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A new collection of essays by the witty Iowan journalist takes the reader from Sam’s Barber Shop in Audubon to the Middle East to interview Persian Gulf soldiers from Iowa. By the author of Babe: An Iowa Legend.

Ah, You Iowans! at Home, at Work, at Play, at War

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The articles in the volume examine the intersection of gender with other characteristics in a variety of settings including factory floors and corporate offices, welfare offices, state legislatures, the armed forces, universities, social clubs and playing fields. Central themes running through several of the articles include how men and women conceive their identities and their futures and talk about and manage their work, family and leisure lives, how women view their bodies and images, and the progress women have – or have not – made in over-coming poverty and advancing in the corporate, legislative and military worlds. The research sites include Canada, Cuba, England, Greece, Israel, Mexico and the United States. As in previous volumes in the series, the authors employ a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and build on the current literature. Most of the articles have policy implications and are designed to stimulate further research. The volume is introduced with an essay by the editor and framed by an article about feminist intersectional research.

Interactions and Intersections of Gendered Bodies at Work, at Home, and at Play

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Intuition @ Work is full of James Wanless’s tried and true wisdom on how to wring success from life at all levels. Using the workplace as his main focus, he reveals the inner workings of intuition and how it can be utilized to create an authentic life by first “feeling the feeling.” Businesspeople must look to the future, be innovative, make difficult decisions in uncertain conditions, be adroit at handling relationships, and keep moving with action and energy under the pressure of performance – all qualities that intuition feeds. Wanless introduces techniques he’s developed: • symbolic picture taking • strategic story telling • creative walking • deliberate dreaming • truth humming • intellectual loafing Intuitive fitness is ours when we follow these practices daily. Wanless shows how intuition can improve careers and relationships, and make decisions that ring true to intention. The book is punctuated with quotes from thinkers like Einstein, Paul Gauguin, Helen Keller, Walt Disney, and Emily Dickinson, among many others.

Intuition Work: And at Home and at Play

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Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.

Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and wallpapers, at work manufacturing these products, or at play swirling about the papered, curtained ballroom in arsenical gowns and gloves, no one was beyond the poison’s reach.

Drawing on the medical, legal, and popular literature of the time, The Arsenic Century paints a vivid picture of its wide-ranging and insidious presence in Victorian daily life, weaving together the history of its emergence as a nearly inescapable household hazard with the sordid story of its frequent employment as a tool of murder and suicide. And ultimately, as the final chapter suggests, arsenic in Victorian Britain was very much the pilot episode for a series of environmental poisoning dramas that grew ever more common during the twentieth century and still has no end in sight.

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

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Demystifying the practice of meditation, Pragito Dove presents an enjoyable and uncomplicated way to find relief from our busy, overstressed daily lives. Adapting ancient traditions-both Eastern and Western-into a modern and accessible approach, Dove explains how to bring awareness to our everyday actions by meditating while eating, working, laughing, humming, or just standing still. She uses practical, down-to-earth strategies, simple reminders, and flexible plans to help everyone-from beginners to advanced meditators-develop an individualized practice that includes relaxing, practicing nonjudgment, developing patience, discovering trust, and opening up to love and compassion.

“I highly recommend this extraordinary book.” (Margot Anand, author of The Art of Everyday Ecstasy)

“A reminder that spiritual practice can be a natural, spontaneous part of everyday life. Pragito Dove is a wise, gentle guide.” (Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words and Reinventing Medicine)Amazon.com Review
We need meditation now more than ever, according to Pragito Dove in Lunchtime Enlightenment. Dove, who has 20 years of experience in stress management and mediation counseling in the San Francisco area, believes that “Meditation can give us the inner anchor, a touchstone of sanity in an increasingly crazy world.” As modern-day life becomes intensely scheduled and busy, meditation is a sure-fire way to find “the serenity and joy we seek,” says Dove. Her teaching skills are evident in her easy-to-follow meditation instructions. Some meditations involve sitting (no worries–she discusses comfortable postures) and take more than an hour. Others take less than five minutes, and all can be done at just about any time of day. The resounding message is that meditation can easily be incorporated into daily life, whether it is a workplace, backyard, bustling airport, or bedroom. Simply “eating with awareness” or “sitting beneath a tree” can lead to lunchtime calm, if not enlightenment. Dove even shows readers how to meditate while dancing, running, jogging, or working out at the gym. While Dove’s spiritual wisdom shines in the later chapters–as she demonstrates how mediation creates more trust, forgiveness, faith, and compassion–you never feel as though Dove has a mystical or religious agenda. More than anything else, this excellent book (with a deceptively gimmicky title) helps us slow our minds down, so life stops passing us by. –Gail Hudson

Lunchtime Enlightenment: Meditations to Transform Your Life NOW–at Work, at Home, at Play

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Intuition @ Work is full of James Wanless’s tried and true wisdom on how to wring success from life at all levels. Using the workplace as his main focus, he reveals the inner workings of intuition and how it can be utilized to create an authentic life by first “feeling the feeling.” Businesspeople must look to the future, be innovative, make difficult decisions in uncertain conditions, be adroit at handling relationships, and keep moving with action and energy under the pressure of performance – all qualities that intuition feeds. Wanless introduces techniques he’s developed: • symbolic picture taking • strategic story telling • creative walking • deliberate dreaming • truth humming • intellectual loafing Intuitive fitness is ours when we follow these practices daily. Wanless shows how intuition can improve careers and relationships, and make decisions that ring true to intention. The book is punctuated with quotes from thinkers like Einstein, Paul Gauguin, Helen Keller, Walt Disney, and Emily Dickinson, among many others.

Intuition @ Work: & at Home and at Play

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25 Days to becoming a Better Leader at Work, Home, and Play is a practical leadership book that any person can read and apply instantly whether at work, home, and/or play. Chapter contents are everyday leadership principles not commonly taught, but are essential for every leader to possess. In short, 25 Days is a leadership book, a self-help book, and an inspirational book all rolled into an easy, fun-to-read format that transforms complex leadership truths into simple explanations anyone can understand and apply. Paperback. 172 pages. $12.95

25 Days to becoming a Better Leader at Work, Home, and Play

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