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Making College Pay

An Economist Explains How to Make a Smart Bet on Higher Education

By: Beth Akers

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Making College Pay

An Economist Explains How to Make a Smart Bet on Higher Education

By: Beth Akers

A leading economist makes the case that college is still a smart investment, and reveals how to increase the odds of your degree paying off. “Full of easy-to-understand advice grounded in deep expertise and research.”—Martin West, William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Education, Harvard University The cost of college makes for frightening headlines. The outstanding balance of student loans is more than $1.5 trillion nationally, while tuitions continue to rise. And on the heels of a pandemic that nearly dismantled the traditional college experience, we have to wonder: Is college really worth it? From a financial perspective, says economist Beth Akers, the answer is yes. It’s true that college is expensive, but once we see higher education for what it is—an investment in future opportunities, job security, and earnings—a different picture emerges: The average college graduate earns an additionalmillion dollars over their career (compared to those who stopped their education after high school), and on average, two- and four-year schools deliver a 15 percent return on investment—double that of the stock market. Yet these outcomes are not guaranteed. Rather, they hinge upon where and how you opt to invest your tuition dollars. Simply put, the real problem with college isn’t the cost—it’s the risk that your investment might not pay off. In Making College Pay, Akers shows how to improve your odds by making smart choices about where to enroll, what to study, and how to pay for it. You’ll learn • why choosing the right major can matter more than where you enroll • the best criteria for picking a school (hint: not price, selectivity or ranking) • why working part-time while enrolled might set you back financially • why it’s often best to borrow, even if you don’t have to • the pros and cons of innovative alternatives to traditional college • how to take advantage of new, low-risk financing tools Full of practical advice for students and parents, Making College Pay reminds us that higher education remains an engine for opportunity, upward mobility, and prosperity.

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An Economist Explains How to Make a Smart Bet on Higher Education

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An Economist Explains How to Make a Smart Bet on Higher Education

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Game of Loans

The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt

By: Beth Akers,Matthew M. Chingos

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Game of Loans

The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt

By: Beth Akers,Matthew M. Chingos

Why fears about a looming student loan crisis are unfounded—and how they obscure what's really wrong with student lending College tuition and student debt levels have been rising at an alarming pace for at least two decades. These trends, coupled with an economy weakened by a major recession, have raised serious questions about whether we are headed for a major crisis, with borrowers defaulting on their loans in unprecedented numbers and taxpayers being forced to foot the bill. Game of Loans draws on new evidence to explain why such fears are misplaced—and how the popular myth of a looming crisis has obscured the real problems facing student lending in America. Bringing needed clarity to an issue that concerns all of us, Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos cut through the sensationalism and misleading rhetoric to make the compelling case that college remains a good investment for most students. They show how, in fact, typical borrowers face affordable debt burdens, and argue that the truly serious cases of financial hardship portrayed in the media are less common than the popular narrative would have us believe. But there are more troubling problems with student loans that don't receive the same attention. They include high rates of avoidable defaults by students who take on loans but don’t finish college—the riskiest segment of borrowers—and a dysfunctional market where competition among colleges drives tuition costs up instead of down. Persuasive and compelling, Game of Loans moves beyond the emotionally charged and politicized talk surrounding student debt, and offers a set of sensible policy proposals that can solve the real problems in student lending.

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Princeton University Press

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The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

By: Beth Tompkins Bates

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The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

By: Beth Tompkins Bates

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Ford in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As these workers came to realize that Ford's anti-union "American Plan" did not allow them full access to the American Dream, their loyalty eroded, and they sought empowerment by pursuing a broad activist agenda. This, in turn, led them to play a pivotal role in the United Auto Workers' challenge to Ford's interests. In order to fully understand this complex shift, Bates traces allegiances among Detroit's African American community as reflected in its opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, challenges to unfair housing practices, and demands for increased and effective political participation. This groundbreaking history demonstrates how by World War II Henry Ford and his company had helped kindle the civil rights movement in Detroit without intending to do so.

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Rancher's Redemption

By: Beth Cornelison

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Rancher's Redemption

By: Beth Cornelison

When Clay Colton found an abandoned car on his Texas ranch—bloodstained and filled with cash—he knew he faced big trouble. But he didn't know how much trouble, until the crime scene investigator assigned to the case was the ex-wife who still haunted his dreams.… Nothing had ever hurt Tamara Brown more than her divorce. But she had survived and made a career. Working closely with Clay to solve this deadly mystery was sweet misery—for him, too, she suspected. Was there really a chance they could somehow rekindle their love…?

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Heartland Heartbeats

A Country Heritage Story Collection

By: Beth Gibbons

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Heartland Heartbeats

A Country Heritage Story Collection

By: Beth Gibbons

Heartland Heartbeats is a compilation of short essays about country living from ancestors moving to Nebraska to the Civil War; a Chiefs friendship, robbery, murder and blessings. Family togetherness is a bond that ties the stories with faith and perseverance.

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Lies Told Under Oath

The Puzzling Story of the Pfanschmidt Murders and of the Surviving Son-Victim Or Villain?

By: Beth Lane

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Lies Told Under Oath

The Puzzling Story of the Pfanschmidt Murders and of the Surviving Son-Victim Or Villain?

By: Beth Lane

In 1912, a prosperous Illinois farm family Charles; his wife, Mathilda; their fifteen-year-old daughter, Blanche; and boarding schoolteacher Emma Kaempen were brutally murdered, the crime concealed by arson, and the family's surviving son, handsome Ray Pfanschmidt, arrested. He was convicted by the press long before trial. In Lies Told Under Oath, author Beth Lane retells the story of the murders, the trial, the verdict, and the aftermath. Using information culled from actual trial transcripts and newspaper accounts, Lane presents the day-to-day testimony as Ray's battle for his life surged through three courtrooms the drama complicated by brilliant attorneys, allegations of perjury, charges of rigged evidence, jailhouse informants, legal loopholes, conflict over the large estate being inherited by the alleged murderer, and appeals to the state supreme court. The remaining family became divided over Ray's guilt while his fiancée staunchly stood by him. Lies Told Under Oath provides a fascinating, historical account of the times and the people when science was in its infancy, telephones meant shared party lines, bloody evidence was contested (or contrived), and automobiles competed with bloodhounds and buggies. It captures the essence of an emotional crime that rocked this small Illinois community.

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Offending and Desistance

The importance of social relations

By: Beth Weaver

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Offending and Desistance

The importance of social relations

By: Beth Weaver

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance. While there is consensus across the body of desistance research that social relations have a role to play in variously constraining, enabling and sustaining desistance, no desistance studies have adequately analysed the dynamics or properties of social relations, or their relationship to individuals and social structures. This book aims to reset this balance. By examining the social relations and life stories of six Scottish men (in their forties), Weaver reveals the central role of friendship groups, intimate relationships and families of formation, employment and religious communities. She shows how, for different individuals, these relations triggered reflexive evaluation of their priorities, behaviours and lifestyles, but with differing results. Weaver’s re-examination of the relationships between structure, agency, identity and reflexivity in the desistance process ultimately illuminates new directions for research, policy and practice. This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology and criminal justice, delinquency, probation and criminal law.

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Woman with Guitar

Memphis Minnie's Blues

By: Paul Garon,Beth Garon

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Woman with Guitar

Memphis Minnie's Blues

By: Paul Garon,Beth Garon

Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues artists, Memphis Minnie (1897–1973) wrote and recorded hundreds of songs. Blues people as diverse as Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Big Mama Thornton, and Chuck Berry have acknowledged her as a major influence. At a time when most female vocalists sang Tin Pan Alley material, Minnie wrote her own lyrics and accompanied her singing with virtuoso guitar playing. Thanks to her merciless imagination and dark humor, her songs rank among the most vigorous and challenging popular poetry in any language. Woman with Guitar is the first full-length study of the life and work of this extraordinary free spirit, focusing on the lively interplay between Minnie's evolving artistry and the African American community in which she lived and worked. Drawing on folklore, psychoanalysis, critical theory, women's studies, and surrealism, the authors' explorations of Minnie's songs illuminate the poetics of popular culture as well as the largely hidden history of working-class women's self-emancipation. This revised and expanded edition includes a wealth of new biographical material, including photographs, record contracts, sheet music, and period advertisements, which further vivify this portrait of an African American musical legend. Complete, updated discography included. "Woman with Guitar is a fascinating, thorough and extremely valuable biography of one of American musical history's most vibrant and pioneering artists. As the first woman singer/songwriter/ guitarist to ever reach stardom, the story of her life in music, on and off the stage, during one of the most important and formative periods of the origins of popular music, is an indelible, crucial window into that history."—Bonnie Raitt "Woman with Guitar has been, since it was first published in 1992 and now with this new revised and extended edition, still the only real definitive biography of Memphis Minnie, the most important female singer, songwriter and guitarist in the history of Delta blues."—Lucinda Williams "As a most ardent and devoted lifelong fan of Memphis Minnie and her music, I avidly devoured the original Woman with Guitar when it first came out in 1992. Now I am excited to be reading this new edition, and so grateful for it's additional rare photos and carefully researched details, which shed even more light on this seminal, iconic, almost mythical musical pioneer, who was way ahead of her time, and whose soulful music and life so deeply inspired and influenced so many! A must read — whether you are already a Memphis Minnie fan, or just discovering her for the first time!" — Maria Muldaur "An excellent book."—Bill Wyman "Woman with Guitar is not simply a carefully researched biography of Memphis Minnie, complied from the memories of her relatives, friends, and fellow performers; it is a vivid portrait of a talented singer and guitarist . . . The authors have added a new dimension to blues scholarship."—Paul Oliver, author of Blues Off the Record "Woman with Guitar is a delight. The book is both thorough and brilliant, a rare combination these days. . . . A fanatic interest in Minnie underpins and energizes this wonderful biography."—David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness Paul Garon is a co-founder of Living Blues magazine and author of The Devil's Son-in-Law and Blues and the Poetic Spirit. Beth Garon is a painter and collagist. The Garons operate a rare-book business in Chicago, Illinois, and have been associated with the US surrealist movement for many years.

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City Lights Books

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0872868532

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Studying Situational Interaction

Explaining Behaviour By Analysing Person-Environment Convergence

By: Beth Hardie

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Studying Situational Interaction

Explaining Behaviour By Analysing Person-Environment Convergence

By: Beth Hardie

In response to misconceptions and sub-optimal assessment of situational interaction in the criminological literature, this volume is a comprehensive resource for researchers of person-environment interaction in human behavioural outcomes, with a focus on acts of crime. It provides a bridge between strong complex theory about causal situational interaction in crime and the appropriate methods for empirically testing proposed situational mechanisms. It is underwritten by the principle that research should be driven by theory and served by method. This volume clarifies the key concepts of interaction and situation within the framework of Situational Action Theory (SAT). It details the implications of these conceptual issues for an appropriate integrative analytical approach to data collection and analysis that places situational interaction at the heart of research into the causes of behaviour (such as acts of crime). Using existing examples of attempts to analyse person-environment interaction, the volume distinguishes and showcases different methods and evaluates their appropriateness for the study of situational interaction in behaviour. Appropriate for researchers in criminology and the behavioural sciences more generally, Studying Situational Interaction is essential for those studying the individual and environmental causes of human actions such as crime.

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Springer Nature

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3030461947

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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook - E-Book

By: Betty J. Ackley,Gail B. Ladwig,Mary Beth Flynn Makic

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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook - E-Book

By: Betty J. Ackley,Gail B. Ladwig,Mary Beth Flynn Makic

Ackley’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 11th Edition helps practicing nurses and nursing students select appropriate nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. This convenient handbook shows you how to correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. Extensively revised and updated with the new 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, it integrates the NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and adult, pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, and client/family teaching and discharge planning considerations to guide you in creating unique, individualized care plans. Comprehensive, up-to-date information on all the 2015-2017 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses so you stay in the know. UNIQUE! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis plus two unique care plans for Hearing Loss and Vision Loss. Includes pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, client/family teaching and discharge planning, home care, and safety interventions as necessary for plans of care. Presents examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan. UNIQUE! Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve website offers hands-on practice creating customized plans of care. 150 NCLEX exam-style review questions are available on Evolve. Promotes evidence-based interventions and rationales by including recent or classic research that supports the use of each intervention. Classic evidence-based references promote evidence-based interventions and rationales. Clear, concise interventions are usually only a sentence or two long and use no more than two references. Safety content emphasizes what must be considered to provide safe patient care. Step-by-step instructions show you how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care. List of Nursing Diagnosis Index in back inside cover of book for quick reference. Three-column index is easy to use. Easy-to-follow sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selecting appropriate nursing diagnoses. Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.

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The College Completion Glass—Half-Full or Half-Empty?

Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education

By: Tiffany Beth Mfume

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The College Completion Glass—Half-Full or Half-Empty?

Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education

By: Tiffany Beth Mfume

Despite the Great Recession and looming “student loan debt crisis”, college education remains the most proven, invaluable lifetime investment and serves as the most reliable path to upward mobility and socioeconomic class reassignment. Mfume suggests that “the value added” of even one year of college can be transformative. As higher education professionals and partners continue to advocate for new and improved college retention and graduation measures, The College Completion Glass—Half-Full or Half-Empty? Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education presents a new paradigm for higher education, one that focuses on “the value added” of postsecondary education as well as on student success beyond the traditional measure of college graduation rates, a model which merges conventional practices and supports for students with non-traditional partnerships with, and advocacy from, successful non-completers.

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1475839618

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Wedded Captive

By: Beth Bennett

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Wedded Captive

By: Beth Bennett

Elyse of Ainsworth is used to having the run of her father’s castle. Petted and pampered, her life comes to a screeching halt as William the Conqueror’s invading armies take control. Elyse refuses surrender, especially to the new commander of her childhood home, Robert de Brix. Robert is used to being obeyed, however, and he is determined to bow the rebellious Elyse to his will. Elyse hides in plain sight, but Robert will stop at nothing to capture and punish her for the misery she has managed to heap upon his army. Will the vanquished become the victor, or will Robert finally win her heart?

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Blushing Publications

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1682591468

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The City and Sex

Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic

By: Mary Beth McConahey

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The City and Sex

Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic

By: Mary Beth McConahey

The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving responses of both statesmen and citizens reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health and illuminates the country’s dangerous tendency toward servitude. Using scandals as a window through which to glimpse our deterioration, the book identifies a trajectory of decline beginning in the twentieth century, by which Americans became less tutored in virtue, less spirited in citizenship, less agreed on questions of moral significance, and ultimately less dexterous in exercising the skills of self-government. It seeks to show that the freedom from virtue won through the collapse of moral standards has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement Alexis de Tocqueville cautioned against in the 1830s.

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Lexington Books

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149851829X

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YogaLean

Poses and Recipes to Promote Weight Loss and Vitality-for Life!

By: Beth Shaw

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YogaLean

Poses and Recipes to Promote Weight Loss and Vitality-for Life!

By: Beth Shaw

From the founder of YogaFit™, one of the world’s leading mind-body education and yoga training organizations, comes a revolutionary approach to weight loss and wellness. Forget diets and guilt and judgments! Achieve your optimal weight by developing what internationally recognized yoga and fitness expert Beth Shaw calls Lean Consciousness. The ultimate path to weight loss, weight management, and whole-life wellness, Lean Consciousness grows out of filling your mind with good intentions, fueling your body with good food, and then moving your body intentionally. Combining the latest nutrition and exercise science with yogic wisdom and principles, YogaLean offers an easy-to-follow and inspiring holistic lifestyle program: • fully illustrated yoga poses that promote a lean physique, strengthen your core, increase energy, improve balance, boost metabolism, and enhance confidence • a menu of cardio and weight-training workouts that complement your yoga, refine your physical strength, and ward off disease • easy recipes (gluten-free!) and simple suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks that will help you burn fat more efficiently • stress-reducing and clarity-enhancing daily meditations • breathing exercises to fortify your immune system • strategies for clearing clutter from your space in order to clear barriers from your life • a one-week jumpstart plan outlining precisely what to eat and how to exercise your body and mind! Praise for YogaLean “YogaLean is a maverick and unique plan.”—Pamela Peeke, MD, author of Body for Life for Women “Perfect for people who want to integrate yoga and nutrition into a 360-degree program to lose weight and increase their energy levels. The book walks readers through cohesive plans for four distinct motivations: amp up energy, promote a leaner body, increase immunity, and promote youthfulness inside and out.”—Christa Avampato, founder, Compass Yoga “The ultimate path to whole-life wellness.”—Massage Magazine

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Ballantine Books

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0804178550

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Hell No I Don't Remember, I Have Alzheimer's!

Navigating the Alzheimer's journey

By: Beth Withers Banning,Faith Austin,Terri Green,Kenney Hayes

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Hell No I Don't Remember, I Have Alzheimer's!

Navigating the Alzheimer's journey

By: Beth Withers Banning,Faith Austin,Terri Green,Kenney Hayes

“Hell No I Don’t Remember, I Have Alzheimer’s!” were the very words spoken by one of our loved ones when asked if they remembered. Dementia and Alzheimer’s are inordinate diseases that steal away the thoughts, memories, and perspectives of those impacted. They are villains that corrode the filters of one’s mind leaving them open for more decay. Four authors have collaborated to share their experiences about the reality of caring for loved ones who have dementia/Alzheimer’s. If you are struggling with this disease as a caregiver, you will undoubtedly identify with many of the same experiences. It is our hope that our shared stories give you solace in knowing others are walking this journey with you. You are not alone. Perhaps you can find a respite in each chapter and take away valuable information.

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1664185615

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The Object at Hand

Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections

By: Beth Py-Lieberman

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The Object at Hand

Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections

By: Beth Py-Lieberman

From Dorothy's ruby slippers to a speech that saved Teddy Roosevelt from assassination, this authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections For American history, pop culture, and museum enthusiasts With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take readers on an unforgettable journey through the Smithsonian museums. Objects are grouped into the themes audacity, utopia, fierce, haunting, deception, lost, desire, triumph, scale, optimism, playful, rhythm, and revealing to engage with the emotional dimensions of each object, how they relate to each other, and how they fit into the larger American story. A sampling includes: The Star-Spangled Banner Frida Kahlo's love letter to Diego Rivera Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B Nat Turner's Bible An AIDS quilt panel honoring Roger Gail Lyon A signpost from the Standing Rock protest A glass-plate portrait of Abraham Lincoln Life-sized model of a Megalodon The Hope Diamond Chuck Berry's Cadillac Portrait of Henrietta Lacks Py-Lieberman reflects on the profound connections between even outwardly dissimilar objects, and offers insight and stories from Smithsonian experts. The book explores artworks, scientific specimens, historical artifacts, airplanes, spacecraft, plants, and so much more, contemplating how each item represents different facets of humanity and resonates with cultural meaning in surprising ways. Whimsical, affecting, and insightful, The Object at Hand offers an intimate and exclusive tour of the Smithsonian collections.

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1588347494

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Role of Guiding and Counselling

By: Joyce G. Pere,Beth James Makau,Consolata Kanyua Kinoti Kiara,Helen Christine Amongin Waiswa,Elizabeth Juliet Mukisa

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Role of Guiding and Counselling

By: Joyce G. Pere,Beth James Makau,Consolata Kanyua Kinoti Kiara,Helen Christine Amongin Waiswa,Elizabeth Juliet Mukisa

TOPICS IN THE BOOK Influence of Guidance and Counselling Services on Reduction of Drug Abuse among Undergraduate Students in Public University Campuses in Nairobi County, Kenya Challenges Experienced in Drug and Substance Abuse Cessation Efforts among Students in Secondary Schools: A Case of Machakos Municipality, Machakos County, Kenya Strategies Used by Elderly Couples to Strengthen Marriages and Maintain Stability within Westlands Sub-County, Nairobi County Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Relations among University Upgrading (Grade V) Teacher Students Practices of Managing Students’ Socio-Economic Status for Achievement of Educational Goals in Makerere University (Uganda)

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IPR Journals and Book Publishers

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9914728316

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Historic Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

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Historic Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

Continuing the success of the nationally acclaimed Haunted America, Historic Haunted America is a further investigation into North American ghost legends. This chilling collection documents yesterday's and today's most terrifying hauntings in the United States and Canada in more than seventy-five shocking stories! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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1466805153

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Beside the Golden Door

Policy, Politics, and the Homeless

By: James D. Wright,Beth A. Rubin,Joel A. Devine

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Beside the Golden Door

Policy, Politics, and the Homeless

By: James D. Wright,Beth A. Rubin,Joel A. Devine

Written for the general public as well as for specialists, this volume details some of the numerous dimensions of the homelessness issue: the rise in poverty; the decline of low-income housing: problems in counting the homeless; the role of familial estrangement; mental illness; substance abuse; and health status and behaviors. The authors conclude with discussions of rural versus urban homelessness, street children in Latin America, and homelessness in postindustrial societies.

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Transaction Publishers

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0202364283

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Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime

By: Per-Olof H. Wikström,Dietrich Oberwittler,Kyle Treiber,Beth Hardie

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Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime

By: Per-Olof H. Wikström,Dietrich Oberwittler,Kyle Treiber,Beth Hardie

Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places? Presenting an ambitious new study designed to test a pioneering new theory of the causes of crime, Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime demonstrates that these questions can only go so far in explaining why crime happens - and, therefore, in preventing it. Based on the work of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), Breaking Rules presents an analysis of the urban structure of Peterborough and its relation to young people's social life. Contemporary sciences state that behaviour is the outcome of an interaction between people and the environments to which they are exposed, and it is precisely that interaction and its relation to young people's crime involvement that PADS+ explores. Driven by a ground-breaking theory of crime, Situational Action Theory, which aims to explain why people break rules, it implements innovative methods of measuring social environments and people's exposure to them, involving a cohort of 700 young people growing up in the UK city of Peterborough. It focuses on the important adolescent time window, ages 12 to 17, during which young people's crime involvement is at its peak, using unique space-time budget data to explore young people's time use, movement patterns, and the spatio-temporal characteristics of their crime involvement. Presenting the first study of this kind, both in breadth and detail, with significant implications for policy and prevention, Breaking Rules should not only be of great interest to academic readers, but also to policy-makers and practitioners, interested in issues of urban environments, crime within urban environments, and the role of social environments in crime causation.

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0191634107

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Children’s Liturgy of the Word 2024-2025

A Weekly Resource

By: Main author: Mary Beth Jambor Scripture Backgrounds by Mary A. Ehle Peg Ekerdt Marielle Frigge, osb Jean Marie Hiesberger Biagio Mazza Mary M. McGlone, csj Abbot Gregory J. Polan, osb Denise Simeone George Smiga Paul Turner Season Backgrounds by Margaret M. Brennan Catherine Combier-Donovan Stephen V. Hale, cfc Corinna Laughlin Biagio Mazza Mary M. McGlone, csj Jo-Ann Metzdorff D. Todd Williamson

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Children’s Liturgy of the Word 2024-2025

A Weekly Resource

The celebration of the Liturgy of the Word with children is a liturgical experience that opens young people to hear and respond to God’s Word in ways that enable them to be nurtured and challenged by its power, and to experience the grace of ongoing conversion to the vision and values of the Word of God. Children's Liturgy of the Word 2024–2025 enables prayer leaders to confidently lead children through the Liturgy of the Word. Each liturgy guide offers: An overview of the season. Weekly guides for leading and preparing the liturgy. Suggestions for the liturgical environment. Weekly Scripture citations and commentary on all three readings and the responsorial psalm. Weekly Scriptural connections to Church teaching and tradition. Weekly reflections for the children's Liturgy of the Word. The liturgy guides will enable prayer leaders to facilitate the Liturgy of the Word with children in a prayerful way, allowing each child to deepen and explore his or her relationship with God.

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Liturgy Training Publications

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1616717572

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The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

By: David Farber,Beth Bailey

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The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

By: David Farber,Beth Bailey

The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and transformative era, this volume offers multiple approaches and perspectives. The first section gives a lively narrative overview of the decade's major policies, events, and cultural changes. The second presents ten original interpretative essays from prominent historians about significant and controversial issues from the Vietnam War to the sexual revolution, followed by a concise encyclopedia articles organized alphabetically. This section could stand as a reference work in itself and serves to supplement the narrative. Subsequent sections include short topical essays, special subjects, a brief chronology, and finally an extensive annotated bibliography with ample information on books, films, and electronic resources for further exploration. With interesting facts, statistics, and comparisons presented in almanac style as well as the expertise of prominent scholars, The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s is the most complete guide to an enduringly fascinating era.

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0231518072

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Rethinking Zion

How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South

By: Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews

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Rethinking Zion

How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South

By: Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews

Rethinking Zion documents the process by which the South received its fundamentalist label and chronicles the forces at work in creating the image of the South as the Bible Belt.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572334932

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Educating Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

By: Erin E. Barton,Beth Harn

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Educating Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

By: Erin E. Barton,Beth Harn

Everything you need to know to educate students with autism Every 20 minutes, another child is diagnosed with autism. Are you ready to meet this growing educational challenge? This authoritative guide for practitioners—early interventionists, teachers, school counselors and psychologists—provides practical strategies for addressing the unique needs of children on the autism spectrum and their families. Drawing on current research and evidence-based practice, the authors discuss the causes of autism and present methods for educating children and assisting their families in supporting the educational process. Each chapter focuses on a critical issue and offers solutions, including: Improving communication, social, generalization and self-management skills Designing instruction, intervention, and assessment Including families in developing goals and interventions Using students′ special interests to deliver instruction Understanding and preventing challenging behavior Evaluating practices to promote successful outcomes for students, families and practitioners Included are forms, charts, and activities to help practitioners and families fulfill learning programs. Educating Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders will give you insight and tools to make a difference in the learning and lives of students with autism spectrum disorders.

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Corwin Press

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1452283478

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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 12th Edition Revised Reprint with 2021-2023 NANDA-I® Updates - E-Book

By: Betty J. Ackley,Gail B. Ladwig,Mary Beth Flynn Makic,Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz,Melody Zanotti

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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 12th Edition Revised Reprint with 2021-2023 NANDA-I® Updates - E-Book

By: Betty J. Ackley,Gail B. Ladwig,Mary Beth Flynn Makic,Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz,Melody Zanotti

- Step-by-step instructions show how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care. - UNIQUE! Care plans are provided for NANDA-I© approved nursing diagnoses. - Evidence-based interventions and rationales include recent or classic research and references supporting the use of each intervention. - Examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes are presented in each care plan. - 150 NCLEX® exam-style review questions are available on the Evolve website. - Easy-to-follow Sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selection of appropriate nursing diagnoses. - Clear, concise interventions are usually only a sentence or two long and use no more than two references. - Safety content emphasizes what must be considered to provide safe patient care. - List of NANDA-I© Diagnoses on the inside front cover of the book provides quick reference to page numbers. - Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses. - Appendixes provide valuable information in an easy-to-access location.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032387570X

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9780323875707

Liberty's Daughters

The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 : with a New Preface

By: Mary Beth Norton

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Liberty's Daughters

The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 : with a New Preface

By: Mary Beth Norton

Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.

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Cornell University Press

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0801483476

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Trauma Nursing E-Book

From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation

By: Karen A. McQuillan,Mary Beth Flynn Makic

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Trauma Nursing E-Book

From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation

By: Karen A. McQuillan,Mary Beth Flynn Makic

Learn to provide state-of-the-art care to any patient in any setting with the most comprehensive trauma nursing resource available. Using the unique cycles of trauma framework, Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation, 5th Edition features coverage of cutting-edge research findings and current issues, trends, and controversies in trauma nursing. The thoroughly updated fifth edition guides you through all phases of care - from preventive care and the time of injury to the resuscitative, operative, critical, intermediate, and rehabilitative stages. Plus, new chapters address unique trauma patient populations including pregnant women, children, the elderly, bariatric individuals, burned patients, those with a history of substance abuse and organ donors. With timely discussions on emerging topics such as mass casualty events and rural trauma, this is the most complete resource available for both students and experienced trauma nurses. UPDATED! Disaster preparedness, response and recovery for mass casualty incidents prepares students to act quickly and confidently in the event of a disaster, with guidelines for initial response and sustained response. UPDATED! The latest sepsis protocols, opioid use and pain/sedation protocols, and treating injured patients with diabetes. Special populations coverage prepares you to meet the needs of unique trauma patient populations including pregnant women, children, the elderly, bariatric individuals, burn patients, those with a history of substance abuse and organ donors. Coverage of specific issues that affect all patients regardless of their injury, gives you a solid understating of mechanism of injury, traumatic shock, patient/family psychosocial responses to trauma, pain, anxiety, delirium and sleep management; infection; wound healing, and nutrition. Tables and illustrations throughout add clarity to the content being discussed. NEW! Information on a team-centered, interdisciplinary approach to care. NEW! Up-to-date evidence-based information about issues that affect trauma care systems, includes injury pathophysiology, and state-of-the-art care for the trauma patient during all phases of care. NEW! All new content includes information on cultural sensitivity, care for caregivers, and how to handle self-harm injuries and suicide. NEW! Certification review questions help you to prepare for certification by listing the correct answers and rationales. NEW! Current recommendations for measuring fluid administration responsiveness.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323594751

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A People and a Nation

A History of the United States

By: Mary Beth Norton,Paul D. Escott,David M. Katzman

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A People and a Nation

A History of the United States

By: Mary Beth Norton,Paul D. Escott,David M. Katzman

This textbook history of the United States, beginning in 1492 and going through the present day, is a shortened version of the 1982 edition.

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Houghton Mifflin

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0395369320

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People and Nations

By: Mary Beth Norton,Norton Staff

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People and Nations

By: Mary Beth Norton,Norton Staff

American History from 1865-1989.

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0395574013

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The Parents' Resource Almanac

Where to Write, who to Call, what to Buy, and how to Find Out Everything You Need to Know

By: Beth DeFrancis

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The Parents' Resource Almanac

Where to Write, who to Call, what to Buy, and how to Find Out Everything You Need to Know

By: Beth DeFrancis

The author of The Writer's Guide to Metropolitan Washington: Where to Sell What You Write now offers a book of resources for parents--an all-in-one directory that lists telephone hotline numbers, newsletters, catalogs, associations, and more. The only guide to nationwide parenting resources.

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Adams Media Corporation

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1558503943

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