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The Big 50: New York Giants

The Men and Moments that Made the New York Giants

By: Patricia Traina

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The Big 50: New York Giants

The Men and Moments that Made the New York Giants

By: Patricia Traina

Longtime sportswriter Patricia Traina explores the living history of the team, counting down from number fifty to number one. This dynamic and comprehensive book brilliantly brings to life the historic franchise's remarkable story, including greats like Taylor, Strahan, Parcells, Manning, and more.

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Triumph Books

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1641255412

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9781641255417

Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives

Cultural Competence in Action! An Asset-Based Approach

By: Patricia Montiel-Overall,Annabelle Villaescusa Nuñez,Verónica Reyes-Escudero

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Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives

Cultural Competence in Action! An Asset-Based Approach

By: Patricia Montiel-Overall,Annabelle Villaescusa Nuñez,Verónica Reyes-Escudero

Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the everyday work in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections with Latino populations. The authors focus on their areas of expertise including academic, school, public libraries, health sciences, archives, and special collections to show the importance of understanding how cultural competence effects the day-to-day communication, relationship building, and information provision with Latinos. They acknowledge the role of both tacit and explicit knowledge in their work, and discuss ways in which cultural competence is integral to successful delivery of services to, communication with, and relationship building with Latino communities.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442258519

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9781442258518

Dancing with a Rogue

By: Patricia Potter

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Dancing with a Rogue

By: Patricia Potter

In award-winning author Patricia Potter’s sparkling Regency-era romance, an actress and a privateer fall passionately in love, unaware that they’re both after revenge against the same group of aristocrats Englishman Gabriel Manning has waited more than two decades to avenge his father’s death. The years he has spent in America seizing British ships haven’t diminished his hatred or made him forget his blood vow. And when a capricious fate makes him a peer of the realm, he returns to England armed with an ingenious scheme to befriend and destroy three of the most powerful men in London. Everyone in Paris knows her as the radiant actress Monique Fremont. But beneath the costumes and makeup, Merry Anders lives only for revenge. When an important role takes her to London, she has her chance to take down “the Group.” But she finds the seductive Marquess of Manchester a distraction. How could she be so irresistibly attracted to her enemies’ friend? Playing a dangerous game, Merry must decide whether to risk it all for love.

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Open Road Media

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150400647X

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9781504006477

Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States

How Societies and States Count

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Dylan Riley,Patricia Ahmed

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Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States

How Societies and States Count

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Dylan Riley,Patricia Ahmed

Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States, the first of two volumes, examines the influence of social formations on censuses from the medieval period through current times. The authors argue that relative influence of states and societies is probably not linear, but depends on the actual historical configuration of the states and societies, as well as the type of population information being collected. They show how information gathering is an outcome of the interaction between states and social forces, and how social resistance to censuses has frequently circumvented their planning, prevented their implementation, and influenced their accuracy.

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Springer

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1137485035

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9781137485038

An Antidote to Violence

Evaluating The Evidence

By: Barry Spivack,Patricia Anne Saunders

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An Antidote to Violence

Evaluating The Evidence

By: Barry Spivack,Patricia Anne Saunders

It’s widely accepted that Transcendental Meditation (TM) can create peace for the individual, but can it create peace in society as a whole? And if it can, what could possibly be the mechanism? In An Antidote to Violence Barry Spivack and Patricia Anne Saunders examine the peer-reviewed research and suggest that TM can influence the collective consciousness of a society which leads to a decrease in negative social trends, such as a decline in war fatalities, and to an increase in cooperation between nations. Weaving together psychology, sociology, philosophy, statistics, politics, physics and meditation, An Antidote to Violence provides evidence that we have the knowledge to reduce all kinds of violence in society.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1789042593

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9781789042597

The Neuro-Image

A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture

By: Patricia Pisters

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The Neuro-Image

A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture

By: Patricia Pisters

Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domains—Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, digital networked screen culture, and neuroscientific research. These domains return in the book's tripartite structure. Part One, on the brain as "neuroscreen," suggests rich connections between film theory, mental illness, and cognitive neuroscience. Part Two explores neuro-images from a philosophical perspective, paying close attention to their ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic dimensions. Political and ethical aspects of the neuro-image are discussed in Part Three. Topics covered along the way include the omnipresence of surveillance, the blurring of the false and the real and the affective powers of the neo-baroque, and the use of neuro-images in politics, historical memory, and war.

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Stanford University Press

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0804782849

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9780804782845

Multicultural Education

A Source Book

By: Patricia G. Ramsey,Edwina Battle Vold,Leslie R. Williams

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Multicultural Education

A Source Book

By: Patricia G. Ramsey,Edwina Battle Vold,Leslie R. Williams

The second edition of this source book contains essays and annotations on a number of issues related to multicultural education. The authors define multicultural education as a process-oriented creation of learning experiences that foster an awareness of, respect for, and enjoyment of the diversity of our society and world. Inherent in this definition of multicultural education is a commitment to create a more just and equitable society for all people. This book, then, offers suggestions relevant to the teaching of all children, all teaching and curricular decisions, and every aspect of educational policy.

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Taylor & Francis

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0824085582

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9780824085582

Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability

By: Michael S Hamilton,Patricia Sue Atkins

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Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability

By: Michael S Hamilton,Patricia Sue Atkins

In today's public policy arena the regional level is gaining increased attention as problems in policy and service delivery continue to spill over traditional urban government boundaries. This authoritative work focuses on the growing role of regions in addressing and resolving local governance problems."Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability" provides a concise, up-to-date, and systematic treatment of the problems and issues involved in urban and regional policy concerns. Each policy chapter is written by a respected expert in the area, and the book covers all the key policy issues that confront contemporary metropolitan areas, including transportation, the environment, affordable housing, crime, employment, poverty, education, and regional governance. Each chapter outlines an issue, which is followed by current thinking on problem diagnosis and problem solving, as well as the prognosis for future policy success.

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Routledge

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1317452844

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9781317452843

Imagining Selves

Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks

By: Patricia Meyer Spacks

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Imagining Selves

Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks

By: Patricia Meyer Spacks

The 13 essays in this title, most of which focus on the 18th century, survey diverse cultural artefacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children's tales, novels, paintings and even resin! The essays explore relationships between character, context and text and engage various genres and geographies.

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Associated University Presse

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0874130123

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9780874130126

The Subprime Virus

Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, and Next Steps

By: Kathleen C. Engel,Patricia A. McCoy

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The Subprime Virus

Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, and Next Steps

By: Kathleen C. Engel,Patricia A. McCoy

In this lively new book, Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy tell the full story behind the subprime crisis. The authors, experts in the law and economics of financial regulation and consumer lending, offer a sharply reasoned, but accessible account of the actions that produced the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression.

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Oxford University Press

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0199398283

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9780199398287

Evolution of Scotland's Towns

Creation, Growth and Fragmentation

By: Patricia Dennison

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Evolution of Scotland's Towns

Creation, Growth and Fragmentation

By: Patricia Dennison

A new analysis of mind/body unity, based on the philosophy of Spinoza

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474409830

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9781474409834

Painting Harlem Modern

The Art of Jacob Lawrence

By: Patricia Hills

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Painting Harlem Modern

The Art of Jacob Lawrence

By: Patricia Hills

Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image, and follows each decade of Lawrence's work, with accounts that include his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is an absorbing book that highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision.

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University of California Press

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0520305507

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9780520305502

EBOOK: Financial Accounting

By: Robert Libby,Daniel Short,Patricia Libby

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EBOOK: Financial Accounting

By: Robert Libby,Daniel Short,Patricia Libby

This Global edition has been designed specifically to meet the needs of international financial accounting students. The text successfully implements a real-world, single focuscompany approach in every chapter. The companies chosen are engaging and the decision-making focus shows the relevance of financial accounting in the real world. Inaddition to the latest examples of both contemporary and traditional topics, new material has been added to make the content more relevant and improve learning outcomes for the international student.

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McGraw Hill

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0077158962

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9780077158965

Becoming A Family

Parents' Stories and Their Implications for Practice, Policy, and Research

By: Rena D. Harold,Patricia Stow Bolea,Lisa G. Colarossi,Lucy R. Mercier,Carol R. Freedman-Doan

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Becoming A Family

Parents' Stories and Their Implications for Practice, Policy, and Research

By: Rena D. Harold,Patricia Stow Bolea,Lisa G. Colarossi,Lucy R. Mercier,Carol R. Freedman-Doan

The movement from young adulthood through coupling and the transition to parenthood may be among the most universal adult developmental transitions. These passages hold interest for all of us, but especially for those who study the psychological, familial, and sociocultural components of development, all of which interact and influence each other. This book enhances understanding of family-life development by shedding light on the meanings that family members ascribe to the developmental process of becoming a family. This is achieved through qualitative analysis of narratives through which individuals and families explain themselves, their thinking, and their behavior. These family narratives are windows into individual and family identity, as well as descriptions of connections to others. The book addresses issues including identity, child characteristics, social support, and work. Each chapter includes a review of seminal literature, parents' comments and ideas about the topic, and a discussion of practice, policy, and research implications.

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Routledge

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1135692602

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9781135692605

From Wall Street to the Great Wall: How Investors Can Profit from China's Booming Economy

By: Burton G. Malkiel,Patricia A. Taylor

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From Wall Street to the Great Wall: How Investors Can Profit from China's Booming Economy

By: Burton G. Malkiel,Patricia A. Taylor

Longtime friend and advisor to ordinary investors Burton G. Malkiel, together with a carefully selected team of coauthors, now gives them an investment strategy for accessing the world's fastest-growing economy. Drawing from the author team's on-the-ground experience in China, From Wall Street to the Great Wall details how average investors can tap into the opportunities China affords. Inside, readers will find: A compact tour of five hundred years of Chinese history and culture that offers readers a footing in this unique investing environment, with special emphasis on the Mao years and the rise of the reformist government of Deng Xiaoping, A hype-free, in-depth investigation of the Chinese stock market, estimating its efficiency and highlighting the best bets among Chinese firms and industries, Substantial coverage of the multinational corporations in the United States and elsewhere that stand to benefit from China's explosive growth, Overviews of the markets for commodities, real estate, and art and collectibles, as Malkiel leaves no investment possibility unexamined, Four fully realized and detailed investment strategies for China, drawn from Malkiel's broad experience and proven investment track record. Book jacket.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393333582

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9780393333589

Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930

By: Patricia A. Schechter

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930

By: Patricia A. Schechter

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled, place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad. Schechter's comprehensive treatment makes vivid the scope of Wells-Barnett's contributions and examines why the political philosophy and leadership of this extraordinary activist eventually became marginalized. Though forced into the shadow of black male leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington and misunderstood and then ignored by white women reformers such as Frances E. Willard and Jane Addams, Wells-Barnett nevertheless successfully enacted a religiously inspired, female-centered, and intensely political vision of social betterment and empowerment for African American communities throughout her adult years. By analyzing her ideas and activism in fresh sharpness and detail, Schechter exposes the promise and limits of social change by and for black women during an especially violent yet hopeful era in U.S. history.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807875465

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9780807875469

Cover Your Assets

By: Patricia Smiley

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Cover Your Assets

By: Patricia Smiley

Tucker Sinclair's life has returned to normal after her first misadventure with murder in FALSE PROFITS. But that's about to change when her old college flame, Evan Brice, strolls back into her life after a 10-year estrangement that began when he dumped Tucker to marry her closest friend. Evan is now a successful Hollywood agent who has acquired many mistresses and a love affair with drugs. When Evan is found brutally murdered, the police quickly close in on the victim's widow, who turns to ex-best friend Tucker for help. Soon, Tucker runs afoul of the detective in charge of the case and finds herself at odds with a biker gang and a narcissistic soap opera star in a race to sort the innocent from the guilty.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446509752

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9780446509756

Terrorism

By: Patricia D. Netzley

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Terrorism

By: Patricia D. Netzley

This encyclopedia provides information on individuals, groups, places, events, and issues related to terrorism in the United States and internationally. Readers will learn about state-sponsored terrorism, religious terrorism, right-wing and left-wing terrorism. Entries include coverage on terrorist leaders and terrorist organizations as well as entries on the people, agencies, and organizations that are specialized in fighting terrorism.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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073774622X

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The Rating Agencies and Their Credit Ratings

What They Are, How They Work, and Why They are Relevant

By: Herwig Langohr,Patricia Langohr

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The Rating Agencies and Their Credit Ratings

What They Are, How They Work, and Why They are Relevant

By: Herwig Langohr,Patricia Langohr

Credit rating agencies play a critical role in capital markets, guiding the asset allocation of institutional investors as private capital moves freely around the world in search of the best trade-off between risk and return. However, they have also been strongly criticised for failing to spot the Asian crisis in the early 1990s, the Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat collapses in the early 2000s and finally for their ratings of subprime-related structured finance instruments and their role in the current financial crisis. This book is a guide to ratings, the ratings industry and the mechanics and economics of obtaining a rating. It sheds light on the role that the agencies play in the international financial markets. It avoids the sensationalist approach often associated with studies of rating scandals and the financial crisis, and instead provides an objective and critical analysis of the business of ratings. The book will be of practical use to any individual who has to deal with ratings and the ratings industry in their day-to-day job. Reviews "Rating agencies fulfil an important role in the capital markets, but given their power, they are frequently the object of criticism. Some of it is justified but most of it portrays a lack of understanding of their business. In their book The Rating Agencies and their Credit Ratings, Herwig and Patricia Langohr provide an excellent economic background to the role of rating agencies and also a thorough understanding of their business and the problems they face. I recommend this book to all those who have an interest in this somewhat arcane but extremely important area." -Robin Monro-Davies, Former CEO, Fitch Ratings. "At a time of unprecedented public and political scrutiny of the effectiveness and indeed the basic business model of the Credit Rating industry, and heightened concerns regarding the transparency and accountability of the leading agencies, this book provides a commendably comprehensive overview, and should provide invaluable assistance in the ongoing debate." -Rupert Atkinson, Managing Director, Head of Credit Advisory Group, Morgan Stanley and member of the SIFMA Rating Agency Task Force "The Langohrs have provided useful information in a field where one frequently finds only opinions or misconceptions. They supply a firm base from which to understand changes now underway. A well-read copy of this monograph should be close to the desk of every investor, issuer and financial regulator, legislator or commentator." -John Grout, Policy and Technical Director, The Association of Corporate Treasurers

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470714352

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9780470714355

Gynecologic Radiation Oncology: A Practical Guide

By: Patricia Eifel,Ann H. Klopp

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Gynecologic Radiation Oncology: A Practical Guide

By: Patricia Eifel,Ann H. Klopp

Offering practical approaches to common clinical problems, Gynecologic Radiation Oncology: A Practical Guide compiles the extensive clinical experience of Drs. Patricia J. Eifel and Ann H. Klopp from MD Anderson Cancer Center into one user-friendly volume. This reference addresses practical aspects of the field: how to evaluate the role of radiation therapy in various clinical settings, how to explain the rationale for treatment recommendations to referring physicians and patients, when and how to apply various external beam and brachytherapy techniques to address specific clinical problems, and how to monitor and manage patients during and after treatment. The book focuses on the following items, which can have immediate application to the treatment of patients with gynecologic cancers.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496362454

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9781496362452

Thrice Shy

By: Patricia Greasby

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Thrice Shy

By: Patricia Greasby

Third in the Bryce series of romantic mysteries: Stephen's life hangs in the balance and Ann must rely on Mike Haywood, a discredited policeman, to help deal with the re-emergence of an old adversary. Driven to seek shelter in a remote cottage on the Norfolk Broads, Ann with Mike and her recently adopted son, are at the mercy, not only of Hank Freidman but the elements. Using the Fitz Gilbert rubies as a lure stirs up questions of loyalty and trust.

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Lulu.com

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0244755779

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9780244755775

Pebbles on the Path

A Medium's Journey into the Spirit World

By: Patricia Gagliardo

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Pebbles on the Path

A Medium's Journey into the Spirit World

By: Patricia Gagliardo

I saw it with my own two eyes and I still dont believe it! Scratches appeared on both of Ms. Gagliardos hands and then disappeared! The girls were found just as she described them and their hands were bound with wire! Detective Tom Williams, Wheeling, WV Pebbles On the Path is a spellbinding autobiography told through the heart and soul of the author, who takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of love, loss, near-death experiences and an extraordinary 360-degree change of lifestyle. Spirit guides catapult the author into a new world filled with gifts of clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience and psychometry. She assists police, government and private persons nationwide in locating missing people and solving various other crime-related cases, such as Atlantas missing and murdered children and serial killer, Michael Ross. More than anything else, Pebbles is an amazing story of one womans journey into the spirit world, with revealing and enlightening insights, which offers the reader immeasurable peace, comfort and understanding of the purpose of life and death. The factual material depicted in this book is sure to satisfy the curious, educate the spiritually seekingand renew faith in mankind. Patricia Gagliardo is a practitioner of the psychic sciences with twenty-two years of experience. She is an accomplished author, lecturer, and has hosted her own television and radio talk shows. She is internationally recognized as a police-accredited clairvoyant, and has made numerous television and radio appearances, astonishing her audiences with amazing accuracy. She currently lives in Norwich, Connecticut and continues her private counseling practice, lectures, and public appearances. In her spare time, you will find her at the BMX tracks, watching her grandson, Michaelthe light of her liferacing his bicycle. Be sure to visit the authors website: www.patgagliardo.com

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iUniverse

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1469799138

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9781469799131

Hyper-Organization

Global Organizational Expansion

By: Patricia Bromley,John W. Meyer

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Hyper-Organization

Global Organizational Expansion

By: Patricia Bromley,John W. Meyer

Hyper-Organization offers an institutional explanation for the expansion of formal organization in the contemporary era-in numbers, internal complexity, social domains, and national contexts. Much expansion is hard to justify in terms of technical production or political power, it lies in areas such as protecting the environment, promoting marginalized groups, or behaving with transparency. The authors argue that expansion is supported by widespread cultural rationalization characterized by scientism, rights and empowerment discourses, and an explosion of education. These cultural changes are transmitted through legal, accounting, and professionalization principles, driving the creation of new organizations and the elaboration of existing ones. The resulting organizations are constructed to be proper social actors, as much as functionally effective entities. They are painted as autonomous and integrated but depend heavily on external definitions to sustain this depiction. So expansion creates organizations that are, whatever their actual effectiveness, structurally arational. This book advances theories of social organization in three main ways. First, by giving an account of the expansive rise of 'organization' rooted in rapid worldwide cultural rationalization. Second, explaining the construction of contemporary organizations as purposive actors, rather than passive bureaucracies or loose associations. Third, showing how the expanded actorhood of the contemporary organization, and the associated interpenetration with the environment, dialectically generate structures far removed from instrumental rationality.

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Oxford University Press

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0191004146

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9780191004148

Adrienne's Journal

By: Patricia Daniels

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Adrienne's Journal

By: Patricia Daniels

To accept people for where they are in their life. To accept, religion, creed, the color of their skin, and sexual orientation. I want people to read about the social ills of this country.

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1477225226

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The First Waco Horror

The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP

By: Patricia Bernstein

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The First Waco Horror

The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP

By: Patricia Bernstein

Annotation. In 1916, seventeen-year-old Jesse Washington, a retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, Texas, Drawing on extensive research in the national files of the NAACP, local newspapers and archives, and interviews with the descendants of participants in the events of that day, Patricia Bernstein has reconstructed the details of not only the crime but also how it influenced the NAACP's antilynching campaign.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603445471

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9781603445474

Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

By: Patricia Highsmith

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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

By: Patricia Highsmith

Highsmith is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre...than are Doestoevsky, Faulkner and Camus."—Joan Smith, Los Angeles Times The Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with Nothing That Meets the Eye, a brilliant collection of twenty-eight psychologically penetrating stories, a great majority of which are published for the first time in this collection. This volume spans almost fifty years of Highsmith's career and establishes her as a permanent member of our American literary canon, as attested by recent publication of two of these stories in The New Yorker and Harper's. The stories assembled in Nothing That Meets the Eye, written between 1938 and 1982, are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinster's fragile hold on reality is tethered to the bottle; an estranged postal worker invents homicidal fantasies about his coworkers. While some stories anticipate the diabolical narratives of the Ripley novels, others possess a Capra-like sweetness that forces us to see the author in a new light. From this new collection, a remarkable portrait of the American psyche at mid-century emerges, unforgettably distilled by the inimitable eye of Patricia Highsmith. A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Rave of 2002.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393345661

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9780393345667

Delavan

By: Patricia Ruth-Marsicano

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Delavan

By: Patricia Ruth-Marsicano

Delavan Lake, formerly known as Swan Lake, was once heavily wooded along its banks and flanked further north by prairies and groves of oaks. Eventually, the banks of the lake wouldbecome home to many seasonal dwellings, which sprang up as summertime moved Delavan residents out of town and to the lake in order to escape the heat. By the 1880s, Delavan had become a popular tourist destination and dozens of resorts were built to accommodate visitors. Ultimately, steamers and excursion boats with daily schedules were added to the lake for sightseeing and ease of movement between resorts. This additional influx of people needed entertainment, giving birth to Delavan's ballroom era, which lasted until 1960.

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0738533114

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Teaching, Bearing the Torch

Introduction to Education Foundations, Third Edition

By: Pamela J. Farris,Patricia L. Rieman

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Teaching, Bearing the Torch

Introduction to Education Foundations, Third Edition

By: Pamela J. Farris,Patricia L. Rieman

Teachers are torchbearers—leaders who impart knowledge, truth, or inspiration to others. Pamela Farris, joined by Patricia Rieman in the latest edition of this exceptional foundations text, clearly demonstrates how teachers bear the torch. The authors’ well-researched approach provides both positive and negative aspects of education trends. Their generous use of examples shows how teaching and schooling fit into the broader context of U.S. society and how they match up with other societies throughout the world. Farris and Rieman’s lively writing style instills teacher education candidates with a lucid understanding of such topics as philosophy and history of education, national trends, requirements of becoming a teacher, teachers’ salaries, how schools are governed and funded, demographic changes and expectations for the future, differences in rural and urban schools, and use of technology. Detailed lists of a variety of websites provide additional resources. Anecdotes of professionals in the field—authentic-voice narratives with frank insights into real-world teaching experiences—punctuate the text. Boxed scenarios concentrate on important issues and educators, energize readers’ interest, and stimulate proactive thinking. Other outstanding features are the book’s affordability and versatility. Instructors can easily assign all or a portion of the chapters to fit course needs.

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1478613122

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Forensic Nursing

Evidence-Based Principles and Practice

By: Rose E Constantino,Patricia A Crane,Susan E Young

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Forensic Nursing

Evidence-Based Principles and Practice

By: Rose E Constantino,Patricia A Crane,Susan E Young

Explore the role of the forensic nurse in both the health care and criminal justice systems with this text written by experts in the field with contributions from well-known specialists. Inside you’ll find an overview of the forensic nursing field as well as crucial coverage on specific issues of evidence collection, prison health care, human trafficking, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. Step-by-step, you will build a solid foundation in forensic nursing practice by developing competencies in deductive analysis, critical thinking, evaluation, application, and communication.

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F.A. Davis

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0803639120

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Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts

Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995

By: Patricia McDaniel

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Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts

Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995

By: Patricia McDaniel

Since World War II Americans’ attitudes towards shyness have changed. The women’s movement and the sexual revolution raised questions about communication, self-expression, intimacy, and personality, leading to new concerns about shyness. At the same time, the growth of psychotherapy and the mental health industry brought shyness to the attention of professionals who began to regard it as an illness in need of a cure. But what is shyness? How is it related to gender, race, and class identities? And what does its stigmatization say about our culture? In Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts, Patricia McDaniel tells the story of shyness. Using popular self-help books and magazine articles she shows how prevailing attitudes toward shyness frequently work to disempower women. She draws on evidence as diverse as 1950s views of shyness as a womanly virtue to contemporary views of shyness as a barrier to intimacy to highlight how cultural standards governing shyness reproduce and maintain power differences between and among women and men.

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NYU Press

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0814756786

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American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam

Politics, Ideology, and Class

By: Patricia Keeton,Peter Scheckner

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American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam

Politics, Ideology, and Class

By: Patricia Keeton,Peter Scheckner

No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad.

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Springer

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1137277890

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Mysteries and Secrets: The 16-Book Complete Codex

Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology / Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons / and 14 more

By: Patricia Fanthorpe,Lionel Fanthorpe

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Mysteries and Secrets: The 16-Book Complete Codex

Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology / Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons / and 14 more

By: Patricia Fanthorpe,Lionel Fanthorpe

This special 16-book bundle collects fearless investigations into the paranormal from the pens of Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, who for several decades been researching and writing about ancient and eternal mysteries. Their entertaining and thought-provoking works span numerous topics, from numerology, freemasonry, voodoo, satanism and witchcraft to the very nature of death and time. Additionally, they have produced numerous volumes examining the great unexplained mysteries and places of history, including The Bible, European castles, strange murders, arcane objects of power, the mysterious depths of the sea and remarkable people. Take a strange and beautiful trip to the mystical side of life in this special set! Includes Death Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars Mysteries and Secrets of Time Mysteries and Secrets of Voodoo, Santeria, and Obeah Satanism and Demonology Secrets of the World’s Undiscovered Treasures The Big Book of Mysteries The Oak Island Mystery The World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries The World’s Most Mysterious Castles The World’s Most Mysterious Murders The World’s Most Mysterious Objects The World’s Most Mysterious People Unsolved Mysteries of the Sea

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Dundurn

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1459730925

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9781459730922

The Internet in the Workplace

How New Technology is Transforming Work

By: Patricia Wallace

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The Internet in the Workplace

How New Technology is Transforming Work

By: Patricia Wallace

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Cambridge University Press

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0521809312

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Iconic Events

Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History

By: Patricia Leavy

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Iconic Events

Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History

By: Patricia Leavy

Iconic Events explores the social forces that have shaped the meanings around and enduring significance of events that have captured the public's imagination, including: Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Columbine, and September 11th. The book focuses on three interpretive phases including journalistic representations, political appropriations, and popular adaptations and pays particular attention to the development of dominant and resistive event narratives.

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Lexington Books

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0739115200

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9780739115206

Show Me the Prisoner

By: Patricia Farren

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Show Me the Prisoner

By: Patricia Farren

Show Me the Prisoner is written from the perspective of a prison teacher who later served on the prison monitoring body. It covers a 15-year period of involvement in two of Northern Ireland’s prisons during the troubles, when terrorists hogged the limelight. They met in prison where she taught classes. Now estranged from his family, the young man had spent most of his life either in care or in one or other of Northern Ireland’s prisons. She set out to help him. He knuckled down and achieved a university place. Time done, he could move on. But was it all too good to be true? ‘Hah,’ predicted a prison officer, ‘If yous teachers think yous are going to change any of them boys, let me tell you...’ Headlines appeared in newspapers and on radio branding him ‘Ulster’s most feared prisoner’, predicting that one day Charlie Conlon would kill somebody. ‘Hannibal’, they dubbed him. Convinced he was the victim of institutional racism and sectarianism, Charlie believed he was guilty only of the rage of the powerless and the downtrodden. Witnessing how the system treated him, did he have a point? A meeting with his mother and brother and an internet search for relatives in the USA threw interesting new light on his father’s tour in Vietnam. It was then that his mother became evasive. On her deathbed mother and son were reconciled, and for the first time Charlie learned his true identity. But was it all too late?Show Me the Prisoner is a criminal justice memoir of Irish interest that will appeal to readers who enjoy social history. Patricia is inspired by Sister Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking, a story she would love to have written.

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1780880510

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9781780880518

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