Whether they are psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses or counsellors, clinicians today work with clients with multiple diagnoses that often include substance abuse and other addictive behaviours. While historically addiction research and treatment were based on male models, gender studies were almost exclusively concerned with women. The idea that men too are a gender, and that their addiction patterns and treatment needs must be reexamined in the light of postfeminist and men's movement consciousness as well as the rapid recent growth of scientific knowldge, is only now...

1493: Joanna is one of 2,000 Jewish children torn from their parents on the Lisbon docks and sent as slaves to a pestilential island off the African coast. 1495: Diego Mendoza and his sister Rachel return to Spain in 1495 after two years with Columbus in Hispaniola, heartsick at the destruction of the Taino people. With their friend Hutia, a Taino survivor, they search war-torn Europe and the pirate-infested Mediterranean searching for the family they lost when the Jews were expelled from Spain. Joanna endures abuse and tragedy, determined to survive. In Istanbul, in the heart of the Ottoman...