Americans today live with conflicting ideas about day care. We criticize mothers who choose not to stay at home, but we pressure women on welfare to leave their children behind. We recognize the benefits of early childhood education, but do not provide it as a public right until children enter kindergarten. Our children are priceless, but we pay minimum wages to the overwhelmingly female workforce which cares for them. We are not really sure if day care is detrimental or beneficial for children, or if mothers should really be in the workforce. To better understand how we have arrived at these...

The past 45 years have seen the emergence of education for young children as a national issue, spurred by the initiation of the Head Start program in the 1960s, efforts to create a child care system in the 1970s, and the campaign to reform K-12 schooling in the 1980s. Today, the push to make preschool the beginning of public education for all children has gained support in many parts of the country and promises to put early education policy on the national agenda. Yet questions still remain about the best ways to shape policy that will fulfill the promise of preschool.

In The Promise...

This volume fills a gap in the international business literature, offering the perspectives of researchers who are deeply embedded in one key emerging market, India.

A Warlock In Denial: Slade Spencer returns to his hometown after an incident five years ago that changed his life. A warlock in denial, he's subconsciously learned to erase memories from his mind. But his past catches up to him when he reunites with his old flame, Susie Vasilly. A Cursed Woman: Susie never expected to see Slade return, and knows her life is about to change. She has dangerous secrets she can't reveal. She's been cursed. Each night she shapeshifts into Slade's evil Uncle Galen's cat. His Familiar. When secrets are uncovered, Slade has to accept his warlock ways and learn the...

Ruby de Burgh is the first born of the four daughters of Earl Blackpool. They are all named after the stones in the hilt of daggers, bought by their late mother regarding a superstition. Ruby acts more like the son her father always wanted, and nothing like a lady. And she is not pleased to find out her father has promised Lord Sheffield his choice of one of his daughter's hands in marriage. Lord Nyle of Sheffield needs a wife so he can carry on his secret mission for the king. However, after losing three wives in a matter of months, he is sure their deaths were not accidents as it seemed,...

Sapphire de Burgh is one of four sisters named after the gems in daggers bought by their late mother in regards to a superstition. Sapphire has been betrothed to Lord Roe Sexton, a man she's never met. But when she goes to Rye to meet him, she's told he's dead, and she's married off to the vile baron instead. So she sneaks out in disguise each night, not only to get away from her abusive husband, but to find the meaning of true love, stopping at a pub along the way. Lord Roe Sexton returns from war overseas after having been away over a year. Victorious and celebrating their success, he stops...

Amber de Burgh is a novice of the Sisters of St. Ermengild, in training to take her final vows of becoming a nun. But when the doors to the church slam open one night and a wounded man named Lucifer who everyone thinks is the devil enters, her life changes forever. Lucifer, or Lucas as he prefers to be called, has a very tarnished past and a future that fares no better. And when he lays his eyes on the abbey's new novice, he knows he can never let her become a nun. Having been abandoned as a baby on the steps of the church, Lucas will do anything to live a different lifestyle than the nuns...