Are You a Fangirl?• Do you survive boring classes or meetings by imagining your favorite TV couple making out?• Have you posted a lengthy diatribe on the Internet defending a fictional character?• Have you gotten carsick from reading fan fiction on your smartphone?• Has Netflix presented you with the “Are you still watching?” button at least once?If you answered yes, you are a fangirl. (But you already knew that!)Fangirling is more than a hobby;...

The primary threat to long-term executive survival is not sudden market disruption, but the lethal calcification of internal assumptions. As professionals accumulate deep expertise, their neural pathways rigidify, creating massive cognitive blind spots that violently reject contradictory data. Maintaining strategic agility in a rapidly evolving economy requires the deliberate, often painful induction of epistemic plasticity—the biological and psychological process of aggressively unlearnin...

Vacationing is a pastime that is enjoyed by many. While vacations are nice, needed, and important, they can become costly.This cost is often associated with additional expenses such as food, beverages, and entertainment. If you are interested in vacationing aboard a cruise ship, but you are worried about the cost, you don necessarily have to be.

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." This new approach, examining speech exchanges between a speaker and audience in which both anticipate, interact with, and respond to each other and each other's expectations, demonstrates that the prescriptive process involves a dynamic...

Mining in Yuba County illustrates the story of how this geologically unique part of California drew multitudes of people from around the world during the early days of the Gold Rush. It depicts the region's evolution from anarchy to civilization. It gives faces to the individuals who were instrumental in creating society in Yuba. It elaborates on incidents in which Yuba influenced the nation, on matters as historically significant as California entering the Union as a free state and affect...

Licensed therapist and respected mental health writer Dr. Kathleen Smith offers a smart, practical antidote to our anxiety-ridden times. Everything Isn't Terrible is an informative, and fun guide - featuring a healthy dose of humor - for people who want to become beacons of calmness in our anxious world.Like Sarah Knight's "No F*cks Given" guides and You Are a Badass, Everything Isn't Terrible will inspire readers to confront their anxious selves, take ch...

This book is to help children learn expand their imagination and at the same time help them learn how to count.

This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice. The research presented here reveals that teachers have the capacity to think and work differently, yet are rarely provided with opportunities to exercise active decision-making about their personal learning needs. Creating and imp...

Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor’s abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalin’s infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had his report read out loud to members across the Soviet Union that spring. However, its message sparked popular demands for more...

Change the past to protect the future. On the brink of divorce and reeling from the disappearance of her mother, Marie is propelled to post apocolypse by a super human who guides her to help humanity. After seeing the destruction of her neighborhood and civilization she chooses to help.Marie moved back to her home town after being gone for 20 years. Turmoil strikes as her military retiree husband is unable to deal with civilian life and there may be no saving their marriage. Her mo...

This volume explores why Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language and how this U.S. foreign language deficit negatively impacts national and economic security, business and career prospects. Stein-Smith exposes how individuals are disadvantaged through their inability to effectively navigate the global workplace and multicultural communities, how their career options are limited by the foreign language deficit, and even how their ability to enjoy travel a...

Licensed therapist and respected mental health writer Dr. Kathleen Smith offers a smart, practical antidote to our anxiety-ridden times. Everything Isn't Terrible is an informative, and fun guide - featuring a healthy dose of humor - for people who want to become beacons of calmness in our anxious world.Like Sarah Knight's "No F*cks Given" guides and You Are a Badass, Everything Isn't Terrible will inspire readers to confront their anxious selves, take charge of their anxiety, and ...