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My Beautiful Life
by Mina DobicAs a top academician, Mina Dobic led a privileged life, but that changed when she was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer that had metastasized to her liver, bones, and lymph system. Given two months to live by her physicians, Mina rejected conventional treatments and decided to adopt macrobiotics. Six months later, Mina Dobic was cancer free. My Beautiful Life both explains how Mina recovered from cancer and details how cancer can be prevented through diet and a philosophy of living in balance with nature.
City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change (NICIS Publications on Urban Research)
by Jan Willem Duyvendak Frank Hendriks Mies Van NiekerkHuge social transformations and turbulent political events – 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh – have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this background, the contributors to this volume bring the city in sight from various disciplinary perspectives and relate their research findings to both national and international debates on urban problems. In this way, City in Sight not only provides insight into the most urgent questions of contemporary cities in the Netherlands, but also how these relate to similar problems in other countries as well. This timely and enlightening volume highlights the latest urban research in the Netherlands.
Find Your Sweet Spot: A Guide To Personal And Professional Excellence
by Karen ElizagaThis smart, stylish motivational guide helps readers discover their dreams and true potential via an action plan based on the coaching strategies of an executive coach. Finding one&’s "sweet spot" means digging deep for new levels of self-understanding and re-prioritizing one&’s life to align with one&’s inner excellence. Written to make readers feel they have access to their own personal coach, the book leads them through a series of inspiring stories, practical steps, and "sweet spot checks" designed to spur personal and professional growth. Find Your Sweet Spot consists of four parts--The Sweet Spot Strategy, The Sweet Spot Inside, The Sweet Spot Outside, Integrate Your Sweet Spot--and offers practical tips and exercises that explore everything from self-love to the power of gratitude and a productive mindset. Find Your Sweet Spot is geared for modern adults who find themselves yearning for more in their daily lives. As a chic, jet-setting businesswoman with many high-powered clients, Karen Elizaga boasts a distinctly modern edge among self-help authors.
East Branch: Six Years on a Catskill Trout Stream
by Mitch KellerIn this creative nonfiction narrative, Mitch Keller chronicles his move from New York City to live as a hand-to-mouth trout bum upstate and shares what it is really like to move to trout country to try to build a life around fly fishing—a dream of so many anglers. All the joys and rewards of the angling life are here in abundance, but so are the chronic financial hardship, the menial jobs, the interminable winters, the moments of doubt—everything that comes with that life and the decision to live it.This compelling story of life living along and fishing a classic trout stream of the Catskills is sure to not only interest those that fish the area but also captivate anyone who has dreamed of leaving the hustle of the city behind to live a more deliberate life.
Rules for Whistleblowers: A Handbook for Doing What's Right
by Stephen M. KohnLearn how whistleblowers have saved lives, stopped frauds, protected their jobs, and earned million-dollar rewards for doing the right thing in Rules for Whistleblowers, Stephen Martin Kohn&’s seventh book on whistleblowing. This book is a fully updated and expanded revision of The Whistleblower&’s Handbook,the first-ever comprehensive consumer guide to exposing workplace wrongdoing. Kohn&’s thirty-seven rules highlight the &“traps&” facing whistleblowers today and address how to file anonymous cases and qualify for multi-million-dollar rewards. Kohn carefully explains complex rules and laws governing whistleblowing including the Dodd-Frank, IRS, and False Claims Acts, as well as detailed strategies for fighting retaliation. He also covers controversial issues such as taping, removing documents, and ignoring nondisclosure agreements.Modernized laws have revolutionized the rights of employees both in the United States and internationally, enabling whistleblowers to be paid over $10 billion in rewards for doing the right thing. No employee should blow the whistle without knowing their rights. Too much is at stake.
Translator Self-Training--Spanish: A Practical Course in Technical Translation
by Morry SoferThe translator-in-training is guided through various areas of technical translation, from business and finance to law, medicine, and the media. This series offers the next and final step toward becoming a successful professional translator.
Buckular Dystrophy: A Woods Cop Mystery
by Joseph HeywoodThe 10th installment of the beloved Woods Cop Mystery series! The traditional firearm deer season in Michigan lasts two weeks, a time in which the most hunters are afield during the year and the time when most things happen. Game wardens cannot count on having any life but work during this period, and in this case Grady Service, who takes longtime violator and archrival Limpy Allerdyce on as his partner for deer season runs into the most bizarre string of big cases involving deer that he has ever encountered. Buckular Dystrophy is the term coined by Conservation Officers to describe the condition whereby people cannot help killing deer, not for sport or food, but for other reasons – an addiction of sorts, and unlike other addictions, one not medically organized, but just as real.
Ramage at Trafalgar
by Dudley PopeRamage, finally reunited with his beloved Sarah, hopes to spend at least a few quiet weeks with her. Instead, he is summoned by Admiral Nelson himself. His orders: Ramage is to join Nelson's fleet blockading the combined French and Spanish navies in the port of Cadiz. But Nelson's plan is not merely to blockade the enemy's fleet. He intends to confront it head-on in the biggest naval battle the world has ever seen.
Circle Of Friends Cookbook: 25 Slow-Cooker Recipes
by Gooseberry PatchSlow-cookers are perfect for our busy lives. Enjoy Easy Chili Rellenos, Vickie's Shredded Chicken Sandwiches, JoAnn's Country Corn Pudding, Triple Chocolate Cake and more!
Path to Manhood: Encouragement and Advice for Young Men
by Paul CumboIn a world where young men are seeking direction, veteran educator Paul Cumbo offers a transformative roadmap to authentic manhood that bridges traditional values with modern understanding. Based on more than two decades of experience teaching and mentoring, Cumbo delivers an essential guide that speaks directly to today's teenage boys and young men with both warmth and challenge. This is not another shallow &“man up&” manifesto – it is a nuanced, apolitical exploration of what it truly means to grow into a man of strength, wisdom, and purpose. Through practical wisdom and engaging storytelling, A Path to Manhood addresses core issues young men face: Building genuine self-knowledge and emotional intelligence Developing healthy relationships and true friendship Making smart decisions about education, technology, finance, and vocation Understanding love, marriage, faith, and fatherhood Breaking negative patterns and building positive habits that last a lifetime Endorsed by leading experts in psychology, education, and spirituality including Leonard Sax, Michael Reichert, Michael Gurian, and Fr. James Martin, SJ, this compact guide speaks to both the head and heart of a young man navigating his journey to adulthood. Whether you are a young man seeking direction or someone who cares about one, this book provides the perfect balance of encouragement and challenge needed for today&’s generation.
African-American Healthy
by Richard W. Walker, Jr.Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Health TitleIt's no secret that African-Americans top the list of groups afflicted by hypertension, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, renal failure, and cancer. What the statistics do not show is the pain, misery, and despair that these conditions create, not only for the individual, but also for family and friends. As an African-American doctor, Dr. Richard Walker has studied these conditions among his patients for many years. Now, for the first time, Dr. Walker believes that research has found a commonsense way to prevent, reduce, and possibly eliminate these killers, turning the tide of African-American health.Dr. Walker begins by looking at the black community's lifestyle, which has radically changed over the centuries, shifting people from hours spent under a blazing sun to a life of minimum sunlight exposure. From there, it is clear that the missing puzzle piece of African-American health is a chronic lack of Vitamin D3. Most important, Dr. Walker explains how this crucial factor can be added to a daily routine along with components such as nutritional supplements, diet, and exercise. He then focuses on each major illness affecting the black community and explores what it is, what its symptoms are, and how the reader can avoid or treat the problem.A concise yet critical guide, African-American Healthy offers an important first step towards achieving a healthier, longer life for millions of people.
Red Jacket: A Lute Bapcat Mystery
by Joseph HeywoodWoods Cop mystery author Joseph Heywood takes readers to an era when people had to be as hard as the lives they lived. Meet Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who in 1913, with the enthusiastic recommendation by Theodore Roosevelt, himself, becomes one of the Michigan’s first civil service game wardens. His territory: The Keweenaw Peninsula, the state’s industrial center. Featuring a stunning array of characters, fascinating historical detail, and Heywood’s trademark writing about life and work in Michigan’s wild, Red Jacket asks Lute to confront an explosive, bloody labor strike; a siege-like sabotage, including a sudden rash of decapitated, spoiled deer; poisoned trout streams and well water; and unusual deforestation-all apparently designed by mine owners to deny nature’s bounty to the strikers, and thereby to break the union. The strike’s violence culminates in the Italian Hall disaster, during which a man allegedly yells fire in a small building with several hundred people inside. In the panic, 73 people are crushed or die of suffocation, the majority of them the children and wives of striking miners at the hall for a Christmas party.Even with good people dying, the Michigan governor refuses to take sides. Should Lute Bapcat?
Strategies to Fight Online Health Misinformation: Health Information Quality Assurance, Digital Literacy and Fact-Checking (SpringerBriefs in Public Health)
by André Pereira NetoThis book offers a brief introduction to the three main tools available to fight online health misinformation: health information quality assurance, digital literacy and fact-checking. These are the resources public institutions and civil society can use to deal with the current health infodemic. We are immersed in a huge flow of information that is multiplying rapidly worldwide in a short period of time on different topics. Health is one of the areas in which there is an increasing amount of information available and shared on digital media for a growing number of interested parties. If the information is reliable, up-to-date, scientifically sound and understandable, it can play a fundamental role in self-care practices, in reducing service costs, in disease prevention and in health promotion. On the other hand, if the information is incomprehensible, outdated, incomplete or incorrect, it can interfere with well-being, induce harm to individuals and to the society, and, in extreme situations, promote disease and facilitate death. Many health professionals and health services users and managers are unaware of the existing strategies to address this problem, so this book intends to help them. Strategies to Fight Online Health Misinformation: Health Information Quality Assurance, Digital Literacy and Fact-Checking will serve as a quick guide for health professionals and health services users and managers to the tools available to combat online health misinformation and how they work. Institutions must provide health information quality assurance with reliable sources and scientifically updated information written in simple language. The development of educational practices focused on the critical and creative use of information and communication technologies promote digital literacy. And journalists and public and private communications companies have developed fact-checking strategies to verify whether the information disclosed was obtained through reliable sources and assess whether it is true or false.
Advances in Signal Processing and Communication Engineering: Select Proceedings of ICASPACE 2021 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #929)
by S. P. Singh Pradip Kumar Jain Yatindra Nath Singh Ravi Paul GollapalliThis book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Communication Engineering (ICASPACE 2021). The book covers several theoretical and mathematical approaches addressing day-to-day challenges in signal, image, and speech processing and advanced communication systems. It primarily focuses on effective mathematical methods, algorithms, and models that enhance the performance of existing systems. The topics covered in the book are advances in signal processing (radar and biomedical), image processing, speech processing, technical and environmental challenges in 5G technology, and strategies for optimal utilization of resources to improve the efficacy of the communication systems in terms of bandwidth and radiating power, etc. The works published in the book will remarkably be helpful to prospective scholars, academicians, and students seeking knowledge in signal processing and communication engineering.
The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing, and Children's Rights in Australia (Studies in Childhood and Youth)
by Camilla Nelson Jodi Death Denise BuitenThis edited book examines the cultural construction of the &“public child&” and its impact on children&’s rights in Australia. The &“public child&” refers to a real child or groups of children whose lives have attracted media attention— either because concerns have been raised about their safety or because they have been identified as threats to others. Positioned at the intersection of media, politics, and policymaking, this collection explores how, in an increasingly mediatized political landscape, discursive constructions of the &“public child&” shape state responses, exerting a logic of control and silencing. Amid international debates on child social media bans and increasingly punitive justice systems, this timely work will appeal to scholars of family and youth sociology, criminology, media and gender studies, and education, as well as journalists and legal practitioners specializing in children&’s rights. The book includes five sections: Media and Regulatory Theatre, Domestic Family and Sexual Violence, Justice Systems, Sex and Gender, and Speaking Out and Listening In. The final section focuses on how children exercise agency and express their perspectives, and how adults can serve as allies to them.
Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 14th International Conference, PPAM 2022, Gdansk, Poland, September 11–14, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13827)
by Roman Wyrzykowski Ewa Deelman Jack Dongarra Konrad KarczewskiThis two-volume set, LNCS 13826 and LNCS 13827, constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2022, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2022.The 77 regular papers presented in these volumes were selected from 132 submissions. For regular tracks of the conference, 33 papers were selected from 62 submissions.The papers were organized in topical sections named as follows:Part I: numerical algorithms and parallel scientific computing; parallel non-numerical algorithms; GPU computing; performance analysis and prediction in HPC systems; scheduling for parallel computing; environments and frameworks for parallel/cloud computing; applications of parallel and distributed computing; soft computing with applications and special session on parallel EVD/SVD and its application in matrix computations.Part II: 9th Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming (WLPP 2022); 6th Workshop on Models, Algorithms and Methodologies for Hybrid Parallelism in New HPC Systems (MAMHYP 2022); first workshop on quantum computing and communication; First Workshop on Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in High Performance Computing (WAML 2022); 4th workshop on applied high performance numerical algorithms for PDEs; 5th minisymposium on HPC applications in physical sciences; 8th minisymposium on high performance computing interval methods; 7th workshop on complex collective systems.
The First African Conference on High Energy Physics: Proceedings of ACHEP, Rabat & Kenitra, Morocco, October 23-27, 2023 (Springer Proceedings in Physics #425)
by Yahya Tayalati Mohamed GouighriThis open access book compiles the proceedings of the inaugural African Conference on High Energy Physics (ACHEP), which took place in Rabat and Kenitra, Morocco, from October 23 to 27, 2023. The conference brought together specialized scientists in the field of High Energy Physics (HEP) from universities and research institutes worldwide to discuss current developments, new trends, results, and perspectives. The primary goal of ACHEP meetings is to encourage young African researchers and HEP experts to express and discuss new ideas. The conference proceedings are organized into nine areas with the following titles: Electroweak and Higgs Physics Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology Neutrino Physics and Dark Matter Searches Strong Interaction and Hadron Physics Education and Outreach in Africa Physics Beyond the Standard Model Detectors and Future Experimental Facilities Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics Heavy Ions This book is designed to cater to a diverse audience, ranging from PhD students and early-career researchers to seasoned academics. It is tailored for individuals with a background or interest in the field of HEP, encompassing both theoretical and experimental physicists, as well as researchers from related disciplines such as particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.
Gender, Migration and Categorisation: Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010 (IMISCOE Research)
by Deirdre M. MoloneyAll people are equal, according to Thomas Jefferson, but all migrants are not. This volume looks at how they are distinguished in France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark made through history between migrants and how these were justified in policies and public debates. The chapters form a triptych, addressing in three clusters the problematization of questions such as 'who is a refugee', 'who is family' and 'what is difference'. The chapters in this volume show that these are not separate issues. They intersect in ways that vary according to countries of origin and settlement, economic climate, geopolitical situation, as well as by gender, and by class, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation of the migrants.
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration (IMISCOE Research)
by Eleonore Kofman Martin Kohli Camille Schmoll Albert KralerFamily-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from – and sometimes ignorant of – each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen chapters come up with a number of common themes. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question, if not counter, simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourses, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives at various levels and via different methodological approaches and to acknowledge the state’s role in shaping family-related migration, practices and lives.
Hoop Hysteria: The College Basketball Trivia Quiz Book
by Brent Flanders Jeff Singler Randy Towner Doug VanceA Must-Have for Basketball Fans! In this book you will learn where Lurch from television''s Adams Family played college basketball, what a North Carolina Tar Heel is, and what record Frank Selvy set that may never be broken by a Division I player.
Adrift: Charting Our Course Back to a Great Nation
by William C. HarrisThis timely book not only diagnoses the critical systemic weaknesses plaguing America, but also lays out a workable blueprint for tackling the critical challenges we face today. With the intent of spurring a constructive national dialogue, the authors examine how: -We Americans can be jolted out of our complacency and motivated to bold action and common purpose. -Government can work in concert with industry to foster innovation and pursue critical goals. -We can elevate the quality of our educational system to meet new challenges. -We must encourage the best and the brightest immigrants from around the world to participate in the nation's future. -Individual cities and states are showing the way forward based on local initiatives. This book is more than a compelling narrative and a candid look at our current malaise. It is an inspiring call to action on how we as a nation can once again attain our full potential and thrive.
The Sausage-Making Cookbook: Complete instructions and recipes for making 230 kinds of sausage easily in your own kitchen
by Jerry Predika230 sausage-making recipes from around the world, including tips on equipment and techniques.
Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict
by Count Leo TolstoyRussian novelist and philospher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for his monumental novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but his reputation as a master of short fiction is richly evident in this unparalleled anthology. Here, in the largest one-volume collection available, are 36 stories of war, intrigue, treachery, murder, moral turmoil, spiritual anguish, and occasional redemption. They include early stories like the famed "Sevastopol" tales of warfare and "Lost on the Steppe;" the tour de force novellas "The Death of Ivan Ilyitch" and "The Kreutzer Sonata;" as well as folk tales, parables, realistic tales, and many lesser-known gems.
The Strange Case of Dr. Doyle: A Journey Into Madness and Mayhem
by Daniel Friedman, MD Eugene Friedman, MDIn the spring of 1905, members of an exclusive club of crime enthusiasts known as Our Society were taken on a guided excursion through Whitechapel, one of London&’s most notorious districts, by Dr. Frederick Gordon Brown, the chief police surgeon for the City of London. But this was no ordinary sightseeing tour. The focus of the outing was Jack the Ripper&’s reputed murder sites, and among the guests that day was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world&’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes.Here, now, in The Strange Case of Dr. Doyleby first-time son/father writing team Daniel Friedman, MD, and Eugene Friedman, MD, you are cordially invited to join a recreation of that tour. This expedition, however, will differ from the original in one very important way: It will be led by celebrated author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. As you stroll beside Doyle and his other guests, you will travel to the location of each of the five canonical Ripper murders. Thanks to your guide&’s observations and opinions, all of which are based on actual historical accounts, you will learn as much about the district of Whitechapel as you will the terrible Ripper killings that occurred there.After each stop on the tour, you will also become acquainted with the life of Arthur Conan Doyle, from his earliest days in Edinburgh to his first taste of success as a writer. You will observe Arthur&’s hardships at home, his experiences at boarding school, his adventures at sea, his university education, and his days as a working medical doctor. You will be granted a picture of the man as few have ever seen him. As you alternate between biography and tour, you will become a Holmes-like detective, unearthing facts, discovering details, and piecing together information about both Jack the Ripper and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. If you maintain a sharp mind and a keen eye, at the end of your journey, you may just uncover a truth you never expected to find.
Best Easy Day Hikes Acadia National Park (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)
by Dolores Kong Dan RingBest Easy Day Hikes Acadia National Park includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for easy-to-follow hikes in an area of Maine that has long captivated artists, millionaires, generations of families, and even presidents. Stroll along Ocean Path to see the pink granite cliffs, blue skies, and white surf. From atop Cadillac Mountain, watch fog rolling in over Frenchman Bay below.Look inside for:• Casual hikes to longer adventures• Hikes for everyone, including families• Mile-by-mile directions and clear trail maps• Trail Finder for best hikes for views, children, dogs, and ocean lovers• GPS coordinates