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Adoption and Surrogate Pregnancy

By: Faith Merino

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Adoption and Surrogate Pregnancy

By: Faith Merino

Adoption and surrogate pregnancy are the two most realistic options currently available for millions of couples unable to have biological children. In the past decade, international adoption has become popular among those who wish to avoid the wait associated with adopting domestically. Yet because of unique political, economic, and cultural circumstances within individual countries, international adoption is fraught with legal controversies and difficulties. Surrogate pregnancy is a relatively new and inherently complicated alternative. With few regulations to guide the process and protect those involved, however, countries struggle to address its ethical and moral questions, in addition to the legal, political, cultural, and environmental ramifications. Providing a historic overview and defining the key issues, Adoption and Surrogate Pregnancy examines the laws related to adoption and surrogate pregnancy in five countries: the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom, and Guatemala. The discussion covers the ways in which adoption and surrogate pregnancy overlap and influence each other, the nuances that further complicate matters, and the controversies surrounding both issues—such as fears of exploitation, class discrimination, socially "unwanted" children, same-sex parenthood, and the difficulties of governing the family unit. Allowing students to compare the subjects from the perspectives of different countries and cultures, this balanced and objective volume sheds light on the way these issues affect the global community.

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350

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Infobase Publishing

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0816080879

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9780816080878

Cormorant Lake

A Novel

By: Faith Merino

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Cormorant Lake

A Novel

By: Faith Merino

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize On a cold November night, Evelyn Van Pelt steals her roommate’s two underfed and neglected little girls from their beds and drives to the northwestern hometown she fled fourteen years earlier—Cormorant Lake. There, hidden in the mountains and woods, dense with fog and the cold of winter, Evelyn grapples with the guilt of what she’s done, and as she attempts to reconcile her wild independence with the responsibilities of parenthood, she reconnects with the two women who raised her—her foster mother, Nan, and her biological mother, Jubilee. But by coming home, she has set in motion a series of events that will revive the decades-old tragedy that haunts Cormorant Lake—and lead her to confront the high cost of protecting her secret. At once fantastical and deeply rooted in the natural world, Faith Merino’s deeply affecting and spirited debut novel explores the shape of family, the enduring bonds of friendship, and the imperfections of motherhood—messy and beautiful, instinctive and learned, temporal but permanently life-altering.

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159

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Blackstone Publishing

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198264009X

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9781982640095

Arms and Letters

Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain

By: Faith S. Harden

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Arms and Letters

Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain

By: Faith S. Harden

Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a selection of autobiographies in contemporary historical context – including the coalescing of the first modern armies, which were partially populated by forced recruits and the urban poor – Faith S. Harden explains how soldiers adapted the concept of honour and contributed to the burgeoning autobiographical form. Harden argues that Spanish military life writing took two broad forms: the first as a petition, wherein the soldier’s service was presented as a debt of honour, and second, as a series of misadventures, staging honour as a spectacle that captivated an audience. Honour was inevitably gendered and performative, and as such, it functioned as one of the overarching metrics of value that early modern men and women applied to themselves and others. In charting how non-elite subjects rendered their lives legitimate through autobiography, Arms and Letters contributes both to a critical genealogy of honour and to the history of life writing.

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200

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University of Toronto Press

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1487535457

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9781487535452

The World the Railways Made

By: Nicholas Faith

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The World the Railways Made

By: Nicholas Faith

Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and universal: railways carried empire, capitalism and industrialization to every corner of the planet. For some, the 'Iron Road' symbolized the brute horrors of modernity; for others the way toward a brighter future. From 1825, when the first passenger service linked Stockton and Darlington to the outbreak of World War I, Nicholas Faith presents an engaging and entertaining journey through the first century of rail, introducing visionaries, engineers, surveyors, speculators, financiers and navvies – the heroes and the rogues of the mechanical revolution that turned the world upside down. The railway was the most important invention of the 19th Century, and THE WORLD THE RAILWAYS MADE argues that in the 21st Century, with high speed lines that can compete with air travel and over 190 metro systems in 54 countries underpinning the world's greatest cities, it remains just as relevant.

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447

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1781858357

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9781781858356

I am that B.I.T.C.H. (Blessed In The Church House) Lady

Volume 1

By: Faith Ta'Mistic Johnson

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I am that B.I.T.C.H. (Blessed In The Church House) Lady

Volume 1

By: Faith Ta'Mistic Johnson

I am that B. I. T. C. H. lady, was and is divinely inspired by God, through dreams and visions. They were received in my spirit, to share and pass on with simple instructions. This "title" was birthed to keep us in line with our "kingdom-purpose destinations." This book is also a tool to keep us "hyped" about what God is really about in our lives and how He "loves" us! It also reflects the dreams and visions that I received from Him to build my ministry, for His kingdom purpose. If you just commit to reading every page in this book and apply the simple instructions that were revealed to me, I assure you that you will develop your own direct communication with God; and if you already have one, I am sure that you will be closer than before!

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1641149167

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Book's by Faith Merino

Adoption and Surrogate Pregnancy

Adoption and Surrogate Pregnancy

Cormorant Lake

Cormorant Lake

Arms and Letters

Arms and Letters

The World the Railways Made

The World the Railways Made

I am that B.I.T.C.H. (Blessed In The Church House) Lady

I am that B.I.T.C.H. (Blessed In The Church House) Lady

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