Branding is not only more fun with a goddess to guide you—it’s also more powerful.In The Goddess Guide to Branding, brand strategist Jane McCarthy and venture capitalist Kate McAndrew introduce you to eight goddess archetypes whose timeless energies are alive in successful brands today. From there, they lead you on a journey to build your own brand in a way that is authentic to your company and ultra-appealing to your community.Throughout the book,...

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter and avoids talking about teacher reflection generically, which implies that all kinds of reflection are of equal value. This book addresses five very pertinent concepts: (1) teacher reflectivi...

People with intellectual disability often have health needs that go unrecognised and untreated; this may be because of difficulties in communication, diagnostic overshadowing, discrimination or indifference. There is concern that public health measures aimed at reducing the main health killers in the population will not address these issues for people with intellectual disability and may preferentially widen the inequality that already exists. This book is a comprehensive and systematic re...

This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen as evidence of such trends. In one of the first British in-depth sociological research studies for over two decades, this book provide evidence of parents' and step-parents' own understandings and...

"This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies... Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to critical social analysis."- David H J Morgan, University of Manchester"Written in an intelligent, engaging, and accessible manner by two leading and highly respected family scholars whose contributions to the fi...

Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIGAwarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book PrizeElite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence. The world over, they put together highly dexterous performances as they stage and restage changing relations of ruling. They are adept at aligning their social choreographies to shifting historical conditions and cultural tastes. In multiple theatres, the...

Family Studies is a key area of policy, professional and personal debate. Perhaps precisely because of this, teaching texts have struggled with how to approach this area, which is both 'familiar' and also contentious and value laden. This innovative and reflective book deals with such dilemmas head-on, through its focus on family meanings in diverse contexts in order to enhance our understanding of everyday social lives and professional practices.Drawing on extracts and research by...

Using Quality Benchmarks for Assessing and Developing Undergraduate ProgramsUsing Quality Benchmarks for Assessing and Developing Undergraduate Programs introduces selected performance criteria-benchmarks-to assist undergraduate programs in defining their educational goals and documenting their effectiveness.The book explores the attributes of undergraduate programs by focusing on educationally related activities in eight ...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.This comprehensive handbook provides a...

MANHATTEN NIGHTS von LEIGH, JOPrickelnde Leidenschaft mit einer Note Gefühl: Zwei Gründe hat die Weinexpertin Molly für die Abende mit dem sexy Bierbrauer Cameron: Er ist der perfekte Begleiter für die Partys in Manhattan und ein fantastischer Lover! Eine spritzige Affäre - bis die Liebe ins Spiel kommt …AUF DEIN KOMMANDO von STONE, SARA JANENoch ein Monat: Dann wird Erotikautorin Sadie Bannerman ihr Pseudonym lüften und jeder wissen, dass sie ultrasexy Bücher schreib...

Jane Austen’s earliest known serious work, Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction.Lady Susan, a clever and ruthless widow, determines that her daughter is going to marry a man whom both detest. She sets her own sights on her sister-in-law’s brother, all the while keeping an old affair simmering on the back burner.But people refuse to play the roles as...

Memories of a Jane Street BoyBy: Michael F. McCarthyMemories of a Jane Street Boy is the fictionalized version of the impact one family and special group of friends have had on the life of Michael McCarthy from his early childhood all the way through high school, their impressions and lessons having a lifetime effect. Predominately focused between the years of 1951 and 1969, Michael’s tale is one of friendships’ rites of passage, adventures and misadventures, successes and ...