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Let's Go to The Grand!

100 Years of Entertainment at London's Grand Theatre

By: Sheila M.F. Johnston

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Let's Go to The Grand!

100 Years of Entertainment at London's Grand Theatre

By: Sheila M.F. Johnston

A fascinating history of a wonderful old theatre." - Hume Cronyn In September of 1901 London’s New Grand Opera House flung open its doors. Boasting a beautiful interior design, and with the most modern stage equipment available, the theatre was large enough to accommodate over 1,700 patrons and the largest touring shows of the time. With impresario Ambrose J. Small at the helm, a new era in theatrical entertainment began. Throughout the next hundred years, the Grand Theatre hosted everything from stock companies to minstrel shows, from vaudeville to star-studded productions. The celebrated amateur theatre company, London Little Theatre, made The Grand its home for decades. As Canadian theatre came into its own in the 1970s, The Grand embraced professional theatre status. Throughout all these changes The Grand has remained London’s "Grand Old Lady of Richmond Street." Legendary performers from the past, including the Marks Brothers, Anna Pavlova and John Gielgud have graced its vast stage, as have such contemporary stage stars as Hume Cronyn, William Hutt and Martha Henry. This extensively researched book, lavishly illustrated, lovingly documents the life of The Grand. Theatre stories from every decade of The Grand’s colourful life abound throughout. To read this book is to come to know London’s Grand Theatre in all its architectural splendour and its legacy in Canadian theatre history.

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Dundurn

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1770704353

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9781770704350

Voices for the Islands

Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea

By: Sheila Harrington

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Voices for the Islands

Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea

By: Sheila Harrington

A fascinating compendium of stories chronicling the creation of local nature conservancies, and the people behind them, on seventeen islands on the Salish Sea from the 1990s to the present day. Voices for the Islands brings together the stories and experiences of those who rose to protect areas at risk within their island communities. Narratively linked by author Sheila Harrington’s three-year sailing journey among the islands to interview more than fifty veteran conservationists, the book shares an in-depth view of local protests and the history and evolution of local conservancies from their timely emergence through legal battles and successful partnerships. It highlights how local, provincial, and national support was won, through the collaborative efforts of dedicated locals, resulting in hundreds of new protected areas and parks within one of the most at-risk ecological communities in Canada—the islands of the Salish Sea. Beginning in the 1980s, when logging and development threatened the fragile ecosystems and natural habitats, and culminating in the creation of more than seventeen local conservancies and the Gulf Island National Park Reserve, Voices for the Islands will inspire readers to turn apathy into action and support the cause of conservation and reconciliation in an era of species extinction and climate change. Full of colour photos, maps, and fascinating first-hand stories by unsung heroes of conservation—many of whom are now elders—this book reveals how local people and grassroots movements have the power to transform the future of our precious planet.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1772034932

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9781772034936

Home on Apple Blossom Road

By: Sheila Roberts

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Home on Apple Blossom Road

By: Sheila Roberts

A heartwarming novel of love and friendship, and how they change as we grow up, from USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts Home is where the love is… Colin Wright and Mia Blair grew up in Icicle Falls, but they left years ago—and not on good terms. Now Colin’s grandmother, Justine, has died, and they’ve come home to honor this woman they both loved. That’s when they get some unexpected news. They’re about to inherit something. Jointly. They just have no idea what. It turns out that Justine’s designed a treasure hunt for them, like the ones they enjoyed when they were kids and best friends. But they’re not kids anymore, and they sure aren’t best friends. As for that young love they once shared? Well…it’s complicated. On the trail of Justine’s treasure, they follow a series of clues that take them down memory lane—ending up at the orchard on Apple Blossom Road. What will they find there? And what did Justine know that they didn’t? Previously published

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MIRA

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0369700600

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9780369700605

Disabled Students in Higher Education

Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy

By: Sheila Riddell,Teresa Tinklin,Alastair Wilson

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Disabled Students in Higher Education

Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy

By: Sheila Riddell,Teresa Tinklin,Alastair Wilson

As wider access to higher education becomes a top priority for governments in the UK and around the world, this ground-breaking piece of work raises the challenging questions that policy-makers, vice-chancellors and government officials are reluctant to ask. A highly qualified team of authors have closely analyzed rates of participation and the experiences of disabled students in higher education over a two year period. They compare the responses of eight different universities to the new anti-discriminatory practice, contrasting their social profiles, academic missions, support systems for disabled students and approaches for the implementation of change. Change comes under particular scrutiny, with a close examination of each university’s interpretation of ‘reasonable adjustments’, and the extent to which they have modified their campuses and teaching accordingly. Student case studies are used throughout to illustrate the real impact of institutional responses to the legislation. Disabled Students in Higher Education will make fascinating reading for students of education, social policy, politics, and disability studies, and for those working towards accredited university teacher status.

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Routledge

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1134327218

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Hidden From History

300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Agai

By: Sheila Rowbotham

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Hidden From History

300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Agai

By: Sheila Rowbotham

In this study of women from the Puritan revolution to the 1930s, the author shows how class and sex, work and family, personal life and social pressures have shaped and hindered women's struggles for equality.

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Pluto Press

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0904383563

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9780904383560

Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland

Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen

By: Sheila M. Young

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Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland

Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen

By: Sheila M. Young

The hen (or bachelorette) party, with its groups of visible, raucous women on trains, planes, and in public spaces is ubiquitous throughout the English-speaking world. The practice of the blackening, a unique form of kidnapping and “punishment” ritual, is limited to North Eastern parts of Scotland and to specific sectors of the population. Both are prenuptial rituals enacted by women. In Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland, Sheila Young produces a thorough description of how these two rituals were and are enacted and analyzes the ways these practices have changed through time as a social commentary. Young’s study provides valuable insights into identity, gender, social class, contemporary attitudes to ritual, and what it means to approach marriage in the twenty first century.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793603871

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9781793603876

The Transit Plays and Others

By: Sheila Callaghan

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The Transit Plays and Others

By: Sheila Callaghan

FEATURING: THE TRANSIT PLAYS (Plane, Boat, Car, Bicycle, Train) Five very short absurd plays Minimal set 2 M, 2-3 F Each play revolves around one form of transportation; ferry, train, bicycle, plane, and car. Strangers attempt to form connections with one another, attaining varying degrees of success. * With theatrical staging, elevated and challenging language, and non-realistic elements. HE ATE THE SUN Minimal set 2 M, 1F A series of quick vignettes navigating the experience of one cowardly man losing his attractive yet shallow wife to a young, hot internet tycoon. Look out, he's got a gun. AMERICAN JACK Minimal Set 1M, 1F A fragmented and theatrical portrait of a Greek survivor of Nazi occupation, who subsequently builds a life for himself in America in the 70's brick by brick. SOAK Minimal Set 1M, 2F Heidi and David come to this space everyday. Something tragic happened here, but all that remains is the ghost of a German chanteuse, an accordion player, an iPod, and a shrine to Bjork. And everyone is drunk.

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Original Works Publishing

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1934962686

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9781934962688

"White Russians, Red Peril"

A Cold War History of Migration to Australia

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick

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"White Russians, Red Peril"

A Cold War History of Migration to Australia

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick

Over 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after World War II – yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in Europe. Many preferred to keep a low profile in Australia, and some attempted to ‘pass’ as Polish, West Ukrainian or Yugoslavian. They had good reason to do so: to the Soviet Union, Australia’s resettling of Russians amounted to the theft of its citizens, and undercover agents were deployed to persuade them to repatriate. Australia regarded the newcomers with wary suspicion, even as it sought to build its population by opening its door to more immigrants. Making extensive use of newly discovered Russian-language archives and drawing on a lifetime’s study of Soviet history and politics, award-winning author Sheila Fitzpatrick examines the early years of a diverse and disunited Russian-Australian community and how Australian and Soviet intelligence agencies attempted to track and influence them. While anti-Communist ‘White’ Russians dreamed a war of liberation would overthrow the Soviet regime, a dissident minority admired its achievements and thought of returning home.

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100043222X

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On Discourse Analysis in Classrooms

Approaches to Language and Literacy Research

By: David Bloome,Stephanie Power Carter,Beth Morton Christian,Samara Madrid,Sheila Otto,Nora Shuart-Faris,Mandy Smith

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On Discourse Analysis in Classrooms

Approaches to Language and Literacy Research

By: David Bloome,Stephanie Power Carter,Beth Morton Christian,Samara Madrid,Sheila Otto,Nora Shuart-Faris,Mandy Smith

This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to discourse analysis in a way that redefines traditional topics and provokes the imagination of researchers. For those who have limited knowledge of discourse analysis, this book will help generate new questions about literacy events in classrooms. For those familiar with this research perspective, it will map diverse new approaches. “Offers examples of classroom discourse with analyses that researchers and practitioners can use as the basis for pursuing their own analyses.” —Rob Tierney, Dean, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia “On Discourse Analysis provokes us to rethink discourse analytic approaches as generative tools that can open up new ways of seeing language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors richly illustrate the complexity and potential of discourse analysis studies with cases that orient us to foreground the local with broader cultural, historical, and social relations in ways that make evident what it means to be human. On Discourse Analysis provides a fresh approach to discourse analysis studies.” —Kris Gutierrez, University of California at Los Angeles

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0807776610

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9780807776612

Black Women in the Academy

The Secrets to Success and Achievement

By: Sheila T. Gregory

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Black Women in the Academy

The Secrets to Success and Achievement

By: Sheila T. Gregory

This revised and updated edition of Black Women in the Academy adds updated data on the status of Black faculty women, a forty-four-page bibliography, and a new chapter on the status of international faculty women from twenty different countries, to the only study of the decisions of African-American women to remain in, return to, or voluntarily leave the academy. Sheila Gregory creates a conceptual framework from economic, psychosocial, and job satisfaction theories to construct a model to explain the factors that affect the decision patterns influencing career mobility. She uses a survey of the members of the Association of Black Women in Higher Education to illustrate to what degree the designated variables predict decision patterns. Gregory's analysis focuses on the women who remained in the academy, noting that those who did remain were usually successful high-achievers who managed to overcome numerous obstacles involving career and family. The author also provides an outline detailing how to attract and retain talented Black women scholars, along with possible interventions that might help interinstitutional mobility.

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University Press of America

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0761814124

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9780761814122

The Dog Quiz Book

100 Doggy Questions to Give You 'Paws' for Thought!

By: Sheila Collins

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The Dog Quiz Book

100 Doggy Questions to Give You 'Paws' for Thought!

By: Sheila Collins

Are you a dog owner? Do you consider yourself to be knowledgeable about all things canine? To find out just how much you know about dogs and their place in popular culture, why not have a go at the 100 questions in The Dog Quiz Book. How many registered breeds of dog are there in the UK? What is the real name of the rapper Snoop Dog? In the film Turner and Hooch, Tom Hanks played Turner. What was the name of the dog who played Hooch? The answers to these doggy-related questions and many more can all be found in this fun quiz book. Covering a wide range of topics including famous dogs, different breeds and their characteristics, doggy expressions, facts and trivia, you are certain to learn something new about the UK's favourite pet. This book will appeal to all dog lovers and anyone who has ever had a canine friend. If you are curious about the wonderful world of dogs, The Dog Quiz Book was written with you in mind.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1909949221

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9781909949225

Early Childhood Education and Care

An Introduction

By: Sheila Nutkins,Catriona McDonald,Mary Stephen

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Early Childhood Education and Care

An Introduction

By: Sheila Nutkins,Catriona McDonald,Mary Stephen

′The book gives excellent insight of current Early Years topics by covering international educational approaches and discussing the need to professionalise the sector. It is suitable for students on Early Childhood Studies programme, EYPS, and Early Years Foundation Degrees.′ - Eva Mikuska, Senior Lecturer at University of Chichester, MA, EYPS, and Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Early Childhood By examining how young children develop and learn from conception through to the age of eight, this book explores ways to enhance professional practice in the early years. Sections cover: - Child development (including recent research into cognitive development of babies) - The child in the socio-cultural context - International educational approaches - The developing professional. Learning Features: - Key learning points identify at a glance what each chapter will cover - Case studies help you link theory to practice - Reflective activities help you reflect on how to apply ideas to practice - Further reading directs you to additional resources to deepen your understanding. Illustrated with examples of practice from a range of settings, this accessible text is essential reading for all those studying on Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and Early Years Education and Care courses. Additional online material/support:

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SAGE

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1446290018

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9781446290019

Rebel Crossings

New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States

By: Sheila Rowbotham

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Rebel Crossings

New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States

By: Sheila Rowbotham

In a feat of extraordinary archival research Sheila Rowbotham uncovers six little-known women and men whose lives were both dramatic and startlingly radical. Rowbotham tells a story that moves from Bristol, Belfast and Edinburgh to Massachusetts and the wildernesses of California, showing how rebellious ideas were formed and travelled across the Atlantic. Rebel Crossings offers fascinating perspectives on the historical interaction of feminism, socialism, anarchism and on the incipient consciousness of a new sense of self, so vital for women seeking emancipation. Their influences ranged from Unitarianism, High Church Anglicanism, and esoteric spirituality through to Walt Whitman, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Eleanor Marx, Peter Kropotkin, Benjamin Tucker, and Max Stirner. In differing ways they sought to combine the creation of a co-operative society with personal freedom, enhanced perception and loving friendships, experimenting with free love, rational dress, health diets and deep breathing. A work of significant originality in terms of historical scholarship, this book also speaks to the dilemmas of our own times.

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Verso Books

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1784785903

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9781784785901

Daring to Hope

My Life in the 1970s

By: Sheila Rowbotham

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Daring to Hope

My Life in the 1970s

By: Sheila Rowbotham

A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings, as well as daily life. After addressing the first British Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership. Written with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks, communal houses and squats, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense.

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Verso Books

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1839763914

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Promise of a Dream

Remembering the Sixties

By: Sheila Rowbotham

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Promise of a Dream

Remembering the Sixties

By: Sheila Rowbotham

At the beginning of the decade renowned historian Sheila Rowbotham was a rebellious sixteen-year-old at a Methodist boarding school in the north-east of England, reading Sartre and dreaming of Paris. By the end of the sixties she was a seasoned political activist, planning Britain's first-ever women's liberation conference, and beginning to find her voice as a writer. Her story of the intervening years moves from coffee bars in Leeds to the Sorbonne and Oxford University, where she arrives wearing frayed Levis and clutching a volume of Rimbaud. A participant in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, she was also a member of the editorial board of the notorious revolutionary newspaper Black Dwarf. While faithful to the exhilaration and enthusiasm of the sixties, Rowbotham is also wryly amusing about her younger self. When Jean-Luc Godard wanted to film her in the nude, she dithered between principle and vanity. Wearing the shortest of mini skirts she argued passionately for women's liberation. Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world. Sheila Rowbotham was, and remains, one of their most effective and endearing voices.

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1788734823

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9781788734820

Lascivious Something/Roadkill Confidential/That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play

Three Plays

By: Sheila Callaghan

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Lascivious Something/Roadkill Confidential/That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play

Three Plays

By: Sheila Callaghan

Sheila Callaghan is one of the most distinctive playwrights working in the theater today. Fiercely political, unblinkingly experimental, yet emotionally true, her writing is a refreshing combination of the compelling and the controversial. This volume collects three of her most recent plays to date. It includes: Lascivious Something, a heart-rending and disturbing exploration of failed love and shattered idealism at the dawn of the Reagan era, it follows a lapsed activist’s attempt to start life anew on a vineyard in Greece and what happens when the woman he left behind tracks him down; Roadkill Confidential, a noir-ish meditation on brutality and the intersection between fear and art, focused on an artist who uses the corpses of dead animals found on the side of the road as the medium for her creations; and That Pretty Pretty; Or, the Rape Play, which imagines our girls gone wild culture spiraling out to its most extreme ends while exploring issues of beauty, objectification, perversity, and naturalism in current society.

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Catapult

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1593764146

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9781593764142

The State and the Transnational Politics of Migrants: A Study of the Chins and the Acehnese in Malaysia

By: Sheila Murugasu

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The State and the Transnational Politics of Migrants: A Study of the Chins and the Acehnese in Malaysia

By: Sheila Murugasu

This book is an exploration of the various types of transnational politics that the Chin and Acehnese people are engaged in, particularly in the Malaysian state. As with so many migrants elsewhere in the world who try to organize themselves transnationally, the Chin and Acehnese have needed to negotiate a challenging socio-political landscape that is the Malaysian state. Here, the author illustrates that migrants don’t just travel with their hopes for the future, but with grievances and identities which are rooted in their homelands. This is a book for those interested in reading an account that reflects the complexities of migrant life in the 21st century - an era replete with fluid labour markets, deregulated air travel, porous borders and political leaders who move transnationally, acting as binding agents for the far-flung communities they seek to represent.

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Springer

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1137370610

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9781137370617

Crazy Sexy Diet

Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!

By: Kris Carr,Sheila Buff

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Crazy Sexy Diet

Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!

By: Kris Carr,Sheila Buff

The author of the best-selling Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor takes on the crazy sexy subject of what and how we eat, drink, and think. Crazysexydiet.com On the heels of Kris Carr’s best-selling cancer survival guidebooks and her acclaimed TLC documentary comes her new journey into a realm vital to anyone’s health. Infused with her signature sass, wit and advice-from-the-trenches style, Crazy Sexy Diet is a beautifully illustrated resource that puts you on the fast track to vibrant health, happiness and a great ass! Along with help from her posse of experts, Carr lays out the fundamentals of her Crazy Sexy Diet: a low-glycemic, vegetarian program that emphasizes balancing the pH of the body with lush whole and raw foods, nourishing organic green drinks, and scrumptious smoothies. Plus, she shares the steps of her own twenty-one-day cleanse, and simple but delectable sample recipes. In ten chapters with titles such as, “pHabulous,” “Coffee, Cupcakes and Cocktails,” “Make Juice Not War,” and “God-Pod Glow,” Carr empowers readers to move from a state of constant bodily damage control to one of renewal and repair. In addition to debunking common diet myths and sharing vital tips on detoxifying our bodies and psyches—advice that draws both on her personal experience as a cancer survivor and that of experts—she provides helpful hints on natural personal care, how to stretch a dollar, navigate the grocery store, eating well on the run, and working through the inevitable pangs and cravings for your old not-so-healthy life. Crazy Sexy Diet is a must for anyone who seeks to be a confident and sexy wellness warrior.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762774525

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9780762774524

Socialising Complexity

Approaches to Power and Interaction in the Archaeological Record

By: Sheila Kohring,Stephanie Wynne-Jones

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Socialising Complexity

Approaches to Power and Interaction in the Archaeological Record

By: Sheila Kohring,Stephanie Wynne-Jones

Socialising Complexity introduces the concept of complexity as a tool, rather than a category, for understanding social formations. This new take on complexity moves beyond the traditional concern with what constitutes a complex society and focuses on the complexity inherent in various social forms through the structuring principles created within each society. The aims and themes of the book can thus be summarized as follows: to introduce the idea of complexity as a tool, which is pertinent to the understanding of all types of society, rather than an exclusionary type of society in its own right; to examine concepts that can enhance our interpretation of societal complexity, such as heterarchy, materialization and contextualization. These concepts are applied at different scales and in different ways, illustrating their utility in a variety of different cases; to reestablish social structure as a topic of study within archaeology, which can be profitably studied by proponents of both processual and post-processual methodologies.

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Oxbow Books

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1785705083

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9781785705083

The Nazi Symbiosis

Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich

By: Sheila Faith Weiss

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The Nazi Symbiosis

Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich

By: Sheila Faith Weiss

The Nazi Symbiosis' offers a nuanced account of the myriad ways human heredity and Nazi politics reinforced each other before and during the Third Reich. It questions whether the motives of German geneticists were much different from the compromises that are faced by researchers from other countries and eras.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226891763

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9780226891767

Connecting with the Enemy

A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence

By: Sheila H. Katz

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Connecting with the Enemy

A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence

By: Sheila H. Katz

Surveying the initiatives of more than five hundred groups across the past century, this timely book reveals how thousands of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians have worked together to end violence and forge connections between their peoples.

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University of Texas Press

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1477310622

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9781477310625

What Are You Doing Here?

By: Sheila McNeill

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What Are You Doing Here?

By: Sheila McNeill

After my tenure as national president of the Navy League and after I think, perhaps, I have nothing to prove, I was wrong. I am asked to speak at the annual Thursday night dinner of the Submarine Veterans of WWII in November 2008. I came in at the last minute and sat down at the designated table full of submarine veterans and their wives. I was the last one to sit down. The submarine veteran next to me listens while we visit at the table for a few minutes and then turns to me and says, "What are you doing here? You don't know anything about us. You aren't a submariner. Why should you be speaking to us?" And I thought, Here we go again.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1644249545

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9781644249543

Living and Studying at Home

Degrees of Inequality

By: Sheila Riddell,Lyn Tett,Hazel Christie,Rachael King,Sofia Shan

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Living and Studying at Home

Degrees of Inequality

By: Sheila Riddell,Lyn Tett,Hazel Christie,Rachael King,Sofia Shan

Living and Studying at Home: Degrees of Inequality explores the social characteristics, experiences, and outcomes of commuting students in an old Scottish university, highlighting the social class dimension of commuting.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1835494986

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9781835494981

29 Years of Preparation

A Guide and Blueprint to Success

By: Sheila L. Brown

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29 Years of Preparation

A Guide and Blueprint to Success

By: Sheila L. Brown

Praise for Sheila Brown Were fortunate to have a great community partner in Sheila Brown, who continues to turn ideas into action to create positive change in Buffalo. The Honorale Mayor Byron W. Brown City of Buffalo, NY Sheila Brown is a trailblazer in the gospel music industry. She has gone where many people are afraid to tread. By Gods grace and mercy, she is the perfect exemplary for all to follow. Wanda Adams, CEO Marketing Ministry, LLC Sheila Brown is a phenomenal, talented woman of God who is boldly walking out her faith! Sandy White Former Los Angeles and BET Broadcaster, Author, and Filmmaker A name given to Sheila Brown when she first got into the radio industry was Radioalways, Here comes Radio! Mack Luckey Doris Records

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iUniverse

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1491774347

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9781491774342

The Sexuality Debates

By: Sheila Jeffreys

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The Sexuality Debates

By: Sheila Jeffreys

First published in 1987. From the 1870's to the 1920's, feminists actively campaigned against men's sexual abuse of women. This collection brings together the major articles which fuelled the feminist campaigns and helped to bring about significant reforms.

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1136409963

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From Nineveh to New York

The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School

By: John Malcolm Russell,Judith Sheila McKenzie,Judith McKenzie,Stephanie Dalley,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff

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From Nineveh to New York

The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School

By: John Malcolm Russell,Judith Sheila McKenzie,Judith McKenzie,Stephanie Dalley,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff

The strange story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. This volume includes previously unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare nineteenth century sources, and passages from the diary of Lady Charlotte Guest (cousin of Austen Henry Layard).

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Yale University Press

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0300064594

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Conceptualising the Digital University

The Intersection of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice

By: Bill Johnston,Sheila MacNeill,Keith Smyth

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Conceptualising the Digital University

The Intersection of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice

By: Bill Johnston,Sheila MacNeill,Keith Smyth

Despite the increasing ubiquity of the term, the concept of the digital university remains diffuse and indeterminate. This book examines what the term 'digital university' should encapsulate and the resulting challenges, possibilities and implications that digital technology and practice brings to higher education. Critiquing the current state of definition of the digital university construct, the authors propose a more holistic, integrated account that acknowledges the inherent diffuseness of the concept. The authors also question the extent to which digital technologies and practices can allow us to re-think the location of universities and curricula; and how they can extend higher education as a public good within the current wider political context. Framed inside a critical pedagogy perspective, this volume debates the role of the university in fostering the learning environments, skills and capabilities needed for critical engagement, active open participation and reflection in the digital age. This pioneering volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of digital education, as well as policy makers and practitioners.

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3319991604

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Inclusive Primary Teaching

A critical approach to equality and special educational needs

By: Janet Goepel,Helen Childerhouse,Sheila Sharpe

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Inclusive Primary Teaching

A critical approach to equality and special educational needs

By: Janet Goepel,Helen Childerhouse,Sheila Sharpe

This is an invaluable and up to date text on inclusive practice for all primary trainees and teachers and for those working towards the National Award SEN Co-ordination. It provides a critical approach to inclusion combining both theory and practice while promoting critical thinking about the complex issues involved. Scenarios are used as the basis for unpicking major issues and provide the opportunity for learning in context, and chapter reflections encourage deep thinking about the key learning points.

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1909330329

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Women in Movement (Routledge Revivals)

Feminism and Social Action

By: Sheila Rowbotham

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Women in Movement (Routledge Revivals)

Feminism and Social Action

By: Sheila Rowbotham

First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women’s movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to organize, not only in Europe and North America, but also in the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham outlines a long history of women’s challenges to the gender bias in political and economical concepts. She shows women laying claim to rights and citizenship, while contesting male definitions of their scope, and seeking to enlarge the meaning of economy through action around consumption and production, environmental protests and welfare projects.

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Sexual Divisions Revisited

By: Sheila Allen,Diane Leonard,Matthew Santirocco

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Sexual Divisions Revisited

By: Sheila Allen,Diane Leonard,Matthew Santirocco

A selection of papers from the volumes "Sexual Divisions and Society" and "Exploitation in Work and Marriage" produced almost a decade ago at a conference in Aberdeen.

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1349211915

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The Martin Presence

Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia

By: Peter Beilharz,Trevor Hogan,Sheila Shaver

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The Martin Presence

Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia

By: Peter Beilharz,Trevor Hogan,Sheila Shaver

Jean Martin was a pioneer of sociology, inventing a version of the discipline that was uniquely suited to Australia in the post-war period. Jean Isobel Martin (1923–79) made herself a sociologist before the discipline was established in Australia. Regarded as a founder of Australian sociology, her writing, teaching and policy helped shape Australia in the period of economic growth and social development that followed World War II. The Martin Presence is a biography that examines her life and her work across the concerns of the time – the needs of country towns, the factory work floor, families and urban structure, poverty and inequality, education and immigration – and explores her far-reaching influence on the social sciences in Australia.

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UNSW Press

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1742242022

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Bills and Acts

Legislative Procedure in Eighteenth-Century England

By: Sheila Lambert

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Bills and Acts

Legislative Procedure in Eighteenth-Century England

By: Sheila Lambert

The eighteenth century Parliament gained much greater influence over the everyday life of the community.

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Cambridge University Press

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052108119X

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Circle in the Square Theatre

A Comprehensive History

By: Sheila Hickey Garvey

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Circle in the Square Theatre

A Comprehensive History

By: Sheila Hickey Garvey

Based on years of research as well as interviews conducted with Circle in the Square's major contributing artists, this book records the entire history of this distinguished theatre from its nightclub origins to its current status as a Tony Award-winning Broadway institution. Over the course of seven decades, Circle in the Square theatre profoundly changed ideas of what American theatre could be. Founded by Theodore Mann and Jose Quintero in an abandoned Off-Broadway nightclub just after WWII, it was a catalyst for the Off-Broadway movement. The building had a unique arena-shaped performance space that became Circle in the Square theatre, New York's first Off-Broadway arena stage and currently Broadway's only arena stage. The theatre was precedent-setting in many other regards, including operating as a non-profit, contracting with trade unions, establishing a school, and serving as a home for blacklisted artists. It sparked a resurgence of interest in playwright Eugene O'Neill's canon, and was famous for landmark revivals and American premieres of his plays. The theatre also fostered the careers of such luminaries as Geraldine Page, Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Cecily Tyson, Dustin Hoffman, Irene Papas, Alan Arkin, Philip Bosco, Al Pacino, Amy Irving, Pamela Payton-Wright, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Christie, John Malkovich, Lynn Redgrave, and Annette Bening.

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McFarland

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1476639493

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9781476639499

Zoo Animals

Behaviour, Management, and Welfare

By: Geoff Hosey,Vicky Melfi,Sheila Pankhurst

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Zoo Animals

Behaviour, Management, and Welfare

By: Geoff Hosey,Vicky Melfi,Sheila Pankhurst

Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, and Welfare is the ideal resource for anyone needing a thorough grounding in this subject, whether as a student or as a zoo professional.

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Oxford University Press

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0199693528

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The Momologues

The Original Comedy about Motherhood

By: Lisa Rafferty,Stefanie Cloutier,Sheila Eppolito

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The Momologues

The Original Comedy about Motherhood

By: Lisa Rafferty,Stefanie Cloutier,Sheila Eppolito

This original comedy about motherhood rips away the gauzy mask of parenthood to reveal what all mothers know but don't always talk about: it's overwhelming and exhausting, but also very, very funny." --from cover.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573697396

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Designs on Nature

Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

By: Sheila Jasanoff

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Designs on Nature

Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

By: Sheila Jasanoff

Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and biotechnology. These significant differences in law and policy, and in ethical analysis, may in a globalizing world act as obstacles to free trade, scientific inquiry, and shared understandings of human dignity. In this magisterial look at some twenty-five years of scientific and social development, Sheila Jasanoff compares the politics and policy of the life sciences in Britain, Germany, the United States, and in the European Union as a whole. She shows how public and private actors in each setting evaluated new manifestations of biotechnology and tried to reassure themselves about their safety. Three main themes emerge. First, core concepts of democratic theory, such as citizenship, deliberation, and accountability, cannot be understood satisfactorily without taking on board the politics of science and technology. Second, in all three countries, policies for the life sciences have been incorporated into "nation-building" projects that seek to reimagine what the nation stands for. Third, political culture influences democratic politics, and it works through the institutionalized ways in which citizens understand and evaluate public knowledge. These three aspects of contemporary politics, Jasanoff argues, help account not only for policy divergences but also for the perceived legitimacy of state actions.

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Princeton University Press

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1400837316

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W.H. Crossland

By: Sheila Binns

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W.H. Crossland

By: Sheila Binns

The creative genius behind Founder’s Building at Royal Holloway, University of London, arguably the most glorious building in England of the end of the nineteenth century, is widely respected and its architectural style is regarded as archetypally ‘Victorian’. Yet its architect, William Henry Crossland, is little known, despite a substantial catalogue of buildings, most of which remain standing today. Bringing Crossland out of the shadows, this biography explores this mysterious and elusive figure in depth for the first time. Recently digitised documents and long-hidden archival material have thrown a powerful light on Crossland, which, together with the author’s first-hand knowledge of his buildings, offer the reader an unprecedented appreciation and understanding of the man, his life and work, as well as his personal and artistic influences. W.H. Crossland fills a gap in nineteenth-century architectural knowledge, but it is also the touching story of an ambitious and talented man, who is long overdue to be recognised as one of the ‘greats’ among nineteenth-century architects. This book is intended for architects, architectural historians and anyone who is interested in the built environment, nineteenth-century history and intriguing personal stories.

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0718895487

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Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Theatre

Broadway North / Let's Go to The Grand! / Once Upon a Time in Paradise / Passion to Dance / Sky Train / Romancing the Bard / Stardust and Shadows

By: James Neufeld,Charles Foster,Mel Atkey,Martin Hunter,Sheila M.F. Johnston,Ward McBurney

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Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Theatre

Broadway North / Let's Go to The Grand! / Once Upon a Time in Paradise / Passion to Dance / Sky Train / Romancing the Bard / Stardust and Shadows

By: James Neufeld,Charles Foster,Mel Atkey,Martin Hunter,Sheila M.F. Johnston,Ward McBurney

This special bundle contains seven books that detail Canada’s long and storied history in the performing arts. We learn about Canada’s early Hollywood celebrity movie stars; Canadians’ vast contributions to successful international stage musicals; the story of The Grand, a famous theatre in London, Ontario; reminiscences from the early days of radio; the history of the renowned Stratford Festival; and a lavish history of the famous National Ballet of Canada. Canada’s performing artists blossomed in the twentieth century, and you can learn all about it here. Includes Broadway North Let’s Go to The Grand! Once Upon a Time in Paradise Passion to Dance Sky Train Romancing the Bard Stardust and Shadows

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1459728300

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Disability and the Black Community

By: Sheila D Miller

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Disability and the Black Community

By: Sheila D Miller

Increase your awareness of the concerns facing the black disabled community! Disability and the Black Community addresses physical, mental, and learning disabilities experienced across age, gender, and ethics groups by the black race in the United States. This unique book works to increase understanding and awareness of those working with the disabled by mobilizing advocates, providing alternatives for successful intervention and planning, and encouraging research in disability and rehabilitation. A distinguished panel of researchers and practitioners provide commentary on topics that include selected physical disabilities, disabled children learning and program concerns, welfare reform, public housing issues, domestic violence, and disability curriculum contentall in accordance with the broadening of the definition of disability as supported by the American Disabilities Act. Disability and the Black Community raises the level of understanding and awareness of the complex and diverse concerns facing the disabled and their families in the community and the workplace. The book is at once motivational, influential, and empowering, examining social and political issues that compound the ordeals confronting the black disabled. Topics addressed include: learning disabilities, academic achievements, and mental health issues of children health disparities and access to care welfare reform, disability, and race practice, program, and curriculum models and much more! Disability and the Black Community is an essential resource for health professionals and advocates who work with the black disabled. The book keeps practitioners up to date on what is needed in terms of funding, facilities, and resources in order to keep the larger society and significant resource systems appraised of the needs of the disabled.

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1135793433

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9781135793432

Higher Education in Scotland and the UK

By: Sheila Riddell

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Higher Education in Scotland and the UK

By: Sheila Riddell

This book examines the impact of devolution on Scottish and UK higher education systems, including institutional governance, approaches to tuition fees and student support, cross-border student flows, widening access, internationalisation and research pol

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