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Born the youngest of fifteen siblings in Lakewood, Ohio, Shelly McNamara began writing as a child to explore her inner self and make sense of the world around her. From the grief of losing close friends and family, the pain of estrangement and rejection, and a deep desire to make the world a more respectful, loving, and inclusive place, Shelly wrote poetry and stories of hope and strength. Writing helped her embrace her own identity while she waited for the world to recognize her lifelong commitment to the woman she loves and the family they built together. As the Chief Equality & Inclusion Officer at Procter & Gamble, one of the world's most admired companies, Shelly has used her powerful insights and compassion to elevate the consciousness and connection of people from around the globe. Now, for the first time, Shelly is bringing her poetry and powerful stories to us all.No Blanks, No Pauses is an exploration of one woman's journey to live a full and authentic life that holds lessons for each of us. Shelly has written her way through adversity and heartbreak to discover that dreams are worth pursuing, injustice is worth challenging, and peace and fairness are what matter most. This book's mixture of memoir, poetry, and insightful questions draws us in and gives us confidence that we, too, can heal, connect, and love more expansively than we ever thought possible.

Leadership Lessons: Notes From and For the Journey is a primer of often hidden or unconscious issues that confront those who are in or aspire to leadership roles. Understanding these could make the difference between successfully navigating the journey to leadership or delaying or derailing it.

The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S. government during the nineteenth century, as the government tried to find ways to deal with social and political questions about how to treat America s indigenous population. Updated to include new scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the second edition as well as additional primary source material Examines the cultural and material impact of Western expansion on the indigenous peoples of the United States, guiding the reader through the significant changes in Indian-U.S. policy over the course of the nineteenth century Outlines the efficacy and outcomes of the three principal policies toward American Indians undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government Separation, Concentration, and Americanization and interrogates their repercussions Provides detailed descriptions, chronology and analysis of the Plains Wars supported by supplementary maps and illustrations

Father Jake Austin's alcoholic father suddenly returns to town, decades after deserting him as a young boy. His dad is fleeing a vindictive drug lord and begs him for help. Although Jake detests his old man for abandoning him, he can't allow him to be murdered, so he enlists the help of his friend, Sheriff Tremont Macon. Because of his dad's deteriorating health, he is admitted to the hospital and placed in a room adjacent to an injured drug mule, allowing Macon to station an armed guard outside their rooms for protection. Despite police security, the gang murders the drug mule and Sheriff Macon decides to place Jake's father into protective custody in jail. There, he learns that Jake's dad has not only stolen uncut cocaine from the drug dealers but has also witnessed the kingpin order a murder. The mob wants the coke back and Austin Sr. dead. Because the mob cannot get to Jake's father, they unleash their wrath on the people closest to Jake and the violence escalates. Will the sins of the father be visited on his son, as prophesied in the Bible? In a desperate attempt to shut the drug ring down, the FBI asks Jake to be the bait in a sting operation. Will Jake turn his back on the father who deserted him as a child, or will he turn the other cheek and save him from a vengeful drug lord, risking his own life and the lives of those he loves?

Julia is an American medical doctor fleeing her own privileged background to find satisfaction delivering health care to remote African communities, where her skills really make a difference. Carl is also an American, whose experiences as a black man in the United States have led him to volunteer in Africa. The two come together as colleagues (and lovers) as Liberia is gripped in a brutal civil war. Then Julia is kidnapped by child soldiers on a remote jungle road, and Carl is “rescued” and evacuated against his will by U.S. Marines. Back in the U.S., Carl turns to a Rhode Island doctor who has been a mentor to them both. With the help of a smuggler, they return to Africa illegally and begin the dangerous work of finding and rescuing Julia. This is an unforgettable thriller grounded in real events. A short preface and several appendices add background on Liberia’s complex U.S.-linked history, and a glossary illuminates Liberia’s colorful Kreyol patois.

Alma Mater follows the lives of seven young women in mid-nineteenth century Canada West (present-day Ontario) where they first come together at St Mary's Hall, a church-oriented boarding school in New Jersey that provides better education opportunities for girls than are currently available in Canada. Based on several years of research into the families of actual girls who attended St Mary's Hall, Pamela Borden Heckert’s narrative follows their adventures in school and the various courses their lives take afterward, during which they experience the joys, challenges, and sorrows of women living in the 1800s—and above all, the endurance of schoolgirl friendships.

In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations.

Robert E. McGinnis began his career in 1947 as a cartoonist, and produced his first cover illustrations for 1956 issues of the magazines True Detective and Master Detective. Then in 1958, he painted his first paperback book cover, and from that day forward his work was in demand. The emergence of the "McGinnis Woman"--long-legged, intelligent, alluring, and enigmatic--established him as the go-to artist for detective novels. His work appeared on Mike Shayne titles and the Perry Mason series, and he produced 100 paintings for the Carter Brown adventures. Yet McGinnis became famous for his work in other genres as well: espionage, romance, historicals, gothics, and Westerns. McGinnis's first major magazine assignments were for The Saturday Evening Post, and his work has graced the pages of Cosmopolitan, National Geographic, Good Housekeeping, Guideposts, and others. McGinnis women frequently cropped up in the men's magazines of the '60s and '70s. His first movie poster was for Breakfast at Tiffany's, with an iconic rendering of Audrey Hepburn. Almost instantly, his poster artwork could be seen everywhere--in theaters, on billboards, in newspapers, and even on soundtrack albums. His work for Hollywood became a who's-who, with posters for James Bond, The Odd Couple, Woody Allen, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and many more. Some of his most ambitious works have been his gallery paintings, often depicting stunning American landscapes, vast Western vistas, and of course, beautiful women. The Art of Robert E. McGinnis collection reveals the full scope and beauty of the work of a true American master--one whose legacy continues today.

BATWING, a romantic, hard science fiction series, tells of a comet strike threat to Earth. A young family vanishes in shallow water in front of Guy Bergmann; he's determined to understand how that could happen.  He saves a baby from the arms of the mother as she is drawn down in a sinking boat at a launch ramp.  How could three people "disappear" in front of him?  Bergmann, sailing in his baidarka after the disappearance, sees man-sized shadows over his boat from a cloudless sky, but is too preoccupied to focus on the second anomaly. Bergmann and the ranger are interviewed by two reporters.  Bergmann tests the recovered boat; it doesn't sink this time.  After a dinner discussion with the ranger and the reporters, Bergmann invites one of them, Juanita Jerez, to go sailing the next day.  They see shadows from a cloudless sky as they begin a romantic relationship.  After rejecting all the reasonable explanations of how 24 people could disappear near water: no blood, no bodies, no struggle, he decides extraterrestrials are collecting humans for some purpose.  With the ranger, an FBI agent and Juanita, he visits the launch ramp to find flying Ets, Batwings, waiting for them.

This book is a must read for people who want to continue working past age 60! Welcome to Best Job Search Tips For Age 60-Plus: A Practical Work Options Resource for Baby Boomers where readers will learn about effective job search strategies and realistic work possibilities. Boomers have already changed many of the stereotypes our society holds. Most would say they are very different from their parents, who appeared to be much older at the same age and saw retirement as the only reward for their years of work. With so many Americans living into their 90s, working past age 60 is increasingly common. Whether working for income or looking for meaningful work post retirement, job seekers face an employment market has changed drastically in recent years. This "forever young" generation now must also confront many workplace challenges including age discrimination. In an evolving and competitive job market, proactive preparation is more important than ever before. With over 25 years of experience, employment coaches, Toby Haberkorn and Elizabeth O’Neal understand the unique skill sets Baby Boomers bring to the job market, as well as the challenges of finding employment in a youth-oriented world. Their advice and job search resources are ideal for those who want to stay in the game.

The title refers to a fence that separated the Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University campuses until 1948. Using broader societal moments as guideposts, it tells the story of Case and Western Reserve as separate entities—and also of the new institution created with the 1967 federation.

A call to reconsider the place of boys in the family, schools, and community institutions that rob them of their inborn vitality and creativity * Argues that boys have a unique free-spirit nature and that efforts to alter or suppress it lead to profound unhappiness, pathology, or startling compulsions * Demands another approach to societal expectations, one that values and promotes the daring creativity of boys Richard Hawley's many years as headmaster of a boys' school have convinced him that boys do indeed have a unique, intrinsic, and inalienable free-spirit nature. He sees deep flaws in the way we--as parents, educators, and community members--alter or suppress that true nature in order to turn boys into men that fit our societal template. Hawley argues that the "model man" in our society, while seemingly successful in his role, may yet be unhappy in his life. The very elements that we strip away from a boy's natural tendencies are the sources of spirituality and vitality that can give his life both meaning and satisfaction. Without these, he is lost to his essential nature. A new approach is needed, says Hawley, and he goes to the roots of Western theology and philosophy to locate what has gone wrong and how those consequences might be addressed. He sounds the clarion call to unleash, promote, and celebrate the seemingly dangerous pursuits that reflect the creativity and daring nature of boys. Fantasy and imagination must trump cognition and problem solving. We must not hold our boys back with our fears of failure but give them the tools and support they need to create wings good enough to fly wherever they wish to go.

A consideration of the central challenges facing adolescents, including sexuality, friendship, achievement, mortality, and finding meaning.

In this fascinating and clever book, Bray and his dad embark on a new and exciting idea, which takes them on an entirely different approach to that which parents usually take when their child wants something like a new toy, and in so doing plants the seed of becoming an entrepreneur in the young boy’s mind. Bray’s dad, instead of giving him the money for the toy or allowing him to earn it through doing some chores, decides to introduce him to the concept of becoming an entrepreneur in his own right. He introduces Bray to business and marketing, teaching him how to select a product he wants to sell, how to decide on a price, where to sell them and how to promote the sales. But when customers don’t come immediately, Bray has to reconsider his options and decide what to do next. Bray Makes Money and Buys a Toy is both fun and educational at the same time, teaching young children the value of money, working for themselves and giving them ideas for possible business ventures. It is great for parents to read along with their children too, strengthening bonds and preparing them for the future. So why not join Bray and Dad today, and encourage your child to go on an adventure with them to entrepreneurship?

Written by a senior executive, with experience as both a CFO and CEO in a wide range of organizations, including private firms, public companies and not-for-profits, The Business Zoo uses stories to illustrate important business and life concepts and provides key lessons learned from years of experience. These, both fun and informative, tales will help both people recently entering the working world or those with more experience and who are moving up. Content-wise this book is also about organizations and what makes them function, at times, well and ,at other times, makes them dysfunctional. It covers the overall critical areas of management from selling to systems, from boards to human resources. Along the way, you will also learn some critical personal skills that range from developing your moral compass, to mastering business dining, to dealing with management fraud and how to handle outside advisors be they lawyers, bankers or consultants. The book also explains the major events that impact and change all organizations such as international growth, planning, mergers and crisis management.

Cash Balance Plan Answer Book is the resource that provides reliable answers to over 500 cash balance plan questions. Logically organized in the popular Qandamp;A format, the Cash Balance Plan Answer Book is a user-friendly guide that explains the fundamentals of cash balance plans and how and when to use them. This unique resource provides support as you consider - and implement - cash balance plans.

Explore the eighteenth-century Indian astronomical observatories called the Jantar Mantars, massive, stunning structures built to observe and understand the heavens Between 1724 and 1730, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories, called Jantar Mantars, in northern India. The four remaining observatories are an extraordinary fusion of architecture and science, combining elements of astronomy, astrology, and geometry into forms of remarkable beauty. The observatories' large scale and striking geometric forms have captivated the attention of architects, artists, scientists, and historians worldwide, yet their purpose and use remain largely unknown to the public.             In this book, Barry Perlus's visually driven exploration brings readers to the Jantar Mantars and creates an immersive experience. Panoramas plunge the viewer into a breathtaking 360-degree space, while pages of explanatory illustrations describe the observatories and the workings of their many instruments. The book provides the experience of visiting the sites, the historical context of the Jantar Mantars, and an understanding of their scientific and architectural innovations.

The book features a foreword by novelist Mona Simpson and presents a decade-long pictorial series of a traveling one-ring circus. Inspired by her education in social sciences and the appeal of the circus, Quintana decided to photograph a small, American circus that set up in her hometown of Hugo, Oklahoma. Expecting a reluctance to her presence, she found herself warmly welcomed into the visually stunning world of the circus. What was initially a plan to take a few photographs became a life-changing decade of chronicling the lives of a group of nomadic performers, often resulting in surreal collaborations between photographer and subject. From 2000-2010, she chronicled the lives of this nomadic group of revolving performers. Returning to the stunningly visual circus each summer, she saw beyond the assumptions about these performers, whose lives are enriched through their focus on tradition and family, and found her own ideals and priorities changed in the process. Quintana photographs in the tradition of social documentary, shooting with film, primarily in black and white and using available light.

At the top of California, on the edge of the sea, miles of narrow highway curve through redwood forests, separating Del Norte County from the rest of the country. Residents of this remote area have given up the world of shopping malls, high speed internet, specialized medicine, and mainstream culture for wild rivers, lush forests, and undeveloped beaches. Privacy, space, and startling scenery come at a price: limited job opportunities, poor educational outcomes, and high rates of drug abuse and teen pregnancy. The trade-offs are worth it—for some—but not for others. In their own words, a diverse array of Del Norters share their lives and illustrate both the beauty and challenge of living in this unique area.Whether tied to the land through tribal alliance, family connections, work or love, each writer’s experience in Come to the Edge is unique and revealing. There is something familiar about each story, too. No matter where you live, these memoirs reveal that place matters. We are shaped by the land, even as we rise to shape it ourselves.

An anthology of coming of age stories set in 19th and 20th century schools. Sequenced chronologically, these excerpts from notable school fiction begin with chapters from TOM BROWN’S SCHOOL DAYS and JANE EYRE and continue through the likes of TEA AND SYMPATHY and SEPARATE PEACE. Richard Hawley introduces the collection with an extended introductory essay, and shorter commentaries precede each selection.

Mark Roman spent a year collecting interviews with men from dozens of countries around the world and found that these societal and cultural boundaries exist everywhere, and have created a male population that deeply longs for friendship, yet can’t find it. This book will encourage as many men as possible to develop and maintain deep and meaningful relationships with other men. Mark Roman shares stories and techniques that have helped other men find success in crossing societal boundaries and forming male friendships—and in turn helped them become better, happier, and more connected humans.

Discover the physical, emotional, and spiritual sacrifice of nurses, and how a nurse can offer himself or herself in service to aid patients in vulnerable states of life. Read real life examples of sound nursing in action and the amazing impact you can have on patients and their families. Learn the differences between a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and more.

a travel companion to the world's macabre destinations.

Posted as the new director of IIM Kozhikode, Sujata Das knew she was entering a hornet’s nest. She has to fend with criminal elements with links to the drug mafia and other equally unsavoury organizations. But she imposes strict rules of conduct right from the start, not appreciated by faculty members and students who are used to taking unwarranted liberties as self-proclaimed geniuses. She has favourites, a girl student with a tragic past, and a dashing young professor who turns out to be gay. But questions go begging though she has her sources of information: is there widespread covert drug abuse on campus? Is there a paedophile lair nearby with links to some members of the institute? A failed suicide attempt forces her hand, and she opts for a decisive surgical strike of sorts against the forces posing a danger to the IIMK campus and the tranquil countryside itself."

When Father Jake Austin is assigned to his hometown of Oberlin, Ohio, in July of 2002, he has been away for a long time. A physician and a war veteran before entering a Catholic seminary, he is now a member of the Camillian Order. He takes comfort in his vows of obedience, poverty, chastity, and service to the sick. Jake arrives just in time to attend his high school reunion, where an encounter with his high school sweetheart forces him to question his commitment to the priesthood. Before the night is over, one of his classmates will be dead, a second gravely wounded, and a third hospitalized. The carnage at the reunion comes on the heels of what appears to be an unrelated murder at the quarry. Overseeing the investigation is Jake's former football teammate, Chief of Police Tremont "Tree" Macon, who is unwilling to rule out anyone as a suspect, not even Jake. As he struggles to prove his innocence and to find his footing in a town that remembers him as a hellion, Jake searches for threads that will connect these brutal attacks. The war may be long past, but in some ways Jake is still waiting for his DEROS: Date of Expected Return from Overseas. Can he put aside his own demons long enough to find the living, breathing devil who stalks his classmates?

This is a compelling memoir by Robert P. Madison: an architect, entrepreneur, and civic leader. Born the grandson of slaves in Cleveland, Ohio in 1923, he studied architecture at Howard University before serving in Italy in World War II. Madison earned a B.A. in architecture from Western Reserve University, an M.A. in architecture from Harvard University, study under with Walter Gropius, and complete additional studies as a Fulbright Scholar at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1954, Madison opened the first African-American architectural firm in Ohio, and only the tenth in the country. Just a few of the many projects by his firm include the U.S. Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, the Engineering & Nuclear Facility at Tuskegee Institute, the Stokes wing and the Cleveland main library renovation, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Reformer of urban development in the 1960s and architectural ambassador to China in the 1970s, Madison learned along the way that the halls of academe are not the only places to learn about life. Fully illustrated with photos, documents and project renderings, this is Robert Madison's story, as only he can tell it.

Marco Falcone, a bright young man growing up in 1930s New York's lower East Side, dreams of becoming a doctor. But in pursuing his dream, he finds himself sucked into the La Cosa Nostra underworld, forced to provide medical services to some of the most dangerous mobsters in the city. His involvement with the mafia eventually lands him on Death Row for a crime he did not commit, left only with the hope that a lifelong friend will save him from the electric chair.

This book includes up-to-date information on screening, prevention, conventional treatment and an abundance of research on vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements. Dr. Semple discusses the benefits and side effects of both conventional and alternative approaches individually and how they complement one another.

This text reveals that television's primary purpose has nothing to do with producing quality programmes, but that its main concern is to deliver demographic groups to their advertisers.

While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Condé has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Condé's work-history and globalization in La Belle Créole and Moi, Tituba sorcière...noire de Salem, intertextuality and reception in La migration des cours and Célanire cou-coupé, trauma and subjectivity in En attendant le bonheur and Desirada, community and ethics in Traversée de la mangrove and Histoire de la femme cannibale-this analysis proposes to elucidate how, and to what ends, Condé engages, and alters, approaches to reading, staging the problematic, yet pragmatic, need to read well. This hermeneutic imperative foregrounds the need to engage with texts, to cannibalize texts while recognizing their fundamental opacity and inexhaustibility, their resistance to the reader's interpretive habits.

First published in 1997. Considerable research has been done to identify neighbourhood influences on children’s affective states, motivation, and behaviour. This population, along with the elderly, are the nation’s largest dependent groups. In contrast, little research has been done to determine what impact living among poor neighbours has upon older Americans, specifically upon their psychological well-being and neighbourhood satisfaction. In this study the author has sought out to explore this deficit, using a sociological standpoint to examine quality-of-life issues relevant to elderly inner-city residents. This title will be of interest to students of sociology and urban studies.

Emily's Shoes follows a young girl's adventures as she dreams each day of the week. Her dreams are as bright and colorful as a rainbow. The catch is, she only dreams when she wears her purple shoes to bed. The book is inspired by and dedicated to Jennifer's twin nieces, Amelia and Makenzie Kahn who were both diagnosed with a rare, inherited disorder of the nervous system called Batten Disease. To learn more about Batten Disease and to help researchers make breakthroughs we can only dream about, visit www.beyondbatten.org/forebatten-fund Emily's Shoes is by first time author, Jennifer McGinn and young illustrator, Kelly Cox.

Get your kids in the kitchen doing something they'll love with this fun and easy updated cookbook, perfect for all ages! The Everything Kids' Cookbook, Updated Edition has everything your child needs to get started in the kitchen. Each simple but delicious recipe includes a difficulty level and a list of all the equipment needed so you can determine which recipe is suitable for your child. And with more than 90 recipes, there's something for every meal or occasion! This updated edition includes beautiful photographs to help your kids follow along with the steps, and has cooking tips, food trivia, and nutritional information! This cookbook is perfect for any beginner chef looking to take their cooking skills from make-believe to reality.

With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner's achievement. Sympathetically acknowledging the need to decenter the canon, Zender's searching interrogation of current theory clears a breathing space for Faulkner and his readers between the fustier remnants of New Criticism and the excesses of post-structuralism.

In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied as Ghana and the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, and Ukraine. Although the campaign was billed as a solution to high unemployment, it had another goal as well: to promote an exclusionary vision of Israel as a Jewish state in which non-Jews have no place. The deportation campaign quickly devastated Tel Aviv's migrant communities and set the stage for even more aggressive antimigrant and antirefugee policies in the years to come. Fighting for Dignity traces the roots of this deportation campaign in Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shows how policies that illegalize and criminalize migrants wreak havoc in their lives, endanger their health, and curtail the human capacity to flourish. Children born to migrant parents are especially vulnerable to developmental and psychosocial risks. Drawing on nearly two decades of ethnographic engagement in homes and in churches, medical offices, advocacy organizations, and public spaces, Willen shows how migrants struggle to craft meaningful, flourishing lives despite the exclusions and vulnerabilities they endure. To complement their perspectives, she introduces Israeli activists who reject their government's exclusionary agenda and strive to build bridges across difference, repair violations of migrants' dignity, and resist policies that violate their own moral convictions. Willen's vivid and unflinching ethnography challenges us to reconsider our understandings of global migration, human rights, the Middle East-- and even dignity itself.

Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in rudimentary stoves to prepare their meals and heat their homes. Besides providing heat, these stoves also release large amounts of dense black soot, which has a staggeringly negative impact on thehealth, ecosystems, and advancement of the poor in the developing world. Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion examines the complex nexus of issues at play in the developing world's use of crude cookstoves - factors such as poverty, energy, environment, and gender inequality. Melding succinct prose, scientific synthesis, and unforgettable images of communities in ruralIndia, this multidisciplinary work aims to prompt new awareness of a wicked problem: how families can depend on, and be plagued by, crude cookstoves.What is clear in this visual and scientific treatise is the fact this is not simply a problem of rudimentary stoves; it is a symptom of energy insecurity. The images, narratives, and illustrated scientific data make this book an urgent call to better understand and address energy poverty and household air pollution around the globe.

Nearly everyone knows that exercise is a good thing. Yet, many people are very busy very much of the time. Fit in Bits helps encourage people to exercise by pointing out, in humorous fashion, how exercise can be incorporated into many spare moments and situations in the course of your ordinary day. Even the dedicated athlete who does regular workouts, may also find this book useful in showing additional opportunities for stretching, muscle building and so on while traveling, waiting on others, sitting in meetings and so on.

Marilyn Sanders Mobley is a Toni Morrison scholar, a former president and current board member of the Toni Morrison Society, and Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equal Opportunity at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Footprints in the Sky is a touching story about the love and memories that a child shares with her father. She chronicles the best memories of her childhood as she reflects on the life of her father. This story starts the tough conversation of ways to talk to children about death.

Friends and Partners: The Legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor in the History of Polio presents the story of two men, one the President of the United States, the other an ambitious attorney, who became the "architects of the fight against polio." With unfettered access to the March of Dimes Archives, this book explores the friendship and partnership that ensured the end of polio in the US, with exclusive pictures and documentation. The book describes the founding and history of Franklin D. Roosevelt's (FDR) polio colony in Warm Springs, Georgia, and the early years of the March of Dimes as established by FDR in 1938 as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Other little-known aspects of the partnership are also included, such as O'Connor's participation in FDR's "Brain Trust," the President's birthday ball fundraisers during the Great Depression, the March of Dimes during World War II, and O'Connor's simultaneous leadership of the American Red Cross. Finally, the book explores, in detail, how O'Connor used the legacy of FDR after his death in 1945 to promote the philosophy of "freedom from disease" to achieve the goal of ending polio through the March of Dimes. Friends and Partners: The Legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor in the History of Polio will appeal to researchers, students, and policy makers in public health and medicine as well as all those interested in learning more about this pivotal period in history. Presents the story of two men, one the President of the United States, the other an ambitious attorney, who became the architects of the fight against polio Draws upon the March of Dimes archive to provide information exclusive to this publication Constitutes the first biography of public health hero Basil O'Connor Provides historical insights into the development of philanthropy in conjunction with major public health initiatives

The purpose of this book is to help you discover options for work, life and a career that are fun and fulfilling by simply answering one question at a time. If you answer yes to any of these questions this book is for you.? Are you looking to change jobs or careers?? Do you feel like there is a better position for you somewhere, but you are not sure where?? Are you dedicated to becoming your authentic self?? Are you concerned about how your personal brand is affecting your career?? Do you feel as if you have forgotten or lost who you are?? Are you experiencing major changes in your life such as finishing a course of studies, empty nesting, retiring, moving to a new city, getting a promotion?? Are you concerned about how you are perceived in social media?This book is for anyone:? Wanting to work on their personal brand? Wanting to improve their social media presence? Experiencing a career transition or preparing for a new job? Wanting to make their resume, LinkedIn Page or CV stand out? Entering a new stage of life? Wanting more from life and their free time? Not knowing what they want or where to start for their next stepReading this book will help you to:? Find your true authentic personal brand. ? Dream about finding a career and work you love. ? Discover work/activities that bring you joy and use your skills, talents, and experience best. ? Use your personal brand to share who you are with the world. ? Discover where you are needed in the workforce.? Plan and prepare for your next career with passion, authenticity, and hope.

A Girl on a Bike: Musings on Life, Loss, and Hot Flashes is a collection of life essays encouraging the reader to reflect on natural life transitions brought on by children leaving home, the death of parents, shifting relationships, and aging. Weaving memories with current experiences, the author takes the reader on a journey of acceptance and insight that is both serious and light-hearted.

William Greenhorn, who lost his dad at 11, narrates a thrilling pennant race and considers baseball history in this universe where baseball was always integrated. The final weekend's games are a whirlwind of twists and turns which leave him wondering if he could be called on and what might result. A doubleheader that may decided the season features 2 extra-inning games filled with excitement

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In this third novel in the classic saga which includes THE HEADMASTER'S PAPERS and THE HEADMASTER'S WIFE, Richard Hawley brilliantly weaves the diary writings of headmaster John Greeve's cancer-stricken wife and estranged grown son into a tale which, when combined with the letters of John Greeve, paints a haunting picture of the spiraling sadness which comes from the dread of impending loss, the distant wanderings of grown children, and the tragedy of unexpressed love punctuated by death. GREEVES PASSING completes a poignant trilogy told entirely through the written expression of unfortunate events, unfulfilled dreams and the untold secrets of a well-educated American family. As John Irving writes, "Richard Hawley has the poise and vision to create an entire world."

A isolated and sensitive midwestern boy grows up to believe he is a God-man in the eastern yogic tradition. His story unfolds in the middle and late decades of the last century, and along the way he attracts a devoted following who believe, and perhaps even know, he is the real thing.

Hack The Experience will reframe your perspective on how your audience engages your work. This will happen as you learn how to control attention through spatial and time-based techniques that you can harness as you build immersive installations or as you think about how to best arrange your work in an exhibition. You’ll learn things about the senses and how they interface with attention so that you can build in visceral forms of interactivity, engage people’s empathetic responses, and frame their moods. This book is a dense bouillon-cube of techniques that you can adapt and apply to your personal practice, and it’s a book that will walk you step-by-step through skill sets from ethnography, cognitive science, and multi-modal metaphors.

The centennial history of Cleveland’s University School, an independent school for boys founded by Newton Anderson in 1890.

A collection of the headmaster’s talks to the assembled school on topical and ethical issues.

John Greeve is the headmaster. The 30 years of his life at The Wells School have been rich, challenging, and full of meaning. But now John Greeve's precisely ordered world is crumbling. The values he so passionately believes in are being threatened by forces he cannot accept. John Greeve is a man at the crossroads fighting for the decency of his school, for the survival of his family-and, finally, stripped of everything, for his very life. This new edition includes a foreword by the author and an afterword in which he presents and comments on some of the nearly 1,000 letters he has received since the original publication of this classic novel a decade ago.

In this compilation of new and selected poems that span thirty years, Hawley] focuses his penetrating eye upon life's ordinary and unusual occurrences. Like a necklace, the collection combines a series of unique gems strung together to comprise a consequential whole. Hawley's is a world where children in a Sunday school room 'bob like cords. Flap like flags'. A half-asleep man comes upon his wife in their kitchen 'For the first time...holding a baby'. And a lone climber loses his footing and descends into a waterfall that 'gags, then recovers its roar'. Here memory mixes with the immediate, and both come alive: a paved-over prairie was once 'tufted up in wheat-bleached whirls/Like twisted tops of brooms/Brushed over the flat expanse'. Hawley combines meditations, elegies, appreciations, love poems, and light verse, including a very clever rhymed and metrically perfect piece entirely composed of famous lines from Chaucer to Frost. In often brief but potent poems that sometimes approach the quality of aphorisms, Hawley measures the depths and breadth of our world. depths' and stun us 'in an instant's spangled arc/Awash in unbreathable brilliance. -- Andrea Hollander Budy, author of 'The Other Life' and 'House Without a Dreamer'.

Margaret Greeve is an outwardly accomplished and finished person: a wit, an intellectual, and the wife of the headmaster of a well-established boarding school for boys. Through a lifetime of reading and observing, she has encountered instances of beauty and meaning, but nothing really prepared her for mortal illness.

Today's deliberations about a revamped health care system are stuck--in need of fresh analysis and a new vision. Health Care Revolt sets out to provide just that and at a most propitious time in U.S. history. Dr. Michael Fine's manifesto frames the questions more expansively than others before him and offers an impassioned road map for a nation confused about which health care direction to travel. The crux of Dr. Fine's argument is that the U.S. has put the fate of its health care in the so-called marketplace, where the few profit from the public's ill health and accelerate the erosion of democracy in the process. Health Care Revolt looks around the world for examples of health care systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a revolution to protect health and strengthen democracy.

The most effective way to heal your skin-from the featured dermatologist on ABC's Extreme Makeover Stress, pregnancy, menopause, and other health concerns can take a heavy toll on your skin. Now respected dermatologist Dr. Ava Shamban shows you how to look your best no matter how you feel, even when you feel your worst. Dr. Shamban's signature approach ranges from at-home simple organic skin care recipes to state of the art dermatologic techniques. From skin cleansing and topical products to eating and exercise, her program is based on the best cutting-edge science and is just what you need to achieve and maintain the healthy glow and feel of great skin. Complete skin-healing program combining skin care, nutrition and fitness Specific skin care regimens tailored to age, skin type, and internal condition Help for trouble skin resulting from acne, stress, pregnancy, menopause, chemotherapy, and more. In addition to being featured on Extreme Makeover, Shamban has been on Good Morning America, The Tyra Show, The View, Fox News, Extra! and many other shows. She has also been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Allure, Marie Claire and many other publications. Start this complete skin recovery program today and discover the optimal way to care for your skin, inside and out.

The book argues that life is richer with the benefit of heroes, by chronicling four unsung heroic leaders who have been important influences in his life: John Frank Stevens, The Hero of Marias Pass and the Panama Canal; Heinrich Harrer, a mountain climber and adventurer; T. Keith Glennan, a leader in education and at NASA; and David Ogilvy, an influential advertiser.

History of the continuing care retirement community located in Oberlin, Ohio, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. Includes description of the six years of planning and construction that preceded the 1993 opening.

A very comprehensive history of the leaders in the history of mental health services in the Cleveland area.

How to Succeed In Life, Ideas and Principles They Dont Teach In School is an easy-reference guide that simplifies and demystifies the secrets of how to attain success and happiness. The down-to-earth style inspires the reader and listener to follow the authors advice.

Give the gift of inspiration and timeless wisdom! This book is ideal for your favorite graduate — or anyone embarking on the journey to discover a personal path to happiness and success. It shares motivational insights and invites readers to use them in a way that works best for them. Topical chapters make it easy to select a quote a day, or choose a chapter that speaks to a current challenge or situation. In today’s 24/7 cyber-connected world, this book’s straightforward presentation stands out. Its relatable topics spotlight the many intangible qualities often lost in our information overload, achievement-focused culture. Reminiscent of advice shared by parents, grandparents or a favorite teacher, “How to Succeed in the 21st Century” inspires readers to focus on the things over which they have input, impact and control. Themes range from thoughts on happiness and success to philosophies for contentment and a fulfilling life.

What's Your Learning Style?Being a lifelong learner is one of the secrets to happiness, success, and personal fulfillment. But what's the best way to become one? Kay Peterson and David Kolb have the answer. They offer deep, research-based insights into the ideal process of learning and guide you in identifying your dominant style. You'll discover how knowing your learning style can help you with all kinds of everyday challenges, from remembering someone's name to adding a crucial professional skill to your repertoire. This book is a guide to awakening the power of learning that lies within each of us.

Through a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work. Nicole Simek approaches the relationship between literature, theory, and public life through a specific site, the French Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and focuses on two mutually elucidating terms: hunger and irony. Reading these concepts together helps elucidate irony's creative potential and limits.  If hunger gives irony purchase by anchoring it in particular historical and material conditions, irony also gives a literature and politics of hunger a means for moving beyond a given situation, for pushing through the inertias of history and culture.

In I Can Learn from You, Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley--the authors of Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys--set out to probe deeply into the relational dynamics that help boys succeed as learners. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers in thirty-five schools across six countries, they examine the particular ways boys extend and receive empathy--modes of interaction that remain consistent across a wide range of schools, teachers, countries, and cultures. The book shows how teachers can help boys form productive learning relationships and how schools can support the development of teachers' relational capacities. At the heart of the book is the belief that educators must--and can--put relational teaching at the center of school life.

Use inbound principles to build and strengthen your company's future We're in a major shift in a fundamental aspect of how businesses grow, how buyers purchase, and how businesses build meaningful conversations and customer relationships. Companies who align their mission, strategies, action plans, and tools with the way buyers think, learn, discover, and purchase will have a huge competitive advantage. Organizations need to adjust their mindset and build a strategic foundation to deal with these facts and not just update a business plan. Inbound Organization shows leaders how to build their company's future around Inbound principles and strengthen the structural foundations necessary to deal with the changes in buyer behavior. It explains how and why Inbound ideas and how to create a remarkable customer experience belong in the boardrooms and on the desks of founders, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and anyone who has a responsibility to lead their organizations into the future.

"Dr. Benshoff delivers a powerful message and provides knowledge and skills to increase confidence, improve communication skills, and enhance women's professional and personal success..." "This is a well-written, practical guide that offers excellent information that is easy to understand and provides a wealth of useful suggestions regarding how woman can assertively express their feelings, get their needs met in interpersonal interactions, and confront the negative behaviors of others."

Three extended essays on teaching, including considerations of failure, endurance, and the comic dimension of scholastic life.

Dr. Paulette E. Terrelonge has a passion for nursing. She followed her childhood dream to become a nurse and God made it possible. She believes that education is the key to success and set out on an educational path. She first acquired a Diploma in Nursing, followed by a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Science, then a Masters Degree in Nursing Science and finally a Doctorate Degree in Nursing Practice. Dr. Terrelonge worked as a midwife in Jamaica WI and as a Nurse in Labor and Delivery in the US for many years and derived satisfaction in seeing new lives coming into the world. She feels honored to be employed by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene where she works as a Public Health Nurse in the Office of School Health. She currently works as a School Nurse/Public Health Nurse at a Public School in East New York, Brooklyn, NY.

Is there a space between where you are and where you want to be? Do you resist overwhelming situations, wanting to avoid discomfort (while telling yourself you just need more motivation)? Do you feel intoxicated with inspiration one minute, only to find yourself binge-watching "Real Housewives" not long thereafter, having slayed nothing other than the snack cabinet? You want to do things differently, but something keeps getting in your way. Maybe you spend too much time in your head. Maybe you panic when things start to feel “too much.” The solution? JUST DO NOTHING.

n account of a remarkably spirited and very independent school for boys in the rural hills of western Pennsylvania. Kiski's story illustrates the themes and practices that have advanced all-boys schooling at its best. The story also includes the careers of several of the most distinctive headmasters in the nation's history.

Applying sharply honed analytical skills and tapping into a wealth of established and uncommon resources, Attorney Frank Cellura has developed astounding new details of the 1963 Mafia assassination of President John F. Kennedy in a "Who, How, What and Why" approach. This work is the "coupe de grace" of the controversial Warren Report and its unsustainable ultimate finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone nut assassin who carried out the dastardly deed. Going forward, the Commission and its inauthentic investigation can be remitted to a deserving "requies aeterna" [Lat.: Final Resting Place].

A pioneering transplant surgeon shares memories from a life in one of medicine's most demanding fields. The early 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and surgeon Bud Shaw was on the front lines. As a patient's chance of survival increased, the number of transplants performed grew at a dizzying rate. Sharing vibrant vignettes from his early days as a medical student to his work under Dr. Tom Starzl, the pioneer of liver transplant surgery, to opening an internationally renowned center in Nebraska, Dr. Shaw takes us on an intimate journey through the world of high-stakes surgery.

Authors William Baker and Michael O'Malley teach readers that--far from popular media portrayals of corporate callousness--kindness has a very distinct and essential place in the office. Without presenting a naive idea of kindness, this eye-opening book identifies the surprising attributes successful and resoundingly kind leaders share--revealing how traits like sincerity, honesty, and respect can benefit organizations and help them to thrive. In Leading With Kindness, readers will learn how to apply these lessons in their own workplace, gaining tips for how to: motivate employees, committee members, and others; recognize unique talents while nurturing all employees; establish a supportive environment; spur continuous organizational growth; adapt to change; and prepare the next generation of leaders. Subtly and very effectively, a gentler, more human conception of leadership has become the gold standard for excellence. This insightful and refreshing book shows leaders how they can leverage the deceptively complex notion of kindness as guiding principle to lead more effectively.

Imagine a world in everything you know is changing. The sun is disappearing. Moonlight is toxic. Strange lights are seen in the sky. And people are dying from a new disease. In desperation, you turn to the Patriarchal government, who promises to protect you -- but at what price?

Imagine a world in everything you know is changing. The sun is disappearing. Moonlight is toxic. Strange lights are seen in the sky. And people are dying from a new disease. In desperation, you turn to the Patriarchal government, who promises to protect you -- but at what price?

This premium edition commemorates the fifty-year anniversary of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and it celebrates the incredible work done by expert professionals in multiple medical fields. Individual chapters explore the history and achievements of the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the School of Health Professions, the School of Pharmacy, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, along with the many Institutes, Centers, and programs that make the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center the nexus of medical innovation that it is today.

The kids have moved away! What do we do now? Thousands of Baby Boomers have asked themselves the same question. They've looked for alternative homes, but nothing affordable seems quite right. Should you move closer to your grown children? Should you stay put? Rent vs. own? Move to the mountains, or perhaps the beach? How about moving to a smaller town? The good news is that Boomers will most likely live longer than their parents. (If you are sixty-five, you have a twenty-five percent chance of living past ninety.) The bad news is that most of us have not prepared to live that long. So, what are we to do? Regardless of your situation, you do have alternatives. Let's make the most of the final one-third of our lives. Step back, relax, and take a journey with me as we explore housing alternatives, some of which I'll bet you have not considered.

A volume of contemporary poetry, Love Poems for Cannibals expresses the thoughts, feelings, quandaries and wonder of an American poet very much alive to the darkness and light of the 21st century.

The book proposes that successful leaders exhibit a mild degree of paranoia and, influenced by advances in neuroscience and genetics, argues that leadership and followership are evolutionary adaptations developed to enhance group cohesion and maximize chances for survival and reproduction, the two basic functions of living organisms.

A certified scuba diver, a jet skier, a traveler, a gardener, an English teacher, and a pianist, Linda Lehmann Masek still finds time for writing and rescuing animals in trouble. Her love of animals is substantiated by the number of kitties (all of whom came from local animal shelters) she shares her home with at any given time. Linda is celebrating the publication of her 12th book since her writing career took off in 1992 with the publication of the first Mag-ni-fi-cat story . A lover of all animal life, Linda and her three cats spend happy hours looking out of the bay window in their home watching geese, deer, and squirrels visiting. Her kitties are a constant inspiration for the author.In this book, Masek tells stories from the Revolutionary War and World War II from the perspectiveof Maggie, a very perceptive cat. Besides writing the book, the author has also illustrated the story.

This essay reviews the decline of male fortunes and prospects over the past half century and how the diminished masculine condition found expression in the emergence of Donald Trump’s candidacy and presidency.

Kat Wallace is on a mission. After escaping tortuous enslavement, she sets her sights on ending the human trafficking that has flourished in 24th century Earth. Adopted by the leader of the pirate nation of Bosch, Kat Wallace is determined to prove herself as a member of the Bosch Pirate Force and use her skills to avenge her enslavement and free other thralls. But unexpected love and a test of loyalty threaten to rob her of what she wants most: a home.

In his hometown of Oberlin, Ohio, Father Jake Austin assumes multiple, often seemingly incompatible roles of physician, priest, healer and detective. Having served as a physician and a soldier before entering a Catholic seminary, he is now a member of the Camillian Order and takes comfort in his service to the sick. When a comatose infant is admitted to the hospital, Jake must serve the young Catholic parents while working with the local chief of police, Tree Macon, to investigate. Is it SIDS, or something more? Meanwhile, Jake's responsibilities have increased beyond priest and physician to full-time uncle. His half-sister, Justine, a single mother critically ill with leukemia, is staying in the rectory with her son. Jake is her closest related donor for a possible bone marrow transplant. The Bishop asks Jake to investigate the reports of a Virgin Mary statue that weeps blood. Father Jake asks his close friend, Emily to help him figure out if it is a hoax or a true miracle. With each case, Jake hopes for miracles, and disaster produces unexpected good from evil as Jake's faith is reaffirmed in his pursuit of truth.

In this tale of suspense based on actual events, famed Croatian artist Maxo Vanka comes face-to-face with the phantom that haunts St. Nicholas Catholic Church as he paints his second set of murals for the parish. The ghost only appears to the artist, and Maxo must comb through his past and the present to learn its secret before he comes to personal harm, and his paintings and the church are damaged forever.

The problem of domestic violence and partner abuse knows no bounds, can affect anyone, and when kept silent and in the dark can become deadly. Hon. John Leventhal presided over the Brooklyn Felony Domestic Violence Court, the first felony domestic violence part in the nation, since it opened in June 1996 until he was elevated to the appellate court January 2008. While domestic violence has greater social and legal visibility today then it did in the past, the problem still remains a massive and ongoing crisis. My Partner, My Enemy brings truth and reality to a matter that desperately needs to be addressed. So how do we help reduce and eliminate intimate partner abuse, especially when the public knows so little and much goes unreported? By exploring the severity of the problem through true case studies of violent and abusive men, and their motivations, Leventhal successfully brings to light the problem and ways to help.

The Mysterious Cattery presents the reader with two novellas and a delightfully illustrated poem. All built around fun, ingenious, lovable cats.

Megan Reynolds hopes for a typical, fun-filled senior year of high school. However, boyfriend Joe announces plans to attend college far away. Then, Megan learns her friend Brenda's startling secret, further shaking her world. The friends ride an emotional roller coaster, working through crises amid reflections on their fabulous, but rapidly dwindling, days of childhood. Joe waffles between college and pro baseball. Then, something really confounds him. Brenda can't shake her insistence on attending her prom-or her confusion over whether or not to let someone adopt her baby. Another friend can't find a date two weeks before the prom! How can Megan help all of them? This thrilling senior year culminates in a prom to remember - in more ways than one! Will Brenda ruin everyone's night? Is there trouble for Joe's long-time romance and friendship with Megan? And, will Megan's prayers, for those halcyon days of youth to somehow never let her go, be answered?

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Profits and growth in a business are generated primarily by loyal customers who continue as customers for long periods, even for life. But today's more demanding customers are harder to satisfy, more difficult to retain. It's not the same old ball game - the dynamics of the marketplace have changed dramatically. Unless your strategies reflect this reality, you cannot win. Using his real-world experience in marketing, planning, and consulting, the author presents the rationale for customer retention and the basic concepts of keeping customers satisfied. He stresses the need for positive customer experiences, strong relationships and liking your customers. And fundamentally that durable satisfaction must start with employee satisfaction. The book presents 60 best practices for satisfying and keeping your customers - ideas and techniques that you can implement starting tomorrow. These have been battle-tested in the competitive marketplace and will be useful to any organization that seeks to respond creatively to today's challenges, especially professional service firms and innovative marketers. Applying these best practices will enable you to keep customers and reap multiple benefits.

Find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy. CEO and award-winning business writer John R. Brandt offers concrete examples of how any organization--large or small, and regardless of industry--can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent.

The Nordic Model: A Promise of Prosperity for All?” (together with Cheick Wague of Sodertorn University of Stockholm) unravels the unique economic and social processes by which the Nordic countries have achieved such universally acclaimed success, transforming themselves into full-fledged knowledge societies.

Find out how your relationship is like a game of basketball, except, you must be your own referee. Just like Division-One scholarships, ambitious women represent the most prestigious and the most difficult to attain. One-on-One is written from the perspective of an ambitious woman and creatively delivered using the language of athletes. In just nine practices (chapters) One-on-One will guide you with key skills to improve your overall game. Building a championship team with your ambitious woman before you meet her, while you are together, and even after experiencing some setbacks are the key areas of focus.

Life-Flight-Teams are called to transport those in need of critical medical care to an institution capable of managing their condition. On occasion, life-altering events can be prevented from ever occurring, or measures may be taken by both patients and medical providers to reduce the impact these events have. This book was written for two reasons, to enlighten those curious about the flight-nurse profession and to share some take home lessons from these medical emergencies with the public, nurses, and EMS providers.The author is an acute care nurse practitioner for the Cleveland Metro Life Flight Team. After being asked frequently about his career as a life-flight nurse, David Kaniecki decided to answer this question by sharing his more memorable experiences as a life-flight nurse, linking each story to a teachable event. In his book, he describes many of his exciting adventures of critical care transport with various emergent disease processes. For those unfamiliar to critical care, he helps explain these diseases in an easy to understand format prior to sharing his story. David believes the greatest teaching methods are through real life experiences. After each story, he shares key lessons that can be taken away from these events.

This book makes the case through research that kind leadership is beneficial in creating a contented workplace and even a positive bottom line. For the book, the authors examined 21 companies that see it as their mission to offer people a better, more fulfilling life for themselves, and assist with that holistic journey by providing the organizational elements people need to reach their potential. The authors looked at various businesses across the country and met with Rachel Moore, chief executive officer of the Music Center of Los Angeles, and Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JP Morgan, among others.

This is a memoir in which Bettye reckons with her family’s ancestry, which traces back to President James Madison and his slave: his half-sister, Coreen. Bettye researched her history by walking the paths of her forebears — beside a slave-holding fortress in Ghana, below a federal building in New York City, and under a brick walkway at James Madison’s Virginia plantation. And when Bettye tried to confirm the information her ancestors passed down, she encountered obstacles at every turn. Part personal quest, part testimony, part historical correction, The Other Madisons is the story of an extraordinary American family by a griotte determined to tell the whole story.

A cycle of short stories in which a boy's sense of deep spiritual connectedness to a prior reality is experienced—and imperiled—as he grows from early infancy to young manhood.

Dr. McMahon will guide you through the six-step process she has used to help hundreds of people of all ages overcome anxiety and panic, including people who had suffered from anxiety for more than twenty years. This book features a user-friendly anxiety model, an evidence-based approach to anxiety issues, and active-learning exercises. People with complex anxiety issues have overcome their anxiety – and gained life-changing insights – using this anxiety model. Supports the use of virtual reality for exposure therapy.

This timely collection of reflections asks some hard questions parents, the education establishment, and the larger society have avoided for too long. What are the consequences, Richard Hawley asks, of having created a commercial and public culture that is demonstrably toxic to children? Hawley challenges readers to consider, in light of what is known about healthy child development, the implications of imposing adult sexuality on children in amounts and in forms that can only overwhelm and terrify them. Drawing on vivid, personally observed examples and incidents, he carefully examines what children actually learn from popular culture in which public and private leaders are exposed as philanderers and frauds, in which athletes and entertainment stars are revealed as addicts and child molesters and murderers. The greatest dangers to this era's children, Hawley says, lie where the remedy ought to be: in the ways we tell our collective stories and in the conveyance of our common history. Our children are in danger of being educated to believe there are no healing true stories, that history is the invention of the teller, that nothing finally is verifiable, knowable, safe or right.In such a world all preferences and all claims become morally equivalent and thus meaningless.

Paul and Juliana are a fresh young couple who embody the near-impossible notion of perfect love. In this elegant, timeless, and lyrical love story, they walk the fine line between forbidden romance and tragic disaster that is the stuff of ageless myths. Mr Lawrence is a guidance counsellor relegated to the mind-numbing task of proctoring standardised tests at his Chicago-area high school, then analysing the results. Over-educated and over-cultured for his station, Lawrence is emotionally stifled, an island unto himself -- until chance circumstance throws him into the lives of two high school students, Paul Berrisford and Juliana Franck. Paul is a sloppy genius who would rather sing and play his guitar on a street corner than take the SATs and have his pick of Ivy League schools. Juliana is a lovely musical prodigy kept under the thumb of her old-fashioned, Viennese-born parents. Through Lawrence's furtive but well-intentioned design, Paul and Juliana meet one another, then fall in love, almost at first glance. Together, the two are a picture of courtly love brought to modern life. Lawrence's guidance sessions with them begin to grow into a friendship between the three, and slowly, his own admiration and affection for the couple begins to develop into love. But is he in love with Paul, or with Juliana? Or is he in love with their love? The situation takes an ill-fated turn when Juliana's parents catch her in a clandestine, prohibited moment with Paul. The couple's respective parents, concerned about each child's welfare, forbid them to see one other. Lawrence, like the friar in Romeo and Juliet, is caught in the middle, struggling between emotion and professionalism. At the climax, Paul and Juliana come to a fork in the road, one route that could kill their love -- and another that could kill them. Author Richard Hawley revives the classical romance in order to ask age-old questions: Is true adolescent love possible? What is perfect love? And what is perfection? Paul and Juliana leaves the answers up to you, while promising to take you on a magical journey of both personal and epic proportions.

My first book, The Business Zoo, was intended as a primer for people moving up in organizations. It reviewed through short, fun stories, the major activities of business such as selling and human resources as well as covered critical events that occur along your path such as mergers and crisis management. Its overriding and concluding theme was the unique role that a firm’s culture and leadership has on its success or failure and especially on its people. That book ended with a quote that Business may be a Zoo, but it is also a giant circle of people. Which brings us to The People Zoo. This book will go into more depth on the key aspects of how people deal with their organizations and each other. And we will drill into the impact that these activities have on an individual’s personal life. We will look at how we learn, grow and lead, and how we deal with crises, failures, transitions and exits along the way. This book is much more personal and focuses on my own stories: some good and some bad. This is not meant to be an autobiography but rather an attempt to guide others by showing situations that were embarrassing and/or extremely stressful, in my own career.

Skeletons from their past are threatening their present...is it best to leave them buried? In the middle of the Long Island Sound stands the lighthouse at Execution Rocks. What happened there is the stuff of myths and legends. It is said that every so often residents can see the image of an abandoned ship, sails billowing, silently gliding past the lighthouse. A ghost ship some say. Setting out to uncover the truth, Luce Porter teams up with the annoyingly attractive Detective who seems to conveniently pop into her life when least expected. Is it destiny? It's a question they both face when they discover they share a childhood vision, along with disturbing family secrets. Tales of slavery and horror. Tales of abolitionists and saviors. Tales of patriots and traitors. As romance blossoms, the two grapple with the blurred lines of American History while they challenge the demons from their own past.

In the book, University of North Dakota mechanical engineering professor Bibel and airline Captain Robert Hedges share riveting stories of both high-profile and lesser-known airplane accidents. Drawing on accident reports, eyewitness accounts and simple diagrams to explain what went wrong in the plane and in the cockpit, Hedges provides insight into aviation human factors, while Bibel analyzes mechanical failures.

Question: how would one pick a planet to live on? One might select certain characteristics to explore for mineral wealth or exotic fauna or for permanent settlement.It had started as a class discussion in Dr. Panter's University of Mars course on Extraterrestrial Exploration; the professor had called both Cari and Gil Morrison to speak to his classes about their experiences on Raptor's World, Birenso and the dying planet Brio as planet scouts.The most outspoken student was Lea Morrison; she'd spent time on both the first two planets and had close relationships with raptors, Brio and Brio horsk. She was convinced Dr. Panter was too embedded in Candor Cliffs' human culture to prepare students for any real extraterrestrial experience. She challenged him to take the class off to an unknown and unexplored planet and have the students learn on-site in real time!

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times? Delving into European history and thought and an array of music by such greats as Lully, Rameau, and Mozart, Mitchell Cohen reveals how politics--through story lines, symbols, harmonies, and musical motifs--has played an operatic role both robust and sotto voce. An engrossing book that will interest all who love opera and are intrigued by politics, The Politics of Opera offers a compelling investigation into the intersections of music and the state.

An essay-length consideration of the personal, cultural, and political consequences of losing a common understanding of what constitutes truth, fact, and evidence.

"The Private and Public Life of King Able" is character-driven. I had a vision of an old king, almost beyond time, abandoned in his palace, and utterly clueless about his predicament, as he is being watched throughout the play by anonymous men in masks. These men are dressed exactly alike, their white coats and masks projecting an insidious and possibly malevolent clinical detachment. No poem could contain the depth of my vision of such a foolish old king, helpless against the evil/impersonal forces covertly marshalled against him. The action of the play proceeds ineluctably, as the words of King Able fly up in seeming irrelevance to all that transpires. King Able, the only actor in the play who speaks, cannot say anything to help or ameliorate his situation. The silent men who watch King Able move and work efficiently and effectively to get what they want. So the drama uses language as a counterpoint to meaningful and effective action. The only character who speaks seems to be caught in his own "fog of language." King Able uses language to distract, deny, distort, and obfuscate his real situation, about which he remains clueless. His language of "self-comfort" is his mortal but unacknowledged enemy, an enemy of the truth.

If winning that next competitive presentation is crucial to you or your firm, then this is the book for you. A Professional Guide to Winning Presentations: Surefire Strategies and Tactics for a Successful Pitch provides a novel, direct approach on how to clinch the sale and acquire new business with presentations that outclass your rivals. This is the essential guide for building a powerful presentation to win a "beauty contest," secure a contract, or sell your management on a new initiative. This is not a general book on public speaking. This is a book for the hunters in an organization. George Havens shows you how to win when the chips are down, the stakes are high, the competition is tough, and you need to be at the top of your game. You'll learn how to get ready, how to deliver that winning pitch, and how to improve your odds. The best practices in this guide have been battle-tested and will work for you. Winning Presentations is brimming with effective techniques that will make it one of your most useful references.

The Progressive Gene fuses the idea of a universal, genetically determined personal and social morality with the expression of that morality in the individual's political philosophy. Although this connection extends to and encompasses society as a whole, the book focuses on the far left of the political spectrum, where the Progressives reside.

An inquiry into the role of pleasurable reward in the shaping of human behavior, with specific focus on the effects of psychoactive drugs on learning and development.

Based on an extensive worldwide study, this book reveals what gets boys excited about learning Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys challenges the widely-held cultural impression that boys are stubbornly resistant to schooling while providing concrete examples of pedagogy and instructional style that have been proven effective in a variety of school settings. This book offers more than 100 detailed examples of lessons that succeed with male students, grouped thematically. Such themes include: Gaming, Motor Activities, Open Inquiry, Competition, Interactive Technology, and Performance/Role Play. Woven throughout the book is moving testimony from boys that both validates the success of the lessons and adds a human dimension to their impact. The author's presents more than 100+ specific activities for all content areas that have proven successful with male students Draws on an in-depth, worldwide study to reveal what lessons and strategies most engage boys in the classroom Has been described as the missing link that our schools need for the better education of boys.

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors' comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of these approaches and their value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience and healthcare. Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropology. Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studies. Critically reviews the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement that is reshaping international health agendas.

Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress presents a model for supporting emotional well-being in workers who are exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. The book provides helping professionals with a portfolio of skills that supports emotion regulation and recovery from secondary trauma exposure and also that enhances the experience of the helping encounter. Each chapter presents evidence-informed skills that allow readers to regulate distressing emotions and to foster increased empathy for those suffering from trauma. Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress goes beyond the usual discussion of burnout to talk in specific terms about what we do about the very real stress that is produced by this work.

Restoring the Republic: A New Social Contract for We the People provides an overview of political concepts essential to understanding the evolution of our political system. It describes the problems associated with too many citizens disconnected or loosely connected to the public sphere and the paths active citizens can take to restore the principles of the Founders of the Republic consistent with the knowledge, wisdom, and experience gained in the last 240 years. The work addresses the need to establish a new social contract, one that strengthens the ability of citizens to conduct their own affairs while guaranteeing all residents equality under the law and equality in accessing opportunities to improve their lives. The presentation uses events and ideas from a group of historical periods (ancient Athens, the first few centuries of the Rome Empire, Tudor England, the Thirty Years War, the twentieth century) to exemplify concepts still in use. The last few chapters of the book use the current presidential election the same way. When it comes right down to it, the most important aspect of any political system is the way it reflects popular will without diminishing the rights of minority populations in society.

From the chilly gray of her hometown on Chicago's North Shore to a palm-speckled, sun-drenched California campus, young Ellen "Boo" Harvey is caught in a depressive descent into mania and melancholy that no one around her has the language, energy, or courage to look squarely in the face. Unheard or dismissed by her family and friends, Boo is forced to grapple with the ferocity of her Madness and the intricacies of her mind alone -- careening from mental paralysis and near-invalidity to recovery and back again. Despite every privilege afforded to her as the well-heeled daughter of a blue blood family, Boo's trajectory seems terminally inescapable until she meets Jude, a suicidal advocate for the mentally ill in Chicago, who teaches her how to rail against the machines and structures that work around the clock to render an entire class of Americans politically invisible and permanently broken. An assiduous and provocative debut, MV Perry's A Revolution of the Mind is equal parts political manifesto, tortured self-portrait, and call to action that gazes unflinchingly at the causes and manifestations of contemporary American Madness.

A consideration of the historical impact of all-boys schools and their place in contemporary culture. Monograph.

A chief executive and a business strategist, both of a training corporation which is touted in this volume's pages, advocate a training philosophy which, they argue, more accurately identifies training costs and focuses on tangible business results. An appendix includes a questionnaire and a process map.

The novel “Sara’s Message”, narrates a tale set in Sweden and in India, using the format of the fourth century Sanskrit poem, “Meghaduta (The Cloud Messenger”). The story is about a messenger of love sent after a run-away boy who turns jealous and turns into a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but is himself placed in mortal danger. The narrative includes landscape descriptions, and the efforts of a smaller language to break free of the domination by a more powerful language.

Wall Street Journal Bestseller "The pick of 2014's management books." -Andrew Hill, Financial Times "One of the top business books of the year." -Harvey Schacter, The Globe and Mail Bestselling author, Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague, Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization's success: how to scale up farther, faster, and more effectively as an organization grows.  Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the last decade to uncovering what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary performance, to help spread them, and to keep recharging organizations with ever better work practices. Drawing on inside accounts and case studies and academic research from a wealth of industries-- including start-ups, pharmaceuticals, airlines, retail, financial services, high-tech, education, non-profits, government, and healthcare-- Sutton and Rao identify the key scaling challenges that confront every organization.  They tackle the difficult trade-offs that organizations must make between whether to encourage individualized approaches tailored to local needs or to replicate the same practices and customs as an organization or program expands. They reveal how the best leaders and teams develop, spread, and instill the right mindsets in their people-- rather than ruining or watering down the very things that have fueled successful growth in the past. They unpack the principles that help to cascade excellence throughout an organization, as well as show how to eliminate destructive beliefs and behaviors that will hold them back.  Scaling Up Excellence is the first major business book devoted to this universal and vexing challenge and it is destined to become the standard bearer in the field.

This book draws on a wide variety of contemporary findings on the effects of drugs on adolescent development to chart a course for early recognition and prevention of harmful drug involvement school-wide.

A spiritual memoir of growing up in the Midwest.

The life expectancy in Shakespearean times averaged only about twenty-five to thirty-five years, but those who survived the illnesses of infancy and childhood could look forward to a long life with nearly the same level of confidence as someone living now. But even so long ago, some faced conflicts in their middle and later years that remain familiar today. In Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity, Karl F. Zender explores William Shakespeare's depictions of middle age by examining the relationships between middle-aged parents -- mainly fathers -- and their children in five of his greatest plays.

Shakespeare and Faulkner explores the moral and ethical dilemmas that characters face inside themselves and in their interactions with others in the works of these two famed authors. Karl F. Zender's characterological study offers insightful, critically rigorous, and at times quite personal analyses of the complicated figures who inhabit several major Shakespeare plays and Faulkner novels.

Some people see numbers and hear music. Others hear music and see colors. Nan Tynberg reads literary works-novels, short stories, poetry, all-and envisions a physical presence, a shape. Shape: Reading in Three Dimensions is a collection of twenty essays that reflects the author's unique visual approach to literature. Storytellers and poets, as different as Silko and Hemingway or Rios and Dickinson, are put under a surprising new microscope. Because the essays represent a broad mix of diverse writers, time periods and genres, they are accessible to a wide range of good readers everywhere.

"Culture counts" has long been a rallying cry among health advocates and policymakers concerned with racial disparities in health care. A generation ago, the women's health movement led to a host of changes that also benefited racial minorities, including more culturally aware medical staff, enhanced health education, and the mandated inclusion of women and minorities in federally funded research. Many health professionals would now agree that cultural competence is important in clinical settings, but in what ways? Shattering Culture provides an insightful view of medicine and psychiatry as they are practiced in today's culturally diverse clinical settings. The book offers a compelling account of the many ways culture shapes how doctors conduct their practices and how patients feel about the care they receive. Based on interviews with clinicians, health care staff, and patients, Shattering Culture shows the human face of health care in America.

Souls in Boxes explores the tension between our deepest human longings--our soulfulness--and the cultural barriers to expressing them, resulting in the needless failure to satisfy ourselves in our most essential pursuits--as lovers, as friends, as workers in organizational settings. A book for everybody, it invites readers to reconsider the most basic human interaction. Appropriately grounded in scholarship and enduring literature, it is both soundly reasoned and deeply felt.

When safely married partners are carried off course by romantic passion, they inevitably make a mess: guilt, shame, family wreckage, loss of social place. But not always.Perhaps, as in the case of big city journalist Sloan Fox and his improbable therapist Naomi Wise, committed lovers may ultimately reach that beckoning better place. With courage, humility and a measure of grace, they may pursue their longing to an intimation of the very source of longing. Sometimes love finds a way.

When best friends Cheryl and Dene both earn scholarships to the prestigious all-girls' school Palladian, they couldn't be happier. After all, the two friends are inseparable. They attend the same church, the same school, and they support each other through bad times and good times. Both girls are believers, but God remains an abstract concept for them. They have never had their faith tested. Their prayers are recited from memory, not from the heart. Life at Palladian will change all that as the two girls learn to navigate conflicts with dorm mates, mold new relationships, and discover the wonders of spiritual awakening. When a dorm mate falls victim to the allure of a charming "Sugar Daddy," Cheryl and Dene investigate his true intentions. They uncover a horrifying human trafficking plot aimed at Palladian's more susceptible students, including their new friend. In doing so, Cheryl and Dene begin a dangerous adventure that could well end with their own disappearance. Only their belief in God can save them, but will it be enough? A Splendid Awakening recounts one of the most rewarding events a person can experience: becoming spiritually aware in the company of friends.

An operetta libretto recounting the life of the medieval saint Julian the Hospitaler, with a general introduction and stage notes.

It's a delightful read- aloud for grades K-2, independent reader for grade 3, a book that grows with a child, because it includes figurative language that challenges high schoolers, as well as, adults. This delightfully, humorous story portrays several adventures and mishaps of the main character, "Stinky Shoes," before teaching an important lesson: Not all wishes are good wishes.

A Somalian refugee in Sweden suspects that a new friend was involved in a massacre by U.N forces in his home village.

What happens to a woman when the room that was once the guest room of her home becomes the space of self-imposed exile? What does she tell her children? What does she tell herself? How does she survive her marriage coming to an end without becoming bitter, hard, or cold? What if her time in that space was actually the key to her spiritual destiny? This inspiring memoir attempts to answer these questions and shares a riveting story of how one woman navigated the journey from one of life's darkest moments through the gateway to joy and to a new understanding of the calling on her life.

Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Politburo is using the vast resources of their space program to secretly modify weather in the fertile Ukraine when they realize their illegal harvest boosting operation is about to be discovered by the United Nations. In a desperate move to prevent discovery by the Global Climate Survey System, the Politburo votes to use their weather modifying system to create a series of devastating hurricanes off Cape Canaveral, the launch site of the U.N. Survey System. Their actions start a snowball of events, pitting ex-Navy SEAL Keith Maddox against his nemesis Nikolai Pronin, a ruthless KGB agent with a grudge from his failed post-war mission in Vietnam. The story moves across three continents as Keith, his business partner Marty, retired Admiral Jessel, and a band of his father's World War Two Austrian resistance fighters struggle to expose the Soviet plot before the dangerous chemicals released from the Russian-made storms destroy the Earth's ozone layer. But with the Soviets releasing a final mega-storm out of desperation, and Pronin blocking him at every turn, can Keith and his friends stop the monstrous hurricane before it's too late and the ozone is destroyed?

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year "A marvelous debut...Sometimes it takes the right nudge to fall in love with books." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This quirky tale filled with subtle humor makes a fun read-aloud, especially for cat lovers, literacy lovers, or anyone looking for a great story." --School Library Journal (starred review) It's not easy to teach a cat to read, but one boy tries to anyway in this sweet and silly picture book debut that captures the challenges and rewards of learning to read. Nick loves to read books--and he loves to play with his cats, Verne and Stevenson. So naturally Nick decides it's a great idea to teach his cats to read. But Verne and Stevenson don't appreciate when Nick wakes them up with a flashcard that says NAP. Nick finally piques Verne's interest with words like MOUSE and FISH. But not Stevenson's. While Nick and Verne go to the library, Stevenson hides under the porch. Will Nick ever find a way to share his love of reading with his feline friends?

The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outside the overcrowded, inner-city neighborhoods to which most African Americans were consigned. In asserting their right to these outer-city spaces, African Americans appealed to city officials, allied with politically progressive whites (notably Jewish activists), and relied upon both black and white developers and real estate agents to expand these "surrogate suburbs" and maintain their livability until the bona fide suburbs became more accessible. By tracking the trajectories of those who, in spite of racism, were able to succeed, Michney offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on racial conflict and black poverty and tells the neglected story of the black middle class in America's cities prior to the 1960s.

Today's kindergarten teachers face enormous challenges to reach district-mandated academic standards. This book presents a model for 21st century needs and goals of the present day. Classroom teachers working with diverse populations of students and focusing on issues of social justice provide vivid descriptions of classroom life across urban and rural communities. Teacher reflections and commentary from the editors link teacher decisions to principles of good practice. Teaching Kindergarten illustrates how a progressive, learning-centered approach can not only meet the equity and accountability goals of the Common Core State Standards but go well beyond that to educate the whole child.

Out of his unpromising cultural background in the American Midwest, Jonathan Force manages in the course of his undergraduate years at Yale to establish an Archimedean point outside of all culture from which to view contemporary life. He becomes a famous psychologist, an internationally renowned social critic and pundit whose published books-Force Fields, Reasonable Force, Uses of Force-strike such surprising and resonant notes that, in the words of his contemporaries, the public has come to think with his ideas rather than about them. In late middle life he experiences a personal revelation that will lead him to abandon his famous pundit persona altogether-and to move beyond the constricting limitations of "knowing it all."

Alicia can't stand the horrible leaders who put on a great show with lots of glitz and glamour for everyone, but who also force kids like her sweet little sister to answer calls to the government as mimes. Not that callers like it either, but Alicia and the other questers are determined to stop the insanity. And, will a great feel-good story finally bring Cleveland a World Series? (Why is a baseball story here? See the Acknowledgements) First, though, who is the Mary Sue who will lead the battle. Is it Cat, whose parents died because of government hackers? Alicia's brothers think so, they can't stop their wacky one-upmanship to prove their love for her. Or maybe it's Evelyn, who has her own love interest and whose violin playing is ridiculed for... Okay, it really is that bad. The tyrant's decrees are ridiculous. Even going to the bathroom is unsafe for them - good thing noone does during a quest. Can they defeat the evil king, rescue Alicia's sister, and restore sanity to their world?

This first-of-a-kind edited collection considers the recent phenomenon of transnational migration to Israel in a comparative context. The essays gathered here explore the large and rapid influx of foreign workers in Israel and how their presence has contributed to major shifts in the local labor economy while also generating complicated legal, policy-related, cultural, and ideological questions and problems.

Praises for Richard Hawley's poems: "I find much to praise and enjoy in these poems. I am moved by the intense lyrics, the perfect endings. Mr. Hawley shows how to get entirely out of yourself." --Robert Francis "I like the sure ease of Mr. Hawley's poems and their hard language-and most importantly, what they stand for." --John Fandel "Mr. Hawley focuses his penetrating eye on both the ordinary and the unusual. Like a necklace, the poems string together a series of unique gems to form a consequential whole." --Andrea Hollander Budy Other Praises: About The Headmaster's Papers: "Mr. Hawley has the poise and vision of a writer who can create a whole world." --John Irving About The Headmaster's Wife: "This novel is shapely and wrenching and good, beautifully written and full of life." --Andrea Barrett About Seeing Things: "Hawley writes that 'true stories enter the brain with the pulsing immediacy of secrets'-that's exactly the way this book works." --David Mallery About Boys Will Be Men: "The thrust of Hawley's witness is steadfastly and unpolemically hopeful." --Ron Powers

This is a story about two guys from Cleveland, Ohio, Bill Schlageter and the author Myron Stoll who tried to do something we had never done before, start a business. We did this in a country we knew nothing about, had never visited, and did not know the language-even the letters of that language seemed strange. But the key in doing this was not doing something totally new, but building on the knowledge and skills we had acquired. It is the story of how we started a wireless telephone company in L'viv in Western Ukraine and what happened in the years afterward. It is a story about a journey that lasted sixteen years, beginning one year after Ukraine gained its independence. This story is about the journey, and stories about the place, the people and the corporations or organizations for which they worked. It is about friendship and betrayal, weakness and strengths, success and failures, and a friend who was shot. It is up to each reader to decide what meanings can be derived from this story. As we often do not judge a book by its cover, we often do not judge a life by its ending.

Novelist Linda Lehmann Masek adds to her repertoire of short stories and novellas with this book length mystery. You'll love CopyCat as she helps her mistress solve The Diamond Case Mystery. "Excuse me," Hays asked "Are we honestly going to follow a cat?" "Why not? She seems to know more about this case than we do!"

Joe learns time travel, while feasible, is also quite rude when he sends his mind back in time to Louis XIV, as he becomes absolute monarch in 1661. Louis can't believe what this brash fellow from nearly 500 years in the future is doing. Joe makes a number of flubs, infuriating nobles and nearly igniting a number of revolts as he tries to make the world better. When the pope calls him on the carpet he must flee for his life after what he says. The advances he introduces change the world, but he ends up creating a much different history than he knows, and must determine how France should respond to a number of events in Europe. Finally, he must decide whether to go back to his own history and a body dying without its brain and soul, or to stay in that past which he has created. Indeed, he wonders if he can be pulled back. Will Joe make it? What kind of alternate world will he create - and can he make it a lasting change?

If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are your union doesn't carry much economic or political clout. But this was not always the case, as historian and activist James Young shows in this vibrant story of the United Electrical Workers Union. The UE, built by hundreds of rank-and-file worker-activists in the quintessentially industrial town of Erie, Pennsylvania, was able to transform the conditions of the working class largely because it went beyond the standard call for living wages to demand quantum leaps in worker control over workplaces, community institutions, and the policies of the federal government itself. James Young's book is a richly empowering history told from below, showing that the collective efforts of the many can challenge the supremacy of the few. Erie's two UE locals confronted a daunting array of obstacles: the corporate superpower General Electric; ferocious red baiting; and later, the debilitating impact of globalization. Yet, by working through and across ethnic, gender, and racial divides, communities of people built a viable working-class base powered by real democracy. While the union's victories could not be sustained completely, the UE is still alive and fighting in Erie. This book is an exuberant and eloquent testament to this fight, and a reminder to every worker—employed or unemployed; in a union or out—that an injury to one is an injury to all.

Unlikely Hitter is the story of Ovasta Kaiser, a woman who had everything-a loving fiance, a successful career, and a lifelong friendship. But all of that changed as she was the victim of a crime which transformed the course of her life. When she identifies one of the perpetrators to the police, the charges are mysteriously dropped. Feeling as if the legal system had failed her, Ovasta decides to serve her own form of justice but has a change of heart. When tragedy strikes again, Ovasta believes she has no other recourse but to retaliate."

Ovasta Kaiser is a woman who had everything--a successful career at a hospital, a handsome and loving neurosurgeon for a fianc , and a friendship which had lasted for more than two decades. But everything changed in one instance when she was victimized, an act that would forever alter the course of her life. When the legal system fails her, Ovasta decides to serve her own form of justice. Unfortunately, her desire for revenge leads her down a very dark path, especially when her assailants make an attempt on her life in order to keep her quiet.

Life along the color line in rural Ohio was hard. Being Black often meant feeling frightened and alone. For a family like Ric S. Sheffield's, examining this reality closely meant confronting challenges and tragedies that often felt overwhelming, even as their odyssey also included the joyful and inspiring. Navigating day-to-day existence in a world where trusting white neighbors required a careful mixture of caution and faith, Sheffield and his kin existed in a space where they were both seen and unseen.

We Made the Headlines Possible is George Havens' personal account of his time as a First Sergeant in the US Army in World War II.

What Do Daniel Kang and Pope Francis Have in Common? Me is about how a Korean American family survives, through a series of miracles, and finds love, and keeps on. An autobiographical work depicting real life interviews, Korean history from 1938 on, and accounts taken from family, royalty, describing how a Korean-American teenager finds herself and Me (God) from being a Duranie, cheerleader, and bratty younger sister to the present day K-Pop era and Pope Francis.

The year is 1897 and eccentric millionaire William J. Hypperbone has died The terms of his will dictate 6 players be randomly chosen to compete for the $60 million inheritance. To win they have to play his favorite board game "The Noble Game of the Goose" but on a much grander scale - a race around the country in "The Noble Game of The United States of America" Which of these brave adventurers will have the luck of the dice (and circumstance) to win "The Will of an Eccentric"? Jules Verne's epic adventure around the United States was never published in the United States during his lifetime and this modernized edition brings this obscure book to a new generation. This Modern Edition is a scholarly work and not just a straight reproduction. It has been carefully crafted and annotated to correct the many errors that existed in the original text. As the book was first serialized there were logical inconsistencies that have now been resolved. This along with the correction of typos, translation errors, and the modernization of obscure 19th century terms (all documented) created a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience that remains true to the Verne original. This book is being pulled from sale and replaced by a new edition that is an entirely new translation.

A selection of topical and lyrical poems. Monograph.

Written by the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (www.wordsmith.org), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English words will delight writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs of every ilk. The words are grouped in intriguing categories that range from "Portmanteaux" to "Words That Make the Spell-Checker Ineffective." Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example-and many feature fascinating and hilarious commentaries by A Word A Day subscribers and the authors.

Axioms, proverbs and other collected wisdom from a lifetime operating in the complex worlds of business and sports, compiled by the multibillion-dollar sports attorney and agent.

If you're like most performing artists, you're not in it for the money. Whether you're a musician, a dancer, or an actor, you've spent years mastering your craft. But to make it your career-you need to figure out how to get paid. Jobs are scarce and talent alone no longer assures success. Today's performers need to hone their entrepreneurial skills and create their own careers. Inspired by the celebrated Juilliard course, The World's Your Stage explains the business side of the performing arts. Filled with insights from leading figures in the arts as well as lessons from thriving artist-entrepreneurs, the book helps you: Understand the numbers - Find your niche-and fill it - Market and promote yourself and your venture - Network productively - Fundraise both online and off - Balance artistic and financial growth with the Oportunity Framework - And more. Keep your dream alive, but keep a clear eye on the facts. With planning and work, you can make a living doing what you love-you just need to learn how. "

Interim Executives are on-demand change artists who help companies attain world-class results. Interims are experts at stepping into unfamiliar situations, assessing the dynamics at work, and leading organizations through X-Formation(TM), the practice of organizational transformation. X-Formation is the first comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of Interim Executive leadership. It dives deeply into the characteristics that make Interims unique, the tools and approaches they use to get the job done, and the best practices involved in finding, assessing, and engaging them. Drawing upon experiences from hundreds of client engagements, this book details how Interims conquer tough challenges by utilizing the X-Formation Disciplines: Strategize, Optimize, Maximize, and Organize. It further presents many real-life case studies showing how companies of all sizes are benefiting from the help of Interims.