Product Description: The Hostile Environment examines the latest psychological and educational research providing evidence that anti-bullying programs and school-based interventions lack intensity and a strong behavioral focus. This book includes information on characteristics and risk factors of bully perpetrators and victims, current laws and legal aspects of bullying, vulnerable populations of students such as students with disabilities and who are LGBT, and cyberbullying...read more

Product Description: I found myself all alone in a place I did not know. It was noisy and scary.

Product Description: Most people discover they are victims of identity theft months after fraudulent activity occurs. Perhaps the most unsettling aspect for victims of identity theft is the unknown. How much of your information does the thief have? How was it stolen? What other ways might he or she try to use it? What can you do to prevent it from happening again? We wanted these answers and so should you, whether you've been the victim of identity theft or not...read more

Product Description: This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale and John Gower's Tale of Florent are the better known of the English Loathly Lady tales, but The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, the balladic versions - the Marriage of Sir Gawain and King Henry (and even Thomas of Erceldoune)-all use shape-shifting female flesh to convey ideas about the nature of women, about heterosexual relations, and about national identity...read more

An alphabetical listing of more than 2,700 individual perennial plants representing 250 genera furnishes authoritative information on each plant's scientific and common names, origins, growing conditions, light requirements, cultivation, propagation, foliage and flower characteristics, companion plants, pest control, and other essentials.

Product Description: Being a descriptive account of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalised in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, together with information on exotic ornamental and crop plants.Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in co-operation with the East African Herbarium, the National Herbarium of Tanzania, and the Herbaria of Makerere University and Dar es Salaam University...read more

Product Description: A descriptive account of the Alismataceae native and naturalised in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, together with information on exotic ornamental and crop plants. At least one species per genus is illustrated, and the bibliography and synonymy are sufficiently detailed to explain the nomenclature and taxonomic circumscriptions within a broad regional context...read more

Product Description: A descriptive account of the Taccaceae native and naturalised in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, together with information on exotic ornamental and crop plants. At least one species per genus is illustrated, and the bibliography and synonymy are sufficiently detailed to explain the nomenclature and taxonomic circumscriptions within a broad regional context...read more

Product Description: This text is intended to be of use as a reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of the Aloaceae family of plants in eastern Africa.