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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book is one of the first to study the regional role of women
in public and professional life, breaking new ground in early
twentieth-century local and gender history. Covering politics
(Eleanor Acland and Clara Daymond), medicine and education (Dr
Mabel Ramsay and Jessie Headridge), and a variety of voluntary
organizations (Florence Cecil, Georgiana Buller, Jane Clinton and
Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn), it shows how women worked individually and
in collaboration to create new opportunities for women and girls in
a large, mainly rural, county far from London and the industrial
heartlands of England. These biographical studies are based on
original research and reveal the huge public contribution made by
these eight women, who up to now have been largely hidden from
history. Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950 is
a contribution to the history of women in Britain between the wars,
a period that has received less attention than the Edwardian era
and the two World Wars. It also fills a major gap in the history of
Devon women, on which almost nothing has been published, and on
Devon in the inter-war period, similarly neglected by historians.
It will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of
gender history and the history of modern Britain, as well as
everyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Devon.
Communication happens in a variety of ways, not just through
speech and language
Helping Children to be Skilful Communicators covers:
- being together
- finding a voice
- listening and responding
- making meaning.
This handy little series of books links directly to the
Governmenta (TM)s Birth to Three Matters Framework (DfES 2002). It
provides information and ideas for you to read and digest at your
own pace, then implement or share with your team.
This isn't about physical strength but about becoming a stronger
person. Helping Children to be Strong covers: me, myself and I
being acknowledged and affirmed developing self-assurance a sense
of belonging. This handy little series of books links directly to
the Government's Birth to Three Matters Framework (DfES 2002). It
provides information and ideas for you to read and digest at your
own pace, then implement or share with your team.
Starting from an inventory and other documents, Ann Roberts has
identified some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of
San Domenico of Pisa. She here examines those objects commissioned
for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century; some of the
objects included have never before been published. One of her goals
in this study is to bring into the discussion of Renaissance art a
body of images that have been previously overlooked, because they
come from a non-Florentine context and because they do not fit
modern notions of the "development" of Renaissance style. She also
analyzes the function of the images - social as well as religious -
within the context of a female Dominican convent. Finally, she
offers descriptions of and documentation for the process of
patronage as it was practiced by cloistered women, and the making
of art in such enclosures. The author presents a catalogue of
works, which gives basic data and bibliography for the objects
described in the text. Roberts offers other valuable resources in
the appendices, including unpublished C19th inventories of the
objects in the convent at various moments, documents regarding the
commission of works of art for the convent, letters written by the
nuns, a list of the Prioresses of San Domenico, lists of nuns at
different points in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century, and
a list of the relics owned by the convent in the sixteenth century.
Roberts firmly grounds her interpretation in the values of the
Order to which the nuns belonged, and in the political and social
concerns of their city.
From its looming above-ground cemeteries to the ghosts believed to
haunt its stately homes, New Orleans is a city deeply entwined with
death, the undead, and the supernatural. The reasons behind New
Orleans's reputation as America's most haunted city are numerous.
Its location near the mouth of the Mississippi River grants it a
liminal status between water and land, while its Old World
architecture and lush, moss-covered oak trees lend it an eerie
beauty. Complementing the city's mysterious landscape, spiritual
beliefs and practices from Native American, African, African
American, Caribbean, and European cultures mingle in a unique
ferment of the paranormal. An extremely high death rate in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and a long history of
enslavement and oppression have also produced fertile soil for
stories of the undead. Focusing on three manifestations of the
supernatural in New Orleans--Voodoo, ghosts, and vampires--Robin
Roberts argues that the paranormal gives voice to the voiceless,
including victims of racism and oppression, thus encouraging the
living not to repeat the injustices of the past.
Starting from an inventory and other documents, Ann Roberts has
identified some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of
San Domenico of Pisa. She here examines those objects commissioned
for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century; some of the
objects included have never before been published. One of her goals
in this study is to bring into the discussion of Renaissance art a
body of images that have been previously overlooked, because they
come from a non-Florentine context and because they do not fit
modern notions of the "development" of Renaissance style. She also
analyzes the function of the images - social as well as religious -
within the context of a female Dominican convent. Finally, she
offers descriptions of and documentation for the process of
patronage as it was practiced by cloistered women, and the making
of art in such enclosures. The author presents a catalogue of
works, which gives basic data and bibliography for the objects
described in the text. Roberts offers other valuable resources in
the appendices, including unpublished C19th inventories of the
objects in the convent at various moments, documents regarding the
commission of works of art for the convent, letters written by the
nuns, a list of the Prioresses of San Domenico, lists of nuns at
different points in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century, and
a list of the relics owned by the convent in the sixteenth century.
Roberts firmly grounds her interpretation in the values of the
Order to which the nuns belonged, and in the political and social
concerns of their city.
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This timely and thought-provoking collection explores the ways in
which psychological science interacts with and addresses gender
across varied subdisciplines in the field, from a feminist
viewpoint. A particular aim of this volume is to move the
conversation of gender in psychology beyond a difference-only
paradigm. Veteran and emerging feminist scholars survey the
handling of sex and gender issues across psychology, and describe
how feminist perspectives and methodologies can and should be
applied to enhance the field itself, but also in the service of
social justice in the various cultures of corporations, academia,
and the global stage. Contributions span theoretical advances,
latest empirical findings, and real-world advocacy, with
instructive and illuminating first-person accounts detailing
challenges and rewards of feminist scholarship and practice in
psychology. Throughout the volume, chapters document a dynamic
field in its evolution from the traditional, two-dimensional study
of gender-based differences to concerted multidisciplinary
approaches, to cutting edge feminist theoretical and methodological
advances such as intersectionality to understand gender in context.
The volume is divided into three distinct sections. The first
covers current theory and research in psychological science that
considers gender beyond a difference-only paradigm. Then, leading
feminist scholars reflect upon their own experiences in their
respective subdisciplines. Finally, the third section explores
innovative best practices and applications for feminist
psychological science. Highlights of the coverage: * Beyond
difference: Gender as a quality of social settings. * Adventures in
feminist health psychology: Teaching about and conducting feminist
psychological science. * Mind the thigh gap? Bringing feminist
psychological science to the masses. * Feminist psychologists and
institutional change in universities. With its stimulating
compilation of theories, research, and applications, Feminist
Perspectives On Building A Better Psychological Science of Gender
is one of the most forward-thinking and innovative treatments of
the field in recent years. It is a significant and important text
for all psychologists, women's and gender studies specialists,
social science researchers, and all those interested in using
evidence-based psychological science to create a more just and
equitable world.
This timely and thought-provoking collection explores the ways in
which psychological science interacts with and addresses gender
across varied subdisciplines in the field, from a feminist
viewpoint. A particular aim of this volume is to move the
conversation of gender in psychology beyond a difference-only
paradigm. Veteran and emerging feminist scholars survey the
handling of sex and gender issues across psychology, and describe
how feminist perspectives and methodologies can and should be
applied to enhance the field itself, but also in the service of
social justice in the various cultures of corporations, academia,
and the global stage. Contributions span theoretical advances,
latest empirical findings, and real-world advocacy, with
instructive and illuminating first-person accounts detailing
challenges and rewards of feminist scholarship and practice in
psychology. Throughout the volume, chapters document a dynamic
field in its evolution from the traditional, two-dimensional study
of gender-based differences to concerted multidisciplinary
approaches, to cutting edge feminist theoretical and methodological
advances such as intersectionality to understand gender in context.
The volume is divided into three distinct sections. The first
covers current theory and research in psychological science that
considers gender beyond a difference-only paradigm. Then, leading
feminist scholars reflect upon their own experiences in their
respective subdisciplines. Finally, the third section explores
innovative best practices and applications for feminist
psychological science. Highlights of the coverage: * Beyond
difference: Gender as a quality of social settings. * Adventures in
feminist health psychology: Teaching about and conducting feminist
psychological science. * Mind the thigh gap? Bringing feminist
psychological science to the masses. * Feminist psychologists and
institutional change in universities. With its stimulating
compilation of theories, research, and applications, Feminist
Perspectives On Building A Better Psychological Science of Gender
is one of the most forward-thinking and innovative treatments of
the field in recent years. It is a significant and important text
for all psychologists, women's and gender studies specialists,
social science researchers, and all those interested in using
evidence-based psychological science to create a more just and
equitable world.
Adrift for years since her partner's death and her son's
estrangement, Lenny Barclay isn't sure what she wants. Her friends
despair of cheering her up. Even making her mayor of their idyllic
Colorado mountain town doesn't awaken the Lenny they once knew. But
the arrival of the corporate planners from the Wilderness Campaign
brings back some of Lenny's fire. They already act like they own
the place, including the arrogant Sloane McHenry. Sloane is always
hunting for the complete package and she's got it in Pinedale. The
mayor is a spineless pushover, the site only holds a dilapidated
shop owned by the aforementioned mayor and Sloane has a secret
weapon that will prove useful should she meet resistance. This
project's not just about profit, either, for reasons she can't
explain-not even to herself.
While growing up gay isn't easy for anyone, it's especially
difficult for Kate, whose mother has a future in politics. Having a
lesbian for a daughter may jeopardize Barbara Mitchell's chances at
winning a legislative seat, but the antics of Barbara's brother,
Kate's uncle, may collapse the whole family.
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a
comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and
genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical
Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and
advocacy. It is animated by the central question: '"what new lines
of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual
health and politics across the life course?" The chapters-diverse
in content, form and perspective-establish Critical Menstruation
Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks
inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical
dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers,
policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already
familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.
Volume 19, entitled Essential Metals in Medicine: Therapeutic Use
and Toxicity of Metal Ions in the Clinic of the series Metal Ions
in Life Sciences centers on the role of metal ions in clinical
medicine. Metal ions are tightly regulated in human health: while
essential to life, they can be toxic as well. Following an
introductory chapter briefly discussing several important
metal-related drugs and diseases and a chapter about drug
development, the focus is fi rst on iron: its essentiality for
pathogens and humans as well as its toxicity. Chelation therapy is
addressed in the context of thalassemia, its relationship to
neurodegenerative diseases and also the risks connected with iron
administration are pointed out. A subject of intense debate is the
essentiality of chromium and vanadium. For example, chromium(III)
compounds are taken as a nutritional supplement by athletes and
bodybuilders; in contrast, chromate, Cr(VI), is toxic and a
carcinogen for humans. The benefi cial and toxic effects of
manganese, cobalt, and copper on humans are discussed. The need for
antiparasitic agents is emphasized as well as the clinical aspects
of metal-containing antidotes for cyanide poisoning. In addition to
the essential and possibly essential ones, also other metal ions
play important roles in human health, causing harm (like the
metalloid arsenic, lead or cadmium) or being used in diagnosis or
treatment of human diseases, like gadolinium, gallium, lithium,
gold, silver or platinum. The impact of this vibrant research area
on metals in the clinic is provided in 14 stimulating chapters,
written by internationally recognized experts from the Americas,
Europe and China, and is manifested by approximately 2000
references, and about 90 illustrations and tables. Essential Metals
in Medicine: Therapeutic Use and Toxicity of Metal Ions in the
Clinic is an essential resource for scientists working in the wide
range from pharmacology, enzymology, material sciences, analytical,
organic, and inorganic biochemistry all the way through to medicine
... not forgetting that it also provides excellent information for
teaching.
Highly Commended for the W.G. Hoskins Prize in the Devon History
Society Book of the Year awards. This book is one of the first to
study the regional role of women in public and professional life,
breaking new ground in early twentieth-century local and gender
history. Covering politics (Eleanor Acland and Clara Daymond),
medicine and education (Dr Mabel Ramsay and Jessie Headridge), and
a variety of voluntary organizations (Florence Cecil, Georgiana
Buller, Jane Clinton and Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn), it shows how women
worked individually and in collaboration to create new
opportunities for women and girls in a large, mainly rural, county
far from London and the industrial heartlands of England. These
biographical studies are based on original research and reveal the
huge public contribution made by these eight women, who up to now
have been largely hidden from history. Devon Women in Public and
Professional Life, 1900-1950 is a contribution to the history of
women in Britain between the wars, a period that has received less
attention than the Edwardian era and the two World Wars. It also
fills a major gap in the history of Devon women, on which almost
nothing has been published, and on Devon in the inter-war period,
similarly neglected by historians. It will be of interest to
academics and students in the fields of gender history and the
history of modern Britain, as well as everyone interested in the
history of twentieth-century Devon.
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a
comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and
genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical
Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and
advocacy. It is animated by the central question: '"what new lines
of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual
health and politics across the life course?" The chapters-diverse
in content, form and perspective-establish Critical Menstruation
Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks
inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical
dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers,
policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already
familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.
A comprehensive guide to creating dynamic, successful, and
innovative library programs that cater to the specialized needs of
older adults-an important and growing user group. Crash Course in
Library Services for Seniors provides a refreshingly positive
approach to working with older adults-one that focuses on the
positive effects of aging on patrons, and the many opportunities
that libraries can create for themselves by offering top-notch
services delivered with a concierge mindset. The book offers page
after page of great programming ideas specifically for reaching out
to Baby Boomers and older customers-a population that is predicted
to double over the next 20 years. Organized in only six chapters,
this easy-to-read book provides practical suggestions for making
any library a welcoming place for older adults, covering topics
such as assessment, planning, programming, services, marketing, and
evaluation. This title will be invaluable to public librarians
interested in expanding and improving their current programming for
older adults within their community, and for those looking to
create entirely new programming for seniors.
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