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Mind Games

By: Joan Leslie Woodruff

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Reviewed by Deborah Fox, News-Bulletin Staff Writer, Valencia County News-Bulletin: "Increasing the level of contentment in your life is simple science, says counselor and author Joan Leslie Woodruff, and her new book, Mind Games, published by AuthorHouse, will show you how ... Woodruff is a local author who has written seven books of fiction and one nonfiction, MIND GAMES. Her book, GHOST in the RAINBOW is currently in negotiations for film rights, and she anticipates the movie will be filmed locally.

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A Portrait of Joan

The Autobiography of Joan Crawford

By: Joan Crawford

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A Portrait of Joan

The Autobiography of Joan Crawford

By: Joan Crawford

One of Hollywood’s greatest stars recalls her fabulous life: at nine, scrubbing floors in a Kansas City school; at twenty, motion picture stardom and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; in 1945, the Academy Award for her sensational comeback-triumph in Mildred Pierce; and today, a glamorous “double life” as Hollywood star and corporation executive. Richly illustrated with photographs throughout.

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465

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787208915

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9781787208919

A Paradise For Boys and Girls

Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks

By: Hallie E. Bond,Joan Jacobs Brumberg,Leslie Paris

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A Paradise For Boys and Girls

Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks

By: Hallie E. Bond,Joan Jacobs Brumberg,Leslie Paris

For over a century children have spent their summers at "sleepaway" camps in the Adirondacks. These camps inspired vivid memories and created an enduring legacy that has come to be a uniquely American tradition. In A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks, a complement to the Adirondack museum exhibit of the same name, the authors explore the history of Adirondack children’s camps, their influence on the lives of the campers, and their impact on the communities in which they exist. Drawing on the rich documentary and pictorial evidence gathered from the histories of 331 camps located in the Adirondacks from 1886 to the present, this collection chronicles the changing attitudes about children and childhood. Historian Leslie Paris details social change in "Pink Music: Continuity and Change at Early Adirondack Summer Camps." In the title essay of the book, Hallie Bond offers a history of Adirondack camping from the establishment of Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain in 1892 to the present. Finally, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg concludes the collection with "A Wiser and Safer Place: The Meaning of Camping During World War II." Lavishly illustrated with historic photographs, the book includes a directory of Adirondack camps, with brief descriptive notes for each of the camps. The photographs and essays in this volume offer readers a richer understanding of this singular region and its powerful connection to childhood.

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168

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Syracuse University Press

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0815608225

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9780815608226

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

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3140

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195335791

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9780195335798

First Lady of the Confederacy

Varina Davis’s Civil War

By: Joan E. Cashin

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First Lady of the Confederacy

Varina Davis’s Civil War

By: Joan E. Cashin

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.

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416

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Harvard University Press

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0674029267

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9780674029262

a family venture: men and women on the southern frontier

By: joan e cashin

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a family venture: men and women on the southern frontier

By: joan e cashin

This social history examines the westward migration of US farming families from the southern seaboard in the years before the American Civil War.

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217

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195053443

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9780195053449

Visualizing the Nation

Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

By: Joan B. Landes

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Visualizing the Nation

Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

By: Joan B. Landes

Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In her lavishly illustrated and gracefully written book, Joan B. Landes explores this paradox within the workings of revolutionary visual culture and traces the interaction between pictorial and textual political arguments. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of the dangers of feminine influence and the seductions of visual imagery. The use of caricatures and allegories contributed to the destruction of the masculinized images of hierarchic absolutism and to forging new roles for men and women in both the intimate and public arenas. Landes tells the fascinating story of how the depiction of the nation as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism and to bind male subjects to the nation-state. Despite their political subordination, women too were invited to identify with the project of nationalism. Recent views of the French Revolution have emphasized linguistic concerns; in contrast, Landes stresses the role of visual cognition in fashioning ideas of nationalism and citizenship. Her book demonstrates as well that the image is often a site of contestation, as individual viewers may respond to it in unexpected, even subversive, ways.

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Cornell University Press

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1501727532

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9781501727535

Mary P. Follett

Creating Democracy, Transforming Management

By: Joan C. Tonn

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Mary P. Follett

Creating Democracy, Transforming Management

By: Joan C. Tonn

Mary P. Follett (1868–1933) brought new dimensions to the theory and practice of management and was one of America’s preeminent thinkers about democracy and social organization. The ideas Follett developed in the early twentieth century continue even today to challenge thinking about business and civic concerns. This book, the first biography of Follett, illuminates the life of this intriguing woman and reveals how she developed her farsighted theories about the organization of human relations. Out of twenty years of civic work in Boston’s immigrant neighborhoods, Follett developed ideas about the group basis of democracy and the foundations of social interaction that placed her among leading progressive intellectuals. Later in her career, she delivered influential lectures on business management that form the basis of our contemporary discourse about collaborative leadership, worker empowerment, self-managed teams, conflict resolution, the value of inclusivity and diversity, and corporate social responsibility.

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638

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Yale University Press

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0300128029

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9780300128024

The Shiloh Renewal

By: Joan Leslie Woodruff

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The Shiloh Renewal

By: Joan Leslie Woodruff

Sandy experiences visions from the past as she struggles to accept her sister Penny's death.

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Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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0930773500

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9780930773502

Book's by Joan Leslie Woodruff

Mind Games

Mind Games

Mind Games

Mind Games

A Portrait of Joan

A Portrait of Joan

A Paradise For Boys and Girls

A Paradise For Boys and Girls

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

First Lady of the Confederacy

First Lady of the Confederacy

a family venture: men and women on the southern frontier

a family venture: men and women on the southern frontier

Visualizing the Nation

Visualizing the Nation

Mary P. Follett

Mary P. Follett

The Shiloh Renewal

The Shiloh Renewal

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