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Stroking the Zebra?

Part 1 How and Why Do I Think as I Do Part 2 What Do I Think about from A to Z

By: Leslie Corron Robert Leslie Corron,Robert Leslie Corron

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Stroking the Zebra?

Part 1 How and Why Do I Think as I Do Part 2 What Do I Think about from A to Z

By: Leslie Corron Robert Leslie Corron,Robert Leslie Corron

This document is a methodology for trying to understand how I think and why I think as I do. My thinking process is premise based. I operate on the premise that evolutional genetic traits have more or less programmed the basic capabilities and limitations of the starting (initial) conditions of my particular “Human Nature.” From this point – considering the environmental conditions from conception through embryology – all internal ->external responses are learned – given full consideration to the capabilities and limitations mentioned above, of my personal “Human Nature.” I also operate; in the philosophical mode – which I try to maintain at all times, on the premise that I am finite. Being finite limits the data available for making absolute, truthful observations, and therefore decisions. This being the case, I cannot believe or disbelieve anything. Knowing that one cannot function in this limbo, I have formulated premises that I live by. They are somewhat found depending on new data or current situations. Because of this, I find that my premises are sometimes conflicting and contrary to one another. That is just the way it is. I live with it. Author's thought after the fact, shades of Aristotle, Platos, Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel, and Peirce, but more primitive, juvenile and sophomoric. But isn't that when we start to realize who we are? A basic primer on how to think.

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iUniverse

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1440185786

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9781440185786

Critical Americans

Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform

By: Leslie Butler

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Critical Americans

Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform

By: Leslie Butler

In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. She addresses how these men established a critical perspective on American racism, materialism, and jingoism in the decades between the 1850s and the 1890s while she recaptures their insistence on the ability of ordinary citizens to work toward their limitless potential as intelligent and moral human beings. At the core of Butler's study are the writers George William Curtis, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, a quartet of friends who would together define the humane liberalism of America's late Victorian middle class. In creative engagement with such British intellectuals as John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, Leslie Stephen, John Ruskin, James Bryce, and Goldwin Smith, these "critical Americans" articulated political ideals and cultural standards to suit the burgeoning mass democracy the Civil War had created. This transatlantic framework informed their notions of educative citizenship, print-based democratic politics, critically informed cultural dissemination, and a temperate, deliberative foreign policy. Butler argues that a careful reexamination of these strands of late nineteenth-century liberalism can help enrich a revitalized liberal tradition at the outset of the twenty-first century.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807877573

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9780807877579

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

By: Leslie S Klinger

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In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

By: Leslie S Klinger

A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of Poe, by one of America's foremost anthologists. Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who were in turn influenced by Poe’s genius and produced their own popular tales of supernatural literature. This collection features masterful tales of terror by authors who, by and large, are little-remembered for their writing in this genre. Even Bram Stoker, whose Dracula may be said to be the most popular horror novel of all time, is not known as a writer of short fiction. Distinguished editor Leslie S. Klinger is a world-renowned authority on those twin icons of the Victorian age, Sherlock Holmes, and Dracula. His studies into the forefathers of those giants led him to a broader fascination with writers of supernatural literature of the nineteenth century. The stories in this collection have been selected by him for their impact. Each is preceded by a brief biography of the author and an overview of his or her literary career and is annotated to explain obscure references. Read on, now, perhaps with a flickering candle or flashlight at hand . . . Stories by: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodor Gautier, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lafcadio Hearn, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, and many others.

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Simon and Schuster

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1605988766

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9781605988764

Digital Media Use in Early Childhood

Birth to Six

By: Lelia Green,Leslie Haddon,Sonia Livingstone,Brian O’Neill,Kylie Stevenson,Donell Holloway

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Digital Media Use in Early Childhood

Birth to Six

By: Lelia Green,Leslie Haddon,Sonia Livingstone,Brian O’Neill,Kylie Stevenson,Donell Holloway

The easy interface of touchscreen technologies like tablets and smartphones has enabled children to access the digital world from a very young age. But while some commentators are enthusiastic about how this can open a new world for fun, learning, and developing digital skills, others see the dangers of yet more screens, inauthentic play, and time spent isolated with electronic babysitters that detract from interaction with parents and learning social skills. Taking five as the age when children transition into formal education, this book draws on a three-year research project examining the realities of under six-year-olds' experiences of these technologies in the UK and Australia. With a theoretical context including Vygotsky, Bruner, Bronfenbrenner and Flewitt, the book examines how parents of young children evaluate the opportunities and risks of children's digital media use in the context of other significant influences such as children's time with grandparents, early childhood care and education. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 families, and rich ethnographic data from observation and exchanges with their 29 children, aged four months to five years, the book reveals how digital technologies complement and challenge important aspects of daily life for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350120286

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9781350120280

Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las

Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom

By: Leslie A. Robertson,the the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan

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Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las

Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom

By: Leslie A. Robertson,the the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan

Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las tells the remarkable story of Jane Constance Cook (1870-1951), a controversial Kwakwaka’wakw leader and activist who lived during a period of enormous colonial upheaval. Working collaboratively, Robertson and Cook’s descendants draw on oral histories and textual records to create a nuanced portrait of a high-ranked woman, a cultural mediator, devout Christian, and aboriginal rights activist who criticized potlatch practices for surprising reasons. This powerful meditation on memory and cultural renewal documents how the Kwagu’l Gixsam have revived their long-dormant clan in the hopes of forging a positive cultural identity for future generations through feasting and potlatching.

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597

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UBC Press

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0774823860

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9780774823869

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources

An Annotated Survey

By: Leslie Brubaker,John Haldon

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Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources

An Annotated Survey

By: Leslie Brubaker,John Haldon

Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It is also the first book in any language to cover both the written and the visual evidence from this period, a combination of particular importance to the iconoclasm debate. The authors, an art historian and a historian who both specialise in the period, have worked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual and the written materials that together help clarify the complex issues of iconoclasm in Byzantium.

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405

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Routledge

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1351953656

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9781351953658

The Saginaw Trail

From Native American Path to Woodward Avenue

By: Leslie K. Pielack

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The Saginaw Trail

From Native American Path to Woodward Avenue

By: Leslie K. Pielack

Leslie Pielack tells the story of those whose lives intertwined with the Saginaw Trail, the ancient path that transformed early Michigan. The Saginaw Trail led from the frontier town of Detroit into the wilderness, weaving through towering trees and swamps to distant Native American villages. Presenting a forbidding landscape that was also a settlers' paradise, the road promised great riches in natural resources like lumber and agriculture, and a future of wheeled vehicles that would make Michigan the center of a global industry.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439664862

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9781439664865

The Longhunters

A Report on the History and Family of William Blevins Sr. of Virginia

By: Leslie W. Blevins Jr.

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The Longhunters

A Report on the History and Family of William Blevins Sr. of Virginia

By: Leslie W. Blevins Jr.

Finding the descendants of William Blevins Sr. has been the object of researchers for many decades. The author was happy to learn much about William Blevins Sr. and his ascendants and descendants as he sought information from his family and genealogical researchers who were willing to share information, books that have been written, and a wide range of information available on the Internet. Without all these sources this work would not have been possible. The author thanks all those who have so generously contributed to the information contained herein. They know who they are. Much of what is reported here was obtained from authoritative works and obscure data unobtainable in any single source. Some was also furnished by other genealogists who, with a great deal of patience, answered my questions with detailed responses. Without the material and encouragement of so many generous persons; this report could not have been written. In conclusion, my parting wish is that those persons who have contributed both time and information to this project may read it and forgive me for the errors which have surely crept into it.

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210

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465397884

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9781465397881

The Difficult Child

Expanded and Revised Edition

By: Stanley Turecki,Leslie Tonner

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The Difficult Child

Expanded and Revised Edition

By: Stanley Turecki,Leslie Tonner

How to help--and cope with--the difficult child Expanded and completely revised, the classic and definitive work on parenting hard-to-raise children with new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders. Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive. They can also be clingy, shy, whiny, picky, and impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, and in public places. This landmark book has been completely revised to include the latest information on ADHD, medications, and a reassuring approach to all aspects of childhood behavioral disorders. In this parenting classic, Dr. Stanley Turecki, one of the nation's most respected experts on children and discipline--and himself the father of a once difficult child--offers compassionate and practical advice to parents of hard-to-raise children. Based on his experience with thousands of families in the highly successful Difficult Children Program he developed for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, his step-by-step approach shows you how to: Identify your child's temperament using a ten-point test to pinpoint specific difficulties Manage common--often "uncontrollable"--conflict situations expertly and gently Make discipline more effective and get better results with less punishment Get support from schools, doctors, professionals, and support groups Understand ADHD and other common diagnoses, and decide if medication is right for your child Make the most of the tremendous potential and creativity that many "difficult" children have Drawing on his experience with thousands of families in his highly successful Difficult Child Program, Dr. Turecki shows parents how to: Identify their child's difficult temperament using a ten-point test to pinpoint specific difficulties Manage typical conflict situations expertly and kindly Make discipline more effective and get better results with less punishment Get support from schools, doctors, and others Understand ADHD and other common diagnoses, and decide whether medication is right for their child Make the most of the child's creativity and potential -->

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Bantam

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0307815730

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9780307815736

My Daughter's Legacy

By: Mindy Starns Clark,Leslie Gould

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My Daughter's Legacy

By: Mindy Starns Clark,Leslie Gould

Women of Unfailing Conviction Virginia, 1864 Therese Jennings cannot abide the thought of owning slaves. When her widowed mother inherits a plantation, Therese flees to Civil War Richmond, where she works as a governess by day and tends to wounded soldiers at night. But when trouble befalls her family, can she reconcile her obligations with her beliefs? And will love—whether with an old beau or a handsome new suitor—ever fit in her broken world? Virginia, present day Nicole Talbot's life is back on track after years of substance abuse. Home from college for the summer, she's finally ready to share a shocking secret, one that raises new questions about a traumatic childhood experience. But when facts she uncovers cast doubt on her family's legacy, she must risk all that she's gained—her fresh start, her family's trust, and her growing relationship with a new man—to unlock the secrets of the past. * * * From the Christy Award-winning team of Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould comes a thrilling tale of two women longing to follow God's leading, make the most of second chances, and find true love at last.

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402

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736962921

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9780736962926

The Five Towns

A Novel

By: Leslie Tonner

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The Five Towns

A Novel

By: Leslie Tonner

Set against the backdrop of post–World War II America, this sweeping novel follows three very different families as they search for love and fulfillment in Long Island’s fabled gilded ghetto, the Five Towns In 1950, the Five Towns are a burgeoning suburban destination for those in search of a better life. Arthur Freundlich is one of those pioneers. With the recent influx of Jews to Long Island, the former GI has relocated his mother, pregnant wife, and three-year-old daughter from a tiny apartment in Queens to a split-level house in Cedarhurst—a world apart from the cramped quarters of Brooklyn and Queens that Arthur knew. In his wealthy, insulated corner of this formerly WASP-y small-town community, Harvard-educated John Dodge lives with his wife and their son Christopher, who causes a scandal when he falls in love with beautiful, Jewish Melanie Miller. A black woman struggling to raise her family in turbulent times, Lulu Pearce leaves blue-collar Inwood every morning to work as a maid in middle-class homes in Woodmere. But an unwanted pregnancy could forever alter the course of her future. As America comes of age, these three families battle bigotry, racism, and dramatically changing mores in one of Long Island’s most famous suburban enclaves.

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Open Road Media

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1497637066

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9781497637061

Undocumented Politics

Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants

By: Abigail Leslie Andrews

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Undocumented Politics

Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants

By: Abigail Leslie Andrews

In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to belong. Others turned to their homelands for hope. What explains their clashing strategies of inclusion? And how does gender play into these fights? Undocumented Politics offers a gripping inquiry into migrant communities’ struggles for rights and resources across the U.S.-Mexico divide. For twenty-one months, Abigail Andrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals how local laws and power dynamics shape migrants’ agency. Andrews also exposes how arbitrary policing abets gendered violence. Yet she insists that the process does not begin or end in the United States. Rather, migrants interpret their destinations in light of the hometowns they leave behind. Their counterparts in Mexico must also come to grips with migrant globalization. And on both sides of the border, men and women transform patriarchy through their battles to belong. Ambitious and intimate, Undocumented Politics reveals how the excluded find space for political voice.

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Univ of California Press

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0520971566

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9780520971561

Friendly Ties

By: Leslie L. Daniels

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Friendly Ties

By: Leslie L. Daniels

Elements is a witch with wicked fighting skills and always fighting the battle between good and evil. She deals with white magick and black magick, supernatural bad guys as well as human bad guys. It is no wonder she gets called the ultimate weapon. She deals with powers that seem out of this world, and in some cases, they are. She also must deal with shape-shifters and psychic vampires that want her dead. This is nothing compared to the battle she must fight within her heart. A lover from her past has resurfaced again after leaving without a trace or a goodbye. She must try to keep the balance between good and evil as well as keeping her friends alive. With the help of her friends and some unlikely allies, will this be enough to win and keep her heart, or is it a losing battle from the start?

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Stroking the Zebra?

Stroking the Zebra?

Critical Americans

Critical Americans

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

Digital Media Use in Early Childhood

Digital Media Use in Early Childhood

Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las

Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources

The Saginaw Trail

The Saginaw Trail

The Longhunters

The Longhunters

The Difficult Child

The Difficult Child

My Daughter's Legacy

My Daughter's Legacy

The Five Towns

The Five Towns

Undocumented Politics

Undocumented Politics

Friendly Ties

Friendly Ties

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