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The Preacher's Bride

By: Jody Hedlund

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In 1650s England, a young Puritan maiden is on a mission to save the baby of her newly widowed preacher--whether her assistance is wanted or not. Always ready to help those in need, Elizabeth ignores John's protests of her aid. She's even willing to risk her lone marriage prospect to help the little family. Yet Elizabeth's new role as nanny takes a dangerous turn when John's boldness from the pulpit makes him a target of political and religious leaders. As the preacher's enemies become desperate to silence him, they draw Elizabeth into a deadly web of deception. Finding herself in more danger than she ever bargained for, she's more determined than ever to save the child--and man--she's come to love.

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Bethany House

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1441213902

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9781441213907

Raising the Global Floor

Dismantling the Myth That We Can’t Afford Good Working Conditions for Everyone

By: Jody Heymann,Alison Earle

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Raising the Global Floor

Dismantling the Myth That We Can’t Afford Good Working Conditions for Everyone

By: Jody Heymann,Alison Earle

Working conditions impact our health, the amount of time we can spend with family, our options during momentous life events, and whether we keep or lose a job when the unexpected occurs. The global community has accepted the argument that any country that guarantees decent working conditions will suffer higher unemployment and be less competitive. This book shatters this view by presenting the first ever global analysis of the relationship between labor conditions, national competitiveness, and unemployment rates in 90 countries.

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Stanford University Press

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0804768900

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9780804768900

Narcissus Sous Rature

Male Subjectivity in Contemporary American Poetry

By: Jody Norton

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Narcissus Sous Rature

Male Subjectivity in Contemporary American Poetry

By: Jody Norton

In Narcissus Sous Rature, Jody Norton argues that Contemporary American poetry's characteristic problematic is the subject's contestation of hir discursive condition. While self-comprehension is a central, recurrent concern in post-literate poetry, most poetries in English since the Enlightenment have conceived their lyric subjects in accordance with the foundational Western philosophical assumption of the rationality of being. However, after Freud, Heisenberg, Saussure, Derrida, and Lacan, conceptions of the lyric "I" as representative of a more or less permanent, self-conscious, and self-possessed personality, inhabiting an ontologically dependable natural and historical world in a consistent way are no longer credible." "The problems of how to conceptualize the psycho-linguistic structuration of the male (putatively masculine) subject and hir relation to hir cultural environment, and of how to represent both the subject and hir relations in a medium - language - that is complexly involved in the construction of both the subject and hir representation (and, in a certain sense, of the subject as representation) emerge, for Contemporary poets, out of an historic moment particularly strongly marked by theoretical developments in extra-literary fields. Norton asserts that the lyric speaker in Contemporary American poetry cannot be understood unless the explicit and implicit dialogic relations between religious, philosophical, psychological, linguistic, aesthetic, critical and poetic texts are made central to the interpretive project."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Bucknell University Press

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0838753566

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9780838753569

Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #3

By: Jody Houser

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Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #3

By: Jody Houser

The bumpy ride for the Doctor, Graham, Yasmin, and Ryan isn’t over yet… and now Perkins wants to steal the TARDIS! But the Doctor feels there is more to this mysterious time wanderer that meets the eye – can she get through to him before he does something terrible?

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Titan Comics

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1787730743

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9781787730748

Los Angeles for Free

By: Sabrina Weissler,Jody Weissler

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Los Angeles for Free

By: Sabrina Weissler,Jody Weissler

Created by the founders of LAwithKids.com, Los Angeles for Free is a comprehensive and annotated list of places to go throughout the Los Angeles area that are free.

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Teachtopia

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149285784X

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9781492857846

Stress Reduction for Caregivers

By: Jody Olshevski,Anne Katz

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Stress Reduction for Caregivers

By: Jody Olshevski,Anne Katz

As the older populations grow, an increasing number of people are faced with the challenges of caring for frail, older family members. Since the causes of frailty, and especially the causes of cognitive impairment, in late life can last for several years, caregiving can often be experienced as a chronic stressor. Caregiving is often associated with higher rates of depression and anxiety, and with lowered subjective health in the care provider. With this in mind, Stress Reduction for Caregivers addresses the issue of how to help caregivers manage and reduce their stress level. The book is unique in that it bridges the gap between research and practice. It includes a discussion of the stress and coping theories of caregiving developed by researchers in recent years. It also lays out a simple, practical training approach that utilizes four stress reduction techniques to assist professionals in adapting the theories to their practice: Stress Level Monitoring; Relaxation Training; Scheduling Relaxing Events and Cognitive Restructuring. Each technique is accompanied by case studies that demonstrate both the effectiveness and the challenges of applying the overall approach. With its strong base in research and its practical concern for the management and reduction of caregiver stress, this book is a must for professionals who desire to stay abreast of the latest techniques. It will also be of great benefit to advanced students examining the issues of caregiving.

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Routledge

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1317771850

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9781317771852

The Medieval Theater of Cruelty

Rhetoric, Memory, Violence

By: Jody Enders

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The Medieval Theater of Cruelty

Rhetoric, Memory, Violence

By: Jody Enders

Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.

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Cornell University Press

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0801487838

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9780801487835

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Cookbook & Entertaining Guide

By: Kim Laidlaw,Jody Revenson,Caroline Hall

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The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Cookbook & Entertaining Guide

By: Kim Laidlaw,Jody Revenson,Caroline Hall

Throw the spookiest soiree of the season with this delightful cookbook and entertaining guide inspired by Tim Burton's iconic film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Brimming with scary good fun, The Nightmare Before Christmas Cookbook & Entertaining Guide has everything you need to plan the perfect party. Is it Halloween? Christmas? Your birthday? No matter the occasion, this book will help you take your next dinner or event from routine to inspired--with a little help from Jack Skellington, Sally, Sandy Claws, and all their friends in Halloween Town. This book is divided into two parts. Part one includes over fifty mouthwatering recipes for appetizers, entrees, desserts, and drinks inspired by the movie--with options for sugar-free, gluten-free, and vegetarian guests. Part two includes detailed blueprints and planning instructions for several complete The Nightmare Before Christmas-themed parties, including creative crafts for DIY decorations, amusing activities, frightful favors, and more. Replicate these events exactly or mix and match ideas to create your own custom event. Make it stylish and scary or charming and full of cheer--either way your guests are guaranteed to have a screaming good time. Bursting with vibrant photography and free downloadable templates for invitations, decorations, and other printable ephemera, this book will make every party frighteningly fun. It's a true must-have for The Nightmare Before Christmas fans everywhere.

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Simon and Schuster

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1647221579

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9781647221577

Residues

Thinking Through Chemical Environments

By: Soraya Boudia,Angela N. H. Creager,Scott Frickel,Emmanuel Henry,Nathalie Jas,Carsten Reinhardt,Jody A. Roberts

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Residues

Thinking Through Chemical Environments

By: Soraya Boudia,Angela N. H. Creager,Scott Frickel,Emmanuel Henry,Nathalie Jas,Carsten Reinhardt,Jody A. Roberts

Residues properties -- Legacy -- Accretion -- Apprehension -- Residual materialism.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978818017

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9781978818019

Under My Bed and Other Essays

By: Jody Keisner

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Under My Bed and Other Essays

By: Jody Keisner

Jody Keisner was raised in rural Nebraska towns by a volatile father and kind but passive mother. As a young adult living alone for the first time, she began a nighttime ritual of checking under her bed each night, not sure who she was afraid of finding. An intruder? A monster? Her father? Keisner’s fears mature as she becomes a wife and mother, and the boogeyman under the bed shape-shifts, though its shapes are no less frightening—a young aunt’s drowning, the “chest chomp” in the classic horror movie The Thing, a diagnosis of a chronic autoimmune disease, the murder of a young college student, an eccentric grandmother’s belief in reincarnation and her dying advice: “Don’t be afraid.” In Under My Bed and Other Essays, Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of mothering daughters. In essays both literary and experimental, Keisner illustrates the tension between the illusion of safety, our desire for control, and our struggle to keep the things we fear from reaching out and pulling us under.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496232860

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9781496232861

Taking Baby Steps

How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception

By: Jody Lyneé Madeira

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Taking Baby Steps

How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception

By: Jody Lyneé Madeira

In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions through forming treatment relationships with medical professionals to confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility’s rocky terrain to create life and build families—a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security.

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Univ of California Press

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0520293045

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9780520293045

Writing Unemployment

Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures

By: Jody Mason

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Writing Unemployment

Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures

By: Jody Mason

This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated in and protested against the discursive framing of unemployment. It argues that Depression-era conceptions of unemployment shaped later twentieth-century understandings of both worklessness and citizenship. By examining novels, short stories, poetry, manifestos, and agitprop, Jody Mason situates the literary history of the cultural left in a broader context, challenges the dominant literary-historical narrative of the pioneer settler, and contributes to new scholarship on Canada’s modern period. By bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada’s most important writers.

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University of Toronto Press

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144269968X

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9781442699687

Bessie: Lost & Found

By: Jody Overend

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Bessie: Lost & Found

By: Jody Overend

Fifteen-year-old Bessie MacIntyre and her best pal, Ash, find themselves in Heaven, with no memory of how or when or why they ended up there. And when Jason—Bessie’s trusted companion since childhood, and later her boyfriend—appears out of the blue, she feels slivers of fear run up and down her spine. Is there a dark side to Jason she wasn’t aware of? Is he the reason they’re here? Desperate for answers, Bessie is willing to break the most sacred laws in all of Heaven on her quest. She has to know. Was it Jason? Or was something . . . or someone far more sinister involved? With the gentle guidance of Angel Mel, Bessie gradually unravels the truth.

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FriesenPress

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1460200918

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9781460200919

Women in the Presence

Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism

By: Jody Shapiro Davie

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Women in the Presence

Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism

By: Jody Shapiro Davie

A beautifully written ethnography that provides new insight into the functioning of congregations and the meaning of spirituality at the end of the twentieth century." —Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812215141

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9780812215144

Mudskippers and Other Extreme Fish Adaptations

By: Jody Sullivan Rake

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Mudskippers and Other Extreme Fish Adaptations

By: Jody Sullivan Rake

Explores various extreme fish adaptations throughout the world, including wrasses, anglerfish, and grunions"--

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Capstone Classroom

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1491401702

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9781491401705

The General Educator's Guide to Special Education

By: Jody L. Maanum

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The General Educator's Guide to Special Education

By: Jody L. Maanum

Provides information on disability categories, the referral and placement process, teaching strategies, and behavioral adaptations to the curriculum.

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Corwin Press

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1412971373

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9781412971379

The School Librarian as Curriculum Leader

By: Jody K. Howard

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The School Librarian as Curriculum Leader

By: Jody K. Howard

One of the only books to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the role of school librarians in student success, this guide offers everything you'll need to develop, align, and evaluate curriculum with your library collection in mind. This reference provides school library professors with strategies and tips for creating future school leaders out of current LIS students. Drawing upon her extensive experience as a school librarian, author Jody K. Howard heralds the library professional's role as information specialist, instructional partner, and curriculum advocate. Her insider's perspective is rich with tested strategies to help students seamlessly integrate the responsibilities of their multiple roles into daily activities. The work explains the process of curriculum mapping and collection development with an eye on teaching these tools to those new to the profession. The content provides methods for developing guided inquiry lessons in collaboration with teachers, illustrates ways to develop leadership skills while aligning the collection with the curriculum, and offers strategies for working alongside curriculum committees and classroom teachers to build a cohesive educational program. The final chapter explores the roles and responsibilities of school librarians at the district, state, and national level.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440844070

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9781440844072

The Mysticism of Hebrews

Exploring the Role of Jewish Apocalyptic Mysticism in the Epistle to the Hebrews

By: Jody A. Barnard

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The Mysticism of Hebrews

Exploring the Role of Jewish Apocalyptic Mysticism in the Epistle to the Hebrews

By: Jody A. Barnard

Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - Bangor University (North Wales), 2011.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161518810

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9783161518812

Comic Book Collections for Libraries

By: Bryan D. Fagan,Jody Condit Fagan

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Comic Book Collections for Libraries

By: Bryan D. Fagan,Jody Condit Fagan

This book will help librarians extend literary graphic novel collections to attract a large, untapped group of comic book readers with a sure-to-be-popular comic book collection. Do comic books belong in libraries? Absolutely—as Comic Book Collections for Libraries makes very clear. This illustrated guide defines the role of comic books in the modern library, provides a thorough grounding in the subject for beginners, and suggests new ideas for those already familiar with these perennial reader favorites. The book begins by introducing the structure of the comic book, industry players, and genres. The bulk of the guide, however, is comprised of actionable advice on such things as creating and maintaining the collection, cataloging for effective access, and promoting the collection, including how to feature comics with other library materials, such as movies and games. Drawing on the authors' experience, the volume answers numerous other questions as well. How can you tell which titles are age-appropriate for your library? Which titles are popular? How do you include characters that will appeal to diverse reader groups? Complete with checklists and a rich array of examples, this easy-to-use work can make every librarian a superhero.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598845128

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9781598845129

How to Write a Book Proposal

The Insider's Step-by-Step Guide to Proposals that Get You Published

By: Jody Rein,Michael Larsen

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How to Write a Book Proposal

The Insider's Step-by-Step Guide to Proposals that Get You Published

By: Jody Rein,Michael Larsen

THE ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR SELLING YOUR BOOK If you want to publish a book, you must present it to agents and publishers with a knock-your-socks-off proposal. Whether you're seeking a traditional press to publish your self-published book or trying to win over an agent for your graphic novel, memoir, or nonfiction title, you need an irresistible proposal. The better your proposal, the better the editor, publisher, and deal you will get. Nailing your proposal requires an understanding of how publishers work and how to brand yourself, build a platform, and structure your book. You'll learn it all in this breezy top-to-bottom revision of the classic 100,000-copy best-seller. Inside How to Write a Book Proposal 5th Edition, you will find: • Examples of successful proposals that earned six-figure deals • Guidance from agents, publishers, and writers • Ways to customize your proposal • Strategies for proposals in the Digital Age • Effective structures for narrative writers • A list of the "Top Ten Proposal Killers" This sassy, thorough guide from industry professionals Jody Rein and Michael Larsen will become your go-to for advice about publishing.

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Penguin

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1440348170

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9781440348174

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science

By: Jody Azzouni

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Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science

By: Jody Azzouni

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth? In this book, Jody Azziouni investigates the technology of science - the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between ourselves and what we endeavor to know and understand.

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392

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Routledge

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1134593422

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9781134593422

Music Across the Senses

Listening, Learning, and Making Meaning

By: Jody L. Kerchner

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Music Across the Senses

Listening, Learning, and Making Meaning

By: Jody L. Kerchner

Music Across the Senses shows how music educators can facilitate PK-12 students' listening skills using multisensory means-mapping, movement, and verbal descriptions-in general music and performance ensemble classes.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199967636

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9780199967636

Foundations of Voice Studies

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Voice Production and Perception

By: Jody Kreiman,Diana Sidtis

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Foundations of Voice Studies

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Voice Production and Perception

By: Jody Kreiman,Diana Sidtis

Foundations of Voice Studies provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the multifaceted role that voice quality plays in human existence. Offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on all facets of voice perception, illustrating why listeners hear what they do and how they reach conclusions based on voice quality Integrates voice literature from a multitude of sources and disciplines Supplemented with practical and approachable examples, including a companion website with sound files at www.wiley.com/go/voicestudies Explores the choice of various voices in advertising and broadcasting, and voice perception in singing voices and forensic applications Provides a straightforward and thorough overview of vocal physiology and control

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John Wiley & Sons

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144439505X

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9781444395051

The American Vice Presidency

From the Shadow to the Spotlight

By: Jody C Baumgartner

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The American Vice Presidency

From the Shadow to the Spotlight

By: Jody C Baumgartner

It is quite possible that no elected office has been more historically maligned than the vice presidency of the United States. From the beginning of American politics the office has been the object of ridicule by scholars, pundits, humorists, citizens, and even vice presidents themselves. The perception among many is that institution and its occupants are at best irrelevant. Recent history would suggest otherwise, but as it stands no book exists that takes a detailed look at the new, impactful vice presidency that’s been forged since Clinton/Gore took office. The American Vice Presidency fills an important hole in the literature available to those interested in the modern vice presidency. Concise yet comprehensive, this book is the fullest and most accurate examination of the office to date, covering the origins and constitutional roots of the institution, its history, and the slow transformation of the office starting in the mid-twentieth century. Jody C Baumgartner and Thomas F. Crumblin highlight major changes in vice presidential selection as well as the new and various roles that vice presidents are being asked to play in their administrations. The book emphasizes the increasingly substantive Vice Presidencies of Gore, Cheney, and Biden and both informs and spurs the debate surrounding what form and role the Vice Presidency will take on moving forward.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442228903

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9781442228900

The Girls Weekend

A Novel

By: Jody Gehrman

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The Girls Weekend

A Novel

By: Jody Gehrman

“A brooding meditation on how friendships buckle when we resent other people’s success”—for fans of psychological thrillers by Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley (Washington Post). A riveting locked-room mystery about five college friends whose reunion takes a dark turn—and unearths even darker secrets and grudges. Their reunion just became a crime scene . . . June Moody, a thirty-something English professor, just wants to get away from her recent breakup and reunite with girlfriends over summer break. Her old friend and longtime nemesis, Sadie MacTavish, a mega-successful author, invites June and her college friends to a baby shower at her sprawling estate in the San Juan Islands. June is less than thrilled to spend time with Sadie—and her husband, June's former crush—but agrees to go. The party gets off to a shaky start when old grudges resurface, but when they wake the next morning, they find something worse: Sadie is missing, the house is in shambles, and bloodstains mar the staircase. None of them has any memory of the night before; they wonder if they were drugged. Everyone's a suspect. Since June had a secret rendezvous with Sadie's husband, she has plenty of reason to suspect herself. Apparently, so do the cops. A Celtic knot of suspense and surprise, this brooding, atmospheric novel will keep you guessing as each twist reveals a new possibility. It will remind you of friendships hidden in the depths of your own past, and make you wonder how well you really know the people you've loved the longest.

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Crooked Lane Books

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1643853872

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9781643853871

Le Tumulte Noir

Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930

By: Jody Blake

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Le Tumulte Noir

Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930

By: Jody Blake

Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.

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Penn State Press

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0271017538

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9780271017532

The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy

By: Jody Duncan Jesser,Janine Pourroy

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The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy

By: Jody Duncan Jesser,Janine Pourroy

Behind the scenes—and the mask—of the great Batman film trilogy, including stunning illustrations. In 2005, director Christopher Nolan reimagined and forever redefined the Batman legend when he began his epic trilogy of films—Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises—starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader in a fresh, dynamic reboot of the franchise. All three films would go on to blockbuster success and critical acclaim—including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger’s unforgettable performance as Batman’s eternal nemesis, the Joker. The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy tells the complete story of these three monumental films. Based on in-depth interviews with Nolan and all of the films’ key cast and crew—including cowriters David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan, cinematographer Wally Pfister, and more—the book reveals the creative process behind the epic Dark Knight Trilogy, supported by lavish art and on and off-set photos. This is a fascinating glimpse into the minds that gave new life to one of the most beloved and renowned superheroes in history.

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ABRAMS

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1613124147

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9781613124147

Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends

By: Jody Enders

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Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends

By: Jody Enders

Part of every legend is true. Or so argues Jody Enders in this fascinating look at early French drama and the way it compels us to consider where the stage ends and where real life begins. This ambitious and bracing study explores fourteen tales of the theater that are at turns dark and dangerous, sexy and scandalous, humorous and frightening—stories that are nurtured by the confusion between truth and fiction, and imitation and enactment, until it becomes impossible to tell whether life is imitating art, or art is imitating life. Was a convicted criminal executed on stage during a beheading scene? Was an unfortunate actor driven insane while playing a madman? Did a theatrical enactment of a crucifixion result in a real one? Did an androgynous young man seduce a priest when portraying a female saint? Enders answers these and other questions while presenting a treasure trove of tales that have long seemed true but are actually medieval urban legends. On topics ranging through politics, religion, marriage, class, and law, these tales, Enders argues, do the cultural work of all urban legends: they disclose the hopes, fears, and anxieties of their tellers. Each one represents a medieval meditation created or dramatized by the theater with its power to blur the line between fiction and reality, engaging anyone who watches, performs, or is represented by it. Each one also raises pressing questions about the medieval and modern world on the eve of the Reformation, when Europe had never engaged more anxiously and fervently in the great debate about what was real, what was pretend, and what was pretense. Written with elegance and flair, and meticulously researched, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends will interest scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature, history, theater, performance studies, and anyone curious about urban legends.

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Doctor Who: The Road To The Thirteenth Doctor #3

The Twelfth Doctor

By: James Peaty,Jody Houser

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Doctor Who: The Road To The Thirteenth Doctor #3

The Twelfth Doctor

By: James Peaty,Jody Houser

The Twelfth Doctor and companion Bill have had quite the adventures of late, having faced off against both Weeping Angels and Heavenly Hosts on their last trip, rescuing the crew of a cargo spaceship in distress! With a hefty series of deadly escapades already under their belts, this dynamic due believe they’re ready for whatever time and space can thrown at them… Today, that comes in the form of a call for help from UNIT’s own Kate Stewart.

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1785869361

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Star Trek: Year Five - Experienced in Loss (Book 4)

By: Brandon Easton,Jim McCann,Jackson Lanzing,Collin Kelly,Paul Cornell,Jody Houser

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Star Trek: Year Five - Experienced in Loss (Book 4)

By: Brandon Easton,Jim McCann,Jackson Lanzing,Collin Kelly,Paul Cornell,Jody Houser

The five-year mission reaches its epic conclusion, where Kirk and the Enterprise crew will have their bonds tested, secrets revealed, and futures cast into doubt! First, Kirk meets his romantic match in fellow Starfleet captain Laura Rhone. But will she be the one, or the one that got away? Then, while investigating a mysterious structure on his home planet, Spock vanishes! Can Kirk, Bones, and company find where—or when—their friend has gone? And what does Spock's entanglement in Vulcan's past mean for its future? Finally, the showdown that's been building for the last year is here! Gary Seven and the shadowy AEGIS organization's scheme has stretched from the grand Tholian Assembly to the pestilential Harry Mudd. Now their ultimate plan comes to fruition, and only the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise can hope to stop it! When the smoke clears, what will be left for our heroes? Collects issues #20–25 of the series.

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IDW Publishing

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1649360274

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Spring Break Slaying

By: Jody Holford

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Spring Break Slaying

By: Jody Holford

What happens on spring break stays on spring break…except murder. It’s spring break in Rainbow Falls and true crime aficionado Annie Abbott is hoping to cater to the hoards of college kids descending on her coastal town by hosting a Gatsby-themed murder mystery party. She’s hoping her twenties era whodunnit at a local historic mansion will increase tourist revenue and build her business’s brand. The party is the talk of the town when a despised social media influencer is attacked and left for dead on the estate’s grounds. With the help of her online friends, Annie searches for clues. The list of suspects reads like the town’s social directory—but who benefits most from the victim’s silence? Annie’s parents are due home from their year-long adventure, so her time in Rainbow Falls is winding down. With a growing suspect list and tension among her friends, Annie worries about her own future. Should she settle in Rainbow Falls? Do she and Ben, her boyfriend and the town vet, have a future? Will she live long enough to find out?

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Tule Publishing

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1959988077

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Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces

By: Jody N. Polleck

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Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces

By: Jody N. Polleck

Learn how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion so as to enhance and nurture students’ literacies along with their social and emotional development. Using her extensive experiences with culturally, neurologically, and linguistically diverse students, the author provides a rich resource that demonstrates how book clubs serve as critical places where adolescents can develop as readers while simultaneously working to build authentic relationships with their peers. Polleck offers research and theories grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogies and healing-centered engagements along with practical strategies for book club facilitators—from developing specific student-centered pedagogical approaches to embodying critical and humanizing dispositions. Book Features: Guidance based on the author’s 25 years of experience as a facilitator and researcher of book clubs.A focus on encouraging meaningful participation, identity and community building, and social justice. An approach that prioritizes collaboration among teachers, social workers, counselors, administrators, parents, and other school personnel. Practical strategies that include facilitation suggestions, sample lesson plans, and reflective questioning techniques. Engaging narratives that center the voices of students who have participated in book clubs. An accompanying website with suggested reading lists, teaching materials, classroom activities, and more.

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Teachers College Press

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0807781304

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9780807781302

Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #1

By: Jody Houser

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Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #1

By: Jody Houser

When the Doctor fell out of the Sheffield sky and into the lives of Graham, Yasmin, and Ryan, they had little idea how much their worlds would change! Now the Doctor and her friends travel through space and time, righting wrongs, facing terrible danger, and witnessing magnificent wonders.

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1787730727

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Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor #2

The Eleventh Doctor

By: James Peaty,Jody Houser

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Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor #2

The Eleventh Doctor

By: James Peaty,Jody Houser

The Doctor and his travelling companion Alice Obiefune never look for trouble… but somehow it always seems to find them. Most recently, they battled their way out of a reality created to entrap them, and even successfully raised the potentially-genocidal tree creature known as the Sapling into a fully-functional, non-murderous adult, through the power of their joint example. Now it’s time for a little jaunt through time, purely as tourists. Surely nothing can go wrong…

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1785869353

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You’Re Going to Boarding School

By: Jody Wood

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You’Re Going to Boarding School

By: Jody Wood

Jody was born in Bakersfi eld, California, in 1949 and was raised on a cotton farm near Shafter. While in grade school, he learned to work in the fi elds alongside Mexican farmworkers, hoeing weeds, irrigating, driving tractors, and picking cotton by hand. During high school, he attended a boarding school named Ozark Academy in Gentry, Arkansas, from 1963 to 1967. While there, he worked twenty hours a week at a cabinet shop, earning enough money to pay his own tuition. At Bakersfi eld Junior College, he earned an AA degree in horticulture (plant science) while working parttime at a cabinet shop. While raising a family of four children at the age of twenty-four, he started his own cabinet shop in Atascadero, California, building custom cabinets all over San Luis Obispo County. At twenty-fi ve, he got his general contractors license, sold the cabinet shop, and began building new homes and contracting fi nish carpentry. In 1980, he moved back to Bakersfi eld to work for ten years as a Building Inspector and Code Enforcement Offi cer in Kern County at Bakersfi eld, Taft, and California City. He trained his three sons in construction and helped send his daughter to San Diego State University. After serving a term on the 2010 Madera County Grand Jury, he is now a single retired grandfather of four, living in Oakhurst, California, near Yosemite National Park

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1483687511

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9781483687513

Unsettled Issues in Commercial Vehicle Platooning

By: Jody Emlyn Muelaner

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Unsettled Issues in Commercial Vehicle Platooning

By: Jody Emlyn Muelaner

While platooning has the potential to reduce energy consumption of commercial vehicles while improving safety, both advantages are currently difficult to quantify due to insufficient data and the wide range of variables affecting models. Platooning will significantly reduce the use of energy when compared to trucks driven alone, or at a safe distance for a driver without any automated assistance. However, drivers typically drive closer to each other than recommended to achieve drafting efficiencies, which may shift the benefit of automated platooning to safety gains. More data will be needed to conclusively demonstrate these gains. Unsettled Issues in Commercial Vehicle Platooning discusses the technologies needed to enable close platooning, including brake system condition monitoring, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and concrete infrastructure assessment. The report also looks at driver acceptance of platooning technology from a safety and job security perspective. Click here to access the full SAE EDGETM Research Report portfolio. https://doi.org/10.4271/EPR2021027

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SAE International

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1468603922

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Semantic Perception

How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and Persists

By: Jody Azzouni

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Semantic Perception

How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and Persists

By: Jody Azzouni

Humans involuntarily experience physical items as having meaning-properties. Semantic Perception explores this experience—the phenomenology of the understanding of language—in depth. Jody Azzouni shows the many ways that we experience the meaning-properties of language artifacts as independent of the intentions of their makers.

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0199967407

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