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Graveyard of the Atlantic

By: Alyson Hagy

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“Hagy’s writing and characters are worth getting to know.”—The New York Times Book Review Life on the Outer Banks of North Carolina is filled with contradictions: a wildness of spirit alongside astonishing beauty, while the encroaching sea continues to take its toll. In Graveyard of the Atlantic, first published in 2000, Alyson Hagy explores the lives of those who persist at the eroding edge of a landscape that is as harsh and glorious as any human heart. “Alyson Hagy’s stories have grit and the tang of seawater—and they sound like no one else’s. They are about men and women who live alongside great bodies of water and who are in the grip of great forces of nature, transfixed by them. These stories pulse and burn, like a rope traveling rapidly through your hands.”—Charles Baxter “You can hear the surf and smell the cut bait. And you can enter the lives of a host of colorful characters, each expressing his or her own kind of longing as well as a connection to this lush place. . . . This collection is a prize.”—Jill McCorkle “Strong, polished stories. . . . Hagy’s spare prose and flinty dialogue vividly conjures the ocean-sprayed atmosphere of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. . . . Honest work from a thoughtful craftswoman.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Graywolf Press

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1555978940

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Patients and Agents

Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh

By: Alyson Callan

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Patients and Agents

Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh

By: Alyson Callan

Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health and on local, traditional healing as the new inequalities have exacerbated existing social tensions and led to increased vulnerability to mental illness. It is the young women of Sylhet who are most affected. The global economy has increased competition for resources and led to marriage being seen as a route to economic advancement. Parents prefer to give their daughters in marriage to families that will widen their social contacts and enhance their economic and social standing. Accordingly, the young wife's outsider status (and hence vulnerability to mental illness) has increased as it is no longer customary to give daughters in marriage to local kin. Yet, patients and their families do not work out tensions passively. They are active agents in the construction of their own diagnosis. The extent to which patients act or are acted upon is an investigation that runs throughout the book. Alyson Callan is a psychiatrist and anthropologist. She currently works as a consultant psychiatrist in Brent for the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

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Berghahn Books

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0857454889

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9780857454881

Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation

Lessons Learned from Educational Reform

By: Alyson Lavigne,Thomas Good

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Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation

Lessons Learned from Educational Reform

By: Alyson Lavigne,Thomas Good

Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation examines the complex role that recent educational reforms have played in the teaching profession. The failure of programs like Race to the Top to benefit teaching and learning outcomes has yielded many questions about what went wrong and how a research-based plan for true systemic progress could actually work. Covering inaccurate narratives about schools and student achievement, evidence for teacher effectiveness, and the history and repercussions of Race to the Top, this book culminates with a proposal for future research and policy initiatives that more accurately and more equitably prioritize the measurement and improvement of teaching and learning. Five concise yet comprehensive chapters invite teacher and principal educators, teachers and school leaders in training, district administrators, policymakers, and other stakeholders to better understand the implications of and possible paths beyond misguided reform efforts. An overview of the recent past and an inspiration for the immediate future, this definitive analysis offers insights into how more reasonable, empirically derived strategies will ultimately foster more successful schools.

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Routledge

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1317248406

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Van Gogh’s Cypresses

By: Susan Alyson Stein

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Van Gogh’s Cypresses

By: Susan Alyson Stein

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) immortalized the cypress tree in signature images that have become synonymous with his fiercely original power of expression. This richly illustrated publication illuminates the backstory of his invention for the first time, from his initial investigations of the motif in benchmark drawings from Arles to his realization of their full evocative potential in such iconic canvases as The Starry Night and Wheat Field with Cypresses, painted at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. Susan Alyson Stein retraces the Dutch artist’s inspired response to the flamelike evergreens as they gained ground in his works and artistic thinking over the course of his sojourn in the South of France. The volume provides further insight into Van Gogh’s creative process through a technical study focused on two celebrated works from the artist’s epic painting campaign of June 1889. The visual and literary heritage of the cypresses is featured in a compilation of images and excerpts from nineteenth-century poetry, novels, and travel writing — many translated into English for the first time.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397599

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Bayesian Reliability

By: Michael S. Hamada,Alyson Wilson,C. Shane Reese,Harry Martz

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Bayesian Reliability

By: Michael S. Hamada,Alyson Wilson,C. Shane Reese,Harry Martz

Bayesian Reliability presents modern methods and techniques for analyzing reliability data from a Bayesian perspective. The adoption and application of Bayesian methods in virtually all branches of science and engineering have significantly increased over the past few decades. This increase is largely due to advances in simulation-based computational tools for implementing Bayesian methods. The authors extensively use such tools throughout this book, focusing on assessing the reliability of components and systems with particular attention to hierarchical models and models incorporating explanatory variables. Such models include failure time regression models, accelerated testing models, and degradation models. The authors pay special attention to Bayesian goodness-of-fit testing, model validation, reliability test design, and assurance test planning. Throughout the book, the authors use Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for implementing Bayesian analyses -- algorithms that make the Bayesian approach to reliability computationally feasible and conceptually straightforward. This book is primarily a reference collection of modern Bayesian methods in reliability for use by reliability practitioners. There are more than 70 illustrative examples, most of which utilize real-world data. This book can also be used as a textbook for a course in reliability and contains more than 160 exercises. Noteworthy highlights of the book include Bayesian approaches for the following: Goodness-of-fit and model selection methods Hierarchical models for reliability estimation Fault tree analysis methodology that supports data acquisition at all levels in the tree Bayesian networks in reliability analysis Analysis of failure count and failure time data collected from repairable systems, and the assessment of various related performance criteria Analysis of nondestructive and destructive degradation data Optimal design of reliability experiments Hierarchical reliability assurance testing

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387779507

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9780387779508

Child Agency and Voice in Therapy

New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies

By: Phil Jones,Lynn Cedar,Alyson Coleman,Deborah Haythorne,Daniel Mercieca,Emma Ramsden

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Child Agency and Voice in Therapy

New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies

By: Phil Jones,Lynn Cedar,Alyson Coleman,Deborah Haythorne,Daniel Mercieca,Emma Ramsden

Child Agency and Voice in Therapy offers innovatory ways of thinking about, and working with, children in therapy. The book: considers different practices such as respecting the rights of the child in therapy and recognising and listening to children as ‘active agents’ and ‘experts’; features approaches that: access children’s views of their therapy; engage with them as researchers or co-researchers; and that use play and arts-based methods; draws on arts therapies research in ways that enable insight and learning for all those engaged with children’s therapy and wellbeing; considers how the contexts of the therapy, such as a school or counselling centre, relate to the ways children experience themselves and their therapy in relation to rights, agency and voice. Child Agency and Voice in Therapy will be beneficial for all child therapists and is a good resource for courses concerning childhood welfare, therapy, education, wellbeing and mental health.

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1000224104

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9781000224108

Nonprofit Management All-in-One For Dummies

By: Beverly A. Browning,Sharon Farris,Maire Loughran,Alyson Connolly,Shiv Singh,Stephanie Diamond

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Nonprofit Management All-in-One For Dummies

By: Beverly A. Browning,Sharon Farris,Maire Loughran,Alyson Connolly,Shiv Singh,Stephanie Diamond

Learn the ins-and-outs of managing, funding, and handling the accounting for a nonprofit Nonprofits are not like other businesses. They’re special. It doesn’t matter if you’re launching a career as part of a multi-million dollar organization or a volunteer running your local little league, you’ll need special know-how to navigate the accounting practices and funding needs of a not-for-profit. Nonprofit Management All-in-One For Dummies is your guide for know-how on making a nonprofit organization operate properly. This beginner-friendly reference helps replace your shelf of nonprofit how-to books with a single reference to answer your questions on how to manage a mission-focused organization, build budgets, and raise funds while staying within the confines of the laws governing nonprofits. You'll also find advice on valuable skills like marketing that benefit your organization. Learn how to run a nonprofit organization Find funding for your organization and stay tax compliant Get a grasp on nonprofit accounting principles Market your organization and fulfill your mission This 5-books-in-1 Dummies guide is excellent for volunteers who step up to run a nonprofit that’s near and dear to their hearts or would-be professional non-profit managers who need advice on how to manage and grow an organization.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394172435

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Peter's Plight and Time Will Tell

By: Alyson Shaw

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Peter's Plight and Time Will Tell

By: Alyson Shaw

PETER'S PLIGHT At the end of the day on Monday of the second week, Glenn asked Jenny to work later. It was an excuse to ask her out for dinner. As they were locking up the building they discovered a small boy hiding behind a sofa in the reception room. He was dirty and hungry and they discovered he was unable to speak. He was about five years old and looked to be of hispanic background. Glenn called on his friend detetive Ed Dunbar to try to locate the childs parents. But, no one had reported a missing child. TIME WILL TELL Ed was devastated when he learned of Pams disappearance. Even after using his investigative skills he could find no trace of her. Any clues left at the site of her abandoned car where she had been snatched, were washed away by the heavy rainfall. The citizens of Bridgton turned out in full force to scour the hills for the sheriffs wife along with his deputies, Morganfields Police Force and the FBI. But they had no clues to where she had been taken. His guts told him she was somewhere in this dense forest. He was shaken, couldnt sleep, couldnt eat, prowling night and day, following every lead but to no avail. With his brother by his side he wouldnt give up. He knew instinctively that Rufus Tanner was hehind it. It as was as though Pam had vanished off the face of the earth!

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1467870420

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Children and Young People's Nursing

Principles for Practice

By: Ruth Davies,Alyson Davies

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Children and Young People's Nursing

Principles for Practice

By: Ruth Davies,Alyson Davies

Children and Young People's Nursing provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing children's nurses today. It focuses on developing best practice and implementing high quality care. This book covers the wide range of general and specialist care settings in which children and young people's nurses work, including schools, the community

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CRC Press

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1444149644

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The Lost Wife

By: Alyson Richman

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The Lost Wife

By: Alyson Richman

A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds. During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. Now a successful obstetrician in America, Josef has never forgotten the wife he believes died in the war. But in the Nazi ghetto of Terezín, Lenka survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she would never see again. Then, decades later and thousands of miles away, an unexpected encounter in New York leads to an inescapable glance of recognition, and the realization that providence has given Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and our capacity to remember.

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Penguin

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1101552549

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9781101552544

The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople

The Balyan Family and the History of Ottoman Architecture

By: Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan

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The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople

The Balyan Family and the History of Ottoman Architecture

By: Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan

The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for some of the most famous Ottoman buildings in existence, many of which are regarded as masterpieces of their period – including the Dolmabahçe Palace (built between 1843 and 1856), parts of the Topkap? Palace, the Ç?ra?an Palace and the Ortaköy Mosque. Forging a unique style based around European contemporary architecture but with distinctive Ottoman flourishes, the family is an integral part of Ottoman history. As Alyson Wharton's beautifully illustrated book reveals, the Balyan's own history, of falling in and out of favour with increasingly autocratic Sultans, serves as a record of courtly power in the Ottoman era and is uniquely intertwined with the history of Istanbul itself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857738135

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9780857738134

Intersectional Humanism and Star Trek: Discovery

Warping into a Connected Future

By: Alyson R. Buckman

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Intersectional Humanism and Star Trek: Discovery

Warping into a Connected Future

By: Alyson R. Buckman

Intersectional Humanism and Star Trek: Discovery focuses on the shift from the liberal humanism of the Star Trek franchise to the intersectional humanism of Star Trek: Discovery. Featuring a great deal of diversity both in front of and behind the camera, Discovery affirms the guiding principle of the franchise: infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Arguing that the focus of Discovery is a connection between a variety of beings and ways of being in the world, the author analyzes the relationships among humanoids and machines, animals, and between each other as well as the representation of trauma in the series. The author finds that, while there are reversions to some of the more problematic elements of liberal humanism over the course of the series, ultimately it forms connections that will progress humanity and deepen our relationship to each other and the world around us.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666905305

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9781666905304

Musical Theater

An Appreciation

By: Alyson McLamore

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Musical Theater

An Appreciation

By: Alyson McLamore

For Surveys of Musical Theater, Music Appreciation courses and Popular Culture Surveys. This unique historical survey illustrates the interaction of multiple artistic and dramatic considerations with an overview of the development of numerous popular musical theater genres. This introduction provides more than a history of musical theater, it studies the music within the shows to provide an understanding of the contributions of musical theater composers as clearly as the artistry of musical theater lyricists and librettists. The familiarity of the musical helps students understand how music functions in a song and a show, while giving them the vocabulary to discuss their perceptions.

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Routledge

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1317346335

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9781317346333

Holding On

African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS

By: Alyson O'Daniel

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Holding On

African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS

By: Alyson O'Daniel

In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the 2006 Treatment Modernization Act. At a time when social support resources were in decline and publicly funded HIV/AIDS care programs were being re-prioritized, women’s daily struggles with chronic poverty, drug addiction, mental health, and neighborhood violence influenced women’s lives in sometimes unexpected ways. An ethnographic portrait of HIV-positive black women and their interaction with the U.S. healthcare system, Holding On reveals how gradients of poverty and social difference shape women’s health care outcomes and, by extension, women’s experience of health policy reform. Set among the realities of poverty, addiction, incarceration, and mental illness, the case studies in Holding On illustrate how subtle details of daily life affect health and how overlooking them when formulating public health policy has fostered social inequality anew and undermined health in a variety of ways.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803269617

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9780803269613

Forensic Nursing and Multidisciplinary Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender

By: David K. Robinson,Alyson Kettles

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Forensic Nursing and Multidisciplinary Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender

By: David K. Robinson,Alyson Kettles

The first comprehensive account of forensic nursing and its role within the wider professional team, the aim of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the training needed to work with mentally disordered patients, as well as to examine the key characteristics of the forensic nursing role. An international group of contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, provides a well-rounded, comparative view of the forensic nursing profession. The chapters are a rich contribution of cross-cultural thinking on the many dilemmas and challenges facing nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and other health care practitioners, working with specific client groups. Each contributor has utilised empirical data to analyse relevant issues, such as: professional standards; effectiveness of preparation for nurses working within secure environments; day to day and long term challenges facing nurses; clinical effectiveness; the dilemma of security versus practice; how forensic nursing differs from other kinds of nursing; and what forensic nurses can contribute to other mental health care disciplines. Examples of how research findings may be integrated into practice, will be of interest not only to forensic nurses, but also to significant sectors of the mental health care field.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853027537

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9781853027536

Breaking the Good Mom Myth

Every Mom's Modern Guide to Getting Past Perfection, Regaining Sanity, and Raising Great Kids

By: Alyson Schafer

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Breaking the Good Mom Myth

Every Mom's Modern Guide to Getting Past Perfection, Regaining Sanity, and Raising Great Kids

By: Alyson Schafer

As a psychotherapist, parent educator and parent coach, Alyson Schäfer has worked with a great many mothers who, in the quest to be a "good mother" have ended up on the door step of despair. Alyson is a forty-something, suburbanite, working-mother of two and can speak to these issues both personally and professionally. This book explains the psycho-social phenomena of how each person creates their own unique "good mother myth" and then examines why these myths are not only faulty, but could in fact lead to poor parenting, marital disaster and individual crisis. Her years of educating parents around these concepts afford Alyson the skill to take complex ideas and explain them to a lay audience in a compelling and easy to understand way. Capitalizing on the need to present parents with information in an easy to digest format, the book is presented as a series of personal stories, each highlighting a common parenting myth. This format will appeal to tired parents who have little time and energy for "academia". Instead, readers learn by taking a voyeuristic peek into the private family lives of the book's characters. Readers can identify with the fictitious parents and coaching clients in the stories and see first hand how the characters ’ life experiences shaped their unique "good mother myths" and how these myths create conflict in their lives. The author offers up ideas for how the character can reject her current thinking and adopt a more useful outlook to improve her situation. The story arc allows readers to identify and then project how their parenting may be unknowingly going off the rails. The goal of this book is to provide parents with some basic education and a means of self-discovery. Readers uncover their own good mother myths and are given an eye-opening glimpse into potential issues to challenge their thinking. A great sense of empowerment is restored as mothers become better able to resist the pulls of their personal and cultural myths, and instead begin parenting with greater intention and in ways that are more suitable to proper child guidance.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470158425

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9780470158425

Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses

By: Alyson Kettles,Phil Woods,Mick Collins

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Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses

By: Alyson Kettles,Phil Woods,Mick Collins

This book explores current and emerging interventions in forensic nursing and the care of the mentally disordered offender, with an emphasis on clinical practice and clinical competence. It explores the practical issues facing forensic nurses, such as environment and safety issues, as well as the possible emotional trauma of such a role.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853029491

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9781853029493

Grand Central

Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion

By: Karen White,Pam Jenoff,Alyson Richman,Melanie Benjamin,Kristina McMorris

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Grand Central

Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion

By: Karen White,Pam Jenoff,Alyson Richman,Melanie Benjamin,Kristina McMorris

Ten bestselling authors inspired by New York City's iconic Grand Central Terminal have created their own stories, set on the same day, just after the end of World War II, in a time of hope, uncertainty, change, and renewal…. A war bride awaits the arrival of her GI husband at the platform…A Holocaust survivor works at the Oyster Bar, where a customer reminds him of his late mother…A Hollywood hopeful anticipates her first screen test and a chance at stardom in the Kissing Room… On any particular day, thousands upon thousands of people pass through Grand Central, through the whispering gallery, beneath the ceiling of stars, and past the information booth and its beckoning four-faced clock, to whatever destination is calling them. It is a place where people come to say hello and good-bye. And each person has a story to tell. Featuring stories from Melanie Benjamin, Jenna Blum, Amanda Hodgkinson, Pam Jenoff, Sarah Jio, Sarah McCoy, Kristina McMorris, Alyson Richman, Erika Robuck, and Karen White With an Introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah

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0425272028

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9780425272022

Child Development From Birth to 8 Years

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: Amanda Thomas,Alyson Lewis

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Child Development From Birth to 8 Years

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: Amanda Thomas,Alyson Lewis

An understanding of Child Development is necessary for early childhood students as it underpins all early year’s practice and curricula. This book provides students with an in-depth understanding of the research, theory and current practice, supporting them through a complex area. Offering a fresh take, this book examines child development through a range of disciplines including psychology, education, sociology, anthropology and philosophy. Chapters are structured to support readers in understanding complex theory, with key features such as case studies which put theory into practice, reflective questions to encourage critical thinking, chapter summaries, further reading, and more. Amanda Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Education at University of South Wales. Alyson Lewis is Lecturer in Education Development at Cardiff University.

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SAGE

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1529608791

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9781529608793

Promoting Public Mental Health and Well-being

Principles into Practice

By: Catherine J. Mackereth,Jean S. Brown,Alyson M. Learmonth

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Promoting Public Mental Health and Well-being

Principles into Practice

By: Catherine J. Mackereth,Jean S. Brown,Alyson M. Learmonth

What causes a person to flourish or languish? Or to be well or ill? How can the mental health and well-being of society as a whole, and individuals, be promoted and enhanced? This book explores the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental factors that affect mental health and well-being on a societal and individual level, and how prevention and intervention can enhance mental health. Taking a holistic approach to mental health, the book sets out effective strategies, from creating a supportive environment to building personal skills. Three extended case studies demonstrate how principles can be applied in practice in different situations: a specific social problem (suicide); a population group (young Black and minority ethnic groups); and a medically defined problem (people with long term conditions). The book is a vital resource for strategic planners (including commissioners) working to promote mental health and wellbeing at a population level, as well as operational services delivering to specific individuals and groups. It addresses the role of generic service providers as well as being essential reading for mental health and public health students.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1784500046

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9781784500047

Stamp of Approval

By: Alyson Shaw

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Stamp of Approval

By: Alyson Shaw

STAMP OF APPROVAL When Paul returned her to her home later that evening they discovered the house had been broken into. The place had been ransacked, everything was in a shambles. Then to make matters worse Terri discovered the note on the kitchen table. The letters pasted on the scrap of paper had been cut from newspapers and magazines. It read: YOU HAVE SOMETHING I WANT AND I MEAN TO HAVE IT! ILL BE BACK. COUNT ON IT!

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