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Fearing the Black Body

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

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Fearing the Black Body

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

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NYU Press

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1479819808

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The Human Disease

How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs

By: Sabrina Sholts

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The Human Disease

How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs

By: Sabrina Sholts

How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics—and gives us the power to save ourselves. The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last—because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. That is the uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of The Human Disease, which travels through history and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are an inescapable threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of disciplines—from medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, and neuroscience—as well as a unique expertise in public education about pandemic risks, biological anthropologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tendencies that double as pandemic liabilities, from the anatomy that defines us to the misperceptions that divide us. Weaving together a wealth of personal experiences, scientific findings, and historical stories, Sholts brings dramatic and much-needed clarity to one of the most profound challenges we face as a species. Though the COVID-19 pandemic looms large in Sholts’s account, it is, in fact, just one of the many infectious disease events explored in The Human Disease. With its expansive, evolutionary perspective, the book explains how humanity will continue to face new pandemics because humans cause them, by the ways that we are and the things that we do. By recognizing our risks, Sholts suggests, we can take actions to reduce them. When the next pandemic happens, and how bad it becomes, are largely within our highly capable human hands—and will be determined by what we do with our extraordinary human brains.

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MIT Press

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0262377934

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9780262377935

The Liberal Project and the Transformation of Democracy

The Case of East Central Europe

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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The Liberal Project and the Transformation of Democracy

The Case of East Central Europe

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

Drawing on a classical understanding of "liberalism" based on a philosophy of Natural Law, she probes the issues of capitalism, national sovereignty and self-determination, gender inequality, and political legitimacy in the context of Eastern Europe's particular experience.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603445021

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9781603445023

Stone Hard SEALs Duet

By: Sabrina York

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Stone Hard SEALs Duet

By: Sabrina York

Tune in for a scorching action adventure romantic romp as two stone hard SEALs launch a hostage rescue! Little do they know, they might be saving the women of their dreams... STONE HARD SEALS A Duet of Steamy SEAL romance by NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Sabrina York. Two books in one. Book One: Ryder A hostage rescue mission turns Ryder “Stone” Maddox’s world on its ear when he comes face-to-face with his greatest fear: A woman he cannot resist. But he has to resist Lily Wilson. He’s vowed never to fall in love. Besides, as the daughter of a senator, she is definitely off-limits. Lily sees things differently. Irresistibly drawn to this hot, hard SEAL, she is determined to prove they belong together…and that her man does not have a heart of stone. (Originally published in the NYT and USA Today Bestselling Hot Alpha SEALs collection) Book Two: Drake Drake Ronan is all man—a rock hard SEAL who doesn’t need help from anyone. Doesn’t need anyone. But when he’s shot during a dangerous rescue mission, and has to rely on a beautiful nurse to survive, he realizes he has to rethink his resolution. Suddenly he can’t imagine his life without Brandy in it. It’s a damn shame she has a secret that could ruin everything. It's action/adventure. It's suspense. It's romance.

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Sabrina York

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1941497063

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9781941497067

The Practice of Generalist Social Work

By: Marla Berg-Weger,Sabrina W Tyuse

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The Practice of Generalist Social Work

By: Marla Berg-Weger,Sabrina W Tyuse

In its new edition, The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides in-depth understanding of the knowledge, skills, values, and affective and cognitive processes needed for social work practice in the present moment. Grounded in a strengths-based perspective, chapters in the textbook discuss practice with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations and guide students through all phases of the change process with the aid of case studies, examples, and exercises that highlight and provide connections to real-life practice situations. Theoretical frameworks, important value and ethical considerations, and pivotal communication skills are all included in the text’s comprehensive coverage of different practice settings with clients and communities. The sixth edition is now guided by the 2022 Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS), with connections to renewed objectives and competencies integrated throughout, and is further updated to reflect and focus on new developments within the discipline. These include anti-racism efforts and movements to address entrenched racial inequities; the practice of cultural humility and cultural responsiveness; and attention to community-based implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengthened and now fully up to date, this edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides a sweeping, in-depth, and lively introduction to social work practice for generalist courses, and is supported by a range of fully updated resources for instructors and their students on www.routledgesw.com/.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000838676

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9781000838671

Rocking The State

Rock Music And Politics In Eastern Europe And Russia

By: Sabrina Petra Ramet

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Rocking The State

Rock Music And Politics In Eastern Europe And Russia

By: Sabrina Petra Ramet

Most readers of this book will have had at most a fleeting acquaintancewith the music of some of the groups described in this book. Groupssuch as Laibach (from Slovenia), Borghesia (Slovenia), Pankow (theGDR), and Gorky Park (USSR) have concentrated on the Western marketand have acquired followings in the United States and Western Europe.Other artists and groups, such as Boris Grebenshikov and Aquarium(USSR), Sergei Kuryokhin (USSR), Goran Bregovic and White Button(Yugoslavia), and Plastic People of the Universe (Czechoslovakia), havealso seen some Western exposure. But for the most part, the rock musicof that part of the world is terra incognita to Westerners. So too is thestory of their uneasy coexistence with communist authorities from thetime that rock first ~ppeared until the collapse of communism in 1989.This book aims to fill that vacuum.

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Routledge

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1000310256

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9781000310252

New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century

By: Sabrina Fuchs Abrams

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New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century

By: Sabrina Fuchs Abrams

Seen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century corrects this tendency, focusing on the foremothers of women’s humor in modern America, who used satire, irony, and wit as indirect forms of social protest. This book focuses on the women who stood on the periphery of predominantly male New York intellectual circles in the twentieth century. Sabrina Fuchs Abrams argues that the advent of modernism, the women’s suffrage movement, the emergence of the New Woman and the New Negro Woman, and the growth of urban centers in the 1920s and ’30s gave rise to a new voice of women’s humor, one that was at once defiant and conflicted in defining female identity and the underlying assumptions about gender roles in American society. Her study gives special attention to the contributions of the satirists Edna St. Vincent Millay (pseudonym Nancy Boyd), Tess Slesinger, Dorothy Parker, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary McCarthy. Grounded in theories of humor, feminist and critical race theory, and urban studies, this book will find an audience among scholars and students interested in women writers, feminist humor, modern American literature, and African American studies.

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Penn State Press

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0271097027

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9780271097022

Conspiracy of Silence

By: Sabrina Flynn

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Conspiracy of Silence

By: Sabrina Flynn

Atticus Riot is left standing over a corpse holding a smoking gun. And he’s just realized a dead man could get him killed. Four words hold the key to his partner's murder. Four words marking him and everyone he loves for death. Harried and hunted from all sides, Isobel and Riot uncover a web of secrets that ensnares them both. There is only one way out—a gamble so risky that their lives will never be the same. A suspenseful Victorian mystery with a strong female lead and a romantic detective duo in San Francisco’s lawless Barbary Coast. Fans of Laurie R. King, Deanna Raybourn, and C.S. Harris will love this thrilling historical mystery series.

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Ink & Sea Publishing

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1955207097

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9781955207096

The Girl in the Park

By: Sabrina R. Wade

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The Girl in the Park

By: Sabrina R. Wade

Clemantina is a young intelligent but shy 9 years old, who had a very sad and lonely childhood. Until one day her class teacher Ms. Mason rescued her sadness and taken into care. She was adopted by a married middle class couple whom had no children of their own, and gave Clemantina love, happiness and a new life. A new home, a new school and new friends... and her best friend Emilie.

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Record of Blood

By: Sabrina Flynn

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Record of Blood

By: Sabrina Flynn

An honorable man with a bloody past he can only remember in part, and a woman dead in the eyes of the world, but all too alive. A confessed murderer and a missing body lures Isobel Kingston into the night, but she finds far more than she bargains for on the foggy dunes. Ambushed and rendered unconscious, she wakes to find herself at the mercy of brutal men. Desperate, she plays her last card: she threatens her captors with the wrath of Atticus Riot. To her surprise, Riot's very name strikes terror into the men, and Isobel begins to wonder what she really knows about the enigmatic man. As Atticus Riot searches for Isobel, regret hounds his every step, and the voice of his dead partner, Zephaniah Ravenwood, pulls him into the past, making him look at events long buried and uncover truths that he's tried hard to forget. When Isobel's trail leads to an old enemy, he's forced to confront his nightmares and the aching truth that he isn't the man he thought he was. A suspenseful Victorian mystery with a strong female lead and a romantic detective duo in San Francisco’s lawless Barbary Coast. Fans of Laurie R. King, Deanna Raybourn, and C.S. Harris will love this thrilling historical mystery series.

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1955207070

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Developing Portfolios in Education

A Guide to Reflection, Inquiry, and Assessment

By: Ruth S. Johnson,J. Sabrina Mims-Cox,Adelaide Doyle-Nichols

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Developing Portfolios in Education

A Guide to Reflection, Inquiry, and Assessment

By: Ruth S. Johnson,J. Sabrina Mims-Cox,Adelaide Doyle-Nichols

Developing Portfolios in Education, Second Edition, walks teachers through the practical aspects of creating portfolios and demonstrates how they can be used as an action research tool for reflection and professional development. Authors Ruth S. Johnson, J. Sabrina Mims-Cox, and Adelaide Doyle-Nichols include checklists, visuals, organizational strategies, and hands-on tools to help readers through every step of developing a professional portfolio. Key Features Emphasizes the role of standards as they apply to portfolio content and evaluation Includes chapter-opening scenarios that offer real-world examples of portfolio development New to This Edition Presents a chapter that links portfolio development to action research Contains updated material on electronic portfolio development Provides new step-by-step descriptions of the portfolio process written specifically for teachers Accompanying Student Resources on CD provide video clips of portfolio presentations, sample electronic portfolios for elementary and secondary teaching credential candidates, PowerPoint slides, tables, templates, and links to Web sites.

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SAGE Publications

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154433432X

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9781544334325

Medical Doctors in Health Reforms

A Comparative Study of England and Canada

By: Jean-Louis Denis,Sabrina Germain,Catherine Régis,Gianluca Veronesi

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Medical Doctors in Health Reforms

A Comparative Study of England and Canada

By: Jean-Louis Denis,Sabrina Germain,Catherine Régis,Gianluca Veronesi

This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly funded health services in England and Canada. Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds on both sides of the Atlantic consider how the high status of the profession uniquely influences reforms. With summaries of developments in models of care, and the participation of doctors since the inception of publicly funded healthcare systems, they ask whether professionals might be considered allies or enemies of policy-makers. With insights for future health policy and research, the book is an important contribution to debates about the complex relationship between doctors and the systems in which they practice.

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Policy Press

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1447352165

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9781447352167

The Examined Run

Why Good People Make Better Runners

By: Sabrina B. Little

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The Examined Run

Why Good People Make Better Runners

By: Sabrina B. Little

The Examined Run provides an accessible treatment of what it might look like to use running as a laboratory for virtue development. This book engages many topics in the field of virtue ethics-virtue, vice, exemplarism, emotions, and competition-and places them in conversation with training and racing in endurance sports. The Examined Run explores happiness and success, competition and character. It investigates whether certain definitions of success conflict with being morally good, and whether certain virtues may be performance-enhancing in the world of sport. It asks whether athletes should strive to be "limitless," and it examines how to take seriously considerations of human nature in competitive sport. This book welcomes readers into a tradition of inquiry about character, flourishing, and suffering, so that they can ask better questions about what it means to live a happy life and how running might fit in"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197678696

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9780197678695

The Three Yugoslavias

State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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The Three Yugoslavias

State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork and the culmination of more than two decades of study, The Three Yugoslavias is a major contribution to an understanding of Yugoslavia and its successor states.

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Indiana University Press

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0253346568

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9780253346568

Worlds of ScienceCraft

New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies

By: Sal Restivo,Sabrina M. Weiss,Alexander Stingl

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Worlds of ScienceCraft

New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies

By: Sal Restivo,Sabrina M. Weiss,Alexander Stingl

A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about minds, identities, and bodies are challenged through case studies from mathematics, social cognition, and medical ethics. Offering innovative approaches to these issues, such as an integrated social brain-mind-body model and a critique of divisions between the natural and technological, this book provides novel conceptions of self, society and an emerging ’cyborg’ generation. From the micro level of brains and expanding all the way out to biopolitical civics, disciplinary boundaries are made permeable, emphasizing the increased need for interdisciplinary scholarship. By rejecting outdated and restrictive categories and classifications, new horizons in studies of science, technology, and medicine can be explored through the incorporation of feminist, international, and postmodern perspectives. A truly interdisciplinary examination of science and technology as cultural phenomena, Worlds of ScienceCraft will appeal to scholars and students of science and technology studies, as well as philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, technology, and medicine.

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Routledge

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1134785429

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9781134785421

Psychodynamic Formulation

By: Deborah L. Cabaniss,Sabrina Cherry,Carolyn J. Douglas,Ruth L. Graver,Anna R. Schwartz

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Psychodynamic Formulation

By: Deborah L. Cabaniss,Sabrina Cherry,Carolyn J. Douglas,Ruth L. Graver,Anna R. Schwartz

How do our patients come to be the way they are? What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings? How can we use this information to best help them? Constructing psychodynamic formulations is one of the best ways for mental health professionals to answer questions like these. It can help clinicians in all mental health setting understand their patients, set treatment goals, choose therapeutic strategies, construct meaningful interventions and conduct treatment. Despite the centrality of psychodynamic formulation to our work with patients, few students are taught how to construct them in a clear systematic way. This book offers students and practitioners from all fields of mental health a clear, practical, operationalized method for constructing psychodynamic formulations, with an emphasis on the following steps: DESCRIBING problems and patterns REVIEWING the developmental history LINKING problems and patterns to history using organizing ideas about development. The unique, up-to-date perspective of this book integrates psychodynamic theories with ideas about the role of genetics, trauma, and early cognitive and emotional difficulties on development to help clinicians develop effective formulations. Psychodynamic Formulation is written in the same clear, concise style of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual (Wiley 2011). It is reader friendly, full of useful examples, eminently practical, suitable for either classroom or individual use, and applicable for all mental health professionals. It can stand alone or be used as a companion volume to the Clinical Manual.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118557298

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9781118557297

Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City

How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds

By: Sabrina Chase

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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City

How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds

By: Sabrina Chase

Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given their limited resources, how did they manage an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for alternatives to conventional medical treatment? Did the challenges they faced deprive them of self-determination, or could they help themselves and each other? What can we learn from these resourceful women? Based on her work with minority women living in Newark, New Jersey, Sabrina Marie Chase illuminates the hidden traps and land mines burdening our current health care system as a whole. For the women she studied, alliances with doctors, nurses, and social workers could literally mean the difference between life and death. By applying the theories of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to the day-to-day experiences of HIV-positive Latinas, Chase explains why some struggled and even died while others flourished and thrived under difficult conditions. These gripping, true-life stories advocate for those living with chronic illness who depend on the health care "safety net." Through her exploration of life and death among Newark's resourceful women, Chase provides the groundwork for inciting positive change in the U.S. health care system.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813553482

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9780813553481

Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation

An Interprofessional and Collaborative Approach

By: Heather Atkinson,Kim Nixon-Cave,Sabrina Smith

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Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation

An Interprofessional and Collaborative Approach

By: Heather Atkinson,Kim Nixon-Cave,Sabrina Smith

Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation: An Interprofessional and Collaborative Approach is a groundbreaking text designed to enhance the practice of all health care providers, enrich discussion, and emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of managing best outcomes for a child who has had a stroke. Evidence-based practice is threaded throughout the text with an emphasis on recovery vs. compensation, goal achievement, and outcome measurement. In conjunction with the interdisciplinary contributions from a wide variety of health care professionals, Drs. Heather Atkinson, Kim Nixon-Cave, and Sabrina E. Smith aim to provide the necessary tools to effectively treat children with stroke. The first section reviews the medical fundamentals, covering all major types of strokes. The second section of Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation focuses on the core of the matter, rehabilitation. The final section expands the understanding of the child’s recovery to the family, community, and school environment. Select chapters include: Personal vignettes written by family members of children who have had a stroke that provides insight into the impact a stroke can have on the child and family A family focus box to summarize the main points of the chapter to provide the best tools for caregivers to advocate for their child A case study related to the content and family perspective Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation also utilizes the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework throughout. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. Pediatric Stroke Rehabilitation: An Interprofessional and Collaborative Approach is an interdisciplinary and invaluable resource for students and clinicians to understand and apply effective evidence-based practice and treatment approaches for childhood stroke. The text will also be of interest to healthcare professionals, specifically physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, physicians, neuropsychologists, nurses, and educators, who work with children who have experienced a stroke.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040135773

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9781040135778

Susana and the Scot

By: Sabrina York

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Susana and the Scot

By: Sabrina York

Sabrina York weaves a tale about a charming highlander must win over the fiery lass who's kiss he could never forget.

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Macmillan

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125006970X

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Whose Democracy?

Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Whose Democracy?

Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

The years since the collapse of communism in 1989 have witnessed a dangerous renewal of religious intolerance and nationalist demands across Eastern Europe. In this provocative application of moral philosophy to the analysis of contemporary political processes in the region, Sabrina Ramet draws upon the literature of Natural Law to demonstrate that liberal democracy depends on a delicate balance between individual and societal rights. Exploring the situation of Hungarians in Slovakia, Albanians in Kosovo, theoretically-inclined Catholic bishops in Poland, Serbs in Croatia, and contending forces in post-Dayton Bosnia, Ramet contends that the terms of dispute in these cases can be deceptive. She illustrates that claims made on the basis of what she calls the doctrine of collective rights actually subvert the liberal democratic project.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847683249

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Democratic Transition in Croatia

Value Transformation, Education, and Media

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Democratic Transition in Croatia

Value Transformation, Education, and Media

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

With the fall of communism and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the successor states have faced a historic challenge to create separate, modern democracies from the ashes of the former authoritarian state. Central to the Croatian experience has been the issue of nationalism and whether the Croatian state should be defined as a citizens' state (with members of all nationality groups treated as equal) or as a national state of the Croats (with a consequent privileging of Croatian culture and language, but also with a quota system for members of national minorities). Sabrina P. Ramet and Davorka Mati ́c have gathered here a series of studies by important scholars to examine the development of Croatia in the aftermath of communism and the war that marred the transition. Sixteen scholars of the region discuss the values and institutions central to Croatia's transformation from communism and toward liberal democracy. They discuss economic change, political parties, and the uses of history since 1989. To understand the patterns in Croatia, they examine how civic values have been expressed, reinforced, and sometimes challenged through religion, education, and the media. The implications of nationalism in its various manifestations are treated thematically in all the analyses. This book is a companion volume to a similar study on Slovenia, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Danica Fink-Hafner and released in fall 2006. Together, these two works form an important case study in comparison and contrast between two countries in the same region going through the transition from communism to liberal democracy. Scholars and policy makers will find a wealth of material in these two volumes.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603444521

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Poetic Rhythms of My Heart

By: Sabrina Brown

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Poetic Rhythms of My Heart

By: Sabrina Brown

Poetic Rhythms of My Heart is a poetry book comprised of six categorical chapters relating to glorifying God, celebrating others, relationships, witty humor, living life and triumph. The book contains over sixty poems aimed at inspiring, motivating, and encouraging people on relative life lessons and experiences. Poetic Rhythms is written by Sabrina Brown who developed a love for poetry in grade school and was influenced by Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes. The section on Faith deals with experiences with Jesus and reminders of why relationships with Him are beneficial to sustaining abundant life. It reminds us to remember those things we went through but use them as means for having faith in what God can deliver us from. The section on celebrating others pays tributes to special people and entities in the author’s life as a means of encouraging others to celebrate their special network of family and friends. Be it when they graduate, get married, have special birthdays or retire, there is always a chance to celebrate in the life of others.

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Kingdom Builders Publications

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0578149095

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9780578149097

Migration and Domestic Work

IMISCOE Short Reader

By: Sabrina Marchetti

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Migration and Domestic Work

IMISCOE Short Reader

By: Sabrina Marchetti

This open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level, in the past as well as in present time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach. The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating the feminization of migration, thereby considering the larger framework within which this specific phenomenon takes place. The author explains notions such as the “international division of reproductive labor” or “global care chains” which emphasize the inequality in the way care and domestic tasks are distributed today between middle-class women in receiving nations and migrant domestic workers. Moreover, the book shows how women migrating to work in the domestic work and private care sector are facing a complex landscape of migration and labor regulations that are extremely difficult to navigate. At the same time, this issue also addresses employers’ households who cannot find appropriate or affordable care among declining welfare states and national workers reluctant to take the job, whilst legal regulations make difficult to hire a domestic worker who is a third country national. As such this book offers an interesting read to academics, policy makers and all those working in the field.

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Springer Nature

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3031114663

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9783031114663

Sticky's Adventures

By: Sabrina Carter

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Sticky's Adventures

By: Sabrina Carter

Sticky loves to go out with his pals and explore new places. There are so many things to see and new experiences to have! Sticky rides a bike through a park, and doesn’t give in to being afraid when he falls off. He goes to a party in the park, and rides along on a firetruck as they go to fight a fire. Soon Sticky is ready for bigger adventures. He explores neighborhoods as close as his own backyard in New York City and as far as Memphis, Tennessee, and Dallas, Texas. He eats a King Cake during Mardi Gras, and learns to ride a horse at the rodeo. During his travels, Sticky and his pals visit landmarks and spend time educating themselves about local history and traditions. With a passion for travel and a list of new adventures, Sticky's only question is, "Where to next?" In Sticky's Adventures, kids learn about the joys of travel and adventure as they follow Sticky on each of his new experiences. It’s easy to see that childhood is full of new things, but Sticky reminds us that the adventure is never over. There are always more places to see and more things to learn when we travel.

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Let Sleeping Rogues Lie

By: Sabrina Jeffries

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Let Sleeping Rogues Lie

By: Sabrina Jeffries

The fourth book in the charming and sensual School for Heiresses series by New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries tells the story of an alluringly handsome rake who challenges everything a young teacher thinks she knows about passion and desire. When Madeline Prescott took a teaching position at Mrs. Harris’s School for Young Ladies, it was to help restore her father’s reputation. Instead, she’s in danger of ruining her own. The devilishly handsome Anthony Dalton, Viscount Norcourt, has agreed to provide “rake lessons” to Mrs. Harris’s pupils so that they can learn how to avoid unscrupulous gentlemen, and Madeline is to oversee his classes. She has always believed that attraction is a scientific matter, easily classified and controlled—until she’s swept into the passionate desire that fiercely burns between her and Anthony. Nothing could be more illogical than risking everything for a dalliance with a rake, even one who’s trying to behave himself. Yet nothing could be more tempting…

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Depths of Life

By: Sabrina J.

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Depths of Life

By: Sabrina J.

In this sweeping work, we learn of the life and experiences of Sabrina, a Kenyan girl who is carried along on the wings of fate. Encompassing the major milestones of education, love, marriage, parenthood and death. A classic romance novel with the unique quality of having the main character from Kenya. The settings are International in scope. The story ends in Bahrain, in the Arabian Gulf.

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Positioning Women in Conflict Studies

How Women's Status Affects Political Violence

By: Hardis Family Assistant Professor of Government Sabrina Karim,Sabrina Karim,Associate Professor of International Affairs Daniel W Hill Jr,Daniel W. Hill (Jr.)

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Positioning Women in Conflict Studies

How Women's Status Affects Political Violence

By: Hardis Family Assistant Professor of Government Sabrina Karim,Sabrina Karim,Associate Professor of International Affairs Daniel W Hill Jr,Daniel W. Hill (Jr.)

In Positioning Women in Conflict Studies, Sabrina Karim and Daniel W. Hill, Jr., re-evaluate the literature on gender, international politics, and conflict to reveal that the term "gender equality" is often used to refer to four distinct concepts: women's inclusion, women's rights, harm to women, and beliefs about women's roles. They develop original measures for each of these concepts and examine their impact on inter-state war onset, intra-state conflict onset, state repression/human rights violations, and terrorism. Overall, Karim and Hill demonstrate how the conceptualization and measurement of gender equality and women's status is critical in understanding how to reduce political violence globally.

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0197757936

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Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction

By: Sabrina Ragone,Guido Smorto

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Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction

By: Sabrina Ragone,Guido Smorto

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction aims to offer a concise introduction to Comparative Law—its objectives, methods, concepts and uses. After an overview of the fundamental definitions, key concepts and basic lexicon of the discipline, the book proposes an analysis of the most successful techniques adopted in legal comparison for mapping the world's legal systems and for explaining legal change and diffusion of law, also giving a concise description of the legal traditions of the world. It also offers an account of the competing approaches adopted over time in comparative endeavours, from functionalism to culturalism and postmodernism, and highlights the different emphasis placed by each of these approaches on commonalities, faith in universal law and convergence, or on divergence and irreducible differences. Finally, the book provides readers with an understanding of the practical use of comparative law, describing how legal comparison is employed both in law-making and in adjudication, supplementing legal reasoning and interpretation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Confronting Orientalism

A Self-Study of Educating through Hindu Dance

By: Sabrina D. Misir Hiralall

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Confronting Orientalism

A Self-Study of Educating through Hindu Dance

By: Sabrina D. Misir Hiralall

The author aims to use Kuchipudi Indian classical Hindu dance to educate non-Hindus about Hinduism with postcolonialism in mind. This goal arises from her dance experiences and the historical era of imperialism. Colonization occurs when those in power believe there is a need to dominate in a manner that subjugates people. Colonizers created colonies as they moved into territory because they felt there was a need to “civilize” the so-called savages of the land. Postcolonialism is an intellectual discourse that confronts the legacy of colonialism and attempts to de-colonize. With the legacy of colonialism and a postcolonial lens in mind, some research questions arise. How does she, as a Kuchipudi dancer, use Hindu dance to educate non-Hindus about the Eastern literature of Hinduism? For non-Hindus, she feels the power of the exoticizing gaze when she dances, which might very well block the educational intention of the dance. This exoticizing gaze prevents the understanding of the traditional nature of the dance and the introduction to Hinduism as a world religion. The author’s problem is moving the exotic gaze of non-Hindus to an educational gaze that seeks to learn about the ethics of Hinduism in a manner that takes into consideration the multiple perspectives of the complex society we live in today. “In short, MisirHiralall’s research highlights the role of contemplation and critical-self reflection in creating opportunities for true intercultural relations that respect the epistemologies of traditionally marginalized and stigmatized non-Western religions and cultures. This is essential theoretical and practical research for a multicultural society that is grounded in first-person, lived experience.” – Tyson E. Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art Education, University of North Texas “Most impressive is that MisirHiralall is walking her talk through a thoughtful and lyrical self-study that is situated in the in-between: between the mind and body, the gaze of the Other and the self, the Eastern and Western worlds, and the fields of dance, religion, philosophy, cultural studies, and teacher education.” – Monica Taylor, Ph.D., Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of Secondary and Special Education, Montclair State University “In MisirHiralall’s Confronting Orientalism, the reader is gifted with a rare glimpse into a philosopher-educator’s wrestling with her teaching through the medium of Hindu dance .... All who think seriously about the context and impact of their teaching in connection with their core values can benefit from reading of this book.” – Michael D. Waggoner, Ph.D., Professor of Postsecondary Education, University of Northern Iowa, Editor of Religion & Education

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9463511911

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Do I Look Like an ATM?

A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children

By: Sabrina Lamb

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Do I Look Like an ATM?

A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children

By: Sabrina Lamb

Youth financial education is an urgent issue, and author Sabrina Lamb believes that African American parents first must reeducate themselves about finances to make sure the next generation does not fall into the spending trap that can be a family legacy. The lack of a healthy financial education has generational impact, causing families to be financially vulnerable, squander financial resources, and fail at wealth accumulation. With step-by-step advice and exercises for parents and young people, Do I Look Like an ATM? sets out to establish new financial behavior so children will avoid the personal economic problems that have plagued the culture. The book guides parents through self-examination of their financial habits. By performing the exercises in this book and having candid discussions, parents can, together with their children, become engaged citizens in the world of money. With new financial traditions and a better understanding money and its meaning, the next generation will realize the true power of wealth and use their money wisely.

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1613744080

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Eusebius and the Jewish Authors

His Citation Technique in an Apologetic Context

By: Sabrina Inowlocki

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Eusebius and the Jewish Authors

His Citation Technique in an Apologetic Context

By: Sabrina Inowlocki

Eusebius and the Jewish Authors examines Eusebius of Caesarea’s use of non-biblical Jewish texts (e.g. Philo, Josephus, Aristobulus) in his Praeparatio evangelica and Demonstratio evangelica. In the first part, Sabrina Inowlocki looks at the citation process in Ancient Greek Literature and in Eusebius’ own double apologetic work. She also analyzes Eusebius’ conception of Judaism. The second part is devoted to a detailed study of Eusebius’ methodology in appropriating these texts from both a philological and a philosophical/theological perspective. Through the lens of his exploitation of Jewish quotations, this book defies the traditional perception of Eusebius as being a mere compiler and nuances the manner in which his presentation of the relation between Judaism and Christianity is often seen. This study will be very useful to readers interested in the reception of Jewish texts in Christian literature, in the relations between Judaism and Christianity, and in Christian apologetics. This translation was made possible through a generous grant from the Fondation Universitaire in Brussels (www.fondationuniversitaire.be).

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9047408993

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Practice Examination Papers for the MRCPsych

Part 1

By: Sabrina Burza,Beata Mougey,Srinivas Perecherla,Nakul Talwar

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Practice Examination Papers for the MRCPsych

Part 1

By: Sabrina Burza,Beata Mougey,Srinivas Perecherla,Nakul Talwar

This practical guide provides GPs practice managers and members of the primary care team with the tools to manage the stresses and conflict in general practice. All the necessary skills are covered including negotiating dealing with anger handling criticism and change management. Filled with practical examples and exercises referenced throughout and with recommended reading lists at the end of each chapter it encourages the reader to invest in their own personal and professional development.

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1315345277

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