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Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389

By: Dawn Marie Hayes

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Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389

By: Dawn Marie Hayes

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions, this book identifies the need to consider non-devotional uses of churches in the Middle Ages. Dawn Marie Hayes examines idealized visions of medieval sacred places in contrast with the mundane and profane uses of these buildings. She argues that by the later Middle Ages-as loyalties were torn by emerging political, economic, and social groups-the Church suffered a loss of security that was reflected in the uses of sacred spaces, which became more restricted as identities shifted and Europeans ordered the ambiguity of the medieval world.

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1135860033

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Useful Quasicrystals

By: Jean-Marie Dubois

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Useful Quasicrystals

By: Jean-Marie Dubois

The aim of this book is to acquaint the reader with what the authors regard as the most basic characteristics of quasicrystals -- structure, formation and stability, and properties -- in relationship with the applications of quasicrystalline materials. Quasicrystals are fascinating substances that form a family of specific structures with strange physical, chemical and mechanical properties as compared to those of metallic alloys. This, on the one hand, requires a generalization of the crystallographic description of solids and is still stimulating intensive research to understand the most basic properties of quasicrystals. On the other hand, these properties open the way to technological applications, demonstrated or potential, mostly regarding energy savings. This valuable book discusses those various facets of quasicrystals in six chapters, ending with the authors' own interpretation of the properties with respect to their unique structure.

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World Scientific

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9810232543

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Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County

How Pubs, Taprooms and Hostelries Made Revolutionary History

By: Marie Murphy Duess

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Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County

How Pubs, Taprooms and Hostelries Made Revolutionary History

By: Marie Murphy Duess

Inns and taverns occupied a position of central importance in colonial American society. Rest stop, hotel, provisioning center, drinking saloon, dining establishment, center of news and gossip, quartering for soldiersthese retreats served an astonishing variety of roles. In Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County, author Marie Duess filters the colonial and early modern history of Bucks County through the areas wide array of stagecoach stops, grog shops and taprooms. These inns created a whole world unto themselves, with a distinct vernacular (did you know the concepts of backlog and minding your Ps and Qs both originated from inn life?), set of customs and rituals and purpose within the greater societal framework. Follow author Marie Duess into the past and discover a fascinating facet of life in early Pennsylvania.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614232385

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Heroes of Hope

How 13 teachers helped their students and themselves after a natural disaster that nearly destroyed their nation in one day

By: Marie Gladys André-Dupuy Ed.D

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Heroes of Hope

How 13 teachers helped their students and themselves after a natural disaster that nearly destroyed their nation in one day

By: Marie Gladys André-Dupuy Ed.D

This book started as research for a case study that examined how secondary school teachers in Haiti perceived their ability to meet the educational needs of their students after the January 2010 earthquake. The methodology employed a triangulated design through surveys, face-to-face interviews, and focus groups throughout the study. Results demonstrated that high-efficacy teachers effectively preserved classroom management by utilizing an effective instructional design that truly engaged students in learning even at times of harsh conditions, whether it is a pandemic alike COVID-19, a hurricane, school mass shooting, an earthquake or other types of natural disasters. The book provides additional information in relation to how educational outcomes are intertwined with teachers' overall greater sense of self. Teachers are classroom leaders and responsible for guiding their students to success, regardless of the challenges that they encounter. This book illustrates how values and effective communication can foster positive working relationships, and enhance culturally responsive management while facing adversities.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098047524

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Canadian Travellers in Europe, 1851-1900

By: Eva-Marie Kroller

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Canadian Travellers in Europe, 1851-1900

By: Eva-Marie Kroller

This book provides both a detailed survey of Canadian travel writing in the nineteenth century and an unusual perspective on Canadian cultural history. The Canadians who wrote about their experiences abroad during the era of mass travel which followed the advent of the steamship reveal much about themselves and their own country as well. Who were these travellers, why did they travel, and what did they expect to see? In answering these questions, Eva-Marie Kroller draws upon a wide variety of materials: novels, guide books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, paintings, and previously unpublished letters and diaries. The self-assured progress of the privileged Canadian travellers often turned into introspective voyages of self-discovery. For one thing, Europeans often mistook them for Americans, and many had to ask themselves what it really meant to be Canadian. In addition, the tone of moral earnestness which pervades the early travellers' tales begins to give way to a certain world-weariness by the end. In Canada and elsewhere, the 'tourist' was a new phenomenon at the beginning of the period, but an accepted part of the modern world by the end of it. Canadian Travellers in Europe will be required reading for devotees of travel writing, but it is also a significant contribution to nineteenth-century Canadian history.

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UBC Press

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0774844841

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Autopsy of a Boring Wife

By: Marie-Renée Lavoie

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Autopsy of a Boring Wife

By: Marie-Renée Lavoie

Like a Québécois Bridget Jones’s Diary, Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband is having an affair because, he says, she bores him. Diane takes the change to heart and undertakes an often ribald, highly entertaining journey to restore trust in herself--and others--that offers an astute commentary on women and girls, gender differences, and the curious institution of twenty-first century marriage. All the details are up for scrutiny in this brisk, yet tender story of a path to recovery. Autopsy of a Boring Wife is a wonderfully fresh novel of the pitfalls of an apparently “boring” life that could be any of ours.

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House of Anansi

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1487004621

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Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice

By: Marie Keenan,Estelle Zinsstag

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Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice

By: Marie Keenan,Estelle Zinsstag

Concerned by the high attrition rates for sexual crime and the secondary victimization experienced by victims during their participation in the criminal justice system, this book analyses the extent to which restorative justice can address the justice gap that exists in current justice provision. Building on clinical experience and earlier research on sexual crime the authors engage with the complex dynamics and traumatic impact of sexual crime as a critical starting point for their research and examine whether restorative justice can contribute to a more enhanced justice response. The book presents extensive new data on restorative justice as applied in sexual violence cases across the globe. It engages with feminist concerns regarding the traumatic impact of sexual violence and the power imbalances that characterise these offences, as well as the potential for re-traumatisation and re-victimisation during the judicial process. While there is a risk of coercion of the victim to participate in the process, and manipulation of restorative justice by the offender, restorative justice has the potential to lead to the reprivatisation of sexual crime and ultimately to its decriminalisation. Having examined these topics in detail, the book concludes there is an important role for restorative justice in addressing the justice gap that exists after sexual crime and offers guidance on how this can be achieved.

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Oxford University Press

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0198858639

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Machiavelli on Freedom and Civil Conflict

An Historical and Medical Approach to Political Thinking

By: Marie Gaille

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Machiavelli on Freedom and Civil Conflict

An Historical and Medical Approach to Political Thinking

By: Marie Gaille

In Machiavelli on Freedom and Civil Conflict: An Historical and Medical Approach to Political Thinking, Marie Gaille rethinks Machiavelli’s conception of civil conflict. In complete opposition to the common view of Machiavelli as a defender of tyranny, this analysis brings new elements to the forefront: the use of medical metaphors to describe the body politic, its historical lifespan and its institutional arrangement. This study is also based on a comprehensive approach to Machiavelli’s writings, including his most famous works, but also The History of Florence, his correspondence, and his political, military and diplomatic reports. This study allows Marie Gaille to propose an original assessment of Machiavelli’s insights for contemporary conceptions of democracy. This is a revised and translated edition of Conflit Civil et Liberté: la Politique Machiavelienne entre Histoire et Médecine, first published in French, in 2004 by Éditions Honoré Champion.

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BRILL

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9004376011

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9789004376014

The Abacus and the Cross

The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

By: Nancy Marie Brown

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The Abacus and the Cross

The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

By: Nancy Marie Brown

Traces the achievements of medieval Pope Sylvester II, revealing his lesser-known role in promoting scientific awareness throughout turn-of-the-first-millennium Catholicism, in a report that includes coverage of his humble origins and introduction of Arabic numerals to Europe.

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Basic Books (AZ)

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0465009506

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From the Ground Up

How Frontline Staff Can Save America's Healthcare

By: Peter Lazes,Marie Rudden

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From the Ground Up

How Frontline Staff Can Save America's Healthcare

By: Peter Lazes,Marie Rudden

“Everyone in a hospital leadership role should read this book as it offers a wealth of practical advice for organizations intent on improving their clinical care delivery.” —Amy C. Edmondson, professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Fearless Organization All Americans deserve and should have access to high quality, affordable healthcare services delivered by professionals who have sufficient time and resources to care for them. This book offers proven and practical approaches for redesigning healthcare organizations to be less fragmented—and more patient-centered—by tapping into the experiences of staff on the front lines of patient care. Peter Lazes and Marie Rudden show how collaboration and active communication among administrators, medical staff, and patients are a core element of a successful organizational change effort. Through case studies and the direct voices and experiences of frontline workers, they explore exactly what it takes to effectively engage staff and providers in improving the patient care shortcomings within their institutions. This book not only is a manual detailing what can be achieved when frontline staff have a direct voice in controlling their practice environments but was written to show how to accomplish transformative changes in how our hospitals and outpatient clinics work. At a time when the massive gaps in our healthcare systems have been laid bare by the fragmented responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this book offers hope and a plan for change.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523091886

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The Memoirs Of Duke Of Rovigo

By: Anne Jean Marie René Savary Duke of Rovigo

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The Memoirs Of Duke Of Rovigo

By: Anne Jean Marie René Savary Duke of Rovigo

As the tide of the French revolution swept away the noble privileges many of high birth fled the country, some officers stayed despite the danger of the revolutionaries, including both Napoleon and Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary, loyal to the state and sniffing advancement. Savary enlisted as a volunteer and was posted to the Armies of the Sambre and Meuse rivers and then the Rhine, his distinguished services led him to selected as an aide-de-camp of General Desaix who was known as a shrewd judge of characters both of men and of soldiers. It was in the sands of the desert during the Egyptian Campaign in 1798 that Savary met Napoleon he would serve faithfully for the next 17 years in the almost unbroken conflict that scarred Europe. He served admirably with his old commander Desaix during the Italian Campaign in 1800, after Desaix fell at the battle of Marengo Napoleon decided to take Savary into his confidence and appointed him head of his bodyguard. Promoted to Général de Division in 1805 shortly before the Austerlitz campaign. Once again he displayed great gallantry and courage during the fighting, but Napoleon saw that his abilities were also of use away from the field, and started to use him as a diplomat upon who he could always rely. After further missions, particularly in intrigues in Spain, Savary was appointed Minister of Police in 1810, he discharged his duties with a zeal that would not have been out of place in the Spanish Inquisition but was at fault during the attempted coup d’état of General Malet in 1812 whilst the Grande Armée was struggling through the snows of Russia. He served on as a faithful servant of Napoleon until the bitter end after Waterloo in 1815, and was considered dangerous enough to be refused permission to go the Elba with his former master.The Fourth and concluding volume covers the fall of Paris in 1814 and Napoleon’s first abdication, the Hundred Days campaign and Napoleon’s final fall from power in 1815.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782892222

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Abuse or Punishment?

Violence toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969

By: Marie-Aimée Cliche

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Abuse or Punishment?

Violence toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969

By: Marie-Aimée Cliche

At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the Western world. It was during this period that the extent of ill-treatment inflicted on children—treatment once excused as good child-rearing practice—was discovered. This book analyzes both the advice provided to parents and the different forms of child abuse within families. Cliche derives her information from family magazines, reports and advice columns in newspapers, people’s life stories, the records of the Montreal Juvenile Court, and even comic strips. Two dates are given particular focus: 1920, with the trial of the parents of Aurore Gagnon, which sensitized the public to the phenomenon of “child martyrs;” and 1940, with the advent of the New Education movement, which was based on psychology rather than strict discipline and religious doctrine. There has always been child abuse. What has changed is society’s sensitivity to it. That is why defenders of children’s rights call for the repeal of Section 43 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which authorizes “reasonable” corporal punishment. Abuse or Punishment? considers not only the history of violence towards children in Quebec but the history of public perception of this violence and what it means for the rest of Canada.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771120649

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Some Maintenance Required

By: Marie-Renée Lavoie

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Some Maintenance Required

By: Marie-Renée Lavoie

Bestselling author of Autopsy of a Boring Wife Marie-Renée Lavoie is a master of making us fall in love with her characters. She does it again with the tender coming-of-age story Some Maintenance Required. It is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected, potty-mouthed little neighbour. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage, where Laurie constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies Laurie’s understanding of class differences, and opens her eyes to a more complicated world. With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town, and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control. Life teaches Laurie that everyone requires some maintenance sometimes. A story of taking responsibility and coming into adulthood, Some Maintenance Required is as funny and as impressive as its main character.

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1487007744

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Memoirs

By: Marie Mancini,Hortense Mancini

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Memoirs

By: Marie Mancini,Hortense Mancini

The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married—Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king—the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day. Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images themselves, rather than leave the stories of their lives to the intrigues of the court—and to their disgruntled ex-husbands. First translated in 1676 and 1678 and credited largely to male redactors, the two memoirs reemerge here in an accessible English translation that chronicles the beginnings of women’s rights to personal independence within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226502805

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9780226502809

Jimi Hendrix

Soundscapes

By: Marie-Paule Macdonald

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Jimi Hendrix

Soundscapes

By: Marie-Paule Macdonald

Jimi Hendrix, one of the great instrumentalists in rock history, pioneered amplified sound that extended the scope of the guitar into the urban landscape. In this book, Marie-Paule Macdonald situates Hendrix’s trajectory through the places he made music, translating an innovative sense of space into his songs. Macdonald follows Hendrix from the Pacific Northwest to the California coast to New York City, from his musical beginnings as a youth in Seattle to his launch, touring career, and up until his last weeks in London. She charts the surroundings of a genuine inner-city dweller, a nighthawk and wanderer who roamed the streets and alleys of everyday neighborhoods and haunted seedy basement bars and intimate clubs—as performer or audience member. She explores how the rumble, uproar, babble, and discord of urban life inspired Hendrix to incorporate noise into his powerful repertoire. Tracking the variety of places where Hendrix played—from open-air stages to dilapidated ballrooms—she shows how space eventually became a process, as Hendrix would eventually commission an architect and sound engineer to build an urban recording studio that would capture the reverberation, bounce, sustain, and echo that he heard and played. Crackling with the electrifying sound of explosive creativity, Jimi Hendrix explores place and space to offer fascinating new insight into Hendrix’s resounding talent.

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Reaktion Books

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1780235429

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Colloidal Minerals and Trace Elements

How to Restore the Body's Natural Vitality

By: Marie-France Muller

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Colloidal Minerals and Trace Elements

How to Restore the Body's Natural Vitality

By: Marie-France Muller

Colloidal mineral supplements allow 98 percent of the supplement to be absorbed by the body, as opposed to the 3 to 5 percent absorption of standard mineral supplements. "Colloidal Minerals and Trace Elements" details 55 trace elements, their beneficial effects, and the ideal combinations of colloid supplements to use based on your health concerns.

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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1594770239

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The Expert Consumer

Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society

By: Alain Chatriot,Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel

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The Expert Consumer

Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society

By: Alain Chatriot,Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel

Recent work has focused on the politics of consumption and its manifestation in a number of situations. This volume extends these debates, providing a tighter focus and contributing to a noticeable gap in the field that numerous scholars are beginning to turn towards: that is, organizations of consumers themselves who have chosen to speak for all consumers and similar such bodies of experts which act on behalf of consumers. The volume is fortunate in drawing upon a number of scholars who are about to publish major works on the subject, but who are happy to provide summary versions of their work for the volume. The book pays particular attention to specific moments in consumer mobilization and expertise, capturing the range of types of expert consumers across the twentieth century, from ethical consumer groups at the beginning, to intellectuals, housewives, economists and public officials. It addresses questions on the nature of consumer organizing, which bodies can speak for consumers, whether one consumer voice can ever be identified and the relationship between consumption and citizenship. Overview pieces demonstrate the larger narratives involved in the study of the expert consumer, whilst more comparative essays set out the nature of transatlantic exchanges. Other contributions point to the similarities across seemingly different consumption regimes, while case studies of specific organisations and key historical moments draw out the particularities of consumer expertise.

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135188994X

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Opinion of Twelve of the Most Eminent Advocates of Paris. Touching the Right of the Seminary of Montreal, in Canada, to Certain Property

By: Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice,Antoine-Louis-Marie Hennequin

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Opinion of Twelve of the Most Eminent Advocates of Paris. Touching the Right of the Seminary of Montreal, in Canada, to Certain Property

By: Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice,Antoine-Louis-Marie Hennequin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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336874626X

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Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics

Second Edition

By: Amy Marie Haddad

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Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics

Second Edition

By: Amy Marie Haddad

When you read Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics, you won?t be surprised that 300 copies of the original version quickly disappeared, and ethics instructors from all over the country soon clamored for a second dose. Broad in scope but filled with specific examples, its nuts-and-bolts approach to pharmacy ethics instruction takes the form of a written prescription from several qualified professionals, giving you a variety of ways in which you can develop your own teaching methods and build on tested course designs. Accomodating enough to serve the interests of pharmacy educators as well as professionals in many other health science fields, Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics contains practical guidelines and examples that will aid you--the novice or expert--in finding the ideal layout for your pharmacy curriculum. Specifically, you?ll read about: contemporary legal cases on ethics instruction student ethical decision making issues raised by advances in biotechnology role playing and its usefulness in teaching teaching faculty about ethics the special challenges of teaching ethics to practicing pharmacists adding a writing emphasis to your teaching The creative, fun, and engaging methods in this helpful manual provide fertile ground upon which you can develop a wider, more personal repertoire of pharmacy ethics instruction. So if the expiration date on your syllabus is five years old and it feels like your class or seminar is a medicine cabinet crammed with old bottles and pills, clean it out and start over with Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics. It?ll be just what the doctor ordered.

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0789003783

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Innovation and the Social Economy

The Quebec Experience

By: Marie J. Bouchard

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Innovation and the Social Economy

The Quebec Experience

By: Marie J. Bouchard

Social economy organizations such as cooperatives, non-profits, mutual benefit groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations are uniquely positioned to respond not only to emerging social and economic needs, but also to new collective aspirations. In Québec, for instance, a pioneering social economy system has been developed that is recognized worldwide for its ability to foster innovative solutions to economic disparity and sustainability issues. In the wake of a global crisis that has emphasized the growing gap between economic and social concerns, what can other regions gain from this model? Through robust theoretical and in-depth empirical studies, this book offers the first opportunity to English-language readers to learn about the Québec experience of a social economy system. It takes stock of recent developments in the province relating to policy planning, governance, financing, local development, and legal frameworks. Innovation and the Social Economy also emphasizes this system’s potential for exploring alternative practices of production, consumption, and distribution that can foster social transformation.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442695102

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Mister Roger and Me

By: Marie-Renée Lavoie

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Mister Roger and Me

By: Marie-Renée Lavoie

Helen, alias "Joe," would rather be a boy and have all kinds of adventures like Lady Oscar, her favourite cartoon heroine. She daydreams about living in another time and achieving great things, but she must be content delivering newspapers and working at the bingo hall. After all, she is only eight years old, even though she claims to be ten. When Roger, an old man who drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor, and dreams about dying, moves into the working-class neighbourhood where Helen lives with her family, the two make uneasy acquaintances. But, after a series of scary and disturbing events, an unlikely friendship develops — one that changes them both forever. A stunning debut novel in the spirit of The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews, Mister Roger and Me perfectly captures the irony, innocence, heartbreak, and humour of childhood.

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House of Anansi

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1770892036

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Strong in Will

Working for the American Embassy in Paris During the Nazi Occupation

By: Marie-Louise Dilkes

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Strong in Will

Working for the American Embassy in Paris During the Nazi Occupation

By: Marie-Louise Dilkes

A detailed and vivid diary recounting the wartime experience in Paris during the occupation of France. “September 1939 slipped into October quite silently as if it did not want to attract any notice. The atmosphere is tense with expectancy, ready for the critical times that lie ahead. Everyone is geared for eventualities with courage and the élan of high purpose. Members of the Embassy staff have received their orders to leave for different posts: Bordeaux for some, Nantes for others and for others the Château de Candé. Some of us volunteered to remain in Paris. I was one of them. Paris will be safe or as dangerous as any other place, perhaps safer as every effort will be made to protect the city with its priceless works of art and its beauty.” Marie-Louise Dilkes’ astute observations of life in Paris during World War II are written from the unique perspective of the receptionist for the American Embassy. The Embassy was the first—or last—resort for many caught up in the chaos of war, and hers was the first face they would see as they walked through the grand doors. She takes us from the conquest and occupation of Paris by German forces but includes the war-time journey of the American consulate in Paris from Paris to Lisbon to Lyon to Bern and back to Paris. She ends with the triumphant return of members of the American Embassy staff, after the Allies forced the German Army out of Paris, and the reestablishment of the American Embassy in Paris.

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Casemate

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1636243797

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Deaf to the City

By: Marie-Claire Blais

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Deaf to the City

By: Marie-Claire Blais

This compelling story explores the motley crew of characters--including mother-turned-stripper Gloria, alcoholic Tim, frequent jailbird Charlie, and the suicidal wife of a rich doctor--who call the rundown Hôtel des Voyageurs home. Mesmerizing in its passion and humility, the narrative evokes the despair and innocence present in modern urban surroundings.

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155096013X

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Euro-Par 2007 Parallel Processing

13th International Euro-Par Conference, Rennes, France, August 28-31, 2007, Proceedings

By: Anne-Marie Kermarrec

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Euro-Par 2007 Parallel Processing

13th International Euro-Par Conference, Rennes, France, August 28-31, 2007, Proceedings

By: Anne-Marie Kermarrec

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Computing. The papers are organized into topical sections covering support tools and environments, performance prediction and evaluation, scheduling and load balancing, compilers for high performance, parallel and distributed databases, grid and cluster computing, peer-to-peer computing, distributed systems and algorithms, and more.

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3540744657

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