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  • You'll Forget This Ever Happened

    Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s

    by Laura L. Engel ...
    Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.In You’ll Forget This Ever Happened, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep South during the turbulent 1960s to explore the oppression of young women who have committed the socially unacceptable crime of becoming pregnant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Art of the Actress

    Fashioning Identities

    by Laura Engel ...
    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    This Element looks at the art of the actress in the eighteenth century. It considers how visual materials across genres, such as prints, portraits, sculpture, costumes, and accessories, contribute to the understanding of the nuances of female celebrity, fame, notoriety, and scandal. The 'art' of the actress refers to the actress represented in visual art, as well as to the actress's labor and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

    The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

    by Laura Engel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of tangible objects including: pocket diaries, portraits, drawings, magic lanterns, silhouettes, waxworks ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Sociological Foundations of Education

    Edited by Claire Maxwell, Miri Yemini, Laura Engel ...
    This volume introduces sociology as a foundational discipline of education. Education is a central structuring mechanism in shaping societies, making it a core focus for sociology. Sociologists study education in its broadest sense – as occurring within families, communities and provided by institutions. The purposes of formal education are contested and these contestations shape broader power ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • The Machinery of School Internationalisation in Action

    Beyond the Established Boundaries

    Edited by Laura C. Engel, Claire Maxwell, Miri Yemini ...
    Series series Education in Global Context
    Drawing on scholarship from the field of internationalisation in higher education and other theoretical influences in education policy, comparative education and sociology of education, this edited collection offers a much-needed extension of discussion and research into the compulsory schooling context.In this book, established and emerging scholars provide an authoritative set of conceptual ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Researching Global Education Policy

    Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement

    by Mellisa Chin, Clara Fontdevila, Steven Lewis, Kalervo N. Gulson, Andrew Wilkins, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Kerstin Martens, Dennis Niemann, Michael Windzio, Yasin Tunc, Laura Engel, Jisun Jeong, Oshie Nishimura-Sahi, Gerard Ferrer-Esteban, Chenyu Wang, Nelli Piattoeva, Brad Gobby, Andreu Termes, Emiliano Grimaldi, Jordi Collet, Tomas Esper, Marcel Pagès, Oscar Valiente ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    The movement of policy is a core feature of contemporary education reform. Many different concepts, including policy transfer, borrowing and lending, travelling, diffusion and mobility, have been deployed to study how and why policy moves across jurisdictions, scales of governance, policy sectors or organisations. However, the underlying theoretical perspectives and the foundational assumptions of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Stage Mothers

    Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830

    by Gilli Bush-Bailey, Marilyn Francus, Judith Hawley, Jade Higa, Emrys D. Jones, Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Kathryn Lowerre, Helen E.M. Brooks, J.D. Philopsen, Laura J. Rosenthal ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel, social history, and political economy, the idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a professional, ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

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  • This Is How It Started

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  • Walking With Gorillas

    The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet

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  • You'll Never Find Us

    A Memoir

    by Jeanne Baker Guy ...
    In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he declares that he has fled to Germany and she will never see him, or her children, again ... Read more

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  • A Week of Warm Weather

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