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Science and the Mind of the Maker

What the Conversation Between Faith and Science Reveals about God

By: Melissa Cain Travis

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Science and the Mind of the Maker

What the Conversation Between Faith and Science Reveals about God

By: Melissa Cain Travis

Are We an Accident...or Not? The question of cosmic origins and our place in the grand scheme of things has been debated for millennia. Why do we exist? Why does anything exist at all? Today's popular narrative, based on advancements in science, is that it all happened by natural, random processes. Melissa Cain Travis points to powerful evidence that the opposite is true—that cosmology, astronomy, biochemistry, and other disciplines strongly support what she calls "The Maker Thesis," which explains the origin, rationality, and intricacy of nature and the human mind's capacity to comprehend it. Our universe is made up of numerous complex systems of order that both interact and coexist with each other as if in a carefully choreographed dance. Follow along on a fascinating journey about how the structure of nature and the mind of man resonate in ways that point to a Maker who fully intended the astounding discoveries being made in the natural sciences today.

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736971297

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9780736971294

Making Places In The Prehistoric World

By: Joanna Bruck,Melissa Goodman

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Making Places In The Prehistoric World

By: Joanna Bruck,Melissa Goodman

First published in 1999. This groundbreaking volume addresses issues central to the study of prehistoric settlement including group memory, the transmission of ideology and the impact of mobility and seasonality on the construction of social identity. Building on these themes, the contributors point to new ways of understanding the relationship between settlement and landscape by replacing Capitalist models of spatial relations with more intimate histories of place.

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Taylor & Francis

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100094574X

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Reframing Deforestation

Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach

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Reframing Deforestation

Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach

This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors evaluate this orthodox critically. Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of deforestation wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated. The authors argue that global analyses have unfairly stigmatised West Africa and obscured its more sustainable, even landscape-enriching practices. Stessing that dominant policy approaches in forestry and conservation require major rethinking worldwide, Reframing Deforestation illustrates that more realistic assessments of forest cover change, and more respectful attention to local knowledge and practices, are necessary bases for effective and appropriate environmental policies.

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Routledge

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1134665172

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9781134665174

Critical Vulnerability

By: Melissa F. Miller

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Critical Vulnerability

By: Melissa F. Miller

In this smart, gripping thriller from USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller, federal prosecutor Aroostine Higgins’ most critical vulnerability is exposed. Government records, medical equipment, elevators, security alarms … they’re all remotely controlled and monitored by computerized industrial control systems. It’s convenient, efficient, and potentially deadly. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aroostine Higgins has put her personal life on hold to join the Department of Justice’s elite Criminal Division. She’s about to prosecute a major bribery trial—one that could make or break her career. But everything’s going wrong. Her pretrial motion vanishes from the federal court’s electronic docketing system. Her apartment catches fire. Routine dental surgery turns into a near-death experience. By the time Aroostine realizes her string of bad luck is anything but random, the stakes are greater than the outcome of a high-profile court case. Determined to win at any cost, a hidden enemy threatens to destroy her—and the only man she’s ever loved—unless she can stop him. Now, it’s personal. Keywords: women sleuths, mystery & thriller, mystery series, legal thriller, suspense, murder, bestseller, technothriller, Native American fiction

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Brown Street Books

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1940759021

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Food in the Internet Age

By: William Aspray,George Royer,Melissa G. Ocepek

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Food in the Internet Age

By: William Aspray,George Royer,Melissa G. Ocepek

This book examines food in the United States in the age of the Internet. One major theme running through the book is business opportunities and failures, as well as the harms to consumers and traditional brick-and-mortar companies that occurred as entrepreneurs tried to take advantage of the Internet to create online companies related to food. The other major theme is the concept of trust online and different models used by different companies to make their web presence seem trustworthy. The book describes a number of major food companies, including AllRecipes, Betty Crocker, Cook's Illustrated, Epicurious, Groupon, OpenTable, and Yelp. The book draws on business history, food studies, and information studies for its approach.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319015982

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Mod Mirage

The Midcentury Architecture of Rancho Mirage

By: Melissa Riche,Jim Riche

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Mod Mirage

The Midcentury Architecture of Rancho Mirage

By: Melissa Riche,Jim Riche

No longer overshadowed by neighboring Palm Springs, Mod Mirage reveals in photos and stories the historic homes and communities of Rancho Mirage that make up its significant midcentury heritage. Mod Mirage documents the architecturally innovative homes and communities that were built on and adjacent to the historic Thunderbird and Tamarisk Country Clubs from 1950 to 1970, in what is now the community of Rancho Mirage, California. Some of the midcentury’s most distinguished architects, including William Cody, Donald Wexler, William Krisel, E. Stewart Williams, and William Pereira, designed many of these structures, many of which are hidden behind country club gates and not easily accessible to the public. This is the first book to focus solely on Rancho Mirage’s rich architecture while also discussing its influential social history. Melissa Riche is a writer, researcher, architecture enthusiast, preservationist, and media consultant. She has written about architecture and design for twenty years, including articles for Atomic Ranch magazine and the Desert Sun newspaper and historic nominations for the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation. She is the founder of Mod Mirage, a group of midcentury modern homeowners in Rancho Mirage, California. Melissa and her husband, photographer Jim Riche, live in Tamarisk Ranchos, a William Krisel–designed midcentury modern community.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423648765

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Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development in Africa

By: Shogo Kudo,Orleans Mfune,Melissa Hansen,Jackline Nyerere

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Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development in Africa

By: Shogo Kudo,Orleans Mfune,Melissa Hansen,Jackline Nyerere

This book highlights the important role of the complex nature of interactions between rural and urban areas in Africa and how this relates to sustainable development on the continent – one with a fast urbanization rate. The volume critiques the widely held assumption of a societal divide where rural areas are mostly agricultural, whilst urban areas engage in industry and services. Contributors provide conceptual arguments and present case studies in Africa which illustrate the complex and multifaceted interdependencies between cities and rural areas, through the flow of natural resources, people, capital, information, goods and services which directly impacts the socio-ecological as well as economic sustainability of these spaces. This volume forms part of an Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) book series involving the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and 8 partner African universities running Master’s Programs in sustainable development. The book series is intended to serve primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa, as well as policy input to key developmental issues in Africa.

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Spears Media Press

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1942876297

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Sustainable Urban Development in Singapore

Imagining Walkability in an Urban Concrete Jungle

By: Melissa Liow Li Sa,Sam Choon-Yin

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Sustainable Urban Development in Singapore

Imagining Walkability in an Urban Concrete Jungle

By: Melissa Liow Li Sa,Sam Choon-Yin

This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of world’s well-known urban concrete jungle, none other than the Singapore city. The emphasis is situated on Singapore’s attempt to promote walking and cycling. Greater appreciation of walkability thrives on Singapore’s rich history, green city, people and the gastronomic kopitiam and hawker culture. The book offers a comprehensive coverage of walkability as a crucial component of urban design to reduce vehicular congestion with the associated carbon emissions, foster a healthy lifestyle and community participation and create jobs to help the economy. A high income per capita and an aging society, lessons drawn from Singapore’s experience will be useful to other societies. Scholars in sustainable tourism field, urban planners, government bodies, tourist boards, entrepreneurs, national parks board, residents, and inbound travellers will benefit from reading the book.

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Springer Nature

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9819954517

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Photography, Truth and Reconciliation

By: Melissa Miles

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Photography, Truth and Reconciliation

By: Melissa Miles

Photography, Truth and Reconciliation charts the connections between photography and a crucial issue in contemporary social history. The book examines the prevalence of photography in cultural responses to processes of truth and reconciliation, and argues that photographs are a valuable means through which stories can be retold and historiography can be rethought. Five compelling case studies from Argentina, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Cambodia underscore the special role that this medium has played in facilitating processes of recovery, and in reconstructing suppressed histories, even when a documentary record of the events does not exist. The diverse practices addressed in this book – including artistic, protest, institutional, archival, legal and personal photography – prompt a new consideration of photography’s links to presence, place, time, spectatorship and justice. Collectively, these practices attest to photography’s key role in transitional justice, and in shaping historical understanding internationally. Important reading for students taking photography, visual culture, history and media studies courses, Photography, Truth and Reconciliation explores key historical and theoretical themes, including photography and testimony, international discourses on human rights and justice, and problematic notions of public and collective memory. The introduction and conclusion of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

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Routledge

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1000211568

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Legendary Locals of Ogden, Utah

By: Sarah Langsdon,Melissa Johnson

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Legendary Locals of Ogden, Utah

By: Sarah Langsdon,Melissa Johnson

A family venture: Ogden's pioneer portraits -- Business booms: Ogden's industries -- Service in aid and need: public servants -- Give us teachers: a rally for education -- Military service: at home and abroad -- Voices of the people: local and national leaders -- Service and sisterhood: women's organizations -- Out and about in Ogden: culture and recreation -- What a contrast: famous and infamous.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467100307

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Pepsi and the Pill

Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969

By: Melissa Oliver-Powell

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Pepsi and the Pill

Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969

By: Melissa Oliver-Powell

The 1960s was a decade of massive political and cultural change in Western Europe, as seismic shifts took place in in attitudes towards sexuality, gender, and motherhood in everyday life. Through case studies of British and French films, Pepsi and the Pill offers a fresh vision of a pivotal moment in European culture, exploring the many ways in which political activity and celebrated film movements mutually shaped each other in their views on gender, sexuality, and domesticity. As the specter of popular nationalism once again looms across Europe, this book offers a timely account of the legacy of crucial debates over issues including reproductive rights, migration, and reproductive nationalism at the intersection of political discourse, protest, and film.

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Berghahn Books

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1800736924

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Sex as a Political Variable

Women as Candidates and Voters in U.S. Elections

By: Richard A. Seltzer,Jody Newman,Melissa Voorhees Leighton

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Sex as a Political Variable

Women as Candidates and Voters in U.S. Elections

By: Richard A. Seltzer,Jody Newman,Melissa Voorhees Leighton

Though women constitute 52 percent of US voters, only 10 percent of the members of Congress and one of the 50 state governors are women. This book presents research and analysis on women as both candidates and voters in US politics, using numerous empirical sources of data.

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1555877362

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Daisy's Dreams

By: Mary & Melissa Lemke

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Daisy's Dreams

By: Mary & Melissa Lemke

Daisy Hunter and Abigail Browning are two best friends who have enjoyed the everyday challenges and delights of living in rural Fairfield, New Hampshire. But in the spring of 1856, they feel as though all things familiar are crumbling beneath them. Throughout the coming year, many incidents will try their faith and threaten to hamper their joy. Together, they must continually rediscover their sustenance and hope, all the while resisting the temptation to surrender to defeat. Interwoven within the two girls' lives is a cast of characters as varied as the New England seasons. Excitement mounts for the entire town when a new minister joins the close-knit community, while intrigue is piqued when a mysterious, colorful woman appears, carrying untold secrets from the past. With autumn comes the abundance of the apple harvest, while winter's burden bears heavy on many. Will Abby's and Daisy's faith be strengthened, or will it simply crumble amidst the challenges? Will they finally be able to declare with certainty that they have delighted in the Lord and obtained their hearts' desires?

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WestBow Press

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149084306X

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Ultimate Guide to the UBE (Uniform Bar Exam) Redesigned

By: Melissa Hale,Antonia Miceli,Tania N. Shah

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Ultimate Guide to the UBE (Uniform Bar Exam) Redesigned

By: Melissa Hale,Antonia Miceli,Tania N. Shah

Addressing the relative newness of the UBE, The Ultimate Guide to the UBE provides a detailed approach to the exam, utilizes real students’ past bar exam answers (including real bar exam scores), and includes commentary from expert contributors for added insight and perspective on how students can improve their own exam writing scores. In the past decade the UBE has gone from being adopted by merely a few jurisdictions to over 40, including Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Texas, and soon Pennsylvania in July of 2022. This encompasses a large percentage of students taking the Bar Exam. It also means that many students, as well as bar prep professionals, have questions about the UBE. We seek to provide one guide that addresses everything anyone would want to know about the UBE, most importantly, how to prepare for it. Melissa Hale, and Antonia (Toni) Miceli, and Tania Shah are experts in bar exam preparation, each having taught in the field for over a decade. As the UBE becomes more prevalent, we encounter more and more people with questions about how the UBE works and how best to prepare for each section of the UBE. This book is intended to be a “one-stop shop” for all things UBE! Professors and students will benefit from: Addressing the relative newness of the UBE, this guide provides a step-by-step process for tackling each section of the exam, utilizing real students’ past bar exam answers (including real bar exam scores), and employing expert contributors’ commentary for added perspective. The straightforward approach of this book appeals to students, and includes: outlines, charts, easily digestible content, and good humor to engage students in material that might otherwise seem dry or overwhelming. Above all, students want to see what an actual exam answer looks like, not just be told how to write the “perfect” (and mostly impossible) essay answer. In the Ultimate Guide to the UBE, students can see what real bar exam takers did under timed conditions. They can read expert commentary on real bar exam answers, and step into the shoes of a bar exam grader by critiquing real bar exam answers themselves. Students can see, firsthand, what separates a score of 1 from a score of 3 from a score of 6 out of 6, and learn how to push their own score up the grading scale. Memorizing rules separate from the essay-writing process is not a winning strategy; practicing writing an essay while looking up the rules enables students to hone their analysis skills and learn the rules. The online appendices provide all the substantive law students need to complete the questions in this book, allowing students to focus on the skill development piece of bar review, rather than guessing the applicable rule.

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Aspen Publishing

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1543856381

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Risky Decision Making in Psychological Disorders

By: Melissa Buelow

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Risky Decision Making in Psychological Disorders

By: Melissa Buelow

Risky Decision Making in Psychological Disorders provides readers with a detailed examination of how risky decision making is affected by a wide array of individual psychological disorders. The book starts by providing important background information on the construct of risky decision making, the assessment of risky decision making, and the neuroscience behind such decision making. The Iowa Gambling Task, Balloon Analogue Risk Task, and other behavioral measures are covered, as are topics such as test reliability and the pros and cons of utilizing tasks that have strong practice effects. The book then moves into how risky decision making is affected by specific psychological disorders, such as addictive behaviors, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and more.

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Academic Press

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0128150025

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Vaccine Anxieties

Global Science, Child Health and Society

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach

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Vaccine Anxieties

Global Science, Child Health and Society

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach

This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspective with detailed field research, the book examines anxieties emerging as highly globalized vaccine technologies and technocracies encounter the deeply intimate personal and social worlds of parenting and childcare, and how these are part of transforming science-society relations. It retheorizes anxieties about technologies, integrating bodily, social and wider political dimensions, and challenges common views of ignorance, risk, trust and rumour - and related dichotomies between Northernrisk society and Southerndeveloping society - that dominate current scientific and policy debates. In so doing, the book reflects critically on the stereotypes that at times pass forexplanations of public engagement with both routine vaccination and vaccine research. It suggests routes to improved dialogue between health professionals and the people they serve, and new ways to address science-society relations in a globalized world.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136549226

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Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention

Lessons for the Responsibility to Protect

By: Melissa Labonte

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Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention

Lessons for the Responsibility to Protect

By: Melissa Labonte

The human rights and humanitarian landscape of the modern era has been littered with acts that have shocked the moral conscience of mankind, and there has been wide variation in whether, how, and to what degree states respond to mass atrocity crimes, even when they share similar characteristics. In many cases concerned states responded, either through moral suasion; gentle or coercive diplomacy; or other non-forcible measures, to prevent or halt the indiscriminate human rights violations that were occurring. In others, states simply turned away and left the vulnerable to their fate. And still yet in other cases, states responded robustly, using military force to stop the atrocities and save lives. This book seeks to examine the effects of strategic framing in U.S. and UN policy arenas to draw conclusions regarding whether and how the human rights and humanitarian norms embedded within such frames resonated with decision-makers and, in turn, how they shaped variation in levels of political will concerning humanitarian intervention in three cases that today would qualify as Responsibility to Protect (R2P) cases: Somalia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. Labonte concludes that in order for humanitarian interventions to stand a higher likelihood of being effective, states advocating in support of such actions must find a way to persuade policymakers by appealing to both the logic of consequences (which rely on material and pragmatic considerations) and logic of appropriateness (which rely on normatively appropriate considerations) – and strategic framing may be one path to achieve this outcome. Offering a detailed and examination of three key cases and providing some an original and important contribution to the field this work will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.

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Routledge

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0415621607

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Listen to Classic Rock!

Exploring a Musical Genre

By: Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith

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Listen to Classic Rock!

Exploring a Musical Genre

By: Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith

Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of this diverse and complex musical genre for scholars of classic rock and curious novices alike, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicians, songwriters, bands, and albums. Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre explores in detail the genesis, evolution, and proliferation of classic rock. It begins with a background on the development of classic rock and its subgenres. Next, an A to Z listing of artists (musicians, songwriters, and bands), albums, important concerts, and songs; a chapter on classic rock's impact on popular culture; a chapter on classic rock's legacy; and a bibliography. This organization gives readers the choice of starting from the beginning to learn how classic rock and each of its subgenres emerged after rock and roll or skip ahead to a specific artist, recording, or song in the Must-Hear Music section. This volume stands out from other resources on classic rock for its listening-centered approach. Most books on classic rock focus on trivia, history, terminology, or criticism. It also explores the sound of the music of important artists and offers musical analyses that are accessible to upper-level high school and lower-level undergraduates while at the same time maintaining the interest of classic rock aficionados and scholars.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440865795

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Misreading the African Landscape

Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach

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Misreading the African Landscape

Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach

An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521564999

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Supporting the Professional Development of English Language Teachers

Facilitative Mentoring

By: Melissa K. Smith,Marilyn Lewis

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Supporting the Professional Development of English Language Teachers

Facilitative Mentoring

By: Melissa K. Smith,Marilyn Lewis

Applying the principles of facilitative teaching to mentorship, this book brings together well-established knowledge about mentoring with the experiences and ideas of mentors in the field to advance and support the professional development of language teachers. Recognizing the impact of globalization and technology, Smith and Lewis identify processes and pathways for mentors to develop multi-layered skills for working with teachers in both their own and cross-cultural contexts, and in face-to-face and virtual settings. Grounded in theory, this innovative approach is illustrated with authentic experiences, and ready to be applied by readers in their specific settings around the world. With an interactive design that encourages participation and practice, each chapter includes vignettes, reflections, and challenging scenarios from mentors in training. Self-reflection and task sections at the end of each chapter engage the reader in combining theory with practice. Sample materials such as mentor-mentee contracts, work plans, journal templates, discussion suggestions (face-to-face or online), and observation forms deepen understanding and enable mentors to adapt or create their own materials. This practical and context-adaptable guide is accessible to mentors at any career stage, for use in personal professional development, or as part of mentor training sessions.

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Routledge

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1351737627

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Fluency Practice, Grades 2-3

By: Melissa Hart

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Fluency Practice, Grades 2-3

By: Melissa Hart

Fluency has two basic components. Reading fluency is the ability to read quickly and accurately while using expression and proper phrasing. Speaking fluency is the ability to express oneself easily and gracefully. Book jacket.

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense July 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Marie Ferrarella,Melissa Cutler,Cindy Dees,Addison Fox

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense July 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Marie Ferrarella,Melissa Cutler,Cindy Dees,Addison Fox

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 for one great price every month! HOW TO SEDUCE A CAVANAUGH Cavanaugh Justice by USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Ferrarella Kelly Cavanaugh and Kane Durant could barely be friends, much less partners, and never in a million years lovers. But while working together to solve a series of seemingly random home invasions, whatever chill existed between them transforms into a sizzling passion… COLTON'S COWBOY CODE The Coltons of Oklahoma by Melissa Cutler Pregnant and desperate, Hannah Grayson never expects to face the baby's father at a job interview! Cowboy Brett Colton gives her the position and vows to protect her and their unborn baby, but when long-buried secrets turn deadly, no one on the ranch is safe. UNDERCOVER WITH A SEAL Code: Warrior SEALs by New York Times bestselling author Cindy Dees Eve Hankova demanded answers from the Russian mob about her missing brother, thereby adding herself to their list of enemies. Her only shot at answers—and survival—lies with her reluctant rescuer, a burned-out and far-too-appealing navy SEAL. TEMPTING TARGET Dangerous in Dallas by Addison Fox After priceless jewels are discovered in the floor of a prominent Dallas bridal boutique, a detective and the alluring wedding caterer he's protecting race to find the villain plotting to recover the gems…and perhaps they'll give in to a simmering attraction, which might necessitate a walk down the aisle!

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1460392442

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The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

By: Melissa Emerson Walter

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The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

By: Melissa Emerson Walter

This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487503644

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Wall Street Women

By: Melissa S. Fisher

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Wall Street Women

By: Melissa S. Fisher

Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street. Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement, they created formal and informal associations to bolster one another's careers. In this important historical ethnography, Melissa S. Fisher draws on fieldwork, archival research, and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of first-generation Wall Street women. She describes their professional and political associations, most notably the Financial Women's Association of New York City and the Women's Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to promote the election of pro-choice women. Fisher charts the evolution of the women's careers, the growth of their political and economic clout, changes in their perspectives and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their experiences of the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the pioneering subjects of Wall Street Women did not participate in the women's movement as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s, Fisher argues that they did produce a "market feminism" which aligned liberal feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic of the market.

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Duke University Press

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0822353458

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A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia

By: Melissa Dawn Ooten,Jason Michael Sawyer

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A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia

By: Melissa Dawn Ooten,Jason Michael Sawyer

An expansive guide for resistance and solidarity across this storied region. Richmond and Central Virginia are a historic epicenter of America’s racialized history. This alternative guidebook foregrounds diverse communities in the region who are mobilizing to dismantle oppressive systems and fundamentally transforming the space to live and thrive. Featuring personal reflections from activists, artists, and community leaders, this book eschews colonial monuments and confederate memorials to instead highlight movements, neighborhoods, landmarks, and gathering spaces that shape social justice struggles across the history of this rapidly growing area. The sites, stories, and events featured here reveal how community resistance and resilience remain firmly embedded in the region’s landscape. A People’s Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia counters the narrative that elites make history worth knowing, and sites worth visiting, by demonstrating how ordinary people come together to create more equitable futures.

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Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Dickson Melissa Dickson

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Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Dickson Melissa Dickson

Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474443672

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Washington and Baltimore Art Deco

A Design History of Neighboring Cities

By: Richard Striner,Melissa Blair

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Washington and Baltimore Art Deco

A Design History of Neighboring Cities

By: Richard Striner,Melissa Blair

Art Deco buildings still lift their modernist principles and streamlined chrome into the skies of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Second Place Winner of the Design and Effectiveness Award of the Washington Publishers The bold lines and decorative details of Art Deco have stood the test of time since one of its first appearances in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. Reflecting the confidence of modern mentality—streamlined, chrome, and glossy black—along with simple elegance, sharp lines, and cosmopolitan aspirations, Art Deco carried surprises, juxtaposing designs growing out of speed (racecars and airplanes) with ancient Egyptian and Mexican details, visual references to Russian ballet, and allusions to Asian art. While most often associated with such masterworks as New York’s Chrysler Building, Art Deco is evident in the architecture of many U.S. cities, including Washington and Baltimore. By updating the findings of two regional studies from the 1980s with new research, Richard Striner and Melissa Blair explore the most significant Art Deco buildings still standing and mourn those that have been lost. This comparative study illuminates contrasts between the white-collar New Deal capital and the blue-collar industrial port city, while noting such striking commonalities as the regional patterns of Baltimore’s John Jacob Zinc, who designed Art Deco cinemas in both cities. Uneven preservation efforts have allowed significant losses, but surviving examples of Art Deco architecture include the Bank of America building in Baltimore (now better known as 10 Light Street) and the Uptown Theater on Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington. Although possibly less glamorous or flamboyant than exemplars in New York or Miami, the authors find these structures—along with apartment houses and government buildings—typical of the Deco architecture found throughout the United States and well worth preserving. Demonstrating how an international design movement found its way into ordinary places, this study will appeal to architectural historians, as well as regional residents interested in developing a greater appreciation of Art Deco architecture in the mid-Atlantic region.

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1421411628

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Science, Society and Power

Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach

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Science, Society and Power

Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach

In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring transformations in global science and contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island. The book focuses on environment, forestry and conservation sciences that are central to these countries and involve resources that many depend upon for their livelihoods. It examines the relationships between policies, bureaucracies and particular types of scientific enquiry and explores how ordinary people, the media and educational practices engage with this. In particular it shows how science becomes part of struggles over power, resources and legitimacy. The authors take a unique ethnographic perspective, linking approaches in anthropology, development and science studies. They address critically prominent debates in each, and explore opportunities for new forms of participation, public engagement and transformation in the social relations of science.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521535662

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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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The Changing Rhythms of American Family Life

By: Suzanne M. Bianchi,John P. Robinson,Melissa A. Milke

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The Changing Rhythms of American Family Life

By: Suzanne M. Bianchi,John P. Robinson,Melissa A. Milke

Over the last forty years, the number of American households with a stay-at-home parent has dwindled as women have increasingly joined the paid workforce and more women raise children alone. Many policy makers feared these changes would come at the expense of time mothers spend with their children. In Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, sociologists Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and Melissa Milkie analyze the way families spend their time and uncover surprising new findings about how Americans are balancing the demands of work and family. Using time diary data from surveys of American parents over the last four decades, Changing Rhythms of American Family Life finds that—despite increased workloads outside of the home—mothers today spend at least as much time interacting with their children as mothers did decades ago—and perhaps even more. Unexpectedly, the authors find mothers' time at work has not resulted in an overall decline in sleep or leisure time. Rather, mothers have made time for both work and family by sacrificing time spent doing housework and by increased "multitasking." Changing Rhythms of American Family Life finds that the total workload (in and out of the home) for employed parents is high for both sexes, with employed mothers averaging five hours more per week than employed fathers and almost nineteen hours more per week than homemaker mothers. Comparing average workloads of fathers with all mothers—both those in the paid workforce and homemakers—the authors find that there is gender equality in total workloads, as there has been since 1965. Overall, it appears that Americans have adapted to changing circumstances to ensure that they preserve their family time and provide adequately for their children. Changing Rhythms of American Family Life explodes many of the popular misconceptions about how Americans balance work and family. Though the iconic image of the American mother has changed from a docile homemaker to a frenzied, sleepless working mom, this important new volume demonstrates that the time mothers spend with their families has remained steady throughout the decades.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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161044051X

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Unacceptable

Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal

By: Melissa Korn,Jennifer Levitz

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Unacceptable

Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal

By: Melissa Korn,Jennifer Levitz

FORBES TOP 10 HIGHER EDUCATION BOOKS OF 2020 The riveting true story behind the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, a cautionary tale of parenting gone wrong, the system that enabled families to veer so far off course, and the mastermind who made it all happen. When federal prosecutors dropped the bombshell of Operation Varsity Blues, it broke open the crimes of exclusive universities and wealthy families all over the country, shattering the myth of American meritocracy. In Unacceptable, veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz dig deep into how otherwise smart, loving parents became caught up in scandal, led through the side door by one man: college whisperer Rick Singer. Unacceptable traces how, over decades, the charismatic Singer easily reeled in parents hoping to guarantee top educations for their children, and exploited a system rigged against regular people. Exploring the status obsession that seduced entitled parents in search of an edge, Korn and Levitz unfurl a scheme that entangled more than fifty conspirators, from wealthy CEOs to famous actresses, leading to imprisonments, ruined careers, and terminated enrollments. An eye-opening account of corruption in America’s most exclusive institutions, Unacceptable tells the story of helicopter parenting, coddled teens, and the man who thought he couldn’t be caught. Detailing Singer’s steady rise and dramatic fall, Korn and Levitz expose the ugly underbelly of elite college admissions, and the devastating consequences of buying success.

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Penguin

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0593087720

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Way I See It

A Look Back at My Life on Little House

By: Melissa Anderson

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Way I See It

A Look Back at My Life on Little House

By: Melissa Anderson

When other girls her age were experiencing their first crushes, Melissa Sue Anderson was receiving handwritten marriage proposals from fans as young, and younger, than she was. When other girls were dreaming of their first kiss, Melissa was struggling through hers in front of a camera. From age eleven in 1974 until she left the show in 1981, Melissa Anderson literally grew up before the viewers of Little House on the Prairie. Melissa, as Mary, is remembered by many as “the blind sister”—and she was the only actor in the series to be nominated for an Emmy. In The Way I See It, she takes readers onto the set and inside the world of the iconic series created by Michael Landon, who, Melissa discovered, was not perfect, as much as he tried to be. In this memoir she also shares her memories of working with guest stars like Todd Bridges, Mariette Hartley, Sean Penn, Patricia Neal, and Johnny Cash. In addition to stories of life on the set, Melissa offers revealing looks at her relationships off-set with her costars, including the other Melissa (Melissa Gilbert) and Alison Arngrim, who portrayed Nellie Oleson on the show. And she relates stories of her guest appearances on iconic programs such as The Love Boat and The Brady Bunch. Filled with personal, revealing anecdotes and memorabilia from the Little House years, this book is also a portrait of a child star who became a successful adult actress and a successful adult. These are stories from “the other Ingalls sister” that have never been told.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762762616

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The Book of Peril

By: Melissa McShane

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The Book of Peril

By: Melissa McShane

As the custodian of the oracular bookstore Abernathy’s, Helena has faced any number of challenges in learning her new role. But when the store begins giving out false prophecies, Helena comes up against her greatest challenge yet: how can she fix Abernathy’s when she doesn’t truly know how it works? Armed only with a few special talents and her desire to protect her magical charge, Helena navigates the treacherous depths of the magical world, where secret enemies lurk behind illusions capable of fooling even the most powerful of magical entities. Helena is the only one who can see past those illusions, but will her abilities prove strong enough to save the oracle?

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Night Harbor Publishing

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194966323X

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Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Jan-Melissa Schramm

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Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Jan-Melissa Schramm

Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular by force of precedent and law. The maintenance of this ban was underpinned by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation, and the power of the image that persisted long after the Reformation, and that were in fact bolstered by the return of Catholicism to public prominence after the passage of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic Archbishoprics in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at mid-century reached new heights, the turn towards medievalism in the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and the 'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre- Reformation past at the centre of debates about the uses of the public stage and the functions of a truly national drama. This book explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century and the eventual return of sacred drama to English public theatres at the start of the twentieth century. Consequently, law, literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into conversation with one another in order to illuminate the history of sacred drama and Protestant ant-theatricalism in England in the long nineteenth-century.

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Oxford University Press

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0192560557

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Thicker Than Water

The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual

By: Melissa Meyer

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Thicker Than Water

The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual

By: Melissa Meyer

Blood is more than a fluid solution of cells, platelets and plasma. It is a symbol for the most basic of human concerns--life, death and family find expression in rituals surrounding everything from menstruation to human sacrifice. Comprehensive in its scope and provocative in its argument, this book examines beliefs and rituals concerning blood in a range of regional and religious contexts throughout human history. Meyer reveals the origins of a wide range of blood rituals, from the earliest surviving human symbolism of fertility and the hunt, to the Jewish bris, and the clitoridectomies given to young girls in parts of Africa. The book also explores how cultural practices influence gene selection and makes a connection with the natural sciences by exploring how color perception influences the human proclivity to create blood symbols and rituals.

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1135342075

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Harlequin Historical December 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Diane Gaston,Laura Martin,Helen Dickson,Joanna Johnson,Melissa Oliver

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Harlequin Historical December 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Diane Gaston,Laura Martin,Helen Dickson,Joanna Johnson,Melissa Oliver

Step back in time and experience the grandeur and romance of a previous era as Harlequin® Historical brings you two new full-length titles and three Christmas novellas in one collection! This boxset includes: REGENCY REUNIONS AT CHRISTMAS by Diane Gaston, Laura Martin, Helen Dickson (Regency) In The Major’s Christmas Return, Caroline is reunited with the major who jilted her! In Proposal for the Penniless Lady, is this Isobel’s second chance with the man she was forced to reject? In Her Duke Under the Mistletoe, Sophie is stunned by the return of her convenient husband… THEIR INCONVENIENT YULETIDE WEDDING by Joanna Johnson (Regency) Samuel’s daring rescue of Julia compromises them into marriage! But when she’s hesitant to trust anyone from her childhood, can he prove he’s no longer the boy she once knew? THE KNIGHT'S SUBSTITUTE BRIDE Brothers and Rivals by Melissa Oliver (Medieval) Lord Robert must marry to seal an alliance. Only, the woman at the altar isn’t who he was promised! And she’s as reluctant to wed as Robert. But friction soon turns to fire…

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0369739434

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Catching Dawn

A Search for a Dog and the Discovery of Family

By: Armstrong, Melissa

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Catching Dawn

A Search for a Dog and the Discovery of Family

By: Armstrong, Melissa

What would you do to save a dog? Night delivers a litter of eight puppies in a poor neighborhood in Springfield, Tennessee the week before Melissa Armstrong first meets her. As a volunteer for a local nonprofit, Melissa has experience with strays and plans to rescue Night and her litter within days. But nothing goes as planned. For the next six months, Melissa and a ragtag cast of characters try to trap the mutt with nets, catchpoles, spring traps, cheeseburgers, hot dogs stuffed with Benadryl, and the dog’s crying puppies. They fail so many times that Melissa is on the brink of giving up. But when she learns about the brutal way the local police department controls the overpopulation problem in Night’s neighborhood, she reaffirms her promise to a dog. She vows to rescue her, no matter the consequences. Catching Dawn is a beautifully written story of how Night became Dawn, and of the other dogs who have brought joy and heartbreak, moments of transcendence and despair, and unconditional love to the author’s life. Catching Dawn is also a vividly told and thoughtful reflection on the many highs and lows of caring for animals and humans in difficult circumstances; a gritty exposé of the consequences of animal overpopulation in the rural South; and the story of how a homeless dog helps a woman move through personal grief and upheaval to rediscover the meaning of family.

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1590566246

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