Interference & Other Stories of characters who express their feelings in a variety of ideas, thoughts and questions.Hoffman's writing makes us consider and question our own position on each subject covered in the book.The novel explores death, yearning, understanding and curiosity. We read about a police man who is still hurting from his son's death but is trying to move on by marrying his girlfriend. We learn about another man who is a recovered alcoholic and keeps busy by working in his ...

You're working harder than ever, yet it never feels like enough. Property descriptions, follow-up emails, social media content, market analyses, client questions you've answered hundreds of times before. The work is endless, and it's stealing your evenings, your weekends, and your peace of mind. You've probably tried chatgpt or experimented with an ai tool or two. But disconnected experiments aren't the same as a systematic approach that actually transforms how you work. What you’ll learn ...

I was a successful businessman who was always looking for a new adventure to invest in to make my legacy greater. I should have known my next adventure was going beyond anything previously encountered. Despite my disturbing dream, I was not aware of what was to ensue.At the onset, this adventure appeared to be quite lucrative. However, as the adventure progresses, in its unfoldment, it led me to some other unsettling paradigms. I found myself in other time zones and even on other p...

Implementing the Mediterranean DietImplementing the Mediterranean Diet: Nutrition in Practice and Public Health situates this ‘gold standard’ of diets within the wider food environment by bridging the gap between the evidence-based health benefits of the Mediterranean diet and its implementation. The text explores the many approaches that can be used by health professionals to help consumers adopt this healthy eating pattern, as well as the barrie...

Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, racially, geographically, and in sexual orientation, these writers share a youthful precocity and...

Recent large-scale epidemiological studies have confirmed the pre-eminence of the Mediterranean diet for reducing the risk of primary and secondary heart disease and cancer. There is also increasingly convincing evidence for its protective value against diabetes, dementias and other age-related disorders, and for increasing overall longevity.The Mediterranean Diet: Health and Science is a timely, authoritative and accessible account of the Mediterranean diet for nutritionists and d...

**An acclaimed author reflects on his upbringing in a post–World War II blue-collar family and comes to terms with the racism, sexism, and other toxic values he inherited.Finalist for the 2014 New England Book Award in Non-Fiction**Richard Hoffman sometimes felt as though he had two fathers: the real one who raised him and an imaginary version, one he talked to on the phone, and one he talked to in his head. Although Hoffman was always close to the man, his father remained ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You're working harder than ever, yet it never feels like enough. Property descriptions, follow-up emails, social media content, market analyses, client questions you've answered hundreds of times before.The work is endless, and it's stealing your evenings, your weekends, and your peace of mind.You've probably tried chatgpt or experimented with an ai tool or two. But disconnected experiments aren't the sa...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You're working harder than ever, yet it never feels like enough. Property descriptions, follow-up emails, social media content, market analyses, client questions you've answered hundreds of times before.The work is endless, and it's stealing your evenings, your weekends, and your peace of mind.You've probably tried chatgpt or experimented with an ai tool or two. But disconnected experiments aren't the sa...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You're working harder than ever, yet it never feels like enough. Property descriptions, follow-up emails, social media content, market analyses, client questions you've answered hundreds of times before.The work is endless, and it's stealing your evenings, your weekends, and your peace of mind.You've probably tried chatgpt or experimented with an ai tool or two. But disconnected experiments aren't the sa...

"A deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel."—Liz Rosenberg Boston GlobeInformed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Living Do reflects "a new form of confessional poetry, one shared to some degree by other women poets such ...

“A darkly funny memoir about family reckonings” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.Andrew Meredith’s father, a literature professor at La Salle University, was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It’s a transgression that resulted in such long-lasting familial despair that Andrew cannot forgive him. In the wake of the scandal, he frantically treads water, stuck in a ...