What if you were able to get answers to your burning business questions from artists, interior designers, and foodies? This dream is now a reality: this book fulfills this desire as 38 artists, interior designers, and foodies answer questions on their businesses in fascinating and fast-paced interview format.

Our culture and media often simplify the choice educators face-stay in or leave classroom teaching. Written for teachers and other educational professionals, this book dispels this simple dichotomy by representing the range of responses and career pathways that enable educators to make a difference. Based on interviews with hundreds of change-minded educators, the authors share career stories and insights against a backdrop that maps out the complexities, roles, and structures that define ...

It's tough being human. On the path to discovering our life's purpose, we can easily question whether we are on the right journey. The forks in the road confuse us, the doubts creep in, and we scurry for answers while we impatiently wait. But, when we let go, listen and trust, we can experience the heavenly, humbling transformations the Universe has in store for us. What were once abrupt, painful shifts grow into life lessons that gently revive our spirits. Join author and entrepreneur Kim...

In book three of the bestselling Women of Surprise series, narrator Kimberly Austin brings Tracey J Lyons’ Making Over Maggie to life! Maggie Monroe, the third of the Monroe cousins, has always been headstrong, and straightlaced. When aunt Margaret hires a flamboyant drifter named Samuel Clay to be Maggie’s second hand in the opening of the new Surprise dance hall, Maggie finds her peaceful, staid existence turned upside-down.The dance hall was her project, and the reason she staye...

Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author Tracey J Lyons brings listeners, Lydia’s Passion, book 2 in the popular and quirky Women of Surprise series with narration by Kimberly Austin. Lydia’s Aunt Margaret Monroe always had a way of meddling in the lives of her three nieces. Therefore, it was no shock to learn she wants Lydia to be the new schoolteacher in the town of Surprise. A bit spoiled, and used to being unencumbered by responsibilities, Lydia can’t believe she’ll be in charge of a room...

Publisher's Weekly bestselling author, Tracey J Lyons tells a heart-warming story of suspense and love, in A Surprise for Abigail, book one in the popular Women of Surprise series.A jaded drifter on the run. A young woman with a broken heart. Can these two strangers find what they are looking for in a quirky small-town called Surprise?Cole Stanton was a man on the move. On his own since the death of his family, he's drifted from town to town, shielding his heart from attach...

Dam safety is central to public protection and economic security. However, the world has an aging portfolio of large dams, with growing downstream populations and rapid urbanization placing dual pressures on these important infrastructures to provide increased services and to do it more safely. To meet the challenge, countries need legal and institutional frameworks that are fit for purpose and can ensure the safety of dams. Such frameworks enable dams to provide water supplies to meet dom...