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The therapeutic powers of play : 20 core agents of change /

Table of Contents: “…Enhances social relationships -- part Ivolume Increases personal strengths.…”
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Tiny terror why Truman Capote (almost) wrote Answered prayers / by Schultz, William Todd

Table of Contents: “…Consistently inconsistent consistency -- Snake's nest of no's -- Leaving the boy behind -- Mind of a murderer -- Frying fancy fish -- Preparations for the scaffold of a personality portrait.…”
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Practicing balance : how congregations can support harmony in work and life / by Gray, David E.

Table of Contents: “…It's personal -- It's national -- It's religious -- We need to change our thinking -- We need to change our habits -- We need to change our societal structures.…”
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Why do you do that? a book about Tourette syndrome for children and young people / by Chowdhury, Uttom, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…-- What is the future for a young person with Tourette syndrome?.…”
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Eric Voegelin and the problem of Christian political order by Herndon, Jeffrey C., 1962-

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Courtroom talk and neocolonial control by Eades, Diana, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the theoretical scene -- The societal and institutional struggle -- Features of Aboriginal English communicative style -- Lexical strategies -- Linguistic mechanisms for identity construction -- Absolutely no regard whatsoever for law and order : David -- More court appearances than some solicitors : Albert -- Not a person to be overborne: Barry -- No fear of the police : closing the Pinkenba case -- Developments since the Pinkenba case -- The power of courtroom talk.…”
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Speech and thought representation in English a cognitive-functional approach / by Vandelanotte, Lieven, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Tables -- Figures -- The need for a construction-based approach to speech and thought representation -- The syntagmatic structure of direct and indirect speech or thought -- Deixis and expressivity in direct and indirect speech or thought -- The grammatical semantics of direct and indirect speech or thought -- Distinguishing free from distancing indirect speech or thought : person deixis -- Spatiotemporal deixis and expressivity in free and distancing indirect speech or thought -- The grammatical semantics and the pragmatics of free and distancing indirect speech or thought -- Subjectified forms of speech or thought representation -- Conclusion -- Example sources -- References -- Index.…”
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Care of people with diabetes a manual of nursing practice / by Dunning, Trisha

Table of Contents: “…Diagnosing and classifying diabetes -- Assessment and nursing diagnosis -- Monitoring diabetes mellitus -- Nutritional aspects of caring for people with diabetes -- Medication commonly used in diabetes management -- Hypoglycaemia -- Hyperglycaemia, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), hyperosmolar coma and lactic acidosis -- Long term complications of diabetes -- Management during surgical and investigative procedures -- Special situations and unusual conditions related to diabetes -- Diabetes and sexual health -- Diabetes in the older person -- Diabetes in children and adolescents -- Women, pregnancy, and gestational diabetes -- Psychological and quality of life issues related to having diabetes -- Diabetes education -- Discharge planning -- Community and primary care nursing and home-based care -- Complementary therapies and diabetes -- Managing diabetes in the emergency situations.…”
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Philosophy in the West Indian novel / by McKenzie, Earl, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Aims of education: historicism and In the castle of my skin -- The meaning of life and Black lightning -- The inner radiance of the shelf in Palace of the peacock -- Knowledge and human understanding in A house for Mr Biswas -- Existentialism and The children of Sisyphus -- Tragic vision in Wide Sargasso Sea -- African conceptions of a person and Myal -- The law of karma in Sastra -- The moralty of reparations in Salt -- Plato versus Kincaid?…”
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Law, politics and society in early modern England by Brooks, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…English history and the history of English law 1485-1642 -- Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors -- The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome -- Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century -- The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560--c. 1610 -- The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority -- The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s -- The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629--1642 -- Law and 'community' -- The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law -- Economic and tenurial relationships -- The household and its members -- The person, the community and the state.…”
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The student's guide to becoming a nurse by Peate, Ian

Table of Contents: “…The code of conduct and professional practice -- The vulnerable person -- Inequality, discrimination and exclusion -- Partnership working, roles and responsibilities -- Therapeutic relationships, communication and interpersonal skills -- Inter-professional working and learning -- Health promotion, promoting self-care and well being -- Evidence-based practice -- Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care needs -- Public health -- Patient safety -- Recognising, interpreting and managing deterioration in health and well being -- Leadership and management -- Continuing professional development -- Teaching and learning in clinical practice.…”
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Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era / by Hunt, Hannah

Table of Contents: “…Hellenistic insights into the human person -- Biblical understandings of flesh, body and soul -- Desert teachings on the body and asceticism -- "Virgins of God": manly women and transvestite saints -- "Enemy" or "friend": Climacus's integration of the body -- The Syrian perspective on asceticism -- Key Syrian sources: apocrypha and anonymity -- Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia -- "Clothed in the body" as a metaphor for incarnation -- Heterodox christologies and the heresiarchs -- Orthodox patristic formulations.…”
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The art of co-ordinating care : a handbook of best practice for everyone involved in care and support / by Morgan, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Creating a passion for the work -- section 3. The art of person-centered care -- section 4. The tensions between creativity and bureaucracy -- section 5. …”
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Encyclopedia of human emotions /

Happiness and the Christian moral life an introduction to Christian ethics / by Wadell, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…Finding a path for life: the quest for goodness and happiness -- Not going it alone: friendship and community in the Christian moral life -- Facing shipwreck and bandits: virtues and the quest for happiness -- Finding a story worth handing on: narrative and the moral life -- Every person's truth: made in the image of God, called to do the work of God -- Freedom: exploring a dangerous topic -- False steps on the path to happiness: losing our way and finding it back -- Doing what the good requires: conscience and prudence in the moral life -- The gift that makes all gifts possible: learning the language of love -- Reimagining the world: why the happiness of one demands justice for all.…”
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Time and the Shared World : Heidegger on Social Relations / by McMullin, Irene

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Time and the shared world -- The "subject" of inquiry -- Mineness and the practical first-person -- Being and otherness: Sartre's critique -- Heideggerian aprioricity and the categories of being -- The temporality of care -- Fursorge: acknowledging the other Dasein -- Authenticity, inauthenticity, and the extremes of Fursorge -- Conclusion.…”
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Surrogates by Weiss, Paul, 1901-2002

Table of Contents: “…Unshackled pragmatism -- Personalized surrogates -- Humanized organisms and their surrogates -- Individuals and their surrogates -- Ultimate conditions, being, and their surrogates -- Aids, agents, and substitutes -- A summation -- An envisagement of adjuncts.…”
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Criminal victimization of the deaf by Barrow, Lauren M., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Society's elements and the deaf experience -- Peeling back the layers of social discrimination -- Deaf persons as victims -- Research methodology and data -- The data and what it reveals -- Research contributions.…”
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Technology and organization essays in honour of Joan Woodward /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- section 2. Personal reflections on Joan Woodward -- section 3. …”
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