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Africa Speaks, America Answers

Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times

By: Robin D. G. Kelley

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Africa Speaks, America Answers

Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times

By: Robin D. G. Kelley

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950's and '60's who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world. Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking exultation of modern jazz. The result was an abundance of conversation, collaboration, and tension between African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization. This collective biography demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered politics and culture on both continents. In a crucial moment when freedom electrified the African diaspora, these black artists sought one another out to create new modes of expression. Documenting individuals and places, from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on modernity: we see innovation not as an imposition from the West but rather as indigenous, multilingual, and messy, the result of innumerable exchanges across a breadth of cultures.

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Harvard University Press

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0674065247

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Prenatal and Postnatal Care

By: Robin G. Jordan,Janet Engstrom,Julie Marfell,Cindy L. Farley

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Prenatal and Postnatal Care

By: Robin G. Jordan,Janet Engstrom,Julie Marfell,Cindy L. Farley

Prenatal and Postnatal Care: A Woman-Centered Approach is a comprehensive resource for the care of the pregnant woman before and after birth. Ideal as a graduate text for newly-qualified adult nurses, family and women’s health practitioners, and midwives, the book can also be used as an in-depth reference for antenatal and postpartum care for those already in practice. Beginning by outlining the physiological foundations of prenatal and postnatal care, and then presenting these at an advanced practice level, the book moves on to discuss preconception and prenatal care, the management of common health problems during pregnancy, and postnatal care. Each chapter includes quick-reference definitions of relevant terminology and statistics on current trends in prenatal and postnatal care, together with cultural considerations to offer comprehensive management of individual patient needs. Written by experts in the field, Prenatal and Postnatal Care: AWoman-Centered Approach, deftly combines the physiological foundation of prenatal and postnatal care with practical application for a comprehensive, holistic approach applicable to a variety of clinical settings.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118766814

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The Art of Flying Crooked

By: Robin Liston

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The Art of Flying Crooked

By: Robin Liston

Travel writer Robin Liston and publisher and amateur pilot Rory McAuliffe conceived the idea of visiting twenty six outback places beginning with the letters A to Z. This book tells of their exciting journey.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848761961

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9781848761964

St Helena

Ascension, Tristan Da Cunha

By: Sue Steiner,Robin Liston,Richard Grundy,Mike Hentley

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St Helena

Ascension, Tristan Da Cunha

By: Sue Steiner,Robin Liston,Richard Grundy,Mike Hentley

A guidebook for true explorers, the south Atlantic islands of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are isolated and therefore a fascinating destination for travellers who enjoy a completely different vacation. Their remote location has led to a host of endemic plant species and large seabird colonies, meaning the islands appeal to botanists and birdwatchers the world over.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1841621986

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Travels with My Heart

The Essential Guide for Travellers with Heart Conditions

By: Robin Liston

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Travels with My Heart

The Essential Guide for Travellers with Heart Conditions

By: Robin Liston

This is the only guide available to help those with a heart condition get back to health and fitness through adventurous and physical travel.

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1905886888

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Marx and Education

By: Robin Small

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Marx and Education

By: Robin Small

Marx and Education is the first assessment of the educational thought of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and its later influence, in the light of developments at the close of the twentieth century. It provides a new perspective, in which many aspects of Marx's ideas are seen clearly for the first time, freed from misleading associations and outdated prejudices. Marx's thinking on education touches on many still current issues: about personal development, the nature of learning, and the ultimate aims of education, as well as the relations between the school and society. Robin Small explores Marx's approach to each of these issues and in relating them to later developments brings the story up to the present day.

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Routledge

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1351919601

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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, Sixth 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.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284232549

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Sixty Years of Jump Racing

From Arkle to McCoy

By: Robin Oakley

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Sixty Years of Jump Racing

From Arkle to McCoy

By: Robin Oakley

Robin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses. With elegant production and gripping images, Sixty Years of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport's ups and downs-like the development of sponsorships and syndicate ownership, the near loss of the Grand National, the growing domination of the Cheltenham Festival and the growth of all-weather racing to meet the bookies' demands for betting shop fodder. Pace and colour is provided by stories of the horses who have been taken to the heart of racing crowds, like the Irish-trained hurdler Istabraq and Best Mate, the three-times winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup for England. Famous rivalries and memorable races are re-lived and key victories revisited in portraits of and interviews with the owners, jockeys and trainers who have dominated the sport. The emphasis will be largely on the past fifty years-from Arkle to Tony McCoy-but a significant introduction by Edward Gillespie encapsulates the past history of what was previously known as 'National Hunt Racing' and sets the stories in context.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147293511X

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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

Life Sentences and Their Geographies

By: Robin Pickering-Iazzi

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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

Life Sentences and Their Geographies

By: Robin Pickering-Iazzi

Pickering-Iazzi uses an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present to examine the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442629088

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Anatomy of a Ghost

By: Robin M. Strom-Mackey

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Anatomy of a Ghost

By: Robin M. Strom-Mackey

Anatomy of a Ghost is a careful dissection of many subjects on the paranormal. Find out what experts in the field really believe about ghosts and haunted locations. Beyond just spirits and ghostly phenomena, the book also covers man-made paranormal entities, the unexplained shadow people and the lore surrounding angels and demons. Looking for evidence that the soul survives bodily death? The chapter on After Death Communications and Near Death Experiences suggests that such experiences are universal and, in the case of After Death Communications, occur quite frequently. Included in the book are many of the first-hand experiences by the author and her colleagues. From the child ghost in Pennsylvania, to the demon in Dover. The book is laced with stories from people who have actually experienced the paranormal in their own lives.

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Lulu.com

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1387225723

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The Invention of Medicine

From Homer to Hippocrates

By: Robin Lane Fox

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The Invention of Medicine

From Homer to Hippocrates

By: Robin Lane Fox

A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine. Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these remarkable works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought. Lane Fox endorses the ancient Greeks' view that their texts' author, not named, was none other than the father of medicine, the great Hippocrates himself. Lane Fox's argument changes our sense of the development of scientific and rational thinking in Western culture, and he explores the consequences for Greek artists, dramatists and the first writers of history. Hippocrates emerges as a key figure in the crucial change from an archaic to a classical world. Elegantly written and remarkably learned, The Invention of Medicine is a groundbreaking reassessment of many aspects of Greek culture and city life.

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Basic Books

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0465093450

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Travelling Heroes

Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer

By: Robin Lane Fox

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Travelling Heroes

Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer

By: Robin Lane Fox

This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe how particular Greeks of the eighth century BC travelled east and west around the Mediterranean, and how their extraordinary journeys shaped their ideas of their gods and heroes. It gathers together stories and echoes from many different ancient cultures, not just the Greek - Assyria, Egypt, the Phoenician traders - and ranges from Mesopotamia to the Rio Tinto at Huelva in modern Portugal. Its central point is the Jebel Aqra, the great mountain on the north Syrian coast which Robin Lane Fox dubs 'the southern Olympus', and around which much of the action of the book turns. Robin Lane Fox rejects the fashionable view of Homer and his near-contemporary Hesiod as poets who owed a direct debt to texts and poems from the near East, and by following the trail of the Greek travellers shows that they were, rather, in debt to their own countrymen. With characteristic flair he reveals how these travellers, progenitors of tales which have inspired writers and historians for thousands of years, understood the world before the beginnings of philosophy and western thought.

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Penguin UK

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0141889861

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

Volume II: Athens and Attica

By: Robin Osborne

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

Volume II: Athens and Attica

By: Robin Osborne

This book introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Athens in the period from 800-500 BCE. Following the standard arrangement of the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World series, author Robin Osborne deals successively with the sources; environmental setting; material culture (settlement pattern, burial customs, ceramic production); political, legal, and diplomatic history; economy and demography; social and religious customs; and cultural history (including history of sculpture) of archaic Athens. He provides not only a full and up-to-date guide to all these various aspects of Athenian history and archaeology, but also an integrated history which shows how all the different aspects intersect. Osborne guides the reader through an exciting story of the way in which the territory of Attica was re-occupied after the collapse of Bronze Age civilization, how Athens emerged as the dominant settlement, how the claims of family, place, and wealth were played out against one another, and how the Athenians came to place themselves both in relation to the wider Greek world and in relation to the gods. The account is illustrated with abundant maps and halftone images that bring the world of Athens to life. The political and cultural achievements of classical Athens (democracy, tragedy, the Parthenon and its sculpture) rested upon the foundations created in the archaic period, but Osborne shows that archaic Athens did not merely provide foundations for what came later but offered a fascinating history and culture of its own.

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Oxford University Press

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0197644449

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Agroecology

Ecological Processes in Sustainable Agriculture

By: Stephen R. Gliessman,Eric Engles,Robin Krieger

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Agroecology

Ecological Processes in Sustainable Agriculture

By: Stephen R. Gliessman,Eric Engles,Robin Krieger

Presents powerful arguments against "Environmental Racism", "Incrementalism" and the "Impotence of Planning." Explores case studies of urban planning, county policies, residential development and more. Submits the authors recommendations for preserving the delicate balance of Floridas ecosystem.

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CRC Press

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1575040433

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The Reminiscence Puzzle Book

1930s-1980s

By: Robin Dynes

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The Reminiscence Puzzle Book

1930s-1980s

By: Robin Dynes

Spanning the years 1930 to 1989, this is a highly practical and enjoyable puzzle book. It covers events, people, entertainment and everyday life and is designed to encourage group participation to recall and discuss their own personal experiences. It is fully adaptable according to the needs and abilities of the individuals within the group.

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Routledge

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1351693042

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Hidden Depths

The Story of Hypnosis

By: Robin Waterfield

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Hidden Depths

The Story of Hypnosis

By: Robin Waterfield

With wit and verve Robin Waterfield brings the bizarre story of hypnotism to life. A lively mixture of popular history, science and psychology, Hidden Depths is the definitive work on hypnosis. From its origins as animal magnetism, as practised by Franz Anton Mesmer, to its modern day use as a health cure and a form of entertainment, hypnosis encompasses many different facets of humanity. Always controversial, the outlandish claims that its zealous believers make are only matched in intensity by the howls of derision that they provoke from sceptics. Hypnotism exists on the periphery of the scientific community, much as it has since its inception, and Robin Waterfield approaches the issues with an open mind, carefully stripping the fact from the fancy and the truth from the myth. Vividly written, compellingly readable, this is a fascinating insight into one of the more esoteric branches of science. ‘Hidden Depths is a highly readable, wide-ranging and informative account of a fascinating topic’ Observer 'Fascinating' Daily Telegraph

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Pan Macmillan

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1447206908

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9781447206903

Digital Criminology

Crime and Justice in Digital Society

By: Anastasia Powell,Gregory Stratton,Robin Cameron

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Digital Criminology

Crime and Justice in Digital Society

By: Anastasia Powell,Gregory Stratton,Robin Cameron

The infusion of digital technology into contemporary society has had significant effects for everyday life and for everyday crimes. Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital Society is the first interdisciplinary scholarly investigation extending beyond traditional topics of cybercrime, policing and the law to consider the implications of digital society for public engagement with crime and justice movements. This book seeks to connect the disparate fields of criminology, sociology, legal studies, politics, media and cultural studies in the study of crime and justice. Drawing together intersecting conceptual frameworks, Digital Criminology examines conceptual, legal, political and cultural framings of crime, formal justice responses and informal citizen-led justice movements in our increasingly connected global and digital society. Building on case study examples from across Australia, Canada, Europe, China, the UK and the United States, Digital Criminology explores key questions including: What are the implications of an increasingly digital society for crime and justice? What effects will emergent technologies have for how we respond to crime and participate in crime debates? What will be the foundational shifts in criminological research and frameworks for understanding crime and justice in this technologically mediated context? What does it mean to be a ‘just’ digital citizen? How will digital communications and social networks enable new forms of justice and justice movements? Ultimately, the book advances the case for an emerging digital criminology: extending the practical and conceptual analyses of ‘cyber’ or ‘e’ crime beyond a focus foremost on the novelty, pathology and illegality of technology-enabled crimes, to understandings of online crime as inherently social. Twitter: @DigiCrimRMIT ‏

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1351795058

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The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

By: Joseph Campana,Theodore Bale,Atia Sattar,Beth A. McCoy,Robin Blyn,Dennis Allen,Timothy Sweet,Charles M. Tung,Aaron Jaffe,Grant Farred,Seth Morton

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The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

By: Joseph Campana,Theodore Bale,Atia Sattar,Beth A. McCoy,Robin Blyn,Dennis Allen,Timothy Sweet,Charles M. Tung,Aaron Jaffe,Grant Farred,Seth Morton

“By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera.”—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, methodology, and content, The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to a more reasoned form of storing and recording the avant-garde (or the post-avant-garde), the perverse, the off, the bent, the absurd, the quirky, the weird, and the queer. To do so, it positions itself within the history of mirabilia launched by curiosity cabinets starting in the mid-fifteenth century and continuing to the present day. These archives (or are they counter-archives?) are located in unexpected places—the doorways of Katrina homes, the cavity of a cow, the remnants of extinct animals, an Internet site—and they offer up “alternate modes of knowing” to the traditional archive. “An unruly―and much-needed―model for how to do the archive differently.”—Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture “It was a pleasure to read through this collection, and I suspect some of the essays, if not the entire book, will find itself on the syllabus for my Archive and Ephemera graduate course.”—Museum Anthropology Review “A finely wrought collection of curiosities . . . A vital intervention into how we talk about the stuff that surrounds us.”—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology

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Indiana University Press

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025301851X

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9780253018519

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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Beacon Press

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080700703X

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9780807007037

Memory Games for Groups

By: Robin Dynes

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Memory Games for Groups

By: Robin Dynes

This wonderfully practical handbook features 80 adaptable and photocopiable games for uses with older people, as well as individuals or groups of all ages. The games can be used as part of a social activities programme, specifically for reminiscence purposes, to help keep people orientated to the world around them, to exercise memory skills or as the prelude to discussion, so that individuals can share difficulties and explore methods of aiding memory.

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Routledge

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1351702815

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The Life of Sir John Forbes

By: Robin Agnew

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The Life of Sir John Forbes

By: Robin Agnew

This book tells the story of the life and achievements of Sir John Forbes - Royal Physician, Medical Journalist and first translator of Laennec, the remarkable French inventor of the stethoscope.

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1904470157

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The Essentials of Postgraduate Psychiatry

By: Robin Murray

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The Essentials of Postgraduate Psychiatry

By: Robin Murray

The third edition of this highly successful postgraduate psychiatry text offers a comprehensive review of the characteristic causes and treatment of the main psychiatric disorders. As with earlier editions it is subdivided into four parts: models and principles; origins, presentation and course of major clinical symptoms; psychiatry in the social, forensic and medical contexts; treatments both biological and psychological. It is also extensively referenced throughout and emphasises the relationship of research findings to clinical practice. The text has been extensively revised and updated in line with the most recent developments in psychiatric practice and thinking. In particular, more discussion is given to measurement issues, concepts of illness, brain function and neurophysiology. The highly distinguished team of contributors has also been enhanced through the introduction of one or two of the newer stars in the field. This new edition will without doubt be valued by all members of the multidisciplinary mental health care team as well as general practitioners who seek an authoritative yet readable account of modern psychiatry.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521578019

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9780521578011

Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Applications to Key Materials

By: Robin F.C. Farrow

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Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Applications to Key Materials

By: Robin F.C. Farrow

In this volume, the editor and contributors describe the use of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for a range of key materials systems that are of interest for both technological and fundamental reasons. Prior books on MBE have provided an introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of MBE and emphasize growth and characterization of GaAs-based structures. The aim in this book is somewhat different; it is to demonstrate the versatility of the technique by showing how it can be utilized to prepare and explore a range of distinct and diverse materials. For each of these materials systems MBE has played a key role both in their development and application to devices.

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0815518404

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Hijacked Brains

The Experience and Science of Chronic Addiction

By: Henrietta Robin Barnes, MD

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Hijacked Brains

The Experience and Science of Chronic Addiction

By: Henrietta Robin Barnes, MD

This book, written from the perspective of a practicing primary care physician, interweaves patientsÕ stories with fascinating new brain research to show how addictive drugs overtake basic brain functions and transform them to create a chronic illness that is very difficult to treat. The idea that drug and alcohol addiction are chronic illnesses and not character flaws is not newsÑthis notion has been around for many years. What Hijacked Brains offers is context and personal stories that demonstrate this point in a very accessible package. Dr. Barnes explores how the healthy brain works, how addictive drugs flood basic reward pathways, and what it feels like to grapple with addiction. She discusses how, for individuals, the combination of genetic and environmental factors determines both vulnerability for addiction and the resilience necessary for recovery. Finally, she shows how American culture, with its emphasis on freewill and individualism, tends to blame the addict for bad choices and personal weakness, thereby impeding political and/or health-related efforts to get the addict what she needs to recover.

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Dartmouth College Press

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161168675X

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Bible Gems to Remember Devotions for Kids

52 Devotions with Easy Bible Memory in 5 Words or Less

By: Robin Schmitt

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52 Devotions with Easy Bible Memory in 5 Words or Less

By: Robin Schmitt

Enhanced with beautiful gemstone photographs throughout, Bible Gems to Remember Devotions for Kids gives readers 52 devotions—one for each week of the year—to read, reflect upon, and put into practice. By the end of the year, children will have learned more than 52 easy-to-memorize Scripture verses! Bible Gems to Remember Devotions for Kids, written by Robin Schmitt, shows how God can accomplish amazing things with just a few words. Scripture is filled with “gemstones”—concise statements of five words or less that hold great value, meaning, and power. This photo-driven devotional includes 52 of these special Bible gems to memorize as well as additional gems to ponder at the end of the devotion. Bible Gems to Remember Devotions for Kids: Includes 52 devotions, one for each week of the year, enhanced with beautiful gemstone photos that encourage children to memorize Scripture Is creatively based on Scripture “gemstones” that are concise statements of five words or less that hold great value, meaning, and power Features a gorgeous cover that sparkles and shines

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Zonderkidz

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0310747732

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9780310747734

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery and Women's Health

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

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery and Women's Health

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

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health, Fourth Edition is a trusted quick reference guide to midwifery and well woman care. Completely updated and revised, this new edition reflects the rapidly changing clinical environment. It addresses documentation and risk management to aid in decision-making and appropriate document care. Convenient and easy-to-use, this new edition encompasses traditional, empirical, and evidence-based practice to meet the needs of a broad range of new and experienced practitioners and patients. * Meets the recommendations of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) and the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) for written policies and/or practice guidelines * Reflects current and emerging midwifery and women's health practice * Provides support and guidance for daily clinical decision making

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449645755

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Quivers

By: Robin Quivers

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Quivers

By: Robin Quivers

In one of the most no-holds-barred memoirs you're likely to read, Robin Quivers, mystery woman of "The Howard Stern Show", strips off her mask along with her gloves. From Robin's embattled childhood in black Baltimore, through depression and despair to the height of broadcast fame as cohost of America's top-rated radio show, Quivers reveals the full, intimate story of a passionate and often misunderstood personality. Robin's thirteen-year partnership with Howard Stern, "The King of All Media" (including their recent successful attempt to talk a listener out of killing himself), is revealed in hilarious and profoundly personal detail. Much more than a show-biz autobiography, Quivers is a vivid personal chronicle of the black experience and the universal struggle for female self-worth, as well as a rags-to-riches story in the grand tradition. Holding absolutely nothing back, Robin writes with the same warmth, strength, and candor that endear her to millions of fans. Whether she's describing a boxing match, a career crisis, or a love affair gone bad, she strikes a universal chord.

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0060391537

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9780060391539

Enzymes of Psychrotrophs in Raw Food

By: Robin C. McKellar

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Enzymes of Psychrotrophs in Raw Food

By: Robin C. McKellar

This book draws together theoretical and applied aspects of extracellular hydrolytic enzymes in spoilage, and thus provides information and analysis of interest to microbiologists and biochemists, as well as up-to-date methods and recommendations of value to food scientists and processors. The first section deals with psychrotroph proteinases, lipases, and phospholipases in milk and dairy products, and covers such aspects as producer microorganisms, biochemical classification of enzymes, physical and biochemical properties, thermal stability, regulation and control of synthesis and assay methods. Particular emphasis is placed on commercially important areas such as physical and biochemical effects in food components and influence on shelf life and product quality. The problems of standardization and control of enzymes in dairy products, as well as areas for future research, are critically examined. The poorly understood role of psychrotroph extracellular enzymes in meat, fish, and poultry is also discussed in a separate section under such headings as physical and biochemical effects on tissue and contribution to growth and penetration of the producer organism.

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CRC Press

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1000098702

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Introduction to Object ID

Guidelines for Making Records that Describe Art, Antiques, and Antiquities

By: Robin Thornes,Peter G. Dorrell,Henry Lie

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Introduction to Object ID

Guidelines for Making Records that Describe Art, Antiques, and Antiquities

By: Robin Thornes,Peter G. Dorrell,Henry Lie

The illicit trade in art and other cultural objects now constitutes one of the most prevalent categories of international crime. Law-enforcement agencies have long recognized that documentation is critical to the protection and recovery of these objects. Standards were needed that would make it possible for information on stolen objects to move easily across electronic networks and, at the same time, that would be intelligible to law enforcement and art communities alike. Developed through the collaboration of museums, police and customs agencies, the art trade, the insurance industry, and appraisers of art and antiques, Object ID is an international standard that defines the minimal information needed to identify art, antiques, and antiquities. Introduction to Object ID summarizes the evolution of Object ID, explains its nine categories, and offers guidelines for using them. The book provides suggestions for writing descriptions of objects and includes a brief discussion of five additional categories that some institutions opt to employ. The second part of the book sets out guidelines for choosing viewpoints, selecting backgrounds, and positioning lighting when documenting cultural objects with photography. The Introduction to series acquaints professionals and students with the complex issues and technologies in the production, management, and dissemination of cultural heritage information resources.

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health

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

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health

By: 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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