Patricia D Ross

Mexico

Trouble in School: A Portrait of Young Adolescents

The Spell Cast by Remains: The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature

Take Charge of Your Life

Common Sense is NOT Common Practice

Have you ever wondered why you were doing something a certain way without any real reason other than "that's the way it has always been done" or "that is what everyone else seems to be doing"?It seems that everyone prefers the well worn path of common practice. Are you guilty?Don’t do what everyone ...

Take Charge of Your Life!

Take Charge of Your Life! focuses on life skills and personal development. This text is designed to help young teens meet the challenges of their daily lives with confidence. The text encourages students to make wise decisions, to accept responsibility for their actions, and to become better manager...

The Spell Cast by Remains: The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, Patricia Ross probes the various purposes for which 'wilderness' is constructed. Considering the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather, she states that the idea of wilderness is just that, an idea, ...

The Best Affirmations Handbook

Why is it everyone knows they should be doing affirmations, but they don't? Why is it some people say affirmations just gloss over the negative? It's because no-one has ever given you a step-by-step guide on how to do affirmations effectively. Affirmations work. They work for millions of people aro...

Goats: A Guide to Management

This title in Crowood's popular Guide to Management series is aimed at small-scale operators and hobbyists, and is designed to cater for the needs of those who have only limited resources, in terms of time, money, and land. Covering all aspects of goat husbandry, and written in such a way that it is...

A Mother's Wisdom

I met Misty while in college, a place where we prepared to go out into the world to live our dreams. I can still hear her words. “Everybody has a story to tell and one isn’t better than the other, but what makes a story unique is, it’s your own.” I was a struggling writer with nothing to say until I...

"Song of the Mountains. My Pilgrimage to Maa Ganga"

A story of survival after a devastating loss; a truly human tale of love, loss and a pilgrimage to the origins of Maa Ganga, the great River Ganges in the Himalayan Mountains, in search of a way to go forward in life.