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What do you call the ones you love the most? Acclaimed author Mary
Lee Donovan and illustrator Brizida Magro’s Let Me Call You
Sweetheart is a playful, sometimes silly, and always cozy picture
book that features more than fifty terms of endearment from around
the world. Perfect for bedtime, for building vocabulary, for baby
showers, and for gift-giving all year long. A confectionary of
affection! Mi cielito, my angel, my pumpkin, my bean. My kitten, my
sweetheart, my darling sweet pea. Everyone has a special term of
endearment for those they love. What do you call your loved ones?
Let Me Call You Sweetheart is an irresistible picture book to share
with the ones you love—no matter what their age! Mary Lee
Donovan’s rhythmic text keeps readers turning the pages, and
Brizida Magro’s remarkable, sun-drenched illustrations present a
cast of playful and charming children and animals, and an
enchanting world full of friendship, love, and affection. Featuring
more than fifty terms of endearment and expressions of love from
around the world, Let Me Call You Sweetheart is perfect for baby
showers and bedtime. Includes a note to readers about the origin of
the terms of endearment featured in the book, as well as source
notes.
The rise and spread of Covid-19 in the beginning of 2020 presents a
once-in-a-century challenge and opportunity for decision makers,
managers, scholars, and citizens to understand the risks, mitigate
its impact and prepare for future crises. Drawing on a global
network of scholars, this book presents a comparative analysis of
ten nations' response to a global pandemic, while operating
nominally under the framework of the World Health Organization. The
book introduces the concept of 'collective cognition' as an
analytic lens for examining the nations' response to Covid-19
during the first six months of the emerging pandemic (January -
June 2020) and draws out insights for improving systems of global
risk management. This book addresses four primary audiences:
policy-makers and leaders in nations struggling to contain viruses
while guiding their societies under threat; academic researchers,
students, and educators engaged in preparing the next generation of
professionals committed to investigating emerging risk: managers of
non-profit and private organizations that operate and maintain the
networks of social, technical, and economic services that are
essential to functioning communities; and the informed general
public interested in understanding this extraordinary sequence of
events and in managing the novel risk of COVID-19 in a more
informed, responsible way.
This book reframes theoretical, methodological and practical
approaches to public administration by drawing on complexity theory
concepts. It aims to provide alternative perspectives on the
theory, research and practice of public administration, avoiding
assumptions of traditional theory-building. The contributors
explain both how ongoing non-linear interactions result in macro
patterns becoming established in a complexity-informed world view,
and the implications of these dynamics. Complexity theory explains
the way in which many repeated non-linear interactions among
elements within a whole can result in processes and patterns
emerging without design or direction, thus necessitating a
reconsideration of the predictability and controllability of many
aspects of public administration. As well as illustrating how
complexity theory informs new research methods for studying this
field, the book also shines a light on the different practices
required of public administrators to cope with the complexity
encountered in the public policy and public management fields. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Public
Management Review journal.
Welcome, come in! You are invited to travel to homes around the
world in this beautifully illustrated picture book about
hospitality and acceptance, which features the word "welcome" from
more than fourteen languages. Fans of Here We Are and The Wonderful
Things You Will Be will enjoy this timeless story about family,
friendship, empathy, and welcoming others. Welcome, friend.
Welcome. There are almost as many ways of making someone feel
welcome as there are people on our planet. To welcome another is to
give that person and yourself a chance at a new connection, a new
friendship, and maybe even new eyes through which to view the
world. Journey around the globe as A Hundred Thousand Welcomes
introduces the word for "welcome" in fourteen languages to
illuminate a universal message of hope and acceptance. Mary Lee
Donovan's spare text is brought to life by Lian Cho's boisterous,
richly detailed illustrations. Includes a pronunciation guide, a
note from the artist, a note from the author, and information about
the languages featured in the book.
This collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and
researchers to understand the aging process as it relates to the
health of older adults. With contributions from international
scholars in communication, psychology, public health, medicine,
nursing, and other areas, this volume emphasizes communication as a
critical research, education, policy, and practice issue for the
design, provision, and evaluation of health and social services for
older adults. Organized into sections addressing communication
developments in the healthcare arena, issues in provider-patient
communication, and the relationships between family communication
and health. The chapters cover critical topics related to
successful aging, such as Alzheimer's disease, managed care and
older adults, communication issues of severe dementia, and
healthcare decision-making within families. The editors have
designed this volume to be accessible to a broad audience,
including scholars and students of aging and communication,
healthcare practitioners with older clients, and aging individuals
and their families who are pursuing strategies for successful
aging. The chapters represent the highest levels of current
scholarship on communication, aging, and health, providing a strong
foundation for future research. Each contribution also addresses
the applied implications of this research, offering practical
guidance to readers dealing with these issues in their own lives.
As a whole, Aging, Communication, and Health represents a major
advance toward understanding the importance and application of
communication for successful aging.
That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on
occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual
observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public
management fail to address these features, relying more heavily on
attempts to eliminate unpredictability through increased reliance
on measurable performance objectives, improved financial and human
resource management techniques, decentralisation of authority and
accountability and resolving principal-agent behaviour pathologies.
Essentially, these are all attempts to improve the 'steering'
capacity of public sector managers and policy makers. By adopting a
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) approach to public services, this
book shifts the focus from developing steering techniques to
identifying patterns of behaviour of the participants with the
ultimate objective of increasing policy-makers' and practitioners'
understanding of the factors that may enable more effective public
service decision-making and provision. The authors apply a CAS
framework to a series of case studies in public sector management
to generate new insights into the issues, processes and
participants in public service domains.
That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on
occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual
observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public
management fail to address these features, relying more heavily on
attempts to eliminate unpredictability through increased reliance
on measurable performance objectives, improved financial and human
resource management techniques, decentralisation of authority and
accountability and resolving principal-agent behaviour pathologies.
Essentially, these are all attempts to improve the 'steering'
capacity of public sector managers and policy makers.
By adopting a Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) approach to public
services, this book shifts the focus from developing steering
techniques to identifying patterns of behaviour of the participants
with the ultimate objective of increasing policy-makers' and
practitioners' understanding of the factors that may enable more
effective public service decision-making and provision. The authors
apply a CAS framework to a series of case studies in public sector
management to generate new insights into the issues, processes and
participants in public service domains.
This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connection between politics and policy is both underscored and criticized, Mary Lee Smith and her associates take their criticism one decisive step further, examining the transitive relation between politics and actual classroom practice. They show that educational policy serves as political propaganda directed at an electorate desperate for change and refocus current educational debates, casting them in their true partisan light while demonstrating how the public can recognise symbolic policies and participate in the creation of policy that truly serves the public good.
Contents: 1. School Policy Under the Spotlight 2. Testing the Theory in Testing Policy 3. School Choice and the Illusion of Demcracy 4. The Contribution of Mass Media to Desegregation Policy 5. Research and the Illusion of Rationality 6. Education Policy Inc 7. Finale
This collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and
researchers to understand the aging process as it relates to the
health of older adults. With contributions from international
scholars in communication, psychology, public health, medicine,
nursing, and other areas, this volume emphasizes communication as a
critical research, education, policy, and practice issue for the
design, provision, and evaluation of health and social services for
older adults. Organized into sections addressing communication
developments in the healthcare arena, issues in provider-patient
communication, and the relationships between family communication
and health. The chapters cover critical topics related to
successful aging, such as Alzheimer's disease, managed care and
older adults, communication issues of severe dementia, and
healthcare decision-making within families.
The editors have designed this volume to be accessible to a broad
audience, including scholars and students of aging and
communication, healthcare practitioners with older clients, and
aging individuals and their families who are pursuing strategies
for successful aging. The chapters represent the highest levels of
current scholarship on communication, aging, and health, providing
a strong foundation for future research. Each contribution also
addresses the applied implications of this research, offering
practical guidance to readers dealing with these issues in their
own lives. As a whole, "Aging, Communication, and Health"
represents a major advance toward understanding the importance and
application of communication for successful aging.
"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for
recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease.
The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been
recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease
as early as the 1930s. Using mostly primary sources, the authors
explore three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which
evidence suggested the existence of brown lung in the mills, yet
nothing was done. What the story of byssinosis makes clear is that
the economic and political power of private owners and managers can
hinder and shape the work of health investigators.
This volume features a variety of research projects at the
intersection of mathematics and public policy. The topics included
here fall in the areas of cybersecurity and climate change, two
broad and impactful issues that benefit greatly from mathematical
techniques. Each chapter in the book is a mathematical look into a
specific research question related to one of these issues, an
approach that offers the reader insight into the application of
mathematics to important public policy questions. The articles in
this volume are papers inspired by a Workshop for Women in
Mathematics and Public Policy, held January 22-25, 2019 at the
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics and the Luskin Center at
the University of California, Los Angeles. The workshop was created
to promote and develop women at all levels of their careers as
researchers in mathematics and public policy. The idea was modeled
after other successful Research Collaboration Conferences for
Women, where junior and senior women come together at week-long
conferences held at mathematics institutes to work on pre-defined
research projects. The workshop focused on how mathematics can be
used in public policy research and was designed to foster
collaborative networks for women to help address the gender gap in
mathematics and science.
This book reframes theoretical, methodological and practical
approaches to public administration by drawing on complexity theory
concepts. It aims to provide alternative perspectives on the
theory, research and practice of public administration, avoiding
assumptions of traditional theory-building. The contributors
explain both how ongoing non-linear interactions result in macro
patterns becoming established in a complexity-informed world view,
and the implications of these dynamics. Complexity theory explains
the way in which many repeated non-linear interactions among
elements within a whole can result in processes and patterns
emerging without design or direction, thus necessitating a
reconsideration of the predictability and controllability of many
aspects of public administration. As well as illustrating how
complexity theory informs new research methods for studying this
field, the book also shines a light on the different practices
required of public administrators to cope with the complexity
encountered in the public policy and public management fields. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Public
Management Review journal.
Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and
improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr.
Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an
international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion
of his eightieth birthday, a symposium was held at which invited
speakers discussed his contributions to a wide range of
environmental issues. This book, collecting many of the invited
papers, provides fascinating insights into the life and work of one
of the twentieth century's most influential scientists and social
activists. Chapters contributed by other activists, scientists, and
scholars including Ralph Nader, Tony Mazzocchi and Peter Montague
cover many of Dr. Commoner's major contributions.
"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for
recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease.
The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been
recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease
as early as the 1930s. Using mostly primary sources, the authors
explore three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which
evidence suggested the existence of brown lung in the mills, yet
nothing was done. What the story of byssinosis makes clear is that
the economic and political power of private owners and managers can
hinder and shape the work of health investigators.
This volume features a variety of research projects at the
intersection of mathematics and public policy. The topics included
here fall in the areas of cybersecurity and climate change, two
broad and impactful issues that benefit greatly from mathematical
techniques. Each chapter in the book is a mathematical look into a
specific research question related to one of these issues, an
approach that offers the reader insight into the application of
mathematics to important public policy questions. The articles in
this volume are papers inspired by a Workshop for Women in
Mathematics and Public Policy, held January 22-25, 2019 at the
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics and the Luskin Center at
the University of California, Los Angeles. The workshop was created
to promote and develop women at all levels of their careers as
researchers in mathematics and public policy. The idea was modeled
after other successful Research Collaboration Conferences for
Women, where junior and senior women come together at week-long
conferences held at mathematics institutes to work on pre-defined
research projects. The workshop focused on how mathematics can be
used in public policy research and was designed to foster
collaborative networks for women to help address the gender gap in
mathematics and science.
A study of literary Naturalism in Spain (1860-1890). This book
explores the polemic surrounding the introduction of literary
Naturalism in Spain (1860-1890), during which traditional Spanish
institutions and traditional forms of authority were displaced by a
variety of forces that competed for authoritative status. Of the
philosophical, theological, aesthetic, political and social factors
which thus came together in a unique confluence of discourses and
voices, the author stresses particularly the politicalfactors and
the intrusion of the female speaker in late nineteenth-century
society. MARY LEE BRETZ is a Professor of Spanish at Rutgers State
University, New Jersey.
This methods text connects reading theory to practical classroom activities. Teachers begin by exploring their beliefs and assumptions about reading and analyzing their own reading strategies. They then critically examine the pedagogical issues central to the reading classroom.
This volume of essays is based upon papers that were delivered at
Quinnipiac University's Great Hunger Conference in September 2000.
It considers the Great Hunger both as a historical moment that had
a devastating and enduring impact on Ireland, and as a social,
political, and demographic process that shaped the culture and
people of both Ireland and North America. The chapters are grouped
thematically into three parts. The first, Silence, takes as its
point of departure the ways in which the Great Hunger created
silences, both at the time of the Famine and in the subsequent
historical memory of the Irish people. The second section, Memory,
addresses the legacy of the Famine in the lives and work of the
generation that lived through it and those who came after, both in
Ireland and among the Irish Diaspora. The final section,
Commemoration, considers how the Famine has become a focal point
during the past decade in popular memory, particularly through
varied efforts to memorialize the Famine and to integrate it into
educational curricula. The book also includes an introduction by
Christine Kinealy that discusses recent historical scholarship on
the Famine, and a preface by David A. Valone that describes the
ongoing educational and scholarly activities related to the Great
Hunger at Quinnipiac University.
Your turn This journal is for you your map to the faith journey you
ve started by beginning the confirmation program I will, with God s
help. You ll find lots of room to record your answers and your
questions, your doubts and your decisions. So what s inside?
Prayer, scripture study, things to do between sessions and even
notes on the meaning of difficult words in The Book of Common
Prayer. (How about creed ? The word creed comes from the Latin
credere, which means What I put my heart and trust into. ) And now,
open the book and begin the journey. It s your turn Designed for
use with sessions from the Leader s Guide, I will, with God s help
Episcopal Confirmation for Youth and Adults. "
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