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The Medicalization of Marijuana

Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience

By: Michelle Newhart,William Dolphin

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The Medicalization of Marijuana

Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience

By: Michelle Newhart,William Dolphin

Winner of the Donald W. Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs. The Medicalization of Marijuana takes the first comprehensive look at how patients negotiate incomplete medicalization and what their experiences reveal about our relationship with this controversial plant as it is incorporated into biomedicine. Is cannabis used similarly to other medicines? Drawing on interviews with midlife patients in Colorado, a state at the forefront of medical cannabis implementation, this book explores the practical decisions individuals confront about medical use, including whether cannabis will work for them; the risks of registering in a state program; and how to handle questions of supply, dosage, and routines of use. Individual stories capture how patients redefine and reclaim cannabis use as legitimate—individually and collectively—and grapple with an inherently political identity. These experiences help illustrate how stigma, prejudice, and social change operate. By positioning cannabis use within sociological models of medical behavior, Newhart and Dolphin provide a wide-reaching, theoretically informed analysis of the issue that expands established concepts and provides new insight on medical cannabis and how state programs work.

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0429833776

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''You Are The Father''

By: Michelle Harbin

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''You Are The Father''

By: Michelle Harbin

The book is based on a true story, most of the names were changed to protect the innocent. This dynamic intriguing novel will capture the minds of readers from Detroit to the entire east coast of America. From the past to the present, a young teenager named Chanel Harrington tries to find her worth as she struggles to make a better life for herself and her younger brother. They are both caught up in a world of drugs, death, and dealers. Chanel escapes the hardcore streets of Detroit and lands in and Washington, DC better known as "Dodge City" Her life takes a drastic change as she learns the Jamaican way of living. Chanel falls in love with a dreadlocks Rastafarian named William Done (AKA) Goldie. Chanel flies back and fourth to Washington, DC and still continues to sleep with Goldie because she is still in love with him in spite of him living with his children´s mother Hanna Benson and her living with another man named Peter in Texas. Goldie and Chanel eventually leave both their partners Hanna and Peter to give their love a try. One man named Goldie with 13 children by 7 different women tries to settle down with one of them which is Chanel, but his former children´s mother Hanna constantly interferes with their relationship. Hanna gives Goldie and Chanel pure hell, and he gives her hope that he will come back to her by still sleeping in her bed. she gets pregnant and Goldie will not admit that he is the father. The games William plays with Chanel and Hanna catches up with him in the long run, and the battle for him gets ugly. Hell has no fury like the other woman scorned! Chanel and Goldie´s relationship becomes unhealthy on a roller coaster that takes the readers along for the ride.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462886418

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Brush Management

Past, Present, Future

By: Wayne T. Hamilton,Allan McGinty,Darrell N. Ueckert,C. Wayne Hanselka,Michelle R. Lee

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Brush Management

Past, Present, Future

By: Wayne T. Hamilton,Allan McGinty,Darrell N. Ueckert,C. Wayne Hanselka,Michelle R. Lee

The presence of brush in rangeland environments continually tops the list of priority issues among landowners, and not just in Texas. Whether they manage their land for livestock, hunting, or wildlife watching, what to do about unwanted woody plants remains a serious and pervasive question for landowners everywhere. In the pages of this book, leading range management professionals introduce and explain not only the mechanisms of managing brush but also the changes in management philosophy and technology that have taken place over time. From the futile attempts at eradication to the successes of integrated brush management, expert practitioners examine mechanical, biological, chemical, and fire-related methods from three perspectives—the past, the present or “state-of-the-art,” and the future. In a final discussion, three specialists address the timely and important subject of brush management as it relates to water yield, economics, and wildlife. Brush Management: Past, Present, Future gives readers a straightforward and comprehensive view of a topic that remains a consistent concern for livestock, wildlife, and land management—one that will serve as a useful and interesting summary of the subject for teachers, students, landowners, and management professionals.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585443573

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Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America

By: Jeffrey H. Skevington,Michelle M. Locke,Andrew D. Young,Kevin Moran,William J. Crins,Stephen A. Marshall

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Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America

By: Jeffrey H. Skevington,Michelle M. Locke,Andrew D. Young,Kevin Moran,William J. Crins,Stephen A. Marshall

A groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as hover flies) of northeastern North America. Flower flies are, along with bees, our most important pollinators. Found in a varied range of habitats, from backyard gardens to aquatic ecosystems, these flies are often overlooked because many of their species mimic bees or wasps. Despite this, many species are distinctive and even subtly differentiated species can be accurately identified. This handy and informative guide teaches you how. With more than 3,000 color photographs and 400 maps, this guide covers all 416 species of flower flies that occur north of Tennessee and east of the Dakotas, including the high Arctic and Greenland. Each species account provides information on size, identification, abundance, and flight time, along with notes on behavior, classification, hybridization, habitats, larvae, and more. Summarizing the current scientific understanding of our flower fly fauna, this is an indispensable resource for anyone, amateur naturalist or scientist, interested in discovering the beauty of these insects. · 3000+ color photos (field and museum shots) · Multiple images per species, with arrows highlighting key field marks · Grayscale images showing the actual size of the insect · Range maps for each species · Information on size, identification features, abundance, flight times, and more

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Princeton University Press

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0691192510

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Reality Melting

By: Michelle Lonergan

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Reality Melting

By: Michelle Lonergan

Sam Shannon suffers from deep depression due to lack of meaning in his life. A group of six friends knows that Sam has the potential of becoming a spiritual warrior, one who fights evil where it is born on the astral plane of existence. Dave, the leader of the group, tries to encourage Sam to embark on a vision quest to find the purpose of his life. Sam is too fearful to go, having lost control of his mind for three days the last time he touched the spiritual realm. Sam swears never to journey into alternate dimensions again, but a lethal threat to himself and to his friends forces him to break his oath. Dave invites the group to his cabin in the woods with the secret intention of encouraging Sam to overcome his fears. Nan, a woman jealous of Sam's spiritual potential, hires her former boyfriend, Bulldog, to ensure Sam never reaches spiritual warrior status. Dave realizes Nan's intentions to do Sam harm. He and the others plan to save Sam, but Nan, having spiritual gifts of her own, creates etheric prisons that capture the group's minds and souls. Sam learns of his friends' plight and must overcome his fear of journeying into the astral plane if he is to save their souls. Sam must slay his own inner demons before saving his friends, and must also face the more difficult challenge of defeating the evil inside Nan.

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162857125X

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Miracle Worker

Enlightened Rebel Osteopath Brings Gifts for You to Create a Happier Life

By: Michelle Davies

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Miracle Worker

Enlightened Rebel Osteopath Brings Gifts for You to Create a Happier Life

By: Michelle Davies

AN INFORMED PATH THAT FORGED THROUGH DEPENDENCE TO HEALTH AND SELF-RELIANCE MIRACLE WORKER provides a dynamic look at the way the average person tackles their presenting problems: aches, pains and much worse. We can become masters of our own body and move into a pain-free healthier existence away from the problems that plague us. Within a world that is ruled by medical science and big pharma, where medicine and tablets are the answer, Michelle takes the reader through a journey of discovery: the discovery that the solution to these problems are seated within the very mind of the patients, not the packet of pills they have in their drawer. From a structured look at the history of Osteopathy, to an evaluation of current medical practice, this book aims to educate those curious to regain control over their health and move into an enlightened way of thinking. Chapters on alternative practices, crystals, Osteopathic techniques and Michelle’s own experience, take you through the same process an expert Osteopath would use to evaluate and alleviate your problems – promoting a healthier, changed lifestyle. Each section is illustrated with testimonials. PRAISE FOR REBEL OSTEOPATH ‘I have faith in knowing she will always be able to assist my body to heal and highly recommend her.’ Nathan Baker, Professional footballer ‘Michelle treats the whole of you - body, spirit, mind - Knowing that they occupy the self-same space. She’s the lady with the magic hands who quietly works miracles that some call osteopathy...’ Liz Darcy ‘I was having tummy pains and Michelle addressed my posture which made a massive improvement after I had treatment. It is nice to know there is someone that can help my family.’ Emma age 10 MICHELLE DAVIES has facilitated healing from head to toe, from the cradle to the rocking chair, for more than two decades from her two private clinics in Bromyard and Worcester. www.worcester-osteopath.com

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Balboa Press

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1982282088

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Life Without Diabetes-Fact Or Fiction?

A Total Body Makeover from the Inside Out

By: Michelle D' Angel

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Life Without Diabetes-Fact Or Fiction?

A Total Body Makeover from the Inside Out

By: Michelle D' Angel

Living with diabetes, losing weight, and lowering blood pressure or cholesterol is not easy. It takes time, knowledge, and the desire to change the way you think about your body and food. In Life without Diabetes Fact or Fiction?, author Michelle D'Angel provides a firsthand account of how consuming a well-balanced diet can help combat many health issues. Life without Diabetes Fact or Fiction? provides you with the tools that will empower you to take control of your body and your health condition. You will learn how specific foods affect your body and how to determine which proportions of carbohydrates, fat, and protein make sense for you. This information will help you design your own meal plan and create your own goals and strategies to help you achieve a healthier lifestyle. Based on the real-life experiences of a Type 2 diabetic, this guide demonstrates how one ordinary person was able to take control of his body and diabetes by knowing and understanding his condition, his body, and its functions. With tasty recipes, nutrition guides, comprehensive exercises, and sample menus included, Life without Diabetes Fact or Fiction? helps keep your body healthy and your mind happy.

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1440153167

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Falling Into Grace

By: Michelle Stimpson

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Falling Into Grace

By: Michelle Stimpson

Camille Robertson had her fifteen minutes of fame in the late '90s with the sexy R&B girl group Sweet Treats. Now she works as a telemarketer and longs for the past. With her thirtieth birthday around the corner, Camille is determined to break back into the music industry. But her new agent says her only one chance is to reinvent herself - as a gospel singer. So Camille joins the nearest megachurch, headed by handsome worship leader, Ronald Shepherd. When she and Ronald sing a duet, it ignites a spark for them both.

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0758246919

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The Magic of Connection

Stop Cutting Cords & Learn to Transform Negative Energy to Live an Empowered Life

By: Michelle Welch

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The Magic of Connection

Stop Cutting Cords & Learn to Transform Negative Energy to Live an Empowered Life

By: Michelle Welch

Manifest Love and Stay Connected with Your Community... Even When You're Confronted by Negative Energy Learn how spirituality and intuition can help you heal your inner wounds while staying connected to the people you love. Author Michelle Welch shows you how to work with the energies that connect all people, and instead of cutting cords, you will learn to transform and transmute negative energy in ways that support your personal spiritual journey. With dozens of exercises and practical instructions for using meditations, mantras, crystals, herbs, and oils, The Magic of Connection teaches you how to embrace our connection to one another and live a more empowered life. You will also discover techniques for working with ascended masters, archangels, tarot cards, and spells. Living a spiritually attuned life can come with challenges. This book shows the steps for transmuting energies so you can become a grounded source of love and light. Includes a foreword by bestselling author Benebell Wen, a full-color insert for crystal identification, 50 healing exercises, and hands-on meditations for chakra balancing, motivation, higher love, reducing anxiety, and much more.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738766933

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Finding Me

A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

By: Michelle Knight

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Finding Me

A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

By: Michelle Knight

The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story gripped the world and continues to inspire and offer hope. Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken. In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure her unimaginable circumstances and now build a life worth living. By sharing both her past and her efforts to create a future, Michelle becomes a voice for the voiceless and a powerful symbol of hope for the thousands of children and young adults who go missing every year.

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Hachette Books

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1602862788

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Pesticides, A Love Story

America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals

By: Michelle Mart

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Pesticides, A Love Story

America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals

By: Michelle Mart

Presto! No More Pests!" proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, "miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer." Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn't love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans did—and apparently still do. Why—in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness—do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart wondered. Her book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer. America's embrace of synthetic pesticides began when they burst on the scene during World War II and has held steady into the 21st century—for example, more than 90% of soybeans grown in the US in 2008 are Roundup Ready GMOs, dependent upon generous use of the herbicide glyphosate to control weeds. Mart investigates the attraction of pesticides, with their up-to-the-minute promise of modernity, sophisticated technology, and increased productivity—in short, their appeal to human dreams of controlling nature. She also considers how they reinforced Cold War assumptions of Western economic and material superiority. Though the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the rise of environmentalism might have marked a turning point in Americans' faith in pesticides, statistics tell a different story. Pesticides, a Love Story recounts the campaign against DDT that famously ensued; but the book also shows where our notions of Silent Spring's revolutionary impact falter—where, in spite of a ban on DDT, farm use of pesticides in the United States more than doubled in the thirty years after the book was published. As a cultural survey of popular and political attitudes toward pesticides, Pesticides, a Love Story tries to make sense of this seeming paradox. At heart, it is an exploration of the story we tell ourselves about the costs and benefits of pesticides—and how corporations, government officials, ordinary citizens, and the press shape that story to reflect our ideals, interests, and emotions.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700626492

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9780700626496

Riggs Crossing

By: Michelle Renee Heeter

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Riggs Crossing

By: Michelle Renee Heeter

A girl is found in the wreckage of a car crash. Severely injured and psychologically damaged, the girl cannot or will not tell the authorities who she is or where she comes from. Her carers call her ‘Len’, after the name embroidered on the jumper she was wearing when she was found. Secretive, intelligent, and abrasive, Len is moved to a children’s shelter. Slowly, Len’s repressed memories fight their way to the surface of her troubled mind. And an evil figure from her shadowy past comes looking for her.

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Ford Street Publishing

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1925000648

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Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion

An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Understanding Magic Mushrooms

By: Michelle Janikian

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Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion

An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Understanding Magic Mushrooms

By: Michelle Janikian

Discover the transformational power of psilocybin mushroom with this all-encompassing guide to harnessing magic mushrooms safely and effectively. Thanks to cutting-edge research, the medical and mental health communities are rediscovering the transformative power of psychedelics. And among the psychedelics showing the most promise for opening and healing the mind is the psilocybin mushroom. This friendly, fact-packed companion to magic mushrooms offers a full guide to having the most successful and beneficial experiences—whether you’re a complete newcomer or have dabbled in psychedelics before. Author Michelle Janikian’s straightforward, matter-of-fact approach pairs the most up-to-date research with personal advice and experiences to provide a whole perspective of the pros, cons, and many possibilities of experimenting with psychedelic mushrooms. Whether you’re looking to try mushrooms for healing, personal or spiritual growth, out of curiosity, or for just plain fun, Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion helps you prepare for every type of journey—from microdosing to full trips and even “trip sitting.” With this book, you’ll find it’s never been easier to use these sacred fungi safely and responsibly.

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Simon and Schuster

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1612439624

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Confessions of a Catholic Schoolgirl

By: Michelle Kane

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Confessions of a Catholic Schoolgirl

By: Michelle Kane

Valerie Bernowski'a bumpy road to self-discovery is paved with a cynical sense of humor, a longing for love, and a struggle to find faith. Will Valerie realize that in order to move forward, she needs to let go of the pain of the past and the fear of her future?

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michelle kane

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1598009052

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The Big Smallness

Niche Marketing, the American Culture Wars, and the New Children’s Literature

By: Michelle Ann Abate

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The Big Smallness

Niche Marketing, the American Culture Wars, and the New Children’s Literature

By: Michelle Ann Abate

This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-market picture books that have been released during the opening decades of the twenty-first century. Emerging from a powerful combination of the ease and affordability of desktop publishing software; the promotional, marketing, and distribution possibilities allowed by the Internet; and the tremendous national divisiveness over contentious socio-political issues, these texts embody a shift in how narratives for young people are being creatively conceived, materially constructed, and socially consumed in the United States. Abate explores how titles such as My Parents Open Carry (about gun laws), It’s Just a Plant (about marijuana policy), and My Beautiful Mommy (about the plastic surgery industry) occupy important battle stations in ongoing partisan conflicts, while they are simultaneously changing the landscape of American children’s literature. The book demonstrates how texts like Little Zizi and Me Tarzan, You Jane mark the advent of not simply a new commercial strategy in texts for young readers; they embody a paradigm shift in the way that narratives are being conceived, constructed, and consumed. Niche market picture books can be seen as a telling barometer about public perceptions concerning children and the social construction of childhood, as well as the function of narratives for young readers in the twenty-first century. At the same time, these texts reveal compelling new insights about the complex interaction among American print culture, children’s reading practices, and consumer capitalism. Amateur-authored, self-published, and specialty-subject titles reveal the way in which children, childhood, and children’s literature are both highly political and heavily politicized in the United States. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of American Studies, children’s literature, childhood studies, popular culture, political science, microeconomics, psychology, advertising, book history, education, and gender studies.

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Routledge

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Agricultural Science Book 2: A course for secondary schools in the Caribbean

Third Edition

By: Amrith Barran,Augustine Vesprey,Edmund Berahzer,Orville Wolsey,Ricardo Guevara,Ian Elliott,Joy Clarke,Michelle John

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Agricultural Science Book 2: A course for secondary schools in the Caribbean

Third Edition

By: Amrith Barran,Augustine Vesprey,Edmund Berahzer,Orville Wolsey,Ricardo Guevara,Ian Elliott,Joy Clarke,Michelle John

Cultivate an interest in the agricultural sector with a three-level secondary course designed specifically for the Caribbean. - Explore regional and global practices and developments in agriculture. - Review career options in an increasingly lucrative and essential sector. - Enhance understanding of the relevance of agriculture with a project-based approach to select topics. - Prepare for study at the CSEC level with a dedicated project-based chapter scalable to other topics and SBA research at the CSEC level. - Consolidate learning with a clear chapter objectives and end of chapter evaluation.

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Hodder Education

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1398307416

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Adult Bible Studies Spring 2023 Student

By: Michelle J. Morris

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Adult Bible Studies Spring 2023 Student

By: Michelle J. Morris

A comprehensive Bible study plan and spiritual practices to deepen your relationship with God Hundreds of thousands of people each week have transformative encounters with God through Adult Bible Studies—Bible-based, Christ-focused Sunday school lessons and midweek Bible studies endorsed by the Curriculum Resources Committee of The United Methodist Church. Each week’s Student Book lesson lists background Scripture, features key verses, provides reliable and relevant biblical explanation and application, and more in a readable font size that is accessible to everyone. Included to help students go deeper into the lessons are : A comprehensive Bible study plan with more flexibility in terms of Scripture selection and topics Observation of the church seasons, including Advent and Lent Suggestions for developing spiritual practices (prayer, confession, worship, mindfulness, solitude, community, hospitality, neighboring, service, and celebration) No printed Scripture text allows you to choose your own Bible translation Additional information about Adult Bible Studies, Spring 2023 Theme: The Life of Faith This spring, our lessons center around the theme “The Life of Faith.” The language of journey and pilgrimage is commonly used to describe the Christian life. This spring our lessons encourage us to walk alongside Jesus and his disciples on Jesus’ final journey to Jerusalem and explore the nature of faith that calls us to follow Jesus despite our uncertainty and doubts. The last unit this quarter looks at the concept of sabbath, the foreshadowing of the rest that God promises at the end of our journey. The writer of the student book is Michelle Morris. Unit 1 Journey to the Cross This Lenten season, we follow Jesus’ journey to the cross in Matthew’s account. Matthew’s Gospel stresses in many places that through his crucifixion, Jesus makes clear his perfect obedience to God’s will and the true nature of kingship under God’s reign. Scriptures: Matthew 16:21-28 | Matthew 20:20-28 | Matthew 21:23-27 | Matthew 22:15-22 | Matthew 22:41-46 Spiritual Practice: Simplicity | Accountability Unit 2 From Doubt to Trust We often treat doubt and wisdom as belonging in opposite categories; but often, questioning our wisdom, knowledge, and certitude is a sign of wisdom. As humans, we should struggle to understand. The path forward from doubt is one of trust in God. We are invited to imitate Jesus and let go of our doubt and our competition with God and to trust in God’s love and intentions. Scriptures: Matthew 26:36-46 | Matthew 28:1-15 | John 20:11-29 | 1 Corinthians 15:12-28 | 1 Peter 1:3-16 Spiritual Practice: Meditation Unit 3 Intentional Sabbath In the secular West, the concept of holy days and sabbath have been replaced by days off work or school and vacations. We rest so that we can work harder and earn more money so that we can take vacations away from our community. In the Bible, rest from work had a different purpose. One worked to prepare for the sabbath. On the sabbath, one participated together with the entire community, the livestock, and the land in a shared rest that signified the well-being and abundance that God intended for creation. No one was required to work to make another’s leisure possible. Sabbath rest is a foretaste of the rest that awaits us, and that God will provide in the fullness of time. Scriptures: Exodus 20:8-11 | Psalm 23 | Matthew 12:1-14 | Luke 4:16-21 Spiritual Practice: Self-Care Other Adult Bible Study components, sold separately, include: Teacher/Commentary Kit The Kit includes a Teacher Book and a Concise Commentary that are both supplementary and complementary to the Adult Bible Studies student book The Teacher Book provides small-group leaders, teachers, and facilitators with additional biblical background and exposition, and suggestions for guiding group discussion. Printed with a larger font for ease of reading. Included to help leaders prepare and lead each week: As a comprehensive Bible study plan with more flexibility in terms of Scripture selection and topics. Additional information, as well as suggestions, is designed to help leaders and facilitators lead with confidence. Observation of the church seasons, including Advent and Lent. Suggestions for developing spiritual practices (prayer, confession, worship, mindfulness, solitude, community, hospitality, neighboring, service, and celebration). One font size in the student edition to accommodate all readers. No printed Scripture text allows you to choose your own Bible translation.

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Cokesbury

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1791020526

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Cast in Conflict

By: Michelle Sagara

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Cast in Conflict

By: Michelle Sagara

KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER A Dragon and ten Barrani wouldn’t be anyone’s ideal roommates if a person wants peace and tranquility at home. The residue of three Draco-Barrani wars can make things pretty awkward—on a good day. Kaylin Neya has run out of good days. In the upheaval surrounding the Academia, the Tower in the fief of Candallar is now without its lord. The Towers were created to protect Elantra against Shadow. Dragon Bellusdeo wants to captain the Tower and continue a war she’ll never be able to abandon. But Sedarias, leader of the Barrani cohort, wants the Tower for the cohort. And Barrani and Dragons don’t negotiate, even when they’re living under the same roof. If there were ever a time for Shadow to strike, it’s now, when alliances are fractured and the Tower is vulnerable for the first time in centuries. More than ever, Kaylin needs her friends to work together if they’re going to be able to stop the threat to Elantra.

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MIRA

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0369704827

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9780369704825

Harlequin Special Edition September 2020 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Michelle Major,Rochelle Alers,Caro Carson

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Harlequin Special Edition September 2020 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Michelle Major,Rochelle Alers,Caro Carson

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: THE LAST MAN SHE EXPECTED (A Welcome to Starlight novel) by Michelle Major When Mara Reed agrees to partner with her sworn enemy, Parker Johnson, to help a close friend, she doesn’t expect the feelings of love and tenderness that complicate every interaction with the handsome attorney. Will Mara and Parker risk everything for love? A WINNING SEASON (A Wickham Falls Weddings novel) by national bestseller Rochelle Alers When Sutton Reed returns to Wickham Falls after finishing a successful baseball career, he assumes he’ll just join the family business and live an uneventful life. Until his neighbor’s younger brother tries to steal his car, that is. Now he’s finding himself mentoring the boy—and being drawn to Zoey Allen like no one else. THE SLOW BURN (A Masterson, Texas novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Caro Carson When firefighter Caden Sterling unexpectedly delivers Tana McKenna’s baby by the side of the road, the unlikely threesome forms a special bond. Their flirty friendship slowly becomes more, until Tana’s ex and the truth about her baby catches up with her. Can she win back the only man who can make this family complete? For more relatable stories of love and family, look for Harlequin Special Edition September 2020 — Box Set 1 of 2

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The Gentle Walk: Six Months of Daily Devotionals To Keep You Motivated and Focused

By: Michelle Palu

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The Gentle Walk: Six Months of Daily Devotionals To Keep You Motivated and Focused

By: Michelle Palu

This book, The Gentle Walk: Six Months of Daily Devotionals to Keep You Motivated and Focused, is geared for the busy individual who wants to have a daily devotional but does not have a lot of time. These daily devotionals are short, encouraging, and uplifting. You will find many topics, Scriptures, quotes by Michelle Palu and others such as from Corrie Ten Boom, and prayers to help you along your journey and walk with God. They are easy to understand and simple to read. In this book, you will find God's love, faithfulness, comfort, and soothing words to refresh your soul, comfort your heart, and fill your mind with God's promises and peace. It will remind you that nothing is too difficult or hard for God, that what He promises, He fulfills. What God says He will do, you can trust Him to do so. He is faithful. You can take the Scripture of the day and make it your focus to keep you motivated and feed your spirit during the busy times of the day. Learn to walk by faith, not by sight. Stand firm on the Word of God, and believe what it says is true. Pray the simple prayers each day to help you and give you added support to your already daily prayer life. You will find each day brings fresh, new insight to your circumstance and will aid in your intimate and personal walk with God. This book is great to add to your library of devotionals. It makes a wonderful gift to give to a family member, friend, teacher, student, or anyone who loves to read. This book has pictures created by the author with some of her favorite quotes. The devotionals are God centered, and unless stated otherwise, the King James Version of the Bible is used. This book is sure to be a blessing and to help you be successful in your daily walk with God.

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Harlequin Special Edition April 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Michelle Major,Karen Templeton,Stacy Connelly

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Harlequin Special Edition April 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Michelle Major,Karen Templeton,Stacy Connelly

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 The Taming of Delaney Fortune by Michelle Major, Meant-to-Be Mom by RITA Award Winning author Karen Templeton and His Secret Son by Stacy Connelly. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Special Edition!

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Woodland Cemetery

By: Michelle A. Day,Gail Chambers

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Woodland Cemetery

By: Michelle A. Day,Gail Chambers

Woodland Cemetery, the second-oldest cemetery in Cleveland, was named after a romantic description of an unseen Cleveland that was part of a popular 1803 pastoral poem, The Pleasures of Hope, by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell. Its 60 acres provide a primer on American cemetery design, from the "rural cemetery" intricacies of the 1850s to the more rambling style of the late 19th century to the rectangular 20th-century grid. Its mausoleums are designed in Classical, Victorian, Egyptian, and Richardson rustic styles. These varied structures--along with angels, obelisks, and military memorials--are symbolic of the residents resting within the gates.

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Agricultural Science Book 1: A course for secondary schools in the Caribbean

Third Edition

By: Amrith Barran,Augustine Vesprey,Edmund Berahzer,Orville Wolsey,Ricardo Guevara,Ian Elliott,Joy Clarke,Michelle John

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Agricultural Science Book 1: A course for secondary schools in the Caribbean

Third Edition

By: Amrith Barran,Augustine Vesprey,Edmund Berahzer,Orville Wolsey,Ricardo Guevara,Ian Elliott,Joy Clarke,Michelle John

Cultivate an interest in the agricultural sector with a three-level secondary course designed specifically for the Caribbean. - Explore regional and global practices and developments in agriculture. - Review career options in an increasingly lucrative and essential sector. - Enhance understanding of the relevance of agriculture with a project-based approach to select topics. - Prepare for study at the CSEC level with a dedicated project-based chapter scalable to other topics and SBA research at the CSEC level. - Consolidate learning with clear chapter objectives and end of chapter evaluation.

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What's Making Our Children Sick?

How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It

By: Dr. Michelle Perro,Vincanne Adams

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What's Making Our Children Sick?

How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It

By: Dr. Michelle Perro,Vincanne Adams

Exploring the links between GM foods, glyphosate, and gut health With chronic disorders among American children reaching epidemic levels, hundreds of thousands of parents are desperately seeking solutions to their children’s declining health, often with little medical guidance from the experts. What’s Making Our Children Sick? convincingly explains how agrochemical industrial production and genetic modification of foods is a culprit in this epidemic. Is it the only culprit? No. Most chronic health disorders have multiple causes and require careful disentanglement and complex treatments. But what if toxicants in our foods are a major culprit, one that, if corrected, could lead to tangible results and increased health? Using patient accounts of their clinical experiences and new medical insights about pathogenesis of chronic pediatric disorders—taking us into gut dysfunction and the microbiome, as well as the politics of food science—this book connects the dots to explain our kids’ ailing health. What’s Making Our Children Sick? explores the frightening links between our efforts to create higher-yield, cost-efficient foods and an explosion of childhood morbidity, but it also offers hope and a path to effecting change. The predicament we now face is simple. Agroindustrial “innovation” in a previous era hoped to prevent the ecosystem disaster of DDT predicted in Rachel Carson’s seminal book in 1962, Silent Spring. However, this industrial agriculture movement has created a worse disaster: a toxic environment and, consequently, a toxic food supply. Pesticide use is at an all-time high, despite the fact that biotechnologies aimed to reduce the need for them in the first place. Today these chemicals find their way into our livestock and food crop industries and ultimately onto our plates. Many of these pesticides are the modern day equivalent of DDT. However, scant research exists on the chemical soup of poisons that our children consume on a daily basis. As our food supply environment reels under the pressures of industrialization via agrochemicals, our kids have become the walking evidence of this failed experiment. What’s Making Our Children Sick? exposes our current predicament and offers insight on the medical responses that are available, both to heal our kids and to reverse the compromised health of our food supply.

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Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose

A Practical Approach for Research Across the Social Sciences

By: Michelle Salmona,Eli Lieber,Dan Kaczynski

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Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose

A Practical Approach for Research Across the Social Sciences

By: Michelle Salmona,Eli Lieber,Dan Kaczynski

Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose®: A Practical Approach for Research Across the Social Sciences provides both new and experienced researchers with a guided introduction to dealing with the methodological complexity of mixed methods and qualitative inquiry using Dedoose® software. The authors use their depth of experience designing and updating Dedoose® as well as their published research to give the reader practical strategies for using Dedoose® from a wide range of research studies. Case study contributions by outside researchers provide readers with rich examples of how to use Dedoose® in practical, applied social science and health settings.

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SAGE Publications

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Politics of Things

A Critical Approach Through Design

By: Michelle Christensen,Florian Conradi

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Politics of Things

A Critical Approach Through Design

By: Michelle Christensen,Florian Conradi

In a state of ontological crisis, all boundaries have been ruptured between nature and culture, human and machine, and object and subject. We find ourselves exhaustively tackling the turmoil of our own designed circumstances, as we emerge to become extensions of the extensions that we built. In this practice-based design theory project, the authors share their experiments in negotiating power with things, hacking mundane objects, and thus their own everyday lives, allowing themselves to be swayed and misled, disrupted and called into question. The experiments delineate a mode of critical cultural inquiry where design and sociology collide to elicit critical perspectives on the ‘designer’ and the ‘designed’ as we act within an entangled politics of things.

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Forager

Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir

By: Michelle Dowd

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Forager

Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir

By: Michelle Dowd

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the deep understanding of the natural world that helped her find freedom. My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields. Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest, born into an ultra-religious cult—the Field, as members called it—run by her grandfather, who believed that his chosen followers must prepare themselves to survive doomsday. Bound by the group’s patriarchal rules and literal interpretation of the Bible, Michelle and her siblings lived a life of deprivation, isolated from Outsiders and starved for both love and food. She was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most important, she learned how to survive by foraging for what she needed. And as Michelle got older, she realized she had the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain, not satiate you, she would tell herself. Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land like the intricacies of your body. And so she did. With haunting and stark language, and illustrations of edible plants and their uses opening each chapter, Forager is a fierce and empowering coming-of-age story and a timely meditation on the ways in which harnessing nature’s gifts can lead to our freedom.

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These Days Are Ours

By: Michelle Haimoff

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These Days Are Ours

By: Michelle Haimoff

A vivid, electric tale set in New York and personally recommended by bestselling author Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch, About a Boy): These Days Are Ours is an irresistible coming-of-age story for the Lena Dunham generation from debut author Michelle Haimoff. New York City, six months after 9/11: everything has changed and nothing has. Hailey graduated college months ago but she's still living in her family's Fifth Avenue penthouse, spending her nights falling in and out of bars across Upper East Side Manhattan - and the thrill is starting to wear off. It isn't easy being young, rich and beautiful. Overnight, it seems like everyone suddenly has their lives completely sorted. Katie has a great job at Morgan Stanley, Michael Brenner is training to be a human rights lawyer and trust-fund kid Randy is just content to carry on having fun. Hailey is lost somewhere in the middle, torn between chasing down the next wild party and admitting that it might be time to grow up. She craves something more meaningful - but what? Perhaps Brenner holds the answer: gorgeous, charismatic and aloof, Hailey is convinced he is the missing piece in her puzzle. But when she meets Adrian, a man so totally different from her usual privileged crowd, she begins to realise she's been looking for happiness in all the wrong places... These Days Are Ours captures the feverish excitement and exhilarating uncertainty of the city, where bright young things are forever brimming with possibility and buckling under the pressure. Michelle Haimoff is a writer and blogger whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, PsychologyToday.com and The Huffington Post. She is a founding memebr of NOW-New York State's Young Feminist Task Force and blogs about feminist issues at genfem.com. She was raised in New York City, curently lives in Los Angeles, and can be found online at MichelleHaimoff.com. These Days Are Ours is her first novel.

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Natural Asset Farming

Creating Productive and Biodiverse Farms

By: David B. Lindenmayer,Suzannah M. Macbeth,David G. Smith,Michelle L. Young

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Natural Asset Farming

Creating Productive and Biodiverse Farms

By: David B. Lindenmayer,Suzannah M. Macbeth,David G. Smith,Michelle L. Young

Farm dams, creeklines, vegetation and rocky outcrops are natural assets that are essential for healthy, sustainable farms. Protecting and enhancing these elements of natural capital on farms not only supports biodiversity, but also contributes to farm productivity and to the well-being of farmers and farming communities. Natural Asset Farming: Creating Productive and Biodiverse Farms reveals seven key natural assets and why they are so valuable for biodiversity and productivity on farms. Drawing on two decades of long-term ecological monitoring and knowledge exchange with farmers, Landcare groups and natural resource management experts, this book is a tool for building and enhancing natural assets in agricultural landscapes. In bringing together ecological science and the experience of farmers in the wheat–sheep belt of south-eastern Australia, Natural Asset Farming will help foster ideas, boost resilience and improve the sustainability of agricultural production.

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Molecular Biology

By: David P. Clark,Nanette J. Pazdernik,Michelle R. McGehee

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Molecular Biology

By: David P. Clark,Nanette J. Pazdernik,Michelle R. McGehee

Molecular Biology, Third Edition, provides a thoroughly revised, invaluable resource for college and university students in the life sciences, medicine and related fields. This esteemed text continues to meet the needs of students and professors by offering new chapters on RNA, genome defense, and epigenetics, along with expanded coverage of RNAi, CRISPR, and more ensuring topical content for a new class of students. This volume effectively introduces basic concepts that are followed by more specific applications as the text evolves.Moreover, as part of the Academic Cell line of textbooks, this book contains research passages that shine a spotlight on current experimental work reported in Cell Press articles. These articles form the basis of case studies found in the associated online study guide that is designed to tie current topics to the scientific community. - Winner of a 2020 Textbook Excellence Award (College) (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association - Contains new chapters on non-coding RNA, genome defense, epigenetics and epigenomics - Features new and expanded coverage of RNAi, CRISPR, genome editing, giant viruses and proteomics - Provides an ancillary package with updated PowerPoint slide images

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0128132892

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Holy Crap! Chicken Soup for the Bowl

By: Michelle Gallien

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Holy Crap! Chicken Soup for the Bowl

By: Michelle Gallien

HOLY CRAP! chicken soup for the bowl by Michelle Gallien

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The Food Forest Handbook

Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden

By: Darrell Frey,Michelle Czolba

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The Food Forest Handbook

Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden

By: Darrell Frey,Michelle Czolba

Create abundance through this unique approach to low-maintenance, high-yield, sustainable food production A food forest is a productive landscape developed around a mix of trees and perennials. Rooted in permaculture principles, this integrated approach to gardening incorporates a variety of plants such as fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines, and perennial herbs and vegetables. Food forests can help increase biodiversity, protect valuable habitat for beneficial insects, and promote food security and resilience, all while providing an abundant harvest. The Food Forest Handbook is a practical manual for the design and management of a home-scale perennial polyculture garden. Simple, straightforward instructions guide the reader through: Getting started - site assessment and planning Tending the forest garden – maintaining soil health, succession planning, , mulching, pruning and more The fruits of your labor – crop profiles, harvest, storage, nutrition and recipes. This timely book makes the concept of food forests accessible to everyone. Focusing on the potential of perennial polyculture to enhance local food systems, The Food Forest Handbook shows the reader how to mix and match plants in unique combinations to establish bountiful landscapes and create genuine self-reliance in years to come. Darrell Frey is the owner and manager of Three Sisters Farm, a five-acre permaculture farm, solar greenhouse and market garden located in Western Pennsylvania. He has been permaculture teacher for thirty years, and is the author of Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm . Michelle Czolba is co-owner of Pittsburgh Permaculture and co-founded the Hazelwood Food Forest. She has extensive experience in the design and maintenance of perennial polyculture.

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Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir

By: Beth Ditto,Michelle Tea

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Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir

By: Beth Ditto,Michelle Tea

A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sisters, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother’s bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens—her second family—who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing, mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim—with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer—she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humor, and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto’s unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.

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