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El Dorado Freddy's

Chain Restaurants in Poems & Photographs

By: Danny Caine,Tara Wray

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El Dorado Freddy's

Chain Restaurants in Poems & Photographs

By: Danny Caine,Tara Wray

A charming and accessible collection of poems dedicated to one of the most American of inventions--fast food. El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast-food poetry. In poems like "Olive Garden," "Culver's," "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen," "Cracker Barrel," "Applebee's (after James Wright)," Caine--owner of the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas--"reviews" chain restaurants, bringing our attention to a slice of American life we often overlook, even though it's everywhere. Along the way, he touches on such topics as parenting, the Midwest, politics, and the pitfalls of nostalgia. Caine's wry, deceptively accomplished poems are paired with Tara Wray's color-drenched photos. The result is a literary yet goofy homage to American food and identity, set in a midwestern landscape dotted by the light of fast-food restaurants' glowing signs. Perfect for those readers who love both poetry and Popeye's.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1948742772

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Adolescence in Context

Lives in Context

By: Tara L. Kuther

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Adolescence in Context

Lives in Context

By: Tara L. Kuther

From award-winning author Tara L. Kuther comes Adolescence in Context, a topically oriented text that connects learners to the science that shapes our understanding of today′s teenagers and young adults. The book is organized around three core themes: the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science. The text presents classic research, current research, and foundational theories, which Kuther frames in real-life contexts such as gender, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Students will come away with an understanding of the book’s themes and material that they will immediately be able to apply to their own lives and future careers.

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SAGE Publications

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1506376088

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9781506376080

Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2024 - Box Set

By: Tara Taylor Quinn,Marie Ferrarella,Jennifer D. Bokal,Lisa Dodson

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2024 - Box Set

By: Tara Taylor Quinn,Marie Ferrarella,Jennifer D. Bokal,Lisa Dodson

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want high-stakes stories that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, brave characters in life-and-death situations? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! Colton Threat Unleashed (A The Coltons of Owl Creek novel) By USA TODAY bestselling author Tara Taylor Quinn Sebastian Cross’s elite search and rescue dog-training business is being sabotaged. And his veterinarian, Ruby Colton, is being targeted for saving his dogs when they’re hurt. But when the resurgence of Sebastian’s PTSD collides with danger, romance and Ruby’s ensuing pregnancy, their lives are changed forever. Cavanaugh Justice: Cold Case Squad (A Cavanaugh Justice novel) By USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Ferrarella Detectives Cheyenne Cavanaugh and Jefferson McDougall are from two different worlds. When they team up to solve a cold case—and unearth a trail of serial killer murders—they’re desperate to catch the culprit. But can they avoid their undeniable attraction? Texas Law: Lethal Encounter (A Texas Law novel) By Jennifer D. Bokal Ex-con Ryan Steele and Undersheriff Kathryn Glass both want a new start. When the widowed single mom’s neighbor is killed and the crime is posted on the internet, Ryan and Kathryn will have to join forces to stop the killer before his next gruesome crime: live streaming a murder. The Bodyguard's Deadly Mission By Lisa Dodson After a tragic loss, Alexa King creates a security firm to keep other women safe. Taking Andrew Riker’s combat and tactical class will elevate her skills. But falling for the ex-marine makes her latest case not only personal…but deadly.

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Harlequin

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0369743091

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Lifespan Development

Lives in Context

By: Tara L. Kuther

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Lifespan Development

Lives in Context

By: Tara L. Kuther

Recipient of the 2017 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Chronologically organized, Lifespan Development: Lives in Context offers a unique perspective on the field by focusing on the importance of context—examining how the places, sociocultural environments, and ways in which we are raised influence who we become and how we grow and change. Author Tara L. Kuther integrates cutting-edge and classic research throughout the text to present a unified story of developmental science and its applications to everyday life. Robust pedagogy, student-friendly writing, and an inviting design enhance this exciting and inclusive exploration of the ways in which context informs our understanding of the lifespan.

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1863

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SAGE Publications

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148336884X

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9781483368849

Sport, Technology and the Body

The Nature of Performance

By: Tara Magdalinski

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Sport, Technology and the Body

The Nature of Performance

By: Tara Magdalinski

What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this fascinating question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the body. Specifically, it examines cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes and explores the ways in which performance technologies complicate and confound our conception of the sporting body. The book addresses concerns about the technological "invasion" of the "natural" body to investigate expectations that athletic performances reflect nothing more than the actual capacity of the untainted athlete. By examining a series of case studies, including Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, Fastskin swimsuits, hypoxic chambers and an array of illicit substances and methods, the book distinguishes between internal and external technologies to highlight the ways that performance enhancement, and public reaction to it, can be read. Sport, Technology and the Body offers a powerful challenge to conventional views of athletic performance that stand authenticity against artifice, integrity against corruption, and athletic purity against technological intrusion. It is essential reading for all serious students of the sociology, culture or ethics of sport.

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Routledge

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1134182252

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9781134182251

The Drug Paradox

An Introduction to the Sociology of Psychoactive Substances in Canada

By: Tara L. Bruno,Rick Csiernik

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The Drug Paradox

An Introduction to the Sociology of Psychoactive Substances in Canada

By: Tara L. Bruno,Rick Csiernik

Why are some drugs considered socially acceptable while others are demonized? What makes these definitions so widespread? Who benefits from these conceptualizations? The Drug Paradox examines both the empirically founded and the socially constructed facets of drugs and drug use, highlighting the incongruous aspects of laws, policies, and programming that aim to address behaviours around drugs. The authors explore this paradox, arguing that Canada’s punitive approach to addressing drug use continues to exist alongside harm-reduction strategies and that these competing approaches ultimately impede Canada’s ability to deal effectively with substance misuse. Using a policy-oriented approach while also emphasizing the utility of a multifaceted biopsychosocial model, this text provides students with a foundation in the sociology of psychoactive substances in the Canadian context. It covers a broad range of issues—models of addiction, the history of Canada’s drug laws, media representation, government responses to substance use, and international perspectives on drug policy—and addresses various research areas that are important for students to consider when trying to make sense of the competing discourses on drugs in society. The Drug Paradox is ideal for use in sociology courses on drugs and drug use and will also appeal to those focusing on drug use from a criminology, public health, or policy perspective.

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Canadian Scholars

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1773380524

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9781773380520

The Essentials of Lifespan Development

Lives in Context

By: Tara L. Kuther

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The Essentials of Lifespan Development

Lives in Context

By: Tara L. Kuther

Chronologically organized, The Essentials of Lifespan Development examines the ways in which contexts—culture, society, socioeconomic status, home, family, and even community—impact each stage of a person′s life.

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SAGE Publications

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1071851861

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9781071851869

Digital Dieting

From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness

By: Tara Brabazon

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Digital Dieting

From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness

By: Tara Brabazon

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning. Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness probes the social, political and academic difficulties in managing large quantities of low quality information. But this book does not diagnose a crisis. Instead, Digital Dieting provides strategies to develop intellectual fitness that sorts the important from the irrelevant and the remarkable from the banal. In April 2010, and for the first time, Facebook received more independent visitors than Google. Increasingly there is a desire to share rather than search. But what is the impact of such a change on higher education? If students complain that the reading is ’too hard’, then one response is to make it easier. If students complain that assignments are too difficult, then one way to manage this challenge is to make the assignments simpler. Both are passive responses that damage the calibre of education and universities in the long term. Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness provides active, conscious, careful and applicable strategies to move students and citizens from searching to researching, sharing to thinking, and shopping to reading.

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342

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Routledge

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1317150880

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9781317150886

Playing on the Periphery

Sport, Identity and Memory

By: Tara Brabazon

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Playing on the Periphery

Sport, Identity and Memory

By: Tara Brabazon

Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why ‘working class’ English sports – such as football – have travelled less well to these areas. Focusing on these sports, the author tracks narratives and myths, tracing the passage of colonial truths, behaviours and practices. Clearly defined sections in the book focus on: * sport and tourism * sport and history * sport and memory. Using a refreshingly broad range of sources to analyze differences between popular culture and sporting memory, this book offers new perspectives on sport and makes an interesting reference for masters and postgraduate readers in sport and cultural studies.

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Routledge

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1134186371

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9781134186372

Reconstructing Dixie

Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

By: Tara McPherson

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Reconstructing Dixie

Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

By: Tara McPherson

The South has long played a central role in America’s national imagination—the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation’s moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. Narratives of the region often cohere around such tropes as southern hospitality and the southern (white) lady. Tara McPherson argues that these discursive constructions tend to conceal and disavow hard historical truths, particularly regarding race relations and the ways racial inequities underwrite southern femininity. Advocating conceptions of the South less mythologized and more tethered to complex realities, McPherson seeks to bring into view that which is repeatedly obscured—the South’s history of both racial injustice and cross-racial alliance. Illuminating crucial connections between understandings of race, gender, and place on the one hand and narrative and images on the other, McPherson reads a number of representations of the South produced from the 1930s to the present. These are drawn from fiction, film, television, southern studies scholarship, popular journalism, music, tourist sites, the internet, and autobiography. She examines modes of affect or ways of "feeling southern" to reveal how these feelings, along with the narratives and images she discusses, sanction particular racial logics. A wide-ranging cultural studies critique, Reconstructing Dixie calls for vibrant new ways of thinking about the South and for a revamped and reinvigorated southern studies. Reconstructing Dixie will appeal to scholars in American, southern, and cultural studies, and to those in African American, media, and women’s studies.

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333

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Duke University Press

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0822384620

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9780822384625

Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care

Identity, Practice, and Ethics through the Lens of Paul Ricoeur

By: Tara Flanagan

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Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care

Identity, Practice, and Ethics through the Lens of Paul Ricoeur

By: Tara Flanagan

Narrative medicine, an interdisciplinary field that brings together the studies of literature and medicine, offers both a way of understanding patient identity and a method for developing a clinician’s responsiveness to patients. While recognizing the value of narrative medicine in clinical encounters, including the ethical aspects of patient discourse, Tara Flanagan examines the limits of narrative practices for patients with cognitive and verbal deficits. In Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care: Identity, Practice, and Ethics through the Lens of Paul Ricoeur, Flanagan contends that the models of selfhood and care found in the work of Ricoeur can offer a framework for clinicians and caregivers regardless of the verbal and cognitive capabilities of a patient at the end of life. In particular, Ricoeur’s concept of patient identity connects with the narrative method of life review in hospice and offers an opportunity to address the religious and spiritual dimensions of the patient experience.

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161

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498554636

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9781498554633

Child and Adolescent Development in Context

By: Tara L. Kuther

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Child and Adolescent Development in Context

By: Tara L. Kuther

Like children themselves, development is dynamic. In the chronologically organized Child and Adolescent Development in Context, award-winning author Tara L. Kuther frames development research in real-life contexts, including gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and more. Kuther presents highly relatable examples, vivid cross-cultural stories, and case studies of real individuals, consistently prompting students to reflect on chapter content with What do you think? questions. The book emphasizes three core themes: the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science; students will come away with an understanding of these themes that they will immediately be able to apply to their own lives and future careers. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. “/li> LMS Cartridge (formerly known as SAGE Coursepacks): Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Teach a course on infants and children? Kuther′s Infants and Children in Context covers ages 0-12 and is available now.

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SAGE Publications

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1544324804

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9781544324807

Ms. O’Brien’S Class

By: Tara M. Tamasi

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Ms. O’Brien’S Class

By: Tara M. Tamasi

Ms. OBriens Class is a book from the perspective of a 5th grader. The experiences of friendships and seeing people in another light is not always the way they appear to be. The growing pains of these tender years and how they help mold us into becoming better people. How people appear is not always who they are and may surprise you as you get to know why people behave the way they do. Thrown into a situation is sometimes for the better. Of course, being in the city a kid grows up faster than in the suburbs.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469193450

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9781469193458

Fantasies of Ito Michio

By: Tara Rodman

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Fantasies of Ito Michio

By: Tara Rodman

Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893–1961) achieved prominence in London before moving to the U.S. in 1916 and building a career as an internationally acclaimed artist. During World War II, Ito was interned for two years, and then repatriated to Japan, where he contributed to imperial war efforts by creating propaganda performances and performing revues for the occupying Allied Forces in Tokyo. Throughout, Ito continually invented stories of voyages made, artists befriended, performances seen, and political activities carried out—stories later dismissed as false. Fantasies of Ito Michio argues that these invented stories, unrealized projects, and questionable political affiliations are as fundamental to Ito’s career as his ‘real’ activities, helping us understand how he sustained himself across experiences of racialization, imperialism, war, and internment. Tara Rodman reveals a narrative of Ito’s life that foregrounds the fabricated and overlooked to highlight his involvement with Japanese artists, such as Yamada Kosaku and Ishii Baku, and global modernist movements. Rodman offers “fantasy” as a rubric for understanding how individuals such as Ito sustain themselves in periods of violent disruption and as a scholarly methodology for engaging the past.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472904485

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9780472904488

Lifespan Development in Context

A Topical Approach

By: Tara L. Kuther

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Lifespan Development in Context

A Topical Approach

By: Tara L. Kuther

In the Second Edition of this award-winning text, Lifespan Development in Context, Tara L. Kuther provides a panoramic view of how the places, sociocultural environments, and ways in which we are raised influence human development.

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960

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SAGE Publications

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1071851764

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9781071851760

Ladies who Lunge

Celebrating Difficult Women

By: Tara Brabazon

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Ladies who Lunge

Celebrating Difficult Women

By: Tara Brabazon

Ladies who Lunge: Essays on Difficult Women dances through history with the unconventional woman. Witty and refreshing, the tone, texture and feeling of the words on the page are as unconventional as the plucky women who punctuate the prose. It is a tough, determined, moving, frank and funny review of difficult women: how they got there, how we can understand their actions, and how we can learn from them.

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220

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UNSW Press

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0868404217

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9780868404219

El Dorado Freddy's

Chain Restaurants in Poems & Photographs

By: Danny Caine,Tara Wray

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El Dorado Freddy's

Chain Restaurants in Poems & Photographs

By: Danny Caine,Tara Wray

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1948742772

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