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This revised and expanded edition of You're Our Child brings current a contemporary classic in the adoption field. Among the topics covered by Smith and Miroff are: entitlement, genetic aspects of adoption, the adopted adolescent, the telling, confidentiality, birth parents, the telling process, psychological development, sealed records findings, medical history, the law, and nature/history.

Rich in anecdotes and interviews that bring Nancy Brown Diggs' research to life, In Search of Appalachia refutes stereotypes and introduces an often-misunderstood culture with much to admire.

This book examines a fundamental social paradox: although less equality certainly entrenches injustice, more equality may nevertheless protect the advantages that one group enjoys over fellow citizens. Their studies confront us with vivid cases where equality for some is preferred to equality for all.

This book explores the power struggles over natural resources and expounds on how resolutions are negotiated and maintained. Essays included in the volume survey the factors and the influence they have in framing and resolving environmental issues such as fracking, shared waters, and environmental threats.

This book brings together essays by eight professional child and family therapists who discuss their careers and the type of therapy they practice. The contributors focus on play therapy, the different modalities in which it is practiced, on their journeys as passionate practitioners with the goal of improving the lives of children and families.

The North Atlantic was a hostile environment, but somehow the Viking settlers on Iceland survived while the settlers on Greenland failed. Sagas, historical sources, and archaeology are combined to answer the five hundred year old question-why?

This book explains why and how individuals (of all ages and levels of intelligence) and organizations act in ways that undermine their interests and even continued existence. A novel four-factor explanatory theory sheds light on a topic of universal interest: the everyday foolishness of humans.

The premise of Catastrophe and Hope is that every person connects the "dots" of his/her life with subjective significance. Similarly, connecting the "dots" of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Song of Songs, and Ruth, in this sequence, forges a pattern of "seeing" that moves gradually from catastrophe to resilience and hope.

In this book Philip Ranlet restores the truth of Cadwallader Colden's maligned career after more than two centuries of misrepresentations. Based upon extensive research from eighteenth century sources this book also serves as a complete re-evaluation of New York during this time.

This biography of Mayer Matalon traces his path from humble origins to innovator, public servant, political insider, and leader of his family's conglomerate. It is a story of race, class, and power in postcolonial Jamaica and of the island's political and economic trajectory over the sixty years before and after independence.

In Donald J. Trump and China John F. Copper assesses the relationship between two paramount world powers-the United States and China. Copper examines how Donald Trump views China's importance as a rising world power and as a country that Trump could forge a balanced trade policy alongside.

In this important book a reasonable, biblically based epistemology is used to discuss the limits of argument and the role of religious knowing based on spirit. The book covers all major areas of apologetics, evaluating, critiquing, and reapplying the cultural apologetics of Schaeffer, Rookmaaker, and others.

A collection of short essays and stories, this book primarily focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Accompanied by the brilliant art of Salomon Huerta, the book re-frames, defends, and humanizes los de abajo (those on the bottom).

This book contends that the evolution of modern literary stage drama was an important aspect of the Chinese intellectual movement, transforming stage shows into messengers of social change, and instigated renovation of Chinese drama.

As part of the group that leads the consumer world, the global female consumer's perspective and complaints to Western corporations through computer-mediated communication tools is inefficient. This elevation of online communication conflict brings with it multiple intimidations and tests the global female's confidence.

We cannot use language without having context in place. But context is not a single thing. Instead, typically, each use of language presupposes a complex set of beliefs, habits, behaviors, and moral commitments.

This collection of British diplomatic documents, Royal Navy reports of proceedings, and US naval intelligence weekly reports enhances our knowledge and understanding of the scope and depth of the Nanjing Massacre. This updated edition includes new annotations, six maps, new photos, and the USS Oahu December 1937 log book.

First-Generation College Student Research Studies offers uniquely designed chapters that are drawn from both quantitative and qualitative theoretical frameworks found in higher education. This edited volume is a must-read that contributes greatly to the research literature surrounding this student population.

This study of the parables of Jesus grasps the character and person of the Jesus of history. Readers will experience him as a flesh and blood person intimately immersed in and engaged with his world and the people of his world.

This book is a revelation and warning to the public and the healthcare community of the hidden impact and consequences of improperly confronting substance abuse within the nursing profession. It allows nurses to express in their own voices the risks and devastation of addiction and their journeys into recovery.

A biography of Francis I, the last Holy Roman Emperor and first Emperor of Austria, as well as a history of his times. The first biography in English of this mysterious, complex, and powerful personality whom Metternich and Radetzky called their master.

Moxie and a Good Sense of Balance acknowledges the fictional character of Nancy Drew as a role model for young women of the twenty-first century; an independent young woman, willing to take on injustices in her world. She is a sister of contemporary female detectives Veronica Mars and Jessica Jones.

Aspects of Playwork reflects the diversity of interpretations of what playwork is, from the historical to the almost sci-fi, from ghostly traces to the hard realities of working with children today. It is a commentary on the beauty and wonder of what play is, and what it is to play.

This book is about the basic lessons on fundamental aspects of life that everyone eventually learns painfully. The book is a headstart, a solid platform of knowledge on love, marriage, work, believing and joyfulness.

In this book, James C. Humes candidly accounts all the famous people he has met over the past fifty years, including Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Kennedy, and Truman, Sir Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Shirley MacLaine, John Updike, Ezra Pound, and many others.

The best way today to protect traditional marriage is through its abolition as a civil institution. Civil marriage laws must be replaced with civil unions in order for everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, to enjoy equal rights, both with respect to government benefits as well as religious freedom.

This book explains gerrymandering and its relevance to the functioning of our government system and describes what can be done to reform it.

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women, who provided sexual services to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. This book provides extensive documents and narratives by witnesses to shed light on the reality of these women who worked in the battle zone.

Black Administrators in Higher Education: Autoethnographic Explorations and Personal Narratives offers uniquely designed chapters grouped in theory. This volume explores such topics as shared and servant leadership, self-efficacy mechanism, educational leadership, resiliency and achievements among administrators.

This book is explores the many themes of Catholic social teaching found in papal social letters and emphasizes distributive justice as found in every modern Papal Social Letter. The book also discusses Catholic Social Teaching in reference to the economic theory of Distributism.