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Wanted Women

An American Obsession in the Reign of J. Edgar Hoover

By: Mary Elizabeth Strunk

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Wanted Women

An American Obsession in the Reign of J. Edgar Hoover

By: Mary Elizabeth Strunk

The iconic photo of Bonnie Parker—cigar clenched in jaw, pistol in hand—says it all: America loves its bad girls. Now Mary Elizabeth Strunk tells us why. Wanted Women is a startling look at the lives—and legends—of ten female outlaws who gained notoriety during the tumultuous decades that bracketed the tenure of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Strunk looks at real-life events and fictional portrayals to decipher what our obsession with these women says about shifting gender roles, evolving law-enforcement practices, and American cultural attitudes in general. These women's stories reveal what it takes-and what it has meant--to be a high-profile female lawbreaker in America. Strunk introduces us to Kathryn "Mrs. Machine Gun" Kelly, Ma Barker, and Bonnie Parker from the 1930s, and, from the 1970s, we meet heiress-turned-revolutionary Patty Hearst, five other women of the Symbionese Liberation Army, and Black Panther Assata Shakur. All saw themselves as struggling against an oppressive legal system. All became "wanted" criminals and would play a part in shaping Hoover's legacy. And all spent enormous amounts of energy attempting to manipulate public opinion in their favor. Strunk argues that each woman's public persona was to some degree invented by Hoover, who saw outlaw women as an alarming threat to public morality. He went after them with a vengeance, but in many ways his obsession only added to their reputations. Strunk shows how Hoover's repeated use of popular culture to publicize the threat of violent women initially succeeded in strengthening his FBI, but his approach became a liability by the time law enforcement was pitted against the women outlaws of the 1970s. The book chronicles the careers of these infamous outlaws both in the real world and in popular culture—film, ads, true-crime stories, autobiographies—as well as Hoover's own forays into filmmaking. It boasts 27 compelling images of movie stills, wanted posters, and other ephemera that have been assembled nowhere else, including rarely reproduced SLA artifacts. Strunk's book is the first study to define the narrow "formula" necessary for a woman to cross over from criminal to outlaw. Hitting on key notes of American culture from Black and gender studies to cinematic and legal history, Wanted Women sets a new benchmark for how we view women and crime as it contributes fresh insights into twentieth-century social history.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700617442

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9780700617449

Mass Vaccination

Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China

By: Mary Augusta Brazelton

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Mass Vaccination

Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China

By: Mary Augusta Brazelton

Mass Vaccination comfortably establishes itself as the leading and indeed essential monograph on the history of vaccination in modern China; a much-needed contribution to the history of medicine that will undoubtedly become a textbook in our age of vaccine wars, but which by far surpasses the historiographical needs of the moment by delivering a nuanced and systematic history of mass vaccination in the world's most populous and increasingly powerful country." ― International Journal of Asian Studies While the eradication of smallpox has long been documented, not many know the Chinese roots of this historic achievement. In this revelatory study, Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to inoculate almost six hundred million people against this and other deadly diseases. Mass Vaccination tells the story of the people, materials, and systems that built these campaigns, exposing how, by improving the nation's health, the Chinese Communist Party quickly asserted itself in the daily lives of all citizens. This crusade had deep roots in the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when researchers in China's southwest struggled to immunize as many people as possible, both in urban and rural areas. But its legacy was profound, providing a means for the state to develop new forms of control and of engagement. Brazelton considers the implications of vaccination policies for national governance, from rural health care to Cold War-era programs of medical diplomacy. By embedding Chinese medical history within international currents, she highlights how and why China became an exemplar of primary health care at a crucial moment in global health policy.

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258

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Cornell University Press

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1501739999

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9781501739996

The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language

By: Angelika Becker,Mary Carroll

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The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language

By: Angelika Becker,Mary Carroll

This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to express spatial relations in the target languages English, French and German. Learners' progress in the expression of spatial relations is closely followed over a period of 30 months using a wide range of oral data, and the factors determining both the specifics of individual source/target language pairings, and the general characteristics of all cases of acquisition studied, are carefully described. In particular, a basic system for the expression of spatial relations common to all learners from all language backgrounds is identified. The book is of particular significance for the field of second language acquisition in that this is the first time that results are presented in English on the acquisition of L2 means to express the basic cognitive — and communicational — category of space from a comparative linguistic point of view.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027282765

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9789027282767

Sowing the Gospel

Mark's World in Literary-Historical Perspective

By: Mary Ann Tolbert

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Sowing the Gospel

Mark's World in Literary-Historical Perspective

By: Mary Ann Tolbert

Mary Ann Tolbert, George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, offers "one of the freshest interpretations of Mark's Gospel I have ever had the privilege to read. . . . It marks a milestone in the recent history of Markan research" (Jack Dean Kingsbury).

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Fortress Press

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1451414404

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Mark's Audience

The Literary and Social Setting of Mark 4.11-12

By: Mary Ann Beavis

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Mark's Audience

The Literary and Social Setting of Mark 4.11-12

By: Mary Ann Beavis

Mark 4.11-12, the 'parable theory' passage, has probably been commented upon more often than any other section of Mark's Gospel. The saying has usually been interpreted as an authentic utterance of Jesus, which was subsequently misunderstood and misinterpreted by early Christians - including the evangelist Mark. The precise meaning of the mystery logion in the ministry of Jesus is notoriously elusive, since we have no information about the context in which it was spoken, or about the audience to which it was addressed. Much more, however, can be known about the interpretative context of the logion in Mark, since it is surrounded by passages that seem to echo the mystery saying. This study examines the complex web of literary relationships between Mark 4.11-12 and the Gospel as a whole. Dr Beavis's fresh interpretation is unusual in that she undertakes to interpret the Gospel of Mark, as far as possible, from the point of view of its 'historical' readers/audience. Chapters 1 and 2 of the book attempt to describe the 'community' for which the Gospel was written, and in the rest of the book, this socio-cultural setting is used to investigate the meaning of the mystery saying for the original readers/hearers of Mark.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474236286

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China in Global Health

Past and Present

By: Mary Augusta Brazelton

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China in Global Health

Past and Present

By: Mary Augusta Brazelton

Mary Brazelton argues that the territories and peoples associated with China have played vital roles in the emergence of modern international health. In the early twentieth century, repeated epidemic outbreaks in China justified interventions by transnational organizations; these projects shaped strategies for international health. China has also served as a space of creativity and reinvention, in which administrators developed new models of health care during decades of war and revolution, even as traditional practitioners presented alternatives to Western biomedicine. The 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China introduced a new era of socialist internationalism, as well as new initiatives to establish connections across the non-aligned world using medical diplomacy. After 1978, the post-socialist transition gave rise to new configurations of health governance. The rich and varied history of Chinese involvement in global health offers a means to make sense of present-day crises.

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147

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Cambridge University Press

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1009051040

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The Biblical Covenant in Shakespeare

By: Mary Jo Kietzman

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The Biblical Covenant in Shakespeare

By: Mary Jo Kietzman

The theo-political idea of covenant—a sacred binding agreement—formalizes relationships and inaugurates politics in the Hebrew Bible, and it was the most significant revolutionary idea to come out of the Protestant Reformation. Central to sixteenth-century theology, covenant became the cornerstone of the seventeenth-century English Commonweath, evidenced by Parliament’s passage of the Protestation Oath in 1641 which was the “first national covenant against popery and arbitrary government,” followed by the Solemn League and Covenant in 1643. Although there are plenty of books on Shakespeare and religion and Shakespeare and the Bible, no recent critics have recognized how Shakespeare’s plays popularized and spread the covenant idea, making it available for the modern project. By seeding the plays with allusions to biblical covenant stories, Shakespeare not only lends ethical weight to secular lives but develops covenant as the core idea in a civil religion or a founding myth of the early-modern political community, writ small (family and friendship) and large (business and state). Playhouse relationships, especially those between actors and audiences, were also understood through the covenant model, which lent ethical shading to the convention of direct address. Revealing covenant as the biblical beating heart of Shakespeare’s drama, this book helps to explain how the plays provide a smooth transition into secular society based on the idea of social contract.

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Springer

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3319718436

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When I Lived in Kavala

By: Mary M. Tius

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When I Lived in Kavala

By: Mary M. Tius

In a fictitious, ideal world where omnipotent beings behave with perfection, someone has the desire to experience forgiveness. Since there are neither offenses nor pride there, for it is perfect, such wish is not easily realizable. However, once the wish is expressed, the world looses its perfection, because in it there is an unsatisfied desire. That is, an impossibility even for omnipotent beings. In the book you will meet the solution which resettles their omnipotence and perfection, allowing all to experience forgiveness. Interesting visions of life are exposed, and although fictitious, they may be useful for us, here - to forgive, but moreover to exercise love to God, to our fellow men and to ourselves. Don't miss reading this book. Meditate about the possibilities presented, and observe your life transform itself to the best. As a reward, maybe besides understanding a facet of forgiveness, you will be able to realize that much of what we do, whether good or not, is just another way of increasing the love between us. Perhaps you will realize further, that there is only one of us and that we are all one, finally making into a whole, boundless divine family.

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1st Book Library

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0759632251

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9780759632257

School Library Media Annual, 1993

By: Carol C. Kuhlthau,Elspeth Goodin,Mary J. McNally

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School Library Media Annual, 1993

By: Carol C. Kuhlthau,Elspeth Goodin,Mary J. McNally

An annual publication for media professionals presenting essays on events, issues, concepts, and trends relevant to the school media field.

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Libraries Unlimited

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1563080990

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9781563080999

Choosing Peace

New Ways to Communicate to Reduce Stress, Create Connection, and Resolve Conflict

By: Ike Lasater,John Kinyon,Julie Stiles,Mary Sitze

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Choosing Peace

New Ways to Communicate to Reduce Stress, Create Connection, and Resolve Conflict

By: Ike Lasater,John Kinyon,Julie Stiles,Mary Sitze

In Choosing Peace, you will learn a new approach to communication and conflict that creates peace, internally and externally. The concrete tools and skills in this book allow you to be clear in your communication and help others do the same. Through practicing what is in this compelling guidebook, you can build more satisfying and engaging relationships and create more compassion and peace in your life."--Publishers note.

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Mediate Your Life

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0989972003

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9780989972000

Sit Down

By: Mary Manz Simon

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Sit Down

By: Mary Manz Simon

Retells for beginning readers the Bible story about Mary and Martha.

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0570050545

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Mary

An Autobiography

By: Mary E. Mebane

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Mary

An Autobiography

By: Mary E. Mebane

The life story of a woman who refused to accept life in one of the traditional roles assigned to Black women profiles her background on a poor North Carolina farm and chronicles her road to success

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UNC Press Books

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0807848212

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9780807848210

Sincerely Mary

By: Pat Shannon,Mary Lee Wilson Stevens

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Sincerely Mary

By: Pat Shannon,Mary Lee Wilson Stevens

Sincerely Mary" is a delightful collection of columns written by Mary Lee Shannon, the owner and editor of the small town Texas newspaper, the Wharton Spectator, during the 1950's.She editorialized in an era that a person could speak their mind clearly and without the filter of political correctness. She said exactly what she meant. For this reason, her writing provoked an immediate response. Issue by issue, the reader was either touched by her sincere compassion or was enraged by her politics. Her writing was not the frivolous voice of an uninformed debutante, to the contrary, hers was the rational voice of Mid-Century America before politics and radical idealism took hold.The book is lovingly compiled and edited by her daughter-in-law, author, Pat Shannon.

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1933660333

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9781933660332

Praying with Mary

By: Mary Ford Grabowsky

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Praying with Mary

By: Mary Ford Grabowsky

Allow the Mother of Jesus to teach you new ways to pray. This new series of books is designed to open up the meaning of one ancient way of Christian prayer in a relatively short amount of time. In Praying with Mary you will discover: • The mother of Jesus—in all of her simplicity and complexity. • How to prayerfully follow Mary’s footsteps toward God. “This book drew me to reflect in a new way on Mary’s distinctive choices and gifts.” —Thomas H. Smolich, SJ, President, Jesuit Conference USA “With the turn of every page, the mystery of Mary unfolds.” —Lauren Artress, Canon of Grace Cathedral and author of Walking a Sacred Path Package of 5 units

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Paraclete Press

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1612611400

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Book's by Mary Sitze

Wanted Women

Wanted Women

Mass Vaccination

Mass Vaccination

The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language

The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language

Sowing the Gospel

Sowing the Gospel

Mark's Audience

Mark's Audience

China in Global Health

China in Global Health

The Biblical Covenant in Shakespeare

The Biblical Covenant in Shakespeare

When I Lived in Kavala

When I Lived in Kavala

School Library Media Annual, 1993

School Library Media Annual, 1993

Choosing Peace

Choosing Peace

Sit Down

Sit Down

Mary

Mary

Sincerely Mary

Sincerely Mary

Praying with Mary

Praying with Mary

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