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In It for the Long Run

A Decade with the Darkside Running Club

By: Vanessa Stroud,Scott Ludwig

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In It for the Long Run

A Decade with the Darkside Running Club

By: Vanessa Stroud,Scott Ludwig

Multiple races of marathon distance or greater in a month...or perhaps in a weekend. Several unsupported runs of 50 and 100 miles through the mountains and forests several times a year. Have you ever considered running through a desert, across a frozen tundra or over multiple mountain ranges? Why not run for three days straight to see how many miles you can accrue? Welcome to a place where no locale is too inhospitable and no distance impossible. Welcome...to the Darkside. The Darkside Running Club, established in 2002 is a place where runners meet to express their love for distance running and camaraderie by spending countless hours and miles committed to doing what they enjoy most. They share a singular focus towards achieving goals far off in the distance, both literally and figuratively. With their dedication and commitment you may believe the Darksider to be a professional athlete, or perhaps an Olympian. But you would be wrong: they are simply ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the sport they love: running. Highly competitive while never taking themselves too seriously, they strive to shave off minutes or perhaps hours while adding a mile or two...or twenty while pushing their limits further and further. The impossible becomes possible; dreams become reality. They wont take no for an answer as they persevere to move beyond physical and emotional discomfort to finish what they started. Excuses dont exist. Their passion is contagious. So reader be warned: theyre in it for the long run.

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1475938683

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Great British Gardeners

From the Early Plantsmen to Chelsea Medal Winners

By: Vanessa Berridge

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Great British Gardeners

From the Early Plantsmen to Chelsea Medal Winners

By: Vanessa Berridge

Through the stories of twenty-six inspiring figures - from ‘Capability’ Brown, Humphry Repton and Vita Sackville-West to lesser known figures, and present-day gardeners such as Beth Chatto and John Brookes - this book brings the colourful history of British gardening to life.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445672413

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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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022665091X

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9780226650913

The Princess's Garden

Royal Intrigue and the Untold Story of Kew

By: Vanessa Berridge

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The Princess's Garden

Royal Intrigue and the Untold Story of Kew

By: Vanessa Berridge

The untold story of how our national obsession with gardening came to be.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445643367

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Dalton

By: Thomas Deaton,Myra Owens,Brenda Ownbey,Tammy Poplin,Vanessa Rinkel

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Dalton

By: Thomas Deaton,Myra Owens,Brenda Ownbey,Tammy Poplin,Vanessa Rinkel

The Cherokees who first occupied this area called northern Georgia their enchanted land, but the discovery of gold caused a land rush, an illegal treaty of expulsion, and the Trail of Tears. Dalton was created when the Western and Atlantic Railroad was built to connect Atlanta with Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1863, during the Civil War, this small town became a battle scene along Gen. William T. Shermans march, with both armies occupying the community. After the war, the leading citizens built Crown Cotton Mill and Village to expand the towns economy. In 1895, fifteen-year-old Catherine Evans hand-tufted a bedspread, ushering in the bedspread and tufted carpet bonanzas. With the invention of tufting machines in the 1930s and 1940s, Dalton boomed as carpet companies, supply houses, bedspread lines, and retail outlets brought wealth to the city. At one point, there were more millionaires per capita in Dalton than anywhere in the country. Today Dalton is growing with the help of a diverse Hispanic labor force and continues to be the Carpet Capital of the World.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439622612

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

This work provides an informative guide to the roots of modern China. It also looks at the key challenges and opportunities that face China in the 21st century.

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Penguin

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0028643860

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9780028643861

Warwick Murders

By: Vanessa Morgan

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Warwick Murders

By: Vanessa Morgan

Discover the shadier side of Warwick's history with this collection of true-life crimes from the town's past. Featuring all factions of the criminal underworld, this chilling selection include cases of murder, kidnap, poaching, theft, assault and infanticide, as well as the punishments and executions that were carried out. Cases featured here includes a daring robbery at a country house in 1846, the brutal murder of a woman in 1819, and the drowning of a wife by her husband in 1870. Vanessa Morgan's well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in true crime and the history of the town.

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The History Press

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0752494112

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9780752494111

The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670

By: Vanessa Harding

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The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670

By: Vanessa Harding

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Cambridge University Press

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0521811260

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9780521811262

Boudica

By: Vanessa Collingridge

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Boudica

By: Vanessa Collingridge

Boudica has been immortalised throughout history as the woman who dared take on the Romans - an act of vengeance on behalf of her daughters, tribe and enslaved country. Her known life is a rich tapestry of wife, widow, mother, queen and Celtic quasi-Goddess. But beneath this lies a history both dark and shocking, with fresh archaeological evidence adding new depth and terrifying detail to the worn-out myths. From the proud warrior tribes of her East Anglian childhood to the battlefields of her defeat, this is a vividly written and evocatively told story, bringing a wealth of new research and insight to bear on one of the key figures in British history and mythology. From the author of the much-praised Captain Cook comes a major new historical biography; a gripping and enlightening recreation of Boudica, her life, her adversaries, and the turbulent era she bestrode.

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Random House

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1446445011

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9781446445013

50 Finds From Cheshire

Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

By: Vanessa Oakden

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50 Finds From Cheshire

Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

By: Vanessa Oakden

Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445646919

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Coventry Murders

By: Vanessa Morgan

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Coventry Murders

By: Vanessa Morgan

This chilling collection of murder cases delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Coventry during its long history. Among those featured are the niece who poisoned her uncle in 1831 to fund her 'love of nice dresses', a woman whose throat was slashed by her jealous husband in 1859, a mother who literally died of fright when her son attempted to poison her in 1910, and a double murder in 1906. Illustrated with a wide range of archive material and modern photographs, Coventry Murders is sure to fascinate both residents and visitors alike as these shocking events of the past are revealed for a new generation.

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The History Press

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0750955503

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9780750955508

Electric Edwardians

The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon

By: Vanessa Toulmin

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Electric Edwardians

The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon

By: Vanessa Toulmin

Electric Edwardians presents a stunning visual record of the films of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, combined with an illuminating discussion of the films and the social context of their production by Vanessa Toulmin, a leading authority on the collection. Advertised as 'local films for local people', the films of Mitchell and Kenyon were commissioned by travelling exhibitors in the early twentieth century for screening in town halls, village fetes and local fairs. Audiences paid to see their neighbours, families and themselves on the screen, glimpsed at work and at play. This attractive volume includes over 200 illustrations drawn from the Mitchell and Kenyon collection, as well as contemporary posters and handbills from the National Fairground Archive. Vanessa Toulmin's lucid accompanying text provides an introduction to the work of the M&K company, the showmen who commissioned their films, and their place in early British cinema. Focusing on major themes, such as Leisure and Recreation, Sport, Industry, the Boer War and the City, Toulmin explores how the M&K collection deepens our understanding of these key aspects of Edwardian life.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838715525

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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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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445658569

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9781445658568

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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Developing Government Policy Capability

Policy Work, Project Management, and Knowledge Practices

By: Dr. Chivonne Algeo,Dr. James Connor,Henry Linger,Dr. Vanessa McDermott,Dr. Jill Owen

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Developing Government Policy Capability

Policy Work, Project Management, and Knowledge Practices

By: Dr. Chivonne Algeo,Dr. James Connor,Henry Linger,Dr. Vanessa McDermott,Dr. Jill Owen

The creation of public and government policy presents a "wicked" problem because it tends to be highly contested, involves many different stakeholders, and yields outcomes that change and evolve over time. Developing Government Policy Capability examines the role project management plays in supporting how policy work is conducted. Using Australia's controversial Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 as a case study, the authors explore the question: Can project management practices contribute to improving government policy development and implementation capability? Their argument—that project management can solve even "wicked" problems—is not necessarily new. As they explain, that's pretty much what project management is all about. Project managers need to clearly articulate, acknowledge, and legitimize invisible work—the bridge between what is being done and what is supposed to be done. The project management tool set and the importance of recognizing the societal dimension when planning and conducting projects can make it possible for practitioners to tackle even the most complex policy work.

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Project Management Institute

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1628251808

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9781628251807

Murder and Crime Birmingham

By: Vanessa Morgan

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Murder and Crime Birmingham

By: Vanessa Morgan

This chilling collection brings together true-life historical murders that shocked not only the city but frequently made headline news throughout the country. Cases featured here include riots in 1791, a bank robbery in 1844 and an arson attack in 1912. Murder most foul also raises it’s ugly head, with John Thompson stabbed his common-law wife in a fit of drunken jealousy in 1861, and Mary Albion is murdered in her bed when a robbery went wrong in 1898. Vanessa Morgan’s well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in true crime and the shadier side of Birmingham’s past.

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The History Press

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0752482114

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9780752482118

Intimate Strangers

Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters

By: Vanessa Smith

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Intimate Strangers

Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters

By: Vanessa Smith

A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

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337

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Cambridge University Press

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0521437512

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9780521437516

Wilmslow Through Time

By: Vanessa Greatorex

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Wilmslow Through Time

By: Vanessa Greatorex

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Wilmslow has changed and developed over the last century.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445632284

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9781445632285

Turkey

By: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc.,Jennifer Hattam,Vanessa Larson,Scott Newman

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Turkey

By: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc.,Jennifer Hattam,Vanessa Larson,Scott Newman

Examines Turkey as a frontier land of contrasts, antiquity, and crosscultural influences, and offers practical information on accommodations, restaurants, shopping, and unusual sights and activities.

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Fodor's

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0307928438

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9780307928436

Cool Shades

The History and Meaning of Sunglasses

By: Vanessa Brown

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Cool Shades

The History and Meaning of Sunglasses

By: Vanessa Brown

Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion and pop cultural imagery which has received little scholarly attention until now. Accessible and highly engaging, this book offers an original history of how sunglasses became a fashion accessory in the early twentieth century, and addresses the complex variety of meanings they have the power to articulate, through associations with vision, light, glamour, darkness, fashion, speed and technology in the context of modernity. Cool Shades will be of great interest to students of fashion, design, visual and material culture, cultural studies and sociology, as well as general readers fascinated by this iconic fashion staple.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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085785464X

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9780857854643

The Archaeology of Merseyside in 20 Digs

By: Liz Stewart,Vanessa Oakden

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The Archaeology of Merseyside in 20 Digs

By: Liz Stewart,Vanessa Oakden

Published in association with the Museum of Liverpool, this book explores 20 significant archaeological digs on Merseyside and what they uncovered.

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146

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398109517

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9781398109513

The Selling of Civil Rights

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations

By: Vanessa Murphree

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The Selling of Civil Rights

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations

By: Vanessa Murphree

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights. With a tremendous human rights mission facing them, the founding SNCC members included communication and publicity as part of their initial purpose. This book provides a broad overview of these efforts from SNCC's birth in 1960 until the beginning of its demise in the late 1960s and examines the communication tools that SNCC leaders and members used to organize, launch, and carry out their campaign to promote civil rights throughout the 1960s. It specifically explores how SNCC workers used public relations to support and promote their platforms and to build a grassroots community movement; and how the organization later rejected these strategies for a radical and isolated approach.

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206

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Routledge

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1135523169

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9781135523169

Parkgate & Neston Through Time

By: Vanessa Greatorex

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Parkgate & Neston Through Time

By: Vanessa Greatorex

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Parkgate & Neston has changed and developed over the last century.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445635720

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Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales

An Intertextual Dialogue Between Fairy-tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings

By: Vanessa Joosen

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Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales

An Intertextual Dialogue Between Fairy-tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings

By: Vanessa Joosen

An intertextual approach to fairy-tale criticism and fairy-tale retellings -- Marcia K. Lieberman's "Some day my prince will come"--Bruno Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The madwoman in the attic.

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380

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Wayne State University Press

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0814334520

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9780814334522

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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9781573661454

In It for the Long Run

A Decade with the Darkside Running Club

By: Scott Ludwig,Vanessa Stroud

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In It for the Long Run

A Decade with the Darkside Running Club

By: Scott Ludwig,Vanessa Stroud

Multiple races of marathon distance or greater in a month...or perhaps in a weekend. Several unsupported runs of 50 and 100 miles through the mountains and forests several times a year. Have you ever considered running through a desert, across a frozen tundra or over multiple mountain ranges? Why not run for three days straight to see how many miles you can accrue? Welcome to a place where no locale is too inhospitable and no distance impossible. Welcome...to the Darkside. The Darkside Running Club, established in 2002 is a place where runners meet to express their love for distance running and camaraderie by spending countless hours and miles committed to doing what they enjoy most. They share a singular focus towards achieving goals far off in the distance, both literally and figuratively. With their dedication and commitment you may believe the Darksider to be a professional athlete, or perhaps an Olympian. But you would be wrong: they are simply ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the sport they love: running. Highly competitive while never taking themselves too seriously, they strive to shave off minutes or perhaps hours while adding a mile or two...or twenty while pushing their limits further and further. The impossible becomes possible; dreams become reality. They won't take 'no' for an answer as they persevere to move beyond physical and emotional discomfort to finish what they started. Excuses don't exist. Their passion is contagious. So reader be warned: they're in it for the long run.

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