"I wish my father had been present in my life, so I would not have accepted a lot of crap from men.""Growing up, I didn't feel loved by my mother which caused....""It is hard to find and maintain a solid group of trustworthy girlfriends to do life with.""I was devastated by a previous lover and that hurt changed me for the worse.""I often don't feel loved.""I don't know what to do with my life and I feel like I'm just going through the motions."...

Acquire a better understanding of disease evolution and treatment response with Neuroradiology Spectrum and Evolution of Disease. The unique format includes carefully chosen clinical images that depict the pathologic evolution of disease from initial presentation across the continuum of progression. Colorful graphics plot characteristic changes, helping you visualize how normal and abnormal variations alter over time. Extensive illustrations and concise descriptions distill complex concept...

This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity, Christian religious privilege, and Christian hegemony in the United States. It meets a growing and urgent need in our society—the need to bring together religiously diverse ways of thinking and being in the world, and eventually to transform our society through intentional pluralism.The primary goal of Critical Religious Pluralism Theory (CRPT) is to acknowledge the central roles of religious privilege, oppres...

Overcoming the Storm: Walking into Healing, Surviving Breast Cancer! by Antonia Celeste Smalls-Sumpter is a powerful testimony of faith, courage, perseverance, and healing. At only twenty-nine years old, with a two-year-old daughter depending on her, Antonia was diagnosed with Stage 2B breast cancer. Having already watched her mother and grandmother battle the disease, she faced her own journey through surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and recovery. Twelve years later, cancer returned, and...

Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward integration of neurobiological approaches with the more established understanding of language within cognitive psychology, computer science, and linguistics. This volume serves as the definitive reference on the neurobiology of language, bringing these various advances together into a single volume of 100 concise e...

Yoga for people with multiple sclerosis? Absolutely! Today, people with a wide range of medical problems use yoga successfully. Because of its emphasis on relaxation, breathing, and deliberate movement, it can be especially beneficial for individuals dealing with a neurologic disease like multiple sclerosis.Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis, coauthored by Dr. Loren Martin Fishman and Eric Small, a yoga teacher who first embraced these techniques as a way to manage his own sympto...

The plot revolves around a strange case involving a house with a dark and sinister reputation. The house is known as the "House of Mystery" because of the mysterious events that have occurred within it, including unexplained disappearances, eerie noises, and strange occurrences that have led many to believe it is haunted. Nick Carter is called upon to investigate after several people have gone missing, and rumors swirl about a secret hidden inside a locked "black room" in the house. Carter...

"Lou Prophet loves to keep beautiful women company. But when the invitation comes from Miss Louisa Bonaventure, the Vengeance Queen, he finds himself intimate with hot lead instead of her warm female form. Louisa’s got him riding the brutal Mexican frontier chasing outlaws led by Tony Lazzaro, a notorious thief whose deadly weapon, Sugar Delphi, is a blind and blood-hungry pistolera.While Lou and Louisa hunt for Lazzaro, they’ve got two gangs hot on their tail: vicious Mojaves hung...

Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and methodological reflection in sociology today.In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historica...

Focuses on advances in understanding forest ecophysiology which underpin good management, including mechanisms of root and canopy development.Explores the key challenges in ensuring forest management is consistent with forest ecosystem services, particularly managing the transition from monocultures to complex standsHighlights ways of diversifying forest products, including novel uses of timber, biomass, non-timber products and recreational services.

The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that "breaks new ground for graphic novels" (Francois Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker).David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has ...

"I wish my father had been present in my life, so I would not have accepted a lot of crap from men.""Growing up, I didn't feel loved by my mother which caused....""It is hard to find and maintain a solid group of trustworthy girlfriends to do life with.""I was devastated by a previous lover and that hurt changed me for the worse.""I often don’t feel loved.""I’m not happy with how my life turned out."If you have ever said any of the above, the...