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The Knight's PledgeThe destiny of three proud sons--and one courageous daughter--of a notorious criminal is revealed at last in medieval Scotland. The evil legacy of a cursed Northumberland manor ensnares Effie Annesley when her young son is kidnapped from ravaged Darlyrede House. To save him, Effie...
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Ninety-ThreeNinety-Three (1874) is the final novel of Victor Hugo. As a work of historical fiction, the story is set during the period of conflict between the newly formed French Republic and the Royalists who sought to reverse the gains of the revolution. Praised for...
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Hal Leonard Bagpipe Tune Book - With Online Audio Demos(Instructional). The Hal Leonard Bagpipe Tune Book is an essential resource, especially for non-competition level pipers and fulfills most of the players' needs, both somber and celebratory. This collection brings together both traditional and contemporary compositions that fall within the general abilities of the...
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Queer Professionals and Settler Colonialism: Engaging Decolonial Thought Within OrganizationsQueer Professionals and Settler Colonialism works to dismantle the perception of an inclusive queer community by considering the ways white lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ2S+) people participate in larger processes of white settler colonialism in Canada. Cameron Greensmith analyses Toronto-based queer service...
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In Between: Finding Peace and Strength in the Midst of Life's Continuous MotionsAre you stuck? Feeling burnt out, stressed, overwhelmed, overworked, experiencing feelings of anxiety and sadness? These are feelings many can relate to. Not prepared for what was about to happen to me, battling all sorts of emotions, it was only through my own experience,...
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Code: From Information Theory to French TheoryIn Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan,...
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Wake Up, This Is JoburgA single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city Johannesburg uncovers layers of history--from its premise and promise of gold to its current improvisations. It reveals the city as carcass and as crucible, where informal agents and processes spearhead its rapid reshaping and...
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Asian Women Artists: A Biographical Dictionary, 2700 Bce to TodayThis book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as...
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The Transcendent Vision of Mythopoeic FantasyAn ever-expanding critical library on fantasy fiction requires an analysis of why the genre is so ubiquitous, enduring and beloved. This work analyzes the mythic elements in foundational fantasy texts, arguing that mythopoeic fantasy reveals timeless truths that link human cultures past and present....
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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2019 and 2021Selected from the two most recent proceedings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2019 and 2021), this collection of essays explores subject matter centered both inside and beyond the ballpark. Fifteen contributors offer critical commentary on a range of topics, including...
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What's a Parent to Do?: How to Give Your Child the Best EducationParenting can seem overwhelming. Most parents want what is best for their children, but few have the time, energy, or background knowledge to take a deep dive into an ocean of scientific studies every time a decision has to be made. This book translates...
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The Better Elementary School: Hand-Tailored Education for All KidsResponsible elementary schools strive to ensure that all pupils know more today than they knew yesterday thereby better preparing the youngsters for tomorrow's lessons. However essential that aim, achieving the goal faces serious challenges due to what confronts quality classroom teachers daily: "It's not...
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The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious SocietyAmerican public schooling was established to unify diverse people and prepare citizens for democracy. Intuitively, it would teach diverse people the same values, preferably in the same buildings, with the goal that they will learn to get along and uphold government by the people....
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Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American FictionWriting the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction examines contemporary novels profoundly shaped by a sense of historical consciousness. Authors including Ben Lerner, Colson Whitehead, Dana Spiotta, Hari Kunzru and Garth Greenwell each use flashbacks, historical parallels and non-sequential narrative arrangements to emphasise the re-emergence,...
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From Character to Color: The Impact of Critical Race Theory on American EducationFrom Character to Color was written to explore Critical Race Theory from logical, moral, and educational standpoints, as these relate to history, people and racial groups. This book is also written to explain reasons why it is a bad choice to allow the Critical...
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Music in the Horror Films of Val LewtonVal Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and absences. By denying audiences visual confirmation of horror, his reforms placed a fresh burden on the soundtrack of his films. This book offers a...
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Jane Austen's Northanger AbbeyA fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Catherine Morland loves nothing more than reading a romantic novel, but as one of ten children she doesn't have much time for reading or for romance....
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Romanticism and Consciousness, RevisitedWith explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the world, along with new developments in cognitive theory and research, Romantic studies scholars have been called to revisit and re-map the terrain laid out...
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Around the World in 80 DaysOne night at his gentlemen's club, staid Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his companions half of his fortune that he can travel around the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his...
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Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de SiècleExplores the influence of contemporary radicalism over Oscar Wilde Offers a new, politicised interpretation of Wilde's most famous literary works Contextualises Wilde's writing by reading it against the contemporary political crises that it addressed Focuses on archival research, drawing on Wilde's correspondence, reviews, interviews,...
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