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The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha

By: Laura Feldt

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The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha

By: Laura Feldt

The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha argues that perspectives drawn from literary-critical theories of the fantastic and fantasy are apt to explore Hebrew Bible religious narratives. The book focuses on the narratives' marvels, monsters, and magic, rather than whether or not the stories depict historical events. The Exodus narrative (Ex 1-18) and a selection of additional Hebrew Bible narratives (Num 11-14, Judg 6-8, 1 Kings 17-19, 2 Kings 4-7) are analysed from a fantasy-theoretical perspective. The 'fantasy perspective' helps to make sense of elements of these narratives that - although prominently featured in the stories - have previously often been explained by being explained away. These case studies can illuminate Hebrew Bible religion and offer wider perspectives on religious narrative generally. In light of the fantasy-theoretical approach, these Hebrew Bible stories - with the Exodus narrative at the centre - read not as foundational stories, affirming triumphantly and unambiguously the bond between the deity, his people, and their territory, but rather as texts that harbour and even actively encourage ambiguity and uncertainty, not necessarily prompting belief, orientation, and a sense of meaningfulness, but also open-ended reflection and doubt. The case studies suggest that other religious narratives, both in and beyond the Judaic tradition, may also be amenable to interpretation in these terms, thus questioning a dominant trend in myth studies. The results of the analyses lead to a discussion of the role of ambiguity, uncertainty, and transformation in religious narrative in broader perspective, and to a questioning of the emphasis in the study of religion on the capacity of religious narrative for founding and maintaining institutions, orienting identity, and defending order over disorder. The book suggests the wider importance of incorporating destabilisation, disorientation, and ambiguity more strongly into theories of what religious narrative is and does.

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Routledge

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131754384X

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The War on Choice

The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back

By: Gloria Feldt,Laura Fraser

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The War on Choice

The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back

By: Gloria Feldt,Laura Fraser

Discusses the undercover war on women's rights on the part of right-wing conservatives and their White House allies, examining the actions being taken at the highest levels of government against contraception, sex education, and abortion.

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0553382926

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The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha

By: Laura Feldt

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1317543831

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Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education

By: Laura S. Hamilton,Brian M. Stecher,Stephen P. Klein

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Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education

By: Laura S. Hamilton,Brian M. Stecher,Stephen P. Klein

Test-based accountability systems that attach high stakes to standardized test results have raised a number of issues on educational assessment and accountability. Do these high-stakes tests measure student achievement accurately? How can policymakers and educators attach the right consequences to the results of these tests? And what kinds of tradeoffs do these testing policies introduce? This book responds to the growing emphasis on high-stakes testing and offers recommendations for more-effective test-based accountability systems.

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193

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Rand Corporation

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0833033980

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9780833033987

OSCEs for Intensive Care Medicine

By: Peter Hersey,Laura O'Connor,Thomas E Sams,Jon Sturman

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OSCEs for Intensive Care Medicine

By: Peter Hersey,Laura O'Connor,Thomas E Sams,Jon Sturman

OSCEs for Intensive Care Medicine is a comprehensive revision resource for doctors preparing to take the Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FFICM) and the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC). Written by a team of practicing intensive care consultants with extensive experience running a successful FFCIM course, this book features over 100 practice questions organised into eight mock OSCE exams and is mapped to both the FFCIM and CoBaTrICE curricula. Reflecting the real exams, they are divided into stations on professionalism, data, resuscitation, and equipment, each of which are accompanied by further reading to ensure high-quality self-assessment. With hints and tips throughout to help candidates avoid common mistakes and misconceptions, this book is essential reading for any doctor preparing for the FFCIM or EDIC OSCE exams.

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Oxford University Press

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0192557742

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The Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Movement

Serving Women or Saving Babies?

By: Laura S. Hussey

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The Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Movement

Serving Women or Saving Babies?

By: Laura S. Hussey

There is more to the pro-life movement than campaigning against abortion. That, at least, is the logic behind a large and growing network of pro-life pregnancy centers offering “help” to pregnant women. As these centers face increasing scrutiny, this book offers the first social-scientific study of the pro-life pregnancy help movement. The work being performed at pro-life pregnancy centers, maternity homes, and other charitable agencies is, Laura S. Hussey suggests, distinguished by several strategic features: it is directed at non-state targets, operates in largely privatized venues, employs service provision as its primary tactic, and aims to address causes popularly associated with its countermovement such as women’s (including poor women’s) wellbeing and empowerment. The motives and nature of the services such pregnancy centers deliver have become the subjects of competing political narratives—but, until now, very little empirical research. A rich, mixed-method study including data from two original national surveys and extensive interviews, Hussey’s book adjudicates these opposing views even as it provides a measured look at the identity, work, history, and impact of pro-life pregnancy centers and related service providers, as well as their relations with the larger American antiabortion movement. To what extent is pro-life pregnancy help work primarily geared to serving women versus “saving babies?” Pursued in these pages, the answer has broad implications for the wider study of social action and the pro-life movement, and for the future of the American abortion conflict.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700629009

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9780700629008

Beyond Zion

The Jewish Territorialist Movement

By: Laura Almagor

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Beyond Zion

The Jewish Territorialist Movement

By: Laura Almagor

Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material 2022. Jewish political and cultural behaviour during the first half of the twentieth century comes to the fore in this portrayal of a forgotten movement with contemporary relevance. Commencing with the Zionist rejection of the Uganda proposal in 1905, the Jewish Territorialist Movement searched for areas outside Palestine in which to create settlements of Jews. This study analyses the Territorialists’ ideology and activities in the Jewish context of the time, but their thought and discourse also reflect geopolitical concerns that still have resonance today in debates about colonialist attitudes to peoplehood, territory, and space. As the colonial world order rapidly changed after 1945, the Territorialists did not abandon their aspirations in overseas lands. Instead, in their attempts to find settlement solutions for Europe’s ‘surplus’ Jews, they moved from negotiating predominantly with the European colonizers to negotiating also with the ever more powerful non-Western leaders of decolonizing nations. This book reconstructs the rich history of the activities and changing ideologies of Jewish Territorialism, represented by Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Territorial Organisation (the ITO) and, later, by the Freeland League for Jewish Colonization under the leadership of Isaac Steinberg. Via Uganda, Angola, Madagascar, Australia, and Suriname, this story eventually leads us to questions about yidishkeyt, and to forgotten early twentieth-century ideas of how to be Jewish.

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Liverpool University Press

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1802070745

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9781802070743

The Paradox of Preservation

Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore

By: Laura Alice Watt

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The Paradox of Preservation

Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore

By: Laura Alice Watt

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Univ of California Press

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0520277074

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9780520277076

Jamovi for Psychologists

By: Paul Richardson,Laura Machan

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Jamovi for Psychologists

By: Paul Richardson,Laura Machan

This textbook offers a refreshingly clear and digestible introduction to statistical analysis for psychology using the user-friendly jamovi software. The authors provide a concise, practical guide that takes students from the early stages of research design, with a jargon-free explanation of terminology, and walks them through key analyses such as the t-test, ANOVA, correlation, chi-square, and linear regression. The book features written interpretations to help learners identify relevant statistics along the way. With fascinating examples from psychological research, as well as screenshots and activities from jamovi, this text is sure to encourage even the most reluctant statistics student. The comprehensive companion website provides an extra helping hand, with practice datasets and a full suite of tutorial videos to help consolidate understanding. This is essential reading for psychology students using jamovi for their courses in Research Methods and Statistics or Data Analysis.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350928763

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Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying

A Training Manual for Nursing Home Staff

By: Martha L. Henderson (MSN.),Laura C. Hanson,Kimberly S. Reynolds

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Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying

A Training Manual for Nursing Home Staff

By: Martha L. Henderson (MSN.),Laura C. Hanson,Kimberly S. Reynolds

Written in plain language for nursing home staff caring for residents facing the final phase of life, this book examines eight topics of end-of-life and palliative care in a long-term setting, looking at grief and loss, advance care planning, choices about eating and drinking, pain management, emotional and spiritual care, and self-care for caregivers. Appendices provide prognostic guidelines, assessment instruments, participant handouts, and homework. Henderson is a geriatric nurse practitioner. There is no subject index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826119255

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Ebook: Becoming Agile: Coaching Behavioural Change for Business Results

By: Laura Re Turner

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Ebook: Becoming Agile: Coaching Behavioural Change for Business Results

By: Laura Re Turner

This book outlines how coaches and leaders use Agile frameworks and coaching psychology to create behavioural change and to lay the foundations of success. Using the latest coaching approaches from executive, team, and systemic team coaching, the book shows how coaches can use Agile frameworks at the level of mindset and behaviours. The book demonstrates well-known frameworks such as Scrum, DSDM, and Lean Startup to support change and success. Readers will learn about the Six Lenses of Systemic Team Coaching including the individual mindset, interpersonal skills, team working and collaboration skills, and awareness of the external business environment, to create true business agility. Becoming Agile is an indispensable resource for professional coaches who work with organisations that want to become Agile, as well as business leaders looking for a meaningful way to reap the benefits promised by agility. “This book is perfect for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and indeed anyone new to the world of agile leadership.” David Taylor, Founder, Naked Leader “Here we have a pragmatic and readily applicable approach to integrating both concept and practice across these two evolving domains.” David Clutterbuck, Special Ambassador, European Mentoring and Coaching Council “This book is a great resource for coaches who want to continue developing skills that will support leaders, teams, and organizations in building business agility.” Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D., President of the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) Laura Re Turner is an accredited coach, trainer, and facilitator who works with leaders and teams to develop an Agile mindset, behaviours, and the skills to thrive through change. Before becoming a coach, Laura delivered enterprise software projects as a project and programme manager, technology consultant, and software developer. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Future Focus Coaching.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335249043

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Wilderness in Mythology and Religion

Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature

By: Laura Feldt

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Wilderness in Mythology and Religion

Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature

By: Laura Feldt

Wilderness mythology is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions, and yet it has not previously been subject to scrutiny or theorizing from a cross-cultural, study-of-religions perspective . This book addresses the need for cross-cultural anthropological and history of religions analyses by offering in-depth case studies of the use and functions of wilderness spaces in diverse religions. It offers new theoretical perspectives on the study of religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature that challenge previous dichotomizing approaches.

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Walter de Gruyter

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161451173X

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9781614511731

The War on Choice

The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back

By: Gloria Feldt,Laura Fraser

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The War on Choice

The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back

By: Gloria Feldt,Laura Fraser

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Book's by Laura Feldt

The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha

The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha

The War on Choice

The War on Choice

The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha

The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha

Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education

Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education

OSCEs for Intensive Care Medicine

OSCEs for Intensive Care Medicine

The Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Movement

The Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Movement

Beyond Zion

Beyond Zion

The Paradox of Preservation

The Paradox of Preservation

Jamovi for Psychologists

Jamovi for Psychologists

Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying

Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying

Ebook: Becoming Agile: Coaching Behavioural Change for Business Results

Ebook: Becoming Agile: Coaching Behavioural Change for Business Results

Wilderness in Mythology and Religion

Wilderness in Mythology and Religion

The War on Choice

The War on Choice

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