Kathleen M Rodgers

The Peritoneum

Peritoneal Surgery

The Peritoneum

Reading with Curious George: Grades 2-4, OTM-14200

Help students develop the literacy strategies necessary to derive meaning from print and illustrations, read to find new information about a topic, and think and write creatively. Story summaries and reproducible work sheets for author's books, teacher suggestions, a resource list, student tracking...

Seven Wings to Glory

Johnnie Kitchen is finally living her dream, attending college and writing a column for the local paper. She adores her husband Dale and chocolate Labrador Brother Dog, and they reside in a comfortable home in the small town of Portion in North Texas. Their three children are thriving and nearly gro...

Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground

For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the l...

Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies

The Tea Party. The Occupy Movement. Idle No More. Around the world, social movements have taken to new media and the streets to challenge the status quo. At the same time, most democratic countries have witnessed a sharp decline in voter turnout. Protest and Politics examines this seemingly contradi...

Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia

Between 1965 and 1975, thousands of American migrants traded their established lives for a new beginning in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Some were non-violent resisters who opposed the war in Vietnam. But a larger group was inspired by the ideals of the 1960s counterculture and, hop...

The Final Salute

At a small air base in Louisiana, family man and seasoned fighter pilot, Tuck Westerfield's life could literally crash down around him. In this business of flying fighter jets, the odds of staying alive are stacked against him. Haunted by the memories of dead friends killed in air mishaps, this Viet...

Johnnie Come Lately

Would life have been different for Johnnie if she'd been named after a woman rather than her dead uncle? Or if her mama hadn't been quite so beautiful or flighty? The grandparents who raised her were loving, but they didn't understand the turmoil roiling within her. And they had so many, many secret...

Concept Development in Nursing: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications

A comprehensive and pragmatic discussion of concept analysis and development, the book introduces the subject and provides in-depth description of the various methods of concept development along with examples of selected methods.