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The Women Founders

Sociology and Social Theory 1830–1930, A Text/Reader

By: Patricia Madoo Lengermann,Gillian Niebrugge

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The Women Founders

Sociology and Social Theory 1830–1930, A Text/Reader

By: Patricia Madoo Lengermann,Gillian Niebrugge

An essential volume for anyone interested in the history of sociology, the development of sociological theory, or the history of women in the profession, this well-researched, compellingly argued book makes the case for the active and significant presence of women in the creation of sociology and social theory in its founding and classic periods. Further, Lengermann and Niebrugge explain how the women came to be erased from the history of sociology and identify the political and intellectual currents that now make their recovery both possible and important. The volume focuses on 15 women in eight chapters. Each chapter begins with a biographical sketch situating each thinkers ideas in a historical, social, and cultural context. Next, the authors analyze the womans theory, summarizing its underlying assumptions, explicating its major themes, and introducing key vocabulary. The chapter concludes with excerpts from the original texts of the women founders. All the theories discussed in this text share a moral commitment to the idea that sociology should and could work for the alleviation of socially produced human pain. The ethical duty of the sociologist is to seek sound scientific knowledge, to refuse to make the knowledge an end in itself, to speak for the disempowered, to advocate social reform, and to never forget that the appropriate relationship between researcher and subject is one of mutuality.

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Waveland Press

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1478609362

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Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women

The Women's Co-Operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War

By: Gillian Scott

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Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women

The Women's Co-Operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War

By: Gillian Scott

This text discusses the development of the Women's Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II. Charting the rise and fall of a feminist organization, the author assesses its political significance and examines the causes of its demise.

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Routledge

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1135360316

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9781135360313

The Last Wave

By: Gillian Best

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The Last Wave

By: Gillian Best

Gillian Best, winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction, weaves a striking literary debut centred on one woman’s relationship to the sea in this sweeping intergenerational family saga. A beautifully rendered family drama set in Dover, England, between the 1940s and the present day, The Last Wave follows the life of Martha, a woman who has swum the English Channel ten times, and the complex relationships she has with her husband, her children, and her close friends. The one constant in Martha’s life is the sea, from her first accidental baptism to her final crossing of the channel. The sea is an escape from her responsibilities as a wife and a mother; it consoles her when she is diagnosed with cancer; and it comforts her when her husband’s mind begins to unravel. An intergenerational saga spanning six decades, The Last Wave is a wholly authentic portrait of a family buffeted by illness, intolerance, anger, failure, and regret. Gillian Best is a mature, accomplished, and compelling new voice in fiction.

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House of Anansi

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1487002947

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9781487002947

Bagage: An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction

By: Gillian Polack,Jack Dann

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Bagage: An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction

By: Gillian Polack,Jack Dann

An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction, BAGGAGE presents some of the finest new work by Aussie writers, including Jack Dann, Monica Carroll, K. J. Bishop, Kaaron Warren, and many more. Included: VISION SPLENDID, by K. J. Bishop TELESCOPE, by Jack Dann HIVE OF GLASS, by Kaaron Warren KUNMANARA--SOMEBODY SOMEBODY, by Yaritji Green MANIFEST DESTINY, by Janeen Webb ALBERT & VICTORIA/SLOW DREAMS, by Lucy Sussex MACREADIE V. THE LOVE MACHINE, by Jennifer Fallon A PEARLING TALE, by Maxine McArthur ACCEPTION, by Tessa Kum AN EAR FOR HOME, by Laura E. Goodin HOME TURF, by Deborah Biancotti ARCHIVES, SPACE, SHAME, LOVE, by Monica Carroll WELCOME, FAREWELL, by Simon Brown

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479405140

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

By: Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

By: Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is one of the most important women contributors to classical sociology, primarily because of the originality and significance of her theoretical work. Although well known to her contemporaries in both the United States and Europe, Gilman’s legacy was not fully acknowledged by sociologists until her work was recently rediscovered under the impetus of second wave feminist scholarship. Gilman's overarching accomplishment as a sociologist was to formulate a still unparalleled conception of gender. She was both the first theorist to separate gender, as socially constructed behavior, from biological sex and to treat it as a significant variable in social analysis, and the first to create a general theory of society in which gender stratification serves as the foundational principle. She also offered important ideas for the sociological subfields of economy, work, culture and family, presenting her arguments in a variety of forms: formal theory, verse, essays, public lectures, novels and short stories. The essays selected for this volume feature essays of interest to sociologists from across a spectrum of disciplines: economics, literature, women's studies, philosophy and history as well as sociology. The essays are arranged thematically with sections on: gender and society; economy and society; methodology; the public role of the sociologist; towards a sociology of women; and race, class and gender.

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Routledge

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1351952579

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A Bibliography of Industrial Relations

By: G. S. Bain,Gillian B. Woolven,G. B. Woolven

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A Bibliography of Industrial Relations

By: G. S. Bain,Gillian B. Woolven,G. B. Woolven

Reference book comprising a bibliography aiming to bring together secondary source interdisciplinary material on labour relations in the UK between the years 1880 and 1970 - covers employees attitudes, trade unions and employees associations, employers organizations, the labour market and working conditions, etc.

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CUP Archive

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0521215471

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9780521215473

Social Inclusion and Mental Health

Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion

By: Jed Boardman,Helen Killaspy,Gillian Mezey

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Social Inclusion and Mental Health

Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion

By: Jed Boardman,Helen Killaspy,Gillian Mezey

People with mental health conditions are among the most socially excluded groups in society. Mental health conditions are influenced by the social environment, which in turn shapes our social and cultural responses to the people who experience them. Much of what mental health practitioners do is 'essentially social' and the effects of their interventions are hampered by the marginalised status of many of the people that they see. This book documents the ways in which people with mental health conditions are excluded from participating in society and offers some pointers as to how this may be reversed. It highlights the need to reduce mental health inequalities and to consider the importance of material inequalities and social injustices faced by people experiencing mental ill-health. Whilst the challenges are considerable and the solutions wide-ranging, mental health practitioners can play a significant role in facilitating the social inclusion of those with mental health conditions.

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RCPsych Publications

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100930223X

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9781009302234

M J Niels McGuinness Life Of A Press Photographer: His Life, His Work, His Pictures

M J Niels McGuinness Life Of A Press Photographer

By: Louisa McGuinness,Gillian McGuinness

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M J Niels McGuinness Life Of A Press Photographer: His Life, His Work, His Pictures

M J Niels McGuinness Life Of A Press Photographer

By: Louisa McGuinness,Gillian McGuinness

The life and work of freelance press photographer, Mr. M. J. Niels McGuinness. This book has been compiled by his wife, Gill, and granddaughter, Louisa.

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Louisa McGuinness

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Nightingales

The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

By: Gillian Gill

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Nightingales

The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

By: Gillian Gill

Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family. Born to an adoring wealthy, cultivated father and a mother whose conventional facade concealed a surprisingly unfettered intelligence, Florence was connected by kinship or friendship to the cream of Victorian England’s intellectual aristocracy. Though moving in a world of ease and privilege, the Nightingales came from solidly middle-class stock with deep traditions of hard work, natural curiosity, and moral clarity. So it should have come as no surprise to William Edward and Fanny Nightingale when their younger daughter, Florence, showed an early passion for helping others combined with a precocious bent for power. Far more problematic was Florence’s inexplicable refusal to marry the well-connected Richard Monckton Milnes. As Gill so brilliantly shows, this matrimonial refusal was at once an act of religious dedication and a cry for her freedom–as a woman and as a leader. Florence’s later insistence on traveling to the Crimea at the height of war to tend to wounded soldiers was all but incendiary–especially for her older sister, Parthenope, whose frustration at being in the shade of her more charismatic sibling often led to illness. Florence succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. But at the height of her celebrity, at the age of thirty-seven, she retired to her bedroom and remained there for most of the rest of her life, allowing visitors only by appointment. Combining biography, politics, social history, and consummate storytelling, Nightingales is a dazzling portrait of an amazing woman, her difficult but loving family, and the high Victorian era they so perfectly epitomized. Beautifully written, witty, and irresistible, Nightingales is truly a tour de force.

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Random House

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0307431533

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9780307431530

French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes

Baroque and Régence : Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection

By: J. Paul Getty Museum,Gillian Wilson,Charissa Bremer-David,Jeffrey Weaver

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French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes

Baroque and Régence : Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection

By: J. Paul Getty Museum,Gillian Wilson,Charissa Bremer-David,Jeffrey Weaver

Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its painstaking attention to detail, this volume is the definitive catalogue of the Getty Museum's collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of French decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.

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Getty Publications

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0892368748

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Education Policy Unravelled

By: Gillian Forrester,Dean Garratt

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Education Policy Unravelled

By: Gillian Forrester,Dean Garratt

Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revised edition charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, taking a historical perspective broadly from the 19th century and towards the emerging position of the current Conservative government in the UK. This new edition now includes: - the developments in education policy which took place under the Coalition government administration between 2010-2015; - a brand new chapter on policy developments in early childhood education and care; - a brand new chapter on inclusive schools, special educational needs and disability; - new activities and illustrative case studies to challenge and inform students' thinking and understanding around key policy issues; - discussion of new research and recent legislation to illuminate important and emergent issues in education. Written in an accessible style, this is an invaluable guide for engaging with education policy as it uses a variety of key elements of policy theory in order to support students through some of the complexities involved in contemporary policy analysis and critique.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474270085

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9781474270083

Monica

An Ordinary Saint

By: Gillian Clark

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Monica

An Ordinary Saint

By: Gillian Clark

Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or ascetics, but women of moderate status, who experienced everyday joys and sorrows and had everyday merits and failings. Such a woman was Monica--now Saint Monica because of her relationship with her son Augustine, who wrote about her in the Confessions and elsewhere. Despite her rather unremarkable life, Saint Monica has inspired a robust controversy in academia, the Church, and the Augustine-reading public alike: some agree with Ambrose, bishop of Milan, who knew Monica, that Augustine was exceptionally blessed in having such a mother, while others think that Monica is a classic example of the manipulative mother who lives through her son, using religion to repress his sexual life and to control him even when he seems to escape. In Monica: An Ordinary Saint, Gillian Clark reconciles these competing images of Monica's life and legacy, arriving at a woman who was shrewd and enterprising, but also meek and gentle. Weighing Augustine's discussion of his mother against other evidence of women's lives in late antiquity, Clark achieves portraits both of Monica individually, and of the many women like her. Augustine did not claim that his mother was a saint, but he did think that the challenges of everyday life required courage and commitment to Christian principle. Monica's ordinary life, as both he and Clark tell it, showed both. Monica: An Ordinary Saint illuminates Monica, wife and mother, in the context of the societal expectations and burdens that shaped her and all ordinary women.

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Oxford University Press

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0190463562

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9780190463564

A Position to Command Respect

Women and the Eleventh Britannica

By: Gillian Thomas

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A Position to Command Respect

Women and the Eleventh Britannica

By: Gillian Thomas

The 1910-1911 Encyclopedia Britannica was advertised as the high water mark of human knowledge. That 34 of the 1,500 contributors were women was widely perceived as signaling a significant breakthrough into the world of learning. The book examines public and private aspects of the women contributors' lives and includes short biographies. ...delightful...a marvelous encapsulation of a turning point in society and scholarship. Well-written and engaging from start to finish, this work would be a fine addition to already strong women's studies collections. --CHOICE

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Scarecrow Press

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0810825678

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9780810825673

A Victorian Scientist and Engineer

Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering

By: Gillian Cookson,Colin Hempstead

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A Victorian Scientist and Engineer

Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering

By: Gillian Cookson,Colin Hempstead

This title was first published in 2000: In a life of only 52 years, Fleeming Jenkin established his reputation as a pioneer in the new world of electrical engineering, known for his work on undersea telegraphs and later on the electrical transportation system known as telpherage. Equally at ease in the realms of theory and practice, from 1850 until his death in 1885 Jenkin engaged in every field of Victorian engineering. As a young adult he worked on intercontinental submarine telegraphy, the cutting edge technology of its day which was inextricably bound to the new science of electricity. Jenkin was both a scientist and an engineer, a prototype of the modern experimental research engineer. He was also a distinguished academic, professor of engineering in the University of Edinburgh, admired as an inspired and innovative teacher, and for his interest in the philosophical tenets underpinning his subject. Yet in spite of his influence as an early electrical engineer and his other intellectual achievements, despite the celebrity of his associates - Robert Louis Stevenson, Mrs Gaskell and leading engineers of the day were among his close friends - and the way that submarine telegraphs seized the Victorian popular imagination, Jenkin himself has remained an obscure figure. He deserves to be better known. The story of Jenkin is of a life lived to the full. It illuminates many aspects of Victorian intellectual society, and of the organisation of science and engineering in his time. The central purpose of this biography is to show Jenkin’s achievements in engineering and in other fields, and to judge his significance in these diverse activities.

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Routledge

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1351788361

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9781351788366

Virginia Woolf

And the Women who Shaped Her World

By: Gillian Gill

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Virginia Woolf

And the Women who Shaped Her World

By: Gillian Gill

An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies--of strength, style, and creativity--shaped Woolf's path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf's French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Th r se de L'Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf's aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sisters Stella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men--united in their love for one another and their disregard for women--into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice.

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Mariner Books

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1328683958

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9781328683953

French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum

By: Gillian Wilson,Arlen Heginbotham

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French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum

By: Gillian Wilson,Arlen Heginbotham

The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum’s significant collection of French Rococo ébénisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ébénisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directly reflect the tastes of the Museum’s founder, J. Paul Getty, who started collecting in this area in 1938 and continued until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection is particularly rich in examples created by the most talented cabinet masters then active in Paris, including Bernard van Risenburgh II (after 1696–ca. 1766), Jacques Dubois (1694–1763), and Jean-François Oeben (1721–1763). Working for members of the French royal family and aristocracy, these craftsmen excelled at producing veneered and marquetried pieces of furniture (tables, cabinets, and chests of drawers) fashionable for their lavish surfaces, refined gilt-bronze mounts, and elaborate design. These objects were renowned throughout Europe at a time when Paris was considered the capital of good taste. The entry on each work comprises both a curatorial section, with description and commentary, and a conservation report, with construction diagrams. An introduction by Anne-Lise Desmas traces the collection’s acquisition history, and two technical essays by Arlen Heginbotham present methodologies and findings on the analysis of gilt-bronze mounts and lacquer. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/rococo/ and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, and JPG downloads of the main catalogue images.

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Getty Publications

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1606066323

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9781606066324

Law and Theology in the Middle Ages

By: Gillian Rosemary Evans

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Law and Theology in the Middle Ages

By: Gillian Rosemary Evans

This is a thought provoking examination of the tension between ecclesiastical and secular authority in medieval Europe. Focusing on a wide range of concepts and themes, this is a wide ranging and accessible text.

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Psychology Press

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0415253284

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9780415253284

Professional Development and Institutional Needs

By: Gillian Trorey,Cedric Cullingford

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Professional Development and Institutional Needs

By: Gillian Trorey,Cedric Cullingford

The tension between institutional needs and those of the individual has rarely been higher. Increasing demands on institutions to deliver set targets and value for money whilst adhering to set expectations and external constraints has led to an erosion of the notion of staff development. This book looks at how the conflict between the two outlooks emerges and what can be done to overcome it. Based on empirical evidence, the authors reveal what is happening in a range of institutions and explore the tensions between the personal needs of the individual and the demands of managers. They examine the reasons behind the conflict and discuss what measures can be taken to overcome it. The book will provide a central text on an important but relatively neglected subject of interest to all engaged in the profession.

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Routledge

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1351908626

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Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research

By: Sarah Vicary,Gillian Ferguson

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Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research

By: Sarah Vicary,Gillian Ferguson

“This book should be read by research students, early career researchers, social work practitioners as well as doctoral supervisors new to IPA, who will all find it helpful and insightful.” Dr Angie Bartoli, School of Social Sciences Student Experience Manager, Principal Lecturer in Social Work, Nottingham Trent University, UK “This book will be an extremely helpful companion to social work researchers at all stages of the research process from design though to dissemination, as well of being of real value to those supervising IPA projects.” Dr Martin Kettle, Senior Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK This first of its kind book provides a theoretical and practical exploration of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) for Social Work. Accessibly written for those considering IPA from different perspectives, including social work students, social work practitioners, doctoral students, and research supervisors the book will guide all readers through its application in this field. Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis takes the reader on a journey through how lived experience can be discovered, how effective social work research can be designed and explore practical strategies for maximising quality. The book is organised under three key parts: • Discovering Lived Experience Through IPA Social Work Research • Doing IPA Social Work Research • Determining Social Work Knowledge Using IPA This accessibly written, comprehensive book explores the specific fit of IPA within social work as a professional practice and research discipline drawing together values, skills and knowledge for eliciting, responding to and representing accounts of lived experience. Sarah Vicary is Professor of Social Work and Mental Health at The Open University, UK. Gillian Ferguson is a Lecturer in Social Work at The Open University, UK.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335252370

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9780335252374

Parents as Care Managers

The Experiences of Those Caring for Young Children with Cerebral Palsy

By: Gillian Bridge

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Parents as Care Managers

The Experiences of Those Caring for Young Children with Cerebral Palsy

By: Gillian Bridge

First published in 1999, this volume examines the inclusion of disabled children as a category of children in need under the Children Act 1989 and as eligible for assessments of need under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 has drawn renewed attention to the plight of these children and their families. This book presents the findings from a study of parents whose child has cerebral palsy. The research undertaken at the cost of social policy change focuses on the apparent gap between the well-argued proposals for community care and the experiences of carers. A bewildering picture emerges of inadequate services and treatments from the health, education and social services in the public, voluntary and private sectors. Parents experience isolation and stress as they explore ways to improve the quality of their children’s lives by experimenting with unregulated and under-researched treatments for an incurable physical condition. The conclusion that there has been deterioration in provision for these families is a serious indictment on current social policy direction.

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0429813449

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Education Policy Unravelled

By: Dean Garratt,Gillian Forrester

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Education Policy Unravelled

By: Dean Garratt,Gillian Forrester

Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. It charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, taking an historical perspective and moving from New Labour to the emerging position of the Coalition government. Contrary to popular belief about recent radical change in education policy, the author team draws attention to the fact that there have been strong similarities and nuanced disagreements between successive modern governments. Written in an accessible style, the book contains a number of activities and pedagogical features designed to appeal to students, to inform thinking and understanding around key policy issues. This is an invaluable guide for engaging with education policy as it uses a variety of key elements of policy theory in order to support students through some of the complexities involved in contemporary policy analysis and critique.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441148817

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Gunsmoke Express

By: Gillian F Taylor

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Gunsmoke Express

By: Gillian F Taylor

Thanks to a tip-off, Sheriff Alec Lawson and his deputies fight and capture the notorious outlaw Saul York. But the trouble doesn't end there. Alec falls desperately ill and when he recovers, he finds that York's lawyer has got him out on bail. Although still weakened by his illness, Alec is determined to get back to work. He soon finds himself in the action again, but fatigue leads to a terrible mistake and he begins to doubt his abilities. Will his frailty endanger his friends? York is still out there somewhere, protected by his ambitious lawyer. When York becomes his prime suspect in a murderous robbery, Alec Lawson must push himself to close the net on the elusive outlaw. He'll have to face down a lynch mob, the killer outlaw and his own doubts to get the job done, whatever the cost to himself.

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Robert Hale Ltd

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0719829550

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Bromley's Family Law

By: Nigel Lowe,Gillian Douglas,Emma Hitchings,Rachel Taylor

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Bromley's Family Law

By: Nigel Lowe,Gillian Douglas,Emma Hitchings,Rachel Taylor

Bromley's Family Law' is a well-established and popular textbook with students and practitioners alike. This edition has been updated to take into account recent developments in family law.

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Oxford University Press

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0198806698

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9780198806691

John Evelyn

Living for Ingenuity

By: Gillian Darley

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John Evelyn

Living for Ingenuity

By: Gillian Darley

This new biography ... is the first to make full use of Evelyn's huge unpublished archive deposited at the British Library in 1995. This crucial source evokes a broader and richer picture of Evelyn, his life and his friendships, than permitted by his own celebrated diaries."--Dust jacket.

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Yale University Press

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0300112270

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9780300112276

Soft Weapons

Autobiography in Transit

By: Gillian Whitlock

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Soft Weapons

Autobiography in Transit

By: Gillian Whitlock

Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran,Marjane Satrapi’s comics, and “Baghdad Blogger” Salam Pax’s Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose experiences are frequently unseen and unheard, life narratives can also be easily co-opted into propaganda. In Soft Weapons, Gillian Whitlock explores the dynamism and ubiquity of contemporary life writing about the Middle East and shows how these works have been packaged, promoted, and enlisted in Western controversies. Considering recent autoethnographies of Afghan women, refugee testimony from Middle Eastern war zones, Jean Sasson’s bestsellers about the lives of Arab women, Norma Khouri’s fraudulent memoir Honor Lost, personal accounts by journalists reporting the war in Iraq, Satrapi’s Persepolis, Nafisi’s book, and Pax’s blog, Whitlock explores the contradictions and ambiguities in the rapid commodification of life memoirs. Drawing from the fields of literary and cultural studies, Soft Weapons will be essential reading for scholars of life writing and those interested in the exchange of literary culture between Islam and the West.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226895270

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9780226895277

Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth-century Art and Culture

By: Gillian Perry

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Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth-century Art and Culture

By: Gillian Perry

Focusing on the visual arts and written texts, this book explores the nature of femininity and masculinity in 18th-century Britain and France. The activities and collective conditions of women as producers of art and culture are investigated, together with analysis of representation and the ways in which it might be gendered. This illustrated book should make an important contribution to debates on representation, constructions of sexuality and women as producers.

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Manchester University Press

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0719042283

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9780719042287

BTEC National Travel & Tourism

By: Gillian Dale

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BTEC National Travel & Tourism

By: Gillian Dale

Closely matched to the specifications, this student book is the only resource available for BTEC national travel and tourism. It contains everything students need for the Award and some additional units for the Certificate.

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Heinemann

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0435446444

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9780435446444

The Straight Mind in Corinth

Queer Readings across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

By: Gillian Townsley

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The Straight Mind in Corinth

Queer Readings across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

By: Gillian Townsley

A new reading that troubles and transgresses the normal with regard to biblical studies and our understandings of gender and sexuality Despite its lack of both historical and exegetical clarity, 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 has often been fundamental to understandings of gender and sexuality in many Christian traditions. In particular, a hierarchical model of gender and a heterosexual model of sexuality tend to dominate and are presented as “natural” and “God-ordained.” With the materialist lesbian theory of Monique Wittig providing the theoretical basis for discussion, this book intersects various biblical, theological, and queer lines of inquiry across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 in order to reveal and challenge these models of gender and sexuality that lie behind both the text itself and its various interpretations. Features Reveals the complex relationship between effeminacy, masculinity and sexual relations in the first century Greco-Roman environment of the New Testament Explores the ideologies of sexuality that underlie much of the debate within evangelical circles Examines Karl Barth’s theology on the binary pairing of “man and woman” as asymmetrically related to each other and to God through the notion of the imago dei, revealing and challenging the ways in which this reflects androcentric and patriarchal ideologies

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SBL Press

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0884141756

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9780884141754

Veterinary Ocular Pathology

A Comparative Review

By: Richard R. Dubielzig,Kerry L. Ketring,Gillian J McLellan,Daniel M. Albert

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Veterinary Ocular Pathology

A Comparative Review

By: Richard R. Dubielzig,Kerry L. Ketring,Gillian J McLellan,Daniel M. Albert

Veterinary Ocular Pathology: A Comparative Review links the clinical features of ocular disease with gross and microscopic pathology to demonstrate the essential features observable during diagnosis. It is designed to be kept next to the microscope as an invaluable guide to accurate diagnosis in ocular pathology. The book presents a wide range of images of the highest quality. A unique and distinctive feature is the juxtaposition of clinical and pathological images while offering detailed enumeration of the diagnostic features. Expert comparative comments by Dr Daniel Albert and contextual information on relative incidence are provided throughout. The authors address spontaneous disease of the eye in all animal species, with a particular emphasis on companion species. In addition, specific, common or interesting conditions of exotic species are included. - The first text devoted to the pathology of spontaneous diseases of the eyes and periocular tissues of domestic animal species - Exceptionally high quality illustrations are presented throughout, demonstrating clinical features, gross pathology and histopathology - Written by pathologists and clinicians - Includes a chapter devoted to the pathology of conditions associated with glaucoma in domestic animals A convenient, comprehensive and easy-to-use reference for veterinary pathologists, veterinary ophthalmologists, students and comparative vision scientists. - The first text devoted to the pathology of spontaneous diseases of the eyes and periocular tissues of domestic animal species - Exceptionally high quality illustrations are presented throughout, demonstrating clinical features, gross pathology and histopathology - Written by pathologists and clinicians - Includes a chapter devoted to the pathology of conditions associated with glaucoma in domestic animals

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702044423

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9780702044427

Foundation Studies for Caring

Using Student-Centred Learning

By: Edward Alan Glasper,Gillian McEwing,John E. Richardson

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Foundation Studies for Caring

Using Student-Centred Learning

By: Edward Alan Glasper,Gillian McEwing,John E. Richardson

Supported by a companion skills volume and website, Foundation Studies for Caring is a comprehensive introductory text for all health professionals, which maps directly on to the key skills framework. Taking a student-centred learning and interprofessional approach, it is the most inclusive and engaging theory text in the market.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137162023

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9781137162021

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