Claire Maharaj's Books

Golden Child

A Novel

By: Claire Adam

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In a debut novel set in the author's native Trinidad, 13-year-old Paul-diffident and troublesome, unlike his golden-child twin, Peter-gets lost in the bush. Next in the new imprint from Sarah Jessica Parker.

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290

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SJP for Hogarth

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ISBN 10

0525572996

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9780525572992

Partial Stories

Maternal Death from Six Angles

By: Claire L. Wendland

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Partial Stories

Maternal Death from Six Angles

By: Claire L. Wendland

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in twelve could expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complication in Malawi. Specific deaths became object lessons. Explanatory stories circulated through hospitals and villages, proliferating among a range of practitioners: nurse-midwives, traditional birth attendants, doctors, epidemiologists, herbalists. Was biology to blame? Economic underdevelopment? Immoral behavior? Tradition? Were the dead themselves at fault? In Partial Stories, Claire L. Wendland considers these explanations for maternal death, showing how they reflect competing visions of the past and shared concerns about social change. Drawing on extended fieldwork, Wendland reveals how efforts to legitimate a single story as the authoritative version can render care more dangerous than it might otherwise be. Historical, biological, technological, ethical, statistical, and political perspectives on death usually circulate in different expert communities and different bodies of literature. Here, Wendland considers them together, illuminating dilemmas of maternity care in contexts of acute change, chronic scarcity, and endemic inequity within Malawi and beyond.

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365

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University of Chicago Press

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0226816877

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9780226816876

No One Will Let Her Live

Women's Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum

By: Claire Snell-Rood

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No One Will Let Her Live

Women's Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum

By: Claire Snell-Rood

The inequalities that structure relationships in Delhi’s urban slums have left the health of women living there chronically vulnerable. Yet for women living in slums, there is no other option than to depend on someone. Based on fourteen months of intensive fieldwork with ten families in a Delhi slum, No One Will Let Her Live argues that women rely on moral strategies to confront the poverty and unstable relationships that threaten their well-being. Claire Snell-Rood breaks new ground by delineating the complex ways in which women set boundaries, maintain their independence, and develop a nuanced sense of selfhood that draws on endurance, asceticism, mobility, and citizenship.

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294

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University of California Press

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0520284828

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9780520284821

Reimagining Global Abortion Politics

A Social Justice Perspective

By: Bloomer, Fiona,Pierson, Claire

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Reimagining Global Abortion Politics

A Social Justice Perspective

By: Bloomer, Fiona,Pierson, Claire

What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally? What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and within different countries? This text provides a transnationally-focused, interdisciplinary analysis of trends in abortion politics using case studies from around the Global North and South. It considers how societal influences, such as religion, nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It explores the impact of international human rights norms, the increasing displacement of people due to conflict and crisis and the role of activists on law reform and access. The book concludes by considering the future of abortion politics through the more holistic lens of reproductive justice. Utilising a unique interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a major contribution to the knowledge base on abortion politics globally. It provides an accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy makers and readers interested in abortion politics.

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176

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Policy Press

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1447340450

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9781447340454

Planning for the Caring City

By: Claire Freeman,Etienne Nel

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Planning for the Caring City

By: Claire Freeman,Etienne Nel

As the world has become increasingly urbanised and planetary well-being ever more threatened, questions have emerged over just what the priorities should be for how we live in cities. Clearly for many the current ways of planning and managing city environments are not working, given so many of their human and non-human inhabitants struggle on a daily basis to maintain their well-being and survival. Different approaches to city development are crucial if they are to be inclusive places where all can thrive. Ensuring that cities are safe and sustainable and provide a level of care for all their residents places a significant mandate on those who manage cities and on planners in particular. This book examines all the parts of the city where care needs to be incorporated, how we plan, create nurturing environments, include all who live there, build sensitively, support meaningful livelihoods, and enable compassionate governance. With planners in mind this book examines why care is needed in the urban environment, and drawing on real world examples examines how it can be applied in an effective and empowering fashion.

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263

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Taylor & Francis

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104001304X

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9781040013045

Teaching Quality Health and Physical Education

By: Dean Dudley,Amanda Telford,Claire Stonehouse,Louisa Peralta,Matthew Winslade

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Teaching Quality Health and Physical Education

By: Dean Dudley,Amanda Telford,Claire Stonehouse,Louisa Peralta,Matthew Winslade

Taught well, Health and Physical Education can provide purposeful, stimulating and challenging learning experiences. It can help children to develop sophisticated understanding, skill and capabilities through their bodies and to see greater meaning in not only what they are learning but also their wider lives; and it can enrich all other aspects of the curriculum. This practical new text will help pre- and in-service teachers to develop and implement quality health and physical education experiences in primary schools. It introduces the general principles of teaching and learning in Health and Physical Education and explains why this learning area is an important part of the Australian Curriculum. Chapters then discuss considerations and practical implications for teaching both health and physical education using a strengths-based approach. Packed with evidence-based and research-informed content, this valuable text also includes numerous examples and activities that help you bridge the gap from theory to real-world practice. Above all, it will give educators the confidence to teach primary health and physical education so that every child benefits.

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340

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Cengage AU

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0170387011

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9780170387019

Better Bankers, Better Banks

Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment

By: Claire A. Hill,Richard W. Painter

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Better Bankers, Better Banks

Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment

By: Claire A. Hill,Richard W. Painter

Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there’s no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks seems to have become part of what banks do as well. Since the financial crisis, Congress has passed copious amounts of legislation aimed at curbing banks’ risky behavior. Lawsuits against large banks have cost them billions. Yet bad behavior continues to plague the industry. Why isn’t there more change? In Better Bankers, Better Banks, Claire A. Hill and Richard W. Painter look back at the history of banking and show how the current culture of bad behavior—dramatized by the corrupt, cocaine-snorting bankers of The Wolf of Wall Street—came to be. In the early 1980s, banks went from partnerships whose partners had personal liability to corporations whose managers had no such liability and could take risks with other people’s money. A major reason bankers remain resistant to change, Hill and Painter argue, is that while banks have been faced with large fines, penalties, and legal fees—which have exceeded one hundred billion dollars since the onset of the crisis—the banks (which really means the banks’shareholders) have paid them, not the bankers themselves. The problem also extends well beyond the pursuit of profit to the issue of how success is defined within the banking industry, where highly paid bankers clamor for status and clients may regard as inevitable bankers who prioritize their own self-interest. While many solutions have been proposed, Hill and Painter show that a successful transformation of banker behavior must begin with the bankers themselves. Bankers must be personally liable from their own assets for some portion of the bank’s losses from excessive risk-taking and illegal behavior. This would instill a culture that discourages such behavior and in turn influence the sorts of behavior society celebrates or condemns. Despite many sensible proposals seeking to reign in excessive risk-taking, the continuing trajectory of scandals suggests that we’re far from ready to avert the next crisis. Better Bankers, Better Banks is a refreshing call for bankers to return to the idea that theirs is a noble profession.

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288

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University of Chicago Press

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022629319X

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9780226293196

Comic Performance in Pakistan

The Bhānd

By: Claire Pamment

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Comic Performance in Pakistan

The Bhānd

By: Claire Pamment

This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhānd which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings. With irreverent repartee, genealogical prowess, a topsy-turvy play with hierarchies and shape shifting, the low-status bhānd jostles space in otherwise rigid class and caste hierarchies. Tracing these negotiations in both historical and contemporary sites, the author unfolds a dynamic performance mode that travels from the Sanskrit jester and Sufi wise fool, into Muslim royal courts and households, weddings, contemporary carnivalesque and erotic popular Punjabi theatre and satellite television news. Through original historical and ethnographic research, this book brings to life hitherto unexplored territories of Pakistani popular culture and Indo-Muslim performance histories.

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239

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Springer

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1137566310

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9781137566317

Fit for Life!

Years 7&8

By: Amanda Telford,Robert Malpeli,Dean Dudley,Lee Anton-Hem,Claire Maharaj,Jonathan Fender,Kim Vandervelde,Emmé Wild,Sam Watkins,Rachael Whittle

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Fit for Life!

Years 7&8

By: Amanda Telford,Robert Malpeli,Dean Dudley,Lee Anton-Hem,Claire Maharaj,Jonathan Fender,Kim Vandervelde,Emmé Wild,Sam Watkins,Rachael Whittle

Look no further, the Nelson Fit for Life package has all you need. Our series is written for the new Australian Curriculum Health and Physical Education syllabus, in a clear and engaging way. Our 10 chapters mirror the 10 Areas of Learning, and the curriculum dot points are explicitly covered.

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