New Releases by Pam Conrad

With an ever-growing interest in aromatherapy as a means to manage mental health as well as the subsequent safety concerns surrounding the use and methodology of essential oils, this timely, evidence-based book offers practical guidance on how to support women''s mental health through aromatherapy. Comprehensive in its approach, this accessible text presents the history of mental health treatments, general aromatherapy, and specific practical tips and evidence-based aromatherapeutic treatments and management for conditions such as anxiety, depression, and panic disorders which is supplemented with paediatric emotional health support. It also features chapters on grief, pregnancy, postpartum, PMS, and menopause, making it a wide-ranging and holistic compendium of advice and guidance. This new book by Pam Conrad can be read alongside her previous guide Health Aromatherapy: A Clinically Evidence-Based Guide for Nurses, Midwives, Doulas and Therapists or as a stand-alone text and is an essential read for healthcare professionals looking to expand their holistic practice and cater to women''s mental health.

Aromatherapy is increasingly popular among women, yet many clinicians don''t know how to safely and effectively apply aromatherapy techniques. Covering 20 essential oils and drawing from a firm base of clinical evidence, this guidebook helps women''s healthcare professionals equip themselves with new tools to treat women from pregnancy to menopause.

Six stories, one from each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s, about children growing up in Levittown, New York.

The frightened Tub People witness Santa''s visit on Christmas Eve, and even though they do not understand what is happening, they become beautiful ornaments on the Christmas tree.

On the banks of the Wen River, the legend of the Blue Willow is brought radiantly to life as two lovers face the storms that besiege them. Brilliant color illustrations highlight this warm story about undying love.

While Daddy makes spaghetti sauce in the kitchen, Elizabeth, Sophia, and Salvatore clean up the mess in the living room and give it a fantastic appearance.

Students learn how to plan, build, edit, and enhance WordPerfect 8 documents with this visual, step-by-step text. Additionally, it includes coverage of creating tables, formatting pages, inserting graphics and a unit on creating an HTML document.

Zoe, traveling back to the time when her mother was a child, intervenes in the past in order to save the future.

Young Rooster thinks his Gift is making the sun rise, until one morning when the sun rises without him.

"In 1894, Robert Peary''s explorers discovered a car-sized meteorite in Greenland and hauled it off to New York''s [American Museum of Natural History]. An intriguing story if conventionally told, Conrad makes it unforgettable by choosing the meteorite itself to be the narrator. [A] wonderfully fresh, energetic tale [with art that captures] the era''s look and flavor expertly."--SLJ. Best Books of 1995 (SLJ) "A Few Good Books 1995" (Book Links) 1996 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)

During an unseen child''s bath time, the seven members of a wooden toy family ride on the floating soap and compete in swimming races. But after the near loss of the Tub Child down the drain, they are all reunited on a warm bed, where they mountain climb on the ridges formed by soft quilts.

Provides the words different languages use for a variety of animal sounds.

When Doll Face can''t find Sweet Cake for her party, a chair, a tiny tin piano, and a whispering balloon come to life to help her find the finishing touch to her soiree.

After a morning of strawberry-picking with her mother and father, Molly spends her day finding new ways to enjoy her favorite fruit.

When the Tub Child discovers his missing grandfather asleep under the radiator, the whole Tub family rallies to wake him up.

The cabin boy on the Santa Maria keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492.

Written as a diary by Columbus''s cabin boy, presents a personal view of the first trip across the Atlantic and his discovery of America.

A sailor famed for his seamanship and luck is shipwrecked on a tiny island, where his darkest hour gives rise to rescue and a new life.

A collection of photos and stories about photographer Solomon Butcher and turn-of-the-century Nebraska.

"All I want to find is one dinosaur," Daniel was saying. "And I''ll find it right here. Like I do all my fossils." Wandering through the Natural History Museum with her grandchildren, Julia Creath feels the presence of her dead brother, Daniel, she remembers a time when fossil fever hit everyone, old and young -- a time when people would kill for those old bones under the ground. Julia becomes the Nebraska farm girl she once was, as she weaves together the story of the great dinosaur rush -- an adventurous tale of love and treachery, but most of all the story of her own childhood, and of the older brother she loved more than anything. Daniel had a dream that julia shared -- and the she alone would see come true.

The story tells about Heather''s tenth birthday party.

Two Girls, Two Friends-Ghosts in each other''s lives!

Two sixteen-year-old girls from different social classes spend the summer together on a resort island and experience a test of their friendship when family loyalties, romance, and drug dependence interfere.

Written for busy working individuals who have other home and/or outside commitments.

Louisa''s life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.

Fourteen-year-old Robin tries to patch up the broken home of a battered wife and in the proces discovers how deeply she''s been hurt by the divorce of her own parents.

With her mother away on a honeymoon in Europe, fifteen-year-old Darcie spends the summer with her dour uncle and his wife, restaurateurs in a zoo where Darcie begins a search for the father she has never known and develops a crush on a mysterious seal and bird keeper who leads her into a test with death.