The most anticipated political memoir of the year.A frank account from National MP Judith Collins of the highs and lows of a political life. From her humble beginnings as the youngest daughter of Labour-voting farming parents, Judith Collins has carved a path to almost the very top of New Zealand politics.Collins grew up in rural Walton, Waikato, on a dairy farm. At the age of 10 she entered politics, running for class president. She won.After a successful career as...

You are a miracle waiting to happen.When everyday life seems tiring, unfulfilling or just plain hard, it can be almost impossible to believe that anything will change. Life is so full of tasks to be ticked off that finding a moment of peace, let alone living a spiritual life, may never figure on your list. But it's when life is like this that it's even more important to awaken the miracle of you.In this inspiring book, Judith Collins has created a 52-week c...

你有沒有在第一次見到某人時，就覺得自己已經認識他了？了解自己的能量光環，就能了解自己和生命中遇到的每個人。☆能量光環是什麼？能量光環是圍繞在人體周圍的能量場，由不同的顏色和層次組成，反映了個人的情緒、心理狀態和整體健康。光環有多個層次，每個層次對應不同的能量領域，包括物理層、情感層、心智層等。每層都有特定的顏色和特徵，這些特徵可以顯示健康狀況和情緒狀態。☆為什麼要了解能量光環？了解自己的能量光環可以幫助我們認識自己的身心狀態，促進自我覺察，以便在生活中做出更明智的決策。能量光環還可以反映出潛在的健康問題，通過觀察其變化，可以及早識別疾病，進而尋求適當的治療。而觀察身邊人的能量光環可以增進你對他人情緒和心理狀態的了解，建立和諧的關係。☆為甚麼本書是了解能量光環的最佳選擇？1）詳實的能量光環資訊：本書從介紹脈輪開始，一路講解人類的能量光環種類、如何看見和感知，以及光環的顏色與其代表的意義，教導我們怎麼透過光環來判斷疾病。連如何強化和保護自身的能量光環都有說明。滿載了作...

Se hoje ideias como lugar de fala, teoria queer e decolonialismo ganham espaço nas reivindicações feministas contemporâneas, elas tiveram sua origem em pesquisas e teorias desenvolvidas ao longo das últimas décadas por estudiosas e ativistas como Teresa de Lauretis, Donna Haraway, Maria Lugones, Nancy Fraser, Sandra Harding, Judith Butler, Gloria Andalzúa, além de brasileiras como Lélia Gonzales e Sueli Carneiro. É nesse eco de construções e indagações, dos anos 1980 até os dias de hoje, q...

An unflinching yet ultimately hopeful appraisal of the workplace factors that determine career risk and resilience among K–12 teachers, informed by the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis

Laying a Strong Foundation for Literacy in the Early YearsA child’s literacy development begins long before their formal education does. The skills and knowledge that infants, toddlers, and preschoolers acquire through meaningful, playful language and literacy experiences are the building blocks of their later success in reading and writing.How do early childhood educators foster young children’s understanding of reading and writing during this emergent lit...

The Rule of St. Benedict (the rule) arose in an era when a great civilization was threatened by violence, economic forces that favored the wealthy, political leaders that lacked the trust of the public, and rampant xenophobia. The events that occurred in sixth-century Rome were much those like on the nightly news.Benedict was not a priest or religious official. He was just a young man disillusioned by a corrupt society that lacked compassion. He had a vision of a society in which h...

This edition does not include illustrations.The tale of a flagrant scientific fraud and its cover-up, and scientific incompetence behind the most important paradigm in evolutionary biology: Charles Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’.Every schoolchild is familiar with the peppered moth experiment that ‘proves’ natural selection: in the early 1950s a black variety of the moth thrived in industrial areas because camouflage on blackened trees protected it from predatory birds. Howe...

The Rule of St. Benedict (the rule) arose in an era when a great civilization was threatened by violence, economic forces that favored the wealthy, political leaders that lacked the trust of the public, and rampant xenophobia. The events that occurred in sixth-century Rome were much those like on the nightly news.Benedict was not a priest or religious official. He was just a young man disillusioned by a corrupt society that lacked compassion. He had a vision of a society in which h...

Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business is a reliable guide to help protect companies, their customers, and their employees from the growing problem of identity theft. Real-life examples show managers and executives how to identify business, customer, and employee identity theft, how these crimes are committed, how best to prevent them, and overall, develop an honest company culture. It also covers how to manage this threat in business reorganizations such as mergers, acquisiti...

This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields. It identifies what mental health chaplaincy is, how mental health chaplaincy interacts with other organisations like the NHS, and what good practice means with examples of positive and fulfilling experiences in mental health settings.The chapters consider some of the main issues of working with the mental health comm...

Walter Wilding, riche négociant en vin, mène une vie heureuse auprès de sa mère, à qui il doit sa fortune et sa réussite sociale. A la mort de celle-ci, la découverte d'un terrible secret va bouleverser son existence : il n'est pas son vrai fils ! Rongé par la culpabilité d'avoir usurpé l'identité et l'héritage d'un autre, Walter décide de se lancer à la recherche de ce mystérieux double. Mais qui est donc le véritable Walter Wilding ? L'abîme, chef-d'oeuvre encore méconnu signé par deux g...