These early novellas by Joannie Kay, writing as Susan Joseph, are gathered together, re-edited with over 2000 words of new material presented in one volume for your reading pleasure. The four stories follow the brothers Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Callahan as they each meet and marry their wife, and then experience the joys and tribulations of newly wed life. While living in contemporary times, these brothers are traditionally old-fashioned in their beliefs, strong in their faith, and rel...

Friendship can grow from the unlikeliest of circumstances.Rose is a ninety-three-year-old former ballet dancer and the last of the Eastern European Jews who fled the Nazis and formed a community in Venice Beach, California.Nina is a thirty-six-year-old yoga teacher living in Venice during the 2008 recession.Their lives collide after a car accident kills Rose's husband and Nina's fiancé. Wracked by grief, shame, and guilt over her perceived role in t...

「本書告訴我們哪些人為了捍衛我們的健康，冒著生命危險追獵病毒。麥科明克與費雪賀區以嚴謹的態度、熱情的誠實勇氣，帶領讀者一同面對未知危險，分享他們的一生。這是一個發人深省的故事，兩位最前線的科學家讓我們領略到奉獻、智慧與勇氣能夠戰勝病毒，也讓我們對全球的人類健康懷抱希望。」——強納生．曼寧（Professor Jonathan Mann），哈佛大學公共衛生學院（Harvard School of Public Health）教授「麥科明克曾在非洲茅屋裡與伊波拉病毒面對面，他屈膝跪在出血不止的病人身旁。」——理察．普雷斯頓（Richard Preston），《棘手地帶》（The Hot Zone）作者「美國最有名的病毒學家的回憶錄。」——《科學》（Science）「本書介紹美國在疫情控制上之經驗，對我國疫情工作者當然是受用不盡，……且無論是以專業或以讀小說之心來讀，相信都不會令人失望。」——洪其璧，前預防醫學研究所所長「此書將帶領你進入前所未有的世紀之旅，是希區考克驚悚電影在形形色色...

Draping for Apparel Design, Fourth Edition is the fully updated and revised edition of the seminal book pioneered by fashion education luminary Helen Joseph-Armstrong. This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instruction for the beginning patternmaker and advanced techniques for the more experienced. Maintaining the vast array of examples and the book's easy-to-read style, revising author Susan Ashdown reflects current industry standards, both metric and imperial measurement...

For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years ...

Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells. Whether these films challenge or perpetuate traditional structures (or do both), their considerable influence warrants careful examination. This collection addresses the vast reach of the Disneyverse, contextualizing its films within larger conversations about power relations. The depictions of...

"[McCormick has] been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa.... He... worked for days inside a mud hut that was smeared with Ebola blood, on his knees among people who were crashing and bleeding out." —Richard Preston, The Hot Zone Now with a new foreword by the authors about the novel Coronavirus pandemic. Sublimely equipped to survive, to propagate, to conquer, the virus is neither really alive nor really dead. Its dimensions are measured in molecules. It attacks by dismantling its human tar...

“Set your hearts at rest, for ALL IS WELL.” —Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 6:78 If a man is measured by the good he does during his lifetime for the benefit of others, then what are we to think of a man whose influence and dedication continue to bless people two hundred years after his birth? The Prophet Joseph Smith stands alone as a noble and worthy representative of our Father in Heaven and his son, Jesus Christ. Foreordained to the great calling of restoring the gospel of Jesus ...

Scholarly insight and reflection on finding meaning in the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic caused a horrific loss of life and had tremendous, long-lasting psychological effects. Diagnoses of anxiety and mental illness are now at much higher levels than they were in 2019. For believers, the pandemic raised questions about the nature of God, increasing the need for pastoral care and resources to make sense of such a deep disruption....

Suffering and Evil in Nature: Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures, edited by Joseph E. Harroff and Jea Sophia Oh, provides many unique experiments in thinking through the implications of ecstatic naturalism. This collection of essays directly addresses the importance of values sustaining cultures of healing and offers a variety of perspectives inducing radical hope requisite for cultivating moral and political imaginings of democracy-to-come as a regulative ...

Using the approach to teaching and developing strengths and talents known as the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) this book provides a blueprint on how to expand your repertoire of evidence-based practices and pedagogical strategies to better challenge and engage twice exceptional students.Covering topics such as how to provide various types of enrichment for the classroom, how to assess individual interests, how to use strength-based learning to promote socioemotional wellbeing, ...

How can clothing better serve people with disabilities?Drawing from research and personal interviews from industry representatives and consumers, author Susan Rothman Kolko examines the roles the fashion industry plays in supporting and encouraging inclusive products. The apparel industry has challenges but is moving towards realistic adaptive solutions in clothing. From equal rights to understanding identity in the social world, this book provides...