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Adult Development and Aging

Biopsychosocial Perspectives

By: Susan Krauss Whitbourne,Stacey B. Whitbourne

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Adult Development and Aging

Biopsychosocial Perspectives

By: Susan Krauss Whitbourne,Stacey B. Whitbourne

The fourth edition continues to provide psychologists with a fresh and engaging approach to the field of psychology of adult development and aging. It focuses on three themes: a multidisciplinary approach, positive images of aging, and the newest and most relevant research. Recent articles and updates to the information on demography, economics, and public policy are presented. The Aging in the News feature includes a story of a remarkable achievement by a middle-aged or older adult. The Assess Yourself boxes are also updated with new questions. Psychologists appreciate this mix of examples and discussions that make the material come to life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470646977

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9780470646977

What's in a Name?

By: Susan Osborn

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What's in a Name?

By: Susan Osborn

For each name Osborn provides a history, number, astrological sign, color, stone, element, and herb.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671025554

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9780671025557

Families

Intergenerational and Generational Connections

By: Susan K Pfeifer,Marvin B Sussman

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Families

Intergenerational and Generational Connections

By: Susan K Pfeifer,Marvin B Sussman

This special volume is devoted to the synthesis and review of theoretical and conceptual approaches associated with familial and non-familial connections across the life span. An important book as society “returns to the family,” it compares and contrasts different disciplinary perspectives associated with intergenerational relationships. Because intergenerational relationships have been the focus of research in many disciplines, various perspectives have emerged about kin and non-kin connections. Renewed interest in families and familial connections is due largely to events and situations occurring in complex, modernized societies which place the intergenerational nexus on center stage. The leading researchers represented in this outstanding book provide rare opportunity for the scholarly comparison of the various perspectives in the broader spectrum of family relations.Families: Intergenerational and Generational Connecting is a significant addition to the body of research on family connections. The three major areas of generational and intergenerational connections include theoretical and conceptual perspectives, connections within the family, and connections outside the family. As the use of families as support networks for individual members increases, this timely book will be an invaluable aid to educators, students, and researchers concerned about families and familial and non-familial relationships. Counselors and therapists will value this enlightening book with its diverse theoretical and conceptual perspectives on kinship, intergenerational solidarity and relations, social supports, and cross-national perspectives on family connections.

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Routledge

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1135852537

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9781135852535

The Upside of Down

A Memoir

By: Susan Biggar

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The Upside of Down

A Memoir

By: Susan Biggar

Susan Biggar fell in love with a New Zealander. Maybe as an American, she saw Darryl as a ticket to an exhilarating, global life. When her first son arrived, he came with fierce blue eyes, a curly toe and cystic fibrosis. The doctors said he would be lucky to reach the age of thirty. A job offer in Paris snatched the family from New Zealand, depositing them in the city of lights, romance—and a whole new medical world. When Susan’s second baby was also born with cystic fibrosis , the insignificant worries of her old life slipped away, shifting her from ‘normal mum’ to ‘gotta-figure-out-how-to-keep-the-kids-alive-mum’. This—and all that followed—was not what she expected. Set across the globe—in California, New Zealand, France and Australia—The Upside of Down is a story of belief, of learning that sometimes joy is a decision. ‘A rare combination of laugh-out-loud humour and an intensely honest exploration of difficult issues … It’s like Eat, Pray, Love but with children, a husband and health issues along for the ride! Anyone who has ever experienced illness in their family or considered an expatriate life will want to read this book.’ — ANDREA J. MILLER, Shares in Life Foundation, NZ

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Transit Lounge

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1921924756

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9781921924750

Sorting Things Out

Classification and Its Consequences

By: Geoffrey C. Bowker,Susan Leigh Star

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Sorting Things Out

Classification and Its Consequences

By: Geoffrey C. Bowker,Susan Leigh Star

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification—the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.

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MIT Press

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0262522950

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9780262522953

The Age of the Gas Mask

By: Susan R. Grayzel

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The Age of the Gas Mask

By: Susan R. Grayzel

Uncovers how a material object - the civilian gas mask - can reveal the power and limits of the modern state facing total war.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108491278

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Human Remains: Ten Classic Sci-Fi Tales

By: Susan Hart

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Human Remains: Ten Classic Sci-Fi Tales

By: Susan Hart

Contains novellas, novels and short stories in the classic style: The Scavengers - After a calamity wiped out most of earth's population a hundred years before, the remaining million or so souls has divided up AND Mountain Of The Ancients PLUS Genius - A very wealthy man tries to regain happiness PLUS Duplicity, is a story set in the near future and it's about a female police detective investigating a crime AND Radiation Can Really Mess Things Up PLUS Raymond The Automatic House - A surviving government official after a worldwide upheaval manages to escape a ravaging mob AND Two Terran Spies On An Alien Planet - A government official on a planet currently at war with earth, finds two supposed spies at a bar and suspects they are Terran agents PLUS The Pied Piper of Spring AND Rio Temporal PLUS Weather Modification Sucks - A man with a restaurant on top of a hill worries about what will happen when local officials try to control the weather.

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Lulu.com

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1365064913

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9781365064913

Chasing Moon

By: Susan Owens

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Chasing Moon

By: Susan Owens

When Moon goes missing, the whole town is in an uproar, pointing fingers at each other. Who is to blame? Is it the stranded soldier she gave a ride to days before her disappearance? Was she in the wrong place at the wrong time, snatched by a stranger? Or was it one of her neighbors?

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1329454081

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Beyond Sovietology

Essays in Politics and History

By: Susan Gross Solomon

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Beyond Sovietology

Essays in Politics and History

By: Susan Gross Solomon

This volume - a product of the Soviet Domestic Politics workshop sponsored by the Social Science Research Council - marks an end and a new beginning. The end, of course, is that of Sovietology, now permanently "overtaken by events". The beginning encompasses not only a radical multiplication of subjects for analysis - the post-Soviet states - but also the arrival of a new generation of scholars entering the field at its turning point. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, they bring fresh contemporary social scientific questions and methods to an unprecedentedly accessible universe of diverse social groups and societies once subsumed under the Soviet rubric. Their work enriches not only post-Soviet studies but the entire range of comparativist work in the social sciences. Among the authors included here are Jane Dawson, Ellen Hamilton, Joel Hellman, Mark Saroyan, Joseph Schull and Michael Smith.

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Routledge

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131548479X

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Through the Keyhole

Sex, Scandal and the Secret Life of the Country House

By: Susan C. Law

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Through the Keyhole

Sex, Scandal and the Secret Life of the Country House

By: Susan C. Law

Scandal existed long before celebrity gossip columns, often hidden behind the closed doors of the Georgian aristocracy. But secrets were impossible to keep in a household of servants who listened at walls and spied through keyholes. The early mass media pounced on these juicy tales of adultery, eager to cash in on the public appetite for sensation and expose the shocking moral corruption of the establishment. Drawing on a rich collection of original and often outrageous sources, this book brings vividly to life stories of infidelity in high places – passionate, scandalous, poignant and tragic. It reveals how the flood of print detailing sordid sexual intrigues created a national outcry and made people question whether the nobility was fit to rule. Susan C. Law is a journalist and historian. Her work has been published in a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including The Times Higher Education Supplement, BBC History Magazine and London Evening Standard. Dr Law completed her PhD in History at Warwick University, and has spent many years researching the 18th and 19th century aristocracy, servants, family life and country houses.

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The History Press

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0750964510

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9780750964517

Where Drowned Things Live

A Kristin Ginelli Mystery

By: Susan Thistlethwaite

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Where Drowned Things Live

A Kristin Ginelli Mystery

By: Susan Thistlethwaite

Where Drowned Things Live describes the struggles of an untenured professor, Kristin Ginelli, as she tries to counsel a young woman student at her university and get her to reveal who is abusing her. Kristin fails, and the student is found drowned. As a former Chicago cop who quit the force over sexual harassment and the death of her detective husband in the line of duty, Kristin doggedly investigates this mysterious death, pushing back on foot-dragging by the university and obstruction by the Chicago police. Kristin is almost killed twice, but she does not give up on questioning why this student died. The novel is wholly fictional. What is not fiction, however, is that often students at colleges and universities around the country are vulnerable to sexual assault and abuse and they can receive very little help from their schools or from law enforcement. Today more than 300 schools of higher education are being investigated under Title IX for failures to prevent sexual assault and harassment on their campuses, and to deal fairly with reports.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532613644

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9781532613647

Passing Calculations Tests for Nursing Students

Advice, Guidance and Over 400 Online Questions for Extra Revision and Practice

By: Susan Starkings,Larry Krause

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Passing Calculations Tests for Nursing Students

Advice, Guidance and Over 400 Online Questions for Extra Revision and Practice

By: Susan Starkings,Larry Krause

With an easy to use format, this book is all your students need to face calculations tests with confidence and pass first time. It teaches simple numeracy skills that will stand them in good stead both during your initial nurse training and during their career in practice. Now with a dedicated website study.sagepub.com/starkingskrause3e accompanying the book providing further questions and practice, interactive tests, a flashcard glossary and more. Inside you’ll find: · over 360 practice questions with an extra 400+ available online · easy to understand explanations that take the fear out of maths · a diagnostic chapter to help students identify problem areas · activities, scenarios and case studies from every day nursing situations

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Learning Matters

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1473917670

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9781473917675

Star Gods of the Maya

Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars

By: Susan Milbrath

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Star Gods of the Maya

Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars

By: Susan Milbrath

“A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Pre-Columbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Pre-Columbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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University of Texas Press

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0292778511

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9780292778511

The Role of Emotions in Social and Personality Development

History, Theory and Research

By: Carol Magai,Susan H. McFadden

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The Role of Emotions in Social and Personality Development

History, Theory and Research

By: Carol Magai,Susan H. McFadden

Summarizes research in the field and provides a historical context to social and personality development and developmental psychology, emphasizing the role of emotions in personality formation and social behavior. Assesses current theories and alternate models in areas such as attachment, emotion expression, and personality change. Presents a funct.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306448661

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9780306448669

Alma Mahler and Her Contemporaries

A Research and Information Guide

By: Susan Filler

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Alma Mahler and Her Contemporaries

A Research and Information Guide

By: Susan Filler

This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century. It uncovers the wealth of resources available on the lives and music of Mahler, Florence Price, Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, and Maria Teresa Prieto and supports emerging scholarship and inquiry on four women who experienced both entrenched sexual discrimination and political upheaval, which affected their lives and influenced composers of subsequent generations.

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Routledge

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1317397975

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Learning Primary Geography

Ideas and inspiration from classrooms

By: Susan Pike

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Learning Primary Geography

Ideas and inspiration from classrooms

By: Susan Pike

Learning Primary Geography: Ideas and inspiration from classrooms celebrates children’s learning in primary geography. It is a book for all student and practising teachers who would like children to learn about their world in an enjoyable and stimulating way. Every page presents inspiring examples of children’s learning, and explains how and why creative approaches such as enquiry learning, learning outside the classroom, and using imaginative resources work so well in primary geography. Using illustrated case studies from a range of schools and classrooms, each chapter showcases the fantastic work all children can do in primary geography. The book explores a wide variety of geographical learning, with chapters focusing on key aspects of the subject, including: primary geography through the school grounds topical geography through issues and events learning about places in primary geography children’s agency and action through primary geography Throughout the chapters, the role of primary geography in helping children develop all types of literacies, including spatial, critical and digital literacies, is explored. Written by a highly experienced teacher and lecturer in education, Learning Primary Geography is underpinned and illustrated by examples from a wide range of primary classrooms. It will be a source of support, guidance and inspiration for all those teaching geography in the primary school.

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Routledge

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1317408535

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9781317408536

Full Circle

One Woman's Story of Survival and Empowerment

By: Susan Monaco

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Full Circle

One Woman's Story of Survival and Empowerment

By: Susan Monaco

Abby Montero wanted it all. But first, she must overcome rapes haunting memories and emotional impact. Enter Raymond Matthews. He pledges friendship, then love. Together, they embark on a fairy-tale life. Abby soon discovers Raymonds dark side and retreats to the safety of Ben Weldon. But Ben carries demons that could destroy them both. Abby escapes. The danger escalates with Raymonds determination to destroy her. She fights back and learns about love, friendship and fate. Full Circle is Abbys struggle for survival and search for everlasting love. Its an emotional roller coaster from which there appears to be no escape.

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Xlibris Corporation

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146532688X

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9781465326881

The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume Two, E–L

By: Susan Hall

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The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume Two, E–L

By: Susan Hall

An extensive encyclopedic reference guide to male and female serial killers from throughout world history. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 entries of male and female serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders 3 or more people over a period of time with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, serial killers have walked among us from the dawn of time as these books will demonstrate. While the entries to these volumes will continue to grow—the FBI estimates that there are at least fifty serial killers operating in the United States at any given time—The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is as complete as possible through the end of 2017. The series continues with Volume Two, E-L. The entries include El Loco Luis Alfredo Garavito, Happy Face Killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, Interstate Killer Larry Eyler, Godfather of Matamoros Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, and Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo. You will find these killers and approximately 350 others in this second book in the series of The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.

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WildBlue Press

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1952225205

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9781952225208

Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book

Making Informed Choices All the facts about the new hormone replacement therapy studies

By: Susan M. Love, MD,Karen Lindsey

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Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book

Making Informed Choices All the facts about the new hormone replacement therapy studies

By: Susan M. Love, MD,Karen Lindsey

In the first edition of this important bestselling book, praised by Newsday as “the bible for a whole generation of menopausal women,” renowned physician and pioneering women’s health advocate Dr. Susan Love warned about the potential dangers of the long-term prescription of hormone replacement therapy. Her insightful words of caution have been backed up by the stunning results of the recent studies on hormone replacement. In this revised edition, Dr. Love offers a remarkably clear set of guidelines as to what the studies have shown about the risks regarding heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, and other conditions, and what effect hormone therapy has on osteoporosis. She offers definitive expert advice about whether or not to go on hormone replacement therapy and, if so, for how long, as well as how to taper off hormones; and she introduces the alternative methods for treating the symptoms of menopause. Dr. Love stresses that menopause is not a disease that needs to be cured—it is a natural life stage, and every woman ought to choose her own mix of options for coping with symptoms. A questionnaire about your own health history and life preferences helps you develop a program that will best fit your unique needs. With clarity and compassion, she walks you through every option for both the short and the long term, including: • lifestyle changes (diet, exercise, and stress management) • alternative therapies (including herbs and homeopathic remedies) • available medications other than hormones

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Harmony

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0609809962

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9780609809969

A Little Inconvenience

A Novel

By: Susan B. A. Hofmann

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A Little Inconvenience

A Novel

By: Susan B. A. Hofmann

This is a fictional story about several women who have had an abortion or abandoned their infants after birth. It discusses the consequences of these actions on all parties. The procedures mentioned are taken from the actual procedures used in aborting infants.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1642992933

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A Fine, Faithful Wife

By: Susan Connelly

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A Fine, Faithful Wife

By: Susan Connelly

Nell Prentice, a Boston private investigator with a love of the ancient classics, takes on the challenge of searching for a missing wife and mother. Kris Marcus was young and vibrant, and her husband Harry, older and more sedate, is having a difficult time convincing anyone, including the police, that Kris didn't leave her family willingly, in search of a more exciting life. Nell finds herself becoming fond of Harry Marcus and especially of his twin boys, even as she deals with the hopes and expectations of two friends who mean a great deal to her. Martha Hayes wants Nell to move on from the tragedy that took the life of Nell's husband, and police detective Tom Kramer wants to be the person with whom Nell returns to life. When conventional methods fail, Nell takes matters-not entirely legally-into her own hands, and finally learns who holds the secret of Kris's disappearance. She risks her life to wrap up the case, and in the process learns whether she is also ready to risk her heart.

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iUniverse

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0595523609

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9780595523603

Earthshaking Science

What We Know (and Don't Know) about Earthquakes

By: Susan Elizabeth Hough

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Earthshaking Science

What We Know (and Don't Know) about Earthquakes

By: Susan Elizabeth Hough

This is the first book to really make sense of the dizzying array of information that has emerged in recent decades about earthquakes. Susan Hough, a research seismologist in one of North America's most active earthquake zones and an expert at communicating this complex science to the public, separates fact from fiction. She fills in many of the blanks that remained after plate tectonics theory, in the 1960s, first gave us a rough idea of just what earthquakes are about. How do earthquakes start? How do they stop? Do earthquakes occur at regular intervals on faults? If not, why not? Are earthquakes predictable? How hard will the ground shake following an earthquake of a given magnitude? How does one quantify future seismic hazard? As Hough recounts in brisk, jargon-free prose, improvements in earthquake recording capability in the 1960s and 1970s set the stage for a period of rapid development in earthquake science. Although some formidable enigmas have remained, much has been learned on critical issues such as earthquake prediction, seismic hazard assessment, and ground motion prediction. This book addresses those issues. Because earthquake science is so new, it has rarely been presented outside of technical journals that are all but opaque to nonspecialists. Earthshaking Science changes all this. It tackles the issues at the forefront of modern seismology in a way most readers can understand. In it, an expert conveys not only the facts, but the passion and excitement associated with research at the frontiers of this fascinating field. Hough proves, beyond a doubt, that this passion and excitement is more accessible than one might think.

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Princeton University Press

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0691186871

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Love Inspired Suspense October 2013 Bundle

An Anthology

By: Susan Sleeman,Kathleen Tailer,Katy Lee,Marta Perry,Diane Burke,Kit Wilkinson

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Love Inspired Suspense October 2013 Bundle

An Anthology

By: Susan Sleeman,Kathleen Tailer,Katy Lee,Marta Perry,Diane Burke,Kit Wilkinson

Love Inspired Suspense brings you four new titles for one great price, available now for a limited time only from October 1 to October 31! Enjoy these contemporary heart-pounding tales of suspense, romance, hope and faith. This Love Inspired Suspense bundle includes Danger in Amish Country by Marta Perry, Diane Burke and Kit Wilkinson, Thread of Suspicion by Susan Sleeman, The Reluctant Witness by Kathleen Tailer and Warning Signs by Katy Lee. Look for four new inspirational suspense stories every month from Love Inspired Suspense!

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Harlequin

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1460322401

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The Picturesque and the Sublime

A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape

By: Susan Glickman

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The Picturesque and the Sublime

A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape

By: Susan Glickman

Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque. Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome – even terrifying – and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "negative," as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm," Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "Song to the Rising Sun," and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art. Instead of projecting backward from a modernist perspective, Glickman reads forward from the discovery of landscape as a legitimate artistic subject in seventeenth-century England and argues that picturesque modes of description, and a sublime aesthetic, have governed much of the representation of nature in this country. Susan Glickman is a poet living in Toronto. She is the author of Complicity, The Power to Move, Henry Moore's Sheep and Other Poems, and Hide and Seek.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773521356

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9780773521353

The Ring of Truth

By: Susan Beth Pfeffer

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The Ring of Truth

By: Susan Beth Pfeffer

The truth isn’t the most comfortable choice, but it’s the only one with any future Sloan Fredericks can still remember the weeks she spent in the hospital when she was nine, the only survivor of the accident that killed her parents and little brother. Now she lives with her grandmother in the kind of grand old house you’d expect from a family known for both their wealth and their political prowess. It’s also the kind of house that has a music room, which is where Sloan goes searching for a little peace and quiet during her gran’s annual party, until an older man with a important reputation corners her long enough to say some things that Sloan doesn’t want to hear. She quickly brushes past him, hoping that no one saw them. But someone did—one of Sloan’s own friends—who confesses that the man did the same thing to her, only much, much worse. Although meant to be private, the confession doesn’t stay that way, and soon the secret is all anyone can talk about. Can the truth save their family, or will it just dig up even uglier secrets?

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Open Road Media

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1497682711

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Pilgrims

New World Settlers & the Call of Home

By: Susan Hardman Moore,Susan M. Moore

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Pilgrims

New World Settlers & the Call of Home

By: Susan Hardman Moore,Susan M. Moore

This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life histories of people who left New England during the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1640–1660. More than a third of the ministers who had stirred up emigration from England deserted their flocks to return home. The colonists’ stories challenge our perceptions of early settlement and the religious ideal of New England as a "City on a Hill." America was a stage in their journey, not an end in itself. Susan Hardman Moore first explores the motives for migration to New England in the 1630s and the rhetoric that surrounded it. Then, drawing on extensive original research into the lives of hundreds of migrants, she outlines the complex reasons that spurred many to brave the Atlantic again, homeward bound. Her book ends with the fortunes of colonists back home and looks at the impact of their American experience. Of exceptional value to studies of the connections between the Old and New Worlds, Pilgrims contributes to debates about the nature of the New England experiment and its significance for the tumults of revolutionary England.

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Yale University Press

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0300117183

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Decoding International Law

Semiotics and the Humanities

By: Susan Tiefenbrun

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Decoding International Law

Semiotics and the Humanities

By: Susan Tiefenbrun

Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the 20th and 21st centuries. People's inhumanity to people escalates as wars proliferate and respect for human rights and the laws of war diminish. Decoding International Law analyses international law as represented artfully in the humanities.

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Oxford University Press

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0195385772

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Tuxedo Bob

By: Rob,Susan Hegel

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Tuxedo Bob

By: Rob,Susan Hegel

Tuxedo Bob is a musically talented young man with a unique sense of humor, and an extraordinarily optimistic view of life. His classic black tuxedo illustrates his dedication to good manners and respectful behavior. His instinctive ability to make decisions based on what is right instead of what is convenient astounds the most hardened skeptic. His honesty bewilders the agents, bigots, producers, mobsters, and pessimists who come into his life; the kindness of his heart inspires his friends. "Any situation in life is better when experienced in formal attire." Orville Fledsper Armed with a number of his fathers axioms and some off beat songs, Tuxedo Bob travels beyond the horizon of his hometown to seek employment as a songwriter. His demeanor makes him seem nave, but his special way of dealing with the obstacles and situations he encounters on his twenty-three year journey from New York to Las Vegas and Hollywood will make you laugh, and will warm your heart. You will never forget Tuxedo Bob. As an added bonus to this edition, and for your enjoyment, the authors have included all of Tuxedo Bobs song lyrics, and the complete version of his musical screenplay, THE MIRROR OF MR. MOORE. For more information, go to: www.robhegel.com

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1403332231

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The Media at War

By: Susan Carruthers

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The Media at War

By: Susan Carruthers

News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often said, sells. But what does it take to sell a war, and to what extent can news media be viewed as disinterested reporters of truth? Lively and highly readable, this book explores how wars have been reported, interpreted and perpetuated from the dawn of the media age to the present digital era. Spanning a broad geographical and historical canvas, Susan L. Carruthers provides a compelling analysis of the forces that shape the production of news and images of war – from state censorship to more subtle forms of military manipulation and popular pressure. This fully revised second edition has been updated to cover modern-day conflict in the post 9/11 epoch, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rich in historical detail, The Media at War also provides sharp insights into contemporary experience, prompting critical reflection on western society's paradoxical attitudes towards war.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230345352

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Casino capitalism

with an introduction by Matthew Watson

By: Susan Strange

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Casino capitalism

with an introduction by Matthew Watson

By: Susan Strange

A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in her work has now taken place, and to a large extent is still happening.

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Manchester University Press

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1784996599

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Ancient Mesopotamia

By: Susan Pollock

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Ancient Mesopotamia

By: Susan Pollock

Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521575680

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Gun Present

Inside a Southern District Attorney's Battle against Gun Violence

By: Susan Dewey

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Gun Present

Inside a Southern District Attorney's Battle against Gun Violence

By: Susan Dewey

Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors’ work. Built on an immersive, community-based participatory partnership between researchers and criminal justice professionals, Gun Present chronicles how a justice assemblage comprising institutional structures and practices, relationships and roles, and individual moral and emotional worlds informs the day-to-day administration of justice. Weaving together in-depth interviews, quantitative analysis of more than a thousand criminal cases, analysis of trial transcripts, and over a year of ethnographic observations, Gun Present provides a model for scholar-practitioner collaborations.

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Univ of California Press

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0520393694

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Alaska Native Art

Tradition, Innovation, Continuity

By: Susan W. Fair

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Alaska Native Art

Tradition, Innovation, Continuity

By: Susan W. Fair

The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from Tlingit, Aleutian Islanders, Pacific Eskimo, Athabascan, Yupik, and Inupiaq artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. Alaska Native Art examines the concept of tradition in the modern world. Alaska Native Art is a volume to treasure, a tribute to the incredible vision of Alaska's artists and to the enduring traditions of all of Alaska's Native peoples.

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University of Alaska Press

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1889963798

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Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut

By: Susan Farrell

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Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut

By: Susan Farrell

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.

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Infobase Publishing

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143810023X

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Women in Atlanta

By: Staci Catron-Sullivan,Susan Neill

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Women in Atlanta

By: Staci Catron-Sullivan,Susan Neill

The photographs in this book, drawn from the collections of the James G. Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, depict Atlanta women at work and at play from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s. Original.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738517453

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Righting America at the Creation Museum

By: Susan L. Trollinger,William Vance Trollinger Jr.

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Righting America at the Creation Museum

By: Susan L. Trollinger,William Vance Trollinger Jr.

In Righting America at the Creation Museum, Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., take readers on a fascinating tour of the museum. The Trollingers vividly describe and analyze its vast array of exhibits, placards, dioramas, and videos, from the Culture in Crisis Room, where videos depict sinful characters watching pornography or considering abortion, to the National Selection Room, where placards argue that natural selection doesn't lead to evolution. The book also traces the rise of creationism and the history of fundamentalism in America.

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JHU Press

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1421419513

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Screaming Eagles

101st Airborne Division

By: Susan Bryant

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Screaming Eagles

101st Airborne Division

By: Susan Bryant

Formed at the beginning of World War II, the 101st Airborne Division has fought in almost every major conflict since then, including Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Going from a parachute and glider infantry in its early days to an air assault division in our own--the only one in the world--the "Screaming Eagles" are trained to destroy enemy forces while seizing land and resources. They are a rapid deployment group prepared to go anywhere in the world within thirty-six hours. And, for good reason, they are probably the best-known army division in the world. In this book, top military photographer and former U.S. Army Ranger Russ Bryant takes you inside the 101st Airborne. In training and in action, on land and in the air: Here are the Screaming Eagles as youve never seen them, in a close-up, multi-faceted portrait of courage and skill as a fact of everyday life. The book brilliantly illustrates why the 101st Airborne is the vanguard in its field--and in the world.

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1610607430

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Will Ferrell

By: Susan Mitchell

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Will Ferrell

By: Susan Mitchell

Profiles the life and career of actor and comedian Will Ferrell.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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1433923785

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The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume One, A–D

By: Susan Hall

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The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume One, A–D

By: Susan Hall

The first volume featuring the most infamous killers throughout history—from Afghanistan’s Abdullah Shah to Kazakh cannibal Nikolai Dzhumagaliev. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 entries of male and female serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders three or more people over a period of time with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, serial killers have walked among us from the dawn of time as these books will demonstrate. While the entries to these volumes will continue to grow—the FBI estimates that there are at least fifty serial killers operating in the United States at any given time—The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is as complete as possible through the end of 2017. The set begins with Volume One, Letters A–D. The entries include Ted Bundy, the Candyman Dean Corll, Angel of Death killer Donald Harvey, the ABC Killer, and the Bodies in the Barrels Murders. You will find these killers and approximately five-hundred others in this first book in the series of The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.

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WildBlue Press

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1952225035

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