Fifteen-year-old Darren Davies is found facedown in the Weymouth River with a gunshot wound to his chest. The killer is never found and his death remains a mystery. Ten years later, his mother receives a visit from the local police. Sandra' s best friend has been found dead on a remote Pilbara road. And Barbara' s DNA matches the DNA found under Darren' s fingernails. When the investigation into her son' s murder is reopened, Sandra begins to question what she knew about her best friend. A...

In this cosy crime mystery set in a retirement village, we meet Josh, a sweet, well-meaning university student who has a part-time job in aged care. When Josh steals two research mice from a campus laboratory, he decides to hide them in the basement of the retirement village. But will he be able to find the lab mice another home before they cause the outbreak of a deadly disease. Enter a curious cat called Harley, a devilish dog called Bobby, the arrival of some strange packing boxes and a...

Did anyone know Dr Gabriel Beaufort better than Ruby Rose Gillespie? They were friends at high school. They are secret lovers now. And because he is also the lung transplant surgeon who saved her life, Ruby will forever be in his debt. But then the body of Dr Beaufort is found in the wetlands next to the hospital, the day after cystic fibrosis sufferer Ruby is readmitted with signs of infection. As the crime scene investigation begins beneath her hospital window, Ruby starts to gather her ...

Josh is a sweet, well-meaning university student with a big heart. After he impulsively steals two research mice from a campus laboratory, he hides them in the basement of Harewood Hall, a venerable building in the retirement village where he works. The mice are happy, Josh is happy - until he discovers that his charges might be carrying a deadly disease. Enter a curious cat called Harley, a devilish dog called Bobby, the arrival of some mysterious packing boxes, and a strange spike in the...

Ten years ago, fifteen-year-old Darren Davies was shot dead at the river mouth. The killer was never found. Now, Darren's mother Sandra receives a visit from the police. Her best friend Barbara Russell has also been found dead, out in the bush. And Barbara's DNA matches the DNA found under Darren's fingernails. When the investigation into Darren's murder is reopened, Sandra begins to question what she knew about her best friend. As she digs, she discovers that there are many secrets in her...

Bis zum letzten Atemzug – die bewegende Chronologie eines Sterbeprozesses Ermutigend – authentisch – bewegend!Wohl selten hat ein Mensch so wahrhaftig und mutig, dabei so konkret und lebendig den Prozess des eigenen Sterbens in all seinen Facetten aufgezeichnet wie Karen Speerstra in diesem, ihrem letzten, so einzigartigen Buch. Nach 10 Jahren Kampf gegen den Krebs bricht sie ihre Behandlung ab, wendet sich ihrem bevorstehenden Tod zu und lässt uns teilhabe...

“An in-depth, scientific—yet hopeful and positive—look at how the brain and body work together . . . [Dr. Martha Herbert] has developed a new way of seeing autism.”—Library JournalAfter years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, Harvard Medical School researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism, she concludes, is not a hardwired impairment pro...

Move beyond conventional thinking about autism. . . .After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child’s genes and destined to remain fixed forever, as we’re often told. Instead, it is the result of a cascade of events, many seemingly mino...

Are contemporary U.S. labor unions irrelevant, or in fact a changing force to be reckoned with as they grow into a new economy in a globalized America? Is the current political power exercised by U.S. labor unions more akin to the social movements of the sixties or the interest politics of the nineties? After winning the presidency of the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney and his colleagues have taken strides to make labor more important in the United States economically and politically, despi...

The latest installment in the Chesapeake Crimes mystery series focuses on working stiffs--literally! Included in this collection are new tales by: Shari Randall, C. Ellett Logan, Karen Cantwell, E. B. Davis, Jill Breslau, David Autry, Harriette Sackler, Barb Goffman, Ellen Herbert, Smita Harish Jain, Leone Ciporin, Cathy Wiley, Donna Andrews, Art Taylor. Foreword by Elaine Viets.

The Divine Art of Dying explores the time when individuals facing a life-limiting illness make critical decisions about how they will live until they die. Authors Karen Speerstra and Herbert Anderson teamed up to write this book shortly before Speerstra's death. Their hope was that this book would be a gift to help people who are irreversibly ill (and their friends and family) navigate the perilous journey to the point at which one decides to discontinue curative treatment and tur...

In diesem zweiten Band der „Allgemeinen Wirtschaftspolitik“ liefert Herbert Giersch ein Kompendium des konjunkturpolitischen Wissens seiner Zeit, das noch heute fasziniert. Es vereinigt die Erkenntnisse volkswirtschaftlicher Theorie und wirtschaftspolitischer Praxis, die der Autor in eineinhalb Jahrzehnten der universitären Lehre und Forschung sowie der Tätigkeit als akademischer Berater für sich erschlossen und weitergegeben hat. Damit umfasst es ein riesiges Spektrum von Themen, die in d...