Download or read book Heroes Hacks and Fools written by Ted Van Dyk and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Van Dyk, a shrewd veteran of countless national political and policy fights, casts fresh light on many of the leading personalities and watershed events of American politics since JFK. He was a Pentagon intelligence analyst during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and an aide to Jean Monnet and other leaders of the European movement before serving at the Johnson White House as Vice President Humphrey’s senior advisor and alter ego. He was involved in that administration’s Great Society triumphs and its Vietnam tragedy. In the late 1960s, Van Dyk moved to Columbia University as vice president to help quell campus disorders which threatened the university. Over a period of 35 years he was a senior advisor to presidential candidates Humphrey, McGovern, Carter, Ted Kennedy, Mondale, Hart, and Tsongas; contributed regular essays to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Fortune, and other national publications; and led two national think tanks. In 2001 the Bellingham, Washington, native returned to the Northwest to write a regular editorial-page column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Van Dyk’s memoirs contain many previously untold stories from an historic period of national politics, portray brilliant and not-so-brilliant leaders and ideas, and also illuminate politics’ darker side. They bring to life the flawed realities and enduring opportunities of public policymaking in our time.

Download or read book Rejection Can Lead to Love written by Charity N. Hamilton and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Amy, life morphed from having the ideal marriage to one in which she was viewed as the personal slave to her husband, Tom, and three children. This was not at all how she had envisioned her life and marriage to be. What started out as her dream come true for marriage quickly became a reality of cruel comments and ridiculous expectations. She had settled into that life but was far from content, but where could she go? She could not abandon her children to the menace that was now her husband. The rejection was overwhelming and hurt deeply. Brandon was different. His wife was all about herself. She had cheated on him with one of his friends and coworkers. She had come clean and promised it would never happen again, but the trust line was broken. She was all about herself and the things she wanted or needed. The slow erosion of feelings was causing serious fractures in the marriage. Brandon was never number one in his wife's life and was quickly moving down the list of her priorities. She needed him for his salary, and that was all. He needed more than this for the sense of completeness in his search for a real love. And then he met Amy.

Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book Job Loss Identity and Mental Health written by Dawn R. Norris and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional men and women, showing how job loss can affect both identity and mental health. Sociologist Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the experience of losing a job—what it means for daily life, how the unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed people. Norris highlights several specific challenges to identity that can occur. For instance, the way other people interact with the unemployed either helps them feel sure about who they are, or leads them to question their identities. Another identity threat happens when the unemployed no longer feel they are the same person they used to be. Norris also examines the importance of the subjective meaning people give to statuses, along with the strong influence of society’s expectations. For example, men in Norris’s study often used the stereotype of the “male breadwinner” to define who they were. Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health describes various strategies to cope with identity loss, including “shifting” away from a work-related identity and instead emphasizing a nonwork identity (such as “a parent”), or conversely “sustaining” a work-related identity even though he or she is actually unemployed. Finally, Norris explores the social factors—often out of the control of unemployed people—that make these strategies possible or impossible. A compelling portrait of a little-studied aspect of the Great Recession, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health is filled with insight into the identity crises that unemployment can trigger, as well as strategies to help the unemployed maintain their mental strength.

Download or read book Women Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth written by Sara Shields and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman-centered approach to pregnancy must be flexible enough to address the variety of women's experiences around the world, encompassing medical conditions, cultures and family structures. It must also include women who choose not to carry a pregnancy or experience a miscarriage. This unique woman-centered text explores all these issues and more

Download or read book The Pregnant Colton Bride written by Marie Ferrarella and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a RITA Award–winning and USA Today–bestselling author: single, pregnant and in danger, a woman agrees to a marriage in name only with her sexy boss. Mirabella Freeman, secretary to security expert Zane Colton, thought being pregnant and alone were her biggest problems . . . That is, until police discover a bank account in her name, complete with mysterious payments supposedly by Zane’s missing stepfather! Now not only is Mirabella a suspect in Eldridge Colton’s disappearance, but she’s bombarded by rumors about the identity of her child’s father. So when her gorgeous Colton cowboy boss proposes a marriage of convenience to save face—and her reputation—Mirabella is stunned, yet ready to say, “I do!” As the pregnant bride and her rancher husband fall in love, their hearts won’t be all that’s in danger . . .

Download or read book Working Mother written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.

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Download or read book Understanding Vulnerability written by Vanessa Heaslip and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of vulnerability is critical to person-centred and high-quality nursing and healthcare practice, and underpins all nursing education. Understanding Vulnerability: a Nursing and Healthcare Approach focuses on vulnerability experienced every day by patients and clients in healthcare, and provides clear and supportive guidance to nurses and other healthcare practitioners on protecting and caring for vulnerable patients. Taking a fresh, critical and reflective perspective that reflects current trends towards the promotion of equality and acknowledges everyone’s vulnerability, this book is essential reading for all nursing and healthcare students, as well as healthcare practitioners who are committed to providing person-centred care. Special features: •One of the first books to address the issue of vulnerability from a nursing and healthcare perspective •Written by a group of experienced professionals, academics and educationalists with both educational and research expertise in the exploration of vulnerability •Includes narratives, perspectives and case studies, illustrating and bringing to life the issues within the book

Download or read book It s Different for Girls written by Jo Brand and published by Review. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully funny and poignant novel about growing up in the seventies, teenage angst, growing pains and first love. Rachel and Susan do not like to be beside the seaside. Hastings is so uncool. Plunging headfirst into the choppy waters of adolescence, they are determined to survive their teens by sticking together. It’s a rollercoaster ride of nutty parents, randy language students, stoned hippies, all-night parties on the pier, and an amusement arcade of emotional neediness.

Download or read book In Those Days written by Myra Jo Golden and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Those Days is a novel of history, prophecy, and romance. The Bible says "But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be" (Matthew 24:37). In other words, the last days will be like the days of Noah. If you take that literally, then they were a society like us, an advanced society. Is it possible they were smarter than us and perhaps more advanced? Did they try to "improve" us, and are some of the genetic problems we see today because of that "improvement"? This is a love story from those days. Sharon met Shamie when she was still a young girl. She liked him immediately, and he liked her. Years later, when he asked her to come to the project and marry him, she was torn. She had planned all her life to become a reporter, like her parents, and she just wasn't ready to give that up.

Download or read book The Ascension of Good and Evil written by Ronald L Rizzo and published by Eye Opening Publications LLC. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members of The Elite, guided by Lucifer, developed The System over centuries. Their goal is world domination and the culling of humanity. Billy Ringwald’s ascent to power was driven by The System’s creation of war, social manipulation, drug addiction, and fear. To Billy and The Elite, people are an overly abundant resource meant to serve their evil desires. Angelo Salvatore is a man from an American Midwest blue-collar family. He grew up poor as one of the pawns in the shadows of The System. Through pain and suffering, Angelo’s sheer will, and determination raise him above the predetermined caste into which he was born. His success provides a view of the evil and darkness that surrounds him. Angelo is on a collision course with Billy Ringwald and The Elite.

Download or read book Mutuality in El Barrio written by Carey Kasten and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York’s deeply-rooted organizations On any given weekday, people stream in and out of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service’s bright, airy building on 115th Street. They are mostly mothers who find their way to LSA, sometimes only weeks after crossing the border from Mexico, having heard of the support that las hermanitas (“the little sisters”) offer. Opening a window into the world of New York’s Spanish-speaking newcomers, Mutuality in El Barrio combines oral histories with archival research of the history, spirituality, and ministry of LSA to present how this well-established organization serves vulnerable populations with a unique approach they call “mutuality.” LSA is part of a network of East Harlem’s powerful grassroots organizations that draws from the remarkable strengths of local families in its community. It is a place of healing and empowerment focused on the overall holistic health of resident families. Long-term relationships are cultivated here rather than quick fixes, and it is a place that nurtures people’s full potential as leaders, parents, and advocates for themselves. In Mutuality in El Barrio, eighteen mothers share how, through the help of LSA, they managed to navigate a strange city and an unfamiliar language in a neighborhood that has long been a site of incredible challenges and extraordinary strength, creativity, and cultural vitality. These personal accounts of mothers, long-time LSA staff, and nuns reveal how these women found solidarity, accompaniment, care, neighborhood transformation, and binding connections through mutuality that helped them grow and connect in East Harlem. Their stories shine a light on an organization that began as a small community of vowed nuns who, like these mothers, also trace their origins abroad.

Download or read book The Mind Has Mountains written by Mary Hocking and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Norris has problems of his own, and chief among them is: who is he? It is a time of general stress and strain, for Tom is Assistant Education Officer to the South Sussex Council, and the County Hall, long threatened by wind and rain on its bleak headland, is about to meet its destruction at the hands of a Boundaries Commission. Where can its strange and unnerved inhabitants find another refuge? While Tom pursues his quest for identity and purpose, he reluctantly takes into his office Phoebe Huber, and otherwise rejected member of staff whose meek manner conceals a formidable gift for subversion. Tom begins by feeling sorry for Phoebe, but chaos is her natural element and she is better qualified than Tom to live in it. As little by little she takes possession of him, the South of England is hit by one of the worst blizzards in living memory. The snow blots out the familiar landscape, order breaks down both inside and outside the County Hall, the boundary between reality and fantasy grows indistinct, the wolf returns to the hills.

Download or read book Here and Now written by Kimberla Lawson Roby and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Waiting to Exhale and Big Girls Don't Cry, HERE AND NOW is a captivating, emotionally powerful story of two sisters at the crossroads of life, from the acclaimed, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, named Blackboard Fiction Book of the year for 1998. Brilliant and vibrant, Marcella Jones had the whole world in her hands, until she gave her heart to the wrong man. Tyrone was handsome and charismatic, but he left her destitute, raising two small children alone--and yearning for the kind of life her dead-end job will never provide. Marcella's elder sister Racquel lives in a fine home, has a fulfilling career and the love of Kevin, her handsome, successful, supportive husband. Yet her desperate longing for a child is driving her into a deep depression, and away from Kevin. As different as night and day, Marcella and Racquel are so hungry for what the other has, they are tearing their lives apart. Only with each other's help can they heal the hurt and celebrate the joy of everything that's been given to them. At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, HERE AND NOW marks the return of a wise and fiercely passionate new voice in African-American fiction. "Kimberla weaves a spell with characters that pull you in and keep you bound until the very last work. More, more, more, Kimberla Keep those words singing " --Lolita Files, bestselling author of Scenes From a Sistah "Kimberla Roby is a true writer, a storyteller at the top of her game. With unforgettable characters like Marcella and Rachel, HERE AND NOW reminds readers about their own lives." --Eric Jerome Dickey, bestselling author of Friends and Lovers

Download or read book Job Readiness for Health Professionals E Book written by Elsevier Inc and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-03-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain an edge in the competitive job market with the tools you need to develop the personal qualities, habits, attitudes, and social graces to work successfully in healthcare settings. Job Readiness for Health Professionals: Soft Skills Strategies for Success, 3rd Edition provides an easy-to-read, easy-to-follow format that guides you through essential entry-level soft skills, such as how to dress, speak, and collaborate in a highly professional manner. - UNIQUE! Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills prepare you to self-reflect and analyze situations and ideas to better manage conflict and to quickly and effectively adapt to changes. - UNIQUE! Building a professional portfolio, including checklists, a certificate, mock interviews, and keeping resumes up to date teach you to evaluate your skills and accomplishments and to create an effective tool to demonstrate job readiness and advancement. - UNIQUE! Medical literacy education teaches you to effectively and appropriately use and consume social media and other multimedia formats to network with current and future employers and colleagues. - UNIQUE! New videos demonstrating proper interaction with patients in a front office situation provide you with a "real world" experience. - Behavioral objectives for each skill provide measurable outcomes for you to strive to achieve. - Work text format with journaling activities and multiple self-reflection activities gives you opportunities to work through skills and turn in assignments to instructors. - Case studies illustrate the issues involved with each specific skill to enhance your learning. - Storytelling approach keeps the tone informal and engaging yet powerful and motivating. - NEW! Coverage of emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication, and soft skills helps you learn how to identify and manage your own emotions, as well as those of others, to improve daily interactions and contribute to a more positive work environment. - NEW! Reorganized content helps you find key information quickly and easily.