Melody Fox, disillusioned psychologist, is the only person who suspects the sudden death of Grant Fisher, her husband's friend and business partner, was not due to a previously undiagnosed bad heart. She has absolutely nothing to support her gut feelings--at first. Melody begins delving into places she shouldn't go and finds answers to questions she wished she'd never asked. The tenacious Melody Fox finds herself in perilous, life-threatening predicaments as she attempts to uncover the truth about the prestigious Scottsdale Anti-Aging Clinic and Grant Fisher's ...

The child's brain is in a state of development and plasticity. Childhood experiences and social interactions can shape the developing brain in ways that can have long term psychological and physical health con­sequences. Childhood experiences of abuse and attachment styles may influence physical health through biological, cognitive, behavio­ral, and emotional mechanisms. The developing brain needs such adaptivity that can both contribute to coping mechanisms and in­dividuality within the parameters of genetics. The chronic stress of abuse or insecure ...

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This book explores the nature, structure, culture, products and services of the global tourism industry, with a particular focus on its inherent vulnerability to a plethora of internal and external pressures and opportunities. Vulnerabilities discussed include the dynamic global environment (political, economic, social and technological domains), changing customer markets, supply chain issues between interconnected tourism sectors and service providers, the degradation of tourism products, public and private sector interface issues, together with ...

This edited collection poses crucial questions about the relationship between gender and genre in travel writing, asking how gender shapes formal and thematic approaches to the various generic forms employed to represent and recreate travel. While the question of the genre of travel writing has often been debated (is it a genre, a hybrid genre, a sub-genre of autobiography?), and recent years have been much attention to travel writing and gender, these have rarely been combined.  This book sheds light on how the gendered nature of writing and reading ...

Heather Robbins lived twenty-five years on a cattle ranch on the Canada prairies, and spent many hours outside walking through fields and pastures, hills and valleys. She found beauty and inspiration in everything that she saw. Mother Nature reached into her soul and brought her to a place of complete belonging and peace. Wildflowers composed their sweet songs, sweeping Heather away into a world of inspiration, and they gently reminded her of what was possible, motivating her to live her life with hope, strength, and grace. Each wildflower whispered their ...

In her bid to find safety, Princess Zira Sallee finds herself in Cyra, the home planet of her companion, Prince Luther Saboa. The tension between Luther and Zira only grows here, and the love that had started to grow between them quickly wilts under the pressure. Unwilling to be helpless, Zira takes control of her life again and becomes the woman she needs to be to survive. She has new Elite to protect her, a good friend of questionable morals to spy for her, and the cunning to get her through it. War with Avalonia is inevitable, but Zira will not be the ...

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It is March 2009 as a Jewish father opens his car door in a toy store parking lot and feels cold, hard metal against the back of his head. After David Hirsh turns, he looks his assassin in the eyes and begs for his life. But before he can finish, he feels a burning sensation in his chest and everything turns dark. Now, he helplessly watches from the after-life as his family receives the horrifying news of his murder. After his assassin is killed by police and buried in an unmarked grave, his soul does not depart his body, but instead becomes embedded in ...

A Study Guide for Li-Young Lee's "Early in the Morning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.