Does Midlife Have to be a Crisis? The Beauty of 40: Unwrapping the Gift of Midlife is a call to clarity, reflection, and sensible responses to what is happening within us sometime around age 40 and beyond. Award-winning author, family life specialist, psychologist, and sought-after speaker, Dr. Michele Alignay, has written real-life matters and issues that we need to come to terms with a midlife. In this deeply personal book, Ichel talks about the beauty and pains of growing up and the early adult years, and how these integrate in an inner process during the season of midlife. Drawing on her experience and expertise, she dissected through candid, down-to-earth yet soulful insights and practical points the crucial areas of the self in this book. The pages unwrap the gift of midlife and how to navigate the season. The Beauty of 40 is an assurance that midlife need not be a crisis. Rather, it can be a beautiful inward process of deepening one’s relationship with the self and with God. In these pages, be prepared to learn from Dr. Ichel. The lessons she gives are bite-sized and based on her own life, making them relevant, relatable, and oh so real! Enjoy!

Learn the skills to establish a vision and follow it through to a successful outcome for yourself or your company, career, or cause. How do Success Heroes succeed in all of life all at once? They live from Vision. Vision inspires you right through your fears and opens the door to pain-free success. But you need the right contemplative and action skills to make your vision real. Want visionary success for yourself, your company, career, or cause? TheVisionbuilders’ Manual is your skill-building guidebook. You’ll gain these skills: How to discover the right vision for right now How to develop the success mindset that prevents self-sabotage How to build a vision first in your mind, then bring it to life How to activate both sides of your brain and your inner spirit How to discipline your mind so you’re focused and strong How to harness principles that govern how your mindset creates experiences

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish "guest workers," whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks. Jennifer A. Miller's unique approach starts in the country of departure rather than the country of arrival and is heavily informed by Turkish-language sources and perspectives. Miller argues that the guest worker program, far from creating a parallel society, involved constant interaction between foreign nationals and Germans. These categories were as fluid as the Cold War borders they crossed. Miller's extensive use of archival research in Germany, Turkey and the Netherlands examines the recruitment?of workers, their travel, initial housing and work engagements, social lives, and involvement in labour and religious movements. She reveals how contrary to popular misconceptions, the West German government attempted to maintain a humane, foreign labour system and the workers themselves made crucial, often defiant, decisions. Turkish Guest Workers in Germany identifies the Turkish guest worker program as a postwar phenomenon that has much to tell us about the development of Muslim minorities in Europe and Turkey's ever-evolving relationship with the European Union.

The book “Do it with Zen” is a practical guide with direct relevance to everyday life. Selected quotes and stories from Asia bridge the gap between Eastern wisdom and Western lifestyle. The author points out the basic principles of Zen teachings and transfers them to people's habits – the world of work, family, and everyday life are the focus of observation. The methods, which are additionally presented as exercises, can be summarised as consciousness techniques. Successfully applied, they can have a preventative effect against stress. With mental strength we can rise to crises and changes; some tools associated with this can be trained in a simple way! This book captivates through its simplicity and the selection of practice-oriented thoughts. The author has a professional medical-therapeutic background, so that the Western health teachings are supplemented with useful practices in a meaningful and consistent way. The book “Do it with Zen” contains effective suggestions for coping with stress and illustrates the way our brain works. A compact guidebook with Far Eastern ways of thinking and practical everyday examples, written in a way that everyone can understand. Each chapter contains exercises to train successful stress management. Improve your mindfulness through meditation and reflection. Successful training for mental strength and resilience. Buddhist way of thinking for a stress-free life and a better work-life balance. Connecting Zen wisdom and everyday life. Self-coaching book for better perception and awareness. Becoming a creator of everyday life with self-efficacy. Well-founded knowledge from psychology, therapy and brain research. Also a great gift idea for stressed people, people looking for more quality of life or for dear friends, acquaintances, and colleagues!

In Life Advice from Below, Eric C. Hendriks offers the first systematic, comparative study of the globalization of American-style self-help culture and the cultural conflicts this creates in different national contexts. The self-help guru is an archetypical American figure associated with individualism, materialism and the American Dream. Nonetheless, the self-help industry is spreading globally, thriving in China and other seemingly unlikely places. Controversy follows in its wake, as the self-help industry, operating outside of formal education and state institutions, outflanks philosophical, religious and political elites who have their own visions of the Good Life. Through a comparison of Germany and China, Hendriks analyzes how the competition between self-help gurus and institutional authorities unfolds under radically different politico-cultural regimes. “This witty book charms its way through a very serious sociology of the seriously quirky field of self-help books. Read it for its fascinating pop-culture insights and you’ll come away with a deep understanding of contemporary sociological theory. Highly recommended.” - Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney “Hendriks’ finding that Germany rather than China is more resistant to self-help gurus offers a powerful corrective to the assumption in much of the globalization literature that the greatest cultural divide is between the Anglo-Western European sphere and the rest of the globe.” - Rodney Benson, New York University

Irresistibly candid and wholly persuasive, Mama Gena speaks to women of all ages and gets to the true heart of any relationship whether it's seven years or seven months old.

"The Universal self-instructor is nothing less than it pretends to be: an Epitome of Forms, especially adapted for purposes of self-instruction and general reference in the various departments of Education, Commerce, Law, Home, Society, and Amusements. Every young man and young woman ; every business man, farmer, and mechanic ; every housewife and lady of society ;--in fact every intelligent member of the community should have it within reach for consultation on those numerous minor matters that a well-educated person is supposed to know. The Reading Public has been amply supplied for years with reference books of every description, but the present volume may be said to occupy a field peculiarly its own, as the people have never before been furnished with a publication embracing in a single volume such a quantity of practical information, and treating the wants of every-day life in a lucid, instructive and agreeable manner. Such articles as Elocution, Penmanship, Book-keeping, Letter-writing, Mercantile Law, Music, Stenography, Phrenology, Agriculture, Social Etiquette, Out-door Sports, In-door Amusements, Physical Culture, The Domestic Circle, Household Receipts, Parliamentary Law, etc., have been prepared by writers of reputation and large experience in the special subjects given them for treatment"--Preface.