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Morgan of Belthus

By: Michelle Burgin

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The Arnests, ancient enemies of the Sopubs, have kidnapped Morgan’s father, Dorian Sopub. Without him the wine business is in danger, and the rest of the family is paralyzed with fear. Ignoring her sister Laura’s concerns for her safety, Morgan assassinated a man for Sharpenia’s ruler in exchange for soldiers to be sent to Belthus to rescue her father. But Morgan will not be waiting for a final report, and in her heart she doubts whether the foray into Sharpenia did her any good at all. Now Morgan is newly married to Lord Dukan Dragon and she’s finally home in Belthus. She anticipates a fairytale honeymoon with her husband, while swiftly locating her beloved father. But everything feels off from the start, including Morgan herself. Her plan for easy answers and a relaxed trip rapidly unravels in her hands. Instead, she must race across the continent in search of her father through dense jungles, vast plains, and lonely seas to confront the very face of naked evil. It is a journey that risks both her life and her soul in a test of wills with her hated enemy, Niamon Arnest. But Niamon isn’t interested in just Dorian Sopub; he’s after the soul of Belthus itself.

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1532075146

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Esra

Children of the Dragon

By: Michelle Burgin

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Esra

Children of the Dragon

By: Michelle Burgin

Esra Dragon lives in her own house with a separate life from her family. She does this by choice. It gives her the control and autonomy she craves. She ignores her doubts, and focuses on daily tasks of exercise and recreation. But there is someone she longs to add to her household. Esra wishes to finally seal the deal with Laura and carry her over the threshold. She decides that the Yuletide celebration will be the perfect time for it. But then Shahdra Zah’s son appears at her front doorstep in a state of distress, and all begins to go astray. Esra’s carefully managed world shifts before her eyes, as she faces Laura’s fierce independence and elements of her past. Denthor’s arrival signals that the Northern Reaches are once again on the brink of civil war, and this time Esra finds herself at the very center of it.

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153208790X

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Teaching in the Anthropocene

Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis

By: Alysha J. Farrell,Candy Skyhar,Michelle Lam

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Teaching in the Anthropocene

Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis

By: Alysha J. Farrell,Candy Skyhar,Michelle Lam

This new critical volume presents various perspectives on teaching and teacher education in the face of the global climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Teaching in the Anthropocene calls for a reorientation of the aims of teaching so that we might imagine multiple futures in which children, youths, and families can thrive amid a myriad of challenges related to the earth’s decreasing habitability. Referring to the uncertainty of the time in which we live and teach, the term Anthropocene is used to acknowledge anthropogenic contributions to the climate crisis and to consider and reflect on the emotional responses to adverse climate events. The text begins with the editors’ discussion of this contested term and then moves on to make the case that we must decentre anthropocentric models in teacher education praxis. The four thematic parts include chapters on the challenges to teacher education practice and praxis, affective dimensions of teaching in the face of the global crisis, relational pedagogies in the Anthropocene, and ways to ignite the empathic imaginations of tomorrow’s teachers. Together the authors discuss new theoretical eco-orientations and describe innovative pedagogies that create opportunities for students and teachers to live in greater harmony with the more-than-human world. This incredibly timely volume will be essential to pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators. FEATURES: - Offers critical reflections on anthropocentrism from multiple perspectives in education, including continuing education, educational organization, K–12, post-secondary, and more - Includes accounts that not only deconstruct the disavowal of the climate crisis in schools but also articulate an ecosophical approach to education - Features discussion prompts in each chapter to enhance student engagement with the material

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Canadian Scholars

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1773382829

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At the Edge of Sight

Photography and the Unseen

By: Shawn Michelle Smith

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At the Edge of Sight

Photography and the Unseen

By: Shawn Michelle Smith

The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own photographic work and across the wide-ranging images of early American photographers, including F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, and Augustus Washington. She concludes by showing how concerns raised in the nineteenth century remain pertinent today in the photographs of Abu Ghraib. Ultimately, Smith explores the capacity of photography to reveal what remains beyond the edge of sight.

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Duke University Press

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0822378264

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Elizabeth Harrower

Critical Essays

By: Nicholas Birns,Megan Nash,Ivor Indyk,Michelle de Kretser,Fiona McFarlane,Elizabeth Webby,Brigid Rooney,Julian Murphet,Kate Livett

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Elizabeth Harrower

Critical Essays

By: Nicholas Birns,Megan Nash,Ivor Indyk,Michelle de Kretser,Fiona McFarlane,Elizabeth Webby,Brigid Rooney,Julian Murphet,Kate Livett

Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major literary figure. The essays examine all of Harrower’s published fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication of In Certain Circles in 2014. Together they provide an wide ranging introduction to the extraordinary imaginative and intellectual project of her work. They explore her engagement with twentieth-century history and post-war society, with modernism and modernity, and with the personal impacts of mass media, technology and industry. They demonstrate her grasp of the ethical and philosophical challenges confronting her readers and characters in late modernity as seen from a number of distinctive vantage points including the harbourside mansions and commercial centres of post-war Sydney, the suburbs of industrial Newcastle, and the bed-sitters of expatriate London in the 1960s. Together they offer new insights into an Australian writer at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism, inviting readers to read and re-engage with Harrower’s work in a new light.

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Sydney University Press

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1743325592

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American Archives

Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

By: Shawn Michelle Smith

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American Archives

Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

By: Shawn Michelle Smith

Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like--or "should" look like. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable her to demonstrate how new visual paradigms posed bodily appearance as an index to interior "essence." Ultimately we see how competing preoccupations over gender, class, race, and American identity were played out in the making of a wide range of popular and institutional photographs. Smith demonstrates that as the body was variously mapped and defined as the key to essentialized identities, the image of the white middle-class woman was often held up as the most complete American ideal. She begins by studying gendered images of middle-class domesticity to expose a transformation of feminine architectures of interiority into the "essences" of "blood," "character," and "race." She reads visual documents, as well as literary texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pauline Hopkins, and Theodore Dreiser, as both indices of and forms of resistance to dominant images of gender, class, race, and national identity. Through this analysis Smith shows how the white male gaze that sought to define and constrain white women and people of color was contested and transformed over the course of the nineteenth century. Smith identifies nineteenth-century visual paradigms that continue to shape debates about the terms of American belonging today. American Archives contributes significantly to the growing field of American visual cultural studies, and it is unprecedented in explaining how practices of racialized looking and the parameters of "American looks" were established in the first place.

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Princeton University Press

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0691004781

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Historical Heroines

One Hundred Women You Should Know About

By: Michelle Rosenberg,Sonia D Picker

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Historical Heroines

One Hundred Women You Should Know About

By: Michelle Rosenberg,Sonia D Picker

From Mata Hari and Pocahontas to Lucrezia Borgia and Hedy Lamarr—fascinating portraits of history’s most unforgettable, and some unjustly forgotten, women. Cleopatra. Audrey Hepburn. Sappho. Calamity Jane. Marie Antoinette. Lilith. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dame Emma Hamilton. Mary Shelley. Mary Frith. Some are celebrated in folklore legend; some are remembered only as movie stars; many will be familiar in their native countries; while others are, for the most part, unjustly unknown. Not anymore. Let this rewarding anthology set the record straight on: World War I heroine and nurse Edith Cavell; turn of the century Iñupiat explorer Ada Blackjack; eighteenth-century abolitionist, slave, and women’s rights pioneer Soujourner Truth; Gorgo, 480 BC Queen of Sparta; Agent 355, the American Revolution’s most mysterious spy; nineteenth-century socialite and archaeologist Lady Hester Stanhope; eighteenth-century Irish physician Margaret Bulky who plied her trade by passing as a man for fifty years; and many, many more adventurers, leaders, and freedom fighters—each and every one, a groundbreaker whose name deserves a place in history.

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Grub Street Publishers

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152671535X

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Competition is Killing Us

How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It

By: Michelle Meagher

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Competition is Killing Us

How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It

By: Michelle Meagher

We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans and hold them to account. We need big companies to share their power and we, the people of the world, need to reclaim it. In Competition is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new framework to control capitalism from the inside in order to make it work for the many and not just the few. Meagher has spent years campaigning against these multi-billion and trillion dollar mammoths that dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else; leading to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment. In this revolutionary book, she introduces her wholly-achievable alternative; a fair and comprehensive competition law that limits unfair mergers, enforces accountability and redistributes power through stakeholder governance.

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Penguin UK

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0241988128

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Nanotechnology

Basic Science and Emerging Technologies

By: Mick Wilson,Kamali Kannangara,Geoff Smith,Michelle Simmons,Burkhard Raguse

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Nanotechnology

Basic Science and Emerging Technologies

By: Mick Wilson,Kamali Kannangara,Geoff Smith,Michelle Simmons,Burkhard Raguse

The emergence of nanoscience portends a revolution in technology that will soon impact virtually every facet of our technological lives. Yet there is little understanding of what it is among the educated public and often among scientists and engineers in other disciplines. Furthermore, despite the emergence of undergraduate courses on the subject, no basic textbooks exist. Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies bridges the gap between detailed technical publications that are beyond the grasp of nonspecialists and popular science books, which may be more science fiction than fact. It provides a fascinating, scientifically sound treatment, accessible to engineers and scientists outside the field and even to students at the undergraduate level. After a basic introduction to the field, the authors explore topics that include molecular nanotechnology, nanomaterials and nanopowders, nanoelectronics, optics and photonics, and nanobiometrics. The book concludes with a look at some cutting-edge applications and prophecies for the future. Nanoscience will bring to the world technologies that today we can only imagine and others of which we have not yet dreamt. This book lays the groundwork for that future by introducing the subject to those outside the field, sparking the imaginations of tomorrow's scientists, and challenging them all to participate in the advances that will bring nanotechnology's potential to fruition.

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CRC Press

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1420035231

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Chakra Healing for Vibrant Energy

Exploring Your 7 Energy Centers with Mindfulness, Yoga, and Ayurveda

By: Michelle S. Fondin

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Chakra Healing for Vibrant Energy

Exploring Your 7 Energy Centers with Mindfulness, Yoga, and Ayurveda

By: Michelle S. Fondin

Tap into your body’s vital source of energy and wellness Positioned along the spinal axis, from the tailbone to the crown of the head, the seven main energy centers of the body are called chakras. Author Michelle Fondin explores and explains each one in the seven chapters of this book, demystifying their role in facilitating healing, balance, personal power, and everyday well-being. She offers meditations and visualizations, yoga postures, breathing exercises, and Ayurvedic dietary practices to learn about and work with the chakras. You may choose to follow the healing practices for seven days, devoting one day to each chakra; for seven weeks, focusing on each chakra for a week at a time; or at your own pace, spending as long as you need on each chakra. Whether you are experiencing an illness brought on by imbalance, feeling sluggish because of seasonal changes, or simply wishing to deepen your study of the subtle body, you will find healing and rejuvenation while discovering the power of these vibrant energy vortices, your chakras.

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New World Library

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1608685357

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Women of Steel

The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War

By: Michelle Rawlins

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Women of Steel

The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War

By: Michelle Rawlins

True stories of love and loss during WWII, from the tough Northern women who kept the foundry fires burning. When war broke out, the young women of Sheffield had their carefree lives turned upside down. With their sweethearts being sent away to fight, they had no choice but to step into the men's shoes and become the backbone of the city's steel industry. Through hard toil and companionship, they vowed to keep the foundry fires burning and ensured that soldiers had the weapons, planes and ships needed to secure victory over Hitler. When the men returned from the front in 1945, many of these women tragically found themselves discarded 'like yesterday's fish and chip wrappers'. But decades later, a grassroots campaign spearheaded by the elderly Women of Steel finally brought their remarkable story to light. Women of Steel is the last chance to hear these unsung heroines' voices, as they share first-hand how a group of plucky young women rallied together to win the war for Britain.

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1472267370

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Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure

By: Michelle Ballif

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Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure

By: Michelle Ballif

Ballif questions why the profession wants to retain these beliefs in the face of vociferous arguments from "new rhetorics" that the discipline no longer posits a foundational self or truth, and in the face of the poststructuralist critique, which has demonstrated that founding truth is always accomplished by first positing and then negating an "other." As an alternative to this negative and violent rhetorical process, Ballif suggests a turn to sophistry as embodied in the figure of Woman, one with the power to seduce us (literally, to lead astray) from our truth and our demand for it."--BOOK JACKET.

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SIU Press

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0809323338

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Slow Philosophy

Reading against the Institution

By: Michelle Boulous Walker

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Slow Philosophy

Reading against the Institution

By: Michelle Boulous Walker

In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for thinking about reading in philosophical terms. Boulous Walker argues that philosophy involves the patient work of thought; in this it resembles the work of art, which invites and implores us to take our time and to engage with the world. At its best, philosophy teaches us to read slowly; in fact, philosophy is the art of reading slowly – and this inevitably clashes with many of our current institutional practices and demands. Slow reading shares something in common with contemporary social movements, such as that devoted to slow food; it offers us ways to engage the complexity of the world. With the help of writers as diverse as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Woolf, Adorno, Levinas, Critchley, Beauvoir, Le Dœuff, Irigaray, Cixous, Weil, and others, Boulous Walker offers a foundational text in the emerging field of slow philosophy, one that explores the importance of unhurried time in establishing our institutional encounters with complex and demanding works.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474279937

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Clinical Pharmacology in Athletic Training

By: Michelle Cleary,Tom Abdenour,Mike Pavlovich

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Clinical Pharmacology in Athletic Training

By: Michelle Cleary,Tom Abdenour,Mike Pavlovich

This book provides comprehensive foundational knowledge of pharmacology. It guides athletic trainers through the management, administration, legal issues, and pharmacology of drugs used in sports medicine"--

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Human Kinetics

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1492594180

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Photography

The Unfettered Image

By: Michelle Henning

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Photography

The Unfettered Image

By: Michelle Henning

We live in a time in which photographs have become extraordinarily mobile. They can be exchanged and circulated at the swipe of a finger across a screen. The digital photographic image appears and disappears with a mere gesture of the hand. Yet, this book argues that this mobility of the image was merely accelerated by digital media and telecommunications. Photographs, from the moment of their invention, set images loose by making them portable, reproducible, projectable, reduced in size and multiplied. The fact that we do not associate analogue photography with such mobility has much to do with the limitations of existing histories and theories of photography, which have tended to view photographic mobility as either an incidental characteristic or a fault. Photography : The Unfettered Image traces the emergence of these ways of understanding photography, but also presents a differently nuanced and materialist history in which photography is understood as part of a larger development of media technologies. It is situated in much broader cultural contexts: caught up in the European colonial ambition to "grasp the world" and in the development of a new, artificial "second nature" dependent on the large-scale processing of animal and mineral materials. Focussing primarily on Victorian and 1920s–30s practices and theories, it demonstrates how photography was never simply a technology for fixing a fleeting reality.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000887790

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Esra

Children of the Dragon

By: Michelle Burgin

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Children of the Dragon

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Teaching in the Anthropocene

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At the Edge of Sight

At the Edge of Sight

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Elizabeth Harrower

American Archives

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Historical Heroines

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Competition is Killing Us

Competition is Killing Us

Nanotechnology

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Chakra Healing for Vibrant Energy

Chakra Healing for Vibrant Energy

Women of Steel

Women of Steel

Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure

Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure

Slow Philosophy

Slow Philosophy

Clinical Pharmacology in Athletic Training

Clinical Pharmacology in Athletic Training

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