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A Simple Favor: A Novel
by Darcey Bell"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent and the fallacy of the picture-perfect, suburban family."—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling authorShe’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous.A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her son, Miles, are classmates and best friends, and the five-year-olds love being together—just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger living in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR executive whose job in Manhattan demands so much of her time.But Emily doesn’t come back. She doesn’t answer calls or return texts. Stephanie knows something is terribly wrong—Emily would never leave Nicky, no matter what the police say. Terrified, she reaches out to her blog readers for help. She also reaches out to Emily’s husband, the handsome, reticent Sean, offering emotional support. It’s the least she can do for her best friend. Then, she and Sean receive shocking news. Emily is dead. The nightmare of her disappearance is over.Or is it? Because soon, Stephanie will begin to see that nothing—not friendship, love, or even an ordinary favor—is as simple as it seems.A Simple Favor is a remarkable tale of psychological suspense—a clever and twisting free-fall of a ride filled with betrayals and reversals, twists and turns, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge. Darcey Bell masterfully ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing story that holds you in its grip until the final page. Don't miss the film version starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding!
Star Friends 4-Book Boxed Set, Books 1-4 (Star Friends)
by Linda ChapmanThis boxed set includes books 1-4 in the exciting Star Friends chapter book series. With black-and-white illustrations throughout.Books 1-4 in the best-selling chapter book series Star Friends are included in this boxed set. Includes Mirror Magic, Wish Trap, Secret Spell, and Dark Tricks.In the Star Friends chapter book series, Mia and her friends Lexi, Sita, and Violet all discover that they are Star Friends—they can communicate with the animals that have traveled from the Star World. The animals show the girls how to use their unique magic abilities to do good. A whole world of magical adventure awaits!
Moon Mirrored Indivisible (Phoenix Poets)
by Farid MatukMultilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy. A previously undocumented child of Syrian and Peruvian parents, an inheritor of lineages marked by colonial and gendered violence, and a survivor of childhood sexual assault, Farid Matuk approaches the musical capacities of verse not as mere excitation or decoration, but as forms that reclaim pleasure and presence. Entering the sonic constellations of Moon Mirrored Indivisible, the reader finds relief from nesting layers of containment that systems of power impose on our bodies and imaginations. In this hall of historical mirrors, fictions of identity are refracted, reflected, and multiplied into a vast field of possibilities. Matuk’s meditations on place and power offer experiments in self-understanding, moving through expansive conversations between a lyric “I” and others, including poets, the speaker’s partner, ancestors, and the reader, and creating spaces for strange intimacy. Each of the book’s four sections of poems builds on the other to ask how we might form a collective—a people—not founded in orthodoxies of originality but in the mutual work of mirroring one another.
Dissonance (Phoenix Poets)
by Kristin DykstraA collection of poems and photographs that take the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains as a microcosm for considering climate change, borders, and community life. In Dissonance, translator Kristin Dykstra’s first book of original poetry, the author leads us to inner worlds shaped partly by the New England countryside, tracking shifts in the region’s nature, infrastructure, and people, while sharing observations on borders and climate catastrophe that reverberate globally. Dykstra condenses signs of urban expansion, economic division, and battles over democracy into an innovative meditation. With a dynamic approach to form, musicality, and scope, Dissonance explores ways of experiencing regional landscapes and imagined communities in the twenty-first century. Through her extended sequence of prose poems, photographs, and lyric fragments, Dykstra merges clips from documents and dialogues with observations drawn from two local libraries and her daily walks down a dirt road through Vermont’s foothills. As she moves down this public road, which lies within the nation’s federally designated hundred-mile border zone, she finds a daily convergence of tensions. Dissonance asks how poetry can unsettle impressions of a place, and how that process, in turn, disturbs impressions of self, of others, and of time itself. Dissonance is the recipient of the third annual Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize.
Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse
by Andrew S. BerishA deep dive into the meaning behind the hatred of jazz. A rock guitarist plays four notes in front of one thousand people, while a jazz guitarist plays one thousand notes in front of four people. You might laugh or groan at this jazz joke, but what is it about jazz that makes people want to disparage it in the first place? Andrew S. Berish’s Hating Jazz listens to the voices who have denounced, disparaged, and mocked the music. By focusing on the rejection of the music, Berish says, we see more holistically jazz’s complicated place in American cultural life. Jazz is a display of Black creativity and genius, an art form that is deeply embedded in African American life. Though the explicit racial tenor of jazz jokes has become muted over time, making fun of jazz, either in a lighthearted or aggressive way, is also an engagement with the place of Blackness in America. An individual’s taste in music may seem personal, but Berish’s analysis of jazz hatred demonstrates that musical preferences and trends are a social phenomenon. Criticism of jazz has become inextricable from the ways we understand race in America, past and present. In addition to this form of criticism, Berish also considers jazz hate as a form of taste discrimination and as a conflict over genre boundaries within different jazz cultures. Both enlightening and original, Hating Jazz shows that our response to music can be a social act, unique to our historical moment and cultural context—we react to music in certain ways because of who we are, where we are, and when we are.
The Ellesmere Wolves: Behavior and Ecology in the High Arctic
by L. David Mech Morgan Anderson H. Dean CluffIn a fascinating story of discovery and science, we meet a remote population of wolves unafraid of humans. For parts of twenty-four summers, wolf biologist L. David Mech lived with a group of wolves on Ellesmere Island, some six hundred miles from the North Pole. Elsewhere, most wolves flee from even the scent of humans, but these animals, evolving relatively free from human persecution, are unafraid. Having already spent twenty-eight years studying other populations of wolves more remotely by aircraft, snow-tracking, live-trapping, and radio-tracking, Mech was primed to join their activities up close and record their interactions with each other. This book tells the remarkable story of what Mech—and the researchers who followed him—have learned while living among the wolves. The Ellesmere wolves were so unconcerned with Mech’s presence that they allowed him to camp near their den and to sit on his all-terrain vehicle as he observed them, watching packs as large as seven adults and six pups go about their normal activities. In these extraordinarily close quarters, a pup untying his bootlace or an adult sniffing his gloved hand was just part of daily life. Mech accompanied the wolves on their travels and watched as they hunted muskoxen and arctic hares. By achieving the same kind of intimacy with his wild hosts’ every action that we might experience living with domesticated dogs, Mech gained new insights into common but rarely studied behaviors like pup feeding, food caching, howling, and scent-marking. After Mech’s time at Ellesmere ended, his coauthors and fellow wolf researchers Morgan Anderson and H. Dean Cluff spent parts of four summers studying the wolves via radio collars, further illuminating the creatures’ movements and ecology. This book synthesizes their findings, offering both a compelling scientific overview of the animals’ behavior—from hunting to living in packs to rearing pups—and a tale of adventure and survival in the Arctic.
How to Be Bad
by Lauren Myracle E. Lockhart Sarah MylnowskiThree bestselling authors—E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle—bring you on the road trip of a lifetime in this dynamic novel packed with fun, friendship, and feminism.Jesse, Vicks, and Mel each has her own reason for wanting to get away from their nowheresville Florida town. Add in a hot (and harmless) hitchhiker, an impending hurricane, and a close encounter of the gator kind, and the result is one sizzling road trip where the journey is far more important than the destination. Now in a fresh new package, YA fans will love going along with these three powerhouse storytellers on the ride of a lifetime.
Middle School: The Real Deal
by Juliana Farrell Beth MayallWhat your older sister won't tell you . . . What your parents don't know . . . Where's the cafeteria? How do I get to my next class, with all the right books, in less than five minutes? How do I deal with standardized tests? Which clubs should I join? Can I bring my iPod to school? If I get stuffed in my locker, how long will it take for someone to find me? From cliques to class schedules, electives to extra credit, cafeteria food to combination locks, you'll find everything you need to know right here. And in this newly revised edition, you'll also get the most up-to-date information on everything from technology to test taking. This book has the latest scoop, the coolest quizzes, and the best advice around if you're about to take the middle school plunge.
The Ultimatum: A Novel
by Dan GrazianoHenry's got it good. He's a semi-successful, if not yet famous novelist. He's got a good job and good buds. Best of all, he's got Layla, his long-time, live-in lover, a fast-track associate at a New Jersey law firm. Henry loves Layla and she loves him. Life is a banquet, until . . . The Ultimatum!In a week, Henry and Layla are off to Maine for a friend's wedding. And if Henry hasn't proposed marriage by the time the bride tosses the bouquet, Layla swears they're finished. For good. Henry thinks if it's not broke, don't fix it. But Layla needs proof of his love and devotion. And she's not kidding.So who can he turn to for advice? Jake, his despondent divorced brother? His marriage-junkie golf friend, Big John? His outsized Peter Pan pal Pete, who simply won't grow up? Meanwhile Layla's got her two best girlfriends, tough-talking Gloria and sensitive Susan, giving helpful, contradictory advice.Time is ticking away on the most important decision of Henry's life. But it'll take a mad, high-speed road trip and some bizarre behavior—perhaps even an impromptu kidnapping—to point him in the right, life-changing direction.
Because He Could
by Dick Morris Eileen McGannWho is Bill Clinton?A man whose presidency was disgraced by impeachment -- yet who remains one of the most popular presidents of our time.A man whose autobiography, My Life, was panned by critics as a self-indulgent daily diary -- but rode the bestseller lists for months.A man whose policies changed America at the close of the twentieth century -- yet whose weakness left us vulnerable to terror at the dawn of the twenty-first.No one better understands the inner Bill Clinton, that creature of endless and vexing contradiction, than Dick Morris. From the Arkansas governor's races through the planning of the triumphant 1996 reelection, Morris was Clinton's most valued political adviser. Now, in the wake of Clinton's million-selling memoir My Life, Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann, set the record straight with Because He Could, a frank and perceptive deconstruction of the story Clinton tells -- and the many more revealing stories he leaves untold.With the same keen insight they brought to Hillary Clinton's life in their recent bestseller Rewriting History, Morris and McGann uncover the hidden sides of the complicated and sometimes dysfunctional former president. Whereas Hillary is anxious to mask who she really is, they show, Bill Clinton inadvertently reveals himself at every turn -- as both brilliant and undisciplined, charming yet often filled with rage, willing to take wild risks in his personal life but deeply reluctant to use the military to protect our national security. The Bill Clinton who emerges is familiar -- reflexively blaming every problem on right-wing persecutors or naïve advisers -- but also surprising: passive, reactive, working desperately to solve a laundry list of social problems yet never truly grasping the real thrust of his own presidency. And while he courted danger in his personal life, the authors argue that Clinton's downfall has far less to do with his private demons than with his fear of the one person who controlled his future: his own first lady.Sharp and stylishly written, full of revealing insider anecdotes, Because He Could is a fresh and probing portrait of one of the most fascinating, and polarizing, figures of our time.
Instant Knowledge (Collins Gem)
by Editors of Mental FlossMental_floss is proud to present a full-bodied jolt of inspiration for thirsty minds on the go. Blended with titillating facts, startling revelations, and head-scratching theories collected from around the world, Instant Knowledge will jumpstart riveting exchanges at cocktail parties, the watercooler, or any powwow. To experience the clean, rich flavor at home, just tear into a topic of your choice, and add conversation. It's that simple!
Midnight Champagne: A Novel
by A. Manette AnsayApril Liesgang and Caleb Shannon have known each other for just three short months, so their Valentine's Day wedding at a chapel near the shores of Lake Michigan has both families in an uproar. As the festivities unfold (and the cash bar opens), everyone has an opinion and a lively prediction about April and Caleb's union, each the reflection of a different marital experience.Meanwhile, at the nearby Hideaway Lodge, a domestic quarrel ends in tragedy. As April and Caleb's life together begins, death parts another man and woman in angry violence—and as the two stories gradually intersect, their juxtaposition explores the tangled roots of vulnerability and desire.By the time the last polka has been danced and the bouquet tossed, Midnight Champagne has cast an extraordinary spell. From the novel's opening epigraph from Chekhov—"If you fear loneliness, then marriage is not for you"—to its final moments in the honeymoon suite, A. Manette Ansay weaves tenderness and fury, passion and wonder into a startling tapestry of love in all its paradox and power.
An Ex to Grind: A Novel
by Jane HellerThe battle of the sexes rages on in this smart, witty, and extremely timely comedy from the phenomenally popular Jane HellerAt first, Manhattan financial planner Melanie Banks adores Dan Swain, her pro football player husband who's got a sexy Oklahoma drawl to go with his athletic good looks. But then his career comes to a screeching halt and he spends the next few years out of a job, seemingly unconcerned about it. Suddenly, she's the one bringing home the bacon and falling out of love with the paycheck-devouring, couch-sitting mooch. Divorce is the answer, she decides -- only to learn she has to fork over alimony while he lives like a prince on her income and she has to share custody of their precious dog, Buster. Consumed with the unfairness of it all, she plays dirty, hiring a high-profile matchmaker to find some unsuspecting female she can dump on Dan for ninety days and cause him to violate their cohabitation clause.But then Melanie's scheme backfires. Her ex's new love revitalizes him, miraculously transforming him into the focused, responsible go-getter she always hoped he'd be. And now, with the ninety-day clock about to chime, she realizes she wants him back.
The Price of Blood: An Irish Novel of Suspense (Ed Loy Novels)
by Declan HughesWhat's in a name? Apparently everything for Ed Loy, because that's the only information Father Vincent Tyrrell, brother of prominent racehorse trainer F. X. Tyrrell, offers when he asks for Ed's help in finding a missing person. Even the best private eye needs more than just a name, but hard times and a dwindling bank account make it difficult for Loy to say no.He is not without luck, however. While working another case, Loy discovers a phone number that seems linked to F.X. found on an unidentified body. Thinking it more than a coincidence, he begins digging into the history of the Tyrrells—a history consumed with trading and dealing, gambling and horse breeding—and soon realizes there is more to the family than meets the eye, a suspicion confirmed when two more people with connections to the Tyrrells are killed.On the eve of one of Ireland's most anticipated sporting events, the four-day Leopardstown Race-course Christmas Festival, all bets are off as Loy pursues a twisted killer on the final leg of a reckless master plan.In The Price of Blood, Declan Hughes once again paints an arresting portrait of an Ireland not found in any guidebooks. Deadly passions beget dark secrets in a chilling story that will have readers on edge right up to its shocking conclusion.
What Obama Means: . . . For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future
by Jabari Asim“Provocative and compelling.” —New York Newsday“Both entertaining and insightful.”—Washington Post Book World“It should be on the required reading list.” —Chicago Sun-TimesWhat Obama Means by Jabari Asim, renowned cultural critic and author of The N Word, is a timely and sharp analysis of how the “Obama phenomenon” exhibits progress in American politics and society. A frequent guest and commentator on “The Colbert Report,” “The Today Show,” NPR’s “Diane Rehm Show” and many other media programs, Asim also examines how cultural and political forces led to the watershed 2008 presidential election while indicating what the election means for every American.
Miss Understanding: A Novel
by Stephanie LessingZoe Rose never quite fit in. As the only kid in kindergarten with an enormous red afro, Zoe was taunted by the other little girls for refusing to share her "Annie" wig, even when she swore it was her own hair (it was).In second grade, after seeing her best friend ridiculed for wearing a dirty, pink, polka-dot party dress to school every day, she became obsessed with understanding what makes normal girls tick and why they're so cruel to the girls who never seem to "get it."And so Zoe begins a lifelong study of girl behavior, and by thirty, finds herself editor of Issues magazine. Determined to raid the locker room of the female psyche and rip open the frilly façade of femininity once and for all, she sets out to reform an entire nation of women, beginning with the readers of the most notorious magazine on Madison Avenue.It's the feminist vs. the fashionistas.Can Zoe stop girls from behaving badly toward other girls, and turn them into a strong, united force that can succeed in our male-dominated world? Or will her spectacularly warped sense of humor, pathetic wardrobe, and plethora of psychosomatic illnesses get her eaten alive?Zoe's willing to risk losing it all, including her mind, but she'll walk away with something she never dreamed she wanted: the little girl hiding inside of her.
Homosexuality in the Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of India
by Yeshwant NaikThe book analyses the Indian Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years. It critically analyses the Court’s landmark judgments and its perception of equality, family, marriage and human rights from an international perspective. With the help of European Court of Human Rights’ judgments and international conventions, it compares the legal and social discrimination meted out to the Indian LGBTI community with that in the international arena. From a social anthropological perspective, it demonstrates how gay masculinity, although marginalized, serves as a challenge to patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity. This unique book addresses the lack of in-depth literature on gay masculinity, elaborately narrating and analysing contemporary gay masculinity and emerging gay lifestyles in India and highlighting the latest research on the subject of homosexuality in general and in particular with respect to India. It also discusses several new issues concerning the gay men in India supported by the living law approach put forth by Eugen Ehrlich.
Haircutting Robots
by Steven LiThis book envisions the imminent arrival of fully robotic haircutting systems with commercial practicality, driven by advancements in technologies such as 3D printing, CNC machining, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The evolution of haircutting has reached significant milestones, from manual cutting to self-cutting devices, yet, as of 2024, no commercially available haircutting robots exist. Offering a pioneering exploration of the theoretical foundations for these innovations, the book integrates insights from robotics, AI, and aesthetic design to address challenges like precision, safety, and customization. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers, entrepreneurs, and professionals seeking to lead the development of cutting-edge haircutting solutions. With its forward-looking perspective, the book lays a roadmap for transforming personal grooming through multidisciplinary innovation.
Shareholder Rights Protection Mechanisms for Chinese Financial Holding Companies: A Comparative Law Perspective (International and Comparative Law in the Asia Pacific)
by Kailiang MaThis book aims to answer the question of how Chinese financial holding companies should structure their shareholder rights protection mechanisms in a global context. And this book uses the two-part approach to clarify the issue of shareholder rights protection of financial holding companies. The first part describes the external protection mechanism (financial market regulation), and the second part describes the internal protection mechanism (internal corporate governance). Moreover, this book mainly adopts three methodologies, including doctrinal analysis, comparative analysis (Chinese law, French law, UK law and US law) and historical analysis, to illustrate the viewpoints. And in the light of the comprehensive and comparative analysis, this book provides an insightful perspective to deal with the problem of protecting shareholders' rights in Chinese financial holding companies. The novelty of this approach lies in its comprehensiveness. On the one hand, it analyses shareholder rights protection mechanisms, including external and internal mechanisms. On the other hand, it provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of financial holding companies in all 193 member states of the United Nations. At the same time, its comparative approach focuses on Chinese law, American law, English law and French law. Such peer comparisons are relatively rare. The target audience for this book includes interested laypersons, undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers. Both legal and financial markets are the main target markets.
AI-Based Nutritional Intervention in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
by Rakesh Kumar Anand Nayyar Meenu GuptaThis book provides an overview of AI-powered nutritional interventions for the management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). It focuses on AI-driven diagnostics for swift and accurate PCOS identification, personalized nutrition plans integrating genetic and hormonal data, and behavioral interventions promoting adherence. The book bridges the gap between technological innovation and clinical practice, leading to a new era of precision medicine in women's health. Chapters cover information from AI-tailored nutrition plans to suit individual PCOS profiles to insights into micronutrients, macronutrients, and dietary choices. They also address glycemic control, hormonal balance, and holistic wellness. Further chapters cover the ethical dimensions of AI in healthcare while championing patient empowerment. It also provides real-time monitoring through wearable tech and ethical considerations surrounding AI implementation in healthcare. The book includes real-life success stories, case studies, and practical guidance to aid decision-making. The book is relevant for healthcare professionals, gynecologists, nutritionists, and researchers to harness artificial intelligence’s potential in optimizing women's health and well-being.
The Drowned Life
by Jeffrey FordThere is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it. . . . There is a life lived beneath the water—among rotted buildings and bloated corpses—by those so overburdened by the world's demands that they simply give up and go under. . . . In this mesmerizing blend of the familiar and the fantastic, multiple award-winning New York Times notable author Jeffrey Ford creates true wonders and infuses the mundane with magic. In tales marked by his distinctive, dark imagery and fluid, exhilarating prose, he conjures up an annual gale that transforms the real into the impossible, invents a strange scribble that secretly unites a significant portion of society, and spins the myriad dreams of a restless astronaut and his alien lover. Bizarre, beautiful, unsettling, and sublime, The Drowned Life showcases the exceptional talents of one of contemporary fiction's most original artists.
Tutorien und Seminare vorbereiten und moderieren: Eine Trickkiste für Tutoren und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter
by Steffen Hillebrecht Johann GrillenbeckDieses Fachbuch erläutert auf übersichtliche und praxisnahe Weise, wie Präsentationen für Tutorien, Seminare und Übungen sachgerecht erarbeitet und souverän vermittelt werden können. Steffen Hillebrecht und Johann Grillenbeck stellen erprobte Instrumente und Vorgehensweisen vor, mit denen der Präsentierende den bestmöglichen Eindruck bei Publikum und Prüfern hinterlässt. Muster, Übersichten und Checklisten erlauben eine zielgerichtete und individuelle Vorbereitung auf die eigene Präsentation. Für die 2. Auflage wurde das Buch aktualisiert und stark erweitert. So wurde insbesondere das Kapitel zur Gestaltung von Tutorien und Seminaren um Themen wie die Rolle der Lehrperson, gutes Feedback, Tipps und Werkzeuge für die Online-Lehre und zum Meistern schwieriger Situationen erweitert. Außerdem wurde jeweils ein neues Kapitel zur Betreuung von Projektgruppen und zu Beispielen aus der Praxis aufgenommen.
Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions II, 21st International Conference (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1151)
by Goreti Marreiros Michela Ricca Laura Grande Juan Pedro Llerena Luís Conceição Hoon Ko Marta PlazaDCAI 2024 serves as a forum to present applications of innovative techniques for studying and solving complex problems in artificial intelligence and computing. This edition brings together experience, current work, and promising future trends related to distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and their applications to provide efficient solutions to real-world problems. Given the conference's success, this edition features twelve special sessions covering a wide range of topics related to AI and other areas of interest. These sessions were carefully curated to address the latest advancements and challenges in fields such as machine learning, neural networks, IoT, big data, and blockchain, among others. The accepted papers from these sessions are presented in two volumes, showcasing the diverse and innovative research being conducted in these domains. This is the first volume, which includes the sessions: Advanced AI-based Data Annotation Tools (AI-DAT), Digital Heritage Contents (DHC), female technopreneurs and early career researchers in distributed computing and AI organised by the Gendered Innovation Living Labs (GILL), New perspectives and solutions in Cultural Heritage (TECTONIC), Artificial Intelligence trends in Health & Care (AItHeC) & Doctoral Consortiums), each focusing on specific themes within the broader scope of AI and its applications. The DCAI’24 technical program has selected 74 papers in special sessions and, as in past editions, it will be special issues in ranked journals. This symposium is organized by the University of Salamanca (Spain). We would like to thank all the contributing authors, the Program Committee members, National Associations (AEPIA, APPIA, LASI), and the sponsors (AIR Institute).
Praxisbuch Trauerbegleitung: Trauerprozesse verstehen, begleiten, verwandeln
by Jutta BenderMit diesem Fachbuch erhalten in der Trauerarbeit tätige Menschen eine praxisnahe Einführung in grundsätzliche Aspekte der Begleitung Trauernder: Vom Verstehen der theoretischen Grundlagen zu Tod und Trauer über die Bedingungen für erfolgreiche Begleitung hin zu praktischen Anleitungen und Anregungen für die Begleitung. Das Fachbuch bietet zahlreiche Beispiele und Tipps aus der Praxis und fokussiert sich nicht nur auf wenige spezielle Trauersituationen, sondern beleuchtet Trauer und Trauerbegleitung in seiner Gesamtheit. Es richtet sich damit an haupt- und ehrenamtliche Praktiker aus den Bereichen kirchliche und soziale Dienste, Hospiz und Bestattung. Die zweite, aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage wurde um die Themen "KI und Avatare", "Begleitung vor dem Todesereignis", "Männertrauer" und "Krieg und Naturkatastrophen" erweitert.
Fostering Changes®: Eltern-Kind-Beziehung stärken – mit herausforderndem Verhalten umgehen – kindliche Entwicklung fördern
by Stephen Scott Hilary Lawson Karen Bachmann Kathy Blackeby Caroline Bengo Drew Bigden-Slack Matt WoolgarIn Deutschland leben etwa 90.000 Kinder und Jugendliche in Pflegefamilien. Viele dieser Kinder und Jugendlichen weisen psychische Störungen, erhebliche Verhaltensauffälligkeiten oder körperliche Einschränkungen auf. Hierdurch können Pflegeeltern schnell an ihre emotionalen und erzieherischen Grenzen kommen; dies führt oft zu einem Abbruch der Platzierung. Ein "Fostering Changes"-Kurs hat zum Ziel, Pflegeeltern die erforderlichen Kenntnisse und erzieherischen Fertigkeiten für den erfolgreichen Verlauf einer Platzierung zu vermitteln.Basierend auf aktuellen Methoden der Erwachsenenbildung vermittelt der Kurs in 12 praxisnahen Einheiten im Gruppensetting Wissen und praktische Fähigkeiten zu Trauma, Bindung und Verhaltensmodifikation. Zu den per Rollenspiel, Impulsvortrag oder Videosequenz vermittelten Themen gehören u.a. Verhaltensanalysen, wirksames Loben, Ich-Botschaften, positive Grenzsetzung sowie Selbstfürsorge.Mehrere Studien konnten dieWirksamkeit des Kurses hinsichtlich der Verminderung von kindlichen Verhaltensauffälligkeiten und Stresserleben der Pflegeeltern sowie einer verbesserten Beziehung zwischen Pflegeeltern und Pflegekind belegen.Neben theoretischem Hintergrundwissen enthält das Manual konkrete Anleitungen zu Vorbereitung, Umsetzung und Qualitätssicherung der einzelnen Einheiten; zusätzliche Materialien sind per Download erhältlich.