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Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession

By: Roslyn Jolly

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Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession

By: Roslyn Jolly

Robert Louis Stevenson's departure from Europe in 1887 coincided with a vocational crisis prompted by his father's death. Impatient with his established identity as a writer, Stevenson was eager to explore different ways of writing, at the same time that living in the Pacific stimulated a range of latent intellectual and political interests. Roslyn Jolly examines the crucial period from 1887 to 1894, focusing on the self-transformation wrought in Stevenson's Pacific travel-writing and political texts. Jolly shows how Stevenson's desire to understand unfamiliar Polynesian and Micronesian cultures, and to record and intervene in the politics of Samoa, gave him opportunities to use his legal education, pursue his interest in historiography, and experiment with anthropology and journalism. Thus as his geographical and cultural horizons expanded, Stevenson's professional sphere enlarged as well, stretching the category of authorship in which his successes as a novelist had placed him. Rather than enhancing his stature as a popular writer, however, Stevenson's experiments with new styles and genres, and the Pacific subject matter of his later works, were resisted by his readers. Jolly's analysis of contemporary responses to Stevenson's writing, gleaned from an extensive collection of reviews, many of which are not readily available, provides fascinating insights into the interests, obsessions, and resistances of Victorian readers. As Stevenson sought to escape the vocational straightjacket that confined him, his readers just as strenuously expressed their loyalty to outmoded images of Stevenson the author, and their distrust of the new guises in which he presented himself.

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Routledge

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1351902741

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Mental Health Disorders on Television

Representation Versus Reality

By: Kimberley McMahon-Coleman,Roslyn Weaver

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Mental Health Disorders on Television

Representation Versus Reality

By: Kimberley McMahon-Coleman,Roslyn Weaver

In past decades portrayals of mental illness on television were limited to psychotic criminals or comical sidekicks. As public awareness of mental illness has increased so too have its depictions on the small screen. A gradual transition from stereotypes towards more nuanced representations has seen a wide range of lead characters with mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, autism spectrum disorder, dissociative identity disorder, anxiety, depression and PTSD. But what are these portrayals saying about mental health and how closely do they align with real-life experiences? Drawing on interviews with people living with mental illness, this book traces these shifts, placing on-screen depictions in context and demonstrating their real world impacts.

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McFarland

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1476640203

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ELT, Gender and International Development

Myths of Progress in a Neocolonial World

By: Roslyn Appleby

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ELT, Gender and International Development

Myths of Progress in a Neocolonial World

By: Roslyn Appleby

For believers in the power of English, language as aid can deliver the promise of a brighter future; but in a neocolonial world of international development, a gulf exists between belief and reality. Rich with echoes of an earlier colonial era, this book draws on the candid narratives of white women teachers, and situates classroom practices within a broad reading of the West and the Rest What happens when white Western men and women come in to rebuild former colonies in Asia? How do English language lessons translate, or disintegrate, in a radically different world? How is English teaching linked to ideas of progress? This book presents the paradoxes of language aid in the 21st century in a way that will challenge your views of English and its power to improve the lives of people in the developing world. "This book's focus on gender relations in development contexts, its superb deconstruction of aid agencies in situ, the gendered space of ELT classrooms and the voices of ELT teachers working in development contexts is unique. This book should be read not only by sociolinguists, sociologists, critical theorists and theorists of development working in the academy but also NGOs and aid agencies working in post-trauma societies. There is much to be learned here." Naz Rassool, The University of Reading, UK

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Multilingual Matters

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1847693032

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9781847693037

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Revised 4th Edition

For Their Early Years -- Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful

By: Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.,Cheryl Erwin, M.A.,Roslyn Ann Duffy

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Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Revised 4th Edition

For Their Early Years -- Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful

By: Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.,Cheryl Erwin, M.A.,Roslyn Ann Duffy

Completely updated with the latest research in child development and learning, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers will help parents understand their preschooler and provide early methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful. Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult will ever face. No matter how much you love your child, there will be moments filled with frustration, anger, and even desperation. There will also be questions: Why does my four-year-old deliberately lie to me? Why is everything a struggle with my three-year-old? Should I ever spank my preschooler when she is disobedient? Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust the Positive Discipline series and its common-sense approach to child-rearing. This revised and updated fourth edition includes a new chapter on the importance of play and outdoor experiences on child development, along with new information on school readiness, childhood brain growth, and social/emotional learning. You'll also find practical solutions for how to: - Teach appropriate social skills at an early age - Avoid the power struggles that often come with mastering sleeping, eating, and potty training - See misbehavior as an opportunity to teach nonpunitive discipline--not punishment

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Harmony

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052557641X

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9780525576419

Positive Discipline: The First Three Years

From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child

By: Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.,Cheryl Erwin, M.A.,Roslyn Ann Duffy

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Positive Discipline: The First Three Years

From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child

By: Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.,Cheryl Erwin, M.A.,Roslyn Ann Duffy

Make a Difference During the Most Important Years of Your Child's Life The months leading up to the birth of a child are filed with joy, dreams, plans—and a few worries. As a caring parent, you want to start your child out in life on the proper foundation. But where do you go for the answers to such questions as: How do I communicate with an infant who doesn't understand words? How can I effectively teach boundaries to my toddler? Should I ever spank my child? Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come to trust Jane Nelsen's classic Positive Discipline series. These books offer a commonsense approach to child-rearing that so often is lacking in today's world. In Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, you'll learn how to use kind but firm support to raise a child who is both capable and confident. You'll find practical solutions and solid advice on how to: ·Encourage independence and exploration while providing appropriate boundaries ·Use non-punitive methods to instill valuable social skills and positive behavior inside and outside the home ·Recognize when your child is ready to master the challenges of sleeping, eating, and potty training, and how to avoid the power struggles that often come with those lessons ·Identify your child's temperament ·Understand what the latest research in brain development tells us about raising healthy children ·And much, much more! Containing real-life examples of challenges other parents and caregivers have faced, Positive Discipline: The First Three Years is the one book that no parent should be without.

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Harmony

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030738313X

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9780307383136

Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition

From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident

By: Jane Nelsen,Cheryl Erwin, M.A.,Roslyn Ann Duffy

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Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition

From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident

By: Jane Nelsen,Cheryl Erwin, M.A.,Roslyn Ann Duffy

The celebrated Positive Discipline brand of parenting books presents the revised and updated third edition of their readable and practical guide to communicating boundaries to very young children and solving early discipline problems to set children up for success. Over the years millions of parents have used the amazingly effective strategies of Positive Discipline to raise happy, well-behaved, and successful children. Research has shown that the first three years in a child's life are a critical moment in their development, and that behavior patterns instilled during that time can have profound implications for the rest of a child's life. Hundreds of thousands of parents have already used the advice in Positive Discipline: The First Three Years to help set effective boundaries, forge strong foundations for healthy communication, and lay the groundwork for happy and respectful relationships with their young children. Now this classic title has been revised and updated to reflect the latest neuroscientific research and developments in positive discipline parenting techniques.

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Harmony

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0804141185

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9780804141185

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers

For Their Early Years--raising Children who are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful

By: Jane Nelsen,Cheryl Erwin,Roslyn Ann Duffy,Roslyn Duffy

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Positive Discipline for Preschoolers

For Their Early Years--raising Children who are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful

By: Jane Nelsen,Cheryl Erwin,Roslyn Ann Duffy,Roslyn Duffy

Teaches parents and cargivers how to use kind and firm methods to raise children who are responsible, respectful, and resourceful.

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Professional Savages

Captive Lives and Western Spectacle

By: Roslyn Poignant

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Professional Savages

Captive Lives and Western Spectacle

By: Roslyn Poignant

In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of "all the uncivilized races in existence.” In response, the showman R. A. Cunningham shipped two groups of Australian Aborigines to the United States. They were displayed as "cannibals” in circuses, dime museums, fairgrounds, and other showplaces in America and Europe and examined and photographed by anthropologists. Roslyn Poignant tells the fascinating and often searing story of the transformation of the Aboriginal travelers into accomplished performers, professional savages who survived at least for a short time by virtue of the strengths they drew from their own culture and their individual adaptability. Most died somewhere on tour. A century later, the mummified body of Tambo, the first to die, was discovered in the basement of a recently closed funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio. Poignant recounts how Tambo’s posthumous repatriation stimulated a cultural renewal within the community from which he came, exposing the roots of present social and economic injustices experienced by indigenous Australians.

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Yale University Press

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030010247X

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9780300102475

Her Special Forces

By: Sophia Roslyn

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Her Special Forces

By: Sophia Roslyn

Retired Marine Viper helo pilot and ground cover expert, Kacey O'Donnell is called out of retirement for a special assignment: to assist in extracting the kidnapped daughter of a U.S. Senator, after an FBI team is betrayed and taken out. Former SEAL hero Nathan Weatherly looks forward to his new job as Deputy Sheriff in the small, quiet Normal Rockwell town where Kacey grew up. The former lovers have a history she has no desire to revisit, and a dark secret she refuses to share. With a young girl's life at stake, Kacey helps pull Nathan's team together for one last assignment. But, she finds it next to impossible to work with Nathan again—especially when she know he wants so much more, and she has so much to hide.

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Entangled: Ignite

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1633750361

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9781633750364

South Sea Tales

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

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South Sea Tales

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of `The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of `The Bottle Imp' and `The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross- cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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OUP Oxford

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0191021393

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9780191021398

Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession

By: Roslyn Jolly

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Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession

By: Roslyn Jolly

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Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

Mental Health Disorders on Television

Mental Health Disorders on Television

ELT, Gender and International Development

ELT, Gender and International Development

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Revised 4th Edition

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Revised 4th Edition

Positive Discipline: The First Three Years

Positive Discipline: The First Three Years

Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition

Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers

Professional Savages

Professional Savages

Her Special Forces

Her Special Forces

South Sea Tales

South Sea Tales

Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

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