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A guide to caring for aging and ailing family members, which offers expert advice, illuminating vignettes, and a compassionate approach to building constructive, mutually gratifying relationships. When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role.

While obvious on the surface, understanding the subtle difference between a life journey to "somewhere" and a life journey to "somewhere you desire to be" will determine how satisfied you are with your life and the decisions you make along the way. Jackson and Grimes share a novel approach to this subject. In this book, they show you that it is really how we make important decisions that will determine how happy we are.

More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all? Best-selling author William Poundstone confronts that timely question in Head in the Cloud.

In honest, confessional prose, Born on the Bayou - a roller-coaster rags-to-riches story - transports us to a pocket of the South where Lourd learns how to be a man from the two people he looks up to the most: his larger-than-life father, "Puffer", a prominent figure in the oil business; and his successful older brother, Bryan.

Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. Barry left Chattanooga for New England and a life in the arts; Tommy stayed put and became a mortgage banker.

Drawing on deeply revealing conversations with powerful and dynamic women, input from researchers and relationship experts, and her own wealth of experience, Mika helps women pinpoint their individual definition of success. She advises her listeners to define the "professional value" that encompasses their worth in the workplace, and the "inner value" made up of their core beliefs and goals.

Louise Troh - fiancée of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man ever to die of Ebola in America - breaks her silence about her experience. This deeply moving memoir chronicles the decade-long love story that starts in Liberia and ends in an isolation ward in Dallas, Texas. With the assistance of New York Times best-selling author Christine Wicker, Louise Troh shares with the world a memoir of heartbreaking resonance.

Rachel feels like she doesn't fit in - until she finds heavy metal and meets Fern, a kindred spirit. The two form their own band, but the metal scene turns out to be no different from the misogynist world they want to change. Violent encounters escalate, and the friends decide there's only one way forward....

Janet Allen provides an inside look at some of the problems faced by teenagers in the classroom from the viewpoint of a teacher. This practical "how-to" audiobook will appeal to teachers, parents, and anyone else concerned about indifferent or hostile students. The author enters the teaching profession with plans for sharing her love of literature with her high school English class. The first day shatters her dreams. Instead of having a roomful of students eager to learn, she is faced with teenagers who not only never read Shakespeare, they never read anything.

Sabiduría intemporal..., un estilo divertido..., explicaciones fácile de entender sobre el éxito. En esta obra ya clásica, Florence Scovel Shinn se perfiló como una escritora excepcional, cuyas prácticas y reveladoras sugerencias atrajeron en su época a lectores y mujeres emprendedorasde todos los ámbitos.

Nuestra sociedad nos ha educado a depender de la mente para alcanzar nuestra verdadera realización personal. Sin embargo, nuestra mente es nuestra esclavitud, la fuente de todas nuestras frustraciones, inseguridades y miedos. Cuando no ponemos nuestro corazón en cada uno de los ámbitos de nuestra vida, cuando sólo hay intelecto, ésta se vuelve insípida. Por ello es necesario trabajar con las emociones.

Todo cambia cuando un divorcio irrumpe en nuestras vidas: las emociones, las relaciones de familia y sociales, la estabilidad económica, la seguridad personal e incluso las cuestiones de tipo laboral son puestas a prueba. ¿Qué hacer ante esto? ¿Cómo asumir esta nueva etapa de la vida? A partir de su experiencia personal y de su aguda capacidad para analizar los conflictos cotidianos, Rosaura Rodríguez ofrece un valioso testimonio para ayudar a quienes atraviesan por estas dificultades.

With humor and honesty, award-winning author Lee Reilly explores the joys and trials of the “ever-single” woman in a world defined by the married. In Women Living Single, she tells the refreshing stories of 30 unmarried women of all ages, struggling alone to live life to its fullest, and succeeding.

La Dra. Martín despliega aquí los aromas y colores del silencio, el cual constituye la puerta, a la vez que el meollo mismo, de la vivencia no-dual. Toda práctica tradicional tiene ineludiblemente un aspecto encaminado a llevar al practicante hasta el silencio. Es en ese momento, en que se detiene la actividad incesante del pensamiento, donde reside la oportunidad de contemplar directamente lo que es tal cual es y sin atributos: la Realidad en toda su pureza, libre de las distorsiones de la charla mental.

Sólo el miedo muere es una de las obras más importantes de este autor excepcional. A través de sus ocho ensayos nos transmite enseñanzas básicas en relación al modo en que dentro de nosotros se crea la infelicidad y qué hacer para apartarnos de ella. Sólo el miedo muere es un acertado llamamiento a redescubrir la libertad y la felicidad que nos asiste como seres humanos. Sobre todo, Barry Long desea que sepamos que es posible y práctico llevar una vida apacible.

According to renowned sociology scholar Donna L. Franklin, relationships between American black men and women are in a state of crisis. The schism between black men and women is the result of complex, large-scale societal, economic, and cultural trends, and the African-American legacy of slavery. Franklin asserts that black men and women need to learn how to work to together for the health and maintenance of the family.

Celebrated for both his novels and memoirs, Don J. Snyder is also the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship. A story of love and dedication, Walking with Jack chronicles Snyder’s dream to caddie for his son Jack's pro golf tour debut. At nearly 60, Snyder left Maine for Scotland - the birthplace of golf - where he learned the game and earned his spot as a full-time caddie. His journey would finally coincide with Jack’s own struggles in one of the PGA’s toughest qualifying events.

En La Medicina del Alma no existen las casualidades: la vida te habla a través del cuerpo, y la enfermedad es uno más de los idiomas que la vida usa para comunicarse contigo. Si estás enfermo o tienes un problema físico, quizá creas que no has hecho nada para enfermar. También es posible que creas que, personalmente, tú no puedes hacer nada para curarte.

Descubre los secretos que han ayudado a miles de mujeres a conseguir la relación con la que siempre soñaron.

In Alternadad, Neal Pollack offers a wonderfully candid account of his and his wife's attempt to bring up their son, while still having fun and preserving their attachment to youth culture.