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    Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms

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    In one of the first volumes assessing the full two terms of the George W. Bush presidency, Wroe and Herbert have gathered the work of leading American and European scholars. In fifteen succinct and incisive chapters, authorities such as Jim Pfiffner, John Maltese, Graham Wilson and Alan Gitelson offer assessments of the Bush administration's successes and failures. Extensive attention is paid to Bush's foreign policy, including 'The War on Terror' but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings as president with the other institutions of the U.S. political system. The result is a comprehensive guide to the Bush presidency and its legacy

    Ed Wroe

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    Ed Wroe, bank clerk, shown leaving the Winfield Scott home, where he has lived for the past several years. The 18-room house was sold to the Girls Service League as a home for girls. Wroe is walking down the pathway away from the house, carrying two pieces of luggage. He is wearing a collared shirt, coat, hat and trousers.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/6481/thumbnail.jp

    Social working without borders: challenging privatisation and complicity with the hostile environment

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    Social Workers Without Borders is a UK social work charity established in early 2016 to provide direct support to migrant children and families, and to scaffold this through the development of social work education and activism reflecting the principles of human rights and social justice. Reflecting on Social Workers Without Borders’ model of practice, Lauren Wroe, co-founder and trustee of Social Workers Without Borders, discusses the charity’s recent campaign against Capita and the implications of privatisation for asylum-seeking and migrant families, as well as for the ethical value base of the profession. Positioning Social Workers Without Borders as a voluntary network that ‘fills the gap’ in state services, the author discusses campaign strategies to defend the profession, and the families it supports, from the rolling back of state welfare and the rolling out of state hostility through the deregulated outsourcing of social care services

    Barinya wangala Wroe 1999

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    † Barinya SPECIES SCORED: † Barinya wangala (type species). GEOLOGICAL PROVENANCE OF SCORED SPECIMENS: Neville’s Garden, Bite’s Antennary and Upper sites (Riversleigh Faunal Zone B), and Henk’s Hollow and Jim’s Jaw sites (Riversleigh Faunal Zone C), Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia. AGE OF SCORED SPECIMENS: Based on biostratigraphy, Riversleigh Faunal Zone B is interpreted to be early Miocene (Archer et al., 1989, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2006; Creaser, 1997; Travouillon et al., 2006; Black et al., 2012b, 2013; Woodhead et al., 2014; Arena et al., 2015), and Faunal Zone C is interpreted to be middle Miocene (see † Nimbacinus above). Radiometric dates from Woodhead et al. (2014) are 17.72–18.53 Mya for Neville’s Garden Site and 16.84–17.38 Mya for Bite’s Antennary Site, but the other sites lack dates, so we have conservatively assumed the entire span of the early to middle Miocene (Aquitanian to Serravallian; Cohen et al., 2013 [updated]) for this taxon. ASSIGNED AGE RANGE: 23.030 –11.630 Mya. REMARKS: Wroe (1999) described † Barinya wangala as the oldest known dasyurid based on two relatively complete skulls (QM F31408 and F314089) plus additional dental specimens. Wroe (1999) identified a number of putative dasyurid apomorphies in the auditory region, but Murray and Megirian (2006a) subsequently argued that at least some of these features may have been secondarily lost in thylacinids. Among dasyuromorphians, † B. wangala is dentally autapomorphic in exhibiting a very large bulbous P3, somewhat reminiscent of the enlarged P3 seen in males of some Recent peramelemorphians (see Aplin et al., 2010: 26–31). A second species, † B. kutjamarpensis, was described by Binfield et al. (2016), based on a single partial right dentary (SAM P53348) from the the?early-middle Miocene Leaf Locality of the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna in the Wipajiri Formation, Lake Ngapakaldi, Tirari Desert, Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia (Woodburne et al., 1994; Archer et al., 1997; Travouillon et al., 2006; Megirian et al., 2010; Black et al., 2012b, 2013, 2014a; Gurovich et al., 2014); however, † B. kutjamarpensis has not been used for scoring purposes here. † Barinya was recovered as a dasyurid in the phylogenetic analyses of Wroe et al. (2000), Wroe and Musser (2001), and Murray and Megirian (2006a), but not in those of Archer et al. (2016) or Kealy and Beck (2017), and in only some of those by Rovinsky et al. (2019); we therefore follow Kealy and Beck (2017) in considering this taxon Daysuromorphia incertae sedis.Published as part of Beck, Robin M. D., Voss, Robert S. & Jansa, Sharon A., 2022, Craniodental Morphology And Phylogeny Of Marsupials, pp. 1-353 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (457) on page 324, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.457.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/697135
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