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Broken Three Times

A Story of Child Abuse in America

By: Joan Kaufman

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Broken Three Times

A Story of Child Abuse in America

By: Joan Kaufman

Broken Three Times is a story about child abuse in America. It begins with snapshots from a mother's abusive childhood, then fast-forwards to her family's first involvement with Connecticut protective services when her children are eleven and ten. After a brief investigation, the family's case is closed, and despite their many needs, they are not provided links to any ongoing supportive services. Over the next five years we see the children pass through nearly twenty placements, while their mother continually relapses on crack and moves from one violent relationship to the next. Each chapter of the book provides a launching point for discussing state-of-the-art policy, practice, and scientific updates relevant for understanding risk, promoting resilience, and improving the child welfare system. This book will provide readers with some information about innovations and recent improvements in the system, concrete steps to take to enhance practice, ongoing gaps in our knowledge, and a deepening appreciation of the value of incorporating broad perspectives into this work--from neurobiology to social policy.

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Oxford University Press

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0190200294

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Ellis Island: Three Novels

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

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Ellis Island: Three Novels

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

Moving and inspiring stories of the immigrant experience are offered up in this eOmni edition comprised of three novels from Joan Lowery Nixon’s historical fiction series, Ellis Island. Each story features a unique teenage girl’s perspective—one from Russia, one from Ireland, and one from Sweden. In Land of Hope, Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky settles with her family on the Lower East Side of New York and soon realizes that the roads are not paved with gold. In Land of Promise, Irish immigrant Rose Carney arrives in Chicago to a life filled with family responsibilities that impede on her dreams of independence. And in Land of Dreams, Swedish immigrant Kristin Swensen’s family lives on a farm in Minnesota, but her parents still cling to the life they’d known in Sweden. Follow their journeys as Rebekah, Rose, and Kristin—and their families— struggle to find the courage, faith, and resilience they’ll need to conquer the odds, find their independence, and realize the American dream.

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Delacorte Press

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0385387857

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Law, Gender, and Injustice

A Legal History of U.S. Women

By: Joan Hoff

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Law, Gender, and Injustice

A Legal History of U.S. Women

By: Joan Hoff

A groundbreaking analysis of how gendered oppression is written into the American legal system Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Woman is a landmark study of how women remain second-class citizens under the current legal system. In this widely acclaimed book, Joan Hoff questions whether the continued pursuit of equality based on a one-size-fits-all vision of traditional individual rights is really what will most improve conditions for women in America. Concluding that equality based on liberal male ideology is no longer an adequate framework for improving women's legal status, Hoff's highly original and incisive volume calls for a demystification of legal doctrine and a reinterpretation of legal texts (including the Constitution) to create a feminist jurisprudence.

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NYU Press

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0814744869

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Reno V. ACLU

Internet Censorship

By: Joan Axelrod-Contrada

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Reno V. ACLU

Internet Censorship

By: Joan Axelrod-Contrada

Describes the historical context of the U.S. Supreme Court case of Reno v. ACLU that ruled the Communications Decency Act, which regulated Internet pornography, was unconstitutional.

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Marshall Cavendish

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0761421440

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9780761421443

Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology E-Book

By: Daniel M. Albert,Joan W. Miller,Dimitri T. Azar,Barbara A. Blodi

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Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology E-Book

By: Daniel M. Albert,Joan W. Miller,Dimitri T. Azar,Barbara A. Blodi

Inside the 3rd edition of this esteemed masterwork, hundreds of the most distinguished authorities from around the world provide today's best answers to every question that arises in your practice. They deliver in-depth guidance on new diagnostic approaches, operative technique, and treatment option, as well as cogent explanations of every new scientific concept and its clinical importance. With its new streamlined, more user-friendly, full-color format, this 3rd edition makes reference much faster, easier, and more versatile. More than ever, it's the source you need to efficiently and confidently overcome any clinical challenge you may face. Comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated coverage of every scientific and clinical principle in ophthalmology ensures that you will always be able to find the guidance you need to diagnose and manage your patients' ocular problems and meet today's standards of care. Updates include completely new sections on "Refractive Surgery" and "Ethics and Professionalism"... an updated and expanded "Geneitcs" section... an updated "Retina" section featuring OCT imaging and new drug therapies for macular degeneration... and many other important new developments that affect your patient care. A streamlined format and a new, more user-friendly full-color design - with many at-a-glance summary tables, algorithms, boxes, diagrams, and thousands of phenomenal color illustrations - allows you to locate the assistance you need more rapidly than ever.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437721117

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Charting the Impacts of University-Child Welfare Collaboration

By: Katharine Briar-Lawson,Joan Levy Zlotnik

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Charting the Impacts of University-Child Welfare Collaboration

By: Katharine Briar-Lawson,Joan Levy Zlotnik

Train—and keep—a child welfare workforce that will make a difference! Charting the Impacts of University-Child Welfare Collaboration addresses the challenges of implementing workforce development initiatives designed to recruit students into the public child welfare field. Edited by Dr. Katharine Briar-Lawson, Dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany in New York, and Dr. Joan Levy Zlotnik, PhD, ACSW, Executive Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research, the book reflects the ongoing effort to counteract the “de-professionalization” phase of the 1970s and 80s that has impeded child welfare service delivery. A panel of practitioners, educators, and researchers focus on training and administrative funding, collaborative practices, delivery of educational content, preparation challenges faced by educators, and future challenges. Charting the Impacts of University-Child Welfare Collaboration examines strategies for specialized educational efforts supported by federal Title IV-E and Title IV-B Section 426 funding. The book addresses the process for preparing and maintaining a professional workforce, including collaborations between social work educators and their partnering public child welfare agencies that have led to experimental and innovative changes in practice and curricula. Topics include: determining a graduate's emotion capacity for child welfare service delivering educational content in human behavior in the social environment courses determining the return on funding investments using cognitive-affective models of student development using design teams to promote practice innovations, systems change, and cross-systems change and an examination of the California Collaboration, a competency-based child welfare curriculum project for MSW candidates. Charting the Impacts of University-Child Welfare Collaboration is an essential resource for continuing the campaign for workforce development and re-professionalism in child welfare practice. The book is invaluable for educators and professionals working to develop reliable, relevant, and competent staffing.

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Routledge

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1135424063

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From Camelot to Kent State

The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those who Lived it

By: Joan Morrison,Robert K. Morrison

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From Camelot to Kent State

The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those who Lived it

By: Joan Morrison,Robert K. Morrison

No decade in American history continues to fascinate us like the Sixties. No decade combines such hopeful idealism with such violence and disillusionment, or witnesses such profound political, cultural, and personal upheavals. And no decade benefits more from being seen through the eyes of those who experienced firsthand the shocks and revelations that still reverberate today. Newly revised and updated, with an expanded introduction, From Camelot to Kent State tells the story of ten of the most dramatic years in the life of America-and of fifty-nine men and women who lived through those years. In their own words, civil rights activists, soldiers who fought in Vietnam, anti-war protesters, student radicals, feminists, Peace Corps workers, and many others take us inside the major events and movements of the period. Far from a dispassionate history of the Sixties, these stories bristle with the tension and immediacy of lived experience. How did it feel to wake up into step out of a helicopter into a Vietnamese jungle; to ride south on a freedom bus, to march on the Pentagon; to take over a college administration building; to hear Jimi Hendrix play the national anthem at Woodstock; to attend the first consciousness-raising meetings for women at the Bread and Roses caf ? This captivating oral history will let you know. Included are first-hand accounts from both the famous-including Eldridge Cleaver, Abbie Hoffman, Philip Berrigan, and John Lewis-and the ordinary men and women who were swept up in major historical events, From Camelot to Kent State offers a uniquely valuable view of a decade that forever changed the history and consciousness of America.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195144538

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Hire Smart and Keep 'Em

How to Interview Strategically Using POINT

By: Joan C. Curtis

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Hire Smart and Keep 'Em

How to Interview Strategically Using POINT

By: Joan C. Curtis

This timely professional development guide reveals what it takes to recruit—and retain—quality talent by providing smart hiring techniques for interviewing, assessing, and screening applicants. One of the most important jobs of any manager is hiring the right people. Even in organizations with a human resources department, the final hiring decision often falls on a manager who has never been trained in effectively assessing a candidate's character or skill set. Additionally, the interview process itself is fraught with legal pitfalls, making this seemingly simple task one that could become costly and problematic if mishandled. This book teaches the critical techniques for selecting the right person for the job and the strategies that eliminate expensive hiring mistakes. Hire Smart and Keep 'Em: How to Interview Strategically Using POINT lays out a proven method—the POINT process—for recruiting and retaining high quality employees. A renowned business coach, Joan C. Curtis illustrates how interviews can be strategically conducted, demonstrates how illegal interview situations can be avoided, and explains how the latest technology can be implemented to make the whole process go smoothly.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440802874

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A History of Food in Literature

From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

By: Charlotte Boyce,Joan Fitzpatrick

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A History of Food in Literature

From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

By: Charlotte Boyce,Joan Fitzpatrick

When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body, subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption in major canonical literary works from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. This volume contextualises these works with reference to pertinent historical and cultural materials such as cookery books, diaries and guides to good health, in order to engage with the critical debate on food and literature and how ideas of food have developed over the centuries. Organised chronologically and examining certain key writers from every period, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, this book's enlightening critical analysis makes it relevant for anyone interested in the study of food and literature.

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1135022062

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Land of Dreams

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

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Land of Dreams

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

Swedish immigrant Kristin Swensen lives on a farm in Minnesota. She hoped for a new life in America, but she realizes that her parents are clinging as closely as possible to the life they knew in Sweden. Kristin can’t accept coming all this way only to re-create what she left behind. She longs to speak English and help the cause of women’s rights. Her parents, however, want her to settle down and get married. Must Kristin give up her dream of independence and accept her parents’ Old World values?

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0307827518

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Larval Fish Nutrition

By: G. Joan Holt

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Larval Fish Nutrition

By: G. Joan Holt

Nutrition is particularly important in the healthy development of fish during their early-life stages. Understanding the unique nutritional needs of larval fish can improve the efficiency and quality of fish reared in a culture setting. Larval Fish Nutrition comprehensively explores the nutritional requirements, developmental physiology, and feeding and weaning strategies that will allow aquaculture researchers and professionals to develop and implement improved culture practices. Larval Fish Nutrition is logically divided into three sections. The first section looks at the role of specific nutrient requirements in the healthy digestive development of fish. The second section looks at the impacts if nutritional physiology on fish through several early-life stages. The final section looks at feeding behaviors and the benefits and drawbacks to both live feed and microparticulate diets in developing fish. Written by a team of leading global researchers, Larval Fish Nutrition will be an indispensible resource for aquaculture researchers, professionals, and advanced students. Key Features: Reviews the latest research on larval fish nutritional requirements, developmental physiology, and feeding and weaning strategies Extensively covers nutritional needs of various early-life stages in fish development Weighs the benefits and drawbacks to both live feeds and microparticulate diets Written by a global team of experts in fish nutrition and physiology

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John Wiley & Sons

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0813817927

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Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

A Data-Driven Approach

By: Joan-Josep Vallbé

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Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

A Data-Driven Approach

By: Joan-Josep Vallbé

This book deals with the theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications of bounded rationality in the operation of institutions. It focuses on decisions made under uncertainty, and presents a reliable strategy of knowledge acquisition for the design and implementation of decision-support systems. Based on the distinction between the inner and outer environment of decisions, the book explores both the cognitive mechanisms at work when actors decide, and the institutional mechanisms existing among and within organizations that make decisions fairly predictable. While a great deal of work has been done on how organizations act as patterns of events for (boundedly) rational decisions, less effort has been devoted to study under which circumstances organizations cease to act as such reliable mechanisms. Through an empirical strategy on open-ended response data from a survey among junior judges, the work pursues two main goals. The first one is to explore the limits of “institutional rationality” of the Spanish lower courts on-call service, an optimal scenario to observe decision-making under uncertainty. The second aim is to achieve a better understanding of the kind of uncertainty under which inexperienced decision-makers work. This entails exploring the demands imposed by problems and the knowledge needed to deal with them, making this book also a study on expertise achievement in institutional environments. This book combines standard multivariate statistical methods with machine learning techniques such as multidimensional scaling and topic models, treating text as data. Doing so, the book contributes to the collaboration between empirical social scientific approaches and the community of scientists that provide the set of tools and methods to make sense of the fastest growing resource of our time: data.

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Springer

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9401794278

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Rikka

By: Joan Soggie

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Rikka

By: Joan Soggie

“Rikka remembered her teacher’s words. Spirit needs muscle. Not only muscle of flesh and bone, she thought, but the muscle of a spirit inured to hardship and suffering. Surely, we have had enough of that to make us strong!” From a close-knit community on the wave-scoured islands of northern Norway to a wind-swept prairie homestead, Rikka traverses love and loss, joy and sorrow, with passion and determination. Rikka’s journey takes her across an ocean, a continent, and a lifetime. She plumbs the depths of her own heart and discovers the beauty of life beyond grit and endurance. This novel is based on the true story of one of Western Canada’s female immigrant pioneers.

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BWL Publishing Inc.

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0228620600

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9780228620600

Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete

A Perspective from Archaeomythology and Modern Matriarchal Studies

By: Joan M. Cichon

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Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete

A Perspective from Archaeomythology and Modern Matriarchal Studies

By: Joan M. Cichon

This book makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803270454

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One Foot on the Rockies

Women and Creativity in the Modern American West

By: Joan M. Jensen

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One Foot on the Rockies

Women and Creativity in the Modern American West

By: Joan M. Jensen

A highly readable exploration of the factors that enhanced and restricted the success of women artists in the West during the 20th century.

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UNM Press

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0826315399

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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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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," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels encountered on their often amazing voyages: romantic moonlit nights on deck, debilitating seasickness, terrifying skirmishes with pirates, disease-bearing rats, and cockroaches as big as a man's slipper. And all of that while living with the constant fear of gales, hurricanes, typhoons, collisions, and fire at sea. Interweaving first-person accounts from letters and journals in and around the lyrical narrative of a sea journey, maritime historian Joan Druett brings life to these stories. We can almost feel for ourselves the fear, pain, anger, love, and heartbreak of these courageous women. Lavishly illustrated, this breathtaking book transports us to the golden age of sail.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451688431

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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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1000147401

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9781000147407

Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Dual Language Learners

Transforming Programs for Multilingualism and Equity

By: Joan Lachance,Andrea Honigsfeld

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Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Dual Language Learners

Transforming Programs for Multilingualism and Equity

By: Joan Lachance,Andrea Honigsfeld

Teaching dual language learners? You’re not alone! When implemented with commitment to collaboration, dual language programs work—and two teachers are better than one. Leveraging the power of teacher collaboration is the key to leading all your students to multilingual identity development and language, literacy, and academic success. This practical book adapts a widely used, evidence-based collaboration and co-teaching framework specifically for educators in dual language contexts. Features include: Special consideration to social justice and promoting critical consciousness Viable options for schools, districts, and state education agencies to effectively support and expand dual language education Seven proven co-teaching models, newly applied to elementary and secondary dual language environments Templates and tools for collaborative curriculum alignment and implementation of dual language instruction Authentic examples of success from collaborative dual language teams around the US and beyond More and more schools are implementing dual language programs to serve multilingual learners. This first-of-its-kind innovative resource helps collaborating educators work together to design, deliver, and assess engaging instruction for multilingualism and multiliteracies.

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Corwin Press

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1071850024

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9781071850022

Shifting Sands

Government-Group Relationships in the Health Care Sector

By: Joan Price Boase

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Shifting Sands

Government-Group Relationships in the Health Care Sector

By: Joan Price Boase

During the 1970s and 1980s policymaking in the complex area of regulatory legislation of the health disciplines became both increasingly important and increasingly difficult for the Canadian provinces. In this comparative study Joan Boase traces the evolution of relationships among governments and health care interest groups in four provinces - Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Alberta - and finds that, although they have faced similar problems, they have responded in different ways. She employs several theoretical approaches to explain these different responses, including community/policy networks, institutionalism, and state traditions, and uses case studies to illustrate the intense interest group activity that has occurred in this sector. Boase reaches three conclusions: (1) with the development of a national health insurance plan there has been a shift in the actions of government from reliance on interest group liberalism towards concerted efforts to plan the structure of the welfare system; (2) the different systems of interest intermediation that evolved in the provinces reflected the underlying political and administrative culture and institutional structures within the provinces; and (3) the unique proactive approach taken by Ontario in the 1980s was a deliberate effort to modify the institutional arrangements through which groups had traditionally influenced policy. Boase suggests that the complexities of modern government and the move towards redistributive politics will lead the state to make extraordinary efforts to control its environment in the future. Shifting Sands will be of particular interest to health care specialists, policy-makers, and legislators as well as activists.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773564519

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The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love

A Novel

By: Joan A. Medlicott

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The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love

A Novel

By: Joan A. Medlicott

Cautious Grace Singleton, uncertain of her place in an intimidating world. Outspoken Hannah Parrish, harboring private fear that may change her life. Fragile Ameila Declose, shattered by devastating grief. Circumstance has brought these disparate women of "a certain age" to a Pennsylvania boardinghouse where three square meals and a sagging bed is the most any of them can look forward to. But friendship will take them on a starting journey to a rundown North Carolina farmhouse where the unexpected suddenly seems not only welcome, but delightfully promising. And with nothing more than a bit of adventure in mind, each woman will be surprised to find that they years they've reclaimed from the shadow of twilight will offer something far more rare: confidence, competence, and even another chance at love... The Tampa Tribune calls Joan A Mendicott's The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love "A must-read for women of all ages.

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Macmillan

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1429977922

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9781429977920

Spiritual Leadership for Church Officers

A Handbook

By: Joan S. Gray

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Spiritual Leadership for Church Officers

A Handbook

By: Joan S. Gray

This timely new leadership guide for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is written for church officers who are looking for a deepened relationship with God. Joan Gray challenges elders and deacons to see themselves as spiritual leaders and equips them to lead alongside their pastors. Gray lays out a variety of leadership styles and helps leaders understand when each is appropriate. She also provides resources for dealing with relationships in the church and identifies ways churches can be supportive of the spiritual leadership of elders and deacons.

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0664503055

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Is Breast Best?

Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

By: Joan B. Wolf

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Is Breast Best?

Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

By: Joan B. Wolf

Monitoring mothers: a recent history of following the doctor's orders -- The science: does breastfeeding make smarter, happier, and healthier babies? -- Minding your own (risky) business: health and personal responsibility -- From the womb to the breast: total motherhood and risk-free children -- Scaring mothers: the government campaign for breastfeeding -- Conclusion: whither breastfeeding?

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NYU Press

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0814794815

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Bridging the Learning/assessment Gap

Showcase Teaching

By: Wayne Jennings,Joan Caulfield

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Bridging the Learning/assessment Gap

Showcase Teaching

By: Wayne Jennings,Joan Caulfield

Offers the reader powerful brain-compatible and research-based teaching and learning strategies based on how the brain works. This book presents educators with a useful framework for understanding how to design instruction. It will help answer questions about why some approaches to teaching are more successful than others.

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R&L Education

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1578861942

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9781578861941

Staying Put

Adapting the Places Instead of the People

By: Susan Lanspery,Joan Hyde

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Staying Put

Adapting the Places Instead of the People

By: Susan Lanspery,Joan Hyde

Most existing housing offers a poor fit for older people and people with disabilities, and new construction adds less than 2 per cent to the housing each year. Ninety-nine percent of the housing that will be in use in the year 2000 exists today. The long-needed anthology "Staying Put: Adapting the Places Instead of the People" emphasizes the disabilities and abilities of environments instead of individuals. With contributions from leading authorities, it integrates a wide range of theoretical and practical ideas about housing adaptation for researchers, students, consumers, policymakers, and practitioners in human services and the building trades.

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1351841629

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The Three Stooges Scrapbook

By: John Howard Maurer,Jeff Lenburg,Joan Howard Maurer,Greg Lenburg,Norman Maurer

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The Three Stooges Scrapbook

By: John Howard Maurer,Jeff Lenburg,Joan Howard Maurer,Greg Lenburg,Norman Maurer

Dour-faced Moe Howard with his sugar-bowl haircut, his bald, chubby brother Curly and frizzy-haired Larry have poked, slapped, ear-yanked and nose-twisted their way into people's hearts across the world - and into film history. Their nearly 200 two-reel comedies, made between 1933 and 1958, have been translated into over 25 languages, entertained nearly six generations of fans and are seen somewhere in the world every single day. The Three Stooges Scrapbook is a historical overview of their time in showbusiness.

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292

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Citadel Press

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0806509465

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9780806509464

Intermediate Accounting

By: Thomas H. Beechy,Joan Elizabeth Davison Conrod

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Intermediate Accounting

By: Thomas H. Beechy,Joan Elizabeth Davison Conrod

What is intermediate accounting all about? There is a vast body of knowledge that must be mastered before you can account for the activities of an enterprise. It is the nitty-gritty course where it all happens. Every important financial accounting topic is included in this textbook. The book is a blend of technical knowledge; professional judgement; non-GAAP situations; a Canadian agenda; and an international view. In this book, the authors have taken a fresh look at the realities of Canadian business practice. A series of annual reports accompany this text as a value-added supplement.

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786

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson, c2002-c2003.

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0070890234

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9780070890237

Development of Containerization

Success Through Vision, Drive and Technology

By: Hans van Ham,J. C. van Ham,Joan Rijsenbrij

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Development of Containerization

Success Through Vision, Drive and Technology

By: Hans van Ham,J. C. van Ham,Joan Rijsenbrij

This book describes the development of containerization and presents a worldwide overview of all major system components and drivers that have contributed to their great success.

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336

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IOS Press

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1614991464

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9781614991465

Plessy V. Ferguson

Separate But Unequal

By: Joan Axelrod-Contrada

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Plessy V. Ferguson

Separate But Unequal

By: Joan Axelrod-Contrada

The impact and ramifications of cases argued before the Supreme Court are felt for decades, if not centuries. Only the most important issues of the day and the land make it to the nine justices, and the effects of their decisions reach far beyond the litigants. Under discussion here are five of the most momentous Supreme Court cases ever. They include Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade, Dred Scott, Brown v. Board of Education, and The Pentagon Papers. An absorbing exploration of enormously controversial events, the series details, highlights, and clarifies the complex legal arguments of both sides. Placing the cases within their historical context (though they ultimately emerge as works in progress), the authors reveal each decision's relevance both to the past and the present. The result is a fascinating glimpse across the centuries into the workings of the Supreme Court and the American judicial system. Highlights and Features - Fascinating, highly relevant Supreme Court cases - Accessible discussion of complex legal theory - Portrait of the American legal system as a work in progress - Primary source materials

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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0761429514

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9780761429517

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