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Reading is My Window

Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons

By: Megan Sweeney

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Reading is My Window

Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons

By: Megan Sweeney

Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807833525

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9780807833520

Leadership And Teams In Educational Management

By: Crawford, Megan,Kydd, Lesley,Riches, Colin

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Leadership And Teams In Educational Management

By: Crawford, Megan,Kydd, Lesley,Riches, Colin

Effective leadership and team working makes a crucial difference to the management of schools and colleges. This book takes readers through the different dimensions of leadership, and its relationship to good team work. Personal and organizational skills are dealt with alongside the more theoretical aspects of the subject. Throughout, the editors stress that leadership and team working are the core activities in managing people. This volume forms part of the Leadership and Management in Education series. This four book series provides a carefully chosen selection of high quality readings on key contemporary themes in educational management: professional development, reflection on practice, leadership, team working, effectiveness and improvement, quality, strategy and resources. The series will be an important resource for classroom teachers and lecturers as well as those holding designated management posts in schools and colleges and will provide a valuable basis for professional development programmes.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335198414

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9780335198412

Hearing Homophony

Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

By: Megan Kaes Long

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Hearing Homophony

Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

By: Megan Kaes Long

The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory. However, tonality is not ultimately defined by pitch alone, but rather by pitch's interaction with elements like rhythm, meter, phrase structure, and form. Hearing Homophony investigates the elusive early history of tonality by examining a constellation of late-Renaissance popular songs which flourished throughout Western Europe at the turn of the seventeenth century. Megan Kaes Long argues that it is in these songs, rather than in more ambitious secular and sacred works, that the foundations of eighteenth century style are found. Arguing that tonality emerges from features of modal counterpoint - in particular, the rhythmic, phrase structural, and formal processes that govern it - and drawing on the arguments of theorists such as Dahlhaus, Powers, and Barnett, she asserts that modality and tonality are different in kind and not mutually exclusive. Using several hundred homophonic partsongs from Italy, Germany, England, and France, Long addresses a historical question of critical importance to music theory, musicology, and music performance. Hearing Homophony presents not only a new model of tonality's origins, but also a more comprehensive understanding of what tonality is, providing novel insight into the challenging world of seventeenth-century music.

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Oxford University Press

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0190851910

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9780190851910

Alzheimer's Disease, Media Representations and the Politics of Euthanasia

Constructing Risk and Selling Death in an Ageing Society

By: Megan-Jane Johnstone

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Alzheimer's Disease, Media Representations and the Politics of Euthanasia

Constructing Risk and Selling Death in an Ageing Society

By: Megan-Jane Johnstone

Drawing on extensive data including news media reports and commentaries, documentaries, courts and court reports, films, websites, professional literature and government and non-government agencies, this book explores the 'Alzheimerisation' of the euthanasia debate, examining the shift in recent years in public attitudes towards the desirability and moral permissibility of euthanasia as an end-of-life 'solution' for people living with the disease - not just at its end stage, but also at earlier stages. With attention to media representations and public understandings of Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Media Representations and the Politics of Euthanasia sheds light on the processes contributing to these changes in public opinion, investigating the drivers of vexed political debate surrounding the issue and examining the manner in which both sides of the euthanasia debate mobilise support, portray their opponents and make use of media technologies to frame the terms of discourse. Paving the way for a greater level of intellectual honesty with regard to an issue carrying significant policy implications, this book will be of interest to scholars of media and communication, social movements and political communication, and the sociology of health and medicine, as well as researchers and professionals in the fields of palliative and end of life care.

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Routledge

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131718243X

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9781317182436

Pan American Women

U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico

By: Megan Threlkeld

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Pan American Women

U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico

By: Megan Threlkeld

In the years following World War I, women activists in the United States and Europe saw themselves as leaders of a globalizing movement to promote women's rights and international peace. In hopes of advancing alliances, U.S. internationalists such as Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Doris Stevens reached across the border to their colleagues in Mexico, including educator Margarita Robles de Mendoza and feminist Hermila Galindo. They established new organizations, sponsored conferences, and rallied for peaceful relations between the two countries. But diplomatic tensions and the ongoing Mexican Revolution complicated their efforts. In Pan American Women, Megan Threlkeld chronicles the clash of political ideologies between U.S. and Mexican women during an era of war and revolution. Promoting a "human internationalism" (in the words of Addams), U.S. women overestimated the universal acceptance of their ideas. They considered nationalism an ethos to be overcome, while the revolutionary spirit of Mexico inspired female citizens there to embrace ideas and reforms that focused on their homeland. Although U.S. women gradually became less imperialistic in their outlook and more sophisticated in their organizational efforts, they could not overcome the deep divide between their own vision of international cooperation and Mexican women's nationalist aspirations. Pan American Women exposes the tensions of imperialism, revolutionary nationalism, and internationalism that challenged women's efforts to build an inter-American movement for peace and equality, in the process demonstrating the importance of viewing women's political history through a wider geographic lens.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081229002X

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9780812290028

Dancing an Embodied Sinthome

Beyond Phallic Jouissance

By: Megan Sherritt

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Dancing an Embodied Sinthome

Beyond Phallic Jouissance

By: Megan Sherritt

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores what each practice can offer the other. It takes as its starting point Jacques Lacan’s assertion that James Joyce’s literary works helped him create what Lacan terms a sinthome, thereby preventing psychosis. That is, Joyce’s use of written language helped him maintain a “normal” existence despite showing tendencies towards psychosis. Here it is proposed that writing was only the method through which Joyce worked but that the key element in his sinthome was play, specifically the play of the Lacanian real. The book moves on to consider how dance operates similarly to Joyce’s writing and details the components of Joyce’s sinthome, not as a product that keeps him sane, but as an interminable process for coping with the (Lacanian) real. The author contends that Joyce goes beyond words and meaning, using language’s metre, tone, rhythm, and cadence to play with the real, mirroring his experience of it and confining it to his works, creating order in the chaos of his mind. The art of dance is shown to be a process that likewise allows one to play with the real. However, it is emphasized that dance goes further: it also teaches someone how to play if one doesn't already know how. This book offers a compelling analysis that sheds new light on the fields of psychoanalysis and dance and looks to what this can tell us about—and the possibilities for—both practices, concluding that psychoanalysis and dance both offer processes that open possibilities that might otherwise seem impossible. This original analysis will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, art therapy, and dance studies.

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Springer Nature

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3031423275

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9783031423277

The Escape Line

How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe

By: Megan Koreman

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The Escape Line

How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe

By: Megan Koreman

The gripping account of ordinary men and women who risked their lives in Nazi-occupied Western Europe to save others.

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Oxford University Press

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0190662271

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9780190662271

Bake It in a Cupcake

50 Treats with a Surprise Inside

By: Megan Seling

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Bake It in a Cupcake

50 Treats with a Surprise Inside

By: Megan Seling

Seling operates on the assumption that the only thing better than a delicious cupcake is one with a sweet or savory treat hidden inside it. As the saying goes, it's what's on the inside that counts--

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449420680

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9781449420680

The Girl from Widow Hills

A Novel

By: Megan Miranda

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The Girl from Widow Hills

A Novel

By: Megan Miranda

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest—a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick—comes a “hauntingly atmospheric and gorgeously written page-turner” (Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of A Good Marriage) about a young woman plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet. Everyone knows the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.” Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties and help vigils, praying for her safe return. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers. And every year, the anniversary. It all became too much. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye. Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. She’s managed to stay off the radar for the last few years. But with the twentieth anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Where is she now? Soon Olivia feels like she’s being watched and begins sleepwalking again, like she did long ago, even waking up outside her home. Until late one night, she jolts awake in her yard. At her feet is the corpse of a man she knows—from her previous life, as Arden Maynor. The girl from Widow Hills is once again at the center of this story in this “compulsive page-turner” (Booklist).

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Simon and Schuster

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1501165445

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9781501165443

Bluestem

The Cookbook

By: Colby Garrelts,Megan Garrelts,Bonjwing Lee

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Bluestem

The Cookbook

By: Colby Garrelts,Megan Garrelts,Bonjwing Lee

The volume's as handsome as our first crush, but don't just judge this book by its cover (blue, of course). We all have those pretty volumes that sit uncracked near our well-worn, food-spattered cookbooks. But Bluestem's recipes, while ambitious, can be tackled by the humble home chef. --VIVmag A repeated nominee for the James Beard Award for Best Chef Midwest, chef Colby Garrelts and highly respected pastry chef Megan Garrelts offer their culinary techniques inside Bluestem: The Cookbook. From Warm Eggplant Salad and Potato-Crusted Halibut with Herb Cream to delectable desserts such as Honey Custard and Peanut Butter Beignets with Concord Grape Sauce, the Garreltses showcase local, Midwestern ingredients and artisanal producers through 100 seasonally driven recipes. Including a full-meal lineup of recipes, from amuse-bouche to dessert, Bluestem offers helpful tips from a professional kitchen alongside seasonal wine notes and 100 full-color photographs that capture the simple beauty of Bluestem's composed dishes. Guided by their childhood memories and inspired by the world around them, the Garreltses offer a Midwestern sensibility inside Bluestem: The Cookbook, while enabling cooks of all experience levels the opportunity of replicating Bluestem's contemporary taste and signature dishes at home.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449418945

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9781449418946

The 5-Day Juicing Diet

A Plant-Based Program to Achieve Lasting Weight Loss & Long Term Health

By: Megan Roosevelt RDN

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The 5-Day Juicing Diet

A Plant-Based Program to Achieve Lasting Weight Loss & Long Term Health

By: Megan Roosevelt RDN

A fresh take on juicing (and eating!) for weight loss and health. Juicing is a simple, delicious way to lose weight while boosting your energy and overall health. But you don't have to go hungry on a strict juice cleanse to enjoy those benefits. The 5-Day Juicing Diet is a nourishing 5-day juice and meal plan that will make you think "I can do this!" This easy-to-follow plan comes complete with a full meal chart, instructions for juicing and blending at home, and a rundown on selecting, storing, and preparing fruits and veggies for juicing. Most importantly, you'll get tons of tasty juice combos to choose from—and recipes for plant-powered meals to help you squeeze out the most benefits. The 5 Day Juicing Diet includes: Juicing how-tos—Solve the mysteries of which juicer to choose, how to pick the right produce, and how to create your own juice blends—all the info you need is here. 100 recipes—Enjoy invigorating new flavor combinations like Coconut Kale, Lemon Chia Elixir, or Cucumber, Basil, and Lime Juice. Snacks and suppers—Feel satiated by eating delicious, plant-based snacks and meals every day—follow the included menu chart, or build your own from a variety of recipes. Blend juicing into your life and start crushing your health goals with The 5 Day Juicing Diet!

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1939754291

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9781939754295

Get Through Final FRCR Part A: SBAs for the Modular Examination

By: Megan Bydder,Alexander Clark,Nicholas Coupe,John Pattison

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Get Through Final FRCR Part A: SBAs for the Modular Examination

By: Megan Bydder,Alexander Clark,Nicholas Coupe,John Pattison

Reflecting the latest change to the exam, the introduction of single best answer questions (SBAs), this book is completely up to date and offers a valuable insight into the new exam format. Providing candidates with a wealth of practice questions and organized by subject matter into the modular format, this comprehensive collection of practice SBAs is designed to help candidates assess their own knowledge, aiding thorough preparation for the exam. The book opens with an introduction to the exam, which includes advice on how to prepare for it and information on what to expect. It also offers helpful advice on question comprehension and answer strategies to help candidates achieve exam success. Written by practising Specialist Registrars and Junior Consultants in radiology, and supplemented with detailed explanatory text referenced to major radiology journals and specialist textbooks, Get Through Final FRCR Part A is the essential revision tool for all Specialist Registrars taking the Final FRCR exam.

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CRC Press

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1853158496

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9781853158490

Long Journey for Sevenpence

An Oral History of Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, 1947-1975

By: Megan Hutching

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Long Journey for Sevenpence

An Oral History of Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, 1947-1975

By: Megan Hutching

Using interviews and questionaires, Megan Hutching has created a lively account of the process of emigration from the point of view of the migrants themselves, often in their own words. She recounts their experiences of the 12,000-mile sea journey to New Zealand and adaption to a life in a new country. Not all agree that it was the best thing they ever did, but most of them remained and now consider themselves New Zealanders. Why did people in post-war Britain make the long journey to the other side of the world? Besides the answers to this question, in this generously illustrated history Hutching also explores New Zealand government policy and the reasons for the assistend immigration scheme in 1947.

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Victoria University Press

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0864733607

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9780864733603

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Blends

By: Megan M. McArdle

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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Blends

By: Megan M. McArdle

In this informative and entertaining book McArdle gets library staff up to speed on these engaging titles, showing how such crossover fiction appeals to fanbases of multiple genres.

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American Library Association

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0838912621

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9780838912621

How Policy and Profit Shape Content

By: Megan Fromm, Ph.D.

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How Policy and Profit Shape Content

By: Megan Fromm, Ph.D.

Money and journalistic integrity have often been at odds throughout history. Yet today, with newspaper business models struggling, there has been more tension than ever. This book goes behind the scenes and teaches readers about past and present newspaper profit models, and how big money can influence reporting and public opinion. Also addressed are new battlegrounds in the profit wars such as net neutrality and innovative business models such as hyperlocal news. This book asks the questions that no one else will and digs deep for the answers.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1477780653

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9781477780657

Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados

Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism

By: Megan Christine Thomas

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Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados

Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism

By: Megan Christine Thomas

A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816671907

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9780816671908

The Inclusion Toolbox

Strategies and Techniques for All Teachers

By: Jennifer A. Kurth,Megan Gross

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The Inclusion Toolbox

Strategies and Techniques for All Teachers

By: Jennifer A. Kurth,Megan Gross

The tools you need to build meaningful inclusive practices into your education program Featuring materials relevant to all stages of implementation, The Inclusion Toolbox is an all-in-one resource that combines research-based strategies and practical tools to help you design and implement a truly inclusive education program. You’ll discover: Step-by-step plans for implementing new programs Guidance on how to strengthen existing inclusive programs Strategies to empower and involve families, students with disabilities, and their peers Tools to assess student interests and develop adaptation plans With user-friendly online resources and practical strategies, this comprehensive guide will help you make inclusion a reality!

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Corwin Press

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1483344142

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9781483344140

Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History

By: Kalusa, Walima T.,Vaughan, Megan

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Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History

By: Kalusa, Walima T.,Vaughan, Megan

In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racialised politics of death on the colonial Copperbelt, the transformation of burial practices, the histories of suicide and of maternal mortality, and the political life of the corpse.

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The Lembani Trust

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9982680013

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9789982680011

Last Desserts

By: Megan Atwood

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Last Desserts

By: Megan Atwood

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Ella loves to practice designs for the bakery she'll someday own. She's also one of the few people not to try the cookies and cakes made by a mysterious new baker. Soon, the people who ate the baker's treats start acting oddly, and Ella wonders if the cookies are to blame. Can her baking skills help save her best friend—and herself?

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Millbrook Press

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1512457507

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9781512457506

Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Handbook for Parents and Professionals [2 volumes]

By: Megan Moore Duncan,Jeanne Holverstott,Brenda Smith Myles,Terri Cooper Swanson

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Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Handbook for Parents and Professionals [2 volumes]

By: Megan Moore Duncan,Jeanne Holverstott,Brenda Smith Myles,Terri Cooper Swanson

With the increased number of children being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders, parents and professionals are in search of materials that provide information theat will enable them to better understand affected children. While in the past individuals who were diagnosed had limited verbal and intellectual skills, newly diagnosed children often have good language skills and even areas of giftedness. This A-to-Z work contains original entries on the topic of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Entries include facts about disabilities, personal and historic perspectives, interventions, assessments, educational methods, trusted internet resources, and national organizations. The work outlines the contributions of founding researchers and other professionals and includes personal perspectives from individuals with ASD and their parents. It also includes lesson plans that can be implemented in a home, school, or community setting. No other such definitive resource exists that provides both educational and practical information related to ASD.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313055777

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9780313055775

No Excuses Detox

100 Recipes to Help You Eat Healthy Every Day [A Cookbook]

By: Megan Gilmore

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No Excuses Detox

100 Recipes to Help You Eat Healthy Every Day [A Cookbook]

By: Megan Gilmore

From the powerhouse blogger behind Detoxinistadotcom, here are 100 quick, affordable, and delicious whole-food recipes that make it easy for you and your family to follow a healthy lifestyle. In No Excuses Detox, Megan Gilmore presents a collection of satisfying, family-friendly recipes developed with speed, convenience, and optimum digestion in mind. Because enjoying what you eat on a daily basis is crucial to maintaining health goals, these recipes for comfort food favorites--from Freezer Oat Waffles, Butternut Mac n’ Cheese, Quinoa Pizza, Loaded Nacho Dip, and Avocado Caesar Salad to Frosty Chocolate Shakes, No-Bake Brownie Bites, and Carrot Cake Cupcakes—taste just as good as their traditional counterparts, but are healthier versions packed with nutrients. Megan Gilmore sharply identifies many of the reasons people fail to stick to a healthy diet—too busy, budget conscious, cooking for picky eaters, concerns about taste or fullness, and more—addressing them head on and offering simple solutions. This beautifully packaged and artfully photographed book gives readers no excuse to not eat well year-round.

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Ten Speed Press

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0399579028

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9780399579028

Who's Asking?

Native Science, Western Science, and Science Education

By: Douglas L. Medin,Megan Bang

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Who's Asking?

Native Science, Western Science, and Science Education

By: Douglas L. Medin,Megan Bang

Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world makes for more effective scientific practice and science education. The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scientists do not shed their cultures at the laboratory or classroom door; their practices reflect their values, belief systems, and worldviews. Medin and Bang argue further that scientist diversity—the participation of researchers and educators with different cultural orientations—provides new perspectives and leads to more effective science and better science education. Medin and Bang compare Native American and European American orientations toward the natural world and apply these findings to science education. The European American model, they find, sees humans as separated from nature; the Native American model sees humans as part of a natural ecosystem. Medin and Bang then report on the development of ecologically oriented and community-based science education programs on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin and at the American Indian Center of Chicago. Medin and Bang's novel argument for scientist diversity also has important implications for questions of minority underrepresentation in science.

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MIT Press

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0262319446

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9780262319447

Made in America

A Modern Collection of Classic Recipes

By: Colby Garrelts,Megan Garrelts

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Made in America

A Modern Collection of Classic Recipes

By: Colby Garrelts,Megan Garrelts

Two James Beard Award honorees celebrate the history of the American kitchen table with fifty heirloom recipes. Kansas City chef and James Beard Award winner Colby Garrelts and his wife, Megan, a James Beard semifinalist for Best Pastry Chef, present a library of American culinary classics redefined by easy, chef-inspired techniques, quality ingredients, and a love for regional flavors from their Midwestern roots. Made in America features fifty handcrafted recipes sorted by the cooking methods commonly used in American kitchens from breakfast to the bakeshop. Many begin with a childhood memory from Colby or Megan that describes the roots and the journey of the recipe. Suggested menus for festive occasions like Mother’s Day, Fourth of July, Back to School night, and Christmas are also included. Sidebars throughout showcase handcrafted cocktails such as the Bloody Mary, The State Fair, and the Pimm’s Cup that pair well with the recipes within. Love and pride are woven together to create a collection that defines the comforts of home. This heirloom collection with a modern point of view includes: Biscuits and Gravy * Corn Fritters with Fresh Sheep’s Milk Cheese * Quick Pickles * Panfried BBQ Pork Chops with Tomato Horseradish Sauce * Grilled Garlic-Thyme Kansas City Strips * Garrelts Fried Chicken * Lemon Meringue Pie * Chocolate Butterscotch Cookies * and more

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449470092

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9781449470098

The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State

By: Marouf Hasian,Sean Lawson,Megan D. McFarlane

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The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State

By: Marouf Hasian,Sean Lawson,Megan D. McFarlane

The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America’s national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of the American national security state in the post-9/11 era through their examination of the global war on terrorism, enhanced interrogation techniques, drone crew stress, activities of Edward Snowden, rise of Special Forces, and popular representations of counterterrorism. The coauthors contend this expansion was not the result of lone, imperial executives or a nefarious state within a state, but was co-produced by elite and non-elite Americans alike who not only condoned, but also in many cases demanded, the expansion of the national security state. This work will be of interest to scholars in communication studies and political science.

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Lexington Books

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1498505090

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9781498505093

Governing for Revolution

Social Transformation in Civil War

By: Megan Stewart

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Governing for Revolution

Social Transformation in Civil War

By: Megan Stewart

For some rebel groups, governance is not always part of a military strategy but a necessary element of realizing revolution through civil war.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108843646

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9781108843645

Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

By: Megan E. O'Neil

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Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

By: Megan E. O'Neil

Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries, when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family members, advisers, and captives. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, Megan E. O’Neil offers new ways to understand these stelae, altars, and panels by exploring how ancient Maya people interacted with them. These monuments, considered sacred, were one of the community’s important forms of cultural and religious expression. Stelae may have held the essence of rulers they commemorated, and the objects remained loci for reverence of those rulers after they died. Using a variety of evidence,O’Neil examines how the forms, compositions, and contexts of the sculptures invited people to engage with them and the figures they embodied looks at these monuments not as inert bearers of images but as palpable presences that existed in real space at specific historical moments. Her analysis brings to the fore the material and affective force of these powerful objects that were seen, touched, and manipulated in the past. O’Neil investigates the monuments not only at the moment of their creation but also in later years and shows how they changed over time. She argues that the relationships among sculptures of different generations were performed in processions, through which ancient Maya people integrated historical dialogues and ancestral commemoration into the landscape. With the help of more than 160 illustrations, O’Neil reveals these sculptures’ continuing life histories, which in the past century have included their fragmentation and transformation into commodities sold on the international art market. Shedding light on modern-day transposition and display of these ancient monuments, O’Neil’s study contributes to ongoing discussions of cultural patrimony.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806188367

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X Marks the Spot

Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790–1895

By: Megan A. Norcia

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X Marks the Spot

Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790–1895

By: Megan A. Norcia

During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorical tropes such as the Family of Man or discussions of food and customs in order to plot other cultures along an imperial hierarchy. Cross-disciplinary in nature, X Marks the Spot is an analysis of previously unknown material that examines the interplay between gender, imperial duty, and pedagogy. Megan A. Norcia offers an alternative map for traversing the landscape of nineteenth-century female history by reintroducing the primers into the dominant historical record. This is the first full-length study of the genre as a distinct tradition of writing produced on the fringes of professional geographic discourse before the high imperial period.

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Ohio University Press

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0821443534

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Photography and Sculpture

The Art Object in Reproduction

By: Sarah Hamill,Megan R. Luke

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Photography and Sculpture

The Art Object in Reproduction

By: Sarah Hamill,Megan R. Luke

Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to what, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the single perfect moment to stop and look. What is the photograph’s place in writing the history of sculpture? How has it changed according to culture, generation, criti-cal conviction, and changes in media? Photography and Sculpture: The Art Object in Reproduction studies aspects of these questions from the perspectives of sixteen leading art historians. Their essays consider iconic photographs, archival collections, new and forgotten technologies, and conceptual challenges in photographing three-dimensional forms that have directed changing historical and stylistic attitudes about how we see, write about, and narrate histories of sculpture. Chapters on such varied topics as picturing Conceptual art, manipulating sacred images in India to be non-photographs, and framing Roman art with an iPad illustrate the latent visual and narrative powers and ever-expanding potential of these images of sculpture.

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Getty Publications

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1606065343

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Philosophy and Practice in Writing a History of Ancient Israel

By: Megan Bishop Moore

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Philosophy and Practice in Writing a History of Ancient Israel

By: Megan Bishop Moore

An examination of current methodologies for writing Israel's history.

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A&C Black

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0567109895

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Problem-based Learning into the Future

Imagining an Agile PBL Ecology for Learning

By: Megan Yih Chyn A. Kek,Henk Huijser

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Problem-based Learning into the Future

Imagining an Agile PBL Ecology for Learning

By: Megan Yih Chyn A. Kek,Henk Huijser

In this book we respond to a higher education environment that is on the verge of profound changes by imagining an evolving and agile problem-based learning ecology for learning. The goal of doing so is to humanise university education by pursuing innovative approaches to student learning, teaching, curricula, assessment, and professional learning, and to employ interdisciplinary methods that go far beyond institutional walls and include student development and support, curriculum sustainability, research and the scholarship of teaching and learning, as well as administration and leadership. An agile problem-based learning (PBL) ecology for learning deliberately blurs the boundaries between disciplines, between students and teachers, between students and employers, between employers and teachers, between academics and professional staff, between formal and informal learning, and between teaching and research. It is based on the recognition that all of these elements are interconnected and constantly evolving, rather than being discrete and static. Throughout this book, our central argument is that there is no single person who is responsible for educating students. Rather, it is everyone’s responsibility – teachers, students, employers, administrators, and wider social networks, inside and outside of the university. Agile PBL is about making connections, rather than erecting barriers. In summary, this book is not about maintaining comfort zones, but rather about becoming comfortable with discomfort. The actual implementation is beyond the scope of this book and we envisage that changing perceptions towards this vision will itself be a mammoth task. However, we believe that the alternative of leaving things as they are would ultimately prove untenable, and more distressingly, would leave a generation of students afraid to think, feel, and act for themselves, let alone being able to face the challenges of the 21st century.

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Springer

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9811024545

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9789811024542

Dark Archives

A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

By: Megan Rosenbloom

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Dark Archives

A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

By: Megan Rosenbloom

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.

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0374717427

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9780374717421

Student Journalism & Media Literacy

By: Homer L. Hall,Megan Fromm, Ph.D.,Aaron Manfull

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Student Journalism & Media Literacy

By: Homer L. Hall,Megan Fromm, Ph.D.,Aaron Manfull

This comprehensive resource covers everything student journalists need to know in a rapidly changing media landscape. Approachable and non-intimidating, this book features important concepts and examples from current school publications from around the country. Foremost, it teaches skills such as the fundamentals of good writing and the basics of newspaper layout and design. Also addressed, however, are topics that journalists are only now facing such as the responsibilities of citizen journalists, managing a news website, and digital security for reporters in the electronic age. This textbook is on the cutting edge in teaching students how to navigate this evolving field. EBOOK PRICE LISTED IS FOR SINGLE USE ONLY. CONTACT US FOR A PRICE QUOTE FOR MULTI-USE ACCESS.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1477781331

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Collecting the Imagination

The First Fifty Years of the Ransom Center

By: Megan Barnard

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Collecting the Imagination

The First Fifty Years of the Ransom Center

By: Megan Barnard

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the world's preeminent institutions for the study of literature, photography, and the humanities. The Ransom Center is renowned for its remarkable collections of literary manuscripts, rare books, photographs, art, and film and performing arts materials. Founded in 1957 with a core collection of rare books, the Ransom Center has expanded its holdings at a phenomenal rate, so that it now houses 36 million leaves of manuscripts, 1 million rare books, 5 million photographs, and one hundred thousand works of art. Among its most famous holdings are a Gutenberg Bible; the Helmut Gernsheim Collection, a major photohistorical archive that contains the world's first photograph (ca. 1826); the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library of Early English Literature; the Watergate papers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; the archive and costume collection of Robert De Niro; and the personal literary archives of hundreds of major twentieth-century writers, from Samuel Beckett and James Joyce to Tom Stoppard and Norman Mailer. This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Harry Ransom Center. Staff members describe the Center's founding, the remarkable growth of its collections as part of a thoughtful and deliberate acquisition plan, and its extensive outreach to scholars, students, and the general public. They pay tribute to the leadership of Harry Ransom, who conceived the idea of a research center in the humanities that would be for the state of Texas what the Bibliothèque Nationale is for France. The authors also tell fascinating stories of how individual collections and archives were acquired, as well as some of the controversies and myths that have arisen as a result of the Ransom Center's liberal spending and rapid growth. Photographs of treasures from the Ransom Center and key figures in its history round out this lovely and authoritative volume.

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University of Texas Press

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0292714890

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The Right to Privacy

Origins and Influence of a Nineteenth-Century Idea

By: Megan Richardson

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The Right to Privacy

Origins and Influence of a Nineteenth-Century Idea

By: Megan Richardson

With the inclusion of original and archival material, this book is a unique contribution to the history of the modern right to privacy. This book will appeal to an audience of academic and postgraduate researchers, as well as to the judiciary and legal practice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108419690

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The Holy Land and the Early Modern Reinvention of Catholicism

By: Megan C. Armstrong

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The Holy Land and the Early Modern Reinvention of Catholicism

By: Megan C. Armstrong

A shared biblical past has long imbued the Holy Land with special authority as well as a mythic character that has made the region not only the spiritual home for Muslims, Christians, and Jews, but also a source of a living sacred history that informs contemporary realities and religious identities. This book explores the Holy Land as a critical site in which early modern Catholics sought spiritual and political legitimacy during a period of profound and disruptive change. The Ottoman conquest of the region, the division of the Western Church, Catholic reform, the integration of the Mediterranean into global trading networks, and the emergence of new imperial rivalries transformed the Custody of the Holy Land, the venerable Catholic institution that had overseen Western pilgrimage since 1342, into a site of intense intra-Christian conflict by 1517. This contestation underscored the Holy Land's importance as a frontier and center of an embattled Catholic tradition.

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1108962793

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