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Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine

The State of the Art

By: Alan Bleakley

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Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine

The State of the Art

By: Alan Bleakley

While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this is a misstep, and critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors and similes might mean for shaping medical culture, and especially the doctor–patient relationship, in a healthy way. Thinking With Metaphors in Medicine explores: how metaphors inhabit medicine – sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse – and how these metaphors can be revealed, appreciated and understood; how diagnostic work utilizes thinking with metaphors; how patient–doctor communication can be better understood and enhanced as a metaphorical exchange; how the landscape of medicine is historically shaped by leading or didactic metaphors, such as ‘the body as machine’ and ‘medicine as war’, which may conflict with other values or perspectives on healthcare, for instance, person-centred care. Outlining the kinds of metaphors and resemblances that inhabit medicine and how they shape practices and identities of doctors, colleagues and patients, this book demonstrates how the landscape of medicine may be reshaped through metaphor shift. It is an important work for all those interested in the use of language and rhetoric in medicine, whether hailing from a humanities, social science or healthcare background.

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Routledge

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1315389428

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The Collected Novels Volume Two

The Broken Chariot, The German Numbers Woman, and The Lost Flying Boat

By: Alan Sillitoe

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The Collected Novels Volume Two

The Broken Chariot, The German Numbers Woman, and The Lost Flying Boat

By: Alan Sillitoe

These later novels from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, “one of the best English writers,” reflect his imaginative scope (The New York Times). British novelist Alan Sillitoe “powerfully depicted revolt against authority by the young and working class” in his best-known works of fiction (The Washington Post). Both The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning were international bestsellers and made into acclaimed films. The prolific, award-winning author wrote over fifty books, including the three novels collected in this volume: a coming-of-age story about a young man who reinvents himself, a thriller featuring a blind veteran who thwarts a high-seas heroin heist—for love, and a seafaring search for Nazi treasure. The Broken Chariot: Class and identity are lifelong struggles for Herbert Thurgarton-Strang, born in India but sent away at seven to a boarding school in England. At seventeen, the rebellious young man finally breaks free from school and heads into the industrial slums of Nottingham, where he reinvents himself as “Bert Gedling”—a working-class lathe man, a drinker, a womanizer, and eventually a soldier. He continues to adapt his character on his tour of duty, and when he returns to England he transforms once again—but this time the fictions he constructs will follow the truth of his heart. “[Tackles] the issue of class in a way that is often surprising and always entertaining.” —Yorkshire Post The German Numbers Woman: Blinded in the war, RAF veteran Howard views the world through radio waves, eavesdropping on global affairs and secret transmissions with his mastery of Morse code. But when he becomes obsessed with the voice of a female sailor and her mysterious communications, his own relationship with his wife begins to dissolve. To bring her husband back, she introduces him to Richard, a fellow code-breaking buff. But when Richard’s dealings in the black market send the female sailor on a dangerous drug run, Howard sets off to save her. “Sillitoe still effectively portrays the psychological idiosyncrasies of British reserve with chilling detail and a tender appreciation for obsessive loners.” —Publishers Weekly The Lost Flying Boat: A top-secret mission sends a crew of Royal Air Force veterans from South Africa to the subarctic Kerguelen Islands. At the helm of the seaplane Aldebaran sits the monomaniacal Captain Bennett, a man hell-bent on unearthing a treasure buried by the Germans in the final days of World War II. On the seaplane’s radio is the young wireless operator Adcock, a man whose morals are soon put to the test as machine guns are mounted on the flying boat’s turrets and the thirst for gold may cost the crew their lives. “Remarkably credible . . . [Sillitoe’s] treasure-seekers are well-observed human beings.” —The Sunday Telegraph

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Open Road Media

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1504054121

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9781504054126

The Bellesauvage Redemption

True Love Is a Fabric That Never Fades, No Matter How Often It Is Washed in the Waters of Grief and Adversity

By: Alan Brookes

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The Bellesauvage Redemption

True Love Is a Fabric That Never Fades, No Matter How Often It Is Washed in the Waters of Grief and Adversity

By: Alan Brookes

The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. In London’s east end, Jude and Anna, two young lovers born in poverty, struggle to forge a worthwhile future. Jude Croaker’s mother had always told him that his father was a Lord, the Marquess of Melchester. Jude and Anna’s discovery of who his father is leads them both into dishonesty and deceit. Blackmail and death thwart their attempts to lift themselves out of poverty. Anna’s fate depends upon the actions of the United Kingdom government. A sensational murder trial at the Old Bailey results in the death penalty by hanging. Can the ‘Abolition of Capital Punishment Act 1965’, prevent an execution taking place? Redemption arrives from an old adversary of the Marquess.

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1728395631

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A Different Heaven

By: Alan Shope

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A Different Heaven

By: Alan Shope

A Different Heaven is a fictional account of the true-life story of 10-year-old Pamela Butler. Pamela was a Kansas City, Kansas resident who was abducted and murdered back in the fall of 1999. A Different Heaven is based around three characters and how they all come together one faithful day. It's a story of life's greatest lesson, helping others, and of life's greatest loss, the murder of a child. A Different Heaven is a tribute to Pamela Butler and a roller coaster ride of emotion that has an ending that you will never forget. What is A Different Heaven? You won't know the truth until the end.

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iUniverse

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0595341101

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9780595341108

Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1

By: Alan Ayckbourn

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Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1

By: Alan Ayckbourn

The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.

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Faber & Faber

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0571318266

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Victoria's Children of the Dark

The Women and Children who Built Her Underground

By: Alan Gallop

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Victoria's Children of the Dark

The Women and Children who Built Her Underground

By: Alan Gallop

Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel the furnaces of the industrial revolution. Following the real fortunes of seven-year-old Joey Burkinshaw and his family, Alan Gallop recreates the events surrounding the 1838 Husker Pit disaster at Silkstone, Yorkshire - a tragedy which led to better working conditions for miners. Chained to carts and toiling half-naked for 18-hour shifts in near darkness, children as young as four were employed by mine owners. Yet it was not until the catastrophe at Silkstone, when twenty-six children were drowned in a mineshaft, that Victoria and her subjects realised that many Britons were existing in virtual slavery. This powerful and dramatic account exposes the real lives and working conditions of nineteenth-century miners. This gripping human story brings history, particularly the history of childhood, to life.

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The History Press

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0752469274

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Nerd Girls: The Rise of the Dorkasaurus

By: Alan Lawrence Sitomer

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Nerd Girls: The Rise of the Dorkasaurus

By: Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Mean Girls meets Revenge of the Nerds, middle-school style, in a novel that peeks into the lives of an offbeat cast of 13-year-olds." --Publishers Weekly Maureen, a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed dork-a-saurus, is totally addicted to cupcakes and hot dogs and thinks that her body looks like a baked potato. Allergy-plagued Alice can't touch a mango without breaking out in a rash, and if she eats wheat, her vision goes blurry. Klutzy to the extreme, Barbara is a beanpole who often embarrasses herself in front of the whole school. These outcasts don't have much in common -- other than the fact that they are often targets of the ThreePees: the Pretty, Popular, Perfect girls who rule the school. But one day Maureen decides that it's time to topple the eight-grade social regime. She joins forces with Alice and Barbara and the Nerd Girls enter the school talent show, determined to take the crown from the ThreePees. Will their routine be enough to de-throne the popular crowd? Or will their plan backfire and shake their hold on the bottom rung of the social ladder?

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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1423159500

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9781423159506

Bellesauvage

Where Love Conquers the Adversaries of War and Greed

By: Alan Brookes

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Bellesauvage

Where Love Conquers the Adversaries of War and Greed

By: Alan Brookes

In the hierarchal structure that pervaded a stately home in England in the 1930s, a poverty-stricken maid, Jane Hennessey, extorts money from her employer, Lady Caroline Melchester. Carolines affair with her employee, Ashley Brownlow, has consequences that changes lives forever. Charlottes last words implore her brother Ashley to reconcile with Lady Caroline. His grief obscures her words because his lovers apathy hastened his beloved sisters death. At the outbreak of World War Two, with his life in turmoil, he enlists in the British army in the first regiment to fight the Germans on French soil. His resentment fuels his patriotic fervour in a fierce battle to the death. By coincidence, he meets his lovers twin sons, who are also part of the pioneering British forces. Their fates are intertwined in the fight for survival on the beaches of Dunkirk. On the outskirts of Paris, Lady Carolines brother, Jean-Pierre, has his chateau confiscated by the occupying German army. As he escapes to England, his servants face oblivion and transportation to the death camp of Auschwitz. Carolines former husband, Baron Grosvenor, suffers potential ruin as his new wife exacts revenge for his criminal past. Meanwhile, Jane Hennessey confesses her former misdeeds. Her political convictions provide rehabilitation for herself and redemption for Lady Caroline.

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1524629324

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Reading, Writing, and Murder

By: Alan Druckman

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Reading, Writing, and Murder

By: Alan Druckman

What novel presents a realistic, comprehensive, laugh-until-you-almost-pee look at an urban elementary school in a middle-class neighborhood in New York City through the eyes of a retiring principal? The answer is Reading, Writing, and Murder. Here are some of the subjects in the school curriculum: How to Murder a Teacher in School How to Conduct an Adulterous Affair How to Deal with Disruptive Pupils How to Deal with Complaining Parents and Teachers How to Dissuade a Pupil Threatening to Commit Suicide How to Save a Parent Having a Heart Attack How to be Classified as a Pedophile How to Celebrate a Principal's Retirement How to Reminisce on the Good, the Bad, the Ugly How to Solve a School Murder Only someone with thirty-five-and-a-half years as teacher, assistant principal, and principal in New York City elementary schools could tell it like it is.

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1643509071

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9781643509075

Getting Married

By: Theresa Alan

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Getting Married

By: Theresa Alan

You are not the first, and you are definitely not the last. . . .And probably you are not the best. It's never a good idea to take messages scrawled in bar bathrooms personally. Eva Lockart knows this, really she does. Still, such things tend to take on a weird sort of significance when one is in the throes of a panic attack prompted by irrational jealousy of one's boyfriend's ex-wife. Something that's been happening lately--a lot. . . Not that Eva has anything to worry about, really. "X" (she has a name, but why dwell on details?) is long gone, and Will loves Eva now--loves her enough, in fact, to want to move in and get married. So, she's got a guy she's crazy about, a thriving business, and "fun" wedding plans to make, including finding an affordable reception site that doesn't have dead animal heads hanging from the walls, a non-poofy dress that adequately corrals her cleavage; and a cake that isn't orange inside. Still, what's a little stress in exchange for wedded bliss? When Eva thinks of all the married people she knows, she's positive that this may turn out to be the biggest mistake of her life because all those "married people" are now either acrimoniously divorced, or seemingly on the brink. But once the bridal ball is rolling downhill, it's damn near impossible to stop it without getting crushed. And now, the fact that Will's done this once before has Eva running that much faster to make things perfect--and getting herself into more trouble than she ever dreamed possible. . .

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Kensington Books

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0758282826

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Design and the Digital Divide

Insights from 40 Years in Computer Support for Older and Disabled People

By: Alan F. Newell

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Design and the Digital Divide

Insights from 40 Years in Computer Support for Older and Disabled People

By: Alan F. Newell

Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative. Alan Newell has been described as "a visionary who stretches the imagination of all of us" and "truly ahead of his time." This monograph describes research ranging from developing communication systems for non-speaking and hearing-impaired people to technology to support older people, and addresses the particular challenges older people have with much modern technology. Alan recounts the insights gained from this research journey, and recommends a philosophy, and design practices, to reduce the "Digital Divide" between users of information technology and those who are excluded by the poor design of many current systems. How to create and lead interdisciplinary teams, and the practical and ethical challenges of working in clinically related fields are discussed. The concepts of "Ordinary and Extra-ordinary HCI", "User Sensitive Inclusive Design" , and "Design for Dynamic Diversity", and the use of "Creative Design" techniques are suggested as extensions of "User Centered" and "Universal Design." Also described are the use of professional theatre and other methods for raising designers' awareness of the challenges faced by older and disabled people, ways of engaging with these groups, and of ascertaining what they "want" rather than just what they "need." This monograph will give all Human Computer Interaction (HCI) practitioners and designers of both mainstream and specialized IT equipment much food for thought. Table of Contents: 40 years--Highlights and a Brief Review / Communication Systems for Non-Speaking and Hearing-Impaired People / TV Subtitling for Hearing-Impaired People / Word Prediction for Non-Speaking People and Systems for those with Dyslexia / Providing Reusable Conversation for Non-Speaking People / Story Telling and Emotion in Synthetic Speech / Lessons Learned from Designing AAC Devices / IT Systems for Older People / Designing IT Systems for Older People / Ordinary and Extra-Ordinary Human Computer Interaction / User Sensitive Inclusive Design / The Use of Professional Theatre / Attacking the Digital Divide

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Springer Nature

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3031015924

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9783031015922

Dark Florida

Animal Attacks, Historic Murders, Deadly Disasters and Other Calamities

By: Dr. Alan N. Brown

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Dark Florida

Animal Attacks, Historic Murders, Deadly Disasters and Other Calamities

By: Dr. Alan N. Brown

Author Alan Brown leads readers on a stomach-churning turn through Florida's dark side . Florida sunshine beckons, but in can be unrelenting, too. And in the shadows, tragedy strikes. Ted Bundy leads a cast of serial killers who wrought havoc on the state. Storms spin onto its shores with landscape altering fury. Sharks lurk in the sea, and snakes and alligators lie wait in the swamps. Gangsters like Al Capone hit Miami Beach for a respite, but gangsters like Al Capone take no breaks from their trade. A woman spontaneously bursts into flames in St. Petersburg. Anthrax claims a life in Palm Beach. The Bermuda Triangle disappears vessels off the coast. Indeed, Florida knows boundless leisure, but it's just as familiar with catastrophe .

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1439678626

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T

By: Alan Fyfe

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T

By: Alan Fyfe

*Shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Manuscript Award 2018* *Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)* Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling. T or Timothy lives on the economic margins, both using and selling methamphetamine in Mandurah. When a friend, Gulp, tragically dies and T grows close to Lori-Bird his life promises to become more centred. But he moves between loving and leaving her. This is a lyrical and arresting portrait of characters who crave love but struggle with addiction and the tenuous yet intimate community connections it gives them. The spirit of the Peel landscape informs both T’s identity and the lives of the people he encounters and offers a way out. Intimate with suffering and beauty, T is also at times transcendent. A contemporary novel with the urgency of what Davies’ Candy, Kerouac’s On the Road, and Garner’s Monkey Grip were to their own times. ‘Confronting and discomfiting, with small moments of redemption –T is very much a story for our times.’ – Kate Noske and Richard Rossiter (Hungerford Award Judges). ‘There is nothing else currently being written that is quite as exciting. Its blend of realism, grittiness, pared back lyricism and magical realism is unique and hasn’t been seen since the work of a powerful novelist of regional life like Tom Flood. T works the margins, both in terms of place and subject of the culture around meth use, in utterly compelling ways. This story needs to be told.’ – Lucy Dougan, Premier’s Award winner and Westerly editor.

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Transit Lounge

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0648414043

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9780648414049

Biographical Dictionary of Explorers

By: Alan Wexler,Jon Cunningham

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Biographical Dictionary of Explorers

By: Alan Wexler,Jon Cunningham

An informative, fascinating resource suitable for students, researchers, and general readers, this biographical dictionary is a "who was who" of world and space explorers, giving readers a sense of the human drama—the achievements and the challenges—that those who go where few or none have gone before must face. The explorers covered include Jacques Cousteau, Sir Vivian Fuchs, John Glenn Jr., Aleksei Leonov, Annie Peck, Valentina Tereshkova, and many more.

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Infobase Holdings, Inc

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1438182155

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9781438182155

Hackney Memories

By: Alan Wilson

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Hackney Memories

By: Alan Wilson

The 1930s were a troubled era, and England was a land of contrasts. This work gives a vivid impression of growing up in a working-class family in the East End at this time. It should be of interest to anyone who remembers the interwar years, and anyone interested in London's social history.

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The History Press

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0750954205

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9780750954204

What You See Is What You Get

My Autobiography

By: Alan Sugar

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What You See Is What You Get

My Autobiography

By: Alan Sugar

Lord Sugar is a self-made man and one of Britain's finest business brains. His story so far is inspirational to the end' The Sun 'Sugar is unusual among celebrity memoirists in that he's a clever man who has done a lot with his life, and the tale of his rise from nothing, and nowhere is genuinely revealing' Private Eye From a Hackney council estate to the House of Lords, this is the extraordinary story of one of our greatest entrepreneurs. Alan Sugar was born in 1947 and brought up on a council estate in Clapton, in Hackney. As a kid he watched his dad struggle to support the family, never knowing from one week to the next if he'd have a job. It had a huge impact on him, fuelling a drive to succeed that was to earn him a sizeable personal fortune. Now he describes his amazing journey, from schoolboy enterprises like making and selling his own ginger beer to setting up his own company at nineteen; from Amstrad's groundbreaking ventures in hi-fi and computers, which made him the darling of the stock exchange, to the dark days when he nearly lost it all; from his pioneering deal with Rupert Murdoch to his boardroom battles at Tottenham Hotspur FC. In this compelling autobiography, he takes us into the world of The Apprentice, and describes his appointment as advisor to the government and elevation to the peerage. Like the man himself, What You See Is What You Get is forthright, funny and sometimes controversial. 'I'm addicted to autobiographies and What You See Is What You Get is one of the best I've read. Love him or loathe him, Baron Sugar of Clapton is the walking, snarling embodiment of all the values he espouses on The Apprentice' Piers Morgan

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Pan Macmillan

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0230754732

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9780230754737

The Obama Revolution

By: Alan Kennedy-Shaffer

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The Obama Revolution

By: Alan Kennedy-Shaffer

The Obama Revolution is an in-the-trenches look at how President Barack Obama mobilized a generation to reclaim America. In this timely book, author Alan Kennedy-Shaffer draws a vivid picture of grassroots organizing, from the grueling all-nighters to the endless canvassing. His rhetorical analysis also explores what exactly Obama did to clinch the Democratic nomination, how he won the election and what he plans to do as President.

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Phoenix Books, Inc.

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1597776386

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General Defences in Criminal Law

Domestic and Comparative Perspectives

By: Alan Reed,Michael Bohlander

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General Defences in Criminal Law

Domestic and Comparative Perspectives

By: Alan Reed,Michael Bohlander

The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law. A coherent and joined-up approach is still missing. This volume provides an analysis of the main contentious areas in British law, and proposes ways forward for reform. The collection includes contributions from leading experts across various jurisdictions. Part I examines the law in the United Kingdom, with specialist contributions on Irish and Scottish law. Part II consists of contributions by authors from a number of foreign jurisdictions, all written to a common research grid for maximum comparability, which provide a wider background of how other legal systems treat problems relating to general defences in the context of the criminal law, and which may serve as points of reference for domestic law reform.

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Routledge

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1317129547

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The CX Trinity

Customers, Content, and Context: Musings and Observations on the Evolving Customer Experience

By: Alan J. Porter

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The CX Trinity

Customers, Content, and Context: Musings and Observations on the Evolving Customer Experience

By: Alan J. Porter

Welcome to the CX Trinity, a look at how we talk to customers, the content we provide to them, and the contexts in which they consume it. CX is an abbreviation for customer experience and is often used as a hashtag in social media. Trinity comes from the belief that any good customer experience is driven by a combination of three critical elements: Meeting the customer’s needs Delivering the right content to help the customer Understanding the context of where, when, and how the customer interacts with you These observations are pulled together from 52 essays that originally appeared as blog posts on Alan’s Content Pool blog, LinkedIn, and the CMS Wire website. They reflect Alan’s years of experience writing, designing, and managing content for both large and small organizations. These essays have been collected, updated, and edited for this volume.

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XML Press

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1937434753

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A Savage Empire

Trappers, Traders, Tribes, and the Wars That Made America

By: Alan Axelrod

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A Savage Empire

Trappers, Traders, Tribes, and the Wars That Made America

By: Alan Axelrod

... Reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal-the beaver-played in the creation of our nation"--From publisher description.

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Macmillan

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0312576560

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New Baltimore

By: Richard Gonyeau,Bob Mack,Alan Naldrett

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New Baltimore

By: Richard Gonyeau,Bob Mack,Alan Naldrett

The city of New Baltimore is a waterfront community that has evolved from an early manufacturing and shipping community to one with resort ships bringing tourists to visit world-class hotels, as well as being the epicenter of an interurban railroad system between Port Huron and Detroit and, in modern times, a friendly waterfront community. The area post office was established in 1851 and called Ashleyville for founder Alfred Ashley. In 1867, New Baltimore officially became a village, and it soon prospered and grew. The village became a city in 1931 and annexed land from St. Clair County, which meant leaving the governing authority of Chesterfield Township.

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0738599840

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Chesterfield Township

By: Alan Naldrett

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Chesterfield Township

By: Alan Naldrett

The first French explorers and missionaries came to the area that would later be known as Chsterfield Township around 1611, naming the dominant waterway Luc Sainte Claire. The first purchase of government land was made by Fabian Robertjean on August 20, 1820, in Section 11, near New Baltimore's Washington Street. In 1842, via Public Act 57, the Michigan State Legislature officially created the charter township of Chesterfield. Chesterfield is nestled between two old Michigan cities, New Baltimore and Mt. Clemens. The history of the township is closely aligned with these two cities, especially New Baltimore, with whom it has shared a post office from the time the New Baltimore Post Office was established in 1851 as Ashleyville (named for founder Alfred Ashley) and given its current name in 1855. New Baltimore was a part of Chesterfield until 1931, when it "seceded" from the township.

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0738578037

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The Boy who Woke

By: Jimi Alan

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The Boy who Woke

By: Jimi Alan

A disastrous event shook the city. Leaving Alec Ericson's in a coma. Months have gone by, Alec wakes up from his coma. He finds himself living with his relatives outside the city. He deals with the loss of his parents, before making the decision to return to the city. Alec returns to the city, to his life. But the life he's expecting may no longer be possible.

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1365744507

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CrickiLeaks

The Secret Ashes Diaries

By: Alan Tyers,Beach,

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The Secret Ashes Diaries

By: Alan Tyers,Beach,

Cricket's greatest legends. Sport's fiercest rivalry. Wisden's fakest diaries. CrickiLeaks charges headlong onto the players' balcony and imagines 40 cricketing diaries of rare wit and invention, along with the illustrated book covers they might have inspired. Featuring spoof journal entries drawn from throughout Ashes history, CrickiLeaks reveals for the first time the innermost thoughts of the greatest cricketers of the last 129 years. And Mitchell Johnson. CrickiLeaks includes imagined diaries from players on the most recent tour (Andrew Strauss, Ricky Ponting), diaries from the all-time greats (Shane Warne, Freddie Flintoff, Sir Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Donald Bradman, W.G. Grace), as well as contributions from less obvious personalities. An irreverent and entertaining collection of Ashes diaries, CrickiLeaks finally lays to rest some of cricket's greatest mysteries: - What exactly was going through Gatting's mind as he faced the ball of the century? - Why did Ricky Ponting lose his rag with Ronald McDonald? - What really went on between Douglas Jardine and Daphne the Koala in Adelaide Zoo? A riotous and uniquely scurrilous addition to any cricket-lover's library.

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A&C Black

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140815675X

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The Blood Libel Legend

A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore

By: Alan Dundes

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The Blood Libel Legend

A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore

By: Alan Dundes

Alan Dundes, in this casebook of an anti-Semitic legend, demonstrates the power of folklore to influence thought and history. According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian infants to obtain blood to make matzah. Dundes has gathered here the work of leading scholars who examine the varied sources and elaborations of the legend. Collectively, their essays constitute a forceful statement against this false accusation. The legend is traced from the murder of William of Norwich in 1144, one of the first reported cases of ritualized murder attributed to Jews, through nineteenth-century Egyptian reports, Spanish examples, Catholic periodicals, modern English instances, and twentieth-century American cases. The essays deal not only with historical cases and surveys of blood libel in different locales, but also with literary renditions of the legend, including the ballad “Sir Hugh, or, the Jew’s Daughter” and Chaucer’s “The Prioress’s Tale.” These case studies provide a comprehensive view of the complex nature of the blood libel legend. The concluding section of the volume includes an analysis of the legend that focuses on Christian misunderstanding of the Jewish feast of Purim and the child abuse component of the legend and that attempts to bring psychoanalytic theory to bear on the content of the blood libel legend. The final essay by Alan Dundes takes a distinctly folkloristic approach, examining the legend as part of the belief system that Christians developed about Jews. This study of the blood libel legend will interest folklorists, scholars of Catholicism and Judaism, and many general readers, for it is both the literature and the history of anti-Semitism.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299131130

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9780299131135

Happily Even After

By: Alan Cohen

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Happily Even After

By: Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen shows us how to approach relationship parting in a way that bestows us with strength and empowerment, rather than pain and sadness. Alan tells us that we should define the success of a relationship by the quality of aliveness we experienced while the relationship thrived, and that although you may no longer have romantic love for each other, you can have a spiritual love that can endure forever. He calls this kind of love "Big Love." "Big Lovers recognize that the key to enjoying a better relationship with your next partner is to appreciate the last one—for both the joys you shared and what you learned through the challenges." If you are ready to move from fear and separateness to mutual empowerment,— if you are ready to grow beyond strife, —this book offers you a new vision and many tools to live by.

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Hay House, Inc

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1401929923

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9781401929923

The Utah Guide, 3rd Ed

By: Alan Kent Powell

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The Utah Guide, 3rd Ed

By: Alan Kent Powell

This is the most comprehensive guidebook to the state of Utah, with information on historic attractions, festivals, cultural events, outdoor activities, accommodations, and restaurants. 139 photos. 9 maps.

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Fulcrum Publishing

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1555911145

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9781555911140

McSa Managing a Windows 2000 Network Environment

Exam 70-218

By: Rory McCaw,Alan Simpson

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McSa Managing a Windows 2000 Network Environment

Exam 70-218

By: Rory McCaw,Alan Simpson

Award-winning author Alan Simpson brings his renowned writing style--an engaging, clear, and straightforward approach to technical subjects--to create the best MCSA book on the market.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0072224339

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9780072224337

Birds of a Feather

By: Alan Balter

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Birds of a Feather

By: Alan Balter

Richard is our son. He is mentally retarded. On the first day of his life, his mother and I were told he was a mongoloid." So begins Birds of a Feather, Alan Balter's strong and sensitive story of a young man with Down syndrome. As his 20th birthday nears, Richard remains illiterate, unemployed, and dependent upon his parents. We meet two people who are influential in Richard's life: Penny, his beautiful and autistic classmate, and Max Eberhart, a morbidly obese and brilliant public accountant. This improbable trio -- one with excessive chromosomes, one with excessive beauty, and one with excessive appetites -- dip into each other's lives and form a unique and powerful bond. The results are memorable, a realistic yet hopeful portrayal of people with disabilities and their friendships.

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Publish America

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1591298822

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9781591298823

Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment

By: Dawn P. Flanagan,Alan S. Kaufman

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Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment

By: Dawn P. Flanagan,Alan S. Kaufman

The WISC-IV is the top intelligence assessment instrument for children in the US, providing essential information into a child s cognitive functioning. Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment with CD-ROM, Second Edition presents professionals with step-by-step instruction on scoring and interpreting this test. Thoroughly updated, the new edition is now packaged with a CD-ROM for interpreting and scoring the WISC-IV. In addition, each chapter has been fully revised. Anyone involved in the psychological testing of children, specifically school psychologists and clinical psychologists, will benefit from this popular measure of intelligence. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470451750

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9780470451755

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