Promoting Adolescent Health: A Dialog on Research and Practice is a collection of essays that discusses the insights provided by professionals into the problems of encouraging adolescent health. The book presents the open dialog between the views of pediatrics, cardiologists, psychologists, health educators, sociologists, and nutrition scientists. The text gives discussions from a variety of perspectives on each of six problem areas: smoking, drugs and alcohol, sexuality, coronary risk fac...

This book has become a standard text in seminary and university classrooms. The purpose of this second edition is to help listeners come to a critically informed understanding of the Old Testament as the church's scripture. This book introduces the Old Testament both as a witness of ancient Israel and as a witness to the church and synagogue through the generations of those who have passed these texts on as scripture.The authors of this volume share a commitment to the interpretati...

This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television’s most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical survey of a variety of genres and media, integrating descriptions of technique with critical analysis, and incorporating historical and socio-political critique. The first set of essays brings toget...

Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged authority, and broke barriers. Such women did not necessarily engage in masculine pur...

Which of life's biggest lessons can be learned from the smallest amongst us? A young mouse learns that compassion and kindness are the great virtues in "The Owlhen Caregiver." "Piper the Listener" finds a brave mouse venturing into wild country to learn the tongues of other beasts. And a grizzled oldfur shares the lesson of putting a whisker out too far in "The Wild Wolf." Three poignant tales mark creator David Petersen's return to his beloved Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series in thi...

The Pathological Casebook of Dr. Frances McGill - New Editionby Myrna L. PetersenDesignation of Dr. Frances Gertrude McGill as a National Historic PersonThe Government of Canada's recognition of Dr. Frances McGill's legacy as a national historic person is of significance for one who modelled the way for women to rise to the top in non-traditional roles. When Dr. Frances McGill put down her roots in Regina, Saskatchewan, no ...

What happens when the hero becomes yesterday's news?Frank Peniston, Welvin's neon-vested vigilante, gadgeteer, and reluctant detective, just got replaced. The townsfolk now worship Ross Haverston: handsome, flawless, a man who slices cotton candy webs with cinematic precision and wins hearts with every smirk.Frank knows something is wrong. When Ronald uncovers a paper trail that connects Ross to every insane conspiracy in Welvin's past, including the pencil...

In the tradition of "Blue Bloods" and "Dragnet," former San Francisco police officer Raymond Petersen has written a deeply affecting memoir of what it actually was like to be an on-the-street cop. From tragic and violent situations—to ones that are light-hearted and amusing—this book illuminates the profoundly human, true-crime situations Ray Petersen had to deal with for more than a decade on the streets of San Francisco. By reading these stories, readers will gain a p...

Intended for a one year course, this text serves as a single source, introducing readers to the important techniques and theorems, while also containing enough background on advanced topics to appeal to those students wishing to specialize in Riemannian geometry. This is one of the few Works to combine both the geometric parts of Riemannian geometry and the analytic aspects of the theory. The book will appeal to a readership that have a basic knowledge of standard manifold theory, includin...

He spent five years hunting me down. Now, I have to beg him to save me.Kaelen Vance. Billionaire. Ex-Mercenary. The man with ice in his veins and a heart made of scar tissue.To the world, he's a defense tycoon. To me, he's the mistake that cost me everything. Five years ago, I betrayed him to save my family, and I vanished. I thought I could outrun his wrath.I was wrong.Now, my enemies have found me, and they want blood. I have nowhere left ...

Santa has to close down his Presents Factory after revolutionising the categorisation system because the world is plagued with Not Yet Nice and Sometimes Nice children. In fact, just three Consistently Nice children remain! Santa requests these children make the trip to the North Pole, seemingly to crown one as his replacement

Influences: The Irish Poems reflects the region's unforgiving history and terrible beauty with a kind of wry cynicism, dark humor, and love of Nature that is so characteristic of the Irish philosophy of existence. Unrelenting in their gaze, these poems yield to the unvarnished sentiment of the simple aspect of "now," whether on the darkness of death or the rambunctiousness of feral felines-and there is something here to captivate every reader.