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The Western Lit Survival Kit

An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner

By: Sandra Newman

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The Western Lit Survival Kit

An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner

By: Sandra Newman

A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we bluffed our way through in college, the dusty Everyman's Library editions that look classy on the shelf but make us feel guilty because they've never been opened. On a mission to restore the West's great works to their rightful place (they were intended to be entertaining!), Sandra Newman has produced a reading guide like no other. Beginning with Greek and Roman literature, she takes readers through hilarious detours and captivating historical tidbits on the road to Modernism. Along the way, we find parallels between Rabelais and South Park, Jane Austen and Sex and the City, Jonathan Swift and Jon Stewart, uncovering the original humor and riskiness that propelled great authors to celebrity. Packed with pop culture gems, stories of literary hoaxes, ironic day jobs for authors, bad reviews of books that would later become classics, and more.

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Penguin

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1101554088

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9781101554081

Journey with No Maps

A Life of P.K. Page

By: Sandra Djwa

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Journey with No Maps

A Life of P.K. Page

By: Sandra Djwa

Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and a fine artist. The product of over a decade's research and writing, the book follows Page as she becomes one of Canada's best-loved and most influential writers. "A borderline being," as she called herself, she recognized the new choices offered to women by modern life but followed only those related to her quest for self-discovery. Tracing Page's life through two wars, world travels, the rise of modernist and Canadian cultures, and later Sufi study, biographer Sandra Djwa details the people and events that inspired her work. Page's independent spirit propelled her from Canada to England, from work as a radio actress to a scriptwriter for the National Film Board, from an affair with poet F.R. Scott to an enduring marriage with diplomat Arthur Irwin. Page wrote her story in poems, fiction, diaries, librettos, and her visual art. Journey with No Maps reads like a novel, drawing on the poet's voice from interviews, diaries, letters, and writings as well as the voices of her contemporaries. With the vividness of a work of fiction and the thoroughness of scholarly dedication, Djwa illustrates the complexities of Page's private experience while also documenting her public emergence as an internationally known poet. It is both the captivating story of a remarkable woman and a major contribution to the study of Canada's literary and artistic history.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773587764

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9780773587762

The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity

By: Sandra M. Gilbert

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The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity

By: Sandra M. Gilbert

From the recipe novel to the celebrity chef, renowned scholar Sandra M. Gilbert explores the poetics and politics of food. In this stunning and important work, the prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship with food and eating through discussions of literature, art, and popular culture. Focusing on contemporary practices, The Culinary Imagination traces the social, aesthetic, and political history of food from myth to modernity, from ancient sources to our current wave of food mania. What does it mean to transform raw stuff into cooked dishes, which then become part of our own bodies; to savor festive meals yet resolve to renounce gluttony; to act as predators where in another life we might have become prey? Do the rituals of the kitchen have different meanings for men and women, for professional chefs and home cooks? Why, today, do so many of us turn so passionately toward table topics, on the page, online, and on screen? What are the philosophical implications of the food chain on which we all find ourselves? In The Culinary Imagination, Gilbert addresses these powerful questions through meditations on myths and memoirs, children’s books, novels, poems, food blogs, paintings, TV shows, and movies. Discussing figures from Rex Stout to Julia Child and Andy Warhol, from M. F. K. Fisher and Sylvia Plath to Alice Waters and Peter Singer, she analyzes the politics and poetics of our daily bread, investigating our complex self-definitions as producers, consumers, and connoisseurs of food. The result is an ambitious, lively, and learned examination of the ways in which our culture’s artists have represented food across a range of genres.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393244032

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9780393244038

Choctaw County

By: Sandra Jenkins Little

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Choctaw County

By: Sandra Jenkins Little

Choctaw County, one of Alabama's largest counties by area at 909 square miles, is also one of the smallest in population. Established at the end of 1847 by taking land from Sumter and Washington Counties, Choctaw County today is a recognized leader in the pulpwood industry and renowned for its hunting and fishing. Cattle farming and agriculture also play a large role in daily life and economics, and residents take pride in having the first producing oil well in the state of Alabama. Choctaw County is even home to the remains of the historic healing waters of the former Bladon Springs Hotel, and a curious connection with the basilosaurus cetoides, a prehistoric sea mammal found near Melvin, currently on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439663386

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Consuming Surrealism in American Culture

Dissident Modernism

By: Sandra Zalman

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Consuming Surrealism in American Culture

Dissident Modernism

By: Sandra Zalman

Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern art in the United States. Unlike standard accounts that focus on Surrealism in the U.S. during the 1940s as a point of departure for the ascendance of the New York School, this study contends that Surrealism has been integral to the development of American visual culture over the course of the twentieth century. Through analysis of Surrealism in both the museum and the marketplace, Sandra Zalman tackles Surrealism?s multi-faceted circulation as both elite and popular. Zalman shows how the American encounter with Surrealism was shaped by Alfred Barr, William Rubin and Rosalind Krauss as these influential curators mobilized Surrealism to compose, to concretize, or to unseat narratives of modern art in the 1930s, 1960s and 1980s - alongside Surrealism?s intersection with advertising, Magic Realism, Pop, and the rise of contemporary photography. As a popular avant-garde, Surrealism openly resisted art historical classification, forcing the supposedly distinct spheres of modernism and mass culture into conversation and challenging theories of modern art in which it did not fit, in large part because of its continued relevance to contemporary American culture.

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Routledge

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1351571095

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Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics

By: Sandra Kumamoto Stanley

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Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics

By: Sandra Kumamoto Stanley

Viewing Louis Zukofsky as a reader, writer, and innovator of twentieth-century poetry, Sandra Stanley argues that his works serve as a crucial link between American modernism and post- modernism. Like Ezra Pound, Zukofsky saw himself as a participant in the transformation of a modern American poetics; but unlike Pound, Zukofsky, the ghetto-born son of an immigrant Russian Jew, was keenly aware of his marginal position in society. Championing the importance of the little words, such as a and the, Zukofsky effected his own proletarian "revolution of the word." Stanley explains how Zukofsky emphasized the materiality of language, refusing to reduce it to a commodity controlled by an "authorial/authoritarian" self. She also describes his legacy to contemporary poets, particularly such Language poets as Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein.

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Univ of California Press

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0520340949

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9780520340947

Persistent Work-related Technology Use, Recovery and Well-being Processes

Focus on Supplemental Work After Hours

By: Lenka Ďuranová,Sandra Ohly

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Persistent Work-related Technology Use, Recovery and Well-being Processes

Focus on Supplemental Work After Hours

By: Lenka Ďuranová,Sandra Ohly

The aim of this work is to provide insight into the process of employee recovery and well-being in regard to work-related ICT use during after-hours. Therefore, we discuss (1) theories that help us to understand the determinants and outcomes of this behavior, (2) our core concepts recovery and well-being, and (3) previous empirical findings on ICT use after hours for work purposes. On the basis of literature review, we propose a new conceptual overall framework of ICT use after hours for work purposes with the focus on employee recovery and well-being processes. Thereby, we posit ICT use after hours for work purposes as potential stressor, resource, or demand (see action theory by Hacker, 1998, 2003; Frese and Zapf 1994), depending on many personal and environmental factors, but primarily on cognitive appraisals (see transactional model of stress by Lazarus and Folkman 1984). This three-way division enables us to propose various linear and non-linear associations to focused outcomes. We conclude with an overall discussion on further research concerning the identified research gaps.

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Springer

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331924759X

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Corporate Power and Regulation

Consumers and the Environment in the European Union

By: Sandra Eckert

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Corporate Power and Regulation

Consumers and the Environment in the European Union

By: Sandra Eckert

“A novel, insightful and provocative foray into the abilities, capacities and limits of corporate power on the one hand and public power and capacities on the other hand. Eckert offers new and refine insights on core issues in the theories of public and private interest regulation.”—David Levi Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel “This impressive book breaks important ground in the regulatory governance literature by bringing in a fresh corporate perspective. Based on a set of fascinating case studies of European regulation, Eckert compellingly unpacks key facets of corporate power. A must-read for regulation scholars who often neglect the targets of regulation!”—Burkard Eberlein, York University, Canada “This book offers systematic and empirically fascinating insights into the regulatory power of corporations which unfolds outside the traditional political arenas. Its policy effects have important implications for the target groups of regulation, the general public, and the democratic political process as such. The conceptualization and use of rich empirical sources make for a compelling read.”—Adrienne Héritier, European University Institute, Italy This book takes a fresh look at corporate power in the regulatory process. It examines how corporations seek to prevent, shape, make or revoke regulation. The central argument is that in doing so, corporations utilise distinct power resources as experts, innovators and operators. By re-emphasising the proactive role of business, the book complements our acquired knowledge of policymakers’ capacity to put pressure on, or delegate power to private actors. Empirically, the book covers European consumer and environmental policies, and conducts case studies on the chemical, paper, home appliance, ICT and electricity industries. A separate chapter is dedicated to the assumption that Brexit will lead to an unprecedented result of EU regulation being lifted, and how this could put corporate power in regulation at risk. This book provides a new perspective on the policy implications of corporate power to scholars, students and practitioners alike.

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3030054632

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Death 101

A Workbook for Educating and Healing, 2nd edition

By: Sandra Helene Straub

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Death 101

A Workbook for Educating and Healing, 2nd edition

By: Sandra Helene Straub

Human beings experience many losses in a lifetime, but the death of a loved one is among the most traumatic. While grieving is a natural part of life, it still challenges our daily existence. The purpose of Death 101: A Workbook for Educating and Healing, 2nd edition is to provide an understanding of dying, death, and bereavement that will assist individuals to cope better with and understand their own death and the death of others. It enables us to examine cultural attitudes and assumptions about dying and death. Death 101, 2nd edition introduces the dying process, grief work, and ethical and legal issues while providing personal insight and sensitivity. The workbook is meant as a supplement to textbooks on dying and death, to accompany the academic material necessary to increase our knowledge about death education. At the same time, it is intended to be an independent method of working through loss, a personal guide for the journey through grief. Death 101, 2nd edition includes activities that may be used in part or in whole, sequentially or at random, by individuals or a group. Different professionals, including counselors, teachers, clergy, medical personnel, and caregivers, may utilize these activities. The therapeutic exercises in Death 101, 2nd edition will help the lay reader cope effectively with loss and death and allow a more effective life when faced with grief. Scattered throughout the workbook are stories, poems, and comments from others who have traveled through the grieving process.

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Routledge

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1351845071

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9781351845076

Tired of Not Sleeping?

Wholistic Program for a Good Night's Sleep

By: Sandra Cabot MD,Nanacy Beckham ND

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Tired of Not Sleeping?

Wholistic Program for a Good Night's Sleep

By: Sandra Cabot MD,Nanacy Beckham ND

Detailing the latest information on the correct use of antidepressants and sleeping pills and comparing them against natural herbal and nutritional sleeping remedies, this extensive guide illustrates that there are gentler, more natural ways to get optimal sleep at night. Providing in-depth examples of which supplements and foods help the brain and nervous system relax, examining the properties of the sleep hormone melatonin, covering aromatherapy benefits, and discussing behavioral and relaxation therapy, this handy resource provides extensive avenues for easy alternative remedies. A wholistic program for a good night's sleep. This book provides you with practical stategies for 68 things that stop you sleeping. Up to date information is given on antidepressant drugs and sleeping. The latest information is given on: The correct use of anti-depressant drugs and sleeping pills Natural herbal and nutritional sleeping remedies Supplements and foods to help your brain and nervous system relax The sleep hormone melatonin Aromatherapy Behavioral and relaxation therapy This book gives you holistic solutions for 68 things that could be stopping you from sleeping, such as - Anxiety & panic attacks Sleep apnoea & snoring Painful joints & muscles Bladder problems Respiratory infections Allergies Bowel & intestinal problems Hormonal imbalances Night sweats Hot flushes Itching skin Burning feet Weight excess Jet lag Nightmares & fears Muscle cramps & spasms Restless legs Tinnitus Trauma & grief Depression

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SCB International

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1936609142

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9781936609147

Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration

Perspectives of Control from Five Continents

By: Sandra Mantu

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Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration

Perspectives of Control from Five Continents

By: Sandra Mantu

Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe at the same time as governments of both sending and receiving countries have been trying to develop regulatory mechanisms. This book opens the debate on the global politics of labour migration by proposing a re-assessment of the interaction between states regarding labour migration. Presenting case-specific scholarship from leading experts from five different continents, each contribution engages with the changing landscape of migration control and teases out emerging control patterns, dynamics and correlations that can be made between them and existing control paradigms. The multidisciplinary and global focus in 'Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration' sheds much needed light on the mechanisms deployed by states in their attempts to control labour migration and on the manner in which these mechanisms impact upon migrants themselves, leaving some caught up in the politics of labour market control

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Routledge

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1317161564

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9781317161561

Care of the Well Newborn

By: BJ Snell,Sandra L Gardner

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Care of the Well Newborn

By: BJ Snell,Sandra L Gardner

Care of the Well Newborn is a unique text that focuses on care of the term newborn for the first month of life. Written by distinguished experts in the field, it teaches students and professionals how and what to assess in the care of the non-verbal newborn, while also providing criteria for recognizing deviations from normal and strategies for managing complications that arise. The first text of its kind, it provides easily accessible information on evidence-based neonatal care that follows current guidelines, standards, and recommendations. Also explored are physiology and pathophysiology, data collection, differential diagnosis, cultural considerations, and parental education. An ideal resource for both students and professionals, each chapter includes multiple choice questions, case studies, and activities to facilitate critical thinking and learning.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284125599

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9781284125597

Lost Talent

By: Sandra Hanson

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Lost Talent

By: Sandra Hanson

The challenge faced by the U.S. in the next two decades is developing a balanced, qualified, and well-trained workforce for jobs in science and other technical fields. For Hanson this includes equity for women, which begins with creating conditions so that young girls who start out doing well in science do not end up with little training and knowledge. The recovery of this "lost talent" is the central concern of this book.

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Temple University Press

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1439905843

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9781439905845

Lessons from the Middle

High-end Learning for Middle School Students

By: Sandra Kaplan,Sandra Nina Kaplan,Michael W. Cannon

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Lessons from the Middle

High-end Learning for Middle School Students

By: Sandra Kaplan,Sandra Nina Kaplan,Michael W. Cannon

From writing mysteries to studying the human genome project, these model lessons from the core academic areas will excite your students and save you planning time. These standards-based lessons and units of study will promote high-end learning for gifted students in middle school. Grades 6-8

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PRUFROCK PRESS INC.

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1882664825

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9781882664825

Everyday Leadership

Taking Charge in the Real World

By: Ahron Friedberg, M.D.,Sandra Sherman

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Everyday Leadership

Taking Charge in the Real World

By: Ahron Friedberg, M.D.,Sandra Sherman

Everyday Leadership examines how individuals in everyday, relatively small settings can succeed in leadership positions. The book provides tools for tackling the unique psychological and external challenges that everyday leaders face, and offers principles that they can adapt to their own situations. Dr. Ahron Friedberg, who regularly advises leaders and would-be leaders, emphasizes the social aspect of leadership, and explores how those who are new to leadership – and those in established positions – can leverage their support networks and thrive in their roles. The book follows the experience of real people who have faced leadership challenges and learned from them, demonstrating how readers can learn from these examples and apply them to their own circumstances. Guided by a practical leadership roadmap, chapters examine concepts such as vision, determination, flexibility, planning, organization, and responsibility using extensive case studies, with reflective questions and key takeaways that help the reader consider how to apply these principles to their own leadership challenges. This book is an essential read for HR professionals, executive coaches, management consultants, leadership trainers, and organizational psychologists as well as those facing leadership challenges in their profession.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040024556

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9781040024553

The Sumner Story

Capturing Our History Preserving Our Legacy

By: Sandra E Freelain,Dwight D Henderson,Johnnieque B Love,Eugene M Williams

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The Sumner Story

Capturing Our History Preserving Our Legacy

By: Sandra E Freelain,Dwight D Henderson,Johnnieque B Love,Eugene M Williams

THE SUMNER STORY is to authenticate the school’s illustrious history and track record in providing quality educational experiences. Since the perspectives of generations of alumni are interwoven in the telling of the story there is a rich, vital character not commonly illustrated in such studies. By specifying major factors contributing to the school's stellar reputation in the area of college preparatory curriculum, concrete instructional tenets are provided for today's classroom teachers and administrators.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1600377807

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9781600377808

Fresh from the Past

Recipes and Revelations from Moll Flanders' Kitchen

By: Sandra Sherman,Henry Chotkowski

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Fresh from the Past

Recipes and Revelations from Moll Flanders' Kitchen

By: Sandra Sherman,Henry Chotkowski

Sherman takes readers along on a wild ride back in time, describing how historic families learned to cook with the seasons. From a cookbook of the day she gives readers 120 original recipes, together with contemporary translations of step-by-step instructions for cooks of any level.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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158979088X

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9781589790889

Twas the Night

By: Sandra Hill,Trish Jensen,Kate Holmes

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Twas the Night

By: Sandra Hill,Trish Jensen,Kate Holmes

Christmas or Bust!" What do a Blue Angels pilot, a bounty hunter and an ex-NFL football player have in common? The three bad-boy bachelors of Snowdon, Maine have to make a friend's Christmas Eve wedding on time or die trying! They're willing to risk anything to make that happen--even dashing through the snow in the goofiest bus on Earth, bright red and filled with a bunch of merry, meddling senior citizens known as the Santa Brigade. All too soon, these men will have met their matches in three special women: a woman from their past, a forest ranger so hot she ought to be declared a fire hazard, and a woman on the run. Ho, ho, OH! While serving up holiday cheer with the Santa Brigade, the guys will discover 'tis the season for good will and folly. Wise men or not, they are well and truly caught, which means these roguish St. Nicks are willing to jingle a few bells along the way if that's what it takes to find what they truly want for Christmas nestled in their beds after the stockings are stuffed and the gifts placed under the tree.

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BelleBooks

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1935661825

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9781935661825

The Scene Book

A Primer for the Fiction Writer

By: Sandra Scofield

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The Scene Book

A Primer for the Fiction Writer

By: Sandra Scofield

A treasure-trove of scene-writing wisdom from award-winning author and teacher Sandra Scofield To write a good scene, you have to know the following: • Every scene has an EVENT • Every scene has a FUNCTION in the narrative • Every scene has a STRUCTURE: a beginning, middle, and end • Every scene has a PULSE The Scene Book is a fundamental guide to crafting more effective scenes in fiction. In clear, simple language, Sandra Scofield shows both the beginner and the seasoned writer how to build better scenes, the underpinning of any good narrative.

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Penguin

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1101041994

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Riding High

Horses, Humans and History in South Africa

By: Sandra Swart

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Riding High

Horses, Humans and History in South Africa

By: Sandra Swart

An examination of the role of horses in the colonial economies of South Africa Horses were key to the colonial economies of southern Africa, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations. Just as they had done in Europe, Asia, the Americas and North Africa, these equine colonizers not only provided power and transportation to settlers (and later indigenous peoples) but also helped transform their new biophysical and social environments. The horses introduced to the southern tip of Africa were not only agents but subjects of enduring changes. This book explores the introduction of these horses under VOC rule in the mid-seventeenth century, their dissemination into the interior, their acquisition by indigenous groups and their ever-shifting roles. In undergoing their relocation to the Cape, the horse of the Dutch empire in southeast Asia experienced a physical transformation over time. Establishing an early breeding stock was fraught with difficulty and horses remained vulnerable in the new and dangerous environment. They had to be nurtured into defending their owners' ambitions: first those of the white settlement and then African and other hybrid social groupings. The book traces the way horses were adapted by shifting human needs in the nineteenth century. It focuses on their experiences in the South African War, on the cusp of the twentieth century, and highlights how horses remained integral to civic functioning on various levels, replaced with mechanization only after lively debate. The book thus reinserts the horse into the broader historical narrative. The socio-economic and political ramifications of their introduction is delineated. The idea of ecological imperialism is tested in order to draw southern African environmental history into a wider global dialogue on socio-environmental historiographical issues. The focus is also on the symbolic dimension that led horses to be both feared and desired. Even the sensory dimensions of this species' interaction with human societies is explored. Finally, the book speculates about what a new kind of history that takes animals seriously might offer us.

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NYU Press

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1868148548

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9781868148547

Swimming Against the Tide

African American Girls and Science Education

By: Sandra Hanson

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Swimming Against the Tide

African American Girls and Science Education

By: Sandra Hanson

Following African American women who "swim against the tide" in the white male science education system.

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Temple University Press

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1592136230

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Lone Pursuit

Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor

By: Sandra Susan Smith

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Lone Pursuit

Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor

By: Sandra Susan Smith

Unemployment among black Americans is twice that of whites. Myriad theories have been put forward to explain the persistent employment gap between blacks and whites in the U.S. Structural theorists point to factors such as employer discrimination and the decline of urban manufacturing. Other researchers argue that African-American residents living in urban neighborhoods of concentrated poverty lack social networks that can connect them to employers. Still others believe that African-American culture fosters attitudes of defeatism and resistance to work. In Lone Pursuit, sociologist Sandra Susan Smith cuts through this thicket of competing explanations to examine the actual process of job searching in depth. Lone Pursuit reveals that unemployed African Americans living in the inner city are being let down by jobholding peers and government agencies who could help them find work, but choose not to. Lone Pursuit is a pioneering ethnographic study of the experiences of low-skilled, black urban residents in Michigan as both jobseekers and jobholders. Smith surveyed 105 African-American men and women between the ages of 20 and 40, each of whom had no more than a high school diploma. She finds that mutual distrust thwarts cooperation between jobseekers and jobholders. Jobseekers do not lack social capital per se, but are often unable to make use of the network ties they have. Most jobholders express reluctance about referring their friends and relatives for jobs, fearful of jeopardizing their own reputations with employers. Rather than finding a culture of dependency, Smith discovered that her underprivileged subjects engage in a discourse of individualism. To justify denying assistance to their friends and relatives, jobholders characterize their unemployed peers as lacking in motivation and stress the importance of individual responsibility. As a result, many jobseekers, wary of being demeaned for their needy condition, hesitate to seek referrals from their peers. In a low-skill labor market where employers rely heavily on personal referrals, this go-it-alone approach is profoundly self-defeating. In her observations of a state job center, Smith finds similar distrust and non-cooperation between jobseekers and center staff members, who assume that young black men are unwilling to make an effort to find work. As private contractors hired by the state, the job center also seeks to meet performance quotas by screening out the riskiest prospects—black male and female jobseekers who face the biggest obstacles to employment and thus need the most help. The problem of chronic black joblessness has resisted both the concerted efforts of policymakers and the proliferation of theories offered by researchers. By examining the roots of the African-American unemployment crisis from the vantage point of the everyday job-searching experiences of the urban poor, Lone Pursuit provides a novel answer to this decades-old puzzle.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610445074

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9781610445078

The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Life and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald

By: William H. Martin,Sandra Mason

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The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Life and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald

By: William H. Martin,Sandra Mason

Its lines and verses have become part of the western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has been continuously in print in for almost a century and a half. But just who was Edward FitzGerald? Was he the eccentric recluse that most scholars would have us believe? Is there more to the man than just his famous translation? In The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam William Martin and Sandra Martin go beyond the standard view. Drawing on their unique analysis of the more than 2,000 surviving letters of FitzGerald, together with evidence from his scrapbooks, commonplace books and materials from his personal library, they reveal a more convivial yet complex personality than we have been led to suppose.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786720140

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9781786720146

Sandra Smith's Review for NCLEX-PN

By: Sandra Smith

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763756008

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Sympathy and Solidarity

and Other Essays

By: Sandra Lee Bartky

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Sympathy and Solidarity

and Other Essays

By: Sandra Lee Bartky

In a rare full-length volume, renowned feminist thinker Sandra Lee Bartky brings together eight essays in one volume, Sympathy and Solidarity. A philosophical work accessible to an educated general audience, the essays reflect the intersection of the author's eye, work, and sometimes her politics. Two motifs connect the works: first, all deal with feminist topics and themes; second, most deal with the reality of oppression, especially in the disguised and subtle ways it can be manifested.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461715350

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9781461715351

Ain't Bad for a Pink

The Life of Bluesman Pete 'Snakey Jake' Johnson

By: Sandra Gibson

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Ain't Bad for a Pink

The Life of Bluesman Pete 'Snakey Jake' Johnson

By: Sandra Gibson

When Pete Johnson appeared on WRFG in Georgia, Curly Weaver’s daughter, Cora Mae Bryant, rang the radio station to say it was “the best goddam blues” she had heard.Ain’t Bad For A Pink records a life dedicated to music. As a young teenager in the Sixties, Pete ‘Snakey Jake’ Johnson met legendary blues players Sleepy John Estes, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Roosevelt ‘The Honeydripper’ Sykes, Jimmy Witherspoon, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Son House who taught him slide. Subsequently, Pete Johnson’s interpretation of the country blues has been as close as possible to the original spirit of Southern music. Meet Boomtown the Rat, the girls whose clothes just wouldn’t stay put, and the top-hatted man who had three wakes. Imagine being kissed by each and every one of the Three Degrees, being mistaken for a beggar in Montmartre or having to threaten with a meat cleaver to get your gig money. How about taking a pee next to the PM or forgetting where and when you met the Stones? Or helping Peter Green to remember his previous life with Fleetwood Mac?Whilst celebrating the country blues, Pete Johnson lovingly describes some beautiful guitars, examines the economics of music shop retail and offers a few perspectives on the baby-boomer generation. This is the man who cooked breakfast for Jimmy Witherspoon. This is the man who topped the blues charts in Georgia. This is the man who was almost arrested for snorting snuff in Stoke-on-Trent. This book celebrates the life of someone not famous or infamous; an ordinary man who had extraordinary experiences through being part of the post-war explosion in pop music and the blues. Ain’t Bad For A Pink will appeal to readers interested in the pop explosion of the Sixties and Seventies, the country blues and the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848766653

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9781848766655

Garsington Revisited

The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date

By: Sandra Jobson Darroch

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Garsington Revisited

The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date

By: Sandra Jobson Darroch

Lady Ottoline Morrell was the foremost host of the Bloomsbury set, offering sustenance and friendship to Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Duncan Grant and her lover Bertrand Russell, to name but a few. This book is a revised and updated edition of the author's original biography of Ottoline first published in 1975 worldwide. It has been updated, with vignettes about her sources, including lunch at ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Charleston with Duncan Grant, and a ship's tumbler of sherry with David Garnett as a prelude to discussing "skeletons in Ottoline's cupboard"). Her sources in Texas where she read more than 8,000 letters to Ottoline including 2,500 letters from Bertrand Russell, can now be located in new footnotes. Darroch remains as impressed as ever by Ottoline's courage and determination to forgo the comfortable life of an aristocrat to mix with – and champion – some of the 20th century's leading artists and writers. The definitive biography.

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Indiana University Press

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0861969413

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Grief, Loss, and Treatment for Death Row Families

Forgotten No More

By: Sandra Joy

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Grief, Loss, and Treatment for Death Row Families

Forgotten No More

By: Sandra Joy

The families of death row inmates are rarely considered in public discourse regarding the death penalty. They have largely been forgotten, and their pain has not been acknowledged by the rest of society. These families experience a unique grief process as they are confronted with the loss of their loved one to death row and brace themselves for the possibility of an execution. Death row families are disenfranchised from their grief by the surrounding community, and their; mental health needs exacerbated as they struggle in isolation with the ambiguous loss that comes with the fear that the state will kill their loved one. Grief, Loss, and Treatment for Death Row Families describes the grief that families experience from the time of their loved one’s arrest through his or her execution. In each chapter, Sandra Joy guides the reader through the grief process experienced by the families, offering clinical interventions that can be used by mental health professionals who are given the opportunity to work with these families at various stages of their grief. The author conducted over seventy qualitative interviews with family members from Delaware who either currently have a loved one on death row or have survived the execution of their loved one. Delaware was chosen because though it has a relatively small death row, it is ranked third in the nation with its rate of per capita executions. This book provides an in-depth awareness of the grieving process of death row families, as well as ways that professionals can intervene to assist them in healing. With increased awareness and effective clinical treatment, we can ensure that the families of death row inmates are forgotten no more.

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Lexington Books

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0739189247

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9780739189245

Canis Africanis

A Dog History of Southern Africa

By: Lance van Sittert,Sandra Swart

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Canis Africanis

A Dog History of Southern Africa

By: Lance van Sittert,Sandra Swart

This suite of essays is a first for historical writing about southern Africa: they recover an animal’s ubiquitous, yet hidden presence in human history. The authors have used the dog as a way “to think about human society”. The dog is the connecting thread binding these essays, which each reveals a different part of the complex social history of southern Africa. The essays range widely from concerns over disease, bestiality, and social degradation through greyhound gambling, to anxieties over social status reflected through breed classifications, to social rebellion through resistance to the dog tax imposed by colonial authorities. With its focus on dogs in human history, this project is part of what has been termed the ‘animal turn’ in the social sciences, which investigates the spaces which animals inhabit in human society and the way in which animal and human lives interconnect.

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BRILL

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9047422805

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The Journalist's Predicament

Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession

By: Matthew Powers,Sandra Vera-Zambrano

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The Journalist's Predicament

Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession

By: Matthew Powers,Sandra Vera-Zambrano

Low pay. Uncertain work prospects. Diminished prestige. Why would anyone still want be a journalist? Drawing on in-depth interviews in France and the United States, Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano explore the ways individuals come to believe that journalism is a worthy pursuit—and how that conviction is managed and sometimes dissolves amid the profession’s ongoing upheavals. For many people, journalism represents a job that is interesting and substantial, with opportunities for expression, a sense of self-fulfillment, and a connection to broader social values. By distilling complex ideas, holding the powerful to account, and revealing hidden realities, journalists play a crucial role in helping audiences make sense of the world. Experiences in the profession, though, are often far more disappointing. Many find themselves doing tasks that bear little relation to what attracted them initially or are frustrated by institutions privileging what sells over what informs. The imbalance between the profession’s economic woes and its social importance threatens to erode individuals’ beliefs that journalism remains a worthwhile pursuit. Powers and Vera-Zambrano emphasize that, as with many seemingly individual choices, social factors—class, gender, education, and race—shape how journalists make sense of their profession and whether or not they remain in it. An in-depth story of one profession under pressure, The Journalist’s Predicament uncovers tensions that also confront other socially important jobs like teaching, nursing, and caretaking.

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Columbia University Press

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0231557175

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9780231557177

Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation

The European Union and its Neighbourhood

By: Tina Freyburg,Sandra Lavenex,Frank Schimmelfennig,Tatiana Skripka,Anne Wetzel

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Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation

The European Union and its Neighbourhood

By: Tina Freyburg,Sandra Lavenex,Frank Schimmelfennig,Tatiana Skripka,Anne Wetzel

This book presents a novel 'governance model' of democracy promotion. In detailed case studies of EU cooperation with Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine, it examines how the EU promotes democratic governance through functional cooperation in the fields of competition policy, the environment, and migration.

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Springer

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1137489359

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Subverting the Power of Prejudice

Resources for Individual and Social Change

By: Sandra L. Barnes

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Subverting the Power of Prejudice

Resources for Individual and Social Change

By: Sandra L. Barnes

Sandra L. Barnes helps us sort out why prejudice is unfair, what feeds our prejudices, how to overcome prejudice, and how to avoid being victimized by discrimination. "This holistic book is an essential read for Christians committed to understanding prejudice and making change," says Jenell Paris of Bethel University.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830833390

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Sandra Smith's Review for NCLEX-PN

By: Sandra F. Smith,Smith

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Sandra Smith's Review for NCLEX-PN

By: Sandra F. Smith,Smith

Begin the task of studying for the NCLEX—one of the most important tests you’ll ever take— with Sandra Smith’s Review for NCLEX-PN. Sandra brings more than 25 years of teaching experience as a university professor and founder of the original nation-wide NCLEX review course to these popular and highly recommended review aids. This comprehensive PN/VN review is easy-to-read, clear and concise. Questions are based on critical thinking principles, NCLEX procedures, study guidelines,and test-taking tips. A CD-ROM with more than 2300 Q & As are included in this all-in-one resource! What's New: New alternate format NCLEX questions with rationale New content on natural disasters in Emergency Nursing chapter New quick-reference tables and charts and updated content in all clinical areas

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449617840

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Encyclopedia of Evaluation

By: Sandra Mathison

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Encyclopedia of Evaluation

By: Sandra Mathison

The Encyclopedia of Evaluation is an authoritative, first-of-its-kind who, what, where, why, and how of the field of evaluation. Covering professional practice as well as academia, this volume chronicles the development of the field—its history, key figures, theories, approaches, and goals. From the leading publisher in the field of evaluation, this work is a must-have for all social science libraries, departments that offer courses in evaluation, and students and professional evaluators around the world. The entries in this Encyclopedia capture the essence of evaluation as a practice (methods, techniques, roles, people), as a profession (professional obligations, shared knowledge, ethical imperatives, events, places) and as a discipline (theories and models of evaluation, ontological and epistemological issues).

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SAGE Publications

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145226144X

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9781452261447

An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples

Religion and Hate in the Mountains of Asia

By: Sandra Scham

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An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples

Religion and Hate in the Mountains of Asia

By: Sandra Scham

This book examines the pasts and presents of some of the world’s most persecuted peoples, in search of answers to the question of why minorities living in Asia’s Highlands, with ancient roots in their homelands, have been continually oppressed by both historical and modern governments. The role of religious beliefs and practices is crucial to their story of isolation, tenacity, and resistance in the mountains of Asia. The Rohingya, Uyghurs, Hazara, Yazidis, Armenians, and Samaritans were among the earliest adopters of monotheist religions in their respective regions. The chapters devoted to each of these ethno-religious minorities explore the archaeological evidence for their millennia-old presence in South, East, and West Asia, their historical trajectories, and the more recent events that have decimated their populations and destroyed their ways of living. Examining both the parochial and universalist roots of their beliefs and practices as they evolved from the Axial Age teachings of Zoroaster, the Israelite prophets, and Ancient Greek philosophers, this book explains how the people of the Arakan, Tienshan, Hazarajat, Sinjar, Tauru,s and Gerizim mountains came to be regarded as perennial enemies of empires and nations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040194095

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9781040194096

Sandra Gustafson's Great Eats London

Fifth Edition

By: Sandra Gustafson

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Sandra Gustafson's Great Eats London

Fifth Edition

By: Sandra Gustafson

Sandra Gustafson's beloved travel guides (more than 350,000 copies sold in the series) are poised to find their widest popular audience with the exciting re-launch of these best-selling series titles. Joining Great Eats and Great Sleeps Paris, Sandra's guides to London and Italy have been completely revised and updated, retooled and retitled, with new maps, streamlined layout, expanded listings, and more detailed neighborhood coverage. While Sandra's eagle eye for finding the best value for the money remains the series hallmark, its renewed emphasis on the full range of travel pleasures--from the inexpensive romantic hideaway to the splurge dinner worth every penny--is sure to please longtime fans and attract a legion more. Packed with personal recommendations, each revisited or newly discovered by Sandra, the Great Eats/Sleeps series is the perfect companion for anyone in search of the out-of-the-way, unusual, fun, and true flavor of Europe.

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Chronicle Books

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0811832503

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9780811832502

A Revision of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae)

By: Sandra Knapp

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A Revision of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae)

By: Sandra Knapp

This volume is a monograph of the 47 species of the Dulcamaroid clade of the large and diverse genus Solanum. Species in the group occur in North, Central and South America, and in Europe and Asia. The group is most species-rich in Peru and Brazil, and three of the component species, Solanum laxum of Brazil, Solanum seaforthianum of the Caribbean and and Solanum crispum of Chile are cultivated in many parts of the world. All species are illustrated and a distribution map of each is provided. All names are typified and nomenclatural and bibliographic details for all typifications presented. One new species from Ecuador is described. The monograph is the first complete taxonomic treatment of these species since the worldwide monograph of Solanum done by the French botanist Michel-Felix Dunal in 1852.

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9546426849

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9789546426840

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