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Arabic Dialogues

Phrasebooks and the learning of colloquial Arabic, 1798-1945

By: Rachel Mairs

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Arabic Dialogues

Phrasebooks and the learning of colloquial Arabic, 1798-1945

By: Rachel Mairs

During the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, more Europeans visited the Middle East than ever before, as tourists, archaeologists, pilgrims, settler-colonists and soldiers. These visitors engaged with the Arabic language to differing degrees. While some were serious scholars of Classical Arabic, in the Orientalist mould, many did not learn the language at all. Between these two extremes lies a neglected group of language learners who wanted to learn enough everyday colloquial Arabic to get by. The needs of these learners were met by popular language books, which boasted that they could provide an easy route to fluency in a difficult language. Arabic Dialogues explores the motivations of Arabic learners and effectiveness of instructional materials, principally in Egypt and Palestine, by analysing a corpus of Arabic phrasebooks published in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian) and in the territory of twenty-five modern countries. Beginning with Napoleon’s Expédition d’Égypte (1798–1801), it moves through the periods of mass tourism and European colonialism in the Middle East, concluding with the Second World War. The book also considers how Arab intellectuals understood the project of teaching Arabic to foreigners, the remarkable history of Arabic-learning among Yiddish- and Hebrew-speaking immigrants in Palestine, and the networks of language learners, teachers and plagiarists who produced these phrasebooks.

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UCL Press

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1800086180

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Yiddish in Israel

A History

By: Rachel Rojanski

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Yiddish in Israel

A History

By: Rachel Rojanski

Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish and Israeli Hebrew cultures. Author Rachel Rojanski tells the compelling and yet unknown story of how Yiddish, the most widely used Jewish language in the pre-Holocaust world, fared in Zionist Israel, the land of Hebrew. Following Yiddish in Israel from the proclamation of the State until today, Rojanski reveals that although Israeli leadership made promoting Hebrew a high priority, it did not have a definite policy on Yiddish. The language's varying fortune through the years was shaped by social and political developments, and the cultural atmosphere in Israel. Public perception of the language and its culture, the rise of identity politics, and political and financial interests all played a part. Using a wide range of archival sources, newspapers, and Yiddish literature, Rojanski follows the Israeli Yiddish scene through the history of the Yiddish press, Yiddish theater, early Israeli Yiddish literature, and high Yiddish culture. With compassion, she explores the tensions during Israel's early years between Yiddish writers and activists and Israel's leaders, most of whom were themselves Eastern European Jews balancing their love of Yiddish with their desire to promote Hebrew. Finally Rojanski follows Yiddish into the 21st century, telling the story of the revived interest in Yiddish among Israeli-born children of Holocaust survivors as they return to the language of their parents.

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Indiana University Press

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0253045185

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Families Shamed

The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders

By: Rachel Condry

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Families Shamed

The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders

By: Rachel Condry

This book is the first to examine the experiences of relatives of those accused or convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and sex offences. Itdraws upon intense qualitative research which combines long, searching interviews with the relatives of serious offenders with ethnographic fieldwork over a period of several years.

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Routledge

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1134012950

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Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art

Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero

By: Rachel Warriner

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Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art

Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero

By: Rachel Warriner

Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively political work. Made at a time when Spero was a key member of the anti-war and feminist arts-activism that burgeoned in the New York art world during the period, her works demonstrate a violent and bodily rejection of injustice. Considering the ways in which anti-war and feminist art used emotion as a means to persuade and protest, Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art examines the history of this crucial decade in American art politics through close attention to Spero's practice. Situating her work amongst the activism that defined the era, this book examines the ways in which sensation and emotion became political weapons for a generation of artists seeking to oppose patriarchy and war. Exemplary of the way in which artists were using metaphors of sensation and emotion in their work as part of the anti-Vietnam war and feminist art movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Spero's practice acts as a model for representing how politics feels. By exploring Spero's political engagement anew, this book offer a profound recontextualization of the important contribution that Spero made to Feminist thought, politics and art in the US.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1786735997

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Yoga for a Happy Back

A Teacher's Guide to Spinal Health through Yoga Therapy

By: Rachel Krentzman

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Yoga for a Happy Back

A Teacher's Guide to Spinal Health through Yoga Therapy

By: Rachel Krentzman

This unique book offers a framework for using yoga therapeutically to heal back and spinal problems. Combining detailed instruction on evaluation and treatment techniques with personal narrative and case studies, Yoga for a Happy Back bridges the gap between practicing yoga for better physical health and understanding the role of the mind-body connection in back pain. Utilising her vast experience as a physical therapist and yoga therapist, and the latest advances in the field, Krentzman advises on how to design therapeutic yoga classes for individuals with back pain. She includes information on creating class themes, and never before published sequences from the Purna yoga tradition for alignment based treatment of specific spinal conditions. With over 300 photos and illustrations, this book enables practitioners to access the benefits of yoga therapy for the treatment of orthopaedic dysfunctions and to promote general spinal health.

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Singing Dragon

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0857012533

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War of Words

Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War

By: Rachel Chin

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War of Words

Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War

By: Rachel Chin

War of Words argues that the conflicts that erupted over French colonial territory between 1940 and 1945 are central to understanding British, Vichy and Free French policy-making throughout the war. By analysing the rhetoric that surrounded these clashes, Rachel Chin demonstrates that imperial holdings were valued as more than material and strategic resources. They were formidable symbols of power, prestige and national legitimacy. She shows that having and holding imperial territory was at the core of competing Vichy and Free French claims to represent the true French nation and that opposing images of Franco-British cooperation and rivalry were at the heart of these arguments. The selected case studies show how British-Vichy-Free French relations evolved throughout the war and demonstrate that the French colonial empire played a decisive role in these shifts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009302523

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A/AS Level English Language for AQA Student Book

By: Marcello Giovanelli,Gary Ives,John Keen,Raj Rana,Rachel Rudman

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A/AS Level English Language for AQA Student Book

By: Marcello Giovanelli,Gary Ives,John Keen,Raj Rana,Rachel Rudman

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications. Endorsed for the AQA A/AS Level English Language specifications for first teaching from 2015, this print Student Book is suitable for all abilities, providing stretch opportunities for the more able and additional scaffolding for those who need it. Helping bridge the gap between GCSE and A Level, the unique three-part structure provides essential knowledge and allows students to develop their skills through a deeper study of key topics, whilst encouraging independent learning. An enhanced digital version and free Teacher's Resource are also available.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107465621

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The Harriet Lane Handbook

Mobile Medicine Series - Expert Consult

By: Johns Hopkins Hospital,Jason W. Custer,Rachel E. Rau

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The Harriet Lane Handbook

Mobile Medicine Series - Expert Consult

By: Johns Hopkins Hospital,Jason W. Custer,Rachel E. Rau

The Harriet Lane Handbook represents over 50 years of expert guidance for pediatric residents and all those who treat children. This irreplaceable manual is your everyday reference for fast, accurate bedside consultation. The book’s trademark formulary will be regularly updated online, to keep you absolutely current. New or revised chapters on palliative care, toxicology, dermatology, and growth and nutrition help you streamline diagnosis and treatment. Still convenient and pocket-sized, this latest edition includes Expert Consult functionality, so you can access the complete contents of the book online, fully searchable. Remains a convenient, pocket-sized reference, so you can carry a wealth of information with you. Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more to help you streamline diagnosis and treatment. Organized in a modified outline format so you can find information quickly and easily, even in the most demanding circumstances. Provides a regularly updated trademark formulary online to help you get the latest on pediatric drugs and dosages. Adds a new palliative care chapter for more well-rounded guidance. Includes unprecedented access to the complete contents of the book online, completely searchable, with downloadable images. Incorporates the latest treatment and management recommendations, immunization guidelines, procedures, and therapeutic guidelines so you can stay completely up to date. Revises the toxicology and the growth and nutrition chapters to be even more user-friendly and practical. Reorganizes the dermatology chapter to make information even easier to find.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323076882

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9780323076883

Common Enemies

Disease Campaigns in America

By: Rachel Kahn Best

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Common Enemies

Disease Campaigns in America

By: Rachel Kahn Best

For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Rachel Kahn Best asks why disease campaigns have dominated a century of American philanthropy and health policy and how the fixation on diseases shapes efforts to improve lives. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in an unprecedented history of disease politics, Best shows that to achieve consensus, disease campaigns tend to neglect stigmatized diseases and avoid controversial goals. But despite their limitations, disease campaigns do not crowd out efforts to solve other problems. Instead, they teach Americans to give and volunteer and build up public health infrastructure, bringing us together to solve problems and improve our lives.

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Oxford University Press

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019091842X

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Crash

How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver

By: Rachel Michelberg

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Crash

How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver

By: Rachel Michelberg

“. . . an engaging exploration of duty, guilt, and self-preservation. . . . A cleareyed consideration of difficult ethical and familial choices.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS Rachel likes to think of herself as a nice Jewish girl, dedicated to doing what’s honorable, just as her parents raised her to do. But when her husband, David, survives a plane crash and is left with severe brain damage, she faces a choice: will she dedicate her life to caring for a man she no longer loves, or walk away? Their marriage had been rocky at the time of the accident, and though she wants to do the right thing, Rachel doesn’t know how she is supposed to care for two kids in addition to a now irrational, incontinent, and seizure-prone grown man. And how will she manage to see her lover? But then again, what kind of selfish monster would refuse to care for her disabled husband, no matter how unhappy her marriage had been? Rachel wants to believe that she can dedicate her life to David’s needs, but knows in her heart it is impossible. Crash tackles a pervasive dilemma in our culture: the moral conflicts individuals face when caregiving for a disabled or cognitively impaired family member.

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Simon and Schuster

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1647420334

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Mapping Applied Linguistics

A Guide for Students and Practitioners

By: Christopher J. Hall,Patrick H. Smith,Rachel Wicaksono

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Mapping Applied Linguistics

A Guide for Students and Practitioners

By: Christopher J. Hall,Patrick H. Smith,Rachel Wicaksono

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. Incorporating both socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives, the book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students and practitioners alike. Practically oriented and ideally suited to students new to the subject area, the book provides in-depth coverage of: language teaching and education, literacy and language disorders language variation and world Englishes language policy and planning lexicography and forensic linguistics multilingualism and translation. Including real data and international examples, the book features further reading and exercises in each chapter, fieldwork suggestions and a full glossary of key terms. An interactive Companion Website also provides a wealth of additional resources. This book will be essential reading for students studying applied linguistics, TESOL, general linguistics, and education at the advanced undergraduate or master’s degree level. It is also the ideal gateway for practitioners to better understand the wider scope of their work.

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Routledge

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1136836233

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Rodinsky's Room

By: Iain Sinclair,Rachel Lichtenstein

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Rodinsky's Room

By: Iain Sinclair,Rachel Lichtenstein

Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the 1930s. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past and on the Whitechapel he has reinvented in his own writing. Rodinsky's Room is a testament to a world that has all but vanished, a homage to a unique culture and way of life.

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Granta Books

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1783781440

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Situational Analysis

Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn

By: Adele E. Clarke,Carrie Friese,Rachel S. Washburn

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Situational Analysis

Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn

By: Adele E. Clarke,Carrie Friese,Rachel S. Washburn

The Second Edition offers an innovative extension of grounded theory useful in qualitative research projects that draws on interviews, observations, and visual, narrative, and historical discourse materials. To engage the dense complexities of real world situations, Situational Analysis (SA) braids together Strauss's ecological social worlds/arenas theory, Foucault's discourse analysis, and Deleuze and Guattari's rhizomes and assemblages. The book will serve as an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students, as well as professional researchers and consultants from diverse backgrounds pursuing qualitative projects.

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SAGE Publications

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1483311945

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Midrash VaYosha

A Medieval Midrash on the Song at the Sea

By: Rachel S. Mikva,Rachel Mikva

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Midrash VaYosha

A Medieval Midrash on the Song at the Sea

By: Rachel S. Mikva,Rachel Mikva

Rachel S. Mikva undertakes a close examination of Midrash vaYosha, a medieval rabbinic text which explicates the Song at the Sea (Ex 15:1-18) and the events of the exodus from Egypt leading up to that climactic moment. Relatively short midrashim focusing on a brief biblical narrative or theme were composed in large numbers during the medieval period, and their extant manuscripts are sufficient in number to demonstrate the great popularity of the genre. Based on early manuscripts, two different recensions are transcribed and translated with significant annotation exploring variants, parallels, exegetical significance and literary style. A thorough historical analysis suggests that the midrash was performed as explication of the Torah reading at a certain point in its development - part of the gradual attenuation of live Targum. As Midrash vaYosha leaves the synagogue, its narrative dimension grows tremendously, yielding significant insight into the development of medieval Jewish exegesis.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161510097

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9783161510090

The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages

On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty

By: Rachel Elior

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The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages

On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty

By: Rachel Elior

The Unknown History of Jewish Women—On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, which discusses their absence from the Jewish Hebrew library of the "People of the Book" and interprets their social condition in relation to their imposed ignorance and exclusion from public literacy. The book begins with a chapter on communal education for Jewish boys, which was compulsory and free of charge for the first ten years in all traditional Jewish communities. The discussion continues with the striking absence of any communal Jewish education for girls until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the implications of this fact for twentieth-century immigration to Israel (1949-1959) The following chapters discuss the social, cultural and legal contexts of this reality of female illiteracy in the Jewish community—a community that placed a supreme value on male education. The discussion focuses on the patriarchal order and the postulations, rules, norms, sanctions and mythologies that, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, laid the religious foundations of this discriminatory reality.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111044521

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Ambivalent Embrace

Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America

By: Rachel Kranson

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Ambivalent Embrace

Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America

By: Rachel Kranson

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era. In fact, a significant number of Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders worried about the ascent of large numbers of Jews into the American middle class. Kranson reveals that many Jews were deeply concerned that their lives—affected by rapidly changing political pressures, gender roles, and religious practices—were becoming dangerously disconnected from authentic Jewish values. She uncovers how Jewish leaders delivered jeremiads that warned affluent Jews of hypocrisy and associated "good" Jews with poverty, even at times romanticizing life in America's immigrant slums and Europe's impoverished shtetls. Jewish leaders, while not trying to hinder economic development, thus cemented an ongoing identification with the Jewish heritage of poverty and marginality as a crucial element in an American Jewish ethos.

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UNC Press Books

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1469635445

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Jewish London, 3rd Edition

A Comprehensive Guidebook for Visitors and Londoners

By: Rachel Kolsky,Roslyn Rawson

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Jewish London, 3rd Edition

A Comprehensive Guidebook for Visitors and Londoners

By: Rachel Kolsky,Roslyn Rawson

• A must for anyone interested in exploring Jewish life in London past and present. • 8 carefully planned walks that bring to life London’s Jewish communities over the centuries. • Jewish London today – listings of places to stay, eat, shop, pray, and explore. • Information on where to see Jewish art, Judaica and Holocaust memorials, and an in-depth tour of the Jewish Museum. • Readers will discover the birthplaces, homes, and burial grounds of well-known Jewish Londoners. • Full-color photography and specially commissioned maps throughout.

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1607655675

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Implementing Mental Health Promotion

By: Margaret M. Barry,Rachel Jenkins

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Implementing Mental Health Promotion

By: Margaret M. Barry,Rachel Jenkins

A comprehensive overview to implementing mental health promotion programmes with different population groups across a range of settings. This work shows how information from research can be used to inform programme development and best practice. It provides examples of successful international programmes.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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044310025X

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Facilitated Segment: Missing Link in Treatment of Complex Chronic Pain

By: Dr. Rachel Feinberg

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Facilitated Segment: Missing Link in Treatment of Complex Chronic Pain

By: Dr. Rachel Feinberg

Facilitated Segment: Missing Link in Treatment of Complex Chronic Pain By: Dr. Rachel Feinberg It has been said that the successful practice of medicine involves at least fifty percent experience and fifty percent art. The treatment of the complex chronic pain patient requires a fundamentally logical approach that respects the dynamic complexity of the nervous system and its neurohumoral and electrical mechanisms. Treatment needs to be dynamic and the underlying perpetuating pain generator needs to be diagnosed. This book is a reflection of thirty years of experience treating thousands of patients. Through simplicity, logic, and science the book encourages three dimensional thought and describes successful decrease in pain and increase in functional capacity for many people. It is a process.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1649572395

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Scoliosis, Yoga Therapy, and the Art of Letting Go

By: Rachel Krentzman

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Scoliosis, Yoga Therapy, and the Art of Letting Go

By: Rachel Krentzman

Aged 16, Rachel Krentzman was diagnosed with scoliosis. At 32 she suffered a herniated disk and was told she would have to modify her activities for the rest of her life - instead, Rachel is now a walking testimonial for how yoga can be used therapeutically to heal your back pain. An easy and straightforward read, this manual contains step by step illustrated instruction for you to address the physical and emotional factors of your scoliosis. The exercises are easy to follow and perform, and no technical knowledge or prior experience of yoga is required. Foundational anatomy is carefully explained so that you can understand your body and your scoliosis before applying the exercises. Exemplary case studies will help you on the path to alleviating your back pain without surgery.

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Singing Dragon

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0857012436

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Essential Israel

Essays for the 21st Century

By: Arnon Golan,Maoz Azaryahu,Michael Brenner,Alan Dowty,David Makovsky,Gil Troy,Yedidia Stern,Donna Robinson Divine,Steven Bayme,David Ellenson,Yaakov Ariel,Norman Stillman,Rachel S. Harris,Ranen Omer-Sherman

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Essential Israel

Essays for the 21st Century

“An excellent tool in Middle Eastern politics classes [and] an intellectual resource for experts who want to learn more about the complexities of Israel.”—Reading Religion Americans debate constantly about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with an intimate sense of the dynamic society and culture that is Israel today, providing a broader and deeper understanding to inform the conversation. The expert contributors to this volume address the Arab-Israeli conflict, the state of diplomatic efforts to bring about peace, Zionism and the impact of the Holocaust, the status of the Jewish state and Israeli democracy, foreign relations, immigration and Israeli identity, as well as literature, film, and the other arts. This unique and innovative volume provides solid grounding to understandings of Israel’s history, politics, culture, and possibilities for the future.

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Indiana University Press

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0253027195

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Working with Interpreters in Mental Health

By: Hitesh Raval,Rachel Tribe

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Working with Interpreters in Mental Health

By: Hitesh Raval,Rachel Tribe

Why are interpreters an important part of modern healthcare provision? In today's society, there is an increasing need for mental health professionals to work with interpreters, yet coverage of this subject in the existing literature is scarce. Working with Interpreters in Mental Health gives an insight into the issues and problems of professionals working with interpreters in the mental health field. Informed by theoretical, research and practice considerations, Working with Interpreters in Mental Health helps practitioners to develop better ways of helping service users who need an interpreter. Combining contributions from a number of different disciplines, this book discusses: * interpreters in medical consultations * issues of language provision in health care services * the application of theoretical frameworks to the work with interpreters * the work of interpreters in a variety of practical settings. Whilst the focus the placed within a mental health context, many of the issues raised apply equally to other context where interpreters are needed. This book will be invaluable for practitioners of psychology, psychiatry, social work and other health professionals.

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Routledge

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1317798260

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Going Greek

Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945

By: Marianne Rachel Sanua

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Going Greek

Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945

By: Marianne Rachel Sanua

Going Greek offers an unprecedented look at the relationship between American Jewish students and fraternity life during its heyday in the first half of the twentieth century. More than secret social clubs, fraternities and sororities profoundly shaped the lives of members long after they left college—often dictating choices in marriage as well as business alliances. Widely viewed as a key to success, membership in these self-governing, sectarian organizations was desirable but not easily accessible, especially to non-Protestants and nonwhites. In Going Greek Marianne Sanua examines the founding of Jewish fraternities in light of such topics as antisemitism, the unique challenges faced by Jewish students on campuses across the United States, responses to World War II, and questions pertaining to assimilation and/or identity reinforcement. The book covers a vast array of information, from the many famous people who belonged to Jewish fraternities to the songs they sang. Snobbery within the fraternities—what behavior constituted the "proper image" for an American Jew—comes up for discussion, but so does the increasing awareness of Jewish students toward issues of social justice. For several generations of leaders in the national Jewish community, fraternities were central to their lives. Going Greek thus provides historians and biographers with a window onto an important aspect of American Jewish cultural experience.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814328571

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Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Science and Medicine

By: Rachel Falconer Denis Renevey

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Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Science and Medicine

By: Rachel Falconer Denis Renevey

This inter-disciplinary volume explores the poetics of medicine and science, and the scientific aspects of literary and devotional works in a wide-ranging selection of texts from the medieval and early modern periods. Areas of knowedge which we now regard as occupying separate and specialist spheres, were freely and fluidly hybridized in medieval and early modern times

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3823368206

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Contested Paternity

Constructing Families in Modern France

By: Rachel G. Fuchs

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Contested Paternity

Constructing Families in Modern France

By: Rachel G. Fuchs

Focusing on paternity as a category of family history, Contested Paternity emphasizes the importance of fatherhood, the family, and the law within the greater context of changing attitudes toward parental responsibility.

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JHU Press

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0801888328

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Health, Illness and Disease

Philosophical Essays

By: Havi Carel,Rachel Cooper

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Health, Illness and Disease

Philosophical Essays

By: Havi Carel,Rachel Cooper

What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms, or should considerations of its emotional impact dictate our treatment of it? Our understanding of health and illness had become increasingly more complex in the modern world, as we are able to use medicine not only to fight disease but to control other aspects of our bodies, whether mood, blood pressure, or cholesterol. This collection of essays foregrounds the concepts of health and illness and patient experience within the philosophy of medicine, reflecting on the relationship between the ill person and society. Mental illness is considered alongside physical disease, and the important ramifications of society's differentiation between the two are brought to light. Health, Illness and Disease is a significant contribution to shaping the parameters of the evolving field of philosophy of medicine and will be of interest to medical practitioners and policy-makers as well as philosophers of science and ethicists.

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Family Law

By: Leslie Joan Harris,June R. Carbone,Rachel Rebouché

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Family Law

By: Leslie Joan Harris,June R. Carbone,Rachel Rebouché

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. Family Law, now in its seventh edition, is a modern and teachable casebook, offering comprehensive coverage and a mix of interdisciplinary materials. It compares innovative developments in some states with the reaffirmation of traditional principles in others and does so in the context of a wider focus on family and the state, the role of mediating institutions, and the efficacy of law and particular methods of enforcing the law. The casebook deals with the complexity of family law both in the organization of the chapters—separate units on family contracts, jurisdiction, and practice, for example, can be shortened, skipped, or taught in almost any order—and the diversity of material within each chapter. Each unit combines primary cases with comprehensive notes, supplemented with academic and policy analyses that provide a foundation for evaluation. Detailed problems extend the coverage or apply the commentary to real-world examples. New to the 7th Edition: The reversal of Roe v. Wade and constitutional protection for abortion rights Discussion of the growing class divide in family formation, and of tensions between relatively conservative versus relatively liberal states about the foundations for family law, including how varying forms of families are recognized and defined The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family law practice The changing law of parentage with an emphasis on diverging developments across different states on issues such as the recognition of functional parenthood Benefits for instructors and students: Comprehensive notes Current cases Detailed problems Flexible, modular organization Balanced presentation of materials Coverage of relevant doctrines, such as property, contracts, torts, criminal law, conflict of laws, and constitutional law Materials on cross-disciplinary topics, including financial principles, genetics/statistics, clinical psychology, social history, policy discussions, counseling, negotiation, ADR, and ethics

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1543838898

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Roots and Routes

Identity Construction and the Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue

By: Rachel Reedijk

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Roots and Routes

Identity Construction and the Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue

By: Rachel Reedijk

Dialogue participants demonstrate strong motivations for contributing to interreligious dialogue, based on a firm belief that encountering the other generates understanding – the contact thesis. Interreligious dialogue meets with both suspicion and cynicism: the former because it may result in loss of identity, and the latter because important issues may be ignored. The hitherto unanswered question is how Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue affects the identities of its participants. In this study Rachel Reedijk analyses identity construction in an interreligious context against the backdrop of the dominant either/or discourse regarding religious diversity – and, for that matter, multiculturalism – in Western society. The conceptual framework of this study is constituted by the debate on essentialism and constructivism in the social sciences. She argues that, under the right circumstances, interreligious dialogue can move beyond polemics and apologetics and prepare the ground for understanding in the dual sense of prejudice reduction and interreligious hermeneutics.

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Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning

By: Rachel Showstack,Diego Pascual y Cabo,Damián Vergara Wilson

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Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning

By: Rachel Showstack,Diego Pascual y Cabo,Damián Vergara Wilson

Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning addresses the ways in which discourses about language value and identities of linguistic expertise are constructed and negotiated in the Spanish heritage language (HL) classroom, and how the classroom discourse shapes, and is shaped by, the world outside of the classroom. The volume examines the sociopolitical contexts, personal histories, and communicative practices of Spanish teachers and students in two diverse geographic regions: the US states of Texas and Kansas. Adopting an integrated sociocultural approach, it considers the ways in which individuals draw from multiple linguistic resources and social practices in daily interaction and how they articulate their beliefs about language through storytelling. Rich interactional data, examples from social media, and stories of community engagement are utilized to demonstrate how Spanish heritage speakers use language creatively and proactively to legitimize and claim power in their home and community linguistic practices. This is an invaluable resource for applied linguists who seek to better understand the relationship between language, ideology, and identity and for graduate students and researchers in the fields of linguistics, Spanish, and HL education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003856659

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Modern Print Activism in the United States

By: Dr Rachel Schreiber

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Modern Print Activism in the United States

By: Dr Rachel Schreiber

The explosion of print culture that occurred in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century activated the widespread use of print media to promote social and political activism. Exploring this phenomenon, the essays in Modern Print Activism in the United States focus on specific groups, individuals, and causes that relied on print as a vehicle for activism. They also take up the variety of print forms in which calls for activism have appeared, including fiction, editorials, letters to the editor, graphic satire, and non-periodical media such as pamphlets and calendars. As the contributors show, activists have used print media in a range of ways, not only in expected applications such as calls for boycotts and protests, but also for less expected aims such as the creation of networks among readers and to the legitimization of their causes. At a time when the golden age of print appears to be ending, Modern Print Activism in the United States argues that print activism should be studied as a specifically modernist phenomenon and poses questions related to the efficacy of print as a vehicle for social and political change.

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1472403975

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Healing and the Jewish Imagination

Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health

By: Rachel Adler,Arnold Eisen,Tamara Eskenazi

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Healing and the Jewish Imagination

Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health

By: Rachel Adler,Arnold Eisen,Tamara Eskenazi

Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism?s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live.Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists and activists examine the aspects of our mortality and the important distinctions between curing and healing. Topics discussed include: the importance of the individual; health and healing among the mystics; hope and the Hebrew Bible; from disability to enablement; overcoming stigma; Jewish bioethics; and more.Drawing from literature, personal experience, and the foundational texts of Judaism, these celebrated thinkers show us that healing is an idea that can both soften us so that we are open to inspiration as well as toughen us?like good scar tissue?in order to live with the consequences of being human.

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1580233732

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Nutrition in Clinical Practice

By: David Katz,Yeh Ming-Chin,Joshua Levitt,Kofi D. Essel,Shivam Joshi,Rachel Summer Clair Friedman

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Nutrition in Clinical Practice

By: David Katz,Yeh Ming-Chin,Joshua Levitt,Kofi D. Essel,Shivam Joshi,Rachel Summer Clair Friedman

Designed for busy clinicians struggling to fit the critical issue of nutrition into their routine patient encounters, Nutrition in Clinical Practice translates the robust evidence base underlying nutrition in health and disease into actionable, evidence-based clinical guidance on a comprehensive array of nutrition topics. Authoritative, thoroughly referenced, and fully updated, the revised 4th edition covers the full scope of nutrition applications in clinical practice, spanning health promotion, risk factor modification, prevention, chronic disease management, and weight control – with a special emphasis on providing concisely summarized action steps within the clinical workflow. Edited by Dr. David L. Katz (a world-renowned expert in nutrition, preventive medicine, and lifestyle medicine) along with Drs. Kofi D. Essel, Rachel S.C. Friedman, Shivam Joshi, Joshua Levitt, and Ming-Chin Yeh, Nutrition in Clinical Practice is a must-have resource for practicing clinicians who want to provide well-informed, compassionate, and effective nutritional counseling to patients.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975161513

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Military Resilience in Low-Intensity Conflict

A Comparative Study of New Directions Worldwide

By: Rachel Suissa

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Military Resilience in Low-Intensity Conflict

A Comparative Study of New Directions Worldwide

By: Rachel Suissa

Military Resilience in a Low-Intensity Conflict: A Comparative Study of New Directions Worldwide,by Rachel Suissa, offers a prognosis for the dilemma of army resilience in the post-modern era. She clarifies the concept of military resilience among the challenges of the twenty-first century, examining how the military model affects resilience, and how those effects are expressed during the management of a given conflict. She investigates the issue through a comparative study of armies and states which have been involved or are currently involved in low intensity conflicts—the countries discussed include France and Algeria, Great Britain and Ireland, Russia and Chechnya, and Israel and the Palestinian authority. Another challenge that Suissa addresses is that of peace coalitions and their organizational resilience. She further discusses the connection between political and military ranks, and under which conditions the former affects the latter. Military Resilience in a Low-Intensity Conflict makes the issues associated with resilience and conflict accessible to both academics and those who might translate its findings into practicable insights.

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Lexington Books

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0739172875

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Lexical borrowing and deborrowing in Spanish in New York City

Towards a synthesis of the social correlates of lexical use and diffusion in immigrant contexts

By: Rachel Varra

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Lexical borrowing and deborrowing in Spanish in New York City

Towards a synthesis of the social correlates of lexical use and diffusion in immigrant contexts

By: Rachel Varra

Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City provides a sociodemographic portrait of lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York City. The volume offers new and important insights into research on lexical borrowing. In particular, it presents empirical data obtained through quantitative analysis to answer the question of who is most likely to use English lexical borrowings while speaking Spanish, to address the impact that English has on Spanish as spoken in the city and to identify the social factors that contribute to language change. The book also provides an empirical, corpus-based-approach to distinguishing between borrowing and other contact phenomena, such as codeswitching, which will be of interest to scholars of language contact and bilingualism.

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1315408929

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Becoming a Master Manager

A Competing Values Approach

By: Robert E. Quinn,David S. Bright,Rachel E. Sturm

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Becoming a Master Manager

A Competing Values Approach

By: Robert E. Quinn,David S. Bright,Rachel E. Sturm

Integrating theory and empirical evidence, Becoming a Master helps students and future managers master the dynamics and intricacies of the modern business environment. The text’s unique “competing values framework” provides a deep and holistic understanding of what is required to effectively manage any type of organization. Readers learn to develop and apply critical managerial skills that encourage change, promote adaptability, build stability, maintain continuity, strengthen commitment and cohesion, and yield positive organizational results. The seventh edition features new and revised content throughout, offering students a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of critical management competencies and their underlying theoretical value intentions and real-life application. Throughout the text, classroom-tested exercises enable students to assess, analyze, practice, and apply the material while gaining insight into the paradoxes and contradictions that make the practice of management so complex.

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1119710960

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