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Frontier Scots

By: Jenni Calder

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Today there are up to 25 million Americans who claim to have Scottish heritage. Many of these people are the descendants of Scots who journeyed to America in the 19th Century, and became true pioneers in the West. These men and women were real cowboys and homesteaders; they were sheriffs and outlaws; they mined gold and built railroads; and they were among the first to conquer the frontier, making lives for themselves in the wild west. Most importantly they became the Scots who helped to shape the United States of America. From the commended to the condemed, the Scots who braved America's frontier territories have made a lasting impact on what is now the world's most powerful country. This is an accurate and fascinating depiction of these people and their stories, giving real insight into the lives of the frontier Scots.

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Luath Press Ltd

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1913025829

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9781913025823

Lost Bodies

By: Jenni Davis

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Lost Bodies

By: Jenni Davis

Fully illustrated andpacked with information about the life, demise, disappearance, and discovery (sometimes) of each famous and infamous figure. Lost Bodies explores the controversies surrounding their deaths and the theories about what may have happened to them. Step aboard the history-myster tour."--Back cover

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195

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Chartwell Books

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0785834478

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9780785834472

Live Form

Women, Ceramics, and Community

By: Jenni Sorkin

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Women, Ceramics, and Community

By: Jenni Sorkin

Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and many others.

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University of Chicago Press

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022630311X

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9780226303116

Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life

By: Yayoi Kusama,Jenni Sorkin

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Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life

By: Yayoi Kusama,Jenni Sorkin

In a unique style that is both sensory and utopian, Yayoi Kusama’s work possesses a highly personal character, yet one that has connected profoundly with large audiences around the globe. Throughout her career she has been able to break down traditional barriers between work, artist, and spectator. Kusama’s work—which spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures—has transcended some of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century, including pop art and minimalism. Conveying extraordinary vitality and passion, her work seems to encompass an autobiographic, even confessional dimension. As stated by Roberta Smith in The New York Times, “These paintings form a great big infinity room of their own, but one in which each part is also an autonomous work of art, its own piece of wobbly, handwrought infinity. You may not want to know these paintings Ms. Kusama has made, but in the moment their vitality is infectious. It is the vitality of an artist who lives to work, whose work keeps her alive.” Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life documents the artist’s exhibition at David Zwirner’s Chelsea location in New York in late 2017, featuring a selection of paintings from her iconic My Eternal Soul series, new large-scale flower sculptures, a polka-dotted environment, and two Infinity Mirror Rooms. The monograph includes new scholarship on the artist by Jenni Sorkin, as well as a special foldout poster.

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David Zwirner Books

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1941701817

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9781941701812

Recoding the Boys' Club

The Experiences and Future of Women in Political Technology

By: Daniel Kreiss,Kirsten Adams,Jenni Ciesielski,Haley Fernandez,Kate Frauenfelder,Brinley Lowe

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Recoding the Boys' Club

The Experiences and Future of Women in Political Technology

By: Daniel Kreiss,Kirsten Adams,Jenni Ciesielski,Haley Fernandez,Kate Frauenfelder,Brinley Lowe

This book offers the first in-depth look at the employment patterns and work experiences of women working in political technology in the United States. Drawing on a unique dataset of 1004 political tech staffers and interviews with 45 women who worked on presidential campaigns between 2004-2016, this book reveals the underrepresentation of women in political technology, especially leadership positions, as well as the struggle women face to have their voices heardwithin the boys' clubs and bro cultures of the field. The book aims to help political practitioners create more gender equitable and inclusive workplaces, ones that value the ideas and skills of all those who work to get candidates elected (ed.).

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209

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Oxford University Press

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0197535941

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9780197535943

Postcolonial Theories

By: Jenni Ramone

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Postcolonial Theories

By: Jenni Ramone

Postcolonial Theories is a lively introduction to postcolonial theories, contexts and literatures which presents both the theory and practice to students in approachable and attractive ways. Jenni Ramone includes discussion of a wide range of influential theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Edward Said, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Paul Gilroy and Trinh T. Minh-ha. She also demonstrates postcolonial ideas through compelling readings of a wide range of exciting literary texts, including: - Nawal El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile - Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger - Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy - Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother. Covering a diverse array of geographical locations, and featuring a helpful timeline and annotated bibliography, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in postcolonial theories and how they have continued to adapt in the wake of globalization, digital technology and neo-colonialism.

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248

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230344070

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9780230344075

Cafe Boogie

By: Jenni Nixon

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Cafe Boogie

By: Jenni Nixon

Jenni Nixon's book is a journey of salvage through some hard lessons and difficult times, told in a way that is atmospheric and immediate, often with a wry twist. Caf Boogie is full of earned work that celebrates awareness gained whilst honouring the losses and counting the costs, including some significant deaths of family, friends and muses taken by age, AIDS or addictions. It is about people who "make up for loss with more loss," where self-acceptance is the harder road. Nixon's background in theatre and performance are obviously influential in the writing. Using bold phrasings and syntax, determined to keep it real, she records a life lived in and around Sydney's bohemian culture and lesbian and gay communities from the 1970s to the present-the drugs, gossip, politics and drama; the loves, friendships and lost time. Although mainly narrative in her style, Nixon does not shy away from political protest; she cuts to the chase and not even the Dalai Lama or her own milieu and persona escape." - Jill Jones .,."fixes its lines into place with the precision of a rivet gun..." - Overland "Nixon is a captivating performer. Her poetry of city and country life is sharp, can be poignant and is full of fun. This is exciting, different and memorable." - Blue Mountains Gazette

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240

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Interactive Publications

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1876819200

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9781876819200

Luckenbooth

By: Jenni Fagan

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Luckenbooth

By: Jenni Fagan

A bold, haunting, and startlingly unique novel about the secrets we leave behind and the places that hold them long after we are gone, a “quintessential novel of Edinburgh at its darkest.” (Irvine Welsh) There are stories tucked away on every floor of 10 Luckenbooth Close 1910, Edinburgh. Jessie MacRae has been sent to a tenement building by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancée. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents—a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building's troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors as an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard. Luckenbooth is a bold, haunting, and dazzlingly unique novel about the stories and secrets we leave behind—and the places that hold them long after we are gone.

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290

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Simon and Schuster

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164313888X

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9781643138886

An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America

Disciplining the Maternal Body

By: Loreen N. Olson,Jenni M. Simon

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An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America

Disciplining the Maternal Body

By: Loreen N. Olson,Jenni M. Simon

An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America: Disciplining the Maternal Body analyzes the discourses involved in the pro-breastfeeding, “breast is best” paradigm, highlighting how such politically charged rhetoric restrains women’s ability to make the choices that are best for them and their families. Loreen Olson and Jenni M. Simon combat the idea that is so often espoused by medical professionals, researchers, and society at large: to be a good parent, one must provide breast milk to the infant in order for the baby to grow into a healthy, productive citizen. By exposing the biases present, Olson and Simon advocate for the need to make discursive space for all parents and all feeding choices. Scholars of communication, rhetoric, gender and women’s studies, and feminism will find this book particularly useful.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149853130X

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9781498531306

Global Literature and Gender

By: Jenni Ramone

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Global Literature and Gender

By: Jenni Ramone

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories alongside theories of space and place, theories of globalization, and reference to the Posthuman and the Anthropocene as competing narratives of the contemporary. This book argues for the ongoing but very current significance of gender as an organizing category, while also revealing the fluidity and boundary defying nature of gender in twenty-first-century literature. Divided into three sections, looking at femininity, masculinity, and transgender, Jenni Ramone: Examines globalization’s uneasy relationship with theories which foreground gender and considers gender as a challenge to globalization; Analyses embodied labour, global travel, trade, and tourism; Discusses the ways in which globalization and masculinity are likewise at odds; Considers a diverse range of themes and genres, including pearl-diving, taxi driving, space travel, authorship, surrogacy, modern-day slavery, Afrofuturism, Objectophilia, Stigma, Dehumanisation, Passing, and romance tourism; Engages with a vast range of innovative contemporary works, including those by Akwaeke Emezi, Alain Mabanckou, Mieko Kawakami, Meera Syal, Helen Heath, Kei Miller, Deji Bryce Olukotun, jaye simpson, Hideki Noda, Dany Laferrière, Zadie Smith, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Teju Cole, Sherley Anne Williams, Helen Oyeyemi, and Arundhati Roy. Global Literature and Gender is an essential intervention for researchers and students of globalization, twenty-first-century literature, and gender.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040262600

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9781040262603

A History of the World in 21 Women

A Personal Selection

By: Jenni Murray

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A History of the World in 21 Women

A Personal Selection

By: Jenni Murray

From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women The history of the world is the history of great women. Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi transformed China. Frida Kahlo turned an unflinching eye on life and death. Anna Politkovskaya dared to speak truth to power, no matter the cost. Their names should be shouted from the rooftops. And that is exactly what Jenni Murray is here to do.

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Simon and Schuster

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1786074117

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9781786074119

Children’s Multilingual Literacy

Fostering Childhood Literacy in Home and Community Settings

By: Pauline Harris,Cynthia Brock,Elspeth McInnes,Bec Neill,Alexandra Diamond,Jenni Carter,Ufemia Camaitoga,Meresiana Krishna,Eleni Giannakis

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Children’s Multilingual Literacy

Fostering Childhood Literacy in Home and Community Settings

By: Pauline Harris,Cynthia Brock,Elspeth McInnes,Bec Neill,Alexandra Diamond,Jenni Carter,Ufemia Camaitoga,Meresiana Krishna,Eleni Giannakis

This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in children’s homes and communities in Fiji. This project contributed to building sustainable local capacity in communities without access to early childhood services, so as to promote preschool children’s literacy development in their home languages and English. The book includes rich descriptions of the young children’s lived, multilingual literacy practices in their home and community contexts. This work advances research-based practices for fostering young children’s multilingual literacy and building community capacity in a post-colonial Pasifika context; further, it shares valuable insights into processes and complexities that are inherent to multiliteracy and cross-cultural research.

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333

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Springer Nature

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9811565872

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9789811565878

Cafe Boogie

By: Jenni Nixon

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Cafe Boogie

By: Jenni Nixon

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Interactive Publications

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1876819200

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Jenni Vive: Unforgettable Baby! (Bilingual Edition)

A Life in Pictures—Su vida en fotos

By: The Jenni Rivera Estate

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Jenni Vive: Unforgettable Baby! (Bilingual Edition)

A Life in Pictures—Su vida en fotos

By: The Jenni Rivera Estate

This stunningly illustrated and intimate book is a moving collection of never-before-seen photos of Mexican singing sensation Jenni Rivera along with previously unpublished pages from her journal, a beautiful keepsake that honors the beloved singer's legacy. Official book authorized by the Jenni Rivera Estate. Jenni Vive: Unforgettable, Baby! is a moving collection of never-before-revealed images of the singer Jenni Rivera personally selected by her family. The book includes photos from her childhood and family life, handwritten cards and notes to her children, photos with her fans, and images of her amazing career and her commitment to the Hispanic community. Previously unpublished pages from her personal journals allow an intimate glimpse into the soul of the real Jenni and provide insight into the inherent strength and unwavering faith that kept her afloat even during her most trying times. This deluxe bilingual (English and Spanish) edition is a fitting tribute to Jenni’s legacy and an everlasting keepsake for her fans. Jenni Vive: Unforgettable, Baby! es una colección conmovedora de fotos nunca antes reveladas de la cantante Jenni Rivera personalmente seleccionadas por su familia. Incluye fotos de su niñez y vida familiar, cartas y notas escritas a mano para sus hijos e imágenes de su increíble carrera y su compromiso con la comunidad hispana. Páginas de su diario personal ofrecen una mirada íntima al alma de la verdadera Jenni y proveen un entendimiento de la fuerza innata y la fe inquebrantable que la mantuvo a flote aún en sus momentos más difíciles. Esta edición bilingüe (inglés y español) es un tributo al legado de Jenni y un recuerdo eterno para sus fans.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501101323

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9781501101328

Book's by Jenni Nixon

Frontier Scots

Frontier Scots

Lost Bodies

Lost Bodies

Live Form

Live Form

Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life

Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life

Recoding the Boys' Club

Recoding the Boys' Club

Postcolonial Theories

Postcolonial Theories

Cafe Boogie

Cafe Boogie

Luckenbooth

Luckenbooth

An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America

An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America

Global Literature and Gender

Global Literature and Gender

A History of the World in 21 Women

A History of the World in 21 Women

Children’s Multilingual Literacy

Children’s Multilingual Literacy

Cafe Boogie

Cafe Boogie

Jenni Vive: Unforgettable Baby! (Bilingual Edition)

Jenni Vive: Unforgettable Baby! (Bilingual Edition)

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