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Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel

Women, Work and Home

By: Monica F. Cohen

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Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel

Women, Work and Home

By: Monica F. Cohen

Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much of its social credibility by positioning itself in relation to the emergent professions. By exploring how novels cast the Victorian conception of female morality into the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism, Cohen traces the ways in which women sought identity and privilege within a professionalised culture, and revises our understanding of Victorian domestic ideology.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521591414

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Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture

Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family

By: Monica Flegel

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Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture

Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family

By: Monica Flegel

Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the family’s dependents, and to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory, this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit’s ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.

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1317564863

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Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England

Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC

By: Monica Flegel

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Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England

Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC

By: Monica Flegel

Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Flegel considers a wide range of well-known and more obscure texts from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth, including philosophical writings by Locke and Rousseau, poetry by Coleridge, Blake, and Caroline Norton, works by journalists and reformers like Henry Mayhew and Mary Carpenter, and novels by Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Morrison. Taking up crucial topics such as the linking of children with animals, the figure of the child performer, the relationship between commerce and child endangerment, and the problem of juvenile delinquency, Flegel examines the emergence of child abuse as a subject of legal and social concern in England, and its connection to earlier, primarily literary representations of endangered children. With the emergence of the NSPCC and the new crime of cruelty to children, new professions and genres, such as child protection and social casework, supplanted literary works as the authoritative voices in the definition of social ills and their cure. Flegel argues that this development had material effects on the lives of children, as well as profound implications for the role of class in representations of suffering and abused children. Combining nuanced close readings of individual texts with persuasive interpretations of their influences and limitations, Flegel's book makes a significant contribution to the history of childhood, social welfare, the family, and Victorian philanthropy.

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131716234X

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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching

By: Chris Shei,Monica E McLellan Zikpi,Der-Lin Chao

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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching

By: Chris Shei,Monica E McLellan Zikpi,Der-Lin Chao

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching defines Chinese language teaching in a pedagogical, historical, and contemporary context. Throughout the volume, teaching methods are discussed, including the traditional China-based approach, and Western methods such as communicative teaching and the immersion program. The Handbook also presents a pedagogical model covering pronunciation, tones, characters, vocabulary, grammar, and the teaching of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The remaining chapters explore topics of language assessment, technology enhanced instruction, teaching materials and resources, Chinese for specific purposes, classroom implementation, social contexts of language teaching and language teaching policies, and pragmatics and culture. Ideal for scholars and researchers of Chinese language teaching, the Handbook will benefit educators and teacher training programs. This is the first comprehensive volume exploring the growing area of Chinese language pedagogy.

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1351598740

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Pirating Fictions

Ownership and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

By: Monica F. Cohen

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Pirating Fictions

Ownership and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

By: Monica F. Cohen

Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen's lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of the pirate held sway on the page and the stage even as their creators were preoccupied with the ravages of literary appropriation. The golden age of piracy captured the nineteenth-century imagination, animating such best-selling novels as Treasure Island and inspiring theatrical hits from The Pirates of Penzance to Peter Pan. But the prevalence of unauthorized reprinting and dramatic adaptation meant that authors lost immense profits from the most lucrative markets. Infuriated, novelists and playwrights denounced such literary piracy in essays, speeches, and testimonies. Their fiction, however, tells a different story. Using landmarks in copyright history as a backdrop, Pirating Fictions argues that popular nineteenth-century pirate fiction mischievously resists the creation of intellectual property in copyright legislation and law. Drawing on classic pirate stories by such writers as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and J. M. Barrie, this wide-ranging account demonstrates, in raucous tales and telling asides, how literary appropriation was celebrated at the very moment when the forces of possessive individualism began to enshrine the language of personal ownership in Anglo-American views of creative work.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813940702

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Santa Monica

1950-2010

By: Louise B. Gabriel,Santa Monica Historical Society

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Santa Monica

1950-2010

By: Louise B. Gabriel,Santa Monica Historical Society

The city of Santa Monica in the post-World War II era has enjoyed a colorful history as both a resort community and as a bustling, vibrant city. Its coastal Mediterranean climate has provided an ideal atmosphere for the famous California lifestyle. Known for the 100-year-old Santa Monica Pier, as well as the Third Street Promenade, for its beautiful beaches and quaint neighborhoods, Santa Monica has been home to many famous Hollywood movie stars, including Shirley Temple, Cary Grant, Betty Grable, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, and Robert Redford. Arnold Schwarzenegger has also maintained offices here. Santa Monica has played host to many of the nation's most famous names, such as Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and U.S. president John F. Kennedy. The companion piece to the same author's Images of America: Early Santa Monica, this volume's more than 200 photographs cover the dynamic people, businesses, events, attractions, and celebrities that have shaped Santa Monica into the world-renowned city of today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738581437

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The Unintended

Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism

By: Monica Huerta

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The Unintended

Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism

By: Monica Huerta

Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrialization, racialization, and capitalism—were quickly reshaping the world. The Unintended slows down the moment in which the technology of photography seemed to speed itself—and so the history of racial capitalism—up. It follows the substantial shifts in the markets, mediums, and forms of photography during a legally murky period at the end of the nineteenth century. Monica Huerta traces the subtle and paradoxical ways legal thinking through photographic lenses reinscribed a particular aesthetics of whiteness in the very conceptions of property ownership. The book pulls together an archive that encompasses the histories of performance and portraiture alongside the legal, pursuing the logics by which property rights involving photographs are affirmed (or denied) in precedent-setting court cases and legal texts. Emphasizing the making of “expression” into property to focus our attention on the failures of control that cameras do not invent, but rather put new emphasis on, this book argues that designations of control’s absence are central to the practice and idea of property-making. The Unintended proposes that tracking and analyzing the sensed horizons of intention, control, autonomy, will, and volition offers another way into understanding how white supremacy functions. Ultimately, its unique historical reading practice offers a historically-specific vantage on the everyday workings of racial capitalism and the inheritances of white supremacy that structure so much of our lives.

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NYU Press

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1479812498

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Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy

By: Monica Baly

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Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy

By: Monica Baly

This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses the problems that beset a fledgling profession.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1861560443

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Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914

By: Monica Anderson

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Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914

By: Monica Anderson

Other questions of both general and critical interest, such as vestimentary display in its guise as exhibitionary colonialist language are also raised."--Jacket.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838640915

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Genograms: Assessment and Treatment

By: Monica McGoldrick,Randy Gerson,Sueli Petry

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Genograms: Assessment and Treatment

By: Monica McGoldrick,Randy Gerson,Sueli Petry

The latest edition of this definitive book in the field of family therapy—the first update in ten years. Widely used by family therapists— and by health care professionals in general—the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment. This visual representation allows the practitioner to find patterns in the family system for more targeted treatment. Now in its fourth edition, Genograms has been fully updated by renowned therapist Monica McGoldrick. Expanded with four-color images throughout, additional material explaining the use of genograms with siblings and couples, and a thorough updating to essential concepts, this edition provides a fascinating view into the richness of family dynamics. Informative, comprehensive, and beautifully written and illustrated, this book helps bring to life principles of family system theory and systemic interviewing, as well as walk readers through the basics of constructing a genogram, doing a genogram interview, and interpreting the results.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393714055

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9780393714050

Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives

The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama

By: Monica Latham

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Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives

The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama

By: Monica Latham

This book explores Virginia Woolf’s afterlives in contemporary biographical novels and drama. It offers an extensive analysis of a wide array of literary productions in which Virginia Woolf appears as a fictional character or a dramatis persona. It examines how Woolf’s physical and psychological features, as well as the values she stood for, are magnified, reinforced or distorted to serve the authors’ specific agendas. Beyond general theoretical issues about this flourishing genre, this study raises specific questions about the literary and cultural relevance of Woolf’s fictional representations. These contemporary narratives inform us about Woolf’s iconicity, but they also mirror our current literary, cultural and political concerns. Based on a close examination of twenty-five works published between 1972 and 2019, the book surveys various portraits of Woolf as a feminist, pacifist, troubled genius, gifted innovative writer, treacherous, competitive sister and tragic, suicidal character, or, on the contrary, as a caricatural comic spirit, inspirational figure and perspicacious amateur sleuth. By resurrecting Virginia Woolf in contemporary biofiction, whether to enhance or debunk stereotypes about the historical figure, the authors studied here contribute to her continuous reinvention. Their diverse fictional portraits constitute a way to reinforce Woolf’s literary status, re-evaluate her work, rejuvenate critical interpretations and augment her cultural capital in the twenty-first century

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Routledge

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1000388476

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Nature's Noblemen

Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West

By: Monica Rico

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Nature's Noblemen

Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West

By: Monica Rico

DIV In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by “roughing it” in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. Rico uncovers the networks of elite men—British and American—who circulated between the West and the metropoles of London and New York. Each chapter tells the story of an individual who, by traveling these transatlantic paths, sought to resolve anxieties about class, gender, and empire in an era of profound economic and social transformation. All of the men Rico discusses—from the well known, including Theodore Roosevelt and Buffalo Bill Cody, to the comparatively obscure, such as English cattle rancher Moreton Frewen—envisioned the American West as a global space into which redemptive narratives of heroic upper-class masculinity could be written. /div

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Yale University Press

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0300196253

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9780300196252

Nursing and Social Change

By: Monica F. Baly

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Nursing and Social Change

By: Monica F. Baly

Nursing and Social Change is essential reading for nurses who wish to understand how their profession had developed from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Now in its third edition the book has been completely revised to take into account the challenges facing nurses. Ten new chapters include contributions from senior members of the nursing profession who have been closely involved in the most recent health service reorganisation and the radical changes to nurse education. Students and practitioners will find Nursing and Social Change invaluable as a comprehensive source of reference which offers a unique combination of scholarship and readability.

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113485305X

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Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing

By: Monica Germana

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Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing

By: Monica Germana

This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson, Ellen Galford, A.L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds, w

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748686347

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9780748686346

Pity for Evil

Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America

By: Monica Klem,Madeleine McDowell

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Pity for Evil

Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America

By: Monica Klem,Madeleine McDowell

In the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the women’s rights movement, women’s medical education, and public-private charitable partnerships joined forces to reduce the incidence of abortion in America. As alumni of the abolitionist movement, they analyzed abortion in ways that resembled their earlier critiques of slavery. Abortion, too, was a structural problem. A self-evidently evil act, it was sustained by the quack doctors and unscrupulous press that it enriched. These advocates believed that women seeking abortions had usually been deprived of their ability to act freely, rationally, and well in the world, almost always by external forces. Thus, they had sympathy for their suffering sisters and pity for their injuries—physical and moral. Early women’s rights advocates worked to raise vulnerable women to their feet, providing them with material and moral resources for “self-extrication” from the depths into which they had sunk. The authors of this book have approached their subject critically, examining not just the early women’s rights advocates’ publicly spoken words, but the networks and institutions that they built. This previously untold story illuminates the early history of women’s rights and abortion in America.

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Encounter Books

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1641773405

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Cultivating a New South

Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938

By: Monica Maria Tetzlaff

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Cultivating a New South

Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938

By: Monica Maria Tetzlaff

During her life she labored to educate South Carolina's African Americans, fought for women's equal participation in politics, and eventually took a role in the Socialist Party of America.".

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570034532

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The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma

By: Monica Osborne

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The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma

By: Monica Osborne

Since the end of World War II we have witnessed countless artistic responses to the Holocaust, yet we remain unable to adequately address the atrocities. While Theodor Adorno later rescinded his comments on the barbaric nature of writing poetry after Auschwitz, The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma begins with the possibility that he was right—that his admonition against poetry warns against employing representational modes that transgress the boundaries of the ethical when it comes to the Holocaust. There is a language, other than the language of representation, with which we might speak authentically about such atrocities. This study explores what it means for the world of literature to renounce the language of representation and retain the language of witness. Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Geoffrey Hartman, and others the book focuses on the increasing tendency of contemporary writers to rely on non-representational approaches to storytelling in the context of trauma. This tendency is named the “midrashic impulse” given its similarity to ancient rabbinic approaches to the silences of the Hebrew bible through the creation of Midrash.

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Lexington Books

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1498564917

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9781498564915

100 Things to Do in Shreveport-Bossier, Louisiana, Before You Die

By: Monica Champagne

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100 Things to Do in Shreveport-Bossier, Louisiana, Before You Die

By: Monica Champagne

Louisiana is a land of enchantment, a place where history, culture, and adventure blend in a whimsical way. Shreveport and Bossier City, affectionately known as “The Otherside of Louisiana,” is no exception as it beckons visitors to the northern part of the state through the shimmer of the Bakowski Bridge of Lights and its surrounding riverfront casinos. 100 Things to Do in Shreveport-Bossier, Louisiana, Before You Die uncovers 100 carefully curated experiences collected to unveil the magic of this unique corner of Louisiana. Get lost in the great outdoors at Lake Bistineau and Cross Lake. Indulge in the electrifying atmosphere of riverfront casinos, including Bally’s Shreveport. Join in year-round festivals like Crawfest and ARTini that celebrate the multifaceted culture of this region, and savor the sizzling nightlife at Flying Heart Brewing and Pub and 1931 Lounge. Stroll along Bossier’s Boardwalk, where stunning river views create a picturesque backdrop for your adventures. Experience the adrenaline rush of horse racing at Louisiana Downs Casino & Racetrack or zip lining over alligators at Gators & Friends. Whether you’re a first-time visitor or a longtime resident, 100 Things to Do Before You Die in Shreveport-Bossier, Louisiana, Before You Die offers a flexible guide to help you make the most of your time here. Shreveport native author, Monica Dollar Champagne provides you with insider tips and handpicked activities that will lead you to the best experiences that Shreveport and Bossier City have to offer. It’s time to embrace the spirit of adventure and create unforgettable memories in this captivating Louisiana haven.

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Reedy Press LLC

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1681065207

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Society, Science, and Problem-Solving Courts

By: Full Foundation Professor Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program and Department of Criminal Justice Monica K Miller,Assistant Professor Department of Criminal Justice Mia A Holbrook,Associate Professor of Psychology Logan A Yelderman,PhD Student Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program Kylie Kulak

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Society, Science, and Problem-Solving Courts

Problem-solving courts are special courts that do not simply punish offenders, but employ other justice and psychology principles to help solve the underlying social issues that contributed to the crime. The prevalence and practice of problem-solving courts vary widely around the world. Society, Science, and Problem-Solving Courts lays out the societal and scientific factors that explain the development of problem-solving courts, and chart a path for their future.

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Oxford University Press

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019005980X

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Excel Revise in a Month VCE

Business Management

By: Steve Barrile,Monica Bini,Terry Cameron

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Excel Revise in a Month VCE

Business Management

By: Steve Barrile,Monica Bini,Terry Cameron

Unit 3: Corporate management - Unit 4: Human resource management and management of change.

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Pascal Press

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1741251281

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A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England

By: Monica Hall

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A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England

By: Monica Hall

“The author has done an outstanding job of making the colorful Georgian world come alive in all its contradictory, bawdy, and utterly fascinating glory.” —Britain Express Could you successfully be a Georgian? Find yourself immersed in the pivotal world of Georgian England, exciting times to live in. Everything was booming—the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the nascent Empire—in an era inhabited by Mary Shelley, the Romantic poets, and their contemporaries. Find everything you need to know in order to survive as a time traveler from today, undetected among the ordinary people: how to dress, behave yourself in public, earn a living, and find somewhere to live. Just as importantly, you will be given advice on how to stay on the right side of the law, and how to avoid getting seriously ill. Monica Hall creatively evokes this bygone era, filling the pages of this book with all aspects of daily life within the period, calling upon diaries, illustrations, letters, poetry, prose, eighteenth century laws, and archives. This detailed account intimately explores the ever-changing lives of those who lived through Britain’s imperial prowess, the birth of modern capitalism, and the upheaval of the industrial revolution, major political reform, and class division. “A fantastic piece of social history that fills in a huge number of gaps in our knowledge. First class entertainment and educational at the same time!” —Books Monthly

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Casemate Publishers

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1473876877

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The Paprika Diary - a Lonely Secret

By: Monica Shepherd

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The Paprika Diary - a Lonely Secret

By: Monica Shepherd

World War II is over. But for Hungarian people like young, attractive Anna Gonda, another terror has just begun. Communism is strangling her country, forcing the bold writer to make a difficult decision. It was time to abandon her home, her beloved family, and her boyfriend, Attila Paprika, an insecure pessimist who measures his manhood with drinking contests and grueling mountain bike rides. For reasons of his own, Attila surprises Anna by joining her in a daring escape to England. After the couple is blessed with a daughter, Anna is mysteriously drawn to Australia, land of prosperity and opportunity. Enjoying the good life as new immigrants, they have no idea that a monster is lurking in their neighbourhood. Life will never be the same as it twists into a disturbing tale of fear and survival. Author Bio: This is Monica's first foray into the world of publishing. She enjoyed the experience so much, she's planning a sequel to The Paprika Diary. Monica successfully raised an autistic child well before much was known about the disease. She has conquered breast cancer once, and is currently battling it a second time. She does not know when her journey on earth ends, but is comforted by her faith in All That Is, for there is no death of our eternal flame. Monica lives in Ontario, Canada with her long-time companion, Bugsy the tabby. Keywords: Diary, Fiction, Secret, Evil, Lonely Woman, Hungary, Australia, Canada

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1506901131

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Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell

By: Jane Golden,David M. Scobey,Robin Rice,Monica Yant Kinney

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Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell

By: Jane Golden,David M. Scobey,Robin Rice,Monica Yant Kinney

In June 1984, Jane Golden, a young muralist from Margate, New Jersey, headed up a project that was originally planned as a six-week youth program in the fledgling Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. This small exercise in fighting graffiti grew into the most vibrant public art project in the United States. Led by Golden and dozens of artists, neighborhood residents, and volunteers, the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program has adorned the city with over two thousand murals. In the process, this vibrant art, painted mostly on city walls, helped to change the look of the city, creating an enduring legacy in all of the neighborhoods in which the murals were added. In this lavishly illustrated chronicle of the Mural Arts Program, you will see the murals in all of their beauty and learn about their inspiring legacies in neighborhoods throughout the city. Go behind the scenes to find out how murals are made and why the process is as much an art of diplomacy and consensus building as paint and perspective. Discover through pictures and text how murals give communities a new way to define themselves, not in terms of the streets and intersections that border them, but in terms of the people who came together to create something of dramatic beauty. Author note: Jane Goldenis Executive Director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the largest program of its kind in the United States. She graduated from Stanford University and holds an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. This is her first book. She lives in Philadelphia. Robin Rice is the senior art critic for the Philadelphia City Paper. She writes for a number of national and international magazines, including American Ceramics, Woman's Art Journal, and ARTnews. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the graduate programs in criticism and humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The recipient of writing fellowships from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia. Monica Yant Kinneyis a metropolitan columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she has worked since 1996. She was formerly the television critic at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. She grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana; graduated from the University of Notre Dame; and is married to David Kinney, a political reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger. This is her first book. David Graham is a freelance photographer whose work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He has published four previous books, including Taking Liberties (2001). He is Associate Professor of photography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Jack Ramsdale has been involved with the Mural Arts Program since 1998. In November 2001, his mural design titled "ONE WORLD" in remembrance of the victims of 9/11 was painted across 15th Street from City Hall. He attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, receiving an MFA with a photography concentration. He has had a commercial photography business for the last fifteen years and continues to create art in Philadelphia, where he now resides.

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