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Terri Springe and her wonderful, talented, young business partner,
Brianna Severson, have expanded Terri's Table and are more busy
happily cooking, then ever before. They have their own shop, just
down the block from their cozy apartment, Angie Perry, Terri's best
friend and a City of Boston police officer, helps out and is always
around to add to the fun. Everything seems to be moving along
beautifully. At the moment though, Terri has an unusual problem on
her hands. It is Super Bowl time. The girls are getting food ready
for clients and are already pushed to the limit to get everything
done on time. So, when the extremely annoying, demanding, very
wealthy, Logan Adams-Buckley calls and places an outrageous order
for truffles, lots of truffles, (the very expensive, from France,
kind of truffles), along with other extravagant items, Terri and
Brianna are beside themselves with confusion and frustration at
Logan's selfishness and rude attitude. Logan then immediately sends
a large check to pay for the order, which Terri promptly takes to
the bank. The very next morning however, Logan is dead, allegedly
shot by an intruder, at the mansion she shares with her husband
Alex and his two young children, Jenni and Benjamin. This leaves
Terri and Brianna stuck with truffles, caviar, pate, and other
expensive gourmet foods that they find out later, Logan had never
intended to use in the first place. When the F.B.I. shows up at
Terri's door, they call Brianna's brilliant lawyer, Nick Guerrero,
who coincidentaly, is also Alex Buckley's lawyer. After Alex is
arrested for Logan's murder, the two young children are turned over
to Terri and Brianna's care. With trying to get ready for the Super
Bowl, taking care of the children and nursing a terrible cold, and
trying to figure out what her 'sort of' boyfriend, Captain Rico
Mathews is up to, Terri is at her wits end. So, when Alex summons
her to the prison, where he is currently being housed and asks her
to help him solve the crime
Includes bibliographical references (p.[435]-441) and index.
Terri, Angie, Brianna, and Terri's mother, Emily, are in Door
County, Wisconsin for a long-awaited vacation and the wedding of
Terri's beloved cousin, Courtney Robertson. Their two weeks of rest
and relaxation have barely started however when, while visiting the
Cana Island Lighthouse, Terri hears and sees, a violent argument
between two men. One of the men looks frighteningly familier and
the other quickly turns out to be right under Terri's nose. Despite
Angie's determination, 'not to get involved', they are both forced
to investigate, or face a situation that could ruin the upcoming
wedding and tear the Robertson family apart. Terri has also
commited herself to plan and prepare, an elaborate rehearsal dinner
for twelve guests. The champagne flows and all goes well but in the
back of her mind, Terri is forming a plan to find out just exactly
what's going on in beautiful Door County and hope their vacation
and the wedding can go off without a hitch and without a body
count!
What is it like to experience disability? What are the prevailing
cultural attitudes toward those who experience disability? How do
social norms and public policies affect those experiencing
disability? This book provides a vivid and concrete introduction to
the wealth of social, political and ethical debates that surround
the experience of disability. Beginning with an exploration of the
perspective of persons with disabilities, the essays demonstrate
the extent to which the disability experience is affected by social
and cultural values, attitudes, and policies. In addition to these
first-person reflections, there are essays relating to such issues
as: -The disability rights movement -Disability studies -Social
policy relating to disability Physician-assisted suicide, genetic
testing, selective abortion, the moral status of handicapped
newborns, and living and dying with dignity Written in an engaging
style with a focus on the concrete, this collection of essays
includes contributions by John Hockenberry, Oiver Sacks, Peter
Singer, and others. It is a marvelous resource for enabling the
reader to comprehend the experience of disability and to explore
contemporary issues involving the disability community.
In this volume, the problems of pattern formation in physics,
chemistry and other related fields in complex and nonlinear
dissipative systems are studied. Main subjects discussed are
formation mechanisms, properties, statistics, characterization and
dynamics of periodic and nonperiodic patterns in the
electrohydrodynamics in liquid crystals, Rayleigh-Benard
convection, crystallization, viscous fingering and
Belouzov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction. Recent developments in
topological and defect-mediated chaos, chaos in systems with large
degrees of freedom and turbulence-turbulence transitions are also
discussed.
This work provides a phenomenological account of the experience
of illness and the manner in which meaning is constituted by the
patient and the physician. The author provides a detailed account
of the way in which illness and body are apprehended differently by
doctor and patient. This title has been awarded the first Edwin
Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology.
As the fields of philosophy of medicine and bioethics have
developed in the United States, the philosophical perspective of
phenomenology has been largely ignored. Yet, the central conviction
that informs this volume is that phenomenology provides
extraordinary insights into many of the issues that are directly
addressed within the world of medicine. Such issues include: the
nature of medicine itself; the distinction between immediate
experience and scientific conceptualization; the nature of the body
- and the implications of embodiment in the realm of clinical
practice; the meaning of health, illness and disease; the problem
of intersubjectivity - particularly with respect to achieving
successful communication with another; the complexity of
decision-making in the clinical context (and in the realm of
medical ethics); the possibility of empathic understanding; the
theory and method of clinical practice; and the essential
characteristics of the therapeutic relationship - i.e. the
relationship between the sick person and the one who professes to
help. Some of the authors who have contributed to this volume are
philosophers, some are engaged in other academic disciplines, and
several are practicing healthcare professionals.
If you are searching for ideas to teach social studies in fun and
meaningful ways, 50 Ways to Teach Social Studies is a book that
provides a plethora of ideas of practical lessons connected to
real-world topics that will save the busy teacher time and effort.
The activities in this book are housed under themes and include
content connections (civics, history, geography, economics),
guiding questions, and literacy connections. From community,
primary sources, and music to food, visual media, and experiential
learning, this book will inspire you to make connections in your
own environment to expand the teaching of social studies.
An in-depth look at strategies and techniques of five of the
country's best money managers
In Five Key Lessons from Top Money Managers, Scott Kays taps
into the investment knowledge of five of the nation's foremost
money managers-Bill Nygren, Andy Stephens, Christopher Davis, Bill
Fries, and John Calamos. Through extensive interviews with these
investment experts, Kays found five principles that are common to
all of them. This book discusses each of these five principles in
detail-and gives readers specific tools to implement what they've
learned by developing a step-by-step process that incorporates all
five principles. Kays even teaches readers how to screen for
companies that meet the criteria for quality businesses and then
analyze three of the qualifying firms to determine if they sell
above or below their fair market value.
This book provides teachers with 50 dynamic activities to teach
science, through music, food, games, literature, community,
environment, and everyday objects. The authors share tried and
tested ideas from their collective 75 years of teaching
experiences. For the busy teacher with little time to plan lessons,
resources are provided that include guided worksheets for
activities, pre, post and during ideas to accompany activities, and
vocabulary and literature connections. With this book in hand,
teachers can create opportunities for students to see science in
application, and to think logically as they ask questions, test
ideas, and solve problems.
Children need the chance to explore and understand where they live
and all the places surrounding them to make sense of their world.
Through geography, children can feel a connection with people they
have never met and places they have never been. Through these
connections, children can be inspired to care about their place and
their communities. This book includes chapters explaining the
concepts of location, perspective, scale, orientation, map symbols
and map keys, and the five themes of geography. In addition,
chapters are included on various types of maps and the use of
technology to teach map skills. There are suggestions for 100
activities to teach the concepts, assessment questions, and
annotated children's literature that relate to the concepts. The
book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map
skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms.
As the fields of philosophy of medicine and bioethics have
developed in the United States, the philosophical perspective of
phenomenology has been largely ignored. Yet, the central conviction
that informs this volume is that phenomenology provides
extraordinary insights into many of the issues that are directly
addressed within the world of medicine. Such issues include: the
nature of medicine itself; the distinction between immediate
experience and scientific conceptualization; the nature of the body
- and the implications of embodiment in the realm of clinical
practice; the meaning of health, illness and disease; the problem
of intersubjectivity - particularly with respect to achieving
successful communication with another; the complexity of
decision-making in the clinical context (and in the realm of
medical ethics); the possibility of empathic understanding; the
theory and method of clinical practice; and the essential
characteristics of the therapeutic relationship - i.e. the
relationship between the sick person and the one who professes to
help. Some of the authors who have contributed to this volume are
philosophers, some are engaged in other academic disciplines, and
several are practicing healthcare professionals.
This work provides a phenomenological account of the experience
of illness and the manner in which meaning is constituted by the
patient and the physician. The author provides a detailed account
of the way in which illness and body are apprehended differently by
doctor and patient. This title has been awarded the first Edwin
Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology.
The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law explores the
relationship between law and revolution. Revolt-armed or not-is
often viewed as the overthrow of legitimate rulers. Historical
experience, however, shows that revolutions are frequently
accompanied by the invocation rather than the repudiation of law.
No example is clearer than that of the Glorious Revolution of
1688-89. At that time the unpopular but lawful Catholic king, James
II, lost his throne and was replaced by his Protestant son-in-law
and daughter, William of Orange and Mary, with James's attempt to
recapture the throne thwarted at the Battle of the Boyne in
Ireland. The revolutionaries had to negotiate two contradictory but
intensely held convictions. The first was that the essential role
of law in defining and regulating the activity of the state must be
maintained. The second was that constitutional arrangements to
limit the unilateral authority of the monarch and preserve an
indispensable role for the houses of parliament in public
decision-making had to be established. In the circumstances of
1688-89, the revolutionaries could not be faithful to the second
without betraying the first. Their attempts to reconcile these
conflicting objectives involved the frequent employment of legal
rhetoric to justify their actions. In so doing, they necessarily
used the word "law" in different ways. It could denote the specific
rules of positive law; it could simply express devotion to the
large political and social values that underlay the legal system;
or it could do something in between. In 1688-89 it meant all those
things to different participants at different times. This study
adds a new dimension to the literature of the Glorious Revolution
by describing, analyzing and elaborating this central paradox: the
revolutionaries tried to break the rules of the constitution and,
at the same time, be true to them.
The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both
created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by
a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and
simultaneously an object for others to observe and evaluate. Bodily
practices, woven within a dense web of social relationships, are
then both individual and collective- the individual body expresses
cultural values, rules, and regulations in the daily routine of
living. The American Body in Context: An Anthology is an
interdisciplinary investigation of these body relationships,
examining the American historical and contemporary constructions of
the body. Through readings and exercises, this new book allows
readers to explore interrelationships between the individualized
and the constructed nature of embodied experiences. This
comprehensive text draws together a wide variety of analyses and
demonstrates the interdependence between the individual and the
structural (re)productions of embodied experiences in the U.S. This
is an excellent text for courses in American studies, American
society, cultural and social anthropology, and gender studies.
The third edition of European Human Rights Law: Text and Materials
has been substantially expanded to provide a complete review of the
wide range of rights the Convention protects, with new chapters on
the right to life, property, discrimination, religious freedom, and
education. The book introduces both the process and the substance
of this increasingly important area of European law.
A broad selection of extracts from essential cases and materials
is accompanied by stimulating commentary that guides the reader
through the legal rules and court system that have evolved in
Strasbourg, how the court works, and how European human rights law
is enforced both at the national and international level. European
human rights law is also placed into a useful comparative framework
alongside human rights cases decided by courts in the United
States, Canada, and elsewhere.
This third edition has been extensively updated to cover the major
developments of recent years, including the reform of the European
Court of Human Rights and the expansion of the system to central
and eastern Europe.
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