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Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditional” family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it’s not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and 1960s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Mothers are going to remain in the workforce, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and childrearing.Coontz gives a balanced account of how these changes affect families, both positively and negatively, but she rejects the notion that the new diversity is a sentence of doom. Every family has distinctive resources and special vulnerabilities, and there are ways to help each one build on its strengths and minimize its weaknesses.The book provides a meticulously researched, balanced account showing why a historically informed perspective on family life can be as much help to people in sorting through family issues as going into therapy—and much more help than listening to today’s political debates.

Exam Essentials: SBAs for Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine is a single best answer (SBA) exam preparation book for those sitting exams for pre-hospital emergency medicine and all associated areas. It is structured around the curriculum for the Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care (FIMC) providing a crucial resource for those sitting this tenacious exam. It would also be an exceptional resource for those attempting the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care (DIMC). With questions covering a variety of topics, including working in emergency medical systems, providing pre-hospital emergency care, equipment, rescue and extrication, transfer, major incidents, and team resource management, professionals sitting the Diploma in Retrieval and Transfer Medicine (DRTM) and the Diploma in Major Incident Management (Dip MIM), will also find the book useful. Other examples of relevant exams include the Membership of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (MRCEM), Fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (FRCEM), European Board Examination in Emergency Medicine (EBEEM) (European Society for Emergency Medicine), US Board of Certification in Emergency Medicine (BCEM), Diploma of Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine (Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Australia), but this list is not exhaustive. Candidates sitting for postgraduate examinations in emergency medicine, pre-hospital emergency medicine, and retrieval and transfer medicine across the globe will find this an immeasurably helpful resource for exam technique and an invaluable guide to boost their knowledge and understanding. This book is designed to give the reader as much practice at single best answer (SBA) questions as possible. These questions can be notoriously tricky to navigate, and it is through practice that builds competence in exam technique. Each question is provided with the correct answer, corresponding rationale and further resources.

"Emerging Leadership: Black Tech Voices Redefining Executive Excellence" is designed to allow one to identify relevant concepts to leverage and advance successfully as a leader. There is a broad spectrum of leadership experiences, filled with candor, exceptional advice, and occasional humor. If you care about attracting and retaining exceptional talent, developing others, maintaining innovative excellence, leading at the next level, the development of your most important asset (people), and maintaining balance, then this book is for you. The development of this publication is the result of the leadership journey in the IT Senior Management Forum (ITSMF) Executive Academy. The Executive Academy (EA) is designed to enhance the performance and leadership skills of senior technology managers and executives responsible for leading the broader organization and optimizing the enterprise. The EA has exceeded expectations, with the essence of being directed by an industry expert, exposure to dynamic CEOs and CIOs as speakers and authors, and immense collaboration among cohort members from various industries. The leaders in this program would agree that they did not enter with all the answers, and they did not leave with all the answers. However, they are better positioned and galvanized for maximizing their purpose and value in their respective organizations, industries, families, and communities, while providing perspectives to encourage other leaders to pursue the same. The ITSMF Executive Academy 2022 cohort, as authors of this content, consist of executive leaders from some of the most important enterprises in the country. The biographies of academic achievement, professional experiences, and exemplary standards substantiate the wide range of illustrative elements for leadership excellence.

Robinson (education, Teachers College of Ball State U.) explores the educational experiences of Irish, Polish, Italian, and Jewish immigrant women and girls in Chicago during the first half of the 20th century, hoping to shed more light on the impact of gender, alongside class, political, and ethnic differences, in the attitudes held towards schooling in the United States. Looking particularly at "Americanization" efforts in educational institutions, she argues that female experiences were fundamentally different from those of men. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Celebrate 30 years of Static, Icon, Rocket, Hardware, and the rest of the Dakotaverse in this star-studded anthology. From a Static and Batman Beyond team-up harkening back to their adventures in the Static Shock animated series, a grown-up Raquel Ervin inheriting the mantle of Icon, and a reality-warping story where the present-day Milestone characters meet their 1993 counterparts, there’s something for every Milestone fan to enjoy!

From the creator of Star Stuff comes a picture book biography of Rachel Carson, the iconic environmentalist who fought to keep the sounds of nature from going silent.