OB/GYN Board Exam Secrets is a high-yield reference, now in its Fourth Edition, that targets and summarizes what you need to know for your upcoming ABOG exams in 2021. For many candidates, board preparation is an intimidating "behind closed doors" process but this book, which has been years in the making, is the first to expose those well-kept secrets and is an absolute must-read. Your Qualifying and Certifying Examinations are not just another round of routine tests. The harsh reality is that most obstetricians and gynecologists have never even been exposed to an oral format, let alone been taught the best preparation methods for such an exam. It may feel like a game in which you are literally left to fend for yourself and ascertain the rules on your own. But in actuality, it is far from being a sport and the stakes could not be higher.This resource is definitely the most up-to-date, in-depth guide for taking these exams and is the perfect resource for residents and fellows alike, as well as for practicing obstetricians and gynecologists. That is because it takes information from a great number of sources, some of which are obscure and difficult to access, and puts it all into one concise, easy-to-read text that will save you countless hours of research on your own.Special thanks goes to Abby Morgan, director of sales and marketing for the Warwick Melrose-Dallas Hotel, for her generous assistance in furnishing the photos for this book.
Set against the backdrop of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, an alternate history unfolds, linking the power of the pharaohs to magic. Brother is pitted against brother in a race to find twelve amulets, lost with the ancient pharaoh, and unlock their powers. Whoever holds the amulets holds that power; to save the world...or destroy it.
Each of us has the power to create and project a defined and confident personal brand. This power is not dictated by fame or fortune, but instead by dedication, focus and an unwavering belief in our potential to reach our professional goals. Forty Dollars and a Brand powerfully and emotionally symbolizes the ability for anyone to overcome challenges, defy the odds and create a bankable brand without breaking the bank. Author Denise Kaigler, an award-winning communications and brand strategist, beautifully recounts her impoverished childhood in Washington, D.C., fortuitous career at global brands Reebok, adidas Group, Nintendo, and Boston Scientific, and defining work with celebrities and influencers, including JAY-Z, Scarlett Johansson, Venus Williams, Diane von Furstenberg, 50 Cent, Allen Iverson, and others. In Forty Dollars and a Brand, Denise, a self-described shy introvert, bares her soul in gripping and poignant stories that collectively describe “an intensely personal account of what can happen when you believe in your potential.” Brand-building activities and exercises, and a blank journal round out this ‘how-to’ guide designed to help readers discover and live their awesomeness.
Dr. John Paitakes is in his 50th year working in criminal justice. He worked as a probation officer for 29 years rising to the position of Vicinage Assistant Chief Probation Officer. Upon retiring he began his second career as a Criminal Justice Professor at Seton Hall University where he taught 21 different criminal justice courses. He is presently serving his second term as an Alternate Parole Board member for the New Jersey State Parole Board. He has written numerous articles on a variety of criminal justice issues and has appeared on radio and television programs as a criminal justice expert.
Kalib Wilson an ex-gang member of Los Angeles California gives a factual, and an opinionated history of blacks in America, and why some young black males may find it necessary to join and be a part of a group that can be more harmful than it can be helpful. Once a person becomes a member of a gang, their life as they once knew it changes. A very in depth and detailed description of the principles that are to be applied under any and every circumstance are conveyed, and from the application of these principles are the consequences that are endured. So through experience comes the compassion, empathy, and willingness to disclose strength, hope, encouragement, and belief that unhealthy behaviors can be avoided, remedied, and changed through confidence and motivation. Kalib Wilson is a certified drug and alcohol counselor, and a father of five. With an AA degree in drug and alcohol counseling, Kalib takes pride in helping others through positive encouragement, enlightenment, and praise. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts now of 35 years, a resident of Los Angeles California.
Dead Air signals trouble at the radio station. Glenn Beckert discovers his high school best friend is shot in the head while on the air. Beck, the owner of Blue Water Security, is employed to provide security for the station.He becomes willingly embroiled in the investigation by the not-so-innocent widow. The list of potential suspects is long, gleaned from the numerous extramarital affairs of the victim and widow. The pending sale of the radio station has created friction between his now dead friend, Richie Zito and the major stockholders. Motives for murder becomes increasingly murky after the search reveals an encrypted file on Zito’s laptop. Beck enlists the help of an old flame, Irene Schade, to break the code, revealing a money laundering network leading to the financial and political powers of his beloved city of Pittsburgh. Their collaboration ignites the flames of passion each had considered extinguished.A former college teammate, police Lieutenant Paglironi delivers a message to back off. Arrogantly, he ignores his friend’s advice. The threats from less friendly sources are more ominous, forcing Beck to move in an unfamiliar world. A startling revelation from his client forces Beck to deal with his inner conviction of right and wrong, challenging the gray areas of his ethical principles. Betraying his client’s confidence could expose the killer. The alternative is to confront the suspect and take matters into his own hands. Either way his life is in jeopardy. Cliff Protzman was a winner in the 2015 real life writing contest, Unfinished Chapters. After attending the University of Pittsburgh, he began a thirty-year career in banking and finance. Cliff is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Pennwriters. Visit cliffprotzman.com for announcements of the second of this series coming the fall of 2018.
Many books on volunteerism and leadership are more theory than practice. Serving with Significance is full of easy-to-follow tips that can be implemented immediately by its readers. Although some people are lucky enough to be born leaders, leadership is a skill that can be learned. Like most skills, the more it is practiced, the better one gets. The concept of volunteerism at its very roots is changing the community and the world in which we live. Serving with Significance is designed for every type of group, from formal to informal, local to international, prayer group to professional group, social to humanitarian, and especially membership-based organizations. While the primary audience is that of the nonprofit sector, nearly all of the tips that follow are equally applicable in a corporate setting of any size. Leading the charge toward making a positive difference in the world is one of the few opportunities that every person can take advantage of at any point in his or her life.
Have you ever dismissed an opportunity because of fear? Do you realize that on the other side of fear lies your dreams? What would happen if you took that leap of faith to quiet voices that redesigned your recliner into a security blanket? This is the story of a sixty-four year old retiree, who on a whim, answered an online ad to tutor the child of a wealthy family living on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. Without a background check, knowing nothing more about the family than the fifty minute Skype interview revealed, I stepped onto an international flight headed to Spain. With a prayer in my heart and Imodium in my purse I moved forward to clutch a last opportunity for adventure. "How neat that you guys can just fly to any city whenever you want," I said. "Not even sure where I would pick if I had the chance." I thought for a moment. "Munich! I'd pick the Oktoberfest," I said to no one in particular. "Then that is where we shall go, Jill," chimed Kep. "You and me. I can tie it in with a business trip." He paused, orchestrating plans in his mind. "We will fly through Madrid. You will continue on and meet me at our hotel in Munich." He added, "Do not have dinner. There is a special restaurant I want to take you to."That night i lay awake staring at the planked casita ceiling. this job is a fairy tale, I thought. If you ever wanted to live on the wing of a dream, I invite you to follow along on my incredible journey in multiple countries with infinite experiences.
Get the facilitation skills that will take you from being willing to truly capable to lead safe and effective small groups.While Small Groups are incredibly effective in theory, oftentimes, ineffective leadership can cause these groups to falter. Author Mark Lutz has over twenty-two years of experience in successfully leading, supervising, and coaching thriving Small Groups. With a focus on skill acquisition, Mark will help bring out the qualities that make a successful leader, including active listening, asking good questions, and setting reasonable boundaries, among many others. Unleashing the Power of Small Groups: Essential Group Facilitation is the ultimate guide to creating and maintaining a positive Small Group experience. Mark Lutz prepared for the ministry at Cincinnati Christian University and studied counseling at Xavier University in Ohio. He has served for more than twenty years as the pastor of growth & healing at Vineyard Cincinnati Church. In that time he has overseen the recruitment, equipping, and supervision of a volunteer staff that provides nearly seventy support and recovery groups and countless hours of pastoral care to individuals annually.
Rabbi Benjamin J. Hollander, of blessed memory, was an impassioned teacher of Torah both in Israel and in North America to an entire generation of rabbis, university students, synagogue congregants, campers at Ramah summer camp, rabbinical colleagues and friends. He was a long-time teaching assistant and disciple of Nechama Leibowitz. During the fateful year 5754 (1993-94), he served as the weekly Torah commentator on Kol Yisrael radio. Many of those Torah commentaries are included in this book, together with additional writings by Rabbi Hollander and contributions from friends, family, and colleagues that commemorate his teaching.Rabbi Hollander's selection of themes from each weekly Torah portion are as particularly relevant to Jewish spiritual life today as they were in 1993-1994. The dramatic events on which the Torah scroll unrolled that year provide historical background of great interest while catalyzing Rabbi Hollander's exploration of more general issues confronting the State of Israel and the Jewish people during this pivotal period of its history. Rabbi Hollander writes: "The juxtaposition of these events with the Torah text provides the reader with a glimpse of one of the most exciting but controversial aspects of living in Israel today. This is the attempt to live Torah in the concreteness of its return with its People to the holy but conflicted Land; to live a Torah ever-forged in the dialectic between the demands of the Eternal and the needs and circumstances of the times."In these commentaries, Rabbi Hollander articulates "...the Torah values which ought to guide us as we seek - in our disparate ways - to apply them practically to the complex problems and dilemmas confronting our society...[and] the need for a Jewishness rooted in our sources and collective modes of expression, but with this special particularity also informed by a sensitivity to all people being "created in the image of God" and a commitment to our becoming a "blessing for all the families of the earth."
Set 80 years into the future, Nelson Jones, a young military cadet full of optimism, is enlisted into the New Era: a fascist regime that arises to rule the world after an attack from an alien species. Under the leadership of Earth’s dictator with his ruthless enforcer, Nelson witnesses horrible abuses of power and is forced to confront his values and his world view to make difficult choices. When he happens across a small faction of resistance against this tyranny, Nelson must risk his life to do what he feels is right. Author Jason F. Boggs introduces a universe full of complex characters where the line that separates right from wrong is blurred. The Devil’s Dragon is the first of a rich trilogy that explores what it means to be human, from a multiple of perspectives.
This book describes Allen Wilson's World War II service. The ROTC course he took while attending college, Officers' Candidate School at Fort Benning, his assignments on the West Coast, and the 18 months he spent in Algeria, Italy, and Austria are all chronicled in detail. There is also a chapter that focuses on wife Barbara's life with their daughter Suzan while Allen was overseas. Photographs, maps and cartoons accompany the narrative.Based primarily on letters Allen wrote between 1943 and 1945, military records and histories, and interviews with Barbara and Allen, this book provides an in-depth, personal account of the challenges and triumphs that occurred when a young soldier "answered the call."
The Wilsons: Occasionally Broke, But Never Poor is a story about the early days of the Wilson family of Texas, from 1926 to the mid-1960s.It describes the Great Depression and how the family patriarch, Dr. Emilus Wilson, saw most of his eleven kids and their families move back home to Corpus Christi.The book talks about the early days of Jack and his brother, Welcome, at the University of Houston, who were dropped off at the University of Houston with fifty dollars and told that they were on their own.It talks about their successful endeavor to obtain a Houston bank charter in the early 1960s, though they held total cash reserves of six hundred dollars, and their ten-year activity in civil defense during the Cold War (which included witnessing the Atom Bomb test in Nevada).The book concludes with a chapter about Jack Wilson's father, E.E. (Jack) Wilson, one of the great characters of all time.
Lunch is a unique work of fiction that uses familiar religious figures as the main characters, and their experiences and the dialogue within the story are meant to prompt the reader to ponder many regularly accepted mainstream cultural, societal, and religious concepts. The timeless themes and characters as well as the simple presentation of ideas make it an enlightening and provocative read.A rich, rewarding, and edgy book that can be read in an evening, will challenge the reader to revisit or rethink some of the religious and cultural beliefs that are part of our conventional wisdom.
Who is God’s mother? Where did Adam, the first man, really come from? Did Eve have a belly button? Does anyone who refuses to accept Jesus as the “savior” automatically go to hell? And the ultimate question: what is life’s purpose?Such are just some of the many musings and conundrums taken up by author Paul R. Bland, researcher, historian, seer of visions. While a plethora of religious texts, from the well-known Book of Genesis to the lesser-known Jewish Midrash, have attempted to provide explanations for such questions, no combination of works quite adequately explains some of life’s greatest mysteries.Who Is God’s Mother? examines the traditional textual explanations of the history of man and religion against the backdrop of paranormal phenomena. Drawing on his own visions and dreams of demons, aliens, and religious figures, author Paul R. Bland presents a fascinating insight into some of life’s greatest enigmas that will enthrall any reader, regardless of religious adherence.
Tracing the unforgettable tale of a little black girl from a small Ohio town who dared to dream above her station, this memoir captures the larger history of black people in America, from the arrival of Ellamae Simmons' ancestors aboard a slaving vessel in 1775, to the electrifying election of the nation's first African American president.Ellamae came of age at a time when even the most gifted Negro girls were expected to become domestics in white homes. But Ellamae yearned to study medicine, and she set about creating a world in which she could do just that. For most of her 97 years, she has been writing her story of struggle and triumph against the odds, refusing to let disappointment or heartbreak turn her aside.Delving into themes of inclusion and social justice, education and mental health, marriage and family, this is the story of a woman who wasn't content to just witness history, she went out and made her own.
No marriage is easy. The same was true of Renee and Samone's. Once high school sweethearts, they found themselves drifting apart, feeling trapped together, alone. Then, tragedy strikes, and Renee is left crumbling under the weight of the guilt of not having been a good wife. Enter Silver, a smooth-talking, handsome stranger with glistening forearms. Seeing Renee as vulnerable, he strikes, catching his prey. Renee is left reeling from the renewed grief of losing her husband, now compounded with the devastation of a terrible encounter with a stranger. The encounter not only leaves Renee in emotional turmoil, but it embroils her in a dark web of unsavory characters facing Unspeakable Things. Author Jackie Warren Tatum eloquently captures the mingling of regret and grief from losing a loved one--and the surprising places people turn to find comfort. Unspeakable Things a novel is about love lost, danger found, and the slow road to self-discovery.
The book, Hip Hop Ain't Dead: It's Livin' In the White House, is about a man, Barack Obama, who made history. By first, becoming the first Black President in the history of the United States, and second, shattering the mold of conventional politics by making hip hop culture his political ally. Obama's public relationship with hip hop throughout his presidency caused just as much of an explosion of public dialogue as his place in history as the first Black American President. The author Sanford Richmond details moments of his childhood as a hip hop fan, witnessing--and even personally experiencing--firsthand some of the historical moments that granted hip hop the control and influence over the American mainstream that the culture has maintained for the last two decades.Obama's historical presence at the White House, influenced by the social and cultural power of hip hop, should guide and inspire conversations about race relations throughout the duration of the 21st century.
"We are all cursed, I think."During the time of the Revolutionary War in New Bedford, Massachusetts, fishermen became privateers and the British Navy planned an attack to destroy the town. Bone Of My Bone tells the story of an historical family as they attempt to survive a time of war and divided family loyalties.The Jenney family are in constant turmoil, both publicly and privately--a state of being recently exacerbated by a sudden financial hardship. Isaac, the eldest son, is an innocent man striving to be a good son, husband, and father. But what he wants most is independence--a farm of his own--which his father is not eager to grant him. Ephraim, the family patriarch, is a Tory, loyal to the king. Isaac's brother, James--a whaler, privateer and sharpshooter--is caught up in the adventure of the revolution, and is unpredictable and volatile. Another brother, Sleigh, is perhaps mentally ill, and acts out in bizarre ways that turn the community against the family. Add to this a profound family tragedy shrouded in secrecy, the violent murder of an abusive constable, and sundry addictions and thick layers of hidden darkness.The fragile fabric of the family begins to unravel as war finally comes to their doorstep. Isaac's smart and loyal wife, Maggie, hatches a dangerous plan to save Isaac and secure his independence. Or are the family's darkest days still to come? David C. Lavoie uses extensive historical and genealogical research to render a sumptuous depiction of the family, their lives, and the birth of our nation.
The sharp bite of nostalgia, the wars we fight against others and against ourselves, and the gentle heartbreaks and joys that sneak up on us with each passing year: these are the ingredients of life, and the heart of A Hundred-Year Wind.In these pages we encounter Donald, who experiences a fresh slap of isolation when he returns to school after the loss of his family: "By association, / Fate of an ordinary day, / Might go horribly wrong again." And Elva Lea, who "Recalled the long journey / That began in a tiny bungalow scarcely a hundred miles away, / A place where eight people tried to reconstitute a family / And failed." We meet children who turn branches of oak trees into ships on waves of wind, and grandchildren who become "an image on a computer screen talking to a camera."With profound observations of the turmoil that marks each new generation, these poems become our own, and serve as a reminder of the strength of those who came before us, and of the resilience found in us all.
“People aren’t stupid, they’re just wired differently. But it’s okay…they can be trained.”That’s Belle’s story, and she’s sticking to it. This smart, sassy rescue dog from the streets of Los Angeles worked hard to figure out how to get the most out of life. Now she is sharing her wisdom with all dog—and person—kind.Ever wonder what your dog is thinking, or why she behaves the way she does? Belle has the answers, and they may surprise you. Spoiler alert: as much as you train your dog, she trains you even more—and you don’t even realize she’s doing it.Dog Only Knows: The Word of Dog is the ultimate relationship guide for dogs and their people. When we communicate better, we can love each other better. And Dog Only Knows, that’s what life is all about.Praise for Dog Only Knows:“I had no idea you could do so much without opposable thumbs.”—Houdini the Jack Russell Terrier“Definitely the tastiest book I have ever eaten.”—Tonka, a.k.a. “The Destroyer,” breed unknown
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