A refugee’s exhilarating story of displacement and perseverance in the face of extremism and the American who is forever changed by what she hears. When Cindy Miller met Lailoma Shahwali, who was altering her daughter’s wedding dress, she expected their interactions would be brief. But in Lailoma she found not just a seamstress, but a survivor who would open up about her remarkable experiences in her native Afghanistan under Taliban rule, her husband’s brutal murder in front of Lailoma and her young son, her mountain escape into Pakistan, and her journey to a new life in the United States. A breathtaking account of triumph against all odds, The Alterations Lady documents Lailoma’s childhood as an Afghan girl, the indignities she endured when the Taliban seized her beloved country and stripped her of her hard-won rights, her relentless determination to protect her child and offer him a better life, and her navigation of the complicated United States immigration system. This timeless story of one refugee’s pursuit of the American dream and her search for sanctuary in a foreign land is a poignant reminder of the plight of refugees everywhere and the possibilities offered by a nation of immigrants.
This book tells the remarkable story of how AL SANCHEZ, a man of deep faith and commitment, overcame incredible obstacles to answer Gods call to help orphaned, abandoned, and abused girls in Guatemala. You will laugh, cry, and be inspired as you read about the miraculous ways God worked through him to build Prince of Peace Home for Girls, a place of refuge for wounded and needy girls in Guatemala. You will: Be touched by stories of the girls and the founder. Gain new understanding of life in a third-world country. Be encouraged to see how God works through ordinary people to accomplish His will. Perhaps consider getting out of your comfort zone to go on a short- term missions trip yourself. Watch your own faith grow as you read of the struggles and victories of others.
Philip Wescott is a newly divorced, middle-aged, out-of-work lawyer who lives in Portland, Maine. He conveniently runs into his old partner Steven, who is a handsome, wealthy single man; unlike Philip, who has until now lived his life as a committed family man with three children. Steven offers Philip a place to stay and manipulates his hand into running drugs; propelling him into an adverse world in which he is not acquainted. Likewise, Philip's youngest son, fourteen year-old Ryan also enters into an unfamiliar world when his mother spitefully removes him from his lifetime attendance in private schooling and places him into the public school system. Ryan quickly finds himself in an escalating battle with a gang. Although they live apart, the battles of both father and son progress in parallel, as they are both uncorrupted by evil; one in the same. They reunite only once, when they are deep in danger, yet each remains silent about the chaos that encroaches upon their once peaceful worlds; a truth which, if shared, may have altered their paths from the very near danger that lurks around the corner.
Headlines are filled with tragic stories of senseless murders and suicides that have resulted from child and teen bullying. As social networking and technology add to the ways that kids can be bullied, parents feel powerless against this insidious force that compels even "good" kids to participate in or enable bullying in schools, in extracurricular activities, online, and at home. The Essential Guide to Bullying Prevention and Intervention brings together the wisdom and experience of two people who have witnessed bullying's causes and tragic effects. School social worker Cindy Miller teams with Cynthia Lowen, the co-creator of Bully, to arm parents and teachers with the knowledge they need to: • Understand the societal and human forces that are causing bullying to escalate. • Discover who is most at risk for being bullied, being a bully, or not helping a bullying victim. • Target-proof their kids and teach them coping skills. • Identify even the most covert bullying situations. • Infiltrate the world of cyberbullying and head off its disastrous effects. • Intervene to stop a bullying situation. • Know what legal recourse they have to back up other anti-bullying efforts.
Child Maltreatment, Third Edition, by Cindy Miller-Perrin and Robin Perrin, is a thoroughly updated new edition of the first textbook for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in this field. The text is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to child maltreatment by disseminating current knowledge about the various types of violence against children. By helping students understand more fully the etiology, prevalence, treatment, policy issues, and prevention of child maltreatment, the authors hope to further our understanding of how to treat child maltreatment victims and how to prevent future child maltreatment.
Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships describes the magnitude, risk factors, and consequences of intimate violence. The text offers a multidisciplinary focus that examines traditional areas of interpersonal violence as well as forms of intimate abuse outside the family. Addressing intimate relationship violence across the developmental lifespan, the Second Edition offers a mix of historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as personal stories and high-profile cases to provide readers with ample opportunity for application of the explanations, research, and data. The authors discuss the professional and social response to violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships (VMIR) to further the understanding of how to treat victims and how to prevent future intimate violence. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
Thoroughly updated and expanded, the Second Edition of Child Maltreatment: An Introduction disseminates current knowledge about the various types of violence against children. Uniquely offering both a psychological and sociological focus, this core text helps students understand more fully the etiology, prevalence, treatment, policy issues, and prevention of child maltreatment.
This memoir tells the story of a man's deterioration from Alzheimer disease from two perspectives. His daughter, an English professor at Caltech, describes her father's dementia, using her expertise in language and literature as a way to frame his loss of words, spatial orientation, identity, behavioral decorum, and memory. The physician, an academic neurologist at the University of California at San Francisco, explains the science behind Alzheimer disease using his expertise in neurology, articulating to a general audience how dementia assaults the brain"--
This book highlights religious faith from a positive psychology perspective, examining the relationship between religious faith and optimal psychological functioning. It takes a perspective of religious diversity that incorporates international and cross-cultural work. The empirical literature on the role of faith and cognition, faith and emotion, and faith and behaviour is addressed including how these topics relate to individuals’ mental health, well-being, strength, and resilience. Information on how these faith concepts are relevant to the broader context of relational functioning in families, friendships, and communities is also incorporated. Psychologists have traditionally focused on the treatment of mental illness from a perspective of repairing damaged habits, damaged drives, damaged childhoods, and damaged brains. In recent years, however, many psychological researchers and practitioners have attempted to re-focus the field away from the study of human weakness and damage toward the promotion of a positive psychology of well-being among individuals, families, and communities. One domain within the field of positive psychology is the study of religious faith as a human strength that has the potential to enhance individuals’ optimal existence and well-being.
Timmy was just like other little boys, but he had one fault. He hated doing his chores; he would rather play with his toys and eat his snacks. His mother warned him his mess would someday turn into a monster and stink up his entire room. Timmy did not heed his mother’s advice, and one day he received some unexpected company. A monster named Chores took up residence under his bed, eating the scraps until he grew very large and smelly. Chores delighted in making an even bigger and smellier mess. How long will Timmy be able to live with the monster sharing his bedroom?
A developer's knowledge of a computing system's requirements is necessarily imperfect because organizations change. Many requirements lie in the future and are unknowable at the time the system is designed and built. To avoid burdensome maintenance costs developers must therefore rely on a system's ability to change gracefully-its flexibility. Flex
Henny the chicken is sad. She wants a chick in the worst way-there is just one problem-she does not have any eggs. But with help from all her barnyard friends, Henny is about to learn that there are lots of other eggs around the farm that need to be cared for by someone special, just like her! "Henny and Her Family" shares a whimsical story of adoption through a chicken's eyes that teaches children that unconditional love is all that is needed to be a parent.
The most comprehensive research-based text on family violence – now more accessible and visually inviting than ever before Streamlined and updated throughout with state-of-the-art information, this Third Edition of the authors' bestselling book gives readers an accessible introduction to the methodology, etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of family violence. Research from experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, criminology, and social welfare informs the book's broad coverage of current viewpoints and debates within the field. Organized chronologically, chapters cover child physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; abused and abusive adolescents; courtship violence and date rape; spouse abuse, battered women, and batterers; and elder abuse.
This is the story of a young man who buys a green 1998 Ford Ranger. The book is the story of their adventures in civilian life and the Army, and the places the truck takes the two of them.
Reagan and Lincoln are always excited to join Papa on a new great American adventure. Ride along, in Papa's Star-Spangled Convertible as they learn all about the American flag. Our Great America; The American Flag; Coloring and Activity Book is written by Cindy Holt Miller.
Grace Brooks is a total and unashamed nerd. She loves her life, her friends, and her little dog Neutrino. That is until one day she's uprooted to Miller's Island, North Carolina, to start over as the new kid in school. There she meets Jack, and they quickly bond over their love of science and all things nerdy. Together they embark on an epic adventure, travelling through time to solve the mystery of The Toxic River.
Join Beamer and Kyle as they learn about cancer from Dr. Raj who explains it in terms that are easy to understand. With this knowledge, Beamer and Kyle are better able to support their friend Tayo through his journey.
Marauder Nothing mattered in Evan Duvall's life as much as his sexy, timid Priscilla. Her touch could destroy and resurrect with one feathery stroke. Pleasure was all they could give each other-and Priscilla gave freely. Her presumed death annihilated Evan and brought to life Strafe, the notorious road pirate. After years of loneliness, Strafe finds Priscilla alive-and changed. She's feisty, independent and sensual as hell. She may be wary of the new Strafe but her body responds with a hungry need he finds impossible to ignore. Waiting for her capitulation becomes torture, so he begins a series of inventive, erotic teasing sessions that keep her in a constant state of arousal. But to properly care for Priscilla, as well as those who've come to depend on him, the pirate must strike again. Landlocked For ten years, Kathryn has struggled to survive in a war-torn region that used to be part of the United States. Her country ripped apart and her husband presumed dead, she and her son need a miracle to find safe passage to the West. She's not expecting that miracle to come in the form of Captain Brett Logan when he stumbles, injured, onto her front porch. A privateer for the Republic of Texas, Logan keeps one eye on the horizon and one hand on his sidearm, knowing the life of a modern-day pirate is often short. When an enemy bomb nearly ends him, Kathryn nurses him back to health. Against her better judgment, she's drawn to the enigmatic man with his tattoos and battle scars. Kate finds shelter in Logan's arms-and his bed. The captain navigates her body with the same skill that he sails the seven seas. The heat of their passion gives way to deeper currents. But with danger surrounding them, they must struggle to stay together and survive.
That is kind of the way the definition of human life has evolved in the last few decades. A hundred years ago, when a woman got pregnant, she knew she wasn't having a dog or cat in nine months. She knew she was carrying a living boy or girl and if she got rid of that child, she was killing it. So why suddenly, with the dawn of the '60s and '70s, was there a question about when life begins: it's at conception; no, it's fertilization (which sounds like something for farm crops); no it's later, at implantation in the uterus; no, it's....on and on. It's a zygote, an embryo, fetus, but never called a child until the moment of birth -- and maybe not even then if a handicap is present. Science went from sincerely asking about the beginning of developing life in utero, to a Pilate attitude, "What's life?" an ultimate blow-off: We know it's human, it's got the requisite chromosomes, but what's the big deal. You don't want it, call it something else -- tissue, product of conception -- and get rid of it. This issue of the Bellarmine Forum magazine is all about the big deal of "Life: In the Beginning." Our unparalleled writers -- Charles Rice, Reginald Gallop, Monica M. Miller -- take on the issue of anti-life, that is, contraception, why its is wrong, and how it is leading Catholics on a collision course with government. Gallop describes sexual union as picking up the hotline to God. Miller says outright taking God out of the picture by the use of contraception is contributing to gay marriage. Rice foresees persecution of the Catholic Church on the horizon. Articles include: Marriage and the Hotline to God, Dr. Reginald Gallup Contraception -- The Folly of Freedom, Dr. Monica M. Miller A Clear and Present Danger, Dr. Charles Rice Campaign for Humanae Vitae, Christopher Manion Contraception & Persecution, Matthew Yonke Think with the Church, Pedro Arrupe, SJ As God Leaves the Stage... "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10). So why is the population of the developed countries below replacement level? While Jesus was talking about spiritual life in union with Him, there seems to be a concurrent loss in the area of grace, even as this is being written. When did life become so hateful to itself It became so when man pushed God out of creation and took over control. Instead of trusting the provident Uncaused Cause, man interfered like a traffic cop detouring drivers from their destination. The first detour was conception control, then controlling births by abortion, then logically, controlling lives of the substandard -- including Third World countries where contraception and abortion are imported with aid dollars -- and finally controlling marriage because without the possibility of conception, the need for the traditional family is pass�. Bring on the aberrations! Bring on sin! Bring on persecution of those who object to the downward slide of society toward hell. Persecution? Why persecute the Church? Because the Catholic Church claims God as its founder and Divine Law as its Supreme Court. The Church holds out a moral beacon in its teachings and tradition that has survived two millennia. The Church proclaims Truth to those who want to skew values, truth and all that is good and holy their own way. And if the Church is an obstacle to the untruth that is proposed, the Church must be discredited, silenced, erased from the view of society. It is as simple as that. But Jesus Christ came to give life and in that life lies the power of the Risen Lord so that the faithful can courageously proclaim Truth as the Church has for centuries.
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