A New York Times correspondent shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all.Money management is one of our most practical survival skills—and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, This Is the Year I P...

A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening story for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults.Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a failed suicide attempt. After mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe’s disclosure — delivered in a tirade about...

A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir—abook for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different.When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage! Part advice book, part memoir, and part science primer, this fascinating book explores the marketing, psychology, and mythology behind our obsession with height and delivers a reassuri...

The Belmington brothers of Middleburg, Virginia, have inherited wealth, horses, and a powerful bank. But privilege can't shield them from greed, betrayal, and murder.When a foxhunt ends in a suspicious death, Detective John Taylor is pulled into a web of family secrets, corruption, and a violent militia hiding in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Arnold and Charles Belmington will risk everything to protect their empire. Their brother William, a prolific and popular painter who also manage...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Zoologists job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger...

America is one killer organism away from a living nightmare that threatens all we hold dear....A deadly cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles unnoticed over a crowded football stadium.... A school cafeteria lunch is infected with a drug-resistant strain of E. coli.... Thousands in a bustling shopping mall inhale a lethal mist of smallpox, turning each individual into a highly infectious agent of suffering and death....Dr. Michael Osterholm knows all too ...

This book will be a practical, hands-on book for all undergraduate and graduate students who wish to learn how to conduct research. This book has several resources, examples, outlines, and case situations illustrating how to design a study and conduct research, especially educational research. This book is a no-nonsense approach that can be used by any educator – early childhood, elementary and secondary, pre-service teacher programs, in-service teacher development programs, and at the gra...

Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: His thirteen-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was greeted with unease and confusion by his fellow students. Hours later, he took an overdose of pills.After a couple of weeks in the ho...

A New York Times correspondent shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all.Money management is one of our most practical survival skills—and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, This Is the Year I P...

A practical, compassionate guide to setting healthier boundaries and navigating difficult relationships with family, friends, partners, and coworkers—from bestselling therapist and Struggle Care creator KC Davis.This is not a book about cutting people off. Rather, it’s about choosing connection and self-respect.Inside you’ll find:- The Relationship Decision Tree—KC Davis’s step-by-step tool.- Why love can be unconditional, b...

Susan Spencer-Wendel’s Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy is a moving and inspirational memoir by a woman who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).After Spencer-Wendel, a celebrated journalist at the Palm Beach Post, learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, she embarks on several adventures, traveling toseveral countries and sharing special experiences with ...

At the age of two, Carly Fleischmann was diagnosed with severe autism and an oral motor condition that prevented her from speaking. Doctors predicted that she would never intellectually develop beyond the abilities of a small child. Although she made some progress after years of intensive behavioral and communication therapy, Carly remained largely unreachable. Then, at age ten, Carly had a breakthrough. While sitting in her kitchen with her devoted therapist Howie, Carly reached over to t...