Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is the authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. The classic edition includes a new preface from the lead editors discussing advances in the field since the book’s initial publication.The book’s chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field. The volume’s contributors come from around the world, and the...

Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable paradoxes of social life.In Shakespeare’s England a burgeoning urban population and the ...

A Reflection of MeBy: Darcy RobertsI was like a lost puppyThat couldn’t find my way home.I rose from my ashes and smiledEven laughed.You kept me down butI got up again.A Reflection of Me is a powerful expression of love, anger, sadness, loss, and hope. Enjoy these poignant words by Darcy Roberts. Perhaps you also will find a reflection of her in yourself.About the AuthorDarcy Roberts lives in Vermont. Writing is her ...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...

We are proud to present the People of Color Take over FSI Special Issue! Edited by Nisi Shawl Fiction 'What Futures' by Su-Yee Lin 'Shadow Animals' by Stephen Graham Jones 'Darkout' by E. Lily Yu 'The Executioner' by Jennifer Marie Brissett 'I Understand' by Jermaine McGill 'Walking Round Money' by Paul Miles 'Serving Fish' by Christopher Caldwell 'Fortitude' by Eliza Victoria 'The Sacrifice of the Hanged Monkey' by Minsoo Kang 'Maggie Doll' by Alex Jennings 'Glass Bottle Trick' by Nalo Ho...

His Secret Love-Child — Marion LennoxCal Jamieson never gets involved. That is why he's a surgeon in isolated Crocodile Creek, and why he never wants a family — and why Gina Lopez had to leave him. Then Gina returns, with the son he didn't know he had. She's only come to tell Cal he is a father, but she is forced to stay when an abandoned baby needs all her medical skills. Can Cal face up to fatherhood? Can he risk losing Gina again? And can he persuade her to stay...

Since the economic downturn law firms that once saw growth as easy and inevitable are finding that the only way to achieve this is now to wrest market share from the competition. There is no one "right" way to do this; some firms have opted for a determined policy of buying market share and recruiting lateral talent, while others rely on more organic growth. With contributions from a wide range of thought leaders and industry experts, Growth Strategies for the Modern Law Firm provides advi...

Enter into the world of high-flying Doctors as they navigate the pressures of modern medicine and find escape, passion, comfort and love – in each other’s arms!A family for keeps.Time with his son is precious to surgeon Nick Devlin. He knows he hasn’t been there enough for his boy, but going to Crocodile Creek Kids’ Camp will change all that… The last person Miranda Carlisle expects to see at the camp is Nick! Their one passionate night at ...

Her innocence is his prizeTaken by the tycoon Devilishly sexy Roark is enchanted by Lia, New York’s most beautiful widow, and determined to atone for his role in her contract marriage. Discovering Lia’s still a virgin, he’s intent on remedying her purity with passion!Seduced by the royalTara makes Count Lucien Maxime’s blood run hot, but past experience has convinced him she must be a gold-digger. Until tragedy brings them together ...

Secret Baby, Convenient WifeShe was the ordinary nurse who tended his wounds when he was injured. He was the sexy billionaire who seduced her into his bed. She refused to be his mistress, so Gianfranco made her his wife… He had only one condition when they wed: that there would be no children…Innocent Wife, Baby of ShameAs far as Patrizio Trelini is concerned, everything points to Keira’s infidelity. Her ruthless Italian husband isn...

Six magnetic Mediterranean millionaires are impossible to refuse in this thrilling collection by fantastic star author Lynne Graham.THE ITALIAN’S INEXPERIENCED MISTRESSTHE GREEK TYCOON’S CONVENIENT MISTRESSTHE SPANISH GROOMTHE COZAKIS BRIDETHE STEPHANIDES PREGNANCYA MEDITERRANEAN MARRIAGEDON JOAQUIN’S PRIDETHE SICILIAN’S MISTRESS

Self–made millionaire Theo Pantheras has pulled himself up by the bootstraps, so he can have anything his heart desires. There is just one thing he wants: his long–lost son.Theo is no longer from the wrong side of the tracks and isn't the wild boy Stella Athas fell in love with six years ago, but seeing him again rocks her ordered world.Stella wants Theo to know he broke her heart, but first there's a little someone he has to meet....