Author: Reenita Malhotra
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 9789350297278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When you try to set your mom's life right, be prepared to have your own life turned upside down. Seventeen-year-old Ila Isham has serious problems. There's the angst of being an Ali Zafar groupie, for one. Then there are the extra layers of fat she owes to her part-Punjabi roots. Add to this, parents who have separated; an enthusiastic best friend whose idea of variety is dating three guys at the same time; and her mom's best friend, Aunty Maleeka, whose good intentions and savvy ways throw up more problems than solutions -and Ila's got her hands quite full. When her mother flips out over her plans to stalk Ali Zafar, Ila decides she has had enough and sets out to create a few distractions to keep her mom busy. With a little help from BFF Deepali, Aunty Maleeka and Dev of the inviting chocolate-pool eyes, Ila will have to brave everything from Lagan.com and OKCupid profiles to meeting handlebar-moustache colonels and middle-aged psychos, as she tries to set up the perfect parent trap for her unsuspecting mother.
Operation Mom
Author: Reenita Malhotra
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 9789350297278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When you try to set your mom's life right, be prepared to have your own life turned upside down. Seventeen-year-old Ila Isham has serious problems. There's the angst of being an Ali Zafar groupie, for one. Then there are the extra layers of fat she owes to her part-Punjabi roots. Add to this, parents who have separated; an enthusiastic best friend whose idea of variety is dating three guys at the same time; and her mom's best friend, Aunty Maleeka, whose good intentions and savvy ways throw up more problems than solutions -and Ila's got her hands quite full. When her mother flips out over her plans to stalk Ali Zafar, Ila decides she has had enough and sets out to create a few distractions to keep her mom busy. With a little help from BFF Deepali, Aunty Maleeka and Dev of the inviting chocolate-pool eyes, Ila will have to brave everything from Lagan.com and OKCupid profiles to meeting handlebar-moustache colonels and middle-aged psychos, as she tries to set up the perfect parent trap for her unsuspecting mother.
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 9789350297278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When you try to set your mom's life right, be prepared to have your own life turned upside down. Seventeen-year-old Ila Isham has serious problems. There's the angst of being an Ali Zafar groupie, for one. Then there are the extra layers of fat she owes to her part-Punjabi roots. Add to this, parents who have separated; an enthusiastic best friend whose idea of variety is dating three guys at the same time; and her mom's best friend, Aunty Maleeka, whose good intentions and savvy ways throw up more problems than solutions -and Ila's got her hands quite full. When her mother flips out over her plans to stalk Ali Zafar, Ila decides she has had enough and sets out to create a few distractions to keep her mom busy. With a little help from BFF Deepali, Aunty Maleeka and Dev of the inviting chocolate-pool eyes, Ila will have to brave everything from Lagan.com and OKCupid profiles to meeting handlebar-moustache colonels and middle-aged psychos, as she tries to set up the perfect parent trap for her unsuspecting mother.
Operation Oleander
Author: Valerie O. Patterson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547534213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Ninth-grader Jess Westmark had the best of intentions when she started Operation Oleander to raise money for a girls’ orphanage in Kabul. She named her charity for the oleander that grows both in her Florida hometown and in Afghanistan, where her father is deployed. But on one of her father's trips to deliver supplies to the orphans, a car bomb explodes nearby and her father is gravely injured. Worse, her best friend’s mother and some of the children are killed, and people are blaming Operation Oleander for turning the orphanage into a military target for the Taliban. Is this all Jess’s fault?
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547534213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Ninth-grader Jess Westmark had the best of intentions when she started Operation Oleander to raise money for a girls’ orphanage in Kabul. She named her charity for the oleander that grows both in her Florida hometown and in Afghanistan, where her father is deployed. But on one of her father's trips to deliver supplies to the orphans, a car bomb explodes nearby and her father is gravely injured. Worse, her best friend’s mother and some of the children are killed, and people are blaming Operation Oleander for turning the orphanage into a military target for the Taliban. Is this all Jess’s fault?
M.O.M. (Mom Operating Manual)
Author: Doreen Cronin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141696150X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
In Mom: An Owner's Manual, you'll find everything you ever wanted to know about how to raise a perfect Mom.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141696150X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
In Mom: An Owner's Manual, you'll find everything you ever wanted to know about how to raise a perfect Mom.
Operating Instructions
Author: Anne Lamott
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400079098
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth she brought to bestseller Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott gives us a smart, funny, and comforting chronicle of single motherhood. It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman’s life. "Lamott has a conversational style that perfectly conveys her friendly, self-depricating humor." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Lamott is a wonderfully lithe writer .... Anyone who has ever had a hard time facing a perfectly ordinary day will identify." -- Chicago Tribune
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400079098
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth she brought to bestseller Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott gives us a smart, funny, and comforting chronicle of single motherhood. It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman’s life. "Lamott has a conversational style that perfectly conveys her friendly, self-depricating humor." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Lamott is a wonderfully lithe writer .... Anyone who has ever had a hard time facing a perfectly ordinary day will identify." -- Chicago Tribune
Operation Sisterhood
Author: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593379896
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Fans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight as four new sisters band together in the heart of New York City. Discover this jubilant novel about the difficulties of change, the loyalty of sisters, and the love of family from a prolific award-winning author. "[A] jubilant middle grade novel." -The New York Times Bo and her mom always had their own rhythm. But ever since they moved to Harlem, Bo’s world has fallen out of sync. She and Mum are now living with Mum’s boyfriend Bill, his daughter Sunday, the twins, Lili and Lee, the twins' parents…along with a dog, two cats, a bearded dragon, a turtle, and chickens. All in one brownstone! With so many people squished together, Bo isn’t so sure there is room for her. Set against the bursting energy of a New York City summer, award-winning author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich delivers a joyful novel about a new family that hits all the right notes! “This ode to Black girlhood and the communities that serve them offers humor, tenderness, and charm.” –Renée Watson, New York Times bestselling author “A beautiful, rich, and deeply comforting story about family and the powerful choice to live with joy, Operation Sisterhood is a book to savor.” –Rebecca Stead, New York Times bestselling author “Operation Sisterhoodbubbles over with humor, heart, and big-blended-family enthusiasm --a joyful love letter to Black girls, New YorkCity, and the transformative power of sisterhood.” –Kate Messner, author of Chirpand Breakout
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593379896
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Fans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight as four new sisters band together in the heart of New York City. Discover this jubilant novel about the difficulties of change, the loyalty of sisters, and the love of family from a prolific award-winning author. "[A] jubilant middle grade novel." -The New York Times Bo and her mom always had their own rhythm. But ever since they moved to Harlem, Bo’s world has fallen out of sync. She and Mum are now living with Mum’s boyfriend Bill, his daughter Sunday, the twins, Lili and Lee, the twins' parents…along with a dog, two cats, a bearded dragon, a turtle, and chickens. All in one brownstone! With so many people squished together, Bo isn’t so sure there is room for her. Set against the bursting energy of a New York City summer, award-winning author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich delivers a joyful novel about a new family that hits all the right notes! “This ode to Black girlhood and the communities that serve them offers humor, tenderness, and charm.” –Renée Watson, New York Times bestselling author “A beautiful, rich, and deeply comforting story about family and the powerful choice to live with joy, Operation Sisterhood is a book to savor.” –Rebecca Stead, New York Times bestselling author “Operation Sisterhoodbubbles over with humor, heart, and big-blended-family enthusiasm --a joyful love letter to Black girls, New YorkCity, and the transformative power of sisterhood.” –Kate Messner, author of Chirpand Breakout
Franchise Opportunities Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franchises (Retail trade)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This is a directory of companies that grant franchises with detailed information for each listed franchise.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franchises (Retail trade)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This is a directory of companies that grant franchises with detailed information for each listed franchise.
Mothers of the Military
Author: Wendy M. Christensen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538114240
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Mothers of the Military examines the distinctive kinds of support required during an increasingly privatized war, specifically material, moral and healthcare support. Mothers are a particularly key part of the current support system for service members, and Wendy Christensen follows the mothers of U.S. service members in the War on Terrorism through the stages of recruitment, deployment, and post-deployment. Bringing to light the experiences and stories of women who are largely invisible during war—the mothers of service members. Over 2.5 million members of the U.S. military have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan during the now 16 year-long war. Each service member has loved ones—spouses, parents and children—who provide necessary emotional and physical support during deployment. This book has three goals. The first is to make mothers experiences during wartime visible. The second is to interrogate what support means during war. Finally, it examines the impact of war support on mothers’ political participation. Ideally, civilians provide moral approval of war, patriotism, and extend understanding and appreciation of the sacrifice enlistees and their families are making. But, in these long wars, public and political approval has plummeted. It is not surprising this narrow slice of Americans dealing with the daily realities of war feels increasingly separate from civilians. Military families are isolated from those Americans who are able to ignore the war or offer superficial expressions of patriotic gratitude. Mothers occupy a complex gendered location during wartime. Even though women are now serving in combat positions, women have historically held down the home front, where family labor is still assigned disproportionately to women. However, the military does not treat mothers and fathers equally. The military assumes fathers will be supportive of service, and calls on them to be proud of the courageous decision their child has made. They consider mothers, on the other hand, potential impediments to service, not wanting their child in harm’s way. Through each stage of service, mothers take on different kinds of support for their child, for the military, and for war policy. At each stage of war, mothers are prescribed a gendered support position. In recruitment material, the military assumes mothers will be emotional and worried about enlistment, so they appeal to mother’s love and need for their child to be safe. During deployment, mothers provide supplies and moral support. Declining enlistment numbers and a long war have led to multiple deployments and unprecedented burdens on military families. These mothers step in to help with childcare and finances. Furthermore, mothers are overwhelmingly, according to military studies, the ones providing mental and physical healthcare when veterans need it. As providers of critical systems of war support, mothers bear much of the burden of the current wars. War provides mothers a way to participate in the national project, but the uneven burden of being a constant “supporter” further marginalizes their citizenship. The gendered support role the military designs for mothers is not designed to facilitate active democratic citizenship but rather to make it seem natural that they, too, fall in line with the chain of command. Mothers of the Military, as a whole, asks how the acts of supplying material, moral, and medical support end up so often marginalizing mothers as citizens from the political process and under what conditions do mothers resist?
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538114240
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Mothers of the Military examines the distinctive kinds of support required during an increasingly privatized war, specifically material, moral and healthcare support. Mothers are a particularly key part of the current support system for service members, and Wendy Christensen follows the mothers of U.S. service members in the War on Terrorism through the stages of recruitment, deployment, and post-deployment. Bringing to light the experiences and stories of women who are largely invisible during war—the mothers of service members. Over 2.5 million members of the U.S. military have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan during the now 16 year-long war. Each service member has loved ones—spouses, parents and children—who provide necessary emotional and physical support during deployment. This book has three goals. The first is to make mothers experiences during wartime visible. The second is to interrogate what support means during war. Finally, it examines the impact of war support on mothers’ political participation. Ideally, civilians provide moral approval of war, patriotism, and extend understanding and appreciation of the sacrifice enlistees and their families are making. But, in these long wars, public and political approval has plummeted. It is not surprising this narrow slice of Americans dealing with the daily realities of war feels increasingly separate from civilians. Military families are isolated from those Americans who are able to ignore the war or offer superficial expressions of patriotic gratitude. Mothers occupy a complex gendered location during wartime. Even though women are now serving in combat positions, women have historically held down the home front, where family labor is still assigned disproportionately to women. However, the military does not treat mothers and fathers equally. The military assumes fathers will be supportive of service, and calls on them to be proud of the courageous decision their child has made. They consider mothers, on the other hand, potential impediments to service, not wanting their child in harm’s way. Through each stage of service, mothers take on different kinds of support for their child, for the military, and for war policy. At each stage of war, mothers are prescribed a gendered support position. In recruitment material, the military assumes mothers will be emotional and worried about enlistment, so they appeal to mother’s love and need for their child to be safe. During deployment, mothers provide supplies and moral support. Declining enlistment numbers and a long war have led to multiple deployments and unprecedented burdens on military families. These mothers step in to help with childcare and finances. Furthermore, mothers are overwhelmingly, according to military studies, the ones providing mental and physical healthcare when veterans need it. As providers of critical systems of war support, mothers bear much of the burden of the current wars. War provides mothers a way to participate in the national project, but the uneven burden of being a constant “supporter” further marginalizes their citizenship. The gendered support role the military designs for mothers is not designed to facilitate active democratic citizenship but rather to make it seem natural that they, too, fall in line with the chain of command. Mothers of the Military, as a whole, asks how the acts of supplying material, moral, and medical support end up so often marginalizing mothers as citizens from the political process and under what conditions do mothers resist?
Working Mother
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
Hit The Right Man By A Fluke
Author: An Sheng
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648970524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
After hearing that his father was severely ill, Ainphent, who was 32 years old, rushed back from abroad. Who would have thought that he would be tricked into going home by such an old Duan! The key point was that he had come back for a blind date! The other party was a man who was a lot younger than her, so how could her uncle tolerate this? As an independent woman of the new generation, how could she obediently submit to him? "With a flash of inspiration, she rushed straight to the marriage office. In order to get rid of her father and the person who forced her to marry, she could only grab a random person to help her." "Since I've picked you up and brought you home, I will take responsibility for you. Marry me!" "Alright!" It seemed that this was the will of heaven, and that she was not to be manipulated by a dignified Egg-Fried Rice. Ha! Ha! "Ha!" "However, Handsome Pan, are you really not afraid of Su Minghe?" Why should I be afraid of him? " Someone raised an eyebrow and asked, a confused little fool. Since you've broken into my heart, you can forget about escaping in this lifetime.
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648970524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
After hearing that his father was severely ill, Ainphent, who was 32 years old, rushed back from abroad. Who would have thought that he would be tricked into going home by such an old Duan! The key point was that he had come back for a blind date! The other party was a man who was a lot younger than her, so how could her uncle tolerate this? As an independent woman of the new generation, how could she obediently submit to him? "With a flash of inspiration, she rushed straight to the marriage office. In order to get rid of her father and the person who forced her to marry, she could only grab a random person to help her." "Since I've picked you up and brought you home, I will take responsibility for you. Marry me!" "Alright!" It seemed that this was the will of heaven, and that she was not to be manipulated by a dignified Egg-Fried Rice. Ha! Ha! "Ha!" "However, Handsome Pan, are you really not afraid of Su Minghe?" Why should I be afraid of him? " Someone raised an eyebrow and asked, a confused little fool. Since you've broken into my heart, you can forget about escaping in this lifetime.
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed
Author: Kerrie Meyler
Publisher: Sams Publishing
ISBN: 067232928X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005! Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashedprovides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool that helps implement operations management, but it is not a piece of software that you can simply install and instantly have working. This book provides reference material that will guide you through the steps to design, deploy, and configure MOM within your environment. You learn how to tune your MOM environment and tackle common challenges, such as managing your Microsoft operating systems, directory services, messaging platforms, and databases. Inside you will find comprehensive information on how to develop your own reports and management packs for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM experience. · Plan your MOM deployment · Architect MOM for performance, redundancy, and security · Install or upgrade to MOM 2005 · Back up important MOM components · Implement, troubleshoot, deploy, and manage management packs · Work with rules and tune them · Manage different aspects of your environment, including the Windows operating system, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server · Extend MOM using connectors and third-party management packs · Develop management packs, reports, and scripts · Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager CD–ROM includes · Microsoft’s MOM 2005 Resource Kit and MOM 2005 Sizer · MOM Agent Monitor · Management packs and scripts written or customized for this book · Live Links—more than 100 (clickable) hypertext links and references to materials and sites related to Operations Manager Contents About the Authors xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts Chapter 1 Operations Management Basics 7 Chapter 2 What’s New 41 Chapter 3 How Does It Work? 57 Part II Planning and Installation Chapter 4 Planning Your MOM Deployment 99 Chapter 5 Planning Complex Configurations 151 Chapter 6 Installing MOM 2005 173 Chapter 7 Upgrading to MOM 2005 211 Part III Deploying MOM Chapter 8 Post-Installation Tasks 237 Chapter 9 Installing and Configuring Agents 267 Chapter 10 Complex and High Performance Configurations 297 Chapter 11 Securing MOM 329 Part IV Administering MOM Chapter 12 Backup and Recovery 365 Chapter 13 Administering Management Packs 395 Chapter 14 Monitoring with MOM 423 Part V Managing with MOM Chapter 15 Managing the Operating System 487 Chapter 16 Managing Directory Services 527 Chapter 17 Managing Microsoft Messaging 565 Chapter 18 Database Management 595 Part VI Moving Beyond MOM 2005 Chapter 19 Interoperability 625 Chapter 20 Developing Management Packs 661 Chapter 21 Using and Developing Reports 719 Chapter 22 Using and Developing Scripts 777 Chapter 23 Touring Operations Manager 2007 825 Part VII Appendixes Appendix A MOM Internals 865 Appendix B Registry Settings 887 Appendix C Performance Counters 895 Appendix D Database Views 901 Appendix E Reference URLs 907 Appendix F On the CD 917 Index 919
Publisher: Sams Publishing
ISBN: 067232928X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005! Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashedprovides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool that helps implement operations management, but it is not a piece of software that you can simply install and instantly have working. This book provides reference material that will guide you through the steps to design, deploy, and configure MOM within your environment. You learn how to tune your MOM environment and tackle common challenges, such as managing your Microsoft operating systems, directory services, messaging platforms, and databases. Inside you will find comprehensive information on how to develop your own reports and management packs for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM experience. · Plan your MOM deployment · Architect MOM for performance, redundancy, and security · Install or upgrade to MOM 2005 · Back up important MOM components · Implement, troubleshoot, deploy, and manage management packs · Work with rules and tune them · Manage different aspects of your environment, including the Windows operating system, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server · Extend MOM using connectors and third-party management packs · Develop management packs, reports, and scripts · Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager CD–ROM includes · Microsoft’s MOM 2005 Resource Kit and MOM 2005 Sizer · MOM Agent Monitor · Management packs and scripts written or customized for this book · Live Links—more than 100 (clickable) hypertext links and references to materials and sites related to Operations Manager Contents About the Authors xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts Chapter 1 Operations Management Basics 7 Chapter 2 What’s New 41 Chapter 3 How Does It Work? 57 Part II Planning and Installation Chapter 4 Planning Your MOM Deployment 99 Chapter 5 Planning Complex Configurations 151 Chapter 6 Installing MOM 2005 173 Chapter 7 Upgrading to MOM 2005 211 Part III Deploying MOM Chapter 8 Post-Installation Tasks 237 Chapter 9 Installing and Configuring Agents 267 Chapter 10 Complex and High Performance Configurations 297 Chapter 11 Securing MOM 329 Part IV Administering MOM Chapter 12 Backup and Recovery 365 Chapter 13 Administering Management Packs 395 Chapter 14 Monitoring with MOM 423 Part V Managing with MOM Chapter 15 Managing the Operating System 487 Chapter 16 Managing Directory Services 527 Chapter 17 Managing Microsoft Messaging 565 Chapter 18 Database Management 595 Part VI Moving Beyond MOM 2005 Chapter 19 Interoperability 625 Chapter 20 Developing Management Packs 661 Chapter 21 Using and Developing Reports 719 Chapter 22 Using and Developing Scripts 777 Chapter 23 Touring Operations Manager 2007 825 Part VII Appendixes Appendix A MOM Internals 865 Appendix B Registry Settings 887 Appendix C Performance Counters 895 Appendix D Database Views 901 Appendix E Reference URLs 907 Appendix F On the CD 917 Index 919