Divorce hurts! You or someone you know is living the pain. Where to go for help? Is the only option to suffer through changes alone? Bill Koontz, Paulette Liburd, and Dan Cox, authors of Divorce and Beyond: Finding hope, healing, and growth, share with you how to deal with the many emotions and decisions involved in divorce and gain a long-lasting, positive effect. "We are three diverse people who, out of the extended pain of our own divorces, experienced a faith-based healing tha...

Divorce hurts! You or someone you know is living the pain. Where to go for help? Is the only option to suffer through changes alone? Bill Koontz, Paulette Liburd, and Dan Cox, authors of Divorce and Beyond: Finding hope, healing, and growth, share with you how to deal with the many emotions and decisions involved in divorce and gain a long-lasting, positive effect. "We are three diverse people who, out of the extended pain of our own divorces, experienced a faith-based healing that has tra...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis and connected them in a uniquely intricate dance. The ensuing interplay of these concepts provides a framework for a more deft and subtle evaluation than is common. Little has been done to enga...

Winner of the 2021 Association for Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC Clearinghouse award for Best WAC MonographA 2008 survey of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs found that nearly half of those identified in a 1987 survey no longer existed twenty years later, pointing to a need for an approach to WAC administration that leads to programs that persist over time. In Sustainable WAC, current or former WAC program directors Michelle Cox, Jeffrey R. ...

The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water quality.Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the globa...

"The full ensemble of narrators is phenomenal, and their voices feel genuine. Listeners will be enthralled by this slow-burn suspense novel until the glass-shattering end." — Library Journal (Starred Review)Featuring multicast narration, a lavish, Texas-sized Sweet Sixteen turns deadly in this twisty, pulse-pounding new novel — serving up a fresh take on a classic locked-room whodunnit. Let the festivities begin…Today is Sophie Mat...

The size of the sky in the place you’re from can have much to do with how you view the world, and often how you choose to conduct yourself in that world. Such is the case for people living in Oregon’s North Santiam Canyon, situated amid the raindrops and heavy underbrush of the western foothills of the Cascade Mountains. It’s a place where the trees are tall, the sky is small, and many people see their options as limited…unless they escape. This canyon is a crucible of longing. It packs pe...

NOT THE END OF THE STORYThe lore of Averoigne didn’t end with Clark Ashton Smith. Over the decades other writers, fascinated by this “Lovecraft country” of medieval France, added their own contributions. For the first time collected together into one volume, you can read over two dozen poems and stories of Averoigne (including some never before published) by Mythos authors like DJ Tyrer, Richard Tierney, Brian McNaughton, Michael Minnis, and James Chambers. Revisit...

Le travail de Gina l'a amenée jusqu'au royaume du désert de Kabuyadir, un endroit dans lequel, il était une fois, elle a passé une nuit magique avec un homme costaud du nom de Zahir. Alors qu'ils se sont promis de se revoir un jour, Gina n'a pas pu croire aux voeux d'amour de son amoureux au long cours, alors elle a rompu. Elle est maintenant revenue pour évaluer le Coeur du Courage, un joyau transmis par la famille royale Kabuyadir avec la prophétie que tous les membres de la famille roya...

Everyone's invited. Everyone's a suspect.An exclusive black-tie birthday party.A sprawling mansion.A body falling from a balcony.One of the guests is dead, and another is a killer - but who is the hunter, and who is the prey?As the drinks flow, so do the lies...and nobody is safe.

To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second Language Ability addresses an important issue in Second Language Acquisition—how to help learners progress from Intermediate and Advanced proficiency to Superior and beyond. Due to the pressures of globalization, American society encounters an ever-increasing demand for speakers with advanced language abilities. This volume makes available cutting edge research on working memory and cognition and empirica...