A study sponsored by the American Society for Training and Development that places diversity into historical perspective and forecasts the effects of tomorrow's demographically diverse groups on management and labor unions. It breaks down major identity groups by ethnicity, gender, age, sexual preference, and disability, describing how each affects and is affected by the diversity revolution. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The American Mosaic: An In-Depth Report on the Future of Diversity at Work

Business & Money

Stone, Susan Carol

Carnevale, Anthony Patrick

Biography & History

McGraw=Hill

This text addresses palliative issues from the perspective and needs of the emergency physician, with an emphasis on appropriate ED management and dispositions.

Emergency Palliative Care

Medical Books

Zalenski,Robert

Medicine

When Blanche Stone was diagnosed with bone cancer, her daughter interrupted an unusual life--in a Buddhist monastery--to return home and become a full-time caregiver. With practical wisdom, humor, and an eye for telling detail, Susan relates their experiences sharing a house, dealing with finances, participating in family and holiday rituals, finding ways to ease Blanche's discomfort as her health declined, gratefully accepting the support of the local hospice, and coming to a greater appreciation of each other as individuals. 
Readers of any faith (or none) can benefit from these accounts of living moment by moment, responding without preconception to each evolving situation, embracing one's own needs along with the needs of a person facing death. Susan shows how such living happens: within a sacred place where there is room to honor and be awed by what is at hand, however difficult, and where one gains the freedom to enjoy it all. 
At the Eleventh Hour presents a model for how children can offer parents the gift of a "good death." In its natural weaving of spiritual truths into the daily fabric of life, it is an eloquent expression of how being present to dying expands the capacity for living. And, like a wise and supportive friend, it can lift spirits and be a reminder that, hard as it is, it's okay--and sometimes even fun. (In this way, it is similar to Tuesday's with Morrie which has lifted the spirits of millions).

At the Eleventh Hour: Caring for My Dying Mother

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Present Perfect Books

When a trivial incident sparks conflict in a Buddhist monastery, a young monk named Sati is embroiled in a plot that reaches all the way to the palace and inflames the city of Kosambi. Amid corrosive tensions, Sati struggles to make sense of his monastic calling and the teachings of mindfulness and lovingkindness. He faces challenges that test even the wisdom of the Buddha, exposing the worst and inspiring the best in all those caught in the plot. The Kosambi Intrigue, rooted in actual events in ancient India, follows in the footsteps of Hermann Hesse’s beloved masterwork, Siddhartha. Stephen Batchelor, author of best-selling Buddhism Without Beliefs, comments, “I loved The Kosambi Intrigue.…The characters are distinctive and alive, the dramatic narrative unfolds at a steady, engaging pace and the world of the Buddha’s time is sketched with great vividness, attention to detail and conviction. Although the situation occurred more than two thousand years ago, it is just as true of idiosyncratic humanity now as it was then….brilliantly done.”

The Kosambi Intrigue; A Tale in the Time of Buddha

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Jealous Heart, the second volume of The Sati Trilogy, is based on a Buddhist legend that is virtually unknown in the West. Regarded as history by countless Asians over the millennia, the legend tells of a jealous queen in the north Indian capital of Kosambi in the Buddha’s time who murders a rival queen, a devout follower of the Buddha, and in turn is executed for her evil deed, along with her extended family. Amidst the legendary triumph of small-mindedness and violence unfolds the on-going story of Sati and his fellow monks at the Buddhist monastery known as Ghosita’s Park. Sati and hismonastic brothers train, not always successfully, to embody the Buddha’s teachings of wisdom and compassion. In The Jealous Heart, they try to salve their own wounds and weaknesses as well as those borne by the people of Kosambi, who are traumatized by the grisly royal tragedy. Sati has grown from the teen-age orphan of the first novel, The Kosambi Intrigue, to a monk in his thirties who assumes, with great trepidation, a leadership role in the monastery. For those in our time who despair over the havoc we are creating by our senseless treatment of our planet and each other, The Jealous Heart shines a light across the ages. Whether we are Buddhists or not, like the monks in Kosambi, we can strive to uncover and act upon the love that is at the heart of despair. The Jealous Heart reminds us that, although we may stumble, this intention is a golden thread shot through all the actions of our life.

The Jealous Heart: A Hundred Hues of Green in the Time of the Buddha (The Sati Trilogy)

The Yes Sayers: Affirmation in the Time of the Buddha (The Sati Trilogy)

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