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A Massacre of Innocents

By: Loren Abbey,Pamela Zibura

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In 1952 on a highway in the small Northern California mountain village of Chester, a local businessman and four small children are carjacked, robbed and savagely bludgeoned. Three of the children are killed. A year earlier, a Folsom gold mine operator had been murdered in a home break-in robbery attempt and five months after the Chester murders, the quiet Southern California city of Burbank is rocked when, during another home break-in, an elderly widow is found bound, gagged and brutally murdered in her own home. Thus begins the terrifying chronicle of the Mountain Murder Mobs deadly rampage up, down and through the Golden Statefrom the gritty back alleyways of the Los Angeles suburbs to the forested foothills of the Northern Sierrasa gang of ruthless killers ply their murderous trade by preying on societys most vulnerable citizens. And behind the scenes, the victims young wife and mother copes with the grief of a life turned upside down after her heartbreaking loss. Struggling to build a new life for herself and for what now remains of her devastated family, she leans on her unwavering faith and a deep reservoir of inner strength. A Massacre of Innocents is the previously untold true story of the Mountain Murder Mobs horrific crimes and how they ultimately paid for those crimes.

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1491760230

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Getting Older Better

The Best Advice Ever on Money, Health, Creativity, Sex, Work, Retirement, and More

By: Pamela D. Blair

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Getting Older Better

The Best Advice Ever on Money, Health, Creativity, Sex, Work, Retirement, and More

By: Pamela D. Blair

Everything you need to know about aging but were too busy living to ask. Pamela Blair, a psychotherapist in her 60s, has a few things to say about aging. Open this book to any page and find one of over 100 brief, kickstarting essays and journaling questions for moving into your third act with a sense of adventure and possibility. Blair offers dozens of practical and motivational ideas for handling everything from health and libido to the death of a spouse, money, legacy, and more. From the book: Your body is changing, your family and friends are changing, your strength and speed of mental processing are changing, and your priorities are changing. How are you dealing with these changes? Denial? Acceptance? As for me, if acceptance means "approval," I say no, I don't approve of some of what is happening as I age. If acceptance means I will work change into my life, then I say yes. If change means painful loss and disappointment, I say no, I don't want any of that! (And do I have a choice?) If change means growth, forward movement, and a refreshed attitude, I say yes! Let Pamela Blair will guide you through the thoughts and feelings about aging that may be dragging you down. Let her point the way to a different, optimistic and clear eyed, way of getting older--better. Previously published as The Next Fifty Years.

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Hampton Roads Publishing

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1612833217

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There Are No Grown-ups

A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

By: Pamela Druckerman

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There Are No Grown-ups

A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

By: Pamela Druckerman

The best-selling author of BRINGING UP BÉBÉ investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face. When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her "Madame," and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would sleep with her, but only if doing so required no effort whatsoever. Yet forty isn't even technically middle-aged anymore. And after a lifetime of being clueless, Druckerman can finally grasp the subtext of conversations, maintain (somewhat) healthy relationships and spot narcissists before they ruin her life. What are the modern forties, and what do we know once we reach them? What makes someone a "grown-up" anyway? And why didn't anyone warn us that we'd get cellulite on our arms? Part frank memoir, part hilarious investigation of daily life, There Are No Grown-Ups diagnoses the in-between decade when... • Everyone you meet looks a little bit familiar. • You're matter-of-fact about chin hair. • You can no longer wear anything ironically. • There's at least one sport your doctor forbids you to play. • You become impatient while scrolling down to your year of birth. • Your parents have stopped trying to change you. • You don't want to be with the cool people anymore; you want to be with your people. • You realize that everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. • You know that it's ok if you don't like jazz. Internationally best-selling author and New York Times contributor Pamela Druckerman leads us on a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying to find their place in the world.

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Penguin

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0143111051

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9780143111054

The Baby Name Bible

The Ultimate Guide By America's Baby-Naming Experts

By: Pamela Redmond Satran,Linda Rosenkrantz

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The Baby Name Bible

The Ultimate Guide By America's Baby-Naming Experts

By: Pamela Redmond Satran,Linda Rosenkrantz

From the authors of "Beyond Jennifer and Jason" comes this comprehensive bookwith more than 50,000 perfect names for today's babies.

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Macmillan

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0312352204

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9780312352202

An Introduction to World Politics

Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet

By: Richard Oliver Collin,Pamela L. Martin

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An Introduction to World Politics

Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet

By: Richard Oliver Collin,Pamela L. Martin

This book written for introductory-level students of global politics examines the connections and conflicts among peoples on our planet and relates them in a personalized way. While other world politics texts examine the globe from a distance, this text emphasizes the voices of those engaged in political struggles over the complexities of health, resources, the environment, economics, and ultimately power and its multiple conceptions. Throughout, students are challenged to engage in global politics and citizen movements.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442218045

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9781442218048

Personality Disorder and Serious Offending

Hospital treatment models

By: Christopher Newrith,Clive Meux,Pamela Taylor

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Personality Disorder and Serious Offending

Hospital treatment models

By: Christopher Newrith,Clive Meux,Pamela Taylor

People with personality disorder who offend tend to be neglected by health services in most countries. In the UK, there has been renewed interest in the field since government initiatives in the end of the 1990s. Government proposals themselves are controversial, but there is growing recognition that it is unsafe, both for the general public and fo

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CRC Press

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1444113380

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The Everything Guide to Understanding Socialism

The political, social, and economic concepts behind this complex theory

By: Pamela Toler

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The Everything Guide to Understanding Socialism

The political, social, and economic concepts behind this complex theory

By: Pamela Toler

Democracy is the road to socialism." --Karl Marx Socialism was one of the formative forces of the modern world, and its complex history stretches back nearly three centuries. But what, exactly, does socialism mean? This informative and impartial guide takes you through socialism's origins to its contemporary interpretations, covering: Socialism's founders, including Sir Thomas More, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels Types of socialism, such as Maoism, syndicalism, communism, and green socialism Basic constructs and beliefs, and current misconceptions Socialism's impact on America, including the Red Scare, the Catholic Worker Movement, and the Cold War Featuring an unbiased but comprehensive view of this controversial theory, The Everything Guide to Understanding Socialism is the ultimate resource if you want to learn more about an age-old concept turned modern-day political firestorm.

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Simon and Schuster

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1440525498

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9781440525490

Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction

By: Pamela Brandwein

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Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction

By: Pamela Brandwein

American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in its place. Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights that provided expansive possibilities for protecting blacks' physical safety and electoral participation, even as it left public accommodation rights undefended. She shows that the Supreme Court supported a Republican coalition and left open ample room for executive and legislative action. Blacks were abandoned, but by the president and Congress, not the Court. Brandwein unites close legal reading of judicial opinions (some hitherto unknown), sustained historical work, the study of political institutions, and the sociology of knowledge. This book explodes tired old debates and will provoke new ones.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139496964

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How Families Matter

Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work

By: Pamela Braboy Jackson,Rashawn Ray

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How Families Matter

Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work

By: Pamela Braboy Jackson,Rashawn Ray

The family remains the most contested institution in American society. How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates generated by politicians and social scientists. Given the rhetoric about the family, this book is a well overdue account of family life from the perspective of families themselves. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a whole view of different types of families. The chapters focus on contemporary issues such as who do we consider to be a part of our family, can anyone achieve family-life balance, and how do families celebrate when they get together? Relying on stories shared by a racially/ethnically diverse group of forty-six families, this book finds that parents and siblings cultivate a family identity that both defines who they are and influences who they become. It is a welcomed installment to conversations about the family, as families are finally viewed within a single study from a multicultural lens.

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1498522572

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I Always Wanted To Kill: Paul Denyer Serial Killer

By: Pamela Lillian Valemont

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I Always Wanted To Kill: Paul Denyer Serial Killer

By: Pamela Lillian Valemont

Paul Denyer is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 30 years at Barwon Prison for the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17, over a seven week period between June and July in the winter months of 1993. Denyer, known as The Frankston Killer for his crimes which occurred in the Frankston seaside area of south eastern Victoria, now wants to be known as Paula and wears women's underwear and cosmetics. He claims he hated and killed women because he always wanted to be one. This forensic numerological analysis attempts to establish whether Denyer is also responsible for the murders of two other young women who disappeared in the same area: Sarah MacDiarmid whose body has never been found and Michelle Brown, whose body was found behind a gun shop in Frankston.

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1326148605

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9781326148607

Women's Travel Writings in Scotland

Volume IV

By: Kirsteen McCue,Pamela Perkins

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Women's Travel Writings in Scotland

Volume IV

By: Kirsteen McCue,Pamela Perkins

This volume contains Elizabeth Isabella Spence’s Letters from the North Highlands, one of the Romantic era’s most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands (1816), a work that, while influenced by Grant’s Letters from the Mountains (1806), attempted to move the genre of the Scottish travelogue in new directions.

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Routledge

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1317223659

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9781317223658

From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway

The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage, 1880-1927

By: Pamela Cobrin

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From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway

The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage, 1880-1927

By: Pamela Cobrin

This book examines the radical change women underwent - and facilitated - from 1880 to 1927, by looking at five case studies of feminist performance: suffragist parades; feminist drama groups; the Gamut Club; the Provincetown Players; the Neighborhood Playhouse; and four successful female Broadway directors - Lillian Trimble Bradley, Rachel Crothers, Edith Ellis, and Minne Maddem Fikse. Viewed collectively, the chapters create an overarching argument as to the nature of firstwave feminist performance." --Book Jacket.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874130581

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9780874130584

Fashion and Celebrity Culture

By: Pamela Church Gibson

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Fashion and Celebrity Culture

By: Pamela Church Gibson

The interrelationship between fashion and celebrity is now a salient and pervasive feature of the media world. This accessible text presents the first in-depth study of the phenomenon, assessing the degree to which celebrity culture has reshaped the fashion system. Fashion and Celebrity Culture critically examines the history of this relationship from its growth in the 19th century to its mutation during the twentieth century to the dramatic changes that have befallen it in the last two decades. It addresses the fashion-celebrity nexus as it plays itself out across mainstream cinema, television and music and in the celebrity status of a range of designers, models and artists. It explores the strategies that have enabled visual culture to recast itself in the new climate of celebrity obsession, popular culture and the art world to respond adaptively to its insistent pressures. With its engaging analysis and case studies from Lillian Gish to Louis Vuitton to Lady Gaga, Fashion and Celebrity Culture is of major interest to students of fashion, media studies, film, television studies and popular culture, and anyone with an interest in this global phenomenon.

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Berg

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0857852310

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9780857852311

I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye

Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

By: Brook Noel,Pamela D Blair PhD

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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye

Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

By: Brook Noel,Pamela D Blair PhD

The most helpful grief book to read when you're ready to start healing after the loss of a loved one. Discover the transformative power of healing and hope with this top-rated grief book and compassionate guide for those navigating the challenging journey of grief and loss. Written with profound wisdom and heartfelt empathy, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye gently walks readers through the stages of grief, providing practical tools and empowering strategies to cope with the pain and confusion that accompany the loss of a loved one. Whether you've experienced the recent passing of a family member, friend, or even a pet, this book offers solace and guidance to help you navigate your unique grieving process. Features include: Practical Guidance: Learn effective coping strategies and practical tools to navigate the grieving process. Empathy and Understanding: Feel understood and supported through heartfelt anecdotes and relatable experiences. Personal Growth: Find solace and meaning in your grief journey as you embark on a path of healing and personal growth. Comprehensive Resource: Access a comprehensive guide that addresses various aspects of grief, including anticipatory grief, sudden loss, and long-term complicated grief. Hope and Inspiration: Embrace a message of hope and inspiration, knowing that healing is possible even in the face of profound loss. Whether you are at the beginning of your grief journey or further along the path, this book will help you find the strength to heal, honor your loved one's memory, and rediscover joy and purpose in your life. Praise for I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: "I highly recommend this book, not only to the bereaved, but to friends and counselors as well."— Helen Fitzgerald, author of The Grieving Child, The Mourning Handbook, and The Grieving Teen "This book, by women who have done their homework on grief... can hold a hand and comfort a soul through grief's wilderness. Outstanding references of where to see other help."— George C. Kandle, Pastoral Psychologist "Finally, you have found a friend who can not only explain what has just occurred, but can take you by the hand and lead you to a place of healing and personal growth...this guide can help you survive and cope, but even more importantly... heal."— The Rebecca Review "For those dealing with the loss of a loved one, or for those who want to help someone who is, this is a highly recommended read."—Midwest Book Review Named a Best Book on Losing a Parent for 2022 by Choosing Therapy.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402234333

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9781402234330

Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology

By: Ted A. Baumgartner,Larry D Hensley,Weimo Zhu,Pamela Hodges Kulinna

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Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology

By: Ted A. Baumgartner,Larry D Hensley,Weimo Zhu,Pamela Hodges Kulinna

Updated and reorganized, Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology, Sixth Edition teaches students how to conduct their own research and how to read—with understanding—the research that others in the field have done. This text is comprehensive yet practical and understandable, incorporating many examples of the application of various research methods and techniques in an attempt to increase students’ grasp of the research process. Written for those students with little research background, and those who may not write a master's thesis, the text helps readers develop an appreciation for research and an understanding of how different types of research are conducted so they will become good consumers and readers of the research of others Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology, Sixth Edition will also serve the need of students beginning the introduction to research course knowing they will write a master's thesis or complete a master's project, as it highlights the numerous

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284157539

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9781284157536

Baby Names Now

From Classic to Cool--The Very Last Word on First Names

By: Linda Rosenkrantz,Pamela Redmond Satran

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Baby Names Now

From Classic to Cool--The Very Last Word on First Names

By: Linda Rosenkrantz,Pamela Redmond Satran

A guide to baby names and their meanings draws on research from a variety of sources.

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Macmillan

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0312983689

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9780312983680

Baby Names for the New Generation

A Comprehensive, Mulitcultural Guide to Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby

By: Pamela Samuelson

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Baby Names for the New Generation

A Comprehensive, Mulitcultural Guide to Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby

By: Pamela Samuelson

Welcome your beloved child ino this world with a name he or she can wear proudly through the 21st century Bless your new baby with a name that best reflects your hope for the future as well as a respect for the past and his or her cultural heritage. Unique among all the baby name books currently available, Baby Names for the New Generation offers the most up-to-the-minute choices -- contemporary names that are beautiful, unusual, and evocative, ideal for your one-of-a-kind child -- as well as strong and lovely traditional names from literature and scripture, and the widest range from a vast array of nations and cultures. From Anzu (Japan) to Zikomo (Malawi), each name listed includes the proper pronunciation, meaning, and origin, as well as nicknames and variations, to help you select the perfect name for a lifetime that will build a foundation for your child to forge his or her unique identity in today's -- and tomorrow's -- world.

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Harper Collins

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0060823127

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9780060823122

Ordinary Greatness

It's Where You Least Expect It ... Everywhere

By: Pamela Bilbrey,Brian Jones

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Ordinary Greatness

It's Where You Least Expect It ... Everywhere

By: Pamela Bilbrey,Brian Jones

How to leverage ordinary greatness to create a competitive advantage for any organization Enabling readers to maximize leadership skills, no matter the venue, Ordinary Greatness helps those who are in leadership positions to optimize their organizational results by improving their ability to recognize and create greatness in those who they lead. Featuring real-world stories, this practical guide helps readers relate to both famous and everyday heroes and shows leaders how to improve their immediate environment. In addition, actionable tips and insights are included to equip business leaders to remove the blinders that keep them from seeing their organization's ordinary greatness. Pamela Bilbrey and Brian Jones are organizational consultants, executive coaches, and international speakers and workshop facilitators

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470461721

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9780470461723

The Country House Servant

By: Pamela A Sambrook

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The Country House Servant

By: Pamela A Sambrook

One 19th century footman complained about the work involved in drawing more than 40 baths for his household, yet Lady Grenville felt no compunction in describing her footman as a "lazy flunkey". For centuries a large body of domestic servants was an often unappreciated foundation for the smooth running of a household. Today, the warrens of "domestic offices" intrigue visitors. This book makes sense of these and the social structures behind them. It describes the skills, equipment, cleaning methods and work organization of the housemaid, laundrymaid, footman, valet and hall-boy - the servants who spent their days polishing fine furniture, and washing brilliant chandeliers, but also sponging filthy riding habits, and washing babies' nappies. The author also looks at how servants spent their leisure time. One footman enjoyed rowing on the lake every morning before work, while others had to sit up late at night sewing their own work-dresses. Contemporary manuals, diaries, accounts and first hand recollections provide a vivid insight into what life was really like for those in domestic service. A wealth of photographs, engravings and panels illustrate the domestic workings of country houses, many now looked after by the National Trust. This is an absorbing book for social historians and visitors to country houses alike.

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The History Press

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075249466X

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9780752494661

The Voice Coach's Toolkit

By: Pamela Prather

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The Voice Coach's Toolkit

By: Pamela Prather

The Voice Coach's Toolkit identifies the primary professional vocal coaching opportunities and the avenues by which a student or early career coach can navigate the vocation. For purposes of this book, the Voice Coach is defined as someone who coaches the spoken voice in three precise areas: the teaching artist, the professional film/TV/theatre coach, and the professional voice-user coach. These three coaching worlds are broadly defined and each area includes in-depth interviews and practical advice from top coaches along with the author’s personal expertise. The book can be read in sections or as a whole, making it as useful for early career coaches as it is for those looking to expand their vocal coaching career or vocal pedagogy students who need a broad survey of all three areas.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000845443

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9781000845440

Victorian Skin

Surface, Self, History

By: Pamela K. Gilbert

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Victorian Skin

Surface, Self, History

By: Pamela K. Gilbert

In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each other's feelings? How does our surface, which contains us and presents us to others, function and what does it signify? As Gilbert shows, for Victorians, the skin was a text to be read. Nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical perspectives had reconfigured the purpose and meaning of this organ as more than a wrapping and instead a membrane integral to the generation of the self. Victorian writers embraced this complex perspective on skin even as sanitary writings focused on the surface of the body as a dangerous point of contact between self and others. Drawing on novels and stories by Dickens, Collins, Hardy, and Wilde, among others, along with their French contemporaries and precursors among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers and German idealists, Gilbert examines the understandings and representations of skin in four categories: as a surface for the sensing and expressive self; as a permeable boundary; as an alienable substance; and as the site of inherent and inscribed properties. At the same time, Gilbert connects the ways in which Victorians "read" skin to the way in which Victorian readers (and subsequent literary critics) read works of literature and historical events (especially the French Revolution.) From blushing and flaying to scarring and tattooing, Victorian Skin tracks the fraught relationship between ourselves and our skin.

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Cornell University Press

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1501731602

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9781501731600

Workbook to Accompany Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving

By: Pamela J. Carter

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Workbook to Accompany Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving

By: Pamela J. Carter

This comprehensive full-color student workbook contains worksheets for each chapter of Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, Second Edition. The worksheets are fully integrated with the text and offer exercises, questions, and learning activities for students.

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0781765048

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Opting Back In

What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work

By: Pamela Stone,Meg Lovejoy

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Opting Back In

What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work

By: Pamela Stone,Meg Lovejoy

Interrupting a professional career is, for women who opt out, a conflicted decision of last resort. Most women envision returning to the labor force even as they leave it. But can they? Drawing on unique research that follows up women first interviewed for Opting Out?, this book profiles the efforts of a group of high-achieving women to go back to work. The good news is that these women, who are able to draw on considerable resources, are successful. The bad news is that they face cross pressures of class and gender that create what we call the paradox of privilege, which reinforces gender inequality in the family and workplace and results in re-entry strategies that either marginalize them as contingent workers or, for the sizeable fraction who radically reinvent themselves, segregate them in female-dominated fields. The book offers an in-depth look at the pressures high-potential women face as they struggle with the mixed signals of their class privilege - promise compromised by patriarchy - and offers up-close and personal insights in to how the twin pillars of gender inequality - the leadership and wage gaps - are created and maintained by the very women expected to transcend them. -- Provided by publisher.

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0520290828

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9780520290822

Opting Out?

Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

By: Pamela Stone

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Opting Out?

Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

By: Pamela Stone

In this book Stone explores the reasons why high-achieving women with children interrupt their professional careers. This qualitative study, using the life history interview, shows that women are not opting out, but are being shut out by inflexible employers.

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0520256573

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9780520256576

THE WOMAN WHO DREAMS HERSELF

A Guide for Awakening the Feminine

By: Pamela A. Field

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THE WOMAN WHO DREAMS HERSELF

A Guide for Awakening the Feminine

By: Pamela A. Field

This book is a combination of discoveriesmade during fifteen years of leading women’sworkshops, patterns observed while offeringhundreds of individual healing sessions and anexploration of native prophecies. The Woman Who Dreams Herself is a guide for understanding and awakening the feminine to restore balance on an individual, societal and planetary level.

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1456821237

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Holy Hype

A Guide to Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good News

By: Susan H. Sarapin,Pamela L. Morris

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Holy Hype

A Guide to Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good News

By: Susan H. Sarapin,Pamela L. Morris

Holy Hype: Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good News defines and explores the intersection of the sacred—religious symbols, themes, and rhetoric—within the profane realm of advertising and promotion. Susan H. Sarapin and Pamela L. Morris trace the historical overlap of consumer and religious ideologies in society, offering detailed examples of its use throughout history through analyses of over a hundred collected advertisements, from monks selling copiers, to billboard messages from God, to angels and the worship of vodka. Throughout the book, the authors continually evaluate if and when the technique of ‘holy hype’ is effective through its use of recognizable sacred symbols that capture audiences’ attentions and inspire both positive and negative emotions. Scholars of communication, media studies, religion, advertising, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

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Teaching Music Creatively

By: Pamela Burnard,Regina Murphy

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Teaching Music Creatively

By: Pamela Burnard,Regina Murphy

Offering a brand new approach to teaching music in the primary classroom, Teaching Music Creatively provides training and qualified teachers with a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively deliver a creative music curriculum. Exploring research-informed teaching ideas, diverse practices and approaches to music teaching, the authors offer well-tested strategies for developing children’s musical creativity, knowledge, skills and understanding. With ground-breaking contributions from international experts in the field, this book presents a unique set of perspectives on music teaching. Key topics covered include: Creative teaching, and what it means to teach creatively; Composition, listening and notation; Spontaneous music-making; Group music and performance; The use of multimedia; Integration of music into the wider curriculum; Musical play; Cultural diversity; Assessment and planning. Packed with practical, innovative ideas for teaching music in a lively and creative way, together with the theory and background necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of creative teaching methods, Teaching Music Creatively is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in initial teacher training, practising teachers, and undergraduate students of music and education.

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Routledge

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1135049955

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International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflict

The Changing Context of Peacemaking

By: Chester A. Crocker,Fen Osler Hampson,Pamela Aall

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International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflict

The Changing Context of Peacemaking

By: Chester A. Crocker,Fen Osler Hampson,Pamela Aall

This collection of essays situates the study and practice of international mediation and peaceful settlement of disputes within a changing global context. The book is organized around issues of concern to practitioners, including the broader regional, global, and institutional context of mediation and how this broader environment shapes the opportunities and prospects for successful mediation. A major theme is complexity, and how the complex contemporary context presents serious challenges to mediation. This environment describes a world where great-power rivalries and politics are coming back into play, and international and regional organizations are playing different roles and facing different kinds of constraints in the peaceful settlement of disputes. The first section discusses the changing international environment for conflict management and reflects on some of the challenges that this changing environment raises for addressing conflict. Part II focuses on the consequences of bringing new actors into third-party engagement and examines what may be harbingers for how we will attempt to resolve conflict in the future. The third section turns to the world of practice, and discusses mediation statecraft and how to employ it in this current international environment. The volume aims to situate the practice and study of mediation within this wider social and political context to better understand the opportunities and constraints of mediation in today’s world. The value of the book lies in its focus on complex and serious issues that challenge both mediators and scholars. This volume will be of much interest to students, practitioners, and policymakers in the area of international negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution and international relations.

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Gatekeeping Theory

By: Pamela J. Shoemaker,Timothy Vos

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Gatekeeping Theory

By: Pamela J. Shoemaker,Timothy Vos

Gatekeeping is one of the media’s central roles in public life: people rely on mediators to transform information about billions of events into a manageable number of media messages. This process determines not only which information is selected, but also what the content and nature of messages, such as news, will be. Gatekeeping Theory describes the powerful process through which events are covered by the mass media, explaining how and why certain information either passes through gates or is closed off from media attention. This book is essential for understanding how even single, seemingly trivial gatekeeping decisions can come together to shape an audience’s view of the world, and illustrates what is at stake in the process.

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1135860599

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The Last Word on First Names

The Definitive A-Z Guide to the Best and Worst in Baby Names by America's Leading Experts

By: Linda Rosenkrantz,Pamela Redmond Satran

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The Last Word on First Names

The Definitive A-Z Guide to the Best and Worst in Baby Names by America's Leading Experts

By: Linda Rosenkrantz,Pamela Redmond Satran

The authors of Beyond Jennifer & Jason, the bestseller that revolutionized baby naming, offer the last word on the perfect first name. Hope is hot, Hortense is not-- at last, here's what parents really need to know before naming a baby. For years you knew what to expect from a baby-name book: a long, dull list of names with their dictionary definitions. All that changed with Beyond Jennifer & Jason-- the groundbreaking book on styles and trends in baby names that has been called "the best baby-naming book ever written" (The News Journal). Now Rosenkrantz and Satran return with an all-new baby-name guide that is destined to become a classic. Like other books, it's packed with entries on girls' and boys' names from A to Z, but no one else gives you the inside story on names: why the world has all the Ashleys it needs, why everyone loves Emily, and why you should or should not call your son Ishmael. Drawing on sources as diverse as ancient myths, current TV series, the Bible, and world literature, The Last Word on First Names is a readable, witty, and illuminating guide to the real-world meaning of Miranda, Max, and thousands of other names from Abigail to Zelig. No one should name a baby without this book.

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Forensic Psychology in Practice

A Practitioner's Handbook

By: Joanna Clarke,Pamela Wilson

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Forensic Psychology in Practice

A Practitioner's Handbook

By: Joanna Clarke,Pamela Wilson

What do you need to consider when preparing a report on a juvenile offender? Why would interviewing a sex offender prove particularly challenging? How do practitioners survive the pressures of working with offenders? Forensic Psychology in Practice: A Practitioner's Handbook provides a practical guide toovercoming these challenges. If you are training, you will find clear guidance to help you deal with challenging clients, and more experienced practitioners will welcome the opportunity to refresh their knowledge. If you are a student, the book will be an indispensable resource that will help you expand your understanding of forensic psychology. Throughout the book, experienced and respected practitioners translate the theories of forensic psychology into real-life practice, and the text has been designed to take you from the classroom and into your first years as a practitioner. Forensic Psychology in Practice: - Explains the skills practitioners employ and their application to specific client groups, from victims to offenders - Features a wealth of case studies, putting theory into practice - Provides coping strategies and advice for working in potentially daunting environments - Covers contemporary topics including gangs and internet sex offenders Forensic Psychology in Practice is the ideal companion for anyone who wishes to learn more about the obstacles forensic settings and clients pose, and how best to overcome them.

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The Runner's World Big Book of Running for Beginners

Winning Strategies, Inspiring Stories, and The Ultimate Training Tools for Beginning Runners

By: Jennifer Van Allen,Bart Yasso,Amby Burfoot,Pamela Nisevich Bede

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The Runner's World Big Book of Running for Beginners

Winning Strategies, Inspiring Stories, and The Ultimate Training Tools for Beginning Runners

By: Jennifer Van Allen,Bart Yasso,Amby Burfoot,Pamela Nisevich Bede

Every day, people are reaching their get-up-or-give-up moments and resolving to change. And they’re realizing that running is the simplest, cheapest, and most effective way to lose weight, gain confidence, and relieve stress. For newcomers, the obstacles are fierce. There are fears of pain and embarrassment. There are schedules jam-packed with stressful jobs, long commutes, endless meetings, and sticky-fingered toddlers.The Runner’s World Big Book of Running for Beginners provides all the information neophytes need to take their first steps, as well as inspiration for staying motivated. The book presents readers with tips for smart nutrition and injury prevention and includes realistic training plans that enable beginning runners to achieve gradual progress (by gearing up for a 30-minute run, a 5-K, or even a 5-miler). Above all, it will show newbies just how fun and rewarding the sport can be, thanks to the help of several "real runner" testimonials.

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Rodale

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1609615379

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The Glitter Plan

How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand

By: Pamela Skaist-Levy,Gela Nash-Taylor,Booth Moore

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The Glitter Plan

How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand

By: Pamela Skaist-Levy,Gela Nash-Taylor,Booth Moore

Part memoir, part business manual, and 100% juicy—the inside story of Juicy Couture, one of the most iconic brands of our times While working together at a Los Angeles boutique, Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor became fast and furious friends over the impossibility of finding the perfect T-shirt. Following their vision of comfortable, fitted T-shirts, they set up shop in Gela’s one-bedroom Hollywood apartment with $200 and one rule: Whatever they did, they both had to be obsessed by it. The best friends’ project became Juicy Couture. Pam and Gela eventually sold their company to Liz Claiborne for $50 million, but not before they created a whole new genre of casual clothing that came to define California cool. Pamela and Gela built an empire from the ground up, using themselves as models to build their patterns and placing their merchandise by storming into stores and handing out samples. They balanced careful growth with innovative tactics—sending Madonna a tracksuit with her nickname, Madge, embroidered on it—and created a unique, bold, and unconventional business plan that was all their own: the Glitter Plan. Now, Pam and Gela reveal the secrets of Juicy’s success: how they learned to find and stick with the right colleagues and trust their instincts when it became time to move on to their next project. They also share their missteps and hilarious lessons learned—like the time robbers stole one thousand pairs of maternity shortalls, which the partners took as the first sign to get out of the maternity clothing business. Told in the bright, cheery voice that defines Juicy style even today, The Glitter Plan shows readers how to transform passion and ideas into business success. Aspiring designers, Juicy fans, and business readers of all stripes will be enthralled by the story of spirit and savvy behind Pam and Gela’s multimillion-dollar fashion empire.

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1592409350

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Pull

Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin

By: Pamela Walker Laird

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Pull

Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin

By: Pamela Walker Laird

In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key--access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She contrasts how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering.

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Harvard University Press

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0674019075

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Herding Cats

Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World

By: Chester A. Crocker,Fen Osler Hampson,Pamela R. Aall

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Herding Cats

Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World

By: Chester A. Crocker,Fen Osler Hampson,Pamela R. Aall

In each of the 24 cases examined in this volume, mediation was a multiparty effort, involving actors working simultaneously or sequentially. These accounts attest to the crucial importance of coordinating and building upon the efforts of other players.

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US Institute of Peace Press

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1878379925

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Multicultural Psychology

By: Pamela Balls Organista,Gerardo Marin,Kevin M. Chun

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Multicultural Psychology

By: Pamela Balls Organista,Gerardo Marin,Kevin M. Chun

Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate courses, Multicultural Psychology, second edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to the field. This research-based and highly applied text aims to increase students’ sensitivity, awareness, and knowledge of ethnicity, race, and culture and their influence on human behavior and adjustment. A diverse and highly respected team of authors effortlessly weaves together theory with the latest research on ethnic and racial minority groups. Engaging boxes throughout the chapters also highlight key concepts and findings and their practical applications. New to This Edition: • Expanded discussion on the interactive effects of key social variables on ethnic and racial groups’ attitudes, norms, values, and behaviors. • Additional sections on topics such as ethnic disparities in health care quality and access and psychological approaches to reducing racism. New coverage of ethnic and racial minority group members who also share other minority statuses (e.g., sexual and gender minorities) and additional coverage of biculturalism and multicultural and multiracial individuals’ identity formation. • Reorganized table of contents to better reflect a developmental learning approach. • Updated content to include recent research in psychology and related fields (e.g., new acculturation models, an ecological model of health behavior, sociocultural issues in sexual identity formation, and other culture-related syndromes). • Revised ancillaries—written by the authors—include an instructor’s manual, test bank, MS PowerPoint slides, and a new open access Companion Website

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1538101122

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