Sara Rhodes's Books

Under the Desert Sky

By: Sara Luck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sara Luck is known for her “well-developed characters, accurate historical settings, and hot naked men” (RT Book Reviews), and Under the Desert Sky does not disappoint! Fans will love this story of a widowed frontierswoman and the ranch hand who might be all that stands between her and ruin. Phoebe Sloan isn’t afraid of hard work—she couldn’t have survived on the Arizona frontier if she were. But ever since her husband was killed in a ranch accident, she’s struggled to make ends meet and preserve her young son’s birthright. Her last gamble was to start raising ostriches—the plumes are prized by fashionable city ladies—and it could work, but someone’s determined to sabotage her efforts. Enter Christian de Wet, a South African importer who finds himself drawn to the fragile but determined Phoebe. He begins helping her around the ranch as a kindness, but the two quickly find that the heat rising between them has nothing to do with the Arizona desert! When the saboteur finds a way to endanger not just the ranch, but Phoebe’s family, will she have to forsake her happiness to save her son?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

368

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501103555

ISBN 13

9781501103551

Melusine

Or, The Noble History of Lusignan

By: Jean d'Arras,Donald Maddox,Sara Sturm-Maddox

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Melusine

Or, The Noble History of Lusignan

By: Jean d'Arras,Donald Maddox,Sara Sturm-Maddox

An annotated English translation of the fourteenth-century French prose romance Melusine, by Jean d'Arras"--Provided by publisher.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

261

Publisher

Penn State Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0271054123

ISBN 13

9780271054124

Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy

The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece

By: Sara Forsdyke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy

The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece

By: Sara Forsdyke

This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its role as a context for the ongoing negotiation of democratic values. The first part of the book demonstrates the strong connection between exile and political power in archaic Greece. In Athens and elsewhere, elites seized power by expelling their rivals. Violent intra-elite conflict of this sort was a highly unstable form of "politics that was only temporarily checked by various attempts at elite self-regulation. A lasting solution to the problem of exile was found only in the late sixth century during a particularly intense series of violent expulsions. At this time, the Athenian people rose up and seized simultaneously control over decisions of exile and political power. The close connection between political power and the power of expulsion explains why ostracism was a central part of the democratic reforms. Forsdyke shows how ostracism functioned both as a symbol of democratic power and as a key term in the ideological justification of democratic rule. Crucial to the author's interpretation is the recognition that ostracism was both a remarkably mild form of exile and one that was infrequently used. By analyzing the representation of exile in Athenian imperial decrees, in the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and in tragedy and oratory, Forsdyke shows how exile served as an important term in the debate about the best form of rule.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400826861

ISBN 13

9781400826865

Ancestors of Harold and Clare Mealy

By: Sara Tanke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ancestors of Harold and Clare Mealy

By: Sara Tanke

A history of my parents' ancestors: Mealys, Jameses, DeNises, Gallemores, and Thornhills

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

204

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1365759954

ISBN 13

9781365759956

Crosscurrents

Themes for Developing Writers

By: Janet Madden,Sara M. Blake

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Crosscurrents

Themes for Developing Writers

By: Janet Madden,Sara M. Blake

Offering an introduction to Victorian culture and society, this glossary is also a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind, it contains around 400 short and accessible explanations of the key words, events, figures and concepts in the study of the Victorian period. From gothic and the Great Exhibition to origin of species and Oscar Wilde, this glossary gives an interdisciplinary overview of Victorian literature, culture and society, and offers directions for further reading. Covering literary topics, traditions and movements, as well as the period's history, culture and politics, the entries are fully cross-referenced and assume no prior knowledge, making this a useful reference on the Victorian period. The index makes it even more accessible, allowing the reader quickly to find information on topics not listed as individual entries.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0030558522

ISBN 13

9780030558528

Beyond the Nile

Egypt and the Classical World

By: Sara E. Cole

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond the Nile

Egypt and the Classical World

By: Sara E. Cole

From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one another’s work, creating cultural and artistic hybrids that transcended a single tradition. Yet in spite of the remarkable artistic production that resulted from these interchanges, the complex vicissitudes of exchange between Egypt and the Classical world over the course of nearly 2500 years have not been comprehensively explored in a major exhibition or publication in the United States. It is precisely this aspect of Egypt’s history, however, that Beyond the Nile uncovers. Renowned scholars have come together to provide compelling analyses of the constantly evolving dynamics of cultural exchange, first between Egyptians and Greeks—during the Bronze Age, then the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece, and finally Ptolemaic Egypt—and later, when Egypt passed to Roman rule with the defeat of Cleopatra. Beyond the Nile, a milestone publication issued on the occasion of a major international exhibition, will become an indispensable contribution to the field. With gorgeous photographs of more than two hundred rare objects, including frescoes, statues, obelisks, jewelry, papyri, pottery, and coins, this volume offers an essential and inter-disciplinary approach to the rich world of artistic cross-pollination during antiquity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

364

Publisher

Getty Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1606065513

ISBN 13

9781606065518

The Big Book of Magical Incense

By: Sara L. Mastros

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Big Book of Magical Incense

By: Sara L. Mastros

This book is for practicing magicians and Pagans who want to learn to formulate their own magical incenses. While the book requires no prerequisite knowledge, it is also appropriate for experienced magicians and learned Pagans. Presented in a paradigm-agnostic way, the book should appeal to people on numerous paths"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

290

Publisher

Red Wheel/Weiser

Published Date

ISBN 10

1578637406

ISBN 13

9781578637409

Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles

By: Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles

By: Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of Neoplatonist metaphysics, discussion of transcendence, and compendium of late antique theologies, make it unique among all extant works of late antique philosophy. It has never before been translated into English. The Problems and Solutions exhibits a thorough?going critique of Proclean metaphysics, starting with the principle that all that exists proceeds from a single cause, proceeding to critique the Proclean triadic view of procession and reversion, and severely undermining the status of intellectual reversion in establishing being as the intelligible object. Damascius investigates the internal contradictions lurking within the theory of descent as a whole, showing that similarity of cause and effect is vitiated in the case of processions where one order (e.g. intellect) gives rise to an entirely different order (e.g. soul). Neoplatonism as a speculative metaphysics posits the One as the exotic or extopic explanans for plurality, conceived as immediate, present to hand, and therefore requiring explanation. Damascius shifts the perspective of his metaphysics: he struggles to create a metaphysical discourse that accommodates, insofar as language is sufficient, the ultimate principle of reality. After all, how coherent is a metaphysical system that bases itself on the Ineffable as a first principle? Instead of creating an objective ontology, Damascius writes ever mindful of the limitations of dialectic, and of the pitfalls and snares inherent in the very structure of metaphysical discourse.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

560

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199882150

ISBN 13

9780199882151

Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece

By: Sara Forsdyke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece

By: Sara Forsdyke

Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own perspectives, rather than those of their owners, giving a voice to a group that is often rendered silent by the historical record. By reading ancient sources 'against the grain,' and through careful deployment of comparative evidence from more recent slave-owning societies, she demonstrates that slaves engaged in a variety of strategies to deal with their conditions of enslavement, ranging from calculated accommodation to full-scale rebellion. Along the way, she establishes that slaves made a vital contribution to almost all aspects of Greek society. Above all, despite their often brutal treatment, they sometimes displayed great ingenuity in exploiting the tensions and contradictions within the system of slavery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

297

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009063979

ISBN 13

9781009063975

Isopoliteia in Hellenistic Times

By: Sara Saba

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Isopoliteia in Hellenistic Times

By: Sara Saba

The diplomatic tool known as isopolity is a testament to Greek ingenuity and is attested all over the Mediterranean from the 4th to 1st century B.C., mainly epigraphically. “Isopoliteia” was a popular way to establish new relashionships, reinforce old ones or to regulate difficult situations among communities in the Hellenistic Period. This book offers close scrutiny of potential citizenship between communities as well as a fresh examination of new evidence which has emerged since the publication of the only monograph written on the topic by Wilfried Gawantka in 1975. The book brings together all the evidence for isopolity in the Hellenistic world and demonstrates that communities used this diplomatic tool across different kinds of agreements and through a range of different ways.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

301

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004425705

ISBN 13

9789004425705

Rare Trees

The Fascinating Stories of the World's Most Threatened Species

By: Sara Oldfield,Malin Rivers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rare Trees

The Fascinating Stories of the World's Most Threatened Species

By: Sara Oldfield,Malin Rivers

Discover the secrets and beauty of the world’s rarest trees in this fantastic book filled with more than 300 color photographs. Forests cover nearly a third of the world's surface, and the trees that make them up include a staggering diversity of more than 60,000 species. Individual trees play specific ecological roles in their unique environments—and they have adapted to thrive on steep mountains, in cloud forests, on dry savannahs, in parched deserts, and in tropical wetlands. Our history, and our future, are interwoven with the trees that define the regions of our green planet. Rare Trees profiles over 60 unique species that are currently endangered—including the most charismatic, fascinating, and downright bizarre examples from all around the globe. Filled with hundreds of color photographs, maps to help readers identify habitats, and accessible and engaging text by tree experts from the Global Trees Campaign, Rare Trees will give readers a new appreciation for the importance of trees and will inspire them to preserve this critical canopy of life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

936

Publisher

Timber Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1643260103

ISBN 13

9781643260105

Living a Feminist Life

By: Sara Ahmed

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Living a Feminist Life

By: Sara Ahmed

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

341

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822373378

ISBN 13

9780822373377

Ancestral Truths

A Novel

By: Sara Maitland

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ancestral Truths

A Novel

By: Sara Maitland

There were three possible reasons given for the disappearance of the two hikers on Mount Nyangani: the treacherous terrain and climate; the banditos armados; the unforgiving spirit called Chirikuzi. In David' case there was a fourth--that Clare might have killed him. Unable to remember exacly what happened on the mountain in Zimbabwe and trying to come to terms with the loss of her hand in the accident, Clare is taken home to Scotland where her large, loving, questioning, and uncomfortably acute family become almost unbearable. She had wanted David dead, but did that mean she had killed him? Her mother's High Church concern, Anni's sharp-tongued radicalism, santly Felicity's internal fury, and her deaf niece Alice's fascination with the prosthetic hand seem at first to distract from Clare's problems, until the aristocratic family's pieties pierce her cocoon of post-traumatic amnesia. Family resentments flare and fade, divisions fester and heal, and as clare uncovers buried fears, she comes to understand that the real question about the accident on Mount Nyangani is less what she has forgotten than why. Intricate in design, disturbing in its explorations of mind and spirit, and with a surprising twist at the end, Ancestral Truths employs a striking narrative voice to explore the shifting relations between belief and truth, love and desire, to reveal that beauty and danger walk hand in hand. Sara Maitland summons her knowledge of theology, mysticism, mathematics, and human nature to give this deeply perceptive novel its wit and cohesive richness. As Ms. Maitland's characters gradually recognize the inseparability of their strengths and weaknesses, the authof of Three Times Table raises her art to a new pitch of excitement and originality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

366

Publisher

Macmillan + ORM

Published Date

ISBN 10

1466881720

ISBN 13

9781466881723

Growing Fruit in Northern Gardens

By: Sara Williams,Bob Bors

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Growing Fruit in Northern Gardens

By: Sara Williams,Bob Bors

A comprehensive full-colour handbook for growing fruit in cold climates that is aimed at the home gardener. Includes a detailed map and reference guide to zones, hardiness, planting time, and best practices to ensure growth and survival. From pincherries to haskaps, tree fruits to vine fruits, and everything in between, renowned horticulturalist Dr. Bob Bors and master gardener Sara Williams delve into the science of growing and maintaining fruit plants for northern gardeners. Each specific fruit plant is given its own chapter in this beautifully designed reference guide, complete with charts and colour photographs, outlining and describing the plant and its history, planting, care, and any problems (such as insects and disease) that are typically associated with growing it. Gardeners will be able to decide which plants would work best in their own gardens, and harvest the fruits of their success.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Coteau Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1550509144

ISBN 13

9781550509144

Be Wise! Be Healthy!

Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns

By: Catherine Carstairs,Bethany Philpott,Sara Wilmshurst

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Be Wise! Be Healthy!

Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns

By: Catherine Carstairs,Bethany Philpott,Sara Wilmshurst

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise more. For over a century, governments and voluntary groups have run educational campaigns encouraging Canadians to adopt healthy habits in order to prolong lives, cost the state less, and produce more efficient workers. Be Wise! Be Healthy! explores the history of public health in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s. Through the Health League of Canada, people were urged to drink pasteurized milk, immunize their children, and avoid extramarital sex. Health was presented as a responsibility of citizenship – and doctors and dentists as expert guides. Public health campaigns have reduced preventable deaths. But such campaigns can also stigmatize marginalized populations by implying that poor health is due to inadequate self-care, despite clear links between health and external factors such as poverty and trauma. This clear-eyed study demonstrates that while we may well celebrate the successes of public health campaigns, they are not without controversy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

309

Publisher

UBC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0774837217

ISBN 13

9780774837217

Diversity and Identity in the Workplace

Connections and Perspectives

By: Florence Villesèche,Sara Louise Muhr,Lotte Holck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Diversity and Identity in the Workplace

Connections and Perspectives

By: Florence Villesèche,Sara Louise Muhr,Lotte Holck

Examining the theoretical connections between identity and diversity, this new book explores how diversity management practices can be better informed by an enhanced understanding of the relationship between the two fields. Highlighting the relevance of identity to diversity studies, the authors concentrate on three key areas: social identity theory; critical perspectives on identity; and poststructuralist understandings. With the aim of fueling future research, this insightful book outlines a detailed research agenda and offers practical suggestions. Not only useful to academics, this book also seeks to encourage policy-makers and HR managers to develop current practices and make more research-informed management decisions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

109

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319906143

ISBN 13

9783319906140

Rube Tube

CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties

By: Sara K. Eskridge

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rube Tube

CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties

By: Sara K. Eskridge

Historian Sara Eskridge examines television’s rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nicknamed the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in the 1950s with the quiz show scandals and a campaign against violence in westerns. When a rival network introduced rural-themed programs to cater to the growing southern market, CBS latched onto the trend and soon reestablished itself as the Country Broadcasting System. Its rural comedies dominated the ratings throughout the decade, attracting viewers from all parts of the country. With fascinating discussions of The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and other shows, Eskridge reveals how the southern image was used to both entertain and reassure Americans in the turbulent 1960s.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

255

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

082627417X

ISBN 13

9780826274175

Elly Peterson

"Mother" of the Moderates

By: Sara Fitzgerald

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Elly Peterson

"Mother" of the Moderates

By: Sara Fitzgerald

A magisterially written, well-researched, informative, and entertaining biography of a woman who helped throw open the doors to broader participation and power for women in the Republican Party and American politics." ---Dave Dempsey, author of William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate Moderate "Elly Peterson will be a text to which historians and researchers turn for insight into the yin and yang of mainstream politics in the mid-century." ---Patricia Sullivan, past president, Journalism and Women Symposium "This lively portrait of a leading woman in the Republican Party between 1952 and 1982 also charts the party's shift to the right after 1964, revealingly viewed through the eyes of liberal Republican women. Intensively researched with ethnographic attention to the subtleties of political culture, Fitzgerald's book is essential reading for anyone interested in how the Republican Party changed during the turbulent decades after 1960 and how women and women's issues shaped those changes." ---Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York, Binghamton "Sara Fitzgerald tells Peterson's story in this superb and timely biography. It carries a message that deserves the widest audience as the nation struggles to find needed consensus on critical issues amid poisonous political partisanship that has made it increasingly difficult for public officials to bridge their differences. I hope that every American reads it." ---Pulitzer Prize winner Haynes Johnson, from the Foreword "To understand the quest for equal rights in America you really need to meet those women who were active at the time of transition. In this gripping biography we meet one woman who entered a male dominated world and triumphed." ---Francis X. Blouin Jr., Director, Bentley Historical Library "Sara Fitzgerald's writing is as intelligent as it is entertaining." ---Best-selling novelist Diane Chamberlain Elly Peterson was one of the highest ranking women in the Republican Party. In 1964 she ran for a Michigan seat in the U.S. Senate and became the first woman to serve as chair of the Michigan Republican Party. During the 1960s she grew disenchanted with the increasing conservatism of her party, united with other feminists to push for the Equal Rights Amendment and reproductive choice, battled Phyllis Schlafly to prevent her from gaining control of the National Federation of Republican Women, and became an independent. Elly Peterson's story is a missing chapter in the political history of Michigan, as well as the United States. This new biography, written by Sara Fitzgerald (a Michigan native and former Washington Post editor), finally gives full credit to one of the first female political leaders in this country. When Peterson resigned in 1970 as assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee, David Broder of the Washington Post wrote that "her abilities would have earned her the national chairmanship, were it not for the unwritten sex barrier both parties have erected around that job.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

349

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

047202762X

ISBN 13

9780472027620

Ottoman Dress and Design in the West

A Visual History of Cultural Exchange

By: Charlotte Jirousek,Sara Catterall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ottoman Dress and Design in the West

A Visual History of Cultural Exchange

By: Charlotte Jirousek,Sara Catterall

“This amply illustrated, attractive book is valuable for dress history scholars . . . [an] ideal textbook for courses on clothing and cultural history.” —The Journal of Dress History Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of dress and fashion in the broader context of western relationships with the Mediterranean world from the dawn of Islam through the end of the twentieth century. The significance of dress is made apparent by the author’s careful attention to its political, economic, and cultural context. The reader comes to understand that dress reflects not simply the self and one’s relation to community but also that community’s relation to a wider world through trade, colonization, religion, and technology. The chapters provide broad historical background on Ottoman influence and European exoticization of that influence, while the captions and illustrations provide detailed studies of illuminations, paintings, and sculptures to show how these influences were absorbed into everyday living. Through the medium of dress, Jirousek details a continually shifting Ottoman frontier that is closely tied to European and American history. In doing so, she explores and celebrates an essential source of influence that for too long has been relegated to the periphery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

451

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0253042186

ISBN 13

9780253042187

To Her Credit

Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities

By: Sara T. Damiano

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

To Her Credit

Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities

By: Sara T. Damiano

This is a study in the history of capitalism in the context of colonial New England. The author argues that colonial women's skilled labor undergirded the workings of financial networks and was instrumental in shaping the development of economic and legal systems. The author shows that the economies of the colonial port cities of Boston and Newport could not have functioned without women's labor and credit relationships"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

311

Publisher

JHU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1421440555

ISBN 13

9781421440552

The Harm in Asking

My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race

By: Sara Barron

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Harm in Asking

My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race

By: Sara Barron

Welcome to the perverse and hilarious mind of Sara Barron. In The Harm in Asking, she boldly addresses the bizarre indignities of everyday life: from invisible pets to mobster roommates, from a hatred of mayonnaise to an unrequited love of k.d. lang, from the ruinous side effect of broccoli to the sheer delight of a male catalogue model. In a voice that is incisive and entirely her own, Barron proves herself the master of the awkward, and she achieves something wonderful and rare: a book that makes you laugh out loud. Simply put: if you read it, you will never be the same.* *That's not true. You'll probably stay the same. But you'll have laughed a lot. And you'll have learned a fun fact about Jessica Simpson's home spray. See? You didn't even know she had a home spray! The learning has already begun.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

322

Publisher

Crown

Published Date

ISBN 10

0307720713

ISBN 13

9780307720719

Exit

The Endings That Set Us Free

By: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Exit

The Endings That Set Us Free

By: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

From a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbye Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. There's a relationship, she attests, between small goodbyes and our ability "to master and mark the larger farewells." In Exit, her tenth book, she explores the ways we leave one thing and move on to the next; how we anticipate, define, and reflect on our departures; our epiphanies that something is over and done with. Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has interviewed more than a dozen women and men in states of major change, and she paints their portraits with sympathy and insight: a gay man who finds home and wholeness after coming out; a sixteen-year-old boy forced to leave Iran in the midst of the violent civil war; a Catholic priest who leaves the church he has always been devoted to, he life he has loved, and the work that has been deeply fulfilling; an anthropologist who carefully stages her departure from he "field" after four years of research; and many more. Too often, Lawrence-Lightfoot believes, we exalt new beginnings at the expense of learning from our goodbyes. Exit finds wisdom and perspective in the possibility of moving on and marks the start of a new conversation, to help us discover how we might make our exits with purpose and dignity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

Macmillan + ORM

Published Date

ISBN 10

1429942746

ISBN 13

9781429942744

Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development

Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa

By: Sara Dehkordi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development

Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa

By: Sara Dehkordi

In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices are structured and executed. Sara Dehkordi shows that these doctrines are being legitimized and legalized as part of a discursive practice and that the criminalization of lower-class members are part of that practice, not as random policing techniques of individual security forces, but as a technology of power that attends to the body, zooms in on it, screens it, and interrogates it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

238

Publisher

transcript Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3732853101

ISBN 13

9783732853106

The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century

By: Hussein Kassim,John Peterson,Michael W. Bauer,Sara Connolly,Renaud Dehousse,Liesbet Hooghe,Andrew Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century

By: Hussein Kassim,John Peterson,Michael W. Bauer,Sara Connolly,Renaud Dehousse,Liesbet Hooghe,Andrew Thompson

The European Commission is arguably the world's most powerful international administration. It plays a central role in the political system of the European Union. The Commission is a permanent presence in the life of the member states, but its influence is felt far beyond their borders. Viewed historically as the motor of European integration, the Commission is the subject of intense controversy. It is portrayed frequently as technocratic, monolithic, and unaccountable, but also as fragmented and weakly led. According to accepted wisdom, it is populated by career bureaucrats, who want only to expand the competencies of the Union and therefore their own power. This book tests these views. It asks: Who are the people who work for the organization? What are their educational and professional backgrounds? What do officials believe about the role of the Commission in the EU today and whether the Union should have more or less power? What leads them to choose to pursue a career in the Commission, and how do they navigate its complexities? How does the Barroso Commission compare to previous Commissions? How harmonious are relations between cabinets and the services? What has been the impact on the Commission of reform and of the 'big bang' enlargement? Co-authored by an international team of researchers, this book draws on original data from the largest attitudinal survey ever conducted by independent researchers inside the Commission, as well as a structured programme of interviews with senior officials. It provides an authoritative account of the European Commission of the twenty-first century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published Date

ISBN 10

0191612022

ISBN 13

9780191612022

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

By: Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

By: Sara Wachter-Boettcher

“An entertaining romp that tells us where and why the tech industry, once America’s darling, went wrong, and what it might do to recover its good graces.” —Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. It’s time we change that. In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use—and to demand more from the companies behind them. A Wired Top Tech Book of the Year A Fast Company Best Business and Leadership Book of the Year

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

175

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393634647

ISBN 13

9780393634648

The Rough Guide to Namibia

By: Rough Guides,Sara Humphreys

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rough Guide to Namibia

By: Rough Guides,Sara Humphreys

This in-depth coverage of Namibia's local attractions, sights, and restaurants takes you to the most rewarding spots - from Fish River Canyon to Etosha National Park to historic churches - and stunning color photography brings the land to life on the pages. With a beautiful new cover, amazing tips and information, and key facts, The Rough Guide to Namibia is the perfect travel companion. The locally based Rough Guides author team introduces the best places to stop and explore, and provides reliable insider tips on topics such as driving the roads, taking walking tours, or visiting local cathedrals. You'll find special coverage of history, art, architecture, and literature, and detailed information on the best markets and shopping for each area in this fascinating country. The Rough Guide to Namibia also unearths the best restaurants, nightlife, and places to stay, from backpacker hostels to beachfront villas and boutique hotels, and color-coded maps feature every sight and listing. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Namibia.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

600

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0241319358

ISBN 13

9780241319352

Plato's Democratic Entanglements

Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy

By: S. Sara Monoson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Plato's Democratic Entanglements

Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy

By: S. Sara Monoson

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato's suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing. Monoson focuses on Plato's engagement with democracy as he knew it: a cluster of cultural practices that reach into private and public life, as well as a set of governing institutions. She proposes that while Plato charts tensions between the claims of democratic legitimacy and philosophical truth, he also exhibits a striking attraction to four practices central to Athenian democratic politics: intense antityrantism, frank speaking, public funeral oratory, and theater-going. By juxtaposing detailed examination of these aspects of Athenian democracy with analysis of the figurative language, dramatic structure, and arguments of the dialogues, she shows that Plato systematically links democratic ideals and activities to philosophic labor. Monoson finds that Plato's political thought exposes intimate connections between Athenian democratic politics and the practice of philosophy. Situating Plato's political thought in the context of the Athenian democratic imaginary, Monoson develops a new, textured way of thinking of the relationship between Plato's thought and the politics of his city.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

265

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691158584

ISBN 13

9780691158587

The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases

Between Paideia and Paidiá

By: Sara Chiarini

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases

Between Paideia and Paidiá

By: Sara Chiarini

As the first extensive survey of the ancient Greek painters’ practice of writing nonsense on vases, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases by Sara Chiarini provides a systematic overview of the linguistic features of the phenomenon and discusses its forms and contexts of reception. While the origins of the practice lie in the impaired literacy of the painters involved in it, the extent of the phenomenon suggests that, at some point, it became a true fashion within Attic vase painting. This raises the question of the forms of interaction with this epigraphic material. An open approach is adopted: “reading” attempts, riddles and puns inspired by nonsense inscriptions could happen in a variety of circumstances, including the symposium but not limited to it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

557

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004371206

ISBN 13

9789004371200

Discovering the Leader in You

How to realize Your Leadership Potential

By: Sara N. King,David Altman,Robert J. Lee

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Discovering the Leader in You

How to realize Your Leadership Potential

By: Sara N. King,David Altman,Robert J. Lee

From the Center for Creative Leadership's most popular and best known leadership program Leadership Development Program comes a book for anyone who wants to have a competitive edge in today's complex marketplace. Discovering the Leader in You shows what it looks like to fit in a leadership role and provides a system of self-discovery that allows for exploration into the roles within an organization. The book includes illustrative cases examples and puts the spotlight on the transition from "the decision to lead" to "how to implement the decision to lead.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

210

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0470498889

ISBN 13

9780470498880

Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II

A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation

By: Sara Witter Connor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II

A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation

By: Sara Witter Connor

A look at how the Wisconsin lumber industry and the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory contributed to Allied efforts in World War II. Wisconsin’s trees heard “Timber” during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the “Timber Terror,” while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Author Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots, and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood, and glue.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

350

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1625849109

ISBN 13

9781625849106

What did you do in the Great War, Mr Joyce? I wrote Ulysses. What did you do?

By: Sara Vasini

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

What did you do in the Great War, Mr Joyce? I wrote Ulysses. What did you do?

By: Sara Vasini

In occasione del centenario della pubblicazione della prima edizione dell'Ulysses, Sara Vasini riscrive l'intera opera di James Joyce trasponendo visivamente l'incomunicabilità dell'autore. In una serie di sovrapposizioni reiterate, fino allo smarrimento del senso compiuto, si innerva l'opera "What did you do in the Great War, Mr Joyce? I wrote Ulysses. What did you do?", una progressione ritmica di 933 pagine mai uguale a sé stessa, soggetta all'interpretazione del fruitore che - a seconda dell'umore - si riconosce, si perde e si rinnega nel flusso di coscienza che non sarà mai di univoca lettura, ma cambierà a seconda delle fasi della giornata. Vasini, come Luciano Berio, ha sviscerato l'essenza dell'Ulysses entrando in piena simbiosi con esso, riuscendo nell'impresa di catturare il tumulto dei differenti linguaggi espressivi usati da Joyce, rappresentando l'infinito dinamismo del chaos e l'astrazione ritmica di un romanzo che è stato capace di far cronaca dei processi della mente umana.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Rrose Sélavy

Published Date

ISBN 10

8885534155

ISBN 13

9788885534155

Indianapolis

The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

By: Lynn Vincent,Sara Vladic

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Indianapolis

The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

By: Lynn Vincent,Sara Vladic

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —The Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * “A MUST-READ.” —Booklist (starred review) A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, nearly nine hundred men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. For the first time Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own in “a wonderful book…that features grievous mistakes, extraordinary courage, unimaginable horror, and a cover-up…as complete an account of this tragic tale as we are likely to have” (The Christian Science Monitor). It begins in 1932, when Indianapolis is christened and continues through World War II, when the ship embarks on her final world-changing mission: delivering the core of the atomic bomb to the Pacific for the strike on Hiroshima. “Simply outstanding…Indianapolis is a must-read…a tour de force of true human drama” (Booklist, starred review) that goes beyond the men’s rescue to chronicle the survivors’ fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. “Enthralling…A gripping study of the greatest sea disaster in the history of the US Navy and its aftermath” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Indianapolis stands as both groundbreaking naval history and spellbinding narrative—and brings the ship and her heroic crew back to full, vivid, unforgettable life. “Vincent and Vladic have delivered an account that stands out through its crisp writing and superb research…Indianapolis is sure to hold its own for a long time” (USA TODAY).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

592

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501135953

ISBN 13

9781501135958

Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents

By: Sara A. Whitcomb

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents

By: Sara A. Whitcomb

Generally recognized as the standard work in its field, Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents is a comprehensive guide for conducting conceptually sound, culturally responsive, and ecologically oriented assessments of students’ social and emotional behavior. Written for graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of school psychology, child clinical psychology, and special education, it will also be of interest to those in related disciplines. Building on the previous editions, this fifth edition includes updated references to DSM-5 and federal standards as well as an integrated approach to culturally competent assessment throughout the text. In Part I, Foundations and Methods of Assessment, the author provides a general foundation for assessment practice and outlines basic professional and ethical issues, cultural considerations, and classification and diagnostic problems. Part II, Assessment of Specific Problems, Competencies, and Populations, includes material on assessing specific social–emotional behavior domains, including externalizing problems, internalizing problems, social skills and social–emotional strengths, and the unique needs of young children. A chapter on school-wide screening methods was also added with this edition. By weaving together the most recent research evidence and common application issues in a scholarly yet practical matter, Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents continues to be the pre-eminent foundation for assessment courses.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

536

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317601602

ISBN 13

9781317601609

Book's by Sara Rhodes

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email