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Autism and Loss

By: Sarah Broadhurst,Rachel Forrester-Jones

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Autism and Loss

By: Sarah Broadhurst,Rachel Forrester-Jones

People with autism often experience difficulty in understanding and expressing their emotions and react to losses in different ways or in ways that carers do not understand. In order to provide effective support, carers need to have the understanding, the skills and appropriate resources to work through these emotional reactions with them. Autism and Loss is a complete resource that covers a variety of kinds of loss, including bereavement, loss of friends or staff, loss of home or possessions and loss of health. Rooted in the latest research on loss and autism, yet written in an accessible style, the resource includes a wealth of factsheets and practical tools that provide formal and informal carers with authoritative, tried and tested guidance. This is an essential resource for professional and informal carers working with people with autism who are coping with any kind of loss.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846427150

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Wonderful to Relate

Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England

By: Rachel Koopmans

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Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England

By: Rachel Koopmans

While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints' posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries started to preserve hundreds of the stories they had heard of healings, acts of vengeance, resurrections, recoveries, and other miraculous deeds effected by their local saints. Indeed, Rachel Koopmans contends, the miracle collection quickly became a defining genre of high medieval English monastic culture. Koopmans surveys more than seventy-five collections and offers a new model for understanding how miracle stories were generated, circulated, and replicated. She argues that orally exchanged narratives carried far more propagandistic power than those preserved in manuscripts; stresses the literary and memorial roles of miracle collecting; and traces changes in form and content as the focus of the collectors shifted from the stories told by religious colleagues to those told by lay visitors to their churches. Wonderful to Relate highlights the importance of the two massive collections written by Benedict of Peterborough and William of Canterbury in the wake of the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170. Koopmans provides the first in-depth examination of the creation and influence of the Becket compilations, often deemed the greatest of all medieval miracle collections. In a final section, she ponders the decline of miracle collecting in the thirteenth century, which occurred with the advent of formalized canonization procedures and theological means of engaging with the miraculous.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812206991

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9780812206999

Bioethics in Canada, Third Edition

A Philosophical Introduction

By: Carol Collier,Rachel Haliburton

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Bioethics in Canada, Third Edition

A Philosophical Introduction

By: Carol Collier,Rachel Haliburton

Now in its third edition, Bioethics in Canada: A Philosophical Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the philosophical, historical, and medical concepts shaping contemporary debates on biomedical issues. The text opens with an introduction to moral theory and bioethical principles, followed by application of these theories and principles to real world ethical conflicts involving abortion, distributive justice, genetics, reproductive technology, and other vital topics. A landmark case opens each chapter, illuminating the many issues involved in these debates, as well as the philosophical assumptions that shape them. Thoroughly updated to reflect recent political, medical, and cultural changes, this third edition features new sections on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), the moral philosophy of liberalism in bioethics, the Mad movement, CRISPR and gene editing, and expanded content on mental health, rural and remote communities, and codes of conduct and codes of ethics. Accessibly written with newly added case studies in the health care workplace, this text is an insightful resource for courses in the disciplines of philosophy, health studies, medicine, and nursing, providing a strong ethical foundation in an ever-changing field.

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Canadian Scholars’ Press

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1773382268

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Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line

By: Rachel Carrico

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Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line

By: Rachel Carrico

On many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would-be spectators to join in, grooving to an ambulatory brass band for several hours. Though an increasingly popular attraction for tourists, parading provides the second liners themselves with a potent public expression of Black resistance. Rachel Carrico examines the parading bodies in motion as a form of negotiating and understanding power. Seeing pleasure as a bodily experience, Carrico reveals how second liners’ moves link joy and liberation, self and communal identities, play and dissent, and reclamations of place. As she shows, dancers’ choices allow them to access the pleasure of reclaiming self and city through motion and rhythm while expanding a sense of the possible in the present and for the future. In-depth and empathetic, Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line blends analysis with a chorus of Black voices to reveal an indelible facet of Black culture in the Crescent City.

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191

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University of Illinois Press

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025204715X

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Autonomy and the Situated Self

A Challenge to Bioethics

By: Rachel Haliburton

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Autonomy and the Situated Self

A Challenge to Bioethics

By: Rachel Haliburton

Bioethics tells a heroic story about its origins and purpose. The impetus for its contemporary development can be traced to concern about widespread paternalism in medicine, mistreatment of research subjects used in medical experimentation, and questions about the implication of technological developments in medical practice. Bioethics, then, began as a defender of the interests of patients and the rights of research participants, and understood itself to play an important role as a critic of powerful interests in medicine and medical practice. Autonomy and the Situated Self argues that, as bioethics has become successful, it no longer clearly lives up to these founding ideals, and it offers a critique of the way in which contemporary bioethics has been co-opted by the very institutions it once sought (with good reason) to criticize and transform. In the process, it has become mainstream, moved from occupying the perspective of a critical outsider to enjoying the status of a respected insider, whose primary role is to defend existing institutional arrangements and its own privileged position. The mainstreaming of bioethics has resulted in its domestication: it is at home in the institutions it would once have viewed with skepticism, and a central part of practices it would once have challenged. Contemporary bioethics is increasingly dominated by a conception of autonomy that detaches the value of choice from the value of the things chosen, and the central role occupied by this conception makes it difficult for the bioethicist to make ethical judgments. Consequently, despite its very public successes, contemporary bioethics is largely failing to offer the ethical guidance it purports to be able to provide. In addition to providing a critique, this book offers an alternative framework that is designed to allow bioethicists to address the concerns that led to the creation of bioethics in the first place. This alternative framework is oriented around a conception of autonomy that works within the ethical guidelines provided by a contemporary form of virtue ethics, and which connects the value of autonomous choice to a conception of human flourishing.

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Lexington Books

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073916872X

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9780739168721

On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By: Rachel Giora

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On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By: Rachel Giora

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony, and jokes. Rachel Giora has developed a novel and comprehensive theory, the Graded Salience Hypothesis, to explain figuative language comprehension. Giora contends that the salience of meanings (i.e., the cognitive priority we ascribe to words encoded in our mental lexicon) has the primary role in language comprehension and production.

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Oxford University Press

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0195350502

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Participatory Design

By: Susanne Bødker,Christian Dindler,Ole Sejer Iversen

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Participatory Design

By: Susanne Bødker,Christian Dindler,Ole Sejer Iversen

This book introduces Participatory Design to researchers and students in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). Grounded in four strong commitments, the book discusses why and how Participatory Design is important today. The book aims to provide readers with a practical resource, introducing them to the central practices of Participatory Design research as well as to key references. This is done from the perspective of Scandinavian Participatory Design. The book is meant for students, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in Participatory Design for research studies, assignments in HCI classes, or as part of an industry project. It is structured around 11 questions arranged in 3 main parts that provide the knowledge needed to get started with practicing Participatory Design. Each chapter responds to a question about defining, conducting, or the results of carrying out Participatory Design. The authors share their extensive experience of Participatory Design processes and thinking by combining historical accounts, cases, how-to process descriptions, and reading lists to guide further readings so as to grasp the many nuances of Participatory Design as it is practiced across sectors, countries, and industries.

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143

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Springer Nature

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3031022351

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9783031022357

Pearls before Poppies

The True Story of the Red Cross Pearls

By: Rachel Trethewey

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Pearls before Poppies

The True Story of the Red Cross Pearls

By: Rachel Trethewey

In February 1918, when the First World War was still being bitterly fought, prominent society member Lady Northcliffe conceived an idea to help raise funds for the British Red Cross. Using her husband’s newspapers, The Times and the Daily Mail, she ran a campaign to collect enough pearls to create a necklace, intending to raffle the piece to raise money.The campaign captured the public’s imagination. Over the next nine months nearly 4,000 pearls poured in from around the world. Pearls were donated in tribute to lost brothers, husbands and sons, and groups of women came together to contribute one pearl on behalf of their communities. Those donated ranged from priceless heirlooms –one had survived the sinking of the Titanic – to imperfect yet treasured trinkets.Working with Christie’s and the International Fundraising Committee of the British Red Cross, author Rachel Trethewey expertly weaves the touching story of a generation of women who gave what they had to aid the war effort and commemorate their losses.

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The History Press

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0750987170

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9780750987172

College, Chapel and Culture

By: Rachel Larkinson

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College, Chapel and Culture

By: Rachel Larkinson

Diary of the first year at College of a Primitive Methodist minister in training.

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Lulu.com

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0992876214

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A Child of One's Own

Parental Stories

By: Rachel Bowlby

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A Child of One's Own

Parental Stories

By: Rachel Bowlby

Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades, far-reaching changes in typical family forms and in procreative possibilities (through reproductive technologies) have brought out new questions. Why do people want (or not want) to be parents? How has the 'choice' first enabled by contraception changed the meaning of parenthood? Looking not only at new parental parts but at older parental stories, in novels and other works, this fascinating book offers fresh angles and arguments for thinking about parenthood today.

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OUP Oxford

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0191501840

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Prove It!

Achieving Quality Recognition for Your Early Childhood Program

By: Rachel Robertson,Miriam Dressler

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Achieving Quality Recognition for Your Early Childhood Program

By: Rachel Robertson,Miriam Dressler

Helps child care centers understand and achieve success with the quality improvement process of their choice.

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Redleaf Press

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1933653779

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9781933653778

Cambridge English Empower Intermediate Student's Book

By: Adrian Doff,Craig Thaine,Herbert Puchta,Peter Lewis-Jones,Jeff Stranks,Rachel Godfrey,Gareth Davies

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Cambridge English Empower Intermediate Student's Book

By: Adrian Doff,Craig Thaine,Herbert Puchta,Peter Lewis-Jones,Jeff Stranks,Rachel Godfrey,Gareth Davies

Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment. The Intermediate Student's Book gives learners an immediate sense of purpose and clear learning objectives. It provides core grammar and vocabulary input alongside a mix of skills. Speaking lessons offer a unique combination of functional language, pronunciation and conversation skills, alongside video filmed in the real world. Each unit ends with a consolidation of core language from the unit and focuses on writing within the context of a highly communicative mixed-skills lesson. This version of the Student's Book does not provide access to the video, assessment package and online workbook. A version with full access is available separately.

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1107466849

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Autism and Loss

Autism and Loss

Wonderful to Relate

Wonderful to Relate

Bioethics in Canada, Third Edition

Bioethics in Canada, Third Edition

Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line

Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line

Autonomy and the Situated Self

Autonomy and the Situated Self

On Our Mind

On Our Mind

Participatory Design

Participatory Design

Pearls before Poppies

Pearls before Poppies

College, Chapel and Culture

College, Chapel and Culture

A Child of One's Own

A Child of One's Own

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Cambridge English Empower Intermediate Student's Book

Cambridge English Empower Intermediate Student's Book

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