Book synopsis: In this deeply moving and beautifully written memoir the author has created a page turning story. She has blended together a story of a woman, no matter how devastating, rises up from personal setbacks as well as serious medical issues, to teach us all by example, how to survive and live.Autobiography: This is 94-year-old Carolyn Fried's second book. She started out as a school teacher, then became a successful real-estate investor. She chairs the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild and is politically active in progressive causes. Carolyn was known for hosting unusual dinner events which led to her first book, 12 Great Parties. Later in life, she returned to writing with a vengeance. Her philosophy is simple: "The brain is a muscle-if you don't use it, it will atrophy."
Book synopsis: In this deeply moving and beautifully written memoir the author has created a page turning story. She has blended together a story of a woman, no matter how devastating, rises up from personal setbacks as well as serious medical issues, to teach us all by example, how to survive and live.Autobiography: This is 94-year-old Carolyn Fried's second book. She started out as a school teacher, then became a successful real-estate investor. She chairs the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild and is politically active in progressive causes. Carolyn was known for hosting unusual dinner events which led to her first book, 12 Great Parties. Later in life, she returned to writing with a vengeance. Her philosophy is simple: "The brain is a muscle-if you don't use it, it will atrophy."
Book Synopsis: Stacey & Jay meet on a blind date at a mutual friend's house for dinner. Neither one is looking for a long-term relationship. Jay is a 35-year-old distinguished doctor of sports medicine & orthopedics. He has high profile clients from both football and basketball teams. Stacey, a small town girl who, at 25 years of age, is still a virgin and works as a book editor. ey eventually marry, have children and work to overcome many struggles, including extramarital activity, mixed-faith marriage, cancer, surgery-all during a pandemic lockdown.Autobiography: Carolyn Fried is the author of several books, including a Memoir titled "Carolyn" and a guide to entertaining called "Twelve Great Parties." Her varied career includes Elementary School Teacher, working with children with learning disabilities. She is currently active in the mortgage and real estate investment business. She has designed her own 6-week course for women helping them understand the importance of financial planning. Also involved with charitable groups holding leadership positions and has chaired major charitable events. She resides in Los Angeles with her dog, Candy.
Book synopsis: Stacey & Jay meet on a blind date at a mutual friend's house for dinner. Neither one is looking for a long-term relationship. Jay is a 35-year-old distinguished doctor of sports medicine & orthopedics. He has high profile clients from both football and basketball teams. Stacey, a small town girl who, at 25 years of age, is still a virgin and works as a book editor. ey eventually marry, have children and work to overcome many struggles, including extramarital activity, mixed-faith marriage, cancer, surgery-all during a pandemic lockdown.Autobiography: Carolyn Fried is the author of several books, including a Memoir titled "Carolyn" and a guide to entertaining called "Twelve Great Parties." Her varied career includes Elementary School Teacher, working with children with learning disabilities. She is currently active in the mortgage and real estate investment business. She has designed her own 6-week course for women helping them understand the importance of financial planning. Also involved with charitable groups holding leadership positions and has chaired major charitable events. She resides in Los Angeles with her dog, Candy.
Book synopsis: Orgy at Eight is about two couples throwing a prank theme party in 1967. What starts out as a marriage encounter group spoof quickly turns into a night of debauchery-with the help of a hallucinogenic-spiked punch. It is a wild night which will have far-reaching implications for everyone in attendance. Autobiography: This is 94-year-old Carolyn Fried's fourth book. She started out as a school teacher, then became a successful real-estate investor. She chairs the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild and is politically active in progressive causes. Carolyn was known for hosting unusual dinner events which led to her first book, 12 Great Parties. Later in life, she returned to writing with a vengeance. Her philosophy is simple: "The brain is a muscle-if you don't use it, it will atrophy."
Beth is wanting out of her engagement to Wyatt when she meets his younger brother, Billy. But where Wyatt is suave and worldly, Billy is a hick country boy who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty. Yet there is something about Billy's gentle ways that touches her heart.Unfortunately, Beth is a born klutz. Bad luck follows her wherever she goes, and Beth is positive bad luck will continue to plague her if she allows herself to fall in love with Billy.That was before she fell into a stock tank, and right into Billy's arms
Fundraising experts Karen Brooks Hopkins of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Carolyn Stolper Friedman of the Contemporary Museum of Art in Chicago offer important insights into today's best fundraising strategies for arts and cultural organizations of all sizes. New to this edition is an in-depth examination of corporate sponsorships, as well as a detailed chapter on endowment campaigns. All statistics, appendixes, and examples have been updated, and many helpful examples, including pledge forms, campaign statements, and sponsorship contracts, are also included.
There are few things that stir up our culture more than sex, particularly sex and children. Sexual behavior in children represents, to far too many people, further proof of the moral decay of our society. Any issue that provokes as strong an emotional reaction as childhood sexuality is obviously in need of a rational discussion. The best features of thought and reason include their moderating influence on overheated and reaction emotions. Consequently, this book by Betty Gordon and Carolyn Schroeder represents a very important, and even brave, counter to irrationality. When the Surgeon General of the United States is forced to resign because the words "children" and "masturbation" appear in the same sentence, you know that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about sexuality. My own evolution as a researcher in the area of child sexual abuse is a model of how naivete can be corrected by knowledge. Some of my early research in sexual abuse of children led me to realize that sexual behavior was a reliable marker of victimization in a relatively large percentage of children (Friedrich, Urquiza, & Beilke, 1986). My blinders to sexuality were evident in that I had not even hypothesized that to be the case in this early, exploratory research. When I realized how important sexual behavior was, several colleagues and I set out to interview parents and foster parents of sexually abused children more specifically. These adults were routinely quite reactive to our queries.
There are few things that stir up our culture more than sex, particularly sex and children. Sexual behavior in children represents, to far too many people, further proof of the moral decay of our society. Any issue that provokes as strong an emotional reaction as childhood sexuality is obviously in need of a rational discussion. The best features of thought and reason include their moderating influence on overheated and reaction emotions. Consequently, this book by Betty Gordon and Carolyn Schroeder represents a very important, and even brave, counter to irrationality. When the Surgeon General of the United States is forced to resign because the words "children" and "masturbation" appear in the same sentence, you know that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about sexuality. My own evolution as a researcher in the area of child sexual abuse is a model of how naivete can be corrected by knowledge. Some of my early research in sexual abuse of children led me to realize that sexual behavior was a reliable marker of victimization in a relatively large percentage of children (Friedrich, Urquiza, & Beilke, 1986). My blinders to sexuality were evident in that I had not even hypothesized that to be the case in this early, exploratory research. When I realized how important sexual behavior was, several colleagues and I set out to interview parents and foster parents of sexually abused children more specifically. These adults were routinely quite reactive to our queries.
CATS, COTTON, AND...MURDER--The worlds of Sarah Booth Delaney's Zinnia, Mississippi and Trouble, the black cat detective, collide in this fast-paced tale of high stakes cotton research, abduction, and murder.Trouble, the Sherlockian feline, falls in with Pluto, another cat with a yin for detective work, to find the missing Trudy Wells. But the cats aren't alone. Tabitha Kingsley, posing as a psychic medium, has come to the Mississippi Delta to find her missing sister.Standing in Tabitha's way is the cynical--and compelling--Roger Long. Roger manages the vast Long Agricultural Products farm and business. Trudy was his newly hired receptionist--and possible lover--before she disappeared.In a world of wealth and privilege, Tabitha must discover the truth of what her rebellious, sometimes law-breaking, sister was really up to. And she must trust Roger to help her.Trouble and Pluto aid the bipeds in finding the answers--to Trudy's vanishing act and also to the path to trust.
Although there are as many answers to the question of how organizations can gain competitive advantage in today's global economy as there are books and experts, one lesson seems very clear: traditional answers and resources are no longer sufficient. This seminal book offers not only an answer regarding how to gain competitive advantage through people, but also a brand new, untapped human resource--psychological capital, or simply PsyCap. Generated from both the positive-psychology movement and the authors' pioneering work on positive organizational behavior, PsyCap is a rigorous concept: to be included in PsyCap, a given positive construct must be based on theory, research, and valid measurement, must be open to development, and must have measurable performance impact. The positive constructs that have been determined to best meet these PsyCap criteria--efficacy (confidence), hope, optimism, and resiliency--are covered in separate chapters in Psychological Capital and Beyond. Following an exploration of other potential positive constructs such as creativity, wisdom, well-being, flow, humor, gratitude, forgiveness, emotional intelligence, spirituality, authenticity, and courage, the authors summarize the research demonstrating the performance impact of PsyCap. They go on to provide the PsyCap Questionnaire (PCQ) as a measurement tool, and the PsyCap Intervention (PCI) as a development aid. Psychological Capital and Beyond provides theory, research, measurements, and methods of application for psychological capital, a resource that can be developed and sustained for competitive advantage. Each copy includes a complimentary PsyCap online self-assessment.
Luego de escapar de su hogar en Inglaterra, Carolyn se embarca en un viaje a Am rica con la esperanza de reconstruir su vida. Sin embargo, al llegar al Nuevo Mundo, se dar cuenta de lo dif cil que ser sobrevivir en la Am rica Revolucionaria.
Carolyn Corley Clark -- a cartoonist at age five, a writer and ilustrator of original stories at eight, speech writer at eleven and prize-winning short story writer at sixteen.When she graduated from The University of North Carolina in 1957, her Phi Beta Kappa induction topped sixteen years of straight A's, and she excelled as a radio personality before her twenty-second birthday. After marriage, Carolyn put her broadcasting career on hold to raise a family. Eventually she resumed her career, writing advertising copy for newspapers and direct mail and informercials for television, all in major markets. Later, she not only wrote advertising copy for a fine jewelry store operated by her and her husband, she also used her artistic skills to become a jewelry designer, both for clients and for sale in their store. In her seventies, she fulfilled a life-long dream to become a tour guide in historic Beaufort, South Carolina, where she retired with her husband. She wrote her own script and made period dresses to wear.After she died in 2016, a victim of Alzheimer's disease, her husband began writing, first as a way to deal with grief. Reflecting on Carolyn's life and accomplishments, he found wonderful memories surfacing of their more than six decades together, beginning in Chapel Hill where as students they met and fell in love, and he decided to write this story. The result is a fresh, sometimes serious, sometimes humorous and always heartfelt memoir of a remarkable lady and a lasting love.
Carolyn Corley Clark -- a cartoonist at age five, a writer and ilustrator of original stories at eight, speech writer at eleven and prize-winning short story writer at sixteen.When she graduated from The University of North Carolina in 1957, her Phi Beta Kappa induction topped sixteen years of straight A's, and she excelled as a radio personality before her twenty-second birthday. After marriage, Carolyn put her broadcasting career on hold to raise a family. Eventually she resumed her career, writing advertising copy for newspapers and direct mail and informercials for television, all in major markets. Later, she not only wrote advertising copy for a fine jewelry store operated by her and her husband, she also used her artistic skills to become a jewelry designer, both for clients and for sale in their store. In her seventies, she fulfilled a life-long dream to become a tour guide in historic Beaufort, South Carolina, where she retired with her husband. She wrote her own script and made period dresses to wear.After she died in 2016, a victim of Alzheimer's disease, her husband began writing, first as a way to deal with grief. Reflecting on Carolyn's life and accomplishments, he found wonderful memories surfacing of their more than six decades together, beginning in Chapel Hill where as students they met and fell in love, and he decided to write this story. The result is a fresh, sometimes serious, sometimes humorous and always heartfelt memoir of a remarkable lady and a lasting love.
