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Safeguarding Adults

Key Themes and Issues

By: Gillian MacIntyre,Ailsa Stewart,Pearse McCusker

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Safeguarding Adults

Key Themes and Issues

By: Gillian MacIntyre,Ailsa Stewart,Pearse McCusker

Safeguarding adults is a rapidly evolving area of professional practice and this timely new text book provides an authoritative guide that critically engages with the recent developments and encapsulates some of the emerging approaches to contemporary adult safeguarding practice. Written by a collection of authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience, and with a strong focus on multi-disciplinary working, the text covers key topics such as: - Safeguarding adults who lack capacity, or whose level of capacity is unknown or unclear - Common issues and tensions surrounding the various UK laws and policies that seek to safeguard adults with mental health problems - Safeguarding older adults, with a unique and insightful focus on the perspective of carers -Current limitations in practice, including the blurred nature of the boundaries between informal and legally mandated care, relating to the safeguarding of people with learning disabilities. Illustrated throughout by engaging case studies to help readers apply what they have learnt to everyday practice, this comprehensive guide to safeguarding adults is essential reading for students across a broad range of health and social care disciplines, as well as practitioners looking for an up-to-date source of reference.

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1137381019

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Community Health and Wellness

Primary Health Care in Practice

By: Jill Clendon,Ailsa Munns

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Community Health and Wellness

Primary Health Care in Practice

By: Jill Clendon,Ailsa Munns

A new edition of the esteemed nursing text exploring social, cultural and political issues affecting individual and community health What makes a healthy community? And how can nurses and midwives support community health and wellbeing? In Community Health and Wellness, 4th Edition: Primary health care in practice, authors Anne McMurray and Jill Clendon advance the discussion of health as a product of the interaction between people and their environment. Engagingly written and based on extensive research, this valuable nursing textbook is ideal for nursing students as well as those working in the field. Issues such a gender and cultural inclusiveness provide essential backdrops to evidence-based policy, research and the provision of equitable health care for all. The Miller Family case study This new edition of Community Health and Wellness features a common family case study running throughout the text. The Miller family crosses Australia and New Zealand; providing examples of primary health care issues in both countries. These include child health services, accessing care, adolescent health, contemporary family issues, ageing, cultural support and inclusive health care. • global insights with a focus on primary health care practice in Australia and New Zealand • promotion of community health care across the lifespan • a unique socio-ecological approach to community health • the Ottawa Charter, the Jakarta Declaration and the Bangkok Charter are included as contemporary health promotion guidelines for practice • extensive references providing current, specific source information Emphasis on health literacy, intervention and health promotion. An evolving case study runs through each chapter and links to reflective activities. Focus on learning outcomes to facilitate the integration of policy, research and practice. Exploration of Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery roles in primary health care practice. Strong pedagogy to increase engagement and emphasise key issues. Reflective exercises and Action Points encourage readers to consider the key issues, their implications and how to move forward Research studies exemplify the central theme of each chapter and promote evidence-based practice. Evolve eBook and resources

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729579549

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9780729579544

Hierarchies of Belonging

National Identity and Political Culture in Scotland and Quebec

By: Ailsa Henderson

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Hierarchies of Belonging

National Identity and Political Culture in Scotland and Quebec

By: Ailsa Henderson

Nationalism has long been a potent political force in Scotland and Quebec. Hierarchies of Belonging explores the construction of national identity and nationalism and its effect on how citizens of Scotland and Quebec understand their relationship to the nation and the state.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773560475

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9780773560475

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books

A Suite in Four Voices

By: J.R. (Tim) Struthers,Ailsa Cox,Corinne Bigot,Catherine Sheldrick Ross

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Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books

A Suite in Four Voices

By: J.R. (Tim) Struthers,Ailsa Cox,Corinne Bigot,Catherine Sheldrick Ross

What in terms of Alice Munro’s creative artistry and creative power allowed her to become the first and only short story writer, the first and only Canadian, and just the thirteenth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? And exactly when during Munro’s career did her artistry and power advance to ensure that she would earn such world-wide renown? The answers lie in studying the boldly innovative yet greatly under-examined group of her four mid-career breakthrough books. Our volume therefore provides a carefully orchestrated analysis of Munro’s subtle yet potent handling of form, technique and style both within individual stories and across these special collections. Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices not only addresses a significant vacancy in Munro criticism – and, by extension, in all short story criticism – but, equally importantly, offers an exciting new model for how criticism can be collectively written.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1399534556

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9781399534550

Antipodal Shakespeare

Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016

By: Gordon McMullan,Philip Mead,Ailsa Grant Ferguson,Mark Houlahan,Kate Flaherty

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Antipodal Shakespeare

Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016

By: Gordon McMullan,Philip Mead,Ailsa Grant Ferguson,Mark Houlahan,Kate Flaherty

Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered. This book offers new archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and reflects on the long legacy of those celebrations. This collection gathers together five scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand to reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare across the hemispheres in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916. It was at this moment of remembering in 1916 that 'global Shakespeare' first emerged in recognizable form. Each contributor performs their own 'antipodal' reading, assessing in parallel events across two hemispheres, geographically opposite but politically and culturally connected in the wake of empire.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474271448

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9781474271448

Adopting Overseas

A Guide to Adopting from Australia, Plus Personal Stories That Will Inspire You

By: Lucy Burns,Ailsa Burns

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Adopting Overseas

A Guide to Adopting from Australia, Plus Personal Stories That Will Inspire You

By: Lucy Burns,Ailsa Burns

Inter country adoption is the most common form of adoption in Australia. This wonderful book looks not only at the processes involved in adopting a child from other countries into Australian families but also includes the findings of the largest survey of adoptive parents in Australia. The information they share with us and their personal experi...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458715450

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Nunavut

Rethinking Political Culture

By: Ailsa Henderson

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Nunavut

Rethinking Political Culture

By: Ailsa Henderson

Political culture in Nunavut has long been characterized by different approaches to political life: traditional Inuit attitudes toward governance, federal aspirations for the political integration of Inuit, and territorial strategies for institutional development. Ailsa Henderson links these features to contemporary political attitudes and behaviour, concluding that a distinctive political culture is emerging in Nunavut. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and quantitative analysis, this book provides the first systematic, empirical study of political life in Nunavut, offering comprehensive analysis of the evolving nature of aboriginal self-government in the Arctic and shedding crucial light on Inuit–non-Inuit relations.

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UBC Press

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0774858133

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9780774858137

Community Health and Wellness - E-book

Primary Health Care in Practice

By: Jill Clendon,Ailsa Munns

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Community Health and Wellness - E-book

Primary Health Care in Practice

By: Jill Clendon,Ailsa Munns

Community Health & Wellness: Primary health care in practice, 5th Edition represents contemporary thinking and research in community health and wellness from Australia, New Zealand and the global community. It challenges students and health professionals to become more aware of the primary health care (PHC) environments in which they work in order to gain an understanding of what is socially determining the health of the individuals, families and communities within their care. Provides a focus on primary health care practice in Australia and New Zealand Research and evidence-based practice throughout each chapter Group exercises that can be used in practice or tutorial groups Reflective questions to challenge the understanding of key principles and practice Additional resources for lecturers via Evolve. • Two new chapters: Chapter 3 Assessing the Community Chapter 6 Working in groups • The SDH Assessment Circle - a new model for community assessment • Stronger emphasis on working with migrant and refugee families • A new continuous case study – the Mason and Smith families; both fly-in fly-out (FIFO) families.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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072958223X

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9780729582230

Reviving Roman Religion

Sacred Trees in the Roman World

By: Ailsa Hunt

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Reviving Roman Religion

Sacred Trees in the Roman World

By: Ailsa Hunt

Argues that thinking about sacred trees in Roman culture forces us to rethink how we understand Roman religion.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107153549

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The Referendum that Changed a Nation

Scottish Voting Behaviour 2014–2019

By: Ailsa Henderson,Robert Johns,Jac M. Larner,Christopher J. Carman

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The Referendum that Changed a Nation

Scottish Voting Behaviour 2014–2019

By: Ailsa Henderson,Robert Johns,Jac M. Larner,Christopher J. Carman

Drawing on data from the Scottish Referendum Study and subsequent Scottish Election Studies, this book provides the first in depth analysis of how voters engaged with the independence referendum in 2014 and what impact this has had on vote choice, polarisation and engagement in Scotland since then. The book contains eight chapters, and discusses how voters engaged with the referendum campaign, explains vote choice by examining reactions to the cues of parties, leaders and events, and compares the importance of these to calculations about risk.

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Springer Nature

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3031160959

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9783031160950

Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture

Appropriation and Inversion

By: Ailsa Grant Ferguson

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Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture

Appropriation and Inversion

By: Ailsa Grant Ferguson

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new theories on the nature and application of Shakespearean appropriations in the light of postmodern modes of representation. The book considers the nature of the Shakespearean inter-text in subcultural political contexts concerning the politicized aesthetics of a Shakespearean ‘body in pieces,’ the carnivalesque, and notions of Shakespeare as counter-hegemonic weapon or source of empowerment. Representative films use Shakespeare (and his accompanying cultural capital) to challenge notions of capitalist globalization, dominant socio-cultural ideologies, and hegemonic modes of expression. In response to a post-modern culture saturated with logos and semiotic abbreviations, many such films play with the emblematic imagery and references of Shakespeare’s texts. These curious appropriations have much to reveal about the elusive nature of intertextuality in late postmodern culture and the battle for cultural ownership of Shakespeare. As there has yet to be a study that isolates and theorizes modes of Shakespearean production that specifically demonstrate resistance to the social, political, ideological, aesthetic, and cinematic norms of the Western world, this book expands the dialogue around such texts and interprets their patterns of appropriation, adaptation, and representation of Shakespeare.

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Routledge

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1135041857

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The Future of Social Security Policy

Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income

By: Ailsa McKay

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The Future of Social Security Policy

Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income

By: Ailsa McKay

Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen’s basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum income guaranteed for all members of society. Implementing a CBI, would consequently entail radical reform of existing patterns of welfare delivery and would bring into question the institutionalized relationship between work and welfare. Ailsa McKay’s book makes a unique and positive contribution to the CBI literature by examining the proposal from a feminist economics perspective. Gender concerns are central to any debate on the future of social security policy, in that state intervention in the field of income redistribution has differential impacts on men and women. By drawing attention to the potential a CBI has in promoting equal rights of freedom for men and women this book serves to open up the debate to incorporate a more realistic and inclusive vision of the nature of modern socio-economic relationships.

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1134287178

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Market Liquidity

Theory, Evidence, and Policy

By: Thierry Foucault,Marco Pagano,Ailsa Röell

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Market Liquidity

Theory, Evidence, and Policy

By: Thierry Foucault,Marco Pagano,Ailsa Röell

The process by which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook. This book offers a more accurate and authoritative take on this process. The book starts from the assumption that not everyone is present at all times simultaneously on the market, and that participants have quite diverse information about the security's fundamentals. As a result, the order flow is a complex mix of information and noise, and a consensus price only emerges gradually over time as the trading process evolves and the participants interpret the actions of other traders. Thus, a security's actual transaction price may deviate from its fundamental value, as it would be assessed by a fully informed set of investors. The book takes these deviations seriously, and explains why and how they emerge in the trading process and are eventually eliminated. The authors draw on a vast body of theoretical insights and empirical findings on security price formation that have come to form a well-defined field within financial economics known as "market microstructure." Focusing on liquidity and price discovery, the book analyzes the tension between the two, pointing out that when price-relevant information reaches the market through trading pressure rather than through a public announcement, liquidity may suffer. It also confronts many striking phenomena in securities markets and uses the analytical tools and empirical methods of market microstructure to understand them. These include issues such as why liquidity changes over time and differs across securities, why large trades move prices up or down, and why these price changes are subsequently reversed, and why we observe temporary deviations from asset fair values"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197542069

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9780197542064

500 Single Best Answers for the Medical Oncology Specialty Certificate Exam

By: Daniel J Hughes,Anna C Olsson-Brown,Judith Cave,Helena Earl,Ricky Frazer,Ailsa Sita-Lumsden,Ruth E Board

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500 Single Best Answers for the Medical Oncology Specialty Certificate Exam

By: Daniel J Hughes,Anna C Olsson-Brown,Judith Cave,Helena Earl,Ricky Frazer,Ailsa Sita-Lumsden,Ruth E Board

Make this book the last thing you use before you take the exam. · 500+ single best answer (SBA) practice questions are presented according to the Medical Oncology Specialty Certificate Exam blueprint · Answer sections provide detailed descriptions for revision and signposting to appropriate resources · Refers to both National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) latest guidance · A valuable learning tool for doctors planning to undertake the Medical Oncology SCE and a useful resource for doctors studying for the FRCR (Oncology) and ESMO exams · Produced in partnership with the Association of Cancer Physicians Written by senior trainees and consultants and verified by experienced medical oncology consultants in the style of the specialty certificate exam, this collection of 500 single best answers offers an ideal preparation for success in the Specialty Certificate Examination in Medical Oncology. CONTENTS: Acute oncology, Breast cancer, Carcinoma of unknown primary, Colorectal and anal cancer, Gynaecological cancers, Haematological cancers, Less common cancers, Lung and thoracic cancers, Professional skills, Sarcoma, Scientific basis of malignancy, Skin cancers, Supportive care therapies, Systemic anti-cancer therapies, Upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary cancers, Urological and germ cell cancers.

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Evidence-based Networks Ltd

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0995595496

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9780995595491

The Attachment

Letters from a most unlikely friendship

By: Ailsa Piper,Tony Doherty

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The Attachment

Letters from a most unlikely friendship

By: Ailsa Piper,Tony Doherty

A celebration of friendship, renewal, nature and the human spirit told through letters between a writer and an 80-year-old priest. Original, surprising - both highly entertaining and deeply moving. Dear Ailsa, Sometimes I wonder whether the friendship that has caught us both-a most unlikely friendship I must confess-might find an echo in a far off Irish village somewhere in the wild, windy hills of old Donegal. Or am I allowing that uncontrollable imagination of mine too much slack? This is the story of an unlikely friendship. When priest and Sydneysider Tony Doherty emailed Melbourne-based writer and performer Ailsa Piper to say how much he had enjoyed her latest book, he was met with a swift reply from a similarly enquiring mind. Soon emails were flying back and forth and back again. They exchanged stories of their experiences as sweaty pilgrims and dissected dinner party menus. They shared their delight in Mary Oliver's poetry and wrestled with what it means to love and to grieve. This energetic exchange of words, questions and ideas grew into an unexpected but treasured friendship. Collected here is that correspondence, brimming with empathy, humour and a fierce curiosity about each other and the worlds, shoes and histories that they inhabit. Described by one reader as 'a demonstration of how to have a conversation and a friendship', The Attachment is an intriguing, entertaining and moving celebration of family, faith, connection-even the correct time of day to enjoy rhubarb. Dear Tony, Funny how our ears tune in to things. How our priorities shift based on who and what we know. How we come to care about such abstract or remote things through the experience of another. Lovely, somehow, but so serendipitous. All the other things we might care about. All that we might have missed had we not stopped to care for this person. I'm glad we stopped for each other. 'To read this book is to be present at the unfurling of a tender friendship between two thoughtful, compassionate humans, and like all the best collections of letters it's also a discursive wander through life's big questions. It will make you grateful for what you have, while urging you to seize the day with the people you love... It will make you want to write letters:goodones. I will read this book again and again.'Charlotte Wood, Stella Prize-winning author ofThe Natural Way of Things '...captures the intoxication of being swept into a new and deeply nourishing friendship. It fizzes with joy and humour, wrestles with agonising questions, always anchored in compassion and wisdom.'Debra Oswald, author ofUseful 'The Attachmentmade me want to notice my world, love my world,shape it into words. It is a book about friendship but more than that, these two letter-writers - these unlikely friends - are mature enough to know the value of the moment, the value of friendship, how precious and fleeting life is... I was moved, and surprised, and completed the book in a veil of tears...The book enriched me, and inspired me.'Sofie Laguna, Miles Franklin award-winning author ofThe Eye of the Sheep 'From the first seed of recognition, the feverish exchange of ideas and confidences to a deep and abiding appreciation,The Attachmentis a candid, illuminating journey into the heart of a profound and unexpected friendship, and a testament to the art of correspondence.'Kat Stewart, actor '...the chronicle of an unlikely but beautiful friendship thatwill inspire you to value your own friendships more highly, and to nurture them more carefully.'Hugh Mackay, author ofBeyond Belief

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Allen & Unwin

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1925576574

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Zobi and the Zoox

A Story of Coral Bleaching

By: Ailsa Wild,Aviva Reed,Gregory Crocetti,Briony Barr

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Zobi and the Zoox

A Story of Coral Bleaching

By: Ailsa Wild,Aviva Reed,Gregory Crocetti,Briony Barr

With her home under threat from a warming ocean, Zobi, a brave rhizobia bacterium, teams up with a family of slow but steady Zoox (zooxanthellae). As the coral bleaches, everyone begins to starve... Can Zobi and the Zoox work together to save the day? This beautifully illustrated science-adventure story, set on the Great Barrier Reef, was originally published in 2015, but has been extensively re-written and revised to delight and captivate primary school-aged readers. Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching is the first in the new Small Friends Books series – Stories of Partnership and Cooperation in Nature.

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