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The Sanctity of Rural Life

Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia

By: Shelley Baranowski

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The Sanctity of Rural Life

Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia

By: Shelley Baranowski

In this ground-breaking study, Shelley Baranowski not only explores how and why church-going Protestants in eastern Prussia turned to Nazism in large numbers, but also shows that the rural elite and the church propagated a myth of the stability, the wholesomeness, and the class-harmony--in short, the "sanctity"--of rural life, a myth that was a key component of Nazi propaganda that helped secure support for the Third Reich in rural areas. Of great interest to historians and students of the period as well as anyone interested in how a fringe radical movement gained wide popular support.

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Oxford University Press

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0195361660

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9780195361667

The Chicago World's Fair Mystery Collection

Secrets of Sloane House, Deception on Sable Hill, and Whispers in the Reading Room

By: Shelley Gray

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The Chicago World's Fair Mystery Collection

Secrets of Sloane House, Deception on Sable Hill, and Whispers in the Reading Room

By: Shelley Gray

Shelley Shepard Gray’s Chicago World’s Fair Mystery Series is now available as an e-collection! Secrets of Sloane House Against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Fair, a young woman finds employment with an illustrious Chicago family—a family who may guard the secret of her sister’s disappearance. Deception on Sable Hill The World’s Fair has introduced many new ideas to Chicago society—but can two individuals from very different backgrounds find love together? Whispers in the Reading Room Lydia’s job at the library is her world—until a mysterious patron catches her eye . . . and perhaps her heart.

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Zondervan

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0718076621

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9780718076627

3 Books To Know: Orientalism

By: Mary Shelley,Jack london,H. G. Wells

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3 Books To Know: Orientalism

By: Mary Shelley,Jack london,H. G. Wells

Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is: Orientalism. - The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. - Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert. - Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy.The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee", in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage during the 3rd century BCE, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War. Flaubert's main source was Book I of Polybius's Histories. The novel jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of pre-Imperial Rome's conflict with the North African Phoenician colony of Carthage. Hadji Murat is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy from 1896 to 1904 and published posthumously in 1912 (though not in full until 1917). The protagonist is Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.

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Tacet Books

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8577773795

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9788577773794

Imagining the Future of Climate Change

World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism

By: Shelley Streeby

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Imagining the Future of Climate Change

World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism

By: Shelley Streeby

#NoDAPL : native American and indigenous science, fiction, and futurisms -- Climate refugees in the greenhouse world : archiving global warming with Octavia E. Butler -- Climate change as a world problem : shaping change in the wake of disaster

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168

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Univ of California Press

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0520294440

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9780520294448

Foucault and the Government of Disability

By: Shelley Lynn Tremain

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Foucault and the Government of Disability

By: Shelley Lynn Tremain

Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault’s call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating. The book’s contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed practices and ideas surrounding disability, including rehabilitation, community care, impairment, normality and abnormality, inclusion, prevention, accommodation, and special education. In this revised and expanded edition, four new essays extend and elaborate the lines of inquiry by problematizing (to use Foucault’s term) the epistemological, political, and ethical character of the supercrip, the racialized war on autism, the performativity of intellectual disability, and the potent mixture of neoliberalism and biopolitics in the context of physician-assisted suicide. “[A]n important, prescient, and necessary contribution...a kind of litmus test for the efficacy of Foucault’s concepts in the study of disability, concepts that lead to a refusal of the biological essentialism implied in the disability/impairment binary.” —Foucault Studies “Tremain has done an exceptional job at organizing and procuring important, rigorously argued, and entertaining essays.... This book should be a mandatory read for anyone interested in contemporary philosophical debates surrounding the experience of disability." —Essays in Philosophy “A beautiful exploration of how Foucault’s analytics of power and genealogies of discursive knowledges can open up new avenues for thinking critically about phenomena that many of us take to be inevitable and thus new ways of resisting and possibly at times redirecting the forces that shape our lives. Every scholar, every person with an interest in Foucault or in political theory generally, needs to read this book.” —Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond

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University of Michigan Press

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0472121278

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9780472121274

Deception on Sable Hill

By: Shelley Gray

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Deception on Sable Hill

By: Shelley Gray

A high-stakes mystery of romance and intrigue that takes place in the Gilded Age of Chicago. It’s mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago’s wealthiest families. Fearing the loss of her reputation, Eloisa confided in only one friend. That is, until she meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high-society ball. Sean is on the fringes of the Chicago elite. Born into a poor Irish family, becoming a policeman was his best chance to ensure security. Despite social boundaries, he is enamored with Eloisa Carstairs. Sean will do anything to keep her safe—even if he can never earn her affections. Eloisa longs to feel normal again, but a killer is on the loose. In the last month, three debutants have been accosted by an assailant wielding a knife, and Eloisa fears for her safety at every event she attends. As the danger in the city increases, and as the romance between Eloisa and Sean blossoms, they both realize they want to be seen as more than how the world views them. But will they catch the killer before all their hopes come crashing down? “Shelley Gray writes a well-paced story full of historical detail that will invite you into the romance, the glamour . . . and the mystery surrounding the Chicago World’s Fair.” —Colleen Coble, USA Today bestselling author of Rosemary Cottage and the Hope Beach series The Chicago World Fair Mystery series Book 1—Secrets of Sloane House Book 2—Deception on Sable Hill Book 3—Whispers in the Reading Room Book length: 86,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs

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Zondervan

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0310338549

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9780310338543

Dragon Power Games

The Complete Dragon Isles Series

By: Shelley Munro

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Dragon Power Games

The Complete Dragon Isles Series

By: Shelley Munro

The Complete Dragon Isles series. If you can’t take the heat, avoid dragons. Liza, a single mother and aspiring writer, glimpses the unbelievable during a research trip, and when she awakens after the resulting car crash, she isn’t in England any longer. Thus starts the Dragon Isles series… If you enjoy fake marriage romances, curvy heroines, fire-breathing dragons, aerial battles, dungeons, castles, mystery, mayhem, magic, and skullduggery, you will like this series. Contains four books: Liza Cherry Rena Sasha

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Shelley Munro

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1991063067

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9781991063069

Garden Plots

The Politics and Poetics of Gardens

By: Shelley Saguaro

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Garden Plots

The Politics and Poetics of Gardens

By: Shelley Saguaro

Focusing on a range of twentieth-century texts and including relevant twenty-first century writing, Garden Plots explores the ways in which gardens in fiction represent more than just a familiar theme. Bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues, gardens, like literary forms, are subject to transformations. The term 'plots' is a keyword in this approach. It refers to garden plots, literary plots, and more generally, the plotting that is political, polemical, and subversive. Each of the six chapters includes four texts that are familiar and representative. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Carol Shields, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, and Philip K. Dick.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754637530

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9780754637530

The Making of Middlebrow Culture

By: Joan Shelley Rubin

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The Making of Middlebrow Culture

By: Joan Shelley Rubin

Examines the growth of book clubs, reading groups, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century to chronicle the rise of middlebrow culture

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807843547

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9780807843543

John Tracey Ellis

An American Church Reformer

By: Thomas J. Shelley

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John Tracey Ellis

An American Church Reformer

By: Thomas J. Shelley

For several decades prior to his death in October1992, Monsignor John Tracy Ellis was the most prominent historian of American Catholicism. His bibliography lists 395 published works, including seventeen books, most famously, American Catholics and the Intellectual Life, a scathing indictment of the mediocrity of Catholic higher education and a clarion call for American Catholics to make a greater contribution to American intellectual life. Ellis’s ecumenically-minded scholarship led to his election in 1969 as the President of both the American Catholic Historical Association and the predominantly Protestant American Society of Church History. As a professor at the Catholic University of America, Ellis trained numerous graduate students, who made their own contributions to American Catholic history, and he also furthered the careers of several talented young church historians. Especially in his later years, during the polarized atmosphere that followed Vatican II, Ellis became an outspoken but balanced advocate of reform in the Church, urging greater transparency and honesty, collegiality on the diocesan level, a role for the laity in the selection of bishops, reassessment of church teaching on birth control, decentralization to provide an enhanced role for the local churches, and an eloquent defense of religious freedom and the American Catholic commitment to separation of church and state. His fellow church historian, Jay P. Dolan, remarked that Ellis “used history as an instrument to promote changes he believed necessary for American Catholicism. . . .No other historian of American Catholicism matched Ellis in this regard.”

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CUA Press

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081323705X

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9780813237053

Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York

1841-2003

By: Thomas J. Shelley

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Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York

1841-2003

By: Thomas J. Shelley

Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university. It places the development of Fordham within the context of the massive expansion of Catholic higher education that took place in the United States in the twentieth century. This was reflected at Fordham in its transformation from a local commuter college to a predominantly residential institution that now attracts students from 48 states and 65 foreign countries to its three undergraduate schools and seven graduate and professional schools with an enrollment of more than 15,000 students. This is honest history that gives due credit to Fordham for its many academic achievements, but it also recognizes that Fordham shared the shortcomings of many Catholic colleges in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There was an ongoing struggle between Jesuit faculty who wished to adhere closely to the traditional Jesuit ratio studiorum and those who recognized the need for Fordham to modernize its curriculum to meet the demands of the regional accrediting agencies. In recent decades, like virtually all American Catholic universities and colleges, the ownership of Fordham has been transferred from the Society of Jesus to a predominantly lay board of trustees. At the same time, the sharp decline in the number of Jesuit administrators and faculty has intensified the challenge of offering a first-rate education while maintaining Fordham’s Catholic and Jesuit identity. June 2016 is the 175th anniversary of the founding of Fordham University, and this comprehensive history of a beloved and renowned New York City institution of higher learning will help contribute to celebrating this momentous occasion.

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Fordham University Press

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0823271536

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9780823271535

Frankenstein

The 1818 Edition with Related Texts

By: Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein

The 1818 Edition with Related Texts

By: Mary Shelley

In this new edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, David Wootton's Introduction gives the reader both a clear and gripping account of the biographical circumstances that led to the novel’s writing and the most striking and original interpretations of its central themes and of the intellectual and cultural influences on them. Offering a new account of the complex history of its composition, and drawing upon his deep knowledge of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific debates, Wootton reveals the ways in which the origins of Shelley’s novel are inextricably linked to conceptions of the origins of life itself. We have here a transformative reading of one of the world’s best-known stories." —Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford

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Hackett Publishing

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162466914X

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Book's by Shelley Butler

The Sanctity of Rural Life

The Sanctity of Rural Life

The Chicago World's Fair Mystery Collection

The Chicago World's Fair Mystery Collection

3 Books To Know: Orientalism

3 Books To Know: Orientalism

Imagining the Future of Climate Change

Imagining the Future of Climate Change

Foucault and the Government of Disability

Foucault and the Government of Disability

Deception on Sable Hill

Deception on Sable Hill

Dragon Power Games

Dragon Power Games

Garden Plots

Garden Plots

The Making of Middlebrow Culture

The Making of Middlebrow Culture

John Tracey Ellis

John Tracey Ellis

Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York

Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

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