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A rich intellectual history of the reinvention of France's colonial empire in the second half of the eighteenth century.
After her mother became ill and her relocating to the swamps of Louisiana, Samantha comes home. Faced with her mother’s illness and leaving Colorado, a place she came to know as home is difficult. It has been twenty years and things have changed. Fighting grief and profound loss, Samantha struggles with alcoholism and looks for the peace and comfort of a place she can call home. Samantha maneuvers through love lost in a small southern town and facing the challenges of her journey as she returns as an adult. Overcoming traumas of the past as she goes along in this journey. Can Samantha overcome the memories of her past and forge ahead into the future? She lives with memories of the past that haunt her and she is looking to overcome them. Coming back home, she fights for the strength to change her life and adapt to all the changes that occur. Seeking healing, will Samantha find it?
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A woman who can't trust herself to make a good marriage choice asks for an arranged marriage, but then falls in love with someone else.Grace standish is the youngest of the Standish sisters. Years ago, she became flattered by one of the men of the ton, only to find herself rescued from a carriage ride that could have ruined her forever. Since then, and watching each of her sisters marry, she isn't confident in her ability to know what would be best for her. She trust her eldest sister June completely and knows that she and her husband Morley, will help her. But a new, young, Vicar enters the scene and she finds herself so incredibly curious about him. He's obviously handsome. But he's so muc...
The recent emergence and widespread use of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) has prompted new interest in scale as a key component of these and other geographic information technologies. With a balanced mixture of concepts, practical examples, techniques, and theory, Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS is a guide for students and users of remote sensing and GIS who must deal with the issues raised by multiple temporal and spatial scales. Sixteen pages of full-color photographs help demonstrate key points made in the text.
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With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians are increasingly doing so. Other segments of the Brazilian black movement are working to influence legislation and implement formal mechanisms that aim to promote racial equality, including Affirmative Action Racial Verification Committees. For advocates of these committees, one needs to be phenotypically black enough to be a more likely target of racism to qualify for Affirmative Action programs. Paradoxi...
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.