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Achieving Understanding

Discourse in Intercultural Encounters

By: Katharina Bremer,Celia Roberts,Marie-Therese Vasseur,Margaret Simnot,Peter Broeder

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Achieving Understanding

Discourse in Intercultural Encounters

By: Katharina Bremer,Celia Roberts,Marie-Therese Vasseur,Margaret Simnot,Peter Broeder

This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in second language acquisition research.

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Routledge

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1317896416

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9781317896418

City In Embers

By: Stacey Marie Brown

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City In Embers

By: Stacey Marie Brown

Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. When she is placed in her “last-chance home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexi, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Zoey will do anything to keep Lexi safe. After high school, Zoey is hired by a special government agency, the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), where she meets the other reason to remain: Daniel, her co-worker, the man she loves. But there is something unique about Zoey. She can see fae. Because of this, the DMG hires her to work as a Collector: catching, researching, testing, and using the fae to save human lives. The work never registers on her sympathy radar. She was raised to think of fae as beasts that feed on humans and want to destroy them. When devastation hits Seattle, Zoey’s whole world is turned upside down. The electric storm connects her to a ruthless fae Wanderer named Ryker whose dealings expose them to even more trouble and danger. They embark on a journey, running and hiding from the government and fae, both of which threaten their lives and those they love.

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Twisted Fairy Publishing

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0989013162

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September of '97

An Italian Affair

By: Rei Anna Marie

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September of '97

An Italian Affair

By: Rei Anna Marie

For the first time in her life, entrepreneur, Sandria Lewis finally has some semblance of control of her life. With less than one month before her wedding to her love, Dimitri Domenichino, trouble sets up camp and decides to overrun her happiness. As problems come in rapid succession, Sandria is resolute as her faith is tested. In the midst of the conundrum, her best friend Ni Nagasaki stands by her side. Ni tries to help her navigate her way through all the mishaps, blunders and explosive predicaments before there is irreparable damage. Entangled in Sandrias web is a former lover, a remorseless mother, and narcissistic father and a host of unsettling events that seem like they will never cease. Will Sandria continue to ignore her past and pretend that nothing has ever happened? Would Sandria be better off if she just walked away?

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iUniverse

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1532041187

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9781532041181

Bright Star

Handel, His Life and His World

By: Marie Gotoh

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Bright Star

Handel, His Life and His World

By: Marie Gotoh

This is a historical novel on Handels life and his musical world. Known for his oratorio Messiah, particularly the Hallelujah chorus, or The Water Music, he started his career as an opera composer. In politically unstable 18th century Europe, Handel went to live in different places with different political interests. Born a Protestant, he made himself accepted in Catholic Italy, and then in London, where he spent the rest of his life. In this volume Handel seeks his training in Italy while he develops an increasing desire to go to London. Before his arrival, London theatres went through unstable and unpredictable changes. The War of the Spanish Succession, predicted to be short, was dragging on, affecting most of Europe and with no end in sight. The beginning of the young composers career does not look easy, dominated by uncertainty.

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Balboa Press

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1504367235

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9781504367233

Peter Paul Rubens

The Drawings

By: Anne-Marie S. Logan,Peter Paul Rubens,Michiel Plomp,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Peter Paul Rubens

The Drawings

By: Anne-Marie S. Logan,Peter Paul Rubens,Michiel Plomp,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan. 15-Apr. 3, 2005.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0300104944

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9780300104943

The Abbess of Castro and Other Shorter Novels

By: Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal

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The Abbess of Castro and Other Shorter Novels

By: Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal

The tale of an unfortunate affair of Giulio Bracciano and Elena de Campireali in renaissance Italy.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473379946

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9781473379947

Movies as History

Scenes of America, 1930-1970

By: Marie L. Aquila

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Movies as History

Scenes of America, 1930-1970

By: Marie L. Aquila

Popular movies can enhance the study of history. A dominant form of entertainment throughout the 20th century, they can serve as nontraditional primary sources and offer remarkable opportunities to observe attitudes about social concerns, gender or racial issues, politics, and historical events that were current when the movies were made. This book is a topical guide for educators, providing detailed analysis of 35 movies, followed by discussion questions that will help students interpret how each movie's content and themes reflect the times when it was made. The book covers four main topics: the Great Depression, World War II, the early years of the Cold War, and the changing expectations and images of women in movies from 1930 to 1970. An historical overview chronicles how each topic was treated in movies from that time period. The movies should have wide appeal in grades 7 through 12 and can help students learn to think more critically about the images and messages that appear in popular media today.

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McFarland

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1476614652

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Great Dames

What I Learned from Older Women

By: Marie Brenner

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Great Dames

What I Learned from Older Women

By: Marie Brenner

Presents biographical portraits of ten notable twentieth-century women, including Jacqueline Onassis, Clare Boothe Luce, Pamela Harriman, and Kitty Carlisle Hart.

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Broadway Books

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0609807099

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9780609807095

The Duchess of Palliano

By: Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal

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The Duchess of Palliano

By: Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal

The tale of a horrible murder committed against the back drop of a corrupt Rome at the beginning of the renaissance.

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Promoting Experimental Learning

Experiment and the Royal Society, 1660-1727

By: Marie Boas Hall

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Promoting Experimental Learning

Experiment and the Royal Society, 1660-1727

By: Marie Boas Hall

In spite of all that has been written in the past decades about the first half-century of the Royal Society's existence, no one has so far examined just what took place at the Society's weekly meetings nor how far they fulfilled the expressed aim of promoting 'experimental learning'. Students of the early Royal Society have often taken its aim to have been fully expressed in the writings of such Fellows as Boyle, Hooke and Newton, aware that Hooke especially performed very many experiments at the meetings between 1662 and 1703, while he and others wrote about the necessity of doing so. This study attempts to analyse the content of the meetings in detail in order to discover how far and in what manner the aims of the Society were fulfilled in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This book for the first time explores the practices of the Society's Fellows, and shows how these altered between 1660 and 1727.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521892651

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The Cenci

By: Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal

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The Cenci

By: Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal

A wonderful biography of a fictional modern don Juan.

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147337992X

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Monstrous Imagination

By: Marie-Hélène Huet

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Monstrous Imagination

By: Marie-Hélène Huet

What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.

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Harvard University Press

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0674586514

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9780674586512

The French Film Musical

By: Phil Powrie,Marie Cadalanu

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The French Film Musical

By: Phil Powrie,Marie Cadalanu

Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to chart the development of the French film musical. The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre's origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.

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1501329774

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Transnational Terrorist Groups and International Criminal Law

By: Anna Marie Brennan

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Transnational Terrorist Groups and International Criminal Law

By: Anna Marie Brennan

Attacks by network-based transnational terrorist groups cause on average 25,000 deaths every year worldwide, with the law enforcement agencies of some states facing many challenges in bringing those responsible to justice. Despite various attempts to codify the law on transnational terrorism since the 1930s, a crime of transnational terrorism under international law remains contested, reflecting concerns regarding the relative importance of prosecuting members of transnational terrorist groups before the International Criminal Court. This book critically examines the limits of international criminal law in bringing members of transnational terrorist groups to justice in the context of changing methods of warfare, drawing from human rights, sociology, and best practices in international criminal justice. Drawing on organisational network theory, Anna Marie Brennan explores the nature of international crimes and assesses the potential for the International Criminal Court to prosecute and investigate alleged crimes perpetrated by members of transnational terrorist groups, paying particular attention to their modus operandi and organisational structure. This book argues that because of the network-based organisational structure of some transnational terrorist groups, achieving justice for victims will prove challenging, in the context of the relationship between the commanders and the subordinate members of the group requiring a re-evaluation of accountability mechanisms at the international level. In advancing an innovative perspective on the accountability of members of transnational terrorist groups, and in offering solutions to current challenges, the book will be of great interest and use to academic, practitioners, and students engaged in the study of terrorism, the ICC, or international humanitarian law.

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Routledge

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1351965689

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Cicero, Paul and Seneca as Transformational Leaders in their Letter Writing

Comparative Readings

By: Eve-Marie Becker,Henriette van der Blom,Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser,Jacob P.B. Mortensen

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Cicero, Paul and Seneca as Transformational Leaders in their Letter Writing

Comparative Readings

By: Eve-Marie Becker,Henriette van der Blom,Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser,Jacob P.B. Mortensen

This commentary offers the reader a set of letters (or letter parts) written by Cicero, Paul, and Seneca, which have been selected against the Transformational Leadership categories of ‘idealised influence’, ‘inspirational motivation’, ‘intellectual stimulation’, and ‘individualised consideration’. Chapter 1 offers introduction into authors and theory: all three letter writers are considered as ancient leadership figures composing leadership letters. The letters selected are presented in original text facing a translation (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 provides analysis and discussion of each letter, and aims to introduce the reader to the historical and literary contexts before reading the letter through the lenses of Transformational Leadership theory. Chapter 4 sums up the findings on each letter and each letter writer in light of Transformational Leadership and its categories. The volume is aimed at all those who are studying the function of ancient letter-writing – especially the letters of Cicero, Paul, or Seneca.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111438333

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The Narrow Door and the Great Vehicle

From the Early Christians to the Bodhisattvas: Revelations on the Origins of Mahayana

By: François-Marie Périer

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The Narrow Door and the Great Vehicle

From the Early Christians to the Bodhisattvas: Revelations on the Origins of Mahayana

By: François-Marie Périer

An independent research opens a revolutionary perspective in the history of religions and sheds new light on the still unexplained emergence of the buddhist Great Vehicle in the 1st century CE, demonstrating the influence of the early Christians, in the strongly hellenized area of the Kushan Empire (China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Northern India), heir of Alexander's conquests on the Silk Road, where Greek and Aramaïc were the two main languages currently spoken and written. Two millenia ago, the simultaneous spread of Christianity in the West and the Middle East, and Mahayana Buddhism in the East redrew the World map, but could it be only coincidence? Why did new sutras emphasizing compassion, devotion, voidness, sacrifice and universal salvation emerge in the first decades of our era in the Buddhism of the Origins? Why did, at the same time as Greek-Buddhist art, a 'Western triad' of buddhas appear in Gandhara, composed by a buddha of infinite light, Amitabha, a white bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, the Tibetan Chenrezig, emanated out of Infinite Compassion by the later, and a third one, bringer of power and inspiration, Mahasthamaprapta? Did Zoroastrism and Mithraism played a role in this spiritual revolution and why are some Gnostic texts of Nag-Hammadi so close to the Mahayanist cosmogonies, notions and terms? Furthermore, the sudden and abundant literature and iconography of the Great Vehicle, saw in the same years the appearance of a messianic buddha, Maitreya, of a feminine and salvific figure, embodiment of Wisdom, the Prajnaparamita, that would become Târâ, and of the Western Paradise of the Pure Land, making them very close. In this new turning of the wheel of Dharma, the bodhisattva renouncing Nirvana and sacrifying himelf to free the whole of Humanity kind became the ultimate value. Here are some of the interrogations, among many others, raised by this research and answered in a way never done before.

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2958388190

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9782958388195

Studium Scribendi

Recherches Sur Les Statuts de L'écrivain Et de L'écriture À Rome À la Fin de la République

By: Marie Ledentu

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Studium Scribendi

Recherches Sur Les Statuts de L'écrivain Et de L'écriture À Rome À la Fin de la République

By: Marie Ledentu

Alors que la notion meme de litterature suppose un travail d'ecriture et pose le probleme du statut de l'ecrivain, on s'interroge rarement sur les structures mentales que requiert l'acte d'ecrire, sur l'ecrit comme instrument de communication, voire d'action, sur les ressources de l'ecrit. Ces questions sont d'une importance toute particuliere pour Rome et dans le moment charniere constitue par la fin de la Republique. Comment Rome est-elle passee d'une societe largement orale au debut de la Republique a une societe ou l'on a eu, comme le dit Horace, la fureur d'ecrire? Pourquoi certains auteurs ont-ils voulu conserver certaines de leurs oeuvres par ecrit? Comment les Romains ont-ils abandonne un certain dedain a l'egard de l'ecrivain pour admettre une veritable gloire litteraire et permettre a l'auctor de se hisser presque au meme rang que le magistrat et le chef d'armee? Partant du choc culturel qu'a represente l'ambassade de Carneade en 155 et se poursuivant jusqu'a la fin de l'epoque ciceronienne, cet ouvrage brosse le tableau des evolutions qu'ont connues durant cette periode les statuts successifs ou concomitants de l'ecrivain et de l'ecrit, la hierarchisation des oeuvres et des genres, la nature du lectorat qu'il faut voir comme un co-auteur ou co-acteur de l'oeuvre. L'etude proposee montre en particulier combien les evenements historiques, les mutations societales, l'evolution des mentalites ont modifie le rapport a l'ecriture et a l'ecrit des auteurs et des lecteurs, la maniere de concevoir des discours, des ouvrages historiques, des traites, des poemes et des pieces de theatre. Pour cette enquete, les oeuvres perdues et les oeuvres conservees ont ete traitees, autant que faire se peut, a egalite, les analyses litteraires ont ete conjuguees a des analyses sociologiques et historico-politiques qui interesseront, au-dela des specialistes de litterature antique, de philologie, d'histoire romaine, un public large d'etudiants de Lettres et d'Histoire ancienne. Il convient de lire cet ouvrage non comme une histoire de la litterature latine qui viendrait s'ajouter a tant d'autres, mais comme une histoire des ecrivains qui ont fait, dans les deux derniers siecles de la Republique, la litterature ecrite et ont ete les acteurs d'une veritable revolution culturelle.

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Peeters Publishers

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9042914467

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9789042914469

New Mexico’s Pueblo Baseball League

By: James D. Baker, Herbert Howell and Marie A. Cordero

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New Mexico’s Pueblo Baseball League

By: James D. Baker, Herbert Howell and Marie A. Cordero

Baseball began in the New Mexico pueblos before 1900. The game was learned by watching soldiers and settlers and by playing in the Indian schools throughout the country. The first competition was with Albuquerque teams, mining teams, other pueblo teams, and the state penitentiary. Today, the game has evolved into a family and tribal tradition. The games are played on barren fields with enthusiastic spectator support. The players' objective is to win that game, with little thought of individual achievement; they are playing for family and tribe.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467132802

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9781467132800

Lanza's Mob

The Mafia and San Francisco

By: Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo

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Lanza's Mob

The Mafia and San Francisco

By: Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo

Presenting sociological as well as historical perspectives, this book supplies readers with a fascinating, unprecedented look at the most successful organized-crime family they've probably never heard of. From the 1920s until the early 21st century, one Sicilian mob family defied everyone from the California attorney general to J. Edgar Hoover to chart their own American Dream. Unlike their flashier rivals in New York and Chicago who met their end by the knife, the bullet, or a judge's gavel, this crime family prospered and grew alongside their adopted home of San Francisco. This book tells how they did it. Readers will learn how the Lanzas managed to retain control of their patch from the end of Prohibition through the Summer of Love and into the beginnings of the dot-com era, gaining insight into not only what the west-coast branch of the Mob did, but also why they did it. The documentation of how this mostly unknown crime syndicate formed, evolved, and eventually folded is set against the backdrop of the city of San Francisco transforming itself from a gritty port and manufacturing hub dominated by Italian- and Irish-Americans into the multicultural intellectual and services capital it is today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440842175

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9781440842177

E-Book - Breast Ultrasound

By: Anne-Marie Dixon

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E-Book - Breast Ultrasound

By: Anne-Marie Dixon

This book is a detailed, accessible and comprehensive reference manual reflecting current guidance & citing recent peer-reviewed evidence. It is written by and for radiographers. Through text and diagrams the fundamental skills and techniques for acquisition of high quality diagnostic images are explained and demonstrated; high quality ultrasound images throughout underpin instruction on accurate image interpretation and diagnosis. Inclusion of unusual and rare appearances allow the reader to avoid common pitfalls and resolve diagnostic dilemmas. - Step-by-step guide to performing, interpreting and reporting breast ultrasound examinations - Extensive coverage of underlying principles and practice of breast ultrasound - Holistic chapter on ultrasound of the male breast - Experienced editor and contributing team with current experience in clinical practice and educational delivery - Application specific physics and equipment chapters

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702032913

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Dangerous bodies

Historicising the gothic corporeal

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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Dangerous bodies

Historicising the gothic corporeal

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. The book provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of fictionalised dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare, ranging from the Crimean up to the Vietnam War. The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or dangerously perpetuate such oppositions. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to academics and students of Gothic studies, gender and film studies and especially to readers interested in the relationship between history and literature.

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Manchester University Press

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1784996130

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9781784996130

Across The Divide (Collector Series #3)

By: Stacey Marie Brown

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Across The Divide (Collector Series #3)

By: Stacey Marie Brown

The hunter is now the hunted. Zoey Daniels is becoming the very thing she once despised. Fae. After Zoey and Ryker finally found their way to each other they are torn apart by an ex-girlfriend, a stone, and mortality. Ryker’s powers have fully adapted to Zoey, slowly killing him. Now the mysterious feared demon, Vadik, has discovered their location in Peru and has taken Ryker and sold Zoey back to DMG. The very place which gave her life now might take it away. Or someone she loves… Dr. Rapava is so obsessed with building an army against the fae he will do anything to control Zoey and her new found powers. Zoey’s is forced to become an unfeeling brainwashed soldier to survive. But when her survival depends on torturing one to keep another alive, she is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice.

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0989013189

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9780989013185

Life of A Concubine's Granddaughter

A Baby Boomer's Story

By: Marie F. Chung

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Life of A Concubine's Granddaughter

A Baby Boomer's Story

By: Marie F. Chung

“Like a cat, I feel that I have lived through many lives—none of them sheltered. I’ve never had it easy, but then, I am not one to take the easy way out and I do not give up too easily. Actually, I have had more than my fair share of living, and what I have been through is not for the faint of heart. I am one of those who thrive in adverse conditions; it is then I unleash my built-in strength.” Marie Chung is the granddaughter of a concubine. She grew up in Hong Kong until she was a young adult and immigrated to Canada. Her fascinating story follows her travels throughout Canada, the tragedies and adversities she endured, and the triumphs and memories she cherishes. Life of the Concubine’s Granddaughter is an intimate, captivating memoir that recounts a remarkable life and shows us what strength, resilience, courage, and a positive outlook on life can really do.

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FriesenPress

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1039140718

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The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos

Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico

By: Marie-Theresa Hernández

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The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos

Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico

By: Marie-Theresa Hernández

Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence on the Catholic Church in the New World. The terms converso and judaizante are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of judaizantes after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the Portuguese expulsion in 1497, as it is unlikely that a secret Jew in sixteenth-century Spain would have documented his allegiance to the Law of Moses, thereby providing evidence for the Inquisition. On a Da Vinci Code – style quest, Hernández persisted in hunting for a trove of forgotten manuscripts at the New York Public Library. These documents, once unearthed, describe the Jewish/Christian religious beliefs of an early nineteenth-century Catholic priest in Mexico City, focusing on the relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe and Judaism. With this discovery in hand, the author traces the cult of Guadalupe backwards to its fourteenth-century Spanish origins. The trail from that point forward can then be followed to its interface with early modern conversos and their descendants at the highest levels of the Church and the monarchy in Spain and Colonial Mexico. She describes key players who were somehow immune to the dangers of the Inquisition and who were allowed the freedom to display, albeit in a camouflaged manner, vestiges of their family's Jewish identity. By exploring the narratives produced by these individuals, Hernández reveals the existence of those conversos and judaizantes who did not return to the “covenantal bond of rabbinic law,” who did not publicly identify themselves as Jews, and who continued to exhibit in their influential writings a covert allegiance and longing for a Jewish past. This is a spellbinding and controversial story that offers a fresh perspective on the origins and history of conversos.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813565707

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Henry Oldenburg

Shaping the Royal Society

By: Marie Boas Hall

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Henry Oldenburg

Shaping the Royal Society

By: Marie Boas Hall

Henry Oldenburg, born in 1619 in Bremen, Germany, first came to England as a diplomat on a mission to see Oliver Cromwell. He stayed on in England and in 1662 became the Secretary of the Royal Society, and its best known member to the entire learned world of his time. Through his extensive correspondence, now published, he disseminated the Society's ideals and methods at home and abroad. He fostered and encouraged the talents of many scientists later to be far more famous than he, including Newton, Flamsteed, Malpighi, and Leeuwenhoek with whom, as with many others, he developed real friendship. He founded and edited the Philosophical Transactions, the world's oldest scientific journal. His career sheds new light on the intellectual world of his time, especially its scientific aspects, and on the development of the Royal Society; his private life expands our knowledge of social mobility, the urban society, and the religious views of his time.

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0191545317

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Jacopo Tintoretto: Identity, Practice, Meaning

By: AA. VV.,Marie-Louise Lillywhite,Tom Nichols,Giorgio Tagliaferro

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Jacopo Tintoretto: Identity, Practice, Meaning

By: AA. VV.,Marie-Louise Lillywhite,Tom Nichols,Giorgio Tagliaferro

Over the past twenty years or so it has finally been understood that Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19-1594) is an old master of the very highest calibre, whose sharp visual intelligence and brilliant oil technique provides a match for any painter of any time. Based on papers given at a conference held at Keble College, Oxford, to mark the quincentenary of Tintoretto’s birth, this volume comprises ten new essays written by an international range of scholars that open many fresh perspectives on this remarkable Venetian painter. Reflecting current ‘hot spots’ in Tintoretto studies, and suggesting fruitful avenues for future research, chapters explore aspects of the artist’s professional and social identity; his graphic oeuvre and workshop practice; his secular and sacred works in their cultural context; and the emergent artistic personality of his painter-son Domenico. Building upon the opening-up of the Tintoretto phenomenon to less fixed or partial viewpoints in recent years, this volume reveals the great master’s painting practice as excitingly experimental, dynamic, open-ended, and original.

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Viella Libreria Editrice

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Saints Alive!: The Gospel Witnessed

By: Mary Lea,Marie Paul,Celia Sirois

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Saints Alive!: The Gospel Witnessed

By: Mary Lea,Marie Paul,Celia Sirois

Combining the art of dramatic storytelling with biography, Church history, and Catholic teaching and belief, this collection shows how real people lived the Gospel, revealing the richness of the Christian life and offering inspirational models of the faith.

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Pauline Books and Media

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0819872911

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9780819872913

The Déjà Vu Enigma

A Journey Through the Anomalies of Mind, Memory, and Time

By: Marie D. Jones,Larry Flaxman

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The Déjà Vu Enigma

A Journey Through the Anomalies of Mind, Memory, and Time

By: Marie D. Jones,Larry Flaxman

A deep dive into one of the most widely reported mysteries of the mind—both the scientific and paranormal theories—from the authors of The Grid. You feel like you’ve done something before . . . even as you do it for the very first time. You engage in a conversation and suddenly realize you’ve spoken those same words before . . . to the very same person. Yet you’re positive it’s the first time you’ve ever met. Déjà vu is the eerie sensation of “remembering” an experience or situation that never occurred. Scientific research into déjà vu has revealed intriguing theories, ranging from short-term memory misfires to neurophysiological disorders. Yet other theories suggest more paranormal causes for déjà vu, such as glimpses into parallel realities. Perhaps the true explanation lies somewhere in between. But déjà vu is only one of the many mysteries of the mind. The Déjà Vu Enigma also explores: Memory lapses, missing time, and fugue states The brain as both receiver and transmitter of reality Altered states of perception and consciousness, from hallucinations to religious visions Contagious thought, curses, demonic possession, and mass hysteria Dream states, lucid dreaming, and precognitive dreams The Grid and parallel universes as travel routes for mind trips, brain flips, and time slips Come journey through a world as vast and uncharted as the Cosmos. A journey through the Inner Universe—the human mind. “From the dynamic team of Marie D. Jones & Larry Flaxman who have brought us some many wonderful books on fringe subject matter . . . a completely thought-provoking study.” —HorrorNews.net

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601637306

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Guitar Makers

The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America

By: Kathryn Marie Dudley

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Guitar Makers

The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America

By: Kathryn Marie Dudley

It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk—the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon. Because this musical instrument is significant to so many—in ways that are emotional, cultural, and economic—guitar making has experienced a renaissance in North America, both as a popular hobby and, for some, a way of life. In Guitar Makers, Kathryn Marie Dudley introduces us to builders of artisanal guitars, their place in the art world, and the specialized knowledge they’ve developed. Drawing on in-depth interviews with members of the lutherie community, she finds that guitar making is a social movement with political implications. Guitars are not simply made—they are born. Artisans listen to their wood, respond to its liveliness, and strive to endow each instrument with an unforgettable tone. Although professional luthiers work within a market society, Dudley observes that their overriding sentiment is passion and love of the craft. Guitar makers are not aiming for quick turnover or the low-cost reproduction of commodities but the creation of singular instruments with unique qualities, and face-to-face transactions between makers, buyers, and dealers are commonplace. In an era when technological change has pushed skilled artisanship to the margins of the global economy, and in the midst of a capitalist system that places a premium on ever faster and more efficient modes of commerce, Dudley shows us how artisanal guitar makers have carved out a unique world that operates on alternative, more humane, and ecologically sustainable terms.

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University of Chicago Press

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022609541X

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Italy, the Embracing Circle: Il Circolo

My Past, My Future

By: Donna Marie Ferro

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Italy, the Embracing Circle: Il Circolo

My Past, My Future

By: Donna Marie Ferro

Il Circolo is a reunion story, the rediscovery of family and roots. Its the real dolce vita, lived to the tune of Italian Girls Just Want to Have Fun. If you like laughing, eating, and shopping, youre in for a romp of a read. Magnifico! Mark Greenside, author of Ill Never Be French (No Matter What I Do

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1499062915

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