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Chester District

Chester District

C J O'Brien

The History Press Ltd
2001
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In this intriguing new selection of old images of Chester, the city and district are evocatively recreated in over 200 photographs, postcards and engravings which combine the variety of life to be found here. This collection gives an insight into the everyday life of the people who have shaped the history of Chester. The images illustrate how the city has grown from a centre for local business, settlement and culture - and all alongside the magnificent natural backdrop of the Welsh hills. Chester District is a valuable pictorial history of this vibrant area of the North West which will delight those who have visited the area for recreational purposes and evoke memories of times past for those who have lived and experiences daily Chester life over the years.
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What Works in Foster Care?

What Works in Foster Care?

Peter J. Pecora; Ronald C. Kessler; Jason Williams; A. Chris Downs; Diana J. English; James White; Kirk O'Brien

Oxford University Press Inc
2009
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On any given day, nearly half a million children are served by foster care services in the U.S. at an annual cost of over $25 billion. Growing demand and shrinking funds have so greatly stressed the child welfare system that calls for orphanages have re-entered the public debate for the first time in nearly half a century. New ideas are desperately needed to transform a system in crisis, guarantee better outcomes for children in foster care, and reduce the need for out-of-home care in the first place. Yet little is known about what works in foster care. Very few studies have examined how alumni have fared as adults or tracked long-term health effects, and even fewer have directly compared different foster care services. In one of the most comprehensive studies of adults formerly in foster care ever conducted, the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study found that quality foster care services for children pay big dividends when they grow into adults. Key investments in highly trained staff, low caseloads, and robust supplementary services can dramatically reduce the rates of mental disorders and substance abuse later in life and increase the likelihood of completing education beyond high school and remaining employed. The results of this unparalleled study document not only the more favorable outcomes for youth who receive better services but the overall return when an investment is made in high quality foster care: every dollar invested in a child generates $1.50 in benefits to society. These findings form the core of this book's blueprint for reform. By keeping more children with their families and investing additional funds in enhanced foster care services, child welfare agencies have the opportunity to greatly improve the health, well being, and economic prospects for foster care alumni. What Works in Foster Care? presents a model foster care program that promises to revolutionize the way policymakers, administrators, case workers, and researchers think about protecting our most vulnerable youth.
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The Rise and Fall of Culture History

The Rise and Fall of Culture History

R. Lee Lyman; Michael J. O'Brien; Robert C. Dunnell

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
1997
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VJver forty years ago Gordon R. Willey (1953b:361) stated that "[t]he objectives of archeology ...are approached by the study and manipulation of three basic factors: form, space, and time. " A few years later, Albert C. Spaulding (1960b:439) repeated this thought using different words: "[AJrchaeology can be defined minimally as the study of the interrelation- ship of form, temporal locus, and spatial locus exhibited by artifacts. In other words, archaeologists are always concerned with these interrelation- ships, whatever broader interests they may have, and these interrelation- ships are the special business of archaeology. " Many of the means Americanist archaeologists use to examine formal variation in artifacts and the distribution of that variation across space and through time were formulated early in the twentieth century. The analytical tenets, or principles, underlying the various methods and techniques were formalized and axiomatized in later years such that by the 1930s they con- stituted the first formal paradigm for Americanist archaeology-a paradigm commonly termed culture history. This paradigm began with a very specific goal-to document the history of the development of prehistoric cultures in the Americas. Although it fell from favor in the 1960s, many of its central tenets were carried over to newer paradigms and thus continue to be fun- damental within Americanist archaeology. With Willey's and Spaulding's conceptions as our guide, we elsewhere reprinted (Lyman et al.
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The Rise and Fall of Culture History

The Rise and Fall of Culture History

R. Lee Lyman; Michael J. O'Brien; Robert C. Dunnell

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
1997
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VJver forty years ago Gordon R. Willey (1953b:361) stated that "[t]he objectives of archeology ...are approached by the study and manipulation of three basic factors: form, space, and time. " A few years later, Albert C. Spaulding (1960b:439) repeated this thought using different words: "[AJrchaeology can be defined minimally as the study of the interrelation- ship of form, temporal locus, and spatial locus exhibited by artifacts. In other words, archaeologists are always concerned with these interrelation- ships, whatever broader interests they may have, and these interrelation- ships are the special business of archaeology. " Many of the means Americanist archaeologists use to examine formal variation in artifacts and the distribution of that variation across space and through time were formulated early in the twentieth century. The analytical tenets, or principles, underlying the various methods and techniques were formalized and axiomatized in later years such that by the 1930s they con- stituted the first formal paradigm for Americanist archaeology-a paradigm commonly termed culture history. This paradigm began with a very specific goal-to document the history of the development of prehistoric cultures in the Americas. Although it fell from favor in the 1960s, many of its central tenets were carried over to newer paradigms and thus continue to be fun- damental within Americanist archaeology. With Willey's and Spaulding's conceptions as our guide, we elsewhere reprinted (Lyman et al.
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The Adventures of Loriel the Wood Fairy

The Adventures of Loriel the Wood Fairy

C J O'Kane

Authors' Tranquility Press
2023
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Loriel is worried by the lack of communication from her Grandfairy Cyce and makes a journey to her cottage in the Forest of Echoes, to find it empty. Upon arrival she finds Grandfairy Cyce has been kidnapped by a goblin. This part of the story tells how Loriel, Padra (the house mouse) and Anya (the pet hummingbird) all help to save Grandfairy Cyce. Loriel is frantic with worry because she knows that goblins must be dangerous (not to mention smelly) and she will need to make a plan that does not endanger Grandfairy Cyce.
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The Adventures of Loriel the Wood Fairy

The Adventures of Loriel the Wood Fairy

C J O'Kane

Authors' Tranquility Press
2023
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Loriel is worried by the lack of communication from her Grandfairy Cyce and makes a journey to her cottage in the Forest of Echoes, to find it empty. Upon arrival she finds Grandfairy Cyce has been kidnapped by a goblin. This part of the story tells how Loriel, Padra (the house mouse) and Anya (the pet hummingbird) all help to save Grandfairy Cyce. Loriel is frantic with worry because she knows that goblins must be dangerous (not to mention smelly) and she will need to make a plan that does not endanger Grandfairy Cyce.
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Groepspsychotherapie in Theorie En Praktijk

Groepspsychotherapie in Theorie En Praktijk

Harper Collins Publishers; A K Slob; J P C Moors; W T a M Everaerd; C W Vink; C J Straver; P T Cohen-Kettenis; R Stoeckart; M a C T Moors-Mommers; J a R a M Van Hooff; H W Van Lunsen; J J Drenth; G J Bolle; M a Emmelkamp-Keizer; N Drayer; W L Gianotten; J O C M Frenken; H E Lamur; D J Van Beek; P a Wempe; L a C L Gijs; I Boedjarath; H Bos; T L Compernolle; T G M Sandfort; J J D M Van Lankveld

Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum
2005
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La légende de Tella - Tome 1

La légende de Tella - Tome 1

J C O Taranis

Afnil
2023
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Au milieu de l' tendue cosmique se tient une petite plan te de couleur bleue, l g rement verte. C'est le monde de Tella, o la faune et la flore d'une richesse extravagante sont en proie de multiples troubles: catastrophes cologiques, chutes de boules enflamm es venues des cieux, trahisons, x nophobie insidieuse. Une terrible pid mie frappe galement la population.Qui sont les l gendaires Spirits' et quels sont leurs stup fiants pouvoirs ?
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Industrialization in West Africa

Industrialization in West Africa

J O C Onyemelukwe

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2024
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First published in 1984, Industrialization in West Africa is an authoritative text on the industrial development efforts, spatial characteristics and related problems of countries comprising the West African region. The book commences with a detailed description of the political and economic background against which the slow and unsteady pace of industrialization in each country can be appreciated. The analysis outlines the resource potential and historical evolution and structural characteristics of modern manufacturing in the region. The final section assesses the spatial characteristics of West African industrialization, the major problems inhibiting industrial development and frustrating efforts towards economic independence by each country. In conclusion the author considers remedial policy options open to West African countries, both individually and in a common market framework. This book is a valuable source material for all students of social science, geography, economics and regional planning.
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Industrialization in West Africa

Industrialization in West Africa

J O C Onyemelukwe

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2026
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First published in 1984, Industrialization in West Africa is an authoritative text on the industrial development efforts, spatial characteristics and related problems of countries comprising the West African region. The book commences with a detailed description of the political and economic background against which the slow and unsteady pace of industrialization in each country can be appreciated. The analysis outlines the resource potential and historical evolution and structural characteristics of modern manufacturing in the region. The final section assesses the spatial characteristics of West African industrialization, the major problems inhibiting industrial development and frustrating efforts towards economic independence by each country. In conclusion the author considers remedial policy options open to West African countries, both individually and in a common market framework. This book is a valuable source material for all students of social science, geography, economics and regional planning.
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Zero O'clock

Zero O'clock

C.J. Farley

Akashic Books,U.S.
2021
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For sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, zero o'clock begins on March 12, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end.An insightful, eye-opening, and inventive story. C.J. Farley has penned a novel that sheds an important light on real issues facing young people today.--Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U GiveZero O'Clock is a beautiful and timely YA novel that is both heartbreaking and whip smart, a glimpse into the world of virtual friendship, classrooms, and pop stardom.--Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg, author of The NineThoughtful, provocative, and pounding with the fast-paced beat of a sharp-witted adolescent mind, Zero O'Clock is the story of a Jamaican-American teen girl at the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Rochelle, New York. C.J. Farley has created an irresistible heroine in Geth Montego. Simmering with justifiable anger at everything from the cancellation of her senior prom to racial injustices and police brutality, Geth manages to overcome grief, anxiety, and confusion to discover a new sense of herself and her ability to create change.--Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book PartyZero O'Clock seems to have a direct line into the mindset of a modern teenager. I enjoyed it immensely --Alex Wheatle, author of Cane WarriorsIn early March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York, teen Geth Montego is fumbling with the present and uncertain about her future. She only has three friends: her best friend Tovah, who's been acting weird ever since they started applying to the same colleges; Diego, who she wants to ask to prom, but if she does it could ruin everything; and then there's the K-pop band BTS. She's never actually met any of them, but she's pretty sure each member of the group would step up to be her BFF if she ever really needed them.Then, she really needs them. Geth's small city becomes ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic as one of the first US containment zones. In the span of three chaotic and relentless months--as her community is upended by the virus and the onset of Black Lives Matter protests--Geth faces a choice and a question: Is she willing to risk everything to fight for her beliefs? And if so, what exactly does she believe in?With microscopic detail, bountiful empathy, and--somehow--laugh-out-loud humor, C.J. Farley breathlessly captures a moment in time no teenagers who experienced it will soon forget: Every day felt like a fight for our humanity, and some new truths were impossible to believe.
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Send War in Our Time, O Lord

Send War in Our Time, O Lord

C.J. Driver

Faber Faber
2010
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Following the death of her husband Terry, Mrs Allen takes the vacant post of Matron at the Settlement of St Joseph, founded in the nineteenth century by his grandfather Timothy Xavier Allen to bring to the African Christianity medical attention and elementary education. Allen has been Terry's inspiration throughout his life, though after the government took control he kept away from St Joseph's for twenty years.Mrs Allen can understand the uncouthness of Mr Schwartz, the Government Superintendent, but the coldness of Johannes Simbele, the 'African teacher', is more than reserve. As for Dr Redman, though he is clearly good at his job, his manner is flippant, and her suspicions about his relations with Nurse Peters are decisively confirmed.In this second novel, C. J. Driver, author of Elegy for a Revolutionary, presents a compelling and compassionate study of alturistic idealism overwhelmed by forces it cannot comprehend.
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Aikido: O-Sensei's Sublime Synthesis, Vol. 2

Aikido: O-Sensei's Sublime Synthesis, Vol. 2

G. Paz-y-Mino; G. Kennedy; P. Linden; J. Miller-Lane; J. Barnet; C.J. Dykhuizen

VIA MEDIA PUBLISHING COMPANY,US
2016
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How can we fully understand aikido, or any other martial art for that matter, when we have only been exposed to part of it? While learning about the art, we can easily make assumptions and be tricked by false impressions. In most cases, even instructors do not have enough background to grasp the entirety of the art and are happy to work with part of it.The content in this special two-volume anthology details the many facets of aikido as it was formulated by Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969) -O-Sensei, the great teacher. Each chapter contributes to a piece of the aikido puzzle by providing historical details, insightful technical drills (bare handed and with weapons), and components that have flavored this art with a spiritual essence.From the Ueshiba wellspring flows a number of streams-political splinter groups offering their own take on what aikido should be and how it should be practiced. Each branch may stand on its own, but a good number of scholars and practitioners prefer a more encompassing representation of what O-Sensei taught. So, chapters in these volumes help "put Humpty Dumpty back together again."Volume I includes ten chapter and volume II another fourteen. The authors-twenty-one in all-present superb credentials as scholars and practitioners of aikido. On the academic side, you'll find chapters that detail aikido's philosophy, from ethical relationships and practical theory to the subtle spiritual dimension. A few authors highlight the circumstances regarding the transmission of aikido from teacher to student. Some authors show how culture influences the perception and understanding of aikido when it travels outside Japan. Aikido is often practiced as a system of body movement encompassing a philosophy of peace and harmony. Others may focus on learning the art for its effective methods of self-defense. Composed of material previously published in the Journal of Asian Martial Arts, this two-volume anthology is heavy on the technical aspects of aikido that both teachers and students would benefit by reading. Training methods are discussed in detail, supported by hundreds of illustrations of attack and defense.Whatever your primary interest is in aikido, Aikido: O-Sensei's Sublime Synthesis will prove to be a great reference for the scholar and practitioner. We hope this convenient collection of quality material dealing with Morihei Ueshiba's martial discipline will benefit your research and inspire the practice of this elegant art.
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Unscathed

Unscathed

C J Pinard; Tim O'Rourke

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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From two bestselling authors comes a contemporary romance with a deadly twist.Mina Porter's mother sent her away because of a terrible secret. When Mina meets tattooed bad boy Jax McElvoy, she's immediately drawn to him, but not for the reasons he might think.Jax and Mina start an intense relationship. But what Jax doesn't know is that Mina is taking photographs of him and secretly filming their most intimate moments with her phone. What is it Mina really sees in the man she's falling in love with? What does she see in the secret photographs only she knows about? How would Jax feel and what would he do if he discovered the truth - that the girl he's falling for kept a dark secret that could change his life forever?Unscathed is a standalone paranormal romance novel by bestselling authors Tim O'Rourke and C.J. Pinard.
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