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An investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the
Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change. From the
mid-eleventh to the mid-twelfth century Worcester was a monastic
community of unparalleled importance. Not only was it home to many
of the most famous bishops and monks of the period, including
Bishop Wulfstan II: it was also a centre of notable and ambitious
scholarly production. Under Wulfstan's guidance, a number of
Worcester brethren undertook historical research that resulted in
the writing of such renowned texts as Hemming's Cartulary and the
Worcester Chronica Chronicarum. Significantly, these historical
endeavours spanned the political chasm of the Norman Conquest. The
essays collected here aim to shed new light on different aspects of
the Worcester "historical workshop", whose literary ouput was, in
several respects, pioneering in contemporary European scholarship.
Several chapters address the different ways in which the monks
organised and updated their archives of documents, both via their
sequence of cartularies, with a special focus on the narrative
parts of Hemming's Cartulary, and via an interesting (and
previously unedited) prose account of the foundation of the see.
Others focus on the famous Worcester Chronica Chronicarum,
attributed both to Florence and to John, investigating the major
model for its composition and structure (the work of Marianus
Scotus), the stages in which it was completed, and its connections
with Welsh chronicles, as well as the related and fascinating
abbreviated version, written mostly in the hand of John himself,
and known as the Chronicula. The volume thus elucidates how the
Worcester monks navigated the period across the Conquest through
the composition of different genres of texts, and how these texts
shaped their own institutional memory.
Online genetic testing services are increasingly being offered to
consumers who are becoming exposed to, and knowledgeable about, new
kinds of genetic technologies, as the launch of a 23andme genetic
testing product in the UK testifies. Genetic research
breakthroughs, cheek swabbing forensic pathologists and celebrities
discovering their ancestral roots are littered throughout the North
American, European and Australasian media landscapes. Genetic
testing is now capturing the attention, and imagination, of
hundreds of thousands of people who can not only buy genetic tests
online, but can also go online to find relatives, share their
results with strangers, sign up for personal DNA-based musical
scores, and take part in research. This book critically examines
this market of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing from a
social science perspective, asking, what happens when genetics goes
online? With a focus on genetic testing for disease, the book is
about the new social arrangements which emerge when a traditionally
clinical practice (genetic testing) is taken into new spaces (the
internet). It examines the intersections of new genetics and new
media by drawing from three different fields: internet studies; the
sociology of health; and science and technology studies. While
there has been a surge of research activity concerning DTC genetic
testing, particularly in sociology, ethics and law, this is the
first scholarly monograph on the topic, and the first book which
brings together the social study of genetics and the social study
of digital technologies. This book thus not only offers a new
overview of this field, but also offers a unique contribution by
attending to the digital, and by drawing upon empirical examples
from our own research of DTC genetic testing websites (using online
methods) and in-depth interviews in the United Kingdom with people
using healthcare services.
Online genetic testing services are increasingly being offered to
consumers who are becoming exposed to, and knowledgeable about, new
kinds of genetic technologies, as the launch of a 23andme genetic
testing product in the UK testifies. Genetic research
breakthroughs, cheek swabbing forensic pathologists and celebrities
discovering their ancestral roots are littered throughout the North
American, European and Australasian media landscapes. Genetic
testing is now capturing the attention, and imagination, of
hundreds of thousands of people who can not only buy genetic tests
online, but can also go online to find relatives, share their
results with strangers, sign up for personal DNA-based musical
scores, and take part in research. This book critically examines
this market of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing from a
social science perspective, asking, what happens when genetics goes
online? With a focus on genetic testing for disease, the book is
about the new social arrangements which emerge when a traditionally
clinical practice (genetic testing) is taken into new spaces (the
internet). It examines the intersections of new genetics and new
media by drawing from three different fields: internet studies; the
sociology of health; and science and technology studies. While
there has been a surge of research activity concerning DTC genetic
testing, particularly in sociology, ethics and law, this is the
first scholarly monograph on the topic, and the first book which
brings together the social study of genetics and the social study
of digital technologies. This book thus not only offers a new
overview of this field, but also offers a unique contribution by
attending to the digital, and by drawing upon empirical examples
from our own research of DTC genetic testing websites (using online
methods) and in-depth interviews in the United Kingdom with people
using healthcare services.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
How does one change the attitudes and practices of child protective
services (CPS) a statewide bureaucracy often overwhelmed and
understaffed? First, take an outsider to the system, Insoo Kim
Berg, who has a vision and a solution-focused model. Add an
insider, Susan Kelly, who understands the system. Spend many hours
with CPS workers in the field, learning from them and helping them
make the shift from a deficit perspective to a collaborative model
that emphasizes strengths and solutions. Envision and implement
change throughout the system. Celebrate small successes on the way
to building family self-sufficiency and integrity. This recipe for
reforming child protective services is being followed in many
public child welfare agencies, with growing success. In Building
Solutions the authors explain how to conceptualize, implement, and
sustain this hopeful and positive frame in a daily practice for
dedicated frontline workers as well as for those in supervision,
management, and administration. The book has two parts. In the
first, the authors put child protective services in context,
introducing the system and their new approach, giving a brief
history of child protection in the United States, and setting the
stage for change. In the second part, the authors walk readers
through the nuts and bolts of implementation, from the first phone
call to case closure including discussions about placing a child
out of the home. Berg and Kelly also discuss supervision,
consultation, and ongoing training, as well as their vision of the
future of CPS. This book is not a manual; it is a challenge to step
out of the traditional CPS "box" and think differently to create
client-driven services that make sense. The authors challenge CPS
administrators, supervisors, and workers to begin conversations
about how the system can be more helpful and respectful to the
families so that the parents can get what they need to care for
their children. Building Solutions should have a place on the desk
of everyone involved in child protective services."
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
If you want to survive in this fast growing and ever changing world
of competitive dance, there are some things that should never be
ignored. Some rules are NOT meant to be broken ...at least
according to those of us in the audience.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
Mary Sullivan was born illegitimate, and partially blind. She was
adopted from a Catholic orphanage by a fanatical, middle aged
couple, with no children of their own. Because of MRS. Sullivan's
health problems, and her inexperience with small children, Mary was
volleyed back and forth between the infant home, and her adopted
home. Mary had bonded with one of the nuns, and preferred the
infant home to the Sullivan home. This caused a lot of anger, and
resentment, resulting in years of physical, verbal, and
psychological abuse. Mary was set along a path of institutions, and
more abuse. When she was twelve Mary was diagnosed as semi
autistic. Because of this, and her compulsion to run away, she
wound up in a very controversial treatment center up North. Then at
age seventeen Mary received her big break when she was enrolled in
The Perkins School for the blind, in Massachusetts. She fell in
love with the school, but her emotional scars from her past got in
the way frequently. After two years Mary reluctantly graduated, and
stumbled head long in to the adult world, not knowing what she was
doing. This book is for people who have been beaten down by the
system, but not beaten.
Women are under-represented in African publishing at top management
levels, and African publishing infrastructure is weak. Ten African
women who head their own publishing houses or organisations relate
their personal experiences of how and why they got into publishing,
their successes and failures. They represent state, commercial,
non- profit and community publishing, a women writers' group, and a
bookseller. The eleventh contribution is an overview of women
publishing in South Africa. Few of the contributors, if any, had
encountered direct discrimination on the grounds of their gender;
the barriers for women are lack of education, and cultural factors.
As a whole the contributions give an overview of the sobering
realities of African publishers, and in particular for women. They
celebrate what these women have achieved, and show the courage
needed to start and run cultural institutions in Africa. These
women are an inspiration for others to play their part in the
cultural development of the continent.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
By Accident portrays a year in the life of a woman after the
accidental death of her teenage son. Laura Lucas is numbed by the
loss, a loss that is paralleled in the spate of upscale
construction and attendant destruction in her starter-home
neighborhood. It 's about Laura's relationship with a young tree
surgeon who slowly becomes a replacement for her son but also an
object of desire. The story reveals the delicate nexus where solace
becomes sex; the role of men and women as unmarried friends; and
examines grief in a marriage. It portrays the pain of change and
the poignancy of acceptance through Laura's eyes, and occasionally,
through the quirky outlook of her ten-year-old daughter. And before
the story ends, another brutal, random accident will redefine
Laura's life once again.
Discover the wisdom of the stars between these pages for instant
cosmic guidance on any question. Career conundrums? Dating
dilemmas? Friendship fracas? In our fast-paced, data-flooded lives
it can be difficult to know where to turn for the right advice.
Now, with your Zodiac Oracle always by your side, you can let the
celestial wisdom of the stars guide you through life's twists and
turns. No matter how perplexing your predicament, the insight you
seek is right at your fingertips. Ask your question and open your
Oracle at any page to reveal insightful advice to guide your next
move. Harness the prescience of the stars and tune into the
resonance of your sun sign with this wisdom-packed guide that will
lead you to greater self-knowledge and deeper understanding.
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