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The Magic of Concepts

History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China

By: Rebecca E. Karl

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The Magic of Concepts

History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China

By: Rebecca E. Karl

In The Magic of Concepts Rebecca E. Karl interrogates "the economic" as concept and practice as it was construed historically in China in the 1930s and again in the 1980s and 1990s. Separated by the Chinese Revolution and Mao's socialist experiments, each era witnessed urgent discussions about how to think about economic concepts derived from capitalism in modern China. Both eras were highly cosmopolitan and each faced its own global crisis in economic and historical philosophy: in the 1930s, capitalism's failures suggested that socialism offered a plausible solution, while the abandonment of socialism five decades later provoked a rethinking of the relationship between history and the economic as social practice. Interweaving a critical historiography of modern China with the work of the Marxist-trained economist Wang Yanan, Karl shows how "magical concepts" based on dehistoricized Eurocentric and capitalist conceptions of historical activity that purport to exist outside lived experiences have erased much of the critical import of China's twentieth-century history. In this volume, Karl retrieves the economic to argue for a more nuanced and critical account of twentieth-century Chinese and global historical practice.

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Duke University Press

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0822373327

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9780822373322

Rayn Down

By: Rebecca Cantu

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Rayn Down

By: Rebecca Cantu

Victoria 'Vickie' Marks knows little to nothing about the world around her beyond the thick walls of Our Lady of Virtue Orphanage-a place she has been since she was four years old. While at the orphanage, Vickie often finds herself dreaming of a family of her own and a place to call 'home.' Fate, it seems, is not on her side-at least not yet. Two weeks shy of her twenty-first birthday, Vickie begins to believe that no one wants her-that is, until Anabelle Rayn, a grandmother she never knew existed, inexplicably enters her life. Anabelle shows up at the orphanage, insisting to take Vickie into her care. However, the mysterious and horrific secrets Anabelle is keeping force Vickie to flee the orphanage and her grandmother. While on the run, she must also learn to rely on Reese Michaels, an undercover FBI agent, to protect her from the web of many lies that surrounds her long-lost family. Her journey takes her from a dreamy, naive girl to a spirited, strong woman as she learns of the evil that has dominated not just her life but that of her mother and sisters as well. In the fast-paced thriller "Rayn Down, " Rebecca Cantu takes readers on an amazing adventure following Vickie in her gripping trek across the United States to escape the wickedness that surrounds her newfound life. Through her enthralling and expeditious voyage, Vickie will have her faith tested as she learns of man's capacity for hate, as well as the strength of the power of love...

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Tate Publishing

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1613461070

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9781613461075

Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver

His Art and His World

By: Rebecca M. Valette

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Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver

His Art and His World

By: Rebecca M. Valette

Rebecca Valette’s Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver is the first biography of artist Clitso Dedman (1876–1953), one of the most important but overlooked Diné (Navajo) artists of his generation. Dedman was born to a traditional Navajo family in Chinle, Arizona, and herded sheep as a child. He was educated in the late 1880s and early 1890s at the Fort Defiance Indian School, then at the Teller Institute in Grand Junction, Colorado. After graduation Dedman moved to Gallup, New Mexico, where he worked in the machine shop of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway before opening his first of three Navajo trading posts in Rough Rock, Arizona. After tragedy struck his life in 1915, he moved back to Chinle and abruptly changed careers to become a blacksmith and builder. At age sixty, suffering from arthritis, Dedman turned his creative talent to wood carving, thus initiating a new Navajo art form. Although the neighboring Hopis had been carving Kachina dolls for generations, the Navajos traditionally avoided any permanent reproduction of their Holy People, and even of human figures. Dedman was the first to ignore this proscription, and for the rest of his life he focused on creating wooden sculptures of the various participants in the Yeibichai dance, which closed the Navajo Nightway ceremony. These secular carvings were immediately purchased and sold to tourists by regional Indian traders. Today Dedman’s distinctive and highly regarded work can be found in private collections, galleries, and museums, such as the Navajo Nation Museum at Window Rock, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, and the Arizona State Museum in Tucson. Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver, with its extensive illustrations, is the story of a remarkable and underrecognized figure of twentieth-century Navajo artistic creation and innovation.

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289

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496237447

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No Easy Way Out

By: Rebecca Blanchard

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No Easy Way Out

By: Rebecca Blanchard

Romance and adventure are uniquely combined in this story of love and deception. No Easy Way Out is the story of Carly Jamison's search for her sister, Therese, and the efforts of DEA agent, Tanner Barnes, to keep the sisters from finding each other.

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Tudor Publishers

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0944276016

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9780944276013

The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits

By: Rebecca Yamin,Donna J. Seifert

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The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits

By: Rebecca Yamin,Donna J. Seifert

Case studies of nineteenth-century sites from New York City to the American West The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits synthesizes case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points—New York City’s most notorious neighborhood—and parlor houses a few blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill. Rebecca Yamin and Donna Seifert also examine brothels in the American West—in urban Los Angeles and in frontier sites and mining camps in Sandpoint, Idaho; Prescott, Arizona; and Fargo, North Dakota. The artifact assemblages found at these sites often contradict written records, allowing archaeologists to construct a more realistic and complicated picture of daily life for working-class women involved in commercial sex. Recognizing the agency involved in practicing a profession that has never been considered respectable, even when it wasn’t outright illegal, Yamin and Seifert also look at the agency of other individuals who participated in illicit activities, defying society privately or even publicly. The authors demonstrate the various ways disempowered groups including immigrants, African Americans, women, and the poor wielded autonomy while constrained by cultural norms. They also consider similar, contemporary expressions of agency, with particular attention to ongoing arguments surrounding the legalization of prostitution. Juxtaposing today’s debates alongside the clandestine pursuits of the past reveals how dominant moral standards determine what individual choices are publicly permissible. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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174

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University Press of Florida

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0813072689

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9780813072685

The Major League Mystery

By: Rebecca Price Janney,Rebecca Price-Janney

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The Major League Mystery

By: Rebecca Price Janney,Rebecca Price-Janney

While covering the Philadelphia Phillies for a weekly newspaper, sixteen-year-old Heather Reed investigates some suspicious events seemingly connected to the team's new pitcher.

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W Publishing Group

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0849935350

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9780849935350

Treason by Words

Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England

By: Rebecca Lemon

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Treason by Words

Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England

By: Rebecca Lemon

Under the Tudor monarchy, English law expanded to include the category of "treason by words." Rebecca Lemon investigates this remarkable phrase both as a legal charge and as a cultural event. English citizens, she shows, expressed competing notions of treason in opposition to the growing absolutism of the monarchy. Lemon explores the complex participation of texts by John Donne, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare in the legal and political controversies marking the Earl of Essex's 1601 rebellion and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot. Lemon suggests that the articulation of diverse ideas about treason within literary and polemical texts produced increasingly fractured conceptions of the crime of treason itself. Further, literary texts, in representing issues familiar from political polemic, helped to foster more free, less ideologically rigid, responses to the crisis of treason. As a result, such works of imagination bolstered an emerging discourse on subjects' rights. Treason by Words offers an original theory of the role of dissent and rebellion during a period of burgeoning sovereign power.

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248

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Cornell University Press

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0801462266

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9780801462269

America: A Concise History, Combined Volume

By: James A. Henretta,Rebecca Edwards,Robert O. Self

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America: A Concise History, Combined Volume

By: James A. Henretta,Rebecca Edwards,Robert O. Self

Known for its interpretive voice, balanced analysis, and brief-yet-comprehensive narrative, America: A Concise History helps students to make sense of it all while modeling the kind of thinking and writing they need to be successful. Offering more value than other brief books, America is competitively priced to save your students money, and features built-in primary sources and new ways of mastering the content so your students can get the most out of lecture and come to class prepared.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1457655586

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9781457655586

America's History, Value Edition, Volume 1

By: Rebecca Edwards,Eric Hinderaker,Robert O. Self,James A. Henretta

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America's History, Value Edition, Volume 1

By: Rebecca Edwards,Eric Hinderaker,Robert O. Self,James A. Henretta

Known for its interpretive voice, balanced analysis, and brief-yet-comprehensive narrative, America’s History, Value Edition helps students to make sense of it all while modeling the kind of thinking and writing they need to be successful. The two-color Value Edition includes the full narrative, the popular nine-part organization, and select images and maps.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319049095

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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

A Homespun Mother's Day

By: Rebecca Hagan Lee,Jill Metcalf,Teresa Warfield

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A Homespun Mother's Day

By: Rebecca Hagan Lee,Jill Metcalf,Teresa Warfield

Three of Homespun's most popular authors celebrate motherhood in this one edition--a woman's maternal instinct paves the way for marriage when she falls in love with the father of the boy she is nursing; a mother opens her home and later her heart to a stranger; and a grandmother's Ozark Mountain wisdom shines.

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New York : Diamond Books

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0786500085

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9780786500086

Dancing Jewish

Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance

By: Rebecca Rossen

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Dancing Jewish

Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance

By: Rebecca Rossen

While Jews are commonly referred to as the "people of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new possibilities for themselves as individuals, artists, and Jews. Dancing Jewish delineates this rich history, demonstrating that Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but that they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in the history of Jews in the United States. A dancer and choreographer, as well as an historian, author Rebecca Rossen offers evocative analyses of dances while asserting the importance of embodied methodologies to academic research. Featuring over fifty images, a companion website, and key works from 1930 to 2005 by a wide range of artists - including David Dorfman, Dan Froot, David Gordon, Hadassah, Margaret Jenkins, Pauline Koner, Dvora Lapson, Liz Lerman, Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, and Benjamin Zemach - Dancing Jewish offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting performance and establishes dance as a crucial site in which American Jews have grappled with cultural belonging, personal and collective histories, and the values that bind and pull them apart.

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Oxford University Press

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0199792011

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9780199792016

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The Magic of Concepts

The Magic of Concepts

Rayn Down

Rayn Down

Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver

Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver

No Easy Way Out

No Easy Way Out

The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits

The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits

The Major League Mystery

The Major League Mystery

Treason by Words

Treason by Words

America: A Concise History, Combined Volume

America: A Concise History, Combined Volume

America's History, Value Edition, Volume 1

America's History, Value Edition, Volume 1

A to Zoo

A to Zoo

A Homespun Mother's Day

A Homespun Mother's Day

Dancing Jewish

Dancing Jewish

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