After directing the organization NGOabroad: International Careers and Volunteering for 20 years, the author wrote this guidebook to help both prospective and active social and humanitarian workers pursue their careers in international development. She has witnessed many individuals miss international job opportunities because they lack knowledge of the realities on the ground or the requisite skills. This practical book fills in the gaps. Chapters detail the common problems of global poverty and injustice and instruct on community-building as a means of creating lasting change. The book is designed for those who wish to work or volunteer abroad in nursing, public health, engineering, education, entrepreneurship, environmental work, women's empowerment and other fields.

A lovely keepsake gift for godparents and a handy guide to use for years to come. Being a godparent is a great honor-and a sacred responsibility. Baptism, after all, is at the center of Christian life, and godparents play a critical role in celebrating this sacrament. When you accept the invitation to sponsor a little one, what exactly are you promising to do? Godparenting: Nurturing the Next Generation explores the history and theology of godparenting, and offers plenty of helpful tips on how to be the best godparent ever.

Why do people fear air travel, but text while driving? How were the travesties at the Abu Ghraib prison like a nuclear meltdown? What is the best way to throw a rocket at a robot? These are just a few questions addressed by the field of human factors psychology. These scientists use knowledge of how people think and why they act to improve the design of our world. In All Too Human, Dr. Anne McLaughlin introduces the field with vivid and topical stories that hinge on cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and decision-making. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to abandoned SCUBA divers, conspiracy theories, and the travails of online dating, McLaughlin draws on a century of research into the human mind to explain our past and predict our future.

Why do people fear air travel, but text while driving? How were the travesties at the Abu Ghraib prison like a nuclear meltdown? What is the best way to throw a rocket at a robot? These are just a few questions addressed by the field of human factors psychology. These scientists use knowledge of how people think and why they act to improve the design of our world. In All Too Human, Dr. Anne McLaughlin introduces the field with vivid and topical stories that hinge on cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and decision-making. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to abandoned SCUBA divers, conspiracy theories, and the travails of online dating, McLaughlin draws on a century of research into the human mind to explain our past and predict our future.

This book focuses on the design of displays and user interfaces for the older user. Aging is related to complex mental, physical, and social changes. While conventional wisdom says getting older leads to a decline, the reality is that some capabilities decline with age while others remain stable or increase. This book distills decades of aging research into practical advice on the design of displays. Technology has changed dramatically since the publication of the first edition. This new edition covers cutting-edge technology design such as ubiquitous touchscreens, smart speakers, and augmented reality interfaces, among others.

Literally hundreds of papers have been written about interface issues experienced by older adults, but how many actually influence the designs older adults use? The sheer number of articles available, the fast pace of the industry, and time constraints combine to build barriers to knowledge transfer from theory into practice. A distillation of decades of published research, Designing Displays for Older Adults is a primer on age-related changes in cognition, perception, and behavior organized into meaningful principles that improve understanding.

Using theory backed up by evidence provides an understanding of why we see certain problems with many displays and often predicts solutions. This understanding surpasses an individual interface and provides practitioners with ways to plan for older adults on multiple display types. Based on this, the book delineates the theories, then explores how to apply them in real design exercises, providing specific guidelines for display examples that bridge theory and practice. The authors explore the complex set of mental and physical changes that occur during aging and that can affect technology acceptance, adoption, interaction, safety, and satisfaction.

This book provides a fundamental understanding of age related change and explores how such information can influence design from the very beginning stages, rather than waiting for testing to reveal the problems users have with the product. The authors open the way for designing with an understanding of these changes that results in better products and systems for users in all life stages.

Years before the Trojan War, a wealthy Athenian merchant named Icheron and his beloved wife Comatho had five sons. Older now, Comatho wanted nothing more than to have a daughter so she sought out Asclepius, a man who resided in the south and whom she heard possessed certain powers; he was even known to have brought people back from the dead. Asclepius granted Comatho's wish by taking it upon himself to mercilessly ravish her, giving her her beloved Isla. Icheron was not fooled by his wife's trickery and despised the child her every waking breath. Yet, unknown to everyone, and even to Isla herself, she inherited much of Asclepius's knowledge, particularly in the healing arts. When Comatho lay on her deathbed, Icheron refused Isla's attempts to save her mother. So now that her only protector was dead, Icheron cast Isla off to the sea, to the mercy of the Gods of the wind and water to do with her whatever they pleased. Just when Isla felt that she would perish, from out of the corner of her eye a great and magnificent bireme approached, its ram and prow about to chop her tiny skiff in half. Rescued by the crew, she does not realize, until he allows his identity to be revealed to her, that their Commander is the mighty warrior Ajax, cousin to the great Achilles himself, on his way home to the Island of Salamis for a brief respite from the Trojan War. Once Isla performs her healing wiles upon Ajax, he finds her not only indispensable but quite beautiful as well. He finds a place for her in his household, and secretly seeks her out so that she can perform more of her wonderful healing massages upon him. He soon realizes that he is in love with her and makes her his own. But when Isla is taken from Ajax, he becomes obsessed with finding her, even though his father, King Telamon reminds him of his obligation to the War effort. He must do his duty, report to the shores of Ilium and fulfill the vow he made to Menelaus, brother to the King of Sparta. Agamemnon, whose wife Helen was taken from him by Paris, Prince of Troy, is obsessed with ruling the entire Aegean, and takes advantage of his wife's infidelity, stopping at nothing in order to gain ultimate power over the region. Both Isla and Ajax overcome great trials to be reunited, yet when he sails off to War once more, she fears she has seen his handsome face for the last time. When she senses Ajax dying on the battlefield, will she arrive in time to save him? Will her innate knowledge of the healing arts be enough to save her beloved Ajax?

When Ashley sees a late night info-mercial about an eco-tourism trip to Costa Rica, she begs her sister Carrie to accompany her. What Ashley does not know is that not only does Carrie know the man for whom the business is named, 'Nate Turner Tours', the whole idea of the tour was hers in the first place When the two sisters arrive at Nate's compound, Ashley can tell that that he is the "Nate" Carrie used to talk about and who inadvertently stole all the credit and notoriety for one of her discoveries. Nate tries numerous times to apologize and reconcile with her. But after their painful breakup over three years ago, Carrie feels that she can never trust him again and continually thwarts his efforts to make amends. He realizes that the only way Carrie will ever give him a second chance is if he entices her with a job opportunity and the chance to do more field study, which will help her regain her standing in the scientific community. However, after the last group of tourists leave, which includes Ashley, and when they are finally left alone, Carrie finds it harder and harder to resist him. Unknown to them one night, the Mayan Love Goddess Xochiquetzal is summoned to step in and help the two young people finish what they began years ago in college. Interference by the Goddess never tasted so good, as they are handed an ancient love potion served up in a large papaya. After just one sip, Xochi's powers take over and both Carrie and Nate's resolve crumbles completely, turning them into lustful jungle animals of the night What direction will their relationship take now? Because just when Carrie starts to believe that the world she and Nate now inhabit couldn't be more perfect, a previous "co-worker" and old flame of Nate's arrives in camp to check up on things and do some computer upgrades. Nate never mentions to Carrie that Amelia is not only beautiful; she is now married to his boss

Anna has fled the US and driven to the ends of the Earth, a remote Mexican beach town. After suffering an unbearable tragedy, she tries to drink her life away. Kevin, once a successful dentist, has fled the US as well, ostracized after a negligent accident in his office leaves one of his patients dead. An avid swimmer who would die if he were not allowed to enter the ocean, he is one day made aware of Anna's plight and is determined to help her, no matter how much she resists him. As Kevin learns a little more about Anna and as she slowly reveals her true heart's desire to him, he vows to fulfill her last wish. And as Anna spends more time with Kevin, she begins to understand his need to be in the water, along with a mysterious power he seems to possess that can create life from nothing. Kevin is certain that if they hold on to each other and embrace their love, they can conquer all of their demons, their hidden secrets, and their worst fears, together.

Travel back to the Heroic Age of Ancient Greece, where Hercules, the world's greatest hero and unconquerable warrior, comes to the aid of Phiandra, a stunningly beautiful young woman who possesses a power of seduction that no man can resist, not even Hercules. Once they meet, he is overwhelmed by her Goddess-like beauty and realizes that he can never be parted from her. 'Can she tame the one men said could not be tamed?'