New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined personal relationships.Based on the research expertise of each of the authors (all identical twins in their own right), and vignettes from twins across the globe, this book describes the inner workings of the twin-world, showing how the twin-world creates experiences that are often ...

Alex and Claire are just friends, despite what anyone around them chooses to think or hope for. From the day Claire nearly breaks Alex’s arm when they meet in martial arts class as teenagers, to the day Alex is able to reveal to Claire his darkest secret after returning from deployment to Iraq, they struggle and grow together through their most formative years. Just Friends, Just War explores the various battle lines drawn in any relationship, from the war between the sexes to ide...

AS SEEN IN MALCOLM GALDWELL’S BLINK: Discover the groundbreaking classic business book on effective decision making!How do people really make decisions? By drawing on prior experience and using a combination of intuition and analysis.We have all seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives...

From first haircut to first ice cream cone, each year brings a new cycle of experiences as explored in this joyous picture book, A Year of Everyday Wonders.With each new year come countless little wonders. From the highs—first snowfall, first new umbrella, first beach trip—to the lows—first missed bus, first lost umbrella, first sunburn—every year older means another cycle of everyday experiences.In their clever, playful, observant picture book, ac...

This book addresses the major problems of leadership in groups, organizations, and societies in the twenty-first century, when rapid change, complex dilemmas, and earth-shattering consequences affect the daily lives of people in the diverse contexts of social institutions, the corporate world, domestic politics, and international terrorism and conflict. The volume convenes a group of distinguished scholars, consultants, and leaders who address significant contemporary dilemmas that test th...

What would happen if the one person you needed most did the one thing you couldn't forgive? When Maddie's best friend causes an accident, it shatters her world in a way she can't repair. "Almost There" explores the life of a mother in her thirties and her relationships with her best friend, husband, children, and herself, and considers the different levels of love necessary to form a complete life.

Effective process safety programs consist of three interrelated foundations—safety culture and leadership, process safety systems, and operational discipline—designed to prevent serious injuries and incidents resulting from toxic releases, fires, explosions, and uncontrolled reactions. Each of these foundations is important and one missing element can cause poor process safety performance.Process Safety: Key Concepts and Practical Approaches takes a systemic approach to the traditi...

As the continuation of the writers first book, "Thoughts of a Daydreamer", these poems have a view from a more experienced perspective. Where life’s meaning is more relevant as the writer has advanced through the years. The seasons of life are expressed not only in the what nature or holidays bring. But in life’s transition from youth to our senior years. Friends who we have met along the way and their impact on our lives. Living in the moment as well as what the next days will bring. In “...

A modern classic about how people really make decisions: Drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis.Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The book has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into six languages, has been cited in professional journals that range from Journal of Marketing Research to Journal of Nursing, and is mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in Bl...

New Vision, New Reality presents a promising new approach to realizing our human potential by reclaiming our birthright to energy, joy, and creativity. Demonstrating how we all configure our world through personal perceptions, author Donald Klein shows that by removing self-imposed protective filters, we can see and experience more fully the good things in life. Guided exercises illustrate how to stop projecting our fears and shortcomings and instead view the world through a lens ...

Catherine (Cat) Devin is a successful writer with a loving husband, a teenage daughter and a nice life, but she is also about to turn 40. Under normal circumstances she would never consider cheating on her husband, but when a handsome young actor offers to play one of the characters she’s created so she can experience what she wrote for real, the opportunity is too good to pass up. Seducing Cat explores one woman’s struggle with her impending loss of youth and the boundaries of forgiveness...

A logical presentation of the sacraments as the principle acts of worship in the Catholic church. Synthesizes contemporary research on symbol, ritual, and sacramental, liturgical, and pastoral theology into a single, readable resource. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection and discussion.