Have you been confused by a lawsuit? We can help.Millions of civil lawsuits are filed in the U.S. court system, costing billions of dollars in legal fees to those involved. The process is so complex that few people can pursue civil action without professional help, leaving them totally at a lawyer's mercy. Yet how many people truly know what they're getting into when they're involved in a lawsuit? The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Lawsuits clarifies the entire proces...

Peace of mind is a most precious resource, without which neither rich nor poor can know happiness. Yet mental health is undervalued and routinely taken for granted. Moreover, we allow war, torture, violence, poverty, d- ease, discrimination, and domestic abuse to undermine it. The wounds inflicted by these great human ills sicken the individual psyche, tear f- ilies apart, and send shock waves through society. Natural disasters, too, can cause sudden and acute trauma. Often, the damage—a c...

It’s time to get your witch on….More than one million words of witchy goodness! Get ready to be transported with this magical boxed set of stories from NY Times, USA Today, and national bestselling authors! In this collection, you’ll find witches, wizards, and warlocks, along with vampires, shifters, and other creatures of the night.The Witch Ways boxed set includes these first-in-series paranormal romance and urban fantasy stories...

Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during, and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that places unaccompanied migrant children at the center.This volume gathers international experts from the fields of social work, social science, law, philosophy, and Catholic ethics. Social science, psychological, and social work st...

This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonderful archaeological traditions that created it. An ext...

100 Mystery Classics of World Literature maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic menace and sensation fiction to detective puzzles, espionage, psychological suspense, adventure, and tales of the uncanny. Its hundred selections place celebrated investigations beside narratives of crime, disguise, inheritance, urban danger, and moral ambiguity. The volume's range reveals mystery not as a narrow formula but as a capacious literary mode, encompassing the locked-room prob...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

Dual language learners are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. student population, and the majority speak Spanish as a first language. This graduate-level textbook—now in its third edition—gives future speech-language pathologists the comprehensive knowledge they need to work effectively with Spanish–English bilingual children and support their language development.Aligned with current best practices and updated with the latest research and

London's shifter world has always had its tensions. It just doesn't usually resolve them by throwing someone out of a window.When the Raven Queen throws a party at her crumbling ancestral house in Highgate, Maverick Hale expects politics. He gets a body count. A horse-shifter lies dead in the garden, Calixta Darkholme's grand gesture of unity is in ruins, and the London shifter community — already uneasy at the return of bird-clan royalty — is fracturing along faul...

They thought they knew their enemy. They were wrong — about everything.When an ancient Sumerian tablet rewrites everything the Nephilim thought they knew about their own history, Shadow and Gabe find themselves pulled into something far bigger than treasure hunting. Black Cronos — ruthless, alchemically enhanced, and hunting the ultimate warrior — has them in its sights. And behind Black Cronos lurks something older and far more dangerous.Four books. Four e...

The Storm Moon Pack fights hard—and plays even harder.Set in the supernatural underworld of London, the Storm Moon wolf-shifter pack rules the night. Loyalty is everything, enemies lurk in the shadows, and their alpha will do whatever it takes to protect his wolves.Join the pack in this action-packed urban fantasy collection, featuring the first three books in the Storm Moon Shifters series.Expect wolf shifters, witches, dark magic, undergro...

When the boundary between past and present blurs on the cusp of Beltane, ancient secrets stir within the walls of Moonfell.The three Moonfell witches discover mysterious journals and magical instruments in the long-abandoned India Room, unwittingly activating a supernatural connection to 1792 India—where their ancestor Fitz Westerly's past holds the key to their present danger.Fitz, a powerful witch and supernatural hunter, made his fortune tracking paranor...