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My mother is the closest thing to God I know. Her God concept,
whether she knows it or not, is that she cannot be fully known by
just one name or one single entity. Not Dahlia, Zalia, Zat, Dale,
Mrs. Testa, Gale, Ma, Grammy, Mimi- but someone other. Someone who
serves as many beings to many people, revealing herself to each of
us in ways that we can best appreciate and understand.
After decades of indifference, self-indulgence, rebelliousness,
embarrassment, and plain old apathy, I can finally say I truly
appreciate my mother and her many pseudonyms. But I've never been
able to understand her as well as a daughter should. She deserves
understanding and to have her stories and memories chronicled. I
hope I do them justice.
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John L. Mitchell
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This book initiates a new digital multimedia standards series. The
purpose of the series is to make information about digital
multimedia standards readilyavailable. Both tutorial and advanced
topics will be covered in the series, often in one book. Our hope
is that users will find the series helpful in deciding what
standards to support and use while implementors will d- cover a
wealth of technical details that help them implement those
standards correctly. In today's global economy standards are
increasingly important. Yet until a standard is widely used, most
of the benefits of standardization are not realized. We hope that
standards committee chairpeople will organize and encourage a book
in this series devoted to their new standard. This can be a forum
to share and preserve some ofthe "why" and "how" that went into the
development of the standard and, in the process, assist in the
rapid adoption of the standard. Already in production for this
series are books titled Digital Video: - troduction to MPEG-2 and
Data Compression in Digital Systems.
Created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the JPEG
standard is the first color still image data compression
international standard. This new guide to JPEG and its technologies
offers detailed information on the new JPEG signaling conventions
and the structure of JPEG compressed data.
Police psychology has become an integral part of present-day police
agencies, providing support in the areas of personnel assessment,
individual and organisational intervention, consultation, and
operational assistance. Research-based resources contribute to
those efforts by shedding light on best practices, identifying
recent research and developments, and calling attention to
important challenges and growth areas that remain.Police Psychology
and Its Growing Impact on Modern Law Enforcement emphasises key
elements of police psychology as it relates to current issues and
challenges in law enforcement and police agencies. Focusing on
topics relevant to assessment and evaluation of applicants and
incumbent officers, clinical intervention and prevention, employee
wellness and support, operational consultation, and emerging trends
and developments, this edited publication is an essential reference
source for practising police psychologists, researchers,
graduate-level students, and law enforcement executives.
Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your
group work practice!
Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled
adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking
circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor
who transforms the way her fellow senior living center residents
participate in their world. Fathers of children with spina bifida
who help one another through an online discussion group. These and
other examples you?ll discover in Social Work with Groups: Social
Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change will help
you to assist groups to gain a sense of empowerment and create
change in their own lives and communities.
In Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal,
Community, and Societal Change you?ll also find: definitions of
social justice within the context of social work a proposal to help
focus on social justice in teaching guidelines for group
facilitators making decisions about self-disclosure studies of
innovative group work discussion of the challenges to achieving
social justice in group work valuable ways to ground social group
work in rich cultural traditions This new book rides the crest of
the growing wave of justice in social work with groups. Culled from
the proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium of the
Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, it
gives you the innovations and current thinking of professionals
who, while coming from different cultural and professional
backgrounds, are focused on helping all people enjoy the same
rights and opportunities. If you want to use group work to
challenge social inequality, Social Work withGroups will be a
welcome addition to your library. Social action that gets results
has to start somewhere?let it begin with you!
Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Revisions of Dystopian
Motherhood deconstructs the ways in which women novelists have
reconceived the post-apocalyptic genre in recent decades through
narratives centered on heroic maternal characters. These writers
have placed midwives, pregnant women, and mothers at the forefront
of their novels, transforming them from the hapless victims of male
oppressors to protagonists who are instrumental in transforming the
post-apocalyptic social landscape from one that attempts to
reconstruct a patriarchal past to one that safeguards, validates,
and even lauds maternity as a form of empowerment. In a novelistic
future devastated landscape in which human civilizations are
shattered and waver at the brink of extinction, women who embody
facets of maternity are taking the reins of rebuilding human
societies by overturning patriarchal assumptions of femininity,
reclaiming intersectional autonomy, and (re)visioning the
possibilities for a declining anthropocene.
This guide for clergy, parish musicians, lay readers, and
congregational representatives covers all the stages of organizing
worship services for the entire year. Using The Book of Common
Prayer and Hymnal 1982 as primary resources, it explores the rich
variety of options both time-honored traditions and accepted
innovations.
Times and seasons covered in depth include Advent, the Twelve
Days of Christmas, Lent and Holy Week, Easter and the Great Fifty
Days, and the Sundays after Epiphany and Pentecost. Planning the
Church Year explains the preparations that make for meaningful holy
days and special occasions, such as Lesser Feasts, Thanksgiving
Day, Vigils, Michaelmas, All Saints Day, the bishop s visitation,
the Patronal and Dedication Festivals. "
2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Lee Mitchell's great standard
work on the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. As his student, protegee,
and colleague, Ruth Meyers takes this classic work and updates it
for the Church in its current era and for the future.
Each year, academic institutions produce thousands of social science graduates skilled in applied social researchùmany more than can be absorbed in the teaching profession. In one of the latest volumes in the Qualitative Research Methods series, author Marilyn Mitchell provides information often left out of the social science curriculumùhow and where can social scientists put their skills to use in the private sector? Employing Qualitative Methods in the Private Sector outlines some of the basic private sector research settings and provides clear and sensible advice on how one can rename oneÆs skills and market oneself most effectively to the business community. Mitchell, herself employed in the private sector, also examines project and business management. Straightforward and pragmatic, Employing Qualitative Methods in the Private Sector is an essential tool for the researcher looking for new avenues in which to apply their research.
Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized
in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and
classism. The media renders them invisible or casts them as
racialized and undeserving "welfare queens" who exploit social
safety nets. Even when Black women voters are celebrated, the
voices of the poorest too often go unheard. How do Afro-descendant
women in former slave-holding societies survive amid multifaceted
oppression? Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour offers a comparative
analysis of how Black women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil
and the United States defy systems of domination. She argues that
poor Black women act as political subjects in the struggle to
survive, to provide food for their children and themselves, and
challenge daily discrimination even in dire circumstances.
Mitchell-Walthour examines the effects of social welfare programs,
showing that mutual aid networks and informal labor play greater
roles in beneficiaries' lives. She also details how Afro-descendant
women perceive stereotypes and discrimination based on race, class,
gender, and skin color. Mitchell-Walthour considers their formal
political participation, demonstrating that low-income Black women
support progressive politics and that religious affiliation does
not lead to conservative attitudes. Drawing on Black feminist
frameworks, The Politics of Survival confronts the persistent
invisibility of poor Black women by foregrounding their experiences
and voices. Providing a wealth of empirical evidence on these
women's views and survival strategies, this book not only
highlights how systemic structures marginalize them but also offers
insight into how they resist such forces.
"This wise volume, written by a veteran director and observer of
premodern plays, offers good advice for neophyte and experienced
directors." Choice
In this third and final volume in a series of ceremonial guides to
worship in the Episcopal Church according to "The Book of Common
Prayer," Leonel L. Mitchell focuses on the pastoral and occasional
liturgies. Beginning with the celebration of the Daily Office, he
goes on to discuss the seasonal liturgies beyond the Lent-Easter
cycle, including Advent Lessons and Carols, Candlemas, and Rogation
processions. The pastoral offices include baptism, marriage, the
blessing of homes, reconciliation, ministry to the sick, and
burial.Finally, Mitchell concludes with the services involving
bishops, including celebrations of new ministries, consecrations of
churches, and ordination rites.Like its two companion volumes,
Howard E. Galley s "The Ceremonies of the Eucharist" and Mitchell s
"Lent, Holy Week, Easter," and "the Great Fifty Days," this new
guide offers clear descriptions of ways of celebrating the rites as
well as the theological and historical reasons behind them. The
book is designed to be useful in churches of all sizes, small and
large.
The Political Geography of Campaign Finance examines the
distribution of political campaign contributions in the 2004, 2008,
and 2012 preprimary election periods. Using aggregated individual
level data, the authors determine if certain areas contribute more
to presidential candidates in different stages of the campaign, and
if these patterns are independent of wealth and partisanship.
Unlike previous research, this book examines individual counties
over multiple election cycles.
This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E. Galley's classic
The Ceremonies of the Eucharist provides clergy, liturgical
assistants, and altar guild members with clear, step-by-step
guidance for the liturgies of Lent and Easter. In addition to
background material for the traditions and theology of each season,
Mitchell includes specific preparations and instructions for each
liturgy of the paschal cycle-Ash Wednesday through Pentecost-as
well as Tenebrae, the Way of the Cross, the Vigil of Pentecost, the
liturgies of the catechumenate, and the chrism mass. He also
provides helpful ideas for how the often complex liturgies of these
seasons can be done simply and well by small congregations. Based
on the liturgies of The Book of Common Prayer and the latest
edition of The Book of Occasional Services, this ceremonial guide
also draws on the paschal liturgies of other Anglican traditions,
including those in Canada's Book of Alternative Services.
Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your
group work practice!
Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled
adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking
circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor
who transforms the way her fellow senior living center residents
participate in their world. Fathers of children with spina bifida
who help one another through an online discussion group. These and
other examples you?ll discover in Social Work with Groups: Social
Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change will help
you to assist groups to gain a sense of empowerment and create
change in their own lives and communities.
In Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal,
Community, and Societal Change you?ll also find: definitions of
social justice within the context of social work a proposal to help
focus on social justice in teaching guidelines for group
facilitators making decisions about self-disclosure studies of
innovative group work discussion of the challenges to achieving
social justice in group work valuable ways to ground social group
work in rich cultural traditions This new book rides the crest of
the growing wave of justice in social work with groups. Culled from
the proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium of the
Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, it
gives you the innovations and current thinking of professionals
who, while coming from different cultural and professional
backgrounds, are focused on helping all people enjoy the same
rights and opportunities. If you want to use group work to
challenge social inequality, Social Work withGroups will be a
welcome addition to your library. Social action that gets results
has to start somewhere?let it begin with you!
Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized
in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and
classism. The media renders them invisible or casts them as
racialized and undeserving "welfare queens" who exploit social
safety nets. Even when Black women voters are celebrated, the
voices of the poorest too often go unheard. How do Afro-descendant
women in former slave-holding societies survive amid multifaceted
oppression? Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour offers a comparative
analysis of how Black women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil
and the United States defy systems of domination. She argues that
poor Black women act as political subjects in the struggle to
survive, to provide food for their children and themselves, and
challenge daily discrimination even in dire circumstances.
Mitchell-Walthour examines the effects of social welfare programs,
showing that mutual aid networks and informal labor play greater
roles in beneficiaries' lives. She also details how Afro-descendant
women perceive stereotypes and discrimination based on race, class,
gender, and skin color. Mitchell-Walthour considers their formal
political participation, demonstrating that low-income Black women
support progressive politics and that religious affiliation does
not lead to conservative attitudes. Drawing on Black feminist
frameworks, The Politics of Survival confronts the persistent
invisibility of poor Black women by foregrounding their experiences
and voices. Providing a wealth of empirical evidence on these
women's views and survival strategies, this book not only
highlights how systemic structures marginalize them but also offers
insight into how they resist such forces.
In the course of his pioneering work in The Christian Community,
Emil Bock made many studies of different aspects of the Gospels.
Bringing his wide knowledge of the history of that time together
with his deep insights in anthroposophy, he brings a fresh view of
the familiar stories of the New Testament. Volume 2 looks
particularly at the teachings of Christ, and at the Gospel of St
Luke.
Plenty of resources speak to the benefits of inquiry, the research
behind it, and even subject-specific processes to follow. But
that's not enough. Implementing inquiry is the tricky part, and
involves changing beliefs about the teacher and student roles in
the classroom. The strategies and experiences in this book improve
your relationships with students and colleagues, reduce your
workload by asking more of students, and breathe joyful curiosity
back into your classroom.
This book provides primary care clinicians, researchers, and
educators with a guide that helps facilitate comprehensive,
evidenced-based healthcare of women and gender diverse populations.
Many primary care training programs in the United States lack
formalized training in women's health, or if they do, the allotted
time for teaching is sparse. This book addresses this learning gap
with a solid framework for any program or individual interested in
learning about or teaching women's health. It can serve as a quick
in-the-clinic reference between patients, or be used to steer
curricular efforts in medical training programs, particularly
tailored to internal medicine, family medicine, gynecology,
nursing, and advanced practice provider programs. Organized to
cover essential topics in women's health and gender based care,
this text is divided into eight sections: Foundations of Women's
Health and Gender Based Medicine, Gynecologic Health and Disease,
Breast Health and Disease, Common Medical Conditions, Chronic Pain
Disorders, Mental Health and Trauma, Care of Selected Populations
(care of female veterans and gender diverse patients), and
Obstetric Medicine. Using the Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
and American Board of Internal Medicine blueprints for examination
development, authors provide evidence-based reviews with several
challenge questions and annotated answers at the end of each
chapter. The epidemiology, pathophysiology, evaluation, diagnosis,
treatment, and prognosis of all disease processes are detailed in
each chapter. Learning objectives, summary points, certain exam
techniques, clinical pearls, diagrams, and images are added to
enhance reader's engagement and understanding of the material.
Written by experts in the field, Sex and Gender-Based Women's
Health is designed to guide all providers, regardless of training
discipline or seniority, through comprehensive outpatient women's
health and gender diverse care.
Matthew Blue is known as Manhunter by the Comanche. He has been
hired to track a serial killer in rual Kansas, only to discover a
different killer is following him. His nemesis has sworn to see
Matthew dead, even if it means leaving a trail of dead bodies to
see it done. "A riveting tale of justice in the old west." Dallas
Review "When it comes to suspense, nobody writes it as well as
Major Mitchell." Pat Decker Nipper "A vivid story of a half white,
half Indian bounty hunter trying to bring in a young killer....Well
written." Tom Alberti
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