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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 Third Edition of the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce A. Munsch invite students to take an active journey toward understanding the latest findings from the field of child development. Using robust pedagogical tools built into the chapter narratives, students are challenged to confront myths and misconceptions, participate in real-world activities with children and independently, and utilize video resources and research tools to pursue knowledge and develop critical thinking skills on their own. This new edition covers the latest findings on developmental neuroscience, positive youth development, the role of fathers, and more, with topics of diversity and culture integrated throughout. More than a textbook, this one-of-a-kind resource will continue to serve students as they go on to graduate studies, to work with children and adolescents professionally, and to care for children of their own.

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SAGE Publications

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1506330703

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Charros

How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity

By: Laura R. Barraclough

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Charros

How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity

By: Laura R. Barraclough

In the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation’s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the indigenous and Mexican horsemen who already inhabited the region. The charro—a skilled, elite, and landowning horseman—was an especially powerful symbol of Mexican masculinity and nationalism. After the 1930s, Mexican Americans in cities across the U.S. West embraced the figure as a way to challenge their segregation, exploitation, and marginalization from core narratives of American identity. In this definitive history, Laura R. Barraclough shows how Mexican Americans have used the charro in the service of civil rights, cultural citizenship, and place-making. Focusing on a range of U.S. cities, Charros traces the evolution of the “original cowboy” through mixed triumphs and hostile backlashes, revealing him to be a crucial agent in the production of U.S., Mexican, and border cultures, as well as a guiding force for Mexican American identity and social movements.

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University of California Press

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0520289110

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9780520289116

Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient

By: Nancy Tkacz Browne,Laura M. Flanigan,Carmel A. McComiskey,Pam Pieper

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Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient

By: Nancy Tkacz Browne,Laura M. Flanigan,Carmel A. McComiskey,Pam Pieper

The book packages all aspects of the pediatric surgical nurse's job into one comprehensive reference, including pre- and post-operative care, minimally invasive surgery, innovative therapies, fetal surgery, pediatric solid organ transplantation, and more. It offers up-to-date information on pediatric surgical nursing and includes many critical pathways and research topics. It is a must-have resource for all healthcare providers involved in the care of the general pediatric surgical patient.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449664024

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Jackson Pollock's Mural

The Transitional Moment

By: Yvonne Szafran,Laura Rivers,Alan Phenix,Thomas Learner,Ellen G. Landau,Steve Martin

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Jackson Pollock's Mural

The Transitional Moment

By: Yvonne Szafran,Laura Rivers,Alan Phenix,Thomas Learner,Ellen G. Landau,Steve Martin

Jackson Pollock's (1912–1956) first large-scale painting, Mural, in many ways represents the birth of Pollock, the legend. The controversial artist’s creation of this painting has been recounted in dozens of books and dramatized in the Oscar-winning film Pollock. Rumors—such as it was painted in one alcohol-fueled night and at first didn’t fit the intended space—abound. But never in doubt was that the creation of the painting was pivotal, not only for Pollock but for the Abstract Expressionists who would follow his radical conception of art —“no limits, just edges.” Mural, painted in 1943, was Pollock’s first major commission. It was made for the entrance hall of the Manhattan duplex of Peggy Guggenheim, who donated it to the University of Iowa in the 1950s where it stayed until its 2012 arrival for conservation and study at the Getty Center. This book unveils the findings of that examination, providing a more complete picture of Pollock’s process than ever before. It includes an essay by eminent Pollock scholar Ellen Landau and an introduction by comedian Steve Martin. It accompanies an exhibition of the painting on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 11 through June 1, 2014.

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Getty Publications

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1606063235

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9781606063231

Targets of Terror

Contemporary Assassination

By: Laura N. Bell

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Targets of Terror

Contemporary Assassination

By: Laura N. Bell

Targets of Terror addresses the repercussions of assassination as a tactic of terrorism and delineates post-assassination political outcomes across target types. Assassination of heads of state, such as John F. Kennedy and Yitzhak Rabin, are rare events, but the political murders of police personnel, local government officials, politicians, and journalists occur frequently. These “softer” targets are often pursued during broader campaigns of terrorist violence, and the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) records a significant number of these assassination events—16,246 to be exact—between 1977 and 2017. Utilizing survival analysis and the Polity IV Index to examine the span of time from a terrorist assassination to potential shifts in state political institutions, Laura N. Bell compares changes in authoritarian, mixed, and tumultuous regimes with democratic governments. She argues that these cases illuminate the extent to which the type of assassination target may or may not be linked to significant institutional change. By establishing differences in post-assassination political outcomes across regimes and targets, Bell provides a baseline study upon which to build future examinations of the types and severity of risks to governmental institutions during terror campaigns.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786613921

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Hanging Out to Dry? Long-term Macroeconomic Effects of Drought in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

By: Mr. Kalin I Tintchev,Laura Jaramillo

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Hanging Out to Dry? Long-term Macroeconomic Effects of Drought in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

By: Mr. Kalin I Tintchev,Laura Jaramillo

Using a comprehensive drought measure and a panel autoregressive distributed lag model, the paper finds that worsening drought conditions can result in long-term scarring of real GDP per capita growth and affect long-term price stability in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCS), more so than in other countries, leaving them further behind. Lower crop productivity and slower investment are key channels through which drought impacts economic growth in FCS. In a high emissions scenario, drought conditions will cut 0.4 percentage points of FCS’ growth of real GDP per capita every year over the next 40 years and increase average inflation by 2 percentage points. Drought will also increase hunger in FCS, from alreay high levels. The confluence of lower food production and higher prices in a high emissions scenario would push 50 million more people in FCS into hunger. The macroeconomic effects of drought in FCS countries are amplified by their low copying capacity due to high public debt, low social spending, insufficient trade openness, high water insecurity, and weak governance.

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International Monetary Fund

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A People's Guide to Los Angeles

By: Laura Pulido,Laura Barraclough,Wendy Cheng

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A People's Guide to Los Angeles

By: Laura Pulido,Laura Barraclough,Wendy Cheng

This book documents 115 little-known sites in Los Angeles where struggles related to race, class, gender, sexuality, and the environment have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles.

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Univ of California Press

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0520270819

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9780520270817

Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire

By: Laura Fernández-González

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Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire

By: Laura Fernández-González

Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, neither the king’s monastery nor his collections fully convey the rich artistic landscape of early modern Iberia. In this book, Laura Fernández-González examines Philip’s architectural and artistic projects, placing them within the wider context of Europe and the transoceanic Iberian dominions. Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire investigates ideas of empire and globalization in the art and architecture of the Iberian world during the sixteenth century, a time when the Spanish Empire was one of the largest in the world. Fernández-González illuminates Philip’s use of building regulations to construct an imperial city in Madrid and highlights the importance of his transformation of the Simancas fortress into an archive. She analyzes the refashioning of his imperial image upon his ascension to the Portuguese throne and uses the Hall of Battles in El Escorial as a lens through which to understand visual culture, history writing, and Philip’s kingly image as it was reflected in the funeral commemorations mourning his death across the Iberian world. Positioning Philip’s art and architectural programs within the wider cultural context of politics, legislation, religion, and theoretical trends, Fernández-González shows how design and images traveled across the Iberian world and provides a nuanced assessment of Philip’s role in influencing them. Original and important, this panoramic work will have a lasting impact on Philip II’s artistic legacy. Art historians and scholars of Iberia and sixteenth-century history will especially value Fernández-González’s research.

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Penn State Press

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0271089962

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9780271089966

Making Cinelandia

American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age

By: Laura Isabel Serna

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Making Cinelandia

American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age

By: Laura Isabel Serna

In the 1920s, as American films came to dominate Mexico's cinemas, many of its cultural and political elites feared that this "Yanqui invasion" would turn Mexico into a cultural vassal of the United States. In Making Cinelandia, Laura Isabel Serna contends that Hollywood films were not simply tools of cultural imperialism. Instead, they offered Mexicans on both sides of the border an imaginative and crucial means of participating in global modernity, even as these films and their producers and distributors frequently displayed anti-Mexican bias. Before the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, Mexican audiences used their encounters with American films to construct a national film culture. Drawing on extensive archival research, Serna explores the popular experience of cinemagoing from the perspective of exhibitors, cinema workers, journalists, censors, and fans, showing how Mexican audiences actively engaged with American films to identify more deeply with Mexico.

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Duke University Press

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0822376792

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9780822376798

Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: A User's Guide for Paleontologists

By: Laura C. Soul,David F. Wright

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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: A User's Guide for Paleontologists

By: Laura C. Soul,David F. Wright

Recent advances in statistical approaches called phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) have provided paleontologists with a powerful set of analytical tools for investigating evolutionary tempo and mode in fossil lineages. However, attempts to integrate PCMs with fossil data often present workers with practical challenges or unfamiliar literature. This Element presents guides to the theory behind and the application of PCMs with fossil taxa. Based on an empirical dataset of Paleozoic crinoids, example analyses are presented to illustrate common applications of PCMs to fossil data, including investigating patterns of correlated trait evolution and macroevolutionary models of morphological change. The authors emphasize the importance of accounting for sources of uncertainty and discuss how to evaluate model fit and adequacy. Finally, the authors discuss several promising methods for modeling heterogeneous evolutionary dynamics with fossil phylogenies. Integrating phylogeny-based approaches with the fossil record provides a rigorous, quantitative perspective on understanding key patterns in the history of life.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108897355

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Diego Rivera

Legendary Mexican Painter

By: Laura Baskes Litwin,Diego Rivera

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Diego Rivera

Legendary Mexican Painter

By: Laura Baskes Litwin,Diego Rivera

Profiles the Mexican muralist who inspired a revival of fresco painting in Latin America and the United States, and discusses his turbulent marriage to Frida Kahlo.

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Enslow Publishers, Inc.

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0766024865

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9780766024861

Eros Ideologies

Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial

By: Laura E. Pérez

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Eros Ideologies

Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial

By: Laura E. Pérez

In Eros Ideologies Laura E. Pérez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of the interdependence of all life-forms, she writes of the decolonial as an ongoing project rooted in love as an ideology to frame respectful coexistence of social and cultural diversity. In readings of art that includes self-portraits by Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez, the drawings and paintings of Chilean American artist Liliana Wilson, and Favianna Rodriguez's screen-printed images, Pérez identifies art as one of the most valuable laboratories for creating, imagining, and experiencing new forms of decolonial thought. Such art expresses what Pérez calls eros ideologies: understandings of social and natural reality that foreground the centrality of respect and care of self and others as the basis for a more democratic and responsible present and future. Employing a range of writing styles and voices—from the poetic to the scholarly—Pérez shows how art can point to more just and loving ways of being.

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Duke University Press

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0822372371

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The Vanishing VelÃ¡zquez

A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

By: Laura Cumming

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The Vanishing VelÃ¡zquez

A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

By: Laura Cumming

From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it. When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young--too young to be king--and yet also too young to be painted by the Flemish painter to which the work was attributed. Snare had found something incredible--but what? His research brought him to Diego Velázquez, whose long-lost portrait of Prince Charles has eluded art experts for generations. Velázquez (1599-1660) was the official painter of the Madrid court, during the time the Spanish Empire teetered on the edge of collapse. When Prince Charles of England--a man wealthy enough to help turn Spain's fortunes--ventured to the court to propose a marriage with a Spanish princess, he allowed just a few hours to sit for his portrait. Snare believed only Velázquez could have met this challenge. But in making his theory public, Snare was ostracized, victim to aristocrats and critics who accused him of fraud, and forced to choose, like Velázquez himself, between art and family. A thrilling investigation into the complex meaning of authenticity and the unshakable determination that drives both artists and collectors of their work, The Vanishing Velázquez travels from extravagant Spanish courts in the 1700s to the gritty courtrooms and auction houses of nineteenth-century London and New York. But it is above all a tale of mystery and detection, of tragic mishaps and mistaken identities, of class, politics, snobbery, crime, and almost farcical accident. It is a magnificently crafted page-turner, a testimony to how and why great works of art can affect us to the point of obsession.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476762155

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Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

Winner of the 2020 Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Chronologically organized, Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence, Second Edition presents topics within the field of child development through unique and highly engaging Active Learning opportunities. The Active Learning features foster a dynamic and personal learning process for students. Within each chapter, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch introduce students to a wide range of real-world applications of psychological research to child development. Pedagogical features help students discover the excitement of studying child development and equip them with skills they can use long after completing the course. 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. LMS Cartridge (formerly known as SAGE Coursepacks): 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. Also of Interest: Case Studies in Lifespan Development by Stephanie M. Wright presents a series of 12 case studies shaped by the contributions of real students to build immersive examples that readers can relate to and enjoy. Bundle Case Studies in Lifespan Development with Child Development From Infancy To Adolescence, Second Edition for even more savings!

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150639891X

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Diego Rivera

Mexican Muralist

By: Mariana Medina,Laura Baskes Litwin

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Diego Rivera

Mexican Muralist

By: Mariana Medina,Laura Baskes Litwin

Diego Rivera is famous for painting murals of everyday life in Mexico. But he was also known for his work in literature, cinematography, and his marriage to another artist, Frida Kahlo. Discover the world of Diego Rivera, from the Mexican Revolution to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, learn all about this talented artist and his creative life.

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Enslow Publishing, LLC

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0766069915

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9780766069916

Measuring Global Media Freedom

The Media Freedom Analyzer as a New Assessment Tool

By: Laura Schneider

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Measuring Global Media Freedom

The Media Freedom Analyzer as a New Assessment Tool

By: Laura Schneider

The Media Freedom Analyzer developed by Laura Schneider is a new way to measure global media freedom in a more objective, unbiased and transparent way. Grounded in the opinions of around 1000 experts from 126 countries, the index is the first empirically validated tool to assess free and independent media across the world. The existing press freedom rankings are frequently criticized for being arbitrary and having a Western bias. This book tackles this very problem. In times of widespread populism, disinformation and mistrust in the media, it is vitally important to have an assessment tool that is accepted across cultures.

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Springer Nature

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3658280956

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Text Structures From Poetry, Grades 4-12

Lessons to Help Students Read, Analyze, and Create Poems They Will Remember

By: Gretchen Bernabei,Laura Van Prooyen

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Text Structures From Poetry, Grades 4-12

Lessons to Help Students Read, Analyze, and Create Poems They Will Remember

By: Gretchen Bernabei,Laura Van Prooyen

Poetry is a joyful art form, but how do you teach students to joyfully read, analyze, and write poems? In Text Structures from Poetry, Grades 4-12, award-winning educator Gretchen Bernabei teams up with noted poet Laura Van Prooyen to light the path. Centered around 50 classroom-proven lesson and poem pairs, the mentor texts represent a broad range of voices in contemporary poetry and the canon. These unique and engaging lessons show educators how to "pop the hood" on a poem to discover what makes it work, using text structures to unlock the engine of a poem. This method enables educators to engage students in reading and re-reading a poem closely, to identify how the parts of the poem relate to each other to create movement, and to leverage what they have learned to write their own evocative poems. Each of the 50 lessons includes a mentor poem that serves as an excellent model for young writers, a diagram that illustrates the text structure of the poem, and several inspiring examples of student poems written to emulate the mentor poem. Easy-to-use instructional resources enhance instructor and student understanding and include: Teaching notes for unlocking the text structure of a poem and the engine that makes it work. Tips for exploring rhyme scheme, meter, and fixed forms. Instructional sequences that vary the ways students can read and write poems and other prose forms. Ideas for revising and publishing student poems. A "Meet the Contemporary Authors" section that includes fascinating messages from the contemporary poets. Teach your students to learn about poetry using the magic of poems themselves and lead the way to a rewarding love of poetry for teachers and students alike.

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Corwin Press

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1544398867

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9781544398860

Nature's Strongholds

The World's Great Wildlife Reserves

By: Laura Riley,William Riley

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Nature's Strongholds

The World's Great Wildlife Reserves

By: Laura Riley,William Riley

Covers more than 600 reserves in over 80 countries, includes information on how to visit these extraordinary sites, their ecological significance and some historical background.

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Princeton University Press

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0691122199

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9780691122199

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

By: Ronald J. Angel,Laura Lein,Jane Henrici

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Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

By: Ronald J. Angel,Laura Lein,Jane Henrici

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although government programs are available for children, adults without private health care coverage have few options. Detailed ethnographic and survey data from selected low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio document the lapses in medical coverage that poor families experience and reveal the extent of untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, medical indebtedness, and irregular health care that women and children suffer as a result. Extensive poverty, the increasing proportion of minority households, and the growing dependence on insecure service sector work all influence access to health care for families at the economic margin.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139454552

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Corporate Liquidity and Solvency in Europe during COVID-19: The Role of Policies

By: Mr.Christian H Ebeke,Nemanja Jovanovic,Ms.Laura Valderrama,Jing Zhou

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Corporate Liquidity and Solvency in Europe during COVID-19: The Role of Policies

By: Mr.Christian H Ebeke,Nemanja Jovanovic,Ms.Laura Valderrama,Jing Zhou

The spread of COVID-19, containment measures, and general uncertainty led to a sharp reduction in activity in the first half of 2020. Europe was hit particularly hard—the economic contraction in 2020 is estimated to have been among the largest in the world—with potentially severe repercussions on its nonfinancial corporations. A wave of corporate bankruptcies would generate mass unemployment, and a loss of productive capacity and firm-specific human capital. With many SMEs in Europe relying primarily on the banking sector for external finance, stress in the corporate sector could easily translate into pressures in the banking system (Aiyar et al., forthcoming).

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International Monetary Fund

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1513570919

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Evaluating Social Funds

A Cross-country Analysis of Community Investments

By: Laura Rawlings,Lynne Darling Sherburne-Benz,Julie VanDomelen

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Evaluating Social Funds

A Cross-country Analysis of Community Investments

By: Laura Rawlings,Lynne Darling Sherburne-Benz,Julie VanDomelen

Annotation Introduced in Bolivia a little over a decade ago, social funds have become a key community-led poverty reduction tool. The social fund model has proved to be a dynamic, replicable approach, easily adapted and scaled up in diverse countries around the world. This study is the first systematic cross-country impact evaluation of social funds using survey data and accepted evaluation methodologies.

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World Bank Publications

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0821350625

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9780821350621

The New American Farmer

Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability

By: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

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The New American Farmer

Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability

By: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. Although the majority of farms in the United States have US-born owners who identify as white, a growing number of new farmers are immigrants, many of them from Mexico, who originally came to the United States looking for work in agriculture. In The New American Farmer, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries—including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor—most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States. Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from opportunities. She discusses, among other topics, the history of discrimination against farm laborers in the United States; the invisibility of Latino/a farmers to government and universities; new farmers' sense of agrarian and racial identity; and the future of the agrarian class system. Minkoff-Zern argues that immigrant farmers, with their knowledge and experience of alternative farming practices, are—despite a range of challenges—actively and substantially contributing to the movement for an ecological and sustainable food system. Scholars and food activists should take notice.

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MIT Press

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0262537834

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9780262537834

Wrox SharePoint 2010 SharePoint911 Three-Pack

By: Todd Klindt,Shane Young,Jennifer Mason,Laura Rogers,Randy Drisgill,John Ross,Larry Riemann,Amanda Perran,Shane Perran,Jacob J. Sanford,Paul Stubbs,Steve Caravajal

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Wrox SharePoint 2010 SharePoint911 Three-Pack

By: Todd Klindt,Shane Young,Jennifer Mason,Laura Rogers,Randy Drisgill,John Ross,Larry Riemann,Amanda Perran,Shane Perran,Jacob J. Sanford,Paul Stubbs,Steve Caravajal

The Wrox SharePoint 2010 SharePoint911 Three-Pack combines the contents of three full e-books written by the experts from SharePoint911. That's over 1800 pages of hands-on advice from Todd Klindt, Shane Young, Laura Rogers, Randy Drisgill, Jennifer Mason, John Ross, and Larry Riemann, among others. In Beginning SharePoint 2010: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint (ISBN 978-0-470-61789-2) by Amanda Perran, Shane Perran, Jennifer Mason, and Laura Rogers, readers learn the core concepts, terminology, and features of SharePoint 2010. In Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (ISBN 978-0-470-58464-4) by Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, and Larry Riemann, the reader gets a deep dive into branding a SharePoint site. In the third book of the set, the SharePoint bestseller Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration (ISBN 978-0-470-53333-8) by Todd Klindt, Shane Young, and Steve Caravajal, the authors provide a detailed look at the administration tools available in SharePoint 2010.

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1118381505

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Hawking Hits on the Information Highway

The Challenge of Online Drug Sales for Law Enforcement

By: Laura L. Finley

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Hawking Hits on the Information Highway

The Challenge of Online Drug Sales for Law Enforcement

By: Laura L. Finley

This book examines the phenomenon of online drug and drug paraphernalia sales, drug recipes, and information about drugs. Discussing the availability of products and advice regarding prescription drugs, steroids, and illicit drugs, the book also offers a profile of who is buying, selling, and sharing these products and this information. Additionally, Hawking Hits on the Information Highway examines the rise of drug testing as a vehicle of the war on drugs, and looks at how the Web has been used to market products and tips for cheating on drug tests. The book identifies the challenges for law enforcement and other bodies in policing the Web, and details how Internet-based sales are altering the war on drugs. This groundbreaking book will particularly benefit students in college courses specifically addressing drugs, criminology, and law enforcement, and will be useful in any course examining wider social issues.

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Peter Lang

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0820486000

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Art for All

What is Public Art?

By: Laura Hensley

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Art for All

What is Public Art?

By: Laura Hensley

Each Culture in Action book is packed with high-interest facts, imaginative activities, and fascinating photographs.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1410939235

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Triphiodorus, "The Sack of Troy"

A General Study and a Commentary

By: Laura Miguélez-Cavero

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Triphiodorus, "The Sack of Troy"

A General Study and a Commentary

By: Laura Miguélez-Cavero

The last full commentary on The Sack of Troy was published by Wernicke in 1819 and even the most recent analyses of the poem tend to see it as a quick halt in the evolution of epic poetry on its way towards Nonnus of Panopolis. This book offers a complete treatment of The Sack of Troy for its own sake. The introduction gathers all the information we have about Triphiodorus and his work, focusing on the reasons behind the election of topic, the outline of the poem, different forms of allusion, the use of the characterisation of individuals and groups to sustain plot development, the nature of the narrator and the value of speeches. This part is followed by a detailed analysis of Triphiodorus’ literary universe: his different forms of engagement not only with Homer and other distant poets, but also with Imperial literature and the contemporary cultural production. The line-by-line commentary of the poem attends to the position of each episode in the poem and in the tradition of the Trojan War and offers a linguistic, formal and stylistic analysis. Each section or episode is preceded by a comprehensive introduction, always bringing in all the related bibliography but providing a fresh and reliable view on Triphiodorus.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110285304

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Property, Power and Human Rights

Lived Universalism In and Through the Margins

By: Laura Dehaibi

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Property, Power and Human Rights

Lived Universalism In and Through the Margins

By: Laura Dehaibi

Through deconstructing the right to property, this incisive book critically assesses the claim that international human rights law is universal. Laura Dehaibi presents an innovative bottom-up and dialogical approach to human rights, lived universalism, that draws on lived experience in the margins to give rights a subversive and emancipatory meaning.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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103531391X

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9781035313914

Modernism: The Basics

By: Laura Winkiel

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Modernism: The Basics

By: Laura Winkiel

Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to answer such questions as: What is modernism? How did modernism begin? Has modernism developed differently in different media? How is it related to postmodernism and postcolonialism? How have politics, urbanization and new technologies affected modernism? With engaging examples from art, literature and historical documents, each chapter provides suggestions for further reading, histories of relevant movements and clear definitions of key terminology, making this an essential guide for anyone approaching the study of modernism for the first time.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317537904

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9781317537908

Child Development

By: Laura Berk

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Child Development

By: Laura Berk

Child Development

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Pearson Higher Education AU

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0205878482

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9780205878482

Neoplastic Gastrointestinal Pathology

An Illustrated Guide

By: Laura W. Lamps,Laura Lamps, MD,Andrew Bellizzi, MD,Wendy L. Frankel, MD,Scott R. Owens, MD,Rhonda Yantiss, MD

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Neoplastic Gastrointestinal Pathology

An Illustrated Guide

By: Laura W. Lamps,Laura Lamps, MD,Andrew Bellizzi, MD,Wendy L. Frankel, MD,Scott R. Owens, MD,Rhonda Yantiss, MD

Approximately 20 million gastrointestinal tract biopsies are performed each year in the United States. While many of these are straightforward, some are histologically subtle or involve a complex differential diagnosis. This concise visual guide to the full range of neoplastic gastrointestinal specimens provides the practicing pathologist or trainee with a clear analysis and diagnosis of both common and potentially misleading variants of disease. The authors cover the full tubular GI tract with over 600 high-quality images and a concise description of the key features of each entity: definitions and terminology, gross and morphologic features, differential diagnoses, useful ancillary tests, staging and grading parameters, and special clinical considerations. Images depict differential diagnosis features, frequently seen variants that can potentially lead to misclassification or misdiagnosis, and correlated molecular and immunologic techniques.

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Springer Publishing Company

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1936287722

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9781936287727

Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic

By: Osmel Manzano,Sebastián Auguste,Laura Alfaro,Daniel Artana,Adolfo Taylhardat,Mario Cuevas,Luis Porto

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Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic

By: Osmel Manzano,Sebastián Auguste,Laura Alfaro,Daniel Artana,Adolfo Taylhardat,Mario Cuevas,Luis Porto

Promotion of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been a priority policy goal in Central America, Panama and Dominican Republic for the past twenty years. Fiscal benefits are among the policies that have been used to attract it. At first sight the model followed has been fruitful. In 2013 the eight countries of the region succeeded in attracting US$ 12.7 billion, the highest level of FDI in their history. But there are question marks about how FDI will perform in future and what the incentives to promote it should be now that World Trade Organization rules on the instruments used to promote FDI in the region have changed. The present book analyzes this situation in depth. Firstly, it reviews the importance of FDI in the region as a source of financing for the external deficit. Then it reviews the findings of international economic research on the impact of FDI on growth and the factors that attract it. It highlights that far from being assured, the benefits of FDI depend on complementary factors which are often not present in the region. Subsequently the book analyzes the international evolution of FDI and the growing importance of multinationals of Latin origin. It then tackles the controversial question of the efficacy of fiscal incentives as a means to attract investment, following an innovative technical approach based on firm level data which questions whether the free zones have had a net positive impact on development. This analysis is complemented by a study of investment promotion policies, which focuses particularly on the Investment Promotion Agencies. Finally, the book outlines the prospects for FDI attraction now the sun has set on strategies based on providing fiscal incentives. It argues that a new strategy should be based on the creation of new skills and capacities through instruments designed to complement productive development policies and thereby generate positive spillovers in the economy.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1597822086

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9781597822084

Counseling the Culturally Diverse

Theory and Practice

By: Derald Wing Sue,David Sue,Helen A. Neville,Laura Smith

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Counseling the Culturally Diverse

Theory and Practice

By: Derald Wing Sue,David Sue,Helen A. Neville,Laura Smith

The most up-to-date edition of a critically acclaimed and widely read cross-cultural counseling resource In the newly revised Ninth Edition of Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, a team of veteran practitioners delivers an up-to-date and comprehensive exploration of multicultural counseling combining the most recent research and theoretical concepts in the field. The book examines concepts like “cultural humility,” the role of white allies in multicultural counseling, social justice counseling, “minority stress,” and microaggressions. Readers will also find: Expansive discussions on the implications of numerous subjects for real-world clinical practice “Reflection and Discussion Questions” that encourage reader engagement, learning, and retention with the concepts discussed within Access to an instructor’s website that provides PowerPoint decks, exam questions, sample syllabi, and links to other valuable resources Perfectly suited to researchers and practitioners who work in or study mental health and interact with a racially, ethnically, culturally, or socio-demographically diverse population, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice also belongs in the libraries of social workers and psychiatrists.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119861918

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9781119861911

How Schools Make Race

Teaching Latinx Racialization in America

By: Laura C. Chávez-Moreno

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How Schools Make Race

Teaching Latinx Racialization in America

By: Laura C. Chávez-Moreno

An investigation into how schooling can enhance and hinder critical-racial consciousness through the making of the Latinx racialized group

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Harvard Education Press

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1682539237

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9781682539231

Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology E-Book

By: John R. Goldblum,Laura W. Lamps,Jesse K. McKenney

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Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology E-Book

By: John R. Goldblum,Laura W. Lamps,Jesse K. McKenney

For over 60 years, residents and practicing pathologists have turned to Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology for definitive guidance on every aspect of the field, delivered in a readable, easy-to-digest, and engaging manner. In the 11th Edition, a dynamic new author team ensures that this classic text retains its signature anecdotal style, while revising the content to bring you fully up to date. Widely used for board exam preparation, as well as for everyday reference in practice, this leading resource equips you to effectively and efficiently diagnose the complete range of neoplastic and non-neoplastic entities. - Provides comprehensive coverage of the clinical presentation, gross and microscopic features, ultrastructural and immunohistochemical findings, prognosis, and therapy for virtually every pathologic lesion. - Presents content now grouped in sections corresponding to organs and systems, making disease entities easier to locate. - Includes state-of-the-art coverage of the latest disease classifications, molecular biology and pathology, immunohistochemistry, genetics, prognostic/predictive markers, and more – all highlighted by more than 3,000 full-color illustrations of commonly seen pathologies. - Showcases the knowledge and expertise of an innovative new author team: prolific author John R. Goldblum, MD (GI pathology, soft tissue tumors); Laura Lamps, MD (hepatobiliary, endocrine tumors, infectious disease); Jesse McKenney, MD (GU/GYN, soft tissue tumors); and Jeff Myers, MD (pulmonary, pleural, mediastinum); accompanied by a select list of subspecialty contributors. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, Q&As, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323442021

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