The Eldercare Handbook: Difficult Choices, Compassionate Solutions

In this comprehensive and accessible guide, long-term care expert Stella Henry helps readers navigate the daunting logistics and powerful emotions of making care decisions for an elderly parent or loved one. Drawing from her 36 years as a registered nurse and a nursing home administrator, as well as her experience caring for both her parents (both of whom suffered the ravages of Alzheimer's disease), ...

Henry David Thoreau (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)

Henry David Thoreau's accomplishments as a writer and a naturalist, along with his far-reaching political influence, are rarely disputed. His lasting influence can be established on the basis of "Civil Disobedience" alone. Learn more about Thoreau with this text, which includes an extensive biography of the author, literary criticism, a list of works by and about the author, and more.

Henry James - The Portrait Of a Lady (BBC)

Isabel Archer, a young woman of intelligence, imagination and beauty, travels from nineteenth-century America to England and across Europe on a journey that encompasses not only continents, but the crossing from innocence to experience.

Henry VIII (r. 1509–47) ruled an island kingdom about the size of Pennsylvania inhabited by fewer than 3 million people nearly 500 years ago, and yet he remains instantly recognizable to this day, his barrel-chested and bejeweled figure immortalized by the brush of Hans Holbein the Younger.

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Novels for Students; vol. 32

Each volume (beginning with volume 32) will include two "Literature to Film" entries. Entries profiling film versions of plays/novels not only diversify the study of plays/novels but support alternate learning styles, media literacy, and film studies curricula as well.

Here are some of the novels they will find:

• "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
• "Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding
• "Lit to Film: Last of the Mohicans" by Gordon Parks
• "Wings of the Dove" by Henry James