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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

By: Diane Ackerman

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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

By: Diane Ackerman

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the PEN New England Henry David Thoreau Prize. A dazzling, inspiring tour through the ways that humans are working with nature to try to save the planet. With her celebrated blend of scientific insight, clarity, and curiosity, Diane Ackerman explores our human capacity both for destruction and for invention as we shape the future of the planet Earth. Ackerman takes us to the mind-expanding frontiers of science, exploring the fact that the "natural" and the "human" now inescapably depend on one another, drawing from "fields as diverse as evolutionary robotics…nanotechnology, 3-D printing and biomimicry" (New York Times Book Review), with probing intelligence, a clear eye, and an ever-hopeful heart.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393245845

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New Materials Society, Challenges and Opportunities

New Materials Science and Technology

By: DIANE Publishing Company

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New Materials Society, Challenges and Opportunities

New Materials Science and Technology

By: DIANE Publishing Company

Covers: new materials technology overview; advanced metals (magnetic alloys, superalloys, powdered metals, & more); metal matrix composites; advanced ceramic materials (techniques & applications); advanced polymer materials (description of engineering & high performance polymers) & glossary of terms. Black & white photos, graphs & tables.

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DIANE Publishing

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0788101471

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9780788101472

Are We Willing To Take That Risk?

10 Questions Every Executive Should Ask About Business Continuity

By: Michael Croy,Diane J. Laux

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Are We Willing To Take That Risk?

10 Questions Every Executive Should Ask About Business Continuity

By: Michael Croy,Diane J. Laux

No one will ever be able to identify and manage all of his or her organization's risks. Although you can't predict every disaster, you can ask the right questions and put strategies in place to ensure the survival of your business. "It is becoming increasingly evident that the knowledge of disaster recovery efforts must be accessible to far more than the (IT) experts Achieving success can only be found through the collective effort of a united public, its leaders and organizations." - Barack Obama, United States Senator "Progressive organizations with sound leadership now include business continuity and enterprise risk management as key parts of meeting stakeholder expectations and achieving organizational strategic objectives." - Michael G. Oxley, Vice Chairman, NASDAQ Michael Croy, an expert in risk assessment and disaster recovery, helps leaders understand what is needed to sustain business today. Through real-life examples, you'll understand what could affect your company-lost data, pandemics, terror threats-and by implementing plans for when something does happen, you're doing everything possible to ensure that employees still have jobs, customers are served, and stakeholders continue to support the company. Take the first step in proactively managing your company in good times and bad and ask yourself, Are We Willing to Take That Risk?

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iUniverse

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0595524060

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9780595524068

Children's Literature in the Classroom

Engaging Lifelong Readers

By: Diane M. Barone

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Children's Literature in the Classroom

Engaging Lifelong Readers

By: Diane M. Barone

Many reading programs today overlook an essential component of literacy instruction—helping children develop an enduring love of reading. This authoritative and accessible guide provides a wealth of ideas for incorporating high-quality children's books of all kinds into K–6 classrooms. Numerous practical strategies are presented for engaging students with picturebooks, fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. Lively descriptions of recommended books and activities are interspersed with invaluable tips for fitting authentic reading experiences into the busy school day. Every chapter concludes with reflection questions and suggestions for further reading. The volume also features reproducible worksheets and forms.

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Guilford Press

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1606239406

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Reading Together

Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read

By: Diane W. Frankenstein

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Reading Together

Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read

By: Diane W. Frankenstein

A dynamic guide to more than 100 books that will get kids talking and reading more. How do children become good readers? In Reading Together, educational consultant Diane W. Frankenstein shares the secret: guiding children to find an appropriate book and talking with them about the story helps them connect with what they read. This engaging guide shares advice for parents, teachers, librarians, and caregivers on how to help children find what to read, and then through conversation, how to find meaning and pleasure in their reading. With more than 100 great book recommendations for kids from Pre-K through grade six, as well as related conversation starters, Reading Together offers a winning equation to turn children into lifelong readers. Some of the award-winning books discussed include Betty G. Birney?s World According to Humphrey, Gennifer Choldenko?s Notes from a Liar and Her Dog, and David Shannon?s Bad Case of Stripes.

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Penguin

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1101136065

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9781101136065

Feminism and Deconstruction

By: Diane Elam

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Feminism and Deconstruction

By: Diane Elam

At last - an intelligent and accessible introduction to the relationship between feminism and deconstruction. In this incisive and illuminating book, Diane Elam unravels: * the contemporary relevance of feminism and deconstruction * how we can still understand and talk about the materiality of women's bodies * whether gender can be distinguished from sex * the place of ethics and political action in the light of postmodernist theory. Clearly and brilliantly written, Feminism and Deconstruction is essential reading for anyone who needs a no-nonsense but stimulating guide through one of the mazes of contemporary theory.

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Routledge

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1134873980

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9781134873982

The Age of Synthesis

1800-1895

By: Ray Spangenburg,Diane Moser

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The Age of Synthesis

1800-1895

By: Ray Spangenburg,Diane Moser

Examines the role of science in the Industrial Revolution, its establishment as a popular discipline, and discoveries in the areas of atoms and the elements, chemistry, evolution, and energy.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816068771

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9780816068777

The PKU Paradox

A Short History of a Genetic Disease

By: Diane B. Paul,Jeffrey P. Brosco

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The PKU Paradox

A Short History of a Genetic Disease

By: Diane B. Paul,Jeffrey P. Brosco

How did a disease of marginal public health significance acquire paradigmatic status in public health and genetics? In a lifetime of practice, most physicians will never encounter a single case of PKU. Yet every physician in the industrialized world learns about the disease in medical school and, since the early 1960s, the newborn heel stick test for PKU has been mandatory in many countries. Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey P. Brosco’s beautifully written book explains this paradox. PKU (phenylketonuria) is a genetic disorder that causes severe cognitive impairment if it is not detected and treated with a strict and difficult diet. Programs to detect PKU and start treatment early are deservedly considered a public health success story. Some have traded on this success to urge expanded newborn screening, defend basic research in genetics, and confront proponents of genetic determinism. In this context, treatment for PKU is typically represented as a simple matter of adhering to a low-phenylalanine diet. In reality, the challenges of living with PKU are daunting. In this first general history of PKU, a historian and a pediatrician explore how a rare genetic disease became the object of an unprecedented system for routine testing. The PKU Paradox is informed by interviews with scientists, clinicians, policymakers, and individuals who live with the disease. The questions it raises touch on ongoing controversies about newborn screening and what happens to blood samples collected at birth.

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JHU Press

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1421411326

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9781421411323

Righting the American Dream

How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision

By: Diane Winston

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Righting the American Dream

How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision

By: Diane Winston

A provocative new history of how the news media facilitated the Reagan Revolution and the rise of the religious Right. After two years in the White House, an aging and increasingly unpopular Ronald Reagan looked like a one-term president, but in 1983 something changed. Reagan spoke of his embattled agenda as a spiritual rather than a political project and cast his vision for limited government and market economics as the natural outworking of religious conviction. The news media broadcast this message with enthusiasm, and white evangelicals rallied to the president’s cause. With their support, Reagan won reelection and continued to dismantle the welfare state, unraveling a political consensus that stood for half a century. In Righting the American Dream, Diane Winston reveals how support for Reagan emerged from a new religious vision of American identity circulating in the popular press. Through four key events—the “evil empire” speech, AIDS outbreak, invasion of Grenada, and rise in American poverty rates—Winston shows that many journalists uncritically adopted Reagan’s religious rhetoric and ultimately mainstreamed otherwise unpopular evangelical ideas about individual responsibility. The result is a provocative new account of how Reagan together with the press turned America to the right and initiated a social revolution that continues today.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226824543

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9780226824543

Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts

Sponsored by the International Reading Association

By: James Flood,Diane Lapp,Shirley Brice Heath

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Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts

Sponsored by the International Reading Association

By: James Flood,Diane Lapp,Shirley Brice Heath

In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. The handbook explores the possibilities of broadening current conceptualizations of literacy to include the full array of the communicative arts (reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing) and to focus on the visual arts of drama, dance, film, art, video, and computer technology. The communicative and visual arts encompass everything from novels and theatrical performances to movies and video games. In today's world, new methods for transmitting information have been developed that include music, graphics, sound effects, smells, and animations. While these methods have been used by television shows and multimedia products, they often represent an unexplored resource in the field of education. By broadening our uses of these media, formats, and genres, a greater number of students will be motivated to see themselves as learners. In 64 chapters, organized in seven sections, teachers and other leading authorities in the field of literacy provide direction for the future: I. Theoretical Bases for Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching Paul Messaris, Section Editor II. Methods of Inquiry in Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching Donna Alvermann, Section Editor III. Research on Language Learners in Families, Communities, and Classrooms Vicki Chou, Section Editor IV. Research on Language Teachers: Conditions and Contexts Dorothy Strickland, Section Editor V. Expanding Instructional Environments: Teaching, Learning, and Assessing the Communicative and Visual Arts Nancy Roser, Section Editor VI. Research Perspectives on the Curricular, Extracurricular, and Policy Perspectives James Squire, Section Editor VII. Voices from the Field Bernice Cullinan and Lee Galda, Section Editors The International Reading Association has compiled in the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts an indispensable set of papers for educators that will enable them to conceptualize literacy in much broader contexts than ever before. The information contained in this volume will be extremely useful in planning literacy programs for our students for today and tomorrow.

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1135603693

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9781135603694

The Gothic Ideology

Religious Hysteria and anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880

By: Diane Long Hoeveler

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The Gothic Ideology

Religious Hysteria and anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880

By: Diane Long Hoeveler

The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an ‘other’ against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The ‘Gothic ideology’ is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by the aftershocks of the Protestant reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the dynastic upheavals produced by both events in England, Germany, and France, and was played out in hundreds of Gothic texts published throughout Europe between the mid-eighteenth century and 1880. This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis. The book argues that Gothic was thoroughly invested in a crude form of anti-Catholicism that fed lower class prejudices against the passage of a variety of Catholic Relief Acts that had been pending in Parliament since 1788 and finally passed in 1829.

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University of Wales Press

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1783161930

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9781783161935

Jamaica Genesis

Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

By: Diane J. Austin-Broos

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Jamaica Genesis

Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

By: Diane J. Austin-Broos

How has Pentecostalism, a decidedly American form of Christian revivalism, managed to achieve such phenomenal religious ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominately African descent? According to Diane J. Austin-Broos, Pentecostalism has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central yet often oppositional themes in Jamaican religious life—the characteristically African striving for personal freedom and happiness, and the Protestant struggle for atonement and salvation through rigorous ethical piety. With its emphasis on the individual experience of grace and on the ritual efficacy of spiritual healing, and with its vibrantly expressive worship, Jamaican Pentecostalism has become a powerful and compelling vehicle for the negotiation of such fundamental issues as gender, sexuality, race, and class. Jamaica Genesis is a work of signal importance to all those concerned not simply with Caribbean studies but with the ongoing transformation of religion andculture.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226924815

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9780226924816

Spelling K-8

Planning and Teaching

By: Diane Snowball,Faye Bolton

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Spelling K-8

Planning and Teaching

By: Diane Snowball,Faye Bolton

Spelling K-8 meets the needs of schools and districts that want to put systematic teaching in place without compromising the principles of constructivist learning. Recognizing the professional expertise of classroom teachers, the authors consistently urge teachers to consider the suggested plan in relation to their children's spelling needs. Children are actively engaged in spelling explorations, being guided by their teachers, forming generalizations that reflect their current understanding about how written English works. Specific suggestions are also offered for children whose first language is not English. Spelling K-8 addresses the issues that administrators and parents are concerned about - especially phonics and learning high-frequency words - and offers teachers a wealth of strategies and resources to draw on. Spelling K-8 assists teachers in:understanding current beliefs about teaching and learning and means of translating these into classroom practice;implementing specific types of spelling investigations, such as sounds, spelling patterns or suffixes, by clearly outlining the general process involved in spelling explorations;identifying the possible spelling focuses for children in each grade level, taking into consideration their needs and the explorations they have been introduced to in previous years;relating the teaching of spelling to reading and writing experiences in a variety of curriculum areas;knowing the generalizations children need to learn to enable them to understand how written English works. Spelling K-8 will help you plan the teaching of spelling at a whole-school level and at each grade level.

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Stenhouse Publishers

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1571100741

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The Rise of Reason

1700-1799

By: Ray Spangenburg,Diane Moser

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The Rise of Reason

1700-1799

By: Ray Spangenburg,Diane Moser

Discusses major scientists and scientific issues and discoveries of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Infobase Publishing

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081606878X

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Aberration of Mind

Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South

By: Diane Miller Sommerville

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Aberration of Mind

Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South

By: Diane Miller Sommerville

More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war.

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UNC Press Books

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146964357X

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9781469643571

Water Wars

Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst

By: Diane Raines Ward

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Water Wars

Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst

By: Diane Raines Ward

Updated with new material Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change—which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our most vexing problems and tells the stories of those working to solve them: hydrologists, politicians, engineers, and everyday people. Based on ten years of research spanning five continents, Water Wars offers fresh insight into a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound.

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1101663979

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9781101663974

Sleep Problems: Food Solutions

The Impact of Sleep Problems on Society

By: Diane Holloway Cheney

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Sleep Problems: Food Solutions

The Impact of Sleep Problems on Society

By: Diane Holloway Cheney

Casting a wide net through history and sleep problems, Dr. Cheney examines and authoritatively demonstrates the siren song of sleep is not just an individuals problem but a societal problem. This book is rich in surprising information about drowsy drivers, putting children to sleep, physicians in training, pilots, firefighters, military, police officers, truck drivers, shift workers, and sleep-inducing foods. Songs, poems, fairy tales, movies, literature, and recipe ideas from famous people make it more fascinating.

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1532025068

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1 Girlfriend 2 Another

A Few Minutes a Day with God, Diane, and Rela

By: Diane,Rela

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1 Girlfriend 2 Another

A Few Minutes a Day with God, Diane, and Rela

By: Diane,Rela

1 Girlfriend 2 Another was written to encourage those women who are actively seeking a more intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit. The purpose for the book is to help you (Girlfriend) mature and grow individually or through a group approach with other Girlfriends. The Thought for Today and wise sayings will inspire, encourage, uplift and help promote you to the front as a leading Girlfriend. As you use the tools of reflective listening, meditation, and discussion, your faith will surely increase. It is our goal to sharpen you, so you can sharpen other Girlfriends! Girlfriend, the end of the book, includes things you can do to improve your self-esteem and to continue validating who you are in Christ. Im sure you are curious, so thanks for purchasing 1 Girlfriend 2 Another for you, and another Sister, who is your keeper!

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WestBow Press

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1512738379

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9781512738377

Fifty Eastern Thinkers

By: Diane Collinson,Kathryn Plant,Robert Wilkinson

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Fifty Eastern Thinkers

By: Diane Collinson,Kathryn Plant,Robert Wilkinson

Close analysis of the work of fifty major thinkers in the field of Eastern philosophy make this an excellent introduction to a fascinating area of study. The authors have drawn together thinkers from all the major Eastern philosophical traditions from the earliest times to the present day. The philosophers covered range from founder figures such as Zoroaster and Confucius to modern thinkers such as Fung Youlan and the present Dalai Lama. Introductions to major traditions and a glossary of key philosophical terms make this a comprehensive and accessible reference resource.

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Routledge

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1134631502

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9781134631506

Nursing Outcomes

State of the Science

By: Diane M. Doran

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Nursing Outcomes

State of the Science

By: Diane M. Doran

physical edition. Nursing Outcomes: State of the Science is an invaluable resource for nurse researchers, scholars, and health care professionals committed to effective, quality nursing care as evidenced by nursing-sensitive outcomes measurement. This text concentrates on outcome indicators which focus on how patients and their conditions are affected by their interaction with nursing staff. Each chapter includes a concept analysis of the outcome concept; then defining characteristics are identified and a conceptual definition is proposed. Factors that influence the outcome concept are discussed, as well as the consequences for clients' health and well-being. The strength of the evidence is reviewed concerning the sensitivity of the outcome concept to nursing structure variables and nursing/processes interventions. The author offers a comprehensive synthesis of the literature, critically reviews the quality of the evidence, and provides direction for the selection of outcome variables

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449659918

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Follow the Stars Home

By: Diane C. McPhail

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Follow the Stars Home

By: Diane C. McPhail

A captivating reimagining of the intrepid woman who – 8 months pregnant and with a toddler in tow – braved violent earthquakes and treacherous waters on the first steamboat voyage to conquer the Mississippi River and redefine America. The acclaimed author of The Seamstress of New Orleans brings to life Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt’s defiant journey of 1811 in this lush, evocative biographical novel for fans of Paula McLain, Gill Paul, Allison Pataki, and stories about extraordinary yet little-known female adventurers… It’s a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of the United States Capitol—fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Lydia is fiercely independent despite her youth. She’s also accustomed to defying convention. Against her father’s wishes, she married his much older business colleague, inventor Nicholas Roosevelt—builder of the New Orleans—and spent her honeymoon on a primitive flatboat. But the stakes for this trip are infinitely higher. If Nicholas’s untried steamboat reaches New Orleans, it will serve as a profitable packet ship between that city and Natchez, proving the power of steam as it travels up and down the Mississippi. Success in this venture would revolutionize travel and trade, open the west to expansion, and secure the Roosevelts’ future. Lydia had used her own architectural training to design the flatboat’s interior, including a bedroom, sitting area, and fireplace. The steamship, however, dwarfs the canoes and flatboats on the river. And no amount of power or comfort could shield its passengers from risk. Lydia believes herself ready for all the dangers ahead—growing unrest among native people, disease or injury, and the turbulent Falls of the Ohio, a sixty-foot drop long believed impassable in such a large boat. But there are other challenges in store, impossible to predict as Lydia boards that fall day. Challenges which—if survived—will haunt and transform her, as surely as the journey will alter the course of a nation . . .

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A John Scognamiglio Book

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1496750888

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9781496750884

Tibet Unconquered

The Epic Struggle for Independence

By: Diane Wolff

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Tibet Unconquered

The Epic Struggle for Independence

By: Diane Wolff

A fabled country in the far reaches of the Himalayas, Tibet looms large in the popular imagination. The original home of the Dalai Lama, one of the great spiritual leaders of our time, Tibetan Buddhism inspires millions worldwide with the twin values of wisdom and compassion. Yet the Chinese takeover six decades ago also shows another side of Tibet—that of a passionate symbol of freedom in the face of political oppression. International sympathy has kept the Dalai Lama's appeals for autonomy on the world's political agenda, but in light of China's political and economic gains there is fear that Tibet is in danger of being forgotten by the world. As the Dalai Lama grows older, and the Chinese threaten to intervene in the selection of Tibet's next spiritual leader, many wonder if there is any hope for the Tibetan way of life, or if it is doomed to become a casualty of globalization. In Tibet Unconquered East Asia expert Diane Wolff explores the status of Tibet over eight-hundred-years of history. From the Mongol invasion, to the emergence of the Dalai Lama, Wolff investigates the history of political and economic relations between China and Tibet. Looking to the long rule of Chinggis Khan as a model, she argues, that by thinking in regional terms both countries could usher in a new era of prosperity while maintaining their historical and cultural identities. Wolff creates a forward-thinking blueprint for resolving the China and Tibet problem, grounded in the history of the region and the reality of today's political environment that, will guide both countries to peace.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0230112226

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9780230112223

Invasive Plant Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems

By: Barbara Diane Booth,Stephen D. Murphy,Clarence J. Swanton

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Invasive Plant Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems

By: Barbara Diane Booth,Stephen D. Murphy,Clarence J. Swanton

`As an undergraduate text [the book] does a superb job of traversing the wide expanse of ecology. Several chapters should be key components of any course on understanding weed ecology.' Biological Invasions --

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CABI

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1845936051

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9781845936051

Romanticism

Comparative Discourses

By: Diane Long Hoeveler

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Romanticism

Comparative Discourses

By: Diane Long Hoeveler

Exploring how discourse is figured in the texts of key European Romantic authors such as Wackenroder, Coleridge, Byron, and Hugo, this volume offers nuanced readings of the under-explored syntactic, semantic, and ideological structures of Romantic works. Rather than proposing a new theoretical position on the issue of what constitutes Romantic discourse studies, the editors have commissioned essays that seek to capture aspects of this discursive field, building on previous scholarship to offer fresh ways of seeing how Romantic discourse matrices work. The volume is organized into three sections: Language and Romantic Discourse Systems; Women Writers and Romantic Constructions of Power; and Varieties of Revisionist Discourse in Romanticism. Each section features individual essays providing critical re-readings of nine Romantic texts and four Romantic topoi. Whether writing on Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House or Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey, on rescue operas or criminal drama, the contributors, who include Marjean Purinton, Kari Lokke, Rodney Farnsworth, and Jeffrey Cass, expand our understanding of Romantic modes of argumentation.

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Routledge

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1351149822

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9781351149822

Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice

By: Wendy Austin,Cindy Ann Peternelj-Taylor,Diane Kunyk,Mary Ann Boyd

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice

By: Wendy Austin,Cindy Ann Peternelj-Taylor,Diane Kunyk,Mary Ann Boyd

Thoroughly written, extensively updated, and optimized for today’s evolving Canadian healthcare environment, Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice, 5th Edition, equips students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to effectively care for diverse populations in mental health nursing practice. This proven, approachable text instills a generalist-level mastery of mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions in adults, families, children, adolescents, and older adults, delivering Canadian students the preparation they need to excel on the NCLEX® exam and make a confident transition to clinical practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975179056

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9781975179052

Handbook of Aqueous Electrolyte Thermodynamics

Theory & Application

By: Joseph F. Zemaitis, Jr.,Diane M. Clark,Marshall Rafal,Noel C. Scrivner

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Handbook of Aqueous Electrolyte Thermodynamics

Theory & Application

By: Joseph F. Zemaitis, Jr.,Diane M. Clark,Marshall Rafal,Noel C. Scrivner

Expertise in electrolyte systems has become increasingly important in traditional CPI operations, as well as in oil/gas exploration and production. This book is the source for predicting electrolyte systems behavior, an indispensable "do-it-yourself" guide, with a blueprint for formulating predictive mathematical electrolyte models, recommended tabular values to use in these models, and annotated bibliographies. The final chapter is a general recipe for formulating complete predictive models for electrolytes, along with a series of worked illustrative examples. It can serve as a useful research and application tool for the practicing process engineer, and as a textbook for the chemical engineering student.

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0470938404

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International Energy Annual 1993

By: DIANE Publishing Company

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International Energy Annual 1993

By: DIANE Publishing Company

An overview of key international energy trends for production, consumption, imports and exports of primary energy commodities in over 200 countries, dependencies and areas of special sovereignty. Included are data on population and gross domestic product and prices for crude oil and petroleum products in selected countries. Exhaustive tables. Includes data compiled from the U.N., the Int'l Energy Agency, the World Bank and others. Industry reports, academic studies, and trade publications are also used.

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0788129236

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Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1981-1990

By: Diane Langmore

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Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1981-1990

By: Diane Langmore

Volume 17 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography contains 658 biographies of individuals who died between 1981 and 1990. The first of two volumes for the decade, it presents a colourful mosaic of twentieth-century Australian life. It contains biographies of well-known identities such as Sir Henry Bolte, Sir Robert Askin, Sir Reginald Ansett, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, Sir Arthur Coles, Robert Holmes-O-Court, Sir Warwick Fairfax, Sir Edmund Herring, Albert Facey, Donald Friend, Sir Roy Grounds, Sir Bernard Heinze and Sir Robert Helpmann. Eminent Australian women in the volume include Dame Elizabeth Couchman, Dame Kate Campbell, Dame Doris Fitton, Dame Zara Holt and Lady (Maie) Casey. Although many of the women achieved prominence in those professions conventionally regarded as the preserve of women, othersandmdash;such as Ruby Boye-Jones, coast-watcher; Ellen Cashman, union organiser; Elsie Chauvel, film-maker; Dorothy Crawford, radio producer; Ruth Dobson, diplomat; Mary Hodgkin, anthropologist; Margaret Kelly, restaurateur; and Patricia Jarrett, journalistandmdash;demonstrate that some women at least were breaking free of the constraints of traditional expectations. The lives of fifteen Indigenous Australians are included, as are those of a number of immigrants who fled from persecution in Europe to establish a new life in Australia.

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The Miegunyah Press

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052285382X

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Rebellion at Coranderrk

By: Diane Barwick

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Rebellion at Coranderrk

By: Diane Barwick

More than a century ago an Aboriginal community in Victoria campaigned for recognition of their right to occupy and control the small acreage they had farmed for 25 years. Others wanted to develop this tract. Government spokesmen denied that the occupants had inherited any rights to this land and declared that, anyway, they were not really Aborigines. This book is about the rebellion at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station between 1874 and 1886. It describes how Coranderrk families fought to keep their land. To explain why they fought I must begin with the years before, to show what this ‘miserable spadeful of ground’ meant to them, and how they came to be there. Finally, I sketch what ultimately happened. First published in 1998, 12 years after the death of its author Diane Barwick, Rebellion at Coranderrk was an attempt to rectify some of the injustices of the past two-hundred-plus years in Australia, and to prevent similar occurrences in the future. It remains acutely relevant. This book includes the names and images of people who are now deceased. ‘All Australians have good reason to be grateful to Diane Barwick.’ — H. C. Coombs ‘The painstaking research, the perceptive judgements of people and events, and the brilliant prose combine to produce a magnificent account of the Kulin and their European “administrators”. The book is simply packed with historical reinterpretation and vivid reconstructions of families and individuals.’ — C. T. Stannage ‘The author’s research found that Coranderrk is an excellent example of … an Aboriginal (farming) success story. It is very relevant to modern land-rights protests throughout Australia.’ — Canberra Times

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1760466506

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Solar Collector Manufacturing Activity (1993)

By: DIANE Publishing Company

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Solar Collector Manufacturing Activity (1993)

By: DIANE Publishing Company

Presents summary data on solar thermal collector shipments for the years 1974 through 1993 and summary data on photovoltaic cells and module shipments for the years 1982 through 1993. Detailed information for solar thermal collectors and photovoltaic cells and modules is presented for 1993. Charts and tables.

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0788112775

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One Hundred Names for Love

A Memoir

By: Diane Ackerman

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One Hundred Names for Love

A Memoir

By: Diane Ackerman

No other writer can blend the science of the brain with the love of language like Diane Ackerman. In this extraordinary memoir, she opens a window into the experience of wordlessness--the language paralysis called aphasia. In narrating the recovery of her husband, Paul West, from a stroke that reduced his vast vocabulary to a single syllable, she evokes the joy and mystery of the brain's ability to find and connect words. Deeply rewarding to readers of all kinds, Ackerman has given us a literary love story, accessible insight into the science and medicine of brain injury, and invaluable spiritual sustenance in the face of life's myriad physical sufferings.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393341747

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9780393341744

Health, U. S., 1993

The Annual National Report on Health

By: DIANE Publishing Company

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Health, U. S., 1993

The Annual National Report on Health

By: DIANE Publishing Company

Presents easy-to-read & up-to-date statistics in one convenient, comprehensive report. Contains information on health care & status, including 156 detailed statistical tables. Includes a chartbook featuring 41 graphs depicting vital statistics, health status, health behavior, & use of health care.

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0788108395

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Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN) (Authorized CCDA Self-Study Guide) (Exam 640-863)

By: Diane Teare

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Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN) (Authorized CCDA Self-Study Guide) (Exam 640-863)

By: Diane Teare

Authorized Self-Study Guide Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN) Second Edition Foundation learning for CCDA exam 640-863 Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN), Second Edition, is a Cisco®-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCDA® foundation learning. This book provides you with the knowledge needed to design enterprise networks. By reading this book, you will gain a thorough understanding of designing routed and switched network infrastructures and services within a modular architecture. In Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN), Second Edition, you will study a broad range of network design principles and guidelines. You will learn about network design in the context of the Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) framework and the Cisco Enterprise Architecture. Specific topics include campus and data center infrastructure, remote connectivity, IP addressing design, routing protocol selection, voice network design, wireless network design, and including security in your designs. An ongoing case study plus chapter-ending review questions illustrate and help solidify the concepts presented in the book. Whether you are preparing for CCDA certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of network design principles, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book. Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN), Second Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining. Diane Teare is a professional in the networking, training, and e-learning fields. She has more than 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting network hardware and software and has also been involved in teaching, course design, and project management. She has extensive knowledge of network design and routing technologies and is an instructor with one of the largest authorized Cisco Learning Partners. Understand the Cisco vision of intelligent networks and the SONA framework Learn how to structure and modularize network designs within the Cisco Enterprise Architecture Design basic campus and data center networks Build designs for remote connectivity with WAN technologies Create IPv4 addressing schemes Understand IPv6 design Select the appropriate routing protocol for various modules in the Cisco Enterprise Architecture Design basic VoIP and IP telephony networks Understand wireless design principles Build security into your network designs This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed self-study solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations. Category: Cisco Press—Network Design Covers: CCDA Exam 640-863

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Pearson Education

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0132796783

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Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

By: DIANE Publishing Company

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Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

By: DIANE Publishing Company

Highlights 50 of Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's best success stories emerging from technology transfer in the past year. Covers technologies such as: medicine, environment, sensor, energy, the information superhighway, software, microelectronics, superconductors, and dual-use technologies, Photos.

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0788121812

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Bmdo Technology And The Electric Utility Industry

By: DIANE Publishing Company,Martin C. Libicki

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Bmdo Technology And The Electric Utility Industry

By: DIANE Publishing Company,Martin C. Libicki

Since the early 1980's , the U.S. has encouraged industry to partner with Fed. agencies to transfer and commercialize federally funded R&D. This report, written in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's (BMDO's) Tech. Applications program, is intended to put the electric utility industry in touch with developers of a wide range of highly advanced technology funded by BMDO that could assist those utilities in meeting a more competitive environment. Includes: transmission and distribution systems, fossil fuel power generation, environmental compliance, and load mgmt. Contacts provided.

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0788146890

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Quiet Riot

The Culture of Teaching and Learning in Schools

By: Diane Hoffman

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Quiet Riot

The Culture of Teaching and Learning in Schools

By: Diane Hoffman

Quiet Riot offers an anthropological critique of teaching and learning in two U.S. high schools over a twenty-seven year period. Based on the author's experiences shadowing two average students in 1983 and 2009, it presents detailed observations that powerfully capture the reality of student experiences in school. Despite many changes in schools over this near thirty year period, observations show a remarkable continuity in what goes on in classrooms. This is because the culture of teaching and learning in classrooms has remained relatively unchanged. While teachers are sincere, they also undermine their own efforts in a variety of ways. Students are disengaged not because they do not care, but because the instruction they receive systematically prevents them from engaging at a deep intellectual level with subject matter. Observations in high schools are supplemented with elementary school observations that demonstrate the early trajectories of disengagement that capture many students. The book illustrates the powerful patterning of the culture of teaching and learning in schooling that undermines the true goals of an authentic education.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1610483111

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