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America on the World Stage

A Global Approach to U.S. History

by Organization of American Historians, Ted Dickson, David Armitage, Stephen Aron, Edward L. Ayers, Thomas Bender, Stuart M. Blumin, J. D. Bowers, Stuart M. Burton0, Charap1, Jonathan Chu2, Kathleen Dalton3, Betty A. Dessants4, Kevin Gaines5, Fred Jordan6, Melvyn P. Leffler7, Louisa B. Moffitt8, Philip D. Morgan9, Mark A. Noll0, Gary W. Reichard1, Daniel T. Rodgers2, Leila J. Rupp3, Brenda Santos4, Gloria Sesso5, Shammas Carole6, Suzanne M. Sinke7, Omar Valerio-Jimenez8, Penny M. Von Eschen9, Patrick Wolfe0, Pingchao Zhu1 ...

Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing ... Read more

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Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing
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A Taste of Sage

A Novel

by Yaffa S. Santos ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross, Inés del Castillo ...

Unabridged

7 hours 40 min

A June 2020 Indie Next List Pick!From talented new writer, Yaffa S. Santos, comes this unforgettable, heartwarming, and hilarious rom-com about chefs, cooking, love, and self-discovery that is a cross between The Hating Game and Sweetbitter.Lumi Santana is a chef with the gift of synesthesia—she can perceive a person’s emotions just by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a single mother ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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A June 2020 Indie Next List Pick!From talented new writer, Yaffa S. Santos, comes this unforgettable, heartwarming, and hilarious rom-com about chefs, cooking, love, and self-discovery that is a cross between The Hating Game and Sweetbitter.Lumi Santana is a chef with the gift of synesthesia—she can perceive a person’s emotions just by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a single mother
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Virgin Envy

The Cultural (In)Significance of the Hymen

Edited by Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos-Walkes, Adriana Spahr ...

Series Book 2 - The Exquisite Corpse
Virgin Envy sets out to re-conceive the ways that we describe and relate to virginity as a cultural construct. Who is a virgin? How do we lose our virginities? What if we regret our "first time"?Contributors to Virgin Envy everything from medieval romance to Bollywood films to Twilight and True Blood, to destabilize the many assumptions about sexual purity. In particular, the hymen is called into ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Virgin Envy sets out to re-conceive the ways that we describe and relate to virginity as a cultural construct. Who is a virgin? How do we lose our virginities? What if we regret our "first time"?Contributors to Virgin Envy everything from medieval romance to Bollywood films to Twilight and True Blood, to destabilize the many assumptions about sexual purity. In particular, the hymen is called into
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Subsidiaries or Branches: Does One Size Fit All?

by Jonathan Fiechter, Inci Ms. Ötker, Anna Ilyina, Michael Hsu, Andre Mr. Santos, Jay Surti ...

Series Book 11 - IMF Staff Discussion Notes
This study proposes to make an assessment of the trade-offs emanating from the adoption of the stand-alone subsidiarization (SAS) model of global banking. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority (FSA) proposed SAS as a possible practical avenue to lessen risk of contagion of macro-financial problems by re-organizing internationally active ... Read more

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This study proposes to make an assessment of the trade-offs emanating from the adoption of the stand-alone subsidiarization (SAS) model of global banking. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority (FSA) proposed SAS as a possible practical avenue to lessen risk of contagion of macro-financial problems by re-organizing internationally active
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The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire

A Tejano Elegy

by John Phillip Santos ...

Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

John Phillip Santos won immense acclaim for his book Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, a finalist for the National Book Award. In this beautifully written new book, Santos tells of how a family-his mother's-erased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain. Blending genres brilliantly, Santos raises profound questions about whether we can ever find our true homeland and what ... Read more

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John Phillip Santos won immense acclaim for his book Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, a finalist for the National Book Award. In this beautifully written new book, Santos tells of how a family-his mother's-erased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain. Blending genres brilliantly, Santos raises profound questions about whether we can ever find our true homeland and what
... Read more

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Dynastic Change

Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy

Edited by Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues, Manuela Santos Silva, Jonathan W. Spangler ...

Series series Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras.Taking a broadly comparative approach, Dynastic Change explores the mechanisms employed as well as theoretical and practical approaches to monarchical legitimisation. The book answers the question of how monarchical ... Read more

$63.99 USD

Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras.Taking a broadly comparative approach, Dynastic Change explores the mechanisms employed as well as theoretical and practical approaches to monarchical legitimisation. The book answers the question of how monarchical
... Read more
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Training, Development, and Performance Improvement

Edited by Kurt Kraiger, Jonathan Passmore, Nuno Rebelo dos Santos, Sigmar Malvezzi ...

Series series Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks in Organizational Psychology
The latest Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology uses a psychological perspective, and a uniquely global focus, to review the latest literature and research in the interconnected fields of training, development, and performance appraisal.Maintains a truly global focus on the field with top international contributors exploring research and practice from around the worldOffers ... Read more

$50.00 USD

The latest Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology uses a psychological perspective, and a uniquely global focus, to review the latest literature and research in the interconnected fields of training, development, and performance appraisal.Maintains a truly global focus on the field with top international contributors exploring research and practice from around the worldOffers
... Read more

Reading from Behind

A Cultural Analysis of the Anus

by Jonathan A. Allan ...

Series Book 1 - The Exquisite Corpse
Since we all have one and use it every day, why is it that people squirm when the anus is mentioned? In Reading from Behind, Jonathan Allan addresses this question in a playful, yet scholarly exploration of everything from porn to poetry, from Brokeback Mountain to Myra Breckinridge, democratizing the anus as a site of necessity and as a location of pleasure. ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Since we all have one and use it every day, why is it that people squirm when the anus is mentioned? In Reading from Behind, Jonathan Allan addresses this question in a playful, yet scholarly exploration of everything from porn to poetry, from Brokeback Mountain to Myra Breckinridge, democratizing the anus as a site of necessity and as a location of pleasure.
... Read more
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Jane in Love

A Novel

by Rachel Givney ...

Narrated by Billie Fulford Brown ...

Unabridged

11 hours 37 min

"Artfully written and engaging, Jane in Love is a lively effusion of wit and humor."—Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie ProjectA charming, romantic debut novel inwhich Jane Austen, heralded author, ends up time-traveling almost 200 years inthe future. There she finds the love she's written about and the destiny she'sdreamed of...but is it worth her legacy?Bath, Engl... ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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"Artfully written and engaging, Jane in Love is a lively effusion of wit and humor."—Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie ProjectA charming, romantic debut novel inwhich Jane Austen, heralded author, ends up time-traveling almost 200 years inthe future. There she finds the love she's written about and the destiny she'sdreamed of...but is it worth her legacy?Bath, Engl...
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The Marriage Game

by Sara Desai ...

Narrated by Soneela Nankani ...

Unabridged

11 hours 38 min

**“This novel has all the funny banter and sexy feels you could want in a romantic comedy.”–NPRA high stakes wager pits an aspiring entrepreneur against a ruthless CEO in this sexy romantic comedy.**After her life falls apart, recruitment consultant Layla Patel returns home to her family in San Francisco. But in the eyes of her father, who runs a Michelin starred restaurant, she can do no wrong. ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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**“This novel has all the funny banter and sexy feels you could want in a romantic comedy.”–NPRA high stakes wager pits an aspiring entrepreneur against a ruthless CEO in this sexy romantic comedy.**After her life falls apart, recruitment consultant Layla Patel returns home to her family in San Francisco. But in the eyes of her father, who runs a Michelin starred restaurant, she can do no wrong.
... Read more

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The Boyfriend Project

by Farrah Rochon ...

Narrated by Je Nie Fleming ...

Unabridged

9 hours 41 min

**A smart and delightful romantic comedy featuring fabulous female friendships and "**a great love story." **--**Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of Party of TwoSamiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly Samiah -- along with his two other ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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**A smart and delightful romantic comedy featuring fabulous female friendships and "**a great love story." **--**Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of Party of TwoSamiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly Samiah -- along with his two other
... Read more

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Grown-Up Pose

by Sonya Lalli ...

Narrated by Soneela Nankani ...

Unabridged

10 hours 3 min

A delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide, from acclaimed author Sonya Lalli.Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai is now on her own again and feels like she is starting from the ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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A delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide, from acclaimed author Sonya Lalli.Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai is now on her own again and feels like she is starting from the
... Read more

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