Melissa Opie's Books

Love in Disguise

By: L. Melissa Smith

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Love In Disguise, the debut novel by author, L. Melissa Smith, purposefully goes outside the box of what many may believe is the Christian experience. If you're expecting a sweet saccharine novel where Christian people sit around the campfire and sing "kum bah yah," don't buy this book! Rape. Incest. Premarital Sex. Adultery. These are just some of the issues Love In Disguise deals with in this gritty, reality-based Christian novel. This mesmerizing piece of Christian fiction demonstrates how Christian people deal with heartbreak, sexuality, anger and forgiveness in a godly manner. Most times they get it right, but often, they get it wrong. Engaging dialogue and whirlwind suspense bring you up close and personal to real-life Christianity in 21st Century America.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412012732

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9781412012737

Public Vows

Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment

By: Melissa J. Ganz

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Public Vows

Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment

By: Melissa J. Ganz

In eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began rethinking its contractual foundation. Public Vows argues that these debates shaped English fiction in crucial and previously unrecognized ways and that novels, in turn, played a central role in the debates. Like many legal and social thinkers of their day, novelists such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Eliza Fenwick, and Amelia Opie imagine marriage as a public institution subject to regulation by church and state rather than a private agreement between two free individuals. Through recurring scenes of infidelity, fraud, and coercion as well as experiments with narrative form, these writers show the practical and ethical problems that result when couples attempt to establish and dissolve unions simply by exchanging consent. Even as novelists seek to shore up the legal regulation of marriage, however, they contest the specific forms that these regulations take. In recovering novelists’ engagements with the nuptial controversies of the Enlightenment, Public Vows challenges longstanding accounts of domestic fiction as contributing to sharp divisions between public and private life and as supporting the traditional, patriarchal family. At the same time, the book counters received views of law and literature, highlighting fiction’s often simultaneous affirmations and critiques of legal authority.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813942438

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9780813942438

Out of Bounds

By: Melissa Klein

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Out of Bounds

By: Melissa Klein

Avery Madigan lives by a strict code of conduct that’s helped her rise through the ranks of navy pilots. Rule number one—never mix business with pleasure. Lt. Commander Connor St. James never met a regulation he didn’t want to break, especially if it involves making love to a certain auburn-haired woman who’s starred in his dreams since the Naval Academy. When their worlds once again collide, the impact is nothing short of incendiary and the rule book is thrown overboard. Can a vacation hookup change the course of their lives, or will competition send their love up in flames?

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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150921089X

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9781509210893

Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure

Painting the Imagination

By: Melissa Percival

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Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure

Painting the Imagination

By: Melissa Percival

A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonard?s paintings known as the ?figures de fantaisie?, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination reconnects the fantasy figures with neglected visual traditions in European art and firmly situates them within the cultural and aesthetic contexts of eighteenth-century France. Prior scholarship has focused on the paintings? connections with portraiture, whereas this study relocates them within a tradition of fantasy figures, where resemblance was ignored or downplayed. The book defines Fragonard as a painter of the imagination and foregrounds the imaginary at a time when Enlightenment rationalism and Classical aesthetics contrived to delimit the imagination. The book unravels scholarly writing on these Fragonard paintings and examines the history of the fantasy figure from early modern Europe to eighteenth-century France. Emerging from this background is a view of Fragonard turning away from the academically sanctioned ?invention?, towards more playful variants of the imaginary: fantasy and caprice. Melissa Percival demonstrates how fantasy figures engage both artists and viewers, allowing artists to unleash their imagination through displays of virtuosity and viewers to use their imagination to explore the paintings? unusual juxtapositions and humour.

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Routledge

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1351566806

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9781351566803

Out of Sight

By: Melissa Klein

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Out of Sight

By: Melissa Klein

After a brutal attack leaves Mia Jones with a traumatic brain injury, she learns the key to discovering her attacker’s identity lies within her damaged brain. As she battles to recover from her injuries, she finds it’s not her fiancé by her side but her foster brother, Hank. When navy pilot, Hank Taggart ditches his plane in the sea, he thinks the worst has happened—until he returns home to learn Mia, the closest thing he’s ever had to family, is in ICU. While struggling to accept the end of a career that defines him and battling his own medical diagnosis, he must also suppress his newfound feelings for Mia. With Hank rejecting her love at every turn and the bad guys upping the stakes, Mia wonders, which fate is worse: falling into the hands of her enemy or losing the man she loves.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509214836

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9781509214839

Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan

The Ultimate Episode Guide

By: Jim Milio,Cesar Millan,Melissa Jo Peltier

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Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan

The Ultimate Episode Guide

By: Jim Milio,Cesar Millan,Melissa Jo Peltier

Provides overviews of 150 segments from the television program "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan" and includes follow-ups and dog training tips.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416561439

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9781416561439

Health Information Technology - E-Book

By: Nadinia A. Davis,Melissa LaCour

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Health Information Technology - E-Book

By: Nadinia A. Davis,Melissa LaCour

Reflecting emerging trends in today’s health information management, Health Information Technology, 3rd Edition covers everything from electronic health records and collecting healthcare data to coding and compliance. It prepares you for a role as a Registered Health Information Technician, one in which you not only file and keep accurate records but serve as a healthcare analyst who translates data into useful, quality information that can control costs and further research. This edition includes new full-color illustrations and easy access to definitions of daunting terms and acronyms. Written by expert educators Nadinia Davis and Melissa LaCour, this book also offers invaluable preparation for the HIT certification exam. Workbook exercises in the book help you review and apply key concepts immediately after you’ve studied the core topics. Clear writing style and easy reading level makes reading and studying more time-efficient. Chapter learning objectives help you prepare for the credentialing exam by corresponding to the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) domains and subdomains of the Health Information Technology (HIT) curriculum. A separate Confidentiality and Compliance chapter covers HIPAA privacy regulations. Job descriptions in every chapter offer a broad view of the field and show career options following graduation and certification. Student resources on the Evolve companion website include sample paper forms and provide an interactive learning environment. NEW! Full-color illustrations aid comprehension and help you visualize concepts. UPDATED information accurately depicts today’s technology, including records processing in the EHR and hybrid environments, digital storage concerns, information systems implementation, and security issues, including HITECH’s impact on HIPAA regulations. NEW! Glossary terms and definitions plus acronyms/abbreviations in the margins provide easy access to definitions of key vocabulary and confusing abbreviations. NEW! Go Tos in the margins cross-reference the textbook by specific chapters. NEW Coding boxes in the margins provide examples of common code sets. Over 100 NEW vocabulary terms and definitions ensure that the material is current and comprehensive. NEW Patient Care Perspective and Career Tips at the end of chapters include examples of important HIM activities in patient care and customer service.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323292208

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9780323292207

Out of Time

By: Melissa Klein

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Out of Time

By: Melissa Klein

Before filming starts on her next movie, America’s sweetheart, Grace Carradine, wants a girls’ night out. As she dons a disguise to evade the paparazzi, her brown hair isn’t the only deception, so is her upcoming marriage to her costar. Naval-pilot-turned-author, Sebastian "Bash" Baron finds his friends are pairing up and starting families. Given his history, he knows that life isn’t for him—even if the period romance he wrote is being made into a movie. Those stories only exist in fiction—or other people’s lives. The two begin a secret romance, meant to last only as long as the starlet is on location in Bash's hometown. When the paparazzi, obligations, and pride tear them apart, will Bash come to his senses in time, or will Grace marry the wrong man?

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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150921528X

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Simply Green:

Easy, Money-Saving Tips for Eco-Friendly Families

By: Melissa Seligman,David Seligman

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Simply Green:

Easy, Money-Saving Tips for Eco-Friendly Families

By: Melissa Seligman,David Seligman

It's Not About Politics. It's About Caring--And What Every Family Can Do! Written by a passionately concerned couple--David Seligman is an active duty U.S. serviceman and Melissa is a devoted stay-at-home mom--this is the first book about going green that won't scare you with statistics, overwhelm you with science, or make you feel guilty about your SUV. Instead, this indispensable guide will help families everywhere to take simple, practical steps, to lower their energy consumption and help create a healthier planet--and a more sustainable lifestyle. Simply Green takes a fresh look at every part of your household and every aspect of your life, from what you teach your children to what you put in your laundry machines. Full of energy-saving and money-saving "Green Tips," Simply Green shows how to: • Use recycled water around your house and garden • Heat and cool your home while you lower your energy bill • Throw away less trash • Make your own, environmentally-friendly cleaning solutions • Lower the power usage of your appliances • Choose indoor houseplants that help purify the air • Make green awareness an active part of your family's life--and have more fun in the natural world • And much more! Filled with dozens of useful resources, surprising facts and a long list of options for "going green," Simply Green is for those of us who may not be able to afford to make huge changes--but can't not afford to do what we can. *Printed on recycled paper. Melissa and David Seligman run their Tennessee home using their "simply green" principles. David has a degree in natural resource conservation and management with an emphasis in environmental policy. He has worked as an environmental educator for Lexington Parks and Recreation and does GIS-related work for the U.S. Army. Melissa is the author of The Day After He Left for Iraq, and her work has appeared in The Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper. They live in Memphis.

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Kensington Publishing Corp.

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0806535709

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9780806535708

The Santinis Collection

Includes: A Santini in Love, Falling for a Santini, One Night with a Santini

By: Melissa Schroeder

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The Santinis Collection

Includes: A Santini in Love, Falling for a Santini, One Night with a Santini

By: Melissa Schroeder

Experience love and adventure with a family of Marines in the USA Today bestselling Santinis series. A SANTINI IN LOVE Book 6 She was the last woman standing, and Dante Santini will ensure his former nemesis Madison Baker stays safe. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ FALLING FOR A SANTINI Book 7 Marine pilot Elena Santini has loved her brother's best friend JT forever, and she will stop and nothing to prove it. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ONE NIGHT WITH A SANTINI Book 8 Brando Santni was searching for something he didn't know he needed when a chance meeting with his old crush Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick changed his life. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ THE SANTINI WORLD The Santinis Leonardo Marco Gianni Vicente A Santini Christmas A Santini in Love Falling for a Santini One Night with a Santini A Santini takes the Fall A Santini's Heart Loving a Santini Semper Fi Marines Tease Me Tempt Me Touch Me The Fitzpatricks Chances Are

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Harmless Publishing

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1533610401

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9781533610409

A Santini in Love

By: Melissa Schroeder

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A Santini in Love

By: Melissa Schroeder

She was the last woman standing.Madison Baker was born and bred to be a Marine. When a roadside bomb ends her first deployment--not to mention her career--she is left to pick up the pieces of what is left of her life. She's returned to Oceanside to regroup and move on. It doesn't mean she's ready for a relationship, even if a particular Santini has different plans.Love happens when you least expect it.When he first met Madison back at the Academy, Dante Santini was sure the woman was put on the earth to irritate him. She's prickly and mouthy. She always thinks she's right. Worse--she almost always is. She hasn't really changed over the years. One disagreement ends up with them lip locked and very nearly falling into bed, Dante discovers he might need to rethink his first impression.When Madison is convinced she witnesses a murder, the only person who believes her is Dante. Together, they sift through the meager evidence, trying to unearth the secrets someone is trying to hide. Neither one of them expecting it would draw them closer--or that a killer is hell bent on making sure those secrets stay buried.

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Harmless Publishing

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1939734231

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9781939734235

Cybercrime Prevention

Theory and Applications

By: Russell Brewer,Melissa de Vel-Palumbo,Alice Hutchings,Thomas Holt,Andrew Goldsmith,David Maimon

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Cybercrime Prevention

Theory and Applications

By: Russell Brewer,Melissa de Vel-Palumbo,Alice Hutchings,Thomas Holt,Andrew Goldsmith,David Maimon

This book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world. This ground-breaking work explores how criminology can apply longstanding, traditional crime prevention techniques to the digital realm. It provides an overview of the key principles, concepts and research literature associated with crime prevention, and discusses the interventions most commonly applied to crime problems. The authors review the theoretical underpinnings of these and analyses evidence for their efficacy. Cybercrime Prevention is split into three sections which examine primary prevention, secondary prevention and tertiary prevention. It provides a thorough discussion of what works and what does not, and offers a formulaic account of how traditional crime prevention interventions can be reimagined to apply to the digital realm.

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Springer Nature

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3030310698

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9783030310691

Food Lit

A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction

By: Melissa Brackney Stoeger

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Food Lit

A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction

By: Melissa Brackney Stoeger

An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking. Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food—a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1610693760

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9781610693769

Three Little Words (Walker Family)

A Novella

By: Melissa Tagg

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Three Little Words (Walker Family)

A Novella

By: Melissa Tagg

Ava Kingsley and Seth Walker might be the most unlikely friends ever. The only thing these two polar opposites have in common is a knack for wordsmithing. Back in college, they were known for their written sparring in the campus newspaper's popular "He Says/She Says" column. At their ten-year college reunion, they pick up right where they left off. Except this time their squabbling leads to a surprising turn: friendship and a year-long exchange of emails. So when Ava approaches a crossroads in her athletics department career in Minnesota, Seth is quick to offer the open apartment above the restaurant he's been remodeling in Maple Valley, Iowa. Ava doesn't know where her career will lead her next, but she's starting to suspect she might see Seth as more than a pen pal. Which would be exciting...except for the fact that he only sees her as a friend. As Maple Valley grows on her, Ava wonders if there might be something here for her even though Seth is unavailable. And maybe, just maybe, after all the words the two of them have exchanged over the years, they'll finally be able to say the three that matter most. Three Little Words is an e-only novella that gives an exciting introduction to Melissa Tagg's new series about the charismatic Walker family and the endearing town of Maple Valley!

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Baker Books

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1441265120

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9781441265128

Reading Assessment

Linking Language, Literacy, and Cognition

By: Melissa Lee Farrall

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Reading Assessment

Linking Language, Literacy, and Cognition

By: Melissa Lee Farrall

A groundbreaking integrated approach to reading assessment that addresses each child's unique Learning Profile Fifteen to twenty percent of our nation's children have reading difficulties. Educational evalua-tors must be able to use progress monitoring and diagnostic tools effectively to identify students who may be at risk, evaluate the effectiveness of school-wide reading programs, and suggest interventions that will improve reading skills. Written from a strengths-based perspective, Reading Assessment: Linking Language, Literacy, and Cognition is the first book of its kind to present a research-based, integrated review of reading, cognition, and oral language testing and assessment. Author Melissa Lee Farrall explores the theoretical underpinnings of reading, language, and literacy, explains the background of debates surrounding these topics, and provides detailed information and administration tips on the wide range of reading inventories and standardized tests that may be used in a reading psychoeducational assessment. With a focus on how to craft professional evaluation reports that illuminate a student's strengths—not just weaknesses—Reading Assessment enables school psychologists and diagnosticians, reading specialists, and special education professionals to conduct evaluations and develop effective interdisciplinary remedial recommendations and interventions. Clear, engaging, and inviting, Reading Assessment features: Case examples and practice exercises Chapter-opening reviews of each theory Strengths, weaknesses, and potential problems of tests and their interpretations Chapter-ending review questions that foster skill development and critical thinking Comprehensive information on more than 50 different assessment tests Reading Assessment is an invaluable resource that helps professionals gain the knowledge and skills to confidently interpret test results and prepare detailed and effective evaluation reports designed to meet each child's unique needs as a learner.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470873930

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9780470873939

After the Cradle Falls

What Child Abuse Is, how We Respond to It, and what You Can Do about it

By: Melissa Jonson-Reid,Brett Drake

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After the Cradle Falls

What Child Abuse Is, how We Respond to It, and what You Can Do about it

By: Melissa Jonson-Reid,Brett Drake

This book integrates examples from folklore, songs, and news articles with strong attention to empirical research to create an accessible and engaging work intended to provoke the reader to think about how to address the issue of child abuse and neglect in America.

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Oxford University Press

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0190653027

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9780190653026

Radicalization

The Life Writings of Political Prisoners

By: Melissa Dearey

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Radicalization

The Life Writings of Political Prisoners

By: Melissa Dearey

Expanding the influence of auto/biography studies into cultural criminology, Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners addresses the origins, processes and cultures of terrorist criminality and political resistance in a globalized world. Criminologists and penologists have long been aware of the sheer volume of autobiography emerging from our prisons. Political prisoners, POWs, freedom fighters and terrorists have been consistently and strongly represented in this corpus of work, including such authors as Bobby Sands, Wole Soyinka, Nelson Mandela, Moazzam Begg, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Angela Davis, George Jackson, and Aung San Suu Kyi among others. For many of those who have been detained for ostensibly politically motivated crimes, life writing has proven to be indispensable in explaining the causes and processes which account for their situation. Embedded with these life writings are narratives of radicalization or resistance. Melissa Dearey here undertakes an international and comparative analysis of such narratives, where the 'life story' is considered as a mode of expressing and transmitting 'radical' cultural values.

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Routledge

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1135193355

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9781135193355

Find the Right Property, Buy at the Right Price

By: Melissa Opie

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Find the Right Property, Buy at the Right Price

By: Melissa Opie

The essential guide to buying the perfect investment property Interest in buying property is at an all time high. But while everyone’s talking about it, the number of people actually doing it isn’t escalating at the same rate. The reason is simple: would-be buyers are being held back by fears that they’ll choose the wrong property, and pay too much for it, too. Find the Right Property, Buy at the Right Price is here to help, putting author Melissa Opie’s 25-year history in real estate at your fingertips so that you can be certain you’re making the right decision. Part of the reason buyers are so worried about making a bad deal is that the market moves so fast and ‘current’ information dates quickly. Every quarter, newspapers all over Australia print median house prices, indicating which areas have gone up and by how much. But there’s so much more information a buyer needs to feel confident before dipping their toes in the property-buying waters. With this book in hand, you’ll have that all-important extra knowledge. Answers key questions like ‘Which properties should I target in these “boom” areas?’ and ‘How do I know I’m paying the right price?’ Distils property-buying rhetoric in a simple, easy-to-follow way Features numerous case studies and real-life examples to help illustrate strategies and potential pitfalls Includes checklists to help you make sure you aren’t missing anything when buying a property Find the Right Property, Buy at the Right Price is here to allay your property-buying fears. From a respected expert with an impeccable track record, it’s the only book you need to make a responsible, informed, and profitable purchase.

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1118188020

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