Women’s Voices is an introductory women's studies reader crafted to include a balance of recent contemporary readings with historical and classic pieces. This student-friendly text provides short, accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences. Chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic, including explanations of key concepts and ideas and references to the subsequent reading selections. This new edition includes revised chapter framework essays that reflect the most up-to-date research and theory in the field.

Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings

Politics & Social Sciences

Lee, Janet

Shaw, Susan

Sociology

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

This text with readings provides an accessible and engaging introduction to issues faced by women around the world. Each chapter begins with a framework essay written by a feminist scholar in the field, which provides an overview and analytical structure for the issues related to the topic at hand. The framework essay includes learning activities and other sidebars that may help instructors in planning class sessions and will encourage students to explore issues further. A number of carefully selected readings in each chapter offer a wide variety of perspectives on the topics discussed. Few of these essays have been anthologized elsewhere, providing new material for instructors and students.

Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women

Women's Studies

As a leading introductory women’s studies reader, Shaw and Lee’s Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions offers an excellent balance of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections including new contemporary readings. This student-friendly text provides short and accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences. With each new edition, the authors keep the framework essays and selections of readings fresh and interesting for students.

McGraw–Hill Education

As a leading introductory women's and gender studies reader, Shaw and Lee's Women's Voices, Feminist Visions offers an excellent balance of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections including new contemporary readings. This student-friendly text provides short and accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women's experiences. With each new edition, the authors keep the framework essays and selections of readings fresh and interesting for students.

For Charlie, the cold, dark basement is home. Father has kept him locked in there as punishment. Charlie doesn’t intend to leave, but when he is accidentally thrust outside, he awakens to the alien surroundings of a world to which he’s never before been exposed. Though haunted by hallucinations, fear of the basement, and his father’s rage, Charlie must find a way to survive in his new world. He has escaped his past, but his journey has just begun.

The Boy From the Basement

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Speak

Communication Across the Lifespan combines communication and lifespan development, in order to equip students entering health, disability and related fields with the skills they need to engage effectively with people of all ages and life experiences. The book gives a sound introduction to the essential concepts of therapeutic communication across the lifespan within the New Zealand environment, and is informed by current issues and debate, designed to encourage critical thinking and reflection. Health and wellness issues are covered from the perspective of patients and professionals which enable students to hear what patients say and to explore their own lived experience of health and illness.

Communication across the Lifespan

Medical Books

Haxell, Ailsa

Weblemoe, Terry

Administration & Medicine Economics

Oxford University Press

Evidence-Based Health Practice is an introductory level text for undergraduate students studying in allied health, public health and nursing courses in Australia and New Zealand. It explains research methodology in relation to evidence-based practice and interprofessionalism, and provides students with relevant information to help them develop the skills they need to find, understand and evaluate evidence.  Through carefully chosen case studies and research examples the text shows students how to consider evidence from a broad, team-based, interprofessional practice perspective. In addition, students are encouraged to engage with research in order to develop their thinking and their abilities to reflect upon and refine their practice.

Evidence-Based Health Practice

Wright-St Clair, Valerie A.

Reid, Duncan

Ramsbotham, Joanne

Having lived his life in the basement and under the physically abusive reign of his father, Charlie is a stranger in a strange world when he is removed from the home and sent to live with loving foster parents--forcing him to find a way to come to terms with his past life and uncertain future.

Dutton Juvenile

Safe. To Tracy, safe means having Mama close by. Years after her mother?s death, Tracy still feels her presence. But the moment Tracy is forced into a car as she is walking home from school one day, safe is ripped away. In the aftermath of an unspeakable crime, thirteen-year-old Tracy must fight her way back to safety and find comfort in her mother?s memory once again.
 Susan Shaw returns with a raw and moving story of a young rape victim?s journey toward healing, empowered by poetry and music, family and friends.

Safe

Dutton Books for Young Readers

Offers suggestions for creating performance tasks for math, science, language arts, social studies, performance arts, and interdisciplinary curriculums, including portfolios, exhibitions, and written assignments.

A Teacher's Guide to Performance-Based Learning and Assessment

Education & Teaching

Johnson, Don

Van Wagenen, Linda

Lewbet, Samuel

Waterbury-Wyatt, Stacey

Pelietier, Kelly

Larkins, Beth

Dooling, Judith O'Donnell

Elia, Elizabeth

Palma, Susan

Maier, Judith

Honan, Maureen

Nelson, Deborah McKeon

Wislocki, Jo Anne

Schools & Teaching

Assn for Supervision & Curriculum

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