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Secret Providence: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

By: Rebecca Keister

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Secret Providence: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

By: Rebecca Keister

Where in Providence can you…pay homage to the birth of sideburns?...visit a Vampire grave….? view North America’s largest collection of fresco paintings?...see a tree that “ate” a state founder?...get a glimpse of a 58-foot blue bug?...discover the origin of the Seabee?...spend the afternoon at the home of America’s longest-played baseball game?...explore a castle in the middle of the city? You’ll find all these unique—and often little-known—landmarks, attractions and hidden gems and more inside Secret Providence: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Whether you’re interested in Rhode Island’s haunted, hysterical, surprising or somber, Secret Providence gives you insider access to all the mysteries you never knew the city was holding and takes you on a tour like none you’ve seen before. Founded to establish a community of and home for visionaries looking to break free of rules and the status quo, Rhode Island has a deeply rebellious history and those who call it home have always celebrated its spirit of individuality and embraced its welcoming of the offbeat and unique. This scavenger-hunt type guide to the state’s capital city and beyond is an exploration of the weird, wonderful and obscure odds and ends that continue to make it an idyllic spot for uncommon living.

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1681061066

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100 Things to Do in Providence Before You Die, Second Edition

By: Rebecca Keister

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100 Things to Do in Providence Before You Die, Second Edition

By: Rebecca Keister

What’s on your travel wish list? Immersing yourself in local culture? Enjoying world class dining, exhilarating outdoor activities, and eclectic museums? How about experiencing all these things, and much more, in a city that is as exciting as it is welcoming? Providence, Rhode Island, dubbed the Creative Capital, is a small city with unlimited potential for adventure. Visitors of every age and interest will find themselves falling in love with the city’s rich historical, cultural, and entertainment offerings. This second edition of 100 Things to Do in Providence Before You Die is the guide to introduce you to all of it, whether you’re looking for the perfect romantic weekend, a family trip to make lifetime memories, or a place to get away from it all with your best friends. And, if you’re a Rhode Islander, you’ll want to make this book your ultimate Providence bucket list. Inside these pages is all you need to know to make your time in Providence the time of your life.

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168106149X

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The Undevelopment of Capitalism

Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

By: Rebecca Emigh

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The Undevelopment of Capitalism

Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

By: Rebecca Emigh

In The Undevelopment of Capitalism, Emigh argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies--especially the rural economy of Tuscany. As this highly developed urban market penetrated rural regions, it actually erased rural market institutions that rural inhabitants had used to organize agricultural production and family life. Thus, an advanced economy at the time of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance "undeveloped" over time. The economic development of this region in Italy was delayed as it failed to keep pace with the rest of Europe. Using a negative case methodology to show how urban and rural markets change, Emigh employs methods of historical sociology and sectoral theories to examine how markets can prosper and suffer at the same time. She shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets.

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Temple University Press

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1592136192

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Secret Providence: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

By: Rebecca Keister

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A to Zoo

Subject Access to Children's Picture Books

By: Rebecca L. Thomas

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A to Zoo

Subject Access to Children's Picture Books

By: Rebecca L. Thomas

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216041344

Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy

By: Lisa C. Hutchison,Rebecca B. Sleeper

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Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy

By: Lisa C. Hutchison,Rebecca B. Sleeper

As the number of older patients surge, so too will the medication management challenges pharmacists and other healthcare providers face with this population. Providing care for these often complex cases means not only staying on top of new medications and therapies, but dealing with a wide range of other issues as well. Now in its second edition, Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, by Lisa C. Hutchison and Rebecca B. Sleeper, offers the full support you need to provide the most effective medication management and therapeutic decisions. This text is unique, not only as a comprehensive overview of major issues in geriatric pharmacotherapy and a core textbook for students, but as a resource for all healthcare professionals who treat elderly patients. Covering all major topics and issues, the second edition provides the most current information and proven strategies in one comprehensive guide, including associated issues that impact therapy, such as the coordination of care across multiple venues and caregivers. Inside this edition, you will find: Summarized treatment guidelines Evidence-based reviews Recommendations for the frail elderly Case studies and clinical pearls Key points, terms, and definitions Self-assessment questions Extensively referenced New chapters on Palliative and Hospice Care and Infections and Antimicrobial Stewardship The demands of an aging population mean that a greater understanding of geriatric pharmacotherapy is now essential for all healthcare providers. Written by practicing geriatric specialists, Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy provides all the detailed information and practical guidance you need.

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ASHP

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158528436X

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God Hates

Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right

By: Rebecca Barrett-Fox

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God Hates

Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right

By: Rebecca Barrett-Fox

The congregants thanked God that they weren't like all those hopeless people outside the church, bound for hell. So the Westboro Baptist Church's Sunday service began, and Rebecca Barrett-Fox, a curious observer, wondered why anyone would seek spiritual sustenance through other people's damnation. It is a question that piques many a witness to Westboro's more visible activity—the "GOD HATES FAGS" picketing of funerals. In God Hates, sociologist Barrett-Fox takes us behind the scenes of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church. The first full ethnography of this infamous presence on America's Religious Right, her book situates the church's story in the context of American religious history—and reveals as much about the uneasy state of Christian practice in our day as it does about the workings of the Westboro Church and Fred Phelps, its founder. God Hates traces WBC's theological beliefs to a brand of hyper-Calvinist thought reaching back to the Puritans—an extreme Calvinism, emphasizing predestination, that has proven as off-putting as Westboro's actions, even for other Baptists. And yet, in examining Westboro's role in conservative politics and its contentious relationship with other fundamentalist activist groups, Barrett-Fox reveals how the church's message of national doom in fact reflects beliefs at the core of much of the Religious Right's rhetoric. Westboro's aggressively offensive public activities actually serve to soften the anti-gay theology of more mainstream conservative religious activism. With an eye to the church's protest at military funerals, she also considers why the public has responded so differently to these than to Westboro's anti-LGBT picketing. With its history of Westboro Baptist Church and its founder, and its profiles of defectors, this book offers a complex, close-up view of a phenomenon on the fringes of American Christianity—and a broader, disturbing view of the mainstream theology it at once masks and reflects.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700622659

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Schadenfreude, A Love Story

By: Rebecca Schuman

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Schadenfreude, A Love Story

By: Rebecca Schuman

“A wild and wonderful ride” from a comic memoirist “who writes brilliantly about Germany and Germans . . . and being young and insane. . . . just read it, ok?” (Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Best. State. Ever). You know that feeling you get watching the elevator doors slam shut just before your toxic coworker can step in? There’s a word for this mix of malice and joy, and the Germans invented it. It’s Schadenfreude, deriving pleasure from others’ misfortune. Misfortune happens to be a specialty of Rebecca Schuman—and this is great news for the Germans. For Rebecca adores the Vaterland with a single-minded passion. Let’s just say the affection isn’t mutual. Schadenfreude is the story of a teenage Jewish intellectual who falls in love—with a boy (who breaks her heart), a language (that’s nearly impossible to master), a culture (that’s nihilistic, but punctual), and a landscape (that’s breathtaking when there’s not a wall in the way). Rebecca is a misunderstood 90’s teenager with a passion for Pearl Jam and Ethan Hawke circa Reality Bites, until two men walk into her high school Civics class: Dylan Gellner, with deep brown eyes and an even deeper soul, and Franz Kafka, hitching a ride in Dylan’s backpack. These two men are the axe to the frozen sea that is Rebecca’s spirit, and what flows forth is a passion for all things German. At once a snapshot of a young woman finding herself, and a country starting to stitch itself back together after nearly a century of war, Schadenfreude, A Love Story is a hilarious and heartfelt memoir proving that sometimes the truest loves play hard to get. “Spit-out-your-schnitzel funny.” —Pamela Druckerman, New York Times–bestselling author of Bringing Up Bébé

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250077664

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Inside the Offertory

Aspects of Chronology and Transmission

By: Rebecca Maloy

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Inside the Offertory

Aspects of Chronology and Transmission

By: Rebecca Maloy

The offertory has played a crucial role in recent vigorous debates about the origins of Gregorian chant. Its elaborate solo verses are among the most splendid of chant melodies, yet the verses ceased to be performed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, making them among the least known and studied members of the repertory. Rebecca Maloy now offers the first comprehensive investigation of the offertory, drawing upon its music, texts, and liturgical history to shed new light on its origins and chronology. Maloy addresses issues that are at the very heart of chant scholarship, such as the relationship between the Gregorian and Old Roman melodies, the nature of oral transmission, the presence of non-Roman pieces in the Gregorian repertory, and the influence of theoretical thought on the transmission of the melodies. Although the Old Roman chant versions were not recorded in writing until the eleventh century, it has long been assumed that they closely reflect the eighth-century state of the melodies. Maloy illustrates, however, that rather than preserving a pristine earlier version of the melodies, the prolonged period of oral transmission from the eighth to the eleventh centuries instead enforced a formulaic trend. Demonstrating that certain musical and textual traits of the offertory are distributed in distinct patterns by liturgical season, she outlines new chronological layers within the repertory, and along the way, explores the presence and implications of foreign imports into the Roman and Gregorian repertories. Carefully weighing questions surrounding the origins of elaborate verse melodies, Maloy deftly establishes that these melodies reached their final form at a relatively late date. Available for the first time as a complete critical edition, ninety-four Gregorian and Old Roman offertories are presented on a companion website in transcriptions which readers can view side-by-side. The book also provides music examples and essays that elucidate these transcriptions with significant insights into their similarities and differences. Inside the Offertory will be an important and longstanding resource for all students and scholars of early liturgical music, as well as performers of early music and medievalists interested in music.

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Oxford University Press

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0199717982

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Home on the Ranch: A Montana Hero

By: Rebecca Winters,Marin Thomas

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Home on the Ranch: A Montana Hero

By: Rebecca Winters,Marin Thomas

Come to the heart of horse country In a Cowboy’s Arms The day she turned eighteen, Sadie Corkin was going to elope with Jarod Bannock, the son of her family’s most bitter rival. Until it all went wrong. Eight years later, one thing hasn’t changed: her passion for the proud, sexy Apsaalooke rancher. There’s unfinished business between them, including what really happened that fateful night. And now there’s a more immediate threat to their happiness: an enemy who wants Sadie’s ranch… Beau: Cowboy Protector As much as Sierra Byrne wants to be with Beau Adams, anything long-term is impossible. A recently diagnosed illness will soon leave her blind, and she can’t ask the rising rodeo star to take on that responsibility. Though she tries to pretend their connection is just physical, Sierra’s true feelings run a lot deeper. Will she let her affliction steal not only her sight, but her dreams of happiness, as well?

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Harlequin

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1488037310

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Stealing Cars

Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino

By: John A. Heitmann,Rebecca H. Morales

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Stealing Cars

Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino

By: John A. Heitmann,Rebecca H. Morales

The technology-thwarting car thief has become as advanced as the cars themselves. As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model styles and colors eventually changed, but so did the means of making a stolen car disappear. Though changing license plates and serial numbers remain basic procedure, thieves have created highly sophisticated networks to disassemble stolen vehicles, distribute the parts, and/or ship the altered cars out of the country. Stealing cars has become as technologically advanced as the cars themselves. John A. Heitmann and Rebecca H. Morales’s study of automobile theft and culture examines a wide range of related topics that includes motives and methods, technological deterrents, place and space, institutional responses, international borders, and cultural reflections. Only recently have scholars begun to move their focus away from the creators and manufacturers of the automobile to its users. Stealing Cars illustrates the power of this approach, as it aims at developing a better understanding of the place of the automobile in the broad texture of American life. There are many who are fascinated by aspects of automobile history, but many more readers enjoy the topic of crime—motives, methods, escaping capture, and of course solving the crime and bringing criminals to justice. Stealing Cars brings together expertise from the history of technology and cultural history as well as city planning and transborder studies to produce a compelling and detailed work that raises questions concerning American priorities and values. Drawing on sources that include interviews, government documents, patents, sociological and psychological studies, magazines, monographs, scholarly periodicals, film, fiction, and digital gaming, Heitmann and Morales tell a story that highlights both human creativity and some of the paradoxes of American life.

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1421412985

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Law School For Dummies

By: Rebecca Fae Greene

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Law School For Dummies

By: Rebecca Fae Greene

The straightforward guide to surviving and thriving in law school Every year more than 40,000 students enter law school and at any given moment there are over 125,000 law school students in the United States. Law school’s highly pressurized, super-competitive atmosphere often leaves students stressed out and confused, especially in their first year. Balancing life and schoolwork, passing the bar, and landing a job are challenges that students often need help facing. In Law School For Dummies, former law school student Rebecca Fae Greene uses straight talk, sound advice, and gentle humor to help students sort through the swamp of coursework and focus on what’s important–all while maintaining a life. She also offers rare insight on the law school experience for women, minorities, non-traditional, and non-Ivy League students.

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1118068742

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100 Things to Do in Providence Before You Die, Second Edition

By: Rebecca Keister

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Rebecca Nathan; Or, a Daughter of Israel

By: Rebecca Nathan

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Rebecca Nathan; Or, a Daughter of Israel

By: Rebecca Nathan

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0469271116

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Layback

By: Jennifer Rebecca

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Layback

By: Jennifer Rebecca

Not too long ago, I had one goal: Win an Olympic Gold Medal but an injury took me out of the running for the Ladies Figure Skating competition at the last Olympic Games. Nancy Kerrigan was grandfathered in. I was not.Translation: I was disqualified. DQ'd. I was out in the cold on my keister. But when an offer to fill a spot on a pairs team lands in my lap, I take it. It seems like an answered prayer-that is until a competitor is found brutally murdered in her room at the competitor's village and my partner is the number one suspect. I'm going to have to take matters into my own hands. Again. Sweet Kristi Yamaguchi, save me from overly cocky men.My name is Sophia Eleonore Dubois and holy mother of Dorothy Hamill my life is still complicated . . .

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Murder on Ice

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173207478X

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Secret Providence: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

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100 Things to Do in Providence Before You Die, Second Edition

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The Undevelopment of Capitalism

The Undevelopment of Capitalism

Secret Providence: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Providence: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

A to Zoo

A to Zoo

Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy

Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy

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God Hates

Schadenfreude, A Love Story

Schadenfreude, A Love Story

Inside the Offertory

Inside the Offertory

Home on the Ranch: A Montana Hero

Home on the Ranch: A Montana Hero

Stealing Cars

Stealing Cars

Law School For Dummies

Law School For Dummies

100 Things to Do in Providence Before You Die, Second Edition

100 Things to Do in Providence Before You Die, Second Edition

Rebecca Nathan; Or, a Daughter of Israel

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