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Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key

By: Vanessa Oswald

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Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key

By: Vanessa Oswald

From the small screen to the big time, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key have made waves across the United States and the world. Branching out beyond comedy, the two have been involved in hit feature films, and their innate ability to combine comedy with a sharp sense for social commentary has put them on the path toward continued success in an industry that has not had many African American superstars. Inspire your readers with this biography of two giants in comedy.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1508188653

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9781508188650

Marching for Equality

The Journey from Selma to Montgomery

By: Vanessa Oswald

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Marching for Equality

The Journey from Selma to Montgomery

By: Vanessa Oswald

One of the greatest leaders in American history, Martin Luther King Jr., organized a march from Selma, Alabama, to that state’s capital, Montgomery, in 1965. He and other activists wanted to call attention to the civil rights violations that plagued Alabama, as well as the struggle many African Americans were going through to exercise their right to vote. Readers learn about this important moment in American history through comprehensive text, quotes from civil rights leaders, and powerful photographs from the historic march to Montgomery.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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1534562419

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9781534562417

Hip-Hop

A Cultural and Musical Revolution

By: Vanessa Oswald

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Hip-Hop

A Cultural and Musical Revolution

By: Vanessa Oswald

Hip-hop culture has shaped many facets of popular culture, including the worlds of music, politics, and business. The hip-hop movement began with New York City residents with few resources and has now turned into a billion-dollar worldwide industry. Readers will learn about the four elements of hip-hop: rapping (MCing), disc jockeying (DJing), graffiti art, and B-boying (break dancing). They'll learn how these foundational components evolved to construct what hip-hop is recognized as today. A list of essential hip-hop albums and annotated quotes from music critics and famous hip-hop artists are also included in this all-encompassing look at the history of hip-hop.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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1534565140

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9781534565142

JAY-Z

Building a Hip-Hop Empire

By: Vanessa Oswald

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JAY-Z

Building a Hip-Hop Empire

By: Vanessa Oswald

Shawn Corey Carter, known to most of the world as JAY-Z, has made a name for himself as one of the most successful artists in hip-hop. Not only has he achieved this success with rapping, but also as an entrepreneur. Having grown up in a housing project in Brooklyn, his story is a tale of struggles and successes. Engaging main text, full-color photographs, and a detailed timeline give readers an inside look into this rap star's exciting life. Annotated quotes from JAY-Z and others provide first-person perspectives on his rise to the top of the worlds of hip-hop and business.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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1534563350

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9781534563353

Gal Gadot

A New Kind of Action Hero

By: Vanessa Oswald

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Gal Gadot

A New Kind of Action Hero

By: Vanessa Oswald

Gal Gadot has become a major star and role model after being cast as the superhero Wonder Woman in a film franchise that has inspired women around the world. The Israeli actress has earned her spot as one of Hollywood's biggest action stars. Readers explore her many fascinating life experiences, from being crowned Miss Israel to her time serving in the Israel Defense Forces. Readers will learn about her early modeling and acting career. Additional fun facts about Gadot are presented through detailed sidebars, while annotated quotations provide a unique perspective on her rise to fame, and full-color photographs create a vibrant learning experience.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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153456778X

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9781534567788

Katy Perry

Purposeful Pop Icon

By: Vanessa Oswald

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Katy Perry

Purposeful Pop Icon

By: Vanessa Oswald

For the past decade, Katy Perry has been a visible part of the pop music scene. However, fans may be surprised to learn that despite the themes of some of Perry's early songs, she grew up in a conservative family. This and other fun facts about Perry's life are presented to readers alongside annotated quotes from the famous singer and those who know her best. With the release of her album Witness, Perry has shifted her focus to songs that explore deeper emotions and issues. Full-color photographs and a detailed timeline give readers a glimpse at the real Katy Perry.

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1534563253

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9781534563254

Trinidad and Tobago

By: Sean Sheehan,Jui Lin Yong,Vanessa Oswald

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Trinidad and Tobago

By: Sean Sheehan,Jui Lin Yong,Vanessa Oswald

Trinidad and Tobago are two tropical islands located off the northern coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea, but together they make one nation. Both are home to a vibrant culture. Through this detailed book, readers explore many aspects of this country, such as its history, geography, lifestyle, language, festivals, and food. Informative sidebars, comprehensive maps, a detailed glossary, and eye-catching, full-color photographs bring extra insight to this social studies curriculum topic. Readers will gain useful knowledge as they learn about the customs of this unique nation.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1502655829

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9781502655820

Beyoncé

The Reign of Queen Bey

By: Vanessa Oswald

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Beyoncé

The Reign of Queen Bey

By: Vanessa Oswald

She is one of the most iconic performers of her generation. From her early days in Destiny's Child to her career as a highly successful solo artist, she has created numerous hit albums, starred in many films, and performed for legions of passionate fans who often refer to her as Queen Bey. This book examines Beyonce's relationship with her family, her career as a performer and businesswoman, and how she has channeled her fame into activism. Fact-filled sidebars, annotated quotations, and full-color photographs add extra insight to this fascinating biography.

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1534567720

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9781534567726

The Profumo Affair

By: Vanessa Holburn

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The Profumo Affair

By: Vanessa Holburn

In the hot and steamy July of 1961, a hedonistic weekend at Lord Astor’s Buckinghamshire estate Cliveden set in motion a chain of events like no other. It was where John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, first decided he must bed the 19-year-old Christine Keeler, a model and showgirl. But that weekend Keeler headed home to London with diplomat, and known Russian spy, Yevgeny Ivanov instead. Undeterred, Profumo quickly started dating Keeler, and begun to mix in her circle, which included society osteopath Stephen Ward and fellow model Mandy Rice-Davies. But alongside flirting with the decadent upper classes, Ward and Keeler also enjoyed the seedier side of city life, becoming entangled with violent petty criminals. The heady mix of sex and espionage soon exploded. With Profumo exposed as a fraud, the government was left scrabbling to protect its reputation. Had its war minister been duped by the Soviets into careless pillow talk instigated by a Communist sympathiser? Both Ward and Keeler would become victims of the subsequent witch hunt. Ward would die by suicide and Keeler was branded a whore and liar. The Profumo Affair was the scandal that rocked the 60s. But how and why did a brief romance between a married MP and a young showgirl go on to shatter so many lives and bring down the government of Harold ‘Supermac’ Macmillan? Using the official Denning Report, recently released archival material and the accounts of those involved, Vanessa Holburn pieces together this surprisingly relatable story and asks; what really happened behind the headlines?

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Pen and Sword History

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1399062514

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9781399062510

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights

Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury and Suzanne Dracius

By: Vanessa Lee

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Four Caribbean Women Playwrights

Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury and Suzanne Dracius

By: Vanessa Lee

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius. Focussing on the significance of these women writers to the French and French Caribbean cultural scenes, the author illustrates how their work participates in global trends within postcolonial theatre. The playwrights discussed here all address socio-political issues, gender stereotypes, and the traumatic slave and colonial pasts of the Caribbean people. Investigating a range of plays from the 1980s to the early 2010s, including some works that have not yet featured in academic studies of Caribbean theatre, and applying theories of postcolonial theatre and local Caribbean theatre criticism, Four Caribbean Women Playwrights should appeal to scholars and students in the Humanities, and to all those interested in the postcolonial, the Caribbean, and contemporary theatre.

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Springer Nature

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303083364X

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9783030833640

The Black Arts Movement

Creating a Cultural Identity

By: Vanessa Oswald

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The Black Arts Movement

Creating a Cultural Identity

By: Vanessa Oswald

The black arts movement was led by African Americans between the 1960s and 1970s, and included artists of all kinds, such as poets, writers, actors, musicians, painters, and dancers. The main goal was to encourage black artists to make art that would tell the meaningful stories of black people and their experiences and struggles throughout history. Readers dive deep into this movement as they explore the main text that features annotated quotes from artists and historians. Sidebars and a timeline provide additional information. Historical images including primary sources give readers an up-close look at this pivotal cultural period.

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1534568549

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Indie Rock

Finding an Independent Voice

By: Vanessa Oswald

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Indie Rock

Finding an Independent Voice

By: Vanessa Oswald

The emergence of indie rock as a genre has helped categorize artists who belong to independent record labels. These musicians, due to their refusal to appeal to the mainstream, have boycotted the corporate rock scene to maintain more creative control. Readers learn about the debate behind whether indie bands later picked up by major labels should still be considered "indie" and why some see them as "sell outs." Detailed sidebars, an essential albums list, and annotated quotes from artists and critics are also included to expose readers to the musicians responsible for the inception and continuance of indie rock.

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1534565205

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Navigating Media Literacy

A Pedagogical Tour of Disneyland

By: Vanessa E. Greenwood

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Navigating Media Literacy

A Pedagogical Tour of Disneyland

By: Vanessa E. Greenwood

Navigating Media Literacy: A Pedagogical Tour of Disneyland is an education playbook applied to the vast mediated universe of Disney. Readers of all ages can critically apply media literacy principles while still conscientiously participating as consumer-citizens, media creators, and agents of change. Media literacy is defined throughout this book as an instructional method rather than a political movement. The book counterbalances the frequently myopic critiques of cultural scholars and the critical exemption granted by those across the world who find Disney to be a source of great pleasure. Integrated theory and practical examples allow readers to investigate of themselves and draw their own conclusions based on real inquisitive, observatory, and creative experiences that constitute media literacy (access, analyze, evaluate, create, reflect and act). Each chapter is ideologically mapped to an actual physical realm of Disneyland (e.g., Main Street, USA; Adventureland; Tomorrowland; Frontierland; Fantasyland). Each site provides a pedagogical playground for experimenting with each media literacy concept (e.g., context, audience, language, ownership, representation). The reader will come away with a deeper pedagogical understanding of how to cultivate media literacy using any context or subject—not just Disney. Each chapter includes discursive excerpts from students, along with assignments, discussion prompts, and classroom exercises, making it a valuable resource as a classroom textbook. Perfect for courses such as: Media Literacy | Communication and Media Arts | Film Studies | Media History | Transmedia Studies | Business | Marketing

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Myers Education Press

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1975502345

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9781975502348

Adulthood in Children's Literature

By: Vanessa Joosen

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Adulthood in Children's Literature

By: Vanessa Joosen

While most scholars who study children's books are pre-occupied with the child characters and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on the under-explored construction of adulthood in children's literature. Adulthood in Children's Literature demonstrates how books for young readers evoke adulthood as a stage in life, enacted by adult characters, and in relationship with the construction of childhood. Employing age studies as a framework for analysis, this book covers a range of English and Dutch children's books published from 1970 to the present. Calling upon critical voices like Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Peter Hollindale, Maria Nikolajeva and Lorraine Green, and the works of such authors as Babette Cole, Philip Pullman, Ted van Lieshout, Jacqueline Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Guus Kuijer, Joosen offers a fresh perspective on children's literature by focusing not on the child but the adult.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350049808

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9781350049802

Transgender Journeys

By: Virginia Ramey Mollenkott,Vanessa Sheridan

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Transgender Journeys

By: Virginia Ramey Mollenkott,Vanessa Sheridan

No matter how you identify yourself on the wide spectrum of gender--and some people find themselves in significantly different locations on that spectrum from day to day--if you're Christian and you care about issues of gender, transgender, and justice, this book is for you. --from the Introduction Based on their own journeys as transgendered Christians, Mollenkott and Sheridan have created an inspiring book about hope, opportunity, struggle, joy, difficulty, and transcendence. They offer information and inspiration while sharing real-life experiences about the joy and pain of being both Christian and gender-variant to illustrate how each person's enactment of their authentic self helps to create an environment that moves toward moral justice for all persons. Those who identify as gender-variant or are struggling with their own identity will find this book a useful companion on their journey. It is also a valuable resource for those seeking to help their communities take the next steps toward a more just society. Chapter topics include: ¥ Equipping for the Journey ¥ Reordering Our Travel Priorities ¥ Virginia Ramey Mollenkott's Gender-Variant Journey ¥ Vanessa Sheridan's GenderVariant Journey ¥ What Does It Mean to Walk a Transgender Christian Pathway? ¥ Reclaiming Our Territory, Mapping Our Pathway ¥ Developing a Theology for the Transgender Journey ¥ Coming Out as an Act of Faith ¥ Wilderness Pilgrims and Prophets ¥ÊSteps that Lie Ahead

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608992128

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9781608992126

Defining and Defying Borders

Tracing Hispanism across Literary Magazines

By: Vanessa Marie Fernández

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Defining and Defying Borders

Tracing Hispanism across Literary Magazines

By: Vanessa Marie Fernández

Tracing heated exchanges between Spanish and Latin American intellectuals that took place in journals, magazines, and newspapers in the early twentieth century, Defining and Defying Borders details how borders and boundaries were contested within a medium that simultaneously crossed borders and defined boundaries. Vanessa Marie Fernández demonstrates that print media is an invaluable resource for scholars because it offers a nuanced perspective of the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America that shaped aesthetic production within and beyond national boundaries. Presenting inclusive paradigms that are at once able to transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire, Defining and Defying Borders illustrates that investigating journals, magazines, and newspapers is crucial to better understanding postcolonial literary and cultural production.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487549121

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9781487549121

The Politics of Imprisonment

How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders

By: Vanessa Barker

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The Politics of Imprisonment

How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders

By: Vanessa Barker

The attention devoted to the unprecedented levels of imprisonment in the United States obscure an obvious but understudied aspect of criminal justice: there is no consistent punishment policy across the U.S. It is up to individual states to administer their criminal justice systems, and the differences among them are vast. For example, while some states enforce mandatory minimum sentencing, some even implementing harsh and degrading practices, others rely on community sanctions. What accounts for these differences? The Politics of Imprisonment seeks to document and explain variation in American penal sanctioning, drawing out the larger lessons for America's overreliance on imprisonment. Grounding her study in a comparison of how California, Washington, and New York each developed distinctive penal regimes in the late 1960s and early 1970s--a critical period in the history of crime control policy and a time of unsettling social change--Vanessa Barker concretely demonstrates that subtle but crucial differences in political institutions, democratic traditions, and social trust shape the way American states punish offenders. Barker argues that the apparent link between public participation, punitiveness, and harsh justice is not universal but dependent upon the varying institutional contexts and patterns of civic engagement within the U.S. and across liberal democracies. A bracing examination of the relationship between punishment and democracy, The Politics of Imprisonment not only suggests that increased public participation in the political process can support and sustain less coercive penal regimes, but also warns that it is precisely a lack of civic engagement that may underpin mass incarceration in the United States.

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Oxford University Press

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0199888078

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9780199888078

Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development

Rekindling Faust's Humanism

By: Vanessa Pupavac,Mladen Pupavac

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Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development

Rekindling Faust's Humanism

By: Vanessa Pupavac,Mladen Pupavac

Goethe’s 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European humanist aspirations to build free and prosperous national political communities protected from natural disasters. Faust stories emerged in early modern Europe linked to the shaking of the traditional religious and political order, and the pursuit of new areas of human knowledge and activity which led to a shift from viewing disasters as acts of God to acts of nature. Faust’s dam building and land reclamation project in Goethe’s poem was inspired by Dutch hydro-engineering and in turn inspired others. Faustian dreams of an engineered future were pursued by the American Yugoslav inventor Nikola Tesla and the country of his birth towards establishing its national independence and escaping the fate of being a borderland. Faust remains a compelling reference point to explore European visions of disaster and development. If Faust captured the European spirit of earlier centuries, what is today’s outlook? Ambitious Faustian development visions to eradicate natural disasters have been replaced by anti-Faustian risk cosmopolitanism sceptical towards human activity in ways counter to building collective protection from disaster. Tesla’s country of birth fears returning to being an insecure borderland of Europe. This powerful and timely book calls for a rekindling of European humanism and Faust’s vision of ‘free people standing on free land’.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538144948

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9781538144947

Life in Season

Celebrate the Moments That Fill Your Heart & Home

By: Vanessa Hunt,Heather Patterson

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Life in Season

Celebrate the Moments That Fill Your Heart & Home

By: Vanessa Hunt,Heather Patterson

The authors of the wildly popular blog, At the Picket Fence, Heather and Vanessa share their inspiration, struggles, faith, and encouragement to women who, just like themselves, want a warm, God-centered, joy-filled life. Meditations, photographs, and simple, budget-friendly home décor tips and recipes are woven throughout Life In Season to help you celebrate the moments that fill your home, heart, and faith. Their easy-to-follow style and real-life stories prove that you don't need to consider yourself creative to create a home you will love.

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Worthy Inspired

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1683970209

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9781683970200

Analyse, Ideate and Grow

The Role of Creativity and Entrepreneurship

By: Vanessa Ratten

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Analyse, Ideate and Grow

The Role of Creativity and Entrepreneurship

By: Vanessa Ratten

This book explores that in order to survive in the current dynamic and changing business environment, individuals need to analyse and ideate. This book provides analysis on this process involving investigating how and why changes take place and what they mean for society. This book takes into account altering environmental conditions that influence business strategy. Further, to do a proper analysis takes time and skill thus it is important to know what resources and expertise is required. This book shows that the ideation process involves more creativity in terms of thinking outside the box. This involves new thought processes about emerging technological change that will influence business directions. This book states that ideation is a process that requires some degree of flexibility as market circumstances mean constant innovation is required.

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Springer Nature

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9811908907

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9789811908903

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

By: Vanessa Lemm

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Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

By: Vanessa Lemm

Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on Earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from us, because life experiments through us as much as we experiment with it, because life keeps our thinking and our habits always moving, in a state of recurring nomadism. Nietzsche’s philosophy is perhaps the clearest expression of the antinomy contained in the idea of “studying” life and in the Socratic ideal of an “examined” life and remains a deep source of wisdom about living.

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Fordham University Press

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0823262898

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9780823262892

The Performer's Tale

The Nine Lives of Patience Collier

By: Vanessa Morton

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The Performer's Tale

The Nine Lives of Patience Collier

By: Vanessa Morton

A vivid and compelling biography of Patience Collier – an actress whose career spanned a golden age of performance from the 1930s to the 1980s – and an overview of theatre, film, TV and radio in Britain over half a century. Though Patience Collier's name has faded from public consciousness since her death in 1987, it still conjures cool memories of iconic television and film from the 1970s and 1980s – Sapphire and Steel, Who Pays the Ferryman, Fiddler on the Roof and The French Lieutenant's Woman. Fearsome, eccentric and unpredictable, Patience Collier was an actress whose perfectionism shone through in her every performance, and who worked alongside many of the most celebrated actors and directors of her time. Drawing on Collier's diaries, letters and photographs as well as interviews with those who worked with her, Vanessa Morton paints a portrait of a gifted and eccentric woman weaving her way through the twentieth century, and gives a panoramic overview of theatre, film, TV and radio in Britain over half a century. Part social history, part cultural history, The Performer's Tale is a richly entertaining account of an actor's life and times. 'I never met Patience Collier. Now, having read Vanessa Morton's richly entertaining book, I feel as if I did' Michael Billington, former theatre critic of the Guardian

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1800245130

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9781800245136

Higher and Colder

A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration

By: Vanessa Heggie

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Higher and Colder

A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration

By: Vanessa Heggie

During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, Higher and Colder presents the first history of extreme physiology, the study of the human body at its physical limits. Each chapter explores a seminal question in the history of science, while also showing how the apparently exotic locations and experiments contributed to broader political and social shifts in twentieth-century scientific thinking. Unlike most books on modern biomedicine, Higher and Colder focuses on fieldwork, expeditions, and exploration, and in doing so provides a welcome alternative to laboratory-dominated accounts of the history of modern life sciences. Though centered on male-dominated practices—science and exploration—it recovers the stories of women’s contributions that were sometimes accidentally, and sometimes deliberately, erased. Engaging and provocative, this book is a history of the scientists and physiologists who face challenges that are physically demanding, frequently dangerous, and sometimes fatal, in the interest of advancing modern science and pushing the boundaries of human ability.

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University of Chicago Press

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022665088X

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9780226650883

The Rampart

By: Vanessa Chavez

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The Rampart

By: Vanessa Chavez

If most of us were to be completely honest with ourselves, we would find places deep within us that cant trust God; at least not anymore. Life experiences, our own or those of others around us, have left us doubting the true nature of God. Is He really loving, big, faithful, trustworthy? Do our prayers really reach heaven? The Rampart is where we go to position ourselves to meet face to face with the one who is supposed to have been there when we needed Him most; the one who said He could do the impossible; or the one who still hasnt shown up yet. The Rampart is the place for those: -who want to believe that God is who He claims to be, but cant -who have journeyed with faith, only to face disappointment -who are intrigued by the thought of being a friend of God but find Him unreachable -who find themselves waiting and wondering how much longer In my own journey through life experiences, God has led me to a new place, one that has forever changed my perception of Him. In this place I found a bittersweet communion with Him, a safe haven, the ability to trust again, and an avenue to freedom from all that would hold me backThe Rampart.

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WestBow Press

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1512723479

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9781512723472

It's So French!

Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture

By: Vanessa R. Schwartz

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It's So French!

Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture

By: Vanessa R. Schwartz

Looks at the influence of French culture on a variety of motion pictures in the 1950s and 1960s, including "Gigi" and "Funny Face.

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0226742431

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9780226742434

My First 60 Days After High School

Preparing for My College Life

By: Vanessa Ebling

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My First 60 Days After High School

Preparing for My College Life

By: Vanessa Ebling

What happens the day after you graduate from high school? You start a new path in your life! My First 60 Days after High School will challenge you to step up in your faith as you step out into the world. This devotional will encourage you to keep God first in your life as you ponder, pray, and make decisions regarding relationships, classes and activities in college. Let these daily Scripture readings and practical, relevant advice strengthen and prepare you for the college path God has planned for you!

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1449781985

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9781449781989

How to Be Happy

10 Keys to Happier Living

By: Vanessa King

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How to Be Happy

10 Keys to Happier Living

By: Vanessa King

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions' The Dalai Lama, patron of Action for Happiness. Vanessa King, positive psychology expert for Action for Happiness has created 10 key evidence-based actions that have been shown to increase happiness and wellbeing - at home, at work and in the world around you. If you have read The Art of Happiness, The Happiness Project or Sane New World, this book will be the perfect complement. We all want to be happy but what does that actually mean and what can we do in our everyday lives to be happier? Fortunately, psychologists, neuroscientists and other experts now have evidence of what really makes a difference and helps us to be happier and more resilient to life's ups and downs. In this book, Vanessa King of Action for Happiness has drawn on the latest scientific studies to create a set of evidence-based practical actions. They will help you connect with people, nurture your relationships and find purpose. You'll get ideas for taking care of your body, making the most of what's good and finding new ways to stimulate your mind. So here are the 10 Keys to Happier Living - ideas, insights and practical actions that you can take to create more happiness for yourself and those around you.

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50 Finds From Manchester and Merseyside

Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

By: Vanessa Oakden

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50 Finds From Manchester and Merseyside

Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

By: Vanessa Oakden

Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

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Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Between the Global and the Local

By: Vanessa Knights

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Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Between the Global and the Local

By: Vanessa Knights

How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has consistently demonstrated a determination to seek out and procure for itself a stake in the management of 'its' popular musics. Similarly, popular musics have been used 'from the ground up' as sites for both populist and popular critiques of nationalist sentiment, from the position of both a globalizing and a 'local' vernacular culture. The contributions in this book arrive at a critical moment in the development of the study of national cultures and musicology. The book ranges from considerations of the ideological focus of cultural nationalism through to analyses of musical hybridity and musical articulations of other kinds of identities at odds with national identity. The processes of global homogenization are thereby shown to have brought about a transitional crisis for national cultural identities: the evolution of these identities, particularly with reference to the concept of 'authenticity' in music, is situated within broader debates on power, political economy and constructions of the self. Theorizations of practice are employed after the manner of Bourdieu, Gramsci, Goffman, Gadamer, Habermas, Bhabha, Lacan and Zizek. Each contribution acts as a case study to characterize the strategies through which differing modes of musical discourse engage, critique or obscure discourses on national identity. The studies include discussions of: musical representations of Irishness; the relationship between Afropop and World Music; Norwegian club music; the revival of traditional music in Serbia; resistance to cultural homogeneity in Brazil; contemporary Uyghur song in Northwest China; rap and race in French society; technobanda from the barrios of Los Angeles, and Spanish/Moroccan raï. In this way, the book seeks to characterize the ideological configurations that help to activate and sustain hegemonic, amb

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The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

By: Vanessa Ossa

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The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

By: Vanessa Ossa

This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on the other hand, as a ubiquitous, intangible threat that required constant alertness at home. The missing link between these two is the sleeper agent – the foreign enemy hiding among US citizens. By analyzing popular television shows, several US comic books, and a broad variety of Hollywood films that depict sleeper agents direct or allegorically, this book explores how a shift in perspective—from terrorist to sleeper agent—brings new insights into our understanding of post-9/11 representations of terrorism. The book’s interdisciplinary focus between media studies, cultural studies, and American studies, suggests that it will find an audience in a variety of fields, including historical research, narratology, popular culture, as well as media and terrorism studies.

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3031115163

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A History of Aboriginal Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales

By: Vanessa Russ

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A History of Aboriginal Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales

By: Vanessa Russ

In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This process occurred as the social histories of Australia expanded and recognised Aboriginal people, through wars and political shifts, and as international organisations began placing pressure on nation states to expand, diversify, and respect multicultural perspectives. This book explores a state art institution as a case study to consider these complex narratives through a single history of Aboriginal art from early colonisation until today. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and Indigenous studies.

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1000398684

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La Medusa

By: Vanessa Place

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La Medusa

By: Vanessa Place

Contemporary Los Angeles. A trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others--are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to contain.

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University of Alabama Press

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1573661457

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Creating The World We Want To Live In

How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

By: Bridget Grenville-Cleave,Dóra Guðmundsdóttir,Felicia Huppert,Vanessa King,David Roffey,Sue Roffey,Marten de Vries

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Creating The World We Want To Live In

How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

By: Bridget Grenville-Cleave,Dóra Guðmundsdóttir,Felicia Huppert,Vanessa King,David Roffey,Sue Roffey,Marten de Vries

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world. Written by eminent researchers and experienced practitioners, the book explores the principles that underpin living well, and gives examples of how this can be achieved not just in our own lives, but across communities and the planet we share. Chapters cover the stages of life from childhood to ageing, the foundations of everyday flourishing, including health and relationships, and finally wellbeing in the wider world, addressing issues such as economics, politics and the environment. Based in the scientific evidence of what works and supported by illustrations of good practice, this book is both ambitious and aspirational. The book is designed for a wide audience – anyone seeking to create positive change in the world, their institutions or communities. www.creatingtheworldwewanttolivein.org

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Canadian Dreadful

By: David Tocher,Colleen Anderson,Judith Baron,Karen Dales,Pat Flewwelling,Jen Frankel,Tyner Gillies,Vanessa C. Hawkins,Repo Kempt,Nancy Kilpatrick,Caitlin Marceau,Joe Powers,Robin Rowland,Sara C. Walker

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Canadian Dreadful

CANADIAN DREADFUL showcases some of Canada’s best voices in horror fiction. This anthology is a harrowing tour of the northern landscape that will leave you both dazzled and terrified." ~David Morrell, New York Times best-selling author of Murder as a Fine Art In the pages of this anthology, you will not find the Canada you are accustomed to, nor a Canada that the world has grown to know and love. Between the covers, you will discover a dark landscape that will challenge your perspective. From sea to shining sea, stories of a darker Canada will arise, and within them all a kernel of truth. Stories of sacrifice, cannibalism, ghosts, and mystical forests, the authors will plunge you into the country that is Canadian Dreadful. AUTHORS: Colleen Anderson, Judith Baron, Karen Dales, Pat Flewwelling, Jen Frankel, Tyner Gillies, Vanessa C Hawkins, Repo Kempt, Nancy Kilpatrick, Caitlin Marceau, Joe Powers, Robin Rowland, David Tocher, and Sara C Walker.

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Dark Dragon Publishing

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1928104169

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The Great Surrealists

Dreamers and Artists

By: Vanessa Oswald

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The Great Surrealists

Dreamers and Artists

By: Vanessa Oswald

Surrealism was a cultural movement started in France in the 1920s, which is best known for producing stunning visual artwork and inspirational writings, among other artistic achievements. Through well-researched main text, readers will learn about the lives of influential Surrealists such as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, and others who contributed to this essential period of art history. In addition, informative sidebars; annotated quotes from artists, historians, and other experts; and bold examples of renowned Surrealist artwork provide extra insight into this captivating topic, which will stimulate the minds of young artists and art lovers.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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153456604X

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Making Scrapbooks

Complete Guide to Preserving Your Treasured Memories

By: Vanessa-Ann,Vanessa-Ann Collection (Firm)

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Making Scrapbooks

Complete Guide to Preserving Your Treasured Memories

By: Vanessa-Ann,Vanessa-Ann Collection (Firm)

Guide to products, supplies, and techniques used for creating lasting and memorable scrapbooks and photo albums using templates, découpage, painting, embossing, and other techniques.

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