A rule follower and self-proclaimed people pleaser, author Lisa Kern found that living to please others was a fast track to self-abandonment and overwhelm. Confessions of a People Pleaser was written for the "nice girls," the women who constantly put the wants and needs of others before their own and who struggle to speak up and find their voice. Through an honest and heartfelt journey, Lisa shares her confessions, reflections, and lessons on embracing your truth and gaining confi...

Die Kulturpolitik der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit ist nach wie vor nicht aufgearbeitet. Dabei war das Jahr 1945 auch in diesem Bereich nicht einfach eine Zäsur, wie oft angenommen wird. Die Beiträge dieses Buches stellen scheinbare Unvermeidlichkeiten in Frage und versuchen disziplinenübergreifend Möglichkeitsräume zu erschließen, die nicht frei von Widersprüchen sind. Einerseits werden Kunst und Kulturpolitik in der Nachkriegszeit in ihrer Verschiedenheit und unabhängig von ihrem spätere...

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge professionals need to translate the principles and science of PBS into person-centered interventions that improve lives. Covering a broad range of ages, disabilities, and settings, this comprehensiv...

This book is the first authoritative text on the role that physicists play in solving the inherently multidisciplinary science and technology challenges in food manufacturing. Topics range from designing safe, nutritious and great-tasting foods to the process technology and manufacturing know-how needed to deliver compelling product innovation. The book provides a foundational resource for the transformation of engineering and materials characterisation in the food and pharmaceuticals indu...

"Opening it up to any random story will make you feel humbled, grateful, and best of all, not alone."—Anette Radonski, Military Spouse JD NetworkConversations are the heart of a gathering among friends.In Stories Around the Table: Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life, military spouses, parents, children, and service members gather together to laugh, cry, lend perspective, and share personal stories from their military life experience. From...

Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can seem a futuristic fiction itself.This book explores the tensions between science and ...

**“Screw a fresh lightbulb into your bedside lamp, lucky reader, and snuggle in for a nonstop, cover-to-cover ride.” -The Vancouver Sun“A wonderful, dense and detailed story with murder, mayhem and a serial killer. … [In Acts of Murder,] everyone has a past.” -The Calgary Herald**From the doyenne of detective novels and the inspiration for the major TV series Murder in a Small Town (starring Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk), the final...

Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies, the contributions explore the expanding range of ‘mediated’ narratives of contemporary architecture and urban culture from both a media and a sociological standpoint. Each chapter presents an interesting critical approach to the diversity of topics with clear explanation of the contextual framework and methodology, and a...