Product Description: This updated and expanded second edition continues the theme of the first edition: emphasizing the need to help adoptive parents understand some potentially challenging factors so they can deal with them positively and also comprehend the thinking process of their child...read more

The 5th edition of Jubb, Kennedy, and Palmer's Pathology of Domestic Animals continues the long tradition of this classic set of volumes as the most comprehensive reference book published on the topic of pathology of the common domestic mammals, with emphasis on disease conditions of cattle and small ruminants, swine, horses, dogs and cats. Using a body systems approach, recognized authorities in their fields provide overviews of general characteristics of the system, reactions to insult, and disease conditions broken down by type of infectious or toxic insult affecting the anatomical subdivisions of each body system. Since the publication of the 4th edition in 1993, much has changed. Disease agents, such as Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) type 2, Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), Porcine circovirus 2, Hendra virus, and Leptospira spp., have emerged or further evolved. Molecular-based testing, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and in-situ hybridization, have allowed further understanding of pathogenesis of disease, and have greatly furthered our diagnostic capabilities.Thoroughly revised text, including new or evolving pathogens and new diagnostic techniques.Over 100 new illustrations.Maintains the currency of the text, assists the reader in putting new conditions into perspective.Updating of the Bibliography on each subject gives readers new entry points into the rapidly expanding literature on each subject.Illustrations of new conditions or agents.Reader-friendliness improved through highlighting of text, bullet-point lists, italics, diagnostic hints.

Product Description: In this book, leading researchers spotlight how dramatically the practice of adoption has changed both in North America and Europe in recent decades due to, among other factors, a falling rate of domestically born infants being placed for adoption...read more

An illuminating and compassionate guide examines the unique challenges, obstacles, stresses, and expectations of families who have adopted children, addressing such issues as bonding with an adopted child, coping with unexpected needs, and finding the understanding, support, and solutions needed to make adoption a positive experience. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Adoption is intended to be, and should be, a fulfilling, beautiful, rewarding, and enriching aspect in anyone’s life. Many times, however, there are pitfalls and a lack of resources to turn to for help, advice, and answers on the subject...read more

Product Description: The Impact of Adoption on Members of the Triad considers how adoption practice and policy impact those who are the clients of adoption services-adopted individuals, birth parents, prospective adoptive parents, and adoptive parents...read more

Product Description: Focusing on developmental and clinical issues in children's adjustment to adoption, the authors introduce this volume with an overview of historical and contemporary perspectives, then explore various theories that have addressed the issue of psychological risk associated with adoption...read more

The voices of adoptees trace how adoption is experienced over a lifetime in this look at adoption that uses the Erik Erikson seven-stage life-cycle as its model