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The behind-the-scenes life of show business is incredibly tough. Bette Bernard knew what she was getting into. She had fought her way to near the top and become a tenacious businesswoman. Can love change everything and what sacrifices is Bette prepared to make between her career and her love.Dr. Frank becomes entangled in the intricacies of a tough show business.

Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that are not assumed to have political agency can obstruct and resist the smooth functioning of dis...

After her mother's overdose, eighteen-year-old Alison Bennett is barely surviving. Failing school, drowning in grief and haunted by Death. When a meteor crashes into Titan Fall's woods, everything changes: Alison can hear everyone's thoughts... Except for the boy in a green raincoat. Simon, now connected to Alison, finds himself in the middle of a dilemma... What to do with all of this control? Together, Alison and Simon have to learn how to navigate trauma, obsession and emerging powers. ...

Development of Adult Thinking is a timely synthesis and evaluation of the current knowledge and emerging issues relating to adult cognitive development and learning.Focusing on psychological and educational cutting-edge research as well as giving an overview of the key theorists such as Piaget and Kohlberg, Kallio and the team of expert contributors offer a holistic view on the development of adult thinking, representing perspectives from developmental, moral, and social p...

This book is a beginner’s manual for those who are curious about and want to learn how to connect with their spirit guides. It answers questions about who your guides are, the type of guides you may have, and many other questions that beginners have about spirit guide communication. There are chapters on angels, ego versus intuition, animal guides and more. The book gives you prayers and guides you through grounding and centering exercises. To help you connect, it introduces journaling, au...

Research and theory in adult development offers ideas about emotional maturity and cognitive development in adult life as well as operational definitions and methods that might provide clarity and rigor in work on wisdom. The study of human development offers a scaffold for understanding the emergence of wisdom, or the “process” that includes several lines of development, which may begin in childhood but which flower in adult life. This handbook brings together researchers from across the ...

Looking at higher education policy actors connecting the Finnish and the European Union (EU) contexts, this volume explores the power and influence of networks on decision-making and the utilisation of knowledge within higher education policy. It is unique in providing a new understanding of how European higher education policies are shaped and implemented in day-to-day policymaking.Building on existing literature and robust empirical work to focus on EU–Finland knowledge networks,...

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discou...

Things get chilling and scary in this thriller where the secret life of an assassin is about to be revealed. Caring and loving family man Jarmo Kivi lives a slow life in the suburbs where he works for a funeral home and actively takes part in his kids' lives and their activities. But Kivi has a secret; a hidden life of crime. Beneath his disguise as a loving father he is also a brutal, calculating and ice cold assassin – one who only a few know about. Who is he really, and for how long can...

Although the last two decades have seen the healthcare systems of most developed countries face pressure for major reform, the impact of this reform on the relationship between empowerment, consumerism and citizen’s rights has received limited research attention. Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy sets out to redress this imbalance.This book explores the extent to which globalisation and commercialisation relate to current and emerging health policies. It also lo...

The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and new border walls. Migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees have simultaneously become key political figures. Border and mobility studies are now two sides of the same coin.The chapters of this volume reflect the changing relations between borders, bordering practices, and mobilities. They provide both theoretical insights and contextual kn...