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My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

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My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

A voice-driven ... addiction memoir about a wealthy Black woman on a journey to becoming whole while grappling with issues of substance abuse, race, class, self-sabotage, and love, by the host of the ... podcast The Only One in the Room"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1668005344

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Black and Brown in Los Angeles

Beyond Conflict and Coalition

By: Josh Kun,Laura Pulido

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Black and Brown in Los Angeles

Beyond Conflict and Coalition

By: Josh Kun,Laura Pulido

Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities in the United States, the book delivers supporting evidence that Los Angeles is a key place to study racial politics while also providing the basis for broader discussions of multiethnic America. Students, faculty, and interested readers will gain an understanding of the different forms of cultural borrowing and exchange that have shaped a terrain through which African Americans and Latinas/os cross paths, intersect, move in parallel tracks, and engage with a whole range of aspects of urban living. Tensions and shared intimacies are recurrent themes that emerge as the contributors seek to integrate artistic and cultural constructs with politics and economics in their goal of extending simple paradigms of conflict, cooperation, or coalition. The book features essays by historians, economists, and cultural and ethnic studies scholars, alongside contributions by photographers and journalists working in Los Angeles.

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Univ of California Press

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0520275594

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9780520275591

Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain

Chasing the Rainbow

By: Laura Dixon

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Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain

Chasing the Rainbow

By: Laura Dixon

This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality, and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants. Situating Sitges as a specifically affluent and "middle-class" location representing a particular form of "lifestyle migration," this rich and detailed study explores how the experiences of British migrants re-inscribe culturally specific understandings of the relationship between space, place, culture and identity. What ultimately emerges is an account of the complex structural constraints of identity, as British migrants find themselves stuck within the stereotype of badly-behaved Brits Abroad and entangled in highly conservative conceptualisations of gender and sexuality, that leave them unable to live the kind of cosmopolitan lifestyles that they so purposefully sought. This is a fascinating study suitable for researchers in gender and sexuality studies, tourism, sociology, and anthropology.

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Routledge

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1000372170

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The Mysterious Private Thompson

The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier

By: Laura Leedy Gansler

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The Mysterious Private Thompson

The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier

By: Laura Leedy Gansler

The incredible account of how one heroic woman defied convention in 19th-century America to live, work, and defend her country at a time of war, when women were barely allowed out of the house.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803259883

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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

This compelling history of what Laura Micheletti Puaca terms "technocratic feminism" traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years. During a period when anxiety about America's supply of scientific personnel ran high and when open support for women's rights generated suspicion, feminist reformers routinely invoked national security rhetoric and scientific "manpower" concerns in their efforts to advance women's education and employment. Despite the limitations of this strategy, it laid the groundwork for later feminist reforms in both science and society. The past and present manifestations of technocratic feminism also offer new evidence of what has become increasingly recognized as a "long women's movement." Drawing on an impressive array of archival collections and primary sources, Puaca brings to light the untold story of an important but largely overlooked strand of feminist activism. This book reveals much about the history of American feminism, the politics of national security, and the complicated relationship between the two.

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UNC Press Books

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1469610825

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9781469610825

Remembering the Raspberries

By: Laura Lee Royale

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Remembering the Raspberries

By: Laura Lee Royale

Janet Robbins has the perfect life, or so she thought. She has the best job ever as a stay-at-home mom. She keeps extremely busy with her children, Sarah and Michael, chauffeuring them to school and activities, volunteering in their classrooms and school, and helping them with homework. Her children tell her she is the best mom ever. Janet runs the household without her husband Brad's help, as he is a busy school executive. She meticulously irons and coordinates his clothes and keeps him on schedule. Janet is supportive to Brad in every way imaginable with his demanding career. She slips into the world of a single parent without realizing it while she sees less and less of her husband. Her world turns upside down when Brad suddenly moves out during a slumber party. Janet realizes there is so much more to the story as Brad's three-year affair with a coworker comes to light, and they both lose their jobs. Brad is not willing to take the blame for his job loss and takes it out on Janet. Brad's true colors come to light as his true narcissistic side shows. He is unhappy when Janet is ordered sole custody of the children and vows to take them from her. He and his vindictive girlfriend, Suzanne, plan and plot ways to push Janet over the edge to take away the children to punish her for their job loss. Brad and Suzanne eventually marry and continue to harass Janet in unimaginable ways. Janet is strong and weathers many attacks but cannot compete financially with her ex-husband and his wife. Remembering the Raspberries is a tale of parental alienation and how it broke up a mother's relationship with her children. How long can Janet keep the faith?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514439891

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9781514439890

Using Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

By: Laura E. Beer,Jacqueline C. Birnbaum

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Using Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

By: Laura E. Beer,Jacqueline C. Birnbaum

There is growing evidence for the powerful role that music plays in enhancing children's cognitive, social, and emotional development. Written for a broad audience of mental health professionals, this is the first book to provide accessible ways of integrating music into clinical work with children and adolescents. Rich case vignettes show how to use singing, drumming, listening to music, and many other strategies to connect with hard-to-reach children, promote self-regulation, and create opportunities for change. The book offers detailed guidelines for addressing different clinical challenges, including attachment difficulties, trauma, and behavioral, emotional, and communication problems. Each chapter concludes with concrete recommendations for practice; an appendix presents a photographic inventory of recommended instruments.

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Guilford Publications

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1462539149

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9781462539147

Children, Nature, Cities

By: Ann Marie F. Murnaghan,Laura J. Shillington

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Children, Nature, Cities

By: Ann Marie F. Murnaghan,Laura J. Shillington

Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising the city as a socio-natural space, the book illustrates how children and youth's relations to and with nature can change adultist perspectives and help create more ecologically and socially just cities. As a key contribution to children's studies, the book engages and enlivens debates in urban political ecology and urban theory, which have not yet treated age as an important axis of difference. With examples from ten localities, the chapters in this volume ask how we can subvert both romanticized and modernist conceptualizations of nature and childhood that conflate innocence and purity with children and nature; the volume asks what happens when we re-invent urban natures with children's needs and perspectives in mind.

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Routledge

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1317167686

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Chicana Art

The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities

By: Laura E. Pérez

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Chicana Art

The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities

By: Laura E. Pérez

DIVThe first full-length survey of contemporary Chicana artists/div

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Duke University Press

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0822338688

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9780822338680

Postcolonial Contraventions

Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism, and Transnationalism

By: Laura Chrisman

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Postcolonial Contraventions

Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism, and Transnationalism

By: Laura Chrisman

This book provides unique "insider" critical insights into the ever-growing field of Postcolonial Studies, from one of the field's original architects.

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Manchester University Press

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0719058287

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9780719058288

Forest and Crag

A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

By: Laura Waterman,Guy Waterman

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Forest and Crag

A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

By: Laura Waterman,Guy Waterman

A compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with the mountains and wilderness. Thirty years after its initial publication, this beloved classic is back in print. Superbly researched and written, Forest and Crag is the definitive history of our love affair with the mountains of the Northeastern United States, from the Catskills and the Adirondacks of New York to the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the mountains of Maine. Its all here in one comprehensive volume: the struggles of early pioneers in Americas first frontier wilderness; the first ascent of every major peak in the Northeast; the building of the trail networks, including the Appalachian Trail; the golden era of the summit resort hotels; and the unforeseen consequences of the backpacking boom of the 1970s and 80s. Laura and Guy Waterman spent a decade researching and writing Forest and Crag, and in it they draw together widely scattered sources. What emerges is a compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with the mountains and wilderness, a story that will fascinate historians, outdoor enthusiasts, and armchair adventurers alike. Just like a good map is essential equipment for any backcountry adventure, Forest and Crag is an essential read for anyone who enjoys spending time in or is charged with the stewardship of the Northeasts trails and mountains. Michael DeBonis, Executive Director, Green Mountain Club Forest and Crag stands as the most important history of Northeastern mountain exploration. I marvel at the depth of the Watermans exhaustive research and the skill in which they synthesized it. Anyone who cares about and writes about mountains laps up these chapters regularly. I reach for this book all the time. The added photographs and prefaces make this new edition from SUNY even better. Christine Woodside, editor of Appalachia Journal and author of Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books No other volume weaves together across landscapes and time both the individual stories and broad themes of the history of hiking in the Northeast. It is not, however, its breadth and depth which makes Forest and Cragunique. Rather, it is the Watermans gift for storytelling which makes the reader feel that he or she has been invited to pull up a chair and listen, spellbound, to two masters of their craft. In sharing the stories of those who came to the mountains before, the Watermans invite all to join in preserving the future of these iconic landscapes. Julia Goren, Education Director and Summit Steward Coordinator, Adirondack Mountain Club PRAISE FOR FOREST AND CRAG This is a superb, monumental history. The Watermans are adept at the capsule profile, whether of peaks or persons. A gallery of characters unrolls, as diverse as those in a novel by Dickens. Paul Jamieson, former editor, The Adirondack Reader Written with grace, style, and good humor, seasoned with a refreshing sense of wonder, Forest and Crag reads more like a gripping novel than the serious research work it really is. Magnetic North In its quality, comprehensiveness, and regional orientation, Forest and Crag is unprecedented in American letters. It will become a classic in social, intellectual, and environmental history. Roderick Frazier Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind, Fifth Edition Forest and Crag presents an incredible gift for todays hikersthe opportunity to take a thoughtful and vigorous ramble into the past, and to explore the Northeastern mountains of yesteryear. What an adventureand what better way to contemplate how we shape the regions future? Peter Crane, Mount Washington Observatory Forest and Crag traces the Northeasts human and natural history by following the hiking experience from the early adventurers to the more recent development of an environmental ethic. The Watermans tell this story with clear respect and deep joy for the mountains that shaped the stories of the regions hikers and hiking clubs. Mary Margaret Sloan, Chief Operating Officer, Positive Tracks The Watermans true genius is their ability to string all the facts together in a narrative so lively that even the footnotes and endnotes are read as eagerly as one would devour dessert at the end of a good meal. Tony Goodwin, coeditor of High Peaks Trails, 14th Edition

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SUNY Press

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1438475306

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9781438475301

Performing Trauma in Central Africa

Shadows of Empire

By: Laura Edmondson

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Performing Trauma in Central Africa

Shadows of Empire

By: Laura Edmondson

What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? In the charged political terrain of post-genocide Rwanda, post-civil war Uganda, and recent violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laura Edmondson explores performance through the lens of empire. Instead of celebrating theatre productions as expression of cultural agency and resilience, Edmondson traces their humanitarian imperatives to a place where global narratives of violence take precedence over local traditions and audiences. Working at the intersection of performance and trauma, Edmondson reveals how artists and cultural workers manipulate narratives in the shadow of empire and how empire, in turn, infiltrates creative capacities.

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Indiana University Press

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0253035511

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9780253035516

Landscape with Moving Figures

A Decade on Dance

By: Laura Jacobs

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Landscape with Moving Figures

A Decade on Dance

By: Laura Jacobs

This book is an engaging collection of essays by dance critic, novelist, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Laura Jacobs. Ideas in the areas of dance composition, performance, production, criticism, education, history, theory presentation, anthropology, science, medicine, therapy, somatic studies, and related arts are explored.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1597910015

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9781597910019

Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes

Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination

By: Laura S. Brown

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Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes

Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination

By: Laura S. Brown

In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-kind, and the nonhuman animal has thus played a significant role in imaginative literature from that period to the present day. In Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, Laura Brown shows how the literary works of the eighteenth century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, affording a uniquely flexible perspective on difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence. Writers of this first age of the rise of the animal in the modern literary imagination used their nonhuman characters—from the lapdogs of Alexander Pope and his contemporaries to the ill-mannered monkey of Frances Burney's Evelina or the ape-like Yahoos of Jonathan Swift—to explore questions of human identity and self-definition, human love and the experience of intimacy, and human diversity and the boundaries of convention. Later literary works continued to use imaginary animals to question human conventions of form and thought. Brown pursues this engagement with animal-kind into the nineteenth century—through works by Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning—and into the twentieth, with a concluding account of Paul Auster's dog-novel, Timbuktu. Auster's work suggests that—today as in the eighteenth century—imagining other animals opens up a potential for dissonance that creates distinctive opportunities for human creativity.

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Cornell University Press

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150171662X

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MRI Normal Variants and Pitfalls

By: Laura W. Bancroft,Mellena D. Bridges

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MRI Normal Variants and Pitfalls

By: Laura W. Bancroft,Mellena D. Bridges

MRI Normal Variants and Pitfalls presents over 1,800 images of normal anatomic variants, artifacts, and other features that mimic pathology on MRI scans. The book will reduce the rate of diagnostic errors by helping radiologists distinguish pathology from MRI appearances that may simulate disease. Organized by anatomic region, the book covers the gamut of neuroradiology, breast imaging, vascular, cross-sectional, and musculoskeletal radiology. Each chapter shows examples of normal anatomy, variations, common incidental or benign conditions, and imaging features that may mimic other disease processes. Concise figure legends facilitate rapid identification of imaging characteristics. Examples of common MRI artifacts are included, with brief explanations from physicists in language understandable to radiologists.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469801736

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9781469801735

Yankee Rock & Ice

A History of Climbing in the Northeastern United States

By: Laura Waterman,Guy Waterman

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Yankee Rock & Ice

A History of Climbing in the Northeastern United States

By: Laura Waterman,Guy Waterman

- First time in paperback Celebrated climbers Guy and Laura Waterman trace the growth of this popular sport by focusing on the first ascents of classic routes and the climbers who made them legendary: John Case on the Adirondacks' Indian Head and Wallface; Robert Underhill and Lincoln O'Brien on Cannon; Fritz Wiessner on Breakneck Ridge. More contemporary climbers Jim McCarthy, Henry Barber, Lynn Hill, and Hugh Herr are described in full detail. Ethics and style, the evolution of ice climbing, the changing role of women in climbing, and developments in technique and equipment are explored.

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Stackpole Books

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0811731030

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9780811731034

Performing in Contemporary Musicals

By: David Sisco,Laura Josepher

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Performing in Contemporary Musicals

By: David Sisco,Laura Josepher

Performing in Contemporary Musicals brings into sharp focus the skills performers must possess when tackling shows that are newly written, in development, or somewhere in between. The authors bust myths about contemporary musical theatre and analyze the development timelines of musicals from around the world. They also explore how performers can become invaluable to a creative team by developing the skills needed to move a new musical forward including: contemporary acting and singing techniques, dramaturgy, quickly picking up new material, and collaboration. Each chapter features insightful industry interviews, recommended activities, an extensive reading list, and an online companion for further study. This textbook is the only comprehensive resource that provides an overview of the development process of a new musical while guiding musical theatre performers to be fruitful collaborators in a new works scenario.

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Routledge

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1000548171

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9781000548174

Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres

1911-41

By: Laura Cowan

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Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres

1911-41

By: Laura Cowan

Bringing new insights from genre theory to bear on the work of the journalist and novelist Rebecca West, this study explores how West's use of and combinations of multiple genres (often in single works) was informed and furthered by her subversive feminist goals. Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres analyzes West's sense of genres as dynamic and strategic processes with transgressive political ends rather than as fixed and reified taxonomies, a radical new approach at the time that is now mirrored in much contemporary theory. Surveying her oeuvre from this point of view, the book goes on to examine systematically West's writing from 1911-1941, including her early journalism and criticism, such novels as The Return of the Soldier and her controversial multi-genre epic Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441117393

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9781441117397

The Rough Guide to New Zealand

By: Laura Harper,Paul Whitfield,Tony Mudd,Catherine Le Nevez

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The Rough Guide to New Zealand

By: Laura Harper,Paul Whitfield,Tony Mudd,Catherine Le Nevez

The new Rough Guide to New Zealandis the definitive guide to the world's adventure capital. Now in full-colour throughout, it contains dozens of tempting colour photos illustrating the country's iconic landmarks and its stupendously diverse scenery. Detailed accounts of every attraction along with crystal-clear maps and plans will show you the very best New Zealand has to offer- from white-sand beaches and vast kauri trees in the north to the hairline fiords and penguin colonies in the south. With expert guidance you won't put a foot wrong when experiencing Maori culture or simply striking out on multi-day hikes. At every point this guide steers you to little-known sights such as secluded hot pools or Wellington's best caf�s. Insider tips, planning itineraries and author picks give you the inside scoop on the best accommodation across every price range, how to track down Marlborough's tastiest Sauvignon blancs and where the most delectable Maori hangi can be found. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to New Zealand.

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Rough Guides UK

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140539000X

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9781405390002

Ethically Challenged

Private Equity Storms US Health Care

By: Laura Katz Olson

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Ethically Challenged

Private Equity Storms US Health Care

By: Laura Katz Olson

The first book to comprehensively address private equity and health care, Ethically Challenged raises the curtain on an industry notorious for its secrecy, exposing the nefarious side of its maneuvers.

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JHU Press

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142144285X

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9781421442853

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 4

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 4

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 4 of 8, pages 1919 to 2626. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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Lulu.com

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1312620129

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Hail Columbia!

American Music and Politics in the Early Nation

By: Laura Lohman

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Hail Columbia!

American Music and Politics in the Early Nation

By: Laura Lohman

Hail Columbia! is the compelling story of patriotic songs-such as "Yankee Doodle" and "The Star-Spangled Banner"-used as fiery political propaganda between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars in America.

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0190930616

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Race and the Education of Desire

Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

By: Ann Laura Stoler

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Race and the Education of Desire

Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

By: Ann Laura Stoler

Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines volume one of History of Sexuality in an unexplored light. She asks why there has been such a muted engagement with this work among students of colonialism for whom issues of sexuality and power are so essential. Why is the colonial context absent from Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? In Race and the Education of Desire, Stoler challenges Foucault's tunnel vision of the West and his marginalization of empire. She also argues that this first volume of History of Sexuality contains a suggestive if not studied treatment of race. Drawing on Foucault's little-known 1976 College de France lectures, Stoler addresses his treatment of the relationship between biopower, bourgeois sexuality, and what he identified as "racisms of the state." In this critical and historically grounded analysis based on cultural theory and her own extensive research in Dutch and French colonial archives, Stoler suggests how Foucault's insights have in the past constrained--and in the future may help shape--the ways we trace the genealogies of race. Race and the Education of Desire will revise current notions of the connections between European and colonial historiography and between the European bourgeois order and the colonial treatment of sexuality. Arguing that a history of European nineteenth-century sexuality must also be a history of race, it will change the way we think about Foucault.

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Duke University Press

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0822316900

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Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity

By: Laura E. Smith

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Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity

By: Laura E. Smith

Biography of Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw, with a study of the cultural and artistic significance of his works, ca. 1925-1945.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803237855

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Organizational Behavior in Sport Management

By: Eric MacIntosh,Laura Burton

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Organizational Behavior in Sport Management

By: Eric MacIntosh,Laura Burton

Organizational Behavior in Sport Management fills a gap in sport management literature by exploring the key organizational behavior topics in sport organization settings. The text covers issues such as diversity, ethics, values, behavior, leadership, and much more. Book Features Organizational Behavior in Sport Management offers the following features: • Learning objectives and discussion questions for each chapter that help students conceptualize, retain, and understand the content • Case studies with discussion questions to help students apply the concepts from each chapter • In the Boardroom sidebars that use real-life examples from organizations within the field to highlight key topics The In the Boardroom sidebars reflect best practices for various levels of numerous sport organizations, affording readers a great range of applications in the sport management world. Instructor Guide In addition, the text has an online instructor guide that includes chapter objectives, discussion questions from the text (and their answers), discussion questions for case studies (and their answers), suggestions for integrating the case studies into lectures, links to recommended websites, assignments, class projects, essay ideas, and lists of suggested readings. Focus of Book Organizational Behavior in Sport Management presents classical research in organizational behavior as well as up-to-date knowledge from the field of sport management. The authors offer information on individual, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational processes that are fundamental to working within a sport organization, placing equal emphasis on what managers of sport organizations need to understand about human behavior and what each person brings to the work situation in terms of his or her own attitudes, thoughts, perceptions, and skills. The authors emphasize empowering employees and understanding their needs and desires regarding work, as opposed to managing employees in one particular way. With this in mind, the authors discuss the roles of sport organization administrators and executives, volunteers, employees, and players and coaches of sport teams, exploring how they behave independently as well as how they interact with each other. An Understanding of Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior in Sport Management offers a foundational and contemporary look at the inner workings of sport organizations, providing numerous real-life examples from throughout the country and grounding students in the key behavioral and managerial issues that leaders, managers, and employees in sport organizations face today. As such, this text answers the key questions of why we do what we do at work, why others behave as they do, and how our interpretation of events and behaviors is subject to our own biases. In the process, students will gain an understanding of the most important organizational behavior topics and get a glimpse of how they could successfully function in a sport organization.

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Human Kinetics

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Beethoven

A Life in Nine Pieces

By: Laura Tunbridge

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Beethoven

A Life in Nine Pieces

By: Laura Tunbridge

**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography** NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS. 'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the genius of his music and the richness of his experiences - to shine a revealing light on our greatest composer' John Humphrys _________________________ Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths. In Beethoven, Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge cuts through the noise. With each chapter focusing on a period of his life, piece of music and revealing theme - from family to friends, from heroism to liberty - she provides a rich insight into the man and the music. Revealing a wealth of never-before-seen material, this tour de force is a compelling, accessible portrayal of one of the world's most creative minds and it will transform how you listen for ever. _________________________ 'Tunbridge has come up with the seemingly impossible: a new way of approaching Beethoven's life and music . . . profoundly original and hugely readable' John Suchet, author Beethoven: The Man Revealed 'This well researched and accessible book is a must read for all who seek to know more about the flesh and blood tangible Beethoven.' John Clubbe, author of Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary 'This book is really wonderful! ... However many books on Beethoven you own, find the space for one more. This one' Stephen Hough, pianist, composer, writer 'In a year when everyone's looking for a new take on Beethoven, Laura Tunbridge has found nine. Fresh and engaging' Norman Lebrecht, author of Genius and Anxiety 'Remarkable . . . she captures the essence of his genius and character. I'll always want to keep it in easy reach' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the third Reich

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0241987458

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Henry David Thoreau

A Life

By: Laura Dassow Walls

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Henry David Thoreau

A Life

By: Laura Dassow Walls

Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member of the vibrant intellectual circle centered on his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was also an ardent naturalist, a manual laborer and inventor, a radical political activist, and more. Many books have taken up various aspects of Thoreau's character and achievements, but, as Laura Dassow Walls writes, "Thoreau has never been captured between covers; he was too quixotic, mischievous, many-sided." Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls renews Henry David Thoreau for us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. Drawing on Thoreau's copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive, full of quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him. "The Thoreau I sought was not in any book, so I wrote this one," says Walls. The result is a Thoreau unlike any seen since he walked the streets of Concord, a Thoreau for our time and all time.--Dust jacket.

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University of Chicago Press

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022659937X

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Irons in the Fire

The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860

By: Laura Croghan Kamoie

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Irons in the Fire

The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860

By: Laura Croghan Kamoie

This business-family saga contributes a pivotal perspective to contemporary debates about the economic modernity of the South.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813926378

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Daughters of the Great Depression

Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s

By: Laura Hapke

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Daughters of the Great Depression

Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s

By: Laura Hapke

Daughters of the Great Depression is a reinterpretation of more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression-era fiction that illuminate one of the decade's central conflicts: whether to include women in the hard-pressed workforce or relegate them to a literal or figurative home sphere. Laura Hapke argues that working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s. In locating these key texts in the "don't steal a job from a man" furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of material not usually considered by literary scholars, including articles on gender and the job controversy; Labor Department Women's Bureau statistics; "true romance" stories and "fallen woman" films; studies of African American women's wage earning; and Fortune magazine pronouncements on white-collar womanhood. A valuable revisionist study, Daughters of the Great Depression shows how fiction's working heroines--so often cast as earth mothers, flawed mothers, lesser comrades, harlots, martyrs, love slaves, and manly or apologetic professionals--joined their real-life counterparts to negotiate the misogynistic labor climate of the 1930s.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820319082

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Catholic Primary schools and their ability to promote religious identity

By: Laura Beirne

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Catholic Primary schools and their ability to promote religious identity

By: Laura Beirne

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics - Theology, Religion Pedagogy, grade: 80% at masters level, , course: PGCE, language: English, abstract: In England levels of religious practice are rapidly declining. this raises the question of how we are able to promote religious identity across England. This paper explores the religious identity in Catholic primary school in England. this research project found that children that attend Catholic school, despite the religious ethos, are usually unaware of their religious identity and what being a Catholic means.

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365639914X

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Fully Committed

The Sacred Sojourn of Now

By: Laura JE Hamilton

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Fully Committed

The Sacred Sojourn of Now

By: Laura JE Hamilton

In the journey of writing FULLY COMMITTED The Sacred Sojourn of NOW I was called to live fully and learned how to claim our right to do so, as men and women standing in our power where life is lived and evil is NOW being fried like the BBQ Business that tried to convert us into less than our best.

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Balboa Press

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1001 Life Changing Quotes 4 Teens

By: Laura Lyseight

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1001 Life Changing Quotes 4 Teens

By: Laura Lyseight

Jesus says profoundly, "The words that I speak, they are Spirit and they are life." Words live and have incredible power, so watch what words you speak. "Colours fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure." Edwards Thorndike. The power found in words cannot be understated. They can be explosive dynamite destroying or they can be cautious uplifting words. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa. What lasting impressions are you making with the words you are speaking? The spoken word has life or death in it. Words can motivate you to do more or do the exact opposite. They can equally build you up or pull you down. Throughout history, all successful people have been known to tap into the world of wise words. They have continually stayed motivated and challenged by insightful words from others and this book has the compilation of wise, life transforming quotes to help you as a teen chart your successful path in life. As you read through this book, you will experience renewed energy, you will feel an explosive excitement, and your passion to do more will mystify you. That is exactly the effect inspirational words. This collection of quotes has been carefully sourced for teens worldwide. Every teen, especially those who desire to be successful must have a copy. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." BenjaminFranklin. "Teens are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves." Virginia Satir.

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1450044913

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All In

Becoming World Champion

By: Laura Massaro

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All In

Becoming World Champion

By: Laura Massaro

All In is Laura Massaro's honest, raw and personal story of how she became one of the greatest squash players the UK has ever produced. From a shy, young athlete sometimes crippled by nerves and self-doubt, to a World No.1 and World Champion in an intense, gruelling sport, All In takes you on a deeply personal and inspiring journey. Laura is candid about the struggles of balancing relationships off the court with success on it, not least with her coach and husband Danny, and she takes you behind the scenes on the darkly competitive world of the professional squash circuit. From her battles on court to her fight behind the scenes to establish equal prizemoney at squash's biggest tournament, this is a rollercoaster ride of emotions that takes the reader into the head and heart of one of the world's most accomplished sportswomen. All In is a story of tears, turmoil and, ultimately, triumph. – Featuring guest chapters from Laura’s close team as well actual diary entries from the time, Laura Massaro’s All In gives an in-depth insight into the realities of competing at the highest level of one of the world’s most gruelling sports. – “Laura Massaro embodies everything when it comes to being ALL IN. Her story is inspiring because it show that you don’t have to be the most talented, the fastest or the most skilful in order to reach the top. What you need is the mindset and Laura’s mindset made her one of the toughest competitors out there.” Amanda Sobhy No.1 US squash player “A unique insight into one of Britain’s unsung sporting champions.” Nick Matthew, former World No.1 squash player

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1838351612

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On Money and Mettā

Economy and Morality in Urban Buddhist Myanmar

By: Laura Hornig

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On Money and Mettā

Economy and Morality in Urban Buddhist Myanmar

By: Laura Hornig

Based on eighteen months of research in the lowland Myanmar town of Pathein, this book investigates manifold economic activities on the ground. Particular attention is paid to the self-employed and their relationships with relatives, workers, and community members. The ethnography covers a range of topics, including business formation and succession, recruitment, child labour, ethnicity, indebtedness and charity. It is demonstrated that, amidst rapidly changing socio-economic conditions, values rooted in kinship morality and Buddhism remain significant and continue to shape people's economic reasoning and activities. These values und moral aspects stand in a dialectical relationship with changing economic realities.

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3643963408

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