Belakane lives during the terrifying age of the Salem Witch trials. And, unlike the women around her, she actually is a witch. When Belakane's magic gets her best friend Martha accused of witchcraft, the powerful sorceress creates a risky enchantment to protect what's left of the small group of friends who hide her secret. Will Belakane's power save her friends or will it be the demise of all she holds dear?

This revised and updated guide presents a proven method for policy and health professionals to promote community-based progress in developing nations.Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor built their decades-long careers by partnering with key thinkers to combat inequity, environmental degradation, and globalization. Their innovative SEED-SCALE model enables people to transform their communities by analyzing their local context in relation to the global, taking appropriate a...

You can't stop life pulling the trigger. You can decide whether the bullets go in.Carl Taylor had done everything right. Two decades of building businesses, financially free by 31, life looking pretty good... then in a single year, a long-term relationship ended and he walked away from his company to heal. He expected to be gone a few weeks. It became eight months.This book is what he came back with.Not comfort. Not positive thinking. Not toughening...

Have you ever felt you could do More with your life... but just don't know how?Have you ever looked at someone with everything going right for him, and thought, "Why can't I be half as lucky as this guy?" Carl Taylor says, "Most people know the cars they drive better than they know themselves. No wonder we fail to achieve our goals.. We have not been taught how to operate outselves effectively"

In First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education: Counterstories, we meet eight students who attended university through an access program, and hear their stories of deciding to enter university, navigating and negotiating the institution, and bringing their university experiences with them into adult life. Their "counterstories"—drawn from application statements, weekly group meetings, diary entries, group conversations, interviews, and media reports—challenge the ster...

Set up, maintain, and secure a small office email serverKey FeaturesCovers all the information you need to easily set up your own Linux email serverLearn how to provide web access to email, virus and spam protection, and moreThoroughly covers open source tools like PostFix, Courier, SpamAssassin, and ProcMailA step-by-step approach where the reader is taken through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate le...

Since World War II, development projects have invested more than two trillion dollars towards health services, poverty alleviation, education, food security, and environmental initiatives around the world. Despite these efforts, 20% of the world still lives on less than $1.50 a day and the environment within which all live declines dramatically. There are clear limits to what further investments at this rate can achieve. This book advances the thesis that a more effective and universal fou...

Since World War II, development projects have invested more than two trillion dollars towards health services, poverty alleviation, education, food security, and environmental initiatives around the world. Despite these efforts, 20% of the world still lives on less than $1.50 a day and the environment within which all live declines dramatically. There are clear limits to what further investments at this rate can achieve. This book advances the thesis that a more effective and universal fou...

What if the distinction between business and doing good vanished? What if all those who engaged in business were committed to a deeper purpose, and all those committed to doing good were entrepreneurial and enterprising? What would it take for a world of seven billion such people to solve all the world’s problems?More and more people are looking for meaning and purpose in their lives as employees, as consumers, and as investors. More and more people have more than enough material g...

2020 upended every aspect of our lives. But where is our world heading next? Will pandemic, protests, economic instability, and social distance lead to deeper inequalities, more nationalism, and further erosion of democracies around the world? Or are we moving toward a global re-awakening to the importance of community, mutual support, and the natural world? In our lifetimes, the future has never been so up for grabs. The New Possible offers twenty-eight unique visions of what can be, if i...

Scientific and technological advances have provided the means for destroying planetary life, but does humanity have the wisdom necessary to choose survival? While facing impending danger, cultures worldwide can benefit by exploring tried-and-true perspectives on humankind's place in the world. One proven measure for greater balance comes through reclaiming the spirit-infused views that ensured the survival of our ancestors for millennia.

From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by practitioners when working to improve the communities, lives and livelihoods of people the w...