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And Still the Flowers Grow

By: Joan McNamee

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On a sunny August afternoon in 1852, on the northern coast of Lake Erie, two dozen bodies from the ill-fated Atlantic Paddle Steamer shipwreck washed ashore and were rapidly retrieved from their watery graves by pioneer farmers homesteading on the Long Point peninsula. Some passenger did survive to tell their stories. While the Long Point families were most receptive to guiding and supporting some of these survivors with what was left of their tattered lives, they never could have imagined how their own lives would be so intimately affected by these destitute survivors. For Mary O'Malley and her three small children, her quest to discover the fate of her missing husband would take a devastating and surprising turn. Fellow passengers, Toby Ryan, a restless 19 year old Irish immigrant had stored up enough hate, revenge and anger to keep him afloat for as long as it took, the deadly consequences of his own unfinished business hanging precariously in the balance.

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1525591711

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in a Manor of Speaking

By: Joan McNamee

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in a Manor of Speaking

By: Joan McNamee

Even after twenty years, the tight-knit Ontario community of Long Point County remains haunted by the tragic Lake Erie shipwreck that took place just off its coast in 1852. Several of its survivors still live among them even now, having been adopted into local families after washing ashore. Even the sunken wreckage of the ship itself had changed lives, and not for the better—most notably that of one of its most promising young men, drawn by the dangerous lure of its rumoured treasures. Still, no one in town had been more affected by the tragedy than local historian Becky McCormack. She’d dedicated the past two decades of her life to intensive research in the hopes of uncovering, at last, the identities of each person who’d been lost on that horrible day and ensuring that none would remain unmourned or forgotten, whether buried namelessly in the local cemetery or lost to Lake Erie’s unforgiving waters. No longer young by anybody’s standards, and with dementia beginning to sink its claws into her once razor-sharp mind, Becky’s family and friends can now only hope that she’ll finish her life’s work before it’s too late, attaining the closure and peace she’s sought on behalf of others for so long. And in doing so ... finally reclaim her own.

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FriesenPress

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103830203X

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9781038302038

Early Literacy

By: Joan Brooks McLane,Gillian Dowley McNamee

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Early Literacy

By: Joan Brooks McLane,Gillian Dowley McNamee

A clear and concise discussion of young children's growth toward literacy, with examples of the contexts (home, neighborhood, preschool, etc.) that encourage and enhance that growth. Paper edition (unseen), $7.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Harvard University Press

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0674221648

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9780674221642

Secrets of Voice-over Success

Top Voice-over Artists Reveal how They Did it

By: Joan Baker

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Secrets of Voice-over Success

Top Voice-over Artists Reveal how They Did it

By: Joan Baker

The inside how-to scoop on the lucrative career of voice-over acting told by the top talents in the field, including voice-over actors from Law and Order, ABC News, The Today Show, and the Sopranos. An inspirational, real-world, practical handbook for anyone seeking a career in the highly lucrative field of voice-over acting.

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Sentient Publications

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1591810337

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9781591810339

Television and National Sport

The United States and Britain

By: Joan Mary Chandler

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Television and National Sport

The United States and Britain

By: Joan Mary Chandler

Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities with sizable Cambodian ethnic communities. Unlike the dozens of autobiographies published by Cambodians that focus largely on their victimization and experiences during the Khmer Rouge regime before fleeing Cambodia, these narratives describe how Cambodian refugees have adapted to life in the United States. Providing insiders' views of the issues and challenges the group is encountering, Not Just Victims focuses on communities in Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and the Massachusetts towns of Fall River and Lowell. Sucheng Chan's extensive introduction provides a historical framework within which the stories of the refugees can be better understood. She discusses the civil war that brought death to half a million people (1970-75), the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution (1975-79), the border war during the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia (1979-89), and the additional travails faced by those who escaped to holding camps in Thailand. The book also includes an essay on oral history and a substantial bibliography.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252015169

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9780252015168

Your Preschooler Discovers the Fine Arts

By: Joan Mishra

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Your Preschooler Discovers the Fine Arts

By: Joan Mishra

Drawing on the most creative and humane early childhood methods of this century (Suzuki, Montessori, Reggio Emilia and others) as well as insights from eastern philosophy, this significant new work represents an innovative approach to preschool education. The author brings a thoroughly integrative orientation to bear in her understanding of how children can best develop academic and creative abilities. Based on her experience of designing the Houston preschool, Allegro Conservatory, the author’s approach is at once high-minded and down-to-earth. She offers the reader clear and simple explanations of rather profound philosophies as well as a practical means to put these ideas into effect. The first chapters delineate the school’s philosophy and discuss in some detail the qualities of a nurturing environment. Those sections also offer specific guidelines on developing positive parent, teacher and child behaviors. In step-by-step fashion, the book then demonstrates an imaginative, yet academic curriculum for young children. It emphasizes the early teaching of basic skills as well as training in the fine arts, especially music. Research on the “Mozart Effect” has stimulated recent parental interest in the powerful influence of music on the young child’s brain. This book takes that research one step further by advocating the child’s exposure to all types of greatness in subjects such as literature, art, drama and philosophy as well. This work represents a bright new expansion in the field of early childhood education. It leads the preschool educator from a narrow focus on letters, colors, numbers and socialization skills to a vast new realm of higher learning. Hopefully, its concepts will spark creative thought in the minds of all parents and educators who read it.

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iUniverse

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0595138748

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9780595138746

Barack Obama

By: Joan Stoltman

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Barack Obama

By: Joan Stoltman

In 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American president of the United States. Just one year later in 2009, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his incredible efforts to create international diplomacy. This biography introduces readers to Obama's extraordinary story, including significant moments from his youth. Even before his presidency, Obama accomplished amazing things, such as becoming the first African American president of the Harvard Review. Striking photographs and images illustrate Obama's compelling biography. Fact boxes provide bite-sized chunks of interesting information. This inspiring book is sure to encourage readers to explore activism and politics.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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1538218305

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9781538218303

Literature for Young Adults

Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

By: Joan L. Knickerbocker

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Literature for Young Adults

Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

By: Joan L. Knickerbocker

Young adults are actively looking for anything that connects them with the changes happening in their lives, and the books discussed throughout Literature for Young Adults have the potential to make that connection and motivate them to read. It explores a great variety of works, genres, and formats, but it places special emphasis on contemporary works whose nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions make them well suited to young adult readers. It also looks at the ways in which contemporary readers access and share the works they're reading, and it shows teachers ways to incorporate nontraditional ways of accessing and sharing books throughout their literature programs. In addition to traditional genre chapters, Literature for Young Adults includes chapters on literary nonfiction; poetry, short stories, and drama; cover art, picture books, illustrated literature, and graphic novels; and film. It recognizes that, while films can be used to complement print literature, they are also a literacy format in their own right-and one that young adults are particularly familiar and comfortable with. The book's discussion of literary language--including traditional elements as well as metafictive terms--enables readers to share in a literary conversation with their students (and others) when communicating about books. It will help readers teach young adults the language they need to articulate their responses to the books they are reading.

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Taylor & Francis

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135181303X

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9781351813037

Family Therapy and Chronic Illness

By: Joan Atwood

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Family Therapy and Chronic Illness

By: Joan Atwood

Treatment for the chronically ill has traditionally focused on physical factors and symptoms, despite the fact that chronic illness also affects life in an emotional and spiritual way. The approach toward treatment described in this volume addresses all aspects of a patient's life, including their interpersonal experiences and relationships, presenting family therapists and family physicians as part of the same treatment team. This volume thus provides a foundation for understanding the role illness plays in family systems. The meaning an individual gives to an illness is profoundly influenced by and influences that person's social world. In turn, social culture and social networks both shape and are shaped by the individual's experiences. Exploring how the meaning of chronic illness is defined tells us much about the individual's interpersonal relations and the resultant meaning given to the person's illness. As a consequence, family therapy must be an integral part of the treatment plan for chronically ill patients . Family Therapy and Chronic Illness approaches chronic illness from a leading-edge perspective. This approach enables therapists to listen attentively to complicated narratives. Because these stories, feelings, and emotions are difficult to describe, the clients have demanding "telling" tasks while therapists have demanding "listening" tasks. This book sends an important message not just about the chronically ill, but also about their families, therapists, and doctors, and how they can work together to develop the best treatment plan possible.

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Routledge

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1351520296

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9781351520294

50 Health Scares That Fizzled

By: Joan R. Callahan

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50 Health Scares That Fizzled

By: Joan R. Callahan

This engaging, nontechnical book discusses 50 health scares that captured the public's attention before fading away, covering real and perceived health threats from long-ago eras to present times. Despite the benefits of advanced technology and modern safety mechanisms, the world around us seems to grow ever more dangerous and fraught with hidden risks. Even in the information age, it is challenging to discern factual, scientific information from sensationalized accounts in the media, "urban legends," or unsubstantiated Internet lore. In 50 Health Scares That Fizzled, award-winning author and researcher Joan R. Callahan examines 50 health scares in 7 distinct categories: medical interventions, infectious diseases, food scares, additives in foods or beverages, other biological hazards, chemical or radiological exposures, and lifestyle choices. With great wit and a light tone, Dr. Callahan alleviates readers' concerns and deftly explains the complex issues, making the subject matter approachable.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313385394

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9780313385391

Dig Your Heels In

Navigate Corporate BS and Build the Company You Deserve

By: Joan Snyder Kuhl

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Dig Your Heels In

Navigate Corporate BS and Build the Company You Deserve

By: Joan Snyder Kuhl

This comprehensive guide for professional women offers inspiration and practical strategies for getting the career you deserve. In Dig in Your Heels, Joan Kuhl helps women create a clear vision of what they deserve in their careers and a practical path for turning that vision into reality. She offers strategies for overcoming sexist attitudes in the office, as well as for dealing with self-limiting behaviors like Imposter's Syndrome and the Myth of Meritocracy. Kuhl also describes how to build support networks before you even need them and explains how to get actionable feedback that will help you get to the next level—the kind women are rarely afforded. Case studies, practical exercises, and inspiring stories from Kuhl's work with clients at companies such as Goldman Sachs, U.S. Soccer, BlackRock, and top business schools make this a truly comprehensive guide. It's an indispensable resource for women who are determined to secure their seat at the table and create a welcoming workplace for everyone.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523098376

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9781523098378

Count the Ways to Get Around

Learning to Count to 5

By: Joan Chapman

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Count the Ways to Get Around

Learning to Count to 5

By: Joan Chapman

Whether it's a train, planes, cars, or bikes, town-life provides many opportunities to practice counting skills. Readers follow along as different modes of transportation are counted.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1448840503

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9781448840502

How to Cook a Tapir

A Memoir of Belize

By: Joan Fry

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How to Cook a Tapir

A Memoir of Belize

By: Joan Fry

In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long working honeymoon in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping experience, the romance of living in a hut and learning to cook on a makeshift stove quickly faded. Guided by the village women and their children, this twenty-year-old American who had never made more than instant coffee came eventually to love the people and the food that at first had seemed so foreign. While her husband conducted his clinical study of the native population, Fry entered their world through friendships forged over an open fire. Coming of age in the jungle among the Kekchi and Mopan Maya, Fry learned to teach, to barter and negotiate, to hold her ground, and to share her space and, perhaps most important, she learned to cook. This is the funny, heartfelt, and provocative story of how Fry painstakingly baked and boiled her way up the food chain, from instant oatmeal and flour tortillas to bush-green soup, agouti (a big rodent), gibnut (a bigger rodent), and, finally, something even the locals wouldn t tackle: a mountain cow, or tapir. Fry s efforts to win over her neighbors and hair-pulling students offers a rare and insightful picture of the Kekchi Maya of Belize, even as this unique culture was disappearing before her eyes.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803224427

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9780803224421

Beyond Discovery

Moving Academic Research to the Market

By: Director of Commercialization College of Veterinary Medicine Jean E Schelhorn,Jean E. Schelhorn,Joan M. Herbers

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Beyond Discovery

Moving Academic Research to the Market

By: Director of Commercialization College of Veterinary Medicine Jean E Schelhorn,Jean E. Schelhorn,Joan M. Herbers

The book is a guide for academic researchers, especially scientists and engineers, on how to move their discoveries to the marketplace. Few academics understand what tech transfer is or how it works, and many shy away from it because they equate commercialization with starting a company. Yet those same individuals can be intrigued to learn of additional pathways that enable discoveries to be translated into marketable products or services. We help researchers explore multiple routes for commercialization, guides them through the personal decisions they must face, describes programs designed to help them, and provides advice to avoid common problems. We frame commercialization as the primary (often the only) way for research to solve societal problems. Impact can best be achieved if, a discovery leads to an invention/ that fills an unmet need in the marketplace. The range of entities that support technology transfer are described, and we offer best practices for researchers to maximize support the process. Engaging researchers effectively requires that institutions themselves adapt. Aligning commercialization with the rewards system is crucial, and integrating commercialization training into graduate and postdoctoral programs will produce the next generation of academic inventors. Furthermore, women and minorities face special challenges that must be overcome so that everyone's discovery receives support for commercialization. Woven through the book are profiles of academic inventors, which illustrate key points and help researchers to visualize themselves in such a role"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197512712

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9780197512715

in a Manor of Speaking

By: Joan McNamee

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in a Manor of Speaking

By: Joan McNamee

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1038302021

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Young Las Vegas

1905-1931: Before the Future Found Us

By: Joan Burkhart Whitely

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Young Las Vegas

1905-1931: Before the Future Found Us

By: Joan Burkhart Whitely

The Las Vegas we know was conceived -- if anybody really conceived it -- in 1931, when Nevada liberalised its divorce and gambling laws, which would ultimately transform the city into America's playground for grown-ups. It was also the year an unprecedented engineering project began, that would turn the Colorado River from a wild killer stream to a wild reservoir that waters not only California vegetables but also sprawling Las Vegas suburbs. From 1905 to 1931, Las Vegas was still a tiny oasis in a big, dangerous desert. Its isolated people made their own swamp coolers, their own entertainment and sometimes their own whiskey. The author, Joan Burkhardt Whitely, enlisted older Las Vegans to help capture the memories of a Mojave Mayberry where neighbours took care of each other, not merely because no one else would, but because it was their hometown, and they cared.

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