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Historians use the phrase “the cult of the exotic” to describe the fascination with the foreign or strange that both led to and was intensified by the eighteenth century’s scientific and imperialistic ventures in the Pacific and elsewhere. This volume offers new historical contexts for encounters both real and imaginary and shows the evolution of Europeans’ ideas about themselves and those cultures they considered exotic. The essays draw on a wide variety of sources—art, architecture, scientific and literary works, journals and diaries, and the European popular cultural and political press—to explore eighteenth-century perceptions of the exotic and to demonstrate just how far-reaching “the cult of the exotic” was.

Contributors. Geraldine Barnes, Alexandra Cook, David Culpin, John Greene, Suzanne Kiernan, Christa Knellwolf, Adrian Mitchell, Lisa O’Connell, David Paxman, Ali Uzay Peker, Glynis Ridley, Nicholas Rogers, Walter Veit
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From Australia s outback to the neighborhood lawn, animals great and small fill the pages of the 13 Sylvan Dell books in this Wildlife Set. These books support fun fictional stories with natural science themes and vivid illustrations. The set includes award-winning Sylvan Dell classics as well as newer titles. It consists of Tudley Didn t Know, In My Backyard, Little Skink s Tail, Kersplatypus, Animals are Sleeping, Blackberry Banquet, One Wolf Howls, Moose and Magpie, Felina s New Home, Baby Owl s Rescue, Fur and Feathers, River Beds: Sleeping in the World s Rivers, and Little Red Bat. All books feature a 3-5 page For Creative Minds educational section and additional Free Online Educator Resources: 30-80 pages of cross-curricular Teaching Activities, Interactive Reading Comprehension & Math Quizzes, Audio Books, and Related Websites.4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book s homepageeBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Vivica Genaux, Will Rogers, Kevin Johansen, Joshua Morrow, Lisa Murkowski, David Vann, Marie Smith Jones, Erik Ellington, Ambrose Olsen, Brody Hutzler, Mark A.z. Dippé, Darby Stanchfield, Judy Rabinowitz, Joe Tompkins. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Vivica Genaux est une cantatrice américaine, mezzo-soprano, née en 1969 à Fairbanks (Alaska). Son père américain enseignait la biochimie à l'université de l'Alaska, sa mère d'origine suisse-allemande, mais née à Mexico, était professeur de langues.Vivica est la benjamine d'une famille de trois sœurs. D'une famille de mélomanes, Vivica Genaux étudia la musique en parallèle à des études scientifiques. Elle s'orientait vers une carrière de généticienne et elle avoue elle-même avoir détesté l'opéra toute sa jeunesse (interview à la chaîne Arte). Vivica Genaux fut formée par Nicola Rossi-Lemeni et Virginia Zeani à l'Université d'Indiana Bloomington et étudia également avec Claudia Pinza (la fille de la basse Ezio Pinza). Elle débuta sa carrière professionnelle par l'interprétation de personnages de Rossini : Rosine dans Le Barbier de Séville, Isabelle dans L'Italienne à Alger, Angelina dans La Cenerentola. Elle a interprété ces rôles plus de deux-cents fois dans la plupart des opéras américains importants : le Met de New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle, San Diego et Pittsburgh. Mais hors de son pays d'origine, elle les a également chantés à Paris, Vienne, Berlin, Amsterdam, Dresde, Munich, Montréal, Tel Aviv, Vérone, Santiago du Chili et Perth. Elle s'est illustrée notamment par ses interprétations dans des opéras de Gioachino Rossini comme Le Barbier de Séville au Metropolitan Opera de New York, L'Italienne à Alger à l'Opéra national de Paris et ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Have you ever wondered what if?What if I let go of a past that no longer suits me to let in the evolution of a more authentic me?What if I chose to embrace the unknown, instead of remaining still and suffocating in a false sense of security?What if I followed the guidance to that inner voice?These questions led to the creation of Angelina "Angel" Moreau, a passionate woman who abandons her regimented life and seeks to live the answer to "what if?" in the soulful and edgy novel Mona Lisa's Seduction.When the classified section of the Boston Globe falls into Angelina's lap, the Harvard graduate and All-American soccer start dials the phone number to a restaurant in a seaside village on Cape Cod.Hours later, she finds herself driving to Provincetown, Massachusetts in an attempt to erase the pain of her dysfuntional past.What awaits her in this raucous and racy town is a restaurant named Mona Lisa's Seduction and a cast of characters as mysterious and contradictory as Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece.Before long, the spider webs of histories collided to recreate a history that has already been written.One morning, Angelina arises to find a red rose under her pillowcase and a storage room inside the back of her bedroom closet that hosts a dangerous secret.Under the unflinching gaze and sly smile of the Mona Lisa, Angelina Moreau excavates the artifacts to face the truth.But is the truth enough to finally put her past behind her? ... Read more

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Inspiring First Novel
Mona Lisa's Seduction brings you in and keeps you there. Angelina Moreau, who says yes to what the universe is telling her instead of fighting it, lands appropriately in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Once a haven for writers and artists, P-town today is a well-known gay summer resort. As one who seems to have weathered an oftentimes-brutal childhood, "Angel" must face her past while finding her path for the future.Kim Rogers' Angelina is an inspiration for those of us seeking to discover our true selves--a character who says love is life's litmus test...to see who you are and to see who you want to become.

Enjoyable Reading
For those of you who are critical of the mannerism of what we read, Kim's novel is a blessing.Attentively interesting, concise, yet with just the right amount of discriptive adjectives.A story of a young girls search for her path in life with a suprising, yet acceptable ending.Moreover, Kim possess a great ability of phrasing the characters situations in a most unique way which keeps you reading for more.

A good book that everyone should enjoy reading.I cannot wait for Kim's next.

A book to be shared with your finest girlfriends
Kim Rogers exhibits a magnetic writing style and a commendable story for her first novel.One is transcended into the lush, energetic, youthful years of discovering adult through Angelina. Her desires create internal conflict and her actions continually weave in the complexities of other characters.One cannot help reflect on one's own past personal experiences.I can't wait to read Kim's next novel.

Beautiful novel that you're likely to relate to
In this descriptive and beautifully written novel, Kim Rogers narrows in on, and successfully captures, the time immediately following college graduation when a young woman is looking for a direction, inspiration, and love. It's a time in a woman's life -- especially in one which most major decisions have previously been made for her -- when everything seems in flux while she begins the quest of finding her adult soul. Every woman makes decisions during this time that she comes to regret, but without which her growth would not be so remarkable. I reccomend it to all women, whether they want to reflect on those years, or whether they just want a good read in which to submerge themselves. I also reccommend it to anyone who has spent time on Cape Cod -- Rogers does a fantastic job in her writing of putting you right back on a sandy dune on the tip of New England.

Fabulous first novel
This book is an excellent first novel for Kim Rogers.Set in the small Cape town of Provincetown, Kim's lush language sets the scene beautifully and tells a familiar tale of life after College.The story takes you through some unexpected turns, carefully documenting the life of Angelina Moreau, the main characted.I definitely recommend this book if you are looking for a good escape that addresses love, relationships, and our eternal quest to figure this life out. ... Read more

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1: Where do Plants Live? by Lisa Trumbauer. 2: Small Plants, Tall Plants by Genevieve Stamper. 3: From Seed to Sunflower by Genevieve Stamper. 4: What kind of Animal are You? by Susan Rogers. 5: Animals on the Move by Susan Ring. 6: All about Animals by Kara D. Hill. ... Read more

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This report reviews the training of raters and the instructions associated with each instrument and assess the reliability of the quality-of-care and seriousness-of-illness measures in the Graduate Medical Education dataset. The authors found that reliability varied substantially from measure to measure. However, the overall reliability of the dataset is at least moderately good. ... Read more

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Issue #60Publication Date: May 2009Cover Artist: Stacy DrumInterior Artists: Zach McCain, Tom Moran, Will Renfro, Nicola Robinson, Chad Savage, Shane SmithPage Count: 128Fiction "The Woman in the Club Car" by Thomas Tessier "Living by the Highway" by Daniel G. Keohane "The Devil Came to Mamie's on Hallowe'en" by Lisa Morton "Faded into Impalpability" by Bruce Holland Rogers & Jeremy Robert Johnson "My Knife Collection" by Jeff Strand "Case White" by Thomas Sullivan "Some of These Cons go way Back" by Simon R. Green "Conversations Kill" by Tim Waggoner "Taipusan" by Eric BrownNon-Fiction "A Conversation with Thomas Tessier" by Sam W. Anderson "A Conversation with Ray Garton" by Michael McCarty & Pamela Briggs "New Voices: A Conversation with Jeff Strand" by Steve Vernon "A Conversation with Tananarive Due" by Michael Lohr "A Conversation with Jeff Long" by Cristopher DeRose & Michael McCarty "A Conversation with Glenn Chadbourne" by Rick HautalaThe Usual Suspects "Words from the Editors" by Robert Morrish & Richard Chizmar "The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association" by Thomas F. Monteleone "Stephen King News: From The Dead Zone" by Bev Vincent "MediaDrome" by Michael Marano "Collecting Modern Horror" by John Pelan "CD Reviews" by Various ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Pediatric Nursing, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2471 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An update on growth charts, old and new. (Primary Care Approaches).
Author: Linda L. Lindeke
Publication: Pediatric Nursing (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: 28Issue: 2Page: 138(3)

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This digital document is an article from Geographical Analysis, published by Ohio State University Press on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 7363 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Estimating migration flows from birthplace-specific population stocks of infants.
Author: Andrei Rogers
Publication: Geographical Analysis (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6002 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Abstract Activin is a multifunctional hormone playing a major role in the regulation of reproduction and growth and development. We performed a genomewide scan using multipoint linkage analysis implemented in a general pedigree-based variance component approach to identify genes with measurable effects on variation in the activin-to-estrogen ratio in baboons. A microsatellite polymorphism, D19S714, which maps to human chromosome l9pl3.2, showed marginal evidence of linkage with a lod ([log.sub.10] of the odds in favor of genetic linkage) score of 1.95 (0.014). This region contains several potential candidate genes including PKA (protein kinase, cAMP-dependent, catalytic [alpha]) and the gene pair JUN-B and JUN-D. This is the first evidence of a quantitative trait locus with a significant effect on the activin-to-estrogen ratio.

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Title: A Quantitative Trait Locus Influencing Activin-to-Estrogen Ratio in Pedigreed Baboons Maps to a Region Homologous to Human Chromosome 19.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Lisa J. Martin
Publication: Human Biology (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
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Ragged Capes is a graphic novel anthology brought to you by the creative team behind the Christian webcomic studio of NewCreationNow.com. This collection of superhero character studies explores their motivations of hope, fear, faith and doubt in a superhuman look at the frailties of human nature. ... Read more

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In 1926, two British women came from Cornwall to Edmonton and travelled through northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon by rail, sternwheeler, and canoe. For the women, it was a liberating experience, yet Vyvyan's narrative, supported by MacLaren and LaFramboise's insightful editorial work, reveals the imperialist attitudes underlying their travels. ... Read more

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Was it a cruel twist of fate or the carefully laid plan of a ruthless businessman?Jaclyn Tate, a stunning and accomplished commercial real estate broker, was haunted by that question when the man with whom she shared an impulsive and passionate affair turned out to be the unethical party who beat her to the closing table on the biggest deal of her illustrious career.Steven Cason, the charismatic and most desired bachelor in Dallas is the ultimate dealmaker and one of the most powerful men in town.He would allow no one to surpass him at his game, especially not on his home turf and on his prized real estate deal.The stakes are high, the passion intense. Two parties, Jaclyn and Steven are each willing to do whatever it takes to close the deal.How far are they willing to go? ... Read more