Written by the hosts of the wildly popular Deck the Hallmark podcast!Welcome to Greenville, Maine, where all the shop windows are festively decorated, the street lights are magically transformed into candy canes, and the air sounds and smells like the North Pole on Christmas morning.Ellie Holden is back in her hometown of Greenville and surrounded by familiar faces and her favorite traditions. Well, most of them. She’s had a few ...

Experienced authors describe all aspects of a personal librarian program, including potential campus partners, diverse student populations, marketing approaches, technology integration, various assessment methods, and common pitfalls and how to avoid them.In order to get the most out of their research, students need to understand the depth of resources and services available to them. Personal librarian programs help students—especially new ones—to feel welcome in t...

Duplicate Bridge is a fun and yet challenging card game, the world's best mind sport.Let me be your newcomer guide and mentor. Learn from my mistakes/experiences.I still remember my first game: I just walked into a bridge club without a partner, not knowing anyone in the hall, where thirty tables were set up for the afternoon game. I knew how to play bridge, but not in the Duplicate style. I was apprehensive, understandably nervous, and a little intimidated."A Handy...

Retirement is different for many people. Most people look at retirement as the remaining 20 to 30 years of their lives. Brian Gray and Ray Stein will take you through a series of retirement topics and show you why living your life in five year increments is so important. Many hidden retirement pitfalls can derail the best laid plans and strategies. They discuss these pitfalls in simple easy to understand language.This book can help guide you towards a retirement without limits vers...

Retirement is different for many people. Most people look at retirement as the remaining 20 to 30 years of their lives. Brian Gray and Ray Stein will take you through a series of retirement topics and show you why living your life in five year increments is so important. Many hidden retirement pitfalls can derail the best laid plans and strategies. They discuss these pitfalls in simple easy to understand language.This book can help guide you towards a retirement without limits vers...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-FictionAn adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his fatherAfter a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death. John Harvey was a neurosurgeon, violinist, and photographer who answered his door a decade into retirement to find a ...

Interest in the use of digital technology in art therapy has grown significantly in recent years. This book provides an authoritative overview of the applications of digital art therapy with different client groups and considers the implications for practice.Alongside Cathy Malchiodi, the contributors review the pros and cons of introducing digital technology into art therapy, address the potential ethical and professional issues that can arise and give insight into the effect of d...

This book is a revised and updated edition of a major work first published in 2001 under the auspices of the Intellectual Property Committee of the International Bar Association. As a comparative cross-jurisdictional analysis of the practice, theory, scope, and types of design protection, it will continue to be of immeasurable value to lawyers and others involved in industrial design. Industrial designs are particularly interesting because the laws in many countries attempt in different wa...

This book is a revised and updated edition of a major work first published in 2001 under the auspices of the Intellectual Property Committee of the International Bar Association. As a comparative cross-jurisdictional analysis of the practice, theory, scope, and types of design protection, it will continue to be of immeasurable value to lawyers and others involved in industrial design.Industrial designs are particularly interesting because the laws in many countries attempt in different way...

Life in a Call Centre: Volume 1 pulls back the curtain on one of the most demanding yet overlooked workplaces in the modern world. In these pages, you'll meet employees who thrive on the chaos, those clawing their way up the corporate ladder, and others simply trying to make it through the day. Across the UK, Asia, and beyond, call centre workers juggle relentless calls, high-pressure targets, and the realities of life outside the office.Drinks flow, tempers flare, relationships fo...

Fancy yourself as a bridge player? This essential little book will show you how – in just 10 minutes.Introduces the basic rules and techniques for bidding, declarer play and defence.Useful bridge-table diagrams and quirky illustrations help the information stick.Bridge can sometimes look incredibly complicated and opaque. But that really isn't the case: it is a very easy game to learn. By the time you've read this invaluable little book, you'll be e...