A Permanent Member Of The Family

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345808134

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A Permanent Member of the Family by Russell Banks Pdf

A sterling collection of short stories from the author of Rule of the Bone and The Sweet Hereafter--his first in almost fifteen years--including six never-before-published works. One of our most prestigious writers, Russell Banks is a literary icon whose works probe the recesses of the human condition. His novels and stories offer rich portraits that are profound and deeply resonant--appearing regularly in anthologies and collections such as The Best American Short Stories and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. This collection of twelve short works showcases this master at the peak of his intuitive powers. As he did in such works as the classic The Sweet Hereafter, the revered Rule of the Bone, and the haunting Lost Memory of Skin, Banks limns provocative and morally complex themes with pathos and sharp insight. Each of the stories in this powerful collection demonstrates the range and virtuosity of his narrative prowess and startlingly panoramic vision. A Permanent Member of the Family is a stunning addition to the canon of a writer "whose great works resonate with such heart and soul" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times).

Author : United States. Census Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754082285226

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A Permanent Census Bureau by United States. Census Office Pdf

Author : Albion W. Small,George Edgar Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Social history
ISBN : UVA:X001648154

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An Introduction to the Study of Society by Albion W. Small,George Edgar Vincent Pdf

Author : David Skarbek
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190672492

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The Puzzle of Prison Order by David Skarbek Pdf

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, women's prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.

Author : Jeanette Lasserre
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781304138989

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Second Chances by Jeanette Lasserre Pdf

In each of these short stories, these children are faced with seemingly impossible hurdles to overcome. But with faith, determination, and loving people in their lives, God brings miracle after miracle.

Author : Carole Blackwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136842726

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Tradition and Society in Turkmenistan by Carole Blackwell Pdf

This unique study of Turkmen women and their folk songs looks at religion, ritual and family as seen through the eyes of the women and their songs.

Author : Jonathan Kingdon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988-12-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226437221

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East African Mammals by Jonathan Kingdon Pdf

Acclaimed and coveted by both naturalists and lovers of wildlife illustration, Jonathan Kingdon's seven-volume East African Mammals has become a classic of modern natural history. This paperback edition makes Kingdon's remarkable artistic and scientific achievement—his hundreds of drawings and perceptive study of all the mammals in East Africa's species-rich fauna—available to the wide audience it deserves. Volume IIIB celebrates the large mammals for which the African plains are so famous—elephants, rhinos, zebras, bushpigs, and warthogs, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains, giraffes. Kingdon brings his artist's eye to such puzzles as the zebra's stripes and the giraffe's spots, making original observations throughout the seven volumes about the evolutionary and functional significance of coat color, facial expressions, and curious forms and markings. The beauty of the animals, so vivid in these incomparable drawings, is made more poignant by the acknowledgment of their increasingly endangered status. Kingdon discusses the inevitable problems posed by large mammal communities in a developing continent and includes numerous maps indicating their declining ranges and populations.

Author : Elspeth Guild,Steve Peers,Jonathan Tomkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192589071

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The EU Citizenship Directive: A Commentary by Elspeth Guild,Steve Peers,Jonathan Tomkin Pdf

The EU Citizenship Directive defines the right of free movement for citizens of the European Economic Area. It applies to EU citizens and their family members who move to another Member State. This might at first seem like a straightforward definition, but immediately questions arise. Who determines if a person is an EU citizen at all? What about dual citizens of two Member States, or of one Member State and a non-Member State (a 'third State')? What is the position of EU citizens who move to one Member State, and then return to their home Member State? This book provides a comprehensive commentary of the EU's Citizens' Directive tracing the evolution of the Directive's provisions, placing each article in its historical and legislative context. Special emphasis is placed on highlighting the connections and interactions between the Directive's constituent provisions so as to permit a global appreciation of the system of free movement rights to which the Directive gives effect. Each provision is annotated containing a detailed analysis of the case-law of the Court of Justice as well as of related measures impacting upon the Directive's interpretation including European Commission reports and guidelines on the Directive's implementation. This fully-updated new edition includes dscussion of relevant case law since the first edition, and has been expanded to include detailed discussion of rights of EU and UK citizens after Brexit in the withdrawal agreement.

Author : Randall M. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2658 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065361

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America [4 volumes] by Randall M. Miller Pdf

The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the discovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005. Working under the editorial direction of general editor Randall M. Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph's University, a group of expert volume editors carefully integrate material drawn from volumes in Greenwood's highly successful Daily Life Through History series with new material researched and written by themselves and other scholars. The four volumes cover the following periods: The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present. Each volume includes a selection of primary documents, a timeline of important events during the period, images illustrating the text, and extensive bibliography of further information resources—both print and electronic—and a detailed subject index.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Family allowances
ISBN : MINN:31951P01164984C

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Full Committee Hearing on S. 3446, S. 3875, H.R. 9262 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Committee Serial No. 204. Considers legislation on the restoration of Lt. Cmdr. Edwin M. Rosenberg, retired, to the active list of the Navy, the salaries of CIA employees, and the family allowances of military dependents.

Author : Colin Bell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Families
ISBN : 0415176549

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Middle Class Families by Colin Bell Pdf

Sociologists have continued to monitor the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families as their employment opportunities have increased and got better. They also experimented with social behaviour and roles of women today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : NYPL:33433031965399

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Code of Federal Regulations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23T22:59:00Z
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798350017007

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Summary of Sandra L. Richter's The Epic of Eden by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The most important distinction between us and them is culture. We must step back and allow the voices of the biblical writers to be heard in the tone in which they were originally spoken. #2 The second tendency I have come to call canonizing culture is the unspoken and usually unconscious presupposition that the norms of my culture are superior to those of someone else’s. Every culture must ultimately respond to the gospel’s critique. #3 The Bible reveals God through a specific human culture. God did not choose to reveal himself in any single culture, but in several incarnations of the same culture. We should not be about the business of canonizing the culture of ancient Israel, but we must understand it in order to understand the intent of the biblical authors. #4 The term redemption is culturally conditioned. It comes from the New Testament, but it originally came from the Old Testament. It was used to describe the laws and social customs of the ancient tribal society of which the Hebrews were a part.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Henry County (Iowa)
ISBN : WISC:89072939374

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Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Iowa, and of the Presidents of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : C.G. Jung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317533504

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The Development of Personality by C.G. Jung Pdf

Though Jung's main researches have centred on the subject of individuation as an adult ideal he has a unique contribution to make to the psychology of childhood. Jung repeatedly underlined the importance of the psychology of parents and teachers in a child's development and he emphasized that an unsatisfactory psychological relationship between parents may be an important cause of disorders in childhood. He maintained that all real education of children needs teachers who not only know how to learn but who can also develop their own personalities. Jung devotes a large part of the book to expounding his views on these important subjects. There is also an outline of the theory of child development, a delightful snapshot from the life of a girl called Anna and her parents, and a stimulating discussion of marriage as a psychological relationship. Finally there is a chapter on child development and individuation.