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Starting a relationship with a new person is always an adventure, and that adventure comes with extra thrills when your significant other is also a parent. Not only do you have to incorporate one new person into your life; you have to welcome that personÆs children too. This guide will teach new and future stepparents how to:Meet and build relationships with potential stepchildrenHandle situations involving the other biological parentInvolve stepchildren i...

The Substances of War explores how drugs, alcohol, and other substances were perceived, used, and fought over during the Civil War era. Because the Civil War unfolded in a culture already saturated in drugs, the essays in this collection take substance use and abuse as the center of its study, charting the consumption of many substances—from water, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol to quinine and opiates—from the beginning of the Civil War to its contested and indeterminate endings.In ...

Project-Based Learning will improve your students' language and critical thinking skills.Challenge your students and create a collaborative classroom environment with project-based learning. This book offers teachers an overview of project-based learning, implementation examples, and strategies for overcoming challenges. Explore the benefits of using project-based learning with English language learners and learn techniques for every step of the lesson, fr...

Theologian Erin S. Lane overturns dominant narratives about motherhood and inspires women to write their own stories.Is it possible to do something more meaningful than mothering?As a young Catholic girl who grew up in the American Midwest on white bread and Jesus, Erin S. Lane was given two options for a life well-lived: Mother or Mother Superior. She could marry a man and mother her own children, or she could marry God, so to speak, and mother the world’s...

HARD SCI-FI MEETS YOUNG ADULT. The Bone Wars blends the young-adult genre with hard science-fiction. The novel is chock full of both globe-trotting adventure and science, in this case paleontology. Young readers will feel like they too are paleontologists. 2) BOOK WITHIN A BOOK. The novel is quasi-epistolary, with a series of fictional letters between Mary Anning, Sir Richard Owen, and the other major 19th-century paleontologists. The letters provide an alternate history in which the...

Phobias are excessive, irrational fears that can be severe and debilitating. With descriptions of the symptoms of specific phobias and other anxiety disorders, including panic disorder and social phobia, this book is a helpful resource. The text explains multiple theories about the cause of phobias. It also explains what recent brain research has revealed about the neurobiological processes underlying fear and phobia. Additional chapters describe methods for treating phobias and ways to ma...

Neurobiology of Addiction and Comorbid Disorders, Volume 156, in the International Review of Neurobiology series, highlights new advances in the field of neurobiology, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Pain + Alcohol, Pain + Opioids, Traumatic Stress + Alcohol, Traumatic Stress + Cannabinoids, Traumatic Brain Injury and the Misuse of Alcohol, Opioids, and Cannabis, Depression + Addiction, Microbiome/cytokines + Addiction, Cognitive disorders + Alcohol, ...

Why do great powers intervene militarily in revolutionary civil wars? This pivotal question in international relations is answered though a new theory of security hierarchies that emphasizes the role of clients, rivals and rogues in world politics. Employing a mixed-methods approach, integrating statistical analysis with comprehensive case studies of Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, this book demonstrates that great power interventions are significantly more constrained and predictable than ...

Theologian Erin S. Lane overturns dominant narratives about motherhood and inspires women to write their own stories.Is it possible to do something more meaningful than mothering?As a young Catholic girl who grew up in the American Midwest on white bread and Jesus, Erin S. Lane was given two options for a life well-lived: Mother or Mother Superior. She could marry a man and mother her own children, or she could marry God, so to speak, and mother the world’s...

Using case studies and historical analysis, this book traces changes in ways that journalists understood their ethical responsibilities during the pre-internet twentieth century. Each chapter in this book explores a historical development in the evolution of journalists’ perceptions of their role as professionals.

Launch the product that will delight and inspire users, reshape your business, and redefine your industry.If you are a leader nurturing a technology idea that could grow into the model for others to follow, you know the pressure to nail it the first time. If you are a visionary who's been disheartened after spending months-or even years-on an app, web software, or SaaS product, only to see a watered-down launch that checks the box and little else, you know the pain...