"Every child's way of being can open doors to wisdom, compassion, and human connection. We need only to listen."This is among the conclusions that the authors, one of whom is an experienced foster parent and the other a professor of developmental psychology, draw as a result of working with a diverse range of children and families. Inspired by their relationships with families in crisis, the authors began to rethink the traditional foster care models and developed an innovative pra...

"This text is long overdue and timely. Carr and Broom have placed the issues firmly in the broader context of the relationship between our species and the others which share this planet with us...As they argue it is possible for tourists and the travel and tourism sector to take and exercise responsibility to drive change, Carr and Broom's text helps us to understand the issues and the context and to make better-informed choices." Harold Goodwin Responsible Tourism Partnership Animals are ...

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!The first book in an epic new dark academia romantasy, perfect for fans of the Zodiac Academy and Atlas Six series, about a young woman named Summer Tuatha De Daanan who enrolls at the magical Avalon University, where she must uncover the secrets of her past, find the mysterious benefactor who paved her way, and stop a sadis...

Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or tax subsidies to provide preferred tax treatment to more sustainable alternatives to those harmful activities. This book pr...

"Chronicles the misdeeds of many of America's worst miscreants, with special emphasis on the tools of the outlaw trade." — American RiflemanFrom colonial-era rifles carried on the "Owlhoot Trail" to John Dillinger's Colt pistols, the history of the American outlaw is told in guns—weapons that became each man's personal signature. Authors Gerry and Janet Souter peer into these criminals' choices of derringers, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, machine guns, and c...

How an ordinary family fell into the dark world of white supremacy, and how love ultimately triumphed over hate. As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle-class upbringing, and Lauren traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of Toronto. Link provided for free teachers' and ...

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of specific policy proposals for the incoming national administration on every major domest...

Does your man NOT meet your sexual needs? Is he boring? Disinterested? Too tired? Too busy? Distracted by sport or the TV?On this audio you'll hear Clinical Psychologist and Sex Therapist Dr. Janet Hall's expert advice for women on Sparking Up Your Man's Sexual Desire.You will learn:The facts about loss of desire in men.How not to blame him or take the blame for yourself.The 3 Do’s and Dont’s you need to know.There are hy...

The involvement of humans with ducks, geese and swans has probably been closer than with any other group of birds, today and for several millenia past. This involvement, in its many aspects, is the theme of this compelling and readable account by an Assistant Director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.Dr Kear ranges widely, from a summary of the taxonomy and natural history of wildfowl, through a history of domestication world wide, to wildfowling, decoys, conserv...

A handsome doctor comes home to Vermont to reclaim his first love in this Americana romance from the New York Times–bestselling author.Dr. Jonas Concannon has left his practice in New York to return to his hometown of Randolph, Vermont, a picturesque snow-covered village nestled in the glorious Green Mountains. He's doing it all for Bridget, his first love, the woman he abandoned a decade ago. But he soon discovers she's no longer the unquestioning innocen...

Following the Man of Faith—The Lives of Sarah, Hagar, and KeturahAbraham was one of the greatest figures in human history. Historically, he is viewed as the father of two races, and spiritually as a great man of faith. But the story of this "man of faith" also includes three women who at various times played a large role in his life—Sarah, his first wife; Hagar, Sarah's servant and the mother of Abraham's first child; and Keturah, his wife after Sarah's death.In Following t...

Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern scienceIn 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called "the highest and most interesting problem for the naturalist." A Most Interesting Problem brings together twelve world-class scholars and science communicators to investigate what Darwin go...