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Being Me with OCD

How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life

By: Alison Dotson

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Being Me with OCD

How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life

By: Alison Dotson

Part memoir, part self-help for teens, Being Me with OCD tells the story of how obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) dragged the author to rock bottom—and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life. Using anecdotes, self-reflection, guest essays, and thorough research, Dotson explains what OCD is and how readers with OCD can begin to get better. With humor, specific advice, and an inspiring, been-there-beat-that attitude, readers will find the book simultaneously touching and practical.

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Free Spirit Publishing

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ISBN 10

1575425718

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9781575425719

The Weight of Whiteness

A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

By: Alison Bailey

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The Weight of Whiteness

A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

By: Alison Bailey

“Check your privilege” is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. People of color feel the weight of whiteness daily. The resistant habits of whiteness and its attendant privileges, however, make it difficult for white people to feel the damage. White people are more comfortable thinking about white supremacy in terms of what privilege does for them, rather than feeling what it does to them. The first half of the book focuses on the overexposed side of white privilege, the side that works to make the invisible and intangible structures of power more visible and tangible. Bailey discusses the importance of understanding privileges intersectionally, the ignorance-preserving habits of “white talk,” and how privilege and ignorance circulate in educational settings. The second part invites white readers to explore the underexposed side of white dominance, the weightless side that they would rather not feel. The final chapters are powerfully autobiographical. Bailey engages readers with a deeply personal account of what it means to hold space with the painful weight of whiteness in her own life. She also offers a moving account of medicinal genealogies, which helps to engage the weight she inherits from her settler colonial ancestors. The book illustrates how the gravitational pull of white ignorance and comfort are stronger than the clean pain required for collective liberation. The stakes are high: Failure to hold the weight of whiteness ensures that white people will continue to blow the weight of historical trauma through communities of color.

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203

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1793604509

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9781793604507

Lesbian Film Guide

By: Alison Darren

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Lesbian Film Guide

By: Alison Darren

This A-Z guide to lesbians and lesbianism in the movies contains reviews, gossip, facts and commentary on over 200 films, including specifically lesbian films such as "Go Fish" and "Desert Hearts" as well as films with a lesbian character or theme, like "The Children's Hour" and "The Hunger".

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258

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441183647

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9781441183644

Radically Inclusive Teaching With Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students

Braving Up

By: Alison G. Dover,Fernando (Ferran) Rodríguez-Valls

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Radically Inclusive Teaching With Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students

Braving Up

By: Alison G. Dover,Fernando (Ferran) Rodríguez-Valls

Learn how to enact curricular, pedagogical, and policy shifts that nourish students’ linguistic repertoires, redefine teaching and learning as reciprocal endeavors, promote student-to-student interactions that help newcomers feel less isolated, and create opportunities for students to experiment with language in both academic and informal settings. Drawing on their experience working with hundreds of educators and thousands of students in linguistically diverse school settings (grades 7–12), the authors challenge readers to engage in critical, collective action as they transform their approach to languaging, agency, and authority in the classroom. Ideas and strategies come alive through classroom vignettes, student stories, and samples of student poetry, prose, and art—as well as examples of linguistically affirming approaches to online teaching. The book is an enlightening professional conversation that represents the importance and impact of multicultural and culturally responsive education that ultimately leads to linguistically inclusive education for newcomers and other language learners. Book Features: Draws from classroom-based research in linguistically diverse school districts in Southern California that use an arts-based, multiliteracy enrichment program designed for newcomer and emergent bilingual students.Examines the ideological, curricular, pedagogical, and political factors that shape the daily experiences of students who are new to the United States and in the process of incorporating English into their linguistic repertoires. Shows examples of how educators create classrooms where newcomer and emergent bilingual students’ identities, languaging, and humanity are invited, affirmed, and amplified. Features the voices of students who courageously explore their identities, experiment with their voices, and share their vision of what a radically inclusive community can be.

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177

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Teachers College Press

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0807780758

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9780807780756

Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television

The Persephone Complex

By: Alison Horbury

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The Persephone Complex

By: Alison Horbury

Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.

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368

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Springer

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1137511370

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9781137511379

Harnessing Professional Development for Educators: A Global Toolkit

By: Alison Fox,Helen Hendry,Deborah Cooper

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Harnessing Professional Development for Educators: A Global Toolkit

By: Alison Fox,Helen Hendry,Deborah Cooper

This book celebrates the benefits of continuing professional development (CPD) for your growth as an educator. The authors weave together an international selection of case studies to offer CPD which transcends educational trends. Thematic chapters put your professional identity at the heart of the book and encourage you to take control of your career development, allowing you to show leadership whatever your role. This book: •Challenges you to reflect on and evaluate your experiences of professional development •Includes reflection points and personal development planning to support your reading •Places equity and social justice at the heart of effective personal development •Encompasses the challenges and opportunities of embracing digital technologies •Illustrates professional development for leaders and educators in a range of cultures and contexts Drawing on multiple global perspectives of professional development in education and training from early childhood to higher education settings, this book offers strategies for all career stages: from the student educator to the experienced senior leader and is the perfect fuel for career development. “As well as being a valuable contribution to professional knowledge in this field, this resource can be thoroughly recommended to educational professionals as a guide to practice.” Professor David Egan, Emeritus Professor of Education, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK “This book is well written and is crucial for any educator at any stage of the education landscape.” Paul Miller, PhD, Professor of Educational Leadership & Social Justice Alison Fox, Helen Hendry and Deborah Cooper are colleagues in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University, UK, and teach on the Masters in Education programme, in particular the Leadership and Management and Learning and Teaching pathways. They engage in international research associated with professional learning.

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196

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335251412

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9780335251414

BROKEN BONES

Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma (2nd Ed.)

By: Vicki L. Wedel,Alison Galloway

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BROKEN BONES

Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma (2nd Ed.)

By: Vicki L. Wedel,Alison Galloway

The editors, along with 15 outstanding contributors, comprehensively explore and provide an overview of the principles behind the interpretation of skeletal blunt force trauma. This expanded second edition provides a discussion on how to train for a career in forensic anthropology and offers guidance on how to complete a thorough trauma analysis. It also provides the labels given to different kinds of fractures and the biomechanical forces required to cause bone to fail and fracture. The text provides a theoretical framework for both evaluating published trauma studies and designing new ones. Experimental trauma research is an area ripe for research, and criteria to consider in choosing which non-human species to use in an actualistic study are offered. Common circumstances in which blunt force trauma is encountered are described. Information is provided on a variety of causes of death due to blunt force trauma. These causes range from accidental deaths to homicides due to blunt force from motor vehicle accidents, falls, strangulation, child and elder abuse, among others. Epidemiological information on whom is most likely affected by these various kinds of blunt force trauma is drawn from both the clinical and forensic literature. The most fundamental elements of the text are offered in four chapters where, bone by bone, fracture by fracture, the authors describe what to call each kind of fracture, what is known about how much force is required to break the bone that way, and fracture specific epidemiological information. This particular section of the text provides an invaluable reference source for forensic anthropologists and other osteologists to consult when looking at and trying to classify a bone fracture. Case studies are included to bring the book full circle back to considering the micro and macro bone changes that are seen when bone fails and fractures. The case studies are illustrative both of the concepts described through the book and of the high quality analyses forensic anthropologists contribute to medicolegal investigations of death every day. The text is further enhanced by 150 illustrations, some in color. This completely updated and expanded new volume is an essential reference for the forensic anthropology professional.

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505

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Charles C Thomas Publisher

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0398087695

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9780398087692

Book's by Alison Dotson

Being Me with OCD

Being Me with OCD

The Weight of Whiteness

The Weight of Whiteness

Lesbian Film Guide

Lesbian Film Guide

Radically Inclusive Teaching With Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students

Radically Inclusive Teaching With Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students

Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television

Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television

Harnessing Professional Development for Educators: A Global Toolkit

Harnessing Professional Development for Educators: A Global Toolkit

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