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Renfield and Me

By: Melissa Ebbe

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Shrouded in secrecy, the military conducted de-conditioning experiments on soldiers during the 1970Ã¢€TMs. Harvard psychologist Isaac Renfield was hired to Ã¢€œre-conditionÃ¢€ these individuals who had mysteriously lost all social conditioning. After a few short months of this work, Renfield mysteriously vanished from the military base. All references to his research are lost.#xD;In 2006, zombie researcher Melissa Ebbe stumbled across a mention of Renfield on the internet, and set out on a quest to find out about this mysterious project and the psychologist who had vanished 30 years earlier. Renfield and Me documents her encounter with this reclusive man and his chilling experience Ã¢€œcreating the perfect soldier.Ã¢€

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School Board Battles

The Christian Right in Local Politics

By: Melissa M. Deckman

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School Board Battles

The Christian Right in Local Politics

By: Melissa M. Deckman

If there is a "culture war" taking place in the United States, one of the most interesting, if under-the-radar, battlegrounds is in local school board elections. Rarely does the pitch of this battle reach national attention, as it did in Kansas when the state school board—led by several outspoken conservative Christians—voted to delete evolution from the state's science curriculum and its standardized tests in August 1999. That action rattled not only the educational and scientific communities, but concerned citizens around the nation as well. While the movement of the Christian Right into national and state politics has been well documented, this is the first book to examine their impact on local school board politics. While the Kansas decision was short-lived, during the past decade in school districts around the country, conservative Christian majorities have voted to place limits on sex education, to restrict library books, to remove references to gays and lesbians in the classroom, and to promote American culture as superior to other cultures. School Board Battles studies the motivation, strategies, and electoral success of Christian Right school board candidates. Based on interviews, and using an extensive national survey of candidates as well as case studies of two school districts in which conservative Christians ran and served on local boards, Melissa M. Deckman gives us a surprisingly complex picture of these candidates. She reveals weaker ties to national Christian Right organizations—and more similarities between these conservative candidates and their more secular counterparts than might be expected. Deckman examines important questions: Why do conservative Christians run for school boards? How much influence has the Christian Right actually had on school boards? How do conservative Christians govern? School Board Battles is an in-depth and in-the-trenches look at an important encounter in the "culture war"—one that may well determine the future of our nation's youth.

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Georgetown University Press

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158901409X

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Renfield and Me

By: Melissa Ebbe

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How to Speak Chicken

Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say

By: Melissa Caughey

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How to Speak Chicken

Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say

By: Melissa Caughey

Best-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet — fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact, use their senses to understand the world around them, and establish pecking order and roles within the flock. Combining her up-close observations with scientific findings and interviews with other chicken enthusiasts, Caughey answers unexpected questions such as Do chickens have names for each other? How do their eyes work? and How do chickens learn? Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner

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Storey Publishing

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1612129110

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The Unruly Tongue

Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy

By: Melissa Vise

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The Unruly Tongue

Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy

By: Melissa Vise

A cultural history of speech in medieval Italy The Unruly Tongue, a cultural history of speech in medieval Italy, offers a new account of how the power of words changed in Western thought. Despite the association of freedom of speech with the political revolutions of the eighteenth century that ushered in the era of modern democracies, historian Melissa Vise locates the history of the repression of speech not in Europe’s monarchies but rather in Italy’s republics. Exploring the cultural process through which science and medicine, politics, law, literature, and theology together informed a new political ethics of speech, Vise uncovers the formation of a moral code where the regulation of the tongue became an integral component of republican values in medieval Europe. The medieval citizens of Italy’s republics understood themselves to be wholly subject to the power of words not because they lived in an age of persecution or doctrinal rigidity, but because words had furnished the grounds for their political freedom. Speech-making was the means for speaking the republic itself into existence against the opposition of aristocracy, empire, and papacy. But because words had power, they could also be deployed as weapons. Speech contained the potential for violence and presented a threat to political and social order, and thus needed to be controlled. Vise shows how the laws that governed and curtailed speech in medieval Italy represented broader cultural understandings of human susceptibility to speech. Tracing anthropologies of speech from religious to political discourse, from civic courts to ecclesiastical courts, from medical texts to the works of Dante and Boccaccio, The Unruly Tongue demonstrates that the thirteenth century marked a major shift in how people perceived the power, and the threat, of speech: a change in thinking about “what words do.”

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Renfield and Me

Renfield and Me

School Board Battles

School Board Battles

Renfield and Me

Renfield and Me

How to Speak Chicken

How to Speak Chicken

The Unruly Tongue

The Unruly Tongue

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