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Queen

The Life and Music of Dinah Washington

By: Nadine Cohodas

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Queen

The Life and Music of Dinah Washington

By: Nadine Cohodas

Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington. A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the studio--making music one way or another. Dinah's tart and heartfelt voice quickly became her trademark; she was a distinctive stylist, crossing over from the "race" music category to the pop and jazz charts. Known in her day as Queen of the Blues and Queen of the Juke Boxes, Dinah was regarded as that rare "first take" artist, her studio recordings reflecting the same passionate energy she brought to the stage. As Nadine Cohodas shows us, Dinah suffered her share of heartbreak in her personal life, but she thrived on the growing audience response that greeted her signature tunes: "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes," "Evil Gal Blues," and "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)," with Brook Benton. She made every song she sang her own. Dinah lives large in these pages, with her seven marriages; her penchant for clothes, cars, furs, and diets; and her famously feisty personality--testy one moment and generous the next. This biography, meticulously researched and gracefully written, is the first to draw on extensive interviews with family members and newly discovered documents. It is a revelation of Dinah's work and her life. Cohodas captures the Queen in all her contradictions, and we hear in this book the voice of a natural star, born to entertain and to be loved.

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Pantheon

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0307427382

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9780307427380

Tiny Treasures

Tales of Courage and Hope for Children Everywhere!

By: Nadine Vaughan Williams

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Tiny Treasures

Tales of Courage and Hope for Children Everywhere!

By: Nadine Vaughan Williams

Tiny Treasures: Tales of Courage and Hope, takes the reader on a gentle journey that warms the heart and brings a smile to the face. These tiny tales speak to children and parents of all ages, from all traditions. Based on real life events, each story addresses a different life lesson that encourages little ones to learn how to face their monsters; care for a sick loved one; and explore the question "Who am I... really?" In doing so, children learn to value those who have gone before and create a life of peace and happiness.

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1496912012

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9781496912015

Native Land

Lost in the Mystery of Time

By: Nadine Vaughan

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Native Land

Lost in the Mystery of Time

By: Nadine Vaughan

Catherine and Richard Berg live a charmed life...until the day their car crashes in the midst of a tropical Florida forest. Lost and alone, they stumble upon a mysterious family of Native Americans who possess uncanny powers of perception. What happens next changes their lives forever. www.nadinevaughanbooks.com

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1438947313

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Joan Littlewood's Theatre

By: Nadine Holdsworth

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Joan Littlewood's Theatre

By: Nadine Holdsworth

This book investigates Joan Littlewood's theatre productions and her community-based projects and activism, drawing upon extensive primary archival material.

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335

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Cambridge University Press

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052111960X

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9780521119603

The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspectives/Les mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative

By: Nadine Méouchy,Peter Sluglett

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The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspectives/Les mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative

By: Nadine Méouchy,Peter Sluglett

This collection of thirty papers represents the first broad attempt to compares the application and effects of British and French mandatory rule on the newly-created states of Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine. Syria, Lebanon and Transjordan between the early 1920s and the late 1940s.

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BRILL

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9047402693

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9789047402695

Behind Human Error

By: David Woods,Sidney Dekker,Richard Cook,Leila Johannesen,Nadine Sarter

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Behind Human Error

By: David Woods,Sidney Dekker,Richard Cook,Leila Johannesen,Nadine Sarter

Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment human behavior by stricter monitoring, rules or procedures. But in practice, things have proved not to be this simple. The label 'human error' is prejudicial and hides much more than it reveals about how a system functions or malfunctions. This book takes you behind the human error label. Divided into five parts, it begins by summarising the most significant research results. Part 2 explores how systems thinking has radically changed our understanding of how accidents occur. Part 3 explains the role of cognitive system factors - bringing knowledge to bear, changing mindset as situations and priorities change, and managing goal conflicts - in operating safely at the sharp end of systems. Part 4 studies how the clumsy use of computer technology can increase the potential for erroneous actions and assessments in many different fields of practice. And Part 5 tells how the hindsight bias always enters into attributions of error, so that what we label human error actually is the result of a social and psychological judgment process by stakeholders in the system in question to focus on only a facet of a set of interacting contributors. If you think you have a human error problem, recognize that the label itself is no explanation and no guide to countermeasures. The potential for constructive change, for progress on safety, lies behind the human error label.

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495

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CRC Press

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1317175530

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9781317175537

Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change

By: Nadine Cohodas

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Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change

By: Nadine Cohodas

Reprint of the Simon & Schuster edition originally published in 1993. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Mercer University Press

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0865544468

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9780865544468

Princess Noire

The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

By: Nadine Cohodas

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Princess Noire

The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

By: Nadine Cohodas

Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her, the devastating disappointment compelled her to change direction. She turned to popular music and jazz but never abandoned her classical roots or her intense ambition. By the age of twenty six, Simone had sung at New York City's venerable Town Hall and was on her way. Tapping into newly unearthed material on Simone's family and career, Nadine Cohodas paints a luminous portrait of the singer, highlighting her tumultuous life, her innovative compositions, and the prodigious talent that matched her ambition. With precision and empathy, Cohodas weaves the story of Simone's contentious relationship with audiences and critics, her outspoken support for civil rights, her two marriages and her daughter, and, later, the sense of alienation that drove her to live abroad from 1993 until her death. Alongside these threads runs a more troubling one: Simone's increasing outbursts of rage and pain that signaled mental illness and a lifelong struggle to overcome a deep sense of personal injustice.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807882747

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9780807882740

Deadly Biocultures

The Ethics of Life-making

By: Nadine Ehlers,Shiloh Krupar

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Deadly Biocultures

The Ethics of Life-making

By: Nadine Ehlers,Shiloh Krupar

A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. “biocultures”—where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday cultural practices—also engage in a deadly endeavor? Challenging us to question their implications, Deadly Biocultures shows that efforts to “make live” are accompanied by the twin operation of “let die”: they validate and enhance lives seen as economically viable, self-sustaining, productive, and oriented toward the future and optimism while reinforcing inequitable distributions of life based on race, class, gender, and dis/ability. Affirming life can obscure death, create deadly conditions, and even kill. Deadly Biocultures examines the affirmation to hope, target, thrive, secure, and green in the respective biocultures of cancer, race-based health, fatness, aging, and the afterlife. Its chapters focus on specific practices, technologies, or techniques that ostensibly affirm life and suggest life’s inextricable links to capital but that also engender a politics of death and erasure. The authors ultimately ask: what alternative social forms and individual practices might be mapped onto or intersect with biomedicine for more equitable biofutures?

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U of Minnesota Press

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145296050X

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9781452960500

The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre

By: Helen Nicholson,Nadine Holdsworth,Jane Milling

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The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre

By: Helen Nicholson,Nadine Holdsworth,Jane Milling

This book is the first major study of amateur theatre, offering new perspectives on its place in the cultural and social life of communities. Historically informed, it traces how amateur theatre has impacted national repertoires, contributed to diverse creative economies, and responded to changing patterns of labour. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research, it traces the importance of amateur theatre to crafting places and the ways in which it sustains the creativity of amateur theatre over a lifetime. It asks: how does amateur theatre-making contribute to the twenty-first century amateur turn?

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Springer

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1137508108

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9781137508102

Do Carrots Make You See Better?

A Guide to Food and Nutrition in Early Childhood Programs

By: Julie Appleton,Nadine McCrea,Carla Patterson

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Do Carrots Make You See Better?

A Guide to Food and Nutrition in Early Childhood Programs

By: Julie Appleton,Nadine McCrea,Carla Patterson

Noting that young children learn about food and nutrition through food preparation, eating together, play, science activities, and games, this resource guide addresses food learning and nutritional provisions in early childhood programs. The guide is designed to meet the needs of children and adults in child care centers, family child care programs, preschools, kindergartens, and before- and after-school programs. The guide presents six approaches to food learning with suggestions for many hands-on activities: (1) children's decision making; (2) science and mathematics; (3) food cycles; (4) language, drama, and social studies; (5) physical activities and motor skills; and (6) food selection, preparation, and presentation. Suggestions are also offered about food provision in early childhood settings. The chapters are: (1) "An Introduction to Food Foundations," discussing the values of foods and eating, adult roles in facilitating food events with children, and the kinds of learning children gain from a variety of food opportunities; (2) "A Framework for Learning about Food," focusing on key principles for formal and informal curricula, learning and teaching considerations, and the learning process; (3) "Approaches to Children's Food Learning," introducing the six approaches and including sample activities; (4) "Food and Nutrition Issues and Information," discussing nutrition guidelines, infants' and children's nutritional needs, special food needs, meal planning, safety and food hygiene, and information for parents; (5) "Making Decisions about Food Foundations," including information on children's rights, negotiating food foundations, sample food education and nutrition policies, and a management process for food issues in early childhood programs. (Contains references and recommended readings organized by chapter.)(KB)

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Gryphon House, Inc.

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0876592647

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9780876592649

Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts

By: Nadine Akkerman

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Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts

By: Nadine Akkerman

Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - figures of the seventeenth century. This biography reveals the impact that she had on both England and Europe

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Oxford University Press

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0199668302

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9780199668304

Spinning Blues Into Gold

The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records

By: Nadine Cohodas

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Spinning Blues Into Gold

The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records

By: Nadine Cohodas

Sun Records gave us rock and roll, Motown Records gave us pop soul, and Chess Records gave us the blues. Chess was label for Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Etta James, and Bo Diddley--and in this critcially acclaimed history we learn the full story of this legendary label. The greatest artists who sang and played the blues made their mark with Leonard and Phil Chess, whose Chicago-based record company was synonymous with the sound that swept up from the South, embraced the Windy City, and spread out like wildfire into mid-century America. Spinning Blues into Gold is the impeccably researched story of the men behind the music and the remarkable company they created. Chess Records--and later Checkers, Argo, and Cadet Records--was built by Polish immigrant Jews, brothers who saw the blues as a unique business opportunity. From their first ventures, a liquor store and then a nightclub, they promoted live entertainment. And parlayed that into the first pressings sold out of car trunks on long junkets through the midsection of the country, ultimately expanding their empire to include influential radio stations. The story of the Chess brothers is a very American story of commerce in the service of culture. Long on chutzpah, Leonard and Phil Chess went far beyond their childhoods as the sons of a scrap-metal dealer. They changed what America listened to; the artists they promoted planted the seeds of rock 'n' roll--and are still influencing music today. In this book, Cohodas expertly captures the rich and volatile mix of race, money, and recorded music. She also takes us deep into the world of independent record producers, sometimes abrasive and always aggressive men striving to succeed. Leonard and Phil Chess worked hand-in-glove with disenfranchised black artists, the intermittent charges of exploitation balanced by the reality of a common purpose that eventually brought fame to many if not most of the parties concerned. From beginning to end, as we find in these pages, the lives of the Chess brothers were socially, financially, and creatively entwined with those of the artists they believed in.

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388

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Macmillan

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0312284942

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9780312284947

Firecat!

The Legend of Amazon Sage

By: Nadine Vaughan Williams

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Firecat!

The Legend of Amazon Sage

By: Nadine Vaughan Williams

FireCat! The Legend of Amazon Sage is a coming-of-age tale with a twist. Traumatized by a fathers early abandonment while deep in a tropical forest, Sage Ogilvie, is plagued by night terrors. In her waking life she feels even more afraid as she contends with mindless taunts from schoolmates. However, when this quirky teen-age girl escapes to a deserted island with a full-grown cougar, her world changes forever.Powerful forces coincide to shift time, transform her fears and reveal answers to her most haunting questions. She dream-travels to places she has never been and engages with people she has never met. It is during these journeys that she learns to shape shift into a FireCat,the name given by the ancients to a magical, part human, part panther creature. In FireCat! Amazon Sage takes us on an incredible fi naljourney we will never forget.

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1491842652

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9781491842652

Mommy Tell Me

A Story of Love and Learning

By: Nadine Vaughan

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Mommy Tell Me

A Story of Love and Learning

By: Nadine Vaughan

Mommy Tell Me A Story of Love and Learning Honors mothers everywhere, by encouraging children to listen to their Moms beyond the daily routines and beyond the answers about school work. Many of the special things that Moms do are described in this endearing story, including how hard it is for Mommies to know just what to do sometimes. It encourages children to find out what really matters to your Mommy besides you of course. Part two tells the warm and wonderful story of the authors Mom, a woman born in the wilds of Florida almost a hundred years ago! Part Three reflects on her stories and honors all Moms in talking about her own mother. All is woven into a heartwarming tapestry of love in a colorful folk art style.

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1496904303

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Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures

Jan Gossart's Renaissance : the Complete Works

By: Jan Gossaert,Stijn Alsteens,Nadine Orenstein,Lorne Campbell,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery (Great Britain)

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Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures

Jan Gossart's Renaissance : the Complete Works

By: Jan Gossaert,Stijn Alsteens,Nadine Orenstein,Lorne Campbell,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery (Great Britain)

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 5, 2010-Jan. 17, 2011, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Feb. 23-May 30, 2011, National Gallery, London (selected paintings only).

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