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    Reconciling indigenous need with the urban welfare state? Evidence of culturally-appropriate services and spaces for Aboriginals in Winnipeg, Canada

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    Despite the increasing urbanization of the Aboriginal population in Canada over the past 50 years, most municipalities have not developed services and programs designed to meet their unique social and cultural needs. Faced with numerous health and social problems, the Aboriginal population is mainly forced to rely on the non-Aboriginal social services sector. However, little is known about the extent to which such sectors seek to accommodate Aboriginal populations in their programming. We examine the extent to which the recovery system makes space for Aboriginal healing through the provision of culturally-appropriate services and programming. Through the use of 24 in-depth interviews with staff members at seven treatment facilities in Winnipeg (Canada), we find an entrenched reluctance, indifference and lack of desire to create Aboriginal spaces of healing in treatment, save for one facility where Aboriginal healing spaces serve as a focal point of treatment. We discuss the implications in terms of the effectiveness of the non-Aboriginal recovery system (along with other social services) in meeting the needs of Canada’s urban Aboriginal population.<br/

    Person-centred advocacy: Some ethical issues

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    In the second of two articles on advocacy for people with dementia Mike Fox with Lesley Wilson considers some of the ethical issues arising from advocacy work within a residential home that was due to close

    The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle : In which are included, Memoirs Of A Lady Of Quality ; In Four Volumes

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    Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: London : Printed for the Author: And sold by D. Wilson, at Plato's Head, near Round-Court, in the Strand. MDCCLI

    The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle : In which are included, Memoirs Of A Lady Of Quality ; In Four Volumes

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    Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: London : Printed for the Author: And sold by D. Wilson, at Plato's Head, near Round-Court, in the Strand. MDCCLI

    The Four Kings of the Forest: A Fable

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    Although named a fable by the author/illustrator, this 20-page story reaches beyond the usual limits of a fable. It tells the story of four kings -- lion, elephant, gorilla, and snake -- who learn from a boy and make him a fifth king. Ingres mold-made paper with color lineoleum block prints. As Powell's description says, "The colors used and the illustrations are charming." Bound by green thread.Signed by Wilson, #244 of 275Joyce Lancaster Wilso

    The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle : In which are included, Memoirs Of A Lady Of Quality ; In Four Volumes

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    Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: London : Printed for the Author: And sold by D. Wilson, at Plato's Head, near Round-Court, in the Strand. MDCCLI

    The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle : In which are included, Memoirs Of A Lady Of Quality ; In Four Volumes

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    Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: London : Printed for the Author: And sold by D. Wilson, at Plato's Head, near Round-Court, in the Strand. MDCCLI

    From the Roman Republic to the American Revolution: readings of Cicero in the political thought of James Wilson

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    As a classical scholar and prominent founding father, James Wilson was at once statesman, judge, and political thinker, who read Cicero as an example worthy of emulation and as a philosopher whose theory could be applied to his own age. Classical reception studies have focused on questions of liberty, civic virtue, and constitutionalism in the American founding, and historians have also noted Wilson’s importance in American history and thought. Wilson’s direct engagement with Cicero’s works, however, and their significance in the formulation of his own philosophy has been long overlooked. My thesis argues that Wilson’s viewpoint was largely based on his readings of Cicero and can only be properly understood within this context. In the first two chapters of my thesis I demonstrate that Wilson not only possessed a wide-ranging knowledge of the classics in general, but also that he borrowed from Cicero’s writings and directly engaged with the texts themselves. Building upon this foundation, chapters three and four examine Cicero’s perspective on popular sovereignty and civic virtue, situate Wilson’s interpretations within contemporary discussions of Roman politics, and analyse the main ways in which he adapts Cicero’s arguments to his own era. Wilson retains a broader faith in the common people than seen in Cicero’s opinions, and he abstracts from Cicero a doctrine of sovereignty as an indivisible principle that is absent in the text; nevertheless, Cicero’s conception of a legitimate state and his insistence on the role of the people provided the foundation for Wilson’s thought and ultimately for his legitimization of the American Revolution. At the same time, like Cicero, Wilson views the stability of the state as resting in the personal virtue of the individual. While his enlightenment philosophy imparts optimism to his conception of the good citizen, his definition of virtue closely follows that of Cicero. As the final chapter of my thesis concludes, their individual interpretations of these theories of popular consent and virtue were instrumental in forming Cicero’s and Wilson’s justifications of civil disobedience

    Building Value-added Services for Institutional Repositories (IRs): Modeling the Rutgers Experience

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    Institutional repositories (IR) are largely unpopulated due to insufficient faculty experience in self-archiving (Kim, 2010), to inadequate marketing efforts to popularize the advantages of IRs (Jantz & Wilson, 2008), and to lack of faculty awareness regarding the unsustainable costs of traditional means of scholarly communication (Darnton, 2010). This paper explores a number of IR services at Rutgers that, collectively, add significant value to the university’s IR by facilitating scholarly communication and by preserving digital content.... Harnessing faculty self interest to these technological innovations is the surest mechanism for creating a bridge to the sustainable development of high quality research and a major factor in the success of institutional repositories.Submitted by Lynne Rudasill ([email protected]) on 2011-07-31T03:39:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 BuildingWilsonJantz.pdf: 608596 bytes, checksum: 5911bac2c3ee5a7ba964d1e83d1520cc (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2011-07-31T03:39:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BuildingWilsonJantz.pdf: 608596 bytes, checksum: 5911bac2c3ee5a7ba964d1e83d1520cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011unpublishe

    Interview with Colin Wilson, part 4, undated

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    Interview with Colin Wilson, part 4, features an interview with author Colin Wilson in which he discusses his views regarding society and art, his reclusive nature, and the intellectual and fantastical elements of his works, undated
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