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White Parents, Black Children

Experiencing Transracial Adoption

By: Darron T. Smith,Cardell K. Jacobson,Brenda G. Juárez

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White Parents, Black Children

Experiencing Transracial Adoption

By: Darron T. Smith,Cardell K. Jacobson,Brenda G. Juárez

White Parents, Black Children looks at the difficult issue of race in transracial adoptions--particularly the adoption by white parents of children from different racial and ethic groups. Despite the long history of troubled and fragile race relations in the United States, some people believe the United States may be entering a post-racial state where race no longer matters, citing evidence like the increasing number of transracial adoptions to make this point. However, White Parents, Black Children argues that racism remains a factor for many children of transracial adoptions. Black children raised in white homes are not exempt from racism, and white parents are often naive about the experiences their children encounter. This book aims to bring to light racial issues that are often difficult for families to talk about, focusing on the racial socialization white parents provide for their transracially adopted children about what it means to be black in contemporary American society. Blendingthe stories of adoptees and their parents with extensive research, the authors discuss trends in transracial adoptions, challenge the concept of "colorblind" America, and offer suggestions to help adoptees develop a healthy sense of self.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442207620

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9781442207622

The Study Of Primary Education

A Source Book - Volume 4: Classroom And Teaching Studies

By: Marion Dadds,Brenda Lofthouse

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The Study Of Primary Education

A Source Book - Volume 4: Classroom And Teaching Studies

By: Marion Dadds,Brenda Lofthouse

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135387117

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9781135387112

Wild Winter Nights: A Sizzling Sampler

By: Lori Foster,Gena Showalter,Lynne Graham,Delores Fossen,Alexa Riley,Brenda Jackson,Tiffany Reisz,Tawny Weber,Maisey Yates,Anna del Mar,Diane Gaston

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Wild Winter Nights: A Sizzling Sampler

By: Lori Foster,Gena Showalter,Lynne Graham,Delores Fossen,Alexa Riley,Brenda Jackson,Tiffany Reisz,Tawny Weber,Maisey Yates,Anna del Mar,Diane Gaston

** FREE DIGITAL SAMPLER FEATURING EXTENDED EXCERPTS FROM TODAY'S HOTTEST ROMANCE AUTHORS** Forget the cold days of winter and get ready for a hot winter's night with your favoriteheroes! From sexy billionaires to ripped bodyguards, hard-bodied Navy SEALs to rugged cowboys,there's something for every romance reader. Whether you're into intense and brooding ortattooed and fierce, these alpha males will definitely warm you up! So snuggle in and letyourself be whisked away by some of the hottest romance stories of the year with this freesampler featuring excerpts from twelve new novels written by today's bestselling authors. Featuring extended excerpts from: • Under Pressure by Lori Foster • The Darkest Torment by Gena Showalter • The Greek's Christmas Bride by Lynne Graham • Those Texas Nights by Delores Fossen • Everything for Her by Alexa Riley • Forged in Desire by Brenda Jackson • One Hot December by Tiffany Reisz • Call to Honor by Tawny Weber • Hold Me, Cowboy by Maisey Yates • To the Edge by Anna del Mar • Bound by a Scandalous Secret by Diane Gaston

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Harlequin

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1488024987

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9781488024986

Harlequin Desire November 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Brenda Jackson,Andrea Laurence,Elizabeth Bevarly

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Harlequin Desire November 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Brenda Jackson,Andrea Laurence,Elizabeth Bevarly

Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles for one great price! BREAKING BAILEY'S RULES (The Westmorelands) Brenda Jackson When Bailey Westmoreland follows loner Walker Quinn to his Alaskan ranch to apologize for doing him wrong, she can't help but stay to nurse the exasperating man's wounds…and lose her own heart in the process! ONE WEEK WITH THE BEST MAN (Brides and Belles) Andrea Laurence When wallflower Gretchen McAlister is chosen as the fake wedding date of sexy movie star Julian Cooper, they don't have to fake their chemistry for the camera. But is the best man ready to become Gretchen's groom? A CEO IN HER STOCKING (The Accidental Heirs) Elizabeth Bevarly Struggling single mom Clara Easton is stunned when her three-year-old inherits a massive fortune from the man who never acknowledged his son…and who also has a gorgeous, wickedly sexy twin brother dead set on wooing her. Look for Harlequin® Desire's November 2015 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!

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1459292022

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9781459292024

Gen?t

A Biography of Janet Flanner

By: Brenda Wineapple

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Gen?t

A Biography of Janet Flanner

By: Brenda Wineapple

The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few yearsøbefore she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Gen?t. For half a century she described life on the Continent with matchless elegance.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803297408

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Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writers and Journalists 1912-2012

By: Brenda Kimsey Warneka,Carol Hughes,Lois McFarland,June P. Payne,Sheila Roe,Pam Knight Stevenson

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Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writers and Journalists 1912-2012

By: Brenda Kimsey Warneka,Carol Hughes,Lois McFarland,June P. Payne,Sheila Roe,Pam Knight Stevenson

Women who skirt traditions, whether on the frontier of a young state or in a male-dominated profession, have relied on resilience, creativity, and grit to survive…and to flourish. These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona span the one hundred years since Arizona became the forty-eighth state in the Union. They capture the emotions, the monumental and often overlooked events, and the pioneering spirit of women whose lives are now part of Arizona history. The remarkable women profiled in this anthology made the trek to Arizona from the big cities of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.; from the green hills of Wisconsin, and from backwater towns in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania; by covered wagon, automobile, and, later, airplane. They came with their parents or their husbands, or as single women, with and without children. They came seeking health in the sun-blessed dryness of the desert, a job, a better lifestyle. What these women had in common was their love of writing and journalism, and their ability to use the written word to earn a living, to argue a cause, and to promote the virtues, beauty, history, and people of the Southwest. The narratives in Skirting Traditions move forward from the beginning of statehood to the modern day, describing daring feats, patriotic actions, and amazing accomplishments. They are women you won't soon forget.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627874062

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9781627874069

Citizens and Sportsmen

Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile

By: Brenda Elsey

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Citizens and Sportsmen

Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile

By: Brenda Elsey

Fútbol, or soccer as it is called in the United States, is the most popular sport in the world. Millions of people schedule their lives and build identities around it. The World Cup tournament, played every four years, draws an audience of more than a billion people and provides a global platform for displays of athletic prowess, nationalist rhetoric, and commercial advertising. Fútbol is ubiquitous in Latin America, yet few academic histories of the sport exist, and even fewer focus on its relevance to politics in the region. To fill that gap, this book uses amateur fútbol clubs in Chile to understand the history of civic associations, popular culture, and politics. In Citizens and Sportsmen, Brenda Elsey argues that fútbol clubs integrated working-class men into urban politics, connected them to parties, and served as venues of political critique. In this way, they contributed to the democratization of the public sphere. Elsey shows how club members debated ideas about class, ethnic, and gender identities, and also how their belief in the uniquely democratic nature of Chile energized state institutions even as it led members to criticize those very institutions. Furthermore, she reveals how fútbol clubs created rituals, narratives, and symbols that legitimated workers' claims to political subjectivity. Her case study demonstrates that the relationship between formal and informal politics is essential to fostering civic engagement and supporting democratic practices.

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University of Texas Press

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0292726309

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9780292726307

The Impeachers

The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

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The Impeachers

The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times; The New York Times Book Review; NPR; Publishers Weekly “This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Vice-President Andrew Johnson became “the Accidental President,” it was a dangerous time in America. Congress was divided over how the Union should be reunited: when and how the secessionist South should regain full status, whether former Confederates should be punished, and when and whether black men should be given the vote. Devastated by war and resorting to violence, many white Southerners hoped to restore a pre–Civil War society, if without slavery, and the pugnacious Andrew Johnson seemed to share their goals. With the unchecked power of executive orders, Johnson ignored Congress, pardoned rebel leaders, promoted white supremacy, opposed civil rights, and called Reconstruction unnecessary. It fell to Congress to stop the American president who acted like a king. With profound insights and making use of extensive research, Brenda Wineapple dramatically evokes this pivotal period in American history, when the country was rocked by the first-ever impeachment of a sitting American president. And she brings to vivid life the extraordinary characters who brought that impeachment forward: the willful Johnson and his retinue of advocates—including complicated men like Secretary of State William Seward—as well as the equally complicated visionaries committed to justice and equality for all, like Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Ulysses S. Grant. Theirs was a last-ditch, patriotic, and Constitutional effort to render the goals of the Civil War into reality and to make the Union free, fair, and whole. Praise for The Impeachers “In this superbly lyrical work, Brenda Wineapple has plugged a glaring hole in our historical memory through her vivid and sweeping portrayal of President Andrew Johnson’s 1868 impeachment. She serves up not simply food for thought but a veritable feast of observations on that most trying decision for a democracy: whether to oust a sitting president. Teeming with fiery passions and unforgettable characters, The Impeachers will be devoured by contemporary readers seeking enlightenment on this issue. . . . A landmark study.”—Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Grant

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812987918

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9780812987911

Universal Preschool

Policy Change, Stability, and the Pew Charitable Trusts

By: Brenda K. Bushouse

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Universal Preschool

Policy Change, Stability, and the Pew Charitable Trusts

By: Brenda K. Bushouse

Examines recent trends in state-funded preschool education.

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SUNY Press

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0791493873

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9780791493878

Flight Paths to Success

Career Insights from Women Leaders in Aerospace

By: Rhonda Walthall,Brenda Mitchell

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Flight Paths to Success

Career Insights from Women Leaders in Aerospace

By: Rhonda Walthall,Brenda Mitchell

Flight Paths to Success profiles the personal journeys of 33 women who have been, and continue to be, successful in aviation, space, and academia. Each woman was asked to select one question of several questions in five categories: personal career insight, work-life balance, mentorship/sponsorship, avoiding a career stall, and powering through challenging situations. Each woman shared her unique experiences about work-life integration, resilience, career changes, relocation, continuing education, and career advancement. While reading their stories, we saw that there were many flight paths to success and each woman navigated her own way by charting her own course and committing to it. Their stories were published as they wrote them-in their own words.

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SAE International

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146860256X

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9781468602562

Women Who Kill Men

California Courts, Gender, and the Press

By: Gordon Morris Bakken,Brenda Farrington

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Women Who Kill Men

California Courts, Gender, and the Press

By: Gordon Morris Bakken,Brenda Farrington

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 to 1958. The fascinating details of these murder trials, documented in court records and embellished newspaper coverage, mirrored the changing public image of women. Although murder was clearly outside the norm for standard female behavior, most women and their attorneys relied on gendered stereotypes and language to create their defense and sometimes to leverage their status in a patriarchal system. Those who could successfully dress and act the part of the victim were most often able to win the sympathies of the jury. Gender mattered. And though the norms shifted over time, the press, attorneys, and juries were all informed by contemporary gender stereotypes.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803226578

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9780803226579

Blemished Beauty

By: Brenda Hodnett

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Blemished Beauty

By: Brenda Hodnett

Worlds collide when two strangers suddenly find themselves struggling to survive the Alaskan wilderness. Stranded in a small hunting cabin as a blizzard descends upon them. Daphne and Tom are forced to confront their individual insecurities as they learn to accept, and be accepted by, the other. As they come to know each other, and to accept themselves, a temporary romance flares. Each knows the weather raging outside will not last forever. Is there hope that the storm growing within their hearts will?

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Lulu.com

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1942624093

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9781942624097

Locked in a Circle

A Woman's Journey

By: Brenda J Rigsby

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Locked in a Circle

A Woman's Journey

By: Brenda J Rigsby

This unique fiction begins in the early seventies in the San Francisco Bay Area and ends in the year 2004. The main character (Rene Ward) invites you to look at her serious and sometimes funny lifestyle. After having a series of relationship breakups and the love of her life living on the down low, Rene finally finds the key to unlock the circle of success and pushes herself into the main stream of life. Locked in a Circle helps us to remember that dreams are formed when we are young but most dreams end in the graveyard before they are birthed. Locked This book pushes you to the point of wanting to capitalize on your dream and embrace life challenges while keeping your eye on your goal. No one ever really knows the true map to lifes challenges, Locked makes you wonder if you have veered off the path.

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iUniverse

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1450272355

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9781450272353

Singapore Street Names (4th edition): A Study of Toponymics

By: Victor R. Savage,Brenda SA Yeoh

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Singapore Street Names (4th edition): A Study of Toponymics

By: Victor R. Savage,Brenda SA Yeoh

Place names tell us much about a country — its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-image, The study of place names called toponymics unlocks the stories that are in every street name and landmark. In Singapore, the existence of various races, cultures and languages, as well as its history of colonization, immigration and nationalism has given rise to a complex history of place names. But how did these places get their names? This revised and expanded 4th edition of the book incorporates additional information, from archival research as well as interviews that have come to light since the last edition. Also included are many new entries that have presented themselves as Singapore’s built environment undergoes redevelopment. Expanded by over 100 pages.

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Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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9815009230

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9789815009231

U.S. History Little Books: Famous People

By: Brenda Strickland

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U.S. History Little Books: Famous People

By: Brenda Strickland

Encourage youngsters to learn about people and events in American history by making and reading their own Little Books. Each title provides reproducible materials for 16 Little Books as well as a timeline, a U.S. map, and correlations to NCSS standards.

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0743932609

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9780743932608

Energy Politics

By: Brenda Shaffer

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Energy Politics

By: Brenda Shaffer

It is not uncommon to hear states and their leaders criticized for "mixing oil and politics." The U.S.-led Iraq War was criticized as a "war for oil." When energy exporters overtly use energy as a tool to promote their foreign policy goals, Europe and the United States regularly decry the use of energy as a "weapon" rather than accept it as a standard and legitimate tool of diplomacy. In Energy Politics, Brenda Shaffer argues that energy and politics are intrinsically linked. Modern life—from production of goods, to means of travel and entertainment, to methods of waging war—is heavily dependent on access to energy. A country's ability to acquire and use energy supplies crucially determines the state of its economy, its national security, and the quality and sustainability of its environment. Energy supply can serve as a basis for regional cooperation, but at the same time can serve as a source of conflict among energy seekers and between producers and consumers. Shaffer provides a broad introduction to the ways in which energy affects domestic and regional political developments and foreign policy. While previous scholarship has focused primarily on the politics surrounding oil, Shaffer broadens her scope to include the increasingly important role of natural gas and alternative energy sources as well as emerging concerns such as climate change, the global energy divide, and the coordinated international policy-making required to combat them. Energy Politics concludes with examinations of how politics and energy interact in six of the world's largest producers and consumers of energy: Russia, Europe, the United States, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204522

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9780812204520

Women's Political Discourse

A 21st-century Perspective

By: Molly A. Mayhead,Brenda DeVore Marshall

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Women's Political Discourse

A 21st-century Perspective

By: Molly A. Mayhead,Brenda DeVore Marshall

Following an overview of women's political discourse from the early twentieth century, this book features selected women governors, representatives, and senators of the past several decades, from Jeannette Rank in the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742529096

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9780742529090

Divine Providence: A History

The Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante

By: Brenda Deen Schildgen

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Divine Providence: A History

The Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante

By: Brenda Deen Schildgen

Holding divine intervention responsible for political and military success and failure has a long history in western thought. This book explores the idea of providential history as an organizing principle for understanding the divine purpose for humans in texts that may be literary, historical, philosophical, and theological. Providential History shows that, with Virgil and the Bible as authoritative precursors to late antique views on history, the two most important political thinkers of the late antique Christian world, Orosius and Augustine, produced the theories of Christian politics and history that were carried over into the first and second millennium of Christianity. Likewise, their understanding of how the history of the late Roman Empire connects to God's plan for humankind became the background for understanding Dante's own positions in the Monarchia and the Commedia. Brenda Deen Schildgen examines Dante's engagement with these authoritative sources, whether in biblical, ancient Roman writers, or the specific legacy of Orosius and Augustine.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441146105

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9781441146106

Cesar Chavez

Crusader for Social Change

By: Brenda Haugen

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Cesar Chavez

Crusader for Social Change

By: Brenda Haugen

Presents the life of Cesar Chavez, focusing primarily on his work organizing the National Farm Workers Association and working for improved working and living conditions for all Mexican Americans.

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Capstone

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075653321X

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9780756533212

Dying, Death and Grief

Working with Adult Bereavement

By: Brenda Mallon

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Dying, Death and Grief

Working with Adult Bereavement

By: Brenda Mallon

This book′s strengths are [Brenda Mallon′s] clinical wisdom, experience and insights, and the practical, constructive, down-to-earth way in which she conveys these to her readers. This will appeal to many who are searching for guidance in the difficult task of providing support for the bereaved" - Bereavement Care, Spring 2010 ′This is a well written book that makes a very useful addition to the field" - Therapy Today, February 2009 ′A refreshing, down-to-earth text that examines theory and research without becoming an academic tome. It is comprehensive, focused on practice and contains important insights for developing the essential skills required to provide effective bereavement care′ - Dr John Costello, Head of Primary Care, University of Manchester ′Brenda Mallon gives the term "grief counselling" definition in a way no one has done before. If you are new to counselling the bereaved, this book is the best introduction I have seen. If you are an experienced grief counsellor, this should be the next book you read′ - Professor Dennis Klass, Webster University, Dying, Death and Grief is written for anyone who provides support to adults following bereavement. Whether in a professional or voluntary capacity, bereavement care requires empathy, judgement and skill to ensure your response matches the needs of the person you are helping. Recognizing that we all experience bereavement differently, this book introduces theory and skills which can be used in any context to address a wide range of needs. The author explains the theoretical background to attachment and loss and the core skills needed to support people who have been bereaved. Case studies and personal accounts illustrate key points and exercises help you examine your own experiences and attitudes in relation to loss. The book also takes into account topics frequently overlooked in other texts, such as sexuality, spiritual responses to loss, cultural influences and diversity, as well as the nature of chronic and disenfranchised grief. Dying, Death and Grief is designed for use on a wide range of training and academic courses that prepare practitioners to work with the bereaved. Professionals in a range of settings including hospitals and in the community as well as volunteers and be-frienders in hospices and nursing homes will find this a useful source of guidance. Brenda Mallon is a counsellor, trainer and author who specialises in bereavement care. She is vice chair of The Grief Centre, Manchester Area Bereavement Forum.

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SAGE

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1849208344

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9781849208345

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions

Intertwining networks

By: Maria Brenda,Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska

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A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions

Intertwining networks

By: Maria Brenda,Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к. Regarding these prepositions as path-prepositions, the authors show that the prepositional semantic structures are conceptually grounded in the PATH and the MOTION-EVENT frames and explain that prepositional senses emerge as a result of the PATH image schema transformations and metaphorical mappings related to the EVENT STRUCTURE metaphor. Based on their findings, the authors show how senso-motoric functioning, life experience, individual knowledge, imagery and different ways in which people conceptualize the world influence the relation between language and conceptualization.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027257434

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9789027257437

Working with Bereaved Children and Young People

By: Brenda Mallon

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Working with Bereaved Children and Young People

By: Brenda Mallon

This book offers a fresh insight into working practices with children and young people who are experiencing the death of a family member, friend, school peer or in their social network. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, the book′s practical skills focus is informed by the latest research findings on children and young people′s experience of grief. The wide-ranging content includes: - a comprehensive review of theoretical approaches to bereavement - the impact of different types of grief on children - working with children who have been bereaved in traumatic circumstances, such as through criminal behaviour - skills development. The list of resources, case studies and exercises encourage critical engagement with the counselling theory and promote reflexive practice. Trainees in counselling, psychotherapy and social work, as well as teachers and mental health workers, will find this an invaluable resource for working with this vulnerable client group.

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144624783X

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America's First Western Frontier, East Tennessee

A Story of the Early Settlers and Indians of East Tennessee

By: Brenda C. Calloway

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America's First Western Frontier, East Tennessee

A Story of the Early Settlers and Indians of East Tennessee

By: Brenda C. Calloway

Concentrating primarily within the period of 1600–1839, this narrative describes the first "Old West"—the land just beyond the crest of the Appalachian Mountains—and the many firsts that occurred there.

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The Overmountain Press

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0932807348

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9780932807342

Yeats's Ghosts

The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats

By: Brenda Maddox

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Yeats's Ghosts

The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats

By: Brenda Maddox

William Butter Yeats, who some critics feel was the greatest English language poet of our century, led a life of many contradictions. He was Ireland's most revered writer and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. But in his private life, Yeats struggled with passionate, if unrequited, relationships with women and was haunted by the spirits of his ancestors. Renowned biographer Brenda Maddox examines the poet's life through the prism of his personal obsession with the supernatural and otherworldly. She considers for the first time the Automatic Script, the trancelike communication with supposed spirits that he and his much younger wife. Georgie, conducted during the early years of their marriage. Writing with edge, wit, and energy, she finds the essential clues to Yeats's life and work in his unusual relationships with women, most particularly Maude and Iseult Gonne, his wife Georgie, and his rarely discussed mother.

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Harper Collins

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0060985046

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9780060985042

Dance on the Wind

By: Brenda K. Jernigan

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Dance on the Wind

By: Brenda K. Jernigan

Desperate but determined, lovely Brandy answers an advertisement for a mail order bride, hoping to build a new life out West for herself and the five orphans she's taken under her wing. She needs a guide to reach Fort Laramie by wagon train and turns to Thunder, a Cheyenne scout, for help. When he curtly refuses, Brandy is undaunted. And when he's jailed after a gunfight she makes a devil's bargain: he gets his freedom and she gets a guide.

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0739425382

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9780739425381

Overtime is Our Time

The Inside Story of the Maryland Terps' 2006 National Championship

By: Chris King,Brenda Frese

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Overtime is Our Time

The Inside Story of the Maryland Terps' 2006 National Championship

By: Chris King,Brenda Frese

Relive each step of the Maryland womens basketball teams title run, from the recruiting wars. . .to the defining victories. . .to the heart-stopping Final Four. . .to the champs White House visit.

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