A flirty, feel-good novel that takes you on a journey of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery. Perfect for fans of Mary B. Morrison and Briana Cole."I gave you fifteen years, two kids, and my everything. You still chose to give a woman you barely knew the ring, the house, and my happily-ever-after."Dallas once believed in forever love, but that was before her marriage had hit a dead end. When Trenton Smith walks into her life, he’s...

**From the creative mind of the TUBI streaming book-to-film hit Plug Love, Danielle Marcus is back with another gritty tale which explores the American dirt of Detroit, Michigan’s dangerous underbelly.The perfect victim … The perfect chase …**Best friends Sophie, Diamond, and Angel find themselves with their backs against the wall and owing an extremely dangerous man. Short on funds, limited options, and a severe debt hanging over their heads forces the tr...

A flirty, feel-good novel that takes you on a journey of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery. Perfect for fans of Mary B. Morrison and Briana Cole."I gave you fifteen years, two kids, and my everything. You still chose to give a woman you barely knew the ring, the house, and my happily-ever-after."Dallas once believed in forever love, but that was before her marriage had hit a dead end. When Trenton Smith walks into her life, he's ready to love her the way she deserves to ...

From the creative mind of the TUBI streaming book-to-film hit Plug Love, Danielle Marcus is back with another gritty tale which explores the American dirt of Detroit, Michigan’s dangerous underbelly.The perfect victim … The perfect chase …Best friends Sophie, Diamond, and Angel find themselves with their backs against the wall and owing an extremely dangerous man. Short on funds, limited options, and a severe debt hanging over their heads forces the trio to take "getting to...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An assassin lurks in the royal harem. Can one man uncover the truth before it’s too late?Royal agent Duga Rigers has spent his life navigating the treacherous world of Oranto’s elite, but his latest mission may be his most dangerous yet. Rumors of a deadly plot send him undercover into the opulent Thasali harem, where pleasure masks betrayal, and every whispered secret could mean the difference between life and ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A gay science fiction fantasy adventureHow far would you go for a chance at a better life?On the impoverished planet of Oranto, 18-year-old Duga Rigers has spent his life dreading the fate that awaits him—backbreaking labor in the crystal mines, just like his father before him. With no lottery win and no way out of the mudflats district, his future seems sealed.Then his longtime ...

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, narrative medicine draws patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, and health activists toge...

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beg...

A readable discussion of the key ideas of child development and theory, including how children acquire language, the meaning of intelligence and creativity, as well as how best to teach children to read and write.

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness. How Doctors Think is ...

This volume presents in a forthright and lively way, an account of the philosophical position generally identified as 'Postpositivistic' that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. The discussion throughout is informed by recent developments in philosophy of science. Authors D. C. Phillips and Nicholas C. Burbules cite a number of interesting examples from the educational research and evaluation literature to illustrate the value of a scientifi...

Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings, to writing up results, to dissemination. This article discusses reflexivity and provides examples of what it is.Reflexivity is important topic for qualitative researchers to consider and to experiment with. For research to be credible, researchers must be reflexive no matter which me...