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Product Description: An essential users handbook aimed at the needs of everyone in the industry, from user through to specifier and compounder. The handbook will cover additives for both thermoplastics and thermosets. It describes what they do and how they are used as well as outlining the main developments in the industry...read more

Product Description: Addressing a significant gap in the understanding of institutional care and its effects on adult life and identity, this chronicle examines lifelong experiences after leaving care. Using interviews with people who grew up in orphanages and group homes in Victoria between 1945 and 1983, this study explores how institutionalization affected future education, employment opportunities, relationships, health, and the implications this might have for policy and practice in the out-of-home care of children...read more

Distilling personal background, personality, and historical perspective, each title in this series about leaders making headlines today includes full-color photographs, a chronology, a bibliography, suggestions for further reading, and an index.

Product Description: John Murphy's first collection finely balances the lyrical and the metaphysical in poems that are rooted in the extraordinary transformations of ordinary lives. The voice is distinctly urban and European in tone. His themes include the economic crisis, fatherhood, illness, marriage and divorce, chronic pain, and the inevitable flux and uncertainty of the 21st century...read more

Product Description: In this long out-of-print book, Father Alexander, OFM, addresses critical issues concerning home-life such as courtship, marriage, and parenthood. Written during the first World War, home- and family-life were under aggressive attack, while men were away fighting...read more

Product Description: When Carl Bateman dies of cholera, his widow, Kate, wants to fulfil his dream of a new life in Oregon by travelling on with her young son. By the time the wagon train reaches Oregon, after being troubled by Indians, Kate and wagonmaster Jet Darnell have become close...read more

This user-friendly book equips school practitioners with practical skills and strategies for conducting student-driven interviews―conversations that invite students of all ages to take charge of school-behavior problems and build solutions based on their own strengths and resources. In contrast to traditional interviewing models that approach behavior problems by focusing on what is wrong and missing in students’ lives, student-driven interviews help students discover and apply what is right and working in their lives―successes, strengths, values, and other "natural resources." In Conducting Student-Driven Interviews, readers will learn how to customize conversations one student at a time using ideas and techniques that have been field tested for application to real problems of real students in the real world of schools. The book’s positive, student-driven approach is illustrated through dozens of real-life dialogues and examples involving a wide range of students and problems, and the author’s irrepressible faith in students’ ability to change jumps off of every page. School-based professionals of all backgrounds will find Conducting Student-Driven Interviews an invaluable roadmap for increasing student involvement and involving students in every aspect of their care, from goal development through evaluation of services.

Product Description: Dissatisfied with your spiritual growth? Doubting God's calling? Still seeking His plan? Want God to unlock the desires of your heart? John Murphy's hysterical little gold mine provides real keys.

Product Description: In the wake of the Great Depression, two wars, and at the dawn of the cold war, President Dwight D. Eisenhower viewed a 'national road' system as vital to the nation's interest on several counts: defense, commerce, safety, and unity...read more

Product Description: A large number of the most topical and burning issues in family law centre upon, or involve, questions concerning ethnic minorities. Furthermore, in the light of the significance of recent legislation - for example, the Children Act of 1989 and the Family Law Act of 1996 - much of what has already been written in the area has become dated...read more

The book examines recent developments in sources of public international law, such as treaties and custom operating among nations in their mutual relations, as well as developments in some of the primary rule of law international institutions created by the processes of public international law. It finds that public international law has become increasingly dysfunctional in dealing with some of the primary problems facing the world community, such as the maintenance of international peace and security, violations of international human rights and the law of armed conflict, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, and international environmental issues, and that it and international institutions face a problematic future. It concludes, however, that all is not lost. There are possible alternative futures for international law and legal process, but choosing among them will require the making of hard choices by the world community.

Product Description: Who hasn't wondered what Heaven would be like? Heavenly Interviews suggests what could be in your future. A visitor arrives with many questions ranging from the Big Bang to abortion that are addressed to three of Heaven's residents.

Product Description: The Heretic began with a rhetorical question the author posed to himself for a comedy show: “If there is a God, why would He create us? If He’s perfect, all knowing, there’s nothing he can gain from us. He must have been so incredibly bored and lonely, that He created us for his own entertainment...read more