In her first book, The Long Road, Cathy Williams Goforth describes how she set out as a young girl to see the world, never imagining that it would be possible to travel for a lifetime. The richness of her experience was increased when she continued her travels with a family. Not Rio Again! is the story of family life in a variety of countries and cultures, from Indonesia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Irian Jaya, Pakistan and Ecuador, to Jamaica. The product of parents of differing cultures, her children are nowadays known as Third Culture Kids, unique citizens of the world.

Not what he appeared… MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR… When Mercy Hamilton agreed to serve as doctor to the needy people of Ciudad Bravo, she never dreamed that three days later she would wake up to find a sexy, mysterious and wounded stranger holding a knife to her throat! She couldn't refuse to treat him—but she also couldn't help being disturbed by him…. Rio Barrigan was an enigma—an outlaw who served as a rescuer of injured children but nevertheless straddled both sides of the law. He was danger—and desire—incarnate. And he made Mercy afraid that it wasn't just her life that was on the line….

From the skyrocketing AIDS rate in Haiti to the oppressive pollution in industrial China, from the violent street culture of Nigeria to the crippling poverty in Nicaragua, from child trafficking in Thailand to child marriages in India, this jam-packed six-volume set explores all these issues and more in an unprecedented look at the world's children at the dawn of the 21st century. In recent years, while many countries have enjoyed a higher standard of living and improved working conditions, others have been torn apart by war and incapacitated by famine, and are struggling to improve life for their children and their future. Recent concern over the world's children has resulted in a global attempt to define what constitutes an acceptable childhood. New attention has been paid, not only to healthcare and secondary education, but also to the right to play and increased access to technology. The UN's codification of children's rights has done much to expand our understanding of what is needed for healthy growth and development of children and youth. Organized by region, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide is the first globally focused set of this magnitude, offering extensive, up-to-date coverage of these critical issues. Original chapters accessibly synthesize current data on key topics, including education, play and recreation, child labor, family, health, laws and legal status, religious life, abuse and neglect, and growing up in the 21st century.--Provided by publisher.

Reid has assembled writings by an astonishing array of leading authors--Larry McMurtry, Woody Guthrie, and more--to explore the politicization, culture, history, and ecology of the vital river.

The "Rio Oscuro" begins as snowmelt in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and makes its way through wandering but determined tributaries, watering pueblos, pastures, fields, and orchards in the chain of narrow valleys that lead to the Rio Grande. In Cidermaster of Rio Oscuro, one of these orchards is the setting for fourteen seasons of growth and harvest and for one man's meditations on the natural cycles of life and death. Harvey Frauenglass, the current steward of this orchard, walks us through his days of incessant, humbling work as he prunes the trees and floods the orchards, presses cider, hauls boxes to the farmers' market, tends geese and chickens, and repairs gates and joists. "Almost everything on this farm", he writes, "is susceptible to improvement". But as Frauenglass comes to realize, this shamble of property offers, in reality, a kind of salvation.