Books: 'Qualified life'

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(Firm), Kaplan Financial, ed. Qualified and non-qualified plans: Life and health continuing education course. 2nd ed. Chicago, ILL: DF Institute, 2006.

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Hockaday, Jim. Qualified for a miracle: Secrets to receiving from God. Tulsa, Okla: Harrison House, 2002.

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S, Lesser Gary, and Starr Lawrence C, eds. Life insurance answer book: For qualified plans and estate planning. New York: Aspen Publishers, 1998.

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S, Lesser Gary, and Starr Lawrence C, eds. Life insurance answer book: For qualified plans and estate planning. 2nd ed. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, 1999.

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Fuller, Sieglinde K. Guide and criteria for training FEMP-qualified life-cycle cost instructors. Gaithersburg, MD: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1998.

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Fuller, Sieglinde K. Guide and criteria for training FEMP-qualified life-cycle cost instructors. Gaithersburg, MD: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1998.

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Fuller, Sieglinde K. Guide and criteria for training FEMP-qualified life-cycle cost instructors. Gaithersburg, MD: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1998.

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American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education., ed. Retirement plan "trio": An in-depth analysis of three important areas : distributions--lifetime and estate planning, use of insurance in qualified plans, qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs) : ALI-ABA video law review study materials, June 22, 1995, live via satellite to 70+ cities. Philadelphia, PA (4025 Chestnut St., Philadelphia 19104-3099): American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, 1995.

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American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education., ed. Planning for distributions from qualified plans and IRAs: Lifetime and estate planning issues; use of life insurance in qualified plans : ALI-ABA video law review study materials : May 15, 1997, live via satellite to 70+ cities on the American Law Network. Philadelphia, PA (4025 Chestnut St., Philadelphia 19104-3099): American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, 1997.

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American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education., ed. Lifetime and estate planning for distributions from qualified plans and IRAs: ALI-ABA video law review study materials : May 21, 1998, live via satellite to 80+ cities on the American Law Network. Philadelphia, PA (4025 Chestnut St., Philadelphia 19104-3099): American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, 1998.

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Papini, Massimo, ed. L'ultima cura. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-457-6.

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This book is the outcome of a new method of investigating the life experiences of health personnel engaged in paediatric oncology. It brings together the results of individual interviews with each member of the medical, nursing and technical staff in the Paediatric Oncology Department of the University Polyclinic of Padua and the Giannina Gaslini Institute of Genoa. The interviews, prepared using an open questionnaire format, were carried out by qualified personnel, after which the results were analysed and illustrated to the group of health care professionals involved. The two experiences, which are extremely significant in view of the distinction of the two centres of excellence involved, are compared and discussed with a view to making an interesting contribution to the debate on the delicate issues of bioethics implicated in problems connected with the end of life during the developmental stage.

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Grossat, Bernard. Estimation des potentiels qualifiés diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur. [Paris]: Unesco, 1985.

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Assembly, Canada Legislature Legislative. Bill: An act to amend the act to provide for the separation of the county of Peel from the county of York, and to enable the qualified electors of the said county of Peel to select the county town for the said county. Toronto: J. Lovell, 2003.

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L, Pryor Frederic. Who's not working and why: Employment, cognitive skills, wages, and the changing U.S. labor market. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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L, Pryor Frederic. Who's not working and why?: Employment, cognitive skills, and the changing U.S. labor market. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Anderson, Veonne. The Qualified Life. Written Legacy, Inc., 2020.

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Life insurance in qualified plans: Understanding qualified plans and advising your clients about investing options. Boston: Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1997.

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Hockaday, Jim. Qualified for a Miracle: Secrets to Receiving from God. Harrison House, 2000.

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Humphreys, Lee. Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. MIT Press, 2018.

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Life insurance answer book: For qualified plans and estate planning. 3rd ed. New York: Panel Publishers, 2002.

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Humphreys, Lee. Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. MIT Press, 2018.

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(Editor), Lawrence C. Starr, and Gary S. Lesser (Editor), eds. Life Insurance Answer Book: For Qualified Plans and Estate Planning. 3rd ed. Panel Publishers, 2001.

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Humphreys, Lee. Qualified Self - Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. MIT Press, 2020.

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Humphreys, Lee. Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. MIT Press, 2018.

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Starr, Lawrence C. Life Insurance Answer Book: For Qualified Plans and Estate Planning. Aspen Publishers, 1997.

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Austin, A. J. Black Life Coach: How to Become a Skilled, Trained, Qualified Certified Black Life Coach. Socialprenista?, The, 2021.

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Humphreys, Lee. The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. The MIT Press, 2018.

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Lawrence C. Starr Gary S. Lesser. Life Insurance Answer Book: For Qualified Plans and Estate Planning, 2003 Supplement. Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2003.

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(Editor), Gary S. Lesser, and Lawrence C. Starr (Editor), eds. Life Insurance Answer Book: For Qualified Plans and Estate Planning (The Panel Answer Book Series). 2nd ed. Aspen Publishers, 1998.

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Ferguson, M. J. Life Qualifies. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.

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Ferguson, Matthew. Life Qualifies. Independently Published, 2018.

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Daily, Janie. Please God, Just Take Me Home: Lose the Hopelessness, Gain Passion and Hope: Discover the Job that Is Qualified for You with The Life Resume. PublishAmerica, 2006.

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Horneff, Vanya, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell. How Persistent Low Expected Returns Alter Optimal Life Cycle Saving, Investment, and Retirement Behavior. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827443.003.0008.

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This chapter explores how an environment of persistent low returns influences saving, investing, and retirement behaviors, compared to what in the past had been conceived of as ‘normal’ financial conditions. Using a calibrated life cycle dynamic model with realistic tax, minimum distribution, and social security benefit rules, we can mimic the large peak at the earliest claiming age at 62 that is seen in the data. Also in line with the evidence, our baseline results show a smaller second peak at the (system-defined) Full Retirement Age of 66. In the context of a zero-return environment, we show that workers will optimally devote more of their savings to non-retirement accounts and less to 401(k) accounts, since the relative appeal of investing in taxable versus tax-qualified retirement accounts is lower in a low return setting. Finally, we show that people claim social security benefits later in a low interest rate environment.

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Sweet, Alec Stone, and Clare Ryan. Beyond Rights Minimalism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825340.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on the European Court’s approach to adjudicating the qualified rights: to privacy and family life, and to the freedoms of expression, conscience, and religion. Facilitated by the progressive development of (i) general principles, (ii) iterative dialogues with domestic apex courts, and (iii) consensus analysis, the Court has engaged in majoritarian activism, a strategy that has enabled it to raise standards of protection, and to overcome rights minimalism. Under the tutelage of the Court, the regime has worked to secure the equal juridical status of formerly marginalized or excluded groups, including through the consolidation of positive state duties of recognition and protection. As important, the trustee courts of Europe now share a common approach to assessing the validity of state measures that would limit a qualified right, requiring officials to justify restrictions under a pressing social need standard, and to ensure their proportionality.

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Smith, Maureen Margaret. Wilma Rudolph. Greenwood, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216036067.

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Wilma Rudolph was born into a large family and struggled with health problems for the first several years of her life, including polio. Though she had trouble even walking, her love of sport and movement motivated her to rehabilitate her legs. Rudolph would blossom into athletic talent and after earning a scholarship to Tennessee State, qualified for the 1960 Olympic Games where she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field. Throughout her life, Wilma Rudolph faced many barriers and yet she was able to overcome the odds to become an Olympic gold medalist. After hanging up her spikes, Wilma would teach second grade and coach track at her former high school. This work describes her life in detail, and includes a timeline of significant events in her life.

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Gilson, Mark, Arthur Freeman, M. Jane Yates, and Sharon Morgillo Freeman. Overcoming Depression: Workbook. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780195371024.001.0001.

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This online workbook is designed to help patients work together with a qualified mental health professional to overcome depression. The program provides a set of coping strategies and skills so patients can proactively deal with depression and increase quality of life. Patients will work with a therapist to understand the biology of depression, as well as how emotions, activity level, situations, and thoughts all contribute to depression. This treatment is scientifically proven and can be used in conjunction with medication. It also includes worksheets and forms for completing in-session exercises, as well as at-home assignments.

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Balot, Ryan. Was Thucydides a Political Philosopher? Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.8.

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Although he is not ordinarily interpreted as a philosopher, Thucydides enters into conversation with the canonical political philosophers by engaging with the question of the good life lived within a well-ordered society. Displaying the conceptions of the good society presented by leading Athenians and Spartans, Thucydides emphasizes their illusory, self-destructive qualities. If those political leaders are at least qualified utopians, then Thucydides is an anti-utopian who views human history as a world of war. Thucydides’ History highlights the suffering caused by the tendency of human beings, and especially political leaders, to aggrandize themselves. In the absence of durable customs, laws, and political institutions, we can hope, at most, for a decent life supported by resilience and guided by political prudence. More ambitious political aspirations will inevitably cause greater harm than benefit.

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Stonis, J. R., A. Diškus, V. Dobrynina, A. Remeikis, and P. Buchner. A guide to leaf mines of the Lithuanian nepticulidae. Nature Research Centre, Lithuania, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35513/2022.nepticulidae.

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Phylogenetically, primitive but ecologically specialized Nepticulidae are probably among the most interesting families of the order Lepidoptera (Navickaitė, 2014; Navickaitė et al., 2014). The family also includes the world’s smallest moths (Stonis et al., 2021) (Figs 1–9). Much useful information on the morphology, ecology, and distribution of Nepticulidae can be found in various monographs, books or articles, including monographs cited in the current publication (Johansson et al., 1990; Puplesis, 1994; Puplesis & Diškus, 2003; Diškus & Stonis, 2012). Nepticulidae are characterized by a specialized mode of life: their larvae are miners in green (photosynthetic) plant tissues. Sometimes they are referred to as plant pests or potential pests. On the other hand, being extremely small and living inside plant tissues, Nepticulidae, like other endobiotic organisms, are still under-sampled and under-studied in many regions of the world. There is a serious lack of qualified professionals and diagnostic tools that can be used not only by biotaxonomists but also by other users (including educators as well as foresters, gardeners, conservationists).

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Bullock, Ian, Jill Macleod Clark, and Joanne Rycroft-Malone, eds. Adult Nursing Practice. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199697410.001.0001.

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Adult Nursing Practice: Using evidence in care enables today's students and newly qualified nurses develop the knowledge and skills they need to deliver, and lead care tomorrow. Reflecting the principles of evidence-based care in line with the current NMC competencies, this textbook helps students learn to manage patients with common conditions and fundamental health needs so they can provide the best possible evidence-based care. Written, and edited by leading nurses from practice, education and research, it focuses on common diseases, fundamental health needs, and symptoms that nurses' encounter in daily practice. Conditions are clearly explained so that the causes of ill health are easily understood. Every chapter covers pathophysiology, indicates the key priorities for nursing assessment, and discusses 'what the evidence says', before considering nursing management options. Throughout the authors' clear signposts to trustworthy evidence mean that students can effortlessly select the best nursing interventions for their patients using the current available evidence-base. The ideal guide for students preparing for registration and newly qualified staff going through preceptorship, it is packed with over 115 illustrations and lots of features to bring the subject to life and make learning easier: BLNursing assessment illustrations outline challenges caused by common diseases in a helpful and memorable way, highlighting issues that need assessment BLRed flag icons indicate the warning signs of deterioration and urgent questions are listed that can be used for assessment and monitoring BLCase studies of effective evidence-based interventions show the difference that high quality nursing care makes BLCross references between common conditions' causes and managing related health needs and symptoms develop understanding by clearly linking pathophysiology with nursing management options BLTheory into practice boxes further enhance learning through suggested activities, such as exploring key evidence, considering major practice issues or applying core knowledge while out on placement BLOnline resource centre at www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/bullock http://www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/bullock. Filled with interactive and useful e-learning resources to help students test their learning, keep up-to-date with the latest evidence and further expand their knowledge, it features: BLClinical decision making scenarios BLQuiz questions BLUpdates to content BLHyperlinked references BLimages from the book BLLecturer resources

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Pitson, Tony. Hume, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility. Edited by Paul Russell. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742844.013.18.

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This chapter aims to relate Hume’s discussion of liberty and necessity to central themes in his philosophy, including causation, the self, the distinction between virtue and vice, and naturalism as a response to skepticism. From this perspective, many points of contact with contemporary discussions of free will and moral responsibility emerge. Hume’s account of moral responsibility, with its implications for the conditions under which ascriptions of responsibility are withheld or qualified, is considered in detail. The notion of agent autonomy is linked to Hume’s distinction between the calm and violent passions. The kind of self-determination for which Hume allows here is distinguished from that of the libertarian and is also contrasted with the problematic notion of responsibility for self that leads to skepticism about the very possibility of moral responsibility. Hume’s appeal to “common life” provides a naturalistic response to skepticism in this, as well as in other philosophical contexts.

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Höfling, Wolfram, Thomas Otten, and Jürgen in der Schmitten, eds. Advance Care Planning / Behandlung im Voraus Planen: Konzept zur Förderung einer patientenzentrierten Gesundheitsversorgung. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845289663.

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The potential of advance care planning (ACP) for patient-centred care has only been appreciated in Germany in the past few years. It has drawn increasing attention, however, since it was incorporated into the German Hospice and Palliative Care Law (HPG) in 2015. Residents of nursing care homes and homes for people with disabilities can now receive ACP supported by qualified facilitators and subsidised by Germany’s health insurance companies. ACP stimulates individuals to address questions relating to their own life and death, and it allows them to limit life-sustaining treatment under individually defined circumstances. It puts patients at the centre of their care programme, even under critical conditions, and thus strengthens patient autonomy. Consequently, however, it also raises a number of ethical and legal questions. The editors of this book have a strong interest in the ethical and legal issues that arise in end-of-life care. For this volume, they have asked experts in law, medicine and theological ethics to reflect upon ACP. With contributions by Michael Coors, Stephan Ernst, Monika Führer, Martin Hein, Paul Hüster, Wolfram Höfling, Kathrin Knochel, Volker Lipp, Andreas Lob-Hüdepohl, Georg Marckmann, Stefan Meier, Thomas Otten, Stephan Rixen, Jochen Sautermeister, Jürgen in der Schmitten, Josef Schuster

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Reynolds, Benjamin E. John among the Apocalypses. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784241.001.0001.

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The central place of revelation in the Gospel of John and the Gospel’s revelatory telling of the life of Jesus are distinctive features of John when compared with the Synoptic Gospels; yet, when John is compared among the apocalypses, these same features indicate John’s striking affinity with the genre of apocalypse. By paying attention to modern genre theory and making an extensive comparison with the standard definition of “apocalypse,” the Gospel of John reflects similarities with Jewish apocalypses in form, content, and function. Even though the Gospel of John reflects similarities with the genre of apocalypse, John is not an apocalypse, but in genre theory terms, John may be described as a gospel in kind and an apocalypse in mode. John’s narrative of Jesus’s life has been qualified and shaped by the genre of apocalypse, such that it may be called an “apocalyptic” gospel. Understanding the Fourth Gospel as “apocalyptic” Gospel provides an explanation for John’s appeal to Israel’s Scriptures and Mosaic authority. Possible historical reasons for the revelatory narration of Jesus’s life in the Gospel of John may be explained by the Gospel’s relationship with the book of Revelation and the history of reception concerning their writing. An examination of Byzantine iconographic traditions highlights how reception history may offer a possible explanation for reading John as “apocalyptic” Gospel.

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Saha, Sujoy Kumar. On The Way to Global Peace. New Delhi Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30954/nsp-owtgpeace.

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The present book starts with an introductory chapter in which the contents of the previous book have been dealt with in a whole new perspective and the ways and means to move forward towards global peace have been delineated in the concluding chapter of the book. In the process, “Life, Mind, Brain, Cognition, Existentialism, Matter, Memory, Consciousness, Mysticism, Ontology, Psychology, Parapsychology, Ecology and Phenomenology” have been dealt with. This is followed by the discussion of “ Philosophy, Renaissance, Soul, Theosophy, Cosmology, Universe, The Witness and The Ultimate Truth”. It has been revealed that there is a whole new world of Existence on a new uncharted plane; the present day world-drama is not matured enough and not qualified enough with a sense of unselfishness to foster Global Peace. None-the-less, the destiny of the world and the whole human race, nay the entire manifested world is set to reach a spirited esoteric plane of Blissful Existence, this being a matter of eternity. The current situation in this planet is no more than a transitory phase.

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Dority, G. Kim. LIS Career Sourcebook. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400679766.

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A must-have guide of professional development resources for library staff at every phase of their career—from those just entering the field, to paraprofessionals building a career trajectory, to seasoned librarians looking to explore additional career options. Thousands of students graduate with a Master of Library and Information Science degree every year. Unfortunately, budget cuts at libraries diminish available job opportunities and prompt administrators to hire less qualified—and less expensive—professionals. However, armed with the right information, library science professionals can successfully build and sustain a resilient library and information science (LIS) career inside—or outside—the traditional library setting. LIS Career Sourcebook: Managing and Maximizing Every Step of Your Career provides a chapter-by-chapter overview of key career stages and strategies, and identifies for each the best information resources to help readers develop a successful LIS career. The author lays out the typical stages that workers are likely to encounter as they move through their professional life, highlighting important issues associated with each stage and providing insights and resources for making smart career choices along the way. Covering the entire career lifespan from entry level to retirement, the resources cited will help readers make informed choices about career options, professional development, and personal career satisfaction.

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Swanton, Christine. Target Centred Virtue Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861676.001.0001.

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Virtue ethics in its contemporary manifestation is dominated by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics primarily developed by Rosalind Hursthouse. This version of eudaimonistic virtue ethics was groundbreaking but by now has been subject to considerable critical attention. The time is ripe for new developments and alternatives. The target centred virtue ethics proposed in this book (TVE) is opposed to orthodox virtue ethics in two major ways. First, it rejects the ‘natural goodness’ metaphysics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics owed to Philippa Foot in favour of a ‘hermeneutic ontology’ of ethics inspired by the Continental tradition and McDowell. Second, it rejects the well-known ‘qualified agent’ account of right action made famous by Hursthouse in favour of a target-centred framework for assessing rightness of acts. The target-centred view, introduced in Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View (VEP), is much more developed in TVE with discussions of Dancy’s particularism, default reasons and thick concepts, codifiability, and its relation to the Doctrine of the mean (suitably interpreted). TVE retains the pluralism of VEP but develops it further in relation to a pluralistic account of practical reason. Besides the pluralism TVE develops other substantive positions including the view that target centred virtue ethics is developmental, suitably embedded in an environmental ethics of “dwelling”; and incorporates a concept of differentiated virtue to allow for roles, narrativity, cultural and historical location, and stage of life.

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Hudson, Hud. Fallenness and Flourishing. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849094.001.0001.

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This book opens with defenses of the philosophy of pessimism, first on secular grounds and then again on distinctively Christian grounds with reference to the fallenness of human beings. It then details traditional Christian reasons for optimism with which this philosophy of pessimism can be qualified. Yet even among those who accept the general religious worldview underlying this optimism, many nevertheless willfully resist the efforts required to cooperate with God and instead pursue happiness and well-being (or flourishing) on their own power. On the assumption that we can acquire knowledge in such matters, arguments are presented in favor of objective-list theories of well-being and the Psychic Affirmation theory of happiness, and the question—“How are people faring in this quest for self-achieved happiness and well-being?”—is critically investigated. The unfortunate result is that nearly everywhere people are failing. The causes of failure, it is argued, are found in the noetic effects of sin—especially in inordinate self-love and self-deception, but also in insufficient self-love—and such failure manifests both in widespread unhappiness and in that most misunderstood of the seven deadly sins, sloth. After a literary tour designed to reveal the many different ways that sloth can damage a life, a constructive proposal for responding to this predicament featuring the virtue of obedience is articulated and defended. This virtue is analyzed, illustrated, located in a new theory of well-being, and recommended to the reader.

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Gaztambide, María C. El Techo de la Ballena. University Press of Florida, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400707.001.0001.

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In El Techo de la Ballena, María C. Gaztambi depresents an account of the visual arts production of the Caracas-based collective El Techo de la Ballena (active 1961−69). In spite of evident convergences with other global art tendencies, these radicalized artists from Venezuela anchored their multidisciplinary interventions in a fundamental retrograde stance which, in the author’s view, represented a deliberate inversion of an internationallyaligned modernity hinging on the need for constant evolution and progress in the visual arts. El Techo’s against-the-grain position became the basis for a disorderly project of grief that counteracted the swiftness by which Venezuela fast-tracked its modernization (in the sense of material and technological progress) and consumed international modernism (its cultural production). Against this fragmentary development, El Techo deployed an integrated approach to art-making that included artworks with multiple meanings, alternative exhibition spaces, politicized actions, as well as highly confrontational printed materials. All these elements came together into a single, indivisible body of work merging the visual, the poetic, the performative, and the political. Yet Venezuela’s eroded local environment required an outright unsettling through extreme scatological content and strategies that the balleneros qualified as “a biological art, violently exuded from our bowels…” Theirs was a total output that tested the limits of art to provoke an anesthetized local public under the motto of cambiar la vida, transformar la sociedad(to change life, to transform society).

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Barr, Owen, and Bob Gates, eds. Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198782872.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing, 2nd edition, has been comprehensively updated throughout and brings together the contributions of leading practitioners and academics from the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and further beyond, in an authoritative text that provides essential facts and information on nurses working with people with intellectual disabilities. A unique aspect to this Oxford Handbook is the continuing attention given to differences in legislation and social policy across the jurisdiction of the constituent countries of the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland. The landscape for the practice of nursing has never been so complex, and given this complexity of context and practice, the Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing continues to offer students and newly qualified practitioners alike up-to-date and concise, practical applied knowledge, as well as theoretical information, about working in a person-centred way with people with intellectual disabilities and their families/carers in order to promote their physical and mental health, improve their quality of life and their active involvement in decisions about their care, and support their access to general healthcare and community services. This handbook will be of use in the very many areas where nurses for people with learning/intellectual disabilities are located. It will also be of use to a wider range of other health and/or social care professionals, who often seek an authoritative text that provides essential facts and information on working with people with intellectual disabilities.

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Ghodsee, Kristen, and Mitchell Orenstein. Taking Stock of Shock. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197549230.001.0001.

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Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the social consequences of the post-1989 transition from state socialism to free market capitalism across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Blending ethnographic accounts with economic, demographic, and public opinion data, it provides insight into the development of new, unequal, social orders. It explores the contradictory narratives on transition promoted by Western international institutions and their opponents, one of qualified success and another of epic catastrophe, and surprisingly shows that data support both narratives, for different countries, regions, and people. While many citizens of the postsocialist countries experienced significant progress in living standards and life satisfaction, enabling them to catch up with the West after a relatively brief recession, others suffered demographic and social collapses resulting from rising economic precarity; large-scale degradation of social welfare that came with privatization; and growing gender, class, and regional disparities that have accompanied neoliberal reforms. Transition recessions lasted for decades in many countries, exceeding the US Great Depression in severity. Some countries still have not returned to pre-1989 levels of economic production or mortality; some have lost more than one-fifth of their population and are projected to lose more. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this book deploys a sweeping array of data from different social science fields to provide a more holistic perspective on the successes and failures of transition while unpacking the failed assumptions and narratives of Western institutions, Eastern policymakers, and citizens of former socialist states.

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Shergaziev, Uranbek, ed. GLOBAL FOOD FORUM — 2021 DIALOGUE WITHOUT BORDERS. EurAsian Scientific Editions, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56948/gebt7753.

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The collection presents the reports of participants of the Global Food Forum organized by Moscow State University of Food Production (MSUFP) jointly with the Council for Science and Continuing Education of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly, with the support of the Federation Council Committee on Agriculture and Food Policy and Environmental Management of the Federal Assembly and the assistance of Moscow Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization. The Global Food Forum 2021 became a venue for wide-ranging discussion of plans and actions realised in the Russian Federation and a number of foreign organisations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. A number of proposals were made towards coordination of inter-sectoral actions along the entire chain of food systems (production, transportation, storage, distribution and consumption), drawing special attention to the problems coupled with Sustainable Development Goals in scientific research, their expansion and allocation of necessary resources for these purposes, training of required personnel, including highly qualified staff. The Forum was attended by representatives of 28 universities and research institutes from such countries as: Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Germany, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, China, Tajikistan, Bulgaria and the UAE. The global attention to the Forum is accounted for by the importance of uniting world community efforts for identification and prevention of internal and external threats to food security, for development of common constructive decisions on improvement of food systems, on achieving progress, through the food resource, in respect of all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals with the view of sustainable reproduction of healthy and full-value life.

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