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Evaluating Social Work Effectiveness

By: Cheetham, Juliet,Fuller, Roger,McIvor, Gill

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Evaluating Social Work Effectiveness

By: Cheetham, Juliet,Fuller, Roger,McIvor, Gill

Social work has an impact on large numbers of citizens through its services for children and families, elderly people, those with mental or physical health problems and offenders. It also provokes much criticism; its effectiveness is questioned and there are increasing demands for this to be demonstrated. This text discusses how this task may be tackled and explores possibilities for evaluative research in contexts which are often not considered feasible for such enquiry. Paying particular attention to the diverse and complex functions of social work, the book reviews the implications for choosing and adapting research methodologies, emphasizes the importance of identifying the process of social work as well as its outcomes and distinguishes between the identification of effectiveness and its evaluation. It also describes the various means of dissemination which are necessary if research is to influence policy and practice. The book, which gives many examples of research in action, draws on evaluative research in Britain and the US and also on the experience of the Social Work Research Centre. It has been written for researchers, managers, practitioners and students with responsibilities to undertake or to understand the systematic evaluation of social work.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335190057

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Observing Children and Families

Beyond the Surface

By: Gill Butler

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Observing Children and Families

Beyond the Surface

By: Gill Butler

This book explains the unique insights that child observation can bring to practice with children and families and helps the reader develop their own skills in this approach. The ability to observe and to process what is seen is crucial in social work with children and families. Yet successive inquiries into child deaths have demonstrated the problems faced by professionals in doing what is superficially a very straightforward task, highlighting the difficulties in seeing, thinking about and developing an understanding of the child’s experience. This book helps readers to develop an understanding of what is entailed in observation, explaining the unique insights that child observation can bring to practice with children and families. By drawing out relevant theoretical concepts it aids their understanding of what they are observing and so helps them to develop their own skills. Key theoretical concepts are brought together from developmental psychology and psychoanalytic thinking in a way that enables practitioners to draw on these to inform and enrich their thinking. Useful case studies are presented which practitioners can relate to their own practice when they are struggling to make sense of difficult situations.

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Critical Publishing

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1910391646

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9781910391648

Stoic Ethics: The Basics

By: Christopher Gill,Brittany Polat

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Stoic Ethics: The Basics

By: Christopher Gill,Brittany Polat

At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Stoic ethics for students and for readers interested in Stoic life-guidance. It combines an explanation of the main philosophical ideas in ancient Stoic ethics by Christopher Gill with discussion of how to put these ideas into practice in our own lives by Brittany Polat. The first seven chapters examine central Stoic ethical claims and the questions raised by their claims, including: Why does our happiness in life depend solely on virtue? Is ethics grounded on nature; and, if so, does this mean human nature or the natural world? What is the connection between gaining ethical understanding and relating properly to other people? What counts as right action and how do we learn to make good decisions? What is the proper place of emotion in the good life? The two final chapters discuss the significance of these Stoic ideas for modern thought, especially for virtue ethics and environmental ethics, and the Stoic contribution to guidance on living. With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading, Stoic Ethics: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone looking for an accessible and lively explanation of Stoic ideas and their implications for practical living.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040113796

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Learning to Live Naturally

Stoic Ethics and Its Modern Significance

By: Christopher Gill

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Learning to Live Naturally

Stoic Ethics and Its Modern Significance

By: Christopher Gill

At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism among scholars and the general public, this book offers a sustained examination of the core Stoic ethical claims and their significance for modern moral theory. The first part considers the Stoic ideas of happiness as the life according to nature and virtue as expertise in leading a happy life and explores the senses of 'nature' (both human and universal) relevant for ethics. The second part studies Stoic thinking on ethical development (learning to live naturally), bringing out the interconnections between growth in ethical understanding, forming social relationships, and emotional responses. The third part discusses how Stoic ethics, as interpreted here, can contribute to contemporary moral theory, especially virtue ethics. It suggests that Stoic thinking on the virtue-happiness relationship offers a cogent alternative to Aristotle, currently the main ancient prototype for virtue ethical theory, and it explores ways in which Stoic ideas on human and universal nature can contribute to modern ethical debates, notably on how to respond effectively to the pressing challenge of climate breakdown. It also highlights the value of Stoic guidance for virtue ethics as well as contemporary 'life-guidance'. A further distinctive feature of the book is the close and extended study of key sources for Stoic ethics, including Cicero's On Ends and On Duties, which enables readers of different kinds to interpret these source for themselves.

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Oxford University Press

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019886616X

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Redemption Concluded

By: Van G Gill

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Redemption Concluded

By: Van G Gill

Revelation is a mysterious and frightening book to many. This commentary seeks to simplify and demystify its message using a common-sense approach to its theological foundations. Revelation is viewed as a book of conclusions rather than new beginnings. The Book considers one major conclusion in God's plans for mankind--their redemption.

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FriesenPress

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1770970193

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9781770970199

Rounding Up the Usual Suspects?

Developments in Contemporary Law Enforcement Intelligence

By: Peter Gill

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Rounding Up the Usual Suspects?

Developments in Contemporary Law Enforcement Intelligence

By: Peter Gill

This title was first published in 2000: Policing is associated more with "doing" than with "thinking", so how can policing be "intelligent"? This text attempts to answer questions on police intelligence, and discusses whether or not policing can re-invent itself in the Information age. By using emerging technological tools is policing changing or is it just using them to control the "dangerous classes"? The development of "intelligence-led policing" seeks to shift organizational practices in order to attain goals more effectively. Charting and explaining the progress of this shift is a central aim of this study. The author compares the police intelligence structures of the UK with North America, especially Canada and New York State. The book looks at the contributions made, by the Government, the police and the criminals to the development of intelligence policing.

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Routledge

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1351735829

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9781351735827

Social Geographies

Space and Society

By: Gill Valentine

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Social Geographies

Space and Society

By: Gill Valentine

Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and increasingly now sexuality and disability, into separate chapters. This has the effect, firstly, of making social relations rather than space (the raison d'etre of human geography) the focus of undergraduate books; secondly of ignoring the way that social relations are negotiated and contested in different space. Rather than reproducing this conventional social geography format the aim of this proposed text is to make space the focus of analysis. In doing so the intention is to make complex theoretical debates about space more accessible to students and encourage them to look at their own environments in new ways.

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1317879384

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9781317879381

Building an Authoritarian Polity

Russia in Post-Soviet Times

By: Graeme Gill

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Building an Authoritarian Polity

Russia in Post-Soviet Times

By: Graeme Gill

Argues that post-Soviet Russia was never on a democratic trajectory because dominant elites always fostered the building of an authoritarian polity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107130085

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Theology in a Social Context

Sociological Theology Volume 1

By: Professor Robin Gill

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Theology in a Social Context

Sociological Theology Volume 1

By: Professor Robin Gill

Over the last 30 years a number of theologians have been using aspects of sociology alongside the more traditional resources of philosophy. In turn, sociologists with an interest in theology have also contributed to an interaction between theology and sociology. The time is right to revisit the dialogue between theologians and sociologists. In his new trilogy on Sociological Theology, Robin Gill makes a renewed contribution to the mapping of three abiding ways of relating theology and sociology, with the three volumes covering: Theology in a Social Context; Theology Shaped by Society; Society Shaped by Theology. Theology in a Social Context argues that a sociological perspective, properly understood, can make an important contribution to theology. Part I looks carefully at various objections raised by both theologians and sociologists, maintaining instead that a proper understanding of social context is a prerequisite for effective theology. Part II suggests that a sociological perspective offers crucial insights into resurgent forms of fundamentalism. Part III offers a fresh account of social context in the modern world, once thought by sociologists and theologians alike to consist simply of increasing secularization.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481840

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9781409481843

Spon's Quarry Guide

To the British hard rock industry

By: H. Gill,Mr D I E Jones,D.I.E. Jones,J.L. Watson

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Spon's Quarry Guide

To the British hard rock industry

By: H. Gill,Mr D I E Jones,D.I.E. Jones,J.L. Watson

Spon's Quarry Guide provides complete and up-to-date information on all of Britain's hard rock quarrying industry. For over 700 quarries it gives full address, OS Map Number and grid reference, telephone and contact names. Rock type, colour, grain and products are listed. The Guide also gives, for the first time in any publication, the plant and eq

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CRC Press

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148228894X

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Storytracking

Texts, Stories & Histories in Central Australia

By: Sam D. Gill

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Storytracking

Texts, Stories & Histories in Central Australia

By: Sam D. Gill

Yet, beyond the pessimism that often characterizes postmodernity, he charts an optimistic and creative course framed in the terms of play.

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0198027540

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Military Musings

By: Leonard J. Gill

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Military Musings

By: Leonard J. Gill

The experiences of a Kenya-born English lad in the fight against the terrorism of the Mau-Mau Rebellion.

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Trafford Publishing

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1553956540

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9781553956549

Consuming Geographies

We Are Where We Eat

By: David Bell,Gill Valentine

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Consuming Geographies

We Are Where We Eat

By: David Bell,Gill Valentine

Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes, we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place. Drawing on anthropological, sociological and cultural readings of food consumption, as well as empirical material on shopping, cooking, food technology and the food media, this book demonstrates the importance of space and place in identity formation. We all think place (and) identity through food - we are where we eat!

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1135103232

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Policing Politics

Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State

By: Peter Gill

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Policing Politics

Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State

By: Peter Gill

Numerous allegations of abuse of power have been made against the domestic security intelligence agencies in the United Kingdom such as police special branches and MI5. These include the improper surveillance of trade unionists and peace activists, campaigns of mis-information against elected politicians and even the elimination' of people believed to be engaged in political violence. Drawing on extensive foreign material and making use of the social science concepts of information, power and law, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of these agencies.

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1136294481

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9781136294488

What Women Want

Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States

By: Gill Steel

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What Women Want

Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States

By: Gill Steel

Women vote their own minds

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University of Michigan Press

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0472132954

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9780472132959

Planning Smarter

Creating Blueprint-quality Software Specifications

By: Tyson Gill

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Planning Smarter

Creating Blueprint-quality Software Specifications

By: Tyson Gill

Annotation This book provides simple techniques that anyone can follow, without having to learn specialized planning theory and tools. It de-mystifies the planning process and cuts out the fluff. If you are a project planner or manager, this book will shift your project planning mindsets. If you are a developer, it will help you understand how to influence the planning process to deliver specifications you can truly use. If you are on the customer side of the planning process, this book is essential reading to understand what you can do and what you should expect to maximize your planning and development investment. Tech Talk: The planning stage of software development entails obtaining all the relevant data and materials to create effective and efficient software. The process of designing software is complex enough in the implementation and design phase, it needs not be further complicated by poor planning stage techniques.

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Prentice Hall Professional

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0130654140

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9780130654144

Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator

By: David W. J. Gill

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Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator

By: David W. J. Gill

The first comprehensive biography of pioneering archaeologist and museum curator Winnifred Lamb, who was honorary keeper of Greek antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the four decades immediately following the First World War.

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1784918806

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9781784918804

Governing for Results

A Director's Guide to Good Governance

By: Mel D. Gill

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Governing for Results

A Director's Guide to Good Governance

By: Mel D. Gill

BEST SELLER This BEST SELLIING book provides a comprehensive guide to effective governance for board members and their senior executives. The author offers a new framework for understanding boards and proposes practices that boards can use to fulfill their stewardship responsibilities, strengthen board performance and improve organizational effectiveness. The book discusses the basics of governance - what it is and why it matters; essential duties and liabilities of the board and its members; and the essentials of an effective board/management partnership. It provides detailed guidance on the seven primary areas of board responsibility: i) mission and planning; ii) financial stewardship; iii) human resources stewardship; iv) performance monitoring and accountability; v) community representation and advocacy; vi) risk management; and, vii) managing 'critical events' and 'transitional phases'. It discusses the legal structure of nonprofits, who owns them and how to organize for accountable governance. Governing for Results will assist boards in dealing with recurring issues around board and committee structures; their terms of reference and effective use; and job descriptions for key officers. The discussion of board development, board management, decision-making and organizational culture will prove invaluable in helping many boards deal with these complex issues. A discussion of the essential principles of governing for results includes a logical framework for planning and evaluation. The book provides tools that can help boards decide which governance practices will best fit their particular organization and strengthen their performance as a governing body. It outlines the factors that may interfere with a board's ability to adopt appropriate governance practices and presents twelve keys to successful governance that were identified through research. It offers a sample letter of agreement for new board members, and samples of an agenda for board meetings, an oath of confidentiality, a values statement, conflict of interest and donor confidentiality policies, a template for financial monitoring, self-assessment tools for the board and individual directors and a basic guide to 'Rules of Order' for conduct of meetings. It also provides outlines for comprehensive by laws and governance policies, and references to additional resources. Although this book is intended to fill a gap in the resources available to volunteer members of nonprofit boards of directors, much of its guidance will also be useful for directors of public and private sector corporations. The strong research base underpinning this work also makes it of interest to researchers, academics, and consultants. It adds perspective to the debate about governance models and offers guidance to board members with respect to board structure, responsiblities, governance practices, and problems that commonly afflict boards. It is designed as a user-friendly guide for busy directors and executives who want concise, compact and well-researched answers to perennially troubling questions about governance, the role of boards and their relationship to staff.

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1466954922

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9781466954922

Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy

By: Gill Westland

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Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy

By: Gill Westland

Implicit communications analyzed alongside verbal communication in therapy. Body language, facial expression, and tone of voice are key components in therapeutic interactions, but for far too long psychotherapists have dismissed them in favor of purely verbal information. In Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy, Gill Westland examines the interrelation of the verbal and the non-verbal in the context of clients and therapists working together. The physiology of communication is also discussed: from overwhelming emotions that make it difficult to speak to breath awareness that makes it easier. Therapists will be able to cultivate non-verbal communication through mindfulness practices and “right brain to right brain communication.” It is not just the client’s actions and emotions that are significant; it is important that therapists relate in a way that makes it clear to their clients that they are receptive and inviting, and Westland expertly depicts the bodily dimensions of this encounter between client and therapist. The book brings together insights from a range of psychotherapeutic traditions, including psychoanalysis, arts psychotherapies, humanistic psychotherapy, and, in particular, body psychotherapy, for clinicians who want to expand their communication abilities. Drawing on 30 years of clinical experience, and providing illustrative clinical vignettes, Westland has written a guide both for those who might not have any experience in the theory of non-verbal communications and for lifelong psychotherapy practitioners. She lays as groundwork recent research into the neurobiology of interaction and the foundations of non-verbal communication in babyhood, continuing throughout from a bodymind perspective that pays due attention to the physicality of the body. Westland urges therapists to learn how to leave their comfort zone and try new ways of helping their clients. Writing in a richly evocative, lucid language, Westland seeks to bring about change in both psychotherapist and client as they navigate both the verbal and non-verbal aspects of embodied relating.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393711315

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9780393711318

Wordsworth's Revisitings

By: Stephen Gill,Stephen S. Gill

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Wordsworth's Revisitings

By: Stephen Gill,Stephen S. Gill

In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the ways in which the poet attempted as an artist to maintain continuities through all the stages of his life and shows how revisitings of various kinds are at the heart of his creativity.

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Oxford University Press

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0199268770

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9780199268771

Body Count

How they turned AIDS into a catastrophe

By: Peter Gill

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Body Count

How they turned AIDS into a catastrophe

By: Peter Gill

With 20 million dead and another 40 million infected, AIDS is the world's worst epidemic, but the catastrophe could have been prevented. This book shows how millions could have been saved and many millions more infections could have been prevented if the world had responded properly to the crisis. Peter Gill reveals how politicians and religious leaders in both the rich and poor worlds have failed in their duty to protect their people from the disease. Simple messages about safe sex and condoms have been consistently downplayed out of embarrassment or misplaced moral fervour. Just as the world begins to wake up to the enormity of the AIDS disaster, the America of George W. Bush is threatening to undermine the global effort. The Christian Right has decided that sexual abstinence is the answer to the pandemic. Big business manoeuvres to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry against cheap AIDS drugs from developing countries. And the US challenges every other Aids initiative that does not square with its determination to export a conservative and Christian ideology. Twenty-five years on from the first identification of AIDS in America in 1981, this book at last fixes historical and contemporary responsibility for the tragedy.

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Profile Books

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1847651089

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9781847651082

Face to Face: Seven Keys to a Secure Marriage

By: Dr. Jesse Gill

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Face to Face: Seven Keys to a Secure Marriage

By: Dr. Jesse Gill

Do you feel locked out of your spouses heart? Do you feel locked into painful patterns of conflict in your marriage that you just cant break free from? Are you lonely and desperate for the connection that you once had? Come back to the place you belong. Come home to a place where you two can stand securely together, Face to Face and hand in hand, just like the day you spoke your wedding vows. Return to the way that God designed you biologically to function at your best. Build a place of rest for your marriage through The Seven Keys to a Secure Marriage. Through this book you will understand the deeper desires of every hurting spouse. You can break the patterns of conflict that have pushed you away from your love. The seven keys will teach you how to turn conflict into opportunities for deeper connection. The keys will help you unlock those conflict patterns and release Gods attachment design for your marriage. Now you can draw your spouse close to you once again through a new posture and vulnerable language. You will learn to cling to one another in times of loss and rely more each day on the One who comforts you with His promise, I am with you always.

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WestBow Press

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1490878610

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9781490878614

Leadership for Sustainability

An Action Research Approach

By: Judi Marshall,Gill Coleman,Peter Reason

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Leadership for Sustainability

An Action Research Approach

By: Judi Marshall,Gill Coleman,Peter Reason

Those who advocate moving towards sustainability debate how change can be achieved. This book focuses on what it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety of organizational and social positions, and considers the consequences of different strategies and practices for influencing change.

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1351278266

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9781351278263

World Missions Topics Winter Quarter 2020 (Dec-Feb)

By: Joseph W. Gill

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World Missions Topics Winter Quarter 2020 (Dec-Feb)

By: Joseph W. Gill

The World Missions Topic formerly the Home and Foreign Mission Topic challenges the believer to step outside of the normalcy of their everyday lives, and do something to help those who are in need. This study series is an excellent tool to help develop Missions outreach within one's community. The lessons include questions for the student's consideration and discussion.

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Church Of God In Christ Publishing House

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1680874365

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A History of Adoption in England and Wales 1850- 1961

By: Gill Rossini

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A History of Adoption in England and Wales 1850- 1961

By: Gill Rossini

Adoption is one of the most emotive and complex subjects in social and family history. Gill Rossini's social history of adoption between 1850 and 1961 uncovers the perspectives of all those concerned in adoption: children, birth relatives, adoptive families, and all the agencies and organisations involved. Rossini charts the transformation of the adoption process from a chaotic informal arrangement to a legal procedure. Set against the backdrop of the moral, cultural, and legal climate of the times, the contemporary voices of those who played a part in an adoption give real insights into this often turbulent period in their lives. Discover how shocking stories of baby farmers and unwanted orphans fuelled the campaign for change, and hear previously untold stories.For those who wish to conduct their own research into an adoption, Rossini has compiled a comprehensive guide to resources.

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Pen and Sword

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1473846447

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9781473846449

The Apothecary in Colonial Virginia

By: Harold B. Gill

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The Apothecary in Colonial Virginia

By: Harold B. Gill

This is a history of apothecaries in Virginia. It discusses everything from the equipment found in an apothecaries shop, to their role in the American Revolution, and even contains a list of all the known apothecaries that practiced in Williamsburg.

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