Author: Johanna Lindsey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668050048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author presents her 45th novel--this one featuring dashing rogue Boyd Anderson and the American lady who has one very good reason to dislike him, although he's determined to give her many more reasons to love him.
No Choice But Seduction
Author: Johanna Lindsey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668050048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author presents her 45th novel--this one featuring dashing rogue Boyd Anderson and the American lady who has one very good reason to dislike him, although he's determined to give her many more reasons to love him.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668050048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author presents her 45th novel--this one featuring dashing rogue Boyd Anderson and the American lady who has one very good reason to dislike him, although he's determined to give her many more reasons to love him.
No Real Choice
Author: Katrina Kimport
Publisher: Families in Focus
ISBN: 9781978817920
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
No real choice -- Policies, poverty, and the organization of abortion care -- Privileging the fetus -- Choosing irresponsibility and harm -- Fearing the experience of abortion -- Choosing a baby -- Toward reproductive autonomy.
Publisher: Families in Focus
ISBN: 9781978817920
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
No real choice -- Policies, poverty, and the organization of abortion care -- Privileging the fetus -- Choosing irresponsibility and harm -- Fearing the experience of abortion -- Choosing a baby -- Toward reproductive autonomy.
No Choice But Surrender
Author: Meagan McKinney
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781568956763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Meagan McKinney's novels shimmer with emotion and sizzle with sensuality. Now she sweeps us away to a magnifient estate outside London as a stranger arrives to possess it. Lady Brienne Morrow returned to Osterley Park, her father's opulent mansion, to discover that he had gambled it away. Penniless and alone, she was ready to succeed to the new owner, Avenel Slane. A pawn in Avenel's plans for revenge, Brienne is held against her will. As fear melts into trust, she risks her heart and soul for this sensual, masterful man who gave her... No choice but surrender.
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781568956763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Meagan McKinney's novels shimmer with emotion and sizzle with sensuality. Now she sweeps us away to a magnifient estate outside London as a stranger arrives to possess it. Lady Brienne Morrow returned to Osterley Park, her father's opulent mansion, to discover that he had gambled it away. Penniless and alone, she was ready to succeed to the new owner, Avenel Slane. A pawn in Avenel's plans for revenge, Brienne is held against her will. As fear melts into trust, she risks her heart and soul for this sensual, masterful man who gave her... No choice but surrender.
The Paradox of Choice
Author: Barry Schwartz
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061748994
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061748994
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
Free Will, No Choice
Author: Wendy Lee Buckingham
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450049001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
"Free Will, No Choice" is Wendy Buckingham’s first published work, a memoir which chronicles her childhood, adolescence, and how she came to meet and join The Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. She was to be a faithful follower for half of her adult life before becoming disillusioned by it all after making a pilgrimage to Korea intended to further deepen her faith. The story opens with the recollection of a picture-perfect day with her and her playmates enjoying a carefree life in a wooded bedroom community in the northwest suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1950s. The tragic death of her older sister from leukemia at age 8 creates a tangible disturbance in the family, and as happens all too frequently when such a tragedy strikes a young married couple, her parents divorce not long after. Her mother decides to move back to her hometown of Denver with Wendy and her younger sister Georgia, just as the girls are reaching adolescence. Mother realizes that she cannot survive for long as a single mom with two daughters without an income, and sets her sights on well-to-do bachelors in the Denver social circles. Drugs and alcohol come to be convenient avenues of escape for the author as she is moved in and out of a variety of schools before finally graduating from high school back in Illinois. She has the opportunity to do some traveling with Georgia before the independent-minded Hitchcock sisters seemingly go their separate ways. In 1975, a letter from Georgia from a new age community outside of San Francisco gets Wendy’s attention. Sensing that Georgia may have been lured into a cult of some kind, the author decides to travel to the west coast to see for herself what sister has gotten herself into. Long story short, Georgia’s stay with the Creative Community Project (aka The Unification Church) ends within 3 months. Wendy’s is to last considerably longer. Positive changes in mind, body and spirit are immediately evidenced for our heroine, who begins to experience a most substantial presence of and relationship with God. The first seven years in the movement are spent on MFT (Mobile Fundraising Teams), raising money to support Rev. Moon in his vision of building the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (even though Jesus very plainly said that The Kingdom of Heaven is within you...). Having laid the seven year foundation of fundraising to qualify to be matched (engaged) and blessed (married) by Sun Myung Moon, the scene shifts to New York City and the New Yorker Hotel (now the World Mission Center for The Unification Church), where Rev. Moon is preparing to match 1,500 men and women with unshakeable faith in him as the 2nd Coming of Christ. Wendy emerges from the ceremony with her fiancé, Francis Buckingham, and her foot-soldier days are behind her. As family life begins, they find in one another alternative sounding boards for what they really believe and why they are doing what they’re doing. With the arrival of their son in 1991, the demands on their time and the little money they have for themselves become more and more unreasonable and unbearable. Where is the messiah when you really need him? As the storm clouds loom in the distance, hope arrives in the form of a book they discover sitting on a shelf in the home of another church couple. It’s entitled A Course in Miracles. It begins by stating: Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God. The story of the next leg of the journey is now in progress: the power of Faith guided by Wisdom.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450049001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
"Free Will, No Choice" is Wendy Buckingham’s first published work, a memoir which chronicles her childhood, adolescence, and how she came to meet and join The Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. She was to be a faithful follower for half of her adult life before becoming disillusioned by it all after making a pilgrimage to Korea intended to further deepen her faith. The story opens with the recollection of a picture-perfect day with her and her playmates enjoying a carefree life in a wooded bedroom community in the northwest suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1950s. The tragic death of her older sister from leukemia at age 8 creates a tangible disturbance in the family, and as happens all too frequently when such a tragedy strikes a young married couple, her parents divorce not long after. Her mother decides to move back to her hometown of Denver with Wendy and her younger sister Georgia, just as the girls are reaching adolescence. Mother realizes that she cannot survive for long as a single mom with two daughters without an income, and sets her sights on well-to-do bachelors in the Denver social circles. Drugs and alcohol come to be convenient avenues of escape for the author as she is moved in and out of a variety of schools before finally graduating from high school back in Illinois. She has the opportunity to do some traveling with Georgia before the independent-minded Hitchcock sisters seemingly go their separate ways. In 1975, a letter from Georgia from a new age community outside of San Francisco gets Wendy’s attention. Sensing that Georgia may have been lured into a cult of some kind, the author decides to travel to the west coast to see for herself what sister has gotten herself into. Long story short, Georgia’s stay with the Creative Community Project (aka The Unification Church) ends within 3 months. Wendy’s is to last considerably longer. Positive changes in mind, body and spirit are immediately evidenced for our heroine, who begins to experience a most substantial presence of and relationship with God. The first seven years in the movement are spent on MFT (Mobile Fundraising Teams), raising money to support Rev. Moon in his vision of building the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (even though Jesus very plainly said that The Kingdom of Heaven is within you...). Having laid the seven year foundation of fundraising to qualify to be matched (engaged) and blessed (married) by Sun Myung Moon, the scene shifts to New York City and the New Yorker Hotel (now the World Mission Center for The Unification Church), where Rev. Moon is preparing to match 1,500 men and women with unshakeable faith in him as the 2nd Coming of Christ. Wendy emerges from the ceremony with her fiancé, Francis Buckingham, and her foot-soldier days are behind her. As family life begins, they find in one another alternative sounding boards for what they really believe and why they are doing what they’re doing. With the arrival of their son in 1991, the demands on their time and the little money they have for themselves become more and more unreasonable and unbearable. Where is the messiah when you really need him? As the storm clouds loom in the distance, hope arrives in the form of a book they discover sitting on a shelf in the home of another church couple. It’s entitled A Course in Miracles. It begins by stating: Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God. The story of the next leg of the journey is now in progress: the power of Faith guided by Wisdom.
No Choice
Author: John Bray
Publisher: No Choice John Bray
ISBN: 9781905529865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Following a routine enquiry, PC Daniel Hood has little inkling it would lead to his recruitment into an international organisation fighting terrorism. After participating in a brutal training regime designed to toughen him up, Daniel recruits, amongst others, Olga Korikova, a Russian Agent, Yuen Chun Tin, a Chemist, and Peter Sedgwick, a motorcycle cop. Initial enquiries lead them to a research establishment in Britain where a deadly substance has been developed, under duress, by Gerald Fitzpatrick. Ultimately, the team travel to the Middle East, undergoing danger and injury in a desperate race against time to foil a heinous crime against humanity.
Publisher: No Choice John Bray
ISBN: 9781905529865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Following a routine enquiry, PC Daniel Hood has little inkling it would lead to his recruitment into an international organisation fighting terrorism. After participating in a brutal training regime designed to toughen him up, Daniel recruits, amongst others, Olga Korikova, a Russian Agent, Yuen Chun Tin, a Chemist, and Peter Sedgwick, a motorcycle cop. Initial enquiries lead them to a research establishment in Britain where a deadly substance has been developed, under duress, by Gerald Fitzpatrick. Ultimately, the team travel to the Middle East, undergoing danger and injury in a desperate race against time to foil a heinous crime against humanity.
I Only Said I Had No Choice
Author: Celia Banting
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978664800
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
After threatening to kill his abusive stepfather, Shane moves from juvenile detention to residential therapy, where he gains understanding about adult co-dependence, learns to control his anger and make positive life choices.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978664800
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
After threatening to kill his abusive stepfather, Shane moves from juvenile detention to residential therapy, where he gains understanding about adult co-dependence, learns to control his anger and make positive life choices.
No Other Choice
Author: George Blake
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN: 9780224030670
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Examining the development of fashion photography since 1945, this book draws on the influences of cinema, architecture and dance. It creates a social history of the post-war period, and suggests that fashion photography has now acquired serious artistic legitimacy.
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN: 9780224030670
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Examining the development of fashion photography since 1945, this book draws on the influences of cinema, architecture and dance. It creates a social history of the post-war period, and suggests that fashion photography has now acquired serious artistic legitimacy.
No Choice, No Voice
Author: Karen Lamoreaux
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781502390660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
American children are being sold down river to corporate elitists without accountability. Parents are unknowingly losing their rights to educational freedom. Read about this global reform from the perspective of a concerned, and very educated, mother. Then raise your voice to help STOP THE COMMON CORE.In this book you will learn: Who is behind the reform,What is expected of your child,Where Common Core originated,When your child will be tested,Why your parental rights are at risk,How this is not about providing a well-rounded education,And much more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781502390660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
American children are being sold down river to corporate elitists without accountability. Parents are unknowingly losing their rights to educational freedom. Read about this global reform from the perspective of a concerned, and very educated, mother. Then raise your voice to help STOP THE COMMON CORE.In this book you will learn: Who is behind the reform,What is expected of your child,Where Common Core originated,When your child will be tested,Why your parental rights are at risk,How this is not about providing a well-rounded education,And much more.
Enjoy Our Universe
Author: Alvaro De Rújula
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192550179
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Enjoy Our Universe is a guide for an enjoyable visit to the Universe. The "Universe" refers to all "observable things," ranging in size from the entire cosmos to elementary particles. This small tome on fundamental physics, cosmology, Higgs bosons, time travel and all that, is unlike any other analogous book. Its scientific statements are correct or, at least, they coincide with the opinions held by the vast majority of experts. It establishes clear distinctions between things we know for sure — in the sense of having strong observational support for them — and things that we know that we do not know, or we do not understand. In this sense, it is scientifically honest. In descriptions of our Universe and of the way it functions, beauty is a recurring word. In an attempt to portray its beauty from the eyes of the beholder, the book is profusely illustrated. Its offbeat, tongue-in-cheek illustrations greatly enhance its readability, particularly in those chapters whose understanding, admittedly, requires a little extra effort. This book's idiosyncracies remind us of our own smallness and eccentricities even as we read about the logic, function and magnificence of the Universe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192550179
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Enjoy Our Universe is a guide for an enjoyable visit to the Universe. The "Universe" refers to all "observable things," ranging in size from the entire cosmos to elementary particles. This small tome on fundamental physics, cosmology, Higgs bosons, time travel and all that, is unlike any other analogous book. Its scientific statements are correct or, at least, they coincide with the opinions held by the vast majority of experts. It establishes clear distinctions between things we know for sure — in the sense of having strong observational support for them — and things that we know that we do not know, or we do not understand. In this sense, it is scientifically honest. In descriptions of our Universe and of the way it functions, beauty is a recurring word. In an attempt to portray its beauty from the eyes of the beholder, the book is profusely illustrated. Its offbeat, tongue-in-cheek illustrations greatly enhance its readability, particularly in those chapters whose understanding, admittedly, requires a little extra effort. This book's idiosyncracies remind us of our own smallness and eccentricities even as we read about the logic, function and magnificence of the Universe.