One woman’s exceptional life experience at age 48, in overcoming and healing from incurable and inoperable stage 4 metastatic brain cancer, and her incredibly brave and very bold path through the initial turbulence, the trials, the tests, to triumph. This book takes you on her own personal journey through this diagnosis and lays an inspirational foundation on how each one of us can not only handle life’s challenges with a new perspective, but also find inner strength, determination, faith and hope. Kathy will remind you of your innate ability to tap into your own intuition, regardless of your current circumstances, reconnecting you to the Divine Creator and empower you to rise like the phoenix from the ashes.
One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the United States: White Collar (1951) and The Power Elite (1956).
In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood. To date, literary criticism has paid insufficient attention to these authors' literary form and their socio-cultural context. In addition, critical literature has not always adequately integrated individual works to each author's broader oeuvre: on the one hand critics do not often maintain rigorous distinctions among texts when discussing Baudelaire and Flaubert, and on the other hand scholars of Baudelaire and Flaubert have not consistently considered the relationship of individual texts to either writer's corpus. Furthermore, critical focus has been on the modernity of Les Fleurs du mal, Madame Bovary, and L'Education Sentimentale. Addressing these lacunae in scholarship, Mills puts forth the argument that Baudelaire's collection of prose poems, Le Spleen de Paris, and Flaubert's short, poetic tales, Trois contes, best embody the modern aesthetic that Baudelaire develops in Le Peintre de la vie moderne and that Flaubert elaborates in his correspondence. Formal Revolution places these relatively less well-known but last published works in relationship with the artistic goals of their authors, showing that Baudelaire and Flaubert were both acutely aware of the need to launch a new form of literature in order to literally "come to terms with" the dramatic changes transforming the nineteenth-century into the Modern Age. More specifically, Formal Revolution demonstrates that for Baudelaire and Flaubert the formal project of fusing prose with poetry--as poetic prose in the case of Flaubert, as poetry in prose in the case of Baudelaire--was crucial to their mission of "painting modern life." This work concludes that experimentation with literary form represents these two seminal writers' major legacy to modernity; suggests that the twentieth-century might have gone too far down that road; and speculates about the future direction of literature. The modernity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, still relevant today but often taken for granted, needs to be reexamined in light of the cultural, formal, and contextual considerations that inform Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert.
Have you ever wondered why things work out so well when there is no obvious reason? It's because God is in the details, even when you don't see Him there. In so much of your life, He has intervened and taken charge until you could. In this compilation of details about how God is in the details, you will see how and why He is there whether you want Him there or not and how fantastic of a blessing that He has come to be in your own life. Don't miss out on information that will enhance and change your life.
Luke brimmed with energy and Nicole was attracted to him at first sight, but she could see that he would be trouble, especially since she was his secretary. Though she tried to keep her distance, Luke didn’t make it easy. Nicole, who had decided she would never have a lasting relationship, wasn’t able to resist his charms and began sharing his bed at night. She couldn’t let herself get serious about him, though, because their relationship was never going to last!
Kirsten has learned that she is to work closely with Cal McCormick, her estranged husband! Only a few years before, tragedy had ripped apart their new marriage....Now Kirsten is stunned to discover that she still has strong feelings for Cal. And Cal seems set on making her fall in love with him all over again. But Kirsten needs more than his provocatively sensual seduction before she can give herself fully to the only man she has ever loved.
After receiving a call about the death of her sister and brother-in-law in an accident, Abby flies from London to New York. At the funeral she sees Greg, the brother of her sister’s husband. Even though he was unfaithful to her five years ago, Abby is still hopelessly attracted to him. When she tries to take her nieces into her care, Greg steps in to keep custody for himself. There is just one way for them to share custody?they must marry one another!
Never say "Never again" Nick Logan had a gift for counseling teens who came from violent homes, but his job at the Rockford Crime Victims' Center wasn't easy. Three years ago he and Madelyn Walsh had started out as coworkers and turned into lovers. Until he'd broken their engagement, convinced anyone else would make a better husband. Now Madelyn was "Dr." Walsh and the boss. Their new relationship was about rules—not romance—and she wasn't about to let herself fall for him again. But time had taught Nick a thing or two about love—like not worrying too much about being wrong for her if she was right for him…. GOING BACK What if you discovered that all you ever wanted were the things you left behind?
Alicia, Dex’s secretary, is pregnant with his baby, and the reality seems quite cold. She isn’t special to him. She never feels any love for her when they have sex. She’s the only one who’s drowning in love. All he thinks about is how to make his company more successful. And when she tells him she’s pregnant, a cruel, insulting reaction is all she can hope for.
Dr. Kathryn Ritchie is passionate about business and people. She works at the nexus of enabling teams and individuals to be their best and enabling leaders to shape and create environments where they thrive and grow. This life-time project continues today as she and Ignition Institute(TM) work across industry and geography from start-up to Fortune 500 companies. This passion has shaped Ignition Institute, an international strategy execution firm specializing in performance optimization through strategy clarification and aligned execution. In her experience, enough clarity, enough cohesion & enough discipline are at the core of exceptional execution. Enabling leaders to understand what holds their organizations back as well as what is at their fingertips to unleash this, is what inspires Kathryn to share her life's work in this book.
Diane has never believed in fairy tales, even after her little sister married the king of Elbia, a small European country. That all changes one day when the king’s adviser, Thomas, pays her a visit. After her divorce from her unfaithful husband, Diane is devastated, but Thomas insists she accompany him to Elbia for a vacation. While the beautiful earl escorts Diane around Elbia, she begins to believe fairy tales might just exist. She knows they’re from two different worlds, but she still wishes she could be with him, even if only during this vacation…
Mac, a divorced architect, is raising his daughter by himself, convinced he doesn't need any help. He's even being considered for a new project at work. But when his boss invites him to a couples party, he starts to worry that being a single father will cost him the job. That is until he sees his gardener, which gives him an idea: for the right price, she can act as his wife for a few hours. He’s sure there’s no way she'll turn him down.
Alexander has been waiting for his stepbrother, Damon, to bring home his fianc?e, Sophie. But when he finally meets her, Alexander realizes that she’s wild, she’s adventurous and, above all, she’s beautiful. At Damon’s request, Alexander keeps Sophie company while she’s staying at their mansion, but his feelings for her grow stronger. Sophie, meanwhile, seems to be noticing Alexander, too. Their forbidden love deepens, but it isn’t Sophie’s only secret…
Carrie took in her brother’s daughter Molly after he died in an accident, despite the reservations of the little girl’s grandmother. Later Carrie meets a lawyer named Max on a plane as she comes home from a business trip. Carrie is taken aback by how charming he is, and she enjoys her fleeting conversation with him. When Molly’s grandmother sees Carrie get out of the same taxi as Max, though, Carrie ends up fibbing. She says that Max is her fianc? in order to ease the grandmother’s worries about a single woman like herself adopting Molly. After all, it’s not like she’ll ever see him again. Except that, a few days later, she runs into him again at the worst possible time!
Jennifer has always loved James, the wealthy boy next door. When she was old enough, she confessed her feelings for James and invited him into her bed, but he declined, saying she was like a sister to him. Now, four years later, the once-plain Jennifer has become a startling beauty and is enjoying her life with popular artist Patrick. But deep inside, her heart still burns for James. So when Jennifer encounters James again, she isn’t able to resist him, and she insists she needs only one chance with him to make her forget about that humiliating night!
Abby inadvertently agrees to work as a hostess at a party held by a leading food company, Smythe International. The CEO of the company, Matt, then asks her if she can work for him as a hostess. Matt is an English aristocrat. Despite his title of earl, he moved to the United States to launch his own company and took only ten years to grow it into a successful business. He’s a handsome bachelor, and Abby can’t resist his offer to become his hostess as well as his fake girlfriend…
Understanding the flexibility and limits of behaviour is essential to improving both the horse's welfare and its performance. This book tackles the fundamental principles which will enable owners, riders, trainers and students to understand scientific principles and apply them in practice. Subjects covered include the analysis of influences on equine behaviour, the perceptual world of the horse, learning and training techniques including the latest developments in "join-up" and "imprint training".
Kate happens to walk in on her boyfriend, Steven, who she was thinking about marrying, in bed with another woman. Brokenhearted, she runs to her childhood friend Nick, who she has known for twenty years. He is now a playboy running an IT company; but he understands her feelings the most because they grew up together. A month after he's comforted her just like in the old days, Kate realizes that she can’t avoid running into Steven at her best friend’s wedding, so Nick offers to act as her boyfriend at the event!
When Marco agrees to an exclusive interview, Isobel is intrigued. Marco’s business dealings and beautiful face have gained him the world’s attention and a million-dollar empire. Just as she’d imagined, he is a selfish man, informing her when they meet that they’ll be going to his house in Nice.Whether she likes it or not. Kicking and screaming, she accompanies him…and she comes to learn some surprising things about him, throwing her heart into chaos.
First wedding anniversary…first child… Paige and Brad had a deal. If Paige played the dutiful wife, he would pay off her debts. Theirs was a marriage of convenience, pure and simple—apart from one complication—Brad didn't just want a partner, he wanted a sleeping partner! So what was there to keep them from breaking their deal altogether? Something that hadn't been part of their business arrangement, something that could turn their first anniversary from divorce into celebration…a baby! THE BIG EVENT One special occasion—that changes your life forever!
Living with a famous novelist… Will she be able to expose his secrets? There's no way she can tell him how she feels. Cathy has gone undercover as a nanny at popular novelist Pearce Tyrone's estate. Her real job, however, is as a gossip columnist. Exposing mysterious Pearce's private life to the public is her true goal. Could he really be this child's father? Is her mother really the famous actress Jodie Starling, just as the rumors say? But before she realizes it, she's charmed by Pearce's intelligence and unexpected kindness, and she falls hopelessly in love with him!
“IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ME...” When he returns to Texas from overseas, U.S. Marine Carter Wallace makes good on a promise. To tell a fallen soldier’s wife that her husband loved her. But widowed Savannah Blackmore, pregnant and alone, shares a different story with Carter—one that tests everything he believes.
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