The Incredibles The Green Lantern Iron Man Catwoman Wolverine Aquaman Hellboy Elektra Spawn The Punisher Teen Titans The Justice League The Fantastic Four and hundreds of others. Unique in bringing together characters from Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, as well as smaller independent houses, The Superhero Book covers the best-loved and historically significant superheroes across all mediums and guises, from comic book, movie, television, and graphic novels. With many photos and illustrations this fun, fact-filled tome is richly illustrated. A bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. It is the ultimate A-to-Z compendium of everyone's favorite superheroes, anti-heroes and their sidekicks, villains, love interests, superpowers, and modus operandi.

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Visible Ink Press

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1578593972

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Down Home with the Neelys

A Southern Family Cookbook

By: Pat Neely,Gina Neely,Paula Disbrowe

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Down Home with the Neelys

A Southern Family Cookbook

By: Pat Neely,Gina Neely,Paula Disbrowe

Meet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the celebrated Memphis and Nashville eateries, Neely’s Bar-B-Que. The Neelys’ down-home approach to cooking has earned them the highest accolades from coast to coast. It has also won them millions of viewers on the Food Network. Simply put, the Neelys are all about good food and good times. In this, their eagerly awaited debut cookbook, the Neelys share the delicious food they have been cooking up for years both at home and in their restaurants. Pat and Gina hail from families with a boundless love of cooking and bedrock traditions of sharing meals. At the Neelys’, mealtime is family time, and that means no stinting on “the sauce.” Indeed, that’s one of the Neely secrets: the liberal application of barbeque sauce to almost anything—spaghetti, nachos, salad, you name it. Of course, there are other secrets as well, and you will find them all in the pages of Down Home with the Neelys, along with more than 120 mouthwatering recipes. Here are the tried-and-true southern recipes that have been passed down from one Neely generation to the next, including many of their signature dishes, such as Barbeque Deviled Eggs, Florida Coast Pickled Shrimp, Pat’s Wings of Fire, Gina’s Collard Greens, Grandma Jean’s Potato Salad, Nana’s Southern Gumbo, Memphis-sized Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Slaw, Get Yo’ Man Chicken, and Sock-It-to-Me Cake. Certainly, no self-respecting southerner would dream of offering a meal to a guest without a proper drink, so Pat and Gina have included some of their favorite libations here, too. The Neelys work, laugh, love, and play harder than any family you’ll ever meet. Their love for good food is infectious, and in Down Home with the Neelys, they bring their heavenly inspired cooking down to earth for all to share.

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Knopf

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0307767574

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From Tian'anmen to Times Square

Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997

By: Gina Marchetti

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From Tian'anmen to Times Square

Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997

By: Gina Marchetti

From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997 explores the important interconnections involving questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on world screens by examining a range of films, videos, and digital works associated with global Chinese culture. The ways in which the world has imagined China and the images the Chinese have used to depict themselves have changed dramatically since 1989. The media spotlight placed on Beijing during the spring of 1989 created repercussions that continue to affect how China is seen globally, how it sees itself, and how the Chinese outside the People's Republic see themselves. The films and other texts included in this book represent a range of work by media artists working within China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and on transnational co-productions involving those places. The book also features media from other positions within the Chinese diaspora (including Chinese America) and work produced on China by non-Chinese. Highlighting questions of the circulation of images, people, and commodities, the book explores the important interconnections involving questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on global screens. Beginning and ending with Tian'anmen and world image culture, a portrait emerges of momentous change and persistent challenges facing media artists and filmmakers working within "Greater China.

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Temple University Press

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1592132782

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Reason to Believe

By: Gina Gordon

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Reason to Believe

By: Gina Gordon

“Gina Gordon never disappoints,” declares Jen McLaughlin! In this sizzling novel, two outsiders trying to turn their lives around find everything they’re looking for in each other’s arms. Grace: I thought that reinventing myself as a corporate go-getter would be easy compared to my old life as an escort, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. After taking a full-time office job, my past has come back to haunt me, my love life is nonexistent, and I miss sex—even with the lying cheats who used to be my clients. The trouble is, the closest thing to a man in my life is Ben Lockwood. After pushing me away, that jerk has the nerve to ask a favor—so why is he so hard to resist? Ben: Working my way up from cameraman to vice president of an adult media company has been . . . interesting. To focus on my career, I swear off all distractions—especially sex—and turn to Grace Nolan, the most poised and polished woman I know, for help cleaning up. But after my little vow of celibacy, spending time with Grace is pure torture. I can’t touch her, and yet I can’t stop thinking about her. And deep down, I know the reason why. Praise for Reason to Believe “Hot, hot, hot!”—The Coffeeholic Bookworm “Reason to Believe was a revelation.”—Lightning City Book Reviews “There is lots of humor and entertainment in this story, which makes it a great overall read.”—Books & Boys Book Blog “This book was sexy and a great read! I really enjoyed reading about Grace and Ben finding their way and making the lives they dreamed of living! . . . I can’t wait to read more by Gina!”—Once upon an Alpha “I think the message this book gives us is that we have to trust ourselves and understand that we can do anything we set our minds to. It doesn’t matter where you come from, you have to learn to love yourself and fight for what you want and eventually you will find your happily ever after.”—The Secret World of Book Lovers “This is my second Gina Gordon book and I really enjoy her writing style!”—Books According to Abby “Get ready to laugh, swoon, and fall in love. You don’t want to miss this book!”—USA Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy Includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from another Loveswept title.

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Loveswept

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1101967757

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9781101967751

The Truth about Sucking Up

How Authentic Self-promotion Benefits You and Your Organization

By: Gina Hernez-Broome,Cindy McLaughlin,Stephanie Trovas

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The Truth about Sucking Up

How Authentic Self-promotion Benefits You and Your Organization

By: Gina Hernez-Broome,Cindy McLaughlin,Stephanie Trovas

Why aren't suck-ups seen for what they really are? Why do organizations reward the most vocal or most visible even if they aren't the most qualified? These are critically important questions. Beyond bruised egos and a free-floating sense of unfairness lies a larger organizational problem: when the wrong people get noticed and rewarded, organizations suffer. Projects fail, goals are not met, employee morale and motivation disintegrate, and cynicism festers. This book can help you prevent those drastic outcomes by making authentic self-promotion part of your everyday work life.

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Center for Creative Leadership

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1604910674

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9781604910674

Gaming the Stage

Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater

By: Gina Bloom

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Gaming the Stage

Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater

By: Gina Bloom

Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater

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University of Michigan Press

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0472053817

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9780472053810

Talking Black and White

An Intercultural Exploration of Twenty-First-Century Racism, Prejudice, and Perception

By: Gina Castle Bell

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Talking Black and White

An Intercultural Exploration of Twenty-First-Century Racism, Prejudice, and Perception

By: Gina Castle Bell

Talking Black and White: An Intercultural Exploration of Twenty-First-Century Racism, Prejudice, and Perception investigates domestic race-related social justice issues and intercultural communication between Black and White individuals. Twenty-first-century racism, racial tensions, prejudice, police brutality, #BLM, misperception, and the role of the past are deconstructed in an engaging, provocative, and accessible manner. Gina Castle Bell explores these dynamics through the lenses of intercultural communication, critical intercultural communication, critical race theory, critical theory, rhetoric, sociology, race and racism, interracial communication, Black communication, identity, identity negotiation, and communication theory. This is an ideal book for scholars, students, and working professionals who are interested in intercultural communication, race relations, and healthy communication across various areas of difference.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498516904

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9781498516907

Erosion

American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance

By: Gina Caison

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Erosion

American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance

By: Gina Caison

In Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining canonical American texts and photography, including John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Octavia Butler’s Parable series, John Audubon’s Louisiana writings, and Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Caison shows how concerns over erosion reveal anxieties of disappearance that are based in the legacies of settler colonialism. Soil loss not only occupies a complex metaphorical place in the narrative of American identity; it becomes central to preserving the white settler colonial state through Indigenous dispossession and erasure. At the same time, Caison examines how Indigenous texts and art such as Lynn Riggs's play Green Grow the Lilacs, Karenne Wood’s poetry, and Monique Verdin's photography challenge colonial narratives of the continent by outlining the material stakes of soil loss for their own communities. From California to Oklahoma to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Caison ultimately demonstrates that concerns over erosion reverberate into issues of climate change, land ownership, Indigenous sovereignty, race, and cultural and national identity.

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Duke University Press

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147806014X

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9781478060147

American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

By: Gina Misiroglu

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American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

By: Gina Misiroglu

Counterculture, while commonly used to describe youth-oriented movements during the 1960s, refers to any attempt to challenge or change conventional values and practices or the dominant lifestyles of the day. This fascinating three-volume set explores these movements in America from colonial times to the present in colorful detail. "American Countercultures" is the first reference work to examine the impact of countercultural movements on American social history. It highlights the writings, recordings, and visual works produced by these movements to educate, inspire, and incite action in all eras of the nation's history. A-Z entries provide a wealth of information on personalities, places, events, concepts, beliefs, groups, and practices. The set includes numerous illustrations, a topic finder, primary source documents, a bibliography and a filmography, and an index.

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Routledge

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1317477294

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9781317477297

The Supervillain Book

The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood

By: Gina Misiroglu

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The Supervillain Book

The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood

By: Gina Misiroglu

Everything you ever wanted to know about the bad guys in comics, film, and television! A must-read for anyone who was ever enthralled with mythic wickedness, The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood exhaustively explores the extraordinary lives and careers of hundreds of overachieving evildoers. Drawing from sources in comic books, film, live-action and animated television, newspaper strips, toys, and manga and anime, it is the definitive guide to nefarious masterminds, mad scientists, and destructive dominators who have battled super- and other fictional heroes. The Supervillain Book investigates each character’s origin, modus operandi, costumes, weapons and gadgetry, secret hideouts, chief henchmen, and minions, while serving up a supersized trove of fascinating trivia. It also takes you behind the scenes, describing the creation and development of these marvelously malicious, menacing, and malevolent characters. With 350 entries on pop culture’s most malicious evildoers, this comprehensive resource also includes 125 illustrations, a helpful resource section, and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. What would a good guy be without the bad guy? Boring. You won’t be bored with this indispensable guide to the wicked world of supervillains!

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Visible Ink Press

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1578597943

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9781578597949

Kiss This

Punk In The Present Tense

By: Gina Arnold

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Kiss This

Punk In The Present Tense

By: Gina Arnold

This is a true-crime story of the murder of an art form: punk rock. Gina Arnold has been witness to this gradual annihilation, and she's not shy about pointing out the perpetrators: Tipper Gore, Rolling Stone, Geffen Records, Miller beer, and even the progenitors of punk themselves, the Sex Pistols, are all implicated in the demise of independent music. In Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana, Gina Arnold gave us a road map to the defiant fury that shaped punk's harsh, musical bloodletting. But now Kurt Cobain is dead. And Courtney Love is playing shows sponsored by beer companies, MasterCard is financing the Monsters of Rock tour, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are sporting free Airwalk sneakers. Arnold knows something has gone terribly wrong. Bad Religion, Metallica, Rancid, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, Pearl Jam, the Fastbacks, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails--find out who sold out, who stayed real, and what independent music must do now to regain its lost edge. In 1978 Sid Vicious mocked a Sinatra classic with his version of "My Way." Well, it's 1997, and punk has lost its way. In Kiss This Gina Arnold just may show it the way home.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466881984

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9781466881983

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 10

By: Gina Luria Walker

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 10

By: Gina Luria Walker

Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040250262

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9781040250266

Discovering Lavalette

By: Gina Simmons

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Discovering Lavalette

By: Gina Simmons

How did a small village get such an unusual name? The answer would reveal the secret to one of the best kept secrets in Appalachian history. The answer had been woven into the fabric of day to day life hiding the invisible threads of humanity and history long passed away. Or had they? Those threads, once illuminated, led back to a transplanted ancient culture left curiously intact, a whirlwind 19th century Caribbean romance and a gifted thinker that reflect the true spirit of a culture known for their independent mind. Discovering Lavalette-Commemorative Village Edition is the multi-dimensional cultural biography of a small southern Appalachian village and its humble people. Introductions include photographs and oral histories from the earliest settlers, their adventures with Colonial America, the American Civil War, the coming of the Industrial Age.

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AuthorHouse

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1438987072

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9781438987071

Edge of Exposure

By: Gina Marie Martini

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Edge of Exposure

By: Gina Marie Martini

Paris, a fabulous, energetic city and a superb locale for hotel entrepreneur Tommy Cavallo and actress Victoria Ursini to hide following Tommy's fictitious death. Vicki learns of an accident in Las Vegas that nearly kills her mother, Sylvia. She leaves Tommy safely in France to rush to her mother's side, risking exposure to their aliases and the truth that Tommy is still alive. Vicki reconnects with her family when she arrives home but grows concerned that the hungry media and her vindictive ex-husband, the former governor, will shine a bright spotlight on her. She has evaded snapping cameras and ambitious reporters since Tommy quietly swept her out of Vegas to protect her from a white-collar crime and himself from an unidentified adversary who threatened his life. Chaos ensues as some well-kept family secrets unravel, including a murder, in which Sylvia becomes the prime suspect. Still, the one mystery Vicki hopes to solve is the identity of her biological father. Between Sylvia's baffling past and Tommy's unknown enemies, Vicki's whole world starts crumbling, ultimately jeopardizing Tommy's life and their future together.

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Page Publishing Inc

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9798889604723

Rethinking Thin

The New Science of Weight Loss—and the Myths and Realities of Dieting

By: Gina Kolata

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Rethinking Thin

The New Science of Weight Loss—and the Myths and Realities of Dieting

By: Gina Kolata

In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Rethinking Thin is at once an account of the place of diets in American society and a provocative critique of the weight-loss industry. Kolata's account of four determined dieters' progress through a study comparing the Atkins diet to a conventional low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of politics and power. Rethinking Thin asks whether words like willpower are really applicable when it comes to eating and body weight. It dramatizes what it feels like to spend a lifetime struggling with one's weight and fantasizing about finally, at long last, getting thin. It tells the little-known story of the science of obesity and the history of diets and dieting—scientific and social phenomena that made some people rich and thin and left others fat and miserable. And it offers commonsense answers to questions about weight, eating habits, and obesity—giving us a better understanding of the weight that is right for our bodies.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429923652

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9781429923651

Cherry Blossom Capers

By: Gina Conroy,Frances Devine,Cara C. Putman,Lynette Sowell

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Cherry Blossom Capers

By: Gina Conroy,Frances Devine,Cara C. Putman,Lynette Sowell

Encounter mystery, mayhem, and murder near Washington, DC, alongside four professional females. White House assistant chef Tara Whitley works with an old flame, FBI agent Jack Courtland, to stop a plot to sabotage a state-dinner. Attorney Ciara Turner and her nemesis Daniel Evans have trials tracking down a judge’s murderer. Archeologist intern Samantha Steele and security guard Nick Porter are on the heels of a dangerous forger. Shop owner Susan Holland and renovator Vince Martini turn upside down her late uncle’s mansion while investigating a string of mysterious accidents. Will these sleuthing couples’ machinations move them into matrimony?

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Barbour Publishing

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160742732X

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9781607427322

Batman

The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond [Updated Edition]

By: Andrew Farago,Gina McIntyre

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Batman

The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond [Updated Edition]

By: Andrew Farago,Gina McIntyre

Explore over eighty years of Batman history in this updated official edition featuring a wealth of new content, including a new chapter on acclaimed feature film The Batman. Filled with exclusive insert items that further deepen the reading experience, this updated edition of Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond is the ultimate exploration of a true legend whose impact on our culture has no limits.

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Simon and Schuster

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1647228964

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9781647228965

The Near Northwest Side Story

Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families

By: Gina Perez

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The Near Northwest Side Story

Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families

By: Gina Perez

An original and significant contribution to Puerto Rican, Latino, and Latin American studies, drawing on the perspective of ordinary men and women. Gina Pérez's fine work is based on intensive research in two distant but interconnected places, conducted by a perceptive and sensitive observer-participant, herself immersed in two languages, cultures, and nations. Clearly written and cogently argued, her book will be of great interest to students of migration, ethnicity, and gender."—Jorge Duany, author of The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States "In this fresh, textured, original, multi-sited ethnography, Pérez traces the changing ways that Puerto Ricans have experienced poverty, displacement, and discrimination, and how they imagine and build deeply rooted but transnational lives through the extended families, dense social networks, and meaningful communities. Pérez exposes the limits of citizenship for racialized minorities; the contradictory, constrained agency in community mobilizations and urban uprisings; and the often-failed promise of transnational migration as a place to build a counter-hegemonic political space."—Brett Williams, Professor of Anthropology, American University "This is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and economic restructuring."—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows

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Univ of California Press

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0520233689

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9780520233683

Downtown Ladies

Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica

By: Gina A. Ulysse

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Downtown Ladies

Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica

By: Gina A. Ulysse

The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs—who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970s, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and global economies. Gina Ulysse carefully explores how ICIs, determined to be self-employed, struggle with government regulation and other social tensions to negotiate their autonomy. Informing this story of self-fashioning with reflections on her own experience as a young Haitian anthropologist, Ulysse combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226841235

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9780226841236

Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville

By: Gina Arnold

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Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville

By: Gina Arnold

A passionate re-assessment of one of the most original, groundbreaking, and controversial albums of the 1990s.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441162577

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9781441162571

BowWOW!

Curiously Compelling Facts, True Tales, and Trivia Even Your Dog Won't Know

By: Marty Becker,Gina Spadafori,Marty Becker, D.V.M.

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BowWOW!

Curiously Compelling Facts, True Tales, and Trivia Even Your Dog Won't Know

By: Marty Becker,Gina Spadafori,Marty Becker, D.V.M.

Presents little-known facts about dogs and tips about dog behavior, including information about the strongest and oldest dogs, and the reasons why dogs like to dig and why they have cold noses.

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Health Communications, Inc.

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0757306233

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9780757306235

Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses

By: Gina Wisker

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Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses

By: Gina Wisker

This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women’s ghost stories.

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Springer

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1137303492

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9781137303493

They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted

Women's Strategic Use of Humor

By: Gina Barreca

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They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted

Women's Strategic Use of Humor

By: Gina Barreca

With a comprehensive new introduction by the author, a reissue of the influential text on women's humor

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UPNE

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1611684455

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9781611684452

The Case Writing Workbook

A Self-Guided Workshop

By: Gina Vega

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The Case Writing Workbook

A Self-Guided Workshop

By: Gina Vega

This book offers a modular set of chapters that focus specifically on the challenges related to case writing. Exercises, worksheets, and training activities help guide readers sequentially through the entire process of writing both a case and an instructor’s manual (teaching note). Designed as an individualized workshop to assist case authors to structure their writing, this book combines the easy-to-understand, student-focused language of the first edition with new material covering the latest developments and challenges in the world of case writing. These include: ● A section on writing cases in condensed time frames ● A new module on writing short cases in various formats ● A new module on turning research papers into teaching tools ● A section about growing communities of practice in a university ● An expansion of the student case writing module to include a section on case writing for graduate students ● Twelve new worksheets ● A complete index to facilitate use of the book Finishing all the book’s assignments will result in a complete case and instructor’s manual that can be tested in the classroom and submitted to a conference or journal. The Case Writing Workbook is a must for the shelf of any academic or student conducting qualitative research and looking to enhance their skill set.

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Rural Transitions to Higher Education in South Africa

Decolonial Perspectives

By: Sue Timmis,Thea de Wet,Kibashini Naidoo,Sheila Trahar,Lisa Lucas,Emmanuel Mfanafuthi Mgqwashu,Patricia Muhuro,Gina Wisker

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Rural Transitions to Higher Education in South Africa

Decolonial Perspectives

By: Sue Timmis,Thea de Wet,Kibashini Naidoo,Sheila Trahar,Lisa Lucas,Emmanuel Mfanafuthi Mgqwashu,Patricia Muhuro,Gina Wisker

This unique and timely book focuses on research conducted into the experiences of students from rural backgrounds in South Africa: foregrounding decolonial perspectives on their negotiation of access and transitions to higher education. This book highlights not only the challenges of coming from a rural background against the historical backdrop of apartheid and ongoing colonialism, but also shows the immense assets that students from rural areas bring into higher education. Through detailed narratives created by student co-researchers, the book charts early experiences in rural communities, negotiations of transitions to university and, in many cases, to urban life and students’ subsequent journeys through higher education spaces and curricula. The book will be of significant interest and value to those engaged in rurality research across diverse settings, those interested in the South African higher education context and higher education more widely. Its innovative, participatory methodology will be invaluable to researchers seeking to conduct collaborative research that draws on decolonising approaches.

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1000410447

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Cincinnati

By: Gina Ruffin Moore

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Cincinnati

By: Gina Ruffin Moore

Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati was a major stop on the Underground Railroad and the gateway to the North for thousands of African Americans during the Great Migration after the Civil War. This heritage is revealed through fascinating images of African-American life in the community, churches, education, politics, entrepreneurship, civil rights, and sports.

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0738551449

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Gregory Hines

By: Dennis Abrams,Gina De Angelis

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Gregory Hines

By: Dennis Abrams,Gina De Angelis

Details the life of African American entertainer and actor Gregory Hines.

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Infobase Publishing

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2

By: Anna M Fitzer,Gina Luria Walker

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2

By: Anna M Fitzer,Gina Luria Walker

This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own reputation as a poet in support of the abolitionist cause. It is the collaborative effort of Roberts, Bickersteth and Seeley that testifies the complexity of her enduring influence.

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1040245676

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Red States

Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies

By: Gina Caison

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Red States

Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies

By: Gina Caison

Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing how non-Native audiences in the region came to imagine indigeneity through the presentation of specious histories presented in regional literary texts, and she examines how Indigenous people work against these narratives to maintain sovereign land claims in their home spaces through their own literary and cultural productions. As Caison demonstrates, these conversations in the U.S. South have consequences for how present-day conservative political discourses resonate across the United States. Assembling a newly constituted archive that includes regional theatrical and musical performances, pre-Civil War literatures, and contemporary novels, Caison illuminates the U.S. South's continued investment in settler colonialism and the continued Indigenous resistance to this paradigm. Ultimately, she concludes that the region is indeed made up of red states, but perhaps not in the way readers initially imagine.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820353353

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Amazing Animals of Australia's National Parks

By: Gina M. Newton

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Amazing Animals of Australia's National Parks

By: Gina M. Newton

With its enticing and colourful design and its fascinating information, this is a book that children will want to pour over-either at home, in the classroom or on a road trip. This book brings together 55 national parks, selected across all Australian states and territories, and over 120 animals. It is divided into seven sections according to habitat (woodlands and grasslands; forests; rainforests; arid zones; mountains; wetlands and waterways; coasts, oceans and islands), each including a number of national parks and a selection of the fish, reptiles, frogs, birds and mammals that inhabit them. At the end of the book is a section on 'little critters'-beetles, spiders, butterflies, grasshoppers, bugs and so on. Each habitat section opens with photographs of the featured national parks and a description of the habitat. Each animal has its own page, which has a stunning colour photograph of the species, a map of its distribution range, its conservation status and scientific information about the species. The information is divided into the following sections: 'Fast Facts' gives you all the vital statistics, such as size, lifespan and number of young; 'Where Does It Live?' tells you where in Australia you can find the species and provides details about its home; 'What's Its Life Like?' tells you a bit about how the animal moves, behaves, eats and has young; and 'Interesting Info' has quirky and fascinating facts. This book features a foreword by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir Peter Cosgrove.

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National Library of Australia

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0642278881

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Women in World Christianity

Building and Sustaining a Global Movement

By: Gina A. Zurlo

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Women in World Christianity

Building and Sustaining a Global Movement

By: Gina A. Zurlo

A groundbreaking, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of women’s experiences in World Christianity Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement is the first textbook to focus on women’s experiences in the founding, spread, and continuation of the Christian faith. Integrating historical, theological, and social scientific approaches to World Christianity, this innovative volume centers women’s perspectives to illustrate their key role in Christianity becoming a world religion, including how they sustain the faith in the present and their expanding role in the future. Women in World Christianity features findings from the Women in World Christianity Project, a groundbreaking study that produced the first quantitative dataset on gender in every Christian denomination in every country of the world. Throughout the text, special emphasis is placed on women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the period of Christianity’s shift from the global North to the global South. Easily accessible chapters – organized by continent, tradition, and select topics – introduce students to the wide variety of Christian belief and practice around the world. The book also discusses issues specifically relevant to women in the church: gender-based violence, ecology, theological education, peacebuilding and more. This textbook: Provides a balanced view of women’s involvement in Christianity as a world religion and how they sustain the faith today Introduces students to female theologians around the world whose scholarship is generally overlooked in Western theological education Discusses women’s essential contributions to Christian mission, leadership, education, relief work, healthcare, and other social services of the church Complements the growing body of literature about Christian women from different continental, regional, national, and ecclesiastical perspectives Explores the contributions of contemporary Christian women of all major denominations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania Helps students become more aware of the unique challenges women face worldwide, and what they are doing to overcome them Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement is an excellent primary textbook for introductory courses on World Christianity, History of Christianity, World Religions, Gender in Religion, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses specifically focused on women in World Christianity.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119874785

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part II, Volume 6

By: Gina Luria Walker

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part II, Volume 6

By: Gina Luria Walker

This book is second volume of Mary Hays's Female Biography; a scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences, such as those of Elizabeth Bland and Boadecia. It attests to the existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new knowledge and contributed to cultural capital.

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1040250955

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Secrets Café, The Main Course

By: Gina G.

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Secrets Café, The Main Course

By: Gina G.

What's that old adage? You should be careful what you wish for? Here I was walking home from Secrets Cafe, trying to figure out what conflict I could add to the story I was writing when bam, the Universe gave me Secret. She was huddled in my doorway claiming she was homeless and had nowhere else to go. What was I supposed to do? Kick her to the streets? It was the holidays. "Okay," I said. "You can stay one night." I did not trust her. She was a master manipulator, a liar, and a game player. I was not going to fall for her bullshit again.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509256601

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 9

By: Gina Luria Walker

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 9

By: Gina Luria Walker

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1040243282

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Matched by Moonlight

By: Gina Wilkins

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Matched by Moonlight

By: Gina Wilkins

A workaholic wedding planner meets a travel writer, and soon love is in the air at Bride Mountain, Virginia's most exciting venue for destination weddings, in the first book in Gina Wilkins's new miniseries! Kinley Carmichael is on her way to transforming her family's historic B and B into Virginia's most exciting vacation venue. Romance is the last thing on the once-burned wedding planner's mind…until footloose travel writer Dan Phelan shows up, throwing her schedule—and Kinley's guarded heart—into chaos. Dan is just passing through and has no intention of making Bride Mountain Inn his honeymoon destination. So why is Kinley suddenly making him long to take that fateful walk down the aisle? It will take a local legend and a passionate kiss under a bridal moon for two total opposites to realize they could be meant for each other….

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Harlequin

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1460324099

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Japanese Influence on American Children's Television

Transforming Saturday Morning

By: Gina O’Melia

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Japanese Influence on American Children's Television

Transforming Saturday Morning

By: Gina O’Melia

Japanese Influence on American Children’s Television examines the gradual, yet dramatic, transformation of Saturday morning children’s programming from being rooted in American traditions and popular culture to reflecting Japanese popular culture. In this modern era of globalization and global media/cultural convergence, the book brings to light an often overlooked phenomenon of the gradual integration of narrative and character conventions borrowed from Japanese storytelling into American children’s media. The book begins with a brief history of Saturday morning in the United States from its earliest years, and the interaction between American and Japanese popular media during this time period. It then moves onto reviewing the dramatic shift that occurred within the Saturday morning block through both an overview of the transitional decades as well as an in-depth analysis of the transformative ascent of the shows Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Pokémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!.

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3030174166

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Training for Two

Safe and Smart Prenatal Exercises for a Smoother Pregnancy, Easier Birth, and Healthier Newborn - 90+ Resistance Training, Mobility, Birth Prep, and Labor Support Exercises

By: Gina Conley

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Training for Two

Safe and Smart Prenatal Exercises for a Smoother Pregnancy, Easier Birth, and Healthier Newborn - 90+ Resistance Training, Mobility, Birth Prep, and Labor Support Exercises

By: Gina Conley

In Training for Two, the owner of popular prenatal fitness brand MamasteFit teach mamas-to-be how to build strength and prepare for childbirth with a tailored program of strength-based prenatal exercises.

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