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Responding to the alarm caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, the author draws on her experience of analyzing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care quality.
"Flowing effortlessly from the erotic to the political, this stunning anthology brings together the voices of several generations of poets from more than a dozen Latin American countries. Mixing well-known voices with emerging writers, Agosin has chosen poems that delight and inspire." -- Ms Magazine.
Insects that are the least bit social may gather in modest groups, like the dozen or so sawfly larvae feeding on a pine needle. Why these insects get together and what they get out of their associations are questions considered in this look at group behaviour and social lives of an array of bugs.
After several decades of decline and disfavour, nuclear power is attracting renewed interest. New permit applications for 30 reactors have been filed in the United States, and another 150 are planned or proposed globally, with about a dozen more already under construction.
This authoritative book presents a groundbreaking evidence-based approach to conducting therapy groups for persons with substance use disorders. The approach integrates cognitive-behavioral, motivational interviewing, and relapse prevention techniques, while capitalizing on the power of group processes. Clinicians are provided with a detailed intervention framework and clear-cut strategies for helping clients to set and meet their own treatment goals. More than two dozen ready-to-use reproducible assessment tools, handouts, homework exercises, and session outlines are supplied in a convenient large-size format. This book will be invaluable to clinical psychologists, social workers, substance abuse counselors, and other clinicians who treat clients with addiction and substance use problems. It may also serve as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses.
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
This book relates the inspiring stories of over thirty famous writers rejected by publishers at some point in their careers. Their accounts offer encouragement to anyone who thinks about writing for publication. A rebuffed manuscript that later goes on to achieve fame and success underscores the value of confidence and perseverance. Agatha Christie's first novel received some half dozen rejections and waited four years to emerge from the press. Charlotte Bronte's first novel never appeared in her lifetime. Uncle Tom's Cabin was deemed too controversial. Shaw was not interesting enough. Sherlock Holmes, first created in A Study in Scarlet, was unwanted. This book tells the fascinating stories of great authors who overcame the rejections of benighted publishers fortunately for English literature.
"It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed less likely to have desirable traits, such as goodness, kindness, and honesty. Three quarters of women consider appearance important to their self image and over a third rank it as the most important factor. Although appearance can be a significant source of pleasure, its price can also be excessive, not only in time and money, but also in physical and psychological health. Our annual global investment in appearance totals close to $200 billion. Many individuals experience stigma, discrimination, and related difficulties, such as eating disorders, depression, and risky dieting and cosmetic procedures.Women bear a vastly disproportionate share of these costs, in part because they face standards more exacting than those for men, and pay greater penalties for falling short. The Beauty Bias explores the social, biological, market, and media forces that have contributed to appearance-related problems, as well as feminism's difficulties in confronting them. The book also reviews why it matters. Appearance-related bias infringes fundamental rights, compromises merit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds the disadvantages of race, class, and gender. Yet only one state and a half dozen localities explicitly prohibit such discrimination. The Beauty Bias provides the first systematic survey of how appearance laws work in practice, and a compelling argument for extending their reach. The book offers case histories of invidious discrimination and a plausible legal and political strategy for addressing them. Our prejudices run deep, but we can do far more to promote realist
The book narrates the Stono River uprising of 1739, a slave rebellion that took the lives of over two dozen whites and as many as two hundred blacks in colonial South Carolina, was the largest North American mainland slave insurrection during the English colonial era.
The term Deepwater refers to a collection of more than a dozen Coast Guard acquisition programs for replacing and modernising the service's ageing fleet of deepwater-capable ships and aircraft. This book explores the background, oversight issues and options for Congress with regard to the Coast Guard Deepwater Acquisition Programs.
Gleeful and noisy celebrations greeted several dozen nervous young women when, after 99 tumultuous days at sea aboard the Tynemouth, they stepped ashore in Victoria in September 1862. Immediately they were faced with an ordeal of a different kind -- walking in single file up the ceremonial pathway through a jostling crowd of boisterous, eager men. One astonished young woman, proposed to on the spot, accepted her suitor to the delighted cheers of the throng and married him the next day. However, it took most of the bride-ship women longer to find their new destinies. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast of Canada? The answers lie in the atrocious disruptions of industrial Britain, the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early feminists, and the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier. All three elements shaped this complex and intriguing true story. The hardships and happiness of Louisa and Charlotte Townsend, Isabel Curtis, Jane Saunders, Emma Tammadge, Minnie Gillan and others who left no records are brought to life in this book.
Volume 1 covers Minnesota's early development from the days of French exploration and trade with American Indians through territorial times to the eve of statehood in 1857. Volume 2 continues the story from 1858 to 1865, with emphasis on the state's participation in the Civil War and the Sioux Uprising (Dakota Conflict) of 1862. Volume 3 completes the chronological record with a comprehensive picture of Minnesota politics from 1865 to 1925. Volume 4 focuses on special topics such as iron mining, public education, the Chippewa (Ojibway), election procedures, and a dozen outstanding Minnesotans. Includes a consolidated index to Volumes 1-4.
In this well-researched and fascinating book, noted journalist Thomas de Waal--author of the highly acclaimed Black Garden--makes the case that while the Caucasus is often treated as a sub-plot in the history of Russia, or as a mere gateway to Asia, the five-day war in Georgia, which flared into a major international crisis in 2008, proves that this is still a combustible region, whose inner dynamics and history deserve a much more complex appreciation from the wider world. In The Caucasus, de Waal provides this richer, deeper, and much-needed appreciation, one that reveals that the South Caucasus--Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, and their many smaller regions, enclaves, and breakaway entities--is a fascinating and distinct world unto itself. Providing both historical background and an insightful analysis of the period after 1991, de Waal sheds light on how the region has been scarred by the tumultuous scramble for independence and the three major conflicts that broke out with the end of the Soviet Union--Nagorny Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia.The book examines the region as a major energy producer and exporter; offers a compelling account of the Rose Revolution in Georgia, the rise of Mikheil Saakashvili, and the August 2008 war; and considers the failure of the South Caucasus, thus far, to become a single viable region. In addition, the book features a dozen or so "boxes" which provide brief snapshots of such fascinating side topics as the Kurds, Turkish-Armenian rapprochement, the promotion of the region as the "Soviet Florida," and the most famous of all Georgians, Stalin. The Caucasus delivers a vibrantly written and timely account of this turbulent region, one that will prove indispensable for all concerned with world politics. It is, as well, a stimulating read for armchair travellers and for anyone curious about far-flung corners of the world.
Looks at a dozen or so foods, implements, and practices to assemble a picture of how food and dining have come to mean what they mean. Part literary history, part anthropology, part popular culture study, this is an addition to the literature on what we eat.
Presents a study of the psychological and social histories of more than a dozen serial killers - and the red flags that might have saved some victims. It shows us how - many years before the crimes were committed - the perpetrators of lust homicides exhibited behaviors demonstrating certain mental disorders which grew to fuel the horrific murders.
Published to mark the centenary of Brahms's death in 1897, this is a comprehensive English language collection of Brahms's letters. It contains over 550 letters, including more than a dozen previously unpublished in any language. The letters are woven together with an extended biographical narrative, and span the entire life of the composer.
Edith Lyttleton (1874-1945), under the name of G B Lancaster, wrote over a dozen novels and some 250 short stories, mostly narratives of romance and adventure set in the remote back country of New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. She was New Zealand's most widely read author overseas in the first half of the twentieth century, reaching millions of readers. Writing first from her family's Canterbury sheep station, in the face of fierce parental opposition, she later travelled widely, researching her stories in the Yukon, Nova Scotia, and Tasmania. This book is a fascinating account of the harsh experience of a gifted woman writer forced to earn her own living but struggling to move beyond the limits of pot-boilers to more serious work.
As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, this work takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict. It also examines the media's responses to allegations of biased coverage.
Includes contributions on language typology, synchronic variation, language change, constituent structure, function identification, subject condition, control, complex predicates, NP internal structure, wh-constructions, syntactic features, and lexical issues. This volume covers more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign Language.
Written by experienced RAs, this book discussing over three dozen common RA mistakes. It allows users to select from among several dozen issues of importance to a particular campus. It is intended for residence life professionals who are responsible for training college Resident Assistants.
Providing a backstaatge pass into the lives of the 801 cabaret girls, this work is based on many interviews with more than a dozen drag queens. One of America's most overlooked subcultures is given a witty and poignant portrait in this work.
This book is based on the idea that a behavior management plan can be as effective in preventing problematic classroom behavior as it is in managing it and utilizes an evidence-based approach to solving problems. It offers easy-to-implement, research-based plans for addressing problematic classroom behavior in two key areas: on-task time/assignment completion and disruption/rule violation. The author introduces a dozen behavior management plans in non-technical language. This eliminates the need for extensive training in behavior therapy or learning theory. FEATURES: *An introductory chapter addressing "evidence-based" practice in education--Explaining the scientific nature of the book's plans and introducing the rationale behind the use of such practice. *A chapter on the "beeper" system for enhancing student engagement. * Introduces a recently developed device, the "MotivAider"--explains how it works, when it is best used, and what can be expected when it is used.*A common format in each plan chapter (Chapters 2 -12)--Description, terms, apparatus, baseline measurement, procedures, "how it works," additional considerations, hypothetical cases, "what if," and forms.* Facilitates comparison among plans--helps future teachers develop their intuitive sense for what works with which learners, and why.*Discussion of a "dual plan" strategy for addressing disruptive behavior--Teaming a plan for stopping the disruptive behavior with one for encouraging desired behavior. * Illustrates the advantage in tackling certain problem behaviors "on two fronts"--offers specific plans that work concurrently to change "bad" behavior into "good" behavior.*A wide range of plans--For individual students, small groups, and entire classrooms. * Expands the repertoire of both beginning and veteran teachers--provides a full complement of strategies to fit a wide range of situations and behaviors.*Perforated pages--Enables teachers to tear out specific plans for implementation.
You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history. Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and fiction upside down and inside out. Dennis Cooley has added more than a dozen new poems to this revised edition and Douglas Barbour has written an introduction. By turns earthy and earnest, soulful and sly, Bloody Jack is a rollicking, fun-filled riot of a volume by one of Canada's favourite poets.
World's End was a melting pot of the working class labourers who flooded to London to make their fortunes, and the author's family was no exception. This story tells of the feud between the author's two grandmothers which meant that though they only lived a few yards apart, for over a dozen years they never acknowledged one another.
From reed boats, papyrus, and amulets to pyramids, pharaohs, and mummies, this activity book explores the lives of ancient Egyptians with more than two dozen projects. It covers ancient Egyptian food and housing, games and toys, farming, medicine, as well as gods, pharaohs, hieroglyphs, pyramids, temples, and mummies. It is intended for ages 9-12.
A guide that examines the faraway lands of the North and South Poles. It includes over two dozen interactive projects and experiments - ranging from making an Inuit boat, polar bear paw prints, a model of a dog igloo, midnight rations, and snowshoes - that provide children a chance to see polar principles in action.
About a dozen federally supported child nutrition programs and related activities - including the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (the WIC program) - reach over 36 million children and almost 2 million lower-income pregnant and postpartum women. The School Lunch and School Breakfast programs provide cash subsidies to participating schools and residential child care institutions (RCCIs) for all meals they serve; larger subsidies are granted for free and reduced-price meals served to lower-income children. The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) subsidises meals and snacks served by child care centres and day care homes; in centres, higher subsidies are given for meals/snacks served to lower-income children, while subsidies for homes generally are not varied by children's family income (but are larger for homes in lower-income areas or operated by lower-income providers). Schools, RCCIs, and other public and private non-profit organisations operating programs for children also can receive subsidies for snacks (and, in some cases, meals) served in after-school and other outside-of-school settings.The Summer Food Service Program subsidises food service operations by public and private non-profit sponsors in lower-income areas during the summer; all meals/snacks they serve are subsidised, generally without regard to individual children's family income. The Special Milk Program operates in schools and RCCIs without a lunch program and subsidises all milk they serve. All these subsidies are inflation-indexed and are paid only where the subsidised meals/snacks meet federal nutrition standards. In addition to cash aid, many providers receive food commodities from the Agriculture Department, at a set value per meal (and may receive 'bonus' commodities from stocks acquired for agricultural support purposes). Grants also are made to help cover state administrative expenses. And, the WIC program provides nutrition services and tailored food packages to lower-income pregnant, breas
After the US-led coalition targeted terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan, al Qaeda, the Taliban and two dozen other such organisations relocated to the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Pakistan. This title offers a detailed analysis of the myriad insurgent groups working in the tribal areas and elsewhere in Pakistan.
Only the U.S. Congress has the constitutional power to declare war, but from Truman on, commanders in chief have been steadily asserting their right to use armed force. American troops have now fought in half a dozen conflicts-from Korea and Vietnam to Iraq-without a formal congressional declaration of war.
Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result, what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means.
Features chemistry concepts that help kids learn how to shoot candy and soda 10 feet up in the air or create a crystal collage. This book includes over two dozen projects illustrating major chemistry themes - including atoms and molecules; the characteristics of solids, liquids, and gases; and, chemical reactions.
Offers insights into the complex dynamics of violent conflict and terror by investigating racial and gender formations within war zones and the collateral effects of war on race and gender dynamics in the context of two dozen armed struggles. This book illuminates the complex interplay of gender, race, nation, culture, and religion.
Offers an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators.
A guide that examines the faraway lands of the North and South Poles. It includes over two dozen interactive projects and experiments - ranging from making an Inuit boat, polar bear paw prints, a model of a dog igloo, midnight rations, and snowshoes - that provide children a chance to see polar principles in action.
Accessible and practical, this book provides a unified framework for integrating acceptance and mindfulness into cognitive-behavioral practice. The authors interweave elements of acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, mindfulness-based relapse prevention, and dialectical behavior therapy. They demonstrate how to conduct an assessment, develop a case formulation, and derive a flexible treatment plan for each patient. Vivid case examples and transcripts illustrate the entire process of therapy, showing how treatment can be tailored for different presenting problems and concerns. More than two dozen reproducible handouts and forms are included. This book will be important reading for psychotherapists in a range of settings, including clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinical social workers, as well as advanced students in these areas. It will also serve as a text in graduate-level courses and clinical practica.
With the worldwide success of the movie March of the Penguins, these fascinating flightless birds have become a symbol of the fragile nature of our ecosystem. Faced with global warming, invasive tourism, pollution and loss of habitat, penguins need our help more than ever to survive.Over the last 18 years, Wayne Lynch has travelled thousands of miles to Antarctica, the Galßpagos Islands, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and a dozen remote island clusters in the tempestuous Southern Ocean to study and photograph the 17 species of penguins in their natural habitats. In Penguins of the World, he documents the extraordinary life cycle of these tough, resourceful and beautiful birds in some of the harshest environments imaginable.Lynch's prose is engaging and easy-to-read, and his beautiful photographs capture the birds in a wide variety of activities and behaviours. Penguins of the World is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in the future of life on this planet.
A guide to the chakras that presents the scientific research explaining the subtle energy system and how it creates the physical world; depiction of the negative influences that cause disease, as well as ways to deal with them; and, explanations of two dozen energy bodies and the meridians and their uses for healing and manifesting.
The Mongolic Languages represents the first comprehensive treatment of the Mongolic language family in English. The Mongolic languages form a linguistically well defined but geographically widely dispersed family of more than a dozen separate languages, distributed from East and North Asia (Mongolia, Manchuria and Southern Siberia) to Central and West Asia (Northern Tibet, Gansu, Sinkiang, Northern Afghanistan and the Caspian Region). Written by a team of international specialists, this in-depth volume is divided into twenty chapters. The first three chapters focus on reconstructed and historical forms of Mongolic. These are followed by fourteen chapters each containing synchronic and diachronic descriptions of a modern Mongolic language or dialect group, including Khalkha, Buryat, Dagur, Ordos, Kalmuck and Moghol. The final three chapters deal with areal and taxonomic issues. This unique resource is the ideal companion for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics. It will also be of interest to researchers or anyone with an interest in Mongolian Studies or Central Eurasian history and cultural studies.
