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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 8896 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Intoxicated Sexual Risk Taking: An Expectancy or Cognitive Impairment Explanation?
Author: Kim Fromme
Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: 60Issue: 1Page: 54(1)

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Tips for great classroom effectiveness
This book is filled with great ideas that every classroom teacher needs to embrace. Administrators should take the concepts and incorporate into teacher objectives as schools establish their "Race to The Top" goals. Students will be the beneficiaries of employment of the concepts spelled out in this powerful book.

Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works
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Using Technology With Classroom Instruction That Works
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This book is an excellent transitional text that links instructional strategies that work (i.e., produce improved student achievement) with practical uses of available technology. Too often, technology is considered a separate subject in K12 education. This book shows how technology supports and enhances sound instructional practices.

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LAW AND CRIMINALITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES:ACADEMIC ESSAYS by Professor Onyoo Elizabeth Kim of Handong University in Korea is an academic feat in legal studies.Trained by America's best medieval canon lawyers and having had extensive medieval law research experience in Europe, Professor Kim delivers a book on the Law of the Middle Ages that is relevant for today's legal, scholarly, and intellectual discussions.This book contains five of Professor Kim's academic essays:"War and Its Justification in the Law of the Middle Ages"; "Understanding "Intent" in Criminal Law via Gratian's Decretum and St. Augustine"; "Medieval Canon Law and Sacramental Theology:The Case of Baptism"; "The Order of the Templars and their Criminalization in the 14th Century AD"; "Understanding the History of Penance through Medieval Canon Law."Professor Onyoo Elizabeth Kim is licensed to practice law in the states of California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.Professor Kim graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 with a B.A. in history and classics and a M.A. in medieval history.Professor Kim received her J.D. degree from the UCLA School of Law in 2007.Since then Professor Kim has researched extensively on medieval law and its comparative and causative worth for modern law at UCLA, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Cologne Law School in Germany. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 6515 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Exposure to environmental ozone alters semen quality.(Research)
Author: Rebecca Z. Sokol
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
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Volume: 114Issue: 3Page: 360(6)

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The Psalm of Protection, a Spirit inspired illustration of psalm 91 is the unexpected birth of several visions the author had after reading psalm 91:God's shield of protection by Peggy Joyce Ruth. Kim Elizabeth Bitzer couldn't get the images out of her head so she put them to paper. With the combination of pencil sketching and watercolor, God gave Kim a unique style expressed here in each illustrated verse. As each panting was completed, a sense of comfort, peace and encouragement came over her. Kim's hope is that you receive your own sense of comfort, peace and encouragement wiht a greater understanding of God's promies in Psalm 91. This book is great for all ages. This book invites us to support our troops through prayer. ... Read more

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What if the person you have fallen madly, firmly in love with were to tell you that they are someone else--someone you are suddenly unsure you know? New York Times best-selling author Chris Bohjalian, known and loved for his inventive tales of people caught in moral and ethical dilemmas, posits this very question in a romantic and edgy new novel that's impossible to put down.

Alison Banks is an elementary school teacher in her early 40s, whose only daughter is leaving soon for college. To take her mind off the impending separation, she takes a course at the local college and finds herself falling in love with her instructor, Dana. Handsome, sexy, and charming, he is the man Alison had given up hope of ever meeting.

Months into their almost idyllic relationship, he confides a powerful and intimate piece of information: he loves her, but he has long known that he is a woman trapped in the body of a man.After much soul searching and in order to free himself, he is having a sex-change operation at the end of the year.
        
Alison bolts, but comes back to him when she realizes how deeply in love she actually is. The story is told--in alternating chapters--by Alison; her teenage daughter, Carly; her ex-husband, Will; and the charismatic Dana, each adding layers of insight and complexity, each responding in his or her own way to the issue of how and why we love exactly who we do.
        
In his best-selling novels Midwives and The Law of Similars, Chris Bohjalian examined, with remarkable subtlety and empathy, how lives can be changed through one seemingly random occurrence. In Trans-Sister Radio, he uses that subtlety and empathy to explore the very nature of love and identity. With this compelling, unforgettable new novel, Bohjalian gives his many readers a love story, a tense cautionary tale of morality, an outstanding cast of characters, and a whole new way of thinking about love.Amazon.com Review
This sympathetic novel about the effect of a sex change on a romanticrelationship, a family, and a community could almost be sold as atextbook--a kind of transgender Guide to the Perplexed. With itscalming tone and scrupulous sensitivity to the feelings of all involved, itsometimes reads like a textbook, too. But while nobody is likely tolaunch a protest campaign over the cautious revelations of Trans-sisterRadio, that's precisely the subject of Chris Bohjalian's seventh novel,in which a male college professor in a small Vermont town transformshimself into a woman. Even Dana Stevens's initial step in thisdirection--donning women's clothing--elicits a powerful reaction from thecommunity.

And what about Dana's new girlfriend Allie Banks, a beloved localschoolteacher who fell in love with him before learning of his plan? Herinitial instinct is to end the relationship. Then she decides to stand byDana, inspired rather than daunted by her stuffy ex-husband Will'sopposition to the "effeminate" guy she's dating, and by the horrifiedreactions of the parents at her school. She does, it's true, continue tolove Dana after the sex reassignment surgery. And she stoically endures thethreatening notes in her school mailbox and the crude graffiti on her frontdoor, as well as the minor vindication of a local public radio story ontheir battle. Yet Allie never makes the emotional shift from heterosexualwoman to lesbian. Breaking off the affair, she spends months mourning theman she had fallen in love with.

Assuming, as we are meant to, that Dana is outwardly becoming the personshe always was inside--that biology is anything but destiny--there'sonly one character who undergoes a profound change over the course of thenovel. That would be Will, Allie's ex-husband, who recoils from Dana'sinitial sexual ambiguity. After her surgery, however, he finds himselfincreasingly aware of her as a woman.

And so when I'd hug Dana or touch the inside of her palm with the inside ofmine (a handshake, yet so suggestive) or my fingers would find their way toone of her arms, I would experience a sexual ripple and wonder why I hadfelt such a thing--why I had courted such a thing.And the answerwould be because she was pretty and she was smart and she was feminine.

Structuring his story around the transcript of a fictional National PublicRadio feature on transgender, Bohjalian shifts the point of view with everychapter: the characters often seem to be enlarging on comments they hadmade for broadcast. We hear from Dana, Allie, and Will in turn, as well asCarly, the daughter of the divorced couple. In this sense, Trans-sisterRadio gives everyone equal time. And for good or ill, it has none ofthe bluster or transgressive charge of Gore Vidal's late-1960s bombshell,Myra Breckinridge.Instead it brings transgender home, rendering it (to quote Dana herself)"domestic as a balloon shade or a perennial garden. And just as harmless."--Regina Marler ... Read more

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Fascinating and Well-Handled
This book on transgendered relationships was very interesting. I really enjoyed it. The plot, however, was a bit predictable, but the characterizations struck me as realistic. And I thought that the rather delicate subject matter was handled well. The detail on the surgery was a little - well, more than a little - graphic, but it was an important part of the story, even if it was not for the squeamish. I think Bohjalian is a very talented writer and I really enjoyed this book!

Despite some legitimate complaints, I'm going to give this five stars
I discovered Trans-Sister Radio, and its author, Chris Bohjalian, entirely by accident after stumbling across this book in a junk store in almost near-perfect condition priced at a dollar. When I saw the cover of the book and read the title, I was sure I'd hate. "Trans-Sister Radio" continues to be one of the worst titles for a book I've ever encountered, even if I understand that the pun has more layers to it than I immediately suspected (at the time, the only apparent one was the obvious "trans" pun, which didn't amuse me, and, in fact, seemed positively juvenile). Aspiring writers, please take note: a decent title can mean the difference between a reader purchasing a book or sitting it back on the shelf. I have no doubt I would not have paid the high retail price for a book that was apparently so inconsequential to the novelist that he used a sophomoric pun as a title. "TRANS-Sister Radio;" ha-ha-ha. Anyhow, the title struck me first, and probably colored my perception of the cover art, which is a strange photo of a nude woman's feet. She's holding a flower in-between two of her toes, and you can tell she is nude because her feet are covering her out-of-focus butt. Or is that someone else's butt her feet are somehow propped up on? No matter. The whole thing struck me as fetishistic. I had no doubt that the book was nothing short of sensationalist smut meant to smear transsexuals, but since the book was in such fine shape and was only a dollar, I figured I'd buy it and sell it.

Well, earlier this week, I unpacked a box I hadn't touched in awhile and discovered that I'd not sold this. Having nothing else to read, and spurred by the kind of morbid curiosity that leads me to watch Jerry Springer, I decided to crack open the book and see how long I could last.

Well, color me shocked. This is definitely one book that you shouldn't judge by its cover.

The entire book is centered around the gender-transition of Professor Dana Stevens,and it manages to be simultaneously character-oriented, focused, AND suspenseful. The book is structured around four alternating viewpoints, and the author manipulates this device alongside others (several small instances of effective non-chronological storytelling, for instance) to build suspense. I do not know if Mr. Bohjalian has any experience in writing magazine serials, but he is also excellent at creating non-artificial cliffhangers (usually through some bit of foreshadowing, and all of the events in this novel are being related to us from some future point in time by all of the characters, I presume). It has been a long time since I've felt the bleary-eyed joy of having read a book for seven hours and continuing to say to myself "just one more chapter, and that's it," as it it were a mantra, knowing I'd read to the end of the section (the novel is organized into five sections), and sometimes beyond, even as I would have to fight an onslaught of sleepiness in order to do so. I read at a very deliberate pace and will often linger on individual words, sentences, or passages for long periods of time when I find something to be well-written or thought-provoking before I continue (I feel speed-reading to be an absolute crime when one is dealing with quality literature).Most 300-400 page novels that I only find moderately interesting will take a month for me to read, as I'll read in small bursts before going on to something more interesting. It was this quality of mine which lead me to spend a week reading this, rather than one or two days. Needless to say, it takes a very engaging novel for me to read in seven-to-nine hour bursts. This book has reawakened some of the joy I felt when reading Dostoyevsky, or Salinger: the joy of reading about interesting people. This is not to say that there aren't any number of clever plot-based novels that I have enjoyed immensely, but I find it is only a good character-driven novel which can engage and hypnotize me so.

The characters all have very distinct personalities and voices, and most of the relationships are handled expertly. The dynamic between Allison and Dana is especially well-done (although I am unsure how cissexuals who have never entered a relationship with a transsexual will react to it: I can see it as potentially baffling to them). The character psychology is honest, especially when it comes to Dana. I think a lot of his research was probably on the mentalities of transwomen regarding their predicament, because Dana rings VERY true-to-life.

One aspect of the novel I enjoyed was the seeming benevolence of the author himself. The whole book is colored by a sunny optimism, even when things become rough for the characters. There is pain and loss here, but is always seems as if it is being viewed from some higher plain. You never get the sense that any character is beyond salvation, and even the most vicious bigots seem to be viewed with a sympathetic, if sad, smile. It is hard to describe, but the impression of the book I get is that it is, on a very fundamental level, life-affirming.

I do have some caveats about it aside from the title. Even though the author did some excellent research on this novel, there are a few points of Dana's transition that concern me. One that stuck out is that Dana never seems to attend any sort of therapy. Professional therapy, I mean. She attends a support group for awhile, but no therapist of any sort is ever mentioned. It is very possible for a transwoman to find her hormones from black market sources, but she seems to be legally transitioning from all the other details we're allowed. Who wrote her recommendation letters for Gender Reassignment Surgery? She didn't go to some unsanitary chop-shop in Bangkok, after all. There is no way a legitimate surgeon who is experienced in this sort of thing would proceed without the proper documentation required by the standards of care. Another bit that comes off as incredible is how she manages to spend only three weeks on the Real Life Experience. Why was she even doing the RLE if she didn't have a therapist?

I also have some problems with the way certain storylines end. Without revealing too much, there's a problem with a lack of closure for a major character near the end of the book. Also, a prominent secondary character just drops out 3/4 of the way through without much explanation. I don't like the way the author treats some of the characters who drop out of frame.

Normally, this would make me drop a star, but two things keep me from doing this:

The emotional honesty of Dana's character. No other piece of fiction I've encountered has so well explored the psychology of the transsexual.

and

The sheer engagingness of it. This has taught me to love reading fiction all over again.

For these two things, it gets five stars.
I am definitely going to read his other novels now.

Makes you explore your own beliefs
I read this book for my local book group. The story is told from the perspective of four individuals; Dana, Allison, Carly, and Will. Interspersed throughout the story are transcripts from a radio talk show interview between Carly and other characters within the book.

The book begins with Carly explaining the impact of her parent's (Allison and Will) divorce. Will remarried but was often accused of holding a torch for Allison. Allison was a grade school teacher and was taking courses at the local college; Dana was her professor. Dana, an attractive yet effeminate man, quickly caught Allison's attention and they quickly entered into a relationship.

A few months into their relationship, Dana reveals to Allison that he was born into the wrong body and is contemplating gender reassignment surgery. Though overwhelmed by this shocking news, Allison's love for Dana has grown beyond her rational control and she vows to remain by his side throughout his journey to become who he truly wants to be. The rest of the book centers around the perceptions of others and the struggles and complications the couple must face due to societal beliefs and prejudices.

This book was well-written, as is the power of this author to transform mere words into a work of art. However, the ending and "revelations" were predictable, which was highly disappointing to me knowing the abilities of the authors writing style. This book explores an extremely controversial topic in a manner that instills a sense of compassion in the reader for the characters within the book.

This story also instigated much conversation between me and my friends. I could not stop thinking about these people and their story. This work of fiction reads as a memoir and poses certain important yet debatable questions. The biggest question of all throughout this account is: can love transcend gender? Before you form your final opinion and answer to this question...read this book. Make sure you have all sides of any story before settling on a position. Enjoy...this is a book that will make you think and question all your previously held beliefs and ideals.

How the other half live
This was an interesting, sympathetic, insightful look at a "world" that I and perhaps most people) knew very little about prior to picking the book up. The significant differences between people of different cultures, nationalities, religions, lifestyles, etc. only serve to shed light on how ultimately similar we homosapiens all are to each other, most especially in matters of the heart.

Fluff
A lot of corny emoting and boring conversations. The transsexual subject matter was the most interesting/intriguing part of the book. The characters and plot were borderline anemic. I was frustrated when some of the conversations seemed to go on and on. The town conflict was what kept me reading. I wish it were better. ... Read more

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During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Close to 140,000 transnational adoptions occurred in the United States alone. While in an earlier era, adoption across borders was assumed to be straightforward--a child traveled to a new country and stayed there--by the late twentieth century, adoptees were expected to acquaint themselves with the countries of their birth and explore their multiple identities. Listservs, websites, and organizations creating international communities of adoptive parents and adoptees proliferated. With contributors including several adoptive parents, this unique collection looks at how transnational adoption creates and transforms cultures.

The cultural experiences considered in this volume raise important questions about race and nation; about kinship, biology, and belonging; and about the politics of the sending and receiving nations. Several essayists explore the images and narratives related to transnational adoption. Others examine the recent preoccupation with "roots" and "birth cultures." They describe a trip during which a group of Chilean adoptees and their Swedish parents traveled "home" to Chile, the "culture camps" attended by thousands of young-adult Korean adoptees whom South Korea is now eager to reclaim as "overseas Koreans," and adopted children from China and their North American parents grappling with the question of what "Chinese" or "Chinese American" identity might mean. Essays on Korean birth mothers, Chinese parents who adopt children within China, and the circulation of children in Brazilian families reveal the complexities surrounding adoption within the so-called sending countries. Together, the contributors trace the new geographies of kinship and belonging created by transnational adoption.

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Transnational Adoption: Beyond a Singular Lens?
This edited collection by Toby Volkman has a fair few adoptive parents (who are academically working as anthropologists) playing the roles of interrogators, interpreters and story tellers of this global phenomenon. Sometimes the object of their analysis is their own community (adoptive parents) and sometimes it is Others (birth parents, the overseas children they adopt).

This positioning itself is not unusual, for adoptive parents (who are also making a living as adoption researchers, practioners, authors and so on) dominate the publications coming out on the practice of transnational adoption. While their own voices remain valuable, the lack of voices from researchers who are adopted, from the birth countries and birth parents has limitd the lens through which the practice is viewed and understood.

However, this edited collection remains a must have for any adoption researcher - as well as scholars interested in issues of transnationalism, diasporas and "new" or "hybrid" cultural identities.It is also accessible enough for ordinary readers, including adoptive parents begin to overcome many of the myths and fantasies surrounding the practice.

For example, I refer to a very interesting and original discussion piece titled "Chaobao: The Plight of Chinese Adoptive Parents in the Era of the One Child Policy" is provided by a researcher and adoptive parent - Kay Johnson. pp 117 - 141

The discourse, at times, leans on the language and the subjectivity that perhaps only an non-Chinese adoptive parent could foster but it is still a remarkably broad insight into the social stakes of Chinese adoption and abandonment.For Western readers like myself, it also has much sort after rare references to English language but Chinese led studies on the topic.Like all the articles, the interpretations provided are always ready for people to unpack or debate.But what's important is that I've not read anything like this before and think it is worthy of consideration and reflection.Most other works in the collection also remain original and remind us that adopting across borders leads to a kind of cultural and social complexity that can be as challenging as it can be liberating.If you really want to be informed about the latest trends in the multi-actor/layed adoption community, then readingthis book is a great start.

Review Supplied by Indigo Willing - PhD Candidate studying Transnational Adoption, Former Rockefeller Fellow in Project Diaspora at UMASS, Boston and Founder of Adopted Vietnamese International in Australia. Transnationally adopted from Saigon to Sydney in 1972.

Mapping Transnational Adoption
Toby Volkman, editor of this volume and an anthropologist, describes the uncharted territory and cultures that transnational adoption is fast creating as the "new geographies of kinship."Indeed, the contributors to this thoughtful volume examine with courage and carefully grounded research, difficult subjects, such as the motivations of birth mothers in relinquishing their children to international adoption, or the struggles of adoptive parents and their children as they seek to constitute new identities despite minimal cultural knowledge of their children's country, gaps in memory, and the absence of connections with birth parents.The themes range widely to include the power of the internet in shaping popular representations of international adoption; the ways in which mythologies and fantasies confront realities as adoptive children make return journeys to their country of origin; and changing national policies of sending countries as they reconsider the stigma they once associated with mixed children adopted internationally who were the product of love and war.The contributors pay close attention to the larger political and economic forces that frame the contradictions and struggles entailed by transnational adoption.At the same time that they do not fall into the trap of romantic narratives of rescuing children, they are sympathetic to the good faith efforts of families to make sense of a world for which few road maps are available.Most, but not all, of the authors are adoptive parents themselves and therefore do not lose sight of the positioning and perspectives underlying the ethics and practices of all the actors and institutions involved in these journeys.This is first-rate ethnography.The book is beautifully edited and well-written; the language is accessible; and many first-hand accounts are offered.I recommend this book highly to anyone interested in gaining a solid introduction to the complexity of the issues involved in transnational adoption, as well as to readers more generally interested inkinship, marriage, and the family. ... Read more

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Aimed at primary school pupils, but also useful as a reference text book in secondary schools, this text looks at Scotland from the earliest times, about 10,000 years ago, up to the new era of Christianity. ... Read more