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A volume in International Social Studies Forum: The Series Series
Editors Richard Diem, University of Texas at San Antonio and Jeff
Passe, Towson University There may be no topic that is more
controversial in our country and in our schools than religion.
Changing demographics and the evolving relationship between
religion and politics have resulted in conflicts concerning
teaching about religion, teaching about evolution, and prayers at
graduation. In spite of laws and policies designed to clarify these
challenges, the relationship between religion and the schools
remains a powerful and conflicted issue. And yet, religious
literacy is essential for people of all ages to understand
historical and contemporary cultures and conflicts as well as
different beliefs and practices of people in our communities and
around the world. Many of the concerns raised about teaching
children about religion can be addressed through the use of
authentic children's and adolescent literature. The use of rich
narratives, both fact and fiction, is both an effective and
inclusive strategy for teaching about religious and spiritual
diversity. This book is an invaluable resource for enabling
teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about
religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both
their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions
featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native
American spirituality, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity
(Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, Sikhism, and
other beliefs such as Baha'i, Unitarian Universalism, Humanism, and
Atheism. Each chapter highlights a specific religion or spiritual
tradition with a brief discussion about major beliefs,
misconceptions, sacred texts, and holy days or celebrations. This
summary of each tradition is followed by extensive annotated
recommendations for children's and adolescent literature as well as
suggested teaching strategies. The recommended literature includes
informational books, traditional religious stories, and fiction
with religious themes. The child-friendly informational books focus
on major beliefs, celebrations, symbols and people from various
faiths who are role models and heroes. These books often feature
colorful artwork, photographs, poetry or music. The traditional
religious literature includes stories about basic values and
beliefs that were passed down orally for hundreds and thousands of
years. And the recommended fiction highlights stories about
authentic experiences faced by children, both past and present.
These stories represent both sadness and joy; conflict and
resolution; confusion and understanding; discrimination and
acceptance. Teachers, religious educators, and family members will
find the literature from these genres to be invaluable tools for
bridging the religious experience of the child with that of the
global society in which they live.
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Somali Grammar (Hardcover)
Christopher R. Green; Edited by Nicola Lampitelli, Evan Jones
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This book offers a contemporary look at Somali from the standpoint
of its major varieties and provides a comprehensive account of the
language that is grounded in linguistic theory and the latest
scholarship. The grammar includes an extensive array of examples
drawn from online corpora and from fieldwork with native speakers
of the language.
In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins
of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human
clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to
reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of
the offspring. Obesity of the mother and father produces obesity in
their offspring, so we are caught up in an intergenerational cycle,
which means that even our children's future health is in peril.
This book gives a timely and much-needed synthesis of the
mechanisms, potential targets of future interventions, and the
challenges that need to be overcome in order to break the
intergenerational cycle of obesity. This has profound implications
for the way in which scientific, clinical and health policy
activities are to be directed in order to combat the so-called
epidemic of obesity, as well as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular
disease. The book will be of interest to students, clinicians,
researchers and health policy makers who are either seeking an
introduction to the area of Developmental Origins of Health and
Disease or have a specific interest in the pathogenesis of obesity.
This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and
policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of 'public
purpose' that can embrace political decision-making - and also
enhance historical practice. Making policy is a complex and messy
affair, calling on many different forms of expertise and historians
have often been reluctant to get involved in policy advice, with
those interested in 'history in public' tending to work with
museums, heritage sites, broadcasters and community organisations.
Green notes, however, that historians have also insisted that
'history matters' in public policy debate, and been critical of
politicians' distortions or neglect of the past. She argues that it
is not possible to have it both ways.
The fate of public education and therefore the future of our
democracy is at risk. Powerful forces are eroding commitment to
public schools and weakening democratic resolve. Yet even in deeply
troubling times, it is possible to broaden social imagination and
empower efforts toward systemic progressive reform. This book is an
invitation for widespread participation in a complex
process-re-envisioning education and democracy. To reenvision- to
envision and then envision again-is to join with others in
imagining new possibilities and bringing these into existence.
Re-envisioning is a radically social process. Although distinct and
varied individual contributions are required, transformative
visions cannot be advanced through the agency of one charismatic
person, or bound by one influential perspective. The process of
re-envisioning, like all forms of democratic living and learning,
draws energy and insight when connection and communion are
sustained across dimensions of difference. Re-envisioning is an
intensely creative and exploratory process. It is not accomplished
through careful construction of "best laid plans" aimed at
attaining certainty and control. Re-envisioning is instead
experienced and evolved by preparing for, and then acting on,
informed and strategic glimpses. These brief and fleeting
impressions-multimodal and multi-sensory, incomplete and ambiguous,
always in motion-offer potentials, but no definitive answers.
Re-envisioning is a profoundly ethical and aesthetic process,
centered in prospects for social justice, compassion, reform, and
renewal. Social movements are rarely motivated by commitments to
narrow objectives aimed at solving specific problems. Across time
and cultures we are drawn to persons and processes, to ideas and
images, that call us back to remember our highest principles, and
move us forward to respond with acts of integrity and grace.
Recurrent themes of beauty and power-here mirrored in chapter
titles-inspire, guide, and liberate collective vision and
principled action. Re-envisioning, although accessible to all,
remains largely undeveloped and underutilized. Our collective
ability to realize progressive aspirations for education and
democracy can be significantly enhanced by integrating the process
of re-envisioning with other, more familiar, educational and
political reform strategies.
The future of public education and democracy is at risk. Powerful
forces are eroding commitment to public schools and weakening
democratic resolve. Yet even in deeply troubling times, it is
possible to broaden social imagination and empower effective
advocacy for systemic progressive reform. Re-envisioning Education
and Democracy explores challenges and opportunities for
restructuring public education to establish and sustain more
broadly inclusive, deeply democratic, and effectively transforming
approaches to social inquiry and civic participation.
Re-envisioning Education and Democracy adopts a non-traditional
format to extend social awareness and imagination. Within each
chapter, one episode of an evolving strategic narrative traces the
life cycle of a systemic reform initiative. This is followed by an
exploratory essay that draws from theory, research, criticism, and
practice to prompt consideration of focal issues. Woven through
each chapter is a poetically framed meditative stream informed by
varied historical and cultural conceptions of oracles. A
developmental sequence of social learning strategies (exploratory
democratic practices), accompanied by thematic bibliographic
references, are included to model democratic teaching and learning
applicable in classroom and community settings.
The emphasis now placed on the concept of sediment cells as
boundaries for coastal defence groups, and the development of SMPs,
should help CPAs realise the importance of natural processes at the
coast when designing defence and protection schemes. However, this
will only be the case where defence groups exist, and where CPAs
take up the challenge of developing SMPs. Coastal landscapes have
been produced by the natural forces of wind, waves and tides, and
many are nationally or internationally important for their habitats
and natural features. Past practices at the coast, such as the
construction of harbours, jetties and traditional defence systems
may have contributed to the deterioration of the coast. English
Nature (1992) have argued that if practices and methods of coastal
defence are allowed to continue, then coastlines would be faced
with worsening consequences, including: The loss of mudflats and
the birds which live on them Damage to geological Sites of Special
Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and scenic heritage by erosion, due to
the stabilisation of the coast elsewhere Cutting of sediment
supplies to beaches resulting in the loss of coastal wildlife
Cessation through isolation from coastal processes, of the natural
operation of spits, with serious deterioration of rare plants,
animals and geomorphological and scenic qualities (English Nature,
1992) A number of designations, provided by national and
international legislation do exist to aid conservation.
This book examines the relationship between chronic illness,
spirituality, and healing from interdisciplinary, multicultural,
and interreligious perspectives. Contributors include professionals
working in traditional, holistic and integrative clinical settings,
as well as religious studies scholars and spiritual practitioners
from diverse religious and cultural contexts. Authors consider how
biomedical care might be blended with spiritual practice that
attends to the well-being of people living with chronic conditions
through the mind-body-spirit-environment relationship. The book is
relevant to the disciplines of health care, spiritual care, and
social services; religious studies, disability studies, and
cultural studies; and to people living with chronic illnesses.
Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global
environmental change. This book is the first of its kind
concentrating on the paleoenvironmental record archived in mid- and
low-latitude glaciers. By concentrating mainly on the last 500
years of these records, we can now see that laws enacted to protect
our environment in Europe and North America are providing positive
results. Documenting global mid- and low-latitude
paleoenvironmental records in glaciers, this volume forms a timely
and essential complement to the wealth of literature on polar and
Greenland ice sheet records.
This text is directed towards undergraduate and graduate university
audiences and forms an ideal supplement in courses dealing with
climate and global environmental change, glaciology, and natural
resources management. It is also suitable in helping teach
application of innovative analytical and interpretive methods and
would be an excellent example of the rapidly emerging discipline of
"Forensic Earth Science."
Make sure your clients get the best possible care throughout their
lives
Contemporary Issues of Care presents the latest research findings
on human behavior and the social environment for social workers
practicing at the individual, family, and community levels. This
timely book applies the functional-age model on intergenerational
therapy (FAM) to examine the interaction between the care recipient
's biopsychosocial and spiritual functioning and the capacity of
the family/caregiver to adapt. The book 's contributors examine the
functions of various social systems in caregiving as well as the
social worker 's role in processing and integrating information to
help develop family-centered and community-based interventions.
Contemporary Issues of Care focuses on caregiving situations across
the life span, using research findings to shape social work
curriculum and to improve social work practice and services. With
the family still the primary caregiving institution in the United
States, the book examines the mutual interdependence among family
members and the dynamic development of family structure and
organization. An exemplary textbook for students in social work,
the book also includes a workbook and CD.
Topics addressed in Contemporary Issues of Care include:
- shifts in human behavior paradigms
- family systems interventions
- case management
- sibling caregiving
- the impact of culture on mental illness and mental health
- the importance of self-care
- elder abuse
- substance abuse
- children with cancer
- HIV/AIDS
- diabetes
- posttraumatic stress
- inner-city challenges
- caregiving for gay men and lesbians
- caregiving for persons with dementia
- community caregiving
- and much more
Contemporary Issues of Care is filled with charts, tables,
diagrams, and sample interviews that supplement articles from the
leading practitioners and academics in the field. This book is an
essential resource for anyone involved in social work practice for
individuals, families, and communities.
Exploring the relationships between qualitative research and social
change, this book asks how social change is informed and influenced
by research. Examples discussed are from research practice and
experiences in the fields of sociology, social work, professional
practice, education, criminal justice and anthropology.
Make sure your clients get the best possible care throughout their
lives Contemporary Issues of Care presents the latest research
findings on human behavior and the social environment for social
workers practicing at the individual, family, and community levels.
This timely book applies the functional-age model on
intergenerational therapy (FAM) to examine the interaction between
the care recipient's biopsychosocial and spiritual functioning and
the capacity of the family/caregiver to adapt. The book's
contributors examine the functions of various social systems in
caregiving as well as the social worker's role in processing and
integrating information to help develop family-centered and
community-based interventions. Contemporary Issues of Care focuses
on caregiving situations across the life span, using research
findings to shape social work curriculum and to improve social work
practice and services. With the family still the primary caregiving
institution in the United States, the book examines the mutual
interdependence among family members and the dynamic development of
family structure and organization. An exemplary textbook for
students in social work, the book also includes a workbook and CD.
Topics addressed in Contemporary Issues of Care include: shifts in
human behavior paradigms family systems interventions case
management sibling caregiving the impact of culture on mental
illness and mental health the importance of self-care elder abuse
substance abuse children with cancer HIV/AIDS diabetes
posttraumatic stress inner-city challenges caregiving for gay men
and lesbians caregiving for persons with dementia community
caregiving and much more Contemporary Issues of Care is filled with
charts, tables, diagrams, and sample interviews that supplement
articles from the leading practitioners and academics in the field.
This book is an essential resource for anyone involved in social
work practice for individuals, families, and communities.
Lewis Deathstalker has succeeded at the impossible: he's found Owen
Deathstalker, presumed dead for the last two hundred years. Owen's
return strikes a crippling blow to the Empire as his military joins
the rebellion. But Owen himself has a larger mission. He -- and
according to prophecy, he alone -- must travel back in time to stop
the steadily advancing Terror before the galaxy is destroyed,
leaving his descendant Lewis in command of the growing rebel army.
Even as Emperor Finn Durandal's empire is on the brink of
annihilation from the Terror, he will do anything, no matter how
evil, to retain power. Lewis is equally determined to take Finn
down and restore the rightful ruler to the throne... Note from
Publisher: This book was originally published as Book 8 in the
Deathstalker series.
A collection of easy-to-follow activities, organized by seasons of
the year, to help family members and caregivers engage with
memory-challenged adults. Dementia and related disorders impact the
lives of those affected in countless ways, making it difficult to
remain independent at work, at home, and in the wider world. But
recent studies have shown that structured activities can make a
significant, positive difference by stimulating mental engagement
while improving interactions between caregivers and
memory-challenged adults. Fun and easy to use, this large-format,
full-color picture book is divided into themes representing the
four seasons. Each section describes several multisensory
experiences-such as walking on the beach, making ice cream, or
planting flowers-along with related topics for discussion and
activities to elicit memories and encourage new positive
associations. The topics and activities incorporate all five senses
to facilitate connections and conversations. The book adopts a
compassionate, person-centered approach and is designed so that two
people can easily look together while sitting side by side. This
latest edition, which has been thoroughly revised, * takes a
multicultural approach * includes all-new images, as well as 14
completely new highlighted activities * integrates modern wellness
concepts * features a new introduction and an updated resource
section * offers guidance about activity planning and optimizing
interactions between care partners and the individual with dementia
Helping you and your loved one make cherished new memories, Through
the Seasons is an indispensable solution to the question of what to
do together to maintain well-being and connection.
Take a journey through the Age of Heroes⦠After falling in love
with the king's intended, Lewis Deathstalker is now exiled, an
outlaw from the empire he faithfully served for so long. With Lewis
out of the way, former, Paragon Finn Durandal, has led a silent
coup to wrest control from the king and set himself up as the power
behind the throne. But Durandal is not the Empire's biggest threat.
The Terror that Owen Deathstalker prophesied nearly 200 years ago
is almost upon them, and Owen is supposedly the only one who can
save civilization from unspeakable horrors. Lewis, unwilling to
believe that the galaxy's savior is dead, sets off to the darkest
reaches of the Galaxy to find his lost ancestor. Lewis intends to
retrace Owen's footsteps and overturn every possible lead. But with
Finn in control of the empire's massive forces, he is outmanned and
outgunned at every turn. Lewis must stay one step ahead of Finn's
ever-expanding reach if he has any hope of discovering Owen's fate.
Note from Publisher: This book was originally published as Book 7
in the Deathstalker series.
Relationships abound in the library and information science (LIS)
world. Those relationships may be social in nature, as, for
instance, when we deal with human relationships among library
personnel or relationships (i. e. , "public relations") between an
information center and its clientele. The relationships may be
educational, as, for example, when we examine the relationship
between the curriculum of an accredited school and the needs of the
work force it is preparing students to join. Or the relationships
may be economic, as when we investigate the relationship between
the cost of journals and the frequency with which they are cited.
Many of the relationships of concern to us reflect phenomena
entirely internal to the field: the relationship between manuscript
collections, archives, and special collections; the relationship
between end user search behavior and the effectiveness of searches;
the relationship between access to and use of information
resources; the relationship between recall and precision; the
relationship between various bibliometric laws; etc. The list of
such relationships could go on and on. The relationships addressed
in this volume are restricted to those involved in the organization
of recorded knowledge, which tend to have a conceptual or semantic
basis, although statistical means are sometimes used in their
discovery.
Ishmael Jones investigates a haunted house . . . but is haunted by
his own past in the latest of this quirky paranormal mystery
series. "That house is a bad place. Bad things happen there . . ."
Set high on top of Widows Hill, Harrow House has remained empty for
years. Now, on behalf of an anonymous prospective buyer, Ishmael
and Penny are spending a night there in order to investigate the
rumours of strange lights, mysterious voices, unexplained
disappearances, and establish whether the house is really haunted.
What really happened at Harrow House all those years ago? Joined by
a celebrity psychic, a professional ghost-hunter, a local historian
and a newspaper reporter, it becomes clear that each member of
'Team Ghost' has their own pet theory as to the cause of the
alleged haunting. But when one of the group suddenly drops dead
with no obvious cause, Ishmael realizes that if he can find out how
and why the victim died, he will have the key to solving the
mystery.
The Nashville and Decatur Railroad was in operation five months
before the start of the Civil War and 17 months before the Federals
took control of Nashville and the railroad. Running through Central
Tennessee to Alabama, the highly contested line passed through
Confederate-held territory, where rebels and their sympathizers
continually sabotaged bridges, trestles and track. This first
full-length work on the N&D Railroad emphasizes its importance
in the Western Theater and brings to light the four key men who
kept it open for the duration of the war. Significant military
activities in the region are described, along with the contraband
camp, military complex and other features surrounding the
railroad's only tunnel.
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