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Carnal Rhetoric

Milton’s Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire

By: Lana Cable

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Carnal Rhetoric

Milton’s Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire

By: Lana Cable

In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton’s poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism. In Carnal Rhetoric, Lana Cable carries these investigations further by exploring the iconoclastic impulse in Milton’s works through detailed analyses of his use of metaphor. Building on a provocative iconoclastic theory of metaphor, she breaks new ground in the area of affective stylistics, not only as it pertains to the writings of Milton but also to all expressive language. Cable traces the development of Milton’s iconoclastic poetics from its roots in the antiprelatical tracts, through the divorce tracts and Areopagitica, to its fullest dramatic representation in Eikonoklastes and Samson Agonistes. Arguing that, like every creative act, metaphor is by nature a radical and self-transgressing agent of change, she explores the site where metaphoric language and imaginative desire merge. Examining the demands Milton places on metaphor, particularly his emphasis on language as a vehicle for mortal redemption, Cable demonstrates the ways in which metaphor acts for him as that creative and radical agent of change. In the process, she reveals Milton’s engagement, at the deepest levels of linguistic creativity, with the early modern commitment to an imaginative and historic remaking of the world. An insightful and synthetic book, Carnal Rhetoric will appeal to scholars of English literature, Milton, and the Renaissance, as well as to those with an interest in the theory of affective stylistics as it pertains to reader-response criticism, semantics, epistemology, and the philosophy and psychology of language.

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Duke University Press

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0822315734

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9780822315735

New Money

By: Lana Swartz

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New Money

By: Lana Swartz

A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible--often exclusive--communities "In an engaging and timely work, brimming with fascinating anecdotes and historical and literary references, Lana Swartz brilliantly illustrates how financial technologies are quietly transforming how we socialize and what it means to belong."--Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems--cash, card, app, or Bitcoin--are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what's at stake when we pay. This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from "fin-tech" startups to cryptocurrencies, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory--and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power.

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Yale University Press

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0300233221

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9780300233223

Murder, in Fact

Disillusionment and Death in the American True Crime Novel

By: Lana A. Whited

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Murder, in Fact

Disillusionment and Death in the American True Crime Novel

By: Lana A. Whited

With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground. But Capote's "nonfiction novel" belongs to a long Naturalist tradition originating in the work of 19th-century French novelist Emile Zola. Naturalism offers a particular response to the increasing problem of violence in American life and its sociological implications. This book traces the origins of the fact-based homicide novel that emerged in the mainstream of American literature with works such as Frank Norris's McTeague and flourished in the twentieth century with works such as Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Richard Wright's Native Son. At their heart is a young man isolated from community who acts out in desperate circumstances against someone who reflects his isolation. A tension develops between how society views this killer and the way he is viewed by the novelist. The crimes central to these narratives epitomize the vast gap between those who can aspire to the so-called "American dream" and those with no realistic chance of achieving it.

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McFarland

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1476672245

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Education

By: Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell,Lana Collet-Klingenberg

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Education

By: Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell,Lana Collet-Klingenberg

This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores education issues for people with disabilities and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of those with disabilities, as well as for the disabled themselves. The concise, engaging presentational style emphasizes accessibility. Taken individually, each volume sets out the fundamentals of the topic it addresses, accompanied by compiled data and statistics, recommended further readings, a guide to organizations and associations, and other annotated resources, thus providing the ideal introductory platform and gateway for further study. Taken together, the series represents both a survey of major disability issues and a guide to new directions and trends and contemporary resources in the field as a whole.

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SAGE Publications

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1483305740

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9781483305745

Miracles... and Other Ordinary Things

By: Lana Ford

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Miracles... and Other Ordinary Things

By: Lana Ford

What do you feel when a physician tells you that you have a brain tumor and that you are going to die in a few months? How do you cope with two children under the age of three when the tumor leads to blindness? How do you make sense of yor life when the physician, angry that you didn't die, mumbles that he will now have to treat you as if you have multiple sclerosis? Lana Ford was faced with these questions and began to answer them one by one over a two-year period. She was forced to examine the meaning of life, to sort through her beliefs about health and illness, living and dying, and to discard all the cultural programming she had accepted since childhood. Then she began to play with inventing other realities, visualizing the internal workings of her own body, and refusing to believe in anything outside her own experience. She trusted only the inner wisdom found in meditation, including exploration of past lives and conversations with angels. Her body began healing, and within months, she was symptom free and has remained so for more than twenty years. Yet at the time, she knew in her heart that no one would believe her story. In the twenty years following her illness, she has been a seeker of wisdom, finding information from ancient texts; asking for translations of the Hebrew she found herself chanting; studying with eminent astrologers, theologians, shamans, quantum physicists, and those on the leading edge exploring realms of consciousness. With both humor and scientific evidence she shares the wisdom she found -- that miracles lie in the mysterious interpretations we make of the events in our own lives and the connections we make with each other.

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Light Technology Publishing

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1622336690

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Forensic Recovery of Human Remains

Archaeological Approaches, Second Edition

By: Tosha L. Dupras,John J. Schultz,Sandra M. Wheeler,Lana J Williams

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Forensic Recovery of Human Remains

Archaeological Approaches, Second Edition

By: Tosha L. Dupras,John J. Schultz,Sandra M. Wheeler,Lana J Williams

This reference, now in its second edition, is a comprehensive guide that focuses on the practical aspects of excavating and recovering human remains, as well as any associated evidence, from crime scenes. It highlights the protocols and techniques that are used to successfully survey, map, recover, document, collect, and transport evidence. New additions to the reference include discussion questions and suggested readings, updated mapping and measuring techniques, including a section on GIS and backpack differential GPS systems, expanded information on botany, DNA, and soil, and non-forensic burial contexts. Almost 200 illustrations are included to help clarify concepts.

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CRC Press

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1439850305

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Logic Puzzles Book for Brain Fitness

90-Day Challenge to Sharpen the Mind and Strengthen Cognitive Skills Enlarged Print, Easy to Hard!

By: Lana Barnes

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Logic Puzzles Book for Brain Fitness

90-Day Challenge to Sharpen the Mind and Strengthen Cognitive Skills Enlarged Print, Easy to Hard!

By: Lana Barnes

Activate your brain—and have fun!—with 90 days of easy-to-hard logic puzzles. Seeking an intellectual challenge, looking to prevent brain fog, or just wanting to try some new brain games? Test your mind with Logic Puzzles Book for Brain Fitness, a 90-day program of logic puzzles that progress from easy to hard. The wide variety of word-based, number-based, and visual logic puzzles means you won’t be bored. And with bonus puzzles to keep your good habit going, you’ll be amazed at the improvement in your concentration, deduction, and critical thinking skills in just three short months. Six types of logic puzzles. Including logic grid puzzles, sudoku, calcudoku, battleship, kakuro, and masyu. Helpful guidance for each kind of puzzle. Expand your puzzling capabilities and master new logic puzzles with our expert’s top tips. Large, clear text. Avoid eye strain with the easy-to-read text. Answer key in the back. So you can easily check your answers. Plentiful margin space. Great for jotting down notes as you unlock each puzzle. Great gift for puzzle lovers. Perfect for travel or just unwinding at home.

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Random House

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0593885783

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9780593885789

Transnational Law of Human Mobility

Voluntary Migration in Brazil, Germany, the Mercosul and the EU

By: Emília Lana de Freitas Castro

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Transnational Law of Human Mobility

Voluntary Migration in Brazil, Germany, the Mercosul and the EU

By: Emília Lana de Freitas Castro

This book employs methods from comparative law to analyze voluntary migration, exploring the free movement of immigrants and their freedom of settlement under Brazilian and Mercosul law, as well as under German law and the European Union’s legal framework on migration. It discusses the level of protection granted to immigrants in terms of their right to enter and stay in Brazil and Mercosul, using German legislation and the EU’s legal framework on migration for comparison. Accordingly, the book will help migration researchers to understand not only the structure and rationale of migration law in Brazil, especially after the entry into force of its recent Migration Law in 2017, but also its relation to EU and German provisions on voluntary migration. It demonstrates how the differing natures of the migration law adopted by Brazil and Germany have led to different approaches and, consequently, different levels of protection for immigrants.

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Springer Nature

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3030466086

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9783030466084

Snow Falls, Angels Call

Christmas Stories of Hope and Joy

By: Lana Skauge

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Snow Falls, Angels Call

Christmas Stories of Hope and Joy

By: Lana Skauge

Lana Skauge’s handpicked recollections and musings about her favourite time of the year stand as life markers spanning from her earliest performances to her new works. Those familiar with her stories will be pleased to see “The Perfect Tree”, “Saskatchewan Memories” and “The Old House” included in this edition! Coming from a world of marshmallow ambrosia salads and hand-me-down clothes, Lana’s style speaks her personal truth with simplicity and heart as a prairie kid returns to yesterday and a grown woman savours the messages only the angels can bring at Christmas. SIX STORIES: The Perfect Tree Saskatchewan Memories Mr. Samson Poppy The Old House Mr. Doyle 28 CHRISTMAS LETTERS: One a day from December 1st through Christmas Day, plus Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and Epiphany. TWO PLAYS: Snow’s Promise On A Winter’s Night

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Absolute XPress

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1770531300

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Harm Reduction

National and International Perspectives

By: James A. Inciardi,Lana D. Harrison

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Harm Reduction

National and International Perspectives

By: James A. Inciardi,Lana D. Harrison

Harm reduction programmes accept the reality of drug use while attempting to reduce its harmful consequences to individuals and society. Here, contributors discuss the philosophical basis and history of such policies and examine their outcomes.

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SAGE

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0761906886

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9780761906889

Feminist Communication Theory

Selections in Context

By: Lana F. Rakow,Laura A. Wackwitz

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Feminist Communication Theory

Selections in Context

By: Lana F. Rakow,Laura A. Wackwitz

This is a remarkable book that embraces the challenge of rethinking communication theory. Much more inclusive than most communication volumes, this guidebook offers a rich diversity of voices, along with a conceptual framework for remaking communication theory. Illuminating, innovative, eloquent-and transforming. -Cheris Kramarae, University of Oregon This is a book not only of and for feminist communication theory, but of and for feminists. After a preface that marks and remarks in creative ways how the personal is political, Rakow and Wackwitz offer a compelling account of the need and potential of feminist theorizing for social and structural transformation. The collection represents a range of experiences, problems, voices, and thus will be useful to scholars, students, and activists. -Linda Steiner, Rutgers University Feminist Communication Theory is a book of and for feminist communication theorists, providing the potential to help individuals understand the human condition, name personal experiences and engage these experiences through storytelling, and give useful strategies for achieving justice. Lana F. Rakow and Laura A. Wackwitz examine the work of feminist theorists over the past two decades who have challenged traditional communication theory, contributing to the development of feminist communication theory by identifying its important contours, shortcomings, and promise. Arguing that feminist communication theory must address theories of gender, communication, and social change, Rakow and Wackwitz describe feminist communication theory as explanatory, political, polyvocal, and transformative. The book is constructed around the three keyconcepts of difference, voice, and representation to reflect on how feminist theory reshapes our thinking about gender and communication. Feminist Communication Theory represents a variety of voices from different theoretical, cultural, and geographic perspectives to illustrate the complex challenge of constructing new theoretical positions.Key Features Explores key works and issues of feminist theory relevant to gender and communication Examines a broad range, well beyond conventional wisdom, of women 's perspectives and experiences Provides tools to develop the theoretical potential of both feminist and communication theory Feminist Communication Theory is designed for undergraduate and graduate courses on feminist communication, gender and communication, communication theory, speech, rhetoric, and mass communication. The book will also be of interest to feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines, as well as students and scholars in Women 's Studies and Cultural Studies.

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0761919805

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9780761919803

The Foundations of Psychological Theory

By: Robert E. Lana

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The Foundations of Psychological Theory

By: Robert E. Lana

Over the previous decade, Robert E. Lana had attempted to understand the enterprise of psychology as a totality. Such an attempt was unpopular in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s but had become increasingly more popular to psychologists in the 1970s. After considerable study, he became convinced that the twin vehicles for such a task were the history of the field and the epistemological contexts into which psychological theories fit. Originally published in 1976, the initial chapters in this volume are devoted to explaining, through history, the major epistemological ideas either implicit or explicit in modern psychological theory. Later chapters are studies of the epistemological contexts that, in part, yield modern psychological theory.

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Routledge

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1000767396

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Bloody Woman

By: Lana Lopesi

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Bloody Woman

By: Lana Lopesi

Bloody Woman is bloody good writing. It moves between academic, journalistic and personal essay. I love that Lana moves back and forward across these genres: weaving, weaving – spinning the web, weaving the sparkling threads under our hands, back and forward across a number of spaces, pulling and holding the tensions, holding up the baskets of knowledge. Tusiata Avia This wayfinding set of essays, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi, explores the overlap of being a woman and Sāmoan. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contemporary reflections on women's experiences and the Pacific. These essays lead into the messy and the sticky, the whispered conversations and the unspoken. As Lopesi writes, 'Bloody Woman has been scary to write... In putting words to my years of thinking, following the blood and revealing the evidence board in my mind, I am breaking a silence to try to understand something. It feels terrifying, but right.' These acts of self-revelation ultimately seek to open up new spaces, to acknowledge the narratives not yet written, and the voices to come.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1988587964

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9781988587967

From Signals to Image

A Basic Course on Medical Imaging for Engineers

By: Haim Azhari,John A. Kennedy,Noam Weiss,Lana Volokh

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From Signals to Image

A Basic Course on Medical Imaging for Engineers

By: Haim Azhari,John A. Kennedy,Noam Weiss,Lana Volokh

This textbook, intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, is an introduction to the physical and mathematical principles used in clinical medical imaging. The first two chapters introduce basic concepts and useful terms used in medical imaging and the tools implemented in image reconstruction, while the following chapters cover an array of topics such as physics of x-rays and their implementation in planar and computed tomography (CT) imaging; nuclear medicine imaging and the methods of forming functional planar and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images and Clinical imaging using positron emitters as radiotracers. The book also discusses the principles of MRI pulse sequencing and signal generation, gradient fields, and the methodologies implemented for image formation, form flow imaging and magnetic resonance angiography and the basic physics of acoustic waves, the different acquisition modes used in medical ultrasound, and the methodologies implemented for image formation and flow imaging using the Doppler Effect. By the end of the book, readers will know what is expected from a medical image, will comprehend the issues involved in producing and assessing the quality of a medical image, will be able to conceptually implement this knowledge in the development of a new imaging modality, and will be able to write basic algorithms for image reconstruction. Knowledge of calculus, linear algebra, regular and partial differential equations, and a familiarity with the Fourier transform and it applications is expected, along with fluency with computer programming. The book contains exercises, homework problems, and sample exam questions that are exemplary of the main concepts and formulae students would encounter in a clinical setting.

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Springer Nature

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3030353265

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9783030353261

The Revolution in Words

By: Cheris Kramarae,Lana F. Rakow

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The Revolution in Words

By: Cheris Kramarae,Lana F. Rakow

First published in 1990. The revolution is one of the most radical periodicals of the Western women's movement. Though it only lasted a few years, it drew considerable attention to the courage and eloquence of its editors and contributors. The volume presents a wide range of exerpts from the periodical, evoking the undeminished power of these women's voices

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Routledge

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1135034028

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9781135034023

Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones

A Novel

By: Lana Witt

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Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones

A Novel

By: Lana Witt

When wayward Californian Tom Jetts rolls his broken-down car into remote Pick, Kentucky, he finds himself in a town among friends, enemies, and lovers who are playing out tales as old as the prehistoric soil beneath their feet. And if Tom can elude the whispered suspicion and murderous secrets that blanket Pick like an ancient swamp forest, he may have found a place he can call home. Bringing to life a cast of eccentric, unforgettable characters, Lana Witt weaves a tale of epic dimension in a small rural town definitely worth a visit.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671891227

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9780671891220

A Compendium of Kisses

Facts, Quotes and Curiosities

By: Lana Citron

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A Compendium of Kisses

Facts, Quotes and Curiosities

By: Lana Citron

From first kisses to missed kisses, stolen kisses, the chemistry of kisses, around-the-world kisses, silver-screen kisses, Freudian kisses, lipstick kisses and record-breaking kisses, this eclectic collection of facts, figures, quotes and curiosities has everything you've ever wanted to know—and more—about that most deceptive, delightful and indispensable gesture: the kiss.

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Harlequin

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1426879121

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Stirrings

How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice

By: Lana Dee Povitz

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Stirrings

How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice

By: Lana Dee Povitz

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether organizing school lunch campaigns, establishing food co-ops, or lobbying city officials, citizen-activists made food a political issue, uniting communities across lines of difference. The charismatic, usually female leaders of these efforts were often products of earlier movements: American communism, civil rights activism, feminism, even Eastern mysticism. Situating food justice within these rich lineages, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net. Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Povitz reveals the colorful characters who worked behind the scenes to build and sustain the movement, and illuminates how people worked together to overturn hierarchies rooted in class and race, reorienting the history of food activism as a community-based response to austerity. The first book-length history of food activism in a major American city, Stirrings highlights the emotional, intimate, and interpersonal aspects of social movement culture.

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UNC Press Books

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1469653028

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Cobwebs and Contraband

By: Lana Waite

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Cobwebs and Contraband

By: Lana Waite

Maren O'Connor left her family home, The Granada Inn in Southern California, a year after her family was murdered. She felt like a suspect. Now her aunt, who runs the hotel, has been poisoned and she must go back to care for her. The Inn is nothing like she left it. Guests are few, employees have hidden agendas, the cellars are full of smuggled goods, an ancient ghost has begun to wander again. In addition, there is another murder. And now Maren herself begins to feel threatened. But she can't leave, her aunt needs her. She must find out what's going on.

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Infinity Publishing

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074142486X

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9780741424860

Be Opened! The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture

By: Lana Portolano

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Be Opened! The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture

By: Lana Portolano

Be Opened! The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture offers readers a people’s history of deafness and sign language in the Catholic Church. Paying ample attention to the vocation stories of deaf priests and pastoral workers, Portolano traces the transformation of the Deaf Catholic community from passive recipients of mercy to an active language minority making contributions in today’s globally diverse church. Background chapters familiarize readers with early misunderstandings about deaf people in the church and in broader society, along with social and religious issues facing deaf people throughout history. A series of connected narratives demonstrate the strong Catholic foundations of deaf education in sign language, including sixteenth-century monastic schools for deaf children and nineteenth-century French education in sign language as a missionary endeavor. The author explains how nineteenth-century schools for deaf children, especially those founded by orders of religious sisters, established small communities of Deaf Catholics around the globe. A series of portraits illustrates the work of pioneering missionaries in several different countries—“apostles to the Deaf”—who helped to establish and develop deaf culture in these communities through adult religious education and the sacraments in sign language. In several chapters focused on the twentieth century, the author describes key events that sparked a modern transformation in Deaf Catholic culture. As linguists began to recognize sign languages as true human languages, deaf people borrowed the practices of Civil Rights activists to gain equality both as citizens and as members of the church. At the same time, deaf people drew inspiration and cultural validation from key documents of Vatican II, and leadership of the Deaf Catholic community began to come from the deaf community rather than to it through missionaries. Many challenges remain, but this book clearly presents Deaf Catholic culture as an important and highly visible embodiment of Catholic heritage.

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Catholic University of America Press

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0813233399

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9780813233390

Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

A Re-examination of Gender

By: Sarah Wendt,Lana Zannettino

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Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

A Re-examination of Gender

By: Sarah Wendt,Lana Zannettino

Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women’s experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities. Concentrating on the various forms of domestic abuse and its occurrence and manifestations within different contexts, it argues that gender is centrally implicated in the unique factors that shape violence across all these areas. Individual chapters outline the experiences of: Mothers Older women Women with religious affiliations Refugee women Rural women Aboriginal women Women in same-sex relationships Women with intellectual disabilities. Exploring how domestic violence across varying contexts impacts on different women’s experiences and understandings of abuse, this innovative work draws on post-structural feminist theory and how these ideas view, and potentially allow, gendered explanations of domestic violence. Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts is suitable for academics and researchers interested in issues around violence and gender.

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Routledge

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1317616529

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9781317616528

Gender Integration in NATO Military Forces

Cross-national Analysis

By: Lana Obradovic

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Gender Integration in NATO Military Forces

Cross-national Analysis

By: Lana Obradovic

Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, states have dramatically increased women’s numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions. Yet despite changes and initiatives on both domestic and international levels to integrate gender perspectives into the military, not all states have improved to the same extent. Some have successfully promoted gender integration in the ranks by erasing all forms of discrimination, but others continue to impede it by setting limitations on equal access to careers, combat, and ranks. Why do states abandon their policies of exclusion and promote gender integration in a way that women’s military participation becomes an integral part of military force? By examining twenty-four NATO member states, this book argues that civilian policymakers and military leadership no longer surrender to parochial gendered division of the roles, but rather support integration to meet the recruitment numbers due to military modernization, professionalization and technological advancements. Moreover, it proposes that increased pressure by the United Nations to integrate gender into security and NATO seeking standardization and consistency on the international level, and women’s movements on the domestic level, are contributing to greater gender integration in the military. Winner of the 2015 ERGOMAS "Best Book in Civil-Military Relations" Award.

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Routledge

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1317130154

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9781317130154

The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter

Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon

By: Lana A. Whited

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The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter

Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon

By: Lana A. Whited

Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors, including magic and fantasy works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Monica Furlong, Jill Murphy, and others, as well as previous works about the British boarding school experience. Other chapters explore the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. In her new epilogue, Lana A. Whited brings this volume up to date by covering Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826215491

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9780826215499

Where's Holmes?

By: TC Phillips,Greg Chapman,B.M. Whitton,Lana Lea,Bryce Euston,John Brandt,Karen J Carlisle,Scott G. Gibson,Paulene Turner

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Where's Holmes?

By: TC Phillips,Greg Chapman,B.M. Whitton,Lana Lea,Bryce Euston,John Brandt,Karen J Carlisle,Scott G. Gibson,Paulene Turner

In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle first published A Study in Scarlet in the 27th issue of Beeton's Christmas Annual, a popular London magazine which had entertained 19th century readers for well over two decades. Yet this particular issue would introduce the world to something entirely new, a literary icon who would move on to become the greatest fictional character in modern history. Holmes certainly casts a great shadow, and what would we ever do without him? That is precisely the question this collection dares to ask. We have challenged nine exciting Australian authors to take up the daunting task of writing a Sherlock story, where the great man himself is conspicuously absent. The resulting work has been utterly fascinating, and we have found that even in his absence Sherlock Holmes is still a force to be reckoned with. As the man himself would often say, "The game is afoot!

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Lulu.com

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024404533X

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9780244045333

True to America

By: Lana Burkhart

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True to America

By: Lana Burkhart

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188

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Page Publishing Inc

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1684091381

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9781684091386

Cyprus

By: Nelles Verlag,Samantha B. Stenzel,Nita Clothier,Andreas Demetrepoulos,Lana der Parthogh,Mary Frances Finch,Ken MacKenzie,Ted Petrides,Corine Vallois

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Cyprus

By: Nelles Verlag,Samantha B. Stenzel,Nita Clothier,Andreas Demetrepoulos,Lana der Parthogh,Mary Frances Finch,Ken MacKenzie,Ted Petrides,Corine Vallois

The writing is superb... each (Nelles) guide is delightfully comprehensive, a solid source of reliable information for the traveller... All travel guides claim to be comprehensive, but we found Nelles Guides superior". -- Arizona Senior World "(The Nelles Guides are) . . . beautifully photographed . . . the maps are better than Insight's, and practical information is integrated with the text, not relegated to the end". -- National Geographic Traveller -- Quality writing, often by native writers -- Detailed sections on the history, culture, special features and festivals -- Accommodations, restaurant guides, sights to see, places to shop, how to get around

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Nelles Verlag

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3886180409

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9783886180400

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