Academic Motherhood tells the story of over one hundred women who are both professors and mothers and examines how they navigated their professional lives at different career stages. Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel base their findings on a longitudinal study that asks how women faculty on the tenure track manage work and family in their early careers (pre-tenure) when their children are young (under the age of five), and then again in mid-career (post-tenure) when their children are older. The women studied work in a range of institutional settings—research universities, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges—and in a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Much of the existing literature on balancing work and family presents a pessimistic view and offers cautionary tales of what to avoid and how to avoid it. In contrast, the goal of Academic Motherhood is to help tenure track faculty and the institutions at which they are employed “make it work.” Writing for administrators, prospective and current faculty as well as scholars, Ward and Wolf-Wendel bring an element of hope and optimism to the topic of work and family in academe. They provide insight and policy recommendations that support faculty with children and offer mechanisms for problem-solving at personal, departmental, institutional, and national levels.

This issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics, guest-edited by Drs. Amen Sergew and Lisa F. Wolfe, focuses on Noninvasive Ventilation and Sleep Medicine. This issue is one of four selected each year by series Consulting Editor, Dr. Teofilo Lee-Chiong. Articles include: Obesity hypoventilation - Traditional vs Non Traditional Populations; Spinal cord injury; Peri-Operative Care and Medication Related Hypoventilation; Lifetime Care of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; Management of Chronic Respiratory Failure in COPD - High and Low Intensity Ventilation; Management of Rare Causes Pediatric Chronic Respiratory Failure; Noninvasive Ventilator Management of ALS - Bulbar vs non Bulbar; Parsonage Turner; Noninvasive Ventilator Devices and Modes; Tailoring the Sleep Lab for Chronic Respiratory Failure; Long-Term Follow Up of Noninvasive Ventilation: Downloads and Troubleshooting; Extubating to Noninvasive Ventilation - NIV from ICU to Home; and From Tracheostomy to Noninvasive Ventilation - NIV from Long Term Acute Care to Home.

ORDER UP Sparks fly, between sassy waitress, Lily Duncan and Jake Hunter, her boss, from the moment she stepped into his restaurant, applying for a job. She took the job knowing he wouldn't be an easy man to work for, and he kept reminding her of that at every turn. They crossed swords over everything. She never did anything right. Six months into working for "Hunter," Lily decides that she's had enough of his nitpicking, and turns on him. In amazement, she watched as he walked away without a fight. Confusion, leads her to seek him out later that night, needing to understand why. Taking a chance, they both let their guards down, and discover a spark of an entirely different kind. Passion sizzles as they secretly explore this new turn in their relationship. Lily and Hunter fight to stay together, as life throws some pretty hard punches at their new relationship. Struggling with the pain, Lily walks away, leaving Hunter to make the hardest choice of his life. What would be Hunter's Choice?

Academic Motherhood tells the story of over one hundred women who are both professors and mothers and examines how they navigated their professional lives at different career stages. Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel base their findings on a longitudinal study that asks how women faculty on the tenure track manage work and family in their early careers (pre-tenure) when their children are young (under the age of five), and then again in mid-career (post-tenure) when their children are older. The women studied work in a range of institutional settings-research universities, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges-and in a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Much of the existing literature on balancing work and family presents a pessimistic view and offers cautionary tales of what to avoid and how to avoid it. In contrast, the goal of Academic Motherhood is to help tenure track faculty and the institutions at which they are employed "make it work." Writing for administrators, prospective and current faculty as well as scholars, Ward and Wolf-Wendel bring an element of hope and optimism to the topic of work and family in academe. They provide insight and policy recommendations that support faculty with children and offer mechanisms for problem-solving at personal, departmental, institutional, and national levels.

Gef hle, die aus Liebe entstehen k nnen, verpackt in Worte, geformt zu Prosa und Kurzgeschichten. Ein Buch zum Tr umen und Tr sten, Nachdenken und Nachempfinden. "Er liebt es, von ihr geliebt zu werden. Aber er liebt ihre Liebe nicht. Doch ihr Traum lebt weiter ..."