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  • Taken

    A Memoir

    by Susan Smith ...
    This is a book for anyone facing seemingly impossible circumstances or a situation that looks like it is over with no hope. This is a book for anyone experiencing an injustice, a wrong, a sudden unbelievable event that makes no sense. This is a book for anyone who has everything stacked against them – people, organizations, legal standing - and nothing for them - ability, authority, resources.This ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hitchcock

    Suspense, Humour and Tone

    by Susan Smith ...
    Susan Smith's treatment of the works of the most subtle of all film-makers analyses the key elements of suspense, humour and tone across the whole of the director's career. Arguing that all three are central to our viewing experience, the book demonstrates how Hitchcock's masterly integration of those elements is the key to his success as a film-maker.Examining in detail such films as Sabotage, ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Care, Health and Housing

    Crisis, Experiences and Answers

    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Housing is where societies declare whose lives matter.This book brings together international scholars and practitioners to explore how inadequate housing produces avoidable harm and why today's housing crisis must also be understood as a crisis of care. Rather than treating housing as a technical or market issue, the book reframes it as an ... Read more

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  • Learn More than You Teach

    Becoming a Leader in a Diverse World

    by Susan M Smith ...
    Travel with veteran teacher Susan Smith as she acquires and develops leadership skills while working in a wide range of situations and cultures. Starting as an introverted child in a White suburban Pittsburgh neighborhood, she grew to love languages and exploring diverse lifestyles through them. For her, becoming a Peace Corps volunteer in the Central African Empire transformed her life and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate

    by Susan Smith ...
    A novel about history, sex, drag, paganism, death, and the formation of family. Using an ancient myth reset in the queer community in Buffalo, New York, Smith explores gender fluidity, sexual diversity, and the deeper questions of love and identity that make us who we are. Dr. Rosalind Olchawski is an expert on Shakespeare, Nineteenth century poetry, and being the best friend you've ever had. She ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices of Change

    Women’s Influence in Northwest Pakistan

    Voices of Change explores the influence exercised by forty-eight ordinary yet extraordinary Muslim and non-Muslim women as they study and work in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), northwest Pakistan. At the end of the twentieth century there were few women in KP’s public spaces. Today, there are many women in these same spaces. Individually and collectively, they are reshaping societal practices throughout ... Read more

    $28.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Physical and Emotional Abuse Hurts the World as Well as the Child

    Child abuse,physical or emotional, creates long term negative effects. It is not just about the hit or the unkind words at the time - underneath there is damage to a child's self esteem. It is easy to bully a child. It is even easier to hit them with hands, sticks, canes, pokers, hairbrushes, and other weapons.If you pull down a child's clothes to expose a bare bottom you add humiliation into the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indian Women and French Men

    Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes

    Series series Native Americans of the Northeast
    A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the colonial period, the Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples. In this well-researched study, Susan Sleeper-Smith focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions—the role played by Indian women who married French traders. Drawing on a broad range of primary ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

    Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Taylor

    by Susan Smith ...
    Series series Film Stars
    Elizabeth Taylor was one of the major film stars of the twentieth century, embodying all the glamour and allure of Hollywood stardom. Yet her achievements as an actress have often been overshadowed by her beauty and tumultuous life off-screen.To redress this imbalance, Susan Smith offers an illuminating study of Elizabeth Taylor's work in film, exploring her fascinating trajectory from child to ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • In Spirit and Truth

    A Vision of Episcopal Worship

    An invitation to a conversation about the direction of our worship life.The Anglican colloquium of the North American Academy of Liturgy acknowledged the need for a collection of insights to aid in the liturgical formation of the Episcopal Church as we move into liturgical revision. The volume's contributions have been shaped around the clauses of resolution A068, looking at the ways in which ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love from Afar

    Merilyn is a thirty-something elementary school teacher at an international school in Korea. She loves the excitement and challenge of working with her multi-ethnic students. Sure, she'd like to be married some day, but she's content where she's at.Until her sister calls with a strange proposal, a blind-date scenario with a friend of a friend's son.Tedd is a widower with two elementary-aged ... Read more

    $3.25 USD or Free with Kobo Plus