Skye Bancroft, assistant art director at a small New York publisher, is used to dealing with the occasional spoiled and egocentric model. After all, it’s part of her job description. But during a photoshoot, she didn’t count on one to become so delusional as to think himself a Highlander from 1814 Scotland. Cailin Thorburn is every woman’s dream: A warrior who is fierce, passionate, and protective. Rendered unconscious during battle, he awakens in another place, time, and in another man’s body. Could this be magic? Convincing the bonnie lass, Skye, that he is Cailin is a daunting task. Regardless of his strange time travel story and sexy Scottish burr, believing this extraordinary man is from another era becomes hard to deny. The attraction between them sizzles and Skye is left to wonder: Is Cailin truly as he claims?
Kindness and leadership aren’t often synonymous. Ask someone to describe "good leadership" to you and you will hear many adjectives used: authentic, bold, challenging, charismatic, decisive, empowering, fearless, goal-oriented, humble, inspiring, original, passionate, role-model, strategic and transparent, to name of a few. And though there are many more that come to mind, kindness isn’t one of them. And here’s the problem with that. Leaders lead. And the way a leader leads – how they do what they do – influences those they lead. From the president of the country, to the president of a company, from middle managers, right down to front-line supervisors, what a leader models – how they think, speak and act – influences the people they lead. Leaders who think, speak and act unkindly give legitimacy and permission to those they lead to think, speak, and act in exactly the same unkind ways. Today, in a world where a leaders’ words and actions travel quickly through social media channels such as Twitter, their influence – unkind or kind – is amplified through repeated views and sharing. In an increasingly fragmented, polarized and divided world, we need leaders who will bring people together not divide them. Leaders who value and model cooperation and collaboration over competition. And who model ways to think kindly, speak kindly and act kindly. We need kindness to become synonymous with good leadership. So that when someone is asked to describe the traits of a good leader, kindness will be the first word that comes to mind. Essentially, the purpose of this book is to teach leaders how to lead with kindness so they can influence the people they lead to create kinder workplaces, organizations and the world. Each chapter contains a mixture of theory, case studies and reflections from leaders and the people they influence. As well, the book follows the fictional stories of Kay’La Janson and Kevin Landrell, as they become leaders in a failing organization that is ultimately turned around through kind leadership. Between chapters there are a series of practical exercises based on concepts presented in the previous chapter with space to record outcomes and reflections on the practice process. This book gives you a deep theoretical understanding of the importance of leading with kindness and also provides practical exercises for you to use to turn theory into practice. Because "change means doing things differently," and because we only really "learn by doing" to create kinder organizations, kinder communities and a kinder world, leaders must be able to begin practicing kindness right away. By the time you finish the book, you will feel confident in your ability to lead with kindness and also to address organizational problems at work, at home and in the community, with kindness.
Qui n’a jamais rêvé de vivre dans les plaines de l’Ouest, un Stetson vissé sur la tête et des santiags aux pieds ? Colombe. À vrai dire, Colombe n’a jamais rêvé de rien. Sa mère dit d’elle qu’elle est née aigrie, et la jeune femme n’a jamais cherché à lui donner tort. Pourtant, lorsqu’elle se retrouve sans emploi et qu’une voix, à la radio, annonce un concours pour gagner un job au Far West, Colombe se découvre des rêves qu’elle ne pensait pas avoir. Si seulement elle avait lu l’annonce... elle aurait peut-être compris qu’elle allait rencontrer le plus sexy des cowboys... bretons. Bienvenue au bout du monde, dans le Finistère. Welcome to the Phare Ouest !
Individuals may have to rely on themselves to protect their own health and safety--perhaps even their own lives--in the event of a terrorist attack. Even those who know how to take care of themselves in the event of a fire, tornado, or earthquake might not know what to do in case of a chemical, radiological, nuclear, or biological attack. This quick guide attempts to fill in some of these gaps by offering specific actions to take during each of these situations, as well as preparations that can be taken. These actions are appropriate regardless of the likelihood of an attack, its scale, or the current government alert level; are designed to be sensitive to potential variations; and have been defined in terms of simple rules that should be easy to follow. A reference card included at the back of the guide encapsulates the key points and can be removed for display in a prominent place.
A volume in the Contemporary Theory Series edited by Frances Restuccia An interdisciplinary collection of essays that critically reflect on the value and limits of psychoanalysis for conceptualizing traumatic affect. A page-turner for anyone even remotely drawn to the subject of trauma, Traumatizing Theory includes essays that go beyond psychoanalysis in rethinking the cultural significance of traumatic anxiety, melancholy, and the representation of suffering in testimony, self-narration, and politics. Traumatizing Theory is unmistakably on the cutting edge and moves trauma theory into a new postmodern phase. Karyn Ball's introduction reframes debates about psychoanalysis within trauma studies. Bettina Bergo's essay revisits the historical development of hysteria as Freud's model for traumatic anxiety in both men and women. Dorothea Olkowski also focuses on traumatic anxiety, but problematizes Freud’s masculinist and scientistic premises. Sarah Murphy and Susannah Radstone examine the disciplinary effects of public confession and testimony while Ball and Kligerman critique Deleuze's post-psychoanalytic Cinema books and Gerhard Richter's haunted October 18, 1977 Cycle, respectively, as testimonies to the latent impact of traumatic history. For Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, philosophy serves ineluctably as a medium of testimony in Sarah Kofman's autobiographical writings about ambivalence toward her biological Jewish mother and guilty love for the French woman who adopted Sarah during the Nazi occupation. Drucilla Cornell also explores conflicted self-narrations among transnationally adopted children and their parents. The collection concludes with essays by Juliet Flower-MacCannell, Lauren Berlant, and John Mowitt on the politics of traumatic identification in the public sphere.
Que peut-on craindre de pire quand on a été sauvé du mal absolu ? On l'appelle l'Ange du Diable. Sa beauté dérange, son passé effraie. Ezia a passé son adolescence enfermée dans un sous-sol. Abusée par un père qui masque sa perversité derrière sa foi, elle n'imaginait pas qu'il puisse y avoir une vie, au-dehors. Jusqu'à ce qu'il fasse entrer la lumière dans ses ténèbres. Egan n'était qu'un agent de police comme les autres. Mais quand il se retrouve à la Une des médias pour avoir sauvé six enfants des griffes de leur père, l'Amérique voit en lui un héros. Ezia aussi. Cependant, la mission du policier s'arrête là où la vie de la jeune femme commence. La liberté d'Ezia est encombrante. La gloire d'Egan est un fardeau. Ensemble, il pourraient bien sombrer dans les méandres de leurs esprits tourmentés. Et si le pire qu'il pouvait leur arriver était de s'aimer ? Ce livre est une dark romance. Son contenu est amoral et pourrait heurter votre sensibilité.
School teacher Sandra Cranston discovers an abandoned carriage. Inside is a man, Jerrod Ross, who fuels all of her wicked Regency fantasies. From 1821, all he wants to do is return to his time. Torn between duty and desire, past and future, the hardest thing Sandra and Jerrod will do is admit their feelings. Or say—goodbye.
From a simple desk tidy to an elaborate castle, this step-by-step guide to 3D printing is perfect for children and beginners who want to learn how to design and print anything even if they do not own a printer. 3D Printing Projects provides an introduction to the exciting and ever-expanding world of 3D designing and printing. Learn how a 3D printer works and the different types of 3D printers on the market. Understand the basic 3D printing and designing terms, how to create and prepare files for printing, and also how to scan things to create a 3D model! You will also find out the common troubles faced while 3D printing and simple tricks to fix them. All the projects included in the book can be made using freely available online 3D modeling/CAD programs. Each project has a print time, details of filament or material needed, and a difficulty rating - from "easy" for beginners to "difficult" for those looking for a new challenge. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the 3D design process, from digital modeling and sculpting to slicing, printing, and painting so that children can make their own shark-shaped phone stand, customized lamps, and much more. The book also gives inspiration to further enhance your projects once you've mastered the basics. Join the 3D printing revolution today with DK's 3D Printing Projects book.
What makes an otherwise sane woman appear on a reality TV show? Especially one as drastic as Ugly Duckling? For Audra Marks, the last straw comes when she loses her shot with handsome Art Bradshaw to the prettier and lighter-skinned Esmeralda Prince. Audra's always lived in a classic movies fantasy world of diva dames and handsome heroes, where the costumes are gorgeous, the good guys always win, and love always triumphs. But now, her heart broken, she's decided to do anything to get back her man and show her hypercritical mother she can "pretty up" with the best of them in the bargain. After all, if the folks at Ugly Duckling can transform a homely, buck-toothed white girl into a ravishing beauty, just think what they'll be able to do with Audra! But until she truly believes she's beautiful inside, it won't matter how hot and pretty they make the outside package. And Audra's obsession with perfection may be leading her farther and farther away from what's really important -- and blinding her to the love that's been waiting there all along . . .
Skye Bancroft, assistant art director at a small New York publisher, is used to dealing with the occasional spoiled and egocentric model. After all, it’s part of her job description. But during a photoshoot, she didn’t count on one to become so delusional as to think himself a Highlander from 1814 Scotland. Cailin Thorburn is every woman’s dream: A warrior who is fierce, passionate, and protective. Rendered unconscious during battle, he awakens in another place, time, and in another man’s body. Could this be magic? Convincing the bonnie lass, Skye, that he is Cailin is a daunting task. Regardless of his strange time travel story and sexy Scottish burr, believing this extraordinary man is from another era becomes hard to deny. The attraction between them sizzles and Skye is left to wonder: Is Cailin truly as he claims?
Advocacy and Opposition: An Introduction to Argumentation presents a comprehensive and practical approach to argumentation and critical thinking for the beginning student learning to construct and present arguments on questions of fact, value, and policy. Advocacy and Opposition offers a theoretical insight into the nature of argument in our society, a discussion of arguing as a form of communication, and a focus on how arguments are created using the Toulmin model of argument. By blending traditional and contemporary views of the nature of argument, (including multicultural perspectives on the purpose and process of argument, ethics, and values), Advocacy and Opposition makes students more aware of the development of theory and practice. NEW! Pearson's Reading Hour Program for Instructors Interested in reviewing new and updated texts in Communication? Click on the below link to choose an electronic chapter to preview… Settle back, read, and receive a Penguin paperback for your time! http://www.pearsonhighered.com/readinghour/comm
Readers must often construct an understanding of a complex process (e.g. climate change) from multiple documents. This is challenging because the documents are typically written for different purposes by different authors. In this context, readers must engage different reading strategies, because information that is important to the meaning of an individual text (i.e. text-based importance) may not be relevant to the reader's purpose (i.e. task-based relevance). Readers may have a default processing strategy based on attending to textual importance (i.e. importance-based processing), but when they have a goal or a task, they may switch to a processing strategy based on task relevance (i.e. relevance-based processing). Task-based relevance processing leads readers to allocate more attention to task-relevant content and less attention to task-irrelevant content, increasing memory for task-relevant information. However, task instructions can differ in the specificity of the cues they provide to help guide readers' identification and processing of relevant information. This may help explain why some types of tasks facilitate integration across multiple documents, while others do not. The more that relevance cues in task instructions guide readers to construct a mental representation dominated by interconnected, task-relevant content, the easier it should be for readers to reactivate and integrate information from prior documents. The current study investigated how the specificity of relevance cues in task instructions influence processing related to a causal explanation that could be extracted across documents. A low specificity task provided no relevance cues to guide processing. A moderate specificity task provided only semantic cues, and a high specificity task provided semantic cues and a structural schema cue (e.g., to help readers activate a causal explanation schema to guide processing). Two experiments investigated how these differences in tasks specificity influenced: (1) identification of text relevant to a causal explanation embedded across texts (Exp 1), (2) integration of text content during moment-to-moment processing (Exp 2), (3) content and organization of participant's recall (Exp 1 & 2), and (4) comprehension of the causal explanation (Exp 1 & 2). Greater task specificity was expected to lead to increases in outcomes related to the causal explanation across texts and decreases in processing of content that was only important to the individual texts. However, the possibility that attention to important text-based content would continue to influence processing was also considered. Experiment 1 showed that the addition of a causal schema cue in the high specificity task led to better memory for causal model content and increased integration across texts in participants' recalls. However, the semantic cue alone was sufficient to increase identification of text relevant to the causal model. There was no effect of task on causal model comprehension. In Experiment 2, the schema cue also led to better memory for causal model content. In contrast to Experiment 1, the semantic cue alone was sufficient to increase integration of causal model content across texts in participants' recalls. However, neither type of relevance cue affected moment-to-moment integration across texts. The schema cue, however, was more effective in increasing within-text causal model integration. Again, there was no effect of task on causal model comprehension. The results suggest that a semantic cue may be sufficient to help readers identify relevant text, but a schema cue was more effective for increasing memory and moment-to-moment within-text integration related to the causal model. However, the effectiveness of the schema cue on integration across texts in participants' recalls varied between experiments. Neither type of relevance cue influenced across-text integration during moment-to-moment processing, indicating a divergence between online and offline measures. Finally, while increased task specificity did shift processing towards the causal explanation content, it did not decrease processing related to important text-based content. Questions raised by these results, implications for models of task-oriented reading, and future directions are considered in more detail in the discussion section.
The third edition of Loftus’ Financial Reporting has been updated for recent developments in the Australian Accounting Standards, including the release of the new Conceptual Framework. This text is designed to be used across the 2nd and 3rd year financial accounting units. A hallmark feature of the text is that it provides both a conceptual understanding and a practical application of the accounting standards. For students, an understanding of the conceptual basis of accounting and the rationale behind the principles is crucial to the consistent application of standards in a variety of practical contexts. The Financial Reporting interactive e-text features a range of instructional media content designed to provide students with an engaging learning experience. This includes practitioner videos (from Ernst & Young), interactive worked problems and questions with immediate feedback. Loftus’ unique resource can also form the basis of a blended learning solution for lecturers.
Here’s the most complete and easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients. It’s the perfect quick reference for clinical. This Pocket Guide is really two books in one! The first half provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan; the second half covers the safe prescription and administration of psychotropic medications. And, the concepts can be applied to a variety of healthcare settings…from in-patient hospitalization through the outpatient clinic…to home health and private practice.
As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic group: middle-class blacks who live in middle-class suburbs where poor blacks are not present. These "blue-chip black" suburbanites earn well over fifty thousand dollars annually and work in predominantly white professional environments. Lacy examines the complicated sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status.
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