Research into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating collection from leading academics in the field.From countries with long established research traditions to places where it is relatively new, contributors set out the different aims and objectives of investigations into the minimum needs and requirements of populations, and the historical contexts, theoretical frameworks and methodological issues that lie behind each appro...

Confessione numero uno:Sono un'imbranata cronica. Lo so, lo so, a ventisei anni dovrei aver superato la fase della goffaggine, ma a quanto pare non è destino.Confessione numero due:Il pronto soccorso è come una seconda casa per me. Non che mi faccia piacere andarci. Tra distorsioni, cadute rovinose e incidenti domestici, il personale medico mi conosce ormai alla perfezione.Confessione numero tre...

This book looks deeply at women researchers’ personal stories, struggles, and successes within the context of conducting research in the male-dominated sphere of prison studies. Their insights provide an analytical resource from which readers can better understand the context of doing prison research and the theoretical and methodological challenges that come with it. Their autoethnographic stories shed light on the unique issues faced by women prison researchers and provide a roadmap for ...

Abigail Dawson is a little red-haired mountain girl who has been so traumatized by incidents in her life that she changes from a bright, sunny two-year-old to a very serious and timid young woman. Her mother plays a very important role in keeping this trauma in the forefront of her mind, although unintentionally. Abigail is taken to the hospital, where she remains for therapy, but Lucas Sutherland appears in her life and helps to break down the barriers holding her in torment. He and his p...

Confession One: I was a klutz.I thought I’d grow out of it, but evidently I didn't.It's not fun to look like a fumbling toddler when you're twenty-six.Confession Two: I had a standing appointment at the local ER.It wasn't by choice that I knew all the doctors names—it was necessity.But that was about to change.Confession Three: I hated the sun yet I lived in LA where it always shone.I supposed that was one plus to being sent to New Yo...

Interpreting Professional Self-Regulation analyses the contribution made by the UKCC to the development of the nursing profession in this country over the last 30 years.It details the key issues the council grappled with during this time and provides in-depth analyses of the complexity of these issues.There is a general consensus that the current view of nursing's regulatory body will culminate in a major shake up of the way the nursing profession is governed and in which t...

This anthology follows the same theme as Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel Volume I. In this anthology, 30 authors provide their amazing visions on the theme of time travel, showing their storytelling skills while delighting readers. These stories take readers to the past, alternate present, and the future.

Following the introduction in 2013 of the FFICM exam for trainees in intensive care, this book provides candidates with practice materials for the MCQ section. Written by a team of specialists in intensive care medicine, including senior trainees who have recently passed the new exam and authors of the popular FRCAQ website, the book contains 270 multiple true-false questions that cover the breadth of the current Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine curriculum. These are presented as three 9...

Innovation. How to go about it, what it can do for your business - what even is it? Can innovation be applied in the legal environment? Such is the interest and appetite for legal innovation that, in the last 18 months, ARK has published over a dozen titles with innovation in their remit, covering everything from knowledge management to pricing, from marketing to recruitment, and everything in between. This compilation deep-dives into the key areas that drive innovation forward in the lega...

She was the enemy, until I made her mine.As the second son of the most notorious Mafia boss in Italy, I’d always wanted to make a name for myself.I wasn’t the kind of man who waited around for scraps.I was proactive, wanting a better life than the one I’d grown up with.But crime was all I’d known. It was who I was at the core.So I made a plan:Go to the States and steal the Bianco’s territory.I was on a mission, determined for nothing ...

Confession One: Musical theatre and chess were my true loves.I was a mixture of nerd and drama queen.I liked to think of myself as raspberry ripple ice cream.The perfect combination of sauce to creamy goodness.Confession Two: I was an adaptable kind of girl.Until it came to my dreams.Four years of hard work and I finally got into the college I’d fantasized about since I was a little girl.But sometimes things didn’t work out how you wa...

We were never meant to meet; our paths shouldn't have crossed. And yet they did.As an undercover DEA agent, I always thought things through. I didn't take chances, because I knew one misstep could have disastrous consequences.Until I met her. The little sister of my next target.Lola was a feisty young woman trying to claw her way out of a bad neighborhood. She was forbidden in every sense of the word, and not just because of the sixteen-year age gap...