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The Knock at the Door

Three Gold Star Families Bonded by Grief and Purpose

By: Ryan Manion,Heather Kelly,Amy Looney

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The Knock at the Door

Three Gold Star Families Bonded by Grief and Purpose

By: Ryan Manion,Heather Kelly,Amy Looney

Three Gold Star women, linked forever by unimaginable loss, share their inspiring, unlikely journey that began on the worst day of their lives. What happens when tragedy knocks on your front door? For us, it was a literal knock, with two men standing in crisply pressed uniforms. They had news. News that gutted us to the core -- the death of our loved ones, a brother and two husbands -- in combat zones. The thing about those moments is that it's almost inconceivable that they can happen to you. That is, until they do. This book is for anyone who has ever received a knock at the door. And if you live long enough and have the courage to love others, you will. Maybe it's a cancer diagnosis. Maybe it's the death of your best friend. The betrayal of a spouse. The loss of a child. The implosion of a professional career. Or any tragedy that takes the person we love the most away from us too soon. Life is not without its challenges. The key is how you respond.This is our story. The story of three women, bonded by grief and purpose. Grief because we lost our best friends in war. Purpose because we resolved -- together -- to do something about it. To turn loss into inspiration for others and to channel the love that we had for the men in our lives into love for others through service. It was the only way we could escape the trap of despair and inaction, and we believe it offers a roadmap for anyone else who has ever had to answer a knock at the door.

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Center Street

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154608522X

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9781546085225

The Glass Room

By: Ryan Craig

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The Glass Room

By: Ryan Craig

In a safe-house in the suburbs, human rights lawyer Myles Brody meets with a high-profile and controversial historian. She has been charged with denying the Holocaust, and he has agreed to defend her in court. But as her guilt becomes apparent, Myles is forced to doubt his most sacred principles, question his belief in the right to free speech and acknowledge that he too has been denying the past. The Glass Room premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in November 2006.

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138

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849435707

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9781849435703

Writing in Coffee Shops

Confessions of a Playwright

By: Ryan Craig

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Writing in Coffee Shops

Confessions of a Playwright

By: Ryan Craig

What makes someone a playwright? How do their identities and ideas interweave and co-exist? What permanent truths can we discern from examining existing texts? How can we write theatre that encapsulates the contemporary moment? How do we develop an idea from the embryonic impulse to a full and robust piece of theatre? In this fresh, lively and often very funny book, playwright Ryan Craig makes a case for the vitality of playwriting in our contemporary world and offers a way into writing those plays. From the very first moment of the process, as you sit in a coffee shop, staring at your 'laptop yawning open like some big, gormless mouth, the screen a flickering blank', to seeing your play staged and reviewed, the author takes you through the complete journey. Drawing on his own experience of writing for theatres such as the National, Hampstead and Tricycle and Menier Chocolate Factory, TV drama scripts for BBC, ITV and Channel Four, radio plays and adaptation, as well as commercial theatre, the author explores what practical tools the dramatist can use to write plays that build bridges between us. Full of practical advice for the aspiring - and practising - playwright, this book is also an important call-to-arms for playwrights everywhere, arguing for its necessity in the context of an increasingly fractured, distracted, disconnected world.

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137

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135019087X

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9781350190870

Businesses with a Difference

Balancing the Social and the Economic

By: Laurie Mook,Jack Quarter,Sherida Ryan

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Businesses with a Difference

Balancing the Social and the Economic

By: Laurie Mook,Jack Quarter,Sherida Ryan

Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy? Are they destined to function only in areas where conventional firms cannot achieve a sufficient rate of return? Or will the role of social economy organizations change as businesses begin placing more emphasis on corporate social responsibility? Building on the popular 2010 collection Researching the Social Economy, Businesses with a Difference explores the challenges and opportunities faced by firms that seek a genuine balance between their social and economic objectives. Through international case studies, including comparative analyses, this innovative collection highlights the unique issues that must be addressed when associations are accountable not to investors and shareholders, but instead to ordinary people.

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281

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University of Toronto Press

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1442694467

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9781442694460

Pensions at Work

Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds

By: Jack Quarter,Isla Carmichael,Sherida Ryan

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Pensions at Work

Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds

By: Jack Quarter,Isla Carmichael,Sherida Ryan

Pension funds have come to play an increasingly important role within the new economy. According to Statistics Canada, in 2006, trusteed pension funds in Canada had $836 billion of assets and represented the savings of 4.6 million Canadian workers. Pensions at Work is a unique collection of papers that uses a labour perspective to deal with the socially responsible investment of pension funds. Featuring leading Canadian and international scholars, it builds on existing scholarship on socially responsible investment and on the growing interest of the Canadian labour movement in joint trusteeship. What is unique about this collection is that it synthesizes three distinct themes - socially responsible investment, pension funds, and labour studies. The contributors address an array of critical issues such as gaps in the education of union trustees of pension funds, the impact of human capital criteria on shareholder returns, the influence of corporate engagement upon corporate performance, and the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs). Although the essays in Pensions at Work all address the nexus between socially responsible investment, pension funds, and unions, each looks at a particular manifestation of that relationship through a different disciplinary lens. This collection moves the discussion to pension funds in which union representatives are also trustees, a relatively new approach that will be of great interest to institutional investors, the labour movement, and instructors in labour studies programs.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442691859

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9781442691858

The Knock at the Door

Three Gold Star Families Bonded by Grief and Purpose

By: Ryan Manion,Heather Kelly,Amy Looney

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Three Gold Star Families Bonded by Grief and Purpose

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Center Street

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154608522X

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Lone Star Justice

A Comprehensive Overview of the Texas Criminal Justice System

By: David M. Horton,Ryan Kellus Turner

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Lone Star Justice

A Comprehensive Overview of the Texas Criminal Justice System

By: David M. Horton,Ryan Kellus Turner

Drawn from a broad range of historical, political, and statutory sources, the authors combine a host of factual and historical information about the criminal justice system in Texas. This volume also contains an extensive glossary of general and Texas-specific terms, as well as a description of important and valuable Internet sites.

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1571682260

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What's Next

Your Dream Job, God's Call, and a Life That Sets You Free

By: Daniel Ryan Day

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Your Dream Job, God's Call, and a Life That Sets You Free

By: Daniel Ryan Day

As a believer, you want to find God’s will for your education, career, and ministry, right? But in the process of waiting on clear-cut advice from the Almighty, you may have missed what He’s already directed you to do. Speaking from his own experiences, Daniel Ryan Day reminds you about Scripture’s clear teachings regarding God’s will. When you understand what God asks of us, you’ll gain confidence to take the next step and find fulfillment and freedom, wherever you work and whatever you do.

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145

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Our Daily Bread Publishing

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1627079629

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9781627079624

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The Knock at the Door

The Knock at the Door

The Glass Room

The Glass Room

Writing in Coffee Shops

Writing in Coffee Shops

Businesses with a Difference

Businesses with a Difference

Pensions at Work

Pensions at Work

The Knock at the Door

The Knock at the Door

Lone Star Justice

Lone Star Justice

What's Next

What's Next

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