Duty called.He answered.She, with child, was left behind.He did not come home."They were the fathers we never knew, the uncles we never met, the friends who never returned, the heroes we can never repay." (B Clinton.) Such a man was 1st Lt Dean Harold Sherman, B-29 Airplane Commander one of the thousands of man-boys, not far from their mother’s apron strings, that learned to fly a B-29 thousands of miles and bomb an enemy.“They Called Him Marvin” is a his...

School is a struggle.Homework is a battleground.Nothing you've tried seems to help.The education system isn't solving this problem—the cavalry isn't coming. And your child isn't going to outgrow these difficulties. In fact, what you don't know could be keeping your child from succeeding at school.Now what?It doesn't have to be that way. In spite of what we we...

Gehe unbeschwert fit und schlank durch dein Leben: Du hast dich schon intensiv mit Ernährung, Gesundheit und Abnehmen beschäftigt und unzählige Konzepte ausprobiert? Du kennst die Regeln und Einschränkungen, aber spürst, dass genau diese dich davon abhalten, deinen ganz persönlichen Wohlfühlweg zu finden? Du hast genug von starren Vorgaben und bist bereit, endlich ein tiefes Verständnis für deinen Körper zu entwickeln? Dann lies weiter: Anstatt dich mit der nächsten starren Diät zu quälen,...

Can individual decisions concerning whether or where to attend church, to contribute time or money to religious organizations, or to forgo certain activities be explained as a special case of economic theory?In Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies, Ted G. Jelen brings together the leading scholars in the sociology of religion to debate market theories of religion. As the contributors examine whether or not religious choices can be understood as responding to the same laws of sup...

Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by the pandemic and suggest policies intended to contain contagion whilst managing the eco...

Collection of stories of the encounters of the contributing authors as they share their experiences in the foster care system. They faced many obstacles from their own family, foster parents and as they worked in the system. There are stories of abuse, neglect, self-doubt as well as stories of triumph as they overcame the situations life had dealth them.The foster care system as these authors have experienced is in need of improvement. The goal of these authors is to bring awarenes...

Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion (and therefore should not claim to do so), Stark and Finke analyze the observable, human side of faith. In clear and engaging prose, the authors combine explicit theorizing with animated discus...

Who is the real Sophie Stark?The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is the story of an enigmatic film director, told by the six people who loved her most. Brilliant, infuriating, all-seeing and unknowable, Sophie Stark makes films said to be 'more like life than life itself'. But her genius comes at a terrible cost: to her husband, to the brother she left behind, and to an actress who knows too much.With shades of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, A ...

First published in 1999, Illegal Drug Use in the United Kingdom provides a comprehensive review of information and interventions available in drug misuse in order to inform local drug policies. In keeping with the policy documents in both Scotland and England, the volume covers the breadth of possible interventions, rather than health care alone. Separate chapters review educational, policing and counselling approaches and discuss work with special groups such as rural drug users,...

Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and theologies. To argue that the age “resisted secularism” is by no means to argue that resi...