Ray DeV. Peters; Alison J. Bradshaw; Kelly Petrunka; Geoffrey Nelson; Yves Herry; Wendy M. Craig; Robert Arnold; Kevin C. H. Paker; Shahriar R. Khan; Jeffrey S. Hoch; S. Mark Pancer; Colleen Loomis; Jean-Marc Bélanger; Susan Evers; Claire Maltais; Katherine Thompson; Melissa D. Rossiter
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Although comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and longterm effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Ontario, Canada. The Better Beginnings, Better Futures (BBBF) project is one of the most ambitious Canadian research projects on the long-term impacts of early childhood prevention programming to date.
A heart-wrenching tale of love, abandonment, and the power of choice in the face of adversity.Hope is a happy ten-year-old boy, even though he and his mother often have no food. Unemployed and destitute, it saddens Jacqueline that she cannot provide more for her son, but their hardship seems to enhance their love for one another. They have a solid bond until Jacqueline meets Eric, a wealthy man who takes her to fancy restaurants in the city and buys her lavish gifts and groceries. Even though Hope is no longer hungry, he is lonely, with his mother often away at Eric's extravagant home. Eric wants to marry Jacqueline but doesn't want to raise Hope. She has to make a choice. Having developed a taste for the good life, she chooses Eric and abandons Hope in the village to face poverty alone. For months, he cries for her, but she never returns. Hope decides to go to the city to find his mother, and after years of living on the hostile streets, his sadness transforms into hatred and a lust for revenge. Then he meets Jerry, an elderly man who offers him a simple gift that could change his life completely. Hope now has a choice, but what will the young man's decision be?
A brand name helps people know what to buy, who to trust, who to hire-and even guides voters on Election Day.Donald J. Trump is hardly the first brand name to enter politics. But he is the only one to go from commercial product to President of the United States.In a series of pieces originally contributed to Forbes magazine, Jess Collen examines the striking similarity between political brands and product brands. From Trump's current blend of commercial and political branding to how names like Kennedy and Bush became the most famous political brand names in our history, Collen illustrates how political brands can only be really understood in the universe of commercial product brands and trademarks.Brand names are just about the most efficient means of communication humans ever have developed. A single word or name can encapsulate years or decades of history in a way that even a thousand words could not begin to capture. With clarity and insight, this collection explains this unique form of communication to help readers better understand the impact of brand names in politics and in business, and what these brands mean to them, and the country as a whole.
In the Hebrew Bible, Judges 4-5 tells the lurid story of the heroic figure of Jael, a woman who seduces the Canaanite general Sisera and then nails his head to the ground with a tent-peg, thus saving Israel from the troops of King Sabin. This gruesome tale has long intrigued scholars and artists alike. The many versions of the story that have appeared in art and literature have repeatedly and creatively built on the gendered themes of the tradition, often seeing in the encounter between Jael and Sisera some fundamental truth about the relationship between women and men. In Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael, Colleen Conway offers the first sustained look at how this biblical tradition has been used artistically to articulate and inform cultural debates about gender. She traces the cultural retellings of this story in poems, prints, paintings, plays, and narratives across many centuries, beginning with its appearance in Judges 4-5 and continuing up to the present day. Once separated from its original theological context, the Jael/Sisera tradition becomes largely about gender identity, particularly the conflict between the sexes. Conway examines the ways in which Jael has been reimagined by turns as a wily seductress, passionate lover, frustrated and bored mother, peace-bringing earth goddess, and deadly cyborg assassin. Meanwhile, Sisera variously plays the enemy general, the seduced lover, the noble but tragically duped victim, and the violent male chauvinist. Ultimately, Conway demonstrates that the ways in which Jael's actions are explained and assessed all depend on when, by whom, and for whom the Jael and Sisera story is being told. In examining the varying artistic renditions of the story, this book also provides a case study of the Bible's role as a common cultural resource in secular western culture.
A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US government has always invested federal, state and local dollars in public health protection and prevention. Despite this public funding, however, Americans typically believe the current system is predominantly comprised of private actors with little government interference. In Grow & Hide, Colleen M. Grogan details the history of the American health care state and argues that the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US created a publicly financed system while framing it as the opposite in what Grogan terms the "grow-and-hide regime." Today, the state's role is larger than ever, yet it remains largely hidden because stakeholders-namely, private actors and their allies in government-have repeatedly, and successfully, presented the illusion of minimal government involvement. The consequences of this narrative are scarce accountability and a highly unequal distribution of benefits. In the wake of a pandemic that has killed over one million Americans--with the highest death rates among minorities and lower-income people--the time has come for an honest discussion about the health care system. As Grogan reveals, America has never had a system that resembles a competitive, free-market model. Given how much the government already invests in the health care system, means how these funds are distributed and administered are fundamental political questions for the American public, not questions that should be decided by the private sector. If we want to fix care in America, we need to reimagine the way it is organized, prioritized, funded, and, perhaps most importantly, discussed. Grow & Hide is an important contribution to this reimagining.
During the First World War, Russia relied on the mass mobilization of its peasant population. In the summer of 1914, approximately four million peasants answered the state’s call to arms, while the millions who remained at home donated labour and other resources to the cause. Within three short years these same peasants were refusing to pay taxes or turn over their grain, dooming the autocracy to collapse.The Peasants’ War argues that the experience of total war convinced peasants that the measure of a state’s legitimacy was its ability to safeguard the wellbeing of its subjects. When the autocracy failed to meet this standard, peasants rejected its authority by challenging four areas of wartime policy: the prohibition of vodka, the conscription of peasant families’ only workers, the redistribution of land belonging to enemy subjects, and the provisioning of the home front. The war awakened peasants to the reciprocal nature of the relationship between a state and its people. Colleen Moore investigates how peasants leveraged their wartime service to negotiate with the state for improved rights and privileges and how they used this power to shape the contours and legitimize the authority of the world’s first socialist state.The Peasants’ War charts the timing and success of the 1917 Russian Revolution by showing how total war flipped the script on peasant–state relations, transforming the state from something that peasants existed to serve into something that existed to serve peasants.
Tarron Faust's life was going pretty terribly. Then he found out his best friend shot himself. He meets Darian McConnell, a nursing student, motley guru, and the estranged brother of his best friend. What results is a mission to fulfill the dead man's promise and spread his ashes. All while juggling his daughter, joint custody, and alcoholism. It's all downhill from here. A 21st-century take on modern romance, recreational use of psychedelics, with a philosophical commentary throughout. Suicide, mystery, and drug use. Dark humor, fun for the whole family.
Just Be There is a short, children's book about true friendship. Just Be There and Someone are the two characters in the book. Someone, you could say is the main character. Someone has a best friend, Just Be There. When Someone starts thinking about getting a pet, and her parent say "no", Someone feels sad and alone. Just Be There knows the feeling, so Just Be there is around to comfort. When Someone is feeling blue, Just Be There is around to comfort. When Someone is excited and happy, Just Be There is around to feel the joy and helps celebrate. When Someone is lost in thought and crying because Someone doesn't know what to do? Just Be There is around to comfort. Just Be There is a true friend. Just Be There doesn't have to be there all the time to know that Someoneis reacting to a situation. Just Be There senses when Someone is not feeling well, or excited, or any feeling at all.. That is what is called a true friend and to just be there.
HE CAME BACK, DETERMINED TO KEEP HIS PROMISE. Daniel and his younger brother grew up in an abusive home. Daniel escaped. Now an established stunt rider, he intends to go back to rescue his brother. But then one jump goes horribly wrong . . .He recovers to find himself in Iowa, unscathed, yet his life has drastically changed. His best friend won't answer his calls. Even his girlfriend is hiding something. Increasingly terrified, he clings to the one thing he knows: He must pick up his brother in San Francisco. In five days.From the isolating fields of Iowa to the crowded streets of San Francisco, Daniel must fight his way through a fog of disjointed memories and supernatural encounters to face the truth and pay a debt he didn't know he owed.
While Thomas James is not widely known today, this was not always the case: his 1633 publication The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James was, until the early nineteenth century, the British public's primary source of information about what we now know as northern Canada. The account of his attempt to find the Northwest Passage and the winter he spent on an island in James Bay made his name synonymous with exploration and the north. Over the centuries James's narrative was used to compile travel books and to compose philosophical treatises, histories, children's books, as well as poetry and novels - most notably, it influenced Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Colleen Franklin's critical edition of the Voyage is the first since 1894. Her introduction details how James engages with both medieval and early modern perceptions of the north as well as the early modern imperative to base knowledge on observation and experience, and offers a history of the text's reception from its first publication into the nineteenth century. An invaluable reference on the early European exploration of North America, The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James sheds new light on the representation of the Canadian north.
A collection of essays by faculty of Boston College and the BC School of Theology and Ministry on renewal in theological education, a change in approach from the predominance of rational and abstract reasoning for the sake of cognitive knowledge about matters of faith to one that emphasizes spiritual and ethical formation Colleen Griffith is professor of the practice of theology and director of spirituality studies at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Hosffman Ospino is associate professor, theology and education and the chair of the Department of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. †
Brazil's Atlantic Forest is a paradise to many. In Southern Bahia, surfers, billionaires, travelers, and hippies mingle with environmentalists, family farmers, quilombolas (descendants of former fugitive slaves), and nativos, or "locals." Each of these groups has connections to the unique environment, culture, and character of this region as their home, their source of a livelihood, or perhaps their vacation escape. And while sometimes these connections converge--other times they clash. The pressures on this tropical forest are palpable. So are people's responses to these pressures. What was once the state's economic mainstay, cacao production, is only now beginning to make a comeback after a disease decimated the crops of large and small farmers alike. Tourism, another economic hope, is susceptible to economic crises and pandemics. And the threat of a massive state-led infrastructure project involving mining, a railroad, and an international port has loomed over the region for well over a decade. Southern Bahia is at a crossroads: develop a sustainable, forest-based economy or run the risk of losing the identity and soul of this place forevermore. Through the lives of environmentalists, farmers, quilombolas, and nativos--people who are in and of this place--this book brings alive the people who are grappling with this dilemma. Anthropologist Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons brings the eye of a storyteller to present this complex struggle, weaving in her own challenges of balancing family and fieldwork alongside the stories of the people who live in this dynamic region. Intertwined tales, friendships, and hope emerge as people both struggle to sustain their lives in a biodiversity hotspot and strive to create their paradise.
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is a paradise to many. In Southern Bahia, surfers, billionaires, travelers, and hippies mingle with environmentalists, family farmers, quilombolas (descendants of formerly enslaved people), and nativos, or “locals.” Each of these groups has connections to the unique environment, culture, and character of this region as their home, their source of a livelihood, or perhaps their vacation escape. And while sometimes these connections converge—other times they clash. The pressures on this tropical forest are palpable. So are people’s responses to these pressures. What was once the state’s economic mainstay, cacao production, is only now beginning to make a comeback after a disease decimated the crops of large and small farmers alike. Tourism, another economic hope, is susceptible to economic crises and pandemics. And the threat of a massive state-led infrastructure project involving mining, a railroad, and an international port has loomed over the region for well over a decade. Southern Bahia is at a crossroads: develop a sustainable, forest-based economy or run the risk of losing the identity and soul of this place forevermore. Through the lives of environmentalists, farmers, quilombolas, and nativos—people who are in and of this place—this book brings alive the people who are grappling with this dilemma. Anthropologist Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons brings the eye of a storyteller to present this complex struggle, weaving in her own challenges of balancing family and fieldwork alongside the stories of the people who live in this dynamic region. Intertwined tales, friendships, and hope emerge as people both struggle to sustain their lives in a biodiversity hotspot and strive to create their paradise.
Discover a myriad of strengths you didn't know you had, then use them to find your author theme, power up your platform, and create a new author business blueprint, all while gaining insight into what sets you apart as a writer and creative artist.
You could spend years wondering whether you're meant to be a writer-or you could read this book.You write day after day. You dream of bestseller's lists and royalty checks. But despite your best marketing efforts, those dreams remain out of reach.You start to wonder if you're wasting your time. Does your writing even matter?Yes, it's tough out there, and you have a right to feel the way you do.Society's focus on money and fame doesn't make it any easier. If you're not producing results in the form of royalties and recognition, others may discount the value of your creations, making it difficult to get the support you need to keep going.Everything changes once you make "the decision."In Your Writing Matters, author Colleen M. Story - a long-time professional writer and writing coach - will help you discover whether you truly have a writer's DNA. She examines: The scientific evidence behind the pressure you feel to make money with your workThe reasons why fame and notoriety are so attractive and discouragingThe myth of the most talented writersWhy book marketing can seem so exhaustingWhy you feel you have to justify the time you spend writingStep by step, you'll gain a clear-eyed look at the challenges a writer faces in the outside world. You'll also learn: What hidden benefits writing may have in your lifeWhether writing is part of your life's purposeWhen it's best to leave writing behindEvery writer, somewhere along the way, grapples with the question of whether to continue on the writing journey. Don't waste your precious time in indecision. Let Your Writing Matters guide you to your truth and you'll never look back again.
The curse of King Midas is real. In the ancient kingdom of Phrygia, tribal boy Karem Savas thirsts for revenge against King Sargon II, the man who killed his mother and kidnapped his sister. A deal with the dark goddess of the underworld propels him to a powerful position of leadership with a mighty army and thousands of loyal subjects. Crowned as King Midas, he rules from the prosperous capital city of Gordium, where the future shines bright for his two royal children, Prince Anchurus and Princess Zoe. But Midas is unable to shake his traumatic past. As his deal with the dark goddess turns sour, he seeks help from another, never realizing it will be his undoing. Burdened with a cursed power and floundering against the savvy King Sargon II, Midas must right his wrongs and save his children before it is too late. Packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, this captivating tale of King Midas begins the new mythological fantasy series from Colleen M. Story.
