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Toxic Schools: How to avoid them & how to leave them

By: Helen Woodley,Ross Morrison McGill

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Toxic Schools: How to avoid them & how to leave them

By: Helen Woodley,Ross Morrison McGill

Helen Woodley's critical important action research in a growing field of education is an investigation into the effect of working on a toxic schools on teacher mental health and wellbeing. Four teachers share their experiences of working in toxic schools across a variety of settings. And strategies for coping in such schools are shared including a wider look at how school culture can be developed to better support staff.

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John Catt

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1398384011

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9781398384019

The Aging of Aquarius

Igniting Passion and Purpose as an Elder

By: Helen Wilkes

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The Aging of Aquarius

Igniting Passion and Purpose as an Elder

By: Helen Wilkes

Live your passion and purpose and change the world as an empowered elder. Your career has wound down, the kids have moved, and your schedule is clear...for the next 30 years. In your youth, you cared about people and planet earth, and you had grand visions of changing the world. At some point, those passions and that sense of purpose got buried under diapers and the 9-5. Still, that old you remains alive. Now, with the rest of your life ahead, you can be the change and make this next stage of your life the most powerful yet. But where to start? Helen Wilkes, a retired professor and activist, takes readers on an inspiring journey to find renewed purpose in retirement. Along the way she helps readers navigate the transition to a post-work identity by fanning the embers of lost passions and developing new interests. Whether you are drawn to gardening clubs, to social justice issues, political campaigning, ethical investing, or creativity through the arts, The Aging of Aquarius offers inspiration, practical steps, and extra resources to help reignite your passion, your sense of purpose, and to effect real change in the world as an empowered elder.

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216

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New Society Publishers

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1771422831

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9781771422833

Rhythmic Modernism

Mimesis and the Short Story

By: Helen Rydstrand

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Rhythmic Modernism

Mimesis and the Short Story

By: Helen Rydstrand

Contrary to the common view that cultural modernism is a broadly anti-mimetic movement, one which turned away from traditional artistic goals of representing the world, Rhythmic Modernism argues that rhythm and mimesis are central to modernist aesthetics. Through detailed close readings of non-fiction and short stories, Helen Rydstrand shows that textual rhythms comprised the substance of modernist mimesis. Rhythmic Modernism demonstrates how many modernist writers, such as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, were profoundly invested in mimicking a substratum of existence that was conceived as rhythmic, each displaying a fascination with rhythm, both as a formal device and as a vital, protean concept that helped to make sense of the complex modern world.

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259

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501343424

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9781501343421

Life Changing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION

By: Helen Pilcher

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Life Changing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION

By: Helen Pilcher

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION 'Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.' Gillian Burke 'Richly entertaining throughout.' Sunday Times For the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a bolshie, big-brained, bipedal primate we now call Homo sapiens, and with that, the Earth's natural history came to an abrupt end. We are now living through the post-natural phase, where humans have become the leading force shaping evolution. This thought-provoking book considers the many ways that we've altered the DNA of living things and changed the fate of life on earth. We have carved chihuahuas from wolves and fancy chickens from jungle fowl. We've added spider genes to goats and coral genes to tropical fish. It's possible to buy genetically-modified pets, eat genetically-modified fish and watch cloned ponies thunder up and down the polo field. Now, as our global dominance grows, our influence extends far beyond these species. As we warm our world and radically reshape the biosphere, we affect the evolution of all living things, near and far, from the emergence of novel hybrids such as the pizzly bear, to the entirely new strains of animals and plants that are evolving at breakneck speed to cope with their altered environment. In Life Changing, Helen introduces us to these post-natural creations and talks to the scientists who create, study and tend to them. At a time when the future of so many species is uncertain, we meet some of the conservationists seeking to steer evolution onto firmer footings with novel methods like the 'spermcopter', coral IVF and plans to release wild elephants into Denmark. Helen explores the changing relationship between humans and the natural world, and reveals how, with evidence-based thinking, humans can help life change for the better.

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392

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472956737

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9781472956736

What We Learned

Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools

By: Helen Raptis

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What We Learned

Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools

By: Helen Raptis

Stories of Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools have haunted Canadians in recent years. Yet most Indigenous children in Canada attended “Indian day schools,” and later public schools, near their home communities. Although church and government officials often kept detailed administrative records, we know little about the actual experiences of the students themselves. In What We Learned, two generations of Tsimshian students – a group of elders born in the 1930s and 1940s and a group of middle-aged adults born in the 1950s and 1960s – reflect on their traditional Tsimshian education and the formal schooling they received in northwestern British Columbia. Their stories offer a starting point for understanding the legacy of day schools on Indigenous lives and communities. Their recollections also invite readers to consider a broader notion of education – one that includes traditional Indigenous views that conceive of learning as a lifelong experience that takes place across multiple contexts.

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225

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UBC Press

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0774830220

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9780774830225

Win Some, Lose Some

G. Mennen Williams and the New Democrats

By: Helen W. Berthelot

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Win Some, Lose Some

G. Mennen Williams and the New Democrats

By: Helen W. Berthelot

Helen Berthelot's memoir, Win Some, Lose Some, tells the story of what happened behind the scenes at a pivotal point in Michigan political history. It's a chronicle of loyalty, devotion, vision, personality, and old-fashioned patriotism. Elected to office of governor in 1948, Democrat Mennen Williams served in that capacity until 1960. Despite opposition in the Republican legislature and resistance from the press, Williams garnered public support and literally built a state government that served the needs of the people. He left a legacy of elementary and secondary schools, college and university buildings, mental hospitals, roads, and bridges, especially his beloved Mackinac Bridge. Far more than a chronicle of Williams' career, Win Some, Lose Some reveals how politics and campaigning have changed —from budgets on a shoestring to multi-million dollar media exercises run by image makers, consultants, and market researchers.

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382

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Wayne State University Press

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0814324762

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9780814324769

Register of Marriages and Baptisms Performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson, Covenanter Minister, 1751-1791

With Index to Locations and Persons Visited

By: S. Helen Fields

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Register of Marriages and Baptisms Performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson, Covenanter Minister, 1751-1791

With Index to Locations and Persons Visited

By: S. Helen Fields

This present work is an epitome of the diary of Scottish Covenanter minister James Cuthbertson, which he compiled during his missionary travels throughout the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania. The work contains a complete list of marriages, giving the names of the bride and groom and date of marriage; a complete list of baptisms, giving the name of the child, the name of the parent, and the date of baptism; and a selection of quotations pertaining to the weddings and baptisms he performed during his long ministry.

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326

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806310472

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9780806310473

Pioneer Woman

A Canadian Character Type

By: Elizabeth Helen Thompson

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Pioneer Woman

A Canadian Character Type

By: Elizabeth Helen Thompson

In The Backwoods of Canada and The Canadian Settler's Guide, Catherine Parr Traill described a pioneer woman's role on the Ontario frontier, presenting an idealized portrait of the Canadian woman pioneer in the mid-nineteenth century. By transposing this figure into fiction, Traill managed to create what was, in effect, a new fictional character type: the pioneer woman.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773508325

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9780773508323

AT THE KING\S FEET

By: Helen McGill and Samantha McGill

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AT THE KING\S FEET

By: Helen McGill and Samantha McGill

I have gone through many transitions in my life. We have always been believers in God since we were young. As time passed, we have grown stronger in our walk with Him and have come to realize God's unchanging love for us. We have gone through our share of problems involved with health, finances, family issues, and even our faith. But one thing I learned through it all is that our test always became our testimony. No matter what we have gone through, we always turned to God, and by putting Him first, we have grown closer together as a family. Nothing will ever be perfect here in this lifetime, but one thing is perfect, God's everlasting love for us. One thing I have come to realize is that He loves us no matter who we are, what we've done, or where we've come from.

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112

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Tate Publishing & Enterprises

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1634189582

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9781634189583

At the King's Feet

By: Helen McGill,Samantha McGill

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At the King's Feet

By: Helen McGill,Samantha McGill

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1681640090

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Book's by Helen McGill and Samantha McGill

Toxic Schools: How to avoid them & how to leave them

Toxic Schools: How to avoid them & how to leave them

The Aging of Aquarius

The Aging of Aquarius

Rhythmic Modernism

Rhythmic Modernism

Life Changing

Life Changing

What We Learned

What We Learned

Win Some, Lose Some

Win Some, Lose Some

Register of Marriages and Baptisms Performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson, Covenanter Minister, 1751-1791

Register of Marriages and Baptisms Performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson, Covenanter Minister, 1751-1791

Pioneer Woman

Pioneer Woman

AT THE KING\S FEET

AT THE KING\S FEET

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At the King's Feet

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