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A Year of Trading Spaces

By: Paige Davis

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Davis provides a fascinating look at her life as host of Trading Spaces. Fans peek into what happens when the camera isn't rolling and readers learn what life is like on the road with the cast and crew. Illustrations.

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Meredith Press

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0696218364

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9780696218361

Staging the Blues

From Tent Shows to Tourism

By: Paige A. McGinley

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Staging the Blues

From Tent Shows to Tourism

By: Paige A. McGinley

Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses" long before they achieved worldwide fame for their musical recordings. In Staging the Blues, Paige A. McGinley shows that even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promoters set the theatricality of early blues aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey, Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice.

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Duke University Press

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0822376318

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9780822376316

Authentic Indians

Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

By: Paige Raibmon

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Authentic Indians

Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

By: Paige Raibmon

In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about “real Indians.” Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, she describes how government officials, missionaries, anthropologists, reformers, settlers, and tourists developed definitions of Indian authenticity based on such binaries as Indian versus White, traditional versus modern, and uncivilized versus civilized. They recognized as authentic only those expressions of “Indianness” that conformed to their limited definitions and reflected their sense of colonial legitimacy and racial superiority. Raibmon shows that Whites and Aboriginals were collaborators—albeit unequal ones—in the politics of authenticity. Non-Aboriginal people employed definitions of Indian culture that limited Aboriginal claims to resources, land, and sovereignty, while Aboriginals utilized those same definitions to access the social, political, and economic means necessary for their survival under colonialism. Drawing on research in newspapers, magazines, agency and missionary records, memoirs, and diaries, Raibmon combines cultural and labor history. She looks at three historical episodes: the participation of a group of Kwakwaka’wakw from Vancouver in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago; the work of migrant Aboriginal laborers in the hop fields of Puget Sound; and the legal efforts of Tlingit artist Rudolph Walton to have his mixed-race step-children admitted to the white public school in Sitka, Alaska. Together these episodes reveal the consequences of outsiders’ attempts to define authentic Aboriginal culture. Raibmon argues that Aboriginal culture is much more than the reproduction of rituals; it also lies in the means by which Aboriginal people generate new and meaningful ways of identifying their place in a changing modern environment.

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Duke University Press

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0822386771

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9780822386773

Written As I Remember It

Teachings (ms Taaw ) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

By: Elsie Paul,Paige Raibmon,Harmony Johnson

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Written As I Remember It

Teachings (ms Taaw ) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

By: Elsie Paul,Paige Raibmon,Harmony Johnson

Long before vacationers discovered BC's Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. In this remarkable book, Sliammon Elder Elsie Paul collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style. Raised by her grandparents who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most of her childhood learning Sliammon ways, teachings, and stories and is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. She shares this traditional knowledge with future generations in Written as I Remember It.

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UBC Press

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0774827122

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9780774827126

Cub Reporters

American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age

By: Paige Gray

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Cub Reporters

American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age

By: Paige Gray

Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children's literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I. American children's literature of this time, including works from such writers as L. Frank Baum, Horatio Alger Jr., and Richard Harding Davis, as well as unique journalistic examples including the children's page of the Chicago Defender, subverts the idea of news. In these works, journalism is not a reporting of fact, but a reporting of artifice, or human-made apparatus—artistic, technological, psychological, cultural, or otherwise. Using a methodology that combines approaches from literary analysis, historicism, cultural studies, media studies, and childhood studies, Paige Gray shows how the cub reporters of children's literature report the truth of artifice and relish it. They signal an embrace of artifice as a means to access individual agency, and in doing so, both child and adult readers are encouraged to deconstruct and create the world anew.

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State University of New York Press

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1438475411

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9781438475417

Waging Gendered Wars

U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq

By: Paige Whaley Eager

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Waging Gendered Wars

U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq

By: Paige Whaley Eager

Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how U.S. military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although women were barred from serving formally in ground combat positions within the U.S. armed forces during both wars, U.S. female soldiers are being killed in action. By examining how U.S. military women's agency as soldiers, veterans, and casualties of war affect the planning and execution of war, Whaley Eager assesses the ways in which the global world of international politics and warfare has become localized in the life and death narratives of female service personnel impacted by combat experience, homelessness, military sexual trauma, PTSD, and the deaths of fellow soldiers.

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Routledge

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1317000706

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9781317000709

Before Fiction

The Ancien Régime of the Novel

By: Nicholas D. Paige

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Before Fiction

The Ancien Régime of the Novel

By: Nicholas D. Paige

Fiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the same basic activity. But one difficulty with this view is simply that a literature trafficking in openly invented characters is a quite recent development. Novelists before the nineteenth century ceaselessly asserted that their novels were true stories, and before that, poets routinely took their basic plots and heroes from the past. We have grown accustomed to thinking of the history of literature and the novel as a progression from the ideal to the real. Yet paradoxically, the modern triumph of realism is also the triumph of a literature that has shed all pretense to literalness. Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel offers a new understanding of the early history of the genre in England and France, one in which writers were not slowly discovering a type of fictionality we now take for granted but rather following a distinct set of practices and rationales. Nicholas D. Paige reinterprets Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, Rousseau's Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, Diderot's La Religieuse, and other French texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in light of the period's preoccupation with literal truth. Paige argues that novels like these occupied a place before fiction, a pseudofactual realm that in no way leads to modern realism. The book provides an alternate way of looking at a familiar history, and in its very idiom and methodology charts a new course for how we should study the novel and think about the evolution of cultural forms.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812205103

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9780812205107

Pitchin' Man

Satchel Paige's Own Story

By: Paige Satchel,Lebovitz Hal

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Pitchin' Man

Satchel Paige's Own Story

By: Paige Satchel,Lebovitz Hal

The first autobiography by Leroy “Satchel” Paige, one of the best and most colorful pitchers in the history of professional baseball. Based on interviews conducted by Cleveland sports writer Hal Lebovitz, this book was first released shortly after Paige joined the Indians in 1948 (days after his 42nd birthday and after 22 years playing with various Negro League, minor league and Puerto Rican League teams). Told in a casual first-person style, Paige's stories provide a snapshot from a bygone era of Major League baseball. Paige tells how he began his pitching career by throwing rocks (”We had a pretty rough gang down on the South Side of Mobile, near the Bay, where I was born and raised”). He describes his early years in baseball, starting at age 17 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts in 1926, and addresses the controversy over varying claims about his age and the source of his nickname. He talks about ballplayers he had known, in particular Josh Gibson (”the best of all”) of the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays, and Bob Feller (with whom Paige barnstormed years before joining the Indians). Includes a foreword by Indians owner Bill Veeck and a note from Indians player-manager Lou Boudreau. With Paige's help, the Indians went on to win the 1948 World Series.

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Gray & Company, Publishers

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1938441060

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9781938441066

Chicago Like a Local

By the People Who Call It Home

By: Amanda Finn,Meredith Paige Heil,Nicole Schnitzler,DK Travel

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Chicago Like a Local

By the People Who Call It Home

By: Amanda Finn,Meredith Paige Heil,Nicole Schnitzler,DK Travel

Keen to explore a different side of Chicago? Like a Local is the book for you. This isn't your ordinary travel guide. Beyond the sporting stadiums and skyscrapers, you'll find vegan diners, late-night comedy clubs and third-wave coffee shops - and that's where this book takes you. Turn the pages to discover: - The small businesses and community strongholds that add character to this vibrant city, recommended by true locals. - 6 themed walking tours dedicated to specific experiences such as record stores and dive bars. - A beautiful gift book for anyone seeking to explore Chicago. - Helpful 'what3word' addresses, so you can pinpoint all the listed sights. Compiled by three proud locals, this stylish travel guide is packed with Chicago's best experiences and secret spots, handily categorized to suit your mood and needs. Whether you're a restless Chicagoan on the hunt for a new hangout, or a visitor keen to discover a side you won't find in traditional guidebooks, Chicago Like A Local will give you all the inspiration you need. About Like A Local: These giftable and collectible guides from DK Eyewitness are compiled exclusively by locals. Whether they're born-and-bred or moved to study and never looked back, our experts shine a light on what it means to be a local: pride for their city, community spirit and local expertise. Like a Local will inspire readers to celebrate the secret as well as the iconic - just like the locals who call the city home. Looking for another guide to Chicago? Explore further with our DK Eyewitness or Top 10 guides to Chicago.

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0744081327

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9780744081329

History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, Volume 1

By: Lucius R. Paige

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History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, Volume 1

By: Lucius R. Paige

The "History of Cambridge" was originally published in 1877. Besides the historical narrative in this volume, the second volume contains a very full and carefully compiled "Genealogical Register" of the early settlers and their descendants. These volumes are, in the most essential respects, models of what a town history should be. They contain the most important information obtainable from the sources then open to the author, and this is presented in a clear and concise narrative. In the estimation of those most competent to pass judgment, these volumes are authorities. But they are something more than authorities. They not only instruct; they inspire. Nobody deserves the privilege of growing up in this city who does not make himself familiar with these books. They are epitomes of the history, not only of this town, but of a good many other Puritan towns. It fills this place with memories of by-gone scenes and deeds which were precious to the people of those times, and are precious still to us, their descendants or successors.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849651096

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9783849651091

Hanover County

By: Dale Paige Talley

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Hanover County

By: Dale Paige Talley

Colonization, political and religious reform, revolution and Civil War have left footprints on the varied landscape of Hanover County. Centrally located within the state, Hanovertown on the Pamunkey River missed being the capital of Virginia by a slim margin. It was at the Hanover Courthouse that Statesman Patrick Henry gave a voice to the spirit of the Revolutionary War. During the Civil War, Grant and Lee would journey through the county struggling for control of Richmond in some of the state's fiercest fighting. This volume celebrates these emblematic images of history, and also delves into the daily lives of those who have shaped Hanover County for three centuries.Through vintage photographs, diaries, and articles from the pages of the Herald Progress, the voice of Hanover since 1913, Images of America: Hanover County captures the days gone by.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738517089

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9780738517087

Critical Perspectives on Gender and Student Leadership

New Directions for Student Leadership, Number 154

By: Daniel Tillapaugh,Paige Haber-Curran

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Student Leadership

New Directions for Student Leadership, Number 154

By: Daniel Tillapaugh,Paige Haber-Curran

How do students’ social identities, particularly their gender, influence their leadership practices and development? Using Kimberlé Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality as a framework, this volume discusses existing and emergent research on gender and leadership and offers key strategies and on how leadership educators can engage students in these topics and provide contemporary critical thinking on how gender and leadership inform one another. This volume examines: the ways intersectionality can be used as a lens for gender and leadership, key considerations for developing and advancing leadership among women, men, and trans* students, programs and experiences grounded in critical self-reflection and leadership learning among students of all genders, and opportunities for leadership educators to navigate topics of gender and leadership, emphasizing their own self-work and avenues for affecting positive change. Contributing scholars share examples that are developmentally appropriate for high school and college students. This work is designed with leadership educators in mind, emphasizing theory into practice and highlighting the ways that leadership and gender can promote holistic, transformative learning for all students. The Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Student Leadership explores leadership concepts and pedagogical topics of interest to high school and college leadership educators. Issues are grounded in scholarship and feature practical applications and best practices in youth and adult leadership education.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119403529

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9781119403524

MAKE WAY FOR BABIES!

By: Laurie Paige

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MAKE WAY FOR BABIES!

By: Laurie Paige

MAKE WAY FOR THE McBRIDES… One steamy teenage encounter had been enough to keep Spencer McBride's high school pal Ally in his mind all through college…and it had been more than enough to keep Spence far from home and family when Ally married his brother. But now that she was alone with adopted newborn twins, the draw of Ally in need was too powerful to keep Spence away…. Even knee-deep in formula, the proud, independent beauty still stoked Spence's desire, but was the confirmed bachelor finding it all too easy to step into the role of father. lover…husband? SO MANY BABIES: At the Buttonwood Baby Clinic, babies and romance abound!

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Harlequin

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1460355474

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9781460355473

Only Love Can Hurt Like This

By: Paige Toon

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Only Love Can Hurt Like This

By: Paige Toon

AN EARTH SHATTERING SECRET. A LIFE-CHANGING LOVE STORY. “Nobody writes angst and joy and hope like Paige Toon.”—CHRISTINA LAUREN, author of LOVE AND OTHER WORDS For fans of Colleen Hoover, an unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that asks the question: Is love worth risking everything for? When Wren realizes her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover. On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on. Wren hopes that spending the summer with her dad and step-family on their farm in Indiana will help her to heal. There, amid the cornfields and fireflies, she and Anders cross paths and their worlds are turned upside-down again. But Wren doesn't know that Anders is harboring a secret, and if he acts on any feelings he has for Wren it will have serious fall-out for everyone. Walking away would hurt Wren more than she can imagine. But, knowing the truth, how can she possibly stay?

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Penguin

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059354434X

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9780593544341

Preparing Teachers to Teach the STEM Disciplines in America’s Urban Schools

By: Cheryl J. Craig,Paige K. Evans,Donna W. Stokes

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Preparing Teachers to Teach the STEM Disciplines in America’s Urban Schools

By: Cheryl J. Craig,Paige K. Evans,Donna W. Stokes

Bridging a gap in the literature by offering a comprehensive look at how STEM teacher education programs evolve over time, this book explores teachHOUSTON, a designer teacher education program that was created to respond to the lack of adequately prepared STEM teachers in Houston and the emerging urban school districts that surround it.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1839094583

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9781839094583

List of Freemen of Massachusetts, 1630-1691

By: Lucius Robinson Paige

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List of Freemen of Massachusetts, 1630-1691

By: Lucius Robinson Paige

This is a complete list of those freemen, arranged chronologically by the date of the meetings of the General or Quarterly Court at which they were admitted, with a citation to the volume and page number of the Colonial Records in which the data appears. Originally published as "List of Freemen," it appeared in Vol. III of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1849) in four successive numbers. Here they are combined in one volume, with an added index, and a new title.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806308060

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9780806308067

A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place

The Life of Bill Baggs

By: Amy Paige Condon

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A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place

The Life of Bill Baggs

By: Amy Paige Condon

This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers." The late editor of the late Miami News, Bill Baggs, stamped these words on plain white postcards and sent them to readers who sent him hate mail—a frequent occurrence, as Baggs, a white editor of a prominent southern newspaper, championed unpopular ideas in his front-page columns, such as protecting the environment, desegregating public schools, and peace in Vietnam. Under his leadership, the Miami News earned three Pulitzer Prizes. For his stances, Baggs earned a bullet hole through his office window, police officers stationed outside his home, and a used Mercedes outfitted with a remote starter so that if it had been rigged with a bomb, it would blow up before he opened the door. Despite his causes and accomplishments, when Baggs died of pneumonia in 1969 at the age of forty-five, his story nearly died with him, and that would have been a travesty because Baggs still has so much to teach us about how to find the answers to those not-so-simple questions, like how to live in peace with one another? In this first biography of this influential editor, Amy Paige Condon retraces how an orphaned boy from rural Colquitt, Georgia, bore witness and impacted some of the twentieth century’s most earth-shifting events: World War II, the civil rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War. With keen intellect and sparkling wit, Baggs seemed to be in the right place at the right time. From bombardier to reporter then accidental diplomat, Baggs used his daily column as a bully pulpit for social justice and wielded his pen like a scalpel to reveal the truth.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820358185

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9780820358185

Bipolar Disorder The Latest Epidemic

My Personal Journey

By: Paige Turner

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Bipolar Disorder The Latest Epidemic

My Personal Journey

By: Paige Turner

An epic story of the abuse suffered by a little girl who witnessed horrendous events and experienced a life long illness because of the abuse she suffered at the hand of her mother. Her mother only abused her, but she persevered despite the abuse that she received. The pivotal moment in her young life was when she was chased around her back yard by her mother, while her mother was wielding a 2x4 with the intention of beating her at the age of 12. The end result was the young girl was caught and beaten with the 2x4 until her back was broken by the board. She would not find out about the broken back until she was in her early 30’s The book gives detailed information about bipolar disorder. It covers how to recognize bipolar disorder in a loved one and what to do for them when you suspect that they are stricken with this illness. It also covers the symptoms of the disorder and how to recognize them as it is a mood disorder. It also tells of how she persevered and had finally got her happy ending. She shows how to find your inner beauty and how to occupy your time if you are bipolar and having a manic episode. She tells of how far she has come from the abuse.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477151443

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9781477151440

The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film

By: Melissa U. D. Goldsmith,Paige A. Willson,Anthony J. Fonseca

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The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film

By: Melissa U. D. Goldsmith,Paige A. Willson,Anthony J. Fonseca

Musicians, both fictional and real, have long been subjects of cinema. From biopics of composers Beethoven and Mozart to the rise (and often fall) of imaginary bands in The Commitments and Almost Famous, music of all types has inspired hundreds of films. The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film features the most significant productions from around the world, including straightforward biographies, rockumentaries, and even the occasional mockumentary. The wide-ranging scope of this volume allows for the inclusion of films about fictional singers and bands, with emphasis on a variety of themes: songwriter–band relationships, the rise and fall of a career, music saving the day, the promoter’s point of view, band competitions, the traveling band, and rock-based absurdity. Among the films discussed in this book are Amadeus, The Blues Brothers, The Buddy Holly Story, The Commitments, Dreamgirls, The Glenn Miller Story, A Hard Day’s Night, I’m Not There, Jailhouse Rock, A Mighty Wind, Ray, ’Round Midnight, The Runaways, School of Rock, That Thing You Do!, and Walk the Line.With entries that span the decades and highlight a variety of music genres, The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film is a valuable resource for moviegoers and music lovers alike, as well as scholars of both film and music.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442269871

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9781442269873

Ashland

By: Dale Paige Talley

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Ashland

By: Dale Paige Talley

In 1837, the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad laid its iron-capped wooden rails from Richmond to Aquia Creek. There, passengers could meet a stagecoach that would transport them to the railroad-owned steamship line and cruise up the Potomac to Washington. In between their outset and destination was a boggy, overgrown area known as the Slashes, which seemed the perfect rest stop for weary travelers during the 1850s. The region was renamed Ashland, after native son Henry Clay's home in Kentucky. By 1867, the Civil War had brought economic collapse and a resultant depression, and as a town that had relied on revenue from gambling, horseracing, and other leisure activities, Ashland faced serious challenges to its very existence. Randolph-Macon College, originally in Mecklenburg County, made a deal with Ashland that would save both the town and the nation's oldest Methodist college by reestablishing its campus along their railroad tracks.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738517704

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Schooling Reform In Hard Times

By: Bob Linguard,John Knight,Paige Porter

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Schooling Reform In Hard Times

By: Bob Linguard,John Knight,Paige Porter

Based on research carried out under Labour governments throughout the 1990s in Western Australia, the authors consider the social, political and economic conditions under which policy is formulated, understood and enacted. They look at how the state structure affects the content and nature of policy statements and provide an outline of the history of policy developments and point to future possibilities and probabilities. Outcomes within funding ceilings, accountability frameworks and national guidelines are but some of the changes referred to. The emergence of competency-based standards in education and training in schools, workplaces and the professions is evident throughout Australia at state level, but the concern is whether issues of education should be played out within the state and outside civil society. The authors argue for the mediation in implementation of policy - rather than a lambasting of policy formulation and implementation. This text is intended for heads of education departments, PGCE, BEd. MEd. students and researchers interested in education policy and planning. Education policymakers, and educational historians.

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Routledge

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1135722064

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