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Ain't I a Beauty Queen?

Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race

By: Maxine Leeds Craig

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Ain't I a Beauty Queen?

Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race

By: Maxine Leeds Craig

The meanings and practices of racial identity are continually reshaped as a result of the interplay of actions taken at the individual and institutional levels. This text is a study of African American women as symbols, and as participants, in the reshaping of the meaning of African American racial identity.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019515262X

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9780195152623

The 8ight: Retribution

By: Maxine Kia McClendon

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The 8ight: Retribution

By: Maxine Kia McClendon

Reeling from the death of little Silvia, enigmatic Ethan, and loyal Ginger, the 8ight have vowed enough is enough. Realizing that fleeing the grips of the Company is next to impossible, they decide to guarantee their safety by destroying any and every thing associated with the diabolical organization that has given them their amazing abilities. Led by their hard-as-nails leader Tess, Emmitt, Demi, Raven, Luke, Fabian, Jude, and Pepper take the fight to Sir, the Company's powerful leader. But

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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1633380726

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Envisioning New Jersey

An Illustrated History of the Garden State

By: Maxine N. Lurie,Richard F. Veit

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Envisioning New Jersey

An Illustrated History of the Garden State

By: Maxine N. Lurie,Richard F. Veit

Winner of the 2017 New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award, Reference Category See New Jersey history as you read about it! Envisioning New Jersey brings together 650 spectacular images that illuminate the course of the state’s history, from prehistoric times to the present. Readers may think they know New Jersey’s history—the state’s increasing diversity, industrialization, and suburbanization—but the visual record presented here dramatically deepens and enriches that knowledge. Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit, two leading authorities on New Jersey history, present a smorgasbord of informative pictures, ranging from paintings and photographs to documents and maps. Portraits of George Washington and Molly Pitcher from the Revolution, battle flags from the War of 1812 and the Civil War, women air raid wardens patrolling the streets of Newark during World War II, the Vietnam War Memorial—all show New Jerseyans fighting for liberty. There are also pictures of Thomas Mundy Peterson, the first African American to vote after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment; Paul Robeson marching for civil rights; university students protesting in the 1960s; and Martin Luther King speaking at Monmouth University. The authors highlight the ethnic and religious variety of New Jersey inhabitants with images that range from Native American arrowheads and fishing implements, to Dutch and German buildings, early African American churches and leaders, and modern Catholic and Hindu houses of worship. Here, too, are the great New Jersey innovators from Thomas Edison to the Bell Labs scientists who worked on transistors. Compiled by the authors of New Jersey: A History of the Garden State, this volume is intended as an illustrated companion to that earlier volume. Envisioning New Jersey also stands on its own because essays synthesizing each era accompany the illustrations. A fascinating gold mine of images from the state’s past, Envisioning New Jersey is the first illustrated book on the Garden State that covers its complete history, capturing the amazing transformation of New Jersey over time. View sample pages (http://issuu.com/rutgersuniversitypress/docs/lurie_veit_envisioning_sample) Thanks to the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and generous individual donors for making this project possible.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813569680

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9780813569680

Archaeology of the Southwest

By: Maxine McBrinn,Linda S Cordell

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Archaeology of the Southwest

By: Maxine McBrinn,Linda S Cordell

The long awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and reference for anyone interested in Southwest archaeology, including the latest in current research, debates, and topical syntheses as well as increased coverage of Paleoindian and Archaic periods and the Casas Grandes phenomenon.

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Routledge

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1315433729

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9781315433721

The Department of Agriculture

By: Maxine Rosaler

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The Department of Agriculture

By: Maxine Rosaler

Until the late 1800s, agriculture was our largest industry, employing a majority of American workers. While the Department of Agriculture was born in an age of hand-harvested fields, it has grown and evolved to address high-tech agricultural issues like genetically modified crops, toxic pesticides, and animal growth hormones. This illuminating book charts the history of this department, outlines its current responsibilities and programs, profiles the department's most accomplished secretaries, and examines the issues it will face in the future.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1404202064

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9781404202061

Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Maxine Berg

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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Maxine Berg

In this book, Maxine Berg explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses the developments that led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the sixteenth century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the eighteenth century. These new products, regarded as luxuries by the rapidly growing urban and middling-class people of the eighteenth century, played an important part in helping to proclaim personal identities,and guide social interaction. Customers enjoyed shopping for them; they took pleasure in their beauty, ingenuity or convenience. All manner of new products appeared in shop windows; sophisticated mixed-media advertising seduced customers and created new wants. This unparalleled 'product revolution' provoked philosophers and pundits to proclaim a 'new luxury', one that reached out to the middling and trading classes, unlike the elite and corrupt luxury of old. Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth Century Britain is cultural history at its best, built on a fresh empirical base drawn directly from customs accounts, advertising material, company papers, and contemporary correspondence. Maxine Berg traces how this new consumer society of the eighteenth century and the products first traded, then invented to satisfy it, stimulated industrialization itself. Global markets for the consumer goods of private and domestic life inspired the industrial revolution and British products 'won the world'.

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OUP Oxford

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019153403X

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9780191534034

Sorry I Don't Dance

Why Men Refuse to Move

By: Maxine Leeds Craig

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Sorry I Don't Dance

Why Men Refuse to Move

By: Maxine Leeds Craig

Explores the feminization, sexualization, and racialization of dance in America since the 1960s.

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Oxford University Press

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0199845271

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9780199845279

We Built Up Our Lives

Education and Community among Jewish Refugees Interned by Britain in World War II

By: Maxine S. Seller

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We Built Up Our Lives

Education and Community among Jewish Refugees Interned by Britain in World War II

By: Maxine S. Seller

Fearing an imminent Nazi invasion, the British government interned 28,000 men and women of enemy nationality living in Britain in the spring of 1940. Most were Jewish refugees who, having fled Nazi persecution, were appalled to find themselves imprisoned as potential Nazi spies. Using oral histories, unpublished letters and memoirs, artifacts and newspapers from the camps, and government documents, We Built Up Our Lives tells the compelling story of sixty-three of these internees. It is a seldom-told part of the history of World War II and the Holocaust and a classic tale of human courage and resilience. We Built Up Our Lives describes the survival mechanisms relied upon by the Jewish refugees. Although the internees, imprisoned in Britain, the Isle of Man, Canada, and Australia, were adequately housed and fed and rarely mistreated, they were cut off from family, friends, school, and work--everything that had given meaning to their lives. Resisting boredom, anger, and despair, the internees made the best of a bad situation by creating education, culture, and community within the camps. Before and after as well as during the internment--in Nazi Germany and in Britain--educational resources and social networks were essential to the refugees' efforts to build up their lives. Equally important were personal qualities of courage, ingenuity, assertiveness, and resilience.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313075719

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9780313075711

Tales from the Casting Couch

An Unprecedented Candid Collection of Stories, Essays & Anecdotes By and About Legendary Hollywood Stars, Starlets and Wanna Bes

By: Michael Viner,Terrie Maxine Frankel

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Tales from the Casting Couch

An Unprecedented Candid Collection of Stories, Essays & Anecdotes By and About Legendary Hollywood Stars, Starlets and Wanna Bes

By: Michael Viner,Terrie Maxine Frankel

An unprecedented history of the actual casting sessions that propelled then-unknown actors to fame are revealed in this collection of never-before-told true stories by an about some of Hollywood’s stars and legends. Casting stories include those of Robert Redford Steve Martin, Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, John Travolta, Sally Field, and many many others.

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Phoenix Books

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1614670870

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9781614670872

The Secret Life of SENCOs

Practical Insights on Inclusion and Specialist Provision

By: Adam Boddison,Maxine O'Neill

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The Secret Life of SENCOs

Practical Insights on Inclusion and Specialist Provision

By: Adam Boddison,Maxine O'Neill

Only two roles are statutorily required in maintained schools, the Headteacher and the SENCO, and of these, only the SENCO is required to be a qualified teacher, demonstrating just how vital SENCOs are. But being the SENCO can be a lonely role as there is typically only one per school, so it is not always easy to know how SENCOs in other schools are undertaking the role, and there is plenty of what SENCOs do that does not get seen. This book shares the wisdom and experience of individual SENCOs with the entire SENCO community. It provides practical insights on inclusion and specialist provision, and reveals the professional inner secrets of SENCOs, from the things SENCOs wish they had known at the outset of their career to the best and worst decisions they have made. The chapters explore alternatives to school exclusion, examine ways of using data to improve inclusion and share the inspirational stories of individual learners with SEND. The Secret Life of SENCOs will transform how you deliver the SENCO role by combining the benefit of hindsight with the luxury of insight to provide the privilege of foresight. It is a valuable resource for both new and experienced SENCOs, as well those considering beginning in the role.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040123937

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9781040123935

Endogenous Growth Theory

By: Philippe Aghion,Peter Howitt,Maxine Brant-Collett,Cecilia García-Peñalosa

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Endogenous Growth Theory

By: Philippe Aghion,Peter Howitt,Maxine Brant-Collett,Cecilia García-Peñalosa

Problems and solutions by Cecilia Garcâia-Peänalosa in collaboration with Jan Boone, Chol-Won Li, and Lucy White." Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-687) and index.

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MIT Press

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0262011662

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9780262011662

A Colorado History, 10th Edition

By: Maxine Benson,Duane A. Smith,Carl Ubbelohde

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A Colorado History, 10th Edition

By: Maxine Benson,Duane A. Smith,Carl Ubbelohde

For fifty years, A Colorado History has provided a comprehensive and accessible panoramic history of the Centennial State. From the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to contemporary times, this enlarged edition leads readers on an extraordinary exploration of a remarkable place. "A Colorado History has been, since its first appearance in 1965, widely recognized as an exemplary work of its kind." --The Colorado Magazine Experience Colorado with this new, enlarged edition of A Colorado History. For fifty years, the authors of this preeminent resource have led readers on an extraordinary exploration of how the state has changed—and how it has stayed the same. From the arrival of Paleo-Indians in the Mesa Verde region to the fast pace of the twenty-first century, A Colorado History covers the political, economic, cultural, and environmental issues, along with the fascinating events and characters, that have shaped this dynamic state. In print for fifty years, this distinctive examination of the Centennial State is a must-read for history buffs, students, researchers—or anyone—interested in the remarkable place called Colorado.

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Graphic Arts Books

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087108323X

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9780871083234

Gender Trouble

Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Judith Butler,Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler

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Gender Trouble

Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Judith Butler,Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture.

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Routledge

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1135959935

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9781135959937

Swimsuit

By: James Patterson,Maxine Paetro

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Swimsuit

By: James Patterson,Maxine Paetro

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, tropical paradise becomes a dark inferno of kidnapping, temptation, and ruthless killing when a beautiful supermodel goes missing in Hawaii. Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears. Fearing the worst, her parents travel to Hawaii to investigate for themselves, never expecting the horror that awaits them. LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins is conducting his own research into the case, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller. With no leads and no closer to uncovering the kidnapper's identity than when he stepped off the plane, Ben gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil. A heart-pounding story of fear and desire, Swimsuit transports readers to a chilling new territory where the collision of beauty and murder transforms paradise into a hell of unspeakable horrors.

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Little, Brown

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0316052647

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9780316052641

From Tribal Division to Welcoming Inclusion

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

By: Maxine Anderson

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From Tribal Division to Welcoming Inclusion

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

By: Maxine Anderson

From Tribal Division to Welcoming Inclusion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives provides a fascinating contribution to our understanding of the increasingly polarized and divisive nature of global politics. By describing the significant role of early mental mechanisms in interactions between the individual and society, the book offers a unique understanding of how our early mental life explains the social, cultural and political positions we assume later. Splitting and projection are early defences meant to shield the growing mind from unbearable aspects of reality, but they hinder our capacity for open-minded thought, and in contributing to the dangerous atmosphere of "us versus them", introduce tribal myths of an innocent group and external persecutors. The book illustrates these distortions of reality using a range of vignettes, notably the myth of white supremacy and the savage legacy of the Civil War in the United States. Gaining support from the work of Wilfred Bion, the book emphasises the need for integration of mind and the restoration of our capacity to face painful realities, including one’s own violence and hatred. This psychoanalytic study provides a balm for turbulent times. It will be of great interest to researchers and interested readers in the broad field of psychoanalysis, as well as those in the fields of political science, cultural studies and anthropology.

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Routledge

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0429656491

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A Colorado History

By: Carl Ubbelohde,Maxine Benson,Duane A. Smith

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A Colorado History

By: Carl Ubbelohde,Maxine Benson,Duane A. Smith

For forty years, A Colorado History has provided a comprehensive and accessible panoramic history of the Centennial State. From the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to contemporary times, this enlarged edition leads readers on an extraordinary exploration of a remarkable place.

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Pruett Publishing

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0871089424

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The Tapestry of Culture

An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Maxine Weisgrau,Abraham Rosman,Paula G. Rubel

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The Tapestry of Culture

An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Maxine Weisgrau,Abraham Rosman,Paula G. Rubel

When we think about society and culture, often we think of our own culture – the culture in which we were raised or currently live – as the default. The eleventh edition of The Tapestry of Culture uses anthropological tools to translate the concepts, ideas, and behaviors of other cultures into language recognizable by today’s students. The book’s comparative approach balances the history of ethnography, fieldwork, and anthropological with today’s globalized world, including the impact of climate change, social movements, social media and technology, global health issues, and shifting political landscapes. New to the Eleventh Edition New Chapter 12, “Global Health and Wellness,” examines the historical, political, and cultural issues that shape disease and health including inequalities in access to physical and mental health services, the delivery of health care services, and health intervention strategies New Chapter 11, “Spaces and Places of Creative Expression,” explores how social media and internet technologies play a major role in how contemporary audiences view and understand creativity including music, dance, theater, film, painting and other performance styles Expanded discussion of the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, as well as LGBTQ issues in activism explores gender and sexuality through queer studies and in postcolonial settings (Chapter 7) New discussion of critical race theory highlights its contributions to analyzing multiple forms of racism and discrimination while providing an exploration of the challenges of multiculturalism in contexts of nationality, ethnicity, and political representation (Chapter 14) New discussions of environmental anthropology, political ecology, climate change inequality, social movements, globalization, and transnationalism highlight these contemporary issues as subjects of anthropological inquiry (Chapter 1)

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538163829

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9781538163825

Across The Boundaries Of Belief

Contemporary Issues In The Anthropology Of Religion

By: Morton Klass,Maxine Weisgrau

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Across The Boundaries Of Belief

Contemporary Issues In The Anthropology Of Religion

By: Morton Klass,Maxine Weisgrau

This book focuses on anthropological questions and methods, and is offered as a supplement to textbooks on the anthropology of religion. It is designed to help students collecting and interpreting their own fieldwork or archival data and relating their findings to the work of others.

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Routledge

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0429971117

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9780429971112

The Dialectic of Freedom

By: Maxine Greene

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The Dialectic of Freedom

By: Maxine Greene

Special 2018 Edition From the new Introduction by Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY : "Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'" In The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, determine, and—too frequently—oppress. Examining the interrelationship between freedom, possibility, and imagination in American education, Greene taps the fields of philosophy, history, educational theory, and literature in order to discuss the many struggles that have characterized Americans’ quests for freedom in the midst of what is conceived to be a free society. Accounts of the lives of women, immigrants, and minority groups highlight the ways in which Americans have gone in search of openings in their lived situations, learned to look at things as if they could be otherwise, and taken action on what they found. Greene presents a unique overview of American concepts and images of freedom from Jefferson’s time to the present. She examines the ways in which the disenfranchised have historically understood and acted on their freedom—or lack of it—in dealing with perceived and real obstacles to expression and empowerment. Strong emphasis is placed on the focal role of the arts and art experience in releasing human imagination and enabling the young to reach toward their vision of the possible. The author concludes with suggestions for approaches to teaching and learning that can provoke both educators and students to take initiatives, to transcend limits, and to pursue freedom—not in solitude, but in reciprocity with others, not in privacy, but in a public space.

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Teachers College Press

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0807728977

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9780807728970

4th of July

By: James Patterson,Maxine Paetro

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4th of July

By: James Patterson,Maxine Paetro

The world's bestselling detective series has never been more suspenseful. Trapped in deadly showdowns, courtroom trials, and dangerous secrets, the Women's Murder Club must fight for their lives. In a deadly late-night showdown, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer fires her weapon and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, a family destroyed, and Lindsay herself at the mercy of twelve jurors. During a break in the trial, she retreats to a picturesque town that is reeling from a string of grisly murders-crimes that bear a link to a haunting, unsolved case from her rookie years. Now, with her friends in the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay must battle for her life on two fronts: in a trial rushing to a climax, and against an unknown adversary willing to do anything to hide the truth about the homicides-including kill again?

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Little, Brown

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0759513589

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9780759513587

Looking Back to See

A Country Music Memoir

By: Maxine Brown

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Looking Back to See

A Country Music Memoir

By: Maxine Brown

Revealing, entertaining window on the music of the ’50s and ’60s

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557289344

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9781557289346

Documentary in the Digital Age

By: Maxine Baker

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Documentary in the Digital Age

By: Maxine Baker

If you want to learn from the leading lights of today's revolution in documentary filmmaking Maxine Baker has written the guide you need to own. You'll discover the many different and innovative approaches to documentary form and style arising from the use of innovative new technology. A tribute to the mavericks of creativity, inside you will find interviews and advice from groundbreaking documentary makers from the UK, USA and Europe as well as extensive listings of useful worldwide contacts and organisations. Any and every fan of the documentary will experience anew the passion and wonder of the Factual Film. Published review: "This is a must-have insight into modern documentary; the principles that govern it and the conventions it often breaks. It deserves a place on the shelves of film commissioners, film students and documentary consumers as prominent as the place these documentary filmmakers have carved for themselves on our screens." - www.shootingpeople.org

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Taylor & Francis

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1136054251

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9781136054259

Sophisticated Giant

The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon

By: Maxine Gordon

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Sophisticated Giant

The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon

By: Maxine Gordon

An occasion to appreciate Dexter’s resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation.”—Angela Y. Davis, political activist, scholar, author, and speaker Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, “Man, you ought to leave your karma to science.” Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film, and in jazz lore--even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself.

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Univ of California Press

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0520971620

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9780520971622

Mistress & a Million Dollars

By: Maxine Sullivan

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Mistress & a Million Dollars

By: Maxine Sullivan

For years, model Briana Davenport fought temptation—in the form of a six-foot, blue-eyed seducer. Jarrod Hammond was her employer's sworn enemy and, as such, off-limits to her…and her bed. Then her father needed a cool million to bail himself out of trouble, and Briana had no choice but to turn to the Australian businessman. But after one mind-blowing night as his millionaire mistress, how could Briana ever walk away?

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Silhouette

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1426813457

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9781426813450

Managing Risk and Opportunity

The Governance of Strategic Risk-Taking

By: Torben Juul Andersen,Maxine Garvey,Oliviero Roggi

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Managing Risk and Opportunity

The Governance of Strategic Risk-Taking

By: Torben Juul Andersen,Maxine Garvey,Oliviero Roggi

This book looks at the critical demands imposed on directors and leaders when faced with corporate risks in turbulent global markets. It shows show why successful risk management outcomes require ethical governance principles and organizational structures that enhance effective risk-taking practices by all actors.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199687854

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9780199687855

Jewish Every Day

The Complete Handbook for Early Childhood Teachers

By: Behrman House,Maxine Segal Handelman

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Jewish Every Day

The Complete Handbook for Early Childhood Teachers

By: Behrman House,Maxine Segal Handelman

Written in a warm and understanding tone, this guide takes the best in secular early childhood education and applies it to Jewish early childhood education. With extensive bibliographies as well as background information for teachers, individual chapters review developmentally appropriate practice, anti-bias education, storytelling, music, Jewish thematic units, reaching out to interfaith families, keeping kosher at school, and much more.

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0867050489

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9780867050486

The Tapestry of Culture

An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Abraham Rosman,Paula G. Rubel,Maxine Weisgrau

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The Tapestry of Culture

An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Abraham Rosman,Paula G. Rubel,Maxine Weisgrau

The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology provides students and the interested public with a concise picture of the field of cultural anthropology today. From the first edition of Tapestry of Culture published in the early 1980s until now, anthropology has changed greatly, responding to scholarly and political influences as well as changing generations; the ninth edition reflects this ongoing transformation. The influence of postmodernism has generated new debates over theory and practice in anthropology. The content of Tapestry explains these debates, as well as what is still generally accepted and agreed upon by most anthropologists. This edition provides the instructor, student and lay public with the information necessary to enable them to critically read the literature of anthropology, more specifically ethnographic texts which are still the heart of this field. The approach of the book is to accommodate the various points of view in anthropology today. It shows how the concepts, ideas and behavior of other cultures are translated into our culture's terms. Though today many emphasize each culture's uniqueness, the presence of cultural similarities is compelling. Using a comparative approach, The Tapestry of Culture reveals cultural similarities, as well as the cultural differences.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759118515

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9780759118515

Genes And Genomes

By: Maxine Singer,Paul Berg

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Genes And Genomes

By: Maxine Singer,Paul Berg

The celebrated authors present an in-depth overview of the molecular structures and mechanisms that underlie the utilization of genetic information by complex organisms. They emphasize the experimental aspects of molecular genetics, offering a complete introduction to both principles and methods. "Excellent, suitably detailed and superbly written." Philip Leder, Harvard Medical School

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University Science Books

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0935702172

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The Tokyo Trial

A Bibliographic Guide to English-Language Sources

By: Jeanie Maxine Welch

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The Tokyo Trial

A Bibliographic Guide to English-Language Sources

By: Jeanie Maxine Welch

Overshadowed for many years by the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo Trial--one of the major events in the aftermath of World War II--has elicited renewed interest since the 50th anniversary of the war's end. Revelations of previously hidden war crimes, including comfort women and biological warfare, and the establishment of international courts to try Yugoslav and Rwandan war criminals have added to the interest. This bibliography addressees the renewed interest in the Tokyo Trial, providing over 700 citations to official publications, scholarly monographs and journal articles, contemporaneous accounts, manuscript collections, and Web sites. Also included are sources on the Trial's influence on international law and military law and unresolved issues being debated to this day. Defining war crimes after the fact, practicing victor's justice to punish enemies, holding military commanders accountable for their troops' actions--these were issues confronted in the Tokyo Trial and other Asia-Pacific war crimes trials. They are still being investigated, researched, and debated today. This bibliography helps to illuminate these issues from different perspectives, providing a variety of ways to locate relevant English-language sources. The volume also includes citations to contemporary issues stemming from the Asia-Pacific war crimes trials--comfort women, biological warfare, and unresolved issues of reparations and official apologies. The book is a useful guide to sources on all aspects of the Tokyo Trial.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313016836

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9780313016837

The Free-market Family

How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and how it Can be Restored)

By: Maxine Eichner

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The Free-market Family

How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and how it Can be Restored)

By: Maxine Eichner

A steady drumbeat of bad news about the state of our nation has convinced Americans that our country has gone off the rails. But where, exactly, did we go wrong? Maxine Eichner argues that the problem is that market pressures are overwhelming American families today. Eichner links "free-market family policy," a system in which families must fend for themselves without help from the government, to unstable relationships, reduced lifespans, kids' declining academicachievement, and low levels of happiness, compared with other wealthy countries. What's called for, she argues, is market regulation and an economy structured around supporting families.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190055472

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9780190055479

The Primacy of Movement

Expanded second edition

By: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

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The Primacy of Movement

Expanded second edition

By: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal point, elucidating it within both an enactive and qualitative affective-kinetic dynamic. It follows through with a thoroughgoing interdisciplinary inquiry into movement from three perspectives: mind, brain, and the conceptually reciprocal realities of receptivity and responsivity as set forth in phenomenology and evolutionary biology, respectively. It ends with a substantive afterword on kinesthesia, pointing up the incontrovertible significance of the faculty to cognition and affectivity. Series A

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027286779

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9789027286772

Navy Gray

Engineering the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers

By: Maxine T. Turner

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Navy Gray

Engineering the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers

By: Maxine T. Turner

The story of the Confederate Navy been told less often than the spectacular history of the armies, but many of the familiar elements are there: the exuberant hopes of the Confederacy, the risk in spite of very long odds against success, the basic deficits in resources becoming desperate needs, and the dogged, exhausted persistence in the face of certain defeat. The story is epic in its importance to a nation and a people. New strategies and developing technology, however, introduce new elements into this story of the Civil War. The officers and men of the Confederate Navy were defeated at every turn by a national policy and a local tangle of political, economic, and social issues. Southern officers resigned their Union Navy commissions to fight for principle -- and soon found themselves enmeshed in construction schedules and bureaucratic delays. All too often, naval officers on both sides found themselves engaged in what is now termed "modern warfare". In this story of the Civil War, the phrase "arms and the man" begins to take on the contemporary ring of man and machine and man within and against the system.

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Mercer University Press

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0865546428

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9780865546424

Beyond Peterloo

Elijah Dixon and Manchester's Forgotten Reformers

By: Rob Hargreaves,Maxine Peake

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Beyond Peterloo

Elijah Dixon and Manchester's Forgotten Reformers

By: Rob Hargreaves,Maxine Peake

ELIJAH DIXON played a key role in the Blanketeer's March of 1817. Arrested, chained in double irons and imprisoned without trial, the episode set the stage for the Peterloo Massacre.Everybody in Victorian Manchester knew of Elijah Dixon. Over a period of sixty years, he was an ever-present force in the tumultuous politics of the town. He worked alongside the great figures of nineteenth century Radicalism, and as 'The Manchester Man' he became the towns ambassador for Chartism. An early apostle of votes for women, Temperance advocate, Christian convert, Dixon rose from poverty to make a fortune as Britains first mass-producer of matches.In Beyond Peterloo, Robert Hargreaves and Alan Hampson bring Elijahs previously overlooked yet vital contribution to social reform to life. Set against the backdrop of the Blanketeers March of 1817 and the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, they reveal the fascinating story of his life and work as Manchesters forgotten reformer.

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Pen and Sword

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152672510X

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9781526725103

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

By: Maxine Berg,Pat Hudson

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Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

By: Maxine Berg,Pat Hudson

The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson 'follow the money' to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses and filled them with luxuries. The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people. The result is a bold and unflinching account of how Britain became a global superpower, and how the legacy of slavery persists. Acknowledging Britain's role in slavery is not just about toppling statues and renaming streets. We urgently need to come to terms with slavery's inextricable links with Western capitalism, and the ways in which many of us continue to benefit from slavery to this day.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509552707

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9781509552702

Critical Social Psychology of Social Class

By: Katy Day,Bridgette Rickett,Maxine Woolhouse

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Critical Social Psychology of Social Class

By: Katy Day,Bridgette Rickett,Maxine Woolhouse

This book argues for the importance of considering social class in critical psychological enquiry. It provides a historical overview of psychological research and theorising on social class and socio-economic status; before examining the ways in which psychology has contributed to the surveillance, regulation and pathologisation of the working-class ‘Other’. The authors highlight the cost of recent austerity policies on mental health and warn against the implementation of further austerity measures in the current climate The book pulls together perspectives from critical social psychology, feminist psychology, sociology and other critical research which examines the discursive production of social class, classism and classed identities. The authors explore social class in educational and occupational settings, and analyse the intersections between class and other social categories such as gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality. Finally, they consider key issues in debates around social class in the broader social sciences, such as the limitations of approaches informed by poststructuralist theory. This book will be a useful resource for both academics and students studying class from a critical perspective.

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Springer Nature

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3030559653

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9783030559656

Burning in Blueness The Dark-Light of a Countertenor

By: Maxine Handy

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Burning in Blueness The Dark-Light of a Countertenor

By: Maxine Handy

Burning in Blueness is a haunting memoir of the world's foremost countertenor James Bowman. The author lyrically portrays and interprets her affinity with the great man and his music. The text is in three parts covering a total of three decades, to include James' work with David Munrow, Britten and Pears, and as the voice of Robert King's five-year Purcell series. The account is not chronological, but traces the creative contact between the author's literary interests and James Bowman's musical genius. The book makes a valuable contribution to musical history, as the famous and intensely private countertenor himself, has always resisted the suggestion of a conventional biography. Burning in Blueness is part of James' legacy as he approaches his 70th birthday in 2011.

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Lulu.com

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1446670317

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9781446670316

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