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American Idyll

Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique

By: Catherine Liu

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American Idyll

Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique

By: Catherine Liu

A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones. Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy or rapacious plutocracy, but it has now become a revolt against meritocracy itself, directed against what insurgents see as a ruling class of credentialed elites with degrees from exclusive academic institutions. Catherine Liu reveals that, within the academy and stemming from the relatively new discipline of cultural studies, animosity against expertise has animated much of the Left’s cultural criticism. By unpacking the disciplinary formation and academic ambitions of American cultural studies, Liu uncovers the genealogy of the current antielitism, placing the populism that dominates headlines within a broad historical context. In the process, she emphasizes the relevance of the historical origins of populist revolt against finance capital and its political influence. American Idyll reveals the unlikely alliance between American pragmatism and proponents of the Frankfurt School and argues for the importance of broad frames of historical thinking in encouraging robust academic debate within democratic institutions. In a bold thought experiment that revives and defends Richard Hofstadter’s theories of anti-intellectualism in American life, Liu asks, What if cultural populism had been the consensus politics of the past three decades? American Idyll shows that recent antielitism does nothing to redress the source of its discontent—namely, growing economic inequality and diminishing social mobility. Instead, pseudopopulist rage, in conservative and countercultural forms alike, has been transformed into resentment, content merely to take down allegedly elitist cultural forms without questioning the real political and economic consolidation of powers that has taken place in America during the past thirty years.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609380517

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Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence

By: Catherine L. Bagwell,Michelle E. Schmidt

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Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence

By: Catherine L. Bagwell,Michelle E. Schmidt

Highly readable and comprehensive, this volume explores the significance of friendship for social, emotional, and cognitive development from early childhood through adolescence. The authors trace how friendships change as children age and what specific functions these relationships play in promoting adjustment and well-being. Compelling topics include the effects of individual differences on friendship quality, how friendship quality can be assessed, and ways in which certain friendships may promote negative outcomes. Examining what clinicians, educators, and parents can do to help children who struggle with making friends, the book reviews available interventions and identifies important directions for future work in the field.

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Guilford Press

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1462509606

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Quantifying Mentalities

The Use of Numbers by Ancient Greek Historians

By: Catherine Rubincam

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Quantifying Mentalities

The Use of Numbers by Ancient Greek Historians

By: Catherine Rubincam

As 21st-century citizens of developed countries, we are constantly bombarded by numbers in every aspect of our lives. Almost automatically, we learn to interpret how numbers are used in our language, what magnitude of numbers we expect to hear in particular contexts, how people in our community express degrees of confidence in the reliability of any particular number, etc. Context of this kind is lacking when we read a historical narrative composed in an ancient language, from a world vastly different from ours. In Quantifying Mentalities, Catherine Rubincam helps overcome this barrier to our accurate understanding of the numbers in the works of five major ancient Greek historians by providing a standard against which their credibility can be more accurately judged. This systematic, quantified study is based on the compilation of statistics concerning a standard constellation of aspects of all the numbers in the historical works of the five earliest wholly or at least substantially surviving ancient Greek historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon (Anabasis and Hellenica), Polybius, and Diodorus Siculus. Such a comprehensive study has not been attempted before. For scholars reading and writing about the history of ancient Greece the volume offers a tool for interpreting the numbers in these ancient texts with more sensitivity to the world in which they were written. Standard aspects of number use captured by the coding system are: the different types of number (cardinals, ordinals, compounds, and non-explicit but definite numbers); the subject category to which each number belongs (Time, Distance-Size, Military, Population, Money, and Miscellaneous); and the types of any qualifications attached to it (Approximating, Comparative, Alternative, and Emphatic). The statistics also facilitate comparisons of every aspect of number use between authors and texts, enabling the delineation of a numeric profile for each one. This allows us to read these texts with a greater sensitivity to how they might have sounded to the author and his original readers, thus providing a firmer foundation for reconstructing or interpreting ancient Greek history.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472128612

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British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue

Volume III: 1590-1597

By: Martin Wiggins,Catherine Richardson

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British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue

Volume III: 1590-1597

By: Martin Wiggins,Catherine Richardson

Volume 4 covers the years 1598-1602 during which dramatic satire emerged, as well as the opening of the original Globe theatre in London.

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0199265739

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The Body Economic

Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel

By: Catherine Gallagher

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The Body Economic

Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel

By: Catherine Gallagher

The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.

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Princeton University Press

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1400826845

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Quoted

A Guide for Teen Girls

By: Ella Catherine

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Quoted

A Guide for Teen Girls

By: Ella Catherine

Quoted is a book to encourage teens that they are worth it, loved, and God has a plan for them. The book has a mixture of short stories, questions, advice, Bible stories, and entries, especially for the reader. Throughout one year, the reader will learn many things through a teen's point of view. p.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1638740593

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Eat to Stay Young

The Anti-Aging Program

By: Catherine Christie,Susan Mitchell,Debra Fulghum Bruce

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Eat to Stay Young

The Anti-Aging Program

By: Catherine Christie,Susan Mitchell,Debra Fulghum Bruce

Reveals the age de-activating properties of foods and vitamins and presents ways to alleviate stress, boost the immune system, increase muscle and bone mass, and ease menopausal symptoms.

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Kensington Books

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1575665425

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Plato's Philosophers

The Coherence of the Dialogues

By: Catherine H. Zuckert

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Plato's Philosophers

The Coherence of the Dialogues

By: Catherine H. Zuckert

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: what is the best way to live? Plato’s dramatization of Socratic imperfections suggests, moreover, that he recognized the apparently unbridgeable gap between our understandings of human life and the nonhuman world. At a time when this gap continues to raise questions—about the division between sciences and the humanities and the potentially dehumanizing effects of scientific progress—Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire Platonic corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226993388

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9780226993386

I Did It to Save My Life

Love and Survival in Sierra Leone

By: Catherine Bolten

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I Did It to Save My Life

Love and Survival in Sierra Leone

By: Catherine Bolten

Utilizing narratives of seven different people—soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician—I Did it To Save My Life provides fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. Individuals in the town of Makeni narrate survival through the rubric of love, and by telling their stories and bringing memory into the present, create for themselves a powerful basis on which to reaffirm the rightness of their choices and orient themselves to a livable everyday. The book illuminates a social world based on love, a deep, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space and through time. In situating their wartime lives firmly in this social world, they call into question the government’s own narrative that Makeni residents openly collaborated with the rebel RUF during its three-year occupation of the town. Residents argue instead that it was the government’s disloyalty to its people, rather than rebel invasion and occupation, which destroyed the town and forced uneasy co-existence between civilians and militants.

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0520953533

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Building Circles of Grace

A Joint Bible Study for Tween Girls & Their Moms

By: Catherine Bird

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Building Circles of Grace

A Joint Bible Study for Tween Girls & Their Moms

By: Catherine Bird

In Building Circles of Grace, moms and daughters will explore what it means to build and sustain Christ centered relationships that we develop beyond our relationship with God. Some of the toughest experiences we encounter as young girls (and moms, too) are a result of the people we choose as friends. How do you respond with grace to a bully? How do you cope with the loss of a friendship? Can you really make a difference by putting Jesus first when it is not the cool thing to do? Building Circles of Grace invites moms and daughters to discuss all of these questions and more.

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0891126228

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The Positive Shift

Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity

By: Catherine A. Sanderson

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The Positive Shift

Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity

By: Catherine A. Sanderson

It's the reason why spending time on Facebook makes us feel sad and lonely. Why expensive name-brand medicines provide better pain relief than the generic stuff, even if they share the same ingredients. And why a hospital room with a good view speeds up recovery from surgery. The truth is, the way we think about ourselves and the world around us dramatically impacts our happiness, health, how fast or slow we age, and even how long we live. In fact, people with a positive mindset about aging live on average 7.5 years longer than those without. That might sound alarming to those of us who struggle to see the bright side, but the good news is we can make surprisingly simple changes or small shifts to how we think, feel, and act that will really pay off. In The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity, Dr. Catherine Sanderson breaks down the science of thought and shows how our mindset—or thought pattern—exerts a substantial influence on our psychological and physical health. Most important, this book demonstrates how, no matter what our natural tendency, with practice we can make minor tweaks in our mindset that will improve the quality—and longevity—of our life. Combining cutting-edge research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, as well as vivid real-world examples of the power of mindset, The Positive Shift gives readers practical and easy strategies for changing maladaptive thought patterns and behaviors so they can live longer, happier lives. These behaviors include: • Appreciating nature, with actions as simple as eating lunch outside • Giving to others, like volunteering • Spending money on experiences, not possessions Living your best life is truly mind over matter. Believe in yourself and rethink your way to a happier reality.

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BenBella Books

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1946885711

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Beginner′s Guide to Reflective Practice in Nursing

By: Catherine Delves-Yates

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Beginner′s Guide to Reflective Practice in Nursing

By: Catherine Delves-Yates

What is reflective practice and why is it important? How do I write my first reflection? Learn how to carry out reflective practice quickly and easily with this beginner’s guide for nurses. Written for nursing students and registered nurses, this book helps build confidence in writing reflectively by using clear step-by-step guidance, insightful case studies, learning activities, and by addressing commonly asked questions from nurses and nursing students. The book has three sections; the first starts with a simple model to help students practice a first reflection and explains how to use reflection as part of assessed work at university. The second section focuses on reflecting in practice and finding the time to do it in busy work situations. The final section helps students to think more deeply about models and theories of reflection, to develop the skills they will need to pass the final year of their course. Essential reading for any nursing student new to reflective practice or registered nurse wanting to improve their reflective writing skills.

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SAGE

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1529738679

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350 Questions for the Situational Judgement Test

By: Sarah Craig,Giles Dixon,Alice Pitt,Isobel Platt,Catherine Sproson,Andrew Viggars,Eileen Wedge

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350 Questions for the Situational Judgement Test

By: Sarah Craig,Giles Dixon,Alice Pitt,Isobel Platt,Catherine Sproson,Andrew Viggars,Eileen Wedge

This book presents over 350 ranking and multiple-choice questions, arranged by subject groups aligned with the domains of the SJT examination, and designed specifically to explore the readiness of candidates to face the scenarios that they will encounter as a junior doctor. A clear discussion of how the correct answer was reached and other options ruled out for every question is given at the end of each chapter, making this book an excellent learning aid through all stages of undergraduate studies, and particularly during revision for the SJT examination.

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CRC Press

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1498752896

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The Best of Coping

Developing Coping Skills for Adolescents (Facilitators Guide)

By: Catherine Brandon,Erica Frydenberg

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The Best of Coping

Developing Coping Skills for Adolescents (Facilitators Guide)

By: Catherine Brandon,Erica Frydenberg

The Best of Coping program is designed to provide teachers, youth workers, social workers and counsellors with a structured, comprehensive program for helping adolescents develop resilience and coping skills to deal with common problems and situations.

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1742866115

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The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

By: Catherine Ponder

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The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

By: Catherine Ponder

There's Gold Dust in the Air for You! This book is the result of several recent recessions and many years of lean living. Nobody likes recessions and nobody likes lean living-and indeed nobody should like them. For fifteen years I tried to find such a book as this one. During those years of searching the book shelves, I found that there are many books which give various success ideas, but in none of them did I find a set of compact, simple laws for assuring success. Years ago, a salesman used the power of prosperous thinking, although he may not consciously been aware of it. When people asked him, "How's business?" he always gave this standard answer: "Business is wonderful because there's gold dust in the air!" For him it certainly seemed to be so-every contact became a sale. After a while, whenever his name was mentioned, people always said, "Yes, everything he touches turns to gold. These secrets are inside. Get Your Copy Now.

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Lulu.com

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1365145964

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Creative Living Series: A Minister’s Insight on Chaplaincy

A Study Guide

By: Dr. Catherine D. Weathers

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Creative Living Series: A Minister’s Insight on Chaplaincy

A Study Guide

By: Dr. Catherine D. Weathers

The writer’s aim has been to prepare a standard work on Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), which can be used as a Study Guide or Text book in Theological Seminaries, Internship for Clinical Pastoral Education, Bible Schools and also it would be an invaluable service for pastors during courses in discipleship. While I was an intern in (CPE) I sought after a book that would help me understand and prepare me for the program a little better of course I found none. So I pray this book guide you while you walk through the corridors assisting and praying for the needs of the hospital patients, residents of nursing homes and prisoner that are incarcerated. May God bless you and protect you as you complete your mission.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483635651

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Spiritual Discovery

A Method for Discernment in Small Groups and Congregations

By: Catherine C. Tran,Sandra Hughes Boyd

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Spiritual Discovery

A Method for Discernment in Small Groups and Congregations

By: Catherine C. Tran,Sandra Hughes Boyd

Spiritual Discovery is a practical guide for groups desiring a prayerful approach to decision-making. The discernment method developed by authors Catherine C. Tran and Sandra Hughes Boyd begins with the prayer model—a process for guiding prayer in small groups created by Jane E. Vennard. This model brings elements of silence and spiritual reflection to the entire decision-making proceeding. The prayer is followed by a time of thoughtful exploration and discussion, resulting in decision-making that draws on both the spirit and the intellect. The Spiritual Discovery Method facilitates thoughtful discernment, encouraging groups and individuals to attend to how they make decisions. This book offers step-by-step guidance for practicing the Spiritual Discovery Method, addressing essentials and challenges, while also providing concrete examples illustrating how groups have successfully used this process to enact spiritual growth and change. Tran and Boyd show how the skills that participants develop as they practice the Spiritual Discovery Method can be put to use in the everyday world, ready to be called upon for decision-making in any arena. The Spiritual Discovery Method has proven to be a powerful instrument for achieving positive change, and this book helps readers implement this process in their own lives and communities.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1566997356

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Leading Your World Language Program

Strategies for Design and Supervision, Even If You Don’t Speak the Language!

By: Catherine Ritz

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Leading Your World Language Program

Strategies for Design and Supervision, Even If You Don’t Speak the Language!

By: Catherine Ritz

An essential resource for district, school, and program leaders who supervise, evaluate, or otherwise support World Language programs, this book provides clear, practical guidance on leading an exemplary K–12 World Language program. No matter whether you speak the language, the effective approaches in this book will equip you with the tools you need to implement and evaluate World Language curricula in your school. Catherine Ritz provides a clear and research-based framework for World Language instruction aligned to rigorous national and state standards, and addresses essential concepts and topics, including program and curriculum design, assessment and evaluation, and strategic planning. Whether you are a World Language department chair with years of experience, a school administrator with no background in language education, or a World Language teacher, you will find much to use in this book. It is chock-full of ready-to-use resources and tools, including: Templates for program and unit planning, observation protocols, and sample assessments World LAnguage program models for different age ranges, and a sample curriculum unit Additional resource lists and further reading recommendations.

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Routledge

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1000195767

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Raising Gifted Children

A Practical Guide for Parents Facing Big Emotions and Big Potential

By: Catherine Zakoian MA, NCC, LPC

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Raising Gifted Children

A Practical Guide for Parents Facing Big Emotions and Big Potential

By: Catherine Zakoian MA, NCC, LPC

Raise a happier, healthier gifted child—practical tools and advice for parents Gifted children can be identified as perplexing or troublesome long before they're identified as gifted. Many of the traits that characterize challenging gifted behaviors—such as intensity, sensitivity, and perfectionism—are simply shadows cast by a bright light within. Raising Gifted Children is filled with insights, guidance, up-to-date research, and practical advice to help parents better understand the inner world of their gifted child so they can help them flourish at home, school, and beyond. You'll start by learning the fundamentals of giftedness, from its characteristics to its strengths and challenges. Then, discover how to put your child's social-emotional and mental wellbeing at the center of resolving issues with conflict, procrastination, and motivation. You'll find information on how to navigate schooling to help find the best fit for your child, as well as advice for encouraging them to develop meaningful friendships. Raising Gifted Children includes: Understanding giftedness—Learn what defines giftedness, how it's expressed, and helpful info about twice- and multi-exceptionality. Parenting tools—Develop strategies for addressing your gifted child's emotional intensity, communicating effectively, and reflecting to find calm. Schooling strategies—Explore advice for school choice for your child, including homeschool, as well as tips for successful teacher meetings and creating educational plans. Be a strong, supportive parent to your gifted child with the essential guidance in this book.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1647396301

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My Poetry Journey

By: Catherine Susla

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My Poetry Journey

By: Catherine Susla

This is an anthology of the poetic works of Catherine Susla. A very personal journey which encapsulates her beliefs, her philosophy and her hopes and fears and deep love of life.

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Exploring the Complexities of Human Action

By: Catherine Raeff

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Exploring the Complexities of Human Action

By: Catherine Raeff

Exploring the Complexities of Human Action offers a bold theoretical framework for thinking systematically and integratively about what people do as they go about their complex lives in all corners of the world. The book offers a vision of humanity that promotes empathic understanding of complex human beings that can bring people together to pursue common goals. Raeff sets the stage for conceptualizing human action by characterizing what people do in terms of the complexities of holism, dynamics, variability, and multi-causality. She also constructively questions some conventional practices and assumptions in psychology (e.g., fragmenting, objectifying, aggregating, deterministic causality). Raeff then articulates a systems conceptualization of action that emphasizes multiple and interrelated processes. This integrative conceptualization holds that action is constituted by simultaneously occurring and interrelated individual, social, cultural, bodily, and environmental processes. Action is further conceptualized in terms of simultaneously occurring and interrelated psychological processes (e.g., sensing, perceiving, thinking, feeling, interacting, self/identity), as well as developmental processes. This theoretical framework is informed by research in varied cultures, and accessible examples are used to illustrate major concepts and claims. Raeff also discusses some implications and applications of the theoretical framework for investigating the complexities of human action. The book shows how the theoretical framework can be used to think about a wide range of action, from eating to art. Raeff uses the theoretical framework to consider varied vexing human issues, including mind-body connections, diversity, extremism, and freedom, as well as how action is simultaneously universal, culturally particular, and individualized"--

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0190050438

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Helping Kids Live Mindfully

A Grab Bag of Classroom Activities for Middle School Students

By: Catherine DePino

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Helping Kids Live Mindfully

A Grab Bag of Classroom Activities for Middle School Students

By: Catherine DePino

Helping Kids Live Mindfully: A Grab Bag of Classroom Activities for Middle School Students helps students enhance their lives by using Mindfulness on a daily basis in school and at home. It gives them the tools to cope with anger, frustration, and stress, while helping them learn how to talk and listen to get positive results. The book aims to help students maximize their school experience academically and socially. It's a fact that many school districts using Mindfulness programs find that teaching their students Mindfulness techniques can greatly enhance school climate and cut down on discipline problems so students can be free to learn and flourish in the classroom. Additionally, this book helps teachers reach curricular goals in many subject areas by providing small group, entire class, and individual activities. Finally, this book encourages parents and extended family members to participate in the program with their children to help them use Mindfulness in many different situations they encounter daily, such as getting along better with family members, dealing with disappointment, and using technology wisely.

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1475835310

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Quiet Time Moments for Women

By: Catherine Martin

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Quiet Time Moments for Women

By: Catherine Martin

Catherine Martin's Quiet Time Ministries empowers believers around the world to engage in life-changing interactions with God. Now she adds to her Harvest House books (more than 70,000 copies sold) her first collection of one-page devotional gems. These brief readings not only touch the hearts of women on the go but also set the tone for those who want to linger in God's presence and immerse themselves in the truths of God's Word. Each entry includes a brief passage of Scripture, a fresh new inspirational thought, and either a short prayer or a quote from a devotional classic of the nineteenth, twentieth, or twenty-first century. This will be a treasured addition to every woman's quiet time materials.

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0736939784

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Why We Act

Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels

By: Catherine A. Sanderson

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Why We Act

Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels

By: Catherine A. Sanderson

A Washington Post Book of the Year “Makes a powerful argument for building, as early as possible, the ability to stand up for what's right in the face of peer pressure, corrupt authority, and even family apathy.” —Psychology Today Why do so few of us intervene when we’re needed—and what would it take to make us step up? We are bombarded every day by reports of bad behavior, from the school yard to the boardroom to the halls of Congress. It’s tempting to blame bad acts on bad people, but sometimes good people do bad things. A social psychologist who has done pioneering research on student behavior on college campuses, Catherine Sanderson points to many ways in which our faulty assumptions about what other people think can paralyze us. Moral courage, it turns out, is not innate. But you can train yourself to stand up for what you believe in, and even small acts can make a big difference. Inspiring and potentially life transforming, Why We Act reveals that while the urge to do nothing is deeply ingrained, even the most hesitant would-be bystander can learn to be a moral rebel. “From bullying on the playground to sexual harassment in the workplace, perfectly nice people often do perfectly awful things. But why? In this thoughtful and beautifully written book, Sanderson shows how basic principles of social psychology explain such behavior—and how they can be used to change it. A smart and practical guide to becoming a better and braver version of ourselves.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness “Encouraged me to persevere through many moments when it felt far easier to stop trying.” —Washington Post “Points to steps all of us can take to become ‘moral rebels’ whose voices can change society for the better.” —Walter V. Robinson, former editor of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team “Sanderson offers sound advice on how we can become better at doing what we know is right.” —George Conway, cofounder of The Lincoln Project

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Crafting Lives

African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900

By: Catherine W. Bishir

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Crafting Lives

African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900

By: Catherine W. Bishir

From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir remedies this oversight by offering an in-depth portrayal of urban African American artisans in the small but important port city of New Bern. In so doing, she highlights the community's often unrecognized importance in the history of nineteenth-century black life. Drawing upon myriad sources, Bishir brings to life men and women who employed their trade skills, sense of purpose, and community relationships to work for liberty and self-sufficiency, to establish and protect their families, and to assume leadership in churches and associations and in New Bern's dynamic political life during and after the Civil War. Focusing on their words and actions, Crafting Lives provides a new understanding of urban southern black artisans' unique place in the larger picture of American artisan identity.

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UNC Press Books

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1469608758

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Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision

Reimagining time, place and knowledge

By: Catherine Manathunga

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Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision

Reimagining time, place and knowledge

By: Catherine Manathunga

The impact of globalisation and aggressive marketing by universities has increased the flow of international or culturally diverse students enrolling in postgraduate research degree programs outside their own countries. As access to postgraduate education widens, more local culturally diverse and Indigenous students are also enrolling in higher degree studies. As a result, significantly more academics now engage in intercultural supervision or supervising students who are culturally different to themselves. This book argues that empowering intercultural supervision can result from more nuanced, critical and theoretically-based understandings of time, place and knowledge. It shows how a range of ‘Southern’ theories (including postcolonial, Indigenous, feminist, social and cultural geography theories) about history, geography and knowledge can offer fresh insights into intercultural supervision. The author suggests that by using the conceptual tools offered by these Southern theories, the more complex but potentially rich aspects of intercultural supervision can be better understood and grappled with. In particular, these theories enable us to challenge assumptions about the universality and timelessness of Northern knowledge, and to create space for the recovery and further development of Southern, Eastern and Indigenous knowledges within intercultural supervision. This book will be of value to academic supervisors and postgraduate students, especially those engaged in intercultural supervision, as well as researchers and scholars in the field of higher education.

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Routledge

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1136280510

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The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

A Conversation with God on Living Your Spiritual Life to the Fullest

By: St. Catherine of Siena

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The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

A Conversation with God on Living Your Spiritual Life to the Fullest

By: St. Catherine of Siena

St. Catherine of Siena's Dialogue describes the entire spiritual life through a series of conversations between God and the soul, represented by Catherine herself. Readers of The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena, will find her revelations from God as informative - and formative - as those who recognized her sanctity during her life. The universally applicable yet intimately personal messages she received from God are as much for us as they were for Catherine. We can read God's communications to his beloved daughter with detached awe or we can receive His messages to us through her writings. Do you long for certainty that Divine Providence exists in the midst of our chaotic world? Does your prayer seem too dry, or too routine? Have you sought guidance for the challenges of your life from unhelpful people or things? Or has pride kept you from humble obedience to the Church? If so, The Dialogue will provide consolation, encouragement, and hope.

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TAN Books

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0895559692

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The Being Of Dreams Books 1 - 3

Shattering Dreams, Path Of The Broken and Elder Born

By: Catherine M Walker

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Shattering Dreams, Path Of The Broken and Elder Born

By: Catherine M Walker

They're cursed to become heroes… or monsters. They live in a world of perilous magic, royal intrigue, and betrayal. Unravelling the web of lies they were raised to believe could destroy the kingdom they were sworn to protect. As Alex, Jess and Kyle tread the path of the broken a dark conspiracy festers at the heart of the realm. Can they push madness aside in time to fight the darkness in order to save their friends and family. Their world? If you like mind-altering sorcery, treacherous power plays, and a war to end all wars, then you’ll love The Being Of Dreams! Get the complete series, Shattering Dreams, Path Of The Broken and Elder Born now!

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Catherine M Walker

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1925776123

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A Clarion Call to Compassion

Healing Embodied Trauma with Therapeutic Touch®

By: Catherine Jirak Monetti

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A Clarion Call to Compassion

Healing Embodied Trauma with Therapeutic Touch®

By: Catherine Jirak Monetti

This book is about hope. Past trauma, an ubiquitous human experience need not be "prologue." The body tells its story to a compassionate "silent witness." Through the Therapeutic Touch (TT) process, embodied trauma, alchemized by bodily stored positive lived experiences, transmutes to the existential life layer. This reintegration process accounts for feelings of rejuvenation and wonder experienced by TT practitioners (TTrx) and healing partners (HPs) alike and their posttraumatic growth. Shared are the author's, students', and professionals' profound and sacred TT experiences of over twenty years. All are true.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1684564174

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Watching in Wonder

Growing in Faith During Your Baby's First Year

By: Catherine Claire Larson

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Watching in Wonder

Growing in Faith During Your Baby's First Year

By: Catherine Claire Larson

The first year of life for your new baby is an exciting time full of milestones, and you don't want to forget a single moment. This weekly devotional journal will inspire you to record stories and prayers for your newborn as you create a memory book that you (and they) will treasure for years to come. And you'll feel God's presence and comfort with devotions and Scripture selected especially for new moms. In these pages, you will encounter a God who lovingly cares for you and your little one. Marvel anew at His goodness and the miracle of life that is growing day by day before your eyes. This devotional includes: A weekly inspirational devotional theme on one of God's unchanging characteristics Monthly "Memories and Milestones" sections to help you document your baby’s growth Devotions that lead you closer to God Thoughtful journaling prompts with space to record stories and prayers With its invitation to draw near to God as you navigate your baby’s first year of life, Watching in Wonder is a sweet and thoughtful gift for friends' and loved ones' baby showers or as a gift for yourself at this memorable time of life. Embrace the exhilarating, exhausting, and joy-filled first year of motherhood with this devotional journal, a gift you can one day give your son or daughter as a reminder of the love and prayers you shared throughout his or her first year in the world.

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Thomas Nelson

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1400236177

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British Drama, 1533-1642: 1609-1616

By: Martin Wiggins,Catherine Teresa Richardson

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British Drama, 1533-1642: 1609-1616

By: Martin Wiggins,Catherine Teresa Richardson

This is the sixth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a complete, systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information about a single play: its various titles, authorship, and date; a summary of its plot, list of its roles, and details of the human and geographical world in which the fictional action takes place; a list of its sources, narrative and verbal, and a summary of its formal characteristics; details of its staging requirements; and an account of its early stage and textual history.

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Oxford University Press

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0198739117

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The Prosperity Secret of the Ages

By: Catherine Ponder

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The Prosperity Secret of the Ages

By: Catherine Ponder

You Can Have Everything! You can have everything if you know the power that is within you and then dare to use it! You have always used this power in some degree-often for failure. Now you can begin deliberately to release it for success; that is, for experiencing greater results of health, happiness and prosperity in your world. Your success power is released through your mental attitudes and your emotional reactions toward life. What you think, that you become. Think straight and life becomes straight for you. It's as simple as that. Along with using success attitudes for your own increased health, wealth and happiness, it is good to know that your success attitudes can and do help others. The specific success attitudes used by all these people and many more will be shared with you in the pages of this book. Get Your Copy Now.

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1365200337

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