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Book Familiar Ties

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  • Author : Kathryn Jayne
  • Publisher : Next Chapter
  • Release : 2021-12-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Familiar Ties written by Kathryn Jayne and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alec knew he was going to marry Jesse from the moment her mother, Adeline, placed his hand in hers. But he was too young to understand the danger; to know why Adeline gave her life in a desperate attempt to free him from Lord Kyron's control. All he knew was that Jesse completed him and he would do anything to protect her. Anything. There was only one person in Jesse's life who ever made her feel safe, and he had abandoned her ten years ago. She had begged him to save her but every plea went unanswered. Until now. Now, Micah's men are after her, and she is on the run. But will the man she has always run to in her mind be her savior, or the one to destroy her? This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

Book Familia

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  • Author : Robert R. Alvarez
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780520055476
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Familia written by Robert R. Alvarez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family. Spanish, American, and English exploits paved the way for exchange between Baja and Alta California. Alvarez shows how cultural stability actually increased as migrants settled in new locations, bringing their common values and memories with them.

Book Seduced by the Familiar

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  • Author : M.K. Raghavendra
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-12-15
  • ISBN : 0199087989
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Seduced by the Familiar written by M.K. Raghavendra and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the 'popular' in Indian cinema, M.K. Raghavendra undertakes, in this book, a chronological study of films to speculate on narrative conventions, thematic continuities, myths, archetypes, and other formal structures that inform it from its hesitant beginnings up to the 1990s. A significant contribution to film studies, the book makes crucial connections between film motifs and other aspects of culture, exploring the development of film narrative using the social history of India as a continuing frame of reference.

Book The Ties that Bound

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  • Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
  • Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780195045642
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book The Ties that Bound written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.

Book Familiar Spirits the Unseen Enemies

Download or read book Familiar Spirits the Unseen Enemies written by John Deby Edukugho and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book familiar

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  • Author : Chen Defa
  • Publisher : Sellene Chardou
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1304353303
  • Pages : 1230 pages

Download or read book familiar written by Chen Defa and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Warcraft for example, can a third-level hero, even if it is a raid, kill a hero with more than ten levels? The higher the level, the bigger the gap. If you want to kill people, you must at least have that ability, right

Book The Familiar Made Strange

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  • Author : Brooke L. Blower
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2015-06-04
  • ISBN : 0801455456
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Familiar Made Strange written by Brooke L. Blower and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation’s borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley’s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey’s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker’s banana skirt and William Howard Taft’s underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.

Book Familiar Obsession

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  • Author : Caroline Burnes
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2014-11-15
  • ISBN : 146035026X
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Familiar Obsession written by Caroline Burnes and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the coolest feline detective to ever take on mystery, mayhem and matchmaking, in his 13th adventure! Every night, he slipped into her dreams Millionaire Duke Masonne had vanished years ago and was presumed dead. But Liza Hawkins never forgot her lover's face, his touch, and never gave up hope he would return. She saw Duke everyone—in her dreams, her paintings…and now, in crowded rooms. Friends feared she might be going crazy, but a little black cat meowed otherwise… Duke had come to reclaim a past he couldn't remember from a villain he wouldn't recognize. Only the sultry heat of Liza's kisses seemed familiar. For a future with Liza, Duke had to draw his enemy into the open—and expose the truth about the night he disappeared.

Book Familiar Faces

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  • Author : Piotr Cieplak
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2024-07-23
  • ISBN : 1913380750
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Familiar Faces written by Piotr Cieplak and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the rich and varied relationship between photography and the most recent Argentine dictatorship. Familiar Faces offers a diverse, theoretically rich, and empirically informed exploration of photography in Argentina’s memorial, political, and artistic landscape. During the country’s most recent civic-military dictatorship (1976–1983), 30,000 people were disappeared or killed by the state. Over the decades, vernacular and professional photographs have been central to the Argentine struggle for justice. They were used not only to protest the disappearances under the dictatorship and to denounce the authorities, but also as tools of political and social activism, and for remembering the disappeared. With contributions from leading Argentina-based anthropologists, ethnographers, curators, art scholars, media researchers, and photographers, Familiar Faces moves beyond the traditional considerations of representation, focusing instead on the ways in which photography is continuously reimagined as a tool of memory, mourning, and political and judicial activism. In so doing, it considers the diverse uses of press photography; artistic practice; photographs of the disappeared in domestic rituals; photographs of the inmates of torture centers; the reclamation of images taken by the dictatorial state for memorial and activist purposes. Written and published at a crucial moment in Argentine memory politics, Familiar Faces offers a geographically and formally diverse selection of case studies, with international as well as regional resonance. While firmly rooted in this national context, the book contributes to wider, global debates about the increasingly pervasive role of the photographic image in relation to state-sponsored, large-scale violence.

Book Ties That Bind

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  • Author : Sarah Schulman
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2009-09-15
  • ISBN : 1595585346
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Ties That Bind written by Sarah Schulman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although acceptance of difference is on the rise in America, it's the rare gay or lesbian person who has not been demeaned because of his or her sexual orientation, and this experience usually starts at home, among family members. Whether they are excluded from family love and approval, expected to accept second-class status for life, ignored by mainstream arts and entertainment, or abandoned when intervention would make all the difference, gay people are routinely subjected to forms of psychological and physical abuse unknown to many straight Americans. “Familial homophobia,” as prizewinning writer and professor Sarah Schulman calls it, is a phenomenon that until now has not had a name but that is very much a part of life for the LGBT community. In the same way that Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will transformed our understanding of rape by moving the stigma from the victim to the perpetrator, Schulman's Ties That Bind calls on us to recognize familial homophobia. She invites us to understand it not as a personal problem but a widespread cultural crisis. She challenges us to take up our responsibilities to intervene without violating families, community, and the state. With devastating examples, Schulman clarifies how abusive treatment of homosexuals at home enables abusive treatment of homosexuals in other relationships as well as in society at large. Ambitious, original, and deeply important, Schulman's book draws on her own experiences, her research, and her activism to probe this complex issue—still very much with us at the start of the twenty-first century—and to articulate a vision for a more accepting world.

Book Spy

    Spy

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Spy written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.

Book Coming Home to an  Un familiar Country

Download or read book Coming Home to an Un familiar Country written by Mariusz Dzięglewski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the process of return migration, from a holistic and policy-oriented perspective. Studies in return migration, which remains a vibrant field for academics, researchers, and policy-makers, have provided a large body of knowledge on particular issues, but generally fall along two lines: they are either broad macro analyses and models (especially economic ones) or narrow ethnographic views (anthropological, sociological, or psychological). This volume attempts to chart a course between these two approaches, combining returning migrants’ life trajectories, as seen by themselves, with analysis of the structural processes that have taken place in the last three decades in Europe and in Poland, as a new EU country. In analyzing the social and cultural changes reflected in the biographies of returning migrants, the author uses a framework based on an original synthesis of Alfred Schütz’s phenomenological approach, focusing on the returnees’ “life words,” with the social realism of Margaret Archer, focusing on the concerns and projects of individuals interacting with social and cultural structures.

Book Familiar Ties

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  • Author : Kathryn Jayne
  • Publisher : Blurb
  • Release : 2021-02-25
  • ISBN : 9781034523598
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Familiar Ties written by Kathryn Jayne and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alec knew he was going to marry Jesse from the moment her mother, Adeline, placed his hand in hers. But he was too young to understand the danger; to know why Adeline gave her life in a desperate attempt to free him from Lord Kyron's control. All he knew was that Jesse completed him and he would do anything to protect her. Anything. There was only one person in Jesse's life who ever made her feel safe, and he had abandoned her ten years ago. She had begged him to save her but every plea went unanswered. Until now. Now, Micah's men are after her, and she is on the run. But will the man she has always run to in her mind be her savior, or the one to destroy her? This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

Book Getting Familiar With Your Demon

Download or read book Getting Familiar With Your Demon written by Jodi Redford and published by Jodi Redford. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He should push her away…but he’d rather have his wicked way with her. That Old Black Magic, Book 4 After too many years learning death from the inside out as the familiar of a voodoo queen, soul collector Samael Gorasola betrayed his boss, which landed him on demon death row. He should have known not even his punishment would come easy, but the deal he’s offered to escape his fate stinks. Become the indentured servant to his despised enemy? No thanks, he’d rather be six feet under. With that in mind, he picks a deadly fight with two demon hunters, only to be rescued by one misguided, deliciously innocent white witch. Marabella hasn’t a clue what possessed her to help Sam, particularly since he’s not the least bit grateful. She blames it on her overwhelming attraction to the dark, dangerous demon, and her exasperating quest to rid herself of the stubborn curse that guards her virginity. If the guild finds out, though, she can kiss her white-witch status goodbye. A kiss is exactly what she gets, followed by a consuming hunger that breaks down all heavenly and earthly barriers…and leaves Sam saddled with the one thing he never wanted, a conscience, and a connection to Marabella that puts her soul on the line. Warning: This book contains torturous use of disco music, one sinfully sexy demon who revels in being bad, a virgin witch whose innocence runs more than skin deep, and plenty of wicked, forbidden sex with explosive side effects—literally.

Book Organizations

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  • Author : Howard P. Greenwald
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications
  • Release : 2007-05-23
  • ISBN : 1452210594
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Organizations written by Howard P. Greenwald and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations: Management Without Control provides a comprehensive understanding of the functions of formal organizations and the challenges they face. The most effective organizations provide members with opportunities to achieve their personal goals while pursuing the organization's objectives. Using a practical approach with minimal jargon, author Howard P. Greenwald covers the basic features of organizations such as roles, structure, reward systems, power and authority, and culture and introduces important theoretical perspectives related to these features. Key Features Emphasizes the theme of "management without control": This volume differs from most standard texts by highlighting both the challenges and opportunities that result from the independence of the individuals in the organization's ranks. Stresses the importance of individual motivation and self-fulfillment: Recognizing the individual's responsibility for their own success, the book helps readers evaluate clues to whether the organization to which they belong is an adequate opportunity. Offers a critical perspective on current fads and management ideologies: Proposing no formulaic solutions, the book provides the perspectives required to understand each organization's uniqueness and to develop remedies to issues as they arise. Makes theory accessible through numerous real-life examples: Chapters include examples from life in business organizations, government agencies, non-profits, clubs, friendship groups, and families. Examines multinational corporations: Challenges involved in management on an international scale are explored as the book applies the principle of individual and group independence to global matters. Underscores multidisciplinary interest in organizations: Content is drawn from sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and management science. Intended Audience This introductory textbook on formal organizations is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Organizational Behavior, Managing Complex Organizations, Sociology of Organizations, and Government/Non-profit Management in the departments of business, public administration, health administration, social work, sociology, and psychology. Instructor's Resources An Instructor's Resource CD is available upon request. This CD provides PowerPoint presentations, test questions, additional examples and cases, suggested exercises, and much more!

Book Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members

Download or read book Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members written by Sherrie Campbell and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and happiness. This compassionate guide will help you embrace your decision with a sense of pride, validation, and faith in yourself; and provides powerful tools for creating boundaries, coping with judgment, and overcoming self-doubt. Do you have a toxic family member? Do you feel like cutting ties with this person—even as painful and scary as that may sound—would dramatically increase your well-being and improve your life? You’re not alone. Severing ties with a family member can be devastating; and cutting this toxic person out of your life may bring up feelings of guilt and uncertainty—especially if you feel judged by others regarding your decision. Fortunately, you can free yourself from this toxic family member in a healthy, responsible, and liberating way. In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist and toxic-family survivor Sherrie Campbell offers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member, and provides powerful tools to help you heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma. You’ll find the validation you need to embrace your decision with pride and acknowledgement of your self-worth. You’ll learn how to let go of negative thoughts and feelings. And finally, you’ll develop the skills needed to rediscover self-care, self-love, self-reliance, and healthy loving relationships. Whether you’re ready to sever ties with a toxic family member, or already have, this book will help guide you, every step of the way.

Book Dina  Or  Familiar Faces

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  • Author : William Patrick Wilkie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1865
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Dina Or Familiar Faces written by William Patrick Wilkie and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: