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Mentoring and Induction Programs That Support New Principals

By: Susan Villani

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Mentoring and Induction Programs That Support New Principals

By: Susan Villani

A well-prepared new principal is essential to the success of an entire school. So why is it one of the least supported positions in the building? The author addresses the key question of how well new principals are prepared and supported. This is an ideal resource for developing a mentoring or induction program for principals, or for enhancing existing programs. This text offers a close examination of the state of principalship and the needs of new principals, as well as a detailed compilation of principal mentoring and induction programs throughout the United States.

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0761931465

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Positive Mental Health, Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency for Children and Adolescents

By: Matthew Hodes,Susan Shur-Fen Gau

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Positive Mental Health, Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency for Children and Adolescents

By: Matthew Hodes,Susan Shur-Fen Gau

Positive Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency examines the main mechanisms involved in improving mental health in children and adolescents, including social and biological processes, as well as effective treatments. By taking into account diverse settings and cultures, the book combines academic, research, and clinical contributions and sets forth how it can be translated into effective clinical practice. In addition, the book promotes the study, treatment, care, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders and disabilities involving children, adolescents, and their families, and includes emerging knowledge on mental health problems and good practice in child and adolescent psychiatry as relayed by experts from around the world. - Focuses on the empirical evidence base for work in child and adolescent mental health - Appraises the available evidence and underscores where it is lacking - Demonstrates the implementation of research into practice - Highlights the relevance of existing knowledge for clinical management - Considers service and policy implications

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Academic Press

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0128044144

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9780128044148

Landscapes Decoded

The Origins and Development of Cambridgeshire's Medieval Fields

By: Susan Oosthuizen

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Landscapes Decoded

The Origins and Development of Cambridgeshire's Medieval Fields

By: Susan Oosthuizen

Presenting the research into the landscape history of the Bourn Valley, west of Cambridge, this book is published as the first volume in a series of mid-length monographs on unusual subjects within local and regional history. It is illustrated throughout with maps and photos.

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1902806581

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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

By: Susan Wise Bauer

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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

By: Susan Wise Bauer

A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world. Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and Greek rationality blossom while the Inquisition gathers strength. As kings and emperors continue to insist on their divine rights, ordinary people all over the world seize power: the lingayats of India, the Jacquerie of France, the Red Turbans of China, and the peasants of England. New threats appear, as the Ottomans emerge from a tiny Turkish village and the Mongols ride out of the East to set the world on fire. New currencies are forged, new weapons invented, and world-changing catastrophes alter the landscape: the Little Ice Age and the Great Famine kill millions; the Black Death, millions more. In the chaos of these epoch-making events, our own world begins to take shape. Impressively researched and brilliantly told, The History of the Renaissance World offers not just the names, dates, and facts but the memorable characters who illuminate the years between 1100 and 1453—years that marked a sea change in mankind’s perception of the world.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393240673

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9780393240672

The Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches

By: Susan Bracken

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The Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches

By: Susan Bracken

Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compendium of the main churches in Florence and has been written with two distinct audiences in mind: English-speaking students of Renaissance art, architecture, literature and history and the well-read traveller to Florence who wishes to place the works of art and architecture into the wider context of Italian culture. The choice of churches discussed here was influenced by the author’s experience as teacher for several university programmes on site in Florence. The buildings described and analysed are those which students will most likely encounter in the course of their study-abroad stay in Florence, whether they wish to specialise in art, architecture or the history of the Florentine Renaissance. This book represents a textbook that offers concise information on the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches, provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces the student to some of the most important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443857637

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9781443857635

Considering Medieval Women and Gender

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

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Considering Medieval Women and Gender

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

Professor Stuard collects here a set of her articles on women and gender in the Middle Ages, beginning with her first, published in 1975. The first section, on marriage, opens with an exploration of the Ragusa/Dubrovnik archives, reaches out to consider patterns of gift-giving at marriage and of consumption. The second section focuses on slavery, specifically women destined for domestic service. The final parts contain historiographical surveys of the field of women and gender studies, and three biographical studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040249477

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A Leader's Guide to Science Curriculum Topic Study

By: Susan Mundry,Page Keeley,Carolyn Landel

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A Leader's Guide to Science Curriculum Topic Study

By: Susan Mundry,Page Keeley,Carolyn Landel

The Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) process, funded by the US National Science Foundation, helps teachers improve their practice by linking standards and research to content, curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Key to the core book Science Curriculum Topic Study, this resource helps science professional development leaders and teacher educators understand the CTS approach and how to design, lead, and apply CTS in a variety of settings that support teachers as learners. The authors provide everything needed to facililtate the CTS process, including: a solid foundation in the CTS framework; multiple designs for half-day and full-day workshops, professional learning communities, and one-on-one instructional coaching; facilitation, group processing, and materials management strategies; and a CD-ROM with handouts, PowerPoint slides, and templates. By bringing CTS into schools and other professional development settings, science leaders can enhance their teachers' knowlege of content, improve teaching practices, and have a positive impact on student learning.

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Corwin Press

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1412978173

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Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500

By: Susan Rose

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Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500

By: Susan Rose

How were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and difficulties of medieval seafaring.

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Psychology Press

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041523977X

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Walks in Florence

Vol. 2

By: Susan,Joanna Horner

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Walks in Florence

Vol. 2

By: Susan,Joanna Horner

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382821591

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Unofficial Companion

By: Susan Green,Randee Dawn

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Unofficial Companion

By: Susan Green,Randee Dawn

The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Unofficial Companion is a comprehensive guide covering the first 10 seasons and includes a synopsis and an objective analysis for each episode, as well as commentaries or recollections from the people involved in crafting the one-hour tale. It goes after the heart of SVU through interviews with actors, writers, producers, casting agents, location scouts and others. The authors peek behind the scenes of the bicoastal operation, observing the progress of an entire episode shot in New York City and a script fine-tuned in Los Angeles. The book provides fascinating insight, delighting SVU devotees who love on-screen and backstage trivia. In addition, creator Dick Wolf offers readers a gripping foreword to the book.

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BenBella Books, Inc.

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1935251880

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9781935251880

Gilding the Market

Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

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Gilding the Market

Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

In the fourteenth century, garish ornaments, bright colors, gilt, and military effects helped usher in the age of fashion in Italy. Over a short span of years important matters began to turn on the cut of a sleeve. Fashion influenced consumption and provided a stimulus that drove demand for goods and turned wealthy townspeople into enthusiastic consumers. Making wise decisions about the alarmingly expensive goods that composed a fashionable wardrobe became a matter of pressing concern, especially when the market caught on and became awash in cheaper editions of luxury wares. Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequent era of plague, return of plague, and increased warfare. A fine sensitivity to the demands of "le pompe," that is, the public display of private wealth, infected town life. The quest for luxuries affected markets by enlarging exchange activity and encouraging retail trades. As both consumers and tradesmen, local goldsmiths, long-distance traders, bankers, and money changers played important roles in creating this new age of fashion. In response to a greater public display of luxury goods, civic sumptuary laws were written to curb spending and extreme fashion, but these were aimed at women, youth, and children, leaving townsmen largely unrestricted in their consumption. With erudition, grace, and an evocative selection of illustrations, some reproduced in full color, Susan Mosher Stuard explores the arrival of fashion in European history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812205375

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Electronic Texts in the Humanities

Principles and Practice

By: Susan Hockey

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Electronic Texts in the Humanities

Principles and Practice

By: Susan Hockey

With word processing and the Internet, computing is much more part and parcel of the everyday life of the humanities scholar, but computers can do much more than assist with writing or Internet searching. This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating and analysing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication of electronic scholarly editions. It assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research. The tools and techniques discussed in this book will feed into better Internet tools and pave the way for the electronic scholar of the twenty-first century.

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OUP Oxford

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0191583286

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A State of Deference

Ragusa / Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

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A State of Deference

Ragusa / Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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1512807303

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Franciabigio

By: Susan Regan McKillop

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Franciabigio

By: Susan Regan McKillop

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

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0520322444

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Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics

By: Susan Loucks-Horsley

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Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics

By: Susan Loucks-Horsley

This New Edition collects and brings together in one place what has been learned from professional developers efforts across the country in order to make the framework, principles, and strategies of the first edition come to life. This edition deepens our understanding of professional development through further research and new resources. The original purpose of this book to put a competent and caring teacher in every classroom has yet to be fulfilled and is more urgent now than ever. The authors provide one-stop shopping for busy practitioners that incorporates the most up-to-date research gleaned from the broadest possible research base as well as robust and rich descriptions of effective professional development programmes. It incorporates the growing knowledge base about learning, teaching, the nature of science and mathematics, professional development, and change. The authors scanned the field of professional development in mathematics and science over the last five years, noting what has changed and what has not, dissected the original framework, updated examples, incorporate what authors have learned as well as advances in the field. This essential primer offers a framework that considers key inputs and combines strategies uniquely tailored to their environment and goals; summarizes key knowledge and best practices; provides guidance on assessing one′s context; describes strategies that go beyond most common workshops and institutes; provides real-life examples of how elements of the framework were used to create professional development initiatives; offers references and resources for further exploration and inquiry. Highlights of the Second Edition include: - New design framework that incorporates standards, student learning data, and evaluation techniques - More guidance for assessing context using data - More strategies for professional development, including lesson study, aligning and selecting curriculum, and demonstration lessons. - Stronger real-life examples, including new uses of technology and data-driven designs An essential resource for educators who design, conduct, and support professional development for teachers of mathematics and science, including staff developers, principals, teacher leaders, curriculum supervisors, and leadership teams. College and university faculty in education, science, and mathematics will also find this to be a useful compendium of ideas for improving mathematics and science education.

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0761946861

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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

Analyzes entrepreneurial ecosystems though the lens of gender to identify myriad individual, organizational, and institutional factors that create gendered inequities.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316519430

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Figuring Women

A Thematic Study of Giovanni Verga's Female Characters

By: Susan Amatangelo

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Figuring Women

A Thematic Study of Giovanni Verga's Female Characters

By: Susan Amatangelo

The fact that Verga's most rebellious heroines die violently at the hands of men has led to accusations of misogyny or, at the very least, of excessive social and artistic conventionality. Yet it is precisely Verga's awareness of convention that enriches his portrayal of women. The reaction of his female characters to social custom at a particular moment in their lives defines them as individuals. With rare insight, Verga depicts the female experience as both personal and universal, showing that different kinds of women are linked by the experience of being female in a male-centered culture. At the same time, however, he reveals the isolation in which women grow and live, separated from men and other women by social and cultural barriers."--BOOK JACKET.

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0838640176

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The New Power Eating

By: Kleiner, Susan,Greenwood-Robinson, Maggie

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The New Power Eating

By: Kleiner, Susan,Greenwood-Robinson, Maggie

The New Power Eating delivers a science-based nutrition plan that explains what to eat and when and how to customize your diet for your physique, performance, and energy needs. This is the authoritative guide for adding muscle and cutting fat.

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Human Kinetics

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1492567264

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Old Puglia

A Cultural Companion to South-Eastern Italy

By: Desmond Seward,Susan Mountgarret

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Old Puglia

A Cultural Companion to South-Eastern Italy

By: Desmond Seward,Susan Mountgarret

Apulia (or Puglia) is the heel of Italy, stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. Its landscape is often very beautiful and it has wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a great wealth of Baroque architecture, together with 'rupestrian' churches that contain Byzantine frescoes. But, although far from inaccessible, until quite recently it was seldom visited by Anglo Saxons. Today, however, Apulia is becoming fashionable, 'an alternative to Tuscany'. It is featured on radio and television; travel supplements describe its beaches and its cooking, supermarkets stock Apulian wine, oil, bread and pasta. Yet almost nothing about the region has been published in English since the days of Norman Douglas and the Sitwells. One can find 'holiday histories' of Tuscany, but there is no popular introduction to Apulian history, not even in Italian. Our book, which grew out of what was originally intended as a travel book, has been written to fill the gap by providing a simple, readable account.

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Haus Publishing

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1909961337

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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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Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence

By: Susan B. Puett,J. David Puett

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Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence

By: Susan B. Puett,J. David Puett

The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques to create new materials; hospitals used art to invigorate the soul; apothecaries prepared and dispensed, often from the same plants, both medicinals for patients and pigments for painters; utilitarian glassware and maps became objects to be admired for their beauty; art enhanced depictions of scientific observations; and innovations in construction made buildings canvases for artistic grandeur. An exploration of these and other intersections of art and science deepens our appreciation of the magnificent contributions of the extraordinary Florentines.

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Penn State Press

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1612481388

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Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

By: Susan Forscher Weiss,Russell E. Murray, Jr.,Cynthia J. Cyrus

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Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

By: Susan Forscher Weiss,Russell E. Murray, Jr.,Cynthia J. Cyrus

What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other -- including gender, social status, and the role of the Church -- to better understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe. This volume provides an expansive view of the beginnings of music pedagogy, and shows how the act of learning was embedded in the broader context of the early Western art music tradition.

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Indiana University Press

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0253004551

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The Portable Italian Mamma

Guilt, Pasta, and When Are You Giving Me Grandchildren?

By: Laura Mosiello,Susan Reynolds

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The Portable Italian Mamma

Guilt, Pasta, and When Are You Giving Me Grandchildren?

By: Laura Mosiello,Susan Reynolds

YouÆre so skinnyùwhat have you been eating? Have you spoken to your brothers today? Would it kill you to go to Mass with your mother? Everyone who has every walked into an Italian motherÆs kitchen has been met with a kiss on the cheek and spoonful of her special gravyùwhether youÆre a relative, friend, friend of a relative, or paperboy. This book packs the kisses, sauces, and everything and anything else expected from Ma into a funny and poignant book. Authors Laura Mosiello and Susan Reynolds cook up and serve plenty of recipes, jokes, facts, and stories for Italians and non-Italians alike. They deliver the same wisdom and love Mama has been talking about (with her hands) for years. This book makes the praise, hugs, and finger wagging available at all times.

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1440520399

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The Wine Trade in Medieval Europe 1000-1500

By: Susan Rose

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The Wine Trade in Medieval Europe 1000-1500

By: Susan Rose

Wine has held its place for centuries at the heart of social and cultural life in western Europe. This book explains how and why this came about, providing a thematic history of wine and the wine trade in Europe in the middle ages from c.1000 to c.1500.Wine was one of the earliest commodities to be traded across the whole of western Europe. Because of its commercial importance, more is probably known about the way viticulture was undertaken and wine itself was made, than the farming methods used with most other agricultural products at the time. Susan Rose addresses questions such as:Where were vines grown at this time? How was wine made and stored? Were there acknowledged distinctions in quality? How did traders operate? What were the social customs associated with wine drinking? What view was taken by moralists? How important was its association with Christian ritual? Did Islamic prohibitions on alcohol affect the wine trade? What other functions did wine have?

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1441105484

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Fiefs and Vassals

The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted

By: Susan Reynolds

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Fiefs and Vassals

The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted

By: Susan Reynolds

Fiefs and Vassals has changed our view of the medieval world. It offers a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism. Susan Reynolds argues that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as understood by historians of medieval Europe, were constructed by post-medieval scholarsfrom the works of medieval academic lawyers and tha they provide a bad guide to the realities of medieval society.This is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and free men, the distillation of wide-ranging research by a leading medieval historian. It has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages.

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0198206488

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The Anglo-Saxon Fenland

By: Susan Oosthuizen

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The Anglo-Saxon Fenland

By: Susan Oosthuizen

Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another interpretation. The fen islands and the silt fens show a degree of occupation unexpected a few decades ago. Dense Romano-British settlement appears to have been followed by consistent early medieval occupation on every island in the peat fens and across the silt fens, despite the impact of climatic change. The inhabitants of the region were organised within territorial groups in a complicated, almost certainly dynamic, hierarchy of subordinate and dominant polities, principalities and kingdoms. Their prosperous livelihoods were based on careful collective control, exploitation and management of the vast natural water-meadows on which their herds of cattle grazed. This was a society whose origins could be found in prehistoric Britain, and which had evolved through the period of Roman control and into the post-imperial decades and centuries that followed. The rich and complex history of the development of the region shows, it is argued, a traditional social order evolving, adapting and innovating in response to changing times.

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1911188119

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The Leonardos and the Forgotten Arab Polymath, Zoroastro

By: Susan Audrey Grundy

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The Leonardos and the Forgotten Arab Polymath, Zoroastro

By: Susan Audrey Grundy

This book recovers the lives of four men masked behind one legend. Reinterpreting recently rediscovered documents shows a Tuscan artist Leonardo da Vinci was banished from Florence around 1477, when at the same moment another Leonardo arrived from the East, an Ottoman agent from Genoese Caffa in the Black Sea. This Leonardo was a military engineer, who began writing technical notes backward in a flourishing Italian script. In Florence, around 1500, he met the alchemist and polymath Zoroastro, who collaborated in producing the scientific Notebooks. However, by the mid-sixteenth century, all memory of Zoroastro had been erased, and the two Leonardos had been conflated into one identity. Crucially, an archived document, rediscovered around 2021, proved that the Tuscan painter Leonardo da Vinci died in 1499. This information leads to the recovery of the artist who really painted the Mona Lisa, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.

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1036412768

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Power Eating

By: Susan M. Kleiner,Maggie Greenwood-Robinson

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Power Eating

By: Susan M. Kleiner,Maggie Greenwood-Robinson

This guide provides information on strength training nutrition. It includes detailed nutrition plans for the goals that strength trainers, bodybuilders and power-sport athletes want to achieve: gaining muscle, cutting fat and boosting energy.

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0736066985

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Wisdom of Community

Essays on History, Social Transformation and Culture

By: Susan Visvanathan

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Essays on History, Social Transformation and Culture

By: Susan Visvanathan

The Wisdom of Community is a compilation of essays which documents the key issues that have been pertinent in national debates in India. In some ways it takes a linear and chronological position on how the past informs us as we proceed with making sense of postmodern fluid society. It tries to understand how affected or influenced we are by colonialism, and the debates which brought us our freedom. It uses biography, symbols and narratives to piece together our engagement with literature, history, myth and legend. It presupposes that the past is contextualised through narrative production. Each essay in this collection is tuned to the greater debates, which continue today in problematized global and cosmopolitan contexts to describe the relation between town and country. The consistent preoccupation is with labour and its intended consequences. Here, climate change, law court trials and constructing parallel histories which have influenced us are drawn to tell the reader that learning from history is essential for our survival. Readers will see that the world always appears in the spaces that are produced by travel, by terror, freedom, conquest and adaptation. The coexistence of all these across history, allows for the warp and weft of narrative production to be evident as analysable and comprehensive. The reader enters this frame of interlocking essays in order to understand how significant the production of stories are, and how we may find similarities in our condition across time and space. The book consists of 12 essays which are arranged in a way that the essential problems are made evident as questions of occupation, survival, and translation of world views. It brings the world closer, just as in reality it seems to be receding, because we are afraid of what we see, and know. The method is called Learning from History. The Wisdom of Community brings to the reader the interlacing of archival, fieldwork and literary materials in order to bring to the reader the constants that inform our lives, while recognizing the past as ever-present. The essays in this collection span a period of thirty years, and were earlier published as essays in popular journals and magazines and newspapers, but also include some scholarly articles. They are divided into essays on travel, feminism, as well as activist, literary, and analytical essays. The reader will find in them the insights of three decades spanning the years of teaching and writing while living in Delhi. The link connecting these essays is time and memory, as well as the belief that we can learn from the past. The “circulation of ideas” appears as a dominant theme, in all the essays, along with the emphases on agency, and the celebration of the right to choice and the articulation of human will, since the themes of democracy and freedom are common to all.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9354355188

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Under His Very Windows

The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy

By: Susan Zuccotti

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Under His Very Windows

The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy

By: Susan Zuccotti

What did Pius XII do to aid Jews during World War II? This is an examination of efforts on behalf of Jews in Italy, the country where the pope was in a position to be most helpful. It finds that despite a persistent myth to the contrary, Pius and his assistants at the Vatican did very little.

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Yale University Press

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0300093101

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Ideas and Solidarities of the Medieval Laity

England and Western Europe

By: Susan Reynolds

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Ideas and Solidarities of the Medieval Laity

England and Western Europe

By: Susan Reynolds

This book contains essays written over the past 25 years about medieval urban communities and about the loyalties and beliefs of medieval lay people in general. Most writing about medieval religious, political, legal, and social ideas starts from treatises written by academics and assumes that ideas trickled down from the clergy to the laity. Susan Reynolds, whether writing about the struggles for liberty of small English towns, the national solidarities of the Anglo-Saxons, or the capacity of medieval peasants to formulate their own attitudes to religion, rejects this assumption. She suggests that the medieval laity had ideas of their own that deserve to be taken seriously.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000683516

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9781000683516

My Two Homes

By: Susan Magsamen

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My Two Homes

By: Susan Magsamen

A sense of gentleness permeates the pages of this book for children and parents experiencing separation or divorce. Families who've been there provide useful ideas that lead to two healthy, encouraging home environments. Family activity: a home-to-home binder for contact information, schedules, family/teacher communications, after-school activities, and more.

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Sterling Publishing Company

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1402748264

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Vanishing Species

Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fisherman

By: Susan R. Playfair

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Vanishing Species

Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fisherman

By: Susan R. Playfair

The story of the ongoing debate between the New England communities of fishermen, federal regulators, scientists and environmentalists.

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UPNE

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158465452X

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Schubert's Late Lieder

Beyond the Song-Cycles

By: Susan Youens

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Schubert's Late Lieder

Beyond the Song-Cycles

By: Susan Youens

A study of songs composed by Schubert in the final six years of his life.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521028752

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New Prognostic and Predictive Markers in Cancer Progression

By: Susan Costantini Alfredo Budillon,Alfredo Budillon

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New Prognostic and Predictive Markers in Cancer Progression

By: Susan Costantini Alfredo Budillon,Alfredo Budillon

Biomarkers are of critical medical importance for oncologists, allowing them to predict and detect disease and to determine the best course of action for cancer patient care. Prognostic markers are used to evaluate a patient’s outcome and cancer recurrence probability after initial interventions such as surgery or drug treatments and, hence, to select follow-up and further treatment strategies. On the other hand, predictive markers are increasingly being used to evaluate the probability of benefit from clinical intervention(s), driving personalized medicine. Evolving technologies and the increasing availability of “multiomics” data are leading to the selection of numerous potential biomarkers, based on DNA, RNA, miRNA, protein, and metabolic alterations within cancer cells or tumor microenvironment, that may be combined with clinical and pathological data to greatly improve the prediction of both cancer progression and therapeutic treatment responses. However, in recent years, few biomarkers have progressed from discovery to become validated tools to be used in clinical practice. This Special Issue comprises eight review articles and five original studies on novel potential prognostic and predictive markers for different cancer types.

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MDPI

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3039439774

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Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry

By: Susan Bailey,Mairead Dolan

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Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry

By: Susan Bailey,Mairead Dolan

Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry discusses a broad range of issues based around the psychiatric needs of adolescents and how these relate to offending behaviour. Its well-structured approach looks at assessment, treatment and outcomes for different disorders and highlights the importance of effective interaction between specialist agencies. Services

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1444114220

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