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The Sex Bible

By: Laura Berman

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Top sex therapist Dr. Laura Berman shows how you and your partner can maximize your potential for an amazing sex life. Learn to feel more confident about yourself, connect more intimately with your partner, practice tantalizing new sexual techniques--and get the rich, rewarding, and passionate pleasure you deserve"--Page 4 of cover.

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Now What? Revised Edition

90 Days to a New Life Direction

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

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Now What? Revised Edition

90 Days to a New Life Direction

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

In this book, pioneering life coach Laura Berman Fortgang shares the process that she has used to help hundreds of clients make major changes in their lives. Whether it's moving on from a dead-end job, discovering an entirely new creative outlet, or answering the age-old question 'What am I meant to do with my life?' this book provides a clear and infinitely practical ninety-day program to discover a new direction for your life."--Page 4 of cover.

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Now What? Revised Edition

90 Days to a New Life Direction

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

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Now What? Revised Edition

90 Days to a New Life Direction

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

A clear and utterly practical ninety-day program for discovering a new direction for your life—now completely revised and updated by the author! In Now What? pioneering life coach Laura Berman Fortgang shares the process that she has used to help hundreds of clients make major changes in their lives. Whether it’s moving on from a dead-end job, discovering an entirely new creative outlet, or answering the age-old question “What am I meant to do with my life?” this book provides a clear and practical ninety-day program that can help you make major changes in your life. This revised edition valuable insights into how to stoke change, including: Ten years of additional client experience Reports from 500 coaches worldwide who have trained to use this material with clients New stories and modern-day dilemmas addressed QR codes and additional interactive materials For anyone who feels drawn toward a life-changing move but is not sure exactly what to do or how to move forward, Now What? presents a concrete process for finding and pursuing a new path in life.

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0698405048

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Take Yourself to the Top

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

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Take Yourself to the Top

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

If you're looking for job search advice, this book is not for you. If you want to know about writing a résumé, creating a cover letter, honing interview skills, or dressing for success, you're in the wrong place. But if you're willing to take charge of your career like never before, if you're prepared to be responsible for the choices you make and have the guts to ask for what you really want, then get ready to take yourself to the top. In this updated and expanded edition of Laura Berman Fortgang's exemplary business/self-help book, readers will learn: - how to leap out of that mid-career rut - how to completely and honestly assess your career's progress - how to identify obstacles that keep you from reaching your goals - how to turn your back on what many people might call "success" to discover your true life calling

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1101153466

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For Women Only

A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Sexual Dysfunction and Reclaiming Your Sex Life

By: Jennifer Berman,Laura Berman,Elisabeth Bumiller

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For Women Only

A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Sexual Dysfunction and Reclaiming Your Sex Life

By: Jennifer Berman,Laura Berman,Elisabeth Bumiller

For Women Only" is the antidote to what women have been told for years, that their sexual problems are all in their heads. Dr. Jennifer Berman, a female urologist, and her sister, Dr. Laura Berman, a sex therapist, wrote this comprehensive handbook to help arm women with the facts about health issues and achieving sexual satisfaction. 15 illustrations.

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Virago Press

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1860498523

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The Little Book on Meaning

Why We Crave It, How We Create It

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

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The Little Book on Meaning

Why We Crave It, How We Create It

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

An invaluable guide and companion for anyone seeking greater meaning and purpose in life. A nominee for the Books for a Better Life award! As a pioneer in the field of life coaching, Laura Berman Fortgang has spent decades helping people figure out what they want to do with their lives. And so it was a bit of a surprise when a theme she heard repeatedly from clients emerged in her own thinking and would not be dismissed: work didn't feel as "meaningful" to her as it once had. It was one of those big realizations one has from time to time. The funny thing was that it turned out the "solution(s)" to her problem were quite small... In The Little Book on Meaning Laura Berman Fortgang reveals that while our hunger for a meaningful life can be enormous, our desire for meaning is usually satiated by small, bite-size morsels of meaning-the small, almost incidental events or "achievements" that comprise the fabric of our lives. According to Fortgang, meaning is where you look for it, and through tenderly drawn stories from her own life and the lives of those around her, she shows readers how they too can peek around corners to discover the small elements of their lives that truly matter.

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1101050446

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Living Your Best Life

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

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Living Your Best Life

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

Just imagine if you didn't have to agonize over difficult decisions. If you could feel absolute confidence in the choices you made, regardless of the outcome. If you could dispense with decisions altogether, on the basis that you always knew what to do.

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HarperThorsons

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Deuteronomy 28 and the Aramaic Curse Tradition

By: Laura Elizabeth Quick

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Deuteronomy 28 and the Aramaic Curse Tradition

By: Laura Elizabeth Quick

This study considers the relationship of Deuteronomy 28 to the curse traditions of the ancient Near East. It focuses on the linguistic and cultural means of the transmission of these traditions to the book of Deuteronomy. Laura Quick examines a broad range of materials, including Old Aramaic inscriptions, attempting to show the value of these Northwest Semitic texts as primary sources to reorient our view of an ancient world usually seen through a biblical or Mesopotamian lens. By studying these inscriptions alongside the biblical text, Deuteronomy 28 and the Aramaic Curse Tradition increases our knowledge of the early history and function of the curses in Deuteronomy 28. This has implications for our understanding of the date of the composition of the book of Deuteronomy, and the reasons behind its production. The ritual realm which stands behind the use of curses and the formation of covenants in the biblical world is also explored, arguing that the interplay between orality and literacy is essential to understanding the function and form of the curses in Deuteronomy. This book contributes to our understanding of the book of Deuteronomy and its place within the literary history of ancient Israel and Judah, with implications for the composition of the Pentateuch or Torah as a whole.

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Oxford University Press

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0198810938

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Living Your Best Life

Discover Your Life's Blueprint for Success

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

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Living Your Best Life

Discover Your Life's Blueprint for Success

By: Laura Berman Fortgang

Being happy doesn't have to be hard, says prominent personal coach Laura Berman Fortgang. We each possess an internal compass that expresses our individual wisdom and points to the things that would most fulfill us. Personal and professional satisfaction, Fortgang believes, comes from tapping into this wisdom. In Living Your Best Life, she offers ten tried-and-true strategies that help us to access our own inner knowledge to achieve what she calls a "best life"-a life that awaits all of us, in which gains come more easily because we've learned to honor our true desires and work with our individual talents rather than exhausting our energy on a traditional model of achievement. Her techniques focus on asking ourselves what we really want instead of frenetically trying to "have it all." We learn to ask questions that move us forward, not backward, to discover our own unique "lucrative purpose," and to design a "magnet" life plan that draws to us the more rewarding existence we deserve.

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1101143622

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Child Development

By: Laura Berk

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Child Development

By: Laura Berk

Child Development

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0205878482

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Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]

The Evolution of Women's Roles in American Entertainment [2 volumes]

By: Laura L. Finley

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Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]

The Evolution of Women's Roles in American Entertainment [2 volumes]

By: Laura L. Finley

Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440874131

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Knish

In Search of the Jewish Soul Food

By: Laura Silver

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Knish

In Search of the Jewish Soul Food

By: Laura Silver

When Laura Silver's favorite knish shop went out of business, the native New Yorker sank into mourning, but then she sprang into action. She embarked on a round-the-world quest for the origins and modern-day manifestations of the knish. The iconic potato pie leads the author from Mrs. Stahl's bakery in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, to an Italian pasta maker in New JerseyÑand on to a hunt across three continents for the pastry that shaped her identity. Starting in New York, she tracks down heirs to several knish dynasties and discovers that her own family has roots in a Polish town named Knyszyn. With good humor and a hunger for history, Silver mines knish lore for stories of entrepreneurship, survival, and major deliciousness. Along the way, she meets Minnesota seniors who make knishes for weekly fundraisers, foodies determined to revive the legacy of Mrs. Stahl, and even the legendary knish maker's granddaughters, who share their joie de vivreÑand their family recipe. Knish connections to Eleanor Roosevelt and rap music? Die-hard investigator Silver unearths those and other intriguing anecdotes involving the starchy snack once so common along Manhattan's long-lost Knish Alley. In a series of funny, moving, and touching episodes, Silver takes us on a knish-eye tour of worlds past and present, thus laying the foundation for a global knish renaissance.

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Brandeis University Press

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1611683122

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Property Rights and Neoliberalism

Cultural Demands and Legal Actions

By: Laura J. Hatcher

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Property Rights and Neoliberalism

Cultural Demands and Legal Actions

By: Laura J. Hatcher

Property rights and efforts to curb state appropriation of private properties for public purposes have always held high status on the political agenda of the US and many other nations that feature a corporate capitalist economic system. In addition to this, over the last several decades conservative libertarian and neo-liberal groups have put constitutional demands for greater property protection on the agendas of courts in several countries. Studying property rights mobilization in both domestic and comparative contexts, the contributors to this volume bring a range of social science perspectives to address three primary issues: the contours and characteristics of property rights mobilizations; the degree to which property rights movements have influenced development of law in demonstrable ways; and the broader cultural, social and economic implications of modern-era property rights litigation and legal mobilizations. This will be a key text for anyone working within or interested in property rights.

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Routledge

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1317074629

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Representations of Poverty and Place

Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse

By: Laura L Paterson,Ian N Gregory

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Representations of Poverty and Place

Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse

By: Laura L Paterson,Ian N Gregory

This book explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh insights to the study of poverty. Using Geographical Text Analysis, it maps the discursive construction of poverty in the UK and compares the results to what administrative data reveal. The analysis draws together qualitative and quantitative techniques from corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, Geographical Information Science, and the spatial humanities. By identifying the place-names that occur within close proximity to search terms associated with to poverty it shows how different newspapers use place to foreground different aspects of poverty (including employment, housing, money, and benefits), and how the London-centric nature of newspaper reporting dominates the discursive construction of UK poverty. This book demonstrates how interdisciplinary research methods can illuminate complex social issues and will appeal to researchers in a number of disciplines from sociology, geography and the spatial humanities, economics, linguistics, health, and public policy, in addition to policymakers and practitioners.

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Springer

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3319935038

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Parenting to a Degree

How Family Matters for College Women's Success

By: Laura T. Hamilton

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Parenting to a Degree

How Family Matters for College Women's Success

By: Laura T. Hamilton

Helicopter parents—the kind that continue to hover even in college—are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really damage their children and burden universities? In this book, sociologist Laura T. Hamilton illuminates the lives of young women and their families to ask just what role parents play during the crucial college years. Hamilton vividly captures the parenting approaches of mothers and fathers from all walks of life—from a CFO for a Fortune 500 company to a waitress at a roadside diner. As she shows, parents are guided by different visions of the ideal college experience, built around classed notions of women’s work/family plans and the ideal age to “grow up.” Some are intensively involved and hold adulthood at bay to cultivate specific traits: professional helicopters, for instance, help develop the skills and credentials that will advance their daughters’ careers, while pink helicopters emphasize appearance, charm, and social ties in the hopes that women will secure a wealthy mate. In sharp contrast, bystander parents—whose influence is often limited by economic concerns—are relegated to the sidelines of their daughter’s lives. Finally, paramedic parents—who can come from a wide range of class backgrounds—sit in the middle, intervening in emergencies but otherwise valuing self-sufficiency above all. Analyzing the effects of each of these approaches with clarity and depth, Hamilton ultimately argues that successfully navigating many colleges and universities without involved parents is nearly impossible, and that schools themselves are increasingly dependent on active parents for a wide array of tasks, with intended and unintended consequences. Altogether, Parenting to a Degree offers an incisive look into the new—and sometimes problematic—relationship between students, parents, and universities.

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University of Chicago Press

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022618367X

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Grief Unseen

Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts

By: Laura Seftel

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Grief Unseen

Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts

By: Laura Seftel

At least one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage, yet aftercare is rarely available for those who have experienced it. Grief Unseen explains different kinds of childbearing losses, such as failed fertility treatment, ectopic pregnancy, and stillbirth, and explores their emotional impact on women and their partners, and the process of healing.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843108054

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Explorer's Guide Philadelphia & Amish Country (First) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)

By: Laura Randall

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Explorer's Guide Philadelphia & Amish Country (First) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)

By: Laura Randall

The essential guide to the Athens of America Laura Randall brings readers the best of Philadelphia and the outlying Amish Country, one of America’s most historically and culturally rich regions. Travelers seeking fine dining, authentic cuisine, sightseeing, or a world-class arts scene will find this guide indispensable in making the best of their stay in the City of Brotherly Love. Recommendations for shopping, eating, lodging, and touring will excite visitors of all tastes. From natural areas and historic neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia to the Amish markets of Lancaster County, from historic battlefields at Valley Forge and Gettysburg to the antiques shops of Bucks County, and the leisure resorts and quiet nature trails of the Pocono Mountains, this guide (previously published as Explorer’s Guide Eastern Pennsylvania: Includes Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Amish Country & the Poconos) offers great guidance for a unique, fascinating destination.

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The Countryman Press

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1682684377

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Through the Lens of Anthropology

An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, Third Edition

By: Robert J. Muckle,Laura Tubelle de González,Stacey L. Camp

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Through the Lens of Anthropology

An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, Third Edition

By: Robert J. Muckle,Laura Tubelle de González,Stacey L. Camp

Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to connect evolution, biology, archaeology, history, language, and culture. The third edition remains a highly readable text that encourages students to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 full-color images and maps, along with detailed figures and boxes, this is an anthropology book with a fresh perspective and a lively narrative that is filled with popular topics. The new edition has been updated to reflect the most recent developments in anthropology and the contributions of marginalized scholars, while the use of gender-neutral language makes for a more inclusive text. New content offers anthropological insight into contemporary issues such as COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo. Through the Lens of Anthropology continues to be an essential text for those interested in learning more about the relevance and value of anthropology. The third edition is supplemented by a full suite of updated instructor and student resources. For more information visit www.lensofanthropology.com.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487540175

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Rhythmical Subjects

The Measures of the Modern

By: Marcus

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Rhythmical Subjects

The Measures of the Modern

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Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue between fields of inquiry at a time when modern disciplines were still in the process of formation or consolidation. The concentration on 'rhythm' and its cognates largely arose, Laura Marcus demonstrates, from the desire to reclaim or retain human and natural measures in the face of the coming of the machine and the speed of technological innovation. Rhythmical Subjects uncovers the disparate routes by which rhythm acquired its newfound ability to link ancient and modern forms of intellectual inquiry, and to fathom and re-invigorate temporal articulations of modern subjective life. Among the numerous intellectual and artistic developments set in a new light by this brilliantly wide-ranging book are: the long line of philosophical and theoretical writing on rhythm, from Nietzsche to Bergson and their twentieth-century interlocutors; psychological explorations of rhythm as the fundamental law of life, from Herbert Spencer and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elsie Fogarty; more experimental engagements with psychology's rhythms, from Wilhelm Wundt, Théodule Ribot, and Karl Groos to the aesthetic writings of Vernon Lee; the history of prosody; pioneering applications of rhythm studies to social and sexual reform, by Havelock Ellis, Marie Stopes, D. H. Lawrence, and Mary Austin (among others); Lebensreform movements and the contribution of Rudolf Steiner and Emile Jaques-Dalcroze; and numerous endeavours in artistic and critical innovation, from the small modernist magazines of Bloomsbury and Paris to art salons and dance studios across Britain, Continental Europe, and America.

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Oxford University Press

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0192883887

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The Oxford History of Poetry in English

Volume 5. Seventeenth-Century British Poetry

By: Laura L. Knoppers

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The Oxford History of Poetry in English

Volume 5. Seventeenth-Century British Poetry

By: Laura L. Knoppers

Beginning with the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and ending late in the seventeenth century, this volume traces the growth of the literary marketplace, the development of poetic genres, and the participation of different writers in a century of poetic continuity, change, and transformation.

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0198852800

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Searching for Scientific Womanpower

Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980

By: Laura Micheletti Puaca

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Searching for Scientific Womanpower

Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980

By: Laura Micheletti Puaca

Searching for Scientific Womanpower: Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980

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UNC Press Books

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Science Communication

A Practical Guide for Scientists

By: Laura Bowater,Kay Yeoman

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Science Communication

A Practical Guide for Scientists

By: Laura Bowater,Kay Yeoman

Science communication is a rapidly expanding area and meaningful engagement between scientists and the public requires effective communication. Designed to help the novice scientist get started with science communication, this unique guide begins with a short history of science communication before discussing the design and delivery of an effective engagement event. Along with numerous case studies written by highly regarded international contributors, the book discusses how to approach face-to-face science communication and engagement activities with the public while providing tips to avoid potential pitfalls. This book has been written for scientists at all stages of their career, including undergraduates and postgraduates wishing to engage with effective science communication for the first time, or looking to develop their science communication portfolio.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118406664

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Child Development

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

This work includes challenging misconceptions, true/false or multiple choice tests, activities with children and adolescents, 'The journey of research' which introduces students to the process of research, and much more.

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause

By: Barbara Seaman,Laura Eldridge

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause

By: Barbara Seaman,Laura Eldridge

For nearly as long as women have been around, they have been going through menopause. It is a bodily process as old as human birth, death, and of course, menstruation. Like many normal biological events, menopause was gradually medicalized, and with the rise of pharmaceutical medicine, women and their doctors were convinced that it was an "estrogen deficiency disease" that could be treated by supplementing the body's declining estrogen levels with hormones. By 2002 hormone treatment had been on the market for more than fifty years when doctors and women alike were shocked by the results of a massive clinical trial, the Women's Health Initiative: women taking hormones had more heart attacks, breast cancer, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, and blood clots than women who did not, and patients were left scrambling to find new and sometimes difficult answers to their menopause and midlife health questions. In The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, Barbara Seaman, a legendary figure in the women's health movement, and Laura Eldridge have written a comprehensive, easy-to-use resource that will give you all the information you need to make smart and informed decisions that will put you in control during this time of transition -- medically, psychologically, sexually, and even financially. With the latest research on everything from hormone replacement therapy to skin creams to preventing osteoporosis, The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause is the definitive manual on this important subject. You'll find out which changes are expected and natural and which can be a cause for concern; how hormonal shifts can affect your heart, your sex life, and your mood; and what you can do to address these issues. Whether the authors are discussing the risk factors for heart disease, the benefits of lifting weights, or if you should consider a hysterectomy, they offer unbiased, straightforward information and advice with a signature blend of wisdom and sensitivity. Perhaps most important, you'll learn how to evaluate what you read in magazines, hear on the news, and are told by your doctor, so you can distinguish between solid facts and dubious claims. By learning how to read and evaluate scientific studies and becoming familiar with what goes on behind the scenes in research labs, at doctors' offices, and at pharmaceutical companies, you will be able to become your own advocate. The next time you go to the doctor's office, you will know how to make the most of your visit and leave feeling confident, informed, and in command. There is no one way to experience menopause and no single way to handle the challenges it can present, but as a no-nonsense patient, you will have the tools you need to make decisions that are right for you.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416564837

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Along the Archival Grain

Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense

By: Ann Laura Stoler

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Along the Archival Grain

Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense

By: Ann Laura Stoler

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space. Navigating familiar and extraordinary paths through the lettered lives of those who ruled, she seizes on moments when common sense failed and prevailing categories no longer seemed to work. She asks not what colonial agents knew, but what happened when what they thought they knew they found they did not. Rejecting the notion that archival labor be approached as an extractive enterprise, Stoler sets her sights on archival production as a consequential act of governance, as a field of force with violent effect, and not least as a vivid space to do ethnography.

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Princeton University Press

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140083547X

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The Intellectual Property of Nations

Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution

By: Laura R. Ford

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The Intellectual Property of Nations

Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution

By: Laura R. Ford

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107198976

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Hemingway’s Geographies

Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory

By: Laura Gruber Godfrey

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Hemingway’s Geographies

Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory

By: Laura Gruber Godfrey

This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway’s literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike.

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