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Austin Macauley Publishers Deadly Imprint
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Austin Macauley Publishers Deadly Imprint
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Maud Humphrey: Her Permanent Imprint on American Illustration
Maud Humphrey was one of the most popular illustrators in America at the turn of the century. Unfortunately, through the years, Maud's impact on American illustration was lost, until it seemed her only claim to fame was as the mother of Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart. However, Maud's role on the American art scene was as remarkable as any role her son ever played on stage or screen. Today there is a resurgence of interest in Maud Humphrey's work, and that interest has prompted this book. It is a look at a young woman growing up in her. Maud went beyond the limitations to become an early suffragette; she maintained her art career even after marriage and a family. Many of her images grace the pages of this biography and bring her art to life.
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DOM Publishers Imprint of the Future: Destiny of Piranesi's City
Russian architect and draughtsman Sergei Tchoban has always striven to understand the laws which govern the development of cities such as his native St Petersburg and the great prototypes in whose image it was created. But is it possible to preserve such cities’ outstanding quality today? Can we pursue this quality now, at the current stage of development of architecture? This catalogue poses these central questions. It accompanies an exhibition of Tchoban’s work at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome, scheduled to take place from October 2020 to January 2021. It also marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Tschoban inserts emphatically futuristic structures into the Italian artist’s eighteenth-century Roman street scenes. Do such works constitute ruined masterpieces or imprints of the future? Is harmony being destroyed or is a fundamentally new type of harmony being created? Tchoban believes that a similar transformation of the European city has been happening for at least a century and that society must finally work out how to relate to this process. Essentially, Piranesi’s true legacy is a call to an honest conversation regarding the layers and parts that constitute the European city as both a highly important piece of our heritage and a space for future development.
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Caitlin Press Imprint: A Memoir of Trauma in the Third Generation
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The University of Chicago Press The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
Leading gender and science scholar Sarah S. Richardson charts the untold history of the idea that a woman's health and behavior during pregnancy can have long-term effects on her descendants' health and welfare. The idea that a woman may leave a biological trace on her gestating offspring has long been a commonplace folk intuition and a matter of scientific intrigue, but the form of that idea has changed dramatically over time. Beginning with the advent of modern genetics at the turn of the twentieth century, biomedical scientists dismissed any notion that a mother—except in cases of extreme deprivation or injury—could alter her offspring’s traits. Consensus asserted that a child’s fate was set by a combination of its genes and post-birth upbringing. Over the last fifty years, however, this consensus was dismantled, and today, research on the intrauterine environment and its effects on the fetus is emerging as a robust program of study in medicine, public health, psychology, evolutionary biology, and genomics. Collectively, these sciences argue that a woman’s experiences, behaviors, and physiology can have life-altering effects on offspring development. Tracing a genealogy of ideas about heredity and maternal-fetal effects, this book offers a critical analysis of conceptual and ethical issues—in particular, the staggering implications for maternal well-being and reproductive autonomy—provoked by the striking rise of epigenetics and fetal origins science in postgenomic biology today.
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HarperCollins Focus Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive
Discover your unique imprint for work that makes you come alive, fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it.We’re all born with a certain “imprint” for work that makes us come alive. This is your "Sparketype®," your DNA-level driver of work that lets you know, deep down, you’re doing what you’re here to do. Work that motivates you, fills you with purpose and, fully-expressed in a healthy way, becomes a main-line to meaning, flow, performance, and joy. Put another way, work that “sparks” you.Sparked draws upon years of research, experimentation, more than 25-million data-points generated by over half-a-million people, and hundreds of deep-dive conversations with luminaries from science to art to industry and wellbeing. Award-winning author, serial wellness-industry founder, and host of the top-ranked Good Life Project®, Jonathan Fields, and his team at Spark Endeavors, developed the Sparketype imprints and methodology that is the basis of this book.In this book, Fields and his team will help you: Discover what sparks you, what drains you, where you stumble and come alive, so you can reclaim a sense of direction, control, and purpose; Understand the “real” reasons certain experiences, jobs, and roles leave you empty and know how to make things better, without having to endure big disruptive changes; Learn from real-world, relatable stories, case-studies, and data-driven insights; Identify the action steps to begin immediately transforming the way you work and live. Sparked takes you deep into the world of the Sparketypes, revealing an entirely new depth of insights about what makes you come alive in work life, along with what empties you out and trips you up, so you can avoid those life-drains.You’ll discover tons of case studies, stories, and real-world applications, creating a comprehensive guide to help you discover what you are meant to do and how to get started.
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Imprint Solstice: A Tropical Horror Comedy
When Adri is offered an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival, it feels like the graduation gift of a lifetime! But when she arrives, she quickly realises it's not Instagram-ready. There's no water, no food, and no security in sight - which means there's no one to help when a dead body is found on the beach. With connections to the festival planners, Adri gets a front-row seat as everything devolves into chaos - and she's in a prime position to put together the clues to who - or what - is killing off the crowd one by one. This is teen horror at its best: fun, sexy, topical, and with regular updates on social media as everything goes horribly wrong. It invites you to check your privilege at the door - before it gets you killed.
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Imprint A Better Bad Idea
Evelyn Peters is desperate. Desperate for a way out of McNair Falls, the dying southern town that’s held her captive since the day she was born. Desperate to protect her little sister from her mother’s terrifying and abusive boyfriend. And desperate to connect with anyone, even fallen golden boy Ashton Harper, longtime boyfriend of the girl Evelyn can never stop thinking about - beautiful, volatile, tragically dead Reid Brewer. Until a single night sends Evelyn and Ashton on a collision course that starts something neither of them can stop. With one struck match, their whole world goes up in flames. The only thing left to do is run - but leaving McNair Falls isn’t as easy as just putting distance between here and there and some secrets refuse to stay left behind. A reckoning is coming . . . and not everyone is getting out alive.
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Imprint Academic Ancient Evenings
Ancient Evenings is a study of consciousness presented as a series of fictional philosophical dialogues set at the height of the Roman Empire. These dialogues on good and evil, truth and falsehood, life and death are historical re-enactments of what persons representing the major Hellenistic schools of philosophy might actually have said to one another in informal but serious discussion and debate. The result is a powerful unique view of the secular Hellenistic schools of antiquity, and of their continued importance to modern secular thinking about how to live in a world without divine intervention. Ancient Evenings is in the spirit of great dialogues from Plato to Cicero, and Berkeley to Hume. It brings back to life the neglected literary form of the philosophical dialogue as a potent and unique instrument of philosophical inquiry.
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Imprint Academic The Icelandic Adventures of Pike Ward
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Imprint Academic A Hospitable Universe: Addressing Ethical and Spiritual Concerns in Light of Recent Scientific Discoveries
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Imprint Academic Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism
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Imprint Academic Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump
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Imprint Academic SCAM: So-Called Alternative Medicine
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Imprint Academic Freedom's Progress?: A History of Political Thought
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Imprint Academic Thomas Reid on Religion
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Imprint Academic The Singularity: Could artificial intelligence really out-think us (and would we want it to)?
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Imprint Academic The Singularity: Could artificial intelligence really out-think us (and would we want it to)?
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Imprint Academic What is Wrong with Us?: Essays in Cultural Pathology
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Imprint Academic The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
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Imprint Academic Global Philosophy: What Philosophy Ought to Be
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Imprint Academic Microgenetic Theory and Process Thought
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Imprint Academic Truth and Faith in Ethics
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Imprint Academic The Implications of Embodiment: Cognition and Communication
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Imprint Academic On Liberty and Peace, Part 1: Liberty: Volume 1
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Imprint Academic The Scottish Political System Since Devolution: From New Politics to the New Scottish Government
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Imprint Academic Digital Social Mind
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Imprint Academic Poverty or Prosperity?: What Tax is Best for a Flourishing Economy
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Imprint Academic Leadership in Christian Higher Education
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Imprint Academic Mindworlds: A Decade of Consciousness Studies
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Imprint Academic Religion, Politics, Evangelism
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Imprint Academic Standing Up to Supernanny
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Imprint Academic Hobbes's Behemoth: Religion and Democracy
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Imprint Academic Unlearning: Or how NOT to be governed?
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Imprint Academic Narrative and Folk Psychology
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Imprint Academic Thomas Brown: Selected Philosophical Writings
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Imprint Academic Understanding Faith: Religious Belief and Its Place in Society
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Imprint Academic Liberalism, Education and Schooling: Essays by T.M. McLaughlin
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Imprint Academic Liberty, Authority, Formality
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Imprint Academic The Athenian Option: Radical Reform for the House of Lords
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