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The Headmaster's Darlings

By: Katherine Clark

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A debut novelist casts a satirical eye at southern society while celebrating the power of great teachers in this award-winning comedy of manners. Winner of the 2015 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction As an English teacher at an elite private school in Mountain Brook, Alabama, Norman Laney is as unorthodox as he is morbidly obese. A natural wonder from the blue-collar South, Laney has barged into the exclusive world of Mountain Brook with a mission to defeat “the barbarians,” introduce true civilization in place of its thin veneer, and change his southern world for the better. Laney is adored by his students and by the society ladies who rely on him to lead their book clubs and charm their party guests. But there are others who think he is a larger-than-life menace to the status quo. When Laney is suddenly faced with an ultimatum and his imminent dismissal, he must outflank the principal at his own underhanded game, find out who said what about him and why, and launch his current crop of Alabama students into the wider world—or at least into Ivy League colleges.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611175399

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9781611175394

Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

This widely acclaimed book is a complete, authoritative reference on nutrition and its role in contemporary medicine, dietetics, nursing, public health, and public policy. Distinguished international experts provide in-depth information on historical landmarks in nutrition, specific dietary components, nutrition in integrated biologic systems, nutritional assessment through the life cycle, nutrition in various clinical disorders, and public health and policy issues. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, Eleventh Edition, offers coverage of nutrition's role in disease prevention, international nutrition issues, public health concerns, the role of obesity in a variety of chronic illnesses, genetics as it applies to nutrition, and areas of major scientific progress relating nutrition to disease.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284229858

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9781284229851

Slavery Before Race

Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884

By: Katherine Howlett Hayes

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Slavery Before Race

Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884

By: Katherine Howlett Hayes

The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized by the legal codification of races. Using the historic Sylvester Manor Plantation site turned archaeological dig as a case study, Hayes draws on artifacts and extensive archival material to present a rare picture of northern slavery on one of the North's first plantations. There, white settlers, enslaved Africans, and Native Americans worked side by side. While each group played distinct roles on the Manor and in the larger plantation economy of which Shelter Island was part, their close collaboration and cohabitation was essential for the Sylvester family's economic and political power in the Atlantic Northeast. Through the lens of social memory and forgetting, this study addresses the significance of Sylvester Manor's plantation history to American attitudes about diversity, Indian land politics, slavery and Jim Crow, in tension with idealized visions of white colonial community. -- Book jacket.

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NYU Press

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1479802220

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9781479802227

Mastering UNIX

By: Katherine Wrightson,Joseph Merlino

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Mastering UNIX

By: Katherine Wrightson,Joseph Merlino

All Your Unix Questions—Answered! Mastering Unix is your source for everything you need to know about today's most influential operating system. Inside, two Unix experts provide essential information on a wide range of Unix flavors, concentrating on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris8. Whether you're just getting started with Unix or want a resource to help you handle system administration's toughest chores, this example-filled book will answer all your questions and promote the skills you need to succeed. Coverage includes: Using the Unix shell Using X-Windows Configuring and using remote services Connecting to the Internet Creating user accounts Creating user groups Designing and building a network Using Unix utilities Programming the shell Setting up and administering a mail server Setting up and administering a news server Setting up and administering a Web server Implementing effective security practices Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0782153038

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9780782153033

Pause

Putting the Brakes on a Runaway Life

By: Katherine Gibson

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Pause

Putting the Brakes on a Runaway Life

By: Katherine Gibson

Pause: Putting the Brakes on a Runaway Life puts the hurried life on notice. Pause challenges the chaos that churns in our society with gentle suggestions to inject moments of fun, adventure, and self-care. Pause will convince you that life dramatically improves when we replace meaningless activities, back-to-back commitments, and unfulfilling obligations with activities that give life zest.

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Insomniac Press

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1897414943

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9781897414941

A New Westminster Album

Glimpses of the City as it was

By: Gavin Hainsworth,Katherine Freund-Hainsworth

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A New Westminster Album

Glimpses of the City as it was

By: Gavin Hainsworth,Katherine Freund-Hainsworth

This multifaceted photographic history album depicts almost 150 years of the City of New Westminster.-This collection of photographs and artwork shows how the tenacious citizens of New Westminster have thrived through almost 150 years.

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Dundurn

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1550025481

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9781550025484

Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature

By: Katherine Mannheimer

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Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature

By: Katherine Mannheimer

From 1642 to 1660, live theater was banned in England. The market for printed books, however—including plays—flourished. How did this period, when plays could be read but not performed, affect the way drama was written thereafter? As Katherine Mannheimer demonstrates, the plays of the following decades exhibited a distinct self-consciousness of drama’s status as a singular art form that straddled both page and stage. Scholars have commented on how the ban on live performance changed the way consumers read plays, but no previous book has addressed how this upheaval changed the way dramatists wrote them. In Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature, Mannheimer argues that Restoration playwrights recognized and exploited the tension between print and performance inherent to all drama. By repeatedly and systematically manipulating this tension, these authors’ works sought to court the reader while at the same time also challenging emergent concepts of "literature" that privileged textuality and print culture over the performing body and the live voice.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813950449

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9780813950440

Constant Battles

Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

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Constant Battles

Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

The author argues that warfare has been a part of human existence throughout history, and considers whether humans are doomed by genetic heritage to fight each other.

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Macmillan

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0312310900

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9780312310905

All the Governor's Men

A Mountain Brook Novel

By: Katherine Clark

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All the Governor's Men

A Mountain Brook Novel

By: Katherine Clark

A political satire that reimagines George Wallace's last run for governor of Alabama It's the summer of George Wallace's last run for governor of Alabama in 1982, and the state is at a crossroads. In Katherine Clark's All the Governor's Men, a political comedy of manners that reimagines Wallace's last campaign, voters face a clear choice between the infamous segregationist, now a crippled old man in a wheelchair, and his primary opponent, Aaron Osgood, a progressive young candidate poised to liberate the state from its George Wallace-poisoned past. Daniel Dobbs, a twenty one-year-old Harvard graduate and South Alabama native, is one of many young people who have joined the campaign representing hope and change for a downtrodden Alabama. A political animal himself, Daniel possesses so much charm and charisma that he was nicknamed "the Governor" in college. Nowhe is engaged in the struggle to conquer once and for all the malignant man Alabamians have traditionally called "the Governor." This historic election isn't the only thing Daniel wants to win. During his senior year, he fell in love with a freshman girl from Mountain Brook, the "Tiny Kingdom" of wealth and privilege, a world apart from his own Alabama origins. A small-town country boy, Daniel desperately wants to gain the favor of his girlfriend's family along with her mentor, the larger-than-life English teacher Norman Laney. Daniel also wants to keep one or two ex-girlfriends firmly out of the picture. In the course of his summer, he must untangle his complicated personal life, satisfy the middle-class dreams of his parents for their Harvard-educated son, decide whether to enter law school or launch his own political career, and, incidentally, help his candidate defeat George Wallace, in a close and increasingly dirty race. All the Governor's Men is a darkly comic look at both the political process in general and a significant political chapter in Alabama history. This second novel in Katherine Clark's Mountain Brook series depicts the social and political landscape of an Alabama world that is at once a place like no other and at the same time, a place like all others.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611176298

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Salem, NH

By: Katherine Khalife,Douglas W. Seed

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Salem, NH

By: Katherine Khalife,Douglas W. Seed

Through more than 200 images, many never before published, this volume explores life in a tiny village that once swelled to become the fastest growing community in the United States. With the arrival of the Londonderry Turnpike in 1806, the railroad in 1849, and trolleys in 1902, Salem farmers found their world expanding beyond their own stone fences--opening an era of entrepreneurial opportunity that continues to thrive today. In this century, Salem has its roots in housing developments, potato chips, Coca-Cola, horse racing, and roller coasters. Add in the eternal feud between New Hampshire and Massachusetts and you have the formula for an exciting story of wins, losses, twists, and turns that define this unique border town.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738587087

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9780738587080

The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

By: Katherine Ryan,J. Bradley Cousins

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The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

By: Katherine Ryan,J. Bradley Cousins

Bringing together the expertise of top evaluation leaders from around the world, The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation addresses methods and applications in the field, particularly as they relate to policy- and decision-making in an era of globalization. The comprehensive collection of articles in the Handbook compels readers to consider globalization influences on educational evaluation within distinct genres or families of evaluation approaches. Key Features Discusses substantive issues surrounding globalization, and its implication for educational policy and practice and ultimately evaluation; Includes state-of-the-art theory chapters and method chapters within scientific, accountability-oriented, learning-oriented, and political genres of evaluation approaches; Provides real-world case exemplar chapters to illustrate core concepts within genres; Extends dialogue on controversial topics and contemporary educational evaluation tensions in the context of globalization; Summarizes, by means of an integration chapter, the issues, tensions and dilemmas confronting educational evaluators in an era of globalization. Serving as a state-of-the-art resource on educational evaluation, this volume is designed for graduate students, evaluation scholars and researchers and professional evaluation practitioners with an interest in educational program and policy evaluation.

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1483303489

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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

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The Devil's Dozen

12 Notorious Serial Killers Caught by Cutting-Edge Forensics

By: Katherine M. Ramsland

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The Devil's Dozen

12 Notorious Serial Killers Caught by Cutting-Edge Forensics

By: Katherine M. Ramsland

Ramsland traces the fascinating evolution of forensic investigation through case histories of 12 of the most notorious serial killers of the last 100 years. Includes photos. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

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Penguin

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0425270777

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9780425270776

Parallel Lines

By: Katherine Chandler

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Parallel Lines

By: Katherine Chandler

I think it's sad. A sad place. Full of sad people with fucked-up lives. And I thinks, how? How did they get there? How did they get to this? What was it? What happened that got them there? Cos you're not just born into it, are you. You're not born into being fucked up? Steph is fifteen years old. Simon is her teacher. Both live in Cardiff but their parallel lives couldn't be more different. When an accusation is made and their worlds collide, things aren't as simple as they might seem. Award-winning playwright Katherine Chandler explores truth, class and power in contemporary Wales in this gripping, uncompromising play. It received its world premiere on 20 November 2013 at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, and won the inaugural Wales Drama Award.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474260020

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The Mountain That Walked

By: Katherine Holubitsky

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The Mountain That Walked

By: Katherine Holubitsky

The year is 1903, and Charlie Sutherland, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is on the run. Three years earlier, he was sent by Dr. Barnardo’s Home in England to work on the remote Alberta homestead of Albert and Buck Brooks. Charlie has been treated poorly by the two brothers, but he has endured. However, when Albert dies under curious circumstances, and Buck accuses him of murder, Charlie has no choice but to run. He ends up in Frank, a coal-mining town in the Rocky Mountains. Once in Frank, Charlie finally finds friendship and a sense of belonging and self-worth, emotional qualities that had eluded him as a mere “Home boy.” His new best friend is another English boy, who has recently received the deed to a homestead and is working to save for supplies. Things change dramatically, however, when, as the local aboriginals have for centuries predicted it would, the mountain walks. In this true event of April 29, 1903, Turtle Mountain collapses, burying a portion of the town. What Charlie does next is determined by the lessons he’s learned from those he’s become close to, the hard-working immigrants and colorful Canadians who struggled against all odds to populate the West

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