Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Ownilluminates ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own-spaces that interrogate illness, challenge restitution (re)constructions, and work within and around various limitations associated with women writing illness.Bridging trauma studies with women's studies, this collection blends creative writing and literary studies to explore how illness can weigh on the p...

An FBI agent, a polar bear shifter, attempts to rescue a kidnapped victim when a hot state trooper, also a bear shifter, gets in her way.Trooper Andy MacMathan insists on being her backup. She wants to leave him behind. What begins as a kidnapping scheme twists and turns into something darker, while they turn into their polar bears to even the odds against their human foes.Romantically falling for each other isn’t in the plan, but the heat between them sizzles. The mission ...

Rina is a warrior elf from a long class of shadow warrior elves on the planet Xibos, a world populated by elves, griffons, dragons, giants, pixies, fairies, trolls, merfolk, centaurs, and other fantastical creatures. They’ve recently had visitors from a whole other planetary system who call Xibos a primitive elf world. But Rina doesn’t believe they are a primitive people in the least as she fights for right and though she earns much gold from her work, she also takes on cases where there i...

Book 4 in Terry Spear's Highland Wolf SeriesShe's ready for change…But he's digging in his clawsColleen Playfair has never been to Scotland, but when she discovers she must spend a year and a day overseas learning to manage her newly inherited estate, she's ready for the challenge. She even has some ideas for improvements—if she can get past the sexy werewolf who seems convinced he's the one in charge.Grant MacQuarrie and his clan h...

Love spells danger for an alpha SEAL wolf and the woman who steals his heart in this steamy shifter romance from USA Today bestselling author Terry SpearHis love is dangerousAs a Navy SEAL and police diver, alpha wolf shifter Allan Rappaport knows how to handle tough situations, but the arrival of a human diving partner—especially one as attractive as Debbie Renaud—is a whole new challenge. Getting involved is dangerous, but Debbie...

REDISCOVER REAL FOOD AND FEEL FULL AGAINThis book takes the reader on a health journey to understand what food really is, how it works in the body, and how to use it to optimize health. It debunks commonly held myths about weight loss, calorie counting, healthy food, and healthy eating while providing the reader with the tools and “rules” to confidently pursue eating based on sound science. It uses stories as well as research to engage and teach the reader about the science of food...

This book describes a unique combination of research programs based on a striking variety of hypotheses and procedures directed toward understanding the sources and consequences of neurobehavioral plasticity. This remarkable attribute of the nervous system -- to be pliable and capable of being shaped or formed by natural or artificial sources toward adaptation or maladaptation -- is considered in terms of the neurochemical forces and neuroanatomical structure that has been found to be pivo...

A Romeo-Juliet type family feud, polar bear style, tore them apart; can they find true love again?It’s nearly Christmas, no tours on the schedule for Edward MacMathan and his brother and so they’re working in their uncle and aunt’s tavern when the love of Edward's life returns with two young boys in tow, and they look a lot like him when he and Rob were that age. Robyn Conibear is in trouble and she's fled her deceased mate's sleuth to keep his parents from taking custody of her an...

Published in the year 1984, Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Memory is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.

This is the first volume that focuses on the lifespan neurobehavioral factors likely to determine susceptibility to alcohol abuse and its consequences. The chapters offer careful analysis of the effects of ethanol on the fetus, the infant, the adolescent, and the adult. The authors include behavioral neuroscientists and clinical neuropsychologists. Their topics range from the neurochemical and neuroanatomical consequences of prenatal alcohol to the cognitive consequences of prenatal alcoho...

Looking for an action-packed quickie?USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear brings her trademark action, romance, and wolf pack dynamics in this thrilling Heart of the Wolf novella!A heroine with a target on her backA hero determined to protect her at all costsEnough action, mystery, and wild romance to keep readers enthralledRed wolf Carm...

Originally published in 1979, this volume contains chapters prepared following a conference at SUNY- Binghamton in 1977. The conference was the outcome of exciting new developments that had occurred in the ontogeny of learning and memory at the time, as well as a long-standing friendship between the editors. Many changes had taken place in the years leading up to this volume and there were now many more researchers active in the field. This volume reflected the rapidly changing state of th...