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Fundamentals of Nursing & Midwifery

By: Helen Hall,Paul Glew,Johanna Rhodes

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Fundamentals of Nursing & Midwifery

By: Helen Hall,Paul Glew,Johanna Rhodes

A trusted person-centred resource to start you on the path to professional success Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery is a popular foundational nursing text specifically developed for Australian and New Zealand students. This comprehensive resource provides a detailed overview of key information with person-centred care highlighted throughout to focus on the individualistic, interactive and holistic nature of nursing and midwifery practice. It uses accessible language that introduces students to the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how’ of nursing and midwifery. It focuses not only on a person’s physical healthcare needs, but also on the intellectual, emotional, sociocultural and spiritual aspects of care. In this way, students learn to be holistic health care professionals while acquiring the foundational knowledge, procedures and skills required for successful nursing or midwifery practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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192505828X

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9781925058284

Family Farms: Survival and Prospect

A World-Wide Analysis

By: Harold Brookfield,Helen Parsons

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Family Farms: Survival and Prospect

A World-Wide Analysis

By: Harold Brookfield,Helen Parsons

Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production organization, destined to give way to agribusiness. Family Farms refutes these notions and analyses the manner in which family farmers have been able to operate with success in both developed and developing countries, using examples wherever these are illuminating. This book begins by reviewing theoretical arguments about agricultural structures, and defines family farming. This is followed by five vignettes about farming in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors analyse the conditions of access to land and water, labour, livestock, tools and seed and review marketing arrangements and how they have changed since 1900. A three-chapter review of evolving policies in the North Atlantic countries, in the communist states, and in the developing countries, leads to a discussion of the impact of neo-liberalism. New issues of the farmer as steward of the environment are explored, as well as modern ideas about de-agrarianization and a discussion of land reform, tracing the experience of Mexico and Brazil. In two final chapters the more positive approach of pluriactivity is discussed and followed by a review of organic farming as a principal modern innovation. New political organizations representing family farming are described and their demands are discussed with empathy, but in a sceptical manner. Family farming is an adaptable and resilient form of production organization, and these qualities have allowed it to survive. The future will be no easier than the past, yet family farming continues to flourish in most contexts. This book will be useful for researchers, students and lecturers interested in Development Studies, Rural Studies and Geography and Anthropology, as well as general readers who have an interest in farming.

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504

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Routledge

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113412225X

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The English Romance in Time

Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

By: Helen Cooper

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The English Romance in Time

Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

By: Helen Cooper

The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England', as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change. The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect - the point where romance comes true. The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context - with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings in new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences. Romance may since then have lost much of its cultural centrality, but the universal appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.

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560

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OUP Oxford

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0191530271

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9780191530272

Science with Impact

How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy

By: Anne Helen Toomey

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Science with Impact

How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy

By: Anne Helen Toomey

Will you please just listen to me? If you are a scientist, or a fan of science, have you ever wondered why your fact-based explanation of ground-breaking scientific research falls flat with family, friends, and the general public? Social science communicator Anne Helen Toomey argues that science today faces a public-relations crisis, and she calls for a whole-scale change in how scientists engage with the world. This practical, how-to guide will help scientists address public distrust, communicate about uncertainty, and engage with policymakers so that science can make a difference. Science with Impact argues that science can--and should--make a meaningful difference in society, and offers hope and guidance to those of us who wish to take the steps to make it so.

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297

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Island Press

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1642833282

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9781642833287

Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics and Genomics

By: Helen V. Firth,Jane A. Hurst

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Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics and Genomics

By: Helen V. Firth,Jane A. Hurst

Preceded by Oxford desk reference. Clinical genetics / Helen V. Firth, Jane A. Hurst, with Judith G. Hall (consulting editor). 2005.

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Oxford University Press

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0199557500

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9780199557509

Africa as a Living Laboratory

Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870–1950

By: Helen Tilley

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Africa as a Living Laboratory

Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870–1950

By: Helen Tilley

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise—environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological—in the colonization of British Africa. A key source for Helen Tilley’s analysis is the African Research Survey, a project undertaken in the 1930s to explore how modern science was being applied to African problems. This project both embraced and recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on Africa that, Tilley argues, underscored the heterogeneity of African environments and the interrelations among the problems being studied. While the aim of British colonialists was unquestionably to transform and modernize Africa, their efforts, Tilley contends, were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local and vernacular. Meticulously researched and gracefully argued, Africa as a Living Laboratory transforms our understanding of imperial history, colonial development, and the role science played in both.

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520

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University of Chicago Press

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0226803481

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9780226803487

Book's by Helen M. Leach

Fundamentals of Nursing & Midwifery

Fundamentals of Nursing & Midwifery

Family Farms: Survival and Prospect

Family Farms: Survival and Prospect

The English Romance in Time

The English Romance in Time

Science with Impact

Science with Impact

Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics and Genomics

Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics and Genomics

Africa as a Living Laboratory

Africa as a Living Laboratory

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