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Turbulence

By: Jessica Matthews

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A hurricane is heading straight for the tiny coastal town ofTurning Point, Texas. Four volunteers from Courage Bay EmergencyServices rush to the town's aid. Their lives will never be the sameagain…Pilot Micky Flynn doubts firefighter Dana Ivie will be much help on arescue mission. She doesn't know a thing about Texas OR living througha hurricane. For Dana, those are fighting words. She'll prove she'sgot what it takes. But when Micky tries to out-fly the weather, he'sforced to make an emergency landing. And as the storm overtakes them,so does their passion. But will they have the courage to risk love?

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1426850905

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A MOTHER'S SPECIAL CARE

By: Jessica Matthews

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A MOTHER'S SPECIAL CARE

By: Jessica Matthews

A family to wish for Dr. Mac Grant loves his son with all his heart but is struggling to be the father he deserves — he's a single dad with a demanding career. Juggling the two is proving difficult, and he is well aware of his son's longing for a mother. Lori Ames is a nurse on Mac's ward. As a single mother with a beautiful daughter of her own, she can bestow the special care that both their children so desperately need. Mac needs her, too, but is a marriage of convenience enough…when what she really craves is his love?

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1460357477

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A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS

By: Jessica Matthews

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A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS

By: Jessica Matthews

Practice nurse and single mom Claire Westin is more interested in treating her patients than celebrating Christmas — it brings back memories too painful to remember. But her gorgeous boss, Alex Ridgeway, senior physician at the Pleasant Valley practice, is determined to remind her of the magic of Christmas. For Alex knows it is the only way Claire can move on, and the one thing she must do if he is to have any chance of convincing her that bringing their families together will make not only Christmas, but every day of their lives very, very special….

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1460357574

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The Baby Doctor's Bride

By: Jessica Matthews

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The Baby Doctor's Bride

By: Jessica Matthews

Newly qualified pediatrician Ivy Harris is in over her head, sowhen she hears that a retired doctor has moved into the area, she'sdetermined to use her many charms to get him to help out at herpractice. Expecting a man in his dotage, she's pleasantly surprised tofind that Ethan Locke is in his prime! But the handsome doctor is farfrom easy to convince. He's adamant that he'll be no good for thepractice, or for Ivy.Ethan is grieving the loss of his infant son and the breakup of hisrelationship. He's terrified that he's lost his touch when it comes toboth treating children and dealing with women. But something about Ivymakes her hard to resist, and he soon finds himself firmly ensconcedat the practice and in Ivy's life. Dare he hope he's finally found thefuture he's been longing for?

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1426833075

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HIS MADE-TO-ORDER BRIDE

By: Jessica Matthews

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HIS MADE-TO-ORDER BRIDE

By: Jessica Matthews

Finding a wife… Dr. J. D. Berkley enjoyed his life. He had a good job in ER, a delightful four-year-old son and a truly good friend in nurse Katie Alexander. So why would he need a wife? It wasn't until he wanted to expand the ER that he found being a bachelor could be a stumbling block. So, he had a brilliant idea. Katie could help him find a wife! He couldn't understand why she seemed less than keen on the idea—particularly when he'd made a list of his requirements to make it easier for her….

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1459228324

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A NURSE'S FORGIVENESS

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A NURSE'S FORGIVENESS

By: Jessica Matthews

The determined doctor Handsome, polite and charming he might be, but Marta Wyman wasn't going to let Dr. Evan Gallagher pressure her into a meeting with her grandfather. She didn't know why he should bring himself here to persuade her, or why he was so bothered by her nonexistent relationship with a relative she'd never met, but Marta was determined to carry on with her life in New Hope exactly as it was. And Evan Gallagher would have a long wait before she changed her mind—or gave in to her desires….

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1460356535

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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT

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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT

By: Jessica Matthews

Sisters at Heart What could Adam do to convince Naomi to stay? Dear Adam, I hereby resign from Deer Creek Hopsital. After having been reluctantly placed here to recuperate from my illness, I learned to love working in this environment, which is totally different to ER. I especially enjoyed getting to know the patients, and have no finally overcome my fear of emotional contact, which, as you know, was because of my painful past. However, even though I care for you deeply, my failuer to get the position of ER Supervisor in the city was devastating, and consequently I must leave Deer Creek. Please understand my reasons and never forget the wonderful time we had together. Sincerely, Naomi Beth, Kirsten and Naomi Three good friends, sisters at heart

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1459263308

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PRESCRIPTIONS AND PROMISES

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PRESCRIPTIONS AND PROMISES

By: Jessica Matthews

Some promises just had to be broken! Jenny Ruscoe had always believed in standing by her word, but keeping her, uncle's pharmacy open as she had promised him was going to be impossible. Or so she thought, until Dr. Noah Kimball tore a strip off her for depriving Springwater of its only pharmacy. It was persuasion enough to change her mind. Jenny intended instead to place a manager in charge and leave at the end of the summer--unless Noah could change her mind about that, too. Jenny was beginning to think that this compelling man could talk her into just about anything!

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FOR A CHILD'S SAKE

By: Jessica Matthews

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FOR A CHILD'S SAKE

By: Jessica Matthews

Sisters at Heart Adopting a baby wasn't easy… Dr. Tristan Lockwood couldn't believe that he was offering to help Bethany Trahern adopt her much-loved friend's orphaned baby, Daniel…. She was usually so nervous and inefficient around Tristan. But when Beth began work on the pediatric ward, Tristan soon realized that she was a great nurse—and very determined to mother baby Daniel. But as a single woman on a nurse's salary she needed help, and Tristan surprised himself when he came up with the ultimate solution—marriage! But would he ever be able to convince Bethany—and himself—that it was really for convenience, not love? Beth, Kirsten and Naomi Three good friends, sisters at heart

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His Baby Bombshell

By: Jessica Matthews

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His Baby Bombshell

By: Jessica Matthews

Nurse Sabrina Hollister is a single mother with a young baby to support. The last thing she needs is for her ex-lover--the father of her child--to turn up as her temporary boss! She cannot forgive Adrian McReynolds for breaking her heart...nor can she forgive herself for not telling him about their son. Adrian is knocked out by Sabrina's little secret. There's no way he'll let her raise their son alone. He was foolish enough to let Sabrina slip away before--he won't let it happen again!

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Unlocking The Surgeon's Heart/Celebrity In Braxton Falls

By: JESSICA MATTHEWS,Judy Campbell

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Unlocking The Surgeon's Heart/Celebrity In Braxton Falls

By: JESSICA MATTHEWS,Judy Campbell

Unlocking The Surgeon's Heart by Jessica Matthews Christy Michaels can easily appreciate a man as handsome as surgeon Linc Maguire. But his gruelling work ethic doesn't impress this vivacious nurse! Now Christy's not only sharing the ER with Dr Serious, but the parental responsibilities for her best friend's children – Linc's niece and nephew. Can Christy's exuberance get the cool, collected doc to let loose? Celebrity In Braxton Falls by Judy Campbell Arrogant and charming, celebrity doctor Denovan O'Mara has his female patients all in a flutter – but GP Kerry Latimer's not fooled for a second...or is she? Briefly working with Denovan, Kerry gets to know and care for the man behind the image – but enough to take a risk and open her heart to love again...?

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The Baby Rescue

By: Jessica Matthews

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The Baby Rescue

By: Jessica Matthews

At Hope City Hospital, locum Nikki Lawrence is taking on more than she's bargained for. Not only is she working with the man who broke her heart and haunts her dreams, but she has to rescue a baby, abandoned in Emergency by its mother. Gorgeous physician Galen Stafford still loves Nikki and lending his support with the vulnerable infant builds a special bond between them. Nikki must learn to trust again, but will Galen's care for herself and the child persuade her that certain bonds do remain unbreakable?

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Out of Harm's Way

By: Jessica Mann

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Out of Harm's Way

By: Jessica Mann

In June 1940 Britain expected enemy invasion. Despite Churchill's determination to fight on the beaches, many parents made desperate efforts to send their children abroad to safety. Thousands left for America, Canada, Australia and other distant countries. In this revealing new book, Jessica Mann, herself a wartime evacuee, looks at the experiences of those who were sent away to a foreign land including their dangerous journeys across U-boat-ridden oceans, and asks how they coped with being away, and also how they found life back in the UK on their return. Drawing on extensive original research and memories of many former evacuees, including Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley Williams, Jessica Mann builds up a moving portrait of a lost generation.

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The Many Panics of 1837

By: Jessica M. Lepler

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The Many Panics of 1837

By: Jessica M. Lepler

Reveals how people transformed their experiences of financial crisis into a single event that would serve as a turning point in American history.

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0521116538

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Smoke But No Fire

Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened

By: Jessica S. Henry

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Smoke But No Fire

Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened

By: Jessica S. Henry

2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner, Silver (Political and Social Sciences) Winner of the Montaigne Medal, awarded to "the most thought-provoking books" The first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful conviction—one that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened. Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions. The first book to explore this common but previously undocumented type of wrongful conviction, Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect. A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. With this book, former New York City public defender Jessica S. Henry sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows—even encourages—these convictions to regularly occur. Smoke but No Fire promises to be eye-opening reading for legal professionals, students, activists, and the general public alike as it grapples with the chilling reality that far too many innocent people spend real years behind bars for fictional crimes.

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0520385802

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Death in a Blackout

By: Jessica Ellicott

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Death in a Blackout

By: Jessica Ellicott

The first in a brand-new WWII historical mystery series introduces WPC Billie Harkness - a female police officer who risks her life to protect the home front in the British coastal city of Hull. 1940. Britain is at war. Rector's daughter Wilhelmina Harkness longs to do her duty for her country, but when her strict mother forbids her to enlist, their bitter argument has devasting consequences. Unable to stay in the village she loves, Wilhelmina - reinventing herself as Billie - spends everything she has on a one-way ticket up north. Hull is a distant, dangerous city, but Billie is determined to leave her painful memories behind and start afresh, whatever the cost. The last thing Billie expects on her first evening in Hull, however, is to be caught in the city's first air raid - or to stumble across the body of a young woman, suspiciously untouched by debris. If the air raid didn't kill the glamorous stranger, what did? Billie is determined to get justice, and her persistence earns her an invitation to the newly formed Women's Police Constabulary. But as the case unfolds, putting her at odds with both high-ranking members of the force as well as the victim's powerful family, Billie begins to wonder if she can trust her new friends and colleagues . . . or if someone amongst them is working for the enemy. DEATH IN A BLACKOUT is a perfect pick for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Rhys Bowen and Susan Elia MacNeal.

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1448306582

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Shifting the Meaning of Democracy

Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil

By: Jessica Lynn Graham

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Shifting the Meaning of Democracy

Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil

By: Jessica Lynn Graham

This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century—the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of “racial democracy” as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality.

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Life From a Sitting-Down Perspective

By: Jessica Pabst

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Life From a Sitting-Down Perspective

By: Jessica Pabst

Life can often be difficult for people with disabilities. With this book I am trying to ease some of that difficulty. I have included tips for everyday activities, bathroom activities, deciding on wheelchair type and accessories, activities away from home, keeping a positive attitude and staying happy, appreciating all of the good things in your life and obtaining all of the good things that you still want in it. All I want is to create smiles.

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1466995645

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Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

By: Jessica Howell

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Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

By: Jessica Howell

Study of malaria in literature and culture illuminates the legacies of nineteenth-century colonial medicine within narratives of illness.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108484689

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Hearing Maud

A Journey for a Voice

By: Jessica White

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Hearing Maud

A Journey for a Voice

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Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author’s experiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as she grew up, she was estranged from people and turned to reading and writing for solace, eventually establishing a career as a writer. Central to her narrative is the story of Maud Praed, the deaf daughter of 19th century Queensland expatriate novelist Rosa Praed. Although Maud was deaf from infancy, she was educated at a school which taught her to speak rather than sign, a mode difficult for someone with little hearing. The breakup of Maud’s family destabilised her mental health and at age twenty-eight she was admitted to an asylum, where she stayed until she died almost forty years later. It was through uncovering Maud’s story that the author began to understand her own experiences of deafness and how they contributed to her emotional landscape, relationships and career.

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1760800821

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To Have and to Hold

Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change

By: Jessica Weiss

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To Have and to Hold

Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change

By: Jessica Weiss

Drawing on interviews with American couples from the 1950s to the 1980s, Weiss creates a dynamic portrait of family and social change in the postwar era. She then pairs these firsthand accounts with deft analysis of movies, magazines, and advice books from each decade, providing an intimate look at ordinary marriages in a time of sweeping cultural change. 8 halftones.

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0226886719

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Earth Diplomacy

Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War

By: Jessica L. Horton

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Earth Diplomacy

Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War

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In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth-century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international relations. She focuses on a group of artists including Pablita Velarde, Darryl Blackman, and Oscar Howe who participated in exhibitions and lectures abroad as part of the United States’s Cold War cultural propaganda. Horton emphasizes how their art modeled a radical alternative to dominant forms of statecraft, a practice she calls “earth diplomacy:” a response to extractive colonial capitalism grounded in Native ideas of deep reciprocal relationships between humans and other beings that govern the world. Horton draws on extensive archival research and oral histories as well as analyses of Indigenous creative work, including paintings, textiles, tipis, adornment, and artistic demonstrations. By interweaving diplomacy, ecology, and art history, Horton advances Indigenous frameworks of reciprocity with all beings in the cosmos as a path to transforming our broken system of global politics.

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Duke University Press

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1478059494

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A Town Called Asbestos

Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community

By: Jessica van Horssen

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A Town Called Asbestos

Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community

By: Jessica van Horssen

For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths became common knowledge, the industry suffered terminal decline. A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, they developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud history and reveals the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.

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Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those programs ignore the value of working-class students' resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to negotiate advantages in school.

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Oxford University Press

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0190634464

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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know

By: Jessica Valenti

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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know

By: Jessica Valenti

Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively enticing at the same time? Isn't it unfair that working moms are labeled "bad" for focusing on their careers while we shake our heads in disbelief when we hear about the occasional stay-at-home dad? In 50 Double Standards Every Woman Should Know, Jessica Valenti, author of Full Frontal Feminism, calls out the double standards that affect every woman. Whether Jessica is pointing out the wage earning discrepancies between men and women or revealing all of the places that women still aren't equal to their male counterparts-be it in the workplace, courtroom, bedroom, or home-she maintains her signature wittily sarcastic tone. With sass, humor, and in-your-face facts, this book informs and equips women with the tools they need to combat sexist comments, topple ridiculous stereotypes (girls aren't good at math?), and end the promotion of lame double standards.

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Seal Press

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0786750499

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US Policy Towards Cuba

Since the Cold War

By: Jessica Gibbs

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US Policy Towards Cuba

Since the Cold War

By: Jessica Gibbs

US Policy Towards Cuba is a comprehensive examination of U.S. policy towards Cuba after the Cold War, from 1989-2008. It discusses the competition between Congress and the executive for control of policy, and the domestic interests which shaped policymaking and led to the passage of two major pieces of legislation (the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 and the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996, better known as the Helms-Burton Act) which tightened the embargo on Cuba and were fiercely resisted by U.S. allies. There is also a strong focus on migration as an issue in U.S.-Cuban relations. The book then moves on to examine U.S. policy during the second Clinton administration, when the interest group environment altered for two principal reasons. Firstly the case of the small Cuban rafter boy, Elian Gonzalez, attracted huge media coverage and led to public questioning of the wisdom of current policy, and secondly the agricultural lobby, keen to export to Cuba, lobbied for the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act, which finally passed in 2000. The final section of the book analyses democracy promotion efforts under President George W. Bush. Seeking to cast light upon the US policymaking process, Gibbs demonstrates that U.S. Cuba policy represents a rather extreme example of the influence of domestic politics on policymaking, and provides a significant contribution to this important and under-researched aspect of U.S. foreign policy.

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Routledge

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113407395X

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Political Monopolies in American Cities

The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers

By: Jessica Trounstine

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Political Monopolies in American Cities

The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers

By: Jessica Trounstine

Around the same time that Richard J. Daley governed Chicago, greasing the wheels of his notorious political machine during a tenure that lasted from 1955 to his death in 1976, Anthony “Dutch” Hamann’s “reform” government centralized authority to similar effect in San Jose. In light of their equally exclusive governing arrangements—a similarity that seems to defy their reputations—Jessica Trounstine asks whether so-called bosses and reformers are more alike than we might have realized. Situating her in-depth studies of Chicago and San Jose in the broad context of data drawn from more than 240 cities over the course of a century, she finds that the answer—a resounding yes—illuminates the nature of political power. Both political machines and reform governments, she reveals, bias the system in favor of incumbents, effectively establishing monopolies that free governing coalitions from dependence on the support of their broader communities. Ironically, Trounstine goes on to show, the resulting loss of democratic responsiveness eventually mobilizes residents to vote monopolistic regimes out of office. Envisioning an alternative future for American cities, Trounstine concludes by suggesting solutions designed to free urban politics from this damaging cycle.

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0226812839

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The Wound Is Mortal

The Story of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

By: Jessica Gunderson

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The Wound Is Mortal

The Story of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

By: Jessica Gunderson

After Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender on April 9, 1865, the Civil War finally appeared to be coming to a close. But the nation's joy was about to be cut short by a sinister assassination plot and one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history. Through powerful narrative storytelling, follow the tales of people who experienced the tragedy firsthand. Perfect for Common Core studies of narrative nonfiction and exploring multiple accounts of an event.

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1491478969

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Gender Acquisition in Spanish

Effects of Language and Age

By: Jessica Diebowski

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Gender Acquisition in Spanish

Effects of Language and Age

By: Jessica Diebowski

The comparative investigation of the acquisition of gender in Spanish by early and late bilinguals of different language combinations is highly debated and crucial as the phenomenon of gender involves grammatical features that differ in all three languages under investigation. Against this background, both early and late bilinguals face an arduous learning task which differs in complexity. Couched within a generative framework, the empirical study focuses on 257 participants with different levels of proficiency in Spanish ranging from low to advanced, and through a series of tests aims to discover which extra-linguistic and intra-linguistic factors act as triggers for non-native outcomes in adult heritage speakers and L2 learners. The observed morphological variability is argued not to stem from a representational (i.e. syntactic) deficit, but rather from a mapping problem in L2 learners and heritage speakers. Successful attainment in terms of gender is possible but dependent on the interplay between various extralinguistic and linguistic factors.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110703041

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9783110703047

The Binge Watcher's Guide to Supernatural

By: Jessica Mason

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The Binge Watcher's Guide to Supernatural

By: Jessica Mason

Dad’s on a hunting trip and he hasn’t been home in a few days. These simple words hook viewers into the story of Sam and Dean Winchester and the epic rocking ride that is Supernatural, the longest-running genre show in American television history. But with 15 seasons, 327 episodes, and more angels, demons, and resurrections than you can shake a first blade at, the series can be a little bit intimidating. That’s where we come in. The Binge Watcher’s Guide to Supernatural is your complete source on all the themes, ideas, trivia and more in this legendary series. From dissecting the meta madness to swooning over shipping highs and lows, this book will give readers insight like nothing before into the complex and sometimes confusing world of Sam, Dean, Castiel, and their extended family. Think of this as John Winchester's journal, guiding you through trivia and tribulations to enrich watching this incredible show. Whether you’re a long-time super fan or a newbie, Jessica Mason’s expert insight into the show will make this road trip the best one yet. Get ready to ride along as we save people, hunt things, and raise more than a little hell.

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Riverdale Avenue Books LLC

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162601597X

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9781626015975

The Heroes of 9/11: Then and Now

By: Jessica Rusick

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The Heroes of 9/11: Then and Now

By: Jessica Rusick

This title examines heroes of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the initial and continuing effects of the event on first responders, the New York City fire and police departments, rescue workers, service dogs, and volunteers and includes the creation of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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1098213866

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