Silent Voices

Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250033594
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
From Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetlandseries, both of which are hit TV shows—comes Silent Voices. “Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.”—Louise Penny When Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the steam room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once, it’s a death from natural causes. But closer inspection reveals bruises around the victim’s throat....As she leads her team, Vera relishes the thrill she gets from running an investigation. Death has never made her feel so alive. But soon, the victim’s past reveals a shocking secret at the heart of Vera’s community, as she tries to stop a killer who wants deadly secrets kept silent. Singular, complex, and fiercely loyal, Vera has quickly become an iconic British detective loved by millions both on the page and on-screen, and Silent Voices showcases Ann Cleeves as a writer at the peak of her powers. *BONUS CONTENT: This edition of Silent Voices includes a new introduction from the author and a discussion guide

Silent Voices

Author: Adam J. Berinsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400850746
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Over the past century, opinion polls have come to pervade American politics. Despite their shortcomings, the notion prevails that polls broadly represent public sentiment. But do they? In Silent Voices, Adam Berinsky presents a provocative argument that the very process of collecting information on public preferences through surveys may bias our picture of those preferences. In particular, he focuses on the many respondents who say they "don't know" when asked for their views on the political issues of the day. Using opinion poll data collected over the past forty years, Berinsky takes an increasingly technical area of research--public opinion--and synthesizes recent findings in a coherent and accessible manner while building on this with his own findings. He moves from an in-depth treatment of how citizens approach the survey interview, to a discussion of how individuals come to form and then to express opinions on political matters in the context of such an interview, to an examination of public opinion in three broad policy areas--race, social welfare, and war. He concludes that "don't know" responses are often the result of a systematic process that serves to exclude particular interests from the realm of recognized public opinion. Thus surveys may then echo the inegalitarian shortcomings of other forms of political participation and even introduce new problems altogether.

Silent Voices

Author: Robert L. Okin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996077705
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Practicing psychiatrist, professor, and former commissioner of mental health Robert Okin spent two years on the street, meeting and photographing homeless individuals with mental illness..."-- Back cover.

A Silent Voice

Author: Yoshitoki Oima
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 1682331954
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
A QUIET CALM Despite their tense pasts, Shoya begins to embrace the friend group that used to terrorize Shoko because she couldn’t hear. Now that summer vacation is in full swing, the crew can work together to film Tomohiro’s eccentric movie. Each fun-filled day lazily passes by, but doubt tugs at Shoya’s heavy heart and he is desperate to cling on to meaningful moments before they are gone…

Silent Voices

Author: Debbie Nau Redmond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986225901
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Silent Voices is a suspenseful and heartfelt saga about an American family faced with the tragic consequences of a schizophrenic son left virtually ignored by the health-care system. Despite the family's desperate request for help from doctors, Ricky Nau's mental descent into darkness, delusional rage and evil hallucinations sent him on a rampage that would leave in its wake a family deserted. Silent Voices is a story that must be told. It is a story that finally gives "voice" to those impacted by mental illness and for those "voices" that were silenced this terrible day in September.

Rethinking Classroom Participation

Author: Katherine Schultz
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807750174
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Katherine Schultz examines the complex role student silence can play in teaching and learning. Urging teachers to listen to student silence in new ways, this book offers real-life examples and proven strategies for "rethinking classroom participation" to include all students--those eager to raise their hands to speak and those who may pause or answer in different ways. --from publisher description.

Silent Voices of the Soul

Author: Robin Leigh Vella
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 184694287X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Enlightenment can happen anywhere. Spiritual messages are everywhere. This simple and relatable guidebook shows you how to recognize the whisper.

Raise Your Voice

Author: Kathy Khang
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830885323
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
It can be hard to speak up when power dynamics keep us silent and marginalized, especially when race, ethnicity, and gender are factors. Activist Kathy Khang roots our voice and identity in the image of God, showing how we can raise our voices for the sake of God's justice. We are created to speak, and we can both speak up for ourselves and speak out on behalf of others.

Seeing Voices

Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307365751
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect — a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."

Silent Voices

Author: Judith Favor
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500963460
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
This memoir's unsparing look at Leo and Cordelia Wright has bite and gravity. Two quiet people viewed through the lens of compassion offers fresh perspectives on the multiple causes and consequences of unspoken emotion. In 1912 the banker and the stenographer fell wildly in love. They were wed and buried her mother shortly before becoming proud parents. In 1929 Leo lost his livelihood and his pride. The prickly silences began. In 1934 his jobless father abandoned his mother. The bank foreclosed, leaving Margaret Mary Wright homeless. Leo and Cordelia faced a tough decision. Eventually they packed his elderly mother off to Oregon's public institution for paupers. The silences increased in intensity and hostility In 1942 Leo went to work building naval vessels in the Kaiser shipyard. A crime caused Cordelia to distrust him, dropping Leo into extended silences of longing, guilt and hoped-for reconciliation. In 1945 he was killed. Cordelia, a widow now with two adolescents to support, sought divine assistance on how to make a living. Prayerful silence soon led to her support of orphaned Japanese schoolgirls, a radical commitment in racist post-war Oregon. Across her lifespan my grandmother experienced shaming silence, bonding silence, confusing silence, punishing silence and, finally, revelatory silence. This memoir illustrates how the myriad facets of silence can impact personal and social relationships for harm or for healing.