AFTER THE HOT GIRL SUMMER is the book every woman wishes she had before heartbreak, confusion, and exhaustion taught her the hard lessons of modern dating. This is not another "empowerment" guide filled with clichés. This is a brutally honest, deeply transformative manifesto for women who are tired of performing confidence, tired of pretending they're unbothered, tired of being desired but not valued — and ready to rebuild themselves with purpose, peace, and feminine stren...

Just when you think you are settled comfortably in your career, you get the most peculiar job offer in your life.Megan Buchanan is a project analyst. She is not considering a career change. Until one evening she is offered to become an elemental.

Smirk the hiring gnome wreaks havoc for his superiors once again, when he accidentally rescues two spirits - a human and her dog.

Are you tired of chasing the wrong men? Are you ready to attract a man who sees your worth, respects you, and is ready to commit? Attracting Mr. High Value is your ultimate guide to understanding the difference between fleeting attention and true devotion.In this book, you'll discover:Why sexual attention can feel flattering but will never replace real commitmentHow to recognize a high-value man who is loyal, loving, and serious about building a fut...

In recent years, the aim of research on aging has shifted from prolonging life to fostering healthy and cognitively robust old age. In order to improve the quality of life of older people, we need to better understand cognitive aging as well as bodily aging.Health and Cognition in Old Age assembles the cream of research across varied medical, mental health, and social disciplines, and demonstrates how this knowledge can lead to improved outcomes for older people. The first...

I’m a man who takes what he wants.What do I want? Her.Olive Kernes owned me a debt and she thought that she had paid it back.But now I want more.I want more than just her time.I want more than just her body.Her new life has torn us apart.Now, it’s up to me to make things right.I will make the pieces of our love fit back together if it’s the last thing I do.But can I do...

This book provides a concise point of reference for the most commonly used regression methods. It begins with linear and nonlinear regression for normally distributed data, logistic regression for binomially distributed data, and Poisson regression and negative-binomial regression for count data. It then progresses to these regression models that work with longitudinal and multi-level data structures. The volume is designed to guide the transition from classical to more advanced regression...

This anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the immigrants have left behind, while the others spotlight the immigrants’ struggles to reconcile with realities they did not sign up for. In Chaitali Sen’s “The Immigrant,” Dhruv is unable to talk about a lost boy because he feels “as if he were trapping the boy with his story,” as if the lost b...

This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on heat stress in dairy cattle.The first chapter outlines technologies to breed for more heat tolerant dairy cattle, exploiting either between or within breed genetic variation in the trait. It discusses future perspectives on the use of different tools to achieve accelerated improvements of this important trait.The second chapter discusses breeding goals and multi-trait sel...

A routine transport becomes anything but routine. A space station maintenance worker finds himself fighting off an invasion. A routine test flight becomes a first contact situation. A weary soldier must save an abandoned child, more than once. A veteran mech pilot and his crew are betrayed by those they are sworn to protect. A stockpile of old rations is worth more than it seems. A young lieutenant commander finds herself using skills she didn't knew she had when a simple mission becomes m...

While many books and current research in the field of child psychotherapy focus on typical psychiatric conditions faced by children and the associated treatments for those conditions, there is a paucity of information on treating vulnerable demographics and unique child populations. These include, but are not limited to, children affected by natural disasters, complex trauma, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Play Therapy with Vulnerable Populations: No Child Forgotten provides the latest...

This collection of 35 short poems was first published in 1927, and is a sequel to When We Were Very Young, which was the first anthology of verse dealing with the domestic adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.As the author explains in the introduction: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young … and now we are six. So, of course, bits of it seem rather baby-ish to us, almost as if they had slipped out of some oth...