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The Earth Around Us

Maintaining A Livable Planet

By: Jill Schneiderman

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The Earth Around Us

Maintaining A Livable Planet

By: Jill Schneiderman

Soil contamination . . . public lands . . . surface and groundwater pollution . . . coastal erosion . . . global warming. Have we reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If so, what can we do about it?These vital questions are addressed in The Earth Around Us, a unique collection of thirty-one essays by a diverse array of today's foremost scientist-writers. Sharing an ability to communicate science in a clear and engaging fashion, the contributors explore Earth's history and processes--especially in relation to today's environmental issues--and show how we, as members of a global community, can help maintain a livable planet. The narratives in this collection are organized into seven parts that describe: Earth's time and history and the place of people on it Views of nature and the ethics behind our conduct on Earth Resources for the twenty-first century, such as public lands, healthy forests and soils, clean ground and surface waters, and fluctuating coastlines Ill-informed local manipulations of landscapes across the United States Innovative solutions to environmental problems that arise from knowledge of the interactions between living things and the Earth's air, water, and soil Natural and human-induced global scale perturbations to the earth system Our responsibility to people and all other organisms that live on Earth. Never before has such a widely experienced group of prominent earth scientists been brought together to help readers understand how earth's environment works. Driven by the belief that earth science is, and should be, an integral part of everyday life, The Earth Around Us empowers all of us to play a more educated and active part in the search for a sustainable future for our planet and its inhabitants.

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478

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Routledge

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0429965206

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9780429965203

The Natural Pregnancy Book

Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices

By: Aviva Jill Romm

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The Natural Pregnancy Book

Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices

By: Aviva Jill Romm

Reading The Natural Pregnancy Book is like having your own personal herbalist and midwife at your side. Expertly written by Aviva Jill Romm, who has been providing family-centered natural health care for almost twenty years, it guides women through treating the common ills and ailments of pregnancy simply with herbs and nutrition. Aviva thoughtfully follows the woman's journey from baby's conception to birth, describing herbs that can promote and maintain a healthy pregnancy, along with those you should avoid during your term. Her herbal remedies cover such familiar concerns as anxiety, fatigue, morning sickness, and stretch marks. She also discusses the components of a healthy diet, with an emphasis on natural foods. With its detailed information and comforting voice, The Natural Pregnancy Book is a complete primer for the woman who envisions a safe pregnancy as nature intended it.

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337

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Celestial Arts

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0307804674

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9780307804679

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

By: Linda Jill Markowitz

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Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

By: Linda Jill Markowitz

Focusing on workers being organized in union campaigns, this book aims to demonstrate how different levels of participation - from simple "participatory democracy" to worker activism - influence the ultimate success or failure of the campaign.

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226

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765604930

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9780765604934

Electra After Freud

Myth and Culture

By: Jill Scott

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Electra After Freud

Myth and Culture

By: Jill Scott

Electra's story is essentially a tale of murder, revenge, and violence. In the ancient myth of Atreus, Agamemnon returns home from battle and receives no hero's welcome. Instead, he is greeted with an ax, murdered in his bath by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover-accomplice, Aegisthus. Electra chooses anger over sorrow and stops at nothing to ensure that her mother pays. In revenge, Electra, with the help of her brother, orchestrates a brutal and bloody matricide, and her reward is the restitution of her father's good name. Amid all this chaos, Electra, Agamemnon's princess daughter, must bear the humiliation of being treated as a slave girl and labeled a madwoman."--from the IntroductionAlmost everyone knows about Oedipus and his mother, and many readers would put the Oedipus myth at the forefront of Western collective mythology. In Electra after Freud, Jill Scott leaves that couple behind and argues convincingly for the primacy of the countermyth of Agamemnon and his daughter. Through a lens of Freudian and feminist psychoanalysis, this book views renderings of the Electra myth in twentieth-century literature and culture.Scott reads several pivotal texts featuring Electra to demonstrate what she calls "a narrative revolt" against the dominance of Oedipus as archetype. Situating the Electra myth within a framework of psychoanalysis, medicine, opera, and dance, Scott investigates the heroine's role at the intersections of history and the feminine, eros and thanatos, hysteria and melancholia. Scott analyzes Electra adaptations by H.D., Hofmannsthal and Strauss, Musil, and Plath and highlights key moments in the telling and reception of the Electra myth in the modern imagination.

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240

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Cornell University Press

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0801442613

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9780801442612

The Health Of Women

A Global Perspective

By: Jill Gay

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The Health Of Women

A Global Perspective

By: Jill Gay

This book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive review of the many factors that affect women’s health, ranging from low socioeconomic status and the impact of the debt crisis to more direct medical determinants, such as poor nutrition, hemorrhage, eclampsia, and infection. At stake are the unnecessary and preventable deaths of women and girls around the globe. The contributors assess the reduced quality of life for women and the often unacknowledged contributions of women and girls as the backbone of production in both developing and developed countries. Synthesizing perspectives of policymakers and practitioners, researchers and scholars, The Health of Women urges major new initiatives to understand and improve women’s health, taking into account biological elements such as the life cycle of women as well as cultural constraints and socioeconomic realities.

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312

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Routledge

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0429965001

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9780429965005

Systems of Production

Markets, Organisations and Performance

By: Brendan Burchell,Simon Deakin,Jonathan Michie,Jill Rubery

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Systems of Production

Markets, Organisations and Performance

By: Brendan Burchell,Simon Deakin,Jonathan Michie,Jill Rubery

An impressive array of expert contributors come together to provide a study of issues, such as labour market regulation and wages, that have arisen from the fact that people have come to accept longer working hours as a way of life.

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300

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Routledge

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1134457421

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9781134457427

Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes

By: Jill B. Gidmark

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Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes

By: Jill B. Gidmark

The sea and Great Lakes have inspired American authors from colonial times to the present to produce enduring literary works. This reference is a comprehensive survey of American sea literature. The scope of the encyclopedia ranges from the earliest printed matter produced in the colonies to contemporary experiments in published prose, poetry, and drama. The book also acknowledges how literature gives rise to adaptations and resonances in music and film and includes coverage of nonliterary topics that have nonetheless shaped American literature of the sea and Great Lakes. The alphabetical arrangement of the reference facilitates access to facts about major literary works, characters, authors, themes, vessels, places, and ideas that are central to American sea literature. Each of the several hundred entries is written by an expert contributor and many provide bibliographical information. While the encyclopedia includes entries for white male canonical writers such as Herman Melville and Jack London, it also gives considerable attention to women at sea and to ethnically diverse authors, works, and themes. The volume concludes with a chronology and a list of works for further reading.

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565

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1567507700

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9781567507706

Cooler Than Fiction

A Planning Guide for Teen Nonfiction Booktalks

By: Jill S. Jarrell,Tara C. Cannon

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Cooler Than Fiction

A Planning Guide for Teen Nonfiction Booktalks

By: Jill S. Jarrell,Tara C. Cannon

Designed for public librarians, school media specialists, teachers, and anyone with an interest in supporting teen literacy, this book features 133 nonfiction booktalks to use with both voracious and reluctant teen readers. These booktalks cover a wide and varied range of nonfiction genres, including science, nature, history, biography, graphic novels, true crime, art, and much more. Each includes a set of discussion questions and sample project ideas which could be easily expanded into a classroom lesson plan or full library program. Also included are several guidelines for classroom integration, tips for making booktalks more interactive and interesting, and selections for further reading.

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201

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McFarland

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0786461837

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9780786461837

Gender and International Relations

By: Jill Steans

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Gender and International Relations

By: Jill Steans

The third edition of Jill Steans’ popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to gender in international relations today. Its nine chapters have been fully revised and expanded to cover key issues, developments and debates in the field including: the state and citizenship gender, sexuality and human rights conflict, peace and security narratives and representational practices in international politics global political economy development and gender in global governance Guiding students competently through complex theoretical and conceptual issues, the book is careful to ground its discussions in contemporary concerns, such as the War on Terror and its legacy, the ‘securitisation’ of human rights, the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, contemporary challenges to global institutions, and ethical dilemmas that arise in negotiating gender issues and politics in a culturally diverse world. Each chapter features questions for reflection, seminar activities, further reading and web links to highlight key points and provide contemporary illustrations. A glossary of key terms is also included for easy reference. Gender and International Relations will be essential reading for students and scholars of gender, international relations, global politics and related courses.

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443

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745670121

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9780745670126

Uganda's AIDS Crisis

Its Implications for Development

By: Jill Armstrong

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Uganda's AIDS Crisis

Its Implications for Development

By: Jill Armstrong

Examines the economic problems that arise when governments own and operate enterprises that could be managed by the private sector. Despite more than a decade of divestiture, state-owned enterprises account for nearly as large a share of developing countries' economies today as twenty years ago. This report examines the economic problems that arise when governments own and operate enterprises that could be managed by the private sector. It finds that such enterprises are often inefficient and shows how the resulting losses to the economy hinder growth, making it harder for people to escape poverty. Why have reforms had such little impact? In an innovative study of the political economy of state enterprise reform, the report describes common obstacles to reform and describes ways that some countries have overcome them. Drawing on a rich database and detailed country case studies, the report provides the most comprehensive assessment yet of a decade of divestiture and reform of state-owned enterprises. It evaluates the experiences of 12 countries: some of these countries reformed successfully and some did not, but all tried to improve the incentive structure by changing the contract between the government and state- owned firms. The report offers guidance for successful reform and suggests ways that foreign assistance can more effectively support reform efforts. The countries covered in the case studies are Chile, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ghana, India, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Senegal, and Turkey. Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press

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World Bank Publications

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0821334379

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9780821334379

Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

By: Egil Bakka,Theresa Jill Buckland,Helena Saarikoski ,Anne von Bibra Wharton

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Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

By: Egil Bakka,Theresa Jill Buckland,Helena Saarikoski ,Anne von Bibra Wharton

From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of often newly discovered primary sources, the essays afford many opportunities to compare sociocultural and political reactions to the arrival and practice of popular rotating couple dances, such as the Waltz and the Polka. Leading contributors provide a transnational and affective lens onto strikingly diverse topics, ranging from the evolution of romantic couple dances in Croatia, and Strauss’s visits to Hamburg and Altona in the 1830s, to dance as a tool of cultural preservation and expression in twentieth-century Finland. Waltzing Through Europe creates openings for fresh collaborations in dance historiography and cultural history across fields and genres. It is essential reading for researchers of dance in central and northern Europe, while also appealing to the general reader who wants to learn more about the vibrant histories of these familiar dance forms.

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288

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Open Book Publishers

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1783747358

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9781783747351

Phenomenal Female Entrepreneurs

By: Jill Bryant

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Phenomenal Female Entrepreneurs

By: Jill Bryant

Meet ten hard-working and accomplished entrepreneurs from the U.S., Canada, and around the world. These leaders are taking charge, creating new businesses, and holding down top-tier executive positions. From Madam C.J. Walker, who built up her own hair care company in the early 1900s, to Anita Roddick, socially conscious founder of The Body Shop, these ground-breaking women led companies, helped others prosper, and brought about positive change. Entrepreneurs working today include Naina Lal Kidwai, a high-profile investment banker from India, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and Susan Mashibe, a Tanzanian aircraft pioneer. Brimming with enthusiasm and full of useful tips, these women teach us to be bold, take charge, and strive for success.

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144

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Second Story Press

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1927583136

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9781927583135

Machine Vision

How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World

By: Jill Walker Rettberg

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Machine Vision

How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World

By: Jill Walker Rettberg

Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality. We imagine that technologies will allow us to see more, to see differently and even to see everything. But each of these new ways of seeing carries its own blind spots. In this illuminating book, Jill Walker Rettberg examines the long history of machine vision. Providing an overview of the historical and contemporary uses of machine vision, she unpacks how technologies such as smart surveillance cameras and TikTok filters are changing the way we see the world and one another. By analysing fictional and real-world examples, including art, video games and science fiction, the book shows how machine vision can have very different cultural impacts, fostering both sympathy and community as well as anxiety and fear. Combining ethnographic and critical media studies approaches alongside personal reflections, Machine Vision is an engaging and eye-opening read. It is suitable for students and scholars of digital media studies, science and technology studies, visual studies, digital art and science fiction, as well as for general readers interested in the impact of new technologies on society.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509545247

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Book's by Jill Adrienne Thomas

The Earth Around Us

The Earth Around Us

The Natural Pregnancy Book

The Natural Pregnancy Book

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

Electra After Freud

Electra After Freud

The Health Of Women

The Health Of Women

Systems of Production

Systems of Production

Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes

Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes

Cooler Than Fiction

Cooler Than Fiction

Gender and International Relations

Gender and International Relations

Uganda's AIDS Crisis

Uganda's AIDS Crisis

Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

Phenomenal Female Entrepreneurs

Phenomenal Female Entrepreneurs

Machine Vision

Machine Vision

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