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The Killer Inside Me (DVD)
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Michael Winterbottom directs this graphically violent thriller
based on the novel by Jim Thompson. Casey Affleck stars as Deputy
Sheriff Lou Ford, a pillar of the community in the small Texas town
of Central City. However, Ford is not quite the upstanding citizen
he appears to be, as becomes apparent after he is ordered to evict
local prostitute Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba) and ends up
embroiled in a torrid affair with her. When his fiance Amy (Kate
Hudson) becomes suspicious, the consequences are bloody and brutal
as the dark secrets of Ford's past are finally brought to light.
‘Politics, family rivalries and political tensions are all
stirred up to create a thrilling adventure … unputdownable!’ -
Sharon Bennett Connolly, historian, and author of Defenders of the
Norman Crown: The Rise and Fall of the Warenne Earls of Surrey
April 1219: Edwin Weaver finds himself at Tickhill Castle under
false pretences. Earl Warenne wants Tickhill for himself and is
convinced that a royal order for the castle to be handed over has
been hidden, so he’s sent Edwin to find it and told him not to
come back until he does. Frantic with worry about the danger to his
family, Edwin is forced to lie to everyone around him while
searching for a document that might not even exist. The situation
escalates when a body is found and the earl musters armed troops to
take the castle by force; Edwin must race against time to discover
the crucial information so he can stop the violence and bloodshed.
But his quest for the truth is more dangerous than he could
possibly have anticipated, and he has to endure tragic and
wrenching loss before his duty is complete.
When Union soldiers returned North after the Civil War, they
brought home stories of a sparsely populated area with bountiful
timber and potential for homes and farms. Over the next 50 years,
first by wagon train and then by railroads, settlers came to build
not only homes and farms but also thriving communities in the Clay,
Greene, and Craighead counties of northeastern Arkansas. Today,
visitors and residents of the area see the bustle of Jonesboro and
the thriving Arkansas State University. Readers of Jonesboro and
Arkansas' Historic Northeast Corner will discover Jonesboro as it
lived a century ago, a promising town of 7,000 citizens. As the
20th Century opened, modern and attractive towns such as Corning,
Piggott, Rector, and Paragould began to thrive. The evolution of
these historic areas-from slow-paced villages with dirt roads and
horse-drawn wagons to the bustling towns of the late 20th
century-is chronicled in this Images of America edition.
The SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy is the most
comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field of
counselling and psychotherapy. This handbook supports all levels of
training and modalities, providing an essential entry point to
theory, practice and research. At over 600 pages and with more than
100 contributions from leading authors in the field, this Fifth
Edition brings together the essentials of counselling and
psychotherapy theory, research, skills and practice. Each chapter
includes a Further Reading section and case studies. Now updated to
include the latest research and developments, and with new content
on online counselling and working with difference and diversity, it
is the most comprehensive and accessible guide to the field for
trainees or experienced practitioners. Sections cover: *
Counselling and psychotherapy in context * Social justice and
intersectionality * Core therapeutic and professional skills * What
do people come to therapy for? * Theories and approaches *
Lifespan, modalities and technology * Settings
This innovative book presents a series of up-to-date analyses of
the economics of outdoor recreation. The distinguished group of
authors covers real-world recreation management issues and applies
economic understanding to these problems. An extensive introduction
by the editors details the historical background of economists'
interests in this subject, and reveals how economics can provide
practical insights into improving how we manage our natural
recreation areas.The book is divided into three parts, each of
which focuses on a specific environmental resource: mountains,
forests, and rivers and the sea. An array of valuation methods -
including stated preference and revealed preference techniques -
are then applied to various outdoor recreation activities which
occur in these different settings. These include such diverse
pursuits as rock climbing, skiing, fishing, hunting and whale
watching. The authors clearly demonstrate how recreation modelling
can offer a productive link between people (their preferences and
behaviour) and the natural environment. With extensive empirical
examples from Europe and North America, this book will be of great
value to economists, governments and NGOs who are interested in the
environment, development and tourism. It will also be a valuable
source of reference for policymakers concerned with land use and
natural resource management, and students of environmental and
resource economics.
This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to
carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It
is relevant for the application of these techniques to all
non-market goods and services including air and water quality;
provision of public open space; health care that is not sold
through private markets; risk reduction policies and investments
not provided privately; provision of information as with the
recorded heritage, the protection of cultural assets and so on. The
resulting valuations can be used for a number of purposes
including, but not limited to, demonstrating the importance of a
good or service; cost-benefit analysis; setting priorities for
environmental policy; design of economic instruments; green
national/corporate accounting, and natural resource damage
assessment. Compiled by the leading experts in the field, this
manual starts by explaining the concepts. It shows how to choose
the most appropriate technique and how to design the
questionnaires. Detailed advice on econometric analysis is
provided, as well as explanation of the pitfalls that need to be
avoided.
Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on
what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has
lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with
passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of
social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right
by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its
decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s.
Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning
and changing government policies - from Homes Fit for Heroes to Le
Corbusier's concrete tower blocks, to the Right to Buy - affected
those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the
millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of
memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about
a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.
This lucid, up-to-date book takes a fresh look at the application
of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to environmental problems ranging
from wildlife protection to global warming. Cost-Benefit Analysis
and the Environment is structured into two parts. Part one provides
a critical up-to-date account of the theory and practice of CBA as
applied to the environment. Part two focuses on a number of
specific case studies, in particular ozone damage to agricultural
crops, wilderness land use, recreation and nitrate pollution. The
application of CBA to the greenhouse effect is used to illustrate
the limitations of the method. The book summarizes the major
problems CBA faces in environmental application. This book will be
highly relevant for the growing number of undergraduate and
post-graduate courses in environmental economics and management, as
well as being of interest both to academics researching in these
areas, and to other professionals concerned with project appraisal
and the environment.
Over the last decade there has been a series of Government policy
initiatives in respect of children’s services and social work
education in England, many of which aim to de-regulate or privatise
aspects of these services. Critically considering the impact of the
MacAlister Review, this book explores the past, present and future
of children’s services in the UK from a range of perspectives –
lived, professional and academic. This accessible guide provides a
timely and incisive overview of the current children’s services
reform agenda in the UK. It identifies current challenges, analyses
both strengths and weaknesses in the current policy agenda and sets
out alternative policy and practice directions for a system that
can meet families’ needs.
This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to
carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It
is relevant for the application of these techniques to all
non-market goods and services including air and water quality;
provision of public open space; health care that is not sold
through private markets; risk reduction policies and investments
not provided privately; provision of information as with the
recorded heritage, the protection of cultural assets and so on. The
resulting valuations can be used for a number of purposes
including, but not limited to, demonstrating the importance of a
good or service; cost-benefit analysis; setting priorities for
environmental policy; design of economic instruments; green
national/corporate accounting, and natural resource damage
assessment. Compiled by the leading experts in the field, this
manual starts by explaining the concepts. It shows how to choose
the most appropriate technique and how to design the
questionnaires. Detailed advice on econometric analysis is
provided, as well as explanation of the pitfalls that need to be
avoided.
Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and
social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research
on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from
three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions.
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of
applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and
government policies. Nick Hanley and Edward Barbier show how CBA
can be applied to environmental policy choice and environmental
resource management. They cover the conceptual underpinnings of
CBA, practical methods for applying CBA, and a wide range of case
study applications from Europe, North America and developing
countries. Issues such as the value of ecosystem services and the
special problems posed for CBA by environmental management are
brought into close focus. The textbook is aimed at students on
inter-disciplinary courses as well as those studying environmental
economics, welfare economics and public policy. It will also be of
interest to people in the policy community, NGOs and consultancy
sectors.
At times you may feel you can't do all of the things, you still can
fly high because you have your own wings. You're right on your way
when you know and believe that being the best is the best you can
be. The Best You Can Be encourages children to celebrate their
natural abilities and talents, and to persist with the things they
find more difficult. To not give up builds resilience. To try is to
improve. Doing your best is how you can be the best you can be.
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A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the
greatest figures of the English Middle Ages "[Matilda] will attract
a growing audience interested in stories of women challenging the
male-dominated European past."-Alexandra Locking, Medieval Review
"A lively and authoritative account."-Katherine Harvey, Times
Literary Supplement Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But
she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman
ever to hold the position-and an able military general. This new
biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political
leader, and sets her life and career in full context. Catherine
Hanley provides fresh insight into Matilda's campaign to claim the
title of queen, her approach to allied kingdoms and rival rulers,
and her role in the succession crisis. Hanley highlights how
Matilda fought for the throne, and argues that although she never
sat on it herself her reward was to see her son become king.
Extraordinarily, her line has continued through every single
monarch of England or Britain from that time to the present day.
Research on Becoming an English Teacher considers the process of
becoming a teacher from a variety of perspectives, where the
ambition is to consider how people can change themselves within
that process. By pursuing an approach influenced by the
psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, the authors consider
practitioner research as an approach to professional and personal
development, and how it might be understood as a strategy within
both teaching and teacher education. Taking English teaching as the
main example, this book explores the processes and discourses that
shape the experience of English teaching in schools. Chapters
consider the origin and development of English education, practice
and theory in English education, the process of becoming a teacher
in school-based environments and creating an analytical space for
learning narratives in teacher education. This book will be of
interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in
the fields of teacher education, curriculum studies, educational
theory and educational psychology.
George Orwell and Education uses Orwell's life and works to address
current educational questions. His early life, political awakening
and artistic development are key elements in the book's
presentation of Orwell himself as a learner, and as someone whose
ideas continue to speak to contemporary debates about human
interdependency. The focus of the book is on critical issues in
education, including the idea of universality, the status of young
people and the nature of learning. Orwell's efforts to
conceptualise, and artistically realise his own experience, create
a platform for exploring current educational issues in their
philosophical and political contexts. This book will encourage a
reimagining of, and stimulate debate about an idea of education
that is less individualistic, pays greater attention to human
mutuality, is politically engaged and ultimately more sustainable.
The book will appeal to researchers, scholars and post-graduate
students in the fields of literature in education, pedagogy,
educational philosophy, literary theory, citizenship and youth and
community.
Argues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and
Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new
ideas of property, liability, and community. This book argues that
the legacies of nineteenth-century public health in England and
Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new
ideas of property and people. Between 1815 and 1872, the work of
public healthactivists led to multiple redefinitions of both,
shifting the boundaries between public and private nuisances,
public and private services, taxable and nontaxable property,
cities and suburbs, the state and the individual, and, finally,
between different kinds of individuals. These boundary-making
processes were themselves inflected by different material,
political, and ideological developments in the areas of disease,
demography, democracy, and domesticity. The changes in boundaries
manifested themselves in the creation of new nuisance laws and in
the minute control by the state of private domestic arrangements.
Most important, these changes also promoted a radical shiftin ideas
on who should bear financial responsibility for the health of
others, stimulating in the process a controversy on the nature of
community. Public health thus served as an important, if
contradictory, site in the creationof communities, enhancing the
right to health for some while simultaneously restricting in the
name of health the privacy rights of others. Relying on underused
legal sources, this book presents a fresh view of the local
originsand legal and political significance of the public health
movement of the nineteenth century. James G. Hanley is associate
professor of history at the University of Winnipeg.
Prior to publication, it had only recently been appreciated that
psychology had a great deal to offer in therapeutic terms to a wide
range of patients, and was not merely concerned with assessing and
identifying problems. This is particularly so with the elderly
where physical and mental problems and multiple pathology are
compounded, and where psychological aspects of the quality of life
are so important. The focus of this book, originally published in
1986, is on therapeutic approaches and the effective implementation
of services. While the book is aimed particularly at clinical
psychologists, it will also be of great interest to medical,
nursing or occupational therapy staff working with elderly people.
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of
applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and
government policies. Nick Hanley and Edward Barbier show how CBA
can be applied to environmental policy choice and environmental
resource management. They cover the conceptual underpinnings of
CBA, practical methods for applying CBA, and a wide range of case
study applications from Europe, North America and developing
countries. Issues such as the value of ecosystem services and the
special problems posed for CBA by environmental management are
brought into close focus. The textbook is aimed at students on
inter-disciplinary courses as well as those studying environmental
economics, welfare economics and public policy. It will also be of
interest to people in the policy community, NGOs and consultancy
sectors.
Prior to publication, it had only recently been appreciated that
psychology had a great deal to offer in therapeutic terms to a wide
range of patients, and was not merely concerned with assessing and
identifying problems. This is particularly so with the elderly
where physical and mental problems and multiple pathology are
compounded, and where psychological aspects of the quality of life
are so important. The focus of this book, originally published in
1986, is on therapeutic approaches and the effective implementation
of services. While the book is aimed particularly at clinical
psychologists, it will also be of great interest to medical,
nursing or occupational therapy staff working with elderly people.
This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft-generally recognized as the
founder of the early feminist movement-by shedding light on her
contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and
feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have
extensively theorized Wollstonecraft's philosophical and polemic
work, little attention has been given to her understanding and
representation of feminist practice, most clearly exemplified in
her instructional writing. This study makes a significant
contribution to the fields of both eighteenth-century and Romantic
Era literature by looking at how early feminism influenced didactic
traditions from the late-eighteenth century to today. Hanley argues
that Wollstonecraft constructs a paradigm of feminist pedagogy both
in the texts' representations of teaching and learning, and her own
authorial approach in re-appropriating earlier texts and textual
traditions. Wollstonecraft's appropriations of Locke, Rousseau, and
other educationists allow her to develop reading and writing
pedagogies that promote critical thinking and gesture toward
contemporary composition theories and practices. Hanley underscores
the significance of Wollstonecraft as teacher and mentor by
revisiting texts that are generally assigned a short space in the
context of a larger discussion about her life and/or writing,
re-presenting her works of instruction as meaningful both in their
revisionist approaches to tradition and their normative didactic
features.
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