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Literary Dollars and Social Sense

A People's History of the Mass Market Book

By: Ronald J. Zboray,Mary Saracino Zboray

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Literary Dollars and Social Sense

A People's History of the Mass Market Book

By: Ronald J. Zboray,Mary Saracino Zboray

Prior to the Civil War, publishing in America underwent a transformation from a genteel artisan trade supported by civic patronage and religious groups to a thriving, cut-throat national industry propelled by profit. Literary Dollars and Social Sense represents an important chapter in the historical experience of print culture, it illuminates the phenomenon of amateur writing and delineates the access points of the emerging mass market for print for distributors consumers and writers. It challenges the conventional assumptions that the literary public had little trouble embracing the new literary marketing that emerged at mid-century. The book uncover the tensions that author's faced between literature's role in the traditional moral economy and the lure of literary dollars for personal gain and fame. This book marks an important example in how scholars understand and conduct research in American literature.

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Routledge

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1136729534

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My Road to Kenya

A Story of Faith, Hope and Democracy in Action

By: Mary Clare Lyons,Jack O'Leary

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My Road to Kenya

A Story of Faith, Hope and Democracy in Action

By: Mary Clare Lyons,Jack O'Leary

Together we shared a mostly happy journey facing and overcoming obstacles, meeting fascinating people wherever we went while falling completely in love with the people of Kenya. This book is a tribute to my co-laborers and in writing this book I hope to show that one does not need to be a hero to step out, take risks and make the world a better, healthier and happier place. Jack OLeary An archbishop, an environmentalist and an AIDS activist are only a few of the heroes, who stood up against a ruthless dictator and corrupt government, in Jack OLearys My Road to Kenya. My Road to Kenya shines a light on a group of everyday heroes who believe they were called to make a difference in the lives of the people of Kenya. Fate and faith led them to the crossroads where their paths converged. Working together they have built and supplied hospitals, clinics, schools, churches, and homes for hundreds of children many of whom were orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Through it all they asked for nothing for themselves. Yet in the end, the collaborations of these everyday heroes resulted in something invaluable the forging of deep and long-lasting friendships.

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WestBow Press

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1449756638

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9781449756635

Using Scanner Data for Food Policy Research

By: Mary K. Muth,Abigail Okrent,Chen Zhen,Shawn Karns

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Using Scanner Data for Food Policy Research

By: Mary K. Muth,Abigail Okrent,Chen Zhen,Shawn Karns

Using Scanner Data for Food Policy Research is a practitioners' guide to using and interpreting scanner data obtained from stores and households in policy research. It provides practical advice for using the data and interpreting their results. It helps the reader address key methodological issues such as aggregation, constructing price indices, and matching the data to nutrient values. It demonstrates some of the key econometric and statistical applications of the data, including estimating demand systems for policy simulation, analyzing effects of food access on food choices, and conducting cost-benefit analysis of food policies. This guide is intended for early-career researchers, particularly those working with scanner data in agricultural and food economics, nutrition, and public health contexts. - Describe different types of scanner data, the types of information available in the data, and the vendors that offer these data - Describe food-label data that can be appended to scanner data - Identify key questions that researchers should consider when acquiring scanner and label data for food policy research - Demonstrate how to use scanner data using tools from econometric and statistical analyses, including the limitations in interpreting results using the data - Describe and resolve key methodological issues related to using the data to facilitate more rapid analyses - Provide an overview of published literature as background for designing new studies - Demonstrate key applications of the data for food policy research

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Academic Press

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0128145471

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9780128145470

English Language Skills

By: Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

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English Language Skills

By: Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

This text will teach pupils how to recognise the demands of a question, providing an understanding of the phrasing and proposing methods of approaching writing an appropriate response.

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Margaret

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0716932245

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9780716932246

The Characterization of an Empire

The Portrayal of the Assyrians in Kings and Chronicles

By: Mary Katherine Yem Hing Hom

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The Characterization of an Empire

The Portrayal of the Assyrians in Kings and Chronicles

By: Mary Katherine Yem Hing Hom

Assyria—the missing link in the superpower oppressor type in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament—still suffers from modern scholarly neglect. The Characterization of an Empire aims to alleviate this neglect while also elucidating the historical biblical books that convey characterizations of Assyrians. The narratological insights gained throughout this study contribute to biblical literary studies at rigorous, detailed, sometimes deep, and sometimes complex levels. Thus, this book offers to be not only a contribution to the general corpus of biblical literary studies, but also an expansion of our paradigms regarding the detail, depth, and complexity at which narratological intention and artistry function in the biblical text.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532646615

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9781532646614

Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media

New Strategies in Marketing Theory, Practice, Trends, and Ethics

By: Mary-Lou Galician

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Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media

New Strategies in Marketing Theory, Practice, Trends, and Ethics

By: Mary-Lou Galician

Leading experts present cutting-edge ideas and current research on product placement! The Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media: New Strategies in Marketing Theory, Practice, Trends, and Ethics is the first serious book in English to examine the wider contexts and varied texts of product placement, related media marketing strateg

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Routledge

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1136781277

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Contextualising the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Assessing the Economic Deficit

By: Mary Dowell-Jones

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Contextualising the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Assessing the Economic Deficit

By: Mary Dowell-Jones

This work builds on existing studies of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by reviewing the challenges to implementation posed by the evolving global macroeconomic environment. The inter-disciplinary focus adopted highlights the limits to a purely legal approach to this instrument at both a theoretical and practical level: issues such as the justiciability debate and the difficulties which the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have experienced in applying the ICESCR to States parties' economic policy choices are reviewed from a macroeconomic perspective and it is argued that only once the economic de-contextualisation of this instrument has been addressed will the guarantees in the ICESCR be fully actualised. In this vein it is proposed that reform of the existing supervisory architecture to incorporate economic expertise would be a more positive step forward for the ICESCR than the adoption of the proposed optional protocol. This work is aimed at those working within the sphere of socio-economic rights as well as human rights specialists interested in the implications of global economic integration for the international human rights system as well as the possibility of new paradigms in international human rights methodology.

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BRILL

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9047405609

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9789047405603

Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany

With Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte

By: Mary Delany

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Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany

With Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte

By: Mary Delany

The extensive and fascinating correspondence of Mary Delany (1700-88) who was famed for her botanical 'paper mosaics'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108038395

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9781108038393

SMEs in Indian Textiles

The Impact of Globalization in a Developing Market

By: A. Anthony,Mary Joseph.T

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SMEs in Indian Textiles

The Impact of Globalization in a Developing Market

By: A. Anthony,Mary Joseph.T

SMEs in Indian Textiles examines how globalisation in its transformative influence affects both firms and workers in the developing economies. This book explores the handloom cluster's value chain linkages to examine whether firms in the cluster gained from their association with global buyers over this extended period, and in what ways.

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Springer

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1137444576

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9781137444578

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies

Third Edition

By: Marcel Kornfeld,George C Frison,Mary Lou Larson

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Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies

Third Edition

By: Marcel Kornfeld,George C Frison,Mary Lou Larson

George Frison’s Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains has been the standard text on plains prehistory since its first publication in 1978, influencing generations of archaeologists. Now, a third edition of this classic work is available for scholars, students, and avocational archaeologists. Thorough and comprehensive, extensively illustrated, the book provides an introduction to the archaeology of the more than 13,000 year long history of the western Plains and the adjacent Rocky Mountains. Reflecting the boom in recent archaeological data, it reports on studies at a wide array of sites from deep prehistory to recent times examining the variability in the archeological record as well as in field, analytical, and interpretive methods. The 3rd edition brings the book up to date in a number of significant areas, as well as addressing several topics inadequately developed in previous editions.

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1315422077

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Introduction to Measurement Theory

By: Mary J. Allen,Wendy M. Yen

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Introduction to Measurement Theory

By: Mary J. Allen,Wendy M. Yen

Introduction to Measurement Theory bridges the gap between texts that offer a mathematically rigorous treatment of the statistical properties of measurement and ones that discuss the topic in a basic, cookbook fashion. Without overwhelming novices or boring the more mathematically sophisticated, the authors effectively cover the construction of psychological tests and the interpretation of test scores and scales; critically examine classical true-score theory; and explain theoretical assumptions and modern measurement models, controversies, and developments. Practical applications, examples, and study questions facilitate a better understanding of the uses and limitations of common measures of test reliability and validity and how to perform the basic item analysis necessary for test construction.

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Waveland Press

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147860770X

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9781478607700

Patrick John Dunleavy: Patriot, Philosopher, Family Man

By: Mary Rita Donleavy

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Patrick John Dunleavy: Patriot, Philosopher, Family Man

By: Mary Rita Donleavy

Cover: The only flag that counted in the life of my father Patrick John Dunleavy was the American flag with its forty eight stars. The flag with the harp is not the British one under which my father may have grown up. Rather it is a flag design used at different times to express Irish nationalism. It was created in the United States by a group of Irish volunteers who joined the Mexican side in the U.S.-Mexican war from 1846 to 1848 as the Los San Patricios or Saint Patrick's Battalion. The motto Erin Go Bragh underneath the harp means "Ireland Forever." The current Irish tricolor flag was flown in the Easter Rising in 1916 and officially adopted in 1919 by the Republic during its War of Independence. Photographed by Niall Mackey, the flags are a framed gift from Nora Geraghty, purchased during a Harris Auction sale in Delgany, County Wicklow, Ireland, in the 1960s. Nora thought it belonged in my home nearby, Carriglea, in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477132783

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9781477132784

The Rural to Urban Transition in Developing Countries

Urbanisation and Peri-Urban Land Markets

By: Amrutha Mary Varkey

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The Rural to Urban Transition in Developing Countries

Urbanisation and Peri-Urban Land Markets

By: Amrutha Mary Varkey

Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia. Various land uses compete with each other, reducing forests and farmlands. This book addresses urbanisation and peri-urban land markets, with a special focus on Bangalore, one of the fastest growing cities in South Asia. It contributes to historic perspectives on the spatial transformation of peri-urban locales, as well as providing much-needed empirical evidence. The book discusses issues related to the context of peri-urban land use, land transactions, demand supply relationships and land prices in the peri-urban land market. The steep rise in land prices of the periphery, rapid changes in land use patterns, active land transactions, growth of the real estate market and the challenge to implement efficient land use regulations are explored with the help of field evidence. Insights and challenges to land administration addressed in this book are common to other metropolitan cities, and the key message is that a separate peri-urban land policy is required for the major metropolitan cities of India and other developing countries. The book contributes to the understanding of how these spatial markets function in order to work towards an improved implementation of land policy in the context of dynamic rural-urban periphery. As such, it will appeal to researchers, scholars and students of regional, urban and agricultural economics, economic geography, urban and regional planning and environmental science. It will also be of great interest to city planners and policy makers, action-based think tanks focused on urban governance.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000860469

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9781000860467

Hebbel's Prose Tragedies

An Investigation of the Aesthetic Aspect of Hebbel's Dramatic Language

By: Mary Garland

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Hebbel's Prose Tragedies

An Investigation of the Aesthetic Aspect of Hebbel's Dramatic Language

By: Mary Garland

A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies Judith, Maria Magdalene and Agnes Bernauer are studied in turn.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521200903

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9780521200905

Schooling in Western Europe

A Social History

By: Mary Jo Maynes

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Schooling in Western Europe

A Social History

By: Mary Jo Maynes

Mary Jo Maynes looks to school reform in early modern Europe to show the relevance of early ideas about schooling for understanding contemporary society. She presents the competing perspectives on issues such as the identity and motivations of school reformers, the broad societal changes that made educational reform seem imperative toward the end of the eighteenth century all over the West, the connections between educational change and economic development, the role of schools in the evolution of class relations, the impact of reform on family strategies in the context of early industrialization. The work concludes by assessing historical data on the social impact of school reform and addressing the social meaning of schooling in the past and in the present.

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SUNY Press

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0873959787

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9780873959780

Carmelite Ascent: An Introduction to St Teresa and St John of the Cross

By: Mother Mary Clare SLG

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Carmelite Ascent: An Introduction to St Teresa and St John of the Cross

By: Mother Mary Clare SLG

Fairacres Publications 167 This short introduction to the spirituality of the leaders of the Carmelite Reform is a lively and approachable way into their thought and writings. Mother Mary Clare has set them in the context of their historical background in sixteenth-century Spain, while reminding us that their teaching and humanity speak across the centuries. The example of their love of God continues to attract us and to inspire us to persevere in prayer.

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SLG Press

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0728302004

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9780728302006

From Problem to Possibility

Action and Research for Leading Up to Continuous Improvement

By: Mary Ann Jacobs,Remigia Kushner

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From Problem to Possibility

Action and Research for Leading Up to Continuous Improvement

By: Mary Ann Jacobs,Remigia Kushner

The purpose of this book is to not only persuade leaders that action research is leadership, but that leadership can be more deliberate in promoting human dignity when leaders engage in a reflective process of continuous improvement. An action research frame of mind is the impetus for efforts toward continuous improvement -- dissatisfaction with what is the beginning of improvement! The caveat is that leadership is not a position, leadership is action. Those who want to make their work better, their service better, their clients, customers, stakeholders, children, or students better -- are leaders, with or without a bureaucratic or hierarchical position. Professional leadership, executive leadership, company leadership, and everyday leadership requires action and reflection on those actions to determine the effectiveness of the continuous improvement process. The rationale for this book is to provide leaders at all levels with a framework that progresses through six steps of action and research from considering the challenge faced by the leader within an organization to reflecting on the improvement and next steps to continue the improvement process - thus Leading Up: From Problem to Possibility.

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