Lois Ryan's Books

Roadschooling Ryan

Learn as We Go

By: Mary Lois Sennewald

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What do you get when you combine an independent-minded, sixty-year-old mother with her adventurous seventeen-year-old son who hit the road together for his junior year? Consider the offbeat year when Mary Lois Sennewald and Ryan Costello left home to pursue learning in the wider world. Throwing conformity to the winds, the pair set out in August 2002 in a 1987 Volkswagen campervan, wandering up the Mississippi, across Canada to Newfoundland, down through New England, farther down into southern Mexico, concluding in Colorado high country. In this provocative memoir of foibles and family, astonishment, missteps, and magical moments, they share what they learned. In so doing, they challenge preconceptions about education, freedom and the necessities for a good life. By turns funny, poignant, and heart-warming, Roadschooling Ryan: Learn as We Go is about a young man on the brink of adulthood peering into the world, and a mother insisting on doing his schooling her way. It is also about survival, relative sanity, and compassion in very close quarters. Most of all, it is about laughing at fear, seeking wisdom and knowledge wherever one lands, and having a great time no matter where the road leads.

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iUniverse

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0595886957

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9780595886951

Psychology of Motivation

By: Lois V. Brown

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Psychology of Motivation

By: Lois V. Brown

In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of behaviour. Motivation is a temporal and dynamic state that should not be confused with personality or emotion. Motivation is having the desire and willingness to do something. A motivated person can be reaching for a long-term goal such as becoming a professional writer or a more short-term goal like learning how to spell a particular word. Personality invariably refers to more or less permanent characteristics of an individual's state of being (eg: shy, extrovert, conscientious). As opposed to motivation, emotion refers to temporal states that do not immediately link to behaviour (e.g., anger, grief, happiness). This book presents that latest research in this field.

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Nova Publishers

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160021598X

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9781600215988

His Easter Baby

By: Heidi McCahan,Lois Richer

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His Easter Baby

By: Heidi McCahan,Lois Richer

Blessings at Easter Their Baby Blessing by Heidi McCahan When navy veteran Gage Westbrook promised to look out for his late best friend’s son, he never imagined he’d bond with the baby boy. And he definitely didn’t plan to fall for Connor’s gorgeous temporary guardian, Skye Tomlinson. But weighted by guilt for the accident that took Connor’s dad, can Gage find the courage to forgive himself and embrace the chance at a family? A Baby by Easter by Lois Richer Susannah Wells and her unborn baby have nowhere to turn. So when she encounters handsome lawyer David Foster, she jumps at his offer to become caregiver for his sister. Susannah knows it’s difficult for David to let others ease his burdens. Until he shows her just what a blessing she and her Easter baby are to him. 2 Uplifting Stories Their Baby Blessing and A Baby by Easter

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Harlequin

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0369734882

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9780369734884

Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring

Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage

By: Lisa Z. Fain,Lois J. Zachary

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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring

Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage

By: Lisa Z. Fain,Lois J. Zachary

This first comprehensive guide to helping mentors and mentees bridge gaps between and among cultures—a growing issue in today's diverse workplace—is coauthored by the founder and CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence. As the workplace has become more diverse, mentoring has become more challenging. Mentors and mentees may come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other's cultures and outlooks. But mentoring remains the most powerful tool for creating meaningful relationships, furthering professional development, and increasing engagement and retention. Younger workers and emerging leaders in particular are demanding it. Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zachary offer a timely, evidence-based, practical guide for helping mentors develop the level of cultural competency needed to bridge differences. Firmly rooted in Zachary's well-known four-part mentoring model, the book uses three fictional scenarios featuring three pairs of diverse mentors and mentees to illustrate how key concepts can play out in real life. It offers an array of accessible tools and strategies designed to help you increase your self-awareness and prepare you to embrace and leverage differences in your mentoring relationships. But beyond tips and techniques, Fain and Zachary emphasize that authenticity is the key—the ultimate purpose of this book is to help the mentor and mentee make a genuine connection and learn from each other. That's when the magic really happens.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523085916

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9781523085910

Harlequin Love Inspired April 2017 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Lois Richer,Shannon Taylor Vannatter,Kat Brookes

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Harlequin Love Inspired April 2017 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Lois Richer,Shannon Taylor Vannatter,Kat Brookes

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. THE COWBOY’S EASTER FAMILY WISH Wranglers Ranch by Lois Richer Widowed single mom Maddie McGregor moved to Tucson, Arizona, for a fresh start with her son. She never expected Noah’s healing would be helped along by the former youth minister working at Wranglers Ranch—or that Jesse Parker could also be her hope for a second chance at forever. WINNING OVER THE COWBOY Texas Cowboys by Shannon Taylor Vannatter When Landry Malone arrives in Bandera, Texas, to claim her inheritance of half a dude ranch, co-owner Chase Donovan plans to run her out and keep his family legacy. Landry is just as determined to show the cowboy she’s up for the challenge of running the place—and winning his heart. THEIR SECOND CHANCE LOVE Texas Sweethearts by Kat Brookes Hope Dillan is back in Texas to help her ailing father recover. Making sure his nursery business stays afloat will mean working with Logan Cooper—the sweetheart she’s never forgotten. To embrace a future together, can she finally reveal the secret that tore them apart?

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1488018324

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9781488018329

Bioethics and the Law

By: Janet L. Dolgin,Ashley R. Hurst,Lois L. Shepherd

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Bioethics and the Law

By: Janet L. Dolgin,Ashley R. Hurst,Lois L. Shepherd

Casebook on bioethics and the law for law school students"--

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Aspen Publishing

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1543847323

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Community Mental Health

By: Lois Ritter,Shirley Lampkin

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Community Mental Health

By: Lois Ritter,Shirley Lampkin

-Child and elder abuse.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763783803

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9780763783808

Nice Girls Just Don't Get It

99 Ways to Win the Respect You Deserve, the Success You've Earned, and the LifeYou Want

By: Lois P. Frankel,Carol Frohlinger

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Nice Girls Just Don't Get It

99 Ways to Win the Respect You Deserve, the Success You've Earned, and the LifeYou Want

By: Lois P. Frankel,Carol Frohlinger

Offering the same brand of practical, no-holds-barred, expert advice that made Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office an international million-copy bestseller, Nice Girls Just Don't Get It teaches us the skills we need to turn from a nice girl into a winning woman, not just in our careers but in our relationships, families, and everyday lives. Have you ever felt invisible? Taken advantage of? Reluctant (or unable) to articulate what you really want? If so, join the club. The nice girls club. Nice girls—that's right, girls—are those more concerned with pleasing others than with addressing their own needs and haven't yet learned how to overcome the childhood messages cultural stereotypes keeping them from getting their voices heard, their needs met, and the lives they want. This book will turn those nice girls into winning women. That is, women who factor their own needs in with those of others, confront those who treat them disrespectfully, maintain healthy and mutually beneficial relationships with appropriate boundaries— and as a result, are happier and more successful in every area of their life. In 2004, Lois Frankel blew the lid off so many of our long-held ideas about gender and success with her bestselling Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, which went on to become such a huge phenomenon, the term "nice girls" has secured a place in our cultural lexicon. Here, Frankel teams up with negotiation expert Carol Frohlinger to bring this bestselling advice out of the workplace and provide a broader set of skills that any woman—whether a CEO or stay-at-home mom—can use to win anywhere, with anyone. Presented in the straightforward, digestible format that helped make Nice Girl's Don't Get the Corner Office an instant hit, Frankel and Frohlinger outline seven practical strategies and 99 supporting tactics that every winning woman should know. By the time you've finished reading this book, you'll be able to: • Get your husband to do his half of the household chores—without being made to feel like a nag. • Stop overextending yourself by taking on all the unpleasant tasks no one on your volunteer board, or your team at work will go near. • Win an argument with your mother in law about who will be hosting Christmas dinner. • Have the courage to send back a meal that isn’t prepared the way you’d ordered it. • Confront a colleague who is shirking responsibility or taking credit for your work. • Convince a sales person to reduce a fee, waive a surcharge, or honor a store credit. • Question a doctor’s course or treatment or request a second opinion, instead of simply going along in order to be a “good” patient. • Firmly but politely bow out of an extravagant vacation to celebrate a friend’s birthday that you simply can’t afford–without feeling guilty about it. And so much more. A must-read for anyone who's ever felt taken advantage of by a friend or family member, unappreciated by a spouse or partner, or exploited by a vindictive neighbor or co-worker, Nice Girls Just Don't Get It offers women the indispensable knowledge and skills to get the things they want, the respect they've earned, and the success they deserve. From the Hardcover edition.

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Harmony

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0307590488

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9780307590480

Summer of Fear

By: Lois Duncan

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Summer of Fear

By: Lois Duncan

From the moment Rachel's family takes in her orphaned cousin Julia, strange things start to happen. Rachel grows suspicious but soon finds herself alienated from her own life. Julia seems to have enchanted everyone to turn against her, leaving Rachel on her own to try and prove that Julia is a witch. One thing about Julia is certain-she is not who she says she is, and Rachel's family is in grave danger.

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Hachette+ORM

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0316175641

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9780316175647

Meeting Miss 405

By: Lois Peterson

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Meeting Miss 405

By: Lois Peterson

Life is hard enough for Tansy with her depressed mom away indefinitely and her dad making a mess of things at home. But then Dad sends her down the hall to a wrinkly old babysitter named Miss Stella, who Tansy hates on sight. Miss Stella has a unique perspective on life, to say the least, but with the help of her best friend Parveen, Tansy gradually learns to manage all the changes in her life and make unexpected new friends in the process.

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Orca Book Publishers

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1554696712

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Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment

By: Gavin T. L. Brown,Lois R. Harris

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Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment

By: Gavin T. L. Brown,Lois R. Harris

The Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment is the first book to explore assessment issues and opportunities occurring due to the real world of human, cultural, historical, and societal influences upon assessment practices, policies, and statistical modeling. With chapters written by experts in the field, this book engages with numerous forms of assessment: from classroom-level formative assessment practices to national accountability and international comparative testing practices all of which are significantly influenced by social and cultural conditions. A unique and timely contribution to the field of Educational Psychology, the Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment is written for researchers, educators, and policy makers interested in how social and human complexity affect assessment at all levels of learning. Organized into four sections, this volume examines assessment in relation to teachers, students, classroom conditions, and cultural factors. Each section is comprised of a series of chapters, followed by a discussant chapter that synthesizes key ideas and offers directions for future research. Taken together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate that teachers, test creators, and policy makers must account for the human and social conditions that shape assessment if they are to implement successful assessment practices which accomplish their intended outcomes.

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Routledge

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1317608186

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9781317608189

Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization

The NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century

By: Lois Takahashi

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Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization

The NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century

By: Lois Takahashi

Concentrating on three main themes, this text argues that it is the rise in community opposition across race, class, and region that should be considered in terms of the changing social construction of stigma.

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Oxford University Press

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0198233620

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9780198233626

Crown Us With Laurel

The Autobiography Of A Book

By: Lois Silverstein

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Crown Us With Laurel

The Autobiography Of A Book

By: Lois Silverstein

Crown Us With Laurel" is an exploration of the writing consciousness, illustrated through author Lois Silverstein's personal journey as a writer and teacher. It uses her writing and that of students to show how the mind creates works of art. "Crown Us With Laurel" includes Silverstein's poems, short fiction and essays, as well as samples of her students' work and her original play "VALIA: The Story of a Woman of Courage.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477127380

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9781477127384

Presbyterians and Pensions

The Roots and Growth of Pensions in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

By: R. Douglas Brackenridge,Brackenridge/Boyd,Lois A. Boyd

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Presbyterians and Pensions

The Roots and Growth of Pensions in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

By: R. Douglas Brackenridge,Brackenridge/Boyd,Lois A. Boyd

Presbyterians and Pensions traces the historical development of the modern Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its predecessor organizations from colonial times to the present. It is a critical work that examines the Board of Pensions in its broad historical, social, economic, and theological context. Utilizing the case study approach, the authors show how a major Protestant denomination produced its present retirement and protection program for church employees. This is an insightful historical presentation of a vital part of the church's mission and provides very interesting and critical reading for those interested in the history of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0804210500

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9780804210508

Community Mental Health

By: Lois A. Ritter,Shirley Manly Lampkin

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Community Mental Health

By: Lois A. Ritter,Shirley Manly Lampkin

Community Mental Health is unique in that it focuses specifically on mental health at the community level. The authors carefully outline the essential skills that health professionals need in order to identify mental health concerns and develop effective programs for communities encountering symptoms of mental disorders or illness. The text includes up-to-date information about mental health issues across the lifespan, the mental health care system, prominent mental health concerns faced by many communities, as well as information about interventions and model programs. The breadth of topics related to community mental health addressed include: indicators of illness and problems, methods of prevention and promotion, evaluation, and research. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449649602

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9781449649609

Welfare and the State: Who Benefits?

Who Benefits?

By: Lois Bryson

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Welfare and the State: Who Benefits?

Who Benefits?

By: Lois Bryson

Conventional texts on the welfare state have had a narrow gaze, focused mainly on benefits to the poor and relatively poor. Welfare and the State updates and broadens the classic debates on poverty, inequality and the nature of state. It focuses on the widest range of social policies, affecting the wealthy as well as the poor. It directs attention to gender, through examining women's welfare state and men's welfare state. It is concerned with the interests of those of non- dominant races both within nations and internationally. The results highlight the international applicability of the Matthew principle - 'to those that hath shall be given'.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349222828

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9781349222827

The Show Never Ends

By: Lois Breedlove

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The Show Never Ends

By: Lois Breedlove

Trouble Follows Her Everywhere Theater professor Gail Tremont thought the problems were over. Her stalker was gone. Stalkers, plural, actually. The fall student play was a success. Her own play is headed to off-Broadway — and she's going back to New York for opening night. The only flaw in her excitement is that Jake won't be able to go with her. His play won regional competition — and it's being performed the same night. She won't deprive him of that. Jake Abbott is excited about his own play, and thrilled about Gail's. But he doesn't like being in Idaho when she's in New York. He would have gone — if she'd asked. Then the anonymous photos start showing up in Jake's email. Pictures of Gail and other men. Some of them he recognizes. Gail's still in danger. And Jake has choices to make. The Story Never Ends, the conclusion to Gail and Jake's trilogy, is book 9 in the Second Chance Romances series. Four women friends find a second chance at love might be worth the risk — especially if you have friends who have your back. A small town, slow burn, contemporary romance series with HEAs — although love has its work cut out for it to get them there!

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L.J. Breedlove

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9798223177029

Communication and the Aging Process

Interaction Throughout the Life Cycle

By: Lois M. Tamir

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Communication and the Aging Process

Interaction Throughout the Life Cycle

By: Lois M. Tamir

Communication and the Aging Process: Interaction throughout the Life Cycle focuses on the process of development from infancy through old age, particularly noting the value of communication, social interaction, and social networks. The manuscript first offers information on development throughout the life cycle, as well as models of development, crisis and change, and methodology. The text then discusses communicative interaction and origins of communication, including interpersonal cognition, social interaction, caretaker-child interaction, communication between children, and language development. The book surveys adolescence and adulthood, psychological characteristics of the aged, and social world of the aged. Personality and morale, retirement and widowhood, attitudes toward the aged, and norms and rules are discussed. The manuscript also takes a look at the social networks of the aged and communicative interaction and the aged. Concerns include family, neighbors, friends, misperceptions between generations, and thought process and communication. The text is a vital source of data for readers interested in the study of life cycle.

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Elsevier

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1483153355

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9781483153353

Lois Sybil Harrington and Edward Winslow-Spragge

Letters

By: Lois Sybil Harrington,Edward Winslow-Spragge

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Lois Sybil Harrington and Edward Winslow-Spragge

Letters

By: Lois Sybil Harrington,Edward Winslow-Spragge

Granddaughter of Sir John William Dawson of McGill (Montreal) collects the letters of her parents, showing love, family and travel in early 20th-century Canada.

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Petra Books

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0968578411

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9780968578414

Cataloging and Classification

An Introduction

By: Lois Mai Chan,Athena Salaba

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Cataloging and Classification

An Introduction

By: Lois Mai Chan,Athena Salaba

The fourth edition of the late Lois Mai Chan's classic Cataloging and Classification covers the analysis and representation of methods used in describing, organizing, and providing access to resources made available in or through libraries. Since the last edition published in 2007, there have been dramatic changes in cataloging systems from the Library of Congress. The most notable being the shift from AACR2 to Resource Description and Access (RDA) as the new standard developed by the Library of Congress. With the help of the coauthor, Athena Salaba, this text is modified throughout to conform to the new standard. Retaining the overall outline of the previous edition, this text presents the essence of library cataloging and classification in terms of three basic functions: descriptive cataloging, subject access, and classification. Within this framework, all chapters have been rewritten to incorporate the changes that have occurred during the interval between the third and fourth editions. In each part, the historical development and underlying principles of the retrieval mechanism at issue are treated first, because these are considered essential to an understanding of cataloging and classification. Discussion and examples of provisions in the standards and tools are then presented in order to illustrate the operations covered in each chapter. Divided into five parts—a general overview; record production and structure, encoding formats, and metadata records; RDA; subject access and controlled vocabularies; and the organization of library resources—each part of the book begins with a list of the standards and tools used in the preparation and processing of that part of the cataloging record covered, followed by suggested background readings selected to help the reader gain an overview of the subject to be presented. This book is the standard text for the teaching and understanding of cataloging and classification.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442232501

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Union County, Pennsylvania

A Celebration of History

By: Charles McCool Snyder,John W. Downie,Lois Kalp

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Union County, Pennsylvania

A Celebration of History

By: Charles McCool Snyder,John W. Downie,Lois Kalp

This updated and revised book covers the gamut of Union County's history. It begins with the region's earliest days when the Delaware Indians were in residence and how the arrival of settlers, who ventured into this frontier area from Berks and Lancaster counties, marked the beginning of major changes. Synder's text, first published in 1976, has been expanded and updated to reflect newly discovered material on such groups as the Amish and the developments in Union County up to 2000. Distributed by Penn State University Press by arrangement with the Union County Historical Society.

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0917127137

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Adult

The Arts in Young Adult Literature

By: Lois Thomas Stover,Connie S. Zitlow

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Adult

The Arts in Young Adult Literature

By: Lois Thomas Stover,Connie S. Zitlow

Young adults often struggle with confusion or guilt because they perceive themselves as different from others, especially their peers. For some of these individuals, the arts can help them cope with adolescent turmoil, allowing them to express their emotions in poems, stories, painting, songs, and other creative outlets. Sensitive teachers and parents know how important it is for young people to realize that they are not alone in their quest for self-knowledge and finding their way in the world. It can make a difference when readers find something in a book that helps them understand more about who they are and helps them understand others. In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Adult: The Arts in Young Adult Literature, Lois Thomas Stover and Connie S. Zitlow examine books in which the coming-of-age for young adults is influenced by the arts. Stover and Zitlow consider the connection between the arts and a young person’s developing sense of self, the use of art to cope with loss and grief, and how young adults can use art to foster catharsis and healing. The young people in these books either identify as artists or use the arts in intentional ways to explore their identities. They often have artistic gifts that make them stand outside the norms of teenage life, yet those gifts also help them find a sense of community. Artists considered in this book include painters, photographers, sculptors, actors, directors, choreographers, dancers, composers, musicians, graffiti artists, and others. The books discussed also explore the ways adults can nurture the artist’s development and understand the way young people sometimes use the arts to form their unique identity. Included is an annotated bibliography organized by art discipline, as well as an appendix about using the arts pedagogically, making Portrait of the Artist as a Young Adult a valuable resource for educators, parents, librarians, and young adults.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810892782

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Social Work in the Health Field

A Care Perspective, Second Edition

By: Lois A Cowles

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Social Work in the Health Field

A Care Perspective, Second Edition

By: Lois A Cowles

This book provides an introduction to social work practice in the field of health care. It addresses both physical and mental health, examines various settings such as primary care, home care, hospice, and nursing, and also provides histories of social work practice in traditional industry segments.

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Routledge

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1136413235

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9781136413230

How Effective Is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go from Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation

By: Lois M. Davis,Jennifer L. Steele,Robert Bozick,Malcolm V. Williams,Susan Turner,Jeremy N. V. Miles,Jessica Saunders,Paul S. Steinberg

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How Effective Is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go from Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation

By: Lois M. Davis,Jennifer L. Steele,Robert Bozick,Malcolm V. Williams,Susan Turner,Jeremy N. V. Miles,Jessica Saunders,Paul S. Steinberg

This report assesses the effectiveness of correctional education programs for both incarcerated adults and juveniles and the cost-effectiveness of adult correctional education. It also provides results of a survey of U.S. state correctional education directors that give an up-to-date picture of what correctional education looks like today. Finally, the authors offer recommendations for improving the field of correctional education moving forward.

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Rand Corporation

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0833085778

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9780833085771

Wilhoit Springs: Molalla's Lost Resort

By: Judith Sanders Chapman and Lois E. Helvey Ray

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Wilhoit Springs: Molalla's Lost Resort

By: Judith Sanders Chapman and Lois E. Helvey Ray

History and legend mingle at Wilhoit Mineral Springs, a former health and recreation resort south of Molalla in Clackamas County. Although nothing remains of the rustic lodge buildings and campground today, tales of the healing soda springs enticed people to "take the waters," and indeed they did. By the late 1800s, this call for relaxation, social camaraderie, and a healthy cure escalated into a large gathering ground and community resort. The rustic getaway lured wealthy city guests from Portland, Salem, and Eugene, as well as the average local family. Wilhoit Springs Park, open to visitors today, is part riparian wilderness and part oak savannah and contains a fortress of older trees in a verdant setting. Today, people can picnic, walk through the mossy woods and meadows, and explore the lush surroundings. There are two springs, one pleasantly soda and the other highly sulfur--each is accessible today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467103233

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9781467103237

Marilyn

The Passion and the Paradox

By: Lois Banner

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Marilyn

The Passion and the Paradox

By: Lois Banner

As one of the founders of the field of women's history, Lois Banner reveals Marilyn Monroe in the way that only a top-notch historian and biographer could. Banner appreciates the complexities of Monroe's personal life in the context of her achievements as an actor, singer, dancer, comedian, model and courtesan.

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Maddi's Fridge

By: Lois Brandt

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Maddi's Fridge

By: Lois Brandt

This enhanced eBook features read-along narration. Winner of: 2014 Christopher Award, Books for Young People 2014 ILA Primary Fiction Award 2015 MLA Mitten Award Honor Human Rights in Children's Literature Honor With humor and warmth, this children's picture book raises awareness about poverty and hunger Best friends Sofia and Maddi live in the same neighborhood, go to the same school, and play in the same park, but while Sofia's fridge at home is full of nutritious food, the fridge at Maddi's house is empty. Sofia learns that Maddi's family doesn't have enough money to fill their fridge and promises Maddi she'll keep this discovery a secret. But because Sofia wants to help her friend, she's faced with a difficult decision: to keep her promise or tell her parents about Maddi's empty fridge. Filled with colorful artwork, this storybook addresses issues of poverty with honesty and sensitivity while instilling important lessons in friendship, empathy, trust, and helping others. A call to action section, with six effective ways for children to help fight hunger and information on antihunger groups, is also included.

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1947277073

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Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination

By: Carla Lois

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Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination

By: Carla Lois

Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly naïve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and geopolitical stereotypes that, although shaped at school from an early age, organized the way we interact with the world. why do we still need to draw maps? What is behind our common and naturalized practice of sketching maps? This innovative book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate multiple conscious and unconscious knowledges about place and space.

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Generosity and Gender

Philanthropic Models for Women Donors and the Fund Development Professionals Who Support Them

By: Lois A. Buntz

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Generosity and Gender

Philanthropic Models for Women Donors and the Fund Development Professionals Who Support Them

By: Lois A. Buntz

The social, political, and economic environment is ripe with opportunity to engage women and their philanthropy. Professionals working in the field of philanthropy want ideas, practical information, research, and guidance about how to work with women donors, how to build women’s philanthropy initiatives, and how to integrate this subset of donors into their current fund development departments. This book offers insight into the three historical waves of women’s philanthropy and provides a summary of current research and inspiring stories collected from interviews with more than 70 women philanthropists and leaders. Each chapter begins with current research, followed by interviews and examples, and ends with suggestions for fundraisers on how to implement the information into a women’s philanthropy initiative using a six-step process: Awareness, Assessment, Alignment, Action, Acknowledgement and Achievement. The last several chapters focus on lessons learned from successful programs in traditional organizational settings—healthcare, higher education, and environment—and what we have yet to learn from the new and emerging philanthropic models led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Priscilla Chan, Melinda Gates, Nancy Roob, and MacKenzie Scott. Throughout the book, themes of equity, diversity, and inclusion are evident and featured in stories and programs led by women of color and younger donors. Additionally, COVID has impacted how fundraisers work, requiring the philanthropy community to adapt and create new ways to reach women donors. The final chapter is a call to action to all women, to give bigger and bolder as the fourth wave of women’s philanthropy rises.

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Springer Nature

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303090380X

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Statistics for International Social Work and Other Behavioral Sciences

By: Serge C. Lee,Lois Lowe,Kelly Anders

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Statistics for International Social Work and Other Behavioral Sciences

By: Serge C. Lee,Lois Lowe,Kelly Anders

This book focuses on the most commonly encountered statistical methods used by social workers, informed by the guiding teaching philosophy that, to best understand statistics, students should be presented with a progression of concepts and calculations based on traditional manual computations as well as modernized computerized analysis tools.

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Oxford University Press

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Gallows Hill

By: Lois Duncan

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Gallows Hill

By: Lois Duncan

Role-playing takes on a terrifying cast when 17-year-old Sarah, who is posing as a fortune-teller for a school fair, begins to see actual visions that can predict the future. Frightened, the other students brand her a witch, setting off a chain of events that mirror the centuries-old Salem witch trials in more ways than one. From the Paperback edition.

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Laurel Leaf

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0307525678

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Australian Multiculturalism

A Documentary History and Critique

By: Lois E. Foster

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Australian Multiculturalism

A Documentary History and Critique

By: Lois E. Foster

This book is a documentary history and critique of the concept and policy of multiculturalism in Australia for the period 1970 to 1986. The book brings together for the first time a range of documents charting the emergence and implementation of multiculturalism across the main institutions of Australian society and culture. The institutions covered in the book are education, health and welfare, the Church, law, media, the realm of work and, as a summarising chapter, human rights and race and community relations in Australian society in the 1980s. The wide range of documents and the critical thematic introduction and contexting make the book ideal as a teaching text for students in many disciplines and an invaluable research source.

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Multilingual Matters

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1853590088

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The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946

By: Lois Gordon,Lois G. Gordon

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The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946

By: Lois Gordon,Lois G. Gordon

Samuel Beckett, whose play Waiting for Godot was one of the most influential works for the post-World War II generation, has long been identified with the debilitated and impotent characters he created. In this provocative book, Lois Gordon offers a new perspective on Beckett, challenging the prevalent image of him as reclusive, self-absorbed, and disturbed. Gordon investigates the first forty years of Beckett's life and finds that he was, on the contrary, a kind and generous man who responded sensitively and even heroically to the world around him. Gordon describes the various places and events that affected Beckett during this formative period: war-torn Dublin during the Easter Uprising and World War I, where he spent his childhood and student days; Belfast and Paris in the 1920s and London during the Depression, where he lived and worked; Germany in 1937, where he traveled and witnessed Hitler's brutal domestic policies; prewar and occupied France, where he was active in the Resistance (for which he was later decorated); and the war-ravaged town of Saint-L� in Normandy, which he helped to restore following the liberation. Gordon also portrays the individuals who were important to Beckett, including Jack B. Yeats, Alfred P�ron, Thomas McGreevy, and, most significantly, James Joyce, who was a model for Beckett personally, artistically, and politically. Gordon argues convincingly that Beckett was very much aware of the political and cultural turmoil of this period and that the enormously creative works he wrote after World War II can, in fact, be viewed as a product of and testament to those tumultuous times.

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Yale University Press

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0300074956

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Gail Tremont

Small Town Romantic Suspense

By: Lois Breedlove

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Gail Tremont

Small Town Romantic Suspense

By: Lois Breedlove

This is the complete trilogy of Gail Tremont's story, titles included are: Other Voices, First Intermission, The Show Goes On, Second Intermission, and The Show Never Ends. He's Off Limits Gail Tremont fled New York's bright lights to Moscow, Idaho, a small town that couldn't be more different. There she built a new life for herself — as a professor in the University of Idaho theater department. And each summer she runs a competition for beginning playwrights called Other Voices. This is year five, and all Gail asks is that it go smoothly. Then a Marine veteran shows up with a circle beard and a full lower lip made for kissing. And damn it, if Jake Abbott isn't one of the playwrights! And oh my God, the play he brings? Gail Tremont wants to produce that play almost as badly as she wants him. But things turn ugly fast when the man she fled years ago shows up on campus as a surprise Artist in Residence. And suddenly Gail Tremont is no longer wishing for things to go smoothly — she's just hoping she survives it at all. The complete trilogy featuring Gail Tremont and Jake Abbott, a part of the Second Chance Romances series, a romantic suspense series set in a small college town in Idaho. Four women friends have each other's backs, no matter what life throws at them. In this slow burn contemporary romance series, each woman gets her HEAs, but oh, the convoluted path love can take to get there! (Be prepared for language, triggers, and politics.)

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L.J. Breedlove

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Working Method

Research and Social Justice

By: Lois Weis,Michelle Fine

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Research and Social Justice

By: Lois Weis,Michelle Fine

Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.

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Routledge

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1134000529

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Nancy Cunard

Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

By: Lois Gordon

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Nancy Cunard

Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

By: Lois Gordon

Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history." Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an American beauty, Cunard abandoned the world of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a lifelong battle against social injustice as a wartime journalist, humanitarian aid worker, and civil rights champion. Cunard fought fascism on the battlefields of Spain and reported firsthand on the atrocities of the French concentration camps. Intelligent and beautiful, she romanced the great writers of her era, including three Nobel Prize winners, and was the inspiration for characters in the works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. Cunard was also a prolific poet, publisher, and translator and, after falling in love with a black American jazz pianist, became deeply committed to fighting for black rights. She edited the controversial anthology Negro, the first comprehensive study of the achievement and plight of blacks around the world. Her contributors included Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston, among scores of others. Cunard's personal life was as complex as her public persona. Her involvement with the civil rights movement led her to be ridiculed and rejected by both family and friends. Throughout her life, she was plagued by insecurities and suffered a series of breakdowns, struggling with a sense of guilt over her promiscuous behavior and her ability to survive so much war and tragedy. Yet Cunard's writings also reveal an immense kindness and wit, as well as her renowned, often flamboyant defiance of prejudiced social conventions. Drawing on diaries, correspondence, historical accounts, and the remembrances of others, Lois Gordon revisits the major movements of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of a truly gifted and extraordinary woman. She also returns Nancy Cunard to her rightful place as a major figure in the historical, social, and artistic events of a critical era.

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Columbia University Press

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023151137X

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9780231511377

Pig-Out Inn

By: Lois Ruby

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Pig-Out Inn

By: Lois Ruby

In a new town, Dovi’s family befriends a young boy who was abandoned at their restaurant Dovi Chandler collects yearbooks. She has them from all over the country: mementos of every time her parents uprooted her to a new town, and a new crackpot business venture. They’ve managed apartment houses, tried to save failing bookstores, even sold Tupperware, but all it’s ever gotten them is debt and a new yearbook for Dovi to add to the pile. It’s not until her parents take over the Pig-Out Inn that Dovi feels ready to put down roots. It’s just another truck-stop diner, but to Dovi it’s home—and she soon discovers that she and her family aren’t the only ones living there. Hiding out in 1 of the cabins is a 9-year-old boy named Tag. He was stashed there by his father, who is negotiating a painful divorce. Tag is an entrepreneurial genius, and his brilliant business schemes will offer Dovi and her mother a chance to make the Pig-Out Inn a success—and learn the true meaning of family.

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1504013662

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