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Almost Home is a rich and comprehensive study of the policy questions underlying the shift in medical care from hospitals to homes and communities, a change that is reshaping Canadian health care policy and politics. Using document analysis, and interviews with government officials and other key stakeholders in the policy community, the authors analyze the policy content and process of five different attempts to reform home and community care ...

The first full-length collection in many years by an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in "The Atlantic, " "The New Yorker, " "The Nation, " "Poetry, " "The Kenyon Review, " "The Threepenny Review, " and a host of other journals.

BSE is becoming an increasing concern as tainted beef has caused deadly outbreaks of the disease around the world.

Scholars representing several disciplines examine how patterns and symmetry are expressed and resonate in a variety of human relationships and institutions.

A biography on "Shoeless" Joe Jackson that traces the life of one of baseball's master hitters and one of its most controversial players.

When the National Baseball Hall of Fame inducted its first class of players in 1936, Ty Cobb received more votes than any other player-even more than did fellow inductee Babe Ruth. Cobb, known as the "Georgia Peach, " was universally recognized as the best player from the "dead ball" era. He also had the reputation of being its most ferocious player. His fierce determination to succeed helped Cobb equal or surpass more offensive records than a...

Brings together ideas in conservation theory, presenting a structured, coherent analysis of the subject. This work is split into 3 parts such as: the fundamentals of conservation, questioning classical theories, and conservation ethics. It also shows the evolution of contemporary conservation theory.

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The ways in which the African American community learned to be proficient readers and writers during the 19th century were diverse, however, the greatest impact on literacy acquisition came from family and community efforts. African American arts, churches, benevolent societies, newspapers, literacy societies, and formal and informal schools supported literacy growth, and literacy growth in turn gave rise to national and international African ...

Shows how to maximize your library's resources, promote services, and reach new segments of your community through partnerships with businesses, with schools, with other nonprofit organizations.

Offers insights and advice on choices, opportunities, strategies, challenges and special issues of the students with disabilities.

This work determines the processes that strengthen hostility between opposing groups and identifies those who are willing to act in order to change these situations.

This book examines the media's role in "performing" the Stephen Lawrence case over the ten-year period since Lawrence's murder.

An invaluable and unique resource for students researching the oldest known black African civilization, the Nubians.

Is the average accountant being strangled by overregulation? Have traditional accounting and auditing practices been misunderstood and unfairly maligned? Can anything be done to reverse these damaging trends? In the 1984 edition of this book, Eugene H. Flegm gave an emphatic yes to all three questions. However, none of his suggestions were followed and today the condition of the accounting profession (defined as to include those in business as...

In October of 1563, 18-year old Anne Mylner was herding cows near her home when she was suddenly enveloped by a white cloud that precipitated a months-long illness characterized by sleeplessness, loss of appetite, convulsions, and bodily swelling. Mylner's was the first of several cases during the reign of Elizabeth I of England that were interpreted as demon possession, a highly emotional experience in which an afflicted person displays behav...

The English/British have always been known as "the sailor race" with "hearts of oak": the Royal Navy as the "Senior Service" and "First Line of Defense." It facilitated the motto: "The sun never set on the British Empire." The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated bibliography supplies entries that explore the influence of the English/British Navy t...

Addresses the interaction of science and religion during the period in which science rose to prominence in Western culture.

Explores how Buddhism--the world's fourth-largest religion --came to and flourished in the United States.

As a member of the "Greatest Generation, " Buckner F. Melton was born at the end of the great depression, raised as a poor preacher's kid in the Deep South, served in the Navy during two wars, had a full career as a lawyer, and served in public office. He also spent a huge amount of time working for various civic and chartable causes and economic development in Macon and the state of Georgia. Using many episodes in his life, Melton weaves a me...