Lilian never thought a single secret could take over her life. What started in silence, late nights, hidden screens, and quiet curiosity slowly grew into something she could no longer control. Shame followed her everywhere. Guilt stayed with her. And no matter how hard she tried to stop, she kept falling deeper. Behind her smile was a battle no one could see, a battle for her mind, a battle for her heart, and she was losing.Heartgarden brings you into her real and painful ...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in a single line or paragraph: a Quote.To feel the impact a Quote can have, here ...

In this eleventh volume in The World Over series, Simon and Brooks examine and compare the rights and responsibilities of citizenship across twenty-one countries. The countries included are Canada, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, South Africa, India, China, Japan, and Australia. In addition to reporting on the rights that citizens enjoy in these countries, as for example the right to...

Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn what it was like for them to raise children across racial and cultural lines.T...

Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults who were adopted by white parents, the authors present the personal stories of two dozen individuals who hail from a wide range of religious, economic, political, and professional backgrounds...

This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action.Hepburn and Simon recount the lives of victims during and after their e...

In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories and In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees, these siblings offer their perspectives on the multiracial adoption experience, whic...

Simon Briggs organizza con cura la sua vendetta contro il cugino Jasper, ma l'arrivo nella sua vita della dolce Betty cambia le carte in tavola... Una storia per sorridere e continuare a sognare.

La pubblica amministrazione rappresenta tradizionalmente, in Italia e in altri paesi sviluppati, un settore fortemente femminilizzato e relativamente più accogliente per le lavoratrici che non il settore privato. […] Di qui quell'immagine un po' stereotipata della Pubblica Amministrazione come "isola felice" per le lavoratrici. La ricerca da cui nasce questo libro, svolta nel 2014 in due enti locali, il Comune e la Provincia di Pavia, condotta da ricercatori con diversa formazione discipli...

Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural identity formation.The participants of the study represent a range of positive and negative experiences of transracial adoption. Regardless of their personal experiences, however, all twenty respondents indicate that t...

This book focuses on military conscription in 22 countries that represent the world's regions. The purpose is to shed light on the history, politics, and main events that led to the choice of conscription or professional military forces in the countries under study. While we acknowledge that practical and technological developments played major roles in this choice, we also understand that racial and gender relations, social group and political regime dynamics, regional influences, and int...

Nesta tessitura de conhecimentos, que apresenta como fio condutor o pensamento complexo de Edgar Morin, os autores abordam diversos temas ligados ao mundo da educação e convidam os leitores a pensar e repensar sobre suas diferentes dimensões. Uma obra criativa e sensível, fruto do trabalho de um grupo de pesquisadores da Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE) que acredita na Educação como cerne do processo de formação humana, como elemento indispensável para superação dos desafios contemporâ...