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More UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics (Mathematics in Industry #42)
by Philip J. AstonThis volume highlights successful projects in which academic mathematicians in the United Kingdom got involved with solving problems in industry for which mathematics was essential. It contains a wide range of articles in areas ranging from music composition to climate change which describe successful collaborations between mathematicians / statisticians and industry. The impact that the work had on the companies involved and on people’s everyday lives is included in each article. The book conveys to the non-expert some of the many ways that mathematics and statistics have contributed to economic growth and societal well-being.
Funnel-Marketing: Kundengewinnung und -bindung mit Marketing-Automation (essentials)
by Florian Pfänder Veit EtzoldDieses essential bietet eine fundierte und kompakte Einführung in die Welt des Funnel-Marketings und zeigt, wie Unternehmen durch Marketing-Automation ihre Zielgruppen gezielt und personalisiert ansprechen können. Die Autoren erläutern Techniken und Strategien für erfolgreiches digitales Marketing und bieten wertvolle Impulse für eine kontinuierliche Optimierung der Customer Journey.Florian Pfänder, B.A., und Prof. Dr. Veit Etzold bündeln ihre Expertise in Marketing und Vertrieb und erklären praxisnah, welche Chancen das Funnel-Marketing für Ihr Unternehmen bietet und wie Sie typische Fehler vermeiden. Schwerpunkte sind u.a. effektive Leadgenerierung und -bewertung, Personalisierung in der Marketing-Automation, die Steigerung der Konversionsrate und Content-Marketing. Ein Buch für alle Marketingfachleute, Vertriebsleiter und Unternehmer, die ihre Kundengewinnung optimieren und langfristige Kundenbeziehungen aufbauen wollen.
Zymography: Biological and Clinical Applications, Volume 2 (Methods in Molecular Biology #2918)
by Raouf A. KhalilVolume 2 describes how to determine the activity of different isozymes, allozymes, and families of proteinases to advance the fields of enzymology and molecular evolution, and provides useful biomarkers for various biological processes, pathological conditions, and clinical disorders. The chapters in Volume 2 are organized in three parts. Part I introduces in situ zymography and localization of bright green-fluorescent gelatinase activity in tissue sections, in situ zymography in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded and mineralized tissues, and in vivo zymography as an essential activity assay for studying the activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in a cell-specific manner in the brain. Part II focuses on biological applications of zymography such as fundamentals of zymography and its applications to the study of biological samples, gelatin zymography to quantify MMP-2 and MMP-9 in complex biological specimens, and detection of proteolytic enzymes in polyacrylamide gels supplemented with diverse biological substrates. Part III focuses on potential clinical applications of zymography, with chapters describing assessment of MMP-2 and MMP-9 hydrolytic activity in preclinical and clinical tissue samples, the use of zymography to assess circulating MMP-2 and MMP-9 in plasma and serum and in pathological conditions, and the use of zymography for the detection of bacterial proteases. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.Cutting-edge and thorough, Zymography: Biological and Clinical Applications, Volume II is a valuable resource for both experts in the field, as well as new scientists aspiring to learn and perform successful zymography techniques.
The Voluntary Libraries of Victorian Britain: Volume 2 (New Directions in Book History)
by Keith A. ManleyThis volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation. They were effectually substitutes for municipal public libraries in areas where that sort of library provision did not exist. They may have been funded by wealthy philanthropists or by well-wishers. Attention is paid too to libraries which were aimed at specific communities, such as workers in factories, mills, mines, railway works, and shops, as well as book provision for policemen, soldiers and sailors, hospital patients, nurses, workhouses, prisoners, and domestic servants (and hotel guests). The voluntary public libraries of England and Wales are dealt with in Volume 1.
Biotechnology and Human Enhancement: Present Research and Future Perspectives (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology)
by Luciano De Sio Eyup Kuntay TurmusThis book provides new insights in the role that biotechnology and human enhancement will play in the following years to come. Based on the experience and know-how of recognized scientists worldwide, a paradigm shift in advanced technologies is highlighted, merging academic and specialized research centers. Indeed, biotechnology and human enhancement play an essential role in emerging fields such as biosensing, medical technologies, and synthetic biology. These technologies are significant for several cross-disciplinary research activities ranging from medicine to electronics. The book promotes a visionary idea that will establish a more vital collaboration to help track down a roadmap for bringing innovative and breakthrough applications to address the key and emerging challenges for the upcoming years. The book is intended to offer a comprehensive overview for both students and experienced researchers about the main research activities developed in recent years that will help realize a more sustainable approach in modern bio-related applications.
Zukunftskompetenzen im Vertrieb: Toolbox und Strategien zur Entwicklung zukunftsfähiger Vertriebsteams
by Kai Reinhardt Mareike Feseker Paula Mareike AlbrechtDieses Fachbuch bietet eine umfassende Analyse und praktische Anleitung zur Entwicklung und zum Management neuer Vertriebskompetenzen, die durch die digitale Transformation erforderlich geworden sind. Um in diesem dynamischen Umfeld weiterhin erfolgreich zu sein, müssen sich Vertriebsorganisationen nicht nur an diese Veränderungen anpassen, sondern sie auch als Chancen für Wachstum und Innovation nutzen. Im Zentrum dieser Transformation steht die Notwendigkeit, Vertriebsteams zu fördern und zu entwickeln, die über die wesentlichen Kompetenzen verfügen, um die Komplexität der Zukunft des Vertriebs zu bewältigen. Das Buch kombiniert theoretische Grundlagen mit praktischen Werkzeugen und zeigt, wie Führungskräfte im Vertrieb und Personalentwickler ihre Vertriebsteams für die Herausforderungen des digitalen Zeitalters rüsten können. Dazu werden 17 typische Vertriebsrollen (z. B. Vertriebsführung, Vertriebscontrolling, Channel Partner, Presales Manager, Außendienst, After Sales etc.) anhand von Personas analysiert und so die idealen Eigenschaften, Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse ihrer jeweiligen Jobprofile beschrieben. Ein großer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Skizzierung von 12 Schlüsselkompetenzen, die für den Erfolg moderner Vertriebsteams entscheidend sind: z. B. Kundenverständnis, digitale Kompetenz, Netzwerkaufbau, Teamfähigkeit, Risikomanagement, strategische Analysefähigkeiten etc.
Translating US Underground Comix in Italy: A Semiotic Perspective on Satire and Subversion (Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting)
by Chiara PolliThis book analyses 1960s-1970s US underground comix, a &‘counterculture&’ art form that satirised mainstream values and taboos. The author observes comix in their multimodal components in the original English-language versions and in their Italian translations by unpacking the several layers of verbal and visual meaning-making. She then goes on to scrutinise translation and resemiotisation processes, including modifications, mitigations, and omissions, encompassing socio-historical and cross-cultural perspectives. The book argues that translation, meant to bridge two (counter-)cultures, served as a gatekeeper instead, zooming in on certain themes, while inadvertently overlooking or purposefully manipulating others, with an outcome close to censorship. The volume is divided into nine chapters. Chapter 1 summarises the aims and scope of the volume. Chapter 2 introduces comix as a subversive phenomenon. Chapter 3 illustrates the theoretical and methodological framework of analysis, based on semiotics and multimodality. Chapter 4 presents the corpus of Italian translations, which includes works translated between 1968 and 2022 by both mainstream and alternative publishers. In Chapters 5-8, Italian translations of comix dealing with such controversial themes as sex, drugs, political struggle, and religion are analysed, with qualitative observations of several translations of the same comix provided to highlight changing times, cultural frames, ideologies, editorial policies, and target audiences. Chapter 9 discusses the findings of these observations and maintains that, as a recursive translation strategy, seditious contents were mitigated, trivialised, or censored by adopting light-hearted frames so that potentially problematic contents could be left out. With its linguistic, translational, and intercultural analyses, this volume will be useful for researchers of linguistics, semiotics, translation, and comics studies.
ICT Innovations 2024. TechConvergence: 16th International Conference, ICT Innovations 2024, Ohrid, North Macedonia, September 28–30, 2024, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2436)
by Biljana Risteska Stojkoska Smilka Janeska SarkanjacThis CCIS post conference volume constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on ICT Innovations, ICT Innovations 2024, held in Ohrid, North Macedonia, in September 2024. The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers covered a wide range of topics, including machine learning, network science, digital transformation, natural language processing.
Artificial Intelligence Based Smart and Secured Applications: Third International Conference, ASCIS 2024, Rajkot, India, October 16–18, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2424)
by Sridaran Rajagopal Kalpesh Popat Divyakant Meva Sunil Bajeja Pankaj MudholkarThe six-volume set, CCIS 2424 - 2429, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Smart Computing and Information Security, ASCIS 2024, held in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, in October 16–18, 2024. The 138 full papers and 43 short papers presented in these six volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 667 submissions.The papers presented in these six volumes are organized in the following topical sections: Part I, II, III, IV: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Part V: Smart Computing; Network and Cloud Computing. Part VI: Cyber Security; Computer Application for Sustainability.
The Trouble with Cowboys: A clean and wholesome romance with a cowboy hero (A Big Sky Romance #3)
by Denise Hunter"A story filled with romantic tension . . . Hunter's well-developed characters and plot twists make for a delightful and inspirational journey." --Publishers WeeklyThe final book in Denise Hunter's Big Sky Romance series, where a playboy hero meets his match in a heroine uninterested in love! Only one pair of boots--and the cowboy wearing them--can get Annie out of the mess she's in.Annie Wilkerson is Moose Creek's premiere horse trainer and equine columnist for Montana Living. Money is tight as she tries to put her kid-sister through college and provide for her young nephew. When Annie's column is cancelled, she's given first shot at a new lovelorn column--and she can't afford to turn it down. Only problem is . . . Annie's never been in love.Always resourceful, she reluctantly strikes a deal with the town's smooth-talking ladies' man Dylan Taylor: She'll work with his ailing horse, Braveheart, if he'll help her answer the reader letters.Working closely with Dylan is harder than Annie imagined, and she quickly realizes she may have misjudged him. But her unwavering conviction that cowboys are nothing but trouble has kept her heart safe for years. And she can't risk getting hurt now.The more Annie tries to control things, the more they fall apart. Her feelings are spinning out of control, and her sister's antics are making life increasingly more difficult. Annie knows she needs to let go, but surrender has never come easily.When Dylan reveals his feelings for her, Annie doesn't know what to trust--her head or her heart. The trouble with this cowboy is that he might just be exactly what she needs.The Big Sky Romance series is a collection of standalone, sweet and clean romances set against the stunning backdrop of Montana. Each book in the series offers a unique love story, featuring rugged cowboy heroes and strong, independent women, all bound by faith, love, and the enchanting Montana countryside. Discover the beauty of love in the heartland with the Big Sky Romance series with A Cowboy's Touch, The Accidental Bride, and The Trouble with Cowboys.
The Great Gatsby: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by F. Scott FitzgeraldA must-have new edition of one of the great American novels—and one of America's most popular—featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and a striking new cover that brings the quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties into the 2020sThe basis for the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva NoblezadaOne of The Atlantic&’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperYoung, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party never seems to end, he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls around him--that he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the war, that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of the enigmatic Gatsby, for whom one thing will always be out of reach: Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from Gatsby's just across the bay.A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century. This edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream.For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan FrissA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time&’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are MagicAn affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinationsBookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop, we see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost.Evan Friss&’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin&’s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including the Strand, Chicago&’s Marshall Field & Company, the Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. The Bookshop is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over the course of more than two centuries—including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who signed books at Marshall Field&’s in 1944.The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life—and why we still need them.
Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese's Book Club
by Emily HenryA REESE&’S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry. As featured in The New York Times ∙ Rolling Stone ∙ People ∙ Good Morning America ∙ NPR ∙ The Cut ∙ USA Today ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ Marie Claire ∙ E! Online ∙ The New York Post ∙ Bustle ∙ Reader's Digest ∙ BBC ∙ PopSugar ∙ SheReads ∙ Paste ∙ and more!Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they&’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years—or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she&’ll choose the person who&’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice&’s head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She&’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can&’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they&’re in the same room.And it&’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret&’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad . . . depending on who&’s telling it.
Field Gray (A Bernie Gunther Novel #7)
by Philip KerrThis Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr&’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective&’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2. During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray strides across the killing fields of Europe, landing Bernie in a divided Germany at the height of the Cold War—revealing a treacherous world where the ends justify the means and no one can be trusted...
What Wild Women Do: A Novel
by Karma Brown"Karma Brown keeps delivering knockout after knockout. She is an auto-buy author for me!" —Taylor Jenkins ReidThe fates of two women. An abandoned camp. Secrets of the past that can no longer stay hidden.To get a break from a stalled career as a Hollywood screenwriter, Rowan retreats to an isolated cabin in the Adirondacks with her fiancé, Seth. There in the wilderness, Rowan finds herself drawn to a local mystery—that of the infamous socialite-turned-feminist-crusader Eddie Callaway, who vanished in the same woods forty years earlier and was never heard from again. A handbook found in the abandoned ruins of the Callaway camp gives Rowan a glimpse into who Eddie was—until a fateful discovery begins to unravel what might have happened to her.As Rowan draws closer to the truth, she realizes that the past, and the Adirondacks woods, may hold two keys: one that reveals what really happened to Eddie Callaway and another that unlocks a future beyond her wildest imagination.
Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology)
by Tom BratrudIn 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. However, it ended dramatically when two men believed to be sorcerers and responsible for much of the society’s problems were hung by persons fearing for the island’s future security. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems, but also carry risks of exacerbating the same problems they arise to address.
The Wheel of Autonomy: Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley (Integration and Conflict Studies)
by Felix GirkeHow do the Kara, a small population residing on the eastern bank of the Omo River in southern Ethiopia, manage to be neither annexed nor exterminated by any of the larger groups that surround them? Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state. The model of the “Wheel of Autonomy” captures the interplay of distinction, agency and autonomy that drives these dynamics and offers an innovative perspective on social relations.
A History Shared and Divided: East and West Germany since the 1970s
by Frank BöschBy and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of both nations were interrelated in complex ways, shaped by economic crises, social and cultural changes, protest movements, and other phenomena so diffuse that they could hardly be contained by the Iron Curtain. Accordingly, A History Shared and Divided offers a collective portrait of the two Germanies that is both broad and deep. It brings together comprehensive thematic surveys by specialists in social history, media, education, the environment, and similar topics to assemble a monumental account of both nations from the crises of the 1970s to—and beyond—the reunification era.
The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More
by Jefferson FisherTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everythingNo matter who you&’re talking to, The Next Conversation gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that will forever change how you communicate. Jefferson Fisher, trial lawyer and one of the leading voices on real-world communication, offers a tried-and-true framework that will show you how to transform your life and your relationships by improving your next conversation.Fisher has gained millions of followers through short, simple, practical videos teaching people how to argue less and talk more. Whether it&’s handling a heated conversation, dealing with a difficult personality, or standing your ground with confidence, his down-to-earth teachings have helped countless people navigate life&’s toughest situations. Now for the first time, Fisher has distilled his three-part communication system (Say it with control, Say it with confidence, Say it to connect) that can easily be applied to any situation.You will learn:Why you should never &“win&” an argumentHow to assert yourself and communicate with intentionHow to set boundaries and frame conversationsWhy saying less is often moreHow to overcome conflict with connectionThe Next Conversation will give you practical phrases that will lead to powerful results, from breaking down defensiveness in a hard talk with a family member to finding your own assertive voice at the boardroom conference table. Your every word matters, and by controlling how you communicate every day, you will create waves of positive impact that will resonate throughout your relationships to last a lifetime.Everything you want to say, and how you want to say it, can be found in The Next Conversation.
Surviving to Drive: A Year Inside Formula 1: An F1 Book
by Guenther Steiner#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • A high-octane, no-holds-barred account of a year inside Formula 1 from Haas team principal Guenther Steiner, star of Drive to Survive, one of the most successful Netflix series of all time&“People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes...&”In Surviving to Drive, Haas team principal Guenther Steiner brings readers inside his Formula 1 team for the entirety of the 2022 season, giving an unobstructed view of what really takes place behind the scenes. Through this unique lens, Steiner guides readers on the thrilling rollercoaster of life at the heart of high-stakes motor racing. Packed full of twists and turns, from pre-season preparations to hiring and firing drivers, from the design, launch, and testing of a car to the race calendar itself–Surviving to Drive is the first time that an Formula 1 team has allowed an acting team principal to tell the full story of a whole season.Uncompromising and searingly honest, told in Steiner's inimitable style, Surviving to Drive is a fascinating and hugely entertaining account of the realities of running a Formula 1 team.
Sinatra: The Chairman
by James KaplanJust in time for the Chairman&’s centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan&’s bestselling Frank: The Voice—which completes the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed the &“Entertainer of the Century,&” deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick on Elvis, Kaplan goes behind the legend to give us the man in full, in his many guises and aspects: peerless singer, (sometimes) accomplished actor, business mogul, tireless lover, and associate of the powerful and infamous. In 2010&’s Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan, in rich, distinctive, compulsively readable prose, told the story of Frank Sinatra&’s meteoric rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of live performance and screen. The story of &“Ol&’ Blue Eyes&” continues with Sinatra: The Chairman, picking up the day after he claimed his Academy Award in 1954 and had reestablished himself as the top recording artist. Sinatra&’s life post-Oscar was astonishing in scope and achievement and, occasionally, scandal, including immortal recordings almost too numerous to count, affairs ditto, many memorable films (and more than a few stinkers), Rat Pack hijinks that mesmerized the world with their air of masculine privilege, and an intimate involvement at the intersection of politics and organized crime that continues to shock and astound with its hubris. James Kaplan has orchestrated the wildly disparate aspects of Frank Sinatra&’s life and character into an American epic—a towering achievement in biography of a stature befitting its subject.
Living the Good Long Life: A Practical Guide to Caring for Yourself and Others
by Martha StewartMartha Stewart&’s engaging handbook for living your healthiest life after 40—with expertise from doctors and specialists on eating, exercise, wellness, home, and organizing, as well as caring for others. Martha Stewart&’s Living the Good Long Life is a practical guide unlike any other: honest and upbeat, with clear and motivating charts, resources, and tips from doctors and wellness specialists. From the best ways to organize your home to protecting your mental well-being and appearance as you age, this book gives accessible ideas that you can incorporate every day. And when it&’s time to explore caregiving for others, you&’ll know how to enrich their quality of life while preventing your own fatigue.Martha&’s 10 Golden Rules for Successful Aging provide a framework for chapters that cover your changing needs with every decade, including: -Healthy Eating: Stock a healthy pantry for your dietary needs. -Healthy Fitness: Stand strong on your feet by increasing your balance, endurance, and flexibility.-A Healthy Brain: Stimulate new brain activity to prevent memory loss.-A Healthy Outlook: Maintain a sense of daily purpose by strengthening social connections. -Healthy Living Every Day: Medicate wisely while paying attention to aches and pains.-Healthy Looks: Take care of your skin and match your makeup to your age.-Healthy Home: Create a home that is a reflection of how you want to live.-Healthy Living into the Future: Be your own wellness CEO to prevent future illness.-Healthy Caring: Prepare for helping others while caring for yourself, and much more! Healthy living begins with establishing small habits, and with Living the Good Long Life you&’ll have a dependable source for thriving in your 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond."In my Foundation&’s health initiatives—and in my own life—I&’ve seen again and again how even small measures to improve your health can make a big difference. Living the Good Long Life is full of simple ideas that can be incorporated into daily routines to help you feel better and keep on doing what you love."—President Bill Clinton "For thirty years, Martha Stewart has carefully coached us on how to take care of our homes, our menus, our crafts. And now in Living the Good Long Life, she has brought her brilliant skills to the mission of helping us take care of ourselves. With sparkling prose, no-nonsense instruction, and, as always, oceans of wisdom, Martha implores readers not to recoil from their advancing years, but to embrace and celebrate them—with invaluable tips on keeping our diets healthy, our bodies pumping, and our outlook forever sunny. I just loved this book."—Marlo Thomas
Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
by Julie GilbertTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens&’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.The stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's Giant in 1952 set off a storm of protest over the novel's portrayal of Texas manners, money and mores with oil-rich Texans threatening to shoot, lynch or ban Ferber from ever entering the state again.In Giant Love, Julie Gilbert writes of the internationally best-selling Ferber, one of the most widely read writers in the first half of the 20th Century – her evolution from mid-west maverick girl-reporter to Pulitzer Prize winning, beloved American novelist, from her want-to-be actress days to becoming Broadway's acclaimed prize-winning playwright whose collaborators – George S. Kauffman and Moss Hart, among them, were, along with Ferber, herself, the most successful playwrights of their time.Here is the making of an American classic novel and the film that followed in its wake. We see how George Stevens, Academy-Award winning director, wooed the prickly, stubborn Ferber, ultimately getting her to agree to everything including writing, for the first time ever, a draft of a screenplay, to her okaying James Dean for the part of the ranch hand, Jett Rink, something she was dead set against.Here is the casting of Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean and their backstory triangle of sex and seduction – each becoming a huge star because of the film; the frustrated Stevens trying to direct the instinctive but undisciplined Dean, and the months long landmark filming in the sleepy town of Marfa, Texas, suddenly invaded by a battalion of a film crew and some of the biggest stars in the rising celebrity culture.
The Lost Coast: A Novel (Clay Edison #5)
by Jonathan Kellerman Jesse KellermanThe riveting new Clay Edison thriller from the bestselling, acclaimed father-son duo who write &“brilliant, page-turning fiction&” (Stephen King)Cut loose from his former life at the coroner&’s office, Clay Edison has set up shop as a private investigator. It&’s steady, safe work. Until it isn&’t. The trouble begins when a young man, tasked with managing his grandmother&’s estate, hires Clay to examine some minor financial discrepancies. What starts off as a case of simple fraud rapidly explodes into a web of deception, an elaborate con game stretching back decades and involving countless victims. All the evidence points to a tiny town on California&’s rugged, remote Lost Coast. Good luck getting there, though. And Clay&’s reward for surviving the journey is a trigger-happy welcoming committee, ready to guard their secrets with lethal force. Navigating this landscape of savage waves and savage lies brings Clay into collision with a host of other players: a grieving mother, an enigmatic teenager, a reclusive military veteran, a foul-mouthed PI pursuing her own agenda. And the price of truth will turn out to be higher—and deadlier—than Clay could have imagined. From the minds of Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman comes a heart-stopping tale of deception and redemption—bursting with action, suspense, and unforgettable characters.
Lovers and Liars: A Novel
by Amanda Eyre WardNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Three wildly different sisters reunite for a destination wedding at an English castle in this heartfelt and rollicking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters.&“The sort of novel that simultaneously tempts you to devour it in one greedy gulp and begs you to slow down and savor each page.&”—Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street Once upon a time, the Peacock sisters were little girls who combed each other&’s tangled hair. But decades of secrets have led them to separate lives—and to telling lies, to themselves and to one another. Sylvie is getting married. Again. A librarian and widow who soothes her grief by escaping into books (and shelving them perfectly), Sylvie has caught the attention of an unlikely match: Simon Rampling, a mysterious, wealthy man from Northern England. Sylvie allows herself to imagine a life beside him—one filled with the written word, kindness, and companionship. She&’s ready to love again . . . or is she? Cleo is the golden child. A successful criminal defense lawyer with the perfect boyfriend, she is immediately suspicious of Simon. Is he really who he says he is? Cleo heads to Mumberton Castle with a case of investigative files, telling herself she will expose Simon and save her sister from more heartbreak . . . but who is she really trying to save? Emma is living a lie. She can&’t afford this fancy trip—and she definitely can&’t tell her husband and sons why. She once dreamed of a line of her own perfumes. Fragrances allowed her to speak in silence. Now, that tendency for silence only worsens her situation. Will she emerge with her dignity and family intact? When their toxic mother shows up, the sisters assume the roles they fell into to survive their childhood . . . but they just might find the courage to make new choices.Set over a spectacularly dramatic weekend, in the grand halls of a sprawling castle estate—amid floor-to-ceiling libraries, falconry lessons, and medieval meals—Lovers and Liars is the unforgettable story of a family&’s ability to forgive and to find joy in one another once again.