Little Comrades tells the story of a girl growing up in a dysfunctional left-wing family in the Canadian West during the Depression, then moving, alone with her mother, to New York City during America's fervently anti-Communist postwar years. With wit and honesty, Laurie Lewis describes an unusual childhood and an adventurous adolescence.

Little Comrades

Biographies & Memoirs

Lewis, Laurie

Community & Culture

Porcupine's Quill

In Love, and all that jazz, Laurie Lewis again shines the clear light of memory on a time of glorious beginnings and hard consequences.

Love, and all that jazz

The concerts

A&W Visual Library

"You're depressed," the doctor declared."Ya think?" is author Avery Elkins Thompson's sarcastic response. She can’t pull out from the malaise that set in following her husband's untimely death, and her adult children fear they are losing her too.She can't write, and questions about their father's death leave the family mired in pain. "We need a healing place," her oldest son tells her, suggesting she find it on Anna Maria Island, Florida, a former family vacation spot.When Avery returns to Baltimore to sell the family's waterfront condo, she meets rodeo-ers-turned-real-estate-brokers Teddie and Rider Davis, and Avery's quiet life will never be the same again. The Davises help Avery arrange a short-term house swap with widower Gabriel Carson from Anna Maria, whose overprotective parenting has resulted in two self-centered, twenty-something daughters. Avery and Gabriel are in for the summer of their lives as they step into one another's messy, complicated worlds.Still, venturing out on her own again is challenging for Avery, whose experiences at the Ringling's magnificent Ca d'Zan mansion, and with the quirky characters she meets there, eventually awaken her to truths she desperately needs to remember—that God has not forgotten her, and as crazy as life can be, it is possible to laugh and love again.

Awakening Avery (A Second Chance Romance)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Willowsport Press

Matthew Grayken is young, successful, and dying, which is why he’s about to propose to a total stranger. He isn’t interested in love. He needs a companion and nurse to ease his last days, and a legal voice to enforce his wishes when he no longer can. Lonely, compassionate nurse Mikaela Compton is intrigued by Matt Grayken’s tender request, but as their friendly marriage turns into love, she rejects the inevitability of Matt’s death and prays for a miracle instead. Mikaela reignites Matt’s will to fight the disease, but he's losing the battle. The miracle he needs will require Mikaela to leave Matt at the hour of his greatest need, and break the fundamental promise she made to him—to be his advocate and enforce his last wishes. She can’t do both, and she faces an excruciating decision—how far out on a limb she’s willing to go for love.

Love On A Limb: A Love Story For All Seasons (Great Expectations Love Stories: The Graykens)

Olivia joined friends Hudson Bauer and Jeff McAllister in developing a business, but while she and Hudson dreamed of using their success to improve the world, Jeff set his sights and fortunes on Olivia. On the most important night of Hudson’s life, Olivia and Jeff suddenly eloped. Betrayed, Hudson ended the partnership, throwing Jeff and Olivia aside as he made his own fortune.Ten years later, a tragic accident leaves Olivia’s body and heart battered, and her dreams of a family destroyed. She is forced to accept Hudson’s offer to recuperate at his parents’ empty house on Oregon’s Cannon Beach, but her return to the place where the three friends once summered casts new light on her hasty marriage, and on the enemy she once called friend. When Hudson offers Olivia a job doing humanitarian work, something hopeful and familiar awakens in her. But guilt over Jeff’s death leaves her stuck between grief and the memory of what she and Hudson almost had. All her life, other people have made decisions for Olivia, but now the future is up to her. That is if she can make peace with the past and embrace a future with a man she once hated, before Hudson walks away again, closing the door on their possibilities forever.

Sweet Water (A Second Chance Romance)

Romance

Contemporary

The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication offers a comprehensive collection of entries contributed by international experts on the origin, evolution, and current state of knowledge of all facets of contemporary organizational communication. <ul>
<li>Represents the definitive international reference resource on a topic of increasing relevance, in a new series of sub-disciplinary international encyclopedias</li> <li>Examines organization communication across a range of contexts, including NGOs, global corporations, community cooperatives, profit and non-profit organizations, formal and informal collectives, virtual work, and more</li> <li>Features topics ranging from leader-follower communication, negotiation and bargaining and organizational culture to the appropriation of communication technologies, emergence of inter-organizational networks, and hidden forms of work and organization</li> <li>Offers an unprecedented level of authority and diverse perspectives, with contributions from leading international experts in their associated fields</li> <li>Part of The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication series, published in conjunction with the International Communication Association. Online version available at Wiley Online Library</li> </ul>
 Awarded 2017 Best Edited Book award by the Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association

The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication, 4 Volume Set (ICAZ - Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication)

Politics & Social Sciences

Scott, Craig R.

Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

A comprehensive guide to essential theories and practices of change creation and implementation Organizational Change provides an essential overview to implementing deliberate and focused change through effective communication strategies. Author Laurie Lewis integrates academic rigor with real-world case studies to provide a comprehensive examination of both theoretical and pragmatic approaches to alterations and modifications of organizational structures. Emphasizing the importance of formal and informal communication in implementation of change, this text investigates methods of information dissemination and examines various channels for communicating change. Coverage of stakeholder relationships, concepts of uncertainty and resistance, assessing change outcomes, and more provides readers with a solid foundational knowledge of change dynamics in organizations. Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides new case studies on topics such as design of input solicitation, and current research in areas including the persuasive effects of sidedness or inoculation, and socially supportive communication. Improved pedagogical tools, streamlined organization of topics, and additional charts, graphs, and images reinforce efficient presentation of material and increase reader retention and comprehension. <ul>
<li>Examines empirical, theoretical, and conceptual approaches to strategic communication during organization change</li> <li>Explores key elements of change, appropriate communication strategies, and outcome evaluation methods</li> <li>Presents adaptive and programmatic strategic implementation models</li> <li>Provides studies of real-world companies and actual research on organizational change</li> <li>Debunks popular myths and clarifies misunderstandings of research and theory on implementation of change</li> <li>Demonstrates how Individuals, groups, and entire organizations can create change and influence implementation.</li> </ul>
Organizational Change provides a thorough survey of the communication and implementation strategies, methods, and conceptual foundations of change in public and private sector organizations, suitable for undergraduate and graduate study and practitioners with interest in complex change implementation.

Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication (Foundations of Communication Theory Series)

Organizational Change integrates major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementing communication in organizational settings.  Laurie Lewis ties together the disparate literatures in management, education, organizational sociology, and communication to explore how the practices and processes of communication work in real-world cases of change implementation.   Gives a bold and comprehensive overview of communication research and ideas on change and those who bring it about Fills in an important piece of the applied communication puzzle as it relates to organizations Illustrated with student friendly, real life case studies from organizations, including organizational mergers, governmental or nonprofit policy or procedural implementation, or technological innovation Winner of the 2011 Organizational Communication NCA Division Book of the Year

Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Everything you need to know about freelance fees! Do your palms get sweaty when a prospective client asks, "How much do you want for this project?" Learn the techniques presented in What to Charge: Pricing Strategies for Freelancers and Consultants and you'll never panic again! What to Charge takes you through the processes of setting rates, assessing fees dictated by clients, and evaluating your pricing experiences. You'll learn how to dig for information before quoting a fee. You'll examine the pros and cons of different pricing methods, such as hourly rates, project fees, and retainers. You'll discover the only two rules of pricing and why following them will guarantee you pricing success. You'll find out how to keep records that will enable you to maximize your profits on future projects. And you'll see how and when to analyze your income retroactively and to raise your rates with little effort. With self-employment being the hottest job trend, What to Charge is essential reading and a must-have reference for all entrepreneurs. No other book provides the detailed guidance of this volume, which is now in its second edition. Here's what readers of What to Charge: Pricing Strategies for Freelancers and Consultants have said: "I wish I had this book when I began freelancing." "You've taken the guesswork out of pricing!" "This is the most logical, practical approach to pricing-and business management%u2014for the self-employed that I have ever seen." "I've had my own business for years, and I thought I knew it all. But What to Charge gave me new insights and new approaches. As soon as I implemented one of these strategies, I recouped the cost of the book." Lessons learned in the trenches form the basis of this book. The author, Laurie Lewis, has more than 25 years as a freelance medical writer and editor. Active in several professional associations, the author has incorporated not only her own experiences but also those of other self-employed professionals to create a model for successful pricing of consulting services. The techniques presented in What to Charge have stood the test of time, remaining valid through the recession that occurred since the first edition was published in 2000. In fact, because the book presents strategies, it will never go out of date. Whether you're just launching a freelance business or you have many years of consulting under your belt, What to Charge is for you.

What to Charge: Pricing Strategies for Freelancers and Consultants

Industries

Outskirts Press

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