Providing a comprehensive, research- and theory-based approach to sexuality counseling, Sexuality Counseling: Theory, Research, and Practice, Second Edition is grounded in an integrative, multi-level conceptual framework that addresses the various levels that influence how individuals experience positive sexuality. At each level (culture and context, development, gender identity, affectional and sexual orientation, sexual expression and community, intimate relatio...

"Sexuality Counseling: Theory, Research, and Practice is an important resource for mental health practitioners. Sexuality is complex and rather than attempting to simplify, this book works within that complexity in a well-organized and comprehensive way."- Alexandra H. Solomon, Northwestern UniversityProviding a comprehensive, research- and theory-based approach to sexuality counseling, this accessible and engaging book is grounded in an integrative...

Starrshma Fields is officially back on the scene, with the intent of returning to the head of the Double Gs organization with a new game plan. After a close call, she is all too eager to put into motion the plan she conjured up while in custody at the Clark County Jail. However, she is clueless as to all that has been going on while she's been out of the loop. Although she is still somewhat salty with her lover and leader, Diamond Morgan has been handling business, running the Double Gs in...

In this 2024 conversation with Justine Wills Toms, Benjamin Merz, who is bi-racial, tells us that planting seeds of hope and compassion is the most important thing we can do in the face of oppression, negativity, terror, and injustice. Little compares to the powerful spiritual force of joining voices to harmonize in songs of freedom. It is a transformative occasion when done with the fullness of our being that creates a sense of communal solidarity. We become part of something larger than ...

Starr Fields sits in the Clark County jail after being released then re-arrested and held without bail. She uses her time wisely during her incarceration. After making examples out of a few of the other inmates and putting the squeeze on her unit Double Gs style, Starr recruits some new talent for a plan she intends to execute when she gets out. Queen Fem isn't happy about all of the sudden attention on the Double Gs organization. While her counterpart is being held in federal custody, Dia...

In Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, anything goes. This is why the Double G's have chosen to set up shop here. Starrshima Fields, aka Starr, is a young, bodacious, and bold beauty. She is also the leader of the Double G's, a powerful and ruthless social club of plus-sized women. Starr is guided by Queen Fem, the founder of the Double G's. Queen Fem set up the group of professionals-by-day, gangster-biker-chicks-by-night to prove that this isn't just a man's world. The Double G's ...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Saint Anthony of Padua is especially invoked and venerated all over the world as the patron saint for the recovery of lost items and is credited with many miracles involving lost people, lost things and even lost spiritual goods. The names and places in these stories are fiction; the incidents, however, are real. They were sent to the Editor by clients of the Saint in their accounts of thanksgivings for favors received through St. Anthony's intercession and for which most of them had promi...

A baker's dozen of the best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2017 that happen to be vegan-friendly.Bluebird - Benjamin CortLigeia is Waiting - Russell HemmellOven Game - Paul A. HamiltonCold Comforts - Graham Robert ScottLake Oreyd - Damien KrsteskiA Nightingale's Map of the City - Suzanne J. WillisAnge...

A baker's dozen of the best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2017 that happen to be vegan-friendly.Bluebird - Benjamin CortLigeia is Waiting - Russell HemmellOven Game - Paul A. HamiltonCold Comforts - Graham Robert ScottLake Oreyd - Damien KrsteskiA Nightingale's Map of the City - Suzanne J. WillisAnge...

Comprehensive, systematic, and balanced, Systems of Psychotherapy uses a wealth of clinical cases to help readers understand a wide variety of psychotherapies - including psychodynamic, existential, experiential, interpersonal, exposure, behavioral, cognitive, third wave, systemic, multicultural, and integrative. The ninth edition of this landmark text thoroughly analyzes 15 leading systems of psychotherapy and briefly surveys another 32, providing students and practitioners with ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.“Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • O...