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Mental Illness in the Workplace

Psychological Disability Management

By: Shannon Wagner,Dr Henry G Harder,Mr Josh Rash

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Mental Illness in the Workplace

Psychological Disability Management

By: Shannon Wagner,Dr Henry G Harder,Mr Josh Rash

The extent of mental illness concerns in the workforce is becoming increasingly apparent. Stress, depression, anxiety, workplace bullying and other issues are costing businesses billions every year in lost productivity, poor treatments and employee retention. Unless appropriately addressed, issues related to mental illness difficulties will result in stiff financial, organizational, and human costs for organizations. The authors of Mental Illness in the Workplace provide a practical guide to identifying, understanding, treating and preventing individual and organizational mental health issues. They illustrate how organizations can save money and improve the health and well-being of their employees by using a psychological disability management approach in the treatment and accommodation of mental illness issues. Drawing on empirical evidence from North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, the book is in three parts. The first addresses the scope of mental health issues in the workplace. The second part describes the most common mental illnesses found in the workplace, while the third focuses on prevention and treatment of mental health issues. This book will meet the needs of human resources professionals, administrators of employee assistance programs, industrial and organizational psychologists, mental health practitioners, those teaching or studying psychology and disability management, and more generally will serve to enlighten students of business management and practicing managers regarding a major workforce risk factor.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1472402413

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Talking Safety

A User's Guide to World Class Safety Conversation

By: Dr Tim Marsh

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Talking Safety

A User's Guide to World Class Safety Conversation

By: Dr Tim Marsh

Talking Safety summarises, in a short user-friendly read, the key element of safety leadership - the management and supervisor 'walk and talk'. Safety standards are set by a combination of three things: first, the basic systems: risk assessments, procedures, training, inductions and maintenance; second, the amount of objective learning about the inevitable weaknesses in these systems achieved from a ‘Just Culture’ perspective; and third, the quality of ‘transformational’ safety leadership which means coaching not telling, praising not criticising, leading by example and maximising front-line ownership and involvement. A good ‘walk and talk’ is the only methodology that covers all of these issues and really should be embedded as ‘part of the way we do things around here’. It is the centrepiece of any world class safety culture.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409466574

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Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture

On the Threshold of German Modernism

By: Dr Marsha Morton

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Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture

On the Threshold of German Modernism

By: Dr Marsha Morton

In this book, the first full-length study of its kind in English, Marsha Morton argues that no artist represented the shift from tradition to innovation in the Wilhelmine Empire (1870s - 1880s) more compellingly than Max Klinger. Morton makes an interdisciplinary examination of Klinger’s early prints and drawings within the context of Wilhelmine transformations, coming to the conclusion that the artist’s work revealed the psychological and biological underpinnings of modern rational man whose drives and passions undermined bourgeois constructions of society.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409467589

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Near-Death Experience: Scientific Interpretation

(Inspired by True Story of a Friend)

By: Prof. (Dr.) Jai Paul Dudeja

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Near-Death Experience: Scientific Interpretation

(Inspired by True Story of a Friend)

By: Prof. (Dr.) Jai Paul Dudeja

A Near-Death Experience (NDE) is the recollected experience of someone who has been declared ‘clinically dead’ by the doctors, followed by resuscitation (the act of bringing someone back to life). Common traits that have been reported by NDErs (persons having near-dear experiences) are: An awareness of being dead; A sense of peace, well-being, painlessness and other positive emotions; a sense of removal from the world; an intense feeling of unconditional love and acceptance; experiencing euphoric environments, an out-of-body experience (OBE), that means, a perception of one's body from an outside position, sometimes observing medical professionals performing resuscitation efforts; a "tunnel experience" or entering a zone of darkness; a rapid movement toward a bright light; being reunited with deceased loved ones; receiving a ‘life review’, commonly referred to as "seeing one's life in a flash-back before one's eyes"; approaching a border or a decision by oneself or others to return to one's body, often accompanied by a reluctance to return; and suddenly finding oneself back inside one's body. Although majority of the NDErs report pleasant experiences, a few of them may have distressing or unpleasant experiences also. This book consists of 13 chapters, categorized into three sections: (i) Introduction and Overview, (ii) Some True Stories, and (iii) Scientific Interpretation.

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Notion Press

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Beyond Blame

Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited

By: Dr Peter Reder,Sylvia Duncan,Moira Gray

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Beyond Blame

Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited

By: Dr Peter Reder,Sylvia Duncan,Moira Gray

What can we learn from inquiries into cases of fatal child abuse? Beyond Blame offers a new way of looking at such cases and shows that it is possible to draw important lessons from them. The authors, all three experienced in child protection work, summarise thirty-five major inquiries since 1973, setting them in their social context and discussing the implications both for practical work in the field and for future inquiries. They stress the need for those who work day to day in child protection to develop and apply a more sophisticated level of analysis to assessment and intervention. They identify common themes within abusing families, in the relationships between members of the professional networks, and in the interactions between the families and the professionals.

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Routledge

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1134919131

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Personal and Public Lives and Relationships in a Changing Social World

By: Rosemary Rae,Dr Sharon Wray

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Personal and Public Lives and Relationships in a Changing Social World

By: Rosemary Rae,Dr Sharon Wray

The field of personal life is a relatively new area of sociological study that seeks to understand the complexities of contemporary personal and social relationships. This includes exploration of the impact of social, economic, legal, and political change on personal experiences, opportunities, and life-styles. This ground breaking edited collection presents research on personal and public lives in a period of rapid social and political change. Relatively little is known about how personal and public aspects of life inter-relate and even less about how the outcomes of this relationship shape different areas of life. This book aims to capture and understand the effects of these overlapping spheres on the everyday lives of people in different geographical, cultural, and spatial settings. It brings together research in four key areas; migration and displacement, gender, sexuality, and health, with two main overarching themes. The first theme is how individuals cope with social, political, geographical, and cultural change in these diverse settings. The second relates to how these changes produce diverse inequalities that impact on relationships, roles, and responsibilities. The book thus seeks to increase the visibility of particular aspects of life that have often been neglected in social science research and subsequently open them up to further research and debate.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443865036

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Australia's Nuclear Policy

Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests

By: Dr Michael Clarke,Dr Stephan Frühling,Professor Andrew O'Neil

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Australia's Nuclear Policy

Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests

By: Dr Michael Clarke,Dr Stephan Frühling,Professor Andrew O'Neil

Australia’s Nuclear Policy develops a holistic conception of ‘nuclear policy’ that extends across the three distinct but related spheres - strategic, economic and normative - that have arisen from the basic ‘dual-use’ dilemma of nuclear technology. Existing scholarship on Australia’s nuclear policy has generally grappled with each of these spheres in isolation. In a fresh evaluation of the field, the authors investigate the broader aims of Australian nuclear policy and detail how successive Australian governments have engaged with nuclear issues since 1945.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409443396

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In Harmony

The Complementary Musical Tales of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Civic Orchestra, and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra

By: Dr. Lisa Redpath

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In Harmony

The Complementary Musical Tales of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Civic Orchestra, and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra

By: Dr. Lisa Redpath

In Harmony: The Complementary Musical Tales of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Civic Orchestra, and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra is a stirring, historical account of these three Massachusetts ensembles. Each chapter documents the orchestras' operations ranging from their founders to the conductors, repertoire, players, soloists, volunteers, fundraisers, behind-the-scenes realities, and special features. While details of each organization are presented in depth, a seasoning of interesting, humorous, and at times tragic human-interest stories make these tales come alive. Musicians, audience members, supporters, and readers with a passion for history will find connections to the events told here. Welcome to the inside world of these venerable ensembles which take their places in the history of orchestras with pride. In Harmony is the most extensive and intriguing exploration into community orchestras in the literature. Musical portraits are enlivened by real-life adventure stories such as survival by WWII refugees, the guarding of Stradivari violins, performing during power failures, and the dodging of puddles caused by leaking concert hall ceilings. Most notable are the contributions made by core players whose passion for orchestral music-making inspires them to share their talent, time, and commitment with the community, often as part of their life's work. Over time, thousands of audience members have enjoyed their concerts, scores of youth musicians have been awarded performance opportunities and scholarships, and players have felt great satisfaction in their calling to perform. Significant details illuminate the history of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra dating back to 1925 and the central roles that women played in the establishment of the Sharon Civic Orchestra and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra. The orchestras have been led by conductors from both the local and national stage. Famous performers such as Charles Castleman, Midori, and Gil Shaham were guest soloists with the Brockton Symphony during the early days of their careers. The overall cavalcade of esteemed stars included Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Leonard Rose, Samuel Mayes, Boston Symphony Orchestra members and many others! The conductors, soloists, volunteers, and most importantly, the players, have devoted their lives to the making of symphonic music for all to enjoy. Their tales are masterpieces.

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Universal Publishers

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1627343830

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Working Abroad in Higher Education

If Only I Knew?

By: Dr. Michael Clarke

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Working Abroad in Higher Education

If Only I Knew?

By: Dr. Michael Clarke

Everyone knows that there has been a marked increase in transnational higher education activity over the past twenty years. But it is unclear how this has affected those who make their living in higher education, which is why this research study is so important. Dr. Michael Clarke, currently the Principal of Global College Malta, explores the challenges that come along with the increased mobility that transnational higher education has allowed academics to enjoyfocusing specifically on British expatriate academics based in the UAE. Get answers to questions such as: What are the benefits and drawbacks for British academics working abroad? How does working overseas affect long-term career aspirations? What are conditions like at higher education institutions located overseas? How can educational practices from overseas be used to improve education at home? Whether you are an educator or an administrator in a higher education setting, the insights and recommendations in this study will equip you with the tools you need to improve the learning experience for students and working conditions for staff.

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Partridge Publishing Singapore

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1482854341

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The Better Half

On the Genetic Superiority of Women

By: Dr. Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD

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The Better Half

On the Genetic Superiority of Women

By: Dr. Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD

A Guardian Book of the Week Longlisted for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. They are simply stronger than men at every stage of life. Why is this? And why are we taught the opposite? To find out, Dr. Sharon Moalem drew on his own medical experiences - treating premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit; recruiting the elderly for neurogenetic studies; tending to HIV-positive orphans in Thailand - and tried to understand why in every instance men were consistently less likely to thrive. The answer, he discovered, lies in our genetics: two X chromosomes offer a powerful survival advantage. With clear, captivating prose that weaves together eye-opening research, case studies, diverse examples ranging from the behavior of honeybees to American pioneers, as well as experiences from his personal life and his own patients, Moalem explains why genetic females triumph over males when it comes to resiliency, intellect, stamina, immunity and much more. He also calls for a reconsideration of our male-centric, one-size-fits-all view of medical studies and even how we prescribe medications - a view that still sees women through the lens of men. Revolutionary and yet utterly convincing, The Better Half will make you see humanity and the survival of our species anew.

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1250174791

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Beyond the Journey

Women's Stories of Settlement and Community Building in Canada

By: Catherine Bain,Cynthia Ding,Gabriele Hardt,Rev. Dr. Sonia Hinds,Heather Meikle,Manivillie Kanagasabapathy,Maya Roy,Sharon M. Nembhard,Dhurata Sinani,Faye Stanbury ,Angela Walcott

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Beyond the Journey

Women's Stories of Settlement and Community Building in Canada

By: Catherine Bain,Cynthia Ding,Gabriele Hardt,Rev. Dr. Sonia Hinds,Heather Meikle,Manivillie Kanagasabapathy,Maya Roy,Sharon M. Nembhard,Dhurata Sinani,Faye Stanbury ,Angela Walcott

Beyond the Journey features the voices of women who have experienced the challenge of living in Canada's immigrant communities. Some women were brought to Canada as children, while others immigrated as adults; yet others were born in Canada to immigrant parents. The women chronicle their journey of settlement in Canada through life-writing, poetry, and essays. In all instances, they focused on reaching for a sense of belonging in Canada as they engaged in community building. This required transcending their "immigrantness" to create that new reality. While the end result is gratifying, the journey required adapting to the culture shock, alienation, and loss of identity that are inevitably part of the immigrant's experience. The contributors are from Albania, Antigua, Barbados, China, Germany, Grenada, India, Iran, Jamaica, and Sri Lanka. Catherine Bain • Cynthia Ding • Gabriele Hardt • Rev. Dr. Sonia Hinds • Heather Meikle • Manivillie Kanagasabapathy • Maya Roy • Sharon M. Nembhard • Dhurata Sinani • Faye Stanbury • Angela Walcott

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Insomniac Press

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1554831113

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The Wedding Present

Domestic Life Beyond Consumption

By: Dr Louise Purbrick

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The Wedding Present

Domestic Life Beyond Consumption

By: Dr Louise Purbrick

In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Focusing on gift-giving in Britain from 1945 to the present, comparative context is provided by material from North America and Europe. Presenting new material on the enactment of exchange relationships within everyday domesticity, the book makes significant historical, theoretical and methodological contributions to the analysis of contemporary consumption. It also re-evaluates consumption theory as well as examining the methodology of recent studies in consumption and domesticity, pressing for a more rigorous approach to the use of case studies. By considering how the specific contexts in which consumption occurs, such as married domesticity, can limit possible versions of selfhood, The Wedding Present tests the assumption that consuming creates individual identities. Thus, the book argues, consumption cannot be isolated as an explanation of individual or social formation.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472440242

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Landscape, Race and Memory

Material Ecologies of Citizenship

By: Dr Divya P Tolia-Kelly

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Landscape, Race and Memory

Material Ecologies of Citizenship

By: Dr Divya P Tolia-Kelly

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations. Whilst the relationships between the political value of landscape and national memory have previously been written through, there has been little mention of postcolonial, 'diasporic' racialized citizens. Using both visual and material culture, this book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain. It uses memory to examine how postcolonial citizenship in Britain is experienced - through remembered citizenships of 'other' geographies abroad. By reflecting on the cultural landscapes of British Asian women, the book reveals social-historical narratives about migration, citizenship and belonging. New spaces of memory are presented as mobile and as politically charged with meaning as the more formal spaces of memorialization. The book offers a refiguring of race memory as being critical to English heritage and postcolonial politics and makes an important contribution to the writings on memory, race and landscape.

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1409488632

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THE FIRE SALAMANDRA (Salamandra infraimmaculata) and the BANDED NEWT (Triturus vittatus) ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION

By: Prof. Gad Degani ,Prof. Heinrich Mendelssohn,Prof. Michael R. Warburg,Prof. Amiram Shkolnik,Prof. Eviatar Nevo,Dr. Tali Goldberg,Dr. Oren Pearlson,Dr. Rakefet Sharon

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THE FIRE SALAMANDRA (Salamandra infraimmaculata) and the BANDED NEWT (Triturus vittatus) ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION

By: Prof. Gad Degani ,Prof. Heinrich Mendelssohn,Prof. Michael R. Warburg,Prof. Amiram Shkolnik,Prof. Eviatar Nevo,Dr. Tali Goldberg,Dr. Oren Pearlson,Dr. Rakefet Sharon

The purpose of this book is to communicate basic knowledge about two species of amphibians of the Urodela order, the fire salamander and the banded newt, along the southern border of their distribution in Israel in an area of especially extreme conditions, and to present to the reader the fascinating world of these species. The book is based on theoretical material from the academic literature that has been published in journals in t he English language over the past 40 years.

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Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA

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1618966936

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Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados

By: Dr Sharon Meredith

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Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados

By: Dr Sharon Meredith

Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a working class music associated with plantations and rum shops to a signifier of national culture, played at official functions and showcased to tourists. Based on ethnographic and archival research, Sharon Meredith considers the social, political and cultural developments in Barbados that led to the evolution, development and revival of tuk as well as cultural traditions associated with it. She places tuk in the context of other music in the country, and examines similar musics elsewhere that, whilst sharing some elements with tuk, have their own individual identities.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472440277

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Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West

Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement

By: Dr Nicholas Campion

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Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West

Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement

By: Dr Nicholas Campion

This book explores an area of contemporary religion, spirituality and popular culture which has not so far been investigated in depth, the phenomenon of astrology in the modern west. Locating modern astrology historically and sociologically in its religious, New Age and millenarian contexts, Nicholas Campion considers astrology's relation to modernity and draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with leading modern astrologers to present an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins and nature of New Age ideology. This book challenges the notion that astrology is either 'marginal' or a feature of postmodernism. Concluding that astrology is more popular than the usual figures suggest, Campion argues that modern astrology is largely shaped by New Age thought, influenced by the European Millenarian tradition, that it can be seen as an heir to classical Gnosticism and is part of the vernacular religion of the modern west.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409461491

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Parenting Is Hard and Then You Die

A Fun but Honest Look at Raising Kids of All Ages Right

By: Dr. David E. Clarke

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Parenting Is Hard and Then You Die

A Fun but Honest Look at Raising Kids of All Ages Right

By: Dr. David E. Clarke

Parenting Is Hard and Then You Die provides a biblical and comprehensive strategy for raising healthy kids in a world that is morally bankrupt, spiritually desolate, and increasingly dangerous. That strategy is clear and specific, rooted in the Bible, proved successful, and communicated in a fun, entertaining way. Dr. David Clarke has written many books on family. This book stands out for all of the following: Extremely practical Clarke’s trademark humor Gives good attention to the teen years Strategies tested in his own home and by counseling clients

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NavPress

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168428158X

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Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century

A Story of ‘Old is Gold’ and Flying Spirits

By: Dr Janet Topp Fargion

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Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century

A Story of ‘Old is Gold’ and Flying Spirits

By: Dr Janet Topp Fargion

The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, India and the West with local musical practices. In Taarab, Music in Zanzibar, Janet Topp Fargion traces the development of the genre in Zanzibar, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Of special interest is the role of women. Although men play the main role in the composition and performance of the genre, Topp Fargion argues that the modernization of the genre owes a debt to the participation of women - as audiences and primary consumers, but also as poets and innovators of musical concepts. The book weaves together the historical, social, economic, religious and political dynamics involved in the development of the genre, and investigates how these are played out in the performance of taarab music on Zanzibar.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147242252X

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In Search of Song: The Life and Times of Lucy Broadwood

By: Dr Dorothy de Val

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In Search of Song: The Life and Times of Lucy Broadwood

By: Dr Dorothy de Val

Born into the famous family of piano makers, Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929) became one of the chief collectors and scholars of the first English folk music revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Privately educated and trained as a classical musician and singer, she was inspired by her uncle to collect local song from her native Sussex. The desire to rescue folk song from an aging population led to the foundation of the Folk Song Society, of which she was a founder member. Mentor to younger collectors such as Percy Grainger but often at loggerheads with fellow collector Cecil Sharp and the young Ralph Vaughan Williams, she eventually ventured into Ireland and Scotland, while remaining an eclectic contributor and editor of the Society’s Journal, which became a flagship for scholarly publication of folksong. She also published arrangements of folk songs and her own compositions which attracted the attention of singers such as Harry Plunket Greene. Using an array of primary sources including the diaries Broadwood kept throughout her adult life, Dorothy de Val provides a lively biography which sheds new light on her early years and chronicles her later busy social, artistic and musical life while acknowledging the underlying vulnerability of single women at this time. Her account reveals an intelligent, generous though reserved woman who, with the help of her friends, emerged from the constraints of a Victorian upbringing to meet the challenges of the modern world.

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1409494403

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PHYSICAL FITNESS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

By: Dr Manoj Kumar Pandey

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PHYSICAL FITNESS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

By: Dr Manoj Kumar Pandey

Physical Fitness is one's richest possession; it cannot be purchased, it has to be earned through a daily routine of Physical Exercises'It is self-evident that the fit citizens are a nation's best assets and weak one's its liabilities. It is therefore the responsibility of every country to promote Physical Fitness of its citizens because Physical Fitness is the basic requirement for most of the task to be undertaken by individual in his daily life. If a person's body is under-developed or grows soft or inactive and If he fails to develop Physical Prowess, he Is undermining his capacity for thought and for work, which are of vital importance to one's own life and society in a welfare state.

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179472706X

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Child Abuse

Abuse Identification, Prevention and Spiritual Implication

By: Dr. James A. Gordon

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Child Abuse

Abuse Identification, Prevention and Spiritual Implication

By: Dr. James A. Gordon

This, of course, is one of the most important subject that reveals and expresses the feelings of the abused without allowing the spirit of anger to damage their spirit but gives the right attitude toward those who have perpetrated their will. This book reminded us that there is hope in spite of the trauma that took place in the millions of children lives around the world. God is the healer for every pain and brokenness that anyone ever faces. Children are the heritage of the Lord. There are many children that are living with scars; on the inside, they are hopeless, not wanting to face life. This book offer hopes in Jesus Christ, our creator. We are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image and likeness of God.

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1499053401

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Science and Religious Anthropology

A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life

By: Dr Wesley J Wildman

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Science and Religious Anthropology

A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life

By: Dr Wesley J Wildman

Science and Religious Anthropology explores the convergence of the biological sciences, human sciences, and humanities around a spiritually evocative, naturalistic vision of human life. The disciplinary contributions are at different levels of complexity, from evolution of brains to existential longings, and from embodied sociality to ecosystem habitat. The resulting interpretation of the human condition supports some aspects of traditional theological thinking in the world's religious traditions while seriously challenging other aspects. Wesley Wildman draws out these implications for philosophical and religious anthropology and argues that the modern secular interpretation of humanity is most compatible with a religious form of naturalistic humanism. This book resists the reduction of meaning and value questions while taking scientific theories about human life with full seriousness. It argues for a religious interpretation of human beings as bodily creatures emerging within a natural environment that permits engagement with the valuational potentials of reality. This engagement promotes socially borne spiritual quests to realize and harmonize values in everything human beings do, from the forging of cultures to the crafting of personal convictions.

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1409478351

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Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender

By: Dr Brenda R Weber

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Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender

By: Dr Brenda R Weber

Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber argues that authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Mary Cholmondeley, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Robins, Eliza Potter, and Elizabeth Keckley helped create an intelligible category of the famous writer that used celebrity as a leveraging tool for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity. Doing so, Weber demonstrates, involved an intricate gender/sex negotiation that had ramifications for what it meant to be public, professional, intelligent, and extraordinary. Weber's persuasive account elucidates how Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë served simultaneously to support claims for Brontë's genius and to diminish Brontë's body in compensation for the magnitude of those claims, thus serving as a touchstone for later representations of women's literary genius and celebrity. Fanny Fern, for example, adapts Gaskell's maneuvers on behalf of Charlotte Brontë to portray the weak woman's body becoming strong as it is made visible through and celebrated within the literary marketplace. Throughout her study, Weber analyzes the complex codes connected to transatlantic formations of gender/sex, the body, and literary celebrity as women authors proactively resisted an intense backlash against their own success.

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Public Policy and Media Organizations

By: Dr Caroline Kamau,Dr David Berry

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Public Policy and Media Organizations

By: Dr Caroline Kamau,Dr David Berry

Public policy thinking and implementation is both a process of intellectual thought and rationale for governing. This book examines public policy and the influence news media organizations have in the production and implementation of public policy. Part I assesses the impact of political philosophy on public policy thinking and further discusses the meaning of public policy in social democratic systems. It uses the riots that occurred across England in the summer of 2011 as a case-study to focus on how the idea of the ‘Big Society’ was regenerated by government and used as a basis for public policy thinking. Finally, it investigates how media organizations form news representations of public policy issues that seek to contextualize and reshape policy manufactured for public consumption. Part II provides a psychological exploration of the processes which explain the connection between the media, the public and policy-makers. Does the ‘common good’ really drive public policy-making, or can group processes better explain what policy-makers decide? This second part of the book explores how media workers’ professional identities and practices shape their decisions about how to represent policy news. It also shows how the public identities and corporate interests of media organizations shape their role as referees of public policy-making and how all this culminates in faulty decision-making about how to represent policy news, polarization in public opinion about particular policies, and shifts in policy-makers’ decisions.

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1472404343

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What a Long Strange It's Been

By: Dr. Jeffrey W. Neal

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What a Long Strange It's Been

By: Dr. Jeffrey W. Neal

What a Long Strange It’s Been By: Dr. Jeffrey W. Neal Based on a life in education, What a Long Strange It’s Been details the joys, struggles, and heartbreak of navigating years as a dedicated educator. It also examines the shooting death of a beloved teacher at the hands of a fourteen-year-old student, its aftermath, and the school community’s recovery. As shootings, particularly, at schools show no signs of stopping, there is a lesson to be learned. Ultimately, the author hopes readers enjoy this celebration of education as well as gain some insight into the recovery from PTSD.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1685371701

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Get the Hell Out of Church

7 Maxims for Fighting the Good Fight

By: Dr. Holt Clarke

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Get the Hell Out of Church

7 Maxims for Fighting the Good Fight

By: Dr. Holt Clarke

Churches rife with infighting and backstabbing. Biblical illiteracy rampant among Christians. Atheism on the rise. Nearly four thousand church closings a year. And business is booming for the Devil. The church mortality rate is at epidemic proportions, and the current rate of morbidity is staggering. People are leaving the church in droves, tired of the hate, intolerance, and hypocrisy. The prevalence of gang leadership through bullying is creating a crisis of spiritual leadership for many church communities. Numerous churches are facing the threat of extinction as they perilously condone devilish behaviors that are worldly, divisive, and hypocritical. Caution is thrown to the wind as church bullies subvert the witness of Christianity in the world. In "Get the Hell Out of Church," author Holt Clarke provides biblical wisdom and practical insights for diagnosing and effectively addressing destructive attitudes and behaviors that wreak havoc and subvert the spiritual life of a church community. Having served over twenty years in spiritual combat, enduring several tours of duty as a pastor, Holt Clarke writes from firsthand experience in dealing with evil behaviors that take church communities by storm. With theological expertise, Holt Clarke equips and empowers you to clean house and throw the Devil out with the trash. Join Holt Clarke for a literary experience in spiritual calisthenics that can optimize your spiritual life while promoting church health and growth. A powerful concentration of spiritual awareness and practical wisdom, this book can equip and empower you to detect and put a stop to virulent behaviors while promoting spiritual health and well-being. You will learn: practical and biblical insights into the spiritual nature of evil, how to effectively deal with the emotional baggage derived from toxic experiences, and no-nonsense strategies to triumph over evil attitudes and behaviors that afflict and subvert your life.

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