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With more people living longer lives, there is increased importance in the health care industry on improving services for the elderly. This comprehensive book gives an expert overview of the topics and challenges, along with imperative ethical and legal frameworks. The book also details existing programs and benefits in relation to a realistic portrayal of population needs. Other important issues are covered such as long-term palliative care a...

Vermonters have long been respected as sturdy Americans who prize hard work, honest dealing, town-meeting government, and dry humor. Their way of life, along with the beauty of their Green Mountains and quiet valleys, remains immensely attractive to natives and newcomers who seek beauty and the satisfaction of self-sufficiency in a natural environment where rocky soil and a varied climate have always compelled respect.

The European Union (EU) has provided trade preferences to the former colonies of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions since 1975 but these preferences have been of limited value and found to be incompatible with WTO rules. To continue preferences, economic partnership agreements (EPAs) were established, under which the EU and regional groupings of ACP countries offer reciprocal trade preferences to each other. This volume not only ...

This money-saving bundle includes Introduction to the Biology of Marine Life, Eleventh Edition Includes Navigate 2 Advantage access AND the unique Laboratory and Field Investigations in Marine Life manual.

This book explores the place of museums in addressing a goal the University of Washington staunchly supports¿to make the world a better place through education and research. It describes the interpretation of identity across the realm of museum work and social issues.

This book focuses on new patterns of settlement, emphasizing the economic factors and types of industries drawing immigrants away from gateway areas in America. It highlights prejudice while non-immigrants become accustomed to immigrant neighbors.

This book promotes the idea and the practice of a scientific culture in science museums, art museums, gardens, libraries, coffee houses, school meetings and social gatherings. It encourages common man to think about, use and sometimes contribute to science.

From the founder of the worldwide 30% Club campaign comes a career book for women in a transforming world who don't just want to lean in, but instead, shatter the paradigm as we know it. `I absolutely love her, I think she's such a force for good' Pandora Sykes, The High Low

This volume examines the specific areas of concern that the Collaborative for Palliative Care group has addressed in its education programs and advocacy, as well as the processes that have been so successful in building community assets.

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Suitable for primary and all-age schools, this title introduces a fresh concept in course material for the Caribbean. It includes many Social Studies activities, and is illustrated with photographs and colour artwork.

Offers a six-level course for primary and all-age schools. This book introduces a concept in course material for the Caribbean. It includes many Social Studies activities, and is illustrated with photographs and colour artwork.

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Offers a six-level course for primary and all-age schools. This book introduces a concept in course material for the Caribbean. It includes many Social Studies activities, and is illustrated with photographs and colour artwork.

The study presented here is one of urban poverty, household survival, and social institutions that both enable and control the decision-making of poor women in America. First and foremost, it is about a public health program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known more commonly as WIC, and how the institution re-inscribes persistent stereotypes of the urban poor on the women it eagerly wishes to serv...

Exploring how moral phenomenology could provide fruitful alternatives to traditional frameworks in bioethics, this book explores new approaches to pain and suffering, evaluation and moral deliberation about treatment options and medical futility, surrogacy, decision-making and moral agency, and end-of-life experiences of care.

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The American attack on Quebec in 1775 was a key episode in the American War of Independence (1775-1783). Capture of the city would give the Americans control of Canada - a disaster for the British. The subsequent campaign involved a 350-mile trek across uninhabited wilderness, a desperate American attack on the city of Quebec that left one American general dead and another wounded, and a British counterattack that culminated in a brutal naval ...

Bestseller-Autorin Di Morrissey erzählt in dieser farbenprächtigen Australien-Saga von der wilden Schönheit des fünften Kontinents und von der ganz großen Liebe - zwischen zwei Menschen und zu diesem Land, das seinen Bewohnern alles abverlangt. Die düstere Spannung eines Familiengeheimnis-Romans verbindet sich dabei meisterhaft mit atmosphärischen Outback-Schilderungen und der bewegenden Liebes- und Lebensgeschichte einer jungen Frau. Als di...

How can advisers best support their advisees as they progress through school? How do they really get to know their students, and make sure that meetings are not a waste of anyone's time? How to make this process fun? In this workbook, Dan Morrissey, who is Dean of Students at Phillips Exeter Academy, rolls up his sleeves and demystifies how good advising programs really work. He distils 20 years' worth of conversations and meetings with nearly...