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A Boy of Good Breeding

A Novel

By: Miriam Toews

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Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award “Tonic for the spirit: a charming, deeply moving, unerringly human story, perfectly shaped and beautifully told.” —The Globe and Mail Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea’s attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister—even if that means keeping the town’s population at an even 1,500. Bringing to life small–town Canada and all its larger–than–life characters, A Boy of Good Breeding is a big–hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.

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Catapult

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1640091874

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Medicines Management for Nursing Associates

By: Christina Roulston,Miriam Davies

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Medicines Management for Nursing Associates

By: Christina Roulston,Miriam Davies

The first medicines management textbook for trainee nursing associates! Effectively managing and administering medicines is a core responsibility for all Nursing Associates. To help you master these skills, this book covers everything you will need to know in medicines management, from understanding the fundamental legal and professional requirements, to developing essential drug calculations skills. By breaking down this often-overwhelming subject into manageable chunks, the book guides you through it all, step-by-step, with the help of insightful case studies and activities. Key features: Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for nursing associates (2018) Activities and other learning features help you get to grips with the key skills Wide-ranging case studies covering all fields and environments show how this knowledge applies to your practice. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Understanding Nursing Associate Practice series (UNAP) is a new collection of books uniquely designed to support trainee Nursing Associates throughout their training and into a professional career.

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Learning Matters

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1529751764

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9781529751765

Seafood Supply Chains

Governance, Power and Regulation

By: Miriam Greenwood

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Seafood Supply Chains

Governance, Power and Regulation

By: Miriam Greenwood

This book provides a historical and analytical account of changes in the seafood supply chain in Britain from the mid-twentieth century to the present, looking at the impact of various types of governance. The governance of marine fisheries has been a contested issue for decades with increasing anxieties about overfishing. In tandem, the rise of aquaculture, fish and shellfish farming, has driven another set of environmental concerns. In the food system, there have been scandals about safety failures and about fraud. At the same time, governments issue advice urging people to eat fish for its health benefits. In the context of these problems and contradictions, how have governments, the food industry and ordinary consumers responded? The author shows how different types of governance and regulation have been used to seek seafood sustainability and food safety and to communicate nutritional messages to the public and with what effects. The book also presents a new model for understanding food chains which combines governance and power approaches with an emphasis on understanding the interests served and the resulting balance of public and private benefits. This shows that the role of state regulation should have greater emphasis in governance and agri-food analysis and that theories about supply chain functioning, including the part played by major retailers and civil society, should be modified by a more nuanced understanding of the role of standards and certification systems. Although much of the focus is on the UK and Europe, this book provides key lessons internationally for the governance of seafood and other agri-food supply chains. The book will be of interest to students of food policy and those working in the seafood industry or studying for connected qualifications, and more widely to readers with an interest in seafood issues and problems.

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Routledge

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1351664719

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Carrying a Big Schtick

Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

By: Miriam Eve Mora

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Carrying a Big Schtick

Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

By: Miriam Eve Mora

Jewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century. For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of masculinity. Depicted as weak, effeminate, cowardly, gentle, bookish, or conflict-averse, Jewish men have been ascribed these qualities by outside forces, but some have also intentionally subscribed themselves to masculinities at odds with the American mainstream. Carrying a Big Schtickdissects notions of Jewish masculinity and its perception and practice in America in the twentieth century through the lenses of immigration and cultural history. Tracing Jewish masculinity through major themes and events including both World Wars, the Holocaust, American Zionism, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day War, this work establishes that the struggle of this process can shed light on the changing dynamics in religious, social, and economic American Jewish life.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814349641

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9780814349649

National Theatre Connections 2022

10 Plays for Young Performers

By: Miriam Battye,Belgrade Young Company,Stef Smith,Katie Hims,Abbey Wright,Shireen Mula,Matt Regan,Lisa Goldman,Ayeesha Menon,David Judge,Fionnuala Kennedy,Tim Crouch

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National Theatre Connections 2022

10 Plays for Young Performers

By: Miriam Battye,Belgrade Young Company,Stef Smith,Katie Hims,Abbey Wright,Shireen Mula,Matt Regan,Lisa Goldman,Ayeesha Menon,David Judge,Fionnuala Kennedy,Tim Crouch

It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections. National Theatre Connections 2022 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities. The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. This 2022 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2022 Festival, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350320463

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9781350320468

New Perspectives on Older Language Learners

A Mixed Methods Study on the Temporal Self of Young-Old EFL-Learners in Germany

By: Miriam Neigert

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New Perspectives on Older Language Learners

A Mixed Methods Study on the Temporal Self of Young-Old EFL-Learners in Germany

By: Miriam Neigert

Young-old learners are an underresearched group in foreign/second language research. The present mixed-methods study aims to provide a more differentiated view of this group in the context of lifelong learning and, more specifically, learning English as a foreign language. The author draws from concepts in gerontology, psychology, adult education, and foreign/second language research to investigate the L2-self-concepts of young-old language learners at Volkshochschulen in Germany.

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Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

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3823301632

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Piece Work

A Play

By: Miriam Packer

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Piece Work

A Play

By: Miriam Packer

Set in Montreal in the early 1980s, Piece Work is a full-length play about six women who work together in a clothing factory and are paid by the piece. Unable to confront the factory owner who exploits them, the women turn on each other instead, venting their frustrations and hostility, giving way to inner-directed rage. When one of the workers has an accident and is taken into hospital, the women begin to channel their energies towards positive action and to address the real source of the problem -- the employer. Then learn the power that comes out of unity. Piece Work is a play about gaining voice and visibility, and about acceptance -- of self and of others.

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Guernica Editions

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1550710389

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9781550710380

Finding Balance: 17 New Yorkers Share Their Points of View

By: Miriam Kaplan

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Finding Balance: 17 New Yorkers Share Their Points of View

By: Miriam Kaplan

More info and better images of book at http: //miriamkaplan.com/Finding-Balance Living in New York City is not without its challenges. This book is a compilation of my research on different approaches to living a rich, balanced life in New York City. People were asked about where they go as part of their routine, the kinds of things they do in order to find balance, and the places they have gone to outside of NYC for the past three years or since they moved here. It was a great exercise of introspection for most participants. I set out on this search partly because I believe everyone can benefit from this kind of dialogue (especially me!) Since this experience is common to all but different for everyone, I hope it speaks to the richness in human experience

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Lulu.com

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1304964159

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Strategic Love Play

By: Miriam Battye

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Strategic Love Play

By: Miriam Battye

And when you see what's out there. What do you want with it. Do you want to fuck it. Like, weekly? Or do you want to sort of. Put your hands in its pockets. Take it to your mother. Love it until you die. Sort of thing. With acid wit, Miriam Battye's play takes a scalpel to modern romance. No! Fuck NO. I don't want to, like, go for WALKS and use and reuse those METAL FOIL SERVING trays all my life NO. I want to TEAR SOMEONE APART. Strategic Love Play opened at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in July 2023, produced by Paines Plough, Soho Theatre and Belgrade Theatre, in association with Landmark Theatres.

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Faber & Faber

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0571387691

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Awareness

The Key to Acceptance, Respect, Forgiveness, and Growth

By: Miriam Adahan

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Awareness

The Key to Acceptance, Respect, Forgiveness, and Growth

By: Miriam Adahan

An in-depth analysis of the nine principle personality types, based on an amazingly accurate, ancient classification system called the Enneagram. The author demonstrates how an understanding of one's strengths and weaknesses can lead to spiritual growth.

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Feldheim Publishers

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1583306277

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The Shortest Way Home

A Novel

By: Miriam Parker

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The Shortest Way Home

A Novel

By: Miriam Parker

Delightful . . . effervescent, heady, and intoxicating."--Elin Hilderbrand How far would you go to find the place you belong? Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of grad school. But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is spontaneously offered a marketing job at a family-run winery and doesn't immediately refuse, their meticulously planned forever threatens to come crashing down. And then Hannah impulsively does the unthinkable--she takes a leap of faith. Abandoning your dream job and life shouldn't feel this good. But this new reality certainly seems like a dream come true--a picturesque cottage overlooking a vineyard; new friends with their own inspiring plans; and William, the handsome son of the winery owners who captures Hannah's heart only to leave for the very city she let go. Soon, the mission to rescue the failing winery becomes a mission to rescue Hannah from the life she thought she wanted. Crackling with humor and heart, The Shortest Way Home is the journey of one woman shedding expectations in order to claim her own happy ending.

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Penguin

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1524741884

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A Kringle Family Christmas

By: Miriam Thor

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A Kringle Family Christmas

By: Miriam Thor

Bethany Kringle is planning to skip Christmas, like she has both years since her mom died. She thinks it' s the perfect plan... until her brother, Matt, tells her he' s taking leave from the Navy to come home for Christmas. And he' s bringing his friend, Jay, with him. Now, Bethany must fight through her grief to give them the best Christmas possible. Jay MacDonald is afraid that God wants him to leave the Navy, the only place he has ever belonged. He' s also nervous about spending Christmas with his friend' s family, until he meets Matt' s sister who helps put him at ease. Jay immediately notices the grief Bethany is trying to hide and resolves to help her in any way he can. As Jay supports Bethany, the two can' t help being drawn to each other. Could God use this Christmas to bring them both peace and possibly bring them together as well?

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Pelican Ventures Book Group

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1522304800

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An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School

Exploring how Hegemony and Power Mediate Agency and Structure

By: Miriam Doran Hamilton

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An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School

Exploring how Hegemony and Power Mediate Agency and Structure

By: Miriam Doran Hamilton

Based on an ethnographic study, this book explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls. Facing the high stakes Leaving Certificate examinations while on the cusp of adulthood, this study contributes to the agency-structure debate from a feminist perspective. Findings elicit insights into incidences of social and cultural reproduction with hegemony evident in visible and invisible ways among the cultural group. This ethnography describes how a group of girls navigate this territory in school. It explores the effects of the personal, group and institutional habitus that mediate the girls’ everyday interactions. The girls’ peer interactions and contextual experiences serve as an explanatory framework, which references how power is shared, wielded and resisted among the myriad of relationships within the school. The school life of the girls is described at an individual and group level with themes such as friendship, conformity, resistance and alienation discussed, within the framework of school life. Findings related to youth culture and identities elicit challenges for the girls as they manage the duality of adolescence and scholarly endeavour.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443886300

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9781443886307

A Year of Creativity

A Craft Date Planner to Meet, Share, and Create

By: Ms. Petra Hoeksema,Ms. Lidy Nooij,Ms. Miriam Catshoek,Ms. Bregje Konings

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A Year of Creativity

A Craft Date Planner to Meet, Share, and Create

By: Ms. Petra Hoeksema,Ms. Lidy Nooij,Ms. Miriam Catshoek,Ms. Bregje Konings

Do something creative every day! In A Year of Creativity, learn how to throw the perfect creative party with your friends—with organizing tips, 25 project ideas, and even recipes for snacks. A "craft date" is a fun get-together with a handful of creative friends in which you surprise each other with craft and DIY projects using cool materials, inspire each other, and make beautiful things together. At each date, a group of participants share a self-made project to be re-created by the other attendees. Materials are individualized for each participant and given as a unique personal gift along with the instructions for the project. A craft date is different than a workshop since you get to choose the lovely people that you invite, and as the organizer, you get to participate in all the projects. Invitees can put their own spin on the project by using their favorite colors, materials, or techniques. This way you end up with a range of different interpretations and results, leading to new inspiration and ideas. A Year of Creativity is a book for everyone with a basic knowledge of crocheting, knitting, and sewing. It does not teach you how to crochet or explain how a sewing machine works. There are plenty of other books for that. What it does do is inspire crafting enthusiasts to make something together, learn from each other, and have fun doing it. You'll find within: An introduction to craft dates and how they work Tips on planning your craft date events Plenty of project ideas (short, long, and cooperative) Plus recipes for party dishes that keep the creative juices flowing You will share ideas, discover new inspiration, and find new friends while creating uniquely beautiful aprons, knit garlands, infinity scarves, haberdashery bags, cards, pencil cases, and more. Have you had a great craft date or are you working on a neat project and want to show it off? There’s a place for this in the craft dates community. On Instagram, for example, you can tag your photos with, or search for the hashtag #craftdates. You can have a look at each other’s work, drum up inspiration for your own dates, invite your Insta-friends, or organize a "blind date" with creative people from your town or city that you don’t know yet. A whole world will open up. A very creative world is waiting for you in A Year of Creativity.

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Quarry Books

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1631598171

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9781631598173

Introducing Sociolinguistics

By: Miriam Meyerhoff

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Introducing Sociolinguistics

By: Miriam Meyerhoff

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff’s highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic data in new ways, and supplements the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of languages and social settings. It clearly explains the patterns and systems that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties index personal style, social power and national identity. New features of the third edition: Every chapter has been revised and updated with current research in the field, including material on sexuality, polylanguaging and lifespan change; Additional Connections with theory and Facts: No, really? are included throughout; Data from sign languages, historical linguistics and Asia-Pacific sociolinguistics have been revised and expanded; A brand new companion website featuring more examples and exercises can be found at www.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff. Chapters include exercises that enable readers to engage critically with the text, break-out boxes making connections between sociolinguistics and linguistic or social theory, and brief, lively add-ons guaranteed to make the book a memorable and enjoyable read. With a full glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading, this text gives students all the tools they need for an excellent command of sociolinguistics. It can also be used in conjunction with The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader, Doing Sociolinguistics and the online resources shared by all three books.

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Routledge

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0429018770

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Laelia

A Novel

By: Ruth-Miriam Garnett

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Laelia

A Novel

By: Ruth-Miriam Garnett

Each of the Cates sisters had felt for a time that their husbands should be put away where they wouldn’t have to take care of them anymore—it’s time to make some changes. So begins the powerful, empowering journey of three women who decide to get a fresh start on life—and embark upon a plan to place their men in care facilities. Daughters of a prominent African American family, Rebecca, Claudia, and Gracelyn Cates are ready to leave their ailing husbands—no match for their wives in their unusual vigor, strong constitutions, and mental energy—behind. And if they play their cards right, the Cates sisters will keep their good names intact, despite the Old Testament rantings of their misogynist pastor and relentlessly gossiping neighbors in their small-town world of Peoria, Illinois. Claudia, instructed by eldest sister Rebecca to be more outgoing, enchants her parochial neighbors with her urbane chic. Gracelyn stages a Sunday school play about Harriet Tubman. And when Hillary Clinton appears at a churchwomen's tea party they're hosting, the Cates sisters establish themselves as indisputable leaders of their community. United in their purpose, the Cates women transcend the hand fate dealt them and find themselves anew, with the possibility of midlife romance. An unforgettable story of love, loss, and sisterly devotion, Laelia is a tale about the ties that bind and liberate us all.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743480325

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9780743480321

The Power of Mentalizing

An Introductory Guide on Mentalizing, Attachment, and Epistemic Trust for Mental Health Care Workers

By: Hutsebaut

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The Power of Mentalizing

An Introductory Guide on Mentalizing, Attachment, and Epistemic Trust for Mental Health Care Workers

By: Hutsebaut

Sometimes relationships do not run as smoothly as we would like. Attunement to others can be difficult, and conversely, from time to time we feel misunderstood ourselves by the ones we love. This can lead to misunderstanding, frustration, and friction. If we mentalize more and better, i.e. give more attention to our own feelings, thoughts, desires, and intentions as well as to those of others, our interactions will be more pleasant and feel safer. This applies to every relationship - those with our children and pupils, and those with our partners and colleagues. We all know a student, neighbour, client, or adolescent who feels alone and misunderstood. Maybe we see but hesitate to really connect and mean something to them. Or we think it that there is nothing we can do. This book shows how everyone can make a difference. Making someone feel important, mentalizing about someone, and connecting with someone who may not have felt contact for a long time does make a difference. The Power of Mentalizing explains in an accessible way what mentalizing means and how it can help make a difference in our own lives as well as in the lives of others. The authors of this book draw on the rich developmental psychology literature on attachment, mentalizing, and epistemic trust. They use several examples to explain what it takes to really connect. In addition, they challenge the reader to self-reflect and to become a slightly better version of themselves.

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Oxford University Press

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0198880677

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Child Trauma and Attachment in Common Sense and Doodles – Second Edition

A Practical Guide

By: Miriam Silver

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Child Trauma and Attachment in Common Sense and Doodles – Second Edition

A Practical Guide

By: Miriam Silver

Trauma and attachment are commonly used terms, but are complex concepts. 'Trauma' refers to negative experiences that cause us to fear for our safety, whilst 'attachment' describes meaningful relationships with someone we love or respect. Why, then, is so much of the language surrounding these concepts so obscure, and why is it so challenging to help children who have experienced trauma, and lack healthy attachment bonds? Providing grounded advice accompanied by accessible 'doodles' throughout, this guide aims to bring some clarity to the subject. It explains the differing attachment patterns in children who are adopted, fostered, or have experienced early trauma. The book also provides advice on how to repair attachment difficulties and to build secure, loving relationships. With new material on cultural diversity and sexual exploitation as well as specific guidance for trafficked and asylum-seeking children, this fully updated new edition provides you with all you need to know.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1839979135

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9781839979132

Rhythms and Rhymes of Life

Music and Identification Processes of Dutch-Moroccan Youth

By: Miriam Gazzah

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Rhythms and Rhymes of Life

Music and Identification Processes of Dutch-Moroccan Youth

By: Miriam Gazzah

A study of the role of music and youth culture in the identification procces of Dutch-Moroccan youth.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9089640622

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9789089640628

Critical Issues in Social Work With Older People

By: Mo G. Ray,Miriam Bernard,Judith Phillips

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Critical Issues in Social Work With Older People

By: Mo G. Ray,Miriam Bernard,Judith Phillips

This timely text highlights the importance of informed and critical practice in social work with older people. With an emphasis on reflection throughout, it argues for the need to rethink how social workers support some of the most vulnerable people in society. The text begins with an exploration of the relationship between gerontology, the study of aging, and social work, and demonstrates that a gerontological approach has long been missing from social work practice. The central chapters consider key issues affecting older people and social work practice, such as: - Risk of poverty - Memory loss and dementia - Palliative and end of life care - Loss and bereavement - Moving into a care home. Bringing together theoretical and research insights, this agenda-setting text provides a sound base for creative practice with older people. All those looking to make a positive and discernible difference to older people will find this text rewarding reading.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137073845

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An Impossible Distance to Fall

By: Miriam McNamara

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An Impossible Distance to Fall

By: Miriam McNamara

I imagine wing-walking and reading An Impossible Distance to Fall feel a great deal the same: heart-stopping, thrill-seeking and addictive. A book to be re-read over, and over, and over again." —Katherine Locke, award-winning author of The Girl with the Red Balloon Here is a story about falling—falling from grace, falling in love—as well as soaring to heights you wouldn’t know were possible if you never stepped out into thin air. It’s 1930, and Birdie William’s life has crashed along with the stock market. Her father’s bank has failed, and worse, he’s disappeared along with his Jenny biplane. When Birdie sees a leaflet for a barnstorming circus with a picture of Dad’s plane on it, she goes to Coney Island in search of answers. The barnstorming circus has lady pilots, daredevil stuntmen, fire-spinners, and wing walkers, and Birdie is instantly enchanted—especially with a girl pilot named June. Birdie doesn’t find her father, but after stumbling across clues that suggest he’s gone to Chicago, she figures she’ll hitch a ride with the traveling circus doing what she does best: putting on a convincing act and insisting on being star of the show. But the overconfidence that made her belle of the ball during her enchanted youth turns out to be far too reckless without the safety net of her charmed childhood, and a couple of impulsive missteps sends her and her newfound community spinning into freefall.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510735461

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Aiko's Journey

By: Miriam M. Batts

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Aiko's Journey

By: Miriam M. Batts

Seventy five years ago, while Korea was under the Japanese suppression, children of Korean-Japanese mixture were rare phenomena. The author, whose parents were Korean and Japanese, would like to tell the story of her life from 1929 to 1945. This is also a record of social life of very ordinary citzens. By reading the story, one can have a glimpse of life in Japan, Korea and China prior to the end of World War II. Aiko's journey continues.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412044308

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Call Me Sunflower

By: Miriam Spitzer Franklin

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Call Me Sunflower

By: Miriam Spitzer Franklin

Sunny Beringer hates her first name—her real first name—Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, and she’s had to leave her beloved cat and all her friends behind. And no one else seems to think anything is wrong. So she creates “Sunny Beringer’s Totally Awesome Plan for Romance”—a list of sure-fire ways to make her parents fall madly in love again, including: Send Mom flowers from a “Secret Admirer” to make her dad jealous and make him regret letting them move so far away. Make a playlist of his favorite love songs—the mushier the better—and make sure it’s always playing in the car. Ask them about the good old days when they first fell in love. But while working on a photo album guaranteed to make Mom change her mind and rush them right back home, Sunny discovers a photo—one that changes everything. Sunny’s family, the people she thought she could trust most in the world, have been keeping an enormous secret from her. And she’ll have to reconcile her family’s past and present, or she’ll lose everything about their future.

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1510711813

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This Much is True

'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL

By: Miriam Margolyes

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This Much is True

'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL

By: Miriam Margolyes

There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY 'As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect' Daily Express BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story - and it's well worth the wait. Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked 'Do you fuck?' From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.

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Missy

By: Miriam Cole Harris

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By: Miriam Cole Harris

Reproduction of the original: Missy by Miriam Cole Harris

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3752332662

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Islam, Education, and Freedom

An Uncommon Perspective on Leadership

By: Melanie C. Brooks,Miriam D. Ezzani

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Islam, Education, and Freedom

An Uncommon Perspective on Leadership

By: Melanie C. Brooks,Miriam D. Ezzani

Islam, Education and Freedom explores six key areas of freedom: identity, acceptance, pedagogy, conflict, trust, and love. Based on a qualitative case study of a progressive Islamic school in Southern California, North Star Academy, the book illustrates through the voices of the participants how each particular freedom was applied in the school. The authors show how the six freedoms were understood, taught, and practiced with the aim of developing courageous and confident American Muslims. It explores the ways the school leaders facilitate and impart each freedom and the influence this has on the development of American Muslim students' identity. The book culminates with a model for freedom in Islamic schooling. It concludes with three key insights: (1) Islamic schooling can facilitate or constrain the way that leaders, teachers, students, and the school community experience freedom; (2) as freedom is a core value of Islam, it should be made central to the conceptualization and practice of Islamic schooling; and, (3) Islamic schooling, when grounded in the six freedoms, can be a pathway to comprehensive school reform and is applicable to Islamic schools. The book includes a Foreword written by Khaula Murtadha, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Community Engagement, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, USA.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350231193

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One Last Story and That's it

By: Etgar Keret,Miriam Shlesinger

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One Last Story and That's it

By: Etgar Keret,Miriam Shlesinger

The extraordianry collection has the kind of writing that could hook a lot of readers, including some who rarely open a book

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Katha

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8189020471

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EBOOK: Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe: Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals

By: Reinhard Busse,Alexander Geissler,Wilm Quentin,Miriam Wiley

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EBOOK: Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe: Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals

By: Reinhard Busse,Alexander Geissler,Wilm Quentin,Miriam Wiley

Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) systems were introduced in Europe to increase the transparency of services provided by hospitals and to incentivise greater efficiency in the use of resources invested in acute hospitals. In many countries, these systems were also designed to contribute to improving – or at least protecting – the quality of care. After more than a decade of experience with using DRGs in Europe, this book considers whether the extensive use of DRGs has contributed towards achieving these objectives. Written by authors with extensive experience of these systems, this book is a product of the EuroDRG project and constitutes an important resource for health policy-makers and researchers from Europe and beyond. The book is intended to contribute to the emergence of a ‘common language’ that will facilitate communication between researchers and policy-makers interested in improving the functioning and resourcing of the acute hospital sector. The book includes: A clearly structured introduction to the main ‘building blocks’ of DRG systems An overview of key issues related to DRGs including their impact on efficiency, quality, unintended effects and technological innovation in health care 12 country chapters - Austria, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden Clearly structured and detailed information about the most important DRG system characteristics in each of these countries Useful insights for countries and regions in Europe and beyond interested in introducing, extending and/ or optimising DRG systems within the hospital sector

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0335245587

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