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The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund
by Anita RaghavanJust as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until now...The collapse of the Galleon Group--a hedge fund that managed more than $7 billion in assets--from criminal charges of insider trading was a sensational case that pitted prosecutor Preet Bharara, himself the son of Indian immigrants, against the best and brightest of the South Asian business community. At the center of the case was self-described King of Kings, Galleon's founder Raj Rajaratnam, a Sri-Lankan-born, Wharton-educated billionaire. But the most shocking allegation was that the éminence grise of Indian business, Rajat Gupta, was Rajaratnam's accomplice and mole. If not for Gupta's nose-to-the-grindstone rise to head up McKinsey & Co and a position on the Goldman Sachs board, men like Rajaratnam would have never made it to the top of America's moneyed elite.Author Anita Raghavan criss-crosses the globe from Wall Street boardrooms to Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology as she uncovers the secrets of this subculture--an incredible tale of triumph, temptation and tragedy.
Natural Menopause: Herbal Remedies, Aromatherapy, CBT, Nutrition, Exercise, HRT...for Perimenopause
by Myra Hunter Anita Ralph Louise Robinson Diane Danzebrink Sabrina Zeif Paul HarterYour go-to guide to understanding the changes and challenges of menopause Together with a team of experts, this comprehensive handbook will equip you with mindful practices and treatments to help alleviate menopause symptoms in a mindful, positive way, either alongside or without prescription medication. Coping with menopause can be tough, draining, and sometimes utterly debilitating for women. For years it has been seen as an illness that needed to be cured. Natural Menopause takes a different approach. Throughout the pages of this calm, authoritative, beautiful reference book, you&’ll find that menopause is a normal, natural process that does not need to be over-medicalized. Your journey is unique. This insightful book about menopause will help you find the right combination of resources that work for you. It includes: • Specialist expert writers for each section of the book - HRT, Natural Remedies, Exercise, Nutrition, and Mental Wellness • Practical strategies on how to manage menopause naturally and make it a more positive, empowering experience • A Symptom Finder in the introductory pages to help direct you to the correct section in the book Explore an extensive collection of natural remedies and complements to hormone replacement therapy. Adopt yoga poses to reduce stress and help you sleep. Use essential oils to manage mood swings and soothe headaches. Discover detoxifying foods that aid weight management and regulate hormones. Find the best exercises to boost your mood and energy levels. Finally, use CBT and mindfulness to relieve anxiety and calm hot flashes.Embrace the ChangeFilled with a wealth of invaluable information, this book will help you stay physically, mentally, and spiritually well throughout your menopause journey. It&’s perfect for women over 40 who are already invested in natural wellness and want to apply the same principles to their menopause.
Tell It to the Trees
by Anita Rau BadamiA beloved, bestselling writer returns to the domestic canvas of her award-winning books, Tamarind Mem and The Hero's Walk, with a tense mystery and heart-rending story of family life set in an Indian household in a small town in northern BC.One freezing winter morning a dead body is found in the backyard of the Dharma family's house. It's the body of their tenant, Anu Krishnan. Why had she, a stranger to the mountains, been foolish enough to go out into the blizzard? From this gripping opening, Anita Rau Badami threads together a story of love and need, and of chilling secrets never told aloud. For Anu, seeking a secluded retreat from the city, the Dharmas--the authoritarian Vikram, his aged mother, gentle Suman whom he has brought from the bustling warmth of India in a swiftly arranged marriage, their young daughter, Varsha, and her little brother--are a tightly knit family with values to uphold. The joy of Suman's good Indian cooking, the tales told by old Akka, the beauty of the place, delight her; but she soon realizes that the Dharma family holds unexpected secrets--Suman is a trapped, silent and fearful woman--and the memory of Vikram's first wife who died in an accident casts a long shadow over the household. Anu's arrival will change the balance of the Dharma household, and when the secrets start to spill out, something terrible is bound to happen...From the Hardcover edition.
The Hero's Walk: A Novel
by Anita Rau BadamiIn a small town by the Bay of Bengal in India, Sripathi Rao, a headstrong man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is awakened by a call from Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their surviving seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy. With The Hero's Walk, Anita Rau Badami ushers us into the colorful lives of the Rao family: Nirmala, Sripathi's frustrated but dutiful wife; Ammayya, his miserly and eccentric mother; his sister, Putti, unmarried and in her forties, still dreaming of love; and Arun, his only son, an unemployed environmental crusader. When Sripathi brings Nandana to India, life suddenly changes for the entire family. Small, silent Nandana, in fact, may be the one person who can bring harmony into the house and hope back into her grandfather's life. Steeped in the colors, customs, and sensuality of India, The Hero's Walk is a moving story that shows the potential for heroism in the small acts of ordinary people. It presents a family in all its messy, glorious contradictions with insight, humor, and compassion. And it marks the arrival of a gifted writer of uncommon talent and heart.
Applications of Blockchain Technology: An Industry Focus
by Anita Ravani Sashi Edupuganti Jeannette Pugh Sooraj SushamaBlockchain technology is a disruptive technology that affords businesspeople an opportunity to correct problems of dishonesty, corruption, and poor decision-making. This book crafts blockchain technology for the non-technical expert, to interpret the various applications of blockchain technology through the lens of various industries and creates opportunities for professionals using practical applications and case studies. Blockchain technology is an important platform for businesses to consider as it provides a consensus based, trusted, and transparent system for businesses to operate various critical functions. As such, this book is a first of its kind to take a deep dive into the application of blockchain technology in different sectors. Applications of blockchain technology is explored through understanding of implementation and configuring the use of blockchain technology in real business application. The book provides access to disseminate blockchain technology and its application in a clear and structured manner by assimilating real-world-cases by providing valuable information for business audiences for all business sectors.
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You: Kids, Carbs, and the Coming Hormonal Apocalypse
by Anita RenfroeWhen I first learned that I was pregnant, I thought this was going to be the most blessed, beautiful, rose-petals-at-my-feet-and-bluebirds-lighting-upon-my-forearm time of my life.Then I went for my first prenatal visit.Which starts with a weigh-in.From comedian Anita Renfroe, already beloved by women's groups and YouTube viewers across America, comes this hilarious and brazenly honest look at motherhood and middle age. Famous for her live performance of the "Mom Song," which barrels through everything a mom says to her kids in a single day to the tune of the "William Tell Overture" (just two minutes and fifty-five seconds), in Don't Say I Didn't Warn You, Renfroe now turns her irreverent and daringly accurate comic eye to other female conditions.In chapters with names like "Brother, Can You Spare an Epidural?" and "Playing Favorites (Or, As a Matter of Fact, I Do Love Your Brother More)," she dares to speak what other women are thinking--but don't say out loud. Using wit and honesty as her weapons of choice, Renfroe shares her deeply funny and relatable takes on everything from weddings to mammograms to every woman's never-ending quest for just one good photo of herself.The world is a bounty of material for Renfroe; with it, she makes a feast of laughter for us all. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Duets
by Anita Renfroe John RenfroeWith Songs in the Key of Solomon, John and Anita Renfroe proved that devotionals can be fun--and maybe even sexy. This book offers a lively encore--more daily meditations based on the lives of couples in the Bible to help you deepen your emotional, spiritual, and physical unity, explore new levels of intimacy ... and have fun in the process.Written by a husband-wife team and based on an exploration of real couples throughout the Bible, the devotions in this book are custom designed to ignite meaningful conversation--and a whole lot more. They'll get you laughing, sharing, touching, praying, and having more fun together than you ever thought possible with a daily devotional. Whether you're marital virtuosos or a little out of tune, Duets is sure to help you stay in harmony and make beautiful music together.
Songs in the Key of Solomon
by Anita Renfroe John RenfroeLadies, are you tired of trying to engage your man in something he is reluctant to do? Let's face it: husbands are not normally seen running to bookstores to buy a couple's devotional.And guys, are you tired of feeling like the term "devotional" is code for "boring? You may be thinking, Please, not one more thing to check off my daily to-do list. Plus, you and your wife have different views on what intimacy is all about, right?If either of you is wondering if you're living more with your "roommate" than your "soulmate," then this devotional can help you meet on common ground and discover each other in new ways. You won't even need an alarm clock to wake you when your "devotional time" is finished.Filled with insights from a real couple on real issues, Songs in the Key of Solomon will get you and your spouse laughing, thinking, sharing, touching, and praying - possibly all during the same reading. Each offering in this devotional is designed to spark connections around issues that matter, so you'll deepen your emotional, spiritual, and physical unity and ignite new levels of intimacy. (One devotional involves a bathtub and some candles...try not to get stuck on that one page over and over again.)Here is an invitation to hear the music in your marriage - maybe for the first time...or maybe once again.
Songs in the Key of Solomon: In the Word and in the Mood
by Anita Renfroe John RenfroeThis unique, fun, and sexy devotional celebrates how every great marriage involves mind, spirit, and body. In Songs in the Key of Solomon, John and Anita Renfroe write in a way that gets men and women excited about the spiritual—and physical—harmony devotions can bring. With hilarious stories, real-life ideas, and biblical grounding, the Renfroes offer readers the following: Sixty sensory-stimulating encounters for married couples to enjoyConversation starters to get to know each other&’s heart more deeplyPassages of Scripture to explore togetherMotivating ideas for connection that appeal to both women and menInsights into the link between emotional and physical intimacy Unlike any couples&’ devotional out there, Songs in the Key of Solomon helps readers in any season of marriage enjoy a new closeness on both sides of the sheets.
American Cocktail
by George Hutchinson Anita Reynolds Howard M. MillerThis is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Of racially mixed heritage, Anita Reynolds was proudly African American but often passed for Indian, Mexican, or Creole. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, but above all free-spirited provocateur, she was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an "American cocktail. " One of the first black stars of the silent era, she appeared in Hollywood movies with Rudolph Valentino, attended Charlie Chaplin's anarchist meetings, and studied dance with Ruth St. Denis. She moved to New York in the 1920s and made a splash with both Harlem Renaissance elites and Greenwich Village bohemians. An emigre in Paris, she fell in with the Left Bank avant garde, " befriending Antonin Artaud, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso. Next, she took up residence as a journalist in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and witnessed firsthand the growing menace of fascism. In 1940, as the Nazi panzers closed in on Paris, Reynolds spent the final days before the French capitulation as a Red Cross nurse, afterward making a mad dash for Lisbon to escape on the last ship departing Europe. In prose that perfectly captures the globetrotting nonchalance of its author, American Cocktail" presents a stimulating, unforgettable self-portrait of a truly extraordinary woman.
Health and Gender: Resilience and Vulnerability Factors For Women's Health in the Contemporary Society
by Anita Riecher-Rössler Ilaria TarriconeThis book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the most important protective and risk factors for women's health, and reviews the main areas of medical science from a gender perspective. Numerous scientific experiments and studies have shown how gender differences significantly affect the clinical presentation of physical and mental health disorders as well as responses to treatments. This text highlights these issues, while at the same time reflecting on the practical implications of the theoretical knowledge presented. It also examines the organization of social and health services, which should increasingly take into account the specificities related to gender differences and where equality is based on truly embracing these differences. The final part provides insights into the experiences and testimonies collected by the authors of the book. Written by a multidisciplinary team of medical, psychosocial and humanities professionals, this book is of interest to health professionals and medical students.
Irrsinnig weiblich - Psychische Krisen im Frauenleben
by Anita Riecher-Rössler Beate Wimmer-Puchinger Karin Gutiérrez-LobosIn diesem Fachbuch beschäftigen sich mehr als ein Dutzend renommierter Expertinnen und Experten mit den Ursachen von psychischen Störungen bei Frauen, zeigen konkrete präventive Maßnahmen auf und stellen mögliche Therapien und Perspektiven vor, wie die psychische Gesundheit von Frauen erhalten werden kann. Psychische Störungen treten nämlich bei Frauen und Männern zwar insgesamt gleich häufig auf, doch sind Frauen anderen Risiken, Belastungen und Erkrankungen ausgesetzt. Sie leiden häufiger an Depressionen, Angst- oder Essstörungen. Das Buch richtet sich an Fachleute in der Medizin, vor allem in der Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe sowie der Psychiatrie, in der Psychologie sowie an Expertinnen und Experten, die in der psychosozialen Betreuung und Beratung im Bereich Frauengesundheit tätig sind. Es ist auch für Lehrende und Studierende in diesen Fachgebieten zu empfehlen. Es analysiert die Grundlagen der psychischen Gesundheit von Frauen, zudem werden folgende Themenbereiche behandelt: Körperbild und Selbstzweifel; Gewalt und Früherkennung; Sexualität und Unsicherheit; Schwangerschaft beziehungsweise Elternschaft und Krisen; Reproduktionsmedizin und Psyche; Migration und Risiken sowie das Thema Psychotherapie und Gender.
Joint Care of Parents and Infants in Perinatal Psychiatry
by Anne-Laure Sutter-Dallay Nine M-C Glangeaud-Freudenthal Antoine Guedeney Anita Riecher-RösslerThis book addresses key issues in perinatal mental health and discusses the different types of psychiatric care that may be appropriate for pregnant women, parents and infants, with emphasis on the need for joint care. The wide range of preventive measures, mainly applicable in primary care and the various potential curative interventions are examined in detail, with coverage of ambulatory care, day care and the role of mother and baby units. The importance of working in networks and joint decision-making strategies is explained. In addition, an overview of maternal perinatal psychopathology is provided and other relevant aspects are fully discussed, including the establishment of parent-infant interactions and the impacts of parental psychiatric illness on parenting skills and infant development. The book will be invaluable for adult and child psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, midwives, nurses and all others involved in the provision of perinatal psychiatric care.
Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Trends And Challenges For Economy And Society
by Christian Brünner Georg Königsberger Hannes Mayer Anita RinnerThe book focuses on the topic of trends and challenges with regards to satellite-based earth observation. Contributors include legal experts in the field and representatives from institutions such as the European Space Agency, the European Space Policy Institute, academia and the private sector.
ADHD & Us: A Couple's Guide to Loving and Living With Adult ADHD
by Anita Robertson LCSWNavigating adult ADHD in your relationship—simple, effective strategies to strengthen your commitment Communicating and thriving in a neurodiverse relationship is possible. ADHD & Us gives couples the tools and strategies they need to connect as well as overcome the unique challenges they face on the road to long-term happiness and satisfaction. Drawing from Anita Robertson's years of practice counseling couples with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), this honest and straightforward guide helps couples better understand adult ADHD and how it affects relationships, while also providing the tools necessary for both partners to feel understood and respected. Learn how to avoid common conflicts, appreciate your differences, and meet each partner's needs. Together, you can make it happen. This relationship guide for people with adult ADHD includes: Five pillars of success—Learn about the five relationship pillars—praise, acknowledgement, games, growth mindset, and positive acceptance—and how they are essential in a successful relationship. A practical approach to adult ADHD—Build communication skills and deepen your connection using engaging exercises that allow both partners to share in safe and constructive ways. Modern and inclusive guidance—With expert advice based on the most-up-to-date understandings of adult ADHD, this book is designed for use in all kinds of relationships. Overcome the challenges of dealing with adult ADHD and thrive together with this simple, actionable guide.
World History Ancient Civilizations
by Douglas Carnine Carlos Cortés Kenneth Curtis Anita RobinsonNIMAC-sourced textbook
World History Medieval and Early Modern Times
by Douglas Carnine Carlos Cortés Kenneth Curtis Anita RobinsonNIMAC-sourced textbook
The Small Business Start-up Workbook: A Step-by-step Guide To Starting The Business You've Dreamed Of
by Cheryl Rickman Anita RoddickIn this practical and comprehensive workbook, Cheryl Rickman, offers a modern approach to self-employment and business start-up. Packed with real-life case studies and practical exercises, checklists and worksheets, it provides a step-by-step guide to researching and formulating your business ideas, planning the right marketing strategies, and managing a team that will drive your vision forward with you. You'll discover what, with hindsight, well-known entrepreneurs would have done differently, what their biggest mistakes have been and what they've learnt: Dame Anita Roddick, Julie Meyer, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Simon Woodroffe and others reveal their best and worst decisions and contribute their wisdom and tips for succeeding in business. You'll learn how to: develop, research and plan "the idea"; design and create the right products and services; define and understand your customers and target audience; secure finance and manage cash flow and accounts; create a winning brand and marketing message; gain and retain customers; achieve competitive advantage; plan, create, launch and promote your website; and manage your business and time. This fresh approach to small business start-up also includes information and recommendations on making your business ethical and socially responsible, along with exercises to help build self-confidence and visualize success.
The Law of the Baltic States
by Tanel Kerikmäe Kristi Joamets Jānis Pleps Anita Rodiņa Tomas Berkmanas Edita GruodytėThis is the first book to present the law of the Baltic States in one comprehensive and coherent volume in English. The Baltic States region, which was incorporated by the Soviet Union for 50 years and now is the only such territory in the EU, continues to be characterized by a number of unique traits, problems and developmental trends. This book addresses these facets of law - the status quo, problems and trends - by adopting a comparative perspective structure for all three Baltic States (divided into three main parts - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). Each of these parts examines similar core aspects: General Frameworks, Public Law, and Private Law. Taking into account the peculiarities of each country, the individual chapters provide analyses of principles, problems and developments in specific legal branches. The authors of the book are recognized academics and professionals in the field of law. Taken together, their contributions offer a valuable tool and resource for anyone interested in the law of the Baltic States: students, legal practitioners, scholars, administrators, etc.
Coyota in the Kitchen: A Memoir of New and Old Mexico (Querencias Series)
by Anita RodríguezThis book of stories and recipes introduces two eccentric families that would never have eaten together, let alone exchanged recipes, but for the improbable marriage of the author&’s parents: a nuevomexicano from Taos and a painter who came from Texas to New Mexico to study art. Recalling the good and the terrible cooks in her family, Anita Rodríguez also shares the complications of navigating a safe path among contradictory cultural perspectives. She takes us from the mountain villages of New Mexico in the 1940s to sipping mint juleps on the porch of a mansion in the South, and also on a prolonged pilgrimage to Mexico and back again to New Mexico. Accompanied by Rodríguez&’s vibrant paintings—including scenes of people eating on fiesta nights and plastering an adobe church—Coyota in the Kitchen shows how food reflects the complicated family histories that shape our lives.
Communication, Relationships and Care: A Reader
by Carol Komaromy Martin Robb Sheila Barrett Anita Rogers<p>Communication and relationships have become an increasing focus of attention in debates about the future of health and social care. People working in care services are being encouraged to improve communication processes, to develop more participatory relationships with service users, and to work more closely in partnership with other professionals. <p>This Reader provides a comprehensive collection of literature that aims to enable those involved in care services, as workers, carers or service users, to reflect on their everyday interactions and to situate them in wider contexts. Including new material from the frontline of research and practice, as well as some classic readings, this wide-ranging volume emphasises the need to see interpersonal communication as embedded in relationships, and to take account of issues of power and diversity, as well as the emotional dimension of care work. Covering both health and social care, the Reader is divided into four sections, focusing on:* concepts and contexts* analysing aspects of communication* the person in the process* communication and relationships in organisations. <p>Communication, Relationships and Care will be an essential resource for students of social work, nursing, health and social policy, and for all involved in health and social care services, whether as professionals, carers or service users. It is a set book for the Open University's second level undergraduate course Communication and Relationships in Health and Social Care (K205).
Leading Interprofessional Teams in Health and Social Care
by Vivien Martin Anita RogersThe move to multidisciplinary teams in primary care and the emphasis on joined-up working across the human services make it increasingly necessary for health and social care professionals to take on a variety of leadership roles in teams made up of people from different professional backgrounds. This sort of leadership requires different skills from those required when working in the context of a single profession familiar to every member of the team.In Leading Interprofessional Teams in Health and Social Care, the authors use detailed case-studies to explore these skills. Nurses, social workers and other health and social care professionals, specialists and managers are included in the case-studies to demonstrate how leadership and teamworking roles can be taken in different ways and in different circumstances. The final section of the book presents an analysis of the case-studies to draw out the key issues and discusses how readers might develop themselves to be successful leaders and team members in these diverse settings.