"The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms" by John A. Cone is a captivating exploration of interpersonal dynamics and the art of attraction. The book delves into the psychological aspects of relationships, offering insights into what makes individuals appealing to one another. Cone combines practical advice with engaging anecdotes, making the content relatable and applicable to everyday life. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own behaviors and attitudes, fostering personal gro...

In "The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms," John A. Cone presents a compelling exploration of gender dynamics, relationships, and societal expectations through a series of interconnected narratives. The book interweaves a rich tapestry of prose that combines humor with poignant commentary, reflecting the complexities of courtship and attraction in contemporary society. Cone's writing boasts a keen psychological insight, while his stylistic approach draws heavily from the traditions ...

Player Development: The Holistic Method provides the first holistic, evidence-based performance development method in sport. Focusing on the world’s largest sport, soccer, this book weaves together the interconnected layers driving player performance development to define a novel training method.In performance sport, narratives defining success or failure are steeped with stories of chance. The reality is that player performance and athlete development leading to career su...

Hollywood movies are famous for promoting negative stereotypes of all kinds, especially against minorities, women, Southerners, and Christians. To what extent are biographical films selected for production according to certain biases, conscious or unconscious, among the Hollywood elite?

The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline o...

Our digital world is growing at an astounding pace. The ongoing collection, analysis, and dissemination of vast amounts of data is enriching society's collective knowledge and understanding, its genome, in unprecedented ways. Yet in this golden information age, no person or organization is immune from devastating, irreparable data loss, whether by natural disaster, cyber-attacks, or simple human error. Society's Genome is a clarion call to all data users creators and preservationists alike...

This book explains how to comply with the federal and states securities regulations when seeking to raise money from private investors for the development, production and/or distribution of a feature or documentary film.Drawing from the experience and expertise of a securities and entertainment attorney who has worked with independent filmmakers for 30 plus years, this resource explores securities law compliance in order to help readers comply with the law and avoid criminal and ci...

ItA's pretty broadly recognized that Hollywood movies contain patterns of bias, but itA's not just people of color or women who are hurt by this. Hollywood movies contain many patterns of bias, and this is readily seen if you look beyond specific movies and conduct a broader review of motion picture content. Certain populations in AmericaA's multi-cultural society are consistently portrayed in negative or stereotypical manner, and these one-dimensional stereotypes continue to be pumped out...

Many groups within our multi-cultural society have complained over the years about negative and stereotypical portrayals of their own group members in motion pictures produced or released through the Hollywood-based motion picture studios. Yet, as an expert on the U.S. film industry points out, such complaints have had little impact on these consistent patterns of bias in movies.Thus, this book takes a broader look at the nature of such negative and stereotypical movie portrayals a...

When John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’s intimate chronicle of his formative years. Written in 1965-67 but only recently discovered, this work captures Osage life in pre-statehood Oklahoma and recounts many rema...

A Novel About Those Who Refused to ComplySummer 2020. The first lockdown has ended in the small Canadian town of Moosehead. Twenty-four-year-old Vincent McKnight emerges from three months of stay-at-home orders into a surreal new normal of multi-coloured face masks, acrid hand sanitizers, and germaphobic neighbours standing six feet apart.The new normal becomes even stranger when Vince's Indigenous grandfather sends him to buy a loaf of bread from the town's new baker. St...

This volume of essays centers on the theme of doing Christian theology in the present postmodern context, a consistent theme of the teaching of John D. Castelein. The work will celebrate and honor John's years of service by representing reflections of his teaching in the thought of his students and colleagues. The essays range over such topics as theological reflections on the postmodern philosophical themes, the relations between Christian theology and culture, the contributions of philos...