Carla Kingston has no time for love. Not when her job involves faking romances for roleplaying packaged holiday company, Highland Fling. Jack Jefferson has come to the Scottish highlands to escape the rat race in London, and take stock of his life. He's in a job he hates and is in need of a career change. When Carla and Jack meet, sparks - and clothes - soon start to fly. A one night stand is enough for the both of them. But after Jack begins working alongside Carla as a Highland Heartthrob, they can't ignore one another, nor the spark that's threatening to become an inferno. Someone has a secret to keep. Except things don't stay hidden forever... For fans of Outlander, Sophie Kinsella and Jenny Colgan.
Douglas and Alice are convinced their spouses are cheating...with each other! Teaming up, they take their entirely inept investigation on the road. Following their spouses across the UK, the spurned twosome take one epic road trip that turns out nothing like they expected. Their detective work makes them a team, the fun and adventure makes them into something more. For fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jenny Colgan.
Douglas and Alice are convinced their spouses are cheating...with each other! Teaming up, they take their entirely inept investigation on the road. Following their spouses across the UK, the spurned twosome take one epic road trip that turns out nothing like they expected. Their detective work makes them a team, the fun and adventure makes them into something more. For fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jenny Colgan.
Carla Kingston has no time for love. Not when her job involves faking romances for roleplaying packaged holiday company, Highland Fling. Jack Jefferson has come to the Scottish highlands to escape the rat race in London, and take stock of his life. He's in a job he hates and is in need of a career change. When Carla and Jack meet, sparks - and clothes - soon start to fly. A one night stand is enough for the both of them. But after Jack begins working alongside Carla as a Highland Heartthrob, they can't ignore one another, nor the spark that's threatening to become an inferno. Someone has a secret to keep. Except things don't stay hidden forever... For fans of Outlander, Sophie Kinsella and Jenny Colgan.
Golf has 3 competitors – other players, the course, and yourself. Leaderboards measure how you performed against others; score against Par measures how you performed against the course. The GYRA Mental Scorecard allows you to measure your performance against your primary competitor – yourself - per shot, per hole. This is a game-changer. “You may never play golf the same way if you start measuring your mental performance on the golf course.” Gary Player, World Golf Hall of Fame “With the introduction of the GYRA Mental Scorecard, you are now able to track your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to be able to better yourself for future situations.” Jason Gore, Player Relations, USGA “GYRA tools have given me the skills to manage my emotions and thoughts throughout the up’s and down’s of tournament golf.” Seamus Power, Olympian, PGA Tour Player “I have been coaching college golf for 20 years. The difference between a good vs great player is usually their mental approach to the game. The idea of having a scorecard for golfers to describe and track what is happening in their mind is groundbreaking.” Tim Straub, Davidson College “This book should be required curriculum for golf academies, teaching professionals, caddies, and players.” David Ross PGA Lifetime Member, Ross Academy
At no time in history has the corporate world been more ready for achieving empowerment within the workplace. The corporate world has changed, and leaders need to adjust. In EPowerment, author Dr. Izzy Justice explores empowerment in the context of the changing world and provides a powerful and simple roadmap to achieving empowerment. A collage of researched data, case studies, and interviews from more than forty organizations and leaders from all over the world, EPowerment explores why the present generations are more capable of reaching their potential than any other in history. It introduces the new business term EPowermentan amalgam of empowerment, high emotional intelligence (EQ), and harnessing the power of the E World. It underscores how collective human knowledge is becoming easier to access and details how it will become freely available. EPowerment shows how, in this decade, managers or leaders need not reinvent the wheel, duplicate mistakes, or not leverage lessons learned. Empowerment should be the top priority of all organizations because managers can access new people, new communities of people, and infinite resources of knowledge to make better decisionsthe centerpiece of high performancein truly unprecedented ways.
Aggie suspects she was invited to the Vermont retreat because of her friendship with the President. Before leaving home, though, she catches her husband and cousin in bed! She is so enraged, if she had a gun shed shoot them both! Thus overwrought, and convinced she knows what it feels like to contemplate murder, Aggie pursues one red herring after another in her half-hearted attempt to finger a serial killer running amok at the retreat before anybody else dies. Coming under suspicion are several doubles or pairs attending the retreat, people she thinks of now as her friends. Meanwhile, the Holloway brothers plan how to manipulate the scene from their pink canoe on Lake Bomoseen. They have planted a live weapon, a person theyve hypnotized, to take out the President when he and the First Lady arrive at the retreat to visit their good friend, Aggie Morissey, whom the Holloways have been sure got an invitation to this conference on Improving Family Relationships.
Forgetful scientist Simon Morgan lost his chance with Amity Archer ten years ago. He knows there is no hope...until a sea captain trades a meal for an ancient stone reputed to have the power to give him his heart's desire. Immediately after pocketing the stone, Simon runs into Amity. Did the ancient artifact cause this chance encounter or was it mere coincidence? Like her favorite travel writer Mrs. Peabody, Amity Archer yearns for adventure, but she's horrified when her father asks Simon Morgan to escort her on her first real adventure. With Amity's Aunt Clementine as a buffer between them, will Simon be able to prove that his love for Amity is real? Can Amity show Simon that her love for him has nothing to do with a so-called magical rock?
Surfer Izzy Paskowitz looks back at unusual upbringing, reckless young adulthood, and being the founder of Surfers Healing, a foundation devoted to expanding the horizons of children with autism through surfing.
The behind-the-scenes anecdotes in SECRETS OF A JEWELER open a window to some of the rich and famous and alas also to some of the infamous in the capital city of the Western World.
Israel G. "Izzy" Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The literal center of the New York folk music scene, the Center not only sold records, books, and guitar strings but served as a concert hall, meeting spot, and information kiosk for all folk scene events. Among Young's first customers was Harry Belafonte; among his regular visitors were Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger. Shortly after his arrival in New York City in 1961, an unknown Bob Dyan banged away at songs on Young's typewriter. Young would also stage Dylan's first concert, as well as shows by Joni Mitchell, the Fugs, Emmylou Harris, and Tim Buckley, Doc Watson, Son House, and Mississippi John Hurt. The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young collects Young's writing, from his regular column "Frets and Frails" for Sing Out Magazine (1959-1969) to his commentaries on such contentious issues as copyright and commercialism. Also including his personal recollections of seminal figures, from Bob Dylan and Alan Lomax to Harry Smith and Woody Guthrie, this collection removes the rose tinting of past memoirs by offering Young's detailed, day-by-day accounts. A key collection of primary sources on the American countercultural scene in New York City, this work will interest not only folk music fans, but students and scholars of American social and cultural history.
The game of golf is as much a test of your emotions as it is a test of your golf skills. A golfer is only hitting shots for a few minutes a round the rest is another game between shotsrequiring a completely different set of skills (EQ) that can be learned. This very cutting-edge bookisbased onneurosciencewithinteractive exercises to build your own mentalplanto allow you to perform at your best when it matters most. Dr. Justice gives us a language and framework to process emotions in golf and make better decisions so we can enjoy this beautiful game a little bit more. Gary Player World Golf Hall of Fame As a golf instructor for more than 40 years, I can say this book stands at the frontier of what is to be the new and proper way to train golfers now and in the future. David Ross PGA Lifetime Member, Ross Golf Academy
If there is one thing we can all be certain of, it is that as long as there are sick people who need care, clinicians will be needed to provide that care. As such, skills required to treat a vast array of illnesses and injuries have been the focus of education for clinicians, and rightfully so. There is, however, a missing skill: emotional intelligence. Caring for the ill, as a physician, nurse, or any other designation, means having direct contact with people at their most vulnerable times. It means interacting with families of the ailing. These are emotional events requiring different skills and knowledge from that of treating the illness or injury itself. This book presents a new framework and language for clinicians to complement their current skills and enhance the patient experience.
Abbey stumbles onto a plot to destroy her family business. Never one to leave matters to the experts, she and two of her zanier friends orchestrate a counterattack of stakeouts and spying. What good is being clairvoyant if it never seems to work when she really wants it to?
All endurance sports are as much a test of your emotional endurance ability as they are a test of your physical ability. Though most are aware of this, few actually know how to train for, and apply, emotional endurance skills during a race. This very cutting-edge book brings together the experience of 5-Time Ironman Champion, Heather Gollnick, and sports neuropsychologist, Dr. Izzy Justice, to provide you with both invaluable knowledge and EQ exercises to incorporate into your training, pre-race, and race-day plans to give yourself a chance to perform at your best when it counts the most. This book provides a unique, detailed, and much needed look at the emotional and mental aspects of training for triathlons. It clearly explains the underlying theory as well as offering easy to follow, practical advice and techniques that any athlete can use from elite level to novice to strengthen and use the mind to achieve more than they ever thought possible. Chrissie Wellington, 4-Time World Champion Never underestimate the power of being excited and motivated. Emotions are a big part of sports. This book helps with managing them to perform better. Andy Potts, Olympian, 70.3 World Champion Emotions, mental fortitude, and imagery are core to success in triathlon races. Those that have trained for them will perform better. This ground-breaking book will help you do that. Meredith Kessler, Ironman Champion, 70.3 US Pro Champion For any triathlete, brand new or seasoned, I guarantee that reading this book will give you some awesome new tools so that every race and workout is a great one. Bob Babbitt, USAT and Ironman Hall of Fame
Somebody feels threatened by Aggie's commitment to researching and writing the family history. Leaving threatening phone calls, emails, and faxes, the bad guy doesn't give up. Hiring a killer, a neophyte bad guy, this stalker trails Aggie and her double cousin to France, and on a river cruise, and then on a cross-country drive. The problem-what sort of scandal occured in the recent or distant past to send a family member on such a deadly quest? What could Aggie possibly uncover that's so awful as to require murder most foul? Aggie's research takes her and Lisa back to the past on a historical adventure, where we see the settling of the west, particularly Wyoming, through the eyes of the cousins' great-great-grandmothers. Meanwhile, in this day and age, one wonders what in the world possessed another cousin to marry a real loser, a teller turned bank VP after marrying the secretary of state. Also, Aggie's generation of cousins are bent on playing cupid, except they're in conflict about whom and why. Should they push Senator Steve Norman at Cousin Nasty, or devise romantic scenarios for Steve with Nicole, Aggie's granddaughter? These two sub-plots get in the way of Aggie's quest, one of which contributes to her search and her desperate efforts to save her own life, and the other sub-plot of which must inevitably foil the primary plot. (Aggie's Double Dollies, more than any other of the Aggie Morissey mysteries, helps to unravel the family saga)
Hunter Evelyn is an unstoppable, cold-blooded killer. A professional assassin trained to do one thing, and one thing only: eliminate the Target. Her next Target just happens to be the ruthless criminal, Harlin Wright, the leader of a crime-invested gang who needs to be terminated. But what happens when Hunter inevitably falls for the man she is supposed to murder? Will he discover her previous heinous intentions? And what happens when Hunter's Boss discovers she isn't playing her part? When Boss assigns a Target, they will be eliminated under any circumstances. Even if that means taking down Hunter as well.
The founders of a surf school for women provide both a practical how-to guide to the sport of surfing and a witty look at the surfing lifestyle, integrating advice from professional surfers and tips on how to stay safe while having fun.
Courageous memoir of a successful business woman who loses much before finding balance & a new focus for life. Explores the changing roles of women in society in context of one woman's struggle for success.
A complete board examination review for neurocritical care – enhanced by more than 800 Q&A The NeuroICU Board Review is a comprehensive board exam and curriculum review for the emerging specialty of neurocritical care. It delivers a through overview of neurological disease states (pathology, pathophysiology, and therapy), neurosurgery, and critical care medicine (including medical, surgical, cardiac, and cardiothoracic critical care), along with important topics such as neuromonitoring, neurosurgical emergencies, neuropharmacology, and neurosurgical post-operative care. This powerful review also includes clinical scenarios and more than 800 questions and answers with detailed answer explanations, with accompanying images, illustrations, tables, and detailed references. • Developed for residents and practicing physicians preparing to take certifying board exams in Neurocritical Care, Surgical Critical Care, and Neurological Surgery • More than 800 Q&A with detailed answer explanations • Clinical scenarios show readers how to apply principles to real-world cases
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