**An inspiring memoir about a father and son entering World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji despite one of them battling Alzheimer’s.“Travis and Mace have touched a generation of families around the world with their courage, resilience and kindness.”*--*Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild and host of World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji“Watching Mark and Travis Macy compete together for Eco-Challenge Fiji was a true inspirat...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Knowing, measuring and understanding media audiences have become a multi-billion dollar business. But the convention that underpins that business, audience ratings, is in crisis. Rating the Audience is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research became a convention, an agreement, and the first to interrogate...

Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life. As suburbanization and the breakdown of the extended family and neighborhood isolate individuals more and more, the Internet appears as a possible source for reconnection. Are virtual communities 'real' enough to support the kind of personal commitment...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environmental ethics, science and the environmental movement, Ea...

No one riles up Tracy Weiss like her brother’s best friend, Mark Bishop. It doesn’t help she has brought an unwanted childhood crush for him into adulthood.Mark Bishop is intent on doing the right thing when it concerns his best friend’s sister, even if at times his own moral code skirts the line of the law.Secrets will be revealed, control will be broken, but once the line has been crossed there will be no going back.

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational Research Association, presents a collection of chapters from across disciplines to further understand...

This audiobook edition of A Mile at a Time includes additional insights after each chapter from author, Travis Macy, and a bonus track featuring poetry written and read by Travis Macy. In October 2018, Mark “Mace” Macy, sixty-four years old, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He had spent thirty years competing in Colorado and around the world in ultra-endurance competitions and is one of the few people who have finished all eight Eco-Challenge events. Once diagnosed, he f...

The difference between leaders people love and leaders people leave rarely has to do with how well the leader can do their job.Instead, it has everything to do with how they deal with people.Yet first-time leaders rarely get training focused on their people skills, so organizations end up with leaders who lead like a position rather than like a person.Unlock the potential of your leaders -- including yourself -- with "Lead Like A Person, Not Like A Position." This t...

Resilience is an inborn trait. It is part of your innate survival capacity.This means you can rebound after a setback and even bounce forward with more strength and wisdom. You can proactively and consciously choose to develop your ability to manage stress, recover from burnout and thrive despite extreme challenges by developing a stress-resistant personality. This book will show you how.In The Top 10 Traits of Highly Resilien...

Author and humorist Mark Twain (whose real name was Samuel Clemens) is best known for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Originally published in 1892, when Mark Twain was 57 years old, this book is an account of the novelist's life, works, and humor.

From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology. A blend of traditional and reimagined curses from fairy-tales to Snow White, from some of the best names in fantasy.BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FORTake a trip to a terrifying carnival and uncover the secrets within, solve a mysterious puzzle box and await your reward, join a travelling circus and witness the strangest ventriloquist act you’ve e...

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O’Regan, this collection includes the following stories:“The Bully” by Jeffery Deaver“Dead Weight” by Fiona Cummins“Like a Glass Jaw” by Mark Billingham“On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man