Making a living while following one's bliss is too often seen as an impossible dream, too idealistic and pragmatically unattainable. Not so, according to Nancy Anderson, who provides a wealth of wisdom and myriad ways to discover your passion and follow your heart to a financially and personally rewarding career.

This engrossing second novel in the trilogy The Company of Good Women shows Juneau, Deenie, and Erin facing the repercussions of secrets kept and secrets revealed. Juneau's life is complicated by her success as a writer and the consequences of a wayward daughter's choices. Willadene struggles to regain her footing after the birth of a fussy baby and to keep her older children from going astray. And Erin fights to hold her young family together when her husband makes a startling revelation....

A lively and accessible history of the fur trade west of the Rocky Mountains.Every March between 1826 and 1854, the York Factory Express began its journey from the Hudson’s Bay Company’s headquarters on the Pacific Ocean, where the express-men paddled their boats up the Columbia River to the base of the Rocky Mountains at Boat Encampment, a thousand miles to the east. At Jasper’s House they were 3,000 feet above sea level. Their river route would return them to sal...

The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and beloved Firefly series from creator Joss WhedonThe Battle of Serenity Valley was the turning point that led the Independents to their defeat at the hands of the Alliance. Yet the Browncoats had held the valley for weeks against all odds, before being ordered to lay down their arms. Command stated they refused to send in airpower because the ground war was “too hot.” But the soldiers who were there insist that...

Fisher & Frey’s answer to close and critical readingLearn the best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading and the big understandings they yield. But that’s just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include illustrative video, texts and questions, cross-curricular examples, and an online facilitator’s guide—making the two volumes of TDQ a potent professional development tool across all of K–12. The genius of TDQ is the way Fish...

Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Hatice Bay, Thomas Britt, Robert Burgoyne, Emily Diane Burkett, Jack Finucane, Adam Hebert, Noemí Fernández Labarga, Russell Meeuf, Wade Newhouse, Isaiah Frost Rivera, Nancy McGuire Roche, Laurent Shervington, Amira Shokr, James Steck, Christy Tidwell, and Lauren TocciAfter the commercial and critical success of 2017’s Get Out, Jordan Peele quickly established himself as an exciting and innovative auteur with a knack for reinventing Hol...

Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Hatice Bay, Thomas Britt, Robert Burgoyne, Emily Diane Burkett, Jack Finucane, Adam Hebert, Noemí Fernández Labarga, Russell Meeuf, Wade Newhouse, Isaiah Frost Rivera, Nancy McGuire Roche, Laurent Shervington, Amira Shokr, James Steck, Christy Tidwell, and Lauren TocciAfter the commercial and critical success of 2017’s Get Out, Jordan Peele quickly established himself as an exciting and innovative auteur with a knack for reinventing Hol...

The only textbook explicitly designed to address counseling with adults who are coping with individual, relationship, and work transitions, this volume integrates the basic tenets of adult development with therapeutic practice. It is based on Schlossberg's theory of transitions, a new process and content model that offers effective techniques for helping adults to understand and successfully navigate normal life transitions.This revised edition addresses contemporary societal ills ...

Writers Sidekick Resource Hub gathered great authors and their literature to create In Isolation Las Vegas Anthology 2021.Inspiring People Through the COVID-19 Quarantine In 2020, we faced a new virus that spread worldwide, and quarantine isolation helped prevent the spread of the virus to the uninfected. It was like a scene straight out of the movie. While enduring quarantine, people needed something uplifting to cheer them up, which could lighten the mood and give hope for the fu...

This lively and intriguing study looks at the way sports both reflected and shaped Victorian society.Just as our own games have a lot to say about modern American culture, so sports are a prism through which we can gain valuable insights into Victorian society. The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games is an engaging and perceptive account of how sport developed during Britain's heyday, who played (and who wasn't allowed to play), and what it all conve...

Extramarital affairs are certainly not the social taboo that they once were, and may be more prevalent now than ever. Unfortunately, Christians are not exempt. With the anonymity of the Internet and the privacy of personal mobile phones, the temptation to cheat on one's spouse has fertile ground to grow.After straying to the other side of this marital fence--and returning to find forgiveness and restoration--Anderson brings this practical book about predicting and preventing an extr...

Fundamentals of Educational Research succeeds in cutting through the complexities of research to give the novice reader a sound basis to define, develop, and conduct study, while providing insights for even the accomplished reader.This best-selling book is of value to all social researchers, but in particular to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers employed in private industry, management and government agencies. Anderson discusses the rese...