Despite the torments of time, their love endured. The receding tides could no longer hide the scars of loss and despair. For this, there was no remedy. Time is as unforgiving as the waves that tried to destroy their past. The portrait of truth was obvious as they stood together for now and for all times; soulmates lost in the sea of each other's love. Based on the conversations between a hospice nurse and a survivor of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, the story of life and love can endure ...

The Pentagon currently spends around $1.4 billion per year on recruiting and hundreds of millions annually on other marketing initiatives intended to convince the public to enlist—costly efforts to ensure a steady stream of new soldiers. The most important part of this effort is the Pentagon’s decades-long drive to win over the teenage mind by establishing a beachhead in American high schools and colleges.Breaking the War Habit provides an original consideration of the mil...

In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by the holistic and ethnographically grounded theoretical perspective of critical medical anthrop...

A transformative model for community social work rooted in basic social and economic rights is the basis of this timely Brief. With specific chapters spotlighting the rights to health care, nutritious food, and adequate and affordable housing, the book describes in depth the role of community practice in securing rights for underserved and vulnerable groups and models key aspects of rights-based work such as empowerment, participation, and collaboration. Case examples relate local struggle...

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Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning EPB offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through accelerated self-education.In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on...

Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide.Faced with tumultuous economic times and rapid technological change, staying ahead in your career depends on continual learning—a lifelong mastery of new ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultr...

Se hoje ideias como lugar de fala, teoria queer e decolonialismo ganham espaço nas reivindicações feministas contemporâneas, elas tiveram sua origem em pesquisas e teorias desenvolvidas ao longo das últimas décadas por estudiosas e ativistas como Teresa de Lauretis, Donna Haraway, Maria Lugones, Nancy Fraser, Sandra Harding, Judith Butler, Gloria Andalzúa, além de brasileiras como Lélia Gonzales e Sueli Carneiro. É nesse eco de construções e indagações, dos anos 1980 até os dias de hoje, q...

Nico Medina’s world is eleven miles away from mine. During the day, it’s a place where doors are open—where homes are lived in, and neighbors love. But when the sun sets, it becomes a place where young boys are afraid, where eyes watch from idling cars that hide in the shadows and wicked smoke flows from pipes.West End is the kind of place that people survive. It buries them—one at a time, one way or another. And when Nico was a little boy, his mom always told him to run.I’...

You're Not Indecisive. You're Just Stuck in Your Head.How many hours have you lost to overthinking?That business you've been "planning" for two years. The conversation you've rehearsed a hundred times but never had. The opportunity that passed while you were still researching the "perfect" approach.You tell yourself you're being careful. Strategic. Thorough.But deep down, you know the truth: You're hiding behind thinking to avoid the discomfort of doing....

My DebbieSpanked by My Dad: A Bossy Housewife, Her Hard-Up Husband, and a Father-in-Law With a Short Temper. A Spanking & Humiliation Erotica. Boy, is Tom Andrews angry! Here he is, trying to enjoy his fortieth birthday party at his mom’s and dad’s house, and his wife Debbie is being her typical overbearing, domineering, controlling self. Sure, he’s used to her and her bossy ways. But of all days for Debbie to be nagging him and criticizing him! And in front of all their guests, too!But if...

Red Room Press is extremely proud to present its third annual anthology featuring this year's hardcore corps of authors with the best extreme horror fiction of 2017 that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos.It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. Authors, editors and publishers presented readers with some startling works of horrific imagination, stories graphic in the extreme yet with subtleties suggesting larger meanings, tales that explore humanity by plumbing...