This comprehensive guide enables parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to play an active and effective role in their child's medical care from diagnosis to early adulthood. With a focus on working with health care providers to ensure the best treatment for your child's unique needs, it includes:- a description of the developmental and medical conditions faced by children with ASDs in lay terms- an explanation of common diagnostic tests- a presenta...

This book is the result of a strong collaboration between the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations and Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs. It is a record of a series of distinguished lectures that explored the current challenges to policymakers and humanitarian actors as they focus their efforts on larger and more complex emergencies. The contributors to this book both identify innovative measures in addressing established problems and addres...

Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys a...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

Discover the origin of the "Moscow Mule" and the benefits of drinking from a copper mug. Copper holds health benefits that can be life changing when implemented into day to day life. People around the world, including Oprah Winfrey, are reaping the benefits of copper while enjoying this cocktail and many other varieties that share the same beneficial health rewards.The Moscow Mule was dubbed Oprah's favorite holiday drink and copper mugs topped her holiday shopping list for friends...

The athlete is a mystery to many and the journey athletes encounter involve a number of complex events that over time can lead to unlimited success in and outside of the sporting environment. However being an athlete also brings on complex issues and requires a unique set of personal development services specifically developed and intended for the athlete. Unlike anytime in our sports history, athletes require a specific set of personal development services to assist in their overall perso...

This is THE guide to understanding Thai culture and history!Come and explore the most visited tourist destination in the world!This is a great book if you ever wanted to learn more about Thailand!Understand and Respect Thai CultureLearn the history of the Thai people and what has made them the proud nation they are today. Understand and speak basic everyday phrases in the Thai Language. Learn about the people and the clothing as well as key facts about the c...

Have you ever wanted to learn about SQL and databases, but don't know how or where to start? If yes, then keep reading!But you don't need to hesitate when you want to learn SQL!This book allows you overcome these obstacles and guides you in learning SQL realistic exercises, using logical explanations, images, and allows you to gain and have experience with a custom project to better keep what you learn and help move your progress. You can get SQL q...

The Making of a PatriotHere is the remarkable journey of faith, grit, clear-thinking, and powerful expression that propelled Mark Robinson from the depths of poverty to a political awakening as a conservative who would ultimately become the first black lieutenant governor of North Carolina. It’s a story filled with lessons and inspiration, as well as a loving evocation of Robinson’s childhood, and his blue-collar, working man’s path through the economic ravages wro...

RILKE:SPACE, ESSENCE AND ANGELS IN THE POETRY OF RAINER MARIA RILKEBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest of all lyrical poets. Rilke is part of that group of European poets and writers which includes Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Rimbaud, Georg Trakl, Marina Tsvetajeva, and friends such as Andre Gide, Lou Andreas-Salome and Paul Valery.Rainer Maria Rilke was an incredibly inventive creator of poetry, who co...

ANDRÉ GIDEFICTION AND FERVOURBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonAndré Gide (1869-1951) is a writer’s writer, a sophisticated modern artist who progressed from French Symbolism to international postmodernism.André Gide is a mass of contradictions, paradoxes and tensions of all kinds. He is puritanical but pagan • an ascetic who adores sensuality • an atheist who yearns for God • a homosexual who all his life loved his wife, Madeleine Rond...

The problem of corruption is of central significance for the developmental prospects of poor countries. Corruption undermines development by siphoning off resources for infrastructures and public services and by weakening the legitimacy of the state. The volume will appeal to academics and policy-makers concerned with problems of governance and public management in developing countries, as well as specialists working on corruption and designing anti-corruption strategies.