A promotion to a leadership position can be a wonderful thing—until you realize there's a downside. Suddenly you're responsible for managing more people than ever before and expected to produce results when your predecessor either left the department in a shambles or was a superstar with big shoes to fill. Fortunately, there are ways to stay calm and, focused, and build a powerful team while you're navigating through the chaos. When Jacob Green was in college, he suffered a serious brain i...

Achieve Optimal Health and Burn Excess Fat by Eating the Way You Were Designed to Eat with This Powerful Guide to The Carnivore DietMany people are slowly but surely coming to the realization that mainstream diet advice is harmful at worst and ineffective and suboptimal at best. This is simply because our bodies were not designed to survive on diets that are pushed on us today by "gurus". As a consequence, many people are living with "illnesses" they aren't suppose...

Some geologists imagine that the order of creation is registered in the rocks which compose the external crust of the earth, and that they can there clearly read a progressive development of organic life; in other words, that a succession of more perfect animals may be traced in ascending from the lower strata to the upper or more recent formations; that there is a gradual approach to the present system of things, and a succession of destructions and creations; worlds of living beings alte...

Essential Reading for clinicians, managers and researchers in child psychiatry, this authoritative book provides accessible coverage of essential theory as well as clear practical guidance to inpatient child psychiatric treatment. This method of treatment has fallen out of fashion in recent years in favour of community-based care, but remains a useful setting for treating more seriously ill patients. Bringing together contributions from across the profession, this book covers the 'state-of...

In this second book of The Adventures of Sophie Mouse, Sophie and her friend Hattie Frog go on a daring adventure through the woods in search of some special art supplies!When Sophie Mouse learns about some special emerald berries that will make the most perfect paint color, she knows she must have them! But she soon discovers that they can only be found in one part of the forest—Weedsnag Way. And that's far from Pine Needle Grove. Sophie convinces her best friend,...

The Memories of Slavery—Complete Collection gathers an extraordinary archive of testimony, autobiography, abolitionist argument, travel writing, documentary record, and literary representation. Spanning Atlantic slavery, bondage in the United States, escape, emancipation, and Reconstruction, it juxtaposes first-person recollection with polemical, legal, and historical materials. Accounts of flight, family separation, resistance, and self-fashioning stand beside texts that expose the contes...

The Unchained: Powerful Life Stories of Former Slaves serves as a profound anthology that traverses the compelling narrative landscape of freedom and resistance. Capturing a wide range of literary styles, from personal narratives and journalistic accounts to introspective essays and poignant poetry, this collection upholds the enduring power of storytelling. The works within weave together the harrowing experiences, innermost thoughts, and indomitable spirit of those who endured and oppose...

The Unchained gathers testimonies, memoirs, narratives, petitions, and documentary accounts that confront slavery as both a system of coercion and a field of resistance. Spanning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic and American contexts, the volume moves from seafaring captivity and plantation labor to escape, self-emancipation, abolitionist advocacy, and the difficult conditions of freedom. Its range of forms is a central strength: firsthand life writing sits alongside antislavery...

This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume.The contributors explore the science of sleep - what it is, what makes it happen and why we do it - as well as the measurement of sleep, its importance for daytime performance and its sociological and cultural aspects. Sleep disorders, sleep quality and the importance of sleep for daytime performance are also explored, as are the ways...

Achieve Optimal Health and Burn Excess Fat by Eating the Way You Were Designed to Eat with This Powerful Guide to The Carnivore DietMany people are slowly but surely coming to the realization that mainstream diet advice is harmful at worst and ineffective and suboptimal at best. This is simply because our bodies were not designed to survive on diets that are pushed on us today by "gurus". As a consequence, many people are living with "illnesses" they aren't suppose...

Drop off those extra pounds, trim your waistline and get in the best health of your life with this ultimate guide to ketogenic dietThere are few diets out there for safe weight loss that are as effective as the ketogenic diet, that's why it's so popular. It has been linked to amazing benefits like healthier skin, blood pressure regulation, reducing the likelihood of cancer and much more.Here's the thing though, when diets like the ketogenic diet become popu...

Truth With Ornaments is an allegorical gay novel based on a true story by Jacob Green, a Russian novelist.Set in an imaginary city parallel to Saint Petersburg, the author’s hometown, the story revolves around three main characters - Evan, Michael, and Madame Verona.While Evan has already accepted himself as a gay person, Michael is only on his way to do it. They are north and south, with Madame Verona in between, an observer discovering new truths of life through her own p...