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Book Collective Remembering

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ludmila Isurin
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-06
  • ISBN : 1107175852
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Collective Remembering written by Ludmila Isurin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isurin presents a case study of Russian collective memory as it is constructed by producers and consumed by people.

Book Remembering Dallas

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  • Author : Michael V. Hazel
  • Publisher : Remembering
  • Release : 2010-05
  • ISBN : 9781596526136
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Remembering Dallas written by Michael V. Hazel and published by Remembering. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a selection of fine historic images from his bestselling book Historic Photos of Dallas, Michael V. Hazel provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Dallas. During the mid nineteenth century, Dallas emerged as a vibrant, commercial American city. At the turn of the century, Dallas continued to prosper, overcoming adversity and becoming a leading center of commerce in the southwestern United States. Remembering Dallas captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From the Civil War and the Great Depression, to the building of a modern metropolis, Remembering Dallas follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city's history. This volume captures unique and rare scenes as depicted in more than 100 historic photographs. Published in striking black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.

Book Remembering

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  • Author : D. Stephen Lindsay
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2014-11-13
  • ISBN : 1317619234
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book Remembering written by D. Stephen Lindsay and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 22 chapters in this volume, many of the world’s foremost memory scientists report on their cutting-edge research on the nature of human memory, with several chapters reporting new empirical studies that are being published for the first time. All the contributions are inspired by the work of Larry Jacoby on human memory, with his emphasis on episodic memory -- that is, the processes and mechanisms that enable us to remember our own past experiences. In addition, the volume reflects Jacoby's appreciation that memory enters into a wide range of psychological phenomena, including perceiving, attending, and performing. The stellar list of contributors and the breadth of coverage makes this volume essential reading for researchers and graduate students in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well as being a tribute and celebration of the inspirational, groundbreaking -- and ongoing -- work of Larry Jacoby.

Book Eternal Living

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  • Author : Gary W. Moon
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2014-12-04
  • ISBN : 0830897089
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Eternal Living written by Gary W. Moon and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated by Dallas Willard's long-time colleague and friend Gary Moon, this medley of images, snapshots and "Dallas-isms" moves readers toward deeper experiences of God. Whether influenced by him as a family member, friend, professor, philosopher or reformer, contributors bring refreshing insight into his ideas, what shaped him and also his contagious theology of grace and joy.

Book Remembering

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  • Author : Fergus Craik
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-06-10
  • ISBN : 0192648322
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Remembering written by Fergus Craik and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory is typically thought of as a set of neural representations - 'memory traces' - that must be found and reactivated in order to be experienced. It is often suggested that 'memory traces' are represented by a hierarchically organized system of analyzers, modified, sharpened and differentiated by encounters with successive events. Remembering: An activity of mind and brain is the magnum opus of one of the leading figures in the psychology of memory. It sets out Fergus Craik's current view of human memory as a dynamic activity of mind and brain. The author argues that remembering should be understood as a system of active cognitive processes, similar to (perhaps identical to) the processes underlying attending, perceiving and thinking. Thus, encoding processes are essentially viewed as the mental activities involved in perceiving and understanding, and retrieval is described as the partial reactivation of these same processes. This account proposes that episodic and semantic memory should be thought of as levels in a continuum of specificity rather than as separate systems of memory. In addition, the book presents Craik's views on working memory and on age-related memory impairments. In the latter case the losses are attributed largely to a difficulty with the self-initiation of appropriate encoding and retrieval operations compensated, when needed, by support from the external environment. The development of these ideas is discussed throughout the book and illustrated substantially by experiments from the author's lab, but also by empirical and theoretical contributions from other researchers. A broad account of current ideas and findings in contemporary memory research, but viewed from the author's personal theoretical standpoint, Remembering: An activity of mind and brain will be essential for researchers, graduate and postdoctoral students working in the field of human memory.

Book The Cowboy s Surrender

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  • Author : Anne Marie Novark
  • Publisher : Anne Marie Novark
  • Release : 2010-12-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 101 pages

Download or read book The Cowboy s Surrender written by Anne Marie Novark and published by Anne Marie Novark. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copper River Oil Company is drilling for oil on the Diamondback Ranch. Dallas McCade can't do a thing to stop them, because he doesn't own the mineral rights. To add insult to injury, they've sent a woman to oversee the operation. Dallas has good reason to distrust women. As soon as he sets eyes on Gillian Bankston, he loses his temper . . . and his control. That makes him spitting mad and frustrated as hell. Gillian has never met a man quite like Dallas. He's as prickly as a cactus, but his kisses are hot enough to ignite a West Texas wildfire. Gillian's been burned before and wants nothing to do with love . . . or lust. Battle lines are drawn and it's war between the sexes. Will they surrender to the powerful attraction neither can deny? Who will be the first to wave the white flag? KEYWORDS: cowboy romance, Texas romance, alpha male, series romance, small town, rancher, steamy romance, mystery, suspense

Book    But I Digress

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  • Author : Darrel Bristow-Bovey
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
  • Release : 2012-03-23
  • ISBN : 177022310X
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book But I Digress written by Darrel Bristow-Bovey and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered together for the first time, a selection from the columns and occasional writings of Darrel Bristow-Bovey. For the better part of this century and the worst part of the last, Darrel Bristow-Bovey has been making enemies, allies and occasional friends with his newspaper and magazine columns. In that time he has received two death threats, five offers to sue, four national awards and a marriage proposal. Over a range of subjects, from television to sport to the difficulty of finding love in the modern world, never saying less than he thinks, never more than he feels, Darrel’s is an unmistakable and indispensable voice in the South African media. All the old favourites are in these pages: Jamie Oliver, Felicia, Wayne Ferreira, the lost art of conversation, Simunye presenters, Christmas stories, lesbians, and the infamous “The Day I Bought My Fridge”. Plus, as a special bonus, for the first time: The origin of Porky Withers and the true location of the Chalk ’n Cue.

Book Smeltertown

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  • Author : Monica Perales
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0807834114
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Smeltertown written by Monica Perales and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Smeltertown, Texas, a city located on the banks of the Rio Grande that was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who worked at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas, with information from newspapers, personalarchives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews.

Book Blackout

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  • Author : Sarah Hepola
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2015-06-23
  • ISBN : 145555457X
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Blackout written by Sarah Hepola and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unflinchingly honest and hilarious memoir, a woman discovers that her best life is a sober one. For Sarah Hepola, drinking felt like freedom; part of her birthright as a twenty-first-century woman. But there was a price–she often blacked out, having no memory of the lost hours. On the outside, her career was flourishing, but inside, her spirit was diminishing. She could no longer avoid the truth–she needed help. Blackout is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure–sobriety. Sarah Hepola's tale will resonate with anyone who has had to face the reality of addiction and the struggle to put down the bottle. At first it seemed like a sacrifice–but in the end, it was all worth it to get her life back.

Book History Lover s Guide to Dallas  A

Download or read book History Lover s Guide to Dallas A written by Georgette Driscoll and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't let the drawl fool you--Dallas boasts a dynamic history full of explosive growth. The cityscape itself seems eager to measure up to the outsized personalities that forged the town's identity. A sixty-seven-and-a-half-foot-tall giraffe statue greets visitors to the Dallas Zoo, while guests exiting the Joule Hotel encounter the gaze of a thirty-foot eyeball. A colossal Pegasus glows above it all from its perch on top of the Magnolia Petroleum building. Subtler storylines also thread their way through the forest of glass and steel, from the jazz of Deep Ellum alleyways to the peaceful paths of the Katy Trail. Author Georgette Driscoll looks beyond the inscriptions for the events that shaped Dallas into the city it is today.

Book What Is a Teacher

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  • Author : Claudia Allums
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-09-06
  • ISBN : 9780615830544
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book What Is a Teacher written by Claudia Allums and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a teacher? was written by teachers for a nation that appears in danger of forgetting the true purpose of education. In these pages, master teachers explore literary images of teachers with the hope of re-awakening the imagination both of those in the profession and of the public in a culture that seems to have resigned itself to a maelstrom of eccentric educational reforms and stifling policies. Rather than despair, we choose to remember the teacher's true work in the spirit of Donald Cowan, who says: "We should make no mistake. The spirit of liberal learning [from liber, that which is suited to a free people] is marked by joy. When that joy is absent, it is a sign that we have ourselves blocked the passages to insight and wisdom."

Book New York to Dallas

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  • Author : J. D. Robb
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-03-06
  • ISBN : 0425246892
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book New York to Dallas written by J. D. Robb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas: one that will take her all the way to the city that named her—and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood... When a monster named Isaac McQueen—taken down by Eve back in her uniform days—escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to take up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.

Book The Foundations of Remembering

Download or read book The Foundations of Remembering written by James S. Nairne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Foundations of Remembering presents a collection of essays written by top memory scholars in honor of Henry L. Roediger III. The chapters were originally delivered as part of the "Roddyfest" conference held in March 2005 to celebrate Purdue University's awarding of an honorary doctor of letters to Roediger in recognition of his many contributions to the field of psychology. Authors were given a simple charge: choose your own topic, but place your work in historical context. Roediger is fascinated by the intellectual lineage of ideas, so addressing historical "foundations" seemed a fitting tribute. The Chapters contained in this volume help to establish the foundations of remembering, circa the first decade of the 21st century, as perceived by some of the leading memory researchers in the world. Not surprisingly, each of the chapters touches on Roediger's research as well, largely because his work has helped to define and clarify many topics of interest to the memory field. The Foundations of Remembering is intended for a wide audience: students, scholars, and anyone interested in exploring the historical and conceptual roots of modern memory theory.

Book Remembering the Greatest Coaches and Games of the NFL Glory Years

Download or read book Remembering the Greatest Coaches and Games of the NFL Glory Years written by Wayne Stewart and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NFL in the 1950s and 1960s was full of iconic players and legendary coaches. Future Hall of Famers battled it out on the gridiron and roamed the sidelines, making for incredible games and memorable moments. In Remembering the Greatest Coaches and Games of the NFL Glory Years: An Inside Look at the Golden Age of Football, Wayne Stewart tells of the men and events that made this era unforgettable. Through dozens of interviews with players such as Tom Matte, Mike Ditka, Raymond Berry, Don Maynard, Chuck Mercein, and Rick Volk, Stewart shares the players’ unique perspectives on the Greatest Game Ever Played, the Ice Bowl, the Heidi Game, and Super Bowl III. The second part of the book features profiles of the Hall of Fame coaches who led their teams to victory—including George Halas, Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, and Don Shula—with the players reflecting on the impact these coaches had on and off the field. Remembering the Greatest Coaches and Games of the NFL Glory Years not only shares anecdotes that reveal the warm and humorous sides of the Hall of Fame coaches but also includes breakdowns of the key decisions they made during the featured games. With exclusive insight provided by the players, this book offers readers a deeper understanding of professional football during this era directly from those who lived it.

Book Lovers   Gamblers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jackie Collins
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-01-31
  • ISBN : 1849836361
  • Pages : 827 pages

Download or read book Lovers Gamblers written by Jackie Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a brand new introduction from Alexandra Heminsley, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! ‘What radiates from all of her novels is a sense that women are just as capable of great things as men’ ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY 'Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers.' COLLEEN HOOVER Al King, the rock-and-roll super stud who is everything any sex-crazed groupie ever imagined her hero to be; and Dallas, the beauty queen whose sky-high ambitions stem from a sordid secret-the type that tabloids tingle to tell. Together, they're on a wild ride from London to New York, from Hollywood to Rio and the steaming jungles of the Amazon-where all their dreams and nightmares are about to come true…LOVERS & GAMBLERS There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood movie studios; from glittering rock concerts to the yachts of billionaires, Jackie chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. 'A true inspiration, a trail blazer for women's fiction' JILLY COOPER ‘Jackie shows us all what being a strong, successful woman means at any age’ MILLY JOHNSON ‘Jackie will never be forgotten, she’ll always inspire me to #BeMoreJackie’ JILL MANSELL ‘Jackie’s heroines don’t take off their clothes to please a man, but to please themselves’ CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘Legend is a word used too lightly for so many undeserving people, but Jackie is the very definition of the word’ ALEX KHAN ‘What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story’ ROWAN COLEMAN ‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves’ ISABELLE BROOM ‘Jackie is the queen of cliff-hangers’ SAMANTHA TONGE ‘For all her trademark sass, there is a moralist at work here’ LOUISE CANDLISH ‘Nobody does it quite like Jackie and nobody ever will’ SARRA MANNING ‘Collins was saying that women didn’t have to centre round men, either in books or in life’ JESSIE BURTON ‘Jackie lived the Hollywood dream, but, she looked sideways at it, and then shared the dirt with her readers’ JULIET ASHTON

Book Making JFK Matter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul H. Santa Cruz
  • Publisher : University of North Texas Press
  • Release : 2015-05-15
  • ISBN : 1574415972
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Making JFK Matter written by Paul H. Santa Cruz and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making JFK Matter, Paul Santa Cruz examines how popular memory of John F. Kennedy has been used politically by various interest groups, primarily the city of Dallas, Lyndon Johnson, and Robert Kennedy, as well as how the memory of Kennedy has been portrayed in various museums. Santa Cruz argues that we have memorialized JFK not simply out of love for him or admiration for the ideals he embodied, but because invoking his name carries legitimacy and power. Memory can be employed to accomplish particular ends: for example, the passage of long overdue civil rights legislation, or even successfully running for political office. Santa Cruz demonstrates the presence and use of popular memory in an extensive analysis of what was being said, and by whom, about the late president through White House memoranda and speech material, museum exhibits (such as the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas and the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston), public correspondence, newspapers and periodicals of the time, memoirs, and archival research. He also explores how JFK has been memorialized in films such as Bobby, JFK, and Thirteen Days. Written in an accessible manner to appeal to both historians and the general public, Making JFK Matter tells us much of how we have memorialized Kennedy over the years.

Book The Crasher

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shirley Lord
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2009-11-11
  • ISBN : 0446571059
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book The Crasher written by Shirley Lord and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginny Walker always had one dream: to be a great clothing designer, the next Calvin Klein or Bill Blass. She will do anything to succeed. She does happen to have a cousin (male) in New York; he is an investment banker of some sort, with lots of contacts, so she sets off for the Big Apple. Starting in a lowly job on 7th Avenue, she begins the life too many young New Yorkers know: a cramped living space, a dead end job with a sleazy boss, a wonderful set of friends, and a great amount of talent. Part of this talent is put to use designing evening attire for aw hot young model and partly used in dressing herself: Ginny Walker is wearing her own creations to the best parties in town, parties to which she is not invited, parties she crashes. Along the way Ginny falls in love, is gravely misused by the people she thought cared for her and does a great deal of growing up. But, it is only when she witnesses a murder that she needs to make the most important decisions of her life and become the kind of adult -- and designer -- she always knew she could be.