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To Whom Much Is Given, A Novel, centers on the lives of a family of strong, proud and independent women from Winchester. Rachel Hewston, the loving grandmother and family matriarch. Her daughter Marie, the fiercely loyal and protective aunt of Janai and Jaime, the two sisters whos lives are forever altered by their troubled mother Blieu Hewston. Janai Francesca Hewston, the eldest daughter of Blieu and Andrew, is a graduate student at New York University. Janai is living safe; she doesnt allow anyone in - circumstances from her past dictate her inability to trust. For if she opens her heart, she risks her secret being revealed. And when Kris Storm appears in the midst of a Hewston family crisis, his obvious and instant attraction towards Janai, threatens to unravel what shes worked so hard to avoid: falling in love. Jaime Alexandra Hewston, is a young and vivacious teenager who has been living a charmed life. But when she develops an illness that threatens her existence, her familys race to save her life comes to a devastating climax. To Whom Much Is Given, A Novel, poses the question: to what depths would you go to save a loved one? And is there such a thing as too much sacrifice?
Jonah Piers, a teenager in rural Kansas, becomes attracted to Leila, a Muslim girl in his class whose parents immigrated from Lebanon. Jonah's father, Jesse, a nationalist who passionately believes he is the embodiment of patriotism, does everything in his power to challenge and deter his son's interest in other ethnic groups, Muslims in particular. When his wife, Kimberley, befriends Marie, Leila's mother, Jesse's prejudices are triggered. When another Middle Eastern family of immigrants move into their small town, Jesse's prejudices devolve into anger, and he becomes convinced that evil machinations are afoot. Determined to expose a terrorist plot which he believes is being hatched, he begins clandestinely investigating the Muslim community in Culver City. Certain that he will be heralded as a hero, Jesse takes matters even further. Undeterred by even his closest friend's advice and frustrated that others do not seem to notice the looming danger, he puts together a plan to save the country. In doing so, however, he finds that he is waging a war against the very people he sought to protect.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, APNOMS 2007, held in Sapporo, Japan, October 2007. The 48 revised full papers and 30 revised short papers cover management of distributed networks, network configuration and planning, network security management, sensor and ad-hoc networks, network monitoring, routing and traffic engineering, management of wireless networks and security on wireless networks.
Kim is in his last year of high school and just hopes to make it through the year without running into any gay bashing. The thing is, Kim is not only gay, he's transgender, too. Things get even more complicated when college student Dash joins Kim's mother's coven. Dash is immediately attracted to Kim and they wind up going out together, but when Kim reveals he's trans, Dash reacts badly. With all the other things going on in their lives, will Kim and Dash be able to try again and find happiness with each other?
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How do children and young people experience and understand sport and physical activity? What value do they attach to physical education and physical literacy? This book demonstrates how we can better understand the perspectives of young people, and how teachers and coaches can respond to and engage with the voices of young people.
Neuropsychiatric disorders have long been considered as specific dysfunctions of neuronal functions. Studies of the recent decade, however, have challenged this simplistic view, highlighting the important role played by neuroglial cells in the onset and/or progression of neuropsychiatric diseases. In the central nervous system (CNS) non-excitable neuroglia are represented by cells of ectodermal origin (astrocytes, mainly responsible for CNS homeostasis and oligodendrocytes that provide myelination and support for axons) and mesodermal origin (microglial cells that are scions of foetal macrophages entering the neural tube early in development; these cells provide for CNS defence and contribut...
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Rules of the House offers a dynamic revisionist account of the Japanese colonial rule of Korea (1910–1945) by examining the roles of women in the civil courts. Challenging the dominant view that women were victimized by the Japanese family laws and its patriarchal biases, Sungyun Lim argues that Korean women had to struggle equally against Korean patriarchal interests. Moreover, women were not passive victims; instead, they proactively struggled to expand their rights by participating in the Japanese colonial legal system. In turn, the Japanese doctrine of promoting progressive legal rights would prove advantageous to them. Following female plaintiffs and their civil disputes from the precolonial Choson dynasty through colonial times and into postcolonial reforms, this book presents a new and groundbreaking story about Korean women’s legal struggles, revealing their surprising collaborative relationship with the colonial state.