DISCOVER THE TRUTH OF YOUR POWER TO LIVE A CONTENTED LIFEAll the power you think you lack is waiting for you in the dark, masquerading as overwhelm, depression, and disconnection. You really do know who you are and what you want.Down and Back is a holistic guide to turn your life in a positive direction by embracing the powerful gifts hidden in your dark times. Get unstuck by redefining success for you, discovering your superpower of sensitivity, a...

Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest focuses on the rhetorical dimensions and power of silent protest. Bridging the gap between the study of protest and the study of rhetorical silence (strategic silence meant to communicate to and influence an audience), this book is the first of its kind to concentrate solely on the phenomenon and tradition of silent protest. The contributors to this volume hail from different cultures, disciplines, and fields. They examine past and pr...

An Annual Holiday Celebration!Read a holiday story per day from the American Thanksgiving to New Year's Day...or binge the entire collection.This volume contains 38 stories—ranging in genre from mystery to romance and in tone from dark to joyful—that center around traditional holidays such as Christmas and New Year's but also explore some weird holiday traditions. Featuring works from award-winning and bestselling authors Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Anthea La...

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks.In Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman offer an intimate new look at the personal and professional relationships of law clerks with their justices. Going beyond the book’s widely acclaimed predecessor, I n Chambers, the vignettes collected he...

ARE YOU TIRED OF FEELING UNWORTHY IN LOVE, HAUNTED BY PAST HEARTACHES, OR TRAPPED IN THE CYCLE OF SELF-DOUBT?This is the compassionate and eye-opening guide that will take you by the hand and help you rediscover your value, build your self-esteem, and learn that being worthy of love is not just a hope but a skill you can nurture.This audiobook is crafted for every woman who has experienced the pain of failed relationships, felt overlooked, ...

Discover the Secrets To Becoming a Highly Effective Communicator and Become a Master of Public Speaking!Do you struggle in the workplace? No matter how hard you may try to be an effective employee, do you find that you somehow always manage to make things worse? You may try to convey that one thing is needed, but instead, there is nothing but chaos when everyone tries to do the exact opposite due to your own failure to communicate clearly and effectively.Ma...

ARE YOU TIRED OF FEELING UNHEARD, SIDELINED, OR MISUNDERSTOOD IN YOUR WORKPLACE?For women striving to build successful careers, the daily challenges of communication can feel isolating and overwhelming. Criticism, gossip, and relentless competition can leave you doubting yourself and questioning your place in the professional world. But it doesn’t have to be this way."Effective Communication in the Workplace" is th...

HAVE YOU EVER FELT TRAPPED IN A RELATIONSHIP WHERE LOVE AND PAIN BLUR TOGETHER?Do you constantly question yourself, feeling anxious and afraid to take the next step for fear of making a mistake? For too many women and men, toxic relationships become a cycle that chips away at their self-worth, leaving them doubting their strength and value."HEALING FROM TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS" is the compassionate guide you need to reclaim your life a...

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fiction...

This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary and cultural contexts, focusing on historical as well as contemporary auto/biographical subjects.With contributions on the 18th-century actress Peg Woffington, Charles Dickens, Mary Pickford, Sergei Eisenstein, W.H. Auden, Marilyn Monroe, and Michael Jackson, amongst others, the book encompasses a wide range of disciplines and approaches. It explores the representatio...

This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by im...