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So the script for successful single living calls for different strategies for young adults, the recently divorced, single parents, and those widowed or experiencing single life in later adulthood.

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This text comprises explorations of a variety of careers through interviews with people working at the jobs, and activities to explore those jobs with elementary children. The book covers a broad range of occupations including nontraditional ones, and explores over 40 in all.

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Women have made significant strides in the US sports world over the past 30 years, one of which has been moving into the ranks of coaching on both the collegiate and professional levels. This work lists 42 women coaches in the sports world, many of whom had to overcome major obstacles to succeed.

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Acting as an introduction to medical ethics, this is an exploration of the problem posed by pain in the field of medicine and religion. The author, Margaret Spufford, suffers from an incurable disease, but in spite of this, as a devout Christian she can write objectively of the problem of pain.

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This volume celebrates the cultural diversity of the United States as it is articulated through ritual performance.

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This book uses an integrated marketing communication perspective to examine the brand of the celebrity as it is brought into the American political system, primarily in the form of celebrity endorsements.

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Focuses on the careers of some successful self-promoters, including Alcibiades, Socrates, Alexander the Great, and others. This book investigates the secrets of their success and looks at ways in which other talented individuals turned themselves into celebrities, including sports personalities, entertainers, philosophers, and others.

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This book offers a critical look at celebrity and celebrities throughout history, emphasizing the development of celebrity as a concept, its relevance to individuals, and the role of the public and celebrities in popular culture.

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This book explores the effect of celebrity on Americans' public and private lives. It examines how celebrities bring about change, intentionally and unintentionally, and how those changes affect the public that loves and follows them. It explores health, philanthropy, activism, and celebrity attitudes toward feminism and police brutality.

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Explores how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, this book offers insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'.

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Explores how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, this book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'.

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An exploration of the phenomenon of celibate marriages in Byzantine hagiography.

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Most other works that instruct cellists in the art of playing their instrument come in two predictable formsemphasizing either the left hand or the right hand or instructing string players in the use of both but separately. Wilson argues that the movements of the hands are vitally interdependent, supporting one another in any technical action.

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This study argues that post-1970 Australian film is best described not as exhibiting phenomenal variety but as focused on a conception of heroism characterized by the love of freedom, the resentment of authority, and attachment to the land, along with anti- intellectualism, fatalism, and sexism.

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This easy-to-use guide explores the relationships between film images and the experience of war, showing how films influence war-time behavior and how wars influence films.

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Using archaeological and literary evidence, the author has produced a guidebook to 250 major sites in the British Isles where the Celtic saints lived and worked, listed alphabetically by area. Each description offers a history of each site and directions on how to find it.

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This text examines the theological framework within which St Patrick presented his experience and at how the Celtic lands of Ireland and Wales developed a distinctive view of sin, reconciliation and Christian law.