New Releases by Sarah Adams

There will never be a neutral view on motherhood besides respect. Motherhood is a tricky one- and it''s beautiful. Her story is beautiful. Your story is beautiful. This anthology is the result of one woman''s experience of miscarrying her miracle child, after years of trying to grow a family. Jumping around through events, emotions and reflection, this loving tribute to her unborn child is also a journey of self-love and forgiveness.

Learning to Listen: Listening Pedagogies and Practices in Music and Rhetoric historicizes the attention paid in rhetorical scholarship to listening by examining listening pedagogies and practices in both the situation of classical music in the early twentieth century and throughout the history of rhetorical education. In the cases I examine in the three main chapters of this study, I look to speeches given in concert halls, pieces of music criticism, programs for orchestra concerts, advertisements, theoretical writings, and music education practices. My analysis of these artifacts reveals that multiple listening pedagogies circulated in the early twentieth century and that each listening pedagogy carried with it an attendant sense of how rhetoric works. In three interstitial chapters, I move across the history of rhetorical education, studying the ancient rhetorical education practices of the gymnasium, the elocutionary movement of the late seventeenth through early twentieth centuries, and the contemporary trend toward multimodal composition. These interstitial chapters demonstrate how listening pedagogies have been stitched into rhetoric and compositions disciplinary history, if sometimes implicitly. This study argues that listening matters to how rhetoric is practiced and sensed, that listening practices can be taught, that historical sensory practices can be studied through historical pedagogical materials, and that training in listening should be a significant part of a contemporary rhetorical education.

This book is written for people who want to overcome life''s challenges. It is written as a result of the author''s years of experience, study, prayer and reflection in combatting life''s setbacks. Based on biblical principles each chapter is filled with scriptures and helpful tips to assist the disappointed, unemployed, divorced, bereaved, previously imprisoned or new Christian convert to leave the past behind and ''Move Forward with Christ''.

Mirror, mirror on the wall-who''s the deadliest of them all?I''m Snow White. Damaged goods. A spirit fairy possessed with a demon that feeds on the souls of loved ones, enemies, and strangers alike as I watch helplessly. I can''t control it. My stepmother, the queen, keeps me locked in iron chains. Perhaps it''s what I deserve. But she doesn''t understand that imprisoned souls will do whatever they must to escape. My demon will only be deprived for so long and then... I can''t predict what she''ll do.When Queen Reina attempts to poison Snow White, the young princess flees her castle in the sky and descends to the strange earth kingdom below. She seeks the only person who can remove her demon, but her body is weak, too weak to complete the journey. Reina wants the princess dead, and she''ll do anything in her power to make it so... except dirty her own reputation. She sends her most trusted man, the headless horseman, to bring her Snow''s heart.Desperate for control over the demon, Snow makes a deal with the horseman. Neither realize this deal will change the course of their lives forever.This is the story of Snow White-complete with seven dwarfs, an apple, a huntsman (of a sort), and a prince-like you''ve never heard it. Get lost in the fantasy and the fairy tale of a girl who thinks she doesn''t deserve to live, blossoming into a woman taking control of her destiny.

Do you dream of a home or work office free from clutter and distraction? This book is for anyone wishing to work smarter, not harder, and be more productive in the work place. It starts with decluttering and organizing your office space for improved efficiency. Like your home, keeping your work space organized is a challenge. Papers pile up, files get misplaced, and disarray runs-a-muck. While it''s not always easy to avoid clutter, this book will give you the insight and help to not only achieve a home or work office of yours dreams, but offers ways to help you stay organized for continued productivity. Start decluttering your work space now and reap the benefits of productivity and a serene work space.

Early childhood development (ECD) is a multidimensional process that takes place from conception until age five. These years mark the most important period for an individual''s development. In this period, the building blocks of the brain and nervous system are formed, and critical skills and capacities begin to develop across a number of interrelated domains (Nelson 2000). Despite this ample international evidence, the state of ECD in Qatar has thus far been understudied. Child development outcomes in Qatar are below what is expected given its level of economic development. Gaps in self-regulation skills persist, with a third of children ages three and four being unable to attend to, and focus on, simple tasks without being distracted easily. As a tripartite collaboration between the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) at Qatar Foundation, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education of the State of Qatar and the World Bank, this study begins to fill this gap by providing an overview of the state of ECD in Qatar and setting forward recommendations to strengthen ECD in the country. The report first analyzes ECD outcomes in Qatar, examining how Qatar fares in five ECD domains compared to other countries. Section two builds the evidence base in the Qatari context by testing whether specific ECD programs are associated with improved child outcomes in the country. Section three takes a systemic view, analyzing the policies that govern ECD in Qatar and offers recommendations for their enhancement. Finally, section four concludes with a summary of key policy recommendations and some considerations for their implementation.

Her Faerie Tale is getting awfully grim. Deor Smithfield had it all figured out. She had a great education, a new job teaching at a good university, and a plan to move across the country to start her new life. Then her body betrayed her, and she seemed to be falling prey to the same wasting sickness that killed her mother. When medical science failed her in spectacular fashion, Deor''s grandmother told her that her long-lost father was more than just another deadbeat dad - he was a faerie, and she''s a Changeling, half-human, half-fae. Now Deor has to rush to Faerie in search of her missing father before his magical parting gift kills her. She''s in a new world with no friends, no money, no job, and only a few days to find her disappearing daddy before she''s kicked back out into the mundane world to die. Oh yeah, and somebody''s hunting Changelings in Faerie. Changeling''s Fall is the first volume of the Eisteddfod Chronicles, the stunning debut contemporary high fantasy series from Sarah Joy Adams and Emily Lavin Leverett.

Welcome to the third Anthology of works by members of the Plymouth Writers'' Group. For this year, 2016, we have worked on the theme of ''Sixteen, And All That'' which gives scope for following the theme of Sixteen, or not, as the writer chooses. This Anthology represents a myriad of ideas and perspectives from a diverse and talented group of writers, and reflects the friendly and neutral space that we have created for our meetings with their frank and honest feedback. Since its foundation ten years ago PWG has established itself as a leading writing group in Plymouth and the surrounding area, and it is also recognised as a premier writing group in the South West.

New York City, like other major cities around the world, has acknowledged the problem of climate change, undertaken a comprehensive risk assessment, created a suite of adaptation and mitigation planning initiatives, and begun to implement policies to decrease the city''s contribution to the problem and to make the city less vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This detailed analysis of the city''s climate change resilience initiatives concludes that, although many of the city''s initiatives provide a model for other coastal communities, the initiatives likely still fall short of what is required to sufficiently moderate harm from dangerous interference with the climate system. The city''s robust suite of initiatives put it ahead of the pack as compared to most other U.S. municipalities, especially with respect to comprehensive reform of zoning and building codes, integrated mitigation and adaptation planning, transparent climate change-related data analysis initiatives, and commitment to reduce GHG emissions 80% by 2050 from 2005 levels and progress toward that goal. However, the city also faces a host of wicked policy binds, ineffective regional structures, a lack of support at the federal level, and numerous conditions that constrain its ability to remain resilient. In light of this, the “toughness” theme that runs throughout the city''s plans risks undermining its robust data analysis and reporting initiatives by instilling in New Yorkers a false sense of security with respect to both the scope of the problem and their local government''s ability to protect them from it. The city faces an equally wicked policy bind with respect to waterfront development. Given the foreseeable risks of increasingly intensive and frequent coastal storms, flooding and storm surges, coastal municipalities must carefully evaluate their waterfront development policies to assure consistency with future climate risks and vulnerability and adopt regulations that curtail or eliminate waterfront development in high-risk areas, encourage or require relocation away from vulnerable areas, and take maximum advantage of opportunities to develop natural flood-mitigation infrastructure.

This collection of essays is the initial product of the second meeting of the Environmental Law Collaborative, a group of environmental law scholars that meet to discuss important and timely environmental issues. Here, the group provides an array of perspectives arising from the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Each scholar chose one passage from one of the IPCC''s three Summaries for Policymakers as a jumping-off point for exploring climate change issues and responding directly to the reports. The result is a variety of viewpoints on the future of how law relates to climate change, a result that is the product not only of each scholar''s individual knowledge but also of the group''s robust discussion.

Enter into a world of Fantasy with Merdolf the Wizard as he helps right the wrongs between the Elven Clans as magic returns to the land. Destiny foretold eons ago is to be fulfilled before peace will return. Princess Darcy and her twin Selena will face evil and suffer loss almost beyond bearing, but with the help of Merdolf and new found friends they raise Raven, Selena''s daughter and a destiny unfolds, filled with love, hate, jealousy and war.

Gary the gorilla is the only animal in the jungle who is lonely - all the other animals seem to have companions, and even the people of the village are frightened of him so stay well away. But one day a tiny sunbird thinks he looks so sad that he ventures to talk to him. Soon this unlikely pair are best of friends, so Gary is very upset when one day Ray doesn''t show up as usual. This delightful story of friendships is vividly written and illustrated by an exciting new picture book talent.

Being a dragon is hard when you always scare people away. An endearing story about special abilities and freindship.

Reveals Africa''s contributions to the history of writing and inscription system worldwide