Quando diversi bambini dello stesso villaggio iniziano a soccombere a una misteriosa malattia, la ricerca per scoprirne la causa ha conseguenze devastanti e straordinarie. È fine giugno a Ballylack. Hannah Adger prevede otto lunghe settimane di tregua da scuola, ma quando il suo compagno di classe Ross soccombe a una malattia violenta e misteriosa, segna l'inizio di un'estate come nessun'altra. Quando gli altri si ammalano, le domande su cosa - o chi - è responsabile gettano il villaggio in un conflitto e in uno spaventoso disordine. Hannah è perseguitata dal senso di colpa mentre rimane in salute, mentre i suoi amici vengono colpiti. Isolata e spaventata, chiede aiuto. Altrove nel villaggio, gli animi ribollono, il panico aumenta e i segreti sepolti da tempo minacciano di emergere.

Jonathan Murray teme che sua figlia, appena nata, potrebbe non essere così innocua come sembra. Sammy Agnew è alle prese con il suo oscuro passato e teme che la violenza nel suo sangue si nasconda anche in quello di suo figlio. La città è in fiamme e le autorità stanno perdendo il controllo. Mentre la frenesia travolge tutto e mentre i confini tra fantasia e verità, giusto e sbagliato, iniziano a confondersi, chi sceglieranno di proteggere questi due padri? Oscura e originale, è una storia di feroce amore familiare e sacrifici.

Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book seeks to fill a gap in empirical studies in deliberative democracy by studying the assembly of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament (ACP), which took place in Canberra on February 6–8, 2009. The ACP addressed the question “How can the Australian political system be strengthened to serve us better?”

The ACP’s Canberra assembly is the first large-scale, face-to-face deliberative project to be completely audio-recorded and transcribed, enabling an unprecedented level of qualitative and quantitative assessment of participants’ actual spoken discourse. Each chapter reports on different research questions for different purposes to benefit different audiences. Combined, they exhibit how diverse modes of research focused on a single event can enhance both theoretical and practical knowledge about deliberative democracy.

Get the best instruction on occupational analysis, group process, and therapeutic media - all from one book! Using a matter-of-fact style to share their experiences, successes, and failures, expert authors Jane Clifford O'Brien and Jean W. Solomon provide you with effective therapeutic media; sample activity analyses useful in current health care contexts; practical guidance in play, leisure, and social participation areas of occupation; strategies for effective group management and processes; and overviews of theories supporting best practice.

• Comprehensive Content covers the material taught in group process and occupational analysis courses thoroughly and completely for the OTA.
• Logically organized content that's written in a matter-of-fact style helps students better understand and retain information.
• Clinical pearls emphasize the practical application of the information for the students.
• Therapeutic Media are tried and true methods pulled from the author's extensive experience.
• Case studies appear at appropriate locations throughout the text to show the students how to apply the content to their work.

Provides information and photographs of the planets, moons, stars, and galaxies, and includes facts about space stations and how astronauts live in space.

During the Revolutionary War, a young boy volunteers for a dangerous mission. Simultaneous.

During the Revolutionary War, a young boy volunteers for a dangerous mission. Simultaneous.

This newly revised edition provides exciting new information and spectacular photographs of planets, moons, stars and galaxies. The International Space Station, the new category of dwarf planets (including Pluto), and how astronauts live in space are just some of the topics covered in this book that is a continuing favorite with adults and children alike!

This newly revised edition provides exciting new information and spectacular photographs of planets, moons, stars and galaxies. The International Space Station, the new category of dwarf planets (including Pluto), and how astronauts live in space are just some of the topics covered in this book that is a continuing favorite with adults and children alike!

Surprises happen when Colleen and her friends go camping in the backyard.

Otis is very upset when his best friend,Taylor, is teased on the playground. Their teacher, through an activity called 'The Magic Circle',introduces a way for all the children in the classroom to appreciate and encourage each other.

Presents an introduction to art for beginning readers.