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Community-Based Prevention

Reducing the Risk of Cancer and Chronic Disease

By: David McLean,Dan Williams,Hans Krueger,Sonia Lamont

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Community-Based Prevention

Reducing the Risk of Cancer and Chronic Disease

By: David McLean,Dan Williams,Hans Krueger,Sonia Lamont

Cancer and chronic disease are a rapidly increasing global health burden: according to the Milken Institute, the annual cost to the national US economy of the seven most common chronic conditions will rise to $4.2 trillion by 2023. The data are just as dramatic in Canada, Europe, Australia, and increasingly, in countries in the developing world. As communities, governments, and health organizations worldwide struggle to avoid being swamped by health care costs – not to mention the impact of suffering and poor quality of life – the only long-term, sustainable hope must be based on prevention efforts. This book presents a promising new approach to educating, engaging, empowering, and generating action within communities as part of that broader prevention agenda. The authors review representative global experiences with community based prevention educators, focusing on the prevention coordination work that can be accomplished within geographical areas ranging from local communities to broader regions. Among the findings they reveal in this book are the fundamental elements of successful Community Based Prevention programs – skilled staff, high-quality evaluation, and sustained investment in prevention efforts.

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University of Toronto Press

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144266231X

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9781442662315

Just Boris

A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By: Sonia Purnell

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Just Boris

A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By: Sonia Purnell

A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to most of us he is just ‘Boris’ – the only politician of the age to be regarded in such familiar, even affectionate terms. Uniquely, he combines comedy with erudition, gimlet-eyed focus with jokey self-deprecation, and is a loving family man with a roving eye. He is also a hugely ambitious figure with seemingly no huge ambitions to pursue – other than, perhaps, power itself. In this revealing biography, written from the vantage point of a once close colleague, Sonia Purnell examines how a shy, young boy from a broken home became our only box-office politician – and most unlikely sex god; how the Etonian product fond of Latin tags became a Man of the People – and why he wanted to be; how the gaffe-prone buffoon charmed Londonders to win the largest personal mandate Britain has ever seen; and how the Johnson family built our biggest – and blondest – media and political dynasty. The first forensic account of a remarkable rise to fame and power, Just Boris unravels this most compelling of political enigmas and asks whether the Mayor who dreams of crossing the Thames to Downing Street has what it takes to be Prime Minister.

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Aurum

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1845137418

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9781845137410

Tangled Goods

The Practical Life of Pro Bono Advertising

By: Iddo Tavory,Sonia Prelat,Shelly Ronen

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Tangled Goods

The Practical Life of Pro Bono Advertising

By: Iddo Tavory,Sonia Prelat,Shelly Ronen

A novel investigation of pro bono marketing and the relationship between goods, exploring the complex moral dimensions of philanthropic advertising. The advertising industry may seem like one of the most craven manifestations of capitalism, turning consumption into a virtue. In Tangled Goods, authors Iddo Tavory, Sonia Prelat, and Shelly Ronen consider an important dimension of the advertising industry that appears to depart from the industry’s consumerist foundations: pro bono ad campaigns. Why is an industry known for biting cynicism and cutthroat competition also an industry in which people dedicate time and effort to “doing good”? Interviewing over seventy advertising professionals and managers, the authors trace the complicated meanings of the good in these pro bono projects. Doing something altruistic, they show, often helps employees feel more at ease working for big pharma or corporate banks. Often these projects afford them greater creative leeway than they normally have, as well as the potential for greater recognition. While the authors uncover different motivations behind pro bono work, they are more interested in considering how various notions of the good shift, with different motivations and benefits rising to the surface at different moments. This book sheds new light on how goodness and prestige interact with personal and altruistic motivations to produce value for individuals and institutions and produces a novel theory of the relationship among goods: one of the most fraught questions in sociological theory.

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210

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University of Chicago Press

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0226820173

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9780226820170

Retrieving Experience

Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics

By: Sonia Kruks

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Retrieving Experience

Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics

By: Sonia Kruks

In Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of discourse. To address this lack and explain why it matters for feminist politics, Kruks retrieves and employs aspects of postwar French existential theory—a tradition that, she argues, postmodernism has obscured by militantly rejecting its own genealogy.Kruks seeks to refocus our attention on the importance for feminism of embodied and "lived" experiences. Through her original readings of Simone de Beauvoir and other existential thinkers—including Sartre, Fanon, and Merleau-Ponty—and her own analyses inspired by their work, Kruks sheds new light on central problems in feminist theory and politics. These include debates about subjectivity and individual agency; questions about recognition and identity politics; and discussion of whether embodied experiences may sometimes facilitate solidarity among groups of different women.

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218

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Cornell University Press

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1501731831

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9781501731839

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

By: Sonia Manzano

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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

By: Sonia Manzano

Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1970s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and nosy neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an alcoholic father. But it is Sonia's dream of becoming an actress that keeps her afloat among the turbulence of her life and times. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions.

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261

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545621860

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9780545621861

Parallel Religious Revolutions in Britain in 1688 and Egypt in 2013

By: Thomas West,Sonia Alianak

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Parallel Religious Revolutions in Britain in 1688 and Egypt in 2013

By: Thomas West,Sonia Alianak

Revolutionary periods, like Britain underwent in 1642-1688 and Egypt experienced in 2011-2013, are characterized by idealistic goals. So when and why did the idealistic goals of religious toleration and constitutional democracy in Britain and Egypt, as introduced by their respective post-revolutionary rulers James II and Mohamed Morsi, lead to counter-revolutions? Why did religion not stabilize regimes, (unlike Marx’s palliative or Alianak’s stabilization in times of crisis), but instead led to revolutions and counter-revolutions? This book explores these questions and provides an explanation by introducing a theoretical construct of the presence of sectarian strains in both countries that magnified the unwitting perceived “basic blunders” of these new and inexperienced rulers and hence led to counter-revolutions albeit with different end-results: a constitutional monarchy in Britain with the re-establishment of a “secure” Church of England and a return to a perceived non-sectarian military rule, an illiberal democracy, in Egypt.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527581551

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9781527581555

Developing Professional Practice 0-7

By: Sonia Blandford,Catherine Knowles

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Developing Professional Practice 0-7

By: Sonia Blandford,Catherine Knowles

Developing Professional Practice 0-7 provides a thoroughly comprehensive and cutting edge guide to developing the understanding and practical skills necessary for working within early years education. The new edition is fully updated for the revised Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework. The updated edition covers all core topics associated with developing effective professional practice, including leadership and management, personalised learning and continuing professional development. There is also a strong focus on parent/carer engagement, setting accountability for the lowest attaining groups, the parent/carer and child voice in education, transition, SEND reform, early intervention, and developing leadership at all levels including as a business model. Readers can explore in-depth issues, and take ownership of them, by applying theory to real practice in schools and early years settings. Chapter contents are directly linked to the Early Years Teacher Standards, providing a clear understanding of how the content relates to competencies and allowing readers to reflect critically on best practice. Discussion points and case studies further connect theory to practice and offer a genuinely accessible and engaging introduction to supporting the education of babies, toddlers and young children. This vibrant, dynamic and interactive approach uses examples of real practice, along with a range of additional features tailored to support the reader in developing their knowledge, skills and understanding. Developing Professional Practice 0-7 is essential reading for anyone training to work in the early years, and an invaluable resource for all those already in the early stages of their careers.

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529

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Routledge

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1317416716

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9781317416715

Wounded in the House of a Friend

By: Sonia Sanchez

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Wounded in the House of a Friend

By: Sonia Sanchez

Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez explores the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women's lives: an unfaithful life partner, a brutal rape, the murder of a woman by her granddaughter, the ravages of drugs. Sanchez transforms the unspoken and sometimes violent betrayals of our lives into a liberating vision of connection in emotional redemption, compassion, and self-fulfillment.

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Beacon Press

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0807095303

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9780807095300

BIOS Instant Notes in Ecology

By: Aulay Mackenzie,Andy Ball,Sonia Virdee

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BIOS Instant Notes in Ecology

By: Aulay Mackenzie,Andy Ball,Sonia Virdee

This book is designed to give students rapid and easy access to key ecological material to assist learning and revision. Key topics such as populations and interactions, ecosystems, population genetics, community patterns and many more are structured into manageable sections, each cross-referenced, to allow easy navigation through the information.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136276432

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9781136276439

Signs of Life in the USA

Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

By: Sonia Maasik

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Signs of Life in the USA

Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

By: Sonia Maasik

Signs of Life in the USA teaches students to read and write critically about popular culture by giving them a conceptual framework to do it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its signs. Written by a prominent semiotician and an experienced writing instructor, the text’s high-interest themes feature provocative and current reading selections that ask students to think analytically about America’s impressive popular culture: How is TV’s Mad Men a lightning rod for America’s polarized political climate? Has the nature of personal identity changed in an era when we spend so much of our lives online? Signs of Life bridges the transition to college writing by providing students with academic language to talk about our common, everyday cultural experience. Read the preface. Order Multimodal Readings for Signs of Life in the USA packaged with Signs of Life in the USA, Seventh Edition using ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-1989-2.

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745

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Macmillan

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031264700X

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9780312647001

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

By: Sonia Sanchez

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Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

By: Sonia Sanchez

Collected interviews with the poet, activist, and author of Home Coming and We a BaddDDD People

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244

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578069521

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9781578069521

African America Reference Series

Culmative Index

By: Sonia G. Benson

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African America Reference Series

Culmative Index

By: Sonia G. Benson

Search the extensive U - X - L African American Reference Library with ease with this cumulative index to the entire set.

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100

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UXL

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078761856X

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9780787618568

Community-Based Prevention

Reducing the Risk of Cancer and Chronic Disease

By: David McLean,Dan Williams,Hans Krueger,Sonia Lamont

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Community-Based Prevention

Reducing the Risk of Cancer and Chronic Disease

By: David McLean,Dan Williams,Hans Krueger,Sonia Lamont

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University of Toronto Press

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144266231X

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Book's by Sonia Lamont

Community-Based Prevention

Community-Based Prevention

Just Boris

Just Boris

Tangled Goods

Tangled Goods

Retrieving Experience

Retrieving Experience

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

Parallel Religious Revolutions in Britain in 1688 and Egypt in 2013

Parallel Religious Revolutions in Britain in 1688 and Egypt in 2013

Developing Professional Practice 0-7

Developing Professional Practice 0-7

Wounded in the House of a Friend

Wounded in the House of a Friend

BIOS Instant Notes in Ecology

BIOS Instant Notes in Ecology

Signs of Life in the USA

Signs of Life in the USA

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

African America Reference Series

African America Reference Series

Community-Based Prevention

Community-Based Prevention

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