Greatness is very rarely goodness. Milia Scott spent twenty something years struggling to find something she could be great at. When a jealous fit erupts into violence, she finally gets a taste of what she could be. Helped by a series of encounters with the ghosts of former greats in their field, like Julia Child and Lucille Ball, Milia begins a descent into a chilling apprenticeship at the cost of everything else. The road to infamy that Milia walks is littered with the burned out husks o...

When, in 1991, Bill Morris became General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union - then the largest trade union in the country - it marked a huge break in the culture of British working class attitudes towards racial discrimination. The first black immigrant to take the top job in any British trade union; the first black immigrant to join the government board of the Bank of England; the first black immigrant to become president of the Trade Union Congress. He was as he says i...

Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, this is an important text in the fields of peace studies and critical animal studies. This is a...

Protect Your Practice incorporates the advice in Protect Your Business and adds specific guidance for the professions, especially in Chapter 7 on Data Privacy. As with Protect Your Business, every chapter provides prudent steps you can take right away to be more secure and provides “Pro Steps” to take it to the next level. It is the same price, only 10 pages longer, and is perfect for professional practices.

Strategies and tools to live debt freeThe world of borrowing and debt management has changed dramatically, leaving people confused about how best to secure their financial future. This book is the only guide with detailed advice to help you become debt free or master the debt you have, based on the latest laws and new government programs and policies implemented under the Obama administration.Is the information and advice on debt management different than in years past? Def...

The host of Democracy Now! breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound bites, and silence in this New York Times–bestselling collection of articles.In place of the usual suspects—the "experts" who, in Amy Goodman's words, "know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong"—this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From comm...

Though it takes years of training to become a cybersecurity professional, anyone can take the prudent steps that make themselves and their company more secure. The 8 chapters in this book teach you the basics. This book uses plain language to tell you how to become more secure. It’s not rocket science, but it does take discipline. That makes sense, right? If it was easy to be cyber-secure by buying a product or a service, we’d all be secure by now. Every chapter comes with prudent steps yo...

This inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You’re Expecting for families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model—perfect for LGBTQ+ and solo parents who want to have kids but don’t know where to start.In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering ...

Hoe komt het dat grotere inspanningen van de afdeling Verkoop leiden tot een lagere omzet? Waarom neemt de werkdruk alleen maar toe, ook als we hulp inhuren? Hoe goed we het allemaal ook bedoelen, met sommige 'oplossingen' verergeren we de problemen juist. Hoe is die paradox te omzeilen? Systeemdenken geeft nieuw inzicht in complexe situaties. Elke organisatie is een systeem dat uit onderdelen bestaat. Systeemdenken leert je te zien hoe die onderdelen elkaar beïnvloeden. Zo ontdek je de va...

This inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You’re Expecting for families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model—perfect for LGBTQ+ and solo parents who want to have kids but don’t know where to start.In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering ...

Bill Moyers was a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, a senior White House assistant and press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson from 1963 to 1967, the publisher of Newsday, a senior news analyst for CBS News and the producer of groundbreaking series for public television. He is the winner of more than 30 Emmy awards and nine Peabody awards. Among his best-selling books are Listening to America, A World of Ideas, The Power of Myth (with Joseph Campbell) and Moyers on America. He is ...

Stiff Them! is a practical guide to paying ZERO dollars on your student loans, credit cards, medical debts, and other financial obligations. Listen to this book before you make another minimum payment or communicate with any debt collectors.It is your cure for "wrongful spending" and for "wrongful lending!"* * *BR>Are you, or someone you love, burdened by debts that seem impossible to pay off? Do you struggle to make minimum payments on credit cards?...