This book examines the reactions of the friends and family of those who elect to die due to terminal illness. These surviving spouses, partners, relatives, and friends, in addition to coping with the death of a loved one, must also deal with the loved one's decision to die, thus severing the relationship. C. G. Prado examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and beliefs, particularly those related to life, death, and the possibility of an afterlife.
Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism
Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity.
Let's Talk: Sharing Our Thoughts and Feelings During Times of Crisis
describes the ways various crises can affect a person's emotions and behavior, discusses depression and anxiety, and suggests techniques understand, express, and deal with emotional reactions.
It's a very chemical world, and some of it involves explosive results, as some students will be happy to discover in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Chemical Reactions. Bill Nye continues his popular series of science programs that presents scientific concepts in an entertaining way. His methods have won him many awards, and the loyalty of educators, who admire how he can hold the attention of young students. In this episode, Nye explains how everything is made of chemicals, and gives the signs that indicate a chemical reaction is occurring.
