In "Beatrice Leigh at College," the story likely follows the adventures of the titular character, Beatrice Leigh, as she navigates her college years. The novel may explore Beatrice's experiences as she adjusts to the academic, social, and personal challenges of college life.Throughout the book, Beatrice may encounter themes such as friendship, academic pursuits, extracurricular activities, and personal growth. The story may also touch upon issues relevant to young women of the time, such a...

The Path of a Reader: 6 Classic Books for Every Level presents reading as a graduated encounter with literary tradition, bringing together verse, fable, historical narrative, moral reflection, dramatic excerpt, and imaginative prose. Its capacious selection ranges across British, American, and European classics while also preserving pedagogical pieces designed to cultivate attention, vocabulary, and interpretive confidence. Canonical voices and less frequently foregrounded writers coexist,...

The Wide Awake Third Reader gathers a vibrant tapestry of late 19th-century writings, showcasing an eclectic mix of prose and poetry filled with vivid imagination and poignant reflection. The anthology encompasses a rich diversity of voices, styles, and themes, offering a window into the literary dynamics of the time. Spanning from contemplative poems to instructional tales, the collection underscores the cultural and artistic currents influencing its creators. Noteworthy selections within...

A candid, gritty, and often poignant look at criminal justice in New York City by a former trial and appellate prosecutor who rose to Chief Assistant District Attorney of Queens County, was a criminal defense lawyer and a Supreme Court Justice. Schwartz provides penetrating insight into the world of serial killers, cop killers, murderers for hire, hero cops, psycho cops, child killers, mafia beatdowns, corrupt politicians, and an imperfect legal system that usually gets it right, but somet...

A young Amish girl disappears, and no one knows what happened or where she is. Out of desperation the authorities turn to Michael Gillespie and his viewers. The story they tell of the girl is a tale of sexual assault and murder and, worse yet, they believe the killer is planning to strike again. But in the middle of that in a national emergency Gillespie and his team are brought into a secret government project to predict the firing date and the location for recovery of a North Korean miss...

A slick conwoman meets her match in a hot and nerdy small-town librarian in this debut romance, perfect for fans of Spoiler Alert and Act Your Age, Eve Brown.Conwoman Harmony Hale has sold lies up and down California for years, never looking back at her crafty scams or one-night stands. Now she’s come to Brookville, California, with her sights set on its wealthy mayor—the man who stole her father’s music-streaming algorithm and ruined his life. Ha...

Vitiligo is still a stigmatizing and enigmatic spectrum of disorders in which too much contradictory data and too many hypotheses are still confusing the scientific community and the patients who are seeking for the cure or at least for a satisfactory treatment.In this e-book the Editors try with the help of the most prestigious experts in the world to answer the available truth on three main questions: *Vitiligo, what are you ? **How do we treat vitiligo?***Quo Vadis, vitiligo?

Awakening is the log kept by Arthur Davies, senior analyst for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Arthur, initially very skeptical, became convinced an alien really was being held by the government at a secret facility. The log is his story of what he did with that information, and how he was awakened to a part of himself he had never imagined; and how that experience showed him the threat that hangs over civilization and humanity itself.Awakening is...

Round up all the Jews. It happened in Germany, Spain, England, and France. Could it happen in America. An atomic bomb destroys Tel Aviv, severing Israel. Two ships carrying Jewish refugees limp into Boston harbor. As the ships are to be returned to the new nation of Palestine, Boston Jews free the refugees, killing ten Coast Guardsmen. Arrests of these new "enemy combatants" are met with marches and bombings as American Jews struggle to balance their loyalty to America with the realization...

This Element seeks to unpack the varied modalities of democratic erosion in Latin America by proposing a novel analytical framework that breaks down backsliding episodes into their constituent parts: (1) the actors that promote autocratization and those that resist it, (2) the strategies that autocratizers and oppositions employ, (3) the arenas of contention in which they struggle over democratic norms and institutions, and (4) the objectives that these different actors pursue in the promo...

With the end of the Cold War, the invention of the World Wide Web, the widespread availability to cellphones and personal computers, and remarkable advances in space exploration, the 1990s introduced a new era in human history.During that decade, the United States experienced changes that previous generations never imagined-the abrupt collapse of worldwide communism, the ability of ordinary Americans to connect with individuals and organizations throughout the worl...

This innovative book offers a multidimensional exploration of the epistemological foundations of psychiatry and its major disorders. By emphasizing the importance of phenomenology in unravelling the intricate interplay between basic categories of human experience and neurobiological processes, it advocates for a shift in both psychiatric research and clinical practice. Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry presents psychiatry as a hybrid discipline that synthesizes subjective mental ex...