Melissa Starling's Books

Sweet Do-Over

By: Melissa McClone

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A marriage proposal gone wrong—a second chance to get it right. When architect Marley Patterson goes out with Von Ryan, she never expects her practical, cautious life to be turned upside down by the handsome contractor. Von is the definition of fun, until his proposal sends her into a panic. Marriage is too serious a commitment to make after dating for only six months. Even though she cares for Von, they are too different, so she breaks up with him. Being rejected hurts, but Von blames himself for not reading the signs or Marley better. He finds solace in work; however, his construction company’s success isn’t enough. He wants to share his life with a woman who’ll love him as much as he loves her. She’s out there. All he has to do is find her and, this time, be patient for the relationship to develop on its own. After Marley is assigned to Von’s new project in Indigo Bay, he treats her the same as everyone else—professionally and with respect—though neither can deny a strong mutual attraction still exists. Soon Marley realizes she may have been the problem with their relationship, not just Von’s proposal. She wants a second chance, but after breaking his heart once, will he give her a do-over?

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Cardinal Press, LLC

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1944777253

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Measuring Behaviour

An Introductory Guide

By: Melissa Bateson,Paul Martin

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Measuring Behaviour

An Introductory Guide

By: Melissa Bateson,Paul Martin

Explains the concepts and practical methods of behavioural science in clear, concise terms: vital for understanding humans, animals and AIs.

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Cambridge University Press

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110847831X

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The Indigo Bay Sweet Romance Collection

By: Melissa McClone

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The Indigo Bay Sweet Romance Collection

By: Melissa McClone

Visit the quaint coastal town of Indigo Bay where love is always in the air... From vacation romances to second chances, you’ll find sigh-worthy, small-town romance in this complete collection of Melissa McClone’s stories from the multi-author Indigo Bay Sweet Romance series. These four stories form their own miniseries, so find a cozy reading spot, and escape to Indigo Bay, South Carolina where happily ever afters are guaranteed. Also included is Jenny, the prequel to the rest of the books. This set includes: Jenny (prequel): Jenny Hanford never expects anything to happen the night she whimsically throws her requirements for true love into the ocean. Thirteen months later, however, she hears back from the man who found her bottle. Could he be her dream hero come to life? Sweet Holiday Wishes: Frequent deployments and training exercises kept Army Ranger Staff Sergeant Mitch Hamilton away from home, and he had no idea how taken for granted Lizzy felt until she asked him for a divorce. He'll do whatever It takes to save his marriage. But will it be enough? Sweet Beginnings: Josh Cooper's journey to sobriety inspires Hope Ryan to take charge of her own life. But as their relationship straddles the line between friendship and romance, can Hope and Josh find the strength to overcome their pasts and build a life together? Sweet Do-Over: When architect Marley Patterson turns down Von Ryan's marriage proposal, she realizes too late she made a huge mistake. She wants a second chance, but after breaking his heart once, will he give her a do-over? Sweet Yuletide: Two strangers end up how housesitting together over the holidays. A sprig of mistletoe makes Sheridan DeMarco and Mikey Patterson forget their plans to stay away from each other. But will their happily ever after get tossed out along with the discarded wrapping paper and tinsel? If you enjoy romance and beach reads, you’ll love these stories set in the quaint, coastal town of Indigo Bay!

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Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages: Awaken to the Meaning of Number Sequences and Synchronicities from Animals, Nature, and the Universe

By: Melissa Alvarez

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Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages: Awaken to the Meaning of Number Sequences and Synchronicities from Animals, Nature, and the Universe

By: Melissa Alvarez

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Number Messages Messages for the Numbers 0 to 1111 from 3336 Messengers. Search by Number or Messenger Everything in the Universe is connected to the Divine through energy. It is this connection that allows you to raise your own frequency when you allow your energy to join with Universal Energy. When you’re seeing repeating number patterns and sequences like 111, 333, 555, 369, 123, 421, 888, or any other number combination, it means that the Universe is trying to get your attention so you can receive the message you need. Energy animals, nature elements, and the Universe will show you signs until you notice there is something bigger at work. You may see the numbers on television, in person, in print, hear them on the radio, on a clock, in phone numbers, on car tags, in songs, on the side of a business vehicle, on road signs, and well, just about everywhere until you stop, pay attention, and actively seek out the message they are trying to deliver. By connecting with the frequency of the number and receiving the message, you will be able to grow on your spiritual path, find solutions to problems, or open your mind to new possibilities. You can use Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages in multiple ways. You can look up the numbers and their message or you can use the Messenger List Index to look up the messenger to find what number it relates too. Each number message is supported by three messengers. One from the animal kingdom, one from nature, and one from the Universe/Energy for a total of 3336 messengers. You can also use this book as a bibliomancy tool. Ask the Universe to guide you to the number that is important for you today. Then open the book at random for your message. Also available as a Pocket Edition that is easy to carry with you. The Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages Journal is the perfect tool to use for writing down the messages you’ve received and how they helped you on your spiritual path. Use both the book and journal daily as a reminder that love, abundance, joy, and happiness are only a message away. Order Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages and the Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages Journal today and discover and record the messages that numbers, animals, nature, and the Universe are sending to guide you on your spiritual journey. PRAISE FOR RAISE YOUR FREQUENCY THROUGH NUMBER MESSAGES 5 Stars - Exquisite Essence for Greater Self-realization - "Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages by Melissa Alvarez is an indispensable guidebook that deeply inspires and highly educates its audience on the importance of developing one's intuition for a better understanding of how the elements of the universe are connected, and how they communicate to human beings through repetitive numbers, for greater self-realization, development of psychic self, and growth of their spiritual path. This impressive text bears well-calculated guidance that will see readers understand the nature and objective of the repeated numbers phenomena, which the author has found to have confused a lot of people and therefore ended up being dismissed as spooky and a probable cause for panic. This book offers an effectual interpretation of common numbers ranging from 0 to 1111 and an exhaustive set of instructions on how to interpret numbers that are outside of that range. Alvarez is an author who is keen on details and who readers will find ingenious after interacting with her solid masterpiece. She is very practical and undoubtedly creative in writing this resource that aims to bring readers to a quick discovery of their place in the universe as well as the vast benefits of developing a sharp intuition. By the end of the read, Author Melissa’s audience will appreciate the existence and the unlimited benevolence of a higher power than themselves, whose guidance and direction in various situations they may be going through, stands crucial and significant if well comprehended. Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages by Melissa Alvarez is not an ordinary numerology guidebook but an exclusive five-star volume whose impact on the world will include a change in perspective for millions of people during their difficult times, waking one up to one's true nature, and creating certitude and conviction in their minds during tough decision making. This guidebook, however, begs to be read slowly to grasp every bit of its invaluable detail. The meticulous interpretations therein are bound to keep one invested and reflective on their personal experiences with repetitive numbers that they may have encountered on their paths. Readers will want to have this text around at all times for future reference and guidance.” —Ephantus M. for Reader Views “Everything is made of frequencies. What if you could become conscious of the messengers and numerical frequencies ready to provide deep insights, guidance, and advisement? Melissa’s book is the most astute and practical guidebook I have ever read and employed for receiving these spiritual messages—from over a thousand numbers and three thousand guardians and guides. This is an invaluable roadway to joy and more wondrous than any other.”—Cyndi Dale, author of 30-plus books about energy healing "This book is impressive! Melissa has gone above and beyond in providing the answers and all the pieces of the puzzle of living. In Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages, the power of matching vibrations shines a light on your path by using numbers, animals, nature, gemstones, and the Universe to guide you. There are many messages for you in this book. This book is a must-have!"—Margaret Ann Lembo, author of Animal Totems and the Gemstone Kingdom "Melissa Alvarez goes beyond the typical numerology descriptors to bring you a whole new way to access your guidance through numbers, Intuition & the universe! One of my favorite methods she uses is to tune in for yourself and intuit how your messages apply to your life! A must keep for your shelf!"—Melanie Barnum, author of The Book of Psychic Symbols “Melissa Alvarez always imparts an abundance of information to her readers. This book eloquently showcases her expertise in energy frequencies and is filled with her unique insights into hidden messages behind each number. Her interpretations of number frequencies are packed with three powerful messengers. Readers will find her book offers a valuable in-depth understanding that leads to greater self-realization.” —Sally Painter, author and paranormal content writer “I absolutely LOVE this much-needed book! Melissa has successfully woven the magical messages of numbers with animals, nature, and the universe to reveal a deeper look into how we are constantly being guided in our cosmic dance. She has created a reference book and a guidebook, teaching us how to use our intuition with each meaning she has so wonderfully brought together. This is definitely a book you will want handy at all times!” —Betsey Grady, Psychic Medium, Akashic Records Consultant “Big and bold, wise and wonderful... What can I say but: Wow, this ain't your mama's number book! With well over a thousand entries plus an extensive index, Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages, by Melissa Alvarez, is a brilliant tour de force, an encyclopedic resource as expansive in its scope as it is insightful in its content. And I do mean insightful. I've been working with it for several days now and am finding its number messages to be remarkably accurate overall. Also accessible. This is the sort of book that feels as though it's speaking directly to you, comprehensive and conversational both. Whatever I ask it, I get an astute answer. Besides which, I have to add, it is really fun to use—almost addictive, in fact. Be warned, once you start perusing the pages, you may find it difficult to stop. I know I do. In all honesty, just the act of reading this book raises my frequency. It radiates positive energy. At its core, the book covers the numbers from zero to 1111, and for each and every one, Ms. Alvarez has intuited not only its special message, but also three related synchronicities (additional messengers, if you will, drawn from the realms of animal guides, Nature, and Universal energies), making this a truly unique reference. I know of no other quite like it, and I am so impressed by how well the author knit everything together. The synchronicities dovetail beautifully with the number messages. For the record, I've read almost all of Melissa Alvarez's books, and they never disappoint, but I think this one is my favorite so far. Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages is destined to be a classic. I highly recommend this marvelous book!” —Mimi Riser, author of The Kitchen Witch Collection

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Office-Based Surgery in Otolaryngology, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

By: Melissa A Pynnonen,Cecelia E Schmalbach

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Office-Based Surgery in Otolaryngology, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

By: Melissa A Pynnonen,Cecelia E Schmalbach

This issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics, Guest Edited by Drs. Melissa A. Pynnonen and Cecelia E. Schmalbach, is devoted to Office-Based Surgery in Otolaryngology. Articles in this important issue include: Introduction to Office-Based Surgery in Otolaryngology; Office-based Cosmetic Procedures in Otolaryngology; Mohs Reconstruction and Scar Revision; Office-based Sinus Procedures; In-office Functional Nasal Surgery; Office-based Otology Procedures; In-office Eustachian Tuboplasty; In-office Laryngology Injectables; Office-based Management of Laryngeal Neoplasms; Ultrasound of the Thyroid and Neck; In-office Evaluation and Management of Dysphagia; Patient Safety and Regulatory Considerations; Instrument Sterilization in Otolaryngology; and Facility Accreditation and Coding for Otolaryngology Office Procedures.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323678475

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The Fisher King

A Jack McBride Mystery

By: Melissa Lenhardt

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The Fisher King

A Jack McBride Mystery

By: Melissa Lenhardt

When the dust settles in this Texas town, who will be left standing? It’s been six weeks since Jack McBride’s life went to hell: the resolution of his first case as chief sparked a county-wide drug war, his brother Eddie rode into town with a pocket full of cocaine and trouble on his mind, his estranged wife returned from her one-year sabbatical determined to win him back, and Ellie Martin ended their brief affair. To the Stillwater natives, the increase in local crime can be traced directly back to the day outsider McBride took the job, and they’re gunning to get rid of him. One particular group is led by Joe Doyle, a successful local businessman who’s running for city council against Ellie and her plan to revitalize downtown. Now Jack has discovered proof Doyle is the biggest crime lord in the county, and, with murders piling up and the drug war intensifying, Jack suspects the crimes aren’t business but personal—and he’s the target. The bitter election and Jack’s investigation spark old rivalries and new jealousies, making Ellie and those who love Stillwater most wonder if it’s even worth saving.

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Simon and Schuster

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151070731X

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Daisy Woodworm Changes the World

By: Melissa Hart

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Daisy Woodworm Changes the World

By: Melissa Hart

When thirteen-year-old amateur entomologist Daisy gets an assignment to “change the world,” she’s determined to help her older brother, Sorrel—who has Down syndrome and adores men’s fashion—fulfill his dream of becoming a YouTube celebrity. The catch? If their overprotective parents find out, Daisy won’t be able to change anything.

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1631636383

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Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today

By: Melissa Kwasny

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Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today

By: Melissa Kwasny

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series—one of linked prose poems called “Another Letter to the Soul” and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and animal. The volume speaks to and questions the ancient concept of the soul and its contemporary manifestations, including the damaged soul, the American soul, and the blind, gagged soul of history. Melissa Kwasny does not define the soul in traditional religious terms, but in a shamanic, perhaps ecological sense, as the part of being that continues its existence after death. The poems in “Another Letter to the Soul” point inward, addressing the human soul directly, while the individual lined poems search outward, sensing the soul in the plants, animals, rocks, waters, and winds that surround us.

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University of Washington Press

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0295742453

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Slow Dance

A Novel

By: Melissa McDaniel

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Slow Dance

A Novel

By: Melissa McDaniel

Read the Review! This is a book about relationships. It's the tale of one woman's slow awakening to what she's done to herself in allowing her relationship with her overly possessive mother to dictate the course of her life. It's about the mother whose manipulation pushed her daughter into marriage with a man she did not love, the husband who is a victim of that union, the precious children who suffer but eventually thrive, and the handsome southerner who sets the change in motion. Anyone who has ever resented a parent's manipulation or, even once, thought about leaving a marriage will find Sheila's dilemma a compelling one. Harried career women. sandwich generation moms, and anyone wondering how they strayed so far from their real selves will identify with Sheila's long-repressed spirit as it embarks on the slow dance of connecting with the person she once was.

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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

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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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Knit It!

Learn the Basics and Knit 22 Beautiful Projects

By: Melissa Leapman

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Knit It!

Learn the Basics and Knit 22 Beautiful Projects

By: Melissa Leapman

The expert knitter and popular author teaches basic knitting skills and techniques with twenty-two fun and fashionable projects in this beginner’s guide. This inviting craft book lays the groundwork for a lifetime of knitting—no prior skills necessary! Melissa Leapman presents step-by-step instructions for all the essential skills, techniques, and abbreviations needed to get started knitting, plus clear how-to illustrations for visual learners. After mastering the basics, knitters are ready to start on the twenty-two featured projects, from cozy scarves and chunky sweaters to classic decor items like an ottoman pouf and irresistible hearts. With an inviting design, vibrant photographs, and bonus ideas for customizing each project, Knit It! will have crafters going from beginner to knitter in no time.

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1452130493

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Shame on You

How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification

By: Melissa Petro

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Shame on You

How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification

By: Melissa Petro

In the spirit of Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist comes a courageous, in-depth investigation into the modern epidemic of shame in our society—what it is, why women are uniquely susceptible, and how we can shift the shame off our plates and live our best lives in an over-exposed, image-obsessed world. For millions of women, shame is a vicious predator. It tells us we are less than, that we are unworthy. We try everything to escape shame—ignoring it, intellectualizing it, and even, ironically, shaming ourselves for feeling it. The reality is that women experience shame more frequently and more intensely than men—a direct result, as acclaimed journalist Melissa Petro explains, of a patriarchal culture that “urges women to feel bad about themselves, and then punishes them when they do.” Why can’t we figure out how to break the shame cycle once and for all? In Shame on You, Petro takes on the issue of women’s shame directly with an unflinching look at the social systems that encourage women to believe we are deeply inadequate. From shame’s beginnings ( Maybe she’s born with it? Nope, it’s misogyny.) to its effect on our lives as adults (How the humiliation of “bad women” affects us all.), shame poisons our friendships, romantic relationships, and work lives. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Blending investigative reporting, science, literature, and hundreds of women’s personal stories—including her own shameful account of winding up as an unwitting New York Post cover girl—Petro offers us a new way forward. No matter what you do, she explains, there is no escaping being judged. And yet, the women we can become—sometimes as a consequence of shame, rather than in spite of it—are powerful indeed. And maybe that’s what others are afraid of.

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0593715004

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Stillwater

A Jack McBride Mystery

By: Melissa Lenhardt

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Stillwater

A Jack McBride Mystery

By: Melissa Lenhardt

Big secrets run deep. Former FBI agent Jack McBride took the job as Chief of Police for Stillwater, Texas, to start a new life with his teenage son, Ethan, away from the suspicions that surrounded his wife’s disappearance a year earlier. With a low crime rate and a five-man police force, he expected it to be a nice, easy gig; hot checks, traffic violations, some drugs, occasional domestic disturbances, and petty theft. Instead, within a week he is investigating a staged murder-suicide, uncovering a decades’ old skeleton buried in the woods, and managing the first crime wave in thirty years. For help navigating his unfamiliar, small-town surroundings, Jack turns to Ellie Martin, one of the most respected women in town—her scandal-filled past notwithstanding. Despite Jack's murky marriage status and the disapproval of Ethan and the town, they are immediately drawn to each other. As Jack and Ellie struggle with their budding relationship, they unearth shattering secrets long buried and discover the two cases Jack is working, though fifty years apart, share a surprising connection that will rattle the town to its core. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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1510700714

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Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

By: Peter H. Gilligan,Daniel S. Shapiro,Melissa B. Miller

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Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

By: Peter H. Gilligan,Daniel S. Shapiro,Melissa B. Miller

Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases challenges students to develop a working knowledge of the variety of microorganisms that cause infections in humans. This valuable, interactive text will help them better understand the clinical importance of the basic science concepts presented in medical microbiology or infectious disease courses. The cases are presented as "unknowns" and represent actual case presentations of patients the authors have encountered. Each case is accompanied by several questions to test knowledge in four broad areas including the organism's characteristics and laboratory diagnosis; pathogenesis and clinical characteristics of the infection; epidemiology; and prevention and, in some cases, drug resistance and treatment. This new fourth edition includes: an entirely new section, "Advanced Cases," which includes newly recognized disease agents as well as highly complex cases where the interaction of the immune system and human pathogens can be more closely examined a revised "Primer on the Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases" section that reflects the increasing importance of molecular-based assays Forty-two new cases that explore the myriad advances in the study of infectious disease in the past decade Thirty-two updated cases that reflect the current state of the art as it relates to the organism causing the infection This textbook also include specific tools to assist students in solving the cases, including a table of normal values, glossary of medical terms, and figures illustrating microscopic organism morphology, laboratory tests, and clinical symptoms. Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is a proven resource for preparing for Part I of the National Board of Medical Examiners Exam and an excellent reference for infectious disease rotations.

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1555818676

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Diagnostic Imaging: Chest - E-Book

By: Melissa L. Rosado-de-Christenson,Santiago Martínez-Jiménez

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Diagnostic Imaging: Chest - E-Book

By: Melissa L. Rosado-de-Christenson,Santiago Martínez-Jiménez

Covering the entire spectrum of this fast-changing field, Diagnostic Imaging: Chest, third edition, is an invaluable resource for general radiologists, thoracic radiologists, and trainees—anyone who requires an easily accessible, highly visual reference on today's thoracic imaging. Drs. Melissa L. Rosado-de-Christenson, Santiago Martínez-Jiménez, and their team of highly regarded experts provide up-to-date information on recent advances in technology and the understanding of chest diseases to help you make informed decisions at the point of care. The text is lavishly illustrated, delineated, and referenced, making it a useful learning tool as well as a handy reference for daily practice. - Serves as a one-stop resource for key concepts and information on chest imaging, including a wealth of new material and content updates throughout - Features more than 2,800 illustrations (full-color drawings, clinical and histologic photographs, and gross pathology images) as well as video clips demonstrating the diaphragmatic paralysis positive sniff test, virtual bronchoscopy fly-through, and more - Features updates from cover to cover including new information on pulmonary manifestations of coronavirus infection/COVID-19 and numerous new chapters throughout - Reflects updates in terminology and imaging findings of common neoplastic disorders (including primary lung cancer and lymphoma), and novel imaging findings of inhalational lung diseases, including those related to vaping - Covers common thoracic malignancies and chest diseases with details on the latest knowledge in the field, including lung screening with low-dose chest CT, approach to the patient with incidentally discovered lung nodules, and updates on the imaging manifestations and management recommendations for common pulmonary infections - Uses bulleted, succinct text and highly templated chapters for quick comprehension of essential information at the point of care

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Queer Faith

Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition

By: Melissa E. Sanchez

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Queer Faith

Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition

By: Melissa E. Sanchez

Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of “history and tradition” suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy—from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare—to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporary queer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality. Deliberately unfaithful to disciplinary norms and national boundaries, this book assembles new conceptual frameworks at the juncture of secular and religious thought, political and aesthetic form. It thereby enlarges the contexts, objects, and authorized genealogies of queer scholarship. Retracing a history that did not have to be, Sanchez recovers writing that inscribes radical queer insights at the premodern foundations of conservative and heteronormative culture.

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NYU Press

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1479867519

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Wild Within

How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family

By: Melissa Hart

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Wild Within

How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family

By: Melissa Hart

In this delightful memoir, a woman at loose ends finds true love while rescuing destitute birds and is inspired to adopt a child. Tender, witty, and rewarding, Wild Within is a story about overcoming fear (of beaks, talons, and parenthood!) and saving oneself through saving others.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1461747627

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Questioning Nature

British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750–1830

By: Melissa Bailes

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Questioning Nature

British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750–1830

By: Melissa Bailes

In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers complained that modern poets plagiarized classical authors as well as one another, asserted that no new subjects for verse remained, and feared poetry's complete exhaustion. Questioning Nature explores how major women writers of the era—including Mary Shelley, Anna Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith—turned in response to developing disciplines of natural history such as botany, zoology, and geology. Recognizing the sociological implications of inquiries in the natural sciences, these authors renovated notions of originality through natural history while engaging with questions of the day. Classifications, hierarchies, and definitions inherent in natural history were appropriated into discussions of gender, race, and nation. Further, their concerns with authorship, authority, and novelty led them to experiment with textual hybridities and collaborative modes of originality that competed with conventional ideas of solitary genius. Exploring these authors and their work, Questioning Nature explains how these women writers' imaginative scientific writing unveiled a new genealogy for Romantic originality, both shaping the literary canon and ultimately leading to their exclusion from it.

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0813939771

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Barbershops, Bibles, and BET

Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought

By: Melissa Harris-Perry

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Barbershops, Bibles, and BET

Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought

By: Melissa Harris-Perry

What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment Television. Using statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods Barbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T offers a new perspective on the way public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black politics by shifting the focus from the influence of national elites in opinion formation to the influence of local elites and people in daily interaction with each other. Arguing that African Americans use community dialogue to jointly develop understandings of their collective political interests, Harris-Lacewell identifies four political ideologies that constitute the framework of contemporary black political thought: Black Nationalism, Black Feminism, Black Conservatism and Liberal Integrationism. These ideologies, the book posits, help African Americans to understand persistent social and economic inequality, to identify the significance of race in that inequality, and to devise strategies for overcoming it.

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Vaccine Anxieties

"Global Science, Child Health and Society"

By: Melissa Leach,James Fairhead

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Vaccine Anxieties

"Global Science, Child Health and Society"

By: Melissa Leach,James Fairhead

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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Pure Land, Real World

Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination

By: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

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Pure Land, Real World

Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination

By: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

For close to a thousand years Amida’s Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak to modern Japan. Their efforts succeeded in ways they could not have predicted. During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and historian Ienaga Saburō—left-leaning thinkers with no special training in doctrinal studies and no strong connection to any Buddhist institution—seized upon modernized images of Shinran in exile and a transcendent Western Paradise to resist the demands of a state that was bearing down on its citizens with increasing force. Pure Land, Real World treats the religious thought of these three major figures in English for the first time. Kawakami turned to religion after being imprisoned for his involvement with the Japanese Communist Party, borrowing the Shinshū image of the two truths to assert that Buddhist law and Marxist social science should reinforce each other, like the two wings of a bird. Miki, a member of the Kyoto School who went from prison to the crown prince’s think tank and back again, identified Shinran’s religion as belonging to the proletariat: For him, following Shinran and working toward building a buddha land on earth were akin to realizing social revolution. And Ienaga’s understanding of the Pure Land—as the crystallization of a logic of negation that undermined every real power structure—fueled his battle against the state censorship system, just as he believed it had enabled Shinran to confront the world’s suffering head on. Such readings of the Pure Land tradition are idiosyncratic—perhaps even heretical—but they hum with the same vibrancy that characterized medieval Pure Land belief. Innovative and refreshingly accessible, Pure Land, Real World shows that the Pure Land tradition informed twentieth-century Japanese thought in profound and surprising ways and suggests that it might do the same for twenty-first-century thinkers. The critical power of Pure Land utopianism has yet to be exhausted.

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The Boss

By: Melissa Schroeder

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The Boss

By: Melissa Schroeder

Sick of the spy game, former CIA operative Vic Walker takes time off from his security firm to figure out just what he wants out of life. But peace and quiet isn’t in the cards with a former business partner and ex-lover like MacKenzie Donovan. Mac doesn’t like asking for help from anyone, but this latest case has her in a little over her head. She crashes back into Vic’s life with the CIA, the Russian Mob, and the FBI, on her tail after a job goes south. But even as old feelings rise to the surface while they’re busy dodging bullets, the authorities, and mobsters, they’ll need to get out alive before they can have a second chance at love.

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Entangled: Select Suspense

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Still Life

Adventures in Taxidermy

By: Melissa Milgrom

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Still Life

Adventures in Taxidermy

By: Melissa Milgrom

After her curiosity is piqued by a safari gone awry, a journalist delves into the curious world of taxidermy and shares her findings. It’s easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid sideline, the realm of trophy fish and jackalopes or an anachronistic throwback to the dusty diorama. Yet theirs is a world of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life. Into this subculture of passionate animal-lovers ventures journalist Melissa Milgrom, whose journey stretches from the anachronistic family workshop of the last chief taxidermist for the American Museum of Natural History to the studio where an English sculptor, granddaughter of a surrealist artist, preserves the animals for Damien Hirst’s most disturbing artworks. She wanders through Mr. Potter’s Museum of Curiosities in the final days of its existence to watch dealers vie for preserved Victorian oddities, and visits the Smithsonian’s offsite lab, where taxidermists transform zoo skins into vivacious beasts. She tags along with a Canadian bear trapper and former Roy Orbison impersonator—the three-time World Taxidermy Champion—as he resurrects an extinct Irish elk using DNA studies and Paleolithic cave art for reference; she even ultimately picks up a scalpel and stuffs her own squirrel. Transformed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, Milgrom takes us deep into the world of taxidermy and reveals its uncanny appeal. “Hilarious but respectful.” —Washington Post “Engrossing.” —New Yorker “[A] delightful debut . . . Milgrom has in Still Life opened up a whole world to readers.” —Chicago Tribune “Milgrom’s lively account will appeal to readers who enjoyed Mary Roach’s quirky science books.” —Library Journal

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How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry

A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

By: Melissa Barrett,Massimo Marino,Francesca Brkic,Carlo Alberto Pratesi

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How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry

A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

By: Melissa Barrett,Massimo Marino,Francesca Brkic,Carlo Alberto Pratesi

This book presents a practical guide to help businesses navigate the complex topics of sustainability in the food industry. The book takes you on a journey along the food value chain, from farm to fork, exploring key opportunities to increase positive impacts and circularity at each step of the journey. Written by a team of authors with decades of experience in the food industry and academia, it provides guidance on how to analyse sustainability across the value chain and life cycle of a food product and how to design, implement and communicate strategies to customers. Furthermore, the book shows that there are not always straightforward solutions, but rather choices and trade-offs that require an understanding of what is best suited to the product, customers and business in question. It demystifies a variety of topics, such as local sourcing, regenerative agriculture, plant-based protein and the environmental impact of meat production, and draws on a wide range of case studies from across the globe, to provide concrete, real-world examples. While a perfect food system may not exist, informed decisions can go a long way to reshape and transform the food industry as we know it. This book will be of great interest to professionals working in the food and agriculture industries, as well as students and scholars of sustainable food systems and sustainable business.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000995429

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Harlequin Special Edition August 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Brenda Harlen,Stacy Connelly,Melissa McClone

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Harlequin Special Edition August 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Brenda Harlen,Stacy Connelly,Melissa McClone

Harlequin Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Harlequin Special Edition bundle includes A Wife for One Year by Brenda Harlen, Small-Town Cinderella by Stacy Connelly and The Billionaire’s Nanny by Melissa McClone. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin Special Edition!

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Small Town Sinners

By: Melissa Walker

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Small Town Sinners

By: Melissa Walker

Lacey Anne Byer is a perennial good girl and lifelong member of the House of Enlightenment, the Evangelical church in her small town. With her driver's license in hand and the chance to try out for a lead role in Hell House, her church's annual haunted house of sin, Lacey's junior year is looking promising. But when a cute new stranger comes to town, something begins to stir inside her. Ty Davis doesn't know the sweet, shy Lacey Anne Byer everyone else does. With Ty, Lacey could reinvent herself. As her feelings for Ty make Lacey test her boundaries, events surrounding Hell House make her question her religion. Melissa Walker has crafted the perfect balance of engrossing, thought-provoking topics and relatable, likable characters. Set against the backdrop of extreme religion, Small Town Sinners is foremost a universal story of first love and finding yourself, and it will stay with readers long after the last page.

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Finding Herself There

By: Melissa L. Ross

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Finding Herself There

By: Melissa L. Ross

Melissa L. Ross, author ofSurviving Crazy: A Roadmap to the Scars, continues to survive crazy in her second book,Finding Herself There. When Ross depression resurfaces, she resorts to electroconvulsive therapy to reclaim her sanity. With insight and humor, she shares her experiences in hopes to help other sufferers of mental illness not to feel so alone. Finding Herself Thereoffers a narrated journey of enlightenment rather than a continuation of her previous memoir. In this second book, Ross discusses her winding road of mental illness, the ECT treatments, and self-discovery. Relaying her opinions, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, Ross tells how her experiences continue to expand her philosophical views on life, spirituality, and religion. InFinding Herself There, Ross presents her philosophy: We may feel like we are going around in circles in life, often ending up where we started, but we are never the same as when we began, because each experience we have, and each person we meet changes us in some way. Our journeys in life are not linear, but circular, as a winding road to truly knowing ourselves, as well as the world around us. On our journeys to finding ourselves, we also find each other.

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Cash Confident

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating a Profitable Business

By: Melissa Houston

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Cash Confident

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating a Profitable Business

By: Melissa Houston

Do you know why 82 percent of new businesses fail? Poor money management. To focus on profit and wealth building, entrepreneurs need to become confident about understanding their business finances as well as their ability to manage them. Everything in business affects your bottom line, as do all your decisions. You need to take ultimate responsibility for the financial future of your business—you need to become cash confident! Cash Confident is a roadmap to becoming a financially savvy business owner. It will take you through the no-nonsense 5-Step Cash Confident Framework and unpack money management 101 in clear, easy-to-follow steps to prime you for success. In this book, you’ll learn: · How to think about money in your business. · How to create a financial plan for your business. · How to set up a money advisory board. · How to beat CEO imposter syndrome. · How to recognize your business’s financial strengths and weaknesses. · How to put profit ahead of all else. You will appreciate the shoot-from-the-hip advice, easy-to-understand definitions of financial terms, practical step-by-step implementation of strategies, and overall guidance. By learning how to approach your business finances with gusto, getting smart about money, and gaining a healthy growth mindset, you can go from confusion and cash flow issues to making money work for you.

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Post Hill Press

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163758637X

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ExpertDDx: Chest

By: Brett W. Carter,Melissa L. Rosado-de-Christenson,John P. Lichtenberger III,Santiago Martínez-Jiménez

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ExpertDDx: Chest

By: Brett W. Carter,Melissa L. Rosado-de-Christenson,John P. Lichtenberger III,Santiago Martínez-Jiménez

Now fully revised and up-to-date, Expert DDx: Chest, second edition, quickly guides you to the most likely differential diagnoses based on key imaging findings and clinical information. Expert radiologists Melissa L. Rosado-de-Christenson, Brett W. Carter, and John P. Lichtenberger III present more than 120 cases across a broad cardiothoracic spectrum, classified by general imaging features, modality-specific findings, and clinically-based indications. Readers will find authoritative, superbly illustrated guidance for defining and reporting useful, actionable differential diagnoses that lead to definitive findings for the entire gamut of chest disorders. - Presents several clear, sharp, succinctly annotated images for each diagnosis (more than 1,800 annotated images in all); a list of diagnostic possibilities sorted as common, less common, and rare but significant; and brief, bulleted text offering helpful diagnostic clues - Shows both typical and variant manifestations of each possible diagnosis - Includes new cases, expanded differential considerations, new terminology, and updated imaging throughout - Features all relevant imaging modalities, including chest radiography, the latest generation of multi-planar advanced cross-sectional CT and MR imaging, and molecular imaging with FDG PET/CT - Covers new and evolving areas such as lung cancer screening and the localization and classification of mediastinal lesions, and contains expanded content on the heart and pericardium

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323568548

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Nutrition Across Life Stages

By: Melissa Bernstein,Kimberley McMahon

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Nutrition Across Life Stages

By: Melissa Bernstein,Kimberley McMahon

Good nutrition is a critical component at every stage of life. Nutrition Across Life Stages, Second Edition covers topics applicable and relevant for entry-level Nutrition and Dietetics students who are focusing their study on nutritional requirements and challenges during each life stage. The text clearly and comprehensively presents the impact of nutrition on people across the life cycle, moving through each life stage by first highlighting normal nutritional needs before delving into the implications of nutrition for health and disease at each particular stage of life. Each new print copy includes 365-day Navigate eBook access. Instructor resources include test bank, slides in PowerPoint format, image bank, and instructor's manual with learning objectives, chapter outlines, answers to in-text questions, and more.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284252086

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Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge

The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult

By: Melissa Schrift

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Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge

The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult

By: Melissa Schrift

An innovative look at the changing symbolic value of Chairman Mao badges, from the Cultural Revolution to the present day. Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge is a work of cultural history that contributes to our understanding not only of Chinese society but, more generally, of strategies people employ in responding to and transforming the meaning of propaganda campaigns and symbols.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813529379

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Discovering Nutrition

By: Paul M. Insel,Don Ross,Kimberley McMahon,Melissa Bernstein

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Discovering Nutrition

By: Paul M. Insel,Don Ross,Kimberley McMahon,Melissa Bernstein

Issued with access to Navigate 2 online learning materials.

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1284064654

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Language Arts in Action: Engaging Secondary Students with Journalistic Strategies

By: Ed Madison,Melissa Wantz,Rachel Guldin

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Language Arts in Action: Engaging Secondary Students with Journalistic Strategies

By: Ed Madison,Melissa Wantz,Rachel Guldin

Build communication skills that can last a lifetime. To adolescents enthralled by the instant gratification of social media, the pace of classroom routines can seem glacial. How can educators engage today’s “swipe-happy” students and prepare them to thrive in a world where disinformation is as easy to absorb as information? Language Arts in Action is a thoughtful guide for middle and high school educators wanting to reengage their classes with more active, student-centered instruction. Here, teachers will find tools rooted in journalistic learning: a model that uses project-based storytelling to develop critical communication skills. By allowing young people to research, write, and publish articles aligned with their interests, educators can transform language arts, especially for students who feel their experiences and concerns are missing from traditional instruction.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324030631

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An Introduction to Film Analysis

Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film

By: Michael Ryan,Melissa Lenos

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An Introduction to Film Analysis

Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film

By: Michael Ryan,Melissa Lenos

An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through: -the basic technical terms -shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences -set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-production, art direction and more -each chapter provides clear examples and full colour images from classic as well as contemporary films Ryan and Lenos's updated edition introduces students to the different kinds of lenses and their effects, the multiple possibilities of lighting, and the way post-production modifies images through such processes as saturation and desaturation. Students will learn to ask why the camera is placed where it is, why an edit occurs where it does, or why the set is designed in a certain way. The second section of the book focuses on critical analysis, introducing students to the various approaches to film, from psychology to history, with new analysis on postcolonial, transnational and Affect Theory. New to this edition is a third section featuring several in-depth analyses of films to put into practice what comes before: The Birds, The Shining, Vagabond, In the Mood for Love, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

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Mustard Seeds

Modern Parables

By: Melissa Levi

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Mustard Seeds

Modern Parables

By: Melissa Levi

Mustard Seeds, Modern Parables is a five year collection of short stories. Each story is inspired by the day to day life of an ordinary woman. Melissa covers everything from collapsed sinks to trying to handle a four pound Chihuahua bent on destroying the pet groomers. Her stories, often humorous and always thought provoking, endeavor to show God in the details and point to Christ and how best we can serve Him with our allotted talents and abilities. It is the hope of the writer that these stories nurture a closer walk with Jesus and grow a resilient faith in a turbulent world.

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1954095368

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