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When Dark Clouds Pass

By: J. A. Frances

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Set mainly in Scotland during the early part of the last century, the novel revolves round the lives of two brothers born into a close-knit mining community. The protagonist, Iain Baird, despises his younger sibling, Alastair, and is jealous of the alleged favouritism he receives.

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178589451X

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Getting to Maybe

How the World Is Changed

By: Frances Westley,Brenda Zimmerman,Michael Patton

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Getting to Maybe

How the World Is Changed

By: Frances Westley,Brenda Zimmerman,Michael Patton

A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in the local school. We tend to think that great social change is the province of heroes – an intimidating view of reality that keeps ordinary people on the couch. But extraordinary leaders such as Gandhi and even unlikely social activists such as Bob Geldof most often see themselves as harnessing the forces around them, rather than singlehandedly setting those forces in motion. The trick in any great social project – from the global fight against AIDS to working to eradicate poverty in a single Canadian city – is to stop looking at the discrete elements and start trying to understand the complex relationships between them. By studying fascinating real-life examples of social change through this systems-and-relationships lens, the authors of Getting to Maybe tease out the rules of engagement between volunteers, leaders, organizations and circumstance – between individuals and what Shakespeare called “the tide in the affairs of men.” Getting to Maybe applies the insights of complexity theory and harvests the experiences of a wide range of people and organizations – including the ministers behind the Boston Miracle (and its aftermath); the Grameen Bank, in which one man’s dream of micro-credit sparked a financial revolution for the world’s poor; the efforts of a Canadian clothing designer to help transform the lives of Indigenous women and children; and many more – to lay out a brand new way of thinking about making change in communities, in business, and in the world.

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Vintage Canada

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030737114X

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9780307371140

Extraordinary Women Explorers

By: Frances Rooney

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Extraordinary Women Explorers

By: Frances Rooney

A thirst for adventure, a deep desire to push themselves beyond their comfort zones, and an innate curiosity about the world and its peoples drive the biographies of the ten women explorers profiled here. As explorers they bring skills in cartography, geography, history, anthropology, botany, photography, linguistics and writing to their travels. Their stories begin with Sacagawea, a Native guide in the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805, and end in the present, with Mattie McNair and Denise Martin, the Canadian leaders of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. These are stories of women who dared to push beyond the safety of their own communities in order to live their dreams.

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Second Story Press

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1926739191

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9781926739199

Great Food Without Fuss

Simple Recipes From The Best Cooks

By: Frances McCullough

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Great Food Without Fuss

Simple Recipes From The Best Cooks

By: Frances McCullough

Two seasoned food professionals--one a cookbook editor and the other a caterer--match wits here to solve the kitchen dilemme of the '90s: how to serve imaginative, lively food without spending hours fussing or compromising on soul-satisfying flavor. Their solution is just to look to the great cooks--from Julia Child to James Beard to Diana Kennedy--for the simple dishes that are hidden away in even the most complicated cookbooks. They've assembled a treasury of superb recipes that depend on perfectly balanced flavors. The range is broad, from favorite American classics like spoon bread, corn fritters, and the only really delicious oven-fried chicken to exotic new tastes like Moghul Lamb, Bangkok Chicken, and Pasta with Vodka. For each recipe the editors offer tips, variations, suggests, and down-to-earth commentaries about how to work with exciting new ingredients as well as giving their own tried-and-true favorite recipes, simple winners they've cooked for years to great applause. Altogether there are 119 master recipes with 81 variations and 34 Editors' Kitchen recipes, a true culinary gold mine. In their pursuit of the secrets of true flavor, Frances McCullough and Barbara Witt come up with some unusual approaches, rethinking some of our basic ideas about how to prepare roasted chicken and turkey (in a very hot oven), pasta (one method lets it sit in hot water off the flame), and baking potatoes (they're particularly wonderful baked to death). Here you'll find a lot of nitty-gritty information about entertaining, a refresher course on how to make a really good green salad, lists of canapes and tidbit desserts, a collection of quick breads, and microwave notes. In a warm, intimate, encouragingly frank style, McCullough and Witt constantly encourage cooks to improvise by offering a range of variations, to start them experimenting with foods and flavors to develop their own recipes. This is a unique, user-friendly book that works for beginners who are reasonably sophisticated eaters as well as for experienced cooks. It will become the contemporary cook's favorite sourcebook for distinctive food.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1466882921

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9781466882928

The Azurite Encounter

By: Jane Frances Ruby

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The Azurite Encounter

By: Jane Frances Ruby

“My people believe that wearing Azurite can heal the damaged soul.” Desiree Sumner needs massive healing when she enters high school. Her parents’ separation and the death of her beloved grandfather throw her life into upheaval. She loses most of her interests and falls into a hazy kaleidoscope of daydreams. By her senior year, she’s begun to heal when she learns of geology field trip to the Grand Canyon—an adventure she and her grandfather had intended to have someday. Their geology teacher mysteriously omits the camp’s location from the permission slip and is oddly secretive about the real purpose for this annual trip. When the class finally arrives at the canyon, they are met with warm rains and a record snowmelt that causes the canyon waterways to overflow. The rising waters cut Desiree off from her group, and she encounters the forces of the Grand Canyon, the most frightening thing that’s ever happened to her. Will she be able to escape with her life?

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iUniverse

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1450238521

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9781450238526

Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mistress of Mystery

By: Frances H. Bachelder

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mistress of Mystery

By: Frances H. Bachelder

A study of Rinehart's various mystery novels, from "The Circular Staircase" to "The Swimming Pool.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0809551756

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9780809551750

Sleep and Anesthesia, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

By: Frances Chung

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Sleep and Anesthesia, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

By: Frances Chung

This issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics, Guest Edited by Frances Chung, MBBS FRCPC of the University of Toronto, will focus on Sleep and Neurorehabilitation. Article topics will include Sleep and Anesthesia; Neurobiology, Medicine, and Society; Upper airway, OSA and anesthesia ; Positions, sleep and anesthesia; Sleep Deprivation, OSA and inflammation; Preoperative Screening for OSA; and PAP therapy for perioperative patients.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455773573

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9781455773572

Achieving Equity for Latino Students

Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education Through Public Policy

By: Frances E. Contreras

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Achieving Equity for Latino Students

Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education Through Public Policy

By: Frances E. Contreras

Despite their numbers, Latinos continue to lack full and equal participation in all facets of American life, including education. This book provides a critical discussion of the role that select K–12 educational policies have and continue to play in failing Latino students. The author draws upon institutional, national, and statewide data sets, as well as interviews among students, teachers, and college administrators, to explore the role that public policies play in educating Latino students. The book concludes with specific recommendations that aim to raise achievement, college transition rates, and success among Latino students across the preschool through college continuum. Frances Contrerasis an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the area of Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education, University of Washington in Seattle “Prof. Frances Contreras is one of the nation’s leading authorities on Latino educational problems and on policies that will effectively address these. This book presents a unique and incisive analysis of the Latino educational achievement gap and its connections to concomitant gap in educational opportunities for Latinos. This very readable book combines rigorous scholarship with clearly stated policy recommendations. It should be read by all who are interested in understanding and addressing one of the most serious problems of our times.” —Jorge Chapa,University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign “Rich in data and social context, Contreras presents a compelling and comprehensive picture for the collective need to invest fully in the education of our Latino youth. As important, she delineates a bold public policy pathway for Latino student success that encompasses K–12 and higher education.” —James M. Montoya,Vice President, Higher Education, The College Board “This book offers valuable insights and productive recommendations for addressing a critically important topic: how to improve educational equity for Latinos, one of our nation’s fastest-growing but most-underserved populations.” —Laura Perna, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

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Teachers College Press

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080777152X

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9780807771525

Birds in the Air

By: Frances O'Roark Dowell

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Birds in the Air

By: Frances O'Roark Dowell

From Frances O'Roark Dowell -- bestselling author of Dovey Coe, Trouble the Water, The Secret Language of Girls, and other "beloved books for tweens and teenagers" (New York Times Sunday Book Review) -- comes Birds in the Air, her first novel for adults. In the tradition of Marie Bostwick and Jennifer Chiaverini, Frances O'Roark Dowell combines her deep connection to the quilting life and her love of storytelling to create a novel about the abiding friendships that bind together a community of women who share a love of making quilts.When Emma Byrd moves to the house of her dreams in the small mountain community of Sweet Anne's Gap, North Carolina, she knows she'll have to do some work in order to connect to her neighbors. Her kids immediately make friends at school and her husband loves his new job. But Emma -- no natural when it comes to talking to strangers to begin with -- will have to try harder, especially after the sweet, white-haired neighbor she first visits slams the door in her face. Luckily, a few of the quilters of Sweet Anne's Gap adopt Emma and she soon finds herself organizing the quilt show for the town's centennial celebration. But not everyone is happy to see the job go to an outsider, especially one who has befriended an outcast pursuing her own last best chance at redemption. With Birds in the Air, Frances O'Roark Dowell (winner of the Edgar Award, the William Allen White Award and the Christopher Medal) has created a warm, funny novel about fitting in, falling out and mending frayed relationships one stitch at a time.

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Milton Falls Media, Inc.

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1945354011

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9781945354014

Technologies of Procreation

Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

By: Jeanette Edwards,Sarah Franklin,Eric Hirsch,Frances Price,Marilyn Strathern

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Technologies of Procreation

Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

By: Jeanette Edwards,Sarah Franklin,Eric Hirsch,Frances Price,Marilyn Strathern

Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

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Routledge

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1134698070

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The Future of Europe

Fragmentation Or Integration?

By: Frances K. Scott

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The Future of Europe

Fragmentation Or Integration?

By: Frances K. Scott

In support of the Academy Assembly, the Directorate of Libraries, Dean of the Faculty, produces a special bibliography of Air Force Academy library materials relevant to the current year's theme. The theme for the 2001/2002 academic year is: The Future of Europe: Integration or Fragmentation. This year's bibliography, number 98 in the library's Special Bibliography Series, was prepared by Frances K. Scott, Social Sciences Bibliographer and Reference Librarian, who has prepared the annual Academy Assembly bibliography tor the past ten years.

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DIANE Publishing

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1428990380

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Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions

Enduring Wisdom for Today's Leaders

By: Peter F. Drucker,Frances Hesselbein,Joan Snyder Kuhl

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Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions

Enduring Wisdom for Today's Leaders

By: Peter F. Drucker,Frances Hesselbein,Joan Snyder Kuhl

Enduring Management Wisdom for Today's Leaders From Peter F. Drucker. Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions provides insightful guidance and stirring inspiration for today's leaders and entrepreneurs. By applying Drucker's leadership framework in the present context of today's leaders and those who lead with them, this book is an essential resource for people leading, managing and working in all three sectors—public, private and social. Readers will gain new perspectives and develop a solid foundation upon which to build a successful and bright future. They will learn how to focus on why they are doing what they're doing, how to do it better, and how to develop a realistic, motivational plan for achieving their goals. This brief, clear, and accessible guide — peppered with commentary from distinguished management gurus, contemporary entrepreneurs and dynamic millennial leaders —will challenge readers and stimulate spirited discussion and action within any organization, inspiring positive change and new levels of excellence. In addition to contributions from Jim Collins, Marshall Goldsmith, and Judith Rodin, the book features new insights from some of today's most influential leaders in business (GE and Salesforce.com), academia (Harvard Business School and Northwestern University), social enterprise (Levo League, Pencils of Promise and Why Millennials Matter) and the military (United States Military Academy), who have been directly influenced by Drucker's theory of management.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118979605

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9781118979600

Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America

Factors Affecting Student Success

By: Erik E. Morales,Frances K. Trotman

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Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America

Factors Affecting Student Success

By: Erik E. Morales,Frances K. Trotman

Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America combines biographical sketches of resilient students, examples of effective programs designed to encourage resilience, recent research in the field, and their own experiences of resilient academics of color. The book illustrates exactly how academic success occurs within traditionally challenged learning environments. The authors focus most closely on the crucial transition between high school and college. The individuals spotlighted and programs outlined cross racial, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic lines, and include African American, Hispanic, and white students. In part, the authors conclude that there are specific multidimensional protective factors that work collaboratively to enable the success of these exceptional students. It is the detailed exploration of these phenomena that lie at the heart of this work and that has the potential to help all children excel. Among other uses, this book could be a valuable addition to a college freshmen seminar series, a foundations of education course, a course on multiculturalism in America and/or any course focused on basic educational psychology.

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Peter Lang

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0820467634

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9780820467634

Taylor's 50 Best Trees

Easy Plants for More Beautiful Gardens

By: Frances Tenenbaum

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Taylor's 50 Best Trees

Easy Plants for More Beautiful Gardens

By: Frances Tenenbaum

Both the Taylor's Guides to individual plant groups and the Taylor's Weekend Guides on basic techniques and popular gardening styles are highly acclaimed and well established. We now enthusiastically add a quick-reference series for readers who don't have the time or the experience to do their own research. Taylor's 50 Best books highlight the most attractive foolproof plants and include detailed information that every gardener needs in order to grow them. Color photos, full-color drawings, and growing tips make each plant entry useful and complete. Six books introduce the series and cover the most popular plants for backyard gardeners: perennials for sun, perennials for shade, herbs and edible flowers, roses, shrubs, and trees.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395873320

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9780395873328

Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003

By: Margaret Riley Dikel,Frances E. Roehm

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Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003

By: Margaret Riley Dikel,Frances E. Roehm

The essential guide to finding a job online This definitive guide to harnessing the Internet's powerful research capabilities has been thoroughly updated to include the latest online job searching techniques. Using Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003, absolutely anyone with access to a computer can immediately conduct a timesaving, low-cost, high-impact job search. Copublished with the Public Library Association, the Guide to Internet Job Searching offers you expert advice on how to find and use online bulletin boards, job listings, recruiter information, discussion groups, and resume-posting services. Its easy-to-use format and user-friendly tone make this an excellent tool if you are an experienced surfer and Internet newbie. Includes: Local, state-by-state, government, and international resource listings and opportunities Online career resources Specific career path information Reviews of some of the more popular job listing and recruiting websites "Simply the best thing in print on the subject of using the Internet in your job search . . . amazing and breathtakingly thorough . . . covers all the resources available today." --Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071400540

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9780071400541

Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts

By: Thomas P. Edmonds,Donna P. Grace,Carole Bowman,Frances M. McNair,Philip R. Olds

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Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts

By: Thomas P. Edmonds,Donna P. Grace,Carole Bowman,Frances M. McNair,Philip R. Olds

Edmonds: Fundamental Financial Accounting Conceptsis a unique entrant in the college market that fits a growing audience of non-accounting majors, yet provides a solid foundation in accounting principles for future accounting students. The Edmonds approach, which focuses on core concepts within a decision-making context, better prepares future managers for the corporate world in which they will be users of financial information. It is a conceptually based book that stresses meaningful learning over rote memorization.More specifically, the text focuses on the relationships between business events and financial statements. The primary objective is for students to develop and explain how a particular business event can affect the income statement, balance sheet, and the cash flow statement. Did the event cause assets to increase, decrease, or stay the same?Similarly, what was its effect on liabilities, equity, revenue, expense, gains, losses, net income, and dividends? Furthermore, how did the event affect cash flow? These are the big picture relationships that both accounting majors and general business students need to understand to function effectively in the business world. The text contains numerous innovative features that are designed to facilitate the students' comprehension of the events affecting financial statements.

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson

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0070905223

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9780070905221

Women’s Gynecologic Health

By: Kerri Durnell Schuiling,Frances E. Likis

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Women’s Gynecologic Health

By: Kerri Durnell Schuiling,Frances E. Likis

Women’s Gynecologic Health, Third Edition is a trusted, comprehensive, and evidence-based text that presents women’s gynecologic health from a woman-centered and holistic viewpoint. Encompassing both health promotion and management of gynecologic conditions, it provides clinicians and students with a strong foundation in gynecologic care and the knowledge necessary to apply it in clinical practice. With an emphasis on the importance of respecting the normalcy of female physiology, it is an essential reference for all women’s healthcare providers. The Third Edition includes four new chapters on prenatal and postpartum care, including anatomy and physiologic adaptations of normal pregnancy, diagnosis of pregnancy and overview of prenatal care, common complications of pregnancy, and postpartum care.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284125017

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9781284125016

Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum Care

With an Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum Care

By: Kerri Durnell Schuiling,Frances E. Likis

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Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum Care

With an Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum Care

By: Kerri Durnell Schuiling,Frances E. Likis

Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum Care continues to set the standard for evidence-based gynecologic health care and well-being in an extensively updated fourth edition. As in prior editions, the text presents gynecologic health care using a holistic and person-centered approach. Encompassing both health promotion and management of gynecologic conditions, it provides clinicians and students with a strong foundation in gynecologic care and the knowledge necessary to apply it in clinical practice. With an emphasis on the importance of respecting the normalcy of physiology, it is an essential reference for all midwives, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians who provide gynecologic health care.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284182347

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Using Evidence to Inform Policy

By: Pete Lunn,Frances Ruane

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Using Evidence to Inform Policy

By: Pete Lunn,Frances Ruane

Using Evidence to Inform Policy is a unique examination of how evidence can be used to improve policymaking, especially in challenging economic times. There is a need for transparency in government and policy decisions. Research and evidence can help to provide this transparency, and Using Evidence to Inform Policy outlines how. However, the book also demonstrates the complexity of the relationship between evidence and policy, arguing that in most cases good policy cannot be determined by evidence alone. Using Evidence to Inform Policy demonstrates the breadth and value of the contribution that evidence can make to policy. It presents eleven studies drawn from recent Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) research projects, illustrating different aspects of the relationship between evidence and policy, and how these vary by policy area. Using examples, the book demonstrates how national and international research can be used to good effect in policymaking. The theme of how evidence can influence policy is examined with reference to Ireland and the international experience and in a wide range of areas, including the economy, public infrastructure, innovation, competition, the labour market, financial regulation, healthcare, housing, education, government spending, public services and earnings. Each chapter tackles a question that's relevant to policymaking now, for example, how to protect consumers of financial services; what is the public's perception of public services and their implications for public sector reform?; how to explain changes in earnings and labour costs during the recession; what is the evidence for providing economic security through competition and regulatory policy?; do active labour market policies activate?; how to boost innovation and productivity in enterprises. The book is relevant to all those taking courses in economics, sociology, political science, governance, social policy and Irish Studies at postgraduate and undergraduate level, as well as civil servants, politicians, policymakers, researchers and analysts in the public sector.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717162893

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9780717162895

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack

Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

By: Frances R. Botkin

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Thieving Three-Fingered Jack

Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

By: Frances R. Botkin

The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial machine until his grisly death at its behest. Narratives about his exploits shed light on the problems of black rebellion and solutions administered by the colonial state, creating an occasion to consider counter-narratives about its methods of divide and conquer. For more than two centuries, writers, performers, and storytellers in England, Jamaica, and the United States have “thieved" Three Fingered Jack's riveting tale, defining black agency through and against representations of his resistance. Frances R. Botkin offers a literary and cultural history that explores the persistence of stories about this black rebel, his contributions to constructions of black masculinity in the Atlantic world, and his legacies in Jamaican and United States popular culture.

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0813587409

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9780813587400

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