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Lily Daw and the Three Ladies

By: Ruth Perry,Eudora Welty

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Lily Daw is young, pretty, perhaps more than a little peculiar, and in love! However, the well-meaning ladies of the Helping Hand Society are determined to see Lily off to the State Home for the Feeble-Minded. They just don't believe her when she says she's planning to be married this very day. The ladies certainly do have grounds for concern. Lily has always had an odd imagination, and the man she's describing now is a 'show fellow.' One thing is clear to the ladies, the faster they can get Lily committed, the better. They urgently try to get her consent. As they're winning her over, a 'show fellow' appears and actually wants to marry Lily."--Publisher's website

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Dramatic Publishing

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0871296926

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9780871296924

Matter and Interactions

By: Ruth W. Chabay,Bruce A. Sherwood

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Matter and Interactions

By: Ruth W. Chabay,Bruce A. Sherwood

Matter and Interactions offers a modern curriculum for introductory physics (calculus-based). It presents physics the way practicing physicists view their discipline and integrates 20th Century physics and computational physics. The text emphasizes the small number of fundamental principles that underlie the behavior of matter, and models that can explain and predict a wide variety of physical phenomena. Matter and Interactions will be available as a single volume hardcover text and also two paperback volumes.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470503475

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9780470503478

Environmental Engineering

By: Ruth Weiner,Robin Matthews

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Environmental Engineering

By: Ruth Weiner,Robin Matthews

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0750672943

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Leadership and Liberation

A Psychological Approach

By: Seán Ruth

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Leadership and Liberation

A Psychological Approach

By: Seán Ruth

How do leaders influence the people around them? Is leadership about having particular personality traits or is it about what leaders actually do and the types of relationships they build? This ground-breaking book looks at how to be an effective leader. It presents a model of leadership that has many practical implications for those who occupy formal leadership roles or who seek to influence events informally. This model views leadership as a collaborative, influence process rather than a hierarchical or authoritarian one. By looking at leadership in the context of liberation, it provides the reader with an alternative perspective, enabling them to think about their own aims and effectiveness as a leader. It analyses our understanding of oppressed and oppressor groups and how processes of mistreatment develop and become institutionalised. From this standpoint, effective leadership is presented as a means of confronting inequality and initiating positive change. The practical skills required by leaders to assist them in becoming agents of change and influence, and in dealing with the inevitable conflicts that arise in complex interpersonal situations, are considered. The reasons why leaders are targets of attack are also looked into, as well as the situations in which they can act as a positive force for transformation. Containing an in-depth review of the development of leadership theory, Leadership and Liberation also critically evaluates main-stream approaches and analyses the implications for leaders on the ground. The lessons to be learned are applicable to leaders in all types of groups and organisations and will be of interest to those studying psychology, business and management.

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Routledge

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113421927X

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9781134219278

The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1526-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538

Volume 2

By: Madeleine Hope Dods,Ruth Dodds

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The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1526-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538

Volume 2

By: Madeleine Hope Dods,Ruth Dodds

Originally published in 1915, The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 examines this period of British Tudor history in great detail, including chapters on the council of the North, the White Rose Party, and the Exeter Conspiracy. This is the second of two volumes written by these authors on this period in history.

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Routledge

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0429590385

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THE LATE ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI Bsc.Hons. HER DISSERTATION

By: ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI BSc. (Hons).

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THE LATE ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI Bsc.Hons. HER DISSERTATION

By: ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI BSc. (Hons).

These are the days of reflection; the times of our lives that one has to be afraid of the WORLD. What we have experienced does not reflect to what we had thought of life. ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI’S DESTINY, has been altered overnight, underneath the watchful eyes of GOD. God is her first witness, I am her second; the only living witness, her ambassador and the voice of the DECEASED; ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI, who’s now silenced. God and I, were witnesses that heard,sat, stood, and watched all with amazement. What a prize to pay for being the daughter, of those who fell from grace! Their kindnesses, and their treats are questionable. When someone is poor, they tend to have little or no protection. Dignity, and respect eroded by the mighty WORLD because somebody stepped on our toes! Still I could recall how frail and fragile she was; as she looked into my eyes. I have always tended to have admiration for those who love the truth, and would let JUSTICE REIGN. A man stamped his feet, a gentle tap dance, he sighed; and looked at ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI, and said something that, GOD, THE NOW SILENCED AND I HEARD! Since I was born, I have never seen or been close to a corpse, the first corpse I saw was that of my daughter; You cannot begin to imagine, how distressful and stressful this has been to me as her mother but for her sake, nothing is too much to bear. I stood in the shadow of my daughter’s life; watched my child, as she faded away within three weeks. ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI, spent twelve years at boarding schools. One year at GRACE DIEU MANOR HOUSE SCHOOL, AT COALVILLE, LEICESTER, ENGLAND. NINE YEARS AT A CONVENT SCHOOL called “THE TOWERS” AT UPPER BEADING, WEST SUSSEX, ENGLAND RUN BY IRISH NUNS. AN EX-STUDENT AT “ST. CLARE’S INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE,” BAMBURY ROAD, OXFORD, ENGLAND FOR TWO YEARS. ADA-EMILIA RUTH VALMORI WENT TO READ: (Humanities,

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479766828

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Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments

By: Nicholas Eastaugh,Valentine Walsh,Tracey Chaplin,Ruth Siddall

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Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments

By: Nicholas Eastaugh,Valentine Walsh,Tracey Chaplin,Ruth Siddall

The Pigment Compendium Dictionary is a comprehensive information source for scientists, art historians, conservators and forensic specialists. Drawn together from extensive analystical research into the physical and chemical properties of pigments, this essential reference to pigment names and synonyms describes the inter-relationship of different names and terms. The Dictionary covers the field worldwide from pre-history to the present day, from rock art to interior decoration, from ethnography to contemporary art. Drawing on hundreds of hard-to-obtain documentary sources as well as modern scientific data each term is discussed in detail, giving both its context and composition.

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Routledge

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1136373853

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9781136373855

Catharine Trotter Cockburn

By: Ruth Boeker

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Catharine Trotter Cockburn

By: Ruth Boeker

This Element offers the first detailed study of Catharine Trotter Cockburn's philosophy and covers her contributions to philosophical debates in epistemology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of religion. It not only examines Cockburn's view that sensation and reflection are the sources of knowledge, but also how she draws attention to the limitations of human understanding and how she approaches metaphysical debates through this lens. In the area of moral philosophy, this Element argues that it is helpful to take seriously Cockburn's distinction between questions concerning the metaphysical foundation of morality and questions concerning the practice of morality. Moreover, this Element examines Cockburn's religious views and considers her understanding of the relation between morality and religion and her religious views concerning the resurrection and the afterlife.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009058371

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9781009058377

The Trouble with Sauling Around

Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965-2002

By: Madeline Ruth Walker

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The Trouble with Sauling Around

Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965-2002

By: Madeline Ruth Walker

Examining autobiographical texts by Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X), Oscar Zeta Acosta (The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People), Amiri Baraka (The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones), and Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown), Walker questions the often rosy views and simplistic binary conceptions of religious conversion. Her reading of these texts takes into account the conflict and serial changes the authors experience in a society that marginalizes them, the manner in which religious conversion offers ethnic Americans “salvation” through cultural assimilation or cultural nationalism, and what conversion, anticonversion, and deconversion narratives tell us about the problematic effects of religion that often go unremarked because of a code of “special respect” and political correctness. Walker asserts that critics have been too willing to praise religion in America as salutary or beyond the ken of criticism because religious belief is seen as belonging to an untouchable arena of cultural identity. The Trouble with Sauling Around goes beyond traditional literary criticism to pay close attention to the social phenomena that underlie religious conversion narratives and considers the potentially negative effects of religious conversion, something that has been likewise neglected by scholars.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609380649

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Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: Science, Grade 4

By: Ruth Foster

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Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: Science, Grade 4

By: Ruth Foster

High-interest, nonfiction articles help students learn about science topics while developing skills in reading comprehension. Each story is followed by questions that cover main idea, detail, vocabulary, and critical reasoning. The format is similar to that of standardized tests, so as students progress through the book's units, they are preparing for success in testing. Each of the 44 units provides: Introductory key words, A high-interest story, 5 test questions. Book jacket.

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1420680226

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9781420680225

New Maths in Action

By: Robin Howat,Graham Meikle,Doug Brown,Ruth Murray,Ken Nisbet

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New Maths in Action

By: Robin Howat,Graham Meikle,Doug Brown,Ruth Murray,Ken Nisbet

Written by an expert Scottish author team, this market-leading pupil book will help you deliver the Curriculum for Excellence.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748785388

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9780748785384

Windermere & Grasmere in the Great War

By: Ruth Mansergh

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Windermere & Grasmere in the Great War

By: Ruth Mansergh

Windermere and Grasmere in the Great War is an expert account of these Lake District town's fascinating contributions to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the long-awaited Allied victory in 1918. The book is designed to be accessible to all, and for this reason it includes the history of the South Lakes area of Cumbria, where the scarcity of visitors was felt during the Great War. Interesting stories include Lake Windermeres setting as a watery runway, rumors that a German airship was operating from a secret base near Grasmere, the double life of Arthur Ransome, and Cumberland Wrestlings postwar boom. The book also takes a detailed look at the graduates of the Lakes Flying Company, the Hardistys, VAD nurse Nellie Taylor, the Baisbrowns, the boatmen who sewed bags for sand, the gunpowder carts, Beatrix Potters opinions, conscientious objectors, landowners and gentry, Cobby the horse, railwaymen, and prisoner of war Frederick Mallinson. It acts as a reference guide to local war memorials, and a chronological guide to Belgian refugees in south Lakeland whose homes included Ellerthwaite Lodge, Windermere, Calgarth Park auxiliary hospital, Troutbeck Bridge, and the village of Finsthwaite. St Martins next to the Old England Hotel, Windermere, has more memorials than any other church in Cumbria including the Cathedral (Carlisle). Overall, this is a poignant testimony to the bravery, self-sacrifice and determination of the people of Windermere and Grasmere during the Great War, who sought to find normality in a reality so far removed from anything they had ever known.

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Pen and Sword

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1473864046

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9781473864047

Welding Basics

An Introduction to Practical & Ornamental Welding

By: Karen Ruth

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Welding Basics

An Introduction to Practical & Ornamental Welding

By: Karen Ruth

This book is aimed at the beginning to intermediate level home welder - anyone who wishes to use welding to repair or create objects around the home. An overview of welding basics, materials, metal forming and safety is followed by step-by-step how-to projects with full colour photos.

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Creative Publishing International

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1589231392

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Calling Sergeant Crockford

The story of a pioneering policewoman in the 1960s

By: Ruth D'Alessandro

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Calling Sergeant Crockford

The story of a pioneering policewoman in the 1960s

By: Ruth D'Alessandro

It's the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. The Cold War is at its height and support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is building. The Berkshire Constabulary's Detective Gwen Crockford is promoted to Woman Police Sergeant in Newbury – the town at the heart of Britain's atomic weapons programme. Gwen's initial reservations that her posting in rural Berkshire will be boring soon prove to be unfounded. A serial sex attacker on the loose, an attempted murder at Greenham Common US Airforce Base, and a charismatic heiress with a family secret keep things interesting for the capable sergeant. Laser-focused on her police career – and resigned to the single life – Gwen is forced to re-evaluate her plans when a nature-loving war veteran PC walks into the station with an orphaned fox cub, and there's a shocking discovery in a railway station lavatory. Written by her daughter Ruth and rich in social history, this is the story of a real-life woman police sergeant at the top of her game, guiding her WPCs through the immense societal changes of the early 1960s.

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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction

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1802793712

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9781802793710

Gloria!

Letters from the Hymnwriters

By: Ruth M. Buenting

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Gloria!

Letters from the Hymnwriters

By: Ruth M. Buenting

Here is a unique way to engender new interest in the old familiar hymns of the church. Imaginary letters from hymn composers will educate, inspire, and uplift your congregation.

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0788015265

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African American Patients in Psychotherapy

Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression

By: Ruth Fallenbaum

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African American Patients in Psychotherapy

Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression

By: Ruth Fallenbaum

African American Patients in Psychotherapy integrates history, current events, arts, psychoanalytic thinking, and case studies to provide a model for understanding the social and historical dimensions of psychological development. Among the topics included are psychological consequences of slavery and Jim Crow, the black patient and the white therapist, the toll of even “small” racist enactments, the black patient’s uneasy relationship with health care providers, and a revisiting of the idea of “black rage.” Author Ruth Fallenbaum also examines the psychological potential of reparation for centuries of slave labor and legalized wage and property theft.

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1351181343

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Pigment Compendium

By: Nicholas Eastaugh,Valentine Walsh,Tracey Chaplin,Ruth Siddall

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Pigment Compendium

By: Nicholas Eastaugh,Valentine Walsh,Tracey Chaplin,Ruth Siddall

This is an essential purchase for all painting conservators and conservation scientists dealing with paintings and painted objects. It provides the first definitive manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments. Illustrated throughout with full colour images reproduced to the highest possible quality, this book is based on years of painstaking research into the visual and optical properties of pigments. Now combined with the Pigment Dictionary, the most thorough reference to pigment names and synonyms avaiable, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.

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1136373934

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9781136373930

Housing Options for Disabled People

By: Ruth Bull

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Housing Options for Disabled People

By: Ruth Bull

Adaptations or re-housing can help people with disabilities to live at home in the community. This multidisciplinary guide suggests innovative ways of working out solutions to problems, and highlights the key role of occupational therapists.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853024546

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9781853024542

The Economics of Mental Health Care

Industry, Government and Community Issues

By: Ruth F.G Williams,D.P. Doessel

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The Economics of Mental Health Care

Industry, Government and Community Issues

By: Ruth F.G Williams,D.P. Doessel

This title was first published in 2001. This original study of mental health care presents a conceptual approach to the nature of the industry’s multiple outputs. It pays special attention to the economic role of government, and also uses conventional economic theory to analyze the fact that the needs and wants of people with mental illnesses and their care-givers are frequently neglected.

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Routledge

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135173850X

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Abolition Geography

Essays Towards Liberation

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Abolition Geography

Essays Towards Liberation

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

The first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present. Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an “anti-state state” that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirement. Gilmore escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place. Edited with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.

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Verso Books

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1839761709

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9781839761706

The Clays of Alabama

A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family

By: Ruth Ketring Nuermberger

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The Clays of Alabama

A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family

By: Ruth Ketring Nuermberger

Of unique interest to the student of nineteenth century America is this account of the Alabama Clays, who in their private life were typical of the slaveholding aristocracy of the old South, but as lawyer-politicians played significant roles in state and national politics, in the development of the Democratic party, and in the affairs of the Confederacy. In the period from 1811 to 1915, the Clays were involved in many of the great problems confronting the South. This study of the Clay family includes accounts of the wartime legislation of the Confederate Congress and the activities of the Confederate Commission in Canada. Equally interesting to many readers will be the intimate view of social life in ante-bellum Washington and the story of the domestic struggles of a plantation family during and after the war, as revealed through the letters of Clement Claiborne Clay and his wife Virginia.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813194903

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9780813194905

Environmental Engineering

By: P Aarne Vesilind,J. Jeffrey Peirce,Ruth F. Weiner

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Environmental Engineering

By: P Aarne Vesilind,J. Jeffrey Peirce,Ruth F. Weiner

Environmental Engineering, Second Edition is an introductory book on environmental engineering, which includes materials important to environmental engineers: water resources, air quality, solid and hazardous wastes (including radioactive waste), noise, and social and ethical considerations. The text begins with a short introduction on the roots of environmental engineering and presents the concept of risk and safety. The following chapters are devoted to discussions on such topics as sources of water pollution, measurement of water quality, wastewater treatment, quantities and characteristics of municipal solid waste, and solid and hazardous waste law. The types of air pollutants, air pollution control, and noise measurement and control are dealt with in detail as well. The last chapter covers the topic on environmental ethics. This book will be of use to junior or senior level engineering students.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483162621

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Publishing Africa in French

Literary Institutions and Decolonization 1945-1967

By: Ruth Bush

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Publishing Africa in French

Literary Institutions and Decolonization 1945-1967

By: Ruth Bush

An exploration of African literary production in France and its socio-economic implications.

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Oxford University Press

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178138195X

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Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty

By: Ruth D. Weston

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Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty

By: Ruth D. Weston

In this study, Ruth D. Weston probes the whole of Eudora Welty’s work to reveal the writer’s close relationship to the gothic tradition. Specifically, Weston shows how Welty employs the theme of enclosure and escape and settings that convey a sense of mystery—gothic adaptations both—to create certain narrative techniques in her fiction. Differentiating at the outset between the Gothic genre as opposed to elements of the gothic tradition, and acknowledging both critics’ and Welty’s own reluctance to link her writing with the former, Weston plunges in and brilliantly discloses the relationship Welty’s writing has to both, and in doing so describes a rich literary heritage to which Welty belongs. She shows how the tradition of adapting European Gothic conventions to American settings has come down to us through writers such as Hawthorne, particularly through the short story, and continues in Welty’s fiction. Among Welty’s narrative techniques that Weston discusses are plot structures built around betrayal and captivity, reversal of characters’ gender roles, a tone sometimes similar to that of gothic genres such as the fairy tale or ghost story, and affective settings in “gothic spaces” such as the woods along the Natchez Trace. These techniques, Weston explains, help Welty in illustrating restrictions placed on the individual’s search for selfhood by human relationships, cultural expectations, and memory. In addition to examining the texts themselves, Weston draws on Welty’s critical and theoretical writings and her letters and other materials in archival collections. She also gleans insights from the work of contemporary narrative theorists, feminist critics, and recent commentators on the Gothic. In the course of her presentation, she offers some excellent new assessments of Welty’s relation to the “female Gothic” and the “Southern Gothic” and to William Faulkner and Jane Austen. This book is one of the most informed studies to date of Welty’s relation to the literary mainstream of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Welty scholars as well as general readers of American and southern literature will gain a deep appreciation for Welty’s imaginative and original response to the Gothic literary tradition.

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LSU Press

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0807118974

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The Network Turn

Changing Perspectives in the Humanities

By: Ruth Ahnert,Sebastian E. Ahnert,Catherine Nicole Coleman,Scott B. Weingart

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The Network Turn

Changing Perspectives in the Humanities

By: Ruth Ahnert,Sebastian E. Ahnert,Catherine Nicole Coleman,Scott B. Weingart

We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks, their study has predominantly taken place within the domains of computer science and related scientific fields. But arts and humanities scholars are increasingly using the same kinds of visual and quantitative analysis to shed light on aspects of culture and society hitherto concealed. This Element contends that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. Moreover, we are at a moment in time when it is crucial that arts and humanities scholars join the critique of how large-scale network data and advanced network analysis are being harnessed for the purposes of power, surveillance, and commercial gain. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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1108856691

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9781108856690

It Came from Cambridge - Vol.#1

Short stories from people who live there

By: Bob Burtt,Doug Craig,Ken Doran,Elaine Francis,Richard Hanig,Wanda Janaway,Andrew LeVecchi,Dan McQuain,Tara Mondou,Linda Schueler,Jill Summerhayes,Randy Thompson,Ruth Thompson

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It Came from Cambridge - Vol.#1

Short stories from people who live there

By: Bob Burtt,Doug Craig,Ken Doran,Elaine Francis,Richard Hanig,Wanda Janaway,Andrew LeVecchi,Dan McQuain,Tara Mondou,Linda Schueler,Jill Summerhayes,Randy Thompson,Ruth Thompson

For the first time in the history of the city of Cambridge, Ontario, a collection of short stories from new and established writers is being published by Fuse. Fuse is a registered charity connecting the community with local artists and their art. Fiction and non-fiction short stories were submitted and reviewed. Thirteen stories have been accepted for publication in this book. We know you will enjoy reading these stories as much as we love publishing them! Writers include: Ruth Thompson, Randy Thompson, Jill Summerhayes, Linda, Schueler, Tara Mondou, Dan McQuain, Andrew LeVecchi, Wanda Janaway, Richard Hanig. Elaine Francis, Ken Doran, Douglas Craig and Bob Burtt.

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Paul Langan

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1998829375

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9781998829378

Energy from the Wind

Generating Power with Wind Turbines

By: Ruth Owen

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Energy from the Wind

Generating Power with Wind Turbines

By: Ruth Owen

Scientists are exploring all types of sustainable resources, including power from wind. Readers to get a glimpse into the exciting development of harnessing energy using massive wind turbines. Full-color photographs support the text and aid comprehension.

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147770289X

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As I Find It

Book III: Descendants of the Seal (Seale), Barlow, Pitts, Southworth, and Taylor Families of Caroline County, Virginia

By: Ruth E. Pitts

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As I Find It

Book III: Descendants of the Seal (Seale), Barlow, Pitts, Southworth, and Taylor Families of Caroline County, Virginia

By: Ruth E. Pitts

As I Find It, Book Three: Descendants of the Seal, Barlow, Pitts, Southworth, and Taylor Families of Caroline County, Virginia By: Ruth E. Pitts

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Everyday Music Listening

Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing

By: Ruth Herbert

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Everyday Music Listening

Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing

By: Ruth Herbert

In what ways does listening to music shape everyday perception? Is music particularly effective in promoting shifts in consciousness? Is there any difference perceptually between contemplating one's surroundings and experiencing a work of art? Everyday Music Listening is the first book to focus in depth on the detailed nature of music listening episodes as lived mental experiences. Ruth Herbert uses new empirical data to explore the psychological processes involved in everyday music listening scenarios, charting interactions between music, perceiver and environment in a diverse range of real-world contexts. Findings are integrated with insights from a broad range of literature, including consciousness studies and research into altered states of consciousness, as well as ideas from ethology and evolutionary psychology, suggesting that a psychobiological capacity for trancing is linked to the origins of making and receiving of art. The term 'trance' is not generally associated with music listening outside ethnomusicological studies of strong experiences, yet 'hypnotic-like' involvements in daily life have long been recognized by hypnotherapy researchers. The author argues that multiply distributed attention - prevalent in much contemporary listening- does not necessarily indicate superficial engagement. Music emerges as a particularly effective mediator of experience. Absorption and dissociation, as manifestations of trancing, are self-regulatory processes, often operating at the level of unconscious awareness, that support individuals' perceptions of psychological health. This fascinating study brings together research and theory from a wide range of fields to provide a new framework for understanding the phenomenology of music listening in a way that will appeal to both specialist academic audiences and a broad general readership.

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