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Burning the midnight oil : illuminating words for the long night's journey into day
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ISBN: 193674077X 9781936740772 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley, California : Viva Editions,

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In Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great thinkers throughout the ages. Whether beguiling readers with glorious poetry or consoling them with prayers from fellow restless souls, Cousineau can relieve any insomniac's unease. From St. John of the Cross to Annie Dillard, Beethoven to The Song of Songs, this refreshingly insightful anthology soothes and inspires all who struggle through the dark of the night. These ""night thoughts"" vividly illustrate Alfred Nor

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Saturday night live & American TV
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ISBN: 9780253010773 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana Indiana University Press

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Nuits antiques
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ISBN: 9782251030210 2251030212 Year: 2013 Volume: 21 Publisher: Paris: Les Belles Lettres,

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Brassaï : for the love of Paris
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ISBN: 9782080201683 2080201689 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : Flammarion,

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"This striking monograph celebrates the beauty of Paris, Brassaï's muse throughout his career. Hungarian-born photographer Brassaï dedicated more than fifty years of his artistic creation to capturing his adoptive city in all its facets. From winsome children playing in the public gardens to an amorous couple on an amusement park attraction, from opera and ballet stars to prostitutes and vagrants, and from cobblestone alleyways to ephemeral graffiti, his photographs embody the very essence of Paris. In an interview shortly before his death in 1984, he explained how Paris had served as an infinite source of inspiration and had reigned as the unifying theme that characterized each phrase of his artistic work"--Amazon.com, viewed April 17, 2014.


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Nachtarbeid en arbeid op zaterdagen, zon- en feestdagen
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ISBN: 9789049609559 Year: 2013 Volume: 3

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Exploring lost dimensions in Christian mysticism : opening to the mystical
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ISBN: 1409456722 1409456730 9781409456728 9781409456735 9781315581668 9781317137337 9781317137344 Year: 2013 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate


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High moon over the Amazon : my quest to understand the monkeys of the night
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ISBN: 1590564227 9781590564226 9781590564219 1590564219 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Lantern Books

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Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate-Aotus, the owl monkey, or "monkey of the night." But along her journey to discover the behavior of these unique nocturnal creatures, Wright finds more than she expected about family, human nature, and herself. It all starts in a New York City pet shop when Wright and her husband buy an owl monkey whose lively and rambunctious ways soon lead the young couple to South America to acquire him a mate. But while Wright's monkey family is growing, her own begins to fall apart when her husband leaves her and her daughter. Undeterred by her lack of academic experience, Wright sets out as a single mother to study primate behavior in the wild, including a year at a research station in the remote jungles of Peru. There she encounters jaguars, poisonous snakes, army ants, and massive floods that threaten her and her daughter's lives, as well as moments of great clarity and beauty. From New York City in the 1960s to the depths of the Amazon in the 1970s and 80s, this story of one woman's transformation from Brooklyn housewife to an accomplished scientist will captivate fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. High Moon Over the Amazon is a thrilling memoir of adventure, inspiration, and of falling in love with a species not so unlike our own.


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These kids : identity, agency, and social justice at a last chance high school
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ISBN: 022603173X 022603142X 9780226031736 1299561012 9781299561014 9780226031422 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a "last chance" high school in California, she tells the story of students who have, in fact, been left behind. Detailing a youth-led participatory action research project that she coordinated, Nygreen uncovers deep barriers to educational success that are embedded within educational discourse itself. Struggling students internalize descriptions of themselves as "at risk," "low achieving," or "troubled"-and by adopting the very language of educators, they also adopt its constraints and presumption of failure. Showing how current educational discourse does not, ultimately, provide an adequate vision of change for students at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, she levies a powerful argument that social justice in education is impossible today precisely because of how we talk about it.


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"Wahre" und "falsche" Heiligkeit : Mystik, Macht und Geschlechterrollen im Katholizismus des 19. Jahrhunderts
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ISBN: 3110446804 3486716115 Year: 2013 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Auf "angemaßte Heiligkeit" und Mordversuche lautete die Anklage in einem Inquisitionsprozess, der 1859 bis 1862 skandalöse Zustände im römischen Frauenkloster Sant Ambrogio ans Licht brachte. Mögliche Tatmotive waren Machtkämpfe, Eifersucht und die Vertuschung sexueller Beziehungen. Historiker, Theologen, Religionswissenschaftler und ein Psychiater ordnen den Fall in seine Zusammenhänge ein. Sie liefern einen Überblick über Heiligkeit in Religion und Kirche, zeichnen historische Unterscheidungen von "falscher" und "angemaßter" Heiligkeit nach und nehmen das 19. Jahrhundert als Zeitalter des Spiritismus und der Privatoffenbarungen in den Blick. Dabei geht es nicht zuletzt um die Verschränkung von Heiligkeit, Macht und Geschlechterrollen - und damit um ein dringendes Desiderat der Forschung. Beiträge von: Arnold Angenendt, Claus Arnold, Joachim Demling, Klaus Große Kracht, Stefanie Knauß, Norbert Lüdecke, Elke Pahud de Mortanges, Wolfgang Reinhard, Monique Scheer, Bernhard Schneider, Wolfgang Speyer, Klaus Unterburger, Otto Weiß, Hubert Wolf, Gabriella Zarri.


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Scheherazade's children : global encounters with the Arabian nights
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ISBN: 147983792X 9781479837922 1479840319 9781479840311 9781479830756 1479830755 9781479840311 9781479857098 1479857092 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.

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