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An American Planter

Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York

By: Martha Jane Brazy

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An American Planter

Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York

By: Martha Jane Brazy

Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787–1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan's multifaceted personal networks in both the South and the North. Duncan grew up in an elite Pennsylvania family with strong business ties in Philadelphia. There was little indication, though, that he would become a cosmopolitan entrepreneur who would own over fifteen plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana, collectively owning more than two thousand slaves. With style and substance, Martha Jane Brazy describes both the development of Duncan's businesses and the lives of the slaves on whose labor his empire was constructed. According to Brazy, Duncan was a hybrid, not fully a southerner or a northerner. He was also, Brazy shows, a paradox. Although he put down deep roots in Natchez, his sphere of influence was national in scope. Although his wealth was greatly dependent on the slaves he owned, he predicted a clash over the issue of slave ownership nearly three decades before the onset of the Civil War. Perhaps more than any other planter studied, Duncan contradicts historians' definition of the southern slaveholding aristocracy. By connecting and contrasting the networks of this elite planter and those he enslaved, Brazy provides new insights into the slaveocracy of antebellum America.

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LSU Press

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0807142751

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Contemporary Intellectual Property

Law and Policy

By: Abbe Brown,Smita Kheria,Jane Cornwell,Marta Iljadica

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Contemporary Intellectual Property

Law and Policy

By: Abbe Brown,Smita Kheria,Jane Cornwell,Marta Iljadica

A unique perspective on intellectual property law. It examines the complex policies that inform and guide modern intellectual property law at the domestic (including Scottish), European and international levels, giving the reader a true insight into the discipline and the shape of things to come.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198799802

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Gender and Justice

Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter

By: Sally Jane Kenney

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Gender and Justice

Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter

By: Sally Jane Kenney

Intended for use in courses on law and society, as well as courses in women's and gender studies, women and politics, and women and the law - this book that takes up the question of what women judges signify in several different jurisdictions in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union. In so doing, its empirical case studies uniquely offer a model of how to study gender as a social process rather than merely studying women and treating sex as a variable. A gender analysis yields a fuller understanding of emotions and social movement mobilization, backlash, policy implementation, agenda setting, and representation. Lastly, the book makes a non-essentialist case for more women judges, that is, one that does not rest on women's difference.

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Routledge

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0415881439

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Miracle on Chance Avenue

By: Jane Porter

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Miracle on Chance Avenue

By: Jane Porter

Rory Douglas rarely returns to his home town of Marietta, choosing instead to unleash his demons competing on the American Extreme Bull Riding Tour. But after a particularly bruising season, Rory visits Marietta with the idea of buying an investment property and planning for a future he never imagined or wanted. After ten years as a flight attendant, Sadie Mann has turned in her wings to focus on her shabby chic business and becoming a single mom. Adjusting to her new life is proving harder than she expected and the last thing she needs is unrequited love, Rory Douglas, home for the holidays. Everyone knows he avoids Marietta, Christmas, and settling down, so why is he back now? Rory and Sadie have never had a chance, but maybe this Christmas will bring the miracle they're looking for.

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Tule Publishing

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1947636537

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Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Policy

By: Charlotte Waelde,Graeme Laurie,Abbe Brown,Smita Kheria,Jane Cornwell

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Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Policy

By: Charlotte Waelde,Graeme Laurie,Abbe Brown,Smita Kheria,Jane Cornwell

This textbook provides an account of intellectual property law. The underlying policies influencing the direction of the law are explained and explored and contemporary issues facing the discipline are tackled head-on. The international and European dimensions are covered together with the domestic position.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199671826

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Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity, 2-Volume Set E-Book

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By: Terri M. Skirven,A. Lee Osterman,Jane Fedorczyk,Peter C. Amadio

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Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity, 2-Volume Set E-Book

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By: Terri M. Skirven,A. Lee Osterman,Jane Fedorczyk,Peter C. Amadio

With the combined expertise of leading hand surgeons and therapists, Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity, 6th Edition, by Drs. Skirven, Osterman, Fedorczyk and Amadio, helps you apply the best practices in the rehabilitation of hand, wrist, elbow, arm and shoulder problems, so you can help your patients achieve the highest level of function possible. This popular, unparalleled text has been updated with 30 new chapters that include the latest information on arthroscopy, imaging, vascular disorders, tendon transfers, fingertip injuries, mobilization techniques, traumatic brachial plexus injuries, and pain management. An expanded editorial team and an even more geographically diverse set of contributors provide you with a fresh, authoritative, and truly global perspective while new full-color images and photos provide unmatched visual guidance. Access the complete contents online at www.expertconsult.com along with streaming video of surgical and rehabilitation techniques, links to Pub Med, and more. Provide the best patient care and optimal outcomes with trusted guidance from this multidisciplinary, comprehensive resource covering the entire upper extremity, now with increased coverage of wrist and elbow problems. Apply the latest treatments, rehabilitation protocols, and expertise of leading surgeons and therapists to help your patients regain maximum movement after traumatic injuries or to improve limited functionality caused by chronic or acquired conditions. Effectively implement the newest techniques detailed in new and updated chapters on a variety of sports-specific and other acquired injuries, and chronic disorders. Keep up with the latest advances in arthroscopy, imaging, vascular disorders, tendon transfers, fingertip injuries, mobilization techniques, traumatic brachial plexus injuries, and pain management See conditions and treatments as they appear in practice thanks to detailed, full-color design, illustrations, and photographs. Access the full contents online with streaming video of surgical and rehabilitation techniques, downloadable patient handouts, links to Pub Med, and regular updates at www.expertconsult.com. Get a fresh perspective from seven new section editors, as well as an even more geographically diverse set of contributors.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323081266

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Oh, Christmas Night

By: Jane Porter

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Oh, Christmas Night

By: Jane Porter

Overworked California accountant, Rachel Mills, inherits an old bookstore in Marietta, Montana just as she's offered a huge promotion. The new job means longer hours and more stress when what she really craves is a break. The smart thing to do would be accept the promotion, buckle down, and keep on working. But for the first time in her life, she goes with impulsive and books a flight to Montana to inspect the bookstore, and hopefully have her first white Christmas ever. Texan lawyer and entrepreneur, Atticus Bowen, has found the perfect location for his next restaurant—the two-story, turn-of-the-century brick building on Marietta’s Main Street. All he has to do is convince the new owner to sell Paradise Books to him. After all, used bookstores aren’t practical or viable businesses, and he’s making Rachel Mills a very generous offer. But instead of jumping on his offer, Rachel decides she’s going to open the bookstore doors for December and ‘explore her options’. The last thing Rachel expected was to fall in love with the old bookstore, or charming Marietta, Montana. She never expected sparks to fly with handsome, arrogant Atticus Bowen, either. Smart, practical Rachel realizes she just might be falling in love with the sexy, opinionated Texan lawyer -- something that could prove to be neither smart, nor practical....or the best decision of her life.

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1951190300

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Landscapes Revealed

Geophysical Survey in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Area 2002–2011

By: Amanda Brend,Nick Card,Jane Downes,Mark Edmonds,James Moore

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Landscapes Revealed

Geophysical Survey in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Area 2002–2011

By: Amanda Brend,Nick Card,Jane Downes,Mark Edmonds,James Moore

This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a programme of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesise the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which makes the material of interest and value to a relatively wide readership, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artefact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself.

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Oxbow Books

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1789255090

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Benjamin's Library

Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque

By: Jane O. Newman

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Benjamin's Library

Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque

By: Jane O. Newman

In Benjamin’s Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin’s notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin’s day. Taking into account the literary and cultural contexts of Benjamin’s work, Newman recovers Benjamin’s relationship to the ideologically loaded readings of the literature and political theory of the seventeenth-century Baroque that abounded in Germany during the political and economic crises of the Weimar years. To date, the significance of the Baroque for Origin of the German Tragic Drama has been glossed over by students of Benjamin, most of whom have neither read it in this context nor engaged with the often incongruous debates about the period that filled both academic and popular texts in the years leading up to and following World War I. Armed with extraordinary historical, bibliographical, philological, and orthographic research, Newman shows the extent to which Benjamin participated in these debates by reconstructing the literal and figurative history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books that Benjamin analyzes and the literary, art historical and art theoretical, and political theological discussions of the Baroque with which he was familiar. In so doing, she challenges the exceptionalist, even hagiographic, approaches that have become common in Benjamin studies. The result is a deeply learned book that will infuse much-needed life into the study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Cornell University Press

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0801461367

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The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness

By: Jane Addams

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The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness

By: Jane Addams

Venturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author between June 1881, when at twenty-one she had just graduated from Rockford Female Seminary, and early 1889, when she was on the verge of founding the Hull-House settlement with Ellen Gates Starr. During these years she was developing into the social reformer and advocate of women's rights, socioeconomic justice, and world peace she would eventually become. She evolved from a high-minded but inexperienced graduate of a women's seminary into an educated woman and seasoned traveler well-exposed to elite culture and circles of philanthropy. Artfully annotated, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams offers an evocative choice of correspondence, photographs, and other primary documents, presenting a multi-layered narrative of Addams's personal and emerging professional life. Themes inaugurated in the previous volume are expanded here, including dilemmas of family relations and gender roles; the history of education; the dynamics of female friendship; religious belief and ethical development; changes in opportunities for women; and the evolution of philanthropy, social welfare, and reform ideas.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252090373

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9780252090370

Women, Philosophy and Literature

By: Jane Duran

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Women, Philosophy and Literature

By: Jane Duran

New work on women thinkers often makes the point that philosophical conceptual thought is where we find it, examples such as Simone de Beauvoir and the nineteenth century Black American writer Anna Julia Cooper assure us that there is ample room for the development of philosophy in literary works but as yet there has been no single unifying attempt to trace such projects among a variety of women novelists. This book articulates philosophical concerns in the work of five well known twentieth century women writers, including writers of color. Duran traces the development of philosophical themes - ontological, ethical and feminist - in the writings of Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Toni Cade Bambara and Elena Poniatowska presenting both a general overview of the author's work with an emphasis on traditional philosophical questions and a detailed feminist reading of the work.

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Routledge

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1134779542

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The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots

The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland

By: Jane E. A. Dawson

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The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots

The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland

By: Jane E. A. Dawson

Early modern historians have theorized about the nature of the new 'British' history for a generation. This study examines how British politics operated in practice during the age of Mary, Queen of Scots, and explains how the crises of the mid-sixteenth century moulded the future political shape of the British Isles. A central figure in these struggles was the fifth earl of Argyll, the most powerful magnate not only at the court of Queen Mary, his sister-in-law, but throughout the three kingdoms. His domination of the Western Highlands and Islands drew him into the complex politics of the north of Ireland, while his Protestant commitment involved him in Anglo-Scottish relations. His actions also helped determine the Protestant allegiance of the British mainland and the political and religious complexion of Ireland. Argyll's career therefore demonstrates both the possibilities and the limitations of British history throughout the early modern period.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521809967

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9780521809962

Jane Austen's Letters

By: Jane Austen

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Jane Austen's Letters

By: Jane Austen

The fourth edition of Jane Austen's Letters incorporates the findings of new scholarship to enrich our understanding of Austen and give us the fullest view yet of her life and family. The biographical and topographical indexes have been updated, a new subject index has been created, and the contents of the notes added to the general index.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199576076

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Displaying Death and Animating Life

Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life

By: Jane C. Desmond

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Displaying Death and Animating Life

Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life

By: Jane C. Desmond

The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have complex, deep, and dependent relationships with the animals in our ecosystems. In Displaying Death and Animating Life, Jane C. Desmond puts those human-animal relationships under a multidisciplinary lens, focusing on the less obvious, and revealing the individualities and subjectivities of the real animals in our everyday lives. Desmond, a pioneer in the field of animal studies, builds the book on a number of case studies. She conducts research on-site at major museums, taxidermy conventions, pet cemeteries, and even at a professional conference for writers of obituaries. She goes behind the scenes at zoos, wildlife clinics, and meetings of pet cemetery professionals. We journey with her as she meets Kanzi, the bonobo artist, and a host of other animal-artists—all of whom are preparing their artwork for auction. Throughout, Desmond moves from a consideration of the visual display of unindividuated animals, to mourning for known animals, and finally to the marketing of artwork by individual animals. The first book in the new Animal Lives series, Displaying Death and Animating Life is a landmark study, bridging disciplines and reaching across divisions from the humanities and social sciences to chart new territories of investigation.

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University of Chicago Press

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022637551X

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9780226375519

Nightingale Man

By: Jane Toombs

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Nightingale Man

By: Jane Toombs

Historical Fiction, WWI Thriller: 007 in World War I. That's Luke, an American pilot from Denver, recruited from the French Air Force for a secret mission into German territory. Straight-shooter Luke takes time he can't afford to discover his British comrades, including the beautiful Kezia, are even more dangerous to him that the Boche and that deviouness, not integrity, is the name of the game.

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Hard Shell Word Factory

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0759904472

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9780759904477

Small Town Christmas

Montana Christmas Collection

By: Jane Porter

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Small Town Christmas

Montana Christmas Collection

By: Jane Porter

No one does Classic Christmas Romance quite like Jane Porter Join New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jane for five sweet, heartwarming stories celebrating small town communities, family ties, the Christmas spirit, and finding love. Christmas At Copper Mountain Widowed cowboy Brock struggles to create the perfect Christmas for his pre-teen twins until temporary housekeeper Harley lends a hand. He’s grateful, annoyed, and secretly pleased she’s changing his children’s world for the better. But it’ll take more than that to let fierce, smart, passionate Hayley work her magic on him. It’ll take a miracle. Not Christmas Without You Charity is swearing off men for the month of December, so why can’t she stick to the rules around bad boy baseball star Quinn? He’s a player, not a keeper—unless he can convince her she’s the woman he’s been searching for all along? Oh Christmas Night When California-based accountant Rachel inherits a quaint bookstore in Marietta, Montana—and decides to spend December there, she’s not planning to fall in love with the place. She’s not falling for the Texas entrepreneur who wants to buy the building and open a restaurant, either. Even if a white Christmas and Atticus the long, tall Texan make life seem oh so wonderful. Montana Cowboy Miracle Wyoming rancher Cade is in Marietta this December to unravel the mysteries of the past. He’s not expecting a warm welcome from long-lost family, but that’s what he gets. He’s not ready to fall in love with his widowed landlady and hospice nurse Merri, either, but it’s beginning to feel inevitable… Away in Montana Disgraced, disowned, and unmarriageable—that’s quite a come down for former Butte Copper King heiress McKenna Frasier. Now a schoolteacher in Marietta, McKenna is determined to make her own way. She doesn’t need former flame Sinclair Douglas’s help. Not even if he smooths her way. But what if he lays down his heart?

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Tule Publishing

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1964703352

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Tort Law and Human Rights

The Impact of the ECHR on English Law

By: Jane Wright

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Tort Law and Human Rights

The Impact of the ECHR on English Law

By: Jane Wright

About the impact of the ECHR on English Law.

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Hart Publishing

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1841130354

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Selected Letters

By: Jane Austen

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Selected Letters

By: Jane Austen

One of England's most popular novelists was also a prolific correspondent. Jane Austen's intimate, gossipy letters to family and friends offer unique insights into her life and work.

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Courier Dover Publications

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048683302X

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Performance Drawing

New Practices since 1945

By: Maryclare Foá,Jane Grisewood,Birgitta Hosea,Carali McCall

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Performance Drawing

New Practices since 1945

By: Maryclare Foá,Jane Grisewood,Birgitta Hosea,Carali McCall

What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Through conversation, interviews and essays, the authors illuminate these questions, and what it might mean to perform, and what it might mean to draw, in a diverse and expressive contemporary practice since 1945. The term 'performance drawing' first appeared in the subtitle of Catherine de Zegher's Drawing Papers 20: Performance Drawings, in particular with reference to Alison Knowles and Elena del Rivero. In this book, it is used as a trope, and a thread of thinking, to describe a process dedicated to broadening the field of drawing through resourceful practices and cross-disciplinary influence. Featuring a wide range of international artists, this book presents pioneering practitioners, alongside current and emerging artists. The combination of experiences and disciplines in the expanded field has established a vibrant art movement that has been progressively burgeoning in the last few years. The Introduction contextualises the background and identifies contemporary approaches to performance drawing. As a way to embrace the different voices and various lenses in producing this book, the authors combine individual perspectives and critical methodology in the five chapters. While embedded in ephemerality and immediacy, the themes encompass body and energy, time and motion, light and space, imagined and observed, demonstrating how drawing can act as a performative tool. The dynamic interaction leads to a collective understanding of the term, performance drawing, and addresses the key developments and future directions of this applied drawing process.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135011300X

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Serial Killers of the '80s

Stories Behind a Decadent Decade of Death

By: Jane Fritsch

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Serial Killers of the '80s

Stories Behind a Decadent Decade of Death

By: Jane Fritsch

The 1980s were a time of notorious serial killers—Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, Samuel Little—but also of advances in forensics that helped lead to their capture. The serial killer became part of our common cultural consciousness in the 1970s and, in the decade that followed, the FBI confronted even more incomprehensible crimes and their perpetrators. This engrossing collection of illustrated true-crime profiles details the unthinkable exploits of a rogue’s gallery that includes—in addition to Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, and Gary Ridgway—Samuel Little and Joseph James DeAngelo, serial murderers whose criminal legacies are still making headlines today.

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Union Square & Co.

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1454941693

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A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh by Jane Austen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By: Jane Austen

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A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh by Jane Austen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By: Jane Austen

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Jane Austen’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Austen includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Austen’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

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178656629X

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Asian American Political Participation

Emerging Constituents and Their Political Identities

By: Janelle S. Wong,S. Karthick Ramakrishnan,Taeku Lee,Jane Junn,Janelle Wong

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Asian American Political Participation

Emerging Constituents and Their Political Identities

By: Janelle S. Wong,S. Karthick Ramakrishnan,Taeku Lee,Jane Junn,Janelle Wong

Asian Americans are a small percentage of the U.S. population, but their numbers are steadily rising—from less than a million in 1960 to more than 15 million today. They are also a remarkably diverse population—representing several ethnicities, religions, and languages—and they enjoy higher levels of education and income than any other U.S. racial group. Historically, socioeconomic status has been a reliable predictor of political behavior. So why has this fast-growing American population, which is doing so well economically, been so little engaged in the U.S. political system? Asian American Political Participation is the most comprehensive study to date of Asian American political behavior, including such key measures as voting, political donations, community organizing, and political protests. The book examines why some groups participate while others do not, why certain civic activities are deemed preferable to others, and why Asian socioeconomic advantage has so far not led to increased political clout. Asian American Political Participation is based on data from the authors’ groundbreaking 2008 National Asian American Survey of more than 5,000 Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, and Japanese Americans. The book shows that the motivations for and impediments to political participation are as diverse as the Asian American population. For example, native-born Asians have higher rates of political participation than their immigrant counterparts, particularly recent adult arrivals who were socialized outside of the United States. Protest activity is the exception, which tends to be higher among immigrants who maintain connections abroad and who engaged in such activity in their country of origin. Surprisingly, factors such as living in a new immigrant destination or in a city with an Asian American elected official do not seem to motivate political behavior—neither does ethnic group solidarity. Instead, hate crimes and racial victimization are the factors that most motivate Asian Americans to participate politically. Involvement in non-political activities such as civic and religious groups also bolsters political participation. Even among Asian groups, socioeconomic advantage does not necessarily translate into high levels of political participation. Chinese Americans, for example, have significantly higher levels of educational attainment than Japanese Americans, but Japanese Americans are far more likely to vote and make political contributions. And Vietnamese Americans, with the lowest levels of education and income, vote and engage in protest politics more than any other group. Lawmakers tend to favor the interests of groups who actively engage the political system, and groups who do not participate at high levels are likely to suffer political consequences in the future. Asian American Political Participation demonstrates that understanding Asian political behavior today can have significant repercussions for Asian American political influence tomorrow.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610447557

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Environmental Protection, Law and Policy

Text and Materials

By: Jane Holder,Maria Lee

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Environmental Protection, Law and Policy

Text and Materials

By: Jane Holder,Maria Lee

This 2007 book examines environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world from which environmental law is drawn and nourished. Those working within the discipline of environmental law need to engage with concepts and methods employed by disciplines other than law. The authors analyse the ways in which legal activities are supported and legitimated by work in traditional scientific or technical domains, as well as by certain more obscure but also influential cultural or philosophical assumptions. A range of regulatory techniques is explored in this book, through a close examination of both pollution control and land use. The highly complex nature of current environmental problems, demanding sophisticated and responsive legal controls, is illustrated by several in-depth case studies, including legal and policy analysis of the highly contested issues of genetically modified organisms and renewable energy projects.

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The Composer As Intellectual

Music and Ideology in France, 1914-1940

By: Jane F. Fulcher

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The Composer As Intellectual

Music and Ideology in France, 1914-1940

By: Jane F. Fulcher

In The Composer as Intellectual, musicologist Jane Fulcher reveals the extent to which leading French composers between the World Wars were not only aware of but also engaged intellectually and creatively with the central political and ideological issues of the period. Employing recent sociological and historical insights, she demonstrates the extent to which composers, particularly those in Paris since the Dreyfus Affair, considered themselves and were considered to be intellectuals, and interacted closely with intellectuals in other fields. Their consciousness raised by the First World War and the xenophobic nationalism of official culture, some joined parties or movements, allying themselves with and propagating different sets of cultural and political-social goals. Fulcher shows how these composers furthered their ideals through the specific language and means of their art, rejecting the dominant cultural exclusions or constraints of conservative postwar institutions and creatively translating their cultural values into terms of form and style. This was not only the case with Debussy in wartime, but with Ravel in the twenties, when he became a socialist and unequivocally refused to espouse a narrow, exclusionary nationalism. It was also the case with the group called "Les Six," who responded culturally in the twenties and then politically in the thirties, when most of them supported the programs of the Popular Front. Others could not be enthusiastic about the latter and, largely excluded from official culture, sought out more compatible movements or returned to the Catholic Church. Like many French Catholics, they faced the crisis of Catholicism in the thirties when the church not only supported Franco, but Mussolini's imperialistic aggression in Ethiopia. While Poulenc embraced traditional Catholicism, Messiaen turned to more progressive Catholic movements that embraced modern art and insisted that religion must cross national and racial boundaries. Fulcher demonstrates how closely music had become a field of clashing ideologies in this period. She shows also how certain French composers responded, and how their responses influenced specific aspects of their professional and stylistic development. She thus argues that, from this perspective, we can not only better understand specific aspects of the stylistic evolution of these composers, but also perceive the role that their art played in the ideological battles and in heightening cultural-political awareness of their time.

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Oxford University Press

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0195346580

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Fire Over London

A Novel of the Adams Family Saga

By: Mary Jane Staples

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Fire Over London

A Novel of the Adams Family Saga

By: Mary Jane Staples

The war is only into its second year, but already it has claimed one victim from the Adams family. Emily, Boots's cherished wife, has died in an air-raid,and the whole family mourns her. But for Polly Simms the prospect of a new life dawns, while the members of the younger generation who are in uniform, and doing their bit for King and Country, have their own problems to contend with. Tim has been posted to Scotland, to train as a Commando, and has met the lovely young officer Felicity; Eloise, now a sergeant in the ATS, is enjoying her new job as driver to the formidable Major Lucas. And has Rosie, now commissioned, lost her heart at last? The Blitz all but destroys the factory in Shoreditch, but Sammy and Tommy Adams manage to find some alternative accommodation. And love is in the air - for young and old alike - as the Adams family refuse to let Hitler get the better of them.

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Random House

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1446488233

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Diverting Authorities

Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print

By: Jane Griffiths

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Diverting Authorities

Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print

By: Jane Griffiths

Diverting Authorities examines literary experimentation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It looks at marginal annotations or 'glosses' provided by authors in a wide range of texts and argues that they provide important evidence for evolving ideas of authorship and literary authority.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199654514

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