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Lucifer

By: Gina Kincade,Erzabet Bishop

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A lonely demon king. A curvy wolf shifter. Will his fated mate bring the almighty Lord of the Underworld to his knees? Confirmed bachelor and legendary playboy, Lucifer Morningstar, is the cocky King of the Underworld. By day, he moonlights as the owner of the DeLux Cafe, and at night he controls evil supernatural beings in the underworld. One stroke of his whip makes immortal demons grovel and quake. With his faithful hellhound by his side, life couldn't be better. That is, until he meets a delicious Detective and can’t get her out of his mind. Lucifer is obsessed with chasing down his fated mate and making her his. Detective Chloe Frost moved to LA four years ago to further her career. She's driven and good at her job. A white wolf shifter, she has a nose for these things. Being the best detective she can be is all she wants...even if she is lonely without her pack. Her true love is her profession. Who needs a man anyhow? Despite her negative outlook on love, Chloe accepts her friend's suggestion to attend a speed dating mingle at the DeLux Cafe. Heidi swears it's just what Chloe needs. Her hopes aren't high, but a little fun-n-sexy-times won't hurt, right? Lucifer is book one in the Speed Dating with the Denizens of the Underworld shared world, filled with devilish demons, sinful shifters, and more. keywords: paranormal, paranormal romance, underworld, underworld series, paranormal romance books for adults, Greek gods, greek gods romance, gods romance, gods, goddesses, goddess romance, Greek goddesses, immortals, immortal romance, Greek mythology, Greek myths, fantasy romance, alpha hero, strong heroine, action, long series, no cliffhangers, guaranteed HEA, happily ever after, demons, angels, fallen angels, werewolf romance, shapeshifter romance, HEA paranormal romance, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, urban fantasy, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy wolf shifter mates, heat level, claiming bite, instant attraction, soul mates, destined mates, wolf shifter mates ebook, Lucifer, devil, purgatory, shared world

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Naughty Nights Press LLC

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1773573454

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Just Here for the Comments

Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice

By: Gina Sipley

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Just Here for the Comments

Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice

By: Gina Sipley

We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever passive acts. In fact, readers of social media are making decisions and taking grassroots actions on multiple dimensions. Unpacking this understudied phenomenon, this book challenges the conventional perspective of what counts as participatory online culture. Presenting lurking as a communication and literacy practice that resists dominant power structures, it offers an innovative approach to digital qualitative methods. Unique and original in its subject, this is a call for internet researchers to broaden their methods to include lurkers’ participation and presence.

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Policy Press

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1529227291

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Along the Catawba River

Images from the Winthrop University Archives

By: Ron Chepesiuk,Gina Price White,Edward Lee

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Along the Catawba River

Images from the Winthrop University Archives

By: Ron Chepesiuk,Gina Price White,Edward Lee

A focal point for many cities and towns across the Palmetto State, rivers provide key elements, such as commerce, transportation, sustenance, and recreation, in establishing a community's identity and prosperity. The Catawba River is no exception. Flowing down from the Piedmont region of North Carolina, this river has enjoyed a long and fascinating history with the people of the Carolinas, from early American Indian tribes to the first settlers of the colonies to today's generations living in York, Chester, and Lancaster Counties. In this volume of over 200 images, many seen here for the first time, you will take a visual journey through a special part of South Carolina, where the Catawba River functions as the life vein for the region and its people. Along the Catawba River is not only a celebration of this beautiful river, but serves as a fitting testimony to the hard work and determination of the people who have carved out successful lives along and near its bountiful banks. As you thumb through these pages, you will meet the region's everyday citizens, such as farmers, merchants, and community leaders; visit the early one-room schoolhouses that dotted the landscape; explore the home and farms of turn-of-the-century families; travel down unpaved streets and into early mills, general stores, and churches; and see the people at work and at play in the area's smaller communities, such as Van Wyck and Brattonsville, and in the larger cities of Rock Hill, Chester, and Lancaster.

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Arcadia Publishing

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073850291X

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9780738502915

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

The Constable Mavis Upton Adventures Books One to Three

Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong; Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; and Blues, Twos and Baby Shoes

By: Gina Kirkham

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The Constable Mavis Upton Adventures Books One to Three

Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong; Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; and Blues, Twos and Baby Shoes

By: Gina Kirkham

An ebook collection of three novels that follow the hilarious misadventures of a woman who takes no prisoners—which is never ideal for a police officer. Mavis Upton tackles everything life can throw at her in this humorous, poignant, and moving series of an everyday girl who one day followed a law enforcement dream . . . Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong Single mom Mavis Upton decides to pursue her lifelong ambition to become a police officer. Using her newly discovered investigative skills, she reluctantly embarks on a search to find her errant dad who was last seen years before, making off with her mum’s much needed coupon for a fabulous foam cup bra all the way from America. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Our hapless heroine Constable Mavis Upton is preparing to step down the aisle with her fiancé Joe, but has to deal with her temperamental teen daughter, as well as investigate a serial flasher on a push bike. Throw a diva drag queen into the mix and readers can expect the usual hilarious Mavis mishaps that made the first book such a hit. Blues, Twos and Baby Shoes Mavis and her daughter Ella are both pregnant. But now Mavis has to deal with a mysterious case involving a blackmailer sending poison pen letters. Can Mavis juggle impending motherhood and her career, maintain a loving relationship with her other half Joe and deal with being a grandmother, all while solving the case? Series praise “Laugh out loud brilliance, so witty and cleverly written.” —Samantha Magson “Hilarious! It’s true, everyone needs Mavis in their life.” —Sherrie Hewson “Such a terrific read!” —Lorraine Kelly

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Open Road Media

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1504073037

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9781504073035

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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9780820353357

Blues, Twos and Baby Shoes

By: Gina Kirkham

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Blues, Twos and Baby Shoes

By: Gina Kirkham

Mavis Upton returns from her adventures in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, and this time she’s taking no prisoners—which is never ideal for a police officer . . . Mavis is pregnant, as is her daughter Ella. Facing the prospect of motherhood and being a grandmother simultaneously, the last thing Mavis needs is problems at work. She must contend with a new sexist dinosaur of a Sergeant who is more bully than mentor, and a mysterious case involving a blackmailer sending poison pen letters is baffling the force and tearing the local community apart. Can Mavis juggle impending motherhood and her career, maintain a loving relationship with her other half Joe and deal with being a grandmother, all while solving the case? Well, this is Constable Mavis Upton . . . literally anything is possible . . . Series praise “Laugh out loud brilliance, so witty and cleverly written.” —Samantha Magson “Hilarious! It’s true, everyone needs Mavis in their life.” —Sherrie Hewson “Such a terrific read!” —Lorraine Kelly

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Open Road Media

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150407310X

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9781504073103

Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong

By: Gina Kirkham

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Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong

By: Gina Kirkham

First in the humorous, poignant and moving series featuring Mavis Upton, an ordinary single mum who dives headfirst into fighting crime. Meet Mavis Upton. As mummy to seven-year-old Ella, surrogate to far too many pets and with a failed marriage under her belt, Mavis knows she needs to make some life-changing decisions. It’s time to strike out into the world, to stand on her own two feet . . . to pursue a lifelong ambition to become a Police Officer. I mean, what could go wrong? Supported by her quirky, malapropism-suffering mum, Mavis throws herself into a world of uncertainty, self-discovery, fearless escapades, laughter, and extra-large knickers. And using her newly discovered investigative skills, she reluctantly embarks on a search to find her errant dad who was last seen years before, making off with her mum’s much needed coupon for a fabulous foam cup bra all the way from America. Series praise “Laugh out loud brilliance, so witty and cleverly written.” —Samantha Magson “Hilarious! It’s true, everyone needs Mavis in their life.” —Sherrie Hewson “Such a terrific read!” —Lorraine Kelly

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1504073088

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9781504073080

Rules of Entanglement

By: Gina L. Maxwell

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Rules of Entanglement

By: Gina L. Maxwell

District Attorney Vanessa MacGregor firmly believes that structure and order are the stuff that dreams are made of. Happiness can be planned—and it starts with the seven rules she's laid out for her future. But as she's organizing her best friend's wedding in Hawaii, all of Vanessa's best-laid plans are about to meet their match in a wickedly hot MMA fighter... Jackson "Jax" Maris is focused on surfing, training, and fighting. That is, until he opens up his big mouth and finds himself having to pretend he's engaged to his little sister's best friend, Vanessa. When they're forced to share a romantic bungalow, however, their little charade suddenly takes a turn for the seriously sexy. And while Jax is definitely not part of Vanessa's long-term plan, he has seven days—and seven naughty nights—to turn her seven-rule plan upside down. Each book in the Fighting for Love series is STANDALONE: * Seducing Cinderella * Rules of Entanglement * Fighting For Irish * Sweet Victory

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Entangled: Brazen

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1622667948

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9781622667949

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

Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories

Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns

By: Gina Wisker

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Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories

Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns

By: Gina Wisker

This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho. Through the ghostly body, possessions and visitations, women’s ghost stories expose links between the political and personal, genocides and domestic tyrannies, providing unceasing reminders of violence and violations. Women, like ghosts, have historically lurked in the background, incarcerated in domestic spaces and roles by familial and hereditary norms. They have been disenfranchised legally and politically, sold on dreams of romance and domesticity. Like unquiet spirits that cannot be silenced, women’s ghost stories speak the unspeakable, revealing these contradictions and oppressions. Wisker’s book demonstrates that in terms of women’s ghost stories, there is much to point the spectral finger at and much to speak out about.

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Springer Nature

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3030890546

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9783030890544

Challenges and Potential of a Collaborative Approach to Education Reform

By: Susan J. Bodilly,JoAn Chun,Gina Schuyler Ikemoto,Sue Stockly

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Challenges and Potential of a Collaborative Approach to Education Reform

By: Susan J. Bodilly,JoAn Chun,Gina Schuyler Ikemoto,Sue Stockly

The Ford Foundation developed the Collaborating for Education Reform Initiative, providing grants to collaboratives in urban settings to improve the quality of teaching. Eight sites signed on, and the RAND Corporation assessed their progress. The authors found that, while none had met final goals, the collaboratives had varying degrees of success and some offered promise. By adopting such techniques as clear communication of expectations and involvement of school staff, collaboratives stand a better chance of success.

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Rand Corporation

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083304060X

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9780833040602

The Good Supervisor

Supervising Postgraduate and Undergraduate Research for Doctoral Theses and Dissertations

By: Gina Wisker

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The Good Supervisor

Supervising Postgraduate and Undergraduate Research for Doctoral Theses and Dissertations

By: Gina Wisker

This engaging book outlines effective strategies for supervising students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It covers each stage of the research journey and provides guidance on working with students to define research topics, select appropriate methodologies, write up theses and prepare for the viva. It also supports supervisors in establishing and maintaining good supervisory practices, and shows how supervisors can help students to help themselves. This will be essential reading for supervisors of undergraduate or postgraduate research projects, dissertations and theses. It is also an ideal resource for student researchers looking to get the most out of their relationship with their supervisor. New to this Edition: - New content on cross-cultural supervision, online distance supervision and sustaining research communities and networks

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137024232

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9781137024237

Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects

Six Steps to Success

By: Gina Abudi,Yusuf Abudi

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Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects

Six Steps to Success

By: Gina Abudi,Yusuf Abudi

“Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects provides process improvement project managers with a toolkit of good ideas and practices that will give them a real step up on mastering this critical discipline. I highly recommend it!” —Paul Harmon, Executive Editor, BPTrends, Author, Business Process Change, 3rd Edition “Based on real-world experience, this book provides a no-nonsense practical approach to running successful business process improvement projects, including the added complexity of managing organizational change. It has lots of useful templates, checklists, anecdotes, and practical advice to ensure your project executes as smoothly as possible.” —Alexey Gerasimov, CTO, My Event Guru, Inc. While there are numerous project management books on the market and a number on business processes and initiatives, there has been a lack of comprehensive guides to successfully manage business process improvement (BPI) projects, until now. BPI projects are some of the most difficult and challenging to manage. Improving results for the business is not an easy task! Doing so requires understanding the vision and long-term goals of an organization. It also requires the ability to engage stakeholders and manage change. Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects is a guide for project managers who want to improve how they manage BPI projects. Using a simple step-by-step, six-phase approach, project managers and others involved in BPI initiatives will increase their confidence and their effectiveness in managing the complexities of business process improvement projects. Special focus is given to the necessary leadership skills required to be successful in driving change by improving processes within an organization to improve business results.

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J. Ross Publishing

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1604270969

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9781604270969

Bygone Christmas Brides

Six Stories of Old-Fashioned Christmas Romance

By: Ginny Aiken,Carla Gade,Pamela Griffin,Tamela Hancock Murray,Jill Stengl,Gina Welborn

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Bygone Christmas Brides

Six Stories of Old-Fashioned Christmas Romance

By: Ginny Aiken,Carla Gade,Pamela Griffin,Tamela Hancock Murray,Jill Stengl,Gina Welborn

Light a candle in the window and sit down to a slice of fruitcake as you delight in six 19th Century romances that welcome love at Christmastide. Many traditions held dear today have their roots in the British Isles and have been practiced for over a hundred years. In these six delightful historical stories, romance is nurtured amidst baking Scottish shortbread and English mince pies, burning the yule log, and hanging kissing boughs. But each couple is also plagued by worries of the day. As Christmastide draws to a close, will faith and love endure for future celebrations?

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Barbour Publishing

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1683222911

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Sleep Disorders

Elements, History, Treatments, and Research

By: Kathleen J. Sexton-Radek Ph.D.,Gina Graci

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Sleep Disorders

Elements, History, Treatments, and Research

By: Kathleen J. Sexton-Radek Ph.D.,Gina Graci

This sourcebook presents the history of sleep disorders, from restless legs to insomnia to night terrors, alongside emerging research, illustrations of sleep disorders in society, and treatments. Part of the Health and Psychology Sourcebooks series, this compact volume offers concise information on an issue threatening human health and well-being: sleep disorders. The authors are established psychologists and researchers specializing in the study of sleep and sleep disorders, one an editor for the Journal of Sleep Disorders and Therapy and the other a certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist. The book begins with an introduction that underscores how prevalent sleep disorders and the condition of sleep deprivation are in this nation and why they are considered a public health concern. Chapters explain and illustrate disorders including apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, nightmares, night terrors, and sleepwalking, with each chapter providing an empirical review followed by a case study. For each disorder, history; signs and symptoms; incidence; theory; personal, familial, societal, and economic factors; treatments and solutions; and emerging research are included.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216145721

Cats For Dummies

By: Gina Spadafori,Lauren Demos,Paul D. Pion

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Cats For Dummies

By: Gina Spadafori,Lauren Demos,Paul D. Pion

Everything you need to take care of your feline friend Cats are the purrfect pets: they’re relatively easy to care for, a blast to play with, and sure to win the heart of every member of your family with their loving nature—and sometimes sassy demeanor! Cats For Dummies gives you expert insight into everything from cat behavior to what makes each type of feline unique. With this easy-to-understand guide, you'll be able to tackle those tough cat-astrophes from dealing with problem behaviors like scratching the furniture and missing the litter box—all while learning to understand what your cat is trying to tell you. Happily bring a cat or kitten into your life Keep your new four-legged family member comfortable and safe Live a happy feline-friendly life Keep your cat in prime health Whether you're looking to get your first kitten or adopt a senior cat, this book covers all the basics of feline cat care.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111964626X

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Half a Million Strong

Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella

By: Gina Arnold

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Half a Million Strong

Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella

By: Gina Arnold

From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature, films, journalism, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, Wattstax, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that—far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves— these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609386086

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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

From This Day Forward

An Anthology

By: Candace Camp,Gina Wilkins,Allison Leigh

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From This Day Forward

An Anthology

By: Candace Camp,Gina Wilkins,Allison Leigh

For richer, for poorer Claire Winters was a society girl. Jack Murphy was born a roughneck. But at a time when women were expected to play by the rules, Claire was determined to break all of them…. For better Rebecca Murphy was planning her grandparents' wedding anniversary party when she was reunited with her onetime wedding fling, Ryan Fuller. But while their chemistry still sizzled, Ryan maintained his position—he was always the groomsman…and never the groom! Or for worse! Successful businessman Nate Aldrich had always avoided settling down…until single mom and restaurant owner Jordan Chelsey showed him just what kind of life he might find inside that fabled white picket fence.

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Harlequin

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142683490X

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Tenaha

By: Gina Lynelle Schaefer

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Tenaha

By: Gina Lynelle Schaefer

“Evil lurks everywhere. In woods, in churches and sanctuaries. In words such as manipulation, trust and devout. It is the trickery that harms the soul as it sneaks up on someone disguised in shepherd’s clothing.” Sixteen-year-old Tiffany has gone missing in the small town of Tenaha, Texas and it is up to a handful of misfits to unravel the mystery behind her disappearance. As the devil dances through the small community only Joseph holds the secret in his mind while Tilly holds it in her soul and it is up to them to weave through the crossroads between the living and the dead to battle evil with the only weapons available to them: truth and faith.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796080306

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9781796080308

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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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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Check These Out

One Librarian's Catalog of the 200 Coolest, Best, and Most Important Books You'll Ever Read

By: Gina Sheridan

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One Librarian's Catalog of the 200 Coolest, Best, and Most Important Books You'll Ever Read

By: Gina Sheridan

Discover a librarian's secret stash of great reads! We've all been there: in the library, head tilted sideways, doing our best to navigate a blur of spines and titles to find one worth reading. Luckily, the hunt is over. Librarian, author, and book devourer Gina Sheridan has sorted through the stacks to compile a list of read-worthy titles you may have skipped over in your search. Check These Out is her secret stash of books that have captivated her mind and soul throughout the years. Inside, she reveals a wide range of extraordinary yet uncommon stories that will completely change the way you view the world, from Michael Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water to Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. After each suggestion, Sheridan offers a hilariously clever summary as well as surprising details about the book or author. Complete with a checklist to keep track of the titles you've read, Check These Out will help you discover a whole new world of literature you won't believe you missed.

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Simon and Schuster

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Conferring in the Math Classroom

A Practical Guidebook to Using 5-Minute Conferences to Grow Confident Mathematicians

By: Gina Picha

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Conferring in the Math Classroom

A Practical Guidebook to Using 5-Minute Conferences to Grow Confident Mathematicians

By: Gina Picha

All students enter our math classrooms with ideas worthy of discussion. Some of the most effective breakthroughs come from short, intentional conversations between students and teacher, yet planning for these moments can seem daunting. In her innovative book, Conferring in the Math Classroom: A Practical Guidebook to Using 5-Minute Conferences to Grow Confident Mathematicians, Gina Picha focuses on simple and transformative ways teachers can use math conferences, short conversations between teachers and small groups of students at work, to guide instruction, assess understanding, and build strong math thinkers. Inside you will learn to: Facilitate math conferences to listen to students, identify and build on their strengths, and encourage them to share their math thinking Build a positive math identity that will help nurture student-centered math classrooms Ask exploratory questions to gain data-driven insight into their math reasoning and plan the next steps for instruction Provide differentiated math instruction based on the individual or small group needs Drive fun and interactive math talk in the classroom Picha includes teacher questioning guides, If-Then charts organized by grade level and math topic, and note-taking templates to help you get started with math conferring right away. This practical and highly accessible approach can help students deepen their math understanding, build confidence in their math abilities, and connect learnings between math subjects.

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Taylor & Francis

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Sarah Starts Living

By: Gina Medvedz

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Sarah Starts Living

By: Gina Medvedz

For eighteen years, Sarah has been a devoted wife and doting mother. When her only child leaves for college, Sarah wonders how she will spend her days. But when her husband announces that he is leaving too, Sarah is forced to reexamine everything that she holds to be true. On a dare from her best friend, Sarah agrees to listen to God and do what He suggests. Following signs that she interprets as divine, she winds up in a convent in Connecticut, on a mission in West Virginia, and in a metaphysical bookstore in Pennsylvania. Learning lessons along the way that shift her belief in the nature of God and her mindset about herself, for the first time in her forty-five years, Sarah Starts Living!

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Balboa Press

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Stress Out! Mom's Show Stress Who's the Boss

By: Sumner M. Davenport,Amanda Johnson,Leona Byrne,Jen Levinson,Cathy Brennan,Gina Gippner-Woods, Sue Zawacki,Allana Pratt,Brenda Douglas,Hazel Palache,Samantha Gregory

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Stress Out! Mom's Show Stress Who's the Boss

By: Sumner M. Davenport,Amanda Johnson,Leona Byrne,Jen Levinson,Cathy Brennan,Gina Gippner-Woods, Sue Zawacki,Allana Pratt,Brenda Douglas,Hazel Palache,Samantha Gregory

It is vastly uncontested that Moms have the most underpaid and stressful job. Reports indicate that Moms find their best support from other moms, those who have felt and are handling the same familiar stressors. This book does not contain what you should do, or condemn you for what you are or are not doing. This book is a collection of stories from Moms who have been-there-done-that. The stories are humorous, entertaining and educational. These stories may not make your child go to bed on time, eat their vegetables, stop pestering the dog or quit taunting their siblings. However, it may give you a break from your day, a smile when you need one and an idea or two from someone else’s experience. Pre-Release reviews: “This book is great. Each chapter is a complete essay and easy to read and relate to.“ ~ Sandra Timler, Pre-School Teacher “I recommend this to all moms, regardless of the age of their children.” ~ Bonnie Chalk, Physician Assistant “It’s hard to choose a favorite chapter, they are all good.” ~ Chere Frong, Mother, Grandmother

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Self Investment Publishing

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The Business of Race: How to Create and Sustain an Antiracist Workplace—And Why it’s Actually Good for Business

By: Margaret H. Greenberg,Gina Greenlee

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The Business of Race: How to Create and Sustain an Antiracist Workplace—And Why it’s Actually Good for Business

By: Margaret H. Greenberg,Gina Greenlee

This book is not written specifically for White readers, Black readers, readers who are Latino, Asian, or other specific racial or ethnic groups. If you are a business leader, individual contributor, Human Resources or DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) professional, educator, coach, or consultant, then The Business of Race is for you. In the business world, incident-driven, company position statements on Black Lives Matter or Stop Asian Hate are not proxies for the heavy lifting that will penetrate and sustain a shift in the status quo. Advancing racial equity to disrupt institutional racism requires more than a company-wide memo or a tab on a corporate website. Businesses often water down, negate or skirt this reality by touting successes from its cousin—diversity. However, you cannot advance a strategy you do not name. The general term “diversity” enables that dynamic. It’s impossible to create an antiracist workplace when we avoid speaking the words ``race” and “racism.” Co-authored by two business women, one Black and one White, The Business of Race can help us all prepare for this transformative work. Rather than diving headfirst with well-meaning but ineffectual efforts, we must first ready our organizations. The authors outline both the inner work (raising our own individual awareness and creating new ways of thinking and being), and the outer work organizations must undertake. This includes honest and often uncomfortable discussions. And carrying out as core to operational business strategy and performance, policies and practices to reimagine a racially equitable workplace. Whether you’re a rising entrepreneur, a supervisor or manager, a leader of a large multinational company, or a frontline employee, you’ll find concrete actions in this essential guide: Why Racial Diversity, Why Now – A Competitive Advantage Commitment, Specificity, and the Science of Small Wins Uncomfortable Truths and Fearless Leaders Look for Talent Where Others Are Not No Secrets in Pay and Promotions – Close the Wage Gap Discover Your “E” and Measure its Impact Woven throughout The Business of Race are interviews with dozens of business professionals across myriad industries, fields and organizational levels. Their stories bring voice to the challenges and opportunities businesses face every day, and provide readers with the courage and tools to openly, honestly, and effectively address the deeply complex, emotional and intimidating dynamic of race and racism in the workplace.

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1264268858

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A Literature Review on the Impact of Investment in Human Capital on Economic Success: How do Human Resources Practices affect Organisational Performance?

By: Gina Roberts

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A Literature Review on the Impact of Investment in Human Capital on Economic Success: How do Human Resources Practices affect Organisational Performance?

By: Gina Roberts

Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisation, grade: 1,0 (A), LMU Munich, language: English, abstract: [...] For companies to gain desired productivity increases from the introduction of advanced and complex technologies, they require a workforce with the necessary skills and knowledge to use them. Thus the value of formal education, technical schooling and on the job training has increased in societies where significant economic growth has been achieved through major advances in technical knowledge (Becker, 2002). This is not to say that Human Capital is not important for developing countries and emerging economies. On the contrary, returns to education, particularly for elementary schooling have been found to be even higher in developing countries (Jones, 2001). Companies realised from the 1990s onwards that the Human Capital within their organisations could be utilised as source of competitive advantage that adds economic value to the firm. In today’s knowledge economy, the people that make up an organisation are seen as wealth and capability generators who can profoundly affect market appeal, reputation and performance (Rylatt, 2003). The potential economic significance of HRM has been increased by strategically fitting HRM practices with business strategy. HR communicates the strategic direction of the organisation to employees and defines and transmits organisational culture that supports organisational objectives by signalling the desired corresponding employee attitudes, behaviours, motivational and affective responses (Ostroff & Bowen, 2000). The research question posed in this thesis takes on the challenge to find empirical evidence that investment in human capital has a positive impact on intermediate as well as accounting and sharevalue economic (bottom-line) indicators of organisational performance, both directly and indirectly. This literature review summarises, integrates and evaluates research published between 1998 and 2003 pertaining to the impact of Human Resources on indicators of employee and firm performance. The articles reviewed here are not exclusive to organisational/industrial psychology but also contribute to the discourse taking place in the domains of business administration and economics. This thesis is, therefore, of interest to academics and professionals working in the domains of organisational/industrial psychology, business administration, economics, human resources, management consulting and strategy.

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Always and Forever

By: Gina Robins,Gina Robbins

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Always and Forever

By: Gina Robins,Gina Robbins

Shipwrecked close to an island while a child, Candeliera grew up among the island's natives. When sea captain Nick Tiger comes ashore and awakens her maidenly desires, Candle is set adrift in a sea of rapture--transported to a different kind of paradise. Robins also authored Captive Enchantress and Deception's Sweet Kiss.

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Pinnacle Books

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1558176470

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Damron Men's Travel Guide 2002

By: Gina M. Gatta

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Damron Men's Travel Guide 2002

By: Gina M. Gatta

The original gay travel guide with over 12,000 listings of gay-friendly hotels, bars nightclubs, restaurants, gyms & much more.

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Caitlyn's Cowboy

By: Gina Jackson

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Caitlyn's Cowboy

By: Gina Jackson

Free from the suffocating hold of Boston high society, Caitlyn Bradford comes to Wyoming to sort out her late aunt's affairs. She discovers she has inherited half a ranch--and a partner: sinfully handsome Dane Morrison. The sophisticated city gal and small-town cowboy are from different worlds, but they share an intense passion.

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Zebra Books

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0821763148

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Klout Matters: How to Engage Customers, Boost Your Digital Influence--and Raise Your Klout Score for Success

By: Gina Carr,Terry Brock

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Klout Matters: How to Engage Customers, Boost Your Digital Influence--and Raise Your Klout Score for Success

By: Gina Carr,Terry Brock

Build Credibility, Get More Business, and Increase Profits with DIGITAL INFLUENCE Strong influence translates to more business--and nothing measures influence like Klout, which has scored more than 100 million people and companies. A high Klout score has become one of the most important business assets today. It can mean the difference between business success and failure. It can affect your job prospects, how your customer service complaints are handled, and whether you’re recognized as an expert in your industry. In Klout Matters, two of today's top social media gurus show you how to raise your Klout score and use it to your advantage. Klout Matters offers simple strategies you can begin using right away. It provides step-by-step guidance that will help you rise above the online noise to stand out, build trust, and grow your business. "Terry Brock and Gina Carr show you how to engage with customers in this fast-paced, ever-changing field. Use their proven principles to make your Klout score rise to the top." -- Harvey Mackay, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive "Everyone wants more impact, influence, and recognition. Buy this book and implement the ideas and strategies, so that you go from Klout to significance." -- Jeffrey Gitomer, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Red Book of Selling and 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling

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0071827323

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Damron Accommodations Guide

By: Damron Guides,Gina Gatta

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Damron Accommodations Guide

By: Damron Guides,Gina Gatta

Damron Accommodations is the premier full-color accommodations guide for LGBT-friendly places to stay-whether you're in Paris, Texas or Paris, France. More expanded listings include the basic information, plus extras from what's for breakfast and how far they are to the nearest bar, to what credit cards they do take and when is the latest you can check in or cancel your reservation

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