Why would someone choose a career that terrifies her?The smiling girl in the cover photo harbors a dark secret. A graduate of the August 1970 Delta Air Lines rigorous training program, she is, in fact, terrified of flying. A traumatic flight from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, at age eight convinced her she would never take to the sky again. But her recently earned BA in psychology left little in the way of a career path without an advanced de...

What’s the secret to success?America’s number one greeting card designer Kathy Davis shares seven simple secrets which catapulted her from creating cards in a corner of her bedroom to touching more than 100 million consumers worldwide each year. These principles can help inspire success in your life, making your journey creative, fulfilling and above all, your own.

Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. From its onset as a medical specialty at the end of the nineteenth century, cosmetic surgery has been intimately liked to discourses of 'normalcy,' as well as to gender, race, and other categories of difference that have shaped its technologies and techniques, its professional ideologies, and the objects of its interventions. Davis considers how cosmetic surgery is tak...

Pediatricians care for children and families from all walks of life. Some are children known from neighborhoods. Others are children from distant lands. Pediatric focus does not stop with the physical care of children but extends to include their mental and social-emotional health and concern about their families. Pediatricians care about how children are doing at home, at school, and in their communities. In this era, children and their families are impacted by social and political change...

Make nourishing, plant-based meals in 30 minutes or lessThe whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) diet brings the conventional vegan way of eating closer to nature with a focus on dishes made only with unprocessed ingredients. Harness the health benefits of this lifestyle with the 30-Minute Whole-Food Plant-Based Cookbook, where you'll find simple recipes you can get on the table in half an hour or less.Whether you're brand new to plant-based eating, a ve...

Learn how to eat well on a plant-based diet for $50/week!Eating healthy on a budget can be a challenge. Doing so on a whole-food, plant-based diet can seem almost impossible. The Budget-Friendly Plant-Based Diet Cookbook proves it's both achievable and tasty to eat vegan on a budget. Discover more than 75 healthy, inexpensive plant-based recipes that will keep your taste buds jumping, your belly full, and your grocery bill in check. Explore new favorites: ...

This book addresses wide-ranging dilemmas that social researchers may face as a result of silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their research. In every research endeavour, thoughts, intuitions, biases, feelings or sensations may be left aside as the researcher attempts to come to terms with the complexities of material and figure out what the ‘main issue’ is. Researchers may pay attention to their own emotional responses during the interview, but often only in their field notes...

The second wave of feminism which challenged and changed many assumptions about the world in which we live was a product of various western cultures, with no single country possessing a monopoly on the writing of the texts that became the canonical statements of the 'new' feminism. Though many of the contributions to feminist scholarship that went on to become internationally significant hailed from Europe and the United States, these works were often formed within the context of local deb...

In Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies contributions by well-known international scholars from different disciplines address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Belonging is viewed from the perspectives of both migrants and refugees in their host countries as well as from people who are ostensibly ‘at home’ and yet may experience various degrees of alienation in their countries of o...

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs and leaders in many walks of life, this self-help book gives readers the tools for finding success in their careers, businesses, organizations, and private lives. What is the difference between those bold enough to pursue their dreams and others who never get comfortable enough to ignite their lives? The doers are "Firestarters" and, because of them, the world is a much different, and often, better place. This motivational how-to book provides insight...

Something isn’t working. You know it, even if you can’t name it yet. You’ve tried the initiatives, the trainings, the new systems—and you’re done with oversimplified answers. You want to understand how you got here and consciously choose what’s next. With Reweaving What Matters, Kathy Coffey Solberg meets you there—and gives you tools you can start using Monday morning.Most change efforts fail not because people didn’t care, but because they built on foundations no one had...

Being Bentley!How a Rescue Dog Rescued His Family Right Back!A little story of hope, trust, and love from a dog's point of view.YOU MATTER!As a scared dog was gently placed in arms of his new "furever" family, he looked at their smiling faces and wondered: "Where am I going now? Will I be safe? What's going to happen to me?"While this book is a sweet story about a rescue dog, it is also to encourage all children - adopted, fostered, one or two parent...