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Cell Volume and Signaling

By: Peter Lauf,Norma Adragna

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In front of you is the finished product of your work, the text of your contributions to the 2003 Dayton International Symposium on Cell Volume and Signal Transduction. As we all recall, this symposium brought together the Doyens of Cellular and Molecular Physiology as well as aspiring young investigators and students in this field. It became a memorable event in an illustrious series of International Symposia on Cell Volume and Signaling. This series, started by Professors Vladimir Strbák, Florian Lang and Monte Greer in Smolenice, Slovakia in 1997 and continued by Professors Rolf Kinne, Florian Lang and Frank Wehner in Berlin in 2000, is projected for 2005 in Copenhagen to be hosted by our colleague, Professor Else Hoffmann and her team. We dearly miss Monte Greer to whom this symposium was dedicated and addressed so eloquently by Vladimir Strbák in his Dedication to Monte. Monte and I became friends in Smolenice and had begun to discuss the 2003 meeting only a few days before his tragic accident in 2002. There are others who were not with us, and we missed them, too. We would not have been able to succeed in this event without the unflagging support of our higher administration at Wright State University, the NIDDKD of the National Institute of Health, and the Fuji Medical System (see Acknowledgments).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387237526

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9780387237527

Medicinal Chemistry

By: Norma K Dunlap,Donna M Huryn

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Medicinal Chemistry

By: Norma K Dunlap,Donna M Huryn

Medicinal Chemistry begins with the history of the field, starting from the serendipitous use of plant preparations to current practice of design- and target-based screening methods. Written from the perspective of practicing medicinal chemists, the text covers key drug discovery activities such as pharmacokinetics and patenting, as well as the classes and structures of drug targets (receptors, enzymes, nucleic acids, and protein-protein and lipid interactions) with numerous examples of drugs acting at each type. Selected therapeutic areas include drugs to treat cancer, infectious diseases, and central nervous system disorders. Throughout the book, historical and current examples illustrate the progress to market and case studies explore the applications of concepts discussed in the text. Each chapter features a Journal Club, as well as review and application questions to enhance and test comprehension. This textbook is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students taking a one-semester survey course on medicinal chemistry and/or drug discovery, as well as scientists entering the pharmaceutical industry.

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Garland Science

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1351586203

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9781351586207

Prohibition in Southwestern Michigan

By: Norma Lewis & Christine Nyholm

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Prohibition in Southwestern Michigan

By: Norma Lewis & Christine Nyholm

Even in law-abiding southwestern Michigan, the Eighteenth Amendment turned ordinary citizens into scofflaws and sparked unprecedented unrest. ... Authors Norma Lewis and Christine Nyholm reveal how the Noble Experiment fueled a rowdy, roaring, decade-long party."--Back cover.

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1467144800

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9781467144803

Grand River

By: Norma Lewis

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Grand River

By: Norma Lewis

Stretching 265 miles, the majestic Grand River is Michigan's longest waterway, and it was once considered one of the Midwest's most important. The river starts as a trickle just south of Jackson and gains power as it surges toward Lake Michigan in Grand Haven. Trappers first used the river to trade with the Native American villages along its banks. Later, the lumber industry transported logs via the Grand. The river shaped the towns and cities that grew up along its banks, providing them with transportation and power for manufacturers, including the once-renowned Grand Rapids furniture industry. Fertile farmlands have always played an important role in the history of the Grand River Valley. Today, the river is used primarily for recreation, including boating, fishing, and, in Grand Ledge, rock climbing.

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Mandrake Root

By: Norma T. Harari

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Mandrake Root

By: Norma T. Harari

Josephina, a journalist living in Manhattan, flies to Jerusalem to meet David, her occasional lover, for whom she works sometimes as a freelance reporter. On this trip, she decides to look up Gloria, a woman she first met on a trip to the Holy Land when they were both fresh out of college. Unlike Josephina, Gloria has decided to live in Israel, stay married to one man, raise her children, and teach school. For Josephina, Glorias life represents the road not taken, a stark contrast to her sophisticated milieu of Manhattan and her urbane life spent visiting places of interest all over the world. As part of her assignment for David, Josephina interviews United Nations forces in Eilat along the Lebanese border. She has an absurd meeting with the head of the Chemical Concern, one of the major polluters of the Eastern Mediterranean, and then flies off to cover the wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles in London. But is she truly happy? Mandrake Root is a love story juxtaposed against the turbulent times in the Middle East and the challenges of the eighties.

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1426952414

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Impressionism: A Feminist Reading

The Gendering Of Art, Science, And Nature In The Nineteenth Century

By: Norma Broude

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Impressionism: A Feminist Reading

The Gendering Of Art, Science, And Nature In The Nineteenth Century

By: Norma Broude

An original interpretation of Impressionism and nineteenth-century art and culture by a noted feminist art historian. This book is a pioneering reading of Impressionism from a feminist perspective by a noted art historian. Norma Broude analyzes the philosophical underpinnings of landscape painting in the late nineteenth century discussing the crit

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Routledge

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0429688946

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9780429688942

Managing Diversity In Public Sector Workforces

Essentials Of Public Policy And Administration Series

By: Norma Riccucci

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Managing Diversity In Public Sector Workforces

Essentials Of Public Policy And Administration Series

By: Norma Riccucci

Addresses increased diversity in government work forces, and management strategies appropriate for managing diversity. Today, public employers are poised to create productive work forces that are represented of the global population. As we enter the twenty-first century, Americas workforce looks markedly different than it ever has before. Compared with even twenty years ago, more white women, people of color, disabled persons, new and recent immigrants, gays and lesbians, and intergenerational mixes now work in America. The way in which government employers embrace this opportunity of diversity will clearly distinguish effective and efficient organizations from those which are unproductive and unable to meet the demands and necessities of the American people in the new century. This book addresses the demographic changes to the labor force and workplace and the ways in which government employers are managing the imminently diverse populations that now fill public sector jobs. It addresses the specific management strategies and initiatives relied upon by public sector employers as well as the implications of effectively managing variegated workforces for the overall governance of American society.

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0429967624

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Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives

A Genealogy of the Tucker Family and Also the Families of Allen, Blackistone, Chandler, Ford, Gerard, Harmor, Hume, Monroe, Skaggs, Smith, Stevesson, Stone, Sturman, Thompson, Ward, Yowell, and Others

By: Norma Tucker

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Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives

By: Norma Tucker

This copiously documented volume sheds new light on one of the earliest families to settle in Virginia, that of Captain William Tucker of London, and on a number of allied families whose progenitors figured in the early history of the Virginia and Maryland colonies.

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0806345071

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The Sous Vide Recipe Book

By: Norma Miller

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The Sous Vide Recipe Book

By: Norma Miller

Sous vide is a method of cooking food in vacuum-sealed pouches in a water bath at an accurately determined temperature. This enables the food to be cooked evenly, retaining the juices and aromas which are often lost by traditional cooking methods. Meat, in particular, becomes tender and succulent when cooked in a sous vide. Professional chefs such as Heston Blumenthal have favoured this form of cooking for some time and featured it on their TV shows.Now manufacturers are making water baths available at affordable prices for cooking at home so that all of us can benefit from this new method of cooking.

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0716023393

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9780716023395

African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema

By: Norma Manatu

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African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema

By: Norma Manatu

The representation of African American women is an important issue in the overall study of how women are portrayed in film, and has received serious attention in recent years. Traditionally, "women of color," particularly African American women, have been at the margins of studies of women's on-screen depictions--or excluded altogether. This work focuses exclusively on the sexual objectification of African American women in film from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Critics of the negative sexual imagery have long speculated that control by African American filmmakers would change how African American women are depicted. This work examines sixteen films made by males both white and black to see how the imagery might change with the race of the filmmaker. Four dimensions are given special attention: the diversity of the women's roles and relationships with men, the sexual attitudes of the African American female characters, their attitudes towards men, and their nonverbal and verbal sexual behaviors. This work also examines the role culture has played in perpetuating the images, how film influences viewers' perception of African American women and their sexuality, and how the imagery polarizes women by functioning as a regulator of their sexual behaviors based on cultural definitions of the feminine.

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0786451440

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Muskegon

By: Norma Lewis and Christine Nyholm

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Muskegon

By: Norma Lewis and Christine Nyholm

Ottawa and Pottawatomi Indians called Muskegon home at least 200 years before Jean Baptiste Recollect opened his trading post in 1836. Michigan's abundant forests created the logging industry. Lumber mills flourished as the Muskegon River and Lake Michigan provided easy transport. The city was called the Lumber Queen, and it was said that Muskegon lumber built Chicago. The lumber barons' influence is still felt. Charles Hackley's name graces a major street, park, library, and hospital, and the local hockey team is called the Lumberjacks. Shipping followed, with Brunswick, Sealed Power, and Continental Motors among the industrial heavyweights. Residents have also appreciated cultural pursuits. The famed Actors' Colony, founded by the Keaton family, is where Buster honed his vaudeville skills before hitting the big time. Max Gruber's Oddities of the Jungle act featured an elephant that rode a tricycle and bowled. Former area residents include M*A*S*H star Harry Morgan, astronaut David Leetsma, two Miss Americas, singers Iggy Pop and Wayne Static, and sports greats Earl Morrall, Bobby Grich, and Nate McLouth. Snowboarding began here but was called "snurfing" (snow surfing).

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1467129291

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Feminism And Art History

Questioning The Litany

By: Norma Broude

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Feminism And Art History

Questioning The Litany

By: Norma Broude

A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present. While several of the essays deal with major women artists, the book is essentially about Western art history and the extent to which it has been distorted, in every period, by sexual bias. With 306 illustrations.

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0429980167

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The Halogen Oven Secret

By: Norma Miller

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The Halogen Oven Secret

By: Norma Miller

A halogen oven cooks food almost as quickly as a microwave oven but with the added bonus of browning and crisping the food like a conventional oven. Find out how the halogen oven can become an indispensable item of equipment in your kitchen with Norma Miller's comprehensive guide. Choose the right halogen oven for your needs. Maximize the benefits of using the halogen oven. Adapt your own recipes to the halogen oven. This book contains 150 tasty recipes, all personally tried and tested in the latest halogen ovens by Norma Miller. All the traditional favourites, such as Shepherd's Pie, Toad in the Hole, Sweet and Sour Pork, Chicken Curry, Lasagne and Poached Salmon are here, plus some exciting new contemporary recipes, including Nutty Pork Meatballs, Fish Kebabs with Mango Salsa, and even Sweet Orange and Chocolate Pizza.

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0716023121

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Responsible Research Practice

Revisiting Transformative Paradigm in Social Research

By: Norma RA Romm

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Responsible Research Practice

Revisiting Transformative Paradigm in Social Research

By: Norma RA Romm

This book explores ways in which creative research practice can be explicitly and mindfully geared to make a difference to the quality of social and ecological existence. It offers a range of examples of how different research methods can be employed (and re-tuned) with this intention. The book suggests that what Romm names "active" research involves using the research space responsibly to open up new avenues for thinking and acting on the part of those involved in the inquiry and wider stakeholders. The book includes a discussion of a range of epistemological, ontological, methodological and axiological positions (or paradigms) that can be embraced by inquirers implicitly or explicitly. It details the contours of an epistemology where knowing is recognized to be grounded in social relations, as a matter of ethics. While focusing on discussing the “transformative paradigm” and attendant view of research ethics, it considers to what extent the borders between paradigms can be treated as being permeable in creative and active inquiries. Apart from considering options for enhancing responsible research practice during the process of inquiry (and reconsidering mixed-research designs) the book also considers options for responsible theorizing that is inspirational for pursuing goals of social and ecological justice.

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3319743864

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Bank Job

By: James Heneghan,Norma Charles

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Bank Job

By: James Heneghan,Norma Charles

Nell has been in foster homes all her life—most of them have been horrible. She finally gets moved to a home she likes, and the ministry threatens to close it down unless an expensive renovation is made to the house. Nell and the two boys in the home, Billy and Tom, decide to raise the funds themselves. How do kids get large amounts of money quickly? By robbing banks, of course. Their first few heists are successful, but when they almost get caught on their sixth robbery, the friends start to fight about whether they should continue. The bank jobs that were meant to keep their family together just might tear it apart.

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1554694388

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The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

By: Norma Clarke

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The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

By: Norma Clarke

If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen? She didn't publish until 1811. Aphra Benn herself? She died in 1869. The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century. Eliza Haywood, Catherine Cockburn, Elizabeth Elstob, Delarivier Manley, Elizabeth Rowe, Jane Barker, Elizabeth Thomas, Anna Seward... In a book which ranges from country house to Grub Street, Norma Clarke recovers these and other writers, establishes the reasons for their eclipse and discovers that a room of one's own in the eighteenth century was as likely to be a prison cell as a boudoir.

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Random House

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1446444988

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The Mormon Battalion

United States Army of the West, 1846-1848

By: Norma Ricketts

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The Mormon Battalion

United States Army of the West, 1846-1848

By: Norma Ricketts

Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to an eager American public. Yet, the battalion is little known beyond Mormon history. This first complete history of the wide-ranging army unit restores it to its central place in Western history, and provides descendants a complete roster of the Battalion's members.

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145718074X

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American Dream

The New World, Colonial Times, and Hints of Revolution

By: Colleen L. Reece,Norma Jean Lutz,Susan Martins Miller

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American Dream

The New World, Colonial Times, and Hints of Revolution

By: Colleen L. Reece,Norma Jean Lutz,Susan Martins Miller

Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: history and Christian faith. Featuring bonus educational materials such as time lines and brief biographies of key historical figures, American Dream is ideal for anytime reading and an excellent resource for home schooling. Visit the official Sisters in Time website at www.sistersintime.com

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Barbour Publishing

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1607425343

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The Expanding Discourse

Feminism And Art History

By: Norma Broude

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The Expanding Discourse

Feminism And Art History

By: Norma Broude

A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist art-historical writing of the past decade. Chronologically arranged, the essays demonstrate the abundance, diversity, and main conceptual trends in recent feminist scholarship.

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0429972466

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South Dakota's First Century of Flight

By: Norma J. Kraemer

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South Dakota's First Century of Flight

By: Norma J. Kraemer

The first aircraft heavier than air took to the skies in South Dakota in 1911. Since that time, pilots, mechanics, and dreamers have used aviation in innovative ways to shrink the large distances between the prairies and the mountains of the state. The start of the U.S. Space Program began at the Stratobowl in the 1930s and evolved into todays modern hot air balloons. People have used aircraft, not only for transportation, but also for controlling varmints, from grasshoppers to coyotes. Firefighters routinely use aircraft to put out forest fires, and many a tourist has seen Mount Rushmore from a helicopter. South Dakota has also served the military since World War II with the major bombers of the U.S. Air Forces arsenal. Perhaps best of all, South Dakotans enjoy flying for pure enjoyment.

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1439641110

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Family from Good Wholesome Stock

By: Norma Love Becker

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Family from Good Wholesome Stock

By: Norma Love Becker

The 1700-1800’s was a period of drastic change for those that immigrated to the U.S. from their own homelands. Leaving family members behind for a long and bold migration trip was often out of desperation. They were willing to face overwhelming challenges and risks for successfully paving the way for you and me today. My families came to America to seek refuge from Ireland and England with inspired optimism driven by a dream to own their own land and to seek independent liberty and freedom. They saw potential in trying new adventures and to accept new things. The journeys were difficult and dangerous for the people and the animals. They pushed boundaries to advance a cause and had determination in succeeding by overcoming those great challenges. I want to preserve what my ancestors did for me and continue their good morals and faith. I’m curious about where my ancestors came from and the origin of “Love”, my last name. I know family ties and morals from good wholesome stock led me as I grew up. But change happens, so it is up to me to preserve what my life was like and accept the “new” changes that comes. But as I approach the winter of my life, I find it has caught me by surprise that I’m in it. How did it get here so fast? Where did the years go? It seems like yesterday that I was young. But by reminiscing my memories through people I knew, old snapshots, newspaper clippings and stories told, I feel the joy in being just a little younger by writing my life for you. I hope you can relate. P.S. This is a follow-up story to my first book “Four Generations on the Love Farm”. I want my children to know the impact families have by knowing one another. They were important to me. Today, distance interferes with that, and I wanted my children to realize they also came from good wholesome stock.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669821854

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The Food Mixer Cookbook

By: Norma Miller

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The Food Mixer Cookbook

By: Norma Miller

Home-made food has so many attractions. With your food mixer to hand, cakes and pastries, pies and tarts, sweet and savoury fillings and lots more besides, are quick, easy and fun to make. Children will love joining in with weighing ingredients and decorating the finished product. A food mixer also means much more control over the choice and quality of ingredients. Discover how to exploit this handy kitchen aid to its full potential, using the versatility of the food mixer's three blades and their functions to whisk, whip, knead and mix. There is a mouthwatering and tempting collection of over 100 delicious recipes including sweet and savoury recipes: biscuits and cookies; scones and muffins, small cup cakes and tray bakes; large cakes and teabreads; puddings and desserts; as well as savoury pies, tarts, pastries and crumbles; breads and pasta. And there are also recipes for icings and spreads, fillings, toppings, and much more.

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071602361X

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Giono

Master of Fictional Modes

By: Norma Lorre Goodrich

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Giono

Master of Fictional Modes

By: Norma Lorre Goodrich

Since his death in October 1970, Jean Giono's reputation as a major French novelist has steadily increased. In order to treat most powerfully the essential nature of modern man confronted with the worst problems of the twentieth century, he adapted into prose the tried and true literary modes: the epic, the pastoral, Greek tragedy, Shakespearean tragedy, and autobiography. In Giono's work the old modes and familiar forms continue to fulfill the age-old functions of great literature: we see the Christian epic suddenly made relevant to everyday life or the pagan epic re-explain modern male savagery. In Giono's hands the novel explains man to himself, shows man more clearly the world about him, and offers to men everywhere renewed courage and hope. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400869188

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The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Miller Watkins

A Pioneering Philanthropist

By: Mary Dresser Burchill,Norma Decker Hoagland

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The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Miller Watkins

A Pioneering Philanthropist

By: Mary Dresser Burchill,Norma Decker Hoagland

Few women have had a more significant impact on the development and growth of Lawrence, Kansas, and the University of Kansas than Elizabeth Miller Watkins. Elizabeth Josephine Miller was born in Ohio in 1861 and moved with her family to Lawrence when she was a child. She attended the University of Kansas’s preparatory school in the 1870s but could not complete her education when a family financial crisis forced her to seek employment. She started working at the J. B. Watkins Land and Mortgage Company in 1887 as a secretary and in 1909 she married the company’s founder and owner, Jabez Watkins. Together the Watkinses dedicated themselves to philanthropy and were committed to giving all their wealth, as Elizabeth said, “for the good of humanity, chiefly here in Lawrence.” Jabez died in 1921, leaving Elizabeth to manage the family fortune alone. Elizabeth wished to give women the opportunity for higher education that she herself had never received. In 1925, the Kansas Board of Regents approved her request to have a women’s scholarship hall built at KU. Watkins Hall, named in memory of her late husband, was constructed close to Elizabeth’s home—now the chancellor’s residence—and was followed a decade later by the construction of Miller Hall in 1936. As two of the twelve scholarship halls at the University of Kansas today, Watkins and Miller Halls are home to a vibrant cohort of young female scholars and an active alumnae community who continue the philanthropic vision of Elizabeth Miller Watkins. In 1929, Elizabeth donated $200,000 for the new Lawrence Memorial Hospital to be built at 3rd and Maine, where it remains today. She also established the first on-campus healthcare provider, Watkins Memorial Hospital, at the University of Kansas (now Twente Hall) in 1931. In this engaging biography, Mary Dresser Burchill and Norma Decker Hoagland’s extensive research successfully paints a portrait of a remarkable woman whose generosity endures at KU and in Lawrence and brings to light the astonishing legacy of one of the city’s leading philanthropists.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700634231

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Instilling Ethics

By: Norma Thompson

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Instilling Ethics

By: Norma Thompson

Fifteen essays, presented by Thompson (political science, Yale U.) Explore both historical and contemporary issues of ethics (mostly in the political and social sphere). After separate treatments of the ethical thinking of Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, and others, the final third of the essays discuss such issues as the failure of ethics in American government, ethical considerations of information technology, and the paradox of trying to establish societal notions of right and wrong on individual judgements of ethics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847697452

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Mormon Battalion

United States Army of the West, 1846-1848

By: Norma Ricketts

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Mormon Battalion

United States Army of the West, 1846-1848

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University Press of Colorado

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0874213266

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Biotechnology for Treatment of Residual Wastes Containing Metals

By: Norma Gabriela Rojas-Avelizapa

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Biotechnology for Treatment of Residual Wastes Containing Metals

By: Norma Gabriela Rojas-Avelizapa

Biotechnology for Treatment of Wastes Containing Metals addresses various aspects related to different wastes that have a metallic content and represent a serious risk for the environment and human health. These wastes, due to their physical and chemical characteristics, have been the object of studies which have led to the development of different technologies in recycling, reuse or adequate disposal, biotechnology being one of these alternatives. Biotechnology offers a range of options for the treatment of types of waste using microorganisms, biomass and their by-products. The mechanisms involved in these waste treatment processes are diverse and complex, and its optimization and efficiency is multifactorial. This text contains nine chapters related to the problem of the metal contamination in the environment as well as some of the different biotechnological alternatives that have been applied for the reduction and/or recovery of metal contamination.

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1000793486

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9781000793482

Family-Focused Nursing Care

By: Sharon A. Denham,Sandra Eggenberger,Patricia Young,Norma Krumwiede

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Family-Focused Nursing Care

By: Sharon A. Denham,Sandra Eggenberger,Patricia Young,Norma Krumwiede

Nurses have a unique role in redefining the way we view partnerships in healthcare— Transitioning from individualized to family-focused care is not only advocated by the Institute of Medicine; it’s becoming a way of life. Families want their perspectives and choices for their loved ones to be heard.

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F.A. Davis

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0803641214

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9780803641211

The Ship of State

Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America

By: Norma Thompson

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The Ship of State

Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America

By: Norma Thompson

This provocative and illuminating book provides a new perspective on the development of political thought from Homer to Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and Gertrude Stein (who is introduced here, for the first time, as a writer of political significance). Providing nuanced readings of key texts by these and other thinkers, Norma Thompson locates a powerful theme: that the political health of organized political communities—from the ancient polis to the modern state to contemporary democracy—requires a balance between masculine and feminine qualities. Although most critics view the Western tradition as a progression away from misogyny and toward rights for women, Thompson contends that the need for balance in the political community was well understood in earlier eras. Only now has it been almost entirely overlooked in our focus on surface indications of strict gender equality. Thompson argues that political rhetoric must once again promote the reconciliation of masculine and feminine forces in order to achieve effective politics and statecraft.

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256

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Yale University Press

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0300128053

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9780300128055

Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience

By: Norma Smith

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Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience

By: Norma Smith

Social worker, suffragist, first woman elected to the United States Congress, and a lifelong peace activist, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted "No" to United States involvement in both world wars. Rankin's determined voice for change shines in this biography, written by her friend, Norma Smith.

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Montana Historical Society

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0917298799

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9780917298790

Annie Muktuk and Other Stories

By: Norma Dunning

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Annie Muktuk and Other Stories

By: Norma Dunning

I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, “Take. It. Back.” I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means business when he means business. I took it back and for the last eight months I have not uttered Annie Mukluk’s name. In strolls Annie Mukluk in all her mukiness glory. Tonight she has gone traditional. Her long black hair is wrapped in intu’dlit braids. Only my mom still does that. She’s got mukluks, real mukluks on and she’s wearing the old-style caribou parka. It must be something her grandma gave her. No one makes that anymore. She’s got the faint black eyeliner showing off those brown eyes and to top off her face she’s put pretend face tattooing on. We all know it’ll wash out tomorrow. — from "Annie Muktuk" When Sedna feels the urge, she reaches out from the Land of the Dead to where Kakoot waits in hospital to depart from the Land of the Living. What ensues is a struggle for life and death and identity. In “Kakoot” and throughout this audacious collection of short stories, Norma Dunning makes the interplay between contemporary realities and experiences and Inuit cosmology seem deceptively easy. The stories are raucous and funny and resonate with raw honesty. Each eye-opening narrative twist in Annie Muktuk and Other Stories challenges readers’ perceptions of who Inuit people are.

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University of Alberta

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1772123455

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9781772123456

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