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An Introduction to the History of Human Development and Family Science
by Andrea L. RoachThis comprehensive textbook offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the history of human development and family science. It provides insights from home economics, sociology and psychology to explain and analyze how the field was established and how it is developing and showcases the contribution of its unique transdisciplinary nature.Expert authors cover key topics and highlight historical contributions from women, scholars of color and LGBTQIA scholars; they emphasize and incorporate research that cuts across cultures; and examine current human development and family science trends in research and careers in their chosen fields. Subjects and issues covered include historical and contemporary studies of child development, adolescent development and young adulthood, adulthood and aging, family science, marriage formation and maintenance, parenthood, divorce, the role of grandparents and sibling relationships.Exploring how human development and family science can be used as a springboard into careers such as marriage and family therapy, social work, case management, teaching and research, this essential textbook is for all students of human development and family science.
Epilepsy in Other Brain Diseases: A Guide to Diagnosis and Management
by Johan ZelanoA substantial proportion of patients with other brain diseases like stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia will develop epilepsy. This book provides a clear and concise guide to the epidemiology and clinical research on epilepsy as it occurs in the context of other brain diseases.A better and more detailed understanding of the diseases related to the brain following decades of advances in neuroimaging, pathology, and neurophysiology have led to new insights into mechanisms leading to epilepsy. Advances in research on epilepsy in one brain disease are known to lead to an improved understanding of epilepsy in others. Advances in neurological care have resulted in patients with stroke, tumors, or infections surviving longer, with ensuing demands for long-term treatment, including epilepsy.A key message across the different chapters in the book is that epilepsy in other brain diseases should be managed just as ambitiously as any other epilepsy. Neurologists treating patients with brain disease will find this book accessible and practical. It will ensure a deeper understanding of acquired epilepsy among clinicians.
Insights on Journalism and Human Rights (Journalism Insights)
by Sanem ŞahinBringing together 17 authors from diverse perspectives, Insights on Journalism and Human Rights offers an accessible introduction to the characteristics and complexities of reporting human rights issues in a changing media environment.Organised into three sections, this book begins by mapping the field of human rights and journalism, outlining the evolving interaction between journalists and the human rights movement, and summarising the main theories and debates surrounding this relationship. Chapters then focus on journalists who find themselves at the centre of human rights violations and explore the challenges they face when covering human rights abuses, including their own safety and responsibilities. The final section of the book scrutinises the media’s treatment of various human rights-related issues such as terrorism, missing people, climate change, and migration, and identifies weaknesses and gaps in their coverage.Featuring case studies, points for discussion, and further reading suggestions throughout, Insights on Journalism and Human Rights is recommended reading for advanced students, educators, and researchers in this field.
Migration Literature in Translation: From Latinx Texts to Transnational Readers (Translation, Politics and Society)
by Mattea CusselMigration Literature in Translation explores the unique case of Latinx literature translated into Spanish, drawing from Latinx studies, sociology, political philosophy and cultural studies. The book focuses on works by Helena María Viramontes, Achy Obejas, Daisy Hernández and Junot Díaz, analysing migration literature and translation as a social practice. Cussel introduces the ‘integrated translation critique’, a new methodology that examines the transformation of texts through translation and their reception, while incorporating empirical social research methods. This innovative approach highlights the roles of various actors—scholars, translators, authors, reviewers, and readers— in shaping Latinx literary texts’ mobility and meaning across languages and cultures.Through qualitative research including focus groups, questionnaires and fieldwork in Europe, Latin America and the US, Cussel sheds light on how transnational readers engage with translated migrant stories. By addressing the cultural, social and political dimensions of translation, this interdisciplinary work offers a sociological perspective on literary translation. It is essential reading for scholars and students in the sociology of translation, Latinx and migration literature, and migration studies.
Principles of Dynamic Pedagogy: An Integrative Model of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for Prospective and In-Service Teachers
by Eleanor Armour-Thomas Edmund W. GordonPrinciples of Dynamic Pedagogy reinvigorates teachers’ potential to cultivate meaningful growth in their students by leveraging a more reciprocal, interdependent relationship between curriculum, instruction, assessment, and learning. The latest findings from cognitive science, educational psychology and measurement, clinical practice, and socio-cultural studies offer today’s educators a unique opportunity to accommodate the strengths and challenges of diverse learners. How does this research synthesize into an iterative pedagogical process that fosters engaged, responsive students and facilitates their achievement of learning goals and objectives?Principles of Dynamic Pedagogy introduces students, faculty, and scholars of teacher education to the metacognitive competencies needed to ensure that students acquire, revisit, and explicitly comprehend their emerging knowledge and skills throughout the lessons of a curriculum unit. Driven by the conceptual and empirical foundations of the Dynamic Pedagogy model, this book will support current and future educators in consistently guiding their students to recognize, apply, and improve feedback on using metacognitive and cognitive processes for learning. Regardless of domain, teachers will be better prepared to manage their classrooms with a coherent approach to decision-making, adjustments to practice, monitoring and feedback, assessment design, and reflection.
The Doctor Makes a Dollhouse Call (Dr. Fenimore Mysteries)
by Robin HathawayEmily and Judith Pancoast, elderly sisters, are the owners of a priceless dollhouse that is an exact replica of their Victorian home in a small seaside resort near Philadelphia. The dollhouse is inhabited by dolls that the sisters crafted to resemble each member of their family. On Thanksgiving Day, just before relatives arrive for dinner, Emily Pancoast discovers that the dollhouse dining room table, set in miniature of the real one, is in total disarray and the doll representing their niece Pamela is lying facedown in her dessert plate. When Pamela's death soon follows, the sisters turn to the physician detective, Dr. Andrew Fenimore.
My Greatest Day in NASCAR: The Legends of Auto Racing Recount Their Greatest Moments
by Bob McCulloughWith its insider's look into the world of auto racing, My Greatest Day in NASCAR is a must-have for all racing fans.Here are the words of Jeff Gordon, Bobby Allison, Richard Petty, and many others--all talking about their greatest racing moments. For the first time ever, Bob McCullough has brought together a first-person account of the most exciting races, personal achievements, and events for the last 50 years. Fans get to read both an oral history of racing and a moving tribute to the efforts and achievements of the sports stars as well as the behind-the-scenes people who help make racing what it is today.
Having It All!
by Emma RichmondRowan wanted it all: a man, a marriage and her own company!But her transatlantic romance with Bostonian businessman Arden Harveson had been doomed from the start. Compromise hadn't been in either of their vocabularies and they had parted bitterly. Now Rowan was back in the States, and, while a year's distance hadn't cooled their ardor, it hadn't cooled their heads, either. To Rowan it seemed that wanting Arden was light-years away from having him!"Richmond has a magic way...."-Affaire de Coeur
Falling for Her Convenient Husband
by Jessica SteeleNathan Mallory hasn't set eyes on Phelix Bradbury since they conveniently wed. When they meet at an international business conference eight years on, Nathan is intrigued when he sees that Phelix is still wearing her wedding ring....Now a successful lawyer with the independence she's always craved, Phelix is not the same shy, mousy teenager Nathan knew, but a confident and stylish woman. And her transformation certainly hasn't escaped the English tycoon's notice....
The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell: A Novel
by William KlaberAt a time when women did not commonly travel unescorted, carry a rifle, sit down in bars, or have romantic liaisons with other women, Lucy Lobdell boldly set forth to earn men's wages. Lucy Lobdell did all of these things in a personal quest to work and be paid, to wear what she wanted, and love whomever she cared to. But to gain those freedoms she had to endure public scorn and wrestle with a sexual identity whose vocabulary had yet to be invented. In this riveting historical novel set in upstate New York in the 19th century, William Klaber captures the life of a brave woman who saw well beyond her era. The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell is the fictionalized account of Lucy's foray into the world of men and her inward journey to a new sexual identity. It is her promised memoir as hear and recorded a century later by William Klaber, an upstream neighbor. Meticulously researched and told with compassion and respect, this is historical fiction at its best.
A Suitable Mistress
by Cathy WilliamsMistress material?Dane Sutherland was rich, powerful and sinfully gorgeous. He had it all-but he wanted more! He wanted Suzanne...and she was equally determined not to fall into his arms, or his bed!Suzanne had a deep grudge against Dane's family and, besides, he was used to dating petite, elegant women who hung on his every word. Suzanne was too tall, too outspoken.... She had to convince Dane she wouldn't make a suitable mistress at all!
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography
by Russell MillerAs the creator of Sherlock Holmes, "the world's most famous man who never was," Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favorite writers; his work is read with affection—and sometimes obsession—the world over. Doctor, writer, spiritualist: his life was no less fascinating than his fiction. Conan Doyle grew up in relative poverty in Edinburgh, with the mental illness of his artistically gifted but alcoholic father casting a shadow over his early life. He struggled both as a young doctor and in his early attempts to sell short stories, having only limited success until Sherlock Holmes became a publishing phenomenon and propelled him to worldwide fame. While he enjoyed the celebrity Holmes brought him, he also felt that the stories damaged his literary reputation. Beyond his writing, Conan Doyle led a full life, participating in the Boer War, falling in love with another woman while his wife was dying of tuberculosis, campaigning against injustice, and converting to Spiritualism, a move that would bewilder his friends and fans. During his lifetime Conan Doyle wrote more than fifteen hundred letters to members of his family, most notably his mother, revealing his innermost thoughts, fears and hopes; and Russell Miller is the first biographer to have been granted unlimited access to Conan Doyle's private correspondence. The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle also makes use of the writer's personal papers, unseen for many years, and is the first book to draw fully on the Richard Lancelyn Green archive, the world's most comprehensive collection of Conan Doyle material. Told with panache, The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle is an unprecedentedly full portrait of an enduringly popular figure.
A Private History of Awe
by Scott Russell SandersAn original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate)When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe—"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He says, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days." A Private History of Awe is an account of this search, told as a series of awe-inspiring episodes: his early memory of watching a fire with his father; his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday-school religion; his discovery of books and the body; his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence; his decision to leave behind the university life of Oxford and Harvard and return to Indiana, where three generations of his family have put down roots. In many ways, this is the story of a generation's passage through the 1960s—from innocence to experience, from euphoria to disillusionment. But Sanders has found a language that captures the transcendence of ordinary lives while never reducing them to formula. In his hands, the pattern of American boyhood that was made classic by writers from Mark Twain to Tobias Wolff is given a powerful new charge.
The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick
by Liz KalaugherA healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases. When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits—rodents, monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; waterfowl and avian flu; or mosquitoes and Zika. But, in this urgent and engaging book, we see it often works the other way around—humans have caused diseases in other animals countless times, through travel and transport, the changes we impose on our environment, and global warming. With science journalist Liz Kalaugher as our guide, we meet the wildlife we have harmed and the experts now studying the crosscurrents between humans, other animals, and health. Herds of buffalo in Kenya, cloned ferrets in Colorado, and frogs shipped worldwide as living pregnancy tests for humans, all help Kalaugher dive into the murky backstories behind wildlife epidemics past and present. We learn that military conflict likely contributed to the spread of rinderpest, or cattle plague, throughout Africa, devastating pastoral communities. That crowded poultry farms may create virulent new forms of bird flu that spill back into the wild. And that West Nile virus—which affects not only birds and humans, but other animals, including horses, skunks, and squirrels—is spreading as global temperatures rise. Expanding today’s discussions of environmental protection to include illness and its impact, Kalaugher both sounds the alarm and explores ways to stop the emergence and spread of wildlife diseases. These solutions start with a simple lesson: when we protect other animals, we protect ourselves.
Temporary Parents
by Sara WoodBack in his bed!Laura had sworn never to return to Cornwall, or to see her ex-lover, Max, again. But now here she was, cocooned in a tiny clifftop cottage with him, watching him play daddy to her small niece and nephew-and enjoying every minute of it!Hidden away from the outside world, it was all too easy to pretend that she and Max were together again, but Laura knew the fun and frolics couldn't last. Once they handed the children back to their real parents, Max would surely lose interest in her. Especially when he learned her shattering secret!
Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility
by Janet Jaffe Martha Ourieff Diamond David J. DiamondFor people experiencing infertility, wanting a baby is a craving unlike any other. The intensity of their longing is matched only by the complexity of the emotional maze they must navigate. With insight and compassion, Drs. Janet Jaffe, Martha Diamond, and David Diamond-specialists in the field of Reproductive Psychology who have each experienced their own struggle with infertility-give couples the tools to:*Reduce their sense of helplessness and isolation*Identify their mates' coping styles to erase unfair expectations*Listen to their "unsung lullabies"--their conscious and unconscious dreams about having a family--to mourn the losses of infertility and move on.Ground-breaking, wise, and compassionate, Unsung Lullabies is a necessary companion for anyone coping with infertility.
Why Be Jewish?
by David J. Wolpe"All beginnings require that you unlock new doors."--Rabbi Nachman of BratslavIn this short and inspiring text, Rabbi David J. Wolpe addresses all who seek to enlarge the spiritual side of their lives. For those considering a return to the faith of their forebears, for those drawn to conversion, Why Be Jewish? is a learned, graceful, and welcoming introduction beckoning readers into the heart of this venerable and enduring religion.
The Lyon Legacy
by Peg Sutherland Roz Denny Fox Ruth Jean DaleThe LYON LEGACYThree original stories by three popular Superromance authors-in one volume. And The Lyon Legacy continues! Watch for Family Secrets, Family Fortune and Family Reunion-full-length novels coming in the next three months.It's fifty years since the Lyon family of New Orleans ventured into what was then an exciting new business-television. Despite objections from some in the family, Margaret Hollander Lyon believed it was the wave of the future...and the past fifty years have certainly proven her right!The Lyons created a legacy for their children and grandchildren-a legacy of business success and family loyalty.But the Lyon Legacy is also a history of feuding, betrayal, deceptions. Every family has its secrets, and the Lyons have more than most.Margaret, André, Leslie-three generations of the Lyon family. Three stories about the power of family bonds...and the life-changing power of love.
Falling to Heaven: A Novel
by Jeanne M. PetersonFALLING TO HEAVEN is the story of two American Quakers who trek into Tibet in 1954. In this work of historical fiction, Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community and travel to the Tibetan city of Shigatse where they soon find companionship with their neighbors, Dorje and Rinchen, and their small family. But the arrival of Maoist soldiers into their quiet life shatters everything. Gerald is captured by the soldiers, leaving a pregnant Emma facing an agonizing decision: flee Tibet or stay and risk imprisonment herself. Dorje and Rinchen are her only allies, but their lives are also thrown into turmoil when their son abandons the sanctuary of his monastery to fight in the resistance. Told in three distinct voices rich in their respective spiritual traditions, FALLING TO HEAVEN is ultimately a novel about faith: losing it and rediscovering it in places you'd never expect. FALLING TO HEAVEN conjures a panoramic tale that unfolds the mysteries of an ancient and peaceful way of life.
Simple Cooking
by John ThorneJohn Thorne's classic first collection is filled with straightforward eating, home cooking, vigorous opinions, and the gracefully intelligent writing that makes him a cult favorite of people who like to think about food."Incisive, hilarious and occasionally nostalgic, this volume will delight many readers, reminding them why they enjoy the pleasures of food and cooking."--Publishers Weekly
Creed: From Zero to Platinum
by Marc ShapiroCreed's story is indeed an inspirational one. The group of rockers originating from Tallahassee, Florida, made an indelible impression with their debut album, My Own Prison, released on the independent Wind Up Records label. Creed dominated the rock charts and made history when all four singles from this freshman album captured the number one position. Their success is all the more genuine because it was done without the backing of huge corporate dollars or the hype of a glitzy media campaign. With the release of their sophomore album, Human Clay, the Florida foursome continue to gain respect from critics and fans alike who praise them for their passionate live performances and poignant heartfelt lyrics. Read all the exciting details of a band whose faith and belief in their musical dream pulled them through their bleakest hour and propelled them forward to the peak of the musical charts. An accomplishment Creed achieved their way - without apology.
Honeymoon for Three
by Sandra FieldNine months...Cory wanted a baby-no strings attached! Her ex-husband had done more than enough to convince her that men were surplus requirements. Apart from one basic detail...She needed a lover. Someone who would make a baby...then a convenient exit. Slade Redden fulfilled all her criteria. But their lovemaking had left him wanting...more! He didn't want a one-off deal-he wanted Cory for always. It took only one night to make a baby. Slade had nine months to make a wife!
The Coffeepot Inn (Man of the Month)
by Lass SmallMR. JANUARYBryan Willard: Head hunk at the Coffeepot InnHis dream date: The lovely Lily...his new bossHis problem: He's in over his head!Nothing much ever happened 'round here till Lily came along. I was happy enough running the Coffeepot Inn and staying out of trouble. But now, trouble is all I've got!See, Lily is just twenty-three-beautiful and sassy, but she doesn't know anything about the real world. And every single guy in town-not to mention some of the married ones-has his eye on her. Someone's got to protect her virtue. But who's going to protect me from her?MAN OF THE MONTH: He's rough around the edges, she's smooth as silk. But opposites can attract in the most surprising ways!
Enticed
by Jennifer TaylorShadow from the past...How many married couples had the chance to fall in love all over again? Anna might have lost her memory but she remembered her husband-and how much she loved him. Ricco Falcone was not a man who could be easily forgotten!But did she really know him? As she slowly began to piece together her memories she started to realize that there was more to her husband than there seemed....
A Very Private Revenge
by Helen BrooksAn intimate vendetta!Tamar had made it her business to find out all Jed Cannon's secrets. The notorious playboy had destroyed her cousin's happiness-and her reputation. Now Tamar was determined Jed must be made to pay. It was time to put her plan into action!Tamar intended to play Jed at his own game: seduce him, the publicly jilt him! But the more she flirted with him, the more she realized Jed wasn't the ruthless man he seemed. Maybe it wasn't really revenge she wanted after all....