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Foundations of Philosophy

The Basics of the Balance (Volume Iil)

By: Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut

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Foundations of Philosophy

The Basics of the Balance (Volume Iil)

By: Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut

This book is designed to provide basic philosophy and information regarding the vast number of subject matters covered. This was assembled in the understanding that the publisher and the author are not engaged in rendering legal, consultative, or other professional services. If such expert assistance is required, the services of competent and appropriate professionals should be sought. The author and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage that may be indirectly or directly caused, or alleged to be caused, by the content of this book. It is also not the purpose of this book to reprint information that is otherwise available to the author, publisher, or reader. Rather, it seeks to complement, amplify, and/or supplement other texts available. The reader is urged to review all relevant material and learn as much as possible about life, tailoring that information to their individual situation. Further, efforts have been made to make this book as accurate as possible. However, there are undoubtedly editorial, typographical, and contextual errors contained herein. Therefore, the text should be viewed and utilized as a general guide, not as an ultimate source of information related to the various topics. This book also contains information that may no longer be relevant or accurate despite our desire to think our words and thoughts about life are timeless and perfect. Finally, the primary objective of this volume has something to do with the four Es—to enlighten, edify, educate, and entertain, perhaps even in that order. Personal philosophy and worldview are something we develop and maintain as individuals who evolve throughout life. It is the ambition of the writer to amplify these Es, hoping that in doing so, it will allow the reader to experience a more meaningful, balanced, complete, and productive encounter with life.

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Beyond the Open Well

By: Jean M. Hebert

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Beyond the Open Well

By: Jean M. Hebert

With superhuman strength, he pulled himself back from the edge of the well, as clumps of dirt fell into the water far below. Eyes wide with fear, his two little sisters came and stood over him. “Maybe this is where Mama and Daddy are going to throw us when they kill us...” So begins the true story of the lives of sisters Joyce West and Jane McDaniel over the span of six decades. Their story is fascinating and compelling. Early abuses and neglects negatively influence their lives, even today. In these pages, the sisters bravely talk about a subject that is too often kept secret. Ultimately, it is their hope that by the telling of their story they may shed light on the subject of abuse and encourage other sufferers to overcome and live prosperous life. “If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of silence. It is your own heartbeat echoing deep inside your ears. It is the vibration of life that is sometimes felt in the stillness of the night. It is the unspoken assurance that you are not alone in your fear, or in your joy.”

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1452050414

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Family Likeness

Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf

By: Mary Jean Corbett

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Family Likeness

Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf

By: Mary Jean Corbett

In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between grandparents and grandchildren. But for a widower to marry his deceased wife's sister was illegal on the grounds that it constituted incest. That these laws and the mores they reflect strike us today as wrongheaded indicates how much ideas about kinship, marriage, and incest have changed. In Family Likeness, Mary Jean Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Virginia Woolf reflected the shifting boundaries of "family" and even helped refine those borders. Corbett takes up historically contingent and culturally variable notions of who is and is not a relative and whom one can and cannot marry. Her argument is informed by legal and political debates; texts in sociology and anthropology; and discussions on the biology of heredity, breeding, and eugenics. In Corbett's view, marriage within families—between cousins, in-laws, or adoptees—offered Victorian women, both real and fictional, an attractive alternative to romance with a stranger, not least because it allowed them to maintain and strengthen relations with other women within the family.

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Cornell University Press

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0801459664

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Once Again, La Fontaine

Sixty More Fables

By: Jean de La Fontaine

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Once Again, La Fontaine

Sixty More Fables

By: Jean de La Fontaine

New translations of classic French fables.

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Wesleyan University Press

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Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800–1945

A Social, Political and Intellectual History of Numbers

By: Jean-Guy Prevost,Jean-Pierre Beaud

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Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800–1945

A Social, Political and Intellectual History of Numbers

By: Jean-Guy Prevost,Jean-Pierre Beaud

Based around a number of illustrative case studies, this book charts the development of our modern-day reliance on statistics. Topics covered include scientific innovations, administrative issues and the use of numbers in politics. By looking at these aspects of statistics together, the authors are able to present a truly original work.

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Routledge

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1317321243

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The Finest Creation

By: Jean Rabe

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The Finest Creation

By: Jean Rabe

They were the Finest Creations - mystically forged creatures of perfection sent by the creators to aid the Fallen (mankind) during their mortal existence. Though they resemble ordinary horses they are highly intelligent, capable of communicating telepathically and completely moral. They are assigned to bond with individuals of great potential and then protect them from harm while guiding them along a path of virtue. This is as it has been for years unto creation ... but when a young Finest is separated from its mentor before it has been invested with its assignment, the result of an ambush by evil forces bent on corrupting men, the young equine accepts the charge of two orphans to its care not realizing that man's potential may rest in their future.... And that the path forward is already being diverted by an evil mastermind whose manipulation of court politics and affairs of state might instigate a new dark age upon the light of civilization.

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Macmillan

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076534727X

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The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

By: Jean La Fontaine

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The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

By: Jean La Fontaine

Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation is destined to set the English standard for this work. Awarded the Lewis Galantière Prize by the American Translators Association, 2008.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252091671

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Engaging in Narrative Inquiry

By: D. Jean Clandinin

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Engaging in Narrative Inquiry

By: D. Jean Clandinin

In Engaging in Narrative Inquiry, Second Edition, D. Jean Clandinin, a pioneer in narrative research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry, clarifying, extending, and refining methods. This updated edition looks at changes and developments in the field since the publication of the first edition in 2013, exploring how narrative inquiry explores human lives through a narrative lens that honors experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. The book includes several exemplary cases with the author’s critique and analysis of the work. The following are new to this edition: New exemplary cases, including Menon’s autobiographical narrative inquiry as the starting point for framing a research puzzle and justifying a study, Chung’s account of a study that begins with living alongside participants, and a paper from Swanson’s autobiographical narrative inquiry An expanded discussion of the philosophical grounding of narrative inquiry An expanded discussion of relational ethics in narrative inquiry that highlights links to a relational ontology An updated account of the field of narrative inquiry that highlights future directions, including the necessity of response groups, and questions of responsibility and community The increasing interest in narrative inquiry as research methodology across disciplines makes this book an essential guide and an excellent text for graduate courses in qualitative inquiry, education and nursing research, sociology, and all courses in autobiographical and narrative research and inquiry.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000638251

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The Fish People

Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia

By: Jean E. Jackson

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The Fish People

Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia

By: Jean E. Jackson

The Bará, or Fish people of the Northwest Amazon form part of a network of intermarrying local communities - each community speaks a different language and marriages must take place between people from different communities with different languages. Here, Jean Jackson discusses Bar· marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521278228

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Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1

Theory of Practical Ensembles

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

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Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1

Theory of Practical Ensembles

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished with a major original introduction by Fredric Jameson. In it, Sartre set out the basic categories for the renovated theory of history that he believed was necessary for post-war Marxism. Sartre's formal aim was to establish the dialectical intelligibility of history itself, as what he called 'a totalisation without a totaliser'. But, at the same time, his substantive concern was the structure of class struggle and the fate of mass movements of popular revolt, from the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century to the Russian and Chinese revolutions in the twentieth: their ascent, stabilisation, petrification and decline, in a world still overwhelmingly dominated by scarcity.

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Verso Books

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1789609631

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The Laws of Ancient Crete

C.650-400 BCE

By: Michael Gagarin,Paula Jean Perlman

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The Laws of Ancient Crete

C.650-400 BCE

By: Michael Gagarin,Paula Jean Perlman

This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE. The texts of the inscriptions, many of which are fragmentary and relatively unknown, are accompanied by an English translation and also two commentaries; one focused on epigraphical and linguistic issues, and the other, requiring no knowledge of Greek, focused on legal and historical issues. The texts are preceded by a substantial introduction, which surveys the geography, history, writing habits, social and political structure, economy, religion, and law of Crete in this period.

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Oxford University Press

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0199204829

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American and Chinese Perceptions and Belief Systems

A People’s Republic of China-Taiwanese Comparison

By: L. Fu,P.S. Lao,Jean Bryson Strohl,Lorand B. Szalay

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American and Chinese Perceptions and Belief Systems

A People’s Republic of China-Taiwanese Comparison

By: L. Fu,P.S. Lao,Jean Bryson Strohl,Lorand B. Szalay

Based on a comparative analysis of Chinese and American students,this unique study offers insights into the contemporary views and values developed in three different socio-political settings-the post-modern, industrial environment of the United States; the socialistic environment of the People's Republic of China; and the developing free market of Taiwan. Empirical data reveal previously uncharted dimensions of cultural similarities, differences, and the effects of different economic and social systems on people's perceptions of their world and major contemporary problems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475791488

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The Enclosed Garden

Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900

By: Jean E. Friedman

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The Enclosed Garden

Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900

By: Jean E. Friedman

The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement. The Enclosed Garden explains this delay by examining the subtle and complex roots of women's identity to disclose the structures that defined -- and limited -- female autonomy in the South. Jean Friedman demonstrates how the evangelical communities, a church-directed, kin-dominated society, linked plantation, farm, and town in the predominantly rural South. Family networks and the rural church were the princple influences on social relationships defining sexual, domestic, marital, and work roles. Friedman argues that the church and family, more than the institution of slavery, inhibited the formation of an antebellum feminist movement. The Civil War had little effect on the role of southern women because the family system regrouped and returned to the traditional social structure. Only with the onset of modernization in the late nineteenth century did conditions allow for the beginnings of feminist reform, and it began as an urban movement that did not challenge the family system. Friedman arrives at a new understanding of the evolution of Victorian southern women's identity by comparing the experiences of black women and white women as revealed in church records, personal letters, and slave narratives. Through a unique use of dream analysis, Friedman also shows that the dreams women described in their diaries reveal their struggle to resolve internal conflicts about their families and the church community. This original study provides a new perspective on nineteenth-century southern social structure, its consequences for women's identity and role, and the ways in which the rural evangelical kinship system resisted change.

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UNC Press Books

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1469639459

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A Mobile Century?

Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century

By: Colin G. Pooley,Jean Turnbull,Mags Adams

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A Mobile Century?

Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century

By: Colin G. Pooley,Jean Turnbull,Mags Adams

For most people in the developed world, the ability to travel freely on a daily basis is almost taken for granted. Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and associated transport problems, there are no comprehensive studies of the ways in which these trends have changed over time. This book provides a detailed empirical analysis of mobility change in Britain over the twentieth century. Beginning with an explanatory theoretical overview, setting the UK case studies within an international context, the book then analyses changes in the journey to school, the journey to work, and travelling for pleasure. It also looks at the ways in which changes in mobility have interacted with changes in the family life cycle and assesses the impact of new transport technologies on everyday mobility. It concludes by examining the implications of past mobility change for contemporary transport policy.

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Routledge

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1351962205

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Morphisms and Categories

Comparing and Transforming

By: Jean Piaget,Gil Henriques,Edgar Ascher

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Morphisms and Categories

Comparing and Transforming

By: Jean Piaget,Gil Henriques,Edgar Ascher

Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful theories in either field. From the beginning, Piaget's fundamental epistemological notion was that all knowledge is rooted in action, and for a long time, he identified action with transformation. What is known is that which remains constant under transformatory action. This book represents a fundamental reformulation of that point of view. Alongside transformatory schemes, Piaget now presents evidence that nontransformatory actions -- comparisons that create morphisms and categories among diverse situations constitute a necessary and complementary instrument of knowledge. This work aims to elucidate that insight experimentally and theoretically and to understand the developmental interaction of comparing and transforming as knowledge is constructed. This first English translation of Piaget's work includes studies of children's understanding of geometric forms, machines, and abstract concepts. It contains a clear statement of his mature position on continuity with biology as well as with the history of ideas.

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Psychology Press

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1134743262

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Jean Hornsby's Tree-Riffic!

By: Jean Hornsby

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Jean Hornsby's Tree-Riffic!

By: Jean Hornsby

Jean Hornsby''s ''Tree-Riffic!''..." is set on ''Shawnee Mountain'' in Pennsylvania in 1947. The Ned and Nora Hammermill family is made up of Jean, Susie, Johnny, Carol and baby, Janice. Jean, at 10, is the oldest and the wisest and central to our story, while the rest of the kids play equally important supporting roles, as ''Johnny'' plays pirate in his treehouse and Susie makes hot steaming biscuits with her mother and Carol looks for her kittens, while Janice steals everyone''s attention as ''the apple in everyone''s eye.'' There is ''Lucky,'' the smartest German shepherd since ''Rin-Tin-Tin.'' And, "Gunner," the retired military horse, who now pulls Ned''s plow. Together, this group of interesting characters take us down the road to a past more innocent and fun, than anything we''ve seen since "The Waltons," made television history. ....Jean loves her black stallion, "Buck," who stumbles and breaks his leg. Johnny plays his trombone to the light of the full moon. Jean sees a beautiful ghost in her mother''s rock garden, where angels also visit and offer their blessings. Ned survives the tornadoes that strike the mountain. This "novel for children," with beautiful color illustrations by John E. Ayers. is told through the eyes of "Mr. Oak" and "Miss Maple," two leaves Jean enters into a 4-H contest in hopes of "winning first prize

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1504902084

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Mapping Your Family Relationships

Understanding Your Family Dynamics

By: Stephanie Jean Clement,Cosmic Patterns

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Mapping Your Family Relationships

Understanding Your Family Dynamics

By: Stephanie Jean Clement,Cosmic Patterns

This book and CD package is an invaluable astrological tool for analyzing one's family unit objectively. Now pervious astrological knowledge--a birth date and time is all that is required.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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073870623X

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9780738706238

Rabbits Too

By: Jean Elizabeth Ward

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Rabbits Too

By: Jean Elizabeth Ward

Rabbits too is the second in a series of books for children, to be read first by the parent, as some of the poems are for the parents. Prose, and poems, vintage stories to delight. It begins with Bumper The White Rabbit by George E. Walsh. Chapter 2 is Stories About Animals by Francis C. Woodworth. Chapter 3 is Poems About Animals by Jean Elizabeth Ward with illustrations; a delightful collection for children of all ages.

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Lulu.com

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1435733290

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Starlite Mist

A New Beginning

By: Stefanie Jean Scott

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Starlite Mist

A New Beginning

By: Stefanie Jean Scott

Starlite Mist: A New Beginning is the story of Steffy and her courageous pony, Star. Meet a young girl who went to great lengths to earn a horse of her very own, only to find that the one thing she wanted more than anything else in the entire world needed her even more. Let the desire of a young girl’s heart, the desperate need of an abandoned pony, and the power of God that brought them together encourage you to have the faith of a child. Steffy kindly accepts the challenge of caring for a once-neglected pony. Together they have the courage it takes to survive the impossible, and Steffy accomplishes the most difficult tasks through hard work and the power of prayer. But she is not in this alone; she has many wonderful people working with her to help her find the way to make Star better. Ultimately, it is Steffy’s trust in God and His love that helps her transform Star’s life—and her own. Starlite Mist is a story of unconditional love and trust, in God and each other. “Ten stars for a pony named Star and for my best friend, Stefanie Jean Scott, who loved her. A remarkable, endearing true story of faith and perseverance!” —Carrie Lynn Jones, author of It All Began ... When Jesus Gave Me Sneakers

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Inspiring Voices

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1462407390

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Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins

Tales and Tips from Growing Up in the ’50s and ’60s

By: Susan Sanvidge,Diane Sanvidge Seckar,Jean Sanvidge Wouters,Julie Sanvidge Florence

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Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins

Tales and Tips from Growing Up in the ’50s and ’60s

By: Susan Sanvidge,Diane Sanvidge Seckar,Jean Sanvidge Wouters,Julie Sanvidge Florence

“In the fifties, sleek Mixmasters were replacing rusty eggbeaters, and new pressure-cookers blew their tops in kitchens all over town. There were kids everywhere, and new ‘ranch-style’ houses filled vacant lots. . . . Turquoise Studebakers and dusty-rose Chevy BelAirs with flamboyant fins and lots of chrome replaced dark pre-war cars. Cameras took color snapshots instead of black-and-white. We wore red canvas tennis shoes and lemon yellow shorts, and bright blue popsicles melted down our chins.” —from the Introduction In Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins, the four Sanvidge sisters, whose birthdates span the Baby Boomer period, present a lively chronicle of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in a small midwestern town. Each sister writes about the facets of her childhood she remembers best, and their lighthearted stories are illustrated with period photos. Sprinkled with mentions of pedal pushers, home permanents, and “two-tone” cars; early TV shows and the first rock and roll; hula hoops, Tiny Tears, and Mr. Potato Head (played with a real potato); and memories of their grandparents who lived nearby, Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins also features “how-tos” for re-creating the fads, foods, crafts, and games the Sanvidge sisters recall in their stories.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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0870205455

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The EAL Teaching Book

Promoting Success for Multilingual Learners

By: Jean Conteh

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The EAL Teaching Book

Promoting Success for Multilingual Learners

By: Jean Conteh

This book is a complete guide to understanding, learning from and teaching bilingual and EAL children in schools. It begins by asking ′who are EAL learners′ and challenges some of the misconceptions about this group. It goes on to examine language in depth, providing focused theory to help teachers and trainees better understand the wider context of children′s needs. This theory is supported by a wealth of information on practical teaching strategies and resources. It also covers planning across the curriculum for EAL, assessing EAL and bilingual learners and classroom organisation. New to this second edition is a chapter on using home languages and cultures in learning as well many new case studies from practising teachers offering insight and knowledge on teaching this particular group.

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Learning Matters

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1526472651

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9781526472656

Courting Her Highness

The Story of Queen Anne

By: Jean Plaidy

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Courting Her Highness

The Story of Queen Anne

By: Jean Plaidy

A private battle rages at court for the affections of a childless queen, who must soon name her successor—and thus determine the future of the British Empire. It is the beginning of the eighteenth century and William of Orange is dying. Soon Anne is crowned queen, but to court insiders, the name of the imminent sovereign is Sarah Churchill. Beautiful, outspoken Sarah has bewitched Anne and believes she is invincible—until she installs her poor cousin Abigail Hill into court as royal chambermaid. Plain Abigail seems the least likely challenger to Sarah’s place in her highness’s affections, but challenge it she does, in stealthy yet formidable ways. While Anne engages in her private tug-of-war, the nation is obsessed with another, more public battle: succession. Anne is sickly and childless, the last of the Stuart line. This final novel of the Stuarts from Jean Plaidy weaves larger-than-life characters through a dark maze of intrigue, love, and destruction, with nothing less than the future of the British Empire at stake.

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Crown

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0307888436

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9780307888433

Listening to Hanna Segal

Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis

By: Jean-Michel Quinodoz

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Listening to Hanna Segal

Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis

By: Jean-Michel Quinodoz

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today? Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to psychoanalysis over the past sixty years by combining actual biographical and conceptual interviews with Hanna Segal herself or with colleagues who have listened to Segal in various contexts. Listening to Hanna Segal explores both Segal's personal and professional histories, and the interaction between the two. The book opens with an autobiographical account of Segal's life, from her birth in Poland to her analysis with Melanie Klein in London where she became the youngest member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Quinodoz goes on to explain Segal's contributions in various fields of psychoanalysis including: the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients the introduction of the "symbolic equation" aesthetics and the creative impulse the analysis of elderly patients introducing the work of Melanie Klein. Quinodoz concludes by examining Segal's most recent contribution to psychoanalysis - exploring nuclear terror, psychotic anxieties, and group phenomena. Throughout the interviews Segal speaks of her close relationships with prominent colleagues such as Klein, Rosenfeld, and Bion, making this book both a valuable contribution to the history of psychoanalysis and an indication of the evolution of psychoanalytic ideas over the past six decades. This clear summary of Hanna Segal's life and her contribution to psychoanalysis will be an essential guide to anyone studying Segal and her contemporaries.

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Routledge

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113406604X

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Teilhard’s Proposition for Peace

Rediscovering the Fire

By: Jean Maalouf

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Teilhard’s Proposition for Peace

Rediscovering the Fire

By: Jean Maalouf

Teilhard de Chardin, called “the greatest prophet of this age”, intended to write a book called “The Book of Peace,” though he failed to do so. Instead, he went on sowing the seeds of peace throughout his writings. This book distills and presents the essence of the case Teilhard made for the cause of peace. There is no doubt that Teilhard’s readers have noticed how difficult his thought can be, and how puzzling it appears at times. This volume navigates the complexity of those labyrinthine roads, inviting the reader to confidently “see” the basic unity which underlies all that is. When we recognize that we live in the Divine Milieu, where we witness the transforming presence of the divine in human consciousness, we will existentially realize the truth of the principle by which Teilhard wanted us to live.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527521737

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A Spiral Life

By: Jean C. MacPhail

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A Spiral Life

By: Jean C. MacPhail

This is the real life story of a modern Western woman discovering an d deepening her spiritual life in spite of numerous personal tragedies that would defeat most of us, and, especially interesting, in spite of powerful biases against women in the Vedantic path she choose to follow.

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1462812465

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Love, Fiercely

A Gilded Age Romance

By: Jean Zimmerman

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Love, Fiercely

A Gilded Age Romance

By: Jean Zimmerman

Documents the Gilded Age love story of an heiress who fought for women's rights and an architect, tracing their upbringings, their pursuits, and their advocacy efforts on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0151014477

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9780151014477

The Bonjour Effect

The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

By: Julie Barlow,Jean-Benoit Nadeau

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The Bonjour Effect

The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

By: Julie Barlow,Jean-Benoit Nadeau

The bestselling authors of The Story of French unravel the mysteries of French conversation

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321

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Macmillan

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1250051851

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9781250051851

Victoria Victorious

The Story of Queen Victoria

By: Jean Plaidy

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Victoria Victorious

The Story of Queen Victoria

By: Jean Plaidy

In this unforgettable novel of Queen Victoria, Jean Plaidy re-creates a remarkable life filled with romance, triumph, and tragedy. At birth, Princess Victoria was fourth in line for the throne of England, the often-overlooked daughter of a prince who died shortly after her birth. She and her mother lived in genteel poverty for most of her childhood, exiled from court because of her mother’s dislike of her uncles, George IV and William IV. A strong, willful child, Victoria was determined not to be stifled by her powerful uncles or her unpopular, controlling mother. Then one morning, at the age of eighteen, Princess Victoria awoke to the news of her uncle William’s death. The almost-forgotten princess was now Queen of England. Even better, she was finally free of her mother’s iron hand and her uncles’ manipulations. Her first act as queen was to demand that she be given a room—and a bed—of her own. Victoria’s marriage to her German cousin, Prince Albert, was a blissfully happy one that produced nine children. Albert was her constant companion and one of her most trusted advisors. Victoria’s grief after Prince Albert’s untimely death was so shattering that for the rest of her life—nearly forty years—she dressed only in black. She survived several assassination attempts, and during her reign England’s empire expanded around the globe until it touched every continent in the world. Derided as a mere “girl queen” at her coronation, by the end of her sixty-four-year reign, Victoria embodied the glory of the British Empire. In this novel, written as a “memoir” by Victoria herself, she emerges as truthful, sentimental, and essentially human—both a lovable woman and a great queen.

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Crown

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0307498522

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Tokyo Ever After

A Novel

By: Emiko Jean

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Tokyo Ever After

A Novel

By: Emiko Jean

Emiko Jean’s New York Times bestseller and Reese Book Club Pick Tokyo Ever After is the “refreshing, spot-on” (Booklist, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan! Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in—it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it’s always been Izumi—or Izzy, because “It’s easier this way”—and her mom against the world. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father’s identity...and he’s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. Which means outspoken, irreverent Izzy is literally a princess. In a whirlwind, Izumi travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew and discover the country she always dreamed of. But being a princess isn’t all ball gowns and tiaras. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling but handsome bodyguard who just might be her soulmate, and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight. Izumi soon finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself—back home, she was never “American” enough, and in Japan, she must prove she’s “Japanese” enough. Will Izumi crumble under the weight of the crown, or will she live out her fairy tale, happily ever after? Look for the bestselling sequel, Tokyo Dreaming, out now.

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