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    Innovative Developments and Future Trends

    The rapid development of the Web and Web-based technologies has led to an ongoing redefinition of reference services in academic libraries. A growing diversity of users and the need and possibility for collaboration in delivering reference services bring additional pressures for change. At the same time, there are growing demands for libraries to show accountability and service value. All of these ... Read more

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  • Literary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period

    Strategies and Sources

    Series series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
    Recognizing that every literary era presents scholars with particular challenges, this volume covers the best practices and describes important reference resources, both print and electronic, that can be used in conducting literary research of the British Renaissance and Early Modern period. Although the primary emphasis is on literature produced in England, the guide also covers literature from ... Read more

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  • North Carolina Aviatrix, Viola Gentry

    The Flying Cashier

    A photo-filled biography of a pioneering female pilot who became a champion of aviation for women.Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924—and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and in 1928, she established the first officially recorded women's ... Read more

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  • Stealing Sisi's Star

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    While on honeymoon in Vienna in June of 1998, at the height of the tourist season, Gerald Daniel Blanchard, an accomplished thief, happened upon the greatest challenge of his life when he spotted the last remaining "Sisi Star" on display in Schonbrunn Palace. Named after its former owner, the Empress Elisabeth, the ten-pointed diamond and pearl star was originally one of 27 that the enigmatic Sisi ... Read more

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    Summa Theologica - 11 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Cardinal Virtues (Unabridged)

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    59 hours 12 min

    The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the ... Read more

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  • Integrating Therapeutic and Complementary Nutrition

    Consumers look to health professionals for guidance on how to integrate complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies into their lifestyles, yet most health care professionals are trained only in conventional practices. Integrating Therapeutic and Complementary Nutrition provides the scientific foundation necessary to understand CAM nutrition pract ... Read more

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  • Betrayer's Waltz

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    Born into one of 19th century Europe's more powerful families, Archduchess Marie Valerie was the favorite daughter of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth. Determined to marry for love, in 1890 she wed her cousin, Franz Salvator of Tuscany and bore him 10 children.The dashing Archduke was not faithful. His affair with Stephanie Richter, a young, middle-class Jewish woman with a ... Read more

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  • Stock

    Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre visual metaphors, they’re instantly familiar – and familiarly narrow in their vision of our society. Their ubiquity shapes and reinforces the biases, privilege, and stereotypes of their distinct aesthetic.From found poems using metadata and keywords to riffs on stock image database search results with titles ... Read more

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  • Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century

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    Series series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
    The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature. Patronage, either by a benefactor or through subscription, lingered even as the publishing and bookselling industries developed. The practice of reviewing books became well established during the second half of the century, with the first periodical founded in 1749. For the literary scholar, these gradual changes mean that ... Read more

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  • Winston & Salem

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    A young man charged with murder is marched through the streets of Winston and Salem and hanged on the outskirts of town�?A tragic event carries several citizens into a raging river and to their deaths�?An eccentric with a fascination for chemicals blows himself up at the Salem Hotel�Through the use of primary documents, these and other fascinating stories of Winston and Salem�s past are vividly ... Read more

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    Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness

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    5 hours 40 min

    Bridging the gap between neuroscience and clinical therapy. Recent advances in affective neuroscience reveal long-held secrets of mental health and illness in the brain. However, the gap between brain science and clinical practice is wide, and many clinicians find neuroscience to be tedious, overly technical and laborious to learn. Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness bridges this ... Read more

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  • The Newfoundland Diaspora

    Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration

    Out-migration, driven by high unemployment and a floundering economy, has been a defining aspect of Newfoundland society for well over a century, and it reached new heights with the cod moratorium in 1992. This Newfoundland “diaspora” has had a profound impact on the province’s literature.Many writers and scholars have referred to Newfoundland out-migration as a diaspora, but few have examined the ... Read more

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