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In Defence of Plain English

The Decline and Fall of Literacy in Canada

By: Victoria Branden

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In Defence of Plain English

The Decline and Fall of Literacy in Canada

By: Victoria Branden

This indispensable guide to the English language belongs beside the dictionary in every Canadian home. Written in an easy-to-understand light-hearted style, the content of the book is nevertheless serious and important. Our language is declining; illiteracy is rampant. Worse, the sloppy, incorrect use of language is perpetrated by educators, the media, politicians, and others who should be setting a good example. Besides giving simple illustrations of the correct use of grammar and choice of words, the author deals with the commonest offences: language misused, mis-spelled, and misunderstood, and the appalling use of words (usually incorrect) that many people consider sophisticated or "classy." Using actual quotations from essays of university students, the media, and even "good" books, the author clearly defines bad English and explains in a straightforward manner how to change it to good English. What makes this book unique is its complete lack of pretentiousness and its powerful plea for the return of plain English.

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Dundurn

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1554881986

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9781554881987

The Canadian Book of Snobs

By: Victoria Branden

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The Canadian Book of Snobs

By: Victoria Branden

Victoria Branden has traced the history of Snobbery from its pre-human roots to our own era, in our own country, and has enunciated the definitive Theory of Snobbery.

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Dundurn

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1459727150

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The Wild Hunt

By: Victoria Branden

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The Wild Hunt

By: Victoria Branden

The legend of The Wild Hunt is as old as mankind. Every race has its version of The Hunt - the "raging host" of poachers' gangs who drove their quarry by night in defiance of ferociously strict game laws: the penalty for killing a deer was hanging. Disguised in the skins of beasts, they spread terror through the countryside, especially as they hunted not only animals but other humans and, when stimulated by drink and drugs, tore to pieces and devoured living creatures. As late as the 20th century, terrorists in the Congo and Kenya disguised themselves in panther and leopard pelts, the claws reinforced with steel to lacerate victims. The most common disguise was a wolf-hide, particularly in northern Europe, creating the werewolf superstition. It was clearly addictive behaviour, and some of its patterns can be discovered in modern gang activities. Could a Wild Hunt survive into our time? In a remote area, seldom visited by outsiders, a secret werewolf cult might still be pursuing and devouring its victims. The Wild Hunt tells of a young university woman who inherits a long-abandoned farmhouse which she plans to restore for a summer retreat, only to learn (too late) that it has become the headquarters of a Wild Hunt surviving among the men of a degenerate village. The anthropological soundness lends a terrifying plausibility which heightens the suspense more acutely than would the fear of supernatural, shape-shifting werewolves.

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Trafford Publishing

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141203292X

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9781412032926

Hate Speech

Linguistic Perspectives

By: Victoria Guillén-Nieto

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Hate Speech

Linguistic Perspectives

By: Victoria Guillén-Nieto

Hate speech has been extensively studied by disciplines such as social psychology, sociology, history, politics and law. Some significant areas of study have been the origins of hate speech in past and modern societies around the world; the way hate speech paves the way for harmful social movements; the socially destructive force of propaganda; and the legal responses to hate speech. On reviewing the literature, one major weakness stands out: hate speech, a crime perpetrated primarily by malicious and damaging language use, has no significant study in the field of linguistics. Historically, pragmatic theories have tended to address language as cooperative action, geared to reciprocally informative polite understanding. As a result of this idealized view of language, negative types of discourse such as harassment, defamation, hate speech, etc. have been neglected as objects of linguistic study. Since they go against social, moral and legal norms, many linguists have wrongly depicted those acts of wrong communication as unusual, anomalous or deviant when they are, in fact, usual and common in modern societies all over the world. The book analyses the challenges legal practitioners and linguists must meet when dealing with hate speech, especially with the advent of new technologies and social networks, and takes a linguistic perspective by targeting the knowledge the linguist can provide that makes harassment actionable.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110672618

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9783110672619

The Brueghels

By: Emile Michel,Victoria Charles

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The Brueghels

By: Emile Michel,Victoria Charles

Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a painter later, he painted religious themes, such as Babel Tower, with very bright colours. Influenced by Hieronymus Bosch, he painted large, complex scenes of peasant life and scripture or spiritual allegories, often with crowds of subjects performing a variety of acts, yet his scenes are unified with an informal integrity and often with wit. In his work, he brought a new humanising spirit. Befriending the Humanists, Brueghel composed true philosophical landscapes in the heart of which man accepts passively his fate, caught in the track of time.

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Parkstone International

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1780429886

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Indigenous Peoples [4 volumes]

An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival [4 volumes]

By: Victoria R. Williams

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Indigenous Peoples [4 volumes]

An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival [4 volumes]

By: Victoria R. Williams

The book is an essential resource for those interested in investigating the lives, histories, and futures of indigenous peoples around the world. Perfect for readers looking to learn more about cultural groups around the world, this four-volume work examines approximately 400 indigenous groups globally. The encyclopedia investigates the history, social structure, and culture of peoples from all corners of the world, including their role in the world, their politics, and their customs and traditions. Alphabetically arranged entries focus on groups living in all world regions, some of which are well-known with large populations, and others that are lesser-known with only a handful of surviving members. Each entry includes sections on the group's geography and environment; history and politics; society, culture, and tradition; access to health care and education; and threats to survival. Each entry concludes with See Also cross-references and a list of Further Reading resources to guide readers in their research. Also included in the encyclopedia are Native Voices inset boxes, allowing readers a glimpse into the daily lives of members of these indigenous groups, as well as an appendix featuring the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440861188

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9781440861185

Sports TV

By: Victoria E. Johnson

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Sports TV

By: Victoria E. Johnson

This book offers an introductory guide to sports TV, its history in the United States, the genre’s defining characteristics, and analysis of its critical significance for the business practices, formal properties, and social, cultural, and political meanings of the medium. Victoria E. Johnson discusses a range of examples, from textual analysis of programs such as Monday Night Football and Being Serena to examination of television rights details, to sports TV’s technological innovations and engagement of critical political debates. Johnson examines sports TV from its introduction to the ESPN+ era. She proposes that sports, as seen on TV in all of its iterations, is the central cultural forum for working through questions of community ideals, struggles over national and regional mythologies, and questions of representative citizenship. This book is an ideal guide for students and scholars of television, media, and cultural studies as well as those with an interest in television genre, sports TV history, and contemporary sport and media culture.

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Routledge

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1317935381

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9781317935384

Religion and Modern Thought

By: Victoria S. Harrison

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Religion and Modern Thought

By: Victoria S. Harrison

Written specifically for level 2 undergraduates, this textbook introduces readers to the extremely wide range of forms of religious thought, and the responses of religion to modern ideas, cultural phenomenon and events of the 20th century

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Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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0334041260

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9780334041269

War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria Tin-bor Hui

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War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria Tin-bor Hui

The Eurocentric conventional wisdom holds that the West is unique in having a multi-state system in international relations and liberal democracy in state-society relations. At the same time, the Sinocentric perspective believes that China is destined to have authoritarian rule under a unified empire. In fact, China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (656–221 BC) was once a system of sovereign territorial states similar to Europe in the early modern period. Both cases witnessed the prevalence of war, formation of alliances, development of the centralized bureaucracy, emergence of citizenship rights, and expansion of international trade. This book, first published in 2005, examines why China and Europe shared similar processes but experienced opposite outcomes. This historical comparison of China and Europe challenges the presumption that Europe was destined to enjoy checks and balances while China was preordained to suffer under a coercive universal status.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139443569

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Steel-True 1907-1940

By: Victoria Wilson

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Steel-True 1907-1940

By: Victoria Wilson

“860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound (eighty-eight motion pictures) and lasted in television from its infancy in the 1950s through the 1980s. Here is Stanwyck, revealed as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock; her years in New York as a dancer and Broadway star; her fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius; the adoption of a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with Zeppo Marx (the “unfunny Marx brother”) who altered the course of Stanwyck’s movie career and with her created one of the finest horse breeding farms in the west; and her fairytale romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor, America’s most sought-after male star. Here is the shaping of her career through 1940 with many of Hollywood's most important directors, among them Frank Capra, “Wild Bill” William Wellman, George Stevens, John Ford, King Vidor, Cecil B. Demille, Preston Sturges, set against the times—the Depression, the New Deal, the rise of the unions, the advent of World War II, and a fast-changing, coming-of-age motion picture industry. And at the heart of the book, Stanwyck herself—her strengths, her fears, her frailties, losses, and desires—how she made use of the darkness in her soul, transforming herself from shunned outsider into one of Hollywood’s most revered screen actresses. Fifteen years in the making—and written with full access to Stanwyck’s family, friends, colleagues and never-before-seen letters, journals, and photographs. Wilson’s one-of-a-kind biography—“large, thrilling, and sensitive” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country)—is an “epic Hollywood narrative” (USA TODAY), “so readable, and as direct as its subject” (The New York Times). With 274 photographs, many published for the first time.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439194068

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9781439194065

Spending My Way Out Of Misery

By: Victoria Amador

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Spending My Way Out Of Misery

By: Victoria Amador

The inspiring true story of a young woman who had it all, lost it all, and found happiness and the true meaning of life in the midst of her personal and financial crisis. Spending My Way Out Of Misery is based on a simple idea that allows each person to reflect on their values and vision in life. Only you can look deep inside and answer the questions offered in this book to help you redirect your life toward a greater mission. It will speak to anyone in search of hope, in need of a different perspective, to anyone who is constantly judging themselves and feeling inferior, and anyone living pay check to pay check. It is never too late to start deleting negative habits from your life and making changes that will positively make your life worth living.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453590730

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9781453590737

SCM Core Text: Religion and Modern Thought

By: Victoria Harrison

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SCM Core Text: Religion and Modern Thought

By: Victoria Harrison

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SCM Press

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0334048192

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9780334048190

Robust Methods in Biostatistics

By: Stephane Heritier,Eva Cantoni,Samuel Copt,Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

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Robust Methods in Biostatistics

By: Stephane Heritier,Eva Cantoni,Samuel Copt,Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

Robust statistics is an extension of classical statistics that specifically takes into account the concept that the underlying models used to describe data are only approximate. Its basic philosophy is to produce statistical procedures which are stable when the data do not exactly match the postulated models as it is the case for example with outliers. Robust Methods in Biostatistics proposes robust alternatives to common methods used in statistics in general and in biostatistics in particular and illustrates their use on many biomedical datasets. The methods introduced include robust estimation, testing, model selection, model check and diagnostics. They are developed for the following general classes of models: Linear regression Generalized linear models Linear mixed models Marginal longitudinal data models Cox survival analysis model The methods are introduced both at a theoretical and applied level within the framework of each general class of models, with a particular emphasis put on practical data analysis. This book is of particular use for research students,applied statisticians and practitioners in the health field interested in more stable statistical techniques. An accompanying website provides R code for computing all of the methods described, as well as for analyzing all the datasets used in the book.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047074054X

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9780470740545

Delhi to Kolkata Footprint Focus Guide

By: Vanessa Betts,Victoria McCulloch

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Delhi to Kolkata Footprint Focus Guide

By: Vanessa Betts,Victoria McCulloch

This region takes in the contrasts of India. From the brash and chaotic Delhi, through Varanasi, India’s holiest city, to the cultural hub that is Kolkata, these cities will truly provide an experience of India. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of these dynamic destinations. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to Delhi, Varanasi and Kolkata. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from tightly packed markets to visiting the holy riverbank. • Detailed maps for Delhi, Kolkata and other key destinations. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus Delhi to Kolkata provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of India’s most fascinating regions. The content of Footprint Focus Delhi to Kolkata guide has been extracted from Footprint's India Handbook.

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Footprint Travel Guides

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1909268402

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9781909268401

I Will Always Love You

By: Jennifer Curtis,Victoria Curtis

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I Will Always Love You

By: Jennifer Curtis,Victoria Curtis

Do you enjoy reading short stories? Well, this book is right up your alley! "I Will Always Love You": This goes into the life of a young girl that finds her true love, and then tragedy hits. Her life is changed forever and not what she had planned. While dealing with her new life, love finds its way into her heart again. "Free": Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you were a prisoner? That is just how Lexie Marie feels. She thought she had it all: perfect grades, being on the track team, and going to college to become a doctor. But she let life get in the way, and while being so young, she became a prisoner in her own life. She had to fight her way out of the situations she had gotten herself into. In the end, she was finally free. "Justice for Leo": A young boy loses his brother in a gang killing. He wanted to get justice for him, but only being a young child himself, he wasn't sure how to go about it. That is until he had a dream of his brother, and he showed him how to do it. "If Tomorrow Never Comes": Do you ever have a day that you wish you could repeat? Maybe to save someone or to make amends with a friend or family member. Or to even help a stranger in need. Welcome to the day a nurse had; she had to repeat her day over and over until she finally figured out what she had to do to get to tomorrow. Be careful who you offer to help; you never know who is listening. "Unexpected Love": Love is all around, and some people get it, while others don't. But for one lady, it was very unexpected. She never believed that her life would turn out the way it did. "The OATH": Have you ever had a dream that was so vivid and seemed so real? Dr. Tori had a dream just like that. But was it really happening, or was it just a dream? "Friendships Last Forever": People make friends during their lifetime; some come and go, whereas a handful might last forever. Some friends even wait for you in the afterlife.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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9798889822950

A Sacred Space Is Never Empty

A History of Soviet Atheism

By: Victoria Smolkin

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A Sacred Space Is Never Empty

A History of Soviet Atheism

By: Victoria Smolkin

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.

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Princeton University Press

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0691197237

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9780691197234

The Last Days of Pompeii

Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

By: Victoria C. Gardner Coates,Kenneth D. S. Lapatin,Jon L. Seydl,Cleveland Museum of Art,Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

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The Last Days of Pompeii

Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

By: Victoria C. Gardner Coates,Kenneth D. S. Lapatin,Jon L. Seydl,Cleveland Museum of Art,Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually considered places where we can most directly experience the daily lives of ancient Romans. Rather than present these sites as windows to the past, however, the authors of The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection explore Pompeii as a modern obsession, in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present. Through cultural appropriation and projection, outstanding visual and literary artists of the last three centuries have made the ancient catastrophe their own, expressing contemporary concerns in diverse media--from paintings, prints, and sculpture, to theatrical performances, photography, and film. This lavishly illustrated volume--featuring the works of artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, Chass�riau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, Dal�, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol--surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection. Decadence investigates the perception of Pompeii as a site of impending and well-deserved doom due to the excesses of the ancient Romans, such as paganism, licentiousness, greed, gluttony, and violence. The catastrophic demise of the Vesuvian sites has become inexorably linked with the understanding of antiquity, turning Pompeii into a fundamental allegory for Apocalypse, to which all subsequent disasters (natural or man-made) are related, from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Resurrection examines how Pompeii and the Vesuvian cities have been reincarnated in modern guise through both scientific archaeology and fantasy, as each successive cultural reality superimposed its values and ideas on the distant past. An exhibition of the same name will be on view at the Getty Villa from September 12, 2012, through January 7, 2013; at the Cleveland Museum of Art from February 24 through May 19, 2013; and at the Mus�e national des beaux-arts du Qu�bec from June 13 through November 8, 2013.

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Getty Publications

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1606061151

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Just Look at Yourself

Empowerment for Middle School Girls

By: Victoria McGee

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Just Look at Yourself

Empowerment for Middle School Girls

By: Victoria McGee

A workbook for educators leading support groups for middle school girls, focusing on self-esteem. Journaling, discussion, and role-plays work together to help young girls feel empowered as they enter the teen years. This workbook is spiral-bound to allow for easy copying of contents for the purpose of assembling the student workbook and easy use of role-play scenes.

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Laughing Cats Publishing

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0975562908

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7 Keys to Freedom

The Ultimate Guide to Developing the Mind

By: Dawn R. Nocera,Selwa Hamati,Gwen Boudreau,Victoria Lazarova,Nita Mathews-Morgan Ph.D

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7 Keys to Freedom

The Ultimate Guide to Developing the Mind

By: Dawn R. Nocera,Selwa Hamati,Gwen Boudreau,Victoria Lazarova,Nita Mathews-Morgan Ph.D

If you feel stuck financially, find yourself procrastinating on your dreams, or just want to live more freely and abundantly in every area of your life, then you may need to give your mental muscles a workout. Just as your body is equipped with physical muscles, your mind is equipped with mental muscles. However, most of us are not aware that our thinking determines the circumstances in our lives. You need to strengthen your mental musclesimagination, memory, reason, perception, intuition and willto create a life full of passion and abundance. The authors, an international team of coaches share anecdotes from their lives, the latest discoveries in neuroscience, and practical action steps. In 7 Keys to Freedom youll discover: How to turn your imagination into your greatest ally How to access the power of success hidden in your memory When to trust and follow your intuition The number one secret to success used by the worlds most powerful people You hold in your hands the how-to book on thinking for yourself. The ideas in it can help you enjoy an abundant and happy life. What you are about to read in this book is information that very few people understand. Its information that, up to this time, has been exposed to only a very select few. The entirety of this book is dedicated to a subject that, when properly understood, can change your life, for the better, forever. It deals with the uniqueness of you! The authors share their individual and combined efforts you will not only read, but also be privy to the age-old wisdom that has affected their lives. This wisdom is what they now openly share with you. Bob Proctor, Best-selling author and one of the living masters and teachers of the Law of Attraction

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BalboaPress

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145257751X

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Animals Are Us

A Guide to a Kinder World

By: Victoria Thompson

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Animals Are Us

A Guide to a Kinder World

By: Victoria Thompson

‘This book will save lives—human and animals.’ Victoria Thompson is a passionate advocate for the protection of animals from great harm. She movingly describes our appalling failures in this regard and praises those who press for the enlightened awareness and humane treatment of animals. She believes profoundly that we must not continue to think of animals as just resources to exploit—for animals too have a right to live naturally. And she gives us solutions for a kinder world. ‘Victoria’s book is a real ground-breaker and may well become the new bible for those seeking to save our fellow species from immense suffering and even extinction.’ Irina Dunn

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Australian Scholarly Publishing

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192266992X

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9781922669926

Miss Milford's Mistake

By: Victoria Hinshaw

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Miss Milford's Mistake

By: Victoria Hinshaw

Seeking a suitable husband for her flighty young cousin, independent Eleanor Milford pursues her former suitor and winds up falling for him herself. Original.

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Zebra Books

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0821775391

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The Canadian Book of Snobs

By: Victoria Branden

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The Canadian Book of Snobs

By: Victoria Branden

Are you a snob? Then why not learn to do it right? Study this revolutionary work and become a Canadian Snob of Distinction! Victoria Branden has traced the history of Snobbery from its pre-human roots to our own era, in our own country, and has enunciated the definitive Theory of Snobbery. She examines its evolution from its crude beginnings to its present confused state, with detailed study of the most important types of snobbery, distinguishing Goodsnobs from Badsnobs, experts from fumbling amateurs. Snobbery has influenced history at least as much as the invention of the wheel or the printing press, which were probably actually inspired by snob instincts. Always staunchly patriotic, Ms. Branden has given particular attention to Canadian Snobs, who have been until this time gravely neglected in both life and literature, and has provided Canadian Snobmodels by which we can be guided to higher and better levels of Snobbery. She finds a certain lack of professionalism among Canadian Snobs: Snobbery is not acknowledged as an Olympic contender, and has received no recognition in this year's "black budget." So there is much to be done, urgently! Branden has thoughtfully provided Snobexercises (video later) by which you can develop Snobmuscle. Careful study, with diligent practice and iron self-discipline, will help you to achieve great heights of Snob-expertise, using techniques and materials particularly suited to the Canadian climate and social mores. Other how-to books claim to "make it easy" to succeed. We do not. Achieving Snob-distinction is hard, gruelling, and incessant work - but the rewards are incalculable. Any jerk can be a snob, and usually is. But to be a truly Great Snob, an upper-case Snob, a Snob who will go down in history like Beau Brummell or Oscar Wilde ah, that is attainable only by the few.

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