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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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Finding Truth in Fiction

What Fan Culture Gets Right--and Why it's Good to Get Lost in a Story

By: Karen E. Dill-Shackleford,Cynthia Vinney

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Finding Truth in Fiction

What Fan Culture Gets Right--and Why it's Good to Get Lost in a Story

By: Karen E. Dill-Shackleford,Cynthia Vinney

In Finding Truth in Fiction, two media psychologists reveal that there's much more to our desire to seek out stories in film, TV, and books than simple diversion - fiction can help us find truth in our real lives. Whether you consider yourself a fan of popular media or whether you find yourself thinking of a particular fictional scene for inspiration, you are not alone. Though some assume that interest in a fictional world is a sign of psychological trouble, the authors enthusiastically disagree. Because story worlds are simulations of our social world, we use them to make sense of our experiences and even decide what kind of people we want to be. This makes fiction far from trivial. By exploring our relationship with fictional stories and characters, the authors will examine how we create mental models in our minds so we can understand stories and characters and how we differentiate between the identities of characters and the actors who play them. What story arcs, such as the hero's journey, are we drawn to again and again? How do the moments that strike us as important in a story change as we age and move through different stages in our life? Delving into these questions and many more, the authors conclude that being a fan is not just healthy, it's human.

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Oxford University Press

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0190643625

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9780190643621

The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop

By: Richard M. Isackes,Karen L. Maness

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The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop

By: Richard M. Isackes,Karen L. Maness

Once a guarded cinematic secret, this definitive history reveals for the first time the art and craft of Hollywood's hand painted-backdrops, and pays homage to the scenic artists who brought them to the big screen." -- Slipcase.

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Simon and Schuster

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194139308X

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9781941393086

Eco-Library Design

By: John A. Flannery,Karen M. Smith

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Eco-Library Design

By: John A. Flannery,Karen M. Smith

The ancient pairing of architecture and books has always been an interesting topic for debate, and the increasing popularity of electronic books has recently added fuel to the fire. However, the bonfires built for the printed version remain unlit. Research undertaken for this publication suggests that the traditional reading room is currently enjoying a renaissance in many different guises, with print and digital media enjoying a symbiotic relationship. The digital revolution is just one of the many challenges faced by the library architect. To satisfy the varied requirements of library users, flexible, future proof, indoor and outdoor spaces must now support both passive and active pursuits. These often contrasting demands can vary dramatically from quiet, contemplative reading to audible public performance. This publication explores in detail the evolution of the eco-library, focusing on how design teams cope with diminishing resources in diverse geographic and climatic conditions. The featured projects demonstrate measurable reductions in both construction and operating costs through innovative designs that utilise the ecology of a selected site in a positive way. A library development will now inevitably seek to lead by example, visibly demonstrating sound environmental practice, and providing an enhanced user experience for increasingly more discerning patrons. Eco-Library Design provides a worldwide perspective on 21st century trends in library architecture.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400740786

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9789400740785

Why Muslim Women and Smartphones

Mirror Images

By: Karen Waltorp

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Why Muslim Women and Smartphones

Mirror Images

By: Karen Waltorp

Using an assemblage approach to study how Muslim women in Norrebro, Denmark use their phones, Karen Waltorp examines how social media complicates the divide between public and private in relation to a group of people who find this distinction of utmost significance. Building on years of ethnographic fieldwork, Waltorp's ethnography reflects the trust and creativity of her relationships with these women which in turn open up nuanced discussions about both the subject at hand and best practice in conducting anthropological research. Combining rich ethnography with theoretical contextualization, Waltorp's book alternates between ethnography and analysis to illuminate a thoroughly modern community, and reveals the capacity of image-making technology to function as an infrastructure for seeing, thinking and engaging in fieldwork as an anthropologists. Waltorp identifies a series of important issues around anthropological approaches to new media, contributing to new debates around the anthropology of automation, data and self-tracking.

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Routledge

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1000185826

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9781000185829

Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television

An Encyclopedia of 400 Characters and 200 Shows, 1950-2016

By: Karen A. Romanko

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Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television

An Encyclopedia of 400 Characters and 200 Shows, 1950-2016

By: Karen A. Romanko

Samantha Stephens in Bewitched. Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek. Wonder Woman, Xena, Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and many more. Television's women of science fiction and fantasy are iconic and unforgettable yet there hasn't been a reference book devoted to them until now. Covering 400 female characters from 200 series since the 1950s, this encyclopedic work celebrates the essential contributions of women to science fiction and fantasy TV, with characters who run the gamut from superheroes, extraterrestrials and time travelers to witches, vampires and mere mortals who deal with the fantastic in their daily lives.

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McFarland

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1476668043

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Dancing Across the Page

Narrative and Embodied Ways of Knowing

By: Karen Barbour

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Dancing Across the Page

Narrative and Embodied Ways of Knowing

By: Karen Barbour

An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism, and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and lived experience. Through accounts of contemporary dance making, improvisation, and dance education, Karen Barbour explores a diversity of themes, including power; activism; and cultural, gendered, and personal identity. An intimate yet rigorous investigation of creativity in dance, Dancing across the Page emphasizes embodied knowledge and imagination as a basis for creative action in the world.

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Intellect Books

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1841505013

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9781841505015

Teaching the Bible in the Church

By: John Bracke,Karen Tye

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Teaching the Bible in the Church

By: John Bracke,Karen Tye

This interdisciplinary conversation combines educational theory with Bible scholarship to help teachers of the Bible move beyond conveying information to revealing the transformative power of the scripture.

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Chalice Press

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082723659X

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Women in Ancient America

Second Edition

By: Karen Olsen Bruhns,Karen E. Stothert

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Women in Ancient America

Second Edition

By: Karen Olsen Bruhns,Karen E. Stothert

This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America. Women—and women’s work—have been crucial to the survival and success of American peoples since ancient times. And as hunting and foraging societies developed farming techniques and eventually created permanent settlements, women’s roles changed. Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert consider the various economic adaptations that followed, as well as the ways in which women participated in food production and the specialized industries of their societies. They also look at women’s access to power, both political and religious, paying particular attention to the place of priestesses and goddesses in the spiritual life of ancient peoples. The narrative that unfolds in Women in Ancient America is based on the most recent research, using evidence and examples from a wide range of cultures dating from the Paleoindian period to European invasion. This book, unlike others, treats many different types of societies, as the authors develop arguments sure to provoke thinking about the lives of women who inhabited the Americas in the distant past.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806147512

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9780806147512

EU Data Protection Law

By: Denis Kelleher,Karen Murray

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EU Data Protection Law

By: Denis Kelleher,Karen Murray

Data Protection has become one of the most important news topics of recent years, playing a role in elections and referendums, and posing a whole host of new legal questions. At its core, data protection is the statutory protection provided to protect the privacy of individuals with regard to personal data. It's places various obligations on persons who keep personal data, eg that the data must be accurate and kept for lawful purposes. EU Data Protection Law provides an analysis of the EU's proposed General Data Protection Regulation. The book analyses the rights of the data subject including rights to information, access, rectification, erasure (right to be forgotten), restriction, portability and objection. It examines in detail the role and responsibilities of controllers and processors together with governance (including the Data Protection Officer) and risk (data protection by design and default, the Data Protection Impact Assessment, data security and the notification of subjects). The role of data protection authorities, the European Data Protection Board and enforcement mechanisms such as fines and other liabilities and penalties are also explored. Other relevant Directives are discussed together with appropriate case law. This comprehensive treatment is the only one of its kind. It will also be of international appeal, as Ireland's perspective in this area carries great weight in light of Ireland's position as the European headquarters for many digital technology companies such as Facebook and Google.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1784515566

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The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn

The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up

By: Karen Kurczynski

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The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn

The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up

By: Karen Kurczynski

A leading figure of the postwar avant-garde, Danish artist Asger Jorn has long been recognized for his founding contributions to the Cobra and Situationist International movements - yet art historical scholarship on Jorn has been sparse, particularly in English. This study corrects that imbalance, offering a synthetic account of the essential phases of this prolific artists career. It addresses his works in various media alongside his extensive writings and his collaborations with various artists' groups from the 1940s through the mid-1960s. Situating Jorn's work in an international, post-Second World War context, Karen Kurczynski reframes our understanding of the 1950s, away from the Abstract-Expressionist focus on individual expression, toward a more open-ended conception of art as a public engagement with contemporary culture and politics. Kurczynski engages with issues of interest to twenty-first-century artists and scholars, highlighting Jorn's proposition that the sensory address of art and its complex relationship to popular media can have a direct social impact. Perhaps most significantly, this study foregrounds Jorn's assertion that creativity is crucial to subjectivity itself in our increasingly mediated 'Society of the Spectacle.

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Routledge

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1351546511

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The Child in Cinema

By: Karen Lury

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The Child in Cinema

By: Karen Lury

This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema. Individual chapters examine how children appear across a broad range of films, including Badlands (1973), Ratcatcher (1999), Boyhood (2014), My Neighbour Totoro (1988), and Howl's Moving Castle (2004). They also consider the depiction of children in non-fiction and non-theatrical films, including the documentaries Être et Avoir (2002) and Capturing the Friedmans (2003), art installations and public information films. Through a close analysis of these films, contributors examine the spaces and places children inhabit and imagine; a concern for children's rights and agency; the affective power of the child as a locus for memory and history; and the complexity and ambiguity of the child figure itself. The essays also argue the global reach of cinema featuring children, including analyses of films from the former Yugoslavia, Brazil and India, as well as exploring the labour of the child both in front of and behind the camera as actors and filmmakers. In doing so, the book provides an in-depth look into the nature of child performance on screen, across a diverse range of cinemas and film-making practices.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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183902495X

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Iceland Imagined

Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

By: Karen Oslund

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Iceland Imagined

Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

By: Karen Oslund

This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geology, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe. The book closes with a discussion of Iceland's modern whaling practices and its recent financial collapse.

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University of Washington Press

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029599083X

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9780295990835

Our Norwegian Ancestors of the Fox River Settlement

By: Karen Kindler Kotlarchik

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Our Norwegian Ancestors of the Fox River Settlement

By: Karen Kindler Kotlarchik

Norway received its name from the nearby rural community of settlers from Norway in the area known as the Fox River Settlement. The village was the center of Norwegian immigration dating to 1834. The settlers had in large part relocated from the Kendall Settlement in New York State which had been founded earlier by pioneers who arrived from Norway during 1825 aboard the Restauration. Norwegian-American pioneer leader Cleng Peerson founded this second settlement in the Fox River Valley of Illinois.

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Lulu.com

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0359415695

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9780359415694

Burning Barriers

By: Karen Moulder

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Burning Barriers

By: Karen Moulder

A petite woman defies the odds to become the first female firefighter in her city. Her battles to overcome obstacles, not only as a woman breaching a man's world but her personal struggles in relationships and balancing her life as a single mother, will leave you breathless.

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AuthorHouse

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1477275371

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9781477275375

Nursing Ethics

Across the Curriculum and Into Practice

By: Janie B. Butts,Karen Rich (MN.),Karen L. Rich

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Nursing Ethics

Across the Curriculum and Into Practice

By: Janie B. Butts,Karen Rich (MN.),Karen L. Rich

Based on the concept that compassionate relationships between nurses and patients form a vital element of humanistic nursing, Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice provides foundational knowledge about ethics to prepare nursing students for the moral issues they will experience daily. Derived from theoretical foundations, clinical evidence and case study, this text is ideal for nursing students by providing decision-making approaches and models, rationale for decisions, and management of care for various topics. Addressing a wide array of nursing moral issues, this text includes current scholarly literature, related news briefs, and research and legal findings regarding ethical issues.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763747351

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9780763747350

Introducing Second Language Acquisition

By: Muriel Saville-Troike,Karen Barto

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Introducing Second Language Acquisition

By: Muriel Saville-Troike,Karen Barto

Third edition of the leading interdisciplinary introduction to second language acquisition, covering linguistic, psychological and social aspects.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107149525

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9781107149526

Ruin Islanders

Thule Culture Pioneers in the Eastern High Arctic

By: Karen Margrethe McCullough

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Ruin Islanders

Thule Culture Pioneers in the Eastern High Arctic

By: Karen Margrethe McCullough

A discussion of the archaeological research in the Bache Peninsula region of eastern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories which has produced a substantial amount of data relating to this poorly defined phase of Thule culture

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772821330

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9781772821338

Literary Translation and the Making of Originals

By: Karen Emmerich

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Literary Translation and the Making of Originals

By: Karen Emmerich

Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion of particular ?originals?; and the role translation plays in the formation, re-formation, and deformation of national and international literary canons. By challenging the assumption that stable originals even exist, Karen Emmerich also calls into question the tropes of ideal equivalence and unavoidable loss that contribute to the low status of translation, translations, and translators in the current literary and academic marketplaces.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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150132991X

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9781501329913

Psychological Testing in Everyday Life

History, Science, and Practice

By: Karen B. Goldfinger

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Psychological Testing in Everyday Life

History, Science, and Practice

By: Karen B. Goldfinger

Psychological Testing in Everyday Life explores how psychological testing is used in real-life settings to make the study of psychometrics interesting, relevant, and highly accessible. Author Karen B. Goldfinger examines a broad range of carefully selected topics to capture student interest, encourage critical thinking, and spark class discussions. Organized in the form of an applied casebook, each chapter presents the complex issues that arise when using psychological tests in a variety of settings, providing an in-depth view of psychological testing practices, historically and in the present. This unique text will support students in becoming thoughtful, informed consumers and providers of psychological assessment.

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SAGE Publications

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1544320418

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9781544320410

The Photographer's Guide to Making Money

150 Ideas for Cutting Costs and Boosting Profits

By: Karen Dorame

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The Photographer's Guide to Making Money

150 Ideas for Cutting Costs and Boosting Profits

By: Karen Dorame

This comprehensive reference guide discusses opening a photography studio from the ground up, what equipment to purchase, how to make the most of marketing, and how to streamline production efforts.

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Amherst Media

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158428370X

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9781584283706

Sing for Me

A Novel

By: Karen Halvorsen Schreck

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Sing for Me

A Novel

By: Karen Halvorsen Schreck

When Rose becomes a singer at a jazz club, she finds herself falling for the African American pianist and the two begin a relationship marked by prejudice and faith.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476705488

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9781476705484

Goddess Calling

Inspirational Messages & Meditations of Sacred Feminine Liberation Thealogy

By: Karen Tate

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Goddess Calling

Inspirational Messages & Meditations of Sacred Feminine Liberation Thealogy

By: Karen Tate

In ever-increasing numbers, women and men are seeking spirituality beyond traditional religious institutions and more and more their new normal includes the deities, ideals and archetypes of the Sacred Feminine. They have a desire to get beyond the patriarchal dogma that often perpetuates sexism, homophobia and the domination of Gaia and all her inhabitants, including the body of Mother Earth. Goddess Calling is designed to give individuals or those desiring to serve their communities a springboard to offer “sermons from the pulpit” with ideas to create a format for a regular gathering or service. Easy to digest and sometimes gently following the seasons of the year and holidays already on most people’s calendars, these messages and meditations use Goddess archetypes, ideals and mythology to provide content for education, inspiration and contemplation for anyone seeking to incorporate a feminine face of God within their spirituality, no matter what their faith. ,

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John Hunt Publishing

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1782794417

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Early Arthritis, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics

By: Karen Torralba,Francisco P. Quismorio,Richard S. Panush

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Early Arthritis, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics

By: Karen Torralba,Francisco P. Quismorio,Richard S. Panush

To ensure the best possible clinical outcomes for arthritis patients, it is essential that they be seen early and treated appropriately at the earliest opportunity. Early therapy has proven much more effective than that given late. This issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America brings the rheumatologist up to date on the latest treatments and interventions in evolving arthritis and established early arthritis. Topics covered include early rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, undifferentiated arthritis, oligoarthritis, osteoarthritis, and others. Imaging modalities are addressed as well as various contemporary treatments including biologics.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455744360

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9781455744367

Playing The Hammered Dulcimer In The Irish Tradition

By: Karen Ashbrook

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Playing The Hammered Dulcimer In The Irish Tradition

By: Karen Ashbrook

This book is to encourage dulcimer players at the intermediate-to-advanced level to play the “right” way. If you’re going to play a few Irish tunes, why not play them the way they were intended to be played? Then you can enjoy what other Irish musicians have enjoyed for hundreds of years. This book can teach you several basic, simple techniques that create the feel of traditional Irish music.

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Oak Publications

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1783234237

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Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820

By: Mona Narain,Karen Gevirtz

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Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820

By: Mona Narain,Karen Gevirtz

Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with them, new and reconfigured concepts of gender. In mapping the relationship between gender and space in British literature of the period, this collection defines, charts, and explores new cartographies, both geographic and figurative. The contributors take up a variety of genres and discursive frameworks from this period, including poetry, the early novel, letters, and laboratory notebooks written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn, Hortense Mancini, and Isaac Newton to Frances Burney and Germaine de Staël. Arranged in three groups, Inside, Outside, and Borderlands, the essays conduct targeted literary analysis and explore the changing relationship between gender and different kinds of spaces in the long eighteenth century. In addition, a set of essays on Charlotte Smith’s novels and a set of essays on natural philosophy offer case studies for exploring issues of gender and space within larger fields, such as an author’s oeuvre or a particular discourse. Taken together, the essays demonstrate space’s agency as a complement to historical change as they explore how literature delineates the gendered redefinition, occupation, negotiation, inscription, and creation of new spaces, crucially contributing to the construction of new cartographies in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.

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Routledge

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1317130448

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9781317130444

What Is Right for Children?

The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights

By: Martha Albertson Fineman,Karen Worthington

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What Is Right for Children?

The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights

By: Martha Albertson Fineman,Karen Worthington

Combining feminist legal theory with international human rights concepts, this book examines the presence, participation and treatment of children in a variety of contexts. Specifically, through comparing legal developments in the US with legal developments in countries where the views that children are separate from their families and potentially in need of state protection are more widely accepted. The authors address the role of religion in shaping attitudes about parental rights in the US, with particular emphasis upon the fundamentalist belief in natural lines of familial authority. Such beliefs have provoked powerful resistance in the US to human rights approaches that view the child as an independent rights holder and the state as obligated to proved services and protections that are distinctly child-centred. Calling for a rebalancing of relationships within the US family, to become more consistent with emerging human rights norms, this collection contains both theoretical debates about and practical approaches to granting positive rights to children.

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Routledge

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1134760787

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Justice for Bonnie

By: Karen Foster,I.J. Schecter

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Justice for Bonnie

By: Karen Foster,I.J. Schecter

The shocking true crime story of an Alaskan college student’s murder and her mother’s relentless crusade for the truth. When police told Karen Foster that her eighteen-year-old daughter, Bonnie Craig, had died in a hiking accident, she knew the pieces of the investigation just didn’t add up. Bonnie would have never ditched her classes at the University of Alaska to go hiking. And she didn’t drive—so how would she have reached McHugh Creek, miles outside of Anchorage, in the first place? Armed with little more than her own conviction, Karen set out to find the truth behind her daughter’s death. After a long series of false leads and dead ends, it seemed the case would forever go unsolved. Then, after twelve years of public campaigning, private despair, and increasingly tense dealings with the detectives working the case, Karen received an e-mail that would change everything: the system, at long last, had produced a match for the unknown DNA in the case—from a man in a jail all the way across the country. Here is the chilling tale of a mother’s unflagging fight to track down the monster who stole her daughter’s life—and the battle to ensure that he, and others like him, would no longer be able to evade justice. INCLUDES PHOTOS

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Penguin

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0698151771

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9780698151772

Identifying Marine Diatoms and Dinoflagellates

By: Grethe R. Hasle,Erik E. Syvertsen,Karen A. Steidinger,Karl Tangen,Carmelo R. Tomas

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Identifying Marine Diatoms and Dinoflagellates

By: Grethe R. Hasle,Erik E. Syvertsen,Karen A. Steidinger,Karl Tangen,Carmelo R. Tomas

Identifying Marine Diatoms and Dinoflagellates is the second identification manual created from the literature developed for the Advanced International Phytoplankton Course. This version, enlarged and modified from the earlier literature, deals with the identification of marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. The data and references presented here should allow the researcher to pursue the question of valid species and how they can be verified. This volume comprises three chapters, beginning with an introductory chapter discussing the subject's historical background. The next chapter focuses on marine diatoms, providing an introduction that describes their general characteristics, life cycles, morphology and terminology, and classification. It is followed by a discussion of genera represented in marine plankton, a description of taxa, and methodology. The third and final chapter focuses on dinoflagellates, beginning with an introduction that describes their general characteristics and eukaryotic unicells. The discussion continues with terminology and morphology, identification of species, techniques for preparation of dinoflagellates for identification, common dinoflagellate synonyms, and an index of dinoflagellate taxa. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of biology, zoology, and environmental protection.

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0080534414

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Heart of Miracles

My Journey Back to Life After a Near-Death Experience

By: Karen Henson Jones

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Heart of Miracles

My Journey Back to Life After a Near-Death Experience

By: Karen Henson Jones

A graduate of Cornell University and London Business School, [the author] worked in a corporate job until a sudden cardiac event at age 30 took her to the brink of death. During her ordeal, Karen was presented with a choice. When her request to live was granted, she had to come to terms with the reality of divine communication. With this knowledge, Karen now had to decide how to live her life again. Her journey is filled with light--and lightness--as she crosses countries and cultures on her way to healing and understanding"--

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Hay House

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1401942172

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Nurse Anesthesia E-Book

By: John J. Nagelhout,Karen Plaus

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Nurse Anesthesia E-Book

By: John J. Nagelhout,Karen Plaus

Long respected as the most comprehensive nurse anesthesia resource available, this new edition continues the tradition of bringing together leading experts to create a balanced reference that applies scientific principles to today’s clinical anesthesia practice. Inside you’ll find a solid introduction to the equipment and patient care techniques unique to nurse anesthesia side-by-side with the cutting-edge research and application of evidence necessary to prepare you for tomorrow. Over 700 tables and boxes highlight the most essential information in a quick, easy-to-reference format. An easy-to-use organization with basic principles covered first, followed by individual chapters for each surgical specialty, ensures you have the information you need to build your knowledge. Over 650 figures of anatomy, nurse anesthesia procedures, and equipment enhance your understanding of complex information. Expert CRNA authors provide the most up-to-date and relevant clinical information you’ll use in daily practice. The latest pharmacology information on pharmacokinetics, drug delivery systems, opiate antagonists, and key induction drugs to keep you up-to-date. Thoroughly updated references make finding the latest and most important research in the field quick and simple. New chapters address legal issues, neonatal anesthesia, anesthesia education, clinical monitoring, regional anesthesia, unexpected complications, and more. Expanded coverage of chemistry and physics as well as immunology makes these difficult fundamental topics easier to understand and apply to everyday practice. Over 100 new images enhance your understanding of difficult anesthesia concepts.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323081010

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9780323081016

Abbreviations Dictionary

By: Dean A. Stahl,Karen Landen

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Abbreviations Dictionary

By: Dean A. Stahl,Karen Landen

Published in 2001: Abbreviations, nicknames, jargon, and other short forms save time, space, and effort - provided they are understood. Thousands of new and potentially confusing terms become part of the international vocabulary each year, while our communications are relayed to one another with increasing speed. PDAs link to PCs. The Net has grown into data central, shopping mall, and grocery store all rolled into one. E-mail is faster than snail mail, cell phones are faster yet - and it is all done 24/7. Longtime and widespread use of certain abbreviations, such as R.S.V.P., has made them better understood standing alone than spelled out. Certainly we are more comfortable saying DNA than deoxyribonucleic acid - but how many people today really remember what the initials stand for? The Abbreviations Dictionary, Tenth Edition gives you this and other information from Airlines of the World to the Zodiacal Signs.

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1420036645

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The Sociocultural Activity of High Stakes Standardised Language Testing

TOEIC Washback in a South Korean Context

By: Dawn Karen Booth

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The Sociocultural Activity of High Stakes Standardised Language Testing

TOEIC Washback in a South Korean Context

By: Dawn Karen Booth

This book explores the influence of high stakes standardised testing within the context of South Korea. South Korea is regarded as a shining example of success in educational achievement and, as this book reveals, pressurised standardised testing has been a major contributing factor to its success. This unique country provides an excellent setting from which to explore the powerful relationship that exists between testing and learning and can advance our understanding of which factors and test conditions will positively and negatively influence learning. This book follows the test activity of a group of Korean university students preparing for the TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) and posits a revised model of the influence of testing on learning. It calls for a more socially situated view of tests and test-takers considered in relation to the sociocultural, historical, political and economic contexts in which they are embedded.

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Springer

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331970446X

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Forgiving Paris

A Novel

By: Karen Kingsbury

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Forgiving Paris

A Novel

By: Karen Kingsbury

In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying abroad for the semester. Alice's life is so good now, totally different than it was twenty-four years ago. As the dinner conversation goes on, Alice tells the young couple that her long-ago drug addiction nearly killed her. But then her life was saved by a conversation with an American artist. Alice can only remember the girl's name: Ashley. Back in Indiana, Ashley and her husband are about to take a twentieth anniversary trip to Paris, where she will have her first French art show. But Ashley is hesitant. She has never forgiven herself for what happened there.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982104422

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9781982104429

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