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Unfinished Business

By: Isabelle Drake

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She ran away from the town that wouldn't forget, to a city that doesn't forgive, right into the arms of the guy who insists she set things right. Less than a year ago, Hayley Jones made a scandalous decision that sent her packing. She left her country hometown, moved to the city and made a new life for herself. But it's hard being someone else when the real you has some unfinished business. Hayley knows taking care of the unresolved piece of her past could stir up more trouble and humiliation, so she dodges the truth and puts her energy into her new friends and job. That strategy works for a short while but people from her past start showing up in her present. Life gets even more complicated when she realizes she's falling for Nick Noel, a guy who knows she's running from something, and continually challenges her to be herself. But Hayley is afraid of what will happen if Nick finds out who she really is and what she did back home.

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1784303755

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Risk It

By: Isabelle Drake

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Risk It

By: Isabelle Drake

Come to the Triple B Ranch and find your bliss! Gwen Baker has just been invited to participate in a new reality show, the Get Tied Down Challenge. Couture dress-maker Gwen Baker says yes to spending a weekend at exclusive, singles-only The Triple B Ranch courtesy of the reality show, the Real DC. Recently dumped by a guy who insisted she wasn't exciting or spontaneous, she's eager for the chance to practice her man-hunting skills and take advantage of the live stream event to show off her custom cocktail dresses—even if the setting is a little bit rustic. Not one to be discouraged by setbacks like trying to look sexy in silk while roasting marshmallows over a campfire, Gwen arrives at the ranch ready to play along and pick one of the contestants. But the three guys from the city do nothing for her while the cook makes her ache for some serious sizzle. As the head cook at the singles-only dude ranch, Connor Tate thinks he's immune to the charms and temptations of the female guests. Long legs, curvy or cute...he can ignore them all. He doesn't want any drama. He's only at the ranch to earn cash for grad school. So when the cast and crew of the Get Tied Down Challenge arrive at the camp, he's sure he'll be able to keep to himself and avoid the raven haired-hottie roaming the trails. But an impromptu kiss with Gwen turns into a contest of domination that soon comes a test of wills—a test he's glad to fail. He gives in to the sweet temptation she offers but he's a long way from being satisfied.

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The Fox

By: Isabelle Drake

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The Fox

By: Isabelle Drake

The Classics Exposed... A young man returns from war to find two women living on the isolated farm he'd called home. Needing to dominate, he sets out to put his life in order. The bitter, dark night a rugged man appears on their doorstep, everything about the quiet life of Ellen March and Jill Banford changes. The presence of the powerful, brooding man complicates the simple daily existence of their lives on their struggling chicken farm. Henry Grenfel, a young soldier recently returned from war, is determined to possess the stronger, more forceful of the two women—Ellen. His need to possess her knows no limits and he uses every opportunity he finds to pressure her into breaking her ties with her best friend, Jill. Jill's dislike for Henry turns into pure hatred when she realises he'll stop at nothing to take Ellen from her. As the tension among the three of them builds, Henry coerces Ellen into submission, forcing her to recognise her own need for the sexual release only he can provide. After Ellen accepts the inevitability of his dominance and agrees to his marriage proposal, the resentment brewing within the love triangle takes an even darker turn.

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1781843295

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Off the Rails

By: Isabelle Drake

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Off the Rails

By: Isabelle Drake

High school reunion—three words that threaten to derail Madison's life. Now she has only eight weeks to find the perfect guy, the perfect job, or a way to pretend she has the perfect life. Madison is less than thrilled when the invitation to her five year high school reunion arrives. When she refuses to RSVP with a yes, her best friend Tia reminds her of a pact they'd made—they'd use the reunion to show up everyone from school. But Madison can't show up anyone. She isn't the super famous superstar she'd bragged that she'd be. She's an unemployed singer with no boyfriend and no job. Her only option? Find a way to fake the perfect life. Eight weeks isn't much time. But it is long enough to get drunk and enter a bikini contest, redefine the term date-from-hell, get caught in an awkward ménage and win a bar fight. But will all this bad behavior help Madison snag the blond, blue-eyed geek who was foolish enough not to notice her in high school? No matter what it takes, she's going to find out.

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Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)

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1784308234

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9781784308230

Amélie

French Film Guide

By: Isabelle Vanderschelden

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Amélie

French Film Guide

By: Isabelle Vanderschelden

Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain" was the surprise boxoffice success of 2001, with nine million spectators in France, and more than 30 million worldwide. The film turned Audrey Tautou into an international star, in her iconic role as Amelie, a naive French Parisian who devotes herself to mending the lives of the people around her. Shot on location in Paris, the film combines poetic and magical realism with stylish cinematography, original use of colour, state-of-the-art special effects, and an evocative soundtrack; together these have produced a popular film of universal appeal. Isabelle Vanderschelden examines the film's production within the French film industry. She analyzes the issues of genre and narrative that it presents so well. She looks in depth at the film's key scenes, as well as at Jeunet's distinctive visual style and cinematography and his use of digital technology. The national and international receptions of Amelie are explored to establish why the film has caught the public imagination and whether it marks a renewal in the cultural diversity and distinctive identity of the French film industry. This book will be essential reading for cinema lovers and students alike.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857710338

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Off the Rails

By: Isabelle Drake

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Off the Rails

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The Invention of Modern Science

By: Isabelle Stengers

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The Invention of Modern Science

By: Isabelle Stengers

The Invention of Modern Science proposes a fruitful way of going beyond the apparently irreconcilable positions, that science is either "objective" or "socially constructed." Instead, suggests Isabelle Stengers, one of the most important and influential philosophers of science in Europe, we might understand the tension between scientific objectivity and belief as a necessary part of science, central to the practices invented and reinvented by scientists."--pub. desc.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816630550

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Centre-left parties and the European Union

Power, accountability and democracy

By: Isabelle Hertner

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Centre-left parties and the European Union

Power, accountability and democracy

By: Isabelle Hertner

This book investigates how the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party (PS), and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) deal with the European Union (EU).

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Manchester University Press

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1526120364

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9781526120366

Talk About Writing

The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors

By: Jo Mackiewicz,Isabelle Thompson

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Talk About Writing

The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors

By: Jo Mackiewicz,Isabelle Thompson

Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors offers a book-length empirical study of the discourse between experienced tutors and student writers in satisfactory conferences. The study uses a research-driven, iteratively tested framework to help writing center directors, tutors, writing program administrators, rhetoric and composition researchers, first-year composition instructors, and others interested in talk about writing to systematically analyze tutors’ talk and to use that analysis to train new tutors. The book strives toward two main goals: to provide an analytical research and assessment tool—the coding scheme—that other researchers can use to understand writing center tutor talk and to provide a close, empirical analysis of experienced tutor talk that can facilitate tutor training. The study details tutors’ use of three categories of tutoring strategies—instruction, cognitive scaffolding, and motivational scaffolding—at macro- and microlevels and results in practical recommendations for improving tutor training.

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Routledge

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1317666909

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9781317666905

Rethinking Bail

Court Reform or Business as Usual?

By: Max Travers,Emma Colvin,Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron,Rick Sarre,Andrew Day,Christine Bond

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Rethinking Bail

Court Reform or Business as Usual?

By: Max Travers,Emma Colvin,Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron,Rick Sarre,Andrew Day,Christine Bond

This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council. The topic, bail reform, has attracted attention from criminologists and law reformers over many years. In the USA, a reform movement has argued that risk analysis and pre-trial services should replace the bail bond system (the state of California may introduce this system in 2020). In the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, there have been concerns about tough bail laws that have contributed to a rise in imprisonment rates. The approach in this book is distinctive. The inter-disciplinary authors include criminologists, an academic lawyer and a forensic psychologist together with qualitative researchers with backgrounds in sociology and anthropology. The book advances a policy argument through presenting descriptive statistics, interviews with practitioners and detailed accounts of bail applications and their outcomes. There is discussion of methodological issues throughout the book, including the challenges of obtaining data from the courts.

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Springer Nature

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3030448819

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9783030448813

Private Collectors of Islamic Art in Late Nineteenth-Century London

The Persian Ideal

By: Isabelle Gadoin

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Private Collectors of Islamic Art in Late Nineteenth-Century London

The Persian Ideal

By: Isabelle Gadoin

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19th century, including ceramics, metalwork, carpets, textiles and woodwork. Based on a foundational event, the very first exhibition of “Persian and Arab Art” held by a London Gentlemen’s Club in 1885, this book follows one generation of men, retracing the subtle shades of difference among “amateurs,” “connoisseurs,” “experts” and “collectors,” and exploring all the mechanisms of the construction of a collective fascination for the Orient. Isabelle Gadoin uncovers some of the first “scientific” analyses of Islamic objects and of the first private notebooks or exhibition catalogues, to provide an in-depth study of the way Westerners talked about Islamic objects and began to define what would become Islamic art history. All the while, Gadoin unravels the skein of Western prejudice, Romantic fancy, sincere admiration and ruthless appropriation, in art collecting, to write a new chapter of Orientalist history. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of collecting, colonialism and postcolonialism, and Orientalism.

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1000437000

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The Puzzling Child

From Recognition to Treatment

By: Mary Isabelle Frank

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The Puzzling Child

From Recognition to Treatment

By: Mary Isabelle Frank

This practical volume focuses on the importance of observation training and techniques for the recognition, identification, diagnosis, and treatment of children with immediate or potential problems.

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Psychology Press

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0866561196

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9780866561198

Rebels and Conflict Escalation

Explaining the Rise and Decline in Violence

By: Isabelle Duyvesteyn

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Rebels and Conflict Escalation

Explaining the Rise and Decline in Violence

By: Isabelle Duyvesteyn

Duyvesteyn critically examines the potential explanations for the escalation and de-escalation during conflicts involving states and non-state actors, such as terrorists and insurgents.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316518477

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Rethinking the Nature of War

By: Jan Angstrom,Isabelle Duyvesteyn

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Rethinking the Nature of War

By: Jan Angstrom,Isabelle Duyvesteyn

Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong criticism. Political explanations have been said to fall short in explaining conflicts in the Balkans, Africa, Asia and the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States. This book re-evaluates these criticisms not only by scrutinising Clausewitz's arguments and their applicability, but also by a careful reading of the criticism itself. In doing so, it presents empirical evidence on the basis of several case studies, addressing various aspects of modern war, such as the actors, conduct and purposes of war.

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1134257503

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9781134257508

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

By: Isabelle Baudino

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Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

By: Isabelle Baudino

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain. This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000843386

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9781000843385

That Sweet Enemy

Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship

By: Robert Tombs,Isabelle Tombs

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That Sweet Enemy

Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship

By: Robert Tombs,Isabelle Tombs

That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship—rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection—and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Written with wit and elegance, and illustrated with delightful images and cartoons from both sides of the Channel, That Sweet Enemy is a unique and immensely enjoyable history, destined to become a classic.

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Vintage

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0307547981

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9780307547989

Virtual Museums - A Plea

Around the Clock, Around the World

By: Virtual Museums Forum,Isabelle Becker,Otmar Böhmer,Reinhard Gröne,Bernd Günter,Rebecca Heinzelmann,Anja Kircher-Kannemann,Yasmin Mahmoudi,Julia Römhild,Holger Simon,Theresa Stärk,Laura Zebisch

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Virtual Museums - A Plea

Around the Clock, Around the World

Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials. Augmented reality and virtual reality offer immersion experiences even for existing museums. However, for many topics there are no museums and exhibitions. The author group "Virtual Museums Forum" is now presenting a contribution to the discussion that focuses on museums in the metaverse. It aims to promote conceptual considerations for implementing virtual museums. This raises two fundamental questions: "What is a virtual museum?" and "For which topics or constellations can a virtual museum be particularly suitable?" This book provides a pragmatic answer to the first question. Comprehensive theses are then put forward for the second question and implementation of virtual museums. "Virtual Museums Forum" author group: Isabelle Becker, Messe Basel Otmar Böhmer, Kunststiftung Volkswagen und Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Reinhard Gröne, Angel Engine e. V., Düsseldorf Bernd Günter, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Rebecca Heinzelmann, Studio Heinzelmann Anja Kircher-Kannemann, Jugendstilforum Bad Nauheim Yasmin Mahmoudi, Kanzlei Dr. Mahmoudi & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB, Köln Julia Römhild, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Holger Simon, Pausanio, Köln Theresa Stärk, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Laura Zebisch, Goethe-Institut

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3422802371

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9783422802377

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