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Julia's Secret and Other Stories by Valerie Coles

By: Valerie Coles

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Julia's Secret and Other Stories by Valerie Coles

By: Valerie Coles

This is Valerie’s first book of short stories. Born in Melbourne, the family moved to Brisbane in 1979. She enjoys a great relationship with her three children and five grand children and has lived on the Sunshine Coast with her partner for the past 19 years. Here is a short reference to the stories. Julia’s Secret begins in 1895 in Melbourne. At 16 years of age, all photo’s and knowledge of Julia vanished. Her Great Great Grand-daughter Paula, searches and finds the shocking truth. The Dream Weaver. A story of a twisted psychologist, who is on a mission that involves seeing how far you can push a person to commit suicide or murder. The Girls Club reflects the tenuous and disjointed relationships of four school friends in later life. The Mistake. A trip to a deserted old town where a murder goes horribly wrong. Just Deserts is about a married guy whose latest affair brings him undone.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479745510

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Tangles and Other Stories by Valerie Coles

By: Valerie Coles

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Tangles and Other Stories by Valerie Coles

By: Valerie Coles

This is Valerie’s second book of short stories as edited by her daughter Shelly Barber. Born in Melbourne, the family moved to Brisbane in 1970. She enjoys a great relationship with her three children and five grand children and has lived on the Sunshine Coast with her partner for the past 19 years. Here is a short reference to the stories. Tangles. A tale of mayhem when three mates go fishing but the crazy antics involve a lot more than catching fish. Life Changes. Zara decides to start a new life in the small town of Imbil in search of love. When a disaster befalls her newly renovated cottage, she then has to rethink her life yet again. One for the Merryman. Leo had been a popular Movie Star. But was most unhappy at the thought of turning 70. His two nieces decided to throw him a party that he wouldn’t forget and the outcome was going to change his life forever. The Exchange. When two inmates were given the chance of a life time, they took it with both hands and ended up with a life they had only been able to dream of. But it wasn’t without its share of dramas. Cousin George. Gina’s cousin George was a famous movie star. In between his filming, he usually caught up with Gina and this was no exception. The problem was, this time it turned out to be quite exceptional.

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1479780510

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9781479780518

Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster

By: Valerie Wainwright

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Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster

By: Valerie Wainwright

Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns a new orientation towards an expansive ethics of flourishing or living well in Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Forster. In a sequence of remarkable novels by these authors, Wainwright traces an ethical perspective that privileges styles of life that are worthy and fulfilling, admirable and rewarding. Presenting new research into the ethical debates in which these authors participated, this rigorous and energetic work reveals the ways in which ideas of major theorists such as Kant, F. H. Bradley, or John Stuart Mill, as well as those of now little-known writers such as the priest Edward Tagart, the preacher William Maccall, and philanthropist Helen Dendy Bosanquet, were appropriated and reappraised. Further, Wainwright seeks also to place these novelists within the wider context of modernity and proposes that their responses can be linked to the on-going and animated discussions that characterize modern moral philosophy.

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Routledge

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1317141210

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9781317141211

Lives on the Edge

Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America

By: Valerie Polakow

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Lives on the Edge

Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America

By: Valerie Polakow

One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ranging critique of American educational and social policy. Stark, penetrating, and unflinching in its first-hand portraits of single mothers in America today, this work challenges basic myths about justice and democracy.

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University of Chicago Press

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022621964X

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9780226219646

Winning the War Against Youth Gangs

A Guide for Teens, Families, and Communities

By: Valerie Wiener

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Winning the War Against Youth Gangs

A Guide for Teens, Families, and Communities

By: Valerie Wiener

Gangs have spread throughout the entire sector of society, and what was once viewed as an inner-city problem can now be found everywhere, including suburbia. This guide for teenagers, their families, and impacted communities addresses the youth gang issue in understandable, manageable terms. Quotes from teens themselves provide valuable insight into the problems that can cause kids to join gangs: absent parents, the need for excitement or to belong to a group, following in the footsteps of family members who are involved in gangs. These factors and others are explored (including an examination of the workings of the adolescent mind), and sound solutions are suggested to help kids resist gang membership. Four distinct sections bring into focus the topic of youth gangs and ways to prevent kids from joining them. Part I describes many basic issues and needs all teens and pre-teens have in common and how these relate to gangs. Part II addresses how and why certain young people enter and sometimes exit gang alliances. Part III focuses on how several integral components of the teen's life and community can work together to resolve youths' involvement with gangs. Part IV analyzes the critical influence of families and the teens themselves as they approach important life choices. Wiener's unique approach includes suggestions and comments from the young people themselves to try to bridge the gap between themselves and the adults in their lives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313032459

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9780313032455

Superheroines and the Epic Journey

Mythic Themes in Comics, Film and Television

By: Valerie Estelle Frankel

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Superheroines and the Epic Journey

Mythic Themes in Comics, Film and Television

By: Valerie Estelle Frankel

The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they've rejected in themselves. Supergirl similarly struggles but keeps harmony with her sister. From Jessica Jones and Catwoman to the new superwomen of cutting-edge webcomics, each heroine must go into the dark, to become not a warrior but a savior. Women like Captain Marvel and Storm sacrifice all to join the ranks of superheroes, while their feminine powers and dazzling costumes reflect the most ancient tales.

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McFarland

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1476628017

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9781476628011

Volatile Places

A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies

By: Valerie Gunter,Steve Kroll-Smith

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Volatile Places

A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies

By: Valerie Gunter,Steve Kroll-Smith

Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies is a thoughtful guide to the spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. The movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina are specifically highlighted. Authors Valerie Gunter and Steve Kroll-Smith begin with a simple observation and offer a provocative case study approach to the investigation of community and environmental controversies. Key Features: Compels students with personal narrative: Co-author Valerie Gunter, who was teaching at the University of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck, gives her personal standpoint of this tragedy. Creates a dramatic story around the controversy: Each case study illustrates a local environmental conflict and is written to capture students′ attention. Provides a unique way to view environmental conflicts: The book illustrates the importance of each perspective and local knowledge when making decisions about the environment. Makes connections with previous chapters: The chapters are integrated to create a strong sense for the multifaceted approach to the study of community and environmental controversies. Includes portfolios in each chapter as well as concept and theory boxes: Students are inspired to engage in spirited thinking, original research, and action. Intended Audience: This text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Environmental Sociology. It is also an ideal text for Social Problems courses focusing on environmental issues.

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SAGE

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1452239568

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9781452239569

Child and Family-Centred Healthcare

Concept, Theory and Practice

By: Lynda Smith,Valerie Coleman

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Child and Family-Centred Healthcare

Concept, Theory and Practice

By: Lynda Smith,Valerie Coleman

The definitive book on family centred care for health professionals, this popular text has been thoroughly revised in line with contemporary health policy. Including greater emphasis on child-centred care, interprofessional working and care in community settings; it is a valuable resource for all those working with children and families.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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113703579X

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9781137035790

Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense September 2016 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Valerie Hansen,Debby Giusti,Jodie Bailey

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Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense September 2016 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Valerie Hansen,Debby Giusti,Jodie Bailey

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. SEARCH AND RESCUE Rookie K-9 Unit by Valerie Hansen Widowed police chief Ryder Hayes lost his wife to his violent stalker. Now that he's slowly allowing himself to move on and get close to K-9 trainer Sophie Williams, will the killer return to take another woman he cares about? PLAIN TRUTH Military Investigations by Debby Giusti After someone attacks pediatrician Ella Jacobsen in her clinic for Amish children, Special Agent Zach Swain investigates—and promises to keep her safe. But for Zach, searching for the would-be killer could mean losing his heart. BREACH OF TRUST by Jodie Bailey A hacker is out to get ex-soldier Meghan McGuire. And she must reunite with her former partner, Tate Walker—the man she once loved but thought was dead—to ensure her safety.

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1488023026

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The Churchwardens’ Accounts of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London, 1466-1500

By: Gary Gibbs,Valerie A. Hitchman

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The Churchwardens’ Accounts of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London, 1466-1500

By: Gary Gibbs,Valerie A. Hitchman

This volume contains transcriptions of rolls 1 to 20 (1466-1500) of the 105 (1466-1636) extant rolls of churchwardens’ accounts from the parish of St Botolph without Aldersgate, London. These financial records, along with assorted memoranda, are filled with information about the church, its operations, and the numerous people who repaired, maintained, and provisioned it. The churchwardens dealt with local problems and kept track of money they believed they were owed. These records not only present very detailed insights into a vanished world, but the resulting evidence augments and challenges existing theories about the fifteenth-century parish.

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BRILL

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9004680152

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9789004680159

Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism

Youth in Southern Europe

By: Valerie Visanich

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Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism

Youth in Southern Europe

By: Valerie Visanich

Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism questions the individualization process in education in the Anglo-American context and analyses how this process is applied in the everyday life of millennials with tertiary education in Southern Europe. Valerie Visanich explores the close affinity of this concept to neoliberalism in contemporary societies, specifically by focusing on changes in education and employment. Using Beck & Beck-Gernsheim's concept of individualization to refer to increased freedom in one's life choices yet at the same time increased risks, Visanich unpacks the trajectories of life experiences of tertiary educated millennials in the contemporary neoliberal Anglo-American setting in relation to recent cultural and socio-economic changes. She examines how this individualized mode is adopted and adapted in countries across Southern Europe including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Greece – in locations where cultural conditions habitually cushion-out, often by family networks and patronage, some of the burdens of being young today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350082473

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Detox Your Heart

Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma

By: Valerie Mason-John

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Detox Your Heart

Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma

By: Valerie Mason-John

Drawing on her own experiences with abuse and addiction, Valerie Mason-John presents a well-grounded series of meditations that transform anger, hatred, and fear to heal emotional trauma. Valerie Mason-John knows what it is like to be filled with toxic emotions—and how to release them. After years of abuse and struggles with addiction, she was mired in anger, resentment, and fear. But through meditation and willingness to forge a new path, she learned how to disarm such toxins and find peace. In Detox Your Heart Mason-John helps us recognize our emotions, good and bad, and to develop the self-care to heal ourselves. Chapters that explore and clearly define negative emotions are paired with chapters on how to transform them. Meditation exercises based on the Buddhist principles of mindfulness, loving-kindness, and compassion provide tools to help us heal our own hurts and to close the gap that toxic emotions create between heart and mind.

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Simon and Schuster

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1614294038

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9781614294030

In Steel and Computing the Rise of the Dip Tech Sandwich Generation

A Personal Perspective

By: Valerie McBroom

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In Steel and Computing the Rise of the Dip Tech Sandwich Generation

A Personal Perspective

By: Valerie McBroom

This book is intended as a legacy of the experience of several years in science-based roles being initially challenged technically but in later years challenged and rewarded by leadership roles. This was amongst Sandwich educated colleagues who were motivated in part by themselves and partly by the community around them. Such is the nature of Sandwich Education both in terms of attitude and competence that it is a privilege to be part of this community of graduates. The authors consider that the Sandwich initiative should be a vital steppingstone in the nation’s education. Therefore, it is recommended to the Department of Education and the Department of Industry and to young people contemplating the future direction of their education that they embrace Sandwich education.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1035802031

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9781035802036

Charles Knight

Educator, Publisher, Writer

By: Valerie Gray

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Charles Knight

Educator, Publisher, Writer

By: Valerie Gray

Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant contributions during his lifetime to the cause of popular education, providing inexpensive but quality reading material for the newly literate working classes, Knight has been largely ignored by scholars. This neglect, the author suggests, may be related to Knight's association with the controversial Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and to the use scholars make of Knight's Penny Magazine and his two volumes on political economy to support their arguments on theories of social control and other issues. The author argues that Knight's reputation has suffered as a result. She reexamines the evidence to offer fresh assessments of Knight's life and work that illuminate his genuine achievements. She concludes with an evaluation of Knight's role as an innovative publisher who used the latest techniques to provide the emerging mass readership with unique combinations of text and image in his many 'pictorial' books and periodicals.

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Routledge

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1351161903

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9781351161909

The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication

By: Valerie Manusov,Miles L. Patterson

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The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication

By: Valerie Manusov,Miles L. Patterson

This Handbook provides an up-to-date discussion of the central issues in nonverbal communication and examines the research that informs these issues. Editors Valerie Manusov and Miles Patterson bring together preeminent scholars, from a range of disciplines, to reveal the strength of nonverbal behavior as an integral part of communication.

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SAGE Publications

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1452261628

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9781452261621

Sociophonetics

By: Tyler Kendall,Valerie Fridland

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Sociophonetics

By: Tyler Kendall,Valerie Fridland

Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics. Covering methodological, theoretical and computational approaches, this engaging introduction to sociophonetics brings new insights to age-old questions about language variation and change, and to the broader nature of language. It includes examples of important work on speech perception, focusing on vowels and sibilants throughout to provide detailed exemplification. The accompanying website provides a range of online resources, including audio files, data processing scripts and links. Written in an accessible style, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics. See book website at http://lingtools.uoregon.edu/sociophonetics/

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Cambridge University Press

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1316814777

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9781316814772

Memory in Dispute

By: Valerie Sinason

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Memory in Dispute

By: Valerie Sinason

In this opening chapter, Gwen Adshead provides a careful overview of the research literature concerning the main issues in this debate. She includes legal issues and child and adult memory in her remit.

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Routledge

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0429916191

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9780429916199

Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages

An Activity Guide to North American Sailing Life

By: Valerie Petrillo

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Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages

An Activity Guide to North American Sailing Life

By: Valerie Petrillo

Children are fascinated with sailing ships, lighthouses, whaling, shipwrecks, and mutinies, and these 50-plus activities will provide them with a boatful of fun. This activity guide shows kids what life was like for the greenhands, old salts, and captains on the high seas during the great age of sail in the 19th century: aboard square-riggers, clippers, whalers, schooners, and packet ships. Life aboard ship was an exciting subculture of American life with its own language, food, music, art, and social structure. Children will learn that many captains brought their wives and children aboard ship, and that kids who learned how to walk at sea often found it difficult to walk on dry land. The book begins with the China Tea trade in the late 18th century and ends with the last whaler leaving New Bedford in 1924. Kids will create scrimshaw using black ink and a bar of white soap; make a model lighthouse using a bike reflector, an oatmeal box, and a plastic soda bottle; and paint china with traditional designs using a blue paint pen and a basic white plate. Included are additional simple activities requiring common household objects that are sure to please busy parents and teachers alike.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613742738

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9781613742730

Everyday Resilience

Creating Calm from Chaos

By: Valerie Orton

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Everyday Resilience

Creating Calm from Chaos

By: Valerie Orton

Are you feeling stressed? Not working to your potential? Are you pushing through to meet unreasonable deadlines? Are you wondering how to cope Everyday Resilience contains answers to your questions and more. Valerie Orton provides practical tools and tips to build your resources to sustain your whole well-being. You will find routines to manage change and stressors that impact you daily. Using personal stories, research and anecdotes from her work, she shows you how to build resilience and ultimately, find inner peace and calm in times of conflict and change. It is clear in Everyday Resilience that Valerie walks the talk when it comes to resilience. This is a book that is worth reading more than once. - Steve Moore, Founder and Coach, The Second Chair Capability Development During my 20 years plus in the HR field...Valerie is right up there with the best I have ever encountered. Valeries caring approach is no act she really does care! This reflects both her personal empathy and her uncanny insight to the needs analysis phase of her work. - Mick Duffy, BlueScope Steel

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Balboa Press

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1504303407

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9781504303408

Recording Oral History

A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences

By: Valerie Raleigh Yow

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Recording Oral History

A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences

By: Valerie Raleigh Yow

Presents chapters on interviewing skills, ethics, and interpresonal relationship.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759106541

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9780759106543

Learning Disability Policy and Practice

Changing Lives?

By: Valerie Williams

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Learning Disability Policy and Practice

Changing Lives?

By: Valerie Williams

Highlighting examples of positive, evidence based practice throughout, this book explores working with people with learning disabilities at all life stages. With contributions from people with learning disabilities and their families, its person-centred approach illustrates how policy can be translated into practice with life-changing consequences.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137296690

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9781137296696

The Powers

A Novel

By: Valerie Sayers

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The Powers

A Novel

By: Valerie Sayers

1941 is a year of drama and spectacle for Americans. Joe DiMaggio’s record-breaking hitting streak enlivens the summer, and winter begins with the shock and horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The news from Europe is bleak, especially for the Jewish population. Joltin’ Joe, possessing a sweet swing and range in center, also has another gift: he can see the future. And he sees dark times ahead. In her inventive novel The Powers, Valerie Sayers, in both realistic and fantastic chapters, transports the reader to an age filled with giants: Dorothy Day and Walker Evans appear beside DiMaggio. The problems they face, from Catholic antisemitism to the challenge of pacifism in the face of overwhelming evil, play out in very public media, among them the photography of Evans and the baseball of DiMaggio. At once magical and familiar, The Powers is a story of witness and moral responsibility that will, like Joe DiMaggio, find some unlikely fans.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810133245

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9780810133242

Daddy's Girl

Young Girls and Popular Culture

By: Valerie Walkerdine

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Daddy's Girl

Young Girls and Popular Culture

By: Valerie Walkerdine

Reflecting on her own working class roots and taking us into the homes and the confidence of working class girls today, Valerie Walkerdine raises troubling questions about television and parental control, about Freud's seduction theory, and the manipulation of little girls and their thoughts and feelings about themselves and their "place" in their world.

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Harvard University Press

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067418601X

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A History of the African American Novel

By: Valerie Babb

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A History of the African American Novel

By: Valerie Babb

This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107061725

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9781107061729

Catholic Schools and the Common Good

By: Anthony S. BRYK,Valerie E. Lee,Peter Blakeley. Holland,Anthony S Bryk

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Catholic Schools and the Common Good

By: Anthony S. BRYK,Valerie E. Lee,Peter Blakeley. Holland,Anthony S Bryk

The authors examine a broad range of Catholic high schools to determine whether or not students are better educated in these schools than they are in public schools. They find that the Catholic schools do have an independent effect on achievement, especially in reducing disparities between disadvantaged and privileged students. The Catholic school of today, they show, is informed by a vision, similar to that of John Dewey, of the school as a community committed to democratic education and the common good of all students.

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Harvard University Press

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0674029038

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The Making of a Mother

Overcoming the Nine Key Challenges--from Crib to Empty Nest

By: Valerie Davis Raskin

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The Making of a Mother

Overcoming the Nine Key Challenges--from Crib to Empty Nest

By: Valerie Davis Raskin

What makes a good mother? Are some women just born naturally maternal, or do mothers discover that part of themselves once they have a child? Now a renowned expert on the subject–and herself a mother of three–addresses the unspoken worries and fears that accompany motherhood and shares the reassuring message that every mother learns “on the job.” Dr. Valerie Davis Raskin has worked with more than four hundred mothers in twenty years of clinical practice and has discovered that mothering is just as developmental as childhood. Dr. Raskin identifies the nine challenges facing mothers from their child’s infancy to young adulthood, pivotal moments that put mothers to the test time and again–and yet from which they can emerge truly rewarded. • IDENTITY: How to gain confidence during those overwhelming first months after you’ve given birth or adopted, but don’t yet “feel” like a mother. • UNLOVING MOMENTS: Every mother’s secret guilt–learn to accept those not-so-precious moments when you don’t like the child you love so dearly. • HONORING THE FATHER: Tips for helping Dad stop feeling like a third wheel and bond with his child (and receive attention from you!). • SEPARATION: How to maintain a positive outlook on your child’s milestones, from the first day of preschool to packing him off to sleepaway camp. • SETTING LIMITS: How to put your foot down, even when your child kicks, screams, or cries. • IMPERFECT INSTITUTIONS: How to cope when your child does not have the best teacher or the most inspiring coach, or faces a less than fair grading system. • REVISED DREAMS: Your cute five-year-old in a pink tutu has no rhythm. Your nine-year-old cannot catch a ball. Learn to modify your dreams for your child–and follow your child’s dreams instead. • ADVERSITY: You can’t keep your child in a plastic bubble, but you can take a deep breath, relax, and be there for her when life gets tough. • SAYING GOODBYE: Discover the joys of loving your adult child while not living under the same roof. This wonderfully anecdotal, engaging, and accessible book is nothing less than an essential training manual for mothers of all ages. The bottom line: Just because motherhood is sometimes difficult, confusing, intense, sleepless, and frustrating, doesn’t mean mothers aren’t doing it right!

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Ballantine Books

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030748792X

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If More Walls Could Talk

Vancouver Island's Houses from the Past

By: Valerie Green

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If More Walls Could Talk

Vancouver Island's Houses from the Past

By: Valerie Green

Valerie Green and Lynn Gordon-Findlay have put their ears to the walls of Vancouver Island's historic homes and transcribed the whispered secrets of bygone days when folk of every description left their echoes in the buildings where they lived, worked, played, and died. If the walls of a venerable mansion could speak, what stories would it tell? How about that rustic shack farther down the road? In her first book, If These Walls Could Talk,Valerie Green explored 50 heritage homes in the Greater Victoria area. In this second volume, she ranges further afield, covering Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Island, Duncan and the Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Courtney and District, and Campbell River and the North Island, including homes in Telegraph Cove and Port McNeill. Each home tells of a way of life long past, of people who dwelt within its walls, when and how it was built, or how it is historically significant. Once again, Valerie's text is complemented by architectural artist Lynn Gordon-Findlay's exquisite drawings.

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Jane Austen

An Obstinate Heart

By: Valerie Grosvenor Myer

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Jane Austen

An Obstinate Heart

By: Valerie Grosvenor Myer

Jane Austen’s world-famous novels give readers a small glimpse into the author’s real life, which was filled with as many ups and downs as those of Emma Woodhouse or Elizabeth Bennet. She too had to navigate her way through a stratified society, filled with rules and repressions that she strove to break. But Austen was even more fascinating than her fiery female protagonists. In Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart, Valerie Grosvenor Myer explores the writer’s life with detail that will make Austen’s books even more enjoyable for fans. Grosvenor Myer, who has previously written biographies of Margaret Drabble and Charlotte Brontë, delves into letters, family memories, and Austen’s novels to illuminate a perceptive picture of the woman herself and the social climate in which she lived. Surprises abound, and the reader is left with a sense of relief that Austen remained true to her “obstinate heart.” This is an invaluable companion for anyone who has been absorbed in one of her spirited novels.

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Dangerous Secrets

By: Shirlee McCoy,Valerie Hansen

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Dangerous Secrets

By: Shirlee McCoy,Valerie Hansen

Enjoy two action-packed page-turners featuring K-9 crime-stoppers solving thrilling mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat! These lawmen solve the toughest cases with the help of their brave canine partners. Secrets and Lies Attacked in her classroom, widowed teacher Ariel Martin’s only thought is for her unborn child. When her student’s brother, rookie K-9 officer Tristan McKeller, saves her life, she can’t thank him enough. She knows Tristan won’t rest until she’s safe, but she doesn’t want him digging into her dangerous past. After all, the only person who would want to hurt her is dead…or is he? Search and Rescue Chief of police Ryder Hayes is ready to defend the citizens of Desert Valley—especially his five-year-old daughter, Lily—from his wife’s murderer. So when Ryder grows closer to K-9 trainer Sophie Williams, he pushes her away to protect her. He can’t let Sophie become the next target of a serial killer. But Sophie has secrets of her own, and Ryder’s caution isn’t enough to shield her—from deadly peril or her feelings.

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148805343X

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Locating Consciousness

By: Valerie Gray Hardcastle

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Locating Consciousness

By: Valerie Gray Hardcastle

Locating Consciousness argues that our qualitative experiences should be aligned with the activity of a single and distinct memory system in our mind/brain. Spelling out in detail what we do and do not know about phenomenological experience, this book denies the common view of consciousness as a central decision-making system. Instead, consciousness is viewed as a lower level dynamical structure underpinning our information processing. This new perspective affords novel solutions to a wide range of problems: the absent qualia, the binding problem, the inverted spectra, the specter of epiphenomenalism, the explanatory gap, the distinction between objective and subjective, and the general skeptical doubts about the viability of the naturalist project itself. Drawing on recent data in psychology and neuroscience, Locating Consciousness also discusses when we become conscious and when we should think other animals are conscious. (Series A)

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9027284911

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Paris Fashion

A Cultural History

By: Valerie Steele

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Paris Fashion

A Cultural History

By: Valerie Steele

Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie Steele's Paris Fashion is much more than just a history of great designers. This fascinating book demonstrates that the success of Paris ultimately rests on the strength of its fashion culture – created by a host of fashion performers and spectators, including actresses, dandies, milliners, artists, and writers. First published in 1988 to great international acclaim, this pioneering book has now been completely revised and brought up to date, encompassing the rise of fashion's multiple world cities in the 21st century. Lavishly illustrated, deeply learned, and elegantly written, Valerie Steele's masterwork explores with brilliance and flair why Paris remains the capital of fashion.

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1474269702

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Search and Rescue

By: Valerie Hansen

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Search and Rescue

By: Valerie Hansen

DEFENDING HIS OWN Newly sworn in as chief of police, Ryder Hayes is ready to defend the citizens of Desert Valley—especially his five-year-old daughter, Lily—from his wife's murderer. So when Ryder starts to grow close to K-9 trainer Sophie Williams, he pushes her away to protect her. He can't let Sophie become the next target of the deranged serial killer who's obsessed with him. But Sophie has secrets of her own, and Ryder's caution isn't enough to shield her—from deadly peril or her own feelings. To save everyone he loves, Ryder will have to let Sophie in…and count on his new K-9 partner to help sniff out the killer.

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1488008647

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Research Focus on Cognitive Disorders

By: Valerie N. Plishe

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Research Focus on Cognitive Disorders

By: Valerie N. Plishe

Cognitive disorders are defined as those in which a limitation of cognitive functioning is the main feature. They include: amnestic disorders, Huntington's disease, and mental retardation, dementia, delirium, aphasia, and cognitive disorders not otherwise specified. This book brings presents leading researchers from throughout the world.

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Nova Publishers

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1600214835

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Alive to Language

Perspectives on Language Awareness for English Language Teachers

By: Valerie Arndt,Paul Harvey,John Nuttall

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Alive to Language

Perspectives on Language Awareness for English Language Teachers

By: Valerie Arndt,Paul Harvey,John Nuttall

Areas examined in this book include the concepts of language-in-use and associated systems, language varieties, language change, and the interaction between language and power.

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0521560152

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Working with Children in Care

By: Pat Petrie,Janet Boddy,Claire Cameron,Valerie Wigfall,Antonia Simon

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Working with Children in Care

By: Pat Petrie,Janet Boddy,Claire Cameron,Valerie Wigfall,Antonia Simon

How does residential care in England compare with that of other European countries? What is social pedagogy, and how does it help those working with children in care? How can child care policy and practice be improved throughout the United Kingdom? This book is written against the background of the gross social disadvantage suffered by most looked-after children in England. It compares European policy and approaches – from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands – to the public care system in England. Drawing on research from all six countries, the authors analyze how different policies and practice can affect young people in residential homes. A particular focus is on the unique approach offered by social pedagogy, a concept that is commonly used in continental Europe. The book compares young people's own experiences and appraisals of living in a residential home, and the extent to which residential care compounds social exclusion. Based upon theoretical and empirical evidence, it offers solutions for current dilemmas concerning looked-after children in the United Kingdom, in terms of lessons learned from policy and practice elsewhere, including training and staffing issues. Working with Children in Care is key reading for students, academics and professionals in health, education and social care who work with children in residential care.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335230148

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Midwifery Practice

A Research-Based Approach

By: Jo Alexander,Valerie Levy,Sarah Roch

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Midwifery Practice

A Research-Based Approach

By: Jo Alexander,Valerie Levy,Sarah Roch

This latest volume in the immensely popular Midwifery Practice Series deals with a further set of important issues, this time drawn from all three stages of care during pregnancy. The chapter structure adopted in the first three books is retained, and, as before, presentation of a broad-ranging survey and analysis of key research literature placed in the context of clinical practice is the guiding philosophy behind the whole book.

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1349129364

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Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902

Militarization of the Landscape: Monuments and Memorials in Britain

By: Valerie B. Parkhouse

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Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902

Militarization of the Landscape: Monuments and Memorials in Britain

By: Valerie B. Parkhouse

Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 is a study of a group of memorials to soldiers who fought in a now nearly forgotten war, and deals with the many factors influencing why there was such an unprecedented number of memorials compared to those to previous conflicts like the Crimean War, fifty years earlier. One of the most important issues was the impact of changes in the organization of the British Army in the late 1800s, particularly the creation of locally-based regiments, heavily manned by volunteers drawn from local communities. The book includes a detailed commentary on the social conditions in England that also account for the unprecedented number of commemorations of this conflict. It discusses the variety of forms memorials took: informal – drinking fountains, ‘Spion Kop” stands at football stadiums; formal – stained glass windows, statues, etc., and the numerous and diverse places where they were located: cathedrals, town squares, public schools and universities. The growth of the national press and the rise of literacy is dealt with in detail, as well as the telegraph, whose invention meant that news became available overnight. Space is given to discuss the expression of Victorian prosperity in public works. The part played by the established church is well documented and an insight is given into the contribution of Imperialism, patriotism and jingoism. All these factors explain the motivation for the memorials’ creation. The book is illustrated with photographs and articles from newspapers of the day. Appendices cover those who are not commemorated, lost memorials, those who unveiled the memorials, colonial involvement and more. Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 will appeal particularly to social historians and students of military and social history.

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178088401X

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Rookie K-9 Unit Collection Volume 2

By: Lynette Eason,Shirlee McCoy,Valerie Hansen

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Rookie K-9 Unit Collection Volume 2

By: Lynette Eason,Shirlee McCoy,Valerie Hansen

Love Inspired Suspense authors Lynette Eason, Shirlee McCoy and Valerie Hansen bring spine tingling tales of a class of rookie K-9 cops and their loyal dogs chasing down a killer. Enjoy three juicy Rookie K-9 Unit romantic suspense novels in one box set! An ex-con framed for a crime he didn’t commit reunites with his former love, a K-9 cop, to keep her safe as a killer hunts them. Attacked in her classroom, a pregnant teacher will have to trust her K-9 cop rescuer with her and her baby’s life, but can she trust him with her secrets? The new K-9 chief of police must defend his daughter from a killer with the help of a K-9 trainer who is quickly stealing his heart. This box set includes: HONOR AND DEFEND BY LYNETTE EASON SECRETS AND LIES BY SHIRLEE MCCOY SEARCH AND RESCUE BY VALERIE HANSEN Look for more Rookie K-9 Unit books sold separately: PROTECT AND SERVE BY TERRI REED TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES BY LENORA WORTH SEEK AND FIND BY DANA MENTINK ROOKIE K-9 UNIT CHRISTMAS BY VALERIE HANSEN AND LENORA WORTH

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1488050376

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Jane Austen, Obstinate Heart

A Biography

By: Valerie Grosvenor Myer

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Jane Austen, Obstinate Heart

A Biography

By: Valerie Grosvenor Myer

For many middle-class women of Austen's day, marriage was paradoxically the only method of achieving independence. Marriage could also be a life sentence. Myer shows that by many accounts Austen was pretty and flirtatious (though occasionally also sharp-tongued), and the object of at least two proposals, but obstinate in her refusal to marry for other than love. Her obstinacy condemned her to reliance on her family for financial support. As Myer points out, it also enabled Austen to write her immortal novels.

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1559703873

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