A simple car accident changed the path of six-year-old Sean Rogers's life forever. His single mother checked into the hospital as a vibrant young woman and checked out as a full-blown opioid addict. From that day forward, Sean's life became a silent nightmare of abuse, neglect, chronic hunger, and slow, helpless withdrawal from everything and everyone he loved. In Rising Above, Green Beret Sean Rogers chronicles the toughest battle of his life: the long, painful fight to confront his darke...

A collection of Civil War and Reconstruction era journalism by one of the most popular and acclaimed authors of the antebellum South.Nineteenth-century writer William Gilmore Simms was once considered the South's premier literary figure, with achievements including more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and biographies of important figures in American history. Less well known are his newspaper writings, which include fascinating and trenchant work...

Aggie’s dream is to marry a prince and Twinkle desires to dance more beautifully than anyone could ever dream of. A wicked enchantress named Spindle attempts to destroy their plans by stealing the one thing that can make both of their dreams come true and ultimately help Spindle become the most powerful witch in all the land. While Aggie wittingly escapes Spindle’s evil clutches, Twinkle sets out to reverse the evil curse that Spindle has placed on her. Along the way, Twinkle discovers tha...

Today, more than ever, it seems as if most people are suffering from one ailment or the other. High blood pressure, diabetes, lupus, cancer, heart disease - it seems each one of us knows someone who is dealing with sickness, and many are asking "Will I be healed?"In her book, The Healing Network: Believe, Receive and Maintain your Healing, Mynesha J. Rogers reminds us that God wants us to be healed. God wants us to live healthy lives that are free from diseases. B...

The Twofold Brain: Exploring Fundamental Questions about Brain Lateralization challenges the traditional view that brain asymmetry is exclusive to human brains, showing that it is instead widespread in animals.This unique book deals with new and original ideas about asymmetry of the brain and its functions. It first demonstrates how asymmetry emerged early as a biological strategy long before language or culture evolved and was conserved because it worked. It also discusse...

Used worldwide, this trusted resource is now in a thoroughly revised second edition, reflecting key advances in early intervention research and practice. The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) is the first comprehensive, naturalistic, developmental–behavioral, empirically tested intervention specifically designed for infants displaying early signs of autism and young autistic children. Leading experts Sally J. Rogers and Geraldine Dawson guide practitioners to assess and supp...

When we catch others in a lie or an ethical breach, our judgment is swift and unforgiving. We label them as fundamentally flawed or inherently dishonest. But when we commit the exact same transgressions—cutting corners, lying to a client, or betraying a confidence—our memory of the event miraculously softens. Our brains are exceptionally skilled defense attorneys. To protect our core identity as "good people," we unconsciously rewrite the narrative of our own moral failures. We invent exte...

In this quietly powerful and eminently readable novel, winner of the prestigious Sinclair Prize, Kenyan writer Marjorie Macgoye deftly interweaves the story of one young woman’s tumultuous coming of age with the history of a nation emerging from colonialism.At the age of sixteen, Paulina leaves her small village in western Kenya to join her new husband, Martin, in the bustling city of Nairobi. It is 1956, and Kenya is in the final days of the "Emergency," as the British seek to sup...

In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction, Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservatism is a coherent and compelling set of historically rooted ideas about conserving and promoting the human good. Part I, “Conservatism Past,” presents a history of conservative ideas, exploring themes, such as the search for wisdom, the limits of philosophy, reform in preference to revolution, the relationship between authority and freedom, and liberty as a living ...

The cradle of sterilisation has been around since the beginning of microbial life. Starting with extinctions, ancient sterilisation started with heat-fire, sun drying, burning, baking, boiling, extinction, cooking, mummification-and progressed to quarantining, asepsis, autoclaving, chemical sterilisation, filtration, irradiation, and other earlier similitudes (e.g., antisepsis, bacteriostatic decontamination, high-level disinfection, fumigation, germicide, inhibition, pasteurisation, quara...

This volume explores the topics of military revolutions, strategy, and tactics both separately and as they relate to each other. It makes important contributions to understanding European warfare in the Early, High, and especially the Late Middle Ages, as well the military transition to the Early Modern Period.Readers will find detailed analysis of how technological and non-technological developments interacted to effect major changes in how wars were fought across the period. The ...

The Firefly Detective is the story of a young boy's desire to become a detective. One night during a severe rainstorm, a kid from the community finds himself lost and off the beaten path. He put his skills to work joining his mom and dad and a whole community who rallied around the family in faith as they search for him through the aftermath and debris. He begins to uncover deep in the back woods the answers he needs to solve his first case and the source behind every good and perfect thin...