Need some help with your relationships? Feeling stressed from being pulled in a hundred directions? Hope there's more to life than constantly running to get things done? Known for her compassion and wisdom in helping women, Tess Wright offers real-life solutions for your everyday concerns and practical suggestions about being productive, experiencing peace, finding joy, and spending restorative time with God. She addresses issues that are important to you, including:How can I...

About the Book The Power within Me is a book of life lessons that will grab you and allow you to feel real-life situations resonating with the effects of bullying and the negative thoughts people feel they could never overcome. In thoughtful and sincere language, author Teresa Wright guides the reader and the victims of this silent epidemic to believe in themselves and live the life they desire to have by building self-respect, self-esteem, strength, and love for themselves. You will learn...

Why are the logos for energy drinks, power tools, and sports cars always filled with sharp, jagged angles, while the branding for baby products, cloud storage, and health food relies on perfectly smooth circles? The answer goes far beyond simple graphic design; it is deeply embedded in evolutionary survival mechanics. The Semiotic Arousal Theory proves that the human brain does not view shapes passively. When the optic nerve detects a sharp, downward-pointing triangle, it subconsciously re...

Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on the state, and political options, giving citizens incentives to perpetuate the political status quo and disincentives to embrace liberal democratic change.Wright addresses the ways in wh...

State–society relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world. In China, state-society relations have been changing in the new era of reform and opening, and governance has become a central concern in policy practice and in academia. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, written by scholars from both inside and outside China, the con...

This book is your ultimate BPO resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about BPO's whole picture right away. Get countless BPO facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The BPO Handbook is the single and largest BPO reference book. This compendium of information is the authoritative source for all your ente...

Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume, all prominent scholars of Chinese politics and society, argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protes...

The number of people infected with the Hepatitis C virus has risen to a staggering 200 million worldwide, yet there is surprisingly little information available to the public about this silent epidemic. Cara Bruce and Lisa Montanarelli, both of whom live with Hepatitis C and have become experts on the condition, guide those newly diagnosed step-by-step through the first year following diagnosis. They provide crucial information about the nature of the disease, treatment options, diet, exer...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Luna's story is one of discovery and acceptance. With her French Bulldog, Dotti Mae, she finds beauty in being different. Navigating childhood's ups and downs, Luna's journey from feeling like a misfit to embracing her uniqueness is heartwarming. As she faces schoolyard chaos and learns to value her individuality, she realizes her oddities are her strengths. Through her adventures, Luna teaches us the power of self-acceptance and the splendor in d...

This book explores China's place in the ‘new international order’, from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China.It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, with its notions of ‘international order’, as viewed by the United States, and with the United States seeing itself as the single dominant power, applies to China. The con...

This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the pursuit of modernity in South Korea involved the construction of the anticommunist national identity and a massive effort to mold the populace into useful, docile members of the state. This proces...

Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the Party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of leadership, has revitalised itself, and created a new, younger and better trained cadre corps. Despite this successful transformation, there continue to be many problems that the Party will need to overcome if it is to remain in power, includ...