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Discovering Lavalette

By: Gina Simmons

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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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1438987072

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Makers with a Cause

Creative Service Projects for Library Youth

By: Gina Seymour

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Makers with a Cause

Creative Service Projects for Library Youth

By: Gina Seymour

This quick-start guide explains how to use inquiry to promote civic engagement in the school library makerspace and provides ready-to-use ideas for hands-on service projects. By creating for their community in the school library makerspace, young people not only develop academic and cognitive skills but also learn to value building a culture of caring. Award-winning author Gina Seymour discusses her initiative to empower students to take an active role in making a difference and outlines how to implement similar programs in any school library setting. The book may be used in school libraries in conjunction with a service learning model to extend the learning that takes place in classrooms and to make youth feel a valuable part of their community. Numerous service project ideas are presented, from simple, low-cost, no-tech, craft-based ideas to high-tech projects including 3-D models, and while the book focuses on youth in middle school and high school, many projects may also be used in elementary school. Detailed project instructions include tips for making programs inclusive for all youth, and money-saving tips to promote sustainability.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440857296

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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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0820353345

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Security

A Novel

By: Gina Wohlsdorf

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Security

A Novel

By: Gina Wohlsdorf

“Original and imaginative . . . Ripping suspense, sheer terror, and a wrenching love story.” —Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Friction The terrible truth about Manderley is that someone is always watching. Manderley Resort is a gleaming, new twenty-story hotel on the California coast. It’s about to open its doors, and the world--at least those with the means to afford it--will be welcomed into a palace of opulence and unparalleled security. But someone is determined that Manderley will never open. The staff has no idea that their every move is being watched, and over the next twelve hours they will be killed off, one by one. Writing in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King, and with a deep bow to Daphne du Maurier, author Gina Wohlsdorf pairs narrative ingenuity and razor-wire prose with quick twists, sharp turns, and gasp-inducing terror. Security is grand guignol storytelling at its very best. A shocking thriller, a brilliant narrative puzzle, and a multifaceted love story unlike any other, Security marks the debut of a fearless and gifted writer. “Be surprised, be very surprised: Gina Wohlsdorf brings more than just plot twists and a terrifically tender love story to this thriller . . . It’s her playful homage to Hitchcock and du Maurier that had me reading, howling, and just plain loving this novel.” —Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge “Grand Hotel meets Psycho in the age of surveillance . . . Security is cinematically vivid, crisply written, and sharp enough to cut . . . Wohlsdorf brilliantly subverts our expectations of the action genre in this smart, shocking, poignant thriller.” —Emily Croy Barker, author of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic “The thrill of this novel goes beyond its wickedly clever, split-screen, high-tech wizardry—a kind of video gamer’s literary retake of Hitchcock’s Rear Window--and emanates from its strange, disembodied narrator . . . The effect is terrifying, sexy, dizzying, and impossible to look away from.” —Tim Johnston, author of Descent “Shocking and filled with Tarantino-ish dark humor. . . Structurally reminiscent of the amazing Jennifer Egan,Wohlsdorf’s book is certainly a hybrid, like nothing else. Get ready.” —Ann Beattie, author of The State We’re In “Flawless . . . Security is perfectly tuned for blockbuster status . . . They don’t make a hotel big enough to house all the people who will want to read this, and soon, as in Manderley, all eyes will be on Wohlsdorf.” —Daniel Kraus, Booklist, starred review

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Algonquin Books

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1616206934

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The Vibration of Grace

Sound Healing Rituals for Liberation

By: gina Breedlove

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The Vibration of Grace

Sound Healing Rituals for Liberation

By: gina Breedlove

A sacred healing journey to awaken the boundless power of your words, thoughts, and voice. Includes guided audio practices. “The medicine of Grace is sound,” says gina Breedlove. “Sound is an immediate point of entry to the mind, body, and spirit, and has been sourced as a healing modality since humans appeared on the earth.” With The Vibration of Grace, this extraordinary teacher and healer shares a sweeping, glorious guide to help you invoke the power of sound as a vehicle of love and liberation—for yourself and your loved ones, and in service to our world. Guided by a sacred presence she has known all her life as Grace, Breedlove has spent decades exploring the many ways sound and vibration can enable us to grow, heal, and connect. Here she shares profound insights, heart-opening stories, and clear instruction for rituals and daily practices, including: • Identifying your soul tone—how to locate and work with the vibrational presence that is uniquely “you”• The language of healing—invoking the sacred energy of words to create, bless, and transform• Soul retrieval—a time-honored ritual to release stored fear and free up your energetic resources• Grief letting—powerful practices to witness, move through, and transform grief into healing energy, by yourself or in groups• Ways to overcome the cultural shaming that causes you to repress your voice and self-expression• Self-care tools, including daily sound rituals and medicine bath practices• Resources to support your journey—including links to Breedlove’s guided recordings for each ritual The Vibration of Grace shows us the power of sound has no limit. We can use it to harmonize with the wisdom of our ancestors, communicate with our body and soul, resonate with divine truth that disrupts systems of tyranny, and add our strength to the chorus that sings of a new and better world to come. “Let the space between us be open and blessed,” says gina Breedlove. “May your ancestors and mine guide us through each ritual, to a place of sovereignty and dominion over our lives.”

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Sounds True

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164963160X

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Top Tips for Weaning

By: Gina Ford

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Top Tips for Weaning

By: Gina Ford

Weaning your baby on to solid foods is one of the most important milestones during the early months of parenthood, and Gina Ford's expert advice on weaning makes a baby's transition from milk to solid foods as straightforward as possible. Gina's no-nonsense, quick and easy tips will help you to: - Understand which foods to introduce and at what age - Get the balance of milk feeds and solids right - Eliminate night feeds once solids are introduced This handy guide offers sensible solutions to ensure that your baby eats well - now, and as she grows up.

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Random House

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1446458407

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Made In Hollywood

All Access with the Go-Go’s

By: Gina Schock

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Made In Hollywood

All Access with the Go-Go’s

By: Gina Schock

The Go-Go’s were the first all-female rock group in history to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made In Hollywood is drummer Gina Schock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photographs and memorabilia collected over the course of her 40-year career. The Go-Go’s debut album, Beauty and the Beat, rose to the top of the charts in 1981 and their hit songs "We Got the Beat", "Our Lips Are Sealed", “Vacation”, and "Head Over Heels" (to name a few) served as a soundtrack to our lives in the ‘80s. Now, after the release of their Critics Choice Award-winning Showtime documentary, and in anticipation of their forthcoming induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and their 2021 West Coast shows, Gina takes fans behind the scenes for a rare look at her personal images documenting the band's wild journey to the heights of fame and stardom. Featuring posters, photographs, Polaroids, and other memorabilia from her archives, Made In Hollywood also includes stories from each member of the Go-Go’s, along with other cultural luminaries like Kate Pierson, Jodie Foster, Dave Stewart, Martha Quinn, and Paul Reubens. With a style as bold and distinctive as any Go-Go’s album, Made In Hollywood is the perfect tribute to one of the world's most iconic groups.

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Black Dog & Leventhal

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076247498X

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Digging up the Dirt

The History and Mysteries of the Will County Poor Farm and Potter's Fields

By: Gina Wysocki

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Digging up the Dirt

The History and Mysteries of the Will County Poor Farm and Potter's Fields

By: Gina Wysocki

The Will County Poor Farm was a home for the less fortunate, terminally and mentally ill, elderly, and orphaned children. Hundreds resided there over the years and despite the closing in 1955, hundreds of them still remain, somewhere within the 180 acres.

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1440104751

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Why Haiti Needs New Narratives

A Post-Quake Chronicle

By: Gina Athena Ulysse

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Why Haiti Needs New Narratives

A Post-Quake Chronicle

By: Gina Athena Ulysse

Winner of the Haitian Studies Association Excellence in Scholarship Award (2015) Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the feminist anthropologist and performance artist Gina Athena Ulysse embarked on a writing spree that lasted over two years. As an ethnographer and a member of the diaspora, Ulysse delivers critical cultural analysis of geopolitics and daily life in a series of dispatches, op-eds and articles on post-quake Haiti. Her complex yet singular aim is to make sense of how the nation and its subjects continue to negotiate sovereignty and being in a world where, according to a Haitian saying, tout moun se moun, men tout moun pa menm (All people are human, but all humans are not the same). This collection contains thirty pieces, most of which were previously published in and on Haitian Times, Huffington Post, Ms Magazine, Ms Blog, NACLA, and other print and online venues. The book is trilingual (English, Kreyòl, and French) and includes a foreword by award-winning author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819575461

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9780819575463

Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960

By: Gina Anne Tam

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Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960

By: Gina Anne Tam

Analyzes how fangyan (local Chinese languages or dialects) were central to the creation of modern Chinese nationalism.

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Cambridge University Press

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110847828X

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SURPRISE PARTNERS

By: Gina Wilkins

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SURPRISE PARTNERS

By: Gina Wilkins

COURTSHIP OF CONVENIENCE They were neighbors. Friends. Acquaintances, actually. And about all shy, intense Lydia McKinley and smooth, ambitious Scott Pearson had in common was zero tolerance for romance—and two matchmaking sisters bombarding them with blind dates. Still, why not join forces to outmaneuver their siblings? The strategy? Don protective camouflage. Pose as sweethearts at social occasions. A hug here, a kiss there, and they'd barricade themselves against a barrage of misguided matchmaking. But who knew their casual contact would trigger such explosive embraces? That their convenient courtship would plunge them headlong into a minefield of most convenient desire?

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1460355482

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The Handy American Government Answer Book

How Washington, Politics and Elections Work

By: Gina Misiroglu

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The Handy American Government Answer Book

How Washington, Politics and Elections Work

By: Gina Misiroglu

A practical, accessible, engaging, and comprehensive guide to how American democracy works (and how it sometimes doesn't work). The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking world veiled in power brokering, bureaucracy, and big money. On another, it's the biggest, richest, most influential organization in the world, for better or worse. Understanding how modern America is managed and governed is more vital than ever, but television, radio, newspapers, and social media frequently aim to spin, seduce, and sell product rather than serve anything resembling the truth. Filling the breach and answering basic questions about how our very complex government operates and what it promises, The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics, and Elections Work takes a comprehensive look at the systems, people, and policies that comprise American democracy, providing much-needed clarity to the current political drama. This informative book traces the historic development of the government, the functions of each branch of government, and how they work together. It provides clear and concise definitions of who does what and why. Written in an entertaining, reader-friendly, question-and-answer format, The Handy American Government Answer Book deciphers the news behind the headlines through well-researched answers to nearly 800 common questions. You will also read about such fascinating tidbits as Why is America's democratic system considered so precious? How are shifting demographics related to the electorate? What can Americans do to influence their government? Did the framers of the Constitution place equal weight on the concepts of liberty, equality, and democracy? What does "checks and balances" mean? What generally happens when members of Congress act inappropriately? How many presidents have been impeached? How does a case reach the U.S. Supreme Court? Which president appointed the most justices? How do civil liberties differ from civil rights? How does the Bill of Rights protect individual liberties? Is measuring public opinion a new phenomenon in politics? What does the concept ?majority rule with minority rights? mean? Why has trust in the government declined? What does it mean to lobby? How are PAC donations and political decisions linked? Where do the party symbols of the donkey and the elephant come from? What is electoral realignment? Who pays for the campaigns of candidates? Did the electoral college ever vote unanimously for a president? This handy primer also includes numerous illustrations, graphs, tables, a helpful bibliography, and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. In the midst of the overheated rhetoric of the moment and the fast-changing, crisis-dominated world, a well-informed citizenry armed with The Handy American Government Answer Book is the best defense against political and corporate chicanery!

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Visible Ink Press

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1578596742

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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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1578593972

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Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis,Gina Dent,Erica R. Meiners,Beth E. Richie

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Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis,Gina Dent,Erica R. Meiners,Beth E. Richie

Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects. In this remarkable collaborative work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century. This pathbreaking book also features illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.

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Haymarket Books

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1642593788

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Other Side of the Rainbow

By: Gina Ferguson

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Other Side of the Rainbow

By: Gina Ferguson

I became a medical experiment when I was seven years old. This book is the story of my life - the events, the thoughts, the feelings. It is a story of searching for cures outside of the FDA and conventional medicine. This book will show you the path my life has taken, the treatments and illnesses I have survived, the fears I have encountered, and how I have learned to live in spite of difficult circumstances. If you have a serious illness, or perhaps live with or know someone who does, my desire is this book will show you a different way to live - a different perception of both medicine and yourself as a human being that has enabled me to not only survive, but also live a life of joy and grace.

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059516174X

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Value for Money

How to Show the Value for Money for All Types of Projects and Programs in Governments, Non-Governmental Organizations, Nonprofits, and Businesses

By: Patricia Pulliam Phillips,Jack J. Phillips,Gina Paone,Cyndi Huff Gaudet

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Value for Money

How to Show the Value for Money for All Types of Projects and Programs in Governments, Non-Governmental Organizations, Nonprofits, and Businesses

By: Patricia Pulliam Phillips,Jack J. Phillips,Gina Paone,Cyndi Huff Gaudet

Written by two of the world's most well-known ROI (Return on Investment) gurus, this guide is indispensable for anyone involved in showing the value of money for projects and programs in governments, non-governmental organizations, nonprofits, and businesses. These range from human capital programs to marketing initiatives, technology implementations, systems integrations, quality and lean processes, public health initiatives, procurement procedures, public relations events, risk management policies, economic development programs, corporate social responsibility projects, public policy programs, branding activities, innovation programs, customer satisfaction projects, and everything in between. In a step-by-step process, the book shows how to measure the success of projects and programs, including measuring impact and ROI (Return on Investment). This book also shows how to forecast the value of the project in advance and how to collect data during and after project implementation. It addresses improvements throughout the process so that the project delivers optimum value. In addition to businesses, this book is appropriate for governments, NGOs, nonprofits, universities and healthcare organizations. As a reference for those who are seeking ways to assign value to what they have measured, the book will clarify and resolve much of the mystery surrounding the conversion of data to monetary values. Building on a tremendous amount of experience, application, practice, and research, the book will be based on the work of many individuals and organizations, particularly those who have been reaching the ultimate levels of accountability using the ROI Methodology. Developed in an easy-to-read format and fortified with examples, tips, and checklists, this will be an indispensable guide for those who seek to understand accountability issues.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119322715

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Feasting Wild

In Search of the Last Untamed Food

By: Gina Rae La Cerva

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Feasting Wild

In Search of the Last Untamed Food

By: Gina Rae La Cerva

A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection “Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have lost since then.”—The New York Times Book Review Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. Meanwhile, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world’s last untamed landscapes. In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods. Throughout her travels, La Cerva reflects on how colonialism and the extinction crisis have impacted wild spaces, and reveals what we sacrifice when we domesticate our foods —including biodiversity, Indigenous and women’s knowledge, a vital connection to nature, and delicious flavors. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, La Cerva investigates the violent “bush meat” trade, tracking elicit delicacies from the rainforests of the Congo Basin to the dinner tables of Europe. In a Danish cemetery, she forages for wild onions with the esteemed staff of Noma. In Sweden––after saying goodbye to a man known only as The Hunter––La Cerva smuggles freshly-caught game meat home to New York in her suitcase, for a feast of “heartbreak moose.” Thoughtful, ambitious, and wide-ranging, Feasting Wild challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today, and introduces an exciting new voice in food journalism. “A memorable, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times-bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction “A food book with a truly original take.”—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Salt: A World History “An intense and illuminating travelogue... offer[ing] a corrective to the patriarchal white gaze promoted by globetrotting eaters like Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern. La Cerva combines environmental history with feminist memoir to craft a narrative that's more in tune with recent works by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Rush.”—The Wall Street Journal

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1771645342

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Mountain Christmas Brides

Nine Historical Novellas Celebrate Faith and Love in the Rocky Mountains

By: Mildred Colvin,Mary Davis,Susan Page Davis,Lena Nelson Dooley,Darlene Franklin,Debby Lee,Tamela Hancock Murray,Carrie Turansky,Gina Welborn

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Mountain Christmas Brides

Nine Historical Novellas Celebrate Faith and Love in the Rocky Mountains

By: Mildred Colvin,Mary Davis,Susan Page Davis,Lena Nelson Dooley,Darlene Franklin,Debby Lee,Tamela Hancock Murray,Carrie Turansky,Gina Welborn

Celebrating Faith and Love in the Historic Rocky Mountains From a Wyoming ranch in 1880, to a logging camp in Washington Territory in the late 1800s, to Denver, Colorado, in 1913, meet nine couples who find that Christmas is the perfect time for climbing to the heights of romance. Watch as their faith and courage propel them through challenges that come with mountain winters to cozy fireside celebrations that lead to lasting proclamations of love. Penned by an exclusive selection of Christian fiction authors—including Susan Page Davis, Vickie McDonough, and Carrie Turansky—this collection of nine romances is one to treasure.

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Barbour Publishing

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1634099761

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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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Taylor & Francis

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1040245676

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Shaman or Sherlock?

The Native American Detective

By: Gina Macdonald,Andrew F. Macdonald

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Shaman or Sherlock?

The Native American Detective

By: Gina Macdonald,Andrew F. Macdonald

Fictional depictions of Native American concepts of justice, crime, and the investigation of crime are explored in this original work. Shaman or Sherlock explores depictions created by Native American authors themselves, as well as those created by outsiders with mainstream agendas. The most successful of these writers fuse authentic Native American culture with standard genre conventions, thus providing an appealing, empathetic view of little-understood or underappreciated groups, as well as insight into issues of cross-cultural communication. Dealing with such significant concepts as acculturation, regional diversity, and assimilation, this unique study evaluates over 200 detective stories. Though the crime novel began in Europe as a manifestation of Enlightenment rationality and scientific methodology, the Native American detective story moves into the realm of the spiritual and intuitive, often incorporating depictions of non-material phenomena. Shaman or Sherlock? explores how geographical and tribal differences, degrees of assimilation, and the evolution of age-old cultural patterns shape the Native American detective story.

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0313075069

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From Fear to Eternity

212 Ways to Let Go of Limiting Beliefs and Shift Your Energy into Higher Consciousness Living

By: Gina-Dianne Harding

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From Fear to Eternity

212 Ways to Let Go of Limiting Beliefs and Shift Your Energy into Higher Consciousness Living

By: Gina-Dianne Harding

Whether you want quick tips to shift into higher vibration, or want to take a reflective journey along your spiritual path, this book provides the essential information you need. The author invites you to start your transformation today. Humanity is going through a rapid transformation. You may follow one of two paths: Be dragged through; stuck in overwhelmingly fearful and limiting beliefs, energy-draining thoughts, and painful feelings. OR Learn the tools that shift you into the higher-conscious life youve yearned forwhere you experience improved health, connected and loving relationships, fulfilling work, and the knowledge that, no matter what happens around you, everything is ultimately right in your life! Dive into this book and discover: How vibrational energy can connect you to everything around you; How modifying your affirmations to bite-size, believable pieces helps prevent becoming overwhelmed; How to prevent leaking your energy and keep energy vampires from depleting your vitality; Tools to shift your energy almost instantaneously, Why consciously adopting these new behaviors now is vital as we approach 2012 and move toward the next age of human evolution. This important book shows how we have an opportunity to greatly improve our lives and, by this simple action, uplift humanity James F. Twyman, Peace Troubadour. This book makes relevant to the reader the path of personal awakening and self-empowerment. Gina-Diannes personal life experience and spiritual awakening has created this fine reference work for the seeker who wishes to improve their spiritual focus and avoid the many distractions of our time. Richard Jelusich, PhD, author of Eye of the Lotus: Psychology of the Chakras Gina-Dianne Hardings book becomes a bridge between the different theories about 2012 written by scientists and researchers of the Mayan culture. She shares her own Spiritual experiences which she lived during her visits to the Mayan ceremonial centers in the lands of Yucatan. Sacred Knowledge, practice, and experiences of the Maya worldview has left a deep imprint on her mind and soul, which gives this book a special stamp, written as a real experience of the heart and manifesting the messages that shape this magnificent example. ...Miguel Angel Vergara, Maya Wisdom Teacher

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The New Contented Little Baby Book

The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting

By: Gina Ford

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The New Contented Little Baby Book

The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting

By: Gina Ford

The perfect baby book for new moms and dads! You’ve just had a baby. Everything is perfect. Then the hospital sends you home—without an instruction manual... Baby expert Gina Ford comes to the rescue with her newly revised hour-by-hour, week-by-week guide. One of Great Britain’s top parenting experts, she draws on more than twenty years of experience researching and studying the natural sleep rhythms and feeding patterns of babies to ease the stresses and worries of new parents. In this new edition, you’ll find everything you need to know to get your newborn to sleep through the night. In addition to advice on sleep training, Ford shares her expertise on feeding schedules, colic, crying, teething, illness, pacifiers, separation anxiety, and setting up the perfect nursery. With this easy-to-follow guide, Ford will have your whole family sleeping through the night—happily and peacefully—in no time.

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Flora of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, Campanulaceae - Asteraceae

By: Peter Sell,Gina Murrell

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Flora of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, Campanulaceae - Asteraceae

By: Peter Sell,Gina Murrell

This critical Flora provides a definitive account of the native species, naturalised species, frequent garden escapes and casuals found in the British Isles. Full keys and descriptions will enable the user to name all plants occurring in the wild, plus some ornamental trees and shrubs. For the first time detailed accounts of all the large apomictic genera are given and many infraspecific variants included. Each species entry begins with the accepted Latin name, synonyms and the common English name. A detailed description follows, including information on flowering period, pollination and chromosome number. Separate descriptions are given for infraspecific taxa. Information on the status, ecology and distribution (including worldwide distribution) of the species and infraspecific taxa is also given. Clear black and white line drawings illustrate an extensive glossary and also illuminate the diagnostic features in a number of groups of plants.

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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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Routledge

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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

By: Gina Wisker

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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

By: Gina Wisker

Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. It includes discussion of key themes and concepts including: - Representation of women's roles, gender, sexuality and power - Language, style and form - Dystopias and genre fictions - Power, control and religious fundamentalism. Combining helpful guidance on reading Atwood's text with overviews of significant stylistic and thematic issues and an introduction to criticism, this is an ideal companion to reading and studying A Handmaid's Tale.

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Managing Teleworkers and Telecommuting Strategies

By: Gina Vega

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Managing Teleworkers and Telecommuting Strategies

By: Gina Vega

Much of the research in the area of telework has been more enthusiastic and optimistic than dependable. This book presents objective descriptions and experiences of telework, instead of focusing on boosterism of proponents' theories or the unexamined skepticism of naysayers. Vega specifically questions the wholesale adoption of telework as recommended by its advocates. She examines the impact of telework on the worker, as well as benefits to the employer. Telework might not be the answer to all problems, but Vega's close examination concludes with an upbeat description of what can happen—and has happened—in the best of circumstances.

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Getting Published

Academic Publishing Success

By: Gina Wisker

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Getting Published

Academic Publishing Success

By: Gina Wisker

This comprehensive handbook will guide readers through the process of publishing their research. It helps readers to establish successful writing practices and habits which will enable them to write well, complete their work to a high standard and have their work published. Drawing on her experience as a writer, editor and supervisor, Gina Wisker covers the practicalities of writing and provides tried-and-tested techniques for managing time, overcoming writer's block and developing a confident academic voice. This book is ideal for postgraduates, academics, researchers and professionals wishing to write effectively and share their work with others through academic publication.

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Top Tips for Toddler Tantrums

By: Gina Ford

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Top Tips for Toddler Tantrums

By: Gina Ford

Toddlers tantrums can be both embarrassing and stressful for parents. Gina Ford's Top Tips for Coping with Toddler Tantrums offers parents concise and effective advice on how to deal with this seemingly uncontrollable behaviour. Gina's no-nonsense quick and easy parenting tips will help you to: - understand why children have tantrums - learn ways to prevent a tantrum when you see it coming - calm a toddler in the middle of his tantrum - learn how to stay calm yourself This handy guide is full of practical, sensible advice to help parents, and toddlers, cope with tantrums.

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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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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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1466881984

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Murders at the Harmony Hollows Resort

By: Gina Kirkham

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Murders at the Harmony Hollows Resort

By: Gina Kirkham

A sleuthing librarian and her friends embark on a fun-filled trip to a holiday camp—but death isn’t taking a holiday . . . June 1998: Elodie Marshall has committed a terrible crime. But when she’s deemed unfit to plead, she is sentenced to living within the confines of a mental health facility . . . Present day: Amateur detective Pru Pearce and her friends from the Winterbottom Women’s Institute are about to embark on their annual getaway. The 1960s Butlins-style Harmony Hollows Resort has caught their attention for a few reasons, including the northern ballroom championships and the unsolved double murder from 1983. But what the women thought was just a cold case soon steps into the present when a murderer, dubbed The Grim Sleeper, strikes. Soon, Pru and the other WI women are dragged deeper into the mysteries of both the past and present-day murders. But this is no evening entertainment—this is real life, and everyone is in danger . . . Can Pru uncover the truth before another innocent camper is offed? Or are her friends in Chalet 13 destined to meet a grisly end? This killer comedy is the latest in the series of “warm, cozy crime capers” by the author of the Constable Mavis Upton novels (Jill’s Book Café).

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1504099591

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Listen to the Silence

Messages & Miracles from Spencer Who Never Spoke Words

By: Spencer L. Gray,Gina G. Gray

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Listen to the Silence

Messages & Miracles from Spencer Who Never Spoke Words

By: Spencer L. Gray,Gina G. Gray

Emotions are the language of Spirit. When emotions are felt, throughout your entire being, they’re received as messages and miracles. Learning to tune in to feelings is key to connecting to gratitude and unconditional love. Spencer and Gina know that the bond between a mother and her child never ends. The grateful connection and unconditional love they share lasted even after Spencer transcended his body at age twenty-three. When Spencer’s messages—“Spencpirations”—began coming into Gina’s awareness soon after he transcended, she knew their wild ride together was continuing with passion and exploration! Without his body, Spencer gained access to an infinite source of songs, artists, and lyrics and soon began to send daily messages through music, poetry, orbs of light, numbers, or simple words. The “Spencpirations” evolved into inspirational, brilliant ideas and words of unconditional love coming through loud and clear. Now, mother and son want to teach others how to “listen to the silence” to receive messages and miracles that will keep you connected to your Spiritual Beings always and in all ways. It is possible to have a meaningful relationship with all silent ones who are in physical and Spiritual form. Wisdom is found within the emotions that are shared between silent communicators and those who care enough to listen ... to the silence.

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Imagining the Primitive in Naturalist and Modernist Literature

By: Gina M. Rossetti

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Imagining the Primitive in Naturalist and Modernist Literature

By: Gina M. Rossetti

Examines the depiction of primitive characters in naturalist and modernist texts, focusing on works by Jack London, Frank Norris, Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen"--Provided by publisher.

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0826265030

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Top Tips for Fussy Eaters

By: Gina Ford

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Top Tips for Fussy Eaters

By: Gina Ford

All parents want their toddlers to be healthy, happy eaters but mealtimes can often end in a battle of wills. Gina Ford's Top Tips for Fussy Eaters offers parents practical, straightforward advice on turning those difficult mealtimes into happy family occasions. Gina's no-nonsense quick and easy tips will help you to: - create food that is fun to eat, yet healthy and nutritious - make mealtimes less stressful - encourage your child to eat fruit and vegetables This handy parenting guide offers sensible solutions to help you cope with your little fussy eater, encourage healthy eating and banish tantrums at mealtimes for good.

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1409003779

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part II, Volume 5

By: Gina Luria Walker

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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part II, Volume 5

By: Gina Luria Walker

This book is fifth of the six-volume modern scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences. Written by the autodidact Mary Hays, it attests to the existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new knowledge and made genuine contributions to cultural capital.

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1040233805

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Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down

The Official Behind-the-Scenes Companion

By: Gina McIntyre

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Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down

The Official Behind-the-Scenes Companion

By: Gina McIntyre

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The official behind-the-scenes companion guide to the first two seasons and beyond, featuring exclusive photos and stunning concept art. Stranger things have happened. . . . When the first season of Stranger Things debuted on Netflix in the summer of 2016, the show struck a nerve with millions of viewers worldwide and received broad critical acclaim. The series has gone on to win six Emmy Awards, but the its success was driven more than anything by word of mouth, resonating across generations. Viewers feel personal connections to the characters. Now fans can immerse themselves in the world—or worlds—of Hawkins, Indiana, like never before. Inside you’ll find • original commentary and a foreword from creators Matt and Ross Duffer • exclusive interviews with the stars of the show, including Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and David Harbour • the show’s earliest drafts, pitches to Netflix, and casting calls • insights into the Duffers’ creative process from the entire crew—from costume and set designers to composers and visual-effects specialists • deep dives into the cultural artifacts and references that inspired the look and feel of the show • a map of everyday Hawkins—with clues charting the network of the Upside Down • a digital copy of the Morse code disk Eleven uses, so you can decipher secret messages embedded throughout the text • a look into the future of the series—including a sneak preview of season three! Adding whole new layers to enrich the viewing experience, this keepsake is essential reading for anyone and everyone who loves Stranger Things. Note: This ebook is best viewed on a color device with a larger screen.

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1984819305

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