This book explores the often-overlooked skills that make a measurable difference in real world presentations—tools for handling unexpected questions, structuring clear messages, and engaging your audience effectively. Drawing on enduring principles from Aristotle and modern day strategies for today's communicators, this guide supports readers in refining their voice and delivering speeches with professionalism and impact.This guide provides a unique blended...

This book offers an engaging look at the world of artist palettes, blending fascinating historical perspectives with practical guidance. You`ll explore the evolution of palettes through art history, while gaining valuable insights into choosing, and caring for your own. Packed with useful tips, tricks anecdotes and relatable stories, this guide is ideal for both inspiration and practical use—perfect for artists at any stage of their creative journey.

Stillwater will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps lead you to look at rocks, maps, volcanoes, and yourself in a different way. The story includes geology field experiences and adventures, field mapping, lots of hard science, romance, sex, and spirituality. Annie is a woman of passion for her career as a geologist and professor, her students, her family, and her faith. She finds her worldview, spirituality, and morality challenged as she struggles with an extramarital relationship with her o...

The teen years are critical. The decisions your child makes, the identity they form, and the faith they carry into adulthood are all taking shape right now. The question isn't whether someone will influence them. It's whether you'll be intentional about being one of those voices.Parenting with Purpose is a practical, faith-centered guide designed to help parents step confidently into that role — not alone, but in partnership with God.More than a book, it's a workin...

It is 1945 and the war is ending. Summer is upon ten-year-old Maggie Cooper, but she can’t completely look forward to it. Her mother died and things with her dad just aren’t the same. She just can’t seem to have any feelings for her baby sister. To top it all off her sister Dory follows her around wherever she goes. She has some bad times when Evelyn and her two kids show up. Maggie’s dad marries Evelyn after Maggie and her family knows her for less than a week. Evelyn moves her family in ...

In this new edition of a cult classic, an award-winning journalist catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy.Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching re...

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of...

Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of revitalization.In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house—a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf—in Detroit’s majority-Bangladeshi “Banglatown.” ...

This book represents a whimsical look at everyday transformation concepts. The 101 tips contain thought provoking advice for connecting to your soul's purpose and returning to only love.My hope is that you will be entertained by my sense of humor as well as my finger on the button approach to looking at your life and your issues from a spiritual and fresh perspective.Sometimes we can feel a little frustrated with ourselves that things are not moving fast enough or in the righ...

An Irish mother must flee her beloved homeland for a new life in America, in the "gripping" second novel of the acclaimed historical trilogy ( Publishers Weekly).Forced to flee Ireland, Gracelin O'Malley boards a coffin ship bound for America, taking her young daughter with her on the arduous transatlantic voyage. In New York, Gracelin struggles to adapt to a strange new world and to the harsh realities of immigrant life in a city teeming with crime, corrup...

After a normal, healthy, full-term pregnancy, Margaret Moore's parents Anne and Terrence were shocked as a prolapsed umbilical cord left their daughter unable to breathe on her own. Margaret, nicknamed Meg, was not expected to live through the night and began to breathe on her own by the next day— a phenomenon that medical personnel deemed a miraculous recovery. Meg came home with a physical disability Cerebral Palsy and permanent dependence on others for help with feeding, dressing, hygie...

The "Area Handbook for Bulgaria" is a comprehensive resource that delves into the historical, cultural, and political landscape of Bulgaria. Authored by Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Eugene K. Keefe, Anne K. Long, and James M. Moore, this handbook serves as an essential guide for understanding the complexities of Bulgarian society. It covers various aspects, including the country's geography, economy, and social structures, providing readers with a well-rounded perspective on Bulgar...