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Girl Sleuth

Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

By: Melanie Rehak

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Girl Sleuth

Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

By: Melanie Rehak

The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy Drew was brought to life by two women. In a century- spanning story Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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015603056X

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9780156030564

Girl Sleuth

Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

By: Melanie Rehak

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Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

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Eating for Beginners

An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid

By: Melanie Rehak

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Eating for Beginners

An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid

By: Melanie Rehak

A memoir of a year spent working at a Brooklyn restaurant—and on a series of farms—to get the lowdown on organic, local, ethical cooking. Includes recipes! Food was always important to Melanie Rehak. She studied the experts on healthy nutrition, from Michael Pollan to Eric Schlosser to Wendell Berry, cooking, preparing, and sourcing what she thought were the best ingredients. So when her son turned out to be an impossible eater, dedicated to a diet of yogurt and peanut butter, she realized she needed to know more than just the basics of thoughtful eating—she needed to become a pro. Thus began a year-long quest to understand food: what we eat, how it’s produced, how it’s prepared, and what really matters when it comes to socially aware, environmentally friendly, and healthy eating. By working at Applewood, a locally sourced Brooklyn restaurant, and volunteering her time to farming, milking, cheese making, and fishing, she learned the ins-and-outs of how to shop, cook, and eat right—all while discovering some delicious recipes along the way. Wry, wise, and warm, Eating for Beginners is a delicious and informative journey into two of life’s greatest and most complicated pleasures: food and motherhood.

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293

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HMH

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0547487215

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9780547487212

Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

By: Kelly Hignett,Melanie Ilic,Dalia Leinarte,Corina Snitar

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Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

By: Kelly Hignett,Melanie Ilic,Dalia Leinarte,Corina Snitar

Based on extensive original research, including studies of autobiographies and biographies, reminiscences and memoirs, archived oral history data and interviews conducted by the authors, this book provides a rich picture of how women experienced repression in the former Soviet bloc. Although focusing on key years when repression was at its height – 1937 for the Soviet Union, 1941 for Lithuania and Poland, 1948 for Czechoslovakia and 1956 for Romania – the book ranges more widely. It demonstrates that although far fewer women than men were the direct victims of repression, women experienced severe repression in many ways, including exile, deportation and as family members of those arrested, imprisoned and executed.

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369

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Routledge

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1351668072

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Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

By: Melanie Swalwell

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Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

By: Melanie Swalwell

The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end microcomputers offered many users their first taste of computing. A major use of these inexpensive 8-bit machines--including the TRS System 80s and the Sinclair, Atari, Microbee, and Commodore ranges--was the development of homebrew games. Users with often self-taught programming skills devised the graphics, sound, and coding for their self-created games. In this book, Melanie Swalwell offers a history of this era of homebrew game development, arguing that it constitutes a significant instance of the early appropriation of digital computing technology. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research on homebrew creators in 1980s Australia and New Zealand, Swalwell explores the creation of games on microcomputers as a particular mode of everyday engagement with new technology. She discusses the public discourses surrounding microcomputers and programming by home coders; user practices; the development of game creators' ideas, with the game Donut Dilemma as a case study; the widely practiced art of hardware hacking; and the influence of 8-bit aesthetics and gameplay on the contemporary game industry. With Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality, Swalwell reclaims a lost chapter in video game history, connecting it to the rich cultural and media theory around everyday life and to critical perspectives on user-generated content.

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273

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MIT Press

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026236560X

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9780262365604

Eating for Beginners

An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid

By: Melanie Rehak

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An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid

By: Melanie Rehak

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Book's by Melanie Rehak

Girl Sleuth

Girl Sleuth

Girl Sleuth

Girl Sleuth

Eating for Beginners

Eating for Beginners

Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

Eating for Beginners

Eating for Beginners

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