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Never Alone

By: Iris Fisher Smith

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Never Alone By: Iris Fisher Smith Iris Fisher Smith's stories of family, friends and health will show the importance of sticking together with those you love. She had an Italian Grandmother who in her teens idolized Bonnie and Clyde; a father who was friends with Leonard Nimoy; a mother who attended school with the Boston Strangler and more. This family provides a rich history that shaped the author's life and personality. When Life becomes challenging, this is the time we need each other the most. It is important to laugh and play together and enjoy each other’s company.

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Never Alone

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Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

By: Iris Smith Fischer

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Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

By: Iris Smith Fischer

This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history.

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Springer

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0230100783

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9780230100787

The Miracle of Self Power

By: Iris Lynch

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The Miracle of Self Power

By: Iris Lynch

Take a short journey into a world that may be completely new to you. The Miracle of Self Power explains why some people are unhappy in their lives because they knock themselves out trying to control the lives of the others around them. Or, on the other side of the fence, they may be unhappy because they have allowed someone else to "own" them. The author, Iris D. Lynch, has lived through these experiences and spent a lifetime documenting the various behaviors that we so easily and unthinkingly fall into. When these behaviors become habit, we tend to believe we were always that way and we cannot change. The author shows how you may have wound up learning self-defeating behaviors and how and why you can change them to enjoy a better, happier life. Each chapter helps you recognize any self-defeating behaviors of yourself or those loved ones around you. Even though you have no power to change anyone else's behavior, there are still specific ways to help create better outcomes than you may have had in the past. Changing how you play the game of life requires others to react differently. Along with the very happy style of Ms. Lynch, you will likely enjoy her sense of humor and real life examples. She then gives you specific ways to utilize the ideas she espouses following each chapter.

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Tate Publishing

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1625109938

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9781625109934

On Female Body Experience

"Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays

By: Iris Marion Young

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On Female Body Experience

"Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays

By: Iris Marion Young

Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subjectivity. The essays combine theoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom and opportunity that continue to burden many women. The lead essay rethinks the purpose of the category of "gender" for feminist theory, after important debates have questioned its usefulness. Other essays include reflection on the meaning of being at home and the need for privacy in old age residences as well as essays that analyze aspects of the experience of women and girls that have received little attention even in feminist theory--such as the sexuality of breasts, or menstruation as punctuation in a woman's life story. Young describes the phenomenology of moving in a pregnant body and the tactile pleasures of clothing. While academically rigorous, the essays are also written with engaging style, incorporating vivid imagery and autobiographical narrative. On Female Body Experience raises issues and takes positions that speak to scholars and students in philosophy, sociology, geography, medicine, nursing, and education.

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Oxford University Press

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0199882983

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9780199882984

Mark Twain's Homes and Literary Tourism

By: Hilary Iris Lowe

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Mark Twain's Homes and Literary Tourism

By: Hilary Iris Lowe

A century after Samuel Clemens’s death, Mark Twain thrives—his recently released autobiography topped bestseller lists. One way fans still celebrate the first true American writer and his work is by visiting any number of Mark Twain destinations. They believe they can learn something unique by visiting the places where he lived. Mark Twain’s Homes and Literary Tourism untangles the complicated ways that Clemens’s houses, now museums, have come to tell the stories that they do about Twain and, in the process, reminds us that the sites themselves are the products of multiple agendas and, in some cases, unpleasant histories. Hilary Iris Lowe leads us through four Twain homes, beginning at the beginning—Florida, Missouri, where Clemens was born. Today the site is simply a concrete pedestal missing its bust, a plaque, and an otherwise-empty field. Though the original cabin where he was born likely no longer exists, Lowe treats us to an overview of the history of the area and the state park challenged with somehow marking this site. Next, we travel with Lowe to Hannibal, Missouri, Clemens’s childhood home, which he saw become a tourist destination in his own lifetime. Today mannequins remind visitors of the man that the boy who lived there became and the literature that grew out of his experiences in the house and little town on the Mississippi. Hartford, Connecticut, boasts one of Clemens’s only surviving adulthood homes, the house where he spent his most productive years. Lowe describes the house’s construction, its sale when the high cost of living led the family to seek residence abroad, and its transformation into the museum. Lastly, we travel to Elmira, New York, where Clemens spent many summers with his family at Quarry Farm. His study is the only room at this destination open to the public, and yet, tourists follow in the footsteps of literary pilgrim Rudyard Kipling to see this small space. Literary historic sites pin their authority on the promise of exclusive insight into authors and texts through firsthand experience. As tempting as it is to accept the authenticity of Clemens’s homes, Mark Twain’s Homes and Literary Tourism argues that house museums are not reliable critical texts but are instead carefully constructed spaces designed to satisfy visitors. This volume shows us how these houses’ portrayals of Clemens change frequently to accommodate and shape our own expectations of the author and his work.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826272789

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9780826272782

Forever Take My Hand

By: Iris Therese Smith Reid

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Forever Take My Hand

By: Iris Therese Smith Reid

Iris Therese Smith Reid was born in Grimsby in 1938, and she gives a vivid account of what it was like to be a child growing up during the war. It was a time of great hardship and sometimes terror as Grimsby was ravaged by German bombing raids during the Blitz, but Iris recalls many lighter moments too, the games she played among the bombsites and the memorable characters she knew. The second part of this biography covers Iris's working family life, most of which was spent in and around Grimsby. Now in her late seventies, Iris has spent the last sixteen years looking after her husband, Francis, who has vascular dementia. Part three relates how she and Francis have struggled with his illness together and how they continue to get the most out of life.

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Andrews UK Limited

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0722347979

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9780722347973

New Climate Activism

NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance

By: Jen Iris Allan

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New Climate Activism

NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance

By: Jen Iris Allan

Climate change was once understood as solely an environmental issue. A growing class of activists now claim climate change to be a gender, equity, labour, Indigenous rights, faith, and health issue.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487525842

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9781487525842

Einstein's Pacifism and World War I

By: Virginia Iris Holmes

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Einstein's Pacifism and World War I

By: Virginia Iris Holmes

To understand how Albert Einstein’s pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein’s thoughts and feelings in response to the war evolved from horrified disbelief, to ironic alienation from both the war’s violence and patriotic support for it by the German people, to a kind of bleak endurance. Meanwhile, his outward responses progressed, from supporting initiatives of other pacifists, to developing his own philosophy of a postwar order, to being the impetus behind initiatives. In the beginning of the postwar period, Einstein’s writing reflected an optimism about Germany’s new Weimar Republic and trust in the laudatory effects of military defeat and economic hardship on the German people. He clearly supported the principles in US President Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” speech. Yet Einstein’s enthusiasm diminished as he became disappointed in the early Weimar Republic’s leaders and as his aversion to the culture of violence developing in Germany grew. He also felt offended at the betrayal of Wilson’s principles in the Treaty of Versailles. Drawing upon personal correspondence and public proclamations, Holmes offers an intimate and nuanced exploration of the pacifist thought of one of our greatest intellectuals.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815653603

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9780815653608

Charmian Kittredge London

Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer

By: Iris Jamahl Dunkle

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Charmian Kittredge London

Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer

By: Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Charmian Kittredge London (1871–1955) was the epitome of a modern woman. Free-spirited and adventurous, she defied modern expectations of femininity. Today she is best known as the wife of the famous American author Jack London, yet she was a literary trailblazer in her own right. This biography is the first book to tell the complete story of Charmian’s life—freed from the shadow cast by her famous husband. In this biography, Iris Jamahl Dunkle draws the reader into Charmian’s private and public worlds, underscoring her literary achievements and the significant role she played in promoting her husband’s legacy. Her life, as Dunkle emphasizes, required fortitude and bravery, and in many ways it paralleled the history of the American West. Born on the mudflats of what would become Los Angeles’s harbor, Charmian became an orphan at age fourteen. Raised by her aunt Netta Wiley Ames, a noted writer and editor for the Overland Monthly, Charmian attended college, became an expert equestrian and concert pianist, and had a successful career as a stenographer. But her life shifted when, in 1905, she married Jack London, already a bestselling author. For the rest of Jack’s life, until his untimely death at the age of forty, reporters would follow the couple’s every move. Charmian and Jack traveled the world, exploring and writing together. In addition to collaborating with Jack on many of his projects, Charmian wrote three books about her travels, as well as countless articles. After Jack’s death in 1916, she remained a celebrity, continuing to travel and write—and seek adventure. She also wrote a biography about her late husband and managed his estate, influencing how Jack’s literary legacy was remembered. Charmian Kittredge London is a central figure in California cultural history. Now, thanks to Dunkle’s riveting portrait, readers have the opportunity to embark on the grand adventure that was her life.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806168390

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9780806168395

San Diego

California's Cornerstone

By: Iris Wilson Engstrand

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San Diego

California's Cornerstone

By: Iris Wilson Engstrand

A comprehensive history of San Diego from the time of the indigenous people to the controversial mayoral election of 2004. Chapters cover the Spanish, Mexican, Victorian, WWI and WWII eras, and the post-war boom. Includes a 25-page chronology of events, plus bibliography and index.

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Sunbelt Publications, Inc.

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0932653723

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9780932653727

The Green Knight

By: Iris Murdoch

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The Green Knight

By: Iris Murdoch

Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary London. An attempt by the sharp, feral, and uncommonly intelligent Lucas Graffe to murder his sensual and charismatic half-brother Clement is interrupted by a stranger—whom Lucas strikes and leaves for dead. When the stranger mysteriously reappears, with specific demands for reparation, the Graffes’ circle of idiosyncratic family and friends is disrupted—for the demands are bizarre, intrusive, and ultimately fatal.

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Penguin

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1101501642

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Book's by Iris Fisher Smith

Never Alone

Never Alone

Never Alone

Never Alone

Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

The Miracle of Self Power

The Miracle of Self Power

On Female Body Experience

On Female Body Experience

Mark Twain's Homes and Literary Tourism

Mark Twain's Homes and Literary Tourism

Forever Take My Hand

Forever Take My Hand

New Climate Activism

New Climate Activism

Einstein's Pacifism and World War I

Einstein's Pacifism and World War I

Charmian Kittredge London

Charmian Kittredge London

San Diego

San Diego

The Green Knight

The Green Knight

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