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Short Stories for Short Breaks

By: Ruth Crichton Hodges

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Short Stories for Short Breaks

By: Ruth Crichton Hodges

Offering a break from this hectic, media-driven world, author Ruth Crichton Hodges presents a collection of short stories. The Battled Burglar tells the story of Melody McCabe who enjoys living alone. But for the last several days, shes been unable to shake the unsettling feeling shes being watched. She awakes from a nap to discover theres an intruder in her house, and a battle ensues. In The Blue Thief of the Forest, Anna Redmon, her husband, Charles; and their two children are settling in at their campground in Tennessee after the drive from their home in Illinois. Anna removes her diamond ring and leaves it in the middle of the picnic table while the family prepares their site. When the ring disappears, a search begins, and a most unlikely culprit is identified. In Angel on the Waterfront, its Saturday morning in the heart of San Francisco and Chad Devlin is alone. He feels pained because, as a doctor, he was unable to save his wifes life. Hes just about to take a final step to end his own, when fate intervenes. Hodges narratives in Short Stories for Short Breaks reflect a time when life was simpler, and relationships were key.

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WestBow Press

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1973637693

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9781973637691

Black Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice

Race, Gender and Class : a Discourse on Disadvantage

By: Ruth Chigwada-Bailey

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Black Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice

Race, Gender and Class : a Discourse on Disadvantage

By: Ruth Chigwada-Bailey

A personal discourse on the multiple disadvantages of people who are black, women and from the margins of society.

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Waterside Press

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187287052X

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9781872870526

Rough Work

Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 18411882

By: Ruth Bleasdale

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Rough Work

Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 18411882

By: Ruth Bleasdale

Cover -- Page i -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Contracting on Public Works, 1841 to 1882 -- 2 The Labour Force -- 3 The Work -- 4 The Living -- 5 The Boundaries of Belonging: Navvy Communities of the 1840s and 1850s -- 6 Degrees of Separation: Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging through the 1870s -- 7 Defining a Community of Interests: The 1840s and 1850s -- 8 Labour Unity and Militance on Public Works through the 1870s -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Location of Contracts (Sections) on the Intercolonial Railway and Third Welland Canal -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Canadian Social History series

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University of Toronto Press

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1487521995

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9781487521998

Human rights and democratic governance in Kenya: A post-2007 appraisal

By: John Osogo Ambani,Nicholas Wasonga Orago,Ochieng Walter Khobe,Paul Ogendi,Winifred Kamau,Conrad Bosire,Ken Obura,Juliet Okoth,Ruth Aura-Odhiambo

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Human rights and democratic governance in Kenya: A post-2007 appraisal

By: John Osogo Ambani,Nicholas Wasonga Orago,Ochieng Walter Khobe,Paul Ogendi,Winifred Kamau,Conrad Bosire,Ken Obura,Juliet Okoth,Ruth Aura-Odhiambo

This publication is a collection of essays on human rights and democratic governance in Kenya in the period after the 2007 post-elections violence. After surviving the trauma of electoral violence, the country soon embarked on a journey towards reconstruction by engaging in, among other things, intense re-evaluation of the then existing system of laws and institutions. In the process, the daunting task has been to reverse the flawed systems that have been in existence for many decades and in their place entrench systems that would promote and respect democratic governance and human rights. This publication, therefore, documents the extent of the country’s reconstruction since 2007, and makes recommendations for the way forward for the recovery of the state.

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PULP

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1920538380

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9781920538385

The Politics of Healthcare in Britain

By: Stephen Harrison,Ruth McDonald

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The Politics of Healthcare in Britain

By: Stephen Harrison,Ruth McDonald

′This is an excellent textbook for which there is currently a niche in the market. The chapters on rationing, professionalism, politics of clinical knowledge and the politics of democracy and participation are particularly strong and will be invaluable to students of health policy, health studies and health service research′ - Professor Michael Calnan, University of Bristol Written by leading academics in their field, this book provides a clear and considered overview of the politics of health care in Britain. Bringing together a wide range of material on both past events and recent developments, the chapters cover issues such as the politics of health professionalism, clinical knowledge and organisation and management. Each chapter offers a a unique combination of theory, historical detail and analysis of contemporary events. It features case studies to illustrate how policy has evolved and developed in recent years, and the implications these changes have for practice. Written in an accessible style the chapters also include comprehensive introductions, summaries and further reading sections. The final chapter is based on three detailed case studies that illuminate the tensions and debates discussed throughout the book. The Politics of Healthcare in Britain is a timely and authoritative textbook that covers a key topic of the curriculum whilst also contributing to topical debates. The book will be essential reading for students of social policy, health policy, public policy and nursing. It will also be of interest to policy makers and practitioners in the field of health care.

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SAGE

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1446238385

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9781446238387

The Collector's Book of Sheet Music Covers

By: Robyn Holmes,Ruth Lee Martin

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The Collector's Book of Sheet Music Covers

By: Robyn Holmes,Ruth Lee Martin

During the past 150 years, sheet music has played an important role in the homes of many Australians, as a source of entertainment and self-expression. This publication reveals old favourites and rare treasures in the National Librarys sheet music collection and explores how Australias favourite songs and music reflect our sense of ourselves as a nation.

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National Library Australia

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064210736X

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The Politics of Fear

What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean

By: Ruth Wodak

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The Politics of Fear

What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean

By: Ruth Wodak

Winner of the Austrian Book Prize for the 2016 German translation, in the category of Humanities and Social Sciences. Populist right-wing politics is moving centre-stage, with some parties reaching the very top of the electoral ladder: but do we know why, and why now? In this book Ruth Wodak traces the trajectories of such parties from the margins of the political landscape to its centre, to understand and explain how they are transforming from fringe voices to persuasive political actors who set the agenda and frame media debates. Laying bare the normalization of nationalistic, xenophobic, racist and antisemitic rhetoric, she builds a new framework for this ‘politics of fear’ that is entrenching new social divides of nation, gender and body. The result reveals the micro-politics of right-wing populism: how discourses, genres, images and texts are performed and manipulated in both formal and also everyday contexts with profound consequences. This book is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, media and politics wishing to understand these dynamics that are re-shaping our political space.

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1473933595

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9781473933590

Irish National Cinema

By: Ruth Barton

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Irish National Cinema

By: Ruth Barton

From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, this book explores questions of nationalism, gender identities, the representation of the Troubles and of Irish history as well as cinema's response to the so-called Celtic Tiger and its aftermath. Irish National Cinema argues that in order to understand the unique position of filmmaking in Ireland and the inheritance on which contemporary filmmakers draw, definitions of the Irish culture and identity must take into account the so-called Irish diaspora and engage with its cinema. An invaluable resource for students of world cinema.

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Routledge

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1134468199

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Koffman & Macdonald's Law of Contract

By: Elizabeth Macdonald,Ruth Atkins,Ruth Dawn Atkins

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Koffman & Macdonald's Law of Contract

By: Elizabeth Macdonald,Ruth Atkins,Ruth Dawn Atkins

A clear and non-technical account of contract law, ideal for university students new to the study of law.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199644837

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9780199644834

Cognitive Grief Therapy

Constructing a Rational Meaning to Life Following Loss

By: Ruth Malkinson

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Cognitive Grief Therapy

Constructing a Rational Meaning to Life Following Loss

By: Ruth Malkinson

In successful grief therapy, a healthy psyche copes with the stress of loss by maintaining high functioning in day-to-day life while constructing a positive inner relationship with the deceased. Ruth Malkinson shows professionals how to achieve these aims in the context of brief cognitive therapy with individuals, couples, and families.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393704394

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9780393704396

New Immigration Destinations

Migrating to Rural and Peripheral Areas

By: Ruth McAreavey

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New Immigration Destinations

Migrating to Rural and Peripheral Areas

By: Ruth McAreavey

Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues for these communities. New Immigration Destinations examines structural forces and individual strategies and behaviour to highlight the opportunities and challenges for ‘new’ destination areas arising from new economic and cultural mobility. Representing a "second wave" in studies of in-migration, this volume examines patterns in "non-traditional" rural and peripheral migration destinations, with a particular case study on Northern Ireland. Indeed, focusing mainly on events in the host society, this book shows how processes of migrant incorporation are complex and rely on multifarious influences including the state, community, individuals and families. Accordingly, the book develops of migration and social integration within rural/peripheral destinations. This subsequently provides clarification of many of the contested concepts including transnationalism; integration, acculturation and assimilation; ‘new’ destinations; and migrants and ethnic minorities. Focusing on the local and the micro with a strong sense of research, social and policy reality, this timely volume critically engages with original theories of migration, thus providing a much fuller conceptual and theoretical understanding that is required in the emerging field of migration studies within a rapidly changing and uncertain world. This book’s interdisciplinary nature will appeal to policymakers, scholars, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of disciplines including Sociology (Race and Ethnic Studies), Human Geography (Migration, Demography), Political Economy and Community Development.

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1351661213

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The Diabetes Handbook

By: Ruth E. Lundstrom,Aldo A. Rossini

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The Diabetes Handbook

By: Ruth E. Lundstrom,Aldo A. Rossini

You Can Live Well With Diabetes! The Diabetes Handbook Can Help. Written By Two Trusted Experts In The Treatment Of Diabetes, This New Book Provides Comprehensive Information On Living With The Disease. Covering Both Type I And Type II Diabetes, The Diabetes Handbook Offers Practical, Authoritative Advice For Coping With The Disorder, Including Glucose Monitoring, Diet, Exercise, Medications, Family Dynamics, And Expert Tips On Day To Day Strategies For Staying Healthy -- Both At Home And While Traveling. Written In Clear, Simple Language And Illustrated With 200 Fun Cartoon-Style Drawings, The Diabetes Handbook Is An Invaluable Source Of Timely, Trusted Information For Everyone From The Newly Diagnosed To The Longtime Diabetes Patient And His Or Her Family.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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076372386X

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9780763723866

Harlequin Love Inspired January 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Rebecca Kertz,Ruth Logan Herne,Roxanne Rustand

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Harlequin Love Inspired January 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Rebecca Kertz,Ruth Logan Herne,Roxanne Rustand

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. FINDING HER AMISH LOVE Women of Lancaster County by Rebecca Kertz Seeking refuge from her abusive foster father at an Amish farm, Emma Beiler can’t tell anyone that she’s former Amish whose family was shunned. She’s convinced they’d never let her stay. But as love blossoms between her and bachelor Daniel Lapp, can it survive their differences—and her secrets? A HOPEFUL HARVEST Golden Grove by Ruth Logan Herne On the brink of losing her apple orchard after a storm, single mom Libby Creighton can’t handle the harvest alone. Reclusive Jax McClaren might be just what her orchard—and her heart—needs. But he’s hiding a painful secret past…and love is something he’s not quite sure he can risk. SNOWBOUND WITH THE COWBOY Rocky Mountain Ranch by Roxanne Rustand Returning home to open a veterinary clinic, the last person Sara Branson expects to find in town is Tate Langford—the man she once loved. Tate is home temporarily, and his family and hers don’t get along. So why can’t she stop wishing their reunion could turn permanent?

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1488060614

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A Child Centred EYFS

By: Aaron Bradbury,Ruth Swailes

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A Child Centred EYFS

By: Aaron Bradbury,Ruth Swailes

As EY practitioners, we know that child-centred practice is what matters. Despite the pressures for more ′school like′ learning in the Early Years, EY professionals and practitioners continue to advocate for child-led best practice in settings. This book is a toolkit for all those working with children on how to develop and implement a child centred curriculum for delivery of the EYFS. A curriculum that is research informed and based on what we know about children′s development and learning. A curriculum that ensures children have the time and space to explore and develop the fundamental building blocks of early development.

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Sage Publications UK

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1529678315

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9781529678314

Health Promotion

Planning & Strategies

By: Jackie Green,Keith Tones,Ruth Cross,James Woodall

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Health Promotion

Planning & Strategies

By: Jackie Green,Keith Tones,Ruth Cross,James Woodall

The definitive text on health promotion, this book covers both the knowledge-base and the process of planning, implementing and evaluating successful health promotion programmes. This new edition features a companion website developed with an international team of contributors to support teaching and enhance learning. The website provides: · 14 new and original international case studies of health promotion in action · Example discussion questions to encourage critical reflection in seminars and assessments · Free SAGE journal articles which support evidence-based learning. Recent developments are covered throughout this third edition on topics such as asset-based approaches, mental health promotion and the use of social media in promoting health.

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1473916615

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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin—enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future. For ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of truth, treasure, and the protections of democracy. They promise law and order, then legitimize lawbreaking by financial, sexual, and other predators. They use masculinity as a symbol of strength and a political weapon. Taking what you want, and getting away with it, becomes proof of male authority. They use propaganda, corruption, and violence to stay in power. Vladimir Putin and Mobutu Sese Seko’s kleptocracies, Augusto Pinochet’s torture sites, Benito Mussolini and Muammar Gaddafi’s systems of sexual exploitation, and Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump’s relentless misinformation: all show how authoritarian rule, far from ensuring stability, is marked by destructive chaos. No other type of leader is so transparent about prioritizing self-interest over the public good. As one country after another has discovered, the strongman is at his worst when true guidance is most needed by his country. Recounting the acts of solidarity and dignity that have undone strongmen over the past 100 years, Ben-Ghiat makes vividly clear that only by seeing the strongman for what he is—and by valuing one another as he is unable to do—can we stop him, now and in the future.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324001550

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9781324001553

Speech and Language Technology for Language Disorders

By: Katharine Beals,Deborah Dahl,Ruth Fink,Marcia Linebarger

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Speech and Language Technology for Language Disorders

By: Katharine Beals,Deborah Dahl,Ruth Fink,Marcia Linebarger

This book draws on the recent remarkable advances in speech and language processing: advances that have moved speech technology beyond basic applications such as medical dictation and telephone self-service to increasingly sophisticated and clinically significant applications aimed at complex speech and language disorders. The book provides an introduction to the basic elements of speech and natural language processing technology, and illustrates their clinical potential by reviewing speech technology software currently in use for disorders such as autism and aphasia. The discussion is informed by the authors' own experiences in developing and investigating speech technology applications for these populations. Topics include detailed examples of speech and language technologies in both remediative and assistive applications, overviews of a number of current applications, and a checklist of criteria for selecting the most appropriate applications for particular user needs. This book will be of benefit to four audiences: application developers who are looking to apply these technologies; clinicians who are looking for software that may be of value to their clients; students of speech-language pathology and application development; and finally, people with speech and language disorders and their friends and family members.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1614519250

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9781614519256

Nutrition and Mental Health

By: Ruth Leyse-Wallace

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Nutrition and Mental Health

By: Ruth Leyse-Wallace

An examination of the role nutrients play in mental health, this book reviews the scientific literature from many fields of science: health, psychology, nutrition, mental well-being, and the interface with chronic disease. The book provides a straightforward, readable report of broadly selected scientific research on how various nutrients affect mental health. It covers several types of mental health disorders and their links to nutrients, nutritional status, and nutritional supplements. This book provides mental health professionals with the information they need to evaluate nutritional issues.

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CRC Press

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1040060072

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9781040060070

Law in Crisis

The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster

By: Ruth A. Miller

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Law in Crisis

The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster

By: Ruth A. Miller

Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic subject and that natural disaster is the endpoint to law. Developing an idiosyncratic but compelling new theory of legal and political existence, Miller challenges existing arguments that, whether valedictory or critical, have posited the rational, bounded self as the normative subject of law. By bringing a distinctive, accessible reading of contemporary political philosophy to bear on source material in several European and Middle Eastern languages, Miller constructs a cogent analysis of natural disaster and its role in modern subject formation. In the process, she opens up exciting new lines of inquiry in the fields of law, politics, and gender studies. Law in Crisis represents a promising new development in the interdisciplinary study of law.

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Stanford University Press

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0804772428

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9780804772426

Disease Prevention

A Critical Toolkit

By: John Frank,Ruth Jepson,Andrew J. Williams

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Disease Prevention

A Critical Toolkit

By: John Frank,Ruth Jepson,Andrew J. Williams

Preventive medical interventions and non-medicalised public health programmes that promise health benefits in the future, from actions taken now, carry a strong ethical requirement of 'first, do no harm' or primum non nocere. New preventive advice and interventions are being promoted on a daily basis, Disease Prevention: A Critical Toolkit provides a set of appraisal tools to guide those considering a preventive action to make sure that it is effective (does more good than harm), efficient (is a competitive use of scarce resources), and equitable in its impact across society. Case studies and worked examples illustrate the risks and benefits of specific preventive interventions. Divided into 10 chapters this practical and concise book focuses on multiple aspects of prevention including the hierarchy of preventive options; the assessment of causation; finding and appraising scientific evidence; prevention directed at entire populations (as opposed to individuals); measuring chronic disease risk factors and medically managing them: statin treatment of high cholesterol; PSA screening for prostate cancer; genetic screening for future disease risk; and assessing the health equity implications of prevention. Aimed at front-line public health and primary care professionals, Disease Prevention: A Critical Toolkit will equip them with the up-to-date skills necessary to help them better inform and serve their patients and communities.

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Oxford University Press

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0198725868

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9780198725862

Truth Machine

The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

By: Michael Lynch,Simon A. Cole,Ruth McNally,Kathleen Jordan

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Truth Machine

The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

By: Michael Lynch,Simon A. Cole,Ruth McNally,Kathleen Jordan

DNA profiling—commonly known as DNA fingerprinting—is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable “truth machine” that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. But DNA evidence is far from infallible. Truth Machine traces the controversial history of DNA fingerprinting by looking at court cases in the United States and United Kingdom beginning in the mid-1980s, when the practice was invented, and continuing until the present. Ultimately, Truth Machine presents compelling evidence of the obstacles and opportunities at the intersection of science, technology, sociology, and law.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226498085

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9780226498089

Designing Antibodies

By: Ruth Mayforth

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Designing Antibodies

By: Ruth Mayforth

Designing Antibodies provides a compilation of research in the design of antibodies. It describes the techniques used in antibody design, the kinds of antibodies generated through modern techniques, and their applications in medicine and science. The book begins with an overview of the humoral immune system and of antibody structure, function, and biosynthesis, which sets the stage for the subsequent discussions of developments in antibody technology. The remaining chapters discuss the making of monoclonal antibodies; the design of antibodies for human therapy; the connection of antibodies (either chemically or genetically) to other potentially therapeutic effector molecules such as toxins, enzymes, or even an antibody of another specificity; idiotypes and anti-idiotypic antibodies; and the ability of antibodies to functionally mimic enzymes and mediate catalysis. It is hoped that, in addition to illustrating the progress of research in antibody design, the various creative and innovative approaches reviewed in this book will be modified or will stimulate new ideas that will spur the research and application of designer antibodies.

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Academic Press

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0323160026

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Healthcare and the Troubles

The Conflict Experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service, 1968–1998

By: Ruth Duffy

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Healthcare and the Troubles

The Conflict Experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service, 1968–1998

By: Ruth Duffy

This book provides the first detailed study of healthcare during the period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968–1998). While there have been some studies of the effects of conflict in the context of Northern Ireland, to date there have been no in-depth histories of the impact of the Troubles on healthcare and the experiences of healthcare professionals. Ruth Duffy's work combines analysis of archival research and oral history interviews to reveal the widespread impact of the conflict on healthcare facilities, their staff, and patients, as well as the broader societal implications of providing services during the Troubles. The book allows the voices of those who worked on the frontline to be heard for the first time, as well as exploring important issues such as medical ethics and neutrality. It offers new and valuable insights into the cost of the Northern Ireland conflict and its legacy today.

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Liverpool University Press

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183764277X

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9781837642779

Events, Dear Boy, Events

A Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010

By: Ruth Winstone

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Events, Dear Boy, Events

A Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010

By: Ruth Winstone

Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of people as they record their own and the nation's triumphs and disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf, Cecil Beaton, Peter Hall and Roy Strong, and the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men and women. Events, Dear Boy, Events reveals Britain's recent past in the words of the actors who were shaping the events of the day. This is living real-time history.

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Profile Books

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1847654630

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9781847654632

The Bass Handbook of Leadership

Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications

By: Bernard M. Bass,Ruth Bass

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The Bass Handbook of Leadership

Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications

By: Bernard M. Bass,Ruth Bass

For thirty-three years and through three editions, Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership has been the indispensable bible for every serious student of leadership. Since the third edition came out in 1990, the field of leadership has expanded by an order of magnitude. This completely revised and updated fourth edition reflects the growth and changes in the study of leadership over the past seventeen years, with new chapters on transformational leadership, ethics, presidential leadership, and executive leadership. Throughout the Handbook, the contributions from cognitive social psychology and the social, political, communications, and administrative sciences have been expanded. As in the third edition, Bernard Bass begins with a consideration of the definitions and concepts used, and a brief review of some of the betterknown theories. Professor Bass then focuses on the personal traits, tendencies, attributes, and values of leaders and the knowledge, intellectual competence, and technical skills required for leadership. Next he looks at leaders' socioemotional talents and interpersonal competencies, and the differences in these characteristics in leaders who are imbued with ideologies, especially authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, and self-aggrandizement. A fuller examination of the values, needs, and satisfactions of leaders follows, and singled out for special attention are competitiveness and the preferences for taking risks. In his chapters on personal characteristics, Bass examines the esteem that others generally accord to leaders as a consequence of the leaders' personalities. The many theoretical and research developments about charisma over the past thirty years are crucial and are explored here in depth. Bass has continued to develop his theory of transformational leadership -- the paradigm of the last twenty years -- and he details how it makes possible the inclusion of a much wider range of phenomena than when theory and modeling are limited to reinforcement strategies. He also details the new incarnations of transformational leadership since the last edition. Bass has greatly expanded his consideration of women and racial minorities, both of whom are increasingly taking on leadership roles. A glossary is included to assist specialists in a particular academic discipline who may be unfamiliar with terms used in other fields. Business professors and students, executives in every industry, and politicians at all levels have relied for years on the time-honored guidance and insight afforded by the Handbook.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416545786

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Wrongful Imprisonment

Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences

By: Ruth Brandon,Christie Davies

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Wrongful Imprisonment

Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences

By: Ruth Brandon,Christie Davies

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail with the English system, but also provides comparisons with Scotland, France, and the United States. The authors spent three years collecting material from newspaper reports, trial transcripts, books, lawyers, the Home Office and – most important – interviews with the persons concerned. As a result, they have been able to analyse objectively the existing system of justice; they have isolated and identified the areas in which the system is at fault, and the successive hazards which may confront the innocent man suspected of a criminal offence; they have also revealed the many obstacles which have to be overcome by the wrongfully imprisoned man seeking to establish his innocence and regain his liberty. This topical and convincingly argued book should appeal not only to students of law and sociology, or to lawyers, policemen, criminals, and others involved in the system of criminal justice, but also to the man in the Wormwood Scrubs omnibus.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000784460

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Public Policy and the Arts: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and Ireland

A Comparative Study of Great Britain and Ireland

By: Ruth-Balandina M. Quinn

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Public Policy and the Arts: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and Ireland

A Comparative Study of Great Britain and Ireland

By: Ruth-Balandina M. Quinn

First published in 1998, this volume considers the subject of arts policy as a subject of public policy making proper in UK and Ireland, with a particular focus on theatre as a profession rather than a mere hobby. Previous studies have placed the burden of policy improvements on the arts themselves, looking at what ‘the arts’ can do to be worthy of government funding and favourable policy, and have seen government actions as if they have a uniform effect. This study takes ‘the arts’ out of the abstract and discusses specific ways that diverse activities with even more diverse needs can be best approached with government policy, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of government initiatives. It is aimed at both political scientists and anyone with an interest in arts and cultural policy.

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Routledge

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0429823304

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The Autism of Gxd

An Atheological Love Story

By: Ruth M. Dunster

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The Autism of Gxd

An Atheological Love Story

By: Ruth M. Dunster

The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story is truly a love story—the story of Ruth Dunster’s autistic search for an authentic, personal, and theological “Gxd.” In this, it resembles Augustine’s Confessions, as a theological autobiography. It becomes atheological, however, as Dunster reckons with what Denys Turner terms “The Darkness of God.” This awareness leads her through the poetry of Medieval mystics to the mythic “death of God” theology of Thomas J. J. Altizer. The search for faith is nonetheless very real in this strange territory. Dunster hears her autistic Gxd speaking in art, poetry, novels, and music; and this further leads her into the territory of Literature, Theology, and the Arts, where, in Blanchot’s words, “the answer is the poem’s absence.” Indeed, Dunster calls the book “a strange poem, or even a hymn.” Weaving an autistic mythology out of a rigorous survey of clinical autism, this book abounds in challenge and paradox. It offers a fascinating view into how an autistic poet becomes a theologian; and what more mainstream theologies might learn from this “disabled Gxd.”

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1725268353

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An Atlas of Irish History

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards,Bridget Hourican

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An Atlas of Irish History

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards,Bridget Hourican

Fully revised and updated with over 100 beautiful maps, charts and graphs, and a narrative packed with facts this outstanding book examines the main changes that have occurred in Ireland and among the Irish abroad over the past two millennia.

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Psychology Press

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0415278597

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Lourdes

Body And Spirit in the Secular Age

By: Ruth Harris

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Body And Spirit in the Secular Age

By: Ruth Harris

Lourdes was at the very centre of nineteenth century debates on religion, science and medicine. Both the Church and secularists championed the 'miracle' town as crucial in shaping how society should think about the mind, body and spirit. Since the ‘visions’ of Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 transformed the quiet Pyrenean town into an international tourist and pilgrimage destination, it has been a site for controversy. In her well-crafted and carefully researched book, Harris deftly places Lourdes and its attendant spiritual movement firmly at the centre of French history and shows its significance in the country’s development.

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Penguin UK

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014188990X

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Democracy's Mountain

Longs Peak and the Unfullfilled Promises of America's National Parks

By: Ruth M. Alexander

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Democracy's Mountain

Longs Peak and the Unfullfilled Promises of America's National Parks

By: Ruth M. Alexander

At 14,259 feet, Longs Peak towers over Colorado’s northern Front Range. A prized location for mountaineering since the 1870s, Longs has been a place of astonishing climbing feats—and, unsurprisingly, of significant risk and harm. Careless and unlucky climbers have experienced serious injury and death on the peak, while their activities, equipment, and trash have damaged fragile alpine resources. As a site of outdoor adventure attracting mostly white people, Longs has mirrored the United States’ tenacious racial divides, even into the twenty-first century. In telling the history of Longs Peak and its climbers, Ruth M. Alexander shows how Rocky Mountain National Park, like the National Park Service (NPS), has struggled to contend with three fundamental obligations—to facilitate visitor enjoyment, protect natural resources, and manage the park as a site of democracy. Too often, it has treated these obligations as competing rather than complementary commitments, reflecting national discord over their meaning and value. Yet the history of Longs also shows us how, over time, climbers, the park, and the NPS have attempted to align these obligations in policy and practice. By putting mountain climbers and their relationship to Longs Peak and its rangers at the center of the story of Rocky Mountain National Park, Alexander exposes the significant role outdoor recreationists have had—as both citizens and privileged adventurers—in shaping the peak’s meaning, use, and management. Since 2000, the park has promoted climber enjoyment and safety, helped preserve the environment, facilitated tribal connections to the park, and attracted a more diverse group of visitors and climbers. Yet, Alexander argues, more work needs to be done. Alexander’s nuanced account of Longs Peak reveals the dangers of undermining national parks’ fundamental obligations and presents a powerful appeal to meet them fairly and fully.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806193301

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The Seven

The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The Seven

The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of Dublin, the Seven were arrested, court-martialled and executed. Cutting through the layers of veneration that have seen them regarded unquestioningly as heroes and martyrs by many, Ruth Dudley Edwards provides shrewd yet sensitive portraits of Ireland’s founding fathers. She explores how an incongruous group, which included a communist, visionary Catholic poets and a tobacconist, joined together to initiate an armed rebellion that changed the course of Irish history. Brilliant, thought-provoking and captivatingly told, The Seven challenges us to see past the myths and consider the true character and legacy of the Easter Rising.

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Simon and Schuster

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1780748728

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Rivers of the United States, Volume II

Chemical and Physical Characteristics

By: Ruth Patrick

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Rivers of the United States, Volume II

Chemical and Physical Characteristics

By: Ruth Patrick

This six-volume set offers a comprehensive, unified and integrated treatment of all major rivers and estuaries of the contiguous United States. Describes the hydrology, chemistry and biology of rivers in natural circumstances. Includes numerous photographs, maps and graphs.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471107522

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9780471107521

Little Book of Westmeath

By: Ruth Illingworth

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Little Book of Westmeath

By: Ruth Illingworth

The Little Book of Westmeath is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Westmeath. Here you will find out about Westmeath’s history and archaeology, its buildings and architecture, its culture and sport and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women. Through quaint villages and bustling towns, this book takes the reader on a journey through County Westmeatj and its vibrant past. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of this fascinating county.

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The History Press

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0750981555

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Into the Twentieth Century

By: Judith Kidd,Rosemary Rees,Ruth Tudor

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Into the Twentieth Century

By: Judith Kidd,Rosemary Rees,Ruth Tudor

The Heinemann History Scheme offers an opportunity to refresh the approach to teaching at Key Stage 3. It uses sources and activities to explain complex issues and helps students think through historical concepts for themselves. The Scheme is an exact match to the QCA scheme of work.

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0435325965

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Please Don't Kill Mommy!

The True Story of a Man who Killed His Wife, Got Away with It, Then Killed Again

By: Fannie Weinstein,Ruth Schumann

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Please Don't Kill Mommy!

The True Story of a Man who Killed His Wife, Got Away with It, Then Killed Again

By: Fannie Weinstein,Ruth Schumann

On November 4, 1990 Tim Boczkowski phoned 911 in Greensboro, North Carolina to report his wife Elaine lying motionless in the bathtub. In the days that followed the paramedics' failed efforts to revive Elaine, detectives began to suspect that Tim had murdered his wife after a quarrel. But with no eyewitnesses to the crime--the couple's three children were in bed asleep- -Tim went free to pick up the pieces of his life... Four years later Tim's second wife-a woman who had devoted herself to his children-died under similar circumstances. Immediately, his past was tightened around him like a noose, and some of those who knew him best began to believe that the mild mannered, religiously devout Boczkowski was really a madman who killed his wives with his bare hands. But Tim Boczkowski's worst crime of all may have been committed against his own children: taking away their mother not once but twice...

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0312977204

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