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Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis

By: Sharon D. Wright

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Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis

By: Sharon D. Wright

Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis examines black political behavior and empowerment strategies in the city of Memphis. Each chapter of the text focuses on three themes-mobilization, emergence, and incorporation. By analyzing the effects of race on black political development in Memphis, scholars will be able to examine broader questions about its effects in other cities. How do political machines use substantial black electorates to their advantage? What forms of protest do black communities conduct to rebel against machine rule? What primary mobilization tactics have black citizens used during the different periods of their political development? Why do blacks mobilize more quickly in some cities? In cities with large and predominantly black populations, what elements prevent black candidates from winning citywide races? What constraints do newly elected black mayors face? What benefits do black citizens gain from their representation? After a predominantly black governing coalition is elected, what obstacles remain? Can black citizens translate proportional representation into strong political incorporation? How much power can African Americans realistic expect to gain in cities? This book is the most comprehensive case study of the city's political scene written to date. The text primarily shows that white racism is not the only obstacle to black political development. Black citizens can have population majorities, but lose elections for other reasons. Their ability to win elections and gain full incorporation depends heavily on whether they minimize internal conflict and establish coalitions with middle-class citizens and the business establishment.

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1000526755

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The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine

By: Shannon C. Miller,Richard N. Rosenthal,Sharon Levy,Andrew J. Saxon,Jeanette M. Tetrault,Sarah E. Wakeman

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The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine

By: Shannon C. Miller,Richard N. Rosenthal,Sharon Levy,Andrew J. Saxon,Jeanette M. Tetrault,Sarah E. Wakeman

Principles of Addiction Medicine, 7th ed is a fully reimagined resource, integrating the latest advancements and research in addiction treatment. Prepared for physicians in internal medicine, psychiatry, and nearly every medical specialty, the 7th edition is the most comprehensive publication in addiction medicine. It offers detailed information to help physicians navigate addiction treatment for all patients, not just those seeking treatment for SUDs. Published by the American Society of Addiction Medicine and edited by Shannon C. Miller, MD, Richard N. Rosenthal, MD, Sharon Levy, MD, Andrew J. Saxon, MD, Jeanette M. Tetrault, MD, and Sarah E. Wakeman, MD, this edition is a testament to the collective experience and wisdom of 350 medical, research, and public health experts in the field. The exhaustive content, now in vibrant full color, bridges science and medicine and offers new insights and advancements for evidence-based treatment of SUDs. This foundational textbook for medical students, residents, and addiction medicine/addiction psychiatry fellows, medical libraires and institution, also serves as a comprehensive reference for everyday clinical practice and policymaking. Physicians, mental health practitioners, NP, PAs, or public officials who need reference material to recognize and treat substance use disorders will find this an invaluable addition to their professional libraries.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975201574

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Southern Women Novelists and the Civil War

Trauma and Collective Memory in the American Literary Tradition Since 1861

By: Sharon Talley

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Southern Women Novelists and the Civil War

Trauma and Collective Memory in the American Literary Tradition Since 1861

By: Sharon Talley

During and after the Civil War, southern women played a critical role in shaping the South’s evolving collective memory by penning journals and diaries, historical accounts, memoirs, and literary interpretations of the war. While a few of these writings—most notably Mary Chesnut’s diaries and Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind—have been studied in depth by numerous scholars, until now there has been no comprehensive examination of Civil War novels by southern women. In this welcome study, Sharon Talley explores works by fifteen such writers, illuminating the role that southern women played in fashioning cultural identity in the region. Beginning with Augusta Jane Evans’s Macaria and Sallie Rochester Ford’s Raids and Romance of Morgan and His Men, which were published as the war still raged, Talley offers a chronological consideration of the novels with informative introductions for each time period. She examines Reconstruction works by Marion Harland, Mary Ann Cruse, and Rebecca Harding Davis, novels of the “Redeemed” South and the turn of the century by Mary Noailles Murfree, Ellen Glasgow, and Mary Johnston, and narratives by Evelyn Scott, Margaret Mitchell, and Caroline Gordon from the Modern period that spanned the two World Wars. Analysis of Margaret Walker’s Jubilee (1966), the first critically acclaimed Civil War novel by an African American woman of the South, as well as other post–World War II works by Kaye Gibbons, Josephine Humphreys, and Alice Randall, offers a fitting conclusion to Talley’s study by addressing the inaccuracies in the romantic myth of the Old South that Gone with the Wind most famously engraved on the nation’s consciousness. Informed by feminist, poststructural, and cultural studies theory, Talley’s close readings of these various novels ultimately refute the notion of a monolithic interpretation of the Civil War, presenting instead unique and diverse approaches to balancing “fact” and “fiction” in the long period of artistic production concerning this singular traumatic event in American history. Sharon Talley, professor of English at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, is the author of Ambrose Bierce and the Dance of Death and Student Companion to Herman Melville. Her articles have appeared in American Imago, Journal of Men’s Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Prose.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1621900134

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Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t

How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It)

By: Sharon E. Jarvis,Soo-Hye Han

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Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t

How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It)

By: Sharon E. Jarvis,Soo-Hye Han

For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections—often in error—well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han investigate what motivates journalists to call elections before the votes have been tallied and, more importantly, what this and similar practices signal to the electorate about the value of voter participation. Jarvis and Han track how journalists have told the story of electoral participation during the last eighteen presidential elections, revealing how the portrayal of voters in the popular press has evolved over the last half century from that of mobilized partisan actors vital to electoral outcomes to that of pawns of political elites and captives of a flawed electoral system. The authors engage with experiments and focus groups to reveal the effects that these portrayals have on voters and share their findings in interviews with prominent journalists. Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t not only explores the failings of the media but also shows how the story of electoral participation might be told in ways that support both democratic and journalistic values. At a time when professional strategists are pressuring journalists to provide favorable coverage for their causes and candidates, this book invites academics, organizations, the press, and citizens alike to advocate for the voter’s place in the news.

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Penn State Press

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0271082887

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Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld

Mythic Origins, Sovereignty and Liminality

By: Sharon Paice MacLeod

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Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld

Mythic Origins, Sovereignty and Liminality

By: Sharon Paice MacLeod

The early medieval manuscripts of Ireland and Britain contain tantalizing clues about the cosmology, religion and mythology of native Celtic cultures, despite censorship and revision by Christian redactors. Focusing on the latest research and translations, the author provides fresh insight into the beliefs and practices of the Iron Age inhabitants of Ireland, Britain and Gaul. Chapters cover creation and cosmogony, the deities of the Gaels, feminine power in narrative sources, druidic belief, priestesses and magical rites.

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McFarland

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1476630291

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Every Chart Topper Tells a Story

The Sixties

By: Sharon Davis

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Every Chart Topper Tells a Story

The Sixties

By: Sharon Davis

The glorious sixties were a decade for the young and rebellious, of cultural freedom and of sexual liberation. The British music scene had never been so adventurous, taking even the American charts by storm. Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story: The Sixties takes a look at the number-one hit singles of the decade in Britain from artists such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield, Ken Dodd, Cilla Black, The Supremes, Cliff Richard and Helen Shapiro, and is a valuable and entertaining source of information for all those interested in the sixties' music scene.

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Random House

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1780574169

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Becoming a Sage

Discovering Life's Lessons, One Story at a Time

By: Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

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Becoming a Sage

Discovering Life's Lessons, One Story at a Time

By: Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

As a pioneer in the adult children of alcoholics movement, Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse helped countless people heal from their painful pasts and forge a better tomorrow for themselves and future generations. Here, she reflects on her own life journey--the deep lows, the soaring highs, the mundane and the magnificent--and shows us that our lives are a tapestry of our experiences. Stitched together, we can see the purpose in every moment, and when we weave in the wisdom of those who have come before us, uncover valuable lessons that we can impart to others. In this process, we become a sage; someone who has reached a time of inner wisdom and peace and yet wants more. Wherever you are in life's journey Becoming a Sage will encourage you to be courageous and confident, to become of "teller of the truth" and embrace your past--both the good and the bad--with grateful acceptance. By doing so you, too, will become a sage and realize your radiant vitality and worth in the world. -- Publisher.

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Health Communications, Inc.

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0757319041

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9780757319044

Prefabricated Systems

Principles of Construction

By: Ulrich Knaack,Sharon Chung-Klatte,Reinhard Hasselbach

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Prefabricated Systems

Principles of Construction

By: Ulrich Knaack,Sharon Chung-Klatte,Reinhard Hasselbach

For a number of years, modular construction – the use of prefabricated elements in architecture – has once again become a subject of lively discussion and debate. Long written off as monotonous, today’s building components are actually highly differentiated and capable of supporting and enhancing the architect’s creativity. Numerous structures work with prefabricated components; for single-family homes the figure is ninety-eight percent, and modular systems are available that meet high aesthetic standards. This book provides an overview of the various different systems and their possible uses, particularly in the areas of housing, office, and industrial buildings. It explains the processes and components of modular construction and the behavior of the various materials when this construction approach is used. The authors offer strategies for planning and designing with prefabricated systems so that the architect can use them productively. Numerous drawings explain the principles of modular construction, while built examples forge a link between those principles and the practical activity of building.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3034611404

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Cruisin' the Original Woodward Avenue

By: Anthony Ambrogio,Sharon Luckerman,Woodward Heritage Team

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Cruisin' the Original Woodward Avenue

By: Anthony Ambrogio,Sharon Luckerman,Woodward Heritage Team

In the 1950s, cruising swept the nation. American street became impromptu racetracks as soon as the police turned their backs. Young people piled into friends cars and cruised their main streets with a new sense of freedom. Pent-up desires after the hardships of World War II plus a booming economy fueled a car-buying frenzy. To lure buyers to their particular makes and models, automobile companies targeted the youth market by focusing on design and performance. No place was that more relevant than on metro Detroits Woodward Avenue, the citys number-one cruising destination and home of the worlds automobile industry. Barely 50 years earlier, Henry Ford rolled his first Model T off the assembly line at Piquette and Woodward, just south of where cruisers, dragsters, and automobile engineers ignited each others excitement over cars. This unique relationship extended into the muscle car era of the 1960s, as Woodward Avenue continued to reflect the triumphs and downturns of the industry that made Detroit known throughout the world.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439616825

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Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part II vol 9

By: Sue McPherson,Sharon M Setzer,Julia Swindells

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Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part II vol 9

By: Sue McPherson,Sharon M Setzer,Julia Swindells

By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection presents the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. These memoirs also provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040247806

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Pretty from the Back

By: Sharon A. White

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Pretty from the Back

By: Sharon A. White

I wanted to write poetry to express my hidden fears, my love for family and friends, and to show me growing as a woman of color. My perspective of life has made my poetry joyful with laughter and with life disillusion to have a inner strength about love loss, love gain, love hurt and how to love each other opens the door for everyone to walk in enjoy.

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1491813008

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Political Woman

Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform

By: Sharon Hartman Strom

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Political Woman

Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform

By: Sharon Hartman Strom

Countering traditional narratives that place men at the centre of political thinking and history, this text tells the life story of Florence Hope Luscomb, a political activist who's life spanned nearly all of the 20th century.

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Temple University Press

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1566398193

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Abington

By: Sharon Orcutt Peters

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Abington

By: Sharon Orcutt Peters

Throughout Abington's history, its central location between Boston and Plymouth has been a vantage point that has been reflected in both work and play. It is Abington that provided the white-oak planks for the USS Constitution, and the town's Island Grove Park had national significance during the abolitionist movement. Abington was founded and built around the mills and then grew with the times to become a focal point for the thriving shoe industry. Many wealthy industrialists and capitalists have left their mark with brick and mortar. Their mansions still line the streets, and their lives shaped Abington forever. Abington presents an illustrated portrait of what it was like to live and work in the town during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It presents vivid images of the townsfolk, the shoe factories, and the old roads through Abington. The book includes images of John L. Sullivan, heavyweight boxing champion, and of the Buffum automobile, built on Centre Avenue. With photographs from the Abington Historical Commission, the Dyer Memorial Library, the Historical Society of Old Abington, and personal collections, Abington is sure to evoke memories of a bygone era.

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0738510289

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Affirmative Action

The Pros and Cons of Policy and Practice

By: Richard F. Tomasson,Faye J. Crosby,Sharon D. Herzberger

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Affirmative Action

The Pros and Cons of Policy and Practice

By: Richard F. Tomasson,Faye J. Crosby,Sharon D. Herzberger

Hailed at the time of its original publication as a thorough and balanced debate of one of America's most vexing political issues, Affirmative Action employs a pro and con format to provide a concise introduction to this divisive debate. In a new, substantive introduction, Richard F. Tomasson offers a short history of the affirmative action debate and addresses new developments since the book's original appearance. In Part One, authors Crosby and Herzberger draw on state and federal court decisions, federal decrees, and university practices to support affirmative action to counter racial and gender bias. In Part Two, Tomasson cites the same kinds of evidence to argue against affirmative action programs.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742502104

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Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography

By: Sharon Ouditt

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Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography

By: Sharon Ouditt

They also serve who only stand and wait' The idea of there being a 'women's writing' during the First World War is often dismissed. The war, the story goes, was a masculine domain, and as women did not fight, it is also assumed that they were excluded from a war experience. This bibliography challenges that view by listing and annotating hundreds of published books, articles, memoirs, diaries and letters written by women during the First World War. Included are: * Virginia Woolf * Katherine Mansfield * G.B Stern * Brenda Girvin * known and unknown autobiographers and diarists * writers of pro and anti-war propaganda * journal and magazine articles * literary, cultural and historical criticism

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Routledge

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1134946023

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Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part II vol 10

By: Sue McPherson,Sharon M Setzer,Julia Swindells

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Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part II vol 10

By: Sue McPherson,Sharon M Setzer,Julia Swindells

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Taylor & Francis

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104023948X

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Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job

10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki,Sharon L. Lechter

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Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job

10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki,Sharon L. Lechter

The tenth book in the series provides firsthand accounts of the author's startup companies, what he learned from his successes and failures, and other topics a reader needs to know in order to start a company and quickly develop it.

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Business Plus

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0759514534

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9780759514539

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Occupational Safety and Workplace Health

By: Sharon Clarke,Tahira M. Probst,Frank W. Guldenmund,Jonathan Passmore

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The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Occupational Safety and Workplace Health

By: Sharon Clarke,Tahira M. Probst,Frank W. Guldenmund,Jonathan Passmore

A Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology focusing on occupational safety and workplace health. The editors draw on their collective experience to present thematically structured material from leading thinkers and practitioners in the USA, Europe, and Asia Pacific Provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions that psychology can make toward the improvement of workplace safety and employee health Equips those who need it most with cutting-edge research on key topics including wellbeing, safety culture, safety leadership, stress, bullying, workplace health promotion and proactivity

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118978986

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Introduction to Health Care Management

By: Sharon B. Buchbinder,Nancy H. Shanks

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Introduction to Health Care Management

By: Sharon B. Buchbinder,Nancy H. Shanks

Introduction to Health Care Management is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management book that covers a wide variety of healthcare settings, from hospitals to nursing homes and clinics. Filled with examples to engage the reader’s imagination, the important issues in healthcare management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources, are all thoroughly covered. Guidelines and rubrics along with numerous case studies make this text both student-friendly and teacher friendly. It is the perfect resource for students of healthcare management, nursing, allied health, business administration, pharmacy, occupational therapy, public administration, and public health. Features: Chapters contributed by real experts using an active voice to grab the reader’s attention. Learning objectives and discussion questions in each chapter. Instructors’ resources online for each chapter, including PowerPoints, Test Bank, and Sample Syllabus. 15 case studies in a wide variety of settings, in an assortment of healthcare management topics. A case study guide, with rubrics for evaluation of student performance, enabling instructors at every level of experience to hit the ground running on that first day of class.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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076376275X

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9780763762759

Open Doors: Western New York African American Houses of Worship

By: Sharon R. Amos,Sharon Savannah

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Open Doors: Western New York African American Houses of Worship

By: Sharon R. Amos,Sharon Savannah

Open doors: Western New York African-American houses of worship features sixty histories of tabernacles, temples, churches, fellowships, ministries and a mosque. This volume does not purport to be a complete compendium of African American houses of worship in Western New Yorkl however it does provide a representative sampling of predominantly African American congregations and African American worship leaders of Baptist, Catholic, Church of God in Christ, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentacostal, non-denominational and other demoninational congregations in Buffalo, Lackawanna, Lockport, and Niagara Falls, New York." -- Introduction, p. 17.

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Lulu.com

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0578100266

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9780578100265

Sketch Me If You Can

By: Sharon Pape

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Sketch Me If You Can

By: Sharon Pape

She's a police sketch artist. He's a dead lawman. Together, they put a face on murder. When her uncle dies, police sketch artist Rory McCain get's a list of clients from his private detective business and a beautiful, old house with a ghostly inhabitant: Federal Marshal Ezekiel Drummond, aka Zeke. Having a ghost as a housemate is bad enough, but as Rory's drawn into one of her uncle's unsolved cases and faces a cold-blooded killer, she may need the marshal's supernatural help to stay alive.

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1101189010

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Nonviolent Revolutions

Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century

By: Sharon Erickson Nepstad

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Nonviolent Revolutions

Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century

By: Sharon Erickson Nepstad

In the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed by the Chinese army. Months later, East German civilians rose up nonviolently, brought down the Berlin Wall, and dismantled their regime. Although both movements used tactics of civil resistance, their outcomes were different. Why? In Nonviolent Revolutions, Sharon Erickson Nepstad examines these and other uprisings in Panama, Chile, Kenya, and the Philippines. Taking a comparative approach that includes both successful and failed cases of nonviolent resistance, Nepstad analyzes the effects of movements' strategies along with the counter-strategies regimes developed to retain power. She shows that a significant influence on revolutionary outcomes is security force defections, and explores the reasons why soldiers defect or remain loyal and the conditions that increase the likelihood of mutiny. She then examines the impact of international sanctions, finding that they can at times harm movements by generating new allies for authoritarian leaders or by shifting the locus of power from local civil resisters to international actors. Nonviolent Revolutions offers essential insights into the challenges that civil resisters face and elucidates why some of these movements failed. With a recent surge of popular uprisings across the Middle East, this book provides a valuable new understanding of the dynamics and potency of civil resistance and nonviolent revolt.

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Oxford University Press

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0199778442

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Inheritance

How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes

By: Sharon Moalem

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Inheritance

How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes

By: Sharon Moalem

Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives. Inheritance Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. But Dr. Moalem's groundbreaking book shows us that the human genome is far more fluid and fascinating than your ninth grade biology teacher ever imagined. By bringing us to the bedside of his unique and complex patients, he masterfully demonstrates what rare genetic conditions can teach us all about our own health and well-being. In the brave new world we're rapidly rocketing into, genetic knowledge has become absolutely crucial. Inheritance provides an indispensable roadmap for this journey by teaching you: -Why you may have recovered from the psychological trauma caused by childhood bullying-but your genes may remain scarred for life. -How fructose is the sugar that makes fruits sweet-but if you have certain genes, consuming it can buy you a one-way trip to the coroner's office. -Why ingesting common painkillers is like dosing yourself repeatedly with morphine-if you have a certain set of genes. -How insurance companies legally use your genetic data to predict the risk of disability for you and your children-and how that impacts the coverage decisions they make for your family. -How to have the single most important conversation with your doctor-one that can save your life. And finally: -Why people with rare genetic conditions hold the keys to medical problems affecting millions. In this trailblazing book, Dr. Moalem employs his wide-ranging and entertaining interdisciplinary approach to science and medicine-- explaining how art, history, superheroes, sex workers, and sports stars all help us understand the impact of our lives on our genes, and our genes on our lives. Inheritance will profoundly alter how you view your genes, your health--and your life.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1455549452

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When Ivory Towers Were Black

A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities

By: Sharon Egretta Sutton

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When Ivory Towers Were Black

A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities

By: Sharon Egretta Sutton

This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University’s School of Architecture. At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from Columbia University. Its narrative begins with a protest movement to end Columbia’s authoritarian practices, and ends with an unsettling return to the status quo. Sharon Egretta Sutton, one of the students in question, follows two university units that led the movement toward emancipatory education: the Division of Planning and the Urban Center. She illustrates both units’ struggle to open the ivory tower to ethnic minority students and to involve those students in improving Harlem’s slum conditions. Along with Sutton’s personal perspective, the story is narrated through the oral histories of twenty-four fellow students who received an Ivy League education only to find the doors closing on their careers due to Nixon-era urban disinvestment policies.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823276139

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A Culinary History of Downeast Maine

By: Sharon L. Joyce

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A Culinary History of Downeast Maine

By: Sharon L. Joyce

Maine’s Downeast culinary history begins well before explorers arrived in the 1500s. Some of the food preparation and preservation techniques used by the Wabanakis and early colonists are still in use today. Lobster and other seafood from the Gulf of Maine and the area now known as Acadia National Park paved the way for a vibrant tourist food scene. The “rusticatorsâ€ like the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Astors, Vanderbilts and other wealthy families created a mixed environment of fashionable food trends and simple foods like fish chowder. Locals like the 40 Hayseeders used food as a statement to make fun of the “summer people.â€ Author Sharon Joyce details the rich and delicious history of food in Downeast Maine.

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1439667403

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Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization

By: Sharon Wesoky

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Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization

By: Sharon Wesoky

Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also places this emergence in the context of theories of social movements, civil society and globalization.

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Routledge

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1136711554

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Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston

A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work

By: Sharon Lynette Jones

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Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston

A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work

By: Sharon Lynette Jones

Zora Neale Hurston, one the first great African-American novelists, was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance and an inspiration for future generations of writers. Widely studied in high school literature courses, her novels are admired for their depiction of southern African-American culture and their strong female characters." "Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston is a reliable and up-to-date resource for high school and college-level students, providing information on Hurston's life and work. This new volume covers all her writings, including her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, her landmark works of folklore and anthropology, and her shorter works, such as "The Gilded Six-Bits." Detailed entries on Hurston's life and related people, places, and topics round out this comprehensive guide."--BOOK JACKET.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816068852

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Struggle and Strength

Eight Ordinary Women with Lives Most Unusual

By: Sharon A. Kennedy

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Struggle and Strength

Eight Ordinary Women with Lives Most Unusual

By: Sharon A. Kennedy

The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary." -- Pearl Buck From Motown to moo towns to Menominee and Mormon country, Struggle and Strength: Eight Ordinary Women with Lives Most Unusual explores universal themes that define the American experience. Author Sharon Kennedy has spent a lifetime seeking out colorful characters in unexpected places. Here she focuses on eight remarkable women who have experienced unimaginable tragedy, struggle, and ultimately their own form of reconciliation. They represent generations of Americans and reveal profound truths about race, family, class, immigration -- and what it means to live life to the fullest in the face of adversity. Kennedy deftly weaves the profiles of these women with her own personal reflections on why their stories resonate with her. She shines a spotlight on the many ways universal truths are lived throughout ordinary lives. The profiled women in these pages are truly extraordinary -- and ordinary -- in their own particular ways. Their lives speak of resilience, relationships, and overcoming hardships. It is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit and the indomitable American spirit.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627876669

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9781627876667

The Shadow of Eternity

Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne

By: Sharon C. Seelig

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The Shadow of Eternity

Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne

By: Sharon C. Seelig

The poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne represents "an attempt to shape their lives and verse around the fact of divine presence and influence," writes Sharon Seelig. The relationship between belief and expression in these three metaphysical poets is the subject of this deeply perceptive study. Each of these poets held to some extent the notion of dual reality, of the world as indicative of a higher reality, but their responses to this tradition vary greatly—from the ongoing struggle between God and the poet of The Temple, which finally transforms the materials of everyday life and worship; to the more difficult unity of Silex Scintillans, with its tension between illumination and resignation; to the ecstatic proclamations of Thomas Traherne, whose sense of divine reality at first seems so strong as to destroy the characteristic metaphysical tension between this world and the next. Seelig's study proceeds from individual poems to the whole work, exploring the relation of cosmology and religious experience to poetic form.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813189500

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9780813189505

Storytelling Legacy

Everyone Has Stories--What Are Yours?

By: Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

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Storytelling Legacy

Everyone Has Stories--What Are Yours?

By: Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

A compelling life journey, told in a mosaic of stories, from one of the leaders of the Adult Children of Alcoholics movement. Communication is more than an exchange of information. Words can inspire, teach important lessons, and woven together offer a legacy to those that we love for generations to come. Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse, who has brought hope and healing to millions of people through her work as a family therapist, co-founder of the National Association of Children of Alcoholics, acclaimed author, and conference presenter invites readers to join her as she recounts her remarkable life. Included are tales of celebrity, culture, humor, history, questions, relationships, surprises, spirituality, traditions, and travels. She then invites readers to then go deep within, to realize the wonder of their own life experiences, and to craft their own legacy of stories. Everyone has a story . . . what is yours?

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Simon and Schuster

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0757324355

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9780757324352

Best There Ever Was

Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century

By: Sharon B. Smith

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Best There Ever Was

Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century

By: Sharon B. Smith

His winning percentage was well above Jordan’s shooting average or Woods’s domination of golf tournaments. And he sold products and drew spectators like no one had ever done. He was hands-down the most famous athlete in America’s most popular spectator sport, and exactly one hundred years ago you would have been hard pressed to find anybody in the country who didn’t know his name. He was Dan Patch, and he was a racehorse. At the turn of the last century, harness racing drew larger crowds and offered bigger paychecks than any other sport. Its stars were household names, and Dan Patch was both the most celebrated and the richest. As successful as he was on the track, Dan Patch was also America’s first “marketing machine”: the horse who could sell cigars, washing machines, stoves, automobiles, and animal feed, just by the presence of his name and photograph. The Best There Ever Was examines the evolution of sports marketing through the lives of Dan Patch and the three men who owned him: an Indiana breeder, Dan Messner; M. E. Sturgis, who sold the horse for $20,000 (a fortune in those days) and spent the rest of his life trying to buy him back; and Marion W. Savage of Minneapolis, whose entrepreneurial skills presaged today’s sports marketing geniuses. Any athlete who can draw a 90,000-person crowd, offer up world records, and then sell a coal stove with his name on it may well be the best by anybody’s standards. A fun and fascinating read for sports lovers.

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Simon and Schuster

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162087444X

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9781620874448

Huxford's Old Book Value Guide

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

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Huxford's Old Book Value Guide

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

This totally new fourth edition is intended to be a companion volume. Over 25,000 listings are included with current values. More than just a price guide, you'll also find scores of buyers listed by the type of subject matter they are looking for, so it's a selling guide as well.

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0891455035

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9780891455035

Celtic Myth and Religion

A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs

By: Sharon Paice MacLeod

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Celtic Myth and Religion

A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs

By: Sharon Paice MacLeod

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Celtic mythology and religion, encompassing numerous aspects of ritual and belief. Topics include the presence of the Celtic Otherworld and its inhabitants, cosmology and sacred cycles, wisdom texts, mythological symbolism, folklore and legends, and an appreciation of the natural world. Evidence is drawn from the archaeology of sacred sites, ethnographic accounts of the ancient Celts and their beliefs, medieval manuscripts, poetic and visionary literature, and early modern accounts of folk healers and seers. New translations of poems, prayers, inscriptions and songs from the early period (Gaulish, Old Irish and Middle Welsh) as well as the folklore tradition (Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Manx) complement the text. Information of this kind has never before been collected as a compendium of the indigenous wisdom of the Celtic-speaking peoples, whose traditions have endured in various forms for almost three thousand years.

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McFarland

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0786487038

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9780786487035

Liberalism with Honor

By: Sharon R. Krause

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Liberalism with Honor

By: Sharon R. Krause

Why do men and women sometimes risk everything to defend their liberties? What motivates principled opposition to the abuse of power? In Liberalism with Honor, Sharon Krause explores honor as a motive for risky and difficult forms of political action. She shows the sense of honor to be an important source of such action and a spring of individual agency more generally. Krause traces the genealogy of honor, including its ties to conscientious objection and civil disobedience, beginning in old-regime France and culminating in the American civil rights movement. She examines the dangers intrinsic to honor and the tensions between honor and modern democracy, but demonstrates that the sense of honor has supported political agency in the United States from the founders to democratic reformers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor continues to hold interest and importance today because it combines self-concern and personal ambition with principled higher purposes, and so challenges the disabling dichotomy between self-interest and self-sacrifice that currently pervades both political theory and American public life.

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Harvard University Press

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0674007565

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9780674007567

Conshohocken in Vintage Postcards

By: Phillip Welsh,Sharon Welsh

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Conshohocken in Vintage Postcards

By: Phillip Welsh,Sharon Welsh

The Lenni Lenape called this place gueno-sheiki-hacki-ing, meaning "beautiful or peaceful valley." Incorporated in 1850, Conshohocken's colorful history had its beginnings as Native American territory prior to 1684, when William Penn purchased the land from the Tammany people. Soon Quakers purchased land, built homes, and opened mills. Conshohocken begins with tales and images of early history and continues with rare views that capture some of the majestic mansions built by the founding fathers, the tree-lined avenues with trolleys and horse-drawn carriages, the firehouses and train station and schools, and the many families and faces that have brought Conshohocken to life.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738509876

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9780738509877

Schroeder's Collectible Toys

Antique to Modern Guide

By: Collector Books,Sharon Huxford

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Schroeder's Collectible Toys

Antique to Modern Guide

By: Collector Books,Sharon Huxford

Toys are the happening collectible for the '90s. To meet the market explosion, this monumental value guide devoted entirely to toys has been created. Providing identification and values for more than 20,000 collectible toys of all kinds, this easy-to-use book puts buyers in touch with sellers, magazines, clubs, and newsletters that cover specific fields of collector interest.

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0891456619

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9780891456612

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