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Rural Pennsylvania's landscapes are evocative, richly textured testimonies to the lives and skills of generations of builders, architects, and craft workers. Farmhouses, barns, silos, fences, and even field patterns attest to how residents over the years developed a sense of place that was not only functional but also comfortable and aesthetically appropriate for the time. From Sugar Camps to Star Barns tells the story of one such place, a lan...

Keep this book ... at the ready to satisfy all your cookie whims."-- Flo Braker, author, "The Simple Art of Perfect Baking" Includes 100 foolproof recipes for melt-in-your-mouth cookies Delight your family and friends with homemade cookies for every occasion! Cookies are all-around pleasers -- you can enjoy making them, others delight in eating them. They're just right for holiday parties, bake sales, housewarming gifts, or making someone's ba...

In this book parents who have chosen the home education option for their children on the autistic spectrum candidly relate their experiences: how they reached the decision to educate at home, how they set about the task, and their feelings about the issues raised by their actions.

For more than fifty years, Giacomo Debenedetti's October 16, 1943 has been considered one of the best and most accurate accounts of the shockingly brief and efficient roundup of more than one thousand Roman Jews from the oldest Jewish community in Europe for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Completed a year after the event, Debenedetti's intimate details and vivid glimpses into the lives of the victims are especially poignant because Debenedetti...

This book charts the dimensions of one of the most popular genres in the cinema. From lurid comic-book blockbusters to dark dystopian visions, science fiction is seen as both a powerful cultural barometer of our times and the product of particular industrial and commercial frameworks. The authors outline the major themes of the genre, from representations of the mad scientist and computer hacker to the relationship between science fiction and ...

This practical resource gives counselors, coaches, and youth leaders a program for training secondary students in conflict resolution and peer mediation. Activities use typical adolescent scenarios and role-plays with reproducible handouts to make the skills involved in resolving conflicts relevant and accessible to students of all ability levels.

Like a natural disaster, the diagnosis that your child has cancer can shatter your world. Living With Childhood Cancer was written by two individuals who survived the stress of family cancer by mobilizing their resources and rebuilding their lives. In this down-to-earth guidebook, the mother-daughter team Leigh A. Woznick and Carol D. Goodheart draw on their own family's experience with cancer, as well as their expertise -- one as a parent and...

Hugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. He survived Ireland's Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never slipped the shadow of trouble. Three of his children died from disease and his wife fell drunk into the River Foyle and drowned. Dorian declined into alcohol-numbed poverty and died in an ove...

This companion book explains step-by-step a method to identify the primary factors threatening communities, to collect information about such factors, organise it, analyse it and design counteractions. It also includes hands-on tutorial exercises. The presentation is fully integrated with SmCube, a software package developed to analyse and design social systems. This has two benefits. Firstly, SmCube assists the systems designer apply the meth...

This is a science fiction novel for kids, with a difference. Ben is learning to cope with his newly diagnosed Asperger Syndrome. When an alien crash-lands in his back yard, the humorous parallels between the alien's inability to relate to humans and Ben's own idiosyncrasies highlight the difficulties Aspie kids face every day.

John Muir challenged America to see the wilderness in a new, more respectful way. These 60 quotes pair Muir's message with reflections by other spiritual traditions. "I am grateful that Wilderness Press has put this book out for the world to benefit from."--Former Vice President Al Gore.

Appleby presents a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who were born after the Revolution--the first generation to inherit a truly new world. 12 halftones.

A comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horror, and the approaches and theories that have been applied to horror texts are all featured. In addressing the evolution of the horror film in social and historical context, Paul Wells explores how it has reflected and commented upon particular historical periods, and asks how it may respond to the new millennium by citing recent ...