Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.

Lost Innocents is a follow-up to Beyond Blame: Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited (1993). In their new book, Peter Reder and Sylvia Duncan use the same process of case analysis and apply it to a more representative sample of cases. They describe the theoretical basis and method of the study and its findings, before going on to discuss their practical implications, and their opinions about the case review process itself. Finally, the authors discuss whether child abuse fatalities can be predicted or prevented.

"Cassandra returns, still caught between realities, and she has another mystery on her hands. Eight-year-old Adam Baker is the latest in a string of children to mysteriously vanish, and when the bones of a young child are found, Cassandra is increasingly worried for his safety - and the Preternatural Crime Unit has ordered her to keep away from the case or else. Meanwhile, Aram is facing trial, and only Cassandra can save him. But does she want to? Juggling a boyfriend, college, vampire politics and investigative work is difficult, and it doesn't help that something seems to be wrong with her powers. Can she pull herself together in time to save all those lost in the night? "--back cover.

Where do we go when we die? A fallen angel by the name of Xineus has taken possession of Billy Zhanos body. Transported to hell and back, a personal voyage of self-pity and angst threatens to reveal buried parts of Billy s troubled past. Will love or lust prevail in the end? The fallen angel embarks on a sacred mission to avenge the murder of his one true love. Meanwhile, Billy mourns the death of a girl-child who d become the object his sickening obsession. Every victim, a child. Continuously tormented, Billy is forced to prey upon the innocent, a desperate thirst for young flesh without satiation. In the struggle for sanity and redemption, is there hope for his shattered and broken soul? PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT. Not for the squeamish or easily offended!!!"

This volume on the history of native title in Western Australia includes Aboriginal perspectives on native title, alongside those of oral historians, historians, lawyers and practitioners in the field.

Chiefly covers the post 1978 political scene in Sri Lanka.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, prominent English child rescuers, reconstituted the vulnerable body of the child at risk as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. The book explains how the project contributed to the neglect and abuse disclosed in recent enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home 'care'.