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Illuminated Life

Belle Da Costa Greenes Journey From Prejudice To Privilege

By: Heidi Ardizzone

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Illuminated Life

Belle Da Costa Greenes Journey From Prejudice To Privilege

By: Heidi Ardizzone

Ardizzone explores the secret life of Belle Da Costa Greene, the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who was renowned for her self-made expertise, her acerbic wit, and her flirtatious relationships.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393051048

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9780393051049

We Were Not the Enemy

Remembering the United States' Latin-American Civilian Internment Program of World War Ii

By: Heidi Gurcke Donald

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We Were Not the Enemy

Remembering the United States' Latin-American Civilian Internment Program of World War Ii

By: Heidi Gurcke Donald

The United States clandestinely funds the operation of a huge prison in Cuba. Men, women, and children are spirited away from their homes and imprisoned indefinitely. No charges are made; no legal counsel is allowed. Newspapers fill with stories of espionage and enemies. Current events? No. During World War II, the United States used tactics remarkably similar to those in use today against presumed terrorists. By 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt had covertly authorized J. Edgar Hoover's Secret Intelligence Service to begin surveillance of Axis nationals in Latin America. Believing that "all German nationals without exception [are] dangerous," the United States surreptitiously pressured Latin-American countries to arrest and deport more than four thousand civilians of German ethnicity to the United States. There, many languished in internment camps, while others were shipped to war-torn Germany. As my parents, German-born Werner Gurcke and his American wife, Starr, began their lives together in Costa Rica, he was falsely labeled one of the country's most dangerous enemy aliens. Soon she, too, was considered "dangerous to the safety of the United Nations." From newlyweds to parents, innocent civilians to dangerous enemies, prisoners to internees, We Were Not the Enemy tells their story.

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iUniverse

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0595837301

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9780595837304

The Space Between

How Empathy Really Works

By: Heidi L. Maibom

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The Space Between

How Empathy Really Works

By: Heidi L. Maibom

When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, his comments that a judge should have the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay, disabled, or old caused a furor. Objective, reasoned, and impartial judgment were to be replaced by partiality, sentiment, and bias, critics feared. This concern about empathy has since been voiced not just by conservative critics, but by academics and public figures. In The Space Between, Heidi Maibom combines results from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to argue that rather than making us more biased or partial, empathy makes us more impartial and more objective. The problem is that we don't see the world objectively in the first place, Maibom explains. We see it in terms of how we are placed in it: as an extension of our interests, capabilities, and relationships. This is a perspective and it determines what we pay attention to, how we interpret events, and what matters to us individually. It is not private, however. By means of the imagination, Maibom contends, we can place ourselves in another person's web interests, capabilities, and relationships and, viewing the world from there, experience a new way of interpreting and valuing what happens. This broadens and deepens our understanding of others and the world around us. It also helps us understand the greater reality of who we are ourselves. Maibom's book weaves together results from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to provide a positive up-to-date view of what it really means to take another person's perspective, and how empathy, rather than being the enemy of objectivity, is the foundation of it.

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Oxford University Press

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0197637086

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9780197637081

The Art of Mary Linwood

Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845

By: Heidi A. Strobel

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The Art of Mary Linwood

Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845

By: Heidi A. Strobel

The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work. When British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the equivalent of £5,199,822 in today's currency. As someone who made, but did not sell, embroidered replicas of famous artworks after artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, and Morland, how did she accumulate so much money? A pioneering woman in the male-dominated art world of late Georgian Britain, Linwood established her own London gallery in 1798 that featured copies of well-known paintings by these popular artists. Featuring props and specially designed rooms for her replicas, she ensured that her visitors had an entertaining, educational, and kinetic tour, similar to what Madame Tussaud would do one generation later. The gallery's focus on picturesque painters provided her London visitors with an idyllic imaginary journey through the countryside. Its emphasis on quintessentially British artists provided a unifying focus for a country that had recently emerged from the threat of Napoleonic invasion. This book brings to the fore Linwood's gallery guides and previously unpublished letters to her contemporaries, such as Birmingham inventor Matthew Boulton and Queen Charlotte. It also includes the first and only catalogue of Linwood's extant and destroyed works. By examining Linwood's replicas and their accompanying objects through the lens of material culture, the book provides a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on women and cultural agency in the early 19th century.

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273

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350428094

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9781350428096

Mediterranean Gardening

A Waterwise Approach

By: Heidi Gildemeister

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Mediterranean Gardening

A Waterwise Approach

By: Heidi Gildemeister

A large-format, beautifully illustrated, complete guide to gardening in a California and Mediterraean-like climates, defined as ones in which winters are wet and summers are bone dry.

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Univ of California Press

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0520236475

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9780520236479

The First Time He Hit Her

The shocking true story of the murder of Tara Costigan, the woman next door

By: Heidi Lemon

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The First Time He Hit Her

The shocking true story of the murder of Tara Costigan, the woman next door

By: Heidi Lemon

For readers of true crime and books such as See What You Made Me Do, a shocking and movingly told portrait of the murder of suburban mum Tara Costigan and an examination of why domestic violence affects us all Tara Costigan was the woman next door. A hard worker. Quick to laugh and easy to like. She was happy, confident, strong. A woman who always looked after herself and her kids. Close with her family and her friends, she was much loved. Then, in 2013, she met Marcus Rappel. A local tradie, he was charming and sincere, they dated and fell in love. That should have been the end of a happy-ever-after story. But for Tara, it was much uglier. And for her family it would be devastating. A year later, Tara was pregnant to Marcus. Her family had been worried for a while, but Tara didn't tell anyone how Marcus's jealousy was souring the relationship. She tried to keep it quiet. Despite everything, she never imagined he would be physically violent - he would never hurt her. Tara was wrong. One fine day, the last day of summer in 2015, she was holding their newborn baby in her arms when he attacked her with an axe. Her murder seemed to come out of the blue. But as this extraordinary, often shocking book reveals, it did not. The First Time He Hit Her is an attempt to understand why dozens of women are murdered each year by men who profess to love them.

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Hachette Australia

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0733643779

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9780733643774

At the Temple Gates

The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire

By: Heidi Wendt

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At the Temple Gates

The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire

By: Heidi Wendt

In his sixth satire, Juvenal speculates about how Roman wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, namely, by entertaining a revolving door of exotic visitors who include a eunuch of the eastern goddess Bellona, an impersonator of Egyptian Anubis, a Judean priestess, and Chaldean astrologers. From these self-proclaimed religious specialists women solicit services ranging from dream interpretation to the coercion of lovers. Juvenal's catalogue suggests the popularity of such "freelance" experts at the turn of the second century and their familiarity to his audience, whom he could expect to get the joke. Heidi Wendt investigates the backdrop of this enthusiasm for the religion of freelance experts by examining their rise during the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. Unlike civic priests and temple personnel, freelance experts had to generate their own authority and legitimacy, often through demonstrations of skill and learning in the streets, in marketplaces, and at the temple gates, among other locations in the Roman world. Wendt argues that these professionals participated in a highly competitive form of religious activity that intersected with multiple areas of specialty, particularly philosophy and medicine. Over the course of the imperial period freelance experts grew increasingly influential, more diverse with respect to their skills and methods, and more assorted in the ethnic coding of their practices. Wendt argues that this context engendered many of the innovative forms of religion that flourished in the second and third centuries, including phenomena linked with Persian Mithras, the Egyptian gods, and the Judean Christ. The evidence for freelance experts in religion is abundant, but scholars of ancient Mediterranean religion have only recently begun to appreciate their impact on the empire's changing religious landscape. At the Temple Gates integrates studies of Judaism, Christianity, mystery cults, astrology, magic, and philosophy to paint a colorful portrait of religious expertise in early Rome.

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Oxford University Press

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0190267151

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9780190267155

The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901

By: Heidi Liedke

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The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901

By: Heidi Liedke

This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of ‘the Victorians’ as characterized by speed, work, and mechanized travel, this books asserts a counter-narrative in which certain writers embraced idleness in travel as a radical means to ‘re-subjectification’ and the assertion of a ‘late-Romantic’ sensibility. Attentive to the historical and literary continuities between ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’, the book reconstructs the Victorian discourse on idleness. It draws on an interdisciplinary range of theorists and brings together a fresh selection of accounts viewed through the lens of cultural studies as well as accounts of publication history and author biography. Travel texts from different genres (by writers such as Anna Mary Howitt, Jerome K. Jerome and George Gissing) are brought together as representing the different facets of the spectrum of idleness in the Victorian context.

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Springer

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3319958615

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9783319958613

Fuel

An Ecocritical History

By: Heidi C. M. Scott

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Fuel

An Ecocritical History

By: Heidi C. M. Scott

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Fuel: An Ecocritical History is the first book to chart our changing attitudes to fuel and energy through the literature and culture of the modern era, focusing on the 18th-century to the present. Reading a wide range of writers from Blake, Austen and Dickens to Upton Sinclair and Edward Abbey, Heidi Scott explores how our move from a pre-industrial reliance on biomass and elemental energy sources to our current dependence on the fossil fuels of coal, oil and natural gas have fundamentally shaped human identity and culture. The book's Anthropocene perspective reshapes our view of energy history and climate change, and Fuel looks forward to ways in which we can reimagine our culture away from the fossil fuel paradigm towards a more sustainable energy future driven by renewable, elemental energy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350054003

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9781350054004

Dinner With Mugabe

The untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant

By: Heidi Holland

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Dinner With Mugabe

The untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant

By: Heidi Holland

Acknowledgements; Preface; Timeline: A chronology of key events in Robert Mugabe’s life; Introduction; 1 Brother in the background; 2 Mummy and Uncle Bob; 3 The prisoner’s friend; 4 Comrades in arms; 5 A surprise agreement; 6 Tea with Lady Soames; 7 I told you so; 8 Britain’s diplomatic blunder; 9 A reluctant politician; 10 The faithful priest; 11 In the eyes of God’s deputies; 12 The man in the elegant suit; 13 Two of a kind; 14 Yesterday’s heroes; 15 As it was in the beginning; 16 The good, the bad, and the reality; Postscript; Selected bibliography; Index

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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0143027417

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9780143027416

WWJD?

The Question that Will Change Your Life : a Devotional

By: Paul Meier,Beverly Courrege,Heidi Gardiner

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WWJD?

The Question that Will Change Your Life : a Devotional

By: Paul Meier,Beverly Courrege,Heidi Gardiner

In this practical, easy-to-relate-to devotional, authors Beverly Courrege, Paul Meier, and Heidi Gardiner share personal anecdotes about the times that they have asked the question "What Would Jesus Do?"--and those times when they wished they had.t

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Thomas Nelson Publishers

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0785275215

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9780785275213

Imperfukt

...And Never Happier!

By: Heidi Patullo

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Imperfukt

...And Never Happier!

By: Heidi Patullo

When young, author Heidi Patullo bought into the labels donned on her: smart, pretty, talented and Miss Perfect, and for several years her choices, both academic and personal, reflected a fierce dedication to this identity. Superficially, it worked. And yet, even as a young adult, Patullo knew it was for show...merely a veneer of perfection and excellence and certainly not her chosen identity. A born pleaser, she dismayed over disappointing those whom she felt counted on her being the woman they believed her to be. And so she maintained the many acts, downplaying and silencing her own personal need to become the truest version of herself. Ultimately, however, when she found the courage to make the heart wrenching choice to split up her perfect young family, she sent a message, loudly and clearly, that all was not as it appeared. Or, certainly, not in her personal world. But shed only just begun. To act out. And to grow up. This middle-aged mother and teacher would need several years to get it right. Nevertheless, she was determined to become the genuine--and genuinely happy--woman she longed to be. Anyone and everyone could see she was imperfect. She handed that to them.

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iUniverse

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1491782943

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9781491782941

Technological Innovation and Economic Transformation

A Method for Contextual Analysis

By: Heidi Gautschi,David Gautschi

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Technological Innovation and Economic Transformation

A Method for Contextual Analysis

By: Heidi Gautschi,David Gautschi

Society, in its quest for order in an inherently chaotic natural setting, tends to think about technological innovation much too narrowly. Innovation is necessary for economic growth, yet this narrow attitude limits its possibilities and focuses on achieving a single goal without acknowledging its effect on other aspects of society. By thinking out of the box, this book encourages thoughtful innovation while remaining conscious of its positive and negative consequences for society. It presents a method for contextual analysis that enables assessment of the disruption that any innovation could induce, and puts ideas into contexts so that innovators may anticipate consequences, minimize resistance, and enhance acceptance. Drawing on Anglophone and Francophone literatures in business, economics, history, and sociology, this book reminds us that progress is often achieved at some sacrifice of well-being. It allows academics and practitioners from these traditions to engage in systematic communication and enrich one another with new ideas.

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Springer

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1137577363

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9781137577368

Toronto

By: Insight Guides,Heidi Sopinka

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Toronto

By: Insight Guides,Heidi Sopinka

Compact Guide: Toronto is the ultimate quick-reference guide to Canada's megacity. It tells you everything you need to know about Toronto's attractions, from the hiehghts of the CN Tower to the delights of Queen Street, from the elegance of Queens Park to the bustle of Chinatown.This is one of more than 100 titles in Insight Guides' series of pocket-sized, easy-to-use guidebooks edited for the independent-minded traveller. Compact Guides are in essence travel encyclopedias in miniature, designed to be comprehensive yet portable, as well as up-to-date and authoritative.

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100

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Langenscheidt Publishers

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0887298230

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9780887298233

White-Collar Business Crime

By: Heidi Lautjärvi

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White-Collar Business Crime

By: Heidi Lautjärvi

This book is about people who once had everything - power, money, and prestige - and who lost it all in one day. With the help of international law, the book explains what corporate management should know about white-collar crimes in different areas of business. It offers the biggest business crime cases from all over the world. At the heart of the business crimes, there is corruption, money laundering, fraud, and extortion. None of the law areas is immune to the crimes: they occur in company law, competition law, tax law, labor law, environmental law and intellectual property law - just to mention a few. The book helps to outline business-friendly models for crime prevention. Most of all, it increases knowledge of white-collar business crimes and helps people to avoid making their own ones. The book is aimed at business leaders and at everyone who runs their own business. It also provides information for business developers as well as business and law students.

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BoD - Books on Demand

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9513789403

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9789513789404

America's Choir

A Commemorative Portrait of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

By: Heidi S. Swinton

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America's Choir

A Commemorative Portrait of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

By: Heidi S. Swinton

Dubbed "America's Choir" by President Ronald Regan, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will celebrate 75 years if continual broadcast in July 2004. From its earliest beginning, just a few months after the pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, to its prestige as a world-renowned choir courted by concert halls in the most sophisticated cities across the globe, the Choir has a unique and fascinating story, now told in words and images by author Heidi S. Swinton and on film by Lee Groberg. As composer John Williams has said, "These are people who are there for the joy of music." America's Choir is their story.

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