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Severe Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours

Designing high quality services

de Eric Emerson, Peter McGill, Jim Mansell ...

This is a timely book. The question of how to help people with challenging behaviour -and how to design and manage services so that staff, families and users feel that what should be done is being done - is at the top of the agenda. Failure to deal com petently with the issue results in disaffection, poor quality ser vices and a less than optimal quality of life for service users. Moreover, the ... Leer más

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This is a timely book. The question of how to help people with challenging behaviour -and how to design and manage services so that staff, families and users feel that what should be done is being done - is at the top of the agenda. Failure to deal com petently with the issue results in disaffection, poor quality ser vices and a less than optimal quality of life for service users. Moreover, the
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Hearts of Freedom

Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees

de Peter Duschinsky, Colleen Lundy, Allan Moscovitch, Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, Michael Molloy ...

Series Libro 20 - McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Between 1975 and 1997 some three million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians fled atrocities in their home countries, with over 210,000 resettling in Canada. While this history is partly known to some Canadians, little has been written about it, especially from the perspectives of the refugees themselves.Hearts of Freedom is a rich oral history based on interviews with 145 former refugees, ... Leer más

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Between 1975 and 1997 some three million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians fled atrocities in their home countries, with over 210,000 resettling in Canada. While this history is partly known to some Canadians, little has been written about it, especially from the perspectives of the refugees themselves.Hearts of Freedom is a rich oral history based on interviews with 145 former refugees,
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Hearts of Freedom

Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees

de Peter Duschinsky, Colleen Lundy, Allan Moscovitch, Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, Michael Molloy ...

Series Libro 20 - McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Between 1975 and 1997 some three million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians fled atrocities in their home countries, with over 210,000 resettling in Canada. While this history is partly known to some Canadians, little has been written about it, especially from the perspectives of the refugees themselves.Hearts of Freedom is a rich oral history based on interviews with 145 former refugees, ... Leer más

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Between 1975 and 1997 some three million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians fled atrocities in their home countries, with over 210,000 resettling in Canada. While this history is partly known to some Canadians, little has been written about it, especially from the perspectives of the refugees themselves.Hearts of Freedom is a rich oral history based on interviews with 145 former refugees,
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Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing

Coming Home to the Village

de Peter Cole ...

Series Libro 42 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
we are narrators narratives voices interlocutors of our own knowings we can determine for ourselves what our educational needs are before the coming of churches residential schools prisons before we knew how we knew we knew In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, ... Leer más

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we are narrators narratives voices interlocutors of our own knowings we can determine for ourselves what our educational needs are before the coming of churches residential schools prisons before we knew how we knew we knew In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven,
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Becoming Inummarik

Men's Lives in an Inuit Community

de Peter Collings ...

Series Libro 73 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
What does it mean to become a man in the Arctic today? Becoming Inummarik focuses on the lives of the first generation of men born and raised primarily in permanent settlements. Forced to balance the difficulties of schooling, jobs, and money that are a part of village life with the conflicting demands of older generations and subsistence hunting, these men struggle to chart their life course and ... Leer más

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What does it mean to become a man in the Arctic today? Becoming Inummarik focuses on the lives of the first generation of men born and raised primarily in permanent settlements. Forced to balance the difficulties of schooling, jobs, and money that are a part of village life with the conflicting demands of older generations and subsistence hunting, these men struggle to chart their life course and
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Nietzsche's Justice

Naturalism in Search of an Ethics

de Peter Sedgwick ...

Series Libro 61 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
In Nietzsche's Justice, Peter Sedgwick takes the theme of justice to the very heart of the great thinker's philosophy. He argues that Nietzsche's treatment of justice springs from an engagement with the themes charted in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, which invokes the notion of an absolute justice grasped by way of artistic metaphysics. Nietzsche's encounter with Greek tragedy spurs the ... Leer más

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In Nietzsche's Justice, Peter Sedgwick takes the theme of justice to the very heart of the great thinker's philosophy. He argues that Nietzsche's treatment of justice springs from an engagement with the themes charted in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, which invokes the notion of an absolute justice grasped by way of artistic metaphysics. Nietzsche's encounter with Greek tragedy spurs the
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Disciples of Antigonish

Catholics in Nova Scotia, 1880–1960

de Peter Ludlow ...

Series Libro 96 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
For generations eastern Nova Scotia was one of the most celebrated Roman Catholic constituencies in Canada. Occupying a corner of a small province in a politically marginalized region of the country, the Diocese of Antigonish nevertheless had tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism. It produced the first Roman Catholic prime minister of Canada, supplied the nation with ... Leer más

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For generations eastern Nova Scotia was one of the most celebrated Roman Catholic constituencies in Canada. Occupying a corner of a small province in a politically marginalized region of the country, the Diocese of Antigonish nevertheless had tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism. It produced the first Roman Catholic prime minister of Canada, supplied the nation with
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The Canny Scot

Archbishop James Morrison of Antigonish

de Peter Ludlow ...

Series Libro 68 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
A paradoxical prelate to many, Archbishop James Morrison was the spiritual head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, from 1912 to 1950. Traditional, frugal, and aloof, he was also the ecclesiastical leader of a progressive program of Catholic social action that became known as the "Antigonish Movement."Elevated to bishop after a successful clerical career in Prince Edward ... Leer más

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A paradoxical prelate to many, Archbishop James Morrison was the spiritual head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, from 1912 to 1950. Traditional, frugal, and aloof, he was also the ecclesiastical leader of a progressive program of Catholic social action that became known as the "Antigonish Movement."Elevated to bishop after a successful clerical career in Prince Edward
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The Clean Body

A Modern History

de Peter Ward ...

How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean?The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene ... Leer más

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How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean?The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene
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The Plot to Kill Peter Fraser

The Dan Delaney Mysteries, #2

de David McGill ...

Series Libro 2 - The Dan Delaney Mysteries
Prime Minister Peter Fraser is back in New Zealand in 1945 before he continues to lead the small counties pushing to remove colonialism and great power veto from the fledgling United Nations. A plot is under way to kill him. If successful, New Zealand's influence on the international stage ends and the country could descend into chaos, a divided country ripe for international manipulation ... Leer más

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Prime Minister Peter Fraser is back in New Zealand in 1945 before he continues to lead the small counties pushing to remove colonialism and great power veto from the fledgling United Nations. A plot is under way to kill him. If successful, New Zealand's influence on the international stage ends and the country could descend into chaos, a divided country ripe for international manipulation
... Leer más
International Handbook of Health Literacy

Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span

de Christina Wieczorek, Josefine Wangdahl, Gillian Rowlands, Diana Sahrai, Tetine Sentell, Connie Arnold, James Davis, Opal Vanessa Buchthal, Elizabeth McFarlane, Phillip Massey, Jennifer Manganello0, Terry Davis1, Ruth Pitt2, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer3, Barbara K Kondilis4, Melanie Messer5, Evelyn McElhinney6, Vanessa Rawlings7, Emma Bond8, Ullrich Bauer9, Paulo Pinheiro1, Leena Paakkari3, Olli Paakkari4, Carla White5, Susan Reid6, Robert Vann (R.V) Rikard7, Julie McKinney8, Sarity Dodson9, Emma Fitzsimon0, Anita Trezona1, Marlene Sator2, Christina Dietscher3, Peter Nowak4, Lorie Donelle5, Linda Shohet6, Irving Rootman7, Sandra Vamos8, Andrew Pearson9, Phyllis Easton0, Blythe Robertson1, Graham Kramer2, Jany Rademakers3, Monique Heijmans4, Iris van der Heide5, Maricel G Santos6, Phil Michael Rehder7, Stefanie Harsch8, Dirk Bruland9, Patricia Wahl0, Kathrin Schulze1, Anne Konring Larsen2, Marie Birk Jørgensen3, Theckla Kwangsa Mbunwe4, Kenneth Yongabi Anchang5, Sarah Marshall6, Suzanne McCarthy7, Laura J Sahm8, Catina O’Leary9, Richard Carmona0, Caitlin Maish1, Kristen Haven Griffin2, Alyssia Rossetto3, Kathryn Cairns4, Isabella Bertschi5, Deborah L Begoray6, E. Anne Marshall7, Marlies Casteleijn8, Paola Ardiles9, Eva Maria Bitzer0, Thomas Mößle1, Anja Stiller2, Lea Kuntz3, Simone Flaig4, Bronwyn McGill5, Hanna Schwendemann6, Paula Bleckmann7, Don Nutbeam8, Diane Levin-Zamir9, Luis Saboga-Nunes1, Joanne Protheroe2, Jane Wills3, Susie Sykes4, Eva-Maria Berens5, Doris Schaeffer6, Dominique Vogt7, Nicola Diviani8, Sarah Mantwill9, Stephan van den Broucke0, Kristin Ganahl1, Jürgen M Pelikan2, Susanne Jordan3, Olga Domanska4, Christiane Firnges5, Torsten Michael Bollweg6, Andrew Pleasant7, Anthony Francis Jorm8, Graca S Carvalho9, Janine Broder00 ...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for ... Leer más

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for
... Leer más
The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter

Rights, Reforms, and Controversies

Edición de Peter Biro ...

Section 33 – what is commonly referred to as the notwithstanding clause (NWC) – was written into the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to allow Parliament and the provinces to provisionally override certain Charter rights.The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter examines the NWC from all angles and perspectives, considering who should have the last word on matters of rights and ... Leer más

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Section 33 – what is commonly referred to as the notwithstanding clause (NWC) – was written into the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to allow Parliament and the provinces to provisionally override certain Charter rights.The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter examines the NWC from all angles and perspectives, considering who should have the last word on matters of rights and
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