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Life Management 2.0: How to Have the Time of Your Life

Author(s): Marvin Karlins

This book is about time management and how you can use it to achieve a joyful life.  Therefore, the determination of how successfully you manage your time is not assessed in traditional time management terms (efficient scheduling, enhanced productivity) but, rather, how effectively you use your time...

Towards an Understanding of Africology

Author(s): Victor O Okafor

New Sixth Edition Now Available! Since 1968 when the first Black Studies department was established at San Francisco State University, more than three hundred other departments, programs and centers have surfaced on various campuses of the nation, including Ph.D. programs. Towards an Understan...

Gridlock on the Gridiron: Gender Issues in Football

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Abstract Lauren is a sixth grader living in a small town. She is athletic and interested in sports. With the encouragement of her friends, Lauren wants to play on the football team. In trying out for the team, she encounters some gridlock on the gridiron.  *** “Mom, I want to play football....

No Strings Attached: Friends with Benefits on a College Campus

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Sample At eleven o’clock on a Friday night in September, a popular college bar called Josie’s Grill has a line out the door and snaking down the block. Inside, men in polo shirts and women in stilettos crush against the bar, vying for the bartenders’ attention. Whitney, a first-year college stude...

The Big Bang: Adding a New Generation to a Family

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Abstract Emma’s family grew last year when she and her husband Ted had their first child, Flora. Like with any couple’s first child, Flora created new relationships (parent–child and grandparent–grandchild). The arrival of a new generation also forms a major turning point for existing relationshi...

I'm Sorry for Your Loss: Communicating with Those Who are Bereaved

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Sample It was a beautiful spring day in May. The tulips and daffodils were blooming in brilliant shades of yellow, pink, and red. The sky was robin’s egg blue and full of fluffy, white clouds. For 20-year-old Libby Jamieson, it may as well have been a cold December day. Libby was standing in Oak ...

Dynamics: A Lecturebook

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"This hybrid textbook/lecture notes set is designed to provide an undergraduate-level, engineering-focused introduction to the topic of dynamics. To this end, the text covers the following key topical areas: • Particle and Rigid Body Kinematics, including Cartesian, path, polar, and cylindrical desc...

Exercise Science: Concepts, Principles, & Professions

Author(s): Kimberly Eskola

Exercise Science: Concepts, Principles, and Professions was designed to provide individuals interested in pursuing professions that were health, wellness, and fitness-based the basic concepts and principles of disciplines essential to understanding the human body and how we develop.  The textbook is...