Mutually Beneficial


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A history of The Guardian Life Insurance company.




Mutually Beneficial


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Please, I'll do anything. Annalise Teague is dead broke. Her life has become a highwire act, trying to balance too many obligations to too many people. When she can't scrape together the money for rent, she has no choice but to beg her landlord for mercy. But Jason Andreas isn't known for his bleeding heart. Instead of mercy, he offers her a deal. She won't owe him a penny if she gives him... herself. She knows it's wrong to accept... but, is it even worse if she likes it? Just do as I tell you. Jason has been infatuated with Annalise since the day he met her. He knows he's too damaged and broken to ever have her heart. So when the opportunity to have just a little piece of her comes along, he's ruthless enough to seize it. But the more he takes, the more he needs, until he realizes he's never going to be happy with just one piece. He needs all of her--body, heart, and soul.







Seeking Arrangement


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In a revolutionary guide that is honest and frank about sex, money, and issues of morality, Wade gives the real dope on the modern Sugar Daddy and Sugar Baby. He prepares readers to navigate the online world of arrangements, avoiding scams and frauds, and learning to maximize satisfaction.




A Mutually Beneficial Arrangement


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[Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Romance, Paranormal, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Contemporary, Vampires/Werewolves, Shape-shifter, MFMM/MFM, HEA] Reynolds Pack Melanie Stratton leaves her home in Melbourne, Victoria behind and heads toward a small rural community in Outback New South Wales near Silverton for work. Johnny, Kris and Jules Reynolds know the instant they catch Melanie's scent that she is their mate, and want to claim her straight away, but they can't if they don't want to scare her off. But when Blue and Joe stuff up and Mel begins asking questions they have to tell her of the existence of werewolves. The three men set out to woo her but Melanie needs time to come to terms with everything she's found out and asks them to back off. Johnny, Kris and Jules are fighting the mating heat as well as their animals and don't think their mate will ever accept them. And there is also trouble brewing. Can Melanie accept her mates before it's too late? Or will she end up paying the ultimate price? Reynolds Pack 2: readers' Mate Jenny Rivers has spent the last three months travelling and exploring Australia. When she arrives at Silverton in New South Wales and sees some men trying to capture wild brumbies, she steps in and ends up getting hurt. Blue Reynolds knows as soon as he smells and sees Jenny that she is his mate, but since he's in wolf form, he can't very well change back to his human form to help the injured woman, so he calls his Beta cousin, Joe, for help. Joe finds out that Jenny is also his mate and they take her back to their home to care for her and hopefully talk her into staying with them instead of continuing her travels. However when Blue reveals his inner self right in front of an ignorant Jenny, the men think all hope is lost. It's up to Blue and Joe to convince Jenny that her heart is safe in their hands. Can they convince her to take a chance on love or will they lose her forever? Becca Van is a Siren-exclusive author.




Handbook of Research on Field-Based Teacher Education


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Teacher education is an evolving field with multiple pathways towards teacher certification. Due to an increasing emphasis on the benefits of field-based learning, teachers can now take alternative certification pathways to become teachers. The Handbook of Research on Field-Based Teacher Education is a pivotal reference source that combines field-based components with traditional programs, creating clinical experiences and “on-the-job” learning opportunities to further enrich teacher education. While highlighting topics such as certification design, preparation programs, and residency models, this publication explores theories of teaching and learning through collaborative efforts in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 settings. This book is ideally designed for teacher education practitioners and researchers invested in the policies and practices of educational design.




What We Owe Each Other


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From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.




Liberty and the Ecological Crisis


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This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization’s ability to live within ecological limits. Freedom, in all its renditions – choice, thought, action – has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern citizens. And yet, it is our relatively unbounded freedom that has resulted in so much ecological devastation. Liberty has piggy-backed on transformations in human–nature relationships that characterize the Anthropocene: increasing extraction of resources, industrialization, technological development, ecological destruction, and mass production linked to global consumerism. This volume provides a deeply critical examination of the concept of liberty as it relates to environmental politics and ethics in the long view. Contributions explore this entanglement of freedom and the ecological crisis, as well as investigate alternative modernities and more ecologically benign ways of living on Earth. The overarching framework for this collection is that liberty and agency need to be rethought before these strongly held ideals of our age are forced out. On a finite planet, our choices will become limited if we hope to survive the climatic transitions set in motion by uncontrolled consumption of resources and energy over the past 150 years. This volume suggests concrete political and philosophical approaches and governance strategies for learning how to flourish in new ways within the ecological constraints of the planet. Mapping out new ways forward for long-term ecological well-being, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of ecology, environmental ethics, politics, and sociology, and for the wider audience interested in the human–Earth relationship and global sustainability.




Negotiation


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Comprises a collection of papers discussing the issue of negotiation. Presents a set of ideas, organized around frameworks for improving negotiation; the challanges to applying these ideas in organizational settings; and some analysis of individual behaviour in negotiation.




Mutually Beneficial


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Please, I'll do anything.When Annalise can't scrape together the money for rent, she has no choice but to beg her landlord for mercy. But instead of mercy, he offers her a deal. She won't owe him a penny if she gives him... herself. She knows it's wrong to accept. But, is it even worse if she likes it?Just do as I tell you.Jason knows he's too damaged to ever have Annalise's heart. So when the opportunity to have just a little piece of her comes along, he's ruthless enough to seize it. But the more he takes, the more he needs, until he realizes he's never going to be happy with just one piece. He needs all of her--body, heart, and soul.