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There is a high probability that either you or someone very close to you will be afflicted with cancer. Will you withdraw, quietly accept your fate, and passively accept protocols of treatment? Or, will you seize the moment, the lessons to be learned, the opportunities which will open, and the purposes that will be plentiful? This book champions the latter response-from the transparent and personal perspective of a patient and caregiver who have endured four diagnoses of cancer, multiple chemotherapy treatments, a stem cell transplant, and are currently enrolled in a clinical trial with 300...

Young people can be born into disadvantage or develop disaffection through a complex series of events. Society must not watch silently as an imposed regime of targets, testing, league tables and inspection force schools to contribute to increasing the deficit or widening the achievement gap. Current policies, caused by an inappropriate market model and micromanagement for political ends, are set to destroy the power of education to provide opportunities for happiness, achievement and success. In times when gloom and misery threaten to engulf many vulnerable individuals, teachers and support...

Beacon Hill, an historic district and one of the oldest neighborhoods in America, welcomed its first resident in the 1620s. In colonial days, the area served as a strategic look-out point; in the early years of the 1800s it quickly developed into a home for the most prominent and fashionable Bostonians. Its attraction was and still is its architectural continuity and integrity. Cynthia Chalmers Bartlett's Beacon Hill chronicles the development of this historic area in the early nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries through a fascinating series of vintage photographs. This exciting compilation...