with posthumous assistance from Kate Russell Divine AdamsCompiled and edited by Kathryn AdamsJust after the end of World War II, the Divine family moved into Holt Cottage in the town of Loughborough and on the fringes of the future university. Seen through the eyes of Zandra Divine, this book recounts their adventures as they set up a small riding stable and their encounters with the people and animals it brought into their yard. The activities of unconventional parents and...

Empower Your Essence: A Journey to Unshakable Self-Esteem"Chapter 1: Understanding Self-EsteemDefining Self-EsteemThe Impact of Self-Esteem on Your LifeRecognizing Low Self-EsteemChapter 2: Embracing Self-CompassionCultivating Self-LoveOvercoming Self-CriticismPracticing Self-Compassion ExercisesChapter 3: Building Positive Self-ImageBody Positivity and Self-EsteemEmbracing Your Unique Qualities...

Sous la coordination de Marie-Hélène Broihanne, Gunther Capelle-Blancard et Antoine Rebérioux, le numéro 157 de la Revue d’économie financière plonge au cœur des enjeux de genre dans le secteur financier. Un secteur où, malgré des avancées significatives, les femmes restent sous-représentées, notamment aux postes de direction et dans la gestion d’actifs. Alors que les inégalités persistent, la question se pose : comment transformer cette réalité pour un secteur plus inclusif et pl...

Step into a world of dreamy adventures with Travel Bedtime Stories, a relaxing collection of original tales from the beloved Get Sleepy podcast, narrated by a variety of soothing voices and produced by Slumber Studios.Designed to help you unwind, relax, and drift off with ease, this audiobook features a handpicked selection of listener favorites that transport you across the globe—without ever leaving your bed. Each story is lovingly crafted to quiet the mind and ...

Meet Allie. She’s a happy, busy dog who will make sure you know she’s in charge. One day, Allie and her parents learn Allie has cancer. Allie treats it as a big project – with Allie in charge, of course. Follow Allie as she meets new friends, learns important new words, and discovers she can still do everything she did before her cancer – and still be in charge.

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) argues that social contracts must be recreated if they are to fulfil the promise of human rights. In The Remaking of Social Contracts, leading thinkers and activists address a wide range of concerns - global economic governance, militarism, ecological tipping points, the nation state, movement-building, sexuality and reproduction, and religious fundamentalism. These themes are of wide-ranging importance for the survival and well-bein...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible. List of letters included: Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfr...

The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a common interest in the future study of aging and media. This anthology of original articles int...

Eine optimale Betreuung am Lebensende erfordert einen engen Austausch zwischen Medizin, Pflege, dem psychosozialen Bereich, der Seelsorge und allen anderen beteiligten Berufsgruppen. Dieses multiprofessionelle Herausgeberwerk zeigt, wie eine solche Zusammenarbeit gelingen kann. Aus multiperspektivischer Sicht und anhand vieler Fallbeispiele beschreibt es eine optimal abgestimmte individuelle Behandlung, Beratung wie auch Begleitung am Lebensende für Betroffene und ihr soziales Netz. Es wer...

Some places you leave behind. Others never let you go.Step into forgotten train stations, lonely lakesides, hidden ballrooms, and crumbling mansions—spaces where the past lingers and the walls remember. Haunted Places gathers fourteen ghostly tales woven from memory, mystery, and the uncanny.In these stories, grief hums beneath the floorboards. Hope flickers like a lantern in an abandoned hall. Love, regret, and quiet magic drift through the rooms and river...

Though her acting career is well known, Ida Lupino was, until very recently, either unknown or overlooked as an influential director. One of the few female directors in Classical Hollywood, Lupino was the only woman with membership in the Directors Guild of America between 1948 and 1971. Her films were about women without power in society and engaged with highly controversial topics despite Hollywood's strict production code. Working in a male-dominated field, Lupino was forced to manage h...

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional colle...