A new breed of young Filipino professionals are being hired for top jobs in international destinations. This book guides them in facing crossroads as they move and settle in other countries. "Abroad Me: 22 Success Strategies for Young Overseas Filipinos" is filled with life lessons and tips to help Filipinos make the most out of their overseas experience. The workbook-type guide has 22 chapters each with short, blog-like essays and a series of exercises. The book builds on inspiring and preparing Filipinos for their journeys abroad. "An eye-opener. Useful insights that redefine romantic ideas about overseas life." - Maria Regina P. Arquiza, Commission on Filipinos Overseas-awarded broadcaster.

The Girl Genius is back and life has never been better! I, Miranda Bloom, finally have an almost-quasi-boyfriend, Dex McConnell, the lacrosse star of Orange Cove High. But when holiday break rolls around, and I jet off to visit my mother in London, Dex suddenly seems to lose all interest in me. Then there's Henry, the very cute and very available British guy, who complicates matters even more by making it clear that he's very interested in me. Things don't get any easier when classes start back up at Geek High. Between the dreaded math team competitions, an annoyingly love-struck best friend and a step-mother who seems to delight in making me miserable, it doesn't take a genius to see that the semester ahead is going to be tough.

Five years, three computers and one notebook later and my story of American Abroad is now complete. This is the story of my adolescence to my adulthood. It is a story of how I came from being a boy to how I have come to be a man. Throughout my story I had to overcome and also succumb to the passions of life. I learned to live and love as I learned to speak and stand. I hope this story helps you to learn to address your own life story and complete it as you should. You will see that my stumbling created a movement toward correction after I learned to look optimistically ahead. I had to learn to love and embrace my hardships in order to stand tall with all of my blemishes. This story was written as a bold move in order to spur national correction through the impact of one man, or one woman, or one child. My wish is that its pages jolt you to make a move to be an American Abroad.

After taking a well earned holiday, for the first time in 6 years. Simon Sultana an accomplished Security Officer will get out of his comfort zone leaving his family and close friends behind for a month travelling alone halfway across the globe to the USA for his first ever solo overseas trip. From the bright lights of Las Vegas, the chilly snow peaked ridges of the Grand Canyon, the sleepy country towns of the Deep South, to the hustle and bustle of New York City with his new found travel buddies in tow, read as Simon navigates the USA with a detailed description of his encounters with the local people, his buddies as well as learn some interesting cultural facts and travel tips about the USA as well as the UAE, along the way through the eyes of a Maltese Australian. You will also learn about facets of his working life as a security officer and his martial art journey spanning almost 15 years.” A significant portion of the book sales will be redirected to the Sunshine Hospital for fundraising efforts for Cancer Research.

A guide for businesswomen on how to advance a career by working overseas presents anecdotal guidelines from successful women, in a resource that outlines key strategies for landing an assignment, thriving on the job, and enjoying a lifestyle abroad.

"Schapiro's letters to his future wife, Lillian Milgram, were written in 1926 and 1927, while he was a graduate student touring the artistic monuments of Europe and the Near East. Bearing intimate witness to this formative journey, they augment the visual and factual details he so painstakingly recorded in his notebooks with impassioned reflections on art and lively accounts of his encounters with an older generation of art historians."--Back cover.

Abstract: This study assesses the relation between foreign aid and the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy in Romania. Drawing on questionnaire data as well as internal documents the study specifically looks at the impact of international assistance on the participation of advocacy groups in the governmental policymaking process. On the one hand, it is shown that international assistance enhances the capacity of NGOs to mobilize advocacy coalitions and this in turn increases the effectiveness of their participation in influencing policymaking. But on the other hand, democracy assistance programs have a rather paradoxical effect by impeding NGOs' civic engagement with their domestic constituencies. Hence, international assistance has a mixed impact on the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy: it fosters advocacy groups' "link-up" to the governmental decision-makers while in the same time it hinders their "link-down" to ordinary people