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Sinner's Escape

Autor: Alice Reyes

Número de Páginas: 196

People know my name. Colt Hunter. When you need a job done—clean, fast, no questions asked—you call me. I don't hesitate. I don't second-guess. I take what I want, and I don't lose sleep over it. That's the man life made me. Cold. Calculated. Unshakable. But for Mila Garcia, I'm about to be just Colt. She wasn't supposed to matter. Just another face, another person passing through a world I control. But there's something about her—something I can't ignore. She's reckless, mouthy, and too damn fearless for her own good. She doesn't bow. Doesn't scare easy. And that makes her dangerous. She doesn't know it yet, but she's already mine. She can try to run, pretend she has a choice—but I don't lose. And I never let go.

Care Activism

Autor: Ethel Tungohan

Número de Páginas: 369

Care activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive friendships and being there for each other, care activism acts as an extension of the daily work that caregivers do, oftentimes also instilling practices of resistance and critical hope among care workers. At the same time, the communities created by care activism help migrant caregivers survive and even thrive in the face of arduous working and living conditions and the pains surrounding family separation. As Tungohan shows, care activism also unifies caregivers to resist society’s legal and economic devaluations of care and domestic work by reaffirming a belief that they, and what they do, are important and necessary.

Fabulists and Chroniclers

Autor: Cristina Pantoja-hidalgo

Número de Páginas: 179

Has its close connections with academe enriched or diminished Philippine literature in English? Are there alternatives to academe as literary arbiters? How do contemporary Filipino women writers "perform" the modern wonder tale? These are some of the questions that Hidalgo asks in her latest book.

Widow’s Island: An absolutely nail-biting crime thriller with a heart-pounding twist

Autor: L.a. Larkin

Número de Páginas: 381

Her heart beats fast in her chest as she cautiously opens the front door and takes in the smashed plates on the kitchen floor and upended furniture. She follows the trail of red droplets on the floor, knowing what she’s about to find. Knowing that something terrible has happened… Stephanie Miller is an average working mom. She isn’t perfect, but when her war hero husband dies and her work puts her in news headlines, her past is laid bare for all to see. Determined to make a new life for herself and teenage daughter, Amy, she fears it’s only a matter of time before the biggest mistake of her life is revealed. As Stephanie and Amy take refuge on a remote island in Washington, it feels like they’re learning how to live again. But then they come home to graffiti on their garage door, there’s no escaping the hate online, and Stephanie is sure somebody is watching from the shadows outside their house. When one of Stephanie’s close friends is murdered in her own home, she knows her worst fears have come true. Someone knows the truth. And she must become the fighter her husband always knew her to be if she is to protect her daughter, and everything left in the world that she ...

Kings of the Mafia

Autor: Alice Reyes

Número de Páginas: 391

A THRILLING COLLECTION OF MAFIA ROMANCE BOOKS, 3 BOOKS IN 1! 🖤 BOUND BY DUTY: DARK MAFIA ROMANCE My name is Alicia Ashford, and I know exactly who my father is. To the world, Alfred Ashford is the ruthless leader of the largest American mafia, a man feared by many. But to me, he's just my dad—the man who's spent my whole life shielding me from the darkness he thrives in. Even now, at nineteen, he refuses to leave me alone, always making sure someone is there to watch over me when he's away on business. This time, it's Arthur. Arthur Hale isn't just some bodyguard. He's the son of the most powerful Italian mafia boss in the country—a man raised in a world of violence, where respect is earned through threats. He's got a short temper, a sharp tongue, and a presence that's impossible to ignore. Neither of us wants this arrangement, but for the sake of keeping our families in line, we're stuck with it. But the longer we're forced together, the more the tension builds. He's just a reminder of how little I know about the world he comes from. And me? I've never been good at keeping my mouth shut. Tempers will flare. Lines will be crossed. And for the first time in my life, I might...

Filipinos in Canada

Autor: Roland Sintos Coloma , Bonnie S. Mcelhinny , Lisa M. Davidson , John Paul Catungal , Ethel Tungohan

Número de Páginas: 465

The Philippines became Canada's largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized nanny, the selfless nurse, and the gangster youth. On one hand, these narratives concentrate attention, in narrow and stereotypical ways, on critical issues. On the other, they render other problems facing Filipino communities invisible. This landmark book, the first wide-ranging edited collection on Filipinos in Canada, explores gender, migration and labour, youth spaces and subjectivities, representation and community resistance to certain representations. Looking at these from the vantage points of anthropology, cultural studies, education, geography, history, information science, literature, political science, sociology, and women and gender studies, Filipinos in Canada provides a strong foundation for future work in this area.

THE MAKING OF THE PORKCHOP DUO

Autor: Romeo “choppy” Vargas

Número de Páginas: 103

This memoir paints a nostalgic portrait of the life and times of the young Choppy as he stumbled upon Porky, together creating the legendary comic tandem in the Philippines called Porkchop Duo. For thirty years, the Porkchop Duo entertained generations of Filipinos with their iconic brand of stand-up comedy, travelling to 34 countries as “Showbiz Ambassadors of Good Will” and bringing laughter and fun to countless homesick Overseas Filipino Workers across the world. Told with unyielding candor and wit, Choppy recounts his days: from being a poor Tondo boy in between jobs to make a living, a youth leader keeping a dual personality to ironically conceal his shenanigans, to a young family man winning over his personal battles—inspirations that were to become materials for their much-celebrated repertoire of rib-tickling jokes. Choppy gives us a glimpse of the landscape of the Philippine stand-up comedy, how they found their way in, and broke new grounds. He reveals how they peddled an epic idea that would make them pioneers of comedy albums in the Philippines, eventually making stand-up comedy a household name for entertainment. Then he tells a moving story of grief, when his...

A Family Matter

Autor: Megan Gaucher

Número de Páginas: 245

How do we define family? In an attempt to police incoming migrants, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Even when immigrants had no intention of sponsoring family members, their familial networks affected their entry to Canada, resulting in differentiated treatment of families living within and beyond Canadian borders. Megan Gaucher analyzes the government’s assessment of sexual minority refugee claimants’ relationship history and common-law and married spousal sponsorship applications, and its crackdown on marriage fraud, concluding that this narrative of citizenship reinforces racialized, gendered, and sexualized assumptions about the “Canadian family.” As many Western governments ponder more restrictive immigration policies, A Family Matter offers a timely examination of family formation as a factor in both granting and refusing citizenship. This important work proposes a course for re-evaluating how family is defined and for implementing more just assessments of immigrants and refugees.

Mediaciones y mediadores terapéuticos para una clínica de fronteras

Autor: Alicia Kachinovsky , Michel Dibarboure , Daniel Camparo Avila

Número de Páginas: 336

Este libro incluye trabajos presentados en el simposio internacional que lleva el mismo nombre, llevado a cabo entre el 5 y el 7 de noviembre de 2019 en la ciudad de Montevideo (Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República). La publicación condensa las principales contribuciones de un particular acontecimiento científico en el que académicos y profesionales de Francia, Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay y Perú fueron invitados a retratar sus prácticas con objetos mediadores y a compartir sus teorizaciones al respecto. Al amparo de un marco teórico psicoanalítico, analizaron estas diferentes modalidades de mediación terapéutica, en ámbitos clínicos y no clínicos. Los textos contemplan e ilustran la creciente diversidad de objetos mediadores posibles. Entre ellos figura el uso de la imagen fotográfica, las distintas producciones literarias (cuento, poesía y otros), la música y el ritmo, la expresión gráfica, las escenificaciones, el cine y otras manifestaciones artísticas. Las experiencias compiladas son también variadas: dispositivos de mediación grupal e individual, investigaciones en curso y finalizadas, actividades orientadas a la prevención y promoción de ...

Earned Citizenship

Autor: Michael J. Sullivan

Número de Páginas: 297

The migration and settlement of 11 million unauthorized immigrants is among the leading political challenges facing the United States today. The majority of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. have been here for more than five years, and are settling into American communities, working, forming families, and serving in the military, even though they may be detained and deported if they are discovered. An open question remains as to what to do about unauthorized immigrants who are already living in the United States. On one hand it is important that the government sends a message that future violations of immigration law will not be tolerated. On the other sits a deeper ethical dilemma that is the focus of this book: what do the state and citizens owe to unauthorized immigrants who have served their adopted country? Earned Citizenship argues that long-term unauthorized immigrant residents should be able to earn legalization and a pathway to citizenship through service in their adopted communities. Their service would act as restitution for immigration law violations. Military service in particular would merit naturalization in countries with a strong citizen-soldier tradition,...

Motherhood and Social Exclusion

Autor: Christie Byvelds

Número de Páginas: 248

Though the negative effects of social exclusion are well documented, there is a paucity of research on women’s experiences of social exclusion as they relate to mothering within the institution of motherhood. Social exclusion is a socially constructed concept; it refers to a multi-dimensional form of systematic discrimination driven by unequal power relationships. It is the denial of equal opportunities, resources, rights, goods, and services for some, by others, within economic, social, cultural, and political arenas. Carrying, birthing, and mothering children place women in a unique position to face social exclusion based on their role as mothers. Perhaps at no other time in our lives could we benefit more from feeling as though we are engaged in our community than when we enter into and are experiencing the patriarchal institution of motherhood. As the widely used proverb states, “It takes a village to raise a child”, it also takes a village (of societal institutions) to support mothers. Saint Mary's University

Beyond Binaries and Polarization?

Autor: Elke Winter

Número de Páginas: 143

This book explores what lies between the statuses of insider and outsider in immigrant nations. It asks: Who is conditionally included/excluded in relation to whom, and for what reasons? What does this conditional inclusion/exclusion entail in terms of citizenship, material resources, and sense of belonging? How does it affect the cultural and economic well-being of refugees, migrants and the host society? The focus is on Canada, which is often described as the quintessential immigrant nation. The chapters in this book provide new insights into several hotly contested issues: the overlapping cultural and economic logics of nationalist inclusion/exclusion, the growing prevalence of temporary and two-step migration regimes, the importance of cities in managing multiculturalism, the need to disaggregate minority groups, and the intersections of race, class and gender in narratives of nationhood. By shifting the focus of research from us/them binaries to the study of relational inclusion/exclusion involving three or more actors or groups, this book highlights the often-overlooked conditionality and temporality of immigrant inclusion, the messiness of policies aimed at ethnic...

Caring for Children

Autor: Rachel Langford , Susan Prentice , Patrizia Albanese

Número de Páginas: 271

Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers. Couched in the language of choice, government policies on the care of Canadian children over the past decade have favoured professional, nuclear families while doing little to assist children with the greatest needs, including those from low-income, immigrant, and Aboriginal families. Analyzing the connections between services and programs, the contributors reveal how childcare, parental leave, informal care, live-in caregiver programs, and child tax benefits affect the well-being of Canadian children and their families. They draw on comparative examples from across Canada, documenting policy shifts and associated social movement responses. Caring for Children affirms the necessity of questioning political attitudes and arrangements, and asks what social movements can do to promote positive change in approaches to the care of children.

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism

Autor: Jennifer Elrick

Número de Páginas: 243

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism re-interprets the historiography of the emergence of Canada's universal immigration policy for skilled workers and family immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s.

Becarios españoles de investigación. PFPI-1985

Número de Páginas: 372

Listado y características de los españoles que fueron becados para realizar investigaciones en 1985.

Macroeconomic Analysis of the Linkages Between Transportation Investments and Economic Performance

Autor: Michael E. Bell

Número de Páginas: 96

The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking

Autor: Rupert Wegerif , Li Li , James C. Kaufman

Número de Páginas: 661

The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking is a comprehensive guide to research on teaching thinking. Teaching thinking is key to growing a more successful economy, is needed for increased democratic engagement and is vital for the well-being of individuals faced with the complexity of a globalised world. However, there are questions about what we mean by ‘thinking’, how best to teach it and how best to assess it, and it is these questions that this handbook explores and addresses. Containing surveys and summaries of international, cutting-edge research on every aspect of teaching thinking in a range of contexts, the handbook is thorough in its delivery, examining many different approaches and methods to help readers understand what teaching thinking is and how we can best take this movement forward. Key topics include: • Theoretical perspectives on teaching thinking • Approaches for teaching thinking • Developing creative thinking • Developing critical thinking and metacognition • The assessment of thinking • Teaching thinking in the context of STEM • Collaborative thinking and new technology • Neuro-educational research on teaching...

Converging Perspectives on Conceptual Change

Autor: Tamer G. Amin , Olivia Levrini

Número de Páginas: 436

Conceptual change, how conceptual understanding is transformed, has been investigated extensively since the 1970s. The field has now grown into a multifaceted, interdisciplinary effort with strands of research in cognitive and developmental psychology, education, educational psychology, and the learning sciences. Converging Perspectives on Conceptual Change brings together an extensive team of expert contributors from around the world, and offers a unique examination of how distinct lines of inquiry can complement each other and have converged over time. Amin and Levrini adopt a new approach to assembling the diverse research on conceptual change: the combination of short position pieces with extended synthesis chapters within each section, as well as an overall synthesis chapter at the end of the volume, provide a coherent and comprehensive perspective on conceptual change research. Arranged over five parts, the book covers a number of topics including: the nature of concepts and conceptual change representation, language, and discourse in conceptual change modeling, explanation, and argumentation in conceptual change metacognition and epistemology in conceptual change identity...

Taking Science to School

Autor: National Research Council , Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education , Center For Education , Board On Science Education , Committee On Science Learning, Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade

Número de Páginas: 405

What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom observation, Taking Science to School provides a comprehensive picture of what we know about teaching and learning science from kindergarten through eighth grade. By looking at a broad range of questions, this book provides a basic foundation for guiding science teaching and supporting students in their learning. Taking Science to School answers such questions as: When do children begin to learn about science? Are there critical stages in a child's development of such scientific concepts as mass or animate objects? What role does nonschool learning play in children's knowledge of science? How can science education capitalize on children's natural curiosity? What are the best tasks for books, lectures, and hands-on learning? How can teachers be taught to teach science? The book also provides a detailed examination of how we know what we know about children's learning of scienceâ€"about the role of research and evidence. This book will be an essential resource for everyone involved in K-8 science educationâ€"teachers,...

Greening Post-Industrial Cities

Autor: Corina Mckendry

Número de Páginas: 311

City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality. Bringing these two disparate analyses into conversation, this book offers a comparative understanding of how tensions between growth, environmental protection, and social equity are playing out in practice. Examining Chicago, USA, Birmingham, UK, and Vancouver, Canada, McKendry argues that city greening efforts were closely connected to processes of post-industrial branding in the neoliberal economy. While this brought some benefits, concerns about the unequal distribution of these benefits and greening’s limited environmental impact challenged its legitimacy. In response, city leaders have moved toward initiatives that strive to better address environmental effectiveness and social equity while still spurring growth. Through an analysis that highlights how different varieties of liberal environmentalism are manifested in each case, this book illustrates that cities, though constrained by inconsistent political will and broader political and economic contexts, are making contributions to more effective, socially just environmental governance....

Contemporary Issues in Information Systems

Autor: Denis Reilly

Número de Páginas: 100

Information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) are crucial to our everyday lives. This book brings together a collection of research papers related to the application of IT and IS to address issues at national levels.The first section provides some introductory material relating to IS and future challenges facing IS. The second section considers several diverse applications of IT and IS, ranging from Internet voting to missing person investigations.This volume is suitable for both academics and IT practitioners working in the industry, government, or service-providing sectors.

Containing Diversity

Autor: Yasmeen Abu-laban , Ethel Tungohan , Christina Gabriel

Número de Páginas: 221

Although Canada is known internationally as a leader among industrialized countries for inclusive practices towards immigrants and refugees, the twenty-first century has witnessed a rise in the number of refugees and temporary migrant workers who are often denied citizenship and may also experience detention and deportation. Containing Diversity examines to what extent Canada’s long-standing support for immigration, multiculturalism, and citizenship has shifted in favour of discourses, policies, and practices that "contain" diversity. This book reflects on how diversity is being "contained" through practices designed to insulate the Canadian settler-colonial state. In assessing the Canadian government’s policies towards refugees and asylum seekers, economic migrants, family-class migrants, temporary foreign workers, and multiculturalism, the authors show the various contradictory practices in effect. Containing Diversity reflects on policy changes, analysed alongside the resurgence of right-wing political ideology and the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, Containing Diversity highlights the need for a re-imagining of new forms of solidarity that centre migrant...

Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining in Healthcare

Autor: Malek Masmoudi , Bassem Jarboui , Patrick Siarry

Número de Páginas: 211

This book presents recent work on healthcare management and engineering using artificial intelligence and data mining techniques. Specific topics covered in the contributed chapters include predictive mining, decision support, capacity management, patient flow optimization, image compression, data clustering, and feature selection. The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer science, information technology, industrial engineering, and applied mathematics.

I misteri della frammassoneria svelati da Leo Taxil [pseud.]

Autor: Gabriel Jogand-pagès

Número de Páginas: 920

Women Writers in the United States

Autor: Cynthia J. Davis , Kathryn West

Número de Páginas: 505

Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work--written and social, tangible and intangible--produced by American women. Davis and West document the variety and volume of women's work in the U.S. in a clear and accessible timeline format. They present information on the full spectrum of women's writing--including fiction, poetry, biography, political manifestos, essays, advice columns,and cookbooks, alongside a chronology of developments in social and cultural history that are especially pertinent to women's lives. This extensive chronology illustrates the diversity of women who have lived and written in the U.S. and creates a sense of the full trajectory of individual careers. A valuable and rich source of information on women's studies, literature, and history, Women Writers in the United States will enable readers to locate familiar and unfamiliar women's texts and to place them in the context out which they emerged.

Kings of the Mafia

Autor: Alice R.

Número de Páginas: 428

EINE SAMMLUNG VON MAFIA-ROMANZE – 3 BÜCHER IN 1! 🖤 BOUND BY DUTY: MAFIA ROMANZE Mein Name ist Alicia Ashford, und ich weiß genau, wer mein Vater ist. Für die Welt ist Alfred Ashford der skrupellose Anführer der größten amerikanischen Mafia, ein Mann, den viele fürchten. Aber für mich ist er nur mein Dad – der Mann, der mein ganzes Leben damit verbracht hat, mich vor der Dunkelheit abzuschirmen, in der er gedeiht. Selbst jetzt, mit neunzehn, weigert er sich, mich allein zu lassen, und sorgt immer dafür, dass jemand auf mich aufpasst, wenn er geschäftlich unterwegs ist. Diesmal ist es Arthur. Arthur Hale ist nicht irgendein Bodyguard. Er ist der Sohn des mächtigsten italienischen Mafiabosses im Land – ein Mann, aufgewachsen in einer Welt der Gewalt, in der Respekt durch Drohungen verdient wird. Er ist aufbrausend, hat eine scharfe Zunge und eine Präsenz, die man unmöglich ignorieren kann. Keiner von uns will dieses Arrangement, aber um unsere Familien im Zaum zu halten, stecken wir darin fest. Aber je länger wir gezwungen sind, Zeit miteinander zu verbringen, desto mehr baut sich die Spannung auf. Er erinnert mich nur daran, wie wenig ich über die Welt weiß, ...

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