Personal trainer and weight loss coach Traci D Mitchell helps readers say goodbye to unsightly and lethal belly fat with [a] ... diet and exercise program rooted in body type-specific eating, high intensity interval training (HIIT), and healthy lifestyle choices"--
The story continues with Deanna and Eric in the small town of Twin Harbor. A sudden animal attack throws the little town of Twin Harbor in an uproar, but it's Deanna who doesn't take the news well. After reading bits and pieces of an tatty old hand written journal, she begins to consider the possiblities that Eric might be the killer. Deanna's birthright is a Hunter. The very people who kill dangerous and evil werewolves.With no hope on the horizon, Deanna finds herself caught in a horrific situation and she must accept what she is to become.
Many women are stuck in their day-to-day routine with so much noise overwhelming them - who they should be, what they should be doing, and how they should be doing it. They don't realize that they are superheroes in disguise, donning invisible capes and capable of fulfilling their goals and ambitions. In Stirring the Pot, author Traci Mitchell takes a closer look at successful, accomplished women who are living their lives on purpose, and what it takes to inspire yourself and be an inspiration to those around you. You'll hear lessons learned from well-known women including: Oprah Winfrey Ariana Grande Winnie Mandela Learn more about your inner strengths and gifts. See just how phenomenal you can truly be. Traci Mitchell's Stirring the Pot provides all the info you need for self-empowerment and purpose. Women are capable of making what may seem impossible, possible. It's as simple as believing in yourself and finding others to walk with you.
As a child Deniece was mentally and physically abused by her mother. She almost gave up on life until she was given bandages to help her heart heal. She was introduced to her imagination, her utopia as it were, from her teacher, Mrs. Rushmore through learning to play the violin and piano. Her exciting imagination became her compass to determination that eventually gave her self-respect, pride and a true identity of herself being ripped away by her mother. Deniece now had a reason to thrive. She became addicted to the insight of the musical prowess of the past; she became their prodigy. Along the way she was introduced to a loving couple, the Conairs. Their support ignited the fire of her motivation. Deniece encountered another battle, though pleasant, at Steinberg Academy. Pierre, a sports star at Steinberg, became her love interest. This was instigated by her friends but she was torn, believing she would lose her determination to fight an enemy of self-worth. Quotes: "You should have killed yourself.
Voting, Race, and the Lawdelves into the struggles that people of color have faced when trying to gain the right to vote and exercise this right. This title discusses legislation that helped break down barriers to voting and looks at how people's voting rights are still at risk today.Features include essential facts, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022 WHA Caughey Western History Prize for the most distinguished book on the American West Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge that poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate? Traci Brynne Voyles's history of the Salton Sea examines how settler colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that further Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism, and degradation of the natural world. In other words, The Settler Sea asks how settler colonialism entraps nature to do settlers' work for them. The Salton Sea, Southern California's largest inland body of water, occupies the space between the lush agricultural farmland of the Imperial Valley and the austere desert called "America's Sahara." The sea sits near the boundary between the United States and Mexico and lies at the often-contested intersections of the sovereign lands of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla and the state of California. Created in 1905, when overflow from the Colorado River combined with a poorly constructed irrigation system to cause the whole river to flow into the desert, this human-maintained body of water has been considered a looming environmental disaster. The Salton Sea's very precariousness--the way it sits uncomfortably between worlds, existing always in the interstices of human and natural influences, between desert and wetland, between the skyward pull of the sun and the constant inflow of polluted water--is both a symptom and symbol of the larger precariousness of settler relationships to the environment, in the West and beyond. Voyles provides an innovative exploration of the Salton Sea, looking to the ways the sea, its origins, and its role in human life have been vital to the people who call this region home.
Due to the increase in transgender characters in scripted television and film in the 2010s, trans visibility has been presented as a relatively new phenomenon that has positively shifted the cis society’s acceptance of the trans community. This book counters this claim to assert that such representations actually present limited and harmful characterizations, as they have for decades. To do so, this book analyzes transgender narratives in scripted visual media from the 1960s to 2010s across a variety of genres, including independent and mainstream films and television dramatic series and sitcoms, judging not the veracity of such representations per se but dissecting their transphobia as a constant despite relevant shifts that have improved their veracity and variety. Already ingrained with their own ideological expectations, genres shift the framing of the trans character, particularly the relevance of their gender difference for cisgender characters and society. The popularity of trans characters within certain genres also provides a historical lineage that is examined against the progression of transgender rights activism and corresponding transphobic falsehoods, concluding that this popular medium continues to offer a limited and narrow conception of gender, the variability of the transgender experience, and the range of transgender identities.
Shows how the populairty of the Lake of the Ozarks has resulted in major present-day problems, including poor water quality, loss of habitat, and increasing concerns about aging waste-management systems.
This book brings to the fore the difficult realities of racism and the sexual violation of women. Traci West argues for a liberative method of Christian social ethics in which the discussion begins not with generic philosophical concepts but in the concrete realities of the lives of the socially and economically marginalized.
Personal trainer and weight loss coach Traci D Mitchell helps readers say goodbye to unsightly and lethal belly fat with [a] ... diet and exercise program rooted in body type-specific eating, high intensity interval training (HIIT), and healthy lifestyle choices"--
Traci Kochendorfer is an Italian, German, polish and some native American who became noticed when winning 5 medals in fitness, modeling and leadership. She was a competitive bodybuilder and won pro status after earning titles in over 10 organizations. Which qualified her for the Olympic committee? She humbled to active military support and spent most of her training sponsored by the us army. While training other soldiers, and to include Olympic athletes and celebrities.She gained her star when she competed and won nationals to earn a spot on a sports series show that aired on many networks like espn2, fox sports and international media networks. She later started contracting and created over 6 clubs in personal training and later added life coaching.She shares self improvement chapters from her experiences and research.
Kinesthetic education is your answer to brain-friendly fun! Discover hundreds of practical, clearly explained movements and activities that rev up your teaching and spark optimal learning. This extensively researched 4-part framework of activities promotes an energized learning environment where mental and emotional growth is met with physical, social, and cognitive engagement. With little or no equipment and minimal planning time, this updated guide will help you: Find tips and information to initiate, manage, and organize a kinesthetic classroom Build a cohesive and safe learning environment that adapts to grade, fitness, and ability levels Enhance neural connections with 90-second activities Implement activities for use in teaching core academic content along with music, art, and health
What do you do when your God-given dream comes to life, but doesn’t last your lifetime? Elder Paige Morganson has made her choice in who to pursue a romantic relationship with but it isn't all smooth sailing. Unbeknownst to her, secrets long since buried are being uncovered that will rock not only her life, but everyone she has interacted with in the last few months. Their reactions are key. My Oil of Joy For Your Mourning, the continuation of My Beauty For Your Ashes will take you to another level of emotion with its gripping storyline that won’t let you go until the characters say so. Elder Paige Morganson has come a long way from the angry, abused child who was saddled with too much too soon. With God’s help she has come to love herself and assist others in finding the same peace she treasures. Due to the new people in her life she has decisions to make about her future, but whatever way she chooses, the path will be filled with twists and turns that will rock the very foundation of her faith, causing her to question her ability to listen to God. The very God that Victoria Branchett would curse if she could. Victoria’s plans to gain sole custody of her granddaughter, Vivian, are overshadowed by the need to save her marriage and keep her husband, Richard, the only man she has ever truly loved, next to her, but the secret he’s been keeping may bring her to her knees. Elder Brandon Tatum is fighting for his life, which isn’t anything he hasn’t gone through before, but Paige is something else. Will he have the courage to put all his cards on the table and do what it takes to keep Paige in his life? After his wife died Mason Jenson was overcome with grief and spent two years just going through the motions, but a near fatal car accident causes him to realize he still has a lot to live for. Now Mason is working hard to be the father, his daughter, Vivian, deserves and the man he believes Paige could love, but will his best be enough?
This unique reader presents a broad approach to the study of American Indians through the voices and viewpoints of the Native Peoples themselves. Multi-disciplinary and hemispheric in approach, it draws on ethnography, biography, journalism, art, and poetry to familiarize students with the historical and present day experiences of native peoples and nations throughout North and South America–all with a focus on themes and issues that are crucial within Indian Country today. For courses in Introduction to American Indians in departments of Native American Studies/American Indian Studies, Anthropology, American Studies, Sociology, History, Women's Studies.
In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.
Conventional and Alternative Therapies for Managing Pain - Discover New Treatments, Regulate Symptoms, Improve Your Mood, Decrease Chronic Stress, and Nurture Your Body and Mind
Conventional and Alternative Therapies for Managing Pain - Discover New Treatments, Regulate Symptoms, Improve Your Mood, Decrease Chronic Stress, and Nurture Your Body and Mind
Resilience is a biopsychosocial phenomenon—it encompasses personal, interpersonal, and community experiences. Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience reviews the current research and details differing levels and approaches to resilience. On a microlevel, this book specifies how to develop appropriate coping strategies, maintain cognitive flexibility, and identify, label, and share feelings before acting upon them. On a macrolevel, it defines and explores environmental resilience, social resilience, community resilience, and family resilience. It focuses on the importance of family, community, and spiritual bonds, in order to share experiences and enhance posttraumatic healing. The need to be firmly grounded in today, while learning from yesterday, in order to cope with the requirements of tomorrow is the primary emphasis of this book. 2018 PROSE Awards - Winner, Award for Applied Social Work, Nursing and Allied Health: Association of American Publishers Explores aspects of resilience within the individual, community, and environment Outlines critical factors that allow people to not just survive, but to thrive Addresses the crucial role of the family in the development of resilience Reflects upon the helping professional's need to achieve and maintain resilience
A groundbreaking exploration of how race in America is being redefined The American racial order—the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities—is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected. Through revealing narrative and striking research, the authors show that the personal and political choices of Americans will be critical to how, and how much, racial hierarchy is redefined in decades to come. The authors outline the components that make up a racial order and examine the specific mechanisms influencing group dynamics in the United States: immigration, multiracialism, genomic science, and generational change. Cumulatively, these mechanisms increase heterogeneity within each racial or ethnic group, and decrease the distance separating groups from each other. The authors show that individuals are moving across group boundaries, that genomic science is challenging the whole concept of race, and that economic variation within groups is increasing. Above all, young adults understand and practice race differently from their elders: their formative memories are 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and Obama's election—not civil rights marches, riots, or the early stages of immigration. Blockages could stymie or distort these changes, however, so the authors point to essential policy and political choices. Portraying a vision, not of a postracial America, but of a different racial America, Creating a New Racial Order examines how the structures of race and ethnicity are altering a nation.
IN THE BATTLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL, THE WAR IS NOT OVER UNTIL EVERYBODY WINS! We've been at war with them for our entire existence, yet completely blind to their machinations. Etheric parasites are secretly infecting the world's population, feeding off the cosmic light of our spirit forms that connect us to higher dimensions. Our ancestors warned us about these dark, manipulative beings, known as Nagas and Archons. An inter-dimensional porthole incident in ancient Ur saw Earth sprinkled with deposits of a black liquid crystal goo, which is Archon consciousness made manifest. This organic AI, incompatible with our carbon-based forms, psychically manipulates leaders and world governments to pursue a trans-human, mechanised agenda. As once man has integrated with technology, the Archons can physically invade our bodies and absorb us completely. Through the cycles of time, our Inter-dweller has been replaying history, guiding us to make the right choices to free ourselves. And yet we are all still here, playing out our roles of the innocent, the lover, the healer, the warrior, the seeker, the destroyer, the ruler, the sage, the creator, the orphan, the magician, and the fool. With opposing agendas, we frequent three different eras of Earth's history, yet we are all experiencing a vital day of entanglement with an ancient sutra. Despite the time and space that separates us, will we finally follow our Inter-dweller's guidance and uphold the sacred knowledge that will ultimately free us from our hidden oppressors? One pivotal day, in twelve different lives, to secure our eternal salvation ... all we have to do is cooperate. ANOTHER ROMP THROUGH A SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION OF OUR KIND VIA THE ARCHETYPES WITHIN EACH OF US.. FROM THE MISTRESS OF TIME TRAVEL AND OTHER METAPHYSICAL MISCHIEF, TRACI HARDING.
Created in 1858, the Evergreen Cemetery provided a final resting place for a multitude of Santa Cruz's adventurers, entrepreneurs and artists. The land was a gift from the Imus family, who'd narrowly escaped the fate of the Donner Party more than a decade earlier and had already buried two of their own. Alongside these pioneers, the community buried many other notables, including London Nelson, an emancipated slave turned farmer who left his land to the city schools, and journalist Belle Dormer, who covered a visit by President Benjamin Harrison and the women's suffrage movement. Join Traci Bliss and Randall Brown as they bring to life the tragedies and triumphs of the diverse men and women interred at Evergreen Cemetery.
Seabright, located atop towering sandstone cliffs and bordered by the Santa Cruz Small Craft harbor and San Lorenzo Point, overlooks the famous Santa Cruz Boardwalk and a state beach where locals and lifeguards have performed many valiant acts of ocean rescue. Originally a Victorian-era campground, the neighborhood features special amenities, including a natural history museum, thanks to a long tradition of community activism. The creation of the Santa Cruz harbor in the 1960s completed Seabright's transition from a summer resort to a year-round neighborhood. The beach doubled in size due to the littoral drift of sand blocked by the harbor seawall, protecting the vulnerable cliffs from the assault of winter waves." -- From cover.
What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade novel in verse, two best-selling BIPOC authors tackle this hot-button issue. In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye’s mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers–-all with different backgrounds and beliefs–-get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside down with everyone choosing sides and arguments getting ugly. Told from several perspectives, readers see how each student comes to new understandings about identity, tradition, and what it means to stand up for real change. "Waters and Sorell's plain spoken verse is always sharp and direct." —The New York Times Book Review “The kids and I are so grateful for this gift you both have given to teachers, kids, and our world.” –Ms. Corgill, 5th Grade Teacher, Alabama A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 A National Public Radio "Books We Love" title of 2023
Building for Well-Being is the first introduction to health-focused building standards for design and construction professionals. More than a summary of the state of the field, this practical resource guides designers, builders, developers, and owners through considerations for incorporating WELL®, Fitwel®, and other systems from the planning phase to ground-breaking and beyond. Side-by-side comparisons of established and emerging health-focused standards empower building professionals to select the most appropriate certifications for their projects. Drawing on the authors’ backgrounds in sustainable design and public health, chapters on the evolution of the green building movement and the relationship between health and the built environment provide vital context for understanding health-focused standards and certifications. The final chapter looks toward the future of health and the built environment.
Drawing on cutting-edge research, this inspiring book shows how to integrate movement with classroom instruction, providing hundreds of activities that improve attention spans and student learning.
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