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The End of Peacekeeping

Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention

By: Marsha Henry

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The End of Peacekeeping

Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention

By: Marsha Henry

In The End of Peacekeeping, Marsha Henry makes use of feminist, postcolonial, and anti-militarist frameworks to expose peacekeeping as an epistemic power project in need of abolition. Drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought, and from postcolonial and critical race theories, Henry shows how contemporary peacekeeping produces gender and racial inequalities through increasingly militarized strategies. The book’s intersectional analysis of peacekeeping is based on data amassed through more than fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork on peacekeeping missions and training centers around the world, including interviews with UN peacekeepers, humanitarian aid personnel, and local populations. Henry demonstrates how focus on the policy and practice of peacekeeping has obscured the geopolitical knowledge project at peacekeeping’s root, allowing its harms to persist unquestioned by mainstream scholarship. Arguing that we must recover critical theoretical contributions that have been sidelined within the field, she brings the insights of feminist and postcolonial scholarship to bear on peacekeeping studies, whose production of empirical data and evidence continues to provide the justification and foundation for policy and global governance actions. Revealing that peacekeeping is not the benign, apolitical project it is often purported to be, this book encourages readers to imagine and enact alternative futures to peacekeeping.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512825247

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Restoring the Temple of Vision

Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture

By: Marsha Keith Schuchard

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Restoring the Temple of Vision

Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture

By: Marsha Keith Schuchard

This book uncovers the early Jewish, Scottish, and Stuart sources of "ancient" Cabalistic Freemasonry. Drawing on architectural, technological, political, and religious documents, it provides the historical context for Masonic traditions of visionary Temple building and mystical fraternity.

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9004124896

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The Holdup

By: Marsha Norman

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The Holdup

By: Marsha Norman

THE STORY: In 1914 in a remote shack on the New Mexico prairie, two young brothers, Archie and Henry Tucker, await the eventual arrival of a wheat threshing crew. Instead they are visited by The Outlaw, a grizzled, aging gunfighter who has shot h

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0822205246

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9780822205241

The Dachshund Who Sprouted Wings

By: Marsha E. Hewitt-Barker

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The Dachshund Who Sprouted Wings

By: Marsha E. Hewitt-Barker

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a dog? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a dog that flies? Come find out how Henry sprouted wings and then join him on an amazing around-the-world adventure. Best of all, you dont need a passport!

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In the Shadow of Midnight

By: Marsha Canham

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In the Shadow of Midnight

By: Marsha Canham

Determined to disobey the King rather than marry by decree, Ariel de Clare, niece to the Marshal of England, flees to the safety of Wales accompanied by the bastard son of a nobleman. Original.

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0440206138

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Writing the Reformation

Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play

By: Marsha Robinson

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Writing the Reformation

Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play

By: Marsha Robinson

This title was first published in 2002. This work invests the post-Shakespearean history plays of the Jacobean era - including among others Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" (1613), Dekker's "The Whore of Babylon" (1606), and Heywood's "If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody" (1604-5)-with new significance by recognizing the role they played in popularizing and re-appropriating Foxe's "Book of Martyrs", one of the most formative and culturally significant Reformation texts. This study presents the historical stage as a site of a continuing Reformation debate over the nature of political authority, the validity of conscience and the challenge to social and gender hierarchies implicit in Protestant doctrine. Relating each play to contemporary political events, the book demonstrates the role of the Jacobean stage in promoting reformation and informing with providential meaning the events unfolding outside the theatre.

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Routledge

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1351741640

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Sun Path

By: Marsha Prock

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Sun Path

By: Marsha Prock

a story of family strife mixed with sexual incest combined with racial discrimination seems a flash of violence cascading off America's multi-media of this century. But all the personal pain patterned from today's media blasts is told in the story of a young, half-Melungeon girl running from the horrors so original to humans even in the early year of 1809. This strong young teen is aided in her escape by a mixed-blood Osage youth also running from his past to his future. Fighting fear, exhaustion, starvation, and all the natural barriers of the Kentucky wilderness, the pair finds trails, crosses rising streams, and fights for their lives against nature and censure of man. As Charity Baxter flees from her origins she is followed by both the worst and best of her past. Holding only an ancient Port-a-gee knife given to her by her grandmother of the mountains and reunited with the one great blessing from her dead father, she and her companion now are pushed into a small community to be tested by the colorful, yet rowdy citizens of a small Mississippi River crossing. With the growing strength of self-reliance and the great gift from her grandmother and father, Charity finds both her will and her heart tested as she attempts the final, dramatic drive to cross into Missouri Territory and America's new West.

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1499063520

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Becoming the Ex-Wife

The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott

By: Marsha Gordon

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Becoming the Ex-Wife

The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott

By: Marsha Gordon

Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure."—The New Yorker "Remind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention."—New York Times The riveting biography of Ursula Parrott—best-selling author, Hollywood screenwriter, and voice for the modern woman. Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made her a household name. Part biography, part cultural history, Becoming the Ex-Wife establishes Parrott's rightful place in twentieth-century American culture, uncovering her neglected work and keen insights into American women's lives during a period of immense social change. Although she was frequently dismissed as a "woman's writer," reading Parrott's writing today makes it clear that she was a trenchant philosopher of modernity—her work was prescient, anticipating issues not widely raised until decades after her decline into obscurity. With elegant wit and a deft command of the archive, Marsha Gordon tells a timely story about the life of a woman on the front lines of a culture war that is still raging today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520409639

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A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167)

By: Marsha Dutton

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A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167)

By: Marsha Dutton

Brill's Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx explores the life, works, and thought of Aelred, Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey from 1147 to 1167. As well as introducing the three genres of his works —sermons, spiritual teaching, and history— scholars survey such central topics as Marian devotion, love and friendship, the sacramental nature of community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives. The work also includes the first supplement to the Bibliotheca aelrediana secunda, listing publications by and about Aelred from between 1996 and 2015. Aelred is rapidly becoming one of the best-known and most loved of the 12th-century Cistercians; this book provides welcome new insights into his contributions to the spiritual and political concerns of his place and time. Contributors are Damien Boquet, Pierre-André Burton, Marsha L. Dutton, Elizabeth Freeman, Daniel M. La Corte, Marie Anne Mayeski, Domenico Pezzini, John R. Sommerfeldt, and Katherine Yohe.

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9004337970

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Wally's World

Life with Wally the Wonder Dog

By: Marsha Boulton

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Wally's World

Life with Wally the Wonder Dog

By: Marsha Boulton

From bestselling author Boulton comes the heartwarming, hilarious tale of life with Wally the Wonder dog, a Bull Terrier who turned out to be much more than a pet.

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0312379595

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The Last Arrow

By: Marsha Canham

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The Last Arrow

By: Marsha Canham

In 1214, King John is desperate to find the lost Princess of Brittany to assume the throne, but the monarchy faces the threat of Griffin Renaud de Verdelay, who has been hired to murder the princess, and only an man known as Robin Hood can save the kingdom. Original.

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0440222575

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The Articulate Advocate

New Techniques of Persuasion for Trial Attorneys

By: Marsha Hunter,Brian K. Johnson

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The Articulate Advocate

New Techniques of Persuasion for Trial Attorneys

By: Marsha Hunter,Brian K. Johnson

Unlike other trial advocacy books that teach what to say and do in the courtroom, this reference teaches how to say and do it. Based on 25 years of experience from coaching practitioners, this handbook reveals techniques—incorporating cutting-edge discoveries in linguistics, neuroscience, and sports psychology—to help litigators look, sound, and feel natural and polished in the courtroom. Questions that lawyers face daily, such as What do I do with my hands? Aren’t gestures distracting? How do I remember everything? and I tend to talk so fast—how can I slow down? are among the questions addressed in this handbook.

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Crown King Books

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0979689503

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Keeping Your Balance On a Side-Hill Ranch

By: Marsha Schemmer Blake

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Keeping Your Balance On a Side-Hill Ranch

By: Marsha Schemmer Blake

True stories of a large, growing family living in a primitive hewn-log cabin in the hills of Northern Idaho from 1930 to 1944. Told in both prose and poetic styling and sprinkled liberally with humor.

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130480951X

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Living a Metaphysical Life: A Motherâs Legacy for Her Family

By: Marsha Moore

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Living a Metaphysical Life: A Motherâs Legacy for Her Family

By: Marsha Moore

Part memoir, part love letter, part journey into metaphysics. I did not set out to live a metaphysical life. All I wanted was to lead a normal life. Because of all the unusual circumstances surrounding my childhood, I wanted normalcy more than anything. But sometime during my young life I began to have dreams and precognitions. These experiences changed my reality forever, gave me the courage to journey to my soul, and led me on a voyage through metaphysics in an attempt to understand my psychic life. This book records my journey, including life events, contemplations, psychic dreams and religious experiences. I lived part time with a Baptist family early in life, followed by years of Catholic school education from grade school through high school. Studying metaphysics in my twenties exposed me to Eastern philosophy. Ultimately, I was able to reconcile my psychic experiences and Eastern perspectives with my Catholic beliefs.

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1483400360

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No Fear

A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA

By: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo,Noam Chomsky,Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy

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No Fear

A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA

By: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo,Noam Chomsky,Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy

As a young, black, MIT-educated social scientist, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo landed her dream job at the EPA, working with Al Gore, assisting post-apartheid South Africa. But when she tried to get the government to investigate allegations that a multinational corporation was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans mining vanadium—a vital strategic mineral--she found that the EPA was the first line of defense for the corporation. When the agency stonewalled, Coleman-Adebayo blew the whistle. How could she know that the agency with a hippie-like logo would use every racist and sexist trick in their playbook in retaliation? The EPA cost her her career, endangered her family, and sacrificed more lives in the vanadium mines of South Africa—but also brought about an upwelling of support from others in the federal bureaucracy who were fed up with its crushing repression. Upon prevailing in court, Coleman-Adebayo organized a grassroots struggle to bring protection to all federal employees facing discrimination and retribution from the government. The No FEAR Coalition that she organized waged a two-year-long battle with Congress over the need to protect whistleblowers—and won. This book is her harrowing story.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569769397

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Social and Economic Networks in Early Massachusetts

Atlantic Connections

By: Marsha L. Hamilton

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Social and Economic Networks in Early Massachusetts

Atlantic Connections

By: Marsha L. Hamilton

The seventeenth century saw an influx of immigrants to the heavily Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. This book redefines the role that non-Puritans and non-English immigrants played in the social and economic development of Massachusetts. Marsha Hamilton shows how non-Puritan English, Scots, and Irish immigrants, along with Channel Islanders, Huguenots, and others, changed the social and economic dynamic of the colony. A chronic labor shortage in early Massachusetts allowed many non-Puritans to establish themselves in the colony, providing a foundation upon which later immigrants built transatlantic economic networks. Scholars of the era have concluded that these “strangers” assimilated into the Puritan structure and had little influence on colonial development; however, through an in-depth examination of each group’s activity in local affairs, Marsha Hamilton asserts a much different conclusion. By mining court, town, and company records, letters, and public documents, Hamilton uncovers the impact that these immigrants had on the colony, not only by adding to the diversity and complexity of society but also by developing strong economic networks that helped bring the Bay Colony into the wider Atlantic world. These groups opened up important mercantile networks between their own homelands and allies, and by creating their own communities within larger Puritan networks, they helped create the provincial identity that led the colony into the eighteenth century.

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Penn State Press

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0271074310

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Television and the Embodied Viewer

Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age

By: Marsha F. Cassidy

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Television and the Embodied Viewer

Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age

By: Marsha F. Cassidy

Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium’s capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV’s multisensory appeal builds viewer empathy and animates meaning. The book draws extensively upon interpretive viewpoints in the humanities to shed light on a range of provocative television works, notably The Americans, Mad Men, Little Women: LA, and Six Feet Under, with emphasis on the dramatization of gender, disability, sex, childbearing, and death. Advocating a biocultural approach that takes into account the mind sciences, Cassidy argues that interpretive meanings, shaped within today’s dynamic cultural matrix, are amplified by somatic experience. At a time when questions of embodiment and affect are crossing disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of television, film, and media studies, both in the humanities and cognitive traditions.

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1315282631

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9781315282633

Baltimore Neighborhoods

By: Marsha Wight Wise

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Baltimore Neighborhoods

By: Marsha Wight Wise

Baltimore's rich diversity is represented by its many neighborhoods--95 at last count. Some neighborhoods meander for several city blocks while others claim only a few. This volume of vintage postcards provides unique glimpses into the past of many of Baltimore's neighborhoods. Included are the elegant homes of Roland Park, Guildford, and Sherwood Gardens; the workingman's Highlandtown, South Baltimore, and Locust Point; the streetcar suburbs of Mount Washington, Overlea, Ten Hills, and Hunting Ridge; and the city park-anchored communities of Patterson Park, Federal Hill, and Gwynns Falls. Readers will find no two communities alike.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738552909

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The Art of Reflection

Women Artists' Self-portraiture in the Twentieth Century

By: Marsha Meskimmon

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The Art of Reflection

Women Artists' Self-portraiture in the Twentieth Century

By: Marsha Meskimmon

With 43 illustrations of works by Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, among others, The Art of Reflection is the first sustained inquiry into the appropriation of self-portraiture by women painters, photographers, scultptors, and performance artists.

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Columbia University Press

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0231106874

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Lesser Civil Wars

Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War

By: Marsha R. Robinson

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Lesser Civil Wars

Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War

By: Marsha R. Robinson

Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War is an edited volume that surveys three hundred years of the Memory of war and the Will to war in the greater Ohio River Valley and Great Lakes region. Military theorists from von Clausewitz, to Dingiswayo and Chandragupta, calculated the Will of their own soldiers and of the enemy’s soldiers. Sometimes the Will is assigned an erroneously low strength, as Abraham Lincoln learned quickly at the onset of the United States Civil War. In this volume, we examine the civilian production of the national Will to fight future wars through the least civil war – each individual’s war to remember or to forget – and no armistice or accord brings this internal battle to an end. This is not a book about the atrocities committed during war. This is a book about the very nature of the Will-Memory-Will cycle, where the Memory of war continues for generations until a new war requires the resurrection of the Will. As these essays show, sometimes it only takes a few individuals to prosecute these Memory wars with rules of engagement that do not necessarily include civil behavior. By focusing on microhistories from a specific region and by bracketing the US Civil War with an essay about a century prior to it and essays about the century following it, we are able to demonstrate the power and energy of the incubating stage of Memory in the Will-Memory-Will cycle. In the greater Ohio River Valley and Great Lakes region, ordinary civilians controlled and incubated the memories of the Iroquois Wars, the French and Indian/Sevens’ Years War (1756–1763), the American Revolution (1776–1783) and the War of 1812, and they converted Memory into the Will to fight the US Civil War and the Vietnam War. In these chapters, we present micro-wars between civilians over control of the Will of a nation. They are, indeed, lesser civil wars.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443843946

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Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1862-1864, Second Edition

By: Marsha Driscoll,Elizabeth E. Dunn,Dann Siems,B. Kamran Swanson

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Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1862-1864, Second Edition

By: Marsha Driscoll,Elizabeth E. Dunn,Dann Siems,B. Kamran Swanson

The 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species evoked a spectrum of responses, from fervent endorsement to vehement opposition, because of the theory of natural selection's implications for Western theological and cultural orthodoxy. During the 1860 Oxford gathering of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce engaged in a riveting and widely publicized debate, dissecting the merits and drawbacks of Darwin's theory. Their clash ignited a multifaceted discourse that reverberated through the intellectual circles of Victorian Britain, culminating in the Royal Society's deliberations over whether to bestow upon Darwin the esteemed Copley Medal, its highest honor. In this second edition of Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861–1864, students engage in debates within the Royal Society that navigate the tension between natural and teleological views. The student roles delve into topics like inductive reasoning, science in industrial society, social reform, and women's rights, all centered around the Copley deliberations and the societal impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory.

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UNC Press Books

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1469683539

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Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember

By: Karleen Bradford,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Perry Nodelman,Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch,Jean Little

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Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember

By: Karleen Bradford,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Perry Nodelman,Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch,Jean Little

A wonderful seasonal anthology for Dear Canada readers, both old and new! A real treat for fans of this series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Eleven stories that each revisit a favourite character from books in the Dear Canada series are included in this special collection. These are completely original tales that stand alone as heartwarming Christmas stories, but also serve as a lovely "next chapter" to their original books. Each story is written by one of Canada's top award-winning writers for children, including Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Maxine Trottier, Carol Matas and more. This collection is a lovely companion to A Season of Miracles, and will be treasured year after year at holiday time!

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1443119970

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The Family Tree Problem Solver

Tried-and-True Tactics for Tracing Elusive Ancestors

By: Marsha Hoffman Rising

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The Family Tree Problem Solver

Tried-and-True Tactics for Tracing Elusive Ancestors

By: Marsha Hoffman Rising

Proven Solutions for Your Research Challenges Has your family history research hit a brick wall? Marsha Hoffman Rising's bestselling book The Family Tree Problem Solver has the solutions to help you find the answers you seek. Inside you'll find: · Work-arounds for lost or destroyed records · Techniques for finding ancestors with common names · Ideas on how to find vital records before civil registration began · Advice for how to interpret and use your DNA results · Tips for finding individuals “missing” from censuses · Methods for finding ancestors who lived before 1850 · Strategies for analyzing your research problem and putting together a practical research plan This revised edition also includes new guides to record hints from companies like AncestryDNA. Plus you'll find a glossary of genealogy terms and case studies that put the book’s advice into action.

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1440300747

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Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861-1864

By: Marsha Driscoll,Elizabeth E. Dunn,Dann Siems,B. Kamran Swanson

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Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861-1864

By: Marsha Driscoll,Elizabeth E. Dunn,Dann Siems,B. Kamran Swanson

Since its appearance in 1859, Darwin's long-awaited treatise in "genetic biology" had received reviews both favorable and damning. Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce presented arguments for and against the theory in a dramatic and widely publicized face-off at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford. Their encounter sparked a vigorous, complex debate that touched on a host of issues and set the stage for the Royal Society's consideration of whether they ought to award Darwin the Copley Medal, the society's most prestigious prize. While the action takes place in meetings of the Royal Society, Great Britain's most important scientific body, a parallel and influential public argument smolders over the nature of science and its relationship to modern life in an industrial society. A significant component of the Darwin game is the tension between natural and teleological views of the world, manifested especially in reconsideration of the design argument, commonly known through William Paley's Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity(1802) and updated by Wilberforce. But the scientific debate also percolated through a host of related issues: the meaning and purposes of inductive and hypothetical speculation in science; the professionalization of science; the implications of Darwinism for social reform, racial theories, and women's rights; and the evolving concept of causation in sciences and its implications for public policy. Because of the revolutionary potential of Darwin's ideas, the connections between science and nearly every other aspect of culture became increasingly evident. Scientific papers and laboratory demonstrations presented in Royal Society meetings during the game provide the backdrop for momentous conflict, conflict that continues to shape our perceptions of modern science.

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1469672286

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Science, Pseudo-Science and Society

By: Marsha Hanen,Margaret Osler,Robert Weyant

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Science, Pseudo-Science and Society

By: Marsha Hanen,Margaret Osler,Robert Weyant

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference on “Science, Pseudo–science and Society,” sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities and held at the University of Calgary, May 10–12, 1979. More than many such collections, this one preserves some trace of the intellectual excitement which surrounded this gathering of scholars. A primary inspiration for the symposium on “Science, Pseudoscience, and Society” was a growing awareness of the crucial role the study of pseudo–science plays in the areas of contemporary scholarship which are concerned with the nature of science and its relationship to broader social issues. This volume is organized around three major questions concerning the relationships among science, pseudo–science, and society. The papers in the first section address the question of whether it is possible to draw a sharp demarcation between science and pseudo–science and what the criteria of that demarcation might be. The papers in the second section, recognizing the historical importance of various of the pseudo–sciences, consider their impact—positive or negative—on the development of the sciences themselves. The papers in the third section deal with the question of the relationship between the sciences and pseudo–sciences, on the one hand, and social factors on the other.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889207933

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9780889207936

Storm Orphan

A Memoir

By: Marsha Barrett

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Storm Orphan

A Memoir

By: Marsha Barrett

When Marsha Barrett is six years old, her mother dies of cancer. The youngest of three sisters in a Jewish family, she goes through a turbulent youth during the 1960s and 1970s, rebelling against her demanding and often absent father. Barrett depicts the heartbreaking yet humorous chaos in her household as her philandering father seeks a replacement wife and mother for his daughters. At age seventeen, disowned by her dad and feeling wildly un-mothered, Marsha flees her home in North Toronto to be independent. Storm Orphan is about a strong-spirited daughter and her domineering father. It’s about living through tragedy yet finding hilarity. It’s about grief and joy. It’s about losing and discovering love, but ultimately it’s a story about finding home.

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What America Watched

Television Favorites from the Cornfields to the Cosmos, 1960s-1990s

By: Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser

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What America Watched

Television Favorites from the Cornfields to the Cosmos, 1960s-1990s

By: Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser

Although television critics have often differed with the public with respect to the artistic and cultural merits of television programming, over the last half-century television has indubitably influenced popular culture and vice versa. No matter what reasons are cited--the characters, the actors, the plots, the music--television shows that were beloved by audiences in their time remain fondly remembered. This study covers the classic period of popular television shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, focusing on how regular viewers interacted with television shows on a personal level. Bridging popular and scholarly approaches, this book discovers what America actually watched and why through documents, footage, visits to filming locations, newspapers, and magazine articles from the shows' eras. The book features extensive notes and bibliography.

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