This comprehensive guide demystifies the home buying process, offering readers a step-by-step journey from the initial contemplation of purchasing a home to the exhilaration of settling into a new community. It covers essential topics such as understanding your housing needs, navigating financial preparation, choosing the right mortgage, and mastering the art of negotiation. The guide also delves into the closing process, moving logistics, and the responsibilities of homeownership, providi...

Do you feel as if you have lost your path in life?Are you fumbling in the dark, looking for the light?Are you looking for an achievable and sustainable method to create peace and purpose in your life and relationships?The Spiritual Mentor Handbook uses tools, techniques, affirmations, and practical applications aimed at creating a healthier, happier, and harmonious "new you" and building many positive and beneficial habits. It can b...

Are you ready to embark on an exciting and rewarding career as a Loan Signing Agent? Look no further! This comprehensive ebook takes you step by step through the process of becoming a successful loan signing agent, from understanding the role and responsiblities to mastering essential skills and buildong a triving business.

An Annual Holiday Celebration!Read a holiday story per day from American Thanksgiving to New Year's Day...or binge the entire collection.This volume contains 39 stories—from mystery to romance to time travel, that range in tone from joyful to strange and even dark. All stories center around the traditional holidays such as Christmas and New Year's but also explore some weird holiday traditions, past, present and future.Featuring works from award-winning and bestsell...

Step through the portal and enter the world of Faerie.What if you followed a path through a city park, and found yourself in another land? What if the archway you just passed is really a portal to Faerie? What if the guardian of an opening into our world has perished, and left the doorway unattended?If you catch a glimpse of the Faery QueenConsider whether you should remain unseenIf you come across a faery ringListen to the wind lau...

Guide to Fashion Entrepreneurship delves into a comprehensive, step-by-step entrepreneurial action plan that investigates how fashion product concepts are created, branded, sourced, marketed, channeled, and merchandised. Each chapter delivers the essential tools to successfully identify market opportunities, execute product differentiation, and market a new brand or brand extension in a multichannel retail environment to achieve a profitable business.Fashion students and a...

Read a story per day from the end of November to January first...or binge the entire collection. Stories that center around holidays from American Thanksgiving and Black Friday to St. Nicholas Day, Hanukkah to Boxing Day, and of course, the worldwide biggies, Christmas, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day. Award-winning and bestselling writers like Ron Collins, Annie Reed, Robert Jeschonek, and 28 others explore holidays in three different genres--mystery, romance, and light fantasy.

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...

American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent to a finding of criminal responsibility in situations where a minority cultural defendant has violated a valid criminal statute. This work presents a systematic analysis of this issue. Drawing from sociological, anthropological, and philosophical materials, as well as traditional legal discussions, the authors develop a scheme that ...

This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettle—or “queer”—the discourses of “religion” and “science,” and, by extension, the “science and religion discourse.” Drawing intellectual and social cues from works by influential theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve Sedgwick, chapters in this volume converge on at least three common features of queer theory. First, queer theory challenges givens that on occasion still undergird religiously a...

A general introduction to the social and legal issues involved in acts of violence against Native women, this book's contributors are lawyers, social workers, social scientists, writers, poets, and victims. In the U.S. Native women are more likely than women from any other group to suffer violence, from rape and battery to more subtle forms of abuse, and Sharing Our Stories of Survival explores the causes and consequences of such behavior. The stories and case-studies presented he...

Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space and place, reflexivity and relationships, values and affect, and inequality and equity as viewed through critically informed and social justice perspectives. This collection of cutting-edge, c...