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God Is Just Like Me

By: Karen Valentin

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God Is Just Like Me

By: Karen Valentin

A joyful exploration of what it means to be made in God's image.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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The Mother God Made Me to Be

By: Karen Valentin

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My journey from newlywed, to mother of two, to single mom - trying to heal - and become the mother God made me to be Karen lived an adventurous single life but longed for a family of her own. After years of maintaining her vow of purity and waiting for a man who shared her Christian faith, she fell in love with her best friend and co-worker. They married. She bore two sons. They divorced. With humor, honesty and raw emotion, Valentin tells her story of wrestling between God's will and her own, with visions of happily ever after. In the midst of her weakness and grief, she experiences God's strength and restoration like never before. Through her family and friends, mission workers, the pastor of Graffiti Church, and her two beautiful boys, God turns her ashes to beauty and her sorrow into joy. The Mother God Made Me to Be contains a discussion guide for book clubs and church groups. karenvalentin.com

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1455539856

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The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 3: The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

By: S. Frederick Starr,Karen Dawisha

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The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 3: The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

By: S. Frederick Starr,Karen Dawisha

First Published in 2015. This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics and international relations in Russia and in the western and southern tiers of newly independent states. The contributors were chosen not only for their recognized expertise but also to ensure a stimulating diversity of perspectives and a dynamic mix of approaches. This is Volume3 The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia.

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Routledge

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1315483807

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Russia and the New States of Eurasia

The Politics of Upheaval

By: Karen Dawisha,Bruce Parrott

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Russia and the New States of Eurasia

The Politics of Upheaval

By: Karen Dawisha,Bruce Parrott

This book surveys the possibilities for future alignments both among the new states of the former Soviet Union, and between the new states and their neighbours.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521458951

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Basic German

A Grammar and Workbook

By: Heiner Schenke,Anna Miell,Karen Seago

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Basic German

A Grammar and Workbook

By: Heiner Schenke,Anna Miell,Karen Seago

Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. The book introduces German people and culture through the medium of the language used today, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their first years of learning German. Each of the 29 units presents one or more related grammar topics, illustrated by examples which serve as models for the exercises that follow. These wide-ranging and varied exercises enable the student to master each grammar point thoroughly. Features include: • Clear grammatical explanations with examples in both English and German • Authentic language samples from a range of media • Checklists at the end of each unit to reinforce key points • Cross-referencing to other grammar chapters • Full exercise answer key • ‘Did you know?’ sections with extra learning tips on specific grammar points and insights into current usage of German • Glossary of grammatical terms The new edition has been thoroughly revised, including more varied exercises for practice, and grammar points have been reformulated to use a more learner-centred approach. Suitable for independent study and for class use, Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook is the ideal reference and practice book for beginners, as well as for students with some knowledge of the language.

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Routledge

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1317658183

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Hot Property

A Novel

By: Karen Leabo

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Hot Property

A Novel

By: Karen Leabo

A no-nonsense cop falls for an unlikely suspect in Karen Leabo's tale of hot pursuit and hotter passions. Gunning for a dream job with the FBI, Detective Michael Taggart will not allow anything to stand in his way—especially not a thief whose lies are as distracting as her legs. Solving a high-profile museum robbery may be the career boost he needs, but the redhead claims no knowledge of the stolen jewelry, even after she’s caught delivering them to a crooked dealer. Having been burned by a beautiful woman before, Michael doesn’t want to believe her. And yet his gut tells him to look deeper. Wendy Thayer’s week just went from bad to worse. After being framed by a client, she’s drawn the interest of a hard-nosed—and hard-bodied—cop. Under different circumstances, Wendy wouldn’t mind being cuffed by the sexy sergeant. But she’s a personal shopper, not a criminal. With her business and her reputation at stake, she must convince Michael of her innocence. Will he break the case without breaking her heart?

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Loveswept

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0345544889

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Albion's Dance

British Ballet during the Second World War

By: Karen Eliot

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Albion's Dance

British Ballet during the Second World War

By: Karen Eliot

When the Second World War broke out, ballet in Britain was only a few decades old. Few had imagined that it would establish roots in a nation long thought to be unresponsive to dance. Nevertheless, the war proved to be a boon for ballet dancers, choreographers and audiences, for the nation's dancers were forced to look inward to their own identity and sources of creativity. As author Karen Eliot demonstrates in this fascinating book, instead of withering during the enforced isolation of war, ballet in Britain flourished, exhibiting a surprising heterogeneity and vibrant populism that moved ballet outside its typical elitist surroundings to be seen by uninitiated, often enthusiastic audiences. Ballet was thought to help boost audience morale, to render solace to the soul-weary and to afford entertainment and diversion to those who simply craved a few hours of distraction. Government authorities came to see that ballet could serve as a tool of propaganda; the ways it functioned within the larger public discourse of propaganda and sacrifice, and how it answered a public mood of pragmatism and idealism, are also topics in this story of the development of a national ballet identity. This narrative has several key players-- dance critics, male and female dancers, producers, audiences, and choreographers. Exploring the so-called "ballet boom" during WWII, the larger story of this book is one of how art and artists thrive during conflict, and how they respond pragmatically and creatively to privation and duress.

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Oxford University Press

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0199347638

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The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 5: State Building and Military Power in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

By: S. Frederick Starr,Karen Dawisha

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The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 5: State Building and Military Power in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

By: S. Frederick Starr,Karen Dawisha

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

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1351696491

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Cells

Experience Life at Its Tiniest

By: Karen Bush Gibson

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Cells

Experience Life at Its Tiniest

By: Karen Bush Gibson

If you look at a piece of a leaf or a drop of saliva through a microscope, what do you see? Cells are the basic building blocks of life and they make up every living thing, from plants to animals, from humans to bacteria! In Cells: Experience the World at Its Tiniest, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate cells and learn how they affect our health, reproduction, criminal investigations, and agriculture. More than 250 years ago, scientists discovered that all living things are made up of cells. Since then, cell science has been a foundational step on the path to understanding why living things function and develop and how we can use our knowledge of cells to improve human life. Through cell science, scientists have been able to create many things to help society, such as seeds that grow better in certain locations, which increases the amount of crops to better feed the world. The criminal justice system now uses DNA to prove whether people committed crimes or not, helping to ensure that innocent people aren’t punished for crimes they didn’t commit. Through the study of certain cells, scientists have been able to create immunizations and medicines that have virtually eliminated some diseases, such as smallpox, which once killed almost a third of the people who caught it. This book will also encourage readers to examine the controversy that surrounds the way scientists use some types of cells. To reinforce learning and encourage investigation, hands-on activities include finding and identifying bacteria from pond water and human mouths and building models of different types of cells. Links to online primary sources, videos, and other relevant websites provide a digital learning component that appeals to this age group and promotes further, independent learning while strengthening practical connections to the material. Additional materials include a glossary and a list of current reference works, websites, and Internet resources.

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Nomad Press

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1619305232

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Prairies

By: Karen Latchana Kenney

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Prairies

By: Karen Latchana Kenney

Prairies are found around the world! In this title, readers will learn about what makes these vast, grassy expanses special through vivid photos and engaging text. Chapters highlight prairie soil and climate, introduce plants and animals, and explore how humans and prairies interact. Features profile a notable example, show off animal life, and more. Get ready to journey through a sea of grass in this leveled title!

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Bellwether Media

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Eastern Europe, Gorbachev, and Reform:The Great Challenge

By: Karen Dawisha

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Eastern Europe, Gorbachev, and Reform:The Great Challenge

By: Karen Dawisha

In this revised second edition of this highly successful book, Karen Dawisha shows how the first five years of the Gorbachev era have affected the reform process in Eastern Europe.

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CUP Archive

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0521386527

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Practical Guide to Emergency Ultrasound

By: Karen S. Cosby,John L. Kendall

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Practical Guide to Emergency Ultrasound

By: Karen S. Cosby,John L. Kendall

This 2nd edition of the Practical Guide to Emergency Ultrasound addresses your need for a practical, comprehensive, how-to book on ultrasound techniques in the emergency department, including new and expanded applications. Organized in an easy-to-navigate problem-based and symptom-based approach, chapters cover many uses for ultrasound in the ED and proper ultrasound technique. Over 900 images, many in full color, illustrate key concepts and diagnoses, including the use of echocardiography in the ED and newer applications for imaging ocular, musculoskeletal injuries and the use of ultrasound in the management of undifferentiated hypotension and dyspnea.

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1469830116

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Engine of Inequality

The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America

By: Karen Petrou

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Engine of Inequality

The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America

By: Karen Petrou

The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping struggling Americans. As a result, the richest Americans got a lot richer while the middle class shrank and economic and wealth inequality skyrocketed. In Engine of Inequality, Karen Petrou offers pragmatic solutions for creating more inclusive monetary policy and equality-enhancing financial regulation as quickly and painlessly as possible. Karen Petrou is a leading financial-policy analyst and consultant with unrivaled knowledge of what drives the decisions of federal officials and how big banks respond to financial policy in the real world. Instead of proposing legislation that would never pass Congress, the author provides an insider's look at politically plausible, high-impact financial policy fixes that will radically shift the equality balance. Offering an innovative, powerful, and highly practical solution for immediately turning around the enormous nationwide problem of economic inequality, this groundbreaking book: Presents practical ways America can and should tackle economic inequality with fast-acting results Provides revealing examples of exactly how bad economic inequality in America has become no matter how hard we all work Demonstrates that increasing inequality is disastrous for long-term economic growth, political action, and even personal happiness Explains why your bank's interest rates are still only a fraction of what they were even though the rich are getting richer than ever, faster than ever Reveals the dangers of FinTech and BigTech companies taking over banking Shows how Facebook wants to control even the dollars in your wallet Discusses who shares the blame for our economic inequality, including the Fed, regulators, Congress, and even economists Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America should be required reading for leaders, policymakers, regulators, media professionals, and all Americans wanting to ensure that the nation’s financial policy will be a force for promoting economic equality.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119727537

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The Sugar Industry on St. Croix

By: Karen C. Thurland

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The Sugar Industry on St. Croix

By: Karen C. Thurland

Study of sugar industry in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands which spanned from its earliest settlements to the mid-20th century with focus on the later period and the industry's decline as the economic determinant that influenced the social and cultural fiber of the island.

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The International Politics of Eurasia

Vol 7: Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

By: Karen Dawisha,Bruce Parrott

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The International Politics of Eurasia

Vol 7: Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

By: Karen Dawisha,Bruce Parrott

This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics and international relations in Russia and in the western and southern tiers of newly independent states. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the discrediting of Marxism-Leninism as a source of political legitimacy have prompted a search for fresh principles of political organization that will shape the nature of political culture in all the post-Soviet countries. This volume analyzes the nature of the emerging political cultures and their impact on the processes of democratization in these new states.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040279392

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Symphonic Aspirations

German Music and Politics, 1900-1945

By: Karen Painter

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Symphonic Aspirations

German Music and Politics, 1900-1945

By: Karen Painter

Can music be political? Germans have long claimed the symphony as a pillar of their modern national culture. By 1900, the critical discourse on music, particularly symphonies, rose to such prominence as to command front-page news. With the embrace of the Great War, the humiliation of defeat, and the ensuing economic turmoil, music evolved from the most abstract to the most political of the arts. Even Goebbels saw the symphony as a tool of propaganda. More than composers or musicians, critics were responsible for this politicization of music, aspiring to change how music was heard and understood. Once hailed as a source of individual heroism, the symphony came to serve a communal vision. Karen Painter examines the politicization of musical listening in Germany and Austria, showing how nationalism, anti-Semitism, liberalism, and socialism profoundly affected the experience of serious music. Her analysis draws on a vast collection of writings on the symphony, particularly those of Mahler and Bruckner, to offer compelling evidence that music can and did serve ideological ends. She traces changes in critical discourse that reflected but also contributed to the historical conditions of the fin de siecle, World War I, and the Nazi regime.

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Harvard University Press

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0674033590

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Women in Space

23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures

By: Karen Bush Gibson

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Women in Space

23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures

By: Karen Bush Gibson

When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be 19 years before another woman got a chance—cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982—followed by American astronaut Sally Ride a year later. By breaking the stratospheric ceiling, these women forged a path for many female astronauts, cosmonauts, and mission specialists to follow. Women in Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, France, and more. Readers will also learn about the Mercury 13, American women selected by NASA in the late 1950s to train for spaceflight. Though they matched and sometimes surpassed their male counterparts in performance, they were ultimately denied the opportunity to head out to the launching pad. Their story, and the stories of the pilots, physicists, and doctors who followed them, demonstrate the vital role women have played in the quest for scientific understanding.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613748477

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The Wine Bible

By: Karen MacNeil

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The Wine Bible

By: Karen MacNeil

Discusses the history of wine, grape varieties, winemaking techniques, and vintages.

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Workman Publishing

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1563054345

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The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 10: The International Dimension of Post-communist Transitions in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

By: S. Frederick Starr,Karen Dawisha

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The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 10: The International Dimension of Post-communist Transitions in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

By: S. Frederick Starr,Karen Dawisha

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

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Routledge

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1317456203

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The Food Lover's Guide to Wine

By: Andrew Dornenburg,Karen Page

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The Food Lover's Guide to Wine

By: Andrew Dornenburg,Karen Page

A wine book unlike any other,The Food Lover's Guide to Wine offers a fresh perspective via the single aspect of wine most compelling to food lovers: flavor. At the heart of this indispensable reference, formatted like the authors' two previous bestsellers The Flavor Bible and What to Drink with What You Eat, is an encyclopedic A-to-Z guide profiling hundreds of different wines by their essential characteristics-from body and intensity to distinguishing flavors, from suggested serving temperatures and ideal food pairings to recommended producers (including many iconic examples). The book provides illuminating insights from dozens of America's best sommeliers via informative sidebars, charts and boxes, which complement the book's gorgeous four-color photography. Another groundbreaking work from two of the ultimate culinary insiders, this instant classic is the perfect gift book.

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Little, Brown

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0316084069

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9780316084062

Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome

By: Karen J. Lloyd

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Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome

By: Karen J. Lloyd

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome – those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church – used the arts to cultivate more than splendid social status. Through politically savvy frescos and emotionally evocative displays of paintings, sculptures, and curiosities, cardinal nephews aimed to define nepotism as good Catholic rule. Their commissions took advantage of their unique position close to the pope, embedding the defense of their role into the physical fabric of authority, from the storied vaults of the Vatican Palace to the sensuous garden villas that fused business and pleasure in the Eternal City. This book uncovers how cardinal nephews crafted a seductively potent dialogue on the nature of power, fuelling the development of innovative visual forms that championed themselves as the indispensable heart of papal politics. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, early modern studies, religious history, and political history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000636984

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The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe

Reanimating Art

By: Karen Kurczynski

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The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe

Reanimating Art

By: Karen Kurczynski

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–1951). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United States. This book investigates how a group of struggling young artists attempted to reinvent the international avant-garde after the devastation of the Second World War, to create artistic experiments capable of facing the challenges of postwar society. It explores how Cobra’s experimental, often collective art works and publications relate to broader debates in Europe about the use of images to commemorate violent events, the possibility of free expression in an art world constrained by Cold War politics, the breakdown of primitivism in an era of colonial independence movements, and the importance of spontaneity in a society increasingly dominated by the mass media. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, 20th-century modern art, avant-garde arts, and European history.

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Routledge

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1351034480

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Chaos and Cosmos

On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History

By: Karen Ann Lang

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Chaos and Cosmos

On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History

By: Karen Ann Lang

Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power of art to resist the pressures of the transcendental vantage point-history. Uncovering the intellectual and cultural richness of the early years of academic art history in Germany--the period from the 1880s to 1940--she explores various attempts within art history to transform aesthetic phenomena--chaos--into the cosmos of a systematic, unified field of inquiry.Lang starts by examining Panofsky's approach to aesthetic phenomena in his early theoretical essays alongside Ernst Cassirer's contemporaneous publications on the substance and function of scientific concepts (and on Einstein's theory of relativity). She then turns to the subject of aesthetic judgment through a rereading of Kantian subjectivity and Kant's uneasy legacy in art history. From here, Lang considers the different organizing theories of symbolic form proposed by Aby Warburg and Cassirer, as well as Goethe's inspiration for both; Alois Riegl's notion of age value and Walter Benjamin's conceptions of the aura; concluding with an extended examination of objectivity and the figure of the art connoisseur.Extensively illustrated with works of art from the Enlightenment to the present day, this venturesome book illuminates an intellectual legacy that has profoundly shaped the study of the history of art in ways that have, until now, been largely unacknowledged. Addressing the interplay of chaos and cosmos in terms of history, art history, philosophy, and epistemology, Lang traces shifts in point of view in art history and the way these shifts change aesthetic objects into historical objects, and even objects of knowledge.

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Cornell University Press

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0801488559

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Ecoambiguity

Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

By: Karen Thornber

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Ecoambiguity

Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

By: Karen Thornber

Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures

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University of Michigan Press

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0472118064

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Alchemical Mercury

A Theory of Ambivalence

By: Karen Pinkus

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Alchemical Mercury

A Theory of Ambivalence

By: Karen Pinkus

How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation of materials. Almost every culture and time has had some form of alchemy. This book looks at alchemy, not at any one particular instance along the historical timeline, not as a practice or theory, not as a mode of redemption, but as a theoretical problem, linked to real gold and real production in the world. What emerges as the least common denominator or "intensive property" of alchemy is ambivalence, the impossible and paradoxical coexistence of two incompatible elements. Alchemical Mercury moves from antiquity, through the golden age of alchemy in the Dutch seventeenth century, to conceptual art, to alternative fuels, stopping to think with writers such as Dante, Goethe, Hoffmann, the Grimm Brothers, George Eliot, and Marx. Eclectic and wide-ranging, this is the first study to consider alchemy in relation to literary and visual theory in a comprehensive way.

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Stanford University Press

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0804772878

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Putin's Kleptocracy

Who Owns Russia?

By: Karen Dawisha

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Putin's Kleptocracy

Who Owns Russia?

By: Karen Dawisha

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia. Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about the Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime. Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says. “But some of that work remains.”

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Simon and Schuster

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1476795207

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The Sounds of Life

How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

By: Karen Bakker

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The Sounds of Life

How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

By: Karen Bakker

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life. At once meditative and scientific, The Sounds of Life shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound, interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge. We meet scientists using sound to protect and regenerate endangered species from the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic and the Amazon. We discover the shocking impacts of noise pollution on both animals and plants. We learn how artificial intelligence can decode nonhuman sounds, and meet the researchers building dictionaries in East African Elephant and Sperm Whalish. At the frontiers of innovation, we explore digitally mediated dialogues with bats and honeybees. Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead? The Sounds of Life offers hope for environmental conservation and affirms humanity’s relationship with nature in the digital age. After learning about the unsuspected wonders of nature’s sounds, we will never see walks outdoors in the same way again.

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Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas

By: Karen Kampwirth

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Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas

By: Karen Kampwirth

Drawing on more than two-hundred interviews with women in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, Karen Kampwirth tells the story of how the guerrilla wars led to the rise of feminism, why certain women became feminists, and what sorts of feminist movements they built.

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30-Second Space Travel

50 Key Ideas, Inventions, and Destinations that Have Inspired Humanity Toward the Heavens

By: Charles Liu,Karen Masters,Allen Liu

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30-Second Space Travel

50 Key Ideas, Inventions, and Destinations that Have Inspired Humanity Toward the Heavens

By: Charles Liu,Karen Masters,Allen Liu

From the imaginings of science-fiction writers and scientists through the ages, all the way to the Moon landings, and beyond into the realms of easy space-tourism, 30-Second Space Travel will guide you through the hows, wheres, whys, and whens of one of the most remarkable feats of human exploration.

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Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan's Ditié

By: Karen Green

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Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan's Ditié

By: Karen Green

Grounded in a close reading of the records of Joan's trial and rehabilitation, on the early letters announcing her arrival at Chinon, and on three literary works; Christine de Pizan's Ditié, Martin le Franc's Le Champion des dames, and Alain Chartier's, Traité de l’Esperance, this controversial work argues that serious historians should accept that Joan was trained. It proposes that she was identified and taught how to behave in the expectation of the fulfillment of the Charlemagne Prophecy and other prophecies from the Joachite tradition. It explores the possibility that Christine de Pizan, who had been promoting these prophecies from the beginning of the century, had some hand in the process that resulted in Joan's appearance and demonstrates, at the very least, that there are many links connecting Christine de Pizan to the knights who fought with Joan.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793613176

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What Nurses Know...Menopause

By: Karen Roush

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What Nurses Know...Menopause

By: Karen Roush

Nurses are experts at translating knowledge for patients. Rouse, a registered nurse, has written this book for women experiencing this bewildering time in life through the eyes of a nurse. The easy-to-read text mixes understandable explanations with solid

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Demos Medical Publishing

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1932603867

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V!VA Travel Guides Bolivia

By: Karen Hartburn,Paula Newton,Margaret Rode

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V!VA Travel Guides Bolivia

By: Karen Hartburn,Paula Newton,Margaret Rode

The most up-to-date Bolivia travel guidebook on the market, this book helps to to successfully navigate and explore this beautiful country. Wander the salt flats, visit the highest capital in the world, and while you're at it, the highest navigable lake. Wildlife-watch in the steamy jungles of Parque National Madidi or travel back in time at the mines of Potosi. With VIVA's book in tow, you won't miss anything.

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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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1351829815

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The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel

By: Karen L. Taylor

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The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel

By: Karen L. Taylor

French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.

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Maimonides's Yahweh

Rabbinic Judaism's Attempt to Answer the Incarnational Question

By: Amy Karen Downey

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Maimonides's Yahweh

Rabbinic Judaism's Attempt to Answer the Incarnational Question

By: Amy Karen Downey

The life of Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides) remains a mystery to many within evangelical Christianity. However, he is lauded as a second Moses by many within modern Judaism. Does he deserve that title? Maimonides’s via negativa created a rationale for rejecting the messiahship claims of Jesus in Rabbinic Judaism. Therefore, this book seeks to illustrate that Maimonides, in his desire to create an anti-Christian apologetic regarding the incarnation, fashioned a Judaism that does not reflect the truths of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and developed a Judaism that was untenable for the Jewish people of the twenty-first century. Many Jewish people today are turning in a thousand and one different directions for spiritual answers, but not in the only way that will offer the way to God: Jesus of Nazareth (John 14:6). This work examines the history of Maimonides, his teachings, and an apologetic approach to bring the gospel back to the Jewish people (Rom 1:16).

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153267337X

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Food security in a world of natural resource scarcity

The role of agricultural technologies

By: Rosegrant, Mark W.,Koo, Jawoo,Cenacchi, Nicola,Ringler, Claudia,Robertson, Richard D.,Fisher, Myles,Cox, Cindy M.,Garrett, Karen,Perez, Nicostrato D.,Sabbagh, Pascale

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Food security in a world of natural resource scarcity

The role of agricultural technologies

By: Rosegrant, Mark W.,Koo, Jawoo,Cenacchi, Nicola,Ringler, Claudia,Robertson, Richard D.,Fisher, Myles,Cox, Cindy M.,Garrett, Karen,Perez, Nicostrato D.,Sabbagh, Pascale

The worlds population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. Climate change, population, and income growth will drive food demand in the coming decades. Baseline scenarios show food prices for maize, rice, and wheat would significantly increase between 2005 and 2050, and the number of people at risk of hunger in the developing world would grow from 881 million in 2005 to more than a billion people by 2050. Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies examines which current and potential strategies offer solutions to fight hunger. The type and effectiveness of agricultural technologies are highly debated, and the debates are often polarized. Technology options are many, but transparent evidence-based information has been inconclusive or scarce. This book endeavors to respond to the challenge of growing food sustainably without degrading our natural resource base. The authors use a groundbreaking modeling approach that combines comprehensive process-based modeling of agricultural technologies with sophisticated global food demand, supply, and trade modeling. This approach assesses the yield and food impact through 2050 of a broad range of agricultural technologies under varying assumptions of climate change for the three key staple crops: maize, rice, and wheat. Geared toward policymakers in ministries of agriculture and national agricultural research institutes, as well as multilateral development banks and the private sector, Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity provides guidance on various technology strategies and which to pursue as competition grows for land, water, and energy across productive sectors and even increasingly across borders. The book is an important tool for targeting investment decisions today and going forward.

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Yesterday's Gone

By: Karen Games

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Yesterday's Gone

By: Karen Games

After spending a year in France, Natalie returns to Australia, eager to reunite with her family. However, upon arriving at Sydney airport, she receives the heartbreaking news that her husband Scott has passed away in a tragic car accident. The news is too much for her to bear, and she collapses in shock. When she wakes up in the hospital, she discovers that the entire year she spent in France has vanished from her memory. Anna flees her home in Forster and creates a new life in Armidale, a city on the New South Wales northern tablelands. Soon after, Dennis arrives in town, and the flirtatious Anna quickly captures his attention. However, Anna soon realises that Dennis is not the person he appears to be. He has come to Armidale in search of his nephew, who has escaped from his abusive uncle after enduring years of torment. Yesterday’s Gone is a captivating novel that delves into the complexities of human nature, focusing on how people navigate the challenges of life, love, and loss. The themes of redemption and forgiveness are beautifully woven into the narrative, creating a thought-provoking and emotionally resonant story that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page.

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1923087312

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