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Bliss & Blunder

By: Victoria Gosling

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Exquisitely written and structurally bold ... a deeply impressive novel' Eva Dolan, author of This Is How It Ends Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of Britain's most successful tech company, stables full of horses, millions of followers on Instagram, an unstable lover, a wayward son, a hoard of secrets, an aching heart, and a cyberstalking blackmailer who calls himself The Invisible Knight. As the Wiltshire town of Abury prepares to celebrate the fortieth birthday of its favourite son, Morgan, Gwen's former best friend, is on her way back to Abury after two decades away, keen to expose Abury's long buried secrets and hellbent on revenge. An inventive, magisterial reworking of Britain's greatest myth, Bliss & Blunder is a heartrending novel of power, friendship and betrayal.

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Serpent's Tail

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1782836799

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The Penguin Spanish Phrasebook

Fourth Edition

By: Jill Norman,Maria Victoria Alvarez,Pepa Roman de Olins,Amparo Lallana

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The Penguin Spanish Phrasebook

Fourth Edition

By: Jill Norman,Maria Victoria Alvarez,Pepa Roman de Olins,Amparo Lallana

Named one of 8 Eloquent Spanish Phrasebooks for Foolproof Communication by FluentU.com This newly revised and updated Spanish Phrase Book contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers. The book includes basic grammar, a pronunciation guide and additional vocabulary, and is clearly presented in the perfect pocket size, in a clean and simple look.

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0141039078

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Fabric

The Hidden History of the Material World

By: Victoria Finlay

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Fabric

The Hidden History of the Material World

By: Victoria Finlay

A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama - where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form. She began her research just after the deaths of both her parents —and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. Fabric is not just a material history of our world, but Finlay's own journey through grief and recovery.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639361642

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Aboriginal Adolescence

By: Victoria Katherine Burbank

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Aboriginal Adolescence

By: Victoria Katherine Burbank

This analysis of female adolescence in an Australian Aboriginal community focuses on adolescent sexual behavior, marriage, and the conflict between adult expectations and adolescent behavior in these domains.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813526892

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All Romance, All The Time

An Anthology

By: Gena Showalter,Julia London,Sara Arden,Victoria Dahl,B.J. Daniels,Sarah Morgan,Robyn Carr,Lori Foster,Maisey Yates,Kristan Higgins,Susan Mallery,RaeAnne Thayne,Sheila Roberts

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All Romance, All The Time

An Anthology

By: Gena Showalter,Julia London,Sara Arden,Victoria Dahl,B.J. Daniels,Sarah Morgan,Robyn Carr,Lori Foster,Maisey Yates,Kristan Higgins,Susan Mallery,RaeAnne Thayne,Sheila Roberts

The title says it all…whether you like your romances small-town sweet, hot and steamy, or with a bit of danger, we have what you're looking for. Inside ALL ROMANCE, ALL THE TIME, you'll get a taste of 13 stories by some of our most popular and bestselling authors, at least one of whom is guaranteed to become your new romance go-to. So no matter if your toes curl for Regency rogues, wounded warriors, chiseled cowboys or the classic guy-next-door, prepare to lose yourself between the covers. Featuring titles from The Closer you Come by Gena Showalter, The Devil Takes a Bride by Julia London, Unfaded Glory by Sara Arden, Flirting with Disaster by Victoria Dahl, Wild Horses by B.J. Daniels, First Time in Forever by Sarah Morgan, One Wish by Robyn Carr, Holding Strong by Lori Foster, Part Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates, In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins, When We Met by Susan Mallery, Wild Iris Ridge by RaeAnne Thayne, and The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane by Sheila Roberts.

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HQN Books

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1460386116

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God's Hotel

A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

By: Victoria Sweet

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God's Hotel

A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

By: Victoria Sweet

Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now! For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—“anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times” and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. God’s Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern “health care facility,” revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.

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1594486549

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Until I Found You

By: Victoria Bylin

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Until I Found You

By: Victoria Bylin

Finding each other was only the beginning . . . When Kate Darby swerves off a mountain road to avoid hitting a California condor, she ends up trapped in her car, teetering on the edge of a cliff. Terrified, she breathes a prayer that changes her life. It's Nick Sheridan who comes to Kate's rescue. Nick is handsome and confident, and he seems to develop a habit of rescuing her, but Kate is in town only until her grandmother recuperates from a stroke. She's not planning to get involved with one of the locals. Nick is a reformed veteran of life in the fast lane, a new Christian, and a travel writer. When he sees a car dangling on the edge of a cliff, the daredevil in him jumps into action. He doesn't expect to be swept off his feet by the car's occupant. He's made a vow--no dating for a year--but keeping that vow is going to be a lot more difficult now that he's met Kate Darby. . . .

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Baker Books

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1441264078

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River Calder

By: Roger Frost,Ian Thompson,Victoria Dewhurst

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River Calder

By: Roger Frost,Ian Thompson,Victoria Dewhurst

Explore the history of the beautiful river Calder. A must read not only for those who know the river but also for those who have yet to discover it.

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1445619040

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Direct Selling

A Global and Social Business Model

By: Sara L. Cochran,Anne T. Coughlan,Victoria L. Crittenden,William F. Crittenden,Linda K. Ferrell,O.C. Ferrell,W. Alan Luce,Robert A. Peterson

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Direct Selling

A Global and Social Business Model

By: Sara L. Cochran,Anne T. Coughlan,Victoria L. Crittenden,William F. Crittenden,Linda K. Ferrell,O.C. Ferrell,W. Alan Luce,Robert A. Peterson

The Power of Direct Selling. Direct selling is not an industry per se nor is it merely a go-to-market business model and channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of this – direct selling is people. The ability for people with entrepreneurial spirit to build a successful business, whether it be from the ground up or by representing a company’s product, is at the heart of direct selling and it is people who made (and continue to make) direct selling the successful marketplace that it is today. The direct selling marketplace is comprised of mission-driven and socially responsible companies offering a wide variety of product and services, and the list of direct selling companies is abundant with entrepreneurs who built their businesses by utilizing an independent salesforce channel to market and sell their products or services directly to consumers. Possibly one of the most prominent of these entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing/able to invest their savings and time on a start-up business. These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own businesses but do not want the startup costs and demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct selling distributor offers a low-risk, low-cost pathway to micro-entrepreneurship. The traditional barriers to small business ownership are removed when a micro-entrepreneur builds a direct selling business that is backed by established brands. These established brands, several of which are featured in this book, offer the micro-entrepreneurs quality products, business training, and technological resources to achieve a self-determined metric of success. Framed within the context of entrepreneurship and an historical overview of the long-term sustainability of this business model, this book is intended for practitioners who want to read about the breadth and depth of direct selling. Importantly, this book provides considerable depth in terms of three particular issues associated with direct selling: Compensation, Ethics & compliance, and Global reach. For scholars, this book is built on a strong foundation of valid and reliable research endeavors. The authors have published research on direct selling in high quality, reputable and peer-reviewed academic and practitioner journals. Thus, this book can add foundationally to the research efforts of academics who are conducting research in a wide variety of topics (such as sales, women empowerment, business strategy, ethics, distribution models, gig economy, and global entry – to name a few), as well as to members of the press who want reliable and valid content upon which to build their stories. The book’s content is also particularly informative for policymakers at the local, state, national, and international levels. For students, reading this book will offer a variety of insights, particularly related to the intricacies of channel selection and design. Direct Selling: A Global and Social Business Model is a collective project from eight academics and practitioners who have dedicated much of their careers to understanding direct selling as both a go-to-market strategy and a channel of distribution and to capturing the people who are the foundation of direct selling. The pages of this book bring together a wealth of research and knowledge that can inform a broad spectrum of constituents about the economic and social benefits of direct selling, while also providing detail and clarity on key issues related to direct selling as a sustainable business model.

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1637421141

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Sentenced

By: Andrew J Hawke,Victoria Oak

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Sentenced

By: Andrew J Hawke,Victoria Oak

This true story follows the remarkable and unlikely friendship that develops between two strangers – a London housewife bringing up four children and a British prisoner incarcerated in Thailand. As they begin to exchange letters, each tells a personal story of being sentenced – Vicky in a desperate and loveless marriage; Andy within the walls of one of the world's most notorious prisons. What unfolds is a moving tale about entrapment and freedom, love and friendship, and the human capacity to withstand and overcome immense pain and suffering in the face of adversity.

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1839754664

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Steel-True 1907-1940

By: Victoria Wilson

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Steel-True 1907-1940

By: Victoria Wilson

“860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound (eighty-eight motion pictures) and lasted in television from its infancy in the 1950s through the 1980s. Here is Stanwyck, revealed as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock; her years in New York as a dancer and Broadway star; her fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius; the adoption of a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with Zeppo Marx (the “unfunny Marx brother”) who altered the course of Stanwyck’s movie career and with her created one of the finest horse breeding farms in the west; and her fairytale romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor, America’s most sought-after male star. Here is the shaping of her career through 1940 with many of Hollywood's most important directors, among them Frank Capra, “Wild Bill” William Wellman, George Stevens, John Ford, King Vidor, Cecil B. Demille, Preston Sturges, set against the times—the Depression, the New Deal, the rise of the unions, the advent of World War II, and a fast-changing, coming-of-age motion picture industry. And at the heart of the book, Stanwyck herself—her strengths, her fears, her frailties, losses, and desires—how she made use of the darkness in her soul, transforming herself from shunned outsider into one of Hollywood’s most revered screen actresses. Fifteen years in the making—and written with full access to Stanwyck’s family, friends, colleagues and never-before-seen letters, journals, and photographs. Wilson’s one-of-a-kind biography—“large, thrilling, and sensitive” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country)—is an “epic Hollywood narrative” (USA TODAY), “so readable, and as direct as its subject” (The New York Times). With 274 photographs, many published for the first time.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439194068

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Second World War in Contemporary British Fiction

Secret Histories

By: Victoria Stewart

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Second World War in Contemporary British Fiction

Secret Histories

By: Victoria Stewart

Shows how central the Second World War still is to post-war writing. Focusing on the upsurge of interest in the Second World War in recent British novels, this monograph explores the ways in which secrecy and secret work - including code-breaking, espionage and special operations - have been approached in representations of the war. It considers established writers, including Muriel Spark, Sarah Waters and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as newer voices, such as Liz Jensen and Peter Ho Davies. The examination of the after-effects of involvement in secret work, inter-generational secrets in a domestic context, political allegiance and sexuality shows how issues of loyalty, deception and betrayal are brought into focus in these novels.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748647503

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The Modern VAT

By: Mr.Liam P. Ebrill,Mr.Michael Keen,Ms.Victoria P. Perry

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The Modern VAT

By: Mr.Liam P. Ebrill,Mr.Michael Keen,Ms.Victoria P. Perry

Value-added tax, or VAT, first introduced less than 50 years ago, is now a pivotal component of tax systems around the world. The rapid and seemingly irresistible rise of the VAT is probably the most important tax development of the latter twentieth century, and certainly the most breathtaking. Written by a team of experts from the IMF, this book examines the remarkable spread and current reach of the innovative tax and draws lessons about the design and implementation of the VAT, as experienced by different countries around the world. How efficient is it as a tax, is it fair, and is it suitable for all countries? These are among the questions raised. This highly informative and well-researched book also looks at the likely future of the tax.

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International Monetary Fund

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1589060261

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Collaborative Arts-based Research for Social Justice

By: Victoria Foster

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Collaborative Arts-based Research for Social Justice

By: Victoria Foster

This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research. Focusing on ways that social inquiry might be conducted with marginalised groups to promote social justice, the text offers chapters on: Telling ‘alternative’ stories through a variety of methods from crafts to digital film Visual and metaphorical approaches to social research including photography, art and poetry Performative methods that include drama, dance, music and performance art Foster introduces relevant methodological debates, giving a context for understanding when arts-based research can be a fruitful approach to take and outlining a convincing rationale for using the arts as a way of understanding and representing the social world. The book also suggests a range of alternative criteria for evaluating the quality of arts-based research. Illustrative examples from around the world are used throughout the book and an extended case study is included that focuses on Foster’s own collaborative arts-based research. With their emphasis on the value of participative research and social justice, arts-based methodologies are becoming increasingly popular in health and social research. This is the ideal text for anyone looking to introduce arts-based methods into their research practice.

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Routledge

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1135131821

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Pup Culture

Stories, Tips, and the Importance of Adopting a Dog

By: Victoria Lily Shaffer

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Pup Culture

Stories, Tips, and the Importance of Adopting a Dog

By: Victoria Lily Shaffer

Prepare yourself for every step of the dog adoption process and make your new best friend’s life the happiest and healthiest it can be with these fostering and adoption tips and tales from dog-loving expert Victoria Schaffer. Adopting a dog and making them the newest member of your family can sometimes feel like a daunting task. How do you know what dog is right for you? What do you need to know about the adoption process? And how do you make sure your new best friend has the best life possible while they’re settling into their new home? Pup Culture is here to help. Pup Culture is a well-deserved ode to man’s best friend. Fostering-extraordinaire Victoria Lily Shaffer presents a wide-ranging collection of dog adoption and fostering tales, tips, handy checklists, heartwarming stories, and Q&A’s from both celebs—like Dan Levy, Glenn Close, and David Letterman—as well as everyday dog lovers. These inspiring stories and lessons dig deep into the beloved relationships between dogs and humans, from exploring the harrowing journey of finding your perfect “fur-ever” companion to spotlighting the selfless, dedicated community of rescuers that help save and change lives.

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1982178833

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The Fall of Kings and Princes

Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy

By: M. Victoria Guerin

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The Fall of Kings and Princes

Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy

By: M. Victoria Guerin

At the heart of the book is Mordred, King Arthur's incestuous son, shown by Guerin to be an integral part of the Arthurian tradition from the very beginning. Mordred is seen as the tangible proof of the king's sin, committed in all innocence in his youth but resulting in a living incarnation of evil who will kill his father on Salisbury Plain, putting an end to the Arthurian world. But in the early stages of Arthurian romance, because this story cannot be told without the death of Arthur, it cannot be told at all, for Arthur's existence is the necessary condition of the genre: the story of his death would entail authorial suicide and the impossibility of further literary creation. Guerin argues that the authors of the texts examined in this study - Chretien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrete and Le Conte du Graal and the anonymous Middle English Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - deliberately use the medieval reader's extra-textual knowledge of the Mordred story to create a second level of reading: behind Lancelot, Perceval, and Gawain is the shadowy figure of Mordred (never explicitly mentioned), and the modern reader must learn to see this shadow in order fully to appreciate the authors' purpose. Taking into account this hidden framework not only sheds a surprising new light on these texts, it also gives a convincing solution to the much-discussed question of why Chretien left two of his romances, Le Chevalier de la Charrete and Le Conte du Graal, unfinished. The first chapter, which deals with Arthurian tragedy in the thirteenth century Prose Cycle, is particularly timely as it coincides with the publication of the first English translation of the cycle, to which Guerin's study serves as an excellent introduction.

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Stanford University Press

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0804722900

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Triumph in Crisis

By: VICTORIA HUGGINS PEURIFOY

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Triumph in Crisis

By: VICTORIA HUGGINS PEURIFOY

What does resilience look like? Triumph in Crisis describes it for us. Victoria keeps her sense of humor and her faith. The medical details are accurate and descriptive, and the up's and downs of this journey are compelling. This book, Triumph in Crisis, is not just an appropriate title; it is a look into the author's world of medical turmoil and her victories where she gives all glory to God and rightfully so. The author also takes you by the hand and shows you how the medical personnel does and sometimes does not demonstrate compassion for the patient. She explains some medical procedures, exhibits much candor and shares why she had concerns about them. This work is an important addition to the expanding body of work known as medical humanities. It's easy to say: health care workers should be empathetic. The concept may be harder to apply. Such application requires reflection. Reading Triumph in Crisis may bring about that reflection and by extension, a question and a change

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1387098063

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Storytelling in Management Practice

Dynamics and Implications

By: Stefanie Reissner,Victoria Pagan

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Storytelling in Management Practice

Dynamics and Implications

By: Stefanie Reissner,Victoria Pagan

Since the early 2000s, storytelling as a means of managerial communication has been increasingly advocated, with a focus on the management practices of leadership, change and organizational culture. Most research on storytelling in management practice derives from practitioner experience, but little is known about the specific dynamics behind storytelling as a tool for managerial communication. This book derives from one of the first research studies into storytelling in management practice, which sought to evaluate the assumed, but not necessarily proven, effectiveness of storytelling as a management tool. Building on existing theories of narrative and storytelling in organizations, the book explores how managers use storytelling in their daily practice, revealing that it can be employed both, purposively - like a tool, and perceptively - spontaneously and intuitively. The book explains that storytelling has different functions in management practice at different levels of the organization, such as: Creating direction for the organization Translating strategic messages into operational ones and supporting the professional development of staff Shaping the organization’s social fabric through the sharing of personal stories Aided by a wealth of interviews and case studies, Storytelling in Management Practice reveals an analysis of the dynamic relationship between story, storyteller, audience and organizational context. As such, it will be useful for students and researchers working across a variety of sub-disciplines, including: leadership, organizational behaviour and business communication.

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1136160906

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Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life

Critical Intersections and Creative Practice

By: Sarah Horton,Victoria Mitchell

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Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life

Critical Intersections and Creative Practice

By: Sarah Horton,Victoria Mitchell

This collection explores critical and visual practices through the lens of interactions and intersections between pattern and chaos. The dynamic of the inter-relationship between pattern and chaos is such as to challenge disciplinary boundaries, critical frameworks and modes of understanding, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual scrutiny. A territory of 'pattern-chaos' or 'chaos-pattern' begins to unfold. Drawing upon fields such as visual culture, sociology, physics, neurobiology, linguistics or critical theory, for example, contributors have experimented with pattern and/or chaos-related forms, processes, materials, sounds and language or have reflected on the work of other artists, scientists and scholars. Diagrams, tessellations, dust, knots, mazes, folds, creases, flux, virus, fire and flow are indicative of processes through which pattern and chaos are addressed. The contributions are organized into clusters of subjects which reflect the interdisciplinary terrain through a robust, yet also experimental, arrangement. These are 'Pattern Dynamics', 'Morph Flux Mutate', 'Decompose Recompose', 'Virus; Social Imaginary' and 'Nothings in Particular'.

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1789387825

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Sweet Silver Ranch

By: Victoria Stevens Chapman

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Sweet Silver Ranch

By: Victoria Stevens Chapman

Sweet Silver Ranch iIs a tranquil, scenic retreat center filled to over-flowing with characters: four-legged, winged, and of the octogenarian variety. The eccentric older gal, Frieda, offers a place where Clergy can come with their families and be catered too. She loves to Wow the pastors wives, and she has a genuine affinity for all servants. Her staff is eclectic and together they serve the servants. Elaborate events happen every night: the families are transported to Paris, Italy, even the streets of New York through food, music, entertainment, and ambiance. Abbey, the young reporter, just wants a quick story on the ranch. She needs the paycheck. She finds, instead, the joy of serving and her own servants heart.

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WestBow Press

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1490840796

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Para-Psychological Guide to Accident-Free-Travel for Frequent Traveler Namesakes

By: James Jijide,Victoria Mapxashike

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Para-Psychological Guide to Accident-Free-Travel for Frequent Traveler Namesakes

By: James Jijide,Victoria Mapxashike

As the Guidebook's title suggests, "Para-Psychological Guide to Accident-Free-Travel for Frequent Traveler Namesakes" is a compilation of Para-Scientific tips on safe air, sea and land travel for the benefit of namesake frequent travelers.

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159682283X

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The Inventress

By: Mary Victoria Johnson

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The Inventress

By: Mary Victoria Johnson

Domino Blanken was supposed to be stupid. That was the first lie her parents told. Then again, Kay Ross is no stranger to dishonesty. Seventeen, notoriously standoffish, and belonging to one of England's most powerful -and hated- families, Kay has been surrounded by liars from the beginning. But when Domino is found dead, Kay realizes the secrets of her world run much deeper than the surface. Queens, ghosts, rivals, and friends . . . everyone is hiding something. Some, far more than others.

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