This text introduces readers to the unique culture of military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life. Personal stories from nearly 70 active duty, reservists, veterans, and their families from all branches and ranks of the military bring their experiences to life. A review of the latest research, theories, policies, and programs better prepares readers for understanding and working with military families. Objectives, key terms, tables, figures, summaries, and exercises, including web based exercises, serve as a chapter review. The book concludes with a glossary. Readers learn about diverse careers within which they can make important differences for families.

Engaging vignettes are featured throughout:

Voices from the Frontline offer personal accounts of issues faced by actual program leaders, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, service members, veterans, and their families.

Spotlight on Research highlights the latest studies on dealing with combat related issues.

Best Practices review the optimal strategies used in the field.

Tips from the Frontline offer suggestions from experienced personnel.

Updated throughout including the latest demographic data, the new edition also features:

-New chapter (9) on women service members that addresses the accomplishments and challenges faced by this population including sexual bias and assault, and combat-related psychological disorders.

- New chapter (10) on veterans and families looks at veterans by era (e.g.WW2), each era’s signature issues and how those impact programs and policies, and challenges veterans may face such as employment, education, and mental and physical health issues.

-Two new more comprehensive and cohesive chapters (11 & 12) review military and civilian programs, policies, and organizations that support military and veteran families.

-Additional information on TBI and PTSD, the deployment cycle, stress and resilience, the possible negative effects of military life on families, same-sex couples and their children, and the recent increase in suicides in the military.

-More applied cases and exercises that focus on providing services to military families.

Intended as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on military families or as a supplement for courses on the family, marriage and family, stress and coping, or family systems taught in family science, human development, clinical or counseling psychology, sociology, social work, and nursing, this book also appeals to helping professionals who work with military and veteran families.

Alison, Jake, and their undercover nanny are on the trail of an artist who is threatening the president and planning to destroy national treasures in Washington, D.C.

These days, home stager Caprice De Luca’s calendar is a full house. Her grandmother’s health is failing, her wayward uncle is stirring the pot, and she’s torn between two equally eligible suitors. With so much drama in her personal life, Caprice is grateful to have Ace Richland, a former 80s rock star, ask her to stage his girlfriend’s house. But Alanna Goodwin is a tough customer who balks at Caprice’s ideas and all but commandeers the staging. Caprice almost isn’t surprised when the snappish Southern belle is strangled to death with a tieback from her tacky velvet drapes. But just as she draws back the curtains on the truth, Caprice realizes she may be next on a murderer’s set list…

'The Meaning of Difference is an effort to understand how difference is constructed in contemporary American culture: How do categories of people come to be seen as 'different'? How does being 'different' affect people's lives? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institution, or society?'--

CLOSER THAN YOU THINK - ROSE KAREN - Headline

Between training her new puppy, helping her sister with her baby, and searching for the perfect vintage dress for Kismet's Valentine's Day dance, home-stager Caprice De Luca has a lot on her to-do list. But she's never too busy to do a little staging, and she's looking forward to thawing February's frozen real estate market with her Hearts and Flowers Open House. Her client Louise Downing's romantically decorated home practically staged itself. But when Louise is found murdered, Caprice is forced to turn her attention from sweethearts to suspects. And as the truth comes out in stages, she discovers that Louise had more secrets than a box of chocolate truffles. . .

Praise for Staged to Death

"A fascinating inside look at the art of home-staging--but did I mention it's also an elegantly crafted murder mystery featuring an irresistible sleuth?" --Leslie Meier

Explores Olympic swimming and diving history, discussing key figures and record breakers including MIchael Phelps, Greg Louganis, and Dawn Fraser.

Explores Olympic track and field history, discussing key figures and record breakers, including Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, and Usain Bolt.

Ten-year-old Ali and eight-year-old Jake learn that their new nanny is actually an undercover crime buster in an action-packed and hilarious short novel that stars a Mary Poppins for the twenty first century.

When her pregnant sister Bella, whose marriage is in trouble, arranges to meet up with her former flame, house painter Bob Preston, and he is subsequently murdered, high-end home stager Caprice De Luca investigates.

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Caprice De Luca, asked to spruce up her old high school friend's mansion in order to sell it, instead has to help solve a mystery when her friend's husband is found murdered.

When her son is kidnapped, Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery, with the help of FBI special agent Joseph Carter, must unlock a dreadful secret about her past in order to save his life.

When her son is kidnapped, Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery, with the help of FBI special agent Joseph Carter, must unlock a dreadful secret about her past in order to save his life.

There are 62 million women of childbearing age in the United States, 85% of whom will give birth by age 44. One third of women enter pregnancy with a chronic medical illness and 50% are overweight or obese. Only 55% will have obtained preventive health services in any given year, and 17 million women do not have health insurance. The need for an educated provider community to care for these patients is enormous.Medical Management of the Pregnant Patient fills the need for a practical handbook that addresses the clinical care of pregnant patients. The content is protocol-based and uses algorithms to discuss preconception care, care during pregnancy, labor and delivery and how to link postpartum care with ongoing primary care. A brief overview of physiology, its impact on pregnancy and diagnostic and treatment recommendations are included. Each section covers both diseases that may exist independent of pregnancy and diseases unique to pregnancy. Additionally, symptom-based complaints are incorporated into each section and cross-referenced appropriately.

Jane Eyre has lived a sheltered, callous life. Orphaned at a young age and despised by her remaining family, she is shipped off to Lowood School and can only dream of tenderness and affection. Upon accepting a governess position at Thornfield Hall, a world of passion, desire, and sex explodes before her naive eyes in the form of the brooding, dashing master of the house: Mr. Rochester. After playful attempts to evade Mr. Rochester's advances, Jane finds herself succumbing to his savage, brutal lust and losing herself in the intense heat of her yearning. Jane believes that beneath Mr. Rochester's dark, handsome, and sometimes brutal exterior there must be a heart, and she is desperate to find love in his hungry caresses. But then, she discovers something in the attic . . . and her world is turned upside down forever.

In this cleverly retold classic, sex collides with corsets in a burst of erotic, mash-up fiction, bringing the searing heat of Fifty Shades of Grey to the dark secrets of one of literature's finest novels, Jane Eyre.

When a pro bono client gives her a flash drive before dying in her arms, rookie PI Paige Holden shares the information with State Attorney Grayson Smith since its contents cast doubts on a murder conviction, a shocking discovery that plunges them both into a world of blackmail and murder. Original. 200,000 first printing.