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Ever feel like your life is an audition you never signed up for? Imagine growing up in a household where vacuuming was a competitive sport, dishwashing felt like Hell’s Kitchen: Hygiene Edition, drawer-opening techniques that could seemingly rival a Buckingham Palace heist… and coughing? That is practically treason. Packed with dry wit and painfully relatable moments, this hilarious memoir explores what it’s like to grow up under the reign of a matriarch who holds everyone to impossible standards—except herself. Spoiler: even robots would struggle to pass her test.

This practice-focussed resource shows dementia care professionals how to harness resilience in their daily practice when working with people living with dementia. Nurturing and developing resilience can hugely improve quality of life for people living with dementia, and as such it is an important tool for practitioners to provide targeted, meaningful support that fits into the lives of people with dementia and care partners. This book guides readers through the key concepts of resilience within the context of dementia and explains the unique challenges and opportunities of developing resilience in this situation. It also provides real-world examples of resilience in dementia assessment and care and suggests clear frameworks for applying resilience in daily practice, as well as template assessment sheets. A practical and accessible resource, this book helps professionals ensure that people with dementia are treated as individuals actively engaged in their own lives and in the care which they receive.

Albert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through the tragedy at sea. Their lucky rescue aboard the Lifeboat 13 is told for the first time here. But the trip was only one part of a bigger nightmare. The Caldwells has been Presbyterian missionaries in Bangkok, Siam, but fled in what they described as a desperate journey around the world to save Sylvia’s health. Fellow missionaries, however, believed that the couple had plotted to renege on their contract at financial loss to the church. Not even sinking Titanic ended the hunt for the Caldwells. A Rare Titanic Family follows all the true-life plot twists of a family who successfully fled aboard the Titanic but never could get out from under the shadow the ship cast over them.

Defining Women explores the social and cultural construction of gender and the meanings of woman, women, and femininity as they were negotiated in the pioneering television series Cagney and Lacey, starring two women as

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which a book will burn. Montag is a fireman who works for a fire brigade whose purpose is not to put out fires but to burn books. The penalty for any fireman who tries to read or hide a book is death by the fangs of a mechanical blood-hound. Montag has begun to doubt the wisdom of the all-powerful system.

Offers over 100 demonstrations guaranteed to make chemistry more understandable and more fun for students. Provides easy-to-prepare, practical, and economical demonstrations that visually introduce many of the major concepts in chemistry. Supplements any chemistry text, lab book, or classroom situation. Includes a simple format for easy reference, teaching tips and full explanations for each demonstration, and notes and questions for classroom use. Helps to stimulate student interest and develop reasoning skills. Serves as a vital asset to everyone teaching or demonstrating general chemistry principles -- Publisher's description.