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Swannanoa Valley

By: Mary McPhail Standaert and Joseph Standaert

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Swannanoa Valley

By: Mary McPhail Standaert and Joseph Standaert

The Swannanoa Valley lies to the east of Asheville, North Carolina, and is surrounded by some of the highest mountains in the eastern United States. The eastern boundary of the valley follows the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and travelers entering through the Swannanoa Gap emerge into the beautiful "Land of the Sky." In the 1900s, multiple large religious assemblies were founded here. Montreat, Ridgecrest, the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, and Christmount have preserved thousands of acres of forested mountain slopes for more than a century. The valley is drained by the Swannanoa River, which meanders 18 miles westward, finally merging with the French Broad River near Biltmore. Swannanoa Valley showcases the rich recreational and cultural history of this scenic mountain area.

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1467121797

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Swannanoa Valley

By: Mary McPhail Standaert,Joseph Standaert

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Swannanoa Valley

By: Mary McPhail Standaert,Joseph Standaert

The Swannanoa Valley lies to the east of Asheville, North Carolina, and is surrounded by some of the highest mountains in the eastern United States. The eastern boundary of the valley follows the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and travelers entering through the Swannanoa Gap emerge into the beautiful Land of the Sky. In the 1900s, multiple large religious assemblies were founded here. Montreat, Ridgecrest, the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, and Christmount have preserved thousands of acres of forested mountain slopes for more than a century. The valley is drained by the Swannanoa River, which meanders 18 miles westward, finally merging with the French Broad River near Biltmore. Swannanoa Valley showcases the rich recreational and cultural history of this scenic mountain area.

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1439646376

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The Adventures of Rivella

By: (Mary) Delarivier Manley

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The Adventures of Rivella

By: (Mary) Delarivier Manley

Delarivier Manley is increasingly coming to the fore as a prominent figure in early eighteenth-century fiction, and The Adventures of Rivella in particular has been attracting attention not only as an important example of amatory fiction, but also as an early autobiographical novel. At one level, Sir Charles Lovemore tells the story of Rivella’s life to his friend, the Chevalier d’Aumont; at another, Manley uses the male persona to portray herself as an unrivalled literary goddess of love, repudiating conventional equations of woman, writer, and whore, and refusing to confuse chastity with moral integrity.

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Broadview Press

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1551111217

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Calendar of State Papers 1649-1650

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

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Calendar of State Papers 1649-1650

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385206235

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Men of Sorrows

Smugglers of the Marsh

By: Mary-Elizabeth Thomas

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Men of Sorrows

Smugglers of the Marsh

By: Mary-Elizabeth Thomas

Romney Marsh, Kent in the 1700's - it was sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll! The drug is opium, the rock 'n' roll is Handel and the sex is - well, the same as it has always been! There are no lawmen, no policemen and ordinary people are taxed on their favourite commodities to finance a succession of costly overseas wars. The time is ripe for any man (or woman) to chance their luck and cross the Channel to bring over untaxed goods from France. 'Men of Sorrows' is a novel based on the true adventures of the Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers - the largest and most successful smuggling gang of their time. Arthur and William Gray are brought up in poverty until Arthur chances upon a smuggling gang and finds his future with them. Beth Stone also joins them - beautiful, high-born Beth whom Arthur has loved all his life. But his brother Will also loves her. This story of love, comradeship, betrayal and treachery takes place amid the sweeping, eerie beauty of the mysterious Romney Marsh.

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AuthorHouse

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1467011657

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Snail Finds a Home

By: Mary Peterson

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Snail Finds a Home

By: Mary Peterson

Chuckle your way through this easy-to-read illustrated chapter book about a snail who’s looking for a new place to hang his shell. Snail is a merry little mollusk in his rusty bucket filled with strawberries. Strawberries are his favorite treat, but when he eats himself sick, his best friend Ladybug tells him he has to move away from the yummy red fruit. She takes him looking for a forever home, but Snail roams away from his friend and runs into a hungry Chicken. Rut-roh! Will he make it to his new home or be a tasty treat for this famished, feathered fiend?

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Simon and Schuster

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1534431861

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The Elton John Scrapbook

By: Mary Anne Cassata

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The Elton John Scrapbook

By: Mary Anne Cassata

The book Elton's fiercely loyal followers have been craving--a guide that explores every nook and cranny of the legendary rock musician's extraordinary career. Included are biographical background, anecdotes, critical commentary, lists, pop quizzes, trivia, quotes, and more. Illustrations.

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Citadel Press

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0806523220

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Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks

By: David C. M. Dickson,Mary R. Hardy,Howard R. Waters

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Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks

By: David C. M. Dickson,Mary R. Hardy,Howard R. Waters

This must-have manual provides solutions to all exercises in the authors' groundbreaking text, which is required reading for the SOA Exam MLC, and covers virtually the whole syllabus for the UK Subject CT5 exam. Over 150 solutions give insight as well as exam preparation. Companion spreadsheets are freely available online.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107620260

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Dark Moon

Apollo and the Whistle-blowers

By: Mary Bennett,David S. Percy

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Dark Moon

Apollo and the Whistle-blowers

By: Mary Bennett,David S. Percy

As the dust settles on the 30th anniversary of Apollo 11, information is now coming to light that throws into serious doubt the authenticity of the Apollo record. New evidence clearly suggests that NASA hoaxed the photographs taken on the surface of the Moon. These disturbing findings are supported by detailed analysis of the Apollo images by professional photographer David S Percy ARPS and physicist David Groves PhD. The numerous inconsistencies clearly visible in the Apollo photographic account are quite irrefutable. Recent research indicates that the errors evidenced in DARK MOON were deliberately planted by individuals determined to leave clues to the faking in which they were unwillingly involved. DARK MOON is the answer to the question-did the Apollo missions really land a man on the Moon and return him alive and well to Earth, or is the record incorrect?

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Adventures Unlimited Press

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0932813909

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The Alpine Journey

An Emma Lord Mystery

By: Mary Daheim

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The Alpine Journey

An Emma Lord Mystery

By: Mary Daheim

A JOURNEY OF TERROR Murder is news--even when editor-publisher Emma Lord is away from The Alpine Advocate. A picturesque Oregon seashore village may not be Emma's traditional beat, but when a sensational headline-grabbing murder occurs, she's on the case. It all begins as sexy Audrey Imhoff emerges from her nightly nude dip in the Pacific--and a killer makes it her last. A week later Audrey's husband disappears, and the couple's three adolescent children seem strangely relieved by his absence. What's the story behind all this bizarre behavior? Emma Lord will find out-- or die trying. . . .

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Fawcett

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0307554279

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Recycled Stars

Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video

By: Mary R. Desjardins

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Recycled Stars

Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video

By: Mary R. Desjardins

The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of female film stars and their images in television, print, and new media. Female stardom, she argues, is central to understanding both the anxieties and the pleasures that these figures evoke in their audiences’ psyches through patterns of fame, decline, and return. From Gloria Swanson, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino, and Lucille Ball, who found new careers in early television, to Maureen O’Hara’s high-profile 1957 lawsuit against the scandal magazine Confidential, to the reappropriation of iconic star images by experimental filmmakers, video artists, and fans, this book explores the contours of female stars’ resilience as they struggled to create new contexts for their waning images across emerging media.

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Duke University Press

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0822376032

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Hope in Hard Times

New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942

By: Mary Murphy

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Hope in Hard Times

New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942

By: Mary Murphy

Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott became some of the United States' best-known photographers through their pictures of Depression-era America. Their assignment, as one of their associates described it, was to have "a long look at the whole vast, complicated rural U.S. landscape with all that was built on it and all those who built and wrecked and worked in it and bore kids and dragged them up and played games and paraded and picnicked and suffered and died and were buried in it." In Montana the four photographers traveled to forty of the state's fifty-six counties, creating a rich record of the many facets of the Depression and recovery: rural and urban, agricultural and industrial, work and play, hard times and the promise of a brighter future. The photographers captured the dignity of Montanans as they struggled to scratch out livings from dried-up fields, nurture families in the shadows of Butte head frames, and foster communities on the vast expanses of the northern plains. Hope in Hard Times, features over 140 Farm Security Administration photographs to illustrate the story of the Great Depression in Montana and the experiences of the photographers who documented it. Today these striking images, from cities like Butte to small towns like Terry, present an unforgettable portrait of a little-studied period in the history of Montana. Selected from the Farm Security Administration Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the photographs in Hope in Hard Times offer viewers an unparalleled look at life in Montana in the years preceding the United States' entry into World War II.

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Montana Historical Society

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0917298810

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The New Annotated Frankenstein (The Annotated Books)

By: Mary Shelley

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The New Annotated Frankenstein (The Annotated Books)

By: Mary Shelley

Two centuries after its original publication, Mary Shelley’s classic tale of gothic horror comes to vivid life in "what may very well be the best presentation of the novel" to date (Guillermo del Toro). "Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge," writes best-selling author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley’s novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster films or as a cautionary tale about experimental science gone haywire. Now, two centuries after the first publication of Frankenstein, Klinger revives Shelley’s gothic masterpiece by reproducing her original text with the most lavishly illustrated and comprehensively annotated edition to date. Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley’s early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author’s revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein’s indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory, and modern intellectual history—not to mention film history and popular culture. The result of Klinger’s exhaustive research is a multifaceted portrait of one of Western literature’s most divinely gifted prodigies, a young novelist who defied her era’s restrictions on female ambitions by independently supporting herself and her children as a writer and editor. Born in a world of men in the midst of a political and an emerging industrial revolution, Shelley crafted a horror story that, beyond its incisive commentary on her own milieu, is widely recognized as the first work of science fiction. The daughter of a pioneering feminist and an Enlightenment philosopher, Shelley lived and wrote at the center of British Romanticism, the “exuberant, young movement” that rebelled against tradition and reason and "with a rebellious scream gave birth to a world of gods and monsters" (del Toro). Following his best-selling The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Klinger not only considers Shelley’s original 1818 text but, for the first time in any annotated volume, traces the effects of her significant revisions in the 1823 and 1831 editions. With an afterword by renowned literary scholar Anne K. Mellor, The New Annotated Frankenstein celebrates the prescient genius and undying legacy of the world’s "first truly modern myth." The New Annotated Frankenstein includes: Nearly 1,000 notes that provide information and historical context on every aspect of Frankenstein and of Mary Shelley’s life Over 200 illustrations, including original artwork from the 1831 edition and dozens of photographs of real-world locations that appear in the novel Extensive listings of films and theatrical adaptations An introduction by Guillermo del Toro and an afterword by Anne K. Mellor

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Liveright Publishing

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087140950X

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Taking Care of Myself

A Hygiene, Puberty and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism

By: Mary Wrobel

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Taking Care of Myself

A Hygiene, Puberty and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism

By: Mary Wrobel

This book is designed to address the health and safety needs of students aged five and up with autism spectrum disorders.

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Future Horizons

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1885477945

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9781885477941

Smart Internet Surfing

Evaluating Websites and Advertising

By: Mary Lindeen

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Smart Internet Surfing

Evaluating Websites and Advertising

By: Mary Lindeen

Websites include all kinds of interesting information. But how can you tell if a site is trustworthy? And how do you discern advertising from news? Learn to be a savvy Internet surfer with this book!

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Lerner Publications ™

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1541510151

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Weather Reporter

An Earth and Space Science Unit for High-Ability Learners in Grade 2

By: Clg Of William And Mary/Ctr Gift Ed

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Weather Reporter

An Earth and Space Science Unit for High-Ability Learners in Grade 2

By: Clg Of William And Mary/Ctr Gift Ed

Weather Reporter, a second-grade Earth and space science unit, provides students with opportunities in a scenario-based approach to observe, measure, and analyze weather phenomena. The overarching concept of change reinforces students' decisions as they learn about the changes in the Earth's weather and observe, measure, and forecast the weather. Weather Reporter was developed by the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary to offer advanced curriculum supported by years of research. The Center's materials have received national recognition from the United States Department of Education and the National Association for Gifted Children, and they are widely used both nationally and internationally. Each of the books in this series offers curriculum that focuses on advanced content and higher level processes. The science units contain simulations of real-world problems, and students experience the work of real science by using data-handling skills, analyzing information, and evaluating results. The mathematics units provide sophisticated ideas and concepts, challenging extensions, higher order thinking skills, and opportunities for student exploration based on interest. These materials are a must for any teacher seeking to challenge and engage learners and increase achievement. Grade 2

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Routledge

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1000490416

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Snail Has Lunch

By: Mary Peterson

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Snail Has Lunch

By: Mary Peterson

When Snail's bucket home is turned over, a ladybug takes him on a journey through the vegetable garden, discovering delicious new foods while encountering new animals.

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Simon and Schuster

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1481453025

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Alice Walker

The Color Purple and Other Works

By: Mary Donnelly

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Alice Walker

The Color Purple and Other Works

By: Mary Donnelly

An in-depth analysis of Alice Walker, her writings, and the historical time period in which they were written.

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Marshall Cavendish

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0761447032

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Stem Cells

Biology and Application

By: Mary Clarke,Jonathan Frampton

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Stem Cells

Biology and Application

By: Mary Clarke,Jonathan Frampton

Stem cell science, encompassing basic biology to practical application, is both vast and diverse. A full appreciation of it requires an understanding of cell and molecular biology, tissue structure and physiology, the practicalities of tissue engineering and bioprocessing, and the pathways to clinical implementation—including the ethical and regulatory imperatives that our society requires us to address. Expectation and debate have been driven by the allure of regenerative medicine using stem cells as a source of replacements for damaged or aged tissues. The potential of stem cell application goes far beyond this. Highly innovative uses of stem cells are emerging as possible therapies for cancers, treating acute damage in conditions such as stroke and myocardial infarction, and resolving a whole range of diseases. Stem Cells: Biology and Application presents the basic concepts underlying the fast-moving science of stem cell biology. This textbook is written for an advanced stem cell biology course. The target audience includes senior undergraduates, first year graduate students, and practitioners in molecular biology, biology, and biomedical engineering. Stem Cells provides a comprehensive understanding of these unique cells, highlighting key areas of research, associated controversies, case studies, technologies, and pioneers in the field.

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Garland Science

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1000062651

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the Commonwealth, 1657-8

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the Commonwealth, 1657-8

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385378427

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9783385378421

6 Degrees of Film

The Future of Film in the Global Village

By: Mary L. Johnson

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6 Degrees of Film

The Future of Film in the Global Village

By: Mary L. Johnson

This book is intended for film buffs of all ages, and in fact anyone interested in learning more about the history of fi lm. 6 Degrees of Film will take you on a short trip through the history of the movies where you will learn about the surprising connections between the fi lms of the past and the films of today Some stories may surprise you, and some will simply entertain. 6 Degrees of Film connects the films and the film makers from the Silent Era and the Golden Age of Film with many of the movies that are made today. Youll learn why we are in a new Golden Age of Film that is defined by movies like Star Wars and companies such as George Lucas state-of the-art special-effects company-Industrial Light & Magic.

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iUniverse

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149170179X

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The Key to Survival

Interpersonal Communication, Fifth Edition

By: Tracey L. Smith,Mary Tague-Busler,Starla Herbig

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The Key to Survival

Interpersonal Communication, Fifth Edition

By: Tracey L. Smith,Mary Tague-Busler,Starla Herbig

Effective communication is essential to meeting basic human needs. In the latest edition of their popular text, Smith and Tague-Busler are joined by new author Starla Herbig in presenting interpersonal communication concepts and techniques in a lively, accessible manner. Updated examples and exercises enhance established chapter coverage and minor reorganization prompts readers to explore the role of self-concept and self-esteem in their interactions with others before authors introduce elements of interpersonal communication. Affordable and straightforward, The Key to Survival is intended for those with varying backgrounds. Engaging chapter-opener narratives link common miscommunication experiences to essential topics. Boxes throughout chapters provide sidebar commentary on primary topics and approachable exercises. Key terms, discussion questions, and a comprehensive glossary support an enjoyable teaching and learning experience.

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Waveland Press

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1478645989

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Wish Upon A Star

By: Mary Sheldon

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Wish Upon A Star

By: Mary Sheldon

From acclaimed author Mary Sheldon comes a novel of ambition and desire about a woman who outgrows her life, only to discover a new one--with new dangers--just around the corner. . . Growing up in Palm Springs, Pandora Brown had daydreams that couldn't be contained in the small desert town. She yearned for something more fun, more glamorous, more fulfilling--like her uncle's life as a Hollywood agent. If wishes came true, that's where she'd be. . . And suddenly, Pandora is given her chance. Her uncle dies unexpectedly, leaving Pandora his agency. With childhood sweetheart Gary along for the ride, she shakes the desert sand off her feet and heads for Los Angeles. But the little girl from Palm Springs has a lot to learn about Hollywood, particularly the cutthroat world behind the scenes. She turns to her uncle's beautiful young assistant for help. But the savvy, charismatic Lori has her own selfish--and vengeful-- motives. She encourages Pandora's interest in the dashing owner a rival talent agency, a harmless crush that results in a deadly obsession. And when Pandora falls into a passionate affair with a stuntman, the love triangle is destined for disaster. . . Mary Sheldon, the daughter of novelist Sidney Sheldon and actress Jorja Curtright, grew up in Los Angeles and New York City. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters and is working on her next novel.

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Kensington Publishing Corp.

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0758291213

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Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy

By: Mary Jane Appel

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Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy

By: Mary Jane Appel

Russell Lee, a contemporary of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, now emerges from the shadows as one of the most influential documentary photographers in American history. The most prolific photographer of the Great Depression, Russell Lee has never been canonized for his iconic images. With this compulsively readable and definitive biography, historian and archivist Mary Jane Appel finally uncovers Lee’s rebellious life, tracing his journey from blue-blood beginnings to intrepid years of activism and pioneering creativity, through the incredible body of work he left behind. Born in the quintessential turn-of-the-century small town of Ottawa, Illinois, in 1903, Lee grew up in a wealthy family riddled with tragedy. He trained in college to become a chemical engineer, but was quickly drawn to Greenwich Village, where he developed an interest in social change and the arts. In 1935, the charismatic bohemian picked up a camera and a year later walked into the office of Roy Stryker, head of the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration, later renamed the Farm Security Administration (FSA), setting in motion a new life trajectory. The Historical Section aimed to capture rural poverty and the New Deal programs designed to abolish it. But Stryker imagined a much broader pictorial sourcebook for America, and no one on his legendary team—including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, among others—would be more dedicated to reaching this goal than Russell Lee. As Appel demonstrates, Stryker and Lee developed a fascinating symbiotic relationship that resulted in a massive and complex breadth of work. Living out of his car from the fall of 1936 to mid-1942, Lee crisscrossed America’s back roads more than any photographer of his era. During this time, he shot 19,000 negatives that were captioned and printed—more than twice that of any other FSA photographer. He captured arresting images of sweeping dust storms and devastating floods, and chronicled the World War II home front and the last gasp of a small-town America that was inexorably vanishing, all the while focusing prophetically on issues like segregation and climate change, decades before they became national concerns. Meticulously weaving previously unseen letters and diaries, Appel brilliantly reveals why Lee’s profile has remained obscured, while his contemporaries became broadly celebrated. With more than 100 images spread throughout, Russell Lee speaks not only to the complexity of a pioneering documentary photographer’s work but to a seminal American moment captured viscerally like never before.

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1631496174

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Madonna

A Rebel Life

By: Mary Gabriel

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Madonna

A Rebel Life

By: Mary Gabriel

New York Times Editors’ Choice, One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year In this “infinitely readable” biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna (People Magazine) With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles—taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna lookalike contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called “Madonna-land.” But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanor of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever—they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And, as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films, and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonna’s story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time.

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0316456446

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A Bunk Bed, a Banana Tree and a Dog

Personal Letters and Recollections Unfold Decades of a Family’s Growing Faith in God While Missionaries in a Developing Country

By: Mary-Ellen Stroup

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A Bunk Bed, a Banana Tree and a Dog

Personal Letters and Recollections Unfold Decades of a Family’s Growing Faith in God While Missionaries in a Developing Country

By: Mary-Ellen Stroup

Never intended for anyone’s eyes except parents, these letters are now compiled by the author for her adult children to read and relive the life they loved growing up in Zaire, Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo). Stored by her mother-in-law in old film boxes for three decades, they serve as a record of daily life in a family learning to survive and thrive and do ministry in a developing country. Daily water and electricity and regular mail became luxuries to celebrate in prayer and praise. Often considered by others to be a unique life, in reading you may encounter the unique, but guaranteed are also some boring details that were not omitted in the copying process so the children would understand what life involved for their parents. Whether unique, boring or difficult, these were deemed a privilege by the author and her husband who regard themselves as simply obedient to a call to that life out of their deep love for Jesus, their Lord and Savior who loved them and gave his life for them.

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1664219110

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9781664219113

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1649-1650, Preserved in the State Paper Department of her Majesty's Public Record Office

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1649-1650, Preserved in the State Paper Department of her Majesty's Public Record Office

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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782

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385378478

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9783385378476

Pandora Brown

By: Mary Sheldon

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Pandora Brown

By: Mary Sheldon

Dreaming of finding success outside of her Palm Springs upbringing, Pandora Brown takes over her uncle's Los Angeles agency after his unexpected death, only to encounter backstabbing, the cutthroat world of Hollywood ambition, politics, revenge, and obsession. 25,000 first printing.

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294

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Kensington Books

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0758203098

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9780758203090

China: Land of the Emperor's Great Wall

A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #14: Day of the Dragon King

By: Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce

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China: Land of the Emperor's Great Wall

A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #14: Day of the Dragon King

By: Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #14: Day of the Dragon King, they had lots of questions. Who was the Dragon King? How did he build the Great Wall? What is Chinese New Year? What are some other Chinese traditions? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about Chinese history and culture. Filled with up-to-date information, photographs, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discover in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. And teachers can use Fact Trackers alongside their Magic Tree House fiction companions to meet common core text pairing needs. Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures Have more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!

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130

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0385386354

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9780385386357

Quick Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom: SPACE

By: Mary Kay Carson

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Quick Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom: SPACE

By: Mary Kay Carson

Build students Internet skills as they expand their knowledge of stars, moons, planets, space exploration, and more. This book offers more than 100 space Web sites, plus reproducible graphic organizers that help students record the information they gather. Using this information, students build a star life-cycle mobile, write their own myth about a constellation, create travel brochures of the planets, complete a timeline of historic space events, and more! For use with Grades 3-6.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0439244412

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9780439244411

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