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Community-Based Participatory Research

By: Karen Hacker

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Community-Based Participatory Research

By: Karen Hacker

Community Based Participatory Research by Dr. Karen Hacker presents a practical approach to CBPR by describing how an individual researcher might understand and then actually conduct CBPR research. This how-to book provides a concise overview of CBPR theoretical underpinnings, methods considerations, and ethical issues in an accessible format interspersed with real life case examples that can accompany other methodologic texts in multiple disciplines.

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SAGE

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1452205817

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Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems

By: A. Javier Treviño,Karen M. McCormack

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Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems

By: A. Javier Treviño,Karen M. McCormack

This book challenges sociologists and sociology students to think beyond the construction of social problems to tackle a central question: What do sociologists do with the analytic tools and academic skills afforded by their discipline to respond to social problems? Service Sociology posits that a central role of sociology is not simply to analyse and interpret social problems, but to act in the world in an informed manner to ameliorate suffering and address the structural causes of these problems. This volume provides a unique contribution to this approach to sociology, exploring the intersection between its role as an academic discipline and its practice in the service of communities and people. With both contemporary and historical analyses, the book traces the legacy, characteristics, contours, and goals of the sociology of service, shedding light on its roots in early American sociology and its deep connections to activism, before examining the social context that underlies the call for volunteerism, community involvement and non-profit organisations, as well as the strategies that have promise in remedying contemporary social problems. Presenting examples of concrete social problems from around the world, including issues of democratic participation, poverty and unemployment, student involvement in microlending, disaster miitigation, the organization and leadership of social movements, homelessness, activism around HIV/AIDS and service spring breaks, Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems explores the utility of public teaching, participatory action research, and service learning in the classroom as a contribution to the community.

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Routledge

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1317056981

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9781317056980

Atta Girl!

A Celebration of Women in Sport

By: Alexandra Powe-Allred,Karen Powe,Michelle Powe

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Atta Girl!

A Celebration of Women in Sport

By: Alexandra Powe-Allred,Karen Powe,Michelle Powe

Profiles of several female athletes, focusing on their relationships with each other and their families.

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Wish Publishing

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1930546610

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American West

Competing Visions

By: Karen R. Jones

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American West

Competing Visions

By: Karen R. Jones

The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men.During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White forged a fresh story of the region, a new vision of the West, based around the conquest of peoples and landscapes.This book explores the bipolar world of Turner's Old West and Limerick's New West and reveals the values and ambiguities associated with both historical traditions. Sections on Lewis and Clark, the frontier and the cowboy sit alongside work on Indian genocide and women's trail diaries. Images of the region as seen through the arcade Western, Hollywood film and Disney theme parks confirm the West as a symbolic and contested landscape.Tapping into popular fascination with the Cowboy, Hollywood movies, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand, the authors show the reader how to deconstruct the imagery and reality surrounding Western history.Key Features*Uses popular subjects (the Cowboy, Hollywood westerns, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand) to enliven the text*Includes 13 b+w illustrations*Interdisciplinary approach covers film, literature, art and historical artefacts

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748629734

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9780748629732

Blockchain Tethered AI

By: Karen Kilroy,Lynn Riley,Deepak Bhatta

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Blockchain Tethered AI

By: Karen Kilroy,Lynn Riley,Deepak Bhatta

Remove your doubts about AI and explore how this technology can be future-proofed using blockchain's smart contracts and tamper-evident ledgers. With this practical book, system architects, software engineers, and systems solution specialists will learn how enterprise blockchain provides permanent provenance of AI, removes the mystery, and allows you to validate AI before it's ever used. Authors Karen Kilroy, Lynn Riley, and Deepak Bhatta explain that AI's ability to change itself through program synthesis could take the technology beyond human control. With this book, you'll learn an efficient way to solve this problem by building simple blockchain controls for verifying, tracking, tracing, auditing, and even reversing AI. Blockchain tethered AI interweaves the MLOps process with blockchain so that an MLOps system requires blockchain to function, which in turn tethers AI. This guide shows you how. You will: Learn how to create and power AI marketplaces with blockchain Understand why and how to implement on-chain AI governance Control AI by learning methods to tether it to blockchain networks Use blockchain crypto anchors to detect common AI hacks Learn methods for reversing tethered AI

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1098130529

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A Different Order of Difficulty

Literature after Wittgenstein

By: Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

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A Different Order of Difficulty

Literature after Wittgenstein

By: Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé makes a critical contribution to the “resolute” program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as a complex, mock-theoretical puzzle designed to engage readers in the therapeutic self-clarification Wittgenstein saw as the true work of philosophy. Seen in this light, Wittgenstein resembles his modernist contemporaries more than might first appear. Like the literary innovators of his time, Wittgenstein believed in the productive power of difficulty, in varieties of spiritual experience, in the importance of age-old questions about life’s meaning, and in the possibility of transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world. In a series of absorbing chapters, Zumhagen-Yekplé shows how Kafka, Woolf, Joyce, and Coetzee set their readers on a path toward a new way of being. Offering a new perspective on Wittgenstein as philosophical modernist, and on the lives and afterlives of his indirect teaching, A Different Order of Difficulty is a compelling addition to studies in both literature and philosophy.

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University of Chicago Press

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022667729X

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The Trainer's Handbook

By: Karen Lawson

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The Trainer's Handbook

By: Karen Lawson

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of TheTrainer’s Handbook presents a comprehensive, systematicapproach to developing training skills and competencies. Itreflects the current changes in the design, development, anddelivery of training that will meet the needs of today’slearner, distance learning, and performance consulting. The bookoffers a fresh focus on evaluation, includes practical how-toguidance, and a wealth of illustrative real-life examples. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials arenot included as part of eBook file.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787985228

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Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators, Second Edition

Making It Real

By: Suzanne Campbell,Karen M. Daley

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Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators, Second Edition

Making It Real

By: Suzanne Campbell,Karen M. Daley

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826193269

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Cancer in the Elderly

By: Carrie P. Hunter,Karen A. Johnson,Hyman B. Muss

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Cancer in the Elderly

By: Carrie P. Hunter,Karen A. Johnson,Hyman B. Muss

This book presents comprehensive assessment and up-to-date discussion of the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of cancer in the elderly, highlighting the growing demands of the disease, its biology, individual susceptibility, the impact of state-of-the-art and emerging therapies on reducing morbidity, and decision making processes. Describ

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0824746457

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Finding Truth in Fiction

What Fan Culture Gets Right - and why It's Good to Get Lost in a Story

By: Karen Dill-Shackleford,Cynthia Vinney

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Finding Truth in Fiction

What Fan Culture Gets Right - and why It's Good to Get Lost in a Story

By: Karen Dill-Shackleford,Cynthia Vinney

In Finding Truth in Fiction, two media psychologists reveal that there's much more to our desire to seek out stories in film, TV, and books than simple diversion--fiction can help us find truth in our real lives. By exploring our relationship with fictional stories and characters, the authors will examine the influence of fiction on our identities, the paradox of trying to separate actors from the roles they play, and the types of stories we are drawn to over and over.

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0190643609

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Engines of Oblivion

By: Karen Osborne

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Engines of Oblivion

By: Karen Osborne

Karen Osborne continues her science fiction action and adventure series the Memory War with Engines of Oblivion, the sequel to Architects of Memory—the corporations running the galaxy are about to learn not everyone can be bought. Natalie Chan gained her corporate citizenship, but barely survived the battle for Tribulation. Now corporate has big plans for Natalie. Horrible plans. Locked away in Natalie's missing memory is salvation for the last of an alien civilization and the humans they tried to exterminate. The corporation wants total control of both—or their deletion. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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1250215498

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Wittgenstein and Modernism

By: Michael LeMahieu,Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

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Wittgenstein and Modernism

By: Michael LeMahieu,Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

Wittgenstein and Modernism is the first collection to address the rich, vexed, and often contradictory relationship between modernism, the 20th century s predominant cultural and artistic movement, and Wittgenstein, the most preeminent and enduring philosopher of the period. Although Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry, we have yet to fully consider how Wittgenstein s philosophy relates to the poetic, literary, and artistic production that exemplifies the modernist era in which he lived and worked. Featuring contributions from scholars of philosophy and literature, the contributors put Wittgenstein s writing in dialogue with work by poets and novelists (James, Woolf, Kafka, Musil, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Beckett, Bellow and Robinson) as well as philosophers and theorists (Karl Kraus, John Stuart Mill, Walter Benjamin, Michael Fried, Stanley Cavell). The volume illuminates two important aspects of Wittgenstein s work related to modernism and postmodernism: form and medium. Each of Wittgenstein s two major works not only advanced a revolutionary conception of philosophy, but also developed a revolutionary philosophical form to engage his readers in a mode of philosophical practice. As a whole this volume comprises an overarching argument about the importance of Wittgenstein for understanding modernism, and the importance of modernism for understanding Wittgenstein.

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022642040X

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NGOs and Accountability in China

Child Welfare Organisations

By: Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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NGOs and Accountability in China

Child Welfare Organisations

By: Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

This book investigates how NGOs in authoritarian states, such as China, craft accountability and legitimacy to ensure their survival. It explores this through the lens of child welfare organisations from 2007 to 2017. The authors provide a fresh approach to accountability that is more attuned to the particular conditions of authoritarianism. The project explores the effects of power relations in shaping the hierarchies of accountability and participation that emerge and the attention given to different voices such as those of donor, government, and users. Essential reading for researchers and policy makers interested in development, NGO, social policy, political science, and child welfare studies.

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3319902210

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100 Things to Do in Branson Before You Die

By: Karen Nelson

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100 Things to Do in Branson Before You Die

By: Karen Nelson

Branson, Missouri may simultaneously be the most fun, toe-tapping, memory-making, laugh-inducing, family-loving experience you will ever have. A gem nestled in the Ozark Mountains, visitors have been coming for over one hundred years to cruise "The Strip" and sample the best of the past and the thrills of tomorrow. It all started with a famous book - The Shepherd of the Hills (still an outdoor theater play) and continued with the award-winning 1800s theme park, Silver Dollar City. Country music and comedy soon took the stage with the Presley's and Baldnknobber shows, until today, where the Live-Entertainment Capitol of the World is home to tens of thousands of theater seats, multiple museums, culinary delights to tempt every taste, and the natural beauty of three extensive lakes. In just one vacation, you can rise to the top of the tower at Inspiration Point, plumb the depths of Marvel Cave, discover the old homestead at Lakeside Wilderness, eat a "foot" of chocolate, honk a wacky quacker, and shop an old-time five-and-dime. From outlet malls to boutique stores, Branson is also the place for bargains. When night falls, find your groove on the Branson Landing's boardwalk as the fire and fountain show blazes into the night, eat at a floating restaurant, and watch the city glow from the top of the 150-foot Ferris Wheel. You won't want to miss a moment of the excitement....unless, of course, you do. In that case, kick back in a cabin at Big Cedar Lodge and watch the sun set over Table Rock Lake. Have a late breakfast at Top of the Rock, then paddle along Taneycomo and fish for rainbow trout. Finish out the day with a lazy scenic drive and a flea market find. National forests and state parks offer hours of happy wandering with wildlife, and you just might stumble on a secret even the locals haven't found yet. Whether you yearn for city fun or country quiet, there's something for everyone here in the Ozarks. In Branson, you can have the trip you've always dreamed of.

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Reedy Press LLC

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1681061384

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Vanished

By: Karen E. Olson

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Vanished

By: Karen E. Olson

A computer hacker on the run heads to Paris to get answers but the truth may come at a price in this technothriller from the author of Betrayed. With a price on her head, computer hacker Tina Adler is determined to stay offline. Only one person knows how to reach her, and he's in as much danger as she is. A chance discovery leads Tina to abandon her South Carolina hideaway in search of her old flame, undercover FBI Agent Zeke Chapman. What is Zeke doing in Paris, France? And what is his connection to the disappearance of American college student Ryan Whittier? En route to Paris in search of answers, Tina realizes that someone is on her trail and getting disturbingly close. Has she been set up? “This timely thriller is Alias meets Hackers and you can’t get any cooler than that.”—Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today–bestselling author “The protagonist of Vanished barely has time to breathe, and neither do we.”—Joseph Finder, New York Times–bestselling author of The Switch

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1780109318

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Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation

By: Helmut Traitler,Birgit Coleman,Karen Hofmann

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Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation

By: Helmut Traitler,Birgit Coleman,Karen Hofmann

Food products have always been designed, but usually not consciously. Even when design has been part of the process, it has often been restricted to considerations of packaging, logos, fonts and colors. But now design is impacting more dramatically on the complex web that makes up our food supply, and beginning to make it better. Ways of thinking about design have broad applications and are becoming central to how companies compete. To succeed, food designers need to understand consumers and envision what they want, and to use technology and systems to show they can deliver what has been envisioned. They also need to understand organizations in order to make innovation happen in a corporation. The authors of this book argue that design has been grossly underestimated in the food industry. The role of design in relation to technology of every kind (materials, mechanics, ingredients, conversion, transformation, etc.) is described, discussed, challenged and put into proper perspective. The authors deftly analyze and synthesize complex concepts, inspiring new ideas and practices through real-world examples. The second part of the book emphasizes the role of innovation and how the elements described and discussed in the first parts (design, technology, business) must join forces in order to drive valuable innovation in complex organizations such as large (and not so large) food companies. Ultimately, this groundbreaking book champions the implementation of a design role in defining and executing business strategies and business processes. Not only are designers tremendously important to the present and future successes of food corporations, but they should play an active and decisive role at the executive board level of any food company that strives for greater success.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118733266

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Empire of Difference

The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective

By: Karen Barkey

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Empire of Difference

The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective

By: Karen Barkey

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state, revealing how the empire managed these moments, adapted, and averted crises and what changes made it transform dramatically. The flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy, the cooperation of their diverse elites both at the center and in the provinces, as well as their control over economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this particular 'negotiated empire'. Her analysis illuminates topics that include imperial governance, imperial institutions, imperial diversity and multiculturalism, the manner in which dissent is handled and/or internalized, and the nature of state society negotiations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139472887

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Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations

An advanced practical companion

By: Alan Meaden,Nadine Keen,Robert Aston,Karen Barton,Sandra Bucci

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Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations

An advanced practical companion

By: Alan Meaden,Nadine Keen,Robert Aston,Karen Barton,Sandra Bucci

Auditory hallucinations rank amongst the most treatment resistant symptoms of schizophrenia, with command hallucinations being the most distressing, high risk and treatment resistant of all. This new work provides clinicians with a detailed guide, illustrating in depth the techniques and strategies developed for working with command hallucinations. Woven throughout with key cases and clinical examples, Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations clearly demonstrates how these techniques can be applied in a clinical setting. Strategies and solutions for overcoming therapeutic obstacles are shown alongside treatment successes and failures to provide the reader with an accurate understanding of the complexities of cognitive therapy. This helpful and practical guide with be of interest to clinical and forensic psychologists, cognitive behavioural therapists, nurses and psychiatrists.

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1136200940

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Health Care Information Systems

A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

By: Karen A. Wager,Frances W. Lee,John P. Glaser

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Health Care Information Systems

A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

By: Karen A. Wager,Frances W. Lee,John P. Glaser

BESTSELLING GUIDE, UPDATED WITH A NEW INFORMATION FOR TODAY'S HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT Health Care Information Systems is the newest version of the acclaimed text that offers the fundamental knowledge and tools needed to manage information and information resources effectively within a wide variety of health care organizations. It reviews the major environmental forces that shape the national health information landscape and offers guidance on the implementation, evaluation, and management of health care information systems. It also reviews relevant laws, regulations, and standards and explores the most pressing issues pertinent to senior level managers. It covers: Proven strategies for successfully acquiring and implementing health information systems. Efficient methods for assessing the value of a system. Changes in payment reform initiatives. New information on the role of information systems in managing in population health. A wealth of updated case studies of organizations experiencing management-related system challenges.

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1119337186

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In Hot Pursuit

By: Karen Sue Burns

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In Hot Pursuit

By: Karen Sue Burns

Quinn Wells believes her life is just as it should be . . . calm, relaxed, and free of relationship entanglements. The theft of a $25 millions dollar gift to her employer, Houston Cullen University, changes all that. Quinn, knowing her own innocence is in question, takes matters into her own hands by setting off in pursuit of the coworker she believes is responsible for the theft. But Logan Rice, the donor of the gift, isn’t going to let her out of his sight. As they race from city to city, Logan is determined to win over Quinn and convince her they have a chance as a couple. But Logan’s wealth and social position are the opposite of Quinn’s middle-class life, and he devastates her by withholding information about his past. Will she discover what is most important to her before he walks away? Sensuality Level: Sensual

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Simon and Schuster

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1440550395

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Shadowed

By: Karen E. Olson

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Shadowed

By: Karen E. Olson

An ex-cyberthief is on the run from her past in an “electrifying” thriller by the author of Hidden: “an addictive page-turner with a stunner of a finale” (Kirkus Reviews). For fifteen years, her name was Nicole Jones. Then her criminal past caught up to her. Now the brilliant computer hacker has reinvented herself once again, living as Susan McQueen on a remote island in Quebec, Canada. Susan lives a quiet life, but she hasn’t given up her computer. While in an online chatroom, she discovers she has a shadow. Someone’s hacked into her laptop—someone who knows who she is. Capable of watching her every move, they want a hefty payment in bitcoin not to make trouble. Now Susan is on the run again. But from whom? Is it the FBI or someone associated with her criminal past? Making her way across the border and back to America won’t be easy. And as her shadow looms closer, Susan discovers just who—and what—she’s up against.

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1780107625

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Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition

By: Karen Roehr-Brackin

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Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition

By: Karen Roehr-Brackin

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistic awareness as it relates to SLA. In this volume, Roehr-Brackin discusses metalinguistic awareness in the context of both child and adult language learning, and outlines the various methods that can be used to measure metalinguistic awareness. The author presents different approaches to metalinguistic awareness, including a cognitive-developmental perspective that explains how the concept relates to literacy, and an applied linguistics perspective that understands metalinguistic awareness as explicit or conscious knowledge about language. Roehr-Brackin explores the role of metalinguistic awareness in language education aimed at young learners, as well as in instructed adult SLA. This book is an excellent resource for those researching or taking courses in second language acquisition, bi- and multilingualism, and language teaching.

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1317338804

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Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, Ninth Edition

By: Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH,Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH,Benjamin Goldsteen, MBA

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Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, Ninth Edition

By: Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH,Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH,Benjamin Goldsteen, MBA

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller. This revised ninth edition of the best-selling introductory text to the U.S. health care system is fully updated to reflect changes to health care services, delivery, and financing resulting from new policies affecting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Valued for its concise and balanced survey of the U.S. health care system, this book describes how the American health care system currently functions, the major factors that led to its present day structure, and a forecasting of how the industry is likely to change over the course of the next few years. This practical text highlights an array of influences shaping the future of health care, such as the use of big data and analytics, new policies and trends tied to pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and innovations to mental health and substance abuse. With an emphasis on policy development, the authors underscore the fluidity of the system and examine the debates and conflicts that have shaped health care changes and influenced American values and belief systems. This accessible text defines the most essential elements of the health care system, including its components, organization, services, and financing. An ideal text for undergraduate courses, graduate survey courses, and courses introducing the subject to medical students, it describes the ongoing evolution of the system, taking into consideration future directions given proposed changes to the ACA and other health laws by Congress, the Trump administration, and the political landscape in general. Organized to facilitate an understanding of concepts at work, Jonas’ Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System equips public health and health administration students as well as medical, nursing, and allied health professionals with a deeper understanding of the field in which they will practice, so they can position themselves to navigate upcoming changes that affect health care quality, value, and access. New to the Ninth Edition: Updated to address changes to health care services, delivery, and financing in the United States An expanded section on future trends in health care A full description of the health care reform politics under the Obama and Trump administrations and those being promoted in political campaigns New chapter on medicines, devices, and health care technology Increased coverage of mental health and substance abuse, long-term care, and other institutionalized populations Digital ancillaries include access to the eBook, an annual update on U.S. health policy, and new student exercises utilizing publicly available data Key Features: The most concise and balanced introduction to the U.S. health care system Provides a framework for examining how each structure and stakeholder within the health system interacts and how changes to policy would affect them Numerous cartoons, graphs, and tables break up the text and serve as meaningful context with pertinent data Each chapter utilizes learning objectives and discussion questions to guide student reading Includes a full suite of Instructor ancillaries including an Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoints, Test Bank, and other exercises

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0826174043

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Never Saw It Coming

Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst

By: Karen A. Cerulo

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Never Saw It Coming

Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst

By: Karen A. Cerulo

People—especially Americans—are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in Never Saw It Coming, considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities develop this pattern of thought, which do not, and what does that say about human ability to evaluate possible outcomes of decisions and events? Cerulo takes readers to diverse realms of experience, including intimate family relationships, key transitions in our lives, the places we work and play, and the boardrooms of organizations and bureaucracies. Using interviews, surveys, artistic and fictional accounts, media reports, historical data, and official records, she illuminates one of the most common, yet least studied, of human traits—a blatant disregard for worst-case scenarios. Never Saw It Coming, therefore, will be crucial to anyone who wants to understand human attempts to picture or plan the future. “In Never Saw It Coming, Karen Cerulo argues that in American society there is a ‘positive symmetry,’ a tendency to focus on and exaggerate the best, the winner, the most optimistic outcome and outlook. Thus, the conceptions of the worst are underdeveloped and elided. Naturally, as she masterfully outlines, there are dramatic consequences to this characterological inability to imagine and prepare for the worst, as the failure to heed memos leading up to both the 9/11 and NASA Challenger disasters, for instance, so painfully reminded us.”--Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College “Katrina, 9/11, and the War in Iraq—all demonstrate the costliness of failing to anticipate worst-case scenarios. Never Saw It Coming explains why it is so hard to do so: adaptive behavior hard-wired into human cognition is complemented and reinforced by cultural practices, which are in turn institutionalized in the rules and structures of formal organizations. But Karen Cerulo doesn’t just diagnose the problem; she uses case studies of settings in which people effectively anticipate and deal with potential disaster to describe structural solutions to the chronic dilemmas she describes so well. Never Saw It Coming is a powerful contribution to the emerging fields of cognitive and moral sociology.”--Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University

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Ransomware and Cyber Extortion

Response and Prevention

By: Sherri Davidoff,Matt Durrin,Karen Sprenger

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Ransomware and Cyber Extortion

Response and Prevention

By: Sherri Davidoff,Matt Durrin,Karen Sprenger

Protect Your Organization from Devastating Ransomware and Cyber Extortion Attacks Ransomware and other cyber extortion crimes have reached epidemic proportions. The secrecy surrounding them has left many organizations unprepared to respond. Your actions in the minutes, hours, days, and months after an attack may determine whether you'll ever recover. You must be ready. With this book, you will be. Ransomware and Cyber Extortion is the ultimate practical guide to surviving ransomware, exposure extortion, denial-of-service, and other forms of cyber extortion. Drawing heavily on their own unpublished case library, cyber security experts Sherri Davidoff, Matt Durrin, and Karen Sprenger guide you through responding faster, minimizing damage, investigating more effectively, expediting recovery, and preventing it from happening in the first place. Proven checklists help your security teams act swiftly and effectively together, throughout the entire lifecycle--whatever the attack and whatever the source. Understand different forms of cyber extortion and how they evolved Quickly recognize indicators of compromise Minimize losses with faster triage and containment Identify threats, scope attacks, and locate "patient zero" Initiate and manage a ransom negotiation--and avoid costly mistakes Decide whether to pay, how to perform due diligence, and understand risks Know how to pay a ransom demand while avoiding common pitfalls Reduce risks of data loss and reinfection Build a stronger, holistic cybersecurity program that reduces your risk of getting hacked This guide offers immediate value to everyone involved in prevention, response, planning, or policy: CIOs, CISOs, incident responders, investigators, negotiators, executives, legislators, regulators, law enforcement professionals, and others. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

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Security-First Compliance for Small Businesses

By: Karen Walsh

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Security-First Compliance for Small Businesses

By: Karen Walsh

Organizations of all sizes struggle to secure their data in a constantly evolving digital landscape. Expanding digital footprints and the rapid expansion of cloud strategies arising from the COVID-19 pandemic increase an organization’s attack surface. When combined with limited resources caused by the cybersecurity skills gap, securing small and mid-sized business IT infrastructures becomes more complicated. With limited staffing and budgetary restrictions, small businesses need to create cost-effective, security-driven programs that protect data while also meeting increasingly stringent compliance requirements. This book bridges the gap between complex technical language and business objectives to create a security-first review of the security and compliance landscapes. Starting from the premise that “with security comes compliance,” this book starts by defining “security-first” and then walking readers through the process of creating a holistic security and compliance program. Looking at security and privacy through the lens of zero trust, this overview of regulations and industry standards provides both background about and implications drawn from modern security practices. Rather than focusing solely on individual cybersecurity frameworks, this book offers insights into best practices based on the commonalities between regulations and industry standards, highlighting some of the primary differences to show the nuances. Woven throughout are practical examples of solutions that enable small and mid-sized businesses to create “cybersustainable” security-focused policies, processes, and controls that protect today’s future for tomorrow’s digital ecosystem.

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Serial Killer in Paris

By: Thomas Donahue,Karen Donahue

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Serial Killer in Paris

By: Thomas Donahue,Karen Donahue

Serial Killer in Paris Best selling authors, Thomas Donahue and Karen Donahue, take us on a special trip to Paris in this adventure that is filled with deadly twists and turns. The top of the Eiffel Tower is the perfect spot for John Hunter to propose marriage to Marin Ryan. After all, it’s Christmas Eve in Paris! Draped in newly fallen snow, the City of Light is decorated for the festive season, but Parisians are not in the spirit. A string of serial murders of young women sends violent tremors throughout the city. The police appear no closer to catching “the Christmas killer.” ReaderReview: “. . .a bit of romance, a bit of humor, and a bit of murder. . .what more could you ask for!” Reader Review: “An in depth investigation into the mind and degradation of a serial killer. . .”

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The Search for American Political Development

By: Karen Orren,Stephen Skowronek

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The Search for American Political Development

By: Karen Orren,Stephen Skowronek

Orren and Skowronek survey past and current 'APD' scholarship and outline a course of study for the future.

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Love Inspired Suspense November 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Lynette Eason,Jodie Bailey,Karen Kirst

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Love Inspired Suspense November 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Lynette Eason,Jodie Bailey,Karen Kirst

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: RESCUE MISSION (A Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit novel) by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Lynette Eason Kate Montgomery thought coming to Montana would help her recover the lost memories she needs to find her friend’s missing baby, but someone doesn’t want her memoires to return. K-9 handler Lucas Hudson and his dog, Angel, must protect her from a killer who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets safe. BLOWN COVER by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Jodie Bailey While undercover investigating a suspected arms dealer, army special agent Makenzie Fuller blows her cover to save the life of her former partner, Ian Andrews. But he can’t remember her or that he betrayed his country. Can he recover his memories in time to escape the killer’s clutches alive? WITNESS PROTECTION BREACH by Karen Kirst When his neighbor and her five-year-old son are attacked, mounted police officer Cruz Castillo is determined to keep them safe. But Jade Harris’s escaped convict ex-boyfriend is set on getting his revenge—by abducting his own son. Will Cruz be able to see past Jade’s secrets and protect her and her little boy? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense November 2022 Box Set – 2 of 2

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Hard to Handle, Book 8 of the Incognito Series

By: Karen Wiesner

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Hard to Handle, Book 8 of the Incognito Series

By: Karen Wiesner

Loyal operative Dez Luttino has graduated from the recruits of the Network, top of his classes and single-mindedly driven to succeed in his duty to his country. What he hadn't counted on was mentoring his first operative-Nova Granger, once a head-strong, albeit gorgeous, hunting machine who didn't seem to want to follow any rules except her own. As her team leader years ago, Dez had helped Nova tame her reckless nature and develop a team player attitude. She's become one of the organization's most valuable operatives. Little does Nova know that sexy Dez has been instructed to prepare her for an undercover mission that involves felling a ruthless criminal. While Dez has been instructed by his superiors to get close to Nova and encourage her to trust him implicitly, he soon realizes that he's gone beyond duty and done the unthinkable by falling in love.

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The Alternate History

Refiguring Historical Time

By: Karen Hellekson

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The Alternate History

Refiguring Historical Time

By: Karen Hellekson

What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.

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Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, 7th Edition

By: Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH,Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH

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Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, 7th Edition

By: Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH,Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH

There are many books on the U.S. healthcare system, but few have the longevity of this one. It is easy to read and straightforward in its approach to difficult subjects such as the rise of the Tea Party and how that movement has impacted healthcare. This update is certainly needed as the landscape has changed dramatically since the previous edition was published in 2007."--Doody's Medical Reviews This best-selling textbook remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the United States health care system. Providing an accessible overview of the basic components of the system, this latest edition is also entirely updated to address the health care reform bill of 2010 and subsequent changes to health care services, delivery, and financing. Like its predecessors, Jonasí Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System includes an overview of health care personnel, hospitals and other institutions, the federal government, financing and payment mechanisms, and managed care. It has been updated to offer insights into the 2010 health care reform bill and its resulting political and medical fallout, and a new chapter on health care system trends and consequences has been added. All students of health care administration and policy, as well as practicing health care professionals seeking a clear and concise overview of our health care system, will benefit from this resource. Key Features of the Updated Edition: Remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the U.S. health care system Entirely updated to address the 2010 health care reform bill and subsequent changes to health care services, delivery, and financing Includes new chapter on health care system trends and consequences Ideal for use in undergraduate courses on the U.S. health care system, in graduate survey courses, and in courses introducing the subject to medical students Comes with instructor materials, including PowerPoints, an instructor manual, and a test bank

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On the Outskirts of Engineering

Learning Identity, Gender, and Power via Engineering Practice

By: Karen L. Tonso

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On the Outskirts of Engineering

Learning Identity, Gender, and Power via Engineering Practice

By: Karen L. Tonso

On the Outskirts of Engineering: Learning Identity, Gender, and Power via Engineering Practice falls at the intersection of research about women in sites of technical practice and ethnographic studies of learning in communities of practice. Grounded in long-term participation on student teams completing real-world projects for industry and government clients, Outskirts provides an insider look at forms of engineering practice—the cultural production of engineer identity, of the ways that gender is made real in such sites of practice, and of power relations that emerge in response to enculturated practices that organize everyday life. Outskirts contributes to understanding cultural obduracy and the movement of some men and most women to the outskirts of engineering.

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How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America

By: Karen Brodkin

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How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America

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Recounts how Jews assimilated into, and became accepted by, mainstream white society in the later twentieth century, as they lost their working-class orientation.

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Hot on Her Tail

By: Karen Anders

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Hot on Her Tail

By: Karen Anders

Austin Taggart is a hot man with a superhot mission! His quarry: one beautiful bombshell of a nightclub owner, who insists she's innocent! The setting: steamy days spent together, followed by even sexier nights! Francesca "Maxie" Maxwell is on the lam. And if she can resist the sexy, but serious bounty hunter hot on her tail, her name will be cleared of all embezzlement charges. Innocent or not, as a fugitive, Maxie's fair game, and Austin's staked a claim on her. His male pride and professional reputation hang in the balance. But can he resist the arresting beauty once he's caught and cuffed her? He insists no amount of her convincing ways will persuade him to let her go. Or so he says. The question: Will she get to him, before he gets to her?

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense April 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Marie Ferrarella,Addison Fox,Karen Anders,Amelia Autin

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense April 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Marie Ferrarella,Addison Fox,Karen Anders,Amelia Autin

Looking for heart-racing romance and high-stakes suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? This Harlequin® Romantic Suspense box set includes Cavanaugh Fortune by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Marie Ferrarella, Secret Agent Boyfriend by Addison Fox, Joint Engagement by Karen Anders, and McKinnon's Royal Mission by Amelia Autin. Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with 4 new full-length titles for one great price every month!

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