Maybe during this period in your life, you feel inadequate, like you're never able to meet the expectations, either yours or others’. Every mistake might seem like an insurmountable mountain, and every criticism echoes inside you like an endless voice of self-criticism. You find yourself constantly comparing yourself to others, seeing qualities in them that you think you lack, and this comparison leaves you with a sense of emptiness and insecurity. The SELF-ESTEEM LEDGER is the to...

Creating a nexus between techno-science and more fundamental disciplines, a phenomenon is emerging in our personal lives: we are beginning to preempt traditional sources for relationship formation; we are becoming more insular and more cautious in starting relationships. The media play an enormous role in our activities, encouraging us to self-advertise in newspapers and magazines, to participate vicariously through pornographic and borderline books, talk radio, and tabloid television, to ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.Systems Entrepreneurship is based on the author’s experience as a technology entrepreneur as well as from 50 years on a business-school faculty. The entrepreneurial framework presented here is robust and driven by a desire to find an organized and scalable model for students and researchers to work with partners in fostering innovation to advance sustainable solutions to a m...

U.S. Army Colonel Jane "Insane" Leigh Abel is a patriotic and proudly progressive Psychopathic-American who rages against the electoral process when the evil Roger Rump is elected President of the United States. Rebelling against the system, she goes off the grid and becomes a modern-day outlaw. In response, the White House sends her former friend Navarone "Nav" Cain to hunt 'er down and lock 'er up. But poor Nav doesn't realize how bloody, brutal, and unpredictable HER campaign is...

This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2022 on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, held in Grenoble, France, during September 19–23, 2022.The 73 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. ECML PKDD 2022 presents the following workshops:...

Do you work with anyone who thinks or acts differently than you? Would you like to understand why they think and act that way? Would you like to have THE answer for how to build more productive relationships with your coworkers (including your boss)? If so, #1 Amazon Best-Seller Solving the People Problem is for you.By sharing their own personal insights - gained over two decades as Organizational Health Consultants - and more than twenty interesting and o...

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied themWomen including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves.In The Trouble with White Women, Schulle...

Courage to Change: Personal Stories from Women Who Found the Strength to Begin Again A powerful collection of true stories about healing, resilience, and transformation. From grief to growth, trauma to triumph, Courage to Change shares the raw and inspiring voices of women who refused to be defined by their pain. This empowering anthology features more than a dozen personal journeys—from burnout and abuse to reinvention, spiritual awakening, and financial freedom. Whether you're healing fr...

In The Christ-Man Chronicles, Cooper-Gilesposits a compelling argument for both clergy and politicians, and their social issues, which should manifest and morph into models of progressive change and enlightenment.This book chronicles somewhat the search for bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the War on Terror, and the incidental attacks on Iraq in March 2003. The narrative also alludes to some reasons why there is much animosity and hatred toward America and some of ...

Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought “popular” music into America's living rooms!Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers the lives and careers of over one hundred musical artists who were especially important to the recording industry in its early years. Here are the men and women who brought into A...

This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not.Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/ability? How do wheelchair users understand their own bodies and an environment not built for them? By asking questions like these the authors reveal how normalization has informed people’s exper...

Winning her heart is the wildest gamble he's ever made.Kase owns eight casinos, juggles relentless meetings, and is wrestling with embezzled funds; it's a cocktail for a health crisis. His doctor's orders: rest. He retreats to his hometown for respite but runs into Anaya, his unforgettable ex.His main problem? He's still hopelessly in love with Anaya, yet unresolved issues loom large between them. Unraveling this tangle is crucial; failing means living with the unending regre...