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Remembering Woolworth's

A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime

By: Karen Plunkett-Powell

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Remembering Woolworth's

A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime

By: Karen Plunkett-Powell

Remembering Woolworth's brings back to life all the nostalgia and magic of the famous five-and-dime that captured the hearts of Americans for over a century Millions of Americans have fond memories of shopping at Woolworth's, wandering the aisles in search of a humble spool of Woolco thread, festive Christmas decorations, a goldfish or parakeet, or a blue bottle of Evening in Paris perfume. And who could forget the special treat of a grilled-cheese sandwich or ice-cream sundae at the famous lunch counter? These and countless other memories are celebrated in Karen Plunkett-Powell's Remembering Woolworth's. Packed with photos, first-hand remembrances, vivid anecdotes, and a lively, well-researched narrative, the book tells the story of how a poor potato farmer named Frank Woolworth created a merchandising empire that touched the lives of Americans in small towns, big cities, and everywhere in between. Chapters cover the store's humble beginnings, surviving the Great Depression, the civil rights sit-ins, Woolworth's around the globe, the popularity of Woolworth's collectibles, and much more.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466867442

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As Long as We Both Shall Love

The White Wedding in Postwar America

By: Karen M. Dunak

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As Long as We Both Shall Love

The White Wedding in Postwar America

By: Karen M. Dunak

In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media, and the marketplace in America.

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NYU Press

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1479858358

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A Vision Becomes Reality

By: Karen J. Radke,Heather Faith Fletcher

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A Vision Becomes Reality

By: Karen J. Radke,Heather Faith Fletcher

A Vision Becomes Reality is the story of how a Seventh-day Adventist educational institution, West Indies College (now Northern Caribbean University) in Mandeville, Jamaica, collaborated with a Seventh-day Adventist health care institution, Andrews Memorial Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, to develop and implement the Department of Nursing Education and the first baccalaureate nursing programme in Jamaica. This is the first time the early history of this endeavour has been published. Many individuals provided information on the history of this landmark programme in Jamaica. Without the help of the numerous people involved in the story of the college, hospital, and baccalaureate nursing programme, this account would not have been possible. It is the authors’ hope that the content will provide information on the early history of Seventh-day Adventist higher education and medical work in Jamaica as well as provide a blueprint of the process used in developing what is now Northern Caribbean University Department of Nursing and its baccalaureate nursing programme as it reaches its fiftieth anniversary in 2020. “These authors take us on a journey that shows the faith and courage of visionary administrators [and] teachers…within the Seventh-day Adventist church school system and government institutions, as they provided expertise and direction….A must read….” Beverly Henry, JP, MA, Northern Caribbean University “Radke and Fletcher provide a valuable contribution to archiving the legacy of Adventist nursing education globally which can be described as courageous, innovative, and ahead of national norms.” Patricia S. Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists “It was rewarding to read of [Hiram Walters and other key persons’] strong faith and to watch a program of such small beginnings flourish…under God's protecting hand. The book closes with comments from former students sharing their…achievements as they moved out into the world to bless others with their healing skills.” June Kimball Strong, prolific author and speaker

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TEACH Services, Inc.

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147961145X

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Closer Than You Think

By: Karen Rose

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Closer Than You Think

By: Karen Rose

A woman on the run must confront her dark past at her family’s home in Cincinnati in this thrilling novel of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who’s made her life a nightmare for the past year—desperate enough to run to the one place that has been her nightmare far longer. Her recent inheritance of her grandmother’s old house in Cincinnati offers sanctuary in which she can start her life anew, but requires that she face the dark memories that still resonate to this day. But she has no idea how close to home her fears still are... Two college girls have gone missing in the area, and FBI Special Agent Deacon Novak is called to work on the case. When his inquiry unexpectedly leads him to Faith, he finds a beautiful and brave woman he can’t help but fall for. Soon they’ll discover that this seemingly simple investigation is anything but. Reaching back decades into Faith’s own past, it will shatter everything she believes to be true and will give terrifying new meaning to flesh and blood.

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Penguin

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045146673X

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Dixon, Descending

A Novel

By: Karen Outen

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Dixon, Descending

A Novel

By: Karen Outen

“Compelling.”—The Boston Globe “Poignant…heartbreaking.”—The Christian Science Monitor “This one hits hard.”—Publishers Weekly When Nate suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, his younger brother Dixon can’t refuse. The two are determined to prove something—to themselves and to each other. Dixon interrupts his orderly life as a school psychologist, leaving behind disapproving friends, family, and one particularly fragile student. Once on the mountain, Nate and Dixon are met with extreme weather conditions, oxygen deprivation, and precarious terrain. But as much as they’ve prepared for this, Mt. Everest is always fickle. And in one devastating moment, Dixon’s world is upended. Dixon returns home and attempts to resume his job, but things have shifted: for him and for the students he left behind. Ultimately, Dixon must confront the truth of what happened on the mountain and come to terms with who can and cannot be saved. Dixon, Descending offers us a captivating, shattering portrait of the ways we’re reshaped by our decisions—and what it takes to angle ourselves, once again, toward hope. “Outen understands first-class human drama.” —Gabriel Bump, author of The New Naturals “The most engulfing, transporting, deeply humane novel I’ve read in ten years.” —Monica Wood, author of How to Read a Book

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0593473469

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The Oxford History of Life-writing

By: Alan Stewart

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The Oxford History of Life-writing

By: Alan Stewart

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.

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Oxford University Press

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0199684073

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Lady Whistledown Strikes Back

By: Julia Quinn,Karen Hawkins,Suzanne Enoch,Mia Ryan

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Lady Whistledown Strikes Back

By: Julia Quinn,Karen Hawkins,Suzanne Enoch,Mia Ryan

Join the Bridgertons, and the rest of the ton, as they pore over (and gossip about) Lady Whistledown’s latest musings. The elusive Regency-era gossip columnist -- popularized in # 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix – reveals society’s most recent secrets in this second glittering anthology, following the New York Times bestseller, The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown. Who Stole Lady Neeley’s Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime. —Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, May 1816 Julia Quinn enchants: A dashing fortune hunter is captivated by the Season’s most desired debutante . . . and must prove he is out to steal the lady’s heart, not her dowry. Suzanne Enoch tantalizes: An innocent miss who has spent her life scrupulously avoiding scandal is suddenly—and secretly—courted by London’s most notorious rogue. Karen Hawkins seduces: A roving viscount comes home to rekindle the passionate fires of his marriage . . . only to discover that his beautiful, headstrong bride will not be so easily won. Mia Ryan delights: A lovely, free-spirited servant is dazzled by the romantic attentions of a charming earl . . . sparking a scandalous affair that could ruin them both. You’ll hear it first from Lady Whistledown!

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Zondervan

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0061746479

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Poetry as Epitaph

Representation and Poetic Language

By: Karen Mills-Courts

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Poetry as Epitaph

Representation and Poetic Language

By: Karen Mills-Courts

Mills-Courts (English, SUNY at Fredonia) maintains that all poets attempt to embody meaning in words that are inherently epitaphic, and explores the strategies they employ to defend the illusion of voice and presence in their works against the disseminative forces of representation. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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LSU Press

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0807116572

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Public Lands and Political Meaning

Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them

By: Karen R. Merrill

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Public Lands and Political Meaning

Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them

By: Karen R. Merrill

Reconstructing the increasingly contested interpretations of the meaning of public land administration, this book traces the history of the political dynamics between ranchers and federal land agencies.

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0520228626

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New Materials

Towards a History of Consistency

By: Amy E. Slaton,Scott Gabriel Knowles,Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku,Projit Bihari Mukharji ,Rafico Ruiz,Tiago Saraiva,Karen Senaga,Darin Hayton,José Torero,Patryk Wasiak

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New Materials

Towards a History of Consistency

By: Amy E. Slaton,Scott Gabriel Knowles,Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku,Projit Bihari Mukharji ,Rafico Ruiz,Tiago Saraiva,Karen Senaga,Darin Hayton,José Torero,Patryk Wasiak

This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 200 years. Whether given utility as building parts, fabrics, pharmaceuticals, or foodstuffs, whether seen by their proponents as human-made or “found in nature,” materials result from the designation of some matter as both knowable and worth knowing about. In following these determinations we learn that the production of physical novelty under industrial, imperial and other cultural conditions has historically accomplished a huge range of social effects, from accruals of status and wealth to demarcations of bodies and geographies. Among other cases, New Materials traces the beneficent self-identity of Quaker asylum planners who devised soundless metal cell locks in the early 19th century, and the inculcation of national pride attending Taiwanese carbon-fiber bicycle parts in the 21st; the racialized labor organizations promoted by California orange breeders in the 1910s, and bureaucratized distributions of blame for deadly high-rise fires a century later. Across eras and global regions New Materials reflects circumstances not made clear when technological innovation is explained solely as a by-product of modernizing impulses or critiqued simply as a craving for profit. Whether establishing the efficacy of nano-scale pharmaceuticals or the tastiness of farmed catfish, proponents of new materials enact complex political ideologies. In highlighting their actors’ conceptions of efficiency, certainty, safety, pleasure, pain, faith and identity, the authors reveal that to produce a “new material” is invariably to preserve other things, to sustain existing values and social structures.

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Lever Press

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1643150146

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The Spiral Staircase

My Climb Out of Darkness

By: Karen Armstrong

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The Spiral Staircase

My Climb Out of Darkness

By: Karen Armstrong

The moving story of her own search for God by the highly-acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism; and Islam: A Short History. In 1969, after seven years as a Roman Catholic nun -- hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God -- Armstrong left her convent. She knew almost nothing of the changed world she was entering, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures. Her struggle against despair was fueled by a string of discouragements -- failed spirituality, doctorate and jobs, fruitless dealings with psychiatrists -- but finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy and given proper treatment. She then began the writing career that would become her true calling, and as she focused on the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, her own true inner story began to emerge. She would come to experience brief moments of transcendence through her work -- the profound fulfillment that she had not found in the long hours of prayer as a young nun. Powerfully engaging, often heart-breaking, but lit with bursts of humour, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary history of self.

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Vintage Canada

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0307368343

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Locating Home

India's Hyderabadis Abroad

By: Karen Isaksen Leonard

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Locating Home

India's Hyderabadis Abroad

By: Karen Isaksen Leonard

This multisite ethnography examines the construction of personal and group identity in the diaspora by emigrants from Hyderabad, India, settling in Pakistan, the UK, Canada, the US, Australia, and the Gulf states of the Middle East at the end of the 20th century.

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Stanford University Press

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080475442X

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9780804754422

Irene Rice Pereira

Her Paintings and Philosophy

By: Karen A. Bearor

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Irene Rice Pereira

Her Paintings and Philosophy

By: Karen A. Bearor

Artist Irene Rice Pereira was a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" imagery. Yet her artistic philosophy and innovative imagery elude easy classification with her artistic contemporaries. In consequence, her work is rarely included in studies of the period and is almost unknown to the general public. This first intellectual history of the artist and her work seeks to change that. Karen A. Bearor thoroughly re-creates the artistic and philosophical milieu that nourished Pereira’s work. She examines the options available to Pereira as a woman artist in the first half of the twentieth century and explores how she used those options to contribute to the development of modernism in the United States. Bearor traces Pereira’s interest in the ideas of major thinkers of the period—among them, Spengler, Jung, Einstein, Cassirer, and Dewey—and shows how Pereira incorporated their ideas into her art. And she demonstrates how Pereira’s quest to understand something of the nature of ultimate reality led her from an early utopianism to a later interest in spiritualism and the occult. This lively intellectual history amplifies our knowledge of a time of creative ferment in American art and society. It will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in the modernist period.

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University of Texas Press

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0292737238

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Runaways

How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped Today's Practices and Policies

By: Karen M. Staller

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Runaways

How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped Today's Practices and Policies

By: Karen M. Staller

During the 1960s and 1970s, the issue of runaways became a source of national concern. This text examines the programmes and policies that took shape during this period and the ways in which the ideas of the alternative services movement continue to guide our responses to at-risk youth.

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Columbia University Press

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0231124104

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American Rose

A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

By: Karen Abbott

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American Rose

A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

By: Karen Abbott

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy’s world, including her intense triangle relationship with her sister, actress June Havoc, and their formidable mother, Rose, a petite but ferocious woman who literally killed to get her daughters on the stage. Weaving in the compelling saga of the Minskys—four scrappy brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee’s brand of burlesque and transform the entertainment landscape—Karen Abbott creates a rich account of a legend whose sensational tale of tragedy and triumph embodies the American Dream.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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081297851X

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Honouring a Nation

A History of Australia's Honours System

By: Karen Fox

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Honouring a Nation

A History of Australia's Honours System

By: Karen Fox

The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system’s transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution. From the extension of British honours to colonial Australasia in the nineteenth century, through to Tony Abbott’s revival of knighthoods in the twenty-first, this book explains how the system has worked, traces the arguments of its supporters and critics, and looks both at those who received awards and those who declined them. Honouring a Nation brings to life a long history of debate over honours, including wrangles over State rights, gender imbalances in honours lists, and the emergence and hardening of the Labor/Liberal divide over British awards, illuminating issues that are still part of Australian life—and of the honours system—today. The history of the honours system is equally the history of the nation, revealing who Australians were, what they have become, what they value, and the things that have unified and divided them. ‘National honours are a fraught recognition of merit. They beg many questions: who decides, why some people are recognised, and others ignored. Honours provide a window to the soul of the nation and invite us to consider who we really are and what we value. These are big issues to ponder. Karen Fox provides many of the answers in this timely, lively and important book.’ — Julianne Schultz AM FAHA, Emeritus Professor Media and Culture, Griffith University ‘Give Karen Fox a gong: for distinguished service to Australian culture in recognition of her authoritative yet entertaining account of how a supposedly egalitarian country embraced knighthoods, OAs and other baubles.’ — Richard White, Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and author of Inventing Australia ‘Karen Fox has written an intelligent, incisive and intriguing account of how Australians have acknowledged and elevated their fellow citizens, from the founding of the first colony to the present day … a work packed with insights about the ever-shifting determinants of social hierarchy, individual merit and public esteem … a thoroughly stimulating read.’ — Stuart Ward, Head of the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen ‘At last, a definitive account of the Australian honours system, from the First Fleet to 2021. Honours serve as a prism through which to view imperial strategies, federal rivalries and partisan, class-based and gender politics, with many scandals and controversies along the way. Karen Fox has given us a book that is both topical and compelling on evolving national identity and honours as a symbol of exclusion or inclusion.’ — Marian Sawer AO, Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University

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ANU Press

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1760465011

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Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria

By: Karen Britland

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Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria

By: Karen Britland

A 2006 study of Queen Henrietta Maria's patronage of drama in England and her French heritage.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521847974

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A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880–1951

By: Karen E. McAulay

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A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880–1951

By: Karen E. McAulay

Late Victorian Scotland had a flourishing music publishing trade, evidenced by the survival of a plethora of vocal scores and dance tune books; and whether informing us what people actually sang and played at home, danced to, or enjoyed in choirs, or reminding us of the impact of emigration from Britain for both emigrants and their families left behind, examining this neglected repertoire provides an insight into Scottish musical culture and is a valuable addition to the broader social history of Scotland. The decline of the music trade by the mid-twentieth century is attributable to various factors, some external, but others due to the conservative and perhaps somewhat parochial nature of the publishers’ output. What survives bears witness to the importance of domestic and amateur music-making in ordinary lives between 1880 and 1950. Much of the music is now little more than a historical artefact. Nonetheless, Karen E. McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books’ contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often been dismissed as not significant or, indeed, properly ‘old’ enough to merit consideration. The book will be valuable for academics as well as folk musicians and those interested in the social and musical history of Scotland and the British Isles.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040216536

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Global Culture, Island Identity

By: Karen Fog Olwig

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Global Culture, Island Identity

By: Karen Fog Olwig

Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

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Routledge

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1135306133

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Running from Bondage

Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

By: Karen Cook Bell

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Running from Bondage

Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

By: Karen Cook Bell

A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108831540

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The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising

By: John McDonough,Karen Egolf

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The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising

By: John McDonough,Karen Egolf

For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the The "Advertising Age" Encyclopedia of Advertising website. Featuring nearly 600 extensively illustrated entries, The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising provides detailed historic surveys of the world's leading agencies and major advertisers, as well as brand and market histories; it also profiles the influential men and women in advertising, overviews advertising in the major countries of the world, covers important issues affecting the field, and discusses the key aspects of methodology, practice, strategy, and theory. Also includes a color insert.

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1135949131

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Memorials as Spaces of Engagement

Design, Use and Meaning

By: Quentin Stevens,Karen A. Franck

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Memorials as Spaces of Engagement

Design, Use and Meaning

By: Quentin Stevens,Karen A. Franck

Memorials are more diverse in design and subject matter than ever before. No longer limited to statues of heroes placed high on pedestals, contemporary memorials engage visitors in new, often surprising ways, contributing to the liveliness of public space. In Memorials as Spaces of Engagement Quentin Stevens and Karen A. Franck explore how changes in memorial design and use have helped forge closer, richer relationships between commemorative sites and their visitors. The authors combine first hand analysis of key examples with material drawn from existing scholarship. Examples from the US, Canada, Australia and Europe include official, formally designed memorials and informal ones, those created by the public without official sanction. Memorials as Spaces of Engagement discusses important issues for the design, management and planning of memorials and public space in general. The book is organized around three topics: how the physical design of memorial objects and spaces has evolved since the 19th century; how people experience and understand memorials through the activities of commemorating, occupying and interpreting; and the issues memorials raise for management and planning. Memorials as Spaces of Engagement will be of interest to architects, landscape architects and artists; historians of art, architecture and culture; urban sociologists and geographers; planners, policymakers and memorial sponsors; and all those concerned with the design and use of public space.

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1317600029

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No Common Ground

Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

By: Karen L. Cox

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No Common Ground

Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

By: Karen L. Cox

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.

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146966268X

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Society and Law

By: Karen E. Hayden

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Society and Law

By: Karen E. Hayden

Society and Law addresses the social context of law, the legal structure, and the relationships between society and law. The goal of this text is to help undergraduate students gain an understanding of the significant role law plays in our everyday lives and in larger society. It covers emerging theories and ideas from innovative fields such as critical legal studies, feminist jurisprudence, critical race theories, and intersectionality. Society & Law summarizes the material as succinctly as possible, incorporating examples of new laws, changes in laws, and legal cases that interest college students and help them connect the material to their own lives. The law can be fascinating, frustrating, and even funny. Society & Law presents these various aspects of the law in readable, understandable, and interesting ways. Features: Student-oriented pedagogy includes key terms and a complete glossary, chapter summaries, critical thinking questions, and movie suggestions Case-in-Point boxes provide extended examples that illustrate key points Legalese boxes define legal terminology Sidebar boxes provide additional information about select concepts

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Traces of the Past

Classics between History and Archaeology

By: Karen Bassi

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Traces of the Past

Classics between History and Archaeology

By: Karen Bassi

What are we doing when we walk into an archaeological museum or onto an archaeological site? What do the objects and features we encounter in these unique places mean and, more specifically, how do they convey to us something about the beliefs and activities of formerly living humans? In short, how do visible remains and ruins in the present give meaning to the human past? Karen Bassi addresses these questions through detailed close readings of canonical works spanning the archaic to the classical periods of ancient Greek culture, showing how the past is constituted in descriptions of what narrators and characters see in their present context. She introduces the term protoarchaeological to refer to narratives that navigate the gap between linguistic representation and empirical observation—between words and things—in accessing and giving meaning to the past. Such narratives invite readers to view the past as a receding visual field and, in the process, to cross the disciplinary boundaries that divide literature, history, and archaeology. Aimed at classicists, literary scholars, ancient historians, cultural historians, and archaeological theorists, the book combines three areas of research: time as a feature of narrative structure in literary theory; the concept of “the past itself” in the philosophy of history; and the ontological status of material objects in archaeological theory. Each of five central chapters explores how specific protoarchaeological narratives—from the fate of Zeus’ stone in Hesiod’s Theogony to the contest between words and objects in Aristophanes’ Frogs—both expose and attempt to bridge this gap. Throughout, the book serves as a response to Herodotus’ task in writing the Histories, namely, to ensure that “the past deeds of men do not fade with time.”

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0472121960

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Framing the Race in South Africa

The Political Origins of Racial Census Elections

By: Karen E. Ferree

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Framing the Race in South Africa

The Political Origins of Racial Census Elections

By: Karen E. Ferree

Post-apartheid South African elections have borne an unmistakable racial imprint: Africans vote for one set of parties, whites support a different set of parties, and, with few exceptions, there is no crossover voting between groups. These voting tendencies have solidified the dominance of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) over South African politics and turned South African elections into 'racial censuses'. This book explores the political sources of these outcomes. It argues that although the beginnings of these patterns lie in South Africa's past, in the effects apartheid had on voters' beliefs about race and destiny and the reputations parties forged during this period, the endurance of the census reflects the ruling party's ability to use the powers of office to prevent the opposition from evolving away from its apartheid-era party label. By keeping key opposition parties 'white', the ANC has rendered them powerless, solidifying its hold on power in spite of an increasingly restive and dissatisfied electorate.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139494767

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Around Chadds Ford

By: Karen Smith Furst

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Around Chadds Ford

By: Karen Smith Furst

Chadds Ford grew along an important early thoroughfare where it crossed the Brandywine Creek. Travelers along this east-west highway between Philadelphia and Baltimore were obliged to ford the creek at property owned by businessman John Chads. At first, farms, mills, and homesteads composed the architectural landscape. As the town grew, so did businesses, such as the Gallagher General Store and the Chadds Ford Hotel. By the end of the nineteenth century, wealthy Philadelphians, attracted by Chadds Ford's pastoral setting, began to build stately summer homes. Around Chadds Ford features photographs from 1870 to 1950, when the town enjoyed the sophistication of these newcomers but still retained its rural flavor.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738536458

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When the Levees Break

Re-visioning Regulation of the Securities Markets

By: Karen Kunz,Jena Martin

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When the Levees Break

Re-visioning Regulation of the Securities Markets

By: Karen Kunz,Jena Martin

The stock markets. Whether you invest or not, the workings of the stock market almost certainly touch your life. Either through your retirement fund, your mutual fund or just because you work for a place that invests (or is invested in)—the reach of the securities markets is expanding, like an ever growing tidal wave. This book discusses what happens when that wave hits the shore. Specifically, this book argues that, given the mounting deluge from misplaced regulation, fast-paced technology, and dominant financial players, the current US regulatory structure is woefully inadequate to hold back the tide. Using vivid imagery and plain language, Karen Kunz and Jena Martin take the problems involved in regulating the complex world of securities head on. Examining everything from the rise of technology and the role of hedge funds to our bloated agency system, Kunz and Martin argue that the current structure is doomed to fail and, when it does, the consequences will be disastrous. Sending out a call to action, the authors also offer a bold vision for how to fix the mess we’ve made—not by tinkering around the edges—but instead by building a whole new structure, one that can withstand the next storm that is sure to come.

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Lexington Books

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0739196057

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Honorable Passage

Repaying Evil With...

By: Karen Bowden-Cox

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Honorable Passage

Repaying Evil With...

By: Karen Bowden-Cox

Rescued from the German Ocean, destitute of family and fortune, George Hempleman and Margarette Duffy find themselves indentured on a ship bound For The New World. When Margarette awakes on the Chimera, she has no time to dwell on painful past events but instead must face the perils of the present. George has been shot and is seriously injured, and Margarette has quickly become the target of a mysterious and evil fraulein. Will the star-crossed lovers survive multiple malevolent schemes before they reach America? Will George succumb To The rampant ship fever stalking the Chimera? Can a theft cause the Hempleman emerald necklace heirloom to resurface? From a castle to a convent to murderous intrigue on the high seas, Honorable Passage plunges the reader into a tale of many twists and turns. -Georgia Kohort, award-winning columnist and author of Heritage of the Heart, Secrets of the Lockkeeper's House, and Heart and Hearth - Christmas on the Farm

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Tate Publishing

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1615664718

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Vassar College

An Architectural Tour

By: Karen Van Lengen,Lisa Reilly

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Vassar College

An Architectural Tour

By: Karen Van Lengen,Lisa Reilly

The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on authoritative tours of two prestigious colleges, Vassar and Dartmouth. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks of these American college campuses distinguished for landmark buildings-Vassar showcasing a developing expression of changes in women's education and Dartmouth revealing the provincial design roots and rural setting of the prominent Ivy League college.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568983492

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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present

By: George Stade,Karen Karbiener

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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present

By: George Stade,Karen Karbiener

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438116896

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James Joseph Sylvester

Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World

By: Karen Hunger Parshall

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James Joseph Sylvester

Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World

By: Karen Hunger Parshall

This text offers a biography of James Joseph Sylvester & his work. A Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came to America to teach mathematics, becoming Daniel Coit Gilman's faculty recruit at Johns Hopkins in 1876 & winning the coveted Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford in 1883.

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JHU Press

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0801882915

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Teaching Character Education through Literature

Awakening the Moral Imagination in Secondary Classrooms

By: Karen Bohlin

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Teaching Character Education through Literature

Awakening the Moral Imagination in Secondary Classrooms

By: Karen Bohlin

This book shows how secondary and post-secondary teachers can help students become more responsive to the ethical themes and questions that emerge from the narratives they study. It helps teachers to integrate character education into the classroom by focusing on a variety of ways of drawing instructive insights from fictional life narratives. The case studies and questions throughout are designed to awaken students' moral imagination and prompt ethical reflection on four protagonists' motivations, aspirations, and choices. The book is divided into two parts. The first provides a theoretical approach while the second features case studies to apply this approach to the study of four literary characters: Sydney Carton from Tale of Two Cities Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice Janie Crawford from Their Eyes Were Watching God The questions, ideas and approaches used in these case studies can also be applied to protagonists from other narrative works in the curriculum.

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Routledge

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1134354797

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Hippos, a mongoose and me

Tales of rescue and survival in the wilds of Africa

By: Karen Paolillo

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Hippos, a mongoose and me

Tales of rescue and survival in the wilds of Africa

By: Karen Paolillo

In this sequel to the popular A Hippo Love Story, author Karen Paolillo takes us deeper into her courageous but perilous life among Africa’s wildlife. Hippos, a Mongoose and Me is a collection of vivid stories reflecting the decades that Karen has lived and worked in the wilds of southeast Zimbabwe. The tales encompass a wide variety of animals and experiences, including Karen’s extraordinary affinity with hippos, life with her beloved mongoose, characterful baboons and rescued birds, close encounters with lions and an injured buffalo, and her heart-stopping flight from an enraged elephant. To add to the drama, Karen and her husband Jean-Roger must face off against the drumbeat of political subterfuge and poaching of wildlife, sometimes at great personal risk. Inspiring, surprising and sometimes sad, this heartfelt anthology is testament to the courage and resilience of its intrepid author. Sales points: Moving stories of great courage in the face of increasing threat to Africa’s wildlife. Heart-warming tales in the popular genres of animal-human interaction and wildlife rescue. A sequel to the best-selling A Hippo Love Story by the same author. Colour photographs of the cast of characters featured in the book.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1779890028

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Community Health Nursing

Caring for the Public's Health

By: Karen Saucier Lundy,Sharyn Janes

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Community Health Nursing

Caring for the Public's Health

By: Karen Saucier Lundy,Sharyn Janes

The book is designed to be used throughout the undergraduate nursing curriculum, as well as in traditional community health nursing theory and clinical courses. Ideal courses include Community Health Nursing, Nursing Care III, Nursing Care of the Community, Community Nursing Clinical, and Community Nursing Theory.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763740748

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9780763740740

New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I Vol 3

By: Carolyn W de la L Oulton,Brenda Ayres,Karen Yuen,Alexandra Warwick

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New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I Vol 3

By: Carolyn W de la L Oulton,Brenda Ayres,Karen Yuen,Alexandra Warwick

Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".

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1351221698

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The Little Republic

Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Karen Harvey

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The Little Republic

Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Karen Harvey

Reconstructs the distinctive relationship between the house and masculinity in the eighteenth century; adds a missing piece to the history of the home, uncovering the hopes and fears men had for their homes and families. Reveals how the public identity of men has always depended, to a considerable extent, upon the roles they performed within doors.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199533849

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9780199533848

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