Mary Corcoran

Simple, humorous text and comic illustrations explain the basics of the circulatory system--the systemic, pulmonary, and coronary circuits. Readers follow a red blood cell on its journey through the body, and in the process learn how the body combats disease, performs gas exchanges, and fights plaque.

The Circulatory Story

Anthea Hucklesby

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together leading experts to provide critical reflections and cutting edge research on the contemporary features of voluntary sector work in criminal justice. At a time when the voluntary sector's role is being transformed, this book examines the dynamic nature of the voluntary sector and its responses to current uncertainties, and some of the conflicting positions with regards to its present and future role in criminal justice work. It also examines the potential impact of economic, political and ideological trends on the role and remit of voluntary sector organisations which undertake criminal justice work.

The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice

Louisa May Alcott, famous authoress of the March Family Saga (Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys) inserted many hidden clues within this trilogy; and now it is Meg March Brooke, recently widowed and increasingly jealous of Sister Jo March Bhaer, who wields the pen. Familiar characters (including Cousin Florence Carrol of the infamous sky-rocket dress, who once toured Europe with "Little Women" Amy March) mingle with new additions (such as Freedwoman Mrs. Tanny and young daughter Olivia, whose dark, tempestuous face seems a moon in eclipse); while the expected settings of the shabby March dwelling and the white-pillared Lawrence mansion across the hedge are a comfortable contrast to the rickety Orchard Theater and also Jasper DeLacy's Penny Arcade. Years of research (Victorian customs, clothing, and verbiage; plus the background of the Alcott/March Family both fact & fiction) add to the story of which this book is volume one of a two-volume novel. Follow the Little Women, now Meg, Jo, Flo, and Amy -- for Beth is now a guardian spirit who watches from afar -- as the March Family comes to the fore and the Bhaers' Plumfield School recedes into the background, in a scenario both joyful and sorrowful, and ever-more mature.

The Hidden Years: Meg, Jo, Flo, and Amy

Little Women

This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1999. Women political prisoners were engaged in a campaign to obtain formal recognition as political prisoners, and then to retain this status after it was revoked. Their lengthy involvement in a prison conflict of international significance was notable as much because of its longevity as the radical aspects of their prison protests, which included hunger strikes, dirty-protests and campaigns against institutional abuses. Out of Order brings out the qualitatively distinctive character and punitive ethos of regimes of political imprisonment for women, exploring the dynamics of their internal organisation, the ways in which they subverted order and security in prison, and their strategies of resistance and exploitation. Drawing upon a wide range of first hand accounts and interviews this book brings together perspectives from the areas of political imprisonment, the penal punishment of women and the question of agency and resistance in prison to create a unique, highly readable study of a neglected subject.

Mary Corcoran

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