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My Story

The Pieces Come Together

By: Lynn Richardson Jackson

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My Story

The Pieces Come Together

By: Lynn Richardson Jackson

This is not a story of overcoming adversity, but simply one of embracing change as an integral part of a full and happy life. It is the story of growing up in the Baltimore, Maryland suburb of Catonsville through the 40s and 50s, during a time in our history when family values and traditions were strong, into the turbulent 60s and 70s. Diary and journal writing for over 50 years, along with independent travel while living and working in Europe for the US Armed Forces, eased the transition through the many stages of the author's life. Moving towards retirement, the pieces began to take shape in quiet moments on a pastorial island in the Portuguese Azores that shared many of her treasured values of childhood.

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1467837954

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A Biographical History of Endocrinology

By: D. Lynn Loriaux

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A Biographical History of Endocrinology

By: D. Lynn Loriaux

Establishing endocrinology as a distinct medical specialty was no easy task. This engaging volume chronicles the journey through the stories of the men –and occasional women—who shaped the specialty through the ages. In 108 brief chapters, A Biographical History of Endocrinology illuminates the progress of endocrinology from Hippocrates to the modern day. The author highlights important leaders and their contributions to the field, including these early pioneers: Kos and Alexandria, and the first human anatomy Bartolomeo Eustachi and the adrenal gland Richard Lower and the pituitary gland Thomas Addison and adrenal insufficiency Franz Leydig and testosterone secreting cells Wiliam Stewart Halsted and surgery of the thyroid gland John J. Abel and isolation of hormones Hakaru Hashimoto and his disease Covering all the watershed moments in the history of the profession, the book identifies key figures whose contributions remain relevant today. Their fascinating stories of experiments and studies, advocacy and adversity, and exploring unknown territory will inspire the next generation of endocrinologists and satisfy every clinician who ever wondered "how did we get here?" This comprehensive yet concise biographical history of endocrinology will benefit not only practicing and prospective endocrinologists, but also other medical specialists and medical historians.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119202469

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Cruel World

The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

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Cruel World

The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a person but an object, available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power, policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or disabled children out of the New Order by poison, gas, and starvation. Defect-free “good blood” children were subjected to an “education” based on racism, propaganda, and the glorification of the Führer, and were deliberately deprived of free time that would allow independent thought or action. Once the war began, “Nordic”-looking children were kidnapped from families in the conquered lands and subjected to “Germanization.” Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of “bad blood” children—Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians(were separated from their families and condemned to forced migration, slave labor, sadistic experiments, starvation, and mass execution. At the end of the war, uprooted children of every origin wandered the bombed-out cities and countryside, some having been taken from home at such a young age that they did not know where they had come from or even their own names. Millions surged into and out of DP camps, exploited by political and religious groups, while the Allies and the fledgling United Nations tried mightily to put families back together and to find new homes for the orphans. All the riveting narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that distinguished Lynn Nicholas’s first book, The Rape of Europa (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction), are present in her study of these terrible crimes against humanity. To research this story she has delved into the governmental and military archives of many nations, and has interviewed countless individuals. She shows the relationship of the deadly Nazi policies to the brutal tactics used in the USSR in the 1930s and to their rehearsal in the Spanish Civil War, and vividly describes the abject failure of Hitler’s campaign to plant Germanizing colonies in the conquered nations. She gives us the stories of survivors of ghastly war-spawned famines(in Greece and Russia in the 1940s, Holland in the “Hunger Winter” of 1945, and Berlin in the Airlift year of 1949(and of British, French, and Dutch children who were evacuated to the countryside; boys and girls sent alone from Europe to England on the Kindertransports; the teenaged soldiers of the Reich; the small veterans of the quarries, the factories, and the camps as well as those who survived in lonely hiding. In Cruel World Lynn Nicholas shows us clearly, and with passionate empathy for the innocent victims, the crimes against children that inevitably result when ideology overwhelms humanity. This powerful book, as it recounts the waking nightmare that enmeshed the lives of Europe’s boys and girls, bears witness to our own responsibility to the children of the twenty-first century.

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Vintage

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0307793826

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9780307793829

The Descendant

By: Lynn Terrell

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The Descendant

By: Lynn Terrell

As World War II draws to a close in Europe, a lone German submarine slips past Allied forces and makes its way to the southeastern coast of the United States. There, under the cover of darkness, a coterie of fugitives from Germany's Third Reich slips ashore and proceeds to a safe haven in the southern U.S. The story jumps ahead 50 years, and the Senior Senator from Alabama is now poised to become the most powerful man in the world, the President of the United States. But, an anonymous e-mail to the Washington-based Public Service Institute (PSI), casts a shadow over the candidate's true identity. "He's not what he seems," the message warns. "The answer is in Elberta, Alabama." The Executive Director of PSI is Will Donovan, a lawyer and former Alabama State Senator. Donovan is puzzled, but he follows his instincts. The answer to what is in Elberta? he asks. Donovan and his colleagues-a former FBI agent, a retired Army general, a savvy political activist and the daughter of a political icon-lead the covert search. They uncover a tangled web of deception, international conspiracy and assassinations-all supporting this ruthless grab for power.

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iUniverse

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0595222315

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9780595222315

Ancient Greek Cults

A Guide

By: Jennifer Lynn Larson

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Ancient Greek Cults

A Guide

By: Jennifer Lynn Larson

Using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources, and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume offers an accessible account of the Greek gods for undergraduate students.

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Psychology Press

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0415324483

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Rhetoric and Composition

An Introduction

By: Steven Lynn

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Rhetoric and Composition

An Introduction

By: Steven Lynn

Rhetoric and composition is an academic discipline that informs all other fields in teaching students how to communicate their ideas and construct their arguments. It has grown dramatically to become a cornerstone of many undergraduate courses and curricula, and it is a particularly dynamic field for scholarly research. This book offers an accessible introduction to teaching and studying rhetoric and composition. By combining the history of rhetoric, explorations of its underlying theories, and a survey of current research (with practical examples and advice), Steven Lynn offers a solid foundation for further study in the field. Readers will find useful information on how students have been taught to invent and organize materials, to express themselves correctly and effectively, and how the ancient study of memory and delivery illuminates discourse and pedagogy today. This concise book thus provides a starting point for learning about the discipline that engages writing, thinking, and argument.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139788868

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Inventing Human Rights

A History

By: Lynn Hunt

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Inventing Human Rights

A History

By: Lynn Hunt

In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Professor Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth, and the spread of empathy over the centuries.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393331997

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9780393331998

Diving the Virgin Islands

By: Lynn Seldon

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Diving the Virgin Islands

By: Lynn Seldon

This guide takes you to the best the islands have to offer, both above and below the water's surface. Underwater enthusiasts will revel in the vivid descriptions of dive sites, from the wreck of the Chikuzen just off Virgin Gorda to the Painted Walls of Norman Island. Each of the dives is chosen for visual appeal, marine life, or the challenge it offers. Depth, strength of currents, accessibility, marine life you will encounter, level of expertise required and special points of interest are covered. This guide is aimed at the dive traveler, not just the diver. It offers details on sightseeing, dining, and accommodations. You will also find contact numbers for watersports operators, stables, and boat charter companies. Shopping is covered in the guide as well. Aimed at the dive traveler, this book takes you to the best places the islands have to offer, both above and under the water. There are vivid descriptions of the dive sites and each one profiled is chosen for its visual appeal, marine life or the challenge it offers. The depth, strength of currents, accessibility, marine life you will encounter, level of experience required and special points of interest are covered. A special section covers medical and travel insurance for divers.

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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1588430332

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9781588430335

Fields Virology: Fundamentals

By: Peter M Howley,David M Knipe,Lynn W Enquist

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Fields Virology: Fundamentals

By: Peter M Howley,David M Knipe,Lynn W Enquist

Now in four convenient volumes, Field’s Virology remains the most authoritative reference in this fast-changing field, providing definitive coverage of virology, including virus biology as well as replication and medical aspects of specific virus families.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975112520

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The Letters of the Rožmberk Sisters

Noblewomen in Fifteenth-century Bohemia : Translated from Czech and German with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay

By: Perchta z Rožmberka,John M. Klassen,Eva Doležalová,Lynn Szabo

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The Letters of the Rožmberk Sisters

Noblewomen in Fifteenth-century Bohemia : Translated from Czech and German with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay

By: Perchta z Rožmberka,John M. Klassen,Eva Doležalová,Lynn Szabo

With an Introduction, Interpretive Essay and Bibliography THE LETTERS OF PERCHTA AND ANEZKA offer an illuminating insight into how two aristocratic women in fifteenth-century Bohemia saw themselves and their lives. The central topic of this collection is Perchta's expression, in letters to her father, of her deep unhappiness at his choice of husband for her, in which her expectations of respect and companionship in marriage clearly emerge. This rare discussion on paper of a situation that must have faced many women in the middle ages is valuable for its illustration of how much a woman might do to influence plans made for her, made all the more interesting by the vigorous personalities of the two sisters and the incidental illumination of family and castle life.

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DS Brewer

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085991612X

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9780859916127

Remembering Farley: A Tribute to the Life of Our Favorite Cartoon Dog

A For Better or For Worse Special Edition

By: Lynn Johnston

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Remembering Farley: A Tribute to the Life of Our Favorite Cartoon Dog

A For Better or For Worse Special Edition

By: Lynn Johnston

It was a bleak day when the Patterson's faithful 14-year-old sheep dog, Farley, died while saving young April from a raging river. Across the country, fans who read For Better or For Worse in some 1,600 daily newspapers, reacted with surprise and grief. Since 1979, Johnston has created an affectionate family whose members face real problems with grace and humor. Readers have accompanied Elly and John Patterson through the ears, watching them raise their children, Michael, Elizabeth, and April; commiserating when they dealt with aging parents; wondering how they'd handle a friend's homosexuality. In Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston shares her favorite selection from the heroic sheep dog's life. This retrospective includes strips from Farley's puppy days to his dying day, scenes that capture the essence of raising and loving a pet. Remembering Farley also contains some new illustrations and quotes from some of the letters sent by his many fans. Remembering Farley is a tender tribute to a dog that many of us felt was our own devoted friend.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449437389

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Healthcare Professionalism

Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas

By: Lynn V. Monrouxe,Charlotte E. Rees

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Healthcare Professionalism

Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas

By: Lynn V. Monrouxe,Charlotte E. Rees

Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas provides the tools and resources to help raise professional standards within the healthcare system. Taking an evidence and case-based approach to understanding professional dilemmas in healthcare, this book examines principles such as applying professional and ethical guidance in practice, as well as raising concerns and making decisions when faced with complex issues that often have no absolute right answer. Key features include: Real-life dilemmas as narrated by hundreds of healthcare students globally A wide range of professionalism and inter-professionalism related topics Information based on the latest international evidence Using personal incident narratives to illustrate these dilemmas, as well as regulatory body professionalism standards, Healthcare Professionalism is an invaluable resource for students, healthcare professionals and educators as they explore their own professional codes of behaviour.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119044464

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9781119044468

W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics

Literature as Historiography

By: Lynn L. Wolff

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W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics

Literature as Historiography

By: Lynn L. Wolff

This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944–2001) serve as striking examples for this discussion, for the way in which they demonstrate the emergence of a new hybrid discourse of literature as historiography. This book critically reconsiders the claims and aims of historiography by re-evaluating core questions of the literary discourse and by assessing the ethical imperative of literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Guided by an inherently interdisciplinary framework, this book elucidates the interplay of epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical concerns that define Sebald's criticism and fiction. Appropriate to the way in which Sebald's works challenge us to rethink the boundaries between discourses, genres, disciplines, and media, this work proceeds in a methodologically non-dogmatic way, drawing on hermeneutics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory. In addition to contextualizing Sebald within postwar literature in German, the book is the first English-language study to consider Sebald's œuvre as a whole. Of interest for Sebald experts and enthusiasts, literary scholars and historians concerned with the problematic of representing the past.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110340550

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9783110340556

Young People and the Future of News

Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism

By: Lynn Schofield Clark,Regina Marchi

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Young People and the Future of News

Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism

By: Lynn Schofield Clark,Regina Marchi

This book examines youth media practices on social media, introducing the concept of connective journalism as a precursor to collective political action.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107190606

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Black Chant

Languages of African-American Postmodernism

By: Aldon Lynn Nielsen

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Black Chant

Languages of African-American Postmodernism

By: Aldon Lynn Nielsen

A study of postmodernism and African-American poets.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521555264

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9780521555265

Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

By: Amy Lynn Wlodarski

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Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

By: Amy Lynn Wlodarski

The first comprehensive study of musical Holocaust representations in the Western tradition to examine both musical language and cultural value.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107116473

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Opera Companies and Houses of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference

By: Karyl Lynn Zietz

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Opera Companies and Houses of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference

By: Karyl Lynn Zietz

Although books have been written about various opera houses throughout the world, no one work has covered more than a relatively small number of the larger, well known companies and houses, and none have made more than brief mention of the smaller houses. No book has comprehensively listed opera repertories. Little, in sum, has been written about any of the smaller companies and houses located in non-English-speaking countries. This is the most comprehensive reference book ever written on opera companies and houses in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand--over 300, from the well known to the smaller. Each entry includes a history of the opera house or company, the works (title and composer) and type of productions offered, company staff, world and country premieres, repertory, and practical information on the theater's address, nearby hotel accommodations and how to order tickets. Most entries conclude with a bibliography.

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McFarland

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1476612021

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9781476612027

An Introduction to Communication

By: Lynn H. Turner,Richard West

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An Introduction to Communication

By: Lynn H. Turner,Richard West

This concise book presents theory and teaches skills allowing students from all academic backgrounds to understand the communication field.

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Cambridge University Press

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110715104X

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Core Curriculum for Infusion Nursing

By: Mary Alexander,Ann M. Corrigan,Lisa A. Gorski,Lynn Phillips

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Core Curriculum for Infusion Nursing

By: Mary Alexander,Ann M. Corrigan,Lisa A. Gorski,Lynn Phillips

Brought to you by the global authority in infusion therapy, the Fourth Edition for the Certified Registered Nurse Infusion (CRNI®) examination. The broad understanding of the specialty, serving both continuing education and professiona development needs. The completely revised Fourth Edition covers the latest technological advances in infusion therapy and reflects the recent expansion of the practiceof infusion nursing. A detailed outline format makes it easy to retrieve and review essential facts. Organized in nine core content areas, each chapter serves as the basis for the development of test questions.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469832356

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9781469832357

Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought

Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera

By: Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer

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Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought

Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera

By: Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with regard to imagination and its role in cognition. Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer reconstructs the process by which metaphoric language is taken up by the imagination and the role of imagination in rational thought. If imagination is a necessary component of thinking, how is Maimonides’ idea of pure intellectual thought possible? An examination of select passages in the Guide, in both Judeo-Arabic and translation, shows how Maimonides’ attitude towards imagination develops, and how translations contribute to a bifurcation of reason and imagination that does not acknowledge the nuances of the original text. Finally, the author shows how Falaquera’s poetics forges a new direction for thinking about imagination.

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275

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Springer Nature

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3030294226

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9783030294229

Excavations at Nemea

By: Darice Elizabeth Birge,Lynn Harriett Kraynak

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Excavations at Nemea

By: Darice Elizabeth Birge,Lynn Harriett Kraynak

This is the first of the final reports on the excavations by the University of California at Nemea in the 1970's and 1980's. It contains the topographical and architectural studies: the Sacred Square (D Birge); the Xenon (L H Kraynak); and the Bath (S G Miller) . Includes a catalogue of the artifacts found.

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Univ of California Press

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0520070275

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9780520070271

Tudor Textiles

By: Eleri Lynn

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Tudor Textiles

By: Eleri Lynn

A detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion, and taste At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were more highly esteemed than paintings and other forms of decorative art. Indeed, in 16th-century Europe, fine textiles were so costly that they were out of reach for average citizens, and even for many nobles. This spectacularly illustrated book tells the story of textiles during the long Tudor century, from the ascendance of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth I in 1603. It places elaborate tapestries, imported carpets, lavish embroidery, and more within the context of religious and political upheavals of the Tudor court, as well as the expanding world of global trade, including previously unstudied encounters between the New World and the Elizabethan court. Special attention is paid to the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a magnificent two-week festival—and unsurpassed display of golden textiles—held in 1520. Even half a millennium later, such extraordinary works remain Tudor society’s strongest projection of wealth, taste, and ultimately power.

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Yale University Press

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0300244126

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Health Systems in Transition

USA, Second Edition

By: Thomas Rice,Pauline Rosenau,Lynn Y. Unruh,Andrew J. Barnes

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Health Systems in Transition

USA, Second Edition

By: Thomas Rice,Pauline Rosenau,Lynn Y. Unruh,Andrew J. Barnes

The book provides a thorough review of the U.S. health care system, including its organization and financing, care delivery, recent reforms, and an evaluation of the system's performance.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487526458

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Modern Nature

The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany

By: Lynn K. Nyhart

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Modern Nature

The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany

By: Lynn K. Nyhart

In Modern Nature,Lynn K. Nyhart traces the emergence of a “biological perspective” in late nineteenth-century Germany that emphasized the dynamic relationships among organisms, and between organisms and their environment. Examining this approach to nature in light of Germany’s fraught urbanization and industrialization, as well the opportunities presented by new and reforming institutions, she argues that rapid social change drew attention to the role of social relationships and physical environments in rendering a society—and nature—whole, functional, and healthy. This quintessentially modern view of nature, Nyhart shows, stood in stark contrast to the standard naturalist’s orientation toward classification. While this new biological perspective would eventually grow into the academic discipline of ecology, Modern Nature locates its roots outside the universities, in a vibrant realm of populist natural history inhabited by taxidermists and zookeepers, schoolteachers and museum reformers, amateur enthusiasts and nature protectionists. Probing the populist beginnings of animal ecology in Germany, Nyhart unites the history of popular natural history with that of elite science in a new way. In doing so, she brings to light a major orientation in late nineteenth-century biology that has long been eclipsed by Darwinism.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226610926

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Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany

Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia

By: Lynn Abrams

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Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany

Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia

By: Lynn Abrams

Workers Culture in Imperial Germany represents the first alternative approach to the study of workers' culture in Imperial Germany. It is also the first comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry. The central concern of the book is the emergence of a distinct workers' culture which provided a disparate and heterogeneous working class with a focus of identity in an alien and hostile society. Lynn Abrams focuses on the leisure activities enjoyed by workers in the major cities of Bochum and Dusseldorf. She provides a comprehensive coverage of a whole range of popular amusements and recreations on offer including festivals, pubs, Tingel-Tangels, dance halls, clubs and cinema. The book is also a major contribution to the social history of working-class life in the nineteenth century, contributing to the debate over the role of a working class culture in Imperial Germany.

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Routledge

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1134902557

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9781134902552

Ventures All Levels Civics Worksheets

By: K.Lynn Savage,Gretchen Bitterlin,Dennis Johnson,Donna Price,Sylvia Ramirez

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Ventures All Levels Civics Worksheets

By: K.Lynn Savage,Gretchen Bitterlin,Dennis Johnson,Donna Price,Sylvia Ramirez

Ventures is a six-level, standards-based ESL series for adult-education ESL. Ventures Civics offers reproducible civics worksheets for use alongside the Ventures series. Designed to cover the EL/Civics objectives, this supplement also includes teaching tips and an arcade for preparing for the U.S. Citizenship Exam.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521135036

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Greek Nymphs

Myth, Cult, Lore

By: Jennifer Lynn Larson

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Greek Nymphs

Myth, Cult, Lore

By: Jennifer Lynn Larson

This book is a comprehensive study of the nymph in the ancient Greek world. It examines nymphs as both religious and mythopoetic figures, tracing their development and significance in Greek culture from Homer through the Hellenistic period.".

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195122941

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Jews in Germany After the Holocaust

Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations

By: Lynn Rapaport

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Jews in Germany After the Holocaust

Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations

By: Lynn Rapaport

What is it like to be Jewish and to be born and raised in Germany after the Holocaust? Based on remarkably candid interviews with nearly one hundred German Jews, Lynn Rapaport's book reveals a rare understanding of how the memory of the Holocaust shapes Jews' everyday lives. As their views of non-Jewish Germans and of themselves, their political integration into German society, and their friendships and relationships with Germans are subtly uncovered, the obstacles to readjustment when sociocultural memory is still present are better understood. This is also a book about Jewish identity in the midst of modernity. It shows how the boundaries of ethnicity are not marked by how religious Jews are, or their absorption of traditional culture, but by the moral distinctions rooted in Holocaust memory that Jews draw between themselves and other Germans. Jews in Germany after the Holocaust has won an award for being the best book in the sociology of religion from the American Sociological Association.

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1 & 2 Kings

By: Lynn Jost

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1 & 2 Kings

By: Lynn Jost

Violence on the streets. Military expansion. Consumerism. Policies exploiting people and natural resources. Harassment and abuse: 1 & 2 Kings could hardly be more relevant. In the thirty-fourth volume of the Believers Church Bible Commentary series, Old Testament scholar Lynn Jost claims 1 & 2 Kings were written to form a community that would embrace the Ten Commandments and the Great Shema and would champion righteousness and compassion. Jost traces the characteristics of royal justice, with its systems of excess and indulgence, as well as the court intrigue, succession politics, interfamily rivalries, and prophetic judgment that mark the books. Through it all, Israel remains in a covenant relationship with a delivering God. Through it all, God calls the leaders and the people to practice justice, protect shalom, and live righteously. In vivid and accessible prose, Jost invites pastors, scholars, and lay readers to read 1 & 2 Kings as books of promise—ones that gesture toward a faithful God who rescues, judges, commands, and provides. About the Believers Church Bible Commentary series This readable commentary series is for all who seek more fully to understand the original message of Scripture and its meaning for today—Sunday school teachers, members of Bible study groups, students, pastors, and other seekers. –From the Series Foreword

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