The loss of a baby, however it occurs, can be heartbreaking and painful and leave parents in need of support as they grieve. While awareness about baby loss is increasing, the suffering and sadness, isolation and loneliness parents feel is often invisible and it can be hard for them to reach out, and for those around them to know how best to support them. Why Baby Loss Matters explores what happens when families experience baby loss or the end of a pregnancy, drawing on the first-hand experiences of parents who have navigated life and the fourth trimester without their baby, and the vital work of charities and services which offer support. By examining different approaches to coping with the loss of a baby and keeping memories alive, the book offers insight into the ways that families have found the support and peace that they need to continue living after saying goodbye.

Last year's protracted health care debate in the United States exposed the world to a Congress gridlocked by outdated rules, incivility, and partisanship that have national security implications. In a post-9/11 world of nuclear standoffs, terrorist threats, and economic rivalries, congressional oversight and action is needed more than ever. Yet deadlock and dysfunction have caused Congress to fall short in fulfilling its constitutional role as partner to the executive branch in the formulation and implementation of national security policy.

"Congress and National Security" reviews the factors that have led to today's dysfunctional Congress and the impact the breakdown has had on its role in shaping national security policy. Kay King explains the demise of effective congressional action on pressing international issues since the conclusion of the cold war. She offers a series of recommendations to reset congressional rules, practices, and procedures to address the deadlock and restore Congress as a full partner to the executive branch in advancing U.S. national security interests.

How will American institutions of higher learning face the challenges of our evolving society, one in which they are under increasing pressure to help solve social problems? Higher and thicker walls will not insulate universities from the social policy issues of health, reindustrialisation, crime, race relations, and political participation, nor from corporate demands for new skills to restore competitiveness with Japan and Western Europe, nor from the dwindling of the traditional student pool. In "Continuing Higher Education" Allan W. Lerner, B. Kay King, and five other authors address a thorny problem for today's "mega-universities", large research-teaching complexes that serve an array of purposes. Their dilemma is whether or not to stand fast in their current configurations - becoming more and more irrelevant as smaller, more resilient organisations fill the void and as funding dries up at all levels, for all purposes, and from all sources - or to commit to a new integration of service, teaching and research. "Continuing Higher Education" begins with an examination of how the university must adapt to a fundamentally altered student body, explains how changes will affect faculty and research agendas, proposes and criticises new structures for delivering continuing education, considers financial strategies that accommodate entrepreneurism without bowing to it, and prescribes a regimen of adaptation to an environment that is "essentially a complicated web of organisations". University administrators, continuing education program planners, professors, researchers and graduate students should find this work thought-provoking.