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Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum

Autism Conversations in Narrative Practice

By: Marilyn J. Monteiro

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Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum

Autism Conversations in Narrative Practice

By: Marilyn J. Monteiro

The autism spectrum presents a range of communication, social, and sensory differences that are challenging for clinicians to address. Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum provides a guide to conceptualizing those differences and ways to discuss them with clients and their families. Readers are provided with narrative examples illustrating the application of key concepts introduced in the text. These case examples address issues that range across the life cycle, from families with young children to ones with teens who are emerging as adults. Using the techniques learned in this book, clinicians will be able to guide families towards their positive autism narrative. This book also features a visual framework to organize the compelling narrative of each person’s autism spectrum pattern of developmental differences or brain style. Using this visual framework and the corresponding descriptive language, clinicians and families can work together to create their "autism conversations." The conversations lead to the transformative experiences of developing competencies, resiliency, and advocacy for individuals and their families. The conversations also lead individuals with spectrum differences to use empowering language, supporting their ability to develop self-advocacy and self-determination skills.

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Routledge

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1317565487

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9781317565482

Big Meadows and Lake Almanor

By: Marilyn Morris Quadrio

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Big Meadows and Lake Almanor

By: Marilyn Morris Quadrio

Few among the thousands of vacationers who recreate on and around Lake Almanor each summer realize that beneath its waters lie the remains of a vanished way of life. This tiny Atlantis, Big Meadows, was a microcosm of the cultural forces and conflicts that racked the West in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Rich in natural resources, the Meadows sustained the lives of the native Maidu and the hundreds of encroaching whites who followed on the heels of the Lassen Trail immigrant parties. White men came seeking to exploit those precious resources for gold mining, stock raising, dairying, tourism, timber, and later, hydroelectric power. In the tumult of cultural and industrial change, a pastoral way of life was lost and a native culture vanquished.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467132292

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9781467132299

Voices from the Margins

An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction on Disabilities and Differences for Young People

By: Marilyn Ward

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Voices from the Margins

An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction on Disabilities and Differences for Young People

By: Marilyn Ward

Young people who feel marginalized due to physical differences or disabilities may benefit from discovering fictional characters who face similar difficulties. This unique bibliography surveys the field of children's and young adult literature published since 1990, identifying 200 quality books that deal with a wide range of contemporary health and self-image topics. Coverage includes physical handicaps, Autism, burns, scars, and disfigurement, obesity and anorexia, speech disorders, skin color, and basic issues of popularity and fitting in. The literature covered here includes picture books, chapter books for middle school readers, and young adult novels spanning different genres, such as mysteries, historical fiction, and poetry. Annotations provide brief plot synopses, full bibliographic information, publishers' age-level suggestions, and subject key words. This resource is perfect for obtaining information about authors, titles, and age levels of books on particular subjects, or to determine the subject of a particular book. Four indexes-Title, Author, Subject, and Age Level-facilitate easy reference for all users and readers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313011303

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9780313011306

Three Masquerades

Essays on Equality, Work and Hu(man) Rights

By: Marilyn Waring

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Three Masquerades

Essays on Equality, Work and Hu(man) Rights

By: Marilyn Waring

Marilyn Waring probes the 'world behind the mask' in these three remarkable essays on women in politics, economics and work, and human rights. First, she pulls away the masks that women who are elected to parliamentary office are forced to wear. How do we women find ourselves trapped in the institution's games? How does that affect our ability to make progress on issues of primary importance to us? What does that do to our self-image? Can we even afford to be aware of this? The second essay continues Waring's powerful writing on economics and the concept of work. She updates the international situation described in her bestseller Counting for Nothing. Based on her project experience with the United Nations, she exposes the gap between rhetoric and consequence: you wash your pig: this is work; you wash your child: this is welfare... it has no value. The last essay unmasks the rhetoric of human rights. Waring shows how nation states exploit United Nations conventions, while also explaining the opportunities the conventions provide for political action.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802080766

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9780802080769

The Copyeditor's Workbook

Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment

By: Erika Buky,Marilyn Schwartz,Amy Einsohn

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The Copyeditor's Workbook

Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment

By: Erika Buky,Marilyn Schwartz,Amy Einsohn

The Copyeditor’s Workbook—a companion to the indispensable Copyeditor’s Handbook, now in its fourth edition—offers comprehensive and practical training for both aspiring and experienced copyeditors. Exercises of increasing difficulty and length, covering a range of subjects, enable you to advance in skill and confidence. Detailed answer keys offer a grounding in editorial basics, appropriate usage choices for different contexts and audiences, and advice on communicating effectively with authors and clients. The exercises provide an extensive workout in the knowledge and skills required of contemporary editors. Features and benefits Workbook challenges editors to build their skills and to use new tools. Exercises vary and increase in difficulty and length, allowing users to advance along the way. Answer keys illustrate several techniques for marking copy, including marking PDFs and hand marking hard copy. Book includes access to online exercises available for download.

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University of California Press

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0520294351

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9780520294356

Who's Your Gladys?

How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer into Your Biggest Fan

By: Marilyn SUTTLE,Lori Jo VEST

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Who's Your Gladys?

How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer into Your Biggest Fan

By: Marilyn SUTTLE,Lori Jo VEST

Every customer-oriented business has its own Gladys—someone who demands more than most companies are able or willing to give, one who pushes front-line service representatives’ buttons, one who requires a higher degree of skill to manage. One who—let’s just say it—can be difficult. Yet how is it that some businesses prove able not only to satisfy their “Gladys”, but turn her into one of their most loyal, utterly pleased customers? Filled with inspiring real-life case studies, Who’s Your Gladys? reveals how large and small companies from a variety of industries avoid creating difficult customers in the first place. Readers will discover how they can: • Create a culture that values compassionate connection with their customers • Use creative problem solving and emotional management skills to turn challenging situations into opportunities to strengthen relationships • Form strong bonds by paying close attention to people’s needs • Customize service to different market segments • Cement unbreakable customer relationships with absolutely anyone.

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AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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0814414419

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9780814414415

Entangled

People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay

By: Marilyn Sigman

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Entangled

People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay

By: Marilyn Sigman

Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth—from seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon—in Alaska’s iconic Kachemak Bay. Kachemak Bay is a place where people and the living resources they depend on have ebbed and flowed for thousands of years. The forces of the earth are dynamic here: they can change in an instant, shaking the ground beneath your feet or overturning kayaks in a rushing wave. Glaciers have advanced and receded over centuries. The climate, like the ocean, has shifted from warmer to colder and back again in a matter of decades. The ocean food web has been shuffled from bottom to top again and again. In Entangled, Sigman contemplates the patterns of people staying and leaving, of settlement and displacement, nesting her own journey to Kachemak Bay within diasporas of her Jewish ancestors and of ancient peoples from Asia to the southern coast of Alaska. Along the way she weaves in scientific facts about the region as well as the stories told by Alaska’s indigenous peoples. It is a rhapsodic introduction to this stunning region and a siren call to protect the land’s natural resources in the face of a warming, changing world.

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University of Alaska Press

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1602233489

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9781602233485

WNAX 570 Radio

1922-2007

By: Marilyn Kratz,Stan Ray

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WNAX 570 Radio

1922-2007

By: Marilyn Kratz,Stan Ray

Life on the northern plains was lonely in the early 20th century. Farmers and ranchers went for weeks without hearing any voices other than those of their families. Then, in 1922, Al Madson, proprietor of a Yankton radio parts shop, made a radio transmitter. He formed a broadcasting company, and on November 25, 1922, WNAX broadcast its first program. People of the northern plains now had a daily "visitor." Gurney Seed and Nursery Company owned the station for its first 16 years, adding distinctive innovations to its programming. In its constant commitment to agriculture, the station has influenced the history of the five-state area it covers. Lawrence Welk got his start there. Wynn Speece, known as the Neighbor Lady, still broadcasts daily after starting at WNAX in 1941.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738540196

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9780738540191

In Defiance of Law

By: Marilyn Walker

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In Defiance of Law

By: Marilyn Walker

A Desert Storm veteran encounters two runaways. When he hears their stories, he keeps them with him in defiance of the law. When it is learned that his military discharge was due to psychiatric problems, it makes national headlines and fear mounts for the safety of the children. The FBI becomes involved when he crosses state lines. ... [T]he good guys win ... but who are the good guys? The veteran and those who help him? Or the legal entities who are after him?"--Publisher's statement, p. [4] of cover.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1609763882

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9781609763886

Cancer Survivor Warrior Queen

By: Marilyn S. Floyd

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Cancer Survivor Warrior Queen

By: Marilyn S. Floyd

This book is about a young girl, live to love not to complain, worry or be angry in denial but embrace the challenges that confront you to propel you into learning how to experience the lessons of living in that moment. The physicaians and medical team member can administer medical treatment to you. Any problems you going through it depended on you! Think positively regardless of the condition or cumstance keep laughing and smiling remember what President OBama said yes you can. Soar into new Beinnings because it begins with one positive thought I will survive? Cause no matter what happens; I know that with GOD. All things are possible because I Believe! I hope this message will encourage someone who needs to know that regardless of what the circumstances are, there is always hope.

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145672049X

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Remembering You

Until God Whispers My Name

By: Marilyn R. Duncan

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Remembering You

Until God Whispers My Name

By: Marilyn R. Duncan

As Canada’s population continues to age and lifespans lengthen, the incidence of dementia is also on the increase, with Alzheimer’s being the most common. For twelve years, author Marilyn Duncan cared for her beloved mother after she developed dementia. Remembering You Until God Whispers My Name is the moving memoir of a devoted daughter who becomes a strong health and social advocate for her mother as she gradually loses her mental faculties. Told with love, humour, poetry and through her grief, the story of Marilyn and her mother Jeannette Marguerite Sealey (née Butler) will help anyone who reads it to better understand how to show respect and give dignity to those on their final journey and their caregivers. Marilyn reminds us that grief is a very personal journey that we need to take to heal after losing a loved one. She also reminds us that laughter and joy are not disrespectful while caregiving to someone with dementia.

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FriesenPress

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1525518119

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9781525518119

The Screenwriter Activist

Writing Social Issue Movies

By: Marilyn Beker

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The Screenwriter Activist

Writing Social Issue Movies

By: Marilyn Beker

The Screenwriter Activist is an in-depth, practical guide for screenwriters who want to change the world by writing meaningful movies that make a difference.

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Routledge

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0415897149

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9780415897143

Screenwriting With a Conscience

Ethics for Screenwriters

By: Marilyn Beker

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Screenwriting With a Conscience

Ethics for Screenwriters

By: Marilyn Beker

Screenwriting With a Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters is for screenwriters who care deeply about what they write; who are aware that movie images matter and can influence audiences; and who want to create meaningful screenplays that make powerful statements while entertaining and winning over audiences. A user-friendly guide to ethical screenwriting, this book makes the case that social responsibility is endemic to public art while it emphatically champions First Amendment rights and condemns censorship. In this dynamic and practical volume, author Marilyn Beker provides methods for self-assessment of values, ideas, and ethical stances, and demonstrates the application of these values to the development of plot, character, and dialogue. Screenwriters are introduced to ethical decision making models and shown--through specific film examples--how they can be utilized in plot and character development. In addition, specific techniques and exercises are supplied to help screenwriters determine the difference between "good" and "evil," to write realistic and compelling characters based on this determination, and to present "messages" and write dialogue powerfully without preaching. This book also puts forth a livable work philosophy for dealing with the ethics of the screenwriting business, and presents a viable personal philosophy for surviving in the screenwriting world. Screenwriting With a Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters is an indispensible, dynamic guide for the ethics-conscious screenwriter. It is intended for screenwriters at the student and professional level, and is appropriate for beginning to graduate screenwriting courses in film and English programs, and for film courses dealing with Ethics in the Media.

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Routledge

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113563792X

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9781135637927

Insiders' Guide® to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Dutch Country

By: Marilyn Odesser-Torpey

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Insiders' Guide® to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Dutch Country

By: Marilyn Odesser-Torpey

Insiders' Guide to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Dutch Country is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Pennsylvania's "City of Brotherly Love." Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the area.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762783761

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9780762783762

No Girls in the Clubhouse

The Exclusion of Women from Baseball

By: Marilyn Cohen

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No Girls in the Clubhouse

The Exclusion of Women from Baseball

By: Marilyn Cohen

Even though teenaged girl Jackie Mitchell once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, women are still striking out on the hardball diamond. This book builds on recently published histories of women as amateur and professional players, umpires, sports commentators and fans to analyze the cultural and historical contexts for excluding females from America's pastime. Drawing on anthropological and feminist perspectives, the book examines the ways that constructions of women's bodies and normative social roles have pushed them toward softball instead of baseball. Sportswriter accounts, Title IX sex-discrimination suits, and interviews with players explore the obstacles and the social isolation of females who join all-male baseball teams, while also discussing policies that inhibit the practice.

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McFarland

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0786452978

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9780786452972

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century

By: Marilyn Ogilvie,Joy Harvey

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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century

By: Marilyn Ogilvie,Joy Harvey

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Routledge

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1135963436

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9781135963439

Write to Shoot

Writing Short Films for Production

By: Marilyn Beker

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Write to Shoot

Writing Short Films for Production

By: Marilyn Beker

Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to shoestring budgets, resources, and practical production parameters without sacrificing the quality and punch of their screenplays, whether they're creating a sizzle short for an unproduced feature script, an independent creative work, or a soapbox to promote a cause. Write to Shoot: Writing Short Films for Production is a must-have guide for anyone who wants to be sure there will be no surprises on set that come from a script that's not ready for production.

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1317548248

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9781317548249

The Alabama Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia

A Brief History

By: Marilyn T. Peebles

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The Alabama Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia

A Brief History

By: Marilyn T. Peebles

The Knights of Pythias fraternal organization was founded in 1865 by an Act of Congress. When African American men were denied membership, they created their own organization in Vicksburg, MS, in 1880. Its founder, Thomas Stringer, believed that fraternal organizations could provide the black community with business networks, economic safety nets, and political experience at a time when Jim Crow laws were being constructed all around them. In Birmingham, Alabama, these Pythians became the cornerstone of an African American business community that included the first black-owned and operated bank in the state. They provided burial, life, and disability insurance for members and became a source of civic pride and racial solidarity. When their right to exist was challenged, they took the case to the Supreme Court in 1912 and won. This strategy would be used decades later in Brown v. Board of Education.

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University Press of America

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0761858156

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9780761858157

Fordney's Medical Insurance Dictionary for Billers and Coders

By: Marilyn Fordney

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Fordney's Medical Insurance Dictionary for Billers and Coders

By: Marilyn Fordney

Over 7,500 terms, definitions, and acronyms for medical insurance, billing and coding (MIBC) make this the perfect pocket dictionary for both students and practitioners in the MIBC professions! With its small size and concise definitions, this dictionary is ideal for use in class and in the medical office. - Practical, consistent alphabetical organization with no subentries and screened thumb tabs make it easy to find the information you need. - Etymologies for most entries help you understand the origins of the terminology and build your professional vocabulary. - A list of commonly used abbreviations printed in the front and back covers make this your go-to reference for everyday practice.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437722431

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9781437722437

Policing the World on Screen

American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Crimefighters

By: Marilyn Yaquinto

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Policing the World on Screen

American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Crimefighters

By: Marilyn Yaquinto

This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter—whether cop, detective, or agent—who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going “rogue” and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but excused as self-defense or to serve the greater good. This ends-justifies-means approach dates back to gunfighters taming the western frontier to urban cowboy cops battling urban savagery—first personified by “Dirty” Harry Callahan—and later dispatched in global interventions to vanquish threats to national security. America as the world’s “policeman often means controlling the Other at home and abroad, which also extends American hegemony from the Cold War through the War on Terror. This book also examines pioneering portrayals by males of color and female crimefighters to embody such a social or national defender, which are frustrated by their existence as threats the white knight exists to defeat.

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Springer Nature

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3030248054

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9783030248055

Designing a Knitwear Collection

From Inspiration to Finished Garments

By: Lisa Donofrio-Ferrezza,Marilyn Hefferen

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Designing a Knitwear Collection

From Inspiration to Finished Garments

By: Lisa Donofrio-Ferrezza,Marilyn Hefferen

Designing a Knitwear Collection is an essential and comprehensive overview of the knitting design and development process.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501313827

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9781501313820

Soviet Emigre Artists

By: Marilyn Rueschemeyer

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Soviet Emigre Artists

By: Marilyn Rueschemeyer

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance. Repressed during the Stalin era, this is their story.

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Routledge

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1315288915

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9781315288918

Passionate Communities

Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction

By: Marilyn R. Schuster

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Passionate Communities

Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction

By: Marilyn R. Schuster

In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures. From her earliest novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept of a fixed identity and to the identity politics founded on such a concept. Incorporating all of Jane Rule's early work-including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan mail she received-Schuster also draws on interviews, conversations, and personal encounters with the author to elicit the ways in which Rule interrogates the meanings and politics of sexuality, the relationship between sexuality and language, and the stakes of communities in individual claims on identity. Passionate Communities is a thorough, engaging, and long-overdue study of an important voice in lesbian literature and gay and lesbian politics.

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NYU Press

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1479807230

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9781479807239

De Grazia

The Man and the Myths

By: James W. Johnson,Marilyn D. Johnson

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De Grazia

The Man and the Myths

By: James W. Johnson,Marilyn D. Johnson

Artist Ted De Grazia (1909–1982) lived life with passion and verve, embracing risk and romance, becoming a legend in Arizona, and gaining international acclaim. De Grazia: The Man and the Myths is a biography that reveals the eccentric, colorful man behind the myths. Born in Arizona Territory to Italian immigrant parents, De Grazia had a humble childhood as a copper miner’s son, which later influenced his famous persona. De Grazia often held forth at his gallery in Tucson’s Catalina foothills dressed in a pseudo-prospector’s getup of scraggly beard, jeans, flannel shirt, boots, and beat-up cowboy hat. Outrageous stories of womanizing, scores of children, and drinking binges created an eclectic image that fueled stories of mythic proportions, along with global sales of his colorful paintings inspired by the Southwest and Mexico. He made millions through his paintings and the licensing of his art for greeting cards and trinkets. Critics called his work kitsch or commercial, yet thousands of admirers continue to love it. Calling De Grazia a complicated man doesn’t begin to explain him. He once described himself as “not saint nor devil, but both.” In this first comprehensive biography of De Grazia, authors James W. Johnson with Marilyn D. Johnson tell the story of a life remarkably lived.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816598940

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9780816598946

This I Swear Is True

By: Marilyn Moore

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This I Swear Is True

By: Marilyn Moore

I invite you to read this book once, then again, and again. You will have a hard time believing—yes—that it is all true. Any fatal illness is so hard to believe, especially the one with the C word. This is very scary for anyone. You want something done right now, and you become a terrible wreck. We do think of things like “This is not happening” or “How can this be?” Of course, it is hard to handle. Reading this book will really change you. I am not anyone special, but I truly believe you will learn how to change anything with the power of God within. So after reading, please share, share, share. For now, I will close this with the following statement: We can change our lives for the better. Get to know your body, and get to know God. Please believe what I have written, because this, I swear, is true.

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1728315182

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9781728315188

Dancing with Words

Signing for Hearing Children's Literacy

By: Marilyn Daniels

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Dancing with Words

Signing for Hearing Children's Literacy

By: Marilyn Daniels

One of the foremost authorities on the use of sign language with hearing children provides a guide for teachers and parents who want to introduce signing in hearing children's language development. Marilyn Daniels provides a complete explanation for its use, a short history of sign language and its primary role within the Deaf community, an identification of the steps to reading success delineated with suggestions for incorporating sign language, and finally the results of studies and reactions of children, teachers, and parents. She shows how sign language can be used to improve hearing children's English vocabulary, reading ability, spelling proficiency, self-esteem, and comfort with expressing emotions. Signing also facilitates communication, aids teachers with classroom management, and has been shown to promote a more comfortable learning environment while initiating an interest and enthusiasm for learning on the part of students. Sign language is shown to be an effective agent to accelerate literacy in hearing children from babyhood through sixth grade. A comprehensive exploration of the physiological rationale for the educational advantage sign carries is presented. Overlapping integrated brain activities are incited by movement, vision, meaning, memory, play and the hand itself when sign language is used. Recent findings clearly indicate this bilingual approach with hearing children activates brain growth and development.

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0313390118

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9780313390111

Law Makers, Law Breakers, and Uncommon Trials

By: Robert Aitken,Marilyn Aitken

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Law Makers, Law Breakers, and Uncommon Trials

By: Robert Aitken,Marilyn Aitken

From the divine right of Charles I to the civil rights struggle of Rosa Parks, 25 non-fiction stories provide a panorama of people whose actions helped form our legal system and our world. Constitution makers, Civil War enemies, Irish rebels, World War II Nazis, murder and passion, art and prejudice appear in a page-turner that reads like a mystery novel. Did Dr. Samuel Mudd participate in the Lincoln assassination? Was Captain Charles McVay III responsible for the sinking of the USS Indianapolis? Did Levi Weeks kill pretty Elma Sands? Read about unknown founder James Wilson and Hitler's lawyer, Hans Frank. Discover the back stories of landmark cases and enjoy the cross examination and trial skills of lawyers in top form.

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American Bar Association

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1590318803

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9781590318805

Qualitative Research in Education: A User's Guide

A User's Guide

By: Marilyn Lichtman

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Qualitative Research in Education: A User's Guide

A User's Guide

By: Marilyn Lichtman

This textbook provides readers with a blend of practical and theoretical information, using real-world examples and illustrations to help users grasp abstract ideas and apply them to their research.

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1412995329

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9781412995320

The Animal Who Writes

A Posthumanist Composition

By: Marilyn M. Cooper

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The Animal Who Writes

A Posthumanist Composition

By: Marilyn M. Cooper

Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter—treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor—as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write, they also continually remake themselves. In The Animal Who Writes, Cooper considers writing as a social practice and as an embodied behavior that is particularly important to human animals. The author argues that writing is an act of composing enmeshed in nature-cultures and is homologous with technology as a mode of making.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822986736

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9780822986737

Between Race and Ethnicity

Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965

By: Marilyn Halter

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Between Race and Ethnicity

Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965

By: Marilyn Halter

Arriving in New England first as crew members of whaling vessels, Afro-Portuguese immigrants from Cape Verde later came as permanent settlers and took work in the cranberry industry, on the docks, and as domestic workers. Marilyn Halter combines oral history with analyses of ships' records to chart the history and adaptation patterns of the Cape Verdean Americans. Though identifying themselves in ethnic terms, Cape Verdeans found that their African-European ancestry led their new society to view them as a racial group. Halter emphasizes racial and ethnic identity formation to show how Cape Verdeans set themselves apart from the African Americans while attempting to shrug off white society's exclusionary tactics. She also contrasts rural life on the bogs of Cape Cod with New Bedford’s urban community to reveal the ways immigrants established their own social and religious groups as they strove to maintain their Crioulo customs.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252054423

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9780252054426

Appalachian Childhood

Memories of Growing Up in Rural Southern Ohio During the Mid 20th Century

By: Marilyn Thornton Schraff

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Appalachian Childhood

Memories of Growing Up in Rural Southern Ohio During the Mid 20th Century

By: Marilyn Thornton Schraff

The author describes the unique life experiences of a child growing up in a small rural Appalachian community in Southern Ohio. The chapters humorously, yet seriously, describe various aspects of maturing in this culture during the mid twentieth century, (through the following topics: education, religion, food, pets, family, 4-H, prejudice, and work) from a youthful, yet historically accurate, perspective.

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Appalachian Childhood

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098279830X

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9780982798300

Mom, Twice a Child

By: Marilyn R. Duncan

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Mom, Twice a Child

By: Marilyn R. Duncan

What happens when a lifelong caregiver needs caring for? As Baby Boomers become elders, this heart-wrenching question is one that many North American families are grappling with every day. This timely volume is part memoir, part roadmap, written by a daughter thrust into a role as her headstrong mother Marguerite’s decision maker, advocate, and aide when the latter is diagnosed with dementia. Mom, Twice a Child is an emotionally honest look at the ups and downs of caregiving and its inevitable toll on helpers. It is a loving and intimate portrait of Marguerite’s life, engaging for any caregiver who understands that this insidious disease, no matter how debilitating, cannot rob a family of their past.

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FriesenPress

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1460271300

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9781460271308

George W. Brackenridge

Maverick Philanthropist

By: Marilyn Mcadams Sibley

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George W. Brackenridge

Maverick Philanthropist

By: Marilyn Mcadams Sibley

George W. Brackenridge (1832–1920) was a paradox to his fellow Texans. A Republican in a solidly Democratic state, a financier in a cattleman's country, a Prohibitionist in the goodtime town of San Antonio, he devoted his energies to making a fortune only to give it to philanthropic causes. Indiana born, Brackenridge came to Texas in 1853, but left the state during the Civil War to serve as U.S. Treasury agent and engage in the wartime cotton trade. Later he settled in San Antonio, where he founded a bank and invested in railroads, utilities, and other enterprises. Some of Brackenridge's contemporaries never forgave him for his Civil War career, but others knew him as a public-spirited citizen, educator, and advocate of civil rights. He cared little for what others thought of him. Yet, he confided once in a rare interview that his fondest ambition was to leave the world a better place for his having lived in it. To this end, he gave generously of himself and his means. His best-known benefaction is Brackenridge Park, which he gave to the city of San Antonio, but most of his contributions were in the field of education. As regent of the University of Texas for more than twenty-five years, he gave the institution its first dormitory, a large tract of land in Austin, and innumerable smaller gifts. He also offered to underwrite the expenses of the University when Governor James E. Ferguson vetoed the appropriation bill for 1917–1919. Other educational institutions to benefit from his largess were the public schools of San Antonio, a Negro college in Seguin, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. In addition, he assisted individual students, especially women, through scholarships and loans. Believing that the betterment of humanity lay in education, Brackenridge arranged for the continuation of his philanthropies. By his will he created the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, the first of its kind in Texas and one of the first in the United States. Marilyn McAdams Sibley's study of George W. Brackenridge is the first biography of an important and, for his time, unusual Texan. It presents new material concerning the Mexican cotton trade during the Civil War, on the beginnings of banking in Texas, and on higher education in Texas.

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University of Texas Press

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0292781164

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Qualitative Research in Education

A User′s Guide

By: Marilyn Lichtman

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Qualitative Research in Education

A User′s Guide

By: Marilyn Lichtman

Helping education students become savvy qualitative researchers Qualitative Research in Education: A User′s Guide, Third Edition continues to bring together the essential elements of qualitative research, including traditions and influences in the field and practical, step-by-step coverage of each stage of the research process. Synthesizing the best thinking on conducting qualitative research in education, author Marilyn Lichtman uses a conversational writing style that draws readers into the excitement of the research process. Real-world examples provide both practical and theoretical information, helping readers understand abstract ideas and apply them to their own research.

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