Tommy loves nothing more than exploring the outdoors with his best friend, Tag the dog. Today he's decided he's going to the seaside, to search the rock pools and find some amazing creatures. When Tommy finds a little lost crab, he decides to take it home to live with his pet fish. But Tommy soon discovers that his aquarium might not be the best home for the crab. Luckily Mum is here to help! They take the crab back to his rock pool and reunite him with his family.Tommy learns an important lesson about baby animals in the wild.

Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century. The lingering illness devastated the lives of patients and families, and by the turn of the century, fears of infectiousness compounded their anguish. Historians have usually focused on the changing medical knowledge of tuberculosis or on the social campaigns to combat it. Using a wide range of sources, especially the extensive correspondence of a Philadelphia physician, Lawrence F. Flick, in Bargaining for Life Barbara Bates documents the human story by chronicling how men and women attempted to cope with the illness, get treatment, earn their living, and maintain social relationships.

This book provides original inquiries into the communication of women with other women, a type of research striking in its absence from the hundreds of other recent studies of gender and communication. It fills the void within communication research, and provides a variety of qualitative studies focusing on the actual communication behavior of women.