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Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention

Who's 'Saving' Children and Why

By: Gillies, Val,Edwards, Rosalind,Nicola Horsley

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Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention

Who's 'Saving' Children and Why

By: Gillies, Val,Edwards, Rosalind,Nicola Horsley

So often, the ills of society are blamed on negligent parenting, leading to the development of social service policies built around the concept of early intervention. Interrogating this concept, this book explores the history of our understanding of children, family, and parenting, and its implications for society. With a particular focus on the intersection of brain science and social policy, the authors challenge our long-held consensus on early intervention. Accessibly written and highly topical, Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention is a comprehensive and critical assay of our contemporary belief that so-called bad parents raise substandard future citizens unfit for the new capitalism.

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208

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Policy Press

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1447324102

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The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome

By: Nicola Denzey Lewis

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The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome

By: Nicola Denzey Lewis

A new look at the Cult of the Saints in late antiquity: did it really dominate Christianity in late antique Rome?

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445

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Cambridge University Press

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1108471897

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9781108471893

The Early Roman Expansion into Italy

Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas

By: Nicola Terrenato

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The Early Roman Expansion into Italy

Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas

By: Nicola Terrenato

Argues that Roman expansion in Italy was accomplished more by means of negotiation among local elites than through military conquest.

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349

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Cambridge University Press

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1108422675

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9781108422673

Herefordshire Murders

By: Nicola Sly

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Herefordshire Murders

By: Nicola Sly

Herefordshire Murders brings together twenty-eight murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county and others which made national headlines. Herefordshire was home to one of Britain’s most infamous murderers, Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, who, in 1921, poisoned his wife and attempted to poison a fellow solicitor in Hay-on-Wye. However, the county has also experienced many lesser known murders. They include the case of two-year-old Walter Frederick Steers, brutally killed in Little Hereford in 1891; eighty-seven-year-old Phillip Ballard, who died at the hands of two would-be burglars in Tupsley in 1887; Jane Haywood, murdered by her husband near Leominster in 1903; and the shooting of two sisters at Burghill Court, near Hereford, by their butler in 1926. Nicola Sly’s carefully researched and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in the shady side of Herefordshire’s history.

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295

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The History Press

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0752483951

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9780752483955

A Horrid History of Christmas

Horrible Happenings and Frightening Festivities

By: Nicola Sly

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A Horrid History of Christmas

Horrible Happenings and Frightening Festivities

By: Nicola Sly

This grisly collection of historic, horrid happenings from across the country demonstrates that Christmas is not necessarily a time of peace, joy and goodwill to all men. The holiday season has witnessed a plethora of almost unbelievable accidents, such as the amateur mechanic who died with his head stuck in a car engine, the footballer who leaped into a quarry to retrieve a lost ball, and the Christmas party guest who fell down a flight of stairs and broke his neck. There are fatal rail crashes in Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Cumbria and Scotland; freak weather conditions and devastating fires, such as the Christmas Eve fire in Glasgow that cost the lives of four firemen in 1927. Among the chilling crimes featured here is that of Nottinghamshire man Edward Kesteven, who killed his wife on Christmas Day 1894, and the murder of Thirza Kelly in Norfolk by a local teenager on Christmas Eve 1900. Full of merry madness and hearty heartache, A Horrid History of Christmas will make you want to bypass the festivities altogether!

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281

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The History Press

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0752477153

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9780752477152

Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems

By: Nicola Senesi,Baoshan Xing,Pan Ming Huang

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Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems

By: Nicola Senesi,Baoshan Xing,Pan Ming Huang

An up-to-date resource on natural nonliving organic matter Bringing together world-renowned researchers to explore natural nonliving organic matter (NOM) and its chemical, biological, and ecological importance, Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems offers an integrated view of the dynamics and processes of NOM. This multidisciplinary approach allows for a comprehensive treatment encompassing all the formation processes, properties, reactions, environments, and analytical techniques associated with the latest research on NOM. After briefly outlining the historical background, current ideas, and future prospects of the study of NOM, the coverage examines: The formation mechanisms of humic substances Organo-clay complexes The effects of organic matter amendment Black carbon in the environment Carbon sequestration and dynamics in soil Biological activities of humic substances Dissolved organic matter Humic substances in the rhizosphere Marine organic matter Organic matter in atmospheric particles In addition to the above topics, the coverage includes such relevant analytical techniques as separation technology; analytical pyrolysis and soft-ionization mass spectrometry; nuclear magnetic resonance; EPR, FTIR, Raman, UV-visible adsorption, fluorescence, and X-ray spectroscopies; and thermal analysis. Hundreds of illustrations and photographs further illuminate the various chapters. An essential resource for both students and professionals in environmental science, environmental engineering, water science, soil science, geology, and environmental chemistry, Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems provides a unique combination of the latest discoveries, developments, and future prospects in this field.

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905

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470494948

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9780470494943

Sorry for the Dead

A Josephine Tey Mystery

By: Nicola Upson

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Sorry for the Dead

A Josephine Tey Mystery

By: Nicola Upson

At once a compelling murder mystery and a moving exploration of love and grief, critically acclaimed author Nicola Upson's eighth Josephine Tey mystery is a force to be reckoned with. In the summer of 1915, the sudden death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house--now much changed--and remembers the two women with whom she once lodged as a young teacher during the Great War. As past and present collide, with murders decades apart, Josephine is forced to face the possibility that the scandal which threatened to destroy those women's lives hid a much darker secret.

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326

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Crooked Lane Books

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1683319850

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9781683319856

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

By: Nicola Parsons

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Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

By: Nicola Parsons

This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres.

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222

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Springer

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0230244769

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9780230244764

Aid, Ownership and Development

The Inverse Sovereignty Effect in the Pacific Islands

By: John Overton,Warwick E. Murray,Gerard Prinsen,Tagaloa Avataeao Junior Ulu,Nicola Wrighton

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Aid, Ownership and Development

The Inverse Sovereignty Effect in the Pacific Islands

By: John Overton,Warwick E. Murray,Gerard Prinsen,Tagaloa Avataeao Junior Ulu,Nicola Wrighton

One of the key principles for effective aid programmes is that recipient agencies exert high degrees of ownership over the agendas, resources, systems and outcomes of aid activities. Sovereign recipient states should lead the process of development. Yet despite this well-recognised principle, the realities of aid delivery mean that ownership is often compromised in practice. Aid, Ownership and Development examines this ‘inverse sovereignty’ hypothesis with regard to the states and territories of the Pacific Island region. It provides an initial overview of different aid ‘regimes’ over time, maps aid flows in the region, and analyses the concept of sovereignty. Drawing on a rich range of primary research by the authors and contributors, it focuses on the agencies and individuals within the Pacific Islands who administer and apply aid projects and programmes. There is indeed evidence for the inverse sovereignty effect; particularly when island states and their small and stretched bureaucracies have to deal with complex and burdensome donor reporting requirements, management systems, consultative meetings and differing strategic priorities. This book outlines important ways in which Pacific agencies have proved adept not only at meeting these requirements, but also asserting their own priorities and ways of operating. It concludes that global agreements, such as the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2005 and the recently launched Sustainable Development Goals, can be effective means for Pacific agencies to both hold donors to account and also to recognise and exercise their own sovereignty.

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Routledge

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0429816200

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9780429816208

Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention

Who's 'Saving' Children and Why

By: Gillies, Val,Edwards, Rosalind,Nicola Horsley

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Who's 'Saving' Children and Why

By: Gillies, Val,Edwards, Rosalind,Nicola Horsley

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Christmas Time with Teddy Horsley

By: Leslie J. Francis,Nicola Slee

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Christmas Time with Teddy Horsley

By: Leslie J. Francis,Nicola Slee

Teddy Horsley and his friends, Lucy Walter and Betsy Bear, go to perform a Christmas play. With its delightful illustrations and clear storytelling, this book is a great introduction to the Christmas story, explaining to children not only the key events of the nativity, but the implications of Jesus' birth for humankind.

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Book's by Nicola Horsley

Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention

Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention

The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome

The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome

The Early Roman Expansion into Italy

The Early Roman Expansion into Italy

Herefordshire Murders

Herefordshire Murders

A Horrid History of Christmas

A Horrid History of Christmas

Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems

Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems

Sorry for the Dead

Sorry for the Dead

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

Aid, Ownership and Development

Aid, Ownership and Development

Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention

Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention

Christmas Time with Teddy Horsley

Christmas Time with Teddy Horsley

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