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The Classic Ten

The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites

By: Nancy MacDonell Smith

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The Classic Ten

The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites

By: Nancy MacDonell Smith

Nancy MacDonell Smith explores the origins, meaning, and remarkable staying power of the ten staples of feminine fashion: * the little black dress * the white shirt * the cashmere sweater * blue jeans * the suit * high heels * pearls * lipstick * sneakers * the trench coat Tracing the evolution of each item from inception to icon status, she reveals the history and social significance of each, from the black dress's associations with danger and death to the status implications of the classic white shirt. Incorporating sources from history, literature, magazines, and cinema, as well as her own witty anecdotes, Smith has created an engaging, informative guide to modern style.

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Penguin

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1101098783

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9781101098783

Empresses of Seventh Avenue

World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

By: Nancy MacDonell

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Empresses of Seventh Avenue

World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

By: Nancy MacDonell

In the tradition of The Barbizon and The Girls of Atomic City, fashion historian and journalist Nancy MacDonell chronicles the untold story of how the Nazi invasion of France gave rise to the American fashion industry. Calvin Klein. Ralph Lauren. Donna Karan. Halston. Marc Jacobs. Tom Ford. Michael Kors. Tory Burch. Today, American designers are some of the biggest names in fashion, yet before World War II, they almost always worked anonymously. The industry, then centered on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, had always looked overseas for "inspiration"—a polite phrase for what was often blatant copying—because style, as all the world knew, came from Paris. But when the Nazis invaded France in 1940, the capital of fashion was cut off from the rest of the world. The story of the chaos and tragedy that followed has been told many times—but how it directly affected American fashion is largely unknown. Defying the naysayers, New York-based designers, retailers, editors, and photographers met the moment, turning out clothes that were perfectly suited to the American way of life: sophisticated, modern, comfortable, and affordable. By the end of the war, "the American Look" had been firmly established as a fresh, easy elegance that combined function with style. But none of it would have happened without the influence and ingenuity of a small group of women who have largely been lost to history. Empresses of Seventh Avenue will tell the story of how these extraordinary women put American fashion on the world stage and created the template for modern style—and how the nearly $500 billion American fashion industry, the largest in the world, could not have accrued its power and wealth without their farsightedness and determination.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250288746

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9781250288745

In the Know

The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool

By: Nancy MacDonell

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In the Know

The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool

By: Nancy MacDonell

There are still a few things money can’t buy. Love is one, cool is another. But while love can be left to fate, cool doesn’t need to be. Though it may seem like something you’re born with, cool is actually a code, and you’re holding the key to the code in your hands. It’s all a matter of getting the right facts straight: Why is Jackson Pollock important? What handbag will get you upgraded at the airport? Who is Jacques Derrida and why does he matter? Covering everything from fashion and design to art and philosophy—all in entertaining, fact-filled bites—Nancy MacDonell has assembled the ultimate cheat sheet. In the Know is nothing less than a one-volume guide to navigating life with style and flair.

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244

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Penguin

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144061976X

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9781440619762

Academic Library Outreach

Beyond the Campus Walls

By: Nancy D. Courtney

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Academic Library Outreach

Beyond the Campus Walls

By: Nancy D. Courtney

Traditionally, academic library outreach has meant reaching out to the campus community, providing services to faculty and students. Many universities and colleges, however, now have a new or renewed emphasis on outreach beyond the campus, seeking to ensure their institutions' relevance to the community at large. How can and do academic libraries participate in this type of outreach? What types of collaborations or partnerships are academic libraries forming with schools, public libraries, or community groups? How do academic librarians partner with faculty or campus departments on their community projects? What role does service-learning play? Nancy Courtney has assembled a sampling of approaches, from the innovative to the tried-and-true, each written in the voice of its strongest champion.

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277

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598844970

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9781598844979

The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

By: Audrey Nelson (PhD.),Ms. Kathleen Motacki,Nancy Nivison Menzel

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The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

By: Audrey Nelson (PhD.),Ms. Kathleen Motacki,Nancy Nivison Menzel

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826115683

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9780826115683

Sleep-related Epilepsy and Electroencephalography, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

By: Madelieine Grigg-Damberger,Nancy R Foldvary-Schaefer

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Sleep-related Epilepsy and Electroencephalography, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

By: Madelieine Grigg-Damberger,Nancy R Foldvary-Schaefer

This issue on Sleep Electroencephalography (EEG) gives an overview of Electrophysiological readings in sleep with such articles as “The Nuts and Bolts of EEG and “How the Sleep/Wake EEG Changes Across the Lifespan. Identifying abnormal EEG activity and patterns in the Electroencephalographic readings is also discussed. The issue then further focuses in on Seizures and the EEG; specifically, how EEG can be used to diagnosis and identify seizure disorders and differentiate seizures from other paroxysmal nocturnal events, and to diagnose other primary sleep disorders in people with epilepsy.

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192

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455743143

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9781455743148

English Atlantics Revisited

Essays Honouring Ian K. Steele

By: Nancy L. Rhoden

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English Atlantics Revisited

Essays Honouring Ian K. Steele

By: Nancy L. Rhoden

Inspired by the major themes in Steele's scholarship, the original essays in English Atlantics Revisited examine British Atlantic contexts and political economy, as well as maritime, military, Amerindian, and social history. The contributors offer challenging new findings and perspectives as they revisit the English Atlantics: chapters on specific personalities, regions, and topics reveal the extent of transatlantic, cross-cultural, and trans-national interactions. English Atlantics Revisited help assess the current state of Atlantic history.

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910

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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ISBN 10

0773577513

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9780773577510

The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

By: Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN,Kathleen Motacki, MSN, RN, BC,Nancy Menzel, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, COHN-S

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The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

By: Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN,Kathleen Motacki, MSN, RN, BC,Nancy Menzel, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, COHN-S

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! "This is a good reference for the varied healthcare professionals who must move and transfer patients. The book is clear and well written, with illustrations to strengthen the narrative." --Doody's "The evidence-based methods suggested in these pages protect nurses from injury and ultimately improve patient care." --M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN President, National League for Nursing Ancillary materials include new DVD and Instructor's Guide Please note: DVD contains digital videos only -- no audio track. (Qualified instructors may email textbook@springerpub.com to request instructor's guide) As a nurse, you are all too familiar with heavy lifting, sustained awkward positioning, excessive reaching, and static posturing. With this comprehensive volume, Nelson, Motacki, and Menzel show you that there is another way. Learn about the new techniques and technologies specifically designed to reduce caregiver and patient injuries. The authors present the Evidence-Based Safe Patient Handling Program, a practical system of guidelines to be used in numerous clinical settings. Each chapter explains how to apply the program to specific clinical settings, such as medical and surgical, critical care, orthopaedics, pediatrics, labor and delivery, rehabilitation settings, the perioperative suite, and nursing homes. Implement the components of the program to multiple clinical settings: Assessment: Learn to evaluate the patient's body strength and about other conditions that affect the patient handling task Care Plan: Outline the safest way to accomplish the required task based on the assessment Algorithms: Learn the step-by-step, problem-solving procedures for carrying out patient handling activities safely Photos and videos illustrate the techniques: The included DVD and photographs illustrate how to use the technology, as well as how each task, movement, and position should be completed. These tasks include: Lateral transferring to and from beds using sliders Rescuing fallen patients off the floor with a floor-based lift Bariatric patient lifting and dressing Transferring patients with lower limb amputations And many more

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826163629

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9780826163622

Stages of Life

Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater

By: Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez,Nancy Saporta Sternbach

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Stages of Life

Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater

By: Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez,Nancy Saporta Sternbach

Latina theater and solo performance emerged in the 1990s as vibrant, energetic new genres found on stages from New York to Los Angeles. Many women now work in all aspects of Latina theater—often as playwrights or solo performers—with practitioners ranging from teenagers to grandmothers. Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach have previously published a groundbreaking anthology of Latina theater, Puro Teatro. They now offer a critical analysis of theatrical works, presenting a theoretical perspective from which to examine, understand, and contextualize Latina theater as a genre in its own right. This is the first in-depth study of the entire corpus of Latina theater, based on close readings of works both published and in manuscript. It considers a large body of productions and performances, including works by such internationally known authors as Dolores Prida, Cherríe Moraga, and Janis Astor del Valle. Applying feminist and postcolonial theory as well as theories of transculturation, Sandoval-Sánchez and Sternbach show how, despite cultural differences among Latinas, their works share a common poetics by building upon the politics of representation, identity, and location. In addition to covering theater, this study also shows that solo performance has its own history, properties, structure, and poetics. It examines performances of Carmelita Tropicana, Monica Palacios, and Marga Gomez—artists whose hybrid identities as Latina lesbians constitute living examples of transculturation in the making—to show how solo performance has roots in and digresses from more traditional modes of theater. With their Latina heritage as a unifying link, these women reflect common traits, patterns, dramatic structures, and properties that overcome regional differences. Stages of Life reads these eclectic cultural productions as a unified body of work that contributes to the formation of Latina identity in America today.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816552371

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9780816552375

The Classic Ten

The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites

By: Nancy MacDonell Smith

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The Classic Ten

The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites

By: Nancy MacDonell Smith

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In the Know

The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool

By: Nancy MacDonell

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In the Know

The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool

By: Nancy MacDonell

The ultimate crash course for every woman who wants to be "cool" presents an entertaining, fact-filled guide on how to navigate life with style and flair, offering practical advice on everything from knowing why Jackson Pollock is important to which handbag can get you upgraded at the airport. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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0143112600

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Katharine Hepburn

Rebel Chic

By: Jean L. Druesedow,Kohle Yohannan,Barbara Cohen-Stratyner,Nancy MacDonell,Judy Samelson

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Katharine Hepburn

Rebel Chic

By: Jean L. Druesedow,Kohle Yohannan,Barbara Cohen-Stratyner,Nancy MacDonell,Judy Samelson

Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen, ' held at Kent State University Museum, OH (October 2, 2010-September 4, 2011) and the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, NY (October 18, 2012-January 20, 2013).

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Skira

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0847838919

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9780847838912

Nancy

By: Nancy Reagan,Bill Libby

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Nancy

By: Nancy Reagan,Bill Libby

Nancy Reagan describes her life from her happy childhood to her exciting stage and film career to her experiences as the wife of a famous actor, governor, and presidential candidate and expresses hopeful views on America's future.

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0688035337

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9780688035334

The Shoe Book

By: Nancy MacDonell

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The Shoe Book

By: Nancy MacDonell

For centuries shoes have served as a form of expression that communicates to the world who we are or who we want to be. Following on the heels of the success of The T-Shirt Book, The Leather Book, The Bikini Book, and The Trench Book from Assouline’s Anthology Collection, The Shoe Book explores the history and technologies that have shaped the designs and styles that continue to evolve. With contributions by Manolo Blahnik, Bruno Frisoni, Christian Louboutin, and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Shoe Book is the most definitive and visually compelling volume published on footwear to date.

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Editions Assouline

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161428153X

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9781614281535

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Empresses of Seventh Avenue

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In the Know

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The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement

Sleep-related Epilepsy and Electroencephalography, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

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English Atlantics Revisited

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