Cutting the devil's throat" -- hurling a round stone upwards so it plunges into the water with only a hollow gulp -- is a game that demands intense engagement with the physical environment. Andrew Steeves' ghazal suites, short lyrics, and longer narratives play with words in the same spirit, opening loopholes of vision in a confusing, even threatening, world.
In the Rogue Blood" is the story of two brothers, Edward and John Little -- the offspring of a whore mother and a cruel and homicidal father, a man never to he admired or trusted. At an age when restlessness determines a young man's path, the boys are driven from their home in the Florida swamplands by a scheming parent's treacheries and by a shameful, bloody act that will haunt their dreams for the rest of their days: patricide, the most hein...
This book written by acknowledged experts working or with experience in tropical countries, gives clear, concise and up to date knowledge and understanding on all aspects of Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Divorce Casualties helps parents recognize the often subtle causes of alienation and teaches them how to prevent or minimize its damaging effects. Dr. Darnall gives readers practical, specific techniques for recognizing and reversing the effects of alienation including a self-report inventory to help parents assess their own alienating behavior and exercises to help them understand and modify it.
The authors of this book use their unique blend of experience to synthesise theoretical studies. They offer critical analysis of a wide range of examples of good and bad use of language, in order to guide nurses towards models of good practice. Full consideration is given to the changing nature of the health care environment, and to the need to address ethical, legal and professional issues beyond the fundamentals of patient-nurse interaction.
This volume presents 31 papers grouped into four topic areas: wood science and technology, history of panel manufacturing techniques, history of the structural conservation of panel paintings, and current approaches to the structural conservation of panel paintings.
This work introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/complexity theories. It discusses key concepts before using them as a way of investigating the nature of social research.
Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this volume shows how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. The starting point and central focus of the book is linguistics, but the author also draws on anthropology, biology, philosophy and psychology.