Authors:Stephen L. Elkin, Stephen L. Elkin, Karol Edward Sol
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: institutions, democratic, competence, citizen
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0271018178
ISBN-13: 9780271018171

Bringing together new work from many of the leading experts on democratic citizenship, this volume presents both normative argument and empirical analysis to help deepen our understanding of the various competences that citizens require if there is to be a flourishing democratic political order in our present age.The essays explore the following themes: (1) the essential components of democratic citizenship and how these can be fostered; (2) the state of citizen competence in various democratic regimes; (3) civil society as a crucial site for the exercise and development of democratic citizens

Author: Martha Keene Elkin RN MSN IBCLCAnne Griffin Per
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: skills, clinical, nursing, interventions, elkin, amp
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2007-04-23
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 0323044581
ISBN-13: 9780323044585

This market-leading, user-friendly textbook provides complete coverage of nearly 150 nursing skills in a streamlined, step-by-step, visual format. More than 860 full-color photos and drawings clarify key concepts, bringing important procedures and techniques to life. The nursing process framework helps put nursing skills in the context of care delivery and rationales for key steps help you understand why specific techniques are used.The nursing process provides a consistent framework that helps you understand where skills fit into the broader context of patient care.A section on standard begin

Author: Stanley Elkin
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: mills, george
Number of Pages: 518
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1564782921
ISBN-13: 9781564782922

An ambitious‚ digressive‚ and endlessly entertaining account of the thousand-year history of the George Millses‚ GEORGE MILLS is the antithesis to the typical Horatio Alger story. Since the First Crusade‚ there has always been a George Mills‚ who—despite his best efforts—is unable to improve his position in life or that of his descendants. Instead‚ all the George Millses are forced to accept their lot as true blue-collar workers‚ serving important personages in a series of odd jobs ranging from horse talker in a salt mine to working as a furniture mover in contempora

Author: Stanley Elkin
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: seizures, searches
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1994-09-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0879232536
ISBN-13: 9780879232535

In Searches & Seizures, Elkin tells the story of the criminal, the lovelorn, and the grieving, each searching desperately for fulfillment—while on the verge of receiving much more than they bargained for. Infused with Elkin’s signature wit and richly drawn characters, “The Bailbondsman,” “The Making of Ashenden,” and “The Condominium” are the creations of a literary virtuoso at the pinnacle of his craft.   This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

Author: Stanley Elkin
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: dalkey, archive, literature, american, modern, comedy, boswell
Number of Pages: 387
Published: 1999-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1564781747
ISBN-13: 9781564781741

Fiction. BOSWELL is Stanley Elkin’s first and funniest novel: the comic odyssey of a twentieth-century groupie who collects celebrities as his insurance policy against death. James Boswell--strong man, professional wrestler (his most heroic match is with the Angel of Death)-- is a con man, a gate crasher, and a moocher of epic talent. He is also the "hero of one of the most original novel in years" (Oakland Tribune)--a man on the make for all the great men of his time--his logic being that if you can’t be a lion, know a pride of them. Can he cheat his way out of mortality?

Authors:Stephen L. Elkin, Karol Edward Soltan,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: institutions, democratic, competence, citizen
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1999-03
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 027101816X
ISBN-13: 9780271018164

Published for the Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS), this text examines what citizen competence is, how much it exists in the United States and what can be done to increase it.

Author: Elizabeth Elkin Grammer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: nineteenth, century, america, evangelists, itinerant, visions, autobiographies, female, wild
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12-12
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195139615
ISBN-13: 9780195139617

This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array of materials, plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand.