NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] outstanding debut."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother’s abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother—a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle’s father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton’s first Black city councilman—hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, “Go and find your mother.” Belonging is the chronicle of Michelle’s decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice as a journalist, a wife, and a mother. Michelle traces the years spent trying to make sense of her mixed-race heritage and her place in white-dominated world. From the wealthy white schools where she was bussed to integrate, to the newsrooms filled with white, largely male faces, she revisits the emotional turmoil of her formative years and how the enigma of her mother and her rejection shaped Michelle’s understanding of herself and her own Blackness. As she charts her personal journey, Michelle looks back on her decades on the ground reporting painful events, from the beating of Rodney King to the death of George Floyd, revealing how her struggle to understand her racial identity coincides with the nation’s own ongoing and imperfect racial reckoning. What emerges is an intimate family story about secrets—secrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.
Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets. Even when they are getting by, they lack many of the resources—tangible and intangible—that provide middle-class Americans with a sense of security, stability, and a stake in the future. In Owning Up, Michelle Miller-Adams demonstrates how asset-building programs, used in combination with traditional income-based support, can be an effective means for helping millions of American out of poverty. Miller-Adams expands the traditional concept of assets to encompass a range of tools, experiences, resources, and support systems that are necessary if asset building is to serve as an effective anti-poverty strategy. She identifies four types of assets that can represent sources of wealth for low-income individuals and communities: economic human social, and natural assets. Economic assets include equity, retirement savings, and other financial holdings. Human assets include education, knowledge, skills, and talents. Included among social assets are the networks of trust and reciprocity that bind communities together. Natural assets include the land, water, air and other natural resources we depend on for survival. Owning Up also examines five organizations at the forefront of building assets for the poor. Their stories are told through the eyes of individuals whose lives they have helped transform. These organizations have all developed effective strategies for building assets, and Miller-Adams identifies them as models to be emulated elsewhere. The profiled organizations include: Neighborhoods Incorporated of Battle Creek, Michigan. Its innovative strategies seek to increase home ownership and promote neighborhood revitalization in poor communities. The Watershed Research and Training Center. This local organization strengthens the natural resource-based eco
“A digital-age Edith Wharton . . . hilarious, exhilarating, and so, so clever.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians A suspenseful, racy, and achingly honest story of the entangled lives of six young women and men as they take Silicon Valley’s hottest dating app public. Tara Taylor runs six miles every morning, never eats after nine p.m., is the first to arrive and last to leave the office, but is starting to wonder why she bothers. When her old Stanford flame, Todd Kent, asks her to join his four-person team handling Hook’s IPO, the deal of the decade, she sees her opportunity to break through the glass ceiling and justify six boyfriendless years of sacrifices for her career. And the $14 billion dating app might have more in store for her than a bigger bonus. But that kind of money changes people. When the deal is thrown into a tailspin, Tara and five others will each find out just what they’re willing to give up—love, family, integrity—to get to the top.
Quieting Resentment is a simply written book that will help anyone dealing with resentment build awareness of their feelings, process their emotions, and find calm in situations where they feel triggered.Resentment is a perfectly normal human emotion, but it's certainly not a healthy one. When people focus on resentment, they fall into a common trap, cultivating unhealthy emotions instead of positive, liberating feelings.Life coach Michelle Miller understands. As a child, she often resented her mother, who was a strict disciplinarian and at times seemed disconnected and uncaring. This perception caused much conflict and resentment on Miller's part. The weeds of negative emotions had to be confronted and cleared out of her inner emotional landscape.In Quieting Resentment, Miller explains how to develop awareness of feelings, process emotions, and find calm in situations that once triggered resentment. Through self-understanding and connecting to the quiet, still place within us all, we can build confidence, find solutions, and move beyond unwanted behaviors and negative thinking. A guide to self-understanding, Quieting Resentment helps you identify the underlying causes of resentment, understand your negative thoughts, and connect with what you truly want to manifest in your life.
Over 100 amazing recipes with guidance on following the pegan diet, a balanced, anti-inflammatory blend of the paleo and vegan diets. From the creator of SunkissedKitchen.com, Michelle Miller brings over 100 delicious pegan diet recipes to the table and introduces you to the eating philosophy that celebrates plant-based foods, limits sugar intake and focuses on a high fiber diet in The Beginner’s Pegan Diet Cookbook. This cookbook puts you on the path to a balanced, anti-inflammatory eating approach that provides you with the necessary vitamins, minerals, nutrients, and phytonutrients your body needs. The principles of the pegan diet are: Unlimited low-glycemic, and occasional high-glycemic, fruits and vegetables Limited dairy or inclusion of raw and fermented dairy product Minimally processed whole foods Small amounts of gluten-free grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds as well as meat and eggs No gluten and small amounts of minimally-processed sugar Unlike paleo and vegan diets, following the pegan philosophy is less restrictive, so you can easily maintain lifelong health. Inside this book, you will find pegan recipes for every meal of the day plus snacks and desserts, including: Lemon-Raspberry Buckwheat Muffins Chia Seed Power Crackers Salmon and Artichoke Skewers Turkey Sweet Potato Chili Pesto Spaghetti Squash with Blistered Tomatoes Seared Lamb Chops with Citrus Mint Salad Almond Berry Cobbler Make healthy eating feel like a treat instead of a chore with The Beginner's Pegan Diet Cookbook.
Michelle Miller-Adams presents the most accessible and comprehensive overview available of the emergence and development of the Promise movement nationwide as well as an up-to-date assessment of available research on the impacts of such programs.
From wired campuses to smart classrooms to massive open online courses (MOOCs), digital technology is now firmly embedded in higher education. But the dizzying pace of innovation, combined with a dearth of evidence on the effectiveness of new tools and programs, challenges educators to articulate how technology can best fit into the learning experience. Minds Online is a concise, nontechnical guide for academic leaders and instructors who seek to advance learning in this changing environment, through a sound scientific understanding of how the human brain assimilates knowledge. Drawing on the latest findings from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Michelle Miller explores how attention, memory, and higher thought processes such as critical thinking and analytical reasoning can be enhanced through technology-aided approaches. The techniques she describes promote retention of course material through frequent low‐stakes testing and practice, and help prevent counterproductive cramming by encouraging better spacing of study. Online activities also help students become more adept with cognitive aids, such as analogies, that allow them to apply learning across situations and disciplines. Miller guides instructors through the process of creating a syllabus for a cognitively optimized, fully online course. She presents innovative ideas for how to use multimedia effectively, how to take advantage of learners’ existing knowledge, and how to motivate students to do their best work and complete the course. For a generation born into the Internet age, educational technology designed with the brain in mind offers a natural pathway to the pleasures and rewards of deep learning.
Todd Kent, jeune et ambitieux playboy de Wall Street, est contacté par le fondateur de la start-up californienne Hook, une application de rencontre en ligne extrêmement populaire qui permet à ses utilisateurs de géolocaliser leurs cibles. Celui-ci a choisi Todd pour s’occuper personnellement de l’entrée en Bourse de Hook. Après avoir permis à Todd de multiplier les aventures, Hook va faire sa fortune. Il monte une équipe composée de Neha Patel, jeune analyste indienne zélée, Tara Taylor, pour laquelle il a eu un béguin à l’université, et Beau Buckley, gosse de riche séduisant et noceur notoire. Ils préparent ensemble le coup du siècle, un deal à 14 milliards de dollars qui verra leur carrière à tous décoller. Mais le monde de la Silicon Valley leur réserve bien des surprises, et lorsque le deal menace de capoter, chacun se voit contraint de concéder de lourds sacrifices pour sauver l’introduction en Bourse de Hook. À l’intersection de The Social Network et du Loup de Wall Street, un roman happant qui dévoile les coulisses d’un monde où règnent jeux de pouvoir, scandales sexuels et négociations troubles. ADAPTATION EN SERIE TELEVISEE PROCHAINEMENT « Un Diable s’habille en Prada sur la génération des Millenials expertement ficelé. » Kirkus Review « Un roman exubérant, un récit ingénieux et pénétrant sur le monde impitoyable de la finance. » The Guardian « Le meilleur du monde de la tech et de celui, implacable, de Wall Street.... » Publishers Weekly Après avoir été trader chez J.P. Morgan, Michelle Miller se consacre aujourd’hui à l’écriture. Hook, son premier roman, a d’abord été auto-édité en ligne sous forme d’une « saison » de dix épisodes.
This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of intergenerational mother-daughter relational communication. Author Michelle Miller-Day integrates and juxtaposes alternative experiences of social interaction, situating readers in the world of grandmothers, mothers, adult daughters, and granddaughters as they experience, describe, and analyze their family communication. Miller-Day incorporates aged mothers and younger mid-life mothers and their adult daughters into the research to illustrate how this type of maternal relationship is experienced at different points in a woman's life. With the inclusion of three generations of women, Miller-Day offers multigenerational perspectives on family, and examines them for patterns of maternal interaction, providing symbolic links across generational boundaries. Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters enables readers to understand more completely the richly textured nature of maternal relationships. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers in the areas of communication and relationships, including family communication, intergenerational communication, women's studies, family studies, interpersonal communication, and relationships, as well as social workers, psychologists, and counselors, who strive to understand family communication processes and their dynamics across generational lines.
Draw and paint with the freedom of a child and the techniques of a professional! FUNKY ANIMALS is the first in a series of innovative art project books from MichKa Art Play, for artists of all ages. Based on Michelle Miller and Kate Carson's acclaimed children's and adults' workshops, these books build creative skills that spill over into everyday life, boosting self-esteem, critical thinking and mental capabilities for a lifetime. Inside Book One: FUNKY ANIMALS, you'll find: 5 projects with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations new techniques and creative language are introduced in each lesson variations and suggestions so each artist can experiment with different styles and media fun facts about each funky animal. "'Taking MichKa classes has exposed Alison to new ideas, styles and techniques she has enthusiastically incorporated into what she does outside of the studio. With this increased vocabulary for self-expression, she has more self-confidence.'" Carolyn Hissen, mother of Alison, 11 "'Avery has really grown as an artist and a person while taking these art classes. She has become so confident in her artistic and creative abilities and it seems to overflow into everyday life as well.'" Kerry Vaughan, mother of Avery, 8
Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use explores the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It focuses on peer norms, risk, and protective factors and considers how drugs are offered to adolescents, examining such factors as who makes the offers and how they are resisted, where the offers take place, and what relationship exists between the persons making the offers and the persons receiving them. Unlike other studies of drug resistance, this work examines the communication processes that affect adolescents' ability to effectively resist drug offers. Michelle Miller and her colleagues study how personal qualities, communication skills, and relationships with others affect an individual's ability to resist offers of drugs. This volume provides a detailed analysis of drug resistance in the context of such factors as relationships, types of drugs, family and peer group relationships, personality, and situations. It places drug use and resistance in a living, relational context, and offers the first comprehensive communication and relational approach to drug resistance. The authors argue for the development of a relational and communication competence model of drug resistance, and suggest unique approaches for future drug prevention efforts. In describing the social and relational processes of drug resistance and then linking intervention techniques to the adolescents' relational world, this work makes a major contribution toward understanding drug use among adolescents. It informs relationship, communication, and psychology research, assists drug and health research by presenting new ways of considering the issue, and enlightens drug resistance practice by demonstrating a new approach to prevention. As such, it makes an effective and invaluable contribution to the ongoing efforts to reduce drug use among adolescents.
A BREAKTHROUGH, PROACTIVE LEADERSHIP SERIES FOR GIRLS WITH DREAMS! Every girl has a dream, something only you can do. How will you navigate life changes? Will you rise above the pack and take the lead? Do you have the audacity to believe in and realize your dreams? Growing up brings waves of change. Every girl faces uncertainties about herself and her dreams. Take the Lead is an uncommon, self-help message for girls to take responsibility for their dreams and come into full ownership of their life. In this breakthrough, proactive leadership series, drawing on her own story of taking the lead at a young age, Life-Coach and Leadership Expert, Michelle M. Miller, invites girls on an amazing voyage of self-discovery. Using Coaching insight, she challenges girls to believe in the impossible, create the incredible and achieve the unthinkable. You Will Learn: - Awareness & Esteem Power of Dreams Building Your Best Self Goals & Decisions Mindful Media Proactive Leadership Take the lead. Every dream you realize, begins with you and what you believe is possible. You are your own possibilities!
Investment Banker. Rock band manager. All-women’s brokerage firm founder. Self-help greeting card guru. Cosmo’s Bachelor of the Month. These are just a few of the labels that accurately describe Alan Gelband, in addition to “devoted husband,” “proud father” and “deeply loyal friend.” In this memoir, written on the evening of his 75th birthday, Gelband recounts it all with honesty, humor and searching insight into what the human experience is all about. His conclusion? It really is a crazy ride, and he’s an awfully lucky man.(Movie actor, Executive Producer)
The 7 Simple Steps To Manage Anxiety In Relationship And Fight Fear Of Abandonment. Avoid Attachment To Your Partner, Codependency, Jealousy and All Kind of Negativity.
The 7 Simple Steps To Manage Anxiety In Relationship And Fight Fear Of Abandonment. Avoid Attachment To Your Partner, Codependency, Jealousy and All Kind of Negativity.
How can anxiety impact a relationship? How will the best version of yourself fix this issue? What will I do if my partner has anxiety? Can this anxiety destroy our relationship? Questions you keep on asking will be answered in this book. Perhaps in this book, this fear will allow you to keep caring. Being able to establish and sustain a robust and enduring relationship with another person is one of life's blessings. Allow the bond last by learning how to avoid the mistakes made by others. You certainly get filled with butterflies in your stomach as you step into a new relationship. You want to figure out something exactly, so you're not sure whether or not you're doing the right thing. Relationship anxiety isn't rare, and many people are here. There are also things you can do in relationships to conquer the fear. First, before you deal with it, you need to consider the real cause of the anxiety. This book covers: General Preface of Anxiety Fear of Abandonment Jealousy Insecurity Attachment And Many More! Whatever excuse you have, relationship anxiety can only be resolved by facing up to your fears. You need to fix your issues so you can relax and have a happy relationship. If you thought you're not good enough to please your partner, then it's time to look inside and realize who you are. Anxiety can lead to stress, and the mother of importance is depression. So, if you want to create enduring relationships, get this book, click BUY NOW and learn from it.
While the image or construct of the “good mother” has been the focus of many research projects, the “bad mother,” as a discursive construct, and also mothers who do “bad” things as complicated, agentic social actors, have been quite neglected, despite the prevalence of the image of the bad mother across late modern societies. The few researchers who address this powerful social image point out that bad mothers are culturally identified by what they do, yet they are also socially recognized by who they are. Mothers become potentially bad when they behave or express opinions that diverge from, or challenge, social or gender norms, or when they deviate from mainstream, white, middle class, heterosexual, nondisabled normativity. When suspected of being bad mothers, women are surveilled, and may be disciplined, punished or otherwise excluded, by various official agents (i.e. legal, medical and welfare institutions), as well as by their relatives, friends and communities. Too often, women are judged and punished without clear evidence that they are neglecting or abusing their children. Frequently they are blamed for the marginal sociocultural context in which they are mothering. This anthology presents empirical, theoretical and creative works that address the construct of the bad mother and the lived realities of mothers labeled as bad. Throughout the volume, the editors consider voices and acts of resistance to bad mother constructions, demonstrating that mothers, across time and across domains, have individually and collectively taken a stand against this destructive label.
Todd Kent ist jung, ehrgeizig und auf dem Weg an die Spitze der Wall Street. Als er ausgewählt wird, das Unternehmen einer populären Dating-App namens HOOK an die Börse zu bringen, wittert er den Deal seines Lebens. Bisher war HOOK für ihn nur ein schneller Weg zu sexuellen Abenteuern, jetzt könnte es ihn reich machen. Sehr reich. Todd und sein Team – die übereifrige Neha, der Partyboy Beau und Todds Exfreundin Tara Taylor – tun alles, um das 14-Milliarden-Dollar-Geschäft einzufädeln. Für Tara könnte sich sogar der Traum erfüllen, in der Machowelt der Wall Street den Aufstieg zu schaffen. Aber das Vorhaben ist hochriskant. Denn HOOK ist mehr als eine Partnerbörse. Es kann zur tödlichen Falle werden. Und wenn das bekannt wird, gerät der gigantische Deal ins Wanken ...
In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced, comprehensive, and objective summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women. They examine the history of violence against women, the surrounding debates, the legal reforms and justice system outcomes, the related media and social-service responses, and the current science on intimate partner violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape. Plus, they augment these victimization findings with original research on women convicted of domestic battery and men convicted of sexual abuse and other sex-related offenses. In these new data the authors explore the unanticipated consequences associated with changes to the laws governing domestic violence and the newer forms of sex-offender legislation. Both of these investigations are based on qualitative data that involve in-depth offender-based interviews that probe the circumstances surrounding the arrests and victimizations involved in the cases, the significant legal issues, and their experiences with the criminal justice system.
A shocking statistic in education reveals that 70% of K-12 teachers work under chronic stress. This revolutionary new book explains how removing stress from the classroom holds the key to improving education. The book also explains what administrators, teachers, parents, and communities can do to help accomplish a stress-free classroom. For years, the expert voices said “disengagement” was the crucial issue behind poor educational environments and results. Naturally, only massive reform could fix it. But what if the enormous restructuring and expenditures attacked the wrong problem? MindShift, an organization that reframes tired and clogged conversations, pushed the old conclusions off the table and started fresh. They gathered diverse leaders in education, leadership, neuroscience, architecture, and wellness in working forums around the nation. These pivotal meetings produced WHOLE, a game-changing approach to education. This book captures the story and details of how the system can be remade for real and lasting benefits to everyone. With the authors’ expertise, the book exposes the exhausted and antiquated thinking that led to the present crisis. But, WHOLE also proposes a new era of disruptive change that can produce happier, healthier, and more successful education for the 21st century. The book introduces the outliers, tells the stories, and presents the roadmaps to: Why teachers should be seen as high-performance athletes, requiring time for recovery and preparation How schools can become “field hospitals,” combining learning with healing Why space matters, how redesigning and refurnishing schools can eliminate stress and produce learning environments that are more open and inviting Ways to properly integrate schools within communities, building honest relationships, increasing social capital, and achieving transparency that increases success Packed with real-life examples, new research, and solutions that you can introduce to your own schools, students, and communities, WHOLE shows us how to move schools from the age of stress and insecurity to an age of true educational flourishing.
A home on the ranch? Sierra's Homecoming by #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller Sierra McKettrick moves to her family’s ancestral ranch with her son, but being a McKettrick by blood isn’t enough to make her fit in. And the Triple M’s ranch hand, Travis Reid, is a tempting complication she doesn’t need. But as Sierra forms a connection to one of her ancestors, she starts to realize that there are some bonds that even time can’t break. FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Her Soldier of Fortune by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle Major Nothing could have prepared former navy SEAL Nate Fortune for the reappearance of Bianca Shaw. The shy teenager Nate used to know as "Busy Bee" is now a beautiful young woman—and she’s just arrived at his Paseo ranch with a suitcase and her four-year-old son in tow. But this soldier's heart holds secrets, and Bianca wonders if her dreams of family are too good to be true… #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Linda Lael Miller USA TODAY Bestselling Author Michelle Major Previously published as Sierra's Homecoming and Her Soldier of Fortune
Special education is facing a period of increasing conflict, which is leading to untenable jobs and an exodus from the field. This important and innovative book offers a framework that can begin to resolve many of the consequential challenges special educators, schools, and students are dealing with. Through a framing of effective leadership built through authentic collaboration, this book outlines how we might stop viewing the issues in special education as insurmountable problems, and instead see them as informative starting points from which to communicate, brainstorm, and organize operative partnerships to find solutions, change practices, and create better outcomes at the level of entire districts as well as individual schools. Redesigning Special Education Systems Through Collaborative Problem Solving is key reading for school and district leaders and administrators, special education teachers, and preservice teachers interested in becoming more productively engaged in creating solutions and making changes in the field of special education.
This book provides the biblical foundation to ignite people around the world to understand that wealth, riches and prosperity was and is God's plan for people. This book helps individuals build a vast understanding of obtaining, building and utilizing money in a manner that honors God. The material contained in the books encourages individuals to look beyond their current economic situation and financial challenges and believe God for supernatural blessings, wealth and success.
A baby on her terms The McKettrick Way by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Linda Lael Miller Meg McKettrick longs for a baby—husband optional. Perfect father material is gorgeous Brad O’Ballivan, an old flame and the new owner of his family’s ranch in Stone Creek. But Meg—as strong, proud and stubborn as her ancestors from Indian Rock’s Triple M ranch—wants to do things her way…the McKettrick way. And Brad feels just as strongly about the O’Ballivan way! FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! A Baby and a Betrothal by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Michelle Major As proud as Katie Garrity is of her bakery, she’s ready to be more than just The Cupcake Lady. She wants to be Mrs. and Mommy, too. But in the small mountain town of Crimson, there aren’t many candidates for a dad—until the one who got away returns. Forest ranger Noah Crawford can’t commit to forever, though. But after one explosive night, it just may be too late… #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Linda Lael Miller
Sometimes it takes a little holiday help to find true love… Don’t miss a single classic story in this collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller. Sierra’s Homecoming Sierra McKettrick feels like a fraud. She might be moving to her family’s ancestral ranch with her son, but being a McKettrick by blood wasn’t enough to make her fit in. To make matters worse, from the moment she’d met the Triple M’s ranch hand, he’d gotten under Sierra’s skin. With his rugged body and tender compassion, Travis Reid was a temptation she didn’t need or want. But it might be the one temptation she can’t resist… A McKettrick Christmas Lizzie McKettrick is coming home for Christmas…with a suitor who seems a bit too interested in her family’s money. Yet fate has a surprise of its own for Lizzie: Dr. Morgan Shane. When their homebound train is halted by a massive avalanche, injuring and stranding its passengers, the handsome doctor takes charge—with Lizzie by his side. Despite their growing bond, Lizzie and Morgan know that with another avalanche looming and a dwindling food supply, it’s going to be a bleak Christmas Eve. But with a little extra help from a most unexpected source, they just might find their way home to celebrate a McKettrick family Christmas after all.… A Lawman’s Christmas When the town sheriff suddenly dies, Clay McKettrick steps up while also planning to start a ranch and finally settle down. Problem is, the old sheriff has left behind a family that needs his help. He isn’t interested in uprooting Dara Rose and her children, but he is interested in giving her protection, friendship—and passion. And when they say “I do” to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman’s Christmas wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife…. Originally published in 2006, 2008, and 2011
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