Ben Blackbird has always been there for everyone else. He took care of his mother and sisters when his alcoholic father didn’t. He raised his son alone when his wife got sick and eventually died from breast cancer. Ben has been his family’s rock in every crisis situation. He loved his life, but he was lonely.Greta spent her childhood in the foster care system. She was always an exceptional student, but didn’t have much experience with men. Years later, after enduring years of her h...

When the mildly kink-themed trilogy 50 Shades of Grey became popular reading in 2012, the media speculated that feminism was in reverse, as the public went mad over bondage and discipline, domination and submission and sadomasochism (BDSM). The novels provoked academic debate about BDSM and the issues it raises for feminists. Is the female dominant truly powerful or is she just another objectified body?Does lesbian BDSM avoid the problematic nature of heterosexual kink, or...

Seeing people through God's eyes is a very humbling experience. Listening to people face their life's challenges has taught me to attend to the soul work that so enhances one's understanding of self and one's deepest understandings. The body has simply to release the barnacles we've gathered from our life experiences…leaving us free to create a life we truly want. That's not always fun, but it's worth it (after the dust settles!). The stories within this book explore both the divine and or...

How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fai...

OG Mandino, one of my favorite authors, has a vow, it is: "I promise... I swear... I vow... to never forget the greatest talent God has bestowed on me is the power to pray." Remember his vow! My favorite song is "The Prayer," by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion. Listen to it.It doesn't matter where you are in your life right now... find your dream. My story is very evident in this book. Your story may be that of a highly successful businessperson, teacher, actor, or counselor.

Learn to Teach explores the most up-to-date findings on how children learn, to help teachers create effective learning environments and plan for teaching. Drawing on a neo-Vygotskian approach to learning, it covers the purpose of education; socio-cultural approaches to human cognition; attention and intelligence as cognitive tools; and the role of mindsets, memory and language in learning. It promotes the idea that the mind is a cultural product and that education is best understood as fos...

Thousands have run afoul of Britain's Obscene Publications Act--from Victorian erotica presses to 21st-century dominatrices. At a time when the internet has made sexually explicit material ubiquitous, why are British traditional media still regulated by a vaguely worded law from 1857?This comprehensive analysis of obscenity in British culture explores what is considered obscene, who gets to decide, and how class, race and gender inform laws regarding adult content. The author descr...

John Briere and Catherine Scott′s Principles of Trauma Therapy, Third Edition is both comprehensive in scope and highly practical in application. This best selling text provides a creative synthesis of cognitive-behavioral, relational, affect regulation, mindfulness, and psychopharmacologic approaches to the "real world" treatment of acute and chronic posttraumatic states. Grounded in empirically-supported trauma treatment techniques and adapted to the complexitie...

This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on land use change and management.The first chapter discusses the role of agricultural expansion, land cover and use change in contributing to climate change. It reviews the impacts of land-use change on climate, specifically focusing on carbon emission, surface energy fluxes and the emission of reactive gases from vegetation. The chapter also assesses how to estimate the impacts of land-use change on climate.The second chapter ...

From the award-winning author of The Road from Chapel Hill, a story of loyalty, duty, and love in the days following the Civil War.Returning to characters introduced in her previous novel, acclaimed author Joanna Catherine Scott explores the terrain of a devastated South, where the war is over-but conflict lives on. Having endured years of hardship, Eugenia Mae Spotswood returns to Wilmington to find out who her mother is, only to be faced with racism and ...

In this affecting and brave novel, the mother of three adopted Korean children tries to help them discover their birth parents. But what factual information she's provided doesn't coincide with what the oldest child remembers — and knows is true. It is painfully clear that the children's history is lost.

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads. The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it: bin Laden's four wives and many children, his deputies and m...