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Harlequin Intrigue January 2019 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Delores Fossen,Rachel Lee,Robin Perini

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Harlequin Intrigue January 2019 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Delores Fossen,Rachel Lee,Robin Perini

Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. LAWMAN WITH A CAUSE The Lawmen of McCall Canyon by Delores Fossen When a serial killer begins targeting the recipients of his late fiancée’s organs, Sheriff Egan McCall must protect former hostage negotiator Jordan Gentry, the woman he blames for her death—and the one he can’t stop thinking about. MISSING IN CONARD COUNTY by Rachel Lee When three girls go missing, only K-9 officer Kelly Noveno and her friend Al Carstairs continue searching after a violent winter storm buries evidence. LAST STAND IN TEXAS by Robin Perini Desperate to protect her daughter, Faith Thomas flees her serial killer ex-husband. Now she is forced to rely on Léon Royce, a mysterious stranger with dangerous secrets of his own. Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s January 2019 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.

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1488050430

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Picture World

Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media

By: Rachel Teukolsky

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Picture World

Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media

By: Rachel Teukolsky

The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198859732

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine

By: Lauren Beukes,Paolo Bacigalupi,K. J. Parker,Rachel Swirsky

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine

By: Lauren Beukes,Paolo Bacigalupi,K. J. Parker,Rachel Swirsky

FEATURING KELLY LINK * HOLLY BLACK * KEN LIU * USMAN T. MALIK * LAUREN BEUKES * PAOLO BACIGALUPI * JOE ABERCROMBIE * GENEVIEVE VALENTINE * NICOLA GRIFFITH * CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN * GREG EGAN * K. J. PARKER * RACHEL SWIRSKY * ALICE SOLA KIM * GARTH NIX * KARL SCHROEDER * ELLEN KLAGES * KAI ASHANTE WILSON * MICHAEL SWANWICK * ELEANOR ARNASON * JAMES PATRICK KELLY * IAN MCDONALD * AMAL EL-MOHTAR * TIM MAUGHAN * ELIZABETH BEAR * THEODORA GOSS * PETER WATTS Science fiction and fantasy has never been more diverse or vibrant, and 2014 has provided a bountiful crop of extraordinary stories. These stories are about the future, worlds beyond our own, the realms of our imaginations and dreams but, more importantly, they are the stories of ourselves. Featuring best-selling writers and emerging talents, here are some of the most exciting genre writers working today. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan once again brings you the best stories from the past year. Within you will find twenty-eight amazing tales from authors across the globe, displaying why science fiction and fantasy are genres increasingly relevant to our turbulent world.

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Solaris

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1849979103

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Process Management in Design and Construction

By: Rachel Cooper,Ghassan Aouad,Angela Lee,Song Wu,Andrew Fleming,Michail Kagioglou

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Process Management in Design and Construction

By: Rachel Cooper,Ghassan Aouad,Angela Lee,Song Wu,Andrew Fleming,Michail Kagioglou

To deliver a construction project on time, at cost and of appropriate quality, it is critical to manage the design and construction process effectively... This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of process management in design and construction in order to meet the business needs of the construction industry as they change in today’s highly competitive global environment. It identifies the current state of the industry in the process management field, describing trends and developments (including information technology), and demonstrates these through case study evidence. Practical guidance is offered by identifying potential pitfalls, illustrating best practise drawn from construction and appropriate manufacturing applications. The overall approach is a holistic one, based on practical experience gained throughout the past decade both in the academic and industrial environments, including leading a number of research projects on process and IT related topics in construction and manufacturing industries. Process Management in Design and Construction will provide students on construction and project management related courses with a description of the state of process management in design and construction - including current process models – as well as a future vision based on up-to-date research findings and good practice in the construction industry. The book also offers practical guidance to industrial and consultancy organisations on undertaking and implementing process management projects - including re-engineering their customer delivery processes through effective project

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470680482

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Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900-1950

The Broad Movement

By: Rachel Sailor

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Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900-1950

The Broad Movement

By: Rachel Sailor

This book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1900 and 1950 and argues that western pictorialist photographers were regionalists that had their roots in the formidable photographic heritage of the nineteenth-century American West.

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BRILL

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9004519769

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The quiet contemporary American novel

By: Rachel Sykes

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The quiet contemporary American novel

By: Rachel Sykes

This book explores the concept of ‘quiet’ – an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles – and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions, arguing that from Hester Prynne to Clarissa Dalloway, from Bartleby to William Stoner, the Western tradition is filled with quiet characters. Secondly, it asks what it means for a novel to be quiet and how we might read for quiet in an American literary tradition that critics so often describe as noisy. Examining recent works by Marilynne Robinson, Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, among others, the book argues that quiet can be a multi-faceted state of existence, one that is communicative and expressive in as many ways as noise but filled with potential for radical discourse by its marginalisation as a mode of expression.

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Manchester University Press

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1526108895

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Mycotoxins and Animal Foods

By: DUPLICATE Smith,Rachel Henderson

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Mycotoxins and Animal Foods

By: DUPLICATE Smith,Rachel Henderson

The ingestion of feed containing mycotoxins has serious adverse effects on the health of farm animals, contributing to reduced weight gain, lower reproductivity, damage to the immune system, severe illnesses, and even death. Mycotoxins formed in animal feedstuffs depend on the presence of specific strains of filamentous fungi or molds and are strongly influenced by environmental factors such as temperature and humidity. This book considers the biological nature of mycotoxin formation, the chemical and biological methods of analysis, as well as the extensive range of substrates capable of supporting the growth of toxigenic fungi. The book also provides extensive coverage of the mycotoxicoses of farmed animals and the current state of research into the control and detoxification of mycotoxins. All researchers interested in mycotoxins and their effects on animals will find important information in this book.

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CRC Press

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0849349044

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The Notorious Reno Gang

The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train Robbers

By: Rachel Dickinson

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The Notorious Reno Gang

The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train Robbers

By: Rachel Dickinson

The true story of the world’s first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the train station their headquarters. When the gang robbed the Adams Express car of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad on the outskirts of Seymour on October 6, 1866, it shocked the world—and made other burgeoning outlaws like Jesse James sit up and take notice. The extraordinary—and extra-legal—efforts to take them out defined the term “frontier justice.” From the first report of the robbery, Allan Pinkerton’s operatives were on the scene, followed by kidnappings, lynchings, and an extradition from Canada to Indiana that caused an international incident. In the end, ten members of the Reno Gang were hanged, including three of the Reno brothers. And no one was ever charged with the murders. The Notorious Reno Gang tells the complete story for the first time, revealing how these gangsters, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, and the little city of Seymour ushered in the Wild West.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493026402

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The Occupational Therapy Handbook: Practice Education

By: Tracey Polglase,Rachel Treseder

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The Occupational Therapy Handbook: Practice Education

By: Tracey Polglase,Rachel Treseder

Written specifically for occupational therapy students, newly qualified occupational therapists and educators and is a useful reference guide for academic tutors. The Occupational Therapy Handbook reflects modern day occupational therapy practice and education. The editors have created a current user-friendly text book specifically in relation to Practice Education, particularly in light of the developing role of occupational therapy in current practice. Many developments in practice education have re-focussed the value that the profession places on occupation, particularly in role emerging placements and expanding areas of practice. These developments are captured in this text. Other texts that have been produced have predominantly had a multi-professional focus and not addressed all the key occupational therapy issues in the depth required.There is always something to learn, irrespective of your level of expertise.

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M&K Update Ltd

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1907830758

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Early Childhood Curricula and the De-pathologizing of Childhood

By: Rachel Heydon,Luigi Iannacci

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Early Childhood Curricula and the De-pathologizing of Childhood

By: Rachel Heydon,Luigi Iannacci

Educators have become increasingly interested in the diverse learning environments of young children and the ways in which children and childhood are positioned within those environments. The documentation and analysis of processes of pathologization and de-pathologization in early childhood may provide scholars with the understanding needed to develop more responsive educational approaches. Early Childhood Curricula and the De-pathologization of Childhood examines what is possible for young children when their education addresses their assets and is organized in ways that expand their identity options. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rachel M. Heydon and Luigi Iannacci shed light on the ways in which joint notions of normality and abnormality are used to pathologize childhood. As teachers and educational researchers, they offer first-hand accounts of processes that take individual children and turn them into 'others' who are seen as deficient or 'at risk.' Through a variety of critical, qualitative case studies that examine general literacy education, special education, early childhood education, and intergenerational learning environments, this book highlights the theoretical underpinnings of asset-oriented curricular practices and suggests what is possible for young children when their education begins from and cultivates their funds of knowledge. Written for those interested in improving the lives of children through interdisciplinary studies, this volume offers sustained theoretical engagement that will appeal to educators around the world.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442692456

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Immigration and American Popular Culture

An Introduction

By: Rachel Lee Rubin,Jeffrey Melnick

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Immigration and American Popular Culture

An Introduction

By: Rachel Lee Rubin,Jeffrey Melnick

Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how particular trends in popular culture-such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk and Asian American zines in the 1990s-have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America. Supplemented by a timeline of key events, Immigration and American Popular Culture offers a unique history of twentieth-century U.S. immigration and an essential introduction to the study of popular culture.

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NYU Press

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0814775535

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Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care

The Challenge of the Person-Centred Approach

By: Rachel Freeth

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Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care

The Challenge of the Person-Centred Approach

By: Rachel Freeth

This book explores, in depth, the link between modern psychiatric practice and the person-centred approach. It promotes an open dialogue between traditional rivals – counsellors and psychiatrists within the NHS – to assist greater understanding and improve practice. Easy to read and comprehend, it explains complex issues in a clear and accessible manner. The author is a full-time psychiatrist and qualified counsellor who offers a unique perspective drawing on personal experience. Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care will be of significant interest and help to all mental health professionals including psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, social care workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, person-centred counsellors and therapists. Health and social care policy makers and shapers, including patient groups, will also find it helpful and informative.

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1315347830

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Explorer's Guide Vermont (Thirteenth Edition)

By: Christina Tree,Rachel Carter

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Explorer's Guide Vermont (Thirteenth Edition)

By: Christina Tree,Rachel Carter

The definitive guide to the Green Mountain State Christina Tree and new coauthor Rachel Carter have more lovingly than ever updated the Explorer's Guide to Vermont, especially since floods in August 2011 caused by Tropical Storm Irene devastated so many of the communities, businesses, iconic covered bridges, and scenic backroads in the state. As these towns and storefronts rebuild, so have Tree and Carter This 13th edition of Explorer’s Guide Vermont reviews hundreds of dining and lodging options from the remote reaches of the Northeast Kingdom to quaint Manchester and bustling Burlington. The authors offer great recommendations for the most rewarding spots to visit—artists’ studios, farmers’ markets, historic sites, and more—and highlight the best biking, hiking, swimming, winter sports, horseback riding, fishing, and paddling. Enjoy four seasons of events and activities; whether you’re a visitor or a resident, you’ve got to get this guide!

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1581577737

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Global Compassion

Private Voluntary Organizations and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1939

By: Rachel M. McCleary

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Global Compassion

Private Voluntary Organizations and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1939

By: Rachel M. McCleary

Aid organizations like Oxfam, CARE, World Vision, and Catholic Relief Services are known the world over. However, little is known about the relationship between these private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and the federal government, and how truly influential these organizations can be in the realm of foreign policy. Indeed since the end of the Second World War, humanitarian aid has become a key component of U.S. foreign policy and has grown steadily ever since. This history of interaction deflates the common claim that PVOs have been independent from the federal government, and that this independence has only recently been threatened. Global Compassion is the first truly comprehensive study of PVOs and their complex, often-fraught interaction with the federal government. Rachel McCleary provides an ambitious analysis of the relationship between the two from 1939 to 2005. The book focuses on the work of PVOs from a foreign policy perspective, revealing how federal political pressures shape the field of international relief. McCleary draws on a new and one-of-a-kind data set on the revenue of private voluntary agencies, employing annual reports, State Department documents, and I.R.S. records, to assess the extent to which international relief and development work is becoming a commercial activity. She outlines the increasing financial dependence of these organizations on the federal government and the consequences of that dependency for various types of agencies, as well as the often competing goals of the federal government and religious PVOs. As a result, there is a continuing trend of decreasing federal funds to PVOs and of simultaneously increasing awards to commercial enterprises. Focusing on the interplay between public and private revenue, the discussion ends with the commercialization of foreign aid and the factors most likely to influence the future of PVOs in international relief and development. In this thought-provoking and rigorously researched work, Rachel McCleary offers a unique, substantive look at an understudied area of U.S. foreign policy and international development, and provides a crucial analysis of what this relationship holds for the future.

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Oxford University Press

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0199707847

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The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook

By: Charles Doidge,Rachel Sara,Rosie Parnell

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The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook

By: Charles Doidge,Rachel Sara,Rosie Parnell

The architectural crit, review or jury is a cornerstone of architectural education around the world. The defence of ideas, drawings, and models in an open format before staff and peers is intended to be a foreground for healthy creative debate, but many students view it as hostile confrontation – an ego trip for staff and humiliation for them. This accessible and immensely enjoyable book guides students through this academic minefield. This fully updated edition includes advice and suggestions for tutors on how to model a crit around a broad range of learning styles, as well as a new section aimed at students with learning disabilities, to ensure that the process is constructive and beneficial for all architecture and design scholars. Packed with practical tips from tutors, students and professionals, this reassuringly honest book will prepare students to build more creative relationships with clients and users across the industry. Also in the Seriously Useful Guides series: * Practical Experience * The Dissertation * The Portfolio

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Routledge

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1136358668

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The Devil Is in the Details

Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity

By: Rachel VanSickle-Ward

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The Devil Is in the Details

Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity

By: Rachel VanSickle-Ward

The level of detail in a given law can have dramatic consequences for how that law is interpreted and applied. In The Devil Is in the Details, Rachel VanSickle-Ward focuses on the dynamics of social policy construction in the United States in order to better understand why the wording of legislation can range from the specific to the ambiguous. When policies are high salience, the fissures produced by partisan discord, interest group diversity, and pluralistic executive branches promote ambiguous policy. When policies are lower profile, this relationship is more tenuous and, at times, inverted, with contention producing more policy detail. Put simply, on important and controversial legislation, ambiguity serves as a vehicle for compromise when key participants disagree over details. Moreover, fragmentation is a more powerful driver of ambiguity than limits in technical expertise or legislative capacity. This multi-method investigation is the first to measure statute specificity directly. VanSickle-Ward combines comprehensive content analysis of more than 250 health and welfare bills passed in 44 states in the 1990s and 2000s with in-depth interviews of policy-making elites.

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State University of New York Press

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1438449240

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Poisonous Skies

Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution

By: Rachel Emma Rothschild

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Poisonous Skies

Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution

By: Rachel Emma Rothschild

The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth’s changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through the history of another global environmental threat: acid rain. The identification of acid rain in the 1960s changed scientific and popular understanding of fossil fuel pollution’s potential to cause regional—and even global—environmental harms. It showed scientists that the problem of fossil fuel pollution was one that crossed borders—it could travel across vast stretches of the earth’s atmosphere to impact ecosystems around the world. This unprecedented transnational reach prompted governments, for the first time, to confront the need to cooperate on pollution policies, transforming environmental science and diplomacy. Studies of acid rain and other pollutants brought about a reimagining of how to investigate the natural world as a complete entity, and the responses of policy makers, scientists, and the public set the stage for how societies have approached other prominent environmental dangers on a global scale, most notably climate change. Grounded in archival research spanning eight countries and five languages, as well as interviews with leading scientists from both government and industry, Poisonous Skies is the first book to examine the history of acid rain in an international context. By delving deep into our environmental past, Rothschild hopes to inform its future, showing us how much is at stake for the natural world as well as what we risk—and have already risked—by not acting.

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University of Chicago Press

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022663471X

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9780226634715

Disability and Social Movements

Learning from Australian Experiences

By: Rachel Carling-Jenkins

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Disability and Social Movements

Learning from Australian Experiences

By: Rachel Carling-Jenkins

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophically, historically, and theoretically positioned, Carling-Jenkins is able to then examine disability relationally through an evaluation of the contributions of groups engaged in similar human rights struggles. The book locates disability rights as a new social movement and provides an explanation for why disability has been divided rather than united in Australia. Finally, it investigates whether the recent campaign to implement a national disability insurance scheme represents a re-emergence of the movement. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of both disability studies and social movements.

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Explorers Guide Vermont Thirteenth Edition

By: Christina Tree,Rachel Carter

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Explorers Guide Vermont Thirteenth Edition

By: Christina Tree,Rachel Carter

Surveys the parks, campgrounds, inns, motels, restaurants, stores, sports, cultural activities, special events, and historic villages in Vermont.

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The Countryman Press

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0881509612

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The Politics of the Pill

Gender, Framing, and Policymaking in the Battle over Birth Control

By: Rachel VanSickle-Ward,Kevin Wallsten

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The Politics of the Pill

Gender, Framing, and Policymaking in the Battle over Birth Control

By: Rachel VanSickle-Ward,Kevin Wallsten

The announcement of a Health and Human Services (HHS) rule requiring insurance providers to cover the costs of contraception as part of the Affordable Care Act sparked widespread political controversy. How did something that millions of American women use regularly become such a fraught political issue? In The Politics of the Pill, Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten explore how gender has shaped contemporary debates over contraception policy in the U.S. Within historical context, they examine the impact that women and perceptions of gender roles had on media coverage, public opinion, policy formation, and legal interpretations from the deliberation of the Affordable Care Act in 2009 to the more recent Supreme Court rulings in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Zubic v. Burwell. Their central argument is that representation matters: who had a voice significantly impacted policy attitudes, deliberation and outcomes. While women's participation in the debate over birth control was limited by a lack of gender parity across institutions, women nevertheless shaped policy making on birth control in myriad and interconnected ways. Combining detailed analyses of media coverage and legislative records with data from public opinion surveys, survey experiments, elite interviews, and congressional testimony, The Politics of the Pill tells a broader story of how gender matters in American politics.

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Oxford University Press

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0190675365

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My Revision Notes: WJEC GCSE Geography Second Edition

By: Rachel Crutcher,Dirk Sykes

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My Revision Notes: WJEC GCSE Geography Second Edition

By: Rachel Crutcher,Dirk Sykes

Target exam success with My Revision Notes. Our updated approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide that can be relied on to build both knowledge and confidence. My Revision Notes: WJEC GCSE Geography will help students: - Plan and manage revision with our topic-by-topic planner and exam breakdown introduction - Practise and apply skills and knowledge with Exam-style questions and frequent check your understanding questions, and answer guidance online - Build quick recall with bullet- pointed summaries at the end of each chapter - Understand key terms for the exam with user-friendly definitions and a glossary - Avoid common mistakes and enhance exam answers with Examiner tips - Improve subject-specific skills with an Exam skills checkbox at the end of each chapter

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Hodder Education

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1398321923

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The Lyre's Limit

By: Rachel Jason,Kim Likier,Jason Lund

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The Lyre's Limit

By: Rachel Jason,Kim Likier,Jason Lund

Work in the humanities by undergraduate students of Carthage College

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Lulu.com

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1105788687

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Nodiadau Adolygu: CBAC TGAU Daearyddiaeth (My Revision Notes: WJEC GCSE Geography Welsh-language edition)

By: Dirk Sykes,Rachel Crutcher

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Nodiadau Adolygu: CBAC TGAU Daearyddiaeth (My Revision Notes: WJEC GCSE Geography Welsh-language edition)

By: Dirk Sykes,Rachel Crutcher

Exam Board: WJEC Level: GCSE Subject: Geography First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 Target success in WJEC GCSE Geography with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes every student can: - Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - Enjoy an active approach to revision with clear topic coverage and related 'Now Test Yourself' tasks and practical revision activities - Improve exam technique through exam tips and formal exam-style questions - Monitor their knowledge and progress using the answers provided for each 'Now Test Yourself' activity and exam-style question - Develop geographical understanding and enhance exam responses with event/place examples Please note: This is a Welsh-language edition.

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1510459847

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Meaningful Places

Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West

By: Rachel McLean Sailor

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Meaningful Places

Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West

By: Rachel McLean Sailor

The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era. Art historian Rachel Sailor points out that most photographers in the West were engaged in producing images for their local communities. These pictures didn’t just entertain the settlers but gave them a way to understand their new home. Photographs could help the settlers adjust to their new circumstances by recording the development of a place—revealing domestication, alteration, and improvement. The book explores the cultural complexity of regional landscape photography, western places, and local sociopolitical concerns. Photographic imagery, like western paintings from the same era, enabled Euro-Americans to see the new landscape through their own cultural lenses, shaping the idea of the frontier for the people who lived there.

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0826354238

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From Split to Screened Selves

French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person

By: Rachel Gabara

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From Split to Screened Selves

French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person

By: Rachel Gabara

This book is a study of recent autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. Gabara investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, as well as across the colonial encounter, from France to Francophone North and West Africa. Reading works by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, Assia Djebar, Cyril Collard, David Achkar, and Raoul Peck, she argues that autobiographical film and African autobiography, subgenres that have until now been overlooked or dismissed by critics, offer new and important possibilities for self-representation in the twenty-first century. Not only do these new forms of autobiography deserve our attention, but any study of contemporary autobiography is incomplete without them.

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Stanford University Press

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0804753563

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Using Semiotics in Marketing

How to Achieve Consumer Insight for Brand Growth and Profits

By: Rachel Lawes

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Using Semiotics in Marketing

How to Achieve Consumer Insight for Brand Growth and Profits

By: Rachel Lawes

Semiotics is a superpower for marketers. It's a proven, powerful method of uncovering consumer insight, tailoring brand strategies that work and generating profit for brands. Companies such as Unilever and P&G have attested to the success of Lawes semiotics in stimulating innovation and boosting sales. Now newly updated, this second edition is packed with even more revelations about brands, consumers and their emerging needs. Three new chapters reveal the unseen social forces that drive the Be Kind movement, public appetite for sincerity and the emotions of younger generations. Using Semiotics in Marketing is an acclaimed how-to guide that makes semiotics accessible. It ensures all agency-side and client-side marketers can pick up the skills to use and apply semiotics to brands and is the only book on semiotics ever published that sets out a complete blueprint for research projects. This is your one-stop guide to learn how to write briefs and proposals, design projects, conduct analysis, write reports and present research findings. Start using semiotics today. Position and launch new brands, rejuvenate established ones, design products and packaging and inspire timely and provocative ad campaigns. See the future. Innovate.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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1398607657

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On Compromise

Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal

By: Rachel Greenwald Smith

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On Compromise

Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal

By: Rachel Greenwald Smith

A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal society’s tendency to view compromise as an unalloyed good—politically, ethically, and artistically. In a series of clear, convincing essays, Rachel Greenwald Smith discusses the dangers of thinking about compromise as an end rather than as a means. To illustrate her points, she recounts her stint in a band as a bass player, fighting with her bandmates about “what the song wants,” and then moves outward to Bikini Kill and the Riot Grrrl movement, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Poetry magazine, the resurgence of fascism, and other wide-ranging topics. Smith’s arguments are complex and yet have a simplicity to them, as she writes in a concise, cogent style that is eminently readable. By weaving examples drawn from literature, music, and other art forms with political theory and first-person anecdotes, she shows the problems of compromise in action. And even as Smith demonstrates the many ways that late capitalism demands individual compromise, she also holds out hope for the possibility of lasting change through collective action. Closing with a piercing discussion of the uncompromising nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and how global protests against racism and police brutality after the murder of George Floyd point to a new future, On Compromise is a necessary and vital book for our time.

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Graywolf Press

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1644451530

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Constructing Futures

Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction

By: Paul Chan,Rachel Cooper

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Constructing Futures

Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction

By: Paul Chan,Rachel Cooper

There is growing interest in future scenario planning of the construction industry but a disconnect between thinking about the future at the policy-making level and implementing real change. Constructing Futures: industry leaders and futures thinking in construction takes a thematic approach to the future of the UK construction industry by presenting the results of a series of in-depth interviews conducted with leading construction figures and structuring this material into chapters addressing the key contemporary issues in the industry. These high-profile figures are drawn from a wide range of stakeholder groups representing the realities of construction, including architects, client organisations (public-sector and private-sector), consultants, contractors, developers, lobby groups with special interests, policy makers, professional institutions, and trade unions. A total of 15 influential figures were interviewed for the book, from Sir Michael Latham and Bob White to Wayne Hemmingway and Kevin McCloud. Part One looks to the past by reviewing a series of foresight studies undertaken of the construction industry and re-presenting stories of our interviewees' lives to explain the development of leadership in the context of the construction industry. In Part Two, the authors look at the present and discuss two fundamental issues: sustainable development and governance of the construction industry. In Part Three the book concludes with an afterthought for the future, highlighting key lessons learnt putting forward a series of research questions derived from this scholarly reflection of 'futures thinking' in construction. Throughout, the authors juxtapose the views of the 15 influential figures interviewed with a review of the salient points found in the relevant and authoritative sources of theoretical literature, both in the mainstream literature and the field of construction management. This allows the reader to benefit from the practical insights of those interviews whilst gaining a rapid understanding of the key debates of the theoretical subject under scrutiny.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405157976

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Body/Sex/Work

Intimate, embodied and sexualised labour

By: Carol Wolkowitz,Rachel Lara Cohen,Teela Sanders

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Body/Sex/Work

Intimate, embodied and sexualised labour

By: Carol Wolkowitz,Rachel Lara Cohen,Teela Sanders

Body/Sex/Work focuses on the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour that occurs within body work and sex work. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, it explores, empirically and theoretically, labour processes, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that make up the body work and sex work sectors. The book makes a key contribution to research recognising the embodiment of labour and the body, reframing the key questions in critical studies of work and employment. Key Benefits: - The first book that draws together the sub-disciplines of body work and sex work - Written by leading international experts - Contains cutting edge empirical research on contemporary topics Body/Sex/Work is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and organisation studies, body studies, gender, and sexuality. It will also appeal to researchers and lecturers in these fields.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137021918

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Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

By: Rachel Greenwald Smith

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Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

By: Rachel Greenwald Smith

Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in contemporary fiction emphasizes the personal lives of characters at a time when there is an unprecedented, and often damaging, focus on the individual in American life. Through readings of works by Paul Auster, Karen Tei Yamashita, Ben Marcus, Lydia Millet, and others who stage experiments in the relationship between feeling and form, Smith argues for the centrality of a counter-tradition in contemporary literature concerned with impersonal feelings: feelings that challenge the neoliberal notion that emotions are the property of the self.

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Cambridge University Press

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131624119X

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New Mom, New Woman

Creating Your Smart Motherhood Plan

By: Rachel Egan

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New Mom, New Woman

Creating Your Smart Motherhood Plan

By: Rachel Egan

New Mom, New Woman provides you with skills and strategies to become more competent, decisive, and empowered. You will develop a broader perspective of your new life, a deeper awareness of your needs and desires, and a keen understanding that a life you love won’t happen miraculously; it needs to be consciously defined and deliberately designed. Rachel Egan, MBA, is a certified life coach and President of Maternity Transitions®—a national coaching service provider. She is the author of Life after ‘I Do!’ and lives in Massachusetts with her husband and four children.

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1632990040

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9781632990044

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