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International Political Economy and Socialism

By: Marie Lavigne

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International Political Economy and Socialism

By: Marie Lavigne

This book, first published in 1991, is a revised and updated version of Professor Marie Lavigne's best seller Economie Internationale des Pays Socialistes.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521336635

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9780521336635

The Economics of Transition

From Socialist Economy to Market Economy

By: Marie Lavigne

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The Economics of Transition

From Socialist Economy to Market Economy

By: Marie Lavigne

Substantially revised and updated the second edition of this highly acclaimed text is both a vital guide and a valuable critical analysis. The book provides a contemporary comparative approach to the process of transformation of the economies of Eastern Europe and Russia. Supplying a large amount of factual and statistical information it also includes consideration of recent progress in the areas of macro-economic-stabilisation, micro-economic restructuring and integration into the world economy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349273139

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9781349273133

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Global Economy

By: Marie Lavigne

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The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Global Economy

By: Marie Lavigne

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are moving away from a centrally planned economy toward integration within the global economy. How did this transition begin? Is this an aim which all the countries can afford? What conditions are to be met so that the countries will achieve a level of development comparable with the average level of their industrial partners? In this 1992 volume, leading international political economists from both the East and West provide an in-depth analysis of these questions. The contributors assess how the transition to the market requires liberalizing foreign trade, introducing convertibility, and transforming property structures, all of which are also part of the ongoing domestic reform. They also examine how these countries overcome their development lag and implement a restructuring policy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521414172

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9780521414173

Landless Women, Hopeless Women?

Gender, Land and Decentralisation in Niger

By: Martha Diarra,Marie Monimart

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Landless Women, Hopeless Women?

Gender, Land and Decentralisation in Niger

By: Martha Diarra,Marie Monimart

This paper is a summary of a regional case study on gender, land and decentralisation. The main study has two parts: three portraits of women showing different examples of access to natural resources and local leadership; and a general report based on the portraits and on interviews carried out in seven study sites in Maradi and Zinder regions in Niger.

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IIED

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1843696398

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9781843696391

Inspiring Women: Purpose, Passion, and Power in Professionalism

By: Marie Fratoni

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Inspiring Women: Purpose, Passion, and Power in Professionalism

By: Marie Fratoni

Inspiring women are all around us, and I invite you to take notice of their brilliance and the difference they make in our world. This group of contributing authors has demonstrated longevity in their commitment to excellence, moving through difficult challenges, and overcoming personal and professional obstacles. It’s our hope that you enjoy their stories and are touched and moved in a way that you, too, choose to be inspiring to others.

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Hybrid Global Publishing

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1961757184

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Wicked Flesh

Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

By: Jessica Marie Johnson

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Wicked Flesh

Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

By: Jessica Marie Johnson

The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship—husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy—corporeal, carnal, quotidian—tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black women's practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812297245

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9780812297249

Pain

From Suffering to Feeling Better

By: Marie-Josée Rivard

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Pain

From Suffering to Feeling Better

By: Marie-Josée Rivard

How can you hold out hope of a normal life when you are suffering? This is the challenge facing thousands of chronic pain sufferers. This book explains the psychological and physiological phenomenon of pain, informs readers about new therapeutic approaches to treating chronic pain and suggests effective pain management tools.

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Dundurn

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1459728165

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Hard Time

A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison

By: Robert Johnson,Ann Marie Rocheleau,Alison B. Martin

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Hard Time

A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison

By: Robert Johnson,Ann Marie Rocheleau,Alison B. Martin

Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it’s actually like to live and work in prison Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives

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John Wiley & Sons

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111908282X

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French Connections

Networks of Influence

By: Sophie Coignard,Marie-Thérèse Guichard

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French Connections

Networks of Influence

By: Sophie Coignard,Marie-Thérèse Guichard

They were born in the same region, went to the same schools, fought the same fights and made the same mistakes in youth. They share the same morals, the same fantasies of success and the same taste for money. They act behind the scenes to help each other, boosting careers, monopolizing business and information, making money, conspiring and, why not, becoming Presidents! From Corsica, the Corree, Auvergne, Brittany and Savoy, former "collaborationists" and free-masons; homosexuals and aristocrats; tax inspectors and ex-Trotskyites; hunters and golfers; Jews and Protestants ... they all belong to a network, and sometimes to several. Multiple and unofficial, these places of complicity draw a hidden geography of French society. They explain more surely than official communiques the decisions, the nominations, the transactions that take place. To write this secret history of networks, Sophie Coignard and Marie-Thérèse Guichard questioned actors and observers of these secret solidarities in every milieu, every region, every class. From the "Make Yourself Comfortable" brotherhood to the laundry "gang." the mountain "red necks" to the "brothers" of the Mediterranean Coast, from the clan from the Charente to the club of new capitalists, heirs to the thieves' cloaks to plotters in priests' cassocks ... they lift the veil from all these subterranean understandings which glue together France.

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Algora Publishing

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1892941163

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New World Myth

Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction

By: Marie Vautier

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New World Myth

Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction

By: Marie Vautier

There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773566880

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9780773566880

Dying and Death in Canada

By: Herbert C. Northcott,Donna Marie Wilson

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Dying and Death in Canada

By: Herbert C. Northcott,Donna Marie Wilson

An exceptional resource for anyone interested in death and dying. Set in the Canadian context, readers travel through the historical, demographic, religious, economic, and cultural terrain that shapes contemporary notions of dying and death." - Laurie Clune, Ryerson University

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University of Toronto Press

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1551118734

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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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9781771120647

Talking about Natural Disasters

A Sesame Street ® Resource

By: Marie-Therese Miller

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Talking about Natural Disasters

A Sesame Street ® Resource

By: Marie-Therese Miller

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, or floods can be especially scary for young children. Sesame Street friends invite young readers to make an emergency plan together with their families, and remind them that there are so many people in their communities to help keep them safe.

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Lerner Publications TM

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9798765637531

Insomnia and Fatigue after Traumatic Brain Injury

A CBT Approach to Assessment and Treatment

By: Marie-Christine Ouellet,Simon Beaulieu-Bonneau,Josee Savard,Charles M. Morin

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Insomnia and Fatigue after Traumatic Brain Injury

A CBT Approach to Assessment and Treatment

By: Marie-Christine Ouellet,Simon Beaulieu-Bonneau,Josee Savard,Charles M. Morin

Insomnia and fatigue are two of the most frequent consequences after traumatic brain injury (TBI). About 30% of individuals suffer from chronic insomnia, an additional 20% have symptoms of insomnia, and up to 75% have significant and persistent fatigue. There is a strong empirical basis for the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral interventions for the management of insomnia and fatigue in the general population and in other patient populations, and emerging research shows that these interventions seem applicable with similar benefits to people with TBI. Insomnia and Fatigue After Traumatic Brain Injury: A CBT Approach to Assessment and Treatment is written by a team of four scientist-practitioners in psychology who are experts in sleep medicine, cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Together they have authored this assessment and intervention manual for insomnia and fatigue, intended for clinicians working with the TBI population. Based on cognitive-behavioral principles, the manual integrates evidence-based interventions and techniques used by expert clinicians working with these populations. Throughout the development process, there has been an ongoing integration of the best available research, specialized clinical expertise, and knowledge transfer expertise: all of these perspectives were used to choose, revise, and format the content of the manual as to ensure that it would be most useful for the target audience. - Authored by specialists in sleep medicine, CBT and TBI - Covers both assessment and treatment for TBI insomnia and fatigue - Contains treatment plans in detail - Suitable for inpatient and outpatient settings - Appropriate for mild to severe TBI - Includes extensive patient handouts

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Academic Press

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0128113170

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9780128113172

Applied Topics in Health Psychology

By: Marie Louise Caltabiano,Lina Ricciardelli

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Applied Topics in Health Psychology

By: Marie Louise Caltabiano,Lina Ricciardelli

This selection of in-depth, critical and comprehensive chapters on topical issues in applied health psychology features the work of key researchers and practitioners in the Australasian health system and deals with both theoretical and methodological aspects of the subject. The first health psychology text aimed specifically at regional postgraduate trainees Covers an array of topics and issues and focuses on applied aspects of clinical health and health promotion Includes both specialized topics and new frontiers of research Contextualizes health psychology teaching and learning for Australasian students

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118314522

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9781118314524

Bioassays with Arthropods

By: Jacqueline L. Robertson,Moneen Marie Jones,Efren Olguin,Brad Alberts

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Bioassays with Arthropods

By: Jacqueline L. Robertson,Moneen Marie Jones,Efren Olguin,Brad Alberts

Imagine a statistics book for bioassays written by a statistician. Next, imagine a statistics book for bioassays written for a layman. Bioassays with Arthropods, Third Edition offers the best of both worlds by translating the terse, precise language of the statistician into language used by the laboratory scientist. The book explains the statistical basis and analysis for each kind of quantal response bioassay in just the right amount of detail. The first two editions were a great reference for designing, conducting, and interpreting bioassays: this completely revised and updated third edition will also train the laboratory scientist to be an expert in estimation of dose response curves. New in the Third Edition: Introduces four new Windows and Apple-based computer programs (PoloJR, OptiDose, PoloMixture and PoloMulti) for the analyses of binary and multiple response analyses, respectively Replaces out-of-date GLIM examples with R program samples Includes a new chapter, Population Toxicology, and takes a systems approach to bioassays Expands the coverage of invasive species and quarantine statistics Building on the foundation set by the much-cited first two editions, the authors clearly delineate applications and ideas that are exceptionally challenging for those not already familiar with their use. They lead you through the methods with such ease and organization, that you suddenly find yourself readily able to apply concepts that you never thought you would understand. To order the PoloSuite computer software described in Bioassays with Arthropods, Third Edition, use the order form found at www.leora-software.com or contact the LeOra Software Company at leorasoftware@gmail.com.

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CRC Press

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1482217090

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Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges

By: Marie Seong-Hak Kim

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Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges

By: Marie Seong-Hak Kim

Discusses the judicial role in constitutional authoritarianism in the context of Korea's political and constitutional transitions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108474896

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Metal Nano 3D Superlattices

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

By: Marie-Paule Pileni

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Metal Nano 3D Superlattices

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

By: Marie-Paule Pileni

Metal Nano 3D Superlattices Unique view on producing metal nano 3D superlattices by differing their morphologies, crystalline structures, chemical, and physical properties After presenting an overview on the various factors involved in producing metal 3D superlattices called supracrystals by differing their morphologies, crystalline structures, chemical, physical, and intrinsic properties, Metal Nano 3D Superlattices: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications reveals the existence of new materials with unexpected properties. Readers will gain insight into the various approaches on the production and on the specific properties of nanocrystals self-assembled in 3D superlattices also called colloidal crystals, supra or super crystals. These properties open up new avenues of research and potentially aiding in major progress. Overall, the work reviews the progress of and gives perspective on assembled nanocrystals, with a concentrated focus on self-assemblies of metal nanocrystals. Sample topics covered by the highly qualified and internationally awarded author include: Syntheses of nanocrystals with low size distribution. The wide variety of self-assembled nanocrystals in 3D superlattices strongly depends on an impressive number of parameters. The intrinsic chemical and physical properties of 3D superlattices of nanocrystals opens the way to the discovery of unexpected properties. This concerns growth processes, coherent breathing of in 3D superlattices, electron transport through thick assemblies, etc. A strong analogy between atomic crystals and 3D superlattices of nanocrystals emerge: incompressible nanocrystals and coating agents act as mechanical springs holding together the nanocrystals and replace respectively, in atomic crystals, atoms and atomic bonds. The intrinsic chemical and physical properties of nanocrystals and their assemblies depend on their crystalline structures called nanocrystallinity. Collective properties due to dipolar interactions between nanocrystals are pointed out. Water soluble suprastructures act as efficient universal nanoheaters. In addition, reconstruction near the cytoplasmic membrane in tumor cells of nanocrystal self-assemblies takes place opening various biomedical applications. The physical (optical, magnetic, electronic, vibrational) properties of isolated nanocrystals remain present in addition to the intrinsic and collective properties. This allows to benefit from the unique properties of nanocrystals while avoiding their potential size-related risks in future applications. Metal Nano 3D Superlattices offers a deep dive into their synthesis, chemical and physical properties, and applications and is an essential resource for inorganic chemists, materials scientists, physical chemists, surface chemists, and medicinal chemists conducting research related to or involved in the practical application of the topics covered within.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527344772

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9783527344772

The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books

By: Marie Tedford,Pat Goudey

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The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books

By: Marie Tedford,Pat Goudey

The antiquarian's reference to old books features thousands of listings, including hundreds of new titles, a new Internet buying guide, a complete glossary of book-collecting terms, research resources, information on dealers, and advice on buying, selling, and maintaining fragile acquisitions. Original.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0375722939

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9780375722936

Ultimate Cruelty

A Mother’s Memoir

By: Marie Paris

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Ultimate Cruelty

A Mother’s Memoir

By: Marie Paris

Sixteen-year-old Emilie was a beautiful girl caught up in a relationship with the wrong guy. She held onto the dream that life would be everything she thought it would be until one day the dream came crashing down on her and her mother. In Ultimate Cruelty, Marie Paris, Emilie’s mother, narrates her daughter’s story. Paris a single mother, shares how she was caught off guard when her young daughter went missing , and she tells of the frantic search that ensued and the outcome no one expected. Paris writes about the media frenzy, the injustice, the breakdown of her family, and the aftermath surrounding Emilie’s disappearance. Ultimate Cruelty discusses the thoughts, memories, and emotions of the family’s nightmare. It chronicles each milestone Paris encountered and overcame in this heart-wrenching story. Ultimate Cruelty shares one mother’s heart-wrenching story as she journeys through her sixteen-year-old daughter’s disappearance and eventual death, reflecting on her daughter’s life and the tragedy itself.

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iUniverse

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1532021992

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Custom, Law, and Monarchy

A Legal History of Early Modern France

By: Marie Seong-Hak Kim

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Custom, Law, and Monarchy

A Legal History of Early Modern France

By: Marie Seong-Hak Kim

Ancien régime France did not have a unified law. Legal relations of the people were governed by a disorganized amalgam of norms, including provincial and local customs (coutumes), elements of Roman law and canon law, royal edicts and ordinances, and judicial decisions. All these sources of law coexisted with little apparent internal coherence. The multiplicity of laws and the fragmentation of jurisdiction were defining features of the monarchical era. Legal historians have focused on popular custom and its metamorphosis into customary law, which covered a broad spectrum of what we call today private law. This book sets forth the evolution of law in late medieval and early modern France, from the thirteenth through the end of the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the royal campaigns to record and reform customs in the sixteenth century. The codification of customs in the name of the king solidified the legislative authority of the crown, which was an essential element of the absolute monarchy. The achievements of legal humanism brought custom and Roman law together to lay the foundation for a unified French law. The Civil Code of 1804 was the culmination of these centuries of work. Juristic, political, and constitutional approaches to the early modern state allow an understanding of French history in a continuum.

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Oxford University Press

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0192660233

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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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Dharavi

From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

By: Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky

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Dharavi

From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

By: Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky

Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia. Often referred to as ‘Little India’, it has been home to thousands of migrants from across the country providing opportunities for work and livelihood. As such, Dharavi presents a fascinating paradox: the convergence of stereotypes associated with the slum — poverty and misery — and an effervescent economic vitality, impelled by globalisation and international capital flows. Bringing together 20 years of painstaking fieldwork, this book reveals the social, economic, political, and urban complexities that define Dharavi beneath the shadow of Mumbai, the financial capital of India. It provides a rare account of the slum’s history, with a special focus on the original populace of leather workers — who form the backbone of its urban informal economy — their work, organisation and increasing political awareness. Dominated by a population of ex-‘untouchables’, conventionally stigmatised by poverty and low status, Dharavi illustrates how traditional caste-based occupational and regional divisions continue to be strong and affect structures of political governance and economy. At the same time, it testifies to an intimate encounter with consumerism, liberalisation and technological innovations, and its resultant cultural globalisation under the heady influence of media, advertising and cinema transmitted by the city of Mumbai. This book traces the mega-slum’s gradual transformation as a thriving trade centre, through an informal economy’s successful adaptation to global markets, in turn establishing an urban paradigm. It will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, politics, public policy and governance, and to those interested in globalisation, transnational migration and town planning.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000084310

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9781000084313

Owning It

By: Leah Marie Brown

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Owning It

By: Leah Marie Brown

The chance of a lifetime . . . or just another bad decision? Delaney Lavender Brooks needs to grow up. At least, according to her parents. After getting evicted from her apartment and wrecking her car, Laney is almost ready to trade in her paintbrushes and surrender to a more sensible 9-to-5 existence. Almost. Until she’s awarded an internship at a prestigious art gallery in Paris. What else can the free-spirited artist do but follow her dreams? Even if her latest attempt at chasing rainbows might cost her a real future . . . Once in the city of lights, Laney is almost undone by the glaring truth: maybe she isn’t sophisticated or talented enough to make it as an artist—or an independent woman, for that matter. And when she’s hotly pursued by a seductive Frenchman, she has to wonder if she’s about to be a fool for love, too. Soon Laney’s greatest challenge is not proving herself to her parents, but having the courage to live the life—and love—of her dreams . . . “Leah Marie Brown has a wily way of bringing her stories to life with sharp dialogue and drop-dead sexy characters.” —Cindy Miles, National Bestselling Author “When it comes to crafting clever, intelligent, wonderful escapist fiction with a heroine every woman wants to know, Leah Marie Brown is a new voice to watch. Prepare to fall in love!” —Renee Ryan, Daphne du Maurier Award-Winning Author

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Lyrical Press

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1516101219

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9781516101214

Feng Shui Your Life

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Your Home to Attract the Life of Your Dreams

By: Marie Diamond

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Feng Shui Your Life

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Your Home to Attract the Life of Your Dreams

By: Marie Diamond

Create the environment to attract the life that you deserve, with the guidance of internationally renowned Feng Shui Master Marie Diamond. Rooted in ancient Chinese culture, Feng Shui is a system that teaches people how to arrange their living space to attract health, wealth, happiness, and good energy—or chi—into their lives. Marie Diamond’s unique Diamond Feng Shui system combines traditional Feng Shui teachings with the Law of Attraction, neuroscience, and quantum physics to help you increase the abundant energy in your home and in your life. In this book, you will learn: The importance of space clearing to create a more mindful, relaxed, and organized home. How your personal energy number can help you attract the things you want with quicker and better results. Ways to activate your Feng Shui with crystals, plants, flowers, and water. Tips for activating your success, money, health, and relationship goals. Ways to Feng Shui different parts of your home to improve the energy flow and boost your chi, including your front door, family space, bedrooms, and kitchen. Feng Shui Your Life offers exercises, tools, and practical guidance, and will become your go-to resource to help you attract a life of abundance beyond your wildest dreams.

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Hay House, Inc

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1401978002

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The National Habitus

Ways of Feeling French, 1789–1870

By: Marie-Pierre Le Hir

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The National Habitus

Ways of Feeling French, 1789–1870

By: Marie-Pierre Le Hir

Stories about border crossers, illegal aliens, refugees that regularly appear in the press everywhere point to the crucial role national identity plays in human beings' lives today. The National Habitus seeks to understand how and why national belonging became so central to a person's identity and sense of identity. Centered on the acquisition of the national habitus, the process that transforms subjects into citizens when a state becomes a nation-state, the book examines this transformation at the individual level in the case of nineteenth century France. Literary texts serve as primary material in this study of national belonging, because, as Germaine de Staël pointed out long ago, literature has the unique ability to provide access to "inner feelings." The term "habitus," in the title of this book, signals a departure from traditional approaches to nationalism, a break with the criteria of language, race, and ethnicity typically used to examine it. It is grounded instead in a sociology that deals with the subjective dimension of life and is best exemplified by the works of Norbert Elias (1897–1990) and Pierre Bourdieu (1931–2002), two sociologists who approach belief systems like nationalism from a historical, instead of an ethical vantage point. By distinguishing between two groups of major French writers, three who experienced the 1789 Revolution firsthand as adults (Olympe de Gouges, François René de Chateaubriand and Germaine de Staël) and three who did not (Stendhal, Prosper Mérimée, and George Sand), the book captures evolving understandings of the nation, as well as thoughts and emotions associated with national belonging over time. Le Hir shows that although none of these writers is typically associated with nationalism, all of them were actually affected by the process of nationalization of feelings, thoughts, and habits, irrespective of aesthetic preferences, social class, or political views. By the end of the nineteenth century, they had learned to feel and view themselves as French nationals; they all exhibited the characteristic features of the national habitus: love of their own nation, distrust and/or hatred of other nations. By underscoring the dual contradictory nature of the national habitus, the book highlights the limitations nation-based identities impose on the prospect for peace.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110363062

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Adaptable Interventions for Counseling Concerns

A Step-by-Step Clinical Workbook

By: Freeman Woolnough,Autumn Marie Chilcote

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Adaptable Interventions for Counseling Concerns

A Step-by-Step Clinical Workbook

By: Freeman Woolnough,Autumn Marie Chilcote

Adaptable Interventions for Counseling Concerns is filled with more than 40 interventions appropriate for new and experienced professionals alike. The interventions are organized in a unique yet practical manner, including options for individual reader creativity and personal adaptations within the text itself. The book’s uniqueness lies in the broad coverage of common concerns, formatting, and ease in navigation. Each chapter is devoted to a specific client concern, with seven suggested intervention strategies clearly labeled by modality to make it easy for readers to find new interventions best suited to their practice. Chapters also introduce relevant and recent research on client concerns, contextualizing the circumstances for which a counseling professional could apply the chosen interventions. Intervention sections also include space for individualized notes and reader personalization.

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Routledge

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131722230X

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Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice

The Role of Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood Programs

By: Anne Marie Coughlin,Lorrie Baird

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Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice

The Role of Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood Programs

By: Anne Marie Coughlin,Lorrie Baird

As the field of early learning continues to grow and evolve, we must consider the impact of our approaches to working with adults and children. Early childhood professionals and leaders need to reconcile their responsibilities in never-ending administrative tasks, ensuring program quality, and supporting the growth of others. Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: The Role of Pedagogical Leadership in Early Child Programs is a comprehensive practical look at creating systems, structures, and protocols for supporting people in large and small organizations, individuals working as mentors, coaches or pedagogical leaders to invite educators into a thinking and learning process about their work. Readers will develop the skills and mindsets that can enhance their performance and effect organizational change. Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice offers stories and structures connected to four principles of pedagogical leadership with specific ideas to enhance the work of educational leaders. Working from a place of values and vision Building strong relationships Seeing and supporting strengths and competencies Supporting professional learning in multiple ways

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Redleaf Press

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1605547417

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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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9780774844840

Lobbying and Policy Change

Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Jeffrey M. Berry,Marie Hojnacki,Beth L. Leech,David C. Kimball

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Lobbying and Policy Change

Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Jeffrey M. Berry,Marie Hojnacki,Beth L. Leech,David C. Kimball

During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid government of lobbyists’ undue influence. For the authors of Lobbying and Policy Change, the most extensive study ever done on the topic, these promises ring hollow—not because politicians fail to keep them but because lobbies are far less influential than political rhetoric suggests. Based on a comprehensive examination of ninety-eight issues, this volume demonstrates that sixty percent of recent lobbying campaigns failed to change policy despite millions of dollars spent trying. Why? The authors find that resources explain less than five percent of the difference between successful and unsuccessful efforts. Moreover, they show, these attempts must overcome an entrenched Washington system with a tremendous bias in favor of the status quo. Though elected officials and existing policies carry more weight, lobbies have an impact too, and when advocates for a given issue finally succeed, policy tends to change significantly. The authors argue, however, that the lobbying community so strongly reflects elite interests that it will not fundamentally alter the balance of power unless its makeup shifts dramatically in favor of average Americans’ concerns.

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357

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University of Chicago Press

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0226039463

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9780226039466

The Promise of Renewal

Dominicans and Vatican II

By: Marie Crowley

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The Promise of Renewal

Dominicans and Vatican II

By: Marie Crowley

With variety and breadth, these essays celebrate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Dominican Order as well as the richness in Catholic thought and praxis during the past hundred years around the world. Their themes range from Yves Congar's view of the hierarchy to Jacques Loew's theory of ministry in the workplace. Ideas from thinkers interacting with Islam and Judaism lead on to a theology of refugees. A book for those pondering theology amid history and culture.

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ATF Press

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1925486702

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9781925486704

Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration

Bringing in the Region

By: Felicitas Hillmann,Marie Pahl,Birte Rafflenbeul,Harald Sterly

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Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration

Bringing in the Region

By: Felicitas Hillmann,Marie Pahl,Birte Rafflenbeul,Harald Sterly

The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research.

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425

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Springer

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1137538910

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9781137538918

Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling

Applications with R

By: Robert Fletcher,Marie-Josée Fortin

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Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling

Applications with R

By: Robert Fletcher,Marie-Josée Fortin

This book provides a foundation for modern applied ecology. Much of current ecology research and conservation addresses problems across landscapes and regions, focusing on spatial patterns and processes. This book is aimed at teaching fundamental concepts and focuses on learning-by-doing through the use of examples with the software R. It is intended to provide an entry-level, easily accessible foundation for students and practitioners interested in spatial ecology and conservation.

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Springer

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3030019896

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9783030019891

When Rosa Parks Went Fishing

By: Rachel Marie Ruiz

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When Rosa Parks Went Fishing

By: Rachel Marie Ruiz

No discussion of the Civil Rights Movement is complete without the story of Rosa Parks. But what was this activist like as a child? Following young Rosa from a fishing creek to a one-room schoolhouse, from her wearing homemade clothes to wondering what "white" water tastes like, readers will be inspired by the experiences that shaped one of the most famous African-Americans in history.

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