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Program Evaluation

A Primer for Effectiveness, Quality, and Value

By: Arlene Fink

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Program Evaluation

A Primer for Effectiveness, Quality, and Value

By: Arlene Fink

- Features new methodologies developed during the Covid-19 pandemic - Includes a range of features to help support practice, including checklists, sample forms, and case studies. - Can be used by students and practitioners across different disciplines and professional roles. - International perspective, featuring examples and case studies from different regions and countries.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003818323

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How To Report On Surveys

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How To Report On Surveys

By: Arlene Fink

From making presentations to general versus technical/academic audiences to preparing computerized presentations, this book shows you how to create more effective verbal and written survey reports.

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0761925759

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Evidence-Based Public Health Practice

By: Arlene Fink

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Evidence-Based Public Health Practice

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Practicing Research

Discovering Evidence That Matters

By: Arlene Fink

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Practicing Research

Discovering Evidence That Matters

By: Arlene Fink

Provides methods for determining the validity of evidence and how to justify an acceptable level of "proof" based on science, experience, and values

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1412937698

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Conducting Research Literature Reviews

From the Internet to Paper

By: Arlene Fink

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Conducting Research Literature Reviews

From the Internet to Paper

By: Arlene Fink

Providing readers with an accessible, in-depth look at how to synthesize research literature, Conducting Research Literature Reviews is perfect for students, researchers, marketers, planners, and policymakers who design and manage public and private agencies, conduct research studies, and prepare strategic plans and grant proposals. Bestselling author Arlene Fink shows readers how to explain the need for and significance of research, as well as how to explain a study’s findings. Offering a step-by-step approach to conducting literature reviews, the Fourth Edition features updated examples and covers: how to select databases and evaluate their quality; selecting and organizing key words and other terms in order to effectively search databases and the Web; setting standards for evaluating the quality of research and other literature; extracting and recording information from articles and studies; synthesizing what the reader finds either descriptively or via a meta-analysis; recording and storing the results in a virtual file cabinet; and how to use bibliographic software.

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1483323773

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Evaluation Fundamentals

Insights into Program Effectiveness, Quality, and Value

By: Arlene Fink

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Evaluation Fundamentals

Insights into Program Effectiveness, Quality, and Value

By: Arlene Fink

The Third Edition of Arlene Fink’s Evaluation Fundamentals teaches the basic concepts and vocabulary necessary to do program evaluations and review the quality of evaluation research to make informed decisions about methods and outcomes to meet scientific and community needs. Dr. Fink thoroughly examines such issues as how to justify evaluation questions and set standards of effectiveness, design studies, identify best practices, and conduct ethical research. The book contains numerous examples of evaluation methods, as well as evaluation reports. It also includes practice exercises and suggested readings in print and online. Individuals can use the New Edition successfully on their own or in small or large groups.

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1483324230

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Evaluation Fundamentals: Insights into the Outcomes, Effectiveness, and Quality of Health Programs

Insights Into the Outcomes, Effectiveness, and Quality of Health Programs

By: Arlene Fink

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Evaluation Fundamentals: Insights into the Outcomes, Effectiveness, and Quality of Health Programs

Insights Into the Outcomes, Effectiveness, and Quality of Health Programs

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Arlene Fink outlines the basic concepts & vocabulary necessary for programme evaluation & illustrates how to review the quality of evaluation research so as to make informed decisions about methods & outcomes.

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0761988688

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How to Conduct Surveys

A Step-by-Step Guide

By: Arlene Fink

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How to Conduct Surveys

A Step-by-Step Guide

By: Arlene Fink

Packed with new topics that reflect today’s challenges, the Sixth Edition of the bestselling How to Conduct Surveys guides readers through the process of developing their own rigorous surveys and evaluating the credibility and transparency of surveys created by others. Offering practical, step-by-step advice and written in the same clear and accessible style as author Arlene Fink’s other works, the book focuses on choosing the appropriate type of survey, writing survey questions and responses, formatting the survey, deciding on the characteristics and numbers of respondents to include, choosing how often to survey respondents, and analyzing and reporting the results.

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1506347134

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The Survey Handbook

By: Arlene Fink

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The Survey Handbook

By: Arlene Fink

The Kit is for students in undergraduate and graduate classes in the social and health sciences and for individuals in the public and private sectors who are responsible for conducting and using surveys.

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0761925805

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How to Sample in Surveys

By: Arlene Fink

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How to Sample in Surveys

By: Arlene Fink

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How To Design Survey Studies

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How To Design Survey Studies

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How to Analyze Survey Data

By: Arlene Fink

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How to Analyze Survey Data

By: Arlene Fink

Clear and concise, How to Analyze Survey Data shows you how to do just that: analyse survey data. It shows what statistics can do for surveys, describes measurement scales in detail, and demonstrates how to choose a method to analyze your results.

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0803973861

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How to Ask Survey Questions

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How to Ask Survey Questions

By: Arlene Fink

Intended at helping readers prepare and use reliable and valid survey questions, this title shows readers how to: ask valid and reliable questions for the context; determine whether to use open or closed questions; and, choose the right type of measurement (categorical, nominal or ordinal) for responses to survey questions.

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0761925791

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Evidence-Based Public Health Practice

By: Arlene Fink

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Evidence-Based Public Health Practice

By: Arlene Fink

Designed for students and practitioners, this practical book shows how to do evidence-based research in public health. As a great deal of evidence-based practice occurs online, it focuses on how to find, use, and interpret online sources of public health information. It also includes examples of community-based participatory research and shows how to link data with community preferences and needs. Each chapter begins with specific learning objectives and concludes with practice exercises geared to the objectives. Each chapter also contains a list of key terms that are an essential part of an evidence-based public health practitioner′s vocabulary. The book includes a comprehensive glossary and hundreds of online and print references, examples, and charts.

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How To Design Survey Studies

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How To Design Survey Studies

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Conducting Research Literature Reviews

From the Internet to Paper

By: Arlene Fink

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Conducting Research Literature Reviews

From the Internet to Paper

By: Arlene Fink

`This is a great book for students, both for classroom use and to keep on their bookshelves once they graduate′ - Gale Spencer, Binghamton University Conducting Research Literature Reviews, Second Edition shows readers how to identify, interpret, and analyze published and unpublished research literature. Through the use of checklists, case examples, and exercises, author Arlene Fink unravels the intricacies of * Selecting questions to maximize the efficiency of the review * Identifying subject headings and key words for electronic searches * Identifying the most appropriate databases, including supplementing computer and Web-based searches * Dealing with unpublished studies * Setting inclusion and exclusion criteria * Justifying methods for reviewing only the ′highest quality′ literature * Preparing a structured literature abstraction form * Ensuring the reliability and validity of the review * Synthesizing and reporting results * Conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews * How to understand and evaluate the principles of meta-analysis New to the Second Edition: * Flow diagrams to assist the reader in linking each step of the review to the contents of each chapter * New references and other online resources, including links to online literature reviews and meta-analyses * Guidance in choosing online public and private bibliographic databases for literature reviews * Tips for searching the web for research information The text also discusses the use of Boolean operators for simple and advanced searches and shows readers how to use bibliographic software to organize literature reviews and search ′The Virtual File Cabinet.′ It also describes how to synthesize the literature as a stand-alone report or as a component of a paper or proposal. This book is intended for anyone wants to research social, health, educational, and business issues. It is ideal for students, researchers, marketers, planners, and policymakers who design and manage public and private agencies, conduct research studies, and prepare strategic plans and grant proposals. Praise for the First Edition ′There is finally a book available that removes the mystery and guesswork from doing literature reviews. This is especially important for both graduate and undergraduate levels if you are asking the students to make judgments about the quality and applicability of articles they may read. This book is not only timely but also a valuable way to help students evaluate articles they find on the Internet.′ --Anita VanBrackle, Kennesaw State University

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Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions

By: Professor and Director Health Professions Education Doctoral Program School of Health Sciences Simmons College Boston Massachusetts Arlene Lowenstein, RN, PhD

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Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions

By: Professor and Director Health Professions Education Doctoral Program School of Health Sciences Simmons College Boston Massachusetts Arlene Lowenstein, RN, PhD

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions, Fifth Edition continues to provide nursing educators and other health care professionals with the latest, proven teaching strategies. Newly revised and updated, this new Fifth Edition offers how-to-strategies for incorporating the burgeoning field of technology into the classroom. New topics include Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and podcasts. Also featured are chapters on Blended Learning and Study Abroad programs, enabling students to gain a more diverse and increased global perspective. Featuring innovative teaching techniques for various learning environments and real world illustrations of the strategies in use, this book goes beyond theory to offer practical application principles that educators can count on!

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0763793833

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Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions

By: Martha J. Bradshaw,Arlene Lowenstein

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Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions

By: Martha J. Bradshaw,Arlene Lowenstein

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions, Sixth Edition is focused on providing in-depth coverage around teaching, learning and evaluation strategies for Nurse Educators and health professionals. The text addresses different styles of learning, diversity in the classroom and critical thinking. Creative and innovative strategies and techniques are woven throughout the text with an emphasis on the importance of simulation in the classroom. The authors bring key concepts to life by including specific examples and suggestions for how to implement teaching strategies, how to identify types of learners as well as how to predict potential issues or challenges with each strategy. The Sixth Edition addresses specific teaching-learning strategies for traditional classroom settings, the clinical arena, and through the use of technology for both web-based and virtual simulation. The new edition focuses on the strategy behind the use of technology to help the students understand how it helps to promote learning and engagement. Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions, Sixth Edition is appropriate for all graduate level courses for health professions educators. A unique quality of this text is that it can be used in any health professions program other than nursing. No other Health professions education text acknowledges fields other than nursing. This text is widely used by students who practice and teach in a variety of health professions and is viewed as an integral resource for their professional development. Key Features: - Provides specific examples and suggestions for how or when to use particular teaching strategies according to type of learner in the classroom - Addresses trends in health care and education of health professionals (Reference is made to the 2003 report from the Institute of Medicine on health professions education. Examples throughout point to the changing nature of patient care and show how to prepare students to practice in diverse settings) - Discusses the use of Library Resources - Includes coverage of the education of health professionals New to this Edition: Clinical Reasoning Research and teaching the strategies of searching written by a Research Librarian Innovation of new teaching methods and technologies Emphasis on simulation Extensive revision of Concept Mapping chapter along with information on how to grade a student’s map Teaching preparation and the use of resources Synchronous Learning

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1284031004

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How to Conduct Surveys

A Step-by-step Guide

By: Arlene Fink

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How to Conduct Surveys

A Step-by-step Guide

By: Arlene Fink

Written in the same clear and accessible style as Arlene Fink s other works, this fully revised text reflects changes in the way people prepare surveys, use them with the public, and report the results, with increased emphasis on online surveys.

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141296668X

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Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information

Definition and International Experience

By: Barbara Tillett,Arlene G. Taylor

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Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information

Definition and International Experience

By: Barbara Tillett,Arlene G. Taylor

International authority control will soon be a reality. Examine the projects that are moving the information science professions in that direction today! In Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience, international experts examine the state of the art and explore new theoretical perspectives. This essential resource, which has its origins in the International Conference on Authority Control (Italy, 2003), addresses standards, exchange formats, and metadata—with sections on authority control for names, works, and subjects. Twenty fascinating case examples show how authority control is practiced at institutions in various nations around the world. Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information provides an essential definition of authority control and then begins its sharply focused examinations of essential aspects of authority control with a section entitled “State of the Art and New Theoretical Perspectives.” Here you’ll find chapters focusing on: the current state of the art—with suggestions for future developments the importance (and current lack) of teaching authority control as part of a library/information science curriculum the guidelines and methodology used in the creation of Italy’s SBN Authority File Next, “Standards, Exchange Formats, and Metadata” covers: Italy’s Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana UNIMARC database, which was created using authority control principles the past and present activities of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and an examination of IFLA’s Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR) metadata standards as a means for accomplishing authority control in digital libraries traditional international library standards for bibliographic and authority control the evolution and current status of authority control tools for art and material culture information the UNIMARC authorities format—what it is and how to work with it “Authority Control for Names and Works” brings you useful, current information on: changes and new features in the new edition of the International Standard Archival Authority Record (Corporate Bodies, Persons, Families) Encoded Archival Context (EAC)—and its role in enhancing access to and understanding of records, and how it enables repositories to share creator description the LEAF model for collection, harvesting, linking, and providing access to existing local/national name authority data national bibliographic control in China, Japan, and Korea, plus suggestions for future cooperation between bibliographic agencies in East Asia authority control of printers, publishers, and booksellers how to create up-to-date corporate name authority records authority control (and the lack of it) for works “Authority Control for Subjects” updates you on: subject gateways—with a look at the differences between the Program for Cooperative Cataloging’s SACO program and browsable online subject gateways MACS—a virtual authority file that crosses language barriers to provide multilingual access OCLC’s FAST project, which strives to retain the rich vocabulary of LCSH while making the schema easier to understand, control, apply, and use the efforts of Italy’s National Central Library toward semantic authority control the interrelationship of subject indexing languages and authority control—with a look at the “semantics vs. syntax” issue how subject indexing is done in Italy’s Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale “Authority Control Experiences and Proje

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Routledge

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1136432205

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An Evaluation Primer

By: Arlene Fink,Jacqueline Kosecoff

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An Evaluation Primer

By: Arlene Fink,Jacqueline Kosecoff

An Evaluation Primer is the leading one-volume practitioner's guide to the field of evaluation. It takes the reader (student, human services practitioner, or programme administrator) through the step-by-step process of designing, implementing and reporting on evaluation. The Primer is concise and clearly written, making it ideal for self-teaching and classroom use.

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0803914806

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9780803914803

Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker

An Arlene Croce Reader

By: Arlene Croce

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Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker

An Arlene Croce Reader

By: Arlene Croce

The best of America's best writer on dance "Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything-once. If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love." From 1973 until 1996 Arlene Croce was The New Yorker's dance critic, a post created for her. Her entertaining, forthright, passionate reviews and essays have revealed the logic and history of ballet, modern dance, and their postmodern variants to a generation of theatergoers. This volume contains her most significant and provocative pieces-over a fourth have never appeared in book form-writings that reverberate with consequence and controversy for the state of the art today.

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1429930136

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Boston Modern

Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism

By: Judith Arlene Bookbinder

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Boston Modern

Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism

By: Judith Arlene Bookbinder

A fresh, incisive study of the expressionist approach to modern art in Boston.

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UPNE

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1584654880

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9781584654889

Photo Odyssey

Solomon Carvalho's Remarkable Western Adventure, 1853-54

By: Arlene B. Hirschfelder

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Photo Odyssey

Solomon Carvalho's Remarkable Western Adventure, 1853-54

By: Arlene B. Hirschfelder

Describes the life of Carvalho, a Jewish photographer who accompanied John Charles Fremont on his last expedition to the West.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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039589123X

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9780395891230

Murder, Curlers, and Canes

A Valentine Beaumont Mystery

By: Arlene McFarlane

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Murder, Curlers, and Canes

A Valentine Beaumont Mystery

By: Arlene McFarlane

“Smart, entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny!”—Liliana Hart, New York Times Bestselling Author Valentine Beaumont is back in her second hair-raising mystery, this time, trying to find out who had it in for an elderly nun. Only trouble is there are others standing in her way: hot but tough Detective Romero, sexy new stylist Jock de Marco, and some zany locals who all have a theory on the nun’s death. Making things worse: the dead nun’s secret that haunts Valentine, another murder, car chases, death threats, mysterious clues, an interfering mother, and a crazy staff. Between brushing off Jock’s advances and splitting hairs with handsome Detective Romero, Valentine struggles to comb through the crime, utilizing her tools of the trade in some outrageous situations. Question is, will she succeed? “MURDER, CURLERS, AND CANES is a beauty of a read. The quirky characters are fun, the mystery is well-plotted, and the romance is sizzling. Arlene McFarlane’s sleuth Valentine teases out every clue. It’s the perfect read for the beach or under the hair dryer. Delightful!” ~ Denise Swanson, New York Times Bestselling Author of mysteries and romances

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The Valentine Beaumont Mystery Series: Books 1-3

(Murder, Curlers & Cream / Murder, Curlers & Canes / Murder, Curlers & Cruises)

By: Arlene McFarlane

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The Valentine Beaumont Mystery Series: Books 1-3

(Murder, Curlers & Cream / Murder, Curlers & Canes / Murder, Curlers & Cruises)

By: Arlene McFarlane

“Laugh-out-loud humor & top-notch mysteries! Absolute MUST-READS!”—Darynda Jones, New York Times/USA TodayBestselling Author of the Charley Davidson Series “Smart, entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny!”—Liliana Hart, New York Times Bestselling Author Meet gutsy beautician, part-time sleuth, Valentine Beaumont. Quick thinker? Check. Risk-taker? Check. Catching killers with her beauty tools has never been so much fun! MURDER, CURLERS & CREAM Valentine Beaumont is a beautician with a problem. Not only has she got a meddling mother, a wacky staff, and a dying business, but now she’s got a dead client who was strangled while awaiting her facial. With business the way it is, combing through this mystery may be the only way to save her salon. Until a second murder, an explosion, a kidnapping, death threats, and the hard-nosed Detective Romero complicate things. But Valentine will do anything to untangle the crime. That’s if she can keep her tools of the trade in her bag, keep herself alive, and avoid falling for the tough detective. In the end, how hard can that be? MURDER, CURLERS & CANES Valentine Beaumont is back in her second hair-raising mystery, this time, trying to find out who had it in for an elderly nun. Only trouble is there are others standing in her way: hot but tough Detective Romero, sexy new stylist Jock de Marco, and some zany locals who all have a theory on the nun’s death. Making things worse: the dead nun’s secret that haunts Valentine, another murder, car chases, death threats, mysterious clues, an interfering mother, and a crazy staff. Between brushing off Jock’s advances and splitting hairs with handsome Detective Romero, Valentine struggles to comb through the crime, utilizing her tools of the trade in some outrageous situations. Question is, will she succeed? MURDER, CURLERS & CRUISES In her third fast-paced mystery, beautician Valentine Beaumont and her madcap crew sail the high seas on a Caribbean “Beauty Cruise.” When a bizarre murder takes place onboard, Valentine finds herself swept into the middle of the investigation. If things aren’t bad enough, her mother is playing matchmaker, a loved one is kidnapped, drug smuggling is afoot, a hair contest proves disastrous, and a strange alliance between tough Detective Romero and sexy stylist Jock de Marco rubs Valentine the wrong way. Will this impulsive beauty sleuth comb through the catastrophes and untangle the mystery, or will this voyage turn into another fatal Titanic? With Jock and Romero onboard, it’s destined to be a hot cruise!

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1999498127

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Murder, Curlers, and Kilts

A Valentine Beaumont Mini Mystery

By: Arlene McFarlane

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Murder, Curlers, and Kilts

A Valentine Beaumont Mini Mystery

By: Arlene McFarlane

A weekend visit to Rueland’s multicultural fair turns sour when beautician Valentine Beaumont comes face to face with a corpse wearing a kilt. What’s worse, she learns the victim was a target of foul play, her #1 nemesis is on the case, and no one is who they seem. Despite warnings from hot, hard-headed Detective Romero to leave things to the police, Valentine sets off to snag the killer. While on the case, she crashes into sexy, Herculean stylist Jock de Marco, rattles an old foe, wrestles with family issues, and tangles with secretive clan members. Will Valentine catch the murderer before she becomes the weekend’s next target? Or are her fair days numbered?

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0995307687

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Neurobiology Essentials for Clinicians

What Every Therapists Needs To Know

By: Arlene Montgomery

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Neurobiology Essentials for Clinicians

What Every Therapists Needs To Know

By: Arlene Montgomery

This text, organised around different areas of the brain, presents therapists with the basic neurobiology they need to understand their clients' behaviours and actions.

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0393706028

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9780393706024

East, West, and Others

The Third World in Postwar German Literature

By: Arlene Akiko Teraoka

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East, West, and Others

The Third World in Postwar German Literature

By: Arlene Akiko Teraoka

East, West, and Others is the first work to examine the Third World in German literature from World War II to the present. Arlene A. Teraoka investigates how prominent post?World War II East and West German authors have portrayed the Third World. She discusses the persistent stereotypes of race, culture, and sexuality in texts by authors whose careers were shaped by concerns with Third World politics. Those writers include Anna Seghers, Peter Weiss, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Heiner M_ller; East Germans Claus Hammel and Peter Hacks; and the documentary West German writers Max von der Gr_n, G_nter Wallraff, and Paul Geiersbach. Teraoka demonstrates the continuing German need to construct a postwar identity freed from the fascist past and the conflicts and clichäs that inevitably mar this dream of the self. Whether authors project a champion of humanity who upholds Enlightenment ideals or a fragmented European protagonist paralyzed by guilt, all negotiate between the forces of rationality and prejudice, universality and difference, solidarity and helplessness.

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0803244312

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Character is Capital

Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America

By: Judy Arlene Hilkey

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Character is Capital

Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America

By: Judy Arlene Hilkey

In late nineteenth-century America, a new type of book became commonplace in millions of homes across the country. Volumes sporting such titles as The Way to Win and Onward to Fame and Fortune promised to show young men how to succeed in lif

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0807846589

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9780807846582

Circling Round Nature

By: Arlene Corwin

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Circling Round Nature

By: Arlene Corwin

When Arlene Corwin is not thinking about music, yoga, our times and culture, God, love relationships, baths, coffee, time or science, she makes it a practice to write about something in nature - just to keep her poetic mind in trim. It usually begins with a simple observation a siting perhaps. Then, being the person she is, the siting suggests, evokes, implies expands. You could call it a meditation on nature in its many forms nature, including her own. Circling Round Nature has as wide a scope as has nature, the opportunities for observations and reactions diverse, endless. Nature is the flattened frog on the road, the mushroom, the plasticized face, the weather, cycles involved in everything: all the forces controlling the physical world. The result has become a mix of of 269 minutely observed, moving, thought provoking but colloquial and often downright funny poems. Written over a period of some 60 odd years, they continue to be written and collected right up to the minute of publication. After many years of practicing the poet's craft, Arlene Corwin, has honed her skills so that many -- almost any -- observation prompts her to poetry. Her poetry is clear and straightforward. The words on the page are as willowy and lithe as if they, like their author, were an experienced and accomplished yoga practitioner. But, better than that, Arlene is also a lifelong jazz musician and brings to her poetry a sensitivity to sound, line and rhythm and that is always musical. Like any lifelong meditator, she brings as well, insights -- not in a ponderous tone of voice but simply, with keen observation and sensitivity. These are poems to read and reread and savor as you would a recording of a good jazz set. - June Calendar

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499020406

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9781499020403

4 Sleuths Origin Stories

By: Diana Orgain,Traci Andrighetti,Leslie Langtry,Arlene McFarlane

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4 Sleuths Origin Stories

By: Diana Orgain,Traci Andrighetti,Leslie Langtry,Arlene McFarlane

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Four USA Today bestselling authors team up to bring you your favorite female sleuths in a hilarious new special collection!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The 4 Sleuths are a funny killer foursome whose exploits include dodging killers at a sketchy bachelorette party, mud wrestling ancient burlesque dancers, and glamping with grownup Girl Scouts, to name a few. Meet the 4 Sleuths before they teamed up and check out their first mysteries in this box set, the Origin Stories! Get your glamor on in Boston with gutsy sleuth and beautician Valentine Beaumont in MURDER, CURLERS & CREAM! Race through the streets of San Francisco with part-time crime-solver and sleep-deprived new mom, Kate Connolly in BUNDLE OF TROUBLE! Find out if there’s a scout badge for sniper training in Who’s There, Iowa with ex-CIA agent turned Girl Scout Leader Merry Wrath in MERIT BADGE MURDER! Chase cocktails and crooks in the Big Easy with New Orleans PI (and victim of a serial-matchmaking Sicilian nonna) Franki Amato in LIMONCELLO YELLOW!

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Diana Orgain

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1778179541

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9781778179549

Fear of Diversity

The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought

By: Arlene W. Saxonhouse

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Fear of Diversity

The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought

By: Arlene W. Saxonhouse

This wide-ranging and provocative book locates the origin of political science in the everyday world of ancient Greek life, thought, and culture. Arlene Saxonhouse contends that the Greeks, confronted by the puzzling diversity of the physical world, sought an unseen and unifying force that would constrain and explain it. This drive toward unity did more than place the mind over the senses: it led the Greeks to play down the very real differences - in particular the female, the family, and sexuality - in both their political and personal lives. While the dramatists and Plato captured the tragic consequences of trying to do so, it was not until Aristotle and his Politics did the Greek world - and its heirs - have a true science of politics, one capable of embracing diversity and accommodating conflict. Much of the book's force derives from Saxonhouse's masterful interweaving of Greek philosophy and drama, her juxtaposition of the thought of the pre-Socratics, Plato, and other philosophers to the cultural life revealed by such dramatists as Aristophanes and Aeschylus. Her approach opens up fresh understandings of such issues as the Greeks' fear of the feminine and their attempts to ignore the demands that gender, reproduction, and the family inevitably make on the individual and the family. The Fear of Diversity represents an important contribution to political philosophy, classics, and gender studies.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226735540

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9780226735542

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