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International Social Work Research

Issues and Prospects

By: Tony Tripodi,Miriam Potocky-Tripodi

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International Social Work Research

Issues and Prospects

By: Tony Tripodi,Miriam Potocky-Tripodi

With the constant exchange of international information now a permanent condition in the world, social work scholars and students must be sensitive to the need for knowledge sharing between countries as well as to issues involved in obtaining and utilizing international knowledge. Yet until now, no book has juxtaposed these two growing streams of emphasis. In this clearly written volume, Tony Tripodi and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi fill that gap, presenting readers with the many prospects and great potential for international social work research. The authors establish three discrete varieties of research supra-national, intra-national, and trans-national and explore a wealth of issues and examples within each. The easy-to-follow format helps readers learn how to define and distinguish each kind of research, then provides actual applications of all three. Examples draw on research from the world over, and range from microcredit programs in India to migrant aid in Nicaragua to adoptees in Romania. These unique features make it an ideal sequel to basic research texts in social work and supplement to texts on international social work, but also an attractive addition to any faculty researchers bookshelf.

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Oxford University Press

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0198040539

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Culture, Self-identity, and Work

By: Miriam Erez,P. Christopher Earley

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Culture, Self-identity, and Work

By: Miriam Erez,P. Christopher Earley

Aimed at business executives and students of business managerial and organizational courses, this volume focuses on how managerial practices influence work behaviour, and how these practices relate to the components of culture and self-identity.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195075803

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9780195075809

Women's Health and Social Work

Feminist Perspectives

By: Miriam Meltzer Olson

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Women's Health and Social Work

Feminist Perspectives

By: Miriam Meltzer Olson

Various authors discuss issues such as breast cancer, menopause, substance abuse treatments, depression, women's health care centers, African American women and AIDS and other women's health issues.

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Psychology Press

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1560246839

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9781560246831

The Real Matilda

Woman and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

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The Real Matilda

Woman and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

The Real Matilda book investigates the Australian experience of women in colonial times, and asks how far Australians have moved beyond formative influences - elites, convicts, the Irish - which have led to discriminatory attitudes towards women.

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UNSW Press

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0868407372

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9780868407371

Never Better!

The Modern Jewish Picaresque

By: Miriam Udel

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Never Better!

The Modern Jewish Picaresque

By: Miriam Udel

It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel captures through the phrase “never better.” With this rhetorical homage toward the double-voiced utterances of Sholem Aleichem, Udel gestures at these characters’ insouciant proclamation that things had never been better, and their rueful, even despairing admission that things would probably never get better. The characters defined by this dual consciousness constitute a new kind of protagonist: a distinctively Jewish scapegrace whom Udel denominates the polit or refugee. Cousin to the Golden Age Spanish pícaro, the polit is a socially marginal figure who narrates his own story in discrete episodes, as if stringing beads on a narrative necklace. A deeply unsettled figure, the polit is allergic to sentimentality and even routine domesticity. His sequential misadventures point the way toward the heart of the picaresque, which Jewish authors refashion as a vehicle for modernism—not only in Yiddish, but also in German, Russian, English and Hebrew. Udel draws out the contours of the new Jewish picaresque by contrasting it against the nineteenth-century genre of progress epitomized by the Bildungsroman. While this book is grounded in modern Jewish literature, its implications stretch toward genre studies in connection with modernist fiction more generally. Udel lays out for a diverse readership concepts in the history and theory of the novel while also explicating the relevant particularities of Jewish literary culture. In addressing the literary stylistics of a “minor” modernism, this study illuminates how the adoption of a picaresque sensibility allowed minority authors to write simultaneously within and against the literary traditions of Europe.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472121731

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Too Much Togetherness: Surviving Retirement as a Couple

By: Miriam Goodman

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Too Much Togetherness: Surviving Retirement as a Couple

By: Miriam Goodman

Look forward to a happier retirement with this fantastic guidebook for couples. You are not alone in your quest for a retirement that is both rewarding and productive. Filled with stories and tips, this book will successfully lead you and your spouse to cope with the changes that retirement brings. Grow closer together and retain your sanity as you fall in love all over again.

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Cedar Fort Publishing & Media

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1462100678

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Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches

By: Miriam Wallraven

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Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches

By: Miriam Wallraven

Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This material, which has never been analysed in a literary context, covers influential movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality. Wallraven engages with the question of how literature functions as the medium for creating occult worlds and powerful identities, particularly the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. Based on the concept of ancient wisdom, the occult in literature also incorporates topical discourses of the twentieth century, including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology. Hence, as an ever-evolving discursive universe, it presents alternatives to religious truth claims that often lead to various forms of fundamentalism that we encounter today. This book offers a ground-breaking approach to interpreting the forms and functions of occult texts for scholars and students of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.

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Routledge

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1317581385

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Salt City and its Black Community

A Sociological Study of Syracuse, New York

By: S. David Stamps,Miriam Burney Stamps

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Salt City and its Black Community

A Sociological Study of Syracuse, New York

By: S. David Stamps,Miriam Burney Stamps

A robust black professional class has existed in many southern cities since the nineteenth century and in large northern cities, such as Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., since early in the twentieth century. In contrast, the black professional class in Syracuse, New York, a midsized northern industrial city, developed relatively late and struggled in its early relationship with the white community. Employing a conflict theory approach, the authors analyze the effects of black migration north, affirmative action, school integration, urban renewal, deindustrialization, political mobilization, and suburbanization on the growth and development of the black community. The authors demonstrate how competition for limited resources has fostered varying degrees of confrontation, social dispute, adjustment, and eventual change in black-white relations. Drawing upon urban surveys and quantitative research combined with personal testimony, this book offers a richly detailed and compelling portrait of a minority community, providing indispensable insights into the dynamics of community development as a historical and sociological process.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815631804

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Crisis Cities

Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans

By: Kevin Fox Gotham,Miriam Greenberg

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Crisis Cities

Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans

By: Kevin Fox Gotham,Miriam Greenberg

Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a historically-grounded comparative study to examine the redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of research in the two cities, Gotham and Greenberg contend that New York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities, representing a free-market approach to post-disaster redevelopment that is increasingly dominant for crisis-stricken cities around the world. This mode of urbanization emphasizes the privatization of disaster aid, devolution of recovery responsibility to the local state, use of tax incentives and federal grants to spur market-centered redevelopment, and utopian branding campaigns to market the redeveloped city for business and tourism. Meanwhile, it eliminates "low-income" and "public benefit" standards that once underlay emergency provisions. Focusing on the pre- and post-history of disaster, Gotham and Greenberg show how this approach exacerbates the uneven landscapes of risk and resiliency that helped produce crisis in the first place, while potentially reproducing the conditions for future crisis. At the same time, they highlight the expanding coalitions that formed following 9/11 and Katrina to contest these inequities and envision a more just and sustainable urban future.

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Oxford University Press

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0199968942

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The Locked Safe: A Family Memoir

By: Miriam E. David

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The Locked Safe: A Family Memoir

By: Miriam E. David

This family memoir is my back story. A Locked Safe with 5 ‘Nazi’ passports was found after my mother died in 1996. My father had died 16 years earlier. Although we knew he was a German Jewish professional engineer fleeing Nazism in 1936, we did not know the details of how his family fled. The help of my mother’s family, the Leas, was essential. They had fled from pogroms in Ukraine/Russia in the late nineteenth century. Some were also caught up with Japanese internment camps in China, illustrating the diasporic nature of my family. My father, his elder brother and father were also interned by the British in 1940-1941. I look forward to not only my generation as the so-called second generation from the Holocaust, but also the third generation, specifically my daughter Charlotte Reiner Hershman. Although we tell a unique story of one family, that story of migration, seeking asylum or refuge and being exiled is a very frequent tale nowadays. In excavating my parents’ backgrounds and their influences on me and Charlotte, we show the long term psychological and social effects on our lives and possibly on future generations.

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Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

By: Miriam Potocky-Tripodi

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Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

By: Miriam Potocky-Tripodi

Rather than focusing on specific groups, this book takes a pan-cultural perspective that focuses on the common experiences of refugees and immigrants. It presents a best-practice for each problem area defined.

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Columbia University Press

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0231115830

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9780231115834

Streamlined ID

A Practical Guide to Instructional Design

By: Miriam B. Larson,Barbara B. Lockee

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Streamlined ID

A Practical Guide to Instructional Design

By: Miriam B. Larson,Barbara B. Lockee

Streamlined ID presents a focused and generalizable approach to instructional design and development – one that addresses the needs of ID novices as well as practitioners in a variety of career environments. Highlighting essentials and big ideas, this guide advocates a streamlined approach to instructional design: producing instruction that is sustainable, optimized, appropriately redundant, and targeted at continuous improvement. The book’s enhanced version of the classic ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) emphasizes the iterative nature of design and the role of evaluation throughout the design/development process. It clearly lays out a systematic approach that emphasizes the use of research-based theories, while acknowledging the need to customize the process to accommodate a variety of pedagogical approaches. This thoroughly revised second edition reflects recent advances and changes in the field, adds three new chapters, updates reference charts, job aids, and tips to support practitioners working in a variety of career environments, and speaks more clearly than ever to ID novices and graduate students.

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Routledge

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1351258702

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9781351258708

Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home

By: Mechthild Hart,Miriam Ben-Yoseph

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Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home

By: Mechthild Hart,Miriam Ben-Yoseph

Discover different dimensions of the meaning of home across political, cultural, and geographic boundaries! Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home brings a unique multidisciplinary, multicultural approach to address the interconnection of diverse experiences with the meaning of home. Filled with useful insights from respected authorities, this book shows you that the meaning of home can be incredibly varied, especially when viewed in the context of community psychology and social work. Explore the multiple facets of the meaning of “home,” and discover how our personal, professional, cultural, and political background contributes to how we envision or experience home. From physical dwellings such as a convent or a prison, through political frameworks that confirm or challenge the status quo, on through the related meanings of home that cross cultural and geographical boundaries, Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home presents an added dimension of what home truly can be. You will learn that home is a volatile mix of yearning and loss, of being at home or searching for it, and that this very mix is the framework that reflects each differing belief. With Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home you’ll explore: the changing meanings of home for Taiwanese employers of foreign domestics under globalization the opportunities and critical success factors for work and career in the home the complexities and restrictions of convent life as home how women detainees in a large urban county jail form altered definitions of “home” how novelists can give a powerful voice to the homeless by creating an inner image that contains all essential elements of home the cultural constructions surrounding the ambiguous lyrics of “Sweet Home Chicago” the role of childhood immigration in the construction of self-identity the relationship between country of origin and the ability to create a sense of home in other countries and cultures the recreation of home in diverse places by the nomad, who carries home as an essential psychological belonging within Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home is a fascinating, eye-opening book for those in community studies, psychology, sociology, culture studies, literature, and women’s studies.

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1317717953

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Female Social Entrepreneurship

Challenging boundaries and reframing gender and economic structures

By: Miriam Daniela Gerlach

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Female Social Entrepreneurship

Challenging boundaries and reframing gender and economic structures

By: Miriam Daniela Gerlach

Das Zusammenspiel von Unternehmertum, Gender, Nachhaltigkeit und insbesondere der sozialen Dimension ist komplex und unterschätzt. Diese Studie analysiert Social Entrepreneurship durch eine Gender-Linse und stellt deutsche Sozialunternehmerinnen und ihre politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Kontexte dar. Im Rahmen eines deskriptiven qualitativen Forschungsdesigns wurden eine Sekundäranalyse verschiedener Dimensionen des Social Entrepreneurship-Systems und fünfundzwanzig Interviews durchgeführt. Die Autorin zeigt, dass dieser Sektor das Potenzial hat, Gender neu zu denken und die Wirtschaft neu zu gestalten, indem er Normen und Grenzen in Richtung eines systemischen Wandels herausfordert.

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Verlag Barbara Budrich

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3847416782

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Fixing Medical Prices

How Physicians Are Paid

By: Miriam Laugesen

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Fixing Medical Prices

How Physicians Are Paid

By: Miriam Laugesen

Introduction: The house of medicine and medical prices -- The enduring influence of the house of medicine over prices -- The science of work and payment reform -- How doctors get paid -- Conflicts of interest and problems of evidence -- Complexity, agency capture, and the game of codes -- Fixing medical prices

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Harvard University Press

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0674545168

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Changing Song

The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu

By: Miriam Silverberg

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Changing Song

The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu

By: Miriam Silverberg

Nakano Sigeharu (1902-1979), leading twentieth-century Japanese poet and social critic, transformed the revolutionary culture movement of the 1920s. Positioning Nakano's thought within the very history of Japanese Marxism, Miriam Silverberg applies textual analyses to his pre-war writings to form a new perspective on the history of the politics and culture of the Japanese left. Her book relates Nakano to the Western Marxist tradition, recognizes the existence of a Japanese Marxist theory of commodity culture, and uses this theory to illuminate the era. In particular, Silverberg addresses how Nakano, like his European contemporaries, worked toward a critique of mass culture, illustrating how Japanese thinkers in the 1920s and 1930s adoped Marxism as the dominant method of political and intellectual inquiry. This book draws on Marx's writings and those of Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci, Bertolt Brecht, and Mikhail Bakhtin to present Nakano as a Marxist critic and poet. Close reading of Nakano's essays, poems (most of them appearing for the first time in English), fiction, and prison letters trace Nakano's "changing song" or consciousness through four stages--from his "discovery of history" in the mid-1920s to his refusal to be silenced during the late 1930s, when he produced a series of scthing attacks on intensifying state repression. Miriam Silverberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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0691656673

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9780691656670

Myths and Misunderstandings in White Collar Crime

By: Miriam H. Baer

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Myths and Misunderstandings in White Collar Crime

By: Miriam H. Baer

For years, commentators have complained that white-collar crime is both overcriminalized and underenforced. This book transcends that debate and argues that white-collar crime's weaknesses rest on how we make its laws, how we enforce them, and how we talk about enforcing them"--

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Cambridge University Press

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1009279807

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9781009279802

Strong Women, Strong Bones

Everything You Need to Know to Prevent, Treat, and Beat Osteoporosis, Updated Edition

By: Miriam E. Nelson Ph.D,Sarah Wernick

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Strong Women, Strong Bones

Everything You Need to Know to Prevent, Treat, and Beat Osteoporosis, Updated Edition

By: Miriam E. Nelson Ph.D,Sarah Wernick

Based on the latest scientific information, and including practical advice on the best nutrition, exercise, and medication, Strong Women, Strong Bones is an essential guide for any woman who wants to know more about the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Includes: A one-hour-per-year plan for healthy bones A self-test to assess risk factors Facts on the most accurate bone-density tests Tips on supplements beyond calcium, plus new findings on soy The best workouts for strong bones, fully illustrated, with an effective new two-minute exercise Facts on the latest medical breakthroughs A special chapter for men

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Penguin

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1101650567

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9781101650561

Social Change And Applied Anthropology

Essays In Honor Of David W. Brokensha

By: Miriam Chaiken,Anne K. Fleuret

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Social Change And Applied Anthropology

Essays In Honor Of David W. Brokensha

By: Miriam Chaiken,Anne K. Fleuret

This collection of essays in the honor of David Brokensha focuses on issues which had concerned him throughout his professional career as an anthropologist. He emphasized on combining indigenous perspectives and knowledge in development planning and on sustainable natural resource management.

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Routledge

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1000311678

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United Kingdom Publications and Theses on Africa 1967-68

By: Miriam Alman

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United Kingdom Publications and Theses on Africa 1967-68

By: Miriam Alman

First Published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0714629960

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9780714629964

Loose Parts

Inspiring Play in Young Children

By: Lisa Daly,Miriam Beloglovsky

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Loose Parts

Inspiring Play in Young Children

By: Lisa Daly,Miriam Beloglovsky

550+ color photographs showing how loose parts are used in early childhood settings and how they help children learn

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Redleaf Press

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1605542741

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9781605542744

Feminism, Gender and Universities

Politics, Passion and Pedagogies

By: Miriam E. David

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Feminism, Gender and Universities

Politics, Passion and Pedagogies

By: Miriam E. David

Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in the words of the participants in changing political and social processes. Drawing on the ’collective biography’ of leading feminist scholars from around the world and current evidence relating to gender equality in education, this book employs methods including biographies, life histories, and narratives to show how the feminist project to transform women’s lives in the direction of gender and social equality became an educational and pedagogical one. Through careful attention to the ways in which feminism has transformed feminist academic women’s lives, the author explores the importance of education in changing socio-political contexts, raising questions about further changes that are necessary. Delving into the deeper and more ’hidden’ echelons of education, the book examines the contested nature of current managerial or business approaches to university and education, revealing these to be incompatible with feminist thought. A plea for more careful attention to education and the ways in which the processes of knowledge-making influence (and are influenced by) gender and sexual relations, Feminism, Gender and Universities will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in gender, pedagogy and modern academic life.

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1317135814

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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

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

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames

Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope

By: Jael Miriam Silliman,Jael Silliman

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Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames

Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope

By: Jael Miriam Silliman,Jael Silliman

A riveting family portrait of four generations of Jewish women from Calcutta.

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UPNE

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1584653051

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Convictions of the Heart

Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement

By: Miriam Davidson

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Convictions of the Heart

Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement

By: Miriam Davidson

The death of twenty-one Salvadoran refugees in the Arizona desert in 1980 made many Americans aware for the first time that people were strugglingÑand dyingÑto find political asylum in the United States. Tucsonan Jim Corbett first encountered the problem while attempting to help a hitchhiking refugee. What came of that act of altruism was a movement that spread across the country, challenged the federal government, and brought the refugee problem to national awareness. Corbett first worked within the law to help refugees process applications for asylum, but the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service soon began a program of arrests; then he began to smuggle refugees from the Mexican border to the homes of citizens willing to provide shelter, making hundreds of trips over the next two years; finally he enlisted the support of the Tucson Ecumenical Council and persuaded John Fife, pastor of the Southside Presbyterian Church, to open that building as a refuge. When legal action against Corbett and the others seemed imminent, Southside became, on March 24, 1982, the first of two hundred churches in the country to declare itself a sanctuary. Convictions of the Heart takes readers inside the santuary movement to reveal its founders' motives and underlying beliefs, and inside the courtroom to describe the government's efforts to stop it. Although the book addresses many points of view, its primary focus is on the philosophy of Jim Corbett. Rooted in the nonviolence of Gandhi, the Society of Friends, and Martin Luther King, Corbett's beliefs challenged individuals and communities of faith across the country to examine the strength of their commitment to the needs and rights of others.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816510342

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Making History / Making Blintzes

How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

By: Mickey Flacks,Miriam Hartman Flacks,Dick Flacks,Richard Flacks

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Making History / Making Blintzes

How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

By: Mickey Flacks,Miriam Hartman Flacks,Dick Flacks,Richard Flacks

This book chronicles the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard and Miriam Flacks. Their story, rooted in 'old left' childhoods, shaped by the sixties New Left, and culminating in intellectual and community leadership, is a valuable first-hand account of how progressive American activism has evolved over the last 100 years.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813589223

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9780813589220

Learning from Experience

Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching

By: Miriam Ben-Peretz

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Learning from Experience

Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching

By: Miriam Ben-Peretz

This book is about the development of teachers'professional knowledge.

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200

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SUNY Press

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0791423034

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9780791423035

Loose Parts for Children with Diverse Abilities

By: Miriam Beloglovsky

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Loose Parts for Children with Diverse Abilities

By: Miriam Beloglovsky

Play is a magnificent activity that sustains life and promotes joy and hopefulness. Loose Parts for Children with Diverse Abilities addresses the importance of play while providing appropriate accommodation to support young children with diverse abilities. Award-winning author and educator Miriam Beloglovsky advocates for play for play sake and invites early childhood educators and families to see children with diverse abilities’ strengths, recognize them as capable, competent and creative, and listen to their powerful voices. With hundreds of illustrative full-color photographs and infused with real stories of children with diverse abilities engaged in loose parts play, the book also includes narrative comments from families and educators.

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346

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Redleaf Press

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1605547085

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9781605547084

Kuwait, 1945-1996

An Anglo-American Perspective

By: Miriam Joyce

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Kuwait, 1945-1996

An Anglo-American Perspective

By: Miriam Joyce

Based on extensive research of British documents from the Public Records Office, and American documents from the National Archives and several Presidential Libraries, this book surveys events in Kuwait from the beginning of the twentieth century until the Second World War, and explains Britain's initial interest in the ruling al-Sabah family, before focusing on the post-1945 period.

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214

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Routledge

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1135228132

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9781135228132

Dreams for Dead Bodies

Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By: Miriam Michelle Robinson

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Dreams for Dead Bodies

Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By: Miriam Michelle Robinson

Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Rudolph Fisher made use of the genre’s puzzle-elements to explore the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America. The author constructs an interracial genealogy of detective fiction to create a nuanced picture of the ways that black and white authors appropriated and cultivated literary conventions that coalesced in a recognizable genre at the turn of the twentieth century. These authors tinkered with detective fiction’s puzzle-elements to address a variety of historical contexts, including the exigencies of chattel slavery, the erosion of working-class solidarities by racial and ethnic competition, and accelerated mass production. Dreams for Dead Bodies demonstrates that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature was broadly engaged with detective fiction, and that authors rehearsed and refined its formal elements in literary works typically relegated to the margins of the genre. By looking at these margins, the book argues, we can better understand the origins and cultural functions of American detective fiction.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472900609

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9780472900602

Mother's Intuition? (1994)

Choosing Secondary Schools

By: Miriam David,Anne West,Jane Ribbens

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Mother's Intuition? (1994)

Choosing Secondary Schools

By: Miriam David,Anne West,Jane Ribbens

Published in 1994, Mother’s Intuition? examines the process of choosing secondary schools in two inner London boroughs. The research is based upon detailed interviews with parents as well as questionnaires filled in by pupils themselves. The authors address several important dimensions in the choosing process which had not been investigated by previous research. The book particularly focusses on the main question arising from the interviews; who does the choosing – mother, father or the child? Other areas discussed are the changing nature of families and the role different members in lone parent families play, as well as the different decisions made between families with girls and boys, and those from different racial and ethnic groups.

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172

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Routledge

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1351265660

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9781351265669

The Library Security and Safety Guide to Prevention, Planning, and Response

By: Miriam B. Kahn

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The Library Security and Safety Guide to Prevention, Planning, and Response

By: Miriam B. Kahn

Security planning, part of disaster response and continuous operations planning, is the key to proactively addressing potential safety issues.

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145

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American Library Association

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0838909493

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9780838909492

New Frontiers in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

An Evidence Base for Clinical Practice

By: Cathy Catroppa,Vicki Anderson,Miriam Beauchamp,Keith Yeates

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New Frontiers in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

An Evidence Base for Clinical Practice

By: Cathy Catroppa,Vicki Anderson,Miriam Beauchamp,Keith Yeates

New Frontiers in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury provides an evidence base for clinical practice specific to traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained during childhood, with a focus on functional outcomes. It utilizes a biological-psychosocial conceptual framework consistent with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, which highlights that biological, psychological, and social factors all play a role in disease and children’s recovery from acquired brain injury. With its clinical perspective, it incorporates current and past research and evidence regarding advances that have occurred in outcomes, predictors, medical technology, and rehabilitation post-TBI. This book is great resource for established and new clinicians and researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows who work in the field of pediatric TBI, including psychologists, neuropsychologists, pediatricians, and psychiatrists.

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