Laurel Wilson's Books

Shostakovich

A Life

By: Laurel E. Fay

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

For this biography the author has used many primary documents; Shostakovich's many letters, concert programmes, newspaper articles and diaries of his contemporaries. Showing his life as an example of the paradoxes of living as an artist in Russia.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

494

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195182510

ISBN 13

9780195182514

Aunt Phil's Trunk

Bringing Alaska's history alive!

By: Laurel, Bill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Aunt Phil's Trunk

Bringing Alaska's history alive!

By: Laurel, Bill

Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three entertains readers as they travel through Alaska's history from 1912 to 1935. This book of nonfiction short stories highlights the pioneering spirit of early Alaskans as they enter a new era as a territory of the United States. As with the first two books, Volume Three is filled with close to 350 historical photographs. Downing Bill weaves page-turning narratives. Readers follow along as men with axes, hammers and mauls pound a path through the vast Alaska wilderness to lay railroad tracks that connect the deep-water port of Seward in the south to the territory's interior town of Fairbanks in the north. Through the stories in this volume, readers watch a railroad construction town grow out of the tundra to become Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. Volume Three also shares stories about epidemics and disasters, including the Great Sickness of 1918, the sinking of the steamship Princess Sophia in Southeast Alaska and the incredible diphtheria serum run in 1925 when brave mushers and their tenacious dogs saved the town of Nome from certain death. This book shines a light on early aviators who blazed new trails through Alaska skies, how the Alaska Native people struggled for recognition and how farmers from America's Midwest carved out an agricultural community in the wild Matanuska Valley. It ends with the fatal airplane crash of humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post near Barrow in 1935.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

448

Publisher

Publication Consultants

Published Date

ISBN 10

1940479983

ISBN 13

9781940479989

The Swimsuit Issue and Sport

Hegemonic Masculinity in Sports Illustrated

By: Laurel R. Davis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Swimsuit Issue and Sport

Hegemonic Masculinity in Sports Illustrated

By: Laurel R. Davis

This study of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue demonstrates how the magazine encourages individual and institutional practices that create and maintain inequality. Laurel Davis illustrates how the interactions of media production, media texts, media consumption, and social context influence meaning. Individuals' interpretations of and reactions to the magazine are influenced by their views about gender and sexuality, views that have been shaped by their social experiences. Based on extensive interviews with Sports Illustrated producers and consumers, as well as analysis of every swimsuit issue from the first in 1964 to those of the 1990s, the book argues that Sports Illustrated uses the swimsuit issue to secure a large male audience by creating a climate of hegemonic masculinity. This practice produces considerable profit but on the way to the bank tramples women, gays, lesbians, people of color, and residents of the postcolonialized world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

182

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1438400551

ISBN 13

9781438400556

The Long Journey Home

A Novel of the Post-Civil War Plains

By: Laurel Means

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Long Journey Home

A Novel of the Post-Civil War Plains

By: Laurel Means

A fascinating family saga set in the 1860s prairie of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Pioneer and Civil War veteran Henry Morgan sets out on a dramatic journey that takes him through mazes, river currents, down dangerous trails, and up against dead ends. From an unlikely beginning, Morgan's hasty marriage to the young and illiterate Agnes Guyette has unforeseen consquences. As they attempt to claim a government land grant two hundred miles away in Green Prairie, MN, they must fight local Indians, hostile wilderness, and desperados determined to steal their land. Filled with nonstop action and unexpected plot twists and turns, this novel is a roller coaster ride of action, intrigue and high adventure.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

363

Publisher

Chicago Review Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0897339177

ISBN 13

9780897339179

In the Clear

By: Anne Laurel Carter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In the Clear

By: Anne Laurel Carter

On her seventh birthday, Pauline rode across the lawns on her street followed by her best friend Henry, he on the blue wooden horse, she on the red. On the seventh lawn at the top of the street, she collapsed, becoming a sudden victim of the polio outbreak of the summer of 1954. Five years later, when In the Clear begins, she has survived, but paid a heavy price. A brace on her left leg allows her to walk, but she confines herself to her house, humiliated at the notion of being seen. Terrified by what Pauline has already suffered, her mother watches over her, forbidding her to play hockey on the ice rink her father has created in the backyard. In the Clear alternates, chapter by chapter, between Pauline's horror-filled year in the hospital five years earlier and her struggles to adapt in the present of 1959 and 1960. At the end of the book, her triumphs in past and present come together and she is able to move forward with new friendships, a renewed bond with her mother and, most important, a new faith in herself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

146

Publisher

Orca Book Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1554694841

ISBN 13

9781554694846

The Recipe Reader

Narratives - Contexts - Traditions

By: Janet Floyd,Laurel Forster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Recipe Reader

Narratives - Contexts - Traditions

By: Janet Floyd,Laurel Forster

Over the last decade there has been an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books; yet there remains surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts - from the quintessential embodiment of lifestyle choices to the reflection of artistic aspiration - is a complex, distinct and important form of cultural expression. In this volume, contributors address questions raised by the recipe, its context, its cultural moment and mode of expression. Examples are drawn from such diverse areas as: nineteenth and twentieth-century private publications, official government documents, campaigning literature, magazines, and fictions as well as cookery writers themselves, cookbooks and TV cookery. In subjecting the recipe to close critical analysis, The Recipe Reader serves to move the study of this cultural form forward. It will interest scholars of literature, popular culture, social history and women's studies as well as food historians and professional food writers. Written in an accessible style, this collection of essays expands the range of writers under consideration, and brings new perspectives, contexts and arguments into the existing field of debate about cookery writing.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

348

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351883186

ISBN 13

9781351883184

Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada

By: Laurel Dianne Hansen,John H. Klotz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada

By: Laurel Dianne Hansen,John H. Klotz

2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801442621

ISBN 13

9780801442629

P.D. James

A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

By: Laurel A. Young

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

P.D. James

A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

By: Laurel A. Young

British National Health Service employee Phyllis Dorothy James White (1920-2014) reinvented herself at age 38 as P.D. James, crime novelist. She then became long known as England's "Queen of Crime." Sixteen of her 20 novels feature one or both of her series detectives, Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard and private eye Cordelia Gray. Stand-alone works include the dystopian The Children of Men (1992) and Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. James's careful plotting has earned comparison with Golden Age British detective writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Yet James's work is thoroughly modern, with realistic descriptions of police procedures and the echoes and aftereffects of crime. This literary companion includes more than 700 encyclopedic entries covering the characters, settings and themes of her published writing, along with a career chronology, chronological and alphabetical listings of her works, and an exhaustive index.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

287

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476628904

ISBN 13

9781476628905

The Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook

A Step-by-Step Program for Overcoming Sleep Problems After Trauma

By: Karin Thompson,C. Laurel Franklin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook

A Step-by-Step Program for Overcoming Sleep Problems After Trauma

By: Karin Thompson,C. Laurel Franklin

Difficult and traumatic life experiences affect our lives in unexpected ways and can even change the way we sleep. In fact, up to 75 percent of all people who have experienced abuse, violence, or traumatic incidents have sleeping problems after these events, even after all other trauma-related symptoms have diminished. If you've experienced these problems for yourself, The Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook is for you. This workbook is based in cognitive behavioral therapy, a powerful approach that has been proven to be more effective over the long run than sleeping pills. Included are easy tips and techniques you can start doing right away to help you sleep better. You'll learn a variety of relaxation and sleep-scheduling skills that will help you put an end to broken sleep, the need to stay on high alert throughout the night, and sleep-sabotaging habits you may have developed. Why spend another night lying awake? Find the root cause of your restless nights and rediscover peaceful sleep. This workbook will help you: Understand what's keeping you awake at night De-stress your bedroom and create a safe space for sleep Learn powerful relaxation techniques for calming your body and mind before bed Cope with trauma-related nightmares

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

New Harbinger Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1572248947

ISBN 13

9781572248946

Prairie Grass and Other Leaves

By: Laurel Means

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Prairie Grass and Other Leaves

By: Laurel Means

Midwest prairie grass has many leaves and many moods, and each of the sixteen short stories of this collection graphically conveys the challenge, pathos, and beauty evoked by that dramatic setting. "Prairie Voices" speaks through the voices of early pioneers, while "Songs of Experience" adapts Blake's poems to contemporary gender relationships. "What is Unspoken" transforms the prairies into a surreal and terrifying world, where yet humor might just -- just might --surface. "Places of the Heart" discovers those secret places in which the spirit may find home, not in a barren landscape, but one teeming with life, growth, and revelation. A richly varied series in its detailed setting and imagery, deeply satisfying in its in-depth depiction of characters and fast-moving narrative.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

236

Publisher

FriesenPress

Published Date

ISBN 10

1460278526

ISBN 13

9781460278529

Healing Without Fear

How to Overcome Your Fear of Doctors, Hospitals, and the Health Care System and Find Your Way to True Healing

By: Laurel Ann Reinhardt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Healing Without Fear

How to Overcome Your Fear of Doctors, Hospitals, and the Health Care System and Find Your Way to True Healing

By: Laurel Ann Reinhardt

A workbook for recognizing, releasing, and transforming fear in one's self and in our health care system. • Over 60 exercises for recognizing, releasing, and transforming fear to promote healing. • Includes case studies, transcribed dreamwork, and the author's personal story of healing. When Laurel Ann Reinhardt discovered a lump in her breast she witnessed firsthand how fear holds silent reign over the patient in the Western health care system and hinders the process of healing. This fear is systematically perpetuated by doctors and insurance agents, and it has become the cultural norm--undermining the foundation of all healing and the important work these providers are meant to perform. Drawing on the work of Rupert Sheldrake, Ken Wilbur, and Carl Jung, as well as her 20-plus years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Laurel Ann Reinhardt provides a thoughtful discussion about the existence, creation, and impact of this morphogenetic "field of fear" in the health care system. She provides us with the tools we need to recognize and release this fear and its harmful role in the healing process. From exercises for "expelling the breath of fear" and "talking back to fear" to "being heard and seen by physicians" and "dealing with the fears of our health care providers," Healing without Fear utilizes visualizations, journaling, chakra meditations, and dreamwork to teach both health care professionals and laypersons how to transform fear and allow true healing to begin.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

198

Publisher

Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published Date

ISBN 10

0892819928

ISBN 13

9780892819928

Hut to Hut USA

The Complete Guide for Hikers, Bikers, and Skiers

By: Laurel Bradley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hut to Hut USA

The Complete Guide for Hikers, Bikers, and Skiers

By: Laurel Bradley

2023 Independent Publisher Book Award GOLD in Travel Guidebooks Overview of sixteen complete systems (three or more huts) with all you need to know to plan a trip—from terrain to costs and other logistics At-a-glance tables for quick comparison of hut systems Full-color photos and detailed maps Hut to Hut USA celebrates the opportunities for hut-tohut hiking, mountain biking, and skiing or snowshoeing at sixteen hut systems across the United States—from the Appalachian Mountain Club’s hiking huts in the White Mountains, to the San Juan Huts that allow mountain bikers to pedal from Telluride or Durango to Moab, to the Rendezvous Huts for Nordic skiers in Washington’s Methow Valley. For the featured systems, the book describes modes of travel, amenities, quality of experience, terrain, required skill level, the route itself, wayfinding tips, and booking and cost details, with photographs and maps. Suggested day-by-day itineraries with mileages, elevation gain and loss, and hut GPS coordinates help adventurers craft their trip. Demas and Bradley also offer a general history of hut systems around the world and examine how they have developed in the US over the past century. This comprehensive, practical guidebook is the first to cover all of the US hut systems, meeting growing interest in hut-tohut travel.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

478

Publisher

Mountaineers Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1680512692

ISBN 13

9781680512694

New Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Program

History Through a Social Work Lens

By: Laurel Lewey,Louis J. Richard,Linda M. Turner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

New Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Program

History Through a Social Work Lens

By: Laurel Lewey,Louis J. Richard,Linda M. Turner

New Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Program highlights the experiences and observations of some of the earliest social workers in New Brunswick.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1487502532

ISBN 13

9781487502539

Animal Madness

Inside Their Minds

By: Laurel Braitman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Animal Madness

Inside Their Minds

By: Laurel Braitman

Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How about heartbroken or homesick? Animal Madness takes these questions seriously, exploring the topic of mental health and recovery in the animal kingdom.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1451627017

ISBN 13

9781451627015

Critical Food Issues

Problems and State-of-the-Art Solutions Worldwide [2 volumes]

By: Laurel Phoenix,Lynn Walter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Critical Food Issues

Problems and State-of-the-Art Solutions Worldwide [2 volumes]

By: Laurel Phoenix,Lynn Walter

This authoritative, research-based collection examines urgent threats to future global food security and evaluates current and potential solutions. Critical Food Issues: Problems and State-of-the-Art Solutions Worldwide examines 31 crucial areas of concern, from soil degradation, depletion of water for irrigation, and loss of biodiversity to declining rural livelihoods, hunger and obesity, unjust farm labor practices, and farm animal mistreatment. Critical Food Issues divides its coverage into two exhaustive volumes, one on bioenvironmental topics and one with a sociocultural focus. Throughout, highly accomplished experts from a variety of academic backgrounds review the current state of research on specific problems, then identify strategies for confronting those problems that balance sustainable agrifood systems with environmental stewardship, healthy people, and equitable communities. At a time of increasing public outcries over the quality of food and the impact of agrifood production on long-term environmental and human well-being, Critical Food Issues offers an authoritative and comprehensive basis on which producers, consumers, and citizens can make more informed decisions about the future of food.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

584

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313354456

ISBN 13

9780313354458

Doing Sociolinguistics

A practical guide to data collection and analysis

By: Miriam Meyerhoff,Erik Schleef,Laurel MacKenzie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Doing Sociolinguistics

A practical guide to data collection and analysis

By: Miriam Meyerhoff,Erik Schleef,Laurel MacKenzie

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It offers students the opportunity to engage directly with some of the foundational and more innovative work being done in the quantitative or variationist paradigm. Divided into sixteen short chapters, Doing Sociolinguistics: can be used as a core text in class or as an easy reference whilst undertaking research walks readers through the different phases of a sociolinguistic project, providing all the knowledge and skills students will need to conduct their own analyses of language features excerpts from key research articles; exercises with real data from the authors’ own research; sample answers to the exercises; and further reading is supported by the Routledge Sociolinguistics Companion website (www.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff) which features further online exercises with sound files. Designed to function as both a core text for methods classes in sociolinguistics and as a companion to the Routledge textbook Introducing Sociolinguistics, this book will be essential reading for all students studying and researching in this area.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

213

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317527143

ISBN 13

9781317527145

A Midwife's Tale

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Midwife's Tale

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review). Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

459

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

ISBN 10

0307772985

ISBN 13

9780307772985

Wild On My Mind

By: Laurel Kerr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wild On My Mind

By: Laurel Kerr

Love runs wild at the Sagebrush Flats Zoo, where a motley crew of big-hearted animals helps the most unlikely couples find love. When Katie Underwood discovers a litter of newborn cougar cubs, the last person she expects to come to the rescue is her former crush—and high school nemesis—Bowie Wilson. The worst part? He doesn't seem to remember the trouble he caused her. As a single father and owner of a cash-strapped zoo, Bowie struggles to balance budgets while raising his pre-teen daughter and a host of rascally animals. He considers himself lucky when Katie agrees to lend her talents to a publicity campaign in support of the zoo's animal rehabilitation programs—until he learns just what she's planning... This time, Katie is determined to resist Bowie's charm. But a lovelorn camel, a matchmaking honey badger, and a nursemaid capybara have different plans. Can they and the rest of the zoo's menagerie help Bowie break through the barriers surrounding Katie's heart? Love can't be tamed... Where the Wild Hearts Are series: Wild On My Mind (Book 1)

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

269

Publisher

Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1492670863

ISBN 13

9781492670865

Magazine Movements

Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form

By: Laurel Forster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Magazine Movements

Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form

By: Laurel Forster

All women's magazines are not the same: content, outlook, and format combine to shape publications quite distinctively. While magazines in general have long been understood as a significant force in women's lives, many critiques have limited themselves to discussions of mainstream printed publications that engage with narrowly stereotypical representations of femininity. Looking at a range of women's magazines (Cooperative Correspondence Club and Housewife) and magazine programmes (Woman's Hour and Houseparty), Magazine Movements not only extends our definition of a magazine, but most importantly, unearths the connections between women's cultures, specific magazines and the implied reader. The author first outlines the existing field of magazine studies, and analyzes the methodologies employed in accessing and assessing the cultural competence of magazines. Each chapter then provides a case study of a different kind of magazine: different in media form or style of presentation or audience connection, or all three. Forster not only extends our definition of a magazine, but most importantly, unearths the connections between women's cultures, specific magazines and the implied reader. In this way, fresh insights are provided into the long-standing importance of the magazine to the variety of feminisms on offer in Britain, from the mid twentieth century to the present day.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

1441177450

ISBN 13

9781441177452

A Small Town's Legacies

By: Laurel Collins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Small Town's Legacies

By: Laurel Collins

A Small Town's Legacies takes the reader on an historical journey that begins in the 1700s with early settlers building homesteads in the swampy wilderness of Northwest Pennsylvania. Their experiences of hardships, ingenuity, and bravery enabled these stalwart people to survive and create a thriving community first known as Coniot. The early residents of Espyville and the generations that followed adopted resourcefulness that allowed them to implement ideas new to the American way of life. A century and a half before Pymatuning Lake put Espyville on the map, the inhabitants had already established their imprint on America. This is the story of the people who chose to live in a small town in America and the legacies they entrusted to future generations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

176

Publisher

Page Publishing Inc

Published Date

ISBN 10

166247119X

ISBN 13

9781662471193

Is Bipartisanship Dead?

By: Laurel Harbridge

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Is Bipartisanship Dead?

By: Laurel Harbridge

Examines the extent to which bipartisan agreement in the House of Representatives has declined since the 1970s.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

269

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107079950

ISBN 13

9781107079953

Understanding Military Workforce Productivity

Effects of Substance Abuse, Health, and Mental Health

By: Robert M. Bray,Laurel L. Hourani,Jason Williams,Marian E. Lane,Mary Ellen Marsden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Understanding Military Workforce Productivity

Effects of Substance Abuse, Health, and Mental Health

By: Robert M. Bray,Laurel L. Hourani,Jason Williams,Marian E. Lane,Mary Ellen Marsden

From the stresses of repeated deployments to the difficulties of re-entry into civilian life, we are just beginning to understand how protracted conflicts, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, are affecting service members. Issues such as risky health behaviors and chemical dependence raise productivity concerns as they do with all organizations, but they also have a profound impact on the safety and readiness of troops--and by extension, the military as a whole--in life-or-death situations. Understanding Military Workforce Productivity cuts through the myths and misconceptions about the health and resilience of today's active-duty armed forces. This first-of-its-kind volume presents up-to-date findings across service branches in core health areas including illness and injury, alcohol and drug abuse, tobacco use, obesity, and mental health. The short- and long-term implications discussed relate to the quality of the lives of service members and their families, the quality and preparedness of the military as a workforce, and prevention and intervention efforts. The book: Presents data from ten large-scale health behavior surveys sponsored by the Department of Defense. Offers background context for understanding health and behavioral health and productivity among service members. Introduces a health and behavioral health model of productivity loss in the armed forces. Compares key indicators of substance abuse, health, and mental health in military and civilian populations. Reviews approaches for improving military productivity. Identifies areas for further study. Understanding Military Workforce Productivity offers a rare close-up of health issues in the services, making it an invaluable source of information for practitioners and researchers in mental health, substance abuse, health behaviors, and military behavioral health.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

0387783032

ISBN 13

9780387783031

Sell Up and Sail

By: Bill Cooper

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sell Up and Sail

By: Bill Cooper

Format 6 x 9 Illus. 8 pp color section, 40 b&w photos - New edition of an international bestseller - An inspiration for many blue water cruisers - Fully updated with new material

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

386

Publisher

Sheridan House, Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1574092197

ISBN 13

9781574092196

Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities

By: Laurel Brake,B. Bell,D. Finkelstein

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities

By: Laurel Brake,B. Bell,D. Finkelstein

This collection of important new research in 19th-century media history represents some salient, recent developments in the field. Taking as its theme, the ways the media serves to define identities - national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual, the volume addresses serials in the UK, the US, and Australia. High culture rubs shoulders with the popular press, text with image, feminist periodicals and masculine, gay, and domestic serials. Theory and history combine in research by scholars of international repute.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

395

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1349628859

ISBN 13

9781349628858

Trust No One

By: Laurel Bradley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Trust No One

By: Laurel Bradley

Landscape designer Taylor Wilson's home and business are bombed and her husband emerges as the prime suspect, but Taylor, now in protective custody, isn't so sure.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

319

Publisher

Storyteller Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0984725423

ISBN 13

9780984725427

Religious, Feminist, Activist

Cosmologies of Interconnection

By: Laurel Zwissler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Religious, Feminist, Activist

Cosmologies of Interconnection

By: Laurel Zwissler

In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. Placing these women in historical context as faith-based activists for social change, this book discusses what their activities reveal about the public significance of religion in the pluralistic context of North America and in our increasingly globalized world. Zwissler’s ethnographic interviews with feminist Catholics, Pagans, and United Church Protestants reveal radically different views of religious and political expression and illuminate how individual women and their communities negotiate issues of personal identity, spirituality, and political responsibility. Political activists of faith recount adventurous tales of run-ins with police, agonizing moments of fear and powerlessness in the face of global inequality, touching moments of community support, and successful projects that improve the lives of others. Religious, Feminist, Activist combines religion, politics, and globalization—subjects frequently discussed in macro terms—with individual personalities and intimate stories to provide a fresh perspective on what it means to be religiously and politically engaged. Zwissler also provides an insightful investigation into how religion and politics intersect for women on the political left.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1496205022

ISBN 13

9781496205025

Helping Traumatized Families

By: Charles Figley,Laurel Kiser

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Helping Traumatized Families

By: Charles Figley,Laurel Kiser

The new edition of the classic Helping Traumatized Families not only offers clinicians a unified, evidence-based theory of the systemic impact of traumatic stress—it also details a systematic approach to helping families heal by promoting their natural healing resources. Though the impact of trauma on a family can be growth producing, some families either struggle or fail to adapt successfully. Helping Traumatized Families guides practitioners around common pitfalls and toward a series of evidence-based strategies that they can use to help families feel empowered and ultimately to thrive by developing tools for enhancing resilience and self-regulation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136700560

ISBN 13

9781136700569

Give Me Children Or I Shall Die

Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature

By: Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Give Me Children Or I Shall Die

Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature

By: Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor

In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, children's labor contributes to the family's livelihood from a young age, rather than simply preparing the child for future adult work. Ethnographic research shows that this interdependent family life contrasts significantly with that of privileged modern Westerners, for whom children are dependents. This text seeks to look beyond the dominant cultural constructions of childhood in the modern West and the moral rhetoric that accompanies them so as to uncover what biblical texts intend to communicate when they utilize children as literary tropes in their own social, cultural, and historical context.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

221

Publisher

Fortress Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1451469799

ISBN 13

9781451469790

Just Writing

Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer

By: Anne Enquist,Laurel Currie Oates,Jeremy Francis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Just Writing

Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer

By: Anne Enquist,Laurel Currie Oates,Jeremy Francis

Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer, Sixth Edition

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

465

Publisher

Aspen Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1543839487

ISBN 13

9781543839487

The Whirlpool

Stories

By: Laurel Croza

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Whirlpool

Stories

By: Laurel Croza

From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Laurel Croza comes a mesmerizing collection of short stories about the whirlpool of adolescence. Charity takes small steps to escape her controlling father. Jasmine endures the rumors about her at school, even though no one really knows what happened last summer. The Oh! So Perfect Hair Dolly wishes for just the right child to take her home from the store. Nicola has a run-in with a classmate on her first day at a new school in the big city — or is the classmate a wolf in disguise? A squirrel ruminates on the nature of life and death. Dani fights for her dream, in spite of her father’s insistence that her older brother should be the one to play hockey. Mike finds the kind of family he has longed for in his coworkers at the restaurant where he works. In these seven stories by Laurel Croza (author of the award-winning picture books I Know Here and From There to Here), five teenagers, a doll and a squirrel break out of the expectations placed upon them. Featuring beautiful black-and-white illustrations by Kelsey Garrity-Riley. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Groundwood Books Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

1773060333

ISBN 13

9781773060330

Her Mountain Refuge

An Uplifting Inspirational Romance

By: Laurel Blount

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Her Mountain Refuge

An Uplifting Inspirational Romance

By: Laurel Blount

Going home could mean risking her heart… She needs help to start over… But can she ever trust again? Widowed, pregnant and under her controlling mother-in-law’s thumb, Charlotte Tremaine needs help—but she doesn’t expect it to come from her estranged childhood best friend. Yet after a fainting spell lands her in the hospital, Sheriff Logan Carter whisks her away to his foster mother’s mountain home to recover. But when her secrets follow, can she face her painful past with Logan at her side? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Harlequin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0369715721

ISBN 13

9780369715722

Sweet Wild of Mine

By: Laurel Kerr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sweet Wild of Mine

By: Laurel Kerr

Love runs wild at the Sagebrush Flats Zoo... In a bid to revitalize his career, bestselling author Magnus Gray has come to Sagebrush Flats to write about the local zoo's latest rescue—an orphaned baby polar bear. But Magnus dreads the drama of small towns and is bullishly determined to keep to himself. June Winters is a people person, and delights in welcoming Magnus to Sagebrush Flats, though it seems unlikely she can get the handsome stranger to crack a smile. Then a mishap with an open gate forces Magnus and June to deal with a stampeding flock of fainting goats, an adorable but clingy polar bear cub, a cranky pregnant camel, and two star-crossed honey badgers. Never mind small town drama—the lively animals may just convince these two that opposites really do attract... Where the Wild Hearts Are Series: Wild On My Mind (Book 1) Sweet Wild of Mine (Book 2) Praise for Wild on My Mind: "Hilarious...a truly touching contemporary romance about the power of love and family."—Night Owl Reviews Top Pick "Clever, fun, and poignant...with wit and heart."—Kirkus Reviews "Outstanding...sure to delight."—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

269

Publisher

Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1492670898

ISBN 13

9781492670896

Commonwealth of Compromise

Civil War Commemoration in Missouri

By: Amy Laurel Fluker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Commonwealth of Compromise

Civil War Commemoration in Missouri

By: Amy Laurel Fluker

In this important new contribution to the historical literature, Amy Fluker offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate commemoration. She provides the most complete look yet at the construction of Civil War memory in Missouri, illuminating the particular challenges that shaped Civil War commemoration. As a slaveholding Union state on the Western frontier, Missouri found itself at odds with the popular narratives of Civil War memory developing in the North and the South. At the same time, the state’s deeply divided population clashed with one another as they tried to find meaning in their complicated and divisive history. As Missouri’s Civil War generation constructed and competed to control Civil War memory, they undertook a series of collaborative efforts that paved the way for reconciliation to a degree unmatched by other states. Acts of Civil War commemoration have long been controversial and were never undertaken for objective purposes, but instead served to transmit particular values to future generations. Understanding this process lends informative context to contemporary debates about Civil War memory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

282

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826274447

ISBN 13

9780826274441

Book's by Laurel Wilson

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email