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Interpreting Nightingales

Gender, Class and Histories

By: Jeni Williams

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Interpreting Nightingales

Gender, Class and Histories

By: Jeni Williams

The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.

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A&C Black

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1847141854

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Electricity and Magnetism

By: Jeni Williams

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Electricity and Magnetism

By: Jeni Williams

Explains how electricity and magnetism are related, how they can be harnessed, and how they are useful.

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Heinemann

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0435072412

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9780435072414

How Peace Operations Work

Power, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness

By: Jeni Whalan

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How Peace Operations Work

Power, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness

By: Jeni Whalan

This book proposes a new approach to studying the effectiveness of peace operations. It asks not whether peace operations work or why, but how: when a peace operation achieves its goals, what causal processes are at work? By discovering how peace operations work, this new approach offers five distinctive contributions. First, it studies peace operations through a local lens, examining their interactions with actors in host societies rather than their genesis in the politics and institutions of the international realm. In doing so, it highlights the centrality of local compliance and cooperation to a peace operation's effectiveness. Second, the book structures a framework for explaining how peace operations can shape the behaviour of local actors in order to obtain greater cooperation. That framework distinguishes three dimensions of a peace operation's power-coercion, inducement, and legitimacy—and illuminates their effects. The third contribution is to highlight the contribution of local legitimacy to a peace operation's effectiveness and identify the means by which an operation can be locally legitimized. Fourth, the new power-legitimacy framework is applied to study two peace operations in depth: the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI). Finally, the book concludes by examining the implications of this new approach for practice and identifying a set of policy reforms to help peace operations work better. The book argues that peace operations work by influencing the decisions and behaviour of diverse local actors in host societies. Peace operations work better—that is, achieve more of their objectives at lower cost—when they receive high quality local cooperation. It concludes that peace operations are more likely to attain such cooperation when they are perceived locally to be legitimate.

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274

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OUP Oxford

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0191652342

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9780191652349

The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development

By: Roger Beard,Jeni Riley,Debra Myhill,Martin Nystrand

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The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development

By: Roger Beard,Jeni Riley,Debra Myhill,Martin Nystrand

By drawing on international cross-phase and cross-disciplinary research perspectives, this book offers a comprehensive review of writing development, invaluable for researchers and practitioners alike.

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617

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SAGE Publications

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1412948460

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9781412948463

The House of Deep Water

By: Jeni McFarland

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The House of Deep Water

By: Jeni McFarland

Three women learn what it means to come home--and to make peace with the family, love affairs, and memories they'd once left behind--in this stunning and perceptive debut novel. River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return--Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend's only black daughters, now a mother of two who'd planned to raise her own children anywhere else--their paths collide under Beth's father's roof. As one town struggles to contain all of their love affairs and secrets, a local scandal forces Beth to confront her own devastating past. Uniting the voices of mothers and daughters, husbands, lovers, and fathers, this unforgettable debut novel offers both a compulsively readable family story and a riveting portrait of small-town America today. With wisdom, humor, and exceptional heart, The House of Deep Water explores motherhood, trauma, love, loss, and new beginnings found in that most unlikely place: home.

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369

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Penguin

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0525542361

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9780525542360

Perinatal Mental Health

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) Manual (2nd edn)

By: John Cox,Jeni Holden,Carol Henshaw

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Perinatal Mental Health

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) Manual (2nd edn)

By: John Cox,Jeni Holden,Carol Henshaw

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a questionnaire and was designed as a simple means of screening for postnatal depression in health care settings. The scale is now in use around the world and this book is a practical guide to using the scale in clinical practice, its origins and development background. This second edition has been revised and contains much advice based on years of experience. All chapters and references have been updated and the chapters on screening and counselling have been considerably revised, the evidence base on interventions for perinatal depression is provided, plus details of innovative methods such as internet-based therapy. The book includes the EPDS questionnaire itself in 58 other languages, plus a discussion of the questionnaire’s cultural validity. The scale can also be used by researchers seeking information on factors which influence the emotional well-being of new mothers and their families and guidance is also given on use of the scale in research settings. The book will be useful for psychologists, psychiatrists, health visitors, midwives, family doctors, obstetricians and community psychiatric nurses, plus researchers in perinatal health.

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234

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RCPsych Publications

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1909726133

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9781909726130

Life Coaching For Dummies

By: Jeni Purdie

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Life Coaching For Dummies

By: Jeni Purdie

Become a life coach-for yourself and others-with this practical, informative guide If you're interested in doing away with negative beliefs, making a significant change in your life, and, finally, create-and live-the life you want, life coaching is the key. In this practical introduction, you will learn the empowering techniques essential to life coaching-including putting together an action plan, getting your priorities straight, staying focused, defining true success, overcoming common obstacles, and coaching yourself to happiness. With more information than ever before, this new updated edition includes material on emotional intelligence and active listening With insights on what to expect from life coaching and how to develop your own life coaching techniques, the book offers sound advice on what it takes to become a professional life coach. If you simply want to create more balance in your life, become more productive, and enjoy a more fulfilling existence, Life Coaching For Dummies holds the answer.

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392

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470665548

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9780470665541

SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled

By: Kevin Williams,Daryl Barnes,Bryant Likes,Stephen Mohr,Paul Morris,Andrew Novick,Andrew Polshaw,Simon Sabin,Jeni Tennison

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SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled

By: Kevin Williams,Daryl Barnes,Bryant Likes,Stephen Mohr,Paul Morris,Andrew Novick,Andrew Polshaw,Simon Sabin,Jeni Tennison

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664

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Apress

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1590591917

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9781590591918

Electricity and Magnetism

By: Jeni Williams

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Electricity and Magnetism

By: Jeni Williams

Explains how electricity and magnetism are related, how they can be harnessed, and how they are useful.

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Heinemann

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HER Advanced Fiction

Crown of Blood

By: David Clayton

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HER Advanced Fiction

Crown of Blood

By: David Clayton

A collection of 90 readers aimed at students aged 7-17 learning English as an additional language, or those who would like extra support with their reading. Levelled into bands of Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced, these readers are categorised into three strands: fiction, non-fiction and science.

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Heinemann International Incorporated

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0435010638

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Book's by Jeni Williams

Interpreting Nightingales

Interpreting Nightingales

Electricity and Magnetism

Electricity and Magnetism

How Peace Operations Work

How Peace Operations Work

The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development

The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development

The House of Deep Water

The House of Deep Water

Perinatal Mental Health

Perinatal Mental Health

Life Coaching For Dummies

Life Coaching For Dummies

SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled

SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled

Electricity and Magnetism

Electricity and Magnetism

HER Advanced Fiction

HER Advanced Fiction

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