Maria O: 124 books
Patient Engagement
Catalyzing Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
CFHI's first book on patient engagement. Case studies from healthcare delivery organizations in three countries, catalyzing improvement and innovation in healthcare illustrates patient engagement strategies and their impacts.
by A. L. O. E., Charlotte Maria Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
A beautiful tale of redemption and adventure. Horace is a young arrogant Englishman vacationing in Italy with his mother. Reckless and un-thoughtful, he puts himself in danger and is captured by a group of bandits. In his time in, “The Robbers Cave”, he meets a young man named Raphael. Raphael...
Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work
Developing Trauma-Informed Practice for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of...
by Larry Davidson, Michael Rowe, Janis Tondora
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
This book takes a lofty vision of "recovery" and of "a life in the community" for every adult with a serious mental illness promised by the U.S. President's 2003 New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and shows the reader what is entailed in making this vision a reality. Beginning with the historical...
Fields of Vision
Essays on the Travels of William Bartram
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south.
William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories...
National Service and Volunteerism
Achieving Impact in Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national...
Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture
One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled...
Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe
Bridging Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state...
by Ayşe Nihal Akbulut, Bouchra Benlemlih, Liviu Cotrău
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate...
Shame and Pride in Narrative
Mexican Women's Language Experiences at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. It reveals the power of narrative, understood as a social practice, to validate and give meaning to people's lives.
by Evelyn O'Callaghan, Alison Donnell, Maria McGarrity
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
This collection explores how the complications and contradictions of Irish-Caribbean relations are much richer and deeper than previously recognized. Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important contribution to Irish studies by challenging the dominance of a US diasporic history and a disciplinary...
Seelenfeuer
Geschichten und Gedichte über das ganz große Gefühl
Language: German
Release Date: May 20, 2012
. über die Liebe! Geschichten und Gedichte, geschrieben von Frauen und Männern, die die Geschehnisse ihres Herzens, ihrer Phantasie, ihrer Erlebnisse und ihre Gefühle zu Papier gebracht haben. Ein unvergleichliches Kaleidoskop an Emotionen, arrangiert zu einem wunderbaren Strauß von Sinnlichkeit...
A Multiple Community
Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
The proposal of this second volume of Leituras is to address the debate on the global South from other models of constructing reality and to speculate on the potential impact of alternative forms of organization on current times. To this end, it compiles a series of non-Western cosmologies which,...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...