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Making Gullah

A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination

By: Melissa L. Cooper

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Making Gullah

A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination

By: Melissa L. Cooper

During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots. At the same time, popular print media and artistic productions tapped the new appeal of black folk life, highlighting African-styled voodoo as an essential element of black folk culture. A number of researchers converged on one site in particular, Sapelo Island, Georgia, to seek support for their theories about "African survivals," bringing with them a curious mix of both influences. The legacy of that body of research is the area's contemporary identification as a Gullah community. This wide-ranging history upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the Low Country blacks of Sapelo Island by refocusing the observational lens on those who studied them. Cooper uses a wide variety of sources to unmask the connections between the rise of the social sciences, the voodoo craze during the interwar years, the black studies movement, and black land loss and land struggles in coastal black communities in the Low Country. What emerges is a fascinating examination of Gullah people's heritage, and how it was reimagined and transformed to serve vastly divergent ends over the decades.

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UNC Press Books

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1469632691

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The Remarkable Meadow Andrews

By: Melissa D MacKinnon

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The Remarkable Meadow Andrews

By: Melissa D MacKinnon

“Your baby is special. I’ve never seen eyes like hers. She’s going to see and do remarkable things in her lifetime.” When Isaac and Lisa Andrews hear these words about their newborn daughter, they don’t realize just how true they are. Twelve-year-old Meadow Andrews has the remarkable ability to see where someone is at any given time, a gift that Meadow is hesitant to exploit. Determined to use her unique superpower for good, Meadow is frustrated that she has been unable to find local missing teen Callan Morris. In fact, she’s worried he’s dead. If that wasn’t enough, Meadow witnesses a theft that leaves her to fear for her life after the thief threatens her. The stakes are high for Callan Morris, who might die if he doesn't get help soon. Callan’s tragic childhood has led to him hiding from the world after fleeing his foster home and abusive foster brother. Determined to take care of himself, Callan comes to learn that family can be the people you know, not just your biological relatives. Tina Robyn is mad at the world, but mostly she’s angry at Meadow Andrews, her former friend turned enemy. Blaming Meadow for her father leaving, Tina jumps at any chance to bully the girl. When she finds a box of her father’s things, Tina is eager to learn more about her father and hopefully reunite with him. However, Tina soon realizes that perhaps her father is not the man she remembers after her search ends up putting Meadow’s life in danger.

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FriesenPress

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1038309077

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Supporting Successful Interventions in Schools

Tools to Plan, Evaluate, and Sustain Effective Implementation

By: Lisa M. Hagermoser Sanetti,Melissa A. Collier-Meek

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Supporting Successful Interventions in Schools

Tools to Plan, Evaluate, and Sustain Effective Implementation

By: Lisa M. Hagermoser Sanetti,Melissa A. Collier-Meek

Evidence-based interventions benefit learners only when they are implemented fully. Yet many educators struggle with successful implementation. This unique book gives practitioners a research-based framework for working with PreK–12 educators to support the effective delivery of academic, behavioral, and social–emotional interventions. Step-by-step procedures are presented for assessing existing implementation efforts and using a menu of support strategies to promote intervention fidelity. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 28 reproducible worksheets, strategy guides, and fidelity assessment tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

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Guilford Publications

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1462537774

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Breaking Hearts

By: Melissa Shirley

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Breaking Hearts

By: Melissa Shirley

Can tragedies have a happy ending in Storybook Lake? Every town has one—a mean girl, hell-bent on taking down everything in her path—and Danielle Ranier played the role to a tee. She broke up Storybook Lake’s most beloved couple and to save herself from a lifetime of lectures on morality, she hopped on the first plane out of town. Six years, one child, and a big secret later, she’s back, fleeing from her abusive husband, who isn’t quite willing to set her free. Now on trial for a murder she didn’t commit, Simon Hunter, the only man she’s ever loved is offering her a lifetime of love and security. If she could only reveal the secrets long-held inside her, a family that never was might finally come together . . .

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Lyrical Press

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1601836139

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The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714

Political Pornography and Prostitution

By: Melissa M. Mowry

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The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714

Political Pornography and Prostitution

By: Melissa M. Mowry

With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political pornography. This book further advances our understanding of pornography's importance in seventeenth-century England by extending its investigation beyond the realm of cultural rhetoric into the realm of cultural practice. In addition to the satires which previous scholars have discussed in this context, Mowry brings to light hitherto unexamined pornographies as well as archival texts that reveal the ways in which the satires helped shape the social policies endured by prostitutes and bawds. Her study includes substantial archival evidence of prostitution from the Middlesex Sessions and the Bridewell Courtbooks. Mowry argues that Stuart partisans cultivated representations of bawds and prostitutes because polemicists saw the public sale of sex as republicanism's ideological apotheosis. Sex work, partisans repeatedly asserted, inherently disrupted ancestral systems of property transfer and distribution in favour of personal ownership, while the republican belief that all men owned the labour of their body achieved a nightmarish incarnation in the prostitute's understanding that the sexual favours she performed were labour. The prostitute's body thus emerged in the loyalist imagination as the epitome of the democratic body politic. Carefully grounded in original research, The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660-1714 is a cultural study with broad implications for the way we understand the historical constructions and legal deployments of women's sexuality.

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Routledge

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1351894137

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Falling Grace

By: Melissa Shirley

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Falling Grace

By: Melissa Shirley

Finding the fairytale in Storybook Lake... Grace Wade left Storybook Lake hoping to escape her crazy family and the demands of her job as a defense attorney. But not twenty-four hours after landing in a small Texas town where she hopes to find new beginnings, Grace instead finds herself in the middle of an investigation that’s turning the town inside out. Once she agrees to be the defense attorney on the case, Grace suddenly finds herself torn between twin brothers Blane Sheperd, the bad boy prosecutor on the case, and Jamie Sheperd, the sweetheart town Sheriff... Grace thought life in a small town would be simple, but simple has a way of eluding her. To find her way to a happy ending, she’ll have to master the art of following her heart...

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Lyrical Press

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1601836112

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Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South

By: Paul E. Teed,Melissa Ladd Teed

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Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South

By: Paul E. Teed,Melissa Ladd Teed

This book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, resilience, and an insatiable desire to be free. The Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South focuses on their struggles to create lives of meaning and dignity within a brutal and repressive system. This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the perspective of the slaves themselves. Readers can explore the family life, religious beliefs, political activities, intellectual aspirations, material possessions, and recreational pursuits of enslaved people. The book shows that enslaved people were tightly constrained by the harsh realities of the oppressive system under which they lived but that they found ways to forge lives of their own. The book synthesizes the latest and best literature on slavery and gives readers the opportunity to examine history through the lens of daily life using primary source documents created by slaves or former slaves.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216071327

Image to Interpretation

An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts

By: Melissa Terras,Paul Robertson

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Image to Interpretation

An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts

By: Melissa Terras,Paul Robertson

The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique historical resource but are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the use of techniques from Artificial Intelligence.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199204551

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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Melissa Edmundson Makala

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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Melissa Edmundson Makala

Nineteenth-century ghost literature by women shows the Gothic becoming more experimental and subversive as its writers abandoned the stereotypical Gothic heroines of the past in order to create more realistic, middle-class characters (both living and dead, male and female) who rage against the limits imposed on them by the natural world. The ghosts of Female Gothic thereby become reflections of the social, sexual, economic and racial troubles of the living. Expanding the parameters of Female Gothic and moving it into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries allows us to recognise women’s ghost literature as a specific strain of the Female Gothic that began not with Ann Radcliffe, but with the Romantic Gothic ballads of women in the first decade of the nineteenth century.

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University of Wales Press

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0708326978

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Prattville, Alabama

A Brief History of the Fountain City

By: Marc Parker,Melissa Benefield Parker

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Prattville, Alabama

A Brief History of the Fountain City

By: Marc Parker,Melissa Benefield Parker

In 1833, a New Hampshire industrialist named Daniel Pratt moved south. Pratt established the largest cotton gin factory in the world and, with it, a town known fittingly as Prattville. Soon this humble hamlet outside Montgomery became an industrial hub, fueling Alabama's antebellum cotton production. Prattville weathered the Civil War and recovered faster than any other Alabama town, as Pratt collected on debts owed from his Northern accounts. Since then, Prattville has continued to grow in important ways, gradually shifting from an industrial epicenter to a forward-looking city and a beloved hometown. Through floods, tornadoes, damaging fires and shifting economic conditions, Prattville and its townspeople endured. Now, authors Marc and Melissa Parker ensure that Prattville's history will also endure by recounting the Fountain City's proud heritage.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625840756

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Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp

A Nine-to-Five Emergency

By: Melissa Gatter

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Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp

A Nine-to-Five Emergency

By: Melissa Gatter

The politics and governance of Jordan’s Azraq camp for Syrian refugees Azraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp investigates the relationship between time and power in Azraq, asking how a politics of time shapes, limits, or enables everyday life for the displaced and for aid workers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, carried out during 2017–2018, the book challenges the perceptions of Azraq as the ‘ideal’ refugee camp. Melissa Gatter argues that the camp operates as a ‘nine-to-five emergency’ where mundane bureaucratic procedures serve to sustain a power system in which refugees are socialized to endure a cynical wait—both for everyday services and for their return—without expectations for a better outcome. Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp also explores how refugees navigate this system, both in the day-to-day and over years, by evaluating various layers of waiting as they affect refugee perceptions of time in the camp—not only in the present, but the past, near future, and far future. Far from an ‘ideal’ camp, Azraq and its politics of time constitute a cruel reality in which a power system meant to aid refugees is one that suppresses, foreclosing futures that it is supposed to preserve.

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American University in Cairo Press

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1617970980

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Hiking Waterfalls in Georgia and South Carolina

A Guide to the States' Best Waterfall Hikes

By: Melissa Watson

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Hiking Waterfalls in Georgia and South Carolina

A Guide to the States' Best Waterfall Hikes

By: Melissa Watson

The mountains of Georgia and South Carolina are renowned for beautiful waterfalls. Hiking Waterfalls in Georgia and South Carolina includes detailed hike descriptions, maps, and color photos for more than 60 of the most scenic waterfall hikes in the states—many of them along the mountainous border between the two states, within easy access of each other. Hike descriptions also include history, local trivia, and GPS coordinates. This book is an ideal complement to the popular FalconGuides Hiking South Carolina and Hiking Georgia, with minimal overlapping content.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762777052

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9780762777051

Writing Russia

The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation

By: Melissa-Ellen Dowling

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Writing Russia

The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation

By: Melissa-Ellen Dowling

Writing Russia offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing preeminent historical works on the history of Russia, this book provides insight into the hidden ideological underpinnings of the texts and their representations of Russia in the West. It demonstrates that historians employ a range of literary techniques to smooth over contradictions in their narratives of Russia, generating a seemingly cohesive depiction of Russia as a liminal, Other nation. This is a process that this book theorises as "discordus", representing an original conceptual framework for examining national history texts. It identifies patterns in the language and emplotment of Anglophone Russian histories across several defining historical epochs from the Mongol conquests to the Putin presidency, revealing the extent to which historians wield the narrative power to "make or break" nations. Postmodern in approach, the work pushes the boundaries of historiography and calls into question the nature of history.

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Routledge

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1000411753

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Just Three Words

By: Melissa Brayden

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Just Three Words

By: Melissa Brayden

Sometimes the one you want is the one you least suspect... Accountant Samantha Ennis craves order and structure. As the bookkeeper at the boutique advertising agency she owns with her three best friends, it’s her job to apply logic to the chaos. When one of those best friends, laid back Hunter Blair, moves in to share her loft apartment, Sam’s carefully organized world is thrown wildly askew. Hunter Blair’s been the coolest one in the room since elementary school. Until recently, her biggest worry in the world was which of the girls in her cell phone to call on a Saturday night. But it’s not long before Samantha sparks a fire in Hunter that has her questioning her old habits and longing for new ones. Isn’t it a bad idea to fall for one of your best friends? Samantha and Hunter are about to find out.

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Bold Strokes Books Inc

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1626393796

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain

A Clinical Manual and Guide

By: Melissa A. Day

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain

A Clinical Manual and Guide

By: Melissa A. Day

This unique new guide integrates recent advances in the biopsychosocial understanding of chronic pain with state-of-the-art cognitive therapy and mindfulness techniques to offer a fresh, highly-effective MBCT approach to helping individuals manage chronic pain. There is intense interest from clinicians, researchers and patients alike in mindfulness-based therapeutic techniques, and the integration of mindfulness theory and practice with CBT Provides everything a therapist needs to integrate MBCT into their practice and optimize its delivery, including a manualized 8-session program and guidance on how to teach MBCT skills Features case studies and real-world examples that help practitioners to avoid common pitfalls and optimize the delivery of MBCT for chronic pain for their own individual clients Features links to guided meditations, client and therapist handouts and other powerful tools

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119257646

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Seeing America

Women Photographers Between the Wars

By: Melissa A. McEuen

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Seeing America

Women Photographers Between the Wars

By: Melissa A. McEuen

“This vibrant and penetrating study. . . . opens a window on American culture between the world wars.” —Publishers Weekly Seeing America explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Taken together, they visually articulated the essential ideas occupying the American consciousness in the years between the world wars. Melissa McEuen examines the work of Doris Ulmann, who made portraits of celebrated artists in urban areas and lesser-known craftspeople in rural places; Dorothea Lange, who magnified human dignity in the midst of poverty and unemployment; Marion Post Wolcott, a steadfast believer in collective strength as the antidote to social ills and the best defense against future challenges; Margaret Bourke-White, who applied avant-garde advertising techniques in her exploration of the human condition; and Berenice Abbott, a devoted observer of the continuous motion and chaotic energy that characterized the modern cityscape. Combining feminist biography with analysis of visual texts, McEuen considers the various prisms though which each woman saw and revealed America. Winner of the 1999 Emily Toth Award for the best feminist study of popular culture given by the Women’s Caucus of the Popular Culture Association. “A rich resource for anyone interested in the history of photography, women’s history, and American history in general.” —Bloomsbury Review “A valiant, well-researched effort to bridge the history of visual culture with American social and political history.” —Journal of American History “The best books always leave their audience wanting more. That is certainly true of this gem of a work.” —Library Journal (starred review).

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813183111

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Reading Practice

The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print

By: Melissa Reynolds

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Reading Practice

The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print

By: Melissa Reynolds

Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England. Reading Practice tells the story of how ordinary people grew comfortable learning from commonplace manuscripts and printed books, such as almanacs, medical recipe collections, and herbals. From the turn of the fifteenth century to the close of the sixteenth century, these were the books English people read when they wanted to attend to their health or understand their place in the universe. Before then, these works had largely been the purview of those who could read Latin. Around 1400, however, medical and scientific texts became available in Middle English while manuscripts became less expensive. These vernacular manuscripts invited their readers into a very old and learned conversation: Hippocrates and Galen weren’t distant authorities whose word was law, they were trusted guides, whose advice could be excerpted, rearranged, recombined, and even altered to suit a manuscript compiler’s needs. This conversation continued even after the printing press arrived in England in 1476. Printers mined manuscripts for medical and scientific texts that they would publish throughout the sixteenth century, though the pressures of a commercial printing market encouraged printers to package these old texts in new ways. Without the weight of authority conditioning their reactions and responses to very old knowledge, and with so many editions of practical books to choose from, English readers grew into confident critics and purveyors of natural knowledge in their own right. Melissa Reynolds reconstructs shifting attitudes toward medicine and science over two centuries of seismic change within English culture, attending especially to the effects of the Reformation on attitudes toward nature and the human body. Her study shows how readers learned to be discerning and selective consumers of knowledge gradually, through everyday interactions with utilitarian books.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226823636

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9780226823638

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

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1284064654

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Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy

How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives

By: James L. Griffith,Melissa Elliott Griffith

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Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy

How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives

By: James L. Griffith,Melissa Elliott Griffith

Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses.

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Guilford Press

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146250583X

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Prep School Cowboys

Ranch Schools in the American West

By: Melissa Bingmann

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Prep School Cowboys

Ranch Schools in the American West

By: Melissa Bingmann

An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education."--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826355439

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The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

By: Melissa Jensen

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The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

By: Melissa Jensen

Pretty in Pink meets Anna and the French Kiss in this charming romantic comedy Ella is nearly invisible at the Willing School, and that's just fine by her. She's got her friends - the fabulous Frankie and their sweet cohort Sadie. She's got her art - and her idol, the unappreciated 19th-century painter Edward Willing. Still, it's hard being a nobody and having a crush on the biggest somebody in the school: Alex Bainbridge. Especially when he is your French tutor, and lessons have started becoming, well, certainly more interesting than French ever has been before. But can the invisible girl actually end up with a happily ever after with the golden boy, when no one even knows they're dating? And is Ella going to dare to be that girl?

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Penguin

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1101566930

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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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Introduction to Intelligence Studies

By: Carl J. Jensen, III,David H. McElreath,Melissa Graves

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Introduction to Intelligence Studies

By: Carl J. Jensen, III,David H. McElreath,Melissa Graves

Introduction to Intelligence Studies (third edition) provides an overview of the US intelligence community, to include its history, organization, and function. Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community (IC) has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues, defining critical terms and reviewing the history of intelligence as practiced in the United States. Designed in a practical sequence, the book begins with the basics of intelligence, progresses through its history, describes best practices, and explores the way the intelligence community looks and operates today. The authors examine the "pillars" of the American intelligence system—collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert operations—and demonstrate how these work together to provide "decision advantage." The book offers equal treatment to the functions of the intelligence world—balancing coverage on intelligence collection, counterintelligence, information management, critical thinking, and decision-making. It also covers such vital issues as laws and ethics, writing and briefing for the intelligence community, and the emerging threats and challenges that intelligence professionals will face in the future. This revised and updated third edition addresses issues such as the growing influence of Russia and China, the recent history of the Trump and Biden administrations and the IC, and the growing importance of the cyber world in the intelligence enterprise. This book will be essential reading for students of intelligence studies, US national security, foreign policy and International Relations in general.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000631664

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9781000631661

Life, Fish and Mangroves

Resource Governance in Coastal Cambodia

By: Melissa Marschke

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Life, Fish and Mangroves

Resource Governance in Coastal Cambodia

By: Melissa Marschke

In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent village life. Following six households and one village-based institution in coastal Cambodia over a twelve-year period, Marschke reveals the opportunities and constraints facing villagers and illustrates why local resource management practices remain delicate, even with a sustained effort. She highlights how government and business interests in community-based management and resource exploitation combine to produce a complex, highly uncertain dynamic. With this instructive study, she demonstrates that in spite of a significant effort, spanning many years and engaging many players, resource governance remains fragile and coastal livelihoods in Cambodia remain precarious.

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University of Ottawa Press

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0776619861

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Becoming Melungeon

Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South

By: Melissa Schrift

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Becoming Melungeon

Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South

By: Melissa Schrift

Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown origins of these Melungeons are part of what drove this legend and generated myriad exotic origin theories. Though nobody self-identified as Melungeon before the 1960s, by the 1990s "Melungeonness" had become a full-fledged cultural phenomenon, resulting in a zealous online community and annual meetings where self-identified Melungeons gathered to discuss shared genealogy and history. Although today Melungeons are commonly identified as the descendants of underclass whites, freed African Americans, and Native Americans, this ethnic identity is still largely a social construction based on local tradition, myth, and media. In Becoming Melungeon, Melissa Schrift examines the ways in which the Melungeon ethnic identity has been socially constructed over time by various regional and national media, plays, and other forms of popular culture. Schrift explores how the social construction of this legend evolved into a fervent movement of a self-identified ethnicity in the 1990s. This illuminating and insightful work examines the shifting social constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity both in the local context of the Melungeons and more broadly in an attempt to understand the formation of ethnic groups and identity in the modern world.

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Off the Planet

Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema

By: Rebecca Leydon,Shuhei Hosokawa,Nabeel Zuberi,Neil Lerner,Rebecca Coyle,Paul Théberge,Michael Hannan,Melissa Carey,Karen Collins,Mark Evans

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Off the Planet

Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema

By: Rebecca Leydon,Shuhei Hosokawa,Nabeel Zuberi,Neil Lerner,Rebecca Coyle,Paul Théberge,Michael Hannan,Melissa Carey,Karen Collins,Mark Evans

Essays on the use of music and sound in films from Godzilla to Star Wars and beyond. In recent years, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an important, if often neglected, aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound, and science fiction cinema. Following a detailed historical introduction to the development of sound and music in the genre, individual chapters analyze key films, film series, composers, and directors in the postwar era. The first part of the anthology profiles seminal 1950s productions such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, the first Godzilla film, and Forbidden Planet. Later chapters analyze the work of composer John Williams, the career of director David Cronenberg, the Mad Max series, James Cameron’s Terminators, and other notable SF films such as Space Is the Place, Blade Runner, Mars Attacks!, and The Matrix. Off the Planet is an important contribution to the emerging body of work in music and film, with contributors including leading film experts from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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0861969383

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Work, Postmodernism and Organization

A Critical Introduction

By: Philip Hancock,Melissa Tyler

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Work, Postmodernism and Organization

A Critical Introduction

By: Philip Hancock,Melissa Tyler

Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization. The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice. Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of organization theory, organizational behaviour, industrial sociology, and more general business, management and sociology courses.

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1847876463

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Explorer's Guide Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

By: Justin Gage,Melissa Gage

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Explorer's Guide Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations)

By: Justin Gage,Melissa Gage

This innovative guide will lead you through the birthplace of the blues, covering the world-famous attractions, historic sites, funky shops, and gold record legacies of Memphis and the surrounding Mississippi Delta. With a strong focus on modern-day arts and music enclaves, as well as the storied sites where the blues got their start; hundreds of top-notch dining, lodging, and recreational recommendations; over one hundred illuminating photos and maps; and travel logistics, this is the most comprehensive guide to the region to-date.

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1581579233

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Athletic Training Clinical Workbook

A Guide to the Competencies

By: Kim Miller-Isaac,Melissa Noble

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Athletic Training Clinical Workbook

A Guide to the Competencies

By: Kim Miller-Isaac,Melissa Noble

A one-of-a-kind workbook for certification exam success! Waiting in the training room? Have downtime on the field? Take this portable workbook with you wherever you go to confidently prepare for the competencies required by the BOC and meet the challenges you’ll face in clinical and practice.

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0803640951

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Best Hikes with Dogs Texas Hill Country and Coast

By: Melissa Gaskill

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Best Hikes with Dogs Texas Hill Country and Coast

By: Melissa Gaskill

* Terrain that's hazard-free and easy on the dog paws * Guidebook includes what to pack for your dog -- the Ten Canine Essentials and the Doggy First-Aid Kit A native of Texas, Melissa Gaskill has spent more than 20 years hiking and camping with her dogs all over the Lonestar State. In this guidebook, she shares her favorite hikes in the Hill Country and Coast areas that are sure to delight both you and your dog. The trails in range from short jaunts to longer, challenging hikes. Discover everything from rugged hills with limestone cliffs and rolling terrain, to wide-open areas with brush and cactus, to the coastal plain with its grasslands and pine forests. For each hike, leash regulations and availability of water are noted, along with any trail concerns pertinent for your dog. Advice is given on topics such as proper canine trail etiquette, wildlife encounters, and weather concerns. There's also a handy Trail Finder chart that lists hikes by length, terrain, difficulty for dogs, and more.

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Chalasmenos I

The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement House A.2

By: Melissa Eaby

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Chalasmenos I

The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement House A.2

By: Melissa Eaby

This is the first volume on the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Chalasmenos, located near Ierapetra in eastern Crete. The site was excavated (1992-2014), initially as part of a Greek-American project under the direction of Metaxia Tsipopoulou and the late William Coulson. House A.2 is a two-room structure on the southwestern edge of the site. The excavation and stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, small finds, and faunal material from the building are presented. The house was used for domestic purposes, serving as the home of an elite (or prospective elite) family, but it also was a meeting and dining place on certain occasions.

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1623034167

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Curtain of Lies

The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe

By: Melissa Feinberg

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Curtain of Lies

The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe

By: Melissa Feinberg

While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist warmongers and of the glorious future only Communism could bring. A competing discourse emanated from the West, claiming that Eastern Europe was a totalitarian land of captive slaves, powerless in the face of Soviet aggression. In Curtain of Lies, Melissa Feinberg conducts a timely examination into the nature of truth, using the political culture of Eastern Europe during the Cold War as her foundation. Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1956, she looks at how the "truth" of Eastern Europe was delineated by actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Feinberg offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as a shared political environment, exploring the ways in which ordinary East Europeans interacted with these competing understandings of their homeland. She approaches this by looking at the relationship between the American-sponsored radio stations broadcast across the Iron Curtain and the East European émigrés they interviewed as sources on life under Communism. Feinberg's careful analysis reveals that these parties developed mutually reinforced assumptions about the meaning of Communism, helping to create the evidentiary foundation for totalitarian interpretations of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. In bridging the geopolitical and the individual, Curtain of Lies provides a perspective that is both innovative in its methodology and indispensable to its field.

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0190644621

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Arthur Lessac's Embodied Actor Training

By: Melissa Hurt

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Arthur Lessac's Embodied Actor Training

By: Melissa Hurt

Arthur Lessac’s Embodied Actor Training situates the work of renowned voice and movement trainer Arthur Lessac in the context of contemporary actor training. Supported by the work of Constantin Stanislavsky and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theories of embodiment, the book explores Lessac's practice in terms of embodied acting, a key subject in contemporary performance. In doing so, the author explains how the actor can come to experience both skill and expression as a subjective whole through active meditation and spatial attunement. As well as feeding this psychophysical approach into a wider discussion of embodiment, the book provides concrete examples of how the practice can be put into effect. Using insights gleaned from interviews conducted with Lessac and his Master Teachers, the author enlightens our own understanding of Lessac’s practices. Three valuable appendices enhance the reader’s experience. These include: a biographical timeline of Lessac’s life and career sample curricula and a lesson plan for teachers at university level explorations for personal discovery Melissa Hurt is a Lessac Certified Trainer and has taught acting and Lessac’s voice, speech, and movement work at colleges across the United States. She has a PhD from the University of Oregon and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Routledge

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1317914600

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Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema

Framing Sacred Spaces

By: Melissa Croteau

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Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema

Framing Sacred Spaces

By: Melissa Croteau

This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at general audiences in Japan and globally. These cinematic masterpieces by directors Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Makoto Shinkai operate as expressions of and, potentially, catalysts for transcendence of various kinds, particularly during the Heisei era (1989–2019), when Japan experienced severe economic hardship and devastating natural disasters. The book’s approach to aesthetics and religion employs the multifaceted concepts of ma (structuring intervals, liminal space-time), kū (emptiness, sky), mono no aware (compassionate sensibility, resigned sadness), and musubi (generative interconnection), examining the dynamic, evolving nature of these ancient principles that are at once spiritual, aesthetic, and philosophical. Scholars and enthusiasts of Japanese cinema (live action and anime), religion and film, cinematic aesthetics, and the relationship between East Asian religions and the arts will find fresh perspectives on these in this book, which moves beyond conventional notions of transcendental style and essentialized approaches to the multivalent richness of Japanese aesthetics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000755916

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Resisting the Rancher

By: Christine Rimmer,Melissa Senate

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Resisting the Rancher

By: Christine Rimmer,Melissa Senate

A maverick for keeps Her Favorite Maverick by Christine Rimmer Logan Crawford might just be the perfect man. From the top of his Stetson to his pointy-toed boots, he is 100 percent cowboy. A girl would have to be a fool to turn him down. Or a coward. Sarah Turner thinks she might be both. But the single mom has no time for love and no inclination to be the sexy rancher’s “just for now.” Logan, however, is determined to steal her heart! Rust Creek Falls Cinderella by Melissa Senate From her post in the kitchen at Maverick Manor, chef Lily Hunt feels like anything but a princess. But when lanky rancher Xander Crawford lopes into the restaurant, Lily suddenly finds herself wishing she had a magic wand. The wealthy cowboy loves her cooking but sees her as just a friend, until a makeover makes him appreciate her womanly side. Lily, however, wants a prince who loves her inside and out… New York Times Bestselling Author Christine Rimmer 2 Heartfelt Stories Her Favorite Maverick and Rust Creek Falls Cinderella

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0369721918

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Places of the Underground Railroad

A Geographical Guide

By: Tom Calarco,Cynthia Vogel,Kathryn Grover,Rae Hallstrom,Sharron L. Pope,Melissa Waddy- Thibodeaux

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Places of the Underground Railroad

A Geographical Guide

By: Tom Calarco,Cynthia Vogel,Kathryn Grover,Rae Hallstrom,Sharron L. Pope,Melissa Waddy- Thibodeaux

This up-to-date compilation details the most significant stops along the Underground Railroad. Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide presents an overview of the various sites that comprised this unique road to freedom, with entries chosen to represent all regions of the United States and Canada. Where most works on the Underground Railroad focus on the people involved, this unique guide explores the intricacies of travel that allowed the "conductors" to carry out the tasks entrusted to them. It presents an accurate picture of just where the Underground Railroad was and how it operated, including routes and itineraries and connections between the various Railroad locations. Through information about these locations, the book takes readers from the beginnings of organized aid to fugitive slaves during the period following the American Revolution up to the Civil War. It delineates the possible routes fugitive slaves may have taken by identifying the rivers, canals, and railroads that were sometimes used. And it shows that a network, though decentralized and variable over time and place, truly was established among Underground Railroad participants.

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031338147X

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CliffsNotes AP U.S. History Cram Plan

By: Melissa Young

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CliffsNotes AP U.S. History Cram Plan

By: Melissa Young

CliffsNotes AP U.S. History Cram Plan gives you a study plan leading up to your AP exam no matter if you have two months, one month, or even one week left to review before the exam! This new edition of CliffsNotes AP U.S. History Cram Plan calendarizes a study plan for the 489,000 AP U.S. History test-takers depending on how much time they have left before they take the May exam. Features of this plan-to-ace-the-exam product include: • 2-months study calendar and 1-month study calendar • Diagnostic exam that helps test-takers pinpoint strengths and weaknesses • Subject reviews that include test tips and chapter-end quizzes • Full-length model practice exam with answers and explanations

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0544915054

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