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Videogames, Libraries, and the Feedback Loop

Learning Beyond the Stacks

By: Sandra Schamroth Abrams,Hannah R. Gerber

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Videogames, Libraries, and the Feedback Loop

Learning Beyond the Stacks

By: Sandra Schamroth Abrams,Hannah R. Gerber

Offering a fresh understanding of the learning potential of youth videogaming in public libraries, and delving into research-based accounts which showcase feedback mechanisms that nurture meaningful learning, Abrams and Gerber equip readers to re-envision library programming that specifically features youth videogame play.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1800715072

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Advocates of Freedom

African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles

By: Hannah-Rose Murray

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Advocates of Freedom

African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles

By: Hannah-Rose Murray

A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108487513

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9781108487511

Hannah Whitman Heyde

The Complete Correspondence

By: Hannah Whitman Heyde [1823-1908]

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Hannah Whitman Heyde

The Complete Correspondence

By: Hannah Whitman Heyde [1823-1908]

The correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823-1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth-century woman. Married to well-known Vermont landscape artist Charles Louis Heyde (1820-1892), Hannah documented in letters to her mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795-1873), and other family members, her lived experience of ongoing physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband. Hannah has long been characterized in biographical and scholarly studies of Whitman’s family as a neurotic and a hypochondriac—a narrative promulgated by Heyde himself—but Walt Whitman carefully preserved his sister’s letters, telling his literary biographer that his intention was to document her plight. Hannah’s complete letters, gathered here for the first time and painstakingly edited and annotated by Maire Mullins, provide an important counternarrative, allowing readers insight into the life of a real nineteenth-century woman, sister, and wife to famous men, who endured and eventually survived domestic violence.

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Rutgers University Press

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168448362X

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Remarkable Women of San Diego: Pioneers, Visionaries and Innovators

By: Hannah S. Cohen and Gloria G. Harris

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Remarkable Women of San Diego: Pioneers, Visionaries and Innovators

By: Hannah S. Cohen and Gloria G. Harris

San Diego enjoys a diverse legacy of formidable female leaders. Ellen Browning Scripps financed and established the groundbreaking Scripps Oceanography Institute. In 1927, Belle Benchley became the nation's first female zoo director and for nearly thirty years pioneered new forms of exhibition and developed the world-class San Diego Zoo. Guatemalan activist and advocate Luisa Moreno established the United Fish Cannery Workers Union to protect the rights of workers during World War II. Ruth Alexander set new altitude records for light planes at the peak of the city's aviation boom. Bertha Pendleton became the first female and first African American San Diego school superintendent in 1993. Authors Hannah Cohen and Gloria Harris document these and many more stories of extraordinary local women.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467118265

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9781467118262

Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500

By: Hannah Bower

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Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500

By: Hannah Bower

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500 is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. Analysing recipe collections in over seventy late medieval manuscripts, this book explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to those texts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed, and redefine that purpose. The study therefore presents a challenge to recipes' traditional reputation as mundane, unartful texts written and read solely for the sake of directing practical action. Crucially, it also relocates these neglected texts and overlooked manuscripts within the complex networks forming medieval textual culture, demonstrating that—though marginalized in modern scholarship—medical recipes were actually linguistically, formally, materially, and imaginatively interconnected with many other late medieval discourses, including devotional writings, romances, fabliaux, and Chaucerian poetry. The monograph thus models for readers modes of analysis and close reading that might be deployed in relation to recipes in order to understand better their allusive, fragmentary, and playful qualities as well as their wide-ranging influence on medieval imaginations.

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Oxford University Press

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0192666126

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9780192666123

History for Common Entrance 13+ Exam Practice Questions (for the June 2022 exams)

By: Gavin Hannah

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History for Common Entrance 13+ Exam Practice Questions (for the June 2022 exams)

By: Gavin Hannah

Please note, this resource is suitable for the exams up to June 2022. New revision resources will be available from Spring 2022 for the exams from November 2022. Exam Board: ISEB Level: 13+ Subject: History First Exam: Autumn 2013 History for Common Entrance 13+ Exam Practice Questions features a wealth of exam-style questions based on the format of the new ISEB Common Entrance exam. - Endorsed by ISEB - Features questions on all three historical periods tested at 13+ - Contains 30 evidence questions and 30 essay titles for varied practice - Familiarises pupils with the format of the questions to improve exam technique Answer book available separately. See History for Common Entrance 13+ Exam Practice Answers Also available from Galore Park www.galorepark.co.uk: - History for Common Entrance 13+ Exam Practice Answers - History for Common Entrance 13+ Revision Guide

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Galore Park

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1471809072

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Life in a Black Community

Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952

By: Hannah Jopling

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Life in a Black Community

Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952

By: Hannah Jopling

Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952 tells the story of a struggle over what it meant to be a citizen of a democracy. For blacks, membership in a democracy meant full and equal participation in the life of the town. For most whites, it meant the full participation of only its white citizens, based on the presumption that their black neighbors were less than equal citizens and had to be kept down. All the dramas of the Jim Crow era—lynching, the KKK, and disenfranchisement, but also black boycotts, petitioning for redress of grievances, lawsuits, and political activism—occurred in Annapolis. As they were challenging white prejudice and discrimination, tenacious black citizens advanced themselves and enriched their own world of churches, shops, clubs, and bars. It took grit for black families to survive. As they pressed on, life slowly improved—for some. Life in a Black Community recounts the tactics blacks used to gain equal rights, details the methods whites employed to deny or curtail their rights, and explores a range of survival and advancement strategies used by black families.

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Lexington Books

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073918346X

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The Critics and the Prioress

Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

By: Heather Blurton,Hannah Johnson

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The Critics and the Prioress

Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

By: Heather Blurton,Hannah Johnson

Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales

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University of Michigan Press

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047213034X

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9780472130344

Experimental Histories

Interpolation and the Medieval British Past

By: Hannah Weaver

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Experimental Histories

Interpolation and the Medieval British Past

By: Hannah Weaver

In Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation—inserting material from one text into another—which is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthentic phenomenon akin to forgery and pseudepigraphy. Instead, Weaver promotes interpolation as the signature form of medieval British historiography and a vehicle of historical theory, arguing that some of the most novel concepts of time in medieval historiography can be found in these altered narratives of the past. For Weaver, historiographical interpolation constitutes the traces of active experimentation with how best to write history, particularly the history of Britain. Historians in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Britain recognized the difficulty of enfolding complex events into a linear chronology and embraced innovative textual methods of creating history. Focusing on the Brut tradition but also analyzing the long history of interpolated historiography, including the Bayeux Embroidery, Experimental Histories offers a new interpretation of generic remixing in medieval writing about the past. Drawing on both manuscript studies and the new formalism, it shows that the practice of inserting materials from romance and hagiography allowed creative revisers to explore how lived events relate to passing time. By embracing interpolation, Weaver provides lively insights into the ways that time becomes history and human actors experience time.

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Cornell University Press

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1501776223

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Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England

Repairing, Recycling, Sharing

By: Hannah Ryley

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Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England

Repairing, Recycling, Sharing

By: Hannah Ryley

A fresh appraisal of late medieval manuscript culture in England, examining the ways in which people sustained older books, exploring the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1914049063

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9781914049064

The Global Anti-Corruption Regime

The Case of Papua New Guinea

By: Hannah Harris

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The Global Anti-Corruption Regime

The Case of Papua New Guinea

By: Hannah Harris

This book tackles the challenging topic of corruption. It explores the evolution of a global prohibition regime against corrupt activity (the global anti-corruption regime). It analyses the structure of the transnational legal framework against corruption, evaluating the impact of global anti-corruption efforts at a national level. The book focuses on the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) as the primary tool of the global anti-corruption regime. It provides new and engaging material gathered in the field, including first-hand accounts from actors at international, regional, and domestic levels. By documenting the experiences of diverse actors, the book makes a substantial contribution to literature on corruption and anti-corruption efforts. Synthesising empirical research with an exploration of theoretical literature on corruption and regime evolution results in novel suggestions for improvement of the global anti-corruption regime and its legal tools. The Global Anti-Corruption Regime is a well-rounded text with a wealth of new information that will be valuable to both academic and policy audiences. It clarifies the factors that prevent current anti-corruption efforts from successfully eliminating corrupt activity and applies the five-stage model of global prohibition regime evolution to the global anti-corruption regime. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested in anti-corruption law, comparative law, transnational criminal law, international law, international relations, politics, economics, and trade.

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Routledge

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1351579649

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Shortlisted

Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

By: Hannah Brenner Johnson,Renee Knake Jefferson

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Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

By: Hannah Brenner Johnson,Renee Knake Jefferson

Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph. Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women—a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court—who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women. In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who select them in the legal profession and beyond.

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NYU Press

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1479811963

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9781479811960

Forbidden Knowledge

Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

By: Hannah Marcus

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Forbidden Knowledge

Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

By: Hannah Marcus

“Wonderful . . . offers and provokes meditation on the timeless nature of censorship, its practices, its intentions and . . . its (unintended) outcomes.” —Times Higher Education Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on library shelves in the seventeenth? Historian Hannah Marcus uncovers how early modern physicians evaluated the utility of banned books and facilitated their continued circulation in conversation with Catholic authorities. Through extensive archival research, Marcus highlights how talk of scientific utility, once thought to have begun during the Scientific Revolution, in fact began earlier, emerging from ecclesiastical censorship and the desire to continue to use banned medical books. What’s more, this censorship in medicine, which preceded the Copernican debate in astronomy by sixty years, has had a lasting impact on how we talk about new and controversial developments in scientific knowledge. Beautiful illustrations accompany this masterful, timely book about the interplay between efforts at intellectual control and the utility of knowledge. “Marcus deftly explains the various contradictions that shaped the interactions between Catholic authorities and the medical and scientific communities of early modern Italy, showing how these dynamics defined the role of outside expertise in creating 'Catholic Knowledge' for centuries to come.” —Annals of Science “An important study that all scholars and advanced students of early modern Europe will want to read, especially those interested in early modern medicine, religion, and the history of the book. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

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University of Chicago Press

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022673661X

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9780226736617

The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

By: Hannah Arendt,Gershom Scholem

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The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

By: Hannah Arendt,Gershom Scholem

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of correspondence. Arendt and Scholem met in 1932 in Berlin and quickly bonded over their mutual admiration for and friendship with Walter Benjamin. They began exchanging letters in 1939, and their lively correspondence continued until 1963, when Scholem’s vehement disagreement with Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem led to a rupture that would last until Arendt’s death a dozen years later. The years of their friendship, however, yielded a remarkably rich bounty of letters: together, they try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, the place and legacy of Germany before and after the Holocaust, the question of what it means to be Jewish in a post-Holocaust world, and more. Walter Benjamin is a constant presence, as his life and tragic death are emblematic of the very questions that preoccupied the pair. Like any collection of letters, however, the book also has its share of lighter moments: accounts of travels, gossipy dinner parties, and the quotidian details that make up life even in the shadow of war and loss. In a world that continues to struggle with questions of nationalism, identity, and difference, Arendt and Scholem remain crucial thinkers. This volume offers us a way to see them, and the development of their thought, anew.

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University of Chicago Press

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022648761X

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Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

By: Hannah Doherty Hudson

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Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

By: Hannah Doherty Hudson

Explores the Romantic conviction that there were 'too many' novels and shows how this belief transformed the publication of fiction.

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Cambridge University Press

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100932196X

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53 Interesting Ways of Helping Your Students to Study

Proven strategies for supporting students

By: Sue Habeshaw,Graham Gibbs,Trevor Habeshaw,Hannah Strawson

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53 Interesting Ways of Helping Your Students to Study

Proven strategies for supporting students

By: Sue Habeshaw,Graham Gibbs,Trevor Habeshaw,Hannah Strawson

If you teach adults, 53 Interesting Ways of Helping Your Students to Study is designed to help you. It provides practical suggestions, each tried and tested, for helping students to improve their learning in class and at home. The authors demonstrate how educators can effectively support students through the whole learning process: beginning to study; planning one's studying; studying through reading; taking notes; writing; learning with others; using library resources; revision; and exams. Whether you're new to teaching and keen to develop good strategies, or more experienced and looking to expand your repertoire, 53 Interesting Ways of Helping Your Students to Study is a handy guide to keep on your desk.

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Routledge

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1000247716

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Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution

By: Hannah Barker

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Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution

By: Hannah Barker

Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain; this monograph examines the economic, social, and cultural history of some of these forgotten businesses and the men and women who worked in them and ran them.

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Oxford University Press

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0198786026

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9780198786023

Understanding How Students Develop

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Hannah Gascho Rempel,Kelly McElroy,Laurie M. Bridges

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Understanding How Students Develop

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Hannah Gascho Rempel,Kelly McElroy,Laurie M. Bridges

Understanding How Students Develop is a one-stop source of practical advice for both librarians who are just beginning to work with students from elementary school through college, as well as helpful tips for seasoned library user services professionals, including school, reference, instruction, and outreach librarians. The book supplies a detailed roadmap for applying key development theories to daily interactions with students. Subjects covered include: Integrating development theories into practice Intellectual development theories Identity development theory Involvement theory Assessing the impact of using development theories Throughout the book sidebars highlight practical applications, important quotations from key texts, and case studies for consideration. After reading this book, librarians who work with a wide range of users will have a practical approach for incorporating development theories into their daily practice, making them more responsive to the varying needs of their users, and more understanding of what elements of their user services programs can be better tailored to meet students at a range of developmental stages.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442279222

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9781442279223

A Speaker's Guidebook

Text and Reference

By: Dan O'Hair,Rob Stewart,Hannah Rubenstein

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A Speaker's Guidebook

Text and Reference

By: Dan O'Hair,Rob Stewart,Hannah Rubenstein

A Speaker’s Guidebook is the best resource in the classroom, on the job, and in the community. Praised for connecting with students who use and keep it year after year, this tabbed, comb-bound text covers all the topics typically taught in the introductory course and is the easiest-to-use public speaking text available. In every edition, hundreds of instructors have helped us focus on the fundamental challenges of the public speaking classroom. Improving on this tradition, the fifth edition does even more to address these challenges with stronger coverage of overcoming speech anxiety, organizing and outlining, and more. And as the realties of public speaking change, so does A Speaker’s Guidebook; the new edition also focuses on presentational speaking in a digital world — from finding credible sources online to delivering presentations in a variety of mediated formats. Read the preface.

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Macmillan

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0312642865

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9780312642860

A Speaker's Guidebook with The Essential Guide to Rhetoric

By: Dan O'Hair,Rob Stewart,Hannah Rubenstein

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A Speaker's Guidebook with The Essential Guide to Rhetoric

By: Dan O'Hair,Rob Stewart,Hannah Rubenstein

A Speaker's Guidebook" is the best resource in the classroom, on the job, and in the community. Praised for connecting with students who use and keep it year after year, this tabbed, comb-bound text covers all the topics typically taught in the introductory course and is the easiest-to-use public speaking text available. In every edition, hundreds of instructors have helped us focus on the fundamental challenges of the public speaking classroom. Improving on this tradition, the fifth edition does even more to address these challenges with stronger coverage of overcoming speech anxiety, organizing and outlining, and more. And as the realties of public speaking change, so does "A Speaker's Guidebook"; the new edition also focuses on presentational speaking in a digital world -- from finding credible sources online to delivering presentations in a variety of mediated formats. -- From product description.

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031267886X

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Honest Bodies

Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow

By: Hannah Kosstrin

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Honest Bodies

Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow

By: Hannah Kosstrin

Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and theories from dance, Jewish, and gender studies, this book illuminates Sokolow's statements for workers' rights, anti-racism, and the human condition through her choreography for social change alongside her dancing and teaching for Martha Graham. Tracing a catalog of dances with her companies Dance Unit, La Paloma Azul, Lyric Theatre, and Anna Sokolow Dance Company, along with presenters and companies the Negro Cultural Committee, New York State Committee for the Communist Party, Federal Theatre Project, Nuevo Grupo Mexicano de Clásicas y Modernas, and Inbal Dance Theater, this book highlights Sokolow's work in conjunction with developments in ethnic definitions, diaspora, and nationalism in the US, Mexico, and Israel.

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Oxford University Press

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0199396965

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9780199396962

The Influence of Japanese Art on Design

By: Hannah Sigur

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The Influence of Japanese Art on Design

By: Hannah Sigur

During America's Gilded Age (dates), the country was swept by a mania for all things Japanese. It spread from coast to coast, enticed everyone from robber barons to street vendors with its allure, and touched every aspect of life from patent medicines to wallpaper. Americans of the time found in Japanese art every design language: modernism or tradition, abstraction or realism, technical virtuosity or unfettered naturalism, craft or art, romance or functionalism. The art of Japan had a huge influence on American art and design. Title compares juxtapositions of American glass, silver and metal arts, ceramics, textiles, furniture, jewelry, advertising, and packaging with a spectrum of Japanese material ranging from expensive one-of-a-kind art crafts to mass-produced ephemera. Beginning in the Aesthetic movement, this book continues through the Arts & Crafts era and ends in Frank Lloyd Wright's vision, showing the reader how that model became transformed from Japanese to American in design and concept. Hannah Sigur is an art historian, writer, and editor with eight years' residence and study in East and Southeast Asia. She has a master's degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is completing a PhD in the arts of Japan. Her writings include co-authoring A Master Guide to the Art of Floral Design (Timber Press, 2002), which is listed in "The Best Books of 2002" by The Christian Science Monitor and is now in its second edition; and "The Golden Ideal: Chinese Landscape Themes in Japanese Art," in Lotus Leaves, A Master Guide to the Art of Floral Design (2001). She lives in Berkeley.

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Gibbs Smith

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1586857495

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9781586857493

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