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Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World

Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin

By: Miriam Tamara Griffin

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Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World

Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin

By: Miriam Tamara Griffin

Miriam Griffin is unrivalled as a bridge-builder between historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. This volume in her honour brings togetherseventeen international specialists. Their essays range from Socrates to late antiquity, extending to Diogenes, Cicero, Plinythe Elder, Marcus Aurelius, the Second Sophistic, Ulpian, Augustine, the Neoplatonist tradition, women philosophers, provision for basic human needs, the development of law, the formulation of imperial power, and the interpretation of Judaism and early Christianity. Emperors and drop-outs, mediastars and administrators, top politicians and abstruse professionals, even ordinary citizens in their epitaphs, were variously called philosophers. Philosophy could offer those in power moral support or confrontation, a language for making choices or an intellectual diversion, but they mightdisregard philosophy and get on with the exercise of power. 'Philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', but what was the power of philosophy?

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Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World

Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin

By: Miriam Tamara Griffin

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Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin

By: Miriam Tamara Griffin

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Nero

The End of a Dynasty

By: Miriam T. Griffin

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Nero

The End of a Dynasty

By: Miriam T. Griffin

Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. This book offers a fascinating insight into the sensational life and troubled times of the Emperor Nero.

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Psychology Press

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0415214645

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9780415214643

Feminism, Gender and Universities

Politics, Passion and Pedagogies

By: Miriam E. David

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Feminism, Gender and Universities

Politics, Passion and Pedagogies

By: Miriam E. David

Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in the words of the participants in changing political and social processes. Drawing on the ’collective biography’ of leading feminist scholars from around the world and current evidence relating to gender equality in education, this book employs methods including biographies, life histories, and narratives to show how the feminist project to transform women’s lives in the direction of gender and social equality became an educational and pedagogical one. Through careful attention to the ways in which feminism has transformed feminist academic women’s lives, the author explores the importance of education in changing socio-political contexts, raising questions about further changes that are necessary. Delving into the deeper and more ’hidden’ echelons of education, the book examines the contested nature of current managerial or business approaches to university and education, revealing these to be incompatible with feminist thought. A plea for more careful attention to education and the ways in which the processes of knowledge-making influence (and are influenced by) gender and sexual relations, Feminism, Gender and Universities will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in gender, pedagogy and modern academic life.

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Routledge

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1317135814

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Reclaiming Feminism

Challenging Everyday Misogyny

By: Miriam E. David

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Reclaiming Feminism

Challenging Everyday Misogyny

By: Miriam E. David

Since second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved? In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher education, celebrates the achievements of international feminists as activists and scholars. She provides a critique of the expansion of global higher education masking their pioneering zeal and zest for knowledge. Looking at the changing zeitgeist, David contends that feminism has yet to have an enduring influence, despite how generations of women have felt empowered. She illustrates the power of patriarchal social relations and how everyday sexism or misogyny is keenly felt. This impassioned book asks whether a feminist-friendly future is possible, or indeed, desirable.

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Policy Press

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1447328183

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9781447328186

The Trivium

The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

By: Sister Miriam Joseph,Marguerite McGlinn

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The Trivium

The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

By: Sister Miriam Joseph,Marguerite McGlinn

This book involves understanding the nature and function or language.

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Paul Dry Books

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1589882733

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9781589882737

Learning to Write and Loving It! PreschoolKindergarten

By: Miriam P. Trehearne

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Learning to Write and Loving It! PreschoolKindergarten

By: Miriam P. Trehearne

Learning to Write and Loving It! equips teachers of young children with practical strategies, assessment tools, and motivating writing activities that are based on current research and proven practice and are easily applicable to all kinds of learning environments. Included are many authentic writing samples and photos to illustrate effective, developmentally appropriate instructional methods, mini-lessons, and activities. Sought-after author and speaker Miriam P. Trehearne demonstrates how to scaffold play and literacy learning and how to easily link assessment to instruction. Key features: differentiate using effective instructional approaches for teaching writing and supporting inquiry and play; assess and document student writing seamlessly throughout the day; motivate and engage children in writing fiction (narrative), nonfiction, poetry, and song; enjoy learning with a powerful collection of vignettes from real classrooms, and use teacher-friendly guidelines for effectively integrating technology and selecting software for young children. A companion CD offers modifiable reproducibles, observation checklists, assessments, and projects for parents to do with their young children. Learn how to successfully scaffold writing, and, in the process, foster cross-curricular skills in science, social studies, and math. Research shows that writing provides a strong foundation for literacy development. Further, writing helps children express themselves, clarify their thinking, communicate ideas, and integrate new information into their knowledge base."--Publisher.

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Corwin Press

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145220313X

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9781452203133

Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery: REI

Reproductive, Endocrinology and Infertility

By: Steven T. Nakajima,Travis W. McCoy,Miriam S. Krause,Jonathan S. Berek

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Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery: REI

Reproductive, Endocrinology and Infertility

By: Steven T. Nakajima,Travis W. McCoy,Miriam S. Krause,Jonathan S. Berek

Second in a new four-volume series, Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery: Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility provides superbly illustrated, authoritative guidance on operative techniques along with a thorough understanding of how to select the best procedure, how to avoid complications, and what outcomes to expect. Easy to follow, up to date, and highly visual, this step-by-step reference covers the most common operations in gynecology and is ideal for residents and physicians in daily practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496367359

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The American Woman in Colonial and Revolutionary Times, 1565-1800

A Syllabus with Bibliography

By: Eugenie Andruss Leonard,Sophie Hutchinson Drinker,Miriam Young Holden

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The American Woman in Colonial and Revolutionary Times, 1565-1800

A Syllabus with Bibliography

By: Eugenie Andruss Leonard,Sophie Hutchinson Drinker,Miriam Young Holden

This first comprehensive bibliography of the life and work of colonial women helps to foster an historical understanding of the rights, privileges, and functions of women in today's society. The Syllabus, containing 1082 items, is organized to provide an inclusive picture of the colonial woman in all aspects of her life and work. It includes references giving insight into home life with its manifold problems and dangers, the evolution of the colonial woman's status as owned property to being an independent owner of property, the leadership she gave to the religious life of the colonies, the contributions she made to cultural life, her part in the developing political life, and the extent of her participation in economic life. The Bibliography contains 765 books 309 magazine articles, and eight pictorial publications. To facilitate the study of individual women of note, the List of 104 Outstanding Women includes references.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512817589

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9781512817584

Social Work Research with Minority and Oppressed Populations

Methodological Issues and Innovations

By: Miriam Potocky,Antoinette Y Rodgers Farmer

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Social Work Research with Minority and Oppressed Populations

Methodological Issues and Innovations

By: Miriam Potocky,Antoinette Y Rodgers Farmer

Learn the latest and most effective strategies and ideas so you can accurately research oppressed and minority populations! Social Work with Minority and Oppressed Populations: Methodological Issues and Innovations provides social workers, social work researchers, and graduate students with new methodologies for researching topics related to minority and oppressed populations. You will learn how to conduct research with such special populations as ethnic and racial minorities, elders, women, and gay and bisexual men utilizing proven techniques that will yield more precise data and help retain participants in the research program. A must for anyone involved in the field of social work, Social Work with Minority and Oppressed Populations tackles the unique challenges you may face in conducting research with cross-culture populations. This valuble text offers innovative and practical techniques for this type of research, including: methodological issues addressed within the framework of operationalization and conceptualization, measurement, research design, data collection, and data analysis how using the anonymous enrollment technique can be applied to intervention research to engage and retain respondents in case studies how Rasch Analysis, a statistical method, may discern differences in the subjective experiences of members of different racial groups specific examples of how constituent involvement in research projects enhances access to respondents and increases the validity of data why social work practitioners as well as social work researchers must evaluate their knowledge, attitudes, and skills when dealing with cross-cultural populations Discussions on ethical and political issues This compilation of research on methodological issues not only introduces you to new techniques for working with oppressed or minority populations, but also creates new questions and areas of study, such as how to develop culture-specific instruments that better measure depression and its expression among African-American and white populations. Social Work with Minority and Oppressed Populations will provide you with the correct methods and strategies to research cross-culture populations and enable you to address specific problems that different ethnic groups and minorities face.

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Routledge

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1317948696

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Indulge

Delicious Little Desserts That Keep Life Real Sweet

By: Kathy Wakile,Miriam Harris

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Indulge

Delicious Little Desserts That Keep Life Real Sweet

By: Kathy Wakile,Miriam Harris

Now a Publishers Weekly best seller! On The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Kathy Wakile is the one-and-only dessert expert. Ever since Kathy wowed everyone with a Thanksgiving dessert extravaganza, viewers can't stop talking about her luscious, inventive, bite-size desserts. Now, Kathy's Indulge, a treasure trove of some of her greatest recipes is here and she's serving up over 75 treats from the sweet life including: - Almond Joyous Cheesecake Cuties - Caramel Walnut Chocolate Tartlettini - White Chocolate Blondie Bites - Fabulous Gelati in mouthwatering flavors: Tanned & Salty, Chocolate-Covered Cherry, Orange Dreamsicle and more - PB&J Baby Bundts - Apple Ricotta Zeppoli - Pumpkin Ginger Sticky Buns - Chocolate Hazelnut Kisses All the treats are small so you can indulge without over-indulging. As Kathy says "Indulge, it's not going to kill you.'" With family stories, backstage glimpses into The Real Housewives of New Jersey and beautiful color photography throughout, Indulge is the cookbook Kathy's legion of fans will be clamoring for next fall.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466864443

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The Encyclopedia of Hell

By: Miriam Van Scott

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The Encyclopedia of Hell

By: Miriam Van Scott

The Encyclopedia of Hell covers the underworld from Dante's Inferno to Gary Larson's "Far Side" cartoons, and includes everything in between. This book offers depictions of Hell from film, television, music, classic literature, religion, visions, contemporary fiction, myth, theater, scholarly works, and art. The first of its kind, this book is an information catalog which provides diverse interpretations of the world to come, as well as lively and entertaining depictions of what possibly awaits us. All in all, it is one hell of a book. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Macmillan

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0312244428

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9780312244422

Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches

By: Miriam Wallraven

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Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches

By: Miriam Wallraven

This book visits the occult in literature from the 1880s to the 20th century, analyzing work by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisiting texts with occult motifs by canonical authors. It covers movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality, engaging with how literature creates occult worlds and identities, namely the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. The occult in literature incorporates topical discourses including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology, hence this book will be of interest to scholars of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.

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1317581393

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Healing through the Dark Emotions

The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair

By: Miriam Greenspan

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Healing through the Dark Emotions

The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair

By: Miriam Greenspan

Nautilus Book Award Gold Winner A psychotherapist offers “crucial” guidance on how to “alter fundamentally our fearful relationship to deep feelings,” from depression and anxiety to grief and fear (Los Angeles Times) We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of “negative” emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopeful view: there is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it’s the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our time: depression, anxiety, addiction, psychic numbing, and irrational violence. And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to guide, heal, and transform our lives and our world. Drawing on inspiring stories from her psychotherapy practice and personal life, and including a complete set of emotional exercises, Greenspan teaches the art of emotional alchemy by which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens the door to joy, and despair becomes the ground of a more resilient faith in life. “This remarkable book has taught me a whole new way of thinking.” —Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People “A beautiful piece of work destined to become a perennial classic.” —Martha Beck, author of The Joy Diet

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Shambhala Publications

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0834824272

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9780834824270

We Shall Not Be Moved

The May 4Th Coalition, the "Gym Struggle" of 1977 at Kent State University and the Battle over Ultimate Control of the Vietnam Era National Narrative

By: Miriam R. Jackson

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We Shall Not Be Moved

The May 4Th Coalition, the "Gym Struggle" of 1977 at Kent State University and the Battle over Ultimate Control of the Vietnam Era National Narrative

By: Miriam R. Jackson

We Shall Not Be Moved narrates the story of the Kent State student-led May 4th Coalition and its efforts to maintain untouched the site of the Ohio National Guards shooting of thirteen Kent State students. The story is told in a local context of the groups development and motivations during a long-term conflict between the group, its supporters, the university administration. The story is also told in a much larger context of national polarization over the meaning of the Vietnam War and the peace movement and the preferred historical narrative about the Vietnam era. The book concludes that the May 4th Coalition lost its struggle to save the May 4th site because Americans determining the Vietnam narrative did not believe the protest of 1970 should be honored with saved land.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490776664

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9781490776668

Educational Policy and the Politics of Change

By: Miriam Henry,Bob Lingard,Fazal Rizvi,Sandra Taylor

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Educational Policy and the Politics of Change

By: Miriam Henry,Bob Lingard,Fazal Rizvi,Sandra Taylor

Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation. This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding Schooling (1988). It provides a readable account of how educational policies are developed by the state in response to broader social, cultural, economic and political changes which are taking place. It examines the way in which schools live and work with these changes, and the policies which result from them. The book examines policy making at each level, from perspectives both inside and outside the state bureaucracy. It has a particular focus on social justice. Both undergraduate and postgraduate students will find that this book enables them to understand the reasoning behind the changes they are expected to implement. It will help to prepare them to confront an uncertain educational world, whilst still retaining their enthusiasm for education.

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Routledge

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1135098190

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9781135098193

Summary of a Workshop on Research in Multiple Sclerosis, April 5-6, 2001

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health,Janet E. Joy,Miriam Davis

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Summary of a Workshop on Research in Multiple Sclerosis, April 5-6, 2001

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health,Janet E. Joy,Miriam Davis

Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future identifies promising areas of multiple sclerosis (MS) research based on a strategic analysis of the current state of knowledge. The report was written by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on MS Research Strategies, and on April 2001, the Committee held a workshop to advance research recommended by the report. The specific goals of the workshop were to disseminate information about the report, foster collaboration, and serve as a launch pad for implementation of the report's recommendations. Summary of a Workshop on Research in Multiple Sclerosis, April5-6,2001 presents the reports from each breakout group and summarizes the plenary session discussion. This workshop summary contains particular viewpoints attributed to individual participants or to groups of participants (including breakout groups), but does not contain statements about what "the workshop" or "all its participants" concluded.

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National Academies Press

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0309075696

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Seafood Supply Chains

Governance, Power and Regulation

By: Miriam Greenwood

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Seafood Supply Chains

Governance, Power and Regulation

By: Miriam Greenwood

This book provides a historical and analytical account of changes in the seafood supply chain in Britain from the mid-twentieth century to the present, looking at the impact of various types of governance. The governance of marine fisheries has been a contested issue for decades with increasing anxieties about overfishing. In tandem, the rise of aquaculture, fish and shellfish farming, has driven another set of environmental concerns. In the food system, there have been scandals about safety failures and about fraud. At the same time, governments issue advice urging people to eat fish for its health benefits. In the context of these problems and contradictions, how have governments, the food industry and ordinary consumers responded? The author shows how different types of governance and regulation have been used to seek seafood sustainability and food safety and to communicate nutritional messages to the public and with what effects. The book also presents a new model for understanding food chains which combines governance and power approaches with an emphasis on understanding the interests served and the resulting balance of public and private benefits. This shows that the role of state regulation should have greater emphasis in governance and agri-food analysis and that theories about supply chain functioning, including the part played by major retailers and civil society, should be modified by a more nuanced understanding of the role of standards and certification systems. Although much of the focus is on the UK and Europe, this book provides key lessons internationally for the governance of seafood and other agri-food supply chains. The book will be of interest to students of food policy and those working in the seafood industry or studying for connected qualifications, and more widely to readers with an interest in seafood issues and problems.

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Routledge

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1351664719

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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I

The Old and Middle Kingdoms

By: Miriam Lichtheim

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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I

The Old and Middle Kingdoms

By: Miriam Lichtheim

Praise for the first editions: " "Concise, lucid, and altogether interesting . . ..The notes on the individual texts are unfailingly illuminating."--"Books Abroad" (now "World Literature Today")

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Univ of California Press

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0520248422

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9780520248427

The Locked Safe: A Family Memoir

By: Miriam E. David

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The Locked Safe: A Family Memoir

By: Miriam E. David

This family memoir is my back story. A Locked Safe with 5 ‘Nazi’ passports was found after my mother died in 1996. My father had died 16 years earlier. Although we knew he was a German Jewish professional engineer fleeing Nazism in 1936, we did not know the details of how his family fled. The help of my mother’s family, the Leas, was essential. They had fled from pogroms in Ukraine/Russia in the late nineteenth century. Some were also caught up with Japanese internment camps in China, illustrating the diasporic nature of my family. My father, his elder brother and father were also interned by the British in 1940-1941. I look forward to not only my generation as the so-called second generation from the Holocaust, but also the third generation, specifically my daughter Charlotte Reiner Hershman. Although we tell a unique story of one family, that story of migration, seeking asylum or refuge and being exiled is a very frequent tale nowadays. In excavating my parents’ backgrounds and their influences on me and Charlotte, we show the long term psychological and social effects on our lives and possibly on future generations.

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An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School

Exploring how Hegemony and Power Mediate Agency and Structure

By: Miriam Doran Hamilton

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An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School

Exploring how Hegemony and Power Mediate Agency and Structure

By: Miriam Doran Hamilton

Based on an ethnographic study, this book explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls. Facing the high stakes Leaving Certificate examinations while on the cusp of adulthood, this study contributes to the agency-structure debate from a feminist perspective. Findings elicit insights into incidences of social and cultural reproduction with hegemony evident in visible and invisible ways among the cultural group. This ethnography describes how a group of girls navigate this territory in school. It explores the effects of the personal, group and institutional habitus that mediate the girls’ everyday interactions. The girls’ peer interactions and contextual experiences serve as an explanatory framework, which references how power is shared, wielded and resisted among the myriad of relationships within the school. The school life of the girls is described at an individual and group level with themes such as friendship, conformity, resistance and alienation discussed, within the framework of school life. Findings related to youth culture and identities elicit challenges for the girls as they manage the duality of adolescence and scholarly endeavour.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443886300

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9781443886307

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez

A Biography

By: Miriam Pawel

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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez

A Biography

By: Miriam Pawel

A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608197107

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9781608197101

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser

Mechanic of Splendor

By: Miriam Nichols

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A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser

Mechanic of Splendor

By: Miriam Nichols

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San Francisco poetry circles of the 1960s. The book illuminates Blaser’s distinctive responses to and relationships with familiar writers including Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Charles Olson via their correspondence. Blaser contributed to the formation of the serial poem as a dominant mode in post-war New American poetry through his work and engagement with the poetry communities of the time. Offering a new perspective on a well-known and influential period in American poetry, Miriam Nichols combines the story of Blaser’s life—coming from a mid-western conservative religious upbringing and his coming of age as a gay man in Berkeley, Boston, and San Francisco—with critical assessments of his major poems through unprecedented archival research. This literary biography presents Blaser’s poetry and poetics in the many contexts from which it came, ranging from the Berkeley Renaissance to the Vancouver scene; from surrealism to phenomenology; from the New American poetry to the Canadian postmodern; from the homoerotic to high theory. Throughout, Blaser’s voice is heard in the excitement of his early years in Berkeley and Boston and the seriousness of the later years where he was doing most of his living in his work.

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Springer Nature

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3030183270

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9783030183271

The Real Matilda

Woman and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

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The Real Matilda

Woman and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

The Real Matilda book investigates the Australian experience of women in colonial times, and asks how far Australians have moved beyond formative influences - elites, convicts, the Irish - which have led to discriminatory attitudes towards women.

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UNSW Press

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0868407372

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9780868407371

How To Read Ancient Philosophy

By: Miriam Leonard

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How To Read Ancient Philosophy

By: Miriam Leonard

Thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato and Parmenides have shaped the way we see the world, and it is their original conception of philosophy which has placed topics such as logic, metaphysics, ethics and ontology at the heart of philosophical debates for centuries. Miriam Leonard not only explores the central theories of their works, but also gives some sense of the process of abstraction, which sees written texts transformed into timeless ideals. She looks at how simple phrases such as 'In what way?' or 'There is ...' are turned into the language of philosophy. Taking passages from Heraclitus, Parmenides, Lucretius and Cicero, as well as Plato and Aristotle, she investigates the breadth and diversity of Greek and Roman thought and provides an account of the influence of its texts on the later history of ideas.

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Granta Books

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1783780703

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9781783780709

Listening to the Rain

By: Miriam Thor

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Listening to the Rain

By: Miriam Thor

During her freshman year of high school, Ally Griffin is determined to find her thing, a talent that will let her gain praise and recognition. Her cousins, Billy and James, have found theirs in sports and music, but Ally has yet to discover something that will make people cheer just for her. At her best friend's suggestion, Ally tries ballet. When that doesn't turn out the way she hopes, she signs up to sing in the school talent show. Thanks to support from James, Ally's performance goes well, and she thinks she has found her thing at last. But when James gets into an accident, Ally's whole world is turned upside down. As she tries to be there for her cousin, Ally wrestles with why God allows bad things to happen and whether she should keep doing her thing at all.

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Pelican Ventures Book Group

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1522303790

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9781522303794

Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping

Timeless Wisdom and Practical Advice

By: Miriam Lukken

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Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping

Timeless Wisdom and Practical Advice

By: Miriam Lukken

Mrs. Dunwoody is a character based on the author's great grandmother and other traditional Southern women who believe in the importance of making a house a home.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446556386

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9780446556385

Strategy Implementation in Government Institutions

By: Magero Night Roselyne,Fedinard Mumo Ngumbi,Therecia Mwende Kavindu,Fiona Kanini Malonza,Dr. Miriam Muthoka,Wilfred Muhongo Buyema

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Strategy Implementation in Government Institutions

By: Magero Night Roselyne,Fedinard Mumo Ngumbi,Therecia Mwende Kavindu,Fiona Kanini Malonza,Dr. Miriam Muthoka,Wilfred Muhongo Buyema

TOPICS IN THE BOOK The Influence of Management Support on Internal Audit Effectiveness in Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in Kenya Organizational Resources and Strategic Plans Implementation in Administration Police Service in Baringo County, Kenya Operational Strategies and Enhancement of Maternal and Child Healthcare Service Delivery in Devolved Healthcare Units in Machakos County Corporate Governance and Profitability of Genghis Capital Limited in Nairobi City County Challenges of Strategy Implementation: A Case Study of Kenya Medical Training College Effect of Institutional Structure on Performance of National Government Affirmative Action Funds in Kenya

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IPR Journals and Book Publishers

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9914752918

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9789914752915

Ancient Egyptian Literature

A Book of Readings

By: Miriam Lichtheim

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Ancient Egyptian Literature

A Book of Readings

By: Miriam Lichtheim

Traces the development of Ancient Egyptian forms of writing. Provides a selection of ancient Egyptian myth and folklore as well as inscriptions on tombs, songs and hymns.

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Univ of California Press

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0520036158

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Citizen Action For Global Change

The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea

By: Ralph B. Levering,Miriam L. Levering

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Citizen Action For Global Change

The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea

By: Ralph B. Levering,Miriam L. Levering

A case study of the effectiveness of nongovernmental organizations in international and national arenas, Ralph B. Levering describes and analyzes the work of three U.S.-based NGOs, known collectively as the Neptune Group. He discusses the group's successful efforts during the Third United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III1973-1982). He details the group's effectiveness supporting negotiations in Washington and addressing the news media and public opinipn. One of the most important international conferences of modem times, UNCLOS III thoroughly revised and updated the law of the sea. By organizing seminars and conducting research on difficult issues facing the conference, facilitating the flow of information among delegates, and publishing a newspaper, Neptune, the Neptune Group became the leading NGO at the conference. Engagingly written, this history and memoir will interest students, scholars, officials, environmentalists, religious and world-order activists, and anyone interested in efforts to help create a more just and peaceful world order.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815627947

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Hispanic Representation in the Department of Defense Civilian Workforce

Trend and Barrier Analysis

By: Miriam Matthews,Bruce R. Orvis,Abigail Haddad,David Schulker,Kimberly Curry Hall

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Hispanic Representation in the Department of Defense Civilian Workforce

Trend and Barrier Analysis

By: Miriam Matthews,Bruce R. Orvis,Abigail Haddad,David Schulker,Kimberly Curry Hall

Hispanics are less represented in the federal government workforce than in the U.S. civilian labor force, and they are particularly underrepresented in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) civilian workforce. Although previous analyses have demonstrated that Hispanics are underrepresented in DoD, research has not yet considered employment barriers for Hispanics across DoD agencies. In this report, the authors provide information that might help DoD address Hispanic underrepresentation in its civilian workforce. They examine trends in Hispanic employment in the DoD, non-DoD federal, and civilian workforces. They also explore whether DoD labor-force characteristics might account for Hispanic underrepresentation in DoD. In addition, the authors examine observed trends in job applicants and applications to DoD. They also present findings from interviews that they conducted with DoD hiring managers and supervisors and representatives of Hispanic-serving institutions. They conclude with recommendations for DoD to consider as part of its efforts to address Hispanic underrepresentation in the DoD civilian workforce"--Publisher's description.

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