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In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. Its directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected ways. A timely and unforgettable drama about the failure of urban and heartland America to ...

Free Sex Chocolate is a witty, irreverent, provocative, and highly original collection of poems and songs written by Julian Gough from the 1980s to the present. An acclaimed novelist, this is his first collection of poetry. He also wrote the first short story ever printed in the Financial Times, The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble. In 2009, The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble was broadcast as an acclaimed radio play on BBC Radio 4. In early 2010, the Su...

This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating.Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and othersConsiders key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusionExplores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist po...

This classic text of traditional astrology from the renowned medieval astrologer Guido Bonatti is invaluable for modern students, and is the only complete English translation.

On Liberty, captured here in all 5 of its parts, is a hallmark in the civil rights movement, political philosophy, women's rights, and sociology. It is essential reading for any scholar or lover of freedom and equality.In Mill's own Words, "The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

The Beautiful and Damned is Fitzgerald's Jazz Age Morality Tale featuring Anthony Patch, who is a 1920s socialite, his wife Gloria, alcoholism, high society, fast lifestyles, and even a semi-autobiographical look into the author's own life. Through it all we get Fitzgerald's thoughts on marriage, love, decadence, greed, and humanity. It's Fitzgerald at his best and a classic literary tale that should not be missed.

Lily Kovner could not have dreamed that research for a magazine assignment would resurrect a searing memory from her childhood. A fleeting glimpse of a family treasure looted by the Nazis launches "Afikomen" --her quest for justice and restitution spanning three continents. Along the way threats, murder, and the revelation of a diabolical secret deal thrust Lily onto an emotional rollercoaster further complicated by the thrill of new romance.

Every mental health practitioner - counselor, social worker, marriage and family therapist - must endure at least one graduate level research methods course. Some students dread the experience and even wonder why they should be subjected to such torture! Mental health practitioner educators might have a variety of reasons why such coursework is important, but a review of the existing research literature makes it clear that very few masters lev...

For ages, people have recognized the importance of healing herbs. This is because human beings have coevolved with plants over the past few million years. Most of the degenerative diseases viz., AIDS, cancer, diabetes, ageing, etc., that afflict humanity have their origin in toxic free radical reactions. Most free radical damage to cells involves active oxygen species (AOS). In fact, human is not genetically adapted to survive past middle age ...

The recent financial crisis has highlighted the need for better valuation models and risk management procedures, better understanding of structured products, and has called into question the actions of many financial institutions. It has become commonplace to blame the inadequacy of credit risk models, claiming that the crisis was due to sophisticated and obscure products being traded, but practitioners have for a long time been aware of the d...

In the context of mitigating anthropogenic emissions of CO2 from combustion processes, several options are on the table. Belonging to the category 'oxy- fuel combustion'', Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) is characterized by splitting fuel combustion, - chemically a red/ox process, into separate processes connected by a circulating oxygen carrier. Following an introduction to the issue of CO2 as a potential threat, the potential of CLC is ana...

The earthquake has unleashed a desperation I recognize from my long education in Haiti as the desperation of extreme poverty. A few blocks away, I heard an elderly Haitian arguing with an officer of the 82nd over a piece of rope or bungee cord the man needed to tie up a bundle of stuff. The man had no teeth and gray sprouts of hair and he held the cord in his hand and was trying to get back to his bundle. But the officer stopped him. The man s...

The path to Camelot never runs smooth...When war threatens the kingdom of Camliard, sisters Lynet and Laurel find themselves in the heart of the darkening crisis, with only one way to restore peace. While her older sister remains as a hostage, Lynet must bring back the last heir of Camliard's ancient royal house -- the High Queen Guinevere.But Lynet's quest is not an easy one. In Camelot, she must deal with politics of court as well as country...

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With contributions from a global team of experts this book provides a comprehensive overview of information processing biases in children and adolescents.The first book to provide readers with an understanding of anxiety and the role of information processing biases more broadly in the context of developmental psychopathologyDemonstrates how researchers have explored diverse aspects of information processing in anxious children and adolescents...

This text covers the assessment, treatment and systemic issues connected to personality disordered individuals with a high risk of offending. It addresses clinical practice issues related to the understanding, assessment and treatment of people who have been diagnosed with a personality disorder.

Across all cultures parenting is the foundation of family life. It is the domain where adult mental health meets infant development. Beginning in pregnancy, parenting involves many conscious and unconscious processes which have recently been shown to a child's development significantly. This book focuses on pregnancy and the first year of life, providing a thorough account of the points of encounter between adult and infant psychiatry. In a fr...

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