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This is the story of a beautiful, young woman — a talented athlete and musician, raised in a loving home, surrounded by friends — undermined by a ruthless inner voice that claimed her body and her spirit. Emilee: The Story of a Girl and Her Family Hijacked by Anorexia reveals the cracks in our health care system, the institutions we are taught to trust, as well as our own prejudices and misinformation about eating disorders, mental illness, and addiction.

It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless millions of us struggle with these kinds of dysfunctions every day, and until very recently we struggled alone.

Rich tasks, collaborative work, number talks, problem-based learning, direct instruction…with so many possible approaches, how do we know which ones work the best? In Visible Learning for Mathematics, six acclaimed educators assert it’s not about which one—it’s about when—and show you how to design high-impact instruction so all students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of mathematics learning for a year spent in school.

In You Talkin’ to Me?, Seger and Rainey are here to help with all your dialogue problems. In each chapter, they explore dialogue from a different angle and discuss examples of great dialogue from films and novels. To cap it all off, each chapter ends with examples of poor dialogue, which are annotated by Linda and then rewritten by John so that listeners don’t just learn how to recognize when it’s done well - they also learn how to make dialogue better. Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction, for the screen or the page, this book will get your characters talking.

When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana, and their son, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilised world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.

YOU'RE THE BOSS.... NOW WHAT! GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR EMPLOYEES WITH THESE 3 INDISPENSIBLE GUIDES. One of the biggest challenges for new managers is how to get the best out of each of their team members so they achieve superior results - and make you, the new manager, look good!

Whether you are a foreign investor seeking a United States green card or a domestic developer sourcing capital for your latest project, the United States EB-5 visa program offers unique opportunity. In an industry known to be difficult to understand, The EB-5 Handbook breaks down the EB-5 program into its simple basics - investment, economic growth, and green cards. In The EB-5 Handbook, investors and developers alike will learn how to get started on their EB-5 journey.

Gonino Wellness Radio is geared toward everyday people who may feel like something is not quite right with their overall physical, mental or spiritual health. The person whose doctor says “everything is fine, it’s in your head”, the person who is searching for answers only to be sucked into a contradictive tornado of information, or the person who has just given up because every medication, diet, or fad makes them feel worse off than before. Putting together the puzzle pieces of your personal wellness plan can be difficult, but with more than 20 years of experience in integrative ...

Unemploymentville.com creator and author Anne Emerick has interviewed career coaches, entrepreneurs, and everyday people to explore their own stories of bouncing back from a personal unemployment crisis. And now, Emerick shows you how to use insights from their tales to forge your own path to success. Out-of-Work to Making Money: 21 Comeback Stories Every Job Hunter Should Hear shares strategies and compelling true stories from people in all walks of life who worked their way from jobless to financially secure.

The journey begins with a scandalous murder. The tragedy reveals how painful family secrets injure the soul. Dixon, Alabama is a small, quiet southern town. However, a contentious storm disturbs the peace in the form of the beautiful and fiery Mimi Cooper. She rebuffs her lover's blackmail plot by refusing to disclose their affair to her fiancé. The argument escalates, which ends in an accidental murder.

Efosa is a contemporary story that explores a few deep seated issues which have plagued the sacred Sistah circle for quite some time. Taboo subjects rooted in pain and shame leave scars on the soul that continue to injure friendships today. Colorism and discrimination are problems which simmer below the surface in the lives of Nikki, Toni, Sharron, and Jade.

A podcast about marriage family and relationships and every ingredient that guarantee to give us chaos in our everyday life. So can we be happily ever after and keep Peace in the midst of our chaos, and if - How do we do it? Our aim with our podcast Welcome Chaos is to encourage and speak faith into tired marriages and families. Our passion is to see marriages and families flourish and enjoy life in abundance.

Linda Hurd and John Kane welcome you to grab a drink and a snack, pull up a chair and join them in their living room as they discuss everything Wicca, witchcraft and the supernatural... even aliens and inter-dimensional travel. From how they got started in witchcraft, to celebrating the Days of Power, these two witches discuss it all.