Empowering women empowers everyone. Women with confidence, equal pay, and leadership opportunity enrich workplace culture and help the whole organization. The first step is understanding that gender balance is not a zero-sum game. The Next Smart Step is a clear, assured guide to understanding the challenge of gender imbalance, implementing solutions, and equipping listeners with the tools we all need to ensure change that is positive and enduring. It is about all of us becoming le...

For too long sex has been a topic filled with misunderstanding, shame, or silence.Sex Rebranded: Sex is Holy invites everyone to rediscover God's original design for intimacy as something beautiful, purposeful, and sacred. Using evidence-based practice in lifestyle medicine principles, it highlights how holistic habits support the body, mind, and spirit.Guiding readers through every season of life, from singleness to marriage to menopause, this book offers wisdom, ...

"Compelling. . . . By focusing on cannibalism, sex, and gender . . . [presents] the relationship between discourse and power in the unfolding of empire." —Carole Blackburn, The University of British ColumbiaCannibalism, for medieval and early modern Europeans, was synonymous with savagery. Humans who ate other humans, they believed, were little better than animals. The European colonizers who encountered Native Americans described them as cannibals as a matter of c...

A comparative history of cross-cultural encounters and the critical role of cannibalism in the early modern periodCannibalism, for medieval and early modern Europeans, was synonymous with savagery. Humans who ate other humans, they believed, were little better than animals. The European colonizers who encountered Native Americans described them as cannibals as a matter of course, and they wrote extensively about the lurid cannibal rituals they claim to have witness...

“A candid, readable, and useful book about how we can get past talking about gender bias and actually start doing something about it.”—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKE, and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeEmpowering women empowers everyone. Women with confidence, equal pay, and leadership opportunity enrich workplace culture and help the whole organization. The first step is understanding that gender balance is not a zero-...

In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hough, the author takes us back to the dawning years of the United States of America. To the time of the Louisiana purchase. At the time Thomas Jefferson awarded Meriwether Lewis the honor of leading an expedition west.Distraught, our hero suffers knowing the love of his life, Theodosia, is now a married woman. Forever tormented, he accepts the duty asked...

“ I didn’t write this book. Life did.”- Caren WareAn arduous childhood. A devastating divorce. A desire to run. A passion for people.Caren’s focus was to become FIT. She decided to run a marathon on every continent, as remote as she could get.The pursuit became so much more than the distance of miles.This book is about grasping hold of the outdoors and what can happen when you make running an active part of who you are.It’s about meeting cultures and...

Why do women find work-life balance so hard? Why is having it all such an illusive quest? Why haven’t women achieved equality yet in the leadership ranks? Authors Jodi Ecker Detjen, Michelle A. Waters, and Kelly Watson probe these questions and more in this highly anticipated new book: The Orange Line™ - A Woman’s Guide to Integrating Career Family & Life. Through interviews with 118 college-educated women, they document the varied career stories and day-to-day anecdotes in the ongoing wor...

Why do women find work-life balance so hard? Why is “having it all” such an elusive quest? Why haven’t women yet reached equality in the leadership ranks? Authors Jodi Ecker Detjen, Michelle A. Waters, and Kelly Watson probe these questions and more in their highly anticipated new book: The Orange Line™ - A Woman’s Guide to Integrating Career, Family and Life. Through interviews with 118 college-educated women, they document real-world career stories and daily life anecdotes about women’s ...

Convinced that public speaking fears outranked all other fears, the authors combined their years of teaching novice speakers to set forth their techniques for reducing apprehension and sharpening communication performance skills. The three basic techniques stressed are cognitive structuring (or attitude change), relaxation techniques and skills training. All of the topics addressed herein are intended for students in basic speech communication classes. Some of the topics are: the process o...

From the author of Stick Dog comes the first book in a early chapter book series about three best friends whose plans, missions, and schemes are sure to shake up their school.Molly gets things stuck in her head sometimes. When she sees a jar of candy on Principal Shelton’s desk, she absolutely needs to know how many candies are in that jar! Luckily, her two best friends, Simon and Rosie, are ready to help her find the answer—even ...

From the author of Stick Dog comes the sixth book in an early chapter book series about three best friends whose plans, missions, and schemes are sure to shake up their school.Uh-oh! Molly’s parents have a secret. They want to move to a new house—maybe even a new town. But Molly can’t leave her best friends Rosie and Simon behind!Now the trio from Table 5 only have three days to come up with a scavenger hunt that will remind Molly’...