Kate R : 39 books
Rights, Risk and Restraint-Free Care of Older People
Person-Centred Approaches in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice. This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint.
The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions...
Counting Our Blessings: Wonderful Thanksgiving Tales for Children
44 Stories: The First Thanksgiving, The Thanksgiving Goose, Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner, A Mystery in the Kitchen, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir...
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
It's that time of the year again when families get together to celebrate, laugh, enjoy, and bond over yummy food! So, come along with us and relish the magic of these Thanksgiving classics for a wholesome holiday mood: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner...
by Scott L. McLean, Sean D. Foreman, Donna R. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The 2020 United States presidential race is arguably already over except for about 12 states and 20 counties. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2020, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their...
Viewpoints on Media Effects
Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies.
Recent protests around the...
Strengthening Coastal Planning
How Coastal Regions Could Benefit from Louisiana’s Planning and Analysis Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
This report highlights RAND’s contributions to the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s Master Plan. Its purpose is to help policymakers in other coastal regions understand the value of a solid technical foundation to support decisionmaking on strategies to reduce flood risk,...
by Neil R. A. Bell, Trevor N. Bond, Kate Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however, was often stranger, more thrilling and more horrifying than fiction. In this book, four eminent crime...
A Journey of Words
35 Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
From Scout Media comes A Journey of Words—the second volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world.
In this installation, the authors will lead the reader to destinations unknown; from the heartbreak of driving to visit a loved one for the last...
by Carson Bergstrom, Sandro Jung, Christopher R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson’s composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition of the work is complicated by the fact...
Queering Elementary Education
Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal...
Athens, Arden, Jerusalem
Essays in Honor of Mera Flaumenhaft
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul...
by Geoffrey Block, Kate Van Winkle Keller, Anne Dhu McLucas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
A survey of the history of musical theater in the United States. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Place Matters
Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes...
by Kelly Stone Gamble, Brenda Vicars, Kate Birdsall
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
Wonder
This holiday season, twenty talented, award-winning, and bestselling authors have crafted never before released Yuletide-themed tales about their most beloved characters.
Magic
From murder to magic, love to loss, the past and the future, this multi-genre collection of poems...