In today's busy world, schedules are hectic and demands are many. Few people have (or take) the time to stop and relax with a book. The short stories in Reading by the Pool take only twenty minutes to read, giving the reader a much-needed break from the stress of everyday life.
In this fast-paced world where rushing and multitasking are the norm, we often look for escape from the stress. Once again, Wendy has provided a selection of a20-minute vacations.a Each story takes just twenty minutes to read, making this a perfect book to take to the beach, the pool, or just carry in your bag for when you want to be anywhere but where you are now. Like her previous book, Stories to Read Under the Palm Tree, this collection is sure to provide some relaxing ame time.a
Whether on vacation or just in need of one, every woman needs to get away from the here and now. This collection of stories is meant for just those times. Light and easy-to-read romances make Stories to Read Under the Palm Tree the perfect book to stow in a purse or totebag for a quick mental getaway.
Featuring more than 400 kid-friendly destinations and activities, this essential guidebook for parents in the Sydney area offers valuable information?such as opening hours, admissions fees, and travel options?on everything from museums to puppet shows. Organized by theme and weather conditions, this handbook caters to families with children up to 12 years old and highlights free and inexpensive destinations. Convenient and thorough, this updated reference makes the most of of Sydney's best family-friendly treasures.
A wedding serves as the beginning marker of a marriage; if a couple is to manage cultural differences throughout their relationship, they must first pass the hurdle of designing a wedding ceremony that accommodates those differences. In this volume, author Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz documents the weddings of 112 couples from across the United States, studied over a 10-year period. She focuses on intercultural weddings--interracial, interethnic, interfaith, international, and interclass--looking at how real people are coping with cultural differences in their lives. Through detailed case studies, the book explores how couples display different identities simultaneously. The concepts of community, ritual, identity, and meaning are given extensive consideration. Because material culture plays a particularly important role in weddings as in other examples of ritual, food, clothing, and objects are given special attention here. Focusing on how couples design a wedding ritual to simultaneously meet multiple--and different--requirements, this book provides: *extensive details of actual behavior by couples; *an innovative format: six traditional theoretical chapters, with examples integrated into the discussion, are matched to six "interludes" providing detailed descriptions of the most successful examples of resolving intercultural differences; *a methodological appendix detailing what was done and why these decisions were made; and *a theoretical appendix outlining the study's assumptions in detail. Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual is a distinctive study of those who have accepted cultural difference into their daily lives and how they have managed to do so successfully. As such, it is suitable for students and scholars in semiotics, intercultural communication, ritual, material culture, family communication, and family studies, and will be valuable reading for anyone facing the issue of cultural difference.
Career Development as a Partner in Nation Building Australia details the valuable historical place of career development in contributing to the broad growth of Australian society. It challenges policy makers and practitioners to provide a more sustained national systemic approach.
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