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Chloe Howard's devotion to her job has come at a cost: spending time with the most important person in her life--her mother. Vowing to change, she plans a trip home. Sadly, hours before she arrives, her mother passes away, leaving Chloe without a goodbye and riddled with grief and regret. But maybe...maybe it's not too late. Just days before the funeral, Chloe finds her mother unaccountably alive and well. And it's no longer May, she's been tr...

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The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as "persons, " or as objects with "personality"-they are living objects. Featuring both historical and theoretical sections, the volume details examples of this practice, including the wampum of certain Native America...

Under the Bed of Heaven is a work of Christian ethics that examines how eschatology might reshape concepts of sexual morality. With the rise of institutional Christianity in the Roman Empire, Christian attitudes about sexual desire and activity were soon controlled by doctrines of virginity and celibacy, or, monogamous marriage for the sake of procreation. These moral theologies aligned with a certain track of Christian eschatology, which imag...

The purpose of this book is to fill a gap in contemporary mystical studies: an overview of the basic ways to approach mystical experiences and mysticism. It discusses the problem of definitions of "mystical experiences" and "mysticism" and advances characterizations of "mystical experiences" in terms of certain altered states of consciousness and "mysticism" in terms of encompassing ways of life centered on such experiences and states. Types o...

Iconic images of machismo in Mexico's classic cinema affirm the national film industry's historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state's political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of mexicanidad, but has the underlying gender paradigm been similarly abandoned? Films made in the past two decades clearly reflect transformations instituted by a neoliberal regime...

Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.

Pyrazole-Based Drug Discovery outlines complexities of the pyrazole scaffold used in drug discovery, including derivative chemistry, structural properties, methods of synthesis, and practical implementations. Designed as a guide for both experts and students working in this and related areas, this volume will facilitate the continued design and development of novel pharmaceuticals based on pyrazole and its derivatives. Pyrazole is a novel hete...

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Between the advent of print advertising and the dawn of radio came cinema ads. These ads, aimed at a captive theater audience, became a symbol of the developing binary between upper-class film consumption and more consumerist media. In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf examines how the ad industry jockeyed for direct advertisement space in American motion pictures. In fact, advertisers, who recognized the import of film audiences, fought exhibit...

The Aesop's Fable Paradigm is a collection of essays that explore the cutting-edge intersection of Folklore and Science. From moralizing fables to fantastic folktales, humans have been telling stories about animals--animals who can talk, feel, think, and make moral judgments just as we do--for a very long time. In contrast, scientific studies of the mental lives of animals have professed to be investigating the nature of animal minds slowly, c...

Das Buch behandelt die traditionelle mikroökonomische Theorie und erläutert zunächst zentrale Fragen der Haushaltstheorie. Das zweite Kapitel widmet sich der Unternehmungstheorie, Gegenstand des dritten Kapitels sind die ökonomischen Mechanismen unterschiedlicher Marktformen. Schließlich werden in einem weiteren Kapitel die allokativen Wirkungen staatlicher Eingriffe herausgearbeitet. Der Band enthält zum besseren Verständnis zahlreiche Grafik...

It is a fascinating tale that reflects the pride Detroiters have in their city and shows trends in historical preservation and organizational structures across North America.

A collection of 25 patterns for sweaters and accessories in Scandinavian style, including 3 men's sweaters. An introductory section on sweater knitting techniques for working in the round, top down, and with two colors of yarn.

Learn to hook with easy step-by-step photos! Rug hooking at its simplest is pulling loops of colorful wool fabric through a piece of linen backing to create beautiful designs for the floor or wall. In Basic Rug Hooking, you will learn what tools and materials you need to get started, and how to pull your first loops. You will then be ready to try t

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