In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, childrens labor contributes to the familys livelihood from a young age, rather than simply preparing the child for future adult work. Ethnographic research shows that this interdependent family life contrasts significantly with that of privileged modern Westerners, for whom children are dependents. This text seeks to look beyond the dominant cultural constr...

History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times is a lucid nineteenth-century inquiry into how the writings of antiquity survived the hazards of copying, loss, translation, and scholarly mediation. Taylor explains the material passage from manuscript culture to modern readership, weighing evidence, textual corruption, and the principles by which historical authenticity is judged. Written in a clear, argumentative prose, the book belongs to the Victorian tradition of evidential...

Social Engagement & the Steps to Being Social is a unique, visual and easy to use model that was developed to guide assessment and intervention across severity levels and age groups for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This user friendly book defines social engagement in observable language and breaks down social skills into a series of clearly defined steps. Each step is further broken down into pivotal skills that can be taught directly, and matched with evidence based pr...

A humorous, tender novel about found families and the people who shape our livesYuko has had four different surnames and been brought up in several families, and by various step-parents. Despite not being related by blood, they have all always cared deeply for her. Through it all, pragmatic and resilient, Yuko has navigated life's changes and its occasional conflicts without bitterness, always managing to find a kind of equilibrium.As an adult, Yuko falls i...

'I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami'– Haruki Murakami'The most exciting Japanese novelist at work today'– The TimesA heart-stopping story of teenage girls on the brink in 1990s Tokyo from the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs.Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. S...

'I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami'– Haruki Murakami'The most exciting Japanese novelist at work today'– The TimesA heart-stopping story of teenage girls on the brink in 1990s Tokyo from the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs.Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. S...

A delightful novella from the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of SubstanceThirty-three-year-old Bill Fitzgerald is an acclaimed American television foreign correspondent. War-weary and exhausted after a long stint in Bosnia, he travels to Venice to meet an old friend and war correspondent.Whilst with his friend at the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal, Bill is struck by the dark beauty of a young woman seated alone. The young wom...

The story of a remarkable woman who discovers that her success, prestige and wealth cannot help when tragedy strikes.At forty-seven, Stephanie Jardine is at the apex of her career and her life, running the American branch of Jardine’s, the prestigious Crown Jewellers of London. Having fully come to terms with her long widowhood, Stevie now draws emotional strength and contentment from her work and her family. Then, one day, an unexpected act of violence committed b...

Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes:HER TEXAS NEW YEAR'S WISH (A Fortunes of Texas: The Hotel Fortune novel)by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle MajorWhen Grace Williams topples from the balcony at the new Hotel Fortune, the last thing she expects is to...

Cain.Phoenix is sinfully beautiful, but she stole from me. And, she didn't know that I was a monster. Now she's mine. Mine to break. Mine to cut. Mine to bleed.Phoenix.Cain is my torturer. A gorgeous psychopath. Coldhearted. Brutal. And deadly mysterious. But I'm determined to stand strong. To survive. To somehow not be destroyed. Yet he keeps cutting. He keeps digging, until buried, forgotten emotions rise to the surface. He keeps ...

Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique later adopted by Joyce and Woolf, Stein takes us into the minds of three distinct women, who are each trapped in their societal positions. ‘The Good Anna’ follows a stern but kind German immigrant, ‘Melanctha’ the tragic life of an African-American woman of the same name, and ‘The ...

The various words for “divorce” in Japanese—*rien, enkiri, fūfu wakare, rikon—*reflect how the socially constructed institutions of marriage and family, along with their dissolutions, have been understood in Japanese history and jurisprudence. Employing a broad definition of divorce as the end of a romantic union sanctioned by law, social custom, or mutual agreement, Bold Breaks: Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce explores the shifting attitudes toward divorce in li...