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All I Want Is a Job!

Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

By: Mary Gatta

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All I Want Is a Job!

Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

By: Mary Gatta

In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, how well do these centers function? With swarms of new clients coming through their doors, are they fit for the task of pairing America's workforce with new jobs? Weaving together her own account with interviews of jobless women and caseworkers, Gatta offers a revealing glimpse of the toll that unemployment takes and the realities of social policy. Women—both educated and unskilled—are particularly vulnerable in the current economy. Since they are routinely paid less than their male counterparts, economic security is even harder for them to grasp. And, women are more easily tracked into available, low-wage work in sectors such as retail or food service. Originally designed to pair job-ready workers with available openings, the current system is ill fitted for diverse clients who are seeking gainful employment. Even if One-Stops were better suited to the needs of these workers, good jobs are scarce in the wake of the Great Recession. In spite of these pitfalls, Gatta saw hope and a sense of empowerment in clients who got intensive career counseling, new jobs, and social support. Drawing together tales from the frontlines, she highlights the promise and weaknesses of One-Stop Career Centers, recommending key shifts in workforce policy. America deserves a system that is less discriminatory, more human, and better able to assist women and their families in particular. The employed and unemployed alike would be better served by such a system—one that would meaningfully contribute to our economic recovery and future prosperity.

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080479085X

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The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

By: Abigail Brundin,Deborah Howard,Mary Laven

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The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

By: Abigail Brundin,Deborah Howard,Mary Laven

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the many ways in which religion infused daily life within the household. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as miracles and visions, frequently took place at home amid the joys and trials of domestic life — from childbirth and marriage to sickness and death. Breaking free from the usual focus on Venice, Florence, and Rome, The Sacred Home investigates practices of piety across the Italian peninsula, with particular attention paid to the city of Naples, the Marche, and the Venetian mainland. It also looks beyond the elite to consider artisanal and lower-status households, and reveals gender and age as factors that powerfully conditioned religious experience. Recovering a host of lost voices and compelling narratives at the intersection between the divine and the everyday, The Sacred Home offers unprecedented glimpses through the keyhole into the spiritual lives of Renaissance Italians.

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Oxford University Press

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All I Want Is a Job!

Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

By: Mary Gatta

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Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

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Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-1569

By: Mary Lewis

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Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-1569

By: Mary Lewis

Antonio Gardano's publications are among the most important sources of sixteenth-century music. This final volume in Mary Lewis's three volume set completes the catalogue of Antonio Gardano's publications, covering the years 1560-1569.

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1135574995

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The Douglass Century

Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University

By: Kayo Denda,Mary Hawkesworth,Fernanda Perrone

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The Douglass Century

Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University

By: Kayo Denda,Mary Hawkesworth,Fernanda Perrone

Rutgers University’s Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major public research university in the United States. Although the number of women’s colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past century in relation to continuing debates about women’s higher education. The Douglass Century celebrates the college’s longevity and diversity as distinctive accomplishments, and analyzes the contributions of Douglass administrators, alumnae, and students to its survival, while also investigating multiple challenges that threatened its existence. This book demonstrates how changing historical circumstances altered the possibilities for women and the content of higher education, comparing the Jazz Age, American the Great Depression, the Second World War, the post-war Civil Rights era, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college’s ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass’ founding vision, “to bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in connection with specific training so that women may go out into the world fitted...for leadership...in the economic, political, and intellectual life of this nation.” In addition to providing a comprehensive history of the college, the book brings its subjects to life with eighty full-color images from the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

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EBOOK: Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Childhood Illness

By: Mary Dixon-Woods,Bridget Young,David Heney

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EBOOK: Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Childhood Illness

By: Mary Dixon-Woods,Bridget Young,David Heney

The experiences of the families rang true throughout. I have experienced many of these personally. ...It made me think differently about my personal experience as a parent of a child with cancer and my son's current social experiences." Macmillan Cancer Support This book offers a radical critique of existing psychosocial research on children’s experiences of cancer and proposes an alternative view informed by recent interpretive perspectives. Exploring topics from obtaining a diagnosis of childhood cancer through to sharing decision-making and communication, it reviews a wide-ranging body of research and theory on childhood, chronic illness, and cancer. The book also examines research that has focused on how parents and other family members experience childhood illness. Written by a sociologist, a psychologist and a practising paediatric oncologist, this book is unique in its approach and provides key reading across traditional disciplinary boundaries. In particular, the book highlights the emerging contribution of interpretive work to understanding chronic childhood illness and further develops the dialogue that has only recently emerged between the sociology of illness and the sociology of childhood. Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer is aimed at researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of social science, childhood studies, nursing, medicine, mental health care, social work, clinical psychology and other professions allied to medicine, and will also be of interest to families who have been affected by childhood cancer.

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Time in Child Inuktitut

A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language

By: Mary D. Swift

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Time in Child Inuktitut

A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language

By: Mary D. Swift

This book presents a study of the development of time reference in young children acquiring Inuktitut as a first language. The first such study of an Eskimo-Aleut language, its account of children's development of time reference in a system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied makes a unique contribution to the literature on the acquisition of tense and aspect. Drawing on longitudinal spontaneous speech data from eight Inuit children between 2 and 3-and-a-half years old, this study analyzes the temporal structures, their meanings and context of use in children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during the early stages of language development. The comprehensive study of previously unexplored temporal phenomena and its unprecedented findings makes this book an important resource for researchers, teachers and students of child language development, especially the development of time reference. In addition, the documentation of the Inuktitut temporal system, especially as used in conversational speech, will be of interest to researchers of time reference.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110197413

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The Carnivore Diet

The Ultimate Guide for Weight Loss with Special Recipes

By: Mary Nabors

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The Carnivore Diet

The Ultimate Guide for Weight Loss with Special Recipes

By: Mary Nabors

Would you pick a big, juicy grilled steak over a side of spinach any day of the week? Are you already on a keto or paleo diet and just not seeing the results you deserve? Do you want to improve your health by following the wisdom of our ancestors rather than the constantly shifting tides of modern-day nutritional advice? If you want to learn how to shed excess pounds and get fit on a diet that lets you feel full and satisfied, then keep reading! For thousands of years, humans have eaten meat. It was a staple in our ancestors' diets and gave them the strength and energy to survive in the harsh natural world. The carnivore diet, though it is often viewed as a new fad, is modeled on the lives of our ancestors and the amazing benefits they received from consuming almost exclusively meat. If the conventional advice of loading your plate up with veggies and suffering through endless salads just isn't working for you, it's time for a change. Eating what real carnivores have eaten for generations will help you unlock the secrets behind true human peak performance just by making a change to your diet. The Carnivore Diet: The Ultimate Guide for Weight Loss with Special Recipes contains all of the information you will need to succeed, including: Why the carnivore diet really works How to commit to carnivore in a way that minimizes risks and maximizes your chances of success The foods you should be eating and excluding to improve your performance A roadmap for setting and achieving your health and fitness goals starting right from day one Dozens of recipes to help you start your diet off on the right foot You may believe the carnivore diet is just a passing phase in the nutritional world, but the results of going carnivore for as little as one month speak for themselves. This diet is one that has the power to last and the ability to flip everything you thought you knew about nutrition on its head. Concerns about food variety and carefully tracking daily percentages simply melt away, replaced by a newfound freedom to eat delicious, filling meals whenever you are hungry and still accomplish your weight-loss and fitness goals. Even ex-vegans and vegetarians have made the switch to this all-meat diet and experienced shocking results. If you want to make a serious commitment to your health and learn the strategies that mainstream nutritional advice just won't tell you, then there is no better time to start than today. It is time to take the plunge into a whole new world of dieting that hardly feels like you are dieting at all. Whether you are looking to bulk up, burn fat, or simply achieve the next level of fitness, The Carnivore Diet: The Ultimate Guide for Weight Loss with Special Recipes will help you achieve the goals that matter most to you. Buy now and don't put your health on hold any longer.

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Religions Today

An Introduction

By: Mary Pat Fisher

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Religions Today

An Introduction

By: Mary Pat Fisher

Religions Today provides a sympathetic account of what living religions really are. Fisher traces the historical development and practices of major religious movements and explores how these evolve into contemporary belief and teaching. She considers major faiths as well as indigenous religions and new religious movements, focusing on how living religions affect contemporary society. Case studies and interviews with living people ensure that this concise guide is both readable and stimulating.

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The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Vol. III

By: Mary Montagu

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The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Vol. III

By: Mary Montagu

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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3385613701

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Do Babies Matter?

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower

By: Mary Ann Mason,Nicholas H. Wolfinger,Marc Goulden

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Do Babies Matter?

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower

By: Mary Ann Mason,Nicholas H. Wolfinger,Marc Goulden

The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers and most will experience both the benefits and challenges of living in dual-income households. This generation also has new expectations and values, notably the desire for flexibility and balance between careers and other life goals. However, changes to the structure and culture of academia have not kept pace with young scholars’ desires for work-family balance. Do Babies Matter? is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between family formation and the academic careers of men and women. The book begins with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, moves on to early and mid-career years, and ends with retirement. Individual chapters examine graduate school, how recent PhD recipients get into the academic game, the tenure process, and life after tenure. The authors explore the family sacrifices women often have to make to get ahead in academia and consider how gender and family interact to affect promotion to full professor, salaries, and retirement. Concrete strategies are suggested for transforming the university into a family-friendly environment at every career stage. The book draws on over a decade of research using unprecedented data resources, including the Survey of Doctorate Recipients, a nationally representative panel survey of PhDs in America, and multiple surveys of faculty and graduate students at the ten-campus University of California system..

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Rutgers University Press

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0813560829

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Gender and Leadership in Unions

By: Gill Kirton,Geraldine Mary Healy

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Gender and Leadership in Unions

By: Gill Kirton,Geraldine Mary Healy

Gender and Leadership in Trade Unions explores and evaluates the similarities and differences in equality strategies pursued by unions in the US and the UK. It assesses the conditions experienced by women union members and how these impact on their leadership, both potential and actual. The discussion of women trade union leaders is situated more broadly within debates on governance, leadership and democracy within social justice activism.

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0415887046

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Italian Folk Magic

Rue's Kitchen Witchery

By: Mary-Grace Fahrun

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Italian Folk Magic

Rue's Kitchen Witchery

By: Mary-Grace Fahrun

Italian Folk Magic is a fascinating journey through the magical, folkloric, and healing traditions of Italy with an emphasis on the practical. The reader learns uniquely Italian methods of magical protection and divination and spells for love, sex, control, and revenge. The book contains magical and religious rituals and prayers and explores divination techniques, crafting, blessing rituals, witchcraft, and, of course, the evil eye, known as malocchio in Italian--the author explains what it is, where it comes from, and, crucially, how to get rid of it. This book can help Italians regain their magical heritage, but Italian folk magic is a beautiful, powerful, and effective magical tradition that is accessible to anyone who wants to learn it.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1578636183

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Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: Mary McCartin Wearn

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Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: Mary McCartin Wearn

Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role – an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century. By examining maternal figures in the works of diverse authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Sarah Piatt, this book exposes the contentious but fruitful negotiations that took place in the heart of the American sentimental era – negotiations about the cultural meanings of family, womanhood, and motherhood. This book, then, challenges critical constructions that figure American sentimentalism as a coherent, monolithic project, tied strictly to the forces of cultural conservatism. Furthermore, by exploring nineteenth-century challenges to conventional maternal ideology and by exposing gaps in the mythology of "ideal" motherhood, Negotiating Motherhood demonstrates that the icon of an American Madonna – a figure that still haunts America’s imagination – never had an uncontested reign. Transcending the boundaries of literary criticism, this work will be useful to feminist scholars and to those who are interested in the history of women’s culture, the American mythology of family life, or the cultural construction of motherhood.

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1135860874

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Cambridge International AS/A Level Biology Study and Revision Guide Third Edition

By: Mary Jones,Matthew Parkin

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Cambridge International AS/A Level Biology Study and Revision Guide Third Edition

By: Mary Jones,Matthew Parkin

Stretch yourself to achieve the highest grades, with structured syllabus coverage, varied exam-style questions and annotated sample answers, to help you to build the essential skill set for exam success. - Benefit from expert advice and tips on skills and knowledge from experienced subject authors - Effectively manage your revision with a brand-new introduction that clearly outlines what is expected from you in the exam - Keep track of your own progress with a handy revision planner - Use the new glossary-index section to identify and address gaps in knowledge - Consolidate and apply your understanding of key content and skills with short 'Test yourself' and exam-style questions

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Hodder Education

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139834513X

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Mark (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)

By: Mary Ann Beavis

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Mark (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)

By: Mary Ann Beavis

In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, Mary Ann Beavis examines cultural context and theological meaning in Mark. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by • attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs • showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral habits • commenting on the final, canonical form of each New Testament book • focusing on the cultural, literary, and theological settings of the text • making judicious use of maps, photos, and sidebars in a reader-friendly format Students, pastors, and other readers will appreciate the insights that Beavis derives from interrogating the text through multiple perspectives.

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Baker Books

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1441235620

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Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291)

The Group / Birds of America / Cannibals and Missionaries

By: Mary McCarthy

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Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291)

The Group / Birds of America / Cannibals and Missionaries

By: Mary McCarthy

A collection of three novels by the author who transformed the scope and style of twentieth-century American literature—including the landmark classic The Group In Mary McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), she depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. McCarthy's final two novels—Birds of America (1971), a coming of age tale of 19-year-old Peter Levi, who travels to Europe during the 1960s, and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), a thriller about a group of passengers taken hostage on an airplane by militant hijackers—are both concerned with the state of modern society, from the cross-currents of radical social change to the psychology of terrorism. As a special feature, this second volume contains McCarthy's 1979 essay "The Novels that Got Away," on her unfinished fiction. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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1598535277

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High Protein Diet (3 Books in 1)

The Plant-Based Vegan Diet for Bodybuilding Athletes + Planted Based and Hight Protein Nutrition Guide + The Ultimate Guide for Weight Loss

By: Mary Nabors

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High Protein Diet (3 Books in 1)

The Plant-Based Vegan Diet for Bodybuilding Athletes + Planted Based and Hight Protein Nutrition Guide + The Ultimate Guide for Weight Loss

By: Mary Nabors

If you want to become healthier, bulk up, and eat clean, then keep reading. For years it has been believed that bodybuilders couldn't follow a vegan diet. People assume that in order to gain muscle that you have to eat animal products because, for many, animal products are the only decent source of protein. While it is true that you need protein to build muscle, you can get plenty of protein from plant sources. As a dietitian, I want to help you make the changes to your diet that you want to and still do the workouts you love. There are a lot of myths out there about veganism and bodybuilding, and if you are a bodybuilder who wants to eat vegan, you may find it hard to figure out how to do so. People choose veganism for many reasons, and the reason you want to switch to this new diet isn't important. The only thing that is important is that, yes, you can eat vegan and be a bodybuilder. I want to help prove to you that you can have all the energy you need, as well as the protein, to be a successful bodybuilder and reach the gains that you have been striving for. In this book, you will find: The best vegan supplements that will boost your workouts and energy The top bodybuilding advice that can prevent gains The most powerful foods you can eat to improve your bodies anabolic processes How to gain energy without animal products What it really means to eat clean What you can do for your gut health How simple nutrition is the key to gaining more muscle … And much more. I understand you may still be unsure about going vegan. I get it. There is a lot of misinformation out there for bodybuilders and non-bodybuilders alike. You may be worried that your energy will lack, or that you won't be able to gain muscle like you have been. When you choose this book, you will learn the facts about bodybuilding and a vegan, plant-based diet. You'll realize the rumors you have heard are unfounded. Even if you have only eaten a traditional bodybuilding diet, you can make the switch to veganism without losing what you have gained. I know you want to make the switch to veganism. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here. So if you are serious about this, scroll up and click buy now

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underland

By: mary patterson thornburg

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underland

By: mary patterson thornburg

Pursued by menacing strangers through her small Midwest city, twelve-year-old Alyssha Dodson takes refuge in a mysterious room under a bridge, a place that turns out to be a doorway into another universe. In the country where she then finds herself, Alyssha learns that the pursuit has not ended. A powerful and sinister man, Lord Raf Var Ne, seeks to gain possession of an object she was given years ago by her older brother a few days before he went missing. Told she can’t return to her own world, she begins a search for that brother, aided by Lord Raf’s charming but impetuous stepson. In the process, the two become involved in a revolutionary conflict. Underland is the story of a girl’s coming of age in the midst of an adventure like no other.

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1467074063

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Sports, Exercise, and Fitness

A Guide to Reference and Information Sources

By: Mary Beth Allen

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Sports, Exercise, and Fitness

A Guide to Reference and Information Sources

By: Mary Beth Allen

For reference librarians and researchers seeking information on sports and fitness, this guide is an important first stop. For collection development specialists, it is an invaluable selection guide. Allen describes and evaluates over 1,000 information sources on the complete spectrum of sports: from basketball, football, and hockey to figure skating, table tennis, and weight training. Focusing on English-language works published between 1990 and the present, the guide thoroughly covers traditional reference sources, such as encyclopedias and bibliographies, along with instructional sources in print formats, online databases, and Web sites. To enable users in search of information on specific sports or fitness activities, chapters are organized thematically, according to broad- type aquatic sports, nautical sports, precision and accuracy, racket sports, ice and snow sports, ball sports, cycling, and so on, with subcategories for such individual sports as soccer, golf, and yoga. Within these categories, works are further organized by type: reference, instructional, and Web sites.

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