Stephanie Fitzgerald's Books

A Flaw in the Blood

A Novel

By: Stephanie Barron

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The acclaimed author of the bestselling Jane Austen mysteries brings rich historical immediacy to an enthralling new suspense novel centered around Queen Victoria’s troubled court…and a secret so dangerous, it could topple thrones. Windsor Castle, 1861. For the second time in over twenty years, Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald has been summoned by the Queen. The first time, he’d been a zealous young legal clerk, investigating what appeared to be a murderous conspiracy against her. Now he is a distinguished gentleman at the top of his profession. And the Queen is a woman in the grip of fear. For on this chilly night, her beloved husband, Prince Albert, lies dying. With her future clouded by grief, Fitzgerald can’t help but notice the Queen is curiously preoccupied with the past. Yet why, and how he can help, is unclear. His bewilderment deepens when the royal coach is violently overturned, nearly killing him and his brilliant young ward, Dr. Georgiana Armistead, niece of the late Dr. Snow, a famed physician who’d attended none other than Her Majesty. Fitzgerald is sure of one thing: the Queen’s carriage was not attacked at random—it was a carefully chosen target. But was it because he rode in it? Fitzgerald won’t risk dying in order to find out. He’ll leave London and take Georgiana with him—if they can get out alive. For soon the pair find themselves hunted. Little do they know they each carry within their past hidden clues to a devastating royal secret…one they must untangle if they are to survive. From the streets of London to the lush hills of Cannes, from the slums of St. Giles to the gilded halls of Windsor Castle, A Flaw in the Blood delivers a fascinating tale of pursuit, and the artful blend of period detail and electrifying intrigue that only the remarkable Stephanie Barron can devise.

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Bantam

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055390468X

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9780553904680

Rhythm Man

Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America

By: Stephanie Stein Crease

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Rhythm Man

Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America

By: Stephanie Stein Crease

Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America presents the first full-length biography of the Swing Era icon, restoring this pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader's primacy alongside other 20th century jazz giants.

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Oxford University Press

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0190055693

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9780190055691

The Reading Turn-Around

A Five-Part Framework for Differentiated Instruction (Grades 2-5)

By: Stephanie Jones,Lane W. Clarke,Grace Enriquez

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The Reading Turn-Around

A Five-Part Framework for Differentiated Instruction (Grades 2-5)

By: Stephanie Jones,Lane W. Clarke,Grace Enriquez

This book demonstrates a five-part framework for teachers, reading specialists, and literacy coaches who want to help their least engaged students become powerful readers. Merging theory and practice, the guide offers successful strategies to reach your “struggling” learners. The authors show how teachers can “turn-around” their instructional practice, beginning with reading materials, lessons, and activities matching their students’ interests. Chapters include self-check exercises that will help teachers analyze their reading instruction, as well as specific advice for working with English Language Learners. Book Features: Effective methods for differentiating reading instruction in Grades 2–5.Real-life classroom vignettes and examples of student work.Helpful teacher self-evaluation exercises.Strategies to use with English Language Learners.And much more! “This is a masterwork that is simultaneously practical and groundbreaking. . . . The model these authors use to familiarize teachers with the essential elements of reading practice is clear and beautifully illustrated with stories of children you’ll swear you know.” —From the Foreword by Ellin Oliver Keene, national staff developer “This deeply intelligent and compassionate book provides teachers with detailed classroom scenarios and dozens of teaching tools for engaging all readers. The authors demonstrate how to help all students become motivated and powerful meaning-makers of a wide variety of texts.” —Katherine Bomer, Literacy Consultant, K–12

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Teachers College Press

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0807778354

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9780807778357

The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book

An Interactive Guide to Life-Changing Books

By: Logan Smalley,Stephanie Kent

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The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book

An Interactive Guide to Life-Changing Books

By: Logan Smalley,Stephanie Kent

For fans of My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere: a quirky and entertaining interactive guide to reading, featuring voicemails, literary Easter eggs, checklists, and more, from the creators of the popular multimedia project. The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is an interactive illustrated homage to the beautiful ways in which books bring meaning to our lives and how our lives bring meaning to books. Carefully crafted in the style of a retro telephone directory, this guide offers you a variety of unique ways to connect with readers, writers, bookshops, and life-changing stories. In it, you’ll discover... -Heartfelt, anonymous voicemail messages and transcripts from real-life readers sharing unforgettable stories about their most beloved books. You’ll hear how a mother and daughter formed a bond over their love for Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, or how a reader finally felt represented after reading Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, or how two friends performed Mary Oliver’s Thirst to a grove of trees, or how Anne Frank inspired a young writer to continue journaling. -Hidden references inside fictional literary adverts like Ahab’s Whale Tours and Miss Ophelia’s Psychic Readings, and real-life literary landmarks like Maya Angelou City Park and the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum. -Lists of bookstores across the USA, state by state, plus interviews with the book lovers who run them. -Various invitations to become a part of this book by calling and leaving a bookish voicemail of your own. -And more! Quirky, nostalgic, and full of heart, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is a love letter to the stories that change us, connect us, and make us human.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982140593

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9781982140595

The Language of Leadership Narratives

A Social Practice Perspective

By: Jonathan Clifton,Stephanie Schnurr,Dorien Van De Mieroop

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The Language of Leadership Narratives

A Social Practice Perspective

By: Jonathan Clifton,Stephanie Schnurr,Dorien Van De Mieroop

Fascination with leadership and its relation to world events seems to be ever growing, and leadership narratives are a key element through which leader identities are constructed. Contemporary research into leadership tends to recycle the same old myths of the heroic white male leader. By looking at stories told by leaders in Australasia, Asia, North America, the Middle East, and Africa, this book explores different aspects of leadership narratives. The Language of Leadership Narratives brings linguistics and leadership research together, showcasing different analytical and methodological approaches and enabling a more critical approach. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership research, from dark leadership to gendered leadership. This book introduces the advantages of analysing leadership narratives as social practice and discusses some of the main themes in contemporary leadership research. This volume is key reading for scholars and students of linguistics, communication studies, and business studies, and for those working in business and intercultural communication in the workplace.

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Routledge

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1351041800

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Speaking like a Spanish Cow: Cultural Errors in Translation

By: Clíona Schwerter, Stephanie Ní Ríordáin

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Speaking like a Spanish Cow: Cultural Errors in Translation

By: Clíona Schwerter, Stephanie Ní Ríordáin

What is a cultural error? What causes it? What are the consequences of such an error? This volume enables the reader to identify cultural errors and to understand how they are produced. Sometimes they come about because of the gap between the source culture and the target culture, on other occasions they are the result of the cultural inadequacies of the translator, or perhaps the ambiguity arises because of errors in the reception of the translated text. The meta-translational problem of the cultural error is explored in great detail in this book. The authors address the fundamental theoretical issues that underpin the term. The essays examine a variety of topics ranging from the deliberate political manipulation of cultural sources in Russia to the colonial translations at the heart of Edward FitzGerald’s famous translation The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Adopting a resolutely transdisciplinary approach, the seventeen contributors to this volume come from a variety of academic backgrounds in music, art, literature, and linguistics. They provide an innovative reading of a key term in translation studies today.

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3838212568

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Jane and the Barque of Frailty

By: Stephanie Barron

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Jane and the Barque of Frailty

By: Stephanie Barron

In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out of the ton, lest she—and her country—suffer a dastardly demise.… On the heels of completing Sense and Sensibility, Jane heads to Sloane Street for a monthlong visit with her brother Henry and his wife, Eliza. Hobnobbing with the Fashionable Great at the height of the Season, Jane is well aware of their secrets and peccadilloes. But even she is surprised when the intimate correspondence between a Russian princess and a prominent Tory minister is published in the papers for all to see. More shocking, the disgraced beauty is soon found with her throat slit on Lord Castlereagh’s very doorstep. Everyone who’s anyone in high society is certain the spurned princess committed the violence upon herself. But Jane is unconvinced. Nor does she believe the minister guilty of so grisly and public a crime. Jane, however, is willing to let someone else investigate—until a quirk of fate thrusts her and Eliza into the heart of the case…as prime suspects! Striking a bargain with the authorities, Jane secures seven days to save herself and Eliza from hanging. But as her quest to unmask a killer takes her from the halls of government to the drawing rooms of London’s most celebrated courtesan, only one thing is sure: her failure will not only cut short her life. It could lead to England’s downfall. A compulsively readable, uncommonly elegant novel of historical suspense, Jane and the Barque of Frailty once again proves Jane Austen a sleuth to be reckoned with.

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Bantam

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0307486524

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9780307486523

10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes

By: Stephanie Greenwood

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10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes

By: Stephanie Greenwood

An accessible volume of writings by education, economy, and environmental experts poses arguments for the value and necessity of taxes, sharing progressive opinions about how the tax code can be transformed into a tool for social justice. Original.

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New Press, The

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1595581618

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9781595581617

The Book of Queens

Legendary Leaders, Fierce Females, and Wonder Women Who Ruled the World

By: Stephanie Drimmer

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The Book of Queens

Legendary Leaders, Fierce Females, and Wonder Women Who Ruled the World

By: Stephanie Drimmer

They're queens wielding scepters and sitting on thrones, they're revolutionaries on the front lines, they're presidents and prime ministers leading their nations, or they're CEOs, scientists, sports stars, artists, and others who are changing the world. Welcome to The Book of Queens, where being a regal royal doesn't just mean wearing a crown." -- back cover.

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National Geographic Children's Books

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1426335350

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9781426335358

Literature and the Internet

A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars

By: Stephanie Browner,Stephen Pulsford,Richard Sears

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Literature and the Internet

A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars

By: Stephanie Browner,Stephen Pulsford,Richard Sears

Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars is the only Internet guide written for those who love and study literature. The book begins with a practical introduction for readers who want help finding, navigating, and using literary sites. Later chapters focus on educational issues such as plagiarism, citation, website evaluation, the use of Internet sites in literature courses, as well as the technical, scholarly and professional issues raised by the advent of the Internet. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on the cultural implications of the Internet for literary studies. In addition, the book offers an annotated bibliography of Internet sources (with URLs) that introduces readers to hundreds of sites which they can explore on their own. Readers need not have a B.A. or even a major in English, and no special training in computer technology and software is necessary. The book explains both the basics of the Internet and sophisticated scholarly issues in simple language. Ultimately, each Internet user must choose his or her own path through the Internet, but with Literature and the Internet in hand, surfing the net for things literary will be more efficient and satisfying and much less confusing and overwhelming.

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Routledge

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1317707656

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9781317707653

Health Workforce Governance

Improved Access, Good Regulatory Practice, Safer Patients

By: Stephanie D. Short

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Health Workforce Governance

Improved Access, Good Regulatory Practice, Safer Patients

By: Stephanie D. Short

With increasing recognition of the international market in health professionals and the impact of globalism on regulation, the governance of the health workforce is moving towards greater public engagement and increased transparency. This book discusses the challenges posed by these processes such as improved access to health services and how structures can be reformed so that good practice is upheld and quality of service and patient safety are ensured. With contributions from regulators, academics, lawyers and health professionals, this book presents arguments from multiple perspectives. Of global relevance, it brings together concerns about access, quality and safety within the framework of the health workforce governance continuum and will be of interest to policy makers, regulators, health professionals, academics legal practitioners, insurers, students and researchers.

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1317123255

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9781317123255

The Power to Name

A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa

By: Stephanie Newell

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The Power to Name

A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa

By: Stephanie Newell

Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press as a vehicle to host public debates rather than simply as an organ to disseminate news or editorial ideology. Literate locals responded with great zeal, and in increasing numbers as the twentieth century progressed, they sent in letters, articles, fiction, and poetry for publication in English- and African-language newspapers. The Power to Name offers a rich cultural history of this phenomenon, examining the wide array of anonymous and pseudonymous writing practices to be found in African-owned newspapers between the 1880s and the 1940s, and the rise of celebrity journalism in the period of anticolonial nationalism. Stephanie Newell has produced an account of colonial West Africa that skillfully shows the ways in which colonized subjects used pseudonyms and anonymity to alter and play with colonial power and constructions of African identity.

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Ohio University Press

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0821444492

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9780821444498

Forever in Darkness (Order of the Blade)

By: Stephanie Rowe

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Forever in Darkness (Order of the Blade)

By: Stephanie Rowe

He will do whatever it takes to defeat his family's curse…including save the woman meant to destroy him. ★★★★★ "Exciting, fun, romantic and passionate personified!!!!!" Joyce (Amazon Review) Cursed to die for a choice his ancestor made, Ian Fitzgerald has spent six hundred years fighting the curse and trying to restore honor to his family's name. But his time to die has finally come, and his doom is in the guise of the one woman he cannot walk away from: his soul mate. Or is she really who she seems? Light and darkness, shadows and death, reality and illusions swirl around Ian as the curse hauls him relentlessly toward his own demise. Desperate to survive, Ian fights ruthlessly to uncover the truth about the mysterious, beautiful woman who has died in his arms already…twice. Can she save him, or will she be the final key to the destruction of everything he has fought to protect? ***FOREVER IN DARKNESS is a short novella which ends on a cliffhanger. It sets up critical events for the next two Order of the Blade books.*** ★★★★★ "This one was super intense. I'm giddy with excitement." Patricia (Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Riveting." Patricia (Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "This book has me on the edge of my seat." Amazon Review ★★★★★ "Loved this whole series, the writing, the characters, the story line all were excellent." (Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "I think Ian might be my favorite Order of the Blade warrior because we only know his as being kind of broken up until this point. I loved this little snippet into him and his story. Made me even more eager for his full story to come out!" ~ LittleTex22 (Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Yes I'm hooked! Excellent snippet of Ian's story! I'm on to the next book!! Super excited. This series has caused me to have a serious read-a-thon! 👍🏽" ~Mariah (Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "This book has me on the edge of my seat waiting for the next to come out. I HAVE to find out what happens next. I love the whole series. But this is a teaser that makes it hard to wait. Stephanie Rowe is genius." ~Amazon Review ★★★★★ "I am totally addicted to this author and this series. I think I read every book in this series in a week. They were awesome!!! These books left me hungry for more!!!" ~ cccmmmsss (Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "I have read very few novellas that left me as satisfied as this one." ~H Collins (Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "I knew Ian wouldn't be left out! This is going to be a fascinating story when it fully unfolds. You gotta read it before you read book 5." ~ Keri D (Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "This series is amazing. A really really good read! I have read the whole series it keeps you hanging, begging for more." ~SuzAnna (Amazon Review) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe is the 2018 winner of the RITA® Award for Best Paranormal Romance, as well as a five-time nominee. She is also a 2021 Vivian® Award nominee. For more information on Stephanie and her books, visit her on the web at www.stephanierowe.com.

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Authenticity Playground, LLC

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0985179279

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9780985179274

Order of the Blade Boxed Set (Books 1-4)

By: Stephanie Rowe

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Order of the Blade Boxed Set (Books 1-4)

By: Stephanie Rowe

Hailed by J.R. Ward as a "paranormal star," New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Rowe rivets readers with her thrilling stories set in the dangerous, sensual world of the Calydon warrior, where lust rules, honor thrives, and death looms over all. No warrior is safe from his own darkness, or from the woman destined to love...and destroy...him. ★★★★★ "READ IT, READ IT, READ this series. I am a lover of intriguing sexy characters, and this series has it in spades." ~Southern Vixen (Five-star Amazon Review) DARKNESS AWAKENED: A reclusive immortal warrior and a sassy, irreverent witch team up in a steamy, dangerous romance. Can two fated enemies overcome dangerous attraction to save those they love? DARKNESS SEDUCED: Can a warrior condemned to an eternity without love find salvation in the courageous, sexy woman fated to destroy him? DARKNESS SURRENDERED: Six hundred years ago, Elijah Ross was tortured into insanity and thrust into a mental hell that no living creature has ever survived…except him. Now, that ancient evil is back, and it is far more deadly. Elijah's only chance is Ana Matthews, whose passionate fire thrust hope and light into his blackened heart and fragmented mind. FOREVER IN DARKNESS: Cursed to die for a choice his ancestor made, Ian Fitzgerald has spent six hundred years fighting the curse and trying to restore honor to his family's name. But his time to die has finally come, and his doom is in the guise of the one woman he cannot walk away from: his soul mate. Or is she really who she seems? BIO: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe is the author of more than fifty novels, and she's a RITA® Award winner for Best Paranormal Romance, and a five-time nominee. As an award-winning author, Stephanie has been touching readers' hearts and keeping them spellbound for more than a decade with her dangerously sexy heroes who can be saved only by the one woman has won his heart. She writes contemporary romances, romantic suspense, cozy mysteries, and paranormal romances.

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1940968178

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9781940968179

Horace Between Freedom and Slavery

The First Book of Epistles

By: Stephanie McCarter

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Horace Between Freedom and Slavery

The First Book of Epistles

By: Stephanie McCarter

During the Roman transition from Republic to Empire in the first century B.C.E., the poet Horace found his own public success in the era of Emperor Augustus at odds with his desire for greater independence. In Horace between Freedom and Slavery, Stephanie McCarter offers new insights into Horace's complex presentation of freedom in the first book of his Epistles and connects it to his most enduring and celebrated moral exhortation, the golden mean. She argues that, although Horace commences the Epistles with an uncompromising insistence on freedom, he ultimately adopts a middle course. She shows how Horace explores in the poems the application of moderate freedom first to philosophy, then to friendship, poetry, and place. Rather than rejecting philosophical masters, Horace draws freely on them without swearing permanent allegiance to any—a model for compromise that allows him to enjoy poetic renown and friendships with the city's elite while maintaining a private sphere of freedom. This moderation and adaptability, McCarter contends, become the chief ethical lessons that Horace learns for himself and teaches to others. She reads Horace's reconfiguration of freedom as a political response to the transformations of the new imperial age.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299305740

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9780299305741

Why Vergil?

A Collection of Interpretations

By: Stephanie Quinn

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Why Vergil?

A Collection of Interpretations

By: Stephanie Quinn

An anthology of 43 classic essays and poems on the Roman poet. Quinn's position is that his work continues to be compelling and flexible enough to support a wide range of interpretations and perspectives. In addition to a bibliography, she provides a lengthy introduction and conclusion that tackle the question of the book's title, Why Vergil? Further, she juxtaposes the first few lines of the Aeneid in its original Latin with five translations, and includes a synopsis of it and a list of dates for quick reference. She has not indexed the volume.

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0865164185

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This Woman in Particular

Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr

By: Stephanie Kirkwood Walker

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This Woman in Particular

Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr

By: Stephanie Kirkwood Walker

What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits? “Biography,” says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, “is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusive in its purposes, biography displays an individual life, an existence patterned by conventions that have also shaped the reader’s experience.” In This Woman in Particular, Walker explores versions of Emily Carr’s life that have appeared over the last half-century. Walker contends that the biographical image of Emily Carr that emerges from an accumulation of biographies, films, plays and poetry as well as her own autobiographical writing establishes an elaborated cultural artefact — an “image” that is bound by its very nature to remain forever incomplete and always elusive. She demonstrates how changes in Carr’s biographical image parallel the maturing of Canadian biographical writing, reflecting attitudes toward women artists and the shifting balance between religion, secular attitudes and contemporary spirituality. And she concludes that biography plays a crucial role in all our lives in initiating and sustaining debate on vital personal and collective concerns.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554588146

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9781554588145

Adaptations

From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films

By: Stephanie Harrison

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From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films

By: Stephanie Harrison

An Eclectic Collection of Fiction That Inspired Film Memento, All About Eve, Rear Window, Rashomon, and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all well-known and much-loved movies, but what is perhaps a lesser-known fact is that all of them began their lives as short stories. Adaptations gathers together 35 pieces that have been the basis for films, many from giants of American literature (Hemingway, Fitzgerald) and many that have not been in print for decades (the stories that inspired Bringing Up Baby, Meet John Doe, and All About Eve). Categorized by genre, and featuring movies by master directors such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Frank Capra, and John Ford, as well as relative newcomers such as Chris Eyre and Christopher Nolan, Adaptations offers insight into the process of turning a short story into a screenplay, one that, when successful, doesn’t take drastic liberties with the text upon which it is based, but doesn’t mirror its source material too closely either. The stories and movies featured in Adaptations include: •Philip K. Dick’s “The Minority Report,” which became the 2002 blockbuster directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise •“The Harvey Pekar Name Story” by reclusive graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose life was the inspiration for American Splendor, winner of the 2003 Sundance Grand Jury Prize •Hagar Wilde’s “Bringing Up Baby,” the basis of the classic film Bringing Up Baby, anthologized here for the first time ever •“The Swimmer” by John Cheever, an example of a highly regarded story that many feared might prove unadaptable •The predecessor to the beloved holiday classic A Christmas Story, “Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Kid” by Jean Shepherd Whether you’re a fiction reader or a film buff, Adaptations is your behind-the-scenes look at the sometimes difficult, sometimes brilliantly successful process from the printed page to the big screen. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Crown Archetype

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0307510522

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9780307510525

The Boston Mob Guide

Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts

By: Beverly Ford,Stephanie Schorow

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The Boston Mob Guide

Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts

By: Beverly Ford,Stephanie Schorow

Explore the backrooms and seedy hangouts throughout the real story of Boston’s gangster past in this true crime history guide. The capture of notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history, yet the city’s criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Journalists Ford and Schorow reveal the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters like Charles “King” Solomon, the Angiulo brothers, Joseph “The Animal” Barboza, Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi and many more who carried out deadly hits and lucrative heists.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614233047

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True Grit

American Prints from 1900 to 1950

By: Stephanie Schrader, James Glisson, Alexander Nemerov

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True Grit

American Prints from 1900 to 1950

By: Stephanie Schrader, James Glisson, Alexander Nemerov

An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic, and gritty modern city. In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive movement, these artists turned to making prints, which were relatively inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute. For their subject matter, the artists mined the bustling activity and stark realities of the urban centers in which they lived and worked. Their prints feature sublime towering skyscrapers and stifling city streets, jazzy dance halls and bleak tenement interiors—intimate and anonymous everyday scenes that addressed modern life in America. True Grit examines a rich selection of prints by well-known figures like George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Joseph Pennell, and John Sloan as well as lesser-known artists such as Ida Abelman, Peggy Bacon, Miguel Covarrubias, and Mabel Dwight. Written by three scholars of printmaking and American art, the essays present nuanced discussions of gender, class, literature, and politics, contextualizing the prints in the rapidly changing milieu of the first decades of twentieth-century America.

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1606066277

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Reworked

Putting Health and Happiness at the Centre of Your Career

By: Stephanie Fitzgerald

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Putting Health and Happiness at the Centre of Your Career

By: Stephanie Fitzgerald

We're raised to believe that we will have jobs and work. Our school system is designed in part to educate us so we can find a good job afterwards. Yet no-one ever tells you how to work. No one ever sits you down and tells you how to be at the centre of your work, how to get the most out of your role and how to be happy, healthy, safe and engaged in the workplace. Lacking this knowledge, work often veers off and feels wrong. Panicking, we change and start again somewhere else, thinking 'it's not me, it's the job'. And then the process begins again. In a post-COVID19 world where redundancies are high, and job opportunities are low, never has it been so essential to learn how to be happy and healthy at work. Literature advocating that you 'love it or leave it' is not applicable or helpful in a squeezed job-market. Not many have the privilege of being able to up and leave their job, and even if you do there is no guarantee of happiness if you don't know the rules or understand how to work well and be well at work. Unless you do the work, you can change jobs as often as you like but still never find the elusive happiness you seek. Jumping from job to job will not provide you with the answers, unless you can first rework yourself and shed yourself of the burden of inherited cultures, past beliefs and historical mistakes. Reworked utilises neuroscience, evidence-based psychology and two decades of working in health and wellbeing to teach you how to be happy, healthy, safe and engaged at work. These are the four key pillars which run throughout the book. A book to empower, inspire and ignite a passion for happiness at work, Reworked will teach you everything you need to rethink, reimagine and reinvent yourself, as you always wanted to be, in the workplace.

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1399806718

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Pearl Harbor

By: Stephanie Fitzgerald

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Pearl Harbor

By: Stephanie Fitzgerald

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war, a conflict that engulfed the world.

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Capstone

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0756555949

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Decoding the Digital Church

Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump

By: Stephanie A. Martin

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Decoding the Digital Church

Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump

By: Stephanie A. Martin

A nuanced look at the rhetorical narratives used by conservative Republicans and evangelicals to make both personal and political choices As a political constituency, white conservative evangelicals are generally portrayed as easy to dupe, disposed to vote against their own interests, and prone to intolerance and knee-jerk reactions. In Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump, Stephanie A. Martin challenges this assumption and moves beyond these overused stereotypes to develop a refined explanation for this constituency’s voting behavior. This volume offers a fresh perspective on the study of religion and politics and stems from the author’s personal interest in the ways her experiences with believers differ from how scholars often frame this group’s rationale and behaviors. To address this disparity, Martin examines sermons, drawing on her expertise in rhetoric and communication studies with the benefits of ethnographic research in an innovative hybrid approach she terms a “digital rhetorical ethnography.” Martin’s thorough research surveys more than 150 online sermons from America’s largest evangelical megachurches in 37 different states. Through listening closely to the words of the pastors who lead these conservative congregations, Martin describes a gentler discourse less obsessed with issues like abortion or marriage equality than stereotypes of evangelicals might suggest. Instead, the politicaleconomic sermons and stories from pastors encourage true believers to remember the exceptional nature of the nation’s founding while also deemphasizing how much American citizenship really means. Martin grapples with and pays serious, scholarly attention to a seeming contradiction: while the large majority of white conservative evangelicals voted in 2016 for Donald J. Trump, Martin shows that many of their pastors were deeply concerned about the candidate, the divisive nature of the campaign, and the potential effect of the race on their congregants’ devotion to democratic process itself. In-depth chapters provide a fuller analysis of our current political climate, recapping previous scholarship on the history of this growing divide and establishing the groundwork to set up the dissonance between the political commitments of evangelicals and their faith that the rhetorical ethnography addresses.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817320849

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Duke Ellington

His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities

By: Stephanie Stein Crease

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Duke Ellington

His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities

By: Stephanie Stein Crease

Duke Ellington, one of the most influential figures in American music, comes alive in this comprehensive biography with engaging activities. Ellington was an accomplished and influential jazz pianist, composer, band leader, and cultural diplomat. Activities include creating a ragtime rhythm, making a washtub bass, writing song lyrics, thinking like an arranger, and learning to dance the Lindy Hop. It explores Ellington's life and career along with many topics related to African American history, including the Harlem Renaissance. Kids will learn about the musical evolution of jazz that coincided with Ellington's long life from ragtime through the big band era on up to the 1970s. Kids learn how music technology has changed over the years from piano rolls to record albums through CDs, television, and portable music devices. The extensive resources include a time line, glossary, list of Ellington's greatest recordings, related books, Web sites, and DVDs for further study.

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Chicago Review Press

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1556527241

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part III vol 9

By: Ann R Hawkins

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part III vol 9

By: Ann R Hawkins

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

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Routledge

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1000748561

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The Reflexology Workout

Hand & Foot Massage for Super Health & Rejuvenation

By: Stephanie Rick

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The Reflexology Workout

Hand & Foot Massage for Super Health & Rejuvenation

By: Stephanie Rick

With more than 66,000 copies sold, The Reflexology Workout is a perennial favorite among readers interested in holistic and alternative medicine. With a striking new cover design, it will capture fresh attention on the shelves. Black-and-white photographs.

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Three Rivers Press

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0517884852

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