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716 tulosta hakusanalla Sybil Yurman; David Yurman
A World of Fiction calls upon students' diverse language and critical thinking skills as they discover the pleasure and rewards of reading fiction. This expanded series (Level 1: High Intermediate; Level 2: Advanced) is designed to help students sharpen their reading, vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills. Each level contains 16 unabridged stories. Highlights The stories are ideal for literary analysis, language practice, and lively cross-cultural discussion. Each level features selections by noteworthy authors — (Book 1) Raymond Carver, Dorothy Parker, Tim O’Brien, and Kate Chopin. (Book 2) James Joyce, Louise Erdrich, Woody Allen,and Alice Walker. Reading selections guide students through understanding plots, exploring themes, analyzing styles, making judgments and cross-cultural connections, and debating the issues that are explored. Extended Vocabulary in Context sections cover idioms, phrasal verbs, and other areas of vocabulary enrichment. Writing activities include both expository and creative assignments in which students are led to incorporate the language skills featured in the chapter. Expanded Critical Thinking sections encourage students to analyze stories and connect them to their own experiences.
"Marshall's entertaining first novel, set in the 1960s in the secluded town of Old Swithinford, England, is a solid historical romance... The author limns a sympathetic protagonist whose self-analysis is perceptive and complex." - Publishers Weekly
A professor of nursing, expert in multicultural health care and social services, describes the basic attitudes and beliefs of 15 important ethnic and religious groups in America and shows how these traits can affect behavior during illness or during social work interventions. Sensitive to problems of stereotyping, each chapter on an immigrant group provides some information about its homeland and population in the United States and then discusses the culture's modes of communication, its socioeconomic status, chief complaints, traditional family system, religious beliefs, views toward the elderly, child-rearing practices, culturally based health beliefs and practices, dietary patterns, characteristics relating to morbidity and mortality, beliefs about death and dying, physical assessment, and sources for further reading. The introduction points to a few key sources for continuing information about the care of multicultural patients and clients.
By the year 2000, more than one-third of Americans will be persons of color, and by 2050 non-white persons will constitute 45% of the population. Immigration from European countries has decreased, but the number of migrants from countries of non-white ancestry has increased. Consequently, many Americans are showing a growing interest in knowledge about the values and behaviors of their diverse associates. This book offers an insight into the diverse lifestyles for some cultures of color in American society. Although all members of these cultures may not identify themselves as persons of color, the cultures were selected because they incorporate a significant number of non-white individuals.Each chapter presents an overview of a cultural group that includes a brief history, migration trends, traditional and modern family practices, religious beliefs, concepts about death and dying, nutritional preferences, health behaviors, and diseases often found among its members. The cultures discussed are Africans, African Americans, Alaskans, Asians, Haitians, Hawaiians, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, and West Indians. This book should be of interest to academics, health care professionals, sociologists, clergy, and laypersons. Its goal is to alleviate fear and prejudice through informed understanding.
Why should one study urban history? Were towns the precipitating element for change in the human way of life? By examining in turn various aspects of urban history in the period 1500-1700 this book attempts to examine recent historical ideas about towns in Britain. Was the urban system in Britain a relative failure or a comparative success? What changes took place in the level of urbanization in Britain? What were the dynamics of change? What explains the appearance of new towns and the decline of once flourishing settlements? Was the growing size of some towns fuelled by new or considerably altered functions? Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain provides students with a wide range of material on a fascinating subject.
There have been significant changes in public attitudes towards surveillance in the last few years as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This book re-evaluates competing arguments between national security and personal privacy. The increased assimilation between the investigatory powers of the intelligence services and the police and revelations of unauthorised surveillance have resulted in increased demands for transparency in information gathering and for greater control of personal data. Recent legal reforms have attempted to limit the risks to freedom of association and expression associated with electronic surveillance. This book looks at the background to recent reforms and explains how courts and the legislature are attempting to effect a balance between security and personal liberty within a social contract. It asks what drives public concern when other aspects seem to be less contentious. In view of our apparent willingness to post on social media and engage in online commerce, it considers if we are truly consenting to a loss of privacy and how this reconciles with concerns about state surveillance.
A basic introduction to the subject which addresses questions of truth and meaning, providing a basis for much of what is discussed elsewhere in philosophy. Up-to-date and comprehensive.
What unfolds beyond the "happily ever after"? Worlds collide in Sybil G. Brinton's delightful reimagining of the romantic lives of familiar characters from all six of Jane Austen's cherished novels, including Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility. Published in 1913, foreshadowing modern fan fiction, this charming tale filled with wit and gentle humor follows beloved personalities, including Georgiana Darcy as she flees heartbreak for London, Kitty Bennet in her quest for love under Mrs. Emma Knightly's guidance, and Mary Crawford as she tries to rebuild her tarnished reputation and find love anew. A testament to the enduring fandom of Austen's landed gentry world of manners, morals, and matrimonial pursuits in Regency-era England, Brinton's imaginative storytelling is a must-read for Austen literary enthusiasts.
The Theatre of the London Fairs in the Eighteenth Century
Sybil Rosenfield
Cambridge University Press
2008
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The London fairs are important in the history of English drama, for play-acting was one of their main attractions. From Jonson's Bartholomew Fair we have a picture of the Elizabethan fair; it is however insufficiently known that the fairs were still held in the eighteenth century and that plays were still performed at them. Miss Rosenfeld has investigated these entertainments. She has been able to construct a chronological record of the performances at Bartholomew Fair, Southwark Fair, May Fair and some less important centres; she examines such fair-plays and drolls as survive as texts or in printed descriptions, and she analyses the evidence about the structure of the stages and theatres used. She shows that the performances had a large public, and that the actors from the chief theatres found it worthwhile to take part in them; so her account is a necessary supplement to the theatrical history of the eighteenth century.
Scattered Thoughts, Memoirs, and Dreams of a Stiletto Queen
Sybil Thebaud-Brierre
Sybil Thebaud-Brierre
2022
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A somewhat, cautionary, narrative of disarray about the journey of growth and self awareness of a sheltered spoiled first generation Haitian American daughter of a physician. From the challenges of her being the only black student at an upper crust white bread school, to her fitting in and trying to prove her blackness, getting caught up in the 90s black power movement thus leading to her joining a fanatic cult, becoming a unwed mother at the young age of 21, her relationships, her failed American dream, losing both her parents back to back, dealing with a her narcissist drug addicted daughter, providing a strong hand in raising her grandson to finding her dream and purpose in life.
Just Appetizers: Small Principles for Life's Big Hunger
Sybil F. Bull
Symphony Body Products Inc.
2020
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Most of us are living a fast pace life with great demands and limited time. Sybil Bull can relate. For two decades, she was a stay-at-home mother of seven children who were all less than two years apart. She understands all too well what it means to have a full load and to be challenged to find time to eat a meal, or read a book. Over the years, she has discovered "bite-size nuggets for living." Just Appetizers is the compilation of her discoveries. The principles and lessons are appropriately called "Nibbles". They are power-packed quotes written with simplicity and flavor that you can read, reflect and meditate on throughout your day or week. Each bite will give you understanding, insight, and wisdom to nourish your soul.Just like appetizers, these "nibbles" are meant to be shared. So take a moment to ingest a small principle while enjoying your favorite morning beverage and then pass the plate to a friend, a co-worker, a neighbor, a sibling, your gym partner. Just Appetizers is more than a book, it's a movement to build people by providing them with the tools to build a life that they love.
