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Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context

Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church

by John P. Beal, Francis J. Butler, Patricia M. Y. Chang
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
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Spectrum

SmartyPants Spectrum Series, #1

by Jennifer Roush, S.C. Jensen, Gale Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

**You are an explorer in a galaxy of worlds... ** ...with countless stories to delve into or even just try out. Inside, you are the rescuer of the kitten who rescues you right back. You are the citizen making a life-or-death decision. You are the teenager experiencing her first...
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Women and the White House

Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics

by Justin S. Vaughn, Lilly J. Goren, Linda Beail
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012

The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann have provoked new interest in gendered popular culture...
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Solving Executive Function Challenges

Simple Ways to Get Kids with Autism Unstuck and on Target

by Katie Alexander "M.S., OTR", Monica Werner M.A.
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

How can you help kids with autism be flexible, get organized, and work toward goals—not just in school but in everyday life? It's all about executive function, and this quick problem-solving guide helps you explicitly teach these critical skills to high-functioning children with autism (Grades K-8)....
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Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families

Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service

by Sayali S. Amarapurkar, Laura Bates, Libby Balter Blume
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009

Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Book cover of The Mediterranean And Middle East: Volume II The Germans Come To The Help Of Their Ally (1941) [Illustrated Edition]
by Major-General I.S.O. Playfair C.B. D.S.O. M.C., Brigadier C. J. C. Molony, Air Vice-Marshal S.E. Toomer C.B. C.B.E. D.F.C.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Illustrated with 29 maps/diagrams and 44 photographs “The second of the eight volumes dealing with the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War, this book is largely concerned with the consequences of Germany's decision to prop up...
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by Lisa K. Williams, Prof. Tom J. Humphrey, Dr Sabrina Vandeplas
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016

Reviews latest research on zoonoses affecting poultry meat such as Salmonella and Campylobacter as well as methods for their control on the poultry farm and in the slaughterhouse Summarises advances in understanding and optimising poultry quality traits such as flavour, colour, tenderness, shelf life...
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Innovations in Child and Family Policy

Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families

by Emily M. Douglas, Loretta L. C. Brady, Melissa Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010

Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
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Fields of Vision

Essays on the Travels of William Bartram

by Stephanie C. Haas, Mark Williams, Edward J. Cashin
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009

 A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south. William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories...
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by Jason T. Eberl, George A. Dunn, George A. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

As a director, writer, and producer, Christopher Nolan has substantially impacted contemporary cinema through avant garde films, such as Following and Memento, and his contribution to wider pop culture with his Dark Knight trilogy. His latest film, Interstellar, delivered the same visual qualities...
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The State of the Parties

The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties

by Alan Abramowitz, Paul A. Beck, Michael John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014

The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
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Let It Shine!

The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship

by Ronald D. Harbor, Mary E. McGann, R.S.C.J.
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...
Book cover of The Obama Doctrine in the Americas
by María Belén Ahumada, Ted Galen Carpenter, Khatchik DerGhougassian
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether...
Book cover of Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora
by Valerie Wallace, Gideon Mailer, Iain Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery....
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