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Oil
A Beginner’s Guide
Vaclav Smil
Without oil, there would be no globalization, no
plastic, little transport, and a global political
landscape that few would recognize. It is the lifeblood
of the modern world, and humanity’s dependence
upon it looks set to continue for decades to come. In
this captivating book, the author of the acclaimed Energy:
A Beginner’s Guide, Vaclav Smil, explains all matters
related to the ‘black stuff’, from its discovery in the
earth, right through to the political maelstrom that
surrounds it today.
Author Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor in the
Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba,
Canada. He has written over 10 books on energy and
been a keynote speaker at both the World Economic
Forum and the Global Roundtable on Climate
Change. He is the first non-American to receive the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology
and is a Special Fellow of the Royal Society.
• Co-op available
March • Current Events/Science
192 pages • 5 1 ⁄16 x 7 3 ⁄4 • Carton qty: tbd
5 b&w photos, 5 b&w illustrations
ISBN13: 978-1-85168-571-4
1-85168-571-5 • $14.95 pb. • [ T ]
Labor of the Heart
A Parent’s Guide to the Decisions and
Emotions in Adoption
Kathleen Whitten, Ph.D.
Adoptive parents often experience the double trial
of emotional responses to infertility and to the
process of adoption itself, called “excruciating labor
with no end in sight,” by one adoptive mother.
Would-be adoptive parents cycle through grief, anger,
fear, anxiety, frustration, and guilt—and back again. All
of these emotions cloud decision-making as adoptive
parents are making life-altering decisions: whether to
adopt at all, to adopt an older child or an infant, or to
parent a child with developmental delays.
New empirical research by Whitten and other experts
in the field contradicts many of the myths presented
to parents and written in widely-used adoption
guides. Adoptive parents do not need yet another
book promising a “fast track” to a child or explaining
how to collect documents. Instead, they need Labor of
the Heart to help them through the difficult emotions
and decisions about adoption.
Kathleen Whitten, Ph.D. is a developmental psychologist
and journalist. She taught psychology at the
University of Virginia, served as an evaluator of the
Q.I.C. for Adoption, and she and her husband were
one of the first couples to adopt a child from Vinh
Long in the Mekong Delta.
• Co-op available
• Online promotion on adoption blogs and e-magazines
• Reviews/features in top-100 daily newspapers and
national family and adoption magazines
• National radio tour
March • Parenting/Adoption
224 pages • 6 x 9 • Carton qty: 34
ISBN13: 978-1-59077-133-4
1-59077-133-8 • $16.95 pb. • [ T ]
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