'A stunning debut.' - Tracy BormanFor 650 years, the House of Warwick shaped the political and cultural destiny of England and its neighbours: from the Black Dog to the Devil Warwick, the Kingmaker to the Dudleys, their remarkable power saw them rise from Midland warlords to (briefly) usurping the English Crown.Some ruled in the name of kings and queens, others incited civil war and rebellion in the name of God, toppling and making...

Aaron has made friends with the animals in the forest where he lives. He loves his friends and spends all of his free time with them. Before he knows it, their homes are being ripped away and destroyed by the human race that are engaging in their race for technology. Can Aaron save his friends and their homes before it's too late? With a twist of tragedy, lives are changed forever and the fight between man and machine rages on. This is a fascinating story, written by a passionate young man...

Some things were worth the punishment. Garin was one.When I opened my eyes, I was in a cell, my body covered in bruises.Not a jail.I’d been kidnapped and imprisoned.I wasn’t alone. I shared the cell with Garin Woods, the man I’d loved since I was a kid.The man I couldn’t be with because of the secret. A man who would kill me if he found out what that secret was.Someone wanted to torture me.Torture us.One of us...

A sizzling hot, forbidden stand-alone romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann …The attraction was undeniable.Our chemistry was scorching hot.But he wasn’t my husband.My once treasured marriage was now flawed and imperfect.By the time the guilt set in, it was too late.Reality was trying to keep me from my obsession.My husband was that reality.My obsession was West, but he was forbidden.Tak...

It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control. Are American values declining as so many suggest? And are those values at the root of many social problems today? Shaped by experience and public policies, people's values and social norms do change. What role can or should a democratic government play in sha...

Television's original reluctant vampire is back! Barnabas Collins is re-adjusting to life under his vampiric curse. Haunted by terrifying dreams of his age-old lover and nemesis, Angelique, and fighting his bloodlust, Barnabas fears that danger lies ahead for all who live at Collinwood. Meanwhile, Barnabas' ally and trusted friend Dr. Julia Hoffman is harboring secrets of her own...Collecting the first four issues of Dynamite's Dark Shadows series, along with a completecover gallery!

This stimulating book explores the many ways in which social group workers approach diversity. Capturing the Power of Diversity represents a range of interests and approaches to the challenges faced by group workers throughout the world. It illustrates the complexity, creativity, and excitement of the diversity concept and it explores how practitioners manage and adjust to diversity and use its power constructively. The contributing authors discuss macro approaches to inequality in social,...

Georgia Author of the Year Award winner Man Martin delivers a riotous, briskly paced work that Atlanta Magazine honored as a Top Ten Pick. Erstwhile hot-dog-restaurant manager Adam Newman has a lot on his plate-and usually more than a bit in his drinking glass. With an ex-wife to win back, a fiancEe to lose, a son to mentor, and a load of missing diamonds to locate, Adam may have finally bitten off more than he can chew. "A full-bore slapstick marathon in the tradition of Carl Hiaasen."-Pu...

A comic novel about the stresses in a small college linguist's personal and professional life. As he loses his wife then his job, Bone King begins suffering a mysterious ailment that prevents him from going through doors. His only hope is renowned neurologist, Arthur Limongello. Sometimes Bone King cannot go through doors. He has no physical impairment, but at times his brain and muscles simply can't recall how to walk him through them. Perhaps it has something to do with his being distrac...

A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students.

Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial behavior from a multilevel perspective that explores the diverse influences that promote actions for the benefit of others and the myriad ways that prosocial actions can be manife...

In this original and major new work, David Blustein places working at the same level of attention for social and behavioral scientists and psychotherapists as other major life concerns, such as intimate relationships, physical and mental health, and socio-economic inequities.He also provides readers with an expanded conceptual framework within which to think about working in human development and human experience.As a result, this creative new synthesis enriches the discour...