Relationship SOS is a 7-step process that walks you through addressing key factors that contribute to a healthy relationship. The book looks at your relationship from the inside out, providing effective solutions that can revitalize any relationship. Michelle G. based the book on her real-world implementation of the process with dozens of couples. The Relationship Plan™ is a practical method that helps couples who are struggling within their relationships to recapture their happily ever after... on their own terms. People from all walks of life are successfully applying it to their relationships every day, and in the process, they are strengthening and deepening their connections. You can, too.

When a marriage is gasping for breath, "emergency" relationship help is needed. Couples are in the throes of high emotion and confusion, and often don't have what it takes to survive the next agonizing wave of emotion or uncertainty. Often, one or both partners already have a foot out the door. In some cases, this marriage emergency has happened suddenly. In other cases, couples have been treading water for years, languishing in an unhappy marriage and quietly reaching their breaking point. Marriage SOS throws "lifelines" to these drowning relationships by giving them easy and effective marriage-saving strategies so that they can find their way back to shore. It also provides "crisis care" so that couples can survive such ills as affairs or inappropriate opposite-sex friendships, an inability to budget, sex and intimacy issues, divided loyalties (i.e. ex-partners, in-laws), problems with blended families and step-children, and dealing with a belligerent, critical or defensive spouse. In Marriage SOS, leading marriage author-expert Debra Macleod, B.A., LL.B., has gathered her unique brand of practical, pull-no-punches, fast-acting marriage advice into book format. She has condensed the most effective strategies from her years of experience in successful private practice. These are strategies that have managed to help thousands of real-world couples make sometimes overnight improvements to their marriage. Importantly, Marriage SOS is a rare marriage guide that speaks with a candor that appeals to men as well as women. Part "emergency" marriage manual and part wake-up call to couples, Debra has created a month-long relationship saver that each day gives spouses a new and effective lifeline strategy that can rescue their relationship in thirty days. It also offers "crisis care" that helps spouses survive those acute or chronic problems that can drain the life out of a marriage. This remarkably pragmatic, effective and user-friendly book should be essential reading for all couples. Praise for Debra Macleod from LIBRARY JOURNAL: "Most people spend the largest part of adulthood slogging through committed relationships, and they need books like this."

"Once the initial intense excitement of a new relationship fades, we tend to think there are only two options: chase the impossible dream of recapturing that early magic or settle for a less than fulfilling love life. In Quantum Love, sex and relationship expert Laura Berman, Ph.D., the New York Times best-selling author of eight books including For Women Only, Real Sex for Real Women, and The Passion Prescription, offers a thrilling alternative--a higher level of love beckoning us to move forward, not backward. Using the essential truth we've learned from the study of quantum physics--the fact that at our molecular core, each of us is simply a vessel of energy--she explains how we can use what's happening in our inner world to create a level of passion, connection, and bliss in our relationships that we never imagined possible."--Provided by publisher.

Sometimes, certain things are not what they seem. With a little bit of luck, it pays to be at the right place at the right time and Stephie Jenkins, a young photographer with no formal education but sheer talent, proved that sometimes opportunities exists are the unlikeliest places. It was a chance in a lifetime when she was offered the job of being the photographer of a rock band, which entailed touring with the band for 6 months and taking photographs for their collection. Every young girl's fantasy is to fall in love with a rock star and be swept off their feet in glitz and glamour. It started out as an infatuation on the lead singer, Chris but as time goes by, she began to develop strong feelings for him. He was involved with another girl at first and paid her minimal attention but her kindness and patience paid off in the end when he broke off with his girlfriend and started a relationship with her. However, Stephie has a secret that will tear their relationship apart. Will Chris ever forgive Stephie when he finds out and will their love survive the different curveballs thrown their way? Only time will tell.

A set of teaching/couseling aids for professionals who offer parent education classes, parent counseling, or guidance to parents on child rearing and discipline.

Marriage SOS: Oilpatch Edition is the first marriage-saving guidebook created specifically for the relationship challenges seen in “oilpatch marriages” and families. It is written by Debra Macleod, B.A., LL.B., the world's leading authority on oilpatch relationships. This straightforward, user-friendly book quickly targets and tackles the most common problems seen in oilpatch marriages, including such issues as time apart and loneliness, emotional meltdowns, telephone and text fights, absence and intimacy, broken trust and infidelity, money problems (a budget framework is included), dealing with an unappreciative, unsupportive or critical spouse and much, much more. It also includes marriage-saving “checkpoints” for a husband's Days On/Away and Days Off/Home, so that couples can stay connected while apart and get along while together. Marriage SOS: Oilpatch Edition is ideal for oilpatch couples who are married, living together, dating or dealing with a blended family situation. It will also be relevant to any couple who needs to make an “extended time apart” marriage work, from executives to long-haul truck drivers.

This book contains the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Innovation Design and Digital Technology (ICIDDT 2023) which was held in a hybrid form from November 3rd to 5th, 2023. The conference topics covered in this conference include Smart Village and Future Community, Digital Communication of Traditional Culture, Intelligent Equipment and Innovative Design, Intelligent Interaction and User Experience, Digital Ecology, and Data Analysis. The conference aims to promote communication and cooperation between academia and industry and provide a platform to discuss the latest research results and development trends in the field of innovative design and digital technology. We invited experts, scholars, and industry elites from all over the world to share their research results and experiences from different perspectives and fields. In addition, we would like to thank the conference chair, publication chairs, technical program committee chairs, program committee chairs, conference secretariat, local organizers, and conference sponsors for their financial support in making ICIDDT 2023 a success. We hope that this conference will be organized again in the future with more informative publications and inspirational research published. We would also like to thank the invited speakers for their excellent contributions and for sharing their points of view during their speeches.

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian religious intellectuals devoted a great deal of attention to the concept of agape, or Divine Love, arguing that the Christian church is a reflection of the triune, self-sacrificing God and his love for all of creation. On account of their deliberations, these intellectuals played a key role in mediating between the Orthodox Church and modern society. Their quest for dialogue between the 'mystery of the sacred' and the 'ordinary of everyday life' remains relevant for Western societies today. In God as Love Johannes Oravecz presents a comprehensive summation of twenty-five prominent Russian religious thinkers and their thought on the concept of agape, showing in detail how they broke new ground in their various affirmations of the truth that God is love. No other book in any language treats this topic with such breadth and depth.

Discover the emerging science and engineering of System of Systems Many challenges of the twenty-first century, such as fossil fuel energy resources, require a new approach. The emergence of System of Systems (SoS) and System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) presents engineers and professionals with the potential for solving many of the challenges facing our world today. This groundbreaking book brings together the viewpoints of key global players in the field to not only define these challenges, but to provide possible solutions. Each chapter has been contributed by an international expert, and topics covered include modeling, simulation, architecture, the emergence of SoS and SoSE, net-centricity, standards, management, and optimization, with various applications to defense, transportation, energy, the environment, healthcare, service industry, aerospace, robotics, infrastructure, and information technology. The book has been complemented with several case studies—Space Exploration, Future Energy Resources, Commercial Airlines Maintenance, Manufacturing Sector, Service Sector, Intelligent Transportation, Future Combat Missions, Global Earth Observation System of Systems project, and many more—to give readers an understanding of the real-world applications of this relatively new technology. System of Systems Engineering is an indispensable resource for aerospace and defense engineers and professionals in related fields.