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Super Searchers Go to the Source

The Interviewing and Hands-on Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers--online, on the Phone, and in Person

By: Risa Sacks

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Super Searchers Go to the Source

The Interviewing and Hands-on Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers--online, on the Phone, and in Person

By: Risa Sacks

Using an expert interview approach to primary research, this book shares secrets from professional researchers for integrating online skills with interviews, hands-on public records research, and documents and printed materials not available on the Internet. Provided are tips and resources for using online research to locate sources, prepare for interviews, and evaluate information. Topics covered include getting through gatekeepers, obtaining hard-to-find information, and using primary sources to complement online research.

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452

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Information Today, Inc.

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ISBN 10

0910965536

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9780910965538

Starvation Ridge

By: Risa Bear

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Starvation Ridge

By: Risa Bear

Karen Rutledge had grown up in seclusion from a devastated world. But now she was alone in the open to face the unknown. Would she find a place among those seeking to rebuild civilization? And can that civilization survive? Cover and illustrations by Katrin Orav.

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463

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Lulu.com

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1304772683

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9781304772688

Iron Buddhas

By: Risa Bear

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Iron Buddhas

By: Risa Bear

Iron Buddhas is a lightly fictionalized memoir of a woman's experiences tree planting and fire fighting in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. Stephanie Smith sets out from Georgia to Oregon in the winter of '75 seeking work in the woods. She finds that and more. By the author of Starvation Ridge.

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186

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Lulu.com

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1304796515

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9781304796516

Surrender at the Border

By: Risa Leigh

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Surrender at the Border

By: Risa Leigh

He's the only one who can save her... ATF agent B.J. Carleton’s first priority is stopping the flow of guns into Mexico until sassy Callie Snowden finds herself in the sights of a ruthless gunrunner, a man B.J. suspects killed her husband. After the tragedy Callie retreated home to her small Texas town, thinking she’d found safety. Now secrets from the past plunge her into a nightmare. When she and B.J. are kidnapped by ruthless cartel henchmen and taken into the Chihuahuan desert, B.J. must protect Callie from the killers and harsh terrain. As they run for their lives, the past continues to play itself out and catches them in its deadly spiral. And if B.J. gives in to his overwhelming attraction for her, he may lose everything...for both of them.

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244

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Entangled: Ignite

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1633755576

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9781633755574

New Moon Magic

13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment

By: Risa Dickens,Amy Torok

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New Moon Magic

13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment

By: Risa Dickens,Amy Torok

Harness the power of lunar magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch—one for each New Moon of the year Fresh, fierce, and unapologetically feminist, this is both guidebook and rallying cry: an intersectional and inclusive magical praxis that resists, disrupts, and opens the door to nourishment, abundance, and transformation—for readers of Psychic Witch and The Spell Book for New Witches In New Moon Magic, Missing Witches authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok offer Witchy practices to change your life and reshape the world, without falling prey to the commercialization that belies the true heart—and power—of magic. Witchcraft is praxis: how we do what we believe, and how we make those beliefs manifest. New Moon Magic is an offering to all witches, honoring the Craft’s roots in centuries of empowerment, survival, and resistance—despite capitalism’s attempts to co-opt and dilute its practice. Here, Dickens and Torok reclaim tools of witchcraft as the ways and means of enchantment, imbued with magic that resists commodification and capitalism. The authors introduce 13 New Moon practices, each paired with a Witch who embodies the Craft: Potions with Cerridwen and St. Hildegard von Bingen Divination with Lozen and Harriet Tubman The Garden with Mayumi Oda Ritual & Ceremony with Genesis P-Orridge The Circle with Audre Lorde Through historical research, interviews, and the authors’ own raw personal stories, New Moon Magic offers wisdom and guidance from real Witches past and present. It shows you how to take up tools and practices, discover (or rediscover) your own magic, and nurture a Witchcraft that creates instead of consumes.

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375

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North Atlantic Books

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1623177901

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9781623177904

Rioting for Representation

Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries

By: Risa J. Toha

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Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries

By: Risa J. Toha

Ethnic riots are a costly and all too common occurrence during political transitions in multi-ethnic settings. Why do ethnic riots occur in certain parts of a country and not others? How does violence eventually decline? Drawing on rich case studies and quantitative evidence from Indonesia between 1990 and 2012, this book argues that patterns of ethnic rioting are not inevitably driven by inter-group animosity, weakness of state capacity, or local demographic composition. Rather, local ethnic elites strategically use violence to leverage their demands for political inclusion during political transition and that violence eventually declines as these demands are accommodated. Toha breaks new ground in showing that particular political reforms—increased political competition, direct local elections, and local administrative units partitioning—in ethnically diverse contexts can ameliorate political exclusion and reduce overall levels of violence between groups.

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325

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Cambridge University Press

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100900882X

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9781009008822

Rhetoric in American Anthropology

Gender, Genre, and Science

By: Carine Risa Applegarth

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Rhetoric in American Anthropology

Gender, Genre, and Science

By: Carine Risa Applegarth

In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the "welcoming science," uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the "rhetorical archeology" of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists. Applegarth examines the crucial role of ethnographic genres in determining scientific status and recovers the work of marginalized anthropologists who developed alternative forms of scientific writing. Applegarth analyzes scores of ethnographic monographs to demonstrate how early anthropologists intensified the constraints of genre to define their community and limit the aims and methods of their science. But in the 1920s and 1930s, professional researchers sidelined by the academy persisted in challenging the field's boundaries, developing unique rhetorical practices and experimenting with alternative genres that in turn greatly expanded the epistemology of the field. Applegarth demonstrates how these writers' folklore collections, ethnographic novels, and autobiographies of fieldwork experiences reopened debates over how scientific knowledge was made: through what human relationships, by what bodies, and for what ends. Linking early anthropologists' ethnographic strategies to contemporary theories of rhetoric and composition, Rhetoric in American Anthropology provides a fascinating account of the emergence of a new discipline and reveals powerful intersections among gender, genre, and science.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822979470

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9780822979470

Narrative and Imperative

The First Fifty Years of Italian Holocaust Writing (1944-1994)

By: Risa B. Sodi

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Narrative and Imperative

The First Fifty Years of Italian Holocaust Writing (1944-1994)

By: Risa B. Sodi

Narrative & Imperative is the first book in English on Italian Holocaust writing as a whole. Risa Sodi explores the work of eight representative authors, including the internationally famous (Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, and Elsa Morante) and the lesser known (Giacomo Debenedetti, Paolo Maurensig, Liana Millu, Bruno Piazza, and Giuliana Tedeschi). She examines issues of genre, language, gender, and facticity while situating the works studied within the fields of European and Holocaust letters. A brief history of the Italian Jews - the oldest Jewish community in Europe - opens the book, and the conclusion brings the study up to recent times.

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296

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Peter Lang

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0820488720

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9780820488721

My Before and After Life

A Novel

By: Risa Miller

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My Before and After Life

A Novel

By: Risa Miller

A story of the sometimes prickly relationship between adult children and their parents In Risa Miller's new novel, the first since the highly–acclaimed Welcome to Heavenly Heights—one family member tries on a faith that seems like a bad fit for the rest. Honey and Susan, two sisters in Boston, are shocked to learn that their elderly father has embraced Orthodox Judaism while on vacation in the Holy Land. His daughters fly to Israel to convince him to return, but when they get there they find it hard to communicate their concerns as he tries to educate them on the finer points of religious life. Honey feels abandoned and angry. But the anger turns into an emotion she can't quite identify or accept during the course of the trip. And while she is still enraged, it becomes increasingly difficult for Honey to figure out exactly why she has condemned her father's choice.

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254

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St. Martin's Press

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1429928735

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9781429928731

Geriatric Secrets

By: Mary Ann Forciea,Risa Lavizzo-Mourey,Edna P. Schwab,Donna Brady Raziano

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Geriatric Secrets

By: Mary Ann Forciea,Risa Lavizzo-Mourey,Edna P. Schwab,Donna Brady Raziano

This best-seller in geriatrics is even better in an updated and completely revised new edition. Geriatric Secrets provides a substantial knowledge base in geriatric medicine and provides a wealth of insights into the art and practice of geriatrics, featuring all the most important "need to know” questions and answers in the proven format of the Secrets Series®. Thought-provoking questions that provide succinct answers Presentation of a vast amount of information, but not overly simplistic The most important "need-to-know" questions-and-answers in the proven format of the highly acclaimed Secrets Series® Concise answers that include the author's pearls, tips, memory aids, and "secrets" Bulleted lists, algorithms, and illustrations for quick review Thorough, highly detailed index

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348

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1560535970

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9781560535973

Send No Regrets

By: Risa Kirk

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Send No Regrets

By: Risa Kirk

Send No Regrets by Risa Kirk released on Dec 25, 1990 is available now for purchase.

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310

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Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s

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0373704410

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9780373704415

Super Searchers Go to the Source

The Interviewing and Hands-on Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers--online, on the Phone, and in Person

By: Risa Sacks,Reva Basch

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The Interviewing and Hands-on Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers--online, on the Phone, and in Person

By: Risa Sacks,Reva Basch

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Information Today

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1573879835

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Super Searchers Go to the Source

Super Searchers Go to the Source

Starvation Ridge

Starvation Ridge

Iron Buddhas

Iron Buddhas

Surrender at the Border

Surrender at the Border

New Moon Magic

New Moon Magic

Rioting for Representation

Rioting for Representation

Rhetoric in American Anthropology

Rhetoric in American Anthropology

Narrative and Imperative

Narrative and Imperative

My Before and After Life

My Before and After Life

Geriatric Secrets

Geriatric Secrets

Send No Regrets

Send No Regrets

Super Searchers Go to the Source

Super Searchers Go to the Source

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