Susan Merrill: 12 books
Lists to Love By for Busy Husbands
Simple Steps to the Marriage You Want
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The founders of Family First, Mark and Susan Merrill, present a collection of lists created for the busy husband who wants a more intimate, fulfilling union with his wife.
Husbands and wives bring different personalities, upbringings, experiences, and expectations into their marriage, which...
The Passionate Mom
Dare to Parent in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Motherhood is full of uncertainty.What do my children really need? Whyare they doing that? Is this normal? What can I do to help them? How can I knowfor certain that I am doing this right?
Thelogistics are easy. Anybody can do laundry and carpool. But what makes a motherthe best mom she can...
by Susan Merrill Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Susan Merrill Thomas, like her name suggests, is the classic boomer. She had two children, a boy and a girl, a husband, aging parents, a teaching job, a dog, a red brick and taupe suburban home, and a gray minivan. When it all turned upside down, she retired and set out to see the world in an unorthodox...
Lists to Love By for Busy Wives
Simple Steps to the Marriage You Want
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
From Mark and Susan Merrill, the founders of Family First, comes a collection of lists created for the busy wife who wishes to strengthen her marriage and love her husband well.
It's no secret that there is a wide emotional gap between men and women. Couples crave love and attention from one...
Liminal Lives
Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact...
Epigenetic Landscapes
Drawings as Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Devised in the 1940s by the biologist C. H. Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it fell out of use in the late 1960s but returned at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the advent of big-data genomic...
Virginia Woolf and London
The Sexual Politics of the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote. In a 1928 diary entry, she observed, "London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem, without any trouble,...
Graphic Reproduction
A Comics Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This comics anthology delves deeply into the messy and often taboo subject of human reproduction. Featuring work by luminaries such as Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer, Graphic Reproduction is an illustrated challenge to dominant cultural narratives about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth.
The...
Reconnecting to Self
How to Create a Better Relationship With...You!
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The most important relationship you will ever have is the relationship you have with yourself.
If you’re feeling anxious, sad, unfulfilled, or stuck in your life, it’s possible you have lost an important connection – your connection to your Self. Rebuilding this connection takes a little...
Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major...
by Sandra Jarvie, Chrissie Rogers, Mirna E. Carranza
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that this is the point in which their relationships with their children must drastically change. Mothers often...
Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries
Theory, Practice and Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This fascinating book examines the concept of culture from a unique perspective--that of individual occupational therapists who have worked in environments very different from those in which they were educated or had worked previously. In Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries, six occupational...