This accessible guide provides a detailed and practical understanding of how to support Children Looked After (CLA), exploring concepts surrounding identity and the key role professionals can play by becoming advocates for these children. With a mixture of theory, reflection and application to practice, Advocating for Children Looked After considers contemporary topics, from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), labelling and stigma, to the relationships surrounding Children Looke...

My husband wanted me back, but I was already falling for someone else...Savior or seducer. I am not sure which one he's playing at.He is forbidden, after all. I am married to a rockstar. Appearances must be upheld.But what does it mean when your marriage is breaking, and the dark, mysterious savior is offering you things you have never felt before?Do you say yes? Or do you say no?He owns a club that's specific to every person's desir...

The classic on race at work that is even more relevant today than when it was first published. Ella Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo describe how white and Black women experience work differently—and how Black women in particular are held back in their careers. Now updated with a new preface and epilogue by the authors, this groundbreaking book shows how these experiences are still present today and provide action items for how organizations can spur change.Provides a critical ...

Gender equality is at a crossroads. Let your diverse talent shine.In Our Separate Ways, Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo take an unflinching look at the differences between Black and white women's experiences at work. Based on groundbreaking research, the book compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 first-generation Black and white female managers in the American business area. In-depth histories bring to life the women's powerful and often difficult...

This prince charming has the world at his fingertips.Anything real estate mogul Thad Worthington wants, he gets—except true love.Until one cold night when he meets a woman with a warm heart.But his would-be princess has no desire to risk her heart for a second chance at a fairy tale, not when she's already widowed and a single mother.After one scorching kiss that leaves him changed forever, Thad won't let his princess run from him.

He is a tempest with wild, dark, dangerous desires…Billionaire hotel developer Denver Ramsey's life was destroyed fifteen years ago and now he wants revenge and has just the means to get it, by seducing the daughter of the man who took everything from him.They say there is a fine line between love and hate…That's more true than Blair Ashworth ever imagined when she comes face to face with a devastatingly gorgeous man who hates her with every fiber ...

`This book will serve well a diverse audience - in policy formulation and practice determination at all levels - who are committed to the nation′s health and well-being′ - Dianne Willcocks, Vice Chancellor, York St John UniversityCritical Thinking in Health & Social Care is designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge and tools they need to critically examine practice in their own workplace.The book presents a range of different approaches, which have...

Tasha Bellamy never expected to get lost in a snowstorm in the Swiss Alps, nor did she expect to fall into a cave and find a sleeping dragon…literally.One touch awakens the black dragon and he transforms into a gorgeous, ancient, Russian warrior named Vasili.She soon learns that Vasili has been missing from the world for more than seven hundred years after going on a quest for a dragon stone. But the quest cost Vasili his mate, and driven mad with grief, he sealed himself i...

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by thos...

He’s the CEO and she’s off limits…Spencer Howe can’t let anyone know what’s going on in his head, especially when he daydreams about bending his junior ad account manager over her desk and showing her what her sass does to him. Cate Cross isn’t just sassy though, she’s beautiful, brilliant and perfect for the senior account manager position at his advertising firm.He knows he gets under her skin when he calls her his assistant. He does it ...

Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam playing Santa while draped in Mrs. Starkadders's shawls, the family shares their traditional "Christmas pudding"-a mélange containing random objects of doom foretelling the coming year: a coffin nail for death, a bad sixpence for fin...

How bad can a blind date with a vampire really be?The last thing Ryan Harding needs is his brother setting him up on dates with random women. Yes, he’s been avoiding relationships and burying himself in work, but come on, a blind date? Surely things aren’t that desperate. Still…the cute blonde at the bar is pretty amazing. Kind of sexy as hell. Why did he think a blind date was so bad again?Grace Stanhope has no interest in dating mortals,...