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The Greatest Black Achievers in History

By: Sylvia Lovina Chidi

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The Greatest Black Achievers in History

By: Sylvia Lovina Chidi

This book summarizes the lives of the great black people that have made great contributions to the lives of many Worldwide. The book has brief detailed biographies of black activists, scientists, educators, entertainers, musicians, inventors, politicians, authors, sportsmen & women, and others who have surpassed the normal to make historical marks on society. The biographical account of each individual provides relevant dates, events and achievements by the individual. There are pictures and excellent drawings that highlight particular moments in history. This is one of the greatest pieces of work on black history and it will appeal to everyone including, students, groups, universities, libraries, schools and anyone interested in history of black people in the World.

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Lulu.com

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1291909338

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9781291909333

Signs of Borges

By: Sylvia Molloy

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Signs of Borges

By: Sylvia Molloy

Publisher description -- Borges's sustained practice of the uncanny gives rise in his texts to endless tensions between illusion and meaning, and to the competing desires for fragmentation, dispersal, and stability. Molloy traces the movement of Borges's own writing by repeatedly spanning the boundaries of genre and cutting across the conventional separations of narrative, lyric and essay, fact and fiction. Rather than seeking to resolve the tensions and conflicts, she preserves and develops them, thereby maintaining the potential of these texts to disturb. At the site of these tensions, Molloy locates the play between meaning and meaningless that occurs in Borges's texts. From this vantage point his strategies of deception, recourse to simulacra, inquisitorial urge to unsettle binarism, and distrust of the permanent--all that makes Borges Borges--are examined with unmatched skill and acuity.

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Duke University Press

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0822314207

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9780822314202

College Rodeo

From Show to Sport

By: Sylvia Gann Mahoney

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College Rodeo

From Show to Sport

By: Sylvia Gann Mahoney

Guts and glory, bulls and barrel racing, spurs and scars are all part of rodeo, a sport of epic legends. Cowboys and cowgirls use brain and brawn to contend for prizes and placement, but more often than not, it is the prestige of honorable competition that spurs them on. College Rodeo covers the history of the sport on college campuses from the first organized contest in 1920 to the national championship of 2003. In the early years of the twentieth century, a growing number of kids from farms and ranches attended college, many choosing the land grant institutions that allowed them to prepare for agricultural careers back home. They brought with them a love for the skills, challenges, and competition they had known—a taste for rodeo. The first-ever college rodeo was held at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. It offered bronco busting, goat roping, saddle racing, polo, a greased pig contest, and country ballads from a quartet. The rodeo was a fund-raising effort that grew enormously popular; by its third year, the rodeo at Texas A&M drew some fifteen hundred people. The idea spread to other campuses, and nineteen years later, the first intercollegiate rodeo with eleven colleges and universities competing was held in 1939 at the ranch arena of an entrepreneur near Victorville, California. Seldom does a college sport exist for eighty years without having a book written about it, but college rodeo has. Sylvia Gann Mahoney has written the first history of the sport, tracing its growth parallel to the development of professional rodeo and the growth of the organizational structure that governs college rodeo. Mahoney draws on personal interviews as well as the archives of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association and newspaper accounts from participating schools and their hometowns. Mahoney chronicles the events, profiles winners, and analyzes the organizational efforts that have contributed to the colorful history of college rodeo. She traces the changing role of women, noting their victories that were ignored by much of the contemporary press in the early days of the sport. College Rodeo highlights outstanding individuals through extensive interviews, giving credit to the pioneers of college rodeo. This book includes rare photographs of rodeo teams, champions, and rodeo queens, blended with the true life details of sweat and tears that make intercollegiate rodeo such a popular sport.

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Texas A&M University Press

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158544331X

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9781585443314

Come Shouting to Zion

African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

By: Sylvia R. Frey,Betty Wood

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Come Shouting to Zion

African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

By: Sylvia R. Frey,Betty Wood

The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of traditional African religions to the New World through the growth of Protestant Christianity in the American South and British Caribbean up to 1830. Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a complex reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians. It highlights the role of African American preachers in the conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black spiritual community. Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped transform Africans into African Americans.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807861588

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9780807861585

Charity: A Sweet Mail Order Bride Holiday Romance

By: Sylvia McDaniel

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Charity: A Sweet Mail Order Bride Holiday Romance

By: Sylvia McDaniel

From USA Today Bestselling author a sweet, historical mail-order bride romance. A Mail-Order Bride, Secrets, Lies, and a Christmas Miracle Five Charleston women desperate for marriage-minded men and the chance to rebuild their lives after the Civil War answer an ad in the Groom’s Gazette. Charity Kingston has to get out of Charleston or face life working in a brothel. But the past follows her to Angel Creek, Montana, revealing her Irish temper. And the bordello owner demands payment of her debt. After leaving the military, Lewis Brown is given a chance at a new start in life. Taking a dead man’s identity, he begins fresh as a saloon owner in Angel Creek. Imagine his surprise when a mail-order bride comes with the saloon. In a twist of fate, his past is exposed, his secrets revealed, and his worst nightmare confirmed. Lewis and Charity need a Christmas Miracle. For fans of Linda Lael Miller, Kirsten Osbourne and Cat Cahill.

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Virtual Bookseller, LLC

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1942608969

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9781942608967

Angel Creek Christmas Brides Box Set

By: Sylvia McDaniel

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Angel Creek Christmas Brides Box Set

By: Sylvia McDaniel

Christmas Mail Order Brides from USA Today Bestselling Author Sylvia McDaniel Escape to Angel Creek, Where Pasts Collide and Love Offers a Second Chance this Christmas Charity Kingston escapes a dangerous brothel owner, only to face her debts and a husband, Lewis Brown, hiding his own secrets. Will their love survive as Christmas nears? Anna Tuttle, a pampered southern belle, must learn the harsh realities of frontier life with her rugged husband, Levi Jackson. Can they find common ground and love before the holidays? Ginger Legare, scarred by the Civil War, meets Preacher Flint Carroll, a man untouched by loss. Together, they seek healing and happiness. Minnie Ravenel, carrying a secret and an unborn child, marries Tripp Maddox, a lonely rancher. But can they build a life together, or will their pasts tear them apart? Cora Weaver, on the run from the law, becomes Mack Lawson’s bride, but the threat of justice looms over their love. Can they find peace and joy before Christmas, or will Cora’s crime catch up with her? Fans of Kirsten Osbourne, Jodi Thomas and Linda Lael Miller will enjoy these historical holiday stories.

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1959689649

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9781959689645

Poor Mary - A Tale of Schizophrenia

By: Sylvia Hoole

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Poor Mary - A Tale of Schizophrenia

By: Sylvia Hoole

Schizophrenia is an evil disease marked by a breakdown in the relation between thoughts, feelings and actions, frequently accompanied by delusions and retreat from social life. A daughter watches Mary, her mother, fall prey to this disease and sees her change from an attractive and beautiful woman to a shadow of her former self. This story tells of a daughter's anguish, dashed hopes and despair as she battles with Mary and tries to understand what is happening to her mother.It tells of Mary's anguish and fear as she is possessed by the demons of insanity. All who have contact with Mary in those dark years are affected adversely in some way or another. So many met with frustration as they tried to reason with her and failed. Mary is at last laid to rest but the repercussions of her frantic existence are far reaching for those who were closest to her.

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1452057168

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9781452057163

Political Speech as a Weapon

Microaggression in a Changing Racial and Ethnic Environment

By: Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman

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Political Speech as a Weapon

Microaggression in a Changing Racial and Ethnic Environment

By: Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman

Provides a penetrating examination of how political rhetoric from public officials creates tensions via microaggression cues due to changing demographics, campaign rhetoric, and the use of social media. What are microaggression cues, and what are examples of those cues in political rhetoric? How have microaggression cues from former presidents, elected officials, political candidates, and former candidate, now President, Trump led to further polarization of America's citizens? What are the connections between these microaggression cues, the demographic shift of the United States, and the growing fear among longtime majority populations? Political Speech as a Weapon: Microaggression in a Changing Racial and Ethnic Environment answers these questions and helps readers understand related topics such as nativism, the transformation process of the U.S. population and cultural norms, and how Americans can best respond to evolving conditions to meet these challenges. Author Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman addresses a blind spot in the field of American politics and connects hostile rhetoric by public officials to the effect of such rhetoric, which leads to the marginalization of groups and a polarizing cultural environment. The book specifically focuses on the role of political rhetoric as a microaggression cue and clearly illustrates how these cues are a well established—and damaging—component of U.S. political culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440855838

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9781440855832

Contemporary Dance and Southern African Rock Art

Tranceformations and Transformations

By: Sylvia "Magogo" Glasser

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Contemporary Dance and Southern African Rock Art

Tranceformations and Transformations

By: Sylvia "Magogo" Glasser

This book weaves archaeology, anthropology, culture, politics, colonial history, dance and choreography into a life-transforming tapestry. It charts the extraordinary story of the author’s work in South Africa during the abhorrent system of Apartheid when she started a mixed-race dance company called Moving into Dance in the garage of her house. Her in-depth research into rock art, its meaning, the creation and performance of Tranceformations, the dancers’ own transformative experiences, as well as issues of cultural appropriation, are at the core of this book. It straddles different disciplines, and shows in real terms how art, or specifically dance, can transform people’s lives, not only in physical or cognitive parameters, but that it can change attitudes and perceptions of both participants and observers; that it can touch the human spirit and transcend the very essence of being human. This book also includes a link to a video of the 30-minute dance “Tranceformations”, choreographed by the author.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527584445

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9781527584440

Poetry People

A Practical Guide to Children's Poets

By: Sylvia M. Vardell

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Poetry People

A Practical Guide to Children's Poets

By: Sylvia M. Vardell

Dr. Sylvia Vardell's new children's poetry reference book provides a comprehensive introduction to more than 60 contemporary young people's poets. Focusing primarily on those who are still actively writing today, the author includes poets appropriate for young children through young adults. Each entry features brief biographical information, highlights selected poetry books authored, showcases awards won, notes related Web sites, and provides suggestions for making connections (programming ideas, related books and activities). The book is ideal for librarians who serve children and young adults, as well as for teachers and others who work with children and young adults. Beginning with Arnold Adoff the list of poets is both impressive and informative. A sample: Francisco Alarcon, Aileen Fisher, Douglas Florian, Nikki Giovanni, Kristine O'Connell George, Jane Yolen, Eloise Greenfield, John Ciardi and many more!

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313094748

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9780313094743

Postmodern Picturebooks

Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality

By: Lawrence R. Sipe,Sylvia Pantaleo

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Postmodern Picturebooks

Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality

By: Lawrence R. Sipe,Sylvia Pantaleo

Over the past 15 years, there has been a pronounced trend toward a particular type of picturebook that many would label "postmodern." Postmodern picturebooks have stretched our conventional notion of what constitutes a picturebook, as well as what it means to be an engaged reader of these texts. The international researchers and scholars included in this compelling collection of work critically examine and discuss postmodern picturebooks, and reflect upon their unique contributions to both the field of children’s literature and to the development of new literacies for child, adolescent, and adult readers.

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Routledge

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1135897832

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9781135897833

Speaking for Nature

Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England

By: Sylvia Bowerbank

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Speaking for Nature

Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England

By: Sylvia Bowerbank

The book contains perceptions of nature and ecology in writings by English women authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Includes discussion of works by the writers: Mary Wroth (ca. 1586-ca. 1640), Margaret Cavendish (1624?-1674), Mary Rich Warwick (1625-1678), Catherine Talbot (1721-1770), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).

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JHU Press

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0801878721

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9780801878725

Globalization and Inequalities

Complexity and Contested Modernities

By: Sylvia Walby

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Globalization and Inequalities

Complexity and Contested Modernities

By: Sylvia Walby

How has globalization changed social inequality? Why do Americans die younger than Europeans, despite larger incomes? Is there an alternative to neoliberalism? Who are the champions of social democracy? Why are some countries more violent than others? In this groundbreaking book, Sylvia Walby examines the many changing forms of social inequality and their intersectionalities at both country and global levels. She shows how the contest between different modernities and conceptions of progress shape the present and future. The book re-thinks the nature of economy, polity, civil society and violence. It places globalization and inequalities at the centre of an innovative new understanding of modernity and progress and demonstrates the power of these theoretical reformulations in practice, drawing on global data and in-depth analysis of the US and EU. Walby analyses the tensions between the different forces that are shaping global futures. She examines the regulation and deregulation of employment and welfare; domestic and public gender regimes; secular and religious polities; path dependent trajectories and global political waves; and global inequalities and human rights.

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SAGE

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1446202313

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9781446202319

Environmental and Human Safety of Major Surfactants

Alcohol Ethoxylates and Alkylphenol Ethoxylates

By: Sylvia S. Talmage

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Environmental and Human Safety of Major Surfactants

Alcohol Ethoxylates and Alkylphenol Ethoxylates

By: Sylvia S. Talmage

The book summarizes and reviews the environmental and human safety of two classes of nonionic surfactants-alcohol ethoxylates (AE) and alkylphenol ethoxylates (APE). This unique resource contains critical data from published sources as well as from unpublished studies submitted by Soap and Detergent Association member companies. It reviews information on product chemistry and analysis, biodegradation, environmental levels (including fate and distribution), aquatic toxicity, and human safety. Recently developed analytical techniques for the extraction, separation, detection, and measurement of nonionic surfactants and their metabolites in environmental samples are described. Results of biodegradation studies performed with a variety of test systems are tabulated, as are results of field studies at wastewater treatment plants. Reported comparisons of environmental levels with results of acute and chronic aquatic toxicity tests are provided. The information on the toxicity and irritation potential of AE and APE surfactants includes data from in vitro, mammalian, and human studies.

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CRC Press

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0429610629

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9780429610622

Children's Literature in Action

A Librarian's Guide

By: Sylvia M. Vardell

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Children's Literature in Action

A Librarian's Guide

By: Sylvia M. Vardell

This practitioner-oriented introduction to literature for children ages 5–12 covers the latest trends, titles, and tools for choosing the best books and materials as well as for planning fun and effective programs and activities. The third edition of Children's Literature in Action provides an activity-oriented survey of children's literature for undergraduate and graduate students seeking licensure and degrees that will lead to careers working with children in schools and public libraries. Author Sylvia M. Vardell draws on her 30 years of university teaching and extensive familiarity with the major textbooks in the area of children's literature to deliver something different: a book that focuses specifically on the perspective and needs of the librarian, with emphasis on practical action and library applications. Its contents address seven major genres: picture books, traditional tales, poetry, contemporary realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and informational books. Each chapter includes practical applications for the educator who shares books with children and who develops literature-based instruction. Chapters are enriched by author comments, collaborative activities, featured books, special topics, and activities including selected awards and celebrations, historical connections, recommended resources, issues for discussion, and assignment suggestions. This new edition incorporates the 2018 AASL National School Library Standards.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440867798

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9781440867798

Price of Fame

The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce

By: Sylvia Jukes Morris

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Price of Fame

The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce

By: Sylvia Jukes Morris

“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die,” Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce’s progress from her arrival on Capitol Hill through her career as a diplomat, prolific journalist, and magnetic public speaker, as well as a playwright, screenwriter, pioneer scuba diver, early experimenter in psychedelic drugs, and grande dame of the GOP in the Reagan era. Tempestuously married to Henry Luce, the powerful publisher of Time Inc., she endured his infidelities while pursuing her own, and remained a practiced vamp well into her crowded later years, during which she strengthened her friendships with Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, John F. Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh, Lyndon Johnson, Salvador Dalí, Richard Nixon, William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan, and countless other celebrities. Sylvia Jukes Morris is the only writer to have had complete access to Mrs. Luce’s prodigious collection of public and private papers. In addition, she had unique access to her subject, whose death at eighty-four ended a life that for variety of accomplishment qualifies Clare Boothe Luce for the title of “Woman of the Century.” Praise for Price of Fame “The twentieth-century history of this country, seen through the eyes and actions of a remarkable woman . . . one of the most fabulous, intimate biographies I have ever read.”—Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune “The epic Price of Fame is a thrilling account of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and ambitious society figures.”—Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire “Delicious . . . In Price of Fame . . . Sylvia Jukes Morris takes up the story she began in Rage for Fame. . . . Both books are models of the biographer’s art—meticulously researched, sophisticated, fair-minded and compulsively readable.”—Edward Kosner, The Wall Street Journal “Clare Boothe Luce [was] one of the twentieth century’s most ambitious, unstoppable and undeniably ingenious characters. . . . This full, warts-and-all biography hauls her back into the limelight and does her full justice.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Poignant and profound . . . nothing short of a triumph.”—Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, The Washington Times “Compelling . . . [a] brilliant biography.”—Peter Tonguette, The Christian Science Monitor

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0804179700

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9780804179706

Ginger

By: Sylvia McDaniel

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Ginger

By: Sylvia McDaniel

From USA Today Bestselling Author Sylvia McDaniel a sweet mail-order Christmas bride romance Two souls, one Christmas, and a chance to heal what’s broken. Once, Ginger Legare had it all—family, wealth, and a heart full of joy. But the Civil War took everything: her parents, her home, and her belief in happiness itself. A letter calling her to Angel Creek, Montana, offers a glimmer of hope for a fresh start. But can this small town heal the wounds of her shattered past? Preacher Flint Carroll has always lived a life of blessings, untouched by deep loss. As a shepherd of souls, he knows how to offer comfort, but he's never truly understood the pain of heartbreak—until Ginger, the fiery-haired stranger, walks into town and flips his world upside down. During the magic of the Christmas season, Ginger and Flint are thrown together, forced to confront what they've lost—and what they might gain. Can Flint restore her faith in happiness while discovering the true meaning of life’s struggles? Or will Ginger’s painful memories be too much for love to overcome? Fans of Kirsten Osbourne, Linda Lael Miller and Jovie Grace will enjoy these sweet Christmas Brides.

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195085809X

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9781950858095

Eileen

The Making of George Orwell

By: Sylvia Topp

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Eileen

The Making of George Orwell

By: Sylvia Topp

This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century, 1984', was published. The next year, she would meet George Orwell, then known as Eric Blair, at a party. 'Now that is the kind of girl I would like to marry!' he remarked that night. Years later, Orwell would name his greatest work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, in homage to the memory of Eileen, the woman who shaped his life and his art in ways that have never been acknowledged by history, until now. From the time they spent in a tiny village tending goats and chickens, through the Spanish Civil War, to the couple's narrow escape from the destruction of their London flat during a German bombing raid, and their adoption of a baby boy, Eileen is the first account of the Blairs' nine-year marriage. It is also a vivid picture of bohemianism, political engagement, and sexual freedom in the 1930s and '40s. Through impressive depth of research, illustrated throughout with photos and images from the time, this captivating and inspiring biography offers a completely new perspective on Orwell himself, and most importantly tells the life story of an exceptional woman who has been unjustly overlooked.

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1783527501

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9781783527502

Accessories After the Fact

The Warren Commission, the Authorities & the Report on the JFK Assassination

By: Sylvia Meagher

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Accessories After the Fact

The Warren Commission, the Authorities & the Report on the JFK Assassination

By: Sylvia Meagher

Originally published in 1967, Meagher’s masterful dissection of the Warren Report, based on the Warren Commission’s own evidence, has stood the test of time. In some cases, declassifications of government records have corroborated the author’s suspicions and analyses, such as her amazing assertion that Oswald had never actually been charged with Kennedy’s murder, despite sworn testimony to the contrary. Meagher’s book raises serious questions not only about Oswald’s guilt in the JFK assassination and related crimes, such as the Tippit murder and the Walker shooting, but also about the methods and honesty of the Warren Commission, the FBI, and various Dallas police and other officials. When the Church Committee first began to re-examine the Warren Commission and its relationship with intelligence agencies in 1975, investigators were shocked by what they discovered. In Accessories After the Fact, Sylvia Meagher delivers a blistering blow to the credibility of the Warren Report, and decades after its original publication researchers and readers are still discovering what made her work so important.

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Skyhorse

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162873423X

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9781628734232

Her Story in Four Centuries

By: Sylvia Webber

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Her Story in Four Centuries

By: Sylvia Webber

This heart-warming book of true stories is about women who lived during four different centuries. It testifies to the strength of mind of women forced to cope with wars and illness while protecting and educating their children, and it shows how family members worked together as the British Empire spread. Margaret Rudston was caught up in the English Civil War. When her husband died, she had to fight in court to keep the family property. Margaret’s solicitor gave her copies of poems by John Donne, which now reside in the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. Maria Barstow endured twenty years of wars in Danzig (now Gdansk in Poland), where her house was inhabited at different times by the future queen of Holland, the French army, Napoleon, and the Russian army. Some of her children were sent to England. Mrs. Jones and her children fled from Ireland when the French landed to support a rebellion. The daughters of the hymn writer, the Rev. Thomas Kelly, lived in Ireland through illness and the famine. They learned painting from Maria Spilsbury and wrote memoirs. Joan Webber taught in Malaya (now Malaysia), and escaped to Australia with her children during World War II, while her husband was fighting the Japanese. The family later settled in Tasmania. One of her children, author Sylvia Webber writes how war, separation, and boarding school affected her. These stories show families pulling together, helping the human spirit to survive.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1631354892

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9781631354892

World Poverty

By: Sylvia Whitman

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World Poverty

By: Sylvia Whitman

Examine the situations in the United States, India, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, and the Ukraine, and investigate the strategies that these national governments have adopted to fight poverty.

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1438109067

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9781438109060

Boston Women's Heritage Trail

Seven Self-guided Walking Tours Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History

By: Polly Welts Kaufman

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Boston Women's Heritage Trail

Seven Self-guided Walking Tours Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History

By: Polly Welts Kaufman

Women have played active, prominent roles in Boston history since the days of Anne Hutchinson - the colonial freethinker who bravely challenged the authority of ruling Puritan ministers in 1638. Hutchinson's action is only one of more than 200 stories of Boston women told in the newly expanded guidebook from the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Several maps indicate the sites where these historic women walked, worked, and lived, while photographs and other illustrations help bring these women to life once again. The updated guidebook will take you on seven walks through seven distinctly different Boston neighborhoods. Hutchinson's story is told by her statue on the grounds of the Massachusetts State House, while Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's is found at the site of her birthplace in the North End. An underground railway stop on Beacon Hill reveals the dramatic escape of enslaved Ellen and William Craft to Boston. Other trails lead walkers to new statues of Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman in the South End and of Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone and Phillis Wheatley - three women who used the pen for change - portrayed in bronze in the recently dedicated Boston Women's Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue. The Boston Women's Heritage Trail guidebook is a must for visitors, students, and residents of Boston alike. Its lively descriptions show the significant role Boston women played in shaping the history and the future of both Boston and the nation.

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Applewood Books

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1933212403

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9781933212401

Exploring Student Response to Contemporary Picturebooks

By: Sylvia Pantaleo

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Exploring Student Response to Contemporary Picturebooks

By: Sylvia Pantaleo

Despite being a source of continuing interest to educational scholars, research into the literary understanding of elementary school students has emphasized written materials over multimodal mediums such as picturebooks. Focusing on students in Grades one and five, this book describes children's interpretations of and responses to a variety of contemporary picturebooks, specifically those books that employ Radical Change characteristics and metafictive devices. In dealing with picturebooks, Sylvia Pantaleo seeks to show the ways in which literature teaches artistic codes and conventions, critical thinking skills, visual literacy skills, and interpretative strategies. Aside from investigating specific picturebooks, Pantaleo discusses the broader implications of reading, viewing, and creating print and digital texts in schools. These exercises, she argues, reflect the changing nature of communication and representation in the world of elementary school students. Incorporating postmodernism, social constructivism, and other theoretical frameworks, Pantaleo contextualizes her research and examines ways in which literature highlights broader social and cultural characteristics. An extensively researched look at the pedagogical value of literature in the classroom, this book introduces new dimensions to discussions of contemporary picturebooks in elementary education and the social nature of intertextuality.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442692669

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9781442692664

The Art of Children's Picture Books

A Selective Reference Guide, Second Edition

By: Sylvia S. Marantz,Kenneth A. Marantz

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The Art of Children's Picture Books

A Selective Reference Guide, Second Edition

By: Sylvia S. Marantz,Kenneth A. Marantz

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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113553165X

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9781135531652

Family Resource Management

By: Tami James Moore,Sylvia M. Asay

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Family Resource Management

By: Tami James Moore,Sylvia M. Asay

Family Resource Management addresses the management of resources from a family systems perspective and focuses on not just the individual that makes a decision but the impact those decisions have on the family unit. Authors Tami James Moore and Sylvia M. Asay use their academic research, practical experiences, and active teaching knowledge to help guide students through family resource management, and provide them with the most current, accurate, and dynamic information available for future professionals in the field of family services. The Fourth Edition includes the latest cutting-edge research, analysis of social changes, economic shifts, and the emerging “new normal” as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SAGE Publications

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1544370598

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9781544370590

Parading Respectability

The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

By: Sylvia Bruinders

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Parading Respectability

The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

By: Sylvia Bruinders

Parading respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Drawing on her own on background as well as her extended research study period during which she became a band member and was closely involved in its day-to-day affairs, the author, Dr Sylvia Bruinders, documents this centuries-old expressive practice of ushering in the joy of Christmas through music by way of a social history of the coloured communities. In doing so, she traces the slave origins of the Christmas Bands Movement, as well as how the oppressive and segregationist injustices of both colonialism and apartheid, together with the civil liberties afforded in the South African Constitution (1996) after the country became a democracy in 1994 have shaped the movement.

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African Books Collective

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192003322X

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9781920033224

Supporting Spelling

By: Sylvia Edwards

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Supporting Spelling

By: Sylvia Edwards

Sylvia Edwards' book concentrates on enhancing the spelling skills of the pupils whom you support; analyzing how you can develop their spelling skills, offering advise and guidance on a variety of learning styles, and a breakdown of spelling principles.

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Routledge

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1134020538

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9781134020539

Schools as Professional Learning Communities

Collaborative Activities and Strategies for Professional Development

By: Sylvia M. Roberts,Eunice Z. Pruitt

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Schools as Professional Learning Communities

Collaborative Activities and Strategies for Professional Development

By: Sylvia M. Roberts,Eunice Z. Pruitt

Build a community in your school and improve learning outcomes with this one-stop sourcebook that features the latest educational issues, new research-based strategies and activities, and more!

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273

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Corwin Press

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1412968941

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9781412968942

Health Promotion

Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity

By: Keith Tones,Sylvia Tilford

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Health Promotion

Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity

By: Keith Tones,Sylvia Tilford

The authors have joined forces again to reflect upon the ever changing world of health promotion. As a result, their highly respected textbook has been substantially rewritten to document both theoretical and practical developments within this important sphere of professional activity.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748745270

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9780748745272

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