Julia Berkwith's daughter has moved to Alaska, her beloved mother-in-law is in a nursing home, and her ex-husband is in Hawaii--with a younger woman. In her late forties, Julia is now used to being invisible. But even if she has to do it alone, she's determined to celebrate her victory over breast cancer by hiking Italy's Cinque Terre. Invigorated by the beauty of the Italian countryside, Julia seems unstoppable, until she's injured by a rock--one...

Because of the bad economy and personal circumstances, I found it necessary to combine my middle book, Shadows of the Past, with this book, “The Road to Visibility”. My first book, “Invisible Me”, tells of my four-year hospitalization because of a life of abuse and betrayal. With no real support system, I simply lost my will to live. I hope you find this book informative and helpful as I will reveal the reasons, I lost my will to live and...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. #1 I had agreed to two speaking engagements. In the morning, I spoke to one hundred fifty undergraduates on selective infanticide. In the evening, it was a convivial discussion of assisted suicide. I was the token cripple with an opposing view. #2 I am in the first generation to survive to such decrepitude. Because antibiotics were available, we didn't die from the childhood pneumonias...

Get the career opportunities you deserve. Learn how being strategic about visibility can be the key to opening new doors. Stellar performance is only half of the equation when it comes to professional success. The other half is visibility—ensuring that decision-makers know about your accomplishments and career goals. Many decisions that impact your career will happen when you're not even in the room. Company leaders are constantly setting strategy...

Being seen in your role as a leader is key to advancing your agenda. Discover how to intentionally manage and boost your visibility when working with remote teams. Much of your day-to-day work likely requires you to interact with only a select few teams or colleagues. But as a leader, visibility is key to advancing your agenda. Your teams need to see you show up to lead and provide reassurance. And, as more organizations embrace a mixture of remote...

Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences." —Chicago Tribune, "Best...

Realizing time is of the essence, Kakashi decides to use the Sharingan once again to defeat Zabuza.

Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic...

The War on Terror (WOT) is actually a war against extremist insurgents comprised of numerous and varied organizations scattered across the globe. They are spurred to action by an extremist ideology that is nurtured, demonstrated, and led by al Qaeda and its leadership. This ideology serves as the insurgency's center of gravity whereby it gains all manner of support across a broad spectrum of functional resources in multiple operational domains. As...