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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

An American Woman's Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth

By: Jennifer Steil

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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

An American Woman's Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth

By: Jennifer Steil

I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn’t I survived fainting in a San José brothel? Hadn’t I once arrived in Ireland with only $10 in my pocket and made it last two weeks? Surely I could handle a walk through an unfamiliar town. So I took a breath, tightened the black scarf around my hair, and headed out to take my first solitary steps through Sana’a."—from The Woman Who Fell From The Sky In a world fraught with suspicion between the Middle East and the West, it's hard to believe that one of the most influential newspapers in Yemen—the desperately poor, ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, which has made has made international headlines for being a terrorist breeding ground—would be handed over to an agnostic, Campari-drinking, single woman from Manhattan who had never set foot in the Middle East. Yet this is exactly what happened to journalist, Jennifer Steil. Restless in her career and her life, Jennifer, a gregarious, liberal New Yorker, initially accepts a short-term opportunity in 2006 to teach a journalism class to the staff of The Yemen Observer in Sana'a, the beautiful, ancient, and very conservative capital of Yemen. Seduced by the eager reporters and the challenging prospect of teaching a free speech model of journalism there, she extends her stay to a year as the paper's editor-in-chief. But she is quickly confronted with the realities of Yemen—and their surprising advantages. In teaching the basics of fair and balanced journalism to a staff that included plagiarists and polemicists, she falls in love with her career again. In confronting the blatant mistreatment and strict governance of women by their male counterparts, she learns to appreciate the strength of Arab women in the workplace. And in forging surprisingly deep friendships with women and men whose traditions and beliefs are in total opposition to her own, she learns a cultural appreciation she never could have predicted. What’s more, she just so happens to meet the love of her life. With exuberance and bravery, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky offers a rare, intimate, and often surprising look at the role of the media in Muslim culture and a fascinating cultural tour of Yemen, one of the most enigmatic countries in the world.

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Crown

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0767930517

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9780767930512

Women's Voices in Digital Media

The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes

By: Jennifer O'Meara

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Women's Voices in Digital Media

The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes

By: Jennifer O'Meara

2023 Publication Award Honorable Mention, British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies An examination of the sound and silence of women in digital media. In today’s digital era, women’s voices are heard everywhere—from smart home devices to social media platforms, virtual reality, podcasts, and even memes—but these new forms of communication are often accompanied by dated gender politics. In Women’s Voices in Digital Media, Jennifer O’Meara dives into new and well-established media formats to show how contemporary screen media and cultural practices police and fetishize women’s voices, but also provide exciting new ways to amplify and empower them. As she travels through the digital world, O’Meara discovers newly acknowledged—or newly erased—female voice actors from classic films on YouTube, meets the AI and digital avatars in Her and The Congress, and hears women’s voices being disembodied in new ways via podcasts and VR voice-overs. She engages with dialogue that is spreading with only the memory of a voice, looking at how popular media like Clueless and The Simpsons have been mined for feminist memes, and encounters vocal ventriloquism on RuPaul’s Drag Race that queers and valorizes the female voice. Through these detailed case studies, O’Meara argues that the digital proliferation of screens alters the reception of sounds as much as that of images, with substantial implications for women’s voices.

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University of Texas Press

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1477324461

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9781477324462

Reclaiming Diné History

The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita

By: Jennifer Nez Denetdale

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Reclaiming Diné History

The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita

By: Jennifer Nez Denetdale

In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816–1894), and his nearly unknown wife, Juanita (1845–1910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of these ancestors, she began to explore her family history as a way of examining broader issues in Navajo historiography. Here she presents a thought-provoking examination of the construction of the history of the Navajo people (Diné, in the Navajo language) that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the Diné past. Reclaiming Diné History has two primary objectives. First, Denetdale interrogates histories that privilege Manuelito and marginalize Juanita in order to demonstrate some of the ways that writing about the Diné has been biased by non-Navajo views of assimilation and gender. Second, she reveals how Navajo narratives, including oral histories and stories kept by matrilineal clans, serve as vehicles to convey Navajo beliefs and values. By scrutinizing stories about Juanita, she both underscores the centrality of women’s roles in Navajo society and illustrates how oral tradition has been used to organize social units, connect Navajos to the land, and interpret the past. She argues that these same stories, read with an awareness of Navajo creation narratives, reveal previously unrecognized Navajo perspectives on the past. And she contends that a similarly culture-sensitive re-viewing of the Diné can lead to the production of a Navajo-centered history.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816532710

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9780816532711

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)Vol.2

Harlequin Comics

By: Jennifer Lewis,Mami Ishikawa

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Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)Vol.2

Harlequin Comics

By: Jennifer Lewis,Mami Ishikawa

Tessa is a secretary working for Sebastian, a prince who lives in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan. She realizes she’s in love with him, but they are from different social classes so she must forget about her impossible infatuation! Determined to do so, she hands in her resignation, but the prince says he wants her to do one last job for him before she leaves—travel with him to his home country, Caspia, and set up a meeting there. Tessa is interested in seeing the beautiful coastal country of Caspia, so she agrees to go as long as it’s her last job. But she never thought it would start such a commotion…!※This work is originally colored.

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Harlequin / SB Creative

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4596079080

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A New Deal for Navajo Weaving

Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles

By: Jennifer McLerran

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A New Deal for Navajo Weaving

Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles

By: Jennifer McLerran

A New Deal for Navajo Weaving provides a detailed history of early to mid-twentieth-century Diné weaving projects by non-Natives who sought to improve the quality and marketability of Navajo weaving but in so doing failed to understand the cultural significance of weaving and its role in the lives of Diné women. By the 1920s the durability and market value of Diné weavings had declined dramatically. Indian welfare advocates established projects aimed at improving the materials and techniques. Private efforts served as models for federal programs instituted by New Deal administrators. Historian Jennifer McLerran details how federal officials developed programs such as the Southwest Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory at Fort Wingate in New Mexico and the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild. Other federal efforts included the publication of Native natural dye recipes; the publication of portfolios of weaving designs to guide artisans; and the education of consumers through the exhibition of weavings, aiding them in their purchases and cultivating an upscale market. McLerran details how government officials sought to use these programs to bring the Diné into the national economy; instead, these federal tactics were ineffective because they marginalized Navajo women and ignored the important role weaving plays in the resilience and endurance of wider Diné culture.

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University of Arizona Press

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081654624X

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9780816546244

A New Deal for Native Art

Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943

By: Jennifer McLerran

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A New Deal for Native Art

Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943

By: Jennifer McLerran

As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous artists predisposed them to favor pre-industrial forms rather than art that responded to contemporary markets. In A New Deal for Native Art, Jennifer McLerran reveals how positioning the native artist as a pre-modern Other served the goals of New Deal programs—and how this sometimes worked at cross-purposes with promoting native self-sufficiency. She describes federal policies of the 1930s and early 1940s that sought to generate an upscale market for Native American arts and crafts. And by unraveling the complex ways in which commodification was negotiated and the roles that producers, consumers, and New Deal administrators played in that process, she sheds new light on native art’s commodity status and the artist’s position as colonial subject. In this first book to address the ways in which New Deal Indian policy specifically advanced commodification and colonization, McLerran reviews its multi-pronged effort to improve the market for Indian art through the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, arts and crafts cooperatives, murals, museum exhibits, and Civilian Conservation Corps projects. Presenting nationwide case studies that demonstrate transcultural dynamics of production and reception, she argues for viewing Indian art as a commodity, as part of the national economy, and as part of national political trends and reform efforts. McLerran marks the contributions of key individuals, from John Collier and Rene d’Harnoncourt to Navajo artist Gerald Nailor, whose mural in the Navajo Nation Council House conveyed distinctly different messages to outsiders and tribal members. Featuring dozens of illustrations, A New Deal for Native Art offers a new look at the complexities of folk art “revivals” as it opens a new window on the Indian New Deal.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816550379

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9780816550371

Arkansas Made, Volume 2

A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas Through 1950

By: Swannee Bennett,Jennifer Carman,William B. Worthen

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Arkansas Made, Volume 2

A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas Through 1950

By: Swannee Bennett,Jennifer Carman,William B. Worthen

Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1682261441

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9781682261446

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)

Harlequin Comics

By: Jennifer Lewis,Mami Ishikawa

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Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)

Harlequin Comics

By: Jennifer Lewis,Mami Ishikawa

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4596173273

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A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960

By: Jennifer Platt

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A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960

By: Jennifer Platt

... the book is not only a study of the history of sociological research methods in America, but it is an excellent piece of sociological research itself." Shulamit Reinhart, Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences. "This is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of what really went on in US universities at a key point in the development of sociology and an almighty sideswipe at a great deal of the discipline's subordination to theorists from within and from without the subject. Sociologists should not just order this book for the library and leave it to gather dust. Buy it, study it and reflect on the state of their subject." Frank Webster, Times Higher Education Supplement. "this study is "without doubt" an important contribution to our understanding of an area of sociology colonized in ways that can serve as much to obscure, as to enlighten, our understanding of its development ..." Tim May, History of the Human Sciences. "The bibliography of this book will in itself provide an excellent resource for sociological historians, methodologists and practitioners alike... in the ultimate analysis, the key finding of this important book lies in the evidence it provides of the continuing need for intellectual justification of changing practices, and of the significance of critical analysis for methodological advance in a discipline, which ... is shown to be cumulative in the best sense of the word." Stine Lyon, Reviewing Sociology.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521646499

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9780521646499

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)Vol.1

Harlequin Comics

By: Jennifer Lewis,Mami Ishikawa

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Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)Vol.1

Harlequin Comics

By: Jennifer Lewis,Mami Ishikawa

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4596078734

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The Energy We See

A Look at Light

By: Jennifer Boothroyd

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The Energy We See

A Look at Light

By: Jennifer Boothroyd

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Light shines through your kitchen window. A campfire brightens the dark woods. You see light all around you. But where does most light come from? And how does it travel? Read this book to find out! Learn all about matter, energy, and forces in the Exploring Physical Science series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!

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Lerner Digital ™

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1512465011

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9781512465013

Inheriting the Holy Land

An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East

By: Jennifer Miller

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Inheriting the Holy Land

An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East

By: Jennifer Miller

Writing with fierce honesty, Jennifer Miller has created an extraordinary synthesis of history, reportage, and coming-of-age memoir in Inheriting the Holy Land. Her groundbreaking perspective on the conflict is presented through interviews with young Israelis and Palestinians and conversations with some of the most influential officials involved in the Middle East, including Shimon Peres, Yasir Arafat, James Baker, Benjamin Netanyahu, Colin Powell, Ehud Barak, and Mahmoud Abbas. This book will open eyes, open hearts, and open minds. Miller grew up in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., surrounded by the chaotic politics of the Middle East. Her father was a U.S. State Department negotiator at the Oslo and Camp David peace summits, and dinnertime conversation in the Miller household often included discussions of the Middle Eastern conflict. When Miller joined Seeds of Peace, a program that brings Middle Eastern kids to Maine for intensive sessions of conflict resolution, her real experience with the Middle East began. As she befriended young Palestinians, Israelis, Egyptians, and Jordanians, Jennifer came to realize that their views were missing from the ongoing debate over the Holy Land. By helping these young voices be heard, she knew she could reveal something vitally new and deeply challenging about the future of this torn region. Miller, however, learned fast that it was one thing to hang out at the idyllic Seeds for Peace camp in Maine and quite another to confront young people on their own turf–in the alleys of East Jerusalem, behind the armed gates of West Bank settlements, in the teeming refugee camps of Gaza. Friendships that had blossomed in the United States withered in the aftermath of yet another suicide bombing. Big-hearted teens on both sides of the conflict shocked Miller with the ferocity of their illusions and the twisted logic of their misconceptions. But she also found rays of hope in places where others had reported only despair–surprising open-mindedness among the ultra-religious, common ground shared by those who had lost loved ones to the violence, a yearning for peace amid the rubble of refugee camps and the shards of bombed cities. A deft writer, she interweaves her startlingly candid interviews with the vibrant realities of life in the streets. Just as Jennifer Miller was forced to confront her biases as an American, a Jew, a woman, and a journalist, in Inheriting the Holy Land, she similarly challenges readers to reexamine their own cherished prejudices and assumptions.

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Ballantine Books

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0307415694

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9780307415691

The One-in-a-Million Baby Name Book

The BabyNames.com Guide to Choosing the Best Name for Your New Arrival

By: Jennifer Moss,Babynames.com

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The One-in-a-Million Baby Name Book

The BabyNames.com Guide to Choosing the Best Name for Your New Arrival

By: Jennifer Moss,Babynames.com

From one of the top parenting websites' a comprehensive naming guide featuring the unique Babynames.com popularity ratings. Forget those traditional lists of names and their meanings-in guiding readers step-by-step through the naming process, as well as the seven things to consider, this book will help parents decide upon a name perfectly suited to their child and family. The only baby name book to draw upon the opinions of 1.2 million parents, each listing features a popularity rating derived from website feedback as well as the top personality traits associated with the name. Readers can also browse lists of names organized in unique ways such as names for sports fans or fiction lovers, and names to be avoided.

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Penguin

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039953430X

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9780399534300

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

A Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries

By: Jennifer Mossman

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

A Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries

By: Jennifer Mossman

Comprehensive index to current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and who's whos. Includes biographies on over 3 million people from the beginning of time through the present. It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective and general works that cover both contemporary and historical figures.

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Gale Cengage

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0787612723

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9780787612726

Life and Health Insurance Marketing

By: Sharon B. Allen,Dennis W. Goodwin,Jennifer W. Herrod

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Life and Health Insurance Marketing

By: Sharon B. Allen,Dennis W. Goodwin,Jennifer W. Herrod

Covers marketing principles and the functions of marketing as an integral aspect of the life and health insurance industry.

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1579740081

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9781579740085

Construction and Agriculture

By: Gale Group,Jennifer Zielinski

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Construction and Agriculture

By: Gale Group,Jennifer Zielinski

Dun & Bradstreet and the Gale Group have teamed up to offer your library an unprecedented new line of industry references. These detailed, industry-specific sourcebooks eliminate the need to search through dozens of scattered sources to find background and directory information. Students and professionals now have a single source to access current and emerging industry trends, analyze industry overviews and forecasts and review key financial information.

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UXL

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0787637718

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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

Women's Voices in Digital Media

Women's Voices in Digital Media

Reclaiming Diné History

Reclaiming Diné History

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)Vol.2

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)Vol.2

A New Deal for Navajo Weaving

A New Deal for Navajo Weaving

A New Deal for Native Art

A New Deal for Native Art

Arkansas Made, Volume 2

Arkansas Made, Volume 2

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)

A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960

A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)Vol.1

Prince Of Midtown(Colored Version)Vol.1

The Energy We See

The Energy We See

Inheriting the Holy Land

Inheriting the Holy Land

The One-in-a-Million Baby Name Book

The One-in-a-Million Baby Name Book

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Life and Health Insurance Marketing

Life and Health Insurance Marketing

Construction and Agriculture

Construction and Agriculture

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