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The Mists of Manittoo

A Mythic Story of Love and Freedom

By: Lois Swann

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The Mists of Manittoo

A Mythic Story of Love and Freedom

By: Lois Swann

THE MISTS OF MANITTOO, the first book in THE DOWLAND TRILOGY, is a fascinating tale of a revolutionary love breaking barriers of culture, race, language, and class. Set in colonial Massachusetts, Elizabeth Dowland, a land heiress, runs in despair from a marriage contract with the minister of Sweetwood, and finds a life of happiness, meaning and independence with Silent Fox, the gentle Indian who saves her life. Beths joyful commitment to a totally new way of life embraces plural marriage and the struggle to reconcile her family to this ideal union, a vision of love in its truest sense.

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1524613061

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9781524613068

The Painter

By: Lois Swann

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The Painter

By: Lois Swann

THE PAINTER, inspired by the life of an Italian artist who emigrated to America after World War II, plunges the reader into the life of fictional Lorenzo Frasca, his life of daring achievement, grinding employment, moral struggle with the cruel insanity of his young wife, tender attachment to her fragile daughter, his transcendent love of an older woman, and his ultimate creation of a masterpiece for a Spanish prince who becomes his patron. American and European cultures nourish his maturation. The artists history is told to and through Luke Cosic, a chance dinner companion who is subsumed by the painter and his art. The fifteenth century classic, Cennino dAndrea Cenninis Il Libro dellArte, (The Craftsmans Handbook), is the foundation of Lorenzos character and work.

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1491819847

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9781491819845

Sippicon

By: Lois Swann

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Sippicon

By: Lois Swann

SIPPICON closes the mythic circle of a unique Native American and British family divided by the fiery politics of pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts. The woods, the sea, the farm, merchant ships, the church, the university, Venice, London, a Sippicon village, drawing rooms and battlefields are the stomping grounds for iconic characters reaching for independence of soul. The red man and white woman once married now suffering life apart are the catalyst for the action of the novel.

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150491726X

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9781504917261

Stranger With My Face

By: Lois Duncan

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Stranger With My Face

By: Lois Duncan

From the author of I Know What You Did Last Summer, delve into this thrilling doppelganger mystery that will keep you looking over your shoulder long after the last page. Laurie Stratton finally has everything a sixteen-year-old could ever want. But just as her perfect summer comes to a close, things start to unravel when her boyfriend insists he saw her out with another guy—when Laurie was really home sick! More mysterious sightings convince Laurie someone very real is out there, watching her. . . . The truth reveals a long-lost sister who has spent the years growing bitter and dangerous. She has learned how to haunt Laurie, but the visits soon become perilous. She wants something from Laurie—her life!

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Hachette+ORM

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0316175617

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9780316175616

Intertwined Lives

Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle

By: Lois W. Banner

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Intertwined Lives

Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle

By: Lois W. Banner

A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline of anthropology. They championed racial and sexual equality and cultural relativity despite the generally racist, xenophobic, and homophobic tenor of their era. Mead’s best-selling Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), and Benedict’s Patterns of Culture (1934), Race (1940), and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946), were landmark studies that ensured the lasting prominence and influence of their authors in the field of anthropology and beyond. With unprecedented access to the complete archives of the two women—including hundreds of letters opened to scholars in 2001—Lois Banner examines the impact of their difficult childhoods and the relationship between them in the context of their circle of family, friends, husbands, lovers, and colleagues, as well as the calamitous events of their time. She shows how Benedict inadvertently exposed Mead to charges of professional incompetence, discloses the serious errors New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman made in his famed attack on Mead’s research on Samoa, and reveals what happened in New Guinea when Mead and colleagues engaged in a ritual aimed at overturning all gender and sexual boundaries. In this illuminating and innovative work, Banner has given us the most detailed, balanced, and informative portrait of Mead and Benedict—individually and together—that we have had. From the Hardcover edition.

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576

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Vintage

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0679776125

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9780679776123

Surviving in Two Worlds

Contemporary Native American Voices

By: Lois Crozier-Hogle,Darryl Babe Wilson,Ferne Jensen

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Surviving in Two Worlds

Contemporary Native American Voices

By: Lois Crozier-Hogle,Darryl Babe Wilson,Ferne Jensen

Surviving in Two Worlds brings together the voices of twenty-six Native American leaders. The interviewees come from a variety of tribal backgrounds and include such national figures as Oren Lyons, Arvol Looking Horse, John Echohawk, William Demmert, Clifford Trafzer, Greg Sarris, and Roxanne Swentzell. Their interviews are divided into five sections, grouped around the themes of tradition, history and politics, healing, education, and culture. They take readers into their lives, their dreams and fears, their philosophies and experiences, and show what they are doing to assure the survival of their peoples and cultures, as well as the earth as a whole. Their analyses of the past and present, and especially their counsels for the future, are timely and urgent.

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289

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University of Texas Press

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0292789645

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9780292789647

Art Information and the Internet

How to Find it, How to Use It

By: Lois Swan Jones

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Art Information and the Internet

How to Find it, How to Use It

By: Lois Swan Jones

In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.

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298

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Routledge

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1135933383

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9781135933388

Randolph County

By: Lois Walls George,Paula Burson Lambert,Wyner S. Phillips

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Randolph County

By: Lois Walls George,Paula Burson Lambert,Wyner S. Phillips

Randolph County began as an agricultural community and gradually industrialized as farmers left the fields for the factories and women left their kitchens for the sewing plant. This book celebrates a panorama of 175 years of life in Randolph County through a collection of photographs primarily from its citizens. Some individuals featured in the book are more prominent than others, but all helped fill Randolph County with Southern charm, gentility, and hospitality.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738543713

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9780738543710

Unsaid

Analyzing Harmful Silences

By: Lois Presser

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Unsaid

Analyzing Harmful Silences

By: Lois Presser

Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. This book is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what goes without saying.

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Univ of California Press

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0520384954

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9780520384958

Contemporary American Women Writers

Gender, Class, Ethnicity

By: Lois Parkinson Zamora

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Contemporary American Women Writers

Gender, Class, Ethnicity

By: Lois Parkinson Zamora

This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos. The essays consider how identities and societies are dramatized in particular works of fiction, and how these works reflect cultural communities outside the fictional frame - often the communities in which their authors live and work. The essays included here concern fictional representations of African American, Latino, Asian American, Native American, Anglo and Euro-American communities and their working interactions in the multicultural United States. Each critic asks, in his or her own way, how a particular writer transforms her social grounding into language and literature. The introduction includes an overview of the range of literary criticism devoted to contemporary American women writers, and an extensive bibliography of complementary critical readings is provided to encourage further study. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary literature will find the text an invaluable guide to contemporary women's writing in America, and the range of criticism that this has given rise to.

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Routledge

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1317893069

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9781317893066

Take Up Thy Bed and Walk

Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls

By: Lois Keith

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Take Up Thy Bed and Walk

Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls

By: Lois Keith

Heidi, The Secret Garden, and Pollyanna are all classic "girls' books, " featuring a miracle cure of an invalid character who literally gets up and walks away from illness or paralysis. Such stories were common in Victorian novels and they implicitly conveyed the idea that disability and physical suffering were punishment for wrongdoing: unruly girls could not enter womanhood unless they were tamed, and an accident was the perfect plot device for this transformation. Other characters, like Helen Burns in Jane Eyre or Beth in Little Women, were just too good to live, and died so that another character could be redeemed by their example. Lois Keith points out in this study that the temptation to either cure or kill off disabled characters has surprising tenacity. The widespread belief that a disabled life isn't a full life and that patients can cure themselves through force of will endures to the present day. In Take Up Thy Bed & Walk, Lois Keith brings her lively and observant eye to the classic books of childhood from Jane Eyre, Heidi, and Pollyanna, to modern American classics such as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie and Judy Blume's Deenie. Keith explores the recurring images of impairment and ill health in literature and asks the reader to reconsider the messages they send to a devoted young audience. This book is also a testament to the singular passion with which these books are read by younger readers and reminds us of the intensity of our own reading experience as children.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415937396

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9780415937399

Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion

By: Lois Oppenheim

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Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion

By: Lois Oppenheim

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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0415875706

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9780415875707

Crown Us with Laurel

The Autobiography of a Book

By: Lois Silverstein

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Crown Us with Laurel

The Autobiography of a Book

By: Lois Silverstein

Crown Us With Laurel" is an exploration of the writing consciousness, illustrated through author Lois Silverstein's personal journey as a writer and teacher. It uses her writing and that of students to show how the mind creates works of art. "Crown Us With Laurel" includes Silverstein's poems, short fiction and essays, as well as samples of her students' work and her original play "VALIA: The Story of a Woman of Courage.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477127372

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9781477127377

A History of Medicine

By: Lois N. Magner

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A History of Medicine

By: Lois N. Magner

A non-technical, jargon-free presentation of the history of medicine from palaeopathology to recent theories and practices of modern medicine. It gives a wide-ranging overview of Western medicine and an introduction to the rich and varied medical traditions of the Near and Far East.;This text stresses the major themes in the history of medicine - placing the modern experience within the framework of historical issues - and it presents medical history as an important part of intellectual and social history, supplying students with an examination of the field that encourages them to question modern medical assumptions. Areas that are less familiar to students are highlighted, and case histories represent broader issues and trends.

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420

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CRC Press

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0824786734

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9780824786731

Curtain Rising

By: Lois Silverstein

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Curtain Rising

By: Lois Silverstein

Lois Silverstein was born in New York. She has lived in Boston, Montreal, Pensacola, San Francisco, and currently lives in Berkeley. Lois received her B.A. from Barnard College, her M.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York, and her Ph.D. from McGill University. She works as a writing consultant, Expressive Arts Therapist and College Literature Instructor. Lois has written and published three novels, five books of poems, essays, and reviews, and produced and performed in VALIA: The Story of a Woman of Courage. She is married to Dick Coleman and she has one son, Julian Steinberg.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469106345

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9781469106342

Off White

Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance

By: Michelle Fine,Lois Weis,Linda Powell Pruitt,April Burns

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Off White

Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance

By: Michelle Fine,Lois Weis,Linda Powell Pruitt,April Burns

With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps.

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Routledge

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1136077782

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9781136077784

The Good News about Depression

Cures and Treatments in the New Age of Psychiatry

By: Mark S. Gold,Lois B. Morris

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The Good News about Depression

Cures and Treatments in the New Age of Psychiatry

By: Mark S. Gold,Lois B. Morris

The author of 800-Cocaine offers the most comprehensive guide to new methods of diagnosis and treatment of depression available to the general public. Covering the different forms of depression, how drugs, foods and hormones affect depression, and more.

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Bantam

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0553345117

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9780553345117

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