I believe regret is something everyone has, whether they choose to admit it or not. I believe regret is simply a part of life, like doing your taxes or deciding what to have for dinner on a Wednesday night. I have always had regrets – things I wish I could change, things I wish I would have said or done differently. How about you? Are there things about your past you wish you could change? Have you said or done something you wish you could take back? Do you have regrets about wasted time or energy? Do you have regrets about missed opportunities? Do you have regrets about the relationships you've had? Do you have financial regrets? What about career-related regrets? If you have regrets of any sort, whether it's eating too much chocolate on the weekends or spending five years of your life with the wrong guy, this book is for you. My hope for you is that you'll relate to this book in a deep and transformational way – so much so that it changes the way you perceive your past and the way you live out your future.
I believe regret is something everyone has, whether they choose to admit it or not. I believe regret is simply a part of life, like doing your taxes or deciding what to have for dinner on a Wednesday night. I have always had regrets - things I wish I could change, things I wish I would have said or done differently. How about you? Are there things about your past you wish you could change? Have you said or done something you wish you could take back? Do you have regrets about wasted time or energy? Do you have regrets about missed opportunities? Do you have regrets about the relationships you've had? Do you have financial regrets? What about career-related regrets? If you have regrets of any sort, whether it's eating too much chocolate on the weekends or spending five years of your life with the wrong guy, this book is for you. My hope for you is that you'll relate to this book in a deep and transformational way - so much so that it changes the way you perceive your past and the way you live out your future.
First published in 1998, this text became an immediate landmark in the debate over affirmative action in America. It grounded a contentious subject in concrete data at a time when arguments surrounding it were characterized more by emotion than evidence. It continues to present the most compelling data available about the effects of affirmative action.
The Ghost of Christmas Past By Jasmine Bowen Avery Malroney was a normal child; playing in the dirt; swinging on the monkey bars, running around in the playground. Sure, her parents provided top of the line equipment to ghost hunters, but that was their world, not hers. All of this changed one fatal day when Avery's young heart gave out, and a transplant was her only ticket to adulthood. Everything went fine during the operation, but when she woke up, with a once dead heart beating inside her-everything was different. Avery began to see ghosts. Working with her parents and their business contacts, Avery honed her skills to become one of the best young psychics in the world. Her skills even led her to work with the hippest young ghost hunter team on TV-the cast of Paranormal days. Now, Paranormal Days is relying on Avery to help them solve one of the biggest haunting of the century- a case that could propel them all into superstardom, and have them home for Christmas dinner. Avery eagerly agrees, both as a smart career move and a romantic move. As she once again draws closer to Dmitri, the team's famous techie, a winter storm rages outside, trapping them in the house. Avery's body begins to mimic the mysterious in the case, and they are running out of time to solve it. Even as her romance with Dmitri blossoms, her body rapidly declines. Dmitri struggles with keeping the case on track and stepping in to protect the woman he realizes he loves. As the power goes out, young love burns strong-but will the Ghosts of Christmas Past keep them trapped in the darkness forever? Last Chance Junction by Lauren Murphy Mia Fletcher is going back to her country hometown to spend Christmas with her family. Crossing paths with her childhood best friend and ex-boyfriend Nick Holmes was not part of the plan. When a storm hits in the outback, both are forced to take shelter at a small Inn off the highway. They clearly still have feelings for each other but Mia is too headstrong to admit it and Nick is still puzzled by their fallout. Forced to share a room at the Inn, their situation only becomes more complicated when an armed drug dealer barges in and holds them captive. Nick and Mia have come to a junction and this could be their last chance to forgive and forget... Love's Bah Humbug Debugger by LaRae L Parry This story introduces a critter that has been around as long as Christmas - no one remembers him because of his power of non-existence that Santa himself bestowed upon him. The role of the Bah Hum Debugger is to find lonely, single Bah Humbuggers and find their perfect match, thus eliminating Bah Humbugging altogether. In this story, the Bah Hum Debugger tells of one of his most memorable cases: Richard and Sandra were completely in love until a jealous roommate ruins their marriage scheduled on Christmas Eve - breaking their hearts and causing them to become two of the worst Bah Humbuggers Santa has ever heard. It is the Bah Hum Debugger's job to get the two lovers back together again, or wipe their memories of each other completely. Their hearts are too hard because of the heartbreak. Will the Bah Hum Debugger be able to get them back together before it is too late? A Special Present by Samantha Lienhard Being an elf, Lucy spends her days working on toys in Santa's workshop. There is more to life than just making toys, however. Lately she has realized just how much her best friend Asher means to her. He is more than just a friend-much more. With Christmas just two weeks away, she decides to make him a special present to show him her feelings. Unfortunately, as the holiday gets closer, Asher becomes strangely distant. All he seems to care about now is working on toys. For these two elves, is even their friendship just a thing of the past?
Un job qu'elle déteste, un patron méprisant, une vie sentimentale réduite à néant : Beth décide de reprendre son destin en main et démissionne sur un coup de tête. Après un repos bien mérité devant sa télé, elle accepte un boulot dans une boîte de communication. Son quotidien prend soudain une toute autre tournure : Beth troque ses pantoufles contre des escarpins et son farniente contre un agenda de ministre. Embarquée dans le tourbillon de la vie nocturne new-yorkaise, elle savoure les petits plaisirs de cette vie, jusqu'à ce qu'elle découvre que la presse people s'intéresse de près à elle...
“Juul’s rise and fall teaches us something about greed, capitalism, policy failure and a particular cycle in American business that seems destined to repeat itself. . . . Deeply reported and illuminating.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this gripping exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided—and the vaping epidemic was born. “The best business book I’ve read since Bad Blood.”—Jonathan Eig, bestselling author of Ali: A Life Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of the parent company of tobacco giant Philip Morris, he believed the e-cigarette had all the addictive upside of the original without the same apparent health risks and bad press. Meanwhile, Adam Bowen and James Monsees began working on a device meant to destroy Big Tobacco but ended up baking the cigarette industry’s DNA into their invention. Juul’s e-cigarette was so effective that it put the company on a collision course with Philip Morris, sparking one of the most explosive public health crises in recent memory. Award–winning journalist Lauren Etter tells a riveting story of greed and deception in one of the biggest botched deals in business history. Willard was desperate to acquire Juul, even as his team sounded alarms about the startup’s reliance on underage customers. Ultimately, Juul’s executives negotiated a deal that let them pocket the lion’s share of Philip Morris’s $12.8 billion investment while government regulators and furious parents mounted a campaign to hold the company’s feet to the fire. The Devil’s Playbook is the inside story of how Juul’s embodiment of Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos wrought havoc on American health, how a beleaguered tobacco company was seduced by the promise of a new generation of addicted customers, and how Juul’s founders, board members, and employees walked away with a windfall.
Jess Davis gelooft niet in de liefde. De relatie van haar ouders was een ramp, en haar ex besloot al voordat hun dochter geboren was dat het vaderschap niets voor hem was. Maar dan hoort Jess over GeneticAlly, een gloednieuwe manier om op basis van DNA je perfecte partner te vinden. Jess is een expert op het gebied van data en statistiek, en op een zakelijke en efficiënte manier liefde vinden lijkt haar wel wat. Totdat haar test uitwijst dat de ideale persoon voor haar River Peña zou zijn, de oprichter van GeneticAlly. Met 98 % zijn ze een diamanten match, en daarmee een van de koppels met het zeldzame hoogste slagingspercentage. Jess verliest spontaan al haar vertrouwen in de test, want de verwaande, koppige man is niets voor haar en allesbehalve haar soulmate. Of schuilt er toch meer achter de in zichzelf gekeerde wetenschapper dan ze dacht?
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
During the American Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers commonly fraternized, despite strict prohibitions from the high command. When soldiers found themselves surrounded by privation, disease, and death, many risked their standing in the army, and ultimately their lives, for a warm cup of coffee or pinch of tobacco during a sleepless shift on picket duty, to receive a newspaper from a “Yank” or “Johnny,” or to stop the relentless picket fire while in the trenches. In Friendly Enemies Lauren K. Thompson analyzes the relations and fraternization of American soldiers on opposing sides of the battlefield and argues that these interactions represented common soldiers’ efforts to fight the war on their own terms. Her study reveals that despite different commanders, terrain, and outcomes on the battlefield, a common thread emerges: soldiers constructed a space to lessen hostilities and make their daily lives more manageable. Fraternization allowed men to escape their situation briefly and did not carry the stigma of cowardice. Because the fraternization was exclusively between white soldiers, it became the prototype for sectional reunion after the war—a model that avoided debates over causation, honored soldiers’ shared sacrifice, and promoted white male supremacy. Friendly Enemies demonstrates how relations between opposing sides were an unprecedented yet highly significant consequence of mid-nineteenth-century civil warfare.
This startlingly plainspoken and unflinching first-person account by the niece of fashion icon Ralph Lauren details a wrenching struggle with anorexia and bulimia -- and speaks powerfully to a widespread failure by the medical community to understand eating disorders. With captivating blue eyes and dark hair, Jenny Lauren looked as though she'd stepped out of one of the glossy ads for which her uncle is famous. It was not long, however, before Jenny found herself in a world where it was easy to see herself as less than perfect. As a young dancer, she felt insecure that her muscular frame did not seem to measure up to the slim figures of the other girls. She was ten years old when she first starved herself. Although there were brief periods of recovery, Jenny spent much of her teens and early twenties bingeing, purging, and compulsively exercising. In 1997, her body finally broke down after years of relentless ravaging; her small intestine herniated. She could barely walk. But physician after physician told Jenny her ailments were largely in her head. Eventually Jenny's condition was connected to her eating disorder and the resulting strain on her digestive system, but it was too late -- irreparable damage appeared to have been done. Although Homesick centers around Jenny's struggle with an eating disorder, as well as the dramatic surgery she was forced to undergo as a consequence, it is a much larger story that focuses on universal issues: the intricacies of family ties, the pressures of society, the search for selfhood, and ultimately, the power of finding hope. From the New York fashion shows to the art galleries of Santa Fe, from the Mayo Pain Management Clinic in Minnesota to the healing sanctuaries in Brazil, Jenny takes the reader on a cinematic odyssey to self-discovery. With flashes of wit and a knowing beyond its young writer's years, Homesick is a riveting and emotionally complex story of pain and tentative, hard-won recovery.
How social class determines who lands the best jobs Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn’t, and why. Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews as well as firsthand observation of hiring practices at some of America’s most prestigious firms, Lauren Rivera shows how, at every step of the hiring process, the ways that employers define and evaluate merit are strongly skewed to favor job applicants from economically privileged backgrounds. She reveals how decision makers draw from ideas about talent—what it is, what best signals it, and who does (and does not) have it—that are deeply rooted in social class. Displaying the "right stuff" that elite employers are looking for entails considerable amounts of economic, social, and cultural resources on the part of the applicants and their parents. Challenging our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer and the job market as a level playing field, Pedigree exposes the class biases built into American notions about the best and the brightest, and shows how social status plays a significant role in determining who reaches the top of the economic ladder.
Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham offers a revisionist history of the novel. With particular attention to the fiction of the 1820s through 1840s, this study focuses on novels that use fashion's idiom of currency and obsolescence to link narrative form to a heightened sense of the present and the visibility of public life. It contends that novelists steeped their fiction in date-stamped matters of dress, manners, and media sensations to articulate a sense of history as unfolding not in epochal change, but in transient issues and interests capturing the public's imagination. Reading fiction by Mary Shelley, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W. H. Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and others, Fashionable Fictions tells the story of a nineteenth-century genre commitment to contemporaneity that restyles the novel itself.
More than two thousand amusement parks dotted the American landscape in the early twentieth century, thrilling the general public with the latest in entertainment and motion picture technology. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society before World War I, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. As she follows the rise of American parks from 1896 to 1918, Rabinovitz seizes on a simultaneous increase in cinema and spectacle audiences and connects both to the success of leisure activities in stabilizing society.--
Inclusive College Classrooms provides instructors with research-based practices and tools to create an effective and inclusive classroom environment. Filling a visible gap in pedagogical training, this important book responds to current barriers to inclusion in higher education by helping instructors improve the methods they are already using and identify new methods that could enhance their courses. The inclusive approach in this book is informed by critical pedagogy, universal design for learning, and intersectional social justice pedagogies. The authors identify practices in education that exclude historically marginalized groups and outline teaching strategies that can create more inclusive classrooms, where all students can feel heard and represented. This timely volume is packed full of hundreds of example lessons from across a range of disciplines, tips for moving classes online, questions to generate dialogue about various methods, and appendices on lesson planning. With this book in hand, instructors can continually adapt and revise their pedagogy to be more inclusive and effective.
In schools serving high concentrations of bilingual learners, it can be especially challenging for teachers to maintain commitments to equity-minded instruction while meeting the demands of new educational policies, including national standards. This book details how one school integrated equity pedagogy into standards-based curriculum and produced exemplary levels of achievement. As the authors illustrate, however, the schools dual commitment to bilingual education and standards-based reform engendered numerous complex tensions. Specifically, the authors describe teachers attempts to balance demands for rigor and content coverage within their high-performing school and with their diverse student population. This timely book illustrates what can happen when a schools teachers embrace equity pedagogy while navigating policy-related pressures. It offers a cogent counternarrative to traditional accounts of standards-based reform, especially for emerging bilingual students.
How universities can navigate affirmative action bans to protect diversity in student admissions Diversity in higher education is under attack as the Supreme Court considers the future of affirmative action, or race-conscious admissions practices, at American colleges and universities. In On the Basis of Race, Lauren S. Foley sheds light on our current crisis, exploring the past, present, and future of this contentious policy. From Brown v. Board of Education in the mid-twentieth century to the current Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Foley explores how organizations have resisted and complied with public policies regarding race. She examines how admissions officers, who have played an important role in the long fight to protect racial diversity in higher education, work around the law to maintain diversity after affirmative action is banned. Foley takes us behind the curtain of student admissions, shedding light on how multiple universities, including the University of Michigan, have creatively responded to affirmative action bans. On the Basis of Race traces the history of a controversial idea and policy, and provides insight into its uncertain future.
The New York Times bestselling sequel to Wither reveals a world as captivating—and as treacherous—as the one Rhine left behind. Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but they’re still in danger. Outside, they find a world even more disquieting than the one they ran away from. Determined to get to Manhattan and find Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan, the two press forward, amid threats of being captured again…or worse. The road they are on is long and perilous—and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and men die at age twenty-five, time is precious. In this sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price—now that she has more to lose than ever.
This new, thoroughly revised fifth edition of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review offers a comprehensive study guide of child psychiatry. New authors incorporate the latest evidence-based content while still offering the questions and detailed answers format of previous editions. Part I includes chapters covering normal development, diagnostic categories, treatments, and special issues, whilst Part II includes new case problems that test knowledge of assessment and treatment planning. This book includes hundreds of multiple-choice questions, modelled on board examination questions, and includes references from leading textbooks, providing a comprehensive review of the field. Both general and child/adolescent psychiatrists will find this fifth edition essential, not only as a guide for preparing for their first successful board examination but also as a review in preparing for important recertification exams.
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