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Fatherhood Is Not for Sissies joins humorous photographs with quotes about the trials,tribulations, and joys of fatherhood. As has been said, "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." This book reminds us that despite the delights of leaky diapers and sleepless nights, there is no job quite as important and as satisfying as being a father. Illustrated with photos or winsome artwork, Keepsakes are books to treasure and share. 72 pp, hardcover. 6 1/4" square.
Christina a girl from an extremely abusive home, where her father (a gunsmith), and his girlfriend Leah share the same sociopathic nature and idealism. After Christina's mother suddenly passes the abuse becomes unbearable. Christina who feels like the unloved finds herself seduced by one of her father's friends, in fact a good friend of the family for many years, known as Uncle Frank. Once Christina falls for Frank and they make a plan to escape from her father's home, is when things become unglued and Christina starts to second guess herself to appease Frank amidst a whole new lifestyle. Again Christina finds the need to escape, but this time, escaping finds her back home and a prisoner who...
Includes a description of the Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteabacteria (1256 pages, 512 figures, and 371 tables). This large taxa include many well known medically and environmentally important groups. Especially notable are Acetobacter, Agrobacterium, Aquospirillum, Brucella, Burkholderia, Caulobacter, Desulfovibrio, Gluconobacter, Hyphomicrobium, Leptothrix, Myxococcus, Neisseria, Paracoccus, Propionibacter, Rhizobium, Rickettsia, Sphingomonas, Thiobacillus, Xanthobacter and 268 additional genera.
Evelyn Becker McCune was born in the walled city of Pyongyang, Korea, in 1907. She was the first child of Methodist educational missionaries, Arthur and Louise Becker. This is the story of Evelyn Becker McCune, Arthur L. Becker, her father and George McAfee McCune, her husband.
Author Toney Allman offers young readers and researchers a means of understanding autism and its ramifications. Careful explanations offer insight into what autism is, what causes it, how people live with it, and the latest information about treatment and prevention. An enthralling chapter explains medicine's continued endeavors to find a cure.
Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director’s films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which his work is understood. A timely companion by the authors of two of the most important books on Allen to date Illuminates the films of Woody Allen from a number of divergent critical perspectives Explores the contexts in which his work should be understood Assesses Allen’s remarkable filmmaking career from its early beginnings and investigates the conflicts and contradictions that suffuse it Discusses Allen’s recognition as a global cinematic figure
Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond represents the first interdisciplinary volume of chapters on an intricate cultural field that can be experienced and interpreted in manifold ways, whether in Ireland (The Republic of Ireland and/or Northern Ireland), among its diaspora(s), or further afield. While each contributor addresses particular themes viewed from discrete perspectives, collectively the book contemplates whether ’music in Ireland’ can be regarded as one interrelated plane of cultural and/or national identity, given the various conceptions and contexts of both Ireland (geographical, political, diasporic, mythical) and Music (including a proliferation of practices and genres) ...