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Belly Full

Exploring Caribbean Cuisine through 11 Fundamental Ingredients and over 100 Recipes [A Cookbook]

By: Lesley Enston

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Belly Full

Exploring Caribbean Cuisine through 11 Fundamental Ingredients and over 100 Recipes [A Cookbook]

By: Lesley Enston

A delectable exploration of Caribbean cuisine through 105 recipes based on eleven staple ingredients, featuring powerful insights into the shared history of the diaspora and gorgeous photography. “Lesley’s recipes inspire in the ways they approach, transcend, and unify cultural boundaries on page after delicious page.”—Hawa Hassan, author of In Bibi’s Kitchen Across the English-speaking Caribbean, “me belly full” can mean more than just a satisfied stomach, but a heart and soul that’s full too. In Belly Full, food writer of Trinidadian descent Lesley Enston brings us into the overlapping histories of the Caribbean islands through their rich cultures and cuisines. Eleven staple ingredients—beans, calabaza, cassava, chayote, coconut, cornmeal, okra, plantains, rice, salted cod, and scotch bonnet peppers—hold echoes of familiarity from one island to the next, and their widespread use comes in part from the harrowing impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade and colonialism. As Lesley delves into how history shaped each country and territory’s cuisine, she shows us what we can learn from each island (such as Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, and Cuba) and encourages us to celebrate the delicious differences. Belly Full provides basic knowledge on choosing, storing, and preparing these ingredients as well as a mix of traditional and creative adaptations to dishes. Recipes are mostly gluten-free and plant-based and include: • Cornmeal: Pen Mayi from Haiti and Conkies from Barbados • Okra: Callaloo from Trinidad and Tobago and Fungee from Antigua • Plantains: Mofongo from Puerto Rico and Tortilla de Plátano Maduro from Cuba • Salted Cod: Ackee and Saltfish from Jamaica and Accras de Morue from Martinique Belly Full, with its breadth of stories, recipes, and stunning photography, will leave your stomach and heart more than satisfied.

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Ten Speed Press

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1984861824

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9781984861825

A Mother's Love

Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France

By: Lesley H. Walker

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A Mother's Love

Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France

By: Lesley H. Walker

Chronicles the emergence of an idealized mother figure whose reforming zeal sought to make French society more just. This book contends that this attempt during the eighteenth century to rewrite social relations in terms of greater social equality represents an important but overlooked strand of Enlightenment thought.

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Associated University Presse

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0838756859

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9780838756850

Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine

An Introduction

By: Lesley A. Colby,Megan H. Nowland,Lucy H. Kennedy

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Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine

An Introduction

By: Lesley A. Colby,Megan H. Nowland,Lucy H. Kennedy

The revised fifth edition of Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction is an accessible guide to basic information for conducting animal research safely and responsibly. It includes a review of the unique anatomic and physiologic characteristics of laboratory animals, husbandry practices, and veterinary care of many animals frequently used in research, including rodents, rabbits, ferrets, zebrafish, nonhuman primates, and agricultural animals. The updated fifth edition adds two new chapters on zebrafish and large animals, new information on transgenic models and genetic editing, and expanded coverage of environmental enrichment and pain management. The book presents helpful tip boxes, images, and review questions to aid in comprehension and learning, and a companion website provides editable review questions and answers, instructional PowerPoints, and additional images not found in the book. This important text: • Provides a complete introduction to laboratory animal husbandry, diseases, and treatments • Offers a user-friendly format with helpful content that highlights important concepts • Contains new knowledge relating to technical methodologies, diseases, drug dosages, laws and regulations, and organizations • Covers information on regulations, facilities, equipment, housing, and research variables as well as veterinary care • Includes new chapters on zebrafish and cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs Written for veterinary technicians, veterinary students, practicing veterinarians, and research scientists, the fifth edition of Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine continues to offer an essential guide to the ethical treatment and anatomic and physiological characteristics of research animals.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119489563

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9781119489566

The Best Place to Be

A Novel in Stories

By: Lesley Dormen

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The Best Place to Be

A Novel in Stories

By: Lesley Dormen

I looked out the window and was filled with contentment. I was on a train. There was no landscape, ugly or beautiful, to demand my attention . . . None of the passengers within my view were badly dressed. I had the right book with me . . . I was happily married but alone, nothing in the immediate past to regret, nothing in the immediate future to fear. In between -- the best place to be." At fifty, Grace Hanford has lived long enough to be a daughter, a stepdaughter, a girlfriend, a sister, a sister-in-law, a wife, a stepmother, and an orphan. She has fallen in and out of love -- with troublesome men, with her glamorous mother, with her wild best friend, and with New York City -- more times than she can count. Still, Grace is more comic than melancholic, and a gifted confessor. She lives life as if every day is a movie in which her role is yet to be determined -- and her audience loves her for it. In The Best Place to Be, we follow Grace from her fatherless childhood through her years at an all-girls college to adulthood in the city and her many dating escapades (and escapes) as an urban sophisticate. Wherever she may be, Grace tries to find her place in the world with humor and the blunt surprise of truth. And always, in the background, there is Grace's mother, brother, and the man she could or might or will call husband, out of reach -- until she reaches. In the tradition of Melissa Bank's The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The Best Place to Be is at once funny, moving, and deeply provocative, a love letter to the self-determined woman that shimmers with hilarious insight and graceful wit.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416539581

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9781416539582

Women's Health Take It Off! Keep It Off!

Real Women Reveal How They Lost 20, 50, Even 100 Pounds--and How You Can Too!

By: Lesley Rotchford,Editors of Women's Health Maga

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Women's Health Take It Off! Keep It Off!

Real Women Reveal How They Lost 20, 50, Even 100 Pounds--and How You Can Too!

By: Lesley Rotchford,Editors of Women's Health Maga

Filled with stories from women who lost big while living bigger, Take It Off! Keep it Off! lets you in on the weight-loss secrets that have helped women drop 20, 40, and even 100 pounds—and now you can too! Maybe you’ve been overweight since childhood, or you’re a mom who had trouble returning to your pre-pregnancy weight after having a baby. Maybe you’ve tried every trendy diet and popular exercise program out there, or poured over before-and-after shots, wondering how to take that first step. If you have struggled for years—or maybe your entire life—to feel confident and strong in your body and lose the weight, Take It Off! Keep it Off! is the plan that will have you regularly rocking skinny jeans and crushing 10Ks in just a few months. As the former editor of Women’s Health’s popular “You Lose, You Win” column, Rotchford has distilled the weight-loss lessons and inspiration of hundreds of women into an easy-to-follow practical program. The five-day quick-start meal plan provides innovative eating strategies that focus on portion control and includes 50 wholesome, protein-packed recipes. Paired with a three-phase exercise plan that features timesaving strength and cardio routines specifically designed to build endurance and strengthen and tone your body, you have an easy-to-follow program that clears a solid path toward transformation. With the women from the success stories motivating you from the sidelines, you will lose weight, gain strength, build confidence, and live the longer, healthier life you deserve!

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Rodale Books

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1623369940

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9781623369941

Divided Brains

The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries

By: Lesley J. Rogers,Giorgio Vallortigara,Richard J. Andrew

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Divided Brains

The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries

By: Lesley J. Rogers,Giorgio Vallortigara,Richard J. Andrew

Discusses brain asymmetry from four perspectives - function, evolution, development and causation - covering a wide range of species, including humans.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107005353

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9781107005358

Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine

An Introduction

By: Karen Hrapkiewicz,Lesley A. Colby,Patricia Denison

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Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine

An Introduction

By: Karen Hrapkiewicz,Lesley A. Colby,Patricia Denison

Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction, Fourth Edition offers a user-friendly guide to the unique anatomy and physiology, care, common diseases, and treatment of small mammals and nonhuman primates. Carefully designed for ease of use, the book includes tip boxes, images, and review questions to aid in comprehension and learning. The Fourth Edition adds new information on transgenic mice, drug dosages, techniques, and environmental enrichment, making the book a comprehensive working manual for the care and maintenance of common laboratory animals. The book includes information on topics ranging from genetics and behavior to husbandry and techniques in mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, chinchillas, rabbits, ferrets, and nonhuman primates. A companion website provides editable review questions and answers, instructional PowerPoints, and additional images not found in the book. Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine is an invaluable resource for practicing veterinarians, veterinary students, veterinary technicians, and research scientists.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111834510X

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9781118345108

Breaking Through the Language Arts Block

Organizing and Managing the Exemplary Literacy Day

By: Lesley Mandel Morrow,Kenneth Kunz,Maureen Hall

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Breaking Through the Language Arts Block

Organizing and Managing the Exemplary Literacy Day

By: Lesley Mandel Morrow,Kenneth Kunz,Maureen Hall

This innovative book helps K–6 teachers infuse the entire school day with research-based literacy best practices. Classroom-tested strategies are presented for planning and implementing each component of the "exemplary literacy day"--vocabulary and word study sessions, literacy work stations, differentiated guided reading groups, reading and writing workshops, and interdisciplinary projects. Teachers get tips for organizing a print-rich classroom, supporting students' social–emotional well-being, and using assessment to guide instruction. User-friendly features include vivid vignettes, classroom management tips, questions for discussion and reflection, and 15 reproducible forms, checklists, and lesson templates. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Note: this book is a contemporary follow-up to Morrow's influential earlier title Organizing and Managing the Language Arts Block.

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Guilford Publications

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1462534503

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9781462534500

Shoulder the Sky

By: Lesley Choyce

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Shoulder the Sky

By: Lesley Choyce

Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him out. He never showed much of a reaction to the death of his mother, and his behaviour of late has been getting more and more bizarre. And yet, his website – Emerso.com – has made him something of a cult figure to followers who believe that, if not having all the right answers, "Emerso" at least has all the right questions. Shoulder the Sky is a rarity among young adult novels – it challenges the reader with philosophical thought and complex observations.

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Dundurn

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177070129X

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9781770701298

Florida For Dummies

By: Lesley Abravanel

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Florida For Dummies

By: Lesley Abravanel

From the Gold Coast to the Gulf Coast, the Everglades to theme parks, bustling Miami to historic St. Augustine, water sports to relaxing resorts, Florida offers infinite, intriguing variety. Whether you want to ride the waves or ride the roller coasters, take in the sites or soak up the sun, this friendly guide is your key to fun in the Sunshine State with info. on: The top ten beaches Favorite Florida foods and where to get them Theme-park hopping and fantastic shopping How to get around Wildlife, night life, and culture Like every For Dummies travel guide, Florida For Dummies, Third Edition includes: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn’t miss—and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages

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John Wiley & Sons

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0764599429

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9780764599422

Essential Herbs and Natural Supplements

By: Lesley Braun,Marc Cohen

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Essential Herbs and Natural Supplements

By: Lesley Braun,Marc Cohen

Essential Herbs and Natural Supplements is an evidence-based quick reference guide. This go-to resource is essential for safe and effective clinical recommendations of herbal medicines and natural supplements. It provides current, evidence-based monographs on the 50 most commonly used herbs, nutrients and food supplements. It emphasises safe practice with strategies to prevent adverse drug reactions, guidelines in assessing benefit, risk and harm and the evaluation of research. 50 evidence-based monographs on the most used herbs and natural supplements Up-to-date evidence on the latest research impacting on herbal and natural medicine by top leaders within the fields of Pharmacy, Herbal Medicine and Natural Medicine Considerations of herbs and natural supplements in pregnancy

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729586537

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9780729586535

Winterkill

A Novel

By: Craig Lesley

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Winterkill

A Novel

By: Craig Lesley

American Indian Danny Kachiah, a rodeo rider, claims his son after the death of his ex-wife, and father and son slowly get to know each other.

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Macmillan

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0312152442

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9780312152444

Books as Partners

Diverse Literature in the Early Childhood Classroom

By: Lesley Colabucci,Mary Napoli

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Books as Partners

Diverse Literature in the Early Childhood Classroom

By: Lesley Colabucci,Mary Napoli

How can diverse literature be woven throughout the early childhood curriculum? What kind of learning opportunities do high quality diverse books offer young children? Diverse books in the early childhood classroom can facilitate dialogue and understanding about differences, diversity, and respect. Books as Partners incorporates research from literacy, early childhood education, and multicultural education to support educators in their daily work with K-3 students. This professional resource provides research-based evidence for incorporating diverse literature in the early childhood classroom and features annotated bibliographies with a critical analysis based on knowledge of child development and best practices in literacy education.With the increased instructional demands within the early childhood setting, teachers can incorporate diverse text sets to meet national standards, ensure that selections are authentic and developmentally appropriate, and provide engaging literature responses across the curriculum. Teachers will be able to transform their classroom practices based on suggestions from the supporting research, classroom vignettes, multimodal text sets, and author/illustrator spotlights embedded throughout the book.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475847378

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9781475847376

Social Work Theory and Practice

By: Lesley Deacon,Stephen J. Macdonald

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Social Work Theory and Practice

By: Lesley Deacon,Stephen J. Macdonald

Understanding how theory informs social work practice is an area that students can often find challenging. This book will help students understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice across a range of contexts and with different service user groups. It starts off by briefly setting the context, introducing students to the importance of social work theory and its development over the years, before moving on to look at different types of theory across 17 tightly structured chapters. These cover a range of psychological theories, sociological theories, ethics and moral philosophies, political theories and ideologies, and organisational theories.

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Learning Matters

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1473988217

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9781473988217

Relative Happiness

By: Lesley Crewe

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Relative Happiness

By: Lesley Crewe

The delightful romantic comedy—now an award-winning feature film. The debut novel from the bestselling author of The Spoon Stealer. Filled with heartache without being maudlin, this contemporary novel about life and love in a small town debuts Lesley Crewe, an original new literary voice. Lesley’s writing is fresh and funny, and her portrayal of Lexie’s strong and wry spirit in the face of adversity is unwaveringly authentic. Not since Bridget Jones has a heroine been so well drawn and so totally lovable—hang-ups, insecurities, annoying mother and all. In creating Lexie, her sprawling extended family, and their community, Lesley Crewe brings an east-coast flavored humor to her work—that teasing, biting, whip-smart style that simultaneously stings and tickles. With her charming combination of hometown warmth and savoir-faire, Lesley is sure to entertain and inspire her audience, who will do well to sit up and pay attention to this rising star of mainstream women’s fiction. Praise for Lesley Crewe and her novels “Crewe’s books are rich with detail, wit and understanding of how family and its roots impact on people’s lives.” —Cape Breton Post “The Spoon Stealer might just steal your heart.” —Amy Spurway, author of Crow “Shines a light on the secrets and lies that bind generations of Cape Breton families.” —Toronto Star “A warm-hearted story of one woman’s journey from a dark and abusive childhood into the light of acceptance and love.” —Atlantic Books Today

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Nimbus+ORM

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1551098350

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9781551098357

Household Sustainability

Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life

By: Chris Gibson,Carol Farbotko,Nicholas Gill,Lesley Head,Gordon Waitt

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Household Sustainability

Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life

By: Chris Gibson,Carol Farbotko,Nicholas Gill,Lesley Head,Gordon Waitt

ÔThe question Chris Gibson and his colleagues answer in this book is simple: ÒWhy is it not easy being green?Ó In 20 concise, focused and accessible chapters Ð from birthing to dying, from toilets to Christmas Ð they unveil the ambiguities, instabilities and paradoxes of affluent household living in the 21st century. In so doing, they temper the easy rhetoric of sustainable lifestyles with some authentic realities drawn from the affluent world. Earth system science is showing us the deep complexity of our material planet. This book brilliantly reflects back to us the complex materiality of our cultural lives.Õ Ð Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia, UK Contrary to the common rhetoric that being green is ÔeasyÕ, household sustainability is rife with contradiction and uncertainty. Households attempting to respond to the challenge to become more sustainable in everyday life face dilemmas on a daily basis when trying to make sustainable decisions. Various aspects of life such as cars, computers, food, phones and even birth and death, may all provoke uncertainty regarding the most sustainable course of action. Drawing on international scientific and cultural research, as well as innovative ethnographies, this timely book probes these wide-ranging sustainability dilemmas, assessing the avenues open to households trying to improve their sustainability. The authors engage critically, and constructively, with the proposition that households are a key scale of action on climate change. They confront dilemmas of practice and circumstance, and cultural norms of lifestyle and consumerism that are linked to troublesome environmental problems Ð and question whether they can be easily unsettled. The work also illuminates the informal and often unheralded work by households Ð frequently the poorest Ð in reducing their environmental burden. This important book is critical to understanding both the barriers to household sustainability and the ÔunsungÕ sustainability work carried out by householders. Containing a unique combination of science and cultural research, this fascinating book will appeal to researchers and students of environmental science, environmental studies, sustainability studies, climate change adaptation, geography, sociology, cultural studies, science and technology studies, as well as energy studies and housing research. Policy-makers in various levels of government working through sustainability problems, environmental educators, social planners and sustainability officers working for governments, will also find much to interest them in this unique book.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781006210

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9781781006214

Land of a Hundred Wonders

By: Lesley Kagen

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Land of a Hundred Wonders

By: Lesley Kagen

Her left brain damaged after a car accident that killed her parents, reporter Gibby McGraw sets out to solve the murder of Buster Malloy, the future governor of Kentucky, to prove that she can compete with everyone else.

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Penguin

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0451224094

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9780451224095

Beautiful Sadness

By: Lesley Choyce

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Beautiful Sadness

By: Lesley Choyce

In Beautiful Sadness laughter often simmers under a rueful - or strangely joyful - melancholy tone. These poems are the songs you might sing on street corners if, reaching beyond the troubles of daily life, you discover the resiliency of the spirit.

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Ekstasis Editions

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1896860303

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9781896860305

Instagram Moms are Full of Sh*t

To Hell With Mom Shaming

By: Lesley Prosko

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Instagram Moms are Full of Sh*t

To Hell With Mom Shaming

By: Lesley Prosko

Are you done with reels that show moms who make it look so easy when some mornings you don’t even manage to get your hair brushed before taking your kids to school? Have you ever been mom-shamed for something you’ve done or haven’t done for your children? Or have you—even unintentionally—mom shamed someone else? Are you tired of the unrealistic expectations of motherhood that is portrayed all over social media? The truth is, momming isn’t about having it all figured out. No mom has it all figured out. Instagram Moms are Full of Sh!t, To Hell With Mom Shaming shows the honest, often chaotic, realities of being a mom, and knowing that in all the wonderful craziness, they are doing a great job! Writing from personal experience and input from other moms, Lesley Prosko, mother of two little ones, takes an in-depth look at some of the most common mom-shaming themes, considering cultural, generational, historical, and parenting style differences, including: • birth plans • breastfeeding vs formula • vaccinations • child sleep habits • working mom vs stay-at-home mom • exercising while pregnant • navigating screen time • and more Told with insight, humour, and sporadic sarcasm, this practical resource is designed to help real moms stop comparing themselves to other moms who want the world to think that every day is a great one—because those moms are full of sh!t.

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FriesenPress

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1038304148

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9781038304148

Ghost Ranch

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

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Ghost Ranch

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

For more than a century, Ghost Ranch has attracted people of enormous energy and creativity to the high desert of northern New Mexico. Occupying twenty-two thousand acres of the Piedra Lumbre basin, this fabled place was the love of artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s life, and her depictions of the landscape catapulted Ghost Ranch to international recognition. Building on the history of the Abiquiu region that she told in Valley of Shining Stone, Ghost Ranch historian Lesley Poling-Kempes now unfolds the story of this celebrated retreat. She traces its transformation from el Rancho de los Brujos, a hideout for legendary outlaws, to a renowned cultural mecca and one of the Southwest’s premier conference centers. First a dude ranch, Ghost Ranch became a magical sanctuary where the veil between heaven and earth seemed almost transparent. Focusing on those who visited from the 1920s and ’30s until the 1990s, Poling-Kempes tells how O’Keeffe and others—from Boston Brahmin Carol Bishop Stanley to paleontologist Edwin H. Colbert, Los Alamos physicists to movie stars—created a unique community that evolved into the institution that is Ghost Ranch today. For this book, Poling-Kempes has drawn on information not available when Valley of Shining Stone was written. The biography of Juan de Dios Gallegos has been enhanced and definitively corrected. The Robert Wood Johnson (of Johnson & Johnson) years at Ghost Ranch are recounted with reminiscences from family members. And the memories of David McAlpin Jr. shed light on how the Princeton circle that included the Packs, the Johnson brothers, the Rockefellers, and the McAlpins ended up as summer neighbors on the high desert of New Mexico. After Arthur Pack’s gift of the ranch to the Presbyterian Church in 1955, Ghost Ranch became a spiritual home for thousands of people still awestruck by the landscape that O’Keeffe so lovingly committed to canvas; yet the care taken to protect Ghost Ranch’s land and character has preserved its sense of intimacy. By relating its remarkable story, Poling-Kempes invites all visitors to better appreciate its place as an honored wilderness—and to help safeguard its future.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816548994

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9780816548996

Valley of Shining Stone

The Story of Abiquiu

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

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Valley of Shining Stone

The Story of Abiquiu

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

North by northwest from old Santa Fe is the winding road to Abiquiu (ah-be-cue'), Ghost Ranch, and el Valle de la Piedra Lumbre, the Valley of Shining Stone: mythical names in a near-mythical place, captured for the ages in the famous paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe saw the magic of sandstone cliffs and turquoise skies, but her life and death here are only part of the story. Reading almost like a novel, this book spills over with other legends buried deep in time, just as some of North America's oldest dinosaur bones lie hidden beneath the valley floor. Here are the stories of Pueblo Indians who have claimed this land for generations. Here, too, are Utes, Navajos, Jicarilla Apaches, Hispanos, and Anglos—many lives tangled together, yet also separate and distinct. Underlying these stories is the saga of Ghost Ranch itself, a last living vestige of the Old West ideal of horses, cowboys, and wide-open spaces. Readers will meet a virtual Who's Who of visitors from "dude ranch" days, ranging from such luminaries as Willa Cather, Ansel Adams, and Charles Lindbergh to World War II scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues, who were working on the top-secret atomic bomb in nearby Los Alamos. Moving on through the twentieth century, the book describes struggles to preserve the valley's wild beauty in the face of land development and increased tourism. Just as the Piedra Lumbre landscape has captivated countless wayfarers over hundreds of years, so its stories cast their own spell. Indispensable for travelers, pure pleasure for history buffs and general readers, these pages are a magic carpet to a magic land: Abiquiu, Ghost Ranch, the Valley of Shining Stone.

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University of Arizona Press

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081654347X

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9780816543472

Leading the Calling

Reflections on Lessons Learned and Those Yet to Be

By: Kathy Spencer, Ed.D.,Lesley Eason, Ed.D.

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Leading the Calling

Reflections on Lessons Learned and Those Yet to Be

By: Kathy Spencer, Ed.D.,Lesley Eason, Ed.D.

Educators are naturally viewed as reflective practitioners, with time to think, ponder, vision, and design being key to the art and craft of the role itself. This is especially true of educational leaders--teachers, facilitators, administrators, and superintendents. We know that we lead more effectively when practicing deep reflection, demonstrating the desire to take action in order to serve others while honoring the greatness that exists in so many of our learning environments. With deep reflection and action comes a lot of emotion, a lot of conversations, a lot of missteps, and a lot of accomplishments. It is these experiences that dictate the ultimate need to capture lessons learned. One must understand that the lessons can provide a platform to assist one another in reaching higher, addressing new challenges confidently, persevering through extreme adversity, and exploring opportunities never considered before as we all answer our own calling. We consider the need for reflection by leaders as necessary to honor the past and to build a pathway to future success. We find ourselves in unprecedented times in the world of educational leadership, yet recognize that the principles and foundational pieces that have been a part of our work remain constant. Embracing reflection allows us to honor the past, while best serving in the unknown, tumultuous and exciting future. It creates the opportunity to unload and process our experiences while learning from one another. We must provide a space that inspires others to engage in this during their leadership experiences. This is the basis for our story.

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Page Publishing Inc

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ISBN 13

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In the Dark

By: Bridgitte Lesley

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In the Dark

By: Bridgitte Lesley

Grace had taken on a huge challenge by moving from the city to a ranch with two children. She had her plans in place but things didn’t go as planned. For no rhyme or reason, after having paid her deposit, the power hadn’t been connected. Biding her time, she waited. In the meanwhile they went through unnecessary hardships of every kind. Adjusting her internal clock so that they woke up with the sun, and went to bed the moment it grew dark. Without power, her life had been placed on hold causing a delay. But she wasn’t going to sit back on her laurels. If she was going to go without power, so would the entire town. It didn’t take much to cause a total blackout for a couple of days. Tit for tat seemed to work at the oddest of times. The entire town bore the brunt. After spotting Grace and the two tots in the fields, her neighbour Trevor was curious. Curiosity got the better of him and his outlook on life took a dramatic turn.

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3986464107

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Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition

A Collection of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful Words, Phrases, Praises, Insults, Idioms, and Literary Flourishes from Eras Past

By: Lesley M. M. Blume

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Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition

A Collection of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful Words, Phrases, Praises, Insults, Idioms, and Literary Flourishes from Eras Past

By: Lesley M. M. Blume

An A-to-Z reference featuring wonderful words and expressions from the past: “What a fun book!” —Kathleen Dunn, Wisconsin Public Radio History is positively brimming with rich language deserving of rejuvenation. This compendium gathers forgotten words, phrases, names, insults, and idioms, plus fascinating and funny anecdotes, etymologies, and occasions for modern use. Let’s Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition takes readers on a philological journey through words from the not-too-distant past. From all-overish to zounds, the vintage vernacular collected here will make any reader the cat’s meow among friends, relations, and acquaintances.

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Chronicle Books

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1452124310

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Patterned Splendour

Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures; Eighth to Fifteenth Century

By: Lesley Pullen

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Patterned Splendour

Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures; Eighth to Fifteenth Century

By: Lesley Pullen

There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress display detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size and condition, remains in archaeological sites and museums in Indonesia and worldwide. The equatorial climate of Java has precluded any textiles from this period surviving. Therefore this book argues the textiles represented on these sculptures offer a unique insight into the patterned splendour of the textiles in circulation during this period. This volume contributes to our knowledge of the textiles in circulation at that time by including the first comprehensive record of this body of sculpture, together with the textile patterns classified into a typology of styles within each chapter.

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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

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9814881856

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9789814881852

Lights, Cowboy, Action

By: Lesley Ann McDaniel

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Lights, Cowboy, Action

By: Lesley Ann McDaniel

Matchmaking is not in Courtney's job description As assistant to a famous actress, Courtney is used to fulfilling ridiculous requests. Then her boss demands a date with handsome cowboy Adam Greene while on location in Montana. Delivering up Adam just doesn't seem right. Especially since Courtney's got her eye on him, too. Adam's not interested in high-maintenance actresses. But he can't deny his attraction to sweet, fresh-faced Courtney. How can a small-town guy compete with glitz and glamour? Leave it to a cowboy to wrangle himself a Hollywood ending….

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Harlequin

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0373486634

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9780373486632

The Book of Pasta

By: Lesley Mackley

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The Book of Pasta

By: Lesley Mackley

Perfect pasta dishes begin with perfect pasta, and this book contains a step-by-step guide to the various types of dried pasta available, recipes for delicious homemade pasta, and how to cook them. 350 color photographs.

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Penguin

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0895866412

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Saltwater Chronicles

Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun

By: Lesley Choyce

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Saltwater Chronicles

Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun

By: Lesley Choyce

The award–winning author celebrates the everyday disasters and discoveries that shape a life in this memoir of love, loss, and adventure in Nova Scotia. If Lesley Choyce was not a surfer, he would not have dropped out of graduate school in Manhattan in 1978 and moved to Nova Scotia—a decision that made all the difference. In Saltwater Chronicles, he reflects on the ambitious, idealistic, and brash young man he once was, while the older man ahead of him beckons him forward with a mischievous grin. In between, Choyce adapts to the crisis of becoming a respectable citizen. He experiences the death of his father and of his family dog. He helps guide his wife through cancer as they ride the North Atlantic waves and record a most human range of sorrows and joys. In this, his one-hundredth book, Lesley Choyce takes readers along as he writes about nearly everything under the sun from his home by the sea on the North Atlantic coast of Canada—all of it most ordinary and extraordinary at the same time.

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Nimbus+ORM

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1771088273

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9781771088275

The Search for John Lennon

The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star

By: Lesley-Ann Jones

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The Search for John Lennon

The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star

By: Lesley-Ann Jones

Pulling back the many hidden layers of John Lennon’s life, Lesley-AnnJones closely tracks the events and personality traits that led to the rock star living in self-imposed exile in New York—where he was shot dead outside his apartment on that fateful autumn day forty years ago. Late on December 8th, 1980, the world abruptly stopped turning for millions, as news broke that the world's most beloved bard had been gunned down in cold blood in New York city. The most iconic Beatle left behind an unrivaled body of music and legions of faithful disciples—yet his profound legacy has brought with it as many questions and contradictions as his music has provided truths and certainties. In this compelling exploration, acclaimed music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones unravels the enigma that was John Lennon to present a complete portrait of the man, his life, his loves, his music, his untimely death and, ultimately, his legacy. Using fresh first-hand research, unseen material and exclusive interviews with the people who knew Lennon best, Jones' search for answers offers a spellbinding, 360-degree view of one of the world's most iconic music legends. The Search for John Lennon delves deep into psyche of the world's most storied musician—the good, the bad and the genius—forty years on from his tragic death.

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Simon and Schuster

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1643136739

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Tomorrow River

By: Lesley Kagen

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Tomorrow River

By: Lesley Kagen

From the national bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark. During the summer of 1968 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, eleven-year- old Shenandoah Carmody's mother disappeared. Her twin sister, Woody, stopped speaking, and her once-loving father slipped into a mean drunkenness unbefitting a superior court judge. As the first anniversary of their mother's disappearance nears, her father's threat to send Woody away and his hints at an impending remarriage spur a desperate Shenny to find her mother-before it's too late.

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1101187131

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9781101187135

Danger Dan Creates the Ultimate Utama Uproar

By: Lesley-Anne Tan,Monica Lim

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Danger Dan Creates the Ultimate Utama Uproar

By: Lesley-Anne Tan,Monica Lim

Danger Dan Creates the Ultimate Utama Uproar in this thrilling series finale! It all started four time-travelling adventures ago and now, Danny and Melody have to go back almost to the very beginning of Singapore’s history. The year is 1299 and the legendary Sang Nila Utama has just landed on the island of Temasek. He sees something terrifying in the jungle. Is it a ravenous lion or something even more sinister?

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Epigram Books

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9814615242

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9789814615242

The Murder Mile

A Yorkshire Crime Thriller

By: Lesley McEvoy

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The Murder Mile

A Yorkshire Crime Thriller

By: Lesley McEvoy

Jo, it's me. We've found another body." A body is discovered on a canal towpath in the small Yorkshire town of Shipley. DCI Callum Ferguson calls on forensic psychologist Jo McCready to help investigate the mysterious crime. The victim is the second to be found on the canal in as many weeks, and Jo believes a single killer is responsible. Then, when one of her troubled patients is found brutally murdered, a puzzling connection emerges: is the murderer taking inspiration from the most notorious serial killer in Britain's history? As DCI Ferguson and Jo McCready race to find the killer, the investigation takes more twists and turns than Yorkshire's canals. And with more questions than answers, can they solve it before another body turns up? *** 'McEvoy really knows her stuff.' IAN RANKIN *** Author Lesley McEvoy uses her insider knowledge to create unbelievably gripping, unputdownable crime novels - perfect for fans of Rachel McLean, J.R. Ellis and Elly Griffiths.

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Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.

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1838775986

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9781838775988

Deconstructing Dylan

By: Lesley Choyce

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Deconstructing Dylan

By: Lesley Choyce

Sixteen-year-old Dylan Gibson has always felt different from his classmates and is shocked to discover he is a clone of his dead brother.

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Dundurn

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1550026038

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Herbs and Natural Supplements Inkling

An Evidence-Based Guide

By: Lesley Braun,Marc Cohen

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Herbs and Natural Supplements Inkling

An Evidence-Based Guide

By: Lesley Braun,Marc Cohen

A must-have health companion for herbalists, naturopaths, complementary medicine practitioners and students Herbs and Natural Supplements, 3rd Edition: An evidence-based guide presents evidence-based information on the 130 most popular herbs, nutrients and food supplements used across Australia and New Zealand. This exhaustive textbook is organised alphabetically by each herb or nutrient’s common name. Herbs and nutrients are then accompanied by critical information such as daily intake, main actions and indications, adverse reactions, contraindications and precautions, safety in pregnancy and more. This new edition of Herbs and Natural Supplements has been expanded with new chapters on pregnancy and wellness. It also features 10 new monographs for Arginine, Dunaliella, Elde, Goji, Pelargonium, Prebiotics, Red Yeast Rice, Rhodioloa, Shatavari and Taurine. • provides current, evidence-based information on herbal, nutritional and food supplements used in Australia and New Zealand • is user-friendly and easily organised by easy-to-find A-Z herbal monographs • appendices offering important additional information for the safe use of herbal and nutritional supplements, including a list of poison information centres, associations, manufacturers and more • offers clear, comprehensive tables including herb/natural supplement - drug interactions • lists the pharmacological actions of all herbs and natural supplements • a glossary of terms relevant to herbs and natural supplements • two comprehensive new chapters: Herbs and Natural Supplements in Pregnancy and Introduction to Wellness • all chapters completely updated and expanded • ten new monographs taking the total to 130 • now also available as an eBook! A code inside Herbs and Natural Supplements, 3rd Edition: An evidence-based guide enables a full text download, allowing you to browse and search electronically, make notes and bookmarks in the electronic files and highlight material

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729579107

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9780729579100

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