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More Than Meets the Eye

The Story of a Remarkable Life and a Transcending Love

By: Joan Brock,Derek L. Gill

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More Than Meets the Eye

The Story of a Remarkable Life and a Transcending Love

By: Joan Brock,Derek L. Gill

Joan Brock seems to have the perfect life: a deep faith in God, a happy marriage, a beautiful young daughter, and a satisfying career teaching blind students how to adapt to a seeing world. Then Joan's own eyesight begins to fail due to a rare and an incurable condition. Her world becomes shrouded in shadows, where familiar objects, such as an out-of-place chair or a door left ajar, prove perilous. As Joan struggles to adapt to her new reality, she receives another harsh blow: her husband is diagnosed with terminal cancer. How can I do this alone? She wonders. What will happen to my daughter? More Than Meets the Eye is the powerful story of meeting hardships head-on with resilience and a resolute faith that turns sorrow into joy and tragedy into triumph. It is also a story of unexpected romance. In 2003 Joan's remarkable story was the basis of a television movie, More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story, which premiered on the Lifetime network and was distributed internationally by Hallmark.

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1627877797

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The Genial Gene

Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

By: Joan Roughgarden

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The Genial Gene

Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

By: Joan Roughgarden

Explores evidence that suggests whether selfishness and individuality are subjective biological traits, examining social behaviors that relate to sex, gender, and family, and discussing an alternative evolutionary theory called "social selection" that focuses on cooperation.

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Univ of California Press

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0520265939

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9780520265936

How the Heather Looks

A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books

By: Joan Bodger

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How the Heather Looks

A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books

By: Joan Bodger

A feast for any lover of English children's books. -Christian Herald Over sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime. There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved children’s books. Come along and see for yourself the people and places behind the stories we love. In Edinburgh, they stand outside the childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson. They discover the countryside that inspired Caldecott's illustrations in Whitworth. In the Lake District, the farm where Jemima Puddle-duck laid her eggs. And in Winnie the Pooh Country Mrs. Milne herself shows the way to “that enchanted place on the top of the Forest [where] a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.” Join their adventures, from sleeping in a wagon to “messing about” in boats on the Thames. While not all their quests end in victory, like any marvelous story, how they get there is what matters. While we can’t all make the journey ourselves, we can let Joan Bodger take us along. As Emily Dickinson says, even if we “have never seen a moor”, we can still imagine “how the heather looks.” How the Heather Looks has been called ‘the book most often stolen by retiring children’s librarians”. This new edition features the stunning art by Mark Lang, and the authors’ afterword, written thirty years after the book was first released.

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Living Book Press

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1922634921

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Evolution's Rainbow

Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

By: Joan Roughgarden

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Evolution's Rainbow

Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

By: Joan Roughgarden

In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. Witty, playful, and daring, this book will revolutionize our understanding of sexuality. Roughgarden argues that principal elements of Darwinian sexual selection theory are false and suggests a new theory that emphasizes social inclusion and control of access to resources and mating opportunity. She disputes a range of scientific and medical concepts, including Wilson's genetic determinism of behavior, evolutionary psychology, the existence of a gay gene, the role of parenting in determining gender identity, and Dawkins's "selfish gene" as the driver of natural selection. She dares social science to respect the agency and rationality of diverse people; shows that many cultures across the world and throughout history accommodate people we label today as lesbian, gay, and transgendered; and calls on the Christian religion to acknowledge the Bible's many passages endorsing diversity in gender and sexuality. Evolution's Rainbow concludes with bold recommendations for improving education in biology, psychology, and medicine; for democratizing genetic engineering and medical practice; and for building a public monument to affirm diversity as one of our nation's defining principles.

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Univ of California Press

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0520957970

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Models of Lung Disease

Microscopy and Structural Methods

By: Joan Gil

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Models of Lung Disease

Microscopy and Structural Methods

By: Joan Gil

This research-level reference provides a review of the morphological techniques that have become a primary method of anatomical study correlating structure and function in lung physiology and pathology. Detailing the evolution of anatomy as a research discipline, it explores general structural techn

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CRC Press

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1000104192

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9781000104196

What Did Jesus Look Like?

By: Joan E. Taylor

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What Did Jesus Look Like?

By: Joan E. Taylor

Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes. But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus overly westernized and untrue to historical reality? This question continues to fascinate. Leading Christian Origins scholar Joan E. Taylor surveys the historical evidence, and the prevalent image of Jesus in art and culture, to suggest an entirely different vision of this most famous of men. He may even have had short hair.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567671518

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9780567671516

Communicating

A Social, Career, and Cultural Focus

By: Roy Berko,Andrew Wolvin,Darlyn R. Wolvin,Joan E. Aitken

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Communicating

A Social, Career, and Cultural Focus

By: Roy Berko,Andrew Wolvin,Darlyn R. Wolvin,Joan E. Aitken

This highly-regarded introduction to communication book offers a comprehensive blend of basic communication theory, research, and skills, with a strong emphasis on relationship communication (social), workplace (career), and intercultural communication (culture). Communicating introduces the basic principles of communication and applies them to interpersonal, group, interviewing, and public speaking contexts. The book stresses communication competence through boxed material, Learn by Doing activities, thought-provoking questions, and self-assessment tests. New and strengthened pedagogy highlights and reinforces the book's social, career, and cultural themes, with a particular emphasis on intercultural communication and communicating in an increasingly high-tech, global environment.

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Routledge

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1315506912

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On the Origins of Gender Inequality

By: Joan Huber

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On the Origins of Gender Inequality

By: Joan Huber

In our fast-paced world of technology and conveniences, the biological origins of women's inequality can be forgotten. This book offers a richer understanding of gender inequality by explaining a key cause-women's reproductive and lactation patterns. Until about 1900, infants nursed every fifteen minutes on average for two years because very frequent suckling prevented pregnancy. The practice evolved because it maximized infant survival. If a forager child was born before its older sibling could take part in the daily food search, the older one died. This practice persisted until the modern era because until after the discovery of the germ theory of disease, human milk was the only food certain to be unspoiled. Lactation patterns excluded women from the activities that led to political leadership. During the twentieth century the ancient mode declined and women entered the labor market en masse. Joan Huber challenges feminists toward a richer understanding of biological origins of inequality-knowledge that can help women achieve greater equality today.

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1317255054

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Shoestrings to the Stars

The Life Story of E.M. "Matty" Laird

By: Joan Post

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Shoestrings to the Stars

The Life Story of E.M. "Matty" Laird

By: Joan Post

A college math professor who believes that gambling is a sin takes his secret gambling system to the craps tables in Las Vegas intent on winning enough money to keep his little Mississippi Baptist college from going bankrupt. As soon as he starts winning, all hell breaks loose.

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1587216574

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A Good Dying

Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life

By: Joan K. Harrold,Joanne Lynn

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A Good Dying

Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life

By: Joan K. Harrold,Joanne Lynn

A Good Dying: Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life examines the critical issues of improving the quality of health care for end-of-life patients. You'll gain valuable suggestions and ideas for creating and maintaining policies that pertain to individuals with various diagnoses, family structures, and personal needs. A Good Dying provides methods and examples that will help managers of health care focus on the needs of patients and make their last days as comfortable as possible. Emphasizing the need for further education of health care professionals and the need for additional research, A Good Dying offers possible solutions to the many barriers of improving conditions for the dying. You will be able to directly apply the information in this book to fulfill and understand the needs of dying patients. Specific topics covered include: -- portraying death and dying through art and using examples that show how death can be perceived as either noble or dehumanizing -- emphasizingthe benefits and conditions of life in hospice care -- educating physicians on the topics of pain management and making patients aware of pain relief treatments -- examining challenges to pain management -- evaluating the adequacy and completeness of individual health care -- measuring quality of life at the end of life by examining the physical and emotional pain of the patient, financial and emotional effects on the patient's family, provider continuity, and advanced care planning With contributions from physicians, patients, families, nurses, chaplains, and insurers, the chapters in A Good Dying offer you several different perspectives on strategies and policies needed toenhance the quality of life for the dying. You'll receive innovative ideas, program models, and strategies for evaluating policies designed to help patients, enabling you to offer better patient care. Complete with current data an

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Psychology Press

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0789003996

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The Kingdom and the Cave

By: Joan Aiken

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The Kingdom and the Cave

By: Joan Aiken

The Under People. They live in a huge Cave. They are thought to be boring upwards. Giant worms and flying ants. Underground magic.' Mickle, the palace cat, knows something is wrong. He can feel it in his whiskers. Then he finds scribbled notes revealing that the kingdom in danger. (Yes, of course he can read. And speak - when he chooses to!) Mickle can't trust the King and Queen with his mission, so he approaches Prince Michael and together, with the wise old mare Minerva, they set out on a perilous search to find the sinister Under People before they can invade Astalon.

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Virago

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0349005885

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9780349005881

Tides of Change

By: Joan Dunnett

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Tides of Change

By: Joan Dunnett

In 1704, James Lightfoot, ship’s surgeon, returns to Edinburgh to further his studies in medicine. Amid crowded streets, narrow closes and high tenements, he encounters hostility and distrust as he is suspected of being a spy.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1838596968

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Reweaving the Relational Mat

A Christian Response to Violence Against Women from Oceania

By: Joan Filemoni-Tofaeono,Lydia Johnson

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Reweaving the Relational Mat

A Christian Response to Violence Against Women from Oceania

By: Joan Filemoni-Tofaeono,Lydia Johnson

Reweaving the Relational Mat is an integrative response to the problem of violence against women which grounds theological and sociological analysis in the praxis of Oceanian Christian women's experiences of violence. It focuses on the collusion of the church in the problem of violence against women by critiquing the ways in which its theology and practices have contributed to 'power-over' ways of relating. Employing the Oceanian metaphor of weaving the mat, the analysis 'unravels' the 'patriarchal relational mat,' paving the way for a constructive 'reweaving' of a Christocentric 'egalitarian relational mat.' The study begins by unravelling the correlation between violence and the ideology of patriarchy. It then highlights the various strands of violence against women, and examines the complex mosaic of socio-cultural sources and manifestations of violence against women in Oceania. This leads to an analysis of the interwoven strands of religion and violence, focusing particularly on the church's captivity to patriarchy. The ensuing explication of problematic theological and biblical interpretations and church practices ends with a critique of male clergy power, particularly as it functions in the Oceanian context. This leads to an examination of the relationship between flawed theological education and violence against women. Case studies of violence against women in the Oceanian theological education setting are analysed. The subsequent 'reweaving of the relational mat' issues forth in specific challenges to church leaders, theological educators and church women.

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Routledge

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1315478641

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Redlands Remembered

Stories from the Jewel of the Inland Empire

By: Joan Hedges McCall

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Redlands Remembered

Stories from the Jewel of the Inland Empire

By: Joan Hedges McCall

By 1889, the newly established town of Redlands at the southern base of the San Bernardino Range offered mild winters and spectacular views of the nearby mountains. The sunny, dry climate enticed eastern industrialists, and Redlands became a place of annual escape, a millionaire mecca by the turn of the twentieth century. Early philanthropists set the tone for an active civic culture that has lasted throughout the citys 125 years. These stories, researched and written by Joan Hedges McCall, tell how and why the town developed out of dusty, semi-arid lands into a green belt of orange groves, parks and Victorian homes. Find out where the water came from, how the navel oranges grew and who helped Redlands grow into the beloved city it is today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614235864

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St. Louis' Big League Ballparks

By: Joan M. Thomas

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St. Louis' Big League Ballparks

By: Joan M. Thomas

Baseball came to St. Louis before the dawn of the major leagues. It was a gentleman's game, a simple summer pastime, and its popularity grew as the city evolved. Local amateur teams proliferated, and interest in forming a team of professionals resulted in two such St. Louis teams in 1875, the Brown Stockings and the Red Stockings. The Browns and Reds played their home games at separate parks, the Grand Avenue Grounds and Red Stockings Park. The first fully professional game of baseball held in St. Louis took place at the latter. Very few modern fans are aware of this, or of these parks' locations. Moreover, there was a time early in the twentieth century when St. Louis supported not just two, but three major league teams, each with its own ballpark. This book is intended as a keepsake of the stadiums and playing fields of St. Louis' baseball past.

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1439631352

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Petticoat Whalers

Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920

By: Joan Druett

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Petticoat Whalers

Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920

By: Joan Druett

First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.

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UPNE

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1584651598

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Hen Frigates

Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea

By: Joan Druett

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Hen Frigates

Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea

By: Joan Druett

A hen frigate is any boat with the captain's wife on board. This is their story of life on the high seas.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684854341

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9780684854342

Cystic Fibrosis Care

A Practical Guide

By: Allison Peebles,Gary J. Connett,Judi C. Maddison,Joan Gavin

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Cystic Fibrosis Care

A Practical Guide

By: Allison Peebles,Gary J. Connett,Judi C. Maddison,Joan Gavin

Written by a team of experts in the field this unique book is a practical guide for the care of cystic fibrosis patients based on day-to-day experience and scientific evidence. Chapters cover every aspect of care from basic daily respiratory and gastroenterology management to the more common complications in cystic fibrosis and includes problem solving more complex issues. Covering all areas of clinical and psychosocial care for the cystic fibrosis patient, Cystic Fibrosis Care is designed to allow quick access to relevant information and is an invaluable guide for physiotherapists, GPs, paediatricians, nurses and dieticians. Quick access to relevant information Boxes throughout the text to reinforce important messages Chapters to cover every aspect of care from basic daily respiratory and gastroenterology management, the more common complications in CF, to problem solving more complex issues

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443100039

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9780443100031

Lady Catherine's Necklace

By: Joan Aiken

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Lady Catherine's Necklace

By: Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken, one of Jane Austen's most sparkling successors, takes up Austen's pen yet again, this time continuing where Pride and Prejudice left off in Lady Catherine's Necklace. In Austen's classic novel, the arrogant Lady Catherine de Bourgh tried vehemently to prevent the betrothal of her nephew Mr. Darcy, whom she had intended for her daughter Anne, to the less socially connected Elizabeth Bennet. Defeated, she retreats to her grand estate-- Rosings Park. This enchanting sequel tells the story of what happens one balmy April day when a sudden blizzard disrupts the weather, causes a carriage accident, and affects the lives of all those involved in a most amazing way. From out of the blizzard emerge the Delaval siblings. Miss Delaval, having twisted her ankle in the carriage accident, accepts Lady Catherine's gracious hospitality while she recovers. But the Delavals' presence proves disturbing to the entire household-- first causing the removal of two artists from their cottage home on the de Bourgh property, then meddling in Miss Anne's marriage plans. Suddenly, Lady Catherine is kidnapped, revealing some members of the household to be not at all what they seemed.

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St. Martin's Press

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146688469X

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Literature for Young Adults

Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

By: Joan L. Knickerbocker,James A. Rycik

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Literature for Young Adults

Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

By: Joan L. Knickerbocker,James A. Rycik

Now in its second edition, this book explores a great variety of genres and formats of young adult literature while placing special emphasis on contemporary works with nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions that are well suited to young adult readers. It looks at the ways in which contemporary readers can access literature and share the works they're reading, and it shows teachers the resources that are available, especially online, for choosing and using good literature in the classroom and for recommending books for their students’ personal reading. In addition to traditional genre chapters, this book includes chapters on literary nonfiction; poetry, short stories, and drama; and film. Graphic novels, diversity issues, and uses of technology are also included throughout the text. The book's discussion of literary language—including traditional elements as well as metafictive terms—enables readers to share in a literary conversation with their peers (and others) when communicating about books. This book is an essential resource for preservice educators to help young adults understand and appreciate the excellent literature that is available to them. New to the second edition: New popular authors, books, and movies with a greater focus on diversity of literature Updated coverage of new trends, such as metafiction, a renewed focus on nonfiction, and retellings of canonical works Increased attention to graphic novels and multimodal texts throughout the book eResources with downloadable materials, including book lists, awards lists, and Focus Questions

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Routledge

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135106715X

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A Fatal Conjunction

Two Laws, Two Cultures

By: Joan Kimm

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A Fatal Conjunction

Two Laws, Two Cultures

By: Joan Kimm

Why do Aboriginal women in Australia experience such high levels of violence in their own communities? In this considered and carefully researched book, Joan Kimm discusses the extent and nature of the violence, its underlying causes, current policies that deal with it, and changes that might improve these policies. Her work covers: the devastating legacy of European colonialism on Indigenous culture, modern anthropological evidence about patriarchy and violence in traditional Aboriginal societies, beliefs held by Aboriginals, particularly men, about their cultural heritage, the impact of cultural heritage upon modern Indigenous society, and changing judicial attitudes to sentencing Aboriginal men for violence to Aboriginal women, shifting from emphasis on the men's cultural background to emphasis on the women's rights as victims. Kimm shows how this multi-faceted environment, particularly the interaction of two patriarchal laws, has had, and continues to have, very real destructive effects on Aboriginal women. Kimm argues powerfully that Aboriginal women, like all women, like all humans, have the universal right to lives free of violence. She contends that current law, policy and practice place too much emphasis on their rights as Indigenous people and too little on their rights as women. A shift in emphasis will be an important first step to safer lives.

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Federation Press

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186287509X

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Professional Development and Supervision of School Psychologists

From Intern to Expert

By: Virginia Smith Harvey,Joan A. Struzziero

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Professional Development and Supervision of School Psychologists

From Intern to Expert

By: Virginia Smith Harvey,Joan A. Struzziero

Essential for fostering the professional development and enhanced competency of school psychologists, this book discusses administrative and clinical supervision and offers vignettes, assessment tools, and methods for evaluating professional growth.

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Corwin Press

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141295326X

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Rescue from Grampa Woo

By: Joan Skelton

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Rescue from Grampa Woo

By: Joan Skelton

The dramatic story of the rescue of two men from a cruise ship on Lake Superior as it drifts out to sea in hurricane-force winds.

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Dundurn

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1896219454

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Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

A Strategic Approach

By: Joan E. Pynes

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Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

A Strategic Approach

By: Joan E. Pynes

Public and nonprofit organizations face difficult challenges today that make the strategic management of human resources crucial. This book shows how to integrate HR practices with the mission of their organization. An accessible tool complete with an instructor s manual, this book provides an integrated approach to current HR concerns and is unique in its focus on both public and nonprofit agencies. Offering guidance and techniques for implementing effective human resource management strategies job analysis, performance evaluation, recruitment and selection, training and development, compensation and benefits, and collective bargaining Pynes demonstrates how strategic human resources management is essential to proactively managing change.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047042544X

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Animal Land

The Creatures of Children's Fiction

By: Margaret Joan Blount

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Animal Land

The Creatures of Children's Fiction

By: Margaret Joan Blount

Animal Land surveys the role of humanized animals in the classic literature for children, and bodes well to become a classic in its own right. It is an entertaining and equally serious and remarkably thorough look into a collective literature which introduced us to our early friends in books. Animals tend to outlive humans in the imaginations of appreciators of children's books. And few of the character encountered in adult fiction seem to remain as vivid and complete in the mind as The Velveteen Rabbit, Babar, Brer Rabbit, Bambi, Black Beauty, and WInnie the Pooh. Meet them again here. Ponder them, because they will not leave us alone" --

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0380007428

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More Than Meets the Eye

The Story of a Remarkable Life and a Transcending Love

By: Joan Brock,Derek L. Gill

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More Than Meets the Eye

The Story of a Remarkable Life and a Transcending Love

By: Joan Brock,Derek L. Gill

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627877797

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Persuasion and Propaganda

Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

By: Joan Coutu

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Persuasion and Propaganda

Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

By: Joan Coutu

Lavishly illustrated, Persuasion and Propaganda is the first study of these works of art within the framework of colonial politics and political culture. While examining the rise of the idea of the public in the modern world, Joan Coutu also explores how "empire" was constantly being redefined. From private funeral monuments in the West Indies to works erected by the East India Company and the British Parliament, Coutu shows how the youthful British Empire saw itself and validated its mission through sculpture.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773576649

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Come to Your Senses

An Inspirational Guide for Using All of Your Senses

By: Joan Brock

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Come to Your Senses

An Inspirational Guide for Using All of Your Senses

By: Joan Brock

From the sense of sight to the sense of peace and from the sense of humor to the sense of loss, the wealth of all you have within your own self is unimaginable. Explore how you can complete each day by filling the hours with your own life experiences. This book will inspire you to... -Travel through a world that will challenge you to examine and study insights from your own life experiences -Utilize the food for thought provided from the perspective of a woman who has been to the deepest depths of loss and has climbed back up from those valleys of despair -Evaluate your own insights to be able to put life in its proper perspective, thus heading you in a positive, productive direction -Complete the whole picture to reach your full potential and thus achieve true happiness in life

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160494885X

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Unless You Were There, You Wouldn't Believe It!

My Reflections of the Classroom

By: Joan Brock

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Unless You Were There, You Wouldn't Believe It!

My Reflections of the Classroom

By: Joan Brock

This is a true account of the outrageous, unbelievable, and often hilarious incidents that occurred during my career teaching high school. It begins with my teaching in my bra in front of a class and ends with my retirement thirty-five years later. It will appeal to anyone who ever sat behind a desk in a classroom and who knew no one would believe him if he went home and told what really happened! Joan Brock taught for thirty-odd years before retiring in 1998. She lives in Rockland County, NY, where she resides with her husband Howard and where she raised her two daughters Pamela and Stacy. Her new career is serving as the Deputy Mayor of the Village of Chestnut Ridge.

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Unless You Were There, You Wouldn't Believe It!

My Reflections of the Classroom

By: Joan Brock

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The Biography of a New Canadian Family

Vol. 3 (Montreal)

By: Pierre L. Delva,Joan Campbell-Delva

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The Biography of a New Canadian Family

Vol. 3 (Montreal)

By: Pierre L. Delva,Joan Campbell-Delva

The photograph from the air of the University of Montreal, built (1928-1945) on Mount-Royal by Quebec-born Architect/Engineer Ernest Cormier, (1885- 1980), trained in Paris. That whole period was very important for developing the Province of Quebec. The building was built on the north-side of the Mountain with the enormous old cemetery easily visible and the St. Lawrence river just visible on the other side. Today, such a photograph would no longer be so striking, the whole area has many more impressive buildings and enormous trees cover the area. We lived a ten minute walk away from the bottom left-hand corner of the picture in Outremont, the francophone counterpart of Anglophone Westmount two miles of so to the west. The head office of Family Medicine was situated close to and just to the west of the big tower. It is from there that the Bethune/Chinese connection was established. I was at the UofM from 1975-1995. It was by far the most productive period of our professional lives.

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Women Remembered

Jesus' Female Disciples

By: Helen Bond,Joan Taylor

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Women Remembered

Jesus' Female Disciples

By: Helen Bond,Joan Taylor

Do you think that Jesus only surrounded himself with men? Think again. Inspired by their popular Channel 4 documentary Jesus' Female Disciples, historians Helen Bond and Joan Taylor explore the way in which Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary, Martha and a whole host of other women - named and unnamed - have been remembered by posterity, noting how many were silenced, tamed or slurred by innuendo - though occasionally they get to slay dragons. Women Remembered looks at the representation of these women in art, and the way they have been remembered in inscriptions and archaeology. And of course they dig into the biblical texts, exposing misogyny and offering alternative and unexpected ways of appreciating these women as disciples, apostles, teachers, messengers and church-founders. At a time when both the church and society more widely are still grappling with the full inclusion and equality of women, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the historical and cultural origins of Christianity.

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The Making of Middlebrow Culture

By: Joan Shelley Rubin

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The Making of Middlebrow Culture

By: Joan Shelley Rubin

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it. Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the beginnings of "great books" programs; the creation of the New York Herald Tribune's book-review section; the popularity of such works as Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy; and the emergence of literary radio programs. She also investigates the lives and expectations of the individuals who shaped these middlebrow institutions--such figures as Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Erskine, William Lyon Phelps, Alexander Woollcott, and Clifton Fadiman. Moreover, as she pursues the significance of these cultural intermediaries who connected elites and the masses by interpreting ideas to the public, Rubin forces a reconsideration of the boundary between high culture and popular sensibility.

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Pat Schroeder

A Woman of the House

By: Joan A. Lowy

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A Woman of the House

By: Joan A. Lowy

This is the first biography of Pat Schroeder: outspoken Colorado Democrat elected to Congress in 1972, beloved by the left, and despised by the right.

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The Dream of the Perfect Child

By: Joan Rothschild

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The Dream of the Perfect Child

By: Joan Rothschild

A feminist critique of bioethics and attitudes toward reproductive technologies.

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Dead Letters

An Inspector Best Mystery 3

By: Joan Lock

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Dead Letters

An Inspector Best Mystery 3

By: Joan Lock

It is a beautiful warm August day in 1880: perfect weather for the annual Metropolitan Police Annual Fête held at Alexandra Palace. Inspector Best is summoned to uncover the identity of 'Quicksilver' who has sent an anonymous note threatening to cause an horrific explosion at the event. When a second note is received and its threats become increasingly confusing with their literary allusions, Best seeks out the help of Helen Franks, a close friend from the past. However, is Quicksilver really intent on causing mass injury on this fine day, or is his desire of a more personal nature?

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Social Economics

Current and Emerging Avenues

By: Joan Costa-Font,Mario Macis

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Social Economics

Current and Emerging Avenues

By: Joan Costa-Font,Mario Macis

A rich collection of current research in the growing field of social economics, covering such issues as culture, gender, ethics, and philanthropic behavior. The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and incentives. This book offers a rich and rigorous selection of current work in the field, focusing on some of the most active research areas. Topics covered include culture, gender, ethics, and philanthropic behavior. Social economics grows out of dissatisfaction with a purely individualistic model of human behavior. This book shows how mainstream economics is expanding its domain beyond market and price mechanisms to recognize a role for cultural and social factors. Some chapters, in the tradition of Gary Becker, attempt to extend the economics paradigm to explain other social phenomena; others, following George Akerlof's approach, incorporate sociological and psychological assumptions to explain economic behavior. Loosely organized by theme—Social Preferences; Culture, Values, and Norms; and Networks and Social Interactions”—the chapters address a range of subjects, including gender differences in political decisions, “moral repugnance” as a constraint on markets, charitable giving by the super-rich, value diversity within a country, and the influence of children on their parents' social networks. Contributors Mireia Borrell-Porta, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Joan Costa-Font, Elwyn Davies, Julio Jorge Elias, Marcel Fafchamps, Luigi Guiso, Odelia Heizler, Ayal Kimhi, Mariko J. Klasing, Martin Ljunge, Mario Macis, Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Abigail Payne, Kelly Ragan, Jana Sadeh, Azusa Sato, Kimberley Scharf, Sarah Smith, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos, Evguenia Winschel, Philipp Zahn

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0262337908

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The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies

By: Janet Maybin,Joan Swann

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The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies

By: Janet Maybin,Joan Swann

An accessible guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies. Established knowledge and more recent developments in the field are clearly examined and explained by well-known language specialists from a range of backgrounds.

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