Joyce Stewart Smith's Books

Window Of Tomorrow

By: Joyce Stewart Smith

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Here is the opportunity for you, the reader, to get to know the stories of Joyce Stewart Smith. In these narratives, you can view life as a frightened child, an enthusiastic teenager, an adventurous bride, a working mother, a dedicated wife, and a fun-loving friend, all through the eyes of one kind, bright soul. A soul who lit up every place she has ever entered, who never met a stranger, and whose laughter embodies joy.

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1387378341

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Encyclopedia of Nursing Research

By: Joyce J. Fitzpatrick,Meredith Wallace (PhD, RN.)

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Encyclopedia of Nursing Research

By: Joyce J. Fitzpatrick,Meredith Wallace (PhD, RN.)

From the worldOCOs leading authorities in nursing research, this thoroughly updated 2nd Edition of the Encyclopedia of Nursing Research presents key terms and concepts in nursing research comprehensively explained by over 200 expert contributors.

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0826198139

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Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy - E-Book

By: Eleanor Schlenker,Joyce Ann Gilbert

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Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy - E-Book

By: Eleanor Schlenker,Joyce Ann Gilbert

From basic nutrition principles to the latest nutrition therapies for common diseases, Williams' Essentials of Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 11th Edition offers a solid foundation in the fundamental knowledge and skills you need to provide effective patient care. Authors Eleanor Schlenker and Joyce Gilbert address nutrition across the lifespan and within the community, with an emphasis on health promotion and the effects of culture and religion on nutrition. Evidence-based information, real-world case scenarios, colorful illustrations, boxes, and tables help you learn how to apply essential nutrition concepts and therapies in clinical practice. Key terms identified in the text and defined on the page help reinforce critical concepts. Case studies illustrate key concepts in authentic, "real-life" scenarios that reinforce learning and promote nutritional applications. Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize current research findings. Diet-Medication Interactions boxes provide diet-warnings related to specific prescription drugs. Focus on Culture boxes introduce you to cultural competence and the special nutritional needs, health problems, and appropriate interventions applicable to different cultural, ethnic, racial and age groups. Health Promotion section devoted solely to health promotion and wellness stresses healthy lifestyle choices and prevention as the best "medicine." Focus on Food Safety boxes alert you to food safety issues related to a particular nutrient, age group, or medical condition. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) boxes offer uses, contraindications, and advantages/disadvantages of common types of herbs and supplements and potential interactions with prescription or over-the-counter medications. Perspective in Practice boxes supply you with practice elements for nutrition education. Websites of Interest call-outs cite key websites with suggestions for further study and exploration of various nutrition topics at the end of each chapter. NEW! Clinical nutrition chapters cover the latest guidelines and medications. NEW! MyPlate replaces former Food Guide Pyramid. NEW! Dietary Guidelines for Americans reflect 2010 changes. UPDATED! Review questions emphasize critical thinking. NEW! Streamlined content provides the essentials of nutrition and diet therapy.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323294014

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9780323294010

What works in tackling health inequalities?

Pathways, policies and practice through the lifecourse

By: Asthana, Sheena,Halliday, Joyce

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What works in tackling health inequalities?

Pathways, policies and practice through the lifecourse

By: Asthana, Sheena,Halliday, Joyce

In recent years, tackling health inequalities has become a key policy objective in the UK. However, doubts remain about how best to translate broad policy recommendations into practice. One key area of uncertainty concerns the role of local level initiatives. This book identifies the key targets for intervention through a detailed exploration of the pathways and processes that give rise to health inequalities across the lifecourse. It sets this against an examination of both local practice and the national policy context, to establish what works in health inequalities policy, how and why. Authoritative yet accessible, the book provides a comprehensive account of theory, policy and practice. It spans the lifecourse from the early years to old age and explores the links between biological, psychological, social, educational and economic factors and a range of health outcomes. In addition it describes key policy initiatives, assesses research evidence of 'what works' and examines the limitations of the existing evidence base and highlights key areas of debate. What works in tackling health inequalities? is essential reading for academics and students in medical sociology, social psychology, social policy and public health, and for policy makers and practitioners working in public health and social exclusion.

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Policy Press

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1847421520

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9781847421524

Psalm 91 Frontliner and First Responder Edition: God's Shield of Protection as You Protect Others

By: Peggy Joyce Ruth,Angelia Ruth Schum

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Psalm 91 Frontliner and First Responder Edition: God's Shield of Protection as You Protect Others

By: Peggy Joyce Ruth,Angelia Ruth Schum

As you protect others, God's shield of protection defends YOU! In this special first responders' edition of Psalm 91, Peggy Joyce Ruth, a veteran Bible teacher, guides you through a personal study of this psalm, explaining verse by verse God's promises of protection. This psalm describes a haven of physical protection, safety, and security that can only be found by trusting God's covenant promises when faced with life-threatening danger and fear, whether responding to an outbreak of disease or civil unrest. By directing this special edition to first responders, it works for the men and women on the front lines of the medical community caring for COVID-19 patients, as well as those who patrol our streets and keep our communities safe, who have recently come under attack and feel more at risk than ever. This book will teach you about God's shield of protection and provision for our men and women on the front lines. You will gain a deeper understanding of how to apply the prayers.

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Charisma House

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1629999792

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9781629999791

Women and Education, 1800-1980

By: Jane Martin,Joyce Goodman

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Women and Education, 1800-1980

By: Jane Martin,Joyce Goodman

Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole. Employing a biographical approach, Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman adopt existing feminist and historical models to explore how these women resisted gender roles and combined their public lives with private commitments. As individuals, these women were very different personalities: as a group they show how organised women made a substantial contribution to public life and changed philosophy, policy and practice. Women and Education is situated within the tradition of feminist engagements with recovering and reclaiming 'forgotten' female figures in history. By bringing the lives and actions of these female reformers to the forefront, Martin and Goodman not only offer fresh perspectives on the relation between theory and practice in education, but also give a critical new insight into the accomplishments of women in the past.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1403944075

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9781403944078

Fanny Fern

An Independent Woman

By: Joyce W. Warren

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Fanny Fern

An Independent Woman

By: Joyce W. Warren

Fanny Fern is a name that is unfamiliar to most contemporary readers. In this first modern biography, Warren revives the reputation of a once-popular 19th-century newspaper columnist and novelist. Fern, the pseudonym for Sara Payson Willis Parton, was born in 1811 and grew up in a society with strictly defined gender roles. From her rebellious childhood to her adult years as a newspaper columnist, Fern challenged society's definition of women's place with her life and her words. Fern wrote a weekly newspaper column for 21 years and, using colorful language and satirical style, advocated women's rights and called for social reform. Warren blends Fern's life story with an analysis of the social and literary world of 19th-century America.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813517648

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9780813517643

American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929

By: John T. Soister,Henry Nicolella,Steve Joyce

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American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929

By: John T. Soister,Henry Nicolella,Steve Joyce

During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Magician (1926) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) were among the unusual and startling films containing story elements that went far beyond the realm of "highly unlikely." Using surviving documentation and their combined expertise, the authors catalog and discuss these departures from the norm in this encyclopedic guide to American horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years from 1913 through 1929.

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McFarland

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0786487909

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Deciding Children's Futures

An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children's Welfare in the Family Court

By: Joyce Scaife

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Deciding Children's Futures

An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children's Welfare in the Family Court

By: Joyce Scaife

The second edition of Deciding Children’s Futures addresses the thorny task of assessing parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when separating parents are contesting arrangements for the care of their children in the family court. This practitioner’s guide discusses how to create relationships and pose questions that breach natural parental defences to understand their histories, anxieties, and needs. Drawing on practice knowledge, theory, and research findings, it integrates the accounts of parents and children with safeguarding imperatives and government guidance, to enable informed decisions that positively impact children’s futures. Chapters address issues such as drug and alcohol misuse, mental health difficulties and learning disabilities, Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) abuse, and alienation of children, and encourage readers to consider the impact of their own values, histories, and beliefs on the assessment process. This edition is completely updated to reflect all the factors that have impacted assessments for the family court, including updates to case law and procedure rules, devolution of governments, and updates to DSM and ICD diagnostic categories. Providing a comprehensive understanding of assessment for the family court, this user-friendly volume will be of great interest to expert witnesses, social workers, mental health professionals, solicitors, and anyone working in the family court system.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040038964

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Child Development

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

In the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, Fourth Edition, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch take students on an active journey toward understanding children and their development. Active Learning activities integrated throughout the text capture student interest and turn reading into an engaged learning process. Through the authors’ active learning philosophy, students are challenged to test their knowledge, confront common misconceptions, relate the material to their own experiences, and participate in real-world activities independently and with children. Because consuming research is equally important in the study of child development, Journey of Research features provide both historical context and its links to today’s cutting-edge research studies. Students will discover the excitement of studying child development while gaining skills they can use long after course completion. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video on Newborn Skin-to-Skin Contact LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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SAGE Publications, Incorporated

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1544359705

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Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care

Knowledge and Theory

By: Joyce Lishman

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Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care

Knowledge and Theory

By: Joyce Lishman

Rev., expanded and updated ed. of: Handbook of theory for practice teachers in social work. London: J. Kingsley, 1991.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843101866

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An American Saga

Some East Tennessee Taylors

By: W. Eugene Cox,Joyce Cox

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An American Saga

Some East Tennessee Taylors

By: W. Eugene Cox,Joyce Cox

Andrew Taylor (1730-1787) married Elizabeth Wilson in about 1763. Afyer shie died, he married her sister, Ann Wilson, in about 1769 in Virginia. He died in Tennessee. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee.

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iUniverse

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1462043437

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Black Book Publishers in the United States

A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817-1990

By: Donald Franklin Joyce

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Black Book Publishers in the United States

A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817-1990

By: Donald Franklin Joyce

Since the second decade of the nineteenth century, there have been black-owned book publishers in the United States, addressing the special concerns of black people in ways that other book publishers have not. This is the first work to treat extensively the individual publishing histories of these firms. Though largely ignored by historians, the story of these publishers, as documented in this study, reveals fascinating details of literary history, as well as previously unknown facts about the contribution of blacks to Western civilization. Donald Franklin Joyce offers comprehensive profiles of forty-six publishing companies, selected for inclusion through an examination of major bibliographic works, book advertisements, periodical literature, and business directories. Each profile contains information on the company's publishing history, books and other publications that were released, information sources about the firm, other titles issued, libraries holding titles produced by the publisher, and officers and addresses, where appropriate. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the publisher name, while an appendix presents a geographic listing of the firms and an index offers author, title, and subject access. This work will be an important resource for students, scholars, and researchers interested in cultural and intellectual black history, as well as public and academic libraries seeking specific information on individual publishing companies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313064652

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Encyclopedia of Women in American History

By: Joyce Appleby,Eileen Chang,Joanne Goodwin

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Encyclopedia of Women in American History

By: Joyce Appleby,Eileen Chang,Joanne Goodwin

This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial period to the present. It not only covers the issues that have had an impact on women, but also traces the influence of women's achievements on society as a whole. Divided into three chronologically arranged volumes, the set includes historical surveys and thematic essays on central issues and political changes affecting women's lives during each period. These are followed by A-Z entries on significant events and social movements, laws, court cases and more, as well as profiles of notable American women from all walks of life and all fields of endeavor. Primary sources and original documents are included throughout.

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Routledge

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1317471628

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9781317471622

Cognitive Choice Modeling

By: Zheng Joyce Wang,Jerome R. Busemeyer

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Cognitive Choice Modeling

By: Zheng Joyce Wang,Jerome R. Busemeyer

The emerging interdisciplinary field of cognitive choice models integrates theory and recent research findings from both decision process and choice behavior. Cognitive decision processes provide the interface between the environment and brain, enabling choice behavior, and the basic cognitive mechanisms underlying decision processes are fundamental to all fields of human activity. Yet cognitive processes and choice processes are often studied separately, whether by decision theorists, consumer researchers, or social scientists. In Cognitive Choice Modeling, Zheng Joyce Wang and Jerome R. Busemeyer introduce a new cognitive modeling approach to the study of human choice behavior. Integrating recent research findings from both cognitive science and choice behavior, they lay the groundwork for the emerging interdisciplinary field of cognitive choice modeling.

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MIT Press

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026204496X

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9780262044967

Theodore H. White and Journalism as Illusion

By: Joyce Hoffmann

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Theodore H. White and Journalism as Illusion

By: Joyce Hoffmann

Over the years, friends and advisers to Kennedy declared that they had never heard the president speak of Camelot. But White's article, which ran in Life magazine, created a myth that still endures in the popular consciousness.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826210104

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9780826210104

Supervising the Reflective Practitioner

An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice

By: Joyce Scaife

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Supervising the Reflective Practitioner

An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice

By: Joyce Scaife

Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner provides guidance for supervisors, focusing on what they can do to facilitate the development of reflective practice in supervisees. This book contains a wide range of practical examples including personal accounts and illustrations. Topics covered include: what is reflective practice and why is it important now? how reflective practice connects with personal and professional development key issues in supervising reflective practice methods that can be used in supervision. This accessible book will be of great interest to both supervisors and supervisees who practice clinically in a range of professions, including applied psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, psychiatry and nursing. It will also be useful for professionals working in education, health, and social care who want to support supervisees in the development of reflective practice.

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Routledge

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1317834135

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9781317834137

An Anxious Pursuit

Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

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An Anxious Pursuit

Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads developments in agricultural practice as indices of planters' desire for progress, and she demonstrates the central role played by slavery in their pursuit of modern life. By linking behavior and ideas, Chaplin has produced a work of cultural history that unites intellectual, social, and economic history. Using public records as well as planters' and farmers' private papers, Chaplin examines innovations in rice, indigo, and cotton cultivation as a window through which to see planters' pursuit of a modern future. She demonstrates that planters actively sought to improve their society and economy even as they suffered a pervasive anxiety about the corrupting impact of progress and commerce. The basis for their accomplishments and the root of their anxieties, according the Chaplin, were the same: race-based chattel slavery. Slaves provied the labor necessary to attain planters' vision of the modern, but the institution ultimately limited the Lower South's ability to compete in the contemporary world. Indeed, whites continued to wonder whether their innovations, some of them defied by slaves, truly improved the region. Chaplin argues that these apprehensions prefigured the antimodern stance of the antebellum period, but she contends that they were as much a reflection of the doubt inherent in theories of progress as an outright rejection of those ideas.

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UNC Press Books

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0807838306

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Management of Regeneration

Choices, Challenges and Dilemmas

By: John Diamond,Joyce Liddle

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Management of Regeneration

Choices, Challenges and Dilemmas

By: John Diamond,Joyce Liddle

Stemming from a need to understand strategic processes, examine current practices, and identify the needs of regeneration management professionals, this book cites current regeneration management practice within a framework which critically examines the theoretical models developed over the past twenty years. It features illustrative case studies, learning objectives, key themes boxes, and review and reflection segments, and explains strategic processes and new forms of local, sub-regional and regional management. It also investigates the development and extension of the roles of regeneration managers (which increasingly illustrate the uneven and contradictory nature of this subject), and raises important issues regarding how such individuals are supported and developed. This book: examines current initiatives in order to present good practice provides practitioners and students with an understanding of the choices, challenges and dilemmas faced by regeneration managers focuses on the themes of partnership, capacity building and community engagement, participation and sustainability has an accompanying web page featuring downloadable PowerPoint slides and test blanks. A valuable resource for public sector managers, and urban management professionals, this book synthesises strategic literature and applies it within a changing local, sub regional and regional governance system. Providing a clear framework within which new models of strategy and implementation can be found, it presents a balanced approach between existing theory and practical case material.

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Routledge

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113431440X

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9781134314409

Critical Companion to James Joyce

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Vice-President of the James Joyce Society and Professor of Theology and English A Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie,Professor of English Michael Patrick Gillespie

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Critical Companion to James Joyce

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Vice-President of the James Joyce Society and Professor of Theology and English A Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie,Professor of English Michael Patrick Gillespie

Examines the life and writings of James Joyce, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108486

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Women, Money, and the Law

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts

By: Joyce W. Warren

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Women, Money, and the Law

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts

By: Joyce W. Warren

Did 19th-century American women have money of their own? To answer this question, Women, Money, and the Law looks at the public and private stories of individual women within the context of American culture, assessing how legal and cultural traditions affected women's lives, particularly with respect to class and racial differences, and analyzing the ways in which women were involved in economic matters. Joyce Warren has uncovered a vast, untapped archive of legal documents from the New York Supreme Court that had been expunged from the official record. By exploring hundreds of court cases involving women litigants between 1845 and 1875--women whose stories had, in effect, been erased from history--and by studying the lives and works of a wide selection of 19th-century women writers, Warren has found convincing evidence of women's involvement with money. The court cases show that in spite of the most egregious gender restrictions of law and custom, many 19th-century women lived independently, coping with the legal and economic restraints of their culture while making money for themselves and often for their families as well. They managed their lives and their money with courage and tenacity and fractured constructed gender identities by their lived experience. Many women writers, even when they did not publicly advocate economic independence for women, supported themselves and their families throughout their writing careers and in their fiction portrayed the importance of money in women's lives. Women from all backgrounds--some defeated through ignorance and placidity, others as ruthless and callous as the most hardened businessmen--were in fact very much a part of the money economy. Together, the evidence of the court cases and the writers runs counter to the official narrative, which scripted women as economically dependent and financially uninvolved. Warren provides an illuminating counternarrative that significantly questions contemporary assumptions about the lives of 19th-century women. Women, Money, and the Law is an important corrective to the traditional view and will fascinate scholars and students in women's studies, literary studies, and legal history as well as the general reader.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587296500

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Seeing the Elephant

The Many Voices of the Oregon Trail

By: Joyce Badgley Hunsaker

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Seeing the Elephant

The Many Voices of the Oregon Trail

By: Joyce Badgley Hunsaker

A workbook to provide exercises to teach students about the life of those who traveled on the Oregon Trail.

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Texas Tech University Press

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0896725049

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The First U.S. History Textbooks

Constructing and Disseminating the American Tale in the Nineteenth Century

By: Barry Joyce

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The First U.S. History Textbooks

Constructing and Disseminating the American Tale in the Nineteenth Century

By: Barry Joyce

This book analyzes the common narrative residing in American History textbooks published in the first half of the 19th century. That story, what the author identifies as the American “creation” or “origins” narrative, is simultaneously examined as both historic and “mythic” in composition. It offers a fresh, multidisciplinary perspective on an enduring aspect of these works. The book begins with a provocative thesis that proposes the importance of the relationship between myth and history in the creation of America’s textbook narrative. It ends with a passionate call for a truly inclusive story of who Americans are and what Americans aspire to become. The book is organized into three related sections. The first section provides the context for the emergence of American History textbooks. It analyzes the structure and utility of these school histories within the context of antebellum American society and educational practices. The second section is the heart of the book. It recounts and scrutinizes the textbook narrative as it tells the story of America’s emergence from “prehistory” through the American Revolution—the origins story of America. This section identifies the recurring themes and images that together constitute what early educators conceived as a unified cultural narrative. Section three examines the sectional bifurcation and eventual re-unification of the American History textbook narrative from the 1850s into the early 20th century. The book concludes by revisiting the relationship between textbooks, the American story, and mythic narratives in light of current debates and controversies over textbooks, American history curriculum and a common American narrative.

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