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Beautiful Living

Elevate Every Room with Your Signature Style

By: Valerie Darden

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Beautiful Living

Elevate Every Room with Your Signature Style

By: Valerie Darden

Bring high-end design into your living space without the high prices and hassle with this stunningly illustrated guide. With Beautiful Living, your dream home is right at your fingertips. Valerie Darden, founder and owner of Brexton Cole Interiors, will elevate every room in your house, from the entryway to the living room to the bathroom to the kids' rooms. Organized in the order that you should design/renovate your house, Valerie is here to give you meaningful tips and tricks no matter how big or small a room may be. Experience her design philosophy through a photographic journey that including photos of spaces she has created for her client's as well as her own home, and draw inspiration from her signature modern-meets-traditional style to create the best version of your space. Alongside gorgeous photographs, the Style Guide section features all the nitty gritty details you will want when it's time to start thinking about numbers and room styling. The diagrams and charts found here make intimidating tasks more approachable. Valerie is the master of staying within budget and still creating the home you want, and she's set to give you the best tips and tricks now, including: How to make smaller spaces appear larger How to understand the cost of renovations and where to splurge and save How to mix patterns and metals Advice on wallpaper, paint, and other important finishes Guidance on selecting the correct rug size and lighting heights Val's favorite stores to shop for all your home essentials Part three's Common Questions gives you unfettered access to Valerie's design ethos via short and casual Q&As. Here Valerie will address her most frequently asked questions from client's and her viewers on social media, offering real-life advice for all homeowners and design mavens. Full of professional guidance, tried and tested tricks, and insider thoughts from Valerie herself, Beautiful Living will inspire you to transform your space into one that is warm, stylish, and reflective of your life and signature style. Take the leap and create your Instagram-worthy dream home today!

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0760388857

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Beautiful Living

Elevate Every Room with Your Signature Style

By: Valerie Darden

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Elevate Every Room with Your Signature Style

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Preserving Family Recipes

How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions

By: Valerie J. Frey

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Preserving Family Recipes

How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions

By: Valerie J. Frey

Heirloom dishes and family food traditions are rich sources of nostalgia and provide vivid ways to learn about our families’ past, yet they can be problematic. Many family recipes and food traditions are never documented in written or photographic form, existing only as unwritten know-how and lore that vanishes when a cook dies. Even when recipes are written down, they often fail to give the tricks and tips that would allow another cook to accurately replicate the dish. Unfortunately, recipes are also often damaged as we plunk Grandma’s handwritten cards on the countertop next to a steaming pot or a spattering mixer, shortening their lives. This book is a guide for gathering, adjusting, supplementing, and safely preserving family recipes and for interviewing relatives, collecting oral histories, and conducting kitchen visits to document family food traditions from the everyday to special occasions. It blends commonsense tips with sound archival principles, helping you achieve effective results while avoiding unnecessary pitfalls. Chapters are also dedicated to unfamiliar regional or ethnic cooking challenges, as well as to working with recipes that are “orphans,” surrogates, or terribly outdated. Whether you simply want to save a few accurate recipes, help yesterday’s foodways evolve so they are relevant for today’s table, or create an extensive family cookbook, this guidebook will help you to savor your memories.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820330639

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9780820330631

Facilitating LGBTQIA+ Allyship through Multimodal Writing in the Elementary Classroom

Preparing Teachers to Challenge Heteronormativity

By: Judith M. Dunkerly,Julia Poplin,Valerie Sledd Taylor

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Facilitating LGBTQIA+ Allyship through Multimodal Writing in the Elementary Classroom

Preparing Teachers to Challenge Heteronormativity

By: Judith M. Dunkerly,Julia Poplin,Valerie Sledd Taylor

This book reports findings of a qualitative study intended to disrupt notions of heteronormativity amongst preservice elementary teachers by engaging them in multimodal writing and text production around issues facing LGBTQIA+ youth. Against the backdrop of increasing anti-transgender sentiment in the United States, the text highlights the necessity of integrating queered pedagogy in teacher education to facilitate candidates’ movement through the continuum and leave them prepared, equipped, and willing to support children identifying as LGBTQIA+. Through analysis of picture books, infographics, and multimodal texts produced by teacher candidates, this cutting-edge volume develops a continuum of engagement, from apathy through to active allyship, with LGBTQIA+ youth. This timely volume will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in gender and sexuality studies, primary and elementary education, as well as teacher education more specifically. Those involved with queer theory and the sociology of education will also benefit from this volume.

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Routledge

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1000584828

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The Faculty Factor

Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era

By: Martin J. Finkelstein,Valerie Martin Conley,Jack H. Schuster

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The Faculty Factor

Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era

By: Martin J. Finkelstein,Valerie Martin Conley,Jack H. Schuster

In an academy squeezed hard by formidable pressures, what is the future of the faculty? Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and brightest educators from around the world while expanding the influence of the "faculty factor" throughout the academic realm. But in the past two decades, escalating costs and intensifying demands for efficiency have resulted in a wholesale reshaping of the academic workforce, one marked by skyrocketing numbers of contingent faculty members. Extending Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein's richly detailed classic The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers, this important book documents the transformation of the American faculty—historically the leading global source of Nobel laureates and innovation—into a diversified and internally stratified professional workforce. Drawing on heretofore unpublished data, the book provides the most comprehensive contemporary depiction of the changing nature of academic work and what it means to be a college or university faculty member in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The rare higher education study to incorporate multinational perspectives by comparing the status and prospects of American faculty to teachers in the major developing economies of Europe and East Asia, The Faculty Factor also explores the redistribution of academic work and the ever-more diverse pathways for entering into, maneuvering through, and exiting from academic careers. Using the tools of sociology, anthropology, and demography, the book charts the impact of waves of technological change, mass globalization, and the severe financial constraints of the last decade to show the impact on the lives and careers of those who teach in higher education. The authors propose strategic policy recommendations to extend the strengths of American higher education to retain leadership in the global economy. Written for professors, adjuncts, graduate students, and academic, political, business, and not-for-profit leaders, this data-rich study offers a balanced assessment of the risks and opportunities posed for the American faculty by economic, market-driven forces beyond their control.

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JHU Press

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1421420929

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9781421420929

How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science

By: Valerie Gray Hardcastle

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How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science

By: Valerie Gray Hardcastle

Articulates a method for integrating the individual disciplines that compose the cognitive sciences so that unified interdisciplinary theories are possible.

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SUNY Press

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0791428869

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9780791428863

Burnin' Down the House

Home in African American Literature

By: Valerie Sweeney Prince

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Burnin' Down the House

Home in African American Literature

By: Valerie Sweeney Prince

-- Cheryl A. Wall, Rutgers University

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Columbia University Press

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023113441X

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9780231134415

The Myth of Pain

By: Valerie Gray Hardcastle

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The Myth of Pain

By: Valerie Gray Hardcastle

Valerie Gray Hardcastle argues that both professional and lay definitions of pain are wrongheaded -- with consequences for how pain and pain patients are treated, how psychological disorders are understood, and how clinicians define the mind/body relationship. Pain, although very common, is little understood. Worse still, according to Valerie Gray Hardcastle, both professional and lay definitions of pain are wrongheaded -- with consequences for how pain and pain patients are treated, how psychological disorders are understood, and how clinicians define the mind/body relationship. Hardcastle offers a biologically based complex theory of pain processing, inhibition, and sensation and then uses this theory to make several arguments: (1) psychogenic pains do not exist; (2) a general lack of knowledge about fundamental brain function prevents us from distinguishing between mental and physical causes, although the distinction remains useful; (3) most pain talk should be eliminated from both the folk and academic communities; and (4) such a biological approach is useful generally for explaining disorders in pain processing. She shows how her analysis of pain can serve as a model for the analysis of other psychological disorders and suggests that her project be taken as a model for the philosophical analysis of disorders in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience.

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MIT Press

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0262582104

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9780262582100

Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film

Eight Star Profiles

By: Valerie C. Gilbert

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Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film

Eight Star Profiles

By: Valerie C. Gilbert

This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry. Combining biography with detailed film readings, the author fleshes out the tragic mulatto stereotype, while at the same time exploring concepts and themes such as racial identity, the one-drop rule, passing, skin color, transracial adoption, interracial romance, and more. With a wealth of background information, this study also places these actresses in historical context, providing insight into the construction of race, both onscreen and off.

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McFarland

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1476663386

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9781476663388

How to be a Growth Investor

By: Valerie F. Malter,Stuart P. Kaye

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How to be a Growth Investor

By: Valerie F. Malter,Stuart P. Kaye

In this no-nonsense book, experts reveal their proven techniques for uncovering undervalued growth stocks. The three critical variables of growth stock investing are fully explained, along with actual recommendations for growth stocks that are still a bargain for today'sgrowth investor. The authors will highlight the impressive performance of growth stocks over the last quarter century--with comparison to other types of stocks--and show how growth stocks have racked up returns similar to the best value stocks.

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0070400687

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Book's by Valerie Darden

Beautiful Living

Beautiful Living

Beautiful Living

Beautiful Living

Preserving Family Recipes

Preserving Family Recipes

Facilitating LGBTQIA+ Allyship through Multimodal Writing in the Elementary Classroom

Facilitating LGBTQIA+ Allyship through Multimodal Writing in the Elementary Classroom

The Faculty Factor

The Faculty Factor

How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science

How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science

Burnin' Down the House

Burnin' Down the House

The Myth of Pain

The Myth of Pain

Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film

Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film

How to be a Growth Investor

How to be a Growth Investor

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