Pageland is a memoir about the experiences of Daniel Hughes as a House of Representatives page, particularly becoming enmeshed in the Mark Foley scandal. When Daniel arrived in Washington, D.C. as a Republican page at age sixteen, little did he anticipate being sexually propositioned by a Congressman before high school graduation – not to mention being interrogated by the FBI and tracked down for information by the House Ethics Committee a decade later. This book charts those and other odd...

Fifty-five of Daniel Hughes's final poems, containing distinctly insightful and literate meditations on themes of love, art, and hope.Daniel Hughes's final volume of poetry, written during his years of struggle with multiple sclerosis, displays his characteristic wit, intelligence, and imagination. While the poems in Ashes & Stars deal with themes such as love and mortality, the conflict between imagination and actuality, and the pleasures of the world around us, t...

Your mindset shapes your reality. It affects how you define success, approach opportunities, and perceive obstacles. In "Mindset Shifts for Success: Transforming Your Thinking for a Better Life," you'll learn how to overcome self-limiting ideas, change the way you think, and embrace empowered thinking patterns that open doors to both professional and personal development.This book is a useful manual for anyone who wants to reach their greatest potential and have a more fulfilling l...

Desde las primeras hipótesis sobre el apego, según las cuales el estilo de relación con nuestros padres en la infancia determinará nuestras relaciones futuras, hasta el descubrimiento de las neuronas espejo, sede de la intuición y la empatía, la teoría del apego ha revolucionado la psicología y la neurociencia. No es para menos. El amor, la familia, el trabajo, el ocio… Las grandes facetas de la vida comparten un denominador común: las relaciones con los demás. Intuyendo que el paradigma d...

All children need love, but for troubled children, a loving home is not always enough. Children who have experienced trauma need to be parented in a special way that helps them feel safe and secure, builds attachments and allows them to heal. Playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy (PACE) are four valuable elements of parenting that, combined with love, can help children to feel confident and secure. This book shows why these elements are so important to a child's development, and d...

In this study of Daniel, Pastor Rodney Stortz showcases the coming triumph of God's kingdom.

The book of Daniel abounds with powerful imagery showcasing God's unmatched glory and wise plan for the future. In this accessible commentary, pastor Rodney Stortz highlights the coming triumph of God's kingdom, offering pastors and Bible teachers a resource to help them explain and apply Daniel's message to Christians today. Stortz's careful exegesis and perceptive applications focus on personal holiness, the wisdom and power of God, and the importance of Daniel's prophecies concerning th...

This book examines the ways in which religious communities experimentally engage the world and function as fallible inquisitive agents, despite frequent protests to the contrary. Using the philosophy of inquiry and semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, it develops unique naturalist conceptions of religious meaning and ultimate orientation while also arguing for a reappraisal of the ways in which the world’s venerable religious traditions enable novel forms of communal inquiry into what Peir...

Examines Tertullian of Carthage's (160-220 C.E.) writings on dress within Roman vestimentary culture. It employs a socio-historical approach, together with insights from performance theory and feminist rhetorical analysis, to situate Tertullian's comments in the broader context of the Roman Empire.

A practical guide to implementing the rich theory of attachment for treating mental health challenges in children.This book both explains and illustrates how the practice of child mental health professionals can be enhanced, whatever their treatment approach, to encourage engagement, resilience, and development in children with mental health problems. Alongside practical recommendations, Daniel Hughes and Ben Gurney-Smith use dialogue from clinical work to illustra...

The call for trauma-informed education is growing as the profound impact trauma has for the children’s ability to learn in traditional classrooms is recognized. For children who have experienced abuse and neglect their behavior is often highly reactive, aggressive, withdrawn or unmotivated. They struggle to learn, to make positive relationships or be influenced positively by teachers and school staff. Students become more and more at risk for mental health difficulties. Teachers become mor...

A resource for practitioners implementing attachment-focused treatment for young people.Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an attachment-focused treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced abuse and neglect and are now living in stable foster and adoptive families. Here, Daniel Hughes and Kim S. Golding provide a practical accompaniment to their highly successful DDP text coauthored with Julie Hudson, Healing Relational Trauma with Atta...