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Penguin Publishing Group Coffee Tea or Me The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses
Book SynopsisRemember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardess life, jets you back to those golden days of air travel-from the captain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to the passenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upper berth; from the names of celebrities who were a pleasure to serve (and some surprising notables on the bad guy list) to the origins of some naughty stereotypes-Spaniards are the best lovers, actors the most foul-mouthed. This huge bestseller, a First Class jet-age journal, offers a hilarious gold mine of outrageous anecdotes from the high-flying and amorous lives of those busty, lusty, adventuresome young women of the swinging '60s known as stews.Trade Review"The kind of book that's a nuisance to own. Everyone wants to borrow it." (Look)
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Not Stated Always There
Book SynopsisAlways There: A Children's Book About Healing from Grief is an essential tool for any parent or teacher navigating a child through the difficult path of loss. This enlightening book acts as a thorough guide to grief, offering all the knowledge and resources needed to assist a child in healing.Always There explores how grief affects kids and offers coping mechanisms to process their feelings. This compassionately written book emphasizes honest communication, encouraging children to share emotions and understand grief stages.
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Independently Published Because Emily Dared. Children's Book About Kindness, Supporting and Loving: Kid kind
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Biology Boy Love
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology
Book SynopsisThis Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation, technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in different parts of the world. The Handbook is organised around some of the most important characteristics of anthropological studies of technology today: the diverse knowledge practices that technologies involve and on which they depend; the communities, collectives, and categories that emerge around technologies; anthropology’s contribution to proliferating debates on ethics, values, and morality in relation to technology; and infrastructures that highlight how all technologies are embedded in broader political economies and socio-historical processes that shape and often reinforce inequality and discrimination while also generating diversity. All chapters share a commitment to human experiences, embodiments, practices, and materialities in the daily lives of those people and institutions involved in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and/or use of particular technologies.Chapters 11 and 31 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsThe Anthropology of Technology: The Formation of a Field.- Section 1: Perspectives, Fields, and Approaches.- Making ‘Technology’ Visible: Technical Activities and the Chaîne Opératoire.- Technology as Skill in Handwork and Craft: Basketwork and Handweaving.- Material Culture Studies: Objectification, Agency, and Intangibility.- Feminist Technoscience and New Imaginaries of Human Reproduction.- Assemblage Ethnography: Configurations Across Scales, Sites, and Practices.- Humanism, Posthumanism, and New Humanism: How Robots Challenge the Anthropological Object.- Structuring Race into the Machine: The Spoiled Promise of Postgenomic Gene Sequencing.- An Interventional Design Anthropology of Emerging Technologies: Working Through an Interdisciplinary Field.- Computational Ethnography: A Case of Covid-19’s Methodological Consequences.- Section 2: Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing.- Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing.- Technology, Environment, and the Ends of Knowledge.- Charting the Unknown: Tracking the Self, Experimenting with the Digital.- Data, Knowledge Practices, and Naturecultural Worlds: Vehicle Emissions in the Anthropocene.- Set, Setting, and Clinical Trials: Colonial Technologies and Psychedelics.- Assembling Population Data in the Field: The Labour, Technologies, and Materialities of Quantification.- Peopled by Data: Statistical Knowledge Practices, Population-Making, and the State.- Data Practices and Sustainable Development Goals: Organising Knowledge for Sustainable Futures.- Section 3: Communities, Collectives, and Categories.- Communities, Collectives, and Categories.- Un/Doing Race: On Technology, Individuals, and Collectives in Forensic Practice.- Learning, Technology, and the Instrumentalisation of Critique.- Technology, Gender, and Nation: Building Modern Citizens in Maoist China.- Imagineerism: Technology, Robots, Kinship. Perspectives from Japan.- Collectivities and Technological Activism: Feminist Hacking.- Inside Technology Organisations: Imaginaries of Digitalisation at Work.- Section 4: Ethics, Values, and Morality.- Ethics, Values, and Morality.- Moral Ambiguities: Fleshy and Digital Substitutes in the Life Sciences.- Enacting Authenticity: Changing Ontologies of Biological Entities.- Technologies of Beauty: The Materiality, Ethics, and Normativity of Cosmetic Citizenship.- The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values.- Articulations of Ethics: Energy Worlds and Moral Selves.- Competing Responsibilities and the Ethics of Care in Young People’s Engagements with Digital Mental Health.- Committee Work: Stem Cell Governance in the United States.- Section 5: Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods.- Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods.- Accumulation: Exploring the Materiality of Energy Infrastructure.- Food Infrastructures and Technologies of Trust in Contemporary China.- Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections.- Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorizing and Research.- Circuit Board Money: An Infrastructural Perspective on Digital Payments.
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Grief on the Frontlines: Doctors, Nurses, and
Book SynopsisFor readers of Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee--a timely, vital exploration of the burnout, grief, depression, and trauma that America’s healthcare system engenders among doctors, nurses, and medical workers.Practicing medicine is traumatic: coping with the death of a patient, sharing a life-changing diagnosis, grieving futility in the face of a no-win situation. The emotional burden placed on doctors, nurses, and other healthcare practitioners is profound...and yet their suffering is often displaced, dismissed, or unrecognized.Here, Rachel Jones breaks the silence, daring to imagine a future where every healthcare worker is provided with the right tools to process grief, the space to integrate trauma, and--most importantly--the knowledge that they’re not alone. Drawing from the latest research and more than 100 interviews with healthcare professionals across different specialties, backgrounds, and institutions, Jones identifies how US medicine fails its workers--and how it can do better.Speaking with urgency about the systemic shortcomings that contribute to widespread depression, burnout, suicide, and PTSD among physicians and nurses--a culture of stoicism, the pressure of 80-hour workweeks--Grief on the Front Lines shares the stories of everyday healthcare heroes and offers a glimpse into the educational programs, retreats, therapeutic offerings, and peer support networks already building a hopeful new culture of medicine that cares for its own.
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The Good Book Company Is this it?: The Difference Jesus Makes to that
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Brown Dog Books The Wonders of the Wild Places
Book Synopsis Whether you have a lifelong love of nature or you cannot identify whether something is an elder or an alder, a daisy or a dandelion, or a heron or a herring gull, The Wonders of the Wild Places is the book for you. From the mountains to the sea, woodland to farmland, heaths and riversides we have many habitats in the United Kingdom, and The Wonders of the Wild Places provides information about some of the many species which inhabit these habitats. It is packed with interesting facts about nature designed to encourage you to go out and about and enjoy the wonders of the wild places. If you have ever wondered how birds migrate or which invertebrate has the largest brain, The Wonders of the Wild Places provides the answers – and many more. It covers many subjects from folklore to language, social history to the latest science. The Wonders of the Wild Places also explains the current threats to the natural world and provides details of what is being done to protect nature and also has suggestions of how individuals can help nature, from cleaning up your nearest beach to building a bug hotel. After reading The Wonders of the Wild Places you will never see the natural world in the same way again.
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Plough Publishing House Stronger than Death
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRachel Pieh Jones has given us the unforgettable story of a servant of the sick and poor who demonstrated, to an almost incomprehensible degree, what it means to love the least of these. Few of us will ever come close to Annalena Tonelli’s devotion and bravery. But thanks to this remarkable book, we can be acquainted with one of history’s great and unheralded exemplars, and inspired to give more of ourselves to those without.Tom Krattenmaker, USA Today columnist, author of Confessions of a Secular Jesus FollowerA fascinating, powerful and extremely moving true story that needs to be shared with the rest of the world.--Jordan Wylie, author of Citadel and Running For My LifeMy life has been shaped by the examples of faith heroes: Dorothy Day, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X. In this book, Rachel Pieh Jones introduces me to one more – Annalena Tonelli. Her example of immersive, selfless service combined with learning from different traditions should inspire us all.--Eboo Patel, author of Acts of Faith, founder and president, Interfaith Youth CoreA stunning meditation on love and service, this book has given me a new hero: Annalena Tonelli, a woman of faith who crashed through boundaries and dodged bullets in her mission to heal the sick. Author Rachel Pieh Jones has done justice to an extraordinary person, crafting a story every bit as vivid, relentless, and surprising as her subject.Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed CodesA meticulously detailed and empathetic work on a woman whose life should not be forgotten.--Mary Harper, BBC World Service, author Getting Somalia Wrong?As well as telling a compelling story with great skill, this absorbing and clear-eyed examination of the work of one of East Africa’s greatest humanitarians, based on her letters and interviews with her closest associates, also highlights the cultural challenges faced by even the most dedicated worker. Rachel Pieh Jones raises questions about motive and consequence, as well as perception and jealousy, that resonate well beyond the fascinating life she describes.--Richard Barrett, director of the Global Strategy Network and former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6Annalena Tonelli’s story challenges readers to believe in themselves and reminds us that we can choose acts of kindness and love even during difficult circumstances. Her courage inspires us to challenge evil: everyone can make a difference.--Mariam Mohamed, former First Lady of SomaliaA searing account of a person, place, deadly disease, unspeakable violence, and, ultimately, faith, love, and sacrifice.--BooklistGripping . . . Tonelli’s example of humility, asceticism, and loving with abandon will be a revelation to modern Christian readers and will appeal to anyone interested in international aid.--Publishers WeeklyStronger Than Death is a searing portrait of Annalena Tonelli, a singular woman whose fearlessness and concern should stand as an example to us all. It’s also a hard look at the role of outsiders in Africa, and an inquiry into our responsibility to help those less fortunate than us. But most of all, it’s a great story from a place about which, too often, all we hear is silence. --Frank Bures, author of The Geography of Madness
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Hurtwood Press Rachel Jones
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Legare Street Press Sandringham Past and Present
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Plough Publishing House Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to
Book SynopsisGold Medal, 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards, IPPYPersonal friendships with Somali Muslims overcome the prejudices and expand the faith of a typical American Evangelical Christian living in the Horn of Africa.When Rachel Pieh Jones moved from Minnesota to rural Somalia with her husband and twin toddlers eighteen years ago, she was secure in a faith that defined who was right and who was wrong, who was saved and who needed saving. She had been taught that Islam was evil, full of lies and darkness, and that the world would be better without it.Luckily, locals show compassion for this blundering outsider who can’t keep her headscarf on or her toddlers from tripping over AK-47s. After the murder of several foreigners forces them to evacuate, the Joneses resettle in nearby Djibouti.Jones recounts, often entertainingly, the personal encounters and growing friendships that gradually dismantle her unspoken fears and prejudices and deepen her appreciation for Islam. Unexpectedly, along the way she also gains a far richer understanding of her own Christian faith. Grouping her stories around the five pillars of Islam – creed, prayer, fasting, giving, and pilgrimage – Jones shows how her Muslim friends’ devotion to these pillars leads her to rediscover ancient Christian practices her own religious tradition has lost or neglected.Jones brings the reader along as she reexamines her assumptions about faith and God through the lens of Islam and Somali culture. Are God and Allah the same? What happens when one’s ideas about God and the Bible crumble and the only people around are Muslims? What happens is that she discovers that Jesus is more generous, daring, and loving than she ever imagined.Trade ReviewFilled with hard-won insights of a mature faith lived in long community with Muslim neighbors, Pillars refuses sentimental calls for the kind of peace that glosses over differences. Instead, Jones finds her faith unraveled and rewoven, stronger for what she’s learned in the Horn of Africa and from her Muslim friends. Anyone whose faith has been challenged by life experiences will find a helpful model for spiritual growth here. --Amy Peterson, author of Dangerous Territory: My Misguided Quest to Save the WorldThis is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It’s much more than the memoirs of a Christian American living in Africa and exploring Islam with devoted Muslims; it’s about learning how to be a good neighbor to the people around you, wherever you might be in the world. This is the kind of book we need right now. --Eboo Patel, author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a GenerationAs an American raised in a Muslim country, I have waited for a book like Pillars all my adult life, a personal book that discovers similarities and honors differences between Christianity and Islam, a book that, pillar by pillar, builds bridges of greater understanding across what are often chasms of disconnect. Read and savor this book, which shows what can happen when we connect rather than collide. --Marilyn R. Gardner, author of Between Worlds: Essays on Culture & BelongingThis is a book Christians and non-Christians alike can relate to: its core message is one of knowing how to admit you are wrong and learn from your mistakes, while strengthening friendships. —BooklistIn this charming memoir, Rachel Pieh Jones (Stronger than Death), an expat American writer living in Djibouti, recounts her experiences moving from Minnesota to the horn of Africa when her husband took a professorship there, showing readers how her time in Muslim regions freed her from Islamophobic prejudice and deepened her own Christian faith.…The author’s considered, evocative prose and friendly persona make this a pleasure to read. Pieh Jones’s courage to embrace her adventures, rethink shallow faith, and find genuine friendships will inspire readers looking to expand their own horizons. — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewAs committed Christians and American expatriates living in East Africa, Jones and her family have built a life on the borders of one of the most fractious relationships in human history: Islam and Christianity. . . She relates her story without universalizing her experience, but we can learn much from her example. — Christianity TodayAn inherently fascinating, informative and inspiring read from cover to cover, Pillars is an extraordinary life story, unreservedly recommended for all members of the Christian community regardless of denominational affiliations. —Midwest Book ReviewIn four decades of covering religion in America, I cannot recall a book by a Christian author that so eloquently explains the close parallels between the Muslim faith and Christianity. —ReadTheSpirit magazineThis is not a book for those interested in polemics against Islam. Jones takes us into the lived experience of Muslims in the Horn of Africa and what a real engagement with them can be like with risk, affection, difference, and real learning. We also should remember her learning journey began with the Somali refugees in Minnesota. Many of us have Muslim neighbors or work colleagues or health care providers. This is a valuable book both for its exploration of Islam, but also for its model of humble, open dialogue, willing to make mistakes and take risks, to welcome and be welcomed. And it points to what can happen as we engage those of another faith. We not only learn about their faith; we rediscover our own. —Bob TrubeBesides being an enjoyable read, it is a timely reminder for all of us to do all we can to remove prejudicial barriers and build bridges between different faiths. — Dr. Simon Ross Valentine, Church Times, UK
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Vertebrate Publishing Ltd Toes In The Water: Stories of lives changed by
Book SynopsisWhy do so many of us step into the water? Compiled and edited by Rachel Jones, Toes in the Water explores the life-affirming and healing power of wild swimming. With insights from a wide range of swimmers, the book explores the community around wild swimming, interwoven with the mental and physical health benefits which swimmers gain from it. The featured swimmers share the connection they feel with the natural world, and how this can lead to a positive impact on the environment around them. Packed full of inspiring stories, Toes in the Water is a book that could change your life. The featured swimmers include open-water coach and year-round outdoor swimmer Ella Foote, who describes how the swimming community has supported her and given her skills and confidence in the outdoors; meanwhile, Beth Pearson, co-director of the Outdoor Swimming Society, explains the motivation behind and evolution of creating a wild swimming community. Also, Yorkshire-based wild swimming guide Les Peebles reflects on how healing he finds being in the water and how much joy he finds in helping others to discover wild swimming; and Lindsey Cole, mermaid, adventurer and environmental campaigner, explains how she raises awareness of river pollution through storytelling and activism.Table of Contents Introduction COMMUNITY Anna Deacon: A sense of belonging Johnny Hartnell: Wheelie bins and swimventures Beth Pearson: The OSS community Ella Foote: Strength from strangers CP Robinson: The coast is queer Pauline Barker: The Polar Bear Challenge Wendy, Lisa and Julia: Hampshire Open Water Swimmers Colin Hill: The antisocial swimmer Louise Owen: Friends old and new Simon Harmer: The benefits of an outdoor swimming community Katie Richards: Cold-water connection Deb Phillips: Channel swimming Stefan Hargrave: See you next week Sara Barnes: The ghosts of Cow Pool ENVIRONMENT Alice Kloker: River bed Sarah Shreeve: Sewage in our seas Chris Thomas: 365 Sea Swim Challenge Lindsey Cole: The mermaid, the otter and the big poo Emma Harper aka Mischief the Mermaid: Aiming for an ideal – the ghost hunt Susanne Masters: Tastes of water MENTAL HEALTH Catherine White: Waves of freedom Beth French: The glacier Dr Heather Massey: My life through outdoor swimming Jo Clement: Rhythm of the ocean Les Peebles: Helping others discover wild swimming Kate Steels: The Ice Sevens Mikayla Guidera: Freezbrury Kathleen Wotton: The sea saved me Loretta Cox: Discovering open-water swimming Sarah Kennedy Norquoy: Swimming to reset Rachel Ashe: Trying to fit Contributors About the editor
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Plough Publishing House Plough Quarterly No. 22 Vocation
Book SynopsisYour job is not your vocation.Everyone hungers for work that has meaning and purpose. But what gives work meaning? Vocation, or calling, is the answer Protestant Christianity offers: each person is called by God to serve the common good in a particular line of work. Your vocation, evidently, might be almost anything: as a nurse, a wilderness guide, a calligrapher, a missionary, an activist, a venture capitalist, a politician, an executioner Yet, as Will Willimon writes in this issue, the New Testament knows only one form of vocation: discipleship. And discipleship is far more likely to mean leaving father and mother, houses and land, than it is to mean embracing one's identity as a fisherman or tax collector.This issue of Plough focuses on people who lived their lives with that sense of vocation. Such a life demands self-sacrifice and a willingness to recognize one's own supposed strengths as weaknesses, as it did for the Canadian philosopher Jean Vanier.
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The Good Book Company 5 Things to Pray for Your Church: Prayers that
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Irigaray
Book SynopsisThe work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms. This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation of western thought.Trade Review"The book is eloquent, well researched, and written by one of the sharpest feminist philosophers and brightest academic thinkers on the UK scene. It should in fact establish itself as a model for introductory philosophical texts. This is absolutely first-rate work – philosophy at its best." Tina Chanter, DePaul University "Rachel Jones provides an excellent introduction to Irigaray's thought which will benefit feminist philosophers and theorists as well as students. Jones gives a lucid and original account of central themes in Irigaray's work, such as the relation between matter and form, the nature of sexual difference, and the idea of a female subject position." Alison Stone, Lancaster University "This valuable and accessible book meets an urgent need for all those who have wrestled with the intricacies of Luce Irigaray's prose - or who have found the most important of her writings, Speculum of the Other Woman, simply too baffling. Written in an admirably clear style, Rachel Jones's book breaks new ground in showing why and how Irigaray's 'fling with the philosophers' still matters today." Christine Battersby, University of Warwick "This is an astonishing book in its depth and framing of Irigaray. It offers an important contribution to feminist philosophy and has daring, bold, insightful claims that are not seen in other texts." Breanne Fahs, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy 1. Approaching Irigaray: Feminism, Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy2. Re-visiting Plato's Cave: Orientation and Origins3. The Way Out of the Cave: A Likely Story...4. Woman as Other: Variations on an Old Theme5. Freud, Lacan, and Speaking (as a) Woman6. The Status of Sexuate Difference7. An Ethics of Sexuate Difference Conclusion: The Incalculable Being of Being BetweenNotesBibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Irigaray
Book SynopsisThe work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms. This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation of western thought.Trade Review"The book is eloquent, well researched, and written by one of the sharpest feminist philosophers and brightest academic thinkers on the UK scene. It should in fact establish itself as a model for introductory philosophical texts. This is absolutely first-rate work – philosophy at its best." Tina Chanter, DePaul University "Rachel Jones provides an excellent introduction to Irigaray's thought which will benefit feminist philosophers and theorists as well as students. Jones gives a lucid and original account of central themes in Irigaray's work, such as the relation between matter and form, the nature of sexual difference, and the idea of a female subject position." Alison Stone, Lancaster University "This valuable and accessible book meets an urgent need for all those who have wrestled with the intricacies of Luce Irigaray's prose - or who have found the most important of her writings, Speculum of the Other Woman, simply too baffling. Written in an admirably clear style, Rachel Jones's book breaks new ground in showing why and how Irigaray's 'fling with the philosophers' still matters today." Christine Battersby, University of Warwick "This is an astonishing book in its depth and framing of Irigaray. It offers an important contribution to feminist philosophy and has daring, bold, insightful claims that are not seen in other texts." Breanne Fahs, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy 1. Approaching Irigaray: Feminism, Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy2. Re-visiting Plato's Cave: Orientation and Origins3. The Way Out of the Cave: A Likely Story...4. Woman as Other: Variations on an Old Theme5. Freud, Lacan, and Speaking (as a) Woman6. The Status of Sexuate Difference7. An Ethics of Sexuate Difference Conclusion: The Incalculable Being of Being BetweenNotesBibliography
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Autism and Loss
Book SynopsisPeople with autism often experience difficulty in understanding and expressing their emotions and react to losses in different ways or in ways that carers do not understand. In order to provide effective support, carers need to have the understanding, the skills and appropriate resources to work through these emotional reactions with them. Autism and Loss is a complete resource that covers a variety of kinds of loss, including bereavement, loss of friends or staff, loss of home or possessions and loss of health.Rooted in the latest research on loss and autism, yet written in an accessible style, the resource includes a wealth of factsheets and practical tools that provide formal and informal carers with authoritative, tried and tested guidance.This is an essential resource for professional and informal carers working with people with autism who are coping with any kind of loss.Trade ReviewThis book is rare in the subject that it approaches and it is also excellent in offering us a model for how to deal with loss in a more reflective, constructive, thoughtful and ultimately more effective way. It is written primarily for professionals and is highly recommended to them, but I think that parents would also find it useful in dealing with this delicate and often difficult subject. -- GAPthe book has a valuable point to make in highlighting the problems people with autism encounter in expressing feelings after loss. -- The British Journal of Developmental DisabilitiesAutism and Loss opens the professional's eye to a topic rarely discussed in professional literature, and for that reason alone it is turned to time and time again. -- Families in SocietyThis book is a collection of information, practical exercises and worksheets offering guidance to carers and professionals supporting people on the autistic spectrum who are suffering from loss. This is a valuable resource, since due to the difficulties experienced by those on the autistic spectrum, in terms of linking cause and effect, and understanding and expressing their emotions, this can be a particularly frightening experience.A Great strength of the book is the breadth of losses explored; losses of social relationships, home and possessions, role and identity, health and wellbeing, and loss through death. Consideration of these losses could be thought-provoking enough with a neuro-typical individual, but the range would be particularly useful when working with individuals on the autistic spectrum, where difficulties in perception may lead to wider confusion.Another strength of the book is the clarity and repetition of its format, which promotes a sense that a relevant section can be found and dipped into, and used immediately, without having to become accustomed to the content of the whole book. The regular use of headings also makes the content very clear to read and absorb.I feel that it would be very useful for any adults working closely with other children and adults, as it forms a comprehensive background to loss and the autistic spectrum, which could be valuable to any professional. -- Counselling Children and Young PeopleThis is an accessible and useful book for those working with people with autistic spectrum disorder... I was impressed with the practical approach taken within the book... I would recommend this book as a great starting point for addressing the difficult topic of loss with people with autism. The book addresses some of the generic issues associated with loss and in addition contemplates how the experience of autism may in itself create or intensify areas of loss, as the person with autism not only has to adjust to the loss, but also to the differences between themselves and others. -- Rowan Crawley, Scotish Journal of Healthcare ChaplaincyTable of Contents1. Loss and Autism: Changing Ideas, Changing Reactions. 2. Loss of Social Relationships. 3. Loss of Home and Possessions. 4. Loss of Role and Identity. 5. Loss of Health and Wellbeing. 6. Loss through Death. References. Useful websites. Tables and Figures.
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The Good Book Company A Brief Theology of Periods (Yes, Really): An
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Good Book Co The Quiet Time Kickstart
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Rethinking Orientalism
Book Synopsis(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and visual semiology to situate the narratives within Islamophobia and neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 media context. In the absence of mainstream media that tells the complex stories of Muslim Americans and Muslims around the world, there has been a wave of publications of graphic narratives written and drawn from various perspectives that can be used to create curriculum that presents culture, religion, and experience from a multitude of perspectives. The book is an accessible, upper level undergraduate/graduate level text written to give readers insights into toxic xenophobia created through media representation. It provides a theoretical foundation for students to engage in critical analysis and production of visTrade Review«Though primarily written for college faculty teaching undergraduate students, (Re)Thinking Orientalism has plenty to offer high school teachers as well. If you are one of the many who feel inadequately equipped to teach about comics, let alone discuss them in a classroom, this book is a very clearheaded, easy to follow guide that will help any novice understand how to introduce comics within a sophisticated and academically rigorous framework.» (Antonio López, Journal of Media Literacy Education 7(1)Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Bringing Theory to Practice – Situating the Discourse: Orientalism and Islamophobia – Visualizing Difference, Decoding Representation – Post-September 11th and the Visual Regime – Muslims in the American Media: The Muslims I Know, All-American Muslim, and Graphic Representations – From the Inside/Outside: Persepolis, Nylon Road, and A Game for Swallows – Graphic Narratives from Inside the Iranian, Egyptian, and Tunisian Protests: The Tunisian Awakening, Rise, Zahra’s Paradise, and Qahera – Self-Reflexive Outsiders: The Waiting Room, The Photographer, and Palestine – Habibi: The Outsider Looking In.
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Rethinking Orientalism
Book Synopsis(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and visual semiology to situate the narratives within Islamophobia and neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 media context. In the absence of mainstream media that tells the complex stories of Muslim Americans and Muslims around the world, there has been a wave of publications of graphic narratives written and drawn from various perspectives that can be used to create curriculum that presents culture, religion, and experience from a multitude of perspectives. The book is an accessible, upper level undergraduate/graduate level text written to give readers insights into toxic xenophobia created through media representation. It provides a theoretical foundation for students to engage in critical analysis and production of visTrade Review«Though primarily written for college faculty teaching undergraduate students, (Re)Thinking Orientalism has plenty to offer high school teachers as well. If you are one of the many who feel inadequately equipped to teach about comics, let alone discuss them in a classroom, this book is a very clearheaded, easy to follow guide that will help any novice understand how to introduce comics within a sophisticated and academically rigorous framework.» (Antonio López, Journal of Media Literacy Education 7(1)Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Bringing Theory to Practice – Situating the Discourse: Orientalism and Islamophobia – Visualizing Difference, Decoding Representation – Post-September 11th and the Visual Regime – Muslims in the American Media: The Muslims I Know, All-American Muslim, and Graphic Representations – From the Inside/Outside: Persepolis, Nylon Road, and A Game for Swallows – Graphic Narratives from Inside the Iranian, Egyptian, and Tunisian Protests: The Tunisian Awakening, Rise, Zahra’s Paradise, and Qahera – Self-Reflexive Outsiders: The Waiting Room, The Photographer, and Palestine – Habibi: The Outsider Looking In.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Innovations in Conversations About Teaching
Book SynopsisCenters for teaching and learning all face the same dilemma: In a context where faculty are not required to partake in our services, how do we provide transformative learning experiences to which faculty willingly give their limited time? The answer, Maria B. Hopkins and Rachel Bailey Jones propose, is to move away from a workshop model of faculty development and toward a model that supports the kinds of connections among faculty that lead to self-sustaining growth and development. This edited book provides a breadth of innovative alternatives to fixed-schedule faculty development workshops that faculty are rarely attending due to the increasing complexity of their professional lives. The audience for this book is higher education administrators, faculty, and staff responsible for faculty development related to teaching and learning. Each chapter provides a detailed description of a faculty development initiative in practice that provide opportunities for creativity, adaptability, aTable of ContentsList of Figures –List of Tables – Maria B. Hopkins/Rachel Bailey Jones: Introduction – Maria B. Hopkins/Melissa Johnson: You Just Have to Be in My Class: Open Classroom and Teaching Partners at Nazareth – Kimberly McGann: Please, Please Participate! Designing and Offering Effective Faculty Development Workshops – Michael Starenko: Teaching Circles at RIT: Faculty-Directed Educational Development – Gena Merliss/Eileen Radigan: Reflective Practice Groups: Changing the Way We Talk about Teaching – Rebecca Johnson/Jeremiah Parry-Hill/Marty Golia: "Turn to Your Neighbor": Placing Faculty Dialogue and Peer Learning at the Center of Teaching Development – Katie M. Sabourin: Learning to Teach by Being a Student – Jenna Sadue: From Within: Faculty as Agents of Change – Christopher Price: Faculty Development Online – Rachel Bailey Jones: Space: The Final Frontier – Contributors – Index.
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Berghahn Books Hope and Insufficiency: Capacity Building in
Book Synopsis A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept’s role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.Table of Contents List of illustrations Preface: Verbal Sophisms and Problems with Capacity Building Martha Macintyre Introduction: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner Chapter 1. Professionalizing Persons and Foretelling Futures: Capacity Building in Post-Earthquake Haiti Kristin LaHatte Chapter 2. Capacity as Aggregation: Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast Brazil Andrea Ballestero Chapter 3. Building Capacity in Ethical Review: Compliance and Transformation in the Asia-Pacific Region Rachel Douglas-Jones Chapter 4. Corrective Capacities: From Unruly Politics to Democratic Capacitación Susan Ellison Chapter 5. Capacity Building as Instrument and Empowerment: Training Health Workers for Community-Based Roles in Ghana Harriet Boulding Chapter 6. Personal and Professional Encompassment in Organizational Capacity Building: SOS Children’s Villages and Supportive Housing Viktoryia Kalesnikava Chapter 7. Community Capacity Building: Transforming Amerindian Sociality in Peruvian Amazonia Christopher Hewlett Chapter 8. ‘Integrating Human to Quality’: Capacity Building across Cambodian Worlds Casper Bruun Jensen
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Berghahn Books Hope and Insufficiency: Capacity Building in
Book Synopsis A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept’s role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.Table of Contents List of illustrations Preface: Verbal Sophisms and Problems with Capacity Building Martha Macintyre Introduction: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner Chapter 1. Professionalizing Persons and Foretelling Futures: Capacity Building in Post-Earthquake Haiti Kristin LaHatte Chapter 2. Capacity as Aggregation: Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast Brazil Andrea Ballestero Chapter 3. Building Capacity in Ethical Review: Compliance and Transformation in the Asia-Pacific Region Rachel Douglas-Jones Chapter 4. Corrective Capacities: From Unruly Politics to Democratic Capacitación Susan Ellison Chapter 5. Capacity Building as Instrument and Empowerment: Training Health Workers for Community-Based Roles in Ghana Harriet Boulding Chapter 6. Personal and Professional Encompassment in Organizational Capacity Building: SOS Children’s Villages and Supportive Housing Viktoryia Kalesnikava Chapter 7. Community Capacity Building: Transforming Amerindian Sociality in Peruvian Amazonia Christopher Hewlett Chapter 8. ‘Integrating Human to Quality’: Capacity Building across Cambodian Worlds Casper Bruun Jensen
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Samuel French Inc The Nosemakers Apprentice
Book SynopsisCharacters: 4 male, 1 female A father weaves a magic tale for his daughter to justify his unlicensed plastic surgery practice, tracing the origins of cosmetic surgery to craftsman in medieval Europe. The hero of this tale is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, and who eventually becomes one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine. Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the Work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis. But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire...literally. Hilarious, subversive, quasi-historical, and thoroughly debauched...a fated collaboration between two innovative (and troubling) writers. Boisterous intelligence that can
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Rachel Jones Under a Fractured Sky
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Extensive Dermatology
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The Good Book Company Proverbs: Real Wisdom for Real Life: Eight
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The Good Book Company 5 Things to Pray for the People You Love: Prayers
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Rowman & Littlefield Europe's High-End Military Challenges: The Future
Book SynopsisThis CSIS report examines the evolution of European military capabilities over the next decade. It asks two main questions. What military capabilities might European allies and partners of the United States possess by 2030? And what types of military missions will these states be able (and unable) to effectively perform by 2030? First, European militaries—including the largest and most capable European NATO members—will continue to struggle to conduct several types of missions without significant U.S. assistance. Second, European militaries will face significant challenges in the Indo-Pacific. Third, Europe’s major powers will likely have the capability to conduct most types of missions at the lower end of the conflict continuum without significant U.S. military aid. To sustain progress and overcome remaining challenges, NATO will have to revise its burden-sharing metrics, modernize defense planning and procurement practices, and address lagging political will.Table of ContentsExecutive Summary _v CHAPTER 1: Introduction_1 CHAPTER 2: European Capabilities_6 CHAPTER 3: European Missions_24 CHAPTER 4: Conclusions_43 About the Authors_47 APPENDIX 1: Examples of Military Operations Involving European Countries_48 APPENDIX 2: Description of European Capabilities to Perform Missions _53
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Rowman & Littlefield The Challenge of European Political Will
Book SynopsisIn this follow-on report to Europe's High-End Military Challenges: The Future of European Capabilities and Missions, the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and International Security Program examine the other side of the coin of European military effectiveness: the political will of European countries to conduct military missions and operations. The report identifies the endogenous and exogenous factors constraining or increasing political will and maps them onto six country case studies. Four prototypes of political will emerged from the analysis: global partners, international activists, constrained partners, and minimalists. The report then assesses the political will of European allies and partners to conduct fifteen types of military missions and operations worldwide, from peacekeeping to large-scale combat. It concludes with a summary of key findings. First, it finds that internal and external factors—such as strategic culture and alliance dependence, respectively—will continue to constrain European political will in many cases, even after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Second, European states are more likely to have the political will to engage in military missions at the lower end of the conflict spectrum (such as maritime patrol missions) and less likely at the higher ends of the spectrum, except in cases of significant collective or national defense.
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SCM Hänssler Eine ZyklusTheologie ja echt
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Simon & Schuster Prayer for a Child
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LifeWay Christian Resources 5 Razones Para Orar Por Tu Iglesia
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Towards an Anthropology of Data
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a set of theoretically inventive pieces that engage with data across its many locations, from government databases to ecological field stations, from kitchen tables to concrete bunkers. Contributors demonstrate how thinking with data can be conceptually generative for anthropology, prompting us to reconsider our understanding of topics including bodies, persons, and the social itselfShows how 'big' data which may have once seemed limited to business or high tech, ethnographers are now finding data and its attendant values and practices in their field sites around the worldExamines how data has motivated a sweep of dystopian visions, signaling the invasion of privacy, political manipulation, or shadowy data doublesDiscusses how anthropologists have been cautious in taking data itself as an object of theoretical interest, even as the effects of data become manifest in our ethnographiesBy putting data in its place, the chapters collected here develop conceptual tTrade Review“Anthropologists seeking generative approaches to data will find in this collection a broad and inspiring array of examples.” - Anthropology Book Forum OPEN ACCESS BOOK REVIEWS ~ ISSN: 2380-7725, March 2022Table of ContentsNotes on contributors 7(Rachel Douglas-Jones, Antonia Walford & Nick Seaver) Introduction: Towards an anthropology of data 91 (Vijayanka Nair) Becoming data: biometric IDs and the individual in ‘Digital India’ 262 (Nick Seaver) Everything lies in a space: cultural data and spatial reality 433 (Tahani Nadim) The datafication of nature: data formations and new scales in natural history 624 (A.R.E. Taylor) Future-proof: bunkered data centres and the selling of ultra-secure cloud storage 765 (Cori Hayden) From connection to contagion 956 (Hannah Knox) Hacking anthropology 1087 (Antonia Walford) Data – ova – gene – data 1278 (Sarah Blacker) Strategic translation: pollution, data, and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 1429 (Rachel Douglas-Jones) Bodies of data: doubles, composites, and aggregates 159(Bill Maurer) Data forward: an afterword 171Index 176
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Simon & Schuster Prayer for a Child
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The Good Book Company 5 Things to Pray for Your Heart: Prayers That
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