New Releases by E. Hale

With the hope that more mothers and babies may experience orgasmic births as its engine, Birthing Orgasms, Time, & Money is a train of thoughts that winds on a long and crooked trip of sickness and health, and includes the energy resourcing, courage, and determination it takes for me to stay vibrant and live my life fully. I started this for my children, but perhaps these findings, which dig out my pain and help me to heal, will be serendipitously helpful and healing to you as well.

This book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising authoritarianism, or revolution. Where the rule of law is weak and corruption pervasive, what may appear to be democratic or authoritarian breakthroughs are often just regular, predictable phases in longer-term cyclic dynamics - patronal politics. This is shown through in-depth narratives of the post-1991 political history of all post-Soviet polities that are not in the European Union. This book also includes chapters on czarist and Soviet history and on global patterns.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1876 Edition.

The Geek''s Guide to the Strange & Unusual is meant for those who have a sense of adventure and are looking for answers to some of the greatest mysteries confronting mankind. This book, which explores many of the most intriguing paranormal cases and haunted locations around the world, is written to inform and entertain you. Cases and sites examined within the book include the Demon Drummer of Tedworth, Lucedio Abbey, the Dagg Poltergeist, the Ontario Terror, three cases of possession, LaLaurie Mansion, Goldfield Hotel, and Bachelor''s Grove Cemetery, among many other cases and locations.

How do politicians, diplomats, and interest groups negotiate thetangled web of Canada-US relations? So Near Yet So Farprovides in-depth look at the multiple dimensions of this complexrelationship, especially in the period since 9/11. It bridges thetraditional gap between academic perspectives and those of diplomatic,policy, and government relations professionals to explore both thesimilarities and very significant differences between the two countriespolitical systems and why both matter to anyone trying to understand orinfluence policy outcomes in both countries. Based on almost 200 interviews with current and former governmentpolicy makers, opinion-shapers, and interest group leaders in bothcountries, the book analyzes the motives and mechanics of managingcross-border relations at several levels, includingpolitical-strategic, trade-commercial, cultural-psychological, andinstitutional-procedural. A concluding chapter assesses theimplications of current policy trends for Canada''s foreign andinternational economic policies. So Near Yet So Far will be of interest and value topractitioners, scholars, and citizens of both countries who want abetter understanding of how the Canada-US relationship works- and can be made to work more effectively. Balanced and fair inits analysis, it gets to the core issues without distortingperspectives on either side of the border. Geoffrey Hale is a professor of political science atthe University of Lethbridge.

These poems cover many areas of daily questions, activities, and traditions. The contents move to cause one to see the positive in negative situations. To think about what may happen after death. To question some of the traditions pertaining to religious activities and even social concerns. The words can be very valuable for the one who likes to find themselves meditating on the positive. Words that focus on the belief there is a higher power that man should acknowledge. And words that focus on man''s daily strife''s. It is a must read for an uplifting experience found in words formed to tell a story, share a feeling ,or to simply question a tradition.

Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is ethnicity? The result is a radical scholarly divide generating contradictory recommendations for solving ethnic conflict. Research into how the human brain actually works demands a revision of existing schools of thought. Hale argues ethnic identity is a cognitive uncertainty-reduction device with special capacity to exacerbate, but not cause, collective action problems. This produces a new general theory of ethnic conflict that can improve both understanding and practice. A deep study of separatism in the USSR and CIS demonstrates the theory''s potential, mobilizing evidence from elite interviews, three local languages, and mass surveys. The outcome significantly reinterprets nationalism''s role in CIS relations and the USSR''s breakup, which turns out to have been a far more contingent event than commonly recognized.

Russia poses a major puzzle for theorists of party development. Whereas virtually every classic work takes political parties to be inevitable and essential to democracy, Russia has been dominated by non-partisan politicians ever since communism collapsed. This book mobilizes public opinion surveys, interviews with leading Russian politicians, careful tracking of multiple campaigns, and analysis of national and regional voting patterns to show why Russia stands out. Russia''s historically influenced combination of federalism and super-presidentialism, coupled with a post-communist redistribution of resources to regional political machines and oligarchic financial-industrial groups, produced and sustained powerful party-substitutes that have largely squeezed Russia''s real parties out, damaging Russia''s democratic development.

In Learning While Black Janice Hale argues that educators must look beyond the cliches of urban poverty and teacher training to explain the failures of public education with regard to black students. Why, Hale asks simply, are black students not being educated as well as white students? Hale goes beyond finger pointing to search for solutions. Closing the achievement gap of African American children, she writes, does not involve better teacher training or more parental involvement. The solution lies in the classroom, in the nature of the interaction between the teacher and the child. And the key, she argues, is the instructional vision and leadership provided by principals. To meet the needs of diverse learners, the school must become the heart and soul of a broad effort, the coordinator of tutoring and support services provided by churches, service clubs, fraternal organizations, parents, and concerned citizens. Calling for the creation of the "beloved community" envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hale outlines strategies for redefining the school as the Family, and the broader community as the Village, in which each child is too precious to be left behind. "In this book, I am calling for the school to improve traditional instructional practices and create culturally salient instruction that connects African American children to academic achievement. The instruction should be so delightful that the children love coming to school and find learning to be fun and exciting."—Janice Hale

"For too long parents, educators, and administrators have allowed the sparks of learning in African American children to be covered by excuses, denials, and side-steps. To reverse these patterns of academic failure among urban Black youth, Janice Hale makes it clear we must first unbank the fire." -- V. P. Franklin, Drexel University

Robert Hansen was a model middle-class husband, father, and avid hunter. But Hansen had an insatiable hunger for sex and slaying, and Anchorage became his ideal hunting ground. This is the shocking story of the man who kidnapped, raped, and butchered up to 30 women and the trail of blood that led to his capture. Photographs.

A close look at the mute browns and grays of rocks and trees around us is often rewarded by the striking orange and yellow hues of lichens. This convenient guide, the first ever on California lichens, describes the appearance, habitats, and ranges of over 350 species.