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Drawing Lines

Why Conservatives Must Begin to Battle Fiercely in the Arena of Ideas

By: Kira Davis

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Drawing Lines

Why Conservatives Must Begin to Battle Fiercely in the Arena of Ideas

By: Kira Davis

Kira Davis has built a brand on reaching out to the other side, on giving people space to be wrong, the space to discuss, the space to tolerate. I sincerely believe there are many reasonable people in America from all ideologies who are still willing to talk with each other, people who are quite happy to live and let live.Unfortunately, none of those people are controlling the conversations right now. Trump's presidency has burned away the niceties that tenuously held our political ecosystem together. We've had a front-row seat to the strategy of the Left. We're seeing the lengths they will go to and the lies they let stand in service of crushing 50 percent of this nation.The onslaught of dishonesty has been relentless. The progressive left isn't happy to just let us live with our own values, our own media, our own cultural verticals. They seek to completely destroy ideological and financial competition. They seek unity through complete elimination of the other side. There are times for compromise and times to draw a line in the sand, and friends, the latter has arrived. It is time to draw our lines as Christians and Conservatives.

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Fidelis Publishing. LLC

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1737176351

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Prisoner of Utopia

The Protector

By: Bill Mess,Kira Breed-Wrisley

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Prisoner of Utopia

The Protector

By: Bill Mess,Kira Breed-Wrisley

About the Book In a self-sufficient gated community of the near future, the rich can afford their own security force, amenities, and entertainment. They can isolate and insulate their children, keeping them ignorant of the violence, poverty, and pain that exist outside their walls. When someone from inside escapes and interacts with the "real world", deep philosophical lessons are learned: When do we fight for change and when do we accept our conditions? How do we achieve happiness for ourselves and our children? About the Author Bill Mess has worked with the elderly for over thirty years and finds working with people who have lived long lives very rewarding. He also volunteers through service clubs and individual not for profit organizations. He thinks this planet and the environment is beautiful but in need of some action to protect it.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798888126769

In the Backyard

By: Kira Freed

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In the Backyard

By: Kira Freed

Learn why a backyard is a habitat. Read about the plants and animals in backyards.

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Benchmark Education Company

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1604374519

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9781604374513

The Death of Meriwether Lewis

A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

By: James E. Starrs,Kira Gale

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The Death of Meriwether Lewis

A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

By: James E. Starrs,Kira Gale

Recently revealed truths and deconstructed myths are woven together in this fascinating account to form an unforgettable tale of political corruption, assassins, forged documents, and skeletal remains.

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River Junction Press LLC

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0964931540

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9780964931541

A Seat at the Table

Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters

By: Kelly Dittmar,Kira Sanbonmatsu,Susan J. Carroll

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A Seat at the Table

Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters

By: Kelly Dittmar,Kira Sanbonmatsu,Susan J. Carroll

The presence of women in Congress is at an all-time high -- approximately one of every five members is female -- and record numbers of women are running for public office for the 2018 midterms. At the same time, Congress is more polarized than ever, and little research exists on how women in Congress view their experiences and contributions to American politics today. Drawing on personal interviews with over three-quarters of the women serving in the 114th Congress (2015-17), the authors analyze how these women navigate today's stark partisan divisions, and whether they feel effective in their jobs. Through first-person perspectives, A Seat at the Table looks at what motivates these women's legislative priorities and behavior, details the ways in which women experience service within a male-dominated institution, and highlights why it matters that women sit in the nation's federal legislative chambers. It describes the strategies women employ to overcome any challenges they confront as well as the opportunities available to them. The book examines how gender interacts with political party, race and ethnicity, seniority, chamber, and district characteristics to shape women's representational influence and behavior, finding that party and race/ethnicity are the two most complicating factors to a singular narrative of women's congressional representation. While congresswomen's perspectives, experiences, and influence are neither uniform nor interchangeable, they strongly believe their presence matters in myriad ways, affecting congressional culture, priorities, processes, debates, and outcomes.

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Oxford University Press

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0190915757

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9780190915759

Modern Women

52 Pioneers

By: Kira Cochrane

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Modern Women

52 Pioneers

By: Kira Cochrane

Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender equality in their own indomitable way. Find out about extraordinary women including writer and teacher Maya Angelou, computer scientist Ada Lovelace, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, film star Katharine Hepburn and pioneering musician Björk. Their lives also enable bigger stories to be told: the suffrage movement with Sophia Duleep Singh; the civil rights struggle and Audre Lorde; advances in science made by Rosalind Franklin; the push for artistic freedom in the work of Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois; and the importance of equality in all sections of society advocated by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Aurum

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0711255792

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9780711255791

Autism Spectrum Disorders

The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Other ASDs

By: Chantal Sicile-Kira

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Autism Spectrum Disorders

The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Other ASDs

By: Chantal Sicile-Kira

An expert in the field of autistic disorders presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of autism conditions, including Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and other autism spectrum disorders, explaining how diagnose ASDs, family coping strategies, treatment options, educational programs, and more. Original.

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Penguin

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0399530479

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9780399530470

Singing Like Germans

Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

By: Kira Thurman

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Singing Like Germans

Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

By: Kira Thurman

In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, audiences assumed the categories of Blackness and Germanness were mutually exclusive. Yet on attending a performance of German music by a Black musician, many listeners were surprised to discover that German identity is not a biological marker but something that could be learned, performed, and mastered. While Germans and Austrians located their national identity in music, championing composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms as national heroes, the performance of their works by Black musicians complicated the public's understanding of who had the right to play them. Audiences wavered between seeing these musicians as the rightful heirs of Austro-German musical culture and dangerous outsiders to it. Thurman explores the tension between the supposedly transcendental powers of classical music and the global conversations that developed about who could perform it. An interdisciplinary and transatlantic history, Singing Like Germans suggests that listening to music is not a passive experience, but an active process where racial and gendered categories are constantly made and unmade.

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Cornell University Press

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150175985X

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9781501759857

Earth's Water Cycle

By: Kira Freed

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Earth's Water Cycle

By: Kira Freed

6 copies of Book with Teacher's Guide and Comprehension Question Card

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Benchmark Education Company

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1604374551

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (revised)

The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism

By: Chantal Sicile-Kira

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (revised)

The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism

By: Chantal Sicile-Kira

Explains all aspects of autism, including how to get an accurate diagnosis, coping strategies for families, and resources for educators and professionals.

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TarcherPerigee

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0399166637

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9780399166631

Plants and Animals in Different Seasons

By: Kira Freed

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Plants and Animals in Different Seasons

By: Kira Freed

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1604374489

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Faraj!

A Space of Possibility

By: Kira Van Deusen

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Faraj!

A Space of Possibility

By: Kira Van Deusen

“Faraj” is a Farsi word meaning an opening, a blessing, a space of possibility. Ābtin journeys for a whole year, across deserts and mountains to the sea. The young Zoroastrian hopes to come to terms with his harsh father and his own ambivalence about the art of carpet weaving. He dreams of Mitrā, a Muslim girl who waits for him back home, gathering medicinal plants in the barren lands, struggling with her family’s pressure to marry and a stranger’s accusations of sorcery. Once reunited, Ābtin and Mitrā realize that both of their religions will forbid their marriage. Gossip is rampant and persecution of Zoroastrians is on the rise. Faraj: A Space of Possibility is set amidst the mud-brick houses, wind towers, and tiled mosques of 17th century Yazd—a crossroads on the Silk Road. We follow Ābtin and Mitrā as they work to reconcile their communities, often at risk to themselves. Together they experience mysticism, danger, and the ups and downs of young love. Gaining confidence in their callings as carpet weaver and healer, Ābtin and Mitrā search for a way to be together. They yearn for a space of possibility – faraj.

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FriesenPress

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1460286820

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Meriwether Lewis

The Assassination of an American Hero and the Silver Mines of Mexico

By: Kira Gale

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Meriwether Lewis

The Assassination of an American Hero and the Silver Mines of Mexico

By: Kira Gale

This new full-length biography of Meriwether Lewis is presented within the context of the turbulent times of the early AmericanRepublic. The author discusses intrigues to seize the Floridas and Louisiana from Spain with the help of France or Britain, and makes the case for General James Wilkinson assassinating General Anthony Wayne to become the commanding general of the U.S. Army. She proposes that the deadlock in the presidential election of 1800 between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson was caused by a British faction of Federalists who planned to invade Louisiana and Mexico if Burr were elected president. Three parts of the conspiracy are identified: a secret military base on the Ohio, Cantonment Wilkinsonville, where 700 U.S. Army troops were stationed; the Philip Nolan filibuster into Texas; and British naval support. After Jefferson's election, Lewis lived in the White House as his confidential aide. In 1803, he left the White House as the leader of an elite army unit to reinforce America's claim to the Pacific Northwest. When he returned, Jefferson appointed him governor of LouisianaTerritory based in St. Louis with orders to remove followers of Aaron Burr from positions of power and influence. Within two years Meriwether Lewis was dead at the age of 35, killed by an assassin's bullets in 1809. The case is made that General Wilkinson and John Smith T., a wealthy lead mine operator, were the organizers of his assassination. Their motive was to prevent Lewis from stopping another filibuster expedition into Mexico in 1810. This biography of Lewis offers a very different interpretation of his character and achievements, supporting the idea that, if he had lived, Lewis was in line to become president of the United States. It presents a detailed account of his activities as a loyal Jefferson supporter, presidential aide, leader of a continental expedition, and governor of LouisianaTerritory.

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River Junction Press, LLC

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0991409329

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9780991409327

All the Rebel Women

The rise of the fourth wave of feminism

By: Kira Cochrane

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All the Rebel Women

The rise of the fourth wave of feminism

By: Kira Cochrane

On a bright day at the Epsom Derby, 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison was hit by the king’s horse in one of the defining moments of the fight for women’s suffrage – what became known as feminism’s first wave. The second wave arose in the late-1960s, activists campaigning tirelessly for women’s liberation, organising around a wildly ambitious slate of issues – a struggle their daughters continued in the third wave that blossomed in the early-1990s. Now, a hundred years on from the campaign for the vote, fifty years since the very first murmurs of the second wave movement, a new tide of feminist voices is rising. Scattered across the world, campaigning online as well as marching in the streets, women are making themselves heard in irresistible fashion. They’re demonstrating against media sexism, domestic violence and sexual assault, fighting for equal pay, affordable childcare and abortion rights. Thousands are sharing their experiences through the Everyday Sexism project, marching in Slutwalk protests, joining demonstrations in the wake of the Delhi gang rape, challenging misogynist behaviour and language, online crusaders and ordinary people organising for the freedom of women everywhere. Kira Cochrane’s All the Rebel Women is an irrepressible exploration of today’s feminist landscape, asking how far we have come over the past century – and how far there still is to go. Whether engaging with leading feminists, describing the fight against rape culture or bringing immediate, powerful life to vital theories such as intersectionality, All the Rebel Women binds everything together into one unstoppable idea. This is modern feminism. This is the fourth wave.

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Guardian Books

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1783560363

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Truly, Madly, Sweetly

By: Kira Archer

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Truly, Madly, Sweetly

By: Kira Archer

Now a Hallmark Original Movie An inherited parking spot. That’s all it took to make Natalie Moran’s food truck dreams come true. But her dream space is attached to a bakery inherited by someone else—drop dead gorgeous Eric Schneider, a financial consultant who wouldn’t know a cupcake from a cannoli. And he wants to buy Nat out, no matter what she has to say about it. Eric’s determined to build his own business, but he needs the super cute klutz with the cupcake truck to help. If Nat will teach him the basics of running a bakery, he’ll give her free kitchen time. Except...neither expects the heat burning between them or the possibility that their arrangement might become permanent. When it all blows up, Nat is convinced his actions mean betrayal. It’s up to Eric to regain her trust and show her he’s a man who is truly, madly in love with her, before she disappears from his life forever. Each book in the Sweet Love series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1 Truly, Madly, Sweetly Book #2 Totally, Sweetly, Irrevocably Book #3 Sweetly, Deeply, Absolutely

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Entangled: Lovestruck

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163375572X

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Under Fire in the Dardanelles

By: Camilla Cecil,Kira charatan

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Under Fire in the Dardanelles

By: Camilla Cecil,Kira charatan

Edward Cadogan kept a record of his war in words and photographs. His baptism by fire in Gallipoli made a profound effect on him but, as the situation deteriorated and casualties mounted, he became highly critical of the plan and the leadership. His front line experiences are balanced by his contact with senior commanders. Wounded and clearly in poor health he was fortunate to survive. After the ignominious withdrawal, Cadogan soldiered on in Egypt and Palestine increasingly disenchanted with the conduct of the War. His descriptions of conditions at the Front are complemented by his interest in family affairs at home.This compilation is not only superb military history but a unique piece of social commentary.

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Pen and Sword

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1844153746

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9781844153749

A Full Life with Autism

From Learning to Forming Relationships to Achieving Independence

By: Chantal Sicile-Kira,Jeremy Sicile-Kira

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A Full Life with Autism

From Learning to Forming Relationships to Achieving Independence

By: Chantal Sicile-Kira,Jeremy Sicile-Kira

In the next five years, hundreds of thousands of children with autism spectrum disorder will reach adulthood. And while diagnosis and treatment for children has improved dramatically in recent years, no one is answering the question that plagues so many parents: What happens to my child when I am no longer able to care for or assist him? In this ground-breaking book, autism expert Chantal Sicile-Kira and her son Jeremy take on the challenge of planning for the full lifespan. Working together and drawing on the insights of others facing the same challenges, they offer real solutions to a host of difficult questions, including how young adults across the autism spectrum can: *negotiate adult life in this new economy where adult service resources are scarce *cope with the difficulties of living apart from the nuclear family *create and maintain a support network, including friends, support staff, and therapists *find and keep a job that provides meaning, stability and an income *discover the joys of fulfilling relationships"--

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Macmillan

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0230112463

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9780230112469

Semiconductor Quantum Optics

By: Mackillo Kira,Stephan W. Koch

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Semiconductor Quantum Optics

By: Mackillo Kira,Stephan W. Koch

The emerging field of semiconductor quantum optics combines semiconductor physics and quantum optics, with the aim of developing quantum devices with unprecedented performance. In this book researchers and graduate students alike will reach a new level of understanding to begin conducting state-of-the-art investigations. The book combines theoretical methods from quantum optics and solid-state physics to give a consistent microscopic description of light-matter- and many-body-interaction effects in low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures. It develops the systematic theory needed to treat semiconductor quantum-optical effects, such as strong light-matter coupling, light-matter entanglement, squeezing, as well as quantum-optical semiconductor spectroscopy. Detailed derivations of key equations help readers learn the techniques and nearly 300 exercises help test their understanding of the materials covered. The book is accompanied by a website hosted by the authors, containing further discussions on topical issues, latest trends and publications on the field. The link can be found at www.cambridge.org/9780521875097.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139502514

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Cosmopolitan Elites

Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order

By: Huju

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Cosmopolitan Elites

Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order

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Cosmopolitan Elites narrates the birth, everyday life, and fracturing of a Western-dominated global order from its margins. It offers a critical sociological examination of the elite Indian Foreign Service and its members, many of whom were present at the founding of this order. Kira Huju explores how these diplomats set out to remake the service in the name of a radically anti-colonial global subaltern, but often ended up seeking status within its hierarchies through social mimicry of its most powerful actors. This is a book about the struggles of belonging: it revisits what it takes to be a recognized member of international society and asks what the experience of historically marginalized actors inside the diplomatic club can tell us about the evident woes of global order today. In interrogating how Indian diplomats learned to live under a Westernized world order, it also offers a sociologically grounded reading of what might happen in spaces like India as the world transitions past Western domination. An awkward balancing act animates the order-making of India's cosmopolitan diplomats: despite a genuine desire to strive toward a postcolonial world founded on diversity, difference, and the symbolic representation of a global subaltern, there is a strong sense of a lingering caricature-like notion of a white, European-dominated homogenous club, to which Indian diplomats feel a deep-rooted and colonially embedded desire to belong. Cosmopolitanism operates inside this balancing act not as an international ethic upholding an equal, tolerant, or liberal global order, but rather as an elite aesthetic which presumes cultural compliance, diplomatic accommodation, and social assimilation into Western mores. Based on 85 interviews with Indian diplomats, politicians, and foreign policy experts, as well as archival work in New Delhi, the book asks what the experience of historically marginalized actors inside the diplomatic club tells us about the social hierarchies of race, class, religion, gender, and caste under global order.

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Oxford University Press

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0198874928

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Knight Time Tea Travels

By: Kira Knight-McKay

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Knight Time Tea Travels

By: Kira Knight-McKay

Knight Time Tea Travels is an introspective journey Kira Knight-McKay collected over the past two decades of her own eclectic mix of reflections from childhood to the present. Kira' s experiences helped her encompass encounters with acceptance. Kept all of her journals locked away with dreams to one day embrace the idea of manifesting a poetry book or two full of intense diary entries that encouraged mending wounds, expressing treasures found, and exotic satisfactions realized. Knight Time Tea Travels is compiled of various metaphors and lively correlations of how drinking various hot teas can help heal, balance, and bring about a comforting ending to a sometimes trying day. Enjoy Kira's cup of tea through the satisfaction of her first poetry book Knight Time Tea Travels... Savor and cherish your tea...

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AuthorHouse

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145206671X

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Contesting the Repressive State

Why Ordinary Egyptians Protested During the Arab Spring

By: Kira D. Jumet

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Contesting the Repressive State

Why Ordinary Egyptians Protested During the Arab Spring

By: Kira D. Jumet

This book advances research on the collective action dilemma in protest movements by examining protest mobilization leading up to, and during, the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and 2013 June 30th Coup in Cairo, Egypt. The book is organized chronologically and touches on why and how people make the decision to protest or not protest during different periods of the revolutionary process. The overarching question is: Why and how do individuals who are not members of political groups or organizers of political movements choose to engage or not engage in anti-government protest under a repressive regime? In answering the question, the book argues that individual decisions to protest or not protest are based on the intersection of the following three factors: political opportunity structures, mobilizing structures, and framing processes. It further demonstrates that the way these decisions to protest or not protest take place is through emotional mechanisms that are activated by specific combinations of these factors. The goal of the book is to investigate the relationship between key structural factors and the emotional responses they produce. By examining 170 interviews with individuals who either protested or did not protest, it explores how social media, violent government repression, changes in political opportunities, and the military influenced individual decisions to protest or not protest.

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Oxford University Press

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0190688467

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9780190688462

How We Group Animals

By: Kira Freed

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How We Group Animals

By: Kira Freed

Learn about different ways to group animals.

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1604374535

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Learning About the Civil War with Arts & Crafts

By: Kira Freed

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Learning About the Civil War with Arts & Crafts

By: Kira Freed

The Civil War was a difficult time in American history, as the North and South fought each other over slavery and other divisive issues. The history of this conflict is explained to readers through informative text, which is accompanied by photographs and other images from this time period. Fact boxes and sidebars provide readers with additional information about the Civil War and those who fought in it. These important facts are made more accessible to readers though hands-on arts and crafts projects. Readers follow detailed instructions to make their own Underground Railroad signal lanterns, army drums, and even quilts.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1477758763

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9781477758762

The Networked Teacher

How New Teachers Build Social Networks for Professional Support

By: Kira J. Baker-Doyle

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The Networked Teacher

How New Teachers Build Social Networks for Professional Support

By: Kira J. Baker-Doyle

New teachers need support from their peers and mentors to locate resources, information, new ideas, emotional support, and inspiration. This timely book explains the research and theory behind social networks (face-to-face and online), describes what effective social networking for educators looks like, reveals common obstacles that new teachers face in establishing support networks, and offers valuable practical advice. The author follows the stories of four first-year teachers, illustrating the significant impact that social support networks can have on teachers’ lives and challenging common misconceptions of professional support. This book offers action guides to help teachers become “intentional networkers,” including a companion website with tools for networking and collaboration. This is a must-have resource for pre- and in-service teachers. Book Features: Research-based frameworks on teachers’ social networks and professional support.Suggestions for mentors, teacher educators, and school administers on how to help new teachers to effectively develop their social networks.A companion website that will offer discussion forums, resources, and networking tools. “Dr. Baker-Doyle’s book adds an interesting and timely facet—the role of social networks—to the always important discussions about how new teachers can excel in their work. Her research will be of value to those who do professional development with educators and to practitioners alike.” —Susan Fuhrman, President of Teachers College, Columbia University and the National Academy of Education “Without question, this book is a major contribution to the public and academic conversation on school reform and teacher development. But more importantly, it is destined to improve the professional life of any teacher that reads it.” —Marc Lamont Hill, Teachers College, Columbia University

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Teachers College Press

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0807774456

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9780807774458

Death of Meriwether Lewis

A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

By: James Starrs,Kira Gale

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Death of Meriwether Lewis

A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

By: James Starrs,Kira Gale

Even after more than two centuries, mystery continues to surround Meriwether Lewis’s death—did the famous explorer commit suicide or was he murdered? Recently revealed truths and deconstructed myths are woven together in this fascinating account to form an unforgettable tale of political corruption, assassins, forged documents, and skeletal remains. New research implicating General James Wilkinson—commanding general of the U.S. Army and coconspirator of Aaron Burr—as the assassin is thoroughly discussed, while riveting testimony from 13 leading experts in wound ballistics, forensic anthropology, suicide psychology, grave-site exhumation, and handwriting analysis offers new insight into what Lewis’s exhumed remains might reveal. The new evidence not only destroys the foundation of suicide arguments by proving the primary evidence is a forgery, it also proves the Indian Agent escorting Lewis lied about his activities on the day of Lewis's death. The book also contains evidence of a previously unknown plot by Aaron Burr to seize New Orleans and invade Mexico in 1809, a repeat of his 1806 plot. It explains why Lewis suddenly changed his plans to travel to Washington, DC, by boat, and instead chose to go overland on the Natchez Trace, where he met his untimely death on October 11, 1809, at age 35.

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0985017864

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9780985017866

Kiviuq

An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins

By: Kira Van Deusen

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Kiviuq

An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins

By: Kira Van Deusen

How do shape-shifting shamans, a giant cannibalistic bumblebee, and human marriage with animals speak to Canadian Inuit and Siberian indigenous peoples today? How can artists present ancient legend in live performance and film with sensitivity to the source? Why are long multi-layered stories essential for adults and children in an age of commercial television?

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Transformative Teachers

Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World

By: Kira J. Baker-Doyle

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Transformative Teachers

Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World

By: Kira J. Baker-Doyle

cTransformative Teachers offers an insightful look at the growing movement of civic-minded educators who are using twenty-first-century participatory practices and connected technologies to organize change from the ground up. Kira J. Baker-Doyle highlights the collaborative, grassroots tactics that activist teachers are implementing to transform their profession and pursue greater social justice and equity in education. The author provides a framework and practical suggestions for charting the path to transformative teacher leadership as well as suggestions for how others, including administrators and outside organizations, can support them. In addition, the book profiles fifteen transformative teachers who are changing the face of education, features three case studies of organizational allies (Edcamps, the Philadelphia Education Fund, and the Connected Learning Alliance), and includes insights from a wide range of educational leaders. A guide to the norms and practices of innovative educators, Transformative Teachers offers a clear and compelling vision of the potential for grassroots change in education.

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Harvard Education Press

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Captured by Desire

By: Kira Morgan

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Captured by Desire

By: Kira Morgan

Young Florie Gilder has always known that her biological father is a noble--her only evidence an heirloom gold belt. Living as a commoner, she earns her keep as apprentice-jewelry-designer in her foster-father's goldsmithing shop. Secretly hoping to find her real father, she offers to sell the goldsmith's wares in the town of her birth--at the Selkirk Fair. With her heirloom gold belt on display, she hopes it will be recognized by her real father. Leaving her booth at the Fair to take a moment's respite, Florie returns to find that a Lady Mavis Fraser of the Scottish court bought the gold belt (Mavis knows that her husband Lord Fraser would instantly recognize the belt as the link to the whereabouts of his illegitimate daughter whom he seeks to be reunited with, but such a reunion would foil Mavis's claim to her husband's estate). Florie, pursuing Lady Mavis, gives her back her money, wrests back the belt, and flees into the forest. Claiming Florie stole it from her, Mavis makes the authorities promise to find and execute Florie. Meanwhile, Rane MacAllister,a local hunter in the forest, mistakes the hiding Florie for a deer, wounding her with an arrow. He carries her to a local church where she will be guaranteed 40 days of sanctuary. When Lady Mavis hears the church has Florie, she commands Rane to guard her, but in the process he falls in love with her. Lady Mavis sets fire to the church, hoping to kill Florie, but Florie escapes. Rane's penalty for letting her escape will be death. At the eleventh hour, Florie returns, and must decide which she wants more--Rane's life, or her noble lineage...

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