ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Finalist!What Would Your Life Be Like If You Simply Let Go of Control?At work, they oversee every detail of every project and expect nothing less than perfection from their coworkers.At home, they obsess over finding the “right” person. Then, they criticize their lover or spouse for doing everything wrong.As parents, they practice zero tolerance for their children’s preferred study practices, choice of friends, dress cho...

Overwhelmed by life's challenges, unpredictability, and uncertainty? Imagine waking up each day with less stress and more ease, confident that whatever challenges arise, you have the practical tools to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth.In The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, best-selling author Daniel A. Miller (renowned for Losing Control, Finding Serenity and The Gifts of Acceptance) shows ...

Overwhelmed by life's challenges, unpredictability, and uncertainty? Imagine waking up each day with less stress and more ease, confident that whatever challenges arise, you have the practical tools to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth.In The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, best-selling author Daniel A. Miller (renowned for Losing Control, Finding Serenity and The Gifts of Acceptance) shows ...

"Transform any type of entrepreneurial activity, new idea, or . . . a business you already own into a much more profitable company" with this book's strategy. (from the foreword by Kevin Harrington, an original "shark" on Shark Tank and serial entrepreneur)In Click and Grow Rich, readers discover the nine-step proven formula for creating a wildly successful online business.The unsettling truth is that ninety-five percent of all businesses ...

Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff.The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the theories that are required to understand the way we are created by material as well as...

Children are being identified with more neurodevelopmental disorders than in previous decades and understanding these medically complex disorders has become critical as more children are living with these disorders.This pediatric treatment guide provides cutting-edge research and intervention recommendations for professionals working with children and adolescents. A team of contributors with diverse experience portray medically complex information and neurodevelopmental disorders i...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Legal assistants job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much st...

Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become.Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Ea...

This illustrated children's book is for all little boys and girls who sometimes need help from a parent to figure out how to cure their boredom when they think there is nothing to do.

As a result of growing life expectancy, the period of retirement is likely to surpass the entire period of working life in many countries. There is little acknowledgement that retirement is not an event but an extended period of life that unfolds over several decades. Experiences vary considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach ...

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people, the ethnographic chapters examine topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These chapters alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophe...

Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is just up to us to decorate, transform and construct our homes, but in this book we discover a new form of ‘estate agency', the active participation of the home and its material culture in the construction of our lives. What do the possessions people choose to take with them when moving say about wh...