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The Freedom Race

By: Lucinda Roy

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The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy’s explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial “Muleseeds” are bred. Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Lottermule knows there is only one way to escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner. Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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1250258898

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9781250258892

Understanding Inequalities

Stratification and Difference

By: Lucinda Platt

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Understanding Inequalities

Stratification and Difference

By: Lucinda Platt

Bringing together the latest empirical evidence with a discussion of sociological debates surrounding inequality, this book explores a broad range of inequalities in people's lives. As well as treating the core sociological topics of class, ethnicity and gender, it examines how inequalities are experienced across a variety of settings, including education, health, geography and housing, income and wealth, and how they cumulate across the life course. Richly illustrated with graphs and figures showing the extent of inequalities and the differences between social groups, the book demonstrates how people's lives are structured by inequalities across multiple dimensions of their lives. Throughout, the text pays attention to how we know what we know about inequality: what is measured and how, what is left out of the picture, and what implications this has for our understanding of specific inequalities. Importantly, the book also highlights the intersections between different sources or forms of inequality, and the ways that bringing an intersectional lens to bear on topics can highlight and challenge the assumptions about how they operate. Designed for second-year undergraduates and above, this book provides an engaging overview of social stratification and challenges readers to think about how inequalities are embedded across society.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745699170

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9780745699172

An Unreal Estate

Sustainability and Freedom in an Evolving Community

By: Lucinda Carspecken

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An Unreal Estate

Sustainability and Freedom in an Evolving Community

By: Lucinda Carspecken

In An Unreal Estate, Lucinda Carspecken takes an in-depth look at Lothlorien, a Southern Indiana nature sanctuary, sustainable camping ground, festival site, collective residence, and experiment in ecological building, stewardship, and organization. Carspecken notes the way fiction and reality intertwine on this piece of land and argues that examples such as Lothlorien have the power to be a force for social change. Lothlorien's organization and social norms are in sharp contrast with its surrounding communities. As a unique enclave within a larger society, it offers to the latter both an implicit critique and a cluster of alternative values and lifestyles. In addition, it has created a niche where some participants change, grow, and find empowerment in an environment that is accepting of difference—particularly in areas of religion and sexual orientation.

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Indiana University Press

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0253356814

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9780253356819

Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court

Politics, Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy

By: Lucinda Byatt

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Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court

Politics, Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy

By: Lucinda Byatt

Niccolò Ridolfi (1501–50), was a Florentine cardinal, nephew and cousin to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII, and he owed his status and wealth to their patronage. He remained actively engaged in Florentine politics, above all during the years of crisis that saw the Florentine state change from republic to duchy. A widely respected patron and scholar throughout his life, his sudden death during the conclave of 1549–50 led to allegations of poison that an autopsy appears to confirm. This book examines Cardinal Ridolfi and his court in order to understand the extent to which cardinalate courts played a key part in Rome’s resurgence and acted as hubs of knowledge located on the fault lines of politics and reform in church and state, hospitable spaces that can be analysed in the context of entanglements in Florentine and Roman cultural and political patronage, and intersections between the princely court and a more professional and complex knowledge and practice of household management in the consumer and service economy of early modern Rome. Based on an array of archival sources and on three treatises whose authors were closely linked to Ridolfi’s court, this monograph explores these multidisciplinary intersections to allow the more traditional fields of church and political history to be approached from different angles. Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court will appeal to all those interested in the organisation of these elite establishments and their place in sixteenth-century Roman society, the life and patronage of Niccolò Ridolfi in the context of the Florentine exiles who desired a return to republicanism, and the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000637956

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9781000637953

Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve

By: Ms. Lucinda Suezanne Rosefine Harwood,Ms. Susan Ogle Densmore

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Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve

By: Ms. Lucinda Suezanne Rosefine Harwood,Ms. Susan Ogle Densmore

A stunning history of the development and preservation of the marble halls deep within the Siskiyou Mountains. In 2014 the designation of the Monument changed to the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve and the footprint was expanded to 4,554 total acres. The Friends of the Oregon Caves and Chateau have selected the best photographs to visually represent the colorful history of this iconic national treasure.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1540262553

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9781540262554

International Lawyer's Deskbook

By: Lucinda A. Low,Daniel M. Drory

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International Lawyer's Deskbook

By: Lucinda A. Low,Daniel M. Drory

A reference tool for lawyers facing international legal problems outside their own areas of expertise.

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American Bar Association

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1590311442

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9781590311448

Mid-Century Modern Interiors

The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America

By: Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand

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Mid-Century Modern Interiors

The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America

By: Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand

Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession in its own right. Through a series of detailed case studies this book introduces the key practitioners of the period – world-renowned designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson – and examines how they developed new approaches by applying systematic and rational principles to the creation of interior spaces. It takes us into the mind of the designer to show how they each used interior design to express their varied theoretical interests, and reveals how the principles they developed have become embodied in the way interior design is practiced today. This focus on unearthing the underlying ideas and concepts behind their designs rather than on the finished results creates a richer, more conceptual understanding of this pivotal period in modernist design history. With an extended introduction setting the case studies within the broader context of twentieth-century design and architectural history, this book provides both an introduction and an in-depth analysis for students and scholars of interior design, architecture and design history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350045721

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9781350045729

Quilts from Heaven

Parables from the Patchwork of Life

By: Lucinda Secrest McDowell

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Quilts from Heaven

Parables from the Patchwork of Life

By: Lucinda Secrest McDowell

Quilting hobbyist McDowell sees each moment as a piece of quilt that God weaves together to make a glorious lifelong work of art. In this book, various quilting patterns are used metaphorically to show how God can make the scraps of our lives into something beautiful. This updated and repackaged edition features new four-color illustrations and photos of traditional quilt patterns that mirror God's often intricate work in our lives.

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B&H Publishing Group

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0805444351

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9780805444353

Plunder of the Ancients

A True Story of Betrayal, Redemption, and an Undercover Quest to Recover Sacred Native American Artifacts

By: Lucinda Schroeder

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Plunder of the Ancients

A True Story of Betrayal, Redemption, and an Undercover Quest to Recover Sacred Native American Artifacts

By: Lucinda Schroeder

In the heart of Indian Country in the American west, clandestine criminals have profited greatly from the sale of sacred Native American artifacts stolen from tribal lands. These artifacts were so ancient they had been used since the migration of the first Americans into North America some 15,000 years ago. In 1998 the illegal trafficking of these artifacts peaked in Santa Fe, New Mexico. At the same time, the tribes and pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona fell into crisis because many of their sacred ceremonies couldn’t be conducted. Without their ceremonial objects, sickness and deep depression became prevalent and the spiritual leaders became desperate to get their divine artifacts back to restore the health, happiness and balance of their people. Plunder of the Ancients is a rare look inside an undercover investigation in which special agent Lucinda Schroeder reveals the details of her case in which she was assigned to expose Indian Art thieves and dealers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who out of unmitigated greed, were exploiting sacred artifacts for huge sums of money. Her final task was to bring the criminals to justice; recover the sacred artifacts and return them to their rightful people. But all did not go well for Schroeder. While her cover was airtight, she faced betrayal from people she regarded beyond reproach. Her additional challenge then became to find out who was so determined to undermine and even destroy her mission of restoring the spiritual lives of Native Americans who were suffering. Plunder of the Ancients takes readers along on a dangerous and unprecedented assignment as Schroeder battles betrayal, evil spirits, and shape shifters for a cause she strongly believes in. Learn more at www.lucindaschroeder.com

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493015443

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9781493015443

Beginning Ajax

By: Chris Ullman,Lucinda Dykes

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Beginning Ajax

By: Chris Ullman,Lucinda Dykes

Using proven examples and explaining concepts step by step, this book shows you how building Ajax-enabled sites and applications allows more interactive user interfaces than ever before. You’ll learn about the differences in capabilities between client-side and server-side development techniques, as well as how Ajax crosses this boundary. You’ll also discover how Ajax techniques can be summed up by patterns (which are development models that you’ll use repeatedly). With a mastery of these techniques, you’ll be able to breathe new life into your Web sites.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470148527

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9780470148525

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

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Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this “bracingly candid chronicle” (The Wall Street Journal). “[Williams’s] memoir transmutes the wisdom, pain, and hard-won joy of her life into stories that stick with you.”—Vogue A WASHINGTON POST AND ROLLING STONE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job, totaling twelve different places by the time she was eighteen. Her mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of hospitals. And when Williams was about a year old, she had to have an emergency tracheotomy—an inauspicious start for a singing career. But she was also born a fighter, and she would develop a voice that has captivated millions. In Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, Williams takes readers through the events that shaped her music—from performing for family friends in her living room to singing at local high schools and colleges in Mexico City, to recording her first album with Folkway Records and headlining a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall. She reveals the inspirations for her unforgettable lyrics, including the doomed love affairs with “poets on motorcycles” and the gothic southern landscapes of the many different towns of her youth, including Macon, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. Williams spent years working at health food stores and record stores during the day so she could play her music at night, and faced record companies who told her that her music was not “finished,” that it was “too country for rock and too rock for country.” But her fighting spirit persevered, leading to a hard-won success that spans seventeen Grammy nominations and a legacy as one of the greatest and most influential songwriters of our time. Raw, intimate, and honest, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is an evocative reflection on an extraordinary woman’s life journey.

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Random House

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0593136519

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9780593136515

All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

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All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

A book for the modern woman, laced with unflinching, glorious honesty.' Zara McDonald and Michelle Andrews, co-founders of Shameless Media 'A funny, real interrogation of Australia's body image problem, and a call to arms to dismantle diet culture.' Chantelle Otten, author and sexologist 'A feminist manifesto, a younger millennial gospel, with unparalleled candour and self awareness. I inhaled this book - it's going to be big.' Jessie Stephens 'I have always known that to be hot is to be powerful. For most of my life, I just took it as the way things are, a fact not worth interrogating since it's so obviously true.' Up until her twenty-fifth birthday, the number one priority in Lucinda Price's life was to look good. She nipped, tucked, cut, plucked, shaved, tanned, crunched, squatted and starved. Then, she broke down. All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot is a funny, provocative retrospective on the last thirty years of Western beauty standards. From the Pussycat Dolls to Victoria's Secret, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion to Lara Bingle, the media of the 2000s was littered with high profile examples of hotness as the highest form of social currency. Is it any wonder a girl growing up in that era might believe "good looks" were as integral to womanhood as having a pulse? With her offbeat humour and incisive cultural commentary, Lucinda tells the unfiltered story of a young woman overcoming an eating disorder, illuminating our enduring obsession with appearance by holding a mirror up to herself, and in turn, all of us. A hilarious, insightful deep dive into self image, desirability, pop-culture and power. A sparkling debut by one of Australia's most beloved creators and comedians, Lucinda Price aka Froomes. 'Brilliant, funny and brutally honest, this is a must-read for anyone trying to navigate through this incredibly complex, image-obsessed age.' Myf Warhurst 'If Tina Fey and David Sedaris had a child, it would be a book... this book.' Ryan Shelton 'My book of the year. Whip-smart. Hilarious. Honest ... Lucinda is a genius who captures and melds the deeply serious and deeply funny in a way few writers can.' Hannah Ferguson

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Pantera Press

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0648619176

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9780648619178

An Atlas of Human Blastocysts

By: Lucinda L. Veeck,Nikica Zaninovic

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An Atlas of Human Blastocysts

By: Lucinda L. Veeck,Nikica Zaninovic

Providing information from the cutting edge of reproductive technology, this full-color atlas vividly illustrates the typical and atypical morphology of human blastocysts collected and cultured during the course of in vitro fertilization treatments. The narrative and the illustrations detail a variety of new reproductive technologies. All photographs are supported by detailed legends and a glossary of terms is included. This atlas is edited by two world-class embryologists both of whom work at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

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CRC Press

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113540349X

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9781135403492

The Art of Feminism

Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017

By: Lucinda Gosling,Hilary Robinson,Amy Tobin

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The Art of Feminism

Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017

By: Lucinda Gosling,Hilary Robinson,Amy Tobin

A survey of feminist art from suffrage posters to The Dinner Party and beyond: “Lavishly produced images . . . indispensable to scholars, critics and artists.” —Art Monthly Once again, women are on the march. And since its inception in the nineteenth century, the women’s movement has harnessed the power of images to transmit messages of social change and equality to the world. From highlighting the posters of the Suffrage Atelier, through the radical art of Judy Chicago and Carrie Mae Weems, to the cutting-edge work of Sethembile Msezane and Andrea Bowers, this comprehensive international survey traces the way feminists have shaped visual arts and media throughout history. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, and graphic design—along with essays examining the legacy of the radical canon—this rich volume showcases the vibrancy of the feminist aesthetic over the past century and a half.

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Chronicle Books

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1452170010

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9781452170015

Amagansett

By: Carleton Kelsey,Lucinda Mayo

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Amagansett

By: Carleton Kelsey,Lucinda Mayo

Amagansett is an intimate history of a coastal village whose Dutch and English settlers arrived in 1860 to farm, fish, and participate in "ye whale designe," and which is now a colorful part of the Hamptons resort area. T his striking collection of images, dating from 1853, describes the community's part in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and its very personal experience with the Spanish-American War, when 25,000 soldiers landed here to recuperate from tropical diseases. The storied fishing and whaling industry, as well as life-saving crews and the families that awaited them are also featured. Along with economic and military history, civil life is represented in such scenes as historic homes, and local citizens welcoming summer visitors.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738590347

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9780738590349

Quick Reference to Clinical Dietetics

By: Lucinda K. Lysen

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Quick Reference to Clinical Dietetics

By: Lucinda K. Lysen

Quick Reference To Clinical Dietetics, Second Edition, Is An Easy-To-Use, Research-Based Text That Focuses On The Latest Topics In Nutrition Management. Designed For Quick Access And Clear Guidance, This Practical Book Is A Must For Those Working In Both Inpatient And Outpatient Settings. Each Section Is Written By A Leading Nutrition Expert And Offers Step-By-Step Guidelines For Nutrition Screening And Assessment, Including Physical Assessment, Nutrition Intervention, And Follow-Up. Updates To The Second Edition Include New Information On Gastric Bypass From The Medical Director Of The Gastric Bypass Program At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center In Boston; Coding And Reimbursement For Medical Nutrition Therapy; A New Chapter On Dietary Supplements, And Complementary And Alternative Approaches; Current Coverage Of Low/Controlled Carbohydrate Diets Including The Atkins Diet; Weight Loss Strategies From Barry Sears, Zone Diet Creator; And 46 Appendices Offer Helpful Charts And Tables For Reference.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763731986

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9780763731984

Give Great Presentations

By: Lucinda Becker

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Give Great Presentations

By: Lucinda Becker

Terrified at the thought of giving presentations? Give Great Presentations gives you the tips and tools you need to feel confident and ace your presentations. Master your brief and prepare great presentations Hone your body language and use your nerves to your advantage Make the most of it and learn from each presentation. Super Quick Skills provides the essential building blocks you need to succeed at university - fast. Packed with practical, positive advice on core academic and life skills, you’ll discover focused tips and strategies to use straight away. Whether it’s writing great essays, understanding referencing or managing your wellbeing, find out how to build good habits and progress your skills throughout your studies. Learn core skills quickly Apply them right away and see results Succeed in your studies and in life Super Quick Skills gives you the foundations you need to confidently navigate the ups and downs of university life.

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SAGE

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1529703743

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9781529703740

Pushing Boundaries

Language and Culture in a Mexicano Community

By: Olga A. Vásquez,Lucinda Pease-Alvarez,Sheila M. Shannon

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Pushing Boundaries

Language and Culture in a Mexicano Community

By: Olga A. Vásquez,Lucinda Pease-Alvarez,Sheila M. Shannon

A study of the ways bilingual children in a Mexicano community use and learn language.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521048575

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9780521048576

Reshaping Universal Preschool

Critical Perspectives on Power and Policy

By: Lucinda G. Heimer,Ann Elizabeth Ramminger

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Reshaping Universal Preschool

Critical Perspectives on Power and Policy

By: Lucinda G. Heimer,Ann Elizabeth Ramminger

Given the diverse auspices and leadership in early education in the U.S.,United States, Universal Preschool will only happen through collaboration. The issue of Universal Preschool is not new. Others have conducted research, shared success stories, and ideas for moving forward.This book plans a different approach to the Universal Preschool dilemma by using dynamic and specific lenses to sift through the layers of power and policy that are the foundation of any effort

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Early Childhood Education

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0807761265

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9780807761267

The Gilded Cage

By: Lucinda Gray

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The Gilded Cage

By: Lucinda Gray

An American farm girl discovers that she's an English heiress . . . but claiming her fortune leads to danger and intrigue.

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Macmillan

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1627791817

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9781627791816

The Sun Sister

A Novel

By: Lucinda Riley

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The Sun Sister

A Novel

By: Lucinda Riley

An epic and transporting novel, the latest installment of the “heart-wrenching, uplifting, and utterly enthralling” (Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List) Seven Sisters series, unravelling between the dazzling streets of modern-day New York City and the breathtaking plains of 1940s colonial Kenya. Electra d’Aplièse is a top model who seems to have it all: beauty, fame, and wealth. But beneath the glittery veneer, she’s cracking under all the pressure. When her father dies, she turns to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain. As friends and colleagues fear for her health, Electra receives a shocking letter from a stranger who claims to be her grandmother. In 1939, New Yorker Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya’s Lake Naivasha region for the exciting chance to stay with her godmother, the famous socialite Kiki Preston. But after a sheltered upbringing, she’s astounded by the hedonistic antics of the other ex-pats in the infamous Happy Valley set. Cecily soon grows to love her stunning but complicated new home, and she even accepts a proposal of marriage from an enigmatic older cattle farmer. After a shocking discovery and with war looming, Cecily feels isolated and alone. Until she meets a young woman in the woods and makes her a promise that will change the course of her life forever. Featuring Lucinda Riley’s “engaging and mesmerizing” (Library Journal, starred review) storytelling and filled with unforgettable and moving characters, The Sun Sister explores how love can cross seemingly impossible boundaries.

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Simon and Schuster

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198211066X

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9781982110666

Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980

An Oral History

By: Lucinda McCray Beier

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Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980

An Oral History

By: Lucinda McCray Beier

A century of developing health culture in McLean County, Illinois

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University of Illinois Press

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0252075544

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Just a Girl

Growing Up Female and Ambitious

By: Lucinda Jackson

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Just a Girl

Growing Up Female and Ambitious

By: Lucinda Jackson

Just A Girl is the sensitive, personal story of the author’s ambition to become and succeed as a scientist during the “white man in power” era of the 1950s to 2010s. In the male-dominated science world, she struggles from girlhood unworthiness to sexist battles in jobs on the farms and in the restaurants of America, in academia’s laboratories and field research communities, and in the executive corner office. Jackson overcomes pain, shame, and self-blame, learns to believe in herself when others don’t, and becomes a champion for others. The turbulent legal and social background of sexual harassment and sexism in America over seven decades is delivered as “history with emotion.” Just a Girl is also a call to action: it identifies the court cases and lawsuits that helped advance the cultural changes we see today; outlines the pressing need for a Boys and Men Liberation (BAML) movement; highlights new approaches by parents; advocates for changes in our universities; and suggests a different direction for corporate America to take to stop the cycle of sexual harassment. Eye-opening and inspiring, it points the way to a brighter future for women everywhere.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631526634

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9781631526633

Legislating Morality

Pluralism and Religious Identity in Lawmaking

By: Lucinda Peach

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Legislating Morality

Pluralism and Religious Identity in Lawmaking

By: Lucinda Peach

The debate over religious lawmaking pits respect for religious pluralism against moral identity-with liberal theorists contending that religious lawmaking is generally suspect in a morally and religiously diverse polity like the United States, and communitarian ones arguing that lawmakers cannot, and should not, be expected to suppress their religious commitments in their public policy making. Looking carefully at both sides of this ongoing debate, Lucinda Peach explores the limitations as well as the value of these conflicting perspectives, and proposes a solution for their reconciliation. Peach breaks from traditional analysis as she contends that both sides of the argument are fundamentally flawed. Neither side has been willing to recognize the merit of the other's arguments, and both have ignored the gender-based disparities of religious lawmaking (particularly with respect to the effect religion has had on reproductive rights and abortion regulation). Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book argues for a pragmatic solution to this impasse which will respect religious pluralism, moral identity, and gender differences. Peach's proposals will be of interest to philosophers, legal theorists, and scholars in women's studies and political science.

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Oxford University Press

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0198032862

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9780198032861

Free from Hepatitis C

Your Complete Guide to Healing Hepatitis C

By: Lucinda K. Porter

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Free from Hepatitis C

Your Complete Guide to Healing Hepatitis C

By: Lucinda K. Porter

For decades, having hepatitis C virus (HCV) was the equivalent of serving a life sentence—with a dangerous liver disease. All of that changed with the discovery that the virus could be defeated with a new treatment. To shed light on this groundbreaking therapy, Lucinda Porter, a registered nurse, a passionate HCV advocate, and a hep C patient herself, has written a comprehensive guide for people who are undergoing or considering this new hep C treatment. Ms. Porter begins by explaining what hepatitis C is. She then looks at both the mainstream and the alternative management techniques currently used to keep the virus in check. From there, she examines hep C’s new therapy and what you can expect from it. The author demystifies test results, provides important questions you can ask your healthcare provider, and offers advice—all with the compassion of someone who has gone through the process herself. Well over 3 million North Americans live with hepatitis C. Here, at last, is all the information they need to make informed decisions about their future.

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0757053394

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How to Weed Your Attic

Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History

By: Elizabeth H. Dow,Lucinda P. Cockrell

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How to Weed Your Attic

Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History

By: Elizabeth H. Dow,Lucinda P. Cockrell

How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History provides answers to the question: when someone dies or it’s time to move --- or just clean out the attic, garage, or basement, what papers and other things should we save for the sake of history and what can we safely toss? After reading this clearly written book by a retired archivist and a retired museum curator, you can comfortably clean out your attic – or office, garage, basement, cupboards – with confidence that you’re not tossing out historically valuable (or invaluable) things, and that you will not ask your local museum to take things that really belong in a thrift store, junk yard, or recycle center. The book first describes how to identify historically important documents and artifacts. The authors explain a few simple rules: 1) a complete or long collection has more value than a partial one; 2) emotive material provides a richer picture than factual material; 3) unique usually has more value than mass produced; 4) documents and objects carry more information than they intend to; and 5) a 25-year rule exists without our consciously recognizing it. They then apply the rules and assess the probable historical value of four different types of materials: mass produced (from books to vehicles), individually created (from art work to toys), business materials (from governance documents to uniforms), and commemorative materials (from awards to wedding dresses). The book includes a brief description of the basics for preserving materials the reader wants to keep and references sources for more detail. It also recognizes that the reader may not want to keep stuff that clearly has historical value. For those readers, the authors describe how to donate materials to a cultural repository. In broad strokes, they explain how repositories differ, what the repository will want to know about the stuff you're offering, where an appraiser and/or tax advisor fits into the process, and what the reader can expect the repository to do and not do. Finally, the book addresses unexpected issues that may arise around questions of legal ownership and privacy. Throughout the book, the authors illustrate their points using photographs and vignettes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538115476

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9781538115473

The War Never Ended

By: Lucinda Heck

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The War Never Ended

By: Lucinda Heck

Christian Wolff, an Austrian officer during World War I, returns home to Vienna a broken man. His marriage falls apart, he becomes an alcoholic and drug addict. He becomes friends with a fellow officer, Alfred, who was treated by Dr. Ernst Simmel, friend and colleague to Sigmund Freud. Simmel is able to help him and he starts a new life. He is then thrown into the politics of growing antisemitism and the rise of Adolf Hitler. H eventually flees to England before the Anschluss.

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FriesenPress

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1039137369

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9781039137363

East Aegean

By: Rod and Lucinda Heikell

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East Aegean

By: Rod and Lucinda Heikell

The expanded third edition of this popular cruising guide encompasses the Greek Dodecanese islands and the Turkish coast eastwards from the Samos Strait to Kas and Kekova. Fully illustrated with up to date plans and numerous new photographs, it is packed with all the essential information for getting to the area, formalities and sailing these beautiful cruising grounds. There is a level of further detail to this coverage in terms of anchorages and other destinations than is found in the Heikell’s Greek Waters Pilot and Turkish Waters and Cyprus Pilot. This handy guide also whets the appetite for the local cuisine and culture and gives some historic context to exploration ashore. The fantastic background information with historical and mythological anecdotes gives ... a richness too often missing from bald pilot guides. Royal Cruising Club ... no East Med cruiser will want to sail without a copy. Yachting Monthly

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Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd

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1786791943

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9781786791948

No Right to Remain Silent

What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech

By: Lucinda Roy

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No Right to Remain Silent

What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech

By: Lucinda Roy

The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted in the deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before he ended his own life. Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguished professor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold on the TV screen in her home and had a terrible realization. Cho was the student she had struggled to get to know–the loner who found speech torturous. After he had been formally asked to leave a poetry class in which he had shared incendiary work that seemed directed at his classmates and teacher, Roy began the difficult task of working one-on-one with him in a poetry tutorial. During those months, a year and a half before the massacre, Roy came to realize that Cho was more than just a disgruntled young adult experimenting with poetic license; he was, in her opinion, seriously depressed and in urgent need of intervention. But when Roy approached campus counseling as well as others in the university about Cho, she was repeatedly told that they could not intervene unless a student sought counseling voluntarily. Eventually, Roy’s efforts to persuade Cho to seek help worked. Unbelievably, on the three occasions he contacted the counseling center staff, he did not receive a comprehensive evaluation by them–a startling discovery Roy learned about after Cho’s death. More revelations were to follow. After responding to questions from the media and handing over information to law enforcement as instructed by Virginia Tech, Roy was shunned by the administration. Papers documenting Cho’s interactions with campus counseling were lost. The university was suddenly on the defensive. Was the university, in fact, partially responsible for the tragedy because of the bureaucratic red tape involved in obtaining assistance for students with mental illness, or was it just, like many colleges, woefully underfunded and therefore underequipped to respond to such cases? Who was Seung-Hui Cho? Was he fully protected under the constitutional right to freedom of speech, or did his writing and behavior present serious potential threats that should have resulted in immediate intervention? How can we balance students’ individual freedom with the need to protect the community? These are the questions that have haunted Roy since that terrible day. No Right to Remain Silent is one teacher’s cri de coeur–her dire warning that given the same situation today, two years later, the ending would be no less terrifying and no less tragic.

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Crown

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0307587703

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9780307587701

Imperfect Creatures

Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740

By: Lucinda Cole

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Imperfect Creatures

Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740

By: Lucinda Cole

Lucinda Cole’s Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of “vermin” as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole’s argument engages a wide historical swath of canonical early modern literary texts—William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, Abraham Cowley’s The Plagues of Egypt, Thomas Shadwell’s The Virtuoso, the Earl of Rochester’s “A Ramble in St. James’s Park,” and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year—alongside other nonliterary primary sources and under-examined archival materials from the period, including treatises on animal trials, grain shortages, rabies, and comparative neuroanatomy. As Cole illustrates, human health and demographic problems—notably those of feeding populations periodically stricken by hunger, disease, and famine—were tied to larger questions about food supplies, property laws, national identity, and the theological imperatives that underwrote humankind’s claim to dominion over the animal kingdom. In this context, Cole’s study indicates, so-called “vermin” occupied liminal spaces between subject and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the devil and disease—even reason and madness. This verminous discourse formed a foundational category used to carve out humankind’s relationship to an unpredictable, irrational natural world, but it evolved into a form for thinking about not merely animals but anything that threatened the health of the body politic—humans, animals, and even thoughts.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472121553

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9780472121557

Historic Houston: How to See It

One Hundred Years and One Hundred Miles of Day Trips

By: Lucinda Freeman

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Historic Houston: How to See It

One Hundred Years and One Hundred Miles of Day Trips

By: Lucinda Freeman

In HISTORIC HOUSTON: HOW TO SEE IT, Lucinda Freeman brings Houstons history to life by coupling entertaining stories that highlight influential personalities and key historical events with day-trip itineraries, providing a comprehensive and useful guidebook for heritage tourists interested in the history of Houston and surrounding region. Freeman is a native Houstonian, a fifth-generation Texan, and the daughter of two parents who also wrote books on Houstons history. She relies on careful research and personal experience to offer unforgettable adventures into early Houston and Texas. She brings to light colorful historical characters like Sam Houston, Deaf Smith, and legendary cattle rustler and oilman Shanghai Pierce. Freeman also recounts stories of immigrants and highlights events from key time periods like the Texas Revolution, Antebellum Texas, and the Civil War, offering guided day-trip plans for seeing it all, including historical markers, museums, plantations, battle sites, and renovated historical buildings. HISTORIC HOUSTON: HOW TO SEE IT com bines historical facts and easy to- follow itineraries with captivating anecdotes about the famous, the infamous, the heroic, and the eccentric in order to provide a fascinating, in-depth glimpse into a forward-thinking city and region with great personality and character. For more information about the book and related projects and events, visit www.historichoustontourism.com

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iUniverse

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1450275109

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9781450275101

Greek Waters Pilot

By: Rod and Lucinda Heikell

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Greek Waters Pilot

By: Rod and Lucinda Heikell

Greek Waters Pilot is the definitive cruising guide to the coasts and islands of Greece, covering the entire area from the Ionian Islands to the Aegean, Rhodes and Crete and includes details of over 450 harbours and anchorages in a single volume. Greek Waters Pilot has been painstakingly compiled from Rod and Lucinda Heikell’s own survey work and exploration over four decades, as well as first-hand information from their network of contributors. The organisation of so much detail within the confines of a single volume is impressive. This, the fourteenth edition, marks the fortieth anniversary of the first edition of this celebrated cruising guide. It has once again been thoroughly updated to reflect developments and changes across the whole region. Enriched with fascinating historical, mythological and gastronomic information, Greek Waters Pilot is an incomparable resource and companion for anyone planning to spend time in these endlessly enticing waters.

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Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd

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1786793377

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9781786793379

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