On a surveillance assignment for a child custody case, PI-in-training Nora Watts finds herself ensconced in a small farming community on a beautiful hippie island in the Pacific Northwest, a place with a reputation for being welcoming to outsiders. But when she arrives there, she discovers her welcome quickly wears thin. Perhaps too quickly. Salt Spring Island, with a history as a refuge for African Americans fleeing the bonds of slavery, is not a place of refuge for her--and, she suspects, may not be for the people who live there, either. As she investigates, nothing about this remote community seems to add up. It gets personal as Nora confronts her own complicated feelings toward her estranged daughter and becomes increasingly concerned about the child she's been tasked to surveil. She discovers that small, idyllic communities can hide very big secrets. Included with this short story is a sneak peek at the next Nora Watts novel from Sheena Kamal, It All Falls Down
Playsongs includes over 70 songs and rhymes, traditional and new, for the very best musical start you can give your child. Playsongs is a collection of songs and rhymes to help you make singing and exploring sound an everyday part of your baby's life. Playsongs is a collection of songs and rhymes to help you make singing and exploring sound an everyday part of your baby's life. Parents and carers of young children will find a wealth of entertainment for their babies and toddlers in this picture songbook. Here are over 70 songs and rhymes, traditional and new, for the very best musical start you can give your child - a world of play that's educational and fun from birth to pre-school. Peekaboo, fingerplays, knee rides, actions and dances, and much much more. Play the games together - or just cuddle up and listen. The CD is performed by international folk artists, Sandra Kerr, Leon Rosselson and Janet Russell. All the instruments and sounds are acoustic (non-electronic) - listening fun for everyone.
Parents and carers of young children will find a relaxing dayful of gentle play for babies and toddlers in this full colour picture songbook. Eight double-spread pictures tell baby's day from start to finish - waking, dressing, going out, in the park, bathtime, massage and bedtime. Parents and carers of young children will find a relaxing dayful of gentle play for babies and toddlers in this full colour picture songbook. Eight double-spread pictures tell baby's day from start to finish - waking, dressing, going out, in the park, bathtime, massage and bedtime. Interleaved are songs and rhymes for each stage of the day, all with actions for interactive fun, relaxation and lullaby. The CD is performed by international folk artists, Sandra Kerr, Leon Rosselson and Janet Russell. All the instruments and sounds are acoustic (non-electronic) - soothing listening for everyone.
Aimed at professionals working with groups that are developing social skills and exploring relationships, this photocopiable handbook is a vital collection of workshops covering specific themes. Each theme is clearly divided into warm-ups, main exercises and closures. Intended to help professionals save on preparation time, the organisation and format of this book reflects its highly practical content.
How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens. Greitens argues that autocrats face a coercive dilemma: whether to create internal security forces designed to manage popular mobilization, or defend against potential coup. Violence against civilians, she suggests, is a byproduct of their attempt to resolve this dilemma. Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule. It offers an unprecedented view into the use of surveillance, coercion, and violence, and sheds new light on the institutional and social foundations of authoritarian power.
Reviewed By Melinda Hills for Readers' Favorite Sheena and Sergio seem to have everything all figured out. This is quite unusual for a couple only in their late teens, but their strength is tied to their belief in the spirit Pegasus. Things change rather dramatically, though, after their use of amazing abilities brings more people into their group and the stakes are raised. Western Witches & Warlocks: A Journey Into Eternity by Sarah Sheena follows these teens as they are confronted with good and evil - the lure of potential riches promised by spirit world and the truth of eternal life through Jesus, the Lord. What happens when someone stands in the way of Sergio and Sheena's plans for the future? How can young people come to believe in and accept the power of God over the promises of demons? Sheena, Sergio and their friends face their beliefs amidst conflicting pressures from their families and community, and are confronted with a heavenly battle. Who will win and at what cost? Western Witches & Warlocks: A Journey Into Eternity by Sarah Sheena is a well-told story that clearly demonstrates the very real struggle of young people weighing their spiritual options and choosing their path. Sarah Sheena's depth of belief provides tremendous realism to the characters as they are forced into thorough soul searching in order to come to terms with the issues confronting them. Western Witches & Warlocks: A Journey Into Eternity is a great read for youth groups to reaffirm their faith and for anyone with questions about spiritual choices. Great story Reviewed By Stephen Fisher for Readers' Favorite Sarah Sheena does a magnificent job of describing the characters' encounters with the spirits where the antagonists are the prejudiced, inferior Christians. The main characters in the story are just like most teenagers whose parents are too busy with their own lives to have a clue as to what their kids are up to. Sarah is able to explain how individuals perceive both sides of divinity and adhere to those beliefs, until they can accept a different point of view. A Journey Into Eternity is powerfully written, with an intensity that will strengthen your faith in the Lord of Lords... and the power of prayer.
Genres across the Disciplines presents cutting edge, corpus-based research into student writing in higher education. Genres across the Disciplines is essential reading for those involved in syllabus and materials design for the development of writing in higher education, as well as for those investigating EAP. The book explores creativity and the use of metaphor as students work towards becoming experts in the genres of their discipline. Grounded in the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus, the text is rich with authentic examples of assignment tasks, macrostructures, concordances and keywords. Also available separately as a hardback.
Monsters, lunatics, vampires, werewolves and evil dolls, stones entombing bodies, faces appearing in walls, curses and meetings with the Devil – all this and more are contained within this book of myths and ancient legends. Well-known storytellers Grace Banks and Sheena Blackhall recount a range of intriguing tales from the top to the bottom of Scotland, from ancient times to the present day. Folklore embeds itself in a local community, often to the extent that some people believe all manner of mysteries and take them as fact. Whether they’re stories passed around the school playground, through the Internet, or round a flickering campfire, such legends are everywhere. Scottish Urban Myths and Ancient Legends is a quirky and downright spooky ride into the heart of Celtic folklore.
The folklore of the north-east has provided a rich tapestry for the tales within; from Celtic and Pictish origins meet witches, selkies, smugglers, fairies, monsters, despicable rogues, riddles and heroes. Tragic events, spellbinding characters, humour, romance and clever minds are bound together by two well-established storytellers living and working in the city and shire of Aberdeen. Some of the tales in this collection are based on historical fact while others are embedded in myth and legend. All the stories are set against the backdrop of this lovely and varied landscape; the silver city and surrounding farm lands, the forested and mountainous terrain through which the River Dee flows, the rolling, gentler land surrounding the meandering River Don and the beautiful but sometimes forbidding Aberdeenshire coastline. Sheena and Grace have both been inspired in their storytelling and singing by the traveller, raconteur and balladeer, Stanley Robertson.
What happens over time to Indians who spend their working hours answering phone calls from Americans-and acting like Americans themselves? To find out, the authors of Answer the Call conducted long-term interviews with forty-five agents, trainers, managers, and CEOs at call centers in Bangalore and Mumbai from 2003 to 2012. For nine or ten hours every day, workers in call centers are not quite in India or America but rather in a state of “virtual migration.” Encouraged to steep themselves in American culture from afar, over time the agents come to internalize and indeed perform Americanness for Americans-and for each other.Call center agents “migrate” through time and through the virtual spaces generated by voice and information sharing. Drawing from their rich interviews, the authors show that the virtual migration agents undergo has no geographically distant point of arrival, yet their perception of moving is not merely abstract. Over the duration of the job, agents’ sense of place and time changes: agents migrate but still remain, leaving them somewhere in between-between India and America, experience and imagination, class mobility and consumption, tradition and modernity, here and there, then and now, past and future. However tangible and elastic their virtual mobility might seem in these relatively lucrative jobs, it is also suspended within the confines of the very boundaries they migrate across. Having engaged with these vivid and often poignant interviews, readers will never again be indifferent to an Indian agent’s greeting at the other end of a toll-free call: “Hello, my name is Roxanne. How may I help you?”
Written by mother daughter duo, Sheena and Monroe Edwards, "Get to know Monroe" takes you on a poetic journey through a day in the life of five-year-old Monroe. You'll find out all her favorite things and what makes her so special."Monroe and I wrote Get to know Monroe to introduce Monroe and children like her to others. With hope that parents, and teachers would use our book as a tool to teach children about autism. I'm no expert, I am just a mother looking to encourage others to show genuine compassion and empathy for children with special needs. Autism currently effects 1 n 68 children in the United States and one of them is Monroe. My prayer is that the world is prepared" " Sometimes being different is a good thing"
