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Being Informed is a resource manual and knowledge source for a variety of topics. This rendering shares insight on how to maneuver through life when your health goes awry, when you are unable to work, when you are caring for a loved one, when you purchase a new home, or when you experience several other life changes. It can be costly to be uninformed, but information precede wisdom and wealth. This book is a wealth of wisdom to empower readers...

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Each of the black boxes contains white pages, typed, one or two pages each, stapled at the top left corner. 300-500 word stories, all quite true, unfortunately. These are poetics of chaos.These are the stories I said I'd never write. The kind of stories, once heard, you can't erase from your mind. Scenes you wish you'd never seen. Sensations you wish never to feel again. When I began writing, photography, and painting, I adopted what is rightl...

Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military for twenty-five years. Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents.

Post-traumatic stress disorder -- aka PTSD or simply "trauma" -- is a growing problem, with adults and children today affected by threats of terror, combat in the Middle East, and social, economic, and personal crises. It is a hidden disease affecting ten percent of the population -- many whether they know it or not. This book explains how PTSD arises, how to recognize its effects, and how to stabilize and recover from it, focusing on three ar...

Nine essays discuss the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of systemic social change and a United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War, from the arrival in Canton of the first American ship in the 1870s, to the 1844 Treaty of Wangxia in Macao after the First Opium War, to Secretary of State John Hay's forging of the Open Door policy in 1899. Broad in scope, the essay...

Nine essays discuss the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of systemic social change and a United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War, from the arrival in Canton of the first American ship in the 1870s, to the 1844 Treaty of Wangxia in Macao after the First Opium War, to Secretary of State John Hay's forging of the Open Door policy in 1899. Broad in scope, the essay...

This 2007 study reaches startling conclusions about Henry James, and how America defined itself in the nineteenth century.

In the imaginations of early Americans, the Middle Kingdom was the wealthiest empire in the world. Its geographical distance did not deter commercial aspirations¿rather, it inspired them. Starting in the late eighteenth century, merchants from New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Newport, and elsewhere cast speculative lines to China. The resulting fortunes shaped the cultural foundation of the early republic and funded westward frontier exp...

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This is an invaluable source for educating professionals and families about helping children regain security in times of trauma. Using a solutions-based interdisciplinary approach, this illustrated book explains how children react to specific types of trauma and how to work with a traumatized child. The nationwide movement toward School Crisis Response Teams, the DSM-IV's new category for post-traumatic stress, and the use of EMDR for treatmen...

Post-traumatic stress disorder - aka PTSD or simply "trauma" - is a growing problem, with adults and children today affected by threats of terror, combat in the Middle East, and social, economic, and personal crises. It is a hidden disease affecting ten percent of the population - many whether they know it or not. This book explains how PTSD arises, how to recognize its effects, and how to stabilize and recover from it, focusing on three areas...

In the decades after the Civil War, how did Americans see the world and their place in it? Kendall Johnson argues that Henry James appealed to his readers' sense of vision to dramatize the ambiguity of American citizenship in scenes of tense encounter with Europeans. By reviving the eighteenth-century debates over beauty, sublimity, and the picturesque, James weaves into his narratives the national politics of emancipation, immigration, and In...

This is an invaluable source for educating professionals and families about helping children regain security in times of trauma. Using a solutions-based interdisciplinary approach, this illustrated book explains how children react to specific types of trauma and how to work with a traumatized child. The nationwide movement toward School Crisis Response Teams, the DSM-IV's new category for post-traumatic stress, and the use of EMDR for treatmen...

<, div>, Today's teachers are faced with unprecedented challenges ranging from suicides to school violence, shootings, and terrorism. This teacher's guide explores children's reactions to emergencies and gives steps for stabilizing the classroom. The book describes how to manage individual student and group behavior during crises, recognize and deal with post-traumatic behavior, and more. Also included are instructions for calming students...