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"Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well. Looking beyond the ingredients and instructions, she shows how women have used cookbooks to assert their individuality, develop their minds, and structure their lives. Beginning in the seventeenth...
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Film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson sits down with a hypothetical table of smart, engaging, revolutionary women of the twentieth century to explore the ways food centered each woman's creative work. As we meet these multifaceted women, we learn how to live with courage, smarts, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times.
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"Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada- a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college...
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Opening at the number one spot in North American theaters in August 2000, Bring It On, the little cheerleading movie that could, went on to earn a worldwide gross of approximately $90 million, cementing the careers of Gabrielle Union, Kirsten Dunst, and Eliza Dushku--not to mention establishing a toothbrush as the sexiest household object, introducing instantly iconic quotes and cheers, and achieving "Oh, I love that movie!" status. The first-time...
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"Middle-aged, openly gay, liberal highbrow J.R. Jamison spends his days in a world of trigger warnings and safe spaces, while his conservative trigger-happy dad, Dave, spends his questioning why Americans have become so sensitive. At the height of the 2016 Election, the two decide to put differences aside and take a road trip to Dave's hometown in rural Missouri for his fifty-five year class reunion. But with the constant backdrop of the Trump vs....
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Desde una mirada multidisciplinaria, el autor se propone comprender la relación de los sistemas de representación externos y las prácticas culturales del conocer, pensar y representar el conocimiento humano.
Este libro puede resultar interesante y provocador para psicólogos, pedagogos, diseñadores, desarrolladores de hipermedia educativo, profesores e investigadores que observan y/o participan en escenarios dinámicos en los que la tecnología...
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En este libro se estudia a un grupo de escritores colombianos del periodo 1930-1946, unidos no solo por el oficio de la literatura, sino por su relación con la política partidista: además de escribir novelas, ensayos y poesías, y también otros géneros, estos escritores estuvieron por lo general ligados a los dos partidos dominantes de la época, el Liberal y el Conservador. Esta investigación espera contribuir al conocimiento del oficio de...
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Discover the secrets of mind manipulation
In this book you'll learn a trasversal topic you can apply to sales, copywriting, and marketing in general.
Persuasion is the fundamental skill for marketing and sales. With this audiobook you will discover 25 advanced techniques to hack the minds of your customers.
You can apply all these skills infinite times, from simple sales letter copywriting to a complete marketing plan.
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12) Civics
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Civics is the study of the rights and duties that come with being a member of a country. Members of a country are called citizens. Find out more in Civics, one of the titles in the Social Studies Essential Skills series. Social Studies Essential Skills provides insight into key social studies concepts that students must know to develop a greater understanding of content.
Civics is the study of the rights and duties that come with being a member of...
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Readers will find that the words profiled here have a new trace of meaning, warmth, and a time-worn glow. John Morse, publisher of Merriam-Webster, Inc. In One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe, Molly McQuade asks the question all writers love to answer: what one word means the most to you, and why? Writers respond with a wild gallimaufry of their choosing, from ardor to bitchin' to thermostat to wrong to very. There is corn,...
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Do you want to write a science fiction or fantasy setting which provides for extensive body modification through the use of magic or cool technology, but you're wondering how to include transgender people in your world without falling back on offensive stereotypes or erasing their existence altogether? This guidebook contains a series of essays covering settings which feature fast, easy, and widely accessible body alteration, including the futuristic...
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At a time when policy discussions are dominated by "I feel" instead of "I know," it is more important than ever for social scientists to make themselves heard. When those who possess in-depth training and expertise are excluded from public debates about pressing social issues-such as climate change, the prison system, or healthcare-vested interests can sway public opinion in uninformed ways. Yet few graduate students, researchers, or faculty know...
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As multisited research has become mainstream in anthropology, collaboration has gained new relevance and traction as a critical infrastructure of both fieldwork and theory, enabling more ambitious research designs, forms of communication, and analysis. Collaborative Anthropology Today is the outcome of a 2017 workshop held at the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine. This book is the latest in a trilogy that includes Fieldwork...
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Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So, it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in cultural anthropology to fields such as sociology, marketing, media studies, law, criminology, education, cultural studies, history, geography, and political...
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Lyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions in creative nonfiction, opening up space not only for new forms of writing, but also new voices and a new literary canon. This anthology features some of the best lyric essays published in the last several years by prominent and emerging writers. Editors Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold situate this anthology within the ongoing work of resistance-to genre...
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Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens offers students a lucid and engaging introduction to the discipline's history, struggles, and accomplishments through the lens of feminism. By illuminating a vast array of feminist contributions to the rhetorical tradition, writing theory, and classroom pedagogy, Shari J. Stenberg shows how feminist scholars have made Composition Studies a more inclusive and innovative field.
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At the ripe age of forty, when Alexis Paige was finally diagnosed with ADHD-Inattentive Type, she rolled her eyes even before the doctor could finish spelling out her new marching orders: "The goal now," he said, "is to learn how to work smart, not hard."
"But that doesn't sound like any fun," she said. She was going to have to do this, too-ironically, inexplicably, comically-as she did everything else, the hard way.
Part memoir, part craft guide,...
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