|
|
|
Do I Have a Daddy?: A Story About a Single-Parent Child
Addressing single-parent families, this book helps kids with absent, deceased, and unknown dads talk about and deal with this often difficult situation. When Erik, a preschooler, is teased by other children about not having a dad, his mother explains that there are many kinds of fathers, and not all of them live with their children The story serves as a conversation starter and can be adapted to meet a child’s specific needs. Parents learn the importance of being honest while allowing their children to retain a positive view of the absent parent. .
Price: $3.87
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
Tooth and Claw: and Other Stories
Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; "Dogology," about a suburban woman losing her identity to a pack of strays; and "The Kind Assassin," which explores the consequences of a radio shock jock’s quest to set a world record for sleeplessness. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, Tooth and Claw is Boyle at his best..
Price: $3.04
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
In Pandora's Jar
This study traces developments in early Greek poetry in the use of disease and madness-type imagery to express aspects of the erotic experience Cyrino also works to illuminate the relationships between the early hexameter narrative poets and the archaic lyric poets who employ this imagery in their works. The arrangement of this study is conveniently chronological as to make the interrelations between the uses of this imagery by different authors in different periods more easily understandable. The author takes particular notice of the first instances of usage of disease and madness imagery for love, and how and where variations on the theme or new uses of the old image occur, and of the characteristic metaphorical habits of each poet. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Eros; Homer; Hesiod and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite; The Lyric Poets: Archiochos and Alkman; The Lyric Poets: Alkaios, Ibykos and Anakreon; Sappho; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; Index of Greek Words; General Index..
Price: $61.00
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
|
Time of Transition: The Growth of Families Headed by Women
Looks at the rapid growth of female-headed families with children over the decade and analyzes the implications of that growth for individuals, the family, society, and public policy. Special attention is given to the association between increasing economic independence for women and rising divorce rates, differences in family structure by race, the possible contribution of welfare to the growth of female-headed families, and the consequences for children of being raised in single-parent families..
Price: $10.99
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
The Thorny Gift: Analysis of the EPA's Intent to Empower Indian Tribal Governments With Clean Air Act Regulatory Authority Over Non-Tribal Lands and Immunize Tribal Governments From CAA Citizen S
This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A489973. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: One of the many substantive changes to the Clean Air Act (CAA) brought about by the 1990 amendments was a statutory mandate directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations that would enable Indian tribal governments to assume primary regulatory jurisdiction of the CAA. Eight years later, the EPA finally complied by publishing regulations to grant qualifying Indian tribes CAA regulatory authority similar to that exercised by state governments. The new regulations are further testimony of Congress' objective to empower Native Americans with greater control over their natural environment, as witnessed with the grant of similar regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Unfortunately, because of the approach taken by the EPA, tribal CAA regulatory authority will prove a gift with thorns generating considerable legal challenge and increasing tension between state and tribal governments. The new regulations will have two striking consequences. Qualifying Indian tribes will receive CAA regulatory control over individuals and lands heretofore under the jurisdiction of state governments, and Indian regulatory authorities will be immune from the CAA citizen suit provisions, leaving the regulated community without any realistic means to challenge tribal regulatory decisions. The purpose of this paper is to explore the inevitable opposition of both state governments and affected individuals, and to determine whether the EPA's new rules will withstand judicial challenge..
Price: $25.95
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
|
|
|