ABOUT THE BOOK Blame high-definition televisions or airbrushing, but for some reason, people expect perfection in every aspect of their lives, especially their relationships. Having the right kids, the right home, and getting into all the right schools have become a preoccupation for wives and husbands. In Heart of the Matter, everyone perceives the central relationship to be perfect, so much so that the people in that relationship are afraid to have people see them as having flaws. The result is that the husband and wife drive each other away. What this book can teach you is that all relationships have underlying secrets and the pressure to be perfect is what can keep you from being close. Even in the most successful of relationships, there are likely to be some underlying secrets. Also, just because you are in a committed relationship doesnt mean your significant other will stop making mistakes. Instead, people learn to accept their situations and limitations, but that doesnt mean theyre settling. A lot of people find themselves in a relationship situation they never imagined would happen Heart of the Matter definitely illustrates that with its dramatic turn of events that bring together people who would have never intersected otherwise. This book can teach you that if you have enough love and give up the idea that everything in your relationship is going to work out perfectly, you may find something else. And it may be something better. MEET THE AUTHOR Rachel Nall began writing in 2003 and holds an honors degree in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Tennessee, where she was selected as a Torchbearer, the university's highest honor. She is a former managing editor for custom health publications, including physician journals. She has written for The Associated Press, EverydayHealth.com and "Jezebel," "Charleston," "Chatter" and "Reach" magazines. Nall is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Tennessee. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Emily Giffin never took a single writing workshop or tried to get her masters in writing. Unless you count her time as editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, she didnt really pursue writing as a profession. Though she was born in Baltimore, Maryland, she went to high school in a Chicago suburb. Giffin obtained her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University, then graduated with her law degree from the University of Virginia. After years as a litigator in New York City, she says she decided she actually hated her job and what she really wanted to do was write. Moving to London to write full-time probably wouldnt work for most people, but Giffin has numerous New York Times bestselling books to show it worked out pretty well for her. After her first young adult novel was rejected, she tried again with a novel that would become Something Borrowed. The rest is successful writer history. Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Introduction + Want to Save Your Relationship? Read “Heart of the Matter” + Emily Giffin: The Lawyer Who Gave It All Up to Write Bestselling Books + About “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + Overall Summary for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + ...and much more Chapter Summaries + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 1 and 2 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 3 and 4 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 5 and 6 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 7 and 8 + ...and much more Additional Reading + Related Online Content for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + Trivia for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin Quicklet on The Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin (Book Summary)
Find relief from itchy, red skin with this complete guide to healing eczema, including alternative treatments, DIY remedies, dietary suggestions, patient testimonials, and so much more. Eczema is an intensely itchy, blistering, and inflamed skin condition that affects millions of people every day, yet many struggle to find treatments that actually work for them. The truth is, there is no cure or one-size-fits-all solution for eczema, but you can arm yourself with the information you need to determine what will work best for you. That’s where Break Free from Eczema comes in! This book is your guide to understanding how your genes, the environment you live in, your daily routines, and more can affect your skin, and how to use that information to determine the best course of action—specifically for you. This book provides practical tips and ideas on ways to manage eczema, including: - Alternative and complementary treatments you can try out at home - Clear explanations into the most current medical research on eczema, including topical steroid withdrawal - Questions you need to ask yourself and your medical professionals - Real-life stories of those who have dealt with this condition
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the saga of the Mahoney family, Swarns illustrates how the Church relied on slave labor and slave sales to sustain its operations and to help finance its expansion. The story begins with Ann Joice, a free Black woman and the matriarch of the Mahoney family. Joice sailed to Maryland in the late 1600s as an indentured servant, but her contract was burned and her freedom stolen. Her descendants, who were enslaved by Jesuit priests, passed down the story of that broken promise for centuries. One of those descendants, Harry Mahoney, saved lives and the church’s money in the War of 1812, but his children, including Louisa and Anna, were put up for sale in 1838. One daughter managed to escape, but the other was sold and shipped to Louisiana. Their descendants would remain apart until Rachel Swarns’s reporting in The New York Times finally reunited them. They would go on to join other GU272 descendants who pressed Georgetown and the Catholic Church to make amends, prodding the institutions to break new ground in the movement for reparations and reconciliation in America. Swarns’s journalism has already started a national conversation about universities with ties to slavery. The 272 tells an even bigger story, not only demonstrating how slavery fueled the growth of the American Catholic Church but also shining a light on the enslaved people whose forced labor helped to build the largest religious denomination in the nation.
Tap into the tools, techniques, and resources necessary for enhancing the freshman library experience by utilizing this how-to guide that applies an innovative approach to literacy and library instruction for college freshmen. In recent years, educators have begun to realize the importance of learner-centered programs as pivotal in the academic success of students transitioning from high school to college. This practical guide provides you with detailed plans for designing user-centered literacy and library instruction in your higher education institution—regardless of size. The handbook covers a vast range of learning situations, technologies, and assessment strategies to suit most any environment. Written by seasoned information literacy and instruction librarians, this book addresses the challenges frequently encountered in library-based programs, including staffing deficits, faculty support, effective advocacy of program to campus constituents, and professional burn-out. Real-life examples from a variety of institutions illustrate successful methods for handling spacing, programming, curriculum design, outreach, training, and assessment, among other areas. Included worksheets, handouts, and further readings give you everything you need to create, grow, and sustain a user-based library instruction program.
Meet Nikki Maxwell (aka Queen of the Dorks!) in the first book in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! New school. New Crush. New mean girl. New diary, so Nikki can spill all! Nikki Maxwell has never been popular but now she’s started at a new school, she’s hoping to leave her old dorky ways behind. Follow Nikki's adorkable life through sketches, doodles and diary entries as she shares all the details of her not-so-fabulous life full of BFF drama, hopeless crushes and an extremely cringe-worthy family. With a HUGE global fanbase, Dork Diaries is the perfect series for fans of Lottie Brooks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates. Don’t miss out! I LOVE PARIS, the brand new DORK DIARIES, is out now! Have you read all the DORK DIARIES series? Dork Diaries Dork Diaries 2: Party Time Dork Diaries 3: Pop Star Dork Diaries 4: Skating Sensation Dork Diaries 5: Dear Dork Dork Diaries 6: Holiday Heartbreak Dork Diaries 7: TV Star Dork Diaries 8: Once Upon a Dork Dork Diaries 9: Drama Queen Dork Diaries 10: Puppy Love Dork Diaries 11: Frenemies Forever Dork Diaries 12: Crush Catastrophe Dork Diaries 13: Birthday Drama Dork Diaries 14: Spectacular Superstar Dork Diaries 15: I Love Paris! - Out now!
Welcome to the spiral of life, which has been designed to bridge the gap between our logic and energy therapy. This book is a workable tool to use at any time of day or night to start focusing and taking self-responsibility for you and those you care about emotionally, physically, and spiritually. This book is not a heavily scientific, deeply worded document on how energy therapy works. It is a personal therapist’s journey, with real-life experiences as examples, to help you can make comparisons on a day-to-day level of life.
Our world today -- from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon -- has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history as dramatically as any political or social revolution. At the heart of it all has been one quiet Californian: Gordon Moore. At Fairchild Semiconductor, his seminal Silicon Valley startup, Moore -- a young chemist turned electronics entrepreneur -- had the defining insight: silicon transistors, and microchips made of them, could make electronics profoundly cheap and immensely powerful. Microchips could double in power, then redouble again in clockwork fashion. History has borne out this insight, which we now call "Moore's Law", and Moore himself, having recognized it, worked endlessly to realize his vision. With Moore's technological leadership at Fairchild and then at his second start-up, the Intel Corporation, the law has held for fifty years. The result is profound: from the days of enormous, clunky computers of limited capability to our new era, in which computers are placed everywhere from inside of our bodies to the surface of Mars. Moore led nothing short of a revolution. In Moore's Law, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones give the authoritative account of Gordon Moore's life and his role in the development both of Silicon Valley and the transformative technologies developed there. Told by a team of writers with unparalleled access to Moore, his family, and his contemporaries, this is the human story of man and a career that have had almost superhuman effects. The history of twentieth-century technology is littered with overblown "revolutions." Moore's Law is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn what a real revolution looks like.
Rachel Speght was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unmistakably and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This edition includes her foray into the Jacobean gender wars and her collected poems. Speght's tract, A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617), is at once a spirited answer to Joseph Swetnam's attack on women and a serious effort to stake women's claim to the prevailing Protestant discourse of biblical exegesis, in order to define a more expansive and more equitable concept of gender. Speght's volume of poems, Mortalities Memorandum with a Dreame Prefixed (1621)--printed, in part, to counter charges that her prose was actually her father's--includes a long memento mori meditation and an allegorical dream vision that recounts her own rapturous encounter with learning. Both texts vigorously defend women's education and promote women's talents. This latest addition to the Women Writers in English series should find a ready audience among scholars and students of early seventeenth-century literature, history, and religion, as well as among those in women's studies.
In a first-of-its-kind format, Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach is organized by problems and questions rather than topics, creating a natural discussion of traditional anthropological concerns such as kinship, caste, gender roles, and religion.
Designed for busy clinicians struggling to fit the critical issue of nutrition into their routine patient encounters, Nutrition in Clinical Practice translates the robust evidence base underlying nutrition in health and disease into actionable, evidence-based clinical guidance on a comprehensive array of nutrition topics. Authoritative, thoroughly referenced, and fully updated, the revised 4th edition covers the full scope of nutrition applications in clinical practice, spanning health promotion, risk factor modification, prevention, chronic disease management, and weight control – with a special emphasis on providing concisely summarized action steps within the clinical workflow. Edited by Dr. David L. Katz (a world-renowned expert in nutrition, preventive medicine, and lifestyle medicine) along with Drs. Kofi D. Essel, Rachel S.C. Friedman, Shivam Joshi, Joshua Levitt, and Ming-Chin Yeh, Nutrition in Clinical Practice is a must-have resource for practicing clinicians who want to provide well-informed, compassionate, and effective nutritional counseling to patients.
ABOUT THE BOOK Blame high-definition televisions or airbrushing, but for some reason, people expect perfection in every aspect of their lives, especially their relationships. Having the right kids, the right home, and getting into all the right schools have become a preoccupation for wives and husbands. In Heart of the Matter, everyone perceives the central relationship to be perfect, so much so that the people in that relationship are afraid to have people see them as having flaws. The result is that the husband and wife drive each other away. What this book can teach you is that all relationships have underlying secrets and the pressure to be perfect is what can keep you from being close. Even in the most successful of relationships, there are likely to be some underlying secrets. Also, just because you are in a committed relationship doesnt mean your significant other will stop making mistakes. Instead, people learn to accept their situations and limitations, but that doesnt mean theyre settling. A lot of people find themselves in a relationship situation they never imagined would happen Heart of the Matter definitely illustrates that with its dramatic turn of events that bring together people who would have never intersected otherwise. This book can teach you that if you have enough love and give up the idea that everything in your relationship is going to work out perfectly, you may find something else. And it may be something better. MEET THE AUTHOR Rachel Nall began writing in 2003 and holds an honors degree in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Tennessee, where she was selected as a Torchbearer, the university's highest honor. She is a former managing editor for custom health publications, including physician journals. She has written for The Associated Press, EverydayHealth.com and "Jezebel," "Charleston," "Chatter" and "Reach" magazines. Nall is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Tennessee. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Emily Giffin never took a single writing workshop or tried to get her masters in writing. Unless you count her time as editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, she didnt really pursue writing as a profession. Though she was born in Baltimore, Maryland, she went to high school in a Chicago suburb. Giffin obtained her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University, then graduated with her law degree from the University of Virginia. After years as a litigator in New York City, she says she decided she actually hated her job and what she really wanted to do was write. Moving to London to write full-time probably wouldnt work for most people, but Giffin has numerous New York Times bestselling books to show it worked out pretty well for her. After her first young adult novel was rejected, she tried again with a novel that would become Something Borrowed. The rest is successful writer history. Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Introduction + Want to Save Your Relationship? Read “Heart of the Matter” + Emily Giffin: The Lawyer Who Gave It All Up to Write Bestselling Books + About “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + Overall Summary for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + ...and much more Chapter Summaries + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 1 and 2 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 3 and 4 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 5 and 6 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 7 and 8 + ...and much more Additional Reading + Related Online Content for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + Trivia for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin Quicklet on The Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin (Book Summary)
THE STORY: On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE is a one-woman play
When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.
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