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Advancing Evidence-Based Practice Through Program Evaluation

A Practical Guide for School-Based Professionals

By: Julie Q. Morrison,Anna L. Harms

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Advancing Evidence-Based Practice Through Program Evaluation

A Practical Guide for School-Based Professionals

By: Julie Q. Morrison,Anna L. Harms

Given the current climate of results-driven accountability, school-based professionals have a significant contribution to make in improving the impact of programs and initiatives through the application of program evaluation methods and tools to inform decision making within a multi-tier system of supports framework. And yet there is currently a dearth of practical resources dedicated to developing school psychologists' competencies in program evaluation. Advancing Evidence-Based Practice through Program Evaluation will meet the needs of school psychologists and other school-based professionals seeking to use program evaluation approaches to enhance data-based decision making and accountability at a program and systems-level. This practical guide provides the most cutting-edge evaluation frameworks, methods, and tools available, with particular emphasis on the rapidly-developing areas of implementation research, evidence-based professional learning, and innovative approaches to communicating evaluation findings. The book will support school professionals in daily practice by enhancing and extending their knowledge and skills in measurement, assessment, consultation for systems change and the use of evidence-based interventions for academic and social/behavioral concerns, with a focus on evaluating the implementation and outcomes of school-based programs. The book will also facilitate the professional development of those currently engaged in graduate preparation programs in education, educational leadership, school counseling, and school social work, as well as the university faculty who guide their professional preparation. Finally, school professionals may also use Advancing Evidence-Based Practice through Program Evaluation to develop their professional competencies in implementing new initiatives funded by grants with clear expectations for program evaluation.

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Oxford University Press

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019067170X

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Food advertising to children

A critical evaluation of public, governmental and corporate responsibilities in Germany

By: Anna Lena Hallmann

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Food advertising to children

A critical evaluation of public, governmental and corporate responsibilities in Germany

By: Anna Lena Hallmann

With increasing levels of child obesity, the food industry and its advertising techniques are ever more in the centre of public and academic discussion. While such discussion is complicated by the subjectivity of ethical understanding, the existing body of research also lacks evidence for the actual effects of child-directed advertising. In order to advance a solution in the persisting conflict, this paper critically examines public, governmental and corporate responsibilities. A reflection of theoretical and empirical research is therefore complemented by the collection of primary data – drawn from qualitative interviews with children and their parents. As means of implications for practice, the author drafts an organisational concept, namely the ‘Initiative for the responsible use and creation of children’s food advertising’.

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Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

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3954897253

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Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Simulating quantum many-body systems

By: Maciej Lewenstein,Anna Sanpera,Verònica Ahufinger

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Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Simulating quantum many-body systems

By: Maciej Lewenstein,Anna Sanpera,Verònica Ahufinger

Quantum computers, though not yet available on the market, will revolutionize the future of information processing. Quantum computers for special purposes like quantum simulators are already within reach. The physics of ultracold atoms, ions and molecules offer unprecedented possibilities of control of quantum many body systems and novel possibilities of applications to quantum information processing and quantum metrology. Particularly fascinating is the possibility of using ultracold atoms in lattices to simulate condensed matter or even high energy physics. This book provides a complete and comprehensive overview of ultracold lattice gases as quantum simulators. It opens up an interdisciplinary field involving atomic, molecular and optical physics, quantum optics, quantum information, condensed matter and high energy physics. The book includes some introductory chapters on basic concepts and methods, and then focuses on the physics of spinor, dipolar, disordered, and frustrated lattice gases. It reviews in detail the physics of artificial lattice gauge fields with ultracold gases. The last part of the book covers simulators of quantum computers. After a brief course in quantum information theory, the implementations of quantum computation with ultracold gases are discussed, as well as our current understanding of condensed matter from a quantum information perspective.

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OUP Oxford

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0191627437

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Ferguson's Gang - The Maidens behind the Masks

By: Anna Hutton-North

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Ferguson's Gang - The Maidens behind the Masks

By: Anna Hutton-North

When a group of friends formed 'Ferguson's Gang' they had no idea of the notoriety their antics would produce. Society was astounded by the daring tricks the Gang used to raise money but these were no common robbers. They presented the booty in the carcass of a goose or wrapped round a cigar; pledging undying support to the National Trust. The Gang passionately fought against the spread of urbanisation and destruction of our English heritage. Their greatest feat was preserving their anonymity; now almost a century later the fascinating story of Ferguson's Gang is finally revealed in this book. It is a world now forgotten; of stately homes with armies of servants. Yet amongst this wealth and splendour lurked a group of rebels. The personal stories of the masked maidens are startling; mixing with Royalty, they belonged to the leading political dynasties and rubbed shoulders with the literary elite. It is no wonder these women kept their identities so heavily concealed.

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Lulu.com

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1291484531

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9781291484533

Health Humanities in Postgraduate Medical Education

By: Allan D. Peterkin,Anna Skorzewska

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Health Humanities in Postgraduate Medical Education

By: Allan D. Peterkin,Anna Skorzewska

Most medical schools in the US, Canada and UK now incorporate some form of arts and humanities-based teaching into their curricula. What happens in residency is another story. Most postgraduate programs do not continue the thread of such teaching although many residents would like to deepen their understanding of the medical humanities before they move into practice. The humanities emphasize "the human side of medicine", and can provide a counterpoint to the reductionism of evidence-based medicine and technological hubris for young doctors as they apply new knowledge and skills in ambiguous, real-life encounters with patients who are living with complicated health problems. Humanities-based education can help both sides of the relationship: programs are shown to reduce burnout and mental health issues in young physicians, and can also help learning practitioners grapple with the most difficult aspects of their craft: how does one persuade patients on a course of treatment, while respecting informed consent? How does one work with families? How does one listen to and treat patients exhibiting self-harm tendencies? Available research may demonstrate the efficacy of such exposures, but provide little practical advice or resources for setting up programs across specialty and sub-specialty disciplines. Health Humanities in Post-Graduate Medical Education will fill this gap in knowledge translation for the thousands of residency programs worldwide, allowing educators, supervisors, and residents themselves to create robust and educationally sound workshops, seminars, study groups, lecture series, research and arts-based projects, publications and events.

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Oxford University Press

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0190849908

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Into the Woods

The Battle for Tasmania's Forests (Large Print 16pt)

By: Anna Krien

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Into the Woods

The Battle for Tasmania's Forests (Large Print 16pt)

By: Anna Krien

For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games are played in the courts and parliaments. In Into the Woods, Anna Krien, armed with a notebook, a sleeping bag and a rusty sedan, ventures behind the battlelines to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause. She speaks to ferals and premiers, sawmillers and whistle-blowers. She investigates personalities and convictions, methods and motives. This is a book about a company that wanted its way and the resistance that eventually forced it to change. Into the Woods is intimate, intrepid reporting by a fearless new voice.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459605756

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English

Meaning and Culture

By: Anna Wierzbicka

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Meaning and Culture

By: Anna Wierzbicka

This book argues that rather than denying the existence and continued relevance of the cultural 'baggage' embedded in English ('Anglo' English), it is important to explore the contents of that baggage - important for practical, as well as intellectual, reasons.

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Oxford University Press

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0195174747

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People, Management and Organizations

By: Anna Sutton

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People, Management and Organizations

By: Anna Sutton

This brand new and innovative core textbook fuses topics from the related fields of organizational behaviour and human resource management to provide new insight into the interconnectedness of these important and complementary areas. The text takes an integrated and dynamic approach to the study of how work and people are organized and puts the human at the centre of human resource management and organizational behaviour. The accessible student-centred focus and wide range of learning features makes the book an ideal course text for students at all levels. Combining a strong applied approach with a concise and jargon-free writing style, this book will help readers to understand underlying principles and apply them to their future careers as managers and HR practitioners. This textbook caters for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students studying modules that synthesise human resource management and organizational behaviour topics. It is also an ideal text for those studying any HRM module that takes an applied approach.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350305111

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9781350305113

Work Psychology in Action

By: Anna Sutton

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Work Psychology in Action

By: Anna Sutton

The new edition of this popular, accessible and skills-oriented textbook introduces key psychological concepts and demonstrates how they come into play in the real world of work, while building strong awareness of how business priorities inform and underpin applied psychology. It combines summaries of important research studies with an exploration of topics from different international perspectives to offer students a deeper appreciation of how psychology develops and is used in the world of business. The book takes a practical, problem-solving approach to understanding the role of psychology in the workplace and focuses on employability skills that will benefit students in their future careers. Written by a highly experienced lecturer, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate business and psychology students taking modules in work psychology. New to this Edition: - Fully updated to include the latest research and theory in the field - Reworked chapter on communication and culture - New material on neuroscience - New features such as 'Psychology and Technology' - Updated 'International Perspectives'feature, including a wider range of countries and perspectives of Indigenous peoples - New examples and case studies from a wider geographical range, including Asia, Australasia and the Middle East

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1352011077

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Cybersecurity for entrepreneurs

By: Gloria D'Anna,Zachary A. Collier

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Cybersecurity for entrepreneurs

By: Gloria D'Anna,Zachary A. Collier

One data breach can close a small business before it even gets going. With all that is involved in starting a new business, cybersecurity can easily be overlooked but no one can afford to put it on the back burner. Cybersecurity for Entrepreneurs is the perfect book for anyone considering a new business venture. Written by cybersecurity experts from industry and academia, this book serves as an all-inclusive reference to build a baseline of cybersecurity knowledge for every small business. Authors Gloria D'Anna and Zachary A. Collier bring a fresh approach to cybersecurity using a conversational tone and a friendly character, Peter the Salesman, who stumbles into all the situations that this book teaches readers to avoid. Cybersecurity for Entrepreneurs includes securing communications, protecting financial transactions, safeguarding IoT devices, understanding cyber laws, managing risks, and assessing how much to invest in cyber security based on specific business needs. (ISBN:9781468605723 ISBN:9781468605730 ISBN:9781468605747 DOI:10.4271/9781468605730)

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1468605739

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Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes

Including 6 Volume History of Women's Suffrage (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent G. Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Catt, Alice Paul)

By: Jane Addams,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Ida Husted Harper,Anna Howard Shaw,Millicent Garrett Fawcett,Emmeline Pankhurst,Alice Stone Blackwell

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Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes

Including 6 Volume History of Women's Suffrage (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent G. Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Catt, Alice Paul)

By: Jane Addams,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Ida Husted Harper,Anna Howard Shaw,Millicent Garrett Fawcett,Emmeline Pankhurst,Alice Stone Blackwell

This meticulously edited collection presents the most prominent figures of the Women's suffrage movement in the United States of America and the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul. This edition includes as well the complete 6 volume history of the movement - from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was a British feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. Jane Addams (1860-1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist, public philosopher, sociologist, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist.

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e-artnow

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8026884787

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9788026884781

This Is Not the Real World

By: Anna Carey

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This Is Not the Real World

By: Anna Carey

Nineties nostalgia takes a dark turn in this thrilling sequel to This Is Not the Jess Show, perfect for readers of We Were Liars and One of Us Is Lying. Months after Jess escaped from the set of Stuck in the ’90s, the nostalgic reality show she believed was her real life, the teen star is getting to know the outside world for the first time. But she can’t outrun her fictional life forever—or the media empire that owns it. After Like-Life Productions tracks her down and forces her boyfriend to return to the show, Jess teams up with an underground network fighting to uncover Like-Life’s schemes. To expose the truth, Jess must go back to the set and take Like-Life down from the inside . . . but getting revenge might just cost her everything.

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Quirk Books

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1683692829

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Travel Medicine

Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Immunisation

By: Anna Helena Elvire Roukens

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Travel Medicine

Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Immunisation

By: Anna Helena Elvire Roukens

Addresses the subject of travel medicine and improving protection, with regard particularly to the areas of epidemiology and prevention, morbidity and mortality, adherence to precautions, immunological responsivity and the availability of preventive measures.

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IOS Press

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1607504839

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Asset Building & Community Development

By: Gary Paul Green,Anna Haines

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Asset Building & Community Development

By: Gary Paul Green,Anna Haines

A comprehensive approach focused on sustainable change Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life. Authors Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines provide an engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive approach to asset building by focusing on the role of different forms of community capital in the development process. Updated throughout, this edition explores how communities are building on their key assets—physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural capital— to generate positive change. With a focus on community outcomes, the authors illustrate how development controlled by community-based organizations provides a better match between assets and the needs of the community.

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SAGE Publications

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1483387011

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9781483387017

Emotions Across Languages and Cultures

Diversity and Universals

By: Anna Wierzbicka

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Emotions Across Languages and Cultures

Diversity and Universals

By: Anna Wierzbicka

This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521599717

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9780521599719

Political Self-Deception

By: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti

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Political Self-Deception

By: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti

Explores self-deception and its consequences for political decision-making.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108423728

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Special Treatment

Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences

By: Anna Ruddock

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Special Treatment

Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences

By: Anna Ruddock

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching hospital rapidly gained fame for the high-quality treatment it offered at a nominal cost; at present, an average of ten thousand patients pass through the outpatient department each day. With its notorious medical program acceptance rate of less than 0.01%, AIIMS also sits at the apex of Indian medical education. To be trained as a doctor here is to be considered the best. In what way does this enduring reputation of excellence shape the institution's ethos? How does elite medical education sustain India's social hierarchies and the health inequalities entrenched within? In the first-ever ethnography of AIIMS, Anna Ruddock considers prestige as a byproduct of norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, and class in modern India, and illustrates how the institution's reputation affects its students' present experiences and future career choices. Ruddock untangles the threads of intellectual exceptionalism, social and power stratification, and health inequality that are woven into the health care taught and provided at AIIMS, asking what is lost when medicine is used not as a social equalizer but as a means to cultivate and maintain prestige.

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Stanford University Press

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1503628264

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9781503628267

Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal

Public Daydreams

By: Anna Siomopoulos

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Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal

Public Daydreams

By: Anna Siomopoulos

While many critics have analyzed the influence of the FDR administration on Hollywood films of the era, most of these studies have focused either on New Deal imagery or on studio interactions with the federal government. Neither type of study explores the relationship between film and the ideological principles underlying the New Deal. This book argues that the most important connections between the New Deal and Hollywood melodrama lie neither in the New Deal iconography of these films, nor in the politics of any one studio executive. Rather, the New Deal figures prominently in Hollywood melodramas of the Depression era because these films engage the political ideas underlying welfare state policies—ideas that extended the reach of government into the private realm. As the author shows, Hollywood melodramas interrogated New Deal principles of liberal empathy—consumer citizenship, the refeudalization of the state, and minimal economic redistribution—only to support welfare-state ideology in the end.

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Routledge

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1136463976

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Children's Multilingual Development and Education

Fostering Linguistic Resources in Home and School Contexts

By: Alison L. Bailey,Anna V. Osipova

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Children's Multilingual Development and Education

Fostering Linguistic Resources in Home and School Contexts

By: Alison L. Bailey,Anna V. Osipova

A study of the beliefs and practices of parents and educators raising future generations of multilingual children.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107042445

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Advanced Therapy in Gastroenterology and Liver Disease

By: Theodore M. Bayless,Anna Diehl

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Advanced Therapy in Gastroenterology and Liver Disease

By: Theodore M. Bayless,Anna Diehl

The main emphasis of this new fifth edition ofAdvanced Therapy of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseaseis on patient management. Chapters are dedicated to general topics in gastroenterology and hepatology practice and the use of diagnostic tests in clinical decision-making. Principles in endoscopy including sedation and infection control are also examined. Each chapter consists of recommendations from an expert in the field concerning a very focused problem. The authors discuss recommendations for instituting, modifying and monitoring therapy, including combinations of drugs and / or therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.

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PMPH-USA

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1550092480

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Pattern Formation and Lattice gas Automata

By: Anna T. Lawniczak

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Pattern Formation and Lattice gas Automata

By: Anna T. Lawniczak

Articles review the diverse recent progress in the theory and development of lattice-gas and lattice Boltzmann methods and their applications. It features up-to-date articles, takes an interdisciplinary approach including mathematics, physical chemistry, and geophysics.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821802585

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Before You Were Born, I Anointed You

Uncovering Scripture’s “Hidden” Female Prophets

By: Anna Beresford

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Before You Were Born, I Anointed You

Uncovering Scripture’s “Hidden” Female Prophets

By: Anna Beresford

Prophetic ministry in the Bible has long been perceived as the exclusive domain of individuals who were powerful, authoritative, argumentative, and, almost always, male. This impression cannot be sustained. In a logical and engaging way, Anna Beresford convincingly shows us that female characters throughout the biblical story are not merely peripheral actors but are often the ones who proclaim God's prophetic word with disturbing clarity. Beginning with the few women acknowledged as prophets in the Hebrew scriptural tradition, Beresford proceeds to uncover a surprising host of "hidden" female prophets. Among this cast we meet the widow whose last penny is consumed by organized religion; the gate crasher who teaches a pious Pharisee stern lessons in hospitality; a woman who has the last word in a theological debate. A woman used to trap Jesus proclaims truth to power, and a feisty foreign lady cleverly proves that God's love is for all of us, regardless of gender or ethnicity. This book is a compelling reminder that God speaks to all people--women and men--and calls on us to share the message "whether it is convenient or not" (2 Tim 4:2 NET).

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666796980

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On Being and Becoming

An Existentialist Approach to Life

By: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

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On Being and Becoming

An Existentialist Approach to Life

By: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

The fact that you have picked up a book like this one and have begun to read it suggests that you strive for a fulfilling life. Presumably you aim, like many people do, to live as well and as meaningfully as possible, well aware that you have only one life, and that it is finite. Each day you press forward with no clear path signposted just for you. Your existence comes with no set of instructions what exactly to do with it. You will be well aware, perhaps with some anxiety, that only you can make some crucial decisions which will shape your existence, determine how your one life will play out. Existential philosophy begins by thinking from the standpoint of an individual concretely existing, wondering how to make sense of this existence. This may be anything but straightforward. In a busy, overcrowded world, there will be distractions everywhere from any goal you might try to keep in mind. At times you may not know which goals to strive for. Difficulties will arise. Some demands upon you will conflict with others, and responsibilities may come to feel relentless. Perhaps they do right now. You may come to wonder what this life is all about, and sometimes even despair at the lack of an answer. A sudden loss or change can render exigent otherwise merely nagging uncertainties. All of these concerns are the stuff of existential philosophy. If philosophy can be applied to spiritual ailments, existentialism is one of the most versatile prescriptions. Most people at some point in their lives will experience moments of suffering that have an existential cast. This is suffering that impacts your sense of self, making you wonder who you really are or ought to be, making you wonder about the purpose of your existence. The works of existentialist philosophers elaborate on such phenomena as despair, anxiety, dread, angst, forlornness, the tragic, the absurd, nothingness, being-towards-death, ennui, oppression, and inauthenticity. While not solving such human difficulties, existentialism recognizes and studies them in philosophical terms. Indeed, when a crisis is diagnosed as 'existential,' it is salvaged from the indignity of mere pain, and recognized as bearing what the Danish philosopher S2ren Kierkegaard called a 'subjective truth.' The remedy of existential thinking comes in the form of relating individual struggles to a human condition understood as universal, and of illuminating the freedom and responsibility, or the creativity, with which they can be tackled

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GUIDES TO THE GOOD LIFE SERIES

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0190913657

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Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations

By: Anna Wierzbicka

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Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations

By: Anna Wierzbicka

Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made up of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings--including the most culture-specific ones--can be described and compared in a precise and illuminating way. Integrating insights from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and cognitive psychology, and written in simple, non-technical language, Semantics, Culture, and Cognition is accessible not only to scholars and students, but also to the general reader interested in semantics and the relationship between language and culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0195360915

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What Christians Believe

The Story of God and People in Minimal English

By: Anna Wierzbicka

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What Christians Believe

The Story of God and People in Minimal English

By: Anna Wierzbicka

Many people today, both Christians and non-Christians, are confused about or unaware of the essentials of Christian faith. In this book, Anna Wierzbicka takes a radically new approach to the task of communicating "what Christians believe" to the widest possible audience. "The Story of God and People," the heart of the book, sets out the core tenets of Christian faith in narrative form using simple language that is accessible to anyone, even those with no familiarity with Christianity or Christian vocabulary. The Story is not only simple but also universal: though written in English, it is not phrased in full English--English as we know it today, shaped by history, culture, and tradition--but in "Minimal English." Minimal English contains only those 400 or so English words that can be translated into any other language; essentially, it corresponds to the shared core of all languages. In the introduction to the book, Wierzbicka explains Minimal English and minimal languages in general, and in "The Story of God and People" that follows, she demonstrates the effectiveness of Minimal English as a tool for global understanding. At the same time, the use of Minimal English allows her not only to retell the Christian story in a strikingly new way, but also to rethink its meaning, bringing into relief its internal cohesion, logic and beauty.

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White Jade

A Novel

By: Anna Podhaski

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White Jade

A Novel

By: Anna Podhaski

White Jade weaves a story of legend, truth, and betrayal, spanning two continents and hundreds of years. Driven from the shores of their beloved China by war in 1864, Meili's heirs travel to San Francisco, where they find themselves thrust into a strange, foreign world-a world of Nob Hill wealth, romance, clandestine societies, betrayals, ghosts, and self-discovery. Three diverse families intertwine as cultures collide, deceptions unravel, and the legacy of a legendary "big luck" grabs hold of them all! Can a legendary jade amulet really possess the power to change the luck not only of the living but also of the dead? For decades, Meili and her heirs must hold on to a small jade goat to unlock its legendary "big luck." Little do they know that the White Jade, guarded by a mysterious ghostly figure and sought after by a rising tong leader, is destined to launch them on an incredible journey that spans cultures and generations. "I warn you, luck can come disguised in many ways. You must wear the White Jade well-this you must do for the sake of the ancestors.

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Emetophobia

Understanding and Treating Fear of Vomiting in Children and Adults

By: Anna S. Christie,Dr David Russ

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Emetophobia

Understanding and Treating Fear of Vomiting in Children and Adults

By: Anna S. Christie,Dr David Russ

A fear of vomiting is estimated to impact 119 million adults, teenagers, and children in the English-speaking world. This much-needed guide to the diagnosis and treatment of emetophobia includes an overview of current literature and research, in addition to illuminating case studies of different presentations. It contains guidance on how to employ evidence-based treatments, specifically CBT and exposure and response prevention (ERP), as well as other approaches to treatment, such as ACT for all ages. The arsenal of research and experience, both professional and personal, provided by Clinical Psychologist Dr David Russ and Registered Clinical Counsellor Anna S. Christie makes this book a must-have for mental health professionals treating emetophobia.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1839976586

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Space and Spatialization in Contemporary Music: History and Analysis, Ideas and Implementations

By: Maria Anna Harley

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Space and Spatialization in Contemporary Music: History and Analysis, Ideas and Implementations

By: Maria Anna Harley

This dissertation presents the history of space in the musical thought of the 20th century (from Kurth to Clifton, from Varese to Xenakis) and outlines the development of spatialization in the theory and practice of contemporary music (after 1950). The text emphasizes perceptual and temporal aspects of musical spatiality, thus reflecting the close connection of space and time in human experience. A new definition of spatialization draws from Ingarden's notion of the musical work; a typology of spatial designs embraces music for different acoustic environments, movements of performers and audiences, various positions of musicians in space, etc. The study of spatialization includes a survey of the composers's writings (lves, Boulez, Stockhausen, Cage, etc.) and an examination of their works. The final part presents three unique approaches to spatialization: Brant's simultaneity of sound layers, Xenakis's movement of sound, and Schafer's music of ritual and soundscape.

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