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Population And Environment

Rethinking The Debate

By: Lourdes Arizpe,M. Priscilla Stone,David Major,Priscilla Stone

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Population And Environment

Rethinking The Debate

By: Lourdes Arizpe,M. Priscilla Stone,David Major,Priscilla Stone

This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts. Examining the multi-faceted patterns of human relationships that overlay, alter, and distort our ties to urban and rural landscapes, the book focuses especially on the essential experi

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1000235793

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Bountiful Empire

A History of Ottoman Cuisine

By: Priscilla Mary Isin

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Bountiful Empire

A History of Ottoman Cuisine

By: Priscilla Mary Isin

This meticulously researched, beautiful volume offers fresh and lively insight into an empire and cuisine that until recent decades has been too narrowly viewed through orientalist spectacles. The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history—and one of the most culinarily inclined. In this powerful and complex concoction of politics, culture, and cuisine, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of the empire’s citizens from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes and backgrounds together, defining identity and serving symbolic functions in the social, religious, political, and military spheres. In Bountiful Empire, Priscilla Mary Işın examines the changing meanings of the Ottoman Empire’s foodways as they evolved over more than five centuries. Işın begins with the essential ingredients of this fascinating history, examining the earlier culinary traditions in which Ottoman cuisine was rooted, such as those of the Central Asian Turks, Abbasids, Seljuks, and Byzantines. She goes on to explore the diverse aspects of this rich culinary culture, including etiquette, cooks, restaurants, military food, food laws, and food trade. The book draws on everything from archival documents to poetry and features more than one hundred delectable illustrations.

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Reaktion Books

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1780239394

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9781780239392

The Politics of Childhoods Real and Imagined

Practical Application of Critical Realism and Childhood Studies

By: Priscilla Alderson

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The Politics of Childhoods Real and Imagined

Practical Application of Critical Realism and Childhood Studies

By: Priscilla Alderson

The second volume of Priscilla Alderson’s popular and renowned book Childhoods Real and Imagined relates dialectical critical realism to childhood. By demonstrating their relevance and value to each other, Alderson presents a practical introductory guide for applying critical realism to research about children and young people. Each chapter summarises key themes from several academic disciplines and policy areas, ranging from climate change and social justice between generations, to neoliberalism, social reform and imagining utopias. Children’s and adults’ views and experiences are reviewed, and whereas the first volume deals with more personal and local aspects of childhood, this volume widens the scope into debates about global politics, which so seldom mention children. Each chapter demonstrates how children and young people are an integral part of the whole of society and are often especially affected by policies and events. This book is written for everyone who is researching, studying or teaching about childhood, or who cares for and works with children and young people, as well as those interested in critical realist approaches.

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Routledge

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1317363957

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9781317363958

Transcultural Nursing Education Strategies

By: Priscilla Limbo Sagar

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Transcultural Nursing Education Strategies

By: Priscilla Limbo Sagar

...[written by one of] the world's foremost experts in transcultural nursing. This...much-anticipated comprehensive compendium of evidence-based and best practices...contains exceptionally useful...material for nurse educators in academic and staff development settings and...their students. ó Margaret M. Andrews, PhD, RN, FAAN, CTN Director and Professor of Nursing School of Health Professions and Studies University of MichiganñFlint Editor, Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare ...a valuable new resource to support efforts...to provide high-quality care that is culturally appropriate... gives the professional nurse a road map for engaging in culturally appropriate, patient-centered, and high-quality care." óGeraldine (Polly) Bednash, PhD, RN, FAAN Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director American Association of Colleges of Nursing This ambitious book is a must-read synthesis of the existing knowledge related to transcultural nursing education... builds cultural competence in individuals and in organizations...Dr. Sagar makes an exceptional contribution to...the delivery of culturally competent care in all settings." óPatti Ludwig-Beymer, PhD, RN, CTN, NEA-BC, FAAN Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Edward Hospital and Health Services, Naperville, IL Associate Editor, Journal of Transcultural Nursing This comprehensive guide to integrating transcultural nursing education (TCN) strategies in academic and in-service institutions is the only text to fulfill the NLN and AACN mandates for promoting cultural diversity and competencies in these settings. Incorporating evidence-based, best-practice protocols, it provides course syllabi and a wealth of additional teaching aids for all education arenas from foundation classes through in-service domains. The text provides a variety of creative strategies for integrating TCN into academia and practice as a separate course or across existing courses (foundation and life span courses, mental health, pharmacology, nutrition, research, community health, critical care, and transcultural concepts in simulation). Pedagogical tools include cultural assessment instruments, self-learning modules, role plays, unfolding case scenarios, continuing education, lesson plans, course syllabi, critical thinking exercises, and evidence-based practice information. The book will be of value to nursing students, faculty, educators in staff development settings, and all other professional nurses who wish to provide culturally competent care for their patients. It is a companion volume to the author's text Transcultural Health Care Models: Application in Nursing Education, Practice, and Administration. Key Features: Comprises the first text to fulfill NLN/AACN mandates on cultural competencies in education and practice Presents a wealth of pedagogical strategies and teaching aids for academic and in-service settings Includes self-learning modules, case studies, role-playing scenarios, critical thinking exercises, continuing education lesson plans, and course syllabi Incorporates evidence-based, best-practice protocols Covers international partnerships and collaborations

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826195938

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9780826195937

So Rich a Crown

By: Priscilla Paul

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So Rich a Crown

By: Priscilla Paul

Three young women from three different parts of the world meet in Williamsburg, Virginia in the early 1700s and become best friends, eventually sharing their most precious secrets with one another. Although they were young when they met, all three had already lived adventures most women never experience in a lifetime. In those adventures of life, each woman finds herself with the burden of a secret that could cost her everything. Their lives, loves and children could be gone in the whisper of a secret. After years of devoted friendship, the women share their secrets with one another, promising to be the guardian of each others lives. Sarah shares her secret first...she is an escaped criminal from an English prison ship. Her crime...she stole some of the crown jewels. Christina tells of being an escaped member of the family of Peter the Great, Czar of all the Russias. Abbey, the young widow of a suicide victim, reveals that the father of her child is not the husband of her youth but a man she has long loved, Matthew Townsend. Although Matthew is himself a widower, years of rumors that Abbey killed his wife, and perhaps even his own mother, leaves him unable to respond to any gesture of love she makes towards him. Abbey knows, if Matthew finds out that she has kept his son away from him, for the boys entire life, he might contemplate killing her himself. When Sarah is threatened by an outsider who knows who she is, she blackmails her best friends to keep her own secret safe. They pay her off, but she is soon found murdered. Abbey is arrested. Christina suddenly decides to go back to Europe and Matthew is to be Abbeys attorney charged with the responsibility of saving her life. As the story progresses, there are times when Abbey wonders if Matthew is out to save her or to hang her. She wonders if he knows her secret, and it appears that before Christina left she shared everyones secrets with Matthew, including Abbeys. Abbey also suspects its possible Christinas husband is the murderer. The trial reveals more secrets about the three women that they had not shared with one another and also reveals the secrets of yet another family which leads to the true killer. All three women and their secrets are fully explored in this novel, giving each character the honor of center stage during lengthy portions of the novel. It is then brought together in the form of an exciting trial, where secrets pop up from the most unexpected places and persons. Enjoy! You can visit Priscillas site at www.priscillapaul.com

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462806333

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Geriatric Nursing

Growth of a Specialty

By: Priscilla Ebersole, RN, PhD, FAAN,Theris A. Touhy, ND, APRN, BC

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Geriatric Nursing

Growth of a Specialty

By: Priscilla Ebersole, RN, PhD, FAAN,Theris A. Touhy, ND, APRN, BC

Designated a Doody's Core Title! Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 by CHOICE "Those who are interested in the care of older individuals will find this book thoughtful, exciting, and useful...Highly recommended." --CHOICE Learn the history of the development of geriatric nursing as a specialty, as well as the current state of geriatric nursing, from the stories of pioneers in this field. Through the history of those who laid the foundations for the profession to the geriatric nurse leaders who continue the specialty today, see first-hand how geriatric nursing began, evolved, and continues to flourish. Covering the scope of the specialty: How to become a geriatric nurse Geriatric nursing organizations and publications Standards of practice Certification and licensure Future directions This text provides both inspirational stories of nursing and practical information on how you can find resources, develop ideas, and access research in order to become a successful geriatric nurse.

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826126480

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9780826126481

The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre

By: Priscilla Meléndez

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The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre

By: Priscilla Meléndez

The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre is the first book-length study of the role of farce in Spanish American theatre. Spanish American playwrights have realized that farce's "lack of power" and marginality can become a res

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UNC Press Books

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0807892866

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The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer

And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race

By: Priscilla J. McMillan

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The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer

And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race

By: Priscilla J. McMillan

This groundbreaking Cold War history reveals the government conspiracy to bring down America’s most famous scientist. On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charges of violating national security. Could the man who led the effort to build the atom bomb really be a traitor? In this riveting book, Priscilla J. McMillan draws on newly declassified U.S. government documents and materials from Russia, as well as in-depth interviews, to expose the conspiracy that destroyed the director of the Manhattan Project. This meticulous narrative recreates the fraught years from 1949 to 1955 when Oppenheimer and a group of liberal scientists tried to head off the cabal of air force officials, anti-Communist politicians, and rival scientists, who were trying to seize control of U.S. policy and build ever more deadly nuclear weapons. Retelling the story of Oppenheimer’s trial, which took place in utmost secrecy, she describes how the government made up its own rules and violated many protections of the rule of law. McMilliam also argues that the effort to discredit Oppenheimer, occurring at the height of the McCarthy era and sanctioned by a misinformed President Eisenhower, was a watershed in the Cold War, poisoning American politics for decades and creating dangers that haunt us today.

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JHU Press

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1421425688

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9781421425689

Camp Logan

By: Priscilla T Graham

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Camp Logan

By: Priscilla T Graham

The Houston Mutiny and Riot of 1917, marks one of Houston's darkest hours in race relations. On August 23,1917, Acting First Sergeant Vida Henry led 156 armed soldiers toward Houston's Police Department by way of Brunner Avenue continuing along San Felipe Street. The book Camp Logan takes an in depth look at the cause and events that occurred in Houston, Texas on August 23, 1917. It contains a review of Sergeant Henry's death, identification of the victims and convicted soldiers by name, rank, and conviction outcomes. The book also contains a visual footprint of the 1917 Riot route. The content of the book is based on information retrieved from over 290 government documents pertaining to the three court martials and convictions on 117 African American soldiers stationed at Camp Logan, Texas in 1917.

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Lulu.com

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1387021087

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9781387021086

Hidden Heritage

Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese

By: Priscilla Wegars

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Hidden Heritage

Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese

By: Priscilla Wegars

Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, large numbers of people from mainland China emigrated to the United States and other countries seeking employment. Termed "overseas Chinese," they made lasting contributions to the development of early communities, an impact which has only begun to be recognized in recent years. "Chinatowns," rural mining claims, work camps for railroad and other construction activities, salmon canneries and shrimp camps, laundries, stores, cook shacks, cemeteries, and temples are only some of the sites where traces of their presence can be found. In recent years, numerous archaeological and historical investigations of the overseas Chinese have taken place, and "Hidden Heritage" presents the results of some of those studies.

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Routledge

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1351843842

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9781351843843

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

By: Priscilla Murolo,A. B. Chitty

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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

By: Priscilla Murolo,A. B. Chitty

Hailed in a starred Publishers Weekly review as a work of "impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity . . . that gracefully handles a broad range of subject matter," From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend is the first comprehensive look at American history through the prism of working people. From indentured servants and slaves in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book "[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor" (Library Journal). From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend also "thoroughly includes the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and minorities, and considers events often ignored in other histories," writes Booklist, which adds that "thirty pages of stirring drawings by ‘comic journalist’ Joe Sacco add an unusual dimension to the book.

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New Press, The

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1595588566

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9781595588562

Discovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership

Compassion, Community, and Respect

By: Priscilla Mtungwa Ndlovu

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Discovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership

Compassion, Community, and Respect

By: Priscilla Mtungwa Ndlovu

Discovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership introduces a new leadership model which takes into account the history, culture and economic environment of African women leaders to understand, discover, observe and share their personal leadership experiences.

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1137526858

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9781137526854

Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light

A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses

By: Joy Harjo,Priscilla Page

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Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light

A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses

By: Joy Harjo,Priscilla Page

Joy Harjo's play Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light is the centerpiece of this collection that includes essays and interviews concerning the roots and the reaches of contemporary Native Theater. Harjo blends storytelling, music, movement, and poetic language in Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light—a healing ceremony that chronicles the challenges young protagonist Redbird faces on her path to healing and self-determination. This text is accompanied by interviews with Native theater artists Rolland Meinholtz and Randy Reinholz, as well as an interview with Harjo, conducted by Page. The interviews highlight the lives and contributions of Meinholtz, a theater artist and educator who served as the drama instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts from 1964–70 and a close mentor and friend to Harjo; and Reinholz, producing artistic director of Native Voices at the Autry, the nation's only Equity theater company dedicated exclusively to the development and production of new plays by Native American, First Nations, and Alaska Native playwrights. The new interview with Harjo focuses on her experiences working in theater. Essays on Harjo's work are provided by Mary Kathryn Nagle—an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee nation, playwright, and attorney who shares her insights on the legal and historical frameworks through which we can better understand the significance of Harjo's play; and Priscilla Page—writer, performer, and educator (of Wiyot heritage), who looks at indigenous feminism, jazz, and performance as influences on Harjo's theatrical work.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819578673

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9780819578679

Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science

By: Priscilla K. Shontz,Robert R. Newlen

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Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science

By: Priscilla K. Shontz,Robert R. Newlen

Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science is designed to help new librarians begin to manage a successful and satisfying career in the library and information science profession. Although the first years are often overwhelming, they can be the key to creating a successful career as a librarian or information professional. Unless one is fortunate enough to have good mentors or strong support groups, a new librarian may drift into an unsatisfying career. This book emphasizes the value of defining one's own idea of success and of positioning one's self to be prepared to take advantage of opportunities that arise. Although the book is aimed at students and new information professionals, much of the advice may apply to a librarian at any stage of his or her career. This book contains advice and anecdotes gathered from research and interviews with more than 70 information professionals in a variety of library-related careers. The book is written in a practical, easy-to-read style. The modular format allows a reader to read any chapter on its own or to read the chapters in any order, choosing which ones are most relevant at any point. The book covers eight broad topics: career planning, job searching, gaining experience and education, developing interpersonal skills and leadership skills, networking, mentoring, and writing for publication. Lengthy lists of related readings, as well as related web sites, are included to allow the reader to follow up on any topic.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461660157

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9781461660156

White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

By: Priscilla Dionne Layne

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White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

By: Priscilla Dionne Layne

Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time. Priscilla Layne offers a critique of how blackness came to symbolize a positive escape from the hegemonic masculinity of postwar Germany, and how black identities have been represented as separate from, and in opposition to, German identity, foreclosing the possibility of being both black and German. Citing four autobiographies published by black German authors Hans Jürgen Massaquo, Theodor Michael, Günter Kaufmann, and Charly Graf, Layne considers how black German men have related to hegemonic masculinity since Nazi Germany, and concludes with a discussion on the work of black German poet, Philipp Khabo Köpsell.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472123831

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9780472123834

Groping toward Democracy

African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949

By: Priscilla A. Dowden-White

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Groping toward Democracy

African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949

By: Priscilla A. Dowden-White

Decades before the 1960s, social reformers began planting the seeds for the Modern Civil Rights era. During the period spanning World Wars I and II, St. Louis, Missouri, was home to a dynamic group of African American social welfare reformers. The city’s history and culture were shaped both by those who would construct it as a southern city and by the heirs of New England abolitionism. Allying with white liberals to promote the era’s new emphasis on “the common good,” black reformers confronted racial segregation and its consequences of inequality and, in doing so, helped to determine the gradual change in public policy that led to a more inclusive social order. In Groping toward Democracy: African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910–1949, historian Priscilla A. Dowden-White presents an on-the-ground view of local institution building and community organizing campaigns initiated by African American social welfare reformers. Through extensive research, the author places African American social welfare reform efforts within the vanguard of interwar community and neighborhood organization, reaching beyond the “racial uplift” and “behavior” models of the studies preceding hers. She explores one of the era’s chief organizing principles, the “community as a whole” idea, and deliberates on its relationship to segregation and the St. Louis black community’s methods of reform. Groping toward Democracy depicts the dilemmas organizers faced in this segregated time, explaining how they pursued the goal of full, uncontested black citizenship while still seeking to maximize the benefits available to African Americans in segregated institutions. The book’s nuanced mapping of the terrain of social welfare offers an unparalleled view of the progress brought forth by the early-twentieth-century crusade for democracy and equality. By delving into interrelated developments in health care, education, labor, and city planning, Dowden-White deftly examines St. Louis’s African American interwar history. Her in-depth archival research fills a void in the scholarship of St. Louis’s social development, and her compelling arguments will be of great interest to scholars and teachers of American urban studies and social welfare history.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826272266

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9780826272263

Houston Freedmen's Town

By: Priscilla T Graham

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Houston Freedmen's Town

By: Priscilla T Graham

Houston Freedmen's Town is a breif history of remaining buildings and structures in Houston'a Fourth Ward Historical Freedmen's Town District.

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1387120514

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Building the Old Time Religion

Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era

By: Priscilla Pope-Levison

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Building the Old Time Religion

Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era

By: Priscilla Pope-Levison

During the Progressive Era, a period of unprecedented ingenuity, women evangelists built the old time religion with brick and mortar, uniforms and automobiles, fresh converts and devoted protégés. Across America, entrepreneurial women founded churches, denominations, religious training schools, rescue homes, rescue missions, and evangelistic organizations. Until now, these intrepid women have gone largely unnoticed, though their collective yet unchoreographed decision to build institutions in the service of evangelism marked a seismic shift in American Christianity. In this ground-breaking study, Priscilla Pope-Levison dusts off the unpublished letters, diaries, sermons, and yearbooks of these pioneers to share their personal tribulations and public achievements. The effect is staggering. With an uncanny eye for essential details and a knack for historical nuance, Pope-Levison breathes life into not just one or two of these women, but two dozen. The evangelistic empire of Aimee Semple McPherson represents the pinnacle of this shift from itinerancy to institution building. Her name remains legendary. Yet she built her institutions on the foundation of the work of women evangelists who preceded her. Their stories -- untold until now -- reveal the cunning and strength of women who forged a path for every generation, including our own, to follow."--Back cover.

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NYU Press

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147988989X

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9781479889891

Compass of the Heart

A Novel of Discovery

By: Priscilla Cogan

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Compass of the Heart

A Novel of Discovery

By: Priscilla Cogan

A cross-cultural romance between an American Indian and a white woman. The heroine is Dr. Meggie O'Connor, a psychologist who studied under an Indian medicine woman who brought them together, even though the Indian is married. By the author of Winona's Web.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684847647

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9780684847641

150 Years, Standing Strong

By: Priscilla T Graham

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150 Years, Standing Strong

By: Priscilla T Graham

150 Years, Standing Strong is a collection of church histories, places, and people that illustrate their origin and connection with Historic Freedmen's Town in Houston's Fourth Ward.

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Lulu.com

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1329277651

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9781329277656

Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-century City

Philadelphia, 1800-1854

By: Priscilla Ferguson Clement

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Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-century City

Philadelphia, 1800-1854

By: Priscilla Ferguson Clement

The changes in the relative importance of humanitarianism, social control, and economy in the Philadelphia welfare system from 1800 to 1854 are examined by the author in regard to the management of public outdoor relief, indoor aid in the Alms-house, public and private assistance to needy children, and private charitable aid to impoverished adults.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838632165

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9780838632161

Yarmouth

By: John G. Sears III and Priscilla Sears White

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Yarmouth

By: John G. Sears III and Priscilla Sears White

Yarmouth, founded in 1639, has always had close ties with the sea. From shore whaling, fishing, and boatbuilding to sailing, salt making, and other maritime pursuits, almost everyone dealt with the ocean. A 160-acre Indian reservation existed until a smallpox epidemic in the 1770s. Later, a substantial Friends community (Quakers) grew in South Yarmouth. Yarmouth slowly leaned toward tourism after the Civil War, with railroads providing the transportation. Automobiles created even more tourism. People no longer stayed for the summer but could now spend just a night or two. Restaurants, dance halls, and cabins changed the landscape. There was little growth during the Depression; however, it was explosive in the years following World War II. Townspeople grudgingly adapted to these changes. The one constant has been the Bass River and its influence on the town.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467129267

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9781467129268

Word of Mouth

What We Talk About When We Talk About Food

By: Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

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Word of Mouth

What We Talk About When We Talk About Food

By: Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can even trump consumption. Where many works look at the production, preparation, and consumption of food, Word of Mouth captures the language that explains culinary practices. Explanation is more than an elaboration here: how we talk about food says a great deal about the world around us and our place in it. What does it mean, Ferguson asks, to cook and consume in a globalized culinary world subject to vertiginous change? Answers to this question demand a mastery of food talk in all its forms and applications. To prove its case, Word of Mouth draws on a broad range of cultural documents from interviews, cookbooks, and novels to comic strips, essays, and films. Although the United States supplies the primary focus of Ferguson's explorations, the French connection remains vital. American food culture comes of age in dialogue with French cuisine even as it strikes out on its own. In the twenty-first century, culinary modernity sets haute food against haute cuisine, creativity against convention, and the individual dish over the communal meal. Ferguson finds a new level of sophistication in what we thought that we already knew: the real pleasure in eating comes through knowing how to talk about it.

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Univ of California Press

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0520958969

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9780520958968

Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

A Practical Introduction

By: Priscilla Alderson

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Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

A Practical Introduction

By: Priscilla Alderson

Winner of the 2022 Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations. This original text draws on international examples of health and illness research across the life course, from small studies to large trials, to show how versatile critical realism can be in validating research and connecting it to policy and practice. To meet growing demand from students and researchers, this book is based on the course at UCL, first taught by Roy Bhaskar, the founder of critical realism.

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Policy Press

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Sealing the Deal

By: Priscilla Brown

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Sealing the Deal

By: Priscilla Brown

Excited that television producer Kyle Kinross wants to shoot his blockbuster drama not only in her struggling country town but on her cash-strapped alpaca farm, Mayor Anna Marshall sees his company’s fee as a solution to financial predicaments. But can she survive accusations of payola? Is this sexy younger man buying her influence against community opposition, or could he possibly want her for the generous and loving nature masked by her business suit?

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BWL Publishing Inc.

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1773621289

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All About Us

By: Priscilla D. Johnson

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All About Us

By: Priscilla D. Johnson

About the Book Caiti Morris started in the year 1955, as she narrated, a tumultuous life growing up in Fair Green Housing Projects, along with her older brother Preston eight, and their younger siblings. After they outgrew their apartment, living arrangements became worse. Horrible conditions beat down the older kids, buckling their spirits. Their strong determination to protect their family while simultaneously being pulled in opposite direction resulted in a life of early labor, despair, anxiety, and subsequent murder. One child, scarred for a lifetime, something Pres and Caiti must keep to themselves. A best friend admits at a youthful age a secret they both must keep until their friend tragically meets his death. Determined to remove themselves from their troubling past, was not an easy thing to do, particularly during the height of the Jim Crow era. One by one each of the Morris children left home in search of a better life, gambling on their dreams but not without obstacles. Their adult lives came with tragedies they never imagined. About the Author Born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, Priscilla D. Johnson was educated in Charlotte Mecklenburg School System. She attended Central Piedmont Community College and Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. A retired flight attendant, Priscilla now divides her time between traveling, writing, and community volunteering. Her travels exposed her to various cultures, economics, and social issues. Her craving for writing culminated with the aforementioned uniquely helped her fictional characters with a balance of interest, resilience, and perseverance. A fondness for the music of the fifties, sixties, and seventies propelled her to choose this era to bring forth All About Us an exciting read. She currently resides in Charlotte with her husband, Willie Spencer. Visit: Park Road Books 4139 Park Road Charlotte, NC 28209 (704) 525-9239 general inquiries: books@parkroadbooks.com book orders: orders@parkroadbooks.com

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Dorrance Publishing

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From Fireplace to Cookstove

Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America

By: Priscilla J. Brewer

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From Fireplace to Cookstove

Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America

By: Priscilla J. Brewer

Priscilla J. Brewer examines the development and history of the first American appliance—the cast iron stove—that created a quiet, but culturally contested transformation of domestic life and sparked many important debates about the role of women, industrialization, the definition of social class, and the development of a consumer economy. Brewer explores the shift from fireplaces to stoves for cooking and heating in American homes, and sheds new light on the supposedly "separate spheres" of home and world of nineteenth- century America. She also considers the changing responses to technological development, the emergence of a consumption ethic, and the attempt to define and preserve distinct Anglo-American middle class culture. There are few works that treat this significant subject, and Brewer covers impressive new ground. Extensively documented—based on letters, diaries, probate inventories, census records, sales figures, advertisements, fiction, and advice literature-this book will be valuable to scholars of American history and women's studies.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815606508

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9780815606505

Fire and Stone

Where Do We Come From? what are We? where are We Going?

By: Priscilla Long

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Fire and Stone

Where Do We Come From? what are We? where are We Going?

By: Priscilla Long

The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins. Using her own story as a touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we are today. Her personal history encompasses childhood as an identical twin on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; the turmoil, social change, and music of the 1960s; the suicide of a sister; and a life in art in the Pacific Northwest. Here, memoir extends the threads of the writer's individual and very personal life to science, to history, and to ancestors, both literary and genetic, back to the Neanderthals. Long uses profoundly poetic personal essays to draw larger connections and to ask compelling questions about identity. Framed by four distinctive sections, Fire and Stone transcends genre and evolves into a sweeping elegy on what it means to be human.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820350443

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9780820350448

Border Crossings

Thomas King's Cultural Inversions

By: Arnold E. Davidson,Priscilla L.. Walton,Priscilla L. Walton,Jennifer Courtney Elizabeth Andrews

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Border Crossings

Thomas King's Cultural Inversions

By: Arnold E. Davidson,Priscilla L.. Walton,Priscilla L. Walton,Jennifer Courtney Elizabeth Andrews

Thomas King is the first Native writer to generate widespread interest in both Canada and the United States. He has been nominated twice for Governor General's Awards, and his first novel, Medicine River, has been transformed into a CBC movie. His books have been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, The Globe and Mail, and People magazine. King is also the author of the serialized radio series The Dead Dog Café and is an accomplished photographer. Border Crossings is the first full-length study to explore King's art. Davidson, Walton, and Andrews employ a framework of postcolonial and border studies theory to examine the concepts of nation, race, and sexuality in King's work. They examine how King's art routinely explores cross-cultural dynamics, including Native rights and race relations, American and Canadian cultural interaction, and the artistic traditions of Europe and North America. The authors argue that, by situating these concepts within a comic framework, King avoids the polemics that often surface in cultural critiques. His writing engages, entertains, and educates. This provocative analysis of King's art reads across cultures and between borders, and makes an important contribution to the study of Native writing, Canadian and American literature, border studies, and humour studies.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802041345

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Wilton, Temple, and Lyndeborough

By: Michael G. Dell’Orto,Priscilla A. Weston,Jessie Salisbury

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Wilton, Temple, and Lyndeborough

By: Michael G. Dell’Orto,Priscilla A. Weston,Jessie Salisbury

Wilton, Temple, and Lyndeborough brings to life the rich shared history of three towns on the eastern edge of the Monadnock region. In more than two hundred photographs from the period 1860 to 1960, this book captures the proud heritage of farm and family life, glass factories, woodenware and textile mills, and the captivating scenic beauty that drew many notable artists such as Chauncey Ryder, Roy Brown, Ross Turner, and Stanley Hallett.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439628769

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The Peacemaker’s Paradox

Pursuing Justice in the Shadow of Conflict

By: Priscilla Hayner

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The Peacemaker’s Paradox

Pursuing Justice in the Shadow of Conflict

By: Priscilla Hayner

Expanding from her path-breaking work in Unspeakable Truths, Priscilla Hayner focuses on a new challenge in The Peacemaker’s Paradox: the age-old problem of negotiating peace after a war of atrocities. Drawing on her first-hand involvement in peace processes and interviews from the frontlines of peace talks, the author recounts many heretofore-untold stories of how justice has been negotiated, with great difficulty, and what this tells us for the future. Those with the most power to stop a war are the least likely to submit to justice for their crimes, but the demand for justice only grows louder. She also asks how the intervention of an international tribunal, such as the International Criminal Court, changes how a war is fought and the possibility of brokering peace. The Peacemaker’s Paradox looks far and wide, from Gaddafi’s Libya to the FARC talks in Colombia, to provide an unparalleled exploration of these thorniest of issues. A combination of interview-based reporting and political analysis, The Peacemaker’s Paradox brings clarity to a field fraught with both legal and practical difficulties.

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Routledge

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1351399209

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