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Crossing Over
Narratives of Palliative Care, Revised Edition
2022
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Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers in the face of incurable illness. Twenty richly-detailed narratives bring vividly to life the experiences of dying and bereavement, weaving together emotions, physical symptoms, spiritual concerns, and the stresses of family life, as well as the professional and personal challenges of providing hospice and palliative care. Drawing on a variety of qualitative research methods, including participant-obs...
Our Shared Future
Windows into Canada's Reconciliation Journey
2020
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This edited collection provides deep insights and varied perspectives of innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile the conflicts that have characterized the history of Indigenous people, settlers, and their descendants in Canada. From the opening chapter, the volume contextualizes why Canada is on a reconciliation journey, and how that journey is far from over. It is a multi-disciplinary treatise on decolonization, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation that is a must-read for tho...
Oceans Past
Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations
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- Earthscan Research Editions
2012
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�[A] fascinating volume, which establishes marine environmental history as a major new discipline for academics as well as an exciting way to bring history and the natural world alive for the public.�ANDREW A. ROSENBERG, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE�The HMAP project is to be congratulated on this book, which presents vivid, evidence-based reconstructions of historical fisheries and the prolific ecosystems in which they were embedded.�TONY J. PITCHER, UNIVERSITY OF BRIT...
Surveillance and Identity
Discourse, Subjectivity and the State
2016
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Surveillance and Identity analyses the discourse of surveillance in the contemporary United Kingdom, drawing upon public language from central government, governmental agencies, activist movements, and from finance and banking. Examining the logics of these discourses and revealing the manner in which they construct problems of governance in the light of the insecurity of identity, this book shows how identity is fundamentally linked to surveillance, as governmental discourses privilege su...
Proven Climate Solutions
Leading Voices on How to Accelerate Change
2024
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Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet.As governments and businesses continue to set climate goals for reducing carbon emissions and slowing global warming, scientists, engineers, and policymakers are using cutting-edge research to introduce new climate technologies and strategies for achieving and potentially surpassing these goals.Presented by world-leading climate s...
2014
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The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability, the silent or silenced other, sympathy, and forgiveness in an allusive and detached prose that avoids obvious answers or easy ethical reassurance.Part 1 of this volume, "Material...
2016
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An adorable little Bible with 44 stories across the Old and New Testaments.The stories end with the promise that was made in the story: 'God promised to save his people. And he did.', 'Jesus had come back to life, just as he promised', and the Bible reference underneath.Each double page has the text on one side and a full page of colour artwork facing it. Lucy's illustrations are charming and very child-friendly.
Independent Man
The Life of Senator James Couzens
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- Great Lakes Books
2002
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Now back in print, this is the only biography of the man who served as Detroit's mayor and contributed to the early success of the Ford Motor Company.First published in 1958, Independent Man is the only book-length biography of one of Michigan's most remarkable men. Born in Ontario, in 1872, Couzens made the move to Detroit in the year 1890. His many careers embraced both the business and political spheres.Couzens was a prominent businessman who helped shap...
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- The Confessions Series
2010
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Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn't sure she wants to go thr...
The Statues that Walked
Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
2011
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T****he monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have built such monumental works? No such astonishing numbers of massive statues ...
Critical Discourse Analysis
The Critical Study of Language
2013
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Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field.The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes:language in relation to ideology and powerdiscourse in processes of social and cultural changedialectics of discourse, dialectical relations between discourse and other mome...
The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
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- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2011
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that...