Michael J. Belford is desperate when he hires Ernie Price Missing Persons to help locate his eighteen-year-old daughter, Meg. Seven months earlier, she didnt arrive for their lunch dateplanned to coincide with her departure from her senior class trip. Belford and Price must wade through a host of issues if they are to find Meg. First, Belford is stunned when he discovers that his parents, Andrew and Deborah, barely escaped from the death camps of World War II; they wanted their son to be free of the past. Then theres the issue of Megs parentagea strange turn of events that Belfords parents never accepted. And, finally, he must come to terms with Megs upbringing by Bernice, a stern woman with little love in her soul. The eighteen years of control that Bernice held over Belford have been broken because of her untimely death. Now free to live his own life, he is determined to find Meg, which has become more urgent due to his mothers illness. Meg, however, is caught in the trap of a slick rodeo star named Hank; shes held as an emotional captive and doesnt realize the danger shes in.

A collection of college essays from first-year English students attending McCann School of Business and Technology in Hazleton, PA. Students' essays that were chosen for publication include nontraditional students, the typical 18-year-old college student, retirees, and people wanting to further their education.

This volume is an outcome of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy conference on psychotic and autistic conditions in childhood and adolescence, encouraging the cross-fertilization of psychoanalytic practice and theory across the international boundaries in Europe.

Have you ever set goals, trained for maximum results, and followed the same personal development plan that seems to work for everyone else, only to hit an ‘invisible boundary’ that causes you to fall short? Unless you know how to expand your heart you will sabotage any success that might take you beyond your current heart boundaries. Even if you manage to push past your current heart boundaries, chances are you will experience some catastrophic event that pulls you back within the limits of life as you have known it! Moving Your Invisible Boundaries is the result of forty years of research and clinical practice. These principles have been proven in counseling sessions, drug recovery programs, personal mentoring and by thousands who have put them into practice through Dr. Jim Richards’ Heart Physics Programs. This book is designed to take you past information, past self-growth and into a life that experiences God, His promises, and the resurrection life of Jesus. By discovering and implementing the distinctions between the mind and the heart you will experience the secret to limitless living! Rather than just hearing and reading the transformation stories of others, your life will be a transformation story. When you learn how to change your heart you will be able to move your invisible boundaries and begin to experience the joy of limitless living!

A significant contribution to the study of socialization of children in India. It captures the essence to child and adolescent socialization in the context of poor settings in rural and urban areas.

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will learn to recognize the professional and relational codes ordering work in the world, codes that every expatriate manager must master even if the different cultural references encountered are sometimes far removed from their own original pattern. You will also discover that : each invisible frontier that draws the world map protects a cultural identity, a characteristic expression, an art of communication; depending on the history of the country, verbal and non-verbal language are shaped by millenary traditions or are the result of population movements and ethnic mixes from waves of immigration ; in the professional context, the most frequent relational difficulties are conditioned by the cultural environment of the country; to manage intercultural misunderstandings and gain acceptance, the manager must possess qualities of listening, humility and diplomacy. Erin Meyer was born in a small town in Minnesota and her only big trip was moving to Minneapolis where she grew up. As an adult, she travels the world as a cross-cultural management consultant. Her missions consist in preparing managers destined for expatriation in their wish to adapt to a team with cultural references far from those they are used to. Today, Erin Meyer teaches intercultural management at INSEAD, an institution in the Paris region, where 93% of students are foreigners. She transforms this place of diversity, a veritable breeding ground for disparities, into a laboratory for experiments. Her observations have led her to draw up a list of eight areas identifying cultural differences. These axes revolve around communication, evaluation, persuasion, leadership, decision making, trust, disagreement and time management. Erin Meyer develops and illustrates her theory based on her personal experiences and numerous anecdotes from expatriate managers. *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

"This book tells the stories of children's experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender identities in their families, communities, personal lives and schools. Researchers, practitioners, interest groups, policy makers and young people came together over 18 months until May 2007 in an exciting and innovative project. The narrative and analysis that emerged opens a new arena for everyone working with children."--BOOK JACKET.

This edited volume informs readers about changing norms and meanings of borders and underlines recent scenarios that shape these borders. It focuses mainly on the Mediterranean and Middle East regions through the following questions: What are the social, cultural, philosophical, political, economic and aesthetic reasons for spatial segregation within contemporary territories and cities? In the world of globalization and networks, what are the new limitations of space? What are the alienating differences between interior and exterior, private and public, urban and rural, local and global, and real and virtual? Are spatial definitions and divisions more likely to be weakened (if not totally erased) by effects of globalization and mobility, similar to the dissolution of borders between countries? Or are local practices and measures likely to become more apparent with emerging trends such as sustainability and identity? Authored by international scholars, all chapters are arranged under four main parts: Urban and Rural, Global and Local, Physical and Sensual, Real and Virtual. Hence, different concepts and definitions of borders along with varying methods and tools for questioning their essence in architectural and urban spaces will be introduced. For example, in the rural and urban context, environments, settlements-housing, landscape, transformation, conservation and development; in the global and local context, styles, identity, universal design, sustainability, globalization and networks, mobility and migration; in the physical and sensual context, design studies and methodologies, environmental psychology, aesthetic reasoning, sense of place and well-being, and in the real and virtual context, realities, tools and communities are the main themes of the chapters. This book will be an essential source for professionals, scholars, and students of architecture and urban design with a view to understanding multidisciplinary perspectives in designing borders as well as the dialectical relationship between borders and space.

Since the Second World War, Toronto's image as a rather staid, predominantly British community, has been transformed through massive immigration into what has been aptly described as a "salad bowl" of identifiable ethnic communities with their characteristic languages, neighbourhoods, shops, newspapers, radio programs and sporting events.

Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. The Compendium is a collection of over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusion creators or by vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying the phenomena. --