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Diaries of a Depressed Teenager

By: Mia Rayna

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Diaries of a Depressed Teenager

By: Mia Rayna

This book is meant to express the world and its challenges through a young persons eyes. It is meant to highlight what weve lost throughout all weve added to our world and what that means for the young people meant to be the future for every generation.

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101

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iUniverse

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1532005768

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9781532005763

Taking Chances

A Love Story

By: Mia Semuta

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Taking Chances

A Love Story

By: Mia Semuta

When divorceé Bianca DiAngelis meets divorced high school football coach John Bennington, there is plenty of attraction. But will they overcome the obstacles of former spouses, relatives, careers and self-doubt?

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502

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iUniverse

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0595525695

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9780595525690

A Place for Family

By: Mia Ross

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A Place for Family

By: Mia Ross

Hometown Girl Returns…With A Secret One suitcase is all Amanda Gardner has to her name when she ends up back in Harland, North Carolina. No one knows how the high-powered ad exec, the girl who couldn't leave town fast enough after high school, lost her glamorous life in California. Everyone's curious—except John Sawyer. He's done enough wondering about his childhood best friend over the years. Why she never called…or wrote…or visited. But John's instinct is to protect Amanda, and something tells him she's in deep trouble. Will she feel safe enough to trust him—and lean on his strength?

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144

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Harlequin

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1460307275

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9781460307274

Packaging Materials and Processing for Food, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics

By: Frederic Debeaufort,Kata Galic,Mia Kurek,Nasreddine Benbettaieb,Mario Scetar

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Packaging Materials and Processing for Food, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics

By: Frederic Debeaufort,Kata Galic,Mia Kurek,Nasreddine Benbettaieb,Mario Scetar

This book provides valuable information on a range of food packaging topics. It serves as a source for students, professionals and packaging engineers who need to know more about the characteristics, applications and consequences of different packaging materials in food-packaging interactions. This book is divided into 13 chapters and focuses on the agro-food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors. The first four chapters cover traditional packaging materials: wood, paper and cardboard, glass and metal. The next two deal, respectively, with plastics and laminates. Biobased materials are then covered, followed by a presentation of active and smart packaging. Some chapters are also dedicated to providing information on caps and closures as well as auxiliary materials. Different food packaging methods are presented, followed by an investigation into the design and labelling of packaging. The book ends with a chapter presenting information on how the choice of packaging material is dependent on the characteristics of the food products to be packaged.

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402

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John Wiley & Sons

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178945039X

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9781789450392

The White Image in the Black Mind

African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

By: Mia Bay

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The White Image in the Black Mind

African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

By: Mia Bay

Historical studies of white racial thought have focused on white ideas about the "Negroes". Bay's study examines the reverse - black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories

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300

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019510045X

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9780195100457

Black Rodeo

A History of the African American Western

By: Mia Mask

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Black Rodeo

A History of the African American Western

By: Mia Mask

African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask examines the African American western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black westerns evolved and approached wide-ranging goals. Woody Strode’s 1950s transformation from football star to actor was the harbinger of hard-edged western heroes later played by Jim Brown and Fred Williamson. Sidney Poitier’s Buck and the Preacher provided a narrative helmed by a groundbreaking African American director and offered unconventionally rich roles for women. Mask moves from these discussions to consider blaxploitation westerns and an analysis of Jeff Kanew’s hard-to-find 1972 documentary about an all-Black rodeo. The book addresses how these movies set the stage for modern-day westploitation films like Django Unchained. A first-of-its kind survey, Black Rodeo illuminates the figure of the Black cowboy while examining the intersection of African American film history and the western.

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221

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University of Illinois Press

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0252054024

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9780252054020

Divas on Screen

Black Women in American Film

By: Mia Mask

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Divas on Screen

Black Women in American Film

By: Mia Mask

This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.

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323

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University of Illinois Press

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0252091825

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9780252091827

The Obamas and Mass Media

Race, Gender, Religion, and Politics

By: Mia Moody-Ramirez,Jannette Dates

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The Obamas and Mass Media

Race, Gender, Religion, and Politics

By: Mia Moody-Ramirez,Jannette Dates

Using the cultural prism of race, this book critically examines the image of African Americans in media of the twenty-first century. Further, the authors assess the ways in which media focused on gender, religion, and politics in framing perceptions of the President and First Lady of the United States during the Obama administration.

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164

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Springer

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1137404930

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9781137404930

Running from Reality

By: Missy Robertson,Mia Robertson

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Running from Reality

By: Missy Robertson,Mia Robertson

The second book in the Faithgirlz Princess in Camo series—Running from Reality—is sure to capture the imagination of young readers as they follow adventurous Allie Carroway and her cousins as they experience life in the Louisiana Bayou and on the television screen as reality TV stars. Written by reality TV stars Missy and Mia Robertson, the fourth book in the Princess in Camo series, Running from Reality finds Allie Carroway fed up. Fed up with reality TV that is. It seemed fun at first, to be part of a famous family, but life gets embarrassing and challenging especially when every detail of your life is filmed for the world to see. Allie’s cousins, Kendall, Ruby, Lola, and Hunter have had enough too. So Papaw Ray offers the cousins a deal. And the cousins are IN! Running from Reality: Is the second book in the Faithgirlz Princess in Camo series Explores the nature of a family filled with social, cultural, and physical diversity Is the perfect fiction series for readers 8-12 Has a fun mystery for the readers to solve

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190

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Zonderkidz

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0310762553

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9780310762553

Pastels and Pedophiles

Inside the Mind of QAnon

By: Mia Bloom,Sophia Moskalenko

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Pastels and Pedophiles

Inside the Mind of QAnon

By: Mia Bloom,Sophia Moskalenko

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK / TOP 10 RECOMMENDED READ Two experts of extremist radicalization take us down the QAnon rabbit hole, exposing how the conspiracy theory ensnared countless Americans, and show us a way back to sanity. In January 2021, thousands descended on the U.S. Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Two women were among those who died that day. They, like millions of Americans, believed that a mysterious insider known as "Q" is exposing a vast deep-state conspiracy. The QAnon conspiracy theory has ensnared many women, who identify as members of "pastel QAnon," answering the call to "save the children." With Pastels and Pedophiles, Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko explain why the rise of QAnon should not surprise us: believers have been manipulated to follow the baseless conspiracy. The authors track QAnon's unexpected leap from the darkest corners of the Internet to the filtered glow of yogi-mama Instagram, a frenzy fed by the COVID-19 pandemic that supercharged conspiracy theories and spurred a fresh wave of Q-inspired violence. Pastels and Pedophiles connects the dots for readers, showing how a conspiracy theory with its roots in centuries-old anti-Semitic hate has adapted to encompass local grievances and has metastasized around the globe—appealing to a wide range of alienated people who feel that something is not quite right in the world around them. While QAnon claims to hate Hollywood, the book demonstrates how much of Q's mythology is ripped from movie and television plot lines. Finally, Pastels and Pedophiles lays out what can be done about QAnon's corrosive effect on society, to bring Q followers out of the rabbit hole and back into the light.

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Stanford University Press

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1503630617

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9781503630611

Society, Science, and Problem-Solving Courts

By: Full Foundation Professor Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program and Department of Criminal Justice Monica K Miller,Assistant Professor Department of Criminal Justice Mia A Holbrook,Associate Professor of Psychology Logan A Yelderman,PhD Student Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program Kylie Kulak

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Society, Science, and Problem-Solving Courts

Problem-solving courts are special courts that do not simply punish offenders, but employ other justice and psychology principles to help solve the underlying social issues that contributed to the crime. The prevalence and practice of problem-solving courts vary widely around the world. Society, Science, and Problem-Solving Courts lays out the societal and scientific factors that explain the development of problem-solving courts, and chart a path for their future.

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353

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Oxford University Press

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019005980X

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9780190059804

Table Manners

By: Mia King

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Table Manners

By: Mia King

The star of Mia King's "entertaining"(Seattle Times) debut novel Good Things is back-and she's got a full plate. Deidre McIntosh is everyone's favorite go-to person. She seems so successful, so capable, so just plain perfect, with a popular cooking show, her own line of cakes and cookies, and an ideal relationship with Kevin Johnson-considered one of the most desirable men in Seattle. Then Kevin's ex-fiancée, sultry magazine publisher Sabine Durant, suddenly appears, and Deidre needs help. Already intimidated by Kevin's glamorous, moneyed world-and his sister, who wants Deidre out of Kevin's life-she fears she's no match for Sabine. And the go-to girl must figure out where to go next before the tablecloth is pulled out from under her...

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285

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Penguin

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1101108800

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9781101108802

Apollo’s Muse

The Moon in the Age of Photography

By: Mia Fineman,Beth Saunders

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Apollo’s Muse

The Moon in the Age of Photography

By: Mia Fineman,Beth Saunders

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} On July 20, 1969, half a billion viewers around the world watched as the first television footage of American astronauts on the moon was beamed back to earth—a thrilling turning point in the history of images, satisfying an age-old curiosity about our planet’s only natural satellite. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, this captivating volume surveys the role photography has played in the scientific study and artistic interpretation of the moon from the dawn of the medium to the present, highlighting not only stunning photographic works but also related prints, drawings, paintings, and astronomical instruments. Apollo’s Muse traces the history of lunar photography, from newly discovered daguerreotypes of the 1840s to contemporary film and video works. Along the way, it explores nineteenth century efforts to map the lunar surface, whimsical fantasies of life on the moon, the visual language of the Cold War space race, and work created in response to the moon landing by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Nancy Graves, and Aleksandra Mir. A delightful introduction by Tom Hanks, star of the award winning 1995 film Apollo 13, delves into the universal fascination with representations of the cosmos and the ways in which space travel has radically expanded the limits of human vision.

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195

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588396843

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9781588396846

Traveling Black

A Story of Race and Resistance

By: Mia Bay

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Traveling Black

A Story of Race and Resistance

By: Mia Bay

Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Prize Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year “This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation...Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist “In Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times “Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too often forgotten, history.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the Road From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought to move freely around the United States. But why this focus on Black mobility? From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape in America and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. Mia Bay rescues forgotten stories of passengers who made it home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. She shows that Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations, documenting a sustained fight for redress that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A riveting, character-rich account of the rise and fall of racial segregation, it reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws—and why free movement has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since.

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401

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Harvard University Press

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067425869X

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9780674258693

Stalking Sapphire

By: Mia Thompson

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Stalking Sapphire

By: Mia Thompson

“Packed with thrills and chills, carnage and couture. Serial killer hunter Sapphire Dubois is like a ‘Dexter’ of the debutante set” (Francine LaSala, author of A Comfortable Madness). While the young and obscenely wealthy of Beverly Hills spend their nights surrounded by trendy celebs and drugs at the hottest clubs, twenty-two-year-old Sapphire Dubois has a different hobby: She hunts serial killers. Luring, trapping, and anonymously handing over So-Cal’s most wanted to the police is a better high than any drug. But Sapphire’s secret may not be so safe, as one of the very people she hunts is watching her every move. Aware of her true identity and her unconventional activities, he’s determined to put an end to Sapphire once and for all. Paired up with her involuntary crush Det. Aston Ridder for her own protection, Sapphire now has to rethink her strategy not only to keep Aston in the dark, but to figure out how to capture a killer who already knows she’s coming. “[Sapphire Dubois] kicks butt and takes names. You wouldn’t expect that from a spoiled, rich girl. . . . I loved this book.” —Ionia Martin, author of Plundering the Romance Novel

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Diversion Publishing Corp.

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1626810052

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9781626810051

Freedom on My Mind, Volume II

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

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Freedom on My Mind, Volume II

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Award-winning scholars and veteran teachers Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin Jr. have collaborated to create a fresh, innovative new African American history textbook that weaves together narrative and a wealth of carefully selected primary sources. The narrative focuses on the diversity of black experience, on culture, and on the impact of African Americans on the nation as a whole. Every chapter contains two themed sets of written documents and a visual source essay, guiding students through the process of analyzing sources and offering the convenience and value of a "two-in-one" textbook and reader.

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596

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1457637626

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9781457637629

Colouring the Caribbean

Race and the art of Agostino Brunias

By: Mia L. Bagneris

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Colouring the Caribbean

Race and the art of Agostino Brunias

By: Mia L. Bagneris

Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias’s intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour – so called ‘Red’ and ‘Black’ Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race – made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century. Although Brunias’s paintings have often been understood as straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned as field guides for reading race, this book investigates how the images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by eighteenth-century Britons, helping to construct racial categories while simultaneously exposing their constructedness and underscoring their contradictions. The book offers provocative new insights about Brunias’s work gleaned from a broad survey of his paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time.

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