Is there a lot of whining at your house about homework? Do you find that it sometimes also comes from your kids? If you are tired of the back-and forth of homework battles, then this award-winning book is your solution. 10 Quick Homework Tips provides a quick reference for parents who are looking for ways to help their kids with their homework. Written by two teachers with over 40 years combined experience, this book will show you

• the easiest way to set up an efficient workspace so kids can do their best, quality work;

• how to reduce your child’s stress (and yours!) by being proactive;

• why creating a simple “Homework Agreement” between you and your child will take pressure off of the whole family;

• how to make large projects more manageable;

• where to find help when you need it; and

• much more!

Contains helpful advice for parents working on learning activities with their children as part of sheltering in place during the pandemic. Works equally well when children return to school.

Not just a pandemic manual, these tips can be used in normal times to ensure homework success.

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Looking for love in your 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and yes, even your 80’s or 90’s? 57 Steps to Paradise will help you navigate dating in midlife and beyond. Lorenz unzips her soul and exposes her foibles during 50 years of men weaving their way in and out of her life, providing a heap of wit and wisdom to help you make life-changing decisions about love and, perhaps, a life partner.

“Guaranteed to advise as well as amuse.” (US Review of Books)

“You can learn from her mistakes, you can laugh with her along the way, and when you read her book, you’ll feel like you’ve gained a new friend.” Marjorie Pagel, Goodreads

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Managing chronic illness demands persistent mindfulness and management. It’s a process that constantly evolves over a lifetime. 100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness provides readers with one hundred different methods for accomplishing this task, offering personal examples that are humorous, heartfelt, and insightful. Anyone who lives with chronic illness or knows someone who does will benefit from reading this honest and entertaining book.

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Mama, do you find yourself too busy to take good care of yourself? Whatever your situation, you deserve spectacular health and wellness. With Julie M. Gentile as your personal wellness mentor, this book coaches you along your own authentic self-care path. Using 108 writing prompts and self-care practices, including yoga poses, meditations, and breathing exercises, Julie shows you practical ways to live well that only a mama modern would understand. Become the self-care goddess you truly want to be—you’re worth it!

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This reference book, written by two experienced and successful (and, frankly, brilliant and talented) elementary school teachers, provides a day-by-day set of practical ideas and activities that parents can do at home with their elementary school-age children to help them become better students while also having fun. In all, there are 365 activities, representing all subject matter areas typically taught in school, one for each day of the year.

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A Believer in Waiting’s First Encounters with God allows readers an entrée into the world of what might be called a modern-day mystic, a world where spirituality, contemplation, hierophany, and miracles unite. Good, evil, suffering, darkness, unknowing, and the unconditional love of God are the leitmotifs that bind the author’s experiences from the physical world to the spiritual realm.

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This practical guide and the method presented in it are based on a very simple principle. This principle states that all our negative emotional and mental states are the result of our currently limited and contracted mind. When we expand our mind, these states dissolve. A Guide to Bliss is a rich introduction to the ‘Expansion Method’ that has already gained popularity in German-speaking countries and Israel. The book leads the reader carefully through the practice, illuminating the way by the direct experience of practitioners of the method and the extensive philosophy behind it. Whether determining your next step in business, clearing away some sad memory, or just improving general well-being, all you need is to systematically tap into the tremendous potential of your own mind, as shown in this guide.

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A diverting and informative story of searching for love in mid-life by a divorced social worker, who intertwines entertaining stories of successful love interests with well-known movies containing similar plots and themes. Written as diary entries covering a 15-year period, the author shares openly, in detail, and with insights her experiences with dating, friendships, affairs, and relationships. Written candidly with a light hand and turns of phrase that reflect her personality and make the book hard to put down.

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If God exists and is good, why is there evil?” Avoiding such questions underlies the spiritual emptiness and anxiety in today’s world. A Theology for the Rest of Us explores how to approach the divine through Eastern and Western religious traditions–without dogma; challenging readers to “Be ye lamps unto yourselves.”

Eye-opening book shares the roots of theology, compares faiths. Objective discussions let readers identify personal beliefs. Insight into cultures, history, and humanity.

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A Woman’s Guide to Self-Nurturing offers a new perspective on how to comfort yourself while bolstering self-esteem. Using Bible stories as well as creative techniques for self-nurturing, the book will help you determine exactly what pleases you and nourishes your self-esteem, expand your repertoire of self-nurturing techniques by adding love and gratitude, and show you how self-nurturing can work toward building a new identity. Combining specific guidelines with inspiring examples of self-nurturing, this book will help you recover lost self-esteem and embrace a new mission for a more fulfilling life.

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A View through the Fog is compelling, poignant, and packed with both moving and hilarious anecdotes. All human life (and death) is here. With his own distinct voice, McGee opens the door on the dizzying world of the Golden Gate Bridge—the beauty of both nature and the bridge itself, the camaraderie and friction with colleagues, and the devastating tragedies of suicide jumpers. He brings an entire community to the page with a thought-provoking and richly detailed memoir that will resonate with many readers.

The motive for his writing this book is love of his subject. He paints this world he knows in a way that gives readers the feeling they are on the Bridge with him.

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This book is the first in a planned series (speaking, reading, listening, and writing) that reports on a research project to discover what the critical factors are for reaching near-native levels of second language proficiency, based on in-depth interviews with individuals who have formally tested at those levels.

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Change what you think you know about ADHD.  In this two-part book, Andrew, a child with inattentive-type ADHD, and his mom, Kristin Wilcox, Ph.D., each tell their story about living with the inattentive subtype of ADHD.

How do you survive life and middle school with an ADHD elephant in your brain? Kids with ADHD will relate to Andrew’s reactions to everyday and school-related situations, like remembering to turn in homework, staying organized, and making friends. Using practical strategies Andrew learns to manage his ADHD even when his brain sometimes feels “like and overstuffed garbage can, the lid won’t stay on and garbage is falling out all over the floor”.  He even realizes there is a positive side to having ADHD like creativity, fearlessness and hyperfocus.

Dr. Wilcox’s unique perspective as both a mother and a researcher allow her to discuss, parent to parent, the science behind ADHD from someone living in the trenches, learning to work with Andrew’s ADHD brain. Kristin discusses the significance of various aspects of ADHD and the theory and practices of the education and medical professions related to them, distinguishing inattentive-type ADHD from other subtypes. Two helpful appendices include a means for parents to “diagnose” the inattentive subtype of ADHD and a list of resources for parents and children with ADHD.

This book provides unique insights into ADHD behaviors and suggests highly pragmatic and successfully implemented strategies for children with the inattentive subtype of ADHD and their parents (with implications for educators and others who work with children with ADHD). A must read for kids with ADHD and their parents!

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When you are in the grip of anxiety, fear, or worry:

• Do you feel powerless to stop your reacting?
• Does your life feel unmanageable?
• Does your craving for control interfere with your life?
• Do you feel hopeless for a cure?

If you answer “yes” to these questions, you anxiety has become an addiction. It acts like a drug that excites, numbs, and possesses you, causing you to avoid a full life.

Viewing anxiety as an addiction, Dennis Ortman, Ph.D. guides you through the time-tested Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to find relief from your anxiety. He shows how the Steps offer practical wisdom on how to transform your anxious habits of thinking into constructive action. The Steps invite you to stop, look, listen, and then consciously act to create a new life, awakening your true self.

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Awesome Couple Communication is a spin-off of “Dr. Patt’s” award-winning book, The Marriage Whisperer. In simple, jargon-free language and with clear examples, Dr. Pickett presents 14 couples with communication challenges. She describes the source of the miscommunication and presents suggestions for other couples in similar circumstances to follow in moving from the miscommunication to the awesome communication level.

Calling upon Emotional Intelligence Theory and her own “Pickett’s Pyramid of Possibilities” that is based upon thousands of hours of assistance to couples in therapy, the author provides tips, principles, Q&A, and healthy alternatives to help build communication that strengthens relationships.

As a young child, outraged by the hypocrisy she finds in a church that does nothing to alleviate the physical and sexual abuse she experiences on a regular basis, Beth delivers an accusatory youth sermon and gets her family expelled from the church. Having locked the door on God, Beth goes on to raise a family of seven children, learn 17 languages, and enjoy a career that takes her to NASA, Washington, and 24 countries. All the time, however, God keeps knocking at the door, protecting and blessing her, which she realizes only decades later. Ultimately, Beth finds God in a very simple yet most unusual way.

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“Mahlou’s chief reason for writing this very personal tale is not to offer succor, but to tell the story of how an atheist came to believe in God. As a very intelligent, very compassionate nonbeliever-turned-Christian, Mahlou is a captivating example of religion’s pull even for those who aren’t writhing in self-pity, aren’t blind to all but childish reasons for religious belief, and aren’t obediently following their parents’ and parents’ parents belief systems.This is a tale of belief hard-fought-against, wisely considered, and spiritually experienced.”

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How are you and your child with autism managing during his time of quarantine?

Are you productively juggling or really struggling? Is your daughter playing throughout your home or staying alone? During interactions, is your son engaged or enraged? Are your toys being enjoyed or does your child get annoyed?  After most days do you feel celebrated or devastated?

If you are struggling, this little book offers some ideas of support in improving focus, engagement, and cooperation. Some strategies shared include ways to offer thoughtfully chosen choice and structure when engaging with autistic children.

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How are you and your child with autism managing at home? Are you productively juggling or really struggling? Is your daughter playing throughout your home or staying alone? During interactions, is your son engaged or enraged? Are your toys being enjoyed or does your child get annoyed? After most days do you feel celebrated or devastated?

If you are struggling, this little book offers support in improving focus, engagement, and cooperation. Strategies include ways to offer thoughtfully chosen choice and structure when engaging with autistic children.

Parents of children with autism are certain to find this book helpful!

Edition 1: Winner of Readers’ Views Gold Award for Education

Edition 1: Winner of Readers’ Views Silver Award for Parenting

Sula the Cat does it again! Sula, parish cat at Old Mission San Juan Bautista, is a cat with a special mission: to comfort people in need. Every morning, she spends time with St. Francis, patron saint of animals, and receives guidance for the day. During Masses, led by the Holy Spirit, she seeks out whomever God wants her to comfort, and they report that she brings comfort, indeed. In her spare time, she writes books. This time, she is writing about Christmas traditions and how she experiences them as a parish cat. Ever wonder where our various Christmas customs come from? Sula tells you about the history and the customs today, both mainstream American Catholic and Mexican American Catholic customs since both are part of her parish in California. Charmingly illustrated with an Eastern flavor by Russian artist, Zhenya Yanovich.

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BOOK TRAILER

Parents mean well, we really do.

We want our kids to get good grades, stop hitting their siblings, and, yes, clean their plate at dinnertime.  It shouldn’t be that hard, right?

Wrong.  Sometimes these harmless sounding statements don’t work.  Even worse, they often backfire to cause unexpected and unwelcome side effects for us and for our kids.  (Just like your prescription for headache medicine may accidentally cause vomiting or make you spontaneously sprout a leathery tail.)

This book takes 13 of the most common parent-isms and walks you through the ways they can go wrong, why they could negatively impact your kids, and what you should say instead.

Includes greatest parental hits like:
·      Do You Need Any Money?
·      Get Straight A’s
·      Don’t Be a Quitter
·      Don’t Talk Back (to Your Elders)
·      Waste Not, Want Not
·      Be Nice to Your Friends
·      Give Your Aunt a Hug
·      Win Your Game Today
·      Finish Your Homework
·      Don’t Hit
·      Sit Still
·      Don’t Watch TV
·      Clean Your Plate

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In Communicative Focus, Boris Shekhtman describes in detail the principles and practices used in his approach to language teaching. He is not afraid to talk about some aspects of language learning and teaching, such as the development of lexical and grammatical accuracy, as well as the need for memorization and the development of memory, that have been increasingly omitted from the classroom as a result of the rise in popularity of theories that debase their significance but which are very important, especially if students are to reach the highest level of proficiency.

He also discusses some ideas, such as the unique nature of the connection between language and meaning that native speakers experience that non-native speakers must learn to deal with-in differing ways at differing levels of proficiency. His focus throughout is on communication and the nature of communicative focus (and its development).

Just as many students have tremendously benefited from Boris’s unique approach to language teaching, many teachers can benefit from the information he has included in this book if they put aside their graduate-school-enforced understandings of how foreign-language development can occur if looked at from a point of view that we have not generally taken in the past. Recommended for all teachers who want to see leaps in their students’ progress in developing language proficiency and who are willing to take upon themselves (as opposed to leaving to students) much of the responsibility for language acquisition to read this book carefully and to return to it frequently.

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This book encourages those who are at or nearing retirement to actively plan for the years ahead. Individual stories of Boomers who have learned to flourish after age 50 are showcased, along with productive influences gained from spirituality, health, and “the Woodstock Generation,” including how to take inspiration from childhood and young adulthood to reignite; develop a passion for the troisieme age; use creativity to stay happy, healthy and enlightened; and formulate lifestyle plans that match expectations. Activities are provided at the end of each section to help the reader define and make life choices (and changes).

Written by popular author, Muna Imady, whose book, Syrian Folktales, has delighted an uncountable number of readers outside of Syria, Damascus amid the War tells the very human story of the devolution of a society. The book containts 29 pre-war poins, vibrant with imagery of daily life in a robust Damascus. The 100 war poems that follow show the devastating affect on the people who navigate a daily existence after war came. This is a posthumous publication, containing Muna’s very last works and an introduction by her mother, Elaine Imady, author of Road to Damascus and an analysis by Dr. Geri Henderson, professor of English literature and author of several books.

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When you feel depressed, suffering from a deep sadness, do you feel powerless over your mood? Does your life feel unmanageable because of it? Does your preoccupation with past hurts and regrets interfere with your life? Do you feel hopeless about finding a cure for your depression? If you answer “yes” to these questions, you may be addicted to your mood. It acts like a drug that sedates, numbs, and possesses you, causing you to sleepwalk through life.

Viewing your depressed mood as an addiction, Dr. Ortman guides you through the time-tested Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to find healing and growth. He shows how the Steps offer practical wisdom to awaken your spirit deadened by your depression. The Steps provide guidance for your personal journey into the darkness of your mood so that you can discover your true self and release the Power within you.

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El Día de Muertos es una celebración muy importante, popular y solemne en San Juan Bautista, California, y en la Antigua Misión de San Juan Bautista, una de las misiones establecidas por los frailes franciscanos cuando se fundó California, y hogar de la gata parroquial, Sula. La comida, la oración y el recuerdo son parte de la celebración, al igual que las procesiones al cementerio.

Sula es la gata muy querida de la Antigua Misión de San Juan Bautista, California, donde ministra a los feligreses y visitantes diariamente, una labor divina. Este libro es su sexto.

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This nonfiction book provides a humorous glimpse into a couple’s strategies for surviving two weeks of quarantine within the confines of their RV. The author’s diary includes his never-ending “to-do” list as well as the couple’s routine and unique activities, such as ordering groceries and restaurant meals online for delivery to their RV site, playing games, and learning new skills such as baking and playing the ukulele.

A major portion of the book is devoted to how full-time RVers might occupy their time fruitfully while staying cooped up during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reading RV magazines and related books and planning an RV adventure when restrictions are lift ed is complemented with excerpts provided from two of the author’s books. Words of wisdom abound: “Stay at home, wash your hands, and enjoy my books.”

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Divorced! Survival Techniques for Singles over 40 shares the stories of men and women just like you who have gone through the trauma of divorce, and now feel comfortable talking about it. Turning to God, to friends, family and even therapy, these adults were able to pull their lives back together again. Whether your divorce was recent or years ago, the guidelines in this book will help you put heartache aside and begin a new and fulfilling life.

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Sula, the now-famous church cat, tackles a mysterious topic for her fifth book: What is Easter, what is its meaning, what are the beliefs behind Catholic behaviors associated with the Lenten season and Easter, why is it called the Paschal mystery?

Sula answers these questions with history, dogma, and humor. And, of course, with pictures, lots and lots of people-cat pictures.

The sections of the book–Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil and East Morning–are  beautifully illustrated with drawngs by Uliana Yanovich.

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En “Lo Transpersonal” todas las cosas se conectan y nada está suelto ni es independiente, igual las palabras de este libro están unidas las unas a las otras como los hechos de nuestra vida para poder lograr una alianza entre la razón y la emoción, entre lo humano y lo divino, entre oriente y occidente, entre el pasado y el futuro, entre arriba y abajo. Todo para lograr entender que somos uno y que estamos conectados con un propósito divino. Solo que pocos lo recuerdan.

Los invito a un viaje en el que se desenvolverán pequeñas capas de concientización, resaltando el cómo escogiendo cuidadosamente el vocabulario se puede mejorar de gran manera su relación con un niño con autismo. Las páginas de este libro están llenas con anécdotas educativas que exploran la comunicación, regulación emocional, y dificultades en la relación que podrían ser causadas por un lenguaje común a la hora de interactuar con niños con autismo.

Cada anécdota transporta al lector a un escenario de la vida diaria relacionado a el uso específico de la palabra “No” creando una experiencia interactiva e informativa con la que la gente se puede identificar. Las discusiones a continuación incorporan teorías de educación y psicología del autismo para promover un entendimiento a fondo y ofrecer sugerencias para interacciones enriquecidas.

La habilidad para escoger cuidadosamente nuestro vocabulario cuando nos comunicamos con niños con autismo yace dentro de cada uno de nosotros y puede resultar en el realce de la comunicación, incremento de la positividad y la mejora de las relaciones.

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People are often at a loss to find the right words to say in prayer. Whether you’re a believer but unchurched or are a devout member of a religion, if you wish to expand your home worship, finding the right words to say to God can be a problematic issue.  The prayers in Everybody’s Little Book of Everyday Prayers are nonsectarian—suited for Protestants, Jews, and Catholics, as well as unaffiliated deists who believe in God but not in organized religion. They cover a raft of occasions on which individuals or families may wish to say a prayer. If prayer is an integral part of your life, or you would like it to be, you’ll find the help you want in Everybody’s Little Book of Everyday Prayers.

The pandemic has closed gym doors, booted exercise clubs off schedules, and made group athletic activities dangerous. Even national sports have taken a hit, big-time. So, what are you to do? Don’t give up on keeping your body in shape! Be creative. This book helps you identify the exercising opportunities around you—realistic ones discovered by journalist Pat Young in interviews with creative people who have identified—and used—a host of fun and productive exercise opportunities all around them, ones often overlooked when the gym is open. At home, in the back yard, at parks (socially distancing, of course), a wide variety of activities can keep bodies in pre-pandemic shape and even improve on them. So, open the pages of this book and get moving!

Al Stites has lived a rich 88 years. His orientation toward thinking positively has led him to an incredible 71 jobs, each of them providing him with rich experiences. Many of the people that the author has worked with would be recognized by anyone, ranging from Hal Holbrook to Ethel Kennedy to Prince Borghese of Italy. He has never taken a job because he had to or a job he has not liked. Throughout his life, he has worked not for money but for happiness — and he has had a happy life. How many of us can say the same?

Criminals, innocent victims, perpetrators–all without a voice, driven by their demons to suffer a lifetime of serious mental illness–share their innermost secrets with the author, a clinical and forensic psychologist. Enter the dialogue: open to the first page. You won’t stop reading!

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Transitioning to motherhood is hard. Along with it comes a lot of fear, anxiety and responsibility. You want to provide everything for your new child, and it is all too easy to let other things – like self-care – slide. How do new moms stay on top of finances, a healthy diet, housework, a fitness routine, work, and other personal needs?

Combining her expertise as a personal trainer and successful entrepreneur with her life as a wife and mother who is pregnant with her second child, Brittany Renz helps readers find balance as new moms by preparing and establishing routines throughout the nine months of pregnancy. She encourages expectant mothers to set themselves up for success as mothers, spouses and working professionals – and she knows what she is talking about.

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BRITTANY AND HER HUSBAND HOLDEN
ON NATIONAL WOMEN’S HEALTH & FITNESS DAY 2019

Part of a series on the coronavirus pandemic written by MSI Press authors to share expertise, help, and hope, these brief devotionals speak to the enormous challenges facing our world today. So many of you are grieving loss of loved ones, or risking your life daily to help others, or facing loss of your livelihood, financial ruin or uncertainty. The Psalms and teachings of Jesus offer treasures of hope for today and promises us a brighter tomorrow. You will find in these meditations that God wants to comfort his own and then use us to help and bless one another

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When she was a child, her father said that he had “good blood” and it was why he and his wife survived and healed from the Holocaust. The author searched for the meaning and significance of her father’s words over two continents and through four generations. Her journey uncovered a unique voice of wisdom revealing mysteries of the healing powers within us and the existence of light in every situation that helps us overcome and transcend any obstacle.

This book is a quest into the depth of the human spirit. It is a rich family memoir, being deeply personal, sharing pain and joy and fear and forgiveness. It encompasses the themes of life and a topic in common with every reader: complicated family relationships.

Endorsed by Pam Huston and Dr. Norm Shealy.

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Julie Potter is no stranger to grief, having, in her career, coordinated a hospital-based wellness program including a spousal bereavement program. In this book, she traces back decades the research on understanding and coping with grief, which she describes as a natural human response to loss. Pulling from the work of Worden, the author prescribes four tasks for those in grief to use in managing their grief. She also walks the reader through special situations like tragic loss without warning. A book for those who are grieving and those who are walking with grievers.

In speaking about Healing from Incest, Susan J. Lewis, Ph.D., J.D., Healing writes: “”Brave, profound, touching, healing. This well-written, honest book takes the reader inside the complexities of the therapeutic healing process from the patient and therapist’s unique perspective. It is the story of hard work, hope, commitment and recovery!” Healing from Incest tells the journey of a victim-turned-survivor, working with her therapist to find healing. Readers are pulled into the therapeutic process as Henderson relates her conversations and feelings as a victim of child abuse and Emerton interprets those feelings and describes interventions. For those who recognize this as their own story, this frank and genuine narrative will be reassuring in its descriptions of one woman’s journey toward hope and healing. About the front cover: kintsukuroi(n.) (v. phr.) “to repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

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In this, her final, book, the late Joanna Romer suggests ways to assist disabled veterans leaving the military and trying to integrate back into mainstream society in spite of their disabilities. Chapters contain recommendations, suggestions, and practical suggestions, based on a large number of wide-ranging interviews with disabled veterans about their experiences after returning from war.

From the MidWest Book Review”

“Helping the Disabled Veteran” should be a part of every community, college, and university library collection in the country.”

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Admitting you’re a drug addict or alcoholic can be difficult, but when it comes to pornography addiction, the pain of betrayal can hit the addict’s partner worse than the addict himself. Difficult questions come rushing:

• Does he look at this stuff because I’m not enough?
• Was he like this when I first met him?
• Is this God trying to test me?
• What kind of help is available for him?
• Am I just supposed to stay here and deal with this?

With He’s a Porn Addict…Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions, you’ll get pertinent answers from both sides of the equation: from a therapist and from a former pornography addict.

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Jeremy Feig was at rock bottom – broke, alone, and living in a shoebox-sized apartment. At the same time, his cat was perfectly content. What was her secret? She couldn’t say it out loud, but it was clear she had all the answers to living a good life. How My Cat Made Me a Better Man is a hilarious self-help book for guys that  gals like, too, based on the lessons of an edgy cat named Shelly. It’s packed with useful advice on topics like relationships, dealing with stress, and even grooming habits. If you feel like your life is spinning out of control, this book will help you set things right – and keep you laughing along the way.

Winner of the Kops-Fetherling International Books Awards legacy humor award and finalist for Book of the Year Award, How My Cat Made Me a Better Man is a “darling” of cat bloggers, recipient of a Readers’ Favorite 5-star review, and “highly recommended” by MidWest Book Review.

Delightfully illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by famed Russian artist, Zhenya Yanovich.

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Soon after receiving her Bachelor’s Degree, Emily Graves was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and given a prognosis that she would be confined to a wheelchair within ten years. Shortly thereafter, pregnant with her first and only child, Emily’s kidneys shut down. Thus, began a new chapter in Emily’s life: balancing chronic illness, motherhood, and the professional ambitions that had caused her to excel as an academic and meet her husband. Today she is still fighting chronic illness, but she has found some answers as to how to manage that fight while being a good mother and spouse and continuing to pursue her professional ambitions. In this book, Emily chronicles the challenges and successes and shares her experience-and tips-with other mothers suffering from chronic illness. A formula for surviving and thriving, this book is meant as a source of inspiration and support for any mother who has to do the impossible every single day.

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A winningly simple yet comprehensive look at the source of happiness, based on interviews with some of the happiest people that the author knows, most of whom have had what others might consider difficult lives. Each “happy person” vignette includes an introspective mini-bio and advice for how readers can attain the same level of happiness. At the end of each chapter (interview), the author provides guidelines for achieving happiness in small steps that any reader can take with confidence. An excellent book for developing self-awareness and an attitude of gratitude, leading to peace and joy.

How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately is the fifth edition of a “highly recommended” book that readers repeatedly rate as 5 stars.

“Shekhtman’s ‘rules of communication’ are designed to build a relationship between a foreigner, who is learning a new language, and the native speaker who is already in command of that language. Recognizing the inequality in such a relationship, Shekhtman works to close the gap, to level the playing field so that communication can flow more naturally.” Tara Sonenshine, Contributing Editor for Newsweek Magazine/Former White House Assistant National Security Advisor.

“I have studied numerous languages (French, Spanish, and German) and this was by far the most effective language training that I have ever undertaken.” Elizabeth D. Sherwood, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia and Eurasia

“This method has helped countless foreign correspondents, including many of our predecessors at the New York Times. It proved invaluable to us.” Alessandra Stanley, Correspondent, The New York Times

Heart energy comes from an always loving and wise Higher Source. Nurturing, warm, quiet, refined, and all encompassing, heart energy brings spiritual growth that fosters creativity, attracts loving relationships, and engenders peace and happiness. Grounded in psychology and focusing on a bigger picture than New Age philosophies, this practical book not only teaches you how to live from your heart but also provides scads of activities to practice doing so, focusing on compassion, creativity, inner wisdom, insights into others, and the working together of the heart and mind to promote growth in our own Higher Self and the Higher Self of others.

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Self-care is more important now than it has ever been. It is exactly what to turn to when you need to stay calm in chaos. This quick read goes beyond the basics of eating well, exercising, and getting quality sleep. Packed with smart self-care strategies, this book can help you get through each day of the week:

– Sunday: Stay Present

– Monday: Stay Motivated

– Tuesday: Stay Flexible

– Wednesday: Stay Realistic

– Thursday: Stay Supported

– Friday: Stay Connected

– Saturday: Stay Resilient

Whether you write it out, sweat it out, breathe it out, or let it go, these mind-body-spirit self-care practices can help you cope with the ever-changing landscape we are living in.

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Parenting challenging children successfully can present obstacles beyond the typical parent’s experience, knowledge, or imagination. Written by an expert with 20 years of experience in observation and study in the classroom and recreational programs, this book focuses on behavioral challenges in children and serves as a guide for parents on how to improve their child’s behavior.

– Does your child struggle with age expected tasks and have difficulty socially, trouble focusing, managing school or with sibling relations?

– Is your family struggling because one of your children seems to consume all of your parental energy?

Franki Bagdade (M. Ed.), a dynamic and creative consultant skilled in problem solving and out-of-the-box solutions, provides a new approach with simple steps that establish new structures, systems, and strategies in and out of the home to empower your child take responsibility for his or her own behavior-and allows you to once again enjoy your child. Her recommendations have been praised by parents, educators, and readers for their success in parenting challenging children and testing through her consulting service, FAAB Consulting.

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This book provides students of foreign languages with a guide to reaching near-native levels of proficiency. It helps students identify where they stand in terms of proficiency, determine what they need to do to get to the next higher level, and make plans to march all the one from beginner to very advanced levels of language usage.Sample learning plans are included, and components of successful learning plans are presented and analyzed. Students who approach language acquisition in a planful way can dramatically reduce the number of years it takes to become near-native in their language use.

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Everyone should have a cat that captures the heart and captivates the imagination. That is what Intrepid did for us.
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Carl and Betty Lou Leaver have rescued dozens of
cats in Amman and California, integrating new cates
into already-integrated families. They have had as
many six formerly feral cats sharing their home at a
time, peacefully, though they will tell you that this
state is not achieved easily or quickly

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Carl Leaver is a former forester and former wildlife photographer, who has enjoyed taking pictures of Intrepid and his adopted siblings. A computer graphics specialist, he works as typesetter and cover designer for MSI Press. He most recently edited the MSI Press book, Overcoming the Odds.

Betty Lou Leaver is a former educational administrator and a current life coach and cross-cultural consultant for US government agencies and others. She has written more than two dozen books, published by a variety of presses, and answers cat questions on Quora.

Abandoned, neglected and beaten by a mother who really did care about her but suffered from her own demons and addictions, left with friends and relatives, as well as placed in foster homes, molested and raped on more than one occasion, including by men considered upright, the little girl who grew up to become an educator, minister, and entrepreneur learned to survive by running away again and again. This heartbreaking and heartwarming story, told with courageous frankness, reveals a deep trust in God that, in the long run, promoted an unbelievable resilience, allowing a young girl, turned young woman, to forgive those who hurt her and to reach out to all those who hurt with a message of healing and hope.

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“Conversational” textbook for use in introductory world religions courses, compiled from the author’s lecture notes over many years of teaching experience. Very accessible for students.

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Jesus has not limited his miracles to people who lived when he was on earth. Today, miracles continue–and nearly every day someone somewhere reports one.This book, written by award-winning author Bennett Easterling, shines a welcome new light on the miracles of Jesus. Thirty-six miracles are highlighted, then supplemented with helpful background information. Real-life applications applying to our lives today are drawn from each miracle, including powerful true stories of God reaching down and touching people today in miraculous ways. One or two questions are given at the end of each story to help readers reflect on their own faith journey. Readers will find this refreshing new book ideal for both individual devotions and group Bible studies.

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Jesus has not limited his miracles to people who lived when he was on earth. Today, miracles continue–and nearly every day someone somewhere reports one.This book, written by award-winning author Bennett Easterling, shines a welcome new light on the miracles of Jesus. Thirty-six miracles are highlighted, then supplemented with helpful background information. Real-life applications applying to our lives today are drawn from each miracle, including powerful true stories of God reaching down and touching people today in miraculous ways. One or two questions are given at the end of each story to help readers reflect on their own faith journey. Readers will find this refreshing new book ideal for both individual devotions and group Bible studies.

This is the study guide edition, cited by MidWest Book Review as “ideal for both individual devotions and group Bible studies for all members of the Christian community regardless of denominational affiliations.”

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In this conversational, theological book, Tosto details a new spiritual approach for knowing God in the 21st century. This new approach is called Joshuanism, an evolved expression of Christianity (though it draws from other sources as well, such as Buddhism, existentialism, psychology, and science), rooted in the same son of God Christianity worships: Jesus. Yet in this case, we are approaching him with a fresh, unencumbered perspective, preferring to call on him by his Hebrew name: Joshua. Thus, Joshuanism.

The purpose of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies (ISSN1547-7819) is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching and reaching near-native foreign-language proficiency for teachers, students, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application.

The purpose of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies (ISSN1547-7819) is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching and reaching near-native foreign-language proficiency for teachers, students, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application.

The purpose of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies (ISSN1547-7819) is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching and reaching near-native foreign-language proficiency for teachers, students, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application.

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The purpose of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies (ISSN1547-7819) is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching and reaching near-native foreign-language proficiency for teachers, students, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application.

The purpose of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies (ISSN1547-7819) is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching and reaching near-native foreign-language proficiency for teachers, students, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application.

The purpose of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies (ISSN1547-7819) is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching and reaching near-native foreign-language proficiency for teachers, students, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application.

The purpose of the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies (ISSN 1547-7819) is to provide a forum for exchanging information about teaching to and reaching near-native foreign language proficiency for teachers, learners, and professional language users. Areas of interest include research, theory, and practical application.

The Journal for Distinguished Language Studies has been published annually since 2003. Issue 7 is an exception to the publication schedule and is intended as a bridge issue between the early years, 2003-2010, and the current years, 2020 and later. In the early years, the Journal for Distinguished Language Studies was published by the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers, which closed in 2010. The current issues are published by MSI Press LLC in Hollister, California.

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Lamentations of the Heart soulfully combines contemporary free verse poetry and nonfictional prose to tell the story of one mother’s grief following the death of her only child. The author interweaves scriptural passages with the inevitable struggles to accept and make sense of her new reality. All of it reveals the unending love for family that remains.

Written to reach out to others who have experienced similar pain, it moves upon the uneven, wavering pattern of great emotion, along a tumultuous path blessed with signs and wonders —

• an unwanted journey
• a tapestry of life
• healing begins

“The author speaks from her heart and touched mine as I read, shedding a few tears along the way.” (Jan Hedges, Owner, Hedgehog INK! Bookstore)

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Las historias que se han seleccionado para este texto, de alguna manera se asemejan en ciertos aspectos a nuestras propias vivencias. Vivencias en el amar, en el perdonar, en el arte de reír, en la nostalgia del llorar, en el correr – a veces – sin sentido, en el trabajar desenfrenadamente, en el no saber para que estamos y para que andamos de tanta prisa.

What if instead of trying to avoid the pain and uncertainty of labor, we asked what we could learn from it? In telling the intimate birth stories of her three children and miscarriage, Julia shows us how giving birth can be one of motherhood’s (and life’s) greatest teachers. Rather than giving advice on how to labor or how to parent, this book consistently offers the message that a woman can grow through the challenges that life presents her and learn to trust herself. For women who share a tendency for “getting it right,” this honest and unguarded memoir is a reminder that the pretense of control is no match for the freedom of letting go.

• how to come to grips with the loss and handle the grief;
• how to engage in activities to help the healing process; and
• how to find the strength to move on.

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We live with minds as open and spacious as the deep blue sky. Living in Blue Sky Mind presents basic Buddhist teachings that keep us on the wholesome path of self-realization toward a happy life.  Zen priest and teacher Richard Diedrichs offers simple lessons, anecdotes of personal transformation, and reflective questions to guide us along Buddha’s enlightened way, such as– “Buddha advised that we not speak with malice if we want to create connection and happiness around us;”– “We learn that to be happy, we need to end our suffering and the suffering of those around us;” and– “We are fortunate to have a way to be happy with what we have and with who we are.”

Living Well with Chronic Illness is a self-help guide for anyone who has a chronic illness or who knows and cares about someone else who does. The 20 chapters concisely address a comprehensive range of issues including daily routines, relationships, medical and legal services, a joyful life, and much more. In our hectic, information-laden world where the Internet places billions of contradictory facts at our fingertips, the straightforward content of this book is an alternative resource for people who want to feel better and don’t want to spend hours searching for answers. The tools inside, presented with compassion, humor, and a wealth of knowledge, are for those who want to apply and enjoy new health-promoting ideas immediately.

Living Well with Chronic Illness evolved from the author’s personal experience with chronic illness and 26 years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

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From their swearing-in all to the way until retirement, even the most hardened firefighters can be affected by mental health concerns. This book explores the why and explains the how to better prepare these individuals for a healthy and productive career and life, based on my personal experience as a counselor, who also has 27 years as a firefighter and paramedic. Firefighters can learn how to acknowledge their mental health issues, such as PTSD, addiction, or anger issues while developing strategies to address these concerns with techniques and solutions throughout their career.

Mommy Poisoned Our House Guest is a collection of anecdotes about a “detail-oblivious” homemaker and traveler, told from the point of view of her mentally challenged son. The simplicity of language has made this book a favorite with ESL students, and the humorous “conclusions” about life from a child’s point of view endears it to anyone with a sense of humor.

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Noah’s New Puppy was written from veteran Richard Rice’s own experience  of post-war PTSD. The almost miraculous effects of his service dog, Abby, saved him and saved his  marriage, bringing him out of hiding. He shares this story with families of small children to help them understand the suffering of their parents  and the  healing effects a dog can bring to the whole family. The Parent’s Guide encourages conversations between parents and their children about PTSD, post-deployment issues, or parents and children suffering from depression. Richard’s brother, Vincent, another  veteran, is  the illustrator.

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A heaping slice of old-fashioned Southern storytelling, this book gives readers a taste of genuine American life that will keep them coming back for more. Join the journey as a preacher’s kid survives his father’s stern discipline, rattlesnakes, and harvesting okra. The deep-fried characters are unforgettable, and the furry and feathered folks will steal the heart of animal lovers. Soaked in faith, people survived the lean, mean times, thanks to the velvet hearts they carried under their calluses, hard work, the good sense to laugh at themselves, and, often, the hand of God. What a delightful legacy they left us! Once you pick up this book, you’ll be pleading, “Don’t stop now and don’t ever grow up!”

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Written for active vulnerable elders by a vulnerable elder, this book provides unique perspective on the meaning, adjustment, and management of “stay at home.”  Others made vulnerable by a pandemic will find support, practical guides and relevance in managing life disrupted by an invisible threat and a nation struggling to save itself.

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Humanity is astonishingly diverse, and that reality can be at the same moment both beautiful and disconcerting. One of our greatest challenges as a species has been and continues to be how to hold with respect our almost endless diversity while at the same time recognizing our common humanity. How can we come together? Where do we even begin? This book describes how and why a child born into a Jewish family, who still walks the path of Judaism, grew up to become an Interfaith minister who calls all of humanity his family.

Engagingly invites the reader into the deeply spiritual journey of the author to find a way to acknowledge differences without dividing ourselves into competing tribes.

It was every parent’s worst nightmare. On a sun-drenched morning in April 2012, a Maryland state trooper knocked on Betty Shaw’s front door and delivered the grim news that her 17-year-old daughter, Liz, had been involved in a horrible car accident and was clinging to life.

Liz recovered from her life-threatening injuries but suffered severe and permanent effects from the accident. Texting while driving caused Liz’s crash, and she and her mother went on a mission to educate people about the perils of distracted driving. The pair began to speak before various groups, and as their popularity grew, they launched a video about Liz’s story which went viral, spawning magazine and online articles, as well as several TV appearances, including one on Oprah Winfrey’s Where Are They Now? show.

In One Simple Text, Betty Shaw recounts her daughter’s frightening and arduous but ultimately uplifting and inspirational journey. Betty chronicles Liz’s ordeal from the day of the accident and provides a glimpse of their life on the speaking and television circuit. This is a poignant memoir about a young woman who triumphed over tragedy; a mother and daughter’s love; and the indomitable power of the human spirit.

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Overcoming the Odds contains real-life stories, excerpts from books on self-help, inspiration & religion, and memoirs, where the authors have successfully stepped over any number of obstacles in their lives. Full of wisdom, remarkable stories, and just plain good reading. Each excerpt is a story in itself. Great bedtime reading–or waiting room reading.

Parenting has always been a challenge. Under normal circumstances, the average parent is over-worked, under-slept, perpetually worried, and stressed to the point of visible aging. This was true long before we ever heard of the coronavirus. We now refer to that life as “the good old days.”

Courtesy of the pandemic, parents now have to navigate a wide variety of different responsibilities, trading our “parent” hat for ones that say “teacher,” “bouncer,” “triage nurse,” and more. This book helps you navigate parenting in a pandemic without having a teacher’s license, years of self-defense training, or a medical degree. For each role, you’ll get the wisdom of experts who are actually in that field, a guide for how to apply this knowledge to parenting, as well as some tricks of the trade that will help you and your kids survive the pandemic as smoothly as possible.

Existence makes sense only if we include the afterlife as part of our history.

Scientists are exploring the concept that life, including what is called the afterlife, may not be as we perceive it. New discoveries having to do with the simultaneous nature of time and the relativity of space coincide dramatically with the testimony of Near-Death Experience (NDE) survivors. The question is, where does our energy go and how much of our identity goes with it?

Passing On: How to Prepare Ourselves for the Afterlife attempts to shed light on these questions and many others, such as:

• Do we meet up with loved ones after we pass on?
• Do we take form as a physical entity or are we pure essence?
• Do time and space exist in the afterlife, and:
• What are the characteristics of the afterlife—is it as joyful, loving and forgiving as those who have undergone a Near-Death Experience claim?

This book is for people of all ages who are interested in a future beyond earthly existence, and what can be done to prepare ourselves for it!

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Porn and the Pandemic examines the early months of the exponential growth of Internet pornography during the time of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Author Joshua Shea, himself a former pornography addict, traces how segments of the population flocked to only pornography and tells the stories of those whose lives were impacted, including his own.

Shea interviews former pornography addicts who succumbed to temptation during quarantine, often after years of sobriety, along with those who managed to “stay on the wagon” learning why addicts either failed or succeeded while stuck at home.

Along with an analysis of online porn industry marketing techniques and measurements of their success during this unique time, Shea examines how the industry reacted to a sudden need for more content, recruiting young adults who found their jobs suddenly gone, into making stay-at-home pornography. Several “cam models” both veteran and rookie, talk about their work and changes seen during the pandemic.

Therapists, psychologists and certified sexual addiction therapists also weigh-in with their opinions of what was happening to people during this time and if it really needs to be remembered as a negative time for human sexuality.

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The many and varied demands of the digital age require cadres of professionals capable of collaborating effectively and engaging globally in the world’s languages and cultures. This volume represents a collection of classroom- and field-tested practices used to prepare global professions to the highest standards of proficiency in their languages in order to meet these global challenges. Culled from faculty of government, private, and state educational programs, these “practices that work” offer the language practitioner a selection of “recipes” for helping language learners attain near-native professional proficiency. The techniques and practices offered in these pages can be incorporated and used in virtually any curriculum or learning environment and are highly learner centered. The path to native-like proficiency in world languages can be demanding, but this volume can help make it more productive and enjoyable.

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Written from the perspective of an acquisitions editor for a publishing house who has also served as a reader and adviser for acquisitions editors at presses ranging from small to large to the leading presses in her field, the author helps new writers navigate the confusing myriad choices in finding a publisher. Typical missteps of new authors are presented, along with criteria for making decisions on choosing a publisher – and advice on how to approach the publisher.

Having trouble getting your book published? Or are you a new author, wondering how to avoid the long wait through dozens of submissions find an author? This books is for you! Written from the perspective of an acquisitions editor for a publishing house who has also served as a reader and adviser for acquisitions editors at presses ranging from small to large to the leading presses in her field, the author helps new writers navigate the confusing myriad choices in finding a publisher. Typical missteps of new authors are presented, along with criteria for making decisions on choosing a publisher – and advice on how to approach the publisher. Of potentially great assistance, the author, an acquisitions editor, shares real-life stories of manuscripts she turned down — and why. This book differs from most of the books on the market because it is focused on giving authors a decision-making model rather than yet another a reference book on publishers and provides personalized decision-making activities to lead the writer to the right publisher in the right way.

“Exceptionally practical, ‘real world’ insightful, packed from cover to cover with specific tips, tricks and techniques, “Publishing for Smarties: Finding a Publisher” should be considered a ‘must read’ for anyone seeking to have their work, fiction or non-fiction, successfully published on terms as advantageous to the author as possible. Whether an novice author seeking publication for the first time, or an experienced author with many a published title to their credit, “Publishing for Smarties: Finding a Publisher” should be an core part of any personal or professional Writing/Publishing.”

(Jim Cox Report, March 2019/MidWest Book Review)

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Este libro es un manual de vida y para la vida, donde desde las experiencias propias vividas por el autor, nos lleva paso a paso a abrir nuevas opciones de crecimiento, trascendencia y evolución para nuestra humanidad que está pasando por pruebas para acceder a maestrías de evolución permanente. Es una oportunidad para poder elevar niveles de conciencia que nos permitan vislumbrar la prosperidad y la abundancia de la vida a la cual tenemos acceso como merecedores de la trascendencia infinita.

Rainstorm of Tomorrow: The Ever-Flowing Banquet of Philosophy dexterously weaves the storied philosophical themes of truth, ethics, and aesthetics together with the theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, neuroscience, epigenetics, social Darwinism, utilitarianism, evolutionary psychology, and modern art—from the soberest rationality to the wildest conjecture—to generate provocative or even alienated discourse on topics that readers might otherwise regard themselves as being familiar with, and challenge them into rethinking any settled positions that are taken for granted. Such provocative insights are represented by the three parts on truth, ethics, and aesthetics respectively:

(I) A reversed worldview—the tree growing into the soil with its roots buried in the air.

(II) The complexity of ethical behaviors—the conformity to utilitarianism by anti-utilitarian events and the violation of utilitarianism by seemingly utilitarian events.

(III) The establishment of universal aesthetics—memory inheritance through “the encephalic waterpipe.”

A revised, insightful, thought-provoking, discussion-generating presentation of philosophy for today!

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Recovering from Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Stalking shares the true stories of women who overcame traumatic personal situations and began new lives. The author provides meaningful analysis on such topics as regaining self-esteem, dealing with fear, and handling remorse. Also included is advice from therapists on how survivors can heal themselves, and avoid the pitfalls of becoming entrapped in another abusive relationship.

This book is for you if you’ve been the victim of domestic violence, abuse, or stalking, or if your mother, sister or friend has been victimized. The experiences covered range from verbal abuse to murder. Recovering from Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Stalking is an essential guide for those who have escaped a dangerous situation, or are trying to recover from the loss of a loved one due to domestic violence.

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What is the true source of authentic power? Offering a detour from the dead end of this “buy more, be more” culture, the authors demonstrate why the traditional routes to power are accessible only for an elite few. Wrapping warm, profound stories of empowerment around an extensive body of research, Road Map to Power is your guide to a life of dignity, satisfaction, and happiness — and a guide to raising resilient children.

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Road to Damascus describes the Middle Eastern journey of an American who meets and falls in love with a Syrian when they are both attending school in New York. Giving up her country and her religion to follow her husband back to Syria, Elaine Imady has made a life that has successfully bridged two cultures and two continents. Raising three bi-cultural, bilingual children, Elaine has important insights to offer to readers from either the West or the Middle East about how we can all not only get along with each other but learn to love each other. Her life is symbolic of the best of what can be when two cultures come together.

This one-of-a-kind book is a compilation of 10 years of research by the author on RV mishaps.  101 mishaps are ranked from Dumb to Dumbest with Helpful Hints on how ALL of them can be avoided. The book includes:
an Introduction, in which the author confesses to some of his personal oopsies,
an “About the Author” page,
a page of  general observations about RV mishaps, and
an appendix with samples of arrival and departure checklists.

Includes 20 hilarious photographs.

Practical and comical, this a great read for all RVers, both veterans and novices.

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A description of the lives of 21 saints–in both their imperfection and perfection–chosen based on the relationship to a Franciscan Mission, Old iMission San Juan Bautista, told through the eyes of the Mission’s cat. The sections of the book including saints related to the founding of the mission (St. Francis, St. John the Baptist, and St. Juniper Serra), the Holy parents (Mary and Joseph), saints whose statues are behind the altar in the Mission, patron saints of animals, patron saints of children, and the favorite saints of the parish priest. A final section addresses future saints.

The notion of a worldwide pandemic has been ripped out of the realm of “someday” and dumped in our laps. We can feel lost. How do we cope? How do we find our way? How can we find and keep some kind of balance as we walk this pandemic tightrope? This short book helps us find that balance as well as offering an affirming path forward.  It helps us understand that the crisis humanity is facing is a family crisis. It helps us to take care of ourselves, offering concrete, positive examples.  It helps us to keep our balance by also giving concrete positive examples of how we can help each other.

Raised in a heavily Catholic suburb of Detroit, Michigan, Shannon grew up focusing on two things: how to do enough good deeds to get into heaven and how to stay pure enough to escape hell. In college, she followed many of her peers into an Evangelical church known for guitars, drum, religious-based shame, and the idea that without Jesus she was nothing.

But when she encountered Judaism on that same campus, a spark ignited within her and refused to be put out. Judaism felt obvious, familiar. After a falling out with her biological mother and two miscarriages, she found the courage to send the most important email of her life: she asked the local Jews by Choice program to accept her as a student.

Honest and unflinching, Shannon’s story of coming home to Judaism encourages everyone– Christian, atheist, Jewish, and anything in between– to search relentlessly for the place where they belong.

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Approximately 75 percent of children who play organized sports quit by age 13. While there is no definitive answer about why, many researchers suggest that it is because of pressure from parents. One referee always likes to say that he equates kid’s soccer to a musical recital. Parents don’t yell instructions to their seven-year old when they are singing or playing the piano. They are not jumping up from their seats when the proper chord is struck, yelling, “Great job Jimmy!” or “Big kick on the next chord!” Yet. they feel it is OK to do so on the soccer field. Why?

A humorous take on a range of related topics: parenting, leadership, sports.

An award-winning, don’t miss book!

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Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters is a collection of over 100 entertaining fictional mini stories about comical human behavior. Written in sonnet form, each of 22 chapters starts with a cartoonish illustration by Joella Goyette that introduces the theme of the stories that follow. Humorist, Ken Mogren, features grandmothers who are anything but stereotypical, as well as other folks whose behavior is best described as unconventional.

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Professionals in the fields of domestic abuse and trauma, Melissa Adams, LCSW, LIMHP, and Shari Schnuelle, LIMHP, LPC, provide real-life examples of what it is like to be quarantined with abusers and doable, practical advice for saving yourself and your children from further harm when it is impossible to live apart during a pandemic. Introduced by Geri Henderson, Ph.D., a trauma survivor, this little book is a highly readable and valuable resource for those who are frightened and need immediate help.

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This book documents the interactions of a parish cat (told in her own voice) with the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement.. A story told mostly in beautiful, charming, endearing pictures.

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“Survival of the Caregiver” is the result of all the author’s ins and outs, ups and downs of caring for her husband for 20 years when he had Parkinson’s Disease, followed by Dementia. This book is written from the heart. It is as personal as it is informative. The author chose to use an alphabetical list of topics so that a busy caregiver can refer to a special need quickly. It is the author’s hope that this book will aid other caregivers in their sad, but meaningful journey with their loved one.

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““Doctors who write technical books sympathize with your circumstances and say they understand, but the only one who can really relate to what the caregiver’s life is like, day in and day out, is another person, walking in a pair of caregiver’s shoes.”

A cat with a divine mission, Sula has an uncanny ability to sense which parishioners at Old Mission San Juan Bautista (California) need her attention at any given Mass. But…is it really uncanny, or does St. Francis give Sula tasks during her daily conversations with him? Or is she led by God? Sula has developed a special bond with cancer survivors like herself. The bond between her and the Old Mission parishioners saw her through two bouts of cancer, flooding her with gifts: money for surgery, a home for recovery, prayers, and love. In these pages, you will find charming, endearing, and inspiring stories, shared by parishioners and told from the point of view of a lovable and amazingly insightful cat. Once you open this book, you will not close it!

Surviving Freshman Year follows a group of students through their first year of college. Each session describes a decision a student faces and provides biblical wisdom addressing the decision. By using the scripture and discussion questions for each chapter, this book will help students answer the question, “Is the Bible still relevant today?” Students looking for something both real and authentic will find that the Bible is both of these and absolutely relevant today.

This delightful book relates folktales from various regions of Syria. Each folktale is located on a regional map and is accompanied by a local, related recipe.

Meant for children but enjoyable discovery reading for adults as well, Tale of a Mission Cat tells the story of where mission cats came from, the customs and history of the Californian Spanish missions that, for the most part, are still operating today, and the personal story of one very special cat, Sula, the “author” of the book.

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This book contains the proceedings of the conferences on high-level foreign-language teaching and learning that were held at Monterey Institute of International Studies (Monterey, California) Spring 2003 and at Howard University (Washington, DC) Fall 2004. Keynote speeches and conference presentations are included. Languages are English, Russian, and Spanish. Extensive first-hand information is provided by successful language learners–those who have learned languages to a near-native level–and teachers of very advanced students. Much of this information is available nowhere else.

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This book contains the proceedings of the conference on high-level foreign-language teaching and learning that was held at Howard University (Washington, DC) Fall 2004. Keynote speeches and conference presentations are included (one presentation in Russian). Extensive first-hand information is provided by successful language learners–those who have learned languages to a near-native level–and teachers of very advanced students. Much of this information is available nowhere else. The CDLC conferences have been found to be uniquely practical by teachers and students working at this high level of foreign-language proficiency.

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This book contains the proceedings of the conference on high-level foreign-language teaching and learning that was held at Howard University (Washington, DC) Fall 2005. Keynote speeches and conference presentations are included (one presentation in Russian). Extensive first-hand information is provided by successful language learners–those who have learned languages to a near-native level–and teachers of very advanced students. Much of this information is available nowhere else. The CDLC conferences have been found to be uniquely practical by teachers and students working at this high level of foreign-language proficiency.

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This book contains the proceedings of the 2006 conferences of the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers. The spring conference was held in Amman & Irbid, Jordan.The fall conference was held in Washington, DC. The lack of knowledge about how to develop high levels of proficiency in foreign languages is a serious deficit world wide. Experience in teaching at/to ILR/ACTFL Level 3 (Superior) and Level 4 (Distinguished) language proficiency is rare. The Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers (CDLC) was founded in 2002 for the purpose of providing support to the universities, institutions, and schools with programs that teach foreign languages to the near-native level. Indirectly through its affiliates and directly through its various services, the CDLC seeks to foster collaboration among those experienced in this field in order to improve upon the current status of high-level language teaching, the importance of which increases as the world becomes more globally interconnected.

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An in-depth guide for teachers seeking to understand dysfunctional classrooms and create a mathemagenic experience. A unique resource, based on experience with thousands of language learners.

Based on Jungian psychology, using MBTI categories (with a passing reference to equivalents in Socionics), this book presents an explanation behind dysfunctional language classrooms (though much could apply to any K-16 classroom) and provides a heuristic for managing the classroom successfully. For each MBTI type, there is a section posing a teacher of that type and a classroom of randomly gathered types (as in real life). A discussion follows as to the source of any dysfunction, the way to accommodate all learners, an exploration of the probable comfort level of that teacher, and a posed question as to what would be the case if the class were the same but the teacher the polar opposite. Meant for application by teachers and for use in faculty development, it is a book that takes readers through an analytic process to arrive at their own heuristic in approaching their classrooms. Real-life examples are provided for many of the personality types.

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This jargon-free, self-help title is written by an experienced Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and inspired by over 10,000 conversations. It delivers 70 couple stories with humor and includes practical tips and tools for lasting relationship improvement. Popular themes are explored in easy-read tales.

Take a slow ride down a country road and let your mind and spirit find the peace of a wooded wonderland. Stop along the way and listen to the quiet. Read some pretty funny stories about things that happen in nature, with animals, and during hunting season. Encounter some eccentric folks, including Bingo Drake, Rattler & Tiny, and the Hunkering Heckler. Find out how a skunk ends up in a living room and why a deer wears a red dress. Chuckle at the rambunctious pranks of growing-up boys, and be awed at what happens between soldiers on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall at Christmastime. Learn what a “hoss bite” is and what goes on at the “Bobblehead Babtist Church.” At the end of it all, discover what a redneck really is. Author Wally Amidon grew up living wherever his father was stationed during his Air Force career. When he was overseas, he stayed with his grandmother, who was a great story teller. Now you have a chance to hear his storytelling feats.

The Optimistic Food Addict explores the author’s journey through recovery from binge eating disorder. Inspirational, honest, and motivating, this book is guaranteed to contribute significantly to the recovery of readers who also suffer from food addiction as they feel the gritty, raw truth behind the author’s words.

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To say that I was moved by Christina Fisanick Greer’s memoir, “The Optimistic Food Addict,” is an understatement. I found myself in every word. As a fellow food addict, I know what it is to “dance with the dragon” (confront our substances) every day…5 stars! Highly recommended!

This little booklet, written by a former priest and well respected psychologist, takes an in-depth and multi-aspectual look at the covid-19 pandemic. Topics addressed include panic, post-pandemic stress disorder, and pandemic anxiety addiction. Full of compassion and wisdom, this book offers explanations for reactions to the pandemic, means of dealing with thoughtfully  and pragmatically, and hope for a better today and tomorrow.

Dr. Ortman describes what happens in a pandemic initially is akin to the sensation of drowning. Those living through a pandemic are indeed experiencing a life-threatening event every bit as frightening as an earthquake, tsunami, tornado, or any other natural disaster. They feel a sense of helplessness. They experience a sense of intrusion; indeed, the pandemic has intruded into their lives. It did not come into their lives invited. The result is a push toward avoidance and emotional distancing. Hypervigilance and irritability follow. Dr. Ortman offers a practical approach that he calls “breathing lessons” to overcome these negative instincts.

Further, Dr. Ortman exposes the human urges that do not serve us well and provides mechanisms for managing them successfully. He points to hope and fear, which, he says, go hand in glove. Controlling fear is important for releasing hope. Fear and anxiety numb people to what is happening around them and leads to coping mechanisms that make matters worse, such as excessive drinking, denial, preoccupation, loss of control, power-seeking, and persistent worry. In this book, Dr. Ortman demonstrates how anyone caught in any of these traps can unhook from them.

Following discussions mirrored in his popular book, Anxiety Anonymous, Dr. Ortman explains how anxiety can become an addiction, acting like a drug that excites, numbs, and possess. He suggests embracing all experiences, awakening to a higher power, cleaning up distorted thinking, showing up as oneself, and making good results from bad experiences. He suggests four steps, requiring insight, courage, and perseverance: (1) recognizing patterns and fears that hold you back; (2) accepting and understanding your patterns as holdovers from childhood; (3) courageously acting against fears; and (4) persisting in making changes.

Thoughtful and pragmatic. Doable and desirable.
Dr. Ortman offers understanding, practical advice, and hope.

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This comprehensive study sheds light on the institutional roots of organizations that sanction the use of indiscriminate violence to advance political objectives.

A unique combination of fiction and self-development, this book invites the reader to enter a realm of modern and fantasy tales that stimulate both mind and feelings. Each tale addresses different aspects of the feminine and masculine energies that exist beyond gender and sexual identity in each one of us. At the end of each story is a psychological commentary that provides a deeper understanding of the chapter’s subject and an exercise to begin the process of integrating the energies highlighted in the chapter.

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One of the most comprehensive books ever written about the chakras and their role in human life, The Seven Wisdoms of Life is grounded not in esoteric theory but rather in the down-to-earth way we can consciously use the teachings of the chakras in order to become fully balanced and fulfilled human beings. Shai Tubali leads the reader through each chakra’s teaching. Included questionnaires enable readers to determine their chakra personality type and their current imbalances and understanding.

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This book examines the critical role of modern architects in shaping and transforming national Israeli memory with special regard to Jerusalem. Using as a background the attempts of various architects since the 19th century to construct a national Jewish style, the author focuses his analysis on Louis Kahn’s design of the Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. This study scrutinizes and pieces together discrepant archival documents, drawings, and accounts of intentions, interpretations, events, policies, and projects in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The book reveals an unrecognized crucial interplay of Kahn’s Hurvah design with the competing traditional and national symbols of Jerusalem.

A Book of the Year Finalist in 2014, The Widower’s Guide to a New Life shares the experiences of ten bereaved men as they cope with the trauma of losing a spouse. The book will help new widowers meet such challenges as: how to find consolation through friends, work and prayer; how to start over in terms of new activities, dating and a social life; and how to know when and if a new love relationship is right for you. Guidelines are provided from each widower’s personal experiences, making this book a compendium of useful suggestions for getting through this difficult period with knowledge and grace.

For students of foreign language, this book helps them to recognize destructive forms of thinking, incorrect assumptions, and paralyzing emotional reactions that slow down and block their language learning. Once they recognize what it is that stands in their way of soaring in their language learning efforts, students can select from a number of “tools” that help them sweep away the barriers and set off, with flying feet on the race to acquire a new language.

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This book is a collection of short stories, poetry, and dramatic essays, written by students and faculty of the New York Institute of Technology in Amman, Jordan, a rich mix of Arab and American authors, reflecting on experiences in the Middle East and elsewhere.

This is a set of power point slides that accompanies the workshop by the same name, conducted at The Literary Center (an activity of MSI Press LLC), and that were used in the workshop. For those unable to attend the workshop, it provides an overview of the contents of the workshop.

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Part of a series on the coronavirus pandemic written by MSI Press authors to share expertise, help, and hope, Tips, Techniques, and Anecdotes to Help during a Pandemic focuses on physical and mental well being during any time of crisis. Topics include meditation and mindfulness; positivity; managing setbacks; laughing at oneself; overcoming challenges; friends, family, and others; managing daily tasks; adaptive solutions; tricks and tools; and miscellaneous musings.

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This nonfiction book views Canada from a personal perspective, similar to John Steinbeck’s view of America in his 1960 book Travels with Charley. The author travels from coast to coast in a trailer with his wife and pets, including their Standard Poodle, Elly, in order to gain a better understanding of his adopted country. Interspersed between descriptions of history, cultures, places, and icons are the author’s reflections on various things such as Elly’s antics, signage, ferries, political injustice, environmental issues, and animal instincts. To provide a canine’s perspective, Elly reflects on things of interest to her, including cats, cows, and other critters…but especially cats!

Where was Canada’s first settlement? What is its prettiest town? When and where was its most devastating shipwreck? And who was its greatest hero? Find out by reading this account of the author’s journey through a unique and wondrous country, brimming with marvelous natural and man-made icons. But above all, the author’s interactions with its hospitable people make him justifiably proud to be Canadian. An informative read for armchair travelers with a spirit of adventure, for those wanting to learn more about Canada, and for any cross-Canada traveler, especially RVers and dog lovers.

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Tucker & Me: Growing Up A Part-Time Southern Boy is the story of a child growing up in the Mad Men era of the 1960’s. Filled with humor, sadness, and harrowing incidents, the memoir refl ects all the emotions of life one experiences growing up, in this case, with a single mom who lived in Los Angeles and a father who lived in a small town suburb of Atlanta, Georgia known as Tucker. Traveling in the summers to the alternate universe in Tucker, the author experienced a roller coaster ride of two completely different lifestyles.

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Starting with a foundation of understanding how we, as physical and psychological beings actually function, Typhoon Honey lays out a path toward becoming the sole and undisputed author of one’s life – called “being the source.” The authors explain, with ample case examples and exercises, how to

• release limiting self-concepts;
• understand what reality is and isn’t; and
• become totally and powerfully accountable in determining your future.

A tour de force in transformational technologies, pulling back the curtain on how those techniques actually work, Typhoon Honey is a must read for anyone who desires to step up to a new level of life and living.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI INTJ personality type, the Analyst in Jung-based Socionics reminds one of Madame Curie, Descartes, or Dr. Spock of “Star Trek” fame. This little book helps the Analyst personality type and those around him/her understand the Analyst as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers students, colleagues, and friends.

Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores the sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Analysts come into contact with non-Analysts and provides both Analysts and non-Analysts suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships.

A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

The author invites you on a journey in unfolding small layers of awareness, illuminating how thoughtfully chosen vocabulary can greatly enhance your relationship with a child with autism. The pages within are filled with teachable tales exploring the communication, emotional regulation and relationship difficulties that common habitual language may trigger when engaging children with autism. Each tale absorbs the reader in a typical life scenario related to specific usage of the word, no, creating an engaging, informative, and personally relatable experience. Discussions following embed autism education and psychology theories to promote conceptualization and offer suggestions for enriched interactions.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI ISTJ personality type, Craftsmen in Jung-based socionics like to work with their hands. This little book helps the Craftsman personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Craftsmen come into contact with non-Craftsmen and provides both Craftsmen and non-Craftsmen suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI INTP personality type, the Critic in Jung-based Socionics reminds one of Socrates, Sir Isaac Newton, and Carl Jung himself. This little book helps the Critic personality type and those around him/her understand the Critic as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers students, colleagues, and friends.

Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores the sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Critics come into contact with non-Critics and provides both Critics and non-Critics suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships.

A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

Somewhat akin to the MBTI ESFJ personality type, Enthhusiasts in Jung-based socionics are are motivated be emotions and prefer positive ones. This little book helps the Enthusiast personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Enthusiasts come into contact with non-Enthusiasts and provides both Enthusiasts and non-Enthusiasts suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI ENTJ personality type, the Entrepreneur in Jung-based Socionics reminds one of Willy Wonka (on the lighter side) and Jack London (on the more serious side). This little book helps the Entrepreneur personality type and those around him/her understand the Entrepreneur as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers students, colleagues, and friends.

Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores the sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Entrepreneurs come into contact with non-Entrepreneurs and provides both Entrepreneurs and non-Entrepreneurs suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships.

A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

Somewhat akin to the MBTI ISFP personality type, Epicureans in Jung-based socionics seek pleasure, comfort, and harmony. This little book helps the Epicurean personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Epicureans come into contact with non-Initiators and provides both Epicureans and non-Epicureans suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI ISFJ personality type, Guardians in Jung-based socionics pass on traditions. This little book helps the Guardian personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Guardians come into contact with non-Guardians and provides both Guardians and non-Guardians suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI ENFP personality type, Initiators in Jung-based socionics are spontaneous people who understand by vision, rather than by fact or act. This little book helps the Initiator personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Initiators come into contact with non-Initiators and provides both Initiators and non-Initiators suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI ESFJ personality type, Leaders in Jung-based socionics look to expand their sphere of influence, motivated by fame and glory. This little book helps the Leader personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Leaders come into contact with non-Leaders and provides both Leaders and non-Leaders suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI ESTJ personality type, Organizers in Jung-based socionics like rules, regulations, and order. This little book helps the Organizer personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Organizers come into contact with non-Organizers and provides both Organizers and non-Organizers suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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This book is a translation and update by the author of her popular Russian-language book about people types, considered a classic in Socionics. The field of socionics (personality type along the lines of Jung’s theories) is fully covered in this book for American readers; the author is one of the leading socionists in Russia/Europe. The examples and discussions are written at a lay level and are meant for the every day reader. They are not meant as advanced study for psychologists or Socionics experts, but rather, as the subtitle states, as an introductory volume.

This popular book now has a spin-off series, Socionics in Everyday Life, with a small book dedicated to further delineating each personality type in the original book. The spin-off series is being written (four books published, two books in production, 10 more planned) by Kacee Quinelle, friend of Ekaterina Filatova, in memory of “Katya” who died in 2015.

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Understanding the Analyst: Socionics in Everyday Life

Understanding the Critic: Socionics in Everyday Life

Understanding the Entrepreneur: Socionics in Everyday Life

Understanding the Seeker: Socionics in Everyday Life

Somewhat akin to the MBTI INFP personality type, Psychologists in Jung-based socionics focus on harmony, morals, ethics, and guarding traditions. This little book helps the Psychologist personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Psychologists come into contact with non-Psychologists and provides both Psychologists and non-Psychologists suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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Somewhat akin to the MBTI ENTP personality type, the Seeker in Jung-based socionics reminds one of Don Quixote. This little book helps the Seeker personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Seekers come into contact with non-Seekers and provides both Seekers and non-Seekers suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

Somewhat akin to the MBTI ISJ personality type, the Structurist in Jung-based socionics expects the world to be based on verifiable and identifiable systems. This little book helps the Structurist personality type understand himself or herself as a personality and in relationships with others: parents, children, teachers, students, colleagues, friends. Through examples of home, school, work, and leisure situations, this book explores he sources of moments of deep attachment and deep pain when Structurists come into contact with non-Structurists and provides both Structurists and non-Structurists suggestions for developing comfortable, happy, and successful relationships. A companion to Ekaterina Filatova’s book, Understanding the People around You.

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Weekly Soul is a collection of 52 meditations on meaningful, joyful and peaceful living. The meditations begin with thought-provoking quotations from a range of people–writers, journalists, theologians, musicians and artists, activists–and touch on themes of Miracles, Aliveness, Purpose, Laughter and Joy, Presence/Mindfulness, Activism, Acceptance, Gratitude, Forgiveness, Creativity, Civility, and Hope. Each meditation also offers Dr. Craigie’s stories and commentary, questions for individual and group reflection, suggestions for daily follow-up, and biographical background on the quotation authors. In Weekly Soul, readers will find a year’s worth of affirmation and engaging exploration of wholeness and well-being.

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This book contains 29 stories originally articulated in Arabic by Bashir Al-Bani, Orator of the Grand Mosque of Damascus and one of the masters of the Sufi Naqishbandi Order. They have been compiled, rendered in English, and introduced by Dr. Omar Imady, professor of humanities and political science. The stories are often comic but deep in implication. One story may address the motives underlying human interaction; another may address how hidden principles guide the way in which our lives unfold. A delicate concern for the value, indeed the sacredness, of human value permeates all the stories. This concern is explicated through metaphors, the purest vocabulary of Islamic humanism.

This book takes new widows on a journey from the first difficult days of widowhood through 12 months of self-discovery. Along the way, you will learn how to handle emotional challenges such as suddenly being alone; how to tackle painful tasks including cleaning out hubby’s closet; and how to re-enter the world again in terms of work, personal development and socializing. Guidelines are provided for each new phase, making this book a practical self-help book you can use for re-creating your life. Available in print, e-book, and audio book.

Widow: How to Survive (and Thrive!) in Your 2^nd, 3^rd & 4^th Years takes widows beyond the difficult days of  the first year into new opportunities for growth and discovery. Along the way you will learn

•    how to handle emotional challenges connected with dating, sex and starting a new relationship;

•    how to tackle difficult tasks such as re-entering the job market or developing a new mission for your life; and

•    how to handle the long-terms effects of grieving without having it take over your life.

Guidelines are provides for each new phase, making this book a practical tool you can use as you embrace your widowhood  with confidence!

With over ten years of growing into an old woman with the help of her friends, Bertha Cooper knows whereof she writes. In this book, which is a Best Indie Book Award and Independent Press Award winner, you will learn that growing old is not the slow death of our personalities, our bodies, or our relevance to the world. Someday, it will happen, but not yet! Feel the wisdom below the years we’ve lived and the power that comes with making our own choices about our aging selves. Women, We’re Only Old Once offers explanations for natural changes that occur while aging and transitions we must make as we age. Women can be relieved to learn that having less endurance or word-finding problems are not signs of disease. Women are empowered to put their energy and spirit where it counts on their journey in this important phase of life.

2021 Winner of the Phoenix Award for best new voice in health & fitness.

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Working with Advanced Foreign Language Students describes students who reach very high levels of foreign language proficiency from the point of view of typical teacher-student relations, their classroom expectations, and their language attributes and needs.

Written by a teacher with 20 years of experience at this level of instruction, the book is chock-full of practical advice and sample classroom activities.

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