Back in high school, if someone had told Clare Fox she would write for a living someday, she would have laughed in their face — or just dumped her cafeteria lunch down their shirt. Ten years later, she has overcome both dyslexia and her high-school-dropout status with her own, personal ace in the hole: Her extensive knowledge of the male species. Now, Clare is Miss Match, the sassy, savvy love advice columnist for online dating site Mister-Match.com. No one would dispute that Clare knows all there is to know about the male species — though some might say she knows all the wrong things. And lately, her advice columns have strayed a little beyond sassy and into the realm of acerbic...or even downright jaded. It's just that her life used to be a lot more exciting. A year ago, she was downtown five nights a week. These days, a typical Friday night is spent on the couch with a pint of Ben & Jerry's for company. When Clare's boss sends her on a singles' cruise, ostensibly to vet the company for a possible partnership deal, Clare can read between the lines. Her job is on the line, and she's been given one last chance to shape up...or ship out. And then there are Clare's meddling best friends, who have cooked up a little scheme of their own. On the sly, they hire the Love Doctor — refined, genteel Javier Valentín — to woo their best friend and sweeten up her bitter heart. Healing broken hearts, after all, is Javier's work and his passion... Except he normally does it with the woman's full knowledge and consent. His process highlights perfect honesty, and it's not about sex — it's about helping a woman reconnect with her own strength, desires and sense of self-worth. But Clare is a prime candidate for the Love Doctor's expertise. Javier can't pass up such a juicy case, but as soon as he meets her, his tried-and-true process flies right out the window as he finds himself captivated by this fiery, hard-hearted vixen. Good thing he can see right through her bravado to the tender and passionate heart within. But can Clare let the Love Doctor past her walls and defenses, or will she end up doing what she's done to a hundred other men, and stomp his heart to pieces? --- MISS MATCH is a contemporary romance novel set in steamy Austin, Texas, the musical capital of the world. This novel contains several fully explicit lovemaking scenes, and plenty of sexual tension between the hero and heroine.
A small-town rich girl, determined to make her own way... A bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, determined to make something of himself... Young love gone sour, a secret pregnancy, a tense reunion — and a sweet, sassy little girl with an extra chromosome. Can they pick up the pieces of the past to forge the future of their dreams? Things aren't always how they appear in tiny Rose Quartz, New Mexico — and no one knows this better than Trixie Belmont. For six years, Trixie has been waiting tables at the local diner and caring for her daughter all on her own. She truly loves her life — especially her sweet, smart, perfect daughter, Cassidy, who happens to have Down syndrome. Everything is rolling along just fine...until Trixie's safe little world is rocked by bad boy Sam West's return to the town she thought he'd left behind forever. Only Sam isn't such a bad boy anymore. In fact, he's finally fulfilled his dream of becoming a doctor. Part of him knows he's returned to Rose Quartz to prove himself to everyone who once thought he was trash — but another part knows he's back for one person and one person only: The former love of his life, Trixie, whom he believes cheated on him with his own brother. Is Sam ready to forgive and forget in the name of love? Is Trixie ready to come clean and reveal the truth — that Sam is father to a special little girl with an extra-special chromosome? Can Trixie, Sam and Cassidy form the family they never had the chance to be — until now? Cassidy's Daddy is Book Two of the Rose Quartz Series. It is a contemporary romance novel set in small-town New Mexico. Book One, Marry Me Twice, is also available on Amazon. HEAT LEVEL: 3 Hatch Chili Peppers (out of 5): This novel contains two to three fully developed lovemaking scenes, plus plenty of sexual tension between the hero and heroine.
How being called 'the world's ugliest woman' transformed one woman's life - and inspired millions of others. Because of a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez has dealt with harassment about her appearance for most of her life. In 2007, the rise of social media led to her most public and humiliating experience: a then 17-year-old Lizzie came across a YouTube video of herself entitled 'The world's ugliest woman'. Lizzie started using the very medium that spawned this hatred to fight back and spread positivity and compassion instead. 'The only way I could show those people that they weren't going to become my definition and my truth was to somehow make myself better'. Her response drew 34 million unique viewers and half a million subscribers to Lizzie's YouTube channel. She catapulted to international fame in 2013 when her TEDx address 'How Do You Define Yourself?' went viral. Today it has received more than 10 million views. In Dare to be Kind Lizzie shares her personal story, the solutions that have worked for her over a lifetime of bullying and on how we can transform society into a kinder, more accepting place. This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone facing bullying, their parents and friends - and anyone who wants to make a difference.
How being called 'the world's ugliest woman' transformed one woman's life - and inspired millions of others. Because of a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez has dealt with harassment about her appearance for most of her life. In 2007, the rise of social media led to her most public and humiliating experience: a then 17-year-old Lizzie came across a YouTube video of herself entitled 'The world's ugliest woman'. Lizzie started using the very medium that spawned this hatred to fight back and spread positivity and compassion instead. 'The only way I could show those people that they weren't going to become my definition and my truth was to somehow make myself better'. Her response drew 34 million unique viewers and half a million subscribers to Lizzie's YouTube channel. She catapulted to international fame in 2013 when her TEDx address 'How Do You Define Yourself?' went viral. Today it has received more than 10 million views. In Dare to be Kind Lizzie shares her personal story, the solutions that have worked for her over a lifetime of bullying and on how we can transform society into a kinder, more accepting place. This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone facing bullying, their parents and friends - and anyone who wants to make a difference.
The author shares her experiences in being bullied because of her unusual appearance caused by a medical condition, and uses them to explore the causes behind cruelty and how they can be redirected to produce kindness and improve the world.
Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts of several jurisdictions, provides a comprehensive analysis of current British labour law which explains the role of different legal and extra-legal sources in its evolution, including collective bargaining, international labour standards, and human rights. The new edition, while following the broad pattern of previous ones, highlights important new developments in the content of the law, and in its wider social, economic and policy context. Thus the consequences of Brexit are considered along with the emerging effects of the Covid-19 crisis, the increasing digitisation of work, and the implications for policy of debates over the role of the law in constituting and regulating the labour market. The book examines in detail the law governing individual employment relations, with chapters covering the definition of the employment relationship; the sources and regulation of terms and conditions of employment; discipline and termination of employment; and equality of treatment. This is followed by an analysis of the elements of collective labour law, including the forms of collective organisation, freedom of association, employee representation, internal trade union government, and the law relating to industrial action. The seventh edition of Deakin and Morris' Labour Law is an essential text for students of law and of disciplines related to management and industrial relations, for barristers and solicitors working in the field of labour law, and for all those with a serious interest in the subject.
This book challenges the perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical recognition. In her transnational and interdisciplinary study, Dossin analyses changing distributions of geopolitical and symbolic power in the Western art worlds - a story that spans two continents, forty years, and hundreds of actors.
Embraces an all-encompassing interdisciplinary methodology to uncover the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals in music, rituals, and hagiographic writing celebrating the origins and identity of a major clerical center. Medieval Liège was the seat of a vast diocese in northwestern Europe and a city of an exceptional number of churches, clergymen, and church musicians. Recognized as a priestly paradise, the city accommodated as many Masses each day as Rome. In this volume, musicologist Catherine Saucier examines the music of religious worship in Liège and reveals within the liturgy and ritual a civic function by which local clerics promoted the holy status of their city. Analyzing hagiographic and historical writings, religious art, and sung ceremonies relevant to the city's genesis, destruction, and eventual rebirth, Saucier uncovers richly varied ways in which liégeois clergymen fused music with text, image, and ritual to celebrate the city's sacred episcopal origins and saintly persona. A Paradise of Priests forges new interdisciplinary connections between musicology, the liturgical arts, the cult of saints, church history, and urban studies, and is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in the history of the Low Countries, hagiography and its reception, and ecclesiastical institutions. CatherineSaucier is assistant professor of music history at Arizona State University.
In The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s, Catherine Dossin challenges the now-mythic perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical recognition. Dossin reconstructs the concrete factors that led to the shift of international attention from Paris to New York in the 1950s, and documents how ’peripheries’ such as Italy, Belgium, and West Germany exerted a decisive influence on this displacement of power. As the US economy sank into recession in the 1970s, however, American artists and dealers became increasingly dependent on the support of Western Europeans, and cities like Cologne and Turin emerged as major commercial and artistic hubs - a development that enabled European artists to return to the forefront of the international art scene in the 1980s. Dossin analyses in detail these changing distributions of geopolitical and symbolic power in the Western art worlds - a story that spans two continents, forty years, and hundreds of actors. Her transnational and interdisciplinary study provides an original and welcome supplement to more traditional formal and national readings of the period.
Health and legal experts from England and Canada consider the influence of medical doctors on reforms in this comparative study. With reflections on participation since the inception of publicly-funded healthcare systems, they show how the status of doctors affects change.
As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, and cosmetic procedures to change the appearance of smiles were largely unknown. Today, many Canadians enjoy straight, white teeth and far more of them are keeping their teeth for the entirety of their lives. Yet these advances have not reached everyone. The Smile Gap examines the enormous improvements that have taken place over the past century. The use of fluorides, emphasis on toothbrushing, the rise of cosmetic dentistry, and better access to dental care have had a profound effect on the oral health and beauty of Canadians. Yet while the introduction of employer-provided dental insurance in the 1970s has allowed for regular visits to the dentist for many people, a significant number of Canadians still lack access to good oral health care, especially disabled Canadians, those on social assistance, the working poor, the elderly, and new immigrants. At the same time, an attractive smile has become increasingly important in the workplace and in relationships. People with damaged and missing teeth are at a substantial disadvantage, not just because of the pain and suffering caused by poor oral health, but because we live in a society that prizes good teeth and warm smiles. The first history of oral health in Canada, The Smile Gap reveals that despite the gains made, too many Canadians go without any dental care, with damaging consequences for their oral health, general physical health, and self-image. To complete our health care system, it is time to close the gap.
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