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Sacred Balance

Aligning Body and Spirit through Yoga and the Benedictine Way

By: Melinda Emily Thomas

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Sacred Balance

Aligning Body and Spirit through Yoga and the Benedictine Way

By: Melinda Emily Thomas

In Sacred Balance, certified yoga instructor and spirituality blogger Melinda Emily Thomas helps you align body and spirit through two timeless traditions--Benedictine spirituality and yoga practice. Spirituality in the Benedictine Way offers the commitments of listening, stability, conversion, humility, and hospitality. These root our values and help us choose how to spend our time, devote our energy, and craft relationships. Yoga offers physical postures to bring those principles into body and spirit by relieving pain and stress and helping us gain strength and flexibility. These practices combine to create a powerful blend of body and spirit--one that promises healing and connection to God. Studded with illustrations of basic yoga poses and ideas for wellness, prayers, and meditations, Sacred Balance offers principles and practices that guide us toward peace and wholeness.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506463541

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9781506463544

Attacking Judges

How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections

By: Melinda Gann Hall

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Attacking Judges

How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections

By: Melinda Gann Hall

Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks. These tactics have become part and parcel of today's election politics in America, and judicial elections are no exception. Attacking Judges takes a close look at the effects of televised advertising, including harsh attacks, on state supreme court elections. Author Melinda Gann Hall investigates whether these divisive elections have damaging consequences for representative democracy. To do this, Hall focuses on two key aspects of those elections: the vote shares of justices seeking reelection and the propensity of state electorates to vote. In doing so, Attacking Judges explores vital dimensions of the conventional wisdom that campaign politics has deleterious consequences for judges, voters, and state judiciaries. Countering the prevailing wisdom with empirically based conclusions, Hall uncovers surprising and important insights, including new revelations on how attack ads influence public engagement with judicial elections and their relative effectiveness in various types of state elections. Attacking Judges is a testament to the power of institutions in American politics and the value of empirical political science research in helping to inform some of the most significant debates on the public agenda. This book's results smartly contest and eradicate many of the fears judicial reformers have about the damaging effects of campaign negativity in modern state supreme court elections.

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Stanford University Press

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0804793093

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9780804793094

Grace Period

My Ordination to the Ordinary

By: Melinda Worth Popham

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Grace Period

My Ordination to the Ordinary

By: Melinda Worth Popham

Author Melinda Worth Popham left home for Yale Divinity School at age fifty-six after a barrage of painful life events brought her to her knees and led to the discovery that pain is the Miracle Gro of spiritual growth. Grace Period recounts the spiritual journey launched by the break-up of her marriage and her teenage daughters descent into an intractable depression that led to an Ivy League seminary, not in pursuit of ordination to ministry but quite simply to her plain old ordinary sacred self. Wise, honest, and unexpectedly humorous, Grace Period is not only about Pophams study of God but about Gods education of her. In this impeccably written memoir, Popham ... proves herself a highbrow, refined spiritual sister to Anne Lamott. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Anyone who has suffered, or lives with a modicum of spiritual curiosity, will want to press this book into the hands of a friend. BlueInk Review (starred review) A stunning spiritual autobiography and a work of profound discernment. Foreword Clarion Review (5-star review) Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist

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iUniverse

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1532017898

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9781532017896

A Year of Storms

By: Melinda Frank,Alexa Horn,Brianna Patterson,Madison Schmidt

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A Year of Storms

By: Melinda Frank,Alexa Horn,Brianna Patterson,Madison Schmidt

A COLLECTION OF POETRY AND SHORT STORIES In one year, about ten hurricanes occur, over one thousand tornadoes form, and over 16 million thunderstorms strike the earth. Storms can be interpreted as more than just rain or snow; they are emotions, relationships, and reflections of the innermost thoughts of humans. Storms help make sense of the turmoils life can bring. Storms change throughout the year with the people who experience them. This anthology takes readers through a year of storms and some of literature's most profound authors such as Madison Cawein, Algernon Blackwood, Emily Dickinson, and Emily Bront , to name a few. They have experienced storms, felt storms, and captured those storms on the page.

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110

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Lulu.com

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1609621182

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9781609621186

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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9781135848132

Harlequin Heartwarming September 2022 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Amy Vastine,Melinda Curtis,Tara Randel,Jacquelin Thomas

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Harlequin Heartwarming September 2022 Box Set

A Clean Romance

By: Amy Vastine,Melinda Curtis,Tara Randel,Jacquelin Thomas

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: A WYOMING SECRET PROPOSAL The Blackwells of Eagle Springs by USA TODAY bestselling author Amy Vastine After an accidental Vegas wedding, Wyatt Blackwell and Harper Hayes end up in Eagle Springs. He’s trying to save his family’s ranch. She’s trying to save her online image by playing happy family. Will they end up saving each other? A COWBOY THANKSGIVING The Mountain Monroes by USA TODAY bestselling author Melinda Curtis Orphan Maxine Holloway and her daughter are spending Thanksgiving with the Monroes—who seem entirely too warm and boisterous. And there’s something about Bo Monroe. He is Max’s complete opposite, but could he be her perfect match? HIS SMALL TOWN DREAM The Golden Matchmakers Club by USA TODAY bestselling author Tara Randel Businessman Adam Wright went from Wall Street to wilderness expeditions after his broken engagement. Marketing exec Carrie Mitchell is just passing through, chasing the corporate dreams Adam left behind. Will an unexpected connection make her want to stay? HER MARINE HERO Polk Island by Jacquelin Thomas Fashion designer Renee Rothchild has one rule—don’t date military men. Too bad she’s falling for marine Greg Bowman. With his discharge coming, she’s ready to give love a second chance after a broken engagement. Until unexpected news changes everything. Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

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Harlequin

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0369723384

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9780369723383

Victorian Literature in the Looking Glass of Psychology

By: Melinda Gorgan

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Victorian Literature in the Looking Glass of Psychology

By: Melinda Gorgan

Victorian Literature in the Looking Glass of Psychology is an interdisciplinary study that observes the changes in literary character construction throughout the Victorian Age. Pursuing the epistemologically altered character construction over the years from the beginning to the end of the Victorian era, the book covers a range of titles that demonstrate that the progress of psychology, was responsible for the way the workings of the mind were understood. It addresses the changes that characters underwent in the fifty years passing from Jane Eyre to Dracula. The influence of psychology on literature is tracked step by step through the Victorian age, starting with Charlotte Brontë's Bildungsroman and Dickens’s realism, and ending with the inward turn, the focus on the psychological mechanisms of the individual, in Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Bram Stoker. For scholars interested in an up-to-date critical approach to Victorian literature, focusing on interdisciplinarity, discourse negotiations, and psychosynthetic literary analysis, the book will be a valuable reference source.

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Ethics International Press

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1804418404

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9781804418406

Creating Resistances: Pastoral Care in a Postcolonial World

By: Melinda McGarrah Sharp

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Creating Resistances: Pastoral Care in a Postcolonial World

By: Melinda McGarrah Sharp

Multiple forms of oppression, injustice, and violence today have roots in histories of colonialism. This connection to the past feels familiar for some and less relevant for others. Understanding and responding to these connections is more crucial than ever, yet some resist rather than face this task directly. Others resist oppressive postcolonial conditions. Using intercultural stories and pastoral care scholarship, this book charts pathways through five resistances (not me, not here, not now, not relevant, not possible) to awaken creative pastoral care in a postcolonial world. McGarrah Sharp recommends practices that everyone can do: believing in each other, revisiting how histories are taught, imagining more passable futures, heeding prophetic poets, and crossing borders with healthy boundaries.

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BRILL

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9004412050

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9789004412057

In Defense of Judicial Elections

By: Chris W. Bonneau,Melinda Gann Hall

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In Defense of Judicial Elections

By: Chris W. Bonneau,Melinda Gann Hall

Ought judges be independent of democratic pressures, or should they be subjected to the preferences and approval of the electorate? In this book, Bonneau and Hall use empirical data to shed light on these normative questions and offer a coherent defense of judicial elections.

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Routledge

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1135852693

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9781135852696

Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy

An Implementation Guide for School Leaders

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

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Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy

An Implementation Guide for School Leaders

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

Literacy lies at the heart of student understanding and achievement. Yet too many educators mistakenly assume that the reading, writing, speaking, and thinking skills that students developed in elementary school are sufficient for the sophisticated learning tasks they face in middle and high school. The result? Disappointing test scores, high dropout rates, and students unprepared for higher education, citizenship, and the world of work. Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders presents a structured approach to using literacy as a lever for overall school improvement. Literacy instruction is not an "add-on," authors Judith L. Irvin, Julie Meltzer, and Melinda Dukes insist; it's an ongoing essential. All adolescent students, no matter what their level of achievement, can benefit from direct instruction in reading, writing, speaking, and thinking. And all secondary school leaders can improve students' literacy and learning by following the five action steps outlined in this book: (1) develop and implement a literacy action plan, (2) support teachers to improve literacy instruction, (3) use data to make curricular decisions, (4) build capacity for shared leadership, and (5) creatively allocate resources to support the literacy plan. The book also offers strategies to help educators integrate literacy and learning across the content areas, provide targeted interventions for students who are struggling the most, and develop a supportive school environment that involves parents, community members, and district leaders. Practical tools, helpful resources, and vignettes based on the authors' extensive work in school districts nationwide make this an indispensable guide for principals, central office administrators, literacy coaches, department chairs, and other school leaders committed to helping students succeed.

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ASCD

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1416617418

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9781416617419

Worship at a Crossroads

Racism and Segregated Sundays

By: Melinda A. Quivik

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Worship at a Crossroads

Racism and Segregated Sundays

By: Melinda A. Quivik

This book calls Protestant churches, and the ELCA in particular, to a church-wide conversation about racism. It is a response to the 2019 book Dear Church by Lenny Duncan, a former Lutheran pastor who is Black and who, among other reparations, calls for changing the church's worship in order to address segregated Sundays. Changes in worship affect theological foundations. Informed consideration is essential. Because entering into life-changing conversations requires vulnerability and commitment, this book includes several narratives: my life as a White woman and pastor, the history of the Black church as defined by Black theologians, the development of the liturgical renewal movement, and my experiences as a professor navigating worship conflicts as my seminary struggled with financial constraints and a changing student body. The seminary conflicts offered me a window into how better to address racism inspired by the example of post-WWII German truth-telling and how some US Southern states have come to grips with the history of the Jim Crow South (described in Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans). This book outlines a way forward for churches in responding to racism by encouraging healthy engagement with contentious relationships as a necessity for healing.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666792055

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9781666792058

Bridges

By: Charlotte Taylor,Melinda Farbman

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Bridges

By: Charlotte Taylor,Melinda Farbman

No aspect of infrastructure is quite as diverse as bridges. They may be simple or complex, ancient or modern, beautiful or plain. One trait that bridges do share is that they help people get where they're going, making them essential to a society on the move. In this informative text, readers delve into the world of bridges, their history, the various types, and the people who build and maintain them. Full-color photographs, fascinating stories, and fun facts add interest as readers get to know more about these feats of engineering and their role, past, present, and future, in our world.

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Enslow Publishing, LLC

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1978503911

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9781978503915

Framed in Faith

A Journey of Trust

By: Melinda Laird

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Framed in Faith

A Journey of Trust

By: Melinda Laird

It is entertaining to me when people ask, What are you going to do? and I respond, Trust in God. But what are you going to do? Let God lead my life. My professional life has placed me in leadership positions with organizations that are going through change. I have experienced the breaking of trust in this world. This is a book for women who are in leadership positions within their organization. It is intended to help them understand the meaning of trust and to equip them to know the only One that can be truly trusted in their life. We are women of integrity and vision, and our trust is tested. There are times we are at the losing end of trust due to hidden agendas. We are caught by surprise, which results in us losing trust. We are busy women who are intensely involved with our faith, our family, and our job. How many of us are so involved with life that we miss the real relationships: the relationship with Jesus Christ, the relationship for you, and the relationship that you want with your family. My hope for the women who read this is that they will come to know how their life can be stronger when they trust the Father. I am sharing my story about how I came to understand and to trust God to lead my life. We are all on a journey and are growing in our relationship with Jesus Christ, our Savior.

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WestBow Press

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1490850147

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9781490850146

A Band of Noble Women

Racial Politics in the Women’s Peace Movement

By: Melinda Plastas

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A Band of Noble Women

Racial Politics in the Women’s Peace Movement

By: Melinda Plastas

A Band of Noble Women brings together the histories of the women’s peace movement and the black women’s club and social reform movement in a story of community and consciousness building between the world wars. Believing that achievement of improved race relations was a central step in establishing world peace, African American and white women initiated new political alliances that challenged the practices of Jim Crow segregation and promoted the leadership of women in transnational politics. Under the auspices of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), they united the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance, suffrage-era organizing tactics, and contemporary debates on race in their efforts to expand women’s influence on the politics of war and peace. Plastas shows how WILPF espoused middle-class values and employed gendered forms of organization building, educating thousands of people on issues ranging from U.S. policies in Haiti and Liberia to the need for global disarmament. Highlighting WILPF chapters in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Baltimore, the author examines the successes of this interracial movement as well as its failures. A Band of Noble Women enables us to examine more fully the history of race in U.S. women’s movements and illuminates the role of the women’s peace movement in setting the foundation for the civil rights movement.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815651449

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9780815651444

Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage

By: Melinda Powers

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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage

By: Melinda Powers

In its long history of performance and reception, Greek drama has been interpreted and adapted in ever-changing ways to share in the preoccupations and tensions of particular historical moments. Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage explores this tradition by investigating a cross section of theatrical productions that have reimagined Greek tragedy in order to address social and political concerns in the US. Studying performance and its role in creating social, historical, and cultural identities, this volume draws on cutting-edge research to move discussion away from the interpretation of dramatic texts in isolation from their performance contexts and towards an analysis of the dynamic experience of live theatre. The study focuses particularly on the ability of engaged performances to pose critical challenges to the long-standing stereotypes and political policies that have contributed to the misrepresentation and marginalization of underrepresented communities. However, in the process it also uncovers the ways in which such performances can inadvertently reinforce the very stereotypes they aim to challenge, demonstrating that ancient drama can be a powerful, yet dangerous tool in the search for justice.

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Oxford University Press

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0191083143

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9780191083143

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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1136496157

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9781136496158

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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9781416556596

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