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Rich Tips for a Lifetime

How to Achieve Spiritual, Emotional, and Financial Wealth 365 Days a Year

By: Rebecca Scott Young

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Rich Tips for a Lifetime

How to Achieve Spiritual, Emotional, and Financial Wealth 365 Days a Year

By: Rebecca Scott Young

You know you've done it--gone shopping when you can barely afford your phone bill, dreamed of becoming rich even while handing the cashier your credit card. In this book, you will not learn a "get rich quick" scheme. However, you will learn how to make what you already have--no matter how much you have--go further, so that you can achieve your personal and financial goals one by one. You will learn how to incorporate conscious spending habits into your everyday routine. Get more for less by shopping online; look and feel beautiful without spending much at all. Learn how to juggle education expenses while still taking time for yourself: body, mind, and soul. Written by investment adviser Rebecca Scott Young, "Rich Tips for a Lifetime" will help you take control of your financial future so that you can avoid the common mistakes Young has seen her clients make time and time again. Nourish your financial health today, and you can be on your way to a financially fit tomorrow!

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1937293815

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The Sunlit Night

By: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

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The Sunlit Night

By: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

A “richly imagined and darkly comic” (Jenny Offill) love story set in the Arctic Circle that explores self-discovery and the power of starting over. Now a major motion picture, starring Jenny Slate, Gillian Anderson, Zach Galifianakis, and Alex Sharp. 22-year-old Frances has fled heartbreak and claustrophobic Manhattan for an isolated artist colony in the beautiful, barren landscape of northern Norway. Yasha, a Russian immigrant raised in a bakery in Brooklyn, travels to Norway to fulfill his beloved father's last wish: to be buried "at the top of the world." Both have come to learn how to be alone. But under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances and Yasha are surprised to find refuge in each other, instead. Ninety-five miles north of the Arctic Circle, the two form a bond that fortifies them against the turmoil of their distant homes, offering solace amidst great uncertainty. With nimble and sure-footed prose enriched with humor and warmth, Dinerstein reveals that no matter how far we travel to claim our own territory, it is ultimately love that gives us our place in the world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632861135

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9781632861139

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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Addressing the Challenging Behavior of Children with High-Functioning Autism/Asperger Syndrome in the Classroom

A Guide for Teachers and Parents

By: Rebecca Moyes

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Addressing the Challenging Behavior of Children with High-Functioning Autism/Asperger Syndrome in the Classroom

A Guide for Teachers and Parents

By: Rebecca Moyes

How do teachers and parents of children with autism address a child's social skills? And what do they do about problem behaviors? This book provides possible explanations for these behaviours, and a wealth of practical help for both teachers and parents to address them. Teachers learn how to create environmental supports and how to incorporate specific teaching strategies. Students with autism learn the new skills they might need, and ways of making their behavior more acceptable. This book is full of practical tips on how to tackle different kinds of challenging behaviors both in the classroom and outside it.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846423465

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9781846423468

Naming Gotham

The Villains, Rogues & Heroes Behind New York's Place Names

By: Rebecca Bratspies

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Naming Gotham

The Villains, Rogues & Heroes Behind New York's Place Names

By: Rebecca Bratspies

The Van Wyck, the Major Deegan, the Jackie Robinson, the Hutch, the Merritt, FDR Drive, or the Henry Hudson...you might drive them regularly, without really noticing that those road names are, well, names. But, who were these people? New York City's many roads, bridges, neighborhoods and institutions bear the names of a colorful assortment of people from key periods in the city's history. Learning about the people iconic Gotham landmarks are named for is a unique window into the history of the greatest city in the world. Author Rebecca Bratspies takes readers on a place-based, intimate, historical journey on a human scale.

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Arcadia Publishing

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143967681X

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Race to the Bottom of the Earth

Surviving Antarctica

By: Rebecca E. F. Barone

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Race to the Bottom of the Earth

Surviving Antarctica

By: Rebecca E. F. Barone

Equal parts adventure and STEM, Rebecca E. F. Barone's Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica is a thrilling nonfiction book for young readers chronicling two treacherous, groundbreaking expeditions to the South Pole—and includes eye-catching photos of the Antarctic landscape. "Riveting! I raced to the end of this book!" —Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, another intrepid explorer, Roald Amundsen, set his sights on the same goal. Suddenly two teams were vying to be the first to make history—what was to be an expedition had become a perilous race. In 2018, Captain Louis Rudd readied himself for a similarly grueling task: the first unaided, unsupported solo crossing of treacherous Antarctica. But little did he know that athlete Colin O’Brady was training for the same trek—and he was determined to beat Louis to the finish line. For fans of Michael Tougias’ The Finest Hours, this gripping account of two history-making moments of exploration and competition is perfect for budding scientists, survivalists, and thrill seekers. "A nail-biting tale of adventure, tragedy, and superhuman determination—and also a luminous example of how our present lives are shaped by our immeasurably deep connection to our past." —Elizabeth Wein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity "A huge treat for adventure story fans—not one, but two incredible races across the fearsome and fascinating Antarctic!" —Steve Sheinkin, New York Times bestselling author of Bomb and Undefeated

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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1250257816

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The Last Goodbye

By: Rebecca L. Masker

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The Last Goodbye

By: Rebecca L. Masker

Amy and Scott Schaffer believe they have the perfect life. A happy marriage, a healthy infant son, and no cause for complaints. But when Amy runs into Jesse Castellano, an old friend from her childhood, everything changes. Jesse's obsession with his old friend will shatter their seemingly perfect world forever, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466948922

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The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film

From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings

By: Samuel J. Umland,Rebecca A. Umland

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The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film

From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings

By: Samuel J. Umland,Rebecca A. Umland

This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories: intertextual collage (or cult film); melodrama, which focuses on the love triangle; conservative propaganda, pervasive during the Cold War; the Hollywood epic; and the postmodern quest, which commonly employs the grail portion of the legend. Arguing that filmmakers rely on the audience's rudimentary familiarity with the legend, the authors show that only certain features of the legend are activated at any particular time. This fascinating study shows us how the legend has been adapted and how through the popular medium of Hollywood films, the Arthurian legend has survived and flourished.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031303169X

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9780313031694

Frostbitten

Action-packed suspense

By: Rebecca Zanetti

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Frostbitten

Action-packed suspense

By: Rebecca Zanetti

The latest novel in the fast-paced romantic suspense series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti is a perfect blend of sexy chemistry and Deep Ops intrigue, exploding “with action, spice and humor,” (Publishers Weekly). Will appeal to fans of J. D. Robb and Karen Robards. “Zanetti is a master of romantic suspense.” –Kirkus Reviews Enigmatic. With a wildly gifted mind, and an untamed head of hair to match, petite powerhouse Millicent Frost is brilliant when it comes to gadgets and electronics—less so with people. After an attempt to bust a bank scam goes awry, Millie is in hot water with Homeland Security and targeted by lethal enemies. In the midst of the trouble, she heads home to help out with the family hunting and fishing business. But when their rival competitor and Millie’s ex is murdered, she’s the number one suspect . . . Irresistible. Former Marine turned lawyer Scott Terentson devotes himself to getting his clients out of tricky binds. A loner, the last thing he wants is to belong to any team, yet the Deep Ops group considers him one of their own—and he pays the price by getting shot at by their enemies. Now Millie is seeking his help—just as he’s dealing with a brutal fail regarding a recent trial. Both are a headache, yet he’s drawn to Millie in spite of himself. They’re opposites, but maybe the old adage is true . . . Electric. Working together, Millie and Scott soon have more on their hands than they bargained for as the danger escalates—along with the sizzling heat between them. And when a disappearance is thrown into the mix, all bets are off . . . Praise for Driven “Zanetti still makes time to dig into her characters’ psyches in the midst of the action, adding nuance to the exciting plot.” --Publishers Weekly “The story moves fast, and there’s an unexpected twist or two, as well as a scene-and-booze-stealing German Shepherd that provides a little levity to this dark and satisfying romantic thriller.” –Bookpage

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Lyrical Press

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1516111273

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Wildland

A Novel

By: Rebecca Hodge

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Wildland

A Novel

By: Rebecca Hodge

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve comes an exhilarating debut novel of one woman's courage in the face of catastrophe. She'll do anything to save them. But what will she do to save herself? When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice to make: face yet another round of chemotherapy or surrender gracefully. Self-reflection quickly proves impossible as her getaway is complicated by a pair of abandoned dogs and two friendly children staying nearby, Lily and Nirav. In no time at all, Kat's quiet seclusion is invaded by the happy confusion of children and pets. But when lightning ignites a deadly wildfire, Kat's cabin is cut off from the rest of the camp, separating Lily and Nirav from their parents. Left with no choice, Kat, the children, and the dogs must flee on foot through the drought-stricken forest, away from the ravenous flames. As a frantic rescue mission is launched below the fire line, Kat drives the party deeper into the mountains, determined to save four innocent lives. But when the moment comes to save her own, Kat will have to decide just how hard she's willing to fight to survive--and what's worth living for. A heart-pounding novel of bravery, sacrifice, and self-discovery, Wildland will keep you on the edge of your seat to the very last page.

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Crooked Lane Books

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1643853139

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9781643853130

How Architects Write

By: Tom Spector,Rebecca Damron

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How Architects Write

By: Tom Spector,Rebecca Damron

How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design in both student and professional examples. This fully updated edition features more than 50 color images, a new chapter on online communication, and sections on critical reading, responding to requests for proposals, the design essay, storyboarding, and much more. It also includes resources for how to write history term papers, project descriptions, theses, proposals, research reports, specifications, field reports, client communications, post-occupancy evaluations, and emailed meeting agendas, so that you can navigate your career from school to professional practice.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317366263

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9781317366263

The House on Fripp Island

By: Rebecca Kauffman

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The House on Fripp Island

By: Rebecca Kauffman

A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two families--one rich, one not--vacation together off the coast of South Carolina, little do they know that someone won't be returning home. Fripp Island, South Carolina is the perfect destination for the wealthy Daly family: Lisa, Scott, and their two girls. For Lisa's childhood friend, Poppy Ford, the resort island is a world away from the one she and Lisa grew up in--and when Lisa invites Poppy's family to join them, how can a working-class woman turn down an all-expenses paid vacation for her husband and children? But everyone brings secrets to the island, distorting what should be a convivial, relaxing summer on the beach. Lisa sees danger everywhere--the local handyman can't be allowed near the children, and Lisa suspects Scott is fixated on something, or someone, else. Poppy watches over her husband John and his routines with a sharp eye. It's a summer of change for all of the children: Ryan Ford who prepares for college in the fall, Rae Daly who seethes on the brink of adulthood, and the two youngest, Kimmy Daly and Alex Ford, who are exposed to new ideas and different ways of life as they forge a friendship of their own. Those who return from this vacation will spend the rest of their lives trying to process what they witnessed, the tipping points, moments of violence and tenderness, and the memory of whom they left behind.

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Ecco

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035804152X

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9780358041528

You Already Know How to Be Great

A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest Potential

By: Alan Fine,Rebecca R. Merrill

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You Already Know How to Be Great

A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest Potential

By: Alan Fine,Rebecca R. Merrill

A bold new approach to performance by one of the top coaches in the country. In trying to improve-on the playing field, in the office, or even at home-most people seek out new information to get to the next level. They read a book, attend a class, or hire an expert to give them an edge. But Alan Fine, an accomplished tennis, golf, and executive coach and a renowned authority on peak performance, believes that this "outside-in" method is precisely what's holding you back from doing your best work. He's found the biggest obstacle to improved performance isn't not knowing what to do; it's not doing what you already know. Ironically, the quest for information and instructions designed to help you get ahead can often interfere with your ability to focus on doing something. Fine reveals his simple and proven approach to achieving breakthrough performance. It starts with reducing the interference that blocks your potential through an amazing process called G.R.O.W. (Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward). No matter who you are or what you do, You Already Know How to Be Great will help you eliminate what is standing in the way of your goals.

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Penguin

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1101444479

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The New Rector

Heartwarming and intriguing – a modern classic of village life

By: Rebecca Shaw

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The New Rector

Heartwarming and intriguing – a modern classic of village life

By: Rebecca Shaw

Perfect for fans of Barbara Pym 'Rebecca's wit, humour and brilliant observational skills put her in the forefront of village storytelling. I never tire of reading her wonderful novels' Jack Sheffield 'Winning novels of village life' The Times 'A delightful beginning that suddenly gets darker and more dramatic than expected. Totally believable characters and a story line with unexpected twists' Margaret Dickinson When Peter Harris arrives in Turnham Malpas as the new rector, he finds the village people welcoming but set in their ways. Yet despite his own weaknesses, and a deeply felt sadness his wife keeps hidden, he comforts and advises his new parishioners, growing more and more involved with the rural way of life. Then the whole village is rocked by spiteful trick that goes terribly wrong, and a gruesome murder that points to a killer in its midst. Now, more than ever, Peter's pastoral role is crucial - and yet he is wrestling with his own private hell that may still wreck his own life.

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Orion

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1409140105

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America's History, Combined Volume

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

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America's History, Combined Volume

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

America's History helps AP students: Grasp vital themes: The seventh edition emphasizes political culture and political economy to help students understand the ways in which society, culture, politics, and the economy inform one another. Understand periodization: America's History's unique seven-part structure, which organizes history into distinct eras, introduces students to periodization and helps them understand cause and effect, identify historical continuities, and track change over time. Develop the skills they need to succeed: America's History's hallmark analytical narrative and pedagogy help students synthesize what they've learned and interpret history for themselves."--Back cover.

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Macmillan

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031238789X

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9780312387891

Teenagers 101

What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed

By: Rebecca Deurlein

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Teenagers 101

What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed

By: Rebecca Deurlein

If you have ever found yourself second-guessing how you’re raising your teenager or even at a complete loss for how to deal with some of the problems and situations they are dealing with in today’s complex world that barely resembles the one you grew up in . . . you’re not alone! As a parent, of course you want to see your teen succeed in school and in life--and you’re always willing to do your best to help--but where do you start? How can you relate? What can a parent do that they know will make a difference? Maybe you don’t know the best answers, but one of their teachers might!Veteran high school teacher--and a parent herself--Rebecca Deurlein has spent day in and day out watching kids interact with peers, make decisions, deal with difficulty, accept or deflect responsibility . . . basically being parents’ eyes and ears--and there’s so much she wants you all to know about your kids! In Teenagers 101, Deurlein examines how we can support our teens as they cope with the challenges of the modern world, and offers to parents everywhere practical strategies for getting teens to:• Be self-motivated• Take responsibility for learning• Puzzle through problems• Become their own advocate• Present themselves well• And much morePacked with engaging anecdotes and backed by years of experience, Teenagers 101 is the crash course all parents must take in order to learn the skills their kids need to thrive in college and beyond.

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AMACOM

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0814434665

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America's History, Volume 1: To 1877

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

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America's History, Volume 1: To 1877

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

With fresh interpretations from two new authors, wholly reconceived themes, and a wealth of cutting-edge new scholarship, the seventh edition of America's History is designed to work perfectly with the way you teach the survey today. Building on the book's hallmark strengths — balance, comprehensiveness, and explanatory power — as well as its outstanding visuals and extensive primary-source features, authors James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self have shaped America's History into the ideal resource for survey classes.

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Macmillan

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0312387911

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9780312387914

Who Are Her People?

The Life and Family of Louise Maynard Hoskins

By: Rebecca Hoskins Goodwin

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Who Are Her People?

The Life and Family of Louise Maynard Hoskins

By: Rebecca Hoskins Goodwin

Who Are Her People?: The Life and Family of Louise Maynard Hoskins Like Josephs coat, this is a book of many colors. It is a genealogy, a family history, and a memoir. This book tells the loving story of Louise Maynard Hoskins and her family, who were descended from the pioneer families of the Tug River Valley in the mountains of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. This book will tell the story of the people and the place from whence she came. This is the Maynard story, the Williamson story, the Hatfield story, the Scott story, and the stories of their related lines: McCoy, Stafford, Runyon, Cassady, Butcher, Taylor, and Varney.

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iUniverse

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1532048491

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Ernest Shackleton

Gripped by the Antarctic

By: Rebecca L. Johnson

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Ernest Shackleton

Gripped by the Antarctic

By: Rebecca L. Johnson

A biography of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the daring, charismatic Antarctic explorer who fell short of his goal of crossing Antarctica, but accomplished a far greater feat by bringing every member of his crew back alive.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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0876149204

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Sometimes Like a Gleaner

By: Rebecca Mark

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Sometimes Like a Gleaner

By: Rebecca Mark

How does a young woman's life unfold when she walks in on her husband not once, but twice, in bed with other women? While Emma Aspen White wants to have a meaningful life and career, she has long known that her collegiate aspiration is a Mrs. Degree. She believes that she has achieved that with her first love, Dr. Marc White. However, when that marriage ends, Emma's journey over the next forty-some years, provides plenty of drama. Born in 1955 in Des Moines, Iowa, Emma begins her story at age thirteen when she decides to spend her freshman year of high school at Rosedale, a boarding school in Massachusetts. She concludes her narrative in June 2021 when, at almost sixty-six years old, she is contemplating her life and her competency as a mother, a grandmother, and a friend. During these many years, Emma recounts the times she has with the four great loves of her life: her ex-husband Marc; Scott Olson, the man who helps her rear her son; her former professor, the libidinous poet Garnett de Vere; and Michael FitzRobert, the self-made millionaire with whom she hopes to spend the rest of her life. In addition to recounting her time with these four men as well as other romantic escapades, Emma also shares her relationships to her parents, Henry and Elizabeth Aspen; her counselors, Dr. Agatha Harbrace and Dr. Leah Friedmann; and her three closest friends: her rich Rosedale roommate Penny Porter; her high school friend, the feisty feminist Ginny Wheelock; and her sorority sister, Sara Keatson Woodley. However, the prime relationship Emma has is with her adopted son Peter, a relationship that, over forty years, generates both happiness and heartache. As the eventual owner of a real estate agency, Emma is an upper-middle class white woman who spends most of her life in Iowa. Perhaps what makes Emma so likeable is that she is inordinately beautiful, fairly honest about her character flaws, smart, compassionate, and hopeful. But she does make mistakes. In October 2007, at their 30th college reunion, Emma is alone with Marc, and both of them--naked!-- reveal so much about themselves in a dramatic scene. The next time they are alone occurs in 2021 when, as grandparents, they are in the Illinois kitchen of their son Peter and his wife Ellie. And once again, so much is revealed. In June 2021, Emma meets a young woman, Pamela Jennison, while in the New York apartment of her old friend Penny. As Emma talks with Penny's niece Pamela, Emma demonstrates some of her strongest traits--her abilities to glean information about another human being, to empathize, to celebrate the commonalities of the human condition. Her former lover Garnett, the poet fond of alliteration, who had considered Emma his muse, had nicknamed her his "Glamorous Gleaner." At the end of Emma and Pamela's conversation, there is a surprise, a surprise that even Emma did not see coming!

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Outskirts Press

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197726381X

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Fixing Babel

An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography

By: Rebecca Shapiro

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Fixing Babel

An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography

By: Rebecca Shapiro

We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages—the front matter—and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English “works” and my book reproduces and examines for the first time important texts in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas to readers, their “end users.” Unlike French, Spanish, and Italian dictionaries compiled during this time and published by national academies, the goal of English dictionaries was usually not to “purify” the language, though some writers did attempt to regularize it. Instead, English lexicographers aimed to teach practical ways for their users to learn English, improve their language skills, even transcend their social class. The anthology strives to be comprehensive in its coverage of the first phase of this tradition from the early seventeenth century—from Robert Cawdrey’s (1604) A Table Alphabeticall, to Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755), and finally, to Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). The book puts English dictionaries in historical, national, linguistic, literary, cultural contexts, presenting lexicographical trends and the change in the English language over two centuries, and examines how writers attempted to control it by appealing to various pedagogical and legal authorities. Moreover, the development of dictionary and attempts to codify English language and grammar coincided with the arc of the British Empire; the promulgation of “proper” English has been a subject of debate and inquiry for centuries and, in part, dictionaries and the teaching of English historically have been used to present and support ideas about what is correct, regardless of how and where English is actually used. The authors who wrote these texts apply ideas about capitalism, nationalism, sex and social status to favor one language theory over another. I show how dictionaries are not neutral documents: they challenge or promote biases. The book presents and analyzes the history of lexicography, demonstrating how and why dictionaries evolved into the reference books we now often take for granted and we can see that there is no easy answer to the question of “who owns English.”

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Bucknell University Press

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1611488109

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Russomania

Russian culture and the creation of British modernism, 1881-1922

By: Rebecca Beasley

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Russomania

Russian culture and the creation of British modernism, 1881-1922

By: Rebecca Beasley

Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and their writing was transformed by the encounter. This study restores the thick history of that moment, by analyzing networks of dissemination and reception to recover the role of neglected as well as canonical figures, and institutions as well as individuals. The dominant account of British modernism privileges a Francophile genealogy, but the turn-of-the century debate about the future of British writing was a triangular debate, a debate not only between French and English models, but between French, English, and Russian models. Francophile modernists associated Russian literature, especially the Tolstoyan novel, with an uncritical immersion in 'life' at the expense of a mastery of style, and while individual works might be admired, Russian literature as a whole was represented as a dangerous model for British writing. This supposed danger was closely bound up with the politics of the period, and this book investigates how Russian culture was deployed in the close relationships between writers, editors, and politicians who made up the early twentieth-century intellectual class—the British intelligentsia. Russomania argues that the most significant impact of Russian culture is not to be found in stylistic borrowings between canonical authors, but in the shaping of the major intellectual questions of the period: the relation between language and action, writer and audience, and the work of art and lived experience. The resulting account brings an occluded genealogy of early modernism to the fore, with a different arrangement of protagonists, different critical values, and stronger lines of connection to the realist experiments of the Victorian past, and the anti-formalism and revived romanticism of the 1930s and 1940s future.

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Oxford University Press

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0192522477

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At Home in Nature

Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America

By: Rebecca Kneale Gould

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At Home in Nature

Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America

By: Rebecca Kneale Gould

Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature. Drawing from vivid firsthand accounts as well as from rich historical material, this gracefully written study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present examines the lives and beliefs of those who have ascribed to the homesteading philosophy, placing their experiences within the broader context of the changing meanings of nature and religion in modern American culture. Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates the lives of famous figures such as Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Ralph Borsodi, Wendell Berry, and Helen and Scott Nearing, and she presents penetrating interviews with many contemporary homesteaders. She also considers homesteading as a form of dissent from consumer culture, as a departure from traditional religious life, and as a practice of environmental ethics.

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Univ of California Press

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0520937864

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The Matter of Song in Early Modern England

Texts in and of the Air

By: Katherine Rebecca Larson

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The Matter of Song in Early Modern England

Texts in and of the Air

By: Katherine Rebecca Larson

This volume treats early modern song as a musical and embodied practice and considers the implications of reading song not just as lyric text, but as a musical phenomenon that is the product of the singing body. It draws on a variety of genres, from theatre to psalm translations, sonnets and lyrics, and household drama to courtly masques.

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019884378X

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The Mystery of Hollow Places

By: Rebecca Podos

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The Mystery of Hollow Places

By: Rebecca Podos

The Mystery of Hollow Places is a gorgeously written, stunningly original novel of love, loss, and identity, from debut author Rebecca Podos. All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It’s the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist; she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when she was a baby, a woman who was always possessed of a powerful loneliness, a woman who many referred to as “troubled waters.” Now Imogene is seventeen, and her father, a famous author of medical mysteries, has struck out in the middle of the night and hasn’t come back. Neither Imogene’s stepmother nor the police know where he could’ve gone, but Imogene is convinced he’s looking for her mother. And she decides it’s up to her to put to use the skills she’s gleaned from a lifetime of reading her father’s books to track down a woman she’s only known in stories in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question she’s carried with her for her entire life.

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0062373366

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