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All for Love

By: Laura Stoddart

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All for Love

By: Laura Stoddart

An illustrated collection of brief quotations and poetry excerpts on love and romance.

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The Sweet Life

Reflections on Home and Garden

By: Laura Stoddart

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The Sweet Life

Reflections on Home and Garden

By: Laura Stoddart

This delightful primer on all things sweet elevates the charms of lolling about to new heights. In this wittiest of anthologies, Stoddart's droll little figures toil and tarry their way across page after page of ironic quotations and elegant verse from famous writers. Full color.

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The Sweet Life

Reflections on Home and Garden

By: Laura Stoddart

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Reflections on Home and Garden

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All for Love

By: Laura Stoddart

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An illustrated collection of brief quotations and poetry excerpts on love and romance.

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A Taste of Perfection

By: Laura Langston

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A Taste of Perfection

By: Laura Langston

Life is almost perfect when Erin and Blue take the blue ribbon at the dog show. Then a terrible accident teaches Erin the most important lesson of her summer" Cf. Our choice, 2003.

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Stoddart Kids

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0773762744

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A Discipline-Based Teaching and Learning Center

A Model for Professional Development

By: Gili Marbach-Ad,Laura C. Egan,Katerina V. Thompson

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A Discipline-Based Teaching and Learning Center

A Model for Professional Development

By: Gili Marbach-Ad,Laura C. Egan,Katerina V. Thompson

This book describes the design and implementation of a discipline-specific model of professional development: the disciplinary Teaching and Learning Center (TLC). TLC was born from a strong commitment to improving undergraduate science education through supporting the front-line educators who play an essential role in this mission. The TLC’s comprehensive approach encompasses consultation, seminars and workshops, acculturation activities for new faculty members, and teaching preparatory courses as well as a certificate program for graduate students. At the University of Maryland, TLC serves biology and chemistry faculty members, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students. The Center is deeply integrated into the departmental culture, and its emphasis on pedagogical content knowledge makes its activities highly relevant to the community that it serves. The book reflects ten years of intensive work on the design and implementation of the model. Beginning with a needs assessment and continuing with ongoing evaluation, the book presents a wealth of information about how to design and implement effective professional development. In addition, it discusses the theory underlying each of the program components and provides an implementation guide for adopting or adapting the TLC model and its constituent activities at other institutions. In this book, the authors describe how they created the highly successful discipline-based Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Maryland. This is a must read for anyone interested in improving higher education. Charles Henderson, Co-Director, Center for Research on Instructional Change in Postsecondary Education, Western Michigan University This book will provide a much-needed resource for helping campus leaders and faculty development professionals create robust programs that meet the needs of science faculty. Susan Elrod, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, Fresno State The authors provide a road map and guidance for higher education professional development in the natural science for educators at all levels. While the examples are from the sciences, the approaches are readily adaptable to all disciplines. Spencer A. Benson, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement, University of Macau

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Springer

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3319016520

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Civvies

Middle–class men on the English Home Front, 1914–18

By: Laura Ugolini

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Civvies

Middle–class men on the English Home Front, 1914–18

By: Laura Ugolini

The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who – or so it seems – volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, ‘unmanly’ status?

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Manchester University Press

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1526110741

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Canadian Copyright

A Citizen's Guide

By: Laura J. Murray,Samuel E. Trosow

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Canadian Copyright

A Citizen's Guide

By: Laura J. Murray,Samuel E. Trosow

In the age of easily downloadable culture, messages about copyright are ubiquitous. If you’re an artist, consumer, or teacher, copyright is likely a part of your everyday life. Completely updated, this revised edition of Canadian Copyright parses the Copyright Act and explains current Canadian copyright law to ordinary Canadians in accessible language, using recent examples and legal cases.

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Between the Lines

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1771130148

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Health Policy And Economics: Opportunities And Challenges

Opportunities and Challenges

By: Smith, Peter,Sculpher, Mark,Ginnelly, Laura

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Health Policy And Economics: Opportunities And Challenges

Opportunities and Challenges

By: Smith, Peter,Sculpher, Mark,Ginnelly, Laura

Health economics has made major contributions to the development of health policy in many countries. This book describes those successes and looks forward to the major contributions that health economics can bring to bear on emerging policy issues in health and health care. With contributions from internationally recognized researchers, this book addresses generic policy issues confronting health systems across the developed world. The coverage progresses from micro, patient level issues to macro, whole system issues including: Determining cost-effective treatments Fair distribution of health care Regulatory issues such as performance measurement and incentives Revenue distribution Decentralization and internationalization of health systems Health Policy and Economics identifies the major contributions that health economics makes to important policy issues in health and health care. It is key reading for policy makers and health managers as well as students and academics with an interest in health policy and health services research. Contributors: Ron L. Akehurst, Karen E. Bloor, Martin Buxton, Karl P. Claxton, Richard Cookson, Diane A. Dawson, Paul Dolan, Mike Drummond, Brian Ferguson, Hugh Gravelle, Maria Goddard, Katharina Hauck, John Hutton, Andrew M. Jones, Rowena Jacobs, Paul Kind, Rosella Levaggi, Guillem Lpez Casanovas, Alan K. Maynard, Nigel Rice, Anthony Scott, Rebecca Shaw, Trevor Sheldon, Andrew D. Street, Mark Sculpher, Matthew Sutton, Peter C. Smith, Adrian Towse, Aki Tsuchiya, Alan H. Williams.

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0335215742

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The Skin of the Film

Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

By: Laura U. Marks

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The Skin of the Film

Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

By: Laura U. Marks

DIVUses Deleuze to explore new ways of looking at intercultural and experimental cinema./div

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Duke University Press

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0822323915

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Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement

An Introduction to Practice

By: James C. McDavid,Irene Huse,Laura R. L. Hawthorn

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Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement

An Introduction to Practice

By: James C. McDavid,Irene Huse,Laura R. L. Hawthorn

Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement: An Introduction to Practice, Second Edition offers an accessible, practical introduction to program evaluation and performance measurement for public and non-profit organizations, and has been extensively updated since the first edition. Using examples, it covers topics in a detailed fashion, making it a useful guide for students as well as practitioners who are participating in program evaluations or constructing and implementing performance measurement systems. Authors James C. McDavid, Irene Huse, and Laura R. L. Hawthorn guide readers through conducting quantitative and qualitative program evaluations, needs assessments, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses, as well as constructing, implementing and using performance measurement systems. The importance of professional judgment is highlighted throughout the book as an intrinsic feature of evaluation practice.

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SAGE Publications

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145228959X

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Openings

A Meditation on History, Method, and Sumas Lake

By: Laura Jean Cameron

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Openings

A Meditation on History, Method, and Sumas Lake

By: Laura Jean Cameron

The "Opening" chapter reflects on the connection between historical and technological frontiers. "Listening for Pleasure" discusses oral histories as they relate to the negotiated and contested space of Sumas Lake. "Margins and Mosquitoes" recovers archival records from Victoria to Ottawa to explore flood-lake involvements federally, provincially, and locally. "Memory Device" moves into the archive of land and waterscapes, looking for connections between place and history, mindful of both Native oral tradition and written accounts of the lake. The concluding chapter, "One More Byte," written from the perspective of a mosquito, attempts to distance this project from the work of modernization while assessing the value of interactive history. An independent but complementary hypermedia essay "Disappearing a Lake" is located on this website (scroll up) at http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/files/cameron_laura http://oldwww.mqup.mcgill.ca/files/cameron_laura/

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Potholes and Pavements

A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network

By: Laura Laker

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Potholes and Pavements

A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network

By: Laura Laker

Just wonderful – two wheels good, Laura Laker brilliant. Part travel diary, part love poem to Britain's cycle network ... it's difficult not to be inspired by this fabulous book.' Jeremy Vine 'With a passion for both cycling and words, there are few more qualified to paint a picture of the NCN's potential than Laura Laker.' Chris Boardman A unique journey around the UK's National Cycle Network and one journalist's quest to investigate the state of our country's cycling. What if we were less reliant on our cars? What if there were safe cycling paths to take us places instead? What if those paths led to the next town, the next village and the countryside beyond? This was the dream of a group of Bristolian idealists in the 1970s when they founded Britain's National Cycle Network, which now runs to nearly 13,000 miles across the country. Journalist Laura Laker sets off on an odyssey around the UK to see where the NCN began, and where it is now. What has gone right – and wrong – with this piece of national infrastructure? Why is it run by a charity whose CEO once admitted 'we've had enough of it being crap, we need to fix it'? Laura lifts the lid on this maddening, patchy, and at times dangerous network, and the similarly precarious politics and financing that make it what it is. She discovers beauty, friendship and adventure along the way, from the Cairngorms to Cornwall, from the Pennines to the South Wales coast. On her mission to pin down what the NCN is and what it means to those who use it, she also meets up with high-profile travelling companions, including Chris Boardman and Ned Boulting. In a country where 71% of trips are less than five miles, two thirds of Britons say they want to cycle more and doing so could help our climate, health and wellbeing. Laura is on a mission to see if we can make that dream a reality.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1399406450

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Freddie Mercury

The biography

By: Laura Jackson

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Freddie Mercury

The biography

By: Laura Jackson

**THE DEFINITIVE, UP-TO-DATE BIOGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY** 'An outstanding biography. . .a fitting testament to the creative genius' -- Daily Mail 'Touches all manner of intriguing rock 'n' roll debauchery. . .fascinating reading' -- Time Out This fascinating biography of Freddie Mercury has received outstanding acclaim from Queen and rock fans worldwide -- now revised and updated to coincide with the release of the film about his life, Bohemian Rhapsody. Born Farrokh Bulsara on the island of Zanzibar, Freddie Mercury rose to worldwide stardom as the lead singer of Britain's biggest music act of all time. In this bestselling biography, Laura Jackson reveals the reality behind Queen's flamboyant frontman and lead singer, as she looks behind his unique brand of showmanship to discover who Freddie Mercury really was. Featuring exclusive interviews with some of those closest to Freddie right up until his tragic death, original Queen members and many others -- including new and intimate stories from Tim Rice, Richard Branson, Cliff Richard, Bruce Dickinson, Mike Moran, Wayne Eagling, Zandra Rhodes and Susannah York -- this is the definitive biography of one of rock's greatest legends.

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Piatkus

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0748129073

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North America in Question

Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence

By: Jeffrey Ayres,Laura MacDonald

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North America in Question

Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence

By: Jeffrey Ayres,Laura MacDonald

Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico provide theoretically innovative and rich empirical reflections on current challenges sweeping the continent and on the faltering political support for North American regionalism. This collection begins by reviewing the recent trajectories and events that have undermined North America's trilateral relationship, then addresses concerns that go beyond NAFTA and economic issues, including labour, immigration, energy, the environment, quality of citizenship, borders, women's and civil society struggles, and democratic deficits. Although demonstrating that many informal dimensions of North American integration continue to flourish, the contributors assess whether the future will hold greater economic instability, security crises, and emerging bilateral relationships.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442662476

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Theory and Cases in School-Based Consultation

A Resource for School Psychologists, School Counselors, Special Educators, and Other Mental Health Professionals

By: Laura M. Crothers,Tammy L. Hughes

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Theory and Cases in School-Based Consultation

A Resource for School Psychologists, School Counselors, Special Educators, and Other Mental Health Professionals

By: Laura M. Crothers,Tammy L. Hughes

This casebook provides an applied perspective regarding school-based consultation, including an overview of mental health consultation, behavioral consultation, social learning theory consultation, Adlerian consultation, and ecological/organizational consultation. Along with relevant discussion of the issues in each case study, critical thinking questions are included for discussion among students and educators regarding school-based consultation. This text includes many more and diverse case examples than the competing casebooks available, and is designed to be used in conjunction with any of the established primary texts in Consultation. School-Based mental health professionals, educators, and graduate students will find Theory and Cases in School-Based Consultation an indispensable guide in their work and study.

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Routledge

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1135893772

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Align

Get Your Team on the Same Page, Discover Clients' Needs, Develop Better Products

By: Laura Marie Reese

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Get Your Team on the Same Page, Discover Clients' Needs, Develop Better Products

By: Laura Marie Reese

Understanding what customers want is essential for all companies in the business-to-business field. This original guide shows how to run face-to-face meetings to solicit feedback from clients on their needs.

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0486837610

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Foodways in Roman Republican Italy

By: Laura M. Banducci

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Foodways in Roman Republican Italy

By: Laura M. Banducci

Foodways in Roman Republican Italy explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period. Traditionally, studies of the cultural effects of Roman contact and conquest have focused on observing changes in the public realm: that is, changing urban organization and landscape, and monumental construction. Foodways studies reach into the domestic realm: How do the daily behaviors of individuals express their personal identity, and How does this relate to changes and expressions of identity in broader society? Laura M. Banducci tracks through time the foodways of three sites in Etruria from about the third century BCE to the first century CE: Populonia, Musarna, and Cetamura del Chianti. All were established Etruscan sites that came under Roman political control over the course of the third and second centuries BCE. The book examines the morphology and use wear of ceramics used for cooking, preparing, and serving food in order to deduce cooking methods and the types of foods being prepared and consumed. Change in domestic behaviors was gradual and regionally varied, depending on local social and environmental conditions, shaping rather than responding to an explicitly “Roman” presence.

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University of Michigan Press

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047213230X

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Coconut Oil

For Health and Beauty

By: Cynthia Holzapfel,Laura Holzapfel

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Coconut Oil

For Health and Beauty

By: Cynthia Holzapfel,Laura Holzapfel

Coconut Oil has been found to be one of the most healthful fats that people can eat, and it has powerful antibacterial and antiviral properties. Populations in southeast Asia and the Pacific islands who use coconut oil as the primary source of fat often have less heart disease than people of other regions. Included are over 20 recipes for using coconut oil, grated coconut, and coconut milk in delicious recipes and health care products, as well as instructions on how to make fresh coconut foods at home.

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1570671583

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Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics

Principles of Life in Medieval Imagery

By: Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen,Laura Katrine Skinnebach,Henning Laugerud

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Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics

Principles of Life in Medieval Imagery

By: Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen,Laura Katrine Skinnebach,Henning Laugerud

When it comes to images, we are all animists. Deep down, we all know that images can – at least potentially – be alive or come to life. Nowadays, we may tend to rationalize our ingrained animism and explain it away as a mere projection only happening in the space between image and viewer. In the Middle Ages, however, imagery made enthusiastic use of magical, miraculous and mechanical means of animation, empowered and ensouled by both natural and supernatural principles of life. This animist book investigates magic, miracles and mechanics as motors of animation and seeks to understand the living image in solidarity with medieval experience rather than dismissive alienation of it. Effigies did bleed, weep or lactate, either through divine intervention or through hydraulic machinery. Statues did move or speak, either as demonic oracles or as talking heads with implanted speaking tubes. Marvels made by magic or by miracles were real, as real as the wonders of physical mechanics moving bodily matter. We just need to look and listen more carefully to comprehend these fluid realities, even when – especially when – they challenge our received worldview. Animation was by no means uncontested or uncontradicted, but even its stiffest critics knew that gods and demons could intervene in inanimate matter to set it in motion, to speak in tongues and exude the liquids of life.

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Aarhus Universitetsforlag

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8775972654

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Pastimes and Politics

Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945

By: Laura Fair

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Pastimes and Politics

Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945

By: Laura Fair

The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in incredible flux, framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration. Pastimes and Politics explores the era from the perspective of the urban poor, highlighting the numerous and varied ways that recently freed slaves and other immigrants to town struggled to improve their individual and collective lives and to create a sense of community within this new environment. In this study Laura Fair explores a range of cultural and social practices that gave expression to slaves’ ideas of emancipation, as well as how such ideas and practices were gendered. Pastimes and Politics examines the ways in which various cultural practices, including taarab music, dress, football, ethnicity, and sexuality, changed during the early twentieth century in relation to islanders’ changing social and political identities. Professor Fair argues that cultural changes were not merely reflections of social and political transformations. Rather, leisure and popular culture were critical practices through which the colonized and former slaves transformed themselves and the society in which they lived. Methodologically innovative and clearly written, Pastimes and Politics is accessible to specialists and general readers alike. It is a book that should find wide use in courses on African history, urbanization, popular culture, gender studies, or emancipation.

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Ohio University Press

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0821440934

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The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel

By: Laura C. Berry

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The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel

By: Laura C. Berry

The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens's Dombey and Son, the Brontë sisters' Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813934575

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Behavioral Intervention Research

Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing

By: Laura N. Gitlin, PhD,Sara J. Czaja, PhD

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Behavioral Intervention Research

Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing

By: Laura N. Gitlin, PhD,Sara J. Czaja, PhD

“ I applaud [this] book for providing a much needed overview of the entire “behavioral intervention pipeline.” It fills a unique niche in its coverage of key theoretical and methodological aspects as well as its case examples and professional development considerations, which makes the content accessible and practical for a broad audience.” -Marcia Ory, PhD From the Foreword This unique text provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most neglected—yet vitally important--areas of public health research: developing, evaluating, and implementing novel behavioral interventions in service and practice settings. Written for Masters- and Doctoral-level courses as well as novice and expert researchers in this area, the book examines the most critical issues surrounding this form of research in order to maximize the ability of intervention researchers to successfully implement current and future evidence-based protocols in practice settings. Expert contributors embrace key challenges —the complexities of health care delivery, disease management and prevention, rising costs, and changing population demographics—in shaping the push toward advancing more efficient and effective behavioral interventions and methodologies. Tackling numerous topics that have been neglected in traditional randomized trial handbooks, methodology texts, and books on dissemination and implementation science, the book addresses: ways to develop and advance an intervention, emerging hybrid trial designs - theories and new models for integrating behavioral interventions with implementation science - - recruitment and retention strategies for inclusion of diverse samples - research designs for different stages of intervention development - treatment fidelity models and measures - novel measurement and analytic strategies - cost analyses - selection of control groups - use of mixed methodology - ethics and informed consent - technology-based intervention approaches – professional considerations. Abundant case examples from successful behavioral intervention trials—both national and international--illustrate key concepts. Key Features: Includes examples of a wide range of interventions including individuals across the life span and of diverse communities and health systems Replete with case examples from successful behavioral intervention trials Presents the challenges of and strategies for advancing behavioral interventions for immediate use in practice Written by world-recognized expert authors and contributors Provides novel coverage of a great variety of important—but previously neglected--topics

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826126596

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Wild by Design

The Rise of Ecological Restoration

By: Laura J. Martin

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Wild by Design

The Rise of Ecological Restoration

By: Laura J. Martin

Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration’s long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which states of nature should be restored? Who should choose? Is human-designed wilderness really wild? Restoration work leads us to reimagine nature and the nature of environmental justice.

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Harvard University Press

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0674979427

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Chicago's Most Wanted™

The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities

By: Laura Enright

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Chicago's Most Wanted™

The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities

By: Laura Enright

Established less than 200 years ago, Chicago has seen a lot of living in that short span of time. Burned to the ground early on, it’s been frozen and just recently flooded. Tucked away in the Midwest, it still rivals both coasts with its food, entertainment, and cultural venues. Chicago’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities takes you on a tour of that toddlin’ town with dozens of top-ten lists containing memorable minutiae and delightful details. Laura L. Enright will blow you away with this collection of amusing and amazing facts about the Windy City. One would be hard-pressed to decide what Chicago is most famous for. Is it disasters, such as the Great Chicago Fire? Or perhaps gangsters are its calling card, with Al Capone at the head? Maybe it’s the politics, with “Hizzoner, da Mayor” and stories of votes coming from the dead. Or do sports come to mind first, like the Cubs’ dismal failures—some say due to a decades-old curse—and the glory days of da Bulls and da Bears? Whatever it is that makes Chicago, it’s in Chicago’s Most Wanted™. The famous and the infamous, festivals and food, blues and jazz, and so much more are all included in this collection of fascinating and often humorous trivia tidbits. Frank Sinatra rhapsodized that Chicago “won’t let you down,” and neither will Laura L. Enright’s Chicago’s Most Wanted™!

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1612340342

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Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time

Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools

By: Brian Gill,Laura S. Hamilton,J. R. Lockwood,Julie A. Marsh,Ron Zimmer

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Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time

Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools

By: Brian Gill,Laura S. Hamilton,J. R. Lockwood,Julie A. Marsh,Ron Zimmer

In 2000, Edison Schools, the nation's largest education management organization, asked RAND to analyze its achievement outcomes and design implementation. RAND evaluated Edison's strategies for promoting student achievement in its schools, how it implemented those strategies, how its management affected student achievement, and what factors explained differences in achievement trends among its schools.

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0833040847

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Health and Modernity

The Role of Theory in Health Promotion

By: David V. McQueen,Ilona Kickbusch,Louise Potvin,Jürgen M. Pelikan,Laura Balbo,Thomas Abel

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Health and Modernity

The Role of Theory in Health Promotion

By: David V. McQueen,Ilona Kickbusch,Louise Potvin,Jürgen M. Pelikan,Laura Balbo,Thomas Abel

Pandemics, substance abuse, natural disasters, obesity, and warfare: these are not only health crises but social crises as well. Now a panel of leaders in global health explores the vital but understudied social theories behind the practice of health promotion, including cultural capital, risk and causality, systems theory, and the dynamic between individual and community.

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180

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Springer Science & Business Media

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038737759X

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9780387377599

Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily

By: Laura Pfuntner

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Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily

By: Laura Pfuntner

Sicily has been the fulcrum of the Mediterranean throughout history. The island’s central geographical position and its status as ancient Rome’s first overseas province make it key to understanding the development of the Roman Empire. Yet Sicily’s crucial role in the empire has been largely overlooked by scholars of classical antiquity, apart from a small number of specialists in its archaeology and material culture. Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily offers the first comprehensive English-language overview of the history and archaeology of Roman Sicily since R. J. A. Wilson’s Sicily under the Roman Empire (1990). Laura Pfuntner traces the development of cities and settlement networks in Sicily in order to understand the island’s political, economic, social, and cultural role in Rome’s evolving Mediterranean hegemony. She identifies and examines three main processes traceable in the archaeological record of settlement in Roman Sicily: urban disintegration, urban adaptation, and the development of alternatives to urban settlement. By expanding the scope of research on Roman Sicily beyond the bounds of the island itself, through comparative analysis of the settlement landscapes of Greece and southern Italy, and by utilizing exciting evidence from recent excavations and surveys, Pfuntner establishes a new empirical foundation for research on Roman Sicily and demonstrates the necessity of including Sicily in broader historical and archaeological studies of the Roman Empire.

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University of Texas Press

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1477317228

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9781477317228

Economic Evaluation in U.S. Health Care

Principles and Applications

By: Laura T. Pizzi,Jennifer Lofland

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Economic Evaluation in U.S. Health Care

Principles and Applications

By: Laura T. Pizzi,Jennifer Lofland

Economic Evaluation in U.S. Health Care provides an overview of the methodologies that can be applied to both drug and non-drug interventions. The text addresses the perspectives of different stakeholders involved in the application of economic evaluation in the U.S., including manufacturers, health plans, and the government, in order to give students a thorough understanding of how methods are applied to decision-making and health policy. The authors provide case studies for students to apply methods to real life situations.

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0763727466

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