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  • Chosen

    How Opening My Home Healed My Heart

    In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a poignant, inspirational memoir of a lonely girl who survived decades of harrowing abuse at home to open her heart and redefine what it is to be a family and a mom.No child should grow up like Sandi Smith. At age three, she was locked in a closet. By age eight, she was behind the wheel of a car, and by age nine, she was forced to hunt deer for food. She was ... Read more

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  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    A Labor Market Perspective on What Works, What Does Not, and Why

    Series Book 209 - Africa Human Development Series
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date, however, most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume II: Invention, Innovation, Transformation

    This volume foregrounds the close, and mutually informing, relationships between mediated communication and technological innovation during the nineteenth century. It draws attention to the fact that communication was a driver of innovation, but also considers how communication practices adapted to new media and technologies. The following themes and subjects are covered:The development of the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume I: Reforming the Mails

    This volume focuses on the development of mail services between ca. 1780 and 1860. It takes as its starting point John Palmer’s proposal to reform the mail coach system in the 1780s. As part of this volume, the following themes and subjects are covered:Mail services prior to the introduction of the penny post, including the rise and fall of the mail coach; correspondence and surveillance during ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume IV: Nation, Empire, Globe

    This volume pays particular attention to Britain’s embeddedness—and role in shaping—a rapidly expanding global communications network. In particular, it reflects the links between communications and Britain’s imperial and colonial projects. It covers:The development of imperial communication routes and infrastructures as well as, in the late nineteenth-century, the introduction of imperial penny ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume III: Cultures of Communication

    This volume illuminates some of the manifold ways in which Britain’s communication infrastructure affected everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain. Accordingly, it highlights socio-economic, cultural, and material repercussions of selected aspects of mediated communication. It covers:The rise and role of the communication worker and the Post Office’s status as Britain’s largest employer as ... Read more

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  • All Kinds of Time

    by Ellen Smith ...
    Will and Mara Sterling have been happily married for eleven years. Maybe more. Like millions of Americans, Will and Mara know they are Time Wreckers. But without access to the data from their past life map, they'll never know who they were, what crime was committed, or how a timeline rectification changed their lives.Television personality Deirdre Collins is out to fix that. Her case against the ... Read more

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  • States of danger and deceit

    The European political thriller in the 1970s

    States of danger and deceit places key films (Z (1969), The Mattei Affair (1972), State of Siege (1972), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Illustrious Corpses (1976)) and filmmakers (Costa-Gavras, Elio Petri, Francesco Rosi, Volker Schlöndorff) from across Europe into their historical, political and social contexts before considering the ways they have impacted upon politically engaged ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice

    Provides important new content on specific ethical, leadership, and advocacy capabilities that advance the DNP role in nursing practiceThis core text for the DNP curriculum encompasses all facets of the evolving advanced practice role including diverse professional opportunities and options for career advancement. With ten completely new chapters, the third edition conveys the latest developments ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Digging Our Own Graves

    Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease

    Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded.Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • TATTOOS

    My Gateway Drug / Surviving The Perfect Storm Of Addiction

    The Title and Story of this book depicts the telling of Cody Lanus' personal story, of the recognition of his addictive tenancies. When seen by him in hindsight, he realized they began when he first ventured into some addictive behavior while chasing his very first tattoo. He reveals where he was physically, relationally, emotionally, and spiritually throughout the journey of his tattoos. Cody ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shadows of Empire in West Africa

    New Perspectives on European Fortifications

    Series series History (R0)
    These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and others to present a nuanced image of fortifications, showing that over time the functions and impacts of the buildings ... Read more

    $80.09 USD