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Harlequin Special Edition April 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Makenna Lee,Marie Ferrarella,Michele Dunaway

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Harlequin Special Edition April 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Makenna Lee,Marie Ferrarella,Michele Dunaway

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 Special Edition box set includes: #2971 FORTUNE'S FATHERHOOD DARE (A The Fortunes of Texas: Hitting the Jackpot novel) By Makenna Lee When bartender Damon Fortune Maloney boasts that he can handle any kid, single mom Sari Keeling dares him to watch her two rambunctious boys for just one day. It’s game on, but Damon soon discovers that parenthood is tougher than he thought—and so is resisting Sari. #2973 MEETING HIS SECRET DAUGHTER (A Forever, Texas novel) By USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Ferrarella When nurse Riley Robertson brought engineer Matt O’Brien to Forever to meet the daughter he never knew he had, she was only planning to help Matt see that he can be the father his little girl needs. But could the charming new dad be the man Riley didn’t know she needed? And are the three ready to become a forever family? #2975 ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND WINE (A Love in the Valley novel) By Michele Dunaway Unexpectedly back in town, Jack Clayton is acting as if he never crushed Sierra James’s teenage heart. When he offers to buy her family's vineyard, the former navy lieutenant knows Jack is turning on the charm, but no way is she planning to melt for him again. But will denying what she still feels for Jack prove to be a victory she can savor? For more relatable stories of love and family, look for Harlequin Special Edition April 2023 – Box Set 2 of 2

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0369734114

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Never Again

Wizards of Nevermore

By: Michele Bardsley

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Never Again

Wizards of Nevermore

By: Michele Bardsley

Welcome to Nevermore, Texas, population 503, where witches and wizards live side by side with humans, and where witch Lucy Rackmore is in trouble. Ever since her former lover snuffed out her magical abilities, everyone in town is looking to settle a score with her family. And Lucy's only hope for survival may be her ex-brother-in-law-whom her sister betrayed and nearly killed.

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110147744X

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All's Fair in Love and Wine

By: Michele Dunaway

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All's Fair in Love and Wine

By: Michele Dunaway

Unlike a fine wine… some memories don’t age well. Unexpectedly back in town, Jack Clayton acted as if he’d never crushed Sierra James’s teenage heart. When he offered to buy her family's vineyard, the former navy lieutenant knew Jack was turning on the charm, hoping to win her over. No way would Sierra melt for him again; she was ready for battle. But would denying what she still felt for Jack prove to be a victory she could savor? From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Love in the Valley Book 1: What Happens in the Air Book 2: All's Fair in Love and Wine Book 3: Love's Secret Ingredient

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0369733738

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9780369733733

Salt in Our Blood

The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife

By: Michele Longo Eder

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Salt in Our Blood

The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife

By: Michele Longo Eder

In 2000, Michele Longo Eder began a journal to record what daily life was like for her while her husband and sons were out commercial fishing off the coasts of Oregon, Washington, and northern California. But personal tragedy struck just before Christmas 2001. This book is an offer of healing to her family, her community, and to fishing families everywhere.

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Salt In Our Blood

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1892076446

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9781892076441

Now or Never

Wizards of Nevermore

By: Michele Bardsley

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Now or Never

Wizards of Nevermore

By: Michele Bardsley

Tormented by nightmares of a woman's death, Sheriff Taylor Mooreland is shocked to find the woman from his visions chained to an altar in the woods. He barely knows her, but something compels Taylor to protect the mysterious Lenore Whyte no matter what. Even if it means dealing with magic. And when an investigation into a series of suicides leads Taylor deep into the town's past, he discovers that the key to saving Lenore and the town of Nevermore may have a surprising connection...

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1101577029

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You Are What You Risk

The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World

By: Michele Wucker

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You Are What You Risk

The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World

By: Michele Wucker

The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives. What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly worried about risky personal behavior by CEOs? Why are some nations quicker than others to recognize and manage risks like pandemics, technological change, and climate crisis? The answers define each person, organization, and society as distinctively as a fingerprint. Understanding the often-surprising origins of these risk fingerprints can open your eyes, inspire new habits, catalyze innovation and creativity, improve teamwork, and provide a beacon in a world that seems suddenly more uncertain than ever. How you see risk and what you do about it depend on your personality and experiences. How you make these cost-benefit calculations depend on your culture, your values, the people in the room, and even unexpected things like what you’ve eaten recently, the temperature, the music playing, or the fragrance in the air. Being alert to these often-unconscious influences will help you to seize opportunity and avoid danger. You Are What You Risk is a clarion call for an entirely new conversation about our relationship with risk and uncertainty. In this ground-breaking, accessible and eminently timely book, Michele Wucker examines why it’s so important to understand your risk fingerprint and how to make your risk relationship work better in business, life, and the world. Drawing on compelling risk stories around the world and weaving in economics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology research, Wucker bridges the divide between professional and lay risk conversations. She challenges stereotypes about risk attitudes, re-frames how gender and risk are related, and shines new light on generational differences. She shows how the new science of “risk personality” is re-shaping business and finance, how healthy risk ecosystems support economies and societies, and why embracing risk empathy can resolve conflicts. Wucker shares insights, practical tools, and proven strategies that will help you to understand what makes you who you are –and, in turn, to make better choices, both big and small.

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Simon and Schuster

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1643136798

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9781643136790

Righteous Propagation

African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny After Reconstruction

By: Michele Mitchell

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Righteous Propagation

African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny After Reconstruction

By: Michele Mitchell

Between 1877 and 1930 African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny", the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of "racial destiny".

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807855677

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Policing the Womb

Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

By: Michele Goodwin

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Policing the Womb

Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

By: Michele Goodwin

In Policing the Womb, Michele Goodwin explores how states abuse laws and infringe on rights to police women and their pregnancies. This book looks at the impact of these often arbitrary laws which can result in the punishment, incarceration, and humiliation of women, particularly poor women and women of color. Frequently based on unscientific claims of endangering a fetus, these laws allow extraordinary powers to state authorities over reproductive freedom and pregnancies. In this book, Michele Goodwin discusses real examples of women whose pregnancies have been controlled by the law and what has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for a woman to be pregnant.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108786561

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9781108786560

Emotional Histories in the Fight to End Prostitution

Emotional Communities, 1869 to Today

By: Michele Renée Greer

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Emotional Histories in the Fight to End Prostitution

Emotional Communities, 1869 to Today

By: Michele Renée Greer

This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communities. An issue that has long been the subject of much debate amongst feminists, governments and communities alike, the history of the fight to end prostitution has an important bearing on feminist politics today. This book identifies key abolitionist emotional communities, tracing their origins, interactions and evolutions with various historical and contemporary emotional styles. In doing do, Emotional Histories in the Fight to End Prostitution highlights a more nuanced view of the movement's history. From Moral Liberals in 19th century Britain to the American anti-pornography movement and Swedish 'Nordic Model', Emotional Histories in the Fight to End Prostitution shows how emotional styles and practices have influenced the evolution of the fight against prostitution in Britain, the United States and Western Europe. From the fear of sin, to maternal compassion and survivor shame and loss, Michele Greer historicizes emotions and studies them as dynamic forms of situated knowledge. In doing so, she sheds light on how women's lived experiences have been transformed and politicized, and raises important questions around how feminist emotions in social protest can not only challenge but unknowingly defend existing socio-political conventions and inequalities. Highlighting the links between past and present forms of abolitionism, it shows that this connection is more complex and far-reaching than currently assumed, and offers new perspectives on the history of emotions.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350275573

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9781350275577

The Jews in Mussolini's Italy

From Equality to Persecution

By: Michele Sarfatti

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The Jews in Mussolini's Italy

From Equality to Persecution

By: Michele Sarfatti

Provides a comprehensive history from the rise of fascism in 1922 to its defeat in 1945. The author uses statistical evidence to document how the Italian social climate changed from relatively just to irredeemably prejudicial. He demonstrates that Rome did not simply follow the lead of Berlin.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299217345

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9780299217341

Technically Together

Re-thinking Community Within Techno-society

By: Michele A. Willson

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Technically Together

Re-thinking Community Within Techno-society

By: Michele A. Willson

Technically Together takes the reader on a thoughtful tour of the key writings on community and technology and the current debates that surround them to provide a clear understanding of the challenges new technologies present for theories of social interaction.

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Peter Lang

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0820476137

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Crush

By: Michele Grant,Lutishia Lovely,Cydney Rax

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Crush

By: Michele Grant,Lutishia Lovely,Cydney Rax

Give in to the thrill of the chase. “Three smart, dynamic, and captivating stories.” —Niobia Bryant, Essence® bestselling author There’s nothing hotter than a crush that tempts you to take a chance. . . . WHITE MOCHA by MICHELE GRANT Jayla has always played it safe, personally and professionally. Finding the perfect cup of coffee is about the most exciting thing in her life. But one look at free-spirited café owner Jason, and she’s inspired to venture out of her comfort zone... “Grant entices, captivates and mesmerizes her readers.”—RT Book Reviews on Heard It All Before WANTED: YOU by LUTISHIA LOVELY Chaz Covington is the guy every man wants to be and every woman wants to have. So when anonymous erotic letters begin arriving at his office, he’s only mildly surprised. His prudish assistant, Lois, is shocked. But before it’s all over, she won’t be the only one... “Vibrant characters, artful storytelling, and an original voice make Lutishia Lovely worth every moment.” —Donna Hill FROM ONE LOVER TO ANOTHER by CYDNEY RAX Lorraine Eafford is done with bad boys. She’s ready for someone nice and reliable—someone just like her new co-worker, Wendell. But her ex won’t take no for an answer, and Lorraine is about to show him just how bad this good girl can be... “You’ll find yourself drawn to Rax’s juicy tale of out-of-order Buppies in love and lust.” —Essence® on My Husband’s Girlfriend

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Dafina

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1496703979

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9781496703972

Leap of Faith

By: Michele Martin Bossley

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Leap of Faith

By: Michele Martin Bossley

For Amy, winning the novice Canadian skating champion-ships is a do-or-die situation.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550286862

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9781550286861

Stars Series Boxed Set

By: Michele Venné

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Stars Series Boxed Set

By: Michele Venné

Will the Alliance be victorious, or will the High Council crumble? Battles between races, a royal wedding, family mysteries, and a prophecy that might not be fulfilled. Lives are lost, others are saved, and some are brought together to create a bond between hearts and planets. One child is rescued, another is hidden. Both return to their beginnings. As they discover the truth of the Prophecy, they must decide if they're strong enough to endure the truth. The Stars Series Boxed Set is an immersive two-book science fiction romance full of mystery, space travel, and alien beings. If you love action-adventure and the bond of family and friendship, then you'll enjoy this riveting space opera with visits to faraway planets and the tying of lives into the tapestry of the universe.

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My Joy Enterprises

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1945593245

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9781945593246

Soul Picnic

The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro

By: Michele Kort

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Soul Picnic

The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro

By: Michele Kort

Laura Nyro was a beloved and pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s, whose songs were covered with great success by the Fifth Dimension; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Three Dog Night; and Barbra Streisand. This first biography from Michele Kort, Soul Picnic, uncovers previously never revealed details, including a love affair with Jackson Browne, and her relationship with painter Maria Desiderio. Unappreciated in her time, Nyro's legacy is currently experiencing a revival. With her groundbreakingly honest and passionate lyrics, her unusual and innovative rhythms and melody, Nyro's influence is still felt by singers and songwriters today.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250122619

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9781250122612

Chicopee

By: Michele Plourde-Barker

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Chicopee

By: Michele Plourde-Barker

Introduced in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the town's incorporation, Chicopee traces the history of this Western Massachusetts community from its first settlement in the 1660s to the growth spurt of the post-World War II era. Much of the community's early built environment changed during Chicopee's transformation from town to city, and this fascinating new book reveals the lost elements of the landscape. From covered bridges over the Chicopee and Connecticut Rivers to early farms, readers will see much that has disappeared from Chicopee over time. The 200 vintage images displayed in this volume depict lost schools and churches, local businesses, shops, and factories, as well as the factory workers, entrepreneurs, farmers, recent immigrants, and other townspeople who populated these institutions. Longtime residents will find that the book conjures up many memories, and newer ones will see Chicopee as they've never seen it before.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738590061

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9780738590066

The Sisters of Glass Ferry

By: Kim Michele Richardson

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The Sisters of Glass Ferry

By: Kim Michele Richardson

Patsy Butler disappears with her date on prom night, never to return. Twenty years later, her twin sister Flannery begins to solve the mystery and uncover secrets of her small Kentucky town.

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Kensington Publishing Corporation

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1496734238

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9781496734235

Still Going It Alone

Mothering with Faith and Finesse When the Children Have Grown

By: Michele Howe

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Still Going It Alone

Mothering with Faith and Finesse When the Children Have Grown

By: Michele Howe

Still Going It Alone addresses issues common to women who have been at the task of single parenting for some seasons. These unique women now face the prospect of sending their children off to college, to a distant career site, or to be married and must continue to fulfill their ever-altering parental role. Moms with grown children also realize the need for wise financial planning and career re-assessment. Each single mom understands they may never re-marry, that growing old and retiring alone is a very real possibility. For many, the future looms in uncertainty. This resource book will provide practical hope and continually redirect women to the source of all comfort, God and His word.

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Hendrickson Publishers

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1598564951

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9781598564952

Of Prophecies and Promises

Stars Series Book 2

By: Michele Venné

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Of Prophecies and Promises

Stars Series Book 2

By: Michele Venné

She's the last of the Future Fae. He's gifted. Will the Prophesy be fulfilled? Rescued as a child, Skyler grew up in a royal household as an adopted daughter. Plagued by the mystery of a prophecy, Skyler returns to her planet of birth. The secrets she uncovers could save the Alliance, but will she survive the use of her weapon? Gage St. Veritas was raised in the Monastery and befriended by Jules Andante ́. They travel through galaxies searching for the truth of Gage's parentage and the other half of the Prophecy. In the millennia since the words of the Prophesy were recorded, the desire for power has grown. Can the Alliance withstand the forces that seek to destroy it, or will the High Council crumble? Of Prophecies and Promises is an epic action-adventure concluding novel in the Stars Series. This paranormal science fiction romance leads you across space to discover mysteries that weave together the fabric of the universe.

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My Joy Enterprises

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0988625237

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9780988625235

Genius of Guinness

The Enduring Legacy of an Irish Dynasty

By: Michele Guinness

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Genius of Guinness

The Enduring Legacy of an Irish Dynasty

By: Michele Guinness

When Arthur Guinness sunk his meager savings into a small brewery on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin, he could not have foreseen the dynasty of brewers and bankers that would carry on his family name. But Guinness also produced another kind of spirit, an extraordinary line of missionary explorers, clerics, and pioneer social workers. More famous in his day than his brewing cousins, teetotaler Henry Grattan Guinness forsook his earthly inheritance to preach the gospel to thousands and witnessed true revival. His children and grandchildren ventured to unknown lands, risked disease and death, and fearlessly confronted Western governments about the mistreatment of natives in their colonies. They also introduced social and moral reforms to the poverty-stricken East End of London. The tension between God and Mammon is a recurrent theme in a family pulled in two directions by earthly wealth and heavenly reward. Spanning two hundred years and five generations of perhaps the most famous family in the world, this history chronicles the Guinness family’s meteoric rise to its bitterest tragedies, its fame and its reversals of fortune. Michele Guinness, with inside access to diaries, letters, and personal recollections, tells the story of the Guinness family from their inauspicious eighteenth-century beginnings down to the present day.

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Ambassador International

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1620207044

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9781620207048

Claiming the Union

Citizenship in the Post-Civil War South

By: Susanna Michele Lee

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Claiming the Union

Citizenship in the Post-Civil War South

By: Susanna Michele Lee

This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners - male and female; elite and non-elite; white, black, and American Indian - disagreed with the federal government over the obligations citizens owed to their nation and the obligations the nation owed to its citizens. Susanna Michele Lee explores these clashes through the operations of the Southern Claims Commission, a federal body that rewarded compensation for wartime losses to Southerners who proved that they had been loyal citizens of the Union. Lee argues that Southerners forced the federal government to consider how white men who had not been soldiers and voters, and women and racial minorities who had not been allowed to serve in those capacities, could also qualify as loyal citizens. Postwar considerations of the former Confederacy potentially demanded a reconceptualization of citizenship that replaced exclusions by race and gender with inclusions according to loyalty.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107015324

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9781107015326

Whiplash, Headache, and Neck Pain

Research-Based Directions for Physical Therapies

By: Gwendolen Jull,Michele Sterling,Deborah Falla,Julia Treleaven,Shaun O'Leary

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Whiplash, Headache, and Neck Pain

Research-Based Directions for Physical Therapies

By: Gwendolen Jull,Michele Sterling,Deborah Falla,Julia Treleaven,Shaun O'Leary

A textbook and practical clinical handbook for all students and practitioners concerned with the evaluation, diagnosis, assessment and management of neck pain and cervical headache particularly in relation to whiplash. It is likely to become essential study for final year physiotherapy and chiropractic students, for all manipulative physiotherapy MSc students and a widely used clinical ref text for all involved in the assessment and management of whiplash and related neck and head pain. ? This book presents the applied sciences, clinical assessment methods and rehabilitation protocols for the management of persons with neck pain. ? The material presented in this book represents the translation of research into clinical practice and provides a systematic approach to assessment and an evidence base for conservative clinical management strategies for neck pain. ? Unique topics in this book include: . Provides an understanding of the pathophysiological processes in the sensory, motor and sensorimotor systems and how they present in patients with neck pain disorders. . Presents multimodal approaches to management of neck pain guided by the evidence of presenting dysfunctions . Presents a comprehensive description of a therapeutic exercise approach based on motor control which has proven efficacy.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443100470

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9780443100475

Introducing Narrative Psychology

By: Crossley, Michele

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Introducing Narrative Psychology

By: Crossley, Michele

This introductory textbook presents a coherent overview of the theory, methodology and potential application of narrative psychological approaches. It compares narrative psychology with other social constructionist approaches and argues that the experience of self only takes on meaning through specific linguistic, historical and social structures.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033520290X

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9780335202904

How to Build a Global City

Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

By: Michele Acuto

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How to Build a Global City

Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

By: Michele Acuto

In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global cities—Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai—and the power that this concept had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice. The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a logic of internationalization for cities the world over. But the global city also creates deep social polarization and challenges how much local planning can achieve in a world economy. Presenting a unique elite ethnography in Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai, Acuto discusses the global urban discourses, aspirations, and strategies vital to the planning and management of such metropolitan growth. The global city, he shows, is not one single idea, but a complex of ways to imagine a place to be global and aspirations to make it so, often deeply steeped in politics. His resulting book is a call to reconcile proponents and critics of the global city toward a more explicit engagement with the politics of this global urban imagination.

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Cornell University Press

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150175971X

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9781501759710

Mrs. Mark Twain

The Life of Olivia Langdon Clemens, 1845-1904

By: Martin Naparsteck,Michele Cardulla

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Mrs. Mark Twain

The Life of Olivia Langdon Clemens, 1845-1904

By: Martin Naparsteck,Michele Cardulla

This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of Victorian values and sensibilities who lived a charmed and tragic life. Raised in the wealthiest family in Elmira, New York, she married the man destined to become the best known American in the world. She befriended the literary elite of America and Europe, traveled the globe, dined with royalty. Yet her life was filled with tragedy. Her son was born prematurely and died at 19 months. Her oldest daughter died of spinal meningitis at 24. Her youngest daughter was an epileptic. Her husband's bad investments drove the family into bankruptcy. Her frail health kept her bedridden for years at a time. Yet through all this, she and her husband shared a family life filled with love and tenderness.

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McFarland

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0786472618

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9780786472611

Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

By: Richard Frankham,Jonathan D. Ballou,Katherine Ralls,Mark Eldridge,Michele R. Dudash,Charles B. Fenster,Robert C. Lacy,Paul Sunnucks

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Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

By: Richard Frankham,Jonathan D. Ballou,Katherine Ralls,Mark Eldridge,Michele R. Dudash,Charles B. Fenster,Robert C. Lacy,Paul Sunnucks

One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of fragmented populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small, isolated, population fragments of threatened species are likely suffering inbreeding depression and loss of evolutionary potential, resulting in elevated extinction risks. Although these effects can often be reversed by re-establishing gene flow between population fragments, managers very rarely do this. On the contrary, genetic methods are used mainly to document genetic differentiation among populations, with most studies concluding that genetically differentiated populations should be managed separately, thereby isolating them yet further and dooming many to eventual extinction! Many small population fragments are going extinct principally for genetic reasons. Although the rapidly advancing field of molecular genetics is continually providing new tools to measure the extent of population fragmentation and its genetic consequences, adequate guidance on how to use these data for effective conservation is still lacking. This accessible, authoritative text is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in conservation biology, conservation genetics, and wildlife management. It will also be of particular relevance to conservation practitioners and natural resource managers, as well as a broader academic audience of conservation biologists and evolutionary ecologists.

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Oxford University Press

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0191086061

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9780191086069

Acute Care Handbook for Physical Therapists - E-Book

By: Jaime C. Paz,Michele P. West

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Acute Care Handbook for Physical Therapists - E-Book

By: Jaime C. Paz,Michele P. West

Familiarize yourself with the acute care environment and confidently develop patient rehabilitation plans with this essential guide to physical therapy practice in a clinical setting. Acute Care Handbook for Physical Therapists, Third Edition helps you understand and interpret hospital protocol, medical terminology, and the medical–surgical aspects of acute care. Each chapter focuses on a body system and includes a review of basic structure and function, an overview of a medical–surgical workup, a review of pathophysiology, information on pharmacology, and guidelines for physical therapy intervention. This edition features a larger, slimmer design that highlights clinical tips, decision-making aids, and practice patterns throughout the text so that you can easily locate these tools and apply them to your practice. If you are unfamiliar with the complex acute care environment, this comprehensive resource is just what you need to become more comfortable and better able to manage the specific needs of your patients. Review of body system basics and disease processes in each chapter provides concise information to help you better manage patients in a hospital setting. Familiarizes you with the acute care environment by explaining medical terminology, hospital protocol, and surgical workups Includes updated information on medications, laboratory and diagnostic tests, and surgical and invasive procedures pertinent to physical therapy practice Clinical tips throughout the text show you how to maximize safety, quality, and efficiency of care. Over 350 illustrations, tables, and boxed text highlight essential concepts and procedures for quick reference. Uses terminology consistent with the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, Second Edition Focuses on evidence-based practice to help you determine the best interventions including recent literature regarding rehabilitation in the critical care setting. NEW! Pertinent practice patterns from the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, Second Edition are included in each chapter. NEW! Additional illustrations to improve comprehension of the material NEW! More pharmacologic implications for physical therapists, specifically concerning side effects and use of combination drugs. NEW! Additional decision-making algorithms facilitate critical thinking in the clinical setting. NEW! Updated surgical and invasive procedures include minimally invasive orthopedic surgery, bariatric procedures, and complete insight into circulatory assist devices. NEW! Expanded neurological chapter including vestibular dysfunction tests and measures, a discussion of dementia, and the latest in stroke evaluation and management. NEW! Revised appendices discuss the latest concepts in documentation standards, palliative care, and patient safety. NEW! Slimmer, larger format allows the book to lie open for easier reading. NEW! Improved design highlighting clinical tips and other key features lets you locate important information quickly in a busy clinical setting.

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Playing a Jewish Game

Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE

By: Michele Murray

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Playing a Jewish Game

Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE

By: Michele Murray

Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews? Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These were Christians who combined a commitment to Christianity with adherence in varying degrees to Jewish practices, without viewing such behaviour as contradictory. Several Christian leaders thought that these community members dangerously blurred the boundaries between Christianity and Judaism. As such, Gentile Christian judaizers became the target of much anti-Jewish rhetoric in various early Christian writings. Evidence of Gentile Christian judaizers can be found in canonical sources, such as Pauls Letter to the Galatians and the Book of Revelation, as well as non-canonical sources, such as the Epistle of Barnabas, the Didache, and Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho. In order to compare the phenomenon of judaizing and the reaction to it of ecclesiastical authorities, Murray organizes the evidence by probable geographical location, using Asia Minor and Syria as the two main loci. The phenomenon of Gentile Christian judaizing is examined within the broader context of Jewish-Christian relations in the early centuries, and is the first attempt to draw all possible references to Gentile Christian judaizers together into one study to consider them as a whole. This discussion invites readers to reflect on the existence of Gentile Christian judaizers as another point on the continuum of Jewish-Christian relations in the Greco-Roman world — an area, Murray concludes, that needs to be more carefully defined.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554581176

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Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

The Urban Link

By: Michele Acuto

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Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

The Urban Link

By: Michele Acuto

This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance. While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorisation has taken into account the key metropolises of our time as elements of these revolutions. The volume seeks to fill this gap by demonstrating how global cities have a pervasive agency in contemporary global governance. The book argues that looking at global cities can bring about three fundamental advantages on traditional IR paradigms. First, it facilitates an eclectic turn towards more nuanced analyses of world politics. Second, it widens the horizon of the discipline through a multiscalar image of global governance. Third, it underscores how global cities have a strategic diplomatic positioning when it comes to core contemporary challenges such as climate change. This book will be of much interest to students of urban studies, global governance, diplomacy and international relations in general.

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Routledge

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1135105227

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Exploiting Hidden Structure in Matrix Computations: Algorithms and Applications

Cetraro, Italy 2015

By: Michele Benzi,Dario Bini,Daniel Kressner,Hans Munthe-Kaas,Charles Van Loan

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Exploiting Hidden Structure in Matrix Computations: Algorithms and Applications

Cetraro, Italy 2015

By: Michele Benzi,Dario Bini,Daniel Kressner,Hans Munthe-Kaas,Charles Van Loan

Focusing on special matrices and matrices which are in some sense `near’ to structured matrices, this volume covers a broad range of topics of current interest in numerical linear algebra. Exploitation of these less obvious structural properties can be of great importance in the design of efficient numerical methods, for example algorithms for matrices with low-rank block structure, matrices with decay, and structured tensor computations. Applications range from quantum chemistry to queuing theory. Structured matrices arise frequently in applications. Examples include banded and sparse matrices, Toeplitz-type matrices, and matrices with semi-separable or quasi-separable structure, as well as Hamiltonian and symplectic matrices. The associated literature is enormous, and many efficient algorithms have been developed for solving problems involving such matrices. The text arose from a C.I.M.E. course held in Cetraro (Italy) in June 2015 which aimed to present this fast growing field to young researchers, exploiting the expertise of five leading lecturers with different theoretical and application perspectives.

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3319498878

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Best Friends Forever?

By: Michele Jakubowski

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Best Friends Forever?

By: Michele Jakubowski

Opposites go together. Just ask Ashley Sanchez (Ash) and Ashlee Taylor (Lee), who have been best friends forever. Ash is messy as can be, and Lee likes things neat and tidy. Ash loves sports and Lee prefers dance. Ash doesn�t like chocolate, but Lee could eat it all day long. Ever since they were born, Ash and Lee have lived in the same apartment building, just across the hall from each other . . . but now that�s about to change. When Lee moves a few blocks away, will the two girls find a way to stay best friends forever?

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Nether Providence

By: Michele S. Davidson

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Nether Providence

By: Michele S. Davidson

Join Michele S. Davidson as she documents Nether Providence's fascinating growth and development over the last three centuries. In 1682, John Sharpless settled in Nether Providence Township on a 1,000-acre tract of land along Ridley Creek that had been granted to him by William Penn. Other settlers soon followed, establishing Nether Providence as a small, successful, farming community. Over the next two centuries, Nether Providence grew into a thriving manufacturing center with 14 operating mills along the township's two creeks. At the turn of the 19th century, Nether Providence became a summer resort area rivaling the Main Line of Philadelphia, with such famous residents as Dr. Horace Howard Furness, a well-regarded Shakespearean scholar and the brother of architect Frank Furness, and Alexander Kelly McClure, the owner of the Philadelphia Times and an assistant adjunct general appointed by Pres. Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. In 2007, Wallingford, the largest community in Nether Providence, was named by Money Magazine as the ninth best place to live in the United States.

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143963856X

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Food Processing

Principles and Applications

By: Hosahalli S. Ramaswamy,Michele Marcotte

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Food Processing

Principles and Applications

By: Hosahalli S. Ramaswamy,Michele Marcotte

Food Processing: Principles and Applications is a comprehensive resource that explores the basic and applied aspects of food processing. It describes the physical, chemical, and microbiological basis for each method of preservation. Particular emphasis is placed on the application of three of the most universally used commercial processes: t

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0203485246

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Haunted Heritage

The Cultural Politics of Ghost Tourism, Populism, and the Past

By: Michele Hanks

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Haunted Heritage

The Cultural Politics of Ghost Tourism, Populism, and the Past

By: Michele Hanks

In Haunted Heritage, author Michele Hanks draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork to delve into the anthropological, sociological, political, historical, and cultural factors that drive the burgeoning business of ghost or paranormal tourism.

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Left Coast Press

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161132226X

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Gravitational Waves

Volume 1: Theory and Experiments

By: Michele Maggiore

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Gravitational Waves

Volume 1: Theory and Experiments

By: Michele Maggiore

The aim of this book is to become a major reference text for gravitational-wave physics, covering in detail both the experimental and the theoretical aspects. It is the only existing book on gravitational waves to date, and it will likely remain unique for its broadness and scope. It brings the reader to the forefront of present-day research, both theoretical and experimental, assuming no previous knowledge of gravitational-wave physics. Part I of Volume 1 is devoted to the theory of gravitational waves. Here we have re-derived - in a coherent way - most of the results that we present, clarifying or streamlining existing derivations. Part II of Volume 1 is devoted to a description of experimental gravitational-wave physics. We discuss in great detail existing and planned experiments, as well as data analysis techniques.

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0191524743

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Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine E-Book

Diseases of the Fetus and Infant

By: Richard J. Martin,Avroy A. Fanaroff,Michele C. Walsh

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Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine E-Book

Diseases of the Fetus and Infant

By: Richard J. Martin,Avroy A. Fanaroff,Michele C. Walsh

Trusted by physicians and advanced practice providers through ten standard-setting editions, Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, 11th Edition, remains the reference of choice for expert, multidisciplinary guidance on the management and evidence-based treatment of problems in the mother, fetus, and neonate. An expanded team of international authors, led by Drs. Richard J. Martin, Avroy A. Fanaroff, and Michele C. Walsh of Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, brings you up to date with advances in the control of nosocomial infections in preterm infants, genetic disorders and birth defects, the fetal origins of adult disease, the late preterm infants, and much more – all designed to help you improve the quality of life and long-term outcomes of your patients. - Helps you make informed clinical choices for each patient – from diagnosis and treatment selection through post-treatment strategies and management of complications – with a dual focus on neonatology and perinatology. - Includes a new chapter on Social and Economic Contributors to Neonatal Outcome. - Features extensive updates and reorganization throughout, with new Key Points at the end of each chapter - Provides up-to-date, evidence-based content, with more information on precision medicine and genetics. - Uses detailed, full-color illustrations that depict disorders in the clinical setting and explain complex information. - Remains the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary text in the field – an excellent source of information for every stage of your practice.

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0323567096

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Tending to the Past

Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

By: Karen Michele Chandler

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Tending to the Past

Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

By: Karen Michele Chandler

In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary families and obscure the systematic working of racism. Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children’s Narratives about Slavery and Freedom examines Black-authored historical novels and films for children that counter this distortion and depict creative means by which ordinary African Americans survived slavery and racism in early America. Tending to the Past argues that this important, understudied historical writing—freedom narratives—calls on young readers to be active, critical thinkers about the past and its legacies within the present. The book examines how narratives by children’s book authors, such as Joyce Hansen, Julius Lester, Marilyn Nelson, and Patricia McKissack, and the filmmakers Charles Burnett and Zeinabu irene Davis, were influenced by Black cultural imperatives, such as the Black Arts Movement, to foster an engaged, culturally aware public. Through careful analysis of this rich body of work, Tending to the Past thus contributes to ongoing efforts to construct a history of Black children’s literature and film attuned to its range, specificity, and depths. Tending to the Past provides illuminating interpretations that will help scholars and educators see the significance of the freedom narratives’ reconstructions in a neoliberal era, a time of shrinking opportunities for many African Americans. It offers models for understanding the powers and continuing relevance of the Black child’s creative agency and the Black cultural practices that have fostered it.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496845951

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