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Developing a Sense of Place : The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities

Table of Contents: “…A model for university-town partnership in the arts: TestBeds -- 6. The Beam archive, Wakefield -- 7. This Is Not My House: Notes on film-making, photography and my father -- 8. …”
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Developing a Sense of Place : The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities

Table of Contents: “…A model for university-town partnership in the arts: TestBeds -- 6. The Beam archive, Wakefield -- 7. This Is Not My House: Notes on film-making, photography and my father -- 8. …”
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International practice development in nursing and healthcare

Table of Contents: “…Changing the culture and context of practice : evaluating the journey towards family-centred care / Val Wilson, Raelene Walsh -- Becoming a facilitator : the journey / Shirley Burke, Helen O'Neal and Jacqueline Clarke -- Leadership support / Annette Solman & Mary FitzGerald -- Becoming and being active learners and creating active learning workplaces : the value of active learning in practice development / Jan Dewing -- Evidence use in practice development / Rob McSherry and Karen Cox -- Using practice development approaches in the development of a managed clinical network / Liz Henderson and Sandra McKillop -- Accrediting practice development activity : an approach for achieving person-centred and evidence-based care / Kim Manley ... …”
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Spacetime and theology in dialogue by Goosen, Gideon

Table of Contents: “…-- Christ-centered time -- Points of convergence -- Time as becoming -- Model 3: time as becoming -- Process theology -- Does God know beforehand? …”
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Brazil as an economic superpower? understanding Brazil's changing role in the global economy /

Table of Contents: “…Brazil as an international energy player / Ricardo Ubiraci Sennes and Thais Narciso -- Brazil as an agricultural and agroenergy superpower / André Meloni Nassar -- Brazil : the challenges in becoming an agricultural superpower / Geraldo Barros -- Opening markets : Brazil's trade policy. …”
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How to get a Phd a handbook for students and their supervisors / by Phillips, Estelle M.

Table of Contents: “…1. On becoming a research student -- 2. Getting into the system -- 3. …”
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The won cause black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic / by Gannon, Barbara A.

Table of Contents: “…The only association where black men and white men mingle on a foot of equality -- Comradeship tried : the GAR in the South -- The African American post -- The black GAR circle -- Heirs of these dead heroes : African Americans and the battle for memory -- Memorial Day in black and white -- Where separate Grand Army posts are unknown, as colored and white are united : the integrated post -- Community, memory, and the integrated post -- Comrades bound by memories many -- And if spared and growing older -- Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable : what they remembered they won -- The won cause at century's end -- A story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom : the won cause in the twentieth century -- Epilogue: all one that day if never again : the final days of the GAR -- Appendix 1: African American posts -- Appendix 2: Integrated posts.…”
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Encounters of consequence Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond / by Oppenheim, Michael D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Death and the fear of death in Franz Rosenzweig's The star of redemption -- The Halevi book -- Into life : Rosenzweig's essays on God, man and the world -- The meaning of Hasidism : Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem -- Autobiography and the becoming of the self : Martin Buber and Joseph Campbell -- Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas : a midrash or thought-experiment -- Welcoming the other : the philosophical foundation for pluralism in the works of Charles Davis and Emmanuel Levinas -- Joseph B. …”
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The challenges of the housing economy an international perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Contributors -- Glossary -- Introduction : the housing economy and the credit crunch -- The housing boom, the bust and US housing policy -- Housing bubbles and foreclosures that follow : the case of Las Vegas -- Unemployment risk, homeownership, and housing wealth : lessons from the bubble -- The changing nature of household demand and housing market trends in China -- The structural sustainability of home ownership in Australia -- Impacts on wealth and debt of changes in the Danish financial framework over a housing cycle -- Market stability, housing finance, and home ownership in Germany -- The responsiveness of new supply to house prices : a perspective from the Spanish housing market -- The UK housing market cycle and the role of planning : the policy challenge following the financial crisis -- Developments in the role of social housing in Europe -- Delivering affordable housing in the UK -- The UK private rented sector as a source of affordable accommodation -- Conclusions: the challenges ahead -- References -- Index.…”
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Forging new conventional wisdom beyond international policing learning from complex, political realities / by Hughes, Bryn, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Setting the context -- The global context : the historical evolution of police in peace operations -- Monitoring and evaluation and performance reporting -- Recasting key ontological and epistemological aspects -- Reshaping the substance of international contributions-beyond rethinking the "state of the state" -- The rule of law in peace and capacity building operations : appreciating more than the state -- The case for peace operations to engage the "political" diversity -- Pushing back on conventional monitoring and evaluation -- An unconventional approach to monitoring and evaluation -- Applying systems thinking to M&E : learning in spite of "uncertainty" -- Becoming emotional about assessment -- Evidence from the field for an unconventional wisdom -- The Marshall Islands microcosm : showing the need for a "political" lens -- Hybridity and police capacity development in the Solomon Islands -- The UN in Liberia : articulating the unarticulated consensus for change conclusions -- Appendix 1: Change theory -- Compendium.…”
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It's good to be Black by Goodwin, Ruby Berkley

Table of Contents: “…Goodwin -- Du Quoin, Illinois -- As a fruitful vine -- Cousin Frankie -- The Black man's strength -- Before our time -- Sunday morning -- We become a race of champions -- When the black spider crawled -- We witness a hanging -- And may the best man win -- Carnival time -- Echoes of Algiers -- I've never seen "Uncle Tom's Cabin" -- The stranger within our gates -- We attend a baptizing -- Strike! …”
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Ohio : a history of the Buckeye State / by Kern, Kevin F. (Kevin Frederic)

Table of Contents: “…Late nineteenth century politics and presidents -- The making of an industrial state: 1865 to 1920 -- Urban life, leisure and political activism, 1880-1920 -- Reform and the Great War, 1912-1920 -- Boom, bust and war: 1920 to 1945 -- Affluence and anticommunism, 1945-1966 -- Rebellion and reaction: the 1960s -- Ohio since 1970.…”
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Manuscript cultures : mapping the field /

Table of Contents: “…Scribal annotation as evidence of learning in manuscripts from the first Byzantine humanism : the "philosophical collection" / Christian Brockmann -- Writing, copying, translating : Ethiopia as a manuscript culture / Alessandro Bausi -- Arabic manuscripts on the periphery : Northwest Africa, Yemen and China / Florian Sobieroj -- Multiglossia in West African manuscripts : the case of Borno, Nigeria / Dmitry Bondarev -- Indian manuscripts / Dominik Wujastyk -- Gandharan scrolls : rediscovering an ancient manuscript type / Stefan Baums -- A palaeographic study of a Buddhist manuscript from the Gilgit region / Gudrun Melzer -- Tibetan manuscripts : between history and science / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny -- Towards a Tibetan palaeography : developing a typology of writing styles in early Tibet / Sam van Schaik -- Punctuation marks in medieval Chinese manuscripts / Imre Galambos -- The archive inside : manuscripts found within Chinese religious statues / James Robson.…”
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Dignity in the 21st Century Middle East and West / by Schroeder, Doris, Bani-Sadr, Abol‐Hassan

Table of Contents: “…-islam – A brief Overview of a world religion -- The prophet -- The koran and the hadîths -- Islam in everyday life -- Introduction to dignity in the koran -- Dignity and power -- Dignity and freedom -- How dignity becomes realisable -- Middle east and west – can common ground be found? …”
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Global Business Strategy Multinational Corporations Venturing into Emerging Markets / by Motohashi, Kazuyuki

Table of Contents: “…Hitachi Construction Machinery: Becoming a Wholly Owned Chinese Entity -- 9. Marketing Theory in Global Business Context -- 10. …”
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Maine an annotated bibliography / by Potholm, Christian P., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…. -- The marvel of Margaret: the persistence of a modern political archetype -- The Muskie revolution -- The high tide of democratic aspirations -- The Cohen counter-revolution -- Maine's independent governors in myth and reality -- Voting patterns: six paradigms, or how "vote the way you shot" became "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" -- Campaigns and candidates: "as Maine goes . . ." -- Ballot measures and participatory democracy: "the sovereign right of the people to legislate" -- Additional topics. -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the politics of nineteenth-century Maine -- Women of Maine -- The Bowdoin connection -- Visual depictions of Maine -- Primary research opportunities -- Best Maine politics axioms.…”
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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino -- The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña -- Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman -- From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick -- Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius -- Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz -- Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino -- The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym -- From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. …”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Should I be tested for cancer? maybe not and here's why / by Welch, H. Gilbert

Table of Contents: “…. -- It is unlikely that you will benefit -- You may have a "cancer scare" and face an endless cycle of testing -- You may receive unnecessary treatment -- You may find a cancer you would rather not know about -- Your pathologist may say it's cancer, while others say it's not -- Your doctor may get distracted from other issues that are more important to you -- Pt. II. Becoming a better-educated consumer -- Understand the culture of medicine (and why we are pushed to test) -- Understand the statistics of cancer (and why five-year survival is the world's most misleading number -- Understand the limits to research; even genetic research (and why it is hard to be sure there really are benefits to screening -- Develop a strategy that works for you.…”
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Buddhism in the modern world adaptations of an ancient tradition /

Table of Contents: “…Prebish -- Master Hongyi looks back : a modern man becomes a monk in twentieth-century China / Raoul Birnbaum -- Transitions in the practice and defense of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism / Charles B. …”
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