Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past
Providing help for parents or caregivers wishing to productively communicate with their child, Keefer and Schooler answer such questions as: How do I share difficult information about my child’s adoption in a sensitive manner? When is the right time to tell my child the whole truth? How do I find further information on my child’s history? Age appropriate …
Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow
This book offers a concise, comprehensive resource for middle-aged readers who are facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives―an often overwhelming task for which little in life prepares us.* Covers legal, financial, social, medical, …
From your baby’s perspective, choosing the right nanny is probably the most important decision a parent can ever make: this book is about making the best possible choice.• Contains explosive new information about the childcare industry• Analyzes the roles that race, immigration, gender, class, and culture play in childcare practice• Offers parents a definitive guide to making the …
Laugh Yourself Thin: Making Happiness, Fun, and Pleasure the Keys to Permanent Weight Loss
Laugh Yourself Thin: Making Happiness, Fun, and Pleasure the Keys to Permanent Weight Loss argues a unique thesis. Laughter, its physician author proclaims, is the key to losing weight. Losing weight, she goes on to say, will not necessarily lead to happiness, but happiness does lead to weight loss. Offering an approach to weight loss that is grounded …
The Human Papilloma Virus, so-called HPV, is one of the most widespread sexually transmitted diseases in America, with more than 20 million infected now and more than 6 million new cases detected each year. It is estimated that at least 50 percent of all sexually active people will be infected during their lifetimes. And while the silent disease …
This thought-provoking work raises important questions about sex offender laws, drawing from personal stories, research, and data to prove the policies promote fear, destroy lives, and fail to protect children.• Provides research-based evidence that the mean-spirited and panic-driven sex offender laws, aimed at branding a group of offenders as inhuman and unworthy of civil liberties and human rights, …
Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries (Law & Business of the Entertainment Industries)
In response to the increasing convergence of technologies in the entertainment industries, this thoroughly updated and revised fifth edition makes the casebook more timeless. Providing contract templates covering book publishing, recording contracts, actor agreements, video game agreements, and internet agreements, among others, this new edition is more useful and illustrative of the business of entertainment for lawyers, students, …
Hate Crime in the Media: A History (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture)
A powerful, uncompromising explanation of how subtle sources of hatred contained throughout our media and culture have resulted in a tolerance for hate crimes in America.• Provides readers with an understanding of how deeply embedded in daily cultural practices the roots of hatred are in American culture• Spotlights the role of cultural institutions such as the media, political …
Great World War II Battles in the Arctic: (Contributions in Military Studies)
This is the compelling story of the most exciting and decisive battles fought under harsh Arctic conditions during the Second World War. Each battle is described in detail, with discussions of the various weapons and strategies that led to victory or defeat, and an analysis of how the battle affected the overall course of the war. …
Leadership Lessons from the Race to the South Pole: Why Amundsen Lived and Scott Died
A project management expert identifies methods for running any project successfully based on lessons learned from the exploits of two storied …