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  • Smart Girls Marry Money

    How Women Have Been Duped Into the Romantic Dream--And How They're Paying For It

    by Elizabeth Ford, Daniela Drake ...
    Why does society applaud a girl who falls for a guy's "big blue eyes" yet denounces one who chooses a man with a "big green bankroll"? After all, isn't earning power more a reflection of a man's values and character? Smart Girls Marry Money challenges the ideals and assumptions women have blindly accepted about love and marriage -- and shows how they've done so at their own economic peril. In this ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

    Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

    by Elizabeth Ford MD ...
    From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue, and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned how to doctor and how to love.Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Feminist Field Notes : A Girl's Guide to the Gender Revolution

    by Elizabeth Ford ...
    ‘Feminist Field Notes’ is a short handbook guide to modern feminism aimed primarily at those who experience misogyny- however, it is also a more advanced field book, in which I have collected tactics for the continuation of a fight against patriarchy and oppression in all its forms. For those just developing an awareness of feminism or hoping to learn more about an immensely complicated movement, ... Read more

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  • Royal Portraits in Hollywood

    Filming the Lives of Queens

    by Elizabeth A. Ford, Deborah C. Mitchell ...
    Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs. Filmmakers from the silent era to onward have displayed a deep fascination with the lives of royalty and with queens in particular. Still, the question remains: what do these films really tell us about the women beneath the crowns?Drawing on films from the 1930s to those of today, Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Apocalyptic Visions in 21st Century Films

    by Elizabeth A. Ford, Deborah C. Mitchell ...
    The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond the familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures and even children's films frequently feature apocalyptic imagery--disintegrating cities, extreme weather events, extinctions, rogue military forces, epidemics, zombie armies and worlds colliding. Using sophisticated CGI effects, filmmakers are depicting the end of the world ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Inquiry Units for English Language Arts

    Inspiring Literacy Learning, Grades 6–12

    Inquiry Units for English Language Arts is an engaging and relevant collection of instructional units that delve into contemporary problems related to equity, justice, identity, freedom, and social reform. Designed by practicing classroom teachers, these units integrate reading, writing, speaking, and listening as modes of investigation in the Language Arts classroom. Each chapter provides ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Raise Your Voices

    Inquiry, Discussion, and Literacy Learning

    In a collection of chapters from high school teachers and university researchers, Raise Your Voices offers English language arts teachers “one-stop shopping” to learn how to foster dialogic classrooms and how to prompt, sustain, connect, and assess classroom discussions, especially discussions about issues that adolescents find consequential. The chapters explore both the basics for facilitating ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning

    A Guide for Elementary and Secondary School Educators

    Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning, a collection of chapters from secondary teachers and university researchers, offers English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning. As the contributors demonstrate, an inquiry approach can significantly boost student achievement, understanding, and transfer of learning. The ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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    Torah

    by The Jewish Publication Society ...
    Narrated by M.D. Laufer, Norma Fire, Elizabeth London, Francie Anne Riley, Jonathan Roumie, Kathy Ford, Michael Bernstein ...
    Series series JPS Audio Bible

    Unabridged

    14 hours 27 min

    The JPS Tanakh: The Jewish Bible, audio version is a recorded version of the JPS TANAKH, the most widely read English translation of the Hebrew, or Jewish, Bible. Produced and recorded for The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) by The Jewish Braille Institute (JBI), this complete, unabridged audio version of the Torah features over 14 hours of readings by 7 narrators. The Torah is the essence of ... Read more

    $28.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translating the Social World for Law

    Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism

    Edited by Elizabeth Mertz, William K. Ford, Gregory Matoesian ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of “translation” as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of English or Swahili, so that some form of translation may still be needed even between two people who ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Marian Baird, Michele Ford, Elizabeth Hill ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women’s paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Each country-focused chapter examines the formal and informal ways in which work and care are managed, the changing institutional landscape, gender relations and fertility concerns, employer and trade union ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

    Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

    by Elizabeth Ford MD ...
    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City’s jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.These men were broken, without ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook