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Embrace Your Destiny

12 Steps to Living the Life You Deserve!

By: Sandra Dawes

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Embrace Your Destiny

12 Steps to Living the Life You Deserve!

By: Sandra Dawes

Sandra Dawes shares her story of how her fathers death impacted her life and started her journey of self-discovery and self-awareness. The loss of her father magnified all of the areas of her life that she had neglected. After years of self-pity, anger, and resentment, Sandra grew tired of living a mediocre life and began the work to make changes. The lessons learned as well as tips and tools to help the reader with his or her own challenges are the basis of each chapter. Regardless of what has happened in the past, it is always possible to embrace your destiny and live the life you deserve!

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BalboaPress

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1452585180

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9781452585185

Choctaws at the Crossroads

The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region

By: Sandra Faiman-Silva

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Choctaws at the Crossroads

The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region

By: Sandra Faiman-Silva

Choctaws at the Crossroads examines the political economy of the Choctaws at the end of the twentieth century. Forcibly relocated in the 1830s from the lower Mississippi Valley to the southeastern corner of Indian Territory, the Choctaws today are a dynamic and complex rural ethnic community in Oklahoma. Many work as nonunionized laborers for large corporations, yet they seek to maintain some aspects of their traditional way of life. øCombining fieldwork and archival research, Sandra Faiman-Silva uncovers the processes by which the local economic and social practices of the Choctaws have become intertwined with and, in some respects, dependent on corporate and global economic forces. Low wages and often temporary work force the Choctaws to supplement their income through tribal economic assistance and through traditional practices of horticulture, fishing, craft production, canning, and residence sharing. Faiman-Silva finds a troubling paradox in this strategy. Such traditional economic activities are central to Choctaw identity and way of life and are outside the non-Indian controlled, capitalist system; at the same time, these practices help sustain the power and profits of corporations. This sensitive and theoretically informed study makes an important contribution to understanding the historic, economic, and social conditions of contemporary Native Americas.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803269021

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9780803269026

4UR Ranch at Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resort: A History

By: Sandra Wagner, with contributions by Pete and Lindsey Leavell

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4UR Ranch at Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resort: A History

By: Sandra Wagner, with contributions by Pete and Lindsey Leavell

Detailed history of the resort and the area around the resort. Includes information on ownership, mining operations, and geology.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467144509

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9781467144506

Nursing in the Storm

Voices from Hurricane Katrina

By: Denise Danna, DNS, RN,Sandra Cordray, MA, MJ

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Nursing in the Storm

Voices from Hurricane Katrina

By: Denise Danna, DNS, RN,Sandra Cordray, MA, MJ

2010 PROSE Award Winner for Nursing & Allied Health Sciences! 2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Public Interest and Creative Works! "The accounts are vivid, colorful, descriptive, intense, and often horrific and give cross-sectional views of life in the trenches during this disasterÖThis book is a rich primary source for both historians and disaster preparedness planners. It's not only a tribute to the courage of the nurses, but should also serve as a guide for policy planners hoping to avoid less than optimal responses to future crises."--AJN "[T]he book...fascinates simply for its raw documentation of the dreadful events and conditions endured by nurses, doctors, and ancillary staff as they struggled to care for critically ill patients without electricity, running water, air conditioning systems, and other resources. Five years after the levees broke, the horror and chaos of Katrina is still fresh in these accounts. Through the stories, readers are transported into the hospitals as nurses heroically work together to evacuate babies from NICUs and vented patients from ICU, try to calm patients, family members, and coworkers, and make do with the equipment and supplies theyíve got."--National Nurse "Don't ever think that this can't happen to you. You are going to read this and it's going to sound like we created this scenario, but this is a real scenario that happened." --Pam, Memorial Medical Center "Everything that was battery operated eventually died. There were no monitors...we tried to take care of people in the most humane way possible." --Lois, Lindy Boggs Medical Center Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina takes you inside six New Orleans hospitals-cut off from help for days by flooding-where nurses cared for patients around the clock. In this book, nurses from Hurricane Katrina share what they did, how they coped, what they lost, and what they are doing now in a city and health care infrastructure still rebuilding, still in jeopardy. In their own words, the nurses tell what happened in each hospital just before, during, and after the storm. Danna and Cordray provide an intimate portrait of the experience of Katrina, which they and their colleagues endured. Just a few of the heroic nurses you'll find inside: Rae Ann and twenty others, including her husband and children, who wait on a hospital roof for help to come Lisa, in the midst of caring for patients, who has not heard from her husband in 5 days Roslyn, who has 800 people in her hospital when the power generators shut down Linda, who uses bed sheets to write out help messages on a hospital roof, hoping someone will see them The book also discusses how to plan and prepare for future disasters, with a closing chapter documenting the "lessons learned" from Katrina, including day-to-day health care delivery in a city of crisis. This groundbreaking work serves as a testament to nurses' professionalism, perseverance, and unwavering dedication.

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826118380

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9780826118387

Out

By: Sandra Diersch

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Out

By: Sandra Diersch

No one in Alex's world is who they seemed to be. Alex struggles with his faith when he witnesses a church member cheating on his wife and learns that his brother is gay. When his brother is brutally attacked, Alex is forced to decide where his loyalties lie and what he really believes in.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1552775941

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9781552775943

The Dagger of Bahyel

The First Elf Adventure

By: Sandra McPherson

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The Dagger of Bahyel

The First Elf Adventure

By: Sandra McPherson

When a priceless dagger is stolen soon after being presented to it's new owner, a young Elf named Gidley, the Queen of the Realm of Sharrock charges him with the task of recovering the dagger, no matter what obstacles he might face. Joined by his five closest friends, Gidley sets out on a dangerous mission to find the thieves and recover "The Dagger of Bahyel". Traveling through strange lands and encountering creatures he had yet to imagine, Gidley and his fellow travelers learn that you grow stronger and wiser with each new experience and trial, but more importantly, you can never have too many friends to help you along the way.

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1481713434

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9781481713436

The Book of Lergat

The Second Elf Adventure

By: Sandra McPherson

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The Book of Lergat

The Second Elf Adventure

By: Sandra McPherson

A beautiful golden, leather, covered book encrusted with jewels is found by the Moards, working in the mines of the Magenta Mountains and brought to King Gidleron of Dordom. The cover simply says 'Scyra Zorkia'. The language in the book is unknown to Gidley (as he is known to his friends) and he tries to find a clue to the books origin by searching his palace library. He cannot find any other book with the same language or any mention of Scyra Zorkia. The harder he searches, the more frustrated he becomes. When friends come for a visit, Gidley hopes one of them may know something about the book, but unfortunately, they are as baffled as he is and can't answer any of his questions. Trying to find the answers to this intriguing book sends Gidley and his friends on a wild and funny adventure, that is not without danger. The perils they face and the fear of the unknown won't keep these determined heroes from their quest to solve the puzzle of the books origin. Little by little, they discover clues to the books secret. What they find at the end of their journey stuns them and solves a long time mystery that will impact all of the Kings and Queens in the Realms of Yonder.

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1504920872

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9781504920872

The Elizabethan Pamphleteers

Popular Moralistic Pamphlets 1580-1640

By: Sandra Clark

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The Elizabethan Pamphleteers

Popular Moralistic Pamphlets 1580-1640

By: Sandra Clark

This title offers the first comprehensive study of the sudden appearance and rise to popularity of the moralistic prose pamphlet. Its interest lies not just in the pamphlet's subject matter but also in the literary techniques developed by its authors to appeal to a newly literate and growing audience. Clark shows what knowledge of the pamphleteers' choice and presentation of their topical material can contribute to our understanding of Elizabethan thought and society.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474241204

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9781474241205

1000 Quilt Inspirations

Colorful and Creative Designs for Traditional, Modern, and Art Quilts

By: Sandra Sider

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1000 Quilt Inspirations

Colorful and Creative Designs for Traditional, Modern, and Art Quilts

By: Sandra Sider

A collection of one thousand quilt details showing how others utilize color and design elements to craft creative pieces.

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159253984X

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Gerontological Social Work in Small Towns and Rural Communities

By: Lenard W Kaye,Sandra Butler

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Gerontological Social Work in Small Towns and Rural Communities

By: Lenard W Kaye,Sandra Butler

Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas! Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the specific practice concerns for social workers assisting older adults in rural areas, including the aging experience, social worker skills, professional functions, working with special populations, and health and long-term care concerns. This valuable resource will benefit social workers, gerontologists, allied health professionals in rural areas, health and human services administrators and managers. Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities explores the challenges social workers need to overcome when working with the elder community in rural areas. This book’s significance to social workers will only increase as more adults choose to live and grow old away from the cities. Experts in the field suggest strategies to overcome barriers in planning and providing services such as: a longer distance for the elderly to travel to use social service centers a narrower range of available services in the local area increased poverty levels for the elderly a stronger dependency by elderly on family rather than public assistance This book is divided into five sections: Rurality and Aging—introduces the concept of rurality and examines the demographics of aging from a rural perspective Practice Dimensions of Social Work with Rural Elders—includes clinical practice models, intervention and advocacy techniques, program planning, and marketing approaches Special Populations—gives attention to four special population groups: indigenous elders, African-American older adults, elderly Latinos, and disabled elders Special Issues Pertaining to Rural Elders—covers five essential issues for rural gerontological social workers: health promotion, older workers and retirement preparation, aging in place, specialized housing, and ethical practice Training and Policy Recommendations—future training and education recommendations for social workers are explored, as well as service capacity building, the aging network, and the future of long-term care While a variety of theoretical perspectives are explored in Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities, the book’s empowerment orientation and strengths-based approach will enhance your abilities to improve quality of life for elderly individuals in rural communities. Each chapter contains a comprehensive review of the literature on the subject it addresses, and several chapters include tables and graphs to further establish their revealing empirical findings. An appendix provides additional sources to turn to for more information.

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Routledge

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1136403086

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9781136403088

American Indians in the Early West

By: Sandra K. Mathews-Benham

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American Indians in the Early West

By: Sandra K. Mathews-Benham

Thousands of years of American Indian history are covered in this work, from the first migrations into North America, through the development of specific tribal identities, to the turbulent first centuries of encounters with European settlers up until 1800. American Indians in the Early West offers a concise guide to the development of American Indian communities, from the first migrations through the arrival of the Spanish, French, and Russians, to the appearance of Anglo-American traders in the easternmost portions of the West around 1800. With coverage divided into periods and regions, American Indians in the Early West looks at how Indian communities evolved from hunter-gatherers to culturally recognized tribes, and examines the critical encounters of those tribes with non-Natives over the next two-and-a-half centuries. Readers will see that the issues at stake in those encounters—political control, preserving traditions, land and water rights, resistance to economic and military pressures—are very relevant to the Native American experience today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1851098240

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9781851098248

An Ethics of Reading

Interpretative Strategies for Contemporary Multicultural American Literature

By: Sandra Cox

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An Ethics of Reading

Interpretative Strategies for Contemporary Multicultural American Literature

By: Sandra Cox

An Ethics of Reading considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas. With chapters focused on important American novelists including Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sherman Alexie, Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz, the book works to situate novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another. From those intertextual conversations, it draws conclusions about how fiction functions as testimony and the ways that readers might work to ethically respond to the testimonial features of the prose. The book’s investigations of distinct cultural traumas are broad, ranging from analyses of African American novels that treat slavery to Native American novels that portray land and child theft to Dominican and Haitian American accounts of US-backed hegemony in the Caribbean diaspora. Ultimately, the central claim of the book – that some works of contemporary American fiction function both didactically and aesthetically as cultural markers around which ethnic identities might be negotiated by writers and readers – becomes a kind of call to action for literary studies in the early 21st century, encouraging an ideological and pragmatic shift in how contemporary literature is read, analysed and discussed. By suggesting specific strategies for considering ethnicity in a radically diasporic American context, the book calls for critical engagement that is also concerned with the ethics of interpretive praxis, which, it suggests, might be a mechanism for building coalitions for social justice within, around, and through literature.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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144388751X

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Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence

Pain Unspeakable

By: Sandra B. Hutchison

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Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence

Pain Unspeakable

By: Sandra B. Hutchison

Hutchison, a child therapist, explores trauma-related topics pertaining to children of all ages from a variety of cultures and countries, in this reference for professional and nonprofessional caregivers of children who have been traumatized.

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Routledge

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0789008564

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9780789008565

Introducing Freire

A guide for students, teachers and practitioners

By: Sandra Smidt

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Introducing Freire

A guide for students, teachers and practitioners

By: Sandra Smidt

The famous Brazilian educator Paulo Freire has influenced educators, teachers and students in a broad tapestry of contexts and countries, as he challenged conventional thinking on how teachers ought to teach and learners ought to learn. By making his ideas accessible and relevant, this insightful and thought-provoking text draws out the relevance and topicality of Freire’s work and applies this to a wide range of educational settings, from adult education, through schools, to early years settings. Themes covered include: the lasting impact of illiteracy; the benefits and potential in becoming literate; literacy, language and power; the differences between banking and dialogic education; the social and political nature of learning. what kind of teaching and learning do we want? Using a variety of practical examples and case studies, Introducing Freire is an essential guide to the work of one of the most significant figures in education in the last century. Fascinating and accessible, this book is for anyone interested in teaching and learning, poverty and affluence, power and powerlessness, and society and change.

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1317694066

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9781317694069

Growing Up in La Colonia

Boomer memories from Oxnard's barrio

By: Margo Porras,Sandra Porras

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Growing Up in La Colonia

Boomer memories from Oxnard's barrio

By: Margo Porras,Sandra Porras

La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural empire running. In decades past, milpas of corn and squash grew in tiny front yards, kids played in the alleys and neighbors ran tortillerias out of their homes. Back then, it was the place to get the best raspadas on Earth. It was a home to Cesar Chavez and a campaign stop for presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. As one Colonia native put it, "We may not have had what the other kids had, but we were just as rich." Through the voices of the people, the authors share the challenges and triumphs of growing up in this treasured place.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439667306

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9781439667309

Worlds Apart?

Long-Term Care in Australia and the United States

By: Sandra J. Newman

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Worlds Apart?

Long-Term Care in Australia and the United States

By: Sandra J. Newman

Shared concerns and key policy issues regarding long-term care in Australia and the United States are reviewed. The demographics and government structures of Australia and the United States are compared. Also reviews the overall structure of each country's long term care system, the interrelationships among components and inherent incentives and disincentives. Lastly, examines costs and institutionalization rates.

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Psychology Press

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0866567038

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9780866567039

Introducing Vygotsky

A Guide for Practitioners and Students in Early Years Education

By: Sandra Smidt

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Introducing Vygotsky

A Guide for Practitioners and Students in Early Years Education

By: Sandra Smidt

Sandra Smidt takes the reader on a journey through the key concepts of Lev Vygotsky, one of the twentieth century’s most influential theorists in the field of early education. His ground-breaking principles of early learning and teaching are unpicked here using every-day language, and critical links between his fascinating ideas are revealed. Introducing Vygotsky is an invaluable companion for anyone involved with children in the early years. The introduction of Vygotsky’s key concepts is followed by discussion of the implications of these for teaching and learning. Each chapter also includes a useful glossary of terms. This accessible text is illustrated throughout with examples drawn from real-life early years settings and the concepts discussed include: mediation and memory culture and cultural tools mental functions language, concepts and thinking activity theory play and meaning. Essential reading for all those interested in or working with children, Introducing Vygotsky emphasises the social nature of learning and examines the importance of issues such as culture, history, language, and symbols in learning.

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Routledge

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1317834100

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9781317834106

Solitude, Silence and Loneliness in Adolescence

The Teen who Stands Alone

By: Sandra Leanne Bosacki

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Solitude, Silence and Loneliness in Adolescence

The Teen who Stands Alone

By: Sandra Leanne Bosacki

This book explores adolescents' (10-18 years) experiences of silence, solitude, loneliness within the school setting. Although many studies explore social withdrawal and loneliness in adolescence, little is known about young people's experiences of solitude as a state of being alone. This book ties together cutting-edge research from developmental psychology and education on solitude in adolescence, and opens the way to a pedagogy of solitude and well-being. Sandra Leanne Bosacki explores concerns about how adolescents learn social and solitude skills and the extent to which such skills are harmful or helpful, including self-control and regulation, and self-compassion. The book further explores implications of solitude studies for practice and provides recommendations for future research and education. Holistic models of education are encouraged to promote a balance of social and solitude skills that combines social management with self-regulation and self-compassion.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350345679

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9781350345676

Inside Affirmative Action

The Executive Order That Transformed America's Workforce

By: Karin Williamson Pedrick,Sandra Arnold Scham

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Inside Affirmative Action

The Executive Order That Transformed America's Workforce

By: Karin Williamson Pedrick,Sandra Arnold Scham

Affirmative action is still a reality of the American workplace. How is it that such a controversial Federal program has managed to endure for more than five decades? Inside Affirmative Action addresses this question. Beyond the usual ideological debate and discussions about the effects of affirmative action for either good or ill upon issues of race and gender in employment, this book recounts and analyzes interviews with people who worked in the program within the government including political appointees. The interviews and their historical context provide understanding and insight into the policies and politics of affirmative action and its role in advancing civil rights in America. Recent books published on affirmative action address university admissions, but very few of them ever mention Executive Order 11246 or its enforcement by an agency within the Department of Labor - let alone discuss in depth the profound workplace diversity it has created or the employment opportunities it has generated. This book charts that history through the eyes of those who experienced it. Inside Affirmative Action will be of interest to those who study American race relations, policy, history and law.

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1351751069

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Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence

Pain Unspeakable

By: Sandra Hutchison

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Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence

Pain Unspeakable

By: Sandra Hutchison

Successfully reach out and help children through the worst times of their young lives! Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence: Pain Unspeakable explores an array of trauma-related topics pertaining to children of all ages from a variety of cultures and countries. This book covers the various ego stages of child development and addresses how each one is affected by traumatic experiences. This easy-to-read resource serves as a readily available reference for caregivers—professional or otherwise—who work with or encounter a child who has been traumatized. In Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence, you’ll find actual accounts of traumatic incidents throughout the world, focused specifically on those incidents that have the most devastating impact on large groups of children. This book reviews the research on post-traumatic stress disorder and stress-response related symptoms with brief descriptions of treatments for you to use with children who suffer from posttraumatic stress. Special features of this important tool consist of with an extensive list of organizations and crisis hotline numbers as well as recommended reading, video, and curricula resources. Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence examines traumatic situations from many angles, including: the many faces of trauma—accidents, fire, natural disasters developmental considerations, including ego development, memory development, and the development of fears and responses the way children respond to traumatic incidents the types of interventions—individual, group, family, pharmacological, and school-based cultural considerations from around the globe how to establish a school-based Trauma Response Team Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence includes real case studies, fictional sample cases, and suggestions that walk you step-by-step through the possible scenarios that can occur with children during or after a traumatic event. Each section of the book ends with a helpful summary highlighting the most important information.

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1136387404

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The Great Western Railway in the First World War

By: Sandra Gittins

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The Great Western Railway in the First World War

By: Sandra Gittins

In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measure, both for the men sent away to fight and the women who took on new roles at home. Not since 1922 has the history of the GWR in the First World War been recorded in a single volume. Using modern data-bases and enjoying greater access to archives, Sandra Gittins has been able to produce a complete history which traces the GWR from the early, optimistic days through the subsequent difficult years of the Great War, including Government demands for war manufacture, increased traffic and the tragic loss of staff. From GWR ships and ambulance trains to the employment of women, every part of the story is told, including the saddest of all, which is represented by a Roll of Honour.

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The History Press

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0750962569

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9780750962568

CMMI for Acquisition

Guidelines for Improving the Acquisition of Products and Services

By: Brian Gallagher,Mike Phillips,Karen Richter,Sandra Shrum

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CMMI for Acquisition

Guidelines for Improving the Acquisition of Products and Services

By: Brian Gallagher,Mike Phillips,Karen Richter,Sandra Shrum

CMMI® for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) describes best practices for the successful acquisition of products and services. Providing a practical framework for improving acquisition processes, CMMI-ACQ addresses the growing trend in business and government for organizations to purchase or outsource required products and services as an alternative to in-house development or resource allocation. Changes in CMMI-ACQ Version 1.3 include improvements to high maturity process areas, improvements to the model architecture to simplify use of multiple models, and added guidance about using preferred suppliers. CMMI® for Acquisition, Second Edition, is the definitive reference for CMMI-ACQ Version 1.3. In addition to the entire revised CMMI-ACQ model, the book includes updated tips, hints, cross-references, and other author notes to help you understand, apply, and quickly find information about the content of the acquisition process areas. The book now includes more than a dozen contributed essays to help guide the adoption and use of CMMI-ACQ in industry and government. Whether you are new to CMMI models or are already familiar with one or more of them, you will find this book an essential resource for managing your acquisition processes and improving your overall performance. The book is divided into three parts. Part One introduces CMMI-ACQ in the broad context of CMMI models, including essential concepts and useful background. It then describes and shows the relationships among all the components of the CMMI-ACQ process areas, and explains paths to the adoption and use of the model for process improvement and benchmarking. Several original essays share insights and real experiences with CMMI-ACQ in both industry and government environments. Part Two first describes generic goals and generic practices, and then details the twenty-two CMMI-ACQ process areas, including specific goals, specific practices, and examples. These process areas are organized alphabetically and are tabbed by process area acronym to facilitate quick reference. Part Three provides several useful resources, including sources of further information about CMMI and CMMI-ACQ, acronym definitions, a glossary of terms, and an index.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0132700522

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9780132700528

How to Write It, Third Edition

A Complete Guide to Everything You'll Ever Write

By: Sandra E. Lamb

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How to Write It, Third Edition

A Complete Guide to Everything You'll Ever Write

By: Sandra E. Lamb

Write personal and professional communications with clarity, confidence, and style. How to Write It is the essential resource for eloquent personal and professional self-expression. Award-winning journalist Sandra E. Lamb transforms even reluctant scribblers into articulate wordsmiths by providing compelling examples of nearly every type and form of written communication. Completely updated and expanded, the new third edition offers hundreds of handy word, phrase, and sentence lists, precisely crafted sample paragraphs, and professionally designed document layouts. How to Write It is a must-own for students, teachers, authors, journalists, bloggers, managers, and anyone who doesn’t have time to wade through a massive style guide but needs a friendly desk reference.

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1607740486

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Foundations of Psychological Testing

A Practical Approach

By: Sandra A. McIntire,Leslie A. Miller

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Foundations of Psychological Testing

A Practical Approach

By: Sandra A. McIntire,Leslie A. Miller

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Mothering from the Inside

Parenting in a Women's Prison

By: Sandra Enos

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Parenting in a Women's Prison

By: Sandra Enos

Explores how women in prison manage to mother their children from behind bars.

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Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care - E-Book

By: Sandra Lee Gardner,Brian S. Carter,Mary I Enzman-Hines,Jacinto A. Hernandez

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Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care - E-Book

By: Sandra Lee Gardner,Brian S. Carter,Mary I Enzman-Hines,Jacinto A. Hernandez

Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care, 8th Edition, is the leading resource for collaborative, interprofessional critical care of newborns. Co-authored by physicians and nurses, it offers concise, comprehensive coverage with a unique multidisciplinary approach and real-world perspective that make it an essential guide for both neonatal nurses and physicians. The 8th edition features the latest neonatal research, evidence, clinical guidelines, and practice recommendations — all in a practical quick-reference format for easy retrieval and review of key information. - UNIQUE! Multidisciplinary author and contributor team consists of two physicians and two nurses, with each chapter written and reviewed by a physician-nurse team to ensure that information mirrors current, real-world practice in a neonatal intensive care unit. - Critical Findings boxes and tables outline symptoms and diagnostic findings that require immediate attention, helping you prioritize assessment data and steps in initial care. - UNIQUE! Clinical content highlighted in color allows you to quickly scan for information that directly affects patient care. - UNIQUE! Parent Teaching boxes highlight relevant information to share with a patient's caregivers. - Clinical images, graphs, and algorithms illustrate clinically relevant concepts in neonatal intensive care. - Streamlined references include only the most current or classic sources. - NEW! Coverage of the latest neonatal research, evidence, clinical guidelines, and practice recommendations addresses topics such as: women with chronic illnesses becoming pregnant; maternal obesity; hypotension and shock in premature infants; pain and sedation; dedicated feeding sets vs. IVs for safety; MRSA; pediatric stroke; autism screening; discharge coordination; and more. - NEW! The latest AAP recommendations and guidelines for hypoglycemia, jaundice, herpes, respiratory syncytial virus, and neonatal transport team composition. - EXPANDED! Revised Evidence-Based Clinical Practice chapter focuses on evidence-based practice and quality improvement and the role of qualitative research in EBP. - EXPANDED! Updated Infection in the Neonate chapter features new GBS guidelines and CRP research.

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The Tycoon's Bought Fiancée

By: Sandra Marton

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The Tycoon's Bought Fiancée

By: Sandra Marton

Let yourself be swept away again by this powerful romance from Sandra Marton A shocking betrothal bargain! When Stephanie Willingham and David Chambers meet at a wedding, enough sparks fly to start an inferno! But it’s not just their chemistry that draws them together… Stephanie needs money to pay down her family’s debts and David needs a fiancée—fast! So they strike a dangerous bargain… Before they know it, they have a full scale blaze on their hands: for their cool engagement of convenience is anything but! As the passion rages between them, can they make it to the altar for real? Book three in The Wedding of the Year trilogy Originally published in 1998 as The Groom Said Maybe!

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Eloquence Is Power

Oratory and Performance in Early America

By: Sandra M. Gustafson

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Eloquence Is Power

Oratory and Performance in Early America

By: Sandra M. Gustafson

Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British America and the early republic from colonization through 1800. She demonstrates that, in the American crucible of cultures, contact and conflict among Europeans, native Americans, and Africans gave particular significance and complexity to the uses of the spoken word. Gustafson develops what she calls the performance semiotic of speech and text as a tool for comprehending the rich traditions of early American oratory. Embodied in the delivery of speeches, she argues, were complex projections of power and authenticity that were rooted in or challenged text-based claims of authority. Examining oratorical performances as varied as treaty negotiations between native and British Americans, the eloquence of evangelical women during the Great Awakening, and the founding fathers' debates over the Constitution, Gustafson explores how orators employed the shifting symbolism of speech and text to imbue their voices with power.

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0807839140

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Really New Directions in Evaluation: Young Evaluators' Perspectives

New Directions for Evaluation, Number 131

By: Sandra Mathison

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Really New Directions in Evaluation: Young Evaluators' Perspectives

New Directions for Evaluation, Number 131

By: Sandra Mathison

From the Editor This issue of New Directions for Evaluation (NDE) marks a milestone?the 25th anniversary of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). NDE is an official publication of AEA and has been a crucial means for the Association to foster and promote the professionalization of evaluation through thematic discussions of theory and practice in evaluation. NDE was first published in 1978 under the name New Directions for Program Evaluation, although the title became New Directions for Evaluation in 1995 in acknowledgment of the broader scope of evaluation. The current issue of NDE, on the 25th anniversary of AEA, looks not back but ahead. Because NDE is a thematic and guest-edited journal it tends to favor more mature, self-assured voices in evaluation. The journal format does not lend itself easily to showcasing the voices of novice evaluators, those just entering the field and who will be the next generation of evaluation practitioners and theoreticians. As such, NDE has chosen on this anniversary to highlight those voices. Included are a number of chapters that build on what evaluation has already learned from other disciplines by introducing us to new possibilities. We are also challenged in the chapters to think about techniques or methods we use, both at a practical and conceptual level. Some chapters raise questions about who evaluators are, how they interact with others, and the roles they assume in their practice. Some young evaluators are confronting, in various ways, conundrums in thinking about and doing evaluation within organizations, either from an external or internal perspective. And issues in using technology in evaluation or challenges in evaluating technology are considered.

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1118145631

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Sandra Gustafson's Great Sleeps London

By: Sandra Gustafson

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Sandra Gustafson's Great Sleeps London

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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Foundations of Psychological Testing

A Practical Approach

By: Leslie A. Miller,Sandra A. McIntire,Robert L. Lovler

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Foundations of Psychological Testing

A Practical Approach

By: Leslie A. Miller,Sandra A. McIntire,Robert L. Lovler

The Third Edition of this text offers a straight forward and clear introduction to the basics of psychological testing as well as to psychometrics and statistics for students new to the field. The authors focus on relating core ideas to practical situations that students will recognize and relate to. They provide a variety of pedagogical tools that promote student understanding of the underlying concepts required to interpret and to use test scores. Primarily concerned with preparing students to become informed consumers and users of tests, the text also features a final section focusing on how tests are utilized in three important settings: education, clinical and counseling practice, and organizations. Intended Audience: This is a scholarly, informative, applicable, and appropriate undergraduate and graduate textbook ideal for introductory courses such as Psychological Testing, Psychological Tests & Measures, and Testing & Measurement in departments of psychology and education; and graduate programs in psychology, industrial / organizational psychology, and counseling.

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1412976391

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Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care

By: Sandra Lee Gardner,Brian S. Carter, MD, FAAP,Mary I Enzman-Hines,Jacinto A. Hernandez

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Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care

By: Sandra Lee Gardner,Brian S. Carter, MD, FAAP,Mary I Enzman-Hines,Jacinto A. Hernandez

Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care, 8th Edition, is the leading resource for collaborative, interprofessional critical care of newborns. Co-authored by physicians and nurses, it offers concise, comprehensive coverage with a unique multidisciplinary approach and real-world perspective that make it an essential guide for both neonatal nurses and physicians. The 8th edition features the latest neonatal research, evidence, clinical guidelines, and practice recommendations - all in a practical quick-reference format for easy retrieval and review of key information. UNIQUE! Multidisciplinary author and contributor team consists of two physicians and two nurses, with each chapter written and reviewed by a physician-nurse team to ensure that information mirrors current, real-world practice in a neonatal intensive care unit. Critical Findings boxes and tables outline symptoms and diagnostic findings that require immediate attention, helping you prioritize assessment data and steps in initial care. UNIQUE! Clinical content highlighted in color allows you to quickly scan for information that directly affects patient care. UNIQUE! Parent Teaching boxes highlight relevant information to share with a patient's caregivers. Clinical images, graphs, and algorithms illustrate clinically relevant concepts in neonatal intensive care. Streamlined references include only the most current or classic sources. NEW! Coverage of the latest neonatal research, evidence, clinical guidelines, and practice recommendations addresses topics such as: women with chronic illnesses becoming pregnant; maternal obesity; hypotension and shock in premature infants; pain and sedation; dedicated feeding sets vs. IVs for safety; MRSA; pediatric stroke; autism screening; discharge coordination; and more. NEW! The latest AAP recommendations and guidelines for hypoglycemia, jaundice, herpes, respiratory syncytial virus, and neonatal transport team composition. EXPANDED! Revised Evidence-Based Clinical Practice chapter focuses on evidence-based practice and quality improvement and the role of qualitative research in EBP. EXPANDED! Updated Infection in the Neonate chapter features new GBS guidelines and CRP research.

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Gender Remade

Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879–1912

By: Sandra F. VanBurkleo

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Gender Remade

Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879–1912

By: Sandra F. VanBurkleo

Gender Remade explores a little-known experiment in gender equality in Washington Territory in the 1870s and 1880s. Building on path-breaking innovations in marital and civil equality, lawmakers extended a long list of political rights and obligations to both men and women, including the right to serve on juries and hold public office. As the territory moved toward statehood, however, jury duty and constitutional co-sovereignty proved to be particularly controversial; in the end, 'modernization' and national integration brought disastrous losses for women until 1910, when political rights were partially restored. Losses to women's sovereignty were profound and enduring - a finding that points, not to rights and powers, but to constitutionalism and the power of social practice as Americans struggled to establish gender equality. Gender Remade is a significant contribution to the understudied legal history of the American West, especially the role that legal culture played in transitioning from territory to statehood.

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Microbiology of Ethanol Fermentation in Sugarcane Biofuels

Fundamentals, Advances, and Perspectives

By: Sandra Regina Ceccato-Antonini

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Microbiology of Ethanol Fermentation in Sugarcane Biofuels

Fundamentals, Advances, and Perspectives

By: Sandra Regina Ceccato-Antonini

This book discusses the microbiology of fermentation for the production of bioethanol from sugarcane. Coverage includes how selected yeasts improve ethanol yield and productivity concerning recent advances at genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic levels, how microorganisms (bacteria and yeasts) interact with each other in fermentation vats, and the application of microbiological monitoring methods with safety and precision. Special attention is given to antimicrobial strategies used to decrease contamination. The book is aimed at professionals working in the bioethanol industry, as well as students and researchers studying biological and biotechnological aspects of applied matters such as industrial microbiology and industrial fermentations. The English translation of this book from its Portuguese original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service provider DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision of the content was done by the author. Covers common microbiological monitoring techniques; Reviews selected yeasts used in the bioethanol industry; Examines the role of bacteria and native yeasts in ethanolic fermentation and methods to control their growth.

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Springer Nature

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3031122925

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The Power of Role-based e-Learning

Designing and Moderating Online Role Play

By: Sandra Wills,Elyssebeth Leigh,Albert Ip

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The Power of Role-based e-Learning

Designing and Moderating Online Role Play

By: Sandra Wills,Elyssebeth Leigh,Albert Ip

Written for educators seeking to engage students in collaboration and communication about authentic scenarios, The Power of Role-Based e-Learning offers helpful, accessible advice on the practice and research needed to design online role play. Drawing on the experiences of world-leading practitioners and citing an array of worldwide examples, it is a readable, non-technical, and comprehensive guide to the design, implementation, and evaluation of this exciting teaching approach. Issues discussed include: designing effective online role plays defining games, simulations and role plays moderating engaging and authentic role-based e-learning activities assessment and evaluation. The Power of Role-Based e-Learning offers a careful analysis of the strengths and learning opportunities of online role play, and is realistic about possible difficulties. Providing guidance for both newcomers and experienced professionals who are developing their online teaching repertoire, it is an invaluable resource for teachers, trainers, academics, and educational support staff involved in e-learning.

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1136907408

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Uncivil Wars

Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

By: Sandra Messinger Cypess

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Uncivil Wars

Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

By: Sandra Messinger Cypess

The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender. While Paz’s privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro’s literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and political changes and further tensions in the battle of the sexes. The cultural contexts of machismo and ethnicity provide an equally rich ground for Sandra Cypess’s exploration of the tandem between the writers’ personal lives and their literary production. Uncivil Wars illuminates the complexities of Mexican society as seen through a tense marriage of two talented, often oppositional writers. The result is an alternative interpretation of the myths and realities that have shaped Mexican identity, and its literary soul, well into the twenty-first century.

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University of Texas Press

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0292737777

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Day Trips® from Columbus

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By: Sandra Gurvis

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Day Trips® from Columbus

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By: Sandra Gurvis

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Columbus. For local travelers seeking new adventures in their own backyards, as well as vacationers, it offers hundreds of exciting things to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive. Complete with full trip-planning information, including itineraries with their own route maps, as well as information on where to eat, where to shop, and where to stop along the way, this guide helps make the most of a brief getaway. * Marvel at the Longaberger Home Office in Newark, Ohio—the only corporate headquarters set inside a seven-story basket. * Ride the rails in a genuine diesel locomotive with vintage passenger coaches from the Buckeye Central Scenic Railroad. * Peruse an amazing collection of antique paintings, ceramics, and enamels at the Taft Museum of Art. * Explore the verdant, leafy coolness and gushing gorges of Hocking Hills State Park. * Brave the Millennium Force, the world’s tallest and fastest roller coaster, at Cedar Point Amusement Park.

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0762756411

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9780762756414

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