Sandy: 924 books

Take a therapeutic journey with four women who have life sentences in prison as they negotiate the three stages of therapeutic growth: 1. Stabilization and adjustment 2. Shift to responsibility 3. Existential life issues This is a chronicle of their growth across twenty-plus years of incarceration,...

The result of a collaboration of children's librarians and educators with over 70 years' combined experience, Travel the Globe: Story Times, Activities, and Crafts for Children, Second Edition offers the busy librarian, teacher, or media specialist with ready-to-use resources that introduce children...

This book is compiled of random thoughts and poems that mostly got thrown into boxes and files over the course of the last forty years! Most of them are personal and not very interesting to people who dont know me. During this time of my life, I was quite busy as a loving wife, a practicing psychiatrist,...

This significant collection of essays examines the cultural, literary, philosophical and historical representation of beauty in British, Irish and American literature. Contributors use the works of Charles Dickens, T S Eliot, W H Auden and Stephen Spender among others to explore the role of beauty and its wider implications in art and society.

Beginning with a reassessment of contemporary romantic studies, this book provides a modern critical comparison of Keats and Shelley. The study offers detailed close readings of a variety of literary genres (including the romance, lyric, elegy and literary fragment) adopted by Keats and Shelley to...

Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated. It outlines the background of the French colonial period,...

Pudgy the Puppy Gets Moving is a comical story of a stray puppy who shows up on the McKain property. A trip to the vet leads to a mission to: "Get Pudgy moving, run and play. Get him some exercise every day." The McKain family calls on their grandfather, a.k.a. Super G, for his expertise...

This title is a clear and detailed account of the law and practice of copyright, explained in a user-friendly manner. Coverage includes changes in licensing developments and electronic copyright progress, and updates arising from EU harmonisation of copyright law. There is also information on design...

If you don't understand a joke, it's not funny. Alternatively, if you do and don't want to, it's also not funny but for a different reason. If we see something as offensive or insulting, it's because we don't want to be associated with it: For us, it has a personal meaning, which we'd rather not be...

This book begins with the understanding that, in addition to its aesthetic qualities, Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. Asian art and artifacts are understood in their...

The book was written on racism experienced by children because of their appearance or their mild character, and for children with disabilities. All these children, in the book, transformed into a shiny head!

This book is about everything that deep down inside, our inner self is aware of. All those maybe they are true subjects, or maybe we believe in them to comfort ourselves. Maybe they are just shadows in the dark that hopefully we can ignore. The thought that monsters exist under our beds just to frighten...

While in a medically induced coma, it was difficult to know what was real or imagined. The injuries were horrific and life-threatening; recovery was a roller coaster ride of emotions lasting a period of four years. The coma, the morphine dreams, MRSA, and the unexpected Oxycontin withdrawal...

When you release the ugliness of your past, it loses its power and control over you. A deep healing can begin. Admittedly, revisiting the past can be devastating, but in God’s unfathomable love and mercy, you don’t have to stay there. We need to show other women how to move beyond today and look...