Esther Kershaw's Books

Walking the Beket

By: Esther Kershaw

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Walking the Beket is a light-hearted look at life from a dog¿s point of view, the dog being an Australian Kelpie - Beket - with maybe a touch of dingo, his tail always carried proudly aloft as the Leader of the Pack - or the straightened to a lance equivalent - when facing adversaries. Beket is highly intelligent, highly strung; aquiver with nervous energy and curiosity yet also accompanied with that true Aussie laid-back attitude of "she'll be right mate!" He is placed in a human family situation - "our dog Beket" to the Boss and Missus, young daughter Rhiannon and two household cats. His domestic life involves the interplay between dogs, humans, and a very sensitive Missus, but his secret and interior life reveals an entirely different aspect of his telepathic interplay betwixt dog and dogs, dogs and elephants and the "forth dimension". The story is really a humorous commentary on humanity, politics, religion and international issues - with a good dose of Doggy commonsense. Beket and his adventures, explorations and soliloquies with the Dog Clan reflect our own society¿s confrontations; i.e. Migrants - wanted or unwanted, Detainees behind wire fences, Animal welfare - help for the underdog, Meditations - Tibetan wise reflections, Emergency Services and Fire Fighters! A Tale for Young and Old or anyone who loves animals.

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MBS Press

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1921883057

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Bystander

By: Esther Over-Kershaw

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Bystander

By: Esther Over-Kershaw

Standing at the portals of time and space, the Bystander seeks to explain why we receive visits from UFO's and Aliens ... is it too late to awaken mankind? Startling and mysterious communications to a young West Australian Radio Engineer, by way of an old television set, create the Omega Circuit, a communication between Planet Earth, the 4th Dimension and Time and Space. The Bystander is the Entity in charge of the Omega Circuit. He stands at the Portals of Time and Space and his aim is to try to awaken mankind to the use and abuse of Humanity's advances and technologies before it is too late and we explode out of existence and so disrupt the Universal rhythms. The story follows reports of UFO's and ALIENS by newspaper journalists, and Editors and investigations by same, also "big business" magnates interest, Romance and Marriage and further future contact by space people.

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252

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MBS Press

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1921883235

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9781921883231

Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa

Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba

By: Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Catherine Mwihaki Ndungo

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Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa

Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba

By: Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Catherine Mwihaki Ndungo

In Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa: Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba, Esther Mukewa Lisanza and Catherine Mwihaki Ndungo argue that African languages and indigenous knowledge forms are the tools which have made African communities such as Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba thrive for generations. Using interviews and research data, this book investigates the following questions: what is the nature and role of multilingualism in East Africa?; what role do herbs and indigenous foods play in Swahili, Kamba, and Kikuyu communities?; how are the communities governed indigenously?; and what is the connection between indigenous languages and knowledge? The findings presented within this study have demonstrated that multilingualism is a great resource in East Africa as many have prided themselves on their multilingual abilities within their education, careers, and cultures. Although these languages have been identified as carriers of indigenous governance, judiciary, and herbal medicine that have survived for generations, Lisanza and Ndungo advocate for policies and education systems to recenter these indigenous languages and their accompanying indigenous knowledge forms and practices once the older generations have passed on.

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185

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666914215

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9781666914214

Women, Land Rights and Rural Development

How Much Land Does a Woman Need?

By: Esther Kingston-Mann

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Women, Land Rights and Rural Development

How Much Land Does a Woman Need?

By: Esther Kingston-Mann

The failure to include gender in the economic history of rural development has severely limited our understanding of privatizing, collectivist and colonial economic policies that disrupted and transformed the lives of rural women and men in the modern world. This book is unique in its focus on female economic agency, and in its exploration of the latter virtue in comparative historical perspective. It presents the apparently disparate cases of 17th-century England, 20th-century Russia and the Soviet Union, and 20th-century Kenya, as their top-down modernization projects were implemented in similar fashion --particularly in the case of women. The female half of the population was largely absent from contemporary economic databases, but nevertheless stereotyped as obstacles to rational economic decision-making. Introducing rural women and their innovations into male-centered narratives of economic history lays the foundation for a more demographically balanced and realistic understanding of rural behavior and rural development. In this study, women’s labor and land claims are the lens through which both female agency and the delegitimizing of women’s land claims become more visible. Both policy-makers and their leading critics deployed virtually identical language to describe backward, unruly and invariably “unsightly” peasant women.

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286

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Routledge

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135169099X

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9781351690997

Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds

By: Esther Urdang

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Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds

By: Esther Urdang

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds is an essential human behavior textbook for social work students. The third edition emphasizes the biopsychosocial framework within a psychodynamic, developmental and life-course perspective and includes a brand new chapter on the psychosocial complexities of technological advances. Written by an experienced classroom teacher, faculty advisor and clinician, the text approaches development through the life cycle, discussing the challenges, tasks, and problems of each stage. Presenting complex concepts in a clear and understandable way, Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Includes 16 chapters which cover the diverse nature of the circumstances that practicing social workers will be exposed to, including cultural differences, mental health issues, and disability; Analyses several different theories, including psychoanalytic, ego psychology, cognitive-behavioral, and postmodern theories in a manner that enables students to engage critically with the subject matter; Includes case vignettes and material from literary works, biographies and newspapers, intertwined with learning exercises and suggestions for additional readings, forming an engaging and practical volume. Written specifically for social work students undertaking courses and modules on human behavior in the social environment, this book is also a valuable resource for beginning and advanced readers in human services, including nursing, medicine, public health, clinical psychology and counseling.

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Routledge

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1317699467

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9781317699460

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

By: Esther Gitman

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A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

By: Esther Gitman

In this book, Esther Gitman, a Holocaust survivor from Sarajevo, documents the saga of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a focus on Sarajevo, her birthplace. The book features an examination of archival documents from Sarajevo, Zagreb, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and more. The ground-breaking work reveals the many facets of Jewish life in Yugoslavia from the time of their expulsion from Spain and Portugal in 1492. This book provides an in-depth look at the integral role the Sephardic Jews, from the Hebrew word for Spain, played in the broader development of the city. More broadly, the book provides readers with a glimpse into a community which saw seventy percent of its members annihilated during WWII.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1036405001

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9781036405007

Bringing Culture to the Masses

Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR

By: Esther von Richthofen

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Bringing Culture to the Masses

Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR

By: Esther von Richthofen

This text explores how cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, through attempts to dictate the way people spent their free time. It shows how people's cultural life in the GDR developed a dynamic of its own.

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Berghahn Books

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1845454588

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9781845454586

Woodlands

A Disappearing Landscape

By: David Lindenmayer,Mason Crane,Damian Michael,Esther Beaton

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Woodlands

A Disappearing Landscape

By: David Lindenmayer,Mason Crane,Damian Michael,Esther Beaton

Australia's little known woodlands once covered huge areas of the eastern side of our continent. Woodlands are distinguished from forests by the fact that their canopies do not touch, tree heights are usually lower and they usually have a grassy understorey. They support a fascinating and diverse array of birds, mammals, reptiles, frogs, invertebrates and plants, and have been under massive pressure from grazing and agriculture over the past 200 years. In many cases only small remnant patches of some types of woodland survive. Understanding and appreciating woodlands is an important way forward for promoting their sustainable management and conservation. Woodlands: A Disappearing Landscape explains with lucid text and spectacular photographs the role that woodlands play in supporting a range of native plants and animals that has existed there for millions of years. The book is set out as a series of logically linked chapters working from the woodland canopy (the tree crowns), through the understorey, the ground layers, and to the lowest lying parts of landscape – wetlands, creeks and dams. Each chapter illustrates many key topics in woodland biology with text and images, explaining important aspects of woodland ecology as well as woodland management and conservation.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643099875

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9780643099876

Luck, Fate and Fortune

Antiquity and Its Legacy

By: Esther Eidinow

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Luck, Fate and Fortune

Antiquity and Its Legacy

By: Esther Eidinow

The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, fate and fortune in our own era, drawing on approaches to cognitive anthropology. Perhaps the most famous of all sites of prediction is the Oracle at Delphi. But the Delphic Oracle is only the best-known example from a landscape covered by oracular sanctuaries; while across the literary genres of antiquity there are myriad tales - such as that of doomed Oedipus - which wrestle with the cruel vicissitudes of fate and fortune. Exploring some of the key ideas of ancient Greek culture that resonate with modern conceptions of destiny, Eidinow examines the ancients' notion of luck as a means to explain daily experiences. Focusing on writers such as Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenes, the author shows how concepts of fate in antiquity changed over time, in response to social and political currents. She draws too on modern cultural texts like "Terminator 2" and "Lawrence of Arabia", demonstrating how the recurring questions 'what if?' and 'why me?' are fundamental to the human relationship with an uncertain future, whether it be in the ancient past or the present day.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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085771953X

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9780857719539

Bystander

By: Esther Over-Kershaw

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Bystander

By: Esther Over-Kershaw

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1921883235

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Esther's Poems

By: Esther Franklin

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Esther's Poems

By: Esther Franklin

Poems that were written through the years for relatives and friends. The author has lived a very full life throughout her 94 years so she has the opportunity to write not only for relatives but also for friends. Researching and writing about Thomas Jefferson, she also met interesting individuals. Hopefully, this book will reflect the expansive nature of her life.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796084158

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9781796084153

The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757

By: Esther Edwards Burr

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The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757

By: Esther Edwards Burr

Daughter of Jonathan Edwards and mother of Aaron Burr, Mrs. Burr describes he experiences in colonial America.

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Yale University Press

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0300029004

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9780300029000

Book's by Esther Kershaw

Walking the Beket

Walking the Beket

Bystander

Bystander

Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa

Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa

Women, Land Rights and Rural Development

Women, Land Rights and Rural Development

Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Human Behavior in the Social Environment

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

Bringing Culture to the Masses

Bringing Culture to the Masses

Woodlands

Woodlands

Luck, Fate and Fortune

Luck, Fate and Fortune

Bystander

Bystander

Esther's Poems

Esther's Poems

The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757

The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757

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