Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.Including a range of personal, academic and clinical perspectives, the book considers historical and contemporary perspectives on autism, including diagnosis, developmental outcomes and life course issues. Attention is given to medical, care ...

The Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marriage proponents in Hawaii in 1993. Since then, the church has been a significant player in the ongoing saga of LGBT rights within the United States and at times has carried decisive political clout.Gregory Prince draws from over 50,000 pages of public records, private documents, and interview transcripts to capture the past half-century of the Mormon Church’s attitudes on homosexuality...

The sequel to THE PRINCESS RULES sees rebel princess, Princess Florizella, going on even more adventures, but this time, she also has a little brother in tow…Once upon a time, there was a princess who broke all the rules, and dared to be different…So when that same princess – Florizella – finds a baby boy delivered by stork to her parents’ palace, she is shocked to discover that he will one day be king and inherit her kingdom! For ...

Ange au destin fulgurant, Grégory Lemarchal, brillant vainqueur de la Star Academy devenu étoile de la chanson, a succombé à la mucoviscidose après un parcours exemplaire marqué tout entier d’une exigence de réussite et d’une lutte acharnée contre la maladie.Attendrissant et généreux gamin que le public avait sacré roi, résolu à ne pas laisser briser son rêve d’enfance, il repoussait avec grâce les limites d’un corps fragilisé par le mal tapi en lui, suscitant un prodigieux élan d’...

The Church has been wrong about LGBTQI people. This book explains why.Most of us grew up with only part of the story concerning our gay and lesbian neighbors. We thought people chose to be homosexual, and that with God's help they could choose to be straight. New scientific research shows that sexual orientation is determined in the waters of the womb, not in the waters of baptism. Being straight or gay is not an act of will, it is a gift of God.This book traces a growing u...

Presented here in a new translation and featuring the author's own watercolour illustrations, The Little Prince has become a classic philosophical fable for young and old, as well as a global publishing phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide and being translated into dozens of languages.Alma Junior Classics series of illustrated classics includes some of the greatest books ever written for younger readers and new translations of unjustly neglected international wo...

Aline Solini--a beautiful Russian adventuress who has abandoned her Russian husband and is now in search of greater conquests in Europe--arrives in Marisi, in the decadent days on the eve of World War I. She has been rescued by Richard Stetton, the wealthy playboy son of an American millionaire, who is on a trip to Europe to discover himself. Instead, the somewhat dim-witted Stetton falls into Aline's clutches, and she uses him and his money to win her way into fashionable society. Once sh...

In the Spring of 2108, Australian Defence Minister Aub Ryman resigns from his post, committed to an alternative system for determining the sovereignty of nations that would end warfare forever. In order to lead this transformation he must first marry Queen Katie of Kamchatka, whose many fans throughout the world have given her the power to approve or remove governments to achieve her objectives under a system known as The New Game. Before he can assume his role as King, however, The Island...

I’m not a good man.I’m the darkness, the danger, the enforcer behind the empire.No one sees me unless I want them to.Then one day, she found me, showing me a life beyond the shadows of the streets.Until one wrong turn and our fairytale shattered, leaving me back in darkness.In a place I can only reach her by destroying her world.So, I wait.But waiting isn’t something she is willing to do. She’s forging a new life without me, in the pa...

This riveting coming of age saga unfolds in the beautiful parish of Portland, on Jamaica’s North Coast. Something happens to Runkus Black at Seashore Bay Preparatory. Double Trouble—two naughty boys and their marble playing friends are up to no good! Their shenanigans are so bad that Runkus becomes depressed and gets into fracas. His best friend as well as an academically astute girl give advice. However, Runkus is determined to get away from school—on a cruise with his parents. He falls t...

Au XVIIe siècle, les élèves du collège jésuite de Bruxelles exposaient publiquement dans la rue les emblèmes qu’ils réalisaient, notamment à la gloire de la dynastie habsbourgeoise au pouvoir. Consacrée au gouvernorat de Léopold-Guillaume de Habsbourg (1647-1656), cette enquête vise à identifier les raisons qui ont conduit les jésuites à choisir l’emblématique pour formuler un éloge, à travers lequel la Compagnie de Jésus diffusait ses valeurs et ses idéaux. La célébration d’un prince est ...

Des rangs de la Star Academy au fronton de l'Olympia, il a franchi en un éclair la distance séparant l'anonymat du vedettariat. Et pourtant, ce gamin dont tant d'autres enviaient l'irrésistible ascension n'était pas né sous une bonne étoile, car chanter, pour lui, représentait un combat de chaque instant. Harcelé par la mucoviscidose, ce démon accaparant la moindre parcelle de son souffle, il n'a pu remporter une lutte inégale face au mal qui le consumait et, malgré sa détermination, a fin...