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Perverts and Predators elaborates on the numerous factors that have contributed to the passage of sexual offending laws in the United States. Authors Lisa and Laura Zilney weave together a story of how sex crimes laws were created by analyzing the changing roles of religion and the medical community, offering theoretical explanations for sex offending from the unique perspectives of criminology and sexology. Working under the central premise t...

This provocative assembly of essays examines Dracula films and their movement across borders of nationality, sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and genre since the 1920s. The essays analyze the complexity Dracula embodies outside the conventional landscape of films with which the vampire is typically associated. Focusing on Dracula and Dracula-type characters in film, anime, and literature from predominantly non-Anglo markets, this anthology offers...

Though science fiction certainly existed prior to the surge of television in the 1950s, the genre quickly established roots in the new medium and flourished in subsequent decades. In Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, Lincoln Geraghty has assembled a collection of essays that focuses on the disparate visions of the past, present, and future offered by science fiction and fantasy television since the 1950s ...

This down-to-earth and timely book demonstrates that assessment is at the very heart of the teaching and learning process. It gives highly practical ideas and strategies to help make learning powerful and effective. It reminds us not only about what works in classrooms but also about what works in adult learning and informal learning too."Steve Munby, Chief Executive, National College for School Leadership, UKThis book deals with formative ass...

Cancer on the Margins presents the findings of the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Iniative, an organization created to investigate the experiences of women with breast cancer from marginalized and underrepresented groups.

As the classic reference on cleft palates for more than 25 years, this essential text provides a unique and comprehensive approach to cleft assessment, treatment, and management, with new and revised content that will keep clinicians at the cutting edge of cleft lip and palate treatment and therapies.

52 Solutions for Those Who Need a 25 Hour Day is for leaders who are serious about improving day to day effectiveness. Written by a professionally certified coach with an international clientele of executives and leaders, 52 Solutions will help you actively practice the fundamentals of good leadership while daily increasing your capacity to work and lead more effectively.

You've no doubt heard the last thing you want to do in a bad economy is start a business...WRONG! Some of the largest most successful companies have had their start in past recessions and even during the great depression. When creative people are unemployed or underemployed, their talents must have an outlet and starting their own business is often their way of making use of their abilities. Expanding Your Borders is your guide to starting and...

Your Creative Power is a guide to harnessing and expressing your creative potential and leadership in the workplace.

Issue 5 of The Crooked Path Journal includes the following articles: Moved By The Shakers by Grace Victoria Swann Conjure In The South by Gar Pickering Ancestors and Sacred Space by Peter Paddon Becoming a Traditional Witch by Robin Artisson The White Penis Cult of Forest Grove by Sarah Lawless Where Three Roads Meet by Cory Hutcheson Faerie: The Awe of the Unseen and the Unknown by Robin Artisson Of Faerie, Fetch and Familiar by Veronica Cumm...

Gabriel's Dreams' is a tale of mystery and imagination where nothing is quite what it seems. Gabriel Thomas is a fisherman who lives in the small seaside village of Fenton on the East Anglian coast in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Gabriel has a sister who has been confined to an asylum since she was a girl. He is plagued by strange dreams which lead him to question his own identity and that of his sister. Eventually, he finds it d...

In the last three decades or so, children's welfare has generated new interest. There has been a global outcry to revisit issues such as children's safety, children's rights and children's education. This increased consciousness has stemmed mainly from child abuse, child neglect and child exploitation that loom large around us. This book therefore makes a significant contribution to global concerns about children's welfare. It highlights the i...

Presents a risk-management process would help senior Air Force leaders to (1) focus planning on the most salient threats, (2) gain greater clarity on the risks associated with alternative courses of action across multiple futures, (3) maintain a sense of the persistent uncertainties associated with any policy choice, and (4) effectively communicate their judgments about risk to key audiences.

In the second volume of this exciting mystery series, the Haskell grandparents, Abby and Josh, take their four grandchildren and two friends to Medora in the beautiful North Dakota Badlands to help Aunt Gracie and Uncle Clyde run the C&G, Ranch. But little do they know of the summer adventure that awaits! At first, life at the ranch couldn't be better. Responsible thirteen-year-old Audrey becomes a good horse trainer while her twelve-year-old ...

In the summer of 1958, 18 year old Paul Israel takes a 3 month journey from New York to Mexico City to emulate his heroes from Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD. He passes through Washington D.C. and the deep South into Texas and Mexico. He meets a variety of amusing and provocative characters including baseball legend Jackie Robinson, civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and football player "Large" LeFay. He experiences racial segregation, sex, viole...

The pastimes referred to are even more than what has happened, and still happens, to people of African descent in our country. Our American Pastimes are the remnants of our collective American past, especially when it comes to acts of violence against the helpless-whether the helpless are the so called Other by group designation, or morphs into the Other because of differing world views. And, of course, there are those who become the Other bec...

Diving Dream to Olympic Team is the fascinating story of 1968 Olympic diver Keith Russell. At the age of 20, Keith was the youngest athlete ever named the world's best diver by an international poll of coaches. Sports Illustrated named him to win the gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, where he was the only American to qualify in both the springboard and platform events. But the controversial platform finals proved to be more of a test of inner s...

Diving Dream to Olympic Team is the fascinating story of 1968 Olympic diver Keith Russell. At the age of 20, Keith was the youngest athlete ever named the world's best diver by an international poll of coaches. Sports Illustrated named him to win the gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, where he was the only American to qualify in both the springboard and platform events. But the controversial platform finals proved to be more of a test of inner s...

The authors describe current Department of Defense safety and occupational health programs and health information systems, as well as employee health programs outside of DoD to provide a foundation for considering a more integrated Department of Defense employee health program.

Assumptions and institutions that we have taken for granted for fifty years are proving inadequate for the world now emerging. Moreover, mono-casual explanations of rapid global change do not work. Religious as well as economic dynamics, cultural as well as political forces, environmental as well as military constraints, are frequently working at cross-purposes in shaping a globe we cannot yet fathom. The essays in this volume reach beyond the...