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I freed myself : African American self-emancipation in the Civil War era
\"African Americans' Struggle for Freedom in the Civil War Era For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution. By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees, which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims and place black freedom at the center of his wartime policies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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C.S. Lewis's Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con
Are C. S. Lewis's major arguments in defense of Christian belief sound? In C. S. Lewis's Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con, defenders and critics of Lewis's apologetics square off and debate the merits of Lewis's arguments from desire, from reason, from morality, the \"trilemma\" argument for the divinity of Christ, as well as Lewis's response to the problem of evil. By means of these lively, in-depth debates, readers will emerge with a deeper understanding and appreciation of today's most influential Christian apologist.
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How to be a nurse or midwife leader
How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader is an indispensable guide for all nurses and midwives who wish to develop and improve their practice as leaders. Written in collaboration with the NHS Leadership Academy, this practical book draws on the real experience of over 10,000 nurses and midwives to bring leadership dilemmas to life in specific situations.
Key learning features include:
* How to develop your self-awareness
* How to develop your personal impact and presence
* How to survive and thrive
* How to get your message across
* How to get the best out of others
* How to work with and lead other professionals and patients
* How to have courageous conversations
* How to balance conflicting demands and needs
Containing exercises and reflective questions to help apply theory to leadership practice, How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader is an ideal companion for all nurses and midwives, whether you are newly qualified, or stepping into a team leader role.
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C. S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics
In C. S. Lewis's Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con, ten articulate defenders and critics of Lewis's apologetics square off and debate the merits of Lewis's central arguments for Christian belief.
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A Handbook for the Assessment of Children's Behaviours
Handbook for the Assessment of Children's Behaviours
with Wiley Desktop Edition
This ground-breaking book takes a new approach to the assessment of behaviour in children and adolescents. Written by an expert author team, combining one (Jonathan Williams) with higher qualifications in general practice, child neuropsychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, with one (Peter Hill) with higher qualifications in medicine, paediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry, the book draws on many thousands of multidisciplinary case discussions, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in the Children's Multispecialty Assessment Clinic in North London, and in private practice.
The book is ideal for the busy mental health professional working in a small team. Organised to allow rapid look-up of behaviours with comprehensive lists of their possible causes, it synthesizes research evidence and clinical experience. The authors interpret behaviour broadly, including not just voluntary actions, but also actions whose voluntary nature is questionable (such as drop attacks, personal preferences, and pseudobehaviours). They also include problems that lead to referral through their behavioural manifestations (e.g. aggression, anxiety, or a poor relationship with mother). Overall, the book spans the behavioural, cognitive, social and emotional problems of children and adolescents.
With the child and family in the room, and with detailed school reports and psychometric results available, it is usually possible to identify causes of symptoms that are specific to the child and his environment, and which can guide behavioural, cognitive, social, and family interventions.
Purchasers of the book will also be entitled to a Wiley Desktop Edition—an interactive digital version featuring downloadable text and images, highlighting and note taking facilities, in-text searching, and linking to references and glossary terms.
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A handbook for the assessment of children's behaviours: with Wiley desktop edition
This ground-breaking book takes a new approach to the assessment of behaviour in children and adolescents. Written by an expert author team, combining one (JW) with higher qualifications in general practice, child neuropsychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, with one (PH) with higher qualifications in medicine, paediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry, the book draws on many thousands of multidisciplinary case discussions, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in the Children's Multispecialty Assessment Clinic in North London, and in private practice. The book is ideal for the busy mental health professional working in a small team. Organised to allow rapid look-up of behaviours with comprehensive lists of their possible causes, it synthesizes research evidence and clinical experience. The authors interpret behaviour broadly, including not just voluntary actions, but also actions whose voluntary nature is questionable (such as drop attacks, personal preferences, and pseudobehaviours). They also include problems that lead to referral through their behavioural manifestations (e.g. aggression, anxiety, or a poor relationship with mother). Overall, the book spans the behavioural, cognitive, social and emotional problems of children and adolescents. With the child and family in the room, and with detailed school reports and psychometric results available, it is usually possible to identify causes of symptoms that are specific to the child and his environment, and which can guide behavioural, cognitive, social, and family interventions. Purchasers of the book will also be entitled to a Wiley Desktop Edition-an interactive digital version featuring downloadable text and images, highlighting and note taking facilities, in-text searching, and linking to references and glossary terms.
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Ang Lee
Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his
award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West,
sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy
categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has
won an Academy Award two times for Best Director--the first Asian
to win--for films as different as a small drama about gay cowboys
in Brokeback Mountain (2005), and the 3D technical
wizardry in Life of Pi (2012). He has garnered numerous
accolades and awards worldwide. Lee has made a broad range of
movies, including his so-called \"Father Knows Best\" trilogy made up
of his first three films: Pushing Hands (1992), The
Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman
(1994), as well as 1970s period drama The Ice Storm
(1997), martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(2000), superhero blockbuster Hulk (2003), and hippie
retro trip Taking Woodstock (2009). Thoughtful and
passionate, Lee humbly reveals here a personal journey that brought
him from Taiwan to his chosen home in the United States as he
struggled and ultimately triumphed in his quest to become a superb
filmmaker. Ang Lee: Interviews collects the best
interviews of this reticent yet bold figure.
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