By supporting and influencing their families and communities, grandparents--and those who act as grandparents--can play a key role in today's society. Their special mission is derived from a strong sense of purpose and direction that develops from making significant contributions to family life. These include compiling and recounting family histories, maintaining meaningful relationships among different generations, opening up family communications, explaining social changes, and participating in community life. With the aid of real-life examples of intergenerational family dynamics, the author--a clinical sociologist who has practiced family therapy for more than 25 years--presents principles, techniques, and perspectives for today's grandparents.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Designed for professionals, this handbook focuses on the impact of patients religion snd spirituality. It presents the identity empowerment theory, a clinical sociological theory, and includes case studies and intervention strategies. The ten concepts of this theory show how identity can be expressed in the value of choices: self; dyad; triad; family; religion; definition of situation; reference group; class culture and society.

This handbook for clinicians focuses on the impact of religion and spirituality on the client, using the clinical sociological theory of identity empowerment. The ten concepts of this theory show how identity can be expressed in value choices: self; dyad; triad; family; religion; definition of the situation; reference group; class culture; and society. The professor includes case studies and strategies for intervention at the end of each cahpter.

This book demonstrates how women's decisions direct their lives in both public and private spheres. It specifies critical conditions and possibilities for women who want to increase their opportunities.

Paul Gemignani is one of the titans of the modern musical theater industry. Serving as musical director for more than forty Broadway productions since 1971, his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Hal Prince, Michael Bennett, and Alan Menken have led to countless accolades for his collaborators, but due to the near invisible position of the musical director in the Broadway industry, Gemignani's story is often overlooked. GEMIGNANI seeks to not only bring the reader into the orchestra pit to learn Gemignani's story, but also to educate the reader about the crucial role a music director plays in bringing some of the most iconic musicals in Broadway history to life. Born into a second-generation Italian American family during the aftershocks of the Great Depression, Gemignani worked his way up from playing percussion in USO bands to conducting before Leonard Bernstein, all before becoming a pivotal player in the team that brought some of the most successful musicals of the late twentieth century to the stage. Sweeney Todd, Evita, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods would be quite different without his key contributions, and many of the sonic markers we now associate with the postmodern musical theater can be traced to Gemignani's careful curiosity to expand the bounds of what was possible.

In August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York City that would take her across the Atlantic to work with the American Red Cross in France, then in the devastating grips of the First World War. Working at a canteen at a railroad junction close to the Western Front, Hall aided soldiers from both Allied and Axis nations. While there she was regularly forced to seek shelter from German bombardments. After the Armistice, Hall explored the destruction of the surrounding region; her diary entries, letters, and photos reveal a world of ruins and human remains.

After Hall returned to the United States, she wrote a memoir that she shared privately with friends and family. Published here for the first time, Hall's words offer a first-hand account of life on the Western Front in those last months of the war and its immediate aftermath. Balancing her deeply held convictions about the horror of this conflict with both wry humor and a sense of urgency, Hall's narrative gives the reader an unusually immediate and individualized testimony, one that rivals those of similar but better-known war memoirs, such as those by Vera Brittain and Edith Wharton.

The book features dozens of Hall's striking and never-before-published photographs, including of the movement of troops through town, women working just behind the front lines, and the landscape left when the war was "over." The pairing of Hall's remarkable images with her vivid reporting results in an invaluable, and uniquely personal, account of one of the most cataclysmic events in history.

Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society

When Callie and her parents move from the country to a new home in the city, she is not sure she will be happy. When they get to the city, though, it's nothing like she thought it would be. She is surprised to see lots of beautiful trees. Then she discovers that the big tree in her front yard is very special! Baxter the bur oak teaches Callie about the good things he does for her home, and his acorn friend Mac takes her on a fun adventure around the city!

Nuclear cardiology is no longer a medical discipline residing solely in nuclear medicine. This is the first book to recognize this fact by integrating in-depth information from both the clinical cardiology and nuclear cardiology literature, and acknowledging cardiovascular medicine as the fundamental knowledge base needed for the practice of nuclear cardiology. The book is designed to increase the practitioner's knowledge of cardiovascular medicine, thereby enhancing the quality of interpretations through improved accuracy and clinical relevance.The text is divided into four sections covering all major topics in cardiology and nuclear cardiology:

• Basic Sciences and Cardiovascular Diseases

• Conventional Diagnostic Modalities
• Nuclear Cardiology
• Management of Cardiovascular Diseases

Transdisciplinary theme: Where we are in place and time Unit of Inquiry: Home sweet home