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This spiral bound Guide provides evidence and user-friendly tools for delivering the CHAPS Program, whole person care for individuals with Parkinson's, a chronic multi-system disease

Hole Studies is a book about care and the forms it may take. An essay collection on writing and labor, art and activism, attention as a transformative practice, difference and collaboration, adjuncting and the margins of the academy, whiteness and its weapons, professionalization and its discontents, the radical importance of surprise, friendship at work, the self and its public and private modes: Hole Studies keeps listening. What is it we need from each other? What could we still make happen? This book looks for forms of responsiveness and moments that matter. It honors everyday acts of thinking and trying. Essays explore the music of the Swet Shop Boys, the literature of the US's brutal war in Iraq, the career of Sinéad O'Connor, the aesthetics of the Dirtbag Left, the legacies of the "war on terror," feminism on the job, and illness in America. Hole Studies is an intimate document and a critical guide. Hole Studies would like to work for you.

"This research was carried out as a response to the need for greatly increased, contextualised information about the vulnerability to HIV of MSM/TG and sex workers and seafarers in many Pacific countries. The study provides: 1. An operational baseline for the implementation of the Integrated HIV/TB Multi-Country Grant in the Pacific and for the Pacific Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme. 2. Quantitative and qualitative data to inform relevant interventions aimed at reducing the HIV and STI risk vulnerability of key populations. 3. Specific evidence of barriers to prevention, in order to improve the effectiveness of prevention interventions and develop a strong advocacy case for legal and social transformation. The key specific aims that the Multi-Country Mapping and Behavioural Study: HIV and STI Risk Vulnerability among Key Populations must achieve in order to fulfil the objectives in each country are to: · Estimate population sizes of vulnerable groups – sex workers, MSM/TG and, in some countries, seafarers – through a variety of methodologies. · Identify demographic and behavioural factors (for example, sexual behaviours, mobility, drug use, history of STIs, and so on) that represent risk practices in each of these groups, as well as access to services and experiences of stigma, discrimination and violence, through a quantitative survey design. This survey must include baseline values for quantitative indicators for reporting obligations. · Identify through in-depth interviews the social and structural determinants influencing these risk factors, including stigma, human rights violation, all forms of violence, discrimination, and socio-economic marginalisation and exclusion, as well as community norms, expectations and subcultures that can be facilitators or barriers for the uptake of HIV and STI prevention, care and support services"--Introduction.

"Giving Up the Ghost" is novelist Hilary Mantel's autobiography in fiction and non-fiction. It deals with childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family.

From the two-time Booker winner, the story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O'Brien. Charles O'Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his own story as he is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England? The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead men from the gallows and babies' corpses by the inch. Where is a man as unique as The Giant to hide his bones when he is yet alive? The Giant, O'Brien is an unforgettable novel; lyrical, shocking and spliced with black comedy.

More friends, fun and fame in amazing Camden Town! Sky is going through a growth spurt and, terrifyingly, her nose seems to be growing faster than the rest of her face! Sky's best friends Rosie and Vix don't understand her obsession. She's pretty - what's the problem? But when Sky's boyfriend dumps her, it's the final straw. Determined to do something about her nose she sets out on a journey that takes all three girls to parts of Camden Town they have never seen before . . .