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By a daughter whose father died of Alzheimer's disease, this memoir uses conversations, poems, letters, and creative imaginings and effectively echoes the unpredictable progression of the disease.
The Chrysalis Reader is an annual anthology of poetry, essays, and short fiction on topics of spiritual growth and development. Eternal Wellness addresses themes of spiritual health and well-being.
Learn how to change your life by using the power of positive thinking. Follow the steps described in these 101 true stories about using the Power of Positive! Positive thinking is a powerful tool, one that can make you healthier, happier, and more successful. You can use the power of positive thinking to improve your life and relationships, overcome challenges, and lead a productive life with purpose. This book can start you on the path to a new you. You’ll read chapters with inspiring personal stories and tips about: • the power of liking yourself and realizing you might have been your own worst enemy • the power of attitude adjustments, from changing your words to changing your behav...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People will encourage, inspire, and support readers through all types of difficult situations. Anyone dealing with financial troubles, illnesses, job woes, and/or grief will find this book helpful and uplifting. Tough times won’t last, but tough people will. Many people have lost money and many are losing their jobs, homes, or at least making cutbacks. Many others have faced life-changing natural disasters, such as hurricanes and fires, as well as health and family difficulties Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People is all about overcoming adversity, pulling together, making do with less, facing challenges, and finding new joys in a simpler life.
In a departure from typical college orientation texts, this rich collection of readings featuring leaders in education, government, and industry will give students an understanding of what learning means at the college level and how it will benefit them in their personal and professional life. The book addresses a broad variety of issues related to growing as a person, developing critical thinking abilities, understanding the role of the liberal arts in education, and preparing for the demanding and ever-changing workplace.
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In The Academic Tribes, an English professor who has survived stints as a dean and a vice-chancellor "takes a gentle, satiric sideswipe at academia, its foibles, follies, and myths" (ALA Booklist). This parody of anthropological analysis allows Hazard Adams to describe the principles and antinomies of academic politics, campus stereotypes, the various tribes divided by discipline, the agonies accompanying each stage on the way to full professorship, and, of course, the power struggle between faculties and academic administrators. For this first paperback edition, Adams has written a new preface, in which he looks back at the decade since the book was originally published, and has included an appendix of three relevant essays that appeared since the original publication.
The Chrysalis Reader is an annual anthology of poetry, essays, and short fiction on topics of spiritual growth and development. Rocking the Ages addresses themes of continuity and change.
A complete guide to the major awards and prizes of the literary world. * An invaluable source of information on awards and prizes world-wide * Covers over 1,000 awards and prizes * Comprehensive background information on each award * Extensive contact details. Contents * Includes internationally awarded prizes along with prestigious national awards * Subject areas covered include adult and children's fiction, non-fiction, poetry, lifetime's achievement, translation and drama * Information is provided on the history of each award, its purpose, what is awarded, how often the prize is awarded, eligibility and restrictions, the awarding organization and the most recent recipients * Full contact details of the awarding organization are provided, including main contact name, postal address, e-mail and Internet address, telephone and fax numbers * Fully indexed by keyword, awarding organization and award by subject.