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Everything I've Ever Done That Worked

By: Lesley Garner

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Everything I've Ever Done That Worked

By: Lesley Garner

This beautiful collection of short essays by renowned journalist Lesley Garner acts as spiritual and emotional first-aid kit. Lesley explains, 'I wrote this book because I think I know what to do and then life bowls me over again and I forget. I decided to get my experience down on paper so that I could turn to it in an emergency, like a friend.' The book contains things that work in darkness and things that work in daylight. There are techniques that will help you plan your journey and techniques that will light the next inch of the path when you've lost your way. They'll give comfort in a crisis but they'll also inspire you to lead a deeper, richer life. Practical, insightful and moving, this book is the perfect gift for those looking for inspiration.

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Hay House, Inc

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184850439X

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Life Lessons

Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier

By: Lesley Garner

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Life Lessons

Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier

By: Lesley Garner

A highly praised columnist for the Daily Telegraph, Lesley Garner's latest book is an anthology of some of the essential pieces from all three of her previous works, examined again in a new light and with more depth and relevance than ever before, by relating them to the extraordinary experience of being let into the confidence of thousands of people. "This is a retreat in a book. Open it and take time out. Reading one essay takes thirty seconds but that one essay might shift you to a new way of being. This book is designed to deliver what I know of mood-shifting, re-inspiring, creative thinking, re-framing your experience, shifting the dark and letting in light. You can apply it to work, love, grief, change, fear, even despair. When you read it, know that it rests on four beliefs. We cannot change others, only ourselves. We know more than we think we do. We find the answers in stillness. And, the fourth truth, which I have learned from thousands of people: we are not alone." – Lesley Garner

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Hay House, Inc

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1848507895

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Everything I've Ever Learned About Love

By: Lesley Garner

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Everything I've Ever Learned About Love

By: Lesley Garner

Continuing on from 'Everything I've Ever Done That Worked', this new work is a love letter to life in the form of a book about love. In this beautiful collection of memoirs, insights, anecdotes and observations, Lesley maps her lifelong personal relationship with love. Whoever reads this book will be re-educated in love. They will understand better the impulses that drive their own emotions and relationships and how to resist self destruction and harm.

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Hay House, Inc

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184850733X

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Everything I've Ever Learned About Love

By: Lesley Garner

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Everything I've Ever Learned About Love

By: Lesley Garner

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A History of Science in Society

From Philosophy to Utility, Third Edition

By: Andrew Ede,Lesley B. Cormack

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A History of Science in Society

From Philosophy to Utility, Third Edition

By: Andrew Ede,Lesley B. Cormack

An update of the popular overview, A History of Science in Society traces the development of scientific thought throughout the ages. Beginning with the philosophy of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and proceeding through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and through to the present-day, the book presents key developments in scientific thought and theory. The new edition includes more material on non-Western science; new material on ethics, climate change, and corporate science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; more than 90 illustrations; updated timelines; and study questions designed to guide students."--

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University of Toronto Press

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1442634995

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9781442634992

Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine

An Introduction

By: Lesley A. Colby,Megan H. Nowland,Lucy H. Kennedy

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Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine

An Introduction

By: Lesley A. Colby,Megan H. Nowland,Lucy H. Kennedy

The revised fifth edition of Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction is an accessible guide to basic information for conducting animal research safely and responsibly. It includes a review of the unique anatomic and physiologic characteristics of laboratory animals, husbandry practices, and veterinary care of many animals frequently used in research, including rodents, rabbits, ferrets, zebrafish, nonhuman primates, and agricultural animals. The updated fifth edition adds two new chapters on zebrafish and large animals, new information on transgenic models and genetic editing, and expanded coverage of environmental enrichment and pain management. The book presents helpful tip boxes, images, and review questions to aid in comprehension and learning, and a companion website provides editable review questions and answers, instructional PowerPoints, and additional images not found in the book. This important text: • Provides a complete introduction to laboratory animal husbandry, diseases, and treatments • Offers a user-friendly format with helpful content that highlights important concepts • Contains new knowledge relating to technical methodologies, diseases, drug dosages, laws and regulations, and organizations • Covers information on regulations, facilities, equipment, housing, and research variables as well as veterinary care • Includes new chapters on zebrafish and cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs Written for veterinary technicians, veterinary students, practicing veterinarians, and research scientists, the fifth edition of Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine continues to offer an essential guide to the ethical treatment and anatomic and physiological characteristics of research animals.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119489598

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9781119489597

The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need

Writing Children's Books

By: Lesley Bolton,Lea Wait

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The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need

Writing Children's Books

By: Lesley Bolton,Lea Wait

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

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144051738X

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Fictions of Integration

American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education

By: Naomi Lesley

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Fictions of Integration

American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education

By: Naomi Lesley

This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less visible legacies, such as re-segregation within schools through the mechanism of disability diagnosis. Novelizations of children’s experiences with school desegregation comment upon the politics of getting African-American children access to white schools; but more than this, as school stories, they also comment upon how structural racism operates in the classroom and mutates, over the course of decades, through the pedagogical practices depicted in literature for young readers. Lesley combines approaches from critical race theory, disability studies, and educational philosophy in order to investigate how the educational market simultaneously constrains how racism in schools can be presented to young readers and also provides channels for radical critiques of pedagogy and visions of alternative systems. The volume examines a range of titles, from novels that directly engage the Brown v. Board of Education decision, such as Sharon Draper’s Fire From the Rock and Dorothy Sterling’s Mary Jane, to novels that engage less obvious legacies of desegregation, such as Cynthia Voigt’s Dicey’s Song, Sharon Flake’s Pinned, Virginia Hamilton’s The Planet of Junior Brown, and Louis Sachar’s Holes. This book will be of interest to scholars of American studies, children’s literature, and educational philosophy and history.

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Routledge

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1315472279

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Big Sky Bachelor

By: Lesley Ann McDaniel

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Big Sky Bachelor

By: Lesley Ann McDaniel

JANESSA GREENE IS LEAVING THORNTON SPRINGS All she's ever wanted is to attend cooking school in Seattle. But when a big-shot rodeo rider comes to work on her family's Montana ranch, Janessa's determined not to let the cowboy distract her from her goal—no matter how charming he is. Micah was a rodeo star, but he's been trampled by one bull too many. While he's deciding his next move, he gets sidetracked by a pretty cowgirl who's headed out of town. Can Micah convince her to take a chance on a cowboy ready to put down roots?

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Harlequin

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0373486790

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9780373486793

Librarians, Literacy and the Promotion of Gender Equity

By: Lesley S.J. Farmer

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Librarians, Literacy and the Promotion of Gender Equity

By: Lesley S.J. Farmer

Today's youth have available an unprecedented array of information and media, and today's literacy must extend well beyond decoding the printed page. As the keepers of information, how do librarians help boys and girls separate relevant from irrelevant, important from unimportant, helpful from harmful? How can librarians help students become self-sufficient learners? This book addresses today's need for literacies in technology, reading, information, and numbers, as well as visual, aural, and media literacy. With thorough consideration of the latest research, it focuses on how gender affects the way these literacies are learned, experienced, and used. Exercises are recommended to help students of both genders become effective learners and managers of their environment. After delving into issues of gender, such as differences and similarities in the way boys and girls learn, discussion concentrates on how librarians and other educators can design learning activities with gender and technology issues in mind. Individual chapters deal with each type of literacy, and the concluding chapter discusses the interdependence of all. This book demonstrates that the era of "one size fits all" literacy is behind us, and argues for the library as an optimal learning environment for exploring literacies holistically.

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McFarland

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0786423447

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9780786423446

Frontier Diplomats

Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina' Among the Blackfeet

By: Lesley Wischmann

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Frontier Diplomats

Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina' Among the Blackfeet

By: Lesley Wischmann

This dual biography highlights the human dimensions of the Upper Missouri fur trade. Focusing on two major figures, Alexander Culbertson (1809-1879), trader with the American Fur Company, founder of Fort Benton, and the first white American to live among the Blackfeet Indians, and his wife, Natoyist-Siksina’ (“Holy Snake”) (1825-1893), daughter of Two Suns, the chief of the Blood (Kainah) tribe, Lesley Wischmann shows the great influence this couple had on the region. Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina’ worked together for thirty years to promote cooperative relations between Native inhabitants and newly arrived white adventurers and played key roles in the Fort Laramie Treaty Conference of 1851 and treaty negotiations with the Blackfeet tribes in 1855. As she tells the story of these “frontier diplomats,” Wischmann also challenges conventional wisdom about the character of fur traders, the nature of the Blackfeet, and the role of Indian women.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806136073

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9780806136073

Ladies of the Canyons

A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

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Ladies of the Canyons

A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first decades of the twentieth century by the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. Part of an influential circle of women that included Louisa Wade Wetherill, Alice Corbin Henderson, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Mary Austin, and Willa Cather, these ladies imagined and created a new home territory, a new society, and a new identity for themselves and for the women who would follow them. Their adventures were shared with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Henri, Edgar Hewett and Charles Lummis, Chief Tawakwaptiwa of the Hopi, and Hostiin Klah of the Navajo. Their journeys took them to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, into Canyon de Chelly, and across the high mesas of the Hopi, down through the Grand Canyon, and over the red desert of the Four Corners, to the pueblos along the Rio Grande and the villages in the mountains between Santa Fe and Taos. Although their stories converge in the outback of the American Southwest, the saga of Ladies of the Canyons is also the tale of Boston’s Brahmins, the Greenwich Village avant-garde, the birth of American modern art, and Santa Fe’s art and literary colony. Ladies of the Canyons is the story of New Women stepping boldly into the New World of inconspicuous success, ambitious failure, and the personal challenges experienced by women and men during the emergence of the Modern Age.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816532311

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9780816532315

Teaching Primary Special Educational Needs

By: Jonathan Glazzard,Jane Stokoe,Alison Hughes,Annette Netherwood,Lesley Neve

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Teaching Primary Special Educational Needs

By: Jonathan Glazzard,Jane Stokoe,Alison Hughes,Annette Netherwood,Lesley Neve

Today, there is increased emphasis on the coverage of special educational needs in initial teacher training. This comprehensive introduction begins by looking at inclusion policy and how barriers to achievement can be removed. The SEN Code of Conduct is explained and detailed guidance on Individual Education Plans (IEPs) is included. The book then goes on to give practical advice on the teaching of children with special educational needs in reading, speech and language, the autistic spectrum and behavioural, social and emotional difficulties. Finally, the book considers the wider context looking at partnerships with parents, carers and professionals in other agencies.

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SAGE

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184445682X

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9781844456826

Animal Ethos

The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science

By: Lesley A. Sharp

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Animal Ethos

The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science

By: Lesley A. Sharp

What kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in laboratory science? Animal Ethos draws on ethnographic engagement with academic labs in which experimental research involving nonhuman species provokes difficult questions involving life and death, scientific progress, and other competing quandaries. Whereas much has been written on core bioethical values that inform regulated behavior in labs, Lesley A. Sharp reveals the importance of attending to lab personnel’s quotidian and unscripted responses to animals. Animal Ethos exposes the rich—yet poorly understood—moral dimensions of daily lab life, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox responses are evidence of concerted efforts by researchers, animal technicians, veterinarians, and animal activists to transform animal laboratories into moral scientific worlds.

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Univ of California Press

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0520971051

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9780520971059

Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880

By: Lesley A. Hall

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Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880

By: Lesley A. Hall

Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slow and halting the processes of change have been, and how many continuities have persisted under a façade of modernity. Thoroughly revised, updated and expanded, the second edition of this established text: • explores a wide range of relevant topics including marriage, homosexuality, commercial sex, media representations, censorship, sexually transmitted diseases and sex education • features an entirely new last chapter which brings the narrative right up to the present day • provides fresh insights by bringing together further original research and recent scholarship in the area. Lively and authoritative, this is an essential volume for anyone studying the history of sexual culture in Britain during a period of rapid social change.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137292687

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A Century of Violence in a Red City

Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia

By: Lesley Gill

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A Century of Violence in a Red City

Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia

By: Lesley Gill

In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activism for agrarian reforms, labor rights, and social programs in the 1960s and 1970s. Like much of Colombia, Barrancabermeja came to be dominated by alliances of right-wing politicians, drug traffickers, foreign corporations, and paramilitary groups. These alliances reshaped the geography of power and gave rise to a pernicious form of armed neoliberalism. Their violent incursion into Barrancabermeja's civil society beginning in the 1980s decimated the city's social networks, destabilized life for its residents, and destroyed its working-class organizations. As a result, community leaders are now left clinging to the toothless discourse of human rights, which cannot effectively challenge the status quo. In this stark book, Gill captures the grim reality and precarious future of Barrancabermeja and other places ravaged by neoliberalism and violence.

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Duke University Press

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0822374706

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9780822374701

Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine

An Introduction

By: Karen Hrapkiewicz,Lesley A. Colby,Patricia Denison

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Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine

An Introduction

By: Karen Hrapkiewicz,Lesley A. Colby,Patricia Denison

Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction, Fourth Edition offers a user-friendly guide to the unique anatomy and physiology, care, common diseases, and treatment of small mammals and nonhuman primates. Carefully designed for ease of use, the book includes tip boxes, images, and review questions to aid in comprehension and learning. The Fourth Edition adds new information on transgenic mice, drug dosages, techniques, and environmental enrichment, making the book a comprehensive working manual for the care and maintenance of common laboratory animals. The book includes information on topics ranging from genetics and behavior to husbandry and techniques in mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, chinchillas, rabbits, ferrets, and nonhuman primates. A companion website provides editable review questions and answers, instructional PowerPoints, and additional images not found in the book. Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine is an invaluable resource for practicing veterinarians, veterinary students, veterinary technicians, and research scientists.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111834510X

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9781118345108

Emotionally Responsive Practice

A Path for Schools That Heal, Infancy-Grade 6

By: Lesley Koplow

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Emotionally Responsive Practice

A Path for Schools That Heal, Infancy-Grade 6

By: Lesley Koplow

In her new book, Lesley Koplow explores the Emotionally Responsive Practice (ERP) approach designed to support children and teachers' emotional well-being in the public-school setting. ERP encourages school staff to look at children through the lens of child development, as well as through the lens of their life experiences, in order to help them resolve foundational social and emotional milestones. Unlike many SEL programs, ERP asks adults to consider the ways that educational philosophy and school climate impact emotional, social, and cognitive outcomes for young children. This timely resource offers teachers, school leaders, and school-based clinicians a vision and blueprint for engaging in relationship-based, trauma-informed practice in early childhood and elementary school grades"--

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0807764841

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9780807764848

Money in the Bank--Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency (COIN) Operations

RAND Counterinsurgency Study--Paper 4

By: Angel Rabasa,Peter Chalk,Ivan Khilko,Paraag Shukla,Lesley Anne Warner

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Money in the Bank--Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency (COIN) Operations

RAND Counterinsurgency Study--Paper 4

By: Angel Rabasa,Peter Chalk,Ivan Khilko,Paraag Shukla,Lesley Anne Warner

Six historic counterinsurgency (COIN) operations are examined to determine which tactics, techniques, and procedures led to success and which to failure. The Philippines, Algeria, Vietnam, El Salvador, Jammu and Kashmir, and Colombia were chosen for their varied characteristics relating to geography, historical era, outcome, type of insurgency faced, and level of U.S. involvement. Future U.S. COIN operations can learn from these past lessons.

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103

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Rand Corporation

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0833042831

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9780833042835

Sunday's Kitchen

Food and Living at Heide

By: Lesley Harding,Kendrah Morgan

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Sunday's Kitchen

Food and Living at Heide

By: Lesley Harding,Kendrah Morgan

Sunday Reed was a passionate cook and gardener, who believed in home-grown produce, seasonal cooking and a communal table. Sunday's Kitchen tells the story of food and living at the home of John and Sunday Reed, two of Australia's most significant art benefactors. Settling on the fifteen-acre property in 1935, the Reeds transformed it from a run-down dairy farm into a fertile creative space for artists such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman. Richly illustrated with art, photographs-many previously unpublished-and recipes from Sunday's personal collection, Sunday's Kitchen recreates Heide's compelling and complex story.

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The Miegunyah Press

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0522857418

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9780522857412

Student Success and Library Media Programs

A Systems Approach to Research and Best Practice

By: Lesley S. J. Farmer

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Student Success and Library Media Programs

A Systems Approach to Research and Best Practice

By: Lesley S. J. Farmer

Student success comprises a complex system of expectations and measurements. Designed for school library media specialists, this book focuses on library media programs and examines the factors that influence student achievement. Through a presentation of research trends and actual practice, award-winning author Lesley Farmer demonstrates how media specialists can encourage student achievement by creating an environment conducive to learning. Farmer takes a systems approach, illuminating how each stakeholder in a student's education contributes to and impacts student achievement. Chapters include: What Defines Student Achievement? Research in the School Library World Internal Factors: The School Library Media Program School Factors Towards Student Achievement Student Factors Towards Student Achievement Societal Factors Towards Student Achievement Focus on Reading: Who's a Good Reader? Next Steps In addition to research findings about library programming, Farmer examines collection resources, facilities, staffing, curricula, instruction, reading issues, services, products, and administration. Key research studies are cited throughout the work to optimize referral to relevant information. This is an invaluable guide for school library media specialists, as well as for faculty and students in LIS and education programs.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313058822

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9780313058820

The Women in Blue Helmets

Gender, Policing, and the UN's First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit

By: Lesley J. Pruitt

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The Women in Blue Helmets

Gender, Policing, and the UN's First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit

By: Lesley J. Pruitt

The Women in Blue HelmetsÊtells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007. Lesley J. Pruitt investigates how the unit was originated, developed, and implemented, offering an important historical record of this unique initiative. Examining precedents in policing in the troop-contributing country and recent developments in policing in the host country, the book offers contextually rich examination of all-female units, explores the potential benefits of and challenges to womenÕs participation in peacekeeping, and illuminates broader questions about the relationship between gender, peace, and security.

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Univ of California Press

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0520290607

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9780520290600

Can Microfinance Work?

How to Improve Its Ethical Balance and Effectiveness

By: Lesley Sherratt

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Can Microfinance Work?

How to Improve Its Ethical Balance and Effectiveness

By: Lesley Sherratt

Microfinance began with the noble aim of alleviating poverty through the extension of small loans to poor borrowers, and has grown to now serve approximately 200,000,000 people-the majority of whom are female. Yet despite claims to the contrary, the practice has not been proven to have succeeded in either enriching or empowering its borrowers. In a thorough-going ethical assessment of the industry, Can Microfinance Work? examines the central microfinance model and whether or not it is effective, the extent to which the practice creates the conditions for exploitation and coercion to occur, and whether the distribution of the benefits and burdens of microfinance is likely to be an ethical one. Author Lesley Sherratt argues for the establishment of a duty of care in microfinance in recognition of the vulnerability of the client base. She also examines the ethical dilemmas inherent in working in the informal sector, as well as microcredit's macro impact on economies. From there, Sherratt draws some wider lessons microfinance can offer anti-poverty developments in general. Challengingly, the book considers how microfinance might be reformed to ensure it is practiced both more ethically and effectively, and in doing so, argues that only a part of the industry may survive in its current form. The bulk could instead bifurcate in to one of two camps, either scaling down to become predominantly savings rather than credit vehicles, probably subsidized; or scaling up to provide credit to small and medium enterprise lending operations. For the rest, it is argued that establishing a non-exploitative interest rate, ending the practice of group liability, and fully specifying a duty of care -- with, if necessary, regulation developed to enforce these -- are microfinance's urgent ethical priorities.

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Oxford University Press

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0190264861

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9780190264864

Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties

A Practical Guide by Miss Edythe McFate

By: Lesley M. M. Blume

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Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties

A Practical Guide by Miss Edythe McFate

By: Lesley M. M. Blume

A compendium of practical information and cautionary tales about fairies and other similar magical creatures that might be encountered in modern cities like New York, intended to help the child who may come into contact with them.

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2050

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Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

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0375854932

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9780375854934

Mediation of International Conflicts

A Rational Model

By: Lesley G. Terris

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Mediation of International Conflicts

A Rational Model

By: Lesley G. Terris

This book examines the use of third-party mediation as a conflict resolution method. In an attempt to explain why some, but not all, conflicts are mediated, this work argues that diverse conflict structures are inherently different in their susceptibility to mediation attempts. By offering a systematic method for measuring the transformability of conflict structures, this book contributes to our understanding of the sufficient and necessary conditions for mediation. In addition, the study offers an analytical framework for the examination of mediation as a trilateral rational bargaining process. Although the general concept of mediation as a three-person game is not new, most studies focus on either the disputants' perspectives or the mediator's perspective. In contrast, this study integrates the perspectives of all three parties. The framework links the different stages involved in the whole process of mediation, from the onset of mediation, through the mediation strategies used, to the outcome, rather than focusing on one particular aspect. The book applies the framework to two case studies – the conflict between Israel and Egypt and the conflict between India and Pakistan – and provides new insights into these conflicts from a mediation perspective. In general, the model developed here provides a framework for systematically assessing conflicts and the options available to those involved in the mediation process. This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, mediation, war and conflict studies, Asian politics, Middle Eastern politics and IR in general.

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Routledge

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1315467755

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9781315467757

The Amazon Incubator

Grow Your Business or Hatch a New One

By: Lesley Hensell

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Grow Your Business or Hatch a New One

By: Lesley Hensell

The real story about how to be a successful seller on Amazon, from a leading consultant. Amazon is the most powerful business incubator in the history of the world. Unfortunately, where there is great opportunity, get-rich-quick schemes abound. Most available books about selling on Amazon peddle a dream that is unattainable for sellers. They promise riches at the cost of only five hours a week, or a long-term income for an initial investment of just $1,000. The Amazon Incubator is different. This book instead offers realistic, sustainable strategies for building a long-term, profitable business on Amazon. Whether sellers are burgeoning entrepreneurs or own the ecommerce channel at an established brand, they will benefit from the strategic thinking and in-depth Amazon know-how delivered in an easily digestible format. The reader will be guided through exercises to define their goals, determine their product set, and execute like a champ. The Amazon Incubator is written in short, easy-to-digest chapters that include case studies and real-world examples of Amazon seller success and failure. Readers will better identify with and understand the information when case studies are included. In addition, each chapter includes a brief summary at the end, as well as suggested action steps, so it can easily be used as a tool for the reader to share with teammates and business associates.

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Simon and Schuster

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Plank's Law

By: Lesley Choyce

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Plank's Law

By: Lesley Choyce

First item on the list: live.

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Orca Book Publishers

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1459812506

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Administration Procedures for Higher Secretarial Diplomas

By: Lesley Jefferson,Sue Sealy

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Administration Procedures for Higher Secretarial Diplomas

By: Lesley Jefferson,Sue Sealy

This textbook covers the next level in administration after the Diploma in Administration and Secretarial Procedures. It provides the underpinning knowledge for the higher diploma in Administrative Procedures qualification offered by RSA with up-to-date information in this area.

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Heinemann

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0435455133

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9780435455132

The School of the Americas

Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

By: Lesley Gill

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The School of the Americas

Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

By: Lesley Gill

DIVTransnational ethnography and history of the School of the Americas, analyzing the military, peasant, and activist cultures that are linked by this institution. /div

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Duke University Press

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0822333929

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Lew Ayres

Hollywood's Conscientious Objector

By: Lesley L. Coffin

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Lew Ayres

Hollywood's Conscientious Objector

By: Lesley L. Coffin

A biography of Lew Ayres, an accomplished actor, pacifist, and conscientious objector of World War II.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617036374

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Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women

The Early Twenty-First Century

By: Penny Farfan,Lesley Ferris

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Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women

The Early Twenty-First Century

By: Penny Farfan,Lesley Ferris

This book foregrounds some of the ways in which women playwrights from across a range of contexts and working in a variety of forms and styles are illuminating the contemporary world while also contributing to its reshaping as they reflect, rethink, and reimagine it through their work for the stage. The book is framed by a substantial introduction that sets forth the critical vision and structure of the book as a whole, and an afterword that points toward emerging currents in and expansions of the contemporary field of playwriting by women on the cusp of the third decade of the twenty-first century. Within this frame, the twenty-eight chapters that form the main body of the book, each focusing on a single play of critical significance, together constitute a multi-faceted, inevitably partial, yet nonetheless integral picture of the work of women playwrights since 2000 as they engage with some of the most pressing issues of our time. Some of these issues include the continuing oppression of and violence against women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and ethnic minorities; the ongoing processes of decolonization; the consequences of neoliberal capitalism; the devastation and enduring trauma of war; global migration and the refugee crisis; the turn to right-wing populism; and the impact of climate change, including environmental disaster and species extinction. The book is structured into seven sections: Replaying the Canon; Representing Histories; Staging Lives; Re-imagining Family; Navigating Communities; Articulating Intersections; and New World Order(s). These sections group clusters of plays according to the broad critical actions they perform or, in the case of the final section, the new world orders that they capture through their stagings of the seeming impasse of the politically and environmentally catastrophic global present moment. There are many other points of resonance among and across the plays, but this seven-part structure foregrounds the broader actions that drive the plays, both in the Aristotelian dramaturgical sense and in the larger sense of the critical interventions that the plays creatively enact. In this way, the seven-part structure establishes correspondences across the great diversity of dramatic material represented in the book while at the same time identifying key methods of critical approach and areas of focus that align the book’s contributors across this diversity. The structure of the book thus parallels what the playwrights themselves are doing, but also how the contributors are approaching their work. Plays featured in the book are from Canada, Australia, South Africa, the US, the UK, France, Argentina, New Zealand, Syria, Brazil, Italy, and Austria; the playwrights include Margaret Atwood, Leah Purcell, Yaël Farber, Paula Vogel, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, debbie tucker green, Lisa Loomer, Hélène Cixous, Anna Deavere Smith, Lola Arias, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, Marie Clements, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Alia Bano, Holly Hughes, Whiti Hereaka, Julia Cho, Liwaa Yazji, Grace Passô, Dominique Morisseau, Emma Dante, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Lynn Nottage, Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, Colleen Murphy, and Lucy Kirkwood. Encompassing several generations of playwrights and scholars, ranging from the most senior to mid-career to emerging voices, the book will be essential reading for established researchers, a valuable learning resource for students at all levels, and a useful and accessible guide for theatre practitioners and interested theatre-goers.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472126326

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9780472126323

The Transplant Imaginary

Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science

By: Lesley A. Sharp

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The Transplant Imaginary

Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science

By: Lesley A. Sharp

In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. These widespread anxieties within and beyond medicine over organ scarcity inspire seemingly futuristic trajectories in other fields. Especially prominent, longstanding, and promising domains include xenotransplantation, or efforts to cull fleshy organs from animals for human use, and bioengineering, a field peopled with “tinkerers” intent on designing implantable mechanical devices, where the heart is of special interest. Scarcity, suffering, and sacrifice are pervasive and, seemingly, inescapable themes that frame the transplant imaginary. Xenotransplant experts and bioengineers at work in labs in five Anglophone countries share a marked determination to eliminate scarcity and human suffering, certain that their efforts might one day altogether eliminate any need for parts of human origin. A premise that drives Sharp’s compelling ethnographic project is that high-stakes experimentation inspires moral thinking, informing scientists’ determination to redirect the surgical trajectory of transplantation and, ultimately, alter the integrity of the human form.

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0520277988

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Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth

20 Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond

By: Monisha Bajaj,Daniel Walsh,Lesley Bartlett,Gabriela Martínez

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Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth

20 Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond

By: Monisha Bajaj,Daniel Walsh,Lesley Bartlett,Gabriela Martínez

This important book offers strategies, models, and concrete ideas for better serving newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in U.S. schools, with a focus on grades 6–12. The authors present 20 strategies grouped under three categories: (1) classroom and instructional design, (2) school design, and (3) extracurricular, community, and alumni partnerships. Each chapter provides research-based information, classroom examples, tips for implementing each strategy, and additional resources. Readers will find engaging profiles of schools, students, and alumni interspersed throughout the book, offering both varied perspectives and practical advice. Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth will assist today’s educators, school leaders, policymakers, and scholars interested in the holistic success and well-being of immigrant and refugee students. Book Features: Practical strategies for educators and school leaders are rooted in empirical research and classroom narratives from across the United States.Multiple, real-life examples are used to illustrate each strategy.Each chapter concludes with a brief summary and recommended resources.School and student profiles demonstrate what the strategies look like in practice, as well as their benefits for students.Diverse perspectives are presented by researchers, classroom teachers, school leaders, and newcomer students.

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Teachers College Press

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0807781088

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Social Work and Domestic Violence

Developing Critical and Reflective Practice

By: Lesley Laing,Cathy Humphreys,Kate Cavanagh

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Social Work and Domestic Violence

Developing Critical and Reflective Practice

By: Lesley Laing,Cathy Humphreys,Kate Cavanagh

Domestic violence affects all areas of social work. This book shows how social workers can intervene in everyday practice with victims, their families and perpetrators of domestic abuse. It provides students with knowledge of theory, research and policy to put directly in practice across a variety of legal and service-user contexts. Topics covered include: Child protection Interprofessional collaboration The policy and legal context Working with women Working with men Each chapter begins with a case study and concludes with reflective questions to highlight practice dilemmas and challenge students to reflect critically. Further reading from a rich range of sources guides readers to expand their knowledge. This book will be valuable reading for students studying domestic violence, child protection, and family social work, as well as practitioners of Social Work.

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