Lutz, Nancy's Books

The Bachelorette Party

A Novel

By: Karen McCullah Lutz

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After being left at the altar by her soap star fiancé, Los Angeles high school teacher Zadie Roberts wants nothing more to do with love and romance. With the help of her best buddy Grey and several bottles of wine, she just might survive the trauma of the wedding that wasn't. Unexpectedly, Grey gets engaged to Zadie's prim and proper cousin Helen, and suddenly Zadie is dragged back into wedding festivity hell. The coup de grace is Helen's bachelorette party, thrown by her clique of prissy friends and certain to be a day of torture. But when the Pinot Grigiot goes down and the sweater sets come off, things get out of control. Helen turns into a girl gone wild and manages to get herself into a situation that just might sink the happy couple for good. Zadie faces a major debacle: should she tell Grey about Helen's night of indiscretion, or forever hold her peace? The Bachelorette Party is a remarkable, assured debut. Lutz's terrific characters and sharp insights put this delightful novel a step above the rest.

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Burn

By: John Lutz

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Burn

By: John Lutz

DIVDIVWhen he is accused of stalking a woman he swears he’s never met, a local businessman asks Fred Carver for help clearing his name/divDIV /divDIVJoel Brandt swears he’s never met the woman before. His wife dead six months before, the small-time businessman is perplexed when Del Moray police inform him that a local woman, Marla Cloy, has accused him of harassing her. According to her, Joel has been lurking outside of her house, following her car, even assaulting her at the grocery store. Brandt says it’s all a lie, but the police don’t believe him./divDIV /divDIVHe goes to Fred Carver, an ex-cop turned PI, for help clearing his name. The harder Carver looks, the less he understands. There is no apparent connection between the two people, and yet one of them is trying to destroy the other’s life. When this game turns deadly, who will be the first to go?/divDIV /divThis ebook features an illustrated biography of John Lutz including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. /div

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Open Road Media

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On the Go with Baby

A Stress-free Guide to Getting Across Town Or Around the World

By: Ericka Lutz

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On the Go with Baby

A Stress-free Guide to Getting Across Town Or Around the World

By: Ericka Lutz

A pack-up-and-go guide shows parents how to get themselves and baby out of the house and on their way.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1570719527

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Parenting in Privilege or Peril

How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream

By: Pamela R. Bennett,Amy Lutz,Lakshmi Jayaram

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Parenting in Privilege or Peril

How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream

By: Pamela R. Bennett,Amy Lutz,Lakshmi Jayaram

Is the American dream that exists for the middle class equally available to the working class? Using extensive interviews with parents and a variety of data sources, this book examines how social contexts and culture affect parenting decisions. By analyzing class differences in neighborhoods, schools, and networks, as well as their relationship to mobility-related parenting practices, the authors demonstrate that cultural differences are no match for economic inequalities. They show how middle-class parents have access to social contexts characterized by security, which gives rise to what the authors call “strategic parenting”—a set of practices that allow adolescents to develop the qualities and skills they will use to go off to college and, subsequently, achieve the American dream. Conversely, the contexts of working-class parents are characterized by precarity, giving rise to “defensive parenting”—an almost frantic use of harm-mitigating interventions to protect adolescents from threats to both their well-being and prospects for mobility. This important book calls for a shift in public policy away from trying to change working-class parents to improving the social contexts in which society asks them to raise the next generation. Book Features: An explanation for social class differences in educationally relevant, mobility-related parenting practices that contrasts with the dominant cultural explanation.Research findings that are informed by a variety of data sources, including interview data, survey data, social network data, census data, and crime statistics.Two new parenting concepts—strategic parenting and defensive parenting—that capture how middle-class and working-class parents pursue social mobility for their children.

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Teachers College Press

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0807779903

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Victorian Paper Art and Craft

Writers and Their Materials

By: Deborah Lutz

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Victorian Paper Art and Craft

Writers and Their Materials

By: Deborah Lutz

This book shows how authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and of reading, drawing, and handicraft) for inspiration and creative composition. In doing so, it reshapes the sensory history of working on and with paper. These activities were many and varied: Charlotte Brontë composed poems and doodled in the margins of school books, George Eliot recorded writing ideas on her blotter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning sewed paper to paper to edit her poems, and Jane Austen employed straight pins to "cut and paste." Albums provided a playful space to collect and to produce text-and-collage gifts for friends, circumventing print culture for a more intimate book making, as Elizabeth Gaskell and Anna Atkins knew. Notebooks and commonplace books were vital to Eliot, Michael Field, and Emily Brontë as part of a writing process. Writers experimented with crafts and needlework to compose text without paper and ink, most notably in the case of samplers. What writing and drawing happened on—including bibles, sewing patterns, and walls—mattered, as related to, and generative of, the themes of the work. This expansive field of meanings that creativity with textual (and material) things could have was common to the Victorians, but the writers explored here were extravagant even among their self-reflexive contemporaries in their undoing, remaking, miniaturizing, encrypting, reusing, and transforming. The edge of the page, the width of the margin, the covers of the book, were limiting factors, but also provocations to push on further, be radical.

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Oxford University Press

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0192602438

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Pulse

By: John Lutz

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Pulse

By: John Lutz

A PI’s latest case resembles the work of a serial killer presumed dead in this dark crime thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Switch. Some Killers Come Back For More The killer’s depravity is insatiable. What he does to his victims is unthinkable. Homicide detective turned PI Frank Quinn has seen this M.O. before. A demented ritual, it’s the work of Daniel Danielle—a notorious serial killer who blurs the line between male and female, human and monster. Danielle disappeared ten years ago. Is a copycat repeating the crimes? Or has Danielle made a deadly return? Either way, this time the killing won’t stop . . . Praise for the writing of John Lutz “Among the best.” —The San Diego U-T “A major talent.” —John Lescroart “One of the masters.” —Ridley Pearson “In rare form.” —The New York Times Book Review

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0786030526

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9780786030521

American Triumph

The Dust Bowl, World War II, and Ultimate Victory

By: Susan Martins Miller,Norma Jean Lutz,Bonnie Hinman,Veda Boyd Jones

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American Triumph

The Dust Bowl, World War II, and Ultimate Victory

By: Susan Martins Miller,Norma Jean Lutz,Bonnie Hinman,Veda Boyd Jones

Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Immigrants in the Dust Bowl Years (1935), Mandy the Outsider: Prelude to World War 2 (1939), Jennie’s War: The Home Front in World War 2 (1944), and Laura’s Victory: End of the Second World War (1945), American Triumph will transport readers back to America’s overcoming of huge national challenges, teaching important lessons of history and Christian faith. Featuring bonus educational materials such as time lines and brief biographies of key historical figures, American Triumph is ideal for anytime reading and an excellent resource for home schooling.

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Barbour Publishing

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1607420171

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9781607420170

Frenzy

By: John Lutz

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Frenzy

By: John Lutz

When she was thirteen, something terrifying and mysterious happened to Liv that she still does not understand, and now, four years later, her dark secret threatens to tear her apart from her family and her true love.

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Kensington Books

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0786028300

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Chasing the Intact Mind

How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most

By: Amy S. F. Lutz

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Chasing the Intact Mind

How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most

By: Amy S. F. Lutz

In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Portia Iversen coined the phrase "intact mind" to describe the typical cognitive abilities she believed were buried within even the most seemingly impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov - who, at nine years old, was completely nonverbal and spent much of his time "chewing on blocks and tapping stones." Although he didn't know the alphabet, colors, or numbers; although he "could hardly point or nod his head to show what he meant"; although doctors had diagnosed Dov as "retarded" and told Iversen she "shouldn't wreck [her] marriage and destroy [her] other children's lives for his sake, when doing so was utterly and completely useless" - although all these things were true about her son, Iversen still imagined him "falling down a deep well, believed to be dead. And then years later, a light shone down that dark shaft and I could see him there, somehow still alive" (emphasis in original)"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197683843

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Unnatural Emotions

Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory

By: Catherine A. Lutz

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Unnatural Emotions

Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory

By: Catherine A. Lutz

An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all those concerned with the understanding of human emotions."—Karl G. Heider, American Anthropologist

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University of Chicago Press

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022621978X

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9780226219783

Homefront

A Military City and the American Twentieth Century

By: Catherine A. Lutz

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Homefront

A Military City and the American Twentieth Century

By: Catherine A. Lutz

A look at Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to Fort Bragg, that poses the question,'Are we all military dependents?' Fayetteville has earned the nicknames of Fatalville and Fayettenam. Unusual and not-sounusual features of the town include gross income inequalities, an extraordinarily high incidence of venereal disease, miles and miles of strip malls, and a history of racial violence. Through interviews with residents and historical research, Catherine Lutz immerses herself in the life of the town to discover how it has supported the military for over a century. From secret training operations that use civilians as mock enemies and allies to the satellite economy of the town, Lutz's history of Fayetteville reveals the burdens that military preparedness creates for all of us.

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Beacon Press

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0807055093

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9780807055090

Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference

The Definitive Source for Clear and Concise Writing

By: Gary Lutz,Diane Stevenson

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Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference

The Definitive Source for Clear and Concise Writing

By: Gary Lutz,Diane Stevenson

The Definitive Source for Clear and Correct Writing Engaging but not flip, thorough but not overwhelming, Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference is the perfect addition to anyone's desk. This guide provides: • Comprehensive grammar instruction--readers won't need any other guide • Real-world examples and errors from well-known magazines and newspapers, making the advice even more relevant • A user-friendly package with a concealed wire binding, a colored tab system, and sidebars for easy reference Practical, thorough, and accessible, Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference speaks to a hole in the market: good grammar instruction that's reader-friendly, fun to read, easy-to-understand, and correct.

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Penguin

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1599632241

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9781599632247

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names

Addendum to 6th Edition: 2012-2014

By: Lutz D. Schmadel

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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names

Addendum to 6th Edition: 2012-2014

By: Lutz D. Schmadel

The quantity of numbered minor planets is now approaching half a million. Together with this Addendum, the sixth edition of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, which is the IAU's official reference for the field, now covers more than 19,000 named minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names provides authoritative information about the basis for the rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to artists, from scientists to Nobel laureates, from historical or political figures to ordinary women and men, from mountains to buildings, as well as a variety of compound terms and curiosities. This Addendum to the 6th edition of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names adds approximately 2200 entries. It also contains many corrections, revisions and updates to the entries published in earlier editions. This work is an abundant source of information for anyone interested in minor planets and who enjoys reading about the people and things minor planets commemorate.

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Springer

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3319176773

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9783319176772

Cosmopolitan Vistas

American Regionalism and Literary Value

By: Tom Lutz

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Cosmopolitan Vistas

American Regionalism and Literary Value

By: Tom Lutz

In a major statement on the relation of art and politics in America, Tom Lutz identifies a consistent ethos at the heart of American literary culture for the past 150 years. Through readings of Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Claude McKay, Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and others, Lutz identifies what he calls literary cosmopolitanism: an ethos of representational inclusiveness, of the widest possible affiliation, and at the same time one of aesthetic discrimination, and therefore exclusivity.At the same time that it embraces the entire world, in Lutz's view, literary cosmopolitanism necessitates an evaluative stance, and it is this doubleness, this combination of egalitarianism and elitism, that animates American literature since the Civil War. The nineteenth century's realists and sentimentalists, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and of the Southern Renaissance, the firebrands who brought in the new canon and the traditionalists who struggled to save the old all ascribe, Lutz argues, to the same cosmopolitan values, however much they disagree on what these values demand of those who hold them.

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Cornell University Press

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0801489237

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9780801489235

Resonant Matter

Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality

By: Lutz Koepnick

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Resonant Matter

Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality

By: Lutz Koepnick

In Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonance-the ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objects-as a model of art's fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. In a series of nuanced readings, Koepnick follows the echoes of distant, unexpected, and unheard sounds in twenty-first century art to reflect on the attachments we pursue to sustain our lives and the walls we need to tear down to secure possible futures. The book's nine chapters approach The Visitors from ever-different conceptual angles while bringing it into dialogue with the work of other artists and musicians such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Guillermo Galindo, Mischa Kuball, Philipp Lachenmann, Alvien Lucier, Teresa Margolles, Carsten Nicolai, Camille Norment, Susan Philipsz, David Rothenberg, Juliana Snapper, and Tanya Tagaq. With this book, Koepnick situates resonance as a vital concept of contemporary art criticism and sound studies. His analysis encourages us not only to expand our understanding of the role of sound in art, of sound art, but to attune our critical encounter with art to art's own resonant thinking.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501343386

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9781501343384

American Progress

Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

By: Veda Boyd Jones,Norma Jean Lutz,JoAnn A. Grote

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American Progress

Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

By: Veda Boyd Jones,Norma Jean Lutz,JoAnn A. Grote

Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Maureen the Detective: The Age of Immigration (covering the year 1903), Maria Takes a Stand: The Battle for Women’s Rights (1914), Carrie’s Courage: Battling the Powers of Bigotry (1923), and Anna’s Fight for Hope: The Great Depression (1931), American Progress will transport readers back to America’s national maturation of the early twentieth century, teaching important lessons of history and Christian faith. Featuring bonus educational materials such as time lines and brief biographies of key historical figures, American Progress is ideal for anytime reading and an excellent resource for home schooling.

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Barbour Publishing

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1607420082

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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names

By: Lutz Schmadel

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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names

By: Lutz Schmadel

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and any surface features on them. The accelerating rate of the discovery of minor planets has not only made a new edition of this established compendium necessary but has also significantly altered its scope: this thoroughly revised edition concentrates on the approximately 10,000 minor planets that carry a name. It provides authoritative information about the basis for all names of minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who over two centuries vested their affinities in a rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions. The fifth edition serves as the primary reference, with plans for complementary booklets with newly named bodies to be issued every three years.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540002383

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9783540002383

Makúk

A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations

By: John Sutton Lutz

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Makúk

A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations

By: John Sutton Lutz

John Lutz traces Aboriginal people’s involvement in the new economy, and their displacement from it, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s. Drawing on an extensive array of oral histories, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, and statistical analysis, Lutz shows that Aboriginal people flocked to the workforce and prospered in the late nineteenth century. He argues that the roots of today’s widespread unemployment and “welfare dependency” date only from the 1950s, when deliberate and inadvertent policy choices – what Lutz terms the “white problem” drove Aboriginal people out of the capitalist, wage, and subsistence economies, offering them welfare as “compensation.”

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UBC Press

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0774858273

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9780774858274

The Dangerous Lover

Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-century Seduction Narrative

By: Deborah Lutz

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The Dangerous Lover

Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-century Seduction Narrative

By: Deborah Lutz

The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the ubiquity of the brooding romantic hero - his dark past, his remorseful and rebellious exile from comfortable everyday living. Deborah Lutz traces the recent history of this figure, through the melancholy iconoclasm of the Romantics, the lost soul redeemed by love of the Brontes, and the tormented individualism of twentieth-century love narratives. The Dangerous Lover is the first book-length study of this pervasive literary hero; it also challenges the tendency of sophisticated philosophical readings of popular narratives and culture to focus on male-coded genres. In its conjunction of high and low literary forms, this volume explores new historical and cultural framings for female-coded popular narratives."--BOOK JACKET.

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Ohio State University Press

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0814210341

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9780814210345

The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers

How States and International Organizations Constructed a New Instrument for Combating Poverty

By: Lutz Leisering

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The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers

How States and International Organizations Constructed a New Instrument for Combating Poverty

By: Lutz Leisering

This volume analyses the phenomenon of social cash transfers in the global South, providing a definitive and comprehensive overview of current practice.

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0198754337

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9780198754336

Urge To Kill

By: John Lutz

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Urge To Kill

By: John Lutz

A retired homicide detective turned PI tracks down a killer seducing women to their deaths in this twisted crime thriller by the author of Night Kills. For A Killer, Once Is Never Enough Homicide detective Frank Quinn can’t stay retired when a new breed of murdering madman is on the prowl. In a city terrorized by bloody brutality, Quinn and his team hunt a psychopath who lures beautiful women into a night of unbridled passion, then wakes them to a vicious, drawn-out death. Stumbling over a trail of horribly defiled bodies, Quinn can’t seem to catch up to the killer—because the killer is about to catch up to him . . . Praise for the writing of John Lutz “Lutz is in rare form.” —The New York Times Book Review on Chill of Night “Another enthralling page turner.” —Publishers Weekly on In For the Kill “A dazzling tour de force.” —St. Louis Post Dispatch on Chill of Night “Lutz knows how to make you shiver.” —Harlan Coben

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Pinnacle Books

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078602304X

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9780786023042

Michael Bay

By: Lutz Koepnick

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Michael Bay

By: Lutz Koepnick

If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually push the movie industry as much as the medium of film toward new frontiers. Lutz Koepnick engages the bigness of works like Armageddon and the Transformers movies to explore essential questions of contemporary filmmaking and culture. Combining close analysis and theoretical reflection, Koepnick shows how Bay's films, knowingly or not, address profound issues about what it means to live in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. According to Koepnick's astute readings, no one eager to understand the state of cinema today can ignore Bay's work. Bay's cinema of world-making and transnational reach not only exemplifies interlocking processes of cultural and economic globalization. It urges us to contemplate the future of moving images, of memory, matter, community, and experience, amid a time of rampant political populism and ever-accelerating technological change. An eye-opening look at one of Hollywood's most polarizing directors, Michael Bay illuminates what energizes the films of this cinematic and cultural force.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050215

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9780252050213

“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

By: W. George Lovell,Christopher H. Lutz

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“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

By: W. George Lovell,Christopher H. Lutz

Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it. The studies assembled here, focusing on the first century of colonial rule (1524–1624), discuss issues of conquest and resistance, settlement and colonization, labor and tribute, and Maya survival in the wake of Spanish invasion. The authors reappraise the complex relationship between Spaniards and Indians, which was marked from the outset by mutual feelings of resentment and mistrust. While acknowledging the pivotal role of native agency, the authors also document the excesses of Spanish exploitation and the devastating impact of epidemic disease. Drawing on research findings in Spanish and Guatemalan archives, they offer fresh insight into the Kaqchikel Maya uprising of 1524, showing that despite strategic resistance, colonization imposed a burden on the indigenous population more onerous than previously thought. Guatemala remains a deeply divided and unjust society, a country whose current condition can be understood only in light of the colonial experiences that forged it. Affording readers a critical perspective on how Guatemala came to be, “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” shows the events of the past to have enduring contemporary relevance.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806151188

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9780806151182

Fear The Night

By: John Lutz

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Fear The Night

By: John Lutz

A Madman's Obsession Is A City's Nightmare He comes out when the sun goes down. He's made New York City his shooting gallery. The Night Sniper threatens to increase the body count-unless legendary homicide detective Vin Repetto is willing to engage him in a lethal game of cat and mouse. When the next victim is murdered right before Repetto's eyes, the game is set to begin. But The Night Sniper doesn't realize they're playing by Repetto's rules. . . "A HEART-POUNDING ROLLER COASTER OF A TALE." --Jeffery Deaver on Night Victims "A PAGE-TURNER. . .TWISTY, CREEPY." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Mister X "LUTZ IS IN RARE FORM." -The New York Times Book Review on Chill of Night

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0786028637

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Making and Moving Knowledge

Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge

By: John Sutton Lutz,Barbara Neis

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Making and Moving Knowledge

Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge

By: John Sutton Lutz,Barbara Neis

It has been clear for some time that research does not automatically translate into knowledge, nor does knowledge necessarily translate into wisdom. Whether the immediate challenge is global warming, epidemic disease, poverty, environmental degradation, or social fragmentation, research efforts are wasted if we cannot devise efficient and understandable processes to create and transfer knowledge to policy makers, interested groups, and communities. How to maximize the impact of scholarly research and combine it with practical knowledge already available in lay communities are key issues in a world threatened with social-ecological disasters. Making and Moving Knowledge focuses directly on how knowledge is created and transferred or is blocked and atrophies. It places knowledge generated by universities and governments beside practical knowledge from coastal aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities and looks at how different kinds of knowledge flow in different directions. Concentrating on intellectually fertile spaces at the edges of disciplines and the rich socio-ecological interfaces where land meets sea, authors demonstrate their commitment to knowledge transfer in their work, showing how knowledge transfer can be considered theoretically, methodologically, and practically.

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0773577920

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A Lawyer's Handbook for Enforcing Foreign Judgments in the United States and Abroad

By: Robert E. Lutz

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A Lawyer's Handbook for Enforcing Foreign Judgments in the United States and Abroad

By: Robert E. Lutz

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Cambridge University Press

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0521858747

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Revenge of the Spellmans

Document #3

By: Lisa Lutz

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Revenge of the Spellmans

Document #3

By: Lisa Lutz

From the award-winning author of The Passenger comes the third novel in the hilarious Spellman Files mystery series featuring Isabel “Izzy” Spellman (part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry) and her highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators. Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch—in courtordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject, leaving Izzy on hiatus from Spellman Inc. But when her boss, Milo, simultaneously cuts her bartending hours and introduces her to a “friend” looking for a private eye, Izzy reluctantly finds herself with a new client. She assures herself that the case—a suspicious husband who wants his wife tailed—will be short and sweet, and will involve nothing more than the most boring of PI rituals: surveillance. But with each passing hour, Izzy finds herself with more questions than hard evidence. Meanwhile, Spellmania continues. Izzy’s brother, David, the family’s most upright member, has adopted an uncharacteristically unkempt appearance and attitude toward work, life, and Izzy. And their wayward youngest sister, Rae, a historic academic underachiever, aces the PSATs and subsequently offends her study partner and object of obsession, Detective Henry Stone, to the point of excommunication. The only unsurprising behavior comes from her parents, whose visits to Milo’s bar amount to thinly veiled surveillance and artful attempts (read: blackmail) at getting Izzy to return to the Spellman Inc. fold. As the case of the wayward wife continues to vex her, Izzy’s personal life—and mental health—seem to be disintegrating. Facing a housing crisis, she can’t sleep, she can’t remember where she parked her car, and, despite her shrinks’ (yes, plural) persistence, she can’t seem to break through in her appointments. She certainly can’t explain why she forgets dates with her lawyer’s grandson, or fails to interpret the come-ons issued in an Irish brogue by Milo’s new bartender. Nor can she explain exactly how she feels about Detective Henry Stone and his plans to move in with his new Assistant DA girlfriend. Filled with the signature side-splitting Spellman antics, Revenge of the Spellmans is an ingenious, hilarious, and disarmingly tender installment in the Spellman series.

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416

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Simon and Schuster

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1416597115

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9781416597117

Women in Higher Education

Empowering Change

By: JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz

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Women in Higher Education

Empowering Change

By: JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz

More women are receiving advanced degrees and ascending to the ranks of deans, provosts, and presidents, but despite gains in advancing gender equality, efforts at true empowerment are still met with significant resistance within academia. The contributors to this collection are committed to promoting the issue of gender and empowering women in higher education. The approach of this book is both theoretical and applied. On one level it evaluates pedagogy from the perspective of what we teach, how we teach, and curriculum development that enables and empowers women. On the other level it examines the institutional barriers that continue to exist that thwart the educational development of women while also examining the areas in which institutional support does promote efforts toward change. Women are the growing majority population, yet women in higher education are not provided an equal education. This book includes strategies for change, teaching suggestions, and curriculum development ideas.

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191

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313012962

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9780313012969

Import Propensities of Industrialized Countries

Comparisons and Evaluations

By: J. Lutz

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Import Propensities of Industrialized Countries

Comparisons and Evaluations

By: J. Lutz

This volume analyzes the import patterns of selected countries to determine which nations are active importers and which ones import much less than expected. The majority of the work focuses on the industrialized countries, which are at the center of the international trading system, determining which are very active importers and which are not. Controls for wealth, size, and membership in customs areas are included. Countries importing at levels below predicted ones are the countries likely to be most effective at protecting domestic industries from foreign competition. For example, the results permit an evaluation of the arguments that Japan has consistently imported less than would be expected due to the presence of barriers protecting the domestic market.

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Springer

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1349622079

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On Slowness

Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary

By: Lutz Koepnick

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On Slowness

Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary

By: Lutz Koepnick

Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes to understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporaryÑa decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly at and into the presentÕs velocity. As he engages with late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century art, photography, video, film, and literature, Koepnick explores slowness as a critical medium to intensify our temporal and spatial experiences. Slowness helps us register the multiple layers of time, history, and motion that constitute our present. It offers a timely (and untimely) mode of aesthetic perception and representation that emphasizes the openness of the future and undermines any conception of the present as a mere replay of the past. Discussing the photography and art of Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Michael Wesely; the films of Peter Weir and Tom Tykwer; the video installations of Douglas Gordon, Willie Doherty, and Bill Viola; and the fiction of Don DeLillo, Koepnick shows how slowness can carve out spaces within processes of acceleration that allow us to reflect on alternate temporalities and durations.

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333

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Columbia University Press

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0231168322

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9780231168328

The Mystery of Mary

By: Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

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The Mystery of Mary

By: Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

Reproduction of the original: The Mystery of Mary by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

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3752362456

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9783752362459

Russian in Arizona

A History of Its Teaching

By: Katherine Lutz,Barry Boosman,Lee B. Croft

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Russian in Arizona

A History of Its Teaching

By: Katherine Lutz,Barry Boosman,Lee B. Croft

This is a history of the teaching of Russian in the State of Arizona. It attempts to describe the efforts of EVERYONE who has EVER taught Russian ANYWHERE in the State of Arizona, as well as the subsequent fates of hundreds of their Arizona students of Russian. Over 1600 teachers and students are mentioned.

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1430323558

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9781430323556

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