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When Brilliance & Madness Collide is a personal account of Ruth Manning, PhD, who has struggled with bipolar I disorder for the majority of her adult life. Her career path has had a myriad of twists and turns, from serving as founder and CEO of a biotech DNA sequence analysis software company, to working at a US national laboratory, to teaching mathematics as a university professor. These professional successes are interspersed with many hypomanic and manic episodes, over a dozen severe ma...

With the knowledge and sensitivity of a teacher and counsellor, Ruth M. Mann details a community effort to establish a shelter for abused women in a small Ontario municipality. While other literature presents the ostensibly cohesive views of particular interest groups on the issue of domestic violence, Mann exposes the conflicts that actually occur, and the ways these conflicts fuel unintended outcomes. In Who Owns Domestic Abuse? The Local Politics of a Social Problem, the author...

When Jill's world begins to unravel she knows it is make or break time. With her career and professional life falling apart and her relationship with her partner in ruins it appears that stress and depression are taking hold in an increasingly downward spiral. As if this is not enough Jill is pregnant with her baby due at any time and she knows she must make some heart wrenching decisions in an attempt to rebuild her crumbling life.OLIVER'S BRANCH is a book in two parts, only toget...

Twenty-one stories of ghosts and goblins from around the world. The book contains both spine-tingling tales and ones that will have you laughing out loud. A Book of Ghosts and Goblins is part of the series of Fairy Tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders. The illustrations by the talented Robin Jacques add to the wonderful collection. The tales are from many different countries including Hungary, Spain, France, Scotland, Siberia, Estonia, and Italy. Stories included: A Box on the Ear, The Goblins at...

If you met a spook and a spectre walking side by side, would you know which was which?As Manning-Sanders explains, the answer is: not necessarily. Both are ghosts, both are restless, and both have unfinished business with the living. But while a spook tends toward mischief - throwing parties, playing pranks, and causing harmless havoc - a spectre is altogether eerier, a pale and solemn figure trapped between worlds, neither good enough for heaven nor bad enough for anywhere else.

Eleven of fairy tales from around the world all featuring a devil or a demon. This unique collection has gathered stories from the cultures and countries of Hungary, Ireland, Transylvania, Gascony, Demark, Finland, India, France and Alsace. The book is a part of the the famous series of fairy tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques.

Folktales of kings and queens never fail to enthrall us, and the ten stories in this collection are no exception to that royal rule.A fascinating queen is the little snake queen who loves to dance and who rewards the person who plays for her with a tree that bears apples one day and oranges the next. There is Angela who dreams she will marry the king and does so - much to her sorrow.Among kings, there is King Eagle who takes on the Devil himself for the sake of his friend A...

A Book of Witches is an anthology, originally published in 1966, of twelve fairy tales that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. The book is illustrated by the award-winning artist, Robin Jacques. The witches in these stories can fly through the air on broomsticks, or on stalks of ragwort, or even in old jars. They can raise tempests and cross the sea in sieves. They can turn themselves and other people into pigs, or geese, or anything they please. Most of them are hook-...

Giants are as old as storytelling itself- and as varied. The stories in this book come from many countries - England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Romania. In these eighteen tales, Ruth Manning-Sanders writes of such old friends as Jack and the Beanstalk. She also includes stories of less familiar giants such as Sneezy Snatcher and Cucullin. The book is illustrated by the award-winning Robin Jacques.

A charm is a magic spell worked with the use of an amulet, bringing about either good or ill. A changeling in fairy tales is much rarer. It is a horrid little fairy creature mischievously exchanged for a look-alike human child. Pity the one who has to try to get the real child back!In this collection, Ruth Manning-Sanders engagingly includes tales of each. A piece of amber fills up a jug as soon as it is emptied, a bridle can turn anything into anything, and a cap can make the wear...

In this collection of unusual fairy tales, the author invites the reader to travel far and wide-through magic adventures spanning several countries and crossing oceans to the remotest corners of the world-even to Hell and the domains of the Sun, Moon, and Wind. Against such backdrops are set tales of courage, bravery, and love. A farmer confronts a dragon with only a magic feather to help him. A fiddler, by his daring, delivers a repentant landowner from eternal torture by dancing devils. ...