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Train Your Brain to Get Thin

Prime Your Gray Cells for Weight Loss, Wellness, and Exercise

By: Melinda Boyd,Michele Noonan

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Train Your Brain to Get Thin

Prime Your Gray Cells for Weight Loss, Wellness, and Exercise

By: Melinda Boyd,Michele Noonan

Get your brain fit--and your body will follow! Conventional wisdom has always been that in order to lose weight, you need to eat less and move more. But skyrocketing obesity rates tell us that it's not that simple. If you really want to get in shape and stay that way, you need to start at the top--with your brain. The latest research in neuroscience shows that the brains of overweight people are different than the brains of lean people--and not in a good way. Yet, you can train your brain to think like those skinnier counterparts--and leverage that brainpower to drop those extra pounds for good. In Train Your Brain to Get Thin, you'll learn how to: Control hunger levels to reach and maintain optimum weight Defeat emotional eating at its core Feed the brain the nutrients it needs for optimal performance Trick the brain into working for, not against, weight loss Get "addicted" to exercise, not food And much, much more! Train Your Brain to Get Thin combines the latest research in both neuroscience and human behavior to give you the brain-changing program you need to get fit, look good, and feel great--for life!

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Simon and Schuster

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1440543623

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Defiant Birth

Women who Resist Medical Eugenics

By: Melinda Tankard Reist

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Defiant Birth

Women who Resist Medical Eugenics

By: Melinda Tankard Reist

Explores what is means to have "less-than-perfect pregnancies" and "genetically different babies." This book tells the personal stories of women who have resisted medical eugenics - women who were told they shouldn't have babies because of perceived disability in themselves, or shouldn't have babies because of some imperfection in the child

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Spinifex Press

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1876756594

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9781876756598

Kinesiology for Occupational Therapy

By: Melinda Rybski

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Kinesiology for Occupational Therapy

By: Melinda Rybski

Kinesiology for Occupational Therapy, Third Edition covers the theoretical background for understanding the kinematics and kinetics of normal human physiological movement. Each specific joint is assessed in terms of musculoskeletal function, movements possible, and an overview of pathology that may develop. Dr. Melinda Rybski covers four occupational therapy theories related to functional motion that are important for occupational therapists to know. This Third Edition has been updated to reflect the current field and includes new information that has emerged in recent years. New in the Third Edition: Content closely follows AOTA’s Occupational Therapy Practice Framework and Occupational Therapy Vision 2025 Updated and more extensive provision of evidence that summarizes key findings in current literature New theories are presented in the Intervention sections Extensive, joint specific and theory-based assessments are provided Interventions described are occupation-based, process-based Kinesiology concepts presented in a practical, useable way Expanded chapters for Spine and Thorax and Hip and Pelvis. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. Kinesiology for Occupational Therapy, Third Edition clearly outlines the need for an understanding of kinesiology in occupational therapy, providing occupational therapists with the evidence necessary to support their intervention strategies.

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Taylor & Francis

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104013890X

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Women in Music

A Research and Information Guide

By: Karin Pendle,Melinda Boyd

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Women in Music

A Research and Information Guide

By: Karin Pendle,Melinda Boyd

Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.

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Routledge

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1135848130

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Worth the Risk

By: Melinda Di Lorenzo

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Worth the Risk

By: Melinda Di Lorenzo

From the Police Blotter…betrayal, corruption and passion! Missing: Tamara Billings, famous marriage counselor. Whereabouts unknown. Suspected kidnapped! Investigator: PI Sam Potter. Dedicated to his job. His number one rule? Not to get involved with clients. Emotionally detached after past failure on the job. Consummate protector, lifesaver, incredible kisser. His Only Lead: Meredith Jamison, the victim's beautiful, brainy, gutsy sister. Investigation So Far: Racing against time, Sam and Meredith have been chased, shot at, ambushed, spied on. Both must risk their lives—and their hearts—to save Tamara. Bulletin! Case complicated by Sam and Meredith's unexpected attraction!

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Harlequin

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1488005192

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9781488005190

Making "Nature"

The History of a Scientific Journal

By: Melinda Baldwin

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Making "Nature"

The History of a Scientific Journal

By: Melinda Baldwin

Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contributors include Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, and Stephen Hawking, and it has published many of the most important discoveries in the history of science, including articles on the structure of DNA, the discovery of the neutron, the first cloning of a mammal, and the human genome. But how did Nature become such an essential institution? In Making "Nature," Melinda Baldwin charts the rich history of this extraordinary publication from its foundation in 1869 to current debates about online publishing and open access. This pioneering study not only tells Nature's story but also sheds light on much larger questions about the history of science publishing, changes in scientific communication, and shifting notions of "scientific community." Nature, as Baldwin demonstrates, helped define what science is and what it means to be a scientist.

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University of Chicago Press

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022626159X

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9780226261591

Camping Colorado

A Comprehensive Guide to Hundreds of Campgrounds

By: Melinda Crow

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Camping Colorado

A Comprehensive Guide to Hundreds of Campgrounds

By: Melinda Crow

Camping Colorado will take you to the ideal spot to pitch your tent or park your RV. This comprehensive guidebook gives detailed descriptions of more than 300 campgrounds statewide, including campsites managed by national, state, city, and county parks; the Forest Service; the Bureau of Land Management; and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Easy-to-use maps and charts will simplify your search for the perfect campground. You’ll also find vital information on camp locations, fees and reservations, facilities and hookups, recreational activities, weather and geography, and local attractions. Camping Colorado provides useful tips on camping etiquette, camping with children, and enjoying—or avoiding—the state’s diverse and abundant wildlife. Look inside to find: Campground locations Facilities and hookups Fees and reservations GPS coordinates for each campground Tips on wildlife, safety, and zero-impact camping

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762785802

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9780762785803

Racial Mixture and Musical Mash-ups in the Life and Art of Bruno Mars

By: Melinda A. Mills

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Racial Mixture and Musical Mash-ups in the Life and Art of Bruno Mars

By: Melinda A. Mills

This book argues that Bruno Mars is uniquely positioned to borrow from his heritage and experiential knowledge as well as his musical talent, performative expertise, and hybrid identities (culturally, ethnically, and racially) to remix music that can create "new music nostalgia." Melinda Mills attends to the ways that Mars is precariously positioned in relation to all of the racial and ethnic groups that constitute his known background and argues that this complexity serves him well in the contemporary moment. Engaging in the performative politics of blackness allows Mars to advocate for social justice by employing his artistic agency. Through his entertainment and the everyday practice of joy, Mars models a way of moving through the world that counters its harsh realities. Through his music and perfomance, Mars provides a way for a reconceptualization of race and a reimagining of the future.

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1793619832

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9781793619839

How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes

Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting--from Tots to Teens

By: Melinda Wenner Moyer

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How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes

Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting--from Tots to Teens

By: Melinda Wenner Moyer

How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes is a clear, actionable, sometimes humorous (but always science-based) guide for parents on how to shape their kids into honest, kind, generous, confident, independent, and resilient people...who just might save the world one day. As an award-winning science journalist, Melinda Wenner Moyer was regularly asked to investigate and address all kinds of parenting questions: how to potty train, when and whether to get vaccines, and how to help kids sleep through the night. But as Melinda's children grew, she found that one huge area was ignored in the realm of parenting advice: how do we make sure our kids don't grow up to be assholes? On social media, in the news, and from the highest levels of government, kids are increasingly getting the message that being selfish, obnoxious and cruel is okay. Hate crimes among children and teens are rising, while compassion among teens has been dropping. We know, of course, that young people have the capacity for great empathy, resilience, and action, and we all want to bring up kids who will help build a better tomorrow. But how do we actually do this? How do we raise children who are kind, considerate, and ethical inside and outside the home, who will grow into adults committed to making the world a better place? How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes is a deeply researched, evidence-based primer that provides a fresh, often surprising perspective on parenting issues, from toddlerhood through the teenage years. First, Melinda outlines the traits we want our children to possess—including honesty, generosity, and antiracism—and then she provides scientifically-based strategies that will help parents instill those characteristics in their kids. Learn how to raise the kind of kids you actually want to hang out with—and who just might save the world.

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Penguin

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0593086953

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Live what You Love

Notes from an Unusual Life

By: Robert Blanchard,Melinda Blanchard

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Live what You Love

Notes from an Unusual Life

By: Robert Blanchard,Melinda Blanchard

The authors of "A Trip to the Beach" return with stories, reflections, notes, insights, and a bit of advice on making every day a personal treasure. Full-color photos.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402728425

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Life-Span Maintenance of Knowledge

By: Harry P. Bahrick,Lynda K. Hall,Melinda K. Baker

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Life-Span Maintenance of Knowledge

By: Harry P. Bahrick,Lynda K. Hall,Melinda K. Baker

This volume describes how well we maintain the knowledge we acquire throughout life. Research traditionally focuses on memory for events that are retained over short time periods that can be accommodated in experiments. This book, by contrast, uniquely describes the evolution of methods suitable for investigating memory of complex knowledge acquired over several years and retained during the entire life-span. The methods substitute statistical for experimental controls, and the investigations involve several hundred participants whose memory is tested up to 50 years after they acquired the knowledge in question. The book covers educational content, such as mathematics and foreign languages; knowledge acquired incidentally, such as the streets and buildings of the cities in which we live; and knowledge acquired through the media. Previously unpublished research on age-related access to knowledge is included. The analyses are based on the accessibility/availability ratio, a metric presented for the first time. This metric allows comparisons of the portion of available knowledge that can be recalled as a function of age, education and other individual differences, and as a function of the domain of knowledge in question. The ratio can be used to evaluate methods of instruction and methods of studying. It can also be used to evaluate memory development and to diagnose memory pathology. The volume will be of interest to researchers in human memory, developmental psychologists, gerontologists in academic and applied settings, and educators.

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Psychology Press

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1136496149

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9781136496141

Equalities and Education in Europe

Explanations and Excuses for Inequality

By: Melinda Dooly,Nanny Hartsmar,Alistair Ross

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Equalities and Education in Europe

Explanations and Excuses for Inequality

By: Melinda Dooly,Nanny Hartsmar,Alistair Ross

This book is about inequities in education in Europe. The authors have worked together on an analysis of educational inequalities in Europe, which they draw on through the book: they suggest that the countries of Europe, through the European Union, are beginning to address issues of educational disadvantage on a systematic, continent-wide basis. Because of this policy concern, this book is timely in the way that it addresses social and education inequities on the scale of Europe. This is not simply an account of practices and policies. The authors’ analysis of individual country and European Union policy documents will be of practical and theoretical use to the policy community and the community of practitioners who are concerned with inequities in society, and in education in particular. The authors want to do more than simply add to the literature and theory: they aspire to make an impact on how education can contribute to positively improving the lives of disadvantaged groups. While some suggest that education is doomed to simply reproduce existing social patterns and replicate social inequities, the authors believe that educational policies have the potential to challenge inequalities, and to transform lives.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443837040

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9781443837040

Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy

An Implementation Guide for School Leaders

By: Judith L. Irvin,Julie Meltzer,Melinda S. Dukes

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Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy

An Implementation Guide for School Leaders

By: Judith L. Irvin,Julie Meltzer,Melinda S. Dukes

Learn the 5 steps that school leaders can take to improve student literacy in all content areas, with targeted interventions for students who are struggling the most.

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ASCD

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1416606440

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9781416606444

Life as Surplus

Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era

By: Melinda E. Cooper

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Life as Surplus

Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era

By: Melinda E. Cooper

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism as a political force and an economic policy. From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, and cellular level. Taking as her point of departure the assumption that life has been drawn into the circuits of value creation, Cooper underscores the relations between scientific, economic, political, and social practices. In penetrating analyses of Reagan-era science policy, the militarization of the life sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem cell science, and the pro-life movement, the author examines the speculative impulses that have animated the growth of the bioeconomy. At the very core of the new post-industrial economy is the transformation of biological life into surplus value. Life as Surplus offers a clear assessment of both the transformative, therapeutic dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and the violence, obligation, and debt servitude crystallizing around the emerging bioeconomy.

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University of Washington Press

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0295990317

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9780295990316

God's Schools

Choice and Compromise in American Society

By: Melinda Bollar Wagner

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God's Schools

Choice and Compromise in American Society

By: Melinda Bollar Wagner

Melinda Wagner goes beyond this stereotype to portray the way these schools foster American popular culture and "professional education culture" as well as "Christian culture." In her participant observation study of a variety of Christian schools (sponsored by fundamentalist, evangelical, new charismatic, Holiness, and Pentecostal Christians), Wagner describes and interprets how such compromises are made.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813516072

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Harlequin Heartwarming June 2022 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Julianna Morris,Melinda Curtis,Janice Sims,LeAnne Bristow

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Harlequin Heartwarming June 2022 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Julianna Morris,Melinda Curtis,Janice Sims,LeAnne Bristow

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: THE COWBOY SEAL’S CHALLENGE Big Sky Navy Heroes by Julianna Morris Navy SEAL Jordan Maxwell returns to Montana ready to take over the family ranch. Proving himself to his grandfather is one thing—proving himself to single mom and ranch manager Paige Bannerman is another story. HEALING THE RANCHER The Mountain Monroes by USA TODAY bestselling author Melinda Curtis City girl Kendall Monroe needs to cowboy it up to win a much-needed work contract. Rancher and single dad Finn McAfee is willing to teach her lessons of the land. But will lessons of the heart prevail? A FAMILY FOR KEEPS by Janice Sims Sebastian Contreras and Marley Syminette were inseparable growing up in their small fishing town. The tides of friendship changed to love, but neither could admit their true feelings—until a surprising offer changes everything… HIS HOMETOWN REDEMPTION by LeAnne Bristow Caden Murphy can’t start over without making amends for the biggest mistake of his life. But Stacy Tedford doesn’t need an apology—she needs help at her family’s cabin rentals! Can this temporary handyman find a permanent home? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

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036971489X

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9780369714893

Harlequin Heartwarming February 2021 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Carol Ross,Melinda Curtis,Kim Findlay,Kit Hawthorne

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A Clean Romance

By: Carol Ross,Melinda Curtis,Kim Findlay,Kit Hawthorne

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: CATCHING MR. RIGHT (A Seasons of Alaska Novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Carol Ross Pro angler Victoria Thibodeaux is this close to landing the industry’s top spokesperson contract. Then she meets Seth James, the smooth-talking finalist who is looking to both outfish and outcharm her! THE LITTLEST COWGIRLS (A Mountain Monroes Novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Melinda Curtis Former child actress Ashley Monroe needs Wyatt Halford as the star in her Western movie, not as her wedding date! That is until a mix-up ties them together in a way they never could have expected. A VALENTINE’S PROPOSAL (A Cupid’s Crossing Novel) by Kim Findlay The future of Carter’s Crossing hinges on a Valentine’s Day proposal between Nelson and Mariah. Will the reformed groomzilla and wedding planner make this a night to remember, or jeopardize the whole town? COMING HOME TO TEXAS (A Truly Texas Novel) by Kit Hawthorne A reckless mistake drove Dalia Ramirez away from the Texas ranch she loves and the boy who broke her heart. Is a disaster enough for her to return to her hometown and face Tony Reyes? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

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148807447X

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense November 2018 Box Set

By: Karen Whiddon,Beth Cornelison,Marilyn Pappano,Melinda Di Lorenzo

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense November 2018 Box Set

By: Karen Whiddon,Beth Cornelison,Marilyn Pappano,Melinda Di Lorenzo

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON’S CHRISTMAS COP The Coltons of Red Ridge by Karen Whiddon Colton Energy executive Layla Colton’s life falls apart when false accusations are leveled against her. K-9 cop Hunter Black takes the case. With a dangerous killer lingering in the background and Layla’s reputation at stake, can Hunter save the woman he’s come to adore? RANCHER’S HIGH-STAKES RESCUE The McCall Adventure Ranch by Beth Cornelison After an accident during a trial run for the McCalls’ new adventure ranch strands him with Kate Carrington, Josh McCall must protect Kate and get them home alive—but his greatest risk may be falling in love. KILLER SMILE by Marilyn Pappano A stalker is attacking Natasha Spencer’s ex-fiancés, and in her quest to warn them to stay safe, she ends up back in the arms of the only one she regrets leaving: Detective Daniel Harper. UNDERCOVER PASSION Undercover Justice by Melinda Di Lorenzo When Liz James is threatened and her daughter kidnapped, she turns to Harley Maxwell for support. Luckily, he’s an undercover cop who, for sixteen years, has been tracking the man who kidnapped her daughter. Will Harley’s quest for revenge overshadow his chance at love with Liz?

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1488098042

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The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels

The Darkness Beyond the Stage-lit Dream

By: Melinda Jewell

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The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels

The Darkness Beyond the Stage-lit Dream

By: Melinda Jewell

This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is variously portrayed, how the word 'dance' is used metaphorically to convey actual or imagined movement, and how dance is written in a novelistic form. The author employs a wide range of theoretical approaches including postcolonial studies, theories concerned with class, gender, metaphor and dance and, in particular, Jung's concept of the shadow and theories concerned with vision. Through these variegated approaches, the study critiques the common view that dance is an expression of joie de vivre, liberation, transcendence, order and beauty. This text also probes issues concerned with the enactment of dance in Australia and abroad, and contributes to an understanding of how dance is 'translated' into literature. It makes an important contribution because the study of dance in Australian literature has been minimal, and this despite the reality that dance is prolific in Australian novels.

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Peter Lang

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303430417X

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Riding Through Thick and Thin

Make Peace with Your Body and Banish Self-Doubt--In and Out of the Saddle

By: Melinda Folse

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Riding Through Thick and Thin

Make Peace with Your Body and Banish Self-Doubt--In and Out of the Saddle

By: Melinda Folse

Many if not most women have been locked in a battle with their bodies for as long as they can remember. And when it comes to riding horses, they drag their arsenal of self-doubt with them every time they step into the saddle. Some quit riding completely. Others ride, but are frustrated by their lack of progress as riders or what they see as poor performance. They succumb to silent self-torment as they wonder how they look, what others think, and whether they have any business on the back of a horse if their jeans feel a little too tight. Regardless of seat size, riding discipline, or the degree — or even truth — of the body issues with which they struggle, the scars on female self-image in our society run deep and wide. So with the humor and big-sisterly swagger that readers and reviewers have come to love, Melinda Folse, author of bestseller The Smart Woman’s Guide to Midlife Horses, has decided to step in with a delightful, insightful, fulfilling new book. Riding Through Thick and Thin delves to the bottom of the issues that have long held women hostage, bringing together experts, research, resources, and stories to encourage, inspire, and empower. Readers will find some answers that may surprise them: Believe it or not, this is not about losing weight or getting fit (although if that’s a point of interest, there’s a section packed with helpful tools and ideas). This book is more about what’s going on in every woman’s mind — and it taps new findings in neuroscience to reveal that permanent change to deeply ingrained body image issues is not only possible, but it may be much easier than we think.

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Trafalgar Square Books

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1570766584

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9781570766589

Social Policy for Effective Practice

A Strengths Approach

By: Rosemary Kennedy Chapin,Melinda Lewis

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Social Policy for Effective Practice

A Strengths Approach

By: Rosemary Kennedy Chapin,Melinda Lewis

Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of resources and knowledge foundations to both understand and thrive within a continually evolving policy landscape. Throughout the text, the authors tell the stories of social workers who impact policy, incorporate frameworks for policy analysis, center social work values and strengths principles, and integrate the series' interactive and downloadable cases to demonstrate policy's relevance and application to practice settings and situations in concrete ways. Students may use the text as an introduction to social policy, a tool for deeper examination of policy topics, and as a lifelong companion for their policy-relevant practice. Now in its sixth edition, the textbook is fully updated to reflect substantial changes in policy arenas such as health care, family economic support, immigration and asylum, criminal justice, housing, reproductive rights, substance use disorder, mental health treatment, and childcare, as well as the implications of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. With additional support and extensions available at www.routledgesw.com, Social Policy for Effective Practice makes policy relevant, accessible, and meaningful for social work students and is a perfect complement to undergraduate and graduate courses on social policy and practice.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000840972

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9781000840971

Harlequin Romantic Suspense October 2021 Box Set

By: Linda Warren,Jennifer D. Bokal,Geri Krotow,Melinda Di Lorenzo

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense October 2021 Box Set

By: Linda Warren,Jennifer D. Bokal,Geri Krotow,Melinda Di Lorenzo

Harlequin Romantic Suspense October 2021 Box Set by Linda Warren\Jennifer D. Bokal\Geri Krotow\Melinda Di Lorenzo released on Sep 28, 2021 is available now for purchase.

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0369713699

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9780369713698

Geostatistics Explained

An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists

By: Steve McKillup,Melinda Darby Dyar

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Geostatistics Explained

An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists

By: Steve McKillup,Melinda Darby Dyar

A reader-friendly introduction to geostatistics for students and researchers struggling with statistics. Using simple, clear explanations for introductory and advanced material, it demystifies complex concepts and makes formulas and statistical tests easy to apply. Beginning with a critical evaluation of experimental and sampling design, the book moves on to explain essential concepts of probability, statistical significance and type 1 and type 2 error. An accessible graphical explanation of analysis of variance (ANOVA) leads onto advanced ANOVA designs, correlation and regression, and non-parametric tests including chi-square. Finally, it introduces the essentials of multivariate techniques, multi-dimensional scaling and cluster analysis, analysis of sequences and concepts of spatial analysis. Illustrated with wide-ranging examples from topics across the Earth and environmental sciences, Geostatistics Explained can be used for undergraduate courses or for self-study and reference. Worked examples at the end of each chapter reinforce a clear understanding of the statistical tests and their applications.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139486691

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9781139486699

Marching Together

Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

By: Melinda Chateauvert

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Marching Together

Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

By: Melinda Chateauvert

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union. Yet the union's Ladies' Auxiliary played an essential role in shaping public debates over black manhood and unionization, setting political agendas for the black community, and crafting effective strategies to win racial and economic justice. Melinda Chateauvert explores the history of the Ladies' Auxiliary and the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters who made up its membership and used the union to claim respectability and citizenship. As she shows, the Auxiliary actively educated other women and children about the labor movement, staged consumer protests, and organized local and national civil rights campaigns ranging from the 1941 March on Washington to school integration to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Chateauvert also sheds light on the plight of Pullman maids, who—relegated to the Auxiliary—found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity.

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0252056841

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The Ultimate Biography Of The Bee Gees: Tales Of The Brothers Gibb

By: Melinda Bilyeu,Hector Cook,Andrew Môn Hughes

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The Ultimate Biography Of The Bee Gees: Tales Of The Brothers Gibb

By: Melinda Bilyeu,Hector Cook,Andrew Môn Hughes

The definitive biography, now updated to include the death of Robin Gibb in May 2012. The Bee Gee's journey from Fifties child act to musical institution is one of pop's most turbulent legends. Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb somehow managed to survive changing musical fashions and bitter personal feuds to create musical partnership that has already lasted four times as long as The Beatles. Described by the authors as their objective tribute, this unflinching biography chronicles everything - the good, the bad... and the bushed-up. Youthful delinquency, disastrous marriages, bitter lawsuits, gay sex scandals, serious drug problems and the death of younger brother Andy have sometimes made the personal lives of the Brothers Gibb look as bleak as the low spots of a career that once reduced them to playing the Batley Variety Club. Yet every time the Bee Gees roller coaster seemed derailed for good, they recorded and went on to even greater triumphs. Today they are revered among pop music's all-time great performers, producers and songwriters. But the true story of their success and the high price they paid for it has never been fully revealed... until now. This new edition of The Ultimate Biography incorporates a complete listing of every song written or recorded by the Gibbs.

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0857128949

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Harlequin Heartwarming December 2022 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Melinda Curtis,Amy Vastine,Virginia McCullough,Mary Anne Wilson

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Harlequin Heartwarming December 2022 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Melinda Curtis,Amy Vastine,Virginia McCullough,Mary Anne Wilson

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: WYOMING CHRISTMAS REUNION The Blackwells of Eagle Springs by USA TODAY bestselling author Melinda Curtis Horse trainer Nash Blackwell’s life-altering accident was…well, just that. He wants to rebuild. The first step is winning back his ex-wife, Helen Blackwell. Can trust once broken be regained? THE CHRISTMAS WEDDING CRASHERS Stop the Wedding! by USA TODAY bestselling author Amy Vastine Jonah Drake’s grandmother will marry Holly Hayward’s great-uncle—unless Holly and Jonah can stop them! The family feud is too unyielding for peace now, even at Christmas. Working together is their only option…but love brings new possibilities. THE DOC’S HOLIDAY HOMECOMING Back to Adelaide Creek by Virginia McCullough Jeff Stanhope’s focus is family. He’s the new guardian to a teenager—and trying to mend things with his estranged sister. The last thing he needs is to start falling for her best friend, single mom Olivia Donoghue. A COWBOY’S CHRISTMAS JOY Flaming Sky Ranch by Mary Anne Wilson Caleb Donovan needs Harmony Gabriel. The event planner can throw his parents a wedding anniversary like no other, though she shows up for the job with her baby girl. Caleb has all the family he needs…but soon he wants more. Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

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0369723538

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Patterns of Power, Grades 6–8

Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language

By: Jeff Anderson,Travis Leech,Melinda Clark

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Patterns of Power, Grades 6–8

Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language

By: Jeff Anderson,Travis Leech,Melinda Clark

Authors Jeff Anderson, Travis Leech, and Melinda Clark lead a vibrant approach to grammar instruction in Patterns of Power, Grades 6-8: Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language. Here, young, emergent writers are invited to notice the conventions of the English language and build off them in this inquiry-based approach to instructional grammar. The book comes with standards-aligned lessons that can be incorporated in just 10 minutes a day. Patterns of Power’s responsive, invitational approach puts students in an involved role and has them explore and discuss the purpose and meaning of what they read. Students study short, authentic texts and are asked to share their findings out loud, engaging in rich conversations to make meaning. Inside you’ll find: Ready-to-use lesson plan sets that include excerpts from authentic and diverse mentor texts curated for grades 6-8 Real-life classroom examples, tips, and Power Notes gleaned from the authors’ experiences that can be applied to any level of writer Resources, including a Patterns of Power Planning Guide and musical soundtracks, to use in classroom instruction or as handouts for student literacy notebooks Patterns of Power, Grades 6-8 provides a simple classroom routine that is structured in length and approach, but provides teachers flexibility in choosing the texts, allowing for numerous, diverse voices in the classroom. The practice helps students build cognitive recognition and provides a formative assessment for teachers on student progress. With these short lessons, students will gain confidence and move beyond limitation to produce effortless writing in your class and beyond. The Patterns of Power series also includes Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Power en Español, Grades 1-5: Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish; Patterns of Power, Grades 9-12: Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing; and Patterns of Wonder, Grades PreK-1: Inviting Emergent Writers to Play with the Conventions of Language.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003833020

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If They Only Listened to Us

What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear

By: Melinda Henneberger

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If They Only Listened to Us

What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear

By: Melinda Henneberger

Soon after the 2004 presidential election, veteran reporter Melinda Henneberger set out across the country to listen to women of all ages and occupations express their strong opinions on the major issues of our time. Over eighteen months she spoke in depth and at length with more than two hundred women in twenty states, from Massachusetts to Arizona and Oregon to Texas. She discovered how unheard women feel, how ignored and disregarded by both major parties and by most politicians. Listening to women all over the nation -- not only on what are traditionally thought of as "women's issues" but on issues of paramount importance to all Americans -- Henneberger shines a light on what women voters are thinking and how that translates into how and for whom they vote. The issues that these women focused on were Iraq, abortion, the environment, globalization (and job loss), and corruption (and lack of trust) in the government and the entire electoral process. Again and again these women of all ages, social classes, and regions returned to the matter of authenticity. And they came back again and again to their commonly held feeling that neither party takes any genuine interest in their actual lives, that politicians across the board seem, as a young waitress in Sacramento put it, "to be talking about people who don't exist." A patient, sensitive, experienced, intelligent listener, Henneberger reports how women feel about the nation's politics and politicians. Her findings will surprise you. Knowing the answers these women give will tell you a great deal about how the next presidential and other elections will be decided.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416556591

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Middlebrow Modernism

Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction

By: Melinda J. Cooper

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Middlebrow Modernism

Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction

By: Melinda J. Cooper

Eleanor Dark (1901–85) is one of Australia’s most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark’s contribution to 20th-century literature has been undervalued in the fields of both Australian literary studies and world literature. Although two biographies have been written about her life, there has been no book-length critical study of her writing published since 1976. Middlebrow Modernism counters this neglect by providing the first full-length critical survey of Eleanor Dark’s writing to be published in over four decades. Focusing on the fiction that Dark produced during the interwar years and reading this in the context of her larger body of work, this book positions Dark’s writing as important to the study of Australian literature and global modernism. Melinda Cooper argues that Dark’s fiction exhibits a distinctive aesthetic of middlebrow modernism, which blends attributes of literary modernism with popular fiction. It seeks to mediate and reconcile apparent binaries: modernism and mass culture; liberal humanism and experimental aesthetics; settler society and international modernity. The term middlebrow modernism also captures the way Dark negotiated cosmopolitan commitments with more place-based attachments to nation and local community within the mid-20th century. Middlebrow Modernism posits that Dark’s fiction and the broader phenomenon of Australian modernism offer essential case studies for larger debates operating within global modernist and world literature studies, providing perspectives these fields might otherwise miss.

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1743328664

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Slave Trade and the Economic Development of 18th-Century Lancaster

By: Elder Melinda Elder

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Slave Trade and the Economic Development of 18th-Century Lancaster

By: Elder Melinda Elder

This book looks a the role of the slave trade in the economic development of 18th-Century Lancaster.

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1474468020

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense October 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Carla Cassidy,Justine Davis,Kathleen Creighton,Melinda Di Lorenzo

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense October 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Carla Cassidy,Justine Davis,Kathleen Creighton,Melinda Di Lorenzo

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! OPERATION COWBOY DADDY by Carla Cassidy Cowboys of Holiday Ranch When a baby is left on cowboy Tony Nanki’s doorstep, he turns to Mary Redwing to help care for the child while he tries to find the baby’s mother. Little do they know, baby Joey’s villainous father will do anything to get him back, bringing danger—and desire—to Tony and Mary’s door. COLTON FAMILY RESCUE by Justine Davis The Coltons of Texas Jolie Peters’s daughter, Emma, has witnessed a murder, and the only person they can turn to for protection is T. C. Colton. T.C. never thought he’d see Jolie after she broke his heart four years ago. Still, he agrees to help, spiriting them away to his reclusive cabin in the woods. But that may not be enough to save them all from a murderer who could be behind the missing Colton patriarch. GUARDING THE SOLDIER’S SECRET by Kathleen Creighton Scandals of Sierra Malone War correspondent Yancy Malone never thought she’d see Hunt Grainger, the special forces operative who stole her heart years before and left her with an orphaned little girl to protect, again. But when she and her adopted daughter are threatened, Hunt can’t stay away—or stop hoping for a second chance at the family he had to leave behind. WORTH THE RISK by Melinda Di Lorenzo Samuel Potter, PI, has one lead in his current case: the missing woman’s sister, Meredith Jamison. When bullets start flying, Meredith realizes Sam is the only one who can protect her, and together they race against the forty-eight-hour limit set by the kidnappers—and discover a sizzling attraction along the way.

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1488024324

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Letters from a Boy Soldier

By: Melinda M. M. Widgren

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Letters from a Boy Soldier

By: Melinda M. M. Widgren

Toward the end of 1943, Warren was barely eighteen years old when he could finally join in the fight against the Nazis. He was youngest of three boys who grew up in logging country in the Pacific Northwest, Inland Empire, of Eastern Washington. See the life of a simple young corporal as he trudges through Europe, in Patton’s army, (70th Infantry Division, 2nd Bn HQ Co 274th Infantry - "the Trailblazers") through his letters to his folks back home.

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1635682479

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Movies and TV: The New York Public Library Book of Answers

By: Melinda Corey,Diane Corey,George Ochoa

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Movies and TV: The New York Public Library Book of Answers

By: Melinda Corey,Diane Corey,George Ochoa

If you're a movie or television fan - how many of these questions can you answer? What was the last picture show in The Last Picture Show? Where was the stagecoach headed in Stagecoach? What was the name of the dinosaur bone in Bringing Up Baby? What did Gomer Pyle do before he entered the Marines? Who played Gentle Ben? Like The Book of Answers, this book answers hundreds of questions in one of the New York Public LIbrary Telephone Reference Service's most popular areas - film and television. It covers the biggest stars, breakthrough productions, famous on-and-off-screen incidents, and film and TV history and trivia. Movies and TV: The New York Public Library Book of Answers is both informative and entertaining - a treasure trove of fascinating movie and TV facts, a perfect companion to The Book of Answers, and a real treat for movie and TV fans.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439135045

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9781439135044

Development of Distribution System Water Quality Optimization Plans

By: Melinda J. Friedman

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Development of Distribution System Water Quality Optimization Plans

By: Melinda J. Friedman

CD-ROM contains chapter 4 and appendices A & B.

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American Water Works Association

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1583213880

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9781583213889

Doing Diversity

Teachers' Construction of Their Classroom Reality

By: Melinda Dooly

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Doing Diversity

Teachers' Construction of Their Classroom Reality

By: Melinda Dooly

How teachers and students work together through discourse to construct their understanding of the context they live and work in will influence, in many different ways, the interaction within their classrooms. This book describes an indepth research that used ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study three different groups of teachers. The study highlights the teachers' perspectives concerning heterogeneity in the classroom, using recordings of discussions concerning cultural and linguistic diversity. Moreover, this research examines the discourse participants' choice in the use (deployment) of categorical descriptions and reveals the speaker as positioned, interested and accountable for meaning construction. Thus, «portraits» of differing preservice and inservice teachers' orientation towards linguistic and cultural diversity are analysed. By recognising these categorizations as partially bounded by previous knowledge and partially constructed in situ, the research sees meaning-making by teachers as a part of their lived work of teaching. It also reveals the social nature of these categorizations because they are an inseparable element of the socially constituted fabric of language in the environment of schooling and society.

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3039116878

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9783039116874

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