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Work and Social Justice

Rethinking Labour in Society and the Economy

By: Flora Gill

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Work and Social Justice

Rethinking Labour in Society and the Economy

By: Flora Gill

Today’s economics offers us a far too narrow perspective on the role that paid work plays in our lives, as individuals and as a society. This book examines the urgent workplace challenges we’re facing today, from automation to AI and climate change, with an interdisciplinary and historical analysis that challenges and broadens the scope of existing economic literature. Exploring the current economic proposals to address these issues, it advocates for a more egalitarian and sustainable future that builds workers’ protections into the very fabric of our economic systems. This is a resounding call for greater economic social justice and equality at work and a valuable resource for social scientists from fields like heterodox economics, business and sociology.

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Policy Press

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1447369947

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9781447369943

The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made

A Family Memoir

By: Flora Miller Biddle

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The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made

A Family Memoir

By: Flora Miller Biddle

“Crucial in understanding the evolution of the American art scene.”—Library Journal Until Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened her studio—which evolved into the Whitney Museum almost two decades later—on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan in 1914, there were few art museums in the United States, let alone galleries for contemporary artists to exhibit their work. When the mansions of the wealthy cried out for art, they sought it from Europe, then the art capital of the world. It was in her tiny sculptor’s studio in Greenwich Village that Whitney began holding exhibitions of contemporary American artists. This remarkable effort by a scion of America’s wealthiest family helped to change the way art was cultivated in America. The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made is a tale of high ideals, extraordinary altruism, and great dedication that stood steadfast against inflated egos, big businesses, intrigue, and greed. Flora Biddle’s sensitive and insightful memoir is a success story of three generations of forceful, indomitable women.

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Skyhorse

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1628728094

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Family Communication

By: Chris Segrin,Jeanne Flora

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Family Communication

By: Chris Segrin,Jeanne Flora

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting contemporary cutting-edge research, it also includes extensive presentation and application of classic theories and findings in family science that have informed current day understandings of essential family processes. With over 2,500 references, 800 of which are new to this edition, Family Communication represents a current and comprehensive presentation of principled research conducted throughout the world for both students and teachers of family communication. Professionals who work with families and seek an evidence-based understanding of functional and dysfunctional family processes will also find this text useful. The third edition provides instructors and students with a rich set of resources including: Chapter Specific Resource Guides (chapter outlines, guiding questions, multiple choice, essay, and discussion questions, as well as numerous media resources and links) Chapter Specific PowerPoint Slides Sample Syllabus This edition addresses long-standing questions (e.g., how to maintain a marriage, how to build resiliency in remarriages and stepfamilies) and prioritizes research on a variety of family relationships beyond the couple and parent–child relationship, while also exploring new research on romantic relationship pathways, same-sex marriage and divorce, parenting trends, as well as military families, adoptive families, and families with a transgender member. It also examines the complex relationship between family communication and mental health as well as powerful and potentially surprising findings on the connections between family interaction and physical health.

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Routledge

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1351132571

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Teaching Tips for Kids with Dyslexia, Grades PK - 5

A Wealth of Practical Ideas and Teaching Strategies that Can Help Children with Dyslexia (and other Reading Disabilities) Become Successful Readers!

By: Flora

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Teaching Tips for Kids with Dyslexia, Grades PK - 5

A Wealth of Practical Ideas and Teaching Strategies that Can Help Children with Dyslexia (and other Reading Disabilities) Become Successful Readers!

By: Flora

Based on current research, Teaching Tips for Kids with Dyslexia provides teachers and parents with practical multisensory methods that will help children acquire the necessary phonological skills to become successful readers. Included are the early signs and symptoms of dyslexia; language intervention strategies; the importance of developing pre-phonemic and phonemic awareness; multisensory methods for identifying letters, reading sight words, and spelling; as well as suggestions for classroom and material modifications; improving handwriting; building confidence; and new instructional concepts. This resource is a must for all elementary classroom teachers!

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Key Education Publishing

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1602682348

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Rural Communities

Legacy + Change

By: Cornelia Butler Flora

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Rural Communities

Legacy + Change

By: Cornelia Butler Flora

Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use their various capitals (natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built) to address the modern challenges that face them. Each chapter opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge, and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sociological concepts to be applied to understanding the case. This narrative, topical approach makes the book accessible and engaging for undergraduate students, while its integrative approach provides them with a framework for understanding rural society based on the concepts and explanations of social science. This fifth edition is updated throughout with 2013 census data and features new and expanded coverage of health and health care, food systems and alternatives, the effects of neoliberalism and globalization on rural communities, as well as an expanded resource and activity section at the end of each chapter.

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Routledge

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0429974329

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9780429974328

Why Architects Matter

Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

By: Flora Samuel

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Why Architects Matter

Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

By: Flora Samuel

Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear about what it knows and the value of what it knows if it is to work successfully with others. Without this clarity, the marginalization of architects from the production of the built environment will continue, preventing clients, businesses and society from getting the buildings that they need. The book offers a strategy for the development of a twenty-first-century knowledge-led built environment, including tools to help evidence, develop and communicate that value to those outside the field. Knowing how to demonstrate the impact and value of their work will strengthen practitioners’ ability to pitch for work and access new funding streams. This is particularly important at a time of global economic downturn, with ever greater competition for contracts and funds driving down fees and making it imperative to prove value at every level. Why Architects Matter straddles the spheres of ‘Practice Management and Law’, ‘History and Theory’, ‘Design’, ‘Housing’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Health’, ‘Marketing’ and ‘Advice for Clients’, bringing them into an accessible whole. The book will therefore be of interest to professional architects, architecture students and anyone with an interest in our built environment and the role of professionals within it.

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Routledge

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1317666240

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Le Corbusier

Architect and Feminist

By: Flora Samuel

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Le Corbusier

Architect and Feminist

By: Flora Samuel

This is a revealing book which, for the first time, investigates the central influence of feminism in the work of Le Corbusier; one of the most important and revered architects of all time. The text covers Le Corbusier’s upbringing and training and sets this in the context of the cultural atmosphere of his time, covering issues of gender and religion. It reveals aspects of his private life such as personal relationships, which have barely been explored before as no biography currently exists. Furthermore, the author reveals, for the first time in print, a previously undiscovered and unpublished Le Corbusier building, making this book an incredibly significant addition to existing literature on the great man. In short, the new evidence and theories contained in this volume amount to major revelations about this hugely revered and central architectural figure of the 20th Century.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470847476

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9780470847473

The Evaluation of Air Quality in Albania by Moss Biomonitoring and Metals Atmospheric Deposition

By: Pranvera Lazo,Flora Qarri,Shaniko Allajbeu,Sonila Kane,Lirim Bekteshi,Marina Frontasyeva,Trajce Stafilov

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The Evaluation of Air Quality in Albania by Moss Biomonitoring and Metals Atmospheric Deposition

By: Pranvera Lazo,Flora Qarri,Shaniko Allajbeu,Sonila Kane,Lirim Bekteshi,Marina Frontasyeva,Trajce Stafilov

This book provides an overview of air quality in Albania evaluated by moss biomonitoring and metals atmospheric deposition. It is based on the concentration data onto 51 elements in moss samples collected during 2010/2011 moss biomonitoring survey conducted at the same time with European moss biomonitoring survey. The elements under investigation were determined by using ICP-AES and ENAA analytical techniques. Moss species Hypnum cupressiforme (Hedw) sps., a carpet-forming bryophyte, was used as bioindicator of trace metal atmospheric deposition. The goal of this study was to identify factors leading to the high levels of trace metals in at-mospheric deposition in Albania, to identify the risk factors and the origin of trace metals in atmos-pheric deposition. It may help the policy makers and regulators to take proper decisions to protect the public health and the environment. The distribution pattern of the elements was visualized by using the geographic information system, GIS 10.2. The predicted trends of the distribution were calculated by using time series (linear model) and the areas with high concentration of certain met-als were suggested for monitoring and to be under control.

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Springer Nature

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3030623556

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Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia

By: Flora Lu,Gabriela Valdivia,Néstor L. Silva

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Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia

By: Flora Lu,Gabriela Valdivia,Néstor L. Silva

This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relations in contemporary Ecuador to produce an analysis of oil and Revolution in twenty-first century Latin America. Ecuador’s recent history is marked by changes in state-citizen relations: the election of political firebrand, Rafael Correa; a new constitution recognizing the value of pluriculturality and nature’s rights; and new rules for distributing state oil revenues. One of the most emblematic projects at this time is the Correa administration’s Revolución Ciudadana, an oil-funded project of social investment and infrastructural development that claims to blaze a responsible and responsive path towards wellbeing for all Ecuadorians. The contributors to this book examine the key interventions of the recent political revolution—the investment of oil revenues into public works in Amazonia and across Ecuador; an initiative to keep oil underground; and the protection of the country’s most marginalized peoples—to illustrate how new forms of citizenship are required and forged. Through a focus on Amazonia and the Waorani, this book analyzes the burdens and opportunities created by oil-financed social and environmental change, and how these alter life in Amazonian extraction sites and across Ecuador.

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1137533625

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9781137533623

The Program Evaluation Standards

A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluation Users

By: Donald B. Yarbrough,Lyn M. Shulha,Rodney K. Hopson,Flora A. Caruthers

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The Program Evaluation Standards

A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluation Users

By: Donald B. Yarbrough,Lyn M. Shulha,Rodney K. Hopson,Flora A. Caruthers

With oversight from the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Yarbrough, Schulha, Hopson, and Caruthers have revised and illustrated this new edition of the Program Evaluation Standards. These thirty standards support the core attributes of evaluation quality: utility, feasibility, propriety, accuracy, and accountability, and provide guidance to anyone interested in planning, implementing, or using program evaluations. The book is an invaluable resource for practicing evaluators, students, evaluation users, and clients.

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SAGE Publications

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1483376559

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Voices from Hudson Bay

Cree Stories from York Factory

By: Flora Beardy,Robert Coutts

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Voices from Hudson Bay

Cree Stories from York Factory

By: Flora Beardy,Robert Coutts

The era the elders describe, from the end of World War I to the closing of York Factory in 1957, saw dramatic changes - both positive and negative - to aboriginal life in the North. The extension of Treaty 5 in 1910 to include members of the York Factory band, the arrival of police and government agents, and the shifting economy of the fur trade are all discussed. Despite these upheavals, however, the elders' accounts demonstrate the continuity of northern life in the twentieth century, from the persistence of traditional ways to the ongoing role of community and kinship ties. Perceptions of aboriginal life have been shaped largely by non-Native accounts that offer limited views of Swampy Cree history and record little beyond the social and economic interaction that was part of life in the fur trade. The stories in this collection provide Cree perspectives on northern life and history, and represent the legacy of a younger generation of aboriginal people.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773566236

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9780773566231

Past Into Present

Effective Techniques for First-person Historical Interpretation

By: Stacy Flora Roth

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Past Into Present

Effective Techniques for First-person Historical Interpretation

By: Stacy Flora Roth

First-person interpretation_the portrayal of historical characters through interactive dramatization or roleplaying_is an effective, albeit controversial, method used to bring history to life at museums, historic sites, and other public venues. Stacy Roth

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807847100

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Housing for Hope and Wellbeing

By: Flora Samuel

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Housing for Hope and Wellbeing

By: Flora Samuel

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind) offers a useful and intelligible overview of our housing system and why it is in ‘crisis’ while acting as an important reminder of how housing contributes to social value, defined as community, health, self development and identity. It argues for a holistic digital map-based planning system that allows for the sensitive balancing of the triple bottom line of sustainability: social, environmental and economic value. It sets out a vision of what our housing system could look like if we really put the wellbeing of people and planet first, as well as a route map on how to get there. Written primarily from the point of view of an architect, the account weaves across industry, practice and academia cross cutting disciplines to provide an integrated view of the field. The book focusses on the UK housing scene but draws on and provides lessons for housing cultures across the globe. Illustrated throughout with case studies, this is the go-to book for anyone who wants to look at housing in a holistic way.

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Taylor & Francis

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100078472X

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9781000784725

History of the Southern Yacht Club

By: Flora K. Scheib

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History of the Southern Yacht Club

By: Flora K. Scheib

The Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans is the second oldest in the United States. Since the club was officially organized as "boat club" on July 21, 1848, it has hosted countless regattas, supported other yacht clubs, and participated in inter-club competitions. Today the Southern Yacht Club continues to contribute to, and participate in, the world of yachting, especially in New Orleans. The History of the Southern Yacht Club is a testament to this yacht club's amazing endurance. History lovers, sailing buffs, and New Orleans aficionados will all enjoy this charming, entertaining account.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455605867

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Book's by Flora Gill

Work and Social Justice

Work and Social Justice

The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made

The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made

Family Communication

Family Communication

Teaching Tips for Kids with Dyslexia, Grades PK - 5

Teaching Tips for Kids with Dyslexia, Grades PK - 5

Rural Communities

Rural Communities

Why Architects Matter

Why Architects Matter

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

The Evaluation of Air Quality in Albania by Moss Biomonitoring and Metals Atmospheric Deposition

The Evaluation of Air Quality in Albania by Moss Biomonitoring and Metals Atmospheric Deposition

Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia

The Program Evaluation Standards

The Program Evaluation Standards

Voices from Hudson Bay

Voices from Hudson Bay

Past Into Present

Past Into Present

Housing for Hope and Wellbeing

Housing for Hope and Wellbeing

History of the Southern Yacht Club

History of the Southern Yacht Club

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