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Nature Strip

By: Leonie Stevens

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Nature Strip

By: Leonie Stevens

Humorous novel about a young woman's experiences of drugs, death, love and sex. This is the author's first novel.

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Wakefield Press

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1862543089

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Islamophobia in Britain

The Making of a Muslim Enemy

By: Leonie B. Jackson

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Islamophobia in Britain

The Making of a Muslim Enemy

By: Leonie B. Jackson

This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes. Since 2001, Muslims in Britain have been constructed as the nation’s significant ‘other’ – an internal and external enemy that threatened both social cohesion and national security. Through a consideration of a number of pertinent contemporary issues, including no-mosque campaigns, the rise of anti-Islamist social movements and the problematisation of Muslim culture, this book offers a new understanding of Islamophobia as a form of Eurocentric spatial dominance, in which those identified as Western receive a better social, economic and political ‘racial contract’, and seek to defend these privileges against real and imagined Muslim demands.

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Springer

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3319583506

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9783319583501

The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology

By: Leonie Huddy,David O. Sears,Jack S. Levy,Jennifer Jerit

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology

By: Leonie Huddy,David O. Sears,Jack S. Levy,Jennifer Jerit

This volume contains 30 chapters that provide an up-to-date account of key topics and areas of research in political psychology. In general, the chapters apply what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. Chapters draw on theory and research on biopsychology, neuroscience, personality, psychopathology, evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and intergroup relations. Some chapters address the political psychology of political elites-their personality, motives, beliefs, and leadership styles, and their judgments, decisions, and actions in domestic policy, foreign policy, international conflict, and conflict resolution. Other chapters deal with the dynamics of mass political behavior: voting, collective action, the influence of political communications, political socialization and civic education, group-based political behavior, social justice, and the political incorporation of immigrants. Research discussed in the volume is fuelled by a mix of age-old questions and recent world events"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197541305

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9780197541302

The Secret Cemetery

By: Doris Francis,Leonie Kellaher,Georgina Neophytou

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The Secret Cemetery

By: Doris Francis,Leonie Kellaher,Georgina Neophytou

Burial sites have long been recognized as a way to understand past civilizations. Yet, the meanings of our present day cemeteries have been virtually ignored, even though they reveal much about our cultures. Exploring an extraordinarily diverse range of memorial practice - Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic and Anglican, as well as the unchurched - The Secret Cemetery is an intriguing study of what these places of death mean to the living. Most of us experience cemeteries at a ritualized moment of loss. What we forget is that these are often places to which we return either as a general space in which to contemplate or as a specific site to be tended. These are also places where different communities can reinforce boundaries and even recreate a sense of homeland. Over time, ritual, artefact and place shape an intensely personal landscape of memory and mourning, a landscape more alive, more actively engaged with than many of the other places we inhabit.

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Routledge

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1000210987

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9781000210989

The Early Years Teacher′s Book

Achieving Early Years Teacher Status

By: Leonie Abrahamson

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The Early Years Teacher′s Book

Achieving Early Years Teacher Status

By: Leonie Abrahamson

If you are an Early Years Teacher Trainee, this book is written for you. It will help you to successfully achieve your Early Years Teacher Status and practice with confidence. This book guides you through what you need to know about Early Years Teacher Status step-by-step. It explains how you can work to meet each of the Standards and assessment requirements. The author addresses trainees’ common concerns about early years practice, study skills and meeting EYTS requirements, as well as giving many examples of the strategies that trainees found most helpful. The chapters explore each aspect of every Standard and indicator, with notes on theory, practical tips, case studies, activities and suggestions for further reading. This book helps you to: • understand all aspects of each Standard and indicator; • link your practice to the Standards; • understand the assessment requirements and how to strengthen your evidence; • plan and track your evidence; • complete your written assignments and create your portfolio with confidence; • develop the skills needed to take on a leadership role. This book also provides support for the mentor-mentee relationship and includes guidance for mentors, teaching activities for tutors and support for assessors. This book is a valuable resource for all those involved in EYTS and will be useful for: - EYTS trainees - their mentors - their placement tutors - course lecturers - EYTS assessors

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Learning Matters

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1473917484

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9781473917484

Life-span Development

Frameworks, Accounts and Strategies

By: Leonie Sugarman

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Life-span Development

Frameworks, Accounts and Strategies

By: Leonie Sugarman

This thorough revision of the highly successful first edition of Life-Span Development offers the reader a wide-ranging and thought provoking account of human development throughout the lifespan. The lifespan approach emphasises that development does not stop when we cease to be adolescents but goes on throughout adulthood and into old age. In initial chapters Leonie Sugarman outlines the issues surrounding the notion of development and how it can be studied, including reviews of the work of key theorists Erikson, Levinson and Gould. She goes on to consider the different ways in which the life course can be construed: as a series of age-related stages; as a cumulative sequence; as a series of developmental tasks; as a series of key life events and transitions or as a narrative construction which creates a sense of dynamic continuity. A final chapter looks at how people cope, the resources that are available and the theoretical and practical issues regarding interventions to assist them in the process. New to this edition is increased coverage of the topical issue of successful ageing and a new chapter on the increasingly popular narrative approach to lifespan development. This edition is also more student-friendly with exercises in self-reflection that encourage the reader to look at the development of their own lives or those of their current or future clients. Boxed material highlighting major theories and clarifying concepts is also included. This book will be invaluable for students of developmental and occupational psychology and professionals in the fields of health management, education and social work.

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Routledge

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1134651538

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9781134651535

Becoming a Top Woman Manager

By: Leonie V. Still

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Becoming a Top Woman Manager

By: Leonie V. Still

An increasing number of women are claiming the careers and the success which are rightfully theirs. This book, first published in 1988, demonstrates that the way to the top consists of a series of steps and strategies. It outlines these steps and provides practical advice, based on Australian research, on the challenges to be faced in achieving career goals. Succinct profiles of successful women demonstrate that these challenges can be met, understood and overcome.

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Routledge

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1351997858

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Higher Education and Social Justice

The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox

By: Leonie Rowan

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Higher Education and Social Justice

The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox

By: Leonie Rowan

This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as “relationship-centred education”. Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student satisfaction, and student-centred learning, the author goes on to investigate how literature relating to social justice challenges educators to consider these terms in particular ways. From this basis, the book explores the factors featuring in inclusive, respectful, diverse and student-centred environments. In analysing these factors, the author illuminates the perspectives of university teachers who struggle with the unique challenges of working in the academy; including an increasingly broad set of employment demands and narrower criteria for determining ‘impact’, all while retaining focus on the transformative potential of higher education. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of transformative learning, as well as social justice within higher education.

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Springer

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303005246X

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9783030052461

Women of letters

Gender, writing and the life of the mind in early modern England

By: Leonie Hannan

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Women of letters

Gender, writing and the life of the mind in early modern England

By: Leonie Hannan

Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas. Until now, it has been assumed that women's intellectual opportunities were curtailed by their confinement in the home. This book illuminates the household as a vibrant site of intellectual thought and expression. Amidst the catalogue of day-to-day news in women's letters are sections dedicated to the discussion of books, plays and ideas. Through these personal epistles, Women of letters offers a fresh interpretation of intellectual life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, one that champions the ephemeral and the fleeting in order to rediscover women's lives and minds.

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Manchester University Press

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1784998133

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9781784998134

Property, Politics, and Urban Planning

A History of Australian City Planning 1890-1990

By: Leonie Sandercock

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Property, Politics, and Urban Planning

A History of Australian City Planning 1890-1990

By: Leonie Sandercock

This text on the origins and history of city planning in Australian cities covers the emergence of the Town Planning Movement, and planning from the nineteenth century through to the post-1980s period. Looking at the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000950328

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Mapping Possibility

Finding Purpose and Hope in Community Planning

By: Leonie Sandercock

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Mapping Possibility

Finding Purpose and Hope in Community Planning

By: Leonie Sandercock

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator, researcher, artist, and practitioner, Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning, dedicating her life to pursuing social, cultural, and environmental justice through her work. In this book, Leonie Sandercock reflects on her past writings and films, which played an important role in redefining the field in more progressive directions, both in theory and practice. It includes previously published essays in conjunction with insightful commentaries prefacing each section, and four new essays, two discussing Sandercock’s most recent work on a feature-film project with Indigenous partners. Innovative, visionary, and audacious, Leonie’s community-based scholarship and practice in the fields of urban planning and community development have engaged some of the most intractable issues of our time – inequality, discrimination, and racism. Through award-winning books and films, she has influenced the planning field to become more culturally fluent, addressing diversity and difference through structural change. This book draws a map of hope for emerging planners dedicated to equity, justice, and sustainability. It will inspire the next generation of community planners, as well as current practitioners and students in planning, cultural studies, urban studies, architecture, and community development.

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1000825434

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9781000825435

Diverse Literacies in Early Childhood

A Social Justice Approach

By: Leonie Arthur,Jean Ashton,Bronwyn Beecher

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Diverse Literacies in Early Childhood

A Social Justice Approach

By: Leonie Arthur,Jean Ashton,Bronwyn Beecher

This important, research-based text explores the concept of literacy as social practice within diverse family, community and educational settings. Its theoretical premise that literacy learning and life chances are inextricably linked is underscored by practical example, teachers' stories and real-world vignettes.

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ACER Press

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174286340X

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What Is Counterterrorism For?

By: Leonie Jackson

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What Is Counterterrorism For?

By: Leonie Jackson

Terrorism will always be frontpage news – counterterrorism is often discussed as an afterthought, yet it is vitally important to understand what is done in the name of our safety. Since 9/11, there has been a huge ramping up of the state’s special powers in the name of security, such as indefinite detention, the assassination of suspected terrorists, the use of extraordinary rendition, torture, and changes to due process. However, these powers are often shadowy, they are rarely rolled back, and they can be counterproductive. This book focuses on understanding the costs of counterterrorism and asking how they can be reduced; global in scope, it looks not just at Western liberal democracies, but at numerous examples from across the world.

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Policy Press

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1529234603

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9781529234602

Answering Back

Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools

By: Jill Blackmore,Jane Kenway,Leonie Rennie,Sue Willis

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Answering Back

Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools

By: Jill Blackmore,Jane Kenway,Leonie Rennie,Sue Willis

Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers. It draws on a deep knowledge of gender issues in schools and of feminist theories, policies and practices. It is compelling and provocative reading at the leading edge.

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Routledge

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1134675534

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'Me Write Myself'

The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47

By: Leonie Stevens

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'Me Write Myself'

The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47

By: Leonie Stevens

Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "About the Author" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction" -- "Chapter 1. 40,000 Years to Exile" -- "Chapter 2. Exiled to Great Island" -- "Chapter 3. The Promise of Wybalenna" -- "Chapter 4. The Battle for VDL Souls" -- "Chapter 5. Empire, Agency and a Humble Petition" -- "Chapter 6. Defeating Wybalenna" -- "Bibliography" -- "Index

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1925495639

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The Marowack Two

By: Leonie Stevens

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The Marowack Two

By: Leonie Stevens

From the author of Eat Well and Stay out of Jail comes a love story about memory loss, open-cut mining, acts of God, country music and bad hair. 'I lay there, paralysed, mouth full of silver and every nerve ablaze. Stuck in a hospital bed. NO MEMORY. NO IDENTITY. And it's funny, in a macabre kind of way . . . I knew I'd been through this before.' Heck from the Wack and Kira the Menace. Two against the world and each other. They're about to find that LOVE CAN HIT LIKE LIGHTNING.

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0141006617

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9780141006611

Nature Strip

By: Leonie Stevens

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Nature Strip

By: Leonie Stevens

Humorous novel about a young woman's experiences of drugs, death, love and sex. This is the author's first novel.

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1862543089

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Big Man's Barbie

Ten Days that Shook My Booty

By: Leonie Stevens

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Big Man's Barbie

Ten Days that Shook My Booty

By: Leonie Stevens

It was my birthday, fuck it. I hate birthdays. Birthdays are second only to Christmases in the odds-on shit-day stakes. Happy birthday - yeah, sure, fat chance with the blood relations launching a dawn assault. 'I'm not going to send you money this year,' Mum screeched from Surfers, 'You'll just waste it. You have no financial commonsense at all. You take after your father. Why, when I was you age -' I reflected in the mirror. Traces of last night's claret caked my lips. '-I had a sustantial real estate portfolio and a couple of brothels. You don't try, that's your problem. Look at your sister; she owns two flats and a swag of shares and she's younger than you. You have no drive. No will to succeed.' I wiped the red leavings from my mouth and thanked Mum for the support. Angelica was next, calling from Tamworth. She'd developed a western drawl and a tendency to quote talkback radio idiots, but at least she didn't go on about following in the family tradition. Out on Egan Street, the garbage truck made its usual cacophany. The day was grinding into gear without me. Granny Hay called me and raved on about her holiday in Vegas, and I knew she'd been talking to Mum because she gave me her stock line about running a huge S.P. racket when she was my age. Miss an opportunity to sink the knife? Not my family. Pop Boyd rang next, and while he didn't hassle me about my lack of drive, he did reckon it was time I settled down with a fella. When Nanna Boyd phoned, she skipped birthday goodwill and demanded the lowdown on what Pop was doing. The divorce was still eating at her, fifteen years later. I stuttered my way through the barrage of calls, then disconnected the phone. It was early. Down in the kitchen, the sun was angling through the vent. I made coffee and tried to get my head straight, but the family's voices snapped at me like a badly tuned radio. Shower - still mucky. Dress - inferior. I was thinking about unravelling the leads and mikes of my rudimentary recording system when the house began to shake. Bam bam bam, rattling the front door's locks and hinges. Sound like that, it had to be the landlord or cops. I crept up the hall as Victor's face appeared from his bedroom door. 'It's a suit,' he told me, trying to pull on his jeans inside out. His eyes were uncoordinated and there was claret on his lips. 'What do you think?' I whispered. 'Cops?' His good eye scorned me. 'Doubt it. He's on his own.' I tried to see through the peephole, but it was covered with mould. 'Realo?' 'Maybe. You do it, Si. You're good with suits.' 'You do it. It's my birthday, for fuck's sake!' He grinned. 'There you go. It's probably a singing telegram.' 'Yeah, right.' I slipped the chain into the latch, then opened the door slightly. Tall guy, young and ugly. He reminded me of a henchman from a friend's funeral out at Waverly Cemetary. The bad busy winter of 1989. I told him, 'You got the wrong place, mate.' 'I don't think so. Are you Siren Boyd?' I nodded, wondering what I'd done, who I owed money to. 'I'm here to take you to your uncle.' At that point I wished it had been cops or realos or anyone else. Not George. Not the belches and wheezes and bad architecture. Not today. 'Uh-huh,' I said. 'I can't.' The suit smiled. 'He's expecting you.' 'No! Absolutely not!' The suit folded his arms and smiled. 'There's money involved.' I heard a noise from Victor's room, next to the front door. He'd been eavesdropping. I knew what he'd be thinking - if it's money, go for it, Si. Go Dog Go. 'Give me five minutes.' I shut the door and went to my room. I was wearing a cute little black dress at the time, but that wasn't suitable. Not at all. I pulled a wretched pair of jeans from under my bed and borrowed Victor's Charles Manson T-shirt. When dealing with Big George Hay, the right image is essential. Meet Siren Boyd, Newtown goddess and heroine of the Riot Grrl generation: 'Some women have bad

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Glue

By: Leonie Stevens

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Glue

By: Leonie Stevens

This is a love story, pure and simple - with a dash of murder and a free set of steak knives. Merry is a very nice person who does a very nasty thing. On the run, her life in ruins, she hides out in a suburb destroyed in the name of cultural improvement. Merry's only hope is two doors away, in the heart of James, a man who knows terror well and has the power of death stored carefully in his attic... From the author of the cult success Nature Strip comes this fast, furious and wickedly funny novel.

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0140281282

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