Everyone has their own special way to self-soothe when they are feeling stressed, anxious or even bored. Some people like to read, others tap their fingers to a rhythm, and others write, draw or take deep breaths. But what happens when your soothing behavior is uncontrollable and causing more discomfort than relief? If you struggle with nail biting (onychophagia), skin picking (dermatillomania), or hair pulling (trichotillomania), you might have a Body Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB). This book explores what a BFRB is, how you are not alone in the struggle, and how you can take control. What happens when you can't stop picking your skin, pulling your hair, or biting your nails? What is it called, and why does it matter? "Everyone Picks" offers a simple explanation of body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) for all ages to feel a little less alone on their mental health journey.

This book examines the evolution of information seeking in nine areas of everyday American life. --from publisher description.

Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter with a different culture. This volume presents fascinating essays about cooking, eating, and sharing food, by anthropologists working in many parts of the world, exploring what they learned by eating with others. These are accounts of specific experiences - of cooking in Mombasa, shopping for organic produce in Vienna, eating vegetarian in Vietnam, raising and selling chickens in Hong Kong, and of refugees subsisting on food aid. With a special focus on the experience and challenge of ethnographic fieldwork, the essays cover a wide range of topics in food studies and anthropology, including food safety and food security, cultural diversity and globalization, colonial histories and contemporary identities, and changing ecological, social, and political relations across cultures. Food: Ethnographic Encounters offers readers a broad view of the vibrancy of local and global food cultures, and provides an accessible introduction to both food studies and contemporary ethnography.

Jane's not happy. She's been packed off to England to fight in a war when she'd much rather be snogging Anyan. Unfortunately, Jane's enemies have been busy stirring up some major trouble -- the kind that attracts a lot of attention. In other words, they're not making it easy for Jane to get any alone time with the barghest, or to indulge in her penchant for stinky cheese. Praying she can pull of a Joan of Arc without the whole martyrdom thing, Jane must lead Alfar and halflings alike in a desperate battle to combat an ancient evil. Catapulted into the role of Most Unlikely Hero Ever, Jane also has to fight her own insecurities as well as the doubts of those who don't think she can live up to her new role as Champion. Along the way, Jane learns that some heroes are born. Some are made. And some are bribed with promises of food and sex.

Amanda Amrose is about to have one hell of a holiday. It should have been a peaceful holiday spent alone in my apartment watching bad television. But life rarely works out the way it should. After witnessing a shooting I’m forced between telling the truth or keeping a friend out of trouble. Keeping up the lie is difficult, especially with my new gorgeous bodyguard living in my tiny space. Hudson is here to keep me safe, but the former Navy SEAL’s presence fills my existence and his intense personality overloads my emotions. I can’t decide if I hate him or love him. I’m keeping secrets, but not for long. Will Hudson stick around when my house of lies tumbles down around us? *Hack is the last book in the RDA series. Make sure you are caught up by reading Rush, Lag, Grind, and Quest first.

With roughly 95,000 blogs launched worldwide every 24 hours (BlogPulse), making a fledgling site stand out isn't easy. This authoritative handbook gives creative hopefuls a leg up. Joy Cho, of the award-winning Oh Joy!, offers expert advice on starting and growing a blog, from design and finance to overcoming blogger's block, attracting readers, and more. With a foreword from Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge plus expert interviews, this book will fine-tune what the next generation of bloggers shares with the world.

When his finger gets stuck in his nose, Parker finds out that his nose-picking habit makes it hard for him to take part in other fun activities.