If it is your job to notify a family that a death has occurred - or is soon expected - how do you do it right? This book uses examples and guides the reader through this task in a variety of situations. It is suitable for physicians, nurses, emergency personnel, clergy, law enforcement, military, and social workers.

Offers an account of the death of the author's mother. This book features a testimony of the value of hospice care.

ADHD is a childhood epidemic. This book shows how, in several cases, doses of medication can be decreased or eliminated in favour of a regular schedule of exercise, with improvements in the quality of life for the children and their families. It describes the scientific basis for exercise as therapy and how to determine the optimal schedule.

Master Sergeant Isaiah Ross and Lt Patric Gallo don't have much in common, but they share concern about a twice-wounded young soldier who, they suspect, abandoned his unit while under enemy fire. Is it possible that the man, Billy Kern, could still be alive? After 30 years they finally decide they must return to Vietnam to find out what happened.

Most Americans would like to think that our modern-day leaders are more enlightened than the witch-hunting Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But are they? This book finds a resemblance, and hopes that by remembering the past we can avoid repeating it.

What should I do when moss is growing on the north side of a roof? How can I stop the toilet tank from sweating? How can I paint a basement floor and not have the paint peel off? What is the best way to get rid of carpenter ants? Where can I get replacement hardware for my old windows? This handbook discusses such questions.

Offers a collection of cartoons, jokes, funny quotations, humorous last words, and a range of other material.

An encyclopaedia of death-related problems: social, emotional, philosophical, and practical. It is drawn on direct experience.

As the last of the northern cod disappeared from the fishing banks of eastern North America more than just fish faced the threat of extinction. In communities all around the island of Newfoundland, thousands of fishermen and their families suddenly found themselves confronted by a similar threat. This book tells the story of these people.

Blind since childhood, the author was limited in what she could write. Yet after her brother and sister had died, she asked her father for a pencil and began to transcribe messages by automatic handwriting. Between 1913 and 1917 she received scores of letters from Harry and Helen, describing life after death. This book deals with these letters.

Offers an introduction to the herbs of the Earth. This book offers a reference and review. It lists questions at the end of each chapter. It discusses several herbals. It is suitable for those having a serious interest in this subject.

Offers stories of exploration and looks at how these adventures were influenced by weather and man's ignorance of its consequences. This book concludes with the influence of modern civilisation on the climate and its world-altering consequences, and challenges the reader to take action to alter the effects of global warming on future generations.

From the fjords of northern Labrador to the icefields of western Greenland, from the outports of Newfoundland to the tiny fishing villages of Iceland and the Faroe Isles, the author chronicles the experience of two-and-a-half decades of voyaging into some of the most remote destinations on Earth.