Janet: 3162 books

How to recognize sexual abuse so you can prevent children from being sexually abused and protect those who have already been sexually abused. Sexual abuse is a social problem as well as a legal problem. The legal system is addressing the problem as evidenced by Meghan's Law which requires sex offenders...

This study provides a unique insight into common experiences and desires to return to important places of our past and to establish places of memory. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest to argue that...

New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...

Human Nature After Darwin is an original investigation of the implications of Darwinism for our understanding of ourselves and our situation. It casts new light on current Darwinian controversies, also providing an introduction to philosophical reasoning and a range of philosophical problems. Janet...

Accident? Or suicide? That’s the question Navy Lieutenant Dinah Gray must answer when a sailor at her Navy command drives a car into San Francisco Bay. In this short story, Dinah discovers people would rather she didn’t make waves, including the formidable captain Dinah calls The...

Backing the wrong horse can be murder. And in this short story, jockey Deakin Kelley is about to be taken for the ride of his life. Deakin’s bewitched. He’s fallen under the spell of a beautiful woman, one with a sleek figure and a sly, come-hither smile.  But witchcraft – and obsessive love – are dangerous.  

“When the neighbors saw rats climbing the curtains . . . they called the cops.” A pack rat – of the human variety – lives in the rundown house, surrounded by the junk he hoards. As the officers discover, there’s more to this short story than the rats at the window and the piles of old newspaper inside. What’s going on is a crime.

Greta and Hank are orphaned and homeless, scrabbling for survival on the cold, rainy streets of San Francisco.  In this short story, a noir take on Hansel and Gretel, the little girl struggles to keep herself and her brother from falling through the cracks in this scary urban landscape, where homeless adults help and also prey on lost children.  

IT'S BEEN 50 YEARS SINCE FERN CHATFIELD DISAPPEARED. WHAT HAPPENED TO HER? DID SHE RUN AWAY? OR WAS SHE ABDUCTED? MAGGIE CONSTABLE WANTS TO KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDS. A warm June evening. A high school graduation party. Fern ends her relationship with her boyfriend Hank. He doesn't...

Dr. George H. Meyers was a father and mentor – a true general in world missions with a large network of business and missionary colleagues all over the world. His work experience in the U.S. and abroad included various aspects of management and executive leadership in commercial companies, educational...

In this book, Janet McIntyre addresses the need for transcultural thinking tools, to not only mend problems in the global environment but also to understand the essential nature of the problems. Thinking tools comprise the analytical concepts which organise, disorganise, pattern and question thoughts...

In the mid-1950s, much Canadian literature was out of print, making it relatively inaccessible to readers, including those studying the subject in schools and universities. When English professor Malcolm Ross approached Toronto publisher Jack McClelland in 1952 to propose a Canadian literary reprint...

This historical novel is the third and final book in American poet and fiction writer Janet Lewis’s Cases of Circumstantial Evidence series, based on legal case studies compiled in the nineteenth century. In The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron, Lewis returns to her beloved France, the setting of The Wife...

Like Einstein’s famous equation, E = mc2 , there exists in the supernatural a corollary; a simple math equation that gives you access to God’s perfect love and infinite power. All you need is faith the size of a single grain of mustard seed (about the size of a grain of rice)! Sounds easy? It...