A plethora of new actors has in recent years entered China’s environmental arena. In Western countries, the linkages and diffusion processes between such actors often drive environmental movements. Through a study of Chinese anti-incineration contention, Chinese Environmental Contention: Linking Up against Waste Incineration investigates how the different contentious actors in China’s green sphere link up, and what this means for environmental contention. It addresses questions such as: Wh...

This anthology of scholarly essays on climate change, sustainable development, and human security presents a comprehensive analysis of severe global warming and its potential to impact all aspects of human life and security. It has been observed that climate change will most drastically impact poor tropical regions of the world for various reasons. The main focus of this collection of essays is to analyze the pro and cons of the global warming and climate change debate among scholars, poli...

Grief counseling and therapy have been revolutionized by the recognition that adaptive grieving commonly involves retaining bonds with the deceased rather than relinquishing them, but guidelines for how to integrate this shift into professional practice have been scarce. In this groundbreaking volume, leading bereavement scholars Robert Neimeyer and Edith Steffen provide a rich trove of therapeutic procedures to help grieving clients preserve valued relationships with the dead and address ...

Production Collaboration in the Theatre reveals the ingredients of proven successful collaborations in academic and professional theatre training, where respect, trust, and inclusivity are encouraged and roles are defined with a clear and unified vision.Garnering research from conversations with over 100 theatre professionals on Broadway and in regional and educational theatre, the authors provide multiple approaches to working together that are designed to help students a...

This book contains a great story, where the life of a baby intervenes, who needs more than medical help to survive, who needs the love of all those around him and of the good God, Who had great benevolence for him and his family.We hope that this true story will bring faith and hope in the middle of situations that change in a moment the complete course of a person's life, things impossible to solve and that we can face at any time.We share this with all our heart because w...

The introduction of the continuing bonds model of grief near the end of the 20th century revolutionized the way researchers and practitioners understand bereavement. Continuing Bonds in Bereavement is the most comprehensive, state-of-the-art collection of developments in this field since the inception of the model. As a multi-perspectival, nuanced, and forward-looking anthology, it combines innovations in clinical practice with theoretical and empirical advancements. The text trac...

Born and raised in Newark, NJ, the Author allows us to share her personal memories of life in a Public Housing Project in the 1960s. After the death of her father, she began to seek refuge into her childhood memories as well as digging deeper into her ancestry as a way of removing herself from the pain of her loss, only to re-discover the blessings that her father left behind. During her journey, she is exposed to many heart breaking and joyful lessons, causing much confusion and pain alon...

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on...

RileyRiley refused to admit she was struggling to get a handle on her werewolfThe werewolf within her was trying to tell her something for so longBut, it was sworn to secrecy from the goddess of the moonThe pack was silent and her alpha was never informedRiley had been cursed from a young age and the truth finally came outSpinning her entire world out of orbitShe became trapped within her own skinHer werewolf ...

"If there was ever a day when everything went right when everything had gone wrong, that was it."Life builds our resilience, shaping us through hardships we never imagined we could face. But each challenge becomes part of the training ground that prepares us for what comes next.Maria Duthie had already met many challenges head-on-so when a near-fatal equestrian accident almost left her paralyzed, she leaned on the strength forged through a lifetime of adversity.Whil...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

Within the past 10 years 'Religious Tourism' has seen both economic and education-sector growth on a global scale. This book addresses the central role of religious tourism and interrelationships with other aspects of pilgrimage management. It provides practical applications, models and illustrations and looks at secular and sacred spaces on a global stage. The second edition sees the introduction of a new structure and the addition of new international case studies. It is an invaluable re...