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Positive Unlabeled Learning

By: Hamed Mirzaei,Neda Rahimian,Hamid Reza Mirzaei,Javid Sadri Nahand,Michael R. Hamblin

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Positive Unlabeled Learning

By: Hamed Mirzaei,Neda Rahimian,Hamid Reza Mirzaei,Javid Sadri Nahand,Michael R. Hamblin

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful tools that create predictive models, extract information, and help make complex decisions. They do this by examining an enormous quantity of labeled training data to find patterns too complex for human observation. However, in many real-world applications, well-labeled data can be difficult, expensive, or even impossible to obtain. In some cases, such as when identifying rare objects like new archeological sites or secret enemy military facilities in satellite images, acquiring labels could require months of trained human observers at incredible expense. Other times, as when attempting to predict disease infection during a pandemic such as COVID-19, reliable true labels may be nearly impossible to obtain early on due to lack of testing equipment or other factors. In that scenario, identifying even a small amount of truly negative data may be impossible due to the high false negative rate of available tests. In such problems, it is possible to label a small subset of data as belonging to the class of interest though it is impractical to manually label all data not of interest. We are left with a small set of positive labeled data and a large set of unknown and unlabeled data. Readers will explore this Positive and Unlabeled learning (PU learning) problem in depth. The book rigorously defines the PU learning problem, discusses several common assumptions that are frequently made about the problem and their implications, and considers how to evaluate solutions for this problem before describing several of the most popular algorithms to solve this problem. It explores several uses for PU learning including applications in biological/medical, business, security, and signal processing. This book also provides high-level summaries of several related learning problems such as one-class classification, anomaly detection, and noisy learning and their relation to PU learning.

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3031791789

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Gerontological Nursing Competencies for Care

By: Kristen L. Mauk

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Gerontological Nursing Competencies for Care

By: Kristen L. Mauk

Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Fourth Edition focuses on caring for the elderly by employing a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach. The Fourth Edition will feature a greater emphasis on healthy aging and continues to follow the framework of the Core Competencies of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

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1284146189

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Regents Exams and Answers: Global History and Geography 2020

By: Michael J. Romano,Kristen Thone,William Streitwieser,Mary Martin

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Regents Exams and Answers: Global History and Geography 2020

By: Michael J. Romano,Kristen Thone,William Streitwieser,Mary Martin

Barron’s Regents Exams and Answers: Global History and Geography 2020 provides essential practice for students taking either the Global History and Geography “Transition Exam” or the “Global History and Geography II Exam”, including actual recently administered “Transition Exams”, thorough answer explanations, and an online access to an overview of the “Global History and Geography II Exam.” All Regents test dates for 2020 have been canceled. Currently the State Education Department of New York has released tentative test dates for the 2021 Regents. The dates are set for January 26-29, 2021, June 15-25, 2021, and August 12-13th. This book features: Four actual, recently administered Regents Global History and Geography “Transition Exams” so students can get familiar with the test Thorough explanations for all answers Self-analysis charts and Regents specifications grids to help identify strengths and weaknesses A detailed overview of the “Transition Exam” Test-taking tips and helpful hints for answering all question types on the “Transition Exam” A thorough glossary that covers all important terms, international organizations, agreements, and people from 1750 to the present A webpage that contains an overview of the “Global History and Geography II Exam” and answers to frequently asked questions about that version of the exam Looking for additional practice and review? Check out Barron’s Regents Global History and Geography Power Pack 2020 two-volume set, which includes Let’s Review Regents: Global History and Geography in addition to Regents Exams and Answers: Global History and Geography.

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Simon and Schuster

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1506270840

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Magickal Crafts

By: Kristen Madden,Liz Roberts

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Magickal Crafts

By: Kristen Madden,Liz Roberts

Are you looking for new ideas for decorations, gifts, or ways to honor Divinity on the holidays and other special days? Magickal Crafts is about creating joy in your life by opening it to divine inspiration. Filled with beautiful, magickal crafts and delicious recipes, this is a book for everyone, from experienced craftspeople to those that are all thumbs. Inside, you?ll learn how to: Make unique crafts for the eight Neopagan holidays and lunar phases Craft sacred spaces, magical tools, oracles and altar pieces Experiment with meditations, spells and other magical exercises Create special gifts and mouth-watering delicacies for handfastings, baby blessings, adulthood celebrations and more Design and wear ritual and fun garb, as well as body oils and henna body art Discover traditions and crafts from around the world Open to your own creativity and allow it to manifest joy in your life Contains dozens of photos to guide you through the projects And much, much more Written by two hedonistic craftswomen and home-schooling moms, Magickal Crafts is the product of far too much fun, celebration, and experimentation. It is truly a work that will provide you with loads of great ideas and help you find your own inner muse. Perfect for crafty Wiccans, Pagans, Druids and all others who walk the Earth's path.

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1632657996

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Essentials of Online Course Design

A Standards-Based Guide

By: Marjorie Vai,Kristen Sosulski

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Essentials of Online Course Design

A Standards-Based Guide

By: Marjorie Vai,Kristen Sosulski

In spite of the proliferation of online learning, creating online courses can still evoke a good deal of frustration, negativity, and wariness in those who need to create them. The second edition of Essentials of Online Course Design takes a fresh, thoughtfully designed, step-by-step approach to online course development. At its core is a set of standards that are based on best practices in the field of online learning and teaching. Pedagogical, organizational, and visual design principles are presented and modeled throughout the book, and users will quickly learn from the guide’s hands-on approach. The course design process begins with the elements of a classroom syllabus which, after a series of guided steps, easily evolve into an online course outline. The guide’s key features include: a practical approach informed by theory clean interior design that offers straightforward guidance from page one clear and jargon-free language examples, screenshots, and illustrations to clarify and support the text a checklist of online course design standards that readers can use to self-evaluate. a Companion Website with examples, adaptable templates, interactive learning features, and online resources: http://essentialsofonlinecoursedesign.com Essentials of Online Course Design serves as a best practice model for designing online courses. After reading this book, readers will find that preparing for online teaching is a satisfying and engaging experience. The core issue is simply good design: pedagogical, organizational, and visual. For more of Marjorie Vai in her own words, listen to this 2011 interview from the On Teaching Online podcast: http://onteachingonline.com/oto-16-essentials-of-online-course-design-with-marjorie-vai/

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Digital Citizenship in Action, Second Edition

Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities

By: Kristen Mattson

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Digital Citizenship in Action, Second Edition

Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities

By: Kristen Mattson

Help students of all levels develop relationships based on mutual trust and understanding in digital spaces and become active, participatory citizens in these spaces. During her doctoral program, Kristen Mattson became frustrated by the negative underpinnings that described the internet as a dangerous place and positioned young people as careless victims or malevolent bullies. Digital citizenship curriculum became the focus of her work and led to the development of her book Digital Citizenship in Action, which focuses on one of the most important aspects of citizenship – being in community with others. As citizens, we have a responsibility to give back to the community and work toward social justice and equity. Digital citizenship curricula should strive to show students possibilities over problems, opportunities over risks and community successes over personal gain. Digital Citizenship in Action shows educators how to do just that. In this new, expanded edition, Mattson incorporates the latest research from scholars in media and information literacy, educational technology and digital citizenship. She also extends the coverage to provide guidance for elementary and secondary teachers, and includes updated examples that are relevant to today’s most widely used technologies. The book: • Includes tips for creating a digital space where students can try something new, grow through mistakes, and learn what it means to be a citizen in different spaces. • Features “Spotlight Stories” from teachers engaged with participatory digital citizenship that demonstrate how these ideas play out in actual classrooms. • Includes a featured activity for elementary students and secondary students in each chapter to help teachers integrate the ideas into their work. • Provides QR codes linking to additional resources in “You Can Do It!” sections throughout the book. In this book, you’ll find more ways than ever to take digital citizenship beyond a conversation about personal responsibility so you can create opportunities for students to become participatory citizens in online spaces. Audience: Elementary and secondary educators, curriculum directors and library media specialists

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International Society for Technology in Education

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Innovation in Odds-Beating Schools

Exemplars for Getting Better at Getting Better

By: Kristen C. Wilcox,Hal A. Lawson,Janet I. Angelis

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Innovation in Odds-Beating Schools

Exemplars for Getting Better at Getting Better

By: Kristen C. Wilcox,Hal A. Lawson,Janet I. Angelis

Three policy innovations at the heart of this book – the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), new Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR), and data driven instruction (DDI) provide a timely opportunity to join school and district improvement and policy implementation research with improvement science. This book is not just a collection of findings about odds-beating schools (those with higher than predicted student performance trends and higher than average poverty and diversity) and their journeys to implement these innovations. It also provides timely perspectives regarding policy innovations and how they might disrupt practice in desirable or undesirable ways. This book offers readers insight into how educators at every boundary—classroom, school, and district interact to make meaning of innovations, both individually and collectively; and also how their meanings and values influence innovation implementation outcomes. The story includes details how policy innovations were tailored to school and district office priorities; the features of these schools’ structures, climates, and routines that were conducive to implementation; and how these innovations were able to penetrate the classroom boundaries.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475830092

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Women's Colleges and Universities in a Global Context

By: Kristen A. Renn

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Women's Colleges and Universities in a Global Context

By: Kristen A. Renn

A pathbreaking study of the critical role women’s institutions play in global higher education. Educating girls and women is a powerful route to improving societies worldwide. When women receive more education, literacy rates in children rise, maternal and infant death rates drop, and women enjoy an increased earning capacity. Yet in parts of the developing world, women’s education is considered a low priority at best and a dangerous countercultural activity at worst. In Europe and North America, the number of women’s colleges is shrinking—yet women-only institutions are growing in size and number in many other regions of the world, where they provide access to female students who are prevented for legal, cultural, religious, or practical reasons from attending coeducational universities. Women’s Colleges and Universities in a Global Context is the first book to provide a comprehensive comparative analysis of the increasing significance of single-sex higher education institutions for women around the world. Based on Kristen A. Renn’s on-site study of thirteen women’s colleges and universities in ten different countries—Australia, Canada, China, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom—this timely and provocative volume combines interviews of campus leaders, faculty, and students with extensive online and archival research. Renn provides an overview of each country’s political, economic, and educational situation, then explores the theoretical and practical themes she uncovers in their educational institutions for women. In the end, this volume addresses not only the role of women’s colleges in their own countries but also what these institutions can teach us that would benefit higher education worldwide.

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JHU Press

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1421414783

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Health Care Ethics through the Lens of Moral Distress

By: Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio

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Health Care Ethics through the Lens of Moral Distress

By: Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio

This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics. It explores the messiness of everyday ethical issues and validates the potential impacts on health care professionals as wounded healers who regularly experience close proximity to suffering and pain. This book speaks to why ethics matters on a personal level and how moral distress experiences can be leveraged instead of hidden. The book offers contributions to both scholarship and the profession. Nurses, physicians, social workers, allied health care professionals, as well as academics and students will benefit from this book.

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Springer Nature

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3030561569

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Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger

By: Kristen Rajczak Nelson

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Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger

By: Kristen Rajczak Nelson

In an increasingly app-focused world, you would be hard-pressed to find a user who hasn’t encountered the massively popular photo-sharing app Instagram. With over 150 million active monthly users, Instagram’s wild success is well known, but unlike other stories of tech triumph, few know the details behind the achievements of Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. With their experience from other companies, including Google and Microsoft, this pair gave new life to amateur photography the world over. Read how two young, driven techies became the CEOs of the most popular photography app in the world today.

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1477779175

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Imagine Wanting Only This

By: Kristen Radtke

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Imagine Wanting Only This

By: Kristen Radtke

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Forbes • Lit Hub • Electric Lit A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash, islands in the Philippines, New York City, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations, and revisit tragic events in America’s past. A narrative that is at once narrative and factual, historical and personal, Radtke’s stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here, and what will we leave behind? (With black-and-white illustrations throughout; part of the Pantheon Graphic Novel series)

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1101870834

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He's Making You Crazy

How to Get the Guy, Get Even, and Get Over It

By: Kristen Doute,Michele Alexander

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He's Making You Crazy

How to Get the Guy, Get Even, and Get Over It

By: Kristen Doute,Michele Alexander

If there's one thing I know, it's crazy. A lot of people have called me crazy. Crazy Kristen! For a while there, it was practically my name. Women all over the world get called crazy every day. But we weren't born crazy—we were made crazy." Unpacking the ups and downs of Kristen's laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes cringe-worthy dating history, He's Making You Crazy will hold your hand through deep self-reflection—while giving you that push to put on your detective's hat and hack your man's email account if you need to. From trapping your boyfriend in ridiculous lies to gathering all your crush's security question answers on the first date, Kristen shares her no-holds-barred, hysterically funny, and hard-earned advice on men, love, and modern dating. He's Making You Crazy will give you the motivation you need to get out of an unhealthy relationship (the one that's making you crazy!), the wisdom to step up and admit when you're the one in the wrong, and the courage to keep your heart open through it all.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641603828

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The Rise of the Queens of Old

By: Kristen Howe

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The Rise of the Queens of Old

By: Kristen Howe

Once again Enchantia is under siege, but this time by an older more powerful monster. Ambrosia and Zax now fight along the golden Enchantian nights and their grown daughter Glorimar

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Lulu.com

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138793788X

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Essentials of Occupational Health Psychology

By: Christopher J. L. Cunningham,Kristen Jennings Black

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Essentials of Occupational Health Psychology

By: Christopher J. L. Cunningham,Kristen Jennings Black

Essentials of Occupational Health Psychology provides a thorough overview of Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) with a focus on empowering readers to take appropriate and reasoned action to address a wide variety of worker health, safety, and well-being challenges that are present in working situations all over the world. Although relatively new as an area of specialization, OHP research and intervention efforts are already having major impacts on the way work is done around the world. Each of the twelve chapters in Essentials of Occupational Health Psychology addresses an essential aspect of OHP, with a consistent emphasis on putting what is known about that area into practice. Topics include essential background information regarding the history of OHP and major areas of OHP research and practice, such as work-related stress and recovery, psychological and physical demands and resources, interpersonal mistreatment, work and nonwork role dynamics, and safety. Each chapter features a discussion of why these topics are important to workers and organizations, as well as pertinent evaluation and/or intervention recommendations to help readers better understand what they can do to improve worker health, safety, and well-being, and how to convince others of the value of such efforts. Additional supplements within each chapter include a set of targeted learning objectives to help structure student reading and in-class discussion, focused discussion questions, pertinent media resources to provide current examples of these topics, and professional profiles based on interviews conducted by the authors with fourteen well-known and widely respected OHP researchers and practitioners. Essentials of Occupational Health Psychology is valuable to graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as working professionals who are interested in learning how to manage work environments that support worker health, safety, and well-being. The chapters in this text could also provide supplemental reading for training and development workshops for professionals in related disciplines who could benefit from a better understanding of the psychology associated with work experiences.

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Routledge

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135101191X

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A Legacy Remembered

The African American Community of West Medford

By: Ann Noling,Kristen Johnson

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A Legacy Remembered

The African American Community of West Medford

By: Ann Noling,Kristen Johnson

West Medford, Massachusetts has been home to a thriving African American community, where families have lived for generations since the end of the Civil War. The stories of its residents have been fading as elders die and families move away. Most of the history of this neighborhood resides within the memories of these few remaining elders. The discovery of over one hundred funeral programs, saved and collected by residents since the mid-twentieth century, tell the stories of residents who have passed on but made countless contributions to the community. These funeral programs, along with supplemental interviews, illustrate how past residents developed community resources and used ingenuity to help create a strong neighborhood of their own. Within these pages are stories of personal perseverance and tenacity, humor and resiliency. Through portraits of individuals, West Medfords African-American neighborhood of the past is documented, through the sharing of the lives of men and women, and how they interfaced to create a solid community, despite societal and economic obstacles.

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Gerontological Nursing

By: Kristen L. Mauk

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Gerontological Nursing

By: Kristen L. Mauk

Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Second Edition is a comprehensive and student-accessible text that offers a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to caring for the elderly. The framework for the text is built around the Core Competencies set forth by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Building upon their knowledge in prior medical surgical courses, this text gives students the skills and theory needed to provide outstanding care for the growing elderly population. This innovative text is the first of its kind to have over 40 contributing authors from many different disciplines. Some of the key features of the text include chapter outlines, learning objectives, discussion questions, personal reflection boxes, case studies and more!

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1449694640

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Ambrosia The Rise of the Queens of Old

By: Kristen Howe

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Ambrosia The Rise of the Queens of Old

By: Kristen Howe

Ambrosia, Zax and now Glorimar fight for the realm against an evil ancient monster. This time it Enchantress against the monster

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Social Network Analysis in Second Language Research

Theory and Methods

By: Kristen Kennedy Terry,Robert Bayley

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Social Network Analysis in Second Language Research

Theory and Methods

By: Kristen Kennedy Terry,Robert Bayley

This text is the first holistic research overview and practical methodological guide for social network analysis in second language acquisition, examining how to study learner social networks and how to use network data to predict language learner behavior and identity. Authors Kristen Kennedy Terry and Robert Bayley lay out the history of social network analysis in sociolinguistics, discuss the state of the art in empirical findings in applications to language acquisition, offer how-to guidance and best practices for planning, conducting, and understanding this research, and authoritatively set the agenda for future work. With a variety of helpful features like case studies, suggested research projects, discussion questions, and recommended further reading, this book will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers of second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, education, and beyond.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003830366

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Bleeding Borders

Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas

By: Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel

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Bleeding Borders

Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas

By: Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel

In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre--Civil War Kansas. Instead of focusing on the white, male politicians and settlers who vied for control of the Kansas territorial legislature, Oertel explores the crucial roles Native Americans, African Americans, and white women played in the literal and rhetorical battle between proslavery and antislavery settlers in the region. She brings attention to the local debates and the diverse peoples who participated in them during that contentious period. Oertel begins by detailing the settlement of eastern Kansas by emigrant Indian tribes and explores their interaction with the growing number of white settlers in the region. She analyzes the attempts by southerners to plant slavery in Kansas and the ultimately successful resistance of slaves and abolitionists. Oertel then considers how crude frontier living conditions, Indian conflict, political upheaval, and sectional violence reshaped traditional Victorian gender roles in Kansas and explores women's participation in the political and physical conflicts between proslavery and antislavery settlers. Oertel goes on to examine northern and southern definitions of "true manhood" and how competing ideas of masculinity infused political and sectional tensions. She concludes with an analysis of miscegenation -- not only how racial mixing between Indians, slaves, and whites influenced events in territorial Kansas, but more importantly, how the fear of miscegenation fueled both proslavery and antislavery arguments about the need for civil war. As Oertel demonstrates, the players in Bleeding Kansas used weapons other than their Sharpes rifles and Bowie knives to wage war over the extension of slavery: they attacked each other's cultural values and struggled to assert their own political wills. They jealously guarded ideals of manhood, womanhood, and whiteness even as the presence of Indians and blacks and the debate over slavery raised serious questions about the efficacy of these principles. Oertel argues that, ultimately, many Native Americans, blacks, and women shaped the political and cultural terrain in ways that ensured the destruction of slavery, but they, along with their white male counterparts, failed to defeat the resilient power of white supremacy. Moving beyond a conventional political history of Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Borders breaks new ground by revealing how the struggles of this highly diverse region contributed to the national move toward disunion and how the ideologies that governed race and gender relations were challenged as North, South, and West converged on the border between slavery and freedom.

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LSU Press

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0807135003

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Interpreting the Self

Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition

By: Kristen Brustad

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Interpreting the Self

Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition

By: Kristen Brustad

A comprehensive work on the autobiographical tradition in Arabic letters, which includes a detailed introduction to the genre and a selection of autobiographical texts ranging from the 9th to the 19th centuries.

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Univ of California Press

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0520226674

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The Yoga Body Diet

Slim and Sexy in 4 Weeks (Without the Stress)

By: Kristen Schultz Dollard,John Douillard

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The Yoga Body Diet

Slim and Sexy in 4 Weeks (Without the Stress)

By: Kristen Schultz Dollard,John Douillard

A yoga body is the one you have now, only healthier. This book is your complete guide to how to get it. And the benefits don't stop at your appearance. At the end of 4 short weeks, you'll feel better, you'll think more clearly, and you'll find it's much easier to keep a positive mindset and roll with life's inevitable punches. It's not as difficult as you might think! Here's how it works: The newest research has demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that active relaxation triggers better blood flow to your organs, improving digestion and immune function. Yoga also puts you more in touch with your body, decreases stress and blood pressure, and regulates your nervous system, cultivating balance in the body. And it pulls muscle toward bone, creating a lithe and lean frame rather than gym-built bulk. The Yoga Body Diet shows you exactly how to eat well, shop wisely, and stretch yourself slim. The best part? NO YOGA EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. On this easy, 4-week plan, you will eat, move, and think according to your natural rhythms. You'll relax your systems rather than stressing them out, so that you won't experience the intense hunger pangs that often come when the body is in overdrive. In 4 short weeks, The Yoga Body Diet shows you how to de-stress your life, balance your system, and get the yoga body you've always wanted...for life.

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Rodale Books

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160529070X

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Nursing as Ministry

By: Kristen L. Mauk,Mary Hobus

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Nursing as Ministry

By: Kristen L. Mauk,Mary Hobus

Designed to be a student-friendly textbook for faith-based schools, this first edition text focuses on nursing as ministry, not just spiritual care.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284203999

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Noble-Western Civilization

The Continuing Experiment

By: Noble,Thomas F. X. Noble,Kristen Neuschel,Duane Osheim,William Cohen,Barry S. Strauss,David Roberts

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Noble-Western Civilization

The Continuing Experiment

By: Noble,Thomas F. X. Noble,Kristen Neuschel,Duane Osheim,William Cohen,Barry S. Strauss,David Roberts

This team of expert scholars present an integration of social and cultural history within a chronological, political framework. The result is a clear, incisive account of the forces that have shaped the Western past that focuses on two main themes - power in all its senses and the role of frontier and non-European regions in the historical development of the West. The third edition has now been extensively revised and includes; new 'information technology' essay feature which offers glimpses of key innovations in communication technology; new chapter outlines; extremely useful pronunciation guide; web research exercises

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