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Could people we meet have pre-destined roles in our lives?

Kids can color along as they master practical words and phrases in French. More than 60 pages of fun, kid-friendly illustrations accompany basics plus conversational phrases. Includes English translations.

When LA dreams become a nightmare. Ballerina Ava DeLaney comes to LA to pursue her dream of dancing professionally. But after a night out with friends, she finds herself drugged, kidnapped, and at the mercy of human traffickers. Now her ballet and her very life are in jeopardy. Detective Sage Cartier is undercover and infiltrating sex clubs controlled by human traffickers. Clubs where there are no safety measures, no safe words, and ...

Meet John Stockley Pomeroy, black sheep scion of an aristocratic Tennessee family. Cardsharp, adventurer, seducer - the thoroughly winning rake-hell hero of this high-spirited tale of intrigue and skulduggery set against the gilded splendour of Edwardian London. Set in 1903, years before the CIA was even thought of, Pomeroy is recruited as a spy by Teddy Roosevelt and his new Secret Service. Shipped incognito across the Atlantic in the luxur...

In this expanded and thoroughly updated second edition, an invaluable resource for mental health professionals, Michael Harvey elaborates his pioneering biopsychosocial model of the effective assessment and treatment of deaf and hard-of-hearing clients.

This book offers a new look at Mead¿s concept of society, in an attempt to reconstruct its significance for sociological theory. Chapter 1 offers a critical genealogical reading of writings, from early articles to the latest books, where Mead articulates his views on social reform, social psychology, and the gradual theorization of self and society. Chapter 2 pays attention to the phylogenetic and ontogenetic processes at work in both the self...

This ethnography documents and explores the social, political, and material consequences of militarization in the borderlands of Arizona. Based on two years of fieldwork in Phoenix, Tucson, and other communities along the US-Mexico border, the author identifies militarization as a social and political phenomenon that gradually reconfigures both individuals and communities. Through ethnographic instances, she explores how the vocabularies of ra...

Every summer, thousands of people assemble to live together to celebrate the Annual Gathering of the Rainbow Family. Participants establish temporary systems of water distribution and filtration, sanitation, health care, and meals provided freely to all who gather, and they develop sharing and trading systems, recreational opportunities, and educational experiences distinct to this creative social world. The Rainbow Family has invented itself ...

A close look at black women¿s physical, mental, and social circumstances reveals harmful social disparities. Yet, for decades, black women¿s suicide rates have remained virtually nonexistent compared to the rest of the American population, baffling social scientists. In this book, black women speak for themselves about their life struggles and their notions of suicide. Within a framework that explores racial and gender inequalities, Spates use...

This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth, and income in a global historical perspective. The geographers examine the roles of geopolitics and patterns of warfare in the historical development of the modern world-system,...

Behind the twenty-first-century curtain of "colorblind" public sentiment lies an often-ignored reality shared by many African American males-racism continues to thrive and often drastically affects their lives. Fitzgerald draws on his extensive interviews of black males to reveal the experiences of racism that continue in public schools and in American higher education. Using empirical data and the methods of sociological research, Fitzgerald ...

This volume, which includes both Chinese and leading Western researchers, will be of interest to all those studying reading and visual symbol processing. For cognitive psychologists and cognitive scientists as well as reading researchers.

This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy¿s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Broncano visits McCarthy¿s apocryphal narrative of the Southwest in search of the religious foundations that support the narrative architecture of the texts, from Blood Meridian to The Road.

This book combines recent work in the field of social skills of children and adolescents with new information and evidence. Because it bridges the gap bet. research and practice, it will be of interest to researchers, clinicans, and practitioners alike.

This volume presents a wealth of case studies illustrating use of the Rorschach technique in assessing a variety of disorders. For personality and clinical psychologists, and other mental health professionals.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book examines the way in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in cultural memory and investigates the ways in which cinematic postmemory is problematic. Filmmakers examined include Trueba, Cuerda, Loach, Jordan, Ku...

This new study, a follow-up to 2007¿s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, includes a comparative analysis of possible alternative business models that may save the future of the quality news business across the developed, intermediate, and developing worlds. It focuses on the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, India, Kenya, and selected parts of the Arab World, providing a comprehensive cross-cultural survey of ...

Purcell uses comparative critical readings of popular U.S. pornographies to illuminate the changing psychosocial foundations of sexually aggressive fantasies. By examining how depictions of violence in pornography have changed over the past forty years, she investigates the evolving desires and anxieties of the genre¿s growing U.S. audience.