Super speed, incredible strength, the ability to fly, throw fire, read minds or change forms. What superpower would you choose if you could? Would you be the hero or the villain? And how would it affect your relationships?The challenge of connection, secrets, and the murky line between good and evil are explored in this collection of 11 original romances by:Kim Strattford – Flying Fast, Falling Hard (M/F)E.D. Gonzalez – Where There’s Smoke (M/M)Naomi Hinchen –...

The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface between artistic work and art education.

While the authors recognize that cancer is certainly no laughing matter, both cancer survivors set out to remind readers that no matter how bad one's life circumstances may be, there are always reasons to smile - and steps that can be taken to improve one's health, outlook, and prognosis. Containing many healthy-living tips to promote healing of the body as well as healing the mind and soul.

At the age of 21, Marine Sergeant Freddy Gonzalez was killed during the Tet Offensive in Hue City, Vietnam. For his actions defending his platoon that day, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Later, in 1996, in honor of his actions a U.S. Navy warship, the USS Gonzalez, was named after him. This biography, an outgrowth of the author's 2006 book, When the River Dreams, covers Gonzalez's birth in 1946 to a 16-year-old single mother; his youth, when he worked with his mother as a w...

Confronting systemic injustices and paving the way towards a more inclusive, culturally responsive, and effective practice, Chioma Anah examines how art therapy can be used as a tool in addressing racial trauma.Delving into theories of racism and its evolution, the taxonomy of microaggressions, advocacy and intersectionality, this resource exposes the powerful structures that perpetuate daily microaggressions experienced by African Americans and how therapeutic relationship can rep...

"É buscando contribuir com tais reflexões que se organizou o presente livro. Dividido em três partes ("Questões introdutórias", "Questões estruturais" e "Justiça Climática e Grupos Vulneráveis mais impactados", que por sua vez se subdivide em geral e Brasil), contando com 15 capítulos, além desta apresentação, a obra traz reflexões de autores nacionais e estrangeiros, com abordagens teóricas e práticas, sendo inter e multidisciplinar, sempre com uma ótica protetiva, a fim de dialogar com a...

If you are a Private Employer or Private Service Professional you absolutely must know the "inside information" in this book. Almost every employer and job seeker we encounter is making mistakes they just don't know about or even realize they are doing! If you are concerned about "doing it right" then you'll want to dive in and learn all the ways both parties may be miscommunicating, being inappropriate, or more seriously, "shooting themselves in the foot" when engaging in the employment p...

Students in early childhood settings don't always get the benefits of shared book reading—a strategy proven to boost language skills and content knowledge. Prepare the next generation of teachers to make the most of shared reading with this accessible textbook, a complete guide to building vocabulary-rich science and social studies lessons and discussions around storybooks and informational texts. Field-tested with children in high-poverty school ...

The Adventures of Freddy from the Pond is the first book in what will hope to be a series of books which will highlight Freddy’s situation’s while growing up in the pond. This will relate to situations in school in which children can often relate to.

Freddy from the Pond in: "The Bully Frogs" is the eagerly awaited second book from The Adventures of Freddy from the Pond children's picture book series. Freddy runs into (literally) a group of Bully Frogs who are intent on making little Freddy's froggy life miserable. But when Freddy comes across one of the bully frog's pet tarantula, Freddy is able to turn things around. Read on for this great lesson on bullying and life's lessons. The illustrations also by Mr. Gonzales are even more cre...