It is the late 1850s and a young Irishman, having abandoned his studies for the priesthood, arrives in New Harmony, Indiana in the afterglow of its utopian experiment and soon finds himself both in love with the town's most alluring woman and immersed in the horrifying violence of war. Told with the counterpointing narrative of his sister on the home front and shaped from a wealth of national and local documents, Suite Harmonic: A Civil War Novel of Rediscovery brings a rare intensity and ...

A novel that ranges over the subjects of loss, marriage, politics, and art, Time Stamp is a searing depiction of the way parents' lives affect their children through their untold or barely told stories—things that exist in the ether of family life and persist, yet play out differently on the stage of a new generation. Told in alternating narratives that open in 1911 when eleven-year-old Will Wheelock is on the periphery of a South Carolina lynching, and in 1997 when Will's daughter, Maddie...

Traveling from present-day Chicago to the Bicentennial summer of 1976 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and New Orleans, and then to Minnesota in the late 1950s, Clare, Loving: A Novel in Three Novellas is the story of Clare McHenry, whose mirroring estrangements from her mother and daughter are shaped by the puzzles of religion, men, silence, and the spiraling of time. Given the book's reverse narration, there is a normal accretion of detail and an added unfolding of layers that carry the reader "f...

Watching Oksana features disparate voices, most of them speaking from the late twentieth century. The opening group of stories, "What You Do for Love," is linked thematically, all of its protagonists in uniquely intense yet familiar parent–child relationships. "American Snapshot, 1993" is a stand-alone story in a more experimental vein that takes an oblique look at race. The "Laura" stories feature the same character at different points in her life, the last describing Laura's dreamlike ex...

When a young woman, trained from childhood in astrology, rejoins a colorful group of traveling players as a replacement for her magician husband, who was lost in an explosion, her precarious state imperils the entire troupe. The Second Magician's Tale—a novel set in the 1970s and bookended by mirroring calamities—is a story of loss, obsession, and escape.

In the Land of the Dinosaur: Ten Stories and a Novella—In the Land of the Dinosaur is set in 1980s small-town and rural Wisconsin. The title story, which opens the collection, creates its landscape and sets the tone of an insular world buffeted by change. The stories are not connected in terms of action, but place is their great unifier and many of the book's central characters reappear in the the final piece, a disturbing coming-of-age story, "The Killing."

Case studies provide real-world examples that make for rich discussions and greater learning in educational and professional development settings. Engage with case studies on developmentally appropriate practice to enhance your knowledge and skills.Developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) requires a nuanced understanding of child development, individual children, and the social and cultural contexts of children, families, and educators. This casebook presents nea...

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for sickle cell disease (SCD). The book reviews new data about risk prediction for severe SCD, outlines the unique challenges of HSCT for patients with SCD, profiles the supportive care guidelines for patients who are undergoing HSCT, highlights our current understanding of the best transfusion support for SCD patients prior to, during and after HSCT, and provides new perspectives ...

Belgium is a paradoxical case: a country that some argue should not exist, yet one that has been a model of both democratic innovation and political fragmentation. The Oxford Handbook of Belgian Politics dissects Belgium's unique institutional architecture, its complex linguistic and community divides, and its evolving federal structure. Despite its small size and historically precarious existence, Belgium has played an outsized role in both political practice and political scienc...

The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties. Yet, palliative medicine lacks the resources to carry such a workload itself. Geriatric Palliative Care addresses this need by encouraging individual specialties to "own" the management of elderly with the same vigor as they "own" other key management competencies within their specialty. This clinically focused and highl...

A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracyIn These Schools Belong to You and Me, MacArthur award–winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people with an “apprenticeship for citizenship i...

A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracyIn These Schools Belong to You and Me, MacArthur award–winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people with an “apprenticeship for citizenship i...