This unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of U.S. deployments to create an action plan for supporting military and veteran families during future conflicts. Its innovative ideas stretch beyond designated governmental agencies (e.g., Department of Defense, VA) to include participation from, and possible collaborations with, the business/corporate, academic, advocacy, and philanthropic sectors. Contributors identify ongoing and emerging issues affecting military and veteran families and recommend specific strategies toward expanding and enhancing current programs and policy. This proactive agenda also outlines new directions for mobilizing the research community, featuring strategies for addressing institutional challenges and improving access to critical data. Included in the coverage: Lessons learned inside the Pentagon. Merging reintegration streams for veterans and military families. The unique role of professional associations in assisting military families: a case study. Philanthropy for military and veteran families: challenges past, recommendations for tomorrow. Rules of engagement: media coverage of military families during war. Designing and implementing strategic research studies to support military families. A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families is of immediate usefulness to leaders, professionals, and future professionals in interdisciplinary academic, governmental, advocacy, and philanthropic areas of focus interested in the theoretical, practical, and real-life concerns and needs of military-affiliated families.

This anthology provides a single, convenient volume of diverse primary texts supporting the teaching and research field of Anglophone Transatlantic literatures and print culture. Focusing on ongoing and shared concerns and social practices across the long nineteenth century, the book's thematically-organised sections mark major Transatlantic social movements of that era as expressed, negotiated, and recorded through literary production. The anthology offers a range of tools and texts for innovative thinking, teaching, and exploration. Headnotes provide guidance on how individual selections arose from social and historical contexts. Annotations create student-friendly identification of key terms or allusions

This is an essential resource for teaching 19th century print culture in the expanding field of transatlantic studies. How are University instructors to contribute to a growing field when most Ph.D.s continue to be conferred in British or American literature? To provide a foundational resource for teaching Anglo American transatlanticism in the long 19th century, this volume by leading scholars and experienced professors from Canada, the UK, and the US outlines conceptual approaches to transatlanticism and offers practical resources ranging from individual assignment descriptions to full syllabi. Complemented by a website, the collection provides practical resources for teaching grounded in current scholarship. Addressing both current and future university teachers, and recognising the varying degrees to which today's curricular formations enable/allow for transatlantic teaching, the individual chapters and the associated project website range from treating full scale courses to reconsidering individual texts and authors in transatlantic context. An afterword by graduate students currently working in transatlanticism demonstrates the impact and opportunities of this burgeoning field. With this book readers will receive help with conceptual issues as well as practical issues. The contributors from a range of different institutions are experts in teaching and researching American, British, Canadian, and transatlantic literature and print culture in the long 19th century. It offers classroom accounts that address multiple genres, issues, and media. Its's chapter authors blend reflections on real world teaching contexts that candidly address challenges with scholarly analysis of key issues in the field today. With a project website supplements the book chapters and invites continued conversations through a moderated discussion space and submission venue for readers' own teaching materials.

Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country that offered a degree of freedom and intellectual agency unheard of in England. Opening with the striking account of Anna Jameson and her friendship with Ottilie von Goethe, Linda K. Hughes shows how cultural differences spurred ten writers' advocacy of progressive ideas and provided fresh materials for publishing careers. Alongside well-known writers - Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Michael Field, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Vernon Lee - this study sheds light on the lesser-known writers Mary and Anna Mary Howitt, Jessie Fothergill, and the important Anglo-Jewish lesbian writer Amy Levy. Armed with their knowledge of the German language, each of these women championed an extraordinarily productive openness to cultural exchange and, by approaching Germany through a female lens, imported an alternative, 'other' Germany into English letters.

This anthology provides a single, convenient volume of diverse primary texts supporting the teaching and research field of Anglophone Transatlantic literatures and print culture. Focusing on ongoing and shared concerns and social practices across the long nineteenth century, the book's thematically-organised sections mark major Transatlantic social movements of that era as expressed, negotiated, and recorded through literary production. The anthology offers a range of tools and texts for innovative thinking, teaching, and exploration. Headnotes provide guidance on how individual selections arose from social and historical contexts. Annotations create student-friendly identification of key terms or allusions

The first study of nineteenth-century replication across art, literature, science, social science and humanities This landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as subsequent versions of a first version, similar but changed, occurred in art, literature, the press, merchandising, and historical reproductions in architecture and museums. Replication also shaped scientific concepts in biology and geology and scientific practices in laboratories that repeated experiments as part of the scientific method. Fourteen case studies map a range of nineteenth-century replication practices and associations across art, literature, science, media and material culture. While replication stirred imaginations as well as anxieties over the industrialisation that produced a modern mass culture, 'Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century' suggests, nonetheless, that this phenomenon is a forerunner of our contemporary digital culture.Key FeaturesThe first historical study of nineteenth-century replicationIncludes multidisciplinary case studies that rest on archival research as well as theory and analysisEstablishes a model for studying period concepts across disciplines and practicesEnhances understanding of the immense impact of digitization by illuminating its pre-history

The first study of nineteenth-century replication across art, literature, science, social science and humanities This landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as subsequent versions of a first version, similar but changed, occurred in art, literature, the press, merchandising, and historical reproductions in architecture and museums. Replication also shaped scientific concepts in biology and geology and scientific practices in laboratories that repeated experiments as part of the scientific method. Fourteen case studies map a range of nineteenth-century replication practices and associations across art, literature, science, media and material culture. While replication stirred imaginations as well as anxieties over the industrialisation that produced a modern mass culture, Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century suggests, nonetheless, that this phenomenon is a forerunner of our contemporary digital culture. Key Features The first historical study of nineteenth-century replication Includes multidisciplinary case studies that rest on archival research as well as theory and analysis Establishes a model for studying period concepts across disciplines and practices Enhances understanding of the immense impact of digitization by illuminating its pre-history

Alone after burying her grandfather and only relative, Emily becomes the concierge of an Assisted Living/Alzheimer's Community. Substituting the residents for her family, she gains a purpose for living again. The view of Morro Bay is breathtaking and the building beautiful but within the pristine facade, deception and intrigue abound...even murder. When Detective Sean O'Brien comes to investigate, he finds Emily a person of interest in more ways than one. Both entertaining and heartwarming, YESTERDAY FOREVER GONE is a behind the scenes view of the inner workings of an Assisted Living/Alzheimer's and dementia community.

14 stories of hope, courage, resiliency, and strength from real Atlanta women.

Jessie Belle Church hates her old coot of a boss for making her go on a stupid "Ancestry Quest" news assignment. After all, the thirty-year-old CNN newscaster is used to wearing designer gowns to art gallery openings with her filthy rich boyfriend, not schlepping through the jungle in sweaty shorts and a tee shirt with a gorilla of a cameraman. But there she is anyway, traipsing through Africa and Europe to follow the ancestry trail left by her DNA. However, when she's visited each night by a different spirit of her female forebears, reliving the most exciting and terrifying events of their common yet extraordinary lives, Jessie Belle begins to emerge from her self-absorption to appreciate all that transpired in the past to give her the privileged life that she has today. And, even more shocking, she discovers just how tame and tantalizing that animal of a cameraman can be. Her world shifts on its axis as she takes the tales of her ancestors to heart and becomes the true Jessie Belle Church.

For many, Ireland is a magical land full of simplicity and warmth. Its beautiful, green rolling hills and picturesque coastlines are extraordinary reminders of God's natural gifts. But for Kathleen, a native Bostonian, it is merely a distant country across the sea...until she finds adoption papers with her date of birth on them. Full of mystery and the turmoil of buried secrets, Linda Hughes's debut novel is a thought-provoking exploration of identity and the consequences of unconscionable acts. Following the trail to Ireland, Kathleen is met by silence and doors closed for generations to protect the past. Burrowing deeper into the mystery, she is confronted by a disheartening fact: few know the real truth-fewer still remain alive. Through her tenacity Kathleen locates the only person who knows the true story behind her identity. Unfortunately, the elderly nun has vowed to never disclose what happened. On her deathbed, however, she has a change of heart, concluding that some secrets are worth keeping while others need to be set free, revealing what becomes impossible to believe. Inspired by the cultural religious devotion of Ireland's people, Hughes expertly crafts the gradual fraying of a young woman's sense of self with confidence and crushing honesty. Tearing open and exposing the abuse and lies used to conceal the truth. Cloistered Secrets is an unforgettable raw nerve that will leave you forever changed.

Can the deepest love spawn the darkest hate? Secrets Without Compromise, the second novel by author Linda Hughes, shares the poignant tale of two people who have emerged from profound obstacles to craft a new future, only to be upended by an unspeakable event that knows no redemption. This gripping work of fiction with equal parts tender love and smoldering revenge not only mines the heart's most vulnerable places but journeys to the core of darkness. When one evening goes devastatingly wrong, the happiness they created together is destroyed in a few terrifying moments. As Alex confronts the hopelessness of his grief, he embarks on a wrathful course of retaliation, revealing how the ties that bind us can also tear us apart. Though not a sequel to her debut novel, Cloistered Secrets, there are overlaying elements in the two works.