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Miachella Wilson

By: Lydia Marie Williams

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Teenage El Wilson is facing one of the hardest chapters of her high school story. She has to focus on her schoolwork even when her heart rests on her first real crush, Conrad Ziegler. Find out how this awkward girl handles this obstacle. Will she keep her cool, or will she crack under pressure?

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Lulu.com

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1794899022

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9781794899025

Essays Two

On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles

By: Lydia Davis

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Essays Two

On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles

By: Lydia Davis

A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called “a magician of self-consciousness” by Jonathan Franzen and “the best prose stylist in America” by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection of her essays about best writing practices, representations of Jesus, early tourist photographs, and much more. Essays Two collects Davis’s writings and talks on her second profession: the art of translation. The award-winning translator from the French reflects on her experience translating Proust (“A work of creation in its own right.” —Claire Messud, Newsday), Madame Bovary (“[Flaubert’s] masterwork has been given the English translation it deserves.” —Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review), and Michel Leiris (“Magnificent.” —Tim Watson, Public Books). She also makes an extended visit to the French city of Arles, and writes about the varied adventures of learning Norwegian, Dutch, and Spanish through reading and translation. Davis, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow and the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her fiction, here focuses her unique intelligence and idiosyncratic ways of understanding on the endlessly complex relations between languages. Together with Essays One, this provocative and delightful volume cements her status as one of our most original and beguiling writers.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374721831

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9780374721831

Meeting Families Where They Are

Building Equity Through Advocacy with Diverse Schools and Communities

By: Beth Harry,Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg

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Meeting Families Where They Are

Building Equity Through Advocacy with Diverse Schools and Communities

By: Beth Harry,Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg

The authors examine the importance of equitable family advocacy in special education professionals' work, in order to redress inequities that often challenge children's and families' rights to sufficient and equitable educational outcomes. Harry and Ocasio-Stoutenburg draw on intersectionality to inform the work of advocacy. In the words of the authors, "our purpose is to change the language of advocacy from its original meaning of one who speaks for-to one who speaks with." Advocacy is not a "one size fits all" kind of work. The authors examine the socio-historical context of advocacy work, its further development in the Civil Rights Era, and provide grounded examples of doing advocacy work at the school/community level, as well as at the policy level. The book intends to provide a working model of co-constructed advocacy to benefit all families"--

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Disability, Culture, and Equit

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0807763845

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9780807763841

Rethinking Philosophers' Responsibility

By: Lydia Amir

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Rethinking Philosophers' Responsibility

By: Lydia Amir

Calling on philosophers as the custodians of rationality to reconsider their responsibility toward their communities and the state of civilization at large, this book considers philosophy to be a practical discipline. Largely foreign to philosophers and non-philosophers alike, this conception of philosophy discloses the relevance of its unique contributions to contemporary society. The book offers a compelling and accessible analysis of philosophy also in relation to religion, psychology, the New Age Movement, and globalization, and exemplifies through a wide range of current problems how philosophers can fulfil their responsibility. Its argument that responsibility lies where one is capable of doing what is needed, and even more so, when no one else can do it, targets philosophers. However, its innovative study of contemporary philosophy coupled with its original contributions to the problems at hand will engage academics and students from other disciplines, as well as a general readership.

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341

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527505251

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9781527505254

Tessa Verney Wheeler

Women and Archaeology Before World War Two

By: Lydia C. Carr

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Tessa Verney Wheeler

Women and Archaeology Before World War Two

By: Lydia C. Carr

In this book, Carr unravels the biography of the archaeologist Tessa Verney Wheeler, a charming, tiny woman whose untimely death left her archaeological career overshadowed by her distinguished husband, Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Despite a short career of just over twenty years, Verney Wheeler published and excavated extensively while simultaneously developing new archaeological techniques, brought archaeology into the lives of the general public through her connections with the Press and the encouragement of site tours, and was an inspiring teacher to an impressive roster of students. In this biography, her life is recovered through an examination of her written work, archives, sites, and photographs, as well as through the memories of those who knew her. By means of a discussion of the very personal life and work of one woman, Carr explores the role of women in early British archaeology, resulting in a fascinating picture of a woman and a vivid evocation of the interwar period in London and Wales. From her work retraining colliery navvies as archaeological diggers in Roman amphitheatres on the Welsh borders, to cheap omelettes with her students at the Lyons Corner House on Piccadilly in London, Verney Wheeler crossed social and physical borders with a grace and appeal that remains very palpable today.

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OUP Oxford

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0191069515

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9780191069512

The Hyperactive Child Book

Treating, Educating & Living With An Adhd Child - Strategies That Really Work, From An Award-Winning Team Of Experts

By: Patricia Kennedy,Leif G. Terdal,Lydia Fusetti

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The Hyperactive Child Book

Treating, Educating & Living With An Adhd Child - Strategies That Really Work, From An Award-Winning Team Of Experts

By: Patricia Kennedy,Leif G. Terdal,Lydia Fusetti

Every parent of a child with ADHD (Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder) needs to know: How can I help my child, myself and my whole family not only cope but thrive? The Hyperactive Child Book has the answers. Hailed by Child magazine as one of the ten best parenting books of 1993, this is the only book that offers the invaluable advice of an entire team of experts--a monther and the pediatrician and child psychologist she turned to when her son was diagnosed with ADHD--on every aspect of raising a hyperactive child, including: Why it is essential to have your child evaluated by an expert diagnostic team--and how to go about finding more How to be sure your child is receiving the best possible medical care How to be your child's adocate in the school bureaucracy How to help your child acquire the specific study skills that will help him or her learn most effectively How to deal with day-to-day issues from homework to housework to relationships with siblings and peers Detailed compassionate and endlessly useful, here at last is a book that goes beyond the myths and fads about hyperactivity to help your entire family live happily with an ADHD child.

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292

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Macmillan

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0312112866

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9780312112868

Human Nature in Early Franciscan Thought

Philosophical Background and Theological Significance

By: Lydia Schumacher

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Human Nature in Early Franciscan Thought

Philosophical Background and Theological Significance

By: Lydia Schumacher

In this book, Lydia Schumacher challenges the common assumption that early Franciscan thought simply reiterates the longstanding tradition of Augustine. She demonstrates how scholars from this tradition incorporated the work of Islamic and Jewish philosophers, whose works had recently been translated from Arabic, with a view to developing a unique approach to questions of human nature. These questions pertain to perennial philosophical concerns about the relationship between the body and the soul, the work of human cognition and sensation, and the power of free will. By highlighting the Arabic sources of early Franciscan views on these matters, Schumacher illustrates how scholars working in the early thirteenth century anticipated later developments in Franciscan thought which have often been described as novel or unprecedented. Above all, her study demonstrates that the early Franciscan philosophy of human nature was formulated with a view to bolstering the order's specific theological and religious ideals.

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361

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Cambridge University Press

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1009201158

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9781009201155

Country of Writing

Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900

By: Lydia Wevers

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Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900

By: Lydia Wevers

This pioneering examination of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial period discusses a wide range of writing that helped place New Zealand on the literary map, while providing an oblique history of the young nation in the 19th century. Exploring early newspaper accounts; the journals of missionaries, traders, and adventurers; and the guidebooks and specialized descriptions of fishing, and hunting, which promoted New Zealand as a sporting paradise, Wevers finds that writing about New Zealand was an essential tool in the colonization process.

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Auckland University Press

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1869402715

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9781869402716

Imagined Orphans

Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London

By: Lydia Murdoch

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Imagined Orphans

Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London

By: Lydia Murdoch

In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813537223

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9780813537221

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Writing Travel and Travel Writing About New Zealand 1809–1935

By: Dr. Lydia Wevers

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Writing Travel and Travel Writing About New Zealand 1809–1935

By: Dr. Lydia Wevers

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Auckland University Press

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1775580539

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9781775580539

Ghost Lights: A Novel

By: Lydia Millet

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Ghost Lights: A Novel

By: Lydia Millet

Surreal, darkly hilarious and profound." —San Francisco Chronicle Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal—a man baffled by his wife’s obsession with her missing employer. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find the man, embroiling himself in a surreal tropical adventure (and an unexpected affair with a beguiling German woman). Ghost Lights is Lydia Millet at her best—beautifully written, engaging, full of insight into the heartbreaking devotion of parenthood and the charismatic oddity of human behavior.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393082903

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9780393082906

Prison Capital

Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana

By: Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

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Prison Capital

Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana

By: Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana's carceral infrastructures with new prisons and jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding "crime." However, these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of confinement lawsuits and Angola activists challenging life without parole to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina and LGBTQ youth of color organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana's carceral crisis extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its forms.

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222

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UNC Press Books

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1469675129

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9781469675121

New Religions [2 volumes]

Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World [2 volumes]

By: Eugene V. Gallagher,Lydia Willsky-Ciollo

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New Religions [2 volumes]

Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World [2 volumes]

By: Eugene V. Gallagher,Lydia Willsky-Ciollo

A valuable resource for students and general audiences, this book provides a unique global perspective on the history, beliefs, and practices of emergent faith communities; new religious traditions; and religious movements worldwide, from the 19th century to the present. New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World provides insightful global perspectives on the emergent faith communities and new traditions and movements of the last two centuries. Readers will gain access to the information necessary to explore the significance, complexities, and challenges that modern religious traditions have faced throughout their history and that continue to impact society today. The work identifies the themes and issues that have often brought new religions into conflict with the larger societies of which they are a part. Coverage includes new religious groups that emerged in America, such as the Seventh-day Adventists, the Latter-day Saints, and the Jehovah's Witnesses; alternative communities around the globe that emerged from the major Western and Eastern traditions, such as Aum Shinrikyo and Al-Qaeda; and marginalized groups that came to a sudden end, such as the Peoples Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the Branch Davidians. The entries highlight thematic and broader issues that run across the individual religious traditions, and will also help students analyze and assess the common difficulties faced by emergent religious communities.

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637

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216122913

Elective Affinities

Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory

By: Lydia Goehr

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Elective Affinities

Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory

By: Lydia Goehr

As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto. Aesthetic theory, she argues, depends on a dynamic philosophy of history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs, and potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno and Danto regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and human experience as arguments for continuation and survival. Elective Affinities tracks the migration of aesthetic and critical theory from Germany to the United States following the catastrophic period of the twentieth century marked by the Second World War.

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Columbia University Press

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0231144806

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9780231144803

Imperial Policing

Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago

By: Andy Clarno,Janaé Bonsu-Love,Enrique Alvear Moreno,Lydia Dana,Michael De Anda Muñiz,Ila Ravichandran,Haley Volpintesta

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Imperial Policing

Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago

By: Andy Clarno,Janaé Bonsu-Love,Enrique Alvear Moreno,Lydia Dana,Michael De Anda Muñiz,Ila Ravichandran,Haley Volpintesta

Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicago’s police wars Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to police the poor and suppress struggles for social justice. Imperial Policing examines the role of local law enforcement, federal immigration authorities, and national security agencies in upholding the city’s highly unequal social order. Collaboratively authored by the Policing in Chicago Research Group, Imperial Policing was developed in dialogue with movements on the front lines of struggles against racist policing in Black, Latinx, and Arab/Muslim communities. It analyzes the connections between three police “wars”—on crime, terror, and immigrants—focusing on the weaponization of data and the coordination between local and national agencies to suppress communities of color and undermine social movements. Topics include high-tech, data-based tools of policing; the racialized archetypes that ground the police wars; the manufacturing of criminals and terrorists; the subversion of sanctuary city protections; and abolitionist responses to policing, such as the Erase the Database campaign. Police networks and infrastructure are notoriously impenetrable to community members and scholars, making Imperial Policing a rare, vital example of scholars working directly with community organizations to map police networks and intervene in policing practices. Engaging in a methodology designed to provide support for transformative justice organizations, the Policing in Chicago Research Group offers a critical perspective on the abolition of imperial policing, both in Chicago and around the globe.

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299

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452971722

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9781452971728

The Perfect Name for the Perfect Baby

By: Joan Wilen,Lydia Wilen

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The Perfect Name for the Perfect Baby

By: Joan Wilen,Lydia Wilen

Names for baby organized by angels, the Bible, saints, names from mythology, foreign names, flower names, jewels, tennis names, marathon runner names, soap opera stars, fictional characters, lyrical names, celebrity names, and names based on the Virtues.

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