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Ready, Set, Scrap: Fun and Easy Scrapbooking Ideas for Girls
• More than 20 themed scrapbook-page projects • Appealing projects for girls ages 8-16 • Bonus ideas, brainstorming starters, quizzes, tips, and more Take awesome photographs. Write compelling stories. Design layouts that will make everyone who sees your scrapbook say, "Wow!" Learn all these practical skills with the more than 20 amazing scrapbooking projects in Ready, Set, Scrap! Designed for girls ages 8 to 16, these clear directions and illustrations, plus bonus ideas, brainstorming starters, quizzes, and tips make scrapbooking a snap. Scrapbooking is a great form of self-expression, and Ready, Set, Scrap! lets girls build self-confidence as they create a lasting record of their preteen and teen years. .
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Uncertainty Assessment of Large Finite Element Systems (Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics)
The treatment of uncertainties in the analysis of engineering structures remains one of the premium challenges in modern structural mechanics. It is only in recent years that the developments in stochastic and deterministic computational mechanics began to be synchronized. To foster these developments, novel computational procedures for the uncertainty assessment of large finite element systems are presented in this monograph. The stochastic input is modeled by the so-called Karhunen-Loève expansion, which is formulated in this context both for scalar and vector stochastic processes as well as for random fields. Particularly for strongly non-linear structures and systems the direct Monte Carlo simulation technique has proven to be most advantageous as method of solution. The capabilities of the developed procedures are demonstrated by showing some practical applications. .
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Easy Scrapbook Embellishment: Beads - Fibers - Paint
With scrapbooking, crafters express themselves creatively while preserving family memories and celebrating life itself. Easy Scrapbook Embellishments helps scrapbookers take their pages beyond two dimensions, adding texture, color, and depth with embellishments of all kinds. More than 60 creative ideas for using beads, yarn, acrylic paint, and other easy-to-find craft items in scrapbook layouts are included. Beautiful full-color photos and step-by-step directions show how to achieve each effect. Easy Scrapbook Embellishment provides the inspiration and the information crafters need to create scrapbook pages they’ll be proud to show and share. .
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A Colored Man Round the World
This remarkable book, written by former slave David F. Dorr, published in the mid-nineteenth century and only recently rediscovered, is an uncommon travel narrative. In the 1850s Dorr accompanied Louisiana plantation owner Cornelius Fellowes on a tour of the world's major cities, with the promise that when they returned to the United States, Dorr would be given his freedom. When that promise was broken, Dorr escaped to Ohio and wrote of his experiences in A Colored Man Round the World. Malini Johar Schueller has edited and annotated the 1858 text and added a critical introduction that provides a useful context for understanding and appreciating this important but heretofore neglected document. Her edition of A Colored Man Round the World provides a fascinating account of Dorr's negotiation of the conflicting roles of slave versus man, taking into account all of the racial complexities that existed at the time. As a traveler abroad, Dorr claimed an American selfhood that allowed him mobility in Europe, and he benefited from the privileges accorded American "Orientalists" venturing in the near East. However, any empowerment that Dorr experienced while a tourist vanished upon his return to America.
The book will be welcomed for the rare perspective it provides of the mid-nineteenth century, through the eyes of an African-American slave and for the light it casts on world and U.S. history as well as on questions of racial and national identity.
Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English, University of Florida.
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Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (New Americanists)
Exceptional State analyzes the nexus of culture and contemporary manifestations of U.S. imperialism The contributors, established and emerging cultural studies scholars, define culture broadly to include a range of media, literature, and political discourse. They do not posit September 11, 2001 as the beginning of U.S. belligerence and authoritarianism at home and abroad, but they do provide context for understanding U.S. responses to and uses of that event. Taken together, the essays stress both the continuities and discontinuities embodied in a present-day U.S. imperialism constituted through expressions of millennialism, exceptionalism, technological might, and visions of world dominance. The contributors address a range of topics, paying particular attention to the dynamics of gender and race. Their essays include a surprising reading of the ostensibly liberal movies Wag the Dog and Three Kings, an exploration of the rhetoric surrounding the plan to remake the military into a high-tech force less dependent on human bodies, a look at the significance of the popular Left Behind series of novels, and an interpretation of the Abu Ghraib prison photos. They scrutinize the national narrative created to justify the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the ways that women in those countries have responded to the invasions, the contradictions underlying calls for U.S. humanitarian interventions, and the role of Africa in the U.S. imperial imagination. The volume concludes on a hopeful note, with a look at an emerging anti-imperialist public sphere. Contributors. Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, Cynthia Enloe, Melani McAlister, Christian Parenti, Donald E. Pease, John Carlos Rowe, Malini Johar Schueller, Harilaos Stecopoulos.
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Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies
When scholars imagine American postcolonialism, they think either of contemporary multiculturalism or imperialism since 1898. This narrow view has left more than the two prior centuries of colonizing literary and political culture unexamined. Messy Beginnings challenges the idea of early America's immunity from issues of imperialism and of its separation from European colonialism. By addressing a range of literary texts and examining the work of key postcolonial theorists, the contributors to this volume explore the applicability of such models to early American culture. They argue against the idea that the colonization of what became the United States was simply a confrontation between European culture and a singular "other." Their analyses reveal that the formation of America resulted from messy or unstable negotiations of the idea of "nation." The essays in this book forcefully show that the development of "Americanness" was a raced and classed phenomenon, achieved through a complex series of violent encounters, legal maneuvers, and political compromises. The complexity of early American colonization, where there was not one coherent "nation" to conquer, contradicts the simple label of imperialism used in other lands..
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