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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

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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University Press of Colorado

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0874213266

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Citizens in the Present

Youth Civic Engagement in the Americas

By: Maria de los Angeles Torres,Irene Rizzini,Norma Del Rio

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Citizens in the Present

Youth Civic Engagement in the Americas

By: Maria de los Angeles Torres,Irene Rizzini,Norma Del Rio

Although media coverage often portrays young people in urban areas as politically apathetic or disruptive, this book provides an antidote to such views through narratives of dedicated youth civic engagement and leadership in Chicago, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro. This innovative comparative study provides nuanced accounts of the personal experiences of young people who care deeply about their communities and are actively engaged in a variety of public issues. Drawing from extensive interviews and personal narratives from the young activists themselves, Citizens in the Present presents a vibrant portrait of a new, politically involved generation.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252094913

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9780252094910

Verb Movement in Romance

A Comparative Study

By: Norma Schifano

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Verb Movement in Romance

A Comparative Study

By: Norma Schifano

This book provides a detailed account of verb movement across more than twenty standard and non-standard Romance varieties. Norma Schifano examines the position of the verb with respect to a wide selection of hierarchically-ordered adverbs, as laid out in Cinque's (1999) seminal work. She uses extensive empirical data to demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, it is possible to identify at least four distinct macro-typologies in the Romance languages: these macro-typologies stem from a compensatory mechanism between syntax and morphology in licensing the Tense, Aspect, and Mood interpretation of the verb. The volume adopts a hybrid cartographic/minimalist approach, in which cartography provides the empirical tools of investigation, and minimalist theory provides the technical motivations for the movement phenomena that are observed. It provides a valuable tool for the examination of fundamental morphosyntactic properties from a cross-Romance perspective, and constitutes a useful point of departure for further investigations into the nature and triggers of verb movement cross-linguistically.

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Oxford University Press

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0198804644

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The Mormon Battalion

United States Army of the West, 1846-1848

By: Norma Ricketts

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United States Army of the West, 1846-1848

By: Norma Ricketts

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University Press of Colorado

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145718074X

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Unreasonable Doubt

Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judging

By: Norma Thompson

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Unreasonable Doubt

Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judging

By: Norma Thompson

Part detective story, part social commentary, part intellectual autobiography, part philosophical analysis, this is a jury book unlike any other."—Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law and former Dean, Yale Law School "[Norma Thompson] teaches us, brilliantly and painlessly, why judging, as opposed to simply knowing, is an essential part of a responsible human existence, recounting the trials and crimes and moral dilemmas of antiquity and classical tradition in a stunningly original reading."—Abraham D. Sofaer, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former United States District Judge In 2001, Norma Thompson served on the jury in a murder trial in New Haven, Connecticut. In Unreasonable Doubt, Thompson dramatically depicts the jury's deliberations, which ended in a deadlock. As foreperson, she pondered the behavior of some of her fellow jurors that led to the trial's termination in a hung jury. Blending personal memoir, social analysis, and literary criticism, she addresses the evasion of judgment she witnessed during deliberations and relates that evasion to contemporary political, social, and legal affairs. She then assembles an imaginary jury of Tocqueville, Plato, and Jane Austen, among others, to show how the writings of these authors can help model responsible habits of deliberation.

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Paul Dry Books

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1589880722

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9781589880726

Encyclopedia of Local History

By: Carol Kammen,Norma Prendergast

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Encyclopedia of Local History

By: Carol Kammen,Norma Prendergast

How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consider, sources to use, historical fields and trends to explore. It also provides commentary on a number of subjects, including the everyday topics that most local historians encounter. A handy reference tool that no public historian's desk should be without!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742503992

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9780742503991

Extraordinary Times

And Everyday Lives

By: Melissa Sturm,Norma Harris

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Extraordinary Times

And Everyday Lives

By: Melissa Sturm,Norma Harris

1861 - 1866 It should not be. Young men marching off to war. Mothers and fathers left behind to worry. Sisters packing boxes of mittens, scarves and pies to send to their brothers on the fields. Young women with hopes of marriage and homes of their own left to wait and wonder if their dreams will ever come true. Yet it is the life of many as President Lincoln calls up Northern troops to keep Union together and the South prepares to defend their homes. Henry Harris cannot deny the call of duty. He puts on the Union blue and marches South to War. His family and beloved Olivia are left behind. Overnight, it seems, everything changes. Olivia cannot accept Henrys choice of duty over his love for her. Father is left to worry for his sons safety. Sister Sarah puts on a brave face, packs boxes full of good things, and tries her best to be an anchor as the waves of War wash over their lives. Henry must do his duty. As the years rush by, the South is destroyed and the North receives a battered victory. Letters from Henry are the only line connecting him to the changing lives of his family back home. But are those letters enough to protect the hearts of the ones he loves? Or will the many miles and long days of separation destroy all hopes and dreams?

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AuthorHouse

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1456733788

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Stories of Jerusalem, Israel and Other Loves

By: Norma Marx

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Stories of Jerusalem, Israel and Other Loves

By: Norma Marx

People in Jerusalem, Israel are like people everywhere. Yet, there is a difference. That difference made every day of the 17 years that Norma Marx lived there an adventure and/or challenge. It only takes the first three sentences of any one of her stories to totally captivate the reader. The characters are so alive that we find ourselves in the middle of each story. We are connected to life in Jerusalem and to the remarkable people who live there. Woven into the humorous stories of daily life are stories dealing with the realities of indiscriminate suicide bombings. Along with recollections of Normas life in Jerusalem, Israel are stories of her familys love and wonder for the golden land of America. Tales of Jerusalem, Israell, and Other Loves offers vignettes that provide an intimate look of life in Jerusalem, Praised for Stories of Jerusalem, Israel, and Other Loves What a delightful and sweet gathering of vignettes by a great storyteller! I laughed, I cried, O remembered my life as a new immigrant in Israel the 1960s and 70s and wanted to hop on the next plane to Jerusalem! -Judy Ayal, Director of Visitor Services, The Berman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum What a gift of love to her family, and everyone else. I found myself wishing that a grandmother of mine had taken the time to share stories so that our ancestors had been real people to us. As someone who works in the interfaith world, I will recommend this book-a fabulous book---to take a very intimate look at a Jewish way of life-the culture, fears, loves, joys and rituals that literally come alive to the reader! -Jan Swanson, Program Director, World Pilgrims These stories, written from the perspective of both a spectator and participant, have an authenticity that skillfully captures the unique and often bittersweet Jerusalem experience. -Roberta Chester, Editor and Author

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iUniverse

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1475973489

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Glimpses of Oneida Life

By: Karin Michelson,Norma Kennedy,Mercy A. Doxtator

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Glimpses of Oneida Life

By: Karin Michelson,Norma Kennedy,Mercy A. Doxtator

Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscripted narrations and conversations in Oneida represent a rare collection of first-hand Iroquoian reflections on aspects of daily life and culture not found in print elsewhere. Each text is presented in Oneida with both an interlinear, word-by-word translation and a more colloquial translation in English. The book also contains a grammatical sketch of the Oneida language by Karin Michelson, co-author of the Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary, that describes how words are structured and combined into larger linguistic structures, thus allowing Glimpses to be used as a teaching text as well. The engrossing tales in Glimpses of Oneida Life will be a valuable resource for linguists and language learners, a useful source for those studying the history and culture of Iroquois people in the twentieth-century, and an entertaining read for anyone interested in everyday First Nations life in southern Ontario.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442622768

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9781442622760

Folk Stories of the Hmong

Peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam

By: Dia Cha,Norma J. Livo

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Folk Stories of the Hmong

Peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam

By: Dia Cha,Norma J. Livo

Hmong culture has had an oral tradition for millennia, but the language itself did not even exist in written form until the 1950s. Compiled by famed author and storyteller Norma Livo and coauthor, Dia Cha, this is the first collection of authentic Hmong tales to be published commercially in the English language. Beginning with a description of Hmong history, culture, and folklore, the book includes 16 pages of full-color photographs of Hmong dress and needlework and 27 captivating tales divided into three sections: beginnings; how/why stories; and stories of love, magic, and fun. Appropriate for high school and adult readers, with selected stories appropriate for younger children, this collection is an important addition to multicultural units.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313069549

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9780313069543

The Mexican American Family

Tradition and Change

By: Norma Williams

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The Mexican American Family

Tradition and Change

By: Norma Williams

This is the first book to provide readers with an overall understanding of changing patterns in the extended and conjugal family relationships of the second largest ethnic minority group in the United States.

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AltaMira Press

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0759117942

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9780759117945

Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia

By: Norma Salem

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Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia

By: Norma Salem

First published in 1984, Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia is a study of Habib Bourguiba, the founder of independent Tunisia, that argues that Islam played a vital role in the development of the Tunisian nationalist movement. This book is therefore both a biography of the Tunisian leader and a discussion of the role of Islam as the key to legitimacy throughout the Arab world. The author argues that Islam was such a fundamental component in defining the specificity of the Tunisian nation that even Bourguiba, the most secular of Arab leaders, could not shed the Arab-Islamic heritage of Tunisia. Instead, he used Islam as a principle mode of communication to mobilise the Tunisian masses. This book will be of interest to students of African studies, history, political science and religion.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003828914

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9781003828914

Story Medicine

Multicultural Tales of Healing and Transformation

By: Norma J. Livo

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Story Medicine

Multicultural Tales of Healing and Transformation

By: Norma J. Livo

Experience the extraordinary potential that stories hold-the power to heal, calm, and rejuvenate. This magical collection of more than 40 tales from around the world brims with wise words that illustrate many mysterious and sometimes simple ways to wellness and happiness. Through introductions, comments, and discussion starters, Livo provides guidance for reading and reflecting on each tale. The stories are organized into four main areas: healing the self, healing relationships, healing the community, and healing the Earth. In addition to an extensive bibliography, Livo offers a treasure trove of traditional proverbs and old-time herblore. An absolutely wonderful reading experience and resource for educators, parents, students, librarians, folklorists, storytellers, medical professionals, therapists, and anyone interested in folktales and healing. All Levels.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313069816

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9780313069819

Homegirls

Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs

By: Norma Mendoza-Denton

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Homegirls

Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs

By: Norma Mendoza-Denton

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity. An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members Unlike other studies – which focus on violence, fighting and drugs – Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118910877

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9781118910870

The Art of Baby Nameology

Explore the Deeper Meaning of Names for Your Baby

By: Norma Watts

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The Art of Baby Nameology

Explore the Deeper Meaning of Names for Your Baby

By: Norma Watts

What really is in a name? What does that mean for your baby? Astrologist and nameology expert Norma J. Watts helps every expecting parent explore those questions. By analyzing names using numerology, Watts has crafted a comprehensive guide to using a name's letters to unlock hidden meaning. Watts instructs readers in the tools of nameology, using famous names such as Martha Stewart, Martin Luther King, and Madonna to further explain personality traits. An A-Z quick reference guide of names along with a chapter on converting names to numbers aids in interpreting uncommon names or those not found in the book. Offering insight for those who want to look past the obvious and explore deeper meaning, The Art of Baby Nameology gives expectant parents a way to preview the personalities associated with names they are considering.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402231776

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9781402231773

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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9780847697458

Bringing Out Their Best

Values Education and Character Development through Traditional Tales

By: Norma J. Livo

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Bringing Out Their Best

Values Education and Character Development through Traditional Tales

By: Norma J. Livo

Here are more than 60 tales that exemplify, support, and promote the strong values and character traits that we wish to instill in our youth today. They also support the character education that is being mandated in state after state throughout the country. Grouped into 12 sections based on specific values, such as love, perserverance, fairness, and cooperation (with a separate chapter on dealing with bullies), these tales have been passed down through the ages in diverse cultures and traditions from all over the world—from Japan and India to Greece, Scotland, Africa, and the Americas. There are folktales, fables, Zen Buddhist tales, stories from the Judeo Christian Bible—even true historic tales. At the end of each section, educator and storyteller Norma Livo offers activity ideas and suggestions for discussions pertinent to specific stories and values. In addition, there is an appendix of general activity ideas that can be used in character education.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313059756

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9780313059759

Vital Records of the Towns of Barnstable and Sandwich

An Authorized Facsimile Reproduction of Records Published Serially 1901-1935 in The Mayflower Descendent

By: Leonard H. Smith,Norma Helen Smith

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Vital Records of the Towns of Barnstable and Sandwich

An Authorized Facsimile Reproduction of Records Published Serially 1901-1935 in The Mayflower Descendent

By: Leonard H. Smith,Norma Helen Smith

The work at hand enumerates a list of 3,200 Ulster emigrants to Philadelphia between 1803 and 1850. Arranged alphabetically according to the head of the household--with other family members listed immediately under the head--the entries typically furnish the name of the emigrant, his/her age, town and county of origin, where given, year of emigration, and name of ship.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806346140

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9780806346144

The Business of Children's Entertainment

By: Norma Odom Pecora

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The Business of Children's Entertainment

By: Norma Odom Pecora

For the past 20 years, toy manufacturers have subsidized the development of children's television programming. The result has been the increased commercialization of children's popular culture; the creation of a "material world" of childhood characterized by brand-name toys, games, clothing, and television characters. Drawing upon historical and economic data and case studies of the media marketplace, this book examines how children have been developed into both an audience and a consumer group.

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Guilford Press

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1572302801

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9781572302808

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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McFarland

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0786451440

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9780786451449

Collectivity in Social Group Work

Concept and Practice

By: Norma C. Lang,Joanne Sulman

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Collectivity in Social Group Work

Concept and Practice

By: Norma C. Lang,Joanne Sulman

A concise and comprehensive examination of the theory of collectivity in social group work. Experts explore the impact of collectivity theory on social work practice and provide descriptions of practice in collectivity.

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Psychology Press

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0866566619

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9780866566612

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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Princeton University Press

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1400869188

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Four Aspects of the Goddess & the Wheel of the Year

By: Norma Joyce

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Four Aspects of the Goddess & the Wheel of the Year

By: Norma Joyce

“These are the missing pieces I’ve been looking for! Simple enough for the beginners and full of aha! moments for those who think they have already heard it all. Maiden, mother, woman, crone circles the wheel of the year seamlessly. I feel as though she has always been . . . aha! welcoming revelations and insights from Norma Joyce as she dances her spiral dance. A glimpse of the goddess through the third eye of a high priestess. No library is complete without this one. Waiting for next book isn’t going to be easy. Thank you, Norma” (Susan Walker).

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Xlibris Corporation

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152453742X

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The Maquinna Line

A Family Saga

By: Norma Macmillan

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The Maquinna Line

A Family Saga

By: Norma Macmillan

A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fixation. A once-carefree Hesquiat girl from Nootka Sound. A dashing Icelandic philanderer. And quiet, steady Julia Godolphin, trying to rise above it all. The lost novel of Norma Macmillan, the Vancouver actress who lived much of her life in New York and Hollywood, is the work of a woman steeped in the American entertainment industry but deeply in love with the history of her native province, which eventually drew her home before her death in 2001. The Maquinna Line: A Family Saga is set on Vancouver Island from 1871 to 1945, with a nod to the meeting of Captain Cook and Chief Maquinna in 1778. It traces the stories of the five families of varied social standing, including two descendents of Chief Maquinna. In the end, they’re all ordinary people trying to find happiness in the face of intrigue, ambition, misunderstanding and changing social and sexual mores.

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TouchWood Editions

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192674151X

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9781926741512

Personnel Management in Government

Politics and Process, Sixth Edition

By: Katherine C. Naff,Norma M. Riccucci

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Personnel Management in Government

Politics and Process, Sixth Edition

By: Katherine C. Naff,Norma M. Riccucci

Human resources represents one of the largest shares of government budgets at every level. The management of people who carry out the government's work is therefore a critical issue to politicians and government managers and leaders, as well as citizens. Regardless of which administration is in office or which reforms are being touted as necessary, personnel are always at the heart of government and governing. Personnel Management in Government: Politics and Process highlights the rapid developments in public personnel administration and management. As one of the bestselling texts in the field, this sixth edition reflects the major changes that have occurred recently in government personnel administration, including the authorization given to the new Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop their own personnel management systems. Addressing reforms in federal and state governments to illustrate the employment scene in public sector workforces, this book continues to provide updated information on the political, legal, and managerial aspects of public personnel systems and policies. Features Reflects the changing nature of public personnel administration Provides up-to-date knowledge on the political, legal, and managerial aspects of public personnel management Addresses developments in the Department of Homeland Security and in the Department of Defense Presents major reforms in personnel policy and administration across federal, state, and local governments

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CRC Press

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0849385199

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9780849385193

Speaking through the Mask

Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity

By: Norma Claire Moruzzi

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Speaking through the Mask

Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity

By: Norma Claire Moruzzi

Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous opposition between the social and the political. Supplementing critical readings of Arendt's most significant texts (including The Human Condition, On Revolution, Rahel Varnhagen, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem, and The Life of the Mind) with the insights of contemporary psychoanalytic, feminist, and social theorists, Norma Claire Moruzzi reconstitutes the relationship in Arendt's texts between constructed social identity and political agency. Moruzzi uses Julia Kristeva's writings on abjection to clarify the textual dynamic in Arendt's work that constructs the social as a natural threat; Joan Riviere's and Mary Ann Doane's work on feminine masquerade amplify the theoretical possibilities implicit in Arendt's own discussion of the public, political mask. In a bold interdisciplinary synthesis, Moruzzi develops the social applications of a concept (the mask) Arendt had described as limited to the strictly political realm: a new conception of (political) agency as (social) masquerade, traced through the marginal but emblematic textual figures who themselves enact the politics of social identity.

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Cornell University Press

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1501732005

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9781501732003

Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist

With the Collaboration of Students from the Graduate Program in Translation, the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Spring 1991

By: Norma Valle Ferrer

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Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist

With the Collaboration of Students from the Graduate Program in Translation, the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Spring 1991

By: Norma Valle Ferrer

Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922) was a pioneer in the struggle for women's and workers' rights. A feminist and an anarchist, she earned her living as a labor leader and journalist. She wrote brilliant theoretical essays and published four books, including several plays. Ahead of her time, she espoused vegetarianism, a daily regime of Swedish calisthenics, and was the first woman in the Caribbean to wear pants in public. Her life can be read as a dramatic novel, every day an intense ode to personal and political liberation. This biography, the only in-depth historical account of her life and work, rescued her from oblivion and made her a popular icon throughout Latin America. This edition, the first available in English, brings Capetillo's inspiring story to a broader audience.

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0820442852

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The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji

By: Norma Field

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The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji

By: Norma Field

Foremost among Japanese literary classics and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written around the year A.D. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from a declining aristocratic family. For sophisticaion and insight, Western prose fiction was to wait centuries to rival her work. Norma Field explore the shifting configurations of the Tale, showing how the hero Genji is made and unmade by a series of heroines. Professor Field draws on the riches of both Japanesse and Western scholarship, as well as on her own sensitive reading of the Tale. Included are discussions of the social, psychological, and political dimensions of the aesthetics of this novel, with emphasis on the crucial relationship of erotic and political concerns to prose fiction. Norma Field is Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Originally published in 1987. 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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Princeton University Press

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0691656169

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Lighthouse Ghosts

By: Norma Elizabeth,Bruce Roberts

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Lighthouse Ghosts

By: Norma Elizabeth,Bruce Roberts

Thirteen tales of ghost haunting American lighthouses. Includes photographs of each lighthouse by Bruce Roberts. The lighthouses included are: Old Presque Isle Lighthouse on Lake Huron, Michigan Plymouth Lighthouse, Massachusetts Heceta Head Lighthouse, near Florence, Oregon Big Bay Point Lighthouse, Lake Superior, Michigan St. Augustine Lighthouse, Florida Batter Point Lighthouse, Crescent City, California Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Outer Banks, North Carolina Seguin Island Lighthouse, near Georgetown, Maine Seul Choix Point Lighthouse, Lake Michigan, Michigan Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse, Gasparilla Island, Florida Minots Ledge Lighthouse, near Scituate and Cohasset, Massachusetts Point Lookout Lighthouse, near St. Mary's City, Maryland

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561648655

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9781561648658

Ambitious Heights

Writing, Friendship, Love – The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle

By: Norma Clarke

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Ambitious Heights

Writing, Friendship, Love – The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle

By: Norma Clarke

How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer? What were the constraints on female friendships in a world centred on the pre-eminence of the husband? How significant for an ambitious woman were her politics about men? At the heart of this book, originally published in 1990, is a friendship between two women: Jane Carlyle and the novelist Geraldine Jewsbury. But it was a difficult friendship, and in its difficulty lies much that is illuminating: about nineteenth-century domestic ideology; about writing for a market, and female fame; and about the complex ambivalences between women. Examining aspects of their lives, writing, and relationships, alongside those of two other writers – Felicia Hemans and Geraldine’s sister, Maria Jane – Norma Clarke provides a subtle and illuminating discussion of the possibilities that were open to women in the Victorian age.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000653048

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9781000653045

Love is the Fire

By: Norma Procter

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Love is the Fire

By: Norma Procter

Love is the Fire is a fiction based in history of a time when people were prepared to die for their faith. It was a time when young men travelled to the Continent to study with passionate teachers before returning to England to work undercover. It follows the life of the Southwells to Robert's martyrdom. Stolen by Gypsies as a baby and rescued by his loyal nurse, Robert Southwell lived in an age when it was illegal to train as a Catholic Priest and return to England. Having left his family to study in France, he returned to England. Moving in darkness from house to house, living in priest-holes, constantly hunted, he managed to evade the authorities - until he was betrayed by a young Catholic woman to the dreaded priest hunter, Richard Topcliffe. He was accused of treason, hounded down, tortured, then hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in 1595. A kinsman of Shakespeare and fine poet, Robert Southwell was Cannonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970

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Lulu.com

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1291647066

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9781291647068

Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes

Third Edition

By: Donald G. Frantz,Norma Jean Russell

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Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes

Third Edition

By: Donald G. Frantz,Norma Jean Russell

The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by thousands in Alberta and Montana. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai, vii, vta, and viti syntactic categories. It contains more than 5,500 Blackfoot-English entries and an English index of more than 6,000 entries, and provides thorough coverage of cultural terms. The transcription uses an official, technically accurate alphabet and the authors have classified entries and selected examples based on more than 46 years of research.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487514514

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Seeking Community in a Global City

Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles

By: Nora Hamilton,Norma Stoltz Chinchilla

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Seeking Community in a Global City

Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles

By: Nora Hamilton,Norma Stoltz Chinchilla

Driven by the pressures of poverty and civil strife at home, large numbers of Central Americans came to the Los Angeles area during the 1980s. This title examines the forces in Central America that sent thousands of people streaming across international borders. It discusses economic, political, and demographic changes in the Los Angeles region.

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Temple University Press

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1566398681

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RACHEL'S CUP, A ST LOUIS AFFAIR

By: Norma J Hemmings-Brown

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RACHEL'S CUP, A ST LOUIS AFFAIR

By: Norma J Hemmings-Brown

ROMANCE, SUSPENSE AND CRIME AT THE FLICK OF A PAGE IN A CHILLING LOVE STORY.

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1365219399

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9781365219399

The Enchanted Wood and Other Tales from Finland

By: Norma J. Livo,George Livo

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The Enchanted Wood and Other Tales from Finland

By: Norma J. Livo,George Livo

Some of the world's oldest and richest folk traditions come from a country that most Americans know very little about-Finland (or Suomi). The fifth largest country in Europe (in land size), Finland is home to the third true folk epic, The Kalevala (The Land of Heroes). It is a country of lush forests and sparkling clear lakes where, in the northern regions, reindeer still roam. This collection introduces readers to the fascinating culture, history, geology, and folk literature of Finland. After a historical and cultural overview, the authors present 20 representative stories-including ancient tales from The Kalevala, humorous and moral tales (e.g., The Selfish Housewife and The Magic Wish)-and a fictionalized account of a witch trial in the 1600s. Holiday traditions, proverbs and sayings, and traditional recipes embellish this collection and will tantalize and intrigue readers. Color plates illustrate the land, the people, and artistic traditions of this wondrous people.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313069921

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9780313069925

Dr Johnson's Women

By: Norma Clarke

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Dr Johnson's Women

By: Norma Clarke

Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs. He was willing to treat women as intellectual equals and to promote their careers: something ignored by his main biographer, James Boswell. Dr Johnson's Women investigates the lives and writings of six leading female authors Johnson knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale, Hannah More and Fanny Burney. It explores their relationships with Johnson, with each other and with the world of letters. It shows what it was like to be a woman writer in the 'Age of Johnson'. It is often assumed that women writers in the eighteenth century suffered the same restrictions and obstacles that confronted their Victorian successors. Norma Clarke shows that this was by no means the case. Highlighting the opportunities available to women of talent in the eighteenth century, Dr Johnson's Women makes clear just how impressive and varied their achievements were.

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Random House

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1446475719

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9781446475713

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