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Affordable Care Act For Dummies

By: Lisa Yagoda,Nicole Duritz

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Affordable Care Act For Dummies

By: Lisa Yagoda,Nicole Duritz

An essential and easy-to-understand guide to the Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act For Dummies is your survival guide to understanding the changes in our health care system and how they benefit you. Written in down-to-earth language, this handy resource outlines new protections under the Affordable Care Act, and walks you through what you—as an individual or an employer—need to do to select the best health insurance plan for your needs. With this book, you get answers to your top questions about how the law applies to you. The folks that bring you the For Dummies line of useful, educational books have teamed up with AARP to give you a hands-on guide that offers insight into how to make the right decisions about health care and improve your quality of life. It is filled with examples, ideas, and information as well as useful takeaways to help you take full advantage of the reforms. Uncover the 10 essential benefits of the Affordable Health Care Act Receive guidance on what will improve if you already have insurance coverage If you don't have coverage, determine which insurance program is right for you and your family and whether you're eligible for financial assistance Find out what changes businesses large and small can anticipate Learn how to avoid scammers who are taking advantage of consumers' confusion Use this complete guide to get the facts about the Affordable Care Act, clear up any misconceptions you may have about the law, and prepare for the health care choices ahead.

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106

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118869397

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9781118869390

Susan Sontag

The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated

By: Carl Rollyson,Lisa Paddock

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Susan Sontag

The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated

By: Carl Rollyson,Lisa Paddock

This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933–2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence—including emails—and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best. The authors reveal as never before her early years in Tucson and Los Angeles, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her longing for her absent father, and her precocious achievements at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Papers, diaries, and lecture notes, many accessible for the first time, spark a passionate fire in this biography. The authors follow Sontag as she abruptly ends an early first marriage, establishes herself in Paris, and embraces the open lifestyle she began as a teenager in Berkeley. As a single mother she struggled with teaching at Columbia University and other colleges while aiming for a career as a novelist and essayist. Eventually she made her own way in New York City after acquiring her one and only publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In her later years Sontag became a world figure, a tastemaker, dramatist, and political activist who risked her life in besieged Sarajevo. Love affairs with men and women troubled her. Diagnosed with cancer, she responded with determination, and her experience with illness inspired some of her best writing. This biography shows Sontag always craving “more life” at whatever cost and depicts her harrowing final decline even as she resisted terminal cancer. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated presents in candid and stark relief a new assessment of a heroic and controversial figure.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496808460

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9781496808462

Russia's Long Twentieth Century

Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives

By: Choi Chatterjee,Lisa A. Kirschenbaum,Deborah A. Field

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Russia's Long Twentieth Century

Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives

By: Choi Chatterjee,Lisa A. Kirschenbaum,Deborah A. Field

Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to analyse the ways in which citizens learnt to live within its system and create distinctly Soviet identities from its structures and ideologies. Chronologically organised but moving beyond the traditional Cold War framework, this book covers topics such as the accelerating social, economic and political shifts in the Russian empire before the Revolution of 1905, the construction of the socialist order under Bolshevik government, and the development of a new state structure, political ideology and foreign policy in the decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The authors highlight the polemics and disagreements that energize the field, discussing interpretations from Russian, émigré, and Western historiographies and showing how scholars diverge sharply in their understanding of key events, historical processes, and personalities. Each chapter contains a selection of primary sources and discussion questions, engaging with the voices and experiences of ordinary Soviet citizens and familiarizing students with the techniques of source criticism. Illustrated with images and maps throughout, this book is an essential introduction to twentieth-century Russian history.

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290

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Routledge

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1317221230

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9781317221234

Reading and the Reference Librarian

The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits

By: Juris Dilevko,Lisa Gottlieb

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Reading and the Reference Librarian

The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits

By: Juris Dilevko,Lisa Gottlieb

Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merely expected to find it. Technological competency rather than knowledge has become the order of the day. In many respects, reference service has become a matter of typing search terms into a library's online catalog or a web search engine and providing the patron with the results of the search. Calling for a re-intellectualization of reference librarianship, this book suggests another approach to providing quality reference service--reading. The authors surveyed both academic reference librarians and public library reference personnel in the United States and Canada about their reading habits. From the 950 responses, the authors present findings about the extent to which librarians read newspapers, periodicals, fiction and nonfiction, and recount and analyze stories about how reading has made them better librarians. The authors also report that North American professors in the humanities and social sciences believe that the best reference librarians are those who have wide-ranging, subject-based knowledge as opposed to the type of process-based, functional knowledge that is increasingly dominating the curricula of many Library and Information Science programs.

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271

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McFarland

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0786480459

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9780786480456

Writing Madness, Writing Normalcy

Self and Stigma in Memoirs of Mental Illness

By: Lisa Spieker

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Writing Madness, Writing Normalcy

Self and Stigma in Memoirs of Mental Illness

By: Lisa Spieker

What does it mean to be "mad" in contemporary American society? How do we categorize people's reactions to extreme pressures, trauma, loneliness and serious mental illness? Importantly--who gets to determine these classifications, and why? This book seeks to answer these questions through studying an increasingly popular media genre--memoirs of people with mental illnesses. Memoirs, like the ones examined in this book, often respond to stigmatizing tropes about "the mad" in popular culture and engage with concepts in mental health activism and research. This study breaks new academic ground and argues that the featured texts rethink the possibilities of community building and stigma politics. Drawing on literary analysis and sociological concepts, it understands these memoirs as complex, at times even contradictory, approaches to activism.

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244

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McFarland

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1476644845

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9781476644844

Off to the Pictures

Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

By: Lisa Stead

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Off to the Pictures

Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

By: Lisa Stead

Examines womens constructions of selfhood through film and literature in interwar BritainOff to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Womens Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain offers a rich new exploration of interwar womens fictions and their complex intersections with cinema. Interrogating a range of writings, from newspapers and magazines to middlebrow and modernist fictions, the book takes the reader through the diverse print and storytelling media that women constructed around interwar film-going, arguing that literary forms came to constitute an intermedial gendered cinema culture at this time.Using detailed case studies, this innovative book draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings to consider cinemas place in the fictions and critical writings of major literary figures such as Winifred Holtby, Stella Gibbons, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Elinor Glyn, C. A. Lejeune and Iris Barry. Through the lens of feminist film historiography, Off to the Pictures presents a bold new view of interwar cinema culture, read through the creative reflections of the women who experienced it.

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232

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748694897

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9780748694891

Explorer's Guide Vermont (Fifteenth Edition)

By: Lisa Halvorsen,Pat Goudey O'Brien,Christina Tree

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Explorer's Guide Vermont (Fifteenth Edition)

By: Lisa Halvorsen,Pat Goudey O'Brien,Christina Tree

Guiding you to the best of everything in Vermont for over 30 years! Back in its fifteenth edition, Explorer’s Guide Vermont endures as the most comprehensive and up- to- date guide to this popular New England state. With it in hand, experience the many natural and cultural wonders that make Vermont such a timeless, year- round vacation destination. Although Explorer’s Guide Vermont covers the entire Green Mountain State, the authors pride themselves on their detailed coverage of the less- traveled areas, especially the Northeast Kingdom. You’ll also find in- depth descriptions of major Vermont destinations like Burlington, Brattleboro, Manchester, and Woodstock. They highlight the most interesting and rewarding places to visit, whether on back roads or in bigger cities— artists’ studios, family farms, and historic sites among them. This guide provides great recommendations for every activity—biking; hiking and swimming; skiing, snowshoeing, and snowboarding; horseback riding, fishing, and paddling— and many more, both on and off the beaten track.

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581

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The Countryman Press

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168268167X

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9781682681671

Celebrating Family

Our Lifelong Bonds with Parents and Siblings

By: Lisa Braver Moss

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Celebrating Family

Our Lifelong Bonds with Parents and Siblings

By: Lisa Braver Moss

True stories about how baby boomers have come to love their families, flaws and all.

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220

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Council Oak Books

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1885171307

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9781885171306

Lois Lowry

The Giver of Stories and Memories

By: Lisa Rondinelli Albert

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Lois Lowry

The Giver of Stories and Memories

By: Lisa Rondinelli Albert

Describes the life and accomplishments of the author of "Number the Stars," "The Giver," and the Anastasia Krupnik stories.

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Enslow Publishers, Inc.

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0766027228

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9780766027220

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Writing Madness, Writing Normalcy

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Off to the Pictures

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Explorer's Guide Vermont (Fifteenth Edition)

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