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We Thought It Would Be Heaven

Refugees in an Unequal America

By: Blair Sackett,Annette Lareau

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We Thought It Would Be Heaven

Refugees in an Unequal America

By: Blair Sackett,Annette Lareau

Resettled refugees in America face a land of daunting obstacles where small things—one person, one encounter—can make all the difference in getting ahead or falling behind. Fleeing war and violence, many refugees dream that moving to the United States will be like going to Heaven. Instead, they enter a deeply unequal American society, often at the bottom. Through the lived experiences of families resettled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau reveal how a daunting obstacle course of agencies and services can drastically alter refugees’ experiences building a new life in America. In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, “you see the American story.” For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophes—food stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engaging and eye-opening, We Thought It Would Be Heaven brings readers into the daily lives of Congolese refugees and offers guidance for how activists, workers, and policymakers can help refugee families thrive.

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Univ of California Press

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0520976509

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9780520976504

Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History

A Tour Through the City's History

By: Margery Blair Perkins

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Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History

A Tour Through the City's History

By: Margery Blair Perkins

Local historian Margery Blair Perkins (1907-1981) provides a detailed narrative charting the growth and development of the North Shore city of Evanston, Illinois, a place boasting a rich and multi-layered history. Perkins brings the citys past to life through stories of its residents, architecture, and growth over the years. She charts the development of the city from its earliest days when it was known as the settlement of Grosse Pointe and later Ridgeville to its modern manifestation as a bustling city just outside of Chicago. Within a larger historical narrative, Perkins provides biographies of noted residents as she documents the evolution of the citys organizations, cultural life and institutions, such as Northwestern University.

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219

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Lulu.com

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0615771793

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9780615771793

Medicines Management in Children′s Nursing

By: Karen Blair

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Medicines Management in Children′s Nursing

By: Karen Blair

Children′s nurses must develop the crucial skills of correct medicines management and calculations in order to provide safe care to their patients. This book specifically supports pre-registration students in meeting the required competencies for medicines management needed to pass formal assessment and qualify as a children′s nurse. It is clearly structured around the NMC Essential Skills Clusters for medicines management, covering legal aspects, drugs calculations, administration, storage, record keeping, introductory pharmacology, patient communication and contextual issues in medication. The book is written in user-friendly language and uses patient scenarios to explain concepts and apply theory to practice.

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225

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Learning Matters

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1844457532

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9781844457533

Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966

By: John Blair

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Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966

By: John Blair

Dick Dale & the Del-Tones began holding weekend dances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California, in the summer of 1960. Over the next year and a half, Dale developed the sound and style that came to be known as "surf music." The result was the development of more powerful guitar amplifiers, a dramatic increase in the sales of Fender guitars and amplifiers, and a shift from New York to West Coast recording studios. More and more people were drawn to the sport of surfing, which became an important part of teen beach culture at the time. Even landlocked teenagers were captured by the moment, carrying surfboards atop their woodies in Phoenix or bleaching their hair blonde in St. Paul. For hundreds of thousands of kids, though, the attraction was not the connection to surfing; it was the connection to the music pioneered by Dick Dale.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439650713

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9781439650714

Inuit in Cyberspace

Embedding Offline, Identities Online

By: Neil Blair Christensen

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Inuit in Cyberspace

Embedding Offline, Identities Online

By: Neil Blair Christensen

In this cyber-ethnography, Neil Blair Christensen explores the processes by which a wide selection of personal, local, cultural and national identities are expressed and understood on the Internet. The different Inuit peoples of the circumpolar Arctic have always taken active part in the world, but their contemporary use of Internet(s) has affected even more their relative isolation -- one that comes from living in a peripheral region of the world. Yet, Inuit and others are constructing web pages with social and physical references that sustain an imagined Arctic remoteness; a logic that seems to be a key aspect of Inuit identities and cultures. The book brings together in analysis and discussion the realities of contemporary Inuit, the myth of cyberspace and a selection of dynamic strategies for identification. It concludes that Inuit dynamically remain Inuit, in all their diversity, regardless of an imagined compression of time and space; their use of changing technologies, or participation in enlarged social networks.

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146

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8772897236

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9788772897233

Child Public Health

By: Mitch Blair

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Child Public Health

By: Mitch Blair

This text focuses on a public health approach to the health and sickness of children and young people - comprising about a quarter of the population. It explores the state of health of our children, the historical roots of the specialty and the relation between early health and later adult health.

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321

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Oxford University Press

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0199547505

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9780199547500

Death Interrupted

How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die

By: Blair Bigham

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Death Interrupted

How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die

By: Blair Bigham

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era. Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive almost indefinitely. But this unprecedented shift in intensive care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones, and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves. Through conversations with critical care and end-of-life professionals—including ethicists, social workers, nurses, and doctors—and observations from his own time working in ambulances, emergency rooms, and the icu, Dr. Blair Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying by addressing the tough questions facing us all.

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House of Anansi

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1487008554

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9781487008550

We Thought It Would Be Heaven

Refugees in an Unequal America

By: Blair Sackett,Annette Lareau

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We Thought It Would Be Heaven

Refugees in an Unequal America

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Univ of California Press

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We Thought It Would Be Heaven

We Thought It Would Be Heaven

Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History

Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History

Medicines Management in Children′s Nursing

Medicines Management in Children′s Nursing

Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966

Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966

Inuit in Cyberspace

Inuit in Cyberspace

Child Public Health

Child Public Health

Death Interrupted

Death Interrupted

We Thought It Would Be Heaven

We Thought It Would Be Heaven

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