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The Spectacular State

Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

By: Laura L. Adams

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The Spectacular State

Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

By: Laura L. Adams

Laura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan’s production of national culture in the 1990s. As she explains, after independence the Uzbek government maintained a monopoly over ideology, exploiting the remaining Soviet institutional and cultural legacies. The state expressed national identity through tightly controlled mass spectacles, including theatrical and musical performances. Adams focuses on these events, particularly the massive outdoor concerts the government staged on the two biggest national holidays, Navro’z, the spring equinox celebration, and Independence Day. Her analysis of the content, form, and production of these ceremonies shows how Uzbekistan’s cultural and political elites engaged in a highly directed, largely successful program of nation building through culture. Adams draws on her observations and interviews conducted with artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats involved in the production of Uzbekistan’s national culture. These elites used globalized cultural forms such as Olympics-style spectacle to showcase local, national, and international aspects of official culture. While these state-sponsored extravaganzas were intended to be displays of Uzbekistan’s ethnic and civic national identity, Adams found that cultural renewal in the decade after Uzbekistan’s independence was not so much a rejection of Soviet power as it was a re-appropriation of Soviet methods of control and ideas about culture. The public sphere became more restricted than it had been in Soviet times, even as Soviet-era ideas about ethnic and national identity paved the way for Uzbekistan to join a more open global community.

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Duke University Press

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0822392534

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9780822392538

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia

Powhatan People and the Color Line

By: Laura J. Feller

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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia

Powhatan People and the Color Line

By: Laura J. Feller

Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state’s long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted erasure and built their identities as Native Americans is the powerful story this book tells. Spanning a century of fraught history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians, and institutions. Like other Southeastern Native groups living under Jim Crow regimes, tidewater Native groups and individuals fortified their communities by founding tribal organizations, churches, and schools; they displayed their Indianness in public performances; and they enlisted whites, including well-known ethnographers, to help them argue for their Native distinctness. Describing an arduous campaign marked by ingenuity, conviction, and perseverance, Laura J. Feller shows how these tidewater Native people drew on their shared histories as descendants of Powhatan peoples, and how they strengthened their bonds through living and marrying within clusters of Native Virginians, both on and off reservation lands. She also finds that, by at times excluding African Americans from Indian organizations and Native families, Virginian Indians themselves reinforced racial segregation while they built their own communities. Even as it paved the way to tribal recognition in Virginia, the tidewater Natives’ sustained efforts chronicled in this book demonstrate the fluidity, instability, and persistent destructive power of the construction of race in America.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806191600

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9780806191607

The Health Information Exchange Formation Guide

The Authoritative Guide for Planning and Forming an HIE in Your State, Region or Community

By: Laura Kolkman,Bob Brown

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The Health Information Exchange Formation Guide

The Authoritative Guide for Planning and Forming an HIE in Your State, Region or Community

By: Laura Kolkman,Bob Brown

Winner of HIMSS 2011 Book of the Year Award! The HIMSS Book of the Year Award honors a book that offers outstanding practical guidance and/or strategic insight for healthcare information and management systems professionals. "The electronic exchange of health information is an essential capability that contributes to improved efficiency and patient outcomes in the healthcare delivery process. This book provides readers with the tools and resources needed to establish a successful, sustainable HIE and avoid many of the pitfalls that failed early initiatives. The authors use their own direct experience as HIE consultants, their interviews with HIE leaders and extensive research to offer a practical, step-by-step approach to forming an HIE. The book features case studies, examples, checklists, references, a high-level history and overview of HIE and a discussion of why HIE is so important. The book also describes in detail the essential steps to planning and forming a successful HIE. By providing the necessary tools and framework, the book serves to advance the successful development of HIEs and improve efficiency and outcomes in the healthcare delivery process. During a time of unprecedented change in the healthcare landscape, this guide is a timely and valuable resource for those seeking to leverage HIE to achieve quality gains and billions of dollars in saving under healthcare reform.

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CRC Press

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1040279775

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Filled with Spirit and Power

Protestant Clergy in Politics

By: Laura R. Olson

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Filled with Spirit and Power

Protestant Clergy in Politics

By: Laura R. Olson

In Filled with Spirit and Power, Laura R. Olson explores the variety of orientations urban Protestant clergy display regarding political involvement, as well as the many factors that shape their activity. In the typical urban setting of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the choices pastors make about political involvement are shaped in a profound way not only by their specific religious traditions, but also by the socioeconomic status of the neighborhoods in which they serve. Pastors who serve in economically disadvantaged central city neighborhoods spend the most time on politics, because they come into contact with poverty and its consequences on a daily basis.

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State University of New York Press

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0791492524

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 1

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 1

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 1 of 8, TOC and pages 1-504. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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Lulu.com

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1312619406

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Evidence-Based Practice in Action: Comprehensive Strategies, Tools, and Tips From University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Second Edition

By: Laura Cullen,Kirsten Hanrahan,Michele Farrington,Sharon Tucker,Stephanie Edmonds

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Evidence-Based Practice in Action: Comprehensive Strategies, Tools, and Tips From University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Second Edition

By: Laura Cullen,Kirsten Hanrahan,Michele Farrington,Sharon Tucker,Stephanie Edmonds

“Building on extensive real-life experience with EBP, this expert team from University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics provides vital guidance to clinicians at the cutting edge of care improvement.” –Kathleen R. Stevens, EdD, MS, RN, ANEF, FAAN Castella Endowed Distinguished Professor School of Nursing and Institute for Integration of Medicine & Science (CTSA) University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio “This new edition is essential for all who want to deliver evidence-based care. Beautifully organized, it is readable, practical, and user-friendly.” –Kathleen C. Buckwalter, PhD, RN, FAAN Professor Emerita, University of Iowa College of Nursing Distinguished Nurse Scientist in Aging, Reynolds Center Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, College of Nursing “Evidence-Based Practice in Action, Second Edition, will continue to ensure high-quality, evidence-based care is implemented in healthcare systems across the country — and the world. It should also be a well-worn tool in every implementation scientist’s toolkit. –Heather Schacht Reisinger, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Associate Director for Engagement, Integration and Implementation Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Iowa Translate knowledge, research, and clinical expertise into action. The biggest barrier to effective evidence-based practice (EBP) is the failure to effectively translate available knowledge, research, and clinical expertise into action. This failure is rarely due to lack of information, understanding, or experience. In fact, it usually comes down to a simple lack of tools and absence of a clear plan to integrate EBP into care. Problem solved: Evidence-Based Practice in Action, Second Edition, is a time-tested, application-oriented EBP resource for any EBP process model and is organized based on The Iowa Model Revised: Evidence-Based Practice to Promote Excellence in Health Care. This book offers a proven, detailed plan to help nurses and healthcare professionals promote and achieve EBP implementation, adoption, sustained use. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Identify Triggering Issues/Opportunities Chapter 2: State the Question or Purpose Chapter 3: Is This Topic a Priority? Chapter 4: Form a Team Chapter 5: Assemble, Appraise, and Synthesize Body of Evidence Chapter 6: Is There Sufficient Evidence? Chapter 7: Design and Pilot the Practice Change Chapter 8: Evaluation Chapter 9: Implementation Chapter 10: Is Change Appropriate for Adoption in Practice? Chapter 11: Integrate and Sustain the Practice Change Chapter 12: Disseminate Results Appendix A: The Iowa Model Revised: Evidence-Based Practice to Promote Excellence in Health Care Appendix B: Iowa Implementation for Sustainability Framework Appendix C: Select Evidence-Based Practice Models Appendix D: Glossary

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Sigma Theta Tau

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1948057956

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9781948057950

Starting Your Career

The Best Resources to Help You Find the Right Job

By: Laura Praglin

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Starting Your Career

The Best Resources to Help You Find the Right Job

By: Laura Praglin

Starting Your Career: The Best Resources To Help You Find the Right Job is targeted primarily at the several million new college graduates trying to find their first job, and to other young adults beginning their careers.

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189214803X

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 7

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 7

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 7 of 8, pages 4043 to 4739. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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1312620366

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Religion and Politics in America

Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices

By: Robert Booth Fowler,Allen D Hertzke,Laura R. Olson,Kevin R. Den Dulk

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Religion and Politics in America

Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices

By: Robert Booth Fowler,Allen D Hertzke,Laura R. Olson,Kevin R. Den Dulk

Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing. In this fifth edition of Religion and Politics in America, the authors offer a lively, accessible, and balanced treatment of religion in American politics. They explore the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that underlie religious political engagement while also highlighting the pragmatic and strategic political realities that religious organizations and people face. Incorporating the best and most up-to-date scholarship, the authors assess the politics of Roman Catholics; evangelical, mainline, and African American Protestants; Jews; Muslims and other conventional and not-so-conventional American religious movements. The author team also examines important subjects concerning religion and its relationship to gender, race/ethnicity, and class. The fifth edition has been revised to include the 2012 elections, in particular Mitt Romney’s candidacy and Mormonism, as well as a fuller assessment of the role of religion in President Obama’s first term. In-depth treatment of core topics, contemporary case studies, and useful focus-study boxes, provides students with a real understanding of how religion and politics relate in practice and makes this fifth edition essential reading for courses in political science, religion, and sociology departments.

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Westview Press

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081334851X

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9780813348513

Zora Neale Hurston

"I've Been in Sorrow's Kitchen"

By: Laura Baskes Litwin

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Zora Neale Hurston

"I've Been in Sorrow's Kitchen"

By: Laura Baskes Litwin

Traces the life of the Harlem Renaissance writer and folklorist, who worked to preserve the rich storytelling tradition of African-Americans in the South.

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Enslow Publishers, Inc.

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0766025365

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9780766025363

Matthew Henson

Co-discoverer of the North Pole

By: Laura Baskes Litwin

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Matthew Henson

Co-discoverer of the North Pole

By: Laura Baskes Litwin

Examines the life of African American explorer, Matthew Henson, who placed the American flag at the North Pole in 1909, but was never credited for this because of racial prejudice.

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Enslow Publishing

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0766015467

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9780766015463

Barbara Jordan

Congresswoman, Lawyer, Educator

By: Laura S. Jeffrey

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Barbara Jordan

Congresswoman, Lawyer, Educator

By: Laura S. Jeffrey

Breaking many barriers in her political career as a woman and an African American, Barbara Jordan is remembered for the power of her voice and her ringing speeches. Author Laura S. Jeffrey details the inspiring life of this congresswoman from Texas who later became a professor at the University of Texas.

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0894906925

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9780894906923

Confidentiality, Transparency, and the U.S. Civil Justice System

By: Joseph W. Doherty,Robert T. Reville,Laura Zakaras

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Confidentiality, Transparency, and the U.S. Civil Justice System

By: Joseph W. Doherty,Robert T. Reville,Laura Zakaras

The lawsuit is the cornerstone of the civil justice system in America, and an open court the foundation of American jurisprudence. In a public setting, we resolve disputes, determine liability, and compensate injuries. In recent decades, however, more civil disputes have been resolved out of court and the outcomes have been kept secret. Fewer than 5 percent of the tens of millions of injury claims annually are actually resolved through a public trial with a jury, and the vast majority are settled out of court or through private forums, such as mediation or arbitration, with undisclosed terms. Some argue that the confidentiality of the system keeps it working efficiently and fairly; others argue that the public is being denied information about hazards that may cause harm and that a public system with no data lacks oversight. This collection of essays by leading legal scholars is the first book to approach the issue in a multidisciplinary, nonpartisan, and empirical manner. The essays provide empirical analyses and case studies of the impact of greater disclosure on various aspects of the system, ranging from settlement values to fraud, and propose several novel prescriptions for reform. With special attention to the emergence of modern mass litigation, the authors identify a number of benefits to increasing access to information, including decreased fraud, improved public understanding and confidence in the system, and lower transactions costs. The authors make policy recommendations--such as expanding access to existing databases and using technology to create new databases--that increase transparency while protecting the need for privacy.

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Oxford University Press

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0199939586

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9780199939589

Adult Learning

Linking Theory and Practice

By: Sharan B. Merriam,Laura L. Bierema

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Adult Learning

Linking Theory and Practice

By: Sharan B. Merriam,Laura L. Bierema

Solidly grounded in theory and research, but concise and practice-oriented, Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice is perfect for master’s-level students and practitioners alike. Sharan Merriam and Laura Bierema have infused each chapter with practical applications for instruction which will help readers personally relate to the material. The contents covers: Adult Learning in Today’s World Traditional Learning Theories Andragogy Self-Directed Learning Transformative Learning Experience and Learning Body and Spirit in Learning Motivation and Learning The Brain and Cognitive Functioning Adult Learning in the Digital Age Critical Thinking and Critical Perspectives Culture and Context Discussion questions and activities for reflection are included at the end of each chapter.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118416317

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9781118416310

Catch a Fire

Fuelling Inquiry and Passion Through Project-Based Learning

By: Theresa Armstrong,Dr. Eva Brown,Will Burton,Jonathan Dueck,Bonnie Ferguson-Baird,Keith Fulford,Tom Lake,Dave Law,Glenys MacLeod,Jacob Mans,Bonnie Powers,Laura Sims,Sid Williamson,Alex Wilson

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Catch a Fire

Fuelling Inquiry and Passion Through Project-Based Learning

By: Theresa Armstrong,Dr. Eva Brown,Will Burton,Jonathan Dueck,Bonnie Ferguson-Baird,Keith Fulford,Tom Lake,Dave Law,Glenys MacLeod,Jacob Mans,Bonnie Powers,Laura Sims,Sid Williamson,Alex Wilson

This book will inspire, challenge and engage you—and transform your teaching and learning. Each chapter in this book is written by a different educator or team about their experiences with project-based learning, both in and out of the classroom. They reflect not only on the how of project-based learning, but more importantly, on the what and the why. They offer insight into how connecting with learners, honouring their experiences, and promoting deep and rich questioning can be the path to powerful projects and learning. Their writing and thinking is saturated with empathy, expertise, a desire to improve their practice, and an acknowledgment of the need to collaborate.

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Portage & Main Press

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1553797906

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Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R

By: Laura M. Chihara,Tim C. Hesterberg

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Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R

By: Laura M. Chihara,Tim C. Hesterberg

This thoroughly updated second edition combines the latest software applications with the benefits of modern resampling techniques Resampling helps students understand the meaning of sampling distributions, sampling variability, P-values, hypothesis tests, and confidence intervals. The second edition of Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R combines modern resampling techniques and mathematical statistics. This book has been classroom-tested to ensure an accessible presentation, uses the powerful and flexible computer language R for data analysis and explores the benefits of modern resampling techniques. This book offers an introduction to permutation tests and bootstrap methods that can serve to motivate classical inference methods. The book strikes a balance between theory, computing, and applications, and the new edition explores additional topics including consulting, paired t test, ANOVA and Google Interview Questions. Throughout the book, new and updated case studies are included representing a diverse range of subjects such as flight delays, birth weights of babies, and telephone company repair times. These illustrate the relevance of the real-world applications of the material. This new edition: • Puts the focus on statistical consulting that emphasizes giving a client an understanding of data and goes beyond typical expectations • Presents new material on topics such as the paired t test, Fisher's Exact Test and the EM algorithm • Offers a new section on "Google Interview Questions" that illustrates statistical thinking • Provides a new chapter on ANOVA • Contains more exercises and updated case studies, data sets, and R code Written for undergraduate students in a mathematical statistics course as well as practitioners and researchers, the second edition of Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R presents a revised and updated guide for applying the most current resampling techniques to mathematical statistics.

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1119416531

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Evidence-Based Practice in Action: Comprehensive Strategies, Tools, and Tips From University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Second Edition

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