Sharing wisdom gained through decades of riding at the highest levels of competition, Olympic medalist Peter Leone shows you how to achieve jumping success. Covering the fundamental principles of jumping, this guide stresses solid riding mechanics and the importance of a respectful friendship between horse and rider. With focused exercises that are designed to improve both the physical skills and mental toughness required for equestrians of all levels, you'll learn how to bring out the bes...

There's a monster under my mistletoe, and he knows I've been a naughty girl.Silvery gray eyes… hair dark as night… the most wicked smile…That's what's waiting for me when I get home late one snowy night, just days before Christmas.The devil himself. Rafael Moretti. New York's most feared mafia boss… and my long-lost first crush.He's the kind of gorgeous nightmare I've been trying to escape. Hell, it's why I became an FBI agent. To erase my p...

Ho, ho...holy sh*t.Inspired by a suggestion from legendary book reviewer, author and multi-term Short Mystery Fiction Society President Kevin R. Tipple, here's the holiday anthology that's definitely not filled with Christmas cheer. It will, however, be sure to entertain the darker side of your imagination.Christmastime is a season full of stress. Cooking, decorations, trying to find the perfect gift for people you barely know. It's enough...

This book is the product of an important collaboration between clinicians of the manual therapies and scientists in several disciplines that grew out of the three recent International Fascia Research Congresses (Boston, Amsterdam, and Vancouver). The book editors, Thomas Findley MD PhD, Robert Schleip PhD, Peter Huijing PhD and Leon Chaitow DO, were major organizers of these congresses and used their extensive experience to select chapters and contributors for this book.This volume...

Written by experienced practitioners and academics, this is a core text about the practice of residential child care. It takes as its starting point the fact that residential child care involves workers and children sharing a common lifespace, in which the quality of interpersonal relationships is key. Each chapter highlights relevant policy guidance and is developed around a practice scenario, discussing key knowledge skills and values relating to its theme. This highly practical book sho...

Environmental and social performance measurement and reporting by business has become a high-profile issue during the 1990s. It is increasingly being requested by stakeholders and required by governments. Companies too are finding that they need better environmental and social performance data for effective internal management. And there are a growing number of standardisation initiatives – such as the ISO 14031 guidelines on environmental performance evaluation or the CERES Global Reporti...

Stop Letting Negative Thoughts Win — Transform Your Mindset Today!Did you know research shows up to 80% of our daily thoughts are negative? That’s tens of thousands of limiting, critical, and self-sabotaging messages you tell yourself every day. But you can change that — starting now.Change Mindset is your step-by-step guide to mastering your thoughts, building confidence, and cultivating the mental clarity you need for success. Th...

It's that much loved cuddly bear. A modern adaptation of the classic original Winnie the Pooh stories.

Follow a brave Knight on a dangerous quest, to return a precious Red Ruby that has been taken from a special princess, by a fire breathing Dragon.

National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not investing sufficiently from the start. This book brings together a selection of diverse chapters written by a comb...

In this classic tale, the four friends, Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger band together to save Toad Hall from the Stoats and Weasels, who have broken in while Toad was in prison serving a sentence for driving dangerously and being ever so cheeky to a Policeman. A modern day version of a beautiful heart warming story, set in the English countryside.

Rapid advances in synthetic polymer science and nanotechnology have revealed new avenues of development in conductive electroactive polymers that take greater advantage of this versatile class of materials' unique properties. This third edition of Conductive Electroactive Polymers: Intelligent Polymer Systems continues to provide an in-depth unders