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Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

By: Laura Engel

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Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

By: Laura Engel

This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of tangible objects including: pocket diaries, portraits, drawings, magic lanterns, silhouettes, waxworks, and photographs in relation to actresses, authors, and artists such as: Elizabeth Inchbald, Sally Siddons, Marguerite Gardiner the Countess of Blessington, Isabella Beetham, Jane Read, Madame Tussaud, and Amelia M. Watson. Ultimately, operating as an archival tourist in my analyses, I offer strategies for thinking about the presence of women artists in the archives through methodologies that seek to connect materials from the past with our representations of them in the present.

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Springer

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1137589329

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Women's Health Across the Lifespan

A Pharmacotherapeutic Approach

By: Laura Marie Borgelt

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Women's Health Across the Lifespan

A Pharmacotherapeutic Approach

By: Laura Marie Borgelt

Factors influencing women's health care -- Sex and gender differences -- Menstrual and ovarian conditions -- Contrceptive methods -- Pregnancy health care -- Select conditions and disorders over the lifespan -- Select infectious diseases -- Cancer in women.

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ASHP

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1585281948

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The Baby Name Wizard, Revised 4th Edition

A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby

By: Laura Wattenberg

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The Baby Name Wizard, Revised 4th Edition

A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby

By: Laura Wattenberg

A fully revised and updated version of the classic baby name guide, featuring updated trends, facts, ideas, and thousands of enchanting names! Your baby’s perfect name is out there. This book will help you find it. The right baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life—and maybe even satisfy your relatives. But there’s no shortage of names to choose from, and you can’t expect to just stumble upon a name like that in an A-to-Z dictionary. Enter the revised and updated fourth edition of The Baby Name Wizard. This ultimate baby-name guide uses groundbreaking research and computer-generated models to create a visual image for each name, examine its usage and popularity over the last one hundred years, and suggest other specific and promising name ideas. Each unique “name snapshot” includes a rundown of style categories the name belongs to, nickname options, variants, pronunciations, prominent examples, and names with a similar style and feeling. This new edition also contains expanded sections on popular names and style lists. A perfect, up-to-date guide to the modern world of names, The Baby Name Wizard will delight you from the first name you look up and keep you enchanted through your journey to finding the just-right name for your baby.

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Harmony

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0770436471

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9780770436476

Once We Were Slaves

The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family

By: Laura Arnold Leibman

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Once We Were Slaves

The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family

By: Laura Arnold Leibman

Origins (Bridgetown, 1793-1798) -- From Slave to Free (Bridgetown, 1801) -- From Christian to Jew (Suriname, 1811-12) -- The Tumultuous Island (Bridgetown, 1812-1817) -- Synagogue Seats (New York & Philadelphia, 1793-1818) -- The Material of Race (London, 1815-17) -- Voices of Rebellion (Bridgetown, 1818-24) -- A Woman Valor (New York, 1817-19) -- This Liberal City (Philadelphia, 1818-33) -- Feverish Love (New York, 1819-1830) -- When I am Gone (New York, Barbados, London, 1830-1847) -- Legacies (New York and Beyond, 1841-1860).

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Oxford University Press

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0197530478

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A Companion to Jane Austen Studies

By: Robert Thomas Lambdin,Laura Lambdin

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A Companion to Jane Austen Studies

By: Robert Thomas Lambdin,Laura Lambdin

Jane Austen significantly shaped the development of the English novel, and her works continue to be read widely today. Though she is best known for her novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, she also wrote poems, letters, prayers and various pieces of juvenalia. These writings have been attracting the attention of scholars; her major works have already generated a large body of scholarly and critical studies. This reference is a guide to her works and the response to them. Austen's works are fraught with ambiguity. Because she was adept at displaying numerous aspects of an issue, her writings invite multiple interpretations. In light of the ambiguity of her texts, each of her major works is approached from a reader-response perspective, in which an expert contributor illuminates the reader's relationship to her writing. And because so many readers have had such varied responses to her novels, the volume also includes chapters summarizing the critical response to each of her major works. In addition, the book includes separate chapters on her poems, letters, and prayers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313032386

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New Museum Design

By: Laura Hourston Hanks

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New Museum Design

By: Laura Hourston Hanks

New Museum Design provides a critical and compelling selective survey of contemporary international museum design since 2010. It provides an accessible and analytic review of the architectural landscape of museum and gallery design in the 2010s. The book comprises twelve case study museum and gallery projects from across Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, the Middle East and Australia. Each built example is interrogated through an essay and a series of beautiful supporting illustrations and drawings. Where appropriate architectural analysis is cross-scale, extending from consideration of the artefact’s encounter with museum space at the most intimate scale, through detailed architectural readings, to the wider perspective of urban/landscape response. Similarly, the book is not confined in its thematic or architectural ‘typological’ scope, including museums and art galleries, as well as remodellings, extensions and new build examples. New Museum Design provides a critical snapshot of contemporary international museum architecture, in order to: better understand reasons for the state of current practice; reveal and explore on-going themes and approaches in the field; and to point towards seminal future design directions. This book is essential reading for any student or professional interested in museum design.

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Routledge

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0429788452

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Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

This exciting chronological introduction to child development employs the lauded active learning approach of Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch’s successful topical text, inviting students to forge a personal connection to the latest topics shaping the field, including neuroscience, diversity, culture, play, and media. Using innovative pedagogy, Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach reveals a wide range of real-world applications for research and theory, creating an engaging learning experience that equips students with tools they can use long after the class ends.

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1483372146

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Losing Sleep

Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety

By: Laura Harrison

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Losing Sleep

Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety

By: Laura Harrison

New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safety New parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood. Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents, rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet, while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and structural causes, the discourse around infant sleep safety often suggests that individual parents can protect their children from these tragic outcomes, if only they would make the right choices about safe sleep. Harrison argues that our understanding of sleep-related infant death, and the crisis of infant mortality in general, has burdened parents, especially parents of color, in increasingly punitive ways. As the government takes a more visible role in criminalizing parents, including those whose children die in their sleep, this book provides much-needed insight into a new era of parenthood.

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NYU Press

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1479801186

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The Masqueraders Series

Caprice, Mischief, Beguiled, Emerald and Sapphire, and The Gamble

By: Laura Parker

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The Masqueraders Series

Caprice, Mischief, Beguiled, Emerald and Sapphire, and The Gamble

By: Laura Parker

Five scorching-hot, suspense-filled, historical romances from “a most inventive storyteller” where deceit hides forbidden love—until the disguises come off (RT Book Reviews). In Caprice, a young widow decides on a lark to disguise herself as the mysterious Princess Soltana El Djemal—only to catch the heart of a dashing Lord who vows to discover her true identity. In Mischief, a bold young woman falls for an infamous spy while escaping Persia in 1808, but it’s when she sees him again in England that the real adventure begins. In Beguiled, a mysterious man and a desperate heiress set out to con the upper crust of nineteenth century New York—but the games they’re playing against each other are far more dangerous. In Emerald and Sapphire, a French nobleman’s secret double life as a thief is revealed—by the only woman capable of stealing his heart. And in The Gamble, a viscount masquerades as a notorious highwayman, only to discover that a woman’s heart is the hardest jewel to steal. “Laura Parker’s innovativeness and beautiful style of writing keep her a head above the rest.” —Affaire de Coeur

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Diversion Books

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1626816247

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Pale Rider

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

By: Laura Spinney

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Pale Rider

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

By: Laura Spinney

In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth -- from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted -- and often permanently altered -- global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid, and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true "lost generation." Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity.

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PublicAffairs

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1610397681

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Opening Doors: Joan Steitz and Jennifer Doudna of the RNA World

By: Laura L Mays Hoopes

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Opening Doors: Joan Steitz and Jennifer Doudna of the RNA World

By: Laura L Mays Hoopes

A dual biography of Joan Steitz and Jennifer Doudna, two women who combined successful home lives with successful careers in science.

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Lulu.com

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0359485200

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9780359485208

Leah and Candace Leap Into Spring

By: Laura Everly

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Leah and Candace Leap Into Spring

By: Laura Everly

Leah and Candace Leap Into Spring begins the first day of school at Nash Elementary after Christmas break. The girls are third graders. Frannie Lynn, the school bully, has struck again. Poor Candace! She is bearing the brunt of Frannie Lynn’s bullying this year. Leah and Candace are working hard to stay the top students in Mrs. Casey’s class. Their teacher is challenging the class with multiplication and division problems. Plus, her students will perform a play in front of the whole school, their families, and the community in March. How do Leah and Candace deal with their everyday stressors as well as unexpected challenges?

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1631356992

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Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth

Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity

By: Heather Mendick,Aisha Ahmad,Kim Allen,Laura Harvey

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Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth

Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity

By: Heather Mendick,Aisha Ahmad,Kim Allen,Laura Harvey

Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth uses the lens of celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'. Drawing on original data, the authors examine what it means for young people to be forming their aspirations within the context of 'austere meritocracy'. The book addresses three central questions: What kinds of futures do young people desire and imagine for themselves? What is required of young people in the process of achieving these futures? And how are inequalities embedded and reproduced within these? Using young people's 'celebrity talk' to explore their aspirations, the authors challenge stereotypes of young people as a fame-hungry, get-rich-quick generation. Instead, they show how young people engage critically with celebrity and its discourses. Key chapters focus on how young people talk about youth, work, authenticity, success, happiness, money and fame in relation to their own lives and those of celebrities. Each of these chapters contains a case study of an international celebrity, including, Beyoncé, Will Smith, Bill Gates, Prince Harry and Kim Kardashian. The authors conclude with possibilities for social change. They show that celebrity offers an important way of working with young people to critically explore what futures are possible and for whom.

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1474294227

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Rational Meaning

A New Foundation for the Definition of Words and Supplementary Essays

By: Laura (Riding) Jackson,Schuyler B. Jackson

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Rational Meaning

A New Foundation for the Definition of Words and Supplementary Essays

By: Laura (Riding) Jackson,Schuyler B. Jackson

Existing only in manuscript since the 1940s but enjoying an underground reputation among friends and advocates, this primary document by one of the most original and influential of American poets and thinkers is now being published as Rational Meaning, Laura (Riding) Jackson's testament of the necessity of living for truth. Begun as a dictionary and thesaurus in the 1930s, the work developed into a fundamental reevaluation of language itself. Riding, in close collaboration with her husband, continued this monumental project over the succeeding decades, completing it after his death in 1968. At the core of Rational Meaning, which aims to restore the truth of language by arguing that meaning inheres in words, stands the idea that a total renovation of the knowledge of language is needed, not to develop mere verbal sophistication and respectability but fundamentally to reinvigorate the intellectual processes of consciousness. The book reveals the disastrous extent to which language has been "unlearned" and shows how it may be learned again. Rational Meaning will be essential reading, not only for students of literature but for radical-minded linguists and lexicographers unhappy with the orthodoxies current in their disciplines.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813916828

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Misconceiving Mothers

Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure

By: Laura E. Gómez

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Misconceiving Mothers

Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure

By: Laura E. Gómez

A tiny African-American baby lies in a hospital incubator, tubes protruding from his nostrils, head, and limbs. "He couldn't take the hit," the caption warns. "If you're pregnant, don't take drugs." Ten years earlier, this billboard would have been largely unintelligible to many of us. But when it appeared in 1991, it immediately conjured up several powerful images: the helpless infant himself; his unseen environment, a newborn intensive care unit filled with babies crying inconsolably; and the mother who did this -- crack-addicted and unrepentant. Misconceiving Mothersis a case study of how public policy about reproduction and crime is made. Laura E. Goacute;mez uses secondary research and first-hand interviews with legislators and prosecutors to examine attitudes toward the criminalization and/or medicalization of drug use during pregnancy by the legislature and criminal justice system in California. She traces how an initial tendency toward criminalization gave way to a trend toward seeing the problem of "crack babies" as an issue of social welfare and public health. It is no surprise that in an atmosphere of mother-blaming, particularly targeted at poor women and women of color, "crack babies" so easily captured the American popular imagination in the late 1980s. What is surprising is the way prenatal drug exposure came to be institutionalized in the state apparatus. Goacute;mez attributes this circumstance to four interrelated causes: the gendered nature of the social problem; the recasting of the problem as fundamentally "medical" rather than "criminal"; the dynamic nature of the process of institutionalization; and the specific features of the legal institutions -- that is, the legislature and prosecutors' offices -- that became prominent in the case. At one levelMisconceiving Motherstells the story of a particular problem at a particular time and place how the California legislature and district attorneys grappled with pregnant women's drug use in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At another level, the book tells a more general story about the political nature of contemporary social problems. The story it tells is political not just because it deals with the character of political institutions but because the process itself and the nature of the claims-making concern the power to control the allocation of state resources. A number of studies have looked at how the initial criminalization of social problems takes place.Misconceiving Motherslooks at the process by which a criminalized social problem is institutionalized through the attitudes and policies of elite decision-makers. Author note: Laura E. Gomezis Acting Professor of Law and Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Temple University Press

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1566395585

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Child Development

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

In the Third Edition of the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce A. Munsch invite students to take an active journey toward understanding the latest findings from the field of child development. Using robust pedagogical tools built into the chapter narratives, students are challenged to confront myths and misconceptions, participate in real-world activities with children and independently, and utilize video resources and research tools to pursue knowledge and develop critical thinking skills on their own. This new edition covers the latest findings on developmental neuroscience, positive youth development, the role of fathers, and more, with topics of diversity and culture integrated throughout. More than a textbook, this one-of-a-kind resource will continue to serve students as they go on to graduate studies, to work with children and adolescents professionally, and to care for children of their own.

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SAGE Publications

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1506330703

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The Watsons

By: Laura Wade

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The Watsons

By: Laura Wade

What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife. Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osborne, who's as awkward as he is rich. So far so familiar. But there's a problem: Jane Austen didn't finish the story. Who will write Emma's happy ending now? Based on her incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786826372

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Hidden History of the Florida Keys

By: Laura Albritton,Jerry Wilkinson

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Hidden History of the Florida Keys

By: Laura Albritton,Jerry Wilkinson

“Seldom-told tales of the ‘lively and unusual cast of historic figures’ who helped shape the Florida Keys from the 1820s through the 1960s.”—Keys News The Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic. In the nineteenth century, uncompromising individuals fought duels and plotted political upsets. During the Civil War, a company of “Key West Avengers” escaped their Union-occupied city to join the Confederacy by sailing through the Bahamas. In the early twentieth century, black Bahamians founded a town of their own, while railway engineers went up against the U.S. Navy in a bid to complete the Overseas Railroad. When Prohibition came to the Keys, one defiant woman established a rum-running empire that dominated South Florida. Join Laura Albritton and Jerry Wilkinson as they delve into tales of treasure hunters, developers, exotic dancers, determined preservationists and more, from the colorful history of these islands. Includes photos

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439665702

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Execution IS the Strategy

How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time

By: Laura Stack

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Execution IS the Strategy

How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time

By: Laura Stack

The era of the comfy, offsite strategy retreat is over-who has the time? Beset by rapid change, leaders have to build the strategy airplane while they fly it. Agile organizations use execution (i.e., performance) to drive strategy. Laura Stack, bestselling author of What to Do When There's Too Much to Do (25,000 copies sold), provides the tools leaders need to adapt.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1609949692

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Morale and Discipline in the Royal Navy during the First World War

By: Laura Rowe

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Morale and Discipline in the Royal Navy during the First World War

By: Laura Rowe

The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108419054

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Mr Holmes’ Advent Calendar Volume 2

24 Solve-it-Yourself Christmas Crimes

By: Sebastian Frenzel,Laura Jacobi,Philip Krömer,Joseph Reinthaler

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Mr Holmes’ Advent Calendar Volume 2

24 Solve-it-Yourself Christmas Crimes

By: Sebastian Frenzel,Laura Jacobi,Philip Krömer,Joseph Reinthaler

Even in the Advent season Mr. Holmes mustn’t take a break: Murderers, blackmailers and all kinds of odd incidents keep him on the go. And Watson is not much of a help, busying himself with baking all those Christmas cookies for his dog. Mr. Holmes' Criminal Fiction Advent calendar contains 24 short detective stories that challenge your puzzle-solving skills - one for each Advent day. Follow in the famous master detective’s footsteps and use the evidence available to deduce what might have happened, find vital clues, decipher codes, check alibis and solve the crime case until the next morning when you turn the page and find Mr. Holmes’ solution and another exciting case waiting for you. A great fun for all fans of Sherlock Holmes and criminal fiction - solve the mystery and be faster than the famous detective!

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Andrews UK Limited

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1804244015

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Free Will

By: Laura Ekstrom

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Free Will

By: Laura Ekstrom

In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the conditions for free action. Ekstrom argues that incompatibilism concerning free will and causal determinism is true and thus the right account of the nature of free action must be indeterminist in nature. She examines a variety of libertarian approaches, ultimately defending an account relying on indeterministic causation among events and appealing to agent causation only in a reducible sense. Written in an engaging style and incorporating recent scholarship, this study is critical reading for scholars and students interested in the topics of motivation, causation, responsibility, and freedom. In broadly covering the important positions of others along with its exposition of the author's own view, Free Will provides both a significant scholarly contribution and a valuable text for courses in metaphysics and action theory.

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Routledge

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0429979991

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Compositional Subjects

Enfiguring Asian/American Women

By: Laura Hyun Yi Kang

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Compositional Subjects

Enfiguring Asian/American Women

By: Laura Hyun Yi Kang

In Compositional Subjects Laura Hyun Yi Kang explores the ways that Asian/American women have been figured by mutually imbricated modes of identity formation, representation, and knowledge production. Kang’s project is simultaneously interdisciplinary scholarship at its best and a critique of the very disciplinary formations she draws upon. The book opens by tracking the jagged emergence of “Asian American women” as a distinct social identity over the past three decades. Kang then directs critical attention to how the attempts to compose them as discrete subjects of consciousness, visibility, and action demonstrate a broader, ongoing tension between socially particularized subjects and disciplinary knowledges. In addition to the shifting meanings and alignments of “Asian,” “American,” and “women,” the book examines the discourses, political and economic conditions, and institutional formations that have produced Asian/American women as generic authors, as visibly desirable and desiring bodies, as excludable aliens and admissible citizens of the United States, and as the proper labor for transnational capitalism. In analyzing how these enfigurations are constructed and apprehended through a range of modes including autobiography, cinematography, historiography, photography, and ethnography, Kang directs comparative attention to the very terms of their emergence as Asian/American women in specific disciplines. Finally, Kang concludes with a detailed examination of selected literary and visual works by Korean women artists located in the United States and Canada, works that creatively and critically contend with the problematics of identification and representation that are explored throughout the book. By underscoring the forceful and contentious struggles that animate all of these compositional gestures, Kang proffers Asian/American women as a vexing and productive figure for cultural, political and epistemological critique.

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Duke University Press

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0822383519

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The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City

By: Laura Lee Hope

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The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City

By: Laura Lee Hope

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City is a delightful children's book written by Laura Lee Hope. It is part of the beloved Bobbsey Twins series. In this story, the Bobbsey Twins, Nan, Bert, Flossie, and Freddie, find themselves exploring the bustling streets and sights of a big city. The family has traveled from their hometown of Lakeport to visit their Aunt Emily in the city. As the Twins immerse themselves in the city's vibrant atmosphere, they encounter new and exciting experiences. From visiting museums and landmarks to exploring parks and riding on public transportation, the city becomes their playground. Throughout their adventures, the Bobbsey Twins meet interesting people, make new friends, and learn valuable lessons about city life. They navigate the busy streets, solve intriguing mysteries, and discover the unique charm of the city they are visiting. The book captures the Twins' sense of wonder and curiosity as they discover the city's many attractions. It emphasizes the importance of family, friendship, and teamwork as they face challenges and solve problems together. With its engaging storytelling and relatable characters, The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City offers young readers an exciting journey through the wonders of urban life. It sparks their imagination, encourages exploration, and teaches valuable lessons about diversity, adaptability, and embracing new experiences.

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The American Stamp

Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States

By: Laura Goldblatt,Richard Handler

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The American Stamp

Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States

By: Laura Goldblatt,Richard Handler

More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp collecting a widespread hobby and made stamps into consumer goods in their own right. Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. They argue that postage stamps, which are both devices to pay for a government service and purchasable items themselves, embody a crucial tension: is democracy defined by political agency or the freedom to buy? The changing images and uses of stamps reveal how governmental authorities have attempted to navigate between public service and businesslike efficiency, belonging and exclusion, citizenship and consumerism. Stamps are vehicles for state messaging, and what they depict is tied up with broader questions of what it means to be American. Goldblatt and Handler combine historical, sociological, and iconographic analysis of a vast quantity of stamps with anthropological exploration of how postal customers and stamp collectors behave. At the crossroads of several disciplines, this book casts the symbolic and material meanings of stamps in a wholly new light.

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Columbia University Press

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0231557337

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Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]

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

By: Laura L. Finley

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Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]

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

By: Laura L. Finley

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

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440874131

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Laughing at the Devil

Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich

By: Amy Laura Hall

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Laughing at the Devil

Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich

By: Amy Laura Hall

Laughing at the Devil is an invitation to see the world with a medieval visionary now known as Julian of Norwich, believed to be the first woman to have written a book in English. (We do not know her given name, because she became known by the name of a church that became her home.) Julian “saw our Lord scorn [the Devil's] wickedness” and noted that “he wants us to do the same.” In this impassioned, analytic, and irreverent book, Amy Laura Hall emphasizes Julian's call to scorn the Devil. Julian of Norwich envisioned courage during a time of fear. Laughing at the Devil describes how a courageous woman transformed a setting of dread into hope, solidarity, and resistance.

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Duke University Press

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1478002107

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Solaris Rising 3

The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction

By: Benjanun Sriduangkaew,Ken Liu,Laura Lam

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Solaris Rising 3

The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction

By: Benjanun Sriduangkaew,Ken Liu,Laura Lam

FEATURING NEW WRITING BY Benjanun Sriduangkaew // Chris Beckett // Julie E. Czerneda // Ken Liu // Tony Ballantyne // Sean Williams // Laura Lam // Aliette de Bodard // Ian Watson // Gareth L. Powell // Nina Allan // Adam Roberts // George Zebrowski // Cat Sparks // Rachel Swirsky // Benjamin Rosenbaum // Alex Dally MacFarlane // Ian R. MacLeod & Martin Sketchley Award-nominated editor Ian Whates showcases the best in contemporary science fiction, celebrating new writing by a roster of diverse and exciting authors. Here you will discover how this ‘literature of ideas’ produces stories of astonishing imagination and incisive speculation. Solaris Rising 3 thrillingly demonstrates why science fiction is the most relevant, daring and progressive of genres.

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1849977674

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Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement

An Introduction to Practice

By: James C. McDavid,Irene Huse,Laura R. L. Hawthorn

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Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement

An Introduction to Practice

By: James C. McDavid,Irene Huse,Laura R. L. Hawthorn

Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement offers a conceptual and practical introduction to program evaluation and performance measurement for public and non-profit organizations. James C. McDavid, Irene Huse, and Laura R.L. Hawthorn discuss topics in a detailed fashion, making it a useful guide for practitioners who are constructing and implementing performance measurement systems, as well as for students. Woven into the chapters is the performance management cycle in organizations, which includes: strategic planning and resource allocation; program and policy design; implementation and management; and the assessment and reporting of results. The Third Edition has been revised to highlight and integrate the current economic, political, and socio-demographic context within which evaluators are expected to work, and includes new exemplars including the evaluation of body-worn police cameras.

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SAGE Publications

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1506337058

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Membranes

Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics

By: Laura Otis

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Membranes

Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics

By: Laura Otis

Defying the traditional boundary between science and the humanities, she concludes by proposing a notion of identity based on relations and connections.

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JHU Press

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0801865271

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Interdisciplinary Research Journeys

Practical Strategies for Capturing Creativity

By: Catherine Lyall,Ann Bruce,Joyce Tait,Laura Meagher

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Interdisciplinary Research Journeys

Practical Strategies for Capturing Creativity

By: Catherine Lyall,Ann Bruce,Joyce Tait,Laura Meagher

Interdisciplinarity' has become a rallying cry among funders and leaders of research. Yet, while the creative potential of interdisciplinary research is great, it poses many challenges. This book provides a practical guide to interdisciplinary research: to help build interdisciplinary skills and mobilise a new and growing research community.

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FT Press

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184966014X

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Agency And Responsiblity

Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

By: Laura Ekstrom

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Agency And Responsiblity

Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

By: Laura Ekstrom

A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study, this new anthology collects influential essays on free will, including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work. Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom is divided into three parts. The essays in the first section address metaphysical issues concerning free will and causal determinism. The second section groups papers presenting a positive account of the nature of free action, including competing compatibilist and incompatibilist analyses. The third section concerns free will and moral responsibility, including theories of moral responsibility and the challenge to an alternative possibilities condition posed by Frankurt-type scenarios. Distinguished by its balance and consistently high quality, the volume presents papers selected for their significance, innovation, and clarity of expression. Contributors include Harry Frankfurt, Peter van Inwagen, David Lewis, Elizabeth Anscombe, John Martin Fischer, Michael Bratman, Roderick Chisholm, Robert Kane, Peter Strawson, and Susan Wolf. The anthology serves as an up-to-date resource for scholars as well as a useful text for courses in ethics, philosophy of religion, or metaphysics. In addition, paired with Free Will: A Philosophical Study, it would form an excellent upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course in free will, responsibility, motivation, or action theory.

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Routledge

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0429982062

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The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation

Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England

By: Laura Saetveit Miles

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The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation

Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England

By: Laura Saetveit Miles

An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843845342

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Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding

By: Scott Lilienfeld,Steven Jay Lynn,Laura Namy,Nancy Woolf,Graham Jamieson,Anthony Marks,Virginia Slaughter

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Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding

By: Scott Lilienfeld,Steven Jay Lynn,Laura Namy,Nancy Woolf,Graham Jamieson,Anthony Marks,Virginia Slaughter

Psychology: from inquiry to understanding 2e continues its commitment to emphasise the importance of scientific-thinking skills. It teaches students how to test their assumptions, and motivates them to use scientific thinking skills to better understand the field of psychology in their everyday lives. With leading classic and contemporary research from both Australia and abroad and referencing DSM-5, students will understand the global nature of psychology in the context of Australia’s cultural landscape.

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Pearson Higher Education AU

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1486016405

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Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory

Text and Readings

By: Scott Appelrouth,Laura Desfor Edles

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Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory

Text and Readings

By: Scott Appelrouth,Laura Desfor Edles

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Now available for the first time in print and e-book formats Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings offers students with the best of both worlds—carefully-edited excerpts from the original works of sociology′s key thinkers accompanied by an analytical framework that discusses the lives, ideas, and historical circumstances of each theorist. This unique format enables students to examine, compare, and contrast each theorist’s major themes and concepts. In the Fourth Edition of this bestseller, examples from contemporary life and a rich variety of updated pedagogical tools (tables, figures, discussion questions, and photographs) come together to illuminate complex ideas for today’s readers. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.

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154435858X

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Advances in Genomic Sequence Analysis and Pattern Discovery

By: Laura Elnitski,Helen Piontkivska,Lonnie R. Welch

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Advances in Genomic Sequence Analysis and Pattern Discovery

By: Laura Elnitski,Helen Piontkivska,Lonnie R. Welch

Mapping the genomic landscapes is one of the most exciting frontiers of science. We have the opportunity to reverse engineer the blueprints and the control systems of living organisms. Computational tools are key enablers in the deciphering process. This book provides an in-depth presentation of some of the important computational biology approaches to genomic sequence analysis. The first section of the book discusses methods for discovering patterns in DNA and RNA. This is followed by the second section that reflects on methods in various ways, including performance, usage and paradigms.

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World Scientific

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9814327727

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