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Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

Two Foster Parents with Alzheimer’s

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Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

Two Foster Parents with Alzheimer’s

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Diary of a Caregiver's Hell By: Just Joyce At the age of 3-1/2, Joyce became a foster child to Ethel and Blair Breitigam. They raised her on their Pennsylvania farm to adulthood. Little did Ethel and Blair know how their decision would not only change the rest of Joyce’s life, but have an impact on who would be there for them at the closing time of their lives. Ethel and Blair experienced 17+ years of progression through debilitating illnesses, frailty of body, becoming invalids, along with both of them having Alzheimer’s. Although these years seem to have been taken from Joyce, it has also been a selfless giving by Joyce to this man and woman she came to call Mom and Dad. With her real-world, down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is attitude, just maybe Joyce can help one or two caregivers out there who are finding their situation hard to deal with.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1645307948

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9781645307945

In the City of Fear

By: Ward Just

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In the City of Fear

By: Ward Just

A brilliant, ambitious, and subtle novel about Vietnam." -- David Bradley, Philadelphia Inquirer Ward Just captures the best and the brightest amid the turmoil of the sixties and its repercussions twenty years later through the lives of a good congressman, his good wife, and the good wife's love, an infantry colonel whose memories of the war, and a secret plot concocted by the Washington power brokers to win it, are more than he can bear.

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308

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393307220

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9780393307221

Transformative Fictions

World Literature and Personal Change

By: Daniel Just

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Transformative Fictions

World Literature and Personal Change

By: Daniel Just

Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the role of translation and regionalism in how we relate to texts from around the globe. The author, Daniel Just, argues for a supranational but sub-global perspective of regions that emphasizes practical reasons for reading and focuses on the potential of literary texts to stimulate personal transformation in readers. One of the recurring dilemmas in these debates is the issue of delimitation of world literature. The trouble with the world as a frame of reference is that no single researcher is bound to have the in-depth knowledge and linguistic skills to discuss works from all countries. In response, this book revives literary theory and recasts it for the purposes of world literature, by making a case for the continuing relevance of literature in the age of new media. With the examples of fictional and nonfictional writings by Milan Kundera, Witold Gombrowicz and Bohumil Hrabal, Just shows that regional literatures offer differing methods of activating readers and thereby prompting personal change. This book would be of general interest to anyone who wants to explore personal change through literature but is particularly indispensable for literary professionals, researchers, and postgraduate and graduate students.

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Taylor & Francis

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100060800X

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9781000608007

Exiles in the Garden

By: Ward Just

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Exiles in the Garden

By: Ward Just

A “fascinatingly readable” novel that ponders “where the personal becomes the political or if it is possible to maintain a distinction at all” (Miami Herald). In his fifty-four years in the US Senate, Kim Malone made a difference. Emulating FDR, he advocated and agitated, fighting for the ideals in which he believed. His son, Alec, however, was a different story—one Kim thinks on as he lies on his deathbed, with only the prodigal Alec for company. Eschewing his congressional heritage for a career as a newspaper photographer and distancing himself even further from politics by refusing to cover the Vietnam War, Alec has seemed to live a never-ending series of misadventures, complete with a failed marriage and a floundering vocation. So when his long-absent father-in-law, an antifascist commando from Czechoslovakia, appears on his doorstep, Alec finds himself confronting uncomfortable truths about his life, his choices, and the pasts of those surrounding him. Ward Just has been praised as “one of the most astute writers of American fiction,” and Exiles in the Garden stands as one of his most challenging, insightful, and compulsively readable works—an examination of personal morality, American politics, and the universal desires that bind us all (The New York Times Book Review).

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HMH

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0547394373

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9780547394374

Faith to Heal Breast Cancer

By: Just Tara’s Touch Pink

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Faith to Heal Breast Cancer

By: Just Tara’s Touch Pink

My book is about my journey facing breast cancer and how I had faith to overcome it. I hope to encourage and inspire others to know that they can also overcome this disease. I wish to give my readers hope, joy, peace, and a sense of knowing that it can be done. I also wish to instill in them the love of Christ and how to get a relationship with him. I wish to instill in my readers the principle of faith and how to use it. My readers will know that anything is possible with God and Faith.

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1524618446

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Rodin's Debutante

A Novel

By: Ward Just

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Rodin's Debutante

A Novel

By: Ward Just

A “beguiling and unnerving” novel of a young man haunted by an act of violence, from the award-winning author of An Unfinished Season (Booklist, starred review). As a small-town boy in the early twentieth century, Lee Goodell learned about a brutal crime—and the efforts of his father, a judge, to help cover it up. Lee would go on to attend a private boys’ school, become a sculptor, become familiar with both Chicago’s gritty South Side and its wealthy, intellectual Hyde Park, and get married. But it is his reunion with a girl from his childhood, a victim of a sexual assault she cannot remember, that will spur him to contemplate the event that marked the end of his boyhood and the beginning of his understanding of the world, in this sprawling, powerful novel by “one of the most accomplished and admirable American writers” (The Washington Post Book World). “An achievement . . . [that] fuses the romanticism of the early Kerouac and his mentor, Thomas Wolfe, with the wry humor of Richard Yates.” —The New York Times Book Review “Rodin’s Debutante is a surprising story, never going where you expect it to, and Just’s spare prose packs a solid emotional punch.” —Entertainment Weekly

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HMH

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0547504209

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9780547504209

Sports Journalism

An Introduction to Reporting and Writing

By: James R. Schaffer,Steve Schaffer,Amie Just,Kathryn T. Stofer

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Sports Journalism

An Introduction to Reporting and Writing

By: James R. Schaffer,Steve Schaffer,Amie Just,Kathryn T. Stofer

Sports Journalism combines decades of on-the-field reporting and in-the-classroom teaching to present the most comprehensive and contemporary playbook for student journalists. The third edition features expanded coverage of social media, writing and interviewing skills, as well as discussions on race and gender in the world of sports. Two new authors, Steve Schaffer and Amie Just, join the third edition with stories and insights from their nonstop lives as sports journalists. Since today’s sportswriters are often also bloggers, videographers, commentators, talk show anchors and webmasters, the authors have filled the book with the technologies and techniques they use across their many roles. Chapters provide exercises for practicing concepts and skills as well as discussion prompts about contemporary issues in sports. Features: New chapters on social media and on building relationships with sources, colleagues and media contacts Interviews with journalists whose success is measured by their many, many followers Discussion questions that get students talking about issues like paying collegiate athletes, violence in sports and its long-term physical and mental effects on players and equality issues on and off the field An expanded glossary that includes terms such as “hot takes,” “scrum” and “trolls” Writing tips for journalistic style including how to use numbers and statistics accurately and effectively Helpful examples on interview techniques Discussion of legal terms that apply to published work Promotion of the ethical standards set forth by the American Sports News Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists

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Rowman & Littlefield

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153819631X

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9781538196311

Crosstalk

Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign

By: Marion R. Just

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Crosstalk

Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign

By: Marion R. Just

Examining political advertisements, news coverage, ad watches, and talk shows in Los Angeles, Boston, Winston-Salem, and Fargo/Moorhead, the authors chart the impact of different information environments on citizens and show how people developed images of candidates over the course of the campaign. Crosstalk presents persuasive evidence that campaigns do matter, that citizens are active participants in the campaign process, and their perceptions of a candidate's character is the central factor in the voting process.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226420213

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9780226420219

Common Knowledge

News and the Construction of Political Meaning

By: W. Russell Neuman,Marion R. Just,Ann N. Crigler

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Common Knowledge

News and the Construction of Political Meaning

By: W. Russell Neuman,Marion R. Just,Ann N. Crigler

Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, according to the experts, is an ignorant public, helpless targets of a one-way flow of carefully filtered and orchestrated communication. Common Knowledge shatters this pervasive myth. Reporting on a ground-breaking study, the authors reveal that our shared knowledge and evolving political beliefs are determined largely by how we actively reinterpret the images, fragments, and signals we find in the mass media. For their study, the authors analyzed coverage of 150 television and newspaper stories on five prominent issues—drugs, AIDS, South African apartheid, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the stock market crash of October 1987. They tested audience responses of more than 1,600 people, and conducted in-depth interviews with a select sample. What emerges is a surprisingly complex picture of people actively and critically interpreting the news, making sense of even the most abstract issues in terms of their own lives, and finding political meaning in a sophisticated interplay of message, medium, and firsthand experience. At every turn, Common Knowledge refutes conventional wisdom. It shows that television is far more effective at raising the saliency of issues and promoting learning than is generally assumed; it also undermines the assumed causal connection between newspaper reading and higher levels of political knowledge. Finally, this book gives a deeply responsible and thoroughly fascinating account of how the news is conveyed to us, and how we in turn convey it to others, making meaning of at once so much and so little. For anyone who makes the news—or tries to make anything of it—Common Knowledge promises uncommon wisdom.

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022616117X

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9780226161174

The American Ambassador

A Novel

By: Ward Just

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The American Ambassador

A Novel

By: Ward Just

“A gripping international thriller” about a Foreign Service officer—and the son who turns to terrorism to spite him (Los Angeles Times). William North Jr. inherited his father’s keen political instincts and passion for justice. But the last time Ambassador North saw his son he seemed like a stranger—and a hostile one at that. Now, just as North prepares to take a new post in Germany, reports emerge that Bill Jr. is aligned with a German terrorist organization. Suddenly, a private conflict between father and son escalates to a matter of national security. North is faced with a terrifying dilemma as loyalty to family and country are directly at odds. The American Ambassador is at once a riveting tale of suspense and a thoughtful meditation on the fragility of Western values in an age of terrorism. “Haunting and persuasive . . . Charged with authenticity . . . A splendid book that is both thoughtful and fast-moving.” —The New York Times “To make out the jagged intersections of ambition and greed, idealism and sell-out in contemporary politics, you need only turn to . . . The American Ambassador.” —Salon.com

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0544326601

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Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

Two Foster Parents with Alzheimer’s

By: Just Joyce

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Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

Two Foster Parents with Alzheimer’s

By: Just Joyce

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Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

In the City of Fear

In the City of Fear

Transformative Fictions

Transformative Fictions

Exiles in the Garden

Exiles in the Garden

Faith to Heal Breast Cancer

Faith to Heal Breast Cancer

Rodin's Debutante

Rodin's Debutante

Sports Journalism

Sports Journalism

Crosstalk

Crosstalk

Common Knowledge

Common Knowledge

The American Ambassador

The American Ambassador

Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

Diary of a Caregiver's Hell

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