Are you still waiting for someone else to tell you that you are enough?Does Any of This Sound Familiar?• You change your opinions depending on who is in the room• You apologize before you even know what you did wrong• You replay conversations for hours, wondering if you said the wrong thing• You feel relief when someone approves of you, and dread when they don't• You have lost track of what you actually want because you have spen...

"The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate" by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton provides a harrowing account of one of the most infamous events in American history. The book chronicles the ill-fated journey of the Donner Party, a group of pioneers who set out for California but became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a brutal winter. Houghton, a member of the party, offers a personal perspective on the struggles, hardships, and the dire choices faced by the group as the...

Working in senior care isn't for everyone. It isn't even for most. But for those rare few who find their passion in this multifaceted industry, the sense of job and life satisfaction are limitless. So too, however, can be the pervasive sense of loss and hopelessness. After graduating from university in Vancouver, Canada, Kevin Donner followed his high school sweetheart to Australia and the United States as she pursued her dream of medical school. Over the years that follow, each move force...

The gritty combat memoir of a Marine Corps artilleryman and forward observerAs a married man and Stanford graduate student nearing thirty, Christopher Donner would likely have qualified for an exemption from the draft. Like most of his generation, however, he responded promptly to the call to arms after Pearl Harbor. His wartime experiences in the Pacific Theater were seared into his consciousness, and in early 1946 he set out to preserve those memories while they ...

From the experts at the world-renowned medical institution, clear information on diabetes and "practical advice on all aspects of care" ( Publishers Weekly).Living with diabetes is a balancing act of monitoring blood glucose, food intake, and medication. It makes sense that individuals who have diabetes do best when they understand their condition and how to control it.The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes is a comprehensive, easy-to-read guid...

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate tells the story of the infamous Donner Party.

"... A vague little shape is set free I cannot hear, I cannot see Give it body or make it bright..." (From 'The Stifled Poem') This is an anthology that should appeal to many, as it comprises light-hearted as well as serious poems rendered in a comfortable and witty style. Leafing through its pages, we get glimpses into the changing face of nature, art and technology. More importantly, the poems are a comment on life - its loves, sorrows, surprises, disappointments, its varied existential ...

The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate is a powerful first-person account of one of the most infamous tragedies in American pioneer history, written by Eliza P. Donner Houghton, who was just a young child during the ordeal. The Donner Party set out in 1846 to reach California, lured by promises of a better life and misled by poor guidance. After taking an untested shortcut known as the Hastings Cutoff, they became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains by early and...

In a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, leadership needs to move beyond the "agile" approach that dominated organizational leadership practices at the end of the 20th century. What is required now for successful leaders is a skillful juxtaposition of proactivity and humility, which we call "guiding the tide."Successful leaders of today must demonstrate personal agency in order to guide the tide of events around them rather than have the tide of events sweep them ...

A different kind of ghost story.After a near fatal accident, a troubled young man grapples with missing memories while confronting past struggles that are all too clear-his relationship troubles, neurodivergence, and dismay with the lack of spirituality in religion. In an ominous small town he encounters a ghost-like child who shows him visions he comes to believe hold the connection between these disparate elements. Will he find the answers he seeks, or will the d...

Geneticists Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast are on the verge of a revolutionary breakthrough when they are forced underground by a closed-minded world, fearful of tampering in God's domain. There in the shadows they create Dren, a hybrid born of beast and man whose potential exceeds their wildest dreams...but Dren becomes their worst nightmare when she grows too strong to contain, too smart to control, and too seductive to resist.From the subversive imagination of Vincenzo Natali, SPLIC...

A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College, Goodale and other contributors renew the debate in anthropology over the authenticity of field data and representations of other...