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Download or read book Don t Run Naked Through the Office written by Fred Stawitz and published by Storymakers, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hate your job and what to quit? Before you trash your career...read this book! Learn from a veteran recruiter and an experienced corporate training manager how to leverage more control and protect yourself from unscrupulous bosses in any workplace environment."--Front cover.

Download or read book Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice written by Maria Borcsa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founding volume of the European Family Therapy Association book series presents new ideas confirming the crucial importance of systemic family therapy for family practice. Spanning paradigms, models, concepts, applications, and implications for families as they develop, experts in the field demonstrate the translatability of session insights into real-world contexts, bolstering therapeutic gains outside the treatment setting. Chapters emphasize the potential for systemic family therapy as integrative across theories, healing disciplines, modes of treatment, while contributors’ personal perspectives provide unique takes on the therapist’s role. Together, these papers promote best practices not only for therapy, but also research and training as professionals delve deeper into understanding the complexity and diversity of families and family systems. “div>Included in the coverage:• The story of an encounter: the systemic approach at the heart of innovative clinical practice. • Steps to an ultramodern family therapy.• From networks to resonance: the life journey of a family therapist.• How to give a voice to children in family therapy.• Systemic theory and narratives of attachment: integration, formulation, and development over time.• Virtual relations and globalized families: the Genogram 4.0 interview. Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice offers practitioners and other professionals particularly interested in family therapy practice timely, ethical tools for enhancing their work./div

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Download or read book The Ex s Daddy written by The Ex's Daddy and published by Amy Brent. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hot Stuff is going to be mine! Yes! Drew Richards is everything you would want in a man – enigmatic, alpha, hard, powerful, compassionate… The perfect man to lose my V-card to. The problem? He’s twice my age, and my teacher. Yet, I am addicted to him. Everything’s going perfect until the day, I walk into his kitchen wearing nothing but a towel… And I’m introduced to his son. His son….my ex! Umm…Did I tell you I’m carrying Professor McS@xy’s baby!

Download or read book The Ex s Daddy written by Amy Brent and published by Amy Brent. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hot Stuff is going to be mine! Yes! Drew Richards is everything you would want in a man – enigmatic, alpha, hard, powerful, compassionate… The perfect man to lose my V-card to. The problem? He’s twice my age, and my teacher. Yet, I am addicted to him. Everything’s going perfect until the day, I walk into his kitchen wearing nothing but a towel… And I’m introduced to his son. His son….my ex! Umm…Did I tell you I’m carrying Professor McS@xy’s baby!

Download or read book A Day in Old Athens written by William Stearns Davis and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Girl From the Corner Shop written by Alrene Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbroken young widow joins the police force during World War Two in Manchester. Perfect for fans of Diney Costeloe and Dilly Court. WW2 Manchester. Newlyweds Helen and Jim Harrison have big plans – to leave the family shop where Helen works and set up home together. But when Jim is tragically killed in an air raid, Helen is heartbroken, her life in ruins. Battling grief and despair, Helen resolves to escape her domineering mother and rebuild her shattered world. Wartime Manchester is a dangerous place, beseiged by crime and poverty. So when Helen joins the Women's Auxiliary Police Corps, working with evacuees, the destitute and the vulnerable, she finds a renewed sense of purpose. She's come a long way from her place behind the counter in the corner shop. But there's still something missing in her heart. Is Helen able to accept love and happiness and find the courage to change her life?

Download or read book Rough Trade written by Katrina Carrasco and published by MCD. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers’ market funneling product their way, Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spend their days moving product and their nights at the Monte Carlo, the center of Tacoma’s queer scene, where skirts and trousers don’t signify and everyone’s free to suit themselves. Then two local men end up dead, with all signs pointing to the opium trade, and a botched effort to disappear the bodies draws lawmen to town. Alma scrambles to keep them away from her operation but is distracted by the surprise appearance of Bess Spencer—an ex-Pinkerton's agent and Alma’s first love—after years of silence. A handsome young stranger comes to town, too, and falls into an affair with one of Alma's crewmen. When he starts asking questions about opium, Alma begins to suspect she’s welcomed a spy into her inner circle, and is forced to consider how far she’ll go to protect her trade. Katrina Carrasco plunges readers into the vivid, rough-and-tumble world of the late-1800s Pacific Northwest in this genre- and gender-blurring novel. Rough Trade follows Carrasco’s critically acclaimed debut The Best Bad Things and reimagines queer communities, the turbulent early days of modern media and medicine, and the pleasures—and price—of satisfying desire.

Download or read book Midas written by Dominic Ranger and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midas, Dominic Ranger’s superb debut thriller novel, is a rollercoaster ride of revenge, intrigue, sex and money, taking readers from a quiet town in Hampshire to the tiny and incredibly beautiful Greek island of Symi.

Download or read book Work Love Balance written by Allison Temple and published by Allison Temple Books. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently divorced, Nash is a busy man. He’s got a film festival to run and a new life as a single dad to navigate. He doesn’t have time for delays or complications, which is why he relies on Brady to keep the festival IT in top shape. For IT consultant Brady, the customer is always right, but the way Nash makes him feel is so very wrong. Brady’s given up everything for his business, from friends to a love life. It shouldn’t be surprising when boundaries between professional and personal get blurry, especially with Nash. A summer fling is exactly what both Nash and Brady need. There’s no time for anything else. But as external pressures mount, they’ll have to decide what tips the balance. Will it be work, or will it be love? Work-Love Balance is a 70k contemporary MM office romance. It’s hot enough you’ll want to make sure the air conditioning is on in your cubicle, and heartfelt enough you’ll want to smack both characters before the end. HEA guaranteed

Download or read book The Ryder and Loveday Series Books 1 3 written by Faith Martin and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three books in the Ryder and Loveday series from million-copy bestseller Faith Martin in one volume!

Download or read book A Day in Old Athens a Picture of Athenian Life written by William Stearns Davis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Fado Alexandrino written by António Lobo Antunes and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1995-08-21 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to rekindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the colonial war that was Portugal's Vietnam. In turn, they tell the stories of their lives before, during, and after the revolution that overthrew the long-lived Salazar dictatorship. Internationally acclaimed for his fictionalized memoir of the Angolan war, Antunes has, with Fado Alexandrino, raised a fabulous Lisbon from the ashes of his four failed but unforgettable protagonists, and in the process has firmly established his reputation as the century's foremost novelist in the Portuguese language. Fado Alexandrino is one of the richest novels to come out of Europe in recent years. Moreover, it reveals a society and culture still too little known to the English-speaking world.

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Download or read book Choosing Exile 1930 1950 written by R. L. Cañas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Central American countries faced a series of tyrannical repressions by military-led governments. After WWII, US interest shifted to address a new threat: communist incursions in the region. Caught in this post-war juxtaposition was a group of young professionals in El Salvador led by an enigmatic rebel, who skillfully promoted aggressive reforms and alliances to establish a representative government. Swept into the insurgency is a young dentist. When his participation is exposed, he is forced to flee the country. The choice takes him and his family to post-war San Francisco, California where he is recruited by an eccentric millionaire dentist bent on exposing the prejudicial actions of his nemesis, the American Dental Association. Meanwhile, Salvadoran death-squad pursuers force the immigrant into a series of ethnocentric experiences, which eventually force the young dentist into a dramatic choice despite their eagerness to return to their native land.