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Mary Matsuda was only 16 years old when her family was ordered to leave their home on Vashon Island. They were sent to California's Tule Lake Internment Camp. Mary Matsuda Gruenewald shares her family's amazing story of survival and determination.

YA-Photographs, narratives, and poetry describe the physical, psychological, and emotional pain of alcohol, drugs, and child abuse in a way that no strictly factual book could. The authors spent five years interviewing and photographing addicted mothers: the effects of dependency on their bodies, their children, and their families. This source goes beyond blaming the women and takes a look at generational and societal problems. This is a colle...

In sensuous prose that evokes the mist and mystery of the Pacific Northwest, noted nature writer Brenda Peterson chronicles 20 years of living on Puget Sound, allowing a range of marine creatures the full light of her powerful observations and asking readers to look at land, waters, and wildlife in new ways. In a major essay, Peterson takes readers behind the scenes of the controversial Makah whale hunt, where she served as mediator between en...

This easy-to-use resource guide provides the most current information on providing for a pet. Included is a report on all relevant state statutes, important court decisions affecting people and their pets, and precise details on how to set up a pet trust. Photos.

Having spent more than 40 years living and working with horses, Martino shares the tales of the heroes and the fallen, the gentle pony and the angry stallion in this collection that includes her poems and sketches that explore the unique relationship between horse and human.

In spite of the fact that 1 in every 115 deliveries is a stillborn baby, stillbirth continues to be a taboo subject. In " Life Touches Life, " Lorraine Ash describes how she met that silence head-on. After a trouble-free pregnancy, her baby was declared dead on what was to be her date of birth. Following a C-section, Ash fought a fever that raged at 104 degrees and almost succumbed to the silent B-strep infection that had killed her daughter. ...

Ann Martin continues her thorough investigation of pet-related issues, revealing more shocking facts. Carefully and methodically, Martin explains the ongoing problems with most commercial pet foods. She also builds a strong case against the popular raw meat diets, and questions yearly vaccinations, making a convincing link between increased cancer in pets and overvaccination. Protect Your Pet includes healthy recipes, alternative choices, and ...

When her husband was dying from prostate cancer, Governor Barbara Roberts had to look inside herself to survive. What she found in that journey fills the pages of this frank but inspiring book, written for both the patient facing death and those he or she leaves behind.

A passionate plea for a revolution in agriculture, animal rights, and consumer choicesThis book urges consumers to reassess the business of agriculture, and how a different path must be taken to restore well-being to consumers, farmers, farm animals, and the environment. Fox argues that health and safety are being sacrificed to the bottom line of biotechnology.

Whether people have a right to control their own death has become a topic of increasing interest to everyone involved - governments that try to impose their will on individuals, advocates on both sides of the question, and those most directly affected, the terminally ill. This book, inspired by the Compassion in Dying Federation, looks at the issue personally, from the standpoint of the dying and those directly involved in the process. Editor ...