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Girl on the Block

A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter

By: Jessica Wragg

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Girl on the Block

A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter

By: Jessica Wragg

Gabrielle Hamilton meets April Bloomfield in a raw and rollicking memoir that pulls back the curtain on life as a female butcher. When 16-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at the local farm shop in her hometown of Chesterfield, England, she never expected to land a position behind the all-male butchery counter. Young and enthusiastic, and fueled by a newfound fascination with the craft, Wragg quickly realized that she was an outcast in a world of middle-aged men who spoke a secret language to fool customers and were reluctant to share the tricks of their trade with a novice. A decade later, against all odds, Wragg is pulling back the curtain on an industry that is still problematically set in its old-school ways. Like her female counterparts in the restaurant world, she has had to fight to establish herself in the meat industry, memorizing muscle and bone and tendon, while battling sexism and ageism. Girl on the Block is a fish-out-of-water story that blends Wragg's personal journey with an exploration of the sanctity of her craft and an honest look at the modern meat industry. A tour through one of the oldest, dirtiest, and most fascinating professions, Girl on the Block is Wragg's tale of returning home with blood on her boots at the end of fourteen-hour days and finding her way in the end.

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222

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HarperCollins

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0062863940

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9780062863942

The Lives in Objects

Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast

By: Jessica Yirush Stern

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The Lives in Objects

Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast

By: Jessica Yirush Stern

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native Americans were solely gift givers and the British were modern commercial capitalists. This traditional interpretation casts Native Americans as victims drawn into and made dependent on a transatlantic marketplace. Stern complicates that picture by showing how both the Southeastern Indian and British American actors mixed gift giving and commodity exchange in the deerskin trade, such that Southeastern Indians retained much greater agency as producers and consumers than the standard narrative allows. By tracking the debates about Indian trade regulation, Stern also reveals that the British were often not willing to embrace modern free market values. While she sheds new light on broader issues in native and colonial history, Stern also demonstrates that concepts of labor, commerce, and material culture were inextricably intertwined to present a fresh perspective on trade in the colonial Southeast.

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269

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UNC Press Books

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1469631490

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9781469631493

Reading Foundations

By: Jessica Grainger

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Reading Foundations

By: Jessica Grainger

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162

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ACER Press

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1461901278

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9781461901273

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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213

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University of Georgia Press

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0820357723

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9780820357720

Psychology of Communication

By: Jessica Röhner,Astrid Schütz

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Psychology of Communication

By: Jessica Röhner,Astrid Schütz

This successful textbook on the psychology of communication explains - here in English for the first time - how human communication works in a very understandable way. It begins with the explanation of central terms and the explanation of known communication models (e.g. the models according to Schulz von Thun, Watzlawick, Hargie and colleagues), then describes means of non-verbal and verbal communication and ends with a clear and structured summary of communication forms. Concrete fields of application, stumbling blocks (e.g. intercultural differences in communication), practical examples and digressions in the book round off what has been read and consolidate what has been learned. In addition, free learning materials are available on the Internet with which readers can test their knowledge acquisition.

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161

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Springer Nature

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3030601706

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9783030601706

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Making a Difference

By: Rick Churchill,Tiffani Apps,Jantiena Batt,Karley Beckman,Peter Grainger,Jessica Holloway,Amanda Keddie,Will Letts,Jennu Mackay,Michelle McGill,Julianne Moss,Michael C. Nagel,Kylie Shaw,Jessa Rogers

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Making a Difference

The sixth edition of Teaching: Making A Difference stands as a cornerstone resource for pre-service educators seeking a comprehensive, contemporary, and accessible introduction to the field of teaching. Through its meticulous attention to accuracy and relevance, this text offers students the possibility to engage with the latest initiatives and governmental mandates shaping educational landscapes. Local case studies woven throughout each chapter serve as illuminating exemplars of current best practices, addressing the diverse cultural challenges confronting modern society. With its blend of theoretical insight and practical application, this textbook equips aspiring teachers with the essential knowledge and skills needed to make a meaningful impact in today's classrooms.

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599

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John Wiley & Sons

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139426724X

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9781394267248

Book's by Jessica Wragg

Girl on the Block

Girl on the Block

The Lives in Objects

The Lives in Objects

Reading Foundations

Reading Foundations

Overshot

Overshot

Psychology of Communication

Psychology of Communication

Teaching

Teaching

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