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The Scandal of Holiness

Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints

By: Jessica Hooten Wilson

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The Scandal of Holiness

Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints

By: Jessica Hooten Wilson

How do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year's resolutions, vision boards, thirty-day plans, and self-help books often fail to compel us to live differently. We settle for small goals--frugal spending, less yelling at the kids, more time at the gym--but we are called to something far greater. We are created to be holy. Award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson explains that learning to hear the call of holiness requires cultivating a new imagination--one rooted in the act of reading. Learning to read with eyes attuned to the saints who populate great works of literature moves us toward holiness, where God opens up a way of living that extends far beyond what we can conjure for ourselves. Literature has the power to show us what a holy life looks like, and these depictions often scandalize even as they shape our imagination. As such, careful reading becomes a sort of countercultural spiritual discipline. The book includes devotionals, prayers, wisdom from the saints, and more to help individuals and groups cultivate a saintly imagination. Foreword by Lauren F. Winner.

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Brazos Press

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1493435345

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9781493435340

Virtuous Necessity

Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England

By: Jessica Murphy

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Virtuous Necessity

Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England

By: Jessica Murphy

A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England

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University of Michigan Press

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0472119575

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9780472119578

An Unjaded Heart

Jaden’s Journey

By: Jessica B. Lauderdale

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An Unjaded Heart

Jaden’s Journey

By: Jessica B. Lauderdale

This book was originally started as a cookbook by Jaden while she was in the hospital awaiting a heart transplant. She had most of the recipes written out. I decided to write her life story.

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Balboa Press

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1982221968

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9781982221966

Dragon's Keep

By: Jessica Marting

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Dragon's Keep

By: Jessica Marting

Antarctica is no place for a human. Civilization is no place for a dragon. A solo dirigible trip to Antarctica should have been within Arabella Greaves’s abilities until a winter storm takes down her vessel, leaving her stranded. She’s the only human for thousands of miles in every direction… except for Dr. Xavier Kinnon. As an exiled paleontologist and the world’s only dragon shifter, Xavier keeps himself away from the rest of the world for its own safety. Antarctica is his, along with everything else in it. Including the beautiful pilot that’s fallen out of the sky. Read the whole series! Each Magic & Mechanicals book stands alone. Book 1: Wolf's Lady Book 2: Sea Change Book 3: Bound in Blood Book 4: Dragon's Keep Keywords: dragon shifter, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, gaslamp fantasy, steampunk, dragons, werewolf romance, shifters, fated mates, historical romance, victorian, shifter romance, werewolves

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Shadow Press

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198978013X

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9781989780138

Killer in the Kitchen

A Murder She Wrote Mystery : a Novel

By: Donald Bain,Jessica Fletcher

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Killer in the Kitchen

A Murder She Wrote Mystery : a Novel

By: Donald Bain,Jessica Fletcher

Jessica loves the Leg & Claw restaurant, owned by young couple Brad and Marci. The restaurant is the couple's dream come true. But when famed chef Gerard Pepe' LeBeouf decides to open a restaurant right next door, tensions ride fast and hot. When LaBeouf is found dead with a knife planted in his chest, Brad become suspect number one. But plenty of others had a motive to kill Pepe and it's up to Jessica to uncover who really added murder to the menu.

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Penguin

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0451468384

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Overshot

The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond

By: Susan Falls,Jessica R. Smith

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Overshot

The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond

By: Susan Falls,Jessica R. Smith

Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as other textiles and domestic objects, “overshot” coverlets were, and continue to be, significant examples of material culture that require tremendous skill and creativity to produce. They also express currents of conformity and dissent. In addition to being pleasing to the eye and hand, “overshot” coverlets have advanced a variety of social and political ends. At times exhibited in slave quarters along the seaboard in Georgia and South Carolina in association with plantation properties, they also appear in piedmont areas attached to the antebellum yeomanry, in the context of nationalist craft revivals, and in white-box contemporary art. With Overshot, Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith analyze what we can learn by examining the exhibition and interpretation of these materials within American public history. By showing how geometric overshot coverlets can be understood in relationship to the global economy and within politicized cultural movements, Falls and Smith demonstrate how these erstwhile domestic, utilitarian objects explode the art/craft dichotomy, belong to a rich narrative of historical art forms, and tell us far more about American culture today than simply representing a nostalgic past, particularly with regard to ideas about race, class, nationalism, women’s labor, and the separation of private versus public spaces.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820357723

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9780820357720

Legumes of the Great Plains

An Illustrated Guide

By: James Stubbendieck,Jessica L. Milby

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Legumes of the Great Plains

An Illustrated Guide

By: James Stubbendieck,Jessica L. Milby

This comprehensive guide of legumes of the Great Plains includes an in-depth description of 114 species with illustrations and distribution maps. It includes more than one hundred similar species with a description of how each differs from the main species.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496217756

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9781496217752

Abortion

Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

By: Jessica Valenti

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Abortion

Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

By: Jessica Valenti

In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, “one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation” (Washington Post) takes on what’s become the country’s most resonant political issue. In her most urgent book yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women’s freedom, cutting through the misinformation and overwhelm to inform, engage, and enrage. From the attacks Americans know about to the ones anti-abortion lawmakers and groups are trying to hide, Valenti details the tactics and horrors that she’s been painstakingly tracking in her acclaimed newsletter, Abortion, Every Day. Abortion gives voice to women’s frustration and outrage in a moment when they’re fed up with being talked over and diminished. And in an election year when abortion is dominating the national conversation, Valenti provides the language, facts, and context readers need to feel confident when talking about the attacks on their bodies and freedom. Abortion is a handbook for the overwhelming majority of Americans who support abortion rights, whether they’re seasoned activists or those just starting to learn. With the wit, expertise, and blunt moral clarity that’s made her writing popular for decades, Valenti offers an essential manifesto in an urgent moment.

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Random House

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0593800230

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9780593800232

Struggle for the Street

Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh

By: Jessica D. Klanderud

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Struggle for the Street

Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh

By: Jessica D. Klanderud

Cities are nothing without the streets—the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle for the Street, Jessica D. Klanderud documents the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh's African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. Klanderud emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighborhoods as they collectively struggled to define equality. In chapters that move from one community to the next, Klanderud tracks the transformation of tactics over time with a streets-eye view that reveals the coalescing alliances between neighbors and through space. Drawing on oral histories of neighborhood residents, Black newspapers, and papers from the NAACP and Urban League, this study reveals complex class negotiations in the struggle for civil rights at the street level.

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UNC Press Books

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1469673738

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Murder, She Wrote: Killer in the Kitchen

By: Donald Bain,Jessica Fletcher

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Murder, She Wrote: Killer in the Kitchen

By: Donald Bain,Jessica Fletcher

In the newest mystery in the USA Today bestselling series, there’s a battle brewing in Cabot Cove between two eateries. But when one of the combatants becomes a fatality, Jessica Fletcher will have to get cooking and find a killer… Jessica may not know everything about food, but she knows what she likes—and she definitely likes the Leg & Claw restaurant. Opened last summer by young couple Brad and Marcie, the Leg & Claw is their dream come true, combining Marcie’s sunny personality with Brad’s deft hand in the kitchen. But now their dream is turning into a nightmare. Gerard “Pepe” Lebeouf is a renowned New York City chef who has a summer home in Cabot Cove. And now he’s decided to open two new restaurants in Cabot Cove—in an old warehouse right next to the Leg & Claw. As Lebeouf and his crew renovate the warehouse, the people of Cabot Cove slowly come to the realization that the town’s newest celebrity may be more trouble than he’s worth. His “assistants” are little more than thugs, and the haughty Lebeouf is nowhere near as charming as he seems—leading to a nasty confrontation with Brad. So when Lebeouf is found dead with a knife planted in his chest, Brad naturally becomes suspect number one. But plenty of others had a motive to kill Pepe, and it’s up to Jessica to uncover who really added a murder to the menu.

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0698145631

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Holistic Ways of Learning at a Community School

A Critical Narrative Exploration of the Alternative School Experience

By: Jessica Poff

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Holistic Ways of Learning at a Community School

A Critical Narrative Exploration of the Alternative School Experience

By: Jessica Poff

This volume provides a critical narrative inquiry into the learning experiences of adults and children at a Community School in Canada. It tells the story of a closely connected family of people living and learning together, combining activities such as learning to read and write with unconventional learning experiences such as trick riding, rodeo competitions, and yoga and meditation practices. Through the lens of holistic education and critical pedagogy, the author draws on interviews with students and teachers at the alternative school, as well as her own autoethnographic experience, to build out a full picture of the experience and dynamics of the school. This critical and holistic schooling narrative aims to explore assumptions about alternative schooling and highlight ways in which modern mainstream schools can be challenged to be different in the post-pandemic era. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students with interests in experiential education, alternative education, narrative inquiry, critical theory, and holistic theory.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040230377

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Botanical Poetics

Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print

By: Jessica Rosenberg

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Botanical Poetics

Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print

By: Jessica Rosenberg

During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful knowledge to a growing class of literate landowners and pleasure gardeners. Both trends, Jessica Rosenberg shows, reflected a distinctive style of early modern plant-thinking, one that understood both plants and poems as composites of small pieces—slips or seeds to be recirculated by readers and planters. Botanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology, science, literary form, and the material text to explore how these developments transformed early modern conceptions of nature, poetic language, and the printed book. Drawing on little-studied titles in horticulture and popular print alongside poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and others, Rosenberg reveals how early modern print used a botanical idiom to anticipate histories of its own reading and reception, whether through replanting, uprooting, or fantasies of common property and proliferation. While our conventional narratives of English literary culture in this period see reading as an increasingly private practice, and literary production as more and more of an authorial domain, Botanical Poetics uncovers an alternate tradition: of commonplaces and common ground, of slips of herbs and poetry circulated, shared, and multiplied.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512823341

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9781512823349

Developing a Mixed Methods Proposal

A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers

By: Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby,Paul A. Schutz

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Developing a Mixed Methods Proposal

A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers

By: Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby,Paul A. Schutz

Developing a Mixed Methods Proposal by Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby and Paul A. Schutz is a practical, hands-on guide helps beginning researchers create a mixed methods research proposal for their dissertations, grants, or general research studies. The book intertwines descriptions of the components of a research proposal (introduction, literature review, research methods, etc.) with discussions of the essential elements and steps of mixed methods research. Examples from a real-world, interdisciplinary, mixed methods research study demonstrate concepts in action throughout the book, and an entire sample proposal appears at the end of the book, giving readers insight into every step up to completion. Readers who complete the exercises in each chapter will have an individualized, detailed template for their own mixed methods research proposal. Developing a Mixed Methods Proposal is Volume 5 in the SAGE Mixed Methods Research Series.

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SAGE Publications

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1483365778

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9781483365770

The Yale-China Association

A Centennial History

By: Nancy E. Chapman,Jessica C. Plumb

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The Yale-China Association

A Centennial History

By: Nancy E. Chapman,Jessica C. Plumb

The Yale-China Association's long legacy of work in China places it among the premier American organizations engaged in international service. Founded in 1901, Yale-China built on a long tradition of Yale's graduates founding churches, schools, and colleges in far-flung places. In time, the organization evolved into a bicultural educational enterprise, reflecting a spirit of intellectual tolerance and openness that adapted itself to China's changing conditions and needs. From its earliest years at the close of the Qing dynasty through wars, revolutions, and the modern era of reform, Yale-China's history was interwoven with China's own turbulent journey to find its place in the modern world. At certain points in its history, Yale-China was ahead of its time; at others, the organization was overwhelmed by social and political forces beyond its control or comprehension. Yale-China's history thus provides intriguing insights into the vagaries and complexities of America's interaction with China in the twentieth century, as well as the profound ambivalence with which many Chinese viewed the United States--its representatives, educational models, and intentions toward China--in this period.

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Chinese University Press

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9629960184

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9789629960186

The Many Panics of 1837

By: Jessica M. Lepler

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The Many Panics of 1837

By: Jessica M. Lepler

Reveals how people transformed their experiences of financial crisis into a single event that would serve as a turning point in American history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521116538

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History as Image, Image as History

Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education

By: Dipti Desai,Jessica Hamlin,Rachel Mattson

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History as Image, Image as History

Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education

By: Dipti Desai,Jessica Hamlin,Rachel Mattson

History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with theoretical background and practical suggestions for teaching U.S. history topics through close readings of both primary sources and provocative works of contemporary art. History as Art, Art as History is an experientially grounded, practically minded pedagogical investigation meant to push teachers and students to think critically without sacrificing their ability to succeed in a standards-driven educational climate. Amid the educational debate surrounding rigid, unimaginative tests, classroom scripts, and bureaucratic mandates, this innovative book insists on an alternate set of educational priorities that promotes engagement with creative and critical thinking. Features include: A thought-provoking series of framing essays and interviews with contemporary artists address the pivotal questions that arise when one attempts to think about history and contemporary visual art together. An 8-page, full color insert of contemporary art, plus over 50 black and white illustrations throughout. A Teaching Toolkit covering major themes in U.S. history provides an archive of suggested primary documents, plus discussion suggestions and activities for putting theory into practice. Teaching activities keyed to the social studies and art curricula and teaching standards Resources include annotated bibliographies for further study and lists of arts and media organizations. This sophisticated yet accessible textbook is a must-read resource for any teacher looking to draw upon visual and historical texts in their teaching and to develop innovative curriculum and meaningful student engagement.

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Routledge

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1135203792

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9781135203795

Exploring the North Carolina Colony

By: Jessica Gunderson

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Exploring the North Carolina Colony

By: Jessica Gunderson

This book explores the people, places, and history of the North Carolina Colony"--

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Capstone

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1515722333

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Making Sense of Race in Education

Practices for Change in Difficult Times

By: Jessica A. Heybach,Sheron Fraser-Burgess

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Making Sense of Race in Education

Practices for Change in Difficult Times

By: Jessica A. Heybach,Sheron Fraser-Burgess

Making Sense of Race in Education: Practices for Change in Difficult Times takes a fresh look at the perennial issue of race in American schools. How do educators, in all settings, confront the issue of race with students and colleagues, given the contemporary backdrop of social movements for racial justice and change? How do educators affect change within their everyday classroom practices without fostering further alienation and discord? Although much has already been written about race and racism in school, this book addresses racial incidents directly and offers practical insights into how P-20 educators can transform these events alongside students and colleagues. Each chapter provides detailed analysis of curriculum, instruction, practices and pedagogical strategies for addressing race while at the same time wrestling with theoretical conceptions of race, justice, and fairness. Perfect for courses such as: Social Foundations of Education | Sociology of Education | Higher Education | Multicultural Education | Cultural Studies in Education | Schools and Society

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Myers Education Press

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1975501918

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9781975501914

Arts-Based Teaching and Learning in the Literacy Classroom

Cultivating a Critical Aesthetic Practice

By: Jessica Whitelaw

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Arts-Based Teaching and Learning in the Literacy Classroom

Cultivating a Critical Aesthetic Practice

By: Jessica Whitelaw

This book highlights the unique and co-generative intersections of the arts and literacy that promote critical and socially engaged teaching and learning. Based on a year-long ethnography with two literacy teachers and their students in an arts-based public high school, this volume makes an argument for arts-based education as the cultivation of a critical aesthetic practice in the literacy classroom. Through rich example and analysis, it shows how, over time, this practice alters the in-school learning space in significant ways by making it more constructivist, more critical, and fundamentally more relational.

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Routledge

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0429797028

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Jews and the Mediterranean

By: Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin

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Jews and the Mediterranean

By: Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin

A selection of essays examining the significance of what Jewish history and Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of the other. Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume emphasize human agency and culture over the length of Mediterranean history. This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.

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Indiana University Press

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0253047994

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9780253047991

Miami's Richmond Heights

By: Patricia Harper Garrett and Jessica Garrett Modkins

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Miami's Richmond Heights

By: Patricia Harper Garrett and Jessica Garrett Modkins

Richmond Heights, a community in southwest Miami, Florida, was founded in 1949 by Capt. Frank Crawford Martin for African American World War II veterans. Captain Martin, also a veteran, thought this community would be a good business venture, but for this white man in the late 1940s it turned into a tool for social change leading all the way to the White House. Miami's Richmond Heights chronicles the beginnings of the original residents who were World War II veterans, including Tuskegee Airmen, as well as Fortune 500 presidents, doctors, university professors, and many other professionals. It explores the vision for the community, how it translated to residents, and to Pres. Harry Truman's involvement.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467111023

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9781467111027

Trail Runners Guide: San Francisco Bay Area

By: Jessica Lage

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Trail Runners Guide: San Francisco Bay Area

By: Jessica Lage

Trail Runner's Guide: San Francisco Bay Area covers the best trail runs in the region's parklands and open spaces. This informative guide provides the detailed routes with descriptions of terrain, views, and vegetation from a runner's perspective. 50 featured routes, from 2 to 22 miles, plus alternative routes from every trailhead.Includes topographic maps with easy directions on facing pages, elevation profiles, and at-a-glance trail conditions and regulations for each run, plus equipment, safety, and running tips.

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Wilderness Press

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0899976417

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Surrender

Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness

By: Jessica Restaino

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Surrender

Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness

By: Jessica Restaino

Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award, 2020 One of Library Journal's Top 20 Best-Selling Language Titles of 2019 In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of research collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Maute’s life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted genres and established practices of knowledge making. Restaino searches their experiences—recorded in interviews, informal writings, and correspondence—to discover a rhetoric of love and illness. She encourages a synthesis of methods and the acceptance of a reversal of roles—researcher and researched, writer and written-about—and emphasizes the relevancy of methodological diversity, the necessity of the personal, and the analytical richness of unpredictability and risk in being who we are in our scholarship at any given moment. Bringing together critical analysis, qualitative-style research methods, close reading, Surrender: Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics inLove and Illness resists traditional ideas about academic writing and invites others to pursue collaborations that subvert accepted approaches to representation, textual production, and subjectivity. Restaino demonstrates a way of writing—the rendering of the academic text itself—that suggests how we do our work has resonance for what we produce. She offers framing questions for use by others interested in doing similar kinds of scholarship that may frighten, overwhelm, or confound. This book deepens our understanding of subjectivity and the gains made by feminist resistance to conventional concepts of objectivity in research collaborations.

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Southern Illinois University Press

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0809337142

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9780809337149

Boots

By: Jessica Butcher,Sacha Voit

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Boots

By: Jessica Butcher,Sacha Voit

I always wanted to be a pharmacist because I thought it would give me the chance to do patient care, but in reality I spend more time counting out pills than I do talking to people. I never thought it would be this... Alone. When Willow is not providing 'excellent customer service' she talks to Liz, a customer who has a habit of leaving her husband in the utility room. They are from different backgrounds, different generations and seemingly entirely different worlds. But they find something in common: their love of trees... and their loneliness. As the roots of their past entwine, they realise that the time for silence is over. A funny, heartbreaking adventure through forests, friendship and Femfresh that reveals the loneliness of age and the power of Mother Nature. Boots is a new play about inter-generational friendship and finding your voice among the most unusual of company. Bring your advantage card. This edition was published to coincide with the 2019 run at The Bunker Theatre, London.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350125679

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9781350125674

Dust in the Blood

A Theology of Life with Depression

By: Jessica Coblentz

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Dust in the Blood

A Theology of Life with Depression

By: Jessica Coblentz

Dust in the Blood considers the harrowing realities of life with depression from a Christian theological perspective. In conversation with popular Christian theologies of depression that justify why this suffering exists and prescribe how people ought to relate to it, Coblentz offers another Christian approach to this condition: she reflects on depression as a wilderness experience. Weaving first-person narratives of depression, contemporary theologies of suffering, and ancient biblical tales of the wilderness, especially the story of Hagar, Coblentz argues for and contributes to an expansion of Christian ideas about what depression is, how God relates to it, and how Christians should understand and respond to depression in turn.

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Liturgical Press

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0814685021

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9780814685020

Graduates in Wonderland

The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

By: Jessica Pan,Rachel Kapelke-Dale

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Graduates in Wonderland

The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

By: Jessica Pan,Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Two best friends document their post-college lives in a hilarious, relatable, and powerfully honest epistolary memoir. Fast friends since they met at Brown University during their freshman year, Jessica Pan and Rachel Kapelke-Dale vowed to keep in touch after their senior year through in-depth—and brutally honest—weekly e-mails. After graduation, Jess packs up everything she owns and moves to Beijing on a whim, while Rachel heads to New York to work for an art gallery and to figure out her love life. Each spends the next few years tumbling through adulthood and reinventing themselves in various countries, including France, China, and Australia. Through their messages from around the world, they swap tales of teaching classes of military men, running a magazine, and flirting in foreign languages, along with the hard stuff: from harrowing accidents to breakups and breakdowns. Reminiscent of Sloan Crosley’s essays and Lena Dunham’s Girls, Graduates in Wonderland is an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of two young women as they embark upon adulthood.

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0698157206

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9780698157200

Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke

By: Ladie Borlase,David E. Schoonover,Jessica Renaud

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Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke

By: Ladie Borlase,David E. Schoonover,Jessica Renaud

Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke, an English manorial and culinary manuscript, has been in existence for at least 333 years. This manuscript, bearing dates from 1665 to 1822, provides a unique compendium of culinary history that opens a window to the aristocratic, social, agricultural, horticultural, economic, and medicinal aspects of English country life.

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Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe

1500 - 1700

By: Penny Richards,Jessica Munns

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Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe

1500 - 1700

By: Penny Richards,Jessica Munns

Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, how such definitions--and the activities they generated and reflected--articulated concerns inside a given culture. This means that the volume embodies an interdisciplinary approach: literature as well as history, religious studies, economics, and gender studies form the basis of this cultural history of early modern Europe. There are new approaches to understanding famous figures, such as Elizabeth I, James VI and I and his wife Anna of Denmark; Francis I; St. Teresa of Avila. Other chapters investigate topics such as militarism and court culture, and wider groups, such as urban citizens and noble families. The collection also studies ways in which gender and sexual orientation were represented in literature, as well as examinations of the theoretical issues involved in studying history from the angle of gender.

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1317875508

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Brew Britannia

The Strange Rebirth of British Beer

By: Jessica Boak,Ray Bailey

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Brew Britannia

The Strange Rebirth of British Beer

By: Jessica Boak,Ray Bailey

How punter power pulled the humble pint back from the brink, this is the surprising story of a very British consumer revolt! Following a cast of bloody-minded City bankers, hippie microbrewers, style gurus, a Python, and a lot of men in pubs, Brew Britannia tells the story of the campaign to revitalise the nation's beer which became the most successful consumer revolt in British history! Fifty years ago the future of British beer looked as bleak as the weak, sweet, bland and fizzy pints being poured, as colossal combines took over the industry, closing local breweries and putting profit before palate. Yet today the number of breweries is at a post-war high, with over a thousand in operation, membership of The Campaign for Real Ale organisation (CAMRA) exploding in recent years with over 150,000 active members and exciting new developments brewing. In a barn in Somerset, plans are afoot to ferment a beer-cider hybrid with wild yeast that blows on the wind, while in Yorkshire an almost extinct style of 'salt 'n' sour' wheat beer is being resurrected for the 21st century. Whether you drink traditional, CAMRA-approved ‘real ale’ or prefer a super-strong, fruit-infused, barrel-aged Belgian-style ‘saison', this astonishing story from the authors of popular beer blog Boak and Bailey will have you thirsty for more!

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1781312710

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Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing

Family Watch Together TV

By: Djoymi Baker,Jessica Balanzategui,Diana Sandars

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Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing

Family Watch Together TV

By: Djoymi Baker,Jessica Balanzategui,Diana Sandars

Focusing on Netflix’s child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle of dark science fiction, horror, and fantasy television under Netflix’s "Family Watch Together TV" tag. Using a ground-breaking mix of methods including audience research, interface, and textual analysis, the book demonstrates how Netflix is producing dark family telefantasy content that is both reshaping child and family-friendly TV genres and challenging earlier broadcast TV models around child-appropriate family viewing. It illuminates how Netflix encourages family audiences to "watch together" through intergenerational dynamics that work on and offscreen. The chapters in this book explore how this "Netflixication" of family television developed across landmark examples including Stranger Things, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and even Squid Game. The book outlines how Netflix is consolidating a new dark family terrain in the streaming sector, which is unsettling older concepts of family viewing, leading to considerable audience and critical confusion around target audiences and viewer expectations. This book will be of particular interest to upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and scholars in the fields of television studies, screen genre studies, childhood studies, and cultural studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000900061

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Toxicology

A Novel

By: Jessica Hagedorn

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Toxicology

A Novel

By: Jessica Hagedorn

A bold new novel about the intersection of art, love, fame, and money from the acclaimed author of Dogeaters. Jessica Hagedorn's edgy and entertaining new novel centers on the lives of two women who are neighbors in Manhattan's West Village. Mimi Smith is a filmmaker of low-budget slasher movies in search of new material. Her neighbor Eleanor Delacroix is a legendary writer of erotic fiction, now nearing eighty and addicted to cocaine and gin. Their personal and artistic lives begin to collide in unexpected ways as Eleanor grieves over the recent death of her live-in lover, the renowned painter Yvonne Wilder, and as Mimi deals with the challenges presented by her newly sober brother Carmelo; her drug-dealing boyfriend, who has mysteriously disappeared; and her wayward fourteen-year-old daughter, Violet. Looming over all these characters is the ghost of Agnes-an "illegal" and cousin of Mimi's who might have been murdered by her New Jersey employers. Toxicology is a dark yet playful exploration of money, desire, mortality, and the connection between creativity and self-destruction.

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Penguin

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1101476443

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Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes

By: Jessica Wolfe

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Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes

By: Jessica Wolfe

From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer’s epic poems – the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him – served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and the value of strife, embracing his works as a mythographic shorthand with which to describe and interpret the era’s intellectual, political, and theological struggles. Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes elegantly exposes the ways in which writers and thinkers as varied as Erasmus, Rabelais, Spenser, Milton, and Hobbes presented Homer as a great champion of conflict or its most eloquent critic. Jessica Wolfe weaves together an exceptional range of sources, including manuscript commentaries, early modern marginalia, philosophical and political treatises, and the visual arts. Wolfe’s transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of early modern Europe.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442622687

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An Interpersonal Approach to Classroom Management

Strategies for Improving Student Engagement

By: Heather A. Davis,Jessica J. Summers,Lauren M. Miller

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An Interpersonal Approach to Classroom Management

Strategies for Improving Student Engagement

By: Heather A. Davis,Jessica J. Summers,Lauren M. Miller

Like having a hidden camera in other teachers' classrooms, this book contrasts how two teachers respond differently to common situations. The authors bridge the gap between educational psychology and peer and student-teacher management from the perspectives of student engagement, classroom relationships, and teacher self regulation.

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Corwin Press

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1412986737

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Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season

By: Jessica Fletcher,Jon Land

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Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season

By: Jessica Fletcher,Jon Land

With work on the reconstruction of her beloved home almost complete, Jessica Fletcher is in high holiday spirits. The only thing dampening the holiday cheer is the discovery on Jessica's property of two sets of bones: one set ancient, the other only a few weeks old. Soon, tabloid reporter Franklin Joy arrives in Cabot Cove to write a story about what he calls 'Murder Cove, USA.' But when Franklin himself is murdered, Jessica speculates that his arrival, his death, and the discovery of the bones are all connected.

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1984804367

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Unequal Coverage

The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States

By: Heide Castañeda,Jessica M Mulligan

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Unequal Coverage

The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States

By: Heide Castañeda,Jessica M Mulligan

The Affordable Care Act’s impact on coverage, access to care, and systematic exclusion in our health care system The Affordable Care Act set off an unprecedented wave of health insurance enrollment as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system since 1965. In the years since its enactment, some 20 million uninsured Americans gained access to coverage. And yet, the law remained unpopular and politically vulnerable. While the ACA extended social protections to some groups, its implementation was troubled and the act itself created new forms of exclusion. Access to affordable coverage options were highly segmented by state of residence, income, and citizenship status. Unequal Coverage documents the everyday experiences of individuals and families across the U.S. as they attempted to access coverage and care in the five years following the passage of the ACA.It argues that while the Affordable Care Act succeeded in expanding access to care, it did so unevenly, ultimately also generating inequality and stratification. The volume investigates the outcomes of the ACA in communities throughout the country and provides up-close, intimate portraits of individuals and groups trying to access and provide health care for both the newly insured and those who remain uncovered. The contributors use the ACA as a lens to examine more broadly how social welfare policies in a multiracial and multiethnic democracy purport to be inclusive while simultaneously embracing certain kinds of exclusions. Unequal Coverage concludes with an examination of the Affordable Care Act’s uncertain legacy under the new Presidential administration and considers what the future may hold for the American health care system. The book illustrates lessons learned and reveals how the law became a flashpoint for battles over inequality, fairness, and the role of government. More books on the health care debate

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NYU Press

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1479834408

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The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition)

Living Naturally and True to You

By: Jessica Alba

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The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition)

Living Naturally and True to You

By: Jessica Alba

Enhanced Edition includes exclusive videos featuring a candid look at Jessica Alba's Honest Life. As a new mom, Jessica Alba wanted to create the safest, healthiest environment for her family. But she was frustrated by the lack of trustworthy information on how to live healthier and cleaner--delivered in a way that a busy mom could act on without going to extremes. In 2012, with serial entrepreneur Brian Lee and environmental advocate Christopher Gavigan, she launched The Honest Company, a brand where parents can find reliable information and products that are safe, stylish, and affordable. The Honest Life shares the insights and strategies she gathered along the way. The Honest Life recounts Alba's personal journey of discovery and reveals her tips for making healthy living fun, real, and stylish, while offering a candid look inside her home and daily life. She shares strategies for maintaining a clean diet (with favorite family-friendly recipes) and embraces nontoxic choices at home and provides eco-friendly decor tips to fit any budget. Alba also discusses cultivating a daily eco beauty routine, finding one's personal style without resorting to yoga pants, and engaging in fun, hands-on activities with kids. Her solutions are easy, chic, and down-to-earth: they're honest. And discovering everyday ways to live naturally and authentically--true to you--could be honestly life-changing.

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Rodale Books

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1623360226

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Textual Silence

Unreadability and the Holocaust

By: Jessica Lang

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Textual Silence

Unreadability and the Holocaust

By: Jessica Lang

There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that this barrier is not a lack of substance, but a defining characteristic of the genre. Holocaust texts, which encompass works as diverse as memoirs, novels, poems, and diaries, are traditionally characterized by silences the authors place throughout the text, both deliberately and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of “textual silence” is a force that removes the experience of genocide from the reader’s analysis and imaginative recourse. Lang defines silences as omissions that take many forms, including the use of italics and quotation marks, ellipses and blank pages in poetry, and the presence of unreliable narrators in fiction. While this limits the reader’s ability to read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are instead a critical presence that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning can diverge in the face of events as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813589940

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9780813589947

U.S. Navy True Stories

Tales of Bravery

By: Jessica Gunderson

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U.S. Navy True Stories

Tales of Bravery

By: Jessica Gunderson

Provides gripping accounts of Navy servicemen and servicewomen who showed exceptional courage during combat"--

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Capstone

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1476599378

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Science in the Age of Sensibility

The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment

By: Jessica Riskin

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Science in the Age of Sensibility

The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment

By: Jessica Riskin

Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Franklin's electrical physics, ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over Antoine Lavoisier's new chemical names to the founding of France's modern system of civic education. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conjunction with the Age of Sensibility, Riskin offers an entirely new perspective on the development of modern science and the history of the Enlightenment.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226720780

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9780226720784

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