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The Wind Comes Sweeping

A Novel

By: Marcia Preston

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A woman tries to save her family’s Oklahoma cattle ranch by leasing it as a wind farm but only stirs trouble in this novel. Marik Youngblood left her Oklahoma hometown—and the child she gave up for adoption—intent on becoming an artist instead of a rancher. Her father’s death brings her back to a failing cattle operation, a pile of debt and a haunting need to find the child she left behind. But when the bones of an infant are unearthed on her family’s ranch, Marik fears she’s learned her daughter’s fate. Burt and Lena Gurdman own the property that neighbors Killdeer Ridge Ranch. Lena is poor and uneducated, with a husband who’s quick to blame her for any perceived wrong, but she knows she and Marik have more in common than the property line between them. She, too, has a secret . . . but to reveal the truth, she must find the courage to explore a past she buried long ago.

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Harlequin

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1459248252

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9781459248250

The Story Of Us

By: Marcia Preston

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The Story Of Us

By: Marcia Preston

“Sometimes the dreams were unspeakably sweet – Nathan as a little boy, full of energy. Then she’d wake to the crashing knowledge of his violent death, and it was like losing him again. ”

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HarperCollins UK

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1408951274

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The Butterfly House

By: Marcia Preston

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The Butterfly House

By: Marcia Preston

A woman must come to terms with the childhood secret she carries with her about the tragic fire that killed her mother. Reissue.

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MIRA

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0778313050

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9780778313052

The Piano Man

By: Marcia Preston

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The Piano Man

By: Marcia Preston

Haunted by the death of her teenaged son, Claire O'Neal finds solace in a letter from Mason MacKinnon, an accomplished violinist who received her son's heart, but years later, when she finds him playing piano in a dive bar, Claire vows to save him.

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MIRA

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0778322262

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Song of the Bones

A Chantalene Mystery

By: Marcia K. Preston

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Song of the Bones

A Chantalene Mystery

By: Marcia K. Preston

Following the critically acclaimed, award-winning Perhaps She'll Die, the second book in the Chantalene mystery series is sure to thrill Preston's growing fan base. Tetumka, Oklahoma's friendly postmistress and Chantalene Morrell's surrogate aunt, Thelma Patterson, retains Drew Sander's legal services - with Chantalene as his assistant. With a growing web of disappearances, mistaken identities, stalkers and missing items, Chantalene, Drew and Thelma soon realize danger is just beginning...

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Big Earth Publishing

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1890768545

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9781890768546

Place in Research

Theory, Methodology, and Methods

By: Eve Tuck,Marcia McKenzie

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Place in Research

Theory, Methodology, and Methods

By: Eve Tuck,Marcia McKenzie

Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this dynamic volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. There are often important divergences and even competing logics at work in these areas of research, some which may indeed be incommensurable. This volume explores how researchers around the globe are coming to terms - both theoretically and practically - with place in the context of settler colonialism, globalization, and environmental degradation. Tuck and McKenzie outline a trajectory of critical place inquiry that not only furthers empirical knowledge, but ethically imagines new possibilities for collaboration and action. Critical place inquiry can involve a range of research methodologies; this volume argues that what matters is how the chosen methodology engages conceptually with place in order to mobilize methods that enable data collection and analyses that address place explicitly and politically. Unlike other approaches that attempt to superficially tag on Indigenous concerns, decolonizing conceptualizations of land and place and Indigenous methods are central, not peripheral, to practices of critical place inquiry.

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Routledge

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1317655508

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to 40,000 Baby Names, 2nd Edition

Over 150 Baby Name List

By: Marcia Layton Turner

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to 40,000 Baby Names, 2nd Edition

Over 150 Baby Name List

By: Marcia Layton Turner

From Atticus to Zuzu With 10,000 additional names and 50 additional lists (200 total), this latest edition is the most comprehensive guide to naming newborns on the market, and the most fun! With specialized lists, from world leaders to favorite characters from children's literature, biblical figures to Wiccan/ Gothic/Vampire names, Olympic medalists to Nobel Prize winners, plus alphabetized lists for each gender, this guide makes the name game easy, pleasurable, and enlightening. - Approximately 4 million babies born every year in the U.S, and they all need names! - Contains 40,000 names, 10,000 more than The Everything Baby Names Book and 35,000 more than Baby Names for Dummies - Includes 200 specialized lists - even the names that have the best and worst nicknames - which add to the fun of selecting the perfect name

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Penguin

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1101012331

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9781101012338

Washington Redskins

By: Marcia Zappa

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Washington Redskins

By: Marcia Zappa

Students will love learning about the Washington Redskins in this high-interest title! Text covers the team's history, memorable wins, star players, and important coaches. Readers are left with an introductory background of the NFL and the Redskins. Features include table of contents, fun facts, team stats, timeline, quiz, glossary, and index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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1629693553

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to 40,000 Baby Names

By: Marcia Layton Turner

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to 40,000 Baby Names

By: Marcia Layton Turner

An entertaining parents' guide to naming their baby features more than 200 lists of popular names in different categories, along with an alphabetized name section, name histories and meanings, and information and advice on selecting the perfect name. Original.

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1592578411

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9781592578412

Student Diversity at the Big Three

Changes at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Since the 1920s

By: Marcia Synnott

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Student Diversity at the Big Three

Changes at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Since the 1920s

By: Marcia Synnott

Strengthening affirmative action programs and fighting discrimination present challenges to America's best private and public universities. US college enrollments swelled from 2.6 million students in 1955 to 17.5 million by 2005. Ivy League universities, specifically Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, face significant challenges in maintaining their professed goal to educate a reasonable number of students from all ethnic, racial, religious, and socio-economic groups while maintaining the loyalty of their alumni. College admissions officers in these elite universities have the daunting task of selecting a balanced student body. Added to their challenges, the economic recession of 2008-2009 negatively impacted potential applicants from lower-income families. Evidence suggests that high Standard Aptitude Test (SAT) scores are correlated with a family's socioeconomic status. Thus, the problem of selecting the "best" students from an ever-increasing pool of applicants may render standardized admissions tests a less desirable selection mechanism. The next admissions battle may be whether well-endowed universities should commit themselves to a form of class-based affirmative action in order to balance the socioeconomic advantages of well-to-do families. Such a policy would improve prospects for students who may have ambitions for an education that is beyond their reach without preferential treatment. As in past decades, admissions policies may remain a question of balances and preferences. Nevertheless, the elite universities are handling admission decisions with determination and far less prejudice than in earlier eras.

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1351487779

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Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy

By: Marcia Bartusiak

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Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy

By: Marcia Bartusiak

This updated edition of the New York Times Notable Book recounts the long hunt for Einstein’s predicted gravitational waves—and celebrates their discovery. In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity—vibrations in space-time, called gravitational waves. Humanity can now tune in to a cosmic orchestra. We have heard the chirp of two black holes dancing toward a violent union. We will hear the cymbal crashes from exploding stars, the periodic drumbeats from swiftly rotating pulsars, and maybe even the echoes from the Big Bang itself. More than a decade earlier, Marcia Bartusiak chronicled the gamble taken by astronomers who were determined to prove Einstein right. In their quest to detect gravitational waves, they built the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, the most accurate measuring devices ever created. In this updated edition, Bartusiak brings the story to a thrilling close with the triumphant discovery of gravitational waves made with the LIGO. "An important, multifaceted scientific story…part theoretical physics, part astronomy, part experimental physics, part engineering."—James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

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Yale University Press

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0300228120

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Populism and Populist Discourse in North America

By: Marcia Macaulay

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Populism and Populist Discourse in North America

By: Marcia Macaulay

This book examines the origins of populism in Canada and the United States and its development into a powerful and at times disturbing political force. Focus is on five historical periods: The Populist Party of the United States in the 1890s, Prairie Populism in Canada during the early and mid-20th century, the Reform Party of Canada in the 1980s and 90s, the ‘left’ and ‘right’ populism of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in the early 21st century, and the phenomenon of Ford Nation in modern day Ontario, Canada. The author extends Ernesto Laclau’s analysis of populism as a ‘logic’ in On Populist Reason (2005) to explore how a ‘people’ come into being in their conflict or clash with an ‘elite,’ defined by Chartists in the 19th century as “idlers,” providing a contrast between ‘producers’ and ‘non-producers.’ The author examines the linguistic media (speeches, books, radio, twitter, Facebook) used in populist discourse to convey a political message and to articulate the needs, wishes and will of a newly born ‘people’ in their numerous guises and expressions, from “the plain people,” to “the little guy,” or to “brothers and sisters.” This volume will be of interest to researchers in an interdisciplinary range of fields, including discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, rhetoric and stylistics, political communication, social movements theory, media studies, and Canadian and American history.

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Springer Nature

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3031085221

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9783031085222

Science Has No Sex

The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.

By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman

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Science Has No Sex

The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.

By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman

German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. In Science Has No Sex, Arleen Tuchman examines the life and work of a woman who continues to challenge historians of gender to this day. At a time when most women physicians laid claim to "female" qualities of care and nurturance to justify their professional choice, Zakrzewska insisted that all physicians, regardless of gender, should depend upon the rational faculties developed through training in the natural sciences. She viewed science as a democratizing tool--anyone could master science, she asserted, and therefore the doors to the elite profession of medicine should be opened to all. Shedding light on the changes that radically transformed medicine in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman's analysis also demonstrates how Zakrzewska's activism is important to the ongoing debate over the relationship between science and sex.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807877328

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Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories

By: Marcia Jo Zerivitz

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Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories

By: Marcia Jo Zerivitz

This first comprehensive history of the Jews of Florida from colonial times to the present is a sweeping tapestry of voices. Despite not being officially allowed to live in Florida until 1763, Jewish immigrants escaping expulsions and exclusions were among the earliest settlers. They have been integral to every facet of Florida's growth, from tilling the land and developing early communities to boosting tourism and ultimately pushing mankind into space. The Sunshine State's Jews, working for the common good, have been Olympians, Nobel Prize winners, computer pioneers, educators, politicians, leaders in business and the arts and more, while maintaining their heritage to help ensure Jewish continuity for future generations. This rich narrative - accompanied by 700 images, most rarely seen - is the result of three-plus decades of grassroots research by author Marcia Jo Zerivitz, giving readers an incomparable look at the long and crucial history of Jews in Florida.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467142530

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Behind the Smile

My Journey out of Postpartum Depression

By: Marie Osmond,Marcia Wilkie,Dr. Judith Moore

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Behind the Smile

My Journey out of Postpartum Depression

By: Marie Osmond,Marcia Wilkie,Dr. Judith Moore

More than one out of 10 new mothers experience post-partum depression (PPD), yet few women seek help. After Marie Osmond, beloved singer and TV talk show host, gave birth to her seventh child (four of her children are adopted), she became increasingly depressed. One night, she handed over her bank card to her babysitter, got in her car, and drove north-with no intention of returning until she had emerged from her crisis. After she went public with her own experiences with PPD on Oprah and Larry King Live, the response was overwhelming. Now collaborating with a doctor who helped her through her ordeal, Marie Osmond will share the fear and depression she overcame, and reveal how she put it all behind her and is moving on with her life.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446549916

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9780446549912

Chemistry and Biology of Synthetic Retinoids

By: Marcia I. Dawson

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Chemistry and Biology of Synthetic Retinoids

By: Marcia I. Dawson

The purpose of this book is to present an overview of advances in both retinal and retinoic acid synthetic chemistry and biology. Chapters are written by research workers who are active in these fields. Emphasis is placed on structure-activity relationships. It includes topics of cell differentiation, maintenance of cell morphology, and vision. This reference contains a special section on assays which were developed to measure retinoid activity. This book is ideal for those interested in the fields of photobiology, organic chemistry, biological chemistry, and nutrition.

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1351087533

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9781351087537

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

International Health Perspectives

By: Peter J. Brown,Marcia C. Inhorn

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The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

International Health Perspectives

By: Peter J. Brown,Marcia C. Inhorn

Anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes have rarely been collected in one volume. In the era of AIDS and the global resurgance of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, there is widespread interest and concern about the cultural, ecological and political factors that are directly related to the increased prevalence of infectious disease. In this book, the authors have assembled the growing scholarship in one volume. Chapters explore the coevolution of genes and cultural traits; the cultural construction of 'disease' and how these models influence health-seeking behaviour; cultural adaptive strategies to infectious disease problems; the ways in which ethnography sheds light on epidemiological patterns of infectious disease; the practical and ethical dilemmas that anthropologists face by participating in infectious disease programmes; and the political ecology of infectious disease.

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Routledge

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1134386494

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9781134386499

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia L. Verduin

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Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia L. Verduin

The gold standard reference for all those who work with people with mental illness, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, edited by Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume eleventh edition offers the expertise of more than 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975175743

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9781975175740

Three Midwestern Playwrights

How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre

By: Marcia Noe

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Three Midwestern Playwrights

How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre

By: Marcia Noe

In the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs. The philosophical and political orientations of Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell generated a theatre practice marked by experimentalism, collaboration, leftist cultural critique, rebellion, liberation, and community engagement. In Three Midwestern Playwrights, Marcia Noe situates the origin of the Provincetown aesthetic in Davenport, Iowa, a Mississippi River town. All three playwrights recognized that radical politics sometimes begat radical chic, and several of their plays satirize the faddish elements of the progressive political, social, and cultural movements they were active in. Three Midwestern Playwrights brings the players to life and deftly illustrates how Dell, Cook, and Glaspell joined early 20th-century midwestern radicalism with East Coast avant-garde drama, resulting in a fresh and energetic contribution to American theatre.

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Indiana University Press

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0253061857

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9780253061850

Henry Ossawa Tanner

American Artist

By: Marcia M. Mathews

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Henry Ossawa Tanner

American Artist

By: Marcia M. Mathews

Mathews's standard biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), based on extensive research in archives in this country and family records in France. An important artist in the salons of Paris, Tanner was born and studied in Philadelphia but left America for Europe, where his race would not stand in the way of his ambition. Providing a full account of the artist's life and art, Henry Ossawa Tanner gives readers insight into the art trends of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as into the struggle of African Americans of this period. "[Tanner] ranks not only as the first truly distinguished Negro American artist but as one of America's first outstanding successes in the salons of Europe. In this work [Mathews] has significantly added to our knowledge of the history of American art."—John Hope Franklin, from the Foreword "The book gives the main facts of Tanner's life and successfully places his artistic work in its historic context....It is a welcome and useful volume."—August Meier, Journal of American History

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University of Chicago Press

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0226510069

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9780226510064

The Mormon Contradiction:

In Their Own Words

By: Marcia Van Outen

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The Mormon Contradiction:

In Their Own Words

By: Marcia Van Outen

In the early 1820s a young boy named Joseph Smith claimed that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him and told him to found a new church. Thus began Mormonism, a faith that has grown to thirteen million members worldwide. The Mormon Contradiction: In Their Own Words offers the reader an insight into what the Mormon Church is really all about, including: Where the Book of Mormon really came from Joseph Smiths personal history and use of Occultism and Freemasonry The original accounts of what happened to Smiths apostles during visions, as related by them The Masonic and Occult roots of Mormon Temple ceremonies and oaths, including the use of Occult symbols in the architecture of the Salt Lake Temple The Book of Abraham proven to be a fabrication Who The Danites were The original versions of LDS revelations, including the doctrine of polygamy and the Manifesto DNA evidence proving the Book of Mormons history of Native Americans to be false Linguistic and anthropological studies proving there was no migration of Jews to the New World

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1467893498

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Painting Gender, Constructing Theory

The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics

By: Marcia Brennan

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Painting Gender, Constructing Theory

The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics

By: Marcia Brennan

Focusing on the key historical criticism and art-works, Brennan shows how the identities of all five Stieglitz circle artists were presented in terms of the masculinity and femininity, and the heterosexuality and homosexuality, thought to be embedded in their work. Brennan also discusses Stieglitz's relation to competing artistic and critical movements, including Thomas Hart Benton's regionalist art and Clement Greenberg's reformulation of formalism."--Jacket.

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MIT Press

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0262523361

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100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning (K-8)

By: Marcia L. Tate

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100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning (K-8)

By: Marcia L. Tate

Use research- and brain-based teaching to engage students and maximize learning Lessons should be memorable and engaging. When they are, student achievement increases, behavior problems decrease, and teaching and learning are fun! In 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K-8, best-selling author and renowned educator and consultant Marcia Tate takes her bestselling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites one step further by providing teachers with ready-to-use lesson plans that take advantage of the way that students really learn. Readers will find 100 cross-curricular sample lessons from each of the four major content areas: English/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Plans designed around the most frequently taught objectives found in national and international curricula. Lessons educators can immediately replicate in their own classrooms or use to develop their own. 20 brain-compatible, research-based instructional strategies that work for all learners. Five questions that teachers should ask and answer when planning brain-compatible lessons and an in-depth explanation of each of the questions. Guidance on building relationships with students that enable them to learn at optimal levels. It is a wonderful time to be a teacher! This hands-on resource will show you how to use what we know about educational neuroscience to transform your classroom into a place where success if accessible for all.

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Corwin Press

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1544341245

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Down and Out in Flamingo Beach

By: Marcia King-Gamble

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Down and Out in Flamingo Beach

By: Marcia King-Gamble

Mine is simple: return to my old hometown to help myailing Granny "J" give her failing quilt shop a major makeover,and hightail it back to Los Angeles and civilization. Settling down in small-town Flamingo Beach isn't on theagenda. Neither is falling for someone like Derek Morse, evenif the gorgeous construction worker has velvet-smooth skinand a rock-hard body that's been starring in all my illicitdaydreams. Besides, Derek has me pegged for a seriously high-maintenance sister. But as I'm about to learn, first impressions can bemisleading. And taking the time to learn the truth aboutsomeone could lead to all kinds of delightful and mutuallysatisfying discoveries….

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Kimani Press

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1426801343

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The Healing Power of Education

Afrocentric Pedagogy as a Tool for Restoration and Liberation

By: Marcia J. Watson-Vandiver,Greg Wiggan

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The Healing Power of Education

Afrocentric Pedagogy as a Tool for Restoration and Liberation

By: Marcia J. Watson-Vandiver,Greg Wiggan

Situating the African American learning experience within the stream of historic enslavement and hundreds of years of institutionalized racism, this timely book introduces antiracist foundations for teaching in the 21st century. The authors take a holistic approach that uses Afrocentricity to identify and address critical omissions and distortions in school curricula. Drawing on empirical findings from a high-performing 100% African American school, they identify what teachers and students recognize as successful features of the schools’ approach, including a unique learning environment, support systems, spiritual affirmations, evidences of Black education, a reframing of Afrocentricity, and education that promotes positive Black identity. This much-needed book demonstrates the healing power of education; provides evidence of social, emotional, and psychological transformation within the learning experience; and frames education as a tool for liberation. Book Features: Offers a clear chronological analysis of Black education in the United States and across the Diaspora.Includes the perceptions and experiences of students and teachers at a successful Afrocentric school. Provides the tools needed to teach multicultural histories in an antiracist way.Examines the benefits of Afrocentric curricula and the role of corrective history in promoting positive Black identity. Explores the intersections of precolonial history, student achievement, and Afrocentric education.

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0807779571

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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

By: Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

By: Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her mother's proud antebellum heritage. In 1966, weary of Alabama's toxic culture, Marcia and her young family left Birmingham and built a life in North Carolina. Later in life, Herman-Giddens resumed a search to find out what she did not know about her family history. Unloose My Heart interweaves the story of her youth and coming of age in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement together with this quest to understand exactly who and what her maternal ancestors were and her obligations as a white woman within a broader sense of American family. More than a memoir set against the backdrop of Jim Crow and the civil rights struggle, this is the work of a woman of conscience writing in the twenty-first century. Haunted by the past, Unloose My Heart is a journey of exploration and discovery, full of angst, sorrow, and yearning. Unearthing her forebears' centuries-long embrace of plantation slavery, Herman-Giddens dug deeply to parse the arrogance and cruelty necessary to be a slaveholder and the trauma and fear that ripple out in its wake. All this forced her to scrutinize the impact of this legacy in her life, as well as her debt to the enslaved people who suffered and were exploited at her ancestors' hands. But she also discovers lost connections, new cousins and friends, unexpected joys, and, eventually, a measure of peace in the process. With heartbreak, moments of grace, and an enduring sense of love, Unloose My Heart shines a light in the darkness and provides a model for a heartfelt reckoning with American history.

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0817321454

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9780817321451

10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom

By: Marcia Rohrer,Nannette Samson

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10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom

By: Marcia Rohrer,Nannette Samson

A great resource for teaching assistants, NQTs, and school leaders and principlas wishing to establish a collaborative and consistent SEN setting where their students feel safe and successful.

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Corwin Press

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1483339165

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Writing and Selling Poetry, Fiction, Articles, Plays, and Local History

By: Marcia Muth

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Writing and Selling Poetry, Fiction, Articles, Plays, and Local History

By: Marcia Muth

This book is designed to help both the beginning writer and the published writer who wants additional guidance in the marketing aspects of the trade. All the creative aspects of writing are covered from how to get and develop ideas to the ways and means of researching them. There are sections on copyright, contracts and computers as well as how to solve the "writer's block" and how to handle the writer's horror: rejections. An extensive bibliography serves as a guide for further reading. "Wisconsin Bookwatch" reported: "...a thoroughly 'user friendly' guide written especially for novice writers trying to cope with the necessities of marketing, as well as writer's block, handling the soul-crushing rejections, scrutinizing one's contract, and more. 'Writing and Selling' is recommended as a brief, simply presented instructional reference offering meticulous step-by-step directions, and as an effective starting primer for aspiring writers seeking remunerative publication of their work.

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Sunstone Press

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086534048X

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9780865340480

Gotcha for Guys!

Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited About Reading

By: Kathleen A. Baxter,Marcia Agness Kochel

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Gotcha for Guys!

Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited About Reading

By: Kathleen A. Baxter,Marcia Agness Kochel

Research indicates boys are interested in reading nonfiction materials, yet most children's librarians prefer to booktalk fiction. Offering citations for more than 1,100 books, Gotcha for Guys! deals specifically with books to pique the interest of middle grade boys. A series of booktalks are grouped within chapters with like titles such as: Creepy-Crawly Creatures, Disasters and Unsolved Mysteries, Action and Innovation, and All Things Gross. Complete booktalks are presented in a beginning section of chapters 1-9. A second section in each of these chapters contains short annotations and talks for other books of interest, and a third section offers lists of well-reviewed titles to consider for boys. The book is enhanced with book cover art and reproducible lists for teachers and librarians.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313090580

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9780313090585

Scan Artist

How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked

By: Marcia Biederman

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How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked

By: Marcia Biederman

The best-known educator of the twentieth century was a scammer in cashmere. "The most famous reading teacher in the world," as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included work at the Mormon mission in Germany at the time when the church was cooperating with the Third Reich. Nevertheless, a nation spooked by Sputnik and panicked by paperwork eagerly embraced her promises of a speed-reading revolution. Journalists, lawmakers and two US presidents lent credibility to Wood's claims of turbocharging reading speeds through a method once compared to the miracle at Lourdes. Time magazine reported Woods grads could polish off Dr. Zhivago in one hour; a senator swore that Wood's method had boosted his reading speed to more than ten thousand words per minute. But science showed that her method taught only skimming, with disastrous effects on comprehension—a fact Wood was aware of from early in her career. Fudging test results, and squelching critics, she founded a company that enrolled half a million. The course's popularity endured even as evidence of its shortcomings continued to accumulate. Today, as apps and online courses attempt to spark a speed-reading revival, this engaging look at Wood's rise from mission worker to marketer exposes the pitfalls of embracing a con artist's worthless solution to imaginary problems.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641601655

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9781641601658

Public Health Nursing E-Book

By: Marcia Stanhope,Jeanette Lancaster

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Public Health Nursing E-Book

By: Marcia Stanhope,Jeanette Lancaster

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Community Health** Gain a solid understanding of community and public health nursing with this industry-standard text! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 11th Edition, provides up-to-date information on issues such as infectious diseases, natural and man-made disasters, and healthcare policies affecting individuals, families, and communities. This edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect current data, issues, trends, and practices presented in an easy-to-understand, accessible format. Additionally, real-life scenarios show examples of health promotion and public health interventions, and case studies for the Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination help strengthen your clinical judgment. Ideal for BSN and Advanced Practice Nursing programs, this comprehensive, bestselling text will provide you with a greater understanding of public health nursing! - Focus on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses boxes give examples of how quality and safety goals, competencies, and objectives, knowledge, skills, and attitudes can be applied in nursing practice in the community. - Evidence-Based Practice boxes illustrate the use and application of the latest research findings in public/community health nursing. - Healthy People boxes describe federal health and wellness goals and objectives. - Check Your Practice boxes feature a scenario and questions to promote active learning and encourage students to use clinical judgment skills as they contemplate how to best approach the task or problem in the scenario. - Linking Content to Practice boxes describe the nurse's role in a variety of public and community health areas, giving specific examples of the nurse's role in caring for individuals, families, and populations. - UNIQUE! Separate chapters covering promoting healthy communities, the Intervention Wheel, and nurse-led health centers teach students the initiatives and various approaches to population and community-centered nursing care. - Levels of Prevention boxes address the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of community/public health nursing as related to chapter content. - How To boxes provide practical application to practice. - End-of-chapter Practice Application scenarios, Key Points, and Clinical Judgment Activities promote application and in-depth understanding of chapter content.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323884180

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9780323884181

Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Numeracy Strategies That Engage the Brain, PreK-8

By: Marcia L. Tate

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Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Numeracy Strategies That Engage the Brain, PreK-8

By: Marcia L. Tate

Engage students in effective, meaningful experiences in mathematics! Following the format of Marcia L. Tate’s previous bestsellers, this user-friendly guide offers math teachers 20 powerful, brain-based teaching strategies that incorporate visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile modalities to promote student engagement and achievement. The book focuses on the NCTM focal points and includes a bibliography of math and literature resources and a lesson planning guide. The chapters offer: A what, why, and how for each strategy Specific brain-compatible mathematics activities and lessons from real teachers across the country Space for teachers to reflect on and apply individual strategies in their lessons

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Corwin Press

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1452207240

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9781452207247

Quest for Conception

Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Quest for Conception

Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

In Quest for Conception, Marcia C. Inhorn portrays the poignant struggles of poor, urban Egyptian women and their attempts to overcome infertility. The author draws upon fifteen months of fieldwork in urban Egypt to present moving stories of infertile Muslim women whose tumultuous medical pilgrimages have yet to produce the desired pregnancies. Inhorn examines the devastating impact of infertility on the lives of these women, who are threatened with divorce by their husbands, harassed by their husbands' families, and ostracized by neighbors.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812215281

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9780812215281

Strategies for Showing

Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture, 1665-1800

By: Marcia R. Pointon

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Strategies for Showing

Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture, 1665-1800

By: Marcia R. Pointon

In this unusual and original study, Marcia Pointon examines the cultural effects and consequences of the participation by women in acts of representation in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She explores their lives and work, and a cultural environment in which images of female saints and goddesses established indices of femininity in the homes of wealthy men. Did the women portrayed also possess artifacts, and did they use the power of gifts and bequests to determine social relations? Did they themselves participate in the processes of creating images of the seen world? Pointon sets out to answer some of these questions through a series of novel and vividly recounted case studies of women such as Emma Hamilton (wife and mistress), Mary Moser, the artist, and Dorothy Richardson, the antiquarian.

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Clarendon Press

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019817411X

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9780198174110

White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism

How Did We Get Here?

By: Marcia Pally

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White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism

How Did We Get Here?

By: Marcia Pally

How did America’s white evangelicals, from often progressive history, come to right-wing populism? Addressing populism requires understanding how its historico-cultural roots ground present politics. How have the very qualities that contributed much to American vibrancy—an anti-authoritarian government-wariness and energetic community-building—turned, under conditions of distress, to defensive, us-them worldviews? Readers will gain an understanding of populism and of the socio-political and religious history from which populism draws its us-them policies and worldview. The book ponders the tragic cast of the white evangelical story: (i) the distorting effects of economic and way-of-life duress on the understanding of history and present circumstances and (ii) the tragedy of choosing us-them solutions to duress that won’t relieve it, leaving the duress in place. Readers will trace the trajectory from economic, status loss, and way-of-life duresses to solutions in populist, us-them binaries. They will explore the robust white evangelical contribution to civil society but also to racism, xenophobia, and sexism. White evangelicals not in the ranks of the right—their worldview and activism—are discussed in a final chapter. This book is valuable reading for students of political and social sciences as well as anyone interested in US politics.

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Routledge

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1000602184

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9781000602180

The Last Refuge

By: Marcia Talley

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The Last Refuge

By: Marcia Talley

Hannah can’t resist a leading role in a historical reality show, but she never expected murder to be the main theme. Lights, camera, murder . . . It doesn’t take much arm-twisting to persuade Hannah Ives to join the twelve-strong cast of Patriot House, 1774, a reality show recreating eighteenth-century colonial life during the turbulent days leading up to the American Revolution. But when a member of the production crew is found murdered, it’s up to Hannah to change the course of history before hers is ended on live TV. “Likable Hannah is a sympathetic character who holds the cast of Patriot House and this premise-driven tale together.” —Booklist

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Severn House/ORIM

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1780102372

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9781780102375

Science on Trial

The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case

By: Marcia Angell

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Science on Trial

The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case

By: Marcia Angell

In the early 1990s, sympathetic juries awarded huge damages to women claiming injury from silicone breast implants, leading to a $4.25 billion class-action settlement that still wasn't large enough to cover all the claims. Shockingly, rigorous scientific studies of breast implants have now shown that there is no significant link between breast implants and disease. Why were the courts and the public so certain that breast implants were dangerous when medical researchers were not? The answer to this question reveals important differences in the way science, the law, and the public regard evidence--and not just in the breast implant controversy.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393316726

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9780393316728

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