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The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau

By: Michelle Markel

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The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau

By: Michelle Markel

Henri Rousseau wanted to be an artist. But he had no formal training. Instead, he taught himself to paint. He painted until the jungles and animals and distant lands in his head came alive on the space of his canvases. Henri Rousseau endured the harsh critics of his day and created the brilliant paintings that now hang in museums around the world. Michelle Markel's vivid text, complemented by the vibrant illustrations of Amanda Hall, artfully introduces young readers to the beloved painter and encourages all readers to persevere despite all odds. Watch the trailer:

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1467464163

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Daniel 11

A History of the World

By: Michelle Lynn

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Daniel 11

A History of the World

By: Michelle Lynn

About 2500 years ago Daniel, the Hebrew prophet, penned some incredible words. He wrote a history book in reverse, as it were. He was seeing forward through 'history' in the same way we look back through it. Quite an incredible claim, yet as is demonstrated in this book, a valid one. Regardless of your background or belief system (or lack of), you will be astounded at the perfect marriage of the 45 verses of Daniel 11 and the history of the world. This book is unique in concept and in form and will bring ease and clarity to the study of a difficult subject. It naturally begins at verse one of the chapter, focusing on the historical figure given, and then follows the text to each subsequent point in history. Reference materials are included to make study of the verse text simple.

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146854229X

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Will You Take Me As I Am

Joni Mitchell's Blue Period

By: Michelle Mercer

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Will You Take Me As I Am

Joni Mitchell's Blue Period

By: Michelle Mercer

Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album, inspired by the way it clarified their own difficult emotions. Critics and musicians admire the idiosyncratic virtuosity of its compositions. Will You Take Me As I Am -- the first book about Joni Mitchell to include original interviews with her -- looks at Blue to explore the development of an extraordinary artist, the history of songwriting, and much more. In extensive conversations with Mitchell, Michelle Mercer heard firsthand about Joni's internal and external journeys as she composed the largely autobiographical albums of what Mercer calls her Blue Period, which lasted through the mid-1970s. Incorporating biography, memoir, reportage, criticism, and interviews into an illuminating narrative, Mercer moves beyond the "making of an album" genre to arrive at a new form of music writing. In 1970, Mitchell was living with Graham Nash in Laurel Canyon and had made a name for herself as a so-called folk singer notable for her soaring voice and skillful compositions. Soon, though, feeling hemmed in, she fled to the hippie cave community of Matala, Greece. Here and on further travels, her compositions were freshly inspired by the lands and people she encountered as well as by her own radically changing interior landscape. After returning home to record Blue, Mitchell retreated to British Columbia, eventually reemerging as the leader of a successful jazz-rock group and turning outward in her songwriting toward social commentary. Finally, a stint with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and a pivotal meeting with the Tibetan lama ChÖgyam Trungpa prompted Mitchell's return to personal songwriting, which resulted in her 1976 masterpiece album, Hejira. Mercer interlaces this fascinating account of Mitchell's Blue Period with meditations on topics related to her work, including the impact of landscape on music, the value of autobiographical songwriting for artist and listener, and the literary history of confessionalism. Mercer also provides rich analyses of Mitchell's creative achievements: her innovative manner of marrying lyrics to melody; her inventive, highly expressive chords that achieve her signature blend of wonder and melancholy; how she pioneered personal songwriting and, along with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, brought a new literacy to the popular song. Fans will appreciate the previously unpublished photos and a coda of Mitchell's unedited commentary on the places, books, music, pastimes, and philosophies she holds dear. This utterly original book offers a unique portrait of a great musician and her remarkable work, as well as new perspectives on the art of songwriting itself.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416566554

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Rhyming Reason

The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists

By: Michelle Faubert

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Rhyming Reason

The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists

By: Michelle Faubert

During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on psychologist-poets who grew out of the literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas.

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Routledge

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131731431X

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Christian Art

By: Michelle P. Brown

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Christian Art

By: Michelle P. Brown

Explore the rich history and influence of Christian art from Antiquity to the present day. Michelle Brown traces the rich history of Christian art, crossing boundaries to explore how art has reflected and stimulated a response to the teachings of Christ, and to Christian thought and experience across the ages. Embracing much of the history of art in the West and parts of the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australasia, Michelle considers art of the earliest Christians to the modern day. Featuring articles by invited contributors on subjects including Icons; Renaissance Florence; Rubens and the Counter-Reformation; Religious Folk Art; Jewish Artists; Christian Themes; Making the St Johnâs Bible, and Christianity and Contemporary Art in North America, Christian Art is an ideal survey of the subject for all those interested in the worldâs artistic heritage. â¢â Comprehensive and authoritative text from the Early Christian period to the modern day â¢â Wide international coverage â¢â Feature articles on special subjects by a team of experts from around the world

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Lion Hudson Ltd

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1912552566

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The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development

A Greener Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Conflict

By: August John Hoffman,Michelle Filkins,Saul Alamilla

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The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development

A Greener Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Conflict

By: August John Hoffman,Michelle Filkins,Saul Alamilla

Communities today face unprecedented racial tension, conflict, and turmoil. Social unrest, political rhetoric, authoritarian rulers, and economic disparities contribute to unprecedented levels of community violence and extremism. The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development: A Greener Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Conflict proposes a more comprehensive and community-oriented approach to address conflict through the development of community resources and ecologically sustainable green space programs, such as community gardening programs. The authors draw on empirical research to identify how resources may be utilized to promote increased positive intergroup contact and provide greater collaboration among community residents. This book provides the essential interpersonal mechanisms to achieve a more resilient, empowered, and peaceful community.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793601100

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Haunted Auburn and Opelika

By: Michelle Smith,Faith Serafin,John Mark Poe

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Haunted Auburn and Opelika

By: Michelle Smith,Faith Serafin,John Mark Poe

Discover the ghostly presences that haunt this historic region of the South and its famed university—photos included! The Auburn and Opelika region is home to one of the most historic universities in the South. It is a region with a history stretching back generations—and it is a history that is very much still alive. Chilling remnants of the past continue to haunt Auburn-Opelika and the communities of Alabama’s Lee County. Join a team of expert ghost hunters as they reveal for the first time the stories of the spirits still lingering throughout the area. The haunting of the University’s Samford Hall, the legend of historic Springvilla mansion, and the Headless Man of Highway 80, among many other ghostly tales, uncover the darker side of Auburn-Opelika.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614237425

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Busy Teacher's Guide to Art Lessons

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By: Michelle M. McAuliffe

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Busy Teacher's Guide to Art Lessons

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By: Michelle M. McAuliffe

Presents lesson plans and reproducible patterns for and/or illustrations of finished work for thirty-six art lessons. Each lesson plan includes sections on the purpose of the lesson, its art history background, materials needed, procedures, assignment choices for students, and a connection section that links lesson contents with the work of a featured artist.

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1576902102

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American Enchantment

Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World

By: Michelle Sizemore

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American Enchantment

Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World

By: Michelle Sizemore

American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of "enchantment" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation.

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Oxford University Press

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0190627530

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French Festivals and Traditions

By: Nicolette Hannam,Michelle Williams

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French Festivals and Traditions

By: Nicolette Hannam,Michelle Williams

This invaluable, time-saving resource provides intercultural ideas for every month of the year. For each festival and tradition you will find background information, key vocabulary, detailed lists of possible teaching activities and optional pupil sheets. Ideas range from making cards and reading/writing poems to playing game and cooking traditional recipes.

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Andrews UK Limited

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0857472666

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The Broadview Introduction to Book History

By: Michelle Levy,Tom Mole

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The Broadview Introduction to Book History

By: Michelle Levy,Tom Mole

Book history has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the most important new fields of interdisciplinary study. It has produced new interpretations of major historical events, has made possible new approaches to history, literature, media, and culture, and presents a distinctive historical perspective on current debates about the future of the book. The Broadview Introduction to Book History provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this field. Written in a lively, accessible style, chapters on materiality, textuality, printing and reading, intermediality, and remediation guide readers through numerous key concepts, illustrated with examples from literary texts and historical documents produced across a wide historical range. An ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in book history, it offers a road map to this dynamic inter-disciplinary field.

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1554810876

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Mata Hari's Last Dance

A Novel

By: Michelle Moran

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Mata Hari's Last Dance

A Novel

By: Michelle Moran

From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy. Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom…or death. Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she’s been arrested on: treason leading to the deaths of thousands of French soldiers. As Mata Hari waits for her fate to be decided, she relays the story of her life to a reporter who is allowed to visit her in prison. Beginning with her carefree childhood, Mata Hari recounts her father’s cruel abandonment of her family as well her calamitous marriage to a military officer. Taken to the island of Java, Mata Hari refuses to be ruled by her abusive husband and instead learns to dance, paving the way to her stardom as Europe’s most infamous dancer. From exotic Indian temples and glamorous Parisian theatres to stark German barracks in war-torn Europe, international bestselling author Michelle Moran who “expertly balances fact and fiction” (Associated Press) brings to vibrant life the famed world of Mata Hari: dancer, courtesan, and possibly, spy.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476716390

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Recognizing Resentment

Sympathy, Injustice, and Liberal Political Thought

By: Michelle Schwarze

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Recognizing Resentment

Sympathy, Injustice, and Liberal Political Thought

By: Michelle Schwarze

We typically think of resentment as an unjustifiable and volatile emotion, responsible for fostering the worst political divisions. Recognizing Resentment argues instead that sympathy with the resentment of victims of injustice is vital for upholding justice in liberal societies, as it entails recognition of the equal moral and political status of those with whom we sympathize. Sympathizing with the resentment of others makes us alive to injustice in a way no rational recognition of wrongs alone can, and it motivates us to demand justice on others' behalves. This book rehabilitates arguments for the moral and political worth of resentment developed by three influential thinkers in the early liberal tradition - Joseph Butler, David Hume, and Adam Smith - and uses these to advance a theory of spectatorial resentment, discussing why we should be indignant about the injustice others face, and how such a shared sentiment can actually bring liberal citizens closer together.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108786634

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The Bedroom

An Intimate History

By: Michelle Perrot

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The Bedroom

An Intimate History

By: Michelle Perrot

An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king’s chamber to child’s sleeping quarters to lovers’ trysting place to monk’s cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot’s engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom—birth, sex, illness, death—in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.

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Yale University Press

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0300167091

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An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art

By: Michelle Facos

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An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art

By: Michelle Facos

Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide readers with a basic historical framework of the period and the critical tools for interpreting and situating new and unfamiliar works of art. Michelle Facos goes beyond existing histories of nineteenth-century art, which often focus solely on France, Britain, and the United States, to incorporate artists and artworks from Scandinavia, Germany, and Eastern Europe. The book expertly balances its coverage of trends and individual artworks: where the salient trends are clear, trend-setting works are highlighted, and the complexity of the period is respected by situating all works in their proper social and historical context. In this way, the student reader achieves a more nuanced understanding of the way in which the story of nineteenth-century art is the story of the ways in which artists and society grappled with the problem of modernity. Key pedagogical features include: Data boxes provide statistics, timelines, charts, and historical information about the period to further situate artworks. Text boxes highlight extracts from original sources, citing the ideas of artists and their contemporaries, including historians, philosophers, critics, and theorists, to place artists and works in the broader context of aesthetic, cultural, intellectual, social, and political conditions in which artists were working. Beautifully illustrated with over 250 color images. Margin notes and glossary definitions. Online resources at www.routledge.com/textbooks/facos with access to a wealth of information, including original documents pertaining to artworks discussed in the textbook, contemporary criticism, timelines and maps to enrich your understanding of the period and allow for further comparison and exploration. Chapters take a thematic approach combined within an overarching chronology and more detailed discussions of individual works are always put in the context of the broader social picture, thus providing students with a sense of art history as a controversial and alive arena of study. Michelle Facos teaches art history at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research explores the changing relationship between artists and society since the Enlightenment and issues of identity. Prior publications include Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Painting of the 1890s (1998), Art, Culture and National Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Europe, co-edited with Sharon Hirsh (2003), and Symbolist Art in Context (2009).

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Routledge

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1136840702

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A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes

By: Georges Duby,Michelle Perrot,Pauline Schmitt Pantel

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A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes

By: Georges Duby,Michelle Perrot,Pauline Schmitt Pantel

Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.

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Harvard University Press

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067440372X

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Madame Tussaud

A Novel of the French Revolution

By: Michelle Moran

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Madame Tussaud

A Novel of the French Revolution

By: Michelle Moran

The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire, but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti comes a “rollicking drama” (Good Housekeeping) that is “intimate and entertaining” (Associated Press). “Both a gripping, fictionalized biography of an intriguing woman and a well-paced, illuminating chronicle of the French Revolution.”—New York Journal of Books Smart and ambitious, Marie Tussaud has learned the secrets of wax sculpting by working alongside her uncle in their celebrated wax museum, the Salon de Cire. From her popular model of the American ambassador, Thomas Jefferson, to her tableau of the royal family at dinner, Marie’s museum provides Parisians with the very latest news on fashion, gossip, and even politics. Her customers hail from every walk of life, yet her greatest dream is to attract the attention of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI; their stamp of approval on her work could catapult her and her museum to the fame and riches she desires. Though many people are starving and can no longer afford bread, Marie’s business is booming. In salons and cafés across Paris, people like Maximilien Robespierre are lashing out against the monarchy. Soon, there’s whispered talk of revolution. Spanning five years, from the budding revolution to the Reign of Terror, Madame Tussaud brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax modeling saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom.

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Crown

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030758867X

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The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G)

A comprehensive guide for clinicians and researchers

By: Michelle Stein,Jenelle Slavin-Mulford

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The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G)

A comprehensive guide for clinicians and researchers

By: Michelle Stein,Jenelle Slavin-Mulford

The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G) is a clinician rated measure that can be used to code various forms of narrative material. It is comprised of eight dimensions which are scored using a seven-point Likert scale, where lower scores are indicative of more pathological aspects of object representations and higher scores are suggestive of more mature and adaptive functioning. The volume is a comprehensive reference on the 1) validity and reliability of the SCORS-G rating system; 2) in depth review of the empirical literature; 3) administration and intricacies of scoring; and 4) the implications and clinical utility of the system across settings and disciplines for clinicians and researchers.

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Routledge

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1351801236

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Managing Employee Performance & Reward

Concepts, Practices, Strategies

By: John Shields,Michelle Brown,Sarah Kaine,Catherine Dolle-Samuel,Andrea North-Samardzic,Peter McLean,Robyn Johns,Patrick O'Leary,Geoff Plimmer,Jack Robinson

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Managing Employee Performance & Reward

Concepts, Practices, Strategies

By: John Shields,Michelle Brown,Sarah Kaine,Catherine Dolle-Samuel,Andrea North-Samardzic,Peter McLean,Robyn Johns,Patrick O'Leary,Geoff Plimmer,Jack Robinson

This second edition offers a comprehensive coverage of employee performance and reward, presenting the material in a conceptually integrated way.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107653533

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Harlequin Romance March 2018 Box Set

By: Jessica Gilmore,Jennifer Faye,Michelle Douglas,Andrea Bolter

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Harlequin Romance March 2018 Box Set

By: Jessica Gilmore,Jennifer Faye,Michelle Douglas,Andrea Bolter

Harlequin® Romance brings you a collection of four new titles, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes: #4607 BABY SURPRISE FOR THE SPANISH BILLIONAIRE Wedding Island by Jessica Gilmore Dr. Anna Gray has stepped out of her comfort zone to help her mother prepare her resort for its first-ever wedding. But when delicious billionaire Leo di Marquez sails into La Isla Marina, Anna’s tempted into dropping her guard—with unexpected consequences! #4608 BEAUTY AND HER BOSS Once Upon a Fairytale by Jennifer Faye Handsome but guarded former Hollywood star Deacon Santoro prefers the confines of his mansion since an accident left him scarred, both inside and out. Can his new PA, Gabrielle Dupré, convince Deacon that love will give them the fairy-tale ending they deserve? #4609 A BABY IN HIS IN-TRAY by Michelle Douglas Liv Gilmour can’t say no when her identical twin asks her to take her place for a week at work. And when someone abandons a baby with a note demanding Lord Sebastian Tyrrell take care of it, Liv’s suddenly up close and personal with the sexy boss…and a baby who needs them both! #4610 HER LAS VEGAS WEDDING by Andrea Bolter When hotel heiress Audrey Girard’s safe, convenient wedding is called off, she’s left to contend with her ex-fiancé’s brother—brooding chef Shane Murphy! And there’s nothing safe about her attraction to Shane… Could there be a Las Vegas wedding in the cards after all? Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.

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1488089892

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Waxworks

A Cultural Obsession

By: Michelle E. Bloom

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Waxworks

A Cultural Obsession

By: Michelle E. Bloom

London, 1921. The world's greatest wax sculptor watches in horror as flames consume his museum and melt his uncannily lifelike creations. Twelve years later, he opens a wax museum in New York. Crippled, disfigured, and driven mad by the fire, he resorts to body snatching and murder to populate his displays, preserving the bodies in wax. "In a thousand years you will be as lovely as you are now, " he assures one victim. In The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), director Michael Curtiz perfectly captures the macabre essence of realistic wax figures that have excited the darker aspects of the public's imagination ever since Madame Tussaud established her famous museum in London in 1802. Artists, too, have been fascinated by wax sculptures, seeing in them--and in the unique properties of wax itself--an eerie metaphoric power with which to address sexual anxiety, fears of mortality, and other morbid subjects. In Waxworks, Michelle E. Bloom explores the motif of the wax figure in European and American literature and art. In particular, she connects the myth of Pygmalion to the obsession with wax statues of women in the nineteenth-century fetishization of prostitutes and female corpses and as depicted in such "wax fictions" as Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (1841). Filmmakers, too, have sought inspiration from wax museums, and Bloom analyzes works from the silent era to such waxwork-themed Hollywood horror films as Mad Love (1935) and House of Wax (1953). Bringing her discussion to the present, Bloom examines the work of contemporary artists who use the medium of wax in ways never imagined by Madame Tussaud. As extravagant new wax museums open in Las Vegas, Times Square, and Paris, Waxworksoffers a provocative cultural history of this enduring--and disturbing--art form.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816639302

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Stillness of Solitude

Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film

By: Michelle Devereaux

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Stillness of Solitude

Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film

By: Michelle Devereaux

Michelle Devereaux explores the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection of seven films from four popular filmmakers: Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman.

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Edinburgh University Press

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147444606X

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The Beautiful People

A Novel

By: Michelle Gable

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The Beautiful People

A Novel

By: Michelle Gable

Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set—a failed debutante's new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into Palm Beach’s inner circle, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its center, fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer “This glittering novel shines as brightly as its heroine. A true delight.” —Nicola Harrison, author of Hotel Laguna Washington Post Best Book of April * PureWow Best Book of Summer It’s 1961, and for Margo Hightower, everything is about to change. True, her engagement is off, her family has fallen in scandal, and she's completely broke. But she’s just been hired as assistant to photographer Slim Aarons—famous for his vibrant pictures of high society, royalty, and Hollywood stars—and she knows this opportunity is her ticket to something better. From the bright beaches of Acapulco to glitzy parties in New York, Margo is thrown headfirst into the glamorous jet-set world she so covets, observing its ways from behind the camera as Slim’s sidekick. There’s Jackie Kennedy, Truman Capote's Swans, a host of Vanderbilts. Beautiful people in beautiful places. But when they land in Palm Beach, a scene with few rules and many riches, the lines between work and play begin to blur. As Margo becomes swept up in the city’s social circle—and into a friendship with heiress and rising fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer—the golden life seems increasingly in reach. Until she finds herself entangled in a complicated web of loyalties and secrets that could bring it all crashing down…

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0369746627

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C.S. Lewis

By: Michelle Ann Abate,Lance Weldy

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C.S. Lewis

By: Michelle Ann Abate,Lance Weldy

Beginning with the publication of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950 and concluding with the appearance of The Last Battle in 1956, C. S. Lewis's seven-book series chronicling the adventures of a group of young people in the fictional land of Narnia has become a worldwide classic of children's literature. This stimulating collection of original essays by critics in a wide range of disciplines explores the past place, present status, and future importance of The Chronicles of Narnia. With essays ranging in focus from textual analysis to film and new media adaptations, to implications of war/trauma and race and gender, this cutting-edge New Casebook encourages readers to think about this much-loved series in fresh and exciting ways.

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1137284978

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Transoceanic America

Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific

By: Michelle Burnham

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Transoceanic America

Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific

By: Michelle Burnham

This volume explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in the American Revolution and its influence on early American culture and literature. It studies the transoceanic connections between the Pacific and Atlantic and the political and literary developments that accompanied the period's explosion in global maritime travel.

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0198840896

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French Festivals and Traditions KS3

By: Nicolette Hannam,Michelle Williams

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French Festivals and Traditions KS3

By: Nicolette Hannam,Michelle Williams

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Andrews UK Limited

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0857475843

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Lost Thought

By: Pearson Moore,Nikki Stafford,Erika Olson,Jo Garfein,Sarah Clarke Stuart,Jeffrey Frame,Jennifer Galicinski,Paul Wright,Delano Freeberg,Antonio Savorelli,Michelle Lang,Kevin McGinnis,Cory Milles,Sam McPherson

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Lost Thought

LOST Thought is a lively collaboration between 22 leading experts in the online LOST world and the academic community. Every contributor brings unrestrained passion to these 25 wide-ranging and vital discussions of the personal, cultural, social, and literary implications of the most fascinating, multi-faceted creation ever presented on television. LOST is approached as living, breathing text whose mythology, themes, and theses challenge our culture and our society at every level. Scholars specializing in literary theory, English literature, film theory, art history, LOST studies, theology, pop culture, music theory, art, religious studies, and theater have come together to produce the most extensive analysis of LOST ever presented in a single volume. These 22 experts discuss LOST from 25 different perspectives, taking on issues ranging from the cultural impact of the series as a whole to the social implications of specific characters.

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Lulu.com

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1105841812

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Explorations in Christian Theology and Ethics

Essays in Conversation with Paul L. Lehmann

By: Michelle J. Bartel

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Explorations in Christian Theology and Ethics

Essays in Conversation with Paul L. Lehmann

By: Michelle J. Bartel

Engaging variously with the legacy of Paul L. Lehmann, these essays argue for a reorientation in Christian theology that better honours the formative power of the gospel to animate and shape doctrine and witness, as well as ethical and political life. The authors explore key themes in Christian theology and ethics - forgiveness, discernment, responsibility, spirituality, the present day tasks of theology and the role of faith in public life - making plain the unabated importance of Lehmann's work at this juncture in contemporary theology. The internationally recognized contributors draw crucial connections between the gospel of reconciliation, the form of Christian theology and witness, and the challenges of contemporary ethical and political reflection. This book demonstrates why this close friend of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and author of Ethics in a Christian Context and The Transfiguration of Politics continues to influence generations of theologians in both the English-speaking world and beyond.

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Routledge

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1317137620

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The Rose Grower

By: Michelle de Kretser

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The Rose Grower

By: Michelle de Kretser

In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an exotic new flower. But the year is 1789, and the world is about to change... The Rose Grower throws a subtle, slanting light on the underside of history, as a young woman and her family are caught up in the bloodthirsty years of the French Revolution. Her private passion is to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the first of its kind in Europe. But, as public events in Paris are duplicated in Gascony, her world turns upside down. An American balloonist falls out of the sky and into her life; while Joseph, a young working-class doctor, is also drawn into her orbit, and finds himself fatally torn between reason and desire, revolutionary zeal and unrequited love.

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Random House

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1448138442

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To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss

William Morris's Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams

By: Michelle Weinroth,Paul Leduc Browne

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To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss

William Morris's Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams

By: Michelle Weinroth,Paul Leduc Browne

To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris. Standing on the cusp of a new wave of scholarship, this book presents an exciting convergence of views among internationally renowned scholars in the field of Victorian Studies. Balancing variety and unity, this collection reappraises Morris’s concept of social change and asks how we might think beyond the institutions and epistemologies of our time. Though the political significance of Morris’s creative work is often underestimated, the essays in this volume showcase its subtlety and sophistication. Each chapter discerns the power and novelty of Morris’s radicalism within his aesthetic creations and demonstrates how his most compelling political ideas bloomed wherever his dexterous hand had been at work - in wallpapers, floral borders, medievalist romances, and verse. Morris's theory and practice of aesthetic creation can be seen as the crucible of his entire philosophy of social change. In situating Morris's radicalism at the heart of his creative legacy, and in reanimating debates about nineteenth-century art and politics, To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss challenges and expands received notions of the radical, the aesthetic, and the political.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773596984

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9780773596986

Pacific Islands Writing

The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania

By: Michelle Keown

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Pacific Islands Writing

The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania

By: Michelle Keown

Beginning with an overview of European representations of the Pacific, Michelle Keown presents a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific from the late 1960s through to the new millennium, focusing mainly on writing in English, but also exploring the growing corpus of francophone and hispanophone Pacific writing.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199229139

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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga

Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South

By: Michelle R. Scott

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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga

Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South

By: Michelle R. Scott

As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post-emancipation era, and black working-class gender conventions. Arguing that the rise of blues culture and the success of female blues artists like Bessie Smith are connected to the rapid migration and industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Scott focuses her analysis on Chattanooga, Tennessee, the large industrial and transportation center where Smith was born. This study explores how the expansion of the Southern railroads and the development of iron foundries, steel mills, and sawmills created vast employment opportunities in the postbellum era. Chronicling the growth and development of the African American Chattanooga community, Scott examines the Smith family's migration to Chattanooga and the popular music of black Chattanooga during the first decade of the twentieth century, and culminates by delving into Smith's early years on the vaudeville circuit.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252092376

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9780252092374

The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation

The Perspective of State Regulators

By: Michelle C. Pautz,Sara R. Rinfret

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The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation

The Perspective of State Regulators

By: Michelle C. Pautz,Sara R. Rinfret

The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation offers a unique perspective about an understudied aspect of environmental policy, by sharing the stories of the front-line regulators that implement policy on a day-to-day basis in the United States.

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Routledge

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0415808154

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Fichte's Ethics

By: Michelle Kosch

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Fichte's Ethics

By: Michelle Kosch

One of Fichte's most important ideas - that nature can place limits on our ability to govern ourselves, and that anyone who values autonomy is thereby committed to the value of basic research and of the development of autonomy-enhancing technologies - has received little attention in the interpretative literature on Fichte, and has little currency in contemporary ethics. This volume aims to address both deficits. Beginning from a reconstruction of Fichte's theory of rational agency, this volume examines his arguments for the thesis that rational agency must have two constitutive ends: substantive and formal independence. It argues for a novel interpretation of Fichte's conception of substantive independence, and shows how Fichte's account of moral duties is derived from the end of substantive independence on that conception. It also argues for a new interpretation of Fichte's conception of formal independence, and explains why the usual understanding of this end as providing direct guidance for action must be mistaken. It encompasses a systematic reconstruction of Fichte's first-order claims in normative ethics and the philosophy of right.

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Oxford University Press

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0192537520

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Media and Food Industries

The New Politics of Food

By: Michelle Phillipov

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Media and Food Industries

The New Politics of Food

By: Michelle Phillipov

This volume is the first to combine textual analysis of food media texts with interviews with media production staff, reality TV contestants, celebrity chefs, and food producers and retailers across the artisan-conventional spectrum. Intensified media interest in food has seen food politics become a dominant feature of popular media—from television and social media to cookbooks and advertising. This is often thought to be driven by consumers and by new ethics of consumption, but Media and Food Industries reveals how contemporary food politics is also being shaped by political and economic imperatives within the media and food industries. It explores the behind-the-scenes production dynamics of contemporary food media to assess the roles of—and relationships between—media and food industries in shaping new concerns and meanings with respect to food.

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Springer

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3319641018

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Learning, Culture, and Community in Online Education

Research and Practice

By: Michelle M. Kazmer

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Learning, Culture, and Community in Online Education

Research and Practice

By: Michelle M. Kazmer

In 1996 the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began an Internet-based teaching program, allowing students across the United States - and the world - to earn a Master's degree from a distance. The program, known as LEEP (Library Education Experimental Project), has been an outstanding success, and as an early innovation in Internet use, provides important lessons on how to flourish in an online environment. Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education brings together significant new research on online education, using the LEEP program as a model to reveal a wealth of information about innovative online practices. Contributions by administrators, philosophers, faculty, librarians, technical staff, and researchers in the traditions of education, computer science, folklore, information science, and sociology, reveal the many perspectives to be taken into account when creating and maintaining distance learning programs. More than an analysis of the LEEP program, this book is an essential introduction to the variety of social and educational phenomena that occur within the socio-technical environments that support online learners.

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Peter Lang

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0820468479

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9780820468471

Hung Jury

The Winds of Freedom Blow

By: Michelle Finnegan

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Hung Jury

The Winds of Freedom Blow

By: Michelle Finnegan

Hung Jury tells the story about Astraea, whose name was borrowed from the Greek goddess of Truth. It is Atraea's quest for truth, justice and unconditional love in a world full of land mines, manipulative individuals, growing concerns and dwindling hope. Pray for Help and change

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1462823955

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