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A Marylander and Texian

H. G. Catlett's Quest for Fortune in Early Texas

By: Dennis M. Drummond,Mary Helen Catlett Allen,Henry P Mayo

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A Marylander and Texian

H. G. Catlett's Quest for Fortune in Early Texas

By: Dennis M. Drummond,Mary Helen Catlett Allen,Henry P Mayo

H. G. Catlett’s name is on land surveys throughout central Texas. This book, with never-before published letters and documents, tells his story—his work as a surveyor, service as a Texas Ranger, a courier for Zachary Taylor, an Army quartermaster, an expert on Indian affairs, and a proponent for a National Road (through Texas, of course.) Available at Amazon.com.

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DRA Press

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0578141175

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The Enemy is Within

A Jungian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Book of Judith

By: Helen Efthimiades-Keith

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The Enemy is Within

A Jungian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Book of Judith

By: Helen Efthimiades-Keith

This work provides insight into the unconscious psyche of the Jewish nation at the time in which the book of Judith was written by analyzing the book according to Jung's categories of subjective dream analysis and Dawson’s literary theory.

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BRILL

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900449426X

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Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge

By: Pepys Library,Helen Weinstein

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Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge

By: Pepys Library,Helen Weinstein

Second volume in two-volume catalogue of Pepys's outstanding collection of 17c ballads. The Pepys ballad collection is the largest surviving collection of English ballads printed in London in the seventeenth century, and is an outstanding source of English popular culture of the period. Pepys himself grouped the ballads into subjects, but a proper catalogue has long been needed by scholars, and this complex and difficult task has at last been completed. As a result, the full riches of the collection, already available in facsimile*, are now properly accessible. The second part of the catalogue consists of the indexes. Titles and sub-titles are indexed together, as these are often interchangeable. First lines and refrains provide text indexes; tunes and music are a guide to the musical element; and imprints, licensing information and authors enable the printing history to be reconstructed. The Pepys Ballads: Facsimile Vols. I-V 085991 256 6, 450.00/$190.00

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Boydell & Brewer

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0859913333

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Leading Teachers

By: Helen Gunter

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Leading Teachers

By: Helen Gunter

Leading teachers are those who are reseachers and who havedeveloped their pedagogy based on both evidence and conceptuallyinformed practice.This book draws on three important resources: first, case studies ofteachers researching and developing practice; second, researchevidence on what we know about teacher leadership both nationallyand internationally; and, third, models of pedagogy and teacher learningthat can support the development of a teacher leadership culturewithin schools.

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A&C Black

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0826464564

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Filming the First

Cinematic Portrayals of Freedom of the Press

By: Helen J. Knowles-Gardner,Bruce E. Altschuler,Brandon T. Metroka

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Filming the First

Cinematic Portrayals of Freedom of the Press

By: Helen J. Knowles-Gardner,Bruce E. Altschuler,Brandon T. Metroka

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits Congress from abridging freedom of the press. But, as the printed press has been transformed into mass media with Americans now more likely to get their political information from television or social media than from print, confidence in this important, mediating institution has fallen dramatically. Movies, in their role as cultural artifacts, have long reflected and influenced those public attitudes, inventing such iconic phrases as “follow the money” from All the President’s Men and “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore” from Network. Filming the First: Cinematic Portrayals of Freedom of the Press analyzes eighteen films that span from Citizen Kane to Spotlight showing changes in how the press have been portrayed over time, which voices receive the most attention and why, the relationship between the press’s “Fourth Estate” role and the imperatives of capitalism, and how, despite the First Amendment’s seemingly absolute language, the government has sometimes been able to limit what the public can read or view.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793650454

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Nuclear Madness

What You Can Do

By: Helen Caldicott

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Nuclear Madness

What You Can Do

By: Helen Caldicott

Nuclear waste dumping has further poisoned our environment, and developing nuclear technology in the Third World poses still further risks.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393310116

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Shakespeare and Elizabeth

The Meeting of Two Myths

By: Helen Hackett

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Shakespeare and Elizabeth

The Meeting of Two Myths

By: Helen Hackett

Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? There is no evidence of such a meeting, yet for three centuries writers and artists have been provoked and inspired to imagine it. Shakespeare and Elizabeth is the first book to explore the rich history of invented encounters between the poet and the Queen, and examines how and why the mythology of these two charismatic and enduring cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. Helen Hackett follows the history of meetings between Shakespeare and Elizabeth through historical novels, plays, paintings, and films, ranging from well-known works such as Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth and the film Shakespeare in Love to lesser known but equally fascinating examples. Raising intriguing questions about the boundaries separating scholarship and fiction, Hackett looks at biographers and critics who continue to delve into links between the queen and the poet. In the Shakespeare authorship controversy there have even been claims that Shakespeare was Elizabeth's secret son or lover, or that Elizabeth herself was the genius Shakespeare. Hackett uncovers the reasons behind the lasting appeal of their combined reputations, and she locates this interest in their enigmatic sexual identities, as well as in the ways they represent political tensions and national aspirations. Considering a wealth of examples, Shakespeare and Elizabeth shows how central this double myth is to both elite and popular culture in Britain and the United States, and how vibrantly it is reshaped in different eras.

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Princeton University Press

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1400830540

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The Changing Image of Theodor Fontane

By: Helen Chambers

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The Changing Image of Theodor Fontane

By: Helen Chambers

Wide-ranging survey of the criticism devoted to Theodor Fontane, with particular emphasis on more recent theoretical trends. This study of the literary scholarship on Fontane's narrative works is the first to present a systematic review of the ever-growing body of criticism on Germany's major realist novelist. Significant developments in Fontane criticism are traced in historical context, from their beginnings in contemporary commentary to the present day. The author places special emphasis on scholarship since 1980, analysing the influence of new literary critical trends in this period; she also considers the effect upon traditional literary criticism of feminism, psychoanalysis, and comparatist approaches, and the fresh developments in reception history, translation, and media studies.

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Camden House

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1571130845

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Donald Barthelme

The Genesis of a Cool Sound

By: Helen Moore Barthelme

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Donald Barthelme

The Genesis of a Cool Sound

By: Helen Moore Barthelme

Chronicling a literary life that ended not so long ago, "Donald Barthelme: ""The"" Genesis of a Cool Sound" gives the reader a glimpse at the years when Barthelme began to find his literary voice. A revealing look at Donald Barthelme's influences and development, this account begins with a detailed biographical sketch of his life and spans his growth into a true avant-garde literary figure. Donald Barthleme was born in Philadelphia but raised in Houston, the son of a forward-thinking architect father and a literary mother. Educated at the University of Houston, he became a fine arts critic for the "Houston"" Post;" then, following duty in the Korean conflict, he returned to the "Post" for a short time before becoming editor for "Forum" literary magazine. After that, he was also director of the Contemporary Arts Museum while writing and publishing his first stories. In the 1960s he moved to New York, where he became editor of "Location" and was able to practice the art of short fiction in such vehicles as the "New Yorker" and "Harper's Bazaar." In a witty, playful, ironic, and bizarrely imaginative style, he wrote more than one hundred short stories and several novels over the years. In this literary memoir, Donald Barthelme's former wife, Helen Moore Barthelme, offers insights into his career as well as his private life, focusing especially on the decade they were married, from the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties, a period when he was developing the forms and genres that made him famous. During that time Barthelme was finding his voice as a writer and his short stories were beginning to receive notice. In her memoir, Helen Moore Barthelme writes about Donald's early years and her life with him in Houston and New York. In open, straightforward language she tells about their love for each other and about the events that finally divided them. She also describes, from the point of view of the person closest to Donald during that time, the making of one of the most original and imaginative American writers of the twentieth century. Scholars of avant-garde American literature will gain insider perspective to one man's life and the years which, for all their myriad joys and downturns, produced some of the best-remembered works in the literary canon.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603446702

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Behavioural Science and Housing Decision Making

A Case Study Approach

By: Helen Bao

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Behavioural Science and Housing Decision Making

A Case Study Approach

By: Helen Bao

This book takes a behavioural approach to examine six important housing questions: tenure decision, gentrification, place attachment, housing bubbles, housing wealth, and residential satisfaction. Using experimental and field data, the book demonstrates the effects of six behavioural biases and heuristics (i.e., anchoring and reference dependence, loss aversion, mental accounting, endowment effect, herd behaviours, and social comparison) on these housing decisions. The first part of the book introduces the questions and provides a behavioural science toolbox before the second part adopts a real-world case study approach. Real data sets and suggested answers are provided, and the cases come from the UK, USA, and China. Background information is given in each case to facilitate the understanding of the case data and question, as well as the discussions on the results. This book is ideal supplementary reading on a variety of courses such as housing studies, economics, real estate, research methods, and for students and academics who are interested in the application of behavioural science in housing decisions.

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0429648677

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Saved and Sanctified

The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia

By: Deidre Helen Crumbley

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Saved and Sanctified

The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia

By: Deidre Helen Crumbley

During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find employment in urban centers. They transplanted not only themselves but also their culture; in the midst of this tumultuous demographic transition emerged a new social institution, the storefront sanctified church. Saved and Sanctified focuses on one such Philadelphia church that was started above a horse stable, was founded by a woman born sixteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is still active today. "The Church," as it is known to its members, offers a unique perspective on an under-studied aspect of African American religious institutions. Through painstaking historical and ethnographic research, Deidre Helen Crumbley illuminates the crucial role these oftentimes controversial churches played in the spiritual life of the African American community during and after the Great Migration. She provides a new perspective on women and their leadership roles, examines the loose or nonexistent relationship these Pentecostal churches have with existing denominations, and dispels common prejudices about those who attend storefront churches. Skillfully interweaving personal vignettes from her own experience as a member, along with life stories of founding members, Crumbley provides new insights into the importance of grassroots religion and community-based houses of worship.

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University Press of Florida

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0813043557

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Museums, Health and Well-Being

By: Helen Chatterjee,Guy Noble

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Museums, Health and Well-Being

By: Helen Chatterjee,Guy Noble

The role of museums in enhancing well-being and improving health through social intervention is one of the foremost topics of importance in the museums sector today. With an aging population and emerging policies on the social responsibilities of museums, the sector is facing an unprecedented challenge in how to develop services to meet the needs of its communities in a more holistic and inclusive way. This book sets the scene for the future of museums where the health and well-being of communities is top of the agenda. The authors draw together existing research and best practice in the area of museum interventions in health and social care and offer a detailed overview of the multifarious outcomes of such interactions, including benefits and challenges. This timely book will be essential reading for museum professionals, particularly those involved in access and education, students of museums and heritage studies, as well as practitioners of arts in health, art therapists, care and community workers.

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Routledge

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1317092716

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Managing Anger

By: Helen O'Neill

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Managing Anger

By: Helen O'Neill

The technique of anger management has become a widely used intervention in a variety of forensic, general mental health and non-clinical settings. This second edition of Managing Anger includes an update on the latest theory and studies of anger treatments with a growing range of clients. This time-saving manual provides a series of session plans to assist the therapist in leading a course of treatment to help individuals manage their problematic anger. These are suitable for use with a wide range of individuals but in particular for those who have cognitive impairment. This new edition contains further practical techniques to assist those who have difficulty in processing information and/or remembering it and, hence, the tendency to misjudge social communication. It also contains additional visual aids and, in response to feedback, there are now worksheets suitable for both sexes. Managing Anger provides the essential tools needed to run an anger management treatment course. It will be an invaluable resource for practitioners.

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John Wiley & Sons

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186156502X

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The Odes of John Keats

By: Helen Vendler

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The Odes of John Keats

By: Helen Vendler

Argues that Keat's six odes form a sequence, identifies their major themes, and provides detailed interpretations of the poems' philosophy, mythological references, and lyric structures.

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Harvard University Press

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0674630769

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Parents and Young Mentally Handicapped Children

A Review of Research Issues

By: Helen McConachie

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Parents and Young Mentally Handicapped Children

A Review of Research Issues

By: Helen McConachie

First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps. Professionals and parents must work together to give such children the chance of living as ordinary lives as possible and here, the author develops a broadly-based conceptual framework for the involvement of parents as teachers of their young handicapped children. McConachie identifies characteristics of parents which seem of particular relevance to the design and success of intervention programmes. Although written in the 1980s, this book discusses topics that are still important today.

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Routledge

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1317299388

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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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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501343424

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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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University of Chicago Press

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0226803481

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9780226803487

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By: Helen Vendler

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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By: Helen Vendler

Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.

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Harvard University Press

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0674637127

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Staging Philanthropy

Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916

By: Jean Helen Quataert

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Staging Philanthropy

Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916

By: Jean Helen Quataert

Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gendered social obligations, sponsoring a network of state women's associations, philanthropic institutions, and nursing orders which were eventually coordinated by the German Red Cross. These patriotic groups helped fashion an official nationalism that defended conservative power and authority in the new nation-state. An original and truly multi-disciplinary work, Staging Philanthropy uses archival research to reconstruct the neglected history of women's philanthropic organizations during the 'long' nineteenth century. Borrowing from cultural anthropologists, Jean Quataert explores how meaning is created in the theater of politics. Linking gender with nationalism and war with humanitarianism, Quataert weaves her analysis together with themes of German historiography and the wider context of European history. Staging Philanthropy will interest readers in German history, women's history, politics and anthropology, as well as those whose interest is in medicalization and the German Red Cross. This book situates itself in the middle of a string of debates pertaining to modern German history and, thus, should also appeal to readers from the general educated public. Jean Quataert is Professor of History and Women's Studies, Binghamton University. She has previously published a number of books, including Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present with Marilyn J. Boxer (Oxford, 1999).

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University of Michigan Press

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0472022660

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Midwifery Essentials: Infant feeding

Volume 5

By: Joyce Marshall,Helen Baston,Jennifer Hall

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Midwifery Essentials: Infant feeding

Volume 5

By: Joyce Marshall,Helen Baston,Jennifer Hall

New title in the popular Midwifery Essentials series originally published in conjunction with The Practising Midwife journal. The series covers core topics in midwifery education in an engaging and friendly format using a helpful 'jigsaw' approach which encourages readers to explore topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. effective communication, team working and health promotion. Helpful 'scenarios' throughout each volume encourage debate and reflection, core elements of midwifery education. - Provides a useful, friendly source of information - Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care - Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures - Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision - Helpful 'jigsaw' approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion - Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures - Chapters designed to be read as a 'standalone' or in succession - Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702071463

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The Nonviolent Right To Vote Movement Almanac

By: Helen L. Bevel

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The Nonviolent Right To Vote Movement Almanac

By: Helen L. Bevel

This book contains the rich history of a people struggling to attain freedom, justice and equality, which is most defined by the Selma, AL Right To Vote Movement. From the shores of Africa to the Americas this book explores the people, through pictures, articles, quotes, poems, timelines and more. Providing the history of nonviolence as applied to the Selma Movement from the unique perspective of the strategist and nonviolent scientist James L. Bevel.

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Lulu.com

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1105708160

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Flexible Church

Being the Church in the Contemporary World

By: Helen D. Morris

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Flexible Church

Being the Church in the Contemporary World

By: Helen D. Morris

Flexible Church proposes an ecclesiology for innovative expressions of church that is grounded in biblical texts whilst self-consciously and intentionally developed for the contemporary Western milieu. The result is a framework serves as a guide and auditing tool for pioneering church planters.

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SCM Press

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0334058155

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Clinical Skills: The Essence Of Caring

The Essence of Caring

By: Iggulden, Helen,Macdonald, Caroline,Staniland, Karen

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Clinical Skills: The Essence Of Caring

The Essence of Caring

By: Iggulden, Helen,Macdonald, Caroline,Staniland, Karen

Organised around the DoH Essence of Care framework, this book covers the compulsory clinical skills curriculum based on care benchmarks. It also considers the related professional issues and underpinning basic anatomy and physiology to take an holistic approach to the importance of delivering excellent care.

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0335223559

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News and the Human Interest Story

By: Helen MacGill Hughes

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News and the Human Interest Story

By: Helen MacGill Hughes

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day. She shows how such commonly found interests as a taste for news of the town, ordinary gossip, and moving or gripping tales with a legendary or mythic quality have reflected the tastes of ordinary folk from the days of illiterate audiences to the present. She explains how these interests ultimately were combined with practical economic and political information to create the substance and demand for a popular press. In describing the rise and fall of newspaper empires, each with their special readership attractions, Dr. Hughes shows how technological innovation and idiosyncratic creativity were used by owners to capture and hold a reading audience. Once this audience developed, it could be fed a variety of messages--beamed at reinforcing and maintaining both general and specific publics--as well as a view of the world consonant with that of the publisher and major advertisers. Hughes offers a persuasive argument for the continuing viability of this method for combined social control, instruction, and amusement captured by the association of news and the human interest story.

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Transaction Publishers

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0878557296

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The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar

Essays on Poets and Poetry

By: Helen Vendler

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The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar

Essays on Poets and Poetry

By: Helen Vendler

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades’ worth of Helen Vendler’s essays, book reviews, and occasional prose—including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture—in a single volume. “It’s one of [Vendler’s] finest books, an impressive summation of a long, distinguished career in which she revisits many of the poets she has venerated over a lifetime and written about previously. Reading it, one can feel her happiness in doing what she loves best. There is scarcely a page in the book where there isn’t a fresh insight about a poet or poetry.” —Charles Simic, New York Review of Books “Vendler has done perhaps more than any other living critic to shape—I might almost say ‘create’—our understanding of poetry in English.” —Joel Brouwer, New York Times Book Review “Poems are artifacts and [Vendler] shows us, often thrillingly, how those poems she considers the best specimens are made...A reader feels that she has thoroughly absorbed her subjects and conveys her understanding with candor, clarity, wit.” —John Greening, Times Literary Supplement

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Harvard University Press

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067442574X

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BITTERSWEET

One Family's Experience in Adopting an Older Child

By: Helen Austin, R.N., LCSW

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BITTERSWEET

One Family's Experience in Adopting an Older Child

By: Helen Austin, R.N., LCSW

Helen Austin and her husband already had one biological son when they decided to adopt. They chose to adopt an older child, and soon their second child-adopted at almost five years old-came to be a big sister to their son. They imagined that their new family constellation would easily slip into a happy, smiling, group. It was not so easy. Adopting an older child is not always simple. Helen and her family learned from their experience that adopting an older child is a process involving five phases: preplacement, placement, family disintegration, family reorganization, and individual and family growth. BITTERSWEET allows readers to see firsthand the range of emotions and experiences that occur throughout the process. In beautiful but honest narration, Helen bravely shares her family's adoption experience with others who might face similar challenges in their own adoption journeys, reassuring them that they are not alone.

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1626529086

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Understanding Children's Development

By: Peter K. Smith,Helen Cowie,Mark Blades

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Understanding Children's Development

By: Peter K. Smith,Helen Cowie,Mark Blades

Understanding Children's Development is the UK's best-selling developmental psychology textbook and has been widely acclaimed for its international coverage and rigorous research-based approach. This dynamic text emphasizes the practical and applied implications of developmental research. It begins by introducing the ways in which psychologists study developmental processes before going on to consider all major aspects of development from conception through to adolescence.

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1118772989

ISBN 13

9781118772980

Book's by Helen Rollins

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