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There are approximately 7 billion people in the world, and 2 billion of them are children. Children are the last unheard minority, a group whose voice is seldom listened to, and whose rights are seldom acknowledged. Children are dependent on adults for their survival and wellbeing, and as such are subservient beings. Though the UN recently issued a Charter of the Rights of the Child, an important aspect was neglected—the emotional rights of the child. Children all over the world are routin...

Lovers of all things French will delight in these stories and recipes deriving from both the French city and countrysidefrom Paris to Provence to Saignon, a tiny medieval town in the Luberon Mountains. Beautiful photography illustrates the pleasure of a well-laid table,whether an intimate breakfast or a dinner party with friends. Entertaining in the French Style gives readers a glimpse into the everyday lives of French artists, farmers, chefs, and cheesemakers, of regular French couples an...

Stunning, exotic and colorful tropical flowers are the shining stars in this stimulating look at tropical flower arrangements. Eileen Johnson and Felipe Sastre of Flower School New York demonstrate how orchids, elephant ears, ginger, anthurium, and more fit into modern settings. Whether used in a penthouse, a bouquet for a bride, or as fireplace décor for Christmas, tropical flowers can be unexpected, fresh and stylish. With step-by-step instructions on how to create tropical floral arrang...

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches to Early Childhood Education edited by Alex Collopy offers critical analyses of psychoanalytic theory to provide a deeper understanding of the construction and education of young children from infancy to age eight, focusing on the experiences of children with identified disabilities, social, emotional, gender, linguistic, racial, and socioeconomic differences. It also provides portraits of early childhood practice and early childhood teacher trainings...

Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts to fill this gap by addressing the issue of death in a comprehensive manner. Among questions the contributors raise and seek...

Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this anthology explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S. The essays in Afr...

Inspired by the September 2016 conference of the same name, this second volume highlights recent research in a wide range of topics in contemporary number theory and arithmetic geometry. Research reports from projects started at the conference, expository papers describing ongoing research, and contributed papers from women number theorists outside the conference make up this diverse volume. Topics cover a broad range of topics such as arithmetic dynamics, failure of local-global principle...

Twelve thousand years of history are buried in the dust of the Llano Estacado—and the bones are finally ready to speak.Hidden within the Yellowhouse Draw on the edge of Lubbock, Texas, lies one of the most significant archaeological sites in North America. The Lubbock Lake Landmark was a secret kept by the earth, a silent witness to the extinction of giants and to the relentless endurance of the peoples who have lived there.In The Story the Bones Tell, veteran jour...

This book started out as a journal that I started writing after I went to church and the pastor gave me a message from God, The message really touched my heart so I began to research a 600 year old Bible that was given to me by my father Carl when I was eighteen. I didn't realize it when I first got the Bible that it had been passed down through generations in my family starting with my great (x three I think) grandmother who's father Reverend James Thomas Patton Irvine fought in the Battl...

A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves.Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not “at home” in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, licensed therapist Hilary Kinavey and registered dietician Dana Sturtevant, invite readers to break free from the status quo and reject a diet culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, stigma, and disembodiment, and fully reclaim and embrace their bodies.

Three prolific authors bring truth to the title of this heart-wrenching book, Love Is Never Painless, with a collection of novellas that explores the deeper side of love—the side rarely explored in love stories.In Eileen M. Johnson's "How the Other Half Lives," longtime friends Jamellah and Fernecia are having trouble with the men in their lives. And as their worlds seem to crumble, they must count on their friendship to keep it together.In "Love I...

A full cast classic recording of one of Shakespeares best-loved tragedies.