In this book, Nancy C. M. Hartsock offers her current thinking about the development of feminist political economy, focusing on the relationships between feminist theory and activism, feminism and Marxism, and postmodernism and feminist politics.
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Computers For Seniors For Dummies, 5th Edition (16pt Large Print Edition)
Nancy C Muir
ReadHowYouWant
2019
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What the book covers: Computers For Seniors For Dummies, 5E covers the basic information for new over-50 computer owners, and for those new to the Windows 10 OS (Anniversary Edition), who need a gentle, hand-holding, step-by-step approach to getting started. Series features: This bestselling title uses a larger font and large figures to make the book easy to read. The books assumes no prior information and starts with showing how the various parts connect together, how to turn the computer on, how to use the keyboard and mouse, finding your way around the new Windows 10 operating system, using the internet for shopping, social networking, finding recipes and diet tips, emailing friends and family, researching, online safety, understanding files and folders, and so on. General layout: Chapter openers present the tasks covered with associated page numbers to help readers find material fast The format allows flexibility for presenting material in a larger size Minimal front matter No extraneous elements such as sidebars and text on parts pages Short introduction with standard headings
Laptops For Seniors For Dummies, 5th Edition (16pt Large Print Edition)
Nancy C Muir
ReadHowYouWant
2019
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What the book covers: Laptops For Seniors For Dummies, 5th Edition covers basic information for new laptop owners in the seniors demographic who need a gentle, hand-holding, step-by-step approach to getting started. Series features: This bestselling title uses a larger font and large figures to make the book easy to read. The book assumes no prior knowledge and starts with selecting the right laptop or tablet, shows how the various parts connect together, how to use the keyboard and mouse, finding your way around the new Anniversary version of the Windows 10 operating system, using the touchscreen capabilities, using the Internet for shopping, social networking, emailing friends and family, researching, traveling, staying safe online, using files and folders, using office applications, and so on. General layout: Chapter openers present the tasks covered with associated page numbers to help readers find material fast No extraneous elements such as sidebars and text on parts pages Short introductions with standard headings Whats Inside: Chapters include: Buying A Laptop, Setting Up Your Computer, Getting Around Windows 10, Managing Power, Setting Up Your Display, Getting Help with Vision, Hearing and Dexterity Challenges, Setting Up Printers and Scanners, Connecting with Contana, Working with Software Programs, Working with Files and Folders, Working with Windows Apps, Understanding Internet Basics, Hitting the Road with Your Laptop, Browsing the Web, Staying Safe While Online, Keeping in Touch with Mail, Working in the Cloud, Connecting with Other People, Getting Visual: Using the Video, Photos, and Camera Apps, Playing Music in Windows 10, Working with Networks, Protecting Windows, and Maintaining Windows
I Didn't See It Coming
Nancy C. Widmann; Elaine J. Eisenman; Amy Dorn Kopelan
John Wiley Sons Inc
2007
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Praise For I Didn't See It Coming "In the fiercely competitive world of business, these authors learned how to play the game with skill and competence. They are uniquely qualified to teach others the rules of the workplace." —PETER A. LUND, former president and chief executive officer, CBS, Inc. "I Didn't See It Coming could change the way you think about your career and redefine your strategy to succeed in a corporation." —ROBERT T. CORNELL, Managing Director, Lehman Brothers Inc. "Candid and savvy, this book is the ultimate corporate politics rulebook. It provides clear and shrewd strategies to reach the corner office. Keep this book at your side at all times!" —LYNNE DOMINICK, former publisher, Everyday Food magazine "I Didn't See It Coming should be the bible for those climbing the corporate ladder. Every chapter gives me more and more critical strategies for reading the room and maneuvering through internal corporate politics." —JASON JORDAN, Senior Sales Representative, T-Mobile "In today's incredibly complex world, even the best leaders can make mistakes that prove fatal. In our work, we see it time and time again through our clients and executives. This book provides a very useful way to be better prepared to avoid those simple yet fatal mistakes." —JERRY NOONAN, Partner, Spencer Stuart
This is a very personal autobiography about one woman's journey of faih, resilience, determination and love. It is a book about grief, and how grief can sometimes bring about the realization of a persons true purpose and calling in life...it is about how the healing of one broken heart can bring healing to many others. Seldom do we have the opportunity to read about a "heroine", a woman who has devoted her life to rescuing and changing the lives of abused and abandoned children of Mexico. The book confronts the reality of life, adversity and victories...and is evidence that absolute commitment can make "Big" things happen.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."--Margaret Mead This quotation--found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of organizations worldwide--speaks to the global influence and legacy of the American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-78). In this insightful and revealing book, Nancy Lutkehaus explains how and why Mead became the best-known anthropologist and female public intellectual in twentieth-century America. Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, Lutkehaus explores the ways in which Mead became an American cultural heroine. Identifying four key images associated with her--the New Woman, the Anthropologist/Adventurer, the Scientist, and the Public Intellectual--Lutkehaus examines the various meanings that different segments of American society assigned to Mead throughout her lengthy career as a public figure. The author shows that Mead came to represent a new set of values and ideas--about women, non-Western peoples, culture, and America's role in the twentieth century--that have significantly transformed society and become generally accepted today. Lutkehaus also considers why there has been no other anthropologist since Mead to become as famous. Margaret Mead is an engaging look at how one woman's life and accomplishments resonated with the issues that shaped American society and changed her into a celebrity and cultural icon.
Casa Hogar Los Angelitos is in Manzanillo, Mexico, where disadvantaged children find a new chance in life. This history includes memories of the inspiration, founding, and work of this institution in the words of its founder and many of the children, sharing stories of success in their new lives. You will find this book inspiring and informative.
Learn to read tarot cards using your own psychic skills, and gain new levels of inspiration, guidance, and insight. This lively, friendly book features a wealth of creative exercises, spreads, and sample readings, along with compelling first-hand accounts from the authors' own experiences, to start you on the path to trusting your intuition in reading the cards. Rather than presenting cookbook interpretations or complex symbols, "Psychic Tarot" invites readers on a fascinating journey. Along the way, readers will learn a variety of original intuitive exercises designed to awaken their psychic abilities such as Light and Shadow, Turning Point, and Hidden Question. Also included in this helpful guide are simple techniques for doing energy readings and seeing the unseen, instructions on keeping a synchronicity journal, and even a tarot spread for communicating with spirit guides or loved ones on the other side.
Improve your connection to spirit, make special occasions more meaningful, and become a better tarot reader with nearly 100 rituals, spreads, and exercises. Tarot expert Nancy Antenucci presents the fundamentals of ritual practice and then applies them to all 78 cards, showing you how to enjoy a plethora of group and solitary tarot rituals. You'll even learn how to create your own rituals.Discover rituals for the solo reader, such as the Ritual of Expression. Explore group rituals, including the Icebreaker Ritual and the Seer Circle Ritual. This book also features rituals for giving readings, rituals for birthdays and sabbats, and rituals for formal events like blessings and weddings. Drawing on 30 years of experience, Nancy presents the alchemy of ritual and tarot a powerful combination that can transform your practice and life.
In seventeenth-century France, Madame Guyon wrote about the concept of "pure love." "Love pure and holy, is a deathless fire," she wrote, and is "ethereal fare." Her popular books spread quickly through Europe and the New World, drawing the attention of Louis XIV and the court at Versailles. The Inquisition attacked her writing and concepts, resulting in her decade long incarceration, including years in the Bastille. Archbishop Fénelon defended Guyon while the leading cleric, Bishop Bossuet, demanded that the Vatican condemn Fénelon and Guyon as heretics. A contemporaneous historian wrote a history of the "Great Conflict" between Guyon, Bossuet, Fénelon, and the Vatican entitled Supplement to the Life of Madame Guyon, which is regarded as having been written in the eighteenth-century. Professor Nancy C. James's translation of this manuscript from the Bodleian Library at Oxford University is featured in this book, coupled with an analysis of the powerful theology of Guyon that influenced both the growth of the Quakers and Romanticism. This history addresses roots of our social conflicts as individual consciences struggle against destructive political power.
Nancy C. Lee surveys what we can know of the history of lament in ancient Israel and its environment as well as the eclipse of the lament form in early Christianity. Lyrics of Lament also explores the surprising employment of lament forms in the contemporary world; In situations of distress, injustice, and despair, and commands specific practices for recovering lamentation as a resource for faith today.
Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics
Nancy C. Garwood; Robin B. Foster
Comstock Publishing Associates
2009
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Published in Association with the Natural History Museum, London "Few field guides exist to the plants of the American tropics. Guides to the juvenile stages of plants are rare for any part of the world. A guide to identification of tropical seedlings, from trees to herbs, is something to be treasured. Nancy Garwood's lifelong devotion to the study of the ecology and taxonomy of seedlings, combined with Margaret Tebbs's superb illustrations, has given us this first comprehensive guide to juvenile plants in the American tropics."—from the Foreword by Robin B. Foster Seedlings are the future of forest communities. Knowledge of seedling ecology is essential for understanding the local abundance, distribution, and dynamics of individual species and plant populations, for deciphering the mechanisms responsible for the high species diversity in tropical forests, and for developing sound management and conservation plans for tropical forests. In this monumental work of botany, Nancy C. Garwood provides the first comprehensive guide to seedlings in the American tropics, using Barro Colorado Island in Panama as an emblematic locale. More than two decades in the making, this guide is the essential work on the Neotropical seedlings. The review of Neotropical seedlings from 229 plant families is the heart of the book. Descriptions summarize information from 1,243 genera gleaned from accounts of nearly 3,000 species. Families of all major Neotropical woody plants are covered, as well as those that are mostly herbs, aquatic species, parasites and saprophytes. This is the largest compendium of information on tropical seedlings published to date. This guide to the seedling flora of Barro Colorado Island includes illustrations of and keys to 775 species of forest trees, shrubs, lianas, vines, herbs, epiphytes, hemi-epiphytes, and "weedy" plants typical of forest margins and clearings. All genera and 75 percent of the species covered occur broadly across the Neotropics and provide numerous illustrated examples for the family accounts. Key characters needed to identify dicot and monocot seedlings are also described and illustrated, supplemented with an illustrated glossary of descriptive terms. Paired with superb and intricate illustrations by Margaret Tebbs, arranged in 255 plates, Garwood's work enables tropical ecologists, botanists, and systematists to identify Neotropical seedlings that have not yet developed the diagnostic characteristics of the parent plants.
Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome – How to Grow Affair–Proof Hedges Around Your Marriage
Nancy C. Anderson
Kregel Publications,U.S.
2017
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Extramarital affairs are certainly not the social taboo that they once were, and may be more prevalent now than ever. Unfortunately, Christians are not exempt. With the anonymity of the Internet and the privacy of personal mobile phones, the temptation to cheat on one's spouse has fertile ground to grow. After straying to the other side of this marital fence--and returning to find forgiveness and restoration--Anderson brings this practical book about predicting and preventing an extramarital affair. Based on the principle that the grass is always greener when it's watered, Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome focuses on how to grow a beautiful marriage by establishing six protective hedges around it. This second edition includes a new chapter on repairing marriage following infidelity, as well as an appendix considering the Andersons' own marriage before and after the affair from Ron's point of view.
After a day spent incognito with her at the Montmartre fair, just before her parents' divorce and her fifth birthday, E. E. Cummings wrote in his notebook: goodbye dear & next time when I feel a little better we'll ride on the donkeys and next time on the pigs maybe or you will a bicycle and i will ride a swan & next time when my heart is all mended again with snow repainted with bright new paint we'll ride you and I She wanted to ride the swan.
This book looks at the history, beauty, and various styles of New Mexico colcha enbroidery, and tells the uplifting story of how a small group of determined women revived a Hispanic cultural tradition destined for extinction.