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From the Foothills of the Himalayas

By: Nancy W. Axinn

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From the Foothills of the Himalayas

By: Nancy W. Axinn

Back before cell phones, computers, e-mail, and even bridges in the Chitwan Valley in Nepal, Nancy Axinn and her husband worked with agricultural education programs. From the Foothills of the Himalayas is written upon reflection of the notes and letters Axinn penned from 1976 to 1978 while living in rural Nepal. Axinn's small notebook was never out of reach as she traveled in Nepal. Setting off on nearby roads, Axinn climbed steep mountain trails, often wading through rivers to reach the remote schools where she coached prospective teachers of agriculture. Contact with the outside world was by letter, so after each one was written, it went by road or local plane to Axinn's office at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. It was then sent by air mail to her daughter in the United States. From the Foothills of the Himalayas provides a firsthand account of the spectacular countryside of rural Nepal, Axinn's agricultural work in the area, and her challenges in cultural adaptation.

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059548526X

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9780595485260

Feminist Perspectives on Family Care

By: Nancy R. Hooyman,Judith Gonyea

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Feminist Perspectives on Family Care

By: Nancy R. Hooyman,Judith Gonyea

Examines caregiving as a central feminist issue, looking at its impact on women socially, personally, and economically especially in light of ongoing changes in family structures, the economy and workforce, and health care demands of needy adults.

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433

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SAGE

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0803951434

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9780803951433

Social Administration

By: Roger A. Lohmann,Nancy Lohmann

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Social Administration

By: Roger A. Lohmann,Nancy Lohmann

Encompassing management approaches such as Theory Z, and research of nonprofit studies, this book addresses ways in which skills and activities of social administration can further social work practice in the areas of social justice, confronting oppression.

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639

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Columbia University Press

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0231111983

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9780231111980

Counseling Adults in Transition

Linking Schlossberg's Theory With Practice in a Diverse World

By: Mary L Anderson, PhD, LPC, NCC,Jane Goodman, PhD,Nancy K Schlossberg, EdD

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Counseling Adults in Transition

Linking Schlossberg's Theory With Practice in a Diverse World

By: Mary L Anderson, PhD, LPC, NCC,Jane Goodman, PhD,Nancy K Schlossberg, EdD

The only textbook explicitly designed to address counseling with adults who are coping with individual, relationship, and work transitions, this volume integrates the basic tenets of adult development with therapeutic practice. It is based on Schlossberg's theory of transitions, a new process and content model that offers effective techniques for helping adults to understand and successfully navigate normal life transitions. This revised edition addresses contemporary societal ills that exacerbate adult life transitions, such as a tumultuous economy, increased unemployment, bankruptcies, and foreclosures, and focuses on our increasing racial and cultural diversity. The volume also expands its consideration of spiritual and social justice issues and provides a more integrated and holistic approach to adult transitional counseling. Key Features of the New Edition: Based on Schlossberg's technique, a new model for counseling adults in transition Offers practical new strategies and exercises for use in transitional counseling Addresses unemployment and coping in an uncertain social/economic context Focuses on loss and resilience, diversity, culture, social justice, and spirituality Contains new sections on transitioning to adulthood, living arrangements including diverse family structures, mobility, siblings, in-laws, and retirement Introduces new concepts such as collectivist coping, hardiness, mindfulness, and transcendence

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826106366

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9780826106360

The Subject of Liberty

Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom

By: Nancy J. Hirschmann

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The Subject of Liberty

Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom

By: Nancy J. Hirschmann

This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.

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Princeton University Press

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1400825369

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9781400825363

Stoic Warriors

The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind

By: Nancy Sherman

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Stoic Warriors

The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind

By: Nancy Sherman

Stoic Warriors explores the relationship between soldiers and Stoic philosophy, exploring what Stoicism actually is, the role it plays in the character of the military (both ancient and modern), and its powerful value as a philosophy of life. Marshalling anecdotes from military history--ranging from ancient Greek wars to World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq--Sherman illuminates the military mind and uses it as a window on the virtues of the Stoic philosophy. Indeed this is a perceptive investigation of what makes Stoicism so compelling not only as a guiding principle for the military, but as a philosophy for anyone facing the hardships of life.

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Oxford University Press

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0199760411

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9780199760411

Critical Reading for College and Beyond

By: Deborah B. Daiek,Nancy M. Anter

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Critical Reading for College and Beyond

By: Deborah B. Daiek,Nancy M. Anter

Critical Reading for College and Beyond focuses on teaching intermediate to advanced level developmental education students the critical reading and thinking strategies they need to get the most out of college textbooks and other reading material. The text teaches students specific steps to follow in organizing textbook information, so that they can remember it and access it effectively when needed. Regular journaling and self-monitoring through CATs (Classroom Assessment Techniques) allow students to make adjustments necessary to improving their reading skills."--Publisher's description.

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564

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0072473770

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9780072473773

2008 Poet's Market

By: Nancy Breen

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2008 Poet's Market

By: Nancy Breen

Where & how to publish your poetry"--Cover.

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Writers Digest Books

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1582974993

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9781582974996

From the Foothills of the Himalayas

By: Nancy W. Axinn

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My Nana Was A Free-Range Kid

By: Nancy Peek Youngdahl

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My Nana Was A Free-Range Kid

By: Nancy Peek Youngdahl

My Nana was an Outrageously Mischievous kid. In the 1940s and '50s, children were allowed to run free, play outside, and use their imaginations-without parents constantly hovering over them and fearing for their safety. In her own small town in North Carolina-with very little traffic, and neighbors who actually knew each other-Nana was no exception to the free-range kid phenomenon. But as an outrageously mischievous child that was left to her own devices, she sure got into some amazing and hilarious adventures. It was a glorious time to be a child! Both of Nana's parents worked, so she and her brother were often unsupervised. They wreaked havoc most of the time, thus living an exciting childhood. Nana's stories-told to her great-grandchildren-are all true. She relates how her family and neighbors survived in spite of her and is quick to let her great-grandchildren know what not to do. As she says, if she had lived as a child today, she'd probably be locked up in a juvenile home!

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Outskirts Press

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1977200966

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9781977200969

Hurricane Nancy

By: Nancy Burton

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Hurricane Nancy

By: Nancy Burton

This book is a retrospective of underground comix artist Nancy Burton, a significant and under-appreciated artist in the history of comics, as well as a first-person account of a fascinating moment in counter cultural America.

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1683969839

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Front Pages/Nancy Chunn

Interview With the Artist by Gary Indiana

By: Nancy Chunn,Gary Indiana

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Interview With the Artist by Gary Indiana

By: Nancy Chunn,Gary Indiana

An illustrated novel of the real world created by the acclaimed painter Nancy Chunn. Every day of 1966 Chunn claimed as an artistic canvas the front page of the N.Y. Times. Using rubber stamps and pastels to enhance, eradicate, and alter images and text, she created a commentary -- colorful, intense, visually explosive -- on the year's events and the power of the press. Chunn's treatment of the events we all lived through -- the Presidential campaign, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the wars in Chechnya and Rwanda -- will strike an immediate chord in readers tuned in to the political world awash in images and news. Gary Indiana's interview with the artist provides intimate insights into the artistic process as a means of talking back to power and engaging with the world.

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078816614X

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9780788166143

Nancy Graves project & special guests

By: Nancy Graves,Brigitte Franzen,Annette Lagler,Benjamin Dodenhoff

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Nancy Graves project & special guests

By: Nancy Graves,Brigitte Franzen,Annette Lagler,Benjamin Dodenhoff

Perhaps the most surprising works by Nancy Graves (1939-1995) are her life-size sculptures of camels and dromedaries. Made of wax, fiberglass, jute, and animal skins in the late sixties, they also question the principles behind true-to-nature renditions and Pop Art alike. Graves later used NASA weather maps and maps of the moon in her works, while also citing paleontology and anthropology, art history, and artifacts from other cultures. She combined Conceptual Art with Land Art and New Figuration, advanced research arts and the art film, and made important contributions to gender research. This publication presents the artist's multifaceted oeuvre and examines its relationship to the works of her contemporaries and role models, while undertaking a reevaluation of its significance in terms of art history. 0Exhibition: Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (13.10.2013-16.2.2014). 0.

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Book's by Nancy Axinn

From the Foothills of the Himalayas

From the Foothills of the Himalayas

Feminist Perspectives on Family Care

Feminist Perspectives on Family Care

Social Administration

Social Administration

Counseling Adults in Transition

Counseling Adults in Transition

The Subject of Liberty

The Subject of Liberty

Stoic Warriors

Stoic Warriors

Critical Reading for College and Beyond

Critical Reading for College and Beyond

2008 Poet's Market

2008 Poet's Market

From the Foothills of the Himalayas

From the Foothills of the Himalayas

My Nana Was A Free-Range Kid

My Nana Was A Free-Range Kid

Hurricane Nancy

Hurricane Nancy

Front Pages/Nancy Chunn

Front Pages/Nancy Chunn

Nancy Graves project & special guests

Nancy Graves project & special guests

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