Every 21 Seconds, a life changes forever.A car crash, or a misstep down a flight of stairs.A senseless violent attack ...Every 21 Seconds, someone is affected by a traumatic brain injury. Every 21 Seconds, a CEO, a preschool teacher, a next-door neighbor endures life-altering injury. For Brian Sweeney-father, a successful businessman-a fun-filled weekend with lifelong friends evolved into a life changed forever. From the h...

Free Lunch Money breaks down the foundational principles of earning, saving, and investing, teaching you how to make small, consistent changes that lead to monumental financial progress. From uncovering wealth-building opportunities in real estate and stocks to learning how to start and grow your own business, Sweeney provides a step-by-step guide to building multiple streams of income and securing your financial future. More than just a "how-to" manual, Free Lunch Money challenges the mis...

The Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood (1902–03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard attack, racial passing, baby switching, mesmerism, and hauntings—both literal ghost hauntings and metaphoric hauntings from the sins of slavery. This Broadview Edition offers for the first time annotations and appendices that contextualize the novel in relation to magazines, Black feminism, travels to Africa, racia...

Does the New Testament teach that a wife must submit to her husband as head? If so, does it have a lasting value beyond the cultural milieu in which it was first articulated? The Politics of Conjugal Love takes a fresh approach to this classic issue in theological anthropology, paying specific attention to the role of theological hermeneutics in its interpretation. Conor Sweeney and Brian T. Trainor contend that both "subordinationist" and "anti-subordinationist" readings of headship and s...

As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions.” Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.John Cullen Gruesser’s edited volume Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction features essays by prominent litera...

Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.This interdisciplinary volume explains how health care professions and their values have changed over the last forty years, charting where they have come from, where they are now, and how they might develop in the future. There is coverage of...

This Wall Street Journal best seller, USA Today best seller and Canadian Book Club Awards winner is filled with inspiring, true stories about how one small deed can make a world of difference. "Elegant and wise" (Deepak Chopra), "The most uplifting and life-affirming book in years" (Forbes).“This might be the most beautiful book I’ve ever read. It’s lifted my soul and brought me to tears in all the right ways” (Jane Green, author of 18 New York Times best sellers).Brad Aron...

“This book is not just a bargain, it’s a steal. It’s filled with practical, workable advice for anyone wanting to build wealth.”—Mike Summey, co-author of the bestselling The Weekend Millionaire’s Secrets to Investing in Real EstateAnyone who seeks financial wealth must first learn the fundamental truths and models that drive it. The Millionaire Real Estate Investor represents the collected wisdom and experience of over 100 millionaire investors f...

The legendary reporter and author of The Right Stuff takes on Darwin, Chomsky, and the origin of language in "his boldest bit of dueling yet" ( The New York Times).Tom Wolfe, the great journalist-provocateur, aims his piercing wit at the presiding theories of what makes us human. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech—not evolution—is responsible for humanity's com...

Male and female survivors of child molestation, rape, and incest share their stories to let other victims know that they are not alone.Hear stories from girls and boys abused in . . .~ Brief Incidents . . . when I was in the hospital . . . walking home from school . . . in a rest room . . . at the beach . . .~ Continuing Relationships with . . . our neighbor . . . a family friend . . . my mother's boyfriend . . .~ Incest perpetrated by . . . my brother . . . m...

Finally, a financial plan that lets you be YOU, only richer.It’s time to throw away all your old notions of what financial advice should look like. Because if you’re looking for a book to put you on an austerity savings plan that has you giving up vacations and lattes, you’re out of luck. But if you’re looking to get your finances in rock-hard shape--in less time than it takes to finish a workout--then Alexa von Tobel, Founder and CEO of LearnVest, has your back.

**"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." —**Cultivating PlaceIn Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that ...