Insiders' Guide to North Carolina's Mountains is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to the region that includes Asheville, Biltmore Estate, Cherokee, Blue Ridge Parkway, and other nearby environs. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the area and its surrounding environs.

The definitive collection of North Carolina's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for North Carolina residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

First published in 2000.This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national origin, and class in women's oppression.

Your intuition and empathy as a highly sensitive person make you more compassionate, understanding, and insightful.However, these same qualities also make you particularly vulnerable to abuse.Because you feel others’ emotions intensely – and deeply care about their feelings – you tend to feel responsible for their happiness and well-being.In stop people pleasing, you will discover:How the fear of disap...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Your intuition and empathy as a highly sensitive person make you more compassionate, understanding, and insightful.However, these same qualities also make you particularly vulnerable to abuse.Because you feel others’ emotions intensely – and deeply care about their feelings – you tend to feel responsible for their happiness and well-being.In stop people pleasing, you will discover:

Your intuition and empathy as a highly sensitive person make you more compassionate, understanding, and insightful.However, these same qualities also make you particularly vulnerable to abuse.Because you feel others’ emotions intensely – and deeply care about their feelings – you tend to feel responsible for their happiness and well-being.In stop people pleasing, you will discover:How the fear of disap...

Techniques for managing others while maintaining mutual respect. Asserting Yourself at Work provides business professionals with the communication tools and psychological foundation they need to perform more assertively on the job. Designed for front-line managers, supervisors, team leaders, team members, employees, and life-long learners, this course promotes the use of direct, inclusive communication as a powerful tool for achieving targeted goals and building lasting relationships. Asserti...

How to Buy and/or Sell a Small Business for Maximum Profit is geared toward the budding entrepreneur who wants to buy or sell a small business. Topics covered include: finding and evaluating a business to buy and/or sell, performing due diligence, how to value a business, raising the necessary capital, evaluating a business financial condition using discounted cash flow, excess earnings, asset value, and income capitalization, brokers, leveraged buyouts, letters of intent, legal and tax co...

As digital media, tools, and techniques continue to impact and advance the humanities, Doing More Digital Humanities provides practical information on how to do digital humanities work.This book offers:A comprehensive, practical guide to the digital humanities.Accessible introductions, which in turn provide the grounding for the more advanced chapters within the book.An overview of core competencies, ...

Experiencing Transcendence shatters the myth that addiction and trauma must be lifelong battles. Drawing on decades of clinical success, Richard Taite and Dr. Constance Scharff reveal a radical truth: complete freedom is possible. Building on the Stages of Change model, they introduce a powerful final stage—Transcendence—where old wounds lose their pull, self-care blossoms into compassion, resilience takes root, and love becomes boundless. With inspiring stories and practical guid...

"Mumu" is the psychological story of Ivan Turgenev about the deaf-mute janitor Gerasim, who, due to the whim of his lady, was forced to part with his beloved and drown his only friend - a dog. The author sympathizes with the simple and kind Gerasim, and his mistress portrays tough, cynical and capricious.Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "Noble's Nest", "Biryuk", "Fire at Sea", "Inn", "Clock, belong to the author", "Three portraits", "Strange story", " Date", e...

Ivan Turgenev was an outstanding writer of the 19th century, a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of Russian language and literature. He was the author of philosophical and psychological poems, short stories, short novels, and novellas.Throughout his work, he delves into the themes of Russian intelligentsia and peasant life, showcasing mastery in creating psychological portraits.1.First Love2.The District Doctor3.Mumu