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American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust

By: Laura Levitt

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American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust

By: Laura Levitt

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book. An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with the challenges of contending with ordinary Jewish loss. She suggests that although the memory of the Holocaust may seem to overshadow all other kinds of loss for American Jews, it can also open up possibilities for engaging these more personal and everyday legacies. Weaving in discussions of her own family stories and writing in a manner that is both deeply personal and erudite, Levitt shows what happens when public and private losses are seen next to each other, and what happens when difficult works of art or commemoration, such as museum exhibits or films, are seen alongside ordinary family stories about more intimate losses. In so doing she illuminates how through these “ordinary stories” we may create an alternative model for confronting Holocaust memory in Jewish culture.

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NYU Press

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0814752179

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9780814752173

Jews and Feminism

The Ambivalent Search for Home

By: Laura Levitt

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Jews and Feminism

The Ambivalent Search for Home

By: Laura Levitt

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links this contractual construction of belonging and acceptance to legacies of marriage as a contractual home for Jewish women. Exploring the immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe for America, as well as their desire to make this country their permanent home, Levitt raises questions about the search for stability in specific Jewish religious and cultural traditions which is linked to the liberal academy as well as feminist study, thus offering an account of an ambivalent Jewish feminist embrace of America as home.

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Routledge

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1136046461

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9781136046469

Understanding Novelty in Organizations

A Research Path Across Agency and Consequences

By: Maria Laura Frigotto

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Understanding Novelty in Organizations

A Research Path Across Agency and Consequences

By: Maria Laura Frigotto

Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor pursued. The author asks how organizations might increase their abilities and strategies to benefit from its early recognition. Such potential is broken down into positive terms and demonstrates how early recognition is beneficial both to organizations which aim to seize emergent innovations as well as those which aim to avoid emergent disasters. Understanding Novelty in Organizations aims to rethink the structure and strategies of organizations to gain a new balance between design and randomness in the generation of novelty. The varied perspectives presented in this work will engage scholars interested in novelty, innovation and creativity, and emergency management.

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Springer

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3319560964

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9783319560960

Public Program Evaluation

A Statistical Guide

By: Laura Langbein

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Public Program Evaluation

A Statistical Guide

By: Laura Langbein

This readable and comprehensive text is designed to equip students and practitioners with the statistical skills needed to meet government standards regarding public program evaluation. Even those with little statistical training will find the explanations clear, with many illustrative examples, case studies, and applications. Far more than a cookbook of statistical techniques, the book begins with chapters on the overall context for successful program evaluations, and carefully explains statistical methods--and threats to internal and statistical validity--that correspond to each evaluation design. Laura Langbein then presents a variety of methods for program analysis, and advise readers on how to select the mix of methods most appropriate for the issues they deal with-- always balancing methodology with the need for generality, the size of the evaluator's budget, the availability of data, and the need for quick results.

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1317461622

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Stop the Violence in Latin America

A Look at Prevention from Cradle to Adulthood

By: Laura Chioda

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Stop the Violence in Latin America

A Look at Prevention from Cradle to Adulthood

By: Laura Chioda

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has the undesirable distinction of being the world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. The magnitude of the problem is staggering and persistent. Of the top 50 most violent cities in the world, 42 are in LAC. In 2010 alone, 142,302 people in LAC fell victim to homicide, representing 390 homicides per day and 4.06 homicides every 15 minutes. Crime disproportionately affects young men aged 20 to 24, whose homicide rate of 92 per 100,000 nearly quadruples that of the region. The focus of Crime Prevention in Latin America and the Caribben is to identify policy interventions that, whether by design or indirect effect, have been shown to affect antisocial behavior early in life and patterns of criminal offending in youth and adults. Particular attention is devoted to recent studies that rigorously establish a causal link between the interventions in question and outcomes. This publication adopts a lifecycle perspective and argues that as individuals progress through different stages of the lifecycle, not only do different sets of risk factors arise and take more prominence, but their interactions and interdependencies shape human behavior. These interactions and the relative importance of different sets of risk factors identify relevant margins that can effectively be targeted by prevention policies, not only early in life, but throughout the lifecycle. Indeed prevention can never start too early, nor start too late, nor be too comprehensive.

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World Bank Publications

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1464806659

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9781464806650

Property, Power and Human Rights

Lived Universalism In and Through the Margins

By: Laura Dehaibi

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Property, Power and Human Rights

Lived Universalism In and Through the Margins

By: Laura Dehaibi

Through deconstructing the right to property, this incisive book critically assesses the claim that international human rights law is universal. Laura Dehaibi presents an innovative bottom-up and dialogical approach to human rights, lived universalism, that draws on lived experience in the margins to give rights a subversive and emancipatory meaning.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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103531391X

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9781035313914

Infinite Dreams

The Life of Alan Vega

By: Liz Lamere,Laura Davis-Chanin

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Infinite Dreams

The Life of Alan Vega

By: Liz Lamere,Laura Davis-Chanin

Best known for co-founding the early punk duo Suicide, Alan Vega lived a complex and labyrinthine life, driven by a desire to express himself uncompromisingly through art. From his first sketch in art class at Brooklyn College to the 2021 release of the album Mutator five years after his death, Vega continues to shock and inspire. This first-ever biography of Vega tells the story of the man’s life and art, beginning with his early attempts to live a “normal” life and his epiphanic encounter with Iggy Pop in 1969. Although becoming a performer on stage had been at the bottom of Vega’s list of lifetime ambitions, Iggy changed his mind: he needed music to truly express his vision. Infinite Dreams goes on to describe Vega’s many experiments across a variety of media, including the partnership with Marty Rev that became Suicide, which challenged audiences to look deep inside themselves and to not settle for distractions. A raw but engaging exploration of a man whose artwork, music, and philosophy inspired thousands, written by award-winning author Laura Davis-Chanin together with Liz Lamere, Alan Vega’s wife and long-term creative collaborator.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493072498

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Chinese Transnational Families

Care Circulation and Children’s Life Paths

By: Laura Lamas-Abraira

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Chinese Transnational Families

Care Circulation and Children’s Life Paths

By: Laura Lamas-Abraira

The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families’ children have taken through their lives so far: from their early years to their current position as young adults, with care, in its multiple dimensions and timescales – past, present and future – as the unifying thread. In doing so, it provides a contribution to the emerging body of research about care and transnational families and it posits the need to question hegemonic models of family, childhood and care, and to give voice and visibility to other actors, moving beyond the adult-centred perspective that dominates migration research. The ethnographic approach together with the focus on the day-to-day lives of these families, in which care is the core concept, as it permeates people’s lives and traverses society generationally, makes this book appealing to both scholars and general public.

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Routledge

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1000508439

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Bringing Global Governance Home

NGO Mediation in the BRICS States

By: Laura A. Henry,Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

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Bringing Global Governance Home

NGO Mediation in the BRICS States

By: Laura A. Henry,Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

This work identifies and explains significant variation in the extent and forms of NGO engagement with global governance institutions and how effective NGOs are in bringing the norms and policy recommendations from the global level to domestic arenas. We combine insights from international relations with the lens of comparative politics to understand NGO participation and mediation. We argue that "going global" in whatever form creates some common challenges for NGOs. If they go global to expand their influence - whether through funding, information, or stricter standards - they become caught between two institutional frameworks and sets of norms. There are challenges inherent to that multi-level activism regardless of the particular form of participation. At the same time, the specific nature of the challenges faced by NGOs depends on domestic political arrangements"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197530230

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American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust

By: Laura Levitt

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American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust

By: Laura Levitt

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NYU Press

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0814752314

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9780814752319

Conversations with Marketing Masters

By: Laura Mazur,Louella Miles

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Conversations with Marketing Masters

By: Laura Mazur,Louella Miles

Conversations with Marketing Masters offers new insights by gathering the collected wisdom of the most influential marketing thinkers of our age, each of whom has given a structured interview. Covering a wide range of issues and illustrating concepts with cases of success and failure, these seminal dialogues offer a rare look at what made each master great – and a glimpse of the marketing future. The Marketing Masters featured are Philip Kotler, David Aaker, Jean-Claude Larreche, Regis McKenna, Don Peppers, John Quelch, Al Ries, Martha Rogers, Don Schultz, Patricia Seybold, Jack Trout and Lester Wunderman. The conversations are free-flowing dialogues in which each personality is allowed to shine through.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470687509

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9780470687505

Explorer's Guide Dallas & Fort Worth: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

By: Laura Heymann,Monica Prochnow

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Explorer's Guide Dallas & Fort Worth: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

By: Laura Heymann,Monica Prochnow

From real cowboys to the Dallas Cowboys, sushi to steakhouses, and honky-tonks to opera houses, Dallas/Fort Worth has it all. Unlike other guides, this book covers the entire Metroplex—some 110 communities across 10 counties. There’s so much to choose from, but Heymann and Prochnow help you find the best of the best. This imaginative guide provides a mix of high-end and budget choices to fit all travelers’ needs.

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The Countryman Press

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1581578830

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9781581578836

Public Program Evaluation

A Statistical Guide

By: Laura Irwin Langbein,Claire L. Felbinger

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Public Program Evaluation

A Statistical Guide

By: Laura Irwin Langbein,Claire L. Felbinger

Chapters include: "Performance measurement and benchmarking", "Designing useful surveys for evaluation" and "Defensible program evaluations".

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765613662

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9780765613660

Abe Fortas: a Biography

A Biography

By: Laura Kalman

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Abe Fortas: a Biography

A Biography

By: Laura Kalman

An engrossing intellectual biography... Kalman has set forth the bright and the dark sides of Abe Fortas in a well written, thoughtful biography that is a significant contribution to the literature on recent American history.

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Yale University Press

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0300173695

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9780300173697

Men and Menswear

Sartorial Consumption in Britain 1880-1939

By: Laura Ugolini

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Men and Menswear

Sartorial Consumption in Britain 1880-1939

By: Laura Ugolini

This book investigates the changing nature of the retailing of menswear and illuminates wider aspects of masculine identity as well as patterns of male consumption between the years 1880 and 1939. It considers the relationship between men and activities which were widely considered to be at least potentially 'unmanly'--selling, as well as buying clothes--thus shedding new light on men's lives and identities in this period.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754603849

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9780754603849

Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships

By: Laura K. Guerrero,Kory Floyd

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Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships

By: Laura K. Guerrero,Kory Floyd

Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships provides a synthesis of research on nonverbal communication as it applies to interpersonal interaction, focusing on the close relationships of friends, family, and romantic partners. Authors Laura K. Guerrero and Kory Floyd support the premise that nonverbal communication is a product of biology, social learning, and relational context. They overview six prominent nonverbal theories and show how each is related to bio-evolutionary or sociocultural perspectives. Their work focuses on various functions of nonverbal communication, emphasizing those that are most relevant to the initiation, maintenance, and dissolution of close relationships. Throughout the book, Guerrero and Floyd highlight areas where research is either contradictory or inconclusive, hoping that in the years to come scholars will have a clearer understanding of these issues. The volume concludes with a discussion of practical implications that emerge from the scholarly literature on nonverbal communication in relationships – an essential component for understanding relationships in the real world. Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships makes an important contribution to the development of our understanding not only of relationship processes but also of the specific workings of nonverbal communication. It will serve as a springboard for asking new questions and advancing new theories about nonverbal communication. It is intended for scholars and advanced students in personal relationship study, social psychology, interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication, family studies, and family communication. It will also be a helpful resource for researchers, clinicians, and couples searching for a better understanding of the complicated roles that nonverbal cues play in relationships.

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Routledge

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1135628688

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9781135628680

Policy Borrowing and Reform in Education

Globalized Processes and Local Contexts

By: Laura M. Portnoi

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Policy Borrowing and Reform in Education

Globalized Processes and Local Contexts

By: Laura M. Portnoi

This book addresses the intersections of globalization, policy borrowing, and educational reform. Drawing upon multiple disciplines, it provides a comprehensive overview of globalization’s history, processes, theories, and trends, both generally and in education specifically. The book includes an in-depth discussion of policy borrowing, emphasizing its political nature, to provide an understanding of globalization’s impact on education. Portnoi interrogates the dominance of the Global North and the influence of the global governance organizations that serve as the core of the aid and development regime. Using a critical perspective, Portnoi emphasizes the manner in which local agents intervene to mediate the forces of globalization. The book provides a comprehensive foundation for students and scholars of comparative education and associated disciplines, including social foundations, educational policy, teacher education, higher education, globalization studies, sociology of education, and policy studies.

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Springer

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1137530243

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Answering the Ultimate Question

How Net Promoter Can Transform Your Business

By: Richard Owen,Laura L. Brooks, PhD

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Answering the Ultimate Question

How Net Promoter Can Transform Your Business

By: Richard Owen,Laura L. Brooks, PhD

Fred Reichheld's 2006 book The Ultimate Question, that question being, "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?"-challenged the conventional wisdom of customer satisfaction programs. It coined the terms 'bad profits' and 'good profits' and pointed to a faster, much more accurate way of gauging customers' real loyalty to a company, introducing a quantitative measure (the Net Promoter Score) for establishing a baseline and effectively tracking changes going forward. Richard Owen and Laura Brooks are co-developers, along with Reichheld, of the methodology behind answering the question. In this book, Owen and Brooks tell how based on a variety of real case studies' to actually embed Net Promoter discipline in organizations of all types.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470462639

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9780470462638

Jewish Sunday Schools

Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Laura Yares

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Jewish Sunday Schools

Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Laura Yares

The Jewish Sunday school in nineteenth-century America was a pioneering new institution founded by Jewish women that not only reimagined the nature and purpose of Jewish education, but also reimagined Judaism as a modern American religion"--

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NYU Press

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1479822272

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Developmental Transitions

Exploring stability and change through the lifespan

By: Sarah Crafter,Rachel Maunder,Laura Soulsby

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Developmental Transitions

Exploring stability and change through the lifespan

By: Sarah Crafter,Rachel Maunder,Laura Soulsby

How can we make sense of change and stability through the lifespan of human development? What role does personal experience, our relationships with others, and historical and sociocultural contexts play in shaping these changes? This is the first book to offer an integrative overview of the range of developmental transitions which occur through the lifespan. Bringing together different theoretical and conceptual perspectives and a broad range of empirical research including quantitative and qualitative approaches, this book encompasses a range of complex transitional forms. Covering topics such as health transitions, transitions in friendships and romantic relationships, career transitions, and societal transitions, this book takes the reader beyond a focus on childhood and adolescence, to look at the whole lifespan. Reflecting a perspective that takes into account a sociocultural past and present, this book seeks to show how transitions can be viewed as both an experience of uncertainty and possibility. Transitions perform important functions and present psychosocial opportunities. Developmental Transitions is essential reading for all undergraduate and graduate students of developmental and cultural psychology and is also a valuable resource for academics and practitioner audiences interested in stability and change as people age.

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Routledge

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1317231473

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9781317231479

Identities in Practice

A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh immigrants in Finland and in California

By: Laura Hirvi

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Identities in Practice

A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh immigrants in Finland and in California

By: Laura Hirvi

Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration studies is the contrast it provides between experiences at two Sikh migration destinations. By using an ethnographic approach, Hirvi reveals how practices carried out in relation to work, dress, the life-cycle, as well as religious and cultural sites, constitute important moments in which Sikhs engage in the often transnational art of negotiating identities.

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Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

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9522227471

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9789522227478

Kugel and Frijoles

Latino Jews in the United States

By: Laura Limonic

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Kugel and Frijoles

Latino Jews in the United States

By: Laura Limonic

Exploration of ethnic identity and community building through stories of contemporary Latino Jews. Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens of contemporary Jewish immigrants from Latin America. Since Latino Jews are not easily classified within the U.S. racial and ethnic schema, their ethnic identity and group affiliation challenge existing paradigms. Author Laura Limonic offers a view into the lives of this designation of Jewish immigrants, highlighting the ways in which they adopt different identities (e.g., national, religious, or panethnic) in response to different actors and situations. Limonic begins by introducing the stories of Latino Jewish immigrants and laying out the important questions surrounding ethnic identity: How do Latino Jews identify? Can they choose their identity or is it assigned to them? How is ethnicity strategic or instrumental? These larger questions are placed within the existing scholarly literature on immigrant integration, religion, and ethnic group construction. Limonic explains how groups can be constructed when there is a lack of a perfect host group and details the ways different factors influence ethnic identity and shape membership into ethnic groups. The book concludes that group construction is never static in the United States, and, in particular, how race, religion, and class are increasingly important mediating factors in defining ethnicity and ethnic identity. As the Latino population continues to grow in the United States, so does the influence of millions of Latinos on U.S. culture, politics, economy, and social structure. Kugel and Frijoles offers new insight with which to understand the diversity of Latinos, the incorporation of contemporary Jewish immigrants, and the effect of U.S. ethno-racial structures for immigrant assimilation.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814345778

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You Can Say No to Chemo

Know Your Options, Choose for Yourself

By: Laura Bond

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You Can Say No to Chemo

Know Your Options, Choose for Yourself

By: Laura Bond

Remember: It’s Your Body and You Do Have Choices Beginning in 2011, journalist and health coach Laura Bond and her mother Gemma visited 60 of the world’s foremost cancer specialists and healers who are getting remarkable results in treating cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. This book shares the most exciting discoveries they made in their travels. You’ll read about everything from hydrogen peroxide therapies and juiced cannabis to high-dose vitamin C, coffee enemas (The Gerson Method), eliminating sugar from the diet, drinking green vegetable juices, and infrared saunas. Quick to point out that every cancer and every body is different, Bond does not offer a one-size-fits-all approach but throw the doors open wide to thinking about your treatment options—and even about cancer itself—in a whole new light. This book points the way toward making informed choices, based on information, not fear. Whether you are exploring treatment options, looking to build your body’s own resources to heal and restore itself, hoping to find ways to supplement conventional care, or all of the above, look no further. This is the book you need.

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Conari Press

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1609259661

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Close Encounters

Communication in Relationships

By: Laura K. Guerrero,Peter A. Andersen, Ph.D.,Walid A. Afifi

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Close Encounters

Communication in Relationships

By: Laura K. Guerrero,Peter A. Andersen, Ph.D.,Walid A. Afifi

Using a relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication, this text provides comprehensive coverage of popular theories and concepts in interpersonal communication. The research base of the book draws from communication, but also emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of personal relationships.

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SAGE

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141294953X

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Navigating Local Transitional Justice

Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

By: Laura S. Martin

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Navigating Local Transitional Justice

Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

By: Laura S. Martin

Examines local transitional justice processes in post-conflict Sierra Leone to explain how these programs work in practice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009281011

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9781009281010

Second Language Speech

By: Laura Colantoni,Jeffrey Steele,Paola Rocío Escudero Neyra

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Second Language Speech

By: Laura Colantoni,Jeffrey Steele,Paola Rocío Escudero Neyra

This textbook focuses on second language speech - how individuals perceive and produce the sounds of their second language.

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Cambridge University Press

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110701834X

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9781107018341

Dark Past

A Fatal Instincts Book

By: Laura Hunsaker

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Dark Past

A Fatal Instincts Book

By: Laura Hunsaker

The small town was supposed to be safe... Kate Landry is tired of running. Thinking she's safe, she settles in the small logging town of Chester, California to manage a cafe. She may be keeping a low profile, but she's hoping to return to a normal life. When FBI agent Kyle Donovan visits to Chester to stay with a friend, and to recover from his latest case, he never expects to meet sexy barista Kate. But someone is following Kate... Kyle worries he brought trouble to her door, while Kate worries her dark past is coming after her. With danger lurking around every corner, her safe haven isn't as safe as she'd thought. Kate will finally have to trust someone enough to tell him her secrets. Secrets that may just get them killed...

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Laura Hunsaker

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0463543610

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9780463543610

Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis

A Survey on Italian SMEs

By: Laura Gavinelli

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Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis

A Survey on Italian SMEs

By: Laura Gavinelli

This book focuses on the relationship between business strategy and competition among Italian SMEs in the aftermath of the economic crisis. First examining business strategy and competitive advantage in a broader sense, Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis goes on to analyse the strategic behaviour of SMEs and the key factors that allow them to overcome the challenges they face. The book covers wide-ranging topics such as marketing and communication strategies, internationalization process and entry modes, access to credit, networking, innovation process and human resources enhancement. Referring to insightful case studies and surveys conducted between 2011 and 2014, it reflects on managerial implications for Italian SMEs and identifies their three main competitive challenges.

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Springer

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1137578106

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9781137578105

The Girl in the Back

A Female Drummer's Life with Bowie, Blondie, and the '70s Rock Scene

By: Laura Davis-Chanin

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The Girl in the Back

A Female Drummer's Life with Bowie, Blondie, and the '70s Rock Scene

By: Laura Davis-Chanin

ASCAP Deems Taylor Award Winner and named one of 2018 Top Ten Music Books by Billboard! Nineteen seventy-seven. New York City. Dark. Dangerous. Thrilling. Punk Rock. Blondie. David Bowie. Drinking. Drugs. Happening at the speed of light. Seventeen-year old Laura, quaking within her skin while the bursting punk rock revolution explodes around her, starts a band with her teenage friends called the Student Teachers. She's the drummer. They play legendary clubs – CBGB, Max's Kansas City, Hurrah – they rehearse madly, write songs, and tour the East Coast. All between final exams at school. In comes Jimmy Destri from Blondie. He thinks the Student Teachers are terrific! And then – he falls in love with Laura. He pulls her into the glamorous life of Blondie and introduces her to David Bowie. Bowie takes an interest in Laura's band, attends their rehearsals, and sets them up to open for Iggy Pop at the Palladium on Halloween 1979. It's exhilarating! It's the beginning of amazing success in rock 'n' roll! Until it all comes to a stunning stop. After playing a show at Town Hall in 1980, Laura is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Does it all fall apart? Later, at a dinner with Bowie, he whispers something to Laura. And it helps her save her life. In prose that flows like music, Laura Davis-Chanin presents a rich work of narrative nonfiction that is not only deeply personal but also revealing of the punk rock heyday in New York City. Infused with rare photographs, this book is a journey through a unique, ephemeral life experience.

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The Toddler Brain

Nurture the Skills Today that Will Shape Your Child's Tomorrow

By: Laura A. Jana

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The Toddler Brain

Nurture the Skills Today that Will Shape Your Child's Tomorrow

By: Laura A. Jana

What if, despite the best of intentions, we are raising our children to succeed in a world that no longer exists? The Toddler Brain helps parents recognize the connection that exists between their own parenting behaviors and their child's ability to acquire valuable twenty-first-century skills. Dr. Laura A. Jana draws on studies and stories from pediatrics, neuroscience, social science, and childcare, as well as the world of business and innovation to show parents how to equip their children with seven key skills. Dr. Jana explores the importance of play and curiosity, imagination and empathy, and strategically strengthening children's neural connections in their first five years.

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Da Capo Lifelong Books

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0738218766

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One-Star Romance

By: Laura Hankin

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One-Star Romance

By: Laura Hankin

A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who gave her book a very public one-star rating in this fresh romantic comedy from Laura Hankin. Natalie and Rob couldn’t have less in common. Nat’s a messy artist, and Rob’s a rigid academic. The only thing they share is their devotion to their respective best friends—who just got engaged. Still, unexpected chemistry has Natalie cautiously optimistic about being maid of honor to Rob’s best man. Until, minutes before the ceremony, Nat learns that Rob wrote a one-star review of her new novel, which has them both reeling: Nat from imposter syndrome, and Rob over the reason he needed to write it. When the reception ends, these two opposites hope they’ll never meet again. But, as they slip from their twenties into their thirties, they’re forced together whenever their fast-track best friends celebrate another milestone. Through housewarmings and christenings, life-changing triumphs and failures, Natalie and Rob grapple with their own choices—and how your harshest critic can become your perfectly imperfect match. After all, even the truest love stories sometimes need a bit of rewriting.

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Penguin

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0593438213

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Regulating Older Drivers

Are New Policies Needed?

By: David S. Loughran,Seth A. Seabury,Laura Zakaras

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Regulating Older Drivers

Are New Policies Needed?

By: David S. Loughran,Seth A. Seabury,Laura Zakaras

Are older drivers posing increasing risk to the public? If so, what public policies might mitigate that risk? Older drivers (those 65 and older) are slightly likelier than drivers aged 25 to 64 to cause an accident, but drivers aged 15 to 24 are nearly three times likelier than older drivers to do so. The authors of this paper conclude that stricter licensing policies targeting older drivers would likely not improve traffic safety substantially.

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Mobility Patterns and Experiences of the Middle Classes in a Globalizing Age

The Case of Mexican Migrants in Australia

By: Monica Laura Vazquez Maggio

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Mobility Patterns and Experiences of the Middle Classes in a Globalizing Age

The Case of Mexican Migrants in Australia

By: Monica Laura Vazquez Maggio

The book presents insights from a mixed methodology study that examines recent mobility patterns exhibited by the middle classes. Its major contributions are two-fold: theoretically, it advances the conceptualisation of middle class migration; empirically, it analyses the migratory motivations of a relatively new Latin-American group in Australia. The accelerated insertion of the Mexican society into globalisation processes is strongly linked not only to the growing participation in migration phenomena but also to people’s outflow to new destinations. Although studies of Mexican emigration are vast, research on Mexican skilled migration is scarce, and research that focuses on mobility to non-USA destinations is even scarcer. Mexicans are a relatively new addition to Australia’s multicultural society, and little is known about this group’s profile and why they choose to migrate to Australia. Employing a mixed methodology approach, the book provides a comprehensive portrait of migration in a new group.

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Springer

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3319533932

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Emily Post

Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

By: Laura Claridge

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Emily Post

Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

By: Laura Claridge

In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812967410

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Living Green

Communities that Sustain

By: Jennifer Fosket,Laura Mamo

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Living Green

Communities that Sustain

By: Jennifer Fosket,Laura Mamo

Social issues are, and need to be, a central part of environmental and economic sustainability efforts. Using stories of extraordinary communities across North America, Living Green showcases the social side of living green. The book features communities that explicitly integrate social and human factors into their design and planning, and examines the impact living in these communities has on personal health, well-being and the capacity for pursuing sustainability. It includes interviews with developers, architects and residents, highlighting personal ideals and efforts to pursue a sustainable lifestyle. The book's three parts explore: How community is central to sustainable living in everything from co-housing to communes Communities that specifically integrate green building design components with social justice politics such as racism, poverty and urban alienation. Housing options geared toward mainstream living that offer individual choices to those who wish to live green. Written for those desiring to hear a good news story, Living Green will appeal to individuals and communities living a sustainable lifestyle, green building activists, and academics in sociology, planning and design, architecture and environmental fields. Check out the authors' website and blog .

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New Society Publishers

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1550924303

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Consumer Behavior For Dummies

By: Laura Lake

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Consumer Behavior For Dummies

By: Laura Lake

Consumer behaviour.

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0470449837

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The Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation

97 Things That Annoy, Bother, Chafe, Disturb, Enervate, Frustrate, Grate, Harass, Irk, Jar, Miff, Nettle, Outrage, Peeve, Quassh, Rile, Stress Out, Trouble, Upset, Vex, Worry, and X Y Z You!

By: Laura Lee

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The Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation

97 Things That Annoy, Bother, Chafe, Disturb, Enervate, Frustrate, Grate, Harass, Irk, Jar, Miff, Nettle, Outrage, Peeve, Quassh, Rile, Stress Out, Trouble, Upset, Vex, Worry, and X Y Z You!

By: Laura Lee

This collection of 100 headaches, day-ruining events, moment destroying mishaps and infuriating everyday aggravations presents the fascinating facts behind the world's most frustrating situations. Laura Lee's dry, humorous and scientific text explains why fingernails on the chalkboard make you cringe; why people drive slowly in the fast lane; why dripping faucets annoy women more than men; why the other line is always faster than the one you are on; and more. She also gives tips on how to deal with annoying things like brain freeze, hangnails, and that coworker that wears too much perfume. Amazingly, some things are less annoying when you know the facts. Redesigned with enlightening diagrams and witty drawings, The Pocket Guide of Aggravation, finally answers the question, why is that so annoying?

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Black Dog & Leventhal

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0316473464

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Pregnant Pictures

By: Sandra Matthews,Laura Wexler

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Pregnant Pictures

By: Sandra Matthews,Laura Wexler

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415904498

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#My Brand Tweet

Everything You Need to Know about Personal Branding in 140 Characters Or Less

By: Laura Lowell

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#My Brand Tweet

Everything You Need to Know about Personal Branding in 140 Characters Or Less

By: Laura Lowell

From defining the idea of personal branding to getting one's brand out there and keeping it alive, this guide helps readers define their identity and build awareness for their unique value in the marketplace.

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Happy About

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1616990546

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