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Shifting the Meaning of Democracy

Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil

By: Jessica Lynn Graham

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Shifting the Meaning of Democracy

Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil

By: Jessica Lynn Graham

This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century—the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of “racial democracy” as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality.

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University of California Press

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0520293754

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9780520293755

Assassins' America

Four Killers, Four Murdered Presidents, and the Country They Left Behind

By: Jessica Gunderson,Joe Tougas

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Assassins' America

Four Killers, Four Murdered Presidents, and the Country They Left Behind

By: Jessica Gunderson,Joe Tougas

Abraham Lincoln watched a play. James Garfield walked through a train station. William McKinley shook hands with his public. John Kennedy smiled and waved from a motorcade. In these moments shots rang out and four presidents suffered mortal wounds. Some say their assassins were calculating killers. Others say they were madmen guided by strange notions of the world. Assassins' America examines the lives of each killer and his victim. Their stories are full of twists and mysteries, and even today Americans live with lasting effects of these terrible crimes.

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Capstone

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1623709814

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9781623709815

Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

By: Jessica Straley

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Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

By: Jessica Straley

Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and wild children interrogated how our ancestors evolved and what children must do in order to repeat this course to humanity. Exploring fictions by Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Kingsley, and Margaret Gatty, Jessica Straley argues that Victorian children's literature not only adopted this new taxonomy of the animal child, but also suggested ways to complete the child's evolution. In the midst of debates about elementary education and the rising dominance of the sciences, children's authors plotted miniaturized evolutions for their protagonists and readers and, more pointedly, proposed that the decisive evolutionary leap for both our ancestors and ourselves is the advent of the literary imagination.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316531325

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The History of American Foreign Policy from 1895

By: Jerald A. Combs,Jessica Elkind

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The History of American Foreign Policy from 1895

By: Jerald A. Combs,Jessica Elkind

Now in its fifth edition, this volume offers a clear, concise, and nuanced history of U.S. foreign relations since the Spanish–American War and places that narrative within the context of the most influential historiographical trends and debates. The History of American Foreign Policy from 1895 includes both revised and new sections that incorporate insights from recent scholarship on the United States in the world. These sections devote more attention to the international framework as well as the domestic constraints under which American foreign policymakers operated. This edition also emphasizes the role of non-state actors such as missionaries, aid workers, activists, and business leaders in shaping policies and contributing to international relations. As a result, the text considers a broader and more diverse range of people and voices than many other histories of U.S. foreign policy. Expanded final chapters bring the story of U.S. foreign relations to the present and explore some of the contemporary challenges facing American and global leaders, including terrorism, the effects of climate change, China’s increasing influence, and globalization. Updated controversial issues sections and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter reflect important contributions from new studies. This engaging text is an invaluable resource for students interested in the history of American foreign policy and international relations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003862438

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9781003862437

A Hasty Betrothal

By: Jessica Nelson

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A Hasty Betrothal

By: Jessica Nelson

A Practical Proposal Though Lady Elizabeth Wayland would rather spend her days with her beloved books than an uncaring spouse, scandal forces her to find a match posthaste. To escape the scoundrel who almost ruined her, Elizabeth accepts an unconventional proposal from a childhood friend. But when she finds herself falling for her husband-to-be, will she be able to convince him to return her love? Widowed cotton mill owner Miles Hawthorne vowed to never marry again—until Elizabeth's reputation is on the line. Their betrothal begins as a simple favor. As he spends more time with his fiancée, though, Miles finds that there's more to her than he ever saw before. And Elizabeth just might be the only woman who can slip into his heart.

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Harlequin

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1488007993

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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

The Hijra , c.1850–1900

By: Jessica Hinchy

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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

The Hijra , c.1850–1900

By: Jessica Hinchy

Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.

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Cambridge University Press

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110849255X

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America's Largest Classroom

What We Learn from Our National Parks

By: Jessica L. Thompson

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America's Largest Classroom

What We Learn from Our National Parks

By: Jessica L. Thompson

Over the past 100 years, visitor learning at America’s national parks has grown and evolved. Today, there are over 400 National Park Service (NPS) sites, representing over eighty million acres. Sites exist in every US state and territory and are located on land, at sea, in remote areas, and in major urban centers. Every year, more than 300 million people visit national parks, and several million of them are children engaged in one of many educational programs hosted by the NPS. America’s Largest Classrooms offers insight and practical advice for improving educational outreach at national parks as well as suggestions for classroom educators on how to meaningfully incorporate parks into their curricula. Via a wide collection of case studies—ranging from addressing inclusivity at parks and public lands to teaching about science and social issues—this book illustrates innovations and solutions that will be of interest to nature interpreters, outdoor educators, and policy makers, as well as professors in the sciences writ large.

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Univ of California Press

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0520974557

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9780520974555

Engineering Nature

Water, Development, & the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise

By: Jessica B. Teisch

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Engineering Nature

Water, Development, & the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise

By: Jessica B. Teisch

Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807834432

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American Journalism and "Fake News"

Examining the Facts

By: Seth Ashley,Jessica Roberts,Adam Maksl

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American Journalism and "Fake News"

Examining the Facts

By: Seth Ashley,Jessica Roberts,Adam Maksl

This book provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the state of American journalism and news-gathering in the 21st century, with a special focus on the rise-and meaning-of "fake news." A part of ABC-CLIO's Examining the Facts series, which uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics, this volume examines beliefs, claims, and myths about American journalism and news media. It offers a comprehensive overview of the field of American journalism, including contemporary issues and historical foundations, and places modern problems such as "fake news" and misinformation in the context of larger technological and economic forces. The book illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of journalistic practices so readers can feel empowered to navigate the complex information environment in which we live and to understand the level to which various news sources can (or can't) be trusted to provide accurate and timely coverage of issues and events of import to the public and the nation. These skills and knowledge structures are necessary for any citizen who wishes to be an informed participant in a self-governing democratic society.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440861846

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Social Psychology

By: John D. DeLamater,Daniel J. Myers,Jessica L. Collett

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Social Psychology

By: John D. DeLamater,Daniel J. Myers,Jessica L. Collett

Written by well-known sociologists John D. DeLamater, Daniel J. Myers, and Jessica L. Collett, this fully revised and updated edition of Social Psychology is a highly accessible and engaging exploration of the question "what is it that makes us who we are?". With hundreds of real-world examples, figures, and photographs and grounded in the latest research, the text explores such topics as self, attitudes, social influence, emotions, interpersonal attraction and relationships, and collective behavior. The book also explains the methods that social psychologists use to investigate human behavior in a social context and the theoretical perspectives that ground the discipline. Each chapter is a self-contained unit for ease of use in any classroom.

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Routledge

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0429972725

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Refiguring Rhetorical Education

Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911

By: Jessica Enoch

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Refiguring Rhetorical Education

Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911

By: Jessica Enoch

Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 examines the work of five female teachers who challenged gendered and cultural expectations to create teaching practices that met the civic and cultural needs of their students. The volume analyzes Lydia Maria Child’s The Freedmen’s Book, a post–Civil War educational textbook for newly freed slaves; Zitkala Ša’s autobiographical essays published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1900 that questioned the work of off-reservation boarding schools for Native American students; and Jovita Idar, Marta Peña, and Leonor Villegas de Magnón’s contributions to the Spanish-language newspaper La Crónica in 1910 and 1911—contributions that offered language and cultural instruction their readers could not receive in Texas public schools. Author Jessica Enoch explores the possibilities and limitations of rhetorical education by focusing on the challenges that Child, Zitkala Ša, Idar, Peña, and Villegas made to dominant educational practices. Each of these teachers transformed their seemingly apolitical occupation into a site of resistance, revising debilitating educational methods to advance culture-based and politicized teachings that empowered their students to rise above their subjugated positions. Refiguring Rhetorical Education considers how race, culture, power, and language are both implicit and explicit in discussions of rhetorical education for marginalized students and includes six major tenets to guide present-day pedagogies for civic engagement.

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SIU Press

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0809387220

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9780809387229

The Open Road

50 Best Road Trips in the USA

By: Jessica Dunham

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The Open Road

50 Best Road Trips in the USA

By: Jessica Dunham

Get inspired and get ready to hit the road with the ultimate guide to America's best road trips! The Open Road: 50 Road Trips in the USA features: Strategic lists and road trip options: Choose from lists of the best coastal drives, cross-country journeys, trips for kids, awe-inspiring views, and more Flexible itineraries: 50 different road trips organized by region gear you up for any adventure, from a weekend getaway to a cross-country trip Can't-miss stops from coast to coast: Leaf-peep along the Blue Ridge Parkway, look for wildflowers on Arizona's Apache Trail, or gaze at the mysterious Marfa Lights blinking over the West Texas desert. Snap selfies with kitschy roadside attractions along Route 66, cross the Continental Divide in Colorado, and fall asleep to the sound of crashing waves at your campsite in Big Sur The best local flavors: Eat your way through Vermont's farms, dairies, orchards, and maple houses or indulge in gulf shrimp and fried okra in the South. Sample oysters and craft beers in Oregon or stop for shave ice along the scenic Oahu Coastal Loop Expert advice from seasoned road-tripper Jessica Dunham Comprehensive planning resources: Easy-to-use maps, helpful info on things to do, lodging, and dining for every route, clear directions to each route's starting point,and tips for minimizing your environmental impact along the way Gorgeous, full-color photos and a fold-out map Essential tips for health and safety on the road, navigating weather conditions, strategies for road-tripping with kids and four-legged friends, and playlists and podcasts to soundtrack your adventure Whether you're hugging the coast or driving the Loneliest Road, find your adventure with The Open Road: 50 Road Trips in the USA. For more in-depth information on a specific road trip, check out Moon's bestselling road trip guides. About Moon Travel Guides: Moon was founded in 1973 to empower independent, active, and conscious travel. We prioritize local businesses, outdoor recreation, and traveling strategically and sustainably. Moon Travel Guides are written by local, expert authors with great stories to tell—and they can't wait to share their favorite places with you. For more inspiration, follow @moonguides on social media.

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Moon Travel

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1640499849

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9781640499843

President Lincoln's Killer and the America He Left Behind

The Assassin, the Crime, and Its Lasting Blow to Freedom and Equality

By: Jessica Gunderson

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President Lincoln's Killer and the America He Left Behind

The Assassin, the Crime, and Its Lasting Blow to Freedom and Equality

By: Jessica Gunderson

Offers a brief overview of the life and work of President Abraham Lincoln as well as profiling the life and motivation of his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

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0756557240

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Becoming An Early Years Teacher: From Birth To Five Years

By: Johnson, Jessica

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Becoming An Early Years Teacher: From Birth To Five Years

By: Johnson, Jessica

Offers key knowledge on theories of early learning and child development to support trainees in developing their role and skills as Early Years Teachers.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335264441

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9780335264445

Collective Courage

A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

By: Jessica Gordon Nembhard

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Collective Courage

A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

By: Jessica Gordon Nembhard

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

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Penn State Press

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0271064552

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9780271064550

US Policy Towards Cuba

Since the Cold War

By: Jessica Gibbs

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US Policy Towards Cuba

Since the Cold War

By: Jessica Gibbs

This is a comprehensive examination of US policy towards Cuba with a particular emphasis on the post-Cold War era. As well as providing a detailed account of US policy and actions towards Castro's regime, Jessica Gibbs also illustrates how this case study provides a revealing insight into wider debates about US foreign policy and international relations theory.

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Routledge

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1134073968

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Neoliberal Governance and Health

Duties, Risks, and Vulnerabilities

By: Jessica Polzer

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Neoliberal Governance and Health

Duties, Risks, and Vulnerabilities

By: Jessica Polzer

Provoking urgent questions about the politics of health in the twenty-first century, this collection interrogates how neoliberal approaches to governance frame health and risk in ways that promote individual responsibility and the implications of such framings for the well-being of the collective. The essays examine a range of important issues, including childhood obesity, genetic testing, HPV vaccination, Aboriginal health, pandemic preparedness, environmental health, disability policy, aging, contingent work, and women’s access to social services. With specific attention to the Canadian context, contributors reveal how neoliberal practices and policies shape the health experiences of individuals, disadvantaged groups, and communities by cultivating self-discipline while further exposing to harm the lives and bodies of those already marginalized in consumer society. Building on the theoretical conceptualizations of power and government of French philosopher Michel Foucault, the case studies extend our understanding of the effects of neoliberal practices and policies in relation to social class, gender, racialized identity, colonization, and ability, and provide insight into how health-related discourse creates new requirements for citizenship and forms of social stratification. A timely intervention in the field of health studies, Neoliberal Governance and Health establishes the need for critical interdisciplinary scholarship to counter the individualizing and marginalizing tendencies of health-related policy, practice and research.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077359955X

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9780773599550

Wicked Flesh

Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

By: Jessica Marie Johnson

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Wicked Flesh

Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

By: Jessica Marie Johnson

The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship—husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy—corporeal, carnal, quotidian—tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black women's practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812297245

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Harlequin Love Inspired January 2017-Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Jo Ann Brown,Jessica Keller,Tina Radcliffe

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Harlequin Love Inspired January 2017-Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Jo Ann Brown,Jessica Keller,Tina Radcliffe

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. AN AMISH REUNION Amish Hearts Jo Ann Brown Hannah Lambright is shocked to learn she has a baby sister. With no experience raising children, she turns to past love Daniel Stoltzfus for aid.As they grow close, Hannah realizes that if she can trust Daniel not to break her heart again, she may finally get her wish: having a family. APPLE ORCHARD BRIDE Goose Harbor Jessica Keller When he’s given custody of his cousin’s child, Toby Holcomb moves back to his hometown to start anew as a dad. Working side by side with Jenna Crest on her father’s orchard, Toby begins to realize that his life’s happiness may depend on a friend from his past. ROCKY MOUNTAIN COWBOY Tina Radcliffe Joe Gallagher is surprised to find the woman who abandoned him is back in Paradise, Colorado, to be his physical therapist. Single mom Rebecca Simpson knows she hurt the handsome cowboy all those years ago, but if she can earn his trust this could be their chance at forever.

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1488018081

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Women and the Everyday City

Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915

By: Jessica Ellen Sewell

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Women and the Everyday City

Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915

By: Jessica Ellen Sewell

In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities, she shows how changes in the city affected women's ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how women's increasing use of the city played a critical role in the campaign for women's suffrage. Focusing on women's everyday use of streetcars, shops, restaurants, and theaters, Sewell reveals the impact of women on these public places-what women did there, which women went there, and how these places were changed in response to women's presence. Using the diaries of three women in San Francisco-Annie Haskell, Ella Lees Leigh, and Mary Eugenia Pierce, who wrote extensively on their everyday experiences-Sewell studies their accounts of day trips to the city and combines them with memoirs, newspapers, maps, photographs, and her own observations of the buildings that exist today to build a sense of life in San Francisco at this pivotal point in history. Working at the nexus of urban history, architectural history, and cultural geography, Women and the Everyday City offers a revealing portrait of both a major American city during its early years and the women who shaped it-and the country-for generations to come.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816669732

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Administrative Law

A Casebook

By: J. Robert Brown,Roberto L. Corrada,Bernard Schwartz,Jessica L. West

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Administrative Law

A Casebook

By: J. Robert Brown,Roberto L. Corrada,Bernard Schwartz,Jessica L. West

Written in an accessible, straightforward style, Administrative Law: A Casebook, Tenth Edition focuses on the basic principles of administrative law using a traditional cases-and-notes pedagogy, flexible organization, and examination-length problems at the end of each substantive chapter. This book emphasizes the actual practice of administrative law, highlighting aspects of the law that will help students later as attorneys practicing before federal or state administrative agencies. Notes after cases focus on questions that would be asked by lawyers practicing in the area. End of chapter problems help to accentuate the types of problems confronted by practitioners. New to the Tenth Edition: Full coverage of recent developments, including new appointment and removal cases: Lucia, Seila Law, and Arthrex, plus accompanying notes; the newest developments regarding the doctrine of nondelegation including the Gundy case and Justice Gorsuch’s dissenting opinion; new treatment of the doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies; the newest developments dealing with standard of review including the DACA and Department of Commerce v. New York cases; the newest developments regarding Chevron and Auer deference, including the Pereira and Kisor Updated coverage of developments involving rulemaking. A new procedural due process case involving the emergency exception in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cases and materials relating to state administrative law with an emphasis on California & New York. An edited and shortened chapter on administrative hearings. Professors and students will benefit from: A chronological approach that shows the procedural course of administrative law in actual practice A broad range of state cases, both classic and current Balanced coverage that gives students valuable exposure to the state level where most administrative law issues are handled in practice, in addition to the standard treatment of federal law Flexible organization beginning with an overview of administrative law and its agencies to allow instructors to easily adapt the book to individual course needs Clear, accessible writing style that facilitates student learning Excellent notes and explanatory material A casebook that pays careful attention to explanation, helping students with even complex areas of administrative law An examination-length problem at the end of each substantive chapter Teaching materials include: Comprehensive Teacher’s Manual with model answers and extensive materials related to teaching administrative law as a simulation course

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Aspen Publishing

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1543846165

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9781543846164

Farce

By: Jessica Milner Davis

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Farce

By: Jessica Milner Davis

Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more literary comic forms remain clouded, even in the light of contemporary efforts to rehabilitate this type of comedy. Is farce really nothing more than slapstick-the "putting out of candles, kicking down of tables, falling over joynt-stools," as Thomas Shadwell characterized it in the seventeenth century? Or was his contemporary, Nahum Tate correct when he declared triumphantly that "there are no rules to be prescribed for that sort of wit, no patterns to copy; and 'tis altogether the creature of imagination"? Davis shows farce to be an essential component in both the comedic and tragic traditions. Farce sets out to explore the territory of what makes farce distinct as a comic genre. Its lowly origins date back to the classic Graeco-Roman theatre; but when formal drama was reborn by the process of elaboration of ritual within the mediaeval Church, the French term "farce" became synonymous with a recognizable style of comic performance. Taking a wide range of farces from the briefest and most basic of fair-ground mountebank performances to fully-fledged five-act structures from the late nineteenth century, the book reveals the patterns of comic plot and counter-plot that are common to all. The result is a novel classification of farce-plots, which serves to clarify the differences between farce and more literary comic forms and to show how quickly farce can shade into other styles of humor. The key is a careful balance between a revolt against order and propriety, and a kind of Realpolitik which ultimately restores the social conventions under attack. A complex array of devices in such things as framing, plot, characterization, timing and acting style maintain the delicate balance. Contemporary examples from the London stage bring the discussion u

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1351520245

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Canoe and Canvas

Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 1880−1910

By: Jessica Dunkin

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Canoe and Canvas

Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 1880−1910

By: Jessica Dunkin

Canoe and Canvas offers a detailed portrait of the summer encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910. The encampments were annual events that attracted canoeing enthusiasts from both sides of the Canada-US border to socialize, race canoes, and sleep under canvas. While the encampments were located away from cities, they were still subjected to urban logic and ways of living. The encampments, thus, offer a unique site for exploring cultures of sport and leisure in late Victorian society, but also for considering the intersections between recreation and the politics of everyday life. A social history of sport, Canoe and Canvas is particularly concerned with how gender, class, and race shaped the social, cultural, and physical landscapes of the ACA encampments. Although there was an ever-expanding arena of opportunity for leisure and sport in the late nineteenth century, as the example of the ACA makes clear, not all were granted equal access. Most of the members of the American Canoe Association and the majority of the campers at the annual encampments were white, middle-class men, though white women were extended partial membership in 1882, and in 1883, they were permitted to camp on site. Canoe and Canvas also reveals how Black, Indigenous, and working-class people, while obscured in the historical record, were indispensable to the smooth functioning of these events through their labour.

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Decision-Making in American Foreign Policy

By: Nikolas K. Gvosdev,Jessica D. Blankshain,David A. Cooper

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Decision-Making in American Foreign Policy

By: Nikolas K. Gvosdev,Jessica D. Blankshain,David A. Cooper

This foreign policy analysis textbook is written especially for students studying to become national security professionals. It translates academic knowledge about the complex influences on American foreign policymaking into an intuitive, cohesive, and practical set of analytic tools. The focus here is not theory for the sake of theory, but rather to translate theory into practice. Classic paradigms are adapted to fit the changing realities of the contemporary national security environment. For example, the growing centrality of the White House is seen in the 'palace politics' of the president's inner circle, and the growth of the national security apparatus introduces new dimensions to organizational processes and subordinate levels of bureaucratic politics. Real-world case studies are used throughout to allow students to apply theory. These comprise recent events that draw impartially across partisan lines and encompass a variety of diplomatic, military, and economic and trade issues.

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Can We All Get Along?

Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics

By: Paula McClain

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Can We All Get Along?

Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics

By: Paula McClain

In a nation built by immigrants and bedeviled by the history and legacy of slavery and discrimination, how do we, as Americans, reconcile a commitment to equality and freedom with persistent inequality and discrimination? And what can we do about it? This widely acclaimed text by Paula D. McClain, with new coauthor Jessica D. Johnson Carew, provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the historical and contemporary political experience of the major groups-African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians-in the United States. It explores the similarities and differences in these groups' representation and participation in law, politics, and policymaking, discusses the enduring issues and concerns that they face, and examines intra- and inter-group competition and coalition-building in the face of enduring conflict and inequality. The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include coverage of President Barack Obama's second term, the 2016 election, police brutality and Black Lives Matter, and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest movement. With a brand-new chapter on the intersections of race and gender, Can We All Get Along? remains unparalleled in its comparative coverage of the current landscape of minority politics in the United States.

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The Choice

By: Jessica Y. Sarabia

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The Choice

By: Jessica Y. Sarabia

For Eva, known to her friends as E, every day is a battle. Her rare, degenerative health condition promises she will never live a normal life. Despite her limitations, E attends college and pursues her dream of becoming a doctor just like Dr. Steinberg, the man responsible for continuing to keep her alive. But one day, everything changes. Es health takes a turn for the worse, and Dr. Steinberg consults another specialist, Dr. Reinhardt. E dislikes him on the spot, but Dr. Reinhardt discovers something that puts Es illness in an entirely new light. Not only can her cells cure cancer, but they can prolong life. In short, she is the key to longevity. Dr. Steinberg encourages E to live her own life and find happiness, but Dr. Reinhardt has other ideas. E could make an invaluable contribution to science, and if she would only commit herself to his research facility, she could help save thousands of lives. Its a choice E never wanted to makebut make it she must. A deeply haunting novel, The Choice touches upon subjects close to us all, and ultimately reveals the incredible power of the individual.

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Violence and Restraint in Civil War

Civilian Targeting in the Shadow of International Law

By: Jessica A. Stanton

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Violence and Restraint in Civil War

Civilian Targeting in the Shadow of International Law

By: Jessica A. Stanton

Discusses strategic choices governments and rebel groups make to use violence against civilians or to exercise restraint in civil war.

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Understanding the Rights of the Accused

By: Nancy Jessica Holmes,Catherine Ramen

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Understanding the Rights of the Accused

By: Nancy Jessica Holmes,Catherine Ramen

Discusses the rights of those accused of crimes in the United States as outlined in the Constitution and its amendments and the Bill of Rights, including freedom from self-incrimination and cruel and unusual punishment.

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The End of Bias: A Beginning

The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

By: Jessica Nordell

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The End of Bias: A Beginning

The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

By: Jessica Nordell

FINALIST FOR THE NYPL HELEN BERNSTEIN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM, THE LUKAS BOOK PRIZE, AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD SILVER MEDAL * AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS HONORABLE MENTION IN GENERAL NONFICTION NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, AARP, GREATER GOOD, AND INC. The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age. Unconscious bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. We know that it exists, to corrosive and even lethal effect. We see it in medicine, the workplace, education, policing, and beyond. But when it comes to uprooting our prejudices, we still have far to go. With nuance, compassion, and ten years' immersion in the topic, Jessica Nordell weaves gripping stories with scientific research to reveal how minds, hearts, and behaviors change. She scrutinizes diversity training, deployed across the land as a corrective but with inconsistent results. She explores what works and why: the diagnostic checklist used by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital that eliminated disparate treatment of men and women; the preschool in Sweden where teachers found ingenious ways to uproot gender stereotyping; the police unit in Oregon where the practice of mindfulness and specialized training has coincided with a startling drop in the use of force. Captivating, direct, and transformative, The End of Bias: A Beginning brings good news. Biased behavior can change; the approaches outlined here show how we can begin to remake ourselves and our world. Includes illustrated charts

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The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson

Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Jessica Malay

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The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson

Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Jessica Malay

The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In her own words, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage to Robert Hampson and her strategies for dealing with it. The harrowing tale contains scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, abandonment, flight, and destitution. It also shows moments of personal courage and interventions on the author's behalf by friends and strangers, some of whom are subject to severe reprisals. Mary wrote her story to come to terms with her situation, to justify her actions, and to cast herself in a virtuous light. The accompanying discussion of her life, drawn from other sources, provides chilling evidence of the vulnerability of seventeenth-century women and the flawed legal mechanisms that were supposed to protect them. Readers are also invited to consider in what ways the self-portrait is accurate and what elements of it may be considered fabrication. Malay's archival efforts have thus rescued a compelling and complicated voice from the past.

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Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder

By: Jessica Fletcher,Jon Land

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Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder

By: Jessica Fletcher,Jon Land

In the fiftieth entry in this USA Today bestselling series, two timelines converge as Jessica Fletcher returns to high school to investigate the murder of an old colleague, while we meet Jessica as a young teacher solving her very first murder... Young Jessica Fletcher's life couldn't be more ordinary. She teaches at the local high school while she and her loving husband, Frank, are raising their nephew Grady together. But when the beloved principal dies under mysterious circumstances, Jessica knows something is off and, for the very first time, investigates a death. Present-day Jessica returns to high school for a colleague's retirement party and has fun seeing familiar faces. That is, until the colleague winds up dead--and his death has mysterious links to Jessica's very first murder case. With nothing but her own instincts to guide her, Jessica embarks on a quest to find out what really happened all those years ago and who's behind these murders. Because time is running out to catch this killer....

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1984804316

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Why Are We 'Artists'?

100 World Art Manifestos

By: Jessica Lack

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Why Are We 'Artists'?

100 World Art Manifestos

By: Jessica Lack

Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together political activists, anti-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Négritude movement in Europe, Africa and Martinique to Japan's Bikyoto, from Iraqi modernism to Australian cyberfeminism, they are by turns personal, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world.

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0241236339

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Social Psychology

By: John DeLamater,Jessica Collett

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Social Psychology

By: John DeLamater,Jessica Collett

This fully revised and updated edition of Social Psychology is an engaging exploration of the question, "what makes us who we are?" presented in a new, streamlined fashion. Grounded in the latest research, Social Psychology explains the methods by which social psychologists investigate human behavior in a social context and the theoretical perspectives that ground the discipline. Each chapter is designed to be a self-contained unit for ease of use in any classroom. This edition features new boxes providing research updates and "test yourself " opportunities, a focus on critical thinking skills, and an increased emphasis on diverse populations and their experiences.

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Death Makes the News

How the Media Censor and Display the Dead

By: Jessica M. Fishman

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Death Makes the News

How the Media Censor and Display the Dead

By: Jessica M. Fishman

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Death concealed: the picture problem -- "Cold bodies are hot stuff"--Alternative images -- The industry's ample access -- Intentionally ambiguous images -- Layers of resistance -- Word versus image -- Death revealed: exceptions to the rule -- Pictures in the popular and patrician press -- Nationality and the "newsworthy" image -- Innocence and the "newsworthy" victim -- Mass tragedy and the biggest disasters -- The fantastic feats of some photos -- Victims seeking visibility -- In the end -- Appendix: defining a postmortem picture -- Notes -- Index -- About the author

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0814770754

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Transmission Impossible

American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955

By: Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht

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Transmission Impossible

American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955

By: Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht

Containing a wealth of fresh information on the use of propaganda in the Cold War, the administrative structure of the U.S. occupation, Soviet-American conflicts, and Jewish biography, this book will be of interest to scholars of U.S. foreign relations, German history, occupation history, ethnicity, sociology, and culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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0807141658

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Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs

The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams's Chicago

By: Graham Cassano,Rima Lunin Schultz,Jessica Payette

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Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs

The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams's Chicago

By: Graham Cassano,Rima Lunin Schultz,Jessica Payette

In Eleanor Smith’s Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams’s Chicago, the authors republish Hull House Songs (1916), together with critical commentary. Hull-House Songs contains five politically engaged compositions written by the Hull-House music educator, Eleanor Smith. The commentary that accompanies the folio includes an examination of Smith’s poetic sources and musical influences; a study of Jane Addams’s aesthetic theories; and a complete history of the arts at Hull-House. Through this focus upon aesthetic and cultural programs at Hull-House, the authors identify the external, and internalized, forces of domination (class position, racial identity, patriarchal disenfranchisement) that limited the work of the Hull-House women, while also recovering the sometimes hidden emancipatory possibilities of their legacy. With an afterword by Jocelyn Zelasko.

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9004384057

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Digital Feminist Activism

Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

By: Kaitlynn Mendes,Jessica Ringrose,Jessalynn Keller

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Digital Feminist Activism

Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

By: Kaitlynn Mendes,Jessica Ringrose,Jessalynn Keller

From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and #BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory digital media as activist tools to speak, network, and organize against sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. As the first book-length study to examine how girls, women, and some men negotiate rape culture through the use of digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps, the authors explore four primary questions: What experiences of harassment, misogyny, and rape culture are being responded to? How are participants using digital media technologies to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism? Why are girls, women and some men choosing to mobilize digital media technologies in this way? And finally, what are the various experiences of using digital technologies to engage in activism? In order to capture these diverse experiences of doing digital feminist activism, the authors augment their analysis of this media (blog posts, tweets, and selfies) with in-depth interviews and close-observations of several online communities that operate globally. Ultimately, the book demonstrates the nuances within and between digital feminist activism and highlight that, although it may be technologically easy for many groups to engage in digital feminist activism, there remain emotional, mental, or practical barriers which create different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices, perspectives, and experiences over others.

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Oxford University Press

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0190697865

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Effect of Food and Beverage Prices on Children's Weights

By: Minh Wendt,Jessica E. Todd

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Effect of Food and Beverage Prices on Children's Weights

By: Minh Wendt,Jessica E. Todd

One factor that may be important in explaining rising childhood obesity is food prices. This report explores the effect of food prices on children's Body Mass Index (BMI) using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) and the Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database. On average, higher prices for soda, 100 percent juices, starchy vegetables, and sweet snacks are associated with lower BMIs among children. In addition, lower prices for dark green vegetables and lowfat milk are associated with reduced BMI. The effect of subsidizing healthy food may be just as large as raising prices of less healthy foods. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.

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