In 2002, Colombian senator, anticorruption crusader, and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas. She was their prisoner for more than six years. Until now.Until Death Do Us Part is the deeply personal autobiography of an extraordinary woman who gave up a life of[...]

Thirteen is when a Beaumont's savvy hits--and with one brother who causes hurricanes and another who creates electricity, Mibs Beaumont is eager to see what she gets. But just before the big day, Poppa is in a terrible accident. And now all Mibs wants is a savvy that will save him. In fact, Mib[...]

"Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -"Los Angeles Times"In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist[...]

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The founder and president of PETA explains how to adopt an easy-to-follow lifestyle in which simple choices can avoid inadvertent cruelty to animals, addressing such topics as how to recognize hidden animal ingredients in household products, adopt the right animal companion, utilize a non-lethal app[...]

What are professional doctorates? How do they change professional knowledge and improve practice? This book examines the relationship between advanced study on higher education courses and professional practice. It explores contributions made by research on practice to professional development.[...]

Resources for rehabilitation specialists tend to follow a straight line: injury - disability - limitation - intervention. "The International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions" breaks with this tradition, organized by type of intervention (based on recommendations in the International Cl[...]

This unique volume is the first to examine Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's ideas through the lens of gender. His humanitarian approach to economics has been crucial to the development of several aspects of feminist economics and gender analysis. This book outlines the range and usefulness of his work f[...]

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music.[...]