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In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women. Drawing on extensive research, interviews with women who served in the 1970s and 1980s, and her personal experiences in the Air Force, Eileen Bjorkman weaves together a tale of the women who fought for the right to enter combat and be treated as equal partners in the U.S. military.

In Navigating the Challenges of Concussion, expert clinicians and researchers in the fields of neurology and neuropsychology teamed together to provide up-to-date and evidence-based information for patients and families affected by concussion or those at increased risk of sustaining concussions.

Filled with positive, life-affirming stories and coping strategies, this resource will help same-sex couples deal effectively with the daily challenges and stresses of homophobia within their family, workplace, and community.

Companies from startups to corporate giants face massive amounts of disruption today. Now more than ever, organizations need nimble and responsive leaders who know how to exploit the opportunities that change brings. In this insightful book, Jean Dahl, a senior executive and expert in the Lean mindset and its methods, demonstrates why you need to embrace Modern Lean principles and thinking to redefine leadership in this age of digital disruption in order to continuously evolve the Lean enterprise.

Before she became the "Notorious R.B.G." famous for her passionate dissents while serving as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her most significant contributions as a lawyer who litigated cases on gender equality before the high court in the 1970s.

"Mein Chef erteilte mir eine harte Lektion": Die bildhübsche Zahnarzthelferin Tanja lässt sich in der Arbeit von der boshaften Gattin ihres attraktiven Chefs provozieren, bis ihr der Kragen platzt und sie die Dame angreift. Doch da hat sie die Rechnung ohne ihren Chef gemacht. Dieser stellt sich schützend vor seine Ehefrau. Die beiden erteilen Tanja zur Strafe eine gnadenlos harte Züchtigung vor den Augen all ihrer Kolleginnen, die sie so schnell nicht mehr vergessen sollte.

Liebes Tagebuch: beginnt man so einen ersten Eintrag? Das letzte Mal ist lange her, dass ich meine Gefühle und Träume; meine tiefsten Empfindungen und heimlichen Sehnsüchte in ein Tagebuch eingetragen habe. Aber dieses Sexerlebnis nach meiner Scheidung muss ich doch darin festhalten.

In dieser Geschichte geht es um Nicole von Adelsberg. Sie führt selbstständig einen Antiquitätenladen in der Stadt. Wer Nicole kennt, überlegt sich zweimal, ob er sich traut, sich auf die junge Frau einzulassen. Leider bekam ein total unschuldiger Paketbote ihre Vorliebe für sadistische Spielchen zu spüren.

Ben ist ein durchtriebener Schwerenöter, der jedem Rock hinterherjagt und alle Frauen in seiner Umgebung schamlos ausnutzt. Doch diesmal hat er die Rechnung mit den falschen Frauen gemacht. Nachdem der Student seiner Professorin mit heißen Sexspielchen die Antworten für die nächste Klausur aus den Rippen geleiert hat, tut diese sich mit Bens Freundin Kati und seiner heimlichen Affäre Daria zusammen, um ihm eine gehörige Lektion zu erteilen.

Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, making inroads as entrepreneurs and leaders, acquiring more education, marrying later, and having fewer children—all trends consistent with spending a far greater fraction of their adult lives in the labor force. Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides an essential and accessible introduction to the significance of women in the economy and the obstacles they face in claiming equal status, tackling timely topics like the wage gap, "women's work," and gendered workplace interactions.

Psychotherapist Tamara Kiekhaefer has worked in the field of mental health for over twenty years, and now, has developed Preparing for the Jungle to teach what she knows is required to achieve a healthy, romantic relationship. After working with thousands of clients from different backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic structures, Tamara has found one truth that remains the same: How we communicate and resolve conflict is directly correlated with the success and fulfillment of our personal relationships.

When Freedom Speaks chronicles the stories behind our First Amendment right to speak our minds. Lynn Levine Greenky's background as a lawyer, rhetorician, and teacher gives her a unique perspective on the protection we have from laws that abridge our right to the freedom of speech. Powerfully employing that rhetorical approach, this book explores concepts related to free speech as moral narratives that proscribe the boundaries of our constitutionally protected right.

Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook explores the practice of legend tripping, wherein individuals or groups travel to a site where a legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is a common, informal practice, depicted in epics, stories, novels, and film, throughout both contemporary and historical vernacular culture. In this collection, contributors show how legend trips can express humanity’s interest in the frontier between life and death, and the fascination with the possibility of personal contact with the supernatural, or spiritual.

Why should one go vegan? Is veganism the positive change the world needs? Vegan Voices: Essays by Inspiring Changemakers is a comprehensive collection of compelling testimonials on how our food choices are deeply connected to the pressing challenges and issues of our time. The book points to the need for a cultural and spiritual transformation in which we embrace the commonalities between all living beings as a source of positive change and healing. Many essays are deeply personal reflections that attest to how veganism has the power to touch our lives on many levels.

Scholars have long debated the meaning of the pursuit of happiness, yet have tended to define it narrowly, focusing on a single intellectual tradition, and on the use of the term within a single text, the Declaration of Independence. In this insightful volume, Carli Conklin considers the pursuit of happiness across a variety of intellectual traditions, and explores its usage in two key legal texts of the Founding Era, the Declaration and William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England.

The powerful Guardians of Eden forsake all to protect the Tree of Life from everyday mortals, but one of them has developed a new and invasive power which, even in a town of magical beings, makes her a freak. Miriam wants nothing more than to live in the "real" world where her powers will disintegrate, but all her dreams for escape are frustrated when a former Guardian returns to Edenia. When the secretive newcomer threatens the Garden of Eden from within, Miriam must transcend her resentment of her powers and become the Guardian she was always meant to be.

If you wish to avoid frequent accidents and ease the learning process, this audiobook is undoubtedly the one for you. With just a little bit of listening and simple exercises to improve your own confidence, you can greatly improve the experience of your child. This audiobook is a comprehensive guide to potty-training. This audiobook seeks to provide the listener with ample research-based information on means of carrying out potty training, what to expect from the potty-training process, and how to deal with probable challenges.

Sex. Horror. Discomfort. In five stories and one poem, you'll find questions and answers, and you might learn something about yourself along the way. Something uncomfortable. Something dark. Come on in and join us. Lean back, open up, and let us take a look at that tickle. We're sure it's nothing serious. Just...something in your mouth.

Disillusioned by his wife’s betrayal, rodeo star Dillon McCoy comes home to the mountains of North Carolina. When he agrees to take over the family ranch, the Lazy M, he’s unaware danger waits. Diana Thompson is having doubts about her engagement to Trent Sawyer. She agrees to leave Chapel Hill and spend Thanksgiving with her friend Jenn at the Lazy M.

Cécile erregt gern Männer durch laszives Rauchen beim Sex. Sie weist ihre Blowjob-begeisterte, aber sonst recht unerfahrene Freundin in die verführerischen Künste von Reizwäsche in Verbindung mit Zigaretten ein. Gemeinsam leben sie ihre Leidenschaft in einem neu entdeckten Ambiente aus.