For Patricia Preciado Martin, the past is every bit as real as the present. In Days of Plenty, Days of Want, past and present meet in a collection of strikingly crafted short stories that show us a heritage being irreverently pushed aside by "progress" yet passed along from person to person, century to century. In the pages of this book are people so real you'll swear you've met them, situations so familiar you'll nod in recognition. Two of these stories have won prizes in Chicano literary contests; all will win the hearts of readers. Through them, Patricia Preciado Martin reminds us that freedom and self-expression are important in fulfilling our potential—and, more important, that a large part of this process requires acknowledging our heritage as a priceless gift whose relevance in our lives cannot be ignored.
Being a working mom can be hard. So balancing your time between work, housework, and family can be tough. By reading a book about how to be a work mom, you will find that it can get easier. There are many different books for working mothers. Some will help you learn to balance your time. While others will help you get more organizing, helping you free up more time.
Patricia Martin reveals how some of the world's top brands are reaching Millennials in a digital culture. Distilled from interviews with executives from world-class companies such as Ford Motor, Red Bull and Google, Tipping the Culture is loaded with practical tips and pithy insights from marketers communicating across multiple platforms.
Anyone going through struggles in life will want to read this book. This world can be a lonely place, but there are life changing answers. We all relate to stress, sorrow, dysfunctional relationships and personal identity problems. There is "a light at the end of the tunnel" for every hungry heart. The author candidly shares her walk with God through divorce, single parenting, illness, a dysfunctional childhood, occult teachings, controlling church life, and much more. It doesn't stop there, for out of her "dark places and chains" comes the hand of Almighty God, bringing deliverance and freedom in life. The author tells how God faithfully demonstrates His tender love and mercy in the lives of anyone seeking Divine intervention. Personal miracles are shared, along with life application principles that transform even the most desperate of life's circumstances. Knowing how much God loves you personally gives the ability to "fly above the storm," just as eagles soar above the clouds.
This is a delightful, enchanting children’s book filled with humour, fun, and adventure! Sarah, an only child without a mother, finds new friends and discovers a very special tree that adds new meaning to her life. She is confronted with challenges on her adventure and discovers strength inside her she didn’t know she had. The book captures the heart with hope, and with faith in oneself and life. Through adversity she and her friends find inner strength and a belief that spurs them on to a positive outcome. It is a lovely story about the fairy world, about belief in angels and nature, and about teaching how real these beings are in our lives if we just look inside ourselves. The unique, special tree that the children, especially Sarah, have a strong connection with gives them purpose. The love of nature will touch readers’ very being as they embrace the wonders of this tree. If only we believe, the world will be a better place. A lesson that is pure simplicity! Pure magic!
Lulu Atlantis has a big problem: her new baby brother, Sam. With him in the picture, Mother certainly doesn’t need her around. Luckily, she has her best friend, Harry, a top-hat-wearing daddy longlegs spider to turn to. Over the course of four enchanting chapters, the two friends rescue a skunk stuck in a yogurt pot, encounter gangster bakers, seek out the Secret Ingredient to make Sam’s oatmeal edible, and contend with a monster (not to mention an evil cat named Princess Fancy). Through it all, Harry stands by Lulu Atlantis, his one and only True Blue Love, as she searches–quests!–for some True Blue Love of her own. With irresistible black-and-white chapter-opening art, plus an imaginative story with a classic feel, this is the perfect choice for young middle-grade readers.
It brings a mother to her knees to plead for her son's safe return from war. It draws a grown woman back to the site of cherished childhood memories. It keeps the passion and romance of youth alive in an older woman's heart. It brings together heiresses and busboys, lawyers and chambermaids. Only love, the magical elixir that transcends boundaries and relieves heartaches, can do these things. Through earthy, charming stories that blend songs, letters, and prayers, Patricia Preciado Martin explores the hidden places of the soul and the human longing for Amor Eterno, eternal love. Forbidden love, enchanted love, and desperate love are just some of the varieties of love that get mixed into this sweet concoction of romance, wit, and instruction. A delicious combination of modern sensibility and folk wisdom--including recipes for fresh breath and special prayers to Saint Valentine--this book tells universal tales of devotion and desire. Seeking love in many forms, Martin's characters relive unforgettable experiences, pursue elusive destinies, give themselves with abandon, and yearn for home. Love is the mysterious and miraculous emotion that leads them to deny or indulge their deepest needs. Amor Eterno is a passionate and humorous collection of stories that will inspire us to treasure and share the loves we have known.
A native of Oklahoma, Patricia Martin grew up listening to the stories told by her maternal grandmother, of her early life homesteading on the plains of Kansas and Oklahoma. Says Martin, "She was my link with the past." Martin's determinations to chronicle these true stories resulted in this exciting, historical novel. Patricia Martin now makes her home in Colorado, where she continues to write about the west.
Ideas - and the forms in which they are expressed - are the new currency. Yet many companies, the media, and even the general population mistakenly see America as an intellectual and cultural wasteland defined by reality television and fast food. RenGen is about the rise of the next "renaissance generation" - an emerging section of the American public who are enlightened, creative, and eager to challenge the status quo. RenGen draws a new picture of the American consumer as a thinking, expressive person and examines the factors that are giving rise to this renaissance, including: a new class of workers dedicated to creating innovation a growing desire to express new ideas and concepts aesthetically and, a new respect for learning-fueled by the Internet, a medium that links ideas, information, and visuals and connects people aross communities Based on original research, RenGen gives leaders a lens through which to consider important business decisions.
Mary Jane's tea-set was a wedding gift from her Scottish parents, when she married into the Webster family of Middleton and Gordon, on the shores of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, in remote, rural southern Tasmania. The tea set is now widely distributed among her big family- and this book presents their memories of the family Matriarch and of her life over the period 1900-1960. It is richly illustrated with family photographs and newspaper-clippings of the time. This is a revised and enlarged version of the original version of the book.
This little (A5-sized) book describes the early history (from 1850s -1960s) of Long Bay (Middleton), a small farming community on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, in southern Tasmania, Australia. It describes its early days of settlement (British, Irish, German and Scots, and the early industries they undertook: whaling, forestry and timber mills, fruit farming and orchards. The narrative, biographic text is supplemented with old newspaper clippings; original family photographs and illustrations by the author, who describes the thriving community as she experienced it, and as her parents and grandparents remembered it.
Rainie Marie is sick of acting like an adult at the age of 12. She is tired of leaving home, taking care of her family, wiping noses and making sandwiches. She secretly hopes traveling will soon be over.
Since Mack's father died in a fire, Mack, her mother, and her sister have led a nomadic life, free of relationships. When they start to settle in Homer's Cove, Mack sees other people as intruders. She feels that it hurts too much to lose people, so she doesn't want to become friendly with anybody. But proving that no man or child is an island, Mack eventually opens up to the people around her and realizes that though people may leave there will always be a place for them in her memories.
The relationship of language to cognition, especially in development, is an issue that has occupied philosophers, psychologists, and linguists for centuries. In recent years, the scientific study of sign languages and deaf individuals has greatly enhanced our understanding of deafness, language, and cognition. This Counterpoints volume considers the extent to which the use of sign language might affect the course and character of cognitive development, and presents a variety of viewpoints in this debate. This volume brings the language-thought discussion into a clearer focus, both theoretically and practically, by placing it in the context of children growing up deaf and the influences of having sign language as their primary form of communication. The discussion is also sharpened by having internationally recognized contributors, such as Patricia Siple, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Ruth Campbell, with specialties in varied areas, all converging on a common interest in which each has conducted empirical research. These contributors clarify and challenge the theoretical assumptions that have driven arguments in the language-thought debate for centuries. An introduction by the editors provides a historical overview of the issues as well as a review of empirical findings that have been offered in response to questions about language-thought relations in deaf children. The final chapters are structured in the form of "live" debate, in which each contributor is given the opportunity to respond to the other perspectives presented in this volume.
Trudy and Rick lived worlds apart. She used to the frantic life of New York City and he used to life on a farm. But after one strange day that they both seemed to sleep through, their paths became connected forever. Trudy and Rick had gone though a number of trials in life and it was not about to get any easier. It was a fight they were more than eager to face just to hold each other one more time. The two journey through a mountain of obstacles to be together and even more to stay together. Searching out their missing day and falling even more in love along the way. The love they found is like nothing either had ever felt and they would never let it go, holding on to those raw emotions.
This book was written as a lifeline for women who are involved with men who lie, cheat, and mistreat their wives or girlfriends. Readers join a support group of four smart, educated women with careers and families, who were lied to and devastated by the people who promised to love, honor and protect them-their husbands.The episodes described by these women make the subject raw and real, accompanied by advice from a doctor of psychology to help with finding solutions in your own life. You may feel worthless and lost now, but you can become stronger than ever.
This is the phenomenal true story of the world-renowned psychic medium George Anderson—the groundbreaking book that first brought afterlife experience into the light. For over 12 years Joel Martin documented evidence of Anderson's powers—the ability to reach 'the other side'—and repeatedly astonished believers and skeptics. This is the book of those universal visions, the inspiring messages of hope, truth, and peace, and a glimpse into eternity to answers to the unfathomable questions about life and death.
Through the eyes of two wise and experienced therapists, The Other Couch explores the lives of 36 spirited women who struggle and overcome their challenges with courage, resilience, and commitment. The authors focus on the wisdom patients bring to their therapists as they introduce women diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, multiple personality disorder, chronic suicidal ideation, and substance abuse. Each chapter conveys an important life lesson about the human condition and touches on situations such as abusive relationships, cheating spouses, addicted children, the death of loved ones, transgender issues, and more. Patricia Martin and Helene Houston understand that each of us has an intense craving to be understood by others. These stories are meant to inspire because they bring new life, breath, and spirit into the world. The Other Couch was written as a tribute, and a gift, to women everywhere.
Gathers selections from stories by Barbara Park, Rosemary Wells, Alice Low, Shirley Hughes, Ann M. Martin, Arnold Lobel, Mary Hoffman, and Paulette Bourgeois
Health and illness are storied experiences that necessarily entail personal, cultural, and political complexities. For all of us, communicating about health and illness requires a continuous negotiation of these complexities and a delicate balance between what we learn about the biology of disease from providers and our own very personal, subjective experiences of being ill. Storied Health and Illness brings together dozens of noteworthy scholars, both established and emerging, in a provocative collection that embraces narrative ways of knowing to think about, analyze, and reconsider our own and others’ health beliefs, behaviors, and communication. Comprehensive content reflects the editors’ substantial research in integrative health, narrative care, and innovative ways of improving well-being and quality of life in personal relationships, healthcare, the workplace, and community settings. Unique narrative approaches to the study of health communication include: • 14 chapters written by 22 contributors who use engaging stories from their own research or personal experience to introduce and ground foundational communication concepts in healthcare, health promotion, community support, organizational wellness, and other health-related sites of interest. • Compelling stories of individuals living with the inherent challenges and unexpected opportunities of mental illness, addiction, aging, cancer, dialysis, sexual harassment, miscarriage, obesity, alopecia, breastfeeding, health threats to immigrant workers, developmental differences, and youth gun violence. • 36 Health Communication in Action (HCIA) sidebars that highlight applied research of innovative health communication scholars in their own words and then prompt readers to think more deeply about their own perspectives and experiences. • Theorizing Practice boxes that encourage readers to reflect on stories that describe significant experiences in their own and others’ lives as they consider assumptions and enlarge their viewpoints in previously unimagined ways.
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