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The Breakthrough

Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

By: Gwen Ifill

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The Breakthrough

Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

By: Gwen Ifill

In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power. Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way to a generation of men and women who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s. She offers incisive, detailed profiles of such prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and U.S. Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama (all interviewed for this book), and also covers numerous up-and-coming figures from across the nation. Drawing on exclusive interviews with power brokers such as President Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, his son Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict, the race/ gender clash, and the "black enough" conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history. The Breakthrough is a remarkable look at contemporary politics and an essential foundation for understanding the future of American democracy in the age of Obama.

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Anchor

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0767928903

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9780767928908

Tod Inlet

A Healing Place

By: Gwen Curry

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Tod Inlet

A Healing Place

By: Gwen Curry

Shortlisted for the 2016 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Tod Inlet has been a place of refuge for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, but few are aware of its history. This tiny fjord, less than a half hour from downtown Victoria, is part of Gowlland Tod Provincial Park and is accessed by a forested path beside Tod Creek. For centuries it was the home of the WSÁNEć (Saanich) people, providing everything for their spiritual and material sustenance. In the early part of the twentieth century a small company town grew on its shores. Houses, a railway, a clay mill, a factory and a dock for steamships were built for the Vancouver Portland Cement Company. When the cement company had exhausted the limestone quarries, Jennie Butchart began her ambitious gardening project, Butchart Gardens. Developers made plans for marinas, golf courses and hotels to be built on this quiet inlet, but local citizens, environmentalists, scientists and First Nations people fought back. Almost all the buildings have been demolished, but concrete and iron are not easily disposed of, and reminders of the past confront the walker everywhere: shell middens spill into the sea, fruit trees and garden flowers mingle with indigenous plants, and century-old industrial relics litter the creek, the forest and the Inlet. But despite the ravages of the past century, Tod Inlet retains a spirit of peace and renewal. In other environments this clash of the man-made with the natural can create an unsettling mix. Here, time has allowed nature to begin the healing process and has morphed into a present that speaks softly of its past. Gwen Curry takes us on her walks down to the Inlet. Her beautiful photographs capture the spirit of present-day Tod Inlet, while her sensitive prose gives us glimpses into the Inlet's natural, industrial and First Nations history.

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Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

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1771600764

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9781771600767

Atchafalaya Houseboat

My Years in the Louisiana Swamp

By: Gwen Roland

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Atchafalaya Houseboat

My Years in the Louisiana Swamp

By: Gwen Roland

In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people—Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin—decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a book called How to Build Your Home in the Woods, they drew up plans to recycle a slave-built structure into a houseboat. Without power tools or building experience they constructed a floating dwelling complete with a brick fireplace. Towed deep into the sleepy waters of Bloody Bayou, it was their home for eight years. This is the tale of the not-so-simple life they made together—days spent fishing, trading, making wine, growing food, and growing up—told by Gwen with grace, economy, and eloquence. Not long after they took up swamp living, Gwen and Calvin met a young photographer named C. C. Lockwood, who shared their "back to the earth" values. His photographs of the couple going about their daily routine were published in National Geographic magazine, bringing them unexpected fame. More than a quarter of a century later, after Gwen and Calvin had long since parted, one of Lockwood's photos of them appeared in a National Geographic collector's edition entitled 100 Best Pictures Unpublished—and kindled the interest of a new generation. With quiet wisdom, Gwen recounts her eight-year voyage of discovery—about swamp life, wildlife, and herself. A keen observer of both the natural world and the ways of human beings, she transports readers to an unfamiliar and exotic place.

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LSU Press

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0807161748

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9780807161746

Panhandle Dreams

By: Gwen Parker Ames

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Panhandle Dreams

By: Gwen Parker Ames

Martin Luther King Jr.’s powerful “I Have a Dream” speech gained greater notoriety after his untimely death in the sixties. Millions of black Americans were motivated to grab a piece of King’s dream despite not knowing how to make it a reality. The novel Dream in the Panhandle paraphrases King’s famous speech to illuminate the complexities involved in a society’s movement toward equality. The story told through the writings of twelve-year-old Indigo Douglas is set in racially segregated Tallahassee, Florida the day after the news of King’s assassination came across the radio waves. Indigo’s parents' reaction to King’s death causes her to look beyond the world of her close–knit colored community to examine the lives of whites for the first time. Her examination begins with the affluent Whittner family who is her Aunt Sadie’s employer. As the nation grieves, deeply held family secrets are revealed and trigger chaos within the Douglas and Whittner families forcing them to see their commonality as well as their differences. Indigo’s father goes to prison as a result of his pro-King activism. Mr. Whittner risks his wealth as he reveals his Jewish heritage. Indigo’s mother embraces her previously unacknowledged bi-racial identity, while Mrs. Whittner remains vehemently intolerant. The contradictions between race, culture and power in this “coming of age story” become the canvas for Indigo to sketch a new generation’s concept of “King’s dream”.

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iUniverse

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0595234739

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9780595234738

Walking the Golden Path

By: Gwen Mangum,Notable Soul

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Walking the Golden Path

By: Gwen Mangum,Notable Soul

Walking the Golden Path is an inner-dimensional guidebook via journeys with Beloved Teacher. A creative adventure in spiritual awareness and unfoldment. Angels, inner earth visits and blessings all found with one's DNA.

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Lulu.com

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1411666305

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9781411666306

Glens Falls People and Places

By: Bob Bayle,Lillian Casola,Stan Malecki,Gwen Palmer

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Glens Falls People and Places

By: Bob Bayle,Lillian Casola,Stan Malecki,Gwen Palmer

The name Glens Falls went through a series of changes, beginning simply as the Corners, after a bend in the road from a major military installation in Fort Edward. In the 1700s, it was known as Wings Falls, and later Pearlville, Pearl Village, and Glenns Falls; but by the middle of the 1800s, it was determined to be Glens Falls, one of the wealthiest villages in the state. It was the people who settled in the town that helped to shape it. The lumber barons provided the financial backing to begin banking and insurance institutions and served as officers of every major business and governmental agency in town. Glens Falls People and Places covers the lives of the prosperous and preposterous people and their contributions to the citys development through the 20th century.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439621675

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9781439621677

The Clubwomen's Daughters

Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girl's Fiction, 1890-1940

By: Gwen Tarbox

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The Clubwomen's Daughters

Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girl's Fiction, 1890-1940

By: Gwen Tarbox

The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of Progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of these communities, both real and fictional, upon young women's lives during the years leading up to the Second World War. The writers featured in this volume were the first generation of New Women, whose ability to enter traditionally male spaces such as the college campus, the playing field, the wilderness, and the office was facilitated by their membership in women's clubs, political and religious organizations, and athletic teams. Eager to promote the idea that same-sex group activities would lead to female empowerment, these clubwomen targeted young girls as their intended audience and developed an idealized fictional portrait of female cooperation that girls could replicate in their own lives. By adding to our knowledge of girls' cultural history, the author gives voice to a segment of the population that was, and still is, at the center of society's debates concerning the appropriate roles for girls and women. Authors discussed include Louisa May Alcott, Emma Dunham Kelley, Laura Lee Hope (psuedonym for Lilian Garis), Carolyn Keene (pseudonym for Mildred Wirt Benson), and Margaret Sutton.

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Routledge

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131777602X

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9781317776024

Refining Expertise

How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges

By: Gwen Ottinger

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Refining Expertise

How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges

By: Gwen Ottinger

An intriguing and impressive account of corporate social responsibility—and neoliberalism writ large—on the ground, in action, in chemical plant communities in Louisiana…Ottinger effectively [illustrates] how, in complex, culturally saturated ways, corporate commitment to `responsible care’ has created critical challenges for environmental activism and justice." —Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected scientific data to prove it. Their campaign ended with a settlement agreement that addressed many of their grievances—but not concerns about their health. Yet, instead of continuing to collect data, residents began to let refinery scientists’ assertions that their operations did not harm them stand without challenge. What makes a community move so suddenly from actively challenging to apparently accepting experts’ authority? Refining Expertise argues that the answer rests in the way that refinery scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves as responsible. This work drives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities in response, in order to advance community health and robust scientific knowledge about it. Gwen Ottinger is Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington-Bothell, where she teaches in the Science, Technology, & Society and Environmental Studies majors. She is co-editor of Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement.

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NYU Press

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0814762379

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9780814762370

Soweto Blues

Jazz, Popular Music, and Politics in South Africa

By: Gwen Ansell

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Soweto Blues

Jazz, Popular Music, and Politics in South Africa

By: Gwen Ansell

Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.

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A&C Black

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0826417531

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9780826417534

Deep Summer

By: Gwen Bristow

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Deep Summer

By: Gwen Bristow

The New York Times–bestselling author of Jubilee Trail does “a grand job of storytelling” in this saga of pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness (The New York Times). For his service in the king’s army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy’s father, a Puritan New Englander, is granted a parcel of land in far-off Louisiana. As the family ventures down the Mississippi to make a new home in the wilderness, Judith meets Philip Larne, an adventurer who travels in the finest clothes Judith has ever seen. He is a rogue, a killer, and a thief—and the first thing he steals is Judith’s heart. Three thousand acres of untamed jungle, populated by native tribes and overrun with jaguars and pirates, await Philip in Louisiana. He and Judith will struggle through their stormy marriage and the challenges of the American Revolution as they strive to build an empire for future generations. This is the first novel in Gwen Bristow’s Plantation Trilogy, which also includes The Handsome Road and This Side of Glory.

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Open Road Media

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1480485152

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9781480485150

Plantation Trilogy

Deep Summer, The Handsome Road, and This Side of Glory

By: Gwen Bristow

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Plantation Trilogy

Deep Summer, The Handsome Road, and This Side of Glory

By: Gwen Bristow

A saga of Louisiana by an author who “belongs among those Southern novelists who are trying to interpret the South and its past in critical terms” (The New York Times). Published in the late 1930s by New York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow, the Plantation Trilogy is an epic series of novels that bring to life the history of Louisiana—from its settlement in the late eighteenth century to the realities of slavery and poverty to the post–World War I era—via the intertwined lives of the members of three families: the Sheramys, the Larnes, and the Upjohns. Deep Summer is the story of Puritan pioneer Judith Sheramy and adventurer Philip Larne, who marry and strive to build an empire in the Louisiana wilderness during the American Revolution. The Handsome Road tells the story of plantation mistress Ann Sheramy Larne and poor seamstress Corrie May Upjohn, who forge an unlikely bond of friendship as they struggle to survive the cataclysms of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This Side of Glory presents the story of Eleanor Upjohn, a modern young woman in the early twentieth century who marries charming Kester Larne and struggles to save the debt-ridden plantation that her husband’s ancestors founded more than one hundred years ago.

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Open Road Media

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1504011309

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9781504011303

Liberated String Quilts

20 Foundation-Free Projects

By: Gwen Marston

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Liberated String Quilts

20 Foundation-Free Projects

By: Gwen Marston

21 Foundation-free String Quilts with Vision and Style! Quilt artist Gwen Marston introduces a new concept in string quilts! Learn her innovative techniques for fast, foundation-free string quilts that sizzle. According to Gwen, grand results come from lea_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_`_x0000_a_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_`_x0000_`_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_ to have lots of fun sewing strings! 20 string-pieced quilt projects include updated traditional designs, Amish classics, and more. Complete instructions for working with short strings_x0000_???ng strings, rectangles, and wedges. Gwen shares string quilt history and her “liberated” methods of construction. Plus a dazzling gallery of antique string quilts.???

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C&T Publishing Inc

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1607053764

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9781607053767

The Engagement

Book One in the Manchester Series

By: Gwen Davis

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The Engagement

Book One in the Manchester Series

By: Gwen Davis

When Maggie begins life on her own, in her own perfect apartment, with her own job, and her very own boyfriend, she learns the hard way that the life one imagines one has is not necessarily the life one is living. Share with Maggie and her very sensible friend Kath the peace that comes from a bit of common sense and trusting in God’s plan. Open your heart to all the new people who come into their lives. Join Maggie, Liam, Mike, Cecilia, Matty, Emily, and even the Franklins as they search for love and happiness, sometimes for the wrong reasons and with the wrong people. Laugh and cry with them as they experience all the joy, sadness, and ordinary events that happen in their lives. And perhaps learn along with them that some things are better when they’re not quite so perfect!

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Balboa Press

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1982223227

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9781982223229

Forgotten Foster Park

By: Gwen Alferes

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Forgotten Foster Park

By: Gwen Alferes

Surrounded by steeply sloped hillsides, Foster Park was a tiny rural community that took shape during the oil boom of the 1920s. It was situated at a bend on Highway 33 adjacent to Foster Memorial Park, for which it was named. Among the 50 or so homes was a thriving business district that most notably included a dance hall hosting musical greats of the time--such as Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Everly Brothers--and a saloon equipped with a boxing ring. The Ventura River, once loaded with giant steelhead trout, and the Southern Pacific Railroad both ran through the town. It has been described as unreal by some and a rural slum by others. With the makings of a Norman Rockwell portrait, it came to its end in the mid-1960s to make room for the hotly contested extension of the Ojai Freeway. To younger generations and newcomers of the area, Foster Park's former existence is virtually unknown.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467132772

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9781467132770

Spray Anything

A Short Story

By: Gwen Cooper

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Spray Anything

A Short Story

By: Gwen Cooper

A real-life tale of feline love at first sight . . . It's rare for two cats to even tolerate each other the first time they meet. But when Bruiser the backyard feral and Fanny the housecat lock eyes, they're instantly smitten. Seeking out glimpses of each other through the windowed door that separates them, they exchange "gifts" (toy mice from Fanny, real mice from Bruiser), try to touch paws through the glass, and hope to someday meet in purr-son. But it's more than glass that keeps them apart—can true love ever tame the wild-at-heart outdoor cat? The seventh entry in the continuing Curl Up with a Cat Tale series—true-life cat stories by Gwen Cooper, New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale—"Spray Anything" is a love story for the ages that you won't want to miss!

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BenBella Books

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1948836262

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9781948836265

Period Piece

A Cambridge Childhood

By: Gwen Raverat

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Period Piece

A Cambridge Childhood

By: Gwen Raverat

A facsimile of a 19th century book is a delightful, quirky account, beautifully illustrated with the author's famous line drawings, of her quintessentially English childhood growing up as a Darwin at the end of the 19th century.

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Clear Press Ltd

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1904555128

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9781904555124

Hate Cell

A Casey Templeton Mystery

By: Gwen Molnar

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Hate Cell

A Casey Templeton Mystery

By: Gwen Molnar

Thirteen-year-old Casey Templeton has recently moved with his family to the southeastern Alberta town of Richford. One night Casey seeks refuge from a snowstorm in an abandoned farmhouse and stumbles upon his nearly frozen, unconscious science teacher, Mr. Deverell. Casey attempts to revive his teacher and searches the house for something to make a fire with. In the attic he makes a frightening discovery – a sophisticated office filled with computers, a printer, and racist posters and flyers! Richford is harbouring a vicious cell of white racists who are targeting everyone they deem "alien." Somehow Mr. Deverell is connected to the dangerous organization, and so, too, are other residents, young and old, in Casey’s new town. Soon the RCMP and Casey’s hacker brother, Hank, get involved in the mystery, but it’s Casey who leads the investigation into a warped world where hate is marketed on the Internet and innocent people are preyed on by bigots and bullies blinkered by their own prejudices.

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Dundurn

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1554885450

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9781554885459

Bio-Imperialism

Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility

By: Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis

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Bio-Imperialism

Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility

By: Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis

Bio-Imperialism focuses on an understudied dimension of the war on terror: the fight against bioterrorism. This component of the war enlisted the biosciences and public health fields to build up the U.S. biodefense industry and U.S. global disease control. The book argues that U.S. imperial ambitions drove these shifts in focus, aided by gendered and racialized discourses on terrorism, disease, and science. These narratives helped rationalize American research expansion into dangerous germs and bioweapons in the name of biodefense and bolstered the U.S. rationale for increased interference in the disease control decisions of Global South nations. Bio-Imperialism is a sobering look at how the war on terror impacted the world in ways that we are only just starting to grapple with.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978815166

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9781978815162

Ethnicity and Dementias

By: Gwen Yeo

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Ethnicity and Dementias

By: Gwen Yeo

A practical approach for professionals working with people suffering from dementias, this book focuses on dementias, including Alzheimer's disease, from a multi-cultural perspective.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317822587

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9781317822585

PECULIAR RELATIONSHIPS

By: Gwen Ragsdale

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PECULIAR RELATIONSHIPS

By: Gwen Ragsdale

Peculiar Relationships is a fictional and semi-autobiographical novel based on the evolving relationships and interactions between black women and white women from slavery, to current day. A series of first person narratives describe how shared gender, close proximity, dual tasks, positions of power, or lack thereof led these females to form strong bonds or have terrifying encounters. Throughout history; culture, racial hierarchies, jealousies and other circumstances required black women and white women to deal with a constant changing state of affairs that often impacted their relationships. It is a thought-provoking book that reveals how females deal with their respective insecurities, sexuality, self-esteem and often a shared feeling of powerlessness in a male dominated society. This book reveals how black empowerment and white privilege continues to affect and shape behaviors tday. You will laugh and cry as the author navigates you through a myriad of story lines filled with intrigue, suspense, sex, historic and contemporary contexts that all lead up to an explosive cliffhanger that will leave you gasping for more. This book is a "Must Read for All"! For more information go to www.lwsfm.com

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Trafford Publishing

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149073886X

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9781490738864

Flora of New South Wales

By: Gwen Jean Harden

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Flora of New South Wales

By: Gwen Jean Harden

A comprehensive revised edition incorporating recent developments such as changes to species names, significant changes to classifications, as well as information on newly described plants.

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UNSW Press

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0868406090

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9780868406091

Confessions of a Fair-Housing Agitator

How the Hahas Came to South Jersey

By: Gwen Simon Gain

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Confessions of a Fair-Housing Agitator

How the Hahas Came to South Jersey

By: Gwen Simon Gain

CONFESSIONS OF A FAIR-HOUSING AGITATOR relates the story of the first three months of the author's frustrating efforts in the fall of 1967 to enlist and organize her small group of volunteers into smoothly functioning testers. The use of black testers had been recently approved by the New Jersey Supreme Court as the only valid way to prove and successfully prosecute racial discrimination in real estate offices and apartment complexes. But the process of filing these complaints with the N. J. Division on Civil Rights was a legally complicated procedure, requiring some shadowy methods and requiring the trained skills of the HAHAs, the House And Apartment Hunters Anonymous.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456812599

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9781456812591

The Homer Chronicles

By: Gwen Cooper

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The Homer Chronicles

By: Gwen Cooper

A two-book collection featuring the ongoing adventures of Homer, the world-famous blind wonder cat, and his fur family! Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat By turns humorous and tender, this sequel to Homer's Odyssey continues the story of Homer the Blind Wonder Cat—the fearless feline who proved that love isn't something you see with your eyes, that even the smallest of creatures can make a big difference, and that true love lives forever. Spray Anything: More True Tales of Homer and the Gang Ideal for new readers and longtime fans alike, this collection of six purr-fect cat stories collected from the monthly Curl Up with a Cat Tale series is filled with all the humor and heart Gwen's devoted readership has come to know and love. Sure to be treasured by cat lovers everywhere, Spray Anything will leave you laughing out loud, shedding an occasional tear, and hugging your own cat a little bit closer.

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Gwen Cooper

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Artists' Magazines

An Alternative Space for Art

By: Gwen Allen

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Artists' Magazines

An Alternative Space for Art

By: Gwen Allen

How artists' magazines, in all their ephemerality, materiality, and temporary intensity, challenged mainstream art criticism and the gallery system. During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized practices of conceptual art. Artists created works expressly for these mass-produced, hand-editioned pages, using the ephemerality and the materiality of the magazine to challenge the conventions of both artistic medium and gallery. In Artists' Magazines, Gwen Allen looks at the most important of these magazines in their heyday (the 1960s to the 1980s) and compiles a comprehensive, illustrated directory of hundreds of others. Among the magazines Allen examines are Aspen (1965–1971), a multimedia magazine in a box—issues included Super-8 films, flexi-disc records, critical writings, artists' postage stamps, and collectible chapbooks; Avalanche (1970-1976), which expressed the countercultural character of the emerging SoHo art community through its interviews and artist-designed contributions; and Real Life (1979-1994), published by Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan as a forum for the Pictures generation. These and the other magazines Allen examines expressed their differences from mainstream media in both form and content: they cast their homemade, do-it-yourself quality against the slickness of an Artforum, and they created work that defied the formalist orthodoxy of the day. Artists' Magazines, featuring abundant color illustrations of magazine covers and content, offers an essential guide to a little-explored medium.

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MIT Press

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026252841X

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9780262528412

The Cat Lover's Bundle: Homer's Odyssey and Love Saves the Day (2-Book Bundle)

By: Gwen Cooper

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The Cat Lover's Bundle: Homer's Odyssey and Love Saves the Day (2-Book Bundle)

By: Gwen Cooper

As an acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, Gwen Cooper touches readers with heartwarming and often surprising insights into the bond between humans and their animal companions. Featuring Cooper’s inspiring memoir, Homer’s Odyssey, and her cat-narrated novel, Love Saves the Day, this eBook bundle is perfect for readers who’ve ever known unswerving feline devotion, fallen asleep with a purring kitten nestled in their arms, or wondered what their cat was really thinking. HOMER’S ODYSSEY A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat “Touching . . . one not to miss.”—USA Today The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention an underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen’s vet called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. It was love at first sight. Everyone warned that Homer would be an “underachiever,” but the kitten nobody believed in quickly grew into a three-pound dynamo who scaled seven-foot bookcases, survived alone for days after 9/11 in an apartment near the World Trade Center, and even saved Gwen’s life when he chased off a home intruder. By the time Gwen met the man she would marry, Homer had taught her the most valuable lesson of all: Love isn’t something you see with your eyes. LOVE SAVES THE DAY A Novel “Prudence [is a] sassy but sensitive feline heroine.”—Time When five-week-old Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, she knows she’s found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn’t come home. When Sarah’s estranged daughter and her husband arrive with boxes, Prudence knows that her life has changed forever. Poignant, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny, Love Saves the Day is the story of a mother, a daughter, and the irrepressible feline who becomes the bridge between them. Prudence, a cat like no other, is sure to steal your heart. Praise for Gwen Cooper Homer’s Odyssey “Moving, insightful, and often hilarious, Homer’s Odyssey is about a blind cat with a spirit of epic proportions. Read and rejoice!”—Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig “Cooper is a genial writer with both a sense of humor and a gift for conveying the inner essence of an animal. . . . The indefatigable feline should be an inspiration to us all.”—The Christian Science Monitor “A wonderful book for animal lovers.”—Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation Love Saves the Day “[A] poignant tale . . . [Gwen Cooper] once again demonstrates her compassionate fluency in felinespeak and proves equally adept at conveying complex human emotions with flair and sensitivity.”—Booklist “A reason to stand up and cheer . . . Once again Gwen Cooper shines her light on the territory that defines the human/animal bond.”—Jackson Galaxy, star of My Cat from Hell and author of Cat Daddy “A charming story of love lost and found . . . Love Saves the Day eloquently explains why so many of us would do anything at all for our pets.”—Barbara Delinsky, New York Times bestselling author of Escape

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0804180377

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101 Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

101 Melt-in-Your-Mouth Recipes

By: Gwen W. Steege

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101 Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

101 Melt-in-Your-Mouth Recipes

By: Gwen W. Steege

Chewy versus pillow-soft. Crispy edges versus golden brown. Gooey oatmeal versus rich molasses. How can anyone choose? Gwen Steege takes you through her impressive backlog of creative, easy-to-follow chocolate chip cookie recipes, from the classic sugar dough to crazy mocha pinto chippers and everything in between. Everyone has a different idea of what makes a chocolate chip cookie truly perfect, but with 101 recipes, you are sure to find a favorite . . . or two, or three!

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1612122264

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Acquired Tastes

Why Families Eat the Way They Do

By: Brenda L. Beagan,Gwen E. Chapman,Josée Johnston,Deborah McPhail,Elaine M. Power,Helen Vallianatos

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Acquired Tastes

Why Families Eat the Way They Do

By: Brenda L. Beagan,Gwen E. Chapman,Josée Johnston,Deborah McPhail,Elaine M. Power,Helen Vallianatos

Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices – whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal – serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the case that our food habits say more about where we come from and who we would like to be. This intimate portrait of eating habits and attitudes towards food in over one hundred Canadian families in both rural and urban settings reveals that our food choices never solely reflect personal tastes. Age, gender, social class, ethnicity, health concerns, food availability, and political and moral concerns shape the meanings that families attach to food and their self-identities. They also influence how its members respond to social discourses on health, beauty, and the environment, a finding that has profound implications for public health campaigns.

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UBC Press

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0774828609

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My Story His Glory

A memoir: The First Twenty-Five Years

By: Gwen Lewis

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My Story His Glory

A memoir: The First Twenty-Five Years

By: Gwen Lewis

From the very first page of My Story His Glory, readers quickly connect with the colorful characters of this engaging work by first time author, Gwen Lewis. We are quickly introduced to the main character of the story, a little girl born into poverty and inequality. We learn that she grew up during a time when all the social institutions were segregated, and Jim Crow laws prevailed. She is the ninth of ten children born to Ruth and Ab Mason. Demoralized by bigotry and hatred, her parents tried to instill a sense of pride and goodness into their children. Though neither of her parents were formally educated, they championed education as the vehicle to independence and a better way of life for their children.The book reveals intimate details about her impoverished home life in an honest, unpretentious way. Life was sometimes hard, but there were also times of contentment and joy. As we continue to follow her story, we also see ourselves in the struggles she faced when she eagerly left home for college. Choosing to attend the historic Tuskegee Institute located forty miles from where she grew up was a point of great pride for her.We witness the grace and goodness of God and how he never left her alone. It is interesting as well as inspiring to witness the love and compassion of God as he carried her when she didnaEUR(tm)t even know he was there. Later she would learn to recognize his gentle hand. We laugh at her childhood antics, cry with her as she painfully recalls personal losses, and rejoice with her as she triumphs over her enemies! After reading My Story His Glory we walk away inspired, with a desire to know this ever-present God she affectionately calls Father.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098044177

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7 Keys to Freedom

By: Gwen Boudreau

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7 Keys to Freedom

By: Gwen Boudreau

If you feel stuck financially, find yourself procrastinating on your dreams, or just want to live more freely and abundantly in every area of your life, then you may need to give your "mental muscles" a workout. Just as your body is equipped with physical muscles, your mind is equipped with "mental muscles". However, most of us are not aware that our thinking determines the circumstances in our lives. You need to strengthen your "mental muscles"-imagination, memory, reason, perception, intuition and will-to create a life full of passion and abundance. The authors, an international team of coaches share anecdotes from their lives, the latest discoveries in neuroscience, and practical action steps. In 7 Keys to Freedom you'll discover: How to turn your imagination into your greatest ally How to access the power of success hidden in your memory When to trust and follow your intuition The number one secret to success used by the world's most powerful people You hold in your hands the "how-to" book on thinking for yourself. The ideas in it can help you enjoy an abundant and happy life. "What you are about to read in this book is information that very few people understand. It's information that, up to this time, has been exposed to only a very select few. The entirety of this book is dedicated to a subject that, when properly understood, can change your life, for the better, forever. It deals with the uniqueness of you! The authors share their individual and combined efforts ... you will not only read, but also be privy to the age-old wisdom that has affected their lives. This wisdom is what they now openly share with you." Bob Proctor, Best-selling author and one of the living masters and teachers of the Law of Attraction

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Balboa Press

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1452577501

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Choosing the Right Dog for You

Profiles of Over 200 Dog Breeds

By: Gwen Bailey

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Choosing the Right Dog for You

Profiles of Over 200 Dog Breeds

By: Gwen Bailey

The world's oldest and most famous cat and dog home has teamed up with the UK bestselling pet behaviourist to bring you the ultimate guide to choosing the right dog for you and your family. There are over 200 breeds profiled, with details of each dog's temperament, physical statistics, character, exercise requirements and potential health problems. Each profile includes a picture and a list of its key characteristics, making this the most comprehensive breed-profile book on the market. A front section gives advice on what sort of breed you should look for and how to go about finding your dog. It also tells you what to ask, what to consider and ensures you don't make a mistake in your decisions. If you're thinking about getting a dog, or want to learn more about the variety of breeds, cross-breeds and mongrels, then you cannot afford to be without this book.

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Hamlyn

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0600628043

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Celia Garth

A Novel

By: Gwen Bristow

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Celia Garth

A Novel

By: Gwen Bristow

This New York Times bestseller set during the American Revolution is “an exciting tale of love and war in the tradition of Gone with the Wind” (Chicago Tribune). A bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution, supplies and weapons for the rebel army being unloaded there and then smuggled north. Recently engaged to the heir to a magnificent plantation, Celia Garth watches all of this thrilling activity from the window of the dressmaker’s shop where she works. When the unthinkable occurs and the British capture and occupy Charleston, bringing fiery retribution to the surrounding countryside, Celia sees her world destroyed. The rebel cause seems lost until the Swamp Fox, American General Francis Marion, takes the fight to the British—and one of his daring young soldiers recruits Celia to spy on the rebels’ behalf. Out of the ashes of Charleston and the Carolina countryside will rise a new nation—and a love that will change Celia Garth forever.

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Open Road Media

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1480485136

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Clark

The Autobiography of Clark Terry

By: Clark Terry,Gwen Terry

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The Autobiography of Clark Terry

By: Clark Terry,Gwen Terry

Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his start, and on to worldwide acclaim. Terry takes us behind the scenes of jazz history as he introduces scores of legendary greats—Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, and Dianne Reeves, among many others. Terry also reveals much about his own personal life, his experiences with racism, how he helped break the color barrier in 1960 when he joined the Tonight Show band on NBC, and why—at ninety years old—his students from around the world still call and visit him for lessons.

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0520287517

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Web 2.0

New Tools, New Schools

By: Gwen Solomon,Lynne Schrum

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Web 2.0

New Tools, New Schools

By: Gwen Solomon,Lynne Schrum

What can Web 2.0 tools offer educators? Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging Web 2.0 technologies and their use in the classroom and in professional development. Topics include blogging as a natural tool for writing instruction, wikis and their role in project collaboration, podcasting as a useful means of presenting information and ideas, and how to use Web 2.0 tools for professional development. Also included are a discussion of Web 2.0 safety and security issues and a look toward the future of the Web 2.0 movement. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools is essential reading for teachers, administrators, technology coordinators, and teacher educators.

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ISTE (Interntl Soc Tech Educ

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1564842347

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9781564842343

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