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Yo-Yo Ma: Internationally Acclaimed Cellist

Yo-Yo Ma: Internationally Acclaimed Cellist

Myra Weatherly

Presents the life and accomplishments of one of the world's finest cello players.
Inhalants

Inhalants

Myra Weatherly

Looks at the history of tobacco, discusses the health impact of smoking, and offers advice on how to quit.
Teens in Ghana

Teens in Ghana

Myra Weatherly

Explores the daily lives and customs of teenagers in Ghana, discussing education, entertainment, holidays, work, and culture.
South Carolina

South Carolina

Myra Weatherly

Describes the history, climate, geography, people, and places of interest in South Carolina.
Benjamin Banneker: American Scientific Pioneer

Benjamin Banneker: American Scientific Pioneer

Myra Weatherly

Biography of the African-American man who, as a self-taught mathematician and astronomer, helped survey the site of the Nation's Capitol and published several popular almanacs.
Living in Elizabethan England

Living in Elizabethan England

Myra Weatherly

The long reign of Elizabeth I stands out as an invigorating and creative period in English history. This volume of edited essays explores the living environment, the role of society, and the arts and leisurely pursuits of the age.
Women Pirates: Eight Stories of Adventure

Women Pirates: Eight Stories of Adventure

Myra Weatherly

Recounts the life stories of eight notorious women pirates, including Grace O'Malley, Anne Bonny, and Cheng I Sao.
Ecstasy and Other Designer Drug Dangers

Ecstasy and Other Designer Drug Dangers

Myra Weatherly

Presents the dangers of Ecstasy, crystal meth, crank, and other designer drugs, discussing their effects and addictive nature and the treatment of their abuse.
Women of the Sea: Ten Pirate Stories

Women of the Sea: Ten Pirate Stories

Myra Weatherly

England's Jane: The Story of Jane Austen offers an intimate and endearing portrait of a funny, smart, and caring woman whose eye for detail and love for life continue to delight readers today.
Elizabeth I: Queen of Tudor England

Elizabeth I: Queen of Tudor England

Myra Weatherly

Describes the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, whose forty-five year rule encompassed a period of exploration, economic growth, and an increased interest in the arts.
Elizabeth I: Queen of Tudor England

Elizabeth I: Queen of Tudor England

Myra Weatherly

A biography profiling the life of Queen Elizabeth I, the queen of England during the peak of the Renaissance era. Includes source notes and timeline.
Advanced Canine Reproduction and Puppy Care

Advanced Canine Reproduction and Puppy Care

Myra Savant-Harris

Myra Savant Harris, through her books, seminars, and active participation in online forums and lists, is a one woman support system for hundreds of breeders everywhere.
The Works of the Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green ...

The Works of the Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green ...

Ad Putter

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience Ad Putter, Myra Stokes. PENGUIN©CLASSICS The Works ofthe Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness Edited by Ad Putter and Myra Stokes ...
Wood Knocks Volume 1: A Journal of Sasquatch Research

Wood Knocks Volume 1: A Journal of Sasquatch Research

David Weatherly

Wood Knocks brings together some of the brightest minds in the field of cryptozoology as they present their research on the world's most popular cryptid, Bigfoot.
Puppy Intensive Care: A Breeder's Guide to Care of Newborn ...

Puppy Intensive Care: A Breeder's Guide to Care of Newborn ...

Myra Savant-Harris

Learn to use the same techniques that medical hospitals use on human newborns to save the lives of puppies.
The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial ...

The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial ...

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1902 Janet Horowitz Murray, Myra Stark ... The enlightened ideas which she never ceased to promote were embodied, after her death, in the “Frederika Bremer Association,” by Sophie Adlersparre, and are still carried out in the same spirit by ...
I Survived: A Murder Untold

I Survived: A Murder Untold

Myra C. Fox

Survival was a continuous thing, the gruesome child abuse I endured in 1965 was just that. Now. Surviving the mental struggles and tragedy that happened in 1965 seemed almost as severe. Here is part two of my journey to survive.
Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation

Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation

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seCtion. 3: sexuality. 9. 10. 11. Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree. Sexual Citizenship and Suffering Subjects: Media Discourse about Teenage Homosexuality in South Korea In a study ...
The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

Harold Lawrence Myra

Outlines twenty-one leadership principles as demonstrated by the example of the influential and controversial minister, drawing on interviews with some of his closest associates to offer insight into his conservative belief system and rise ...
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism

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Sociologists Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree (2010) have attempted to give users of intersectionality the tools with which to be more rigorous in addressing what kinds of agency/structure interplay are under examination in any given ...
Bristol Motor Speedway

Bristol Motor Speedway

David M. McGee

Jack Smith Pontiac Joe Weatherly Pontiac Bobby Johns Pontiac Jim Paschal Plymouth Fireball Roberts Ford Fred Lorenzen Ford Fred Lorenzen Ford Fred Lorenzen Ford Junior Johnson Ford Ned Jarrett Ford Dick Hutcherson Ford Paul  ...
Understanding narrative

Understanding narrative

James Phelan

Offering essays that consider familiar and unfamiliar narratives from Bronte's Shirley to Myra Page's Moscow Yankee, from Mozart's Prague Symphony to Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa, Understanding Narrative exemplifies the ...
Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life

Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life

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... new groups of scholars intervene in its elaboration. drawing on the work of Hae Yeon choo and myra marx ferree (2010), bose explains that she uses a complex systems approach to examine gender inequalities across many nations.8 she ...
Ecclesiastical Silver Plate in Sixth-century Byzantium: ...

Ecclesiastical Silver Plate in Sixth-century Byzantium: ...

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... in the mountains northwest of Myra, as the Monastery of Nicholas of Sion had been proposed by R. Martin Harrison some time ago.2"' Stamps Hallmarks on many of the objects permit at least the large group of objects donated by Bishop Eu- ...
Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls

Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls

Myra Sadker

Failing at Fairness, the result of two decades of research, shows how gender bias makes it impossible for girls to receive an education equal to that given to boys.
Canine Reproduction and Whelping: A Dog Breeder's Guide

Canine Reproduction and Whelping: A Dog Breeder's Guide

Myra Savant-Harris

Whether you're a "first-timer" or an experienced breeder, you'll learn something important from this book. If you've been having problems even getting a litter from that important bitch, you'll find some possible answers here.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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American Indians' Knowledge about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: An Exploratory Study MYRA SHOSTAK AND LESTER B. BROWN INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to determine the kinds and amounts of information possessed by ...
Campaigns Against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, ...

Campaigns Against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, ...

Myra C. Glenn

Focusing on the common forms of physical punishment inflicted on seamen, prisoners, women, and children, the book reveals the effect of these campaigns on actual disciplinary practices.
Introduction to Gender: Social Science Perspectives

Introduction to Gender: Social Science Perspectives

Jennifer Marchbank

... arace« and class as intertwined feminists have argued for (for example) an approach that recognises acomplex inequality« (McCall, 2001) or aintersectionality« (Crenshaw, 1991; Choo and Feree, 2010). See Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx ...
Jack Tar's Story: The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors ...

Jack Tar's Story: The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors ...

Myra C. Glenn

As Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling have stressed, sailors were “gendered beings” who both reflected and helped. 39 Hugh McKeever Egan uses the phrase “gentlemen sailors” to describe seamen from middle- or upper-class families in ...

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