Everybody has a train story. Whether it comes from a distant relative who worked on the railways or from a family train trip that formed a lasting impression of the Canadian landscape, trains inspire a sense of wonder and nostalgia. They are embedded in the history of Canada as a whole and western Canada in particular, and for generations they were how most people travelled and saw the country. Today, trains get the most attention in the context of tragedy, in the aftermath of rare but cat...

Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumach's Gold is examined in riveting detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classicNewly expanded and revised, Slumach’s Gold: In Search of a Legend—and a Curse chronicles Canada’s most enduring lost-mine mystery. For more than 130 years, people have been captivated by the story of a secret cache of gold with nuggets “the size of walnuts,” supposedly buried near Pitt ...

The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma contributes to, promotes, exacerbates, or perpetuates a syndemic. In so doing, the authors als...

Do you love dogs? Do you enjoy teaching animals to do tricks? Read this book to learn about becoming a dog trainer.

Leandro Lucian, Argentine hunk of the show jumping circuit, plans to purchase some new broodmares in Ireland, then return home to his family's farm, continue his rehabilitation after a car accident that nearly took his life, and make some tough decisions about his future. He left an up and coming American rider behind in Germany, wishing her well, and with his heart bruised he isn't thinking of another relationship. Until he meets Sibohan Tannabaum.Now, he's wondering if he can jug...

Aimed at newcomers to the business of training—including instructional designers, subject matter experts, and leaders of all sorts—Margaret E. Wall’s inspired Train-the-Trainer Guidebook is essential reading for anyone interested in optimizing their training capabilities. Based on tried and tested principles of adult learning and supported by invaluable real-world examples, this guidebook provides practical, expert-backed instruction on how to best meet the task of workplace education....

Jim's femdom wife is out to bring her hot gym trainer, Blane, into their cuckold relationship.Things are getting steamy during their workout, but then Blane comes on to Jim. He wants a male submissive he can completely dominate! Jim's straight, but curious. The threesome goes down a path of sinfully delicious MMF cuckoldry that leaves them changed forever....

How could she know that in the blink of an eye she would be a prisoner of the Big M? Wow, menopause! It was something she came to endearingly term “the monster within”, and not without warrant. Because she exercised regularly, stayed healthy, kept free of both recreational and prescription drugs, and had what she considered to be a fabulous life, she felt she would be invincible to the change that all women must pass through. Or at the very least, thought she’d get to pass through it easie...