This collection of true short stories (tied together with 80 old photographs and 12 original letters) is set in a very remote almost inaccessible part of Ethiopia back in the 1960s when Haile Selasie was still alive and in power.Partly for the adventure, but also just to escape being drafted into the Vietnam War, a young American couple volunteer to spend two years in a tiny village of grass huts helping several dozen very poor farmers establish a new town in the lowland jungle of ...

A first-of-its-kind book of honest reflections, straight talk, and essential advice about life at big law firms for people of colorWhat do young people of color aspiring to careers in the law need to know about life at big law firms? What do law schools need to do to prepare them? What do the firms themselves need to do to attract, retain, and promote them?In Raising the Bar, four partners of color from leading law firms engage in a no-holds-barred...

Discovering and Developing the Gifts Every Child Already Possesses Every child is born with unique talents, abilities, and attributes. The challenge is helping them discover and develop those gifts into a life of purpose, fulfillment, and success. In The Abundance Workbook, E. Ted Chandler, MD, FACP, combines a lifetime of personal experience, medical knowledge, and practical wisdom to provide parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors, and mentors with a powerful guide for helping childr...

If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), you’re in good company. HSP’s make up some 20 percent of the population, individuals like you who both enjoy and wrestle with a finely tuned nervous system. You often sense things that others ignore such as strong smells, bright lights, and the crush of crowds. Even the presence of strangers in your immediate vicinity can cause you considerable distraction. You already know that this condition can be a gift, but, until you learn to master your sen...

The achievements of science and technology during the past century are unparalleled in history. They provide the potential for the solution to all the problems faced by the planet, and equally for its total destruction. Allegedly scientific theories are being used to "prove" that criminality is caused, not by social conditions, but by a "criminal gene". Black people are alleged to be disadvantaged, not because of discrimination, but because of their genetic make-up. Of course, such "scienc...

DIE INSEL DES DR. MOREAU – ein Blick auf den Klassiker von H.G. Wells. Im Jahr 1896 wird die junge Ellie Prendick infolge eines Schiffsunglücks auf einer abgelegenen Pazifik-Insel angespült. Hier widmet sich der ebenso fantastische wie brillante Dr. Moreau, der für albtraumhafte Experimente berüchtigt ist, seinen grausamen Studien. Ellies Anwesenheit verändert alles - für sie selbst, den Doktor und seine bizzaren Schöpfungen... Wo liegen die Grenzen von Wissenschaft und Hochmut? Eine aufre...

Investing doesn't have to be stressful. Read this book to help you make money---and relax. You'll find what you need to know about the stock market, what moves it, what makes a great stock, and insider tips on how to invest. It's all in language you can understand, with easy-to-follow directions, so you can start building wealth today and sleep well tonight.Inside you'll find the secrets of investing professionals, as well as the essentials of building a Core Portfolio that works fo...

This book by Ted Grant is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism. It begins with the debate on Trotskyism in the British Communist Party in 1924 and ends with the break-up of the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1949 and the beginning of more than thirty years of work within the Labour Party. Ted Grant was the founder and political leader of the "Militant Tendency", which haunted the Labour leadership, and was eventually expelled along with the Militant editorial board ...

Fatigue, isolation, worry, anxiety, depression, moral distress. These are the symptoms of physician burnout.The practice of medicine has never been easy. Years of demanding education. Long hours. Weekend call duty. Stress-laden procedures. Burgeoning regulatory requirements. Even a worldwide healthcare crisis. How is a physician to cope? This indispensable anthology of essential essays offers practical solutions."Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis" features over t...

Fatigue, isolation, worry, anxiety, depression, moral distress. These are the symptoms of physician burnout.The practice of medicine has never been easy. Years of demanding education. Long hours. Weekend call duty. Stress-laden procedures. Burgeoning regulatory requirements. Even a worldwide healthcare crisis. How is a physician to cope? This indispensable anthology of essential essays offers practical solutions.'Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis' features over twe...

The ideas of Lenin and Trotsky are without doubt the most distorted and slandered ideas in history. For more than 100 years, they have been subjected to an onslaught from the apologists of capitalism, who have attempted to present their ideas – Bolshevism – as both totalitarian and utopian. An entire industry was developed in an attempt to equate the crimes of Stalinism with the regime of workers' democracy that existed under Lenin and Trotsky.It is now more than fifty years since ...

If you're a highly sensitive person (HSP), you're in good company. HSPs make up some 20 percent of the population, individuals like you who both enjoy and wrestle with a finely tuned nervous system. You often sense things that others ignore such as strong smells, bright lights, and the crush of crowds. Even the presence of strangers in your immediate vicinity can cause you considerable distraction. You already know that this condition can be a gift, but until you learn to master your sensi...