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Dr. William Edward Dillon, Navy Surgeon in Livingstone's Africa

By: Julia Turner

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Dr. William Edward Dillon, Navy Surgeon in Livingstone's Africa

By: Julia Turner

It was the 1860s, and slave traders were slipping across the seas between Zanzibar and Arabia. Irish surgeon Dr. William Edward Dillion [sic] hunted them down in British tall ships, tasked with the medical care for all on board - including rescued slaves from the captured trading vessels. When the great missionary David Livingstone went missing in central Africa in 1872, Dr. Dillon, grounded with a damaged ship, led the Livingstone East Coast Expedition as second-in-command. They marched 500 miles with badly needed medical supplies only to discover the worst: Livingstone was dead. ... Dillon met his death in the middle of Africa. But the circumstances around his death are labelled suspicious and a new expedition in 2004 sets off to find the answers."--Back cover.

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1460229800

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Blonde Rattlesnake

Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles

By: Julia Bricklin

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Blonde Rattlesnake

Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles

By: Julia Bricklin

Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree. She and her husband of less than one week, White, an ex-con, robbed at least twenty people in and around downtown L.A. at gunpoint over an eight-week period. But the worst of their crimes was the shooting of a popular elementary school teacher, Cora Withington, and a former publisher, Crombie Allen, who was teaching her how to drive his new car. A few days later, a watchful pair of patrolmen in a Westlake neighborhood called their detective colleagues at the Los Angeles Police Department; they had spotted a car that looked like one the duo had stolen days before. Two of these detectives dressed as mechanics and kept an eye on the apartment building until Burmah and Thomas appeared one afternoon. As police swarmed the building, Burmah tried to hurl herself out of a third–story window, while Thomas shot at officers and was immediately gunned down and killed. Blond Rattlesnake reveals the events that brought Adams and White together and details the crime spree they committed in the sweltering hot days and nights of Los Angeles in the height of the Great Depression. It describes the terror of citizens in their path and the outrage they directed at the female half of the duo. Politicians exploited Burmah’s incarceration and trial for their own purposes as the press battled for scoops about the “Blonde Rattlesnake” and created sensation while trying to make sense of her crimes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493037900

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Salute to Service

A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport and Its Predecessors, 1860-1996

By: Julia Millen

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Salute to Service

A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport and Its Predecessors, 1860-1996

By: Julia Millen

A study of the role of the RNZCT and its predecssors, the NZASC and the RNZASC. It examines the roles of those organisations within the army - transport, supply and catering - and tells the stories of the many thousands of New Zealanders who worked in them. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The author has written many books, including a biography of Ronald Hugh Morrieson.

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Victoria University Press

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0864733240

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9780864733245

Fishing for Friends

By: Julia Gibson

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Fishing for Friends

By: Julia Gibson

We are Canadian citizens and in Canada we show peace. For Canada’s 150th anniversary we created a book with our teacher about Canadian citizenship and reconciliation that featured our art work. Lucas and Peter go to school. At school Peter gets bullied because of his culture. Peter’s culture is First Nations. In the end Dillon, who is the bully, starts talking nicely to Peter. Their Dads know each other. Peter’s family loves to go fishing on the weekends. Peter and Dillon start being nicer to each other and finally get along. We show that being a Canadian is being respectful by not bullying others because that can hurt their feelings. It doesn’t matter what culture a person is from, just respect them and they will do it back to you. —written by Lana Lynn Comia & Vanessa Santome (grade 4 students, école James Nisbet School)

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1525511157

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 2

Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Richard Foulkes,Julia Swindells,Robert Sawyer,David Francis Taylor

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 2

Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Richard Foulkes,Julia Swindells,Robert Sawyer,David Francis Taylor

Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040129064

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9781040129067

Lynda La Plante

By: Julia Hallam

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Lynda La Plante

By: Julia Hallam

Lynda La Plante is Britain's most successful and well known screenwriter and the first woman to win the prestigious Dennis Potter writers award. This critical introduction focuses on three innovative serials from La Plante - 'Widows' (ITV 1983), 'Prime Suspect' (ITV 1991) and 'Trial and Retribution' (ITV 1997).

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Manchester University Press

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0719065488

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Forbidden Wife

The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray

By: Julia Abel Smith

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Forbidden Wife

The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray

By: Julia Abel Smith

On the night of 4 April 1793, two lovers were preparing to compel a cleric to perform a secret ceremony. The wedding of the sixth son of King George III to the daughter of the Earl of Dunmore would not only be concealed – it would also be illegal. Lady Augusta Murray had known Prince Augustus Frederick for only three months but they had already fallen deeply in love and were desperate to be married. However, the Royal Marriages Act forbade such a union without the King's permission and going ahead with the ceremony would change Augusta's life forever. From a beautiful socialite she became a social pariah; her children were declared illegitimate and her family was scorned. In Forbidden Wife Julia Abel Smith uses material from the Royal Archives and the Dunmore family papers to create a dramatic biography set in the reigns of Kings George III and IV against the background of the American and French Revolutions.

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The History Press

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0750994517

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If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee

An Embodied Philosophy of Interconnection

By: Julia Metzger-Traber

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If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee

An Embodied Philosophy of Interconnection

By: Julia Metzger-Traber

This book posits that the ‘refugee crisis’ may actually be a crisis of identity in a rapidly changing world. It argues that Western conceptions of the individual ‘Self’ shape metaphors of political homes, and thus the geopolitics of belonging and exclusion. Metzger-Traber creatively re-conceives political belonging by perceiving the interconnection of each ‘Self’ through its most immediate home – the breathing body. On an experimental literary journey through her own past and that of Germany, she puts political philosophy in conversation with somatic and spiritual insight to expand notions of ‘Self’ and 'Home'. Then she asks: What ethical imperatives arise? What kinds of homes and homelands would we create if we no longer thought we ended at our skin?

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Springer

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3658223650

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The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

By: Julia Nobel

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The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

By: Julia Nobel

For fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Blackthorn Key series comes an award-winning boarding school mystery about twelve year old Emmy, who's shipped off to a prestigious British school. But her new home is hiding a secret society ... and it may be the answer to Emmy's questions about her missing father. With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in. But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home with a note reading: These belonged to your father. When she arrives at school, she finds the strange symbols from the medallions etched into walls and books, which leads Emmy and her new friends, Jack and Lola, to Wellsworth's secret society: The Order of Black Hollow Lane. Emmy can't help but think that the society had something to do with her dad's disappearance, and that there may be more than just dark secrets in the halls of Wellsworth... Pick up the Black Hollow Lane series for your 5th grade and middle school students, kids 9-12, and young readers who love twisty mysteries with: Boarding schools Secret societies Cryptic letters Secret relics A fantastic group of friends

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1492664650

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Platonic Ethics, Old and New

By: Julia Annas

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Platonic Ethics, Old and New

By: Julia Annas

Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics—and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"—an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.

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Cornell University Press

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0801466970

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9780801466977

Performance and Modernity

By: Julia A. Walker

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Performance and Modernity

By: Julia A. Walker

This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108833063

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Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

By: Julia Annas

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Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

By: Julia Annas

Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. Annas shows that, rather than rejecting the approach to an ideal society in the Republic (as generally thought), Plato is in both dialogues concerned with the relation of virtue to law, and obedience to law, and presents, in the Laws, a more careful and sophisticated account of that relation. His approach in the Laws differs from his earlier one, because he now tries to build from the political cultures of actual societies (and their histories) instead of producing a theoretical thought-experiment. Plato develops an original project in which obedience to law is linked with education to promote understanding of the laws and of the virtues which obedience to them promote. Annas also explores how this project appeals independently to the very different later writers Cicero and Philo of Alexandria.

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Oxford University Press

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0191072397

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Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems

From Soil to Soil

By: Julia Freedgood

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Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems

From Soil to Soil

By: Julia Freedgood

Covid-19 was a canary in a mine. It exposed the vulnerabilities of 21st-century food systems but did not create them. Since then, the world has faced a “polycrisis:” a cluster of weather-related crop failures, war-induced food and energy shortages, and import dilemmas with compounding effects. Going forward, we need to plan for more sustainable and resilient food systems that improve environmental outcomes and address economic disparities. But food systems planning is a relatively new discipline and guidance is scarce. This book fills that gap. Where most food systems planning has focused on urban issues, this book takes a holistic view to include rural communities and production agriculture whose stewardship of the earth is so critical to public and environmental health, as well as to ensuring a varied and abundant food supply. Its goal is to inform planning practices and follow-up actions for a wide range of audiences—from professional planners, planning commissions, and boards to conservation districts and Cooperative Extension to the on-the-ground change-makers working to strengthen America’s food and farming systems. Embracing the fact that the U.S. is highly diverse in its people, places, and politics, the book lifts up principles and successful examples to help communities develop strategies based on their unique assets and the needs and preferences of their people.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040049729

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9781040049723

Questioning Strategies in Marketing Research Questionnaires

By: Julia Glimmann

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Questioning Strategies in Marketing Research Questionnaires

By: Julia Glimmann

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Questionnaires are one of the most frequently used means in marketing research. This thesis has the objective to analyze questionnaires with the main focus on the linguistic description of questions. Whereas a lot of research on questionnaires from a social science perspective and a marketing perspective can be found, linguistic research on questionnaires is rare. The research question of this thesis can be formulated as follows: What are the differences between questionnaires used in personal face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews and self-administered questionnaires and how are these differences reflected in language? Thus, several different questionnaires (cf. corpus) have been analyzed and compared. Following the introduction in chapter one, chapter two of the thesis is dedicated to marketing research. The purpose of surveys is explained as well as the sampling procedure and the pretest. This thesis focuses on primary research. Chapter three explains the symbolic interaction theory for social research. This question-answer model describes the interview situation. Chapter four is dedicated to the three different survey techniques (personal interviews, telephone interviews and self-administered questionnaires). Each of them will be discussed in detail. Chapter five deals with response effects in questionnaires and explains the influence of question words, question form, question structure and question topic on responses. Whereas chapter six focuses on the macrostructure (overall structure) of questionnaires, chapter seven focuses on the mircostructure. Question form (open-ended vs. closed questions), sentence types and sentence form will be discussed as well as wh-interrogatives and the you attitude . In chapter eight a summary of the language differences is provided for each type of questionnaire separately. Finally, in the conclusion in chapter nine, some final remarks on the topic will be made. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: 1.INTRODUCTION1 2.MARKETING RESEARCH5 2.1Primary Research: Surveys6 2.2Sampling7 2.3The Pretest8 3.THE SYMBOLIC INTERACTION THEORY FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH9 4.QUESTIONING MODES11 4.1Personal Interviews11 4.1.1Advantages of Personal Interviews12 4.1.2Disadvantages of Personal Interviews13 4.2Telephone Interviews14 4.2.1Advantages of Telephone Interviews14 4.2.2Disadvantages of Telephone Interviews15 4.3Self-administered Questionnaires16 4.3.1Advantages of [...]

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diplom.de

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3832464948

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9783832464943

The White Devil's Daughters

The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

By: Julia Flynn Siler

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The White Devil's Daughters

The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

By: Julia Flynn Siler

During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration--from 1848 to 1943--San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, bestselling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history--and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped. The Occidental Mission Home, situated on the edge of Chinatown, served as a gateway to freedom for thousands. Run by a courageous group of female Christian abolitionists, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violent attacks. We meet Dolly Cameron, who ran the home from 1899 to 1934, and Tien Fuh Wu, who arrived at the house as a young child after her abuse as a household slave drew the attention of authorities. Wu would grow up to become Cameron's translator, deputy director, and steadfast friend. Siler shows how Dolly and her colleagues defied convention and even law--physically rescuing young girls from brothels, snatching them from their smugglers--and how they helped bring the exploiters to justice. Riveting and revelatory, The White Devil's Daughters is a timely, extraordinary account of oppression, resistance, and hope.

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1101910291

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9781101910290

Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels

A Critical Approach

By: Julia Round

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Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels

A Critical Approach

By: Julia Round

This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention to the DC Vertigo imprint. Part One offers an historical approach to British and American comics and Gothic, summarizing the development of both their creative content and critical models, and discussing censorship, allusion and self-awareness. Part Two brings together some of the gothic narrative strategies of comics and reinterprets critical approaches to the comics medium, arguing for an holistic model based around the symbols of the crypt, the spectre and the archive. Part Three then combines cultural and textual analysis, discussing the communities that have built up around comics and gothic artifacts and concluding with case studies of two of the most famous gothic archetypes in comics: the vampire and the zombie.

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McFarland

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0786449802

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Goal Writing for the Speech-Language Pathologist and Special Educator

By: Gozdziewski

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Goal Writing for the Speech-Language Pathologist and Special Educator

By: Gozdziewski

Geared for undergraduate and graduate students, Goal Writing for the Speech-Language Pathologist and Special Educator details different types of goals, essential elements of goals, how to establish goals from information garnered from evaluations, and how to write continuing goals for the field of Speech-Language Pathology and Communication Sciences. It is written for students in a Clinical Methods/Clinical Practicum course who are about to being their clinical experience in SLP. Real-world exercises are provided throughout in order to provide realistic examples of what students may encounter in speech and hearing clinics, hospitals, and schools. Goal writing is practiced by SLPs on a daily basis, and understanding how to turn diagnostic information into therapy is a difficult, yet crucial, task. This important subject is not covered in depth in other clinical methods titles yet is a skill all students and clinicians must master.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284164616

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Serving Athena

The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities

By: Julia L. Shear

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Serving Athena

The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities

By: Julia L. Shear

Examines how the Panathenaia ('all Athenian'), the most important festival in ancient Athens, created identities for participants.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108485278

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Emerging Gender Identities

Understanding the Diverse Experiences of Today's Youth

By: Mark Yarhouse,Julia Sadusky

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Emerging Gender Identities

Understanding the Diverse Experiences of Today's Youth

By: Mark Yarhouse,Julia Sadusky

This inviting text provides a useful framework for Christians to use in approaching what can be difficult conversations around gender identity."--Publishers Weekly This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse gender identities that are being embraced by an increasing number of adolescents. Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offer an honest, scientifically informed, compassionate, and nuanced treatment for all readers who care about or work with gender-diverse youth: pastors, church leaders, parents, family members, youth workers, and counselors. Yarhouse and Sadusky help readers distinguish between current mental health concerns, such as gender dysphoria, and the emerging gender identities that some young people turn to for a sense of identity and community. Based on the authors' significant clinical and ministry experience, this book casts a vision for practically engaging and ministering to teens navigating diverse gender-identity concerns. It also equips readers to critically engage gender theory based on a Christian view of sex and gender.

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Brazos Press

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1493423819

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The Fetherling Boys

By: Julia Gatlin Lovett

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The Fetherling Boys

By: Julia Gatlin Lovett

Follow the journey of Valentine Fitterling and his father Veit as they migrate from Germany to Pennsylvania in America in 1752. This genealogical work unravels the surname as it changed to variations of Fetherling, Fetherlen, Fetherlin, Fetherland, Tetherlin, Fetherlyn, Fetherolf, Fitterlin, Fidderling, and Featherling. Land records, will, and personal stories follow their journey to faraway places of Washington County, Pennsylvania: California, Canada, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois and Tennessee. The Fetherling Boys is an invaluable book for genealogy researchers which contain over 100 surnames.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462802605

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Mountain Resorts

Ecology and the Law

By: Julia LeMense

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Mountain Resorts

Ecology and the Law

By: Julia LeMense

Mountains are the home of significant ecological resources - wildlife habitat, higher elevation plant systems, steep slopes, delicate soils and water systems. These resources are subject to very visible and growing pressures, most of which are caused by the unique features of mountains. Using as case studies four mountain resorts in the US and Canada, this book analyzes the extent to which the law protects the ecological systems of mountains from the adverse impacts associated with the development, operation and expansion of resorts. In order to examine these issues, Mountain Resorts takes an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from ecologists and lawyers who focus on ski-related activities, increasing four-season use of the mountains and expanding residential, commercial and recreational development at the mountains' base. Its analysis of an array of US and Canadian federal, state and local laws provides a multifaceted exploration of the intersection of ecology and the law at mountain resorts.

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Routledge

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1317093887

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Rethinking Greek Religion

By: Julia Kindt

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Rethinking Greek Religion

By: Julia Kindt

Explores 'polis religion' - a leading paradigm in current studies on ancient Greek religion - and shows ways of moving beyond it.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521110920

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Catastrophic Diplomacy

US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century

By: Julia F. Irwin

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Catastrophic Diplomacy

US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century

By: Julia F. Irwin

Catastrophic Diplomacy offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the mid-1970s, it examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around the world. Focusing on US responses to sudden disasters caused by earthquakes, tropical storms, and floods—crises commonly known as "natural disasters"—historian Julia F. Irwin highlights the complex and messy politics of emergency humanitarian relief. Deftly weaving together diplomatic, environmental, military, and humanitarian histories, Irwin tracks the rise of US disaster aid as a tool of foreign policy, showing how and why the US foreign policy establishment first began contributing aid to survivors of international catastrophes. While the book focuses mainly on bilateral assistance efforts, it also assesses the broader international context in which the US government and its auxiliaries operated, situating their humanitarian responses against the aid efforts of other nations, empires, and international organizations. At its most fundamental level, Catastrophic Diplomacy demonstrates the importance of international disaster assistance—and humanitarian aid more broadly—to US foreign affairs.

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1469676249

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Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue

By: Julia Prest

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Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue

By: Julia Prest

The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era Caribbean. This book examines the relationship between public theatre and the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue—something that is generally given short shrift owing to a perceived lack of documentation. Here, a range of materials and methodologies are used to explore pressing questions including the ‘mitigated spectatorship’ of the enslaved, portrayals of enslaved people in French and Creole repertoire, the contributions of enslaved people to theatre-making, and shifting attitudes during the revolutionary era. The book demonstrates that slavery was no mere backdrop to this portion of theatre history but an integral part of its story. It also helps recover the hidden experiences of some of the enslaved individuals who became entangled in that story.

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Springer Nature

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3031226917

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Julia Child: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations

By: Julia Child

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Julia Child: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations

By: Julia Child

A delightful collection of interviews with the beloved Julia Child--"The French Chef," author, and television personality who revolutionized home cooking in 20th century America This delightful collection of interviews with "The French Chef" Julia Child traces her life from her first stab at a writing career fresh out of college; to D.C., Sri Lanka, and Kunming where she worked for the Office of Strategic Services (now the CIA); to Paris where she and her husband Paul, then a member of the State Department, lived after World War II, and where Child attended the famous cooking school Le Cordon Bleu. From there, Child catapulted to fame--first with the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 1961 and the launch of her home cooking show, "The French Chef" in 1963. In this volume of carefully selected interviews, Child's charm, guile, and no-nonsense advice are on full, irresistibly delicious display. Includes an Introduction from Helen Rosner, food critic for the New Yorker.

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Melville House

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1612197337

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Revisiting Delphi

Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece

By: Julia Kindt

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Revisiting Delphi

Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece

By: Julia Kindt

Revisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites readers to revisit the famous Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, along with Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Pausanias and Athenaeus, offering the first comparative and extended enquiry into the way these and other authors force us to move the link between religion and narrative centre stage. Their accounts of Delphi and its prophecies reflect a world in which the gods frequently remain baffling and elusive despite every human effort to make sense of the signs they give.

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1316757307

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The Renaissance of Etching

By: Catherine Jenkins,Nadine M. Orenstein,Freyda Spira,Peter Fuhring,Donald J. La Rocca,Anne Varick Lauder,Christof Metzger,Femke Speelberg,Ad Stijnman,Pierre Terjanian,Julia Zaunbauer

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The Renaissance of Etching

By: Catherine Jenkins,Nadine M. Orenstein,Freyda Spira,Peter Fuhring,Donald J. La Rocca,Anne Varick Lauder,Christof Metzger,Femke Speelberg,Ad Stijnman,Pierre Terjanian,Julia Zaunbauer

The Renaissance of Etching is a groundbreaking study of the origins of the etched print. Initially used as a method for decorating armor, etching was reimagined as a printmaking technique at the end of the fifteenth century in Germany and spread rapidly across Europe. Unlike engraving and woodcut, which required great skill and years of training, the comparative ease of etching allowed a wide variety of artists to exploit the expanding market for prints. The early pioneers of the medium include some of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, such as Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who paved the way for future printmakers like Rembrandt, Goya, and many others in their wake. Remarkably, contemporary artists still use etching in much the same way as their predecessors did five hundred years ago. Richly illustrated and including a wealth of new information, The Renaissance of Etching explores how artists in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and France developed the new medium of etching, and how it became one of the most versatile and enduring forms of printmaking. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588396495

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9781588396495

The Morality of Happiness

By: Julia Annas

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The Morality of Happiness

By: Julia Annas

Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories. In this book, Annas brings together the results of a wide-ranging study of ancient ethical philosophy and presents it in a way that is easily accessible to anyone with an interest in ancient or modern ethics. She examines the fundamental notions of happiness and virtue, the role of nature in ethical justification and the relation between concern for self and concern for others. Her careful examination of the ancient debates and arguments shows that many widespread assumptions about ancient ethics are quite mistaken. Ancient ethical theories are not egoistic, and do not depend for their acceptance on metaphysical theories of a teleological kind. Most centrally, they are recognizably theories of morality, and the ancient disputes about the place of virtue in happiness can be seen as akin to modern disputes about the demands of morality.

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Oxford University Press

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0198024169

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