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Finding Katie

The Diary of Anonymous, A Teenager in Foster Care

By: Beatrice Sparks

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Finding Katie

The Diary of Anonymous, A Teenager in Foster Care

By: Beatrice Sparks

This appealing teen read tells the story of Katie, a teen from an abused home, and her journey through foster care. Katie is always surrounded by wealth, but feels terribly alone because of the secret horror of her angry, abusive father. When she's thrown out of her house and put into foster care, it seems like the end of the world. But as she moves through the foster care system, she begins to realize that she can help others. Can she, at last, find courage and strength of her own?

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Harper Collins

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0062012681

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9780062012685

Treacherous Love

The Diary Of An Anonymous Teenager

By: Beatrice Sparks

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Treacherous Love

The Diary Of An Anonymous Teenager

By: Beatrice Sparks

Fourteen-year-old Jennie's life is turning upside down. Her father has walked out, and her anguished mother seeks solace in pills. Her best friend practically abandons her to be with a boyfriend. It seems like Jennie's real best friend is her diary. Then she meets Mr. Johnstone, the substitute math teacher. Jennie has never met such a charismatic teacher. She feels honored when Mr. J. seems to single her out for special attention, and begins to fantasize about him as her boyfriend. When Mr. J. first reveals his feelings for her, she is thrilled by the relationship that grows outside the classroom walls. Then, slowly, Jennie's diary becomes a record of her loneliness, pain, and confusion. Will it also offer her a way to escape from this treacherous love?

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Harper Collins

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0062012770

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9780062012777

Kim: Empty Inside

The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

By: Beatrice Sparks

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Kim: Empty Inside

The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

By: Beatrice Sparks

I am so scared. I feel like I'm silently screaming for help and no one pays any attention of tries to hear me. I can't control anything anymore. It's all out to get me! When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations -- especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control -- or can she?

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Harper Collins

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0062012746

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9780062012746

It Happened to Nancy

By an Anonymous Teenager, A True Story from Her Diary

By: Beatrice Sparks

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It Happened to Nancy

By an Anonymous Teenager, A True Story from Her Diary

By: Beatrice Sparks

The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.

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Zondervan

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006201272X

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9780062012722

Annie's Baby

The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager

By: Beatrice Sparks

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Annie's Baby

The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager

By: Beatrice Sparks

When Annie discovers she's pregnant by her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one she can talk to, she pours her heart out to her diary, confiding her feelings of panic, self-doubt, and the desperate hope that some day she can turn her life around. She decides she wants to keep her baby and dreams of loving and caring for this little person. But after the baby is born, it's in her diary that she faces the agonizing question: Can she really raise this child on her own?

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Harper Collins

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0062012665

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9780062012661

Talk Matters

Refocusing the Language of Public Schooling

By: Beatrice Schneller Fennimore

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Talk Matters

Refocusing the Language of Public Schooling

By: Beatrice Schneller Fennimore

In this compelling volume, Beatrice Fennimore takes an original look at educational language, the language used in educational contexts and conversation, and the impact that it has on student outcomes. In exploring this topic, Fennimore addresses educational language in myriad contexts such as public schooling, teacher education programs, deficit terminology and labeling. The result is a powerful volume that inspires our thinking and impels us to consider historical resistance to equality. Seasoned with realistic examples, suggested activities to enhance understanding, and sample codes of ethics for respectful and democratic behavior in educational settings, this book has much to offer anyone interested in achieving clarity in the language of public schooling and promoting equal educational opportunity.

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Teachers College Press

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0807739022

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9780807739020

Standing Up for Something Every Day

Ethics and Justice in Early Childhood Classrooms

By: Beatrice S. Fennimore

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Standing Up for Something Every Day

Ethics and Justice in Early Childhood Classrooms

By: Beatrice S. Fennimore

Standing Up for Something Every Day is written for present and future teachers in the early childhood classroom who truly want to make a difference in the lives of children. Exploring some of the most complex and pressing social and ethical dilemmas confronting early childhood educators, the author provides concrete ways of addressing social justice concerns in practice. Four model teacher-guides accompany readers from chapter to chapter, and demonstrate strategies for standing up for children through ethics, respect for diversity, and commitment to advocacy for children. This book offers important insights, encouragement, and practical suggestions to early childhood educators who are committed to excellence and equity in their classrooms. “In short, this is a book for all who are committed to improving early care and education from the ground up. It is not just for those who already call themselves advocates, but is especially for teachers who may be encouraged through these pages to engage, question, reflect, and act, patiently taking small steps with the resources and support that Fennimore clearly offers. This is a book that informs us about advocacy on many levels, and, most importantly, it invites and inspires us to stand up and act.” —From the foreword by Celia Genishi, Professor Emerita of Education, Department of Curriculum & Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University Book Features: A focus on classroom life, including relationships with administrators, colleagues, and families. Guidance for following the NAEYC Code of Ethics. Questions for discussion and practical ideas for getting started. Teacher-guides for working in different settings: rural, suburban, and urban. Beatrice S. Fennimore is a professor of education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.

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Teachers College Press

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0807772909

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9780807772904

The Big Wind

By: Beatrice Coogan

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The Big Wind

By: Beatrice Coogan

It all began on the night of the Big Wind. A wild and savage night in January 1839 when a storm struck Ireland, leaving such suffering and devastation in its path that a mark remained on the minds and hearts of Irishmen, and the land itself, ever after. It was the night Sterrin O'Carroll, 'blossom of the storm', was born in Kilsheelin Castle. Growing up during Ireland's darkest hours, Sterrin forms a bond with a household servant called Young Thomas that deepens over the years into a forbidden love – a love as fierce and relentless as the storm that ushered her into the world. But their paths are divided by devastating events that change the course of Ireland's history. After the bitterness and the sorrow finally wane, Sterrin's indomitable spirit never weakens because, Thomas, like her beloved land, will return to her.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786695537

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9781786695536

The Sounds of Aurora Australis

A History of Australia's Musical Identity

By: Beatrice Dalov

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The Sounds of Aurora Australis

A History of Australia's Musical Identity

By: Beatrice Dalov

Entrenched until recently in Western aesthetics, Australian composers are now developing a functional cultural identity expressed through a distinctly nationalistic musical idiom. Its ongoing formation, inspired by Australias Aboriginal heritage and unique natural environment, seeks to distance the nations artistic developments from the geographically remote Occidental regions and emphasize its native cultures. Presently, however, mounting sociopolitical and ethical concerns surrounding the cultural borrowing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are problematizing the developing nationalistic idiom, as composers must determine whether the two groups share any legitimate connection beyond mere occupation of the same land, given their tense post-colonial history. Musicologist Beatrice Dalov traces the formation of the Southern Lands cultural identity while simultaneously considering its complex relationship with the nations First Peoples. She illuminates the origins, influences, and developments of Australian art music, from colonization (late eighteenth century) to the present day, interweaving the social, cultural, political, and economic forces that shaped (and often determined) its evolution. The history demonstrates that the complex processes of articulating a unique cultural identity began almost immediately after arrival of the first colonists and continues uninterrupted through today. Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and personally conducted interviews with numerous contemporary composers, Dalov traces the history of the lands music, from scattered convict settlements and eventful contacts with Aboriginal peoples, to the formation of a national musical infrastructure, to todays thriving musical independence. She brings forward not only the most prominent composers and musicians of the last century, but also those who laid a crucial foundation and offered the first contributions toward a national idiom. A comprehensive history of the music of the Great Southern Land has been too long neglected by social historians and musicologists worldwide. Beatrice Dalov sets the record straight.

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Liverpool University Press

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1782847596

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9781782847595

Steamboats on the Western Rivers

An Economic and Technological History

By: Louis C. Hunter,Beatrice Jones Hunter

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Steamboats on the Western Rivers

An Economic and Technological History

By: Louis C. Hunter,Beatrice Jones Hunter

Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development -- from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.

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Courier Corporation

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0486278638

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9780486278636

One Incredible Endurance

Footprints of Unimaginable Tolerance,Devotion, & the Final Breakthrough

By: Beatrice Quainooh

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One Incredible Endurance

Footprints of Unimaginable Tolerance,Devotion, & the Final Breakthrough

By: Beatrice Quainooh

A unique story of survival through unimaginable proportions. The novel focus on dominance and control as well as greed and deception. It revealed a major concern about self-centeredness and how inaction and devotion could be mistaken for stupidity. The young couple's (main characters) diverging perspectives on life, stemming from their di?erent childhood experiences makes it a compelling read and thought provoking. A journey of courage , self-discovery and freedom. Through the novel, the author found ways to reach out to the young and inspire those who seek to break free and focus on a new dawn. What others are saying about the book! The crazy spiral spun by Bea Quainooh is almost more than one can bear. The truth is indeed stranger than ?ction but Quainoohs generously and courageously steps forward to testify to one of the truths of womens experiences in the goings and comings of marriage, livelihood and solidarity in migration. Reading this book sucks you into an emotional roller coaster. Esi Sutherland-Addy, Professor of African Studies and Gender Activist. "Incredible Indeed" ___Mary Carr of Pearl Mississippi

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iUniverse

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1462006019

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9781462006014

Nursing Through Shot & Shell

A Great War Nurse's Story

By: Beatrice Hopkinson

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Nursing Through Shot & Shell

A Great War Nurse's Story

By: Beatrice Hopkinson

Nursing Through Shot and Shell is the previously unpublished memoir of Beatrice Hopkinson, who served in France as a Territorial Nursing Sister from 1917-19. Beatrice worked close to the front line at casualty clearing stations, and her poignant account reveals the intense strain: 'I never realized what the word ÒdutyÓ meant until this War. To stand at one's post, never flinching and trying to keep the boys cheerful; all the time wondering when our time would come.' ??The memoir reveals the lighter side of wartime life, with entertainments, travel and enduring friendships. Beatrice also describes the practical realities of war in vivid detail Ð sleeping in dug outs, dodging bombs and avoiding rats 'as big as a good sized kitten'. A fascinating, close-up view of one women's life during wartime.

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Pen and Sword

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1473827590

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9781473827592

Making the House Fall Down

By: Beatrice Hawley

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Making the House Fall Down

By: Beatrice Hawley

Hawley's spare, emblematic poetry is like the stones she so often writes about: monumental, enduring, clean and insistently its own shape. Stripped to the bone her poems catalogue the minutiae of moments that, except in poetry, have no form." —Jane Barnes, Dark Horse

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Alice James Books

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1938584481

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9781938584480

Stone Will Answer

A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology

By: Beatrice Searle

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Stone Will Answer

A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology

By: Beatrice Searle

A beautiful memoir, travelogue and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle. ‘A magnificent book’ Alex Woodcock ‘Exceptional’ Kerri Andrews ‘Luminous’ Spectator At the age of twenty-six, artist and Cathedral stonemason Beatrice Searle crossed the North Sea and walked 500 miles along a medieval pilgrim path through Southern Norway, taking with her a 40-kilogram Orcadian stone. Fascinated with the mysterious footprint stones of Northern Europe and the ancient Greco-Roman world, stones closely associated with travellers, saints and the inauguration of Kings, she follows in their footsteps as her stone becomes a talisman, a bedrock and an offering to those she meets along the way. Stone Will Answer is an unusual adventure story of journeys practical, spiritual and geological, of weight and motion, and an insight into a beguiling craft.

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Random House

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1473579325

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9781473579323

Infectious Connections

By: Beatrice Trum Hunter

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Infectious Connections

By: Beatrice Trum Hunter

Explains how short-term infections from foodborne diseases can lead to long-term health issues. Details food-processing to agricultural practices, global warming and imported foods. This book is an eye-opener for anyone concerned with the safety of our food sources.

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Basic Health Publications, Inc.

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1591202442

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9781591202448

Jethro and the Jews

Jewish Biblical Interpretation and the Question of Identity

By: Beatrice Lawrence

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Jethro and the Jews

Jewish Biblical Interpretation and the Question of Identity

By: Beatrice Lawrence

In Jethro and the Jews, Beatrice J. W. Lawrence examines rabbinic texts that address the biblical character of Jethro, a Midianite priest, Moses’ advisor and father-in-law, and the creator of the system of Jewish jurisprudence. Lawrence explores biblical interpretations in Midrash, Targum and Talmud, revealing a spectrum of responses to the presence of a man who straddles the line between insider and outsider. Ranging from character assassination to valorization of Jethro as a convert, these interpretive strategies reveal him to be a locus of anxiety for the rabbis concerning conversion, community boundaries, intermarriage, and non-Jews.

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BRILL

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9004348921

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9789004348929

Reintegrating Jihadist Extremist Detainees

Helping Extremist Offenders Back into Society

By: Daan Weggemans,Beatrice de Graaf

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Reintegrating Jihadist Extremist Detainees

Helping Extremist Offenders Back into Society

By: Daan Weggemans,Beatrice de Graaf

This book seeks to understand the processes of reintegration of former Jihadist detainees, as well as the role that the police and other frontline professionals play in this process. Over the past few decades the number of people who have been detained under the suspicion of terrorist activities has grown significantly. This has resulted in an increased scholarly interest in the topic of prisons and terrorism. However, the main focus of academic research has been on the period of incarceration with researchers paying extensive attention to the conditions under which terrorists have been detained as well as to various processes of alienation and (violent) radicalisation that sometimes take root while in prison. Much less has been written about the period after their incarceration and the steps being taken to prepare them for that transition. This book seeks to fill this gap. It argues that sentencing or incarcerating terrorism suspects is not the end of the story, but just the beginning of the next phase: a process of reintegration, or the start of a new cycle of violence. This exploratory study outlines the factors during and after detention that contribute or hinder the reintegration of those who have been incarcerated for violent extremism and terrorism. The overriding aim of this work is to facilitate further research into the radicalisation and de-radicalisation of jihadist suspects. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, Islamist radicalisation, criminology and security studies in general.

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Routledge

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1351744879

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9781351744874

Re-Imagining Old Age: Wellbeing, care and participation

By: Marian Barnes,Beatrice Gahagan,Lizzie Ward

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Re-Imagining Old Age: Wellbeing, care and participation

By: Marian Barnes,Beatrice Gahagan,Lizzie Ward

The understanding that humans are relational beings is central to the development of an ethical perspective that is built around the significance of care in all our lives. Our survival as infants is dependent on the care we receive from others. And for all of us, in particular, in older age, there are times when illness, emotional or physical frailty, mean that we require the care of others to enable us to deal with everyday life. With this in mind, this book presents the findings of a project that seeks to understand what wellbeing means to older people and to influence the practice of those who work with older people. Its starting point was a shared commitment amongst researchers and an NGO collaborator to the value of working with older people in both research and practice, to learn from them and be influenced by them rather than seeing them as the ‘subjects’ of a research project. Theoretically, the authors draw upon a range of studies in critical gerontology that seek to understand how experiences of ageing are shaped by their social, economic, cultural and political contexts. By employing a broad body of work that challenges normative assumptions of ‘successful’ ageing,’ the authors draw attention to how these assumptions have been constructed through neo-liberal policies of ‘active ageing.’ Notably, they also apply insights from feminist ethics of care, which are based on a relational ontology that challenges neo-liberal assumptions of autonomous individualism. Influenced by relational ethics, they are attentive to older people both as co-researchers and research respondents. By successfully applying this perspective to social care practice, they facilitate the need for practitioners to reflect on personal aspects of ageing and care but also to bridge the gap between the personal and the professional.

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Vernon Press

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1622730739

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9781622730735

Stories From Le Morte D'Arthur And The Mabinogion

By: Beatrice E. Clay

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Stories From Le Morte D'Arthur And The Mabinogion

By: Beatrice E. Clay

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion," authored by Beatrice E. Clay, presents a captivating collection of Arthurian legends and Welsh myths. Drawing from two iconic medieval sources, the book weaves together tales of chivalry, magic, and also heroic quests. Le Morte D'Arthur, written by Sir Thomas Malory, forms the foundation of the Arthurian legends. Clay skillfully selects and retells key episodes from this vast work, recounting the adventures of King Arthur, his knights, and the legendary sword, Excalibur. The narrative delves into the complexities of Arthur's reign, his noble deeds, and the tragic downfall of the Round Table. The Mabinogion, a compilation of Welsh myths and other one legends, which adds another layer of enchantment to the book. Clay brings to life the mystical world of ancient Wales, featuring and captivating stories of gods, heroes, and also otherworldly beings. Readers are immersed in magical encounters, ancient prophecies, and other one dramatic battles, capturing the essence of Welsh folklore. Through her eloquent prose, Beatrice E. Clay breathes new life into these timeless tales, preserving their essence while making them accessible to modern readers.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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9359396222

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9789359396224

Agricultural Heritage Systems in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America

By: Mauro Agnoletti,Antonio Santoro,Beatrice Fiore,Francesco Piras,Federica Romano,Alessandra Bazzurro

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Agricultural Heritage Systems in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America

By: Mauro Agnoletti,Antonio Santoro,Beatrice Fiore,Francesco Piras,Federica Romano,Alessandra Bazzurro

Agriculture is often considered as one of the main threats to ecosystems. Unsustainable farming practices often result in habitat loss, inefficient use of water, soil degradation, pollution, genetic erosion, among other negative impacts on human life, including hunger, low food quality, reduced access to food resources, as well as the abandonment of rural areas. Nevertheless, when agriculture is practiced in a sustainable way, it can contribute to the preservation of many habitats, to the protection of watersheds, to the preservation and improvement of soil health. The use of sustainable and ecological practices is the key feature distinguishing traditional agriculture from intensive one. It may not provide very high yields, but ensures sustainable harvests over time, thanks to time-tested technologies and traditional know-hows and also represent examples of adaptation to harsh environmental conditions. Based on this approach, in 2002, FAO launched the concept of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, to identify and safeguard agricultural systems that are ensuring food and livelihood security, while maintaining magnificent landscapes, agricultural biodiversity, traditional knowledge, cultural and social values. This book presents 18 examples of these traditional agriculture systems around the world, with a special focus on Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America, as a result of the “GIAHS Building Capacity” project co-funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and carried out by the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) of the University of Florence (Italy).

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Springer Nature

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3031448812

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9783031448812

My Apprenticeship

By: Beatrice Webb

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My Apprenticeship

By: Beatrice Webb

My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an exceptionally able person, with a zest for observation, a knack for pointed comment, and a habit of self-examination - all of which gifts she put to good account in the private diary she kept all her life and in this brilliant volume of autobiography which she based on that diary. It tells the story of a craft and a creed, of a withdrawn but talented girl, growing up in a prosperous household, who turned to social investigation and social reform, moving between the two starkly contrasted worlds of West End smart society and East End squalor. She served a hard apprenticeship, as a woman as well as a professional worker, and in a new introduction to this edition Norman MacKenzie describes the severe personal stresses which lay behind her life of dedication to social improvement, particularly her frustrated passion for Joseph Chamberlain and the troubled courtship which preceded her marriage to Sidney Webb. This volume ends on the eve of that marriage, when she was about to begin her famous and astonishingly productive collaboration with her husband. As historians, publicists and Fabian politicians the Webbs were pioneers of the modern age. The ensuring volume, which chronicles their mature career and was appropriately titled Our Partnership, is also published by the Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521297311

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9780521297318

The Glass House

A Novel

By: Beatrice Colin

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The Glass House

A Novel

By: Beatrice Colin

Beatrice Colin's The Glass House is a gorgeously transporting novel filled with turn-of-the-century detail and lush blooms, about two women from vastly different worlds Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch’s life hasn’t gone the way she planned. She and her husband, Malcolm, have drifted apart; her burgeoning art career came to nothing; and when she looks in the mirror, she sees disappointment. But at least she will always have Balmarra, her family’s grand Scottish estate, and its exquisite glass house, filled with exotic plants that can take her far away. When her estranged brother’s wife, Cicely Pick, arrives unannounced, with her young daughter and enough trunks to last the summer, Antonia is instantly suspicious. What besides an inheritance dispute could have brought her glamorous sister-in-law all the way from India? Still, Cicely introduces excitement and intrigue into Antonia’s life, and, as they get to know one another, Antonia realizes that Cicely has her own burdens to bear. Slowly, a fragile friendship grows between them. But when the secrets each are keeping become too explosive to conceal, the truth threatens their uneasy balance and the course of their entire lives.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250152496

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9781250152497

My Apprenticeship

By: Beatrice Potter Webb

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My Apprenticeship

By: Beatrice Potter Webb

This early work by Beatrice Potter Webb was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'My Apprenticeship Vol. I.' is the first volume of fascinating work on Victorian society. Beatrice Potter Webb was born in Gloucester, England in 1858. Both her mother and brother died early in her childhood leaving her to be raised by her father, Richard Potter. He was a successful businessman with large railroad interests and many influential friends in politics and industry whose company the young Beatrice would become accustomed to. Upon reaching adulthood, Potter moved to London and helped her cousin, Charles, a social reformer, research his book The Life and Labour of the People in London. It was during this time that she was introduced to Sidney James Webb, who later became her husband and collaborator. The Webb's, together, wrote eleven volumes of work which arguably shaped the way subsequent scholars thought about sociology. They also collaborated on more than 100 books and articles on the conditions of factory workers, and the economic history of Britain, among other subjects.

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340

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Read Books Ltd

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1473378311

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9781473378315

On Exploring Craft

Writers as Architects

By: Beatrice L. Bridglall

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On Exploring Craft

Writers as Architects

By: Beatrice L. Bridglall

The process of probing beneath and even shaving or sanding away the language undergirding literary works that, word by word, line by line and page by page, sustains a narrative’s arc, contributes to the perspective of writer as architect. For it not only positions, but also reinforces the significance of line, mass, texture, balance, scale and proportion in a new world, a created structure and the spaces that organize it, that if expertly executed, endures over time.

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118

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UPA

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0761866752

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9780761866756

Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry

Ibn Al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption

By: Beatrice Gruendler

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Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry

Ibn Al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption

By: Beatrice Gruendler

This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.

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Routledge

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1317832361

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9781317832362

Moving Kinship

Practicing Feminist Justice in a More-than-Human World

By: Beatrice Allegranti

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Moving Kinship

Practicing Feminist Justice in a More-than-Human World

By: Beatrice Allegranti

In this compelling text, choreographer and psychotherapist Beatrice Allegranti invites the reader into the transdisciplinary Moving Kinship project. Moving Kinship spans a decade of practice-led research with people experiencing early onset dementia; Black feminist activists; psychotherapists; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer artists and activists; capoeiristas; and an international team of professional dancers and composers, musicians and scientists. Allegranti’s practice is a more-than-collaboration: it involves accounting for deeply embodied and embedded oppression and privilege in the micro-relating of everyday life. She discusses this reckoning as a kin-aesthetic practice, and the message is foundationally feminist. The book opens possibilities for different registers of feminist justice and puts feminist new materialism, posthumanism and intersectional body politics to work in ways that affirm the paradox that every living thing moves everywhere, all the time, yet every movement is never neutral. As a white Italian-Irish feminist with a transgenerational legacy of the corrosive impact of fascism, she also weaves her own kinship story into dominating systems of patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism, intersecting in ways that are alive and well today. Moving Kinship offers a rich resource for feminist activists and scholars, trauma-informed therapists, somatic, movement and dance practitioners, artists and those interested in ethical and politically just ways to materially engage with grief, loss, dispossession and trauma.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040001351

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9781040001356

Fools Are Everywhere

The Court Jester Around the World

By: Beatrice K. Otto

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Fools Are Everywhere

The Court Jester Around the World

By: Beatrice K. Otto

In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history—the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and the Mogul emperors of India to those of medieval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. With a wealth of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, epigraphs, and illustrations (including flip art), Otto brings to light little-known jesters, highlighting their humanizing influence on people with power and position and placing otherwise remote historical figures in a more idiosyncratic, intimate light. Most of the work on the court jester has concentrated on Europe; Otto draws on previously untranslated classical Chinese writings and other sources to correct this bias and also looks at jesters in literature, mythology, and drama. Written with wit and humor, Fools Are Everywhere is the most comprehensive look at these roguish characters who risked their necks not only to mock and entertain but also to fulfill a deep and widespread human and social need.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226640914

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9780226640914

Court of the Dead: Rise of the Reaper General

An Illustrated Novel

By: Beatrice van Slee,Tom Gilliland

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Court of the Dead: Rise of the Reaper General

An Illustrated Novel

By: Beatrice van Slee,Tom Gilliland

Embark on a journey through the darkly bizarre and magical Underworld in this gorgeously illustrated origin story. In the dark fantasy universe of Court of the Dead, the savage war between Heaven and Hell is a futile stalemate fueled by the souls of mortals, whose purpose of existence has been twisted into nothing more than raw material for the harvest. Yet in seeking to transcend his grim duty in order to return meaning and inspiration to the cosmos, Death and his Court are cast as humanity's unlikely saviors. Into this dramatic setting are born Demithyle and his fellow reapers, whose first task is to confront the ever-advancing scourge of the vicious bael reiver hordes, ravenous and destructive wraiths who threaten to destroy the Underworld and end the Court's struggle before it begins. Join Demithyle as he evolves from humble foot soldier to reluctant captain, encountering many strange and wondrous characters and places, and finally accepts the mantle of the exalted Reaper General in order to lead to victory the Underworld's last, best hope for salvation.

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Simon and Schuster

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1683831241

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