Pediatric Life Care Planning and Case Management provides a comprehensive and unique reference that goes beyond the clinical discussion to include legal and financial aspects, life expectancy data, and assistive technology. It also includes case samples of actual plans related to specific conditions. The book is divided into five parts: Normal Growth and Development of Children describes the normal growth and development and the cognitive and psychosocial development of children. The Roles of the Life Care Plan Team details the roles of members of a life care plan team, from the pediatric care manager and life care planner to the vocational rehabilitation consultant, among others. Chronic Conditions and Disability States offers guidelines for life care planning for children with a wide range of chronic health conditions and disabilities, including traumatic injuries and organ transplants. Forensic Considerations examines life care planning in legal cases, life expectancy issues, and life care plan foundation strategies and requirements. Special Issues discusses assistive technology, medical homes, funding sources, and ethical issues in caring for children with special needs-including a mother's perspective on caring for her son. With contributions from highly respected professionals, this text provides a guide for life care planners, health-care professionals, education specialists, insurance decision makers, attorneys, and families who work with children with special health-care needs.

"Japanese Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism" examines the effect the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States had on one of America's most important ally, Japan, as it struggles to define a post-Cold War role for itself in international security affairs. This study looks at Japanese mass opinion, the role of the Japanese media, both print and visual, in framing discourse on security, the response of political parties to public opinion, the position of Japanese intellectuals in the debate on the war on terrorism, civil society, and public opinion in Okinawa.

"The doomed jet finally rolled out and took off. My thoughts were a dark swamp of regret, rage, and helplessness. The lobby's bright overhead fluorescents kicked on and I studied my face in the window against a darkening sky. The rain finally arrived and rivulets ran down the outside, merging with my reflection as though tears ran down my cheeks. The false image mirrored my inner state with brutal accuracy. That would come later, I knew, as I talked to the silent sword, my only companion, and asked once more, "Why?"" Ninety-two years stretch behind Sebastian Bach-a long life spent seeking freedom from his inability to age, premonitions of death that compel him to intervene in the lives of strangers, and his abject failure to save anyone. As the years have passed, so have his family and friends, leaving him utterly alone, but for a mysterious sword passed down through his family and given to him on his thirteenth birthday. His world suddenly changes when he foresees the crashing of a transatlantic flight-by far the greatest loss of life he's ever tried to avert. In desperation, Sebastian boards the plane...and sets off a chain of events that will catapult him into the past to experience previous lifetimes: one as Hector, mighty heir to the throne of the fallen Troy...and the other as Roland, hero of the court of Charlemagne. With the help of Erin Montgomery, a beautiful young woman who shares a link to his mysterious past-and the ancient enchantment of the sword known as Durandel-Sebastian learns how a deadly ambush in the Pyrennes in 778 A.D. altered his soul's destiny...but can the past be changed to save his future? The latest masterwork by Anne Eldridge, author of Alice & Henry: A Novel, Precognition is a sweeping, epic paranormal journey into a realm beyond the boundaries of time and mortality-where one man's destiny reaches across three spectacular lifetimes...and the past comes alive. Precognition is Fantasy-Adventure-redefined.