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Jockeying for the American Presidency

The Political Opportunism of Aspirants

By: Lara M. Brown

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Jockeying for the American Presidency

The Political Opportunism of Aspirants

By: Lara M. Brown

This book will compel scholars to take a new look at the role of "political opportunism" in the presidential selection process. Lara Brown provides a fresh, innovative exploration of the roots of opportunism, one that challenges conventional wisdom as it advances our understanding of this complex topic."--Michael A. Genovese, Loyola Marymount University.

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Cambria Press

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1604977027

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9781604977028

Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

A Resource Book for the Lonely Little Cactus

By: Kelly-Ann Allen,Marilyn Fleer,Lara McKinley

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Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

A Resource Book for the Lonely Little Cactus

By: Kelly-Ann Allen,Marilyn Fleer,Lara McKinley

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the story book, The Lonely Little Cactus: A Story About Friendship, Coping, and Belonging. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Building Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing: The Lonely Little Cactus Story Book and Accompanying Resource Book. This vital resource uses the evidence-driven Conceptual PlayWorlds model of intentional teaching developed by Professor Marilyn Fleer to provide supporting classroom or home-based activities to help children aged between four and eight solve challenges and learn wellbeing concepts through play. Intended for use with the accompanying picture story book, The Lonely Little Cactus, a tale about a cactus that feels lonely living in the desert, this guide offers imagery-rich scenarios, including 20 unique activities, so children have an opportunity to experientially grasp wellbeing concepts that can be otherwise difficult to explain. This resource guides educators and teachers through a range of wellbeing activities, including: Identifying feelings Coping (social support, problem solving, and self-regulation) Friendships (relationship building, working together, time with friends, social skills) Positive emotions (happiness, joy, doing something you love, enjoyment, fun) Relaxation strategies Belonging and inclusion (working together, collaboration, joining in play, including others) Offering a unique opportunity for children to learn about psychological strategies while being engaged in a beautiful narrative and visually captivating illustrations, this is the ideal resource for educators or teachers, support staff, practitioners, and families looking to help children understand and manage their feelings. While the context is centre-based, the activities can be done almost anywhere, such as in family homes, the Botanical Gardens, when on holidays, or when visiting a park.

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132

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Taylor & Francis

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1000900533

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9781000900538

An Academic's Guide to Social Media

Learn, Engage, and Belong

By: Kelly-Ann Allen,Shane R. Jimerson,Daniel S. Quintana,Lara McKinley

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An Academic's Guide to Social Media

Learn, Engage, and Belong

By: Kelly-Ann Allen,Shane R. Jimerson,Daniel S. Quintana,Lara McKinley

Are you an academic who struggles to know what to post on social media and how to disseminate your research effectively on different social media platforms? Social media serves as a powerful communication tool, yet while most academics are aware of the benefits of social media, many are unsure of what to post, and how to do it in a way that is authentic, engaging, and above all, comfortable! This user-friendly practical guide is designed for all academics who aim to engage in social media platforms in an effective and productive way. This book explains how academics can build their reputation, develop networks, and disseminate their research. It includes 365 useful post prompts applicable to all mainstream social media platforms which help guide academics on what to post on the platforms they choose to engage with. The book is designed for all academics at all levels and can be applied across various social media platforms including Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Instagram.

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164

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Taylor & Francis

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100077631X

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9781000776317

Respectable Citizens

Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression

By: Lara A. Campbell

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Respectable Citizens

Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression

By: Lara A. Campbell

High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s. Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada.

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610

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University of Toronto Press

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1442697040

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9781442697041

The Only Three Questions That Still Count

Investing By Knowing What Others Don't

By: Kenneth L. Fisher,Jennifer Chou,Lara W. Hoffmans

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The Only Three Questions That Still Count

Investing By Knowing What Others Don't

By: Kenneth L. Fisher,Jennifer Chou,Lara W. Hoffmans

Ken Fisher explains what the competition doesn't know From investment expert and long-time Forbes columnist Ken Fisher comes the Second Edition of The Only Three Questions That Count. Most investors know the only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing things others don't. But how can investors consistently find unique information in an increasingly interconnected world? In this book, Ken Fisher shows investors how they can find more usable information and improve their investing success rate—by answering just three questions. Packed with more than 100 visuals and practical advice, The Only Three Questions That Count is an entertaining and educational guide to the markets. But it also provides a useable framework investors can use now and for the rest of their investing careers. CNBC's Mad Money host and money manager James J. Cramer says the book "may be the single best thing you could do this year to make yourself a better investor" Steve Forbes says, "Investors will find this brilliant book an eye-opening, capital-gains producing experience" The key to improving investing results is daring to challenge yourself and whatever you believe to be true, and Ken Fisher explains how in his own inimitable style.

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378

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118237552

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9781118237557

Stuck on the Presidents

By: Lara Rice Bergen,Lisa Hopp,Angela Tung

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Stuck on the Presidents

By: Lara Rice Bergen,Lisa Hopp,Angela Tung

Fully revised and updated just in time for the 2008 presidential election, this unique sticker book includes more than 100 stickers and introduces youngsters to all 43 presidents, and the Democratic and Republican candidates for 2008. Full color. Consumable.

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Grosset & Dunlap

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0448449803

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9780448449807

Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty

By: Ana-Maurine Lara

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Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty

By: Ana-Maurine Lara

2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the 2021 Gregory Bateson Book Prize presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology Winner of the 2020 Ruth Benedict Prize presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness. The result is a rich ethnography of the ways criollo spiritual practices challenge gender and racial binaries and manifest what Lara characterizes as a shared desire for decolonization. Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is also a ceremonial ofrenda, or offering, in its own right. At its heart is a fundamental question: How can we enable "queer : black" life in all its forms, and what would it mean to be "free : sovereign" in the twenty-first century? Calling on the reader to join her in exploring possible answers, Lara maintains that the analogy between these terms—queerness and blackness, freedom and sovereignty—is necessarily incomplete and unresolved, to be determined only by ongoing processes of embodied, relational knowledge production. Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty thus follows figures such as Sylvia Wynter, María Lugones, M. Jacqui Alexander, Édouard Glissant, Mark Rifkin, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde in working to theorize a potential roadmap to decolonization.

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227

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State University of New York Press

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143848111X

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9781438481111

The Theater Will Rock

A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig

By: Elizabeth Lara Wollman

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The Theater Will Rock

A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig

By: Elizabeth Lara Wollman

A much-needed study of the impact of rock music on the musical theater and its resulting challenges, complexities, failures, and successes. Anyone interested in Broadway will learn a great deal from this book." ---William Everett, author of The Musical: A Research Guide to Musical Theatre "As Wollman weaves her historical narrative, she compellingly returns to . . . the conflict between the aesthetics and ideologies of rock music and the disciplined and commercial practices of the musical stage." ---Theatre Research International "This well-written account puts the highs and lows of producing staged rock musicals in New York City into perspective and is well worth reading for the depth of insight it provides." ---Studies in Musical Theatre The tumultuous decade of the 1960s in America gave birth to many new ideas and forms of expression, among them the rock musical. An unlikely offspring of the performing arts, the rock musical appeared when two highly distinctive and American art forms joined onstage in New York City. The Theater Will Rock explores the history of the rock musical, which has since evolved to become one of the most important cultural influences on American musical theater, and a major cultural export. Despite the genre’s influence and fame, there are still some critics who claim that the term “rock musical” is an oxymoron. The relationship between rock and the musical theater has been stormy from the start, and even the comparatively recent success of Rent has done little to convince theater producers that rock musicals are anything but highly risky ventures. Elizabeth L. Wollman explores the reasons behind these problematic connections and looks at the socioeconomic forces that underlie aesthetic decisions. She weighs the influence on the rock musical by mass media, sound, and recording technology, and the economic pressures that have affected New York theater in general over the past three decades. Finally, Wollman offers a meditation on the state of the musical, its relation to rock, and, ultimately, its future. Packed with candid commentary by members of New York's vibrant theater community, The Theater Will Rock traces the rock musical’s evolution over nearly fifty years, in popular productions such as Hair, The Who's Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Little Shop of Horrors, Rent, and Mamma Mia!—and in notable flops such as The Capeman. Elizabeth L. Wollman is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College of the City University of New York.

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University of Michigan Press

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047202700X

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9780472027002

The Future of Higher Education

Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market

By: Frank Newman,Lara Couturier,Jamie Scurry

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The Future of Higher Education

Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market

By: Frank Newman,Lara Couturier,Jamie Scurry

A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, The Future of Higher Education reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American system of higher education. The book explores the challenges of intensified competition among institutions, globalization of colleges and universities, the expansion of the new for-profit and virtual institutions, and the influence of technology on learning. This important resource offers college and university leaders and policy makers an analysis of the impact of these forces of change and includes suggestions for creating an effective higher education market as well as a call for a renewed focus on the public purposes of higher education.

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304

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470730625

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9780470730621

Captain of Her Soul

The Life of Marion Davies

By: Lara Gabrielle

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Captain of Her Soul

The Life of Marion Davies

By: Lara Gabrielle

The comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as "the captain of my soul." From Marion Davies's humble days in Brooklyn to her rise to fame alongside press baron William Randolph Hearst, the public life story of the film star plays like a modern fairy tale shaped by gossip columnists, fan magazines, biopics, and documentaries. Yet the real Marion Davies remained largely hidden from view, as she was wary of interviews and trusted few with her true life story. In Captain of Her Soul, Lara Gabrielle pulls back layers of myth to show a complex and fiercely independent woman, ahead of her time, who carved her own path. Through meticulous research, unprecedented access to archives around the world, and interviews with those who knew Davies, Captain of Her Soul counters the public story. This book reveals a woman who navigated disability and social stigma to rise to the top of a young Hollywood dominated by powerful men. Davies took charge of her own career, negotiating with studio heads and establishing herself as a top-tier comedienne, but her proudest achievement was her philanthropy and advocacy for children. This biography brings Davies out of the shadows cast by the Hearst legacy, shedding light on a dynamic woman who lived life on her own terms and declared that she was "the captain of her soul.

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Univ of California Press

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0520384210

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9780520384217

An Academic's Guide to Social Media

Learn, Engage, and Belong

By: Kelly-Ann Allen,Shane R. Jimerson,Daniel S. Quintana,Lara McKinley

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An Academic's Guide to Social Media

Learn, Engage, and Belong

By: Kelly-Ann Allen,Shane R. Jimerson,Daniel S. Quintana,Lara McKinley

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Taylor & Francis

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100077631X

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Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

A Resource Book for the Lonely Little Cactus

By: Kelly-Ann Allen,Marilyn Fleer,Lara McKinley

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Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

A Resource Book for the Lonely Little Cactus

By: Kelly-Ann Allen,Marilyn Fleer,Lara McKinley

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1000900533

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Jockeying for the American Presidency

Jockeying for the American Presidency

Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

An Academic's Guide to Social Media

An Academic's Guide to Social Media

Respectable Citizens

Respectable Citizens

The Only Three Questions That Still Count

The Only Three Questions That Still Count

Stuck on the Presidents

Stuck on the Presidents

Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty

Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty

The Theater Will Rock

The Theater Will Rock

The Future of Higher Education

The Future of Higher Education

Captain of Her Soul

Captain of Her Soul

An Academic's Guide to Social Media

An Academic's Guide to Social Media

Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

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