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Excuse Me for Asking

By: Janis Arnold

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In a hundred warm and funny ways Arnold reminds us that friends can give us something our families never can." —The Chicago Tribune Janis Arnold's good-humored second novel is about big dreams, sweet dreams, and nightmares. Julia Salwell seems to have it all—money, a father and brother who are crazy about her, and a rich boyfriend who's co-captain of the football team in tiny Cypress Springs, Texas. But there's something wrong, something eating at Julia, something that keeps waking her up at night, screaming in the dark. When Robin Tilton meets Julia in college, it seems they've got nothing in common. Where Julia is flashy and dramatic, Robin is quiet and insecure. Where Julia breezes through, Robin has to bear down. Where Julia's rich parents will always bail her out of trouble, Robin is a scholarship student who doesn't even know who her parents are. But when Julia and Robin are thrown together as freshman-year roommates, it's just the beginning . . . of a beautiful friendship. As we follow two friends across more than two decades and watch their dreams collide with the realities of careers, husbands, families, and aging parents, we're drawn into a warm and affirming story, a prickly testimony to the power of true friendship.

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Algonquin Books

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1565121724

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9781565121720

The American Revolution for Kids

A History with 21 Activities

By: Janis Herbert

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The American Revolution for Kids

A History with 21 Activities

By: Janis Herbert

Heroes, traitors, and great thinkers come to life in this activity book, and the concepts of freedom and democracy are celebrated in true accounts of the distinguished officers, wise delegates, rugged riflemen, and hardworking farm wives and children who created the new nation. This collection tells the story of the Revolution, from the hated Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party to the British surrender at Yorktown and the creation of the United States Constitution. All American students are required to study the Revolution and the Constitution, and these 21 activities make it fun and memorable. Kids create a fringed hunting shirt and a tricorn hat and reenact the Battle of Cowpens. They will learn how to make their voices heard in &“I Protest&” and how Congress works in &“There Ought to Be a Law.&” A final selection including the Declaration of Independence, a glossary, biographies, and pertinent Web sites makes this book a valuable resource for both students and teachers.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613740506

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9781613740507

Healing Self-Injury

A Compassionate Guide for Parents and Other Loved Ones

By: Janis Whitlock,Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson

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Healing Self-Injury

A Compassionate Guide for Parents and Other Loved Ones

By: Janis Whitlock,Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson

Subtle scars disappearing up a shirt sleeve, unexplained bruises, burn marks. As many as one out of every four young people engage in non-suicidal self-injury, defined as the deliberate destruction of body tissue without suicidal intent. Parents who uncover this alarming behavior are gripped by uncertainty and flooded with questions--why is my child doing this? Is this a suicide attempt? What did I do wrong? What can I do to stop it? And yet basic educational resources for parents with self-injuring children are sorely lacking. Healing Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury. First and foremost, adolescent psychologists Janis Whitlock and Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson believe that parents must appreciate how important their role is in their child's recovery; there is a lot that parents can do to support their self-injuring children. This book offers strategies for identifying and alleviating sources of distress in children's lives, improving family communication (particularly around emotions), and seeking professional help. Importantly, it also provides compassionate advice to parents with personal challenges of their own, explaining how these can impact the entire family. The book will help parents partner with their children to identify, build, and use skills that will assist them in recovering from self-injury. Vivid anecdotes drawn from the authors' extensive in-depth interviews with real families in recovery from self-injury put a human face on what for many families is a distressing and often isolating experience. Healing Self-Injury is a must-have for parents who want to assist in their child's recovery, as well as for anyone who lives with, works with, or cares about self-injuring youth and their families.

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Oxford University Press

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0199391629

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9780199391622

A Story of Joy

By: Janis Lipinski

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A Story of Joy

By: Janis Lipinski

Jan is a woman of faith who has a desperate longing for another child. She is married to a terrific guy who is a good husband and a great dad to their two young boys, but he is content with their family just as it is and has no desire for another child. As Jan struggles with this dilemma, she surrenders her desire to God and sees him work in mighty ways. When the desire of her heart is finally met with a precious daughter, Jan and her husband name her Joy as a tribute to God’s glory. They loved her wholeheartedly, but they were unprepared for the difficult path that lay before them. Their daughter was born with multiple medical issues. She had jaundice, ear and sinus infections that didn’t respond to antibiotics, and significant breathing difficulties all within the first month of life. As the story unfolds and more medical complications are discovered, this family struggles to meet one challenge after another. Jan’s faith is challenged again and again as she desperately tries to meet her daughter’s needs for the best medical care and fulfill her obligations as a wife and mother to her other two children. In the midst of turmoil, Jan learns how to rely on God for the strength and wisdom she needs to make difficult decisions and juggle responsibilities. Her honest account of her personal struggles to hang on to God’s promises as the world around her shifts and crumbles allows the reader to see how God can use our circumstances to stretch us, mold us, and create something beautiful out of the chaos.

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Elm Hill

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1400306698

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9781400306695

One Rainy Night

The Two Oaks Series - Book Five

By: Janis Reams Hudson

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One Rainy Night

The Two Oaks Series - Book Five

By: Janis Reams Hudson

“… intelligently crafted, warm and delicious love story.” —RT BOOK REVIEWS Moments after Zane Houston opened his door to an unexpected visitor—the beautiful Becca Cameron—shots rang out. But did she have anything to do with it? Becca found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time—again. But even after she manages to convince Zane of her innocence, she is thrust into a whirlwind of danger and violence. Soon, both Zane and Becca realize their lives aren’t the only things in danger. As the spark of attraction between them fuels a wild flame of passion, they find themselves struggling against the bonds of their hearts as well.

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Diversion Books

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162681497X

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9781626814974

Africa after Modernism

Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy

By: Michael Janis

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Africa after Modernism

Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy

By: Michael Janis

Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing on what may be called deconstructive moments in twentieth-century Africanist thought – on intellectual landmarks, revolutionary ideas, crises of consciousness, literary and philosophical debates – this study looks at African modernity and modernism from critical postcolonial perspectives. An effort to sketch contemporary frameworks of global intersubjective relations reflecting African cultures and concerns must resist taking modernism as a term of African periodization, or master-narrative, but as a constellation of discursive and subjective forms that obtains upon the present moment in African literature, philosophy, and cultural history. Africa after Modernism argues for a philosophical consciousness and pan-African multiculturalist ethos that operate, after the deconstruction of Eurocentrism, beyond self/other paradigms of exoticism or West/Africa political ideologies, in dialogue with postcolonial approaches to cultural reciprocity.

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Routledge

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113520151X

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9781135201517

Terrestrial Propagation of Long Electromagnetic Waves

International Series of Monographs in Electromagnetic Waves

By: Janis Galejs

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Terrestrial Propagation of Long Electromagnetic Waves

International Series of Monographs in Electromagnetic Waves

By: Janis Galejs

Terrestrial Propagation of Long Electromagnetic Waves deals with the propagation of long electromagnetic waves confined principally to the shell between the earth and the ionosphere, known as the terrestrial waveguide. The discussion is limited to steady-state solutions in a waveguide that is uniform in the direction of propagation. Wave propagation is characterized almost exclusively by mode theory. The mathematics are developed only for sources at the ground surface or within the waveguide, including artificial sources as well as lightning discharges. This volume is comprised of nine chapters and begins with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of wave propagation in a planar and curved isotropic waveguide. A number of examples are presented to illustrate the effects of an anisotropic ionosphere. The basic equations are summarized and plane-wave reflection from a dielectric interface is considered, along with the superposition of two obliquely incident plane waves. The properties of waveguide boundaries are implicitly represented by Fresnel reflection coefficients. Subsequent chapters focus on boundaries of the terrestrial guide; lightning discharges as a natural source of extremely-low-frequency and very-low-frequency radiation; and the mode theory for waves in an isotropic spherical shell. This book will be a useful resource for students and practitioners of physics.

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1483159566

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9781483159560

Good Housekeeping The Supermarket Diet Cookbook

By: Janis Jibrin,Susan Westmoreland

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Good Housekeeping The Supermarket Diet Cookbook

By: Janis Jibrin,Susan Westmoreland

Let Good Housekeeping hold your hand, guiding you as you prepare tasty diet-friendly meals! Remember: people who eat at home tend to be thinner than those who eat out often. Even those who don’t feel comfortable in the kitchen can easily make these recipes, which have all been triple-tested in the magazine’s acclaimed kitchens. Most of the recipes take no more than 20 minutes from stove to table—less time than picking up calorie-laden take-out. And they’re also nutritious, so they not only help you drop pounds, but also could lower the risks for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other ailments. But of course, vitamins and minerals don’t lure dieters to the table: taste does, and these dishes are absolutely delicious. Meals such as Asparagus, Red Potato, and Romano Frittata; Salmon with Tomato-Olive Relish; Steak and Pepper Tortillas, and Tortellini with Zucchini and Radicchio are as palate-pleasing as they are weight-reducing. And leave room for desserts like Apricot Soufflé and Seattle Cappuccino Angel Food Cake. Both veterans of the plan and newcomers will find this cookbook—which summarizes all the Supermarket Diet basics—invaluable!

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1588168417

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9781588168412

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment

By: Janis H. Jenkins,Thomas J. Csordas

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Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment

By: Janis H. Jenkins,Thomas J. Csordas

In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life.

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University of California Press

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0520343514

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9780520343511

French-speaking Women Documentarians

A Guide

By: Janis L. Pallister,Ruth A. Hottell

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French-speaking Women Documentarians

A Guide

By: Janis L. Pallister,Ruth A. Hottell

French-Speaking Women Documentarians is a guide for teachers of French and others interested in selecting and researching the work of female French-speaking documentarians. Represented in this book are filmmakers from Canada, various African nations, the Antilles, Lebanon, Switzerland, Belgium, and several other countries, with emphasis on Agnès Varda of France - arguably the greatest female documentarian of all. The book includes information on each filmmaker, classified by country of origin, and lists and describes her works, giving factual information such as date, duration, credits, and synopses, and pointing out critical treatments, both in English and in French, of her most important films. Shorts, docudramas, and works of animation are also discussed, as they, too, reflect history and culture. This guide will lead to the viewing of films that shed understanding on the culture being portrayed and to a greater appreciation of the contribution of French-speaking women filmmakers to this important, if not always objective, film genre.

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Peter Lang

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0820476145

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9780820476148

Not Talking Union

An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour

By: Janis Thiessen

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Not Talking Union

An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour

By: Janis Thiessen

How does one write a labour history of a people who have not been involved in the labour movement in significant numbers and, historically, have opposed union membership? While North American Mennonites have traditionally been associated with rural life, in light of the adjustments demanded by post-1945 urbanization and industrialization, they in fact became very involved in the workforce at a time of important labour foment. Drawing on over a hundred interviews, Janis Thiessen explores Mennonite responses to labour movements such as Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, as well as Mennonite involvement in conscientious objection to unions. This innovative study of the Mennonites - a people at once united by an ethnic and religious identity, yet also shaped by differences in geography, immigration histories, denomination, and class position - provides insights into how and why they have resisted involvement in organized labour. Not Talking Union adds a unique perspective to the history of labour, exploring how people negotiate tensions between their commitments to faith and conscience and the demands of their employment. Not Talking Union breaks new methodological ground in its close analysis of the oral narratives of North American Mennonites. Reflecting on both oral and archival sources, Thiessen shows why Mennonite labour history matters, and reveals the role of power and inequality in that history.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773598952

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9780773598959

Remember My Heart

By: Janis Reams Hudson

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Remember My Heart

By: Janis Reams Hudson

. . . clever, poignant and absorbing tale of undying love and madness. Settle in for hours of reading pleasure!" —RT BOOK REVIEWS Jennifer Franklin can’t escape the strange and horrifying dream that has haunted her since childhood. So when that very dream comes alive on the pages of author Brett McCormick’s latest bestseller, she’s determined to find out what it all means. The attraction between Jennifer and Brett is instant and irresistible. Then, a twist of fate lands them in New Orleans and the two lovers are thrust into a battle that transcends time, for their love, and for their lives. In this wild, time-bending, and passionate story, even as the flames of their desire can’t be smothered by death, a fierce enemy from their past is determined to prove otherwise.

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Diversion Books

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1626814805

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9781626814806

Myra Sims

By: Janis Owens

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Myra Sims

By: Janis Owens

Readers received a refreshing introduction to the Sims and Catts families in Owens' first novel, My Brother Michael, narrated by the inimitable Gabriel Catts. Here to tell her side is Myra Sims, the apex of a love triangle that includes Gabe and his brother, Michael. Myra's fresh perspective will bring new insight to a story of incest, adultery, and hard-won love among the denizens of Magnolia Hill, a Florida Panhandle mill town. We follow Myra from her violent childhood and entrancement with Gabe's snap-eyed genius, through her marriage to the older and more stable Michael, to her breakdown and renewal as she battles the demons from her childhood that haunt all three of them. In the end, you will, as both Gabe and Myra do, love Michael.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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156164711X

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The Poem in Time

Reading George Herbert's Revisions of The Church

By: Janis Lull

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The Poem in Time

Reading George Herbert's Revisions of The Church

By: Janis Lull

In tracing George Herbert's revisionary goals as they developed through the two manuscripts of the Church, this book offers a new approach to the interpretation of his poems in showing that Herbert intended to encourage his readers to connect the separate lyrics into larger structures of meaning and also to look beyond his poetry to the Bible.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874133572

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9780874133578

Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain

From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

By: Janis McLarren Caldwell

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Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain

From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

By: Janis McLarren Caldwell

Although we have come to regard 'clinical' and 'romantic' as oppositional terms, romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural world. Literary writers produced potent myths that juxtaposed the natural and the supernatural, often disturbing the conventional dualist hierarchy of spirit over flesh. Clinicians developed the two-part history and physical examination, weighing the patient's narrative against the evidence of the body. Examining fiction by Mary Shelley, Carlyle, the Brontës and George Eliot, alongside biomedical lectures, textbooks and articles, Janis McLarren Caldwell demonstrates the similar ways of reading employed by nineteenth-century doctors and imaginative writers and reveals the complexities and creative exchanges of the relationship between literature and medicine.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139456644

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9781139456647

Willa Cather

The Writer and Her World

By: Janis P. Stout

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Willa Cather

The Writer and Her World

By: Janis P. Stout

Previous biographies of Willa Cather have either recycled the traditional view of a writer detached from social issues whose work supported a wholesome view of a vanished America, or they have focused solely on revelations about her private life. Challenging these narrow interpretations, Janis P. Stout presents a Cather whose life and quietly modernist work fully reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. A product of the South--she was born in Virginia--Cather went west with her family at an early age, a participant in the aspirations of Manifest Destiny. Known for her celebrations of immigrants on the prairie, she in fact shared many of the ethnic suspicions of her contemporaries. Loved by a popular audience for her pieties of family and religion, she was in her youth a freethinker who resisted traditional patterns for women's lives, cutting her hair like a boy's and dressing in men's clothing. Seen by critics since the 1930s as a practitioner of an escapist formalism, she was, in Stout's view, profoundly ambivalent about most of the important questions she faced. Cather structured her writing to control her uncertainty and project a serenity she did not in fact feel. Cather has at times been viewed as a writer preoccupied with the past whose literary project had little to do with the intellectual currents of her time. On the contrary, Stout argues, Cather was a full participant in the doubts and conflicts of twentieth-century modernity. Only in recoil from her distress at these conflicts did she turn to overt celebrations of the past and construct a retiring, crotchety persona. The Cather that emerges from Stout's treatment is a modernist conservative in the mold of T. S. Eliot, though more responsive to her time and simultaneously less assured in her pronouncements. Cather's sexuality, too, is more complicated in Stout's version than previous biographers have allowed. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World presents a woman and an artist who fully exemplifies the ambivalence, the foreboding, and above all the complexity that we associate with the twentieth-century mind.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813933609

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9780813933603

1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana, The

By: Janis Thornton

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1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana, The

By: Janis Thornton

Author Janis Thornton reveals the stories of a day in Indiana like no other. Palm Sunday 1965 started as the nicest day of the year, the kind of weather that encouraged Hoosiers to get out in the sun, fire up the grill, hit the golf course, or roll down their car windows and take a leisurely drive. That evening, however, throughout northern and central Indiana, the sky turned an ominous black, and storms moved in, quickly manifesting as Indiana's worst tornado outbreak. Within three hours, twisters, some a half-mile wide, ripped through seventeen counties, devastating communities and leaving death and destruction in their wake. When the tornadoes were finished with Indiana, 137 people were dead, hundreds were injured, and thousands more were forever changed.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467149977

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A Practical Guide to Recovery-Oriented Practice: Tools for Transforming Mental Health Care

By: Larry Davidson,Michael Rowe,Janis Tondora,Maria J. O'Connell,Martha Staeheli Lawless

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A Practical Guide to Recovery-Oriented Practice: Tools for Transforming Mental Health Care

By: Larry Davidson,Michael Rowe,Janis Tondora,Maria J. O'Connell,Martha Staeheli Lawless

This book takes a lofty vision of "recovery" and of "a life in the community" for every adult with a serious mental illness promised by the U.S. President's 2003 New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and shows the reader what is entailed in making this vision a reality. Beginning with the historical context of the recovery movement and its recent emergence on the center stage of mental health policy around the world, the authors then clarify various definitions of mental health recovery and address the most common misconceptions of recovery held by skeptical practitioners and worried families. With this framework in place, the authors suggest fundamental principles for recovery-oriented care, a set of concrete practice guidelines developed in and for the field, a recovery guide model of practice as an alternative to clinical case management, and tools to self-assess the recovery orientation of practices and practitioners. In doing so, this volume represents the first book to go beyond the rhetoric of recovery to its implementation in everyday practice. Much of this work was developed with the State of Connecticut's Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, helping the state to win a #1 ranking in the recent NAMI report card on state mental health authorities. Since initial development of these principles, guidelines, and tools in Connecticut, the authors have become increasingly involved in refining and tailoring this approach for other systems of care around the globe as more and more governments, ministry leaders, system managers, practitioners, and people with serious mental illnesses and their families embrace the need to transform mental health services to promote recovery and community inclusion. If you've wondered what all of the recent to-do has been about with the notion of "recovery" in mental health, this book explains it. In addition, it gives you an insider's view of the challenges and strategies involved in transforming to recovery and a road map to follow on the first few steps down this exciting, promising, and perhaps long overdue path.

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Oxford University Press

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0199885400

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9780199885404

Psychological Stress

Psychoanalytic and Behavioral Studies of Surgical Patients

By: Irving L. Janis

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Psychoanalytic and Behavioral Studies of Surgical Patients

By: Irving L. Janis

Psychological Stress: Psychoanalytic and Behavioral Studies of Surgical Patients attempts to present as complete a picture as possible of the psychological aspects of surgery. The primary purpose is to highlight the theoretical implications by conveying what has been learned concerning the dynamics of human adjustment to stressful life events. It also draws attention to some of the main practical implications with respect to three important types of problems : (a) the formulation of policies of medical management which take account of the psychological needs of sick people; (b) the improvement of diagnostic procedures relevant for predicting high or low stress tolerance; and (c) the development of effective methods of psychological preparation which could be widely applied as part of a mental health program designed to reduce the disruptive emotional impact of many different types of potential disasters. The book is organized into two parts. Part I formulates a large number of propositions concerning the dynamics of stress behavior. These propositions generally deal with the causes and consequences of various types of emotional reactions and adjustment mechanisms that are frequently activated when people are exposed to severe environmental threats, dangers, or deprivations. Part II focuses on two reaction variables which appear to be of fundamental importance in adjustment to stress: (a) fear of body damage, as manifested by verbalized attitudes of apprehensiveness, overt signs of emotional tension, and overt attempts to execute protective actions; and (b) externalized anger, as manifested by verbalized attitudes of resentment toward persons in the immediate environment outbursts of rage, and overt acts of opposition or resistanceto the demands of danger-control personnel.

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Academic Press

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1483258262

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9781483258263

Design for Sustainability

A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

By: Janis Birkeland

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Design for Sustainability

A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

By: Janis Birkeland

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach to environmental and social problem-solving. This sourcebook is useful for teaching, as each topic within the field of environmental management and social change has pairs of short readings providing diverse perspectives to compare, contrast and debate. Design for Sustainability presents examples of integrated systems design based on ecological principles and concepts and drawn from the foremost designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture, and energy and resource management.

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Routledge

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1136568409

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9781136568404

Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors

A Sequel

By: Janis L. Pallister,Ruth A. Hottell

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Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors

A Sequel

By: Janis L. Pallister,Ruth A. Hottell

Noteworthy Francophone women directors : a sequel is a comprehensive guide that acts as both a teaching tool and a directory for research. The book begins by following films released after the publication of Pallister and Hottell's last volume, Francophone women film directors, in 2005, and stops after the Cannes film festival in 2010."--Book cover.

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Lexington Books

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1611474434

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Too Long a Sacrifice

The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn

By: Maud Gonne,John Quinn,Janis Londraville

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Too Long a Sacrifice

The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn

By: Maud Gonne,John Quinn,Janis Londraville

This collection of letters between Maud Gonne (Irish activist, actress, and long-time love of W. B. Yeats) and John Quinn (Irish-American lawyer, art collector, and patron) deals with art, literature, Irish politics, and the horrific conflicts of the early twentieth century. Their letters are filled with details about the Irish fight for freedom, and how it affected Yeats, Pound, Joyce, and other friends; about Gonne's never-ending battle to establish a school feeding program for the starving children of Ireland; and about the alarming changes in the political and social world of their time.

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Susquehanna University Press

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1575910241

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9781575910246

Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford

Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends

By: Richard Londraville,Janis Londraville

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Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends

By: Richard Londraville,Janis Londraville

Jeanne Foster challenged the accepted role for women at the turn of the twentieth century. Born on a hardscrabble farm in the Adirondack Mountains in 1879, she was hailed as an important voice in American poetry by 1916 when her first books of verse, Neighbors of Yesterday and Wild Apples were published. She had early success as a model—she was the Harrison Fisher girl of 1903—and later became a journalist for the American Review of Reviews. In 1918, she met John Quinn, patron of the arts, which placed her in the middle of some of the most important literary and artistic movements in the twentieth century. She counted among her friends John Butler and William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brancusi. This book reveals her dark affair with Aleister Crowley and her great friendship with Tomas Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. Today, Jeanne Foster lies buried in Chestertown, New York, next to her old friend John Butler Yeats.

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Essentials of Plastic Surgery

Q&A Companion

By: Alex P. Jones,Jeffrey E. Janis

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Essentials of Plastic Surgery

Q&A Companion

By: Alex P. Jones,Jeffrey E. Janis

Essentials of Plastic Surgery: Q&A Companion is the companion to Essentials of Plastic Surgery, Second Edition, which covers a wide variety of topics in aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery. As such, it is designed to test your knowledge of the source book, which may be helpful in the clinical setting and beyond. It presents both multiple choice questions and extended matching questions in single best answer format. The 1200 questions are carefully constructed to be practical and thorough, and are accompanied by detailed answers that help enhance understanding of both the right and wrong answers. Compact enough to fit in a lab coat pocket, its design and organization allow for quick and easy reading. The print book is accompanied by a complimentary eBook that can be accessed on smartphones and tablets. It is the go-to resource for all students of plastic surgery, whether residents in training or experienced practitioners.

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1482237059

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The Pescetarian Plan

The Vegetarian + Seafood Way to Lose Weight and Love Your Food: A Cookbook

By: Janis Jibrin,Sidra Forman

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The Pescetarian Plan

The Vegetarian + Seafood Way to Lose Weight and Love Your Food: A Cookbook

By: Janis Jibrin,Sidra Forman

With more than 100 mouthwatering recipes, switching to a vegetable- and seafood-based diet has never been easier, healthier—or more delicious! You can go vegetarian to slim down, help reduce your risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease, feel great, and probably live longer. Or you can eat fish to help protect your heart, quell appetite, stay sharp, be happier, and even have better skin. (You read that right!) Better yet, you can enjoy the best of both worlds with The Pescetarian Plan—a delicious, easy-to-follow, one-of-a-kind program for weight loss and optimal physical and mental well-being. Inspired by the traditional Mediterranean way of eating (“pesce” is the Italian word for “fish,” and “pesca” is Spanish for “fishing,” thus the alternate spelling “pescatarian”), veteran nutritionist Janis Jibrin, M.S., R.D., offers step-by-step portion- and meal-planning instructions, including a wide variety of quick and easy breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes to help you meet your weight-loss and health goals. She shares her deep knowledge of the science behind the healthiest diet on the planet, deftly explaining the amazing potential benefits of eating the pescetarian way—including whittling your waist, reducing chronic inflammation, preventing arterial plaque, and possibly warding off Alzheimer’s. She also breaks down the latest information about mercury, overfishing, and the environmental impact of your ingredient choices. With Chef Sidra Forman’s expert guidance, you’ll become confident in the kitchen—fish and other types of seafood are much easier to prepare (and much harder to mess up!) than you may think. And the mouthwatering recipes and photos—including Broiled Trout with Preserved Lemon and Thyme, Grilled Shrimp with Peach BBQ Sauce, Roasted Chick Pea Snacks, Blueberries Baked with Sweet Cream, and Chocolate Cupcakes with Mint Icing—give you options the whole family will love. On the Pescetarian Diet you will: • See inches around the waist disappear • Feel more active and productive • Fill your plate with the best, most nutritious food • Stop counting calories—it’s all in the portions • Go at your own pace: start slowly or dive right in • Really enjoy your food and its many benefits Praise for The Pescetarian Plan “The [recipes] in this book are designed to leverage both science and satisfaction.”—The Washington Post “Informative and inspiring . . . [includes] 100 approachable recipes.”—Publishers Weekly

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0345547179

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OFF THE TRACKS

By: Myron Montgomery,Janis Dasilva

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OFF THE TRACKS

By: Myron Montgomery,Janis Dasilva

An electrifying book about Myron Montgomery. He is the creator of the world renowned ‘Harlem Shake.’ Endearing secrets he learned from his mom he calls ‘Barbara Jean’s Pearls of Wisdom. Marvelous stories of his exciting optimistic journey will entertain everyone. How he landed a famous spot center stage on the iconic Soul Train TV series at 15 years old, enjoy his18 fascinating years. His captivating adventures in high-end Real estate leasing, working for the rich & famous, powerful, and royalty. Working, producing, and recording in exotic countries. Cover acts success, shopping sprees fit for a king. Magical stories in every chapter will leave you gasping for more as you embark on this great dancer’s enchanting life. In addition he captures some behind-the-scenes dirt that is also hilarious on and off the tracks of the hippest trip in America, Soul Train. A special adorable look at the shows iconic creator Don Cornelius who was like an uncle to Myron. Myron was always invited to Don’s exclusive star studded elegant celebrations. Enjoy his celebrity close friendships, and beach front exquisite adventures. Don’t miss this must read!

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Archway Publishing

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1665756195

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Crucial Decisions

Leadership in Policymaking and Crisis Management

By: Irving Lester Janis

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Crucial Decisions

Leadership in Policymaking and Crisis Management

By: Irving Lester Janis

Janis shows corporate executives, organizational policymakers, and general managers how to avoid critical errors and ensure high quality in decision making.

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Simon and Schuster

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0029161614

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A Primer of Permutation Statistical Methods

By: Kenneth J. Berry,Janis E. Johnston,Paul W. Mielke, Jr.

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A Primer of Permutation Statistical Methods

By: Kenneth J. Berry,Janis E. Johnston,Paul W. Mielke, Jr.

The primary purpose of this textbook is to introduce the reader to a wide variety of elementary permutation statistical methods. Permutation methods are optimal for small data sets and non-random samples, and are free of distributional assumptions. The book follows the conventional structure of most introductory books on statistical methods, and features chapters on central tendency and variability, one-sample tests, two-sample tests, matched-pairs tests, one-way fully-randomized analysis of variance, one-way randomized-blocks analysis of variance, simple regression and correlation, and the analysis of contingency tables. In addition, it introduces and describes a comparatively new permutation-based, chance-corrected measure of effect size. Because permutation tests and measures are distribution-free, do not assume normality, and do not rely on squared deviations among sample values, they are currently being applied in a wide variety of disciplines. This book presents permutation alternatives to existing classical statistics, and is intended as a textbook for undergraduate statistics courses or graduate courses in the natural, social, and physical sciences, while assuming only an elementary grasp of statistics.

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3030209334

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Trade Dress and Design Law

By: Graeme B. Dinwoodie,Mark D. Janis,Jason Du Mont

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Trade Dress and Design Law

By: Graeme B. Dinwoodie,Mark D. Janis,Jason Du Mont

A student-friendly text offering an integrated treatment of the different forms of intellectual property protection available for trade dress and designs. Featuring succinct yet in-depth exploration of the protection of trade dress and designs under the laws of trademark and unfair competition, design patent, copyright, and sui generis protection regimes. This book can be used as the main text in an advanced course devoted to trade dress and designs, or may be used as a supplemental text for a variety of intellectual property courses. A substantial chapter on European design laws is also included. New to the 2nd Edition: Substantially updated and rewritten chapters on design patent law reflecting major recent developments Trade dress chapters that reflect recent doctrinal refinements and the application of core Supreme Court decisions such as Wal-Mart and TraFix Revised treatment of copyright protection for designs of useful articles in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Star Athletica decision Enhanced coverage of European design protection Professors and students will benefit from: Analysis and comparison of the protection of trade dress and designs under numerous intellectual property regimes. A detailed exploration of the protection of trade dress and designs under trademark and unfair competition laws. Thorough treatment of design patent law, an area that is neglected in most student texts on intellectual property. Exploration of the application of copyright protection to pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, architectural works, and works of visual art, among others. Coverage of sui generis design protection regimes.

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Aspen Publishing

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1543846599

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The World Don't Owe Me Nothing

The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards

By: Honeyboy Edwards,Janis Herbert,Michael Robert Frank

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The World Don't Owe Me Nothing

The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards

By: Honeyboy Edwards,Janis Herbert,Michael Robert Frank

He hopped the freight trains of blues lore - the Pea Vine, the Southern, and the Yellow Dog - and played the riverboats, juke joints, and good-timing houses along the dusty roads of the Delta.

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Chicago Review Press

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1556522754

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It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent

Stories of Evolving Child and Parent Development

By: Janis Clark Johnston

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It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent

Stories of Evolving Child and Parent Development

By: Janis Clark Johnston

While advice abounds from a variety of sources before parents embark on their parenting journeys, the only parent preparation we actually receive comes from our family and peer stories. Yet most adults do not realize that in day-to-day challenges of guiding our children, something interesting happens. As we steer our children through life, we reopen our own childhood roads. Just when our child most needs us, we become needy ourselves: as adults and parents, we find that we have unresolved raising issues, basic needs that were not met in our childhoods. Our needs and memories echo and influence many of the parenting decisions we make, even though we’re unaware of those influences at times. Fortunately, children help parents reach their needs as much as their parents help them fulfill their own. Our child ends up guiding us, by connecting us to some earlier time in our life when we encountered distress. We dredge up a lesson, and we adapt by adhering to or changing the story that we tell ourselves about who we are. We re-negotiate the five basic needs that surface from our childhood memories as our youngsters pass through each of the developmental phases. The self-aware parent focuses on creative problem solving by focusing on one interaction at a time. It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent offers an exploration of how our own childhood memories and needs influence and shape our parenting decisions in our adult lives. Offering tips, stories from a variety of families, and step by step exercises, Janis Johnston helps parents better understand and grasp the tools necessary to face parenting challenges head on, and to explore new ways of understanding ourselves, our children, and our family interactions. Expectant parents and current parents interested in understanding their own personality development as well as the many moods of childhood and their own children, will find clear guidelines for understanding their roles in their children’s lives as well as concrete suggestions for how to navigate the choppy waters of raising children.

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1442221623

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Financial Institutions in Distress

Recovery, Resolution, and Recognition

By: Ronald Davis,Stephan Madaus,Monica Marcucci,Irit Mevorach,Riz Mokal,Barbara Romaine,Janis Sarra,Ignacio Tirado

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Financial Institutions in Distress

Recovery, Resolution, and Recognition

By: Ronald Davis,Stephan Madaus,Monica Marcucci,Irit Mevorach,Riz Mokal,Barbara Romaine,Janis Sarra,Ignacio Tirado

Political boundaries are often porous to finance, financial intermediation, and financial distress. Yet they are highly impervious to financial regulation. When inhabitants of a country suffering a deficit of purchasing power are able to access and deploy funds flowing in from a country with a surfeit of such power, the inhabitants of both countries may benefit. They may also benefit when institutions undertaking such cross-border financial intermediation experience economies of scale and are able to innovate and to offer funds and services at lower costs. Inevitably, however, at least some such institutions will sometimes act imprudently, some of the projects in which such funds are deployed may be unwise, and other such projects can suffer from unforeseen circumstances. As a result of such factors, a financial institution may suffer distress in one country, and may then transmit such distress to other countries in which it operates. The efficacy of any response to such cross-border transmission of distress may turn on the response being given due effect in both (or all) the territories in which the distressed financial institution operates. This situation creates a conundrum for policymakers, legislators, and regulators who wish to enable those subject to their jurisdiction to access the benefits of cross-border financial intermediation, yet cannot make rules and regulations that would have effect outside that jurisdiction. This book explores this conundrum and offers a response. It does so by drawing on and adding to the literatures on financial intermediation, regulation, and distress, and on existing hard and soft laws and regulations. The book advocates for the creation of a model law that would address the full range of financial institutions, including insurance companies, and that would enable relevant authorities to cooperate with counterparts in advance of the onset of distress and to give appropriate effect in their jurisdiction to measures taken by counterpart authorities in other jurisdictions in which the distressed institution also operates.

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Oxford University Press

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0192882538

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Through the Window, Out the Door

Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion

By: Janis P. Stout

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Through the Window, Out the Door

Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion

By: Janis P. Stout

This informative and provocative study focuses on the centrality of departure in the texts of five major American women novelists. An important moment in many novels and poems by American women writers occurs when a central character looks out a window or walks out the door of a house. These acts of departure serve to convey such values as the rejection of constraining social patterns, the search for individual fulfillment, and the entry into the political. Janis Stout examines such moments and related patterns of venture and travel in the fiction of five major American novelists of the 20th century: Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion. Stout views these five writers within a spectrum of narrative engagements with issues of home and departure—a spectrum anchored at one end by Sarah Orne Jewett and at the other by Marilynne Robinson, whose Housekeeping posits a vision of female transience. Through the Window, Out the Door ranges over an expansive territory. Moving between texts as well as between texts and contexts, Stout shows how women writers have envisioned the walls of physical and social structures (including genres) as permeable boundaries, drawing on both a rhetoric of liberation and a rhetoric of domesticity to construct narrative arguments for women's right to move freely between the two. Stout concludes with a personal essay on the dilemmas of domesticity and the ambivalence of departure.

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University Alabama Press

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0817360123

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Katherine Anne Porter

A Sense of the Times

By: Janis P. Stout

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Katherine Anne Porter

A Sense of the Times

By: Janis P. Stout

Katherine Anne Porter's life closely paralleled that of her century not only in its span (1890-1980) but in its interests and contradictions. A communist sympathizer who became a quasi fascist; a cosmopolitan who embraced southern agrarianism, a femme fatale whose writings nonetheless evince feminist feeling, Porter embodied, often at their extremes, the major currents of her time and ours. In this new biography Janis P. Stout argues that these inconsistencies can be viewed as part and parcel of modernism itself. Drawing on Porter's rich and voluminous correspondence as well as published works, Stout here sets out to craft an intellectual biography of a woman who, by her own admission, was "not really an intellectual". Stout reveals the extent of Porter's involvement in events of public significance and her interactions with prominent figures, from President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico in 1920 to Hermann Goering in Berlin in 1931, to Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Allen Tate, and others in the 1930s and 1940s, to members of the Lyndon Johnson White House in the 1960s. Against the backdrop of world war and cold war, Porter's conflicting views on politics, race, religion, and feminism reflected Porter's ambivalence toward her own Texas roots.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813915686

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Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

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Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

A novel about the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself, a USA Today choice for Best Historical Fiction of the Year. The wife of Abraham Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. She also ran her family into debt, held seances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum—which is where Janis Cooke Newman’s debut novel begins. From her room in Bellevue Place, Mary chronicles her tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family and takes readers through the years after her husband’s death, revealing the ebbs and flows of her passion and depression, her poverty and ridicule, and her ultimate redemption, in a novel that is both a fascinating look at a nineteenth-century woman’s experience and “an old-fashioned pleasure to read” (The Plain Dealer). A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

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HMH

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0544148959

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