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Wise Irish Women

A Journey of Love, Loyalty, and Friendship to Inspire the Irish Spirit

By: Patricia Connorton Kagerer,Laura Prendergast Gordon

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Wise Irish Women

A Journey of Love, Loyalty, and Friendship to Inspire the Irish Spirit

By: Patricia Connorton Kagerer,Laura Prendergast Gordon

This collection of interviews with exceptional women from the Emerald Isle “will make you laugh, and cry, and think, and love” (Mary Higgins Clark, international bestselling mystery author). Open the door to the legends of successful, inspirational women with one common thread—a heartwarming connection to Ireland. Each story, in its own unique way, is about pursuing a dream and making a difference. Whether it’s one by the great mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark, playwright Marianne McDonald, or the authors themselves, each illuminates how these wise women have made a difference in their own corner of the world. “What a wonderful book, again illustrating that the Irish have it all, both the tragedy that shaped their thoughts and the joy and wit to see the rainbow after every rainfall. This book is the most precious pot of gold you could ever find.”—Marianne McDonald, PhD, MRIA “Wise Irish Women embraces the essence of the Fearless Women books, illuminating women who shine in their lives and make a difference in spite of their challenges and fears.”—Mary Ann Halpin, internationally acclaimed author and photographer of the Fearless Women books

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BrownBooks.ORM

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1612548172

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9781612548173

This Place Will Become Home

Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia

By: Laura Hammond

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This Place Will Become Home

Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia

By: Laura Hammond

Narratives of displacement -- Life in the Sudan camps -- A patchwork of emplacements -- The household food economy as the locus of community construction -- "We have each lost a child": birth, death and the role of life-cycle rituals in emplacing the individual within the community -- Ada Bai's place in the wider world -- Conclusion: forced migration, anthropology and the politics of international assistance -- Epilogue: the Ethiopian-Eritrean war as felt in Ada Bai.

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280

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Cornell University Press

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0801443075

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9780801443077

Playing Ourselves

Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions

By: Laura Peers

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Playing Ourselves

Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions

By: Laura Peers

Across North America, hundreds of reconstructed Oliving historyO sites, which traditionally presented history from a primarily European perspective, have hired Native staff in an attempt to communicate a broader view of the past. Playing Ourselves explores this major shift in representation, using detailed observations of five historic sites in the U.S. and Canada to both discuss the theoretical aspects of Native cultural performance and advise interpreters and their managers on how to more effectively present an inclusive history. Drawing on anthropology, history, cultural performance, cross-cultural encounters, material culture theory, and public history, author Laura Peers examines Oliving historyO sites as locations of cultural performance where core beliefs about society, cross-cultural relationships, and history are performed. In the process, she emphasizes how choices made in the communication of history can both challenge these core beliefs about the past and improve cross-cultural relations in the present.

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243

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Rowman Altamira

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0759113866

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9780759113862

Nowhere to Remember

Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943

By: Laura Arata,David W. Harvey

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Nowhere to Remember

Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943

By: Laura Arata,David W. Harvey

“There wasn’t that many people, but they were good people.”--Madeline Gilles “First time I ever tasted cherries or even seen a cherry tree was [in White Bluffs]. Or ever ate an apricot or seen an apricot...It was covered with orchards and alfalfa fields.”--Leatris Boehmer Reid Euro-American Priest River Valley settlers turned acres of sagebrush into fruit orchards. Although farm life required hard work and modern conveniences were often spare, many former residents remember idyllic, close-knit communities where neighbors helped neighbors. Then, in 1943, families received forced evacuation notices. “Fruit farmers had to leave their crops on their trees. And that was very hard on them, no future, no money...they moved wherever they could get a place to live,” Catherine Finley recalled. Some were given just thirty days, and Manhattan Project restrictions meant they could not return. Drawn from Hanford History Project personal narratives, Nowhere to Remember highlights life in Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland--three small agricultural communities in eastern Washington’s mid-Columbia region. It covers their late 1800s to early 1900s origins, settlement and development, the arrival of irrigation, dependence on railroads, Great Depression struggles, and finally, their unique experiences in the early years of World War II. David W. Harvey examines the impact of wagon trade, steamships, and railroads, grounding local history within the context of American West history. Robert Franklin details the tight bonds between early residents as they labored to transform scrubland into an agricultural Eden. Laura Arata considers the early twentieth century experiences of women who lived and worked in the region. Robert Bauman utilizes oral histories to tell forced removal stories. Finally, Bauman and Franklin convey displaced occupants’ reactions to their lost spaces and places of meaning--and explore ways they sought to honor their heritage.

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265

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Washington State University Press

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1636820581

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Accretion

A Collection of Influential Papers

By: Aldo Treves,Laura Maraschi

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Accretion

A Collection of Influential Papers

By: Aldo Treves,Laura Maraschi

The book collects 29 papers which have been particularly influential in the development of accretion theory. As an introductory paper a recent review on the subject is reported. An extensive list of references closes the volume.

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380

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World Scientific

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9810200773

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9789810200770

Girls in Power

Gender, Body, and Menstruation in Adolescence

By: Laura Fingerson

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Girls in Power

Gender, Body, and Menstruation in Adolescence

By: Laura Fingerson

Girls in Power offers a fascinating and unique look at the social aspects of menstruation in the lives of adolescent girls—and also in the lives of adolescent boys. Although there has been much research on other aspects of gender and the body, this is one of the few books to examine menstruation and the first to explore how it plays a part in power interactions between boys and girls. Talking openly in single- and mixed-gender settings, individuals and groups of high school–age girls and boys share their interpretations and experiences of menstruation. Author Laura Fingerson reveals that while teens have negative feelings about menstruation, teen girls use their experiences of menstruation as a source of embodied power in their interactions with other girls and with boys. She also explores how boys deal with their own reduced power. The book extends our theoretical and analytical understanding of youth, gender, power, and embodiment by providing a more balanced view of adolescent social life.

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State University of New York Press

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0791480976

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9780791480977

Wise Irish Women

A Journey of Love, Loyalty, and Friendship to Inspire the Irish Spirit

By: Patricia Connorton Kagerer,Laura Prendergast Gordon

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A Journey of Love, Loyalty, and Friendship to Inspire the Irish Spirit

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