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Coaching cheer is about far more than counts, stunts, and routines. Every day, coaches are managing athlete confidence, parent communication, accountability, conflict, leadership, safety, and team culture, often with little formal training on how to handle the realities that come with the job. Written by industry leaders Dan Cotton, Danielle Johnston, and Jeff Benson, Cheer Coaches’ Handbook is a practical, real-world resource designed to help coaches lead more effectively both on and off the floor.

In this elegant comedy of manners, Penelope O'Farrell discovers that her husband has been having an affair with an attractive married woman. Instead of lapsing into despair, she decides to employ some cunning strategies to save her marriage.

Shakespeare's King Lear ranks with Sophocles' Oedipus as a tragic hero destroyed by his own good intentions. From the moment when Lear unfolds his darker purpose, we are drawn into an ineluctable chain of events that leads through betrayal, deceit, destructive family conflict, reconciliation, despair, and death. Considered by many to be the most grueling of Shakespeare's tragedies.

At the center of each of the four great Shakespearean tragedies - Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello - is a powerful figure who is led to destruction by a fatal character flaw. In the case of Macbeth it is ambition. Initially a valiant warrior, and staunch servant of his regal overlord Duncan, Macbeth succumbs to the lure of absolute political domination, which leads to murder, revolt, and comprehensive defeat.