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Manic Moms’ Survival Manual

By: Avis Coleman

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Manic Moms Survival Manual is a must-read for all fi rst-time mothers, parents with multiple children, or working moms. It is fi lled with easyto- follow tips and lists that will simplify life and help alleviate stress.

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1468525115

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SPECIAL NEEDS

By: Avis Coleman

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SPECIAL NEEDS

By: Avis Coleman

There is no way to describe the terror that stabs a parent's heart when he or she learns there is something "not quite right" with their child. There is denial, grief and ultimately acceptance. the people you'll meet in this book have turned their "acceptance" into action. Whether it is a developmental issue, a health threat or a genetic disorder, these families have made lemonade out of (what others would consider) lemons. with each of these families, the diagnosis brought them closer together, made them stronger and made them look beyond their own situation to try to help others. There is a new term we all hope will take root in our language and our hearts. It is "different ability" rather than "disability." These parents want others to know their child may not be able to do everything that another child can do, but they can do a lot and they can do many things exceptionally well. the author, Avis Blackmon Coleman, hopes you are inspired, touched and maybe even motivated to help change the world and the way it sees these "differently-abled children." Meet the families of Special Needs/Special Families.

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1491860588

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A Good Hair Day

By: Avis Coleman

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A Good Hair Day

By: Avis Coleman

A Good Hair Day By: Avis Coleman Avis is the mother of two girls whose love of bedtime stories inspired her to write A Good Hair Day. As the mother of girls with kinky, curly hair, Avis wrote this book for her children and others with curly hair. She believes that when children see positive images of different hair types, textures, and styles, it will influence children to love the hair they are born with. Avis understands the significance of natural hair textures as it relates to a positive self-image and confidence. She wants all children to know they are beautifully made, regardless of hair texture or skin complexion.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1646104196

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Gone

By: Bob Avis

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Gone

By: Bob Avis

The police bring Ben Adams in for questioning concerning the disappearance of Nancy Keene. Further investigation reveals that essentially every five years of the past 15 years Ben has been a suspect in the disappearance of a female. On January 18th 1994, Carol Sifford was reported missing after coming home with Ben from a high school dance. On January 18th 1999, Judy Haskell disappeared from her dorm after returning from a college fraternity party with Ben. Neither has ever been found. Chief Neuman believes that Ben is responsible for all three disappearances and sets out to convict him. The Chief is first surprised when Ben asks for his help to prove his innocence and then outraged when his daughter is reported missing after meeting Ben. Ben is arrested and in jail when he disappears. The FBI and CIA become involved. Not because of the disappearances but because of Bens work at Chemtrak where he has found a reaction by-product with some most unusual properties. They need Ben to join a team of U.S.- Russian scientists at Lake Vostok, Antarctica on a mission to preserve the current human time-line.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465333614

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Community Organizing

Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy

By: Ross Gittell,Avis Vidal

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Community Organizing

Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy

By: Ross Gittell,Avis Vidal

Community Organizing provides new insight into an important national challenge how to stimulate the formation of genuinely community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighborhoods that have not spawned these efforts spontaneously. Since Robert Putnam′s identification of the role of social capital in regional governance and economic development, there has been a virtual industry of interest and action created around the implications of his findings for the development of low-income communities. Yet, there remains a paucity of detailed empirical effort testing and refining his ideas. This book attempts to fill this gap. Community Organizing distills lessons from a national demonstration program that employed a novel approach to community organizing consensus organizing. Consensus organizing enhances social capital, building both stronger internal ties and capacity in low-income communities and fostering new relations (bridges) between residents of low-income communities and larger metropolitan area support communities. Using evaluation research and detailed comparative study of community development activity in three diverse demonstration sites, Ross Gittell and Avis Vidal identify key elements of building social capital, which strongly affect community development: comprehension of community development, credibility of effort and participants, confidence, competence, and constructive critiques of efforts. Other elements are more relevant to program management and implementation and include communication among participants, congruence of program effort, management of inherent contradiction, and adjusting implementation to reflect local context. This book describes the limits and promise of building social capital and will be of interest to community development students and professionals.

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SAGE Publications

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1452221219

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The Antiracist Roadmap to Educational Equity

A Systemwide Approach for All Stakeholders

By: Avis Williams,Brenda Elliott

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The Antiracist Roadmap to Educational Equity

A Systemwide Approach for All Stakeholders

By: Avis Williams,Brenda Elliott

Two award-winning school leaders of color leaders lay out what teachers, principals, superintendents, central office staff, and community members can do to make U.S. schools more equitable in both policy and practice"--

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ASCD

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1416632565

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9781416632566

Education, Policy and Social Justice

Learning and Skills

By: James Avis

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Education, Policy and Social Justice

Learning and Skills

By: James Avis

James Avis argues that post-compulsory education policy provides opportunities for a progressive and radical transformation of the theory and practice of working relationships.

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A&C Black

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1441166424

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Reconciling Theology

By: Paul Avis

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Reconciling Theology

By: Paul Avis

In "Reconciling Theology", leading thinker on Anglicanism and ecumenism Paul Avis focuses on the perennial Christian issues of argument, debate, polemic and conflict, on the one hand, and dialogue, search for common ground, working for agreement and harmony, on the other. Exploring the tension and interaction between them in a range of contexts in modern theology and the Church, Avis offers a rigorous but accessible vision of church which moves beyond the usual dichotomy of liberal or orthodox

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SCM Press

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0334061407

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Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism

Essays on Violence and Grace

By: Avis Hewitt

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Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism

Essays on Violence and Grace

By: Avis Hewitt

In any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O’Connor’s time, the threats came from different sources—World War II, the Cold War, and the Korean conflict—but they were just as real. She, too, lived though a “time of terror.” The first major critical volume on Flannery O’Connor’s work in more than a decade, Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism explores issues of violence, evil, and terror—themes that were never far from O’Connor’s reach and that seem particularly relevant to our present-day setting. The fifteen essays collected here offer a wide range of perspectives that explore our changing views of violence in a post-9/11 world and inform our understanding of a writer whose fiction abounds in violence. Written by both established and emerging scholars, the pieces that editors Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo have selected offer a compelling and varied picture of this iconic author and her work. Included are comparisons of O’Connor to 1950s writers of noir literature and to the contemporary American novelist Cormac McCarthy; cultural studies that draw on horror comics of the Cold War and on Fordism and the American mythos of the automobile; and pieces that shed new light on O’Connor’s complex religious sensibility and its role in her work. While continuing to speak fresh truths about her own time, O’Connor’s fiction also resonates deeply with the postmodern sensibilities of audiences increasingly distant from her era—readers absorbed in their own terrors and sense of looming, ineffable threats. This provocative new collection presents O’Connor’s work as a touchstone for understanding where our culture has been and where we are now. With its diverse approaches, Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism will prove useful not only to scholars and students of literature but to anyone interested in history, popular culture, theology, and reflective writing.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572337087

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Building Community Capacity

By: Avis Vidal

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Building Community Capacity

By: Avis Vidal

This book focuses on a gap in current social work practice theory: community change. Much work in this area of macro practice, particularly around ""grassroots"" community organizing, has a somewhat dated feel to it, is highly ideological in orientation, or suffers from superficiality, particularly in the area of theory and practical application. Set against the context of an often narrowly constructed ""clinical"" emphasis on practice education, coupled with social work's own current rendering of ""scientific management,"" community practice often takes second or third billing in many professional curricula despite its deep roots in the overall field of social welfare.Drawing on extensive case study data from three significant community-building initiatives, program data from numerous other community capacity-building efforts, key informant interviews, and an excellent literature review, Chaskin and his colleagues draw implications for crafting community change strategies as well as for creating and sustaining the organizational infrastructure necessary to support them. The authors bring to bear the perspectives of a variety of professional disciplines including sociology, urban planning, psychology, and social work.Building Community Capacity takes a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to a subject of wide and current concern: the role of neighborhood and community structures in the delivery of human services or, as the authors put it, ""a place where programs and problems can be fitted together."" Social work scholars and students of community practice seeking new conceptual frameworks and insights from research to inform novel community interventions will find much of value in Building Community Capacity.

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1351530461

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Beyond the Reformation?

Authority, Primacy and Unity in the Conciliar Tradition

By: Paul Avis

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Beyond the Reformation?

Authority, Primacy and Unity in the Conciliar Tradition

By: Paul Avis

Beyond the Reformation? sheds fresh light on divisive issues of authority in the Christian Church and puts them in a new historical and ecumenical perspective. Against the background of the perennial tension between the mystical and the institutional dynamics in the life of the Church, it goes beyond the tragic divisions of the Reformation era in two major ways. First, it examines the power struggles of the medieval period, the largely abortive attempts at reform, and the theological solutions to apparently intractable divisions that were proposed by the Conciliar Movement and enacted by the reforming councils of the fifteenth century. It shows how the legacy of conciliar theology was both continued and modified by the Continental and Anglican Reformers and how this has shaped the churches in the modern world. It examines the question of continuity and discontinuity in the Reformation, seeing that event as an unresolved argument within the family of the Western Church. But this book also seeks to move beyond the Reformation in a second way. Drawing on Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican theology, the book explores the theme of conciliar and primatial authority in relation to the ecumenical quest for reconciliation and unity in the fragmented Church of today. In this major, ground-breaking work, Anglican theologian and ecumenist Paul Avis adds to his repertoire of studies of authority in the Christian Church, brings together historical, confessional and ecumenical aspects of ecclesiology, and charts a course for convergence between the major traditions on the thorny questions of authority, primacy and unity.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567317048

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The Vocation of Anglicanism

By: Paul Avis

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The Vocation of Anglicanism

By: Paul Avis

Paul Avis charts a pathway of theological integrity through the serious challenges facing the Anglican Communion in the first quarter of the 21st century. He asks whether there is a special calling for Anglicanism as an expression of the Christian Church and expounds the Anglican theological tradition to shed light on current controversies. He argues in conclusion that Anglicanism is called, like all the churches, to reflect the nature of the Church that we confess in the Creed to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic. The book provides a clear view of the way that the Anglican tradition holds together aspects of the church that in other traditions are sometimes allowed to drift apart, as the Anglican understanding of the Church reveals itself to be catholic and reformed, episcopal and synodical, universal and local, biblical and reasonable, traditional and open to fresh insight. Avis combines accessible scholarly analysis with constructive arguments that will bring fresh hope and vision to Anglicans around the world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567664643

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Jesus and the Church

The Foundation of the Church in the New Testament and Modern Theology

By: Paul Avis

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Jesus and the Church

The Foundation of the Church in the New Testament and Modern Theology

By: Paul Avis

What is church's true foundation? Was the Christian church founded by Jesus, or does 'the Eucharist make the church'? Paul Avis sets out his own answer to these questions. Gathering a wide range of critical scholarship, he argues that there is something solid and dependable at the foundation of the church's life and mission. Avis argues that Jesus wanted a church in a sense, but not as we know it. Christ proclaimed the gospel of the Kingdom and his disciples proclaimed the gospel whose content was Jesus himself, the Kingdom in person. The church is battered and divided, but at its core is a treasure that is indestructible – the gospel of Christ, embodied in word and sacrament. A central theme of the book is the relationship between the church and Christ, the church and the gospel, the church and the Kingdom. Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, is the sole foundation of the church, but he cannot be without his people.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567696200

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Newfane and Olcott

By: Avis A. Townsend

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Newfane and Olcott

By: Avis A. Townsend

Newfane and Olcott are adjoining communities in western New York where residents relish the past and look toward a prosperous future. Some say they can hear the music of the big bands playing along the shoreline of Lake Ontario from the foundation of the long-demolished Olcott Beach Hotel. Others swear they can see the ghost of Malinda standing by the upstairs window of the beautiful Van Horn Mansion, guarding the grounds where her body was lost for one hundred fifty years.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439632243

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Becoming a Bishop

A Theological Handbook of Episcopal Ministry

By: Paul Avis

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Becoming a Bishop

A Theological Handbook of Episcopal Ministry

By: Paul Avis

Why Bishops? What's so special about Bishops? What are Bishops called to and how best can they do it? This book is the single resource of answers to all the questions one could conceivably have about what a Bishop is and their function and purpose in the Church. Paul Avis offers a fascinating account of the ministerial identity of the bishop, and in particular the tasks and roles of episcopal ministry. Placing the Bishop within his wider ecclesiological framework, Avis illuminates the role of the individual in episcopal ministry. The book sets the vital work of a Bishop within an ecclesiological framework: the Bishop in the Anglican Communion, within the Church of Christ, within the purposes of God.

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0567657299

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Supporting Children and Families

Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education

By: Justine Schneider,Mark Avis,Paul Leighton

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Supporting Children and Families

Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education

By: Justine Schneider,Mark Avis,Paul Leighton

This book gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start. In addition to summarizing the findings of numerous innovative projects, contributors draw on their experiences of the successes and challenges to offer advice for those engaged in current and future practice.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843105063

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Short Stories

By: Bob Avis

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Short Stories

By: Bob Avis

This is a book of short stories all originally written by Bob Avis

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499071892

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The Anglican Understanding of the Church

An introduction

By: Paul Avis

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The Anglican Understanding of the Church

An introduction

By: Paul Avis

What is the Church? The Anglican answer to this question is clearly given in this unrivalled short guide to what the churches in the Anglican Communion believe about themselves and their position in relation to others, such as the Orthodox Churches, the Roman Catholic Church and the Churches of the Reformation. In a clearly structured way, Paul Avis explains Anglican history and theology, making his book an ideal introduction, as well as a handy reference tool for clergy and theological teachers. This new edition is expanded and updated to take account of Anglican and ecumenical developments. It also includes questions to stimulate reflection and discussion, and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter.

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SPCK

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0281068151

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9780281068159

A Good Hair Day

By: Avis Coleman

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A Good Hair Day

By: Avis Coleman

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Exploring Chicago

By: Ed Avis,Christine Battuz,Bob Kirner

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Exploring Chicago

By: Ed Avis,Christine Battuz,Bob Kirner

(all ages) Small enough to fit in a knapsack yet huge on ideas, this guide has more than 100 suggestions for fun-filled family activities in Chicago, Illinois.

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