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A Midwife's Tale

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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A Midwife's Tale

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review). Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.

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Vintage

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0307772985

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Who Will Lament Her?

The Feminine and the Fantastic in the Book of Nahum

By: Laurel Lanner

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Who Will Lament Her?

The Feminine and the Fantastic in the Book of Nahum

By: Laurel Lanner

It is not surprising that non-academic bible readers largely ignore Nahum. Comprising only a few pages, it is easily overlooked in the midst of the twelve Minor Prophets. When a reader does stop in passing, the book appears to be brief, brutish, and uncomfortably violent. Looking more closely, however, readers may observe echoes of other much greater prophets, such as Isaiah and Ezekiel, perhaps even of the Psalms, and conclude that the book is a rather second-rate pastiche of other writings, although some rather brilliant poetry is woven into it. Who Will Lament Her? takes a fresh look at Nahum. It explores further the presence of the feminine in the book of Nahum, the extent to which it is present in the text, how the structure of the text makes the feminine both present and absent, and the possible reasons why this is so. Lanner takes two methodological approaches. The first sets out to show that it is possible that a feminine deity is present in the text of Nahum. The second approach engages three theories of the literary fantastic with the text, taking into consideration the findings of the historical and exegetical work. Using these two approaches hand in hand results in a fresh reading of Nahum.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0567543978

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9780567543974

Love Inspired September 2021 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Pamela Desmond Wright,Laurel Blount,Heidi McCahan

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Love Inspired September 2021 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Pamela Desmond Wright,Laurel Blount,Heidi McCahan

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: THE COWBOY’S AMISH HAVEN By Pamela Desmond Wright With three sisters to look after and her family ranch falling into foreclosure, Gail Schroder turns to her childhood sweetheart, Levi Wyse, to help her learn the cattle business. But can the cowboy teach this Amish spinster the ropes in time to save her home? LOST AND FOUND FAITH By Laurel Blount Changed by the grief of losing his wife, Neil Hamilton’s no longer the caring teacher he once was—until a two-year-old boy shows up on his doorstep and opens his heart. Helping little Oliver bond with his adoptive mother, Maggie Byrne, might just restore Neil’s faith…and give him hope for the future. THE BULL RIDER’S FRESH START By Heidi McCahan After former champion bull rider Landon Chambers’s friends are killed in a car accident, the baby they were temporarily caring for needs him. But when Kelsey Sinclair returns from her deployment to claim her daughter, he’s shocked to learn he’s the father…and he’s not ready to let either of them go. For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired September 2021 Box Set – 1 of 2

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Harlequin

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0369715799

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9780369715791

Tangible Things

Making History Through Objects

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,Ivan Gaskell,Sara Schechner,Sarah Anne Carter

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Tangible Things

Making History Through Objects

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,Ivan Gaskell,Sara Schechner,Sarah Anne Carter

In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, arguing that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past."--Provided by publisher.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019938228X

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Integrative Wellness Coaching

A Handbook for Therapists and Counsellors

By: Laurel Alexander

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Integrative Wellness Coaching

A Handbook for Therapists and Counsellors

By: Laurel Alexander

By presenting a holistic and integrated health and wellbeing approach to personalised care through wellness coaching, this handbook provides theory, insights, best practice, case studies and CPD activities in order to deepen practitioners' knowledge and experience. Integrative wellness is about working in collaboration and is a partnership between the professional and the patient with the latter understanding that they can take as much control as is possible for their own health and wellbeing. This book helps form this collaboration by exploring the co-creation of personalised care plans, effective coaching skills and cognitive-behavioural interventions including motivational coaching for patient activation, as well as flexible ways to provide wellness coaching. Exploring how the mind-body connection can improve the patient's journey, Integrative Wellness Coaching is an invaluable guide for any healthcare practitioner who wants to embrace their patients' lifestyle choices and mindsets towards their own health.

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Singing Dragon

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1839970901

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9781839970900

The Partisan Gap

Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't

By: Laurel Elder

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The Partisan Gap

Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't

By: Laurel Elder

WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades. In The Partisan Gap, Elder examines why this disparity in women’s representation exists, and why it’s only going to get worse. Drawing on interviews with female office-holders, candidates, and committee members, she takes a look at what it is like to be a woman in each party. From party culture and ideology, to candidate recruitment and the makeup of regional biases, Elder shows the factors contributing to this harmful partisan gap, and what can be done to address it in the future. The Partisan Gap explores the factors that help, and hinder, women’s political representation.

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NYU Press

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1479804843

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9781479804849

Renegade Lawyer

The Life of J.L. Cohen

By: Laurel Sefton MacDowell

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Renegade Lawyer

The Life of J.L. Cohen

By: Laurel Sefton MacDowell

Though Cohen rose to the top of his profession, he had a difficult, complex private life that contributed to his personal disgrace and professional downfall.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802085601

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Manual of Grasses for North America

By: Mary E. Barkworth,Laurel K. Anderton,Kathleen M. Capels,Sandy Long,Michael B. Piep

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Manual of Grasses for North America

By: Mary E. Barkworth,Laurel K. Anderton,Kathleen M. Capels,Sandy Long,Michael B. Piep

Grasses are the world’s most important plants. They are the dominant species over large parts of the earth’s land surface, a fact that is reflected in the many different words that exist for grasslands, words such as prairie, veldt, palouse, and pampas to mention just a few. As a group, grasses are of major ecological importance, as soil binders and providers of shelter and food for wild animals, both large and small. Some grasses, such as wheat, rice, corn, barley, rye, tef, and sugar cane are major sources of calories for humans and their livestock; others, primarily bamboos, are used for construction, tools, paper, and fabric. More recently, the seed catalogs that tantalize gardeners each winter have borne witness to an increasing appreciation of the aesthetic value of grasses. The Manual of Grasses for North America is designed as a successor to the classic volume by Hitchcock and Chase. It reflects current taxonomic thought and includes keys, illustrations, and distribution maps for the nearly 900 native and 400 introduced species that have been found in North America north of Mexico. In addition, it presents keys and illustrations for several species that are known only in cultivation or are of major agricultural significance, either as progenitors of bread wheat and corn or as a major threat to North American agriculture because of their ability to hybridize with crop species. The Manual of Grasses for North America is a major reference work for grasses that will retain its value for many years.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457180987

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An Environmental History of Canada

By: Laurel Sefton MacDowell

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An Environmental History of Canada

By: Laurel Sefton MacDowell

Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness – with abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada’s contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images – deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from first peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about – and look at – Canada.

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UBC Press

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0774821035

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9780774821032

Buried by the Times

The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper

By: Laurel Leff

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Buried by the Times

The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper

By: Laurel Leff

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Cambridge University Press

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0521812879

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Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF

South Korean Popular Religion in Motion

By: Laurel Kendall

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Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF

South Korean Popular Religion in Motion

By: Laurel Kendall

Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the necessity of writing about them in the present tense. Shamans thrive in South Korea’s high-rise cities, working with clients who are largely middle class and technologically sophisticated. Emphasizing the shaman’s work as open and mutable, Kendall describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing. For most of the last century Korean shamans were reviled as practitioners of antimodern superstition; today they are nostalgically celebrated icons of a vanished rural world. Such superstition and tradition occupy flip sides of modernity’s coin—the one by confuting, the other by obscuring, the beating heart of shamanic practice. Kendall offers a lively account of shamans, who once ministered to the domestic crises of farmers, as they address the anxieties of entrepreneurs whose dreams of wealth are matched by their omnipresent fears of ruin. Money and access to foreign goods provoke moral dilemmas about getting and spending; shamanic rituals express these through the longings of the dead and the playful antics of greedy gods, some of whom have acquired a taste for imported whiskey. No other book-length study captures the tension between contemporary South Korean life and the contemporary South Korean shamans’ work. Kendall’s familiarity with the country and long association with her subjects permit nuanced comparisons between a 1970s "then" and recent encounters—some with the same shamans and clients—as South Korea moved through the 1990s, endured the Asian Financial Crisis, and entered the new millennium. She approaches her subject through multiple anthropological lenses such that readers interested in religion, ritual performance, healing, gender, landscape, material culture, modernity, and consumption will find much of interest here.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824833430

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9780824833435

The Linguistic Structure of Modern English

By: Laurel J. Brinton,Donna M. Brinton

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The Linguistic Structure of Modern English

By: Laurel J. Brinton,Donna M. Brinton

This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The emphasis is on empirical facts of English rather than any particular theory of linguistics; the text does not assume any background in language or linguistics. In this newly revised edition numerous example sentences are taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. A full glossary of key terms, an additional chapter on pedagogy and new sections on cognitive semantics and politeness have been added. Other changes include: completely updated print references; web links to sites of special interest and relevance; and a revised, reader-friendly layout. A companion website that includes a complete workbook with self-testing exercises and a comprehensive list of web links accompanies the book. The website can be found at the following address: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.156.workbook Students completing the text and workbook will acquire: a knowledge of the sound system of contemporary English; an understanding of the formation of English words; a comprehension of the structure of both simple and complex sentence in English; a recognition of complexities in the expression of meaning; an understanding of the context and function of use upon the structure of the language; and an appreciation of the importance of linguistic knowledge to the teaching of English to first and second-language learners. Laurel J. Brinton is Professor of English Language at the University of British Columbia. Donna M. Brinton is Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. The Linguistic Structure of Modern English is a revised edition of The Structure of Modern English by Laurel J. Brinton (2000).

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027288240

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9789027288240

Set Them Free

The Other Side of Exodus

By: Laurel Dykstra

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Set Them Free

The Other Side of Exodus

By: Laurel Dykstra

A fresh look at the Exodus story that opens our eyes to injustice in today's world.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725235021

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9781725235021

A Small Town's Legacies

By: Laurel Collins

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A Small Town's Legacies

By: Laurel Collins

A Small Town's Legacies takes the reader on an historical journey that begins in the 1700s with early settlers building homesteads in the swampy wilderness of Northwest Pennsylvania. Their experiences of hardships, ingenuity, and bravery enabled these stalwart people to survive and create a thriving community first known as Coniot. The early residents of Espyville and the generations that followed adopted resourcefulness that allowed them to implement ideas new to the American way of life. A century and a half before Pymatuning Lake put Espyville on the map, the inhabitants had already established their imprint on America. This is the story of the people who chose to live in a small town in America and the legacies they entrusted to future generations.

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Page Publishing Inc

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166247119X

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9781662471193

Untold Lives

The First Generation of American Women Psychologists

By: Elizabeth Scarborough,Laurel Furumoto

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Untold Lives

The First Generation of American Women Psychologists

By: Elizabeth Scarborough,Laurel Furumoto

The presence of women psychologists has largely been blotted out of historical accounts of the discipline. "Untold Lives" explores why this has occurred and champions the cause of writing women into history by reconstructing the lives of twenty-five pioneering women psychologists in America. Providing a detailed examination of several gender-specific issues, the authors describe several ways in which the experiences of this group of women differed from those of their male counterparts. Each of five early chapters tells the story of one woman whose life or career vividly exemplifies a particular theme: institutional barriers to graduate education, obligations of a daughter to her family, the marriage versus career dilemma, limited employment opportunities, and discrimination by male colleagues. The book concludes with a collective portrait of this first generation and cameos that highlight their unique experiences. -- From publisher's description.

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Columbia University Press

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0231051557

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9780231051552

Just Writing

Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer

By: Anne Enquist,Laurel Currie Oates,Jeremy Francis

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Just Writing

Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer

By: Anne Enquist,Laurel Currie Oates,Jeremy Francis

Just Writing covers the basic principles of good legal writing — including style, grammar, and punctuation — and demonstrates them through numerous examples. The text provides legal writers of all experience levels with tips, techniques, and helpful advice for every step of the process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. However, Just Writing goes further, guiding students to eloquence in concise legal prose. The text provides valuable resources for English-as-a-Second-Language students and teachers.

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Aspen Publishing

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1454888075

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9781454888079

Well Worth Saving

By: Laurel Leff

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Well Worth Saving

By: Laurel Leff

A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Nazi-dominated Europe. The United States' role in saving Europe's intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap and Richard Courant, among hundreds of other physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, chemists, and linguists who transformed the American academy. Yet for every scholar who survived and thrived, many, many more did not. To be hired by an American university, a refugee scholar had to be world-class and well connected, not too old and not too young, not too right and not too left and, most important, not too Jewish. Those who were unable to flee were left to face the horrors of the Holocaust. In this rigorously researched book, Laurel Leff rescues from obscurity scholars who were deemed "not worth saving" and tells the riveting, full story of the hiring decisions universities made during the Nazi era."--Provided by publisher.

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Yale University Press

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0300243871

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9780300243871

The Logics of Gender Justice

State Action on Women's Rights Around the World

By: Mala Htun,S. Laurel Weldon

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The Logics of Gender Justice

State Action on Women's Rights Around the World

By: Mala Htun,S. Laurel Weldon

This book explains when and why governments around the world take action to advance - or undermine - women's rights.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108417566

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9781108417563

Spark Your Imagination Picture Book Bundle

By: David Weale,Anne Laurel Carter,Kit Pearson,Katherine Farris,Bree Galbraith,Troy Wilson,Dominique Demers,Carolyn Beck

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Spark Your Imagination Picture Book Bundle

By: David Weale,Anne Laurel Carter,Kit Pearson,Katherine Farris,Bree Galbraith,Troy Wilson,Dominique Demers,Carolyn Beck

This curated collection of picture books is sure to spark the imaginations of readers of all ages. Immerse yourself in these wonderful tales of creative inventions, out-of-this world adventures, clever friends and unexpected heroes. This ebook bundle includes: Doors in the Air by David Weale and Pierre Pratt The Magic Boat by Kit Pearson, Katherine Farris and Gabrielle Grimard Night Boy by Anne Laurel Carter and Ninon Pelletier Once Upon a Balloon by Bree Galbraith and Isabelle Malenfant Perfect Man by Troy Wilson and Dean Griffiths Richard Was a Picker by Carolyn Beck and Ben Hodson Today, Maybe by Dominique Demers and Gabrielle Grimard

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Orca Book Publishers

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1459824253

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9781459824256

Shopping Cart Filled with Love

By: Laurel & Nick Salupo

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Shopping Cart Filled with Love

By: Laurel & Nick Salupo

Nick and Laurel Salupo currently live in Newburgh Heights Ohio. Laurel is a housewife, freelance writer, and child care provider. Nick is a writing instructor and Adjunct Faculty at Western and Metro Campuses of Tri-C. They are working on two more fictional novels that should be completed in the near future.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469191911

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9781469191911

Hut to Hut USA

The Complete Guide for Hikers, Bikers, and Skiers

By: Laurel Bradley

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Hut to Hut USA

The Complete Guide for Hikers, Bikers, and Skiers

By: Laurel Bradley

2023 Independent Publisher Book Award GOLD in Travel Guidebooks Overview of sixteen complete systems (three or more huts) with all you need to know to plan a trip—from terrain to costs and other logistics At-a-glance tables for quick comparison of hut systems Full-color photos and detailed maps Hut to Hut USA celebrates the opportunities for hut-tohut hiking, mountain biking, and skiing or snowshoeing at sixteen hut systems across the United States—from the Appalachian Mountain Club’s hiking huts in the White Mountains, to the San Juan Huts that allow mountain bikers to pedal from Telluride or Durango to Moab, to the Rendezvous Huts for Nordic skiers in Washington’s Methow Valley. For the featured systems, the book describes modes of travel, amenities, quality of experience, terrain, required skill level, the route itself, wayfinding tips, and booking and cost details, with photographs and maps. Suggested day-by-day itineraries with mileages, elevation gain and loss, and hut GPS coordinates help adventurers craft their trip. Demas and Bradley also offer a general history of hut systems around the world and examine how they have developed in the US over the past century. This comprehensive, practical guidebook is the first to cover all of the US hut systems, meeting growing interest in hut-tohut travel.

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Mountaineers Books

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1680512692

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9781680512694

Janette Oke

A Heart for the Prairie

By: Laurel Oke Logan

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Janette Oke

A Heart for the Prairie

By: Laurel Oke Logan

Written by her daughter, Laurel Oke Logan, this book offers intimate glimpses into the life and heritage of author Janette Oke. An ordinary woman with extraordinary gifts, Janette grew up on the Canadian prairie to eventually become the wife of a pastor and educator, the mother of four grown children, a grandmother who delights in her grandchildren--and one of the best known and love Christian novelists of our time. You'll discover how the strength of family connections and spiritual values have shaped her life and permeate her novels from the first, Love Comes Softly, to her most recent.

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Baker Books

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1441261850

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9781441261854

Dust Thou Art

By: Laurel Elizabeth Keyes

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Dust Thou Art

By: Laurel Elizabeth Keyes

This book is about Laurel Keyes own experiences growing up on a high plains ranch, and stories of those family members, friends and neighbors from whom she learned decency, kindness, strength and character.Those pioneers could not have been plunged into a vast, rugged land of beauty and hardship without courage and drama having been a part of their lives, and often they held secrets which were revealed only through death.Laurel writes of rich and passionate stories of courage and hope in a most difficult and wonderful period of our history. She gives credit not only to the valiant spirit of the majority of the people, especially the women, who came West and lived here, but to help you recapture the feeling of the world they knewtheir sufferings and endurance, their humor and faith, the every-day living which brought people from oxen-drawn covered wagons to men on the moon in less than one century. The most incredible century in all history, the most discoveries, innovations, fantastic developments which we accept today as a springboard into an even greater futureâbegan with people such as these.

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Gentle Living Publications

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0979086191

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9780979086199

Computers as Theatre

By: Brenda Laurel

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Computers as Theatre

By: Brenda Laurel

Brenda Laurel's Computers as Theatre revolutionized the field of human-computer interaction, offering ideas that inspired generations of interface and interaction designers-and continue to inspire them. Laurel's insight was that effective interface design, like effective drama, must engage the user directly in an experience involving both thought and emotion. Her practical conclusion was that a user's enjoyment must be a paramount design consideration, and this demands a deep awareness of dramatic theory and technique, both ancient and modern. Now, two decades later, Laurel has revised and revamped her influential work, reflecting back on enormous change and personal experience and forward toward emerging technologies and ideas that will transform human-computer interaction yet again. Beginning with a clear analysis of classical drama theory, Laurel explores new territory through the lens of dramatic structure and purpose. Computers as Theatre, Second Edition, is directed to a far wider audience, is written more simply and elegantly, is packed with new examples, and is replete with exciting and important new ideas. This book Draws lessons from massively multiplayer online games and systems, social networks, and mobile devices with embedded sensors Integrates values-driven design as a key principle Integrates key ideas about virtual reality Covers new frontiers, including augmented reality, distributed and participatory sensing, interactive public installations and venues, and design for emergence Once more, Brenda Laurel will help you see the connection between humans and computers as you never have before-and help you build interfaces and interactions that are pleasurably, joyously right!

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Pearson Education

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0321918622

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9780321918628

Doing Sociolinguistics

A practical guide to data collection and analysis

By: Miriam Meyerhoff,Erik Schleef,Laurel MacKenzie

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Doing Sociolinguistics

A practical guide to data collection and analysis

By: Miriam Meyerhoff,Erik Schleef,Laurel MacKenzie

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It offers students the opportunity to engage directly with some of the foundational and more innovative work being done in the quantitative or variationist paradigm. Divided into sixteen short chapters, Doing Sociolinguistics: can be used as a core text in class or as an easy reference whilst undertaking research walks readers through the different phases of a sociolinguistic project, providing all the knowledge and skills students will need to conduct their own analyses of language features excerpts from key research articles; exercises with real data from the authors’ own research; sample answers to the exercises; and further reading is supported by the Routledge Sociolinguistics Companion website (www.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff) which features further online exercises with sound files. Designed to function as both a core text for methods classes in sociolinguistics and as a companion to the Routledge textbook Introducing Sociolinguistics, this book will be essential reading for all students studying and researching in this area.

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Routledge

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1317527135

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A House Full of Females

Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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A House Full of Females

Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination. A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.

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0307742121

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Beyond Monotheism

A Theology of Multiplicity

By: Laurel Schneider

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Beyond Monotheism

A Theology of Multiplicity

By: Laurel Schneider

Beyond Monotheism is an absorbing and lyrical exploration of the possibility of a new, living theology of multiplicity that is grounded in fluidity, change and incarnation.

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Routledge

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1135947821

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The Age of Homespun

Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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The Age of Homespun

Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history. In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history.

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0307416860

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Give Me Children Or I Shall Die

Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature

By: Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor

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Give Me Children Or I Shall Die

Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature

By: Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor

In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, children's labor contributes to the family's livelihood from a young age, rather than simply preparing the child for future adult work. Ethnographic research shows that this interdependent family life contrasts significantly with that of privileged modern Westerners, for whom children are dependents. This text seeks to look beyond the dominant cultural constructions of childhood in the modern West and the moral rhetoric that accompanies them so as to uncover what biblical texts intend to communicate when they utilize children as literary tropes in their own social, cultural, and historical context.

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Fortress Press

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1451465637

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Legal Writing Handbook

Analysis, Research, and Writing

By: Laurel Currie Oates,Anne Enquist,Jeremy Francis

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Legal Writing Handbook

Analysis, Research, and Writing

By: Laurel Currie Oates,Anne Enquist,Jeremy Francis

With the authors’ effective step-by-step approach, The Legal Writing Handbook:Analysis, Research, and Writing walks students through each of the stages of the writing process from pre-writing, drafting, and editing, to the final draft. A leading text for generations of law students, the Eighth Edition gives students a head start as they move into practice. The Legal Writing Handbook offers a complete resource on legal writing. Part I provides students with an introduction to the U.S. Legal System; Part II gives an overview of legal research, with both an introduction to sources and to research strategies; Part III introduces students to predictive memos, e-memos, and client letters; Part IV covers motion briefs; Part V offers an overview of appellate briefs; Part VI introduces oral advocacy; Part VII is a guide to effective writing; Part VIII is a guide to correct writing; and Part IX focuses on the needs of ESL writers. With a new streamlined organization and completely updated content, this is the only book on legal writing students will ever need. New to the Eighth Edition: Streamlined organization with chapters focused on key topics New appendix with easy reference to all the Quick Tips to improve legal writing Updated and added discussion throughout the book on the role of bias in legal language and argumentation A new chapter introducing rhetoric and bias Professors and student will benefit from: Given the breadth of coverage, the book can be easily adapted for two-, three-, or four-semester programs. Multiple examples and sample documents—this text demystifies legal writing. Helpful overview of the American legal system Step-by-step instruction on how to write formal memos, e-memos, and opinion letters Step-by-step instruction on how to write motion and appellate briefs In-depth instruction on how to write and edit effectively and correctly Resources for ESL law students With online Connected Coursebook access, students receive additional exercises with sample answers and other helpful resources.

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1543830420

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9781543830422

The Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line 2018

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart,Ritchey Halphen

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The Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line 2018

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart,Ritchey Halphen

Your no-nonsense, consumer-oriented guide to Disney's Cruise Line The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line by with Erin Foster, Laurel Stewart, and Ritchey Halphen describes the best of Disney's ships and itineraries, including a couple of stellar restaurants, top-notch children's activities, and Castaway Cay, one of the best vacation islands in the Caribbean. The book also lists which on-board entertainment and restaurants should be skipped, including recommendations on what to do instead. Along the way, this indispensable travel companion shows how to save money, choose the right stateroom, ship, and itinerary, and how to get to and from the cruise with ease. The guide also provides full coverage of the Disney-run European river cruises and includes itinerary and port guides.

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The Unofficial Guides

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1628090804

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9781628090802

The Eagle and the Lion

A Matter of Honor

By: Laurel Robinson

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The Eagle and the Lion

A Matter of Honor

By: Laurel Robinson

The Eagle and the Lion” is a vintage tale of adventure, love, adversity, and life's challenges and rewards. The sequel to "A Strange Turn of Fortune, this novel, "A Matter of Honor" is the second volume in the six-book series. It tells the further adventures of John and Anne Hamilton and their closest friends, Daniel and Hannah Browne. This volume chronicles their journey from England to Virginia where the reader is introduces to a new cast of characters who will play significant roles in future volumes. Forced to return to England, John and Anne are, once again, brought into close association with foes who would see their love torn apart.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669855902

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9781669855903

Getting Married in Korea

Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity

By: Laurel Kendall

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Getting Married in Korea

Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity

By: Laurel Kendall

This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues—identity, romantic love, women’s work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremonies—Laurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century. Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing both working-class and middle-class couples, matchmakers, purveyors of dowry goods, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women’s magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men. The book is also a reflection on what it means to write “Korea” in a complex and ever changing social milieu.

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Univ of California Press

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0520202007

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9780520202009

Just Memos

Preparing for Practice

By: Anne Enquist,Laurel Currie Oates

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Just Memos

Preparing for Practice

By: Anne Enquist,Laurel Currie Oates

Expert overview of the features unique to memo writing and how to effectively translate skills to practice Focusing on the process of writing both formal and less formal legal memos, Just Memos employs the same accessible approach that makes the authors’ flagship title, The Legal Writing Handbook, a perennial bestseller. Just Memos will help students transition from academic writing to legal writing with an introduction to the U.S. legal system, legal research, and legal analysis and reading. In addition, this concise text walks students through the process of writing predictive memos, e-memos, and opinion letters. New to the Sixth Edition: Added coverage of the basics of legal research Meticulously updated and edited throughout Professors and students will benefit from: Helpful overview of the U.S. legal system Step-by-step instruction on how to write formal memos, e-memos, and opinion letters Numerous examples, including examples of completed memos Provides unique coverage of memo writing by itself, for students who need extra help and guidance, or for professors who want to add extra coverage of this area to their current legal writing text.

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1543839606

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9781543839609

Mark and Empire

Feminist Reflections

By: Laurel Cobb

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Mark and Empire

Feminist Reflections

By: Laurel Cobb

The journey to Galilee, where Mark's Jesus said he would meet us, lies open on roads across the globe."
Laurel Cobb's career of social work and advocacy on behalf of the disadvantaged in emerging countries around the globe inform this powerful book on the Gospel of Mark. Cobb combines academic insights into scripture with personal experiences of social inequities and a strongly articulated argument for resistance against Empire (then and now) as a crucial component of any life of Christian discipleship.
Using her personal experiences of faith, economic struggle in the face of a globalized consumer culture dictated from the United States, and gender inequality, Cobb asks the reader to view one's own responsibilities to a world in need of resistance against imperial power in all its forms through the lens of Mark's Gospel; such reisitance is needed today as much as when Jesus stood against Empire twenty centuries ago.

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Orbis Books

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1608333205

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9781608333202

Unyielding Hope (When Hope Calls Book #1)

By: Janette Oke,Laurel Oke Logan

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Unyielding Hope (When Hope Calls Book #1)

By: Janette Oke,Laurel Oke Logan

As a young girl, Lillian Walsh lost both her parents and a younger sister. Now in her twenties, after enduring the death of her adoptive mother, Lillian must find her place in the world. Just as her adoptive father is leaving for an extended trip to his native Wales, a lawyer appears at the door to inform Lillian that she has inherited a small estate from her birth parents--and that the sister she had long believed dead is likely alive. When she discovers that her sister, Grace, is living in a city not far away, Lillian rushes to a reunion, fearful that the years of separation will make it hard to reconnect. When the two sisters meet, Grace is not at all what Lillian expected to find. Though her circumstances have been difficult, Grace has big dreams. Can Lillian set aside her own plans to join her sister in an adventure that will surely change them both?

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Baker Books

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1493425153

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9781493425150

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