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Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life

By: Tiffany Ruby Patterson

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Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life

By: Tiffany Ruby Patterson

The inner world of all-black towns as seen through the eyes of Zora Neale Hurston.

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Temple University Press

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1592137768

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9781592137763

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Mary Whitlock Blundell,Ruby Blondell

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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Mary Whitlock Blundell,Ruby Blondell

This book is a detailed study of five plays of Sophocles that examines a key ethical principle.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521423902

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9780521423908

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Ruby Blondell

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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Ruby Blondell

A detailed study of the plays of Sophocles through examination of a fundamental principle of Greek popular ethics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009465848

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9781009465847

Technology and Consumption

Understanding Consumer Choices and Behaviors

By: Ruby Roy Dholakia

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Technology and Consumption

Understanding Consumer Choices and Behaviors

By: Ruby Roy Dholakia

Technology and Household Consumption is a comprehensive text that provides insights into technology’s impact on consumer behavior and the household environment. Consumption and consumer behavior has become a very important subject of study that is now covered in many disciplines including family economics, culture studies, and feminist/women studies. In the first section, this book provides a historical perspective on how consumer behaviors have changed because of technology and how technology itself has changed. Data on ownership and expenditures is detailed in describing the penetration of technology in the household and changes over time. In the examination of demographics and social changes, an emphasis is placed on women and children. As it is important to understand the entry paths and factors that influence them, the book also introduces a research framework to understanding the adoption and utilization of household technologies. In the second section, the book examines specific household technologies and consumption experiences including shopping choices and behaviors, entertainment outlets and availability, communications technologies, and working at home. The book concludes with a section on the relationships between marketers and consumers.

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222

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461421586

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9781461421580

Helen of Troy

Beauty, Myth, Devastation

By: Ruby Blondell

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Helen of Troy

Beauty, Myth, Devastation

By: Ruby Blondell

Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.

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Oxford University Press

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0190263539

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Helen of Troy in Hollywood

By: Ruby Blondell

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Helen of Troy in Hollywood

By: Ruby Blondell

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity. Paying careful attention to how the image of Helen is embodied by the actors who have portrayed her, Ruby Blondell provides close readings of such works as Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy and the Star Trek episode “Elaan of Troyius,” going beyond contextualization to lead the reader through a fundamental rethinking of how we understand and interpret the classic tradition. A luminous work of scholarship by one of today’s leading classicists, Helen of Troy in Hollywood highlights the importance of ancient myths not as timeless stories frozen in the past but as lenses through which to view our own artistic, cultural, and political moment in a new light. This incisive book demonstrates how, whether as the hero of these screen adaptations or as a peripheral character in male-dominated adventures, the mythic Helen has become symbolic of the perceived dangers of superhuman beauty and transgressive erotic agency.

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Princeton University Press

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0691229643

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9780691229645

Gallows Hill

By: Lois Ruby

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Gallows Hill

By: Lois Ruby

Salem, Massachusetts - 1692 Thomas is marked as an outcast the moment he steps off the ship from England. As a Quaker, he’s outnumbered and distrusted by Salem’s Puritans. And as an orphan without any useful skills, he has nowhere to live and no way to earn his keep. In a stroke of luck—perhaps good, perhaps not—he’s taken in by the aged widow Prudence Blevins, who’s rumored to be a witch. Patience has tried all her life to be a good Puritan—obedient to God and to her elders—and all her life, she has come up short. But her orderly world is upended when her younger sister, Abigail, falls victim to a mysterious affliction. The same torments have stricken other Salem girls, who claim they’re being bewitched by servants of the Devil. Soon the girls, including Abigail, begin accusing neighbors of witchcraft. As the community becomes consumed by suspicion and fear, Thomas and Patience search for the truth. To protect those they care about, they will have to question everything they think they know: their faiths, their loyalties, and their places in Salem.

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180

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Lerner + ORM

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1728493935

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9781728493930

Boys in Poverty

By: Ruby payne,Paul Slocum

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Boys in Poverty

By: Ruby payne,Paul Slocum

Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging.

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144

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Solution Tree Press

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1935542656

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9781935542650

Food Service Manual for Health Care Institutions

By: Ruby Parker Puckett,American Society for Healthcare Food Service Administrators

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Food Service Manual for Health Care Institutions

By: Ruby Parker Puckett,American Society for Healthcare Food Service Administrators

Food Service Manual for Health Care Institutions offers a comprehensive review of the management and operation of health care food service departments. This third edition of the book—which has become the standard in the field of institutional and health care food service—includes the most current data on the successful management of daily operations and includes information on a wide variety of topics such as leadership, quality control, human resource management, communications, and financial control and management. This new edition also contains information on the practical operation of the food service department that has been greatly expanded and updated to help institutions better meet the needs of the customer and comply with the regulatory agencies’ standards.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787978299

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9780787978297

Picturing Culture

Explorations of Film and Anthropology

By: Jay Ruby

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Picturing Culture

Explorations of Film and Anthropology

By: Jay Ruby

Here, Jay Ruby—a founder of visual anthropology—distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the original intention, which is to provide an anthropological representation of the subjects. The book begins with analyses of key filmmakers (Robert Flaherty, Robert Garner, and Tim Asch) who have striven to generate profound statements about human behavior on film. Ruby then discusses the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, the nature of ethnography, anthropological knowledge, and film and lays the groundwork for a critical approach to the field that borrows selectively from film, communication, media, and cultural studies. Witty and original, yet intensely theoretical, this collection is a major contribution to the field of visual anthropology.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226730980

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9780226730981

First Things First!

Creating the New American Primary School

By: Ruby Takanishi

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First Things First!

Creating the New American Primary School

By: Ruby Takanishi

Challenging policymakers, educators, reformers, and citizens to replace piecemeal reforms with fundamental redesign, First Things First! calls for a different way of organizing the American primary school. Ruby Takanishi outlines a new framework for integrating early education with primary education (pre-K–5), including both short- and long-term strategies, that starts with 3- and 4-year-olds. Featuring portraits of primary schools that have successfully integrated pre–K, the book includes resources on dual-language learners, dual-generation family engagement, effective philanthropy, rethinking advocacy, and more. The book centers on four basic questions: Why should the United States design a new primary school as children’s first, widely shared educational experience? How can the educators of the new primary school use new knowledge about how children learn to improve their practice? What will it take to create a new primary school that educates all children well? How can the design of the new primary school reflect demographic, social, linguistic, and cultural changes and adapt to the requirements of a global economy? First Things First! reframes the basic structure of traditional primary education, challenging us to get the early years of a 21st-century public education system off to a new and stronger start. “The vision of a new primary school model in this book should be studied by all workers in the fields of education, human development, and social policy. The scholarship in this book is impeccable and the arguments advanced by this leading scholar are most convincing. Further, the book is beautifully written.” —Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Yale University “Takanishi makes a compelling case that enabling all American children to achieve their potential requires both expansion of high-quality preschool and fundamental changes in how our public elementary schools serve young students.” —Sara Mead, Bellwether Education Partners “Dr. Takanishi has laid out a vision and approach to schooling that is comprehensive, forward-looking, and versed in strong evidence. This is must-reading for educators, leaders, policymakers, and researchers.” —Arthur Reynolds, University of Minnesota

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Teachers College Press

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0807774081

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9780807774083

Shanghai Shadows

By: Lois Ruby

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Shanghai Shadows

By: Lois Ruby

A young girl fleeing Hitler takes refuge in Shanghai, where she learns that she must fight to survive Throughout tomboy Ilse’s childhood, her mother has tried to force her to behave like a proper Austrian lady. But when Hitler annexes their country, the family flees, boarding a packed freighter and sailing around the world in search of a safe harbor. The United States refuses to take them, so they proceed to China and make a new home in steamy, mysterious Shanghai. Their lodgings are cramped, money is tight, and Ilse’s father cannot find work—but Ilse is enchanted by the city’s international flavor. In Shanghai’s shadows she finds the adventure of a lifetime. When the Japanese occupy the city, Ilse and her brother begin working in an underground resistance cell. Each day, the city grows more dangerous, and Ilse must lie, cheat, and steal in order for her family to eat. She is a long way from Austria, but she will do whatever it takes to survive.

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Open Road Media

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1504013654

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9781504013659

Developing Competency to Manage Diversity

Reading, Cases, and Activities

By: Taylor Cox,Ruby L. Beale

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Developing Competency to Manage Diversity

Reading, Cases, and Activities

By: Taylor Cox,Ruby L. Beale

Developing Competency to Manage Diversity is a learning tool to help people develop the competence to lead and work in groups and organizations which are socially and culturally diverse

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1881052966

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9781881052968

The Practical Guide to High-Leverage Practices in Special Education

The Purposeful “How” to Enhance Classroom Rigor

By: Ruby L. Owiny,Kyena Cornelius

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The Practical Guide to High-Leverage Practices in Special Education

The Purposeful “How” to Enhance Classroom Rigor

By: Ruby L. Owiny,Kyena Cornelius

Designed for teacher preparation programs as well as teacher professional development, The Practical Guide to High-Leverage Practices in Special Education: The Purposeful “How” to Enhance Classroom Rigor is the first book of its kind to introduce multiple HLPs working in tandem to implement evidence-based practices (EBPs). The Practical Guide to High-Leverage Practices in Special Education is a powerful tool for those dedicated to improving student outcomes. Planned with the practitioner in mind, the text’s main objective is for teachers to recognize EBPs as “what” they teach and HLPs as “how” they teach. The book is written with a focus on inclusive education, making it a valuable resource for both general and special educators. What’s included in The Practical Guide to High-Leverage Practices in Special Education: A focus on one HLP per chapter and descriptions of connected HLPs and how to use them for implementing featured EBPs Classroom scenarios for both elementary and secondary classrooms Tables of the crosswalks of connected HLPs and EBPs with resources for further learning The Practical Guide to High-Leverage Practices in Special Education: The Purposeful “How” to Enhance Classroom Rigor provides educators with the understanding of how HLPs and EBPs connect to effectively implement them for student success and is also an effective teaching and learning tool for teacher education preparation programs.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040135684

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9781040135686

At the End of the Day

By: Ruby Abrahams

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At the End of the Day

By: Ruby Abrahams

The book starts by asking what is creative aging? And suggests it involves a long process that grows from all of life's experience, if you have the courage to learn the lessons given to you by your own unique life journey. It shows how difficult it is to age positively in a culture that denies and denigrates aging. At age 85, the author, Ruby Abrahams uses her own experience and that of others she has known, to suggest ways of examining the life experience, so that lessons can be learned. Thus, older people become 'elders' growing in their own wisdom and contributing with that wisdom to their families and communities.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1934925918

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9781934925911

A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest

By: Robert H. Ruby,John A. Brown,Cary C Collins

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A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest

By: Robert H. Ruby,John A. Brown,Cary C Collins

The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities. From such well-known tribes as the Nez Perces and Cayuses to lesser-known bands previously presumed "extinct," this guide offers detailed descriptions, in alphabetical order, of 150 Pacific Northwest tribes. Each entry provides information on the history, location, demographics, and cultural traditions of the particular tribe. Among the new features offered here are an expanded selection of photographs, updated reading lists, and a revised pronunciation guide. While continuing to provide succinct histories of each tribe, the volume now also covers such contemporary—and sometimes controversial—issues as Indian gaming and NAGPRA. With its emphasis on Native voices and tribal revitalization, this new edition of the Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest is certain to be a definitive reference for many years to come.

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462

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806189509

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9780806189505

Murder Among The Dunes

By: Ruby Putnam

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Murder Among The Dunes

By: Ruby Putnam

What will Miss Amelia Wainwright find on her arrival in Bermuda? There is a secret map and the hint of hidden treasure. However, the mysteries held in store were more than anyone could imagine. The story takes a supernatural turn and a long hidden historical mystery begins to unravel. What will happen next?

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142

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BookRix

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3755465442

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9783755465447

Understanding Learning

The How, the Why, the what

By: Ruby K. Payne

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Understanding Learning

The How, the Why, the what

By: Ruby K. Payne

Dr. Payne has written Understanding Learning: the How, the Why, the What to complement her workbook Learning Structures, which includes numerous strategies to help students learn vital content while building cognitive abilities. Understanding Learning provides key background in information about how and why these strategies work, along with a synopsis of brain research and cognitive studies.

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1929229046

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