A compelling memoir about the single life and the courage to live alone in a world made for couples and families.Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human.She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the threshold between two millennia. Both manifesto and confession, this moving memoir explores the meaning and purpose Donna Ward discovered in ...

Sandra Benigno is afraid that her Mafia Capo husband has learned the truth—that their son, Billy, is actually the love child of a rival mob boss. Now, he’s putting Billy in the line of fire by bringing him into the Family business. Even worse, Billy’s been fooling around with his half-sister, the rival Capo’s daughter. What’s a mother to do? The year before, at an Arthur Avenue bakery, rookie FBI Agent Mark Oberlin offered Sandra help if she ever needed it, so when she gets wind of her hus...

It’s the end of the tourist season in The Hamptons, and things quiet down—until prominent landowner Berle Avery is found dead at The Ocean Club Spa. His massage therapist is convinced he was murdered and asks local P.I. Anna Bartel for help. Anna accepts the case, even though the police, the coroner and Avery’s own doctor say there’s no evidence of foul play. Meanwhile, Special Agent Mark Oberlin has been spending time in the pine barrens of Montauk, where he’s hidden Nardo, his informant ...

When Nelson and Patrica Whitdown retired to Hadaway Island from the Poconos they never dreamed they would be surrounded by convicted felons who plea bargained themselves out of their own identities, and now have nothing to lose but their lives. F.B.I. Special Agent Mark Oberlin, an organized crime expert finds himself hunting down an elusive enemy who has begun to murder these protected witnesses on the splendid ocean beaches and championship golf courses of what the guys back at HQ have n...

In Communicated Stereotypes at Work, the editors and contributors posit that stereotypes communicated in the workplace remain a pervasive issue due to the dichotomy between the discriminatory and functional roles that these stereotypes can play in a range of professional settings. Contributors demonstrate that while the use of stereotypes in the workplace is distasteful and exclusionary, communicating these stereotypes can also appear-on the surface-to provide a pathway toward bon...

Television informs our perceptions and expectations of leaders and offers a guide to understanding how we, as organizational actors, should communicate, act, and relate. Because of its pervasiveness as a medium and the impact it can have in influencing expectations of leadership and related behavior within organizational life, television can be understood an important pedagogical tool. Leadership through the Lens: Interrogating Production, Presentation, and Power is an edited coll...

Transforming the unexpected into a legacy of loveWe all have a story, and underneath it lies a universal story. Donna Shin-Ward, counselor and wellness coach, shares her life journey as a guide to moving through grief and trauma, especially related to narcissistic emotional abuse.Through vibrant storytelling and poignant reflections, Donna explores how she navigated the storms—from cancer as a teenager to the turmoil of love and divorce, twice. Through many...

A volte i ballottaggi e i proiettili sono incompatibili ….Giamaica, 1980. Un’elezione generale è alle porte. Il Partito Popolare Nazionale di centro sinistra ha l’opportunità di vincere un terzo mandato di riforme sociali radicali. I legami con la Russia e con Cuba potrebbero essere rafforzati. All’IMF sarà mostrata la porta. Nuovi movimenti rivoluzionari, come i Sandinisti in Nicaragua, o il JRG ad El Salvador, saranno incoraggiati.I poteri che sono a Lond...

When women are erased from history, what are we left with?Between 1912 and 1922, Ireland experienced sweeping social and political change, including the Easter Rising, World War I, the Irish Civil War, the fight for Irish women's suffrage, the founding of the Abbey Theatre, and the passage of the Home Rule Bill. In preparation for the centennial of this epic decade, the Irish government formed a group of experts to oversee the ways in which the country would remember this monumenta...

The first book of its kind, a collection bringing together leading Black scholars and experts for a policy-oriented approach to the fight for racial justice in America.From ongoing reports of police brutality to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black Americans, the year 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the deep-rootedness of racism and white supremacy in every facet of American life. As people have looked both inward and to their communities to un...

In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be ...

Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism provides theoretical analysis of the nature of religious terrorism and religious martyrdom and also delves deeply into terrorist groups and beliefs in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious terrorism is found in all three of the great monotheistic faiths, and while the public is most aware of Islamic terrorism, Jewish and Christian faiths have extremist groups that warp their teaching —in ways unrecognizable to most a...