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Gender and Political Recruitment

Theorizing Institutional change

By: Meryl Kenny

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Gender and Political Recruitment

Theorizing Institutional change

By: Meryl Kenny

This book explores the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation, continuity and change in candidate selection and recruitment. Drawing on the insights of feminist institutionalism, it extends the 'supply and demand model' of political recruitment via a micro-level case study of the candidate selection process in post-devolution Scotland.

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1137271949

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Gender and Political Recruitment

Theorizing Institutional change

By: Meryl Kenny

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Theorizing Institutional change

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Giving Voice

Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality

By: Meryl Alper

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Giving Voice

Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality

By: Meryl Alper

How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities. Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to “give voice to the voiceless.” Behind the praise, though, are beliefs about technology as a gateway to opportunity and voice as a metaphor for agency and self-representation. In Giving Voice, Meryl Alper explores these assumptions by looking closely at one such case—the use of the Apple iPad and mobile app Proloquo2Go, which converts icons and text into synthetic speech, by children with disabilities (including autism and cerebral palsy) and their families. She finds that despite claims to empowerment, the hardware and software are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities. Views of technology as a great equalizer, she illustrates, rarely account for all the ways that culture, law, policy, and even technology itself can reinforce disparity, particularly for those with disabilities. Alper explores, among other things, alternative understandings of voice, the surprising sociotechnical importance of the iPad case, and convergences and divergences in the lives of parents across class. She shows that working-class and low-income parents understand the app and other communication technologies differently from upper- and middle-class parents, and that the institutional ecosystem reflects a bias toward those more privileged. Handing someone a talking tablet computer does not in itself give that person a voice. Alper finds that the ability to mobilize social, economic, and cultural capital shapes the extent to which individuals can not only speak but be heard.

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MIT Press

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0262337355

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9780262337359

Broome Enigma

By: Meryl Brown Tobin

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Broome Enigma

By: Meryl Brown Tobin

On a working holiday in Australia's cosmopolitan Outback town of Broome in 1986, Jodie, a young book designer is open to romance and adventure. At the holiday village where she is staying, she meets Joe, a young man who works there. Despite the strong attraction between them, the many unknowns about his earlier life keep them apart. To try to uncover his mysterious past, they travel to Perth and back to Broome and are drawn into not only bizarre but also dangerous situations. Is Joe the person Jodie thinks he is, or is he some alter ego? Can she stop their relationship from developing until she knows whether he is free to love her?

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509250646

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9781509250646

Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

From Fetus to Adult

By: Wyman W. Lai,Luc L. Mertens,Meryl S. Cohen,Tal Geva

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Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

From Fetus to Adult

By: Wyman W. Lai,Luc L. Mertens,Meryl S. Cohen,Tal Geva

This comprehensive textbook on the echocardiographic assessment of pediatric and congenital heart disease has been updated for a second edition with an emphasis on new technologies. This highly-illustrated full-color reference contains over 1200 figures, and offers over 600 video clips on a companion website. Fully updated, with new chapters on the assessment of the post-Fontan procedure patient and on pregnancy and heart disease Each lesion chapter includes new section highlighting thekey elements of the echocardiogram(s) Written by experts from the leading centers around the world, with numerous new authors Revision emphasizes new technologies and quality of images Comprehensive content contains overview of ultrasound physics, discussion of laboratory set-up, protocol for a standard pediatric echocardiogram and quantitative methods of echocardiographic evaluation, including assessment of diastolic function Also includes special techniques and topics including 3D echocardiography, intraoperative echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography

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928

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118742486

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9781118742488

Kids Across the Spectrums

Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age

By: Meryl Alper

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Kids Across the Spectrums

Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age

By: Meryl Alper

An ethnographic study of diverse children on the autism spectrum and the role of media and technology in their everyday lives. In spite of widespread assumptions that young people on the autism spectrum have a “natural” attraction to technology—a premise that leads to significant speculation about how media helps or harms them—relatively little research actually exists about their everyday tech use. In Kids Across the Spectrums, Meryl Alper fills this gap with the first book-length ethnography of the digital lives of autistic young people. Based on research with more than sixty neurodivergent children from an array of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, Kids Across the Spectrums delves into three overlapping areas of their media usage: cultural belonging, social relationships, and physical embodiment. Alper’s work demonstrates that what autistic youth do with technology is not radically different from their non-autistic peers. However, significant social and health inequalities—including limited recreational programs, unsafe neighborhoods, and challenges obtaining appropriate therapeutic services—spill over into their media habits. With an emphasis on what autistic children bring to media as opposed to what they supposedly lack socially, Alper argues that their relationships do not exist outside of how communication technologies affect sociality, nor beyond the boundaries of stigmatization and society writ large. Finally, she offers practical suggestions for the education, healthcare, and technology sectors to promote equity, inclusion, access, and justice for autistic kids at home, at school, and in their communities.

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325

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MIT Press

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0262373998

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9780262373999

Hammerhead Sharks

By: Meryl Magby

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Hammerhead Sharks

By: Meryl Magby

Simple text and photographs describe hammerhead sharks, their body parts, and their behavior.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1448876257

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PaxCorpus

By: Meryl S. Kavanagh

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PaxCorpus

By: Meryl S. Kavanagh

Some believe extraterrestrials will end life as we know it. Others believe the risen dead will ravage the population and dominate the Earth. And then there are the others who think terrorists will wipe us out. I say, why not all three? The year is 2020, nearly six years after much of the planets population has been wiped out. Through the eyes of a man named Dante Marcellus, you experience the reclamation of memories lost due to unknown reasons. With the undead and a slew of monstrous aliens (spawned from a rift in Manhattan) walking the desolate planes of the United States of America, the remaining population fights to survive under the protection of a group named PaxCorpus. But to make things even crazier, the homicidal terrorist movement, ZeroFactor, threatens to murder anyone not affiliated with themselves, a new world order, they say extinction. Fighting tooth and nail to get a grasp on the events of his past, Dante unknowingly causes a chain of events that lead to an almost mirror of the events that caused humanities situation to begin with. And with a vulgar, blood stained kick to the face, everything unwinds right before him, with the barrel of his own weapon aimed between his eyes. This isn't about glampires or raging teenage hormones this is PaxCorpus the beginning of the end.

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189

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Meryl S. Fortney

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1458113213

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9781458113214

The Little Black Book of Success

Laws of Leadership for Black Women

By: Elaine Meryl Brown,Marsha Haygood,Rhonda Joy McLean

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The Little Black Book of Success

Laws of Leadership for Black Women

By: Elaine Meryl Brown,Marsha Haygood,Rhonda Joy McLean

This invaluable “mentor in your pocket” by three dynamic and successful black female executives will help all black women, at any level of their careers, play the power game—and win. Rich with wisdom, this practical gem focuses on the building blocks of true leadership—self-confidence, effective communication, collaboration, and courage—while dealing specifically with stereotypes (avoid the Mammy Trap, and don’t become the Angry Black Woman) and the perils of self-victimization (don’t assume that every challenge occurs because you are black or female). Some leaders are born, but most leaders are made—and The Little Black Book of Success will show you how to make it to the top, one step at a time.

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One World

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0345518489

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Loss, Survive, Thrive

Bereaved Parents Share Their Stories of Healing and Hope

By: Meryl Hershey Beck

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Loss, Survive, Thrive

Bereaved Parents Share Their Stories of Healing and Hope

By: Meryl Hershey Beck

No one is prepared for the loss of a child. No one. It feels completely unnatural for children to predecease their parents. Although it is not widely known, each year there are over 135,000 under 40-year-old deaths in the U.S. alone. And, according to one study, 19% of parents outlive their children—often carrying the weight of horrendous grief to their own graves. “Isolated and alone” is how parents often describe the grief process. Well-meaning friends and family members usually rush to their side… in the beginning. Once the floral arrangements have wilted, and the dinners from caring friends diminish, there isn’t really much that can be said to bring comfort to a suffering parent, especially if those friends haven’t experienced it themselves. Unfortunately, when these caring friends do bring up the loss, quite often they say the wrong things. Loss, Survive, Thrive offers a lifeline of hope. Each chapter is an inspirational story written by a parent who also experienced the agony of losing a child, reclaimed his/her vitality, and is now living a fulfilling life. Every story is authentic and heartfelt, designed to uplift and inspire. The collective authors reach out through the pages to virtually hold hands with those who are suffering. We, the contributors, have all been there. We know their pain, and we know about survival. And now, through our stories, we offer comfort and support in helping them get through the toughest time of their lives. Bereaved parents share an unspeakable bond. And Loss, Survive, Thrive imparts insight from what’s likely the only voices that grieving parents can hear—others who have walked in their shoes. This book is a giant step toward healing the grieving heart.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538125242

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The Takeaway Men

A Novel

By: Meryl Ain

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The Takeaway Men

A Novel

By: Meryl Ain

With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War. Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust out of the shadows. As the girls get older, they start to wonder about their parents’ pasts, and they begin to demand answers. But it soon becomes clear that those memories will be more difficult and painful to uncover than they could have anticipated. Poignant and haunting, The Takeaway Men explores the impact of immigration, identity, prejudice, secrets, and lies on parents and children in mid-twentieth-century America.

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Simon and Schuster

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1684630487

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Closer to Death, Closer to God

True Stories of a Spiritual Awakening

By: Meryl Yvonne

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Closer to Death, Closer to God

True Stories of a Spiritual Awakening

By: Meryl Yvonne

Meryl Yvonne is no ordinary woman. From a young age she experienced things of an “otherworldly” nature. Farmers would bring their ailing lambs to her for healing and to this day she continues as kaitiaki (guardian) of the animal kingdom. She has always had dreams that bring powerful messages.Throughout her life she has listened to her inner guidance. This book is the story of Meryl’s journey and the life experiences that initiated her spiritual awakening. Some gently raised her level of consciousness, while others—when facing death—catapulted her beyond human endurance into her unwavering faith of the metaphysical realm. And in facing death, she receives her greatest understanding of life: humanity and the One Supreme Presence is one and the same. Meryl writes: In forgetting that we are God, that God lives in us and is all powerful and limitless in its potential, we became afraid of what life could do to us. We fell over and skinned our knees, so now we only wear flat, sturdy shoes. Join Meryl on this incredible journey, and find the healer, the love, the wise one, and the One Supreme Presence within yourself. www.waimarama-international.co.nz “Whatever lacks love is not fully formed in substance, and there is nowhere in creation that it can survive for long. As chaos, it must return to substance to reform into perfection. This is a Universal Law.”—from the book

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Turning Stone Press

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1618520873

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9781618520876

Every Waking Moment

By: Meryl Sawyer

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Every Waking Moment

By: Meryl Sawyer

A woman’s search for her half-sister forces her into an alliance with a sexy PI—and into the path of a killer waiting for the right moment to strike—in Meryl Sawyer’s captivating tale of romantic suspense South Beach isn’t far from Coral Gables, but to Taylor Maxwell, it’s a world away from the place where she was born and raised. Yet nothing, not even the tall, dark, and handsome man who just moved in across the courtyard, can distract her from her problems. Her terminally ill mother just dropped a bombshell: Taylor has an older sister who was given up for adoption thirty years ago, and Taylor’s mother has hired a security firm to find her. Enter Taylor’s sexy neighbor, PI Shane Donovan who just got a lead on the woman who could be Taylor’s long-lost sibling. Taylor and Shane track her down in New Orleans, but with the family’s multimillion-dollar cosmetics company at stake, the Maxwells want the woman in question to undergo a DNA test. Then, just as Taylor’s relationship with Shane heats up, a web of tangled secrets is exposed and a killer strikes, with a plan to destroy Taylor’s family—and ensure that Taylor never wakes up again.

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Open Road Media

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1504027221

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Book's by Meryl Kenny

Gender and Political Recruitment

Gender and Political Recruitment

Gender and Political Recruitment

Gender and Political Recruitment

Giving Voice

Giving Voice

Broome Enigma

Broome Enigma

Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

Kids Across the Spectrums

Kids Across the Spectrums

Hammerhead Sharks

Hammerhead Sharks

PaxCorpus

PaxCorpus

The Little Black Book of Success

The Little Black Book of Success

Loss, Survive, Thrive

Loss, Survive, Thrive

The Takeaway Men

The Takeaway Men

Closer to Death, Closer to God

Closer to Death, Closer to God

Every Waking Moment

Every Waking Moment

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