New Releases by Susan Taylor

Progress is a contradictory term, one that inherently means an improvement of luxury and an advancement of technology, yet usually at the expense of a community''s identity, traditions, and history. Though many buildings survived Civil War skirmishes and Northern occupation during Reconstruction, these same structures did not escape the plans of ambitious entrepreneurs and thus disappeared from Wilmingtone(tm)s landscape, only to be replaced, over time, by shopping plazas and nationally recognizable commercial facades. Cape Fear Lost celebrates places that have vanished from presentday Wilmington. In this volume of more than 200 photographs, you will be able to explore the Wilmington of a bygone era, one punctuated by unpaved tree-lined streets and architecturally diverse dwellings. As you thumb through these pages, you will experience firsthand the beauty of many former mansions scattered throughout the downtown area, familiar churches, civic buildings and schools that once dotted the cityscape, the many businesses that utilized the pedestrian, horse-and-wagon, and shipping traffic along Market Street, and the transformation of Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach from humble summer bungalows into major tourist retreats. These varied scenes allow you an extraordinary insight into this coastal communitye(tm)s changing character over the past century and a half.

Nestled between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean, Wilmington, North Carolina, is at the center of the historic Cape Fear region. Incorporated in 1740, Wilmington has been called home by such notables as Woodrow Wilson, David Brinkley, Whistler''s mother, and Frank Capra Jr. Sports fans know Wilmington as the hometown of famed basketball player Michael Jordan. In Along the Cape Fear, local historian and author Susan Taylor Block explores this picturesque region of beautiful nearby beaches and charming eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings. Readers are invited to see why the Wilmington area has attracted everyone from heads of state, to history buffs, to directors of major motion pictures.

Four critically acclaimed novels . . . A master of the Midwestern gothic . . . If you haven''t discovered Susan Taylor Chehak: Welcome to "Rampage. Once again, Chehak has mined her Midwestern roots and produced a highly charged novel where the questions of the present are inextricably bound up with the secrets of the past. In this novel, Chehak sets her story in a small town called Rampage, and as its name implies, it is a place where much violence converges on those whose lives are bound up in its dark history. Madlen Cramer has come back home with her two young children to be reunited with her childhood friend Rafe, the sexy drifter who has abducted a four-year-old girl from an abusive foster family, leaving the parents for dead. During this hot Iowa summer, the past will refuse to stay past as painful truths begin to emerge: about Rafe''s own foster family; about Madlen''s marriage, whose bonds had begun to unravel in the months before her husband''s tragic accident; and about her beautiful self-absorbed mother, whose passions bring about the devastating entanglement of two families in an embrace that cannot be undone until Rafe has gone on the rampage that will destroy everything in sight and leave readers breathless. A master of the Midwestern gothic, Susan Taylor Chehak is that rare writer who brings the closely observed detail to a level of storytelling that has earned her both an Edgar nomination and the praise of critics nationwide. "Rampage is for people who understand, on every level, that you really can''t go home again.

Sexual Radiance is the first book to feature a step-by-step 21-day program that incorporates the latest findings from scientific research with simple techniques derived from tantric yoga in order to open up the lower chakras and increase the flow of sexual energy.Drawing on her background in biochemistry, Dr. Taylor explains how surprisingly simple adjustments to diet can radically enhance metabolism, thus fueling the creation of energy, specifically sexual energy. By following Dr. Taylor''s program of nutrition, exercise, and breathwork in Sexual Radiance, readers can achieve a more profound level of sexual fulfillment and a healthier life.

This invaluable compendium offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributors provide rich, personal and often humerous accounts of shared and unique experiences in the world of academia.

Features 81/2 x 11 reproducible, perforated pages; 96 durable, cut-apart flash cards; a glossary; and an answer key.

Follows the life and work of the feminist who wrote "The Feminine Mystique" and helped found the National Organization for Women.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Thomas Wright who was born ca. 1714 and lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a descendant of Sir John Wright who was born ca. 1500 and was the Lord of Kelvedon Manor in Essex, England. Thomas married Ann Grainger sometime prior to the year 1761. They were the parents of at least one known child. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and elsewhere.

This is an account of a major research project which studies the contribution of foreign language teaching to learners'' perceptions of and attitudes towards the people and way of life whose language they are learning. Teaching and learning in the secondary school were investigated by qualitative and quantitative methods over a 3-year period. The analysis models the many intra- and extra-school influences and sources of information and relationship of language teaching to other factors in learners'' environment. By comparing these cases with an ideal model of language and culture teaching, the book points the way towards modification and improvement of existing practices.

This series describes the lives of extraordinary people who often had the most ordinary beginnings.

Prior to 1985 polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was the most commonly used well casing material for ground water monitoring. In 1985 the EPA published the initial draft of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Ground-Water Monitoring Technical Enforcement Guidance Document. This document stated that ''steel casings deteriorated in corrosive environments; PVC deteriorated in contact with ketones, esters and aromatic hydrocarbons ... '' and recommended that either Teflon or stainless steel 316 be used for constructing wells. The EPA''s concerns were that PvC and the casing materials commonly used for ground water monitoring either altered the ground water samples or did not meet the long-term structural characteristics required of RCRA monitoring wells. While we have found many studies that have examined the effects of well casing materials on ground water sample, little information exists on the long-term stability of casing materials exposed to extreme environmental conditions such as highly salinity or pH, or to either pure of high concentrations of organic of organic solvents. (JES).

A bound volume inscribed "personal Yates Snowden," with the article "Susan Taylor''s work in Africa" published by The State (Columbia, South Carolina) on August 23, 1925. Includes a picture of Susan Taylor (aged 20) and correspondence between Annie Snowden and Susan Taylor. Before becoming a missionary in Monrovia, Liberia, Susan Taylor Watts had worked for Anne and Yates Snowden.