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An Intimate Affair

Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality

By: Jill Fields

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An Intimate Affair

Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality

By: Jill Fields

Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the 'fashion-industrial complex, ' and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet significant, intimate articles of clothing.

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Univ of California Press

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0520223691

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Does Scripture Speak for Itself?

The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation

By: Jill Hicks-Keeton,Cavan Concannon

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Does Scripture Speak for Itself?

The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation

By: Jill Hicks-Keeton,Cavan Concannon

Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors' subject is the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC: arguably the latest example of a long line of white evangelical institutions aiming to amplify and promote a religious, political, and moral agenda of their own. In their careful and compelling investigation, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon disclose the ways in which the Museum's exhibits reinforce a particularized and partial interpretation of the Bible's meaning. Bringing to light the Museum's implicit messaging about scriptural provenance and audience, the authors reveal how the MOTB produces a version of the Bible that in essence authorizes a certain sort of white evangelical privilege; promotes a view of history aligned with that same evangelical aspiration; and above all protects a cohort of white evangelicals from critique. They show too how the Museum collapses vital conceptual distinctions between its own conservative vision of the Bible and 'The Bible' as a cultural icon. This revelatory volume above all confirms that scripture – for all the claims made for it that it speaks only divine truth – can in the end never be separated from human politics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108655688

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Remember Your Lies

By: Jill Jones

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Remember Your Lies

By: Jill Jones

An ex-cop is drawn into a twisted game of violence and voodoo when she’s arrested for a murder she didn’t commit in this Southern romantic thriller. Ex-cop Angela Donahue has traded a life of mystery and danger for one of tranquility when she ended her career with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. But when she’s arrested for the murder of a man she’s never even heard of, she realizes that her old life isn’t as far behind her as she’d hoped. And neither is the man who once betrayed her heart… Upon receiving news of her arrest, undercover operative Dylan Montana returns from Angela’s past, determined to clear the name of the woman he still loves. With staggering evidence against her and threats growing more deadly, Angela has no choice but to trust a man she swore she’d never trust again. But in a whirlwind of deceit, violence, and murder, if Dylan wants to reclaim her heart, he’ll have to save her life first. “Voodoo, danger and romance all combine to construct an on the edge of your seat thriller!”—RT Reviews

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Diversion Books

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1626815267

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The Black Horse Pike

By: Jill Maser

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The Black Horse Pike

By: Jill Maser

The Black Horse Pike, like many roads in southern New Jersey, developed along a route forged by the Leni-Lenape, and its path remains virtually unchanged today. The pike follows the contours of Timber Creek, with towns established at landings and not the usual crossroads, making it unique. Lumber and charcoal were loaded onto flatboats and floated up the creek to market. Churches and stores soon joined the mills and taverns clustered along the banks. Over time, trains replaced flatboats, but no mode of transportation could compete with cars and trucks for flexibility and convenience. Progress rapidly established the many towns along the Black Horse Pike, and it just as quickly dimmed their future. While the high-speed roads that bypass the Black Horse Pike towns may have quashed their commercial futures, generations of citizens have worked tirelessly to preserve the essence of these historic towns.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738556785

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9780738556789

Utopia in Performance

Finding Hope at the Theater

By: Jill Dolan

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Utopia in Performance

Finding Hope at the Theater

By: Jill Dolan

Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come." ---David Román, University of Southern California What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change. She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472025570

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The British Brides Collection

9 Romances from the Home of Austen and Dickens

By: Bonnie Blythe,Pamela Griffin,Kelly Eileen Hake,Gail Gaymer Martin,Tamela Hancock Murray,Jill Stengl

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The British Brides Collection

9 Romances from the Home of Austen and Dickens

By: Bonnie Blythe,Pamela Griffin,Kelly Eileen Hake,Gail Gaymer Martin,Tamela Hancock Murray,Jill Stengl

Romance from the Spectacular British Isles Spanning over 500 years of history in the British Isles, nine inspiring romance stories take readers through English gardens, around London ballrooms, and within Scottish castles. Follow along as each of the brides-to-be encounter high drama and epic romance on the way to the altar. Will they survive with their faith intact? Inspired by authors like Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, these nine romances are penned by an exclusive selection of Christian fiction authors and will become a cherished favorite for fans of British history and literature. Fayre Rose by Tamela Hancock Murray Scotland 1358 – Fayre was brought to Kennerith Castle to tend the duke’s rose garden in payment for her father’s taxes. When the Laird Kenneth falls ill with plague, only Fayre is brave enough to play nursemaid. Woman of Valor by Jill Stengl England 1631 - Helen has come to Marston Hall to care for three neglected children and a household in disarray. Both the gardener and the lord of the manor admire her inner beauty. Fresh Highland Air by Jill Stengl Scotland 1748 – When Hermione’s stepfather takes over Kennerith Castle, he retains Allan for Hermione’s bodyguard. She is determined to think the worst of Allan, until someone is out to get rid of him and the true heir of the castle comes into question. A Duplicitous Façade by Tamela Hancock Murray England 1812 - In obedience to her father, Melodia agrees to marry a man she has never met. But when a masquerade ball is held to celebrate the marriage, Melodia suspects she has more enemies than friends. Love’s Unmasking by Bonnie Blythe England 1814 - Matthew is certain a godly girl does not exist among London’s money-grubbing debutantes. He imitates a fop at society functions to repel them, but his own ruse traps him in an engagement. English Tea and Bagpipes by Pamela Griffin Scotland 1822 – When Fiona’s sister and Alex’s brother run off to marry, the families oppose the match between a poor highlander and an English nobleman. Fiona impulsively goes after her sister, and Alex follows. A Treasure Worth Keeping by Kelly Eileen Hake England 1832 - Paige is thrilled to hear her father has been hired to restore one of the country’s largest collections of antique volumes—until she learns the mysterious earl is hosting a house party during their stay. Apple of His Eye by Gail Gaymer Martin England 1851 - Sarah is curious and independent for a young woman of her day, which leads her to fall in love with a man who would never be invited into the family manor as a guest. Moonlight Masquerade by Pamela Griffin England 1865 - Letitia, a unassuming lady’s companion to her cousin, quickly finds herself the possessor of incriminating information and the focus of attention from two mysterious men.

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Barbour Publishing

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1643520261

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The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

By: Jill Bergman

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The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

By: Jill Bergman

Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859--1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, the first book-length study of Hopkins's major fiction, fills this gap, offering a sustained analysis of motherlessness in Contending Forces, Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood. Motherlessness appears in all of Hopkins's novels. The motif, Jill Bergman asserts, resonated profoundly for African Americans living with the legacy of abduction from a motherland and familial fragmentation under slavery. In her novels, motherlessness serves as a trope for the national alienation of post-Reconstruction African Americans. The longing and search for a maternal figure, then, represents an effort to reconnect with the absent mother -- a missing parent and a lost African history and heritage. In Hopkins's oeuvre, the image of the mother of African heritage -- a source of both identity and persecution -- becomes a source of power and possibility. Bergman shows how historical events -- such as Bleeding Kansas, the execution of John Brown, and the Middle Passage -- gave rise to a sense of motherlessness and how Hopkins's work engages with that of other contemporaneous race activists. This illuminating study opens new terrain not only in Hopkins scholarship, but also in the complex interchanges between literary, African American, psychoanalytic, feminist, and postcolonial studies.

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LSU Press

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080714729X

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These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

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These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.

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0393635252

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9780393635256

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Premium 2015

By: Frank J. Domino,Robert A. Baldor,Jeremy Golding,Jill A. Grimes

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The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Premium 2015

By: Frank J. Domino,Robert A. Baldor,Jeremy Golding,Jill A. Grimes

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Premium 2015 helps physicians and healthcare professionals provide the best patient care by delivering quick answers you can trust where and when you need it most. The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Premium 2015 provides seamless access to www.5minuteconsult.com, where you,,ll find:2,000+ commonly encountered diseases and disorders Differential diagnosis support from an accessible, targeted search Treatment and diagnostic algorithms More than 1,250 customizable patient handouts from the AAFP ICD9, ICD10 and Snomed Codes Procedural and physical therapy videos Over 2,250 diagnostic images for over 840 topics ,Point-of-Care CME and CNE The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Premium 2015 provides the luxury of a traditional print product and delivers quick access the continually updated online content an ideal resource when you,,re treating patients. Written by esteemed internal medicine and family medicine practitioners and published by the leading publisher in medical content, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Premium 2015: 1-Year Enhanced Online & Mobile Access + Print, 23e includes 1-Year access to 5minuteconsult.com. 5minuteconsult.com is the quickest, most affordable, evidence-based workflow tool at the point-of-care. What an incredible program for any health care provider involved in diagnosing and treating patients! Awesome set up, great resource. current subscriber to www.5minuteconsult.com.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451192150

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Humor, Satire, and Identity

Eastern German Literature in the 1990s

By: Jill E. Twark

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Humor, Satire, and Identity

Eastern German Literature in the 1990s

By: Jill E. Twark

Explores the Eastern German literary trend of the 1990s employing humor and satire to come to terms with socialism's failure and a difficult unification process. This title surveys ten novels including, works by Brussig, Schulze, and Hensel. These contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, East German perspective.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110195992

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Invisible in Plain Sight

Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest

By: Jill E. Rowe

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Invisible in Plain Sight

Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest

By: Jill E. Rowe

The Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners – a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry – migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined free black communities between 1820 and 1850 in the Old Northwest, becoming an important safe haven and beacon of freedom. Its notoriety and size grew as slaves often migrated to these locations after they were granted emancipation in the wills of slave owners who purchased land in the area for them to settle on. The newly free people found sanctuary as these communities were also rumored to shelter runaway slaves in their role as active participants in the Underground Railroad Movement. However, the prosperity of blacks living in these villages angered some of the local whites – many of whom were migrating at the same time and were connected to local law officials and politicians. Archival documents reveal continued acts of terrorism perpetuated against blacks which heightened the importance of the strength of the communities they founded – specifically schools, churches, businesses, and intergenerational family structures—in providing a unified front that allowed them to bond and thrive in an environment that was not always conducive to their survival. Invisible in Plain Sight: Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest provides a rare detailed examination of an often overlooked piece of the American tapestry. It is perfect reading for history classes in high school and college, as well as for history enthusiasts looking for something new.

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Peter Lang

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1453919007

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Ferris Beach

By: Jill McCorkle

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Ferris Beach

By: Jill McCorkle

BONUS! Read a preview of Jill McCorkle's new novel, HIEROGLYPHICS, in the Ferris Beach e-book. "An amazing novel."— Sarah Dessen Ferris Beach is a place where excitement and magic coexist. Or so Mary Katherine "Katie" Burns, the only child of middle-aged Fred and Cleva Burns, believes. Shy and self-conscious, she daydreams about Ferris Beach, where her beautiful cousin, Angela, leads a romantic, mysterious life. It is the early 1970s, and when the land across the road from the Burns's historic house is sold to developers, Misty Rhodes—also from Ferris Beach—and her flamboyant parents move into the nearest newly built split-level. In contrast to Katie’s composed, reserved, practical mother, Misty and her mother are everything Katie wants to be: daring, outrageous, fun. The two girls become inseparable, sharing every secret, every dream—until one fateful Fourth of July, when their lives change in a way they could never have imagined. In this classic McCorkle novel, the author's shrewd grasp of human nature creates characters that resonate with truth and emotion, and a story perfect for mothers and daughters to share and cherish.

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Algonquin Books

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1565129644

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Don't Let Death Ruin Your Life

A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Happiness after the Death of a Loved One

By: Jill Brooke

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Don't Let Death Ruin Your Life

A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Happiness after the Death of a Loved One

By: Jill Brooke

In her unique guide, Jill Brooke reveals how to cope with grief and turn this time of sadness into an opportunity for positive change and growth. Although they are no longer physically with us, we can keep our loved ones emotionally and spiritually close by incorporating their memories into our daily lives. As we draw comfort from their sustaining presence, we can have a positive impact on those around us. Recent research shows that the trauma of loss can stimulate creativity which leads to new pportunities for happiness and success. Katie Couric and Rosie O'Donnell are just a few people in this book who have coped with loss in unique and special ways. Including tips on how to preserve our memories, create lasting family histories, and reach out to others, Don't Let Death Ruin Your Life shows how the experience of grieving helps us to heal, learn, and grow. Filled with gentle guidance and practical advice, this indispensable handbook takes readers on a journey that will motivate, inspire, and transform their lives. "Should be on everyone's bookshelf . . . Charts a survival course with dignity and hope." (The New York Post)

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Penguin

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1440621144

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In a Different Place

Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine

By: Jill Dubisch

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In a Different Place

Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine

By: Jill Dubisch

In a Different Place offers a richly textured account of a modern pilgrimage, combining ethnographic detail, theory, and personal reflection. Visited by thousands of pilgrims yearly, the Church of the Madonna of the Annunciation on the Aegean island of Tinos is a site where different interests--sacred and secular, local and national, personal and official--all come together. Exploring the shrine and its surrounding town, Jill Dubisch shares her insights into the intersection of social, religious, and political life in Greece. Along the way she develops the idea of pilgrimage-journeying away from home in search of the miraculous--as a metaphor for anthropological fieldwork. This highly readable work offers us the opportunity to share one anthropologist's personal and professional journey and to see in a "different place" the inadequacy of such conventional anthropological categories as theory versus data, rationality versus emotion, and the observer versus the observed. Dubisch examines in detail the process of pilgrimage itself, its relationship to Orthodox belief and practice, the motivations and behavior of pilgrims, the relationship between religion and Greek national identity, and the gendered nature of religious roles. Seeking to evoke rather than simply describe, her book presents readers with a sense of the emotion, color, and power of pilgrimage at this Greek island shrine.

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Princeton University Press

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1400884411

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9781400884414

Germans in Milwaukee: A Neighborhood History

By: Jill Florence Lackey & Rick Petrie

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Germans in Milwaukee: A Neighborhood History

By: Jill Florence Lackey & Rick Petrie

Remains of earliest German settlements in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- German place names in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German commerce in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German institutions in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German ways of life in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- German footprints on the physical terrain in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Efforts to remove German footprints in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Restoring Milwaukee's German essence.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467147281

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Yao & Artusio’s Anesthesiology

Problem-Oriented Patient Management

By: Fun-Sun F. Yao,Hugh Hemmings,Vinod Malhotra,Jill Fong

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Yao & Artusio’s Anesthesiology

Problem-Oriented Patient Management

By: Fun-Sun F. Yao,Hugh Hemmings,Vinod Malhotra,Jill Fong

Case-based and easy to use, Yao & Artusio’s Anesthesiology: Problem-Oriented Patient Management is the bestselling study and review reference preferred by both residents and practicing anesthesiologists. The revised Ninth Edition prepares you for the oral and written boards with more than 60 real-world cases accompanied by questions that conform to the four areas of questioning on the oral boards, reinforcing step-by-step critical thinking about today’s surgical anesthesia and patient management.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975120035

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PSHE & Citizenship for KS3

By: Jackie Hill,Cathy Rushforth,Jill Tordoff

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PSHE & Citizenship for KS3

By: Jackie Hill,Cathy Rushforth,Jill Tordoff

Providing a wide range of flexible teaching materials that can be used in any context, this book includes photocopiable activities which build on active learning and group work techniques to support the main aspects of the PSHE and citizenship framework at Key Stage 3.

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Evans Brothers

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023752631X

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Darkmere

A Prelude

By: Jill Bretherton

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Darkmere

A Prelude

By: Jill Bretherton

Jeremiah and Shae-nae know of the horror on the other side of the Hole because they have been there. When the Hole spits them out in Darkmere they are just glad to be alive, but they soon realise to their horror that they are not the only things to have been spat out by Hole. The teenagers are bound by a fate that began drawing them together thousands of years before they were even born. Now they are fatefully united in Darkmere at the most crucial moment in the world's history. The evil energy tycoon Levi Washington intends to reveal to the world the secret of the Hole. It is a secret that will cause a shattering change in the fortunes of the human race.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1906510075

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Corporate Governance and Accountability

By: Jill Solomon

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Corporate Governance and Accountability

By: Jill Solomon

Corporate Governance and Accountability presents students with a complete and current survey of the latest developments involving how a company is directed and controlled. Providing a broad research-based perspective, this comprehensive textbook examines global corporate governance systems, the role and responsibilities of the directorate, and the frameworks designed to ensure effective corporate accountability for stakeholders. A holistic approach to the subject enables students to develop a well-rounded knowledge of corporate governance theory and practice, policy documents, academic research, and current debates, issues, and trends. Now in its fifth edition, this comprehensive view of the corporate governance agenda features fully revised content that reflects new research and global developments in codes of practice and governance and accountability mechanisms. In-depth chapters contain numerous real-world case studies and compelling debate and discussion topics, exploring corporate transparency, social responsibility, boardroom diversity, shareholder activism, and many other timely issues.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119561205

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Paleonutrition

By: Mark Q. Sutton,Kristin D. Sobolik,Jill K. Gardner

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Paleonutrition

By: Mark Q. Sutton,Kristin D. Sobolik,Jill K. Gardner

Paleonutrition is the analysis of prehistoric human diets and the interpretation of dietary intake in relation to health and nutrition. As a field of study, it addresses prehistoric diets in order to determine the biological and cultural implications for individuals as well as for entire populations, placing archaeological interpretations into an anthropological context. Throughout history, and long before written records, human culture has been constantly in flux. The study of paleonutrition provides valuable insights into shifts and changes in human history, whatever their causes. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the topic. Intended for students and professionals, it describes the nature of paleonutrition studies, reviews the history of paleonutrition research, discusses methodological issues in the reconstruction of prehistoric diets, presents theoretical frameworks frequently used in paleonutrition research, and showcases examples in which paleonutritional analyses have been successfully conducted on prehistoric individuals, groups, and populations. It offers an integrative approach to understanding state-of-the-art anthropological dietary, health, and nutritional assessments. The most recent and innovative methods used to reconstruct prehistoric diets are discussed, along with the major ways in which paleonutrition data are recovered, analyzed, and interpreted. Paleonutrition includes five contemporary case studies that provide useful models of how to conduct paleonutrition research. Topics range from ancient diets in medieval Nubia to children’s health in the prehistoric American Southwest to honey use by an ethnographic group of East African foragers. As well as providing interesting examples of applying paleonutrition techniques, these case studies illustrate the mutually beneficial linkages between ethnography and archaeology.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816508216

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9780816508211

Poems from Paintings

By: Jill Saudek

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Poems from Paintings

By: Jill Saudek

These poems were inspired by works of art, chosen across place and time for their intrinsic power and the challenge they present to provoke thoughts and feelings in the viewer. Ideally, readers should find a reproduction of the painting – easily available on the internet – to contemplate, before reading the poem. The hope is that readers might become aware of previously unnoticed aspects of the work and be interested in seeing how their own responses match or indeed conflict with those of the author. Thus, the collection aims to offer an invitation to contribute to an ongoing dialogue between the artist, the poet and the reader. All art forms open a window into other lives and ways of seeing; this interplay between the genres provides an opportunity to reflect upon much that lies beyond one’s own immediate experience.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398459712

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Watercolour Secrets

By: Jill Leman

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Watercolour Secrets

By: Jill Leman

This beautiful book showcases the work of the members of the prestigious Royal Watercolour Society, including Ken Howard, Sonia Lawson and many other fine and well-known contemporary watercolour painters. Each artist discusses their inspiration and gives their best practical advice for working in this medium, offering a fascinating insight into the methods and techniques of the professional artists. Have you ever wondered how an artist starts a piece, what keeps them working at it, how they make marks and mix colour or when they know a painting is finished? This intimate exploration of the daily creative striving of the artist and their patient technical procedures will fascinate professional and aspiring artists, collectors and anyone with a general interest in painting.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1789941040

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Verdict Unsafe

By: Jill McGown

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Verdict Unsafe

By: Jill McGown

Detective Inspector Judy Hill anxiously watched the trial of serial rapist Colin Arthur Drummond from the public gallery--never forgetting his chilling threat that she would be his next victim. The prosecution should have an open-and-shut case. But sixteen months later Drummond is back on the streets, threatening Judy once more. And as Judy sets out to prove Drummond's guilt for the second time, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd is called to a horrifying scene. It appears Colin Drummond has struck again. . . .

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When Blood and Bones Cry Out

Journeys Through the Soundscape of Healing and Reconciliation

By: John Paul Lederach,Angela Jill Lederach

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When Blood and Bones Cry Out

Journeys Through the Soundscape of Healing and Reconciliation

By: John Paul Lederach,Angela Jill Lederach

Explores the processes of social healing and reconciliation in traumatised communities such as Sierra Leone, Somalia, Liberia, Colombia; Foreword by Judy Atkinson.

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Oxford University Press

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0199837104

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Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology

Notes on a Liminal Science

By: Jill Gladys Morawski

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Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology

Notes on a Liminal Science

By: Jill Gladys Morawski

Explores how science can accommodate feminist inquiry and how feminism can make use of science

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University of Michigan Press

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0472064819

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When I in Awesome Wonder

Liturgy Distilled from Daily Life

By: Jill Y. Crainshaw

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When I in Awesome Wonder

Liturgy Distilled from Daily Life

By: Jill Y. Crainshaw

All of life is liturgy. People encounter God as they live, work, and play in human communities and as they work to sustain the health of communities and the ground on which communities are built. Liturgy is distilled from everyday life when we peer through the mist and see the sacramental and spiritual dimensions of daily actions, objects, conversations, and events. In When I in Awesome Wonder, Jill Y. Crainshaw explores this dimension of spirituality and celebrates the ways God's sacramental gifts and presence arise from and return to everyday human experiences.

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Liturgical Press

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0814645577

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Sensational Devotion

Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America

By: Jill C. Stevenson

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Sensational Devotion

Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America

By: Jill C. Stevenson

Sensational Devotion examines contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land recreations, creationist museums, and megachurches in order to understand how they serve their evangelical believer-users while also shaping larger cultural and national dialogues. Jill Stevenson explores how performative media support specific theologies and core beliefs by creating sensual, live experiences for those who use them. The book explores evangelical performance across a range of media and sites, including film, television, theater, tourist attractions, museums, and places of worship. Using historical research coupled with firsthand experiences, it critically examines these spaces and events within their specific religious, cultural, and national contexts, while placing them within a long devotional tradition to suggest how they cultivate religious belief by generating vivid, sensual, affectively oriented, and individualized experiences. Stevenson’s analysis builds upon existing work on performance and cognition, as well as theories of affect, as it contributes to existing scholarship on American evangelicalism and evangelical Christian media.

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0472029096

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Memory, Place and Autobiography

Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking

By: Jill Daniels

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Memory, Place and Autobiography

Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking

By: Jill Daniels

There has been a significant growth in autobiographical documentary films in recent years. This innovative book proposes that the filmmaker in her dual role as maker and subject may act as a cultural guide in an exploration of the social world. It argues that, in the cinematic mediation of memory, the mimetic approach in the construction of documentary films may not be feasible, and memory may instead be evoked elliptically through hybrid strategies such as critical realism and fictional enactment. Recognizing that identity is formed by history and what ‘goes on’ in the world, the book charts the historical trajectory of the British independent filmmaking movement from the mid-1970s to the present growth of new online distribution outlets and new media through digital technologies and social media.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527524043

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Our Fine Grandmother: Her Life and her Descendants

By: Jill Anne Quick

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Our Fine Grandmother: Her Life and her Descendants

By: Jill Anne Quick

This is the story of Edith Bickle Drew, our fine grandmother, and her descendants. Edith was born in Canada during the Victorian Era and grew up in the protective environment of a large extended family. She moved to the United States after her marriage to our grandfather, who was a college professor and a minister. Photos of Edith throughout her life are included with details of her 98 years, in which she faced life's twists and turns with grace and a smile on her face. Although she lost her first son, she had five additional sons, one daughter, eighteen grandchildren, and many great grandchildren. Their stories are included in the final section of the book.

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Lulu.com

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1387186795

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Mae West

An Icon in Black and White

By: Jill Watts

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Mae West

An Icon in Black and White

By: Jill Watts

Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even today, years after her death, the actress and author is still regarded as the pop archetype of sexual wantonness and ribald humor. But who was this saucy starlet, a woman who was controversial enough to be jailed, pursued by film censors and banned from the airwaves for the revolutionary content of her work, and yet would ascend to the status of film legend? Sifting through previously untapped sources, author Jill Watts unravels the enigmatic life of Mae West, tracing her early years spent in the Brooklyn subculture of boxers and underworld figures, and follows her journey through burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway and, finally, Hollywood, where she quickly became one of the big screen's most popular--and colorful--stars. Exploring West's penchant for contradiction and her carefully perpetuated paradoxes, Watts convincingly argues that Mae West borrowed heavily from African American culture, music, dance and humor, creating a subversive voice for herself by which she artfully challenged society and its assumptions regarding race, class and gender. Viewing West as a trickster, Watts demonstrates that by appropriating for her character the black tradition of double-speak and "signifying," West also may have hinted at her own African-American ancestry and the phenomenon of a black woman passing for white. This absolutely fascinating study is the first comprehensive, interpretive account of Mae West's life and work. It reveals a beloved icon as a radically subversive artist consciously creating her own complex image.

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Oxford University Press

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0190289716

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Disrupting Leadership in Entrepreneurial Universities

Disengagement and Diversity in Higher Education

By: Jill Blackmore

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Disrupting Leadership in Entrepreneurial Universities

Disengagement and Diversity in Higher Education

By: Jill Blackmore

What is the future of the contemporary university and for those who lead them? Considering leadership in the broadest sense, including academic leadership (teaching and research) as well as leadership practices of those in formal management positions, Jill Blackmore outlines how multiple pressures on universities have produced leadership practices in management and research which are more corporate than collegial, and which discourage many academics from aspiring to leadership. She uses a range of theoretical tools, informed by critical and feminist organisational studies, to unpack higher education and how it is being transformed in ways that undermine its core work of teaching and research. Drawing from three Australian university case studies, this book uses leadership as a lens through which to investigate the effects of restructuring of the higher education sector which have impacted differently on academic identities and careers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350137847

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Environmental Health and Housing

Issues for Public Health

By: Jill Stewart,Zena Lynch

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Environmental Health and Housing

Issues for Public Health

By: Jill Stewart,Zena Lynch

The second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years. With a theory and practice approach to public health, this edition focuses more on population health, health protection and improvement, and inter-agency approaches to effective intervention in housing and health through evidence-based practice. It provides the ideal introduction to the area, covering policy and strategy in housing, housing and inequality, housing inclusion, and the public health agenda. It provides a renewed focus on research into evidence-based housing and health issues, which have become subjects of growing international interest in recent years. This edition includes more case studies, reflection, and a greater emphasis on wider living environments. It also includes major pieces of new legislation, most notably the Housing Act 2004 and the Housing and Planning Act 2016, as well as related regulations.

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Routledge

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135161195X

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Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity

Seeing and Believing

By: Jill Krebs

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Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity

Seeing and Believing

By: Jill Krebs

This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence on earth. Believers fashion themselves as devotees of Our Lady in several ways. Through autobiography, they look backward in time to see their lives as leading up to their participation in the prayer group or in some cases moving to Emmitsburg. By observing and telling miracle stories, they adopt an enchanted worldview in which the miraculous becomes everyday. Through relationships with Our Lady, their lives are enriched and even transformed. When they negotiate institutional loyalty and individual autonomy, they affirm their own authority and Catholic identity. Finally, through social media, they expand their devotional networks in ways that shift authority structures and empower individuals. Individuals engage beliefs, practices, and attitudes both arising from and resisting elements of modernity, religious pluralism and religious decline, empowerment and perceived disempowerment, tradition and innovation, and institutional loyalty and perceived disloyalty to reveal one way of understanding Catholic identity amidst the shifts and flows of modern change.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498523560

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9781498523561

Tending to Virginia

A Novel

By: Jill McCorkle

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Tending to Virginia

A Novel

By: Jill McCorkle

This is the story of Virginia Turner Ballard, know to her North Carolina relatives as Ginny Sue. It's also the story of her mother, her grandmother, her great aunts, her closest cousin--three generations of women who gather around Virginia to help her at the end of a hard pregnancy, to tend to her, to help her prepare for the fourth generation. This kind of family attendance, this kind of tending to, is Southern to the core, offering, as it does, the occasion for reviving and trading entwined family stories. Tending to Virginia is a novel of one family's most important stories--how they happened, how they were perceived, how they were remembered, how their truth is revealed. In the end, an eruption of family confessions becomes revelation--revelation as legacy, passed down among a family's women; revelation as a family's gift in celebration of growing up, a process Jill McCorkle knows lasts into old age. In her characterizations of these vivid women playing out their generational roles in the contemporary South, McCorkle presents us with a powerful insight--that the strongest family bonds are, for better or worse, as often created by what is held back as by what is spoken.

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Algonquin Books

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1616202017

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9781616202019

Ten Huts

By: Jill Sigman

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Ten Huts

By: Jill Sigman

Described as an artist of "prodigious imagination and intelligence" by the New York Times, Jill Sigman makes art at the intersection of dance, visual art, and social practice. An artist's book that explores the ability of art to engage us and re-envision our environment, Ten Huts documents a series of site-specific huts that were hand built from found and repurposed materials ranging from the mundane (e-waste and plastic bottles) to the bizarre (circus detritus, dental molds, and mugwort grown on the banks of a toxic creek) in landscapes as varied as industrial Brooklyn and the Norwegian Arctic. Each of the extraordinary huts in this full-color book is a structure, a sculpture, and an emergency preparedness kit that raises questions about sustainability, shelter, real estate, and our future on this planet. Ten Huts features an artist essay by Jill Sigman and 499 illustrations, along with essays about The Hut Project by Thomas Hylland Eriksen (anthropology), André Lepecki (performance studies), Matthew McLendon (art history), Elise Springer (philosophy), and Eva Yaa Asantewaa (dance). Also includes a foreword by Pamela Tatge.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819576905

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Negotiation Preparation in a Global World

Symptoms of Success and Failure

By: Jill E. Rudd,D. Timothy Hughes

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Negotiation Preparation in a Global World

Symptoms of Success and Failure

By: Jill E. Rudd,D. Timothy Hughes

Negotiation Preparation in a Global World guides the reader through a series of issues to consider in building international and intercultural business negotiation skills. It takes the approach of examining failed business negotiations to analyze how improved communication might have led to successful outcomes. Each chapter presents theoretical background related to a communication failure and explores alternative strategies to the situation. This volume is ideal for undergraduate- and graduate-level students studying business, leadership, and organizational development, as well as those new to the global marketplace or interested in learning how to negotiate in the intercultural business arena.

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Routledge

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1351700707

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9781351700702

Yard Art and Handmade Places

Extraordinary Expressions of Home

By: Jill Nokes,Pat Jasper

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Yard Art and Handmade Places

Extraordinary Expressions of Home

By: Jill Nokes,Pat Jasper

Jill Nokes, an authority on native plants and ecological restoration, traveled across the state of Texas, seeking out residents who had transformed their yards and gardens into oases of art and exuberant personal expression. In this book, she presents their stories, told in their own words, about why they created these handmade places and what their yard art has come to mean to them and to their communities.

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University of Texas Press

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0292716796

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9780292716797

A Is for American

Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States

By: Jill Lepore

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A Is for American

Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States

By: Jill Lepore

What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together. In A is for American, award-winning historian Jill Lepore portrays seven men who turned to language to help shape a new nation’s character and boundaries. From Noah Webster’s attempts to standardize American spelling, to Alexander Graham Bell’s use of “Visible Speech” to help teach the deaf to talk, to Sequoyah’s development of a Cherokee syllabary as a means of preserving his people’s independence, these stories form a compelling portrait of a developing nation’s struggles. Lepore brilliantly explores the personalities, work, and influence of these figures, seven men driven by radically different aims and temperaments. Through these superbly told stories, she chronicles the challenges faced by a young country trying to unify its diverse people.

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Vintage

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0375704086

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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

By: Jill Lepore

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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

By: Jill Lepore

From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Although Silicon Valley likes to imagine that it has no past, the scientists of Simulmatics are almost undoubtedly the long-dead ancestors of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—or so argues Jill Lepore, distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, in this “hilarious, scathing, and sobering” (David Runciman) account of the origins of predictive analytics and behavioral data science.

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1631496115

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9781631496110

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