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Family Violence Across the Lifespan

An Introduction

By: Ola W. Barnett,Cindy L. Miller-Perrin,Robin D. Perrin

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Family Violence Across the Lifespan

An Introduction

By: Ola W. Barnett,Cindy L. Miller-Perrin,Robin D. Perrin

The most comprehensive research-based text on family violence – now more accessible and visually inviting than ever before Streamlined and updated throughout with state-of-the-art information, this Third Edition of the authors′ bestselling book gives readers an accessible introduction to the methodology, etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of family violence. Research from experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, criminology, and social welfare informs the book′s broad coverage of current viewpoints and debates within the field. Organized chronologically, chapters cover child physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; abused and abusive adolescents; courtship violence and date rape; spouse abuse, battered women, and batterers; and elder abuse.

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1452236879

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The 2015 Brookings Financial and Digital Inclusion Project Report

Measuring Progress on Financial Access and Usage

By: John Villasenor,Darrell West,Robin Lewis

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The 2015 Brookings Financial and Digital Inclusion Project Report

Measuring Progress on Financial Access and Usage

By: John Villasenor,Darrell West,Robin Lewis

The 2015 Brookings Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) Report and Scorecard evaluate access to and usage of affordable financial services across 21 geographically and economically diverse countries. The 2015 FDIP Report and Scorecard seek to answer a set of fundamental questions about today's global financial inclusion efforts, including: 1) Do country commitments make a difference in progress toward financial inclusion?; 2) To what extent do mobile and other digital technologies advance financial inclusion?; and 3) What legal, policy, and regulatory approaches promote financial inclusion? John D. Villasenor, Darrell M. West, and Robin J. Lewis analyzed the financial inclusion landscape in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, and Zambia. Countries received scores and rankings based on 33 indicators spanning four dimensions: country commitment, mobile capacity, regulatory environment, and adoption of traditional and digital financial services. The authors' analysis provides several takeaways with respect to expanding financial inclusion across diverse cultural, economic, and political contexts: · Country commitment is fundamental. · Movement toward digital financial services will accelerate financial inclusion. · Geography generally matters less than policy, legal, and regulatory changes, although some regional trends in terms of financial services provision are evident. · Central banks, ministries of finance, ministries of communications, banks, nonbank financial providers, and mobile network operators play major roles in achieving greater financial inclusion. · Full financial inclusion cannot be achieved without addressing the financial inclusion gender gap. This year's Report and Scorecard are the first of a series of publications intended to provide policymakers, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and the general public with information that can help improve financial inclusion in these countries and around the world.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815728638

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9780815728634

Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

Third Edition

By: Martyn Kenefick,Robin Restall,Floyd Hayes

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Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

Third Edition

By: Martyn Kenefick,Robin Restall,Floyd Hayes

The definitive photographic guide to the fantastic avifauna of Trinidad and Tobago The tropical islands of Trinidad and Tobago enjoy a rich diversity of bird species, including visitors from the nearby mainland and others travelling the migratory flyway from North America. With beautiful colour illustrations and concise descriptions, this new and comprehensive field guide covers every species known to occur on the islands. Concise descriptions of every species highlighting plumage variation and distinctions from similar species are accompanied by 115 colour plates illustrating all the relevant plumages of over 480 species. Also included is up-to-date information on where to watch birds in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as an overview of the geography, climate and habitats of the islands.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472941543

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Freeman's Challenge

The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

By: Robin Bernstein

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Freeman's Challenge

The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

By: Robin Bernstein

An award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit. In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial factories. There, “slaves of the state” were leased to private companies. The prisoners earned no wages, yet they manufactured furniture, animal harnesses, carpets, and combs, which consumers bought throughout the North. Then one young man challenged the system. In Freeman’s Challenge, Robin Bernstein tells the story of an Afro-Native teenager named William Freeman who was convicted of a horse theft he insisted he did not commit and sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn’s prison. Incensed at being forced to work without pay, Freeman demanded wages. His challenge triggered violence: first against him, then by him. Freeman committed a murder that terrified and bewildered white America. And white America struck back—with aftereffects that reverberate into our lives today in the persistent myth of inherent Black criminality. William Freeman’s unforgettable story reveals how the North invented prison for profit half a century before the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery “except as a punishment for crime”—and how Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and other African Americans invented strategies of resilience and resistance in a city dominated by a citadel of unfreedom. Through one Black man, his family, and his city, Bernstein tells an explosive, moving story about the entangled origins of prison for profit and anti-Black racism.

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University of Chicago Press

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022674437X

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Second Growth

The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

By: Robin L. Chazdon

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Second Growth

The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

By: Robin L. Chazdon

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth. Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the characteristics of old growth, Chazdon shows here that regenerating—or second-growth—forests are vital, dynamic reservoirs of biodiversity and environmental services. What is more, they always have been. With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, Second Growth not only offers a thorough and wide-ranging overview of successional and restoration pathways, but also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests in an attempt to inspire a new age of local and global stewardship.

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022611810X

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Democratization in the South

The Jagged Wave

By: Robin Luckham

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Democratization in the South

The Jagged Wave

By: Robin Luckham

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Manchester University Press

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0719049423

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Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology

By: Stephen S. Mulkey,Robin L. Chazdon,Alan P. Smith

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Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology

By: Stephen S. Mulkey,Robin L. Chazdon,Alan P. Smith

Taking readers out of the laboratory and into the humid tropical forests, this comprehensive volume explores the most recent advances occurring in tropical plant ecophysiology. Drawing on the knowledge of leading practitioners in the field, this book synthesizes a broad range of information on the ways in which tropical plants adapt to their environment and demonstrate unique physiological processes. This book is arranged into four sections which cover resource acquisition, species interactions, ecophysiological patterns within and among tropical forest communities, and the ecophysiology of forest regeneration. These sections describe plant function in relation to ecology across a wide spectrum of tropical forest species and growth forms. How do different species harvest and utilize resources from heterogeneous tropical environments? How do patterns of functional diversity reflect the overwhelming taxonomic and morphological diversity of tropical forest plants? Such fundamental questions are examined in rich detail. To illuminate the discussions further, every chapter in this book features an agenda for future research, extensive cross referencing, timely references, and the integration of ecophysiology and the demography of tropical species where the data exist. Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology provides plant scientists, botanists, researchers, and graduate students with important insights into the behavior of tropical plants. Biologists and foresters interested in tropical ecology and plant physiological ecologists will also benefit from this authoritative and timely resource.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461311632

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9781461311638

Danzón

Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance

By: Alejandro L. Madrid,Robin D. Moore

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Danzón

Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance

By: Alejandro L. Madrid,Robin D. Moore

Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A fundamentally hybrid music and dance complex, it reflects the fusion of European and African elements and had a strong influence on the development of later Latin dance traditions as well as early jazz in New Orleans. Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance studies the emergence, hemisphere-wide influence, and historical and contemporary significance of this music and dance phenomenon. Co-authors Alejandro L. Madrid and Robin D. Moore take an ethnomusicological, historical, and critical approach to the processes of appropriation of the danzón in new contexts, its changing meanings over time, and its relationship to other musical forms. Delving into its long history of controversial popularization, stylistic development, glorification, decay, and rebirth in a continuous transnational dialogue between Cuba and Mexico as well as New Orleans, the authors explore the production, consumption, and transformation of this Afro-diasporic performance complex in relation to global and local ideological discourses. By focusing on interactions across this entire region as well as specific local scenes, Madrid and Moore underscore the extent of cultural movement and exchange within the Americas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries, and are thereby able to analyze the danzón, the dance scenes it has generated, and the various discourses of identification surrounding it as elements in broader regional processes. Danzón is a significant addition to the literature on Latin American music, dance, and expressive culture; it is essential reading for scholars, students, and fans of this music alike.

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Oxford University Press

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0199965811

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Real Estate Transactions

Problems, Cases, and Materials [Connected EBook]

By: Robin Paul Malloy,James Charles Smith,Andrea J. Boyack,James J. Kelly

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Real Estate Transactions

Problems, Cases, and Materials [Connected EBook]

By: Robin Paul Malloy,James Charles Smith,Andrea J. Boyack,James J. Kelly

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. A user-friendly introduction to real estate law and the market factors that shape basic transactions, providing accessible coverage, enriching practice applications, structured perfectly for a one-semester course on real estate transactions. This concise and user-friendly casebook provides students with the tools necessary to understand real estate transactions in a real-world market setting. Real Estate Transactions is accessible to students with no prior background in real estate or business and coverage includes many real property and contract law materials tested on the Bar Exam. Multiple practice applications are included in every chapter to provide a bridge to “real world” law practice and preparation for assessments of lawyering skills (like the MPT). It also features cases and materials that reveal ethical and professional responsibility issues that allow students to see professional ethics in a real-world context. This integrated approach to explaining the market and ethical constraints on transactional real estate lawyers includes clear and concise explanations on each topic. New to the Sixth Edition: Two new co-authors: Andrea J. Boyack and James J. Kelly, Jr. Updated cases and text, including material on recent legal developments. Discussions of impactful current events, including the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated materials on market changes affecting real estate. New and improved problems in every chapter. Material on the evolving concerns about social justice. Professors will benefit from: Practice application problems that increase in difficulty with each section. Structured to balance theory and practice by emphasizing what successful transaction lawyers do daily. Multiple assessment opportunities allow for flexible grading approaches, enable students to demonstrate mastery of the material prior to the final exam, and can generate written responses that provide important information about student learning.

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Aspen Publishing

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1543826237

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9781543826234

Surgery: Core Principles and Practice

Two Volume Set

By: John D Corson,Robin Williamson

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Surgery: Core Principles and Practice

Two Volume Set

By: John D Corson,Robin Williamson

Surgery: Core principles and Practice is the second edition of this general surgery textbook, providing essential core knowledge in a user-friendly format. Divided into 8 sections, this two volume set begins with the principles of surgery followed by trauma, gastrointestinal surgery, vascular surgery, breast surgery, and endocrine surgery, along with a dedicated section on surgical subspecialties. The content of the book has been completely re-organised from the first edition, and includes new topics on acquiring surgical knowledge, vascular access, principles of endoscopy, interventional radiology, assessment and monitoring of critical illness, aortic emergencies, and immunosuppression. An accompanying website includes the complete text, images and references. Surgery: Core principles and Practice includes nearly 50 case studies on challenging real-life cases. The text is enhanced by over 800 full colour images and illustrations including clinical and diagnostic photographs, and an accompanying website. This is a comprehensive, two-volume surgery textbook, written and edited by a world-class team of surgeons at an appropriate level for both residents and practitioners. Key Features New, fully revised edition Over 800 full colour images and illustrations Challenging real-life case studies World class editorial team from the UK and US

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JP Medical Ltd

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9351525236

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9789351525233

The European Renaissance 1400-1600

By: Robin Kirkpatrick

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The European Renaissance 1400-1600

By: Robin Kirkpatrick

With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of Renaissance culture, Robin Kirkpatrick draws equal attention to the strangeness and often unresolved tensions that lay beneath the surface of that culture.Insisting on a European rather than purely Italian viewpoint, he embraces Renaissance thinking and culture in all its diversity: from Northern thinkers such as Cusanus, Luther and Calvin, to the painting of Van der Weyden and El Greco, and the music of the Flemish musicians, Josquin des Prez and Orlando Lassus. Special attention is also paid to the unique contribution made by Margueritte of Navarre to the development of humanist culture. The book concludes with a study of Shakespeare in which his plays are viewed as a searching critique of some of the main principles of Renaissance culture.

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Routledge

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1317886461

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French Bulldogs

By: Robin Koontz

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French Bulldogs

By: Robin Koontz

A Frenchie’s favorite job is to warm someone’s lap. Their alert, bat-like ears, big head, and bright brown eyes give their wrinkly faces and smooshed noses an almost comical look. Sometimes called four-legged clowns, French Bulldogs are smart, affectionate, and extremely silly and playful.

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Carson-Dellosa Publishing

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1731620373

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Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

By: Martyn Kenefick,Robin Restall,Floyd Hayes

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Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

By: Martyn Kenefick,Robin Restall,Floyd Hayes

Trinidad & Tobago are popular tourist destinations and the islands are also a top location for visiting birders. This comprehensive and portable field guide covers every species found on the islands. The concise text includes descriptions of every species, highlighting plumage variation and distinctions from similar species. The plates use the relevant images from Birds of Northern South America to create new plates specific for Trinidad & Tobago. This new edition has been completely revised. The plates have been extensively re-worked, with many images replaced and repainted. As a result, there are now eight extra plates, and some groups, such as flycatchers, have been repainted almost in entirety. The text has also been updated. This new edition supersedes all previous field guides to these popular islands.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472946030

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Harbor of Spies

A Novel of Historic Havana

By: Robin Lloyd

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Harbor of Spies

A Novel of Historic Havana

By: Robin Lloyd

Harbor of Spies is an historical novel set in Havana in 1863 during the American Civil War, when the Spanish colonial city was alive with intrigue and war-related espionage. The protagonist—a young American ship captain named Everett Townsend—is pulled into the war, not as a Naval officer, as he had once hoped, but as the captain of a blockade-running schooner. The rescue of a man outside Havana harbor sets in motion a plot where Townsend finds himself trapped by circumstances beyond his control. He soon realizes how this good deed has put his own life in danger, entangling him in a sensitive murder investigation. Townsend is forced to work for a profiteering Spanish merchant who introduces him to a world of spies, blockade runners, and slave traders. As a foreigner and an outsider in Cuba, he struggles to maintain his own sense of identity. As he grapples with the uncertain moral terrain he finds in Havana, Townsend becomes ever more involved with the mystery surrounding the murder. Even at sea, where his ship-handling skills are put to the ultimate test against the Navy’s powerful gunships, he finds he is unable to avoid reminders about the unsolved murder of a top English diplomat. From the bars, to the docks, to the dance halls, Townsend’s path moves from colonial Havana to the slave plantations in the interior. There, amid the harsh cruelty he discovers in the Cuban countryside, he unexpectedly begins to unravel a family mystery. Together with the daughter of an American innkeeper in Havana, he confronts the veiled, dangerous forces he finds on the island. The novel is a richly drawn portrait of Spanish colonial Havana at a time when the city was flush with sugar wealth and filled with signs of the American Civil War. It is a realistic look at Cuba’s role in the war and the importance of the scores of blockade-running ships—both sail and steam—that ran the gauntlet of the Union blockade from Havana into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493032275

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9781493032273

Enchanted Again

By: Robin D. Owens

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Enchanted Again

By: Robin D. Owens

The second title in the Mystic Circle series. Magic has a price--and for Amber Sagra it's days and years off her life. That's why she hides away and has vowed never to get involved again. And then a stranger arrives.

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LUNA

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0373803419

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9780373803415

Never Satisfied Vol. 1

By: Taylor Robin

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Never Satisfied Vol. 1

By: Taylor Robin

The competition to become the new city Representative--a magician who serves the magistration and protects the people from monstrous husks--is fierce. Eight young apprentices and their animal familiars are vying for the role, while behind the scenes, corrupt officials work to ensure their favored contestants make it to the next round. Lucy Marlowe wants the job more than anything. A win would show their master that they aren't a worthless waste of effort. But being Representative isn't all it's cracked up to be!

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Seven Seas Entertainment

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Horror Noire

A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

By: Robin R. Means Coleman

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Horror Noire

A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

By: Robin R. Means Coleman

From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers a comprehensive chronological survey of Black horror from the 1890s to present day. In this second edition, Robin R. Means Coleman expands upon the history of notable characterizations of Blackness in horror cinema, with new chapters spanning the 1960s, 2000s, and 2010s to the present, and examines key levels of Black participation on screen and behind the camera. The book addresses a full range of Black horror films, including mainstream Hollywood fare, art-house films, Blaxploitation films, and U.S. hip-hop culture-inspired Nollywood films. This new edition also explores the resurgence of the Black horror genre in the last decade, examining the success of Jordan Peele’s films Get Out (2017) and Us (2019), smaller independent films such as The House Invictus (2018), and Nia DaCosta’s sequel to Candyman (2021). Means Coleman argues that horror offers a unique representational space for Black people to challenge negative or racist portrayals, and to portray greater diversity within the concept of Blackness itself. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how fears and anxieties about race and race relations are made manifest, and often challenged, on the silver screen.

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Taylor & Francis

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100077516X

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Music and Revolution

Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba

By: Robin D. Moore

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Music and Revolution

Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba

By: Robin D. Moore

Annotation A history of Cuban music during the Castro regime (1950s to the present.

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Univ of California Press

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0520247116

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Industry

Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace

By: William Robin

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Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace

By: William Robin

Amidst the heated fray of the Culture Wars emerged a scrappy festival in downtown New York City called Bang on a Can. Presenting eclectic, irreverent marathons of experimental music in crumbling venues on the Lower East Side, Bang on a Can sold out concerts for a genre that had been long considered box office poison. Through the 1980s and 1990s, three young, visionary composers--David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe--nurtured Bang on a Can into a multifaceted organization with a major record deal, a virtuosic in-house ensemble, and a seat at the table at Lincoln Center, and in the process changed the landscape of avant-garde music in the United States. Bang on a Can captured a new public for new music. But they did not do so alone. As the twentieth century came to a close, the world of American composition pivoted away from the insular academy and towards the broader marketplace. In the wake of the unexpected popularity of Steve Reich and Philip Glass, classical presenters looked to contemporary music for relevance and record labels scrambled to reap its potential profits, all while government funding was imperilled by the evangelical right. Other institutions faltered amidst the vagaries of late capitalism, but the renegade Bang on a Can survived--and thrived--in a tumultuous and idealistic moment that made new music what it is today.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190068655

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9780190068653

Community Care

Policy and Practice

By: Robin Means,Sally Richards,Randall Smith

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Community Care

Policy and Practice

By: Robin Means,Sally Richards,Randall Smith

This new edition has been updated to reflect recent shifts in community and social care whilst still providing the authoritative account of its historical development. Particular attention is paid to partnerships between health and social care, the regulation of social care, direct payments and individual budgets and user/carer empowerment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137073837

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9781137073839

Nationalizing Blackness

Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920–1940

By: Robin Dale Moore

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Nationalizing Blackness

Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920–1940

By: Robin Dale Moore

The 1920s saw the birth of the tango, the "jazz craze," bohemian Paris, the Harlem Renaissance, and the primitivists. It was a time of fundamental change in the music of nearly all Western countries, including Cuba. Significant concessions to blue-collar and non-Western aesthetics began on a massive scale, making artistic expression more democratic.In Cuba, from about 1927 through the late thirties, an Afrocubanophile frenzy seized the public. Strong nationalist sentiments arose at this time, and the country embraced afrocubanismo as a means of expressing such feelings. Black street culture became associated with cubanidad (Cubanness) and a movement to merge once distinct systems of language, religion, and artistic expression into a collective of national identity.Nationalizing Blackness uses the music of the 1920s and 1930s to examine Cuban society as it begins to embrace Afrocuban culture. Moore examines the public debate over "degenerate Africanisms" associated with comparas or carnival bands; similar controversies associated with son music; the history of blackface theater shows; the rise of afrocubanismo in the context of anti-imperialist nationalism and revolution against Gerardo Machado; the history of cabaret rumba; an overview of poetry, painting, and music inspired by Afrocuban street culture; and reactions of the black Cuban middle classes to afrocubanismo. He has collected numerous illustrations of early twentieth-century performers in Havana, many included in this book.Nationalizing Blackness represents one of the first politicized studies of twentieth-century culture in Cuba. It demonstrates how music can function as the center of racial and cultural conflict during the formation of a national identity.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822971852

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9780822971856

Child Psychology

Development in a Changing Society

By: Robin Harwood,Scott A. Miller,Ross Vasta

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Child Psychology

Development in a Changing Society

By: Robin Harwood,Scott A. Miller,Ross Vasta

In this comprehensive overview, readers will gain a better understanding of the various theories, perspectives, and research that characterize contemporary themes in child development. The book uses a contextual approach to examine the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional foundations of child development. Special attention is paid throughout to the contexts in which development occurs, including families and the larger culture, and how these intersect with our changing society.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471706493

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9780471706496

MENTOR: Strategies to Inspire Young People

Support for Mentors, Educators, Parents, Youth Workers, and Coaches

By: Robin Cox

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MENTOR: Strategies to Inspire Young People

Support for Mentors, Educators, Parents, Youth Workers, and Coaches

By: Robin Cox

MENTOR: Strategies to Inspire Young People provides over one thousand proven strategies and tips to encourage anyone working alongside young people to positively connect with them and guide them to reach their unique potential—to achieve greatness—in a meaningful, developmental relationship. This user-friendly book promotes the “spirit of mentoring” among family, friends, schools, and communities. It awakens that spirit within the lives of all who guide and inspire young people and appreciate the value and importance of face-to-face relationships. Robin Cox shares true stories of his and other mentors’ interactions with young people from a variety of cultures and ethnicities to give credibility to the strategies and tips mentioned in the book. The challenges facing our young people in a post-pandemic world are discussed and practical solutions are offered. Anyone working with young people will feel equipped, enabled, and further empowered to take on a formal or informal mentoring role and will have an inspirational resource to consult in the years ahead.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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9798385201334

Travelling Heroes

In the Epic Age of Homer

By: Robin Lane Fox

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Travelling Heroes

In the Epic Age of Homer

By: Robin Lane Fox

The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights—volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones—and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization.

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Racial Innocence

Performing American Childhood and Race from Slavery to Civil Rights

By: Robin Bernstein

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Racial Innocence

Performing American Childhood and Race from Slavery to Civil Rights

By: Robin Bernstein

Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Children and Youth Winner, Book Award, Children's Literature Association Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association Winner, IRSCL Award, International Research Society for Children's Literature Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association Honorable Mention, Book Award, Society for the Study of American Women Writers Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial formation since the mid-nineteenth century. Children--white ones imbued with innocence, black ones excluded from it, and others of color erased by it--figured pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights movement. Bernstein takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which she analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historically-located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett; material culture including Topsy pincushions, Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls; and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how "innocence" gradually became the exclusive province of white children--until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself. Check out the author's blog for the book here.

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Song of the Outcasts

An Introduction to Flamenco

By: Robin Totton

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Song of the Outcasts

An Introduction to Flamenco

By: Robin Totton

Flamenco has taken the world by storm, with huge crowds experiencing its power. Ironically, though, if the performance is authentic - and much in the tourist trade is not - the uninitiated may find it baffling; the rhythms are exotic and strange, the intensity of feeling startling. Yet for the Andalusians, flamenco has been familiar for a thousand years: it is the song of the outcasts. Robin Totton writes from his life among them, for he has come as close to flamenco as any outsider can hope to. Readers will follow as he walks us through the poetic song forms, the rhythmic guitar and the flamboyant dance, as well as the vocabulary, names and places of living art of flamenco. Item #00331637 is a paperback edition with an accompanying CD.

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Statistics

Unlocking the Power of Data

By: Robin H. Lock,Patti Frazer Lock,Kari Lock Morgan,Eric F. Lock,Dennis F. Lock

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Statistics

Unlocking the Power of Data

By: Robin H. Lock,Patti Frazer Lock,Kari Lock Morgan,Eric F. Lock,Dennis F. Lock

Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, 3rd Edition is designed for an introductory statistics course focusing on data analysis with real-world applications. Students use simulation methods to effectively collect, analyze, and interpret data to draw conclusions. Randomization and bootstrap interval methods introduce the fundamentals of statistical inference, bringing concepts to life through authentically relevant examples. More traditional methods like t-tests, chi-square tests, etc. are introduced after students have developed a strong intuitive understanding of inference through randomization methods. While any popular statistical software package may be used, the authors have created StatKey to perform simulations using data sets and examples from the text. A variety of videos, activities, and a modular chapter on probability are adaptable to many classroom formats and approaches.

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Freedom Dreams

The Black Radical Imagination

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

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Freedom Dreams

The Black Radical Imagination

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, Kelley recovers the dreams of the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve. Focusing on the insights of activists, from the Revolutionary Action Movement to the insurgent poetics of Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, Kelley chronicles the quest for a homeland, the hope that communism offered, the politics of surrealism, the transformative potential of Black feminism, and the long dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. In this edition, Kelley includes a new introduction reflecting on how movements of the past 20 years have expanded his own vision of freedom to include mutual care, disability justice, abolition, and decolonization, and a new epilogue exploring the visionary organizing of today’s freedom dreamers. This classic history of the power of the Black radical imagination is as timely as when it was first published.

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080700703X

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Mechanisms of Injury in Renal Disease and Toxicity

By: Robin Goldstein

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Mechanisms of Injury in Renal Disease and Toxicity

By: Robin Goldstein

Dr. Goldstein has authored more than 50 publications and co-edited two books. Her latest contribution to the field of nephrology, Mechanisms of Injury in Renal Disease and Toxicity, promotes an understanding of the pathophysiologic mechanisms mediating renal dysfunction in disease. It provides an important perspective in understanding mechanisms of chemically induced renal injury. Over the past decade, understanding of the pathophysiologic and molecular basis of renal disease has grown tremendously. New and evolving concepts on the pathophysiology of glomerulonephritis, chronic glomerular injury, diabetic nephropathy, and acute renal failure are changing the clinical management of these disease states.

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How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted

By: Robin A Hadley

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How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted

By: Robin A Hadley

The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This unique book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers. It explores the complex intersections that influence childlessness over the life course.

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1800731884

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health

By: Nell L. Tharpe,Cindy L. Farley,Robin G. Jordan

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health

By: Nell L. Tharpe,Cindy L. Farley,Robin G. Jordan

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health, Fifth Edition is an accessible and easy-to-use quick reference guide for midwives and women’s healthcare providers. Completely updated and revised to reflect the changing clinical environment, it offers current evidence-based practice, updated approaches, and opportunities for midwifery leadership in every practice setting. Also included are integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies. The Fifth Edition examines the transition to the use of ICD-10 codes, women’s health policy and advocacy, risk assessment and decision-making in practice, and inspiring trust in midwifery care. New clinical practice guidelines include health promotion and primary care practice, such as promoting restorative sleep, optimizing oral health, promoting a healthy weight, and caring for the woman with a substance abuse disorder.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284121917

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Death Benefit

By: Robin Cook

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Death Benefit

By: Robin Cook

Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center’s premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. But when tragedy strikes in the lab, Pia, with the help of classmate George Wilson, launches an investigation into the unforeseen calamity in the hospital’s supposedly secure biosafety lab. Meanwhile, two ex-Wall Street whiz-kids think they’ve found another loadstone in the nation’s multi-trillion dollar life insurance industry, and race to find ways to control actuarial data and securitize the policies of the aged and infirm to make another killing. As Pia and George dig deeper into the events at the lab, one question remains unanswered: is someone attempting to manipulate private insurance information to allow investors to benefit from the deaths of others?

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1101553677

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Photography and the Art of Chance

By: Robin Kelsey

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Photography and the Art of Chance

By: Robin Kelsey

Photography has a unique relationship to chance. Anyone who has wielded a camera has taken a picture ruined by an ill-timed blink or enhanced by an unexpected gesture or expression. Although this proneness to chance may amuse the casual photographer, Robin Kelsey points out that historically it has been a mixed blessing for those seeking to make photographic art. On the one hand, it has weakened the bond between maker and picture, calling into question what a photograph can be said to say. On the other hand, it has given photography an extraordinary capacity to represent the unpredictable dynamism of modern life. By delving into these matters, Photography and the Art of Chance transforms our understanding of photography and the work of some of its most brilliant practitioners. The effort to make photographic art has involved a call and response across generations. From the introduction of photography in 1839 to the end of the analog era, practitioners such as William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz, Frederick Sommer, and John Baldessari built upon and critiqued one another’s work in their struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration and mechanical process. The root problem was the technology’s indifference, its insistence on giving a bucket the same attention as a bishop and capturing whatever wandered before the lens. Could such an automatic mechanism accommodate imagination? Could it make art? Photography and the Art of Chance reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography to create art for a modern world.

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0674426193

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The Decline Of Military Regimes

The Civilian Influence

By: Constantine P Danopoulos,Robin A Remington,James Brown,Claude Welch

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The Decline Of Military Regimes

The Civilian Influence

By: Constantine P Danopoulos,Robin A Remington,James Brown,Claude Welch

Many generous people deserve special thanks for their assistance in the preparation and completion of this project. I wish to express my gratitude to each of the contributors for agreeing to tackle a difficult and inherently controversial subject. I am only sorry that C.I. Eugene Kim did not live long enough to see the fruits of his labor; he will be sorely missed by all of us who knew him. The Third World and the military do not respond easily to scrutiny by social scientists. Many colleagues and referees read all or part of the manuscript; I am grateful to Professors Richard Lane, Roy Christman, and Bob Kumamoto of San Jose State University and Timothy Lukes of Santa Clara University, who offered numerous helpful• comments. My parents, Panos and Athanasia Danopoulos, my brother George and his wife, Niki, my aunt Areti Paraskevopoulou, and my koumbaro George Nikoletopoulos have provided boundless moral support. Polly Taylor's expert typing and coding made the preparation of the typescript possible. Finally, my wife, Vickie, and our two sons, Panos and Andreas, deserve special thanks for their willingness to endure the long hours that writing and manuscript preparation entail. Though helpful, none of these people bear any responsibility for any problems associated with this volume. Responsibility for the accuracy and scholastic quality of what follows belongs to the contributors and myself.

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Routledge

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1000315797

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The Long Process of Development

Building Markets and States in Pre-industrial England, Spain and their Colonies

By: Jerry F. Hough,Robin Grier

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The Long Process of Development

Building Markets and States in Pre-industrial England, Spain and their Colonies

By: Jerry F. Hough,Robin Grier

Douglass North once emphasized that development takes centuries, but he did not have a theory of how and why change occurs. This groundbreaking book advances such a theory by examining in detail why England and Spain developed so slowly from 1000 to 1800. A colonial legacy must go back centuries before settlement, and this book points to key events in England and Spain in the 1260s to explain why Mexico lagged behind the United States economically in the twentieth century. Based on the integration of North's institutional approach with Mancur Olson's collective action theory, Max Weber's theory of value change, and North's focus on dominant coalitions based on rent and military in In the Shadow of Violence, this theory of change leads to exciting new historical interpretations, including the crucial role of the merchant-navy alliance in England and the key role of George Washington's control of the military in 1787.

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1316061701

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Nucleus of the Solitary Tract

By: I. Robin A. Barraco

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Nucleus of the Solitary Tract

By: I. Robin A. Barraco

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date compilation of reviews of recent literature on the anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology of the nu-cleus of the solitary tract (NTS). The chapters are writ-ten by internationally recognized experts in the field and include never-before-published research data, diagrams, and figures. Broad topic areas addressed include:

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