Wilderness is a collection of poems chronicling a family's transition from conflict into peace. The structure is free-verse poetry. Written in various points of view, the work uses quotes from The Pilgrim's Progress for names of poems, epigraphs, and section titles. Wilderness has two major parts. The first section deals with the rising dysfunction before the family gives their wounds to God. Marriage stress, mental illness, an absent father, and troubled childhoods create deep complications in this blended family. The central character is the wife/mother, who attempts to manage herself and her home. The second half is marked by these characters undergoing the messy transition into health and spiritual healing. Delving into the inner workings of an American family, Wilderness seeks to excavate a damaged past for the purpose of embracing restoration.
Surviving Life is a compilation of blog entries from Driving with Anna. These short devotions are centered around the hope and strength needed to survive this life gathered by Anna from the bible, her friends and family.
Candy is a tough-talking California teen with a rough home life. A sarcastic stranger, Carlos, arrives to stay with the janitor’s family in Candy’s apartment building, forcing her back to the land of the living. Bear is a sweet-tempered giant of a dog, once a beloved family pet, now a junkyard dog—renamed Big and Bad—who finds himself sold to a fighting ring. Candy’s romance with Carlos provides a sweet counterpoint to the chaos she faces every day. Candy is directionless, but Carlos’ ambition and determination inspire her, and his aunt and cousins give Candy a taste of normal family life her father can’t provide. Candy’s and Bear’s stories intertwine only incidentally, until Candy is forced to realize that her once beloved father is not only incapable of caring for her, but is involved in the hideous business of dog fighting. Unable to rely on anyone around her, Candy faces the truth and does her best to rescue the big dog she once delivered into evil hands.
In George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton, Anna K. Nardo details how Eliot reimagined Milton's life and art to write epic novels for an age of unbelief. Nardo demonstrates that Eliot directly engaged Milton's poetry, prose, and the well-known legends of his life - transposing, reframing, regendering, and thus testing both the stories told about Milton and the stories Milton told."--BOOK JACKET.
In this ambitious study, Anna K. Boucher and Justin Gest present a unique analysis of immigration governance across thirty countries. Relying on a database of immigration demographics in the world's most important destinations, they present a novel taxonomy and an analysis of what drives different approaches to immigration policy over space and time. In an era defined by inequality, populism, and fears of international terrorism, they find that governments are converging toward a 'Market Model' that seeks immigrants for short-term labor with fewer outlets to citizenship - an approach that resembles the increasingly contingent nature of labor markets worldwide.
Izzy dachte, sie könnte ihrer dunklen Vergangenheit entkommen, doch als sie in die manipulative Welt von Rivera gezogen wird, muss sie sich ihrer tiefsten Angst stellen ihrer eigenen Dunkelheit. Rivera, ein charismatischer und gefährlicher Mann, erkennt das Potenzial in Izzy, eine Macht, die sie selbst nie zu besitzen glaubte. Er führt sie durch ein Labyrinth aus psychologischen Spielen und Prüfungen, die sie zwingen, die Grenzen ihrer Moral zu überschreiten. Mit jeder Entscheidung, die sie trifft, mit jedem Zug, den sie auf dem symbolischen Schachbrett ihres Lebens macht, wird Izzy tiefer in ein Netz aus Kontrolle, Macht und Leidenschaft verstrickt. Doch während sie sich immer weiter von ihrem alten Selbst entfernt, wächst auch die Gefahr, dass sie sich in Riveras Dunkelheit verliert. Dies ist nur ein kleiner Teil einer ganzen Trilogie.
THIS DETECTIVE STORY CLUB CLASSIC is introduced by Dr John Curran, who looks at how Anna Katherine Green was a pioneer who inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman named Agatha Christie.
The Clinical Interview offers a new perspective on the patient encounter. Interpreting decades of evidence-based psychotherapy and neuroscience, it provides 60 succinct techniques to help clinicians develop rapport, solicit better histories, and plan treatment with even the most challenging patients. This book describes brief skills and techniques for clinical providers to improve their patient interactions. Although evidence-based psychotherapies are typically designed for longer specialized treatments, elements of these psychotherapies can help clinicians obtain better patient histories, develop more effective treatment plans, and more capably handle anxiety-provoking interactions. Each chapter is brief and easily digestible, contains sample clinical dialogue, and provides references for further reading. These skills help clinicians practice more effectively, more efficiently, and with greater resilience. Whatever your clinical specialty or role, whether you are a trainee or an experienced clinician, The Clinical Interview offers practical wisdom and an entirely new way to think about the clinical encounter. The Clinical Interview will be of great use to any student in a health-related field of study or a healthcare professional interested in refining their interviewing skills. It will help anyone from emergency medical technicians, nurses, and physician assistants, to nurse practitioners and physicians to build more meaningful patient relationships.
This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.
To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in Botanical Entanglements, Anna Sagal reveals how women’s active participation in scientific discourses of the eighteenth century was enabled by the manipulation of social and cultural conventions that have typically been understood as limiting factors. By taking advantage of the intersections between domesticity, femininity, and nature, the writers and artists studied here laid claim to a specific authority on naturalist subjects, ranging from botany to entomology to natural history more broadly. Botanical Entanglements pairs studies of well-known authors—Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Smith—with authors and artists who receive less attention in this context—Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Jacson, Elizabeth Blackwell, Henrietta Maria Moriarty, and Mary Delany—to offer a nuanced portrait of the diverse strategies women employed to engage in scientific labor. Using socially acceptable forms of textual production, including popular periodicals, didactic texts, novels, illustrated works, craftwork, and poetry, these women advocated for more substantive and meaningful engagement with the natural world. In parallel, the book also illuminates the emotional and physical intimacies between women, plants, and insects to reveal an early precursor to twenty-first-century theorizing of plant intelligence and human-plant relationships. Recognizing such literary and artistic "entanglement" facilitates a more profound understanding of the multifaceted relationship between women and the natural world in eighteenth-century England.
Studies over the past few years have caused a gestalt in thinking about chemotherapy and tumor immunity. Rather than regarding chemotherapy as an immunosuppressive inevitability, it is now recognized that chemotherapeutics can direct and amplify an immune response against cancer. In this chapter, we will review this field with emphasis on the mechanisms behind the immunopotentiating features of classic cytotoxic chemotherapeutics. We will discuss the most recent clinical translations in this field and review the current gaps in our knowledge. In addition we will outline the difficulties that lie ahead in optimally exploiting the immunopotentiating action of classical chemotherapeutics, and describe the way we think this field can move forward.
This study examines the distribution of high-status materials in addition to archaeological evidence of their production in the settlements known as royal cities during the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC). The research focuses on the site sites of Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata, but incorporates Qantir/Pi-Ramesse for comparison.
An essential text for today’s emerging professionals and higher education community, the third edition of Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness provides accessible and actionable strategies to create safer, more resilient communities. Known and valued for its balanced approach, Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, presenting the major principles involved in preparing for and mitigating the impacts of hazards in emergency management. Real-world examples of different tools and techniques allow for the application of knowledge and skills. This new edition includes: Updates to case studies and sidebars with recent disasters and mitigation efforts, including major hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Summary of the National Flood Insurance Program, including how insurance rates are determined, descriptions of flood maps, and strategies for communities to help reduce premiums for residents. Overview of the ways that climate change is affecting disasters and the tools that emergency managers can use to plan for an uncertain future. Best practices in communication with the public, including models for effective use of social media, behavioral science techniques to communicate information about risk and preparedness actions, and ways to facilitate behavior change to increase the public’s level of preparedness. Actionable information to help emergency managers and planners develop and implement plans, policies, and programs to reduce risk in their communities. Updated in-text learning aids, including sidebars, case studies, goals and outcomes, key terms, summary questions and critical thinking exercises for students. An eResource featuring new supplemental materials to assist instructors with course designs. Supplements include PowerPoint slides, tests, instructor lecture notes and learning objectives, key terms and a course syllabus.
This book introduces the concept of hazards as part of the earth’s natural systems, in contrast to "disasters," which occur at the intersection of the built and natural environments. It emphasizes choices made by society that either increase or diminish our level of vulnerability to the impacts of hazards, and the role of the emergency manager in how these choices are made and acted upon. The book defines key concepts including mitigation, preparedness, resilience, vulnerability, and explains the role of the emergency manager in putting these principles into practice.
Hello, to all who are thinking of purchasing my book untitled "The turquoise" lounge. Please note that there are two copys of the book floating around out there. There is my first copy. To which I'm sad to say is very bad, pretty much unreadable, it is 76 pages long. Please stand clear of this one, however the Newer version is 118 pages long do enjoy this copy. Anna K Martin.
Anna Katherine Nicholas presents pertinent information on acquiring caring for, keeping, breeding, and showing Collies. Interesting kennel stories introduce the reader to well-known Collie breeders and owners of famous Collies in the United States and other countries.
Ninth Commandment: Thou Shalt Read the Koran. When Caliph Othman, the sole true creator of the Koran, finished setting down the very first compilation of the verses bequeathed by the Prophet, he found himself confronted by an incomprehensible book. In a fully logical way, Othman had classified the various verses he had found chronologically, from oldest to most recent. They were in the exact order in which they had been revealed to Mohammed over the course of his life. Nevertheless, in that order of reading, contradictions in the divine words appeared all too clearly. Allah had commanded one thing, while in later chapters Allah had taken it all back and even said the opposite of what he had ordered at first. A distressing aberration. This first attempt of Othman's at compiling a Koran sounded like the private diary of a lunatic swinging from one contradiction to another, progressively falling into paranoia and schizophrenia. It showed the unstable character of Allah, or rather of Mohammed, who had imposed his will on those around him for more than twenty years in accordance with his mood of the moment. This was a groping, uncertain will.So, Othman decided to mix up all the texts he had in his possession. He put them in order of decreasing length, a trick that allowed him to tone down somewhat the incomprehensibility emerging from contradictory verses. The Koran was born. To muddy the waters a little more around this literary poison, and to fool history, Othman also mingled episodes from Mohammed's life with others in verses historically distant from them. He mixed the Sage of Mecca together with the Murderer of Medina, going from cock to bull in just a few lines. Do not copy this asinine behavior! Read the Koran to grasp the full extent of Othman's trickery and that of his guru Mohammed. Doing that, you will grasp how men and women, normal human beings like you and like me, can turn into inhuman monsters, suicide bombers loving death more than life through their sick love for their Prophet, just as the S.S. did for Hitler. If Europeans had taken the trouble to read Mein Kampf, instead of listening to Nazi propaganda claiming the Führer did not want war, Hitler would never have been able to exterminate the Jews by invading democratic nations. They would have mobilized to neutralize the German eagle before it took flight and put into action the murderous aims divulged in the book. Similarly, rather than listen to Islamic propaganda claiming that Mohammed was a peaceful Prophet of a religion of peace, if people even glimpsed into the Koran, they would have never allowed this warmongering sect to sneak into their democratic lives under the pretext of freedom of religion. Humankind had not wished to see the truth written in letters of blood in these two literary toxins revealing their murderous futures.In cowardly fashion, people allowed the Germans to sell their souls to Satan. Now history was repeating itself and they were letting Moslems sell their souls to a heavenly Allah, but really to an earthly murderer called Mohammed, who was nothing else but the Devil. Of the two peoples that fell into the clutches of ideological obscurantism, one had woken with a start to find a gun in its hand as it stood on blood-soaked ground. The other was continuing to live a religious nightmare that may well lead all of us not to Paradise, but toward an awful doom. The end of humanity. Extract from the novel "The Sage of Mecca" by Thomas Anderson.
An illustrated guide to selecting and caring for a Norwegian Elkhound, including information about the history and characteristics of the breed, feeding, health care, and more.
For Mortal Stakes is a comprehensive view of education, children, and society, unique in its progressive, idealistic views combined with down-to-earth practical solutions. For Mortal Stakes should become a major position paper in the national debate on educational and societal values. This book will offer a rallying point for those who are looking for a reasoned, thoughtful, and compassionate approach to educating our children for the twenty-first century. It should serve as a wake-up call for all who are concerned about what is happening to children in today's society and schools.
Covering diverse professions from accounting to zookeeping, this is the world's most comprehensive career book series. Always growing and reflecting the times, the series encompasses traditional careers as well as those in newer areas such as laser technology, robotics, and holistic health care. Each book offers essential information for job seekers on getting started, obtaining training, education, advancement, salaries, job responsibilities -- and more. Canadian information is included wherever appropriate.
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