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The Story of Drawing

An Alternative History of Art

By: Susan Owens

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The Story of Drawing

An Alternative History of Art

By: Susan Owens

Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric ancestors drew with natural pigments on the walls of caves, and every subsequent culture has practised drawing – whether on papyrus, parchment or paper. Artists throughout history have used drawing as part of the creative process. While painting and sculpture have been shaped heavily by money and influence, drawing has always offered extraordinary creative latitude. Here we see the artist at his or her most unguarded. Susan Owens offers a glimpse over artists’ shoulders – from Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Hokusai to Van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz and Yayoi Kusama – as they work, think and innovate, as they scrutinise the world around them or escape into their imaginations. The Story of Drawing loops around the established history of art, sometimes staying close, at other times diving into exhilarating and altogether less familiar territory.

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Yale University Press

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0300277601

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9780300277609

Exploring Education

An Introduction to the Foundations of Education

By: Alan R. Sadovnik,Peter W. Cookson, Jr.,Susan F. Semel,Ryan W. Coughlan

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Exploring Education

An Introduction to the Foundations of Education

By: Alan R. Sadovnik,Peter W. Cookson, Jr.,Susan F. Semel,Ryan W. Coughlan

This much-anticipated fifth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and in-service teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines -- history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education -- and their application to educational issues, including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality, and school reform and improvement. This edition features substantive updates, including additions to the discussion of neo-liberal educational policy, recent debates about teacher diversity, updated data and research, and new selections of historical and contemporary readings. At a time when foundations of education are marginalized in many teacher education programs and teacher education reform pushes scripted approaches to curriculum and instruction, Exploring Education helps teachers to think critically about the "what" and "why" behind the most pressing issues in contemporary education.

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Routledge

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131540852X

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9781315408521

Senior Dogs For Dummies?

By: Susan McCullough

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Senior Dogs For Dummies?

By: Susan McCullough

Covers wellness, nutrition, and socialization Keep your dog happy and healthy through the golden years Senior dogs are special creatures with special needs. This friendly guide provides reassuring, positive advice on handling the physical and emotional issues involved in caring for your beloved companion. You'll see how aging affects your dog, how to cope with common ailments, and what you can do to help your senior live a joyful, high-quality life. Praise for Senior Dogs For Dummies "The book is a resource that will enhance life both for senior dogs and for the humans who love them." - Teri Goodman, Coordinator, The Senior Dogs Project, www.srdogs.com "A dog who has lived his lifetime with you is a precious jewel to be loved and treasured. Susan has captured that spirit." - Liz Palika, author of Purebred Rescue Dog Adoption Discover how to: * Meet your senior's dietary needs * Safely exercise your senior * Manage health costs * Teach an older dog new tricks * Gain inspiration from stories about super senior dogs

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118069870

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9781118069875

Girls to the Rescue

Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I

By: Emily Hamilton-Honey,Susan Ingalls Lewis

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Girls to the Rescue

Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I

By: Emily Hamilton-Honey,Susan Ingalls Lewis

During World War I, as young men journeyed overseas to battle, American women maintained the home front by knitting, fundraising, and conserving supplies. These became daily chores for young girls, but many longed to be part of a larger, more glorious war effort--and some were. A new genre of young adult books entered the market, written specifically with the young girls of the war period in mind and demonstrating the wartime activities of women and girls all over the world. Through fiction, girls could catch spies, cross battlefields, man machine guns, and blow up bridges. These adventurous heroines were contemporary feminist role models, creating avenues of leadership for women and inspiring individualism and self-discovery. The work presented here analyzes the powerful messages in such literature, how it created awareness and grappled with the engagement of real girls in the United States and Allied war effort, and how it reflects their contemporaries' awareness of girls' importance.

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McFarland

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1476668795

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9781476668796

The Next Wave

Financing Women's Growth-Oriented Firms

By: Susan Coleman,Alicia M. Robb

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The Next Wave

Financing Women's Growth-Oriented Firms

By: Susan Coleman,Alicia M. Robb

You may be familiar with the success stories of Spanx, GoldieBlox, and other women-owned businesses that have taken their markets by storm. But, today, only two percent of women-owned firms generate more than one million dollars annually. The Next Wave is here to help women drive up that number. Drawing on the Kauffman Firm Survey and many other sources, Susan Coleman and Alicia M. Robb cull together data-driven advice for women-owned, growth-oriented businesses as they finance their expansion. They not only consider the unique approaches and specific concerns of female business owners, but also take into account the growing pool of investors who will play a role in selecting and grooming a new generation of women entrepreneurs. Since growth-oriented firms typically require external capital, the investor perspective is critical. Telling entrepreneurs what the research means for them, outfitting them with resources, and illustrating the road ahead with real world cases, this book serves as a pioneering strategy guide for the next wave of women who want to "go big" to bring home their goals.

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Stanford University Press

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150360098X

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9781503600980

It's Your Biz

The Complete Guide to Becoming Your Own Boss

By: Susan Wilson Solovic,Ellen R. Kadin

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It's Your Biz

The Complete Guide to Becoming Your Own Boss

By: Susan Wilson Solovic,Ellen R. Kadin

Making sound investments is tough enough without having to worry about unscrupulous financial advisers and outright frauds. But recently strengthened laws aren't enough to stop the "professionals" intent on profiting from--or just plain stealing--your money. As an Enforcement Branch Chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Pat Huddleston witnessed countless people lose their life savings to reckless stockbrokers and fraudulent schemes. Now an SEC-recommended Receiver andCEO of a securities and investment fraud investigation agency, Huddleston has intimate knowledge of how scam artists and bad brokers operate. In The Vigilant Investor, he explains WHY we fall for investment scams, HOW con artists play on our emotions, and WHAT we can do to protect ourselves from predators. With its unique look into the science of financial decision making, the book blows up the popular myths and simplistic "do's and don'ts" of investing while sharing techniques anyone can use to perform due diligence even better than the "experts." With gripping stories of actual cases, Huddleston sheds light on the dark corners of the investment industry and teaches investors and professionals alike how to spot fraud and guard themselves against financial catastrophe.

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AMACOM/American Management Association

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0814416713

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9780814416716

A Dictionary of Geography

By: Susan Mayhew

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A Dictionary of Geography

By: Susan Mayhew

Containing over 3,100 entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography, this best-selling dictionary is the most authoritative single-volume reference work of its kind. It includes coverage of cartography, surveying, meteorology, climatology, ecology, population, industry, and development. Worked examples and diagrams are provided for many entries, including 15 new illustrations. All existing entries have been fully revised and updated for this new edition, and there is now expanded coverage of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and glacial geomorphology, as well as the inclusion of more international examples within definitions, broadening its coverage considerably. The dictionary includes more than 400 new entries, including economies of scope, marginalization, rurality, and tax havens and offshore financial centres. Recommended web links are suggested for many entries, accessible and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Geography companion website. Packed with clear, concise, and authoritative information, this A-Z reference is an essential companion for all students and teachers of geography.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019968085X

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9780199680856

How to Start a Home-Based Business

Create a Business Plan*Build a Client Base*Make Yourself Indispensable*Create a Fee Structure*Market Your Company*Understand What Customers Want

By: Bert Holtje,Susan Shelly

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How to Start a Home-Based Business

Create a Business Plan*Build a Client Base*Make Yourself Indispensable*Create a Fee Structure*Market Your Company*Understand What Customers Want

By: Bert Holtje,Susan Shelly

From the series that has sold more than half a million copies! * Available in October 2009 * Everything you need to set up a home-based business, create a demand for services, and make money Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based business? Of being your own boss? Have you been hesitant to put your business plans into action? With How to Start a Home-Based Business, you have what it takes to do so like a pro, step by step, even in tough economic times. Here are all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow a business, whatever your specialty. The authors share their experience on how to: *Define your specialty *Develop a business plan *Estimate start-up costs *Create a fee structure *Build a client base *Find trusted subcontractors and specialists *Stay profitable *Become a sought-after expert *Bid competitively *Establish a daily schedule *Organize your business *Get paid *And more!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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076275835X

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9780762758357

Recession, Recovery, and Renewal

Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change

By: Susan U. Raymond

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Recession, Recovery, and Renewal

Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change

By: Susan U. Raymond

The guidance every nonprofit needs to plan the best survive-and-succeed strategy in any economy The slow and uneven climb out from the Great Recession promises nonprofits an economic future that is unlike the past. Get equipped with the tools you need to plan your resilient nonprofit strategy with Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change. This dynamic book reveals how your nonprofit can choose and assess indicators that will anticipate rapid twists in the road. It illustrates how your nonprofit can adapt management, programs, skills, leadership, and governance to take advantage of—rather than suffer through—rapid and constant change. This book is a practical guide that teaches readers to identify, choose and track trend indicators in the market; establish systems to take up and act on both challenges and opportunities surfaced by those indicators; and produce concrete evidence of the impact of paying attention to those indicators. Examines the Great Recession and its effect on government finance Explores economic and industrial structure and performance over the next two decades, domestically and globally Provides a concrete strategic guide toward change, grow capacity, and fulfillment of your nonprofit's mission Offers a practical guide to restructuring the business model of nonprofits to anticipate—not react—to change Documents the nature and levels of current and future economic change Featuring a profile self-assessment questionnaire to help readers determine their readiness to adapt to change and to produce evidence to support innovation and performance and case studies written by agencies of Omnicom, a global Fortune 200 company, together with their nonprofit and corporate partners based on actual strategy development, Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change is the first book to provide the nonprofit sector with a concrete guide to organizational strategy based on documented statistical evidence of the future economic and leadership structure—that will eventually become the operating environment.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118417739

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9781118417737

In the Name of Entrepreneurship?

The Logic and Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Business

By: Susan M. Gates,Kristin J. Leuschner

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In the Name of Entrepreneurship?

The Logic and Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Business

By: Susan M. Gates,Kristin J. Leuschner

What are the differential effects of regulation and policy on small businesses? What is the impact of special regulatory treatment for small businesses? This book sheds light on these issues through analysis of the regulatory and public policy environment with regard to small businesses, including focused studies in four key areas: health insurance, workplace safety, corporate governance, and business organization.

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Rand Corporation

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0833043951

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9780833043955

Oliver Stone's America

dreaming The Myth Outward

By: Susan Mackey-kallis,Susan Mackey Kallis

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Oliver Stone's America

dreaming The Myth Outward

By: Susan Mackey-kallis,Susan Mackey Kallis

This book represents an illustrated, critical analysis of filmmaker Oliver Stone and his works, placing him in the tradition of American political artists. Oliver Stone—polemicist, leftist, artist, and—surprisingly for politically conservative America—mainstream director—is one of the most controversial American filmmakers in Hollywood. His films i

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Routledge

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1000303136

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

A Gender Perspective

By: Banu Ozkazanc-Pan,Susan Clark Muntean

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

A Gender Perspective

By: Banu Ozkazanc-Pan,Susan Clark Muntean

Based on extensive fieldwork, this book demonstrates how gender is an organizing principle of entrepreneurial ecosystems and makes a difference in how ecosystem resources are assembled and how they can be accessed. By bringing visibility to how ecosystem actors are heterogeneous across identities, interactions and experiences, the book highlights the role and complexity of individual, organizational, and institutional factors working in concert to create and maintain gendered inequities. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems provides research-driven insights around effective organizational practices and policies aimed at remedying gendered and intersectional inequalities associated with entrepreneurship activities and economic growth. Proposing a typology of four ecosystem identities, it highlights how some might be more amenable and organized towards gender inclusion and change, while others may be much more difficult to change, reorganize and restructure. It offers scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers insights about gender in relation to analyzing entrepreneurial ecosystems and for fostering inclusive economic development policies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009021087

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9781009021081

Stage (Not Age)

How to Understand and Serve People Over 60--the Fastest Growing, Most Dynamic Market in the World

By: Susan Wilner Golden

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Stage (Not Age)

How to Understand and Serve People Over 60--the Fastest Growing, Most Dynamic Market in the World

By: Susan Wilner Golden

The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty. In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that threshold, and that number will continue to grow. In fifteen years, Americans aged sixty-five and over will outnumber those under age eighteen. Nearly everywhere in the world, people over sixty are the fastest-growing age group. Longevity presents an opportunity that companies need to develop a strategy for. Estimates put the global market for this demographic at a whopping $22 trillion across every industry you can imagine. Entertainment, travel, education, health care, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, product design, tech, financial services, and many others will benefit, but only if marketers unlearn what they think they know about this growing population. The key is to stop thinking of older adults as one market. Stage (Not Age) is the concise guide to helping companies understand that people over sixty are a deeply diverse population. They're traveling through different life stages and therefore want and need different products and services. This book helps you reset your understanding of what an "old person" is. It demonstrates how three people, all seventy years old, may not even be in the same market segment. It identifies the systemic barriers to entering this market and provides ways to overcome them. And it shares the best practices of companies that have successfully shifted to a Stage (Not Age) mentality. This practical guide prepares companies and marketers for an inevitable shift they can't ignore.

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Harvard Business Press

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163369948X

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9781633699489

FileMaker Pro 12: The Missing Manual

By: Susan Prosser,Stuart Gripman

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FileMaker Pro 12: The Missing Manual

By: Susan Prosser,Stuart Gripman

You don’t have to be a techie to use FileMaker Pro 12, but you do need to know what you’re doing. With this crystal-clear guide, you’ll learn how to create a powerful database that lets you do almost anything with your data. Whether you’re running a business, printing a catalog, or planning a wedding, you’ll learn how to customize your database and put it to work. The important stuff you need to know: Get started. Tour FileMaker Pro’s features and create your first database in minutes. Catalog your data. View, sort, and shape information in dozens of ways. Create professional documents. Publish reports, invoices, and other documents with ease. Harness processing power. Use calculations and scripts to crunch numbers, search text, and automate tasks. Add visual power and clarity. Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data. Think like a developer. Dive into the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced.

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1449332404

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9781449332402

A Rising Tide

Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Firms

By: Susan Coleman,Alicia Robb

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A Rising Tide

Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Firms

By: Susan Coleman,Alicia Robb

Women-owned firms represent an increasingly important segment of the small business sector. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.8 million women-owned firms in the United States in 2007, generating $1.2 trillion in revenues and providing employment for 7.6 million people. A Rising Tide presents the financial strategies that have helped today's bold and creative women entrepreneurs to succeed. The authors take a "lifecycle approach" in discussing the issues and strategies for different types of women-owned firms, from nascent and home-based firms to growth-oriented and technology-based enterprises. Each chapter includes real-world cases studies featuring women entrepreneurs as a way to bring the book's lessons to life. Uniquely, this book ties together the latest research on financing women-owned businesses and its implications for actual or potential entrepreneurs. Drawing on the Kauffman Firm Survey, a longitudinal survey of over 4,000 new firms, the authors are able to provide particularly useful conclusions, making this a must read for the thousands of women who are starting or may start businesses in the next few years. Please visit www.kauffman.org/sketchbook.aspx?VideoId=1699151957001&type=M to view the book trailer.

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Stanford University Press

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0804781672

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Absolute Truths

By: Susan Howatch

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Absolute Truths

By: Susan Howatch

A SKILLFUL BLEND OF CHARACTER, PHILOSOPHY AND NARRATIVE. . .Formidable personalities embroil themselves in ruthless power struggles that would make a corporate raider blush." --The Washington Post Book World It is 1965, and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of bishop of Starbridge, an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasoned corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his attractive, unsinkable wife, Ashworth stands against the amorality and decadence of the age--"Anti-Sex Ashworth." He slays his opponents by being a tough, efficient, confident churchman, the torments of his past long since dead and buried. And then the unexpected, the unthinkable, strikes. Suddenly Ashworth finds himself staring into the chasm of all the lies hes been telling himself for years: about his marriage, his children, even his views on the Church. And as he suspects his old nemesis and dean, Neville Aysgarth, of drinking too much, of financial chicanery, of--God forbid--having an affair, Ashworth discovers to his horror that he is tempted to commit the very acts that he has so publicly denounced. . . . "ENTHRALLING. . .Rich, dense, almost indecently entertaining." --San Jose Mercury News "POWERFUL. . .MIRACULOUS." --Booklist (starred review) SELECTED BY THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

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Fawcett

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0307775186

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9780307775184

Bringing Travel Home to England

Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century

By: Susan Lamb

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Bringing Travel Home to England

Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century

By: Susan Lamb

This study is the first to identify and examine the circulations and mutually constitutive relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the 18th century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism both for those who brought travel home and for those who were influenced by it in other ways.

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Associated University Presse

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087413921X

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Co-conspirator for Justice

The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman

By: Susan M. Reverby

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Co-conspirator for Justice

The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman

By: Susan M. Reverby

Alan Berkman (1945–2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing covert care to members of revolutionary groups like the Weather Underground and becoming increasingly radicalized by his experiences at the Wounded Knee takeover, at the Attica Prison uprising, and at health clinics for the poor. When the government went after him, he went underground and participated in bombings of government buildings. He was eventually captured and served eight years in some of America's worst penitentiaries, barely surviving two rounds of cancer. After his release in 1992, he returned to medical practice and became an HIV/AIDS physician, teacher, and global health activist. In the final years of his life, he successfully worked to change U.S. policy, making AIDS treatment more widely available in the global south and saving millions of lives around the world. Using Berkman's unfinished prison memoir, FBI records, letters, and hundreds of interviews, Susan M. Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary transformation from doctor to co-conspirator for justice.

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UNC Press Books

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1469656264

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Unbecoming Women

British Women Writers and the Novel of Development

By: Susan Fraiman

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Unbecoming Women

British Women Writers and the Novel of Development

By: Susan Fraiman

Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman and turns to conduct books and novels of development by women for a new poetics of growing up. In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, Fraiman argues that a heroine's progress toward masterful selfhood is by no means assured. Focusing on counternarratives in which girls do not enter the world so much as flounder on its doorstep, Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority. Written with grace and theoretical mastery, Unbecoming Women emphasises the dialectical as well as subversive aspects of a genre long considered homogeneous. The result is a compelling contribution to feminist genre criticism that, charting female destiny in Georgian and Victorian texts, also postmodernizes the novel of development.

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Columbia University Press

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0231080018

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The Meme Machine

By: Susan Blackmore

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The Meme Machine

By: Susan Blackmore

Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an investigation of whether this link between genes and memes can lead to important discoveries about the nature of the inner self. Confronting the deepest questions about our inner selves, with all our emotions, memories, beliefs, and decisions, Susan Blackmore makes a compelling case for the theory that the inner self is merely an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication.

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OUP Oxford

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0191574619

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Beyond Goals

Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring

By: Susan David

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Beyond Goals

Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring

By: Susan David

What is there in developmental relationships beyond setting and striving to achieve goals? The presence of goals in coaching and mentoring programs has gone largely unquestioned, yet evidence is growing that the standard prescription of SMART, challenging goals is not always appropriate - and even potentially dangerous - in the context of a complex and rapidly changing world. Beyond Goals advances standard goal-setting theory by bringing together cutting-edge perspectives from leaders in coaching and mentoring. From psychology to neuroscience, from chaos theory to social network theory, the contributors offer diverse and compelling insights into both the advantages and limitations of goal pursuit. The result is a more nuanced understanding of goals, with the possibility for practitioners to bring greater impact and sophistication to their client engagements. The implications of this reassessment are substantial for all those practicing as coaches and mentors, or managing coaching or mentoring initiatives in organizations.

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Routledge

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1317174739

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Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin'

A History of American Musical Instrument Makers

By: Susan VanHecke

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Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin'

A History of American Musical Instrument Makers

By: Susan VanHecke

Meet the inventors and innovators who defined American music history. A radio repairman imagined inventing the electric guitar. The inventor of 3-D glasses envisioned an electric organ in every home. And a German carpenter immigrated to New York City with the dream of designing the greatest piano in the world. From Steinway pianos and Moog synthesizers to Zildgian cymbals and Martin guitars, noted music writer VanHeke offers a fascinating, insider view of the personalities and perseverance that led to some of music's most important innovations—from classical to jazz to rock. This ALA Notable Children's Book includes photos, source notes, and glossaries.

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Astra Publishing House

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1590785746

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9781590785744

Disability and Teaching

By: Susan Gabel,David Connor

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Disability and Teaching

By: Susan Gabel,David Connor

Disability and Teaching highlights issues of disability in K-12 schooling faced by teachers, who are increasingly accountable for the achievement of all students regardless of the labels assigned to them. It is designed to engage prospective and practicing teachers in examining their personal theories and beliefs about disability and education. Part I offers four case studies dealing with issues such as inclusion, over-representation in special education, teacher assumptions and biases, and the struggles of novice teachers. These cases illustrate the need to understand disability and teaching within the contexts of school, community, and the broader society and in relation to other contemporary issues facing teachers. Each is followed by space for readers to write their own reactions and reflections, educators’ dialogue about the case, space for readers’ reactions to the educators’ dialogue, a summary, and additional questions. Part II presents public arguments representing different views about the topic: conservative, liberal-progressive, and disability centered. Part III situates the authors’ personal views within the growing field of Disability Studies in education and provides exercises for further reflection and a list of resources. Disability and Teaching is the 8th volume in the Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling Series, edited by Daniel P. Liston and Kenneth M. Zeichner. This series of small, accessible, interactive texts introduces the notion of teacher reflection and develops it in relation to the social conditions of schooling. Each text focuses on a specific issue or content area in relation to teaching and follows the same format. Books in this series are appropriate for teacher education courses across the curriculum.

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113513751X

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9781135137519

Career Opportunities in Science

By: Susan Echaore-McDavid

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Career Opportunities in Science

By: Susan Echaore-McDavid

Discusses more than ninety career possibilities in the field of science, including information on education, training, and salaries.

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Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement

By: Susan Rimby

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Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement

By: Susan Rimby

For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women’s club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public official—the first woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania’s state government. In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot, and Dietrich Brandis to help bring about a new era in American forestry. She was also an integral force in founding and fostering the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy in Mont Alto, which produced generations of Pennsylvania foresters before becoming Penn State's Mont Alto campus. Though much has been written about her male counterparts, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement is the first book dedicated to Mira Lloyd Dock and her work. Susan Rimby weaves these layers of Dock’s story together with the greater historical context of the era to create a vivid and accessible picture of Progressive Era conservation in the eastern United States and Dock’s important role and legacy in that movement.

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FileMaker Pro 13: The Missing Manual

By: Susan Prosser,Stuart Gripman

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FileMaker Pro 13: The Missing Manual

By: Susan Prosser,Stuart Gripman

You don’t need a technical background to build powerful databases with FileMaker Pro 13. This crystal-clear guide covers all new FileMaker Pro 13 features, such as its improved layout tools and enhanced mobile support. Whether you’re running a business, printing a catalog, or planning a wedding, you’ll learn how to customize your database to run on a PC, Mac, Web browser, or iOS device. The important stuff you need to know: Get started. Tour FileMaker Pro’s features and create your first database in minutes. Access data anywhere. Use FileMaker Go on your iPad or iPhone—or share data on the Web. Dive into relational data. Solve problems quickly by connecting and combining data tables. Create professional documents. Publish reports, invoices, catalogs, and other documents with ease. Harness processing power. Use calculations and scripts to crunch numbers, search text, and automate tasks. Add visual power and clarity. Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data. Share your database on a secure server. Add the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Pro Server.

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Professing Sincerity

Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading

By: Susan B. Rosenbaum

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Professing Sincerity

Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading

By: Susan B. Rosenbaum

Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. As she demonstrates, poets who made a living from their writing both sold the moral promise that their lyrics were sincere and commented on this conflict in their work. Juxtaposing the poetry of Wordsworth and Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Smith and Sylvia Plath, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Bishop, Rosenbaum shows how on the one hand, through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. On the other hand, by performing their "private" lives and feelings in public, she argues, poets marketed the self, cultivated celebrity, and advanced professional careers. Not only a moral practice, professing sincerity was also good business. The author focuses on the history of this conflict in both British romantic and American post-1945 poetry. Professing Sincerity will appeal to students and scholars of Anglo-American lyric poetry, of the history of authorship, and of gender studies and commercial culture.

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Contemporary Business

By: Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Susan Berston

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Contemporary Business

By: Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Susan Berston

Contemporary Business, 18th Edition, is a student friendly, engaging product designed to attract students to the field of business. Boone 18e offers a comprehensive approach to the material that will cater to a wide variety of students with different learning needs. Up-to-date content is vital to any Intro to Business course and Boone 18e with its contemporary style, wealth of new examples, and hot business topics can deliver that currency.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119498414

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Math Instruction for Students with Learning Difficulties

By: Susan Perry Gurganus

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Math Instruction for Students with Learning Difficulties

By: Susan Perry Gurganus

This richly updated third edition of Math Instruction for Students with Learning Difficulties presents a research-based approach to mathematics instruction designed to build confidence and competence in preservice and inservice PreK- 12 teachers. Referencing benchmarks of both the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, this essential text addresses teacher and student attitudes towards mathematics as well as language issues, specific mathematics disabilities, prior experiences, and cognitive and metacognitive factors. Chapters on assessment and instruction precede strands that focus on critical concepts. Replete with suggestions for class activities and field extensions, the new edition features current research across topics and an innovative thread throughout chapters and strands: multi-tiered systems of support as they apply to mathematics instruction.

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1000476022

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1957 (Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement)

By: Susan Taylor

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1957 (Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement)

By: Susan Taylor

Key events of the Civil Rights Movement will be brought to life in this exciting and informative new series. 1957 was a year of new beginnings and hope for a growing movement. In January, prominent civil rights leaders attended a historic meeting in Georgia with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the helm. In September, as protests were heating up around the nation, a group of Black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the same time, activists' push for legislation resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Progress toward equality for Blacks was slow, but people's commitment to the movement continued to deepen by the year as the prospect of change seemed possible. ABOUT THE SERIES: The years from 1955 to 1965 are at the heart of the civil rights movement-from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act. The contributions of key activists, including Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Barbara Nash, and Malcolm X, are part of the narrative. Demonstrations of passive resistance and legal challenges were often met with bloodshed and violence against Black Americans fighting to end segregation and discrimination. Yet the courage of those yearning for equal opportunities under the law ultimately produced legislation affirming that every American should have the same constitutional rights, regardless of color, race, or gender. With stunning photographs throughout and rich back matter, each book focuses on a specific year and chronologically follows the detailed events that occurred and the changes that took place.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338769766

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Slow Democracy

Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home

By: Susan Clark,Woden Teachout

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Slow Democracy

Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home

By: Susan Clark,Woden Teachout

Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities. Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems. It invites us to bring the advantages of "slow" to our community decision making. Just as slow food encourages chefs and eaters to become more intimately involved with the production of local food, slow democracy encourages us to govern ourselves locally with processes that are inclusive, deliberative, and citizen powered. Susan Clark and Woden Teachout outline the qualities of real, local decision making and show us the range of ways that communities are breathing new life into participatory democracy around the country. We meet residents who seize back control of their municipal water systems from global corporations, parents who find unique solutions to seemingly divisive school-redistricting issues, and a host of other citizens across the nation who have designed local decision-making systems to solve the problems unique to their area in ways that work best for their communities. Though rooted in the direct participation that defined our nation's early days, slow democracy is not a romantic vision for reigniting the ways of old. Rather, the strategies outlined here are uniquely suited to 21st-century technologies and culture.If our future holds an increased focus on local food, local energy, and local economy, then surely we will need to improve our skills at local governance as well.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603584137

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Wicked

By: Susan Johnson

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Wicked

By: Susan Johnson

Serena Blythe's plan to escape a life of servitude had gone terribly awry. So she took the only course left to her. She sneaked aboard a sleek yacht about to set sail--and found herself face-to-face with a dangerous, sensual stranger. Beau St. Jules, the Earl of Rochefort, had long surpassed his father's notoriety as a libertine. Less well known was his role as intelligence-gatherer for England. Yet even on a mission to seek vital war information, he couldn't resist practicing his well-polished seduction on the beautiful, disarmingly innocent stowaway. And in the weeks to come, with battles breaking out on the continent and Serena's life in peril, St. Jules would risk everything to rescue the one woman who'd finally captured his heart.

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Bantam

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0553572148

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The Handbook of Group Research and Practice

By: Susan A. Wheelan

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The Handbook of Group Research and Practice

By: Susan A. Wheelan

Organized into six practical sections relating theory to application from an historical perspective, this text offers contributions from international scholars and practitioners who reflect the diversity of this field.

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SAGE

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0761929584

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Susquehanna, River of Dreams

By: Susan Q. Stranahan

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Susquehanna, River of Dreams

By: Susan Q. Stranahan

In Susquehanna, River of Dreams award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers – ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its eco-system, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary," the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance.

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0801851475

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FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual

By: Susan Prosser,Stuart Gripman

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FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual

By: Susan Prosser,Stuart Gripman

This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as well as those with more experience. Start up: Get your first database up and running in minutes Catalog your data: Organize contacts, to-do items, and product information with speedy data-entry and sorting tools Create professional documents: Publish reports, invoices, and more, with ease Add visual power and clarity: Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data Harness processing power: Crunch numbers and search text with dozens of built-in formulas Learn advanced topics: Explore the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Server

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1449393705

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Chasing Sound

Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP

By: Susan Schmidt Horning

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Chasing Sound

Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP

By: Susan Schmidt Horning

The recording studio, she argues, is at the center of musical culture in the twentieth century.--Emily Thompson, Princeton University "Science

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1421410222

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Art of Engagement

Visual Politics in California and Beyond

By: Peter Selz,Susan Landauer

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Art of Engagement

Visual Politics in California and Beyond

By: Peter Selz,Susan Landauer

Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.

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0520240529

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The Marketing Book

By: Michael Baker,Susan Hart

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The Marketing Book

By: Michael Baker,Susan Hart

The 6th edition of the best-selling Marketing Book has been extensively updated to reflect changes and trends in current marketing thinking and practice. Taking into account the emergence of new subjects and new authorities, Michael Baker and the new co-editor Susan Hart have overhauled the contents and contributor lists of the previous edition to ensure this volume addresses all the necessary themes for the modern marketer. In particular, the 'Marketing Book' now looks at broader range of international issues with a broader group of international contributors. Based, as in previous editions, on seminal articles form thought leaders in each subject the 'Marketing Book 6th edition' is bursting with salient articles. It amounts to an all-embracing one-volume companion to modern marketing thought, ideal for all students of marketing.

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