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They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates and a vast fortune, Lord and Lady Kingsborough appeared to be blessed with everything but marital love—which only made the scandal that tore through their family more shoc...

One of the first books to tackle a major killer disease in today's world - cancer of the colon and/or rectum.

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Set against today's context of globalization and the decline of large-scale industry, Lost Worlds is a detailed exploration of the world of labour in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Asia. Using a wide range of oral and archival sources as well as popular literature, Chitra Joshi reconstructs working class lives, exploring their everyday worlds at the workplace and within community life, as well as their moments of conflict a...

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Hiatt-Michael (Pepperdine University) presents seminal work on the relationship of families to the education of their children around the world. Contributors are all members of the Family School Community Partnership and/or the European Research Network About Parents in Education. After an overview of issues and models in parent involvement, chapte

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In this charming version of the Cinderella story, take a peek at the Princes personal diary as he tells the well-known tale from his point of view. Find out what the Prince was feeling when he first met Cinderella, and what he really thinks about her stepsisters! All your questions will be answered: Did Cinderella have a fairy godmother? Did the Prince try a glass slipper on every girl in the kingdom? And most important, what really happened a...

Prepare your students for timed tests from our largest collection of science, social studies, and literature selections Increase reading stamina Build reading rate and fluency Prepare students for state and national tests Do you have students who simply do not finish the test in the time allotted? Do they move their eyes over the page without remembering what they read? For over 30 years, the Jamestown Timed Readings collection has helped suc...

Prepare your students for timed tests from our largest collection of science, social studies, and literature selections Increase reading stamina Build reading rate and fluency Prepare students for state and national tests Do you have students who simply do not finish the test in the time allotted? Do they move their eyes over the page without remembering what they read? For over 30 years, the Jamestown Timed Readings collection has helped suc...

Prepare your students for timed tests from our largest collection of science, social studies, and literature selections Increase reading stamina Build reading rate and fluency Prepare students for state and national tests Do you have students who simply do not finish the test in the time allotted? Do they move their eyes over the page without remembering what they read? For over 30 years, the Jamestown Timed Readings collection has helped suc...

Informal learning can pack quite a punch in terms of boosting workplace performance and efficiency. But what is it, and what can you do to promote informal learning in the workplace? According Bob Hoffman, informal learning is anything that is not recognizable as formal training and performance support, such as organized classes, workshops, individualized instruction, and job aids. In addition, it is just-in-time, contextual, individualized, p...

The first book-length account of the nation's biggest cable TV company and one of America's most successful and powerful family enterprises. "Comcasted" is the unauthorized biography of both an industry and its founders--principally Ralph Roberts, and his son and successor, Brian.

Each of us creates with our lives a spiritual legacy-a legacy of values, insights, passions, and meaningful actions that can be passed on to those we care about most. The single best carrier of spiritual legacies is stories-the stories that arise from everyone's life experiences and preserve their uniqueness and significance. These letters from a father to his children tell such stories-stories of success and failure, of faith and questioning...

Introducing, Jamy MacGregor: Drug Enforcement Agent's son, talented artist, best friend, poor boy, a.k.a. Lord Chance: heroin addict, gang leader, teen father, BNDD Narc, rich boy, which future is his?

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Abi Morgan's acerbic play takes a scalpel to modern love and friendship.

The women in the most exclusive neighborhood in a small town seem to have everything anyone could want, but beyond manicured lawns and behind closed doors, they hunger for more.

This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations . . . [especially] to those who wish to make a black and white distinction between children and adults." ?- Children, Youth and Environments War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and unde...

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