Bøker av Susan Dodd

A Festschrift in honour of the Reverend Dr. Thomas Curran on the occasion of his 70th birthday from various friends, colleagues, and former students from his work at the University of King's College, Halifax.

Reflecting on Canada's worst sea disaster since World War II, this chronicle captures the 1982 sinking of the oil rig Ocean Ranger, which took the entire crew of 84 men--including the author's brother--down with it. The memory of this tragic event gradually faded into a sad story about a terrible storm, relegated to the "Extreme Weather" section of the news archives. Resurrecting this disaster from the realm of history, this study maps the sociopolitical processes of its aftermath, when power, money, and collective hopes for the future transformed a story of corporate indifference and betrayal of public trust into a "lesson learned" by a heroic industry. This book acts as a navigational resource for other disaster aftermaths--including that of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico--as well as a call for vigilant government regulation of industry in all its forms.

Weather they are on the lookout or on the lam, love is what maps their migration.An eccentric endodontist repairs a patient's freshly broken heart while performing a root canal.A Haitian woman charms snakes into keeping her company in an urban cave as she safeguards her grandchildren's sleep.A shy illustrator subsists through a long Vermont winter on occasional glimpses of a man in a blue pickup truck.Susan Dodd, the acclaimed author of The Mourners' Bench explores the multifarious and otherworldly nature of love's in this shimmering collection of short stories.In settings ranging from a desolate island in winter to a broken-down city bus at rush hour, Dodd shows us love's unlikely -- and often inconvenient -- landings 'in these ten diverse and uncommon stories.

Je nach Diagnosekriterium werden pro Jahr 200 bis 4000 Kinder mit Autismus geboren, die - mehr oder weniger - intensive Betreuung im Alltag benötigen. Die Schulung von Eltern und Betreuern in den praktischen Alltagsroutinen zwischen Zähneputzen und Zubettgehen, insbesondere im Bereich der Kommunikation über gemeinsames Tun, gelingt Susan Dodd in ihrem kompetenten und mit vielen praktischen Hilfsmitteln gespickten Buch auf nachgerade mitreißende Weise. Das Buch wird jedem, der im Umfeld einem autistischen Menschen begegnet, einen Schlüssel liefern, um die kommunikativen Probleme integrativ und wirksam zu lösen - und anhand der Lernhilfen überraschende Erfahrungen mit dem emotionalen Verstehen bis hin zum Lesen im Gesichtsausdruck machen.