This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organisations must consider alongside legislation to respond fully to an aviation emergency or accident. It offers both theory and practical tips and ideas along with templates and checklists to help build confidence in how to run an aviation emergency operation. This includes timelines for activation, setting up and managing humanitarian centres and how a full aviation crisis o...

The desire of every parent is to have a happy, confident child. This book provides a Framework for parents to follow, a Framework which encompasses every family’s ethnic, religious, and racial background. Parent mentoring guidelines are included in order to help parents maximize their child’s potential while providing him/her acceptance and motivation. Raising a child is never easy and cannot be done perfectly. Children enter this world with their own personalities, their own uniqueness. A...

Kids helping kids provides growth for both the mentor and the student being mentored. The goal is to provide teens with the tools necessary to participate to their fullest in and outside the school community. Mentors learn and then teach leadership skills to their mentorees. Skills include communication skills, body language, human relation skills and much more. Their support of their mentorees opens the door for success in school and for personal self-development for these teens. The majo...

Happiness is doing what you love to do. Finding your passion is your opportunity to make a difference in the world. This book shows you how to live the life you were meant to live by guiding you through the process of self-discovery. This process will help you find your passion and apply what you have learned about yourself to a career path. You learn how to use the invaluable external and internal tools to help guide you on your exciting journey. You discover not only how to find your ide...

Speaking Skills for Teens trains students to learn effective speaking skills and also motivates students to view themselves and their classmates in an optimistic manner. Because they can find only positives in each talk given by their peers, that is the way they start viewing each presenter even before the talk begins. Through active participation, students learn how to maximize their speaking skills, their poise, and their recognition of their own skills and abilities. In addition to lear...

Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.

Designed as a textbook for radiographers, this up-to-date manual provides an accessible store of information on pediatric imaging procedures, with clearly described techniques and instructions. The aim is to simplify the pediatric examination and facilitate the experience for the patient, parent, and technologist. Extensively illustrated, this work describes in detail correct positioning, radiation protection, and methods of immobilization. The major portion of the book was written by seni...

This is the story of the heart-wrenching journey of a mother and her son as they struggle to come to terms with and overcome his addiction to heroin. The facts in this story are all true and serve to map out the challenges and the heartache of the life of a mother living with an addicted child. In a very real and candid way, it is written both to identify with and to encourage mothers and other family members who are living through this same nightmarethe nightmare of dealing with an addict...

In the 1600s, a brutal massacre on an island off the coast of New England leaves only one survivor: Sarah. Wounded and alone in the carnage, she fights to stay alive as she waits for her rescuers. Each night, she returns to a group of boulders along a path to the beach and listens to scavengers feed. That path is where she finally dies, but her spirit lingers on.For more than three centuries, Sarahs ghost waits in the rocks for someone to save her. Most walk her path safely, but if...

Today, 55% of the world's human population lives in urban areas. By 2030, up to 90% of the global human population will live in cities and the global population is expected to increase by 68% by 2050. Although land cover categorized as "urban" is a relatively small fraction of the total surface of the Earth, urban areas are major driving forces in global environmental change, habitat loss, threats to biodiversity, and the loss of terrestrial carbon stored in vegetation biomass. These and m...

Anxiety is epidemic and it touches people from all walks of life, knowing no age, gender, ethnic, or economic boundaries. It can be paralyzing while considerably narrowing the scope of your life.This book provides practical, holistic, easily understood strategies for all ages, presented through storytelling and the sharing of real experiences. You will discover the benefits of cognitive behavioral work (yes, your thinking and behavior do matter!) and learn how to let go of control,...

When Hyrum and Gail Smith brought their first baby home from the hospital, they were full of dreams for her. They wanted little Glenna— along with all her brothers and sisters to follow— to reach her highest potential as an individual. Instilling competence, confidence, and compassion in each of their six children became their goal.But in a modern world filled with conveniences and quick fixes, how could they teach the values that Gail had learned as a child in Utah'...