Why Can’t I Be Me? explores the mysterious and disturbing corporate work culture, focusing on why, as a job seeker and an employee, you feel pressured to “fake it to make it” to be hired and succeed at work, and how you can rise above it and thrive. Based on the author’s personal story, combined with her expertise in Human Resources management, Why Can’t I Be Me? will take you on an enlightening journey through the job interview process and the corridors of the typical corporate work environment, where you will learn exactly what goes on between those walls and why. You will then be taken on a journey “back home” to yourself. The result is a profound experience that provides the answers you have been searching for your entire career.

Since Oxford University Press's publication in 2000 of Michael Emerson and Christian Smith's groundbreaking study, Divided by Faith (DBF), research on racialized religion has burgeoned in a variety of disciplines in response to and in conversation with DBF. This conversation has moved outsideof sociological circles; historians, theologians, and philosophers have also engaged the central tenets of DBF for the purpose of contextualizing, substantiating, and in some cases, contesting the book's findings. In a poll published in January 2012, nearly 70% of evangelical churches professed adesire to be racially and culturally diverse. Currently, only around 8% of them have achieved this multiracial status. To an unprecedented degree, evangelical churches in the United States are trying to overcome the deep racial divides that persist in their congregations. Not surprisingly, many of these evangelicals have turned to DBF for solutions. The essays in Christians and the Color Line complicate the researchfindings of Emerson and Smith's study and explore new areas of research that have opened in the years since DBF's publication. The book is split into two sections. The chapters in the first section consider the history of American evangelicalism and race as portrayed in DBF. In the second sectionthe authors pick up where DBF left off, and discuss how American churches could ameliorate the problem of race in their congregations while also identifying problems that can arise from such attempted amelioration.

Yasmeen Blake is a very intelligent, talented, and gorgeous young lady with a heart of gold. She has some short comings but who doesn’t. Yasmeen is an administrative supervisor of Social work at a local hospital in California. She is hard working, and she is damn good at her job. Yasmeen is unmarried, single and she is looking for love. After getting her heart broken by Aaron Sinclair, a doctor who works at the same hospital. Yasmeen guards her heart that is until Doctor Mahmoud Shashivivek, the new Owner of the hospital, arrives. Mahmoud is a neurosurgeon. He stands six feet tall one hundred sixty-five pounds with silky black curly hair the flows down to his shoulders and his strong facial fetchers. With eyes, as blue as the ocean. His skin is flawless and blemish free like smooth light creamy caramel. His smile is bright like the sun that revels his beautiful pearly white teeth. His lip like a dark pink rose. With a physique, better than the Rock. Eight pack abs with strong arms and hands. Yasmeen wants to hate Mahmoud but her body longs to have him but he’s promised to another woman.

Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers, this book examines a range of family caregiving situations from across the life course. It seeks to capture the dynamics of caregiving in a number of common situations: caregiving during infancy, for adults who acquire a disability through accidents or illness, for older people with age-related issues, and caregiving by children and adolescent carers and grandparent carers. In drawing attention to key moments of vulnerability faced by family and informal caregivers, and by suggesting how to assist ‘reconnection’ at these moments, the book provides a guide for those working in the area of health, disability and care. Informal care is conceptualised as occurring with the context of personal interrelationships, these being nested within wider kin networks and linked with wider professional formal care networks. Informal care is seen both as an expression of social capital and as an activity that builds social capital. It is an indicator of resources of mutual support within social networks, and it has the effect of adding to the stock of social resources. The book makes a case, therefore, for facilitating the development of social capital by strengthening the capacity of informal caregivers and caregiver groups, and by improving the linkages with formal care organisations.

Designed to accompany the Open University course Developing Intensive Curricula:Equality and Diversity in Education, Vol 1 will appeal to research students undertaking research in the area of education, focusing on special needs.

At the age of 62, as an academic, successful career-woman and sought-after consultant in the disability sector, Sandy was struck down by what were, at the time, described as "episodes." No one knew for nearly a year what she was suffering from. It was a terrifying time. Sandy lived alone and was dependent on herself for her living. Soon, she couldn't work any longer and she suffered from anxiety, depression and panic attacks. Eventually diagnosed with Maturity Onset Complex Partial Epilepsy, This Can't Be Happening To Me! is the story of what happened to author Sandy Healey over a two-year period. It covers factual information for others who may travel the same road, but also deals with personal highs and lows and is, at times, tragic and at others, funny. Join Sandy on her personal journey as she aspires to prevent others with Maturity Onset Complex Partial Epilepsy from experiencing her nightmares.

Paranormal gets a Stephen King makeover: An oracle in a small-town Florida uses her troubling gift to stop a murderer—before he comes for her. Aria Morse is an Oracle, blessed—or cursed—with the gift of prophecy. Ask her anything, and the truth spills out immediately. But Aria’s answers sound like nonsense, even to herself . . . just as they did to those at Delphi 2,500 years ago. To cope, Aria has perfected the art of hiding in plain sight—until Jade Price, the closest person she has to a friend, disappears. All of a sudden, everyone around her has questions. The “nonsense” Aria spouts becomes a matter of life and death. Aria may be the only one who can find out what happened to Jade. But the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she comes to being the next target of someone else who hides in plain sight. Someone with a very dark plan.