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Do you frequently discover that your kindness is being exploited? Do you find it exhausting to answer Yes when you truly want to respond No? It's time to master assertiveness and take back your control. You can suffer consequences in your personal and professional life if you are overly polite. You wind up putting your own needs last and taking on everyone else's burdens. Your giving turns into a burden that makes you feel empty and unappreciated. How To Stop Being Too Nice is your guide to achieving the perfect balance between assertiveness and kindness. This book is about setting boundaries that respect your personal well-being without compromising your sensitive nature, not about being icy or uncaring. Learn useful techniques for forceful communication without feeling guilty. Acquire the skill of saying "no" with poise and assurance while preserving wholesome connections. Find out how to put yourself first without feeling self-centered. You'll learn insightful things and practical advice to help you take charge of your life in every way with each chapter. Don't let being polite prevent you from leading the life of your dreams. Get a copy of How To Stop Being Too Nice and set out on a path to fulfillment and self-empowerment right now. Bid farewell to being taken advantage of and hello to a life where your opinion matters and your goodwill is appreciated. Place your order right away to recover your power!

Designed to provide readers with an accessible introduction to international relations, Systemist International Relations introduces the systemist method, a visual approach that equips individuals with the ability to transform the key points of any work of scholarship into an easy-to-understand and salient graphic representation of the data. The opening chapters speak to how the world has changed in the new millennium, especially regarding the pace of everyday life, and how the international relations discipline has expanded considerably in step. With this growth comes the increased size and complexity of research in the field. The text posits that the systemist method is an effective way to render the influx of information and study in international relations more accessible to all. Additional chapters introduce systemism and its associated method for graphic representation of analytical arguments. The method is then applied to three key areas of study within international relations: international security studies; foreign policy analysis; and ethnicity, nationalism, and migration. The final chapter reviews what has been accomplished and looks ahead to what might be done in the future to advance research and teaching about international relations. Systemist International Relations is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate-level courses and programs in international relations.

My name is Patrick Nelson James and I am 21 years of age. I'm the 3rd child of 7. I grew up in the Jane and Finch community where I was exposed to a lot of things I wasn't supposed to be exposed to at that time (such as killings, muggings, drug dealing, etc.) I was even stabbed by someone very close to me! I grew up in a one parent household for most of my life and it wasn't easy because my mother, myself and my other siblings didn't get along very well, especially my mother and I, which at times made me feel alone and depressed because I felt no one wanted me. As a result of being depressed, I turned to gangs, drugs and alcohol, not to mention getting into fist fights regularly. Church for me was also a struggle. My Dad brought us into the church before he moved away (to begin a new life elsewhere) so I kept going although it was hard sometimes because I felt God didn't love me due to all the crazy things that was going on in my life! I eventually left the church for about two years, and got involved with the wrong crowd, but the funny thing was that I'd still pray to God regularly, and looking back I believe that God was still with me even though I had turned my back on him. With all my experiences I'm now here trying to encourage others to just keep trusting in God and he will continue to bless you. I thank God that despite my negative experiences, I thank God every day that I am still alive and I still have faith and power to keep pushing forward! I am currently pursuing Social Work so that i may be able to help out others even more.

What really happened when they made it all digital?"A Frail New World: Digital Conspiracy" is a roller-coaster ride of patriotism, conspiracy, relationships, loss and political intrigue. You will never trust your cell phone or computer again. The implications and possibilities of this tale will call into question the digital-dependence of the world we live in. Read at your own risk

A few months have passed since Cat Stafford was murdered inside The Doctor's Inn, a prestigious B&B in the beautiful town of Niagara On the Lake. Desperate for revenge, she wanders the hallways and outside of the building searching for that one person capable of seeing her ghost. One day, that person shows up. His name is Trevor Long, a man with mental health issues. Prone to hallucinations, he doesn't believe that Cat is really a ghost, but when she threatens to haunt him if he doesn't help her get revenge, he decides to investigate and soon finds himself in danger.

Muskoka in the middle of winter can be a remote and lonely place. Police officer Kris Speers is alone in the middle of nowhere when she spots a man trying to kill himself by jumping into the freezing waters of the Muskoka River in February. She saves the man, but he begs her to kill him before the next night comes and he turns into a werewolf because there will be a full moon.

He calls her Sexy Girl because he doesn't know her name. Not that her name really matters now that he knows where she lives. Now, the real fun begins for The Stalker as he tells you the story of why he decided to stalk a young woman he doesn't know.

The Preacher Man isn't your normal preacher. You won't find him giving a sermon at any church. In fact, you won't find him at all, he'll find you. Claiming that God speaks to him directly, The Preacher Man searches out and punishes those that have offended God. David Collins is next on the list. David considers himself a good Christian, but The Preacher Man isn't so sure about that. He decides a test is in order. On a cold winter's day in Canada, David Collins wakes up in a room he does not know. He feels weak, like he has been drugged. Realizing that he may have been kidnapped, David begins to look around the room to try to find clues to his whereabouts. Instead, he finds a Naked Lady chained to a table. Soon he is confronted by The Preacher Man and told that he has a decision to make. Kill or die. He kills The Naked Lady and he can leave unharmed. He refuses and The Preacher Man kills him. David knows what Jesus would do, but what will he do?

Overwhelmed with guilt, a woman walks into a police station and says that she wants to confess to stalking and killing her husband. She tells the homicide detective that she broke up with her husband because she felt he had no future and she wanted to pursue other options. She says that her husband was left homeless, but not for long. A day after she throws him out, he buys a lottery ticket and wins millions of dollars. Now, he won't take her back, or share the money. Angered by his selfishness, she begins to stalk him and things (in her words) just get out of hand and her husband ends up dead. Now, she wants to tell the whole story and face the consequences of her actions.

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Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy is the most comprehensive book of its kind, offering an updated examination of Canada's international role some 15 years after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era in world politics. Tackling recent developments in Canadian foreign policy, the authors of this work spotlight Canadian idiosyncrasies within a global context that are defined by wrenching juxtapositions. The specialists who have contributed their expertise to this book provide sophisticated analysis-conceptual as well as historical-rather than simply impressionistic judgments about contemporary events. Highlighting both well-known and understudied topics, this handbook presents a marriage of the familiar and the underappreciated that enables readers to grasp much of the complexity of current Canadian foreign policy and appreciate the challenges policymakers must meet in the early 21st century.

This book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in East Africa. Taking in to account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health outcomes.

Explores Constructivism's theoretical, empirical, and methodological strengths and weaknesses, and debates what these say about its past, present, and future to reach a better understanding of international relations (IR) in general and how Constructivism informs IR in particular.

The first systematic analysis of general theories about Canada's post-Charter constitutional evolution.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy sheds light on issues of real-world international relations

- This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures.

International Relations and Scientific Progress argues that a theory focusing on the structure of the international system may explain a wider and more interesting range of events in world politics than other alternatives. The first part of the book assesses the meaning of progress in the discipline of international relations, a process that culminates in the creation of a new concept, the scientific research enterprise. The second part review structural realism within that context and makes the case for an elaboration of structural realism by showing that a system-level theory based on structure could have great unrealized explanatory potential. The third part explores new directions, most notably as related to empirical testing of an elaborated version of structural realism that focuses on both continuity and change in the international system. Patrick James is professor of political science at the University of Missouri.