Melissa Gunn's Books

All for One

By: Melissa de la Cruz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In this dazzling finale to the trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story, the curtain closes on the epic romance of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler 1785. New York, New York. As a young nation begins to take shape, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are on top of the world. They're the toast of the town, keeping New York City buzzing with tales of their lavish parties, of Eliza's legendary wit, and of Alex's brilliant legal mind. But new additions to Alex & Eliza's little family mean change is afoot in the Hamilton household. When they agree to take in an orphaned teenage girl along with Eliza's oldest brother, John Schuyler, Eliza can't help but attempt a match. It's not long before sparks start to fly . . . if only Eliza can keep herself from interfering too much in the course of true love. After all, she and Alex have an arrival of their own to plan for, though Alex's latest case brings a perilous threat that may destroy everything. The sweeping love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler comes to a close in All for One, the riveting final installment of the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza trilogy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

402

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0525515887

ISBN 13

9780525515883

Anti-Fandom

Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age

By: Melissa A Click

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Anti-Fandom

Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age

By: Melissa A Click

A revealing look at the pleasure we get from hating figures like politicians, celebrities, and TV characters, showcased in approaches that explore snark, hate-watching, and trolling The work of a fan takes many forms: following a favorite celebrity on Instagram, writing steamy fan fiction fantasies, attending meet-and-greets, and creating fan art as homages to adored characters. While fandom that manifests as feelings of like and love are commonly understood, examined less frequently are the equally intense, but opposite feelings of dislike and hatred. Disinterest. Disgust. Hate. This is anti-fandom. It is visible in many of the same spaces where you see fandom: in the long lines at ComicCon, in our politics, and in numerous online forums like Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, and the ever dreaded comments section. This is where fans and fandoms debate and discipline. This is where we love to hate. Anti-Fandom,a collection of 15 original and innovative essays, provides a framework for future study through theoretical and methodological exemplars that examine anti-fandom in the contemporary digital environment through gender, generation, sexuality, race, taste, authenticity, nationality, celebrity, and more. From hatewatching Girls and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo to trolling celebrities and their characters on Twitter, these chapters ground the emerging area of anti-fan studies with a productive foundation. The book demonstrates the importance of constructing a complex knowledge of emotion and media in fan studies. Its focus on the pleasures, performances, and practices that constitute anti-fandom will generate new perspectives for understanding the impact of hate on our identities, relationships, and communities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

450

Publisher

NYU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1479883247

ISBN 13

9781479883240

Roe v. Wade: Abortion and a Woman's Right to Privacy

Abortion and a Woman's Right to Privacy

By: Melissa Higgins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Roe v. Wade: Abortion and a Woman's Right to Privacy

Abortion and a Woman's Right to Privacy

By: Melissa Higgins

The US Supreme Court is the head of the judicial branch of the federal government. It is the highest court in the land, with thousands of cases appealed to it every year. One of those history-making cases was Roe v. Wade, which decided the legality of abortion in the United States. Readers will follow this case from beginning to end, including the social and political climates that led up to it and the effects it had after the court made its ruling. Major players and key ideas and events are discussed, including Jane Roe, aka Norma McCorvey, Linda Coffee, Sarah Weddington, women's rights, feminism, the history of attitudes toward and laws regarding abortion, abortion rates, birth control reform, the use of the Ninth and Fourteenth amendments, pro-life and pro-choice arguments, and ongoing challenges to the court's decision. Roe v. Wade continues to brew controversy in the nation today. This landmark Supreme Court case changed the course of US history and shaped the country we live in. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

162

Publisher

ABDO

Published Date

ISBN 10

1614789681

ISBN 13

9781614789680

Introduction to Early Childhood Education

By: Eva L. Essa,Melissa M. Burnham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Introduction to Early Childhood Education

By: Eva L. Essa,Melissa M. Burnham

Introduction to Early Childhood Education provides current and future educators with a highly readable, comprehensive overview of the field. The underlying philosophy of the book is that early childhood educators’ most important task is to provide a program that is sensitive to and supports the development of young children. Author Eva L. Essa and new co-author Melissa Burnham provide valuable insight by strategically dividing the book into six sections that answer the "What, Who, Why, Where, and How" of early childhood education. Utilizing both NAEYC (National Introduction to Early Childhood Education provides current and future educators with a highly readable, comprehensive overview of the field. The underlying philosophy of the book is that early childhood educators’ most important task is to provide a program that is sensitive to and supports the development of young children. Author Eva L. Essa and new co-author Melissa Burnham provide valuable insight by strategically dividing the book into six sections that answer the "What, Who, Why, Where, and How" of early childhood education. Utilizing both NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) and DAP (Developmentally Appropriate Practice) standards, this supportive text provides students with the skills, theories, and best practices needed to succeed and thrive as early childhood educators. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE Premium Video Included in the interactive eBook! SAGE Premium Video tools and resources boost comprehension and bolster analysis. Interactive eBook Your students save when you bundle the print version with the Interactive eBook (Bundle ISBN: 978-1-5443-6883-2), which includes access to SAGE Premium Video and other multimedia tools. SAGE coursepacks SAGE coursepacks makes it easy to import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS). Intuitive and simple to use, SAGE coursepacks allows you to customize course content to meet your students’ needs. SAGE edge This companion website offers both instructors and students a robust online environment with an impressive array of teaching and learning resources.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

919

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1544338732

ISBN 13

9781544338736

Beyond Consolation

Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy

By: Melissa F. Zeiger

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond Consolation

Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy

By: Melissa F. Zeiger

Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, the scope of her investigation is grand: from John Milton's "Lycidas" to very recently written AIDS and breast cancer elegies. Milton epitomized the traditional use of the Orpheus myth as an illustration of the female threat to masculine poetic prowess, focused on the beleaguered Orpheus. Zeiger documents the gradual inclusion of Eurydice, from the elegies of Algernon Charles Swinburne through the work of Thomas Hardy and John Berryman, re-examining the role of Eurydice, and the feminine more generally, in poetic production. Zeiger then considers women poets who challenge the assumptions of elegies written by men, sometimes identifying themselves with Eurydice. Among these poets are H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Sexton, and Elizabeth Bishop. Zeiger concludes with a discussion of elegies for victims of current plagues, explaining how poets mourning those lost to AIDS and breast cancer rewrite elegy in ways less repressive, sacrificial, or punitive than those of the Orphean tradition. Among the poets discussed are Essex Hemphill, Thom Gunn, Mark Doty, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Marilyn Hacker.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

215

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501711334

ISBN 13

9781501711336

Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy

The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste

By: Melissa Johnston

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy

The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste

By: Melissa Johnston

Men and women do not experience war, violence, and peace in the same ways. Accordingly, peacebuilding interventions now incorporate "gender mainstreaming" and stand-alone "gender-and-development". These gender interventions should make peacebuilding more effective and sustainable, facilitating stable societies and efficient economies. But success has been mixed. The case of in Timor-Leste is instructive. Interventions on gender responsive budgeting, domestic violence, and microfinance have uneven results. Whereas the level of women's participation in national politics in Timor-Leste is high by international standards, overall deep inequalities remain, inequality between rural and urban areas is growing, and violence against women is endemic across the country. Feminists have found fault with gender interventions, saying they don't go far enough, and scholars of the local turn have suggested a focus on gender encourages backlash against interventions. Instead of focusing on a clash of "local" and "international", Rebuilding Patriarchy uses gender and class to explain the uneven outcomes. It argues that peacebuilders made concessions to elites and violent men in order to keep the peace, a tendency amplified by "local turn" approaches to peacebuilding. It has reinforced the valorisation of armed masculinity, associated most strongly with the dominant class, which have in turn justified the unequal distribution of state petroleum resources. As well, gender, class and domestic violence are connected through brideprice, rendering legal and political reforms ineffective. Lastly, microfinance was supposed to empower women and grow the economy, but its main beneficiaries were elites, repeating patterns of accumulation and rule-through-debt established during era Indonesian-era"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

019763799X

ISBN 13

9780197637999

On Our Own

Unmarried Motherhood in America

By: Melissa Ludtke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On Our Own

Unmarried Motherhood in America

By: Melissa Ludtke

Ludtke brings the voices of women having children on their own into a public debate from which these voices have been conspicuously absent. Interweaving their voices with her own savvy and intuitive commentary, she has written a vitally important book."—Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

496

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520218302

ISBN 13

9780520218307

Risky Decision Making in Psychological Disorders

By: Melissa Buelow

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Risky Decision Making in Psychological Disorders

By: Melissa Buelow

Risky Decision Making in Psychological Disorders provides readers with a detailed examination of how risky decision making is affected by a wide array of individual psychological disorders. The book starts by providing important background information on the construct of risky decision making, the assessment of risky decision making, and the neuroscience behind such decision making. The Iowa Gambling Task, Balloon Analogue Risk Task, and other behavioral measures are covered, as are topics such as test reliability and the pros and cons of utilizing tasks that have strong practice effects. The book then moves into how risky decision making is affected by specific psychological disorders, such as addictive behaviors, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and more. - Explores how risky decision making is affected by different psychological disorders - Examines risky decision making and ADHD, psychosis, mood/anxiety disorders, and more - Synthesizes the research on risky decision making - Discusses merits/limitations of the Iowa Gambling Task and other behavioral measures - Covers risky decision making and its associations with other executive functions

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

413

Publisher

Academic Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0128150033

ISBN 13

9780128150030

Thicker Than Water

The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual

By: Melissa Meyer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thicker Than Water

The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual

By: Melissa Meyer

Blood is more than a fluid solution of cells, platelets and plasma. It is a symbol for the most basic of human concerns--life, death and family find expression in rituals surrounding everything from menstruation to human sacrifice. Comprehensive in its scope and provocative in its argument, this book examines beliefs and rituals concerning blood in a range of regional and religious contexts throughout human history. Meyer reveals the origins of a wide range of blood rituals, from the earliest surviving human symbolism of fertility and the hunt, to the Jewish bris, and the clitoridectomies given to young girls in parts of Africa. The book also explores how cultural practices influence gene selection and makes a connection with the natural sciences by exploring how color perception influences the human proclivity to create blood symbols and rituals.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135342008

ISBN 13

9781135342005

Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England

Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580

By: Melissa Franklin-Harkrider

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England

Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580

By: Melissa Franklin-Harkrider

Katherine Willoughby, duchess of Suffolk, was one of the highest-ranking noblewomen in sixteenth-century England. She wielded considerable political power in her local community and at court, and her social status and her commitment to religious reform placed her at the centre of the political and religious developments that shaped the English Reformation." "By focusing on her kinship and patronage network, this book offers an examination of the development of Protestantism in the governing classes during the period. The importance of gender in the process of spiritual transformation emerges clearly from this study, showing how the changing religious climate provided new opportunities for women to exert greater influence in their society."--BOOK JACKET.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

204

Publisher

Boydell Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1843833654

ISBN 13

9781843833659

Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity

By: Melissa Kravetz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity

By: Melissa Kravetz

Examining how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under both regimes. Melissa Kravetz explains how and why women occupied particular fields within the medical profession, how they presented themselves in their professional writing, and how they reconciled their medical perspectives with their views of the Weimar and later the Nazi state. Focusing primarily on those women who were members of the Bund Deutscher Ärztinnen (League of German Female Physicians or BDÄ), this study shows that female physicians used maternalist and, to a lesser extent, eugenic arguments to make a case for their presence in particular medical spaces. They emphasized gender difference to claim that they were better suited than male practitioners to care for women and children in a range of new medical spaces. During the Weimar Republic, they laid claim to marriage counselling centres, school health reform, and the movements against alcoholism, venereal disease, and prostitution. In the Nazi period, they emphasized their importance to the Bund Deutscher Mädels (League of German Girls), the Reichsmütterdienst (Reich Mothers' Service), and breast milk collection efforts. Women doctors also tried to instil middle-class values into their working-class patients while fashioning themselves as advocates for lower-class women.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

343

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442629649

ISBN 13

9781442629646

Magic & Mystery

A Limited Edition Urban Fantasy Mystery Anthology

By: Christopher D. Schmitz,Cindy Carroll,Killian Wolf,Melissa Gunn,Melissa Erin Jackson,Willem Killian,Katherine Tomlinson,D. Gabrielle Jensen,Kiesha Thomas,Amelie Degarmo,Celia Roman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Magic & Mystery

A Limited Edition Urban Fantasy Mystery Anthology

By: Christopher D. Schmitz,Cindy Carroll,Killian Wolf,Melissa Gunn,Melissa Erin Jackson,Willem Killian,Katherine Tomlinson,D. Gabrielle Jensen,Kiesha Thomas,Amelie Degarmo,Celia Roman

Come for the magic. Stay for the mystery. Ten exclusive, never-before-published stories of murder, mystery, and mayhem, wrapped in fantastical realms where private detectives, police consultants, and bounty hunters wrangle with elves, nephilim, and shifters...or use magic to solve a mystery!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

Dawn Watson

Published Date

ISBN 10

1943465657

ISBN 13

9781943465651

All Cakes Considered

A Year's Worth of Weekly Recipes Tested, Tasted, and Approved by the Staff of NPR's "All Things Considered"

By: Melissa Gray

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

All Cakes Considered

A Year's Worth of Weekly Recipes Tested, Tasted, and Approved by the Staff of NPR's "All Things Considered"

By: Melissa Gray

A producer of NPR’s All Things Considered takes readers on a culinary adventure in “this eclectic but cohesive cookbook” featuring 50+ cake recipes (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Melissa Gray started as a baking novice, but soon became National Public Radio’s Cake Lady. Every Monday she brought a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. Following the more than fifty recipes in this book, readers can develop their cake-baking skills alongside Melissa—and enjoy irresistible treats like Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake, and more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1452100136

ISBN 13

9781452100135

Human Rights and Drug Control

A New Perspective

By: Melissa Bone

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Human Rights and Drug Control

A New Perspective

By: Melissa Bone

This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally – to change the way in which we think about drug control issues. The prohibitionist approach towards tackling the ‘drugs problem’ is not working. The laws and mentality that see drugs as the problem and tries to fight them, makes the ‘drugs problem’ worse. While the law is the best-placed mechanism to regulate our actions in relation to particular drugs, this book argues against the stranglehold of the criminal law, and instead presents a human rights perspective to change the way we think about drug control issues. Part I develops a conceptual framework for human rights in the context of drug control – philosophically, politically and legally – and applies this to the domestic (UK) and international drug control system. Part II focuses on case law to illustrate both the potential and the limitations of successfully applying this unique perspective in practice. The conclusion points towards a bottom-up process for drug policy which is capable of reconfiguring the mentality of prohibition. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights, criminal law, criminology, politics and socio-legal studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

247

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1315310198

ISBN 13

9781315310190

Fire by Night

Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament

By: Melissa Florer-Bixler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fire by Night

Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament

By: Melissa Florer-Bixler

What do we do with the Old Testament? How do we read words written in a world so different from ours, stories so ruthless and so filled with grace? In Fire by Night, pastor Melissa Florer-Bixler invites readers to marvel at the Old Testament. Page after page, in stories and poems and prophecies, the Hebrew Scripture introduces us to a God who is unwieldy and uncontrollable, common and extraordinary, and who brings both life and death. Using stories from Scripture and from her ministry, Florer-Bixler braids together the text with the sometimes ordinary, sometimes radical grace of God. The same passages that confuse and horrify and baffle us can, if we are paying attention, lure us closer toward God. This God has traveled with people through cloud and fire, by day and by night, since the beginning of time. The Old Testament is a perplexing book of profound grace, hope, and beauty. It’s a book of fire. To read the Old Testament is to draw close to God’s love, which continues to burn away our expectations and set us ablaze. This God has traveled with people through pillars of cloud and fire, by day and by night, since the days of the exodus.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

164

Publisher

MennoMedia, Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1513804200

ISBN 13

9781513804200

Maternal Conditions

Reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki

By: Melissa A. Schoeffel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Maternal Conditions

Reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki

By: Melissa A. Schoeffel

Maternal Conditions analyzes the depiction of motherhood in the works of Barbara Kingsolver, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Ruth Ozeki. The book examines the politics underlying and engendered by ethnically diverse representations of the maternal, interrogating the dominant cultural understanding of the good mother. This analysis then moves to a study of how the subjective experience of mothers is portrayed in these writings, ending with an exploration of the relationship between motherhood and ethics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

188

Publisher

Peter Lang

Published Date

ISBN 10

1433101475

ISBN 13

9781433101472

Brooklyn’s Renaissance

Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

By: Melissa Meriam Bullard

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Brooklyn’s Renaissance

Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

By: Melissa Meriam Bullard

This book shows how modern Brooklyn’s proud urban identity as an arts-friendly community originated in the mid nineteenth century. Before and after the Civil War, Brooklyn’s elite, many engaged in Atlantic trade, established more than a dozen cultural societies, including the Philharmonic Society, Academy of Music, and Art Association. The associative ethos behind Brooklyn’s fine arts flowering built upon commercial networks that joined commerce, culture, and community. This innovative, carefully researched and documented history employs the concept of parallel Renaissances. It shows influences from Renaissance Italy and Liverpool, then connected to New York through regular packet service like the Black Ball Line that ferried people, ideas, and cargo across the Atlantic. Civil War disrupted Brooklyn’s Renaissance. The city directed energies towards war relief efforts and the women’s Sanitary Fair. The Gilded Age saw Brooklyn’s Renaissance energies diluted by financial and political corruption, planning the Brooklyn Bridge and consolidation with New York City in 1898.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

469

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319501763

ISBN 13

9783319501765

The Handbook of Environmental Health

By: Frank R. Spellman,Melissa L. Stoudt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Handbook of Environmental Health

By: Frank R. Spellman,Melissa L. Stoudt

Environmental issues, global warming, pollution, and chemical dumping, are ever present in the news. But what about the health problems these issues pose? Frank Spellman and Melissa Stoudt identify the hazardous environmental issues and explain the science behind the dangers to our health. The Handbook of Environmental Health begins with defining the most commonly used terms, clearly explained for any student to learn and understand. Then each chapter tackles a different issue, outlining its scientific concepts and relating it to our health, with case studies or scenarios to bring the concepts to life. Lastly, the chapters conclude with thought-provoking questions. The authors also provide solutions to control the factors that harm our health, making this handbook a valuable resource for any student, library, or one interested in the dangers of environmental health.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

425

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0810886863

ISBN 13

9780810886865

Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat

By: Nicole A. Heinrich,Melissa Eisenschenk,Richard G. Harvey,Tim Nuttall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat

By: Nicole A. Heinrich,Melissa Eisenschenk,Richard G. Harvey,Tim Nuttall

A Colour Handbook of Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat was one of the first books to bring key information about skin diseases to clinicians in an easy-to-use problem-oriented format. This fully revised and updated Third Edition responds to the huge growth in knowledge about skin conditions over the last decade, including the discovery of new conditions, the development of new approaches to management, and effective new treatment options. Chapters are organized based on symptoms, each containing a decision tree giving basic and practical guidance. The clear user-friendly design provides one condition per page (or spread of pages). 13 chapters covering over 120 skin, claw and ear conditions classified by their principle presenting sign. Concise, systematically structured text covering definition, aetiology and pathogenesis, clinical features, differential diagnoses, diagnostic tests and management. Flow charts in each chapter to help clinicians get to the right diagnosis. Special focus on diseases affecting paediatric patients as well as chapters discussing paw, ear and nasal planum diseases. Explanation of new treatments for atopic dermatitis. Over 350 superb colour photographs and diagrams, mostly new for this this edition. A focus on clinical practice and the need to explain the disease to the owner. Up-to-date and fully referenced throughout. This practical book continues to provide an entirely comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of veterinary skin conditions, in a format that is easily accessible for busy clinicians.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

684

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351644432

ISBN 13

9781351644433

Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Dickson Melissa Dickson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Dickson Melissa Dickson

Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

258

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1474443672

ISBN 13

9781474443678

Power, Protest, and the Public Schools

Jewish and African American Struggles in New York City

By: Melissa Weiner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Power, Protest, and the Public Schools

Jewish and African American Struggles in New York City

By: Melissa Weiner

Accounts of Jewish immigrants usually describe the role of education in helping youngsters earn a higher social position than their parents. Melissa F. Weiner argues that New York City schools did not serve as pathways to mobility for Jewish or African American students. Instead, at different points in the city's history, politicians and administrators erected similar racial barriers to social advancement by marginalizing and denying resources that other students enjoyed. Power, Protest, and the Public Schools explores how activists, particularly parents and children, responded to inequality; the short-term effects of their involvement; and the long-term benefits that would spearhead future activism. Weiner concludes by considering how today's Hispanic and Arab children face similar inequalities within public schools.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

267

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813549809

ISBN 13

9780813549804

National Standards for Sport Coaches: Quality Coaches, Quality Sports

Quality Coaches, Quality Sports

By: Lori Gano-Overway,Melissa Thompson,Pete Van Mullem

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

National Standards for Sport Coaches: Quality Coaches, Quality Sports

Quality Coaches, Quality Sports

By: Lori Gano-Overway,Melissa Thompson,Pete Van Mullem

The third edition of the National Standards for Sport Coaches outlines the standards for quality sport coaching based on the latest research and practical work in coaching science and the varied fields of exercise science. This useful resource outlines the standards which highlights the core responsibilities coaches should possess along with supporting competencies that provide insight into the knowledge and skills needed to support a quality amateur sport experience for athletes. Coaches, sport administrators, and coach educators and developers who are informed about core coaching responsibilities and competencies can improve the preparation, training, and evaluation of sport coaching. Ultimately the National Standards for Sport Coaches should assist in improving the sport experiences for all athletes and will elevate the profession of coaching.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published Date

ISBN 10

1284228193

ISBN 13

9781284228199

Dynamic Sustainabilities

Technology, Environment, Social Justice

By: Melissa Leach,Andrew Charles Stirling,Ian Scoones

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dynamic Sustainabilities

Technology, Environment, Social Justice

By: Melissa Leach,Andrew Charles Stirling,Ian Scoones

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention and investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, and what can be done about it? How might we understand and address emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of water scarcity in dryland India? In the context of climate change, how might seed systems help African farmers meet their needs, and how might appropriate energy strategies be developed? This book lays out a new 'pathways approach' to address sustainability challenges such as these in today's dynamic world. Through an appreciation of dynamics, complexity, uncertainty, differing narratives and the values-based aims of sustainability, the pathways approach allows us to see how some approaches are dominant, even though they do not produce the desired results, and how to create successful alternative 'pathways' of responding to the challenges we face. As well as offering new ways of thinking about sustainability, the book also suggests a series of practical ways forward - in tools and methods, forms of political engagement, and styles of knowledge-making and communication. Throughout the book, the practicalities of the pathways approach are illustrated using four case studies: water in dryland India, agricultural seeds in Africa, responses to epidemic disease and energy systems/climate change. Published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

221

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136541667

ISBN 13

9781136541667

Pleating for Mercy

A Magical Dressmaking Mystery

By: Melissa Bourbon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pleating for Mercy

A Magical Dressmaking Mystery

By: Melissa Bourbon

When her great-grandmother passes away, Harlow Jane Cassidy leaves her job as a Manhattan fashion designer and moves back to Bliss, Texas. But when she opens a dressmaking boutique in the turn-of-the-century farmhouse she inherited, Harlow senses an inexplicable "presence". Her old friend Josie orders a gown for her upcoming wedding, but when Josie's boss turns up dead, Harlow has to find the killer-with a little help from beyond.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

267

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101517395

ISBN 13

9781101517390

Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership

By: Louis W. Fry,Melissa Sadler Nisiewicz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership

By: Louis W. Fry,Melissa Sadler Nisiewicz

Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line through Spiritual Leadership draws on the emerging fields of workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership to teach leaders and their constituencies how to develop business models that address issues of ethical leadership, employee well-being, sustainability, and social responsibility without sacrificing profitability, growth, and other metrics of performance excellence. While this text identifies and discusses the characteristics necessary to be a leader, its major focus is on leadership—engaging stakeholders and enabling groups of people to work together in the most meaningful ways. The authors offer real-world examples of for-profit and non-profit organizations that have spiritual leaders and which have implemented organizational spiritual leadership. These cases are based on over ten years of research, supported by the International Institute of Spiritual Leadership, that demonstrates the value of the Spiritual Leadership Balanced Scorecard Business Model presented in the book. "Pracademic" in its orientation, the book presents a general process and tools for implementing the model.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

350

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0804784299

ISBN 13

9780804784290

Indigenous Adolescent Development

Psychological, Social and Historical Contexts

By: Les B. Whitbeck,Melissa Walls,Kelley Hartshorn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Indigenous Adolescent Development

Psychological, Social and Historical Contexts

By: Les B. Whitbeck,Melissa Walls,Kelley Hartshorn

This volume explores the first four waves of a longitudinal diagnostic study of Indigenous adolescents and their families. The first study of its kind, it calls attention to culturally specific risk factors that affect Indigenous (American Indian and Canadian First Nations) adolescent development and describe the historical and social contexts in which Indigenous adolescents come of age. It provides unique information on ethical research and development within Indigenous communities, psychiatric diagnosis at early and mid-adolescence, and suggestions for putting the findings into action through empirically-based interventions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134744196

ISBN 13

9781134744190

After the Cradle Falls

What Child Abuse Is, How We Respond To It, And What You Can Do About it

By: Melissa Jonson-Reid,Brett Drake

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

After the Cradle Falls

What Child Abuse Is, How We Respond To It, And What You Can Do About it

By: Melissa Jonson-Reid,Brett Drake

There may be no other social problem so common, yet so little understood by the general public, as child abuse and neglect. This book is intended to help remedy that situation. After the Cradle Falls integrates examples from folklore, songs, and news articles with the latest summary of empirical research to create an accessible and engaging work intended to provoke the reader to think about how to address the issue of child abuse and neglect in America. Written in a conversational style, the book engages the reader in thinking through why maltreatment occurs, what it looks like, and what we do and do not know. Most importantly, it asks the reader to become involved in the solution based on their own conclusions and values. Given the prevailing state of widespread public misunderstanding about child abuse, its causes and effects, and the involved systems, After the Cradle Falls is particularly current, relevant, and useful. It is a must-read for students, professionals in child advocacy or family services agencies, and policymakers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190653035

ISBN 13

9780190653033

A Custom-Fit Crime

A Magical Dressmaking Mystery

By: Melissa Bourbon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Custom-Fit Crime

A Magical Dressmaking Mystery

By: Melissa Bourbon

After a year of hard work in her Texas hometown, Harlow Jane Cassidy’s dreams are finally within reach—if she can just get it all done in time… Harlow’s designs will be featured in a big magazine spread, but she only has a few days to finalize her collection. Plus she’s busy helping to plan her mother’s upcoming wedding, playing host to her old friend Orphie, and avoiding a competitive Dallas designer set on stealing Harlow’s ideas. Harlow’s making it all work—until someone breaks into Buttons & Bows and the rival designer is found dead. But when a near miss makes it clear that Orphie could be the next victim, Harlow will have to untangle the threads of evidence if she wants to save her friend, her mother’s wedding, and her business from becoming fashion road kill…

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

322

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101602686

ISBN 13

9781101602683

Kindergarten Readiness for All

Strategies to Support the Transition to School

By: Melissa Stormont,Daniel R. Cohen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Kindergarten Readiness for All

Strategies to Support the Transition to School

By: Melissa Stormont,Daniel R. Cohen

This book provides a framework for all kindergarten teachers to use to support young children in their transition to kindergarten. It offers an overview of the importance of this transition for young children, and shows how their success can be supported through the use of specific supports. The topics covered here include the various ways to involve children and their families, use assessment information, and use a collection of strategies for children based on their needs. The book is comprehensive in covering a multitude of needs children and their families may have, from basic support needs to creative and tailored ways to involve families, and to using specific social skills templates to teach and support social skills for young children. The final chapter of the book also addresses the need to determine children who need more focused supports, and provides concrete strategies to use for children with more intensive needs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

210

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1527573478

ISBN 13

9781527573475

The Two-Parent Privilege

How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

By: Melissa S. Kearney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Two-Parent Privilege

How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

By: Melissa S. Kearney

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems. In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution’s decline has led to a host of economic woes—problems that have fractured American society and rendered vulnerable populations even more vulnerable. Eschewing the religious and values-based arguments that have long dominated this conversation, Kearney shows how the greatest impacts of marriage are, in fact, economic: when two adults marry, their economic and household lives improve, offering a host of benefits not only for the married adults but for their children. Studies show that these effects are today starker, and more unevenly distributed, than ever before. Kearney examines the underlying causes of the marriage decline in the US and draws lessons for how the US can reverse this trend to ensure the country’s future prosperity. Based on more than a decade of economic research, including her original work, Kearney shows that a household that includes two married parents—holding steady among upper-class adults, increasingly rare among most everyone else—functions as an economic vehicle that advantages some children over others. As these trends of marriage and class continue, the compounding effects on inequality and opportunity grow increasingly dire. Their effects include not just children’s behavioral and educational outcomes, but a surprisingly devastating effect on adult men, whose role in the workforce and society appears intractably damaged by the emerging economics of America’s new social norms. For many, the two-parent home may be an old-fashioned symbol of the idyllic American dream. But The Two-Parent Privilege makes it clear that marriage, for all its challenges and faults, may be our best path to a more equitable future. By confronting the critical role that family makeup plays in shaping children’s lives and futures, Kearney offers a critical assessment of what a decline in marriage means for an economy and a society—and what we must do to change course.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

238

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022681811X

ISBN 13

9780226818115

Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South

By: Paul E. Teed,Melissa Ladd Teed

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South

By: Paul E. Teed,Melissa Ladd Teed

This book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, resilience, and an insatiable desire to be free. The Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South focuses on their struggles to create lives of meaning and dignity within a brutal and repressive system. This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the perspective of the slaves themselves. Readers can explore the family life, religious beliefs, political activities, intellectual aspirations, material possessions, and recreational pursuits of enslaved people. The book shows that enslaved people were tightly constrained by the harsh realities of the oppressive system under which they lived but that they found ways to forge lives of their own. The book synthesizes the latest and best literature on slavery and gives readers the opportunity to examine history through the lens of daily life using primary source documents created by slaves or former slaves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

1440863253

ISBN 13

9781440863257

Nutrition Across Life Stages

By: Melissa Bernstein,Kimberley McMahon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nutrition Across Life Stages

By: Melissa Bernstein,Kimberley McMahon

Good nutrition is a critical component at every stage of life. Nutrition Across Life Stages, Second Edition covers topics applicable and relevant for entry-level Nutrition and Dietetics students who are focusing their study on nutritional requirements and challenges during each life stage. The text clearly and comprehensively presents the impact of nutrition on people across the life cycle, moving through each life stage by first highlighting normal nutritional needs before delving into the implications of nutrition for health and disease at each particular stage of life. Each new print copy includes 365-day Navigate eBook access. Instructor resources include test bank, slides in PowerPoint format, image bank, and instructor's manual with learning objectives, chapter outlines, answers to in-text questions, and more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

634

Publisher

Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published Date

ISBN 10

1284252086

ISBN 13

9781284252088

Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to Systemic Oppression

Insights to Inform Social Justice in Critical Times

By: Melissa L. Morgan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to Systemic Oppression

Insights to Inform Social Justice in Critical Times

By: Melissa L. Morgan

This book offers new insight into how individuals utilize resilience in the face of structural and social injustice. By drawing on qualitative research methods to foreground the voices of Holocaust survivors and Latinx immigrants to the United States, Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to Systematic Oppression illustrates the role of cultural values, spirituality, and perseverance in the face of severe institutionalized oppression. Using this to extend current understandings of resilience, the text posits critical resilience as a response to embedded social inequalities and goes on to offer a nuanced reconceptualization of overcoming such hardship, not only as overcoming adversity but as recognizing strengths despite ongoing injustice. It synthesizes feminist and critical theories to elaborate on the framework of critical resilience and thriving. Highlighting the importance of qualitative research on the strengths and resources of oppressed groups, this volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers with an interest in trauma studies, qualitative methods, and personal development, as well as in mental health research.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

160

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000840344

ISBN 13

9781000840346

Vaccine Anxieties

"Global Science, Child Health and Society"

By: Melissa Leach,James Fairhead

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Vaccine Anxieties

"Global Science, Child Health and Society"

By: Melissa Leach,James Fairhead

This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspective with detailed field research, the book examines anxieties emerging as highly globalized vaccine technologies and technocracies encounter the deeply intimate personal and social worlds of parenting and childcare, and how these are part of transforming science-society relations. It retheorizes anxieties about technologies, integrating bodily, social and wider political dimensions, and challenges common views of ignorance, risk, trust and rumour - and related dichotomies between Northernrisk society and Southerndeveloping society - that dominate current scientific and policy debates. In so doing, the book reflects critically on the stereotypes that at times pass forexplanations of public engagement with both routine vaccination and vaccine research. It suggests routes to improved dialogue between health professionals and the people they serve, and new ways to address science-society relations in a globalized world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

212

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136549234

ISBN 13

9781136549236

College Matters Guide to Getting Into the Elite College of Your Dreams

By: Jacquelyn Kung,Melissa Dell,Joanna Chan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

College Matters Guide to Getting Into the Elite College of Your Dreams

By: Jacquelyn Kung,Melissa Dell,Joanna Chan

An invaluable resource for high school students who dream of getting into top- flight colleges College Matters offers the guidance of 12 students who made it into their dream colleges. They share their expertise about the entire process, from first explorations, to estimating chances, through the practical work of reaching the goal. Here's what you need to know to optimize your chances of admission to one of the most selective colleges. Features include: Proven techniques for getting into an elite college An approach that teenagers can identify with Chapters that are written by students uniquely qualified in specific topics--for example, Evelyn Huang, author of the financial aid chapter, won more than $110,000 in scholarships

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

289

Publisher

McGraw Hill Professional

Published Date

ISBN 10

0071460063

ISBN 13

9780071460064

Book's by Melissa Gunn

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email