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The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau

By: Erika Marie Bsumek

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The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau

By: Erika Marie Bsumek

A history of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and social imbalances that resulted from it.

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University of Texas Press

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1477303812

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Scandalous Officers Inside Jail Walls Ii

The Heat Goes On

By: Shirley Marie Dale

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Scandalous Officers Inside Jail Walls Ii

The Heat Goes On

By: Shirley Marie Dale

This book, like part one, introduces scandal like youve never imagined. Its not the ordinary scandal, but the extraordinary. It will tap into emotions that trigger anger, laughter, surprise, shock, and curiosity. Your wondering minds have been satisfied about some of the things that go on behind those jail walls in part one, but you havent heard everything. There is still a lot of juicy stuff to come. Ive turned the temperature up a notch or two in the department. So get ready to feel even more heat.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524554499

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Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland

By: Marie-Louise Coolahan

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Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland

By: Marie-Louise Coolahan

This book discusses women's writing in early modern Ireland. It explores the ways in which women contributed to the power struggles of the period; how they strove to be heard, forged space for their voices, and engaged with new and native language-traditions to produce poetry, petition-letters, depositions, and autobiography.

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Oxford University Press

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0199567654

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'Glades Boy

By: T. Marie Smith

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'Glades Boy

By: T. Marie Smith

Confused, he once more tried to get to his feet once more, with heart pounding and head spinning he fell between the tracks. The rumble grew louder and the vibrations became stronger. Realizing he had to act quickly, Zack tried to crawl. Though his head spun, he was making a little progress. Now the rumble had become a clopping-clatter, violently shaking the ground as the deadly train loomed ever closer. He had to get off the tracks! With one track to cross, he decided to try to roll over the formidable steel. Putting all his strength into one final effort, he cried out in terror, God, please help me! Doing a mans job from the age of twelve, Zack experiences a difficult, fast-paced life, sawing logs in the swamps and dealing with alligators, snakes, bears and other wild critters. He witnesses his father shoot a man for cheating in a poker game, and deals with the trauma of finding his aunt tortured and killed by outlaws who then came to the Bentley home and abuse Zacks pregnant mother and three siblings. Zack falls in love with Io, a Seminole Indian girl a childhood crush. Billy Joe, Ios uncle has always been a Christian friend, and together, he and Io lead Zack to Christ. Now running from the law, Zacks father leaves him with the responsibility of the family welfare. In spite of their poverty, Christmas brings a special opportunity to share their love for each other as well as to show the love of Jesus.

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WestBow Press

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1449705251

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11:11 the Time Prompt Phenomenon

Mysterious Signs, Sequences, and Synchronicities

By: Marie D. Jones,Larry Flaxman

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11:11 the Time Prompt Phenomenon

Mysterious Signs, Sequences, and Synchronicities

By: Marie D. Jones,Larry Flaxman

Originally published in 2009 by New Page Books.

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163265167X

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War, Women, and Power

From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina

By: Marie E. Berry

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War, Women, and Power

From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina

By: Marie E. Berry

Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the victims and spoils of war. Through a close examination of these cases, Marie E. Berry unpacks the puzzling relationship between war and women's political mobilization. Drawing from over 260 interviews with women in both countries, she argues that war can reconfigure gendered power relations by precipitating demographic, economic, and cultural shifts. In the aftermath, however, many of the gains women made were set back. This book offers an entirely new view of women and war, and includes concrete suggestions for policy makers, development organizations, and activists supporting women's rights.

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Cambridge University Press

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110824517X

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Reflections of Renaissance England

Life, Thought, and Religion Mirrored in Illustrated Pamphlets, 1535-1640

By: Marie-Helene Davies

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Reflections of Renaissance England

Life, Thought, and Religion Mirrored in Illustrated Pamphlets, 1535-1640

By: Marie-Helene Davies

This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Mays, Margaret R. Miles, and Walter Wink are among the seventy-five volumes that have been published. Contributors include: C. K. Barrett, Francois Bovon, Paul S. Chung, Marie-Helene Davies, Frederick Herzog, Ben F. Meyer, Pamela Ann Moeller, Rudolf Pesch, D. Z. Phillips, Rudolf Schnackenburgm Eduard Schweizer, John Vissers

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725241676

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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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Don’T Touch Family

By: Marie Davis

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Don’T Touch Family

By: Marie Davis

Dont Touch Family is a drama depicting a young female physicians journey through her family medicine residency. Yet after a traumatic sexual assault by a member of the established medical world, she must conquer her demons as shes faced with true love and the painful realization of just how imperfect family can be.

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1546208259

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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

Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire

Unearthing Deep South Narratives from a Texas Graveyard

By: Marie Theresa Hernández

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Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire

Unearthing Deep South Narratives from a Texas Graveyard

By: Marie Theresa Hernández

Growing up as the daughter of a funeral director in Fort Bend County, Texas, Marie Theresa Hernández was a frequent visitor to the San Isidro Cemetery, a burial place for Latino workers at the Imperial Sugar Company, based in nearby Sugar Land. During these years she acquired from her father and mother a sense of what it was like to live as an ethnic minority in Jim Crow Texas. Therefore, returning to the cemetery as an ethnographer offered Hernández a welcome opportunity to begin piecing together a narrative of the lives and struggles of the Mexican American community that formed her heritage. However, Hernández soon realized that San Isidro contained hidden depths. The cemetery was built on the former grounds of an old slave-owning plantation. Her story quickly burgeoned from one of immigrant laborers working the land of the giant sugar company to one of the slave laborers who had worked the sugar plantations decades before, but whose history had been largely wiped out of the narrative of the affluent, white-majority county. Much like an archeologist, Hernández began carefully brushing away layers of time to reveal the fragile, entombed remnants of a complex, unknown past. A professional photographer as well as a scholar, Hernández provides visual images to spur the reader’s imagination and anchor the narrative in historical reality. She mines interviews, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources—interpreted through her own rich sense of place and time—to reconstruct the identity of a community where the Old South, the wealthy New South, and the culture from south of the border all comingle to form an almost iconic symbol for today’s America. In this complex and nuanced, self-reflexive ethnography, Hernández interweaves personal memory and group history, ethnic experience and class . . . even death and life.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603440267

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Gifts, Talents and Education

A Living Theory Approach

By: Barry Hymer,Jack Whitehead,Marie Huxtable

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Gifts, Talents and Education

A Living Theory Approach

By: Barry Hymer,Jack Whitehead,Marie Huxtable

Gifts, Talents and Education: A Living Theory Approach is a practical guide for teachers on how to help all their pupils to enhance their gifts and talents in the classroom. Examples reveal how teachers can transform the way education is understood in schools, by relating stories of how they learned about their own gifts and talents. The book explains recent key developments in multimedia representations of social and emotional aspects of learning. These permit the multi-sensory gifts and talents of individual learners to be recognised and developed within a process that enhances the emotionally literate space of enquiring classrooms. Gifts, Talents and Education assumes a capability approach to human development which rests on enabling individuals to realise their gifts and talents within a co-created sense of the common good. The book offers values, skills and understanding as concepts that retain a direct connection with practice. The stories are grounded in the lives of practitioner researchers who show the lived meanings of these ideas as they are realised in practice, asking questions such as ‘how do I improve what I am doing?’ and ‘how do I live my values more fully in practice?’.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470715685

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The King Can Do No Wrong

Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability

By: Marie-France Fortin

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The King Can Do No Wrong

Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability

By: Marie-France Fortin

The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the common law tradition. Confusion over the phrase's historical origins and differing meanings has had serious consequences, making it easier for the state to escape liability for the harm caused to individuals by governmental officials or institutions. In the first dedicated monograph on the topic, Marie France-Fortin traces the historical evolution of 'the king can do no wrong' in constitutional and public law to shed new light on our current understanding of crown liability. The different meanings conveyed by the phrase in the common law world are clarified; the contradictions between them revealed. Adopting a historical constitutional approach, the book delves deep into traditional legal sources to develop an intellectual history of this key legal idea. It explains the mutation from 'the king can do no wrong' to 'the crown can do no wrong' at the end of the nineteenth century, analyzing the resulting departure from core tenets of the constitutional arrangement of the seventeenth century. The study of the evolution of 'the king can do no wrong' in English legal thinking, mirrored in Canada, is complemented by a comparative analysis of the idea in Australia, Ireland, and the United States, where its relationship with the concept of sovereign immunity is scrutinized. Retracing the evolution of the king can do no wrong in legal thinking, this book enhances academics', students', practitioners', and judges' understanding of the law of governmental liability in the common law world.

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Oxford University Press

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0198886934

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The Grinder

By: Marie A Brownlow

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The Grinder

By: Marie A Brownlow

In the canyons and hills of Los Angeles and San Francisco awaits the unlucky victims of the the Grinder, the chief hitman for the Mafia Saint, a skilled and cunning arch criminal who uses the gruesome killing methods of this manic killer to punish his enemies in a truly horrible way of dying. The Grinder only answers to his Mafia crime family boss, Vinny Bambino for the final decisions on who to kill. This fanciful and bizarre mystery tale will give you a tickle to your funny bone and a chill to make your spine shiver and a sense of awareness of the power and ruthless measures that the American Mafia use to make their illegal profits in the United States today. If you cross up the Mafia Saint in anyway the Grinder may be watching for you to make a fatal mistake.

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iUniverse

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0595440118

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If the Sun Won't Come

By: Kayla Marie Dunlap

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If the Sun Won't Come

By: Kayla Marie Dunlap

It’s October 1945 in Southeast England, and twelve-year-old Eva Starbuck’s whole world has just crumbled around her. It has been six years since her beloved father Ulysses was drafted to fight in the Second World War. Now that he is presumed dead after being captured by the Germans, living without him seems intolerable. But little does Eva know that she is about to receive a shocking surprise. After her father’s empty coffin is lowered into the ground, a heartbroken Eva attempts to go on with her life. But when her missing father suddenly reappears under bizarre circumstances, Eva and her family are soon left to wonder if the frightening consequences of his return to their English village may be worse than losing him in the first place.

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1664238948

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Structuring People

The Myth of Participation and the Organisation of Civil Society in Development

By: Eva Marie Schindler

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Structuring People

The Myth of Participation and the Organisation of Civil Society in Development

By: Eva Marie Schindler

Participation has become an orthodoxy in the field of development, an essential element of projects and programmes. This book analyses participation in development interventions as an institutionalised expectation – a rationalized myth – and examines how organisations on different levels of government process it. At least two different objectives of participation are appropriate and legitimate for international organisations in the field: the empowerment of local beneficiaries and the achievement of programme goals. Both integrate participatory forums into the organisational logic of development interventions. Local administrations react to the institutionalised expectation with means-ends decoupling, where participatory forums are implemented superficially but de facto remain marginalised in local administrative processes and activities. The book furthermore provides a thick description of the organisationality of participation in development interventions. Participatory forums are shown to be a form of partial organisation. They establish an order in the relationship between administrations and citizens through the introduction of rules and the creation of a defined membership. At the same time, this order is found to be fragile and subject to criticism and negotiation.

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Springer Nature

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365835903X

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The Curriculum Foundations Reader

By: Ann Marie Ryan,Charles Tocci,Seungho Moon

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The Curriculum Foundations Reader

By: Ann Marie Ryan,Charles Tocci,Seungho Moon

This book brings readers into classrooms and communities to explore critical curriculum issues in the United States throughout the twentieth century by focusing in on the voices of teachers, administrators, students, and families. Framed by an enduring question about curriculum, each chapter begins with an essay briefly reviewing the history of topics such as student resistance, sociopolitical and culturally-centered curricula, curriculum choice, the place and space of curriculum, linguistic policies for sustaining cultural heritages, and grading and assessment. Multiple archival sources follow each essay, which allow readers to directly engage with educators and others in the past. This promotes an in-depth historical analysis of contemporary issues on teaching for social justice in the fields of curriculum studies and curriculum history. As such, this book considers educators in the past—their struggles, successes, and daily work—to help current teachers develop more historically conscious practices in formal and informal education settings.

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Springer Nature

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3030344282

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Gender Injustice

An International Comparative Analysis of Equality in Employment

By: Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter

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Gender Injustice

An International Comparative Analysis of Equality in Employment

By: Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter

Gender equality and the importance of the law in combating discrimination are issues explored by this insightful work. Gender Injustice allows readers a better understanding of the issue of inequality and aims to increase the likelihood of achieving gender justice in the future. It investigates equality in employment for men and women in terms of the law, at both national and international levels, and looks at the primary role of legislation, which has an impact on the court process. It also discusses the two most important trade agreements of our day - namely the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union Treaty - in an historical and compelling analysis of women and equality. By providing a detailed examination of the relationship between gender and the law, the book will be an important read for those concerned with equal pay and equal access to employment.

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Routledge

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1351934635

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The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 3

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 3

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

In 1858, Rosina Bulwer Lytton was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum by her husband, the eminent Victorian politician and novelist, Edward Bulwer Lytton. After the disintegration of their marriage, Rosina wrote letters to prominent figures in which she revealed details about Edward's mistresses and illegitimate children.

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Taylor & Francis

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104024811X

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Geometry of Cuts and Metrics

By: Michel Marie Deza,Monique Laurent

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Geometry of Cuts and Metrics

By: Michel Marie Deza,Monique Laurent

Cuts and metrics are well-known objects that arise - independently, but with many deep and fascinating connections - in diverse fields: in graph theory, combinatorial optimization, geometry of numbers, combinatorial matrix theory, statistical physics, VLSI design etc. This book presents a wealth of results, from different mathematical disciplines, in a unified comprehensive manner, and establishes new and old links, which cannot be found elsewhere. It provides a unique and invaluable source for researchers and graduate students. From the Reviews: "This book is definitely a milestone in the literature of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. It draws from the Interdisciplinarity of these fields [...]. With knowledge about the relevant terms, one can enjoy special subsections without being entirely familiar with the rest of the chapter. This makes it not only an interesting research book but even a dictionary. [...] The longer one works with it, the more beautiful it becomes." Optima 56, 1997.

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3642042953

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Delivering Social Welfare

Governance and Service Provision in the UK

By: Derek Birrell,Ann Marie Gray

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Delivering Social Welfare

Governance and Service Provision in the UK

By: Derek Birrell,Ann Marie Gray

As the system of social welfare governance and delivery in the United Kingdom faces continued, radical change, this important book argues that this change is so extensive that we should consider it a fundamental transformation or revolution. Assessing twenty years of changes across the whole of the United Kingdom, Derek Birrell and Ann Marie Gray show how a new public governance perspective has replaced the dominance of public management, reflecting the increasingly plural and fragmented nature of public policy implementation. Drawing on examples across a range of policy areas, this comprehensive book unravels the complex ways in which changes in social policy and governance interact in the delivery of social welfare, making it essential reading for welfare researchers, students, and policy makers.

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Policy Press

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1447319184

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World Poverty

A Bibliography with Indexes

By: Marie V. Lane

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World Poverty

A Bibliography with Indexes

By: Marie V. Lane

World Poverty A Bibliography With Indexes

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Nova Publishers

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1590332989

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Women's Drug and Substance Abuse

A Comprehensive Analysis and Reflective Synthesis

By: Ann Marie Pagliaro,Louis A. Pagliaro

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Women's Drug and Substance Abuse

A Comprehensive Analysis and Reflective Synthesis

By: Ann Marie Pagliaro,Louis A. Pagliaro

This newly revised and expanded edition of Women's Drug and Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Analysis and Reflective Synthesis offers a unique analysis and synthesis of theory, empirical research, and clinical guidance for treating substance abuse among young, middle-aged, and older women of various racial and sociocultural backgrounds in the United States, 2000 to 2018. This text uses the most current research findings to examine the actions and effects of drugs, women’s patterns of medical and personal use and abuse, and common mental disorders associated with drug use. The authors also present their own empirically-based assessment model as well as prevention and treatment approaches specifically designed for women. Also included in the text is a comprehensive, cross-referenced subject index. Clear, comprehensive, accessible, and fully referenced, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and for professionals in all health and social care disciplines. Women's Drug and Substance Abuse is the 18th clinical pharmacology text that the Pagliaros have written over the past 40 years and is the 6th that deals exclusively with drug and substance abuse.

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1351618253

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In the Shadow of Dred Scott

St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America

By: Kelly Marie Kennington

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In the Shadow of Dred Scott

St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America

By: Kelly Marie Kennington

The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family, sued for freedom in the local legal arena of St. Louis. Her findings open new perspectives on the legal culture of slavery and the negotiated processes involved in freedom suits. As a gateway to the American West, a major port on both the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and a focal point in the rancorous national debate over slavery's expansion, St. Louis was an ideal place for enslaved individuals to challenge the legal systems and, by extension, the social systems that held them in forced servitude. Kennington offers an in-depth look at how daily interactions, webs of relationships, and arguments presented in court shaped and reshaped legal debates and public at-titudes over slavery and freedom in St. Louis. Kennington also surveys more than eight hundred state supreme court freedom suits from around the United States to situate the St. Louis example in a broader context. Although white enslavers dominated the antebellum legal system in St. Louis and throughout the slaveholding states, that fact did not mean that the system ignored the concerns of the subordinated groups who made up the bulk of the American population. By looking at a particular example of one group's encounters with the law--and placing these suits into conversation with similar en-counters that arose in appellate cases nationwide--Kennington sheds light on the ways in which the law responded to the demands of a variety of actors.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820345520

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Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship

By: Anne-Marie Ellithorpe

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Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship

By: Anne-Marie Ellithorpe

A unique and incisive exploration of the place and nature of friendship in both its personal and civic dimensions In Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a constructive and insightful exploration of the place and nature of friendship as innate to being human, to the human vocation, and to life within the broader community. Of particular interest to members and leaders of faith communities, this book responds to contemporary concerns regarding relationality and offers a comprehensive theology of friendship. The author provides an inclusive and interdisciplinary study that brings previous traditions and texts into dialogue with contemporary contexts and concerns, including examples from Indigenous and Euro-Western cultures. Readers will reflect on the theology of friendship and the interrelationship between friendship and community, think critically about their own social and theological imagination, and develop an integrative approach to theological reflection that draws on Don Browning’s Fundamental Practical Theology. Integrating philosophical, anthropological, and theological perspectives on the study of friendship, this book presents: A thorough introduction to contemporary questions on friendship and discussions of co-existing friendship worlds Comprehensive explorations of friendship in first and second testament writings, as well as friendship within classical and Christian traditions Practical discussions of theology, friendship, and the social imagination, including explorations of mutuality and spirit-shaped friendships Considerations for outworking friendship ideals within communities of practice, from the perspective of strategic (or fully) practical theology Perfect for graduate and advanced undergraduate students taking courses on friendship or practical theology, Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars of practical theology and community practitioners, including ministers, priests, pastors, spiritual advisors, and counselors.

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1119756960

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9781119756965

Power in the Blood?

The Cross in the African American Experience

By: JoAnne Marie Terrell

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Power in the Blood?

The Cross in the African American Experience

By: JoAnne Marie Terrell

Can the gospel message of the Atonement have a liberative message for black Christians? Is there, indeed, "power in the blood of Jesus"? This study of the meaning of the cross in the African American religious experience is both comprehensive and powerful: comprehensive because it explores the meaning of the cross -- symbol of suffering and sacrifice -- from the early beginnings of Christianity through modern times, and powerful because it is written by a black woman who has experienced abuse and the oppression of field-work.

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1597523534

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