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Where Do I Start?

How to navigate the emotional journey of autism parenting

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors

Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Raising an ADHD Child

A Handbook for Parents of Distractible, Dreamy and Defiant Children

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A practical guide to parenting children with ADHD, written by two experienced former teachers in the field of ADHD and Neurodiversity, Zoe Beezer and FIn O’Regan. Chapters include guidance on: medication, diagnosis, hyperfocus, working with schools, creating structure and routines, planning for the future and navigating the teenage years.

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Myofascial Induction™ Volume 2: The Lower Body

An Anatomical Approach to the Treatment of Fascial Dysfunction

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

Volume 2 of this two-book set summarizes and expands on the theoretical aspects covered in Volume 1, and explains the therapeutic procedures of MIT for the thoracic and lumbar spine, the pelvis, and the lower body with full colour photographs of non-embalmed cadavers.

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Myofascial Induction™ 2-volume set

An Anatomical Approach to Fascial Dysfunction

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Dreamer Nation

Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth
 

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Black Again

Losing and Reclaiming My Racial Identity

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A memoir exploring the psychological impact of cultural assimilation and internalized racism.

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Urban Indigeneities

Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century

The University of Arizona Press

Increasing numbers of Indigenous peoples are living in cities, yet the vast majority of studies focus solely on rural Indigenous populations. This is the first book to look at urban Indigenous peoples globally and present the urban Indigenous experience—not as the exception but as the norm. Dismissing the false idea that indigeneity is only “authentic” when it is practiced in remote rural areas, these wide-ranging essays show that a vigorous, vibrant, and meaningful indigeneity can be created in urban spaces too and offers perspectives and tools to understand a contemporary Indigenous urban reality.

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The Ecolaboratory

Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica

The University of Arizona Press

Despite its tiny size and seeming marginality to world affairs, the Central American republic of Costa Rica has long been considered an important site for experimentation in cutting-edge environmental policy. This book frames Costa Rica as an “ecolaboratory” and asks what lessons we can learn for the future of environmental governance and sustainable development both within the country and elsewhere.

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In the Land of the Patriarchs

Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements

University of Texas Press

An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.

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Diverting the Gila

The Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1916–1928

The University of Arizona Press

Diverting the Gila explores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of Arizona’s Gila River among residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Indians in the early part of the twentieth century. It is the sequel to David H. DeJong’s 2009 Stealing the Gila, and it continues to tell the story of the forerunner to the San Carlos Irrigation Project and the Gila River Indian Community’s struggle to regain access to their water.

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Dead Man's Chest

Exploring the Archaeology of Piracy

University Press of Florida

This book presents a variety of approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence.

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Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology

The Power of Public Engagement

University Press of Florida

This volume addresses the ways maritime archaeologists have engaged citizen scientists, presenting examples of projects and organizations that have involved volunteers in the important work of gathering and processing data.

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Alone but Not Lonely

Exploring for Extraterrestrial Life

The University of Arizona Press

Humans have always been fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial life, often wondering if we are alone in the universe. Drawing on the author’s fifty years in the field, this book looks at the subject of extraterrestrial life, separating knowledge from conjecture, fact from fiction, to draw scientific and technical conclusions that answer this enduring question and examine the possibility of remotely exploring life on other worlds.

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The Challenges of a Secular Quebec

Bill 21 in Perspective

Edited by Lucia Ferretti and François Rocher; Translated by George Tombs
UBC Press

The Challenges of a Secular Quebec opens up the debates that gave rise to a controversial law on state religious neutrality, taking an open-minded look at how secularism is understood and how it has imposed itself in the Quebec social space.

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Staging a Comeback

Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance

Rutgers University Press

Drawing on original archival research and interviews, Peter C. Kunze offers a revisionist account of the Disney Renaissance that foregrounds the role of theatrically-trained talent in revitalizing Disney Animation. In so doing, he situates this impressive turnaround at the intersection of two dynamic entertainment industries with a long, underexamined relationships, Hollywood and Broadway.

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Speak of It

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
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Space, Drama, and Empire

Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia

Bucknell University Press

Space, Drama, and Empire examines the role that space played as a vehicle to imperialize Spain’s history in Lope de Vega’s theater. Lope’s national history plays, this book argues, used the landscapes and settings of the past to foretell and legitimize Spain’s imperial present and to “map” or plot its expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries.

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Silent Partners

The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military-Industrial Complex

UBC Press

Silent Partners delves into the shadowy world of security and national defence to shine a light on the influence they hold in Canadian society.

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