Laura A. Foster's Books

Happily After All

By: Laura Caroline Stevenson

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When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept some of the truths her father had always kept from her.

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0395502160

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Counting on Hope

Five Adoptions, Four Lasagnas, Three Miscarriages, Two Trips to Russia, and One Group of Friends

By: Laura Schmitt; Jen York; Amy Bowman

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Counting on Hope

Five Adoptions, Four Lasagnas, Three Miscarriages, Two Trips to Russia, and One Group of Friends

By: Laura Schmitt; Jen York; Amy Bowman

They expected swollen bellies, imagined colorful nurseries, and envisioned bikes in their driveways. When infertility threatened their plans, all five women chose adoption to create a family. With introductions by their fertile friend Jenny, this book includes an intimate look at how Laura, Jen, Amy, Ginger, and Grace found hope as well as motherhood.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462813100

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9781462813100

Holiday Haven: A Heartwarming Christmas Medical Romance

By: Laura Scott

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Holiday Haven: A Heartwarming Christmas Medical Romance

By: Laura Scott

A heartwarming Christmas medical romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott! Medical drama from the Monroe Family! Safe Haven Baby! Dr. Adam Monroe is shocked to find a safe haven baby left in his clinic waiting room. He teams up with pediatric nurse, Krista Vaughn to care for baby Joy, getting her safely through a dangerous bout of RSV, he wishes there was a way to reunite the baby with her mother. Krista has been trying to get over her crush on Adam Monroe for the past year, but as they care for the safe haven baby, they only grow closer. With the Christmas holiday right around the corner, will Adam let down his guard long enough to embrace a family of his own? Enjoy this clean and wholesome Christmas medical romance where a family of medical professionals overcome adversity to find love! Fans of Lynn Shannon, Christy Barritt and Lisa Phillips will enjoy this book!

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Laura Iding

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1962275086

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Reinventing Hoodia

Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa

By: Laura A. Foster

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Reinventing Hoodia

Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa

By: Laura A. Foster

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia, Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation. Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently.

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University of Washington Press

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0295742194

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9780295742199

Orphan Justice

How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

By: Johnny Carr,Laura Captari

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Orphan Justice

How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting

By: Johnny Carr,Laura Captari

Combining biblical theology and a personal journey with the latest social research, "Orphan Justice" moves readers from talking about global orphan care to actually doing something about it.

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B&H Publishing Group

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1433677989

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 7

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 7

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 7 of 8, pages 4043 to 4739. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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Lulu.com

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1312620366

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Social Workers as Game Changers

Confronting Complex Social Issues Through Cases

By: Laura Lewis

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Social Workers as Game Changers

Confronting Complex Social Issues Through Cases

By: Laura Lewis

Designed to promote active, hands-on learning, Social Workers as Game Changers: Confronting Complex Social Issues Through Cases by Laura Lewis is composed of 11 chapter-length case studies that prepare students to address the types of challenging social issues they will encounter as practicing social workers. The cases—covering topics from immigration, gangs, and education to race, mental health, and end-of-life care—illustrate the interrelationship between the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and facilitate not just recall of facts, but also higher-level learning. Each case allows students to confront realistic scenarios as they evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information, resulting in more engaged and informed classroom discussions.

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SAGE Publications

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1506317030

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The Complete Adoption Book

Everything You Need to Know to Adopt a Child

By: Laura Beauvais-Godwin,Raymond Godwin

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The Complete Adoption Book

Everything You Need to Know to Adopt a Child

By: Laura Beauvais-Godwin,Raymond Godwin

Your dream of being a parent can come true. The Complete Adoption Book is your indispensable resource along the way. Whether you choose to pursue independent, agency, or international adoption, The Complete Adoption Book is the most comprehensive and authoritative adoption book you can use to guide you through the process—from deciding if adoption is right for you to budgeting your expenses and interviewing birth mothers. As adoption professionals and adoptive parents, authors Laura Beauvais-Godwin and Raymond Godwin bring an unparalleled level of expertise and compassion to every situation an adopting parent is likely to encounter. The information provided in The Complete Adoption Book includes: *Information about every kind of adoption—from family adoption to independent and from agency to international *All contact information required for agencies, attorneys, and support groups *State-by-state requirements for completing legal adoptions *A step-by-step guide to the home study The Complete Adoption Book puts control back in your hands and places you on the right track for securing the family you’ve always wanted quickly, legally, and with few complications.

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Simon and Schuster

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1440518408

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9781440518409

Courageous Love

By: Laura Montan� Bailey, LMFT

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Courageous Love

By: Laura Montan� Bailey, LMFT

Raising grandchildren can be challenging for many reasons. Often, the children have experienced complicated family dynamics, heartbreaking loss, abuse, and neglect - all of which may affect their emotions, behavior, and development. In Courageous Love, author Laura Montané Bailey draws on both professional and personal experience to offer grandparents the hero status they deserve and the encouragement they need, to continue to fight for the lives of the grandchildren they love. This book explores the devastating impact of trauma to brain development and function, and provides instructions for helping grandchildren to experience Post Traumatic Growth rather than Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Bailey presents the idea of the Healing Circles to provide what traumatized children need most: - Safety, basic needs, and structure - Family gatherings that create identity and foster a sense of belonging - Clear rules, authority agreements and non-toxic relationships These Healing Circles provide a protective structure that becomes the container for joy, empathy, and love, a powerful combination for delivering hope and healing to children of trauma. Bailey discusses the three key responsibilities of raising grandchildren in a high tech, high stress, unpredictable world: take care of yourself, un-break the hearts of your grandchildren, and re-wire their brains for success. Presenting easy-to-understand solutions, Courageous Love gives grandparents the tools and confidence they need to run this parenting marathon.

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iUniverse

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1491703768

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Auntie Mom

A Single Woman's Unexpected Adventure Into Motherhood

By: Laura Maher

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Auntie Mom

A Single Woman's Unexpected Adventure Into Motherhood

By: Laura Maher

When her twenty-nine year old sister suffered a stroke, L.A. businesswoman Laura Maher returned home to Boston. During the year her sister spent in recovery, Maher moved her eight-year-old nephew and six year old niece, to California. Because her fiance did not want to "raise someone else's kids," her relationship with him ended, and as a result, she did not have a home for her or the kids to live in. While on a road trip, they met a wealthy couple who invited them to live on their estate in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Auntie Mom is an inspiring true story of a single woman's yearlong adventure into motherhood. Maher weaves a rich tapestry of candid tales that speak to the heart of the age-old struggle every woman faces in her role as parent, as well as their search for self-identity. It's a story of faith, and family, and what can happen to any of us when faced with the unexpected challenges life throws us, and the transformation that often occurs along the way.

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1462034012

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A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care

What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home

By: Dr Ruth Emond,Laura Steckley,Autumn Roesch-Marsh

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A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care

What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home

By: Dr Ruth Emond,Laura Steckley,Autumn Roesch-Marsh

A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care. It describes relevant theories, the 'invisible' psychological challenges that children will often struggle with and how to develop a nurturing relationship and build trust. Combining advice with practical strategies, the book also provides specific guidance on how to create safe spaces (both physical and relational) and how to aid the development of key social or emotional skills for children which may be lacking as a result of early trauma. Written with input from foster carers, the book is an ideal guide for residential child care workers, foster carers, kinship carers, social workers and new adoptive parents.

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0857007696

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Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

Winner of the 2020 Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Chronologically organized, Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence, Second Edition presents topics within the field of child development through unique and highly engaging Active Learning opportunities. The Active Learning features foster a dynamic and personal learning process for students. Within each chapter, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch introduce students to a wide range of real-world applications of psychological research to child development. Pedagogical features help students discover the excitement of studying child development and equip them with skills they can use long after completing the course. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge (formerly known as SAGE Coursepacks): Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Also of Interest: Case Studies in Lifespan Development by Stephanie M. Wright presents a series of 12 case studies shaped by the contributions of real students to build immersive examples that readers can relate to and enjoy. Bundle Case Studies in Lifespan Development with Child Development From Infancy To Adolescence, Second Edition for even more savings!

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150639891X

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Child Development

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

In the Third Edition of the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce A. Munsch invite students to take an active journey toward understanding the latest findings from the field of child development. Using robust pedagogical tools built into the chapter narratives, students are challenged to confront myths and misconceptions, participate in real-world activities with children and independently, and utilize video resources and research tools to pursue knowledge and develop critical thinking skills on their own. This new edition covers the latest findings on developmental neuroscience, positive youth development, the role of fathers, and more, with topics of diversity and culture integrated throughout. More than a textbook, this one-of-a-kind resource will continue to serve students as they go on to graduate studies, to work with children and adolescents professionally, and to care for children of their own.

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1506330703

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International Adoption

Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children

By: Laura Briggs

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International Adoption

Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children

By: Laura Briggs

In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects. Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.

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NYU Press

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0814795900

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Fractured Reunion: A Christian Reunion Second Chance Medical Romance

By: Laura Scott

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Fractured Reunion: A Christian Reunion Second Chance Medical Romance

By: Laura Scott

From USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott Medical drama from the Monroe Family! A second chance for a family… When anesthesiologist Maggie Dall and her ex-husband, cardiac surgeon Aaron Monroe respond to the scene of a bus crash, she doesn’t expect her old feelings for him to surface. But when a little boy clings to her after his mother dies at the scene, Maggie knows she’s not going anywhere. And if that means accepting Aaron’s help, then she’d willingly join forces with him. As the eldest of the Monroe siblings, Aaron had been devastated after his divorce, feeling like a failure. Now Maggie needed his help, and he was determined to offer his support. Together they bond over the care a newly orphaned little boy. Will repairing their fractured relationship provide the family they’d always wanted?

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Laura Iding

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1962275302

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Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum

By: Laura Westra,Satvinder Juss

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Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum

By: Laura Westra,Satvinder Juss

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face. Divided into three parts, the authors first explore the causality that generates displacement, examining climate change, illegal conflicts and the deprivation of natural resources. They argue that all of these problems either originate from human agency directly, or are strongly influenced by human activities, particularly those of wealthy countries in the North West. The study goes on to discuss how migrants are received and the problems they face on arrival, and concludes with confronting the fate and the status of asylum seekers after arrival, and the walls, both virtual and material, that they encounter. The authors propose ways of approaching the situation, beyond the present language and the limited interpretations of the Convention on the Status of Refugees. Written by leading experts in environmental ethics, asylum law, and international law, the book will be essential reading for those working in these and related areas.

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Routledge

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1317009215

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Indigenous Cities

Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation

By: Laura M. Furlan

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Indigenous Cities

Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation

By: Laura M. Furlan

In Indigenous Cities Laura M. Furlan demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. She situates Native identity among theories of diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism by examining urban narratives--such as those written by Sherman Alexie, Janet Campbell Hale, Louise Erdrich, and Susan Power--along with the work of filmmakers and artists. In these stories, Native peoples navigate new surroundings, find and reformulate community, and maintain and redefine Indian identity in the postrelocation era. These narratives illuminate the changing relationship between urban Indigenous peoples and theirtribal nations and territories and the ways in which new cosmopolitan bonds both reshape and are interpreted by tribal identities. Though the majority of American Indigenous populations do not reside on reservations, these spaces regularly define discussions and literature about Native citizenship and identity. Meanwhile, conversations about the shift to urban settings often focus on elements of dispossession, subjectivity, and assimilation. Furlan takes a critical look at Indigenous fiction from the last three decades to present a new way of looking at urban experiences that explains mobility and relocation as a form of resistance. In these stories Indian bodies are not bound by state-imposed borders or confined to Indian Country as it is traditionally conceived. Furlan demonstrates that cities have always been Indian land and Indigenous peoples have always been cosmopolitan and urban."--

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496202724

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Strategies for Successful Animal Shelters

By: Laura A. Reese

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Strategies for Successful Animal Shelters

By: Laura A. Reese

Strategies for Successful Animal Shelters is the first book to assess the relationship between shelter traits, activities and critical outcome variables, such as live release or save rates. This book provides a data-based evaluation of shelter processes and practices with explicit recommendations for improved shelter activities. Using a survey of licensed animal shelters, case studies, and data on state inspections, complaints, and save rates, this book provides an assessment of the activities, processes, and procedures that are most likely to lead to positive outcomes for a variety of animal shelters. The book also contributes to community debate around animal sheltering and provides best practices, methods and means to assess local shelters to ensure the highest level of animal welfare. It is a valuable resource for animal shelter professionals and rescue groups, as well as students in disciplines such as animal science, animal welfare and shelter medicine. - Offers best-practice recommendations and how they are used in animal shelters - Analyzes which shelter traits, programs and activities are most strongly associated with optimal outcomes, including live release rates - Includes an assessment of future research and activities to optimize animal welfare within shelters

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Academic Press

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0128163755

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Somebody's Children

The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption

By: Laura Briggs

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Somebody's Children

The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption

By: Laura Briggs

A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.

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Duke University Press

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0822351617

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The Love Lives of Birds

Courting and Mating Rituals

By: Laura Erickson

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The Love Lives of Birds

Courting and Mating Rituals

By: Laura Erickson

From the lifelong devotion of the American crow to the dalliances of the eastern bluebird, from the bald eagle’s dazzling aerial display to the male ruby-throated hummingbird’s reputation as a “deadbeat dad” — courtship, mating, and parenting differ dramatically among birds. Ornithologist and author Laura Erickson takes readers on a romance-fueled romp through the love lives of 35 species, exploring the diversity of avian approaches to pairing up. Each species spotlight pairs Erickson’s remarkable depth of scientific knowledge with her talent for drawing humorous and insightful parallels between human and bird. The result is a riveting read for bird-watchers and nature lovers alike.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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1635862752

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Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Town of Chester, The

By: Donna Lagoy and Laura Seldman

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Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Town of Chester, The

By: Donna Lagoy and Laura Seldman

The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for runaway slaves escaping to Canada along the Underground Railroad. The small Adirondack town holds as many as nine confirmed or suspected sites where fugitives once found shelter. Stories abound of residents discovering secret rooms containing beds and other artifacts within their homes. The first abolitionist pastor of the Darrowsville Wesleyan Church, Reverend Thomas Baker, reportedly hid fugitive slaves in the parsonage. Color photographs and interviews with current residents illuminate the region's hidden history with the Underground Railroad movement. With the support of the Historical Society of the Town of Chester, Donna Lagoy and Laura Seldman reveal these courageous stories of local families who risked everything in the pursuit of freedom for all.

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1467119164

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We Are Called to Rise

A Novel

By: Laura McBride

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We Are Called to Rise

A Novel

By: Laura McBride

“Your heart will break…then soar” (Redbook) when, far from the neon lights of the Vegas strip, three lives collide in a split-second mistake and a child’s fate hangs in the balance. Avis thought her marriage had hit a temporary rut. But with a single confession in the middle of the night, her carefully constructed life comes undone. After escaping a tumultuous childhood and raising a son, she now faces a future without the security of the home and family she has spent decades building. Luis only wants to make the grandmother who raised him proud. As a soldier, he was on his way to being the man she taught him to be until he woke up in Walter Reed Hospital with vague and troubling memories of how he got there. Now he must find a new way to live a life of honor. Every day, young Bashkim looks forward to the quiet order of school and the kind instruction of his third grade teacher. His family relocated to Las Vegas after fleeing political persecution in their homeland. Now their ice cream truck provides just enough extra income to keep them afloat. With his family under constant stress, Bashkim opens his heart to his pen pal, a US soldier. When these lives come together in a single, shocking moment, each character is called upon to rise. “You’ll be thinking about these characters long after you finish this haunting, heart-wrenching, and hopeful book” (Houston Chronicle).

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Simon and Schuster

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147673898X

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The Light Between Us

Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living.

By: Laura Lynne Jackson

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The Light Between Us

Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living.

By: Laura Lynne Jackson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift—and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live more beautifully in the here and now. Laura Lynne Jackson is a wife, a mother, a high school English teacher—and a psychic medium. Where most believe an impenetrable wall divides the world between the living and the dead, Jackson sees brilliant cords of light. She has dedicated her life to exploring our connection to the Other Side, conversing with departed loved ones, and helping people come to terms with loss. In The Light Between Us, she writes with clarity and grace, addressing the eternal questions that vex us all: Why are we here? What happens when we die? How do we find our true path in this life? Laura Lynne Jackson’s story offers a new understanding of the vast reach of our consciousness and enlarges our view of the human experience. Praise for The Light Between Us “A brilliant milestone marking our passage toward comprehending the deeper truths of our existence.”—Eben Alexander, M.D., author of Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven “I read The Light Between Us with great joy, savoring the wonderful stories and messages of hope. It is a book filled with wisdom and love, exploring the deep bonds that keep us eternally connected to our soul mates.”—Brian L. Weiss, M.D., author of Many Lives, Many Masters “A spiritual game-changer . . . For those suffering a terrible loss, you will find peace and comfort in her story. For those who question the afterlife, you will become a believer.”—Laura Schroff, co-author of An Invisible Thread “Straightforward, unassuming, and profoundly generous . . . Brave, honest, and beautiful, this book is a treasure.”—Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart “One of the most insightful and inspiring books about mediumship I have ever read.”—Gary E. Schwartz, author of The Afterlife Experiments and The Sacred Promise

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Dial Press

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0812998391

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Culture in Clinical Care

Strategies for Competence

By: Bette Bonder,Laura Martin

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Culture in Clinical Care

Strategies for Competence

By: Bette Bonder,Laura Martin

Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence explores theory and practice to define and describe the multidimensional nature of culture and its interaction with an individual’s experience in the development of beliefs, values, and behavior. The newly updated Second Edition examines cultural beliefs related to health and wellness and how these beliefs and their associated actions affect intervention strategies. Based on ethnographic methods, strategies for culturally sensitive assessment and intervention are defined and illustrated, with ample opportunities for reflection and practice. Going beyond traditional fact-centered and attitude-centered approaches, Culture in Clinical Care, Second Edition describes the ways in which culture emerges as individuals interact with each other in physical and social environments. This one-of-a-kind text by Dr. Bette Bonder and Dr. Laura Martin provides health care practitioners and students with chapter objectives, critical thinking questions, interdisciplinary case studies and examples, numerous activities to build observation and interaction skills, comprehensive references and online resources, and images. The book’s organization emphasizes practice and reflection by interweaving theory, examples, and continuous hands-on application of concepts. Readers have the opportunity to practice what they are learning and evaluate their own effectiveness while being constantly reminded that all individuals in any interaction embody numerous cultural influences. Benefits of the updated Second Edition: Training and practice in ethnographic methods that build awareness and skill Numerous examples, exercises, and activities for reflection and observation Interdisciplinary approach suitable for cross-disciplinary teaching contexts Definition of health care professions themselves as cultures Web and bibliographic resources Case studies involving a wide range of practitioner disciplines and cultural groups Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence, Second Edition fills a niche in health professions programs because of its combined emphasis on a theoretical foundation that highlights the individual as a cultural actor and on practical strategies and methods for clinical interventions. Instructors in educational settings can visit www.efacultylounge.com for additional material to be used in the classroom, including a sample syllabus. Occupational therapists, physicians, physician assistants, mental health professionals, and a variety of related health professionals will benefit from this interactive, interdisciplinary text.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040142109

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The Military Wife

By: Laura Trentham

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The Military Wife

By: Laura Trentham

“Expertly addresses PTSD, survivor’s guilt, and falling in love after a tremendous loss. . . . It’s impossible to finish this remarkable book without . . . tears.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina since her husband, Noah Wilcox’s death, nearly five years earlier. With her son Ben turning five and living at home with her mother, Harper fights a growing restlessness, worried that moving on means leaving the memory of her husband behind. Her best friend, Allison Teague, is dealing with struggles of her own. Her husband, a former SEAL who served with Noah, was injured while deployed and has come home physically healed but fighting PTSD. With three children underfoot and unable to help her husband, Allison is at her wit’s end. In an effort to reenergize her own life, Harper sees an opportunity to help not only Allison but a network of other military wives eager to support her idea of starting a string of coffee houses close to military bases around the country. In her pursuit of her dream, Harper crosses paths with Bennett Caldwell, Noah’s best friend and SEAL brother. A man who has a promise to keep, entangling their lives in ways neither of them can foresee. As her business grows so does an unexpected relationship with Bennett. Can Harper let go of her grief and build a future with Bennett even as the man they both loved haunts their pasts? “Touching and heartfelt.” —Library Journal

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8 Ways to Say "I Love My Life!"

By: Nancy De Los Santos Reza,Josefina Lopez,Margo De Leon,Laura de Anda,Susan Orosco, Bel Hernandez Castillo , Joanna Ilizaliturri Diaz,Rita Mosqueda Marmolejo

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8 Ways to Say "I Love My Life!"

By: Nancy De Los Santos Reza,Josefina Lopez,Margo De Leon,Laura de Anda,Susan Orosco, Bel Hernandez Castillo , Joanna Ilizaliturri Diaz,Rita Mosqueda Marmolejo

“If you don't do anything, nothing will happen.” Nancy De Los Santos Reza learned this important lesson early in life. College wasn't an option, so she got a job as a secretary. A colleague, an older woman who had taken a liking to her, encouraged Nancy to ask her supervisor about attending a professional conference in California. “What's the worst that could happen?” the woman asked. “They say 'no' and you don't go? You're already not going.” As a result, Nancy found herself in San Francisco on a life-changing trip. She would go on to earn two college degrees and become the producer of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel's movie review program, At the Movies. De Los Santos Reza's is one of eight inspiring personal essays by Latinas included in this collection. Each contributor overcame obstacles to happiness and success, and here they share their life lessons in the hopes of motivating others. Whether overcoming fear, guilt or low self-esteem, these women seek to encourage others to discover their personal power. With a foreword by acclaimed musician Vikki Carr, 8 Ways to Say I Love My Life and Mean It! contains chapters by women from a variety of professional backgrounds. Contributors include Latin Heat president Bel Hernandez Castillo and playwright and author of Real Women Have Curves, Josefina Lopez. Performed as monologues in 2009 in Los Angeles, the sold-out, ten-run show received a rave review in the Los Angeles Times and an Imagen Award, which recognizes positive portrayals of Latinos in the media. Designed to help women believe in the power of self-love and inner strength, this book will appeal to all women who seek a path to fulfillment.

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Arte Publico Press

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Child Development: An Active Learning Approach

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development: An Active Learning Approach

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

Although the field of child and adolescent development seems to be an easy one in which to provide active learning opportunities to students, few textbooks currently exist that actually do this.

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Theory and Cases in School-Based Consultation

A Resource for School Psychologists, School Counselors, Special Educators, and Other Mental Health Professionals

By: Laura M. Crothers,Tammy L. Hughes

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Theory and Cases in School-Based Consultation

A Resource for School Psychologists, School Counselors, Special Educators, and Other Mental Health Professionals

By: Laura M. Crothers,Tammy L. Hughes

This casebook provides an applied perspective regarding school-based consultation, including an overview of mental health consultation, behavioral consultation, social learning theory consultation, Adlerian consultation, and ecological/organizational consultation. Along with relevant discussion of the issues in each case study, critical thinking questions are included for discussion among students and educators regarding school-based consultation. This text includes many more and diverse case examples than the competing casebooks available, and is designed to be used in conjunction with any of the established primary texts in Consultation. School-Based mental health professionals, educators, and graduate students will find Theory and Cases in School-Based Consultation an indispensable guide in their work and study.

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Routledge

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Jurisdiction, Recognition and Enforcement in Matrimonial and Parental Responsibility Matters

A Commentary on Regulation 2019/1111 (Brussels IIb)

By: Cristina González Beilfuss,Laura Carpaneto,Thalia Kruger,Ilaria Pretelli,Mirela Župan

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Jurisdiction, Recognition and Enforcement in Matrimonial and Parental Responsibility Matters

A Commentary on Regulation 2019/1111 (Brussels IIb)

By: Cristina González Beilfuss,Laura Carpaneto,Thalia Kruger,Ilaria Pretelli,Mirela Župan

This authoritative Commentary on the recast Regulation 2019/1111 on matters of matrimonial and parental responsibility presents a deep analysis of the Regulation and is authored by leading experts in family law and private international law. Employing a granular, article-by-article approach, the Commentary acts as a detailed reference point on the uniform jurisdiction rules for divorce, legal separation and marriage annulment, as well as for disputes over parental responsibility with an international element, including child abduction.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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Slippery Characters

Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities

By: Laura Browder

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Slippery Characters

Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities

By: Laura Browder

In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities. Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s--against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music--Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807860603

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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump

By: Laura Briggs

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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump

By: Laura Briggs

Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, rising McJobs, and no resources for family care, our households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to gay marriage, anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.

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University of California Press

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0520299949

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Peters' Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology E-Book

By: Laura Nabarro,Stephen Morris-Jones,David Moore

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Peters' Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology E-Book

By: Laura Nabarro,Stephen Morris-Jones,David Moore

Newly organized and featuring new editors and hundreds of new images, Peters' Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seventh Edition, brings you up to date with today's greatest challenges in tropical medicine. Increased global travel, climate change, human conflict, short-term/large-scale human assemblies, potent therapeutic agents, drug resistance, and vaccine misinformation have contributed to a greatly changed landscape in this complex field. This practical, highly visual guide provides more than 1,300 stunning illustrations, making it an authoritative parasitology resource for accurate diagnosis of complex diseases. - Contains hundreds of new images, including more than 50 completely revised life cycles and epidemiological maps. - Provides current information on Zika virus, chikungunya virus, Ebola virus, SARS and MERS-CoV caused by enzootic corona virus, tuberculosis, ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhea, malaria, and much more. - Features a completely updated and significantly streamlined text, now organized not only by primary mode of disease transmission, but extended to define disease more strictly according to the route of acquisition – a logical change that reflects the principles applied to control measures for most infections. - Presents the knowledge and expertise of new editors Drs. Laura Nabarro, Stephen Morris-Jones, and David A. J. Moore.

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Taking Stock of Programs to Develop Socioemotional Skills

A Systematic Review of Program Evidence

By: Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta,Alexandria Valerio,Marcela Gutiérrez Bernal

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Taking Stock of Programs to Develop Socioemotional Skills

A Systematic Review of Program Evidence

By: Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta,Alexandria Valerio,Marcela Gutiérrez Bernal

This book represents a systematic review of the documented impacts of programs aimed at fostering socio-emotional skills in developed and developing countries. It uses a life-cycle approach to organize the findings from rigorous evaluations of more than 80 programs. This includes programs for toddlers and young children before primary school, programs for students enrolled in formal education, and programs targeted at the out-of-school population. The book develops a conceptual framework that helps to identify the program characteristics and participants’ profiles associated with a range of program outcomes. These include health-related, behavioral, academic or cognitive, and economic-related outcomes. The review finds that few of the programs studied focus exclusively on the development of socio-emotional skills. In fact, most efforts to develop socio-emotional skills are embedded within innovative education and training curricula, as well as pedagogical and classroom practices. Evidence shows that programs are particularly effective when targeted to highly vulnerable populations and, in particular, to young children. Overall, findings indicate that high-quality programs for young children tend to foster cognitive abilities in the short run and to impact socio-emotional skills over the long run. Programs for students enrolled in formal education (primary and secondary levels) show positive and significant impacts on the outcomes reviewed. The most successful of these programs are implemented school-wide and follow the SAFE approach: that is, they are appropriately sequenced, active, focused, and explicit. Finally, the review finds that programs for out-of-school children and youth are usually designed as a means of achieving immediate labor market outcomes (e.g., job-placement, formal employment, and higher wages). While some of these programs show positive and statistically significant impacts on socio-emotional skills, the impacts tend to be small.

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World Bank Publications

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1464808732

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Safeguarding Adults

By: Alison Brammer,Laura Pritchard-Jones

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Safeguarding Adults

By: Alison Brammer,Laura Pritchard-Jones

Working to safeguard adults is a complex area of practice that requires careful balancing of autonomy, protection and risk. In order to make good, lawful judgements about when and how to intervene, practitioners therefore need to have a comprehensive understanding of how the law applies to safeguarding adults. In this text book best-selling author Alison Brammer brings together the many strands of adult safeguarding to provide a succinct guide to the legal framework. Designed to equip practitioners with the relevant knowledge for practice, it lays out the current legislation and guidance and applies it to different areas of adult safeguarding, including defining 'abuse', assessing capacity and dealing with cases of criminal law. The book goes on to analyse key examples of serious case reviews, including the cases of Steve Hoskin and Michael Gilbert. Whether taking a module on Social Work Law or Safeguarding, or a qualified Social Worker, this concise guide to a key aspect of practise is essential reading. How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice? Drawing on a wealth of contemporary case examples, this handy pocket book provides a clear text which brings the many complex strands of safeguarding adults together in a succinct and accessible way. - Students taking Social Work qualifying undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. - Qualifies Social Workers fulfilling their learning development requirements. - Undergraduate and postgraduate students of other disciplines looking to understand the influence of law within professional decision-making (e.g. students of Youth Work, Community Work and Health) New to this Edition: - Each chapter is updated and revised to ensure currency - Includes the Care Act 2014 - Contains links/signposts to further learning to help illustrate how law is applied in practice

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1352007592

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Dog's Best Friend, A

By: Laura Greaves

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Dog's Best Friend, A

By: Laura Greaves

These uplifting stories of dogs and their unlikely mates are living proof of the life-changing power of friendship. Humans have been lucky enough to call dogs our best friends ever since one bravewolf dared sneak food scraps from a campfire more than 20,000 years ago - butwe'renot theonlycreaturestoexperience the joyof canine companionship. Around the world, dogs are building bonds with feathered, furred and even finnedpals. They are helping their friends to recover from trauma and abuse, like Wallacethe Labrador and his clutch of rescued battery hens; protecting them as they grow,like Barney the retriever and Billy the orphaned calf; and jointly discovering thedelightofplayand togetherness, like Tinniand Sniffer, a dog and a wildfox. In A Dog's Best Friend, Laura Greaves introduces inseparable buddies for whomspecies is no barrier to unconditional love. They may be unusual pairings, but theyare as deep, true and devoted as any human twosome. These uplifting stories ofdogs and their unlikely mates are living proof of the life-changing power offriendship.

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1761042521

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