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This Time It's about YOU
Mature women, I'm talking to you!! I want you to have excitement and adventure back in your life. I want you to glow from the inside-out with new health and vitality that fuels your pursuit of whatever you desire. I want you to feel full of possibility and discover what really lights you up. I want you to feel vibrant and sexy at any age and believe that you are more than enough. I want you to be an inspiration to other women in your life, from your friends and co-workers to your sisters and daughters. I want you to join me in this movement where we embrace the privilege of age and all the wisdom and confidence that comes with it. Are you IN?
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Exploratory and Descriptive Statistics
Exploratory and Descriptive Statistics
Nervous about statistics? This guide offers you a clear, straight to the point break down of exploratory and descriptive statistics and its potential. Anchored by lots of examples and exercises to enhance your learning, this book will give you the know-how and confidence needed to succeed on your quantitative research journey.
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Being the Chosen
Being the Chosen
Being the Chosen explores Christian fundamentalism in the USA, focusing particularly on the belief system of Protestant fundamentalists. It establishes the key characteristics of the Protestant worldview, investigating the degrees to which these are adhered to amongst different groups and how such belief systems are constructed and reinforced through everyday life. By presenting rich empirical material, Being the Chosen sheds light on the manner in which the Protestant fundamentalist worldview shapes and constructs the beliefs and actions of its adherents, providing them with agency and reinforcement in the face of oppositional forces. As such, it will interest not only sociologists, but also scholars of religion and the culture and society of the USA.
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Visits from the Forest People
Julie Scott and the rest of the Scott family report on their experiences in Western Washington while sharing the forest surrounding their home with a group of Bigfoot, which Scott calls Forest People. The reports include several sightings and other evidence, interactions between the Scott family and the Forest People, and, amusingly, Bigfoot's uncanny ability to avoid being photographed despite the extensive efforts of a team of Bigfoot researchers.Julie includes her thoughts about the origins of Bigfoot, explanations for some of the difficulties in collecting evidence of Bigfoot, thoughts about the current state of Bigfoot research, and suggestions for establishing more effective communication between Bigfoot and humans.
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Nightmares
Nightmares
What would you do if suddenly your nightmares became your reality? Everyone has nightmares, but few people have them like Brianna, who longs for nothing more than one peaceful night's sleep. When she dreams red eyes follow her. Voices surround her. Hands stretch out to grab her soul. No matter how hard she wills them away, the nightmares won't stop. Right before her high school graduation Brianna realizes that the demons chasing her in her dreams are truly coming after her. Along with two dedicated best friends and a supernatural boyfriend, Brianna sets off on a road trip like no other. With all of their lives in danger, they set out to defeat free Brianna from the evil that wants nothing more than to consume and control her.
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I Am Rock Steady
I Am Rock Steady
Rock Steady Boxing The mission of Rock Steady Boxing is to empower people with Parkinson’s disease to fight back. Rock Steady Boxing is a nonprofit organization that uses a noncontact fitness curriculum adapted from boxing drills that has been shown to decrease, delay, and even reverse the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. At RSB, Parkinson’s disease is the opponent. RSB expects that by the end of 2016, there will be more than 300 affiliate locations throughout the world and that the Rock Steady method will be a worldwide movement in the fight against Parkinson’s.
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Directory of Paying Markets for Freelance Writers 2018
Directory of Paying Markets for Freelance Writers 2018
This is a popular directory of paying markets for freelance writers. Writers worldwide are using it to make money with articles and blogs. It helps the freelancer to find the markets for special types of writing and defines each type of writing to help newbies make important decisions for their niche. Experts who wish to branch out with their writing use this directory for their decision-making, as well.
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Pieces of Light
Pieces of Light
FBI agent Dinah Harrisis consulting for investigating a deadly serial bomber targeting religious icons and buildings.
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Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and Pedagogy
Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and Pedagogy
This book follows a physically disabled researcher's journey from stigmatized embodiment on her way to creating accessible storytelling performances. These unique performances function not only as traditional, peer-reviewed forms of critical qualitative research, but also as ‘narrative teaching productions’ that guide students and their audiences in the pursuit of social justice and equality. The book begins by developing the author's personal standpoint, and provides an evocative discussion of the multiple perceptions and identities experienced by those with disabled bodies. It negotiates how performance research can be created and conducted within the confines of course learning objectives, moves through complications encountered in research design and data collection, and explores a range of insightful responses from community members, social activists, and performance critics, as well as more traditional academic audiences. Critical autoethnographic personal narratives, performance scripts, and poetry are used to illuminate struggles over legitimate methodological practice and storytelling performance pedagogy. Each chapter confronts the fear of mortality that presses us to stigmatize those who remind us of our inescapably vulnerable embodiments and offers hope for an inclusive, adaptable culture. The book will be compelling reading for scholars in Performance Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Narrative Methodology, Ethnography, Higher Education, Autoethnography, Creative Nonfiction and everyone interested embodiment and/or storytelling for social change. Please visit www.uncwstorytelling.org/chapter-summaries-1 to access supplementary material for the book.
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Persian Historiography
Persian Historiography
Winner of the 1999 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. Described by the BKFS reviewer as "e;A ground-breaking work on a subject that has been almost totally neglected."e;"e;Why write history in Persian?"e; Persian historical writing has received little attention as compared with Arabic, especially as seen in the early (pre-Mongol) period. Within the larger context of the development of Islamic historiography from the tenth through the twelfth centuries, the case of Persian historical writing demands special attention. Discussions tend to concentrate on its sources in pre-Islamic Persian and in Arabic works, while the reasons for its emergence, its connections with Iranian and Arabic models, its political and cultural functions, and its reception, have been virtually ignored. This study answers these questions and addresses issues relating to the motivation for writing the works in question; its purpose; the role of the author, patrons and audiences; the choice of language and the reasons for that choice; the place of historical writing in the broader debate over the suitability of Persian for scholarly writing.
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