A MURDER BRINGS THE MOST UNLIKELY PEOPLE TOGETHER

A MURDER BRINGS THE MOST UNLIKELY PEOPLE TOGETHER
Author: Lillian Misar
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466986727

Nurse Dana Paine can’t face another cold South Dakota winter. She finds a job taking care of an elderly rancher in Texas. Before she even gets to Texas, she ends up saving a young mother and children from an abusive husband. Dana thinks her biggest worry will be not to fall in love with her patient’s rancher son. It turns out her biggest worry will be standing up to a serial killer to save two young girls from becoming sex slaves. This story covers two countries and two strong women who will risk their lives to stop the evils of human trafficking.

BRING ‘EM ON

BRING ‘EM ON
Author: RACHIT GHATE 'MARK’
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 164249836X

Is living becoming irksome? Are relationships turning sour/unsustainable? Are you at a crossroads, confused, in a Catch-22 situation, in need of counsel and advice? Do you find others unbearable? You aren’t lost/ebbed/withered/a spent force. You are laying your hands on the panacea. Receiving, imbibing, assimilating and implementing all that is contained herein would usher in the transformation. Relevant, situation-centric, situation-specific, contextual, and with value-addition, you will stand strengthened and empowered after going through this book. It does not matter whether you are an upstart or a virtuoso in your chosen area, or if you are confined to working at/from home or are on a globe-trotting spree. You are bound to be caught in circumstances that could be dicey. Who isn’t in need of a helping hand? You would benefit substantially from the doses of motivation, solace, analogies and anecdotes contained herein. Go through the contents and face the vicissitudes with courage. Finally, ‘Bang ’em on’ after you ‘Bring ’em on’!

Tackling Wicked Problems

Tackling Wicked Problems
Author: John Harris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1136531440

From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to sustainable futures. Tackling Wicked Problems provides readers with a framework and practical examples that will guide the design and conduct of their own open-ended enquiries. In this approach, academic disciplines are combined with personal, local and strategic understanding and researchers are required to recognise multiple knowledge cultures, accept the inevitability of uncertainty, and clarify their own and others' ethical positions. The authors then comment on fifteen practical examples of how researchers have engaged with the opportunities and challenges of conducting transdisciplinary inquiries. The book gives those who are grappling with complex problems innovative methods of inquiry that will allow them to work collaboratively towards long-term solutions.

Ride the Revolution

Ride the Revolution
Author: Suze Clemitson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1472912934

Ride the Revolution represents the best new writing on cycling from women involved in the sport at all levels – as fans, key personnel, riders, photographers, journalists and presenters. When Marie Marvingt decided to ride the 1908 Tour de France she was told 'absolument, non!' by M. Degranges and the Societe du Tour de France. Instead she rode each stage 15 minutes after the official race had departed and finished all 4,488 kms of the parcours - a feat that only 36 of the 110 men who entered the race could equal. Her motto? "I decided to do everything better, always and forever." It's in the spirit of Breakneck Marie that this book has been written. This is not an anthology of women writing about women's cycling. Nor is it an anthology of women writing about men's bottoms in lycra, or peloton crushes or the curse of helmet hair. This is an book that celebrates the diversity of women's writing about the glorious, sometimes murky, often bizarre and frequently hilarious world of cycling in all its soapy operatic glory - from the professional sport to the club run, on the roadside and in the saddle, behind the scenes and on the massage table. These fresh and vibrant voices examine the sport from a new perspective to provide insights that rarely make it into the mainstream - what is it like to be a top women rider or work in their support team? Where is the women's sport heading and when will more women be represented at the highest level of sport's governance? And how do you get out and ride your bike when the news is full of stories of cyclists dying and you can't get clothing that fits?

Humanity After Selfish Prometheus

Humanity After Selfish Prometheus
Author: Janez Juhant
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2011
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3643900759

Neither any technological development nor any institutional mechanisms (economical, legal, political etc.) can compensate the lack of ethical persons. Reaching sustainable development and life of quality is possible only on the basis of view which is not trapped, flat and reducing, on the basis of an effort, which ca - founded on temperance and humility (in relation to the nature, self, others and (O)other) - (co)create cooperation, higher order synthesis and synergy of the crafts that are the conditio sine qua non of survival, harmonious world and (decent) existence of a human (as a human) in it. Professor Janez Juhant, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology, the Head of Chair of Philosophy Bojan Zalec, Senior Research Associate, the Head of Institute of Philosophy and Social Ethics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology

Leading from Between

Leading from Between
Author: Catherine Althaus
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-12-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773559639

Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior roles. Their presence raises numerous questions: How do Indigenous people experience public-sector employment? What perspectives do they bring to it? And how does Indigenous leadership enhance public policy making? A comparative study of Indigenous public servants in British Columbia and Queensland, Leading from Between addresses critical concerns about leadership, difference, and public service. Centring the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants, this book uses their stories and testimony to explore how Indigenous participation and leadership change the way policies are made. Articulating a new understanding of leadership and what it could mean in contemporary public service, Catherine Althaus and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh challenge the public service sector to work towards a more personalized and responsive bureaucracy. At a time when Canada and Australia seek to advance reconciliation and self-determination agendas, Leading from Between shows how public servants who straddle the worlds of Western bureaucracy and Indigenous communities are key to helping governments meet the opportunities and challenges of growing diversity.

Doctor Princess's Happy Life

Doctor Princess's Happy Life
Author: Zhu MengFuRen
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 1185
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636891829

Mei Luo from a medical family mistakenly came to the Great Qing Dynasty, which she disliked the most. She was able to keep a low profile and enter the palace for the sake of concealing her strength, but due to a moment of soft-heartedness. Her deceitful life as a harem made her float like a duckweed, and after experiencing wind and rain and emotional trauma, she eventually stepped out of the walls of the palace, becoming "walking before the emperor" and patrolling the prison in the place of the Son of Heaven. "Are you afraid of loving me?" he asked, with a thousand tender lines between his brows, but only for her sake. "So what if you're by my side? You'll take on the entire world!" She raised her eyebrows and laughed wildly.

This House We Build

This House We Build
Author: Terry Bookman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2006-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1566996783

This one-volume guide to a healthy congregation combines the wisdom of a rabbi with the expertise of an organizational development consultant to demonstrate the power of positive relationships and show how to avoid some of the common traps that can lead to serious conflict. Using the life of the synagogue as its central illustration, this book gives vital lessons for congregations of any faith on how to be a healthy community of believers. Leaders and congregants alike are shown how to incorporate all their gifts for the creation and support of a healthy faith community. Synagogue life is considered through case studies—struggles over what to do with an endowment fund, a social action committee that no one joins, changing a worship service time, clergy transitions—which are examined for what they reveal about the struggles of congregations and their leaders to create healthy institutions. Each chapter integrates organizational theory and faith values in the pursuit of a deeper understanding of synagogue life. For non-Jewish congregations, the book offers rich insights into Hebrew texts and culture and the common elements between synagogue and church life. This House We Build enables both clergy and members to learn more deeply about creating and sustaining communities of faith in the course of inevitable transitions and everyday challenges.

Phoenix

Phoenix
Author: Elizabeth Richards
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1101603313

The extraordinary sequel to Black City, for fans of the Legend trilogy Ash Fisher believes his troubles are far behind him. He and Natalie are engaged and life seems good. But his happiness is short-lived when he receives a threatening visit from Purian Rose, who gives Ash an ultimatum: vote in favor of Rose’s Law—a law that will send Darklings and other dissenters to a deadly concentration camp, or Natalie will be killed. At first, the decision is clear, but can Ash really risk the lives of millions of Darklings to save the one he loves?