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Convenient Suspect

A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman

By: Tammy Mal

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Convenient Suspect

A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman

By: Tammy Mal

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had never met either victim—as the monster responsible. In what would become Pennsylvania's first use of mitochondrial DNA in a criminal case, Patricia Rorrer was quickly tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But did the jury make the right decision? Is Patricia Rorrer truly guilty? As new evidence continues to surface, including allegations of prosecutorial misconduct and evidence tampering, that question requires an answer even more. With a subject matter and storytelling style reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial, Convenient Suspect will appeal to a wide audience. The book reveals information never before made public—information gathered directly from more than 10,000 official documents, including Pennsylvania State Police reports, FBI Files, forensic lab results, and the 6,500-page trial transcript. Through four years of intensive research, countless interviews with those involved, and hundreds of letters, phone calls, and personal visits with Patricia Rorrer, the truth about the evidence used to convict her can finally be revealed.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613739826

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The Project Meeting Facilitator

Facilitation Skills to Make the Most of Project Meetings

By: Tammy Adams,Janet A. Means,Michael Spivey

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The Project Meeting Facilitator

Facilitation Skills to Make the Most of Project Meetings

By: Tammy Adams,Janet A. Means,Michael Spivey

Have you ever been involved in a project that didn’t require a meeting? Neither have we. Well-run project meetings allow teams to get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieve results. Unfortunately, many project meetings aren’t well-run—they are viewed, by team members, as unproductive, tedious, wastes of precious time. But you can change that. The Project Meeting Facilitator contains practical techniques and practices that will help you facilitate our meetings more effectively, transforming them into well-planned, well-managed journeys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119120217

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9781119120216

Understanding Deviance

Connecting Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

By: Tammy L. Anderson

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Understanding Deviance

Connecting Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

By: Tammy L. Anderson

In this collection of 48 reprinted and completely original articles, Tammy Anderson gives her fellow instructors of undergraduate deviance a refreshing way to energize and revitalize their courses. [36 are reprints; 12 are original to this text/anthology] First, in 12 separate sections, she presents a wide range of deviant behaviors, traits, and conditions including: underage drinking and drunk driving, doping in elite sports, gang behavior, community crime, juvenile delinquency, hate crime, prison violence and transgendered prisoners, mental illness, drug-using women and domestic violence, obesity, tattooing, sexual fetishes, prostitution, drug epidemics, viral pandemics, crime control strategies and racial inequality, gay neighborhoods, HIV and bugchasers, and (lastly) youth, multicultural identity and music scenes. Second, her pairing of "classic" and "contemporary" viewpoints about deviance and social control not only "connects" important literatures of the past to today’s (student) readers, her "connections framework" also helps all of us see social life and social processes more clearly when alternative meanings are accorded to similar forms of deviant behavior. We also learn how to appreciate and interact with those who see things differently from ourselves. This may better equip us to reach common goals in an increasingly diverse and ever-changing world. Third, a major teaching goal of Anderson’s anthology is to sharpen students’ critical thinking skills by forcing them to look at how a deviant behavior, trait or condition, can be viewed from opposing or alternative perspectives. By learning to see deviance from multiple perspectives, students will better understand their own and other’s behavior and experiences and be able to anticipate future trends. Balancing multiple perspectives may also assist students in their practical work in social service, criminal justice and other agencies and institutions that deal with populations considered "deviant" in one way or another.

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Routledge

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1134756305

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Latino History Day by Day

A Reference Guide to Events

By: Caryn E. Neumann,Tammy S. Allen

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Latino History Day by Day

A Reference Guide to Events

By: Caryn E. Neumann,Tammy S. Allen

This title takes a calendrical approach to illuminating the history of Latinos and life in the United States and adds more value than a simple "this day in history" through primary source excerpts and resources for further research. Latino/a history has been relatively slow in gaining recognition despite the population's rich and varied history. Engaging and informative, Latino History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events will help address that oversight. Much more than just a "this-day-in-history" list, the guide describes important events in Latino/a history, augmenting many entries with a brief excerpt from a primary document. All entries include two annotated books and websites as key resources for follow up. The day-to-day reference is organized by the 365 days of the year with each day drawing from events that span several hundred years of Latino/a history, from Mexican Americans to Puerto Ricans to Cuban Americans. With this guide in hand, teachers will be able to more easily incorporate Latino/a history into their classes. Students will find the book an easy-to-use guide to the Latino/a past and an ideal starting place for research.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap)

How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and how You Can Too

By: Tammy Strobel

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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap)

How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and how You Can Too

By: Tammy Strobel

Strobel and her husband are living the voluntary downsizingNor smart-sizingNdream and here she combines research on well-being with numerous real world examples to offer practical inspiration.

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New World Library

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1608680835

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9781608680832

Facilitating the Project Lifecycle

The Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project Teams

By: Janet A. Means,Tammy Adams

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Facilitating the Project Lifecycle

The Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project Teams

By: Janet A. Means,Tammy Adams

Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides theproject manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when andhow to pull key talent together to spell success for the projectand ultimately the organization. The authors will help youunderstand the benefits of using facilitated group work sessions toget real work done during a project and get it done better and moreefficiently than more traditional individual work approaches. Inaddition, the book includes: Recommendations for capitalizing on group knowledge toaccelerate the building of key project deliverables and ensuretheir quality as they are built A work session structure for planning, delivering, andfollowing up facilitated work sessions Guides for building key project deliverables Sample agendas Proven techniques for managing the group dynamics

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787980641

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9780787980641

Reshaping Family Relationships

The Symbolic Therapy of Carl Whitaker

By: Gary Connell,Tammy Mitten,William M. Bumberry

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Reshaping Family Relationships

The Symbolic Therapy of Carl Whitaker

By: Gary Connell,Tammy Mitten,William M. Bumberry

For examining, organizing, & utilizing the central ideas & theoretical tenets of Dr. Whitaker's many contributions to the field. Building on his previous works, Reshaping Family Relationships presents a more rigorous analysis & integrated conceptualization of symbolic-experiential therapy.

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Psychology Press

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0876308787

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Dixie Highway

Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

By: Tammy Ingram

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Dixie Highway

Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

By: Tammy Ingram

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation's earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern U.S. transportation system evolved out of the hard-fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie's creation. The most visible success of the Progressive Era Good Roads Movement, the Dixie Highway also became its biggest casualty. It sparked a national dialogue about the power of federal and state agencies, the role of local government, and the influence of ordinary citizens. In the South, it caused a backlash against highway bureaucracy that stymied road building for decades. Yet Ingram shows that after the Dixie Highway, the region was never the same.

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UNC Press Books

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1469612992

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A Unified Theory of Justice and Crime

Justice That Love Gives

By: Michael J. DeValve,Tammy S. Garland,Elizabeth Q. Wright

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A Unified Theory of Justice and Crime

Justice That Love Gives

By: Michael J. DeValve,Tammy S. Garland,Elizabeth Q. Wright

Despite great effort and some improvements, criminal justice today still seems like an oxymoron. There are some very good reasons for this feeling: catastrophic failures abound and marginal improvements appear revolutionary. This book addresses the idea of justice in order to guide society toward a more effective justice system. Specifically, the authors argue that justice and love are one and the same thing. They trace impoverished and accomplished thinking in criminological and justice discourses and show that the historic ills that have plagued humanity tend to evaporate when justice and love are understood to be synonyms.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498559913

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9781498559911

Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918

By: Tammy M. Proctor

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Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918

By: Tammy M. Proctor

This work explores the different ways civilians work and function in a war situation, and broadens our understanding of the civilian to encompass munitions workers, nurses, laundresses, refugees, aid workers, and children who lived and worked in occupied zones, on home and battle fronts, and in the spaces in between. Global in scope, spanning the Eastern, Western, Italian, East African, and Mediterranean fronts, the author examines in detail the role of experts in the war, the use of forced labor, and the experiences of children in the combatant countries. As in many wars, civilians on both sides of WWI were affected, and vast displacements of the populations shaped the contemporary world in countless ways, redrawing boundaries and creating or reviving lines of ethnic conflict.

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NYU Press

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081476715X

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The New Thought Police

Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds

By: Tammy Bruce

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The New Thought Police

Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds

By: Tammy Bruce

Stop the Left from Policing Your Mind Our freedom to speak our minds is under attack. Like the Thought Police of George Orwell's 1984, powerful special interest groups on the Left are mounting a withering assault on our rights in the name of "social equality." Liberty has been turned on its ear as the rights of the few restrict the freedom of everyone. In The New Thought Police, author Tammy Bruce, a self-described lesbian feminist activist, cuts through the deluge of politically correct speech and thought codes to expose the dangerous rise of Left-wing McCarthyism. Provocative and persuasive, this book is a clarion call to anyone interested in preserving liberty.

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Crown

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0307558584

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9780307558589

Sonia Sotomayor

By: Tammy Gagne

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Sonia Sotomayor

By: Tammy Gagne

In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor made history when she became the first Hispanic justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This wasn’t the first time she beat the odds against her, though. Growing up in a one-parent household in the Bronx, New York, she aspired to be a lawyer. Encouraged by her mother, she achieved this goal and so much more. Although many people view Justice Sotomayor as an inspiration, she sees herself a little differently. She says she is “just a kid from the Bronx.” Because of her many achievements despite her humble spirit, many people wonder—what’s it like to be Sonia Sotomayor? En el 2009, Sonia Sotomayor hizo historia cuando se convirtió en la primera jueza hispana del Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, no es la primera vez que salva obstáculos al parecer insalvables. Se crió sólo con su madre en el Bronx, Nueva York, y desde pequeña quiso ser abogada. Alentada por su madre, logró su objetivo y mucho más. Aunque muchos ven a la Jueza Sotomayor como una inspiración, ella se ve un poco diferente. Dice que “sólo es una chica del Bronx”. Por sus muchos logros y su espíritu humilde, mucha gente se pregunta: ¿Qué se siente al ser Sonia Sotomayor?

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Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.

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1612282113

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Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

By: Robert J. Marzano,Tammy Heflebower

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Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

By: Robert J. Marzano,Tammy Heflebower

As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of change in the world is accelerating. The authors believe a combination of cognitive skills (skills students will need to succeed academically) and conative skills (skills students will need to succeed interpersonally) is necessary for the 21st century. This clear, practical guide presents a model of instruction and assessment based on these skills.

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Solution Tree Press

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0983351228

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9780983351221

Green Gentrification

Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice

By: Kenneth A. Gould,Tammy L. Lewis

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Green Gentrification

Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice

By: Kenneth A. Gould,Tammy L. Lewis

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "greening" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environmental conditions in neighborhoods, it generates green gentrification that pushes out the working-class, and people of color, and attracts white, wealthier in-migrants. Simply put, urban greening "richens and whitens," remaking the city for the sustainability class. Without equity-oriented public policy intervention, urban greening is negatively redistributive in global cities. This book argues that environmental injustice outcomes are not inevitable. Early public policy interventions aimed at neighborhood stabilization can create more just sustainability outcomes. It highlights the negative social consequences of green growth coalition efforts to green the global city, and suggests policy choices to address them. The book applies the lessons learned from green gentrification in Brooklyn to urban greening initiatives globally. It offers comparison with other greening global cities. This is a timely and original book for all those studying environmental justice, urban planning, environmental sociology, and sustainable development as well as urban environmental activists, city planners and policy makers interested in issues of urban greening and gentrification.

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Routledge

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1317417798

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Gender and the Great War

By: Susan R. Grayzel,Tammy M. Proctor

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Gender and the Great War

By: Susan R. Grayzel,Tammy M. Proctor

The centenary of the First World War in 2014-18 offers an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak, the gendered experiences of the war have been seen by contemporary observers and postwar commentators and scholars as being especially significant for shaping how the war can and must be understood. The negotiating of ideas about gender by women and men across vast reaches of the globe characterizes this modern, instrumental conflict. Over the past twenty-five years, as the scholarship on gender and this war has grown, there has never been a forum such as the one presented here that placed so many of the varying threads of this complex historiography into conversation with one another in a manner that is at once accessible and provocative. Given the vast literature on the war itself, scholarship on gender and various themes and topics provides students as well as scholars with a chance to think not only about the subject of the war but also the methodological implications of how historians have approached it. While many studies have addressed the national or transnational narrative of women in the war, none address both femininity and masculinity, and the experiences of both women and men across the same geographic scope as the studies presented in this volume.

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Oxford University Press

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0190271108

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9780190271107

Athena

By: Tammy Gagne

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Athena

By: Tammy Gagne

In this book, young readers are encouraged to analyze the past and draw conclusions about the mythological figure Athena and her role in ancient civilization.

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Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.

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1612289991

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The Ethics of Caring

Bridging Pedagogy and Utopia

By: Tammy A. Shel

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The Ethics of Caring

Bridging Pedagogy and Utopia

By: Tammy A. Shel

In a cold and heartless world, Tammy Shel’s The Ethics of Caring demonstrates that teaching can and should involve care for the student and a pedagogy of caring at the core of education. Combining philosophy with ethnography, Shel examines the definition of caring through the voices of five case studies of five teachers. The book demonstrates that despite the challenges they cope with, teachers can still make a difference in students’ lives and in society, by doing more than teach for the test. The book makes a significant contribution to the promotion of the ethics of caring in education and for humanity’s welfare. Douglas Kellner George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, UCLA Tammy Shel’s study presented in this powerful book adds important dimensions to the understanding of "caring" in classrooms. Furthermore, the narrative and analysis of teachers, teaching, students, learning, and the contexts of schooling and communities provide for a deep theoretical and practical discussion of pedagogy vis-a-vis the larger purposes of education. The discussions of "caring, " as enacted in these cases, are a solid and sophisticated contribution to further comprehend its complexity and challenges, as well as an addition to the literature in the field. This book is a must read for students of teaching, for experienced practitioners, and for teacher educators who are interested in a humanistic, caring, and just education. Jaime Grinberg Professor, Educational Foundations, Montclair State University

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BRILL

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9087902115

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9789087902117

World War I

A Short History

By: Tammy M. Proctor

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World War I

A Short History

By: Tammy M. Proctor

A lively, engaging history of The Great War written for a new generation of readers In recent years, scholarship on World War I has turned from a fairly narrow focus on military tactics, weaponry, and diplomacy to incorporate considerations of empire, globalism, and social and cultural history. This concise history of the first modern, global war helps to further broaden the focus typically provided in World War I surveys by challenging popular myths and stereotypes to provide a new, engaging account of The Great War. The conventional World War I narrative that has evolved over the past century is that of an inevitable but useless war, where men were needlessly slaughtered due to poor decisions by hidebound officers. This characterization developed out of a narrow focus on the Western Front promulgated mainly by British historians. In this book, Professor Proctor provides a broader, more multifaceted historical narrative including perspectives from other fronts and spheres of interest and a wider range of participants. She also draws on recent scholarship to consider the gendered aspect of war and the ways in which social class, religion, and cultural factors shaped experiences and memories of the war. Structured chronologically to help convey a sense of how the conflict evolved Each chapter considers a key interpretive question, encouraging readers to examine the extent to which the war was total, modern, and global Challenges outdated stereotypes created through a focus on the Western Front Considers the war in light of recent scholarship on empire, global history, gender, and culture Explores ways in which the war and the terms of peace shaped the course of the 20th century World War I: A Short History is sure to become required reading in undergraduate survey courses on WWI, as well as courses in military history, the 20th century world, or the era of the World Wars.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118951905

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9781118951903

The Inman Family

An Atlanta Family from Reconstruction to World War I

By: Tammy Galloway

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The Inman Family

An Atlanta Family from Reconstruction to World War I

By: Tammy Galloway

Their success in the economic arena made possible access to prominent cultural, social, and political positions through which they helped influence and shape Atlanta's growth."--BOOK JACKET.

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Mercer University Press

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0865547556

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9780865547551

On My Honour

Guides and Scouts in Interwar Britain

By: Tammy M. Proctor

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On My Honour

Guides and Scouts in Interwar Britain

By: Tammy M. Proctor

Arising in the first decades of the twentieth century, the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements came into existence in Britain in an era of social and political unrest and were initially the center of intense controversy. Through the years, Guiding and Scouting broke down class, race, and gender distinctions and helped youth cope with an emerging mass culture and allowed boys and girls to stretch gender and generational boundaries. Using official documents, logbooks, diaries, and oral histories, Tammy Proctor explores the formation of the Scouts and Guides and their transformation during and after World War I. The interwar period marked a departure for the two organizations as they emerged as large multinational organizations that targeted not only adolesents, but also smaller children and young adults.

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American Philosophical Society

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0871699222

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9780871699220

Female Intelligence

Women and Espionage in the First World War

By: Tammy M. Proctor

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Female Intelligence

Women and Espionage in the First World War

By: Tammy M. Proctor

Informative and innovative, this book focuses on the cultural images, realities, challenges, and contradictions for women in intelligence service in Britain during World War I.

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NYU Press

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0814766943

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9780814766941

Private History in Public

Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life

By: Tammy S. Gordon

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Private History in Public

Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life

By: Tammy S. Gordon

In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759119368

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9780759119369

An English Governess in the Great War

The SEcret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp

By: Sophie De Schaepdrijver,Tammy M. Proctor

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An English Governess in the Great War

The SEcret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp

By: Sophie De Schaepdrijver,Tammy M. Proctor

An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. Aware that her thoughts could put her in danger with German authorities, she never wrote her name on the diary and ran to hide it every time the "Boches" came to inspect the house. The diary survived the war and ended up in a Belgian archive, forgotten for nearly a century until historians Sophie De Schaepdrijver and Tammy M. Proctor discovered it and the remarkable woman who wrote it: Mary Thorp, a middle-aged English governess working for a wealthy Belgian-Russian family in Brussels. As a foreigner and a woman, Mary Thorp offers a unique window into life under German occupation in Brussels (the largest occupied city of World War I) and in the uncertain early days of the peace. Her diary describes the roar of cannons in the middle of the night, queues for food and supplies in the shops, her work for a wartime charity, news from an interned godson in Germany, along with elegant dinners with powerful diplomats and the educational progress of her beloved charges. Mary Thorp's sharp and bittersweet reflections testify to the daily strains of living under enemy occupation, comment on the events of the war as they unfolded, and ultimately serve up a personal story of self-reliance and endurance. De Schaepdrijver and Proctor's in-depth commentary situate this extraordinary woman in her complex political, social, and cultural context, thus providing an unusual chance to engage with the Great War on an intimate and personal level.

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Oxford University Press

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019027672X

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9780190276720

Bees in America

How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

By: Tammy Horn

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Bees in America

How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

By: Tammy Horn

Honey bees—and the qualities associated with them—have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, or language. Bees in America is an enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a beekeeper, offers a varied social and technological history from the colonial period, when the British first introduced bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being used by the American military to detect bombs. Early European colonists introduced bees to the New World as part of an agrarian philosophy borrowed from the Greeks and Romans. Their legacy was intended to provide sustenance and a livelihood for immigrants in search of new opportunities, and the honey bee became a sign of colonization, alerting Native Americans to settlers' westward advance. Colonists imagined their own endeavors in terms of bees' hallmark traits of industry and thrift and the image of the busy and growing hive soon shaped American ideals about work, family, community, and leisure. The image of the hive continued to be popular in the eighteenth century, symbolizing a society working together for the common good and reflecting Enlightenment principles of order and balance. Less than a half-century later, Mormons settling Utah (where the bee is the state symbol) adopted the hive as a metaphor for their protected and close-knit culture that revolved around industry, harmony, frugality, and cooperation. In the Great Depression, beehives provided food and bartering goods for many farm families, and during World War II, the War Food Administration urged beekeepers to conserve every ounce of beeswax their bees provided, as more than a million pounds a year were being used in the manufacture of war products ranging from waterproofing products to tape. The bee remains a bellwether in modern America. Like so many other insects and animals, the bee population was decimated by the growing use of chemical pesticides in the 1970s. Nevertheless, beekeeping has experienced a revival as natural products containing honey and beeswax have increased the visibility and desirability of the honey bee. Still a powerful representation of success, the industrious honey bee continues to serve both as a source of income and a metaphor for globalization as America emerges as a leader in the Information Age.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813172063

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9780813172064

Learning in School-University Partnership

Sociocultural Perspectives

By: Amy B.M. Tsui,Gwyn Edwards,Fran Lopez-Real,Tammy Kwan,Doris Law,Philip Stimpson,Rosina Tang,Albert Wong

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Learning in School-University Partnership

Sociocultural Perspectives

By: Amy B.M. Tsui,Gwyn Edwards,Fran Lopez-Real,Tammy Kwan,Doris Law,Philip Stimpson,Rosina Tang,Albert Wong

This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both been treated extensively in the literature. It is the bringing together of these two themes that makes this book unique. In this examination of an evolving model of school-university partnership, the Unified Professional Development Project in Hong Kong, the authors analyze the learning that takes place as the participants (student-teachers, mentor teachers, and university supervisors) mutually engage in the enterprise of improving teaching and learning in schools, developing shared practices, and creating new communities of practice. Although it describes one specific context, the book is not just about this locale. Rather, the Unified Professional Development Project is used as a context for theorizing more generally a social theory of learning for school-university partnerships that is relevant to any other similar context. This book will interest teacher educators, researchers in teacher education and teacher development, policy makers, and school practitioners who are involved in school-university partnerships.

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Routledge

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1135604754

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The Angel in Annunciation and Synchronicity

Knowledge and Belief in C.G. Jung

By: Tammy L. Montgomery

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The Angel in Annunciation and Synchronicity

Knowledge and Belief in C.G. Jung

By: Tammy L. Montgomery

Fear grips those who doubt that their existence has meaning, and the prevailing notion that humans are situated on a dot in the middle of a dark, cold universe leaves people shivering in cosmic insignificance. Many would argue that science and technology have separated individuals from God while others would say that people have lost their faith, and some would assert that God is dead. Many simply do not know what to believe. Today's self-help industry is a testament to the search for meaning in an age of uncertainty and faltering religious structures. The truth is that technology and science now answer many of the questions that used to be left to God. This development has confounded people's ability to integrate what is known today with what was once thought. The disparity between past and present beliefs may be observed in the concept of the angel. There are many who claim that any lingering belief in angels is merely the residue of imaginary or wishful thinking, and there are others who hold that angels (wings, halos, and harps) literally exist. How is one to reconcile such contradictory beliefs? C. G. Jung's theory of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence) provides a vehicle for the exploration and possible reconciliation of such questions. Rather than echoing the skeptic who says angels cannot exist or the religious enthusiast who affirms their immanence, one might reframe the entire discussion. Like the biblical concept of annunciation, in which an angel delivers a heavenly message to an earthly individual, synchronicity defines the moment at which the eternal touches the temporal.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739175777

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Soul on Soul

The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams

By: Tammy L. Kernodle

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Soul on Soul

The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams

By: Tammy L. Kernodle

First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz's compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls. Tammy L. Kernodle details Williams's life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women's place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music's evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams's contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal life troubled by lukewarm professional acceptance, loneliness, relentless poverty, bad business deals, and difficult marriages. In-depth and epic in scope, Soul on Soul restores a pioneering African American woman to her rightful place in jazz history.

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University of Illinois Press

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025205248X

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9780252052484

The Horror Readers' Advisory

The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses

By: Becky Siegel Spratford,Tammy Hennigh Clausen

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The Horror Readers' Advisory

The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses

By: Becky Siegel Spratford,Tammy Hennigh Clausen

It's a dark and scary world. Pans are tabid. Blood, guts, and gore are the norm. Welcome to the horror genre. Horror classics have been scaring people for years. Nowadays, who doesn't know about Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Dean Koontz? Profiled in a special section, the Big Three have turned horror into best-sellers. For all the horror fans that haunt your library, this is the must-have guide. Readers' advisors and reference librarians will appreciate the key tools provided to expand upon this genre, including listings of top books, authors, and award winners within eleven horror subgenres - like mummies, biomedical, monsters, and splatterpunk. Clear descriptions of characteristics within subgenres are provided throughout. To further help you engage new renders, expert horror mavens Spratford and Clausen draw a savvy connection between film and horror as a potent reminder that the scariest movies have been adapted from novels. Their classic and contemporary recommendations like Rebecca, The Shining, and Rosemary's Baby reinforce activities between readers' advisors and library programming and open up the (cellar) door for further patron involvement. Readers' advisors and referen

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American Library Association

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0838908713

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9780838908716

Neo-Victorian Cannibalism

A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

By: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism

A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

By: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

This Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho argues that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian fiction, demonstrating how cannibalism provides a framework for understanding the genre’s origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.

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Springer

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3030025594

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9783030025595

Weird Animals

By: Tammy Everts,Bobbie Kalman

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Weird Animals

By: Tammy Everts,Bobbie Kalman

Every animal is unique, but some creatures are definitely more unusual than others such as the mudskipper--a fish that can breathe on land and even climb trees! Weird Animals explores a hidden world of peculiar creatures.

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New York : Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.

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086505617X

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9780865056176

Gymnastics

By: Bobbie Kalman,Tammy Everts

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Gymnastics

By: Bobbie Kalman,Tammy Everts

Gymnastics explains basic moves, routines, and equipment, used by both boys and girls, and addresses the importance of stretches, warm-ups, and safety. Photos show young gymnasts in action.

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0865057311

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9780865057319

There's More to Life Than the Corner Office

By: Lamar Smith,Tammy Kling

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There's More to Life Than the Corner Office

By: Lamar Smith,Tammy Kling

When you’re working in the fast lane, it’s easy to keep your eye trained on personal performance, profitable deals, and every rung of the corporate ladder. But what happens when your climb to success leads to a dead end? When the coveted office with the prime view and corporate board access not only overpowers everything else that’s meaningful—but sabotages your ability to target new opportunities? There’s More to Life Than the Corner Office tells the story of Patrick Mitchell, a young, up-and-coming dealmaker with energy and ideas to burn. Patrick is powered by his desire to stake a claim in his own corner office, until a fateful encounter with business icon Al Crafton changes his life. With a remarkable blend of intelligence, creativity, and patience, the older executive walks him through a set of lessons that forces Patrick to examine his life, his failing marriage, and his career choices—and to see new paths to true fulfillment and unique business prospects. There’s More to Life Than the Corner Office will show you how to: Get back in the driver’s seat: Don’t let the status quo direct your career path—only you can tap into the opportunities that can lead to real growth Beware of target fixation: When all your energy is focused on one goal, you can lose sight of obstacles that can sabotage your success Embrace every opportunity: A balanced, well-rounded life leads to a more objective world view, which can show you new avenues of productivity you’d otherwise miss Packed with insightful wisdom and solid methodologies, There’s More to Life Than the Corner Office will help you plot your own path to spiritual, physical, mental, and career success. Because when you begin the quest for true fulfillment, you’ll be primed to make the most of every moment, every encounter, and every opportunity that comes your way.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071609318

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9780071609319

Dolphins

By: Tammy Everts,Bobbie Kalman

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Dolphins

By: Tammy Everts,Bobbie Kalman

Few people can resist the dolphin's charm. Dolphins displays the fascinating aspects of dolphin anatomy and behavior including its language and playful antics. Delightful photos emphasize its winning personality.

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New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree

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0865056226

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9780865056220

Attic Treasures

By: Wanda E. Brunstetter,Tammy Shuttlesworth,Janet Spaeth,Pamela Kaye Tracy

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Attic Treasures

By: Wanda E. Brunstetter,Tammy Shuttlesworth,Janet Spaeth,Pamela Kaye Tracy

In this four-in-one romance, a journey begun in a dusty attic leads four women to new discoveries about their lives, and none of them realize the impact long-forgotten treasures will have on their futures.

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Barbour Publishing

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1593102739

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Really Weird Animals

By: Tammy Everts,Bobbie Kalman

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Really Weird Animals

By: Tammy Everts,Bobbie Kalman

Incredible photos feature weird animals in their natural habitat from the zorilla--a striped polecat with an obnoxious smell, to the capybara--the world's largest rodent.

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0865056277

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9780865056275

Horses

By: Tammy Everts,Bobbie Kalman

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Horses

By: Tammy Everts,Bobbie Kalman

This is the definitive horse book for young readers. Beautiful, action-filled photographs of horses running, playing and working as well as information about the earliest horses, grooming and care bring this book to life.

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0865056234

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9780865056237

Bears

By: Bobbie Kalman,Tammy Everts

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Bears

By: Bobbie Kalman,Tammy Everts

Bears presents these giant creatures as they really are, not simply as cuddly teddy bears or man-eating monsters. Amazing, action-packed photos feature them all from polar bears to sun bears.

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0865056129

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9780865056121

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