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Collected Short Stories and Pomes [And No, It's Not A Typo}

By: Petra Ceason

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Collected Short Stories and Pomes [And No, It's Not A Typo}

By: Petra Ceason

Short stories and Geordie poems {pomes}, that started life as Creative Writing Course homeworks. A book of short stories usually contains between five and fifteen stories. You are reading about one with about sixty of the little critters, ranging in size from fifty to over five thousand words, and believe me, the harder of those two to write was the fifty! I was kept under severe restraint whilst writing these, gagged; manacled; I'm talking SEVERE restraint here! So Dear True Reader: - The sex is understated, and off stage, totally unlike my usual work, but if you like Romance, Crime Fiction, the odd ghost, with just a pinch of fantasy; if you prefer your women feisty, red blooded, even when necessary prepared to do the asking, then this book is for you

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Lulu.com

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0993041965

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9780993041969

The Fontane Workshop

Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print

By: Petra S. McGillen

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The Fontane Workshop

Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print

By: Petra S. McGillen

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (Awarded by the MLA) With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer Theodor Fontane's creative process. Petra McGillen follows Fontane into the engine room of his text production. Analyzing a wealth of unexplored archival evidence--which includes a collection of the author's 67 extant notebooks, along with an array of other "paper tools," such as cardboard boxes, envelopes, and slips--McGillen demonstrates how Fontane compiled his realist prose works. That is, he assembled them from premediated sources, literally with scissors and glue, in an extraordinarily inorganic and radically intertextual manner that turned "writing" into a process of ongoing remix. By exploring the far-reaching implications of Fontane's creative practices for our understanding of his authorship, originality, and poetics, this book opens up a completely new way to think about his works and, by extension, 19th-century literary realism. This conceptualization of authors' notebooks as creative tools makes a substantial contribution to scholarship on the history of writing media in several disciplines, from German studies and literary studies to media history, and to our understanding of the relationship between mass media and literary creativity in the late 19th century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501351567

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9781501351563

UN Law on International Sales

The UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods

By: Peter Schlechtriem,Petra Butler

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UN Law on International Sales

The UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods

By: Peter Schlechtriem,Petra Butler

This book describes and analyses the rules and provisions of the United Nation Convention on the International Sale of Goods of 1980 - CISG-. The authors explain the details of the CISG’s text, report the essence of the scholarly discussions of its issues, and, in particular, present numerous cases decided by courts and arbitration tribunals both as illustrations of problems arising under the CISG and as case law interpreting the Convention. The book is mainly intended to be used in teaching, but it can also help practitioners to understand the structure and basic solutions of sales law issues encoded in the CISG.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354049992X

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9783540499923

Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By: Petra Dierkes-Thrun

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Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By: Petra Dierkes-Thrun

Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472036041

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9780472036042

The Perfection Detox

Tame Your Inner Critic, Live Bravely, and Unleash Your Joy

By: Petra Kolber

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The Perfection Detox

Tame Your Inner Critic, Live Bravely, and Unleash Your Joy

By: Petra Kolber

Award-winning fitness professional and consultant shares a practical, accessible program to help women replace destructive perfectionistic mindsets with concrete strategies and life-changing tips. Tired. Stressed. Overwhelmed. Just one more email, one more meeting with the kid's teacher, oh and lose that last five pounds. Today, women are striving for perfection more than ever -- and feeling like failures for not meeting unattainable goals. Health and wellness expert Petra Kolber knows this intimately; as a dancer and fitness professional, she's experienced the ultimately dissatisfying quest for perfection. Her Perfection Detox program helps women to overcome the unhealthy, unproductive demands we place on ourselves -- and others. Based on her popular workshops, Kolber's strategies help women to recognize and constructively root out the perfectionistic impulse to be critical of self or others and to harness the power of our own internal resources, willpower, and habits. With simple steps and strategies such as adjusting your internal monologue, cleaning up your vocabulary to include more positive language, becoming a passionist rather than a perfectionist, and more, The Perfection Detox is an essential guide to a healthy, full, authentic life.

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Da Capo Lifelong Books

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0738234842

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The Walls Have Eyes

Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Petra Molnar

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The Walls Have Eyes

Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Petra Molnar

With a foreword by E. Tendayi Achiume A chilling exposé of the inhumane and lucrative sharpening of borders around the globe through experimental surveillance technology In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training “robot dogs” to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border against migrants. Four-legged machines equipped with cameras and sensors would join a network of drones and automated surveillance towers—nicknamed the “smart wall.” This is part of a worldwide trend: as more people are displaced by war, economic instability, and a warming planet, more countries are turning to AI-driven technology to “manage” the influx. Based on years of researching borderlands across the world, lawyer and anthropologist Petra Molnar’s The Walls Have Eyes is a truly global story—a dystopian vision turned reality, where your body is your passport and matters of life and death are determined by algorithm. Examining how technology is being deployed by governments on the world’s most vulnerable with little regulation, Molnar also shows us how borders are now big business, with defense contractors and tech start-ups alike scrambling to capture this highly profitable market. With a foreword by former UN Special Rapporteur E. Tendayi Achiume, The Walls Have Eyes reveals the profound human stakes of the sharpening of borders around the globe, foregrounding the stories of people on the move and the daring forms of resistance that have emerged against the hubris and cruelty of those seeking to use technology to turn human beings into problems to be solved.

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The New Press

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1620978679

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9781620978672

The Politics of Peace

A Global Cold War History

By: Petra Goedde

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The Politics of Peace

A Global Cold War History

By: Petra Goedde

During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment international peace organizations were bypassing national governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion of world peace and mounting the first serious challenge to the state-centered conduct of international relations. This study explores the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a pragmatic aspect of international relations, during the early cold war. It traces the myriad ways in which a broad spectrum of people involved in and affected by the cold war used, altered, and fought over a seemingly universal concept. These dynamic interactions involved three sets of global actors: cold war states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists. These transnational networks challenged and eventually undermined the cold war order. They did so not just with reference to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe, but also by addressing the violence of national liberation movements in the Third World. As Petra Goedde shows in this work, deterritorializing the cold war reveals the fractures that emerged within each cold war camp, as activists both challenged their own governments over the right path toward global peace and challenged each other over the best strategy to achieve it. The Politics of Peace demonstrates that the scientists, journalists, publishers, feminists, and religious leaders who drove the international discourse on peace after World War II laid the groundwork for the eventual political transformation of the Cold War.

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Oxford University Press

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0199708010

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A Bloody and Barbarous God

The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy

By: Petra Mundik

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A Bloody and Barbarous God

The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy

By: Petra Mundik

A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric religions, and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Mundik argues that McCarthy continually strives to evolve an explanatory theodicy throughout his work, and that his novels are, to a lesser or greater extent, concerned with the meaning of human existence in relation to the presence of evil and the nature of the divine.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826356710

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9780826356710

Fractured Families and Rebel Maidservants

The Biblical Hagar in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Literature

By: Christine Petra Sellin

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Fractured Families and Rebel Maidservants

The Biblical Hagar in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Literature

By: Christine Petra Sellin

An examination of the story of Hagar and Ishmael through the eyes of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. >

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0567029018

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9780567029010

Wings of the Gods

Birds in the World's Religions

By: Peter (Petra) Gardella,Laurence Krute

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Wings of the Gods

Birds in the World's Religions

By: Peter (Petra) Gardella,Laurence Krute

Wings of the Gods surveys the many roles that birds have played in the development of religions, from legends, rituals, costumes, wars, and spiritual disciplines to the current ecological crisis. Peter (Petra) Gardella and Laurence Krute, both scholars and birdwatchers, transcend a narrow focus on humanity to explore the agency of birds in world history.

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Oxford University Press

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0197691870

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Our Nazis

Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film

By: Petra Rau

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Our Nazis

Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film

By: Petra Rau

An analysis of the resurgent cultural fascination with Nazism since 1989. Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers the first analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism. Petra Rau brings this material into dialogue with earlier responses to fascism and demonstrates how, paradoxically, Nazism has been both mediated and mythologised to the extent that it now often replaces a critical engagement with actual, violent history.In 5 thematic chapters on Nazi Noir, Men in Uniform, Vile Bodies, The Good German and Meta-Cinematic Farce, Rau provides close analysis of contemporary novels such as Jason Lutes' graphic novel series Berlin, historical crime fiction by Philip Kerr and others, Robert Harris' Fatherland, Ian McEwan's Black Dogs and Justin Cartwright's The Song Before It Is Sung; films such as Bryan Singer's Valkyrie and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards; art installations including Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art, and Fucking Hell by Jake and Dinos Chapman; and Piotr Uklanski's photo frieze, Untitled (The Nazis).

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748668659

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9780748668656

Anti-Atheist Nation

Religion and Secularism in the United States

By: Petra Klug

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Anti-Atheist Nation

Religion and Secularism in the United States

By: Petra Klug

Atheists are a growing but marginalized group in the American religious patchwork and they have been the target of ridicule and discrimination throughout the nation’s history. This book is the first comprehensive study of anti-atheism in the United States. It traces anti-atheism through five centuries of American history from colonization to the era of Donald Trump and contemporary conspiracy ideologies, such as the atheist New World Order. Describing anti-atheist prejudices and explaining the social and psychological mechanisms behind anti-atheist attitudes, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, religious studies and history with interests in religion in the United States.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000804429

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9781000804423

Supportive Oncology E-Book

By: Mellar P. Davis,Petra Feyer,Petra Ortner,Camilla Zimmermann

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Supportive Oncology E-Book

By: Mellar P. Davis,Petra Feyer,Petra Ortner,Camilla Zimmermann

Supportive Oncology, by Drs. Davis, Feyer, Ortner, and Zimmermann, is your practical guide to improving your patients‘ quality of life and overall outcomes by integrating palliative care principles into the scope of clinical oncologic practice at all points along their illness trajectories. A multidisciplinary editorial team, representing the dual perspectives of palliative medicine and oncology, offers expert guidance on how to effectively communicate diagnoses and prognoses with cancer patients and their families, set treatment goals, and manage symptoms through pharmacological therapies, as well as non-pharmacological therapies and counselling when appropriate. Integrate complementary palliative principles as early as possible after diagnosis with guidance from a multidisciplinary editorial team whose different perspectives and collaboration provide a well-balanced approach. Effectively communicate diagnoses and prognoses with cancer patients and their families, set treatment goals, and manage symptoms through pharmacological therapies, as well as non-pharmacological therapies and counseling when appropriate. Improve patients’ quality of life with the latest information on pain and symptom management including managing side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, rehabilitating and counselling long-term survivors, and managing tumor-related symptoms and other complications in the palliative care setting. Prescribe the most effective medications, manage toxicities, and deal with high symptom burdens.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437735940

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9781437735949

Eco Soma

Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters

By: Petra Kuppers

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Eco Soma

Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters

By: Petra Kuppers

Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures. Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge. Traditional somatics teach us how to fine-tune our introspective senses and to open up the world of our own bodies, while eco soma methods extend that attention toward the creative possibilities of the reach between self, others, and the land. Eco Soma proposes an art/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously, a method that allows for a wider opening toward ethical cohabitation with human and more-than-human others.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452966877

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Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities

Rewriting the Sexual Contract

By: Petra Bueskens

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Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities

Rewriting the Sexual Contract

By: Petra Bueskens

Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this contradiction and the associated ‘double shift’ that result in widespread calls to either ‘lean in’ or ‘opt out’? How are some mothers subverting these contradictions and finding meaningful ways of reconciling their autonomous and maternal selves? In Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities, Petra Bueskens argues that western modernisation consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her ground-breaking formulation is that western women are free as ‘individuals’ and constrained as mothers, with the twist that it is the former that produces the latter. Bueskens’ theoretical contribution consists of the identification and analysis of modern women’s duality, drawing on political philosophy, feminist theory and sociology tracking the changing nature of discourses of women, freedom and motherhood across three centuries. While the current literature points to the pervasiveness of contradiction and double-shifts for mothers, very little attention has been paid to how (some) women are subverting contradiction and ‘rewriting the sexual contract’. Bridging this gap, Bueskens’ interviews ten ‘revolving mothers’ to reveal how periodic absence, exceeding the standard work-day, disrupts the default position assigned to mothers in the home, and in turn disrupts the gendered dynamics of household work. A provocative and original work, Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in fields such as Women and Gender Studies, Sociology of Motherhood and Social and Political Theory.

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Routledge

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1317195450

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9781317195450

Studying Disability Arts and Culture

An Introduction

By: Petra Kuppers

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Studying Disability Arts and Culture

An Introduction

By: Petra Kuppers

In this accessible introduction to the study of Disability Arts and Culture, Petra Kuppers foregrounds themes, artists and theoretical concepts in this diverse field. Complete with case studies, exercises and questions for further study, the book introduces students to the work of disabled artists and their allies, and explores artful responses to living with physical, cognitive, emotional or sensory difference. Engaging readers as cultural producers, Kuppers provides useful frameworks for critical analysis and encourages students to explore their own positioning within the frames of gender, race, sexuality, class and disability. Comprehensive and accessible, this is an essential handbook for undergraduate students or anyone interested in disabled bodies and minds in theatre, performance, creative writing, art and dance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137413441

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Mapping the New World Order

By: Thomas J. Volgy,Zlatko Šabič,Petra Roter,Andrea K. Gerlak

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Mapping the New World Order

By: Thomas J. Volgy,Zlatko Šabič,Petra Roter,Andrea K. Gerlak

This groundbreaking study maps out and analyzes the development ofa global intergovernmental (IGO) institutional architecture in thepost World War II era. Systematically traces similarities and differences between theinstitutional architecture of the Cold War and post-Cold Wareras Examines the range of reasons why states join IGOs, identifiespatterns of participation within these organizations, and examinesthe effects of membership on states Considers the impact of the EU on other regional organizationsand developments outside Europe Provides a strong contribution to the study of internationalorganization and IGO development combining both quantitative andqualitative methodologies

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444306561

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9781444306569

Bio- and Multifunctional Polymer Architectures

Preparation, Analytical Methods, and Applications

By: Brigitte Voit,Rainer Haag,Dietmar Appelhans,Petra B. Welzel

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Bio- and Multifunctional Polymer Architectures

Preparation, Analytical Methods, and Applications

By: Brigitte Voit,Rainer Haag,Dietmar Appelhans,Petra B. Welzel

This reference/text addresses concepts and synthetic techniques for the preparation of polymers for state-of-the-art use in biomedicine, synthetic biology, and bionanotechnology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119192684

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The Nature Cure

A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine

By: Andreas Michalsen,Petra Thorbrietz

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The Nature Cure

A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine

By: Andreas Michalsen,Petra Thorbrietz

We are living longer than ever before. But our prolonged lives have come at a price: a rise in chronic diseases like digestive disorders, high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, and cancer. These diseases pose a challenge to conventional medicine, which controls symptoms but doesn't address the underlying cause. But there is a solution: naturopathy. In The Nature Cure, Dr. Michalsen shares the incredibly potential of naturopathy and shows how it has already been proven to help those living with chronic illness.

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Viking

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0525561277

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English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890–1950

By: Dr Petra Rau

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English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890–1950

By: Dr Petra Rau

This is the first systematic study to trace the way representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature from 1890 to 1950 contributed to the development of English identity. Petra Rau examines the shift in attitudes towards Germany and Germans, from suspicious competitiveness in the late Victorian period to the aggressive hostility of the First World War and the curious inconsistencies of the 1930s and 1940s. These shifts were no simple response to political change but the result of an anxious negotiation of modernity in which specific aspects of Englishness were projected onto representations of Germans and Germany in English literature and culture. While this incisive argument clarifies and deepens our understanding of cultural and national politics in the first half of the twentieth century, it also complicates current debates surrounding race and 'otherness' in cultural studies. Authors discussed include major figures such as Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster and Bowen, as well as popular or less familiar writers such as Saki, Graham Greene, and Stevie Smith. Accessibly written and convincingly argued, Rau's study will not only be an important book for scholars but will serve as a valuable guide to undergraduates working in modernism, literary history, and European cultural relations.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475417

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The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World

By: Rosemarie Petra Holz

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The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World

By: Rosemarie Petra Holz

The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World is the first book to chart the origins and evolution of the charity birth control clinic movement in the United States from the 1910s through the 1970s, a period that witnessed dramatic transformation in the goods and services such clinics provided. Rose Holz uncovers the virtually unexamined relationship between Planned Parenthood and the commercial marketplace sphere. Challenging more than thirty years of historiography on birth control, Holz sheds new light on battles over reproductive rights through her analysis of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America within the context of the commercial birth control world. Revealing that it would be Planned Parenthood's engagement to charity -- the argument the organization once used to discredit the presumed profit-driven exploitation of the marketplace -- that would put precisely those women it hoped to assist in dangerous situations, she asks such probing questions as: What were the meanings attached to the provision of birth control and its commercial distribution? How in turn were these meanings used as sources of power? The project draws on rich primary sources to answer these questions and to examine the historical role of the local birth control clinic in modern America. Rose Holz earned her PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is associate director of and associate professor of practice in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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University Rochester Press

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1580463991

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Angel

By: Petra Laurent

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Angel

By: Petra Laurent

About the Book Sarah, a Greek girl from New York, is about to begin her senior year in a small North Carolina town. Being new is never easy but Sarah’s not looking to fit in. She plans to spend the year helping her dad pay the bills and her younger brother adjust. After that, she’s off to college. She doesn’t expect to find her first real best friend. Or to somehow catch the eye of Lakeview High’s All-Star athlete. Most of all, she doesn’t expect to fall for him. Jamie Nelson is the guy everyone’s crushing on. And Sarah has good reason to avoid those. The force of their feelings catch both by surprise. To complicate things more, Sarah discovers a family secret she must confront and overcome. The last thing she needs is drama with the populars. But Jamie’s no quitter. Superstar or not, he knows a girl like Sarah will only happen once to him. What he doesn’t know is what to do about it. Senior year becomes high-stakes as Sarah and Jamie deal with social barriers, hidden truths and the grip of first love — to discover they will never be the same again. About the Author Petra Laurent is a native of Charlotte and the daughter of Greek immigrants. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she resides in Greenville, South Carolina with her husband and children. Angel is her first novel in the Feminesse Series, which aims to empower strong and wholesome young women.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798888126691

Basics of Blood Management

By: Petra Seeber,Aryeh Shander

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Basics of Blood Management

By: Petra Seeber,Aryeh Shander

To reduce transfusion-related morbidity and mortality, it is recommended that an integrated approach to blood management is employed using all available tools to reduce a patient's exposure to donor blood. Meeting the need for a book covering the concepts of blood management as a trend towards multidisciplinary blood management, this new edition is an important resource, providing healthcare professionals with a tool to develop background knowledge in blood management, its organization, methods and tools. Practicing clinicians will be fully prepared to successfully start and run blood management programs.

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111833809X

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Love Always, Petra

A Story of Courage and the Discovery of Life's Hidden Gifts

By: Petra Nemcova,Jane Scovell

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Love Always, Petra

A Story of Courage and the Discovery of Life's Hidden Gifts

By: Petra Nemcova,Jane Scovell

Model Petra Nemcova's charmed life was changed forever when the tsunami swept her boyfriend away, and left her with a broken pelvis and clinging to a tree for nearly eight hours. All of her proceeds from this book will be donated to the Give2Asia/Happy Hearts Fund helping to rebuild the areas hardest hit.

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Your Script for Hope

Overcome a Devastating Diagnosis

By: Petra Frese

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Your Script for Hope

Overcome a Devastating Diagnosis

By: Petra Frese

Tender-hearted and inspiring, Your Script for Hope is a reliable guide to navigate a difficult time. Petra U. Frese helps people who have received a devastating, ultimate diagnosis through this uncertain time with self-determination and love. In Your Script for Hope, Petra pulls from her experience as a scientist and hypnotherapist and years of coaching clients in the USA and Europe to guide those out of despair and into a place of comfort. Within Your Script for Hope, readers are counseled on how to: Calm their fears about death so they don’t keep you up at night anymore Master their physical and emotional pain so that they don’t miss out on the joys of life any longer Awaken their self-healing powers and work their wonders so that they are not stuck in despair Take back the reins on their life so that they don’t feel overrun by others Prepare for a peaceful transition so that they don’t lose their dignity and love

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Morgan James Publishing

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164279628X

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9781642796285

Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations

A comprehensive bibliography

By: Petra Campe

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Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations

A comprehensive bibliography

By: Petra Campe

This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of 20 specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has been undertaken, and a remarkable feature of the project is the use of computer corpora of authentic material. This bibliography presents the many dimensions involved in research into case and case-related phenomena. This includes not only morphological case markers, but also the crossconstituent (semantic and grammatical) relations expressed by morphological case or by its various counterparts; morpho-syntactic processes such as transitivity and passivization; and pragmatic and textual considerations. In addition, the bibliography reflects the implications of case research for other disciplines, such as foreign language teaching and artificial intelligence. More than 6000 publications are listed. An extensive Subject Index provides easy access to all the topics and major concepts covered. A Language Index and a Guide to Languages/Language Families conclude the book. The other volumes in the series include The Dative (2 vols), The Genitive, The Nominative and Accusative, and Non-nuclear Cases.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027282048

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Unfolded

Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry

By: Petra Schmidt,Nicola Stattmann

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Unfolded

Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry

By: Petra Schmidt,Nicola Stattmann

In Unfolded—Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry paper conquers the third dimension and demonstrates the undreamed-of possibilities it holds today for lightweight construction, product design, fashion and art. From "Paper", the collection of bags by Stefan Diez, to Konstantin Grcic’s paper models and the scented paper garments of Issey Miyake, this book presents paper as a high-quality contemporary and ecological material. An enormous selection of projects, the lavish design and numerous illustrations provide designers with invaluable inspiration for their work. The content core of the book is a comprehensive list of state-of-the-art paper products and innovative paper technologies, supporting designers in their everyday work with detailed information on the "high-tech" material paper. From Japanese washi paper and paper foam, to ceramic paper and carbon fiber paper, Unfolded presents the latest in research and development, as well as the most important methods and technologies in handcrafts and industry.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3034609051

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Impact Evaluation in International Development

Theory, Methods, and Practice

By: Paul Glewwe,Petra Todd

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Impact Evaluation in International Development

Theory, Methods, and Practice

By: Paul Glewwe,Petra Todd

Impact evaluations are studies that attempt to measure the causal impact of a project, program or policy on one or more outcomes of. This book provides a comprehensive exposition of how to conduct impact evaluations. Part I provides an overview of impact evaluations and comprises five chapters which are accessible to readers who have few or none of the technical (statistical and econometric) skills that are needed to conduct impact evaluations. Parts II and III make use of statistical and econometric methods and are at a level similar to a graduate-student course but written to make them accessible to the ambitious reader whose skills are not at that level. Part II presents, in Chapters 6-10, a comprehensive discussion of the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to conduct impact evaluations, including a general discussion of the ethical issues involved in conducting impact evaluations. Part III presents the main non-experimental methods that are used to implement impact evaluations when RCTs are not feasible or not recommended for other reasons. Chapters 11 and 12 present regression methods, including difference-in-differences estimation. Matching methods are described in Chapter 13, after which regression discontinuity methods are covered in Chapter 14. Instrumental variable methods, including the estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE), are discussed in detail in Chapter 15. Chapters 16 and 17 cover more advanced topics: quantile treatment effects and control function methods, respectively. Part IV then considers more practical issues when conducting impact evaluations, including designing questionnaires (Chapter 18), data collection methods and survey management (Chapters 19 and 20), and disseminating results to policymakers (Chapter 21). Finally, Part V addresses two topics in impact evaluation: qualitative methods for conducting impact evaluations (Chapter 22), and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis (Chapter 23).

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