Jess ha quattordici anni e il mondo sta per finire. Il padre, fervido credente, ha deciso di lasciare Montgomery, Alabama, e portare la famiglia a ovest, destinazione California, con la speranza di assistere alla Seconda Venuta e nel tragitto convertire quante più anime possibile. In compagnia di una madre rassegnata e una sorella adolescente (ribelle e segretamente incinta), Jess si confronta con i non credenti che incontra lungo la via, nei fast food, in diner polverosi dove il tempo sembra essersi fermato, in stazioni di servizio semideserte, in squallidi motel, sviluppando di riflesso una comprensione sempre maggiore di se stessa. Via via che si avvicina il Giorno del Giudizio, però, Jess scopre di non temerlo quanto pensava: la gravidanza segreta della sorella e il rapporto sempre meno saldo che lega i genitori incombono all'orizzonte con un'aria molto più minacciosa. In questo debutto dai toni taglienti, le ansie adolescenziali e l'ardore evangelico seguono Jess nel suo pellegrinaggio attraverso un'America che sembra essere solo deserto, asfalto e cielo senza fine.

'Novelist and essayist Brian Doyle describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape in this collection of short vignettes. The book gathers previously unpublished work along with selections that have been published in Orion, The Sun, and The American Scholar, among others'--

Jess is fifteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical fatherhas packed up the family to drive west to California, hoping to save as manysouls as possible before the Second Coming. With her long-suffering mother andrebellious (and secretly pregnant) sister, Jess hands out tracts to nonbelievers at everyrest stop, Waffle House, and gas station along the way. As Jess’s belief frays, her teenagemyopia evolves into awareness about her fracturing family. Selected as a Barnes& Noble Discover pick and an Indie Next pick, Mary Miller’s radiant debut novelreinvigorates the literary road-trip story with wry vulnerability and savage charm.

Jim Wayne Miller (1936--1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly to promote regional voices by presenting the work of others as often as he did his own. An innovative poet, essayist, and short story writer, Miller was one of the founding fathers and animating spirits of the Appalachian renaissance.

In Every Leaf a Mirror, Morris Allen Grubbs and Mary Ellen Miller have gathered essential selections from the beloved author's oeuvre. Highlights from the volume include touchstone poems; seminal articles; a rare autobiographical essay; a commencement address; and an excerpt from the previously unpublished short story 'Truth and Fiction.' Revealing the scope and significance of Miller's contributions as an artist and cultural scholar, this reader captures the excitement that surrounded the birth of modern Appalachian literature.

With commentary by Mary Ellen Miller, an introduction from well-known author Robert Morgan, and an afterword by the notable Silas House, Every Leaf a Mirror provides an unprecedentedly intimate look at Miller's writing. This long overdue collection not only celebrates the life of this revered ambassador of Appalachian literature and culture but also introduces a new generation of readers to his work.

This is the first comprehensive resource for clinical medical-surgical nursing instructors responsible for guiding students through their entire clinical rotation. Filling a huge gap in resources for instructors required to teach the medical-surgical nursing course, it contains everything the new or adjunct instructor needs to teach expertly and confidently. The guide features a week-by-week instructional plan for the clinical rotation and includes all materials necessary to effectively perform administrative leadership and supervision, assess students' knowledge and learning styles, maximize the learning process, simplify evaluation, and help ensure a smooth transition to clinical practice.

The guide will serve as a welcome companion to both experienced and novice medical-nursing instructors with its week-by-week instruction guide that encompasses organizational teaching templates, teaching and learning resources, and evaluation materials. These include everything from the Adjunct Faculty Contract to the Course Syllabus to a Comprehensive Skills Checklist. Key clinical instruction materials, including PowerPoints, videos, and simulation scenarios are provided for each body system. Additionally the book contains quizzes with answers, discussion questions, and interactive student activities and exercises.

Key Features:

• Comprises the first complete resource for successfully guiding students through their clinical rotations from start to finish
• Helps to allay the 'fear factor' for new and adjunct clinical nursing instructors
• Provides a week-by-week instructional guide that includes organizational teaching templates, teaching and learning resources, and evaluation aids
• Includes numerous forms and templates to facilitate administrative responsibilities, student assessment, and student evaluation
• Key clinical information is organized by body system and includes multiple interactive teaching tools

Rewritten and updated to include the discoveries and new theories from the past decade and a half, this classic guide to the art of the ancient Maya is now illustrated in color throughout. World expert Mary Miller and her co-author Megan O’Neil take the reader through the visual world of the Maya, explaining how and why they created the paintings, sculpture, and monuments that intrigue and compel people the world over. With an array of new material, including the newly found La Corona panels, Waka’ figurines, and the Dz’ibanche’ staircase; studies of the monuments at Palenque, Zotz, and elsewhere; and paintings discovered in recent years; this new edition will be essential reading for students and scholars—and for travelers to the cities of this mysterious civilization.

With The Last Days of California, Mary Miller bursts into the literary world, taking up the mantle of Southern fiction and rendering it her own with wry vulnerability and contemporary urgency. Miller’s revelatory protagonist, Jess, is fourteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family and left their Montgomery home to drive west to California, hoping to save as many souls as possible before the Second Coming. With her long-suffering mother and rebellious (and secretly pregnant) sister, Jess hands out tracts to nonbelievers at every rest stop, waffle house, and gas station along the way. As Jess’s belief frays, her teenage myopia evolves into awareness about her fracturing family. Using deadpan humor and savage charm belying deep empathy for her characters, Miller’s debut captures the angst, sexual rivalry, and escalating self-doubt of teenage life in America while announcing Miller as a fierce new voice.

Girls ages 0 to 3 will frolic with Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer in this spring-themed board book featuring sparkly glitter on the cover and on every page.

Leap through the looking glass with Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer in the all-new TV event and DVD, Dora's Adventure in Wonderland! Little boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this full-color storybook featuring Dora and Boots's latest adventure.

A collection of four Christmas love stories includes Linda Lael Miller's 'The 24 Days of Christmas,' in which Addie is reunited with her ex-fiancâe in her hometown of Pine Crossing.

Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer celebrates the holidays in this charming Christmas storybook. Featuring pages that glow and over 30 glow-in-the-dark stickers, this festive storybook is the perfect stocking stuffer for girls ages 3–7.

Located within the deep tropical rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico, the Maya site of Bonampak is home to the most complete and magnificent mural program of the ancient Americas. In three rooms, a pageant of rulership opens up, scene by scene, like pages of an ancient Maya book. Painted c. AD 800, the murals of Bonampak reveal a complex and multifaceted view of the ancient Maya at the end of their splendor during the last days of the Classic era. Members of the royal court engage in rituals and perform human sacrifice, dance in extravagant costumes and strip the clothing from fallen captives, acknowledge foreign nobles, and receive abundant tribute. The murals are a powerful and sophisticated reflection on the spectacle of courtly life and the nature of artistic practice, a window onto a world that could not know its doomed future.

This major new study of the paintings of Bonampak incorporates insights from decades of art historical, epigraphic, and technical investigation of the murals, framing questions about artistic conception, facture, narrative, performance, and politics. Lavishly illustrated, this book assembles thorough documentation of the Bonampak mural program, from historical photographs of the paintings—some never before published—to new full-color reconstructions by artist Heather Hurst, recipient of a MacArthur award, and Leonard Ashby. The book also includes a catalog of photographs, infrared images, and line drawings of the murals, as well as images of all the glyphic texts, which are published in their entirety for the first time. Written in an engaging style that invites both specialists and general readers alike, this book will stand as the definitive presentation of the paintings for years to come.

Two magical Nickelodeon Dora the Explorer adventures in one book! Young girls ages 3-7 will love this Deluxe 8x8 Books, based on the popular tentpoles Dora Saves the Enchanted Forest and Dora Saves Crystal Kingdom, that features fairies, elves, a unicorn—plus over 50 stickers.

John E. Freund's Mathematical Statistics with Applications , Eighth Edition, provides a calculus-based introduction to the theory and application of statistics, based on comprehensive coverage that reflects the latest in statistical thinking, the teaching of statistics, and current practices.

Mary Ellen Miller evocatively surveys the artistic achievements of thehigh pre-Columbian civilizations—Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec,Aztec—as well as those of their less-well-known contemporaries. Theirpyramids and palaces, jades and brightly colored paintings emerge fromthese pages as vividly as when they first astonished Cortes's men in 1519.The fifth edition of this standard work incorporates new color imagesand extensive updates based on the latest research and discoveries. Therevisions include a rewritten and extended chapter on Teotihuacan; up-todateanalysis of the links between the Olmecs and the Maya; a discussionof new discoveries at the heart of the Aztec capital that continue toastound students of Mexico; and much more.

Case management is used across a diverse range of organizational settings, from child protection to aged care, disability services, acute and community health, courts and correctional services, employment services,veteran services, education, and immigration programs. However, case management is not always successfully implemented, and practitioners often feel they are not given sufficient support. The Practice of Case Management draws on extensive practice research to identify the key characteristics of successful case management: organizational support, developing delivery models to suit individual client needs, preparation of staff at all levels, and affirmation of the central and active role of the client. The authors outline the challenges and complexities faced by case managers, acknowledging that their role is often poorly conceptualized and articulated. They demonstrate that true engagement enables effective service provision and offer practical strategies for everyone involved in the case management process to facilitate negotiation, accountability, and the achievement of positive outcomes.

Taking a close look at multimodal composing as an essential new literacy in schools, this volume draws from contextualized case studies across educational contexts to provide detailed portraits of teachers and students at work in classrooms. Authors elaborate key issues in transforming classrooms with student multimodal composing, including changes in teachers, teaching, and learning. Six action principles for teaching for embodied learning through multimodal composing are presented and explained.

The rich illustrations of practice encourage both discussion of practical challenges and dilemmas and conceptualization beyond the specific cases. Historically, issues in New Literacy Studies, multimodality, new literacies, and multiliteracies have primarily been addressed theoretically, promoting a shift in educators’ thinking about what constitutes literacy teaching and learning in a world no longer bounded by print text only. Such theory is necessary (and beneficial for re-thinking practices). What Multimodal Composing in Classrooms contributes to this scholarship are the voices of teachers and students talking about changing practices in real classrooms.

This volume of DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS continues the combined forces of classic DC heroes and villains, as they must form an uneasy alliance to combat the threat of Brainiac! As the battle rages on, tension rises not only between Lex Luthor and the DC heroes, but also between members of the Justice League themselves! Written by DC Comics legend Marv Wolfman and GREEN LANTERN CORPS scribe Tony Bedard!

The famous diarist Mary Chesnut recorded the events and her reflections on the Civil War and its leading personalities from within the aristocratic circles of Southern society. Reproduced here, Chesnut's famous diary is accompanied by a collection of painstakingly annotated personal photographs never before published, and some that have never before been seen. This exquisitely produced two-volume work includes Mary Chesnut's diary, which was originally published 40 years after the Civil War, and her personal photo albums. Thought to be lost or stolen since the 1930s, the albums were only just rediscovered in 2007. An astonishing historical treasure, the photographs are annotated with information about each person depicted and edited by Chesnut's family. Photographs range from many of Jefferson Davis and other famous military leaders and statesmen to those within Chesnut's social circle: Gen. Wade Hampton III and his family including the Preston girls- and their suitors Gen. John Bell Hood and battlefield surgeon, Maj. John T. Darby; literary figures, such as writer Alexander Dumas; and many more individuals, including young soldiers of the elite Charleston Light Dragoons, Elizabeth Allston Pringle - the 'woman rice planter' of South Carolina, and Baltimore spy Hetty Cary.

Fiction. THEY COULD NO LONGER CONTAIN THEMSELVES contains—but just barely—five chapbooks of flash fiction, including the winner of the third annual Rose Metal Press short short chapbook contest, and four of the finalists from the fourth. Dropped toddlers, attempted drownings, juvenile promiscuity, road trips, and inappropriate therapy sessions compose the multi-voiced family portrait in Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake by Elizabeth J. Colen. Yoga stalkers, guns and gold, babies with iron stomachs, drunkards with t-shirt cannons, and warlocks are the stuff of Do Not Touch Me Not Now Not Ever by John Jodzio. Dominatrixes and fetishists, face paint and goo, fierce parental love and perverse longings cohabitate in Evan's House and the Other Boys Who Live There by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Leukemia, meteorites, Wal-Mart, bocce ball, Charlie Brown's clinical depression, the language of talking crows and of Che Guevara's omelets fill the eggs in How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace. And smallstories about pretty girls who sit quietly and behave themselves (or not) populate the pages of Paper and Tassels by Mary Miller.

How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the best clues for understanding the French Revolution: namely, in studies of the natural world. In their attempts to portray and explain the events of the Revolution, political figures, playwrights, and journalists often turned to the book of nature: phenomena such as hailstorms and thunderbolts found their way into festivals, plays, and political speeches as descriptors of revolutionary activity. The particular way that revolutionaries deployed these metaphors drew on notions derived from the natural science of the day about regeneration, purgation, and balance.

In examining a series of tropes (earthquakes, lightning, mountains, swamps, and volcanoes) that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. If thunder could restore balance in the atmosphere, and if volcanic eruptions could create more fertile soil, then so too could episodes of violence and disruption in the political realm be portrayed as necessary for forging a new order in revolutionary France.