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This book studies the role of civil society organisations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia. It looks at how Russia s HIV/AIDS epidemic has developed into a serious social, economic and political problem, and how according to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Russia is currently facing the biggest HIV/AIDS epidemic in all of Europe with an estimated number of 980,000 people living with HIV in 2009. The book investigates civil society organisations contribution to social change and civil society development in post-Soviet Russia, and thus situates a specific type of...

Around 1800 there is a new symbolisation and narration of 'internal spaces', spiritual and psychic processes, states or relationships which do not lend themselves to direct observation. This volume focuses on the narrated 'real' spaces of Romanticism; it deals with the cultural encoding of houses and rooms, castles and towers, but also of open spaces - the vastness of the sea, riverscapes and distant lands. The analyses are to be understood as a contribution within the currently proclaimed spatial or topographical turn to a new dimensioning of a complex of central importance for both...

-A charming, must-read mystery with enchanting characters. A fun and entertaining page turner.--Rose Pressey, USA Today bestselling author

-Spellbinding, with magical prose, a wizardly plot, and a charming sleuth.- -Janet Bolin, Agatha-nominated author of the national bestselling Threadville Mysteries

What's in a murderer's bag of tricks?

Twenty-something Kailyn Wilde has learned to embrace her unpredictable life as a...

Mason, like many other kids, is afraid of bees. Find out how a simple encounter with a mason bee changes Mason's life; Mason conquers his fear of bees and is empowered to be like a superhero to help protect the bees. This story teaches timely and important lessons about the native bees, habitat, pesticide use and native plants--heavy topics in a light and fun way. There are definitely big concepts and big words introduced in this little book. That's exactly what makes the book work so well for a wide audience. Even though the book looks and reads like a picture book for early elementary...

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Karen Pape tells the story of how some children with early brain damage astounded everyone around them. The brain injury they suffered at or near birth had led to motor problems such as the awkward gait we associate with cerebral palsy. Yet they were able to run, kick a soccer ball, tap dance, and play tennis. This was not supposed to happen. It ran counter to the prevailing belief that the brain is hardwired and fixed. When Dr. Pape first shared her remarkable findings, she ran into fierce opposition from mainstream medicine. Yet this courageous...