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Whispers of Hope

By: Lely Novia,Muftihaturrahmah Burhamzah ,Alamsyah,Alissa Geisler,Rebecca Topham-Roche,Emmanuel Mangulenje,Ananta Vidya

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Whispers of Hope

By: Lely Novia,Muftihaturrahmah Burhamzah ,Alamsyah,Alissa Geisler,Rebecca Topham-Roche,Emmanuel Mangulenje,Ananta Vidya

Whispers of Hope" is an anthology book written by authors from Germany, Africa, England and Indonesia. The book's main focus is on the theme of hope, and it aims to convey a message of positivity and inspiration to its readers. The book is a collection of stories and poems that celebrate the joy and triumphs of life, and it a great addition to any reader's collection.

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Ananta Vidya

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6238453109

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9786238453108

Yalla Feminists

Arab Rights and Resistance

By: Lina AbiRafeh,Rebecca O’Keeffe

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Yalla Feminists

Arab Rights and Resistance

By: Lina AbiRafeh,Rebecca O’Keeffe

The Arab region continues to be among the most challenging in the world for the progress of women's rights. Equality remains elusive for women and vulnerable groups in the region due to traditional patriarchal cultures, protracted crises, lack of religious freedom, discriminatory legal frameworks, and chronic insecurity. The strongest indicator of peace in any country is in its treatment of women, but the story of women's rights in the region is one of patchy progress and major regress. Today, women are experiencing a massive backlash against their rights and fundamental freedoms. And yet, there is hope. Feminists--particularly young feminists--from the Arab region fight tirelessly for their rights and are leading movements around the region pushing for change. This book looks at the last 50 years of Arab feminism with a view to understanding what the next 50 years will hold. Built from hundreds of firsthand accounts with women in the region, this book brings together voices across the 22 Arab states to present new pathways to women's rights and gender equality.

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McFarland

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1476691150

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9781476691152

The Chernobyl Disaster

By: Rebecca Rissman

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The Chernobyl Disaster

By: Rebecca Rissman

Across the globe, devastating disasters have changed the course of history. This title brings the Chernobyl disaster to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Explore the tragedies and triumphs of this disaster, how it helped shape the world as we know it, and how what we?ve learned from it has made the world a safer place. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

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1617839558

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Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

By: Rebecca Cypess

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Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

By: Rebecca Cypess

Musical salons as liminal spaces: salonnières as agents of musical culture -- Sensuality, sociability, and sympathy: musical salon practices as enactments of Enlightenment --Ephemerae and authorship in the salon of Madame Brillon -- Composition, collaboration, and the cultivation of skill in the salon of Marianna Martines -- The cultural work of collecting and performing in the salon of Sara Levy -- Musical improvisation and poetic painting in the salon of Angelica Kauffman -- Reading musically in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme -- Conclusion.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226817911

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9780226817910

Feminine Figurae

Representations of Gender in Religious Texts by Medieval German Women Writers 1100-1375

By: Rebecca L. R. Garber

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Feminine Figurae

Representations of Gender in Religious Texts by Medieval German Women Writers 1100-1375

By: Rebecca L. R. Garber

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415939534

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Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil

Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945

By: Rebecca Margolis

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Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil

Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945

By: Rebecca Margolis

Looking at Montreal's Jewish community during the first half of the twentieth century, Margolis explores the lives and works of activists, writers, scholars, performers, and organizations that fuelled a still-thriving community. She also considers the foundations and development of Yiddish cultural life in Montreal in its interaction with broader issues of diasporic Jewish culture. An illuminating look at the ways in which Yiddish culture was maintained in North America, Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil is the story of how a minority culture was transplanted and transformed.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773585893

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9780773585898

A Question of Priorities

Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany

By: Rebecca Boehling

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A Question of Priorities

Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany

By: Rebecca Boehling

Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of these years for an understanding of the developments in the two Germanys. With her study of U.S. occupation policy and its effects on German social and political developments in Frankfurt, Munich, and Stuttgart, Rebecca Boehling offers a most valuable contribution to this debate. She examines the decisions made by the U.S. Military Government regarding German municipal personnel from the first year of the occupation, when all city officials were appointed directly by Military Government of with its explicit approval, through the first postwar municipal elections in 1946 and 1948, when democratic self-government was gradually restored. Boehling explores the far-reaching effects of personnel decisions on German political life within the framework of U.S. policies intended to denazify and democratize Germany. The conclusion she draws is that the early local-level German developments under U.S. occupation facilitated economic recovery in a manner that restricted the implementation of political and social goals of democratization.

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Berghahn Books

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178533011X

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Red Hot Mama

The Life of Sophie Tucker

By: Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

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Red Hot Mama

The Life of Sophie Tucker

By: Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

The “First Lady of Show Business” and the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas,” Sophie Tucker was a star in vaudeville, radio, film, and television. A gutsy, song-belting stage performer, she entertained audiences for sixty years and inspired a host of younger women, including Judy Garland, Carol Channing, and Bette Midler. Tucker was a woman who defied traditional expectations and achieved success on her own terms, becoming the first female president of the American Federation of Actors and winning many other honors usually bestowed on men. Dedicated to social justice, she advocated for African Americans in the entertainment industry and cultivated friendships with leading black activists and performers. Tucker was also one of the most generous philanthropists in show business, raising over four million dollars for the religious and racial causes she held dear. Drawing from the hundreds of scrapbooks Tucker compiled, Red Hot Mama presents a compelling biography of this larger-than-life performer. Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff tells an engrossing story of how a daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants set her sights on becoming one of the most formidable women in show business and achieved her version of the American dream. More than most of her contemporaries, Tucker understood how to keep her act fresh, to change branding when audiences grew tired and, most importantly, how to connect with her fans, the press, and entertainment moguls. Both deservedly famous and unjustly forgotten today, Tucker stands out as an exemplar of the immigrant experience and a trailblazer for women in the entertainment industry.

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University of Texas Press

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1477312366

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My Amish Story

Breaking Generations of Silence

By: Rebecca Borntrager Graber

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My Amish Story

Breaking Generations of Silence

By: Rebecca Borntrager Graber

My Amish Story is the story of the last few years of Amish life for the Graber family in the 1990s. It’s about the hurdles of breaking the barriers of centuries, of family circles being broken with no goodbyes, of heartbreak and estrangement, and of the transitions and adjustments to a new way of living. But it is also, and more so, a story of leaving the old and embracing the new, of walking in the blessing of freedom from bondage, and of leaving behind the fear of tomorrow. It is the story of a family living, loving, and laughing their way along the journey of life.

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Aneko Press

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162245488X

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Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis

Making Bushfire Babies

By: Celia Roberts,Mary Lou Rasmussen,Louisa Allen,Rebecca Williamson

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Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis

Making Bushfire Babies

By: Celia Roberts,Mary Lou Rasmussen,Louisa Allen,Rebecca Williamson

What is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment, the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of having children. They also raise questions about how gender and sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire. This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary crises.

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Policy Press

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1529226864

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Under the Nuclear Shadow

Situational Awareness Technology and Crisis Decisionmaking

By: Rebecca K.C. Hersman,Reja Younis,Bryce Farabaugh,Bethany Goldblum,Andrew Reddie

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Under the Nuclear Shadow

Situational Awareness Technology and Crisis Decisionmaking

By: Rebecca K.C. Hersman,Reja Younis,Bryce Farabaugh,Bethany Goldblum,Andrew Reddie

Improvements to strategic situational awareness (SA)—the ability to characterize the operating environment, detect and respond to threats, and discern actual attacks from false alarms across the spectrum of conflict—have long been assumed to reduce the risk of conflict and help manage crises more successfully when they occur. However, with the development of increasingly capable strategic SA-related technology, growing comingling of conventional and nuclear SA requirements and capabilities, and the increasing risk of conventional conflict between nuclear-armed adversaries, this may no longer be the case. The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the University of California, Berkeley’s Nuclear Policy Working Group undertook a two-year study to examine the implications of emerging situational awareness technologies for managing crises between nuclear-armed adversaries.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442281545

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What Works in Girls' Education

Evidence for the World's Best Investment

By: Gene B Sperling,Rebecca Winthrop

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What Works in Girls' Education

Evidence for the World's Best Investment

By: Gene B Sperling,Rebecca Winthrop

Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls’ education. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any child could be denied an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is just wrong and unimaginable. More than 1,000 studies have provided evidence that high-quality girls’ education around the world leads to wide-ranging returns: Better outcomes in economic areas of growth and incomes Reduced rates of infant and maternal mortality Reduced rates of child marriage Reduced rates of the incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria Increased agricultural productivity Increased resilience to natural disasters Women’s empowerment What Works in Girls’ Education is a compelling work for both concerned global citizens, and any academic, expert, nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff member, policymaker, or journalist seeking to dive into the evidence and policies on girls’ education.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815728611

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The Post-Colonial Security Dilemma

Timor-Leste and the International Community

By: Rebecca Strating

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The Post-Colonial Security Dilemma

Timor-Leste and the International Community

By: Rebecca Strating

This book examines the development of Timor-Leste’s foreign policy since achieving political independence in 2002. It considers the influence of Timor-Leste’s historical experiences with foreign intervention on how the small, new state has pursued security. The book argues that efforts to secure the Timorese state have been motivated by a desire to reduce foreign intervention and dependence upon other actors within the international community. Timor-Leste’s desire for ‘real’ independence — characterized by the absence of foreign interference — permeates all spheres of its international political, cultural and economic relations and foreign policy discourse. Securing the state entails projecting a legitimate identity in the international community to protect and guarantee political recognition of sovereign status, an imperative that gives rise to Timor-Leste’s aspirational foreign policy. The book examines Timor-Leste’s key bilateral and multilateral diplomatic relations, its engagement with the global normative order, and its place within the changing Asia-Pacific region.

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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

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9814818402

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After the Dance, the Drums are Heavy

Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti

By: Rebecca Dirksen

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After the Dance, the Drums are Heavy

Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti

By: Rebecca Dirksen

Richly ethnographic and a compelling read, After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti. The book explores how the self-declared president of konpa Sweet Micky (Michel Martelly) rose to the nation's highest office while methodically crafting a political product inherently entangled with his musical product. It offers deep historical perspective on the characteristics of carnivalesque verbal play-and the performative skillset of the artist (Sweet Micky) who dominated carnival for more than a decade-including vulgarities and polemics. Yet there has been profound resistance to this brand of politics led by many other high-profile artists, including Matyas and J�j, Brothers Posse, Boukman Eksperyans, and RAM. These groups have each released popular carnival songs that have contributed to the public's discussions on what civic participation and citizenship in Haiti can and should be. Drawing on more than a decade and a half of ethnographic research, Rebecca Dirksen presents an in-depth consideration of politically and socially engaged music and what these expressions mean for the Haitian population in the face of challenging political and economic circumstances. After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy centers the voices of Haitian musicians and regular citizens by extensively sharing interviews and detailed analyses of musical performance in the context of contemporary events well beyond the musical realm.

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0190928050

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Into the Forest

A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

By: Rebecca Frankel

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Into the Forest

A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

By: Rebecca Frankel

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021 "An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal "A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel." —NPR In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family’s inspiring true story.

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St. Martin's Press

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125026765X

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The Ultimate Scrapbooking Book

By: Rebecca Carter,Vanessa-Ann,Lael C. Furgeson,Stephanie F. Taylor

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The Ultimate Scrapbooking Book

By: Rebecca Carter,Vanessa-Ann,Lael C. Furgeson,Stephanie F. Taylor

Provides ideas and techniques on creating scrapbooks for any occasion, and helps readers find the appropriate accessories and materials.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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0806958316

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The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt

The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive

By: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson

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The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt

The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive

By: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson

The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed around the world, before becoming collectively known as “The Cairo Genizah,” is far more convoluted and compelling than previously told. The full story involves an international cast of scholars, librarians, archaeologists, excavators, collectors, dealers and agents, operating from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and all acting with varying motivations and intentions in a race for the spoils. Basing her research on a wealth of archival materials, Jefferson reconstructs how these protagonists used their various networks to create key alliances, or to blaze lone trails, each one on a quest to recover ancient manuscripts. Following in their footsteps, she takes the reader on a journey down into ancient caves and tombs, under medieval rubbish mounds, into hidden attic rooms, vaults, basements and wells, along labyrinthine souks, and behind the doors of private clubs and cloistered colleges. Along the way, the reader will also learn about the importance of establishing manuscript provenance and authenticity, and the impact to our understanding of the past when either factor is in doubt.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1788319656

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Literature and Primary Sources

The Perfect Pairing for Student Learning

By: Tom Bober,Rebecca Newland

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Literature and Primary Sources

The Perfect Pairing for Student Learning

By: Tom Bober,Rebecca Newland

Enrich student engagement and deepen learning with this guide to foolproof techniques and strategies to integrate primary sources and literature to benefit learners from kindergarten through high school. Readers of all ages experience literature in a different light when historical context is provided via primary sources. Literature, meanwhile, helps learners to uncover additional layers of meaning inherent in primary sources. Guided by best practices developed by the authors over years of working with both students and teachers, this book speaks to the countless opportunities for instructors to integrate related primary sources with the literature that students read in school classrooms-from historical fiction and poetry to graphic novels.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440880425

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9781440880421

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

By: Rebecca Rovit

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The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

By: Rebecca Rovit

Revealing the complex interplay between history and human lives under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year odyssey of Berlin's Jewish Kulturbund Theatre. By examining why and how an all-Jewish repertory theatre could coexist with the Nazi regime. Rovit raises broader questions about the nature of art in an environment of coercion and isolation, artistic integrity and adaptability, and community and identity."--BACK COVER.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609381246

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Frances Walderaux

By: Rebecca Harding Davis

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Frances Walderaux

By: Rebecca Harding Davis

Reproduction of the original: Frances Walderaux by Rebecca Harding Davis

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734097444

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Disease-related Malnutrition

An Evidence-based Approach to Treatment

By: Rebecca J. Stratton,Ceri J. Green,Marinos Elia

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Disease-related Malnutrition

An Evidence-based Approach to Treatment

By: Rebecca J. Stratton,Ceri J. Green,Marinos Elia

Disease-related malnutrition is a global public health problem. The consequences of disease-related malnutrition are numerous, and include shorter survival rates, lower functional capacity, longer hospital stays, greater complication rates, and higher prescription rates. Nutritional support, in the form of oral nutritional supplements or tube feeding, has proven to lead to an improvement in patient outcome. This book is unique in that it draws together the results of numerous different studies that demonstrate the benefits of nutritional support and provides an evidence base for it. It also discusses the causes, consequences, and prevalence of disease-related malnutrition, and provides insights into the best possible use of enteral nutritional support.

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CABI

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0851996485

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9780851996486

The Decarbonization Imperative

Transforming the Global Economy by 2050

By: Michael Lenox,Rebecca Duff

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The Decarbonization Imperative

Transforming the Global Economy by 2050

By: Michael Lenox,Rebecca Duff

Time is of the essence. Climate change looms as a malignant force that will reshape our economy and society for generations to come. If we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change, we are going to need to effectively "decarbonize" the global economy by 2050. This doesn't mean a modest, or even a drastic, improvement in fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. It means 100 percent of the cars on the road being battery-powered or powered by some other non-carbon-emitting powertrain. It means 100 percent of our global electricity needs being met by renewables and other non-carbon-emitting sources such as nuclear power. It means electrifying the global industrials sector and replacing carbon-intensive chemical processes with green alternatives, eliminating scope-one emissions—emissions in production—across all industries, particularly steel, cement, petrochemicals, which are the backbone of the global economy. It means sustainable farming while still feeding a growing global population. Responding to the existential threat of climate change, Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff propose a radical reconfiguration of the industries contributing the most, and most harmfully, to this planetary crisis. Disruptive innovation and a particular calibration of industry dynamics will be key to this change. The authors analyze precisely what this might look like for specific sectors of the world economy—ranging from agriculture to industrials and building, energy, and transportation—and examine the possible challenges and obstacles to introducing a paradigm shift in each one. With regards to existent business practices and products, how much and what kind of transformation can be achieved? The authors assert that markets are critical to achieving the needed change, and that they operate within a larger scale of institutional rules and norms. Lenox and Duff conclude with an analysis of policy interventions and strategies that could move us toward clean tech and decarbonization by 2050.

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Stanford University Press

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1503629627

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Preference Heterogeneity and Willingness-To-Pay for Organic Food Products in Germany

By: Rebecca Illichmann

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Preference Heterogeneity and Willingness-To-Pay for Organic Food Products in Germany

By: Rebecca Illichmann

Over the last decade, the market for organic food products in Germany has grown steadily, as consumers become increasingly aware of credence characteristics of food products. The primary goal of this study is to integrate psychometric data into a choice experiment to examine preference heterogeneity among consumers and their willingness-to-pay for organic products. In particular, the role of trust and gender are considered in analysing both preferences and willingness-to-pay for organic products. The results of the mixed logit models reveal significant heterogeneity in preferences among consumers for the products examined. The second focus of this study is the effect of starting point bias on the willingness-to-pay estimates obtained. The use of different prices in the first choice set results in different distributions of choices and significantly different preferences and willingness-to-pay estimates in two otherwise identical choice set designs. The results of the latent class models indicate that consumers’ trust perceptions tend to significantly influence their preferences for organic food products. The findings of this study indicate that some consumer groups are willing to pay high price premiums for specific organic food products and, to some extent, for locally produced food. As there is consumer segmentation based on varying levels of trust and due to the heterogeneous preferences of the consumers, organic food marketing should increase its use of suitable communication strategies concerning quality attributes.

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Cuvillier Verlag

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3736946457

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Fighting for the Soul of Germany

The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification

By: Rebecca Ayako Bennette

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Fighting for the Soul of Germany

The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification

By: Rebecca Ayako Bennette

Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette’s bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich. In the years following unification, Germany was embroiled in a struggle to define the new nation. Otto von Bismarck and his allies looked to establish Germany as a modern nation through emphasis on Protestantism and military prowess. Many Catholics feared for their future when he launched the Kulturkampf, a program to break the political and social power of German Catholicism. But these anti-Catholic policies did not destroy Catholic hopes for the new Germany. Rather, they encouraged Catholics to develop an alternative to the Protestant and liberal visions that dominated the political culture. Bennette’s reconstruction of Catholic thought and politics sheds light on several aspects of German life. From her discovery of Catholics who favored a more “feminine” alternative to Bismarckian militarism to her claim that anti-socialism, not anti-Semitism, energized Catholic politics, Bennette’s work forces us to rethink much of what we know about religion and national identity in late nineteenth-century Germany.

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Harvard University Press

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0674070089

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Financial Accounting

By: Charles Horngren,Walter Harrison,Suzanne Oliver,Peter Best,David Fraser,Rebecca Tan

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Financial Accounting

By: Charles Horngren,Walter Harrison,Suzanne Oliver,Peter Best,David Fraser,Rebecca Tan

Success in Accounting begins here! The technical details you need to know and decision-making processes you need to understand, with plain-language explanations and unlimited practice. Financial Accounting is an engaging resource that focuses on current accounting theory and practice in Australia, within a business context. It emphasises how financial decision-making is based on accurate and complete accounting information and uses case studies to illustrate this in a practical way. The new 7th edition is accurate and up to date, guided by extensive technical review feedback and incorporating the latest Australian Accounting Standards. It also provides updated coverage of some of the most significant current issues in accounting such as ethics, information systems and sustainability.

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Pearson Higher Education AU

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1442553480

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Enforcing Equality

Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights

By: Rebecca E Zietlow

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Enforcing Equality

Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights

By: Rebecca E Zietlow

In Enforcing Equality, Rebecca E. Zietlow assesses Congress's historical role in interpreting the Constitution and protecting the individual rights of citizens, provocatively challenging conventional wisdom that courts, not legislatures, are best suited for this role. Specifically focusing on what she calls “rights of belonging”—a set of positive entitlements that are necessary to ensure inclusion, participation, and equal membership in diverse communities—Zietlow examines three historical eras: Reconstruction, the New Deal era, and Civil Rights era of the 1960s. She reveals that in these key periods when rights of belonging were contested and defined, Congress has played the role of protector of rights at least as often as the Supreme Court has adopted this role. Enforcing Equality also engages in a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Congress as a protector of rights, comparing the institutional strengths and weaknesses of Congress and the courts as protectors of the rights of belonging. With the recent new appointments to the Supreme Court and Congressional elections in November 2006, this timely book argues that individual rights are best enforced by the political process because they express the values of our national community, and as such, litigation is no substitute for collective political action.

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NYU Press

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0814797075

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Sociology for a New Century

By: York William Bradshaw,Joseph F. Healey,Rebecca Smith

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Sociology for a New Century

By: York William Bradshaw,Joseph F. Healey,Rebecca Smith

This book aims to help college students understand how their lives are shaped by the complexities of global social forces in our new century. It will enable students to develop an approach to thinking about social issues and evaluating claims and arguments. It demonstrates the power and value of thinking sociologically about societies today and helps teach the process of investigation, the sociological craft of research, critical thinking, and careful analysis.

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Pine Forge Press

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0803990820

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9780803990821

Constantinople

Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital

By: Dr. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos

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Constantinople

Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital

By: Dr. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos

As Christian spaces and agents assumed prominent positions in civic life, the end of the long span of the fourth century was marked by large-scale religious change. Churches had overtaken once-thriving pagan temples, old civic priesthoods were replaced by prominent bishops, and the rituals of the city were directed toward the Christian God. Such changes were particularly pronounced in the newly established city of Constantinople, where elites from various groups contended to control civic and imperial religion. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos argues that imperial Christianity was in fact a manifestation of traditional Roman religious structures. In particular, she explores how deeply established habits of ritual engagement in shared social spaces—ones that resonated with imperial ideology and appealed to the memories of previous generations—constructed meaning to create a new imperial religious identity. By examining three dynamics—ritual performance, rhetoric around violence, and the preservation and curation of civic memory—she distinguishes the role of Christian practice in transforming the civic and cultic landscapes of the late antique polis.

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Univ of California Press

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0520973186

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9780520973183

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A Jewish Family's Untold Story

By: Rebecca Boehling,Uta Larkey

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Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A Jewish Family's Untold Story

By: Rebecca Boehling,Uta Larkey

A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family was pulled apart under the Nazi regime and dispersed over three continents. The family's unique eight-way correspondence across two generations brings into sharp focus the dilemma of Jews in Nazi Germany facing the painful decisions of when, if and to where they should emigrate. The authors capture the family members' fluctuating emotions of hope, optimism, resignation and despair as well as the day-to-day concerns, experiences and dynamics of family life despite increasing persecution and impending deportation. Headed by two sisters who were among the first female business owners in Essen, the family was far from conventional and their story contributes new dimensions to our understanding of Jewish life in Germany and in exile during these dark years.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107377692

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9781107377691

The Paris Climate Agreement

By: Duchess Harris,Rebecca Rowell

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The Paris Climate Agreement

By: Duchess Harris,Rebecca Rowell

The Paris Climate Agreement explores the issues surrounding the 2015 international agreement to combat climate change. Many nations were shocked when the United States later announced its decision to withdraw from the agreement. The book explores these political ramifications and encourages readers to form their own opinions. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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1532159641

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Devon Honey

By: Rebecca Winterfeldt

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Devon Honey

By: Rebecca Winterfeldt

David and Sarah - an artist couple, live with their children in Devon - South England. Sarah is considered one of the most important contemporary painters meanwhile David is struggling for success as an actor and playwright. The headmaster of the language school calls it »good luck« that accommodation could be offered with David and Sarah as a host family to the German woman Rebecca and her daughter. The pair spend their summer in that little village to learn English. But Rebecca, having escaped her aggressive ex-husband, has to learn soon that appearances can be deceiving. Still suffering from her own past, she feels the shadow of emotional abuse within her host family. When Sarah leaves with the children for a vernissage, Rebecca becomes closer to ambivalent David. However, the more she learns about his life, the more reality becomes distorted.

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3744876314

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Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass

By: Rebecca Braun

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Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass

By: Rebecca Braun

A challenging new reading of Grass's literary work and political writings that examines how the author has reacted to sustained public interest in his person from the mid-1960s onwards. Braun draws together an eclectic body of literary writing and suggests that questions of authorship lie at the heart of Grass's work.

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