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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews...
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Minnie and Daisy's class is going on a field trip to the Moushattan Museum of History. Minnie is really excited because she loves art and history; Daisy thinks it's going to be a snoozefest. When they get to the museum, their history teacher announces that the students will be doing a scavenger hunt. They have a list of questions to solve, and the answers can be found in the museum's exhibits. The first team to finish with correct answers will get...
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The Disney princesses star in tales of friendship in this four-book set! Merida discovers a strange horse who just might be magical. Belle surprises a friend on his birthday. Cinderella introduces Gus and Jaq to a new friend. Tiana and Prince Naveen find a surprising guest at Tiana's restaurant. Young readers can take their princess stories wherever they go!
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This one-of-a-kind, lavishly illustrated anthology celebrates Audubon's connection to the sea through both his words and art.
The American naturalist John James Audubon (1785–1851) is widely remembered for his iconic paintings of American birdlife. But as this anthology makes clear, Audubon was also a brilliant writer-and his keen gaze took in far more than creatures of the sky. Culled from his published and unpublished writings, Audubon...
6) Team Up!
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On the dark streets of San Fransokyo, danger lurks at every turn. So Hiro, a robotics genius, decided to create a team of crime-fighters in order to help save the city! Hiro created new tech for each member of the team-Honey Lemon, Go Go Tomago, Wasabi, Baymax, and Fred. Follow along as the team tests our their new gear...just in time for battle!
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Green Smoothies for Beginners by best-selling health and nutrition author John Chatham provides a complete introduction to the amazing health benefits of nutritious green smoothies, with easy tips for creating your own green smoothies from scratch, and how to detox your whole body. Whether you are looking to lose weight, cleanse your system, or are seeking a daily health supplement, Green Smoothies for Beginners will help you discover how to increase...
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Lose weight and build muscle more efficiently than ever before by adopting a paleo diet for athletes. PALEO DIET FOR ATHLETES is the ultimate guide for adopting the Paleo diet to maximize your workout and transform the way you exercise. A paleo diet for athletes will help you lose weight, build muscle, and boost stamina with easy-to-prepare, delicious recipes that are low carb, high protein, and full of nutritious, unprocessed ingredients. Paleo is...
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4 stories in 1! This treasury of tales stars your Disney Junior favorites Sofia and Doc! Follow along as Sofia prepares for her Princess Test and hikes through Peppertree Forest with the Buttercups. Then cuddle up with Doc McStuffins and her toys at a super-fun slumber party and find out if Doc can cure Teddy B of the Dusty-Musties! Each story is the perfect length for reading aloud in about five minutes-perfect for story time, bedtime, or any time...
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Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophical thought of the period remains largely unknown. This volume illuminates three major currents of thought dominant in the earlier Italian Renaissance: classical humanism (Petrarch and Valla), Platonism (Ficino and Pico), and Aristotelianism (Pomponazzi). A short and elegant work of the Spaniard Vives...
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Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil...
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Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory-giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.
These six new chapters are "Popular Culture,"...
13) Meet the Planes
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Meet world-famous air racer Dusty Crophopper and all the amazing planes who help him understand the importance of friendship in this delightful guide to the characters from Disney's hit film Planes. Learn fun facts about the characters who call Propwash Junction home-then, read on to meet the rest of Dusty's friends, including all your favorites from the Wings Around the Globe Rally!
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This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes...
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Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.
In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating translations represent these early classics as they originally appeared, in verse. Since...
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Psychiatry has never loved queerness. Historically, LGBTQAI+ people have been institutionalised, lobotomised, castrated, over-medicated, aversiontherapied, pathologised and electroshocked. Even though being gay, bi and trans are no longer officially mental illnesses, queerphobia has not left psychiatry.
Most people have no idea what violence the mental health system has done to and is still doing LGBTQAI+ people. In this book queer people tell...
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Everyone's favorite toys are hitting the big screen! But the fun can be taken home and enjoyed over and over again with this brand-new storybook collection, timed to the release of Disney*Pixar's Toy Story 4! Tag along for a talent show in Bonnie's room, follow Woody on his Wild West rescue, join the gang for a frighteningly fun adventure, party with Rex in his over-the-top bath-time bash, and even more! Meet new friends and visit with your old pals...
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Peter Parker was just a kid in high school when a spider bit him and his entire life changed. Now known as the amazing Spider-Man, Peter must juggle his personal life and his Super Hero life. When a new Super Villain with the power to control electricity terrorizes Manhattan, Spidey swings into action to save the day. At the same time, he has to deal with Gwen Stacy, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, and his old friend Harry Osborn, returning to...
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4 stories in 1! Get ready for four spook-tacular adventures featuring your favorite Disney and Disney • Pixar characters! Maleficent returns and casts a spell on the kingdom; Rapunzel and Pascal create spooky traditions in Rapunzel's tower; Mike and Sulley search for the culprit behind mysterious events at the Monstropolis parade; and Wreck-It-Ralph and Vanellope meet a marshmallow ghost. Each of these stories is an ideal length for reading aloud...