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Women, Work and Computing

By: Ruth Woodfield

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Although few dispute the computer's place as a pivotal twentieth century artefact, little agreement has emerged over whether the changes it has precipitated are generally positive or negative in nature, or whether we should be contemplating our future association with the computer more with enthusiasm or trepidation. Specifically with regard to the relationship between women and computers, a diverse body of commentary has embraced the views of those who have found grounds for expressing pessimism about this association and those who have favoured a more optimistic assessment of the current situation and its probable future development. This book undertakes a thorough evaluation of the legitimacy and predictive power of the optimistic commentary. Using a large body of original qualitative data, it interrogates the bases of what it identifies as three waves of optimism and in doing so provides answers to some of the key questions asked in this field today.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521777356

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9780521777353

Graeme Remembers...

By: Graeme Kerley,Ruth Steer

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Graeme Remembers...

By: Graeme Kerley,Ruth Steer

Born during the 'Great Depression' years, life certainly had its challenges for Graeme Kerley and the residents of the small country town, called Cummins in South Australia. This book tells of the resilience, resourcefulness and strength of families and friends during times of need. The theme of gratefulness unfolds throughout the book, as Graeme remembers...

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Lulu.com

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1291640878

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Dancing with the Nation

Courtesans in Bombay Cinema

By: Ruth Vanita

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Dancing with the Nation

Courtesans in Bombay Cinema

By: Ruth Vanita

Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra and to nineteenth-century courtly cultures, but they are also the first group of modern women in Hindi films. They are working professionals living on their own or in matrilineal families. Like male protagonists, they travel widely and develop networks of friends and chosen kin. They have relations with men outside marriage and become single mothers. Courtesan films are heroine-oriented and almost every major female actor has played this role. Challenging received wisdom, Vanita demonstrates that a larger number of courtesans in Bombay cinema are Hindu and indeterminate than are Muslim, and that films depict their culture as hybrid Hindu-Muslim, not Islamicate. Courtesans speak in the ambiguous voice of the modern nation, inviting spectators to seize pleasure here and now but also to search for the meaning of life. Vanita's groundbreaking study of courtesans and courtesan imagery in 235 films brings fresh evidence to show that the courtesan figure shapes the modern Indian erotic, political and religious imagination.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501334441

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Promoting Elementary School Physical Activity

Ideas for Enjoyable Active Learning

By: Russell R. Pate,Ruth P. Saunders

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Promoting Elementary School Physical Activity

Ideas for Enjoyable Active Learning

By: Russell R. Pate,Ruth P. Saunders

Physically active children experience healthier growth and development. They are less likely to be overweight. They learn more effectively and manage their behavior better. Yet many classroom teachers offer little or no time for physical activity because they feel pressed for time, space, and equipment. That’s where Promoting Elementary School Physical Activity: Ideas for Enjoyable Active Learning comes in. This text provides K-5 classroom teachers and physical educators with simple, creative strategies and activities that have proven successful in schools and that are suitable for all children. The ideas are practical, accessible, and backed by research that supports the benefits of physical activity in the classroom. They are also flexible—meaning the authors present guidance and options for modifying activities, so teachers can choose what works best for their students. Most activities can be carried out in small spaces or within an existing classroom setup. Promoting Elementary School Physical Activity offers a total of 50 ready-to-use activities in four categories: Classroom physical activity breaks Physically active instruction Recess Enhanced physical education The games and activities afford schools the opportunity to emphasize physical activity throughout the day. The activities are easy to fit into the curriculum at any and all points, including before and after school. Little or no equipment is needed; for the few activities that require equipment, suggestions are provided to make simple equipment from everyday materials. In addition, most chapters offer quick tips to help teachers overcome any challenges that might come up with the activities in that section, and many chapters come with an infographic that shows or describes the benefits of the activity for the topic being discussed. Promoting Elementary School Physical Activity is organized into three parts: Part I, Classroom Physical Activity, offers ideas for integrating classroom physical activity breaks, incorporating physical activity into academic instruction, taking advantage of recess, and creating a physically active classroom. Part II, Physical Education, is written specifically for the physical education teacher. It provides simple strategies for getting students moving throughout physical education class, connecting them to physical activity resources in the school and community, and facilitating lifelong physical activity. Part III, The Physically Active School, presents more options for student physical activity, including ideas for before- and after-school programs and physically active transport to and from school. It also focuses on the importance of the physical environment, physical activity policies, physical activity practices, and social environment. The comprehensive school physical activity program is explored as a tool to organize and coordinate the physical activity opportunities presented throughout this book. This practical guide makes it easy for teachers to bring the fun of physical activity—along with its academic, social, and health benefits—to their K-5 students.

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Human Kinetics

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1718214758

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Younger Than That Now

A Shared Passage from the Sixties

By: Jeff Durstewitz,Ruth Williams

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Younger Than That Now

A Shared Passage from the Sixties

By: Jeff Durstewitz,Ruth Williams

He was a rabble-rousing New York high school senior. She was a fiercely proud daughter of the Deep South. In 1969 these two strangers exchanged angry letters, igniting a lifetime friendship and an extraordinary personal chronicle of our times. She was a conservative Mississippi girl. He was a self-styled firebrand from New York. In 1969, in an America torn apart by differences, two very dissimilar teens put their hearts on paper and began a friendship that would span thirty years. Now, in this collaborative memoir, they tell an unforgettable story that is a testament to who we were yesterday... and who we are now. It began when a group of bored Long Island high school newspaper reporters wrote, for a lark, an obnoxious note to Ruth Tuttle, the editor of a Deep South school paper. The New York teens included a future documentary filmmaker, a concert violinist, and the founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream--but in those days they were typical high school seniors, quick to imagine they knew all about a girl they'd never met. The ringleader, Jeff Durstewitz, impulsively dropped the letter into a mailbox, never suspecting that within a few days he'd receive an electrifying response. In the following flurry of letters, genteelly Southern Ruth and brash Jeff explored their feelings--sometimes heatedly--about God, race, sex, and life. Within a month of receiving Ruth's first letter, Jeff was planning a Yankee invasion of Yazoo City, Mississippi. Spring break brought a wild drive from New York to Yazoo City with his two friends in a psychedelic VW Bug, a "Heat of the Night" encounter between a cop and these three headstrong teens, and a culture clash in Ruth's living room that neither she nor her proper parents would ever forget. It was a night that shattered stereotypes--and their hopes for a romance. But it didn't derail the long-distance friendship that would sustain them both through thirty years of love affairs, heartbreaking disappointments, social change, divorce, and the loss of a cherished friend as they negotiated the passages from youth to middle age. And with each move, the packet of precious letters traveled, too. These letters form the heart of a wonderful memoir that captures not just the hopes of a generation and the soul of the South on the brink of inexorable change, but the experience of being young, bright, and passionate. Younger Than That Now is as achingly expressive as Janis Joplin singing "Me and Bobby McGee," as revealing of youth's wild yearnings as a Woodstock documentary. It is sharp, funny, and true, a mirror for a generation--both then and now.

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Bantam

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0307757854

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Online Child Sexual Grooming Discourse

By: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus,Craig Evans,Ruth Mullineux-Morgan

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Online Child Sexual Grooming Discourse

By: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus,Craig Evans,Ruth Mullineux-Morgan

This Element examines technology-assisted grooming of children for sex – henceforth, online grooming – as an illegal practice of communicative manipulation and, as such, something that research within the academic field of forensic linguistics is ideally placed to help counter. The analysis draws upon online grooming datasets of different sizes and provenance, including from law enforcement, and deploys different analytic techniques from primarily discourse analysis. Three features of online grooming discourse are focussed on: groomers' use of manipulation tactics; groomers' abuse of power asymmetries; and children's communication during online grooming. The Element also discusses ways in which findings derived from richly contextualised analysis of online grooming discourse can – when combined with co-creation projects involving child-safeguarding groups, children and lived-experience experts – add considerable value to societal efforts to counter online grooming and other forms of online child sexual exploitation and abuse.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009314610

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The Book of the Greyhound

By: Edward C. Ash,Ruth Fawcett

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The Book of the Greyhound

By: Edward C. Ash,Ruth Fawcett

The Book Of The Greyhound" will appeal to experienced fanciers and newcomers alike, covering all aspects if greyhound management from selection and breeding to racing and exhibiting. Also included are chapters on puppy care, training, health and ailments, adopting an ex-racer, history, notable kennels and dogs, and much more. This volume will be of considerable utility to all owners of greyhounds, and it is not to be missed by the discerning collector of related literature. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with the original artwork and text.

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Read Books Ltd

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1528766326

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Book of Blessings

and how to write your own

By: Ruth Burgess

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Book of Blessings

and how to write your own

By: Ruth Burgess

A collection of blessings for the people, celebrations, sadnesses, artefacts, special occasions and journeys of our lives.

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Wild Goose Publications

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1905010885

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Modalities

Philosophical Essays

By: Ruth Barcan Marcus

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Modalities

Philosophical Essays

By: Ruth Barcan Marcus

These papers cover important themes such as extensionality, the necessity of identity, the conception of proper names as 'tags', essentialism, substitutional quantification, and possibilia and possible worlds. What emerges from them is a robust defence of quantified modal logic in the light of a host of objections, particularly from Quine.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195096576

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Involving Patients and the Public

How to do it Better

By: Ruth Chambers,Elizabeth Boath,Chris Drinkwater

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Involving Patients and the Public

How to do it Better

By: Ruth Chambers,Elizabeth Boath,Chris Drinkwater

Patient and public involvement in health and social care has become a key element of government policy, and the need to listen and act on the views of patients and the public is an increasingly integral part of the planning and delivery of healthcare. This new edition has been completely revised and updated, providing practical information on the new responsibilities under clinical governance and Health Improvement Programmes, including useful website links and contact details. It offers clear and straightforward practical advice and provides an introduction to the new structures and processes being set up to enable patients and the public to be more influential in designing and delivering healthcare services. This book is essential reading for all healthcare professionals including doctors, nurses and therapists, and those with management responsibilities, as well as policy shapers and patient organisations.

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CRC Press

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1315345455

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Aesthetics of Anxiety

By: Ruth Ronen

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Aesthetics of Anxiety

By: Ruth Ronen

Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

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SUNY Press

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0791476677

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Environmental Management in Organizations

The IEMA Handbook

By: John Brady,Alison Ebbage,Ruth Lunn

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Environmental Management in Organizations

The IEMA Handbook

By: John Brady,Alison Ebbage,Ruth Lunn

Environmental issues can present some daunting operational concerns for all types of organization, whether in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Managing them requires environmental professionals with a working knowledge of the rapidly developing body of regulatory measures. This new edition of Environmental Management in Organizations provides all the management tools, performance measures and communication strategies that organizations need to manage their environmental responsibilities effectively. Leading experts on each topic provide focused explanations and clear practical guidance, as well as setting out the context and the key environmental and management drivers. This edition significantly updates the original handbook to take account of developments in the environmental agenda, including new dedicated chapters on climate change, energy, transport, biodiversity and chemicals. Published with IEMA.

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Routledge

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1135072469

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Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories

New Foundations for Realism

By: Ruth Garrett Millikan

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Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories

New Foundations for Realism

By: Ruth Garrett Millikan

Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of language can be described without reference to speaker intentions and that an understanding of the intentionality of thought can and should be divorced from the problem of understanding consciousness. The results support a realist theory of truth and of universals, and open the way for a nonfoundationalist and nonholistic approach to epistemology. A Bradford Book

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MIT Press

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0262631156

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9780262631150

Poverty

By: Ruth Lister

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Poverty

By: Ruth Lister

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. This text provides an introduction to the meaning and experience of poverty in the contemporary world.

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Polity

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0745625630

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Communicating

The Multiple Modes of Human Communication

By: Ruth Finnegan

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Communicating

The Multiple Modes of Human Communication

By: Ruth Finnegan

Many accounts of human communication suggest that we are limited to communicating through words, visual images, the mass media and by digital means. This perspective underestimates the multisensory qualities of much of our human interconnecting and the multiple sounds, touches, sights and material objects which humans use so creatively to interconnect both nearby and across space and time. Ruth Finnegan brings together research from linguistic and sensory anthropology, alternative approaches to 'material culture' and 'the body', non-verbal communication, cultural studies, computer-mediated communication, and illuminating work on animal communication. Examples from both western and non-western cultures together with plentiful illustrations enrich and deepen the analysis. The book uncovers the amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches and material objects which humans use so creatively to interconnect both nearby and across space and time - resources consistently underestimated in those western ideologies that prioritise 'rationality' and referential language. Focussing on embodied and material processes, and on practice rather than text, this comparative analysis challenges the underlying cognitive and word-centred model common to many approaches to communication. The second edition of Communicating includes a new introduction, updates to take account of recent work, an additional chapter covering ethereal non-verbal non-bodily communicating such as telepathy and dreams, fresh illustrations, a new conclusion and updated bibliography. This authoritative but accessible book is an essential transdisciplinary overview for researchers and advanced students in language and communication, anthropology and cultural studies.

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1317971000

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Communicating

The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection

By: Ruth H. Finnegan

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Communicating

The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection

By: Ruth H. Finnegan

Annotation Focusing on embodied and material processes rather than cognitive or mentalist models, and on practice rather than text, this book reveals why a limited view of human communication is unsatisfactory.

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Psychology Press

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0415241170

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9780415241175

Mistress Blanche

Queen Elizabeth I's Confidante

By: Ruth Elizabeth Richardson

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Mistress Blanche

Queen Elizabeth I's Confidante

By: Ruth Elizabeth Richardson

Blanche Parry – Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth I’s Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty’s Jewels – was born in Herefordshire’s Golden Valley to a noble family connected, via the Herberts of Raglan, with the House of York. She lived to the great age of 82, and for 56 years was a constant presence in the future Queen’s life, from infancy, when Lady Troy was Elizabeth’s Lady Mistress, until 31 years into her reign. Blanche was discreet, meticulous, trustworthy, elegant, respected and well-liked; her responsibilities at Court more varied and far-reaching than previously supposed. This book brings to life the day-to-day realities of Elizabeth’s Household, throwing new light on the Court, with all its hierarchies and intrigues, and revealing the selfless and influential role played for so long by the previously overlooked Blanche. Her family background, upbringing, education and religious influences are explored, together with the effect that Blanche’s views may have had on Elizabeth. The book draws extensively on original documents, many never previously transcribed, including a ‘revelatory’ corpus of bardic poems concerning Blanche’s family. This revised edition includes the results of recent research on the Bacton altar cloth, proving it to have been part of one of Elizabeth’s dresses – the only known part of more than 1,900 of her dresses to have survived. The motifs and embroidery shed fascinating new light on Elizabeth’s Court. This edition also includes a lost portrait of Elizabeth, rediscovered as a result of the first edition of this book. The whereabouts of another lost portrait, this one of Blanche herself, remain tantalisingly unknown.

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Fircone Books

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1910839280

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The Pilgrimage of Grace 1536–1537 and the Exeter Conspiracy 1538

By: Madeline Hope Dodds,Ruth Dodds

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The Pilgrimage of Grace 1536–1537 and the Exeter Conspiracy 1538

By: Madeline Hope Dodds,Ruth Dodds

Originally published in 1915, this book is the first of two volumes describing the popular risings during the reign of Henry VIII known as the Pilgrimage of Grace and the Exeter Conspiracy. Volume One describes the political situation in 1536 that gave rise to The Pilgrimage of Grace and follows the development of the movement until the Council at Pontefract at the end of that year. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English religious history and the reign of Henry VIII.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107502039

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Buy Books Where, Sell Books where

A Directory of Out of Print Booksellers and Their Author-subject Specialties, 1994-1995

By: Ruth Robinson,Ruth Eleanor Robinson

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A Directory of Out of Print Booksellers and Their Author-subject Specialties, 1994-1995

By: Ruth Robinson,Ruth Eleanor Robinson

A directory of Out-of-Print Booksellers & their author-subject specialties . Names, addresses, telephone & FAX numbers, specialties of more than 2500 booksellers & collectors are listed in three different sections, each section giving complete addresses & specifications (i.e., 1st eds., time periods, no ex-lib, etc.): Part I - Authors; Part II - Subjects; Part III - Travel Guide by States & cities within each, indicating specialties of each dealer listed in Parts I & II. Ninth Edition, 1994-1995, 329 pp., Paper $34.95. Call for information on the Tenth edition, 1996-1997, expected in the Spring of 1996. Library discount 10%. Bookseller Discount 15%. Order from RUTH ROBINSON BOOKS, Rt. 7, Box 162A, Morgantown, WV 26505; 304-594-3140.

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Ruth E. Robinson Books

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0930284534

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9780930284534

Elder Tales

Spirited Women Over Sixty Tell Their Stories

By: Ruth Garrison,Arthur A. Hart,Lorry Roberts

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Elder Tales

Spirited Women Over Sixty Tell Their Stories

By: Ruth Garrison,Arthur A. Hart,Lorry Roberts

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press These are stories about an extraordinary array of women of different ethnicities and regions of Idaho, whose lives span six decades and more. Women who created their own lives in their own ways, with gusto and hard work.

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0963125850

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