Author: Kien Nguyen
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: childhood, memoir, unwanted
Number of Pages: 343
Published: 2002-04-08
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316284610
ISBN-13: 9780316284615

Kien Nguyen grew up an outsider in his native land. His once prosperous family, thrust into poverty at the dawn of a new political regime, lived among neighbors who treated them as an unwelcome remnant of the colonialist past. Kien himself, a child of mixed race (his father was American), was among the most unwanted. Told with a stark, poetic brilliance, Kien’s account of his early years-from the fall of Saigon, when at age eight he watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him and his family, to his eventual escape-is a work of profound emotional resonance, at once harrowin

Author: Austin Kutscher
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: inheritance, unwanted, disease, genetic
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 1989-11-08
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0866569537
ISBN-13: 9780866569538

Our knowlege of genetics has increased enormously in the last 30 years. The impact of genetics knowledge and technology has become more extensive as the ability to diagnose prenatal conditions expands to include previously undetectable conditions. In the past, genetic counseling meant looking up risk figures and helping people understand their statistical riskes of having an affected infant. Now there are specific methods, not based on statistics alone, to advice parents that their unborn child is not only at risk, but will actually have a particular disease.Here is a comprehensive new book on

Author: Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: chinese, daughter, unwanted, memoir, leaves, falling
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1999-04-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0767903579
ISBN-13: 9780767903578

Author: Patrick T. Murphy
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: children, unwanted, america, plight, wasted
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1997-12-19
List price: $15.90
ISBN-10: 1566633338
ISBN-13: 9781566633338

How a system designed to help children is instead helping to destroy them. Mr. Murphy charges that the child welfare bureaucracy is stuck in hundred-year-old realities and the politics of the 1960s and 1970s.

Author: Hector Correa
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: international, perspective, policy, public, pregnancies, unwanted
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 1994-03
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 1560721367
ISBN-13: 9781560721369

Author: Patrick Garry
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: censor, unwanted, speech, right, amendment, lost, freedom, first, rediscovering
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 2009-12-31
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 141280860X
ISBN-13: 9781412808606

Since ratifi cation of the First Amendment in the late eighteenth century, there has been a sea of change in American life. When the amendment was ratifi ed, individuals were almost completely free of unwanted speech; but today they are besieged by it. Indeed, the First Amendment has, for all practical purposes, been commandeered by the media to justify intrusions of off ensive speech into private life.

Author: Barbara Franz
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: states, degolyer, library, series, united, austria, unwanted, bosnian, refugees, uprooted
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2005-02-16
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 158544412X
ISBN-13: 9781585444120