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She Built It!

Inspiring Strategies and Stories for Women in Business

By: Angela Sedran,Rachel WingMan,Jenny Godfrey,Michelle Huntington,Heather Disher,Polina Kesov,Jo Cooper,Sophie Firmager,Cristina Santangelo,Sue-Ann Wilson,Suzanne Rath

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She Built It!

Inspiring Strategies and Stories for Women in Business

By: Angela Sedran,Rachel WingMan,Jenny Godfrey,Michelle Huntington,Heather Disher,Polina Kesov,Jo Cooper,Sophie Firmager,Cristina Santangelo,Sue-Ann Wilson,Suzanne Rath

“She Built It: Stories and Strategies for Women in Business” is a tribute to the resilience, creativity, and power of women who have carved their paths in various industries. This collection shares the extraordinary journeys of women who have faced challenges and emerged stronger, offering inspiration and practical advice. Discover the powerful stories of women whose experiences of perseverance and determination illuminate the path for others. These narratives are enriched with strategies that demonstrate how to navigate the often turbulent waters of professional life with steadfastness and self-belief. Angela Sedran: Resilience in the Face of Loss The personal story of Angela Sedran, overcoming profound loss and adversity to reclaim her life and finances, underscores the indomitable spirit of a woman who refuses to be defeated or defined by circumstances. Michelle Huntington: Soaring Above Stereotypes Michelle Huntington exemplifies how determination can shatter the glass ceiling—even the one that looms in the skies. As an airline captain, Michelle broke through gender barriers to prove that the cockpit is no place for gender biases. Heather Disher: From Pain to Power Heather Disher turned a life-threatening experience into a catalyst for personal and professional transformation, building successful businesses that embody her strength and resilience. Jo Cooper: A Stand for Justice Jo Cooper’s journey through the corridors of the Supreme Court underscores the profound impact of advocating for justice and integrity, setting a precedent that extends beyond the personal to the societal. Sue-Anne Wilson: Transforming Trauma into Mission Driven by her challenging childhood, Sue-Anne Wilson dedicated her life to supporting parents, using her past as a foundation to build supportive communities and empower parents globally. Rachel WingMan: Beauty from Adversity Rachel Wingman’s journey from a struggling teenager to a beauty empire mogul shows how personal challenges can lead to entrepreneurial success and global influence. Polina Kesov: Rising from Ashes Polina Kesov encountered sceptics who doubted her ability to succeed as a woman in business after losing her partner to illness. Her journey demonstrates that challenges can become opportunities for growth and success. Sophie Firmager: Corporate Skills to Compassionate Business Sophie Firmager transitioned from a high-flying corporate career to founding a business that aligns with her passion for helping others, demonstrating the power of aligning her career with personal values. Jenny Godfrey: Marketing Mastery through Adversity Jenny Godfrey built her marketing empire not only because of her trials but also because of how personal stories can power professional achievements. Suzanne Rath: Advocacy through Adversity After a severe accident, Suzanne Rath turned her ordeal into advocacy, establishing holistic health clinics and promoting community well-being. Cristina Santangelo: Self-Realisation to Service Realizing her corporate career was unfulfilling, Cristina Santangelo found her true calling in empowering women, combining passion with profession to help others shine. Conclusion: A Collective Journey of Empowerment Each story in this collection celebrates individual achievements and forms a mosaic of encouragement that speaks to the heart of every woman striving to make her mark. This book is not just a read; it’s a movement towards self-belief, resilience, and transformation. Join the Movement Let these stories inspire you to push boundaries and embrace your potential. This book is dedicated to every woman with a dream, reaffirming that you can build your path to success with belief and resilience.

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Evolve Global Publishing

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1923223313

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The Women of Pliny's Letters

By: Jo-Ann Shelton

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The Women of Pliny's Letters

By: Jo-Ann Shelton

The large collection of letters by Pliny the Younger includes a number of women among its addressees, and Pliny also gives us plentiful information about many women of his acquaintance. This book brings together this material to build up a portrait of a peer-group of women in their social setting.

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Routledge

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0415374286

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The Transportation Research Board, 1920â¬"2020

Everyone Interested Is Invited

By: Sarah Jo Peterson

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The Transportation Research Board, 1920â¬"2020

Everyone Interested Is Invited

By: Sarah Jo Peterson

In 1920, state highway engineers, federal officials, and experts from academia were among a small group convened by the National Academy of Sciences to confront the problems of the highway. The public was entrusting them with billions of dollars for good roads, and World War I had proved the feasibility of moving freight long distances by truck. But even new highways were crumbling. They turned to research for solutions. The founders of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the generations that followed took on problems such as safety, social equity, and environmental issues. They embraced "total transportation," adapting their highway research model to urban transportation and then applying it to rail, marine, and aviation modes. Today TRB convenes thousands of researchers, practitioners, and administrators every year to advise the government, solve practical problems, foster innovation, and stimulate new research. In The Transportation Research Board, 1920â€"2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited, Sarah Jo Peterson tells the story of how people and institutions created and have continued to shape TRB. In a compelling narrative accompanied by more than 150 images exploring the history of transportation and research, she argues that TRB can be best understood as an infrastructureâ€"one that people purposely designed and devotedly maintained. Despite TRB's institutional complexity, its unique mission, the vast collection of acronyms in its orbit, and the significant changes to the organization in its first 100 years, Dr. Peterson provides a view from 30,000 feet, deftly describing the social, political, and economic context in which transportation (and TRB) functioned. At the same time, she attends to details of the key events, individuals, and human motivations that shaped TRB's evolution. The author's skills as a historian, her experience in the transportation field, and her manifest ability to tell a good story have produced a book that transportation professionals of all stripesâ€"and, for that matter, anyone interested in the history of transportation in the United Statesâ€"should find both engaging and informative and an essential addition to their library.

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Father Hartke

His Life and Legacy to the American Theater

By: Mary Jo Santo Pietro

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Father Hartke

His Life and Legacy to the American Theater

By: Mary Jo Santo Pietro

In this biography, Mary Jo Santo Pietro chronicles Father Hartke's experiences and endless achievements by combining his own stories, taped weekly during the last year of his life, with stories told by friends, colleagues, and celebrities. The book offers an inside look at major theatrical and political events in the nation's capital from the 1930s through the 1980s, and also uncovers the complex and paradoxical character of the man known as the "White House priest" and "Show Biz priest.""--BOOK JACKET.

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0813210828

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Feeling The Heat

By: Jo Chandler

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Feeling The Heat

By: Jo Chandler

In Feeling the Heat, journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the defining mysteries of our age-climate change. The story Chandler tells is an epic adventure complete with heroes and villains. It's a love story for those with an affection for nature. A reality show like no other. It's also a story of science in its most glorious, pure form. Chandler takes us into wild landscapes in the company of scientists trying to decode climate information that will be critical to the decisions we make for the future of the planet. Written in the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, and by turn lyrical, funny, and achingly sad, Feeling the Heat reveals startling truths about that delicate, confounding organism we call Earth. Winner: 2012 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing Shortlisted: 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Science Writer Award Longlisted: 2012 John Button Prize

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E-Book - Textbook of Veterinary Surgical Nursing

By: Carole Browne,Jo Masters

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E-Book - Textbook of Veterinary Surgical Nursing

By: Carole Browne,Jo Masters

This companion to Textbook of Veterinary Medical Nursing takes an in-depth look at the surgical aspects of both the RCVS VN syllabus and the Diploma in Advanced Veterinary Nursing Surgical. This book provides content specific to the RCVS VN and DAVN curriculum and still offers a strong application of theory to practice throughout. - Excellent layout with numerous line diagrams and photographs ensure quick grasp of essential facts and better understanding of content. - Edited by two RCVS examiners, the book is designed to fit the students' needs. - Application of theory to everyday practice makes this an essential resource for all veterinary nurses.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702032670

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Survive and Thrive! How Cancer Saves Lives

Inspiring Stories of Courageous Cancer Thrivers

By: Jo Spicer

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Survive and Thrive! How Cancer Saves Lives

Inspiring Stories of Courageous Cancer Thrivers

By: Jo Spicer

Inspiring stories from cancer patients aged from 3 - 76 years. Find out how they handled diagnosis and treatment to survive and thrive. Provides practical strategies for patients, carers on dealing with the emotional and physical impact of cancer. Packed with knowledge and lessons on developing resilience and overcoming any life challenge.

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The Bat

A Harry Hole Novel (1)

By: Jo Nesbo

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The Bat

A Harry Hole Novel (1)

By: Jo Nesbo

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In the electrifying first installment of the Inspector Harry Hole series, Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. As he circles closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the murder. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case. Together, they discover that this is only the latest in a string of unsolved murders, and the pattern points toward a psychopath working his way across the country. Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole novel, coming May 2023!

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0345807103

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Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920

By: Mari Jo Buhle

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Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920

By: Mari Jo Buhle

Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252054458

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Hiking Minnesota

A Guide To The State's Greatest Hiking Adventures

By: Mary Jo Mosher

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Hiking Minnesota

A Guide To The State's Greatest Hiking Adventures

By: Mary Jo Mosher

View the spectacular waterfalls, gorges, and canyons of the nationally known Superior Hiking Trail, step back into Native American history alongside the quarries of Pipestone National Monument, or see bald eagles and other wildlife in Bear Head Lake State Park. Highlighting the history and geography of each route, this book introduces more than forty of the finest trails the Gopher State has to offer.

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Souls

A Portrait of Belfast, a Memoir

By: Jo Fredell Higgins

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Souls

A Portrait of Belfast, a Memoir

By: Jo Fredell Higgins

Jo Fredell Higgins relocated to Belfast from 1979 to 1980 in an effort to understand the Irish psyche. Her interviews with the men and women of this troubled city provide a portrait of everyday life in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Tate Publishing

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Learning to Embed Sustainability in Teacher Education

By: Jo-Anne Ferreira,Neus (Snowy) Evans,Julie M. Davis,Robert (Bob) Stevenson

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Learning to Embed Sustainability in Teacher Education

By: Jo-Anne Ferreira,Neus (Snowy) Evans,Julie M. Davis,Robert (Bob) Stevenson

This book offers an accessible guide to understanding the importance of a systems approach to embedding sustainability into teacher education practice, providing a practical resource for teacher education academics and others with an interest in organisational change. It draws principally on the findings of a 12-year research project in Australia, working directly with academics and their teacher education institutions to ensure that sustainability and education for sustainability are embedded in teacher education courses. Illustrating the need for change in teacher education in the context of education for sustainability, the book discusses the theory underpinning and practical application of a system-based change model. It also offers examples of how the model has been used in practice and shows education academics how to implement change within their own organizations and use the ideas and tools presented to advance sustainability in their discipline areas.

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Reason and Revelation before Historicism

Strauss and Fackenheim

By: Sharon Jo Portnoff

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Reason and Revelation before Historicism

Strauss and Fackenheim

By: Sharon Jo Portnoff

Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two German refugees who later rose to prominence — Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century's most significant political philosophers, and Emil L. Fackenheim, an important post-Holocaust Jewish theologian. There has been little consensus, however, on the definitive meaning of their work. Reason and Revelation before Historicism, the first full-length comparison of Strauss and Fackenheim,places the informal teacher and student in conversation alongside sections of their analyses of notable thinkers. Sharon Portnoff suggests that both saw historicism as the nexus of the intersection and tension between philosophy and religion and raised the possibility of the persistence of the permanent in the modern world. Portnoff illuminates our understanding of Strauss's relationship with Judaism, Fackenheim's oft-overshadowed great philosophical depth, and the function and character of Jewish thought in a secular, post-Holocaust world.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442695390

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Exiles and Communities

Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness

By: Jo Anne Pagano

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Exiles and Communities

Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness

By: Jo Anne Pagano

This book is a meditation on the profession of teaching from the perspective of a woman whose intellectual identity as teacher and writer is inseparable from her whole life as a woman. Pagano brings the methods and insights of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism to bear on a reading of her own educational practice in order to reach a transformed understanding of the educational enterprise. She raises serious questions: How are we implicated in what we know? What actions are required by our knowledge? Responses to these questions are given with probing analyses of practice, ethics, gender, knowledge, and curriculum. In Exiles and Communities: Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness Jo Anne Pagano teaches us how to teach as she sustains identity in transformation and relinquishes neither the world nor other people to thought.

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State University of New York Press

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Feminisms and Ruralities

By: Barbara Pini,Berit Brandth,Jo Little

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Feminisms and Ruralities

By: Barbara Pini,Berit Brandth,Jo Little

Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that feminists have been influenced by stereotypes of rural women as traditional and reactionary, and thus seen them as unlikely exponents of gender equality, and an unfruitful focus for scholarly energies. Perhaps the problem is a broader one, that is, reflective of the much documented, but still apparent unwillingness of many feminists to recognize and address difference in any of its manifestations. Regardless, even with the recent interest in intersectionality which has necessarily renewed and reenergized debates in feminism about diversity and inclusion, the question of how women are differently positioned because of their non-metropolitan location has remained largely overlooked.

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Lexington Books

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0739188224

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New World

By: Jo Macauley

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New World

By: Jo Macauley

In 1666 Beth Johnson, actress and spy, has been assigned by spymaster Sir Alan Strange to pursue Henry Vale, mastermind behind the plots to kill King Charles, to the American colonies--but first she and Ralph must figure out a way to free their fellow spy John from prison so he can accompany them.

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Shoot 2 Win

By: Tracy Daley,Jo Martin,Josephine Melville

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Shoot 2 Win

By: Tracy Daley,Jo Martin,Josephine Melville

With more mouth than muscle, the ladies of the V.I.P. Crew aren't gonna let anyone get in their way, not even each other. But in the locker room, team talk turns personal as the straight-talking sistas defend their corner. Vibrant and fun, Shoot 2 Win is a sharp, sassy new play set in the world of ladies' netball.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786823241

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Outcome Measures and Evaluation in Counselling and Psychotherapy

By: Chris Evans,Jo-anne Carlyle

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Outcome Measures and Evaluation in Counselling and Psychotherapy

By: Chris Evans,Jo-anne Carlyle

This book sets in context the role of outcome measurement research - taking you step-by-step through the research process and beyond to consider the wider professional and ethical issues involved. This book will provide you with everything you need to know and more, helping you develop the skills and knowledge you need to become a successful research-informed practitioner. Written for trainees and counselling and psychotherapy practitioners, this book: - Provides you with a brief overview and history of research and measurement in mental health contexts. - Sets out a framework for understanding the core features of outcome measures and their scope. - Takes you step-to-step through the process of implementing a SMART outcome evaluation. - Addresses the benefits and limitations of outcome measures research for the individual client, practitioner and service provider. Packed full of case studies, activities and tools for real-life practice, this book throws a life belt to all counselling and psychotherapy trainees and practitioners looking to make the best start in their research-informed career. Chris Evans is Visiting Professor at the University of UDLA, Ecuador and an Honorary Professor at the University of Roehampton. Jo-anne Carlyle is Director of PSYCTC.com

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SAGE

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1473922925

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The Wildest Hunt

By: Jo Zebedee

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The Wildest Hunt

By: Jo Zebedee

A long-dead child. An artist who paints the fae. An ancient estate on a blood-filled land. The commission was close to Amelia's dream: a cosy cottage in Donegal over Christmas and the chance to paint the beautiful Glenveagh estate. But when the weather closes in and the country shuts down, a ritual begins - one that traps Amelia in its circles of magic. Stranded in a place where iron is power, her heart can no longer be trusted and the land itself is a weapon, Amelia's survival depends on unravelling the truth of a decades-old death. Even if it draws the same ancient danger to herself.

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Inspired Quill

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191311712X

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The Human Cosmos

Civilization and the Stars

By: Jo Marchant

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The Human Cosmos

Civilization and the Stars

By: Jo Marchant

A Best Book of 2020 (NPR) A Best Book of 2020 (The Economist) A Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 (Smithsonian) A Best Science and Technology Book of 2020 (Library Journal) A Must-Read Book to Escape the Chaos of 2020 (Newsweek) Starred review (Booklist) Starred review (Publishers Weekly) A historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant's book can begin to heal it. For at least 20,000 years, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are—our art, religious beliefs, social status, scientific advances, and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. It's a disconnect with a dire cost. Our relationship to the stars and planets has moved from one of awe, wonder and superstition to one where technology is king—the cosmos is now explored through data on our screens, not by the naked eye observing the natural world. Indeed, in most countries, modern light pollution obscures much of the night sky from view. Jo Marchant's spellbinding parade of the ways different cultures celebrated the majesty and mysteries of the night sky is a journey to the most awe-inspiring view you can ever see: looking up on a clear dark night. That experience and the thoughts it has engendered have radically shaped human civilization across millennia. The cosmos is the source of our greatest creativity in art, in science, in life. To show us how, Jo Marchant takes us to the Hall of the Bulls in the caves at Lascaux in France, and to the summer solstice at a 5,000-year-old tomb at Newgrange, Ireland. We discover Chumash cosmology and visit medieval monks grappling with the nature of time and Tahitian sailors navigating by the stars. We discover how light reveals the chemical composition of the sun, and we are with Einstein as he works out that space and time are one and the same. A four-billion-year-old meteor inspires a search for extraterrestrial life. The cosmically liberating, summary revelation is that star-gazing made us human.

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0593183045

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Rambling on

By: Jo Mason

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Rambling on

By: Jo Mason

Reflections of the author's many sides.

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Lulu.com

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1435719239

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The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso

From Public Duty to Private Pleasure

By: Jo Ann Cavallo

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The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso

From Public Duty to Private Pleasure

By: Jo Ann Cavallo

In The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo attempts a new interpretation of the history of the renaissance romance epic in northern Italy, focusing on the period's three major chivalric poets. Cavallo challenges previous critical assumptions about the trajectory of the romance genre, especially regarding questions of creative imitation, allegory, ideology, and political engagement. In tracing the development of the romance epic against the historical context of the Ferrarese court and the Italian peninsula, Cavallo moves from a politically engaged Boiardo, whose poem promotes the tenets of humanism, to an individualistic Tasso, who opposed the repressive aspects of the counter-reformation culture he is often thought to represent. Ariosto is read from the vantage of his predecessor Boiardo, and Cavallo describes his cynicism and later mellowing attitude toward the real-world relevance of his and Boiardo's fiction. The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso is the first critical study to bring together the three poets in a coherent vision that maps changes while uncovering continuities.

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0802089151

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Frak You!

The Ultimate Unauthorized Guide to Battlestar Galactica

By: Jo Storm

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Frak You!

The Ultimate Unauthorized Guide to Battlestar Galactica

By: Jo Storm

Spanning the life of the series'from the1970s original, through theinternet "webisodes," andup tothe end of thecurrent series' third season'this guideis the ultimate resource forBattlestar Galactica. Featuring an interview with producer Ron Moore a

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1554903017

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Directing Ecological Succession

By: J.O. Luken

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Directing Ecological Succession

By: J.O. Luken

Succession, the tendency of plant communities to change through time, presents a challenge to those who must satisfy goals established for the use and preservation of natural resources. The practical application of what is known about successional changes has not advanced quickly; subsequently plant community management is often carried out without recourse to the latest scientific data.

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Creating Change for Complex Children and Their Families: Setting the scene. 2. Therapeutic engagement. 3. Structure and containment. 4. A nurturing environment. 5. Accessing learning. 6. Fostering the child's social world. 7. Understanding the individual. 8. Understanding the family. 9. Multi-family work. 10. Creating a new story. 11. Feedback and evolution

By: Jo Holmes,Amelia Oldfield,Marion Polichroniadis

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Creating Change for Complex Children and Their Families: Setting the scene. 2. Therapeutic engagement. 3. Structure and containment. 4. A nurturing environment. 5. Accessing learning. 6. Fostering the child's social world. 7. Understanding the individual. 8. Understanding the family. 9. Multi-family work. 10. Creating a new story. 11. Feedback and evolution

By: Jo Holmes,Amelia Oldfield,Marion Polichroniadis

Caring for a child with complex mental health needs affects the entire family. This book provides detailed case studies to illustrate the model used by the Croft Child and Family Unit to help these children and their families. Using a multi-disciplinary approach , the interventions produce positive changes to these children.

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1843109654

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Moonscatter

By: Jo Clayton

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Moonscatter

By: Jo Clayton

Warrior woman Serroi finds herself at the center of a deadly magical contest between a goddess and a dark wizard in this thrilling sequel to Moongather. Moonscatter is the second volume of prolific American fantasist Jo Clayton’s Duel of Sorcery Trilogy, carrying readers back into the richly imagined fantasy world of Moongather,and into the heat of a warrior woman’s desperate battle to save it from annihilation by the most terrible wizard of the realm. As a young child, Serroi was held in thrall to Ser Noris, the powerful and villainous mage who saved her from certain death only to exploit her as a tool in his unholy experiments in necromancy and demonic possession. After being cast aside, she became a chosen warrior of the meie, though nightmarish memories continue to haunt her. As for the dark sorcerer, his power and malevolence have since increased a thousandfold. Having achieved eternal life, no evil in this world can compare with his, and now Ser Noris, bored with a lack of worthy opponents, has challenged the Goddess herself, She who lives at the center of all things. Only Serroi can truly recognize the terrible depth of the darkness that is overtaking her world. And as she sets forth on a desperate quest to locate the last remaining power capable of defeating Ser Noris’s insidious plot—the enigmatic and wildly unpredictable hermit Coyote—a young girl in a faraway village, whose fate will soon be intertwined with Serroi’s, is coming of age in a time of violence and fear. But what chance do mere mortal heroes have when faced with malevolence so powerful and brazen that it dares to take on a goddess, and would obliterate an entire world on a whim? An enthralling epic tale of courage, destiny, swords, and sorcery, Moonscatter stands at the center of an unsung classic high fantasy trilogy that proves Clayton once again to be the artistic and imaginative equal of revered contemporaries Andre Norton, Jane Yolen, C. J. Cherryh, and other greats in the field of speculative fiction.

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The Beach Book

By: Jo Schofield,Fiona Danks

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The Beach Book

By: Jo Schofield,Fiona Danks

You don’t need to live right on the water’s edge to have fun at the beach! The Beach Book is all about finding wild places at the seaside, as well as by lakes and rivers and making the most of opportunities to explore and enjoy all these places have to offer. You can have fun: Discovering beach wildlife (eg. rock pooling, crabbing and fishing or making a rock-pool viewer) and exploring sand dunes and beach combing. Making the most of lakes and rivers by foraging, damming and diverting streams and boat racing. Using natural resources to play and invent new games (e.g., stone Jenga and skittles, ball runs and boules or funny face games. Being creative (e.g., making driftwood monsters, marram grass dolls and creating sand paintings).

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Frances Lincoln

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1781011931

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Ovid Revisited

The Poet in Exile

By: Jo-Marie Claassen

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Ovid Revisited

The Poet in Exile

By: Jo-Marie Claassen

In time for the bimillennium of Ovid's relegation to Tomis on the Black Sea by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Jo-Marie Claassen here revises and integrates into a more popular format two decades of scholarship on Ovid's exile. Some twenty articles and reviews from scholarly journals have been shortened, rearranged and merged into seven chapters, which, together with some new material, offer a wide-ranging overview of the exiled poet and his works. "Ovid Revisited" treats the poems from exile as the literary culmination of Ovid's oeuvre, ascribing the poet's resilience in the face of extreme hardship to the relief that his poetry afforded him. An introduction considers the phenomenon of Ovid's continued popularity, explains the importance of chronology in reading the exilic poems and gives a brief summary of the contents of the 'Tristia' and 'Epistulae ex Ponto'. The rest of the book ranges from consideration of Ovid's relationship with the emperor and with his own poetry, to his ubiquitous humour, to his skill in metrics, vocabulary and verbal play, and to his use of mythological figures from earlier parts of his oeuvre. The degree to which Ovid universalised the sufferings of the dispossessed is assessed in a chapter comparing his exilic works with modern exilic literature. An excursus considers various directions in Ovidian studies today.

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Tears and Tequila

A Novel

By: Linda Schreyer,Jo-Ann Lautman

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Tears and Tequila

A Novel

By: Linda Schreyer,Jo-Ann Lautman

Joey Lerner has been running, from place to place and job to job. Now, at 32, she’s running from her home in New York City, where the last surviving member of her family has died, to Los Angeles, where she hopes to start over. Never one to follow the rules or take the obvious path, and thanks to her grandfather's hands-on training, Joey gets herself hired as the ‘handyperson’ at a funky community center owned by an Australian surfer. Soon, the job of leading a Grief Group of young widows and widowers falls into her lap. The problem is - Joey hasn’t yet healed from her own losses. Over the next nine months Joey and the Grief Group journey from death to life, together and alone. Along the way, Joey discovers the work she was born to do. Tears and Tequila is a story of love, loss, friendship, courage and, most of all, renewal; it tells of the healing that happens when you become part of a community in which everybody is missing someone.

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Surviving Me

By: Jo Johnson

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Surviving Me

By: Jo Johnson

Tom has decided he doesn't want to live. Adam wishes he had a choice. Tom's lost his job and now he's been labelled 'spermless'. He doesn't exactly feel like a modern man, although his double life helps. Yet when his secret identity threatens to unravel, he starts to lose the plot and comes perilously close to the edge. All the while Adam has his own duplicity, albeit for very different reasons, reasons which will blow the family's future out of the water. If they can't be honest with themselves, and everyone else, then things are going to get a whole lot more complicated.

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Of Mutability

By: Jo Shapcott

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Of Mutability

By: Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty, the poems in Of Mutability celebrate each waking moment as though it might be the last, and in so doing restore wonder to the to the smallest of encounters.

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0571268560

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Q&A Commercial Law

By: Jo Reddy,Rick Canavan

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Q&A Commercial Law

By: Jo Reddy,Rick Canavan

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment. Each book contains essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and model answers that help you to: Plan your revision and know what examiners are looking for: Introducing how best to approach revision in each subject Identifying and explaining the main elements of each question, and providing marker annotation to show how examiners will read your answer Understand and remember the law: Using memorable diagram overviews for each answer to demonstrate how the law fits together and how best to structure your answer Gain marks and understand areas of debate: Providing revision tips and advice to help you aim higher in essays and exams Highlighting areas that are contentious and on which you will need to form an opinion Avoid common errors: Identifying common pitfalls students encounter in class and in assessment The series is supported by an online resource that allows you to test your progress during the run-up to exams. Features include: multiple choice questions, bonus Q&As and podcasts.

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1317519728

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Epidemics and Pandemics

Their Impacts on Human History

By: Jo N. Hays

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Epidemics and Pandemics

Their Impacts on Human History

By: Jo N. Hays

Balancing current and historical issues, this volume of essays covers the most significant worldwide epidemics from the Black Death to AIDS. Great pandemics have resulted in significant death tolls and major social disruption. Other "virgin soil" epidemics have struck down large percentages of populations that had no previous contact with newly introduced microbes. Written by a specialist in the history of science and medicine, the essays in this volume discuss pandemics and epidemics affecting Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, covering diseases in ancient times to the present. Each entry combines biological and social information to form a picture of the significance of epidemics that have shaped world history. The essays cover the areas of major pandemics, virgin soil epidemics, disruptive shocks, and epidemics of symbolic interest. Included are facts about what an epidemic was, where and when it occurred, how contemporaries reacted, and the unresolved historical issues remaining. This fascinating material is written at a level suitable for scholars and the general public.

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1851096639

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9781851096633

Intensive Travel

By: Bob McCafferty,Billie Jo Comisky

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Intensive Travel

By: Bob McCafferty,Billie Jo Comisky

Join Bob “China Bob” McCafferty on his many exploits around the globe, from the Maoris of New Zealand to the terracotta warriors of China. Embark on a journey through time as he expounds on the cultures and histories of the many places he has visited, and the interesting lives of the people who have influenced them. Marvel at the exploits of this former Marine, as he takes us on a journey through the sights and smells of the many places he has visited. View the world and all its many wonders through his unique perspective, while laughing along with his humorous stories. “China Bob” McCafferty is a well-traveled American who finds exploring the globe to be one of life’s most fulfilling experiences. He can’t resist sharing his wonderful findings with you, his readers. He hopes this book will help inspire you to travel and explore the world outside the comforts of your home, city, and country.

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Leadership and Management in Healthcare

By: Neil Gopee,Jo Galloway

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Leadership and Management in Healthcare

By: Neil Gopee,Jo Galloway

Leadership and management are essential skills for all qualified care professionals, regardless of the position that they hold. This best-selling text book has been designed to support you on your journey from an emerging registered care professional through to becoming a care manager. It includes strong emphasis on how management theory applies to care that you will actually deliver in the clinical setting, and supports you to develop your skills through action points, case studies and good practice guidelines. This second edition has been updated to include: · Further case examples to help you see how to apply theory in your practice · The latest policy and research to enable you to be fully up-to-date, including The Health and Social Care Act 2012, the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust inquiry and safeguarding adults and children · Recommended further reading and web resources to accompany each chapter. The book will be ideal for all nursing, health and social care students taking modules on leadership, management and transition to practice in their final year, as well as newly qualified professionals or those seeking to refresh their skills. Neil Gopee is Senior Lecturer in Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University. Jo Galloway is Executive Nurse, Quality and Patient Safety, at NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Wyre Forest Clinical Commissioning Group.

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1446293327

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The Odysseum

Strange journeys that obliterated convention

By: David Bramwell,Jo Tinsley

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The Odysseum

Strange journeys that obliterated convention

By: David Bramwell,Jo Tinsley

Explore the extraordinary stories behind some of the greatest - and strangest - adventures and explorations in human history.

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147368871X

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On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor

By: Jaime Jo Wright

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On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor

By: Jaime Jo Wright

1885. Adria Fontaine has been sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes during the war. But when she arrives at Foxglove Manor--a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior--Adria senses wickedness hovering over the property. The mistress of Foxglove is an eccentric and seemingly cruel old woman who has filled her house with dangerous secrets, ones that may cost Adria her life. Present day. Kailey Gibson is a new nurse's aide at a senior home in a renovated old stone manor. Kidnapped as a child, she has nothing but locked-up memories of secrets and death, overshadowed by the chilling promise from her abductors that they would return. When the residents of Foxglove start sharing stories of whispers in the night, hidden treasure, and a love willing to kill, it becomes clear this home is far from a haven. She'll have to risk it all to banish the past's demons, including her own.

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1493431552

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Leading Sustainable Innovation

A Roadmap for Technical Environments

By: Jo North

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Leading Sustainable Innovation

A Roadmap for Technical Environments

By: Jo North

Leading Sustainable Innovation shows how to deliver eco-innovation within technical environments. It is tailored to support innovation leaders and managers in fields such as transport, engineering, infrastructure, energy, utilities and sciences. This book offers practical methodologies, tools, frameworks and actionable steps that readers can implement to create lasting sustainable change for their projects and programs. Through following a step-by-step process, readers will craft a comprehensive roadmap for sustainable innovation, customized for any team or organization. It is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Leading Sustainable Innovation examines multiple drivers of sustainable innovation, such as innovation strategies, state-of-the-art technologies, circular solutions and organizational factors necessary for success. It emphasizes distinguishing good ideas from weak ones and provides guidance on building a sustainable innovation culture. It features real-world, global examples and case studies such as the Microsoft Sustainable Datacenters (global), the Sellafield Nuclear Power Station Decommissioning (UK), Wunsiedel (Germany), Clean Path (New York), Roads and Transport Authority (Dubai) and Agriphotovoltaic Assets (China), enabling readers to learn valuable lessons from adjacent industries.

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1398616699

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Over the Hill and Far Away

By: Jo Carroll

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Over the Hill and Far Away

By: Jo Carroll

There must be something between the retirement party and buying a zimmer frame. JO CARROLL decided this was the time to revive her teenage dreams and go round the world. So she packed her rucksack, a round-the-world ticket, and a notebook. Not prepared, then, for being marooned on a beach in Australia with the tide rising and nothing but cliffs behind her; nor negotiating with a gunman who wanted to marry her in Lucknow. Let's not think about the snakes and leeches in the jungles of Malaysia. But could anything have prepared her for the drama that brought her home? Nor the kindness of strangers who kept her safe at that moment when she was least able to do it for herself.

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Lulu.com

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1471069427

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This Mum Runs

By: Jo Pavey

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This Mum Runs

By: Jo Pavey

The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016. 'Come-back races? I've had more than a few, the night of 10 May 2014 was the ultimate long shot. I was a forty-year-old mother of two who had given birth eight months before. I trained on a treadmill in a cupboard by the back door and I was wearing a running vest older than most of the girls I was competing against. Was I crazy?' Jo Pavey was forty years old when she won the 10,000m at the European Championships. It was the first gold medal of her career and, astonishingly, it came within months of having her second child. The media dubbed her ‘Supermum’, but Jo’s story is in many ways the same as every mother juggling the demands of working life with a family – the sleepless nights, the endless nappy changing, the fun, the laughter and the school-run chaos. The only difference is that Jo is a full-time athlete pushing a buggy on her training runs, clocking up miles on the treadmill in a cupboard while her daughter has her lunchtime nap, and hitting the track while her children picnic on the grass. Heartwarming and uplifting, This Mum Runs follows Jo’s roundabout journey to the top and all the lessons she's learnt along the way. It is the inspiring yet everyday story of a mum that runs and a runner that mums.

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1473524520

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